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Why people loves Mr. Beast content? Or Why his content is so popular? (lemm.ee)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Self insert

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 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

[–] [email protected] 44 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

The way his content is structured and edited is like junk food for your brain. There's a formula that appeals to the ~~least~~ lowest common denominator and he (his team) excels at it.

The topics he picks usually hit some nerve of vicariousness (game shows contestants) or suspense from wanting to know what happens next (challenges and clickbait).

[–] [email protected] -4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Isn't all youtube content engineered in that way though?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Not really. You might think that from looking at thumbnails, because thumbnails all have to basically look like clickbait for people to actually engage with your videos. But there's tons of good YouTube content out there.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It's the only platform I still regularly engage with minus this, being lemmy, tildes, and watchpeopledie.tv/h/slavshit because I get a lot of interesting stuff to watch and people still come on there on their own to express themselves about stuff I care about. But yeah, the fact that YouTube weathered the onslaught of russian bots and kept all my UA supporting channels up earned my respect. Which it's a great way to keep up if you're not on Telegram, or are just depressed by the shit, I think it's a damn good platform. Best thing google has imo.

But to each their own. I'm not like the vast majority of people.

Edit: I've been suspicious of Mr. Beast for many years. The deadness behind the eyes clued me into him actually. No one that successful with that kinda look is squeaky clean. That's been the only thing besides the obvious this person is wealthy, probably not amazing, that's made me dislike his stuff. Also the clickbaity nature of his content.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

Probably more than half, but there's actual decent content on there too.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Remember when he counted to 100,000?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Yup

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

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)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 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.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

These are dependent clauses, not questions

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Children watch antyhing

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'll never forget the time someone showed me a shitty YouTube video of pregnant spiderman.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Wait what!?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago