• BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works
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    2 个月前

    What is Mr Beast? Is he like a new form of Pewdiepie who just does shit and gets assloads of money to film himself doing some script stuff with the caption “I DID THIS TOTALLY WEIRD THING AND LOOK WHAT HAPPENED”

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      He got his very first start doing weird things for views.

      But he got really famous by being a clickbaity charity funded by viewers. For example he paid for eye surgeries for 1000 people.

      That got him mainstream because the religious right started publicly denouncing him for helping people without it being about Jesus.

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        That got him mainstream because the religious right started publicly denouncing him

        He’s constantly being front-paged on YouTube and getting shoved into everyone’s recommended feeds. I have never heard anyone on the religious right mention his name positively or negatively. I doubt the Zoomers and GenAlpha folks who subscribe to him have either.

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          Not mine. I only know of him from my son.

          My feeds are all techy stuff. Cherno, level 1 techs, Adam Savage, and lots of Dragonball shorts.

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        If he had done it quietly without a video crew I would have a lot more respect for him… Actually… I would have any respect for him

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          If he had done it quietly without a video crew, Google wouldn’t have given him millions to do his next project which was building free homes for the homeless.

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            Precisely my point…

            Now he has a fucking netflix deal. His face in household around the world… & he’ll get paid.

            He’s a businessman, that’s for sure.

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              You would have more respect for him if he stopped doing charity work???

              He gets money for charity from the advertisers. If he stops the videos the charity stops.

              He funnels a greater percentage into charity than any other charity like habitat for humanity or the Red Cross. Would you be happier if he funneled his YouTube profits into a prostitution ring like Andrew Tate?

              What do you want from him?

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                Intent matters to me.

                He seems incredible fake and artificial. I get zero trust from him. Just because someone hide some shit to charity doesn’t mean shit. ESPECIALLY, if you consider his charity as a % of his wealth.

                If you look at it that way, he gives less to charity than most of us, I would imagine.

                JC yeah, he’s like a family friendly Andrew Tate… hahaha good one

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                  His intent is to help people. If his intent was getting as rich as possible he would have continued filling swimming pools with orbeez.

                  It doesn’t matter how fake he is. He gets results.
                  That’s why the religious right hates him.

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                    Hahah religious? Fuck those people. They in a cult.

                    I dunno… he seems to be getting pretty rich. And very loved by American children . I think he knows what he’s doing…

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          If he’d have done it quietly and without a video feed, he’d be called “Medicaid” and we’d be arguing over how much we need to defund him.

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      He started out doing challenge videos like “counting to x” and it was literally like a multi-hour long video where he counted to 10,000 I believe. It’s insanely boring but it showed his “dedication to the bit”. Another is saying " pewdiepie like 10,000 times. I may have exaggerated, I’m not at a computer to look up the numbers. Eventually, after tormenting himself and gaining some followers and he got paid some money from youtube. With his first paycheck he made a video of him taking that check and giving it to a homeless person (IIRC). His philosophy was always to take any money he makes and dump it right into the next video. This has allowed him to slowly make bigger and bigger videos. He still regularly does challenge videos (buried himself alive for multiple days, not eating for several days, etc.) But, him dumping all of the money he makes, into the next video has grown from giving his first, probably couple hundred dollar check, to a homeless man, into giving literally millions away per video.

      He also kind of pioneered the thumbnails you are talking about. And yelling at the beginning of the video to grab your attention by showing enthusiasm was also really his thing too. I mean some people had probably used it before. But, he used it regularly and had the type of content that really was that exciting.

      Whether you care for challenge content, giving away money, some combination of both, or neither he also has Beast Philanthropy. That’s his channel where he does good “because he can”. He puts a bunch of money and gets sponsors to give money for causes like, building wells, building houses, paying for surgeries, building hospitals, etc. I thought it was a bit gross to make videos out of charity work at first. But, it helps a lot of people in under served countries, and raises awareness to them and the charities that try to help them. Also, all the money they make on that channel goes to the charity of each episode.

      That was more than I thought I would type for sure…