Public begging? How embarrassing
Desperate times call for desperate measures
Yes, it’s so cringe. Honestly, he is like a child. Especially that this is all done publicly.
Don’t worry Zuck will follow suit. And if you make content and it does bring in revenue to you, why not leach extra money out of the 3 biggest tax dodgers!
He is getting exactly what he wants everyone is talking about him, why do I want to be reminded everyday about how he is?
Its not so embarrassing if you need it. But when you’re one of the wealthiest people on the planet and literally begging, that’s seriously embarrassing.
plz :(
-Elon Musk
I didn’t realize anyone earned anything on Twitter ever. Is this just video views? Is this new?
Also, fuck Musk, etc.
I think it’s new, he decided to add it to attract Tucker Carlson. I don’t know who would watch a whole 20 minute video on their phone though.
Almost everyone
On the twitter player? lord have mercy.
No, I meant on YouTube. Most people watch long videos on their mobile devices just fine.
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I would. Not on Twitter though because their video player sucks
Who doesn’t?
I just don’t see the reason to do it.
If I have time to watch a 20min video it’s because I’m at home doing nothing and home is where my TV and computers are. If the only thing I have is my phone that means I’m out doing something, so I don’t have time to watch a 20min video.
My child will watch a 20-minute video on any device capable of displaying it.
Many people watch Netflix on their phones, somehow
I’m one of them and my main reason is because Netflix mobile is free
Oh wait really? What?
So is piracy 👉⚫️👄👁👉
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I sometimes watch long YouTube videos on my phone while in my living room, where my huge screen also is. Don’t ask me why, but I like it.
Either that or you’re commuting in a country with good signal coverage, for instance. I live in a hilly region in Europe, so streaming while commuting is difficult because of tunnels, but it can be done.
Good thing your personal experiences are the only possible way to live. For a second there we were dangerously close to self awareness!
Good thing I said “”“I”“” don’t see the reason to do it, as in this is my use case for me personally . For a second there I were dangerously far from saying “No one should ever”
I dont own a cellphone so me I guess.
My wife will binge watch TV shows on her phone. Ones with epic views like The Expanse. I don’t get it but she’s fine with it.
Will i watch videos on my phone rather than my computer? no
will i watch videos on my phone rather than staring into the distance and feeling the state of the world slowly and agonizingly send me into a spiral of depression and anxiety?
Yeah.
Then you proceed to watch memes on discord and ClimateTown
Mmm… ClimateTown
I have a friend who watches entire movies on his phone. It appalls me, but a lot of people do it.
This comes to mind https://youtu.be/wKiIroiCvZ0
Meh, I’ve got a 4k phone with Dolby atmos. I’m fine watching a movie on it. As a technophile and audiophile, it’s hitting everything it needs to hit for me. I do prefer to watch in my VR headset overall, but VR headsets are still only up to the equivalent of 1080p at a comfortable field of view. Still pretty good, but the main upside for VR is perfect 3D, I’m one of the weirdos that likes 3D.
But, I do get that at the time of this recording, he had a 4-6 inch diagonal phone with a single tinny speaker and 576p screen in mind, and that would indeed not be a great way to watch a movie. Though if people like it, no real reason to be snobby to them about it, they just don’t care about the same thing he does/we do.
I would if i was on a train. I don’t know if I would do it with Twitter’s video player though…
I don’t know who would watch a whole 20 minute video on their phone though.
In some countries, a phone as a daily computer for everything is much more popular than actual computers.
How is he going to be able to handle more videos when he has to ration text views because it’s melting his servers.
He’s always been desperate for attention, but now the public sentiment has finally turned against him everything he does just looks sad.
Oh and his memes were always stale AF.
Elon just wants everyone to think he’s funny and smart.
Unfortunately he’s so determined to be constantly visibly online it’s completely shattered that illusion.
He’s just not funny.
A lot of comedy comes from situational absurdity of unexpected actions, and there is nothing that kills the joke faster than to realize that they are not pretending. It was funny at first when a boomer (Ok, elder Gen X) billionaire started posting bad middle school humor on Twitter, it immediately stopped being funny when it turns out his real maturity level never got past middle school.
Which is also why Trump is such a black hole for comedy, you just can’t make fun of him, because any absurd and ridiculous thing you can think of him doing, you would expect him to actually do it.
Which is also why Trump is such a black hole for comedy, you just can’t make fun of him, because any absurd and ridiculous thing you can think of him doing, you would expect him to actually do it.
If a sketch comedy group ever does another Trump sketch, I think the best one would be to make him seem like Sherlock Holmes behind closed doors. I mean a posh English accent, a big and sophisticated vocabulary, and an obviously sharp mind. Then have him leave the room to do a press conference and put on the idiot persona, then come back and back to his “true” self.
I think that’s the only thing that would be absurd and ridiculous: he’s actually very smart and sophisticated, not just a buffoon.
Oh and his memes were always stale AF.
Brutal. Just twist the knife why don’t you?
Two people in this world that you should never get an IOU from: Trump and Musk.
They just don’t pay their bills. It’s not worth the effort.
With what money, Elon? You can’t afford to pay Google or office rent but you’re going to pay Mr. Beast?
He’s perfectly capable of paying both. He doesn’t want to, and because he’s rich, he doesn’t have to. There is a reason billionaires end up with so much money, and fairly compensating other parties isn’t it.
In fact, unfairly compensating other parties literally is it.
They don’t have to rip other people off, they just choose to. I had a girlfriend whose family was quite wealthy… she loved shopping at the dollar store, and her mother acted overwhelmed with glee when she found a dozen past-date eggs for .65 at the grocery store. Is that how they became wealthy? Fuck no, they inherited a hotel.
Mr Beast will always have money if he does it though, even if he loses all his other money he’ll still have an unpaid debt from Pissbaby Musk.
pisskidney
Every time Elon begs for money, I donate to my Mastodon or Lemmy admins.
You should be really wealthy, my friend.
Not for long, it seems. With all that donating.
Absolute Chad Move
Except he doesn’t seem to be begging for money here. He’s looking to give more away
He’s begging for traffic, which equates to money for his ad sales. It is pretty pathetic.
He’s looking for attention basically.
“give more away”
What
I mean he would be paying Mr beast
Ad revenue would pay Mr.Beast. And he’s not even sure it’s competitive with YouTube.
You understand that what content creators get paid by the platform is never anywhere near what the platform gets paid by the advertisers…right?
Using completely made up numbers, if Mr Beast is paid $1 by Youtube for every thousand views, YouTube may be getting paid $6 or $7 by advertisers.
Otherwise the monetization would never work.
Musk doesn’t have the funds or the revenue from Twitter to be able to compete with that.
LoL. Do you think he loses money when someone posts on his website?
A company notorious for revenue problems and missing bill payments is definitely who I would want to enter a business relationship with. Where do I sign up?
And run by a guy notorious for not paying his bills
It’s just like lawyers being recruited to work for Trump
Exactly. Unless they can negotiate a better wage that will hold up against a lawsuit, it is equivalent to a modern scam.
Richest man in the world begging for pennies.
Yeah and his best offer is I promise I’ll pay you what you’re already being paid…
Not even. He’s offering similar compensation per view. There’s no way Twitter is getting the number of views YouTube is. Especially with all the games he’s playing lately, like putting the whole site behind a registration wall
Lol yeah you’re 100% right, I didn’t even think of that
Users probably cant even watch the video bc of tweet read restrictions.
How can MrBeast post a 10-minute video on Twitter? Should he make a thread for a video? 😆 😆
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He can post a 10 second video containing a QR code to his YouTube full length video
Blue subs can upload videos up to 2hrs in length
And have it buffer at 144p for half that duration
I don’t get why Twitter didn’t try to make a Youtube-like video platform before? I wonder if it’s because venture capital has caused brain rot in the executive teams at these tech companies? It seems obvious to launch something like that, and they 100% have (had) the talent and infrastructure to build and support it. Even if it isn’t massively successful on day one, it could be successful in the future with a strong marketing effort.
If I didn’t know that these companies were run by incompetent idiots, my first suspicion would be some kind of collusion. Trying to do it now that Twitter is a sinking ship is laughable.
They didn’t have anywhere close to the infrastructure to compete with YouTube
Based off earnings from before Twitter was purchased, they were making less money than Snapchat - and Snapchat is having to close down gfycat due to the cost of serving gifs - much less having the main focus be long form videos
If he just brought over a few really big creators, he wouldn’t need all of YouTube’s infrastructure.
OTOH, even just a tiny fraction of YouTube’s infrastructure is massive compared to what Twitter does with video. It’s like someone suggest that a newspaper start using his home printer instead of their printing presses.
That doesn’t really matter, unless you expect the video feature to be unprofitable. With ~300m or whatever active users, it would not be hard to raise money if they need it to launch a major product like that.
There’s 0 chance it would be profitable. They probably could have built it with a lot of external funding, but it would probably never have become profitable
Google is still trying to figure out how to make YouTube profitable
I completely disagree. If anything, Google having difficulties with profitability is an opportunity for a competitor to beat them (although I don’t think youtube is unprofitable).
Can something like this under Twitter management (current or previous) succeed? Probably not. But could a team of smart people with access to 300 million users build a video streaming platform that’s profitable? Hell yes, and the only major concern would be anti-competitive bs from Google, but the FTC has been paying more attention to that kind of stuff recently.
But could a team of smart people with access to 300 million users build a video streaming platform that’s profitable?
How big of a team are we talking about?
A small team, no.
First there’s compliance with copyright laws to consider, All the false accusations that go along with it. You gonna need some lawyers and support people to handle these issues.
Moderation is significantly more challenging too. It’s significantly harder to detect things like copy right violations, child porn, etc, when it’s in video forma than in text form.
Then you need staff to manage the clients. And by clients I mean the advertisers. So there’s going to have weird demands like “no swearing in the first 15 seconds of the video” or whatever. And so you have to manage the rollout of weird features like that. Which ideally would include tools so the content creators can remain in compliance with the weird demands of the advertisers.
Then there’s the bandwidth considerations. It takes way more resources to serve up video to 300 million users than it is to serve up text.
Sure many times Youtube sucks at these things right but these are things that need to be done and doing them right is going to require a larger staff than YouTube has.
If they start with a subscription only model, yeah, they could make one that’s profitable.
Will 300 million people agree to paying a monthly subscription…. Questionable
Doesn’t Elon hate trans people or whatever?
He’s a right-wing billionaire, hating everybody but himself comes with the territory.
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He has a trans daughter who disowned him. I don’t know why, but you can probably guess.
“He” being Elon, I believe, not Mr Beast.
I could be wrong about Mr Beast, however. But Elon def has a trans kid and this is the source of his bigotry.
He likely hates them because his daughter is trans and completely wrote him off. She changed her name wanting to have no association to her father.
Soon after this he started increasing his anti trans shit.
Also, his ex Grimes is/was dating a trans person, Chelsea Manning.
Not sure if he hates anything but it does look like he looks at most people as lesser beings.
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For those wanting to save a click:
“Chris isn’t my ‘nightmare,’” he (Mr Beast) went on. He wrote that Tyson is “my f**ken friend and things are fine. All this transphobia is starting to piss me off.”
Man it’d be great if he told Elon something like “sure, once transphobia is banned on here and you personally apologize for your transphobic language and promote trans rights”.
I don’t think he’d get a response lmao
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I didn’t realise Mr. Beast was trans
Chris from Mr. Beast is non-binary.
Link from below:
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/04/15/entertainment/mr-beast-transphobia-chris-tyson-trnd/index.html
Funny how the one bigotry designed and advertised for women ends up being coopted by shouty men.
Pretty sure Mr Beast is a company, not a person. I mean, we know who he is, but like, he isn’t the guy managing millions of dollars.
Pretty sure they are a well oiled machine, still making ridiculous amount of money.
Asking them to come to your platform publicly like that would be like BC college asking the Red Sox to play a few games on their turf for funzies.
They wouldn’t show up without a down payment equal to what they pull down on an average night at home.
Are you bill Simmons? This is a great analogy to Boston sports and the only person I know who can do that is Bill Simmons. But I guess that’s because I live in Florida lol
I mean, the Sox do play a double header with BC and Northeastern every spring training, so you could see the theoretical game in Florida if you wanted
Fuck Musk. He should do us all a favour and go suck on the tail end of one of “his” rockets.
All the jokes aside, it’s still amazing the CEO over a year in doesn’t even know how profitable being an user that drives engagement on the site is compared to a (I guess) competitor like youtube. He’s just like we’re as profitable as youtube for you, or if not we can be, like the guy knows nothing and is just throwing claims out there with no basis in reality or plan to follow through on them.
over a year in
The deal closed at the end of October. He’s also appointed a new CEO, so while he owns, the title isn’t with him. He’s still in charge, though. Still an asshole, too.
