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[–] [email protected] 28 points 8 months ago (3 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 138 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 38 points 8 months ago (10 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

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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[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago

the guy who got famous by reading the entire dictionary and counting to a million on live camera is a sociopath?! i did not see this coming. /s

[–] [email protected] 23 points 8 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago

Part 1 also shows some evidence of fake contestants (who are actually actors) that end up winning the prize.

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