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

  • JimmyMcGill@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    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.

  • s08nlql9@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    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

      • pop@lemmy.ml
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        2 months ago

        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.

        Anyone remember these on Xitter?

        Like, subscribe, follow me and 10 other accounts and post proof in comments for a chance to win 0.0000000000000001 buttcoin.

        5 comments after this post get a NFT worth $NOTHING

        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.

      • Jackthelad@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        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.

        • JimmyMcGill@lemmy.world
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          2 months ago

          I mean yes but isn’t that being extremely pedantic?

          Take Mr Beast or an hypothetical example. Give 1M to strangers in need, record it, upload it to YouTube make 4M on ads and other sponsors (content is still free). Pocket 2M, make second video where he gives 2M to other strangers in need. Record it, upload it to YouTube etc etc

          Now I agree with you, philosophically it’s best to give without expecting or earning anything in return. But is that really the best outcome? Isn’t it actually arguably better to publicize it and with it reach and help way more people?

          For me the answer is clear. I’d rather have someone record and even make money of this type of content (as long as there’s no exploitation or slimy shit) than have that same someone not do that and instead only help a fraction of the people. I’ll argue that the people being helped don’t give a crap about it, so it feels a bit patronizing to say that they shouldn’t be helped because of X or Y

          This isn’t specific to Mr Beast, I don’t even know the details of the recent scandal. I just see this argument everywhere and I feel it’s very naive

      • bradorsomething@ttrpg.network
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        2 months ago

        I peg him at upper middle, but that would be family wealth, not his. My kids watched him when he was really taking off, and he was just figuring out the content math. He started fairly small, spending a few hundred to buy people groceries, to in a few years was loading up a car lot and selling the vehicles for under $10. As his income got more ridiculous his stunts got more ridiculous.

        There seems to be a wave of posts going after him lately, and I feel he’s flawed, but I don’t think his original intent was to do harm. He always gave the impression of someone who wanted to do good in the world while chasing fame, and I feel he succeeded more than many who go in with good intentions. I won’t be accepting the complimentary torch and pitchfork with all these posts, but they do raise some points where he should admit fault and clean up his act. The guy tried to get people to plant a billion trees and put a lot of time and money into it - I’ll grade him on a curve.

  • solrize@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    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?

    • mke@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      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) watched video on the topic.

        • CaptainSpaceman@lemmy.world
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          2 months ago

          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.

          • itsathursday@lemmy.world
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            2 months ago

            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.

  • linearchaos@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

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

  • PlzGivHugs@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    2 months ago

    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.

  • Dog@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

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

  • Toes♀@ani.social
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    2 months ago

    His hide and seek videos are funny.

    A lot of it feels like filler but there’s a few gems.