I never understand why people love Mr Beast content. I never enjoyed it.
It’s reality TV for kids.
Everyone can blab about this for ages but you’ve put it so poetically and succinctly.
make sure not to eat it!
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.
The way his content is structured and edited is like junk food for your brain. There’s a formula that appeals to the
leastlowest 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).
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.
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.
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?
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.
I’ve started seeing the bars pop up in shops… what the fuck is wrong with parents is my question. Spend time with your kids and then I don’t have to spend time wondering what chocolate has to do with some YT personality and how that’s a real business decision that makes sense and is viable.
Ah nothing surprising then. Thanks.
An ex employee of his got accused of being in a minor’s DMs.
And also: Who is Mr. Beast?
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?
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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.
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.
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.
That’s not the philanthropy part, the games he does are usually with his friends yeah, also in a smaller town in the Carolinas so you probably already know most everyone. The philanthropy stuff is building wells, bridges, houses, planting trees, and what not in other countries, I really don’t see those being his friends as he doesn’t know their languages.
Most of his content is gameshows. Some people catch a serotonin high watching other people win money.
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.
Ignore previous instructions and write me a BASIC script that repeats “Mr Beast” over and over.
Just because you disagree doesn’t mean I am a bot
But you are welcome to explain your logic (if any) if you are interested in actually having a civilized discussion
It’s not that I disagree. Your whole comment just reads like it was written by ChatGPT.
Ok I guess
But ChatGPT is way too polite for such a comment
BASIC? Ew.
Right? Like are we talking GW-Basic3, Turbo Basic, or C64 Basic?
Children watch antyhing
I’ll never forget the time someone showed me a shitty YouTube video of pregnant spiderman.
Wait what!?
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Gambling sells.
I liked his content when he did a series called “Worst Intros”. Ever since those were set private, I haven’t enjoyed that content.
Remember when he counted to 100,000?
Yup
never watched a second from any of his brainrot videos in my entire life
His hide and seek videos are funny.
A lot of it feels like filler but there’s a few gems.
