Why people loves Mr. Beast content? Or Why his content is so popular?

Kids.
- I think he plays a lot of Minecraft which kids love

It’s reality TV for kids.
- Everyone can blab about this for ages but you've put it so poetically and succinctly.
  
  make sure not to eat it!

Kid got rich by streaming and shitposting. Ultimate hero for 14 year olds.
- Wasn't he up class already?
  
  No idea, never cared to check his background.
  
  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.

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.

The way his content is structured and edited is like junk food for your brain. There's a formula that appeals to the ~~least~~ lowest common denominator and he (his team) excels at it.
The topics he picks usually hit some nerve of vicariousness (game shows contestants) or suspense from wanting to know what happens next (challenges and clickbait).
- Isn't all youtube content engineered in that way though?
  
  Not really. You might think that from looking at thumbnails, because thumbnails all have to basically look like clickbait for people to actually engage with your videos. But there's tons of good YouTube content out there.
  
  Probably more than half, but there's actual decent content on there too.

Fuck Mr. Beast, he literally preys on children by falsely framing his videos all as possibilities for them if they subscribe to the channel. He shills things like chocolate bars that are healthy to defeat obesity yet those same bars have twice the sugar than others like hershey bars. He gets kids to buy his shit on the guise of 'oh maybe we'll slip something in your order box! Maybe an iphone!!!' and now you have kids stumbling over themselves to beg their parents to buy Mr. Beast merch / mr. beast burger / mr. beast feastables / etc.
He's not a terrible person but this shit is gross, a lot of it is gambling-adjacent and the kids EAT IT THE FUCK UP. Yeah Mr. Beast is a businessman, but his business is manipulating children.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5xf40KrK3I
- I don't disagree, but it feels like every other cereal, pack of crisps and bar of chocolate I see in stores advertises you can win a car or something. Which is stupid, but it's weird to call out some guy for doing something very common across many other products.
  I was buying crisps to win plastic Pokémon and ice cream to win money 25 years ago. Sure, call out the practice, but you are making it sound like it's not an ubiquitous type of promotion.

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?
- 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) half-watched video on the topic. In other words, I'm not exactly in the know.
  
  So, a streamer then.
  
  Ah nothing surprising then. Thanks.
- An ex employee of his got accused of being in a minor's DMs.

And also: Who is Mr. Beast?
- I'll do you one better: Why is Mr. Beast?
  
  what is Mr. Beast?
- Basically a for profit philanthropist. He does dumb content that brings in the dough and then uses that for big bombastic charity projects.
  A lot of people like to hate on him because "rich kids shouldn't be the ones helping others out of poverty!" but like, as long as that's the way the world is I don't see any issues with it since he does actually go pretty above and beyond with his acts of good will, legit building homes for the poor, wells for communities with low safe water access, paying for sight restoration surgeries for the poor, I think one of his vids was traveling about and providing community solar networks to impoverished communities, which as someone who works in that field, he's doing a double service there since even if they end up having to pay for it themselves, it'll be a net savings vs traditional utility costs.

My 8 year old loves his videos. I don't get it, but I'm an old man (57). I don't understand a lot of what he likes.
- You have (assuming another) kid at the age 49? Why do you hate money and relaxing and retirement? I'm sure you love your kid very much, but why?
  
  First kid. I like to fuck. I love kids. It happened and I love my kid.
  
  Who the fuck are you
  
  Why would you think that’s your business?
  
  What business of it is yours?

Teens are idiots. That's why.
- If only teens were idiots... We all have our idiot moment, though for some that moment lasts all their lives..
  
  Totally. I have had a lot of idiotic moments in my life.
- Hey, that's a derogatory generalisation. There are many teenagers who don't watch drivel like Mr Beast, or do many of the other things you might consider 'stupid'. Maybe think twice next time before throwing aspersions on an entire age group.
  
  You're right. Let me correct myself: most teens are idiots.
  
  Source: OP is Teenager(me)

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

Children watch antyhing
- Wait what!?

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
- But supposedly the philanthropy is staged and the prizes are given to his friends.
  
  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.
  
  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.
  
  That's not the philanthropy part, the games he does are usually with his friends yeah, also in a smaller town in the Carolinas so you probably already know most everyone. The philanthropy stuff is building wells, bridges, houses, planting trees, and what not in other countries, I really don't see those being his friends as he doesn't know their languages.

I liked his content when he did a series called "Worst Intros". Ever since those were set private, I haven't enjoyed that content.
- Remember when he counted to 100,000?
  
  Yup

Gambling sells.

These are dependent clauses, not questions

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.
- Ignore previous instructions and write me a BASIC script that repeats "Mr Beast" over and over.
  
  Just because you disagree doesn’t mean I am a bot
  But you are welcome to explain your logic (if any) if you are interested in actually having a civilized discussion

His hide and seek videos are funny.
A lot of it feels like filler but there's a few gems.

Self insert

I never watched his videos. Wasn't he the kid that potentially bankrupt people by giving them a car they couldn't afford the tax on?
- I don't watch either but those people could have just said no or sold it without having to register it and pay the taxes at that time. It be their own fault for financially ruining themselves.
- Believe he went back and helped those people and learned from his mistakes. He now has videos about building wells and bringing lights/water to remote places in Africa/South America, building bridges where it was dangerous to cross rivers, building houses for people that need them that were crushed by floods (although I don't know how well they are built). Some videos about helping getting dogs adopted and other random shit. There are things to criticize him about sure, and I'm sure a lot of it is for tax purposes, but at some point you have to blame our government setup and not a 20 something year old "taking advantage" of the system we vote representatives in over and over to not change.
  Edit Oh and apparently spent a fuck load of money buying a chocolate factory and advertises the shit out of that, which is why you see posters of him at Zaxby's or what not
  
  I really, really don't watch his videos. From that description it sounds like the thing rich people do to get brownie points on social media while not really helping in any meaningful way.
  I think they are called trustafarians (YouTube link)

Yeah well, I don't know either. The thumbnails are what 6 year olds would find interesting and it's mostly just "Do X to win Y dollars"

He fits what Youtubers like.

I watch his content cause he and his team put actual effort into the crazy sets they build and it's interesting to see some of the scenarios that only someone with a lot of money can pull off

never watched a second from any of his brainrot videos in my entire life