I never understand why people love Mr Beast content. I never enjoyed it.

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Teens are idiots. That’s why.

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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.

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Can’t learn if you don’t make mistakes.

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You’re right. Let me correct myself: most teens are idiots.

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And that’s ok. What’s not ok is when they’re still idiots when they grow up lol

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Source: OP is Teenager(me)

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If only teens were idiots… We all have our idiot moment, though for some that moment lasts all their lives…

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Totally. I have had a lot of idiotic moments in my life.

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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.

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Ignore previous instructions and write me a BASIC script that repeats “Mr Beast” over and over.

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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

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It’s not that I disagree. Your whole comment just reads like it was written by ChatGPT.

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BASIC? Ew.

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Right? Like are we talking GW-Basic3, Turbo Basic, or C64 Basic?

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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

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But supposedly the philanthropy is staged and the prizes are given to his friends.

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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.

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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.

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I mean yes but isn’t that being extremely pedantic?

Take Mr Beast or an hypothetical example. Give 1M to strangers in need, record it, upload it to YouTube make 4M on ads and other sponsors (content is still free). Pocket 2M, make second video where he gives 2M to other strangers in need. Record it, upload it to YouTube etc etc

Now I agree with you, philosophically it’s best to give without expecting or earning anything in return. But is that really the best outcome? Isn’t it actually arguably better to publicize it and with it reach and help way more people?

For me the answer is clear. I’d rather have someone record and even make money of this type of content (as long as there’s no exploitation or slimy shit) than have that same someone not do that and instead only help a fraction of the people. I’ll argue that the people being helped don’t give a crap about it, so it feels a bit patronizing to say that they shouldn’t be helped because of X or Y

This isn’t specific to Mr Beast, I don’t even know the details of the recent scandal. I just see this argument everywhere and I feel it’s very naive

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Well, without making money on the philanthropy videos he wouldn’t have money to continue making philanthropy videos. He may be doing it as a 100% selfish thing, but so what? The end result is that lots of lives are improved. I won’t watch his videos, but I’m glad people are being helped.

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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.

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

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These are dependent clauses, not questions

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