I never bothered to ask and now i’m afraid of being outed as an old for asking.

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    @KingThrillgore @asklemmy YouTuber who make money off of throwing money at people to do ridiculous things.
    I do not like his content cause it feels like a billionaire playing with the little people for his amusement.

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      I enjoyed a few when I first came across the channel because it reminded me of those shows from decades ago. The ones where someone comes up to you in a toy / electronics store and you have a minute to grab whatever you can for free. That was a fun concept.

      billionaire playing with the little people for his amusement

      However a lot more of the videos feel like this, especially with how well known he is now. I don’t think I’m the target age group regardless.

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    I think you could happily live your life not knowing who he is. I will say that he’s a master at knowing what will make someone click on his videos.

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      On that note, there is this browser extension

      https://dearrow.ajay.app/

      DeArrow is an open source browser extension for crowdsourcing better titles and thumbnails on YouTube. The goal is to make titles accurate and reduce sensationalism. No more arrows, ridiculous faces, and no more clickbait.

      It’s nice because it will affect all the videos equally. I didn’t want to use it initially because it was messing with my ability to remember which videos I had already seen. I might give it a try again since people keep changing video thumbnails now

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      He’s a master at knowing what will make someone click on his videos

      Spoiler alert: it’s this face 😲

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        It is 2024 and I am upset that there still isn’t a Punch option in the right click menu.

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      a master at knowing what will make someone click on his videos

      Coincidentally also a master at knowing what will make me never click on them (yes it’s the horrifying face he makes)

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        Lots of YT creators edit their face to look strange or unsettling. I’m the same as you, though I think it’s more the gimmicky nature of his content I’m a bit put off by.

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      He’s a master at knowing what will make someone click

      He effectively dedicated a couple years to “study” this, which is exactly what you can do with your life when you live in Greenville, NC.

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      I will say that he’s a master at knowing what will make someone click on his videos.

      Well, his methods haven’t caught OP and me.

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    What I gather from working in retail is that “Mr. Beast” is an incantation that brainwashes children into begging for candy bars they’d normally hate.

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    A YouTuber who is now selling cookies. I can tell from the thumbnails of his videos that I am way too much an old, curmudgeonly, jaded millennial to be his target demographic. It must be more the youths that enjoy him and I wish them all well.

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      They won’t be well if they watch him. One of his main money makers is dishonest and probably illegal lotteries where he suggests almost everyone who buys something from him will get some kind of big prize. In reality, the odds are like 1 in 60000, and the requirement of a purchase for a chance to get the prize is probably illegal.

      He also sells chocolate and cookies as “healthy” using similar underhanded promises of rewards. He also runs contests and game shows that are staged and rigged which, again, is illegal on broadcast TV.

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        I’m not defending him or his actions. All I wanted to comment on is his candy bars have a handful of ingredients compared to 50+ unpronounceables (exaggerating somewhat) in competitor bars. Sugar and candy is never healthy, but if I have to get one, I usually grab those because it seems like a better option.

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          The bars were originally 5 compared to 9 ingredients in a Hersheys bar. They’ve since expanded and now both have 9 from what I’ve heard

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        That video is simply assumptions and some truth but mostly just assumptions. Apparently he worked for a month and was removed for erratic behavior. It makes good points but in some places just acts as if staging content is illegal or never been in history of television.

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    All I know is he acts like Elon Musk is his friend, and that pretty much says everything.

    The company you keep speaks volumes, and anyone who would gladly keep company with Musk is a fucking psychopath.

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      Fun fact he actually started out by making minecraft videos in middle school. “Mr Beast” is literally a name thought up by a 12 year old trying to look cool on the internet.

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    Now you made me curious: Why do you know that someone named “MrBeast” exists and why does it interest you who this person is?

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      Mr beast is popping up in various internet news circles lately because one of his friends/"co-star"s in his youtube videos was just caught grooming a 12 year old. To make things even worse, Mr beast was aware that this friend of his was pedo for years and continued to make videos with him(her). She recently transitioned last year and that was a minor controversy of its own for Mr beast cause most of his audience is cringey transphobic teens and tweens.

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          You say holy shit? It gets even more worse, because that’s not even half the story. Bro was running an illegal lottery in the guise of a sweepstake, with children as their main audience. He did nothing to ensure fairness of these games. He also didn’t give a fuck about OSHA standards in his set, and someone nearly died. In his new game show, BeastGames, contestants were starving, fighting each other for food and water. Oh, and he also promoted unhealthy to a younger, immature audience. This guy is a piece of shit. And he KNEW about Kris’s creepy behavior.

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            Yeah I was only vaguely aware of him - popular YT guy with younger folks, did some stunts, etc, not my thing. But this is a rabbit hole that keeps getting more and more disturbing.

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    Alright, I’ll give you the only non-grumpy answer here apparently, from someone who actually knows him.

    His name is Jimmy. He loves YouTube, and want to make the best videos possible.

    He lived with his mom and brother in his childhood. No mention of a father. He played a little baseball, and besides that he really just wanted to make video content. The family was not rich.

    His first brand deal he got, he received 10.000 dollars from a sponsor. He gave it all away to someone and filmed it, gaining another brand deal that then got better and better because he gained more viewers.

    The concept today for almost all of his videos is “game show”. Which means you almost always have a chance to win money. Sometimes he also just gave it random on the street.

    He also is a part of Team Trees and Save the Ocean, doing some environmental work in his videos.

    Now, Jimmy aka MrBeast has a philanthropy channel, where he hired two individuals to go and give money away around the world to poor villages in 3rd world countries.

    He also sells chocolate from sustainable cocoa farms, that is also gentle to the stomach (Jimmy has a stomach disease, don’t remember the name).

    So yeah, that’s MrBeast. He uses all his time and money on videos, and he himself live in a little bunker close to the film studio. He owns almost nothing for himself, but he does own the biggest YouTube brand there is.

    Hope it helped.

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      Please pick a simplified version of any book or article with Marx’s philosophies and beliefs. Read on what is his opinion on philanthropy. You don’t really have to be a leftist for that. In an egalitarian society, people are self-reliant. What philanthropist do is make people dependent on them.

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        I don’t think I gave my opinion on any of the things in my description. He’s making philanthropist videos no matter if you like it or not.

        I was just stating facts, because all the other comments about him where mostly wrong or only sentence like “he’s a YouTuber.”

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      Oh sweet summer child, how innocent. When someone is a multi-millionare/billionaire and they say they own nothing, just a quaint little bunker, they’re lying to you.

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      Yeah not buying this green washing and white saviors. Also, he was recently exposed for rigging his contests for friends and employees. Beat it shill.

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    MrBeast is a really popular content creator that makes videos with high production value; similar to TV Show Contests but with a worldwide audience. He currently holds the title for the Youtube channel with the most subscribers.

    About the drama revolving him; recently, it’s surfaced that one of his friends in the channel called Kris has inappropriately talked with a minor back before; and an ex-MrBeast employee has came out telling that MrBeast himself was favoring people he knew over completely random subscribers; skewing the odds to make the challanges more interesting to watch and also a stream he did way before (signing every T-Shirt bought live) had various elements that are outright illegal in a lot of countries, saying stuff like “if you buy this within the next 10 minutes you have chance to get XXX”.