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    Ill post this comment here too since it’s the same video, but you might want to put a content warning on this video, it’s pretty rough.

    The first video is largely about him running illegal lotteries, which is pretty terrible given the scale they operate at, but it’s something that the average person might not know about or really think about it being essentially child gambling.

    This second video is an interview with a former employee who was put in solitary confinement for a video that never made it to YouTube because it was actually just them torturing him. Like, legitimate Geneva Convention war crime torture. Constant noise, no idea what time it is because you can’t see the sun, constant lights so you can’t sleep, constant monitoring, and him running until his feet bled.

    If any of it is anywhere near true they need to be sued off the face of the planet in addition to going to prison.

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      Mr. Beast’s suppurating carcass should be fired into the sun.

      EDIT: along with anyone who downvoted this comment. Sorry, pacifists.

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        Maybe the downvotes are because firing him into the sun would be very expensive. Just fire him into a volcano or something more local than the ball of plasma 8 light minutes away that we have way too much momentum to hit easily.

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    Look at all these people white knighting for a Sociopath being a for profit charity and scammer.

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    Jimmy has done plenty of interviews where he says he is a degenerate. He doesn’t hide it. He’s a dirtbag. If you just watch his videos you may not know, but it’s pretty much in plain sight.

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      hiring a sex offender when his audience is focused on kids is suspect… then covering for two of them?

      GTFO

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    This fella loves using his leverage manipulating people into whatever the fuck he wants them to do. The border between good and evil is so close it is nearly indistinguishible. Stay the fuck away from him if you can.

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      My nephew introduced me to him via a video of him taking is friends through more and more expensive airplane trips.

      It was cool, extremely showoffy, I never watched any of his stuff after that.

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    I’m not a YouTube guy; I only follow one channel I found during the Covid lockdowns, this kid called Technoblade who was low key while being really good at the game Minecraft. They worked together sometimes. Didn’t make Mr Beast seem very cool.

    From what I’ve seen, he just inserts his loud personality into things by throwing money at people. It was never “hanging out with Mr Beast”, but “Mr Beast is giving out money”. Those guys are generally bad people, I cannot think of an exception.

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        Yeah, extremely saddening. I watch his father’s videos sometimes and they can be difficult.

        Techno’s death was a lot harder to hear about than I expected. I heard about it from a friend that I’d shared a video with and felt genuinely sad. I didn’t even know the guy or watch that many of his videos. I’ve watched dozens of them in the time since when I have nothing else to do and honestly, it’s the celebrity death I’ve cared about most.

        He was so young too. Probably younger than 90+% of this site. Such a tragic death.

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          I had the same reaction when TotalBiscuit died 6 years ago. Loved watching his reviews and his humor was always top. It’s hard to lose someone who you don’t know but feel like you do from all the hours of their lives they’ve shared with us.

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    No shit. Billionaire pays poor people to embarrass or endanger themselves, uses it to promote himself.

    Here’s an idea for a video: Mr. Beast and the Box of Knives. Him, the people he exploits, and a box of knives. Whoever kills him gets to keep his money.

    That’s the content I want to see.

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      I’ve got to say, I’m disappointed in Lemmy for the amount of upvotes you’re receiving for a comment as sickening as this.

      Killing someone just for revenge should never be the answer. That’s the kind of tactic that makes dictators and fascists what they are. The desire to watch something like that is even more alarming.

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        Maybe the french should’ve just asked nicely for the nobles to treat them better.

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        They’re not killing him for revenge. They’re killing him for money. Big difference. I’m sure he’s killed quite a few people for money, so I don’t think he has any room to complain.

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        Yeah bloodthirst is never a good look, especially about something that doesn’t even affect you and is some abstract internet drama vol. 2762

        It indicates you are some emotional ball of unpredictable that should probably be monitored by fbi and locked up at any signs of planning. A picture of greasy hair, basement, ar15 appears in my mind. Stained Mickey Mouse tee

        Half of hexbears are like that

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      This is what I’ve said about Mr.Beast from day 1. First video I saw of his was putting his friends in a taped off square in some backyard and the last one to leave keeps the car. So a rich asshole makes people dance for money and then he profits off the video for more than he paid. Mr.Beast is 1 of 2 youtubers that I have used an extension to explicitly block me from seeing his videos in my feed.

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          BlockTube. It let’s you block all kinds of stuff from specific videos to channels, even block shorts outright. I only use the channel block feature, so your milage may vary with the rest of it, but it’s pretty easy to use so it works for me.

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      That’s the content I want to see.

      Not in this here country, boy!

      Here the rich punk the losers with impunity while any pleb resistance will be treated as violent felony for even suggesting you are entitled for a raise for the work you do.

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    I went into these two videos expecting them to be overblown and petty, totally changed my mind with a good solid string of evidence and explanations.

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      Which is funny because the top upvoted comment is about how there were no specific claims made.

      I agree with you, the evidence is damning, but most of lemmy doesn’t seem to think so (or this thread is being social media managed by Mr. Least’s PR team).

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    I’ve never watched a single video of his and I could have told you that he’s a sociopath. Normal people do not act like he does.

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        I think he’s the most popular YouTube currently, or close to it if not. You can’t get around without hearing about him occasionally. The biggest thing I know about him is he does charity videos that he films where he gives poor people a little bit of money. It’s pretty obvious to me it’s just exploitation to improve his image, and also he makes far more money off the video than he gives away. Clearly he isn’t doing it because it’s a good thing, yet somehow people call him a good person because of it.

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    What’s with the recent traction for the Mr Beast hate train? There have been a few posts lately talking about how bad this guy is.

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      There’s a part 1 to this video that goes into it. Basically:

      • videos are faked (reality level TV stuff - making the timers look like they’re still counting down)
      • there was a person who was recently on staff who was a sexual deviant named Ava Kris Tyson who also seemed to be obsessed with teenagers and ran a discord server talking about inappropriate stuff (this is worse than my description sounds)
      • Beast was on this server for a time but doesn’t seem to have been an active participant
      • Illegal lotteries from the Streaming “giveaways”
      • claiming his chocolate is “healthy” and encourage kids to eat it to have a chance at randomly winning a prize
      • in Aus, having an app for the chocolate that says you win a prize when you pull the slots but you actually don’t win anything (basically getting triple 7s and getting told you win nothing)
      • safety issues with the beast games, moving to Canada so no union workers can join, etc.
      • this video explains some horrible stuff Mr Beast and team did for a single video

      Really the biggest deal I think is the illegal lotteries. Because those are actual criminal acts

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      Since nobody pointed it out yet there’s also controversy because his friend was being inappropriate with and allegedly touching kids using the fact that they work with Mr beast. That just came out before all this. And Mr beast fired them, but there’s a lot of discord messages that Mr beast was in on as well where some of the inappropriate stuff towards kids was happening as well

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      Just people finding out that Santa isn’t real but in fact a company which uses psychological warfare to sell you something that is bad for you.

      A story as old as capitalism.

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    Fuck Mr. Beast. The real heroes worthy of praise are your friends and neighbors who are out there volunteering and/or doing good things for others without making a fucking spectacle of it.

    Mr. Beast with his bucky ass face and products plastered on every last corner of the earth has left a bad taste in my mouth for years, but up until recently people have been unable to criticize him in any way without a thousand others rushing to his defense and declaring what a beautiful, selfless person he is. It’s Ellen all over again.

    People truly are blinded by philanthropy-for-clout and mistake it for genuine goodwill. Truly good people do not film themselves handing out food and money.

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    I’m going to preface this by pointing out that I don’t watch Mr. Beast, and I didn’t watch either of the two videos. My only comment is that it’s a little suspicious that this person is stretching out the accusations across two (three?) videos, across multiple days. Feels like they’re farming for the drama views for as long as possible.

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      he stated out what is going to be in part 3 in the begining of 2nd video. He’s also making them as fast as he can from what it seems not even waiting a response lol

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      30 minutes of this video is an interview… that touches on different aspects of the beast operation beyond the scope of the first.

      The YT account only has two videos (the two about beast).

      I don’t believe he himself (the creator) was an influencer.

      He turned off monetization on the video.

      Thanks for the preface, but all this reply does is stir the pot without adding anything of value to the convo.

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        People have to be able to question the motive of content without being accused of “stirring the pot”. Personally I really appreciated that the comment you replied to was posted, as it led you to reply to it, so that I could get more context and information.

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          Ya know what? Fair.

          I do think that’s a reasonable take, but the person I replied to seemed unwilling to engage with the content in question but still wanted to chime in casting random uninformed doubts. Doesn’t add much of anything. If they had cited parts of the video that made them question it I wouldnt have said anything, because honestly I ALSO asked myself those questions.

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        To be honest, they seem to be taking a very media literate approach (impressively so, they definitely learned some stuff about YouTube and how to do this kind of thing) to this whole thing, so I kind of get the “farming for views” stance.

        But I get it since that means they are actually getting traction instead of just being a thing that drama YouTube talks about for a week and gets swept under the rug. The video notes he’s a very powerful figure in a relatively small town, so they need media pressure on their side.

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      Yes, it’s so suspicious that to cover the crimes of a psychopath with a media empire would take several hours of documentary evidence.

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    Who is the author of this video? What type of stuff do they usually do? Generally credible?

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      He’s an ex-worker at Jimmy’s firm. If everything he said is false, it’s an easy defamation lawsuit for Jimmy versus him. He dug his own grave. I think he wasn’t dumb to do that. The points he made made sense to me, except the legal stuff. I’m not an attorney. Anyway, we haven’t heard Jimmy’s side.

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        Why do people call him Jimmy so often? We don’t know him. He signs MB on his merch so it seems unnecessary.

        True that if the guy making accusations does not have proof, it will be a pretty shit position to be in. I have seen other creators giving him the benefit of the doubt based on their experiences collaborating Mr. Beast though, so it’s kind of early to tell. And the illegal lottery accusations seem pretty straight forward to prove based on archived videos circulating.

        Edit: reworded first few sentences.

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          If he did conduct illegal lotteries, what a 💩 way to treat your viewers, many of whom were kids, seemingly. He said something like “The 10th buyer in the next 5 min will win 30000.” right? Did those winners get their prizes? If no, it was a scam.

          The 💤 deprivation was inhuman. The running thing was cruel.

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    Kudos to Kavernacle for being the original hater, he was shit talking Mr Beast 4 years ago in the height of his popularity.

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    I’ve never watched a single video of MrBeast. The topics just don’t interest me at all. I really don’t see the hype.

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      Showing your age bro…

      His audience are kids, maybe early 20s now

      You have to be a kid not to see the grift

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        You gotta be damn dumb too, which is a lot of people (including kids). Some kids see it and don’t fall for it, sadly it’s not the majority.

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        His audience are kids, maybe early 20s now

        It’s funny you say that, because last summer a coworker of mine became completely obsessed with Mr Beast. He’s a 50y/o retired marine captain. Not the kind of person that fits into the normal beast demographic.

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                Nah, he loves me. I talk shit to him all the time…

                One time, he was bitching about how he’s the only one getting anything done at work. He said “I’ve done a million things today. I did A, and B.” And i asked him if that’s how he thought counting worked. “1, 2, a million? What is this, marine math?” And he fucking LOVED that. He uses “marine math” all the time now.

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                  Nobody jokes about Marines being stupid more than marines. Well maybe the Air Force and navy. But the marines do it a lot too

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          My kids are both around 10yo and also like Mr Beast, even though we don’t let them watch YT very much.

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      I have no idea who the guy is, but why is anyone surprised that someone who goes by Mr Beast is living up to his stage name?

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      Idk I kinda like when he burns and crushes stuff. We watch other more “human focused” videos like “don’t get out of chamber” with my family but those have more of a TV show vibe than a youtube video

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    Guess who’s gonna make the alt-right turn in a month?

    That’s right! It’s Mr Beast Couch