I never understand why people love Mr Beast content. I never enjoyed it.

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    2 months ago

    Most of his content is gameshows. Some people catch a serotonin high watching other people win money.

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    2 months ago

    I liked his content when he did a series called “Worst Intros”. Ever since those were set private, I haven’t enjoyed that content.

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    2 months ago

    My 8 year old loves his videos. I don’t get it, but I’m an old man (57). I don’t understand a lot of what he likes.

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    2 months ago

    I watch his content cause he and his team put actual effort into the crazy sets they build and it’s interesting to see some of the scenarios that only someone with a lot of money can pull off

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    2 months ago

    His audience is mostly kids yes but not all of them.

    His content can and is too annoying for a lot of people and that’s fine but it’s also entertaining to a lot of other people. I’m sure that you’ve had the situation where the most famous band, sport, food etc isn’t something you like. And that’s totally ok. It turns out we kind like different things. I’d argue it’s a good thing.

    Also people severely underestimate him just because they don’t like his content or for some other reason. Pretty much every big YouTuber will agree that he is extremely good and optimizing the algorithm and that’s not an easy thing. If it were everyone would be doing it and the truth is that not a lot of people get close to his success.

    Some of his videos are just for shits and giggles but a lot of them in does give a ton of money to people in need. Some people dislike that he does this for his channel and don’t like him for it. However the truth is that in the end he gave more money to people in need than everyone in this comment section combined.

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    2 months ago

    His hide and seek videos are funny.

    A lot of it feels like filler but there’s a few gems.

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    2 months ago

    Fuck Mr. Beast, he literally preys on children by falsely framing his videos all as possibilities for them if they subscribe to the channel. He shills things like chocolate bars that are healthy to defeat obesity yet those same bars have twice the sugar than others like hershey bars. He gets kids to buy his shit on the guise of ‘oh maybe we’ll slip something in your order box! Maybe an iphone!!!’ and now you have kids stumbling over themselves to beg their parents to buy Mr. Beast merch / mr. beast burger / mr. beast feastables / etc.

    He’s not a terrible person but this shit is gross, a lot of it is gambling-adjacent and the kids EAT IT THE FUCK UP. Yeah Mr. Beast is a businessman, but his business is manipulating children.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5xf40KrK3I

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      2 months ago

      I don’t disagree, but it feels like every other cereal, pack of crisps and bar of chocolate I see in stores advertises you can win a car or something. Which is stupid, but it’s weird to call out some guy for doing something very common across many other products.

      I was buying crisps to win plastic Pokémon and ice cream to win money 25 years ago. Sure, call out the practice, but you are making it sound like it’s not an ubiquitous type of promotion.

  • PlzGivHugs@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    A) flashy, loud, snippy content that works on people with no attention span or who are easily amused like kids (and annoys everyone else)

    And B) clickbait-type, over-the-top content and games that no one else does - the sorts of things that, even if not high-brow, are still interesting. For example, blowing up a Lambrogini appealing to the action-movie lizard-brain, or a giant game of hide and seek appealing to the sort of person who daydreams about how to survive a zombie apocalypse.

    Basically, its the peak of broad-appeal, low-brow, high effort/production value media.

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    2 months ago

    I never watched his videos. Wasn’t he the kid that potentially bankrupt people by giving them a car they couldn’t afford the tax on?

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      2 months ago

      I don’t watch either but those people could have just said no or sold it without having to register it and pay the taxes at that time. It be their own fault for financially ruining themselves.

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      Believe he went back and helped those people and learned from his mistakes. He now has videos about building wells and bringing lights/water to remote places in Africa/South America, building bridges where it was dangerous to cross rivers, building houses for people that need them that were crushed by floods (although I don’t know how well they are built). Some videos about helping getting dogs adopted and other random shit. There are things to criticize him about sure, and I’m sure a lot of it is for tax purposes, but at some point you have to blame our government setup and not a 20 something year old “taking advantage” of the system we vote representatives in over and over to not change.

      Edit Oh and apparently spent a fuck load of money buying a chocolate factory and advertises the shit out of that, which is why you see posters of him at Zaxby’s or what not

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        I really, really don’t watch his videos. From that description it sounds like the thing rich people do to get brownie points on social media while not really helping in any meaningful way.

        I think they are called trustafarians (YouTube link)

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          So a 20 something year old kid has a choice to help people vs not help people. Chooses to help people and you automatically label it as not helping in any meaningful way. What a bleak view.

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            2 months ago

            I mean you could take it out of context like that.

            I think he’s probably a good kid. I just find the act very similar to those rich hippies, kinda gross. It’s personal preference not judgement.

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              The context does matter, but it doesn’t appear you have the right one.

              This guy was a literal child when he started his videos. And did no good for the world whatsoever at that time, he was simply making videos to see what would stick. Only later once he began to acquire the appropriate amount of views and fame did he choose to make videos that try to help other people. I’m sure if those videos didn’t become as wildly popular as they did, they would’ve been forced to pivot away from philanthropy. But they worked, and so they continue to be able to afford new videos that appear to help individuals in a variety of ways.

              Bad things might come of this, someone could even accidentally die from poor housing construction (maybe they chose the wrong construction company), a faulty car (maybe the Tesla he gave away was shit), or eating a chocolate bar (they happened to be allergic). But I don’t believe any of that would be intentional on his part. His company, of course, could/should be held liable.

              If anything he just seems like a kid who got in too deep, became ridiculously famous, and is trying to navigate this mess with the skills he has (making popular videos). No one at his current level of popularity comes out unscathed, period.

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                1 month ago

                I don’t know much about the guy, I don’t even watch him. I was making an observation based on what other people’s comments said. I’m pretty sure you’re on the nose. Most people in his situation probably would try to bring some good in the world.

                I just like leaving it to the professionals. It’s also important to make sure the community gets a vote on weather that’s the best solution or if other things are more urgent.

                Kinda like how funding went into mosquito nets and instead of using it to protect infants from malaria it was used as a fishing net. In that community putting food in the table was more important. Now there are issues of chemicals being leached into the water by the treated nets and overfishing due to the fine mesh.