Nothing Verhoeven did was even close to as garish as this. I feel like I am genuinely becoming a little bit more unstable every time I see one of these thumbnails.
The interview I saw about him was more like he doesn't feel any emotions outside of making money. Like he gets bored or twitchy if he's not doing something connected to making videos or generating revenue.
Inhuman, soulless husk. Meat puppet generated by capital to do its bidding. Marx was correct when he said the bourgeoisie are more of slaves to capital than the workers are. People like Mr. Beast are barely even conscious entities anymore.
honestly i think mr. beast is the kind of guy who doesn't really know what misery and joy are. you know, the kind of guy who would be working voluntary overtime in like a warehouse or something if he were born poor because he just doesn't know what to do with his time if he isn't just increasing the number in his bank account. the kind of guy who has a girlfriend because guys are supposed to have girlfriends. everything is an obligation/responsibility
when i made that connection it made a lot of sense to me. ive met guys like that in warehouses before. they'll literally be working like 90 hour weeks across multiple jobs but driving to work every day (in the deep south summer) with broken AC in their car because the car still works and they just don't care. they'll be hoarding money like a dragon and never spending any of it, because society tells them acquiring money is how you win and they figure that if nothing brings them joy they might as well win.
the kind of guy who has a girlfriend because guys are supposed to have girlfriends. everything is an obligation/responsibility
According to an interview with him, he literally sees his time with his girlfriend as transactional, that he considers every hour spent with her as being an hour he's lost money because he's not making content
He's like a singular human embodiment of modern capitalism. He doesn't even have the motivation of profit, he has apparently operated near, below, or at cost for a long time. A modern Mr Beast video costs something like $1m to produce apparently. It's literally just growth for growth sake and nothing else. Absolutely demonic, no way he knows what happiness is.
Yeah but now he has merchandise... So everything he does is just a promotion to sell more of the crap that makes him money. Like his shitty chocolate bars that sell for three times the price of a Nestle or Cadbury chocolate bar. Chocolate is like the ultimate sin food. It's bad for you if you eat it, and the production of it was likely bad for everyone involved, and the money goes to ghouls who just want more money.
It took me a couple of years but I managed to curate my yt feed to only show me stuff I will actually watch and yet I'm still one misclick away from getting Little Ben Shapiro and PragerU shoved down my throat.
Just turn off watch history (turns off recommendations and the home page) and use the subscription feed exclusively. Suggested videos will only appear based on your currently watched video, so completely unpersonalized
This is what I've done for ages and it works like a charm (although unfortunately search is still terrible, no saving that mess). Well, I only got around to disabling watch history in the last year or so, but I've been going directly to the sub feed for almost as long as YouTube has existed. I think the only time I actually used the front page was in the very early days of YouTube when it was actually a little community and you'd have featured videos and stuff, but that was like 15 years ago.
There is a special corner of my heart that is reserved solely for how much I hate those FGTV motherfuckers. It's just a couple of rich assholes spoiling their kids with every fucking treat on the planet.
no, see, here's the thing... how does every single one of these look WORSE than the slop Dall-E spits out??? why don't they just have the ai make the thumbnails instead of this???
it looks worse in the sense that it's an obvious photoshop where the subject was badly composited into the scene. AI might not have that same issue but would look worse in so many other ways like generating weird blobby nonsense
AI also probably won't do a good job at making someone's exact face unless you train a model on lots pictures of the person which takes time, effort and knowledge of how AI works. it would actually be a lot more difficult to get a passable AI result than just slapping a picture of your stupid face on a background image
I think it’s notable that Mr Beast has switched away from the open mouth smile in favor of the closed mouth smile and the others haven’t caught up yet
I definitely find the closed mouth less annoying (still sucks, just less) and I know Mr Beast tests shit like that to an extreme degree so it probably gets more views
Use DeArrow! It not only removes clickbait thumbnails, but replaces them with community-sourced ones, allowing one to choose a thumbnail frame from the video and have it better put up for a vote, and it does the same thing for the video's title! It's made by the same guy who made Sponsorblock.
I use Mr. Beastify for that bc I like to suffer, but having the Beast everywhere makes it warp back to around not being annoying anymore for some reason and sometimes he shows up under a red triangle or something like that :3