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neidu2 ,

Some youtuber who first gained fame counting to a million. Then he pivoted to posting videos of him doing large amounts of altruistic acts such as paying for people’s surgeries et al.

Beyond that I don’t know.

ShareMySims ,

Altruistic implies he was doing it out of the kindness of his heart and got nothing out of it, when in reality he was making poverty porn for profit and to further his own career.

magic_lobster_party ,

He’s also probably doing “altruistic acts” to defend himself against criticism.

qaz ,

Ehh, it’s better than “the person who can stay in the circle the longest wins 1 million”

ShareMySims ,

How? How is directly and unashamedly exploiting poor people for views and profit (while promoting yourself as “self made” no less) better than whatever it is you’re referencing (presumably just another version of poor people being exploited for views and profit)??

Why do you feel the need to defend the indefensible?

Feathercrown ,

Why do you feel the need to make it so black and white? Clearly, helping people is a good thing, even if done with another motive in mind. To ignore this and say it’s all bad is simply dishonest.

ShareMySims ,

When the “other motives” are literal propaganda that helps maintain inequality at the expense of the people it exploits under the pretence of “help”, it is black and white to anyone who isn’t too busy licking boot.

Feathercrown , (edited )

First, fuck off with the name calling. Lame and uncalled for, and not indicative of good faith in discussion.

Second: How do his videos constitute propaganda that maintains inequality? Is he not literally preventing inequality by giving away money or assistance? He also serves as a role model to encourage his viewers to do the same.

bloop ,
@bloop@eepy.express avatar

@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.

otter , (edited )

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.

Blursty ,
@Blursty@lemmygrad.ml avatar

I think it’s someone only kids or people who have kids know.

overload ,

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.

thesohoriots ,

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.

kamiheku ,

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)

kratoz29 ,

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.

TORFdot0 ,

He’s a master at making children click his videos

otter ,

On that note, there is this browser extension

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

Dhrystone ,
@Dhrystone@infosec.pub avatar

My top vote as the YouTuber who looks the least like his actual handle implies.

Alice ,

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.

wesker ,
@wesker@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

A charlatan.

shinigamiookamiryuu ,

A celebrity who embodies boredom and has made a fortune off of that.

Vanth ,
@Vanth@reddthat.com avatar

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.

xionzui ,

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.

notfromhere , (edited )

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.

xionzui ,

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

Vaggumon ,
@Vaggumon@lemm.ee avatar

No idea. And I’m perfectly fine with that.

SnotFlickerman ,
@SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

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.

mosiacmango ,

I think his companies are making around 800 mil/yr in revenue, so it’s just billionares rubbing elbows. Class warfare as usual.

twei ,

Even if that number was true: Revenue isn’t earnings! He has like 100-200 ppl working on the YouTube channel

mosiacmango , (edited )

cnbc.com/…/mrbeast-brings-in-700-million-a-yearhe…

He says he reinvests it all, which may be true. Amazon also famously did the same for about 20 years, but Bezos still lived like a billionaire off loans/etc during that time.

davel ,
@davel@lemmy.ml avatar

I’m poor because I reinvest my capital. How dumb does he think people are? Reinvesting capital is literally what it means to be a capitalist.

darklamer ,
@darklamer@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

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

Rentlar ,

He’s a YouTube personality who makes clickbait videos, does random stunts using millions of dollars at a time, and now has a candy bar offering.

If there is a Mr. Beast thumbnail that catches your interest, usually the last 2 minutes of the video has anything worth watching. The rest is fluff and sponsorships and BS worse than reality-TV.

happybadger ,
@happybadger@hexbear.net avatar

It’s the youtube algorithm wearing a skin suit to convince children to gamble.

themurphy ,

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.

Fuckfuckmyfuckingass ,
@Fuckfuckmyfuckingass@lemmy.world avatar

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.

Feathercrown ,

Oh sweet summer child

Downvoted out of principle

Kuori ,
@Kuori@hexbear.net avatar

bootlicker

Nakoichi ,
@Nakoichi@hexbear.net avatar

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.

davel ,
@davel@lemmy.ml avatar

from someone who actually knows him

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/1799ff5e-b47c-4b69-acf1-4a64e66fd728.jpeg

themurphy ,

Lol, not it person. But the other comments dosent even know who he is on YouTube.

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