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

Remember, when people made content just for the fun of it

- 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.
Fuck, remember webcomics?
Achewood, Diesel Sweeties, Cat and Girl, Penny Arcade, Cyanide & Happiness, Joe and Monkey, Questionable Content, Dresden Codak (always updated way too infrequently), Dinosaur Comics, Gone With the Blastwave, Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, The Perry Bible Fellowship, When I Grow Up/WIGU/Overcompensating, Married to the Sea, hell, even CTRL+ALT+DEL left us with Loss. I could go on, there's definitely more.
...but I don't like to talk about what happened with SinFest.
A lot of these sites had advertising, but I don't remember any of it being so off-putting that I felt the need for an adblocker. Honestly, at this point, I don't even recall if adblockers were a thing yet in 2000-2005.
So much content in those early aughts. I'm still waiting on a Complete Achewood. Damn you, Chris Onstad!
I was always a little disappointed I never was able to get a "I'm the guy who sucks/plus I got depres-sion" shirts.
- 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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- Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
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  oldest personal completely original YouTube video is like 14 yrs old
  otherwise maybe lost media
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Yes. In fact, it got me a lot of attention. I got into a bunch of newspapers, interviewed on NPR, etc. Then my audience started drifting away and on to the next thing... and then YouTube decided to monetize. My account was monetized for a while. I made a grand total of $100 before it was demonetized again.
- May I ask what kind of stuff you created?
Word!
There’s still plenty of people doing that. But their uploads will be inconsistent when they upload and quality. The views will also be low so YouTube’s algorithm won’t recommend it unless they pay to advertise.
- 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.
Just don't get the guy musk hired.
If someone is getting rich off of it though, it had better be the creator.
Bro, that was like 20+ years ago 😂😭
- Absolutely true, but should we be okay with it when every aspect of human communication must be monetized to matter?
- Yeah?

I recently told a Tesla recruiter I won’t work for musk

Beautiful. More people need to do this with more shitty companies than just Tesla.
I'm ok with it. Im just not going to give up remote work and don't want to live in Austin or Silicon Valley.

No matter what, the amount of money, contests, and just absolute overindulgence capable by Mr Beast is insane in any functioning society. The disparity is so bad these influencers and people with money swoop in, gift people egregious and lavish gifts are rewards for contests, and use that to further enrich themselves through monetized channels. Its sickening to watch. This shouldn't be reality.

The comments replying seem to ignore one of the key aspects of your opinion. It's about Mr Beast getting his name and face on every interaction. If the networks shoved "WERE GONNA BLOW UP THIS LABORGHINI BECAUSE CBS!" "WERE GONNA FEED THIS HOMELESS DUDE! CBS! CBS!" ad nauseam it would be a different animal, but somehow ostentatious displays of consumption and self-promotion are acceptable for some.
- 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.
The old system where the networks got all the money was way better.
- 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.
For sure but Mr. Beast doesn't actually keep any of the money for himself.
- 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.

They can have him, I'm sick of seeing him show up in thumbnails on youtube.

Can he please hire someone to teach him how to smile? He's got the money for it.
- 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
You will hate MrBeastify
Do not recommend this channel anymore. ✅

Imagine running scam on video views like, 5 years after Facebook’s infamously bs « pivot to video » bombed. What a visionary man.

I've seen his memes, five years behind everyone else is p much his M.O.

Why is it people who hoard wealth and use that wealth to hoard more wealth by fucking as many people as possible always get this dismissive "eh of course they do shrug," - but as soon as somebody finds wealth and is like "how can I do something useful with this" then uses that wealth to start a food bank and fund water/energy projects for needy communities we gotta spend our day breaking down how they're evil and sus?

Because people who get this rich do it by exploiting the poor. They aren't going to turn around and be nice. People who get this rich start as absolute shit bags. They remain the same after.
- ... 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?
"Bad" rich people are dismissed because Lemmy users expect this behavior of them. What they don't expect or believe in is someone genuinely using their wealth for good.
"If God is all powerful, he cannot be all good. And if he is all good, then he cannot be all powerful"

I, for one, have no idea who MrBeast is. Wish I also didn't know who Must was.

I don't really know either but my son definitely knows.
Somehow Mr. Beast vacuums kid's brains into a mind sucking vortex that has landed Mr. Beast as one of, if not the #1 most subscribed YouTuber in existence.
Perhaps that also makes him the highest earning YouTuber as well, because the guy is seemingly just giving away insane $ figures at every turn yet always has more.
- 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.
The largest individual youtuber in the world. He has several channels, the main ones are Mr.Beast and Mr.Beast philanthropy.
I think the main selling point of youtube is watching people do things you cannot, either due to time, expertise, or money. Mr.Beast kinda personifies that, as many of his videos cost over $1M to make and are original owing to nobody else being able to make them, ala 'I made a lazer dungeon, first person to reach the end wins $500k' .
- 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.
Some rich guy that makes YouTube videos to make profit off of his philanthropist tax write offs
- “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
Just another rich cunt famous for having money. You are better off
My brain keeps mis-reading his name as MrBean.
- 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.
an annoying dude with the most punchable face in existence
- agreed
Ah. So that's what he smells like.

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You've never heard a positive word about Mr. Beast / Jimmy? I have, quite a lot actually. Maybe you don't watch the people who interact with him more, idk. He seems like a nice guy who uses his videos to generate revenue that he immediately puts back into making more videos. Like, almost all of it if I understand correctly. All while helping tons of people in the process.
Also, Musk is desperate for Jimmy's attention lol. He asked Mr. Beast in a tweet recently why he doesn't upload his videos on X and basically got the answer "It's not worth it" lol
- 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.
Meh, I've never watched a video of his, but seems like it's just a modern day game show/home makeover/dystopian feel-good story sort of thing. Neither good or bad. It's good that he helps some people, bad that the people and many, many more need help.
- 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.
Disclaimer: I don't really watch Mr. Beast all that much.
Mr. Beast's origin story (apparently) is that he went all in on Bitcoin really early, like so early that when it blew up he became a multi-millionaire (we don't actually know exactly how much money he got, it could be a lot, it seems like a fuck ton).
By some grace of God he had a really good influence and decided to use that money for charity, creating a YouTube channel to film that charity and make some money back on his endeavors. He talks a lot now about how he makes so much off of YouTube videos that he can often just break even on the crazy prizes he gives out based on the views he gets.
Now based on this it seems pretty chill. Mr. Beast made a fuckload of money and is working within the system of capitalism to give it back to some of the most needy (I mean he's done stuff like traveled to Africa to help install water wells in tiny remote villages, say whatever you want but that's good charity.)
The problem is, as other people in this thread pointed out Mr. Beast has done a ton of podcasts talking about his work and it's pretty clear that he actually thinks that this is how the system is supposed to work, that the only issue is that more rich people aren't giving away their money like he is and if that happened the system would be working perfectly. That's a stupid take, and as I mentioned before, I think he only became this charitable as a fluke, he's an exception to the rule.
Now I'll defend him: I think that Mr. Beast gets a lot more hate than he deserves. He's one of the very few rich people who is truly giving away most of his money to other people (sure, lots of his videos are him giving away money to middle-american white people but that doesn't even matter that much) he gets hate because he places himself in the spotlight the "controversy around every video" that you point to is a product of this. It's part of the production and only makes him more famous. Mr. Beast is only a symptom of a disease and directing hate towards him is only done because it's easy.
Like I said earlier, he's an exception to the rule, and the rule is that people this rich don't engage in any charity nearly this much. It's bizarre that people focus on the one rich person doing that. Oh wait, it's not, it's just a bunch of lugheads falling for the American celebrity worship/attention culture but in reverse.
- 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.
Look, I hate youtubers more than anybody I know, but if someone was impersonating this guy to prank some kid he's never met I don't see how we can expect him to apologize for something he didn't know about and wasn't involved in.
And now Elon Musk wants him on X. Keep in mind that Elon Musk is openly repelled by those he cannot manipulate, including anyone with working conscience who is disgusted by the kind of propagandistic hatred X serves up on the regular, and Musk tirades against that kind of ethical “wokeness” regularly. Yet he loves Mr. Beast enough to run Beast content (for free? as an ad?) to get Mr. Beast onto his platform. That’s not the kind of recommendation decent people get from Musk.
Excellent write-up. This paragraph especially speaks volumes. Honestly, it's an angle I hadn't even considered, but when faced with it, yeah, exactly! How the hell does Mr. Beast not get the same "wokeness" critique as other people when it comes to Musk??
- 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.
OMG, thank you! I've been saying for years that something is not right about him but I can't pinpoint why. We will see with time, I guess!
- 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.
But, he's trying to manipulate him by inflating view counts? Also, pretty sure musk wants him because he's a huge creator and it would be good for twitter, not because he can sense he's bad or whatever. I don't really care about Mr Beast, never watched his videos, but I've heard much more good about him than bad.
Mr Beast is a fascist

I don't think Mr.Beast needs the platform.

To put into perspective just how unimportant Twitter is in the grand scheme of things, Mr Beast's most popular YouTube video has 40 million more views than Twitter has total monthly active users (500m or so), and 100 million views is frankly a pretty underperforming video for him

Isn't one of Mr. Beast's friends or employees trans? He's shown open support for them too. He has a vested interest in not associating with Elon.

He's got vested interest in gargling Musk's balls.
“I’m about to finish this book and I want you to know that I respect the hell out of you,” he wrote on February 11, 2020. “Ever since I started learning about your work ethic and passion I’ve been more motivated than ever to make a difference. I look up to you.”
To note, 2020 was a couple years after Musk called the cave diver that saved kids a pedo.
That was the moment that all rational people figured out he was a complete asshat. Mr. Beast didn't.
In my view, it means Mr. Beast doesn't actually respect Kris very much, to keep being this buddy-buddy with Musk.
- 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.

I feel like MrBeast is smarter than this.

Smart enough to show support for his trans staff member while also being friends with someone who would deny every trans person their human rights?
He's a fucking piece of shit speaking out of both sides of his mouth.
You can't support Kris and be friends with the likes of Elon Musk.
He's not smarter than this, he's fucking greedy just like Musk.
- Where in the article does it say anything about their being friends?

i want to throat punch him

I like the way you think sir
It's a shame that your first thought is for physical violence. You must be quite emotionally immature.
Edit: I guess this is just a joke that went over my head
- Why waste any more calories when violence and murder is so effective? I'm getting paid slave wages out here, brother on a budget

If MrBeast leaves YouTube I will consider that a win. I am so tired of see his gaping jaw open on my front page for his stupid stunts and his stupid candybars.

HE'LL BE BACK, THEY ALWAYS COME BACK

You know you can set channels to "not interested" and "don't recommend channel", right?
- 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.
He has done more for charity and general philanthropy than you ever will.
- 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.

id love to punch them both in the face really really hard

Good Job Caveman!
Mr Beast is the AntiChrist gog and magog. I hate him with the passion of a thousand Hiroshimas. His corpse face splattered all over youtube triggers an uncanny valley effect on me. A repulsive simulacra, a predator animal disguised as a human.
- You need to get out more, mate.

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And this is why articles should be using screenshots and not links to tweets.

@L4s @technology Mr. Beast on the X juice

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I wonder how well connected and rich Elon is to insulate him from consequences. Many people who have done as idiotic mistakes as he did have gone bankrupt or have been shunned already.

He's not insulated. He has likely lost control of Tesla because he had to sell so many shares to buy Twitter. He's trying to get more shares in Tesla but they're probably not going to give him it.

You didn't answer my question.

Why do billionaires who do a fraction of a fraction of what he does get a free pass to actively steal economic activity from their workers and customers because their product isn't content - but somebody whose business is creating something of value (content) who pays his people reasonably and also does good for people needs to be be taken down at every turn and shat on at every opportunity?

Corporate apologism at its finest, right here. The only true evil is making money via creating a popular product instead of stealing the economic value of those who create a product for you because you already had all the capital to start with. Infinite corporate greed is good because it's private, using your money and platform to help people is evil because they do it in the open.

GTFO

Sir this is a wendys