His hide and seek videos are funny.
A lot of it feels like filler but there's a few gems.
this post was submitted on 03 Aug 2024
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never watched a second from any of his brainrot videos in my entire life
Gambling sells.
He fits what Youtubers like.
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.
Yeah well, I don't know either. The thumbnails are what 6 year olds would find interesting and it's mostly just "Do X to win Y dollars"
And also: Who is Mr. Beast?
Basically a for profit philanthropist. He does dumb content that brings in the dough and then uses that for big bombastic charity projects.
A lot of people like to hate on him because "rich kids shouldn't be the ones helping others out of poverty!" but like, as long as that's the way the world is I don't see any issues with it since he does actually go pretty above and beyond with his acts of good will, legit building homes for the poor, wells for communities with low safe water access, paying for sight restoration surgeries for the poor, I think one of his vids was traveling about and providing community solar networks to impoverished communities, which as someone who works in that field, he's doing a double service there since even if they end up having to pay for it themselves, it'll be a net savings vs traditional utility costs.
I'll do you one better: Why is Mr. Beast?
what is Mr. Beast?
WHERE is Mr. Beast?
Is... is it in the room with us now?
HOW is Mr. beast?
WHEN is Mr. Beast?!
They’re everywhere, all at once aren’t they?
I'm not a fan, but his philanthropy work is also popular. I only started to know him because of his project trees and not about his streaming
But supposedly the philanthropy is staged and the prizes are given to his friends.
Guy brought crypto-bros' fake twitter/telegram giveaways scheme to youtube. Anybody with some knowledge of social media scams should have been suspicious. But his viewers were mostly kids and kids like flashy over the top content.
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With a bot farm driving engagement, there'd be 1000s of comments in few hours. Probably mostly fake but still a lot of suckers reeled in everyday.
I'm always suspicious of people who make a show of their philanthropy. It just makes it seem like they're either exploiting people for their own gain, or they have something to hide and are trying to do so with philanthropic work.
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Teens are idiots. That's why.
If only teens were idiots... We all have our idiot moment, though for some that moment lasts all their lives..
Totally. I have had a lot of idiotic moments in my life.
Hey, that's a derogatory generalisation. There are many teenagers who don't watch drivel like Mr Beast, or do many of the other things you might consider 'stupid'. Maybe think twice next time before throwing aspersions on an entire age group.
You're right. Let me correct myself: most teens are idiots.
And that’s ok. What’s not ok is when they’re still idiots when they grow up lol
Source: OP is Teenager(me)
Kid got rich by streaming and shitposting. Ultimate hero for 14 year olds.
Wasn't he up class already?
No idea, never cared to check his background.
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I don't watch him either, but the was some drama about him recently. I was sort of half wondering what it was about. Anyone got a quick explanation?
An ex employee of his got accused of being in a minor's DMs.
Supposedly, a lot of lying, staging, faking, possible fraud, generally shady and consciously exploitive behavior towards viewers, many of which are kids.
This is stuff I remember off the top of my head, according to 1 (one) half-watched video on the topic. In other words, I'm not exactly in the know.
So, a streamer then.
Not just any streamer though, this guy has chocolate bars at Walmart and shit.
He is THE streamer. Ive even seen ads on Roku for his show.
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Ah nothing surprising then. Thanks.
Kids.
I think he plays a lot of Minecraft which kids love