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I Worked For MrBeast, He's A Sociopath

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I keep thinking I should look into this MrBeast drama, then I remember I just do not give a single fuck.
I went through a h3h3 phase when I was like 20, then realised that any YT drama is just toxic and it’s best to avoid it entirely.
I miss Tom Scott, just made quality videos with none of the BS. Nothing over the top, just interesting content from a genuine guy who cares about his audience.
- Technology Connections is a nice breath of fresh air in the YouTube space if you want something tech related
  
  He's GREAT! I just wish he had more content... but then it probably wouldn't be as good. I guess I really wish I hadn't already binged his whole channel!
  
  I love how subtly unhinged he is.
  
  Did you hear about Technology Connection’s beef with xQc?
- Tom Scott was a good YouTuber because his ego was able to handle him voluntarily stepping down.
- Destin at Smarter Every Day and Steven Mould seem like solid guys, and content similar to Tom Scott if you haven't seen them.
  
  Destin's religion is a turnoff for me along with the inclusion of children. His reactions are way too over the top, too. Used to watch it a bunch but have slowly drifted away.
  
  Destin at Smarter Every Day
  I enjoy his content and like him and his style but I still have a bitter taste in my mouth from him being a former missile guidance engineer at Redstone and making this low-key military ad series. I mean he has been pretty upfront about his past career and such but he also knows that his channel is probably watched by a lot of children.
  I don't know, something feels off about it.
  
  Destin is so American and military power it creeps me out.
  
  Mould is great. Matt Parker too.
- Primitive Technology: Just a guy out in the forest making stuff by hand, absolutely no talking, no drama. It's somehow relaxing to watch. He may have even built the camera itself out of sticks and stones.
  
  I think it's awesome that the silent vibes were an accident. He just didn't want to have to explain everything while he was doing it and found it easier to summarize in the closed captions afterward. People fell in love with the vibe, so he kept it up.
- Channels with absolutely zero drama that are still active and I would describe as " interesting content made by someone who cares about it" :
  cracking the cryptic: solving sudoku puzzles twice daily
  chessnetwork: explaining famous chess matches and occasionally playing online chess, but with none of the bro culture that has grown up around chess recently
  Folding ideas: great video essays about film or modern phenomena like NFTs
  Technology connections: already reccommended, but in depth explanations about how electronics work
  Language Jones: videos about linguistics and learning new languages
  Numberphile/StandUpMaths- interesting math videos
  
  If you like gaming YouTubers, there are plenty who try their best to stay drama-free.
  RTGame, Spiffing Brit, AmbiguousAmphibian, Dunkey, Game Grumps, General Sam just to name a few.
  
  Add Computerphile to the list too! Great stuff.
  
  How Dare you not mention dougdoug!
  
  I've seen a lot more chessnetwork drama than you'd believe
  
  Vsauce2 has some amazing ones, the videos about problems with the justice system are well worth a watch
  
  I'd like to add to the list a few entries on history and physics channels:
  -The Histocrat: in depth video essays regarding the history of many neolithic to bronze age cultures around the world as well as the history of several mythological creatures.
  -Fall of Civilizations: podcast describing a detailed picture of many ancient cultures around the world, from their beginings to their golden ages to their fall.
  -North02: EXTREMELY detailed videos (sometimes bordering on documentaries) about many stone age cultures and topics, I loved his essay on neanderthals and just how long it was.
  -Trey the Explainer: great YouTube channel talking about many topics that often dive into history. I recommend watching his video on the first joke in history.
  -Angela Collier: AMAZING channel regarding physics with the great Angela Collier, if I remember correctly she has a PhD and has explained many physics topics history of physics and physics as an academic field.
  -PBS SpaceTime: I think this one is WAY more recognized but in case it is not, this channel is physics oriented and also provided very detailed explanations of many topics of the field.
- you can just make up two stupid names in your head and get all the benefit of youtube drama - here:
  did you hear than Zzzamboney copied a video from Mr457? Turns out that the latest in ZB's "I'm a chicken" series is actually 457's "Birdalike" vid but with the turkeys swapped for chickens.
  
  10/10 would be outraged again
- You might like Anton Petrov. He’s a science youtuber that does a different video every day. He mostly focuses on space science but he's pretty uncontroversial. I like his videos a lot.
  
  Anton is the GOAT if you're into space. He basically spends all his time reading recent scientific papers and then summarizes them for a general audience without exaggerating or editorializing like you see with most other science reporting.
  He's perfect for anyone with a deep love of science who wants to keep up with the very latest developments but doesn't have the time to keep up with the 'literature'.
  
  I like Anton's content. The forced smile at the end always kind of weirds me out a bit. I'm sure there's a story behind it or something. But that's not a comment on the content he produces. It's definitely watchable
- I keep thinking I should look into this MrBeast drama, then I remember I just do not give a single fuck.
  You represent me
- Check out Camping with Steve. It's the antithesis of drama. Dude just wants to sleep weird places and have a quiet beer, as far as I can tell.
  
  Steve is a good man and he deserves all the success he finds. Him losing people close to him so close together must've been incredibly tough and I'm happy he hasn't hung it up yet.
  RIP Beautiful Wife and Crazy Neighbor. They'll be waiting for him in the hereafter with a trusty Step 2
- I think Atomic Frontier is the closest channel we have to Tom right now, though I would never say that on his comment section. He might get too pressured lol
  
  SmarterEveryDay is nice too, though that's more focused on engineering stuff.
- If you like "car stuff," Sleeperdude is top of the charts, and I've got a list of other channels too many to list here. Language? RobWords. Math? Numberphile and Stand-up Maths. General interesting stuff? Joe Scott (unrelated).
  
  I like Aging Wheels.
  
  I'm desperate for drama-free car stuff. I was excited that Pumphrey stepped away from everything to start his own channel, then his first video was him emotionally talking into the camera for 45 minutes.
- haha wait till you see the generation of fuckups that growing up on youtube will produce. The Elsagate generation will be a special and wholly new kind of damaged.
  You can feel free to not give a fuck but you will still have to deal with the consequences as they age into society with all the moral framework of a spiky haired n-bomb dropping shock streamer.
  
  The older generation survived 4chan and worse. We'll be fine.
- You are so cool for not caring about exploitation of vulnerable people by one of their peers.
  
  You're not going to win over people with condescension. You do see the irony of being a dick while trying to defend people, right?

Ill post this comment here too since it's the same video, but you might want to put a content warning on this video, it's pretty rough.
The first video is largely about him running illegal lotteries, which is pretty terrible given the scale they operate at, but it's something that the average person might not know about or really think about it being essentially child gambling.
This second video is an interview with a former employee who was put in solitary confinement for a video that never made it to YouTube because it was actually just them torturing him. Like, legitimate Geneva Convention war crime torture. Constant noise, no idea what time it is because you can't see the sun, constant lights so you can't sleep, constant monitoring, and him running until his feet bled.
If any of it is anywhere near true they need to be sued off the face of the planet in addition to going to prison.
- Mr. Beast’s suppurating carcass should be fired into the sun.
  EDIT: along with anyone who downvoted this comment. Sorry, pacifists.
  
  Upvote for suppuration

I've never watched a single video of MrBeast. The topics just don't interest me at all. I really don't see the hype.
- Showing your age bro...
  His audience are kids, maybe early 20s now
  You have to be a kid not to see the grift
  
  Hahahahahaha ok I should take that onion off my belt. I guess it's not in style anymore
  
  You gotta be damn dumb too, which is a lot of people (including kids). Some kids see it and don't fall for it, sadly it's not the majority.
- I have no idea who the guy is, but why is anyone surprised that someone who goes by Mr Beast is living up to his stage name?
  
  To my understanding he got his internet fame primarily from videos of giving people money. Never watched his stuff though.
- Idk I kinda like it when he burns and crushes stuff. We watch other more "people focused" videos like "don't get out of chamber" stuff with my family but those have more of a TV show vibe than a youtube video

Fuck Mr. Beast. The real heroes worthy of praise are your friends and neighbors who are out there volunteering and/or doing good things for others without making a fucking spectacle of it.
Mr. Beast with his bucky ass face and products plastered on every last corner of the earth has left a bad taste in my mouth for years, but up until recently people have been unable to criticize him in any way without a thousand others rushing to his defense and declaring what a beautiful, selfless person he is. It's Ellen all over again.
People truly are blinded by philanthropy-for-clout and mistake it for genuine goodwill. Truly good people do not film themselves handing out food and money.
- i need a monthly reminder of this - fuck Phil.

I've never watched a single video of his and I could have told you that he's a sociopath. Normal people do not act like he does.
- How do you know how he acts if you never watched a single video?
  
  I think he's the most popular YouTube currently, or close to it if not. You can't get around without hearing about him occasionally. The biggest thing I know about him is he does charity videos that he films where he gives poor people a little bit of money. It's pretty obvious to me it's just exploitation to improve his image, and also he makes far more money off the video than he gives away. Clearly he isn't doing it because it's a good thing, yet somehow people call him a good person because of it.
  
  News articles

I think Dogpack is brave. Jimmy and his attorneys can cook up a worthless lawsuit to hurt Dogpack financially. Jimmy is so rich legal expenses won't be problematic. While Dogpack may have a hard time with legal expenses, I think.
It's like Logan Paul versus Coffeezilla. Logan is so rich; Coffeezilla isn't.
- There a video of coffeezilla astro turfing this past regarding his "charity"
  Didn't expect it tbh

No shit. Billionaire pays poor people to embarrass or endanger themselves, uses it to promote himself.
Here’s an idea for a video: Mr. Beast and the Box of Knives. Him, the people he exploits, and a box of knives. Whoever kills him gets to keep his money.
That’s the content I want to see.
- This is what I've said about Mr.Beast from day 1. First video I saw of his was putting his friends in a taped off square in some backyard and the last one to leave keeps the car. So a rich asshole makes people dance for money and then he profits off the video for more than he paid. Mr.Beast is 1 of 2 youtubers that I have used an extension to explicitly block me from seeing his videos in my feed.
  
  Please, what is the extension, the people need to know without googling
- I've got to say, I'm disappointed in Lemmy for the amount of upvotes you're receiving for a comment as sickening as this.
  Killing someone just for revenge should never be the answer. That's the kind of tactic that makes dictators and fascists what they are. The desire to watch something like that is even more alarming.
  
  Maybe the french should've just asked nicely for the nobles to treat them better.
  
  Yeah, I agree with you. That shit's fucked up.
  
  They’re not killing him for revenge. They’re killing him for money. Big difference. I’m sure he’s killed quite a few people for money, so I don’t think he has any room to complain.
  
  Yeah bloodthirst is never a good look, especially about something that doesn’t even affect you and is some abstract internet drama vol. 2762
  It indicates you are some emotional ball of unpredictable that should probably be monitored by fbi and locked up at any signs of planning. A picture of greasy hair, basement, ar15 appears in my mind. Stained Mickey Mouse tee
  Half of hexbears are like that
- That’s the content I want to see.
  Not in this here country, boy!
  Here the rich punk the losers with impunity while any pleb resistance will be treated as violent felony for even suggesting you are entitled for a raise for the work you do.
- Mr. Beast is playing some deathmatch irl

i literally had no idea who this guy was until like last year.. my partner showed me some clips and i immediately got bad vibes. i told her i thought he was just doing these nice things for the money and attention and she was shocked. but here we are lol
- Someone showed me a video of him giving 100 people (age 1 to 100 or something) a chance to win money
  The whole thing was gross and exploitive but he’s just laughing at them
  
  The guy's an absolute shitstain but protected because he makes youtube bank.
  His kids snacks are disgusting and unhealthy, the clothes he sells fall apart after 3 washes, but since he makes kids glued to the screen, all of society will protect his assholery.
  I hope he gets caught fucking a cow corpse.
- People like him prey on the naivety and good will of others. It's basically the same behavior as people like Trump and Musk--they need to be constantly adored by others.
  
  that's exactly the feeling i had, he needs people to see him being a good person. that's usually an indicator.

Guess who's gonna make the alt-right turn in a month?
That's right! It's Mr ~~Beast~~ Couch

I went into these two videos expecting them to be overblown and petty, totally changed my mind with a good solid string of evidence and explanations.
- Which is funny because the top upvoted comment is about how there were no specific claims made.
  I agree with you, the evidence is damning, but most of lemmy doesn't seem to think so (or this thread is being social media managed by Mr. Least's PR team).

I’m not a YouTube guy; I only follow one channel I found during the Covid lockdowns, this kid called Technoblade who was low key while being really good at the game Minecraft. They worked together sometimes. Didn’t make Mr Beast seem very cool.
From what I’ve seen, he just inserts his loud personality into things by throwing money at people. It was never “hanging out with Mr Beast”, but “Mr Beast is giving out money”. Those guys are generally bad people, I cannot think of an exception.
- I'm not sure if you know already but techno passed away not too long ago :(
  
  Yeah, extremely saddening. I watch his father’s videos sometimes and they can be difficult.
  Techno’s death was a lot harder to hear about than I expected. I heard about it from a friend that I’d shared a video with and felt genuinely sad. I didn’t even know the guy or watch that many of his videos. I’ve watched dozens of them in the time since when I have nothing else to do and honestly, it’s the celebrity death I’ve cared about most.
  He was so young too. Probably younger than 90+% of this site. Such a tragic death.

The whole “content cop” vibe of this video is fucked considering its such a serious topic. We need an actual journalist to dig into this.
- I don't use the word cringe much, but the way this was presented gave me second-hand embarrassment. It was hard for me to watch, content notwithstanding.
- Youtube drama being presented in the youtube style is fair.
- Yeah the delivery would be better in some normal clothes tbh

What's with the recent traction for the Mr Beast hate train? There have been a few posts lately talking about how bad this guy is.
- There’s a part 1 to this video that goes into it. Basically:
  videos are faked (reality level TV stuff - making the timers look like they’re still counting down)
  there was a person who was recently on staff who was a sexual deviant named Ava Kris Tyson who also seemed to be obsessed with teenagers and ran a discord server talking about inappropriate stuff (this is worse than my description sounds)
  Beast was on this server for a time but doesn’t seem to have been an active participant
  Illegal lotteries from the Streaming “giveaways”
  claiming his chocolate is “healthy” and encourage kids to eat it to have a chance at randomly winning a prize
  in Aus, having an app for the chocolate that says you win a prize when you pull the slots but you actually don’t win anything (basically getting triple 7s and getting told you win nothing)
  safety issues with the beast games, moving to Canada so no union workers can join, etc.
  this video explains some horrible stuff Mr Beast and team did for a single video
  Really the biggest deal I think is the illegal lotteries. Because those are actual criminal acts
  
  Part 1 also shows some evidence of fake contestants (who are actually actors) that end up winning the prize.
- Just people finding out that Santa isn't real but in fact a company which uses psychological warfare to sell you something that is bad for you.
  A story as old as capitalism.
- Since nobody pointed it out yet there's also controversy because his friend was being inappropriate with and allegedly touching kids using the fact that they work with Mr beast. That just came out before all this. And Mr beast fired them, but there's a lot of discord messages that Mr beast was in on as well where some of the inappropriate stuff towards kids was happening as well

This fella loves using his leverage manipulating people into whatever the fuck he wants them to do. The border between good and evil is so close it is nearly indistinguishible. Stay the fuck away from him if you can.
- He broke laws to encourage children to gamble, he isn't dancing the border, he's flat on the Evil side with a good PR team.
- My nephew introduced me to him via a video of him taking is friends through more and more expensive airplane trips.
  It was cool, extremely showoffy, I never watched any of his stuff after that.

Kudos to Kavernacle for being the original hater, he was shit talking Mr Beast 4 years ago in the height of his popularity.

the guy who got famous by reading the entire dictionary and counting to a million on live camera is a sociopath?! i did not see this coming. /s

Look at all these people white knighting for a Sociopath being a for profit charity and scammer.

Who is the author of this video? What type of stuff do they usually do? Generally credible?
- He's an ex-worker at Jimmy's firm. If everything he said is false, it's an easy defamation lawsuit for Jimmy versus him. He dug his own grave. I think he wasn't dumb to do that. The points he made made sense to me, except the legal stuff. I'm not an attorney. Anyway, we haven't heard Jimmy's side.
  
  Why do people call him Jimmy so often? We don’t know him. He signs MB on his merch so it seems unnecessary.
  True that if the guy making accusations does not have proof, it will be a pretty shit position to be in. I have seen other creators giving him the benefit of the doubt based on their experiences collaborating Mr. Beast though, so it’s kind of early to tell. And the illegal lottery accusations seem pretty straight forward to prove based on archived videos circulating.
  Edit: reworded first few sentences.

I’m going to preface this by pointing out that I don’t watch Mr. Beast, and I didn’t watch either of the two videos. My only comment is that it’s a little suspicious that this person is stretching out the accusations across two (three?) videos, across multiple days. Feels like they’re farming for the drama views for as long as possible.
- 30 minutes of this video is an interview... that touches on different aspects of the beast operation beyond the scope of the first.
  The YT account only has two videos (the two about beast).
  I don't believe he himself (the creator) was an influencer.
  He turned off monetization on the video.
  Thanks for the preface, but all this reply does is stir the pot without adding anything of value to the convo.
  
  People have to be able to question the motive of content without being accused of "stirring the pot". Personally I really appreciated that the comment you replied to was posted, as it led you to reply to it, so that I could get more context and information.
  
  To be honest, they seem to be taking a very media literate approach (impressively so, they definitely learned some stuff about YouTube and how to do this kind of thing) to this whole thing, so I kind of get the "farming for views" stance.
  But I get it since that means they are actually getting traction instead of just being a thing that drama YouTube talks about for a week and gets swept under the rug. The video notes he's a very powerful figure in a relatively small town, so they need media pressure on their side.
- Yes, it’s so suspicious that to cover the crimes of a psychopath with a media empire would take several hours of documentary evidence.
- he stated out what is going to be in part 3 in the begining of 2nd video. He's also making them as fast as he can from what it seems not even waiting a response lol

I have seen enough to know those is all some weird ass bullshit campaign too fuck this guy. It's all been so engineered and vague. What a joke
Actually reading these comments I'm starting to get it. I think mr beast is a bit of a powerful influencer. But generally apolitical. Inn order to sway him the right will make these huge pushes trying to find dirt to force these influencers to end up like Russell Brandt where he looks for an audience on the right after the left eats the onion
- It's not vague at all, Mr Least actively broke gambling laws multiple times during livestreams to push sales. May I remind you his primary audience is children, he was encouraging children to illegally gamble for prizes and money.
  So I think you have to be a part of his shitty PR team and have now blocked you for all eternity.
- Wendell is a leftist. His current newest video has him say that.
- Conspiracy time: about a month ago he did say he would run for president if they lowered the age.
  
  He broke laws live on stream to convince kids to gamble. This has nothing to do with any possible presidential run.
  
  See how hard the responses are just for saying anything. Same shit markings on any of these things lately.

Jimmy has done plenty of interviews where he says he is a degenerate. He doesn’t hide it. He’s a dirtbag. If you just watch his videos you may not know, but it’s pretty much in plain sight.
- I think doing war crimes on someone is worse than being a degen.
- hiring a sex offender when his audience is focused on kids is suspect... then covering for two of them?
  GTFO

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