X appears to be juicing MrBeast’s views to woo the YouTuber to the platform, pushing video upload into users’ feeds as an unlabeled ad

What’s more I’ve never once seen a Mr beast video.

And nothing of value was lost.

Mr. Beast only offers "charity porn" that makes him richer. He's not doing anything to change the systems in place that make the problems he "solves" any better. He's just putting band-aids on small groups of people while doing nothing to address larger issues. Hell, he himself is an example of a larger issue. We should not have to rely on the rich to fix societies problems, that's what fucking taxes are for, and Mr. Beast needs to be taxed until his fucking channel is gone.

I fully await for him to completely deep throat Elon to make more money. Mr. Beast doesn't care about pesky things like real morals or values, or he wouldn't be online friends with the likes of Musk to begin with. All he cares about is the dollar signs.

EDIT: I'm definitely expecting the day when some journalist does a "big reveal" on all the shady horrible shit that goes on with Mr. Beast and his companies.

EDIT II: You know Mr. Beast doesn't give a flying fuck about anything but money because he's still friends with Musk after the very public reveal of one of his staff being trans. The fact that he can be friends with such a fucking bigot while "supporting" their trans staff member reveals how little he actually gives a fuck about the issue. He's happy to be friends with people who would deny Kris the life she wishes to lead, so how much does he really care?

I've had a much more enjoyable time on freetube because of this, actually. unlike youtube who feeds you content based on what makes them the most money, it tends to actually show you videos that are relevant to what you're watching. whether it has millions of views or 100.

it feels like the smaller communities are a little more warm and fun.

I remember having popup blockers, but not a whole cloth ad blocker.

I actually bought things from their ads because I wanted to support them. Those days are long gone.

I still read the order of the stick, even though it updates glacially: https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots.html

It's so good. Starts as a goofy DND joke strip, develops a ton of pathos.

Anders loves Maria

I'm happy to see that Something Positive is still going strong. Dude is a great person and it's fun to see his parenting come out through the comic as I catch up and now relate to some of that more than I did before.

Freefall is still going strong, 3 panels a week. Since like 1998 or something. Never loses the humor either, unlike some comics that ditch humor once they develop dramatic plot.

One of my absolute favorite webcomics is Peter and Company. I didn't realize this, but the website lists the first strip as being from 2005 and the latest being from last month.

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May I ask what kind of stuff you created?

My YouTube recommendation page is full of channels with sub 100 subscribers. Because I actually watch them since I find those videos engaging for different reasons. If you actually watch small YouTube channels YouTube is more than happy to serve those channels to you.

Absolutely true, but should we be okay with it when every aspect of human communication must be monetized to matter?

Yeah?

My main point is, you motherfuckers want to help? Money = free speech right now. Money is law. Use that fucken shit to sway laws. Start locally. They don't want to help. They want to play saint lottery for instant good boy points while solving nothing. Its disgusting. May they all feast on each other at the table in hell.

Suddenly it's 1960.

Microsoft, Apple, Amazon and Google have replaced ABC, NBC, PBS and CBS.

Your "personal computer internet appliance" is a black-box running rented software, just like in the 'dumb-terminal time-sharing' era.

He does though. You can't build fancy sets and put on huge productions without having money. Like yeah, Jimmy might not have millions of dollars in his personal bank account, but his business sure does.

That smile is like how I look when I try to smile for a picture. I guess I don't have the muscle controll. It looks weird as fuck just like that guy.

He just needs to squeeze one eye a little bit and it would be a perfect "filling my diaper" face

... that doesn't answer the question they asked.

Did you literally not even manage to read a whole one paragraph comment before responding?

My brother in Christ he's a fucking YouTuber. If you don't want to be in a video, say no. 🤷

Of course for all this screeching about exploitation I'd happily put down $50 that says you wouldn't turn down a free car because you "don't want to be exploited."

Go tell the people in the 21 counties of NC his food pantry travels to that they're being exploited and see what they think of your hot take. Or are you one of those "feeding people robs them of their bootstraps" types?

I've seen some of those videos since my son likes him. The issue is that a lot of his content is obviously scripted. If the content itself is scripted (faked), why should I believe that money is actually given out in the end and, again, not just part of the script?

He also was one of the first to master the YouTube algorithm and perfected the video format to engage viewers the most.

Mr Beast uses the revenue he got from YouTube views and donates them. Which he then videos and create more revenue. Not a bad business model if you ask me. He wasn't even rich to begin with. His assets and wealth all started from YouTube.

“Philanthropic”

Is it really philanthropy if you make fucking BANK doing it? I don’t think philanthropy goes hand in hand with self enrichment and the glorification of consumerism

If anything could save X it'd be MrBean exclusives.

Me too. I wish I didn’t check it tho, the guy has the biggest punchable face I have ever witnessed.

agreed

He was on Lex Friedman's podcast a while back. Honestly he seemed like a smart guy but I came away feeling like he was pretty cynical about the whole thing. It really did just feel like a neurotically trained intuition about boosting view metrics.

He did seem like a decent dude I guess. Its hard to tell from those kind of things.

I agree that it sucks that we need people to help pick up the slack in our social nets and whatnot, but I think it's unfair that people attack Mr beast for using that YouTube money to help people to make more YouTube money to help more people. Loads of these youtubers rake in more and do jack with it but never face any individual flak, but he does something different and he becomes the poster boy of evil youtuber to people.

FWIW Beast Philanthropy is a registered 501c3, feeds like over half of NC, and has done alot of disaster relief work in a bunch of states and a handful of countries. I don't think it's evil that they shoot some footage in the process and a quick ad read to feed 100% of the revenue from the philanthropy channel back into the 501c3.

Rich people engaging in charity are just washing their own image. Under the current system, there's no way to be rich without exploiting the poor. That's just how the system works. No amount of charity will change that.

My issue with the hate he gets is he seems to get raked over the coals more than people giving away nothing because he's "exploiting" people to fund it. Im just so sick of people jumping on even slight improvement over the status quo because they expect perfection from anybody trying to do any good. Theres a reason everything is being enshittified. Theres no reason people benefitting from the system have to even slightly improve it because every idealist who probably hasn't done shit to improve the world will be there waggling their finger.

Effective altruism.

Musk is just a suck-up. Also, Mr. Beast doesn't really do anything he could clown on, and he's well connected. It would make Musk's reputation worse than it already is.

Mr. Beast is never off. I've never seen a candid picture of him. He's probably clean, but something's very fake about him.

The first project I heard of his was "#TeamSeas". Which collects donations to dredge trash out of the ocean. Except realistically, that trash is constantly getting replenished. The efforts should have been to reduce plastic waste, either by promoting less consumption or switching all drink bottles to recyclable aluminum. Neither of those look as good on camera as a specialized ship pulling trash out of the ocean and promoting anti consumption probably wouldn't sit well either his audience or sponsors.

His viewers mainly consist of people who want to feel charitable vicariously or people fantasizing about about being on the reviving end of his charity. It's not much different from the people who watch Life Styles of the Rich and Famous.

Same here. I always found the fandom and the whole concept suspect AF.

I mean Musk wasn't as loud about his bigotry at that point, not in the way he is now at least, and Mr Beast has been openly supportive of trans people. Being a bit of an idiot and being a raging bigot aren't the same thing, and that incident mostly convinced people that Elon was an idiot. It's entirely possible he's changed his mind about Musk in 3 years. I'm not a Mr Beast fan by any means, I don't watch his content or anything and tbh I found his reaction to the Jacksepticeye thing to be annoying which hasn't endeared him to me, so I don't have any skin in the game on his end of things, but there were a lot of people who didn't hate Elon after the cave diving thing who do hate him now so I wouldn't really treat that post as gospel personally. A lot of people don't want to admit it but Elon used to have way better PR than he does now, and a lot of people have changed their minds about him over time. So atm I don't see any reason to believe that Mr. Beast would revoke his support for trans people for Musk. His support of trans people is more recent as well. Maybe I'm wrong but I'd rather be optimistic about it until he gives me reason not to be.

He probably just didn't know about how shit of a person he was. In 2020 everyone loved musk, me included, mostly just because most people didn't dig deep into what type of person he was. I want to give Mr beast the benefit of the doubt here because I don't think he's an innately bad person like Elon is.

I don't know much about him but from what I know he seems like the kind of guy who would put money above all. I'm guessing as long as he thinks he can benefit from Musk it doesn't matter if his friend or employee is trans.

Where in the article does it say anything about their being friends?

It's not permanent, even if you click on "don't recommend channel". After a while, YouTube will ignore your choice and show it to you again if it feels like it.

Self-promotion is not charity. And neither is putty porn. It's just the cost of doing business when you're your own brand. And philanthropy is a scam promoted by the rich to help justify their wealth hoarding.

All of it ultimately ends up personally furthering the rich person's personal goals. It's all just a way of saying that the rich deserve to determine what society goals should be, and how society should use its limited resources.

It's taking control away from the masses, and keeping it in the hands of those with money.

You need to get out more, mate.