sagWhy people love Mr. Beast content? Or Why his content is so popular?
lechatronKids.
s08nlql9I think he plays a lot of Minecraft which kids love
solrizeI 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) video watched on the topic. Please return to this comment later, as I intend to link it.
Ah nothing surprising then. Thanks.
throbbing_banjoSo, a streamer then.
Not just any streamer though, this guy has chocolate bars at Walmart and shit.
He is THE streamer. Ive even seen ads on Roku for his show.
I’ve started seeing the bars pop up in shops… what the fuck is wrong with parents is my question. Spend time with your kids and then I don’t have to spend time wondering what chocolate has to do with some YT personality and how that’s a real business decision that makes sense and is viable.
FireTowerAn ex employee of his got accused of being in a minor’s DMs.
vikingKid got rich by streaming and shitposting. Ultimate hero for 14 year olds.
Wasn’t he already up class already?
No idea, never cared to check his background.
TurtlePowerThey always are. How else are you going to have no worries to be able to waste time pursuing things like art or music or completely useless videos of you playing a video game while you shitpost?
Not all of them are like that, actually most that I follow dropped out of school on a limb with really only having being able to crash with their middle class parents as a fallback plan.
IIRC Markiplier’s from a military family, not impoverished by any stretch but definitely not from money either before he made it with his content.
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.
Teens are idiots. That’s why.
JackGreenEarthHey, 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.
Source: OP is Teenager(me)
You’re right. Let me correct myself: most teens are idiots.
And that’s ok. What’s not ok is when they’re still idiots when they grow up lol
Every teenager that tries to prove they’re not idiots I always ask them to come back in 4 years and then guess what their answer was?
Can’t learn if you don’t make mistakes.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
And also: Who is Mr. Beast?
I’ll do you one better: Why is Mr. Beast?
Dumbkidwhat is Mr. Beast?
WHERE is Mr. Beast?
^(Is it in the room with us now?)
WHERE is Mr. Beast?
Is… is it in the room with us now?
HOW is Mr. beast?
WHEN 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.
MeldrikIt’s reality TV for kids.
JackbyDevEveryone can blab about this for ages but you’ve put it so poetically and succinctly.
pewgar_seemsimandroidmake sure not to eat it!
AsudoxYeah 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”
A) flashy, loud, snippy content that works on people with no attention span or who are easily amused (ie kids)
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.
He fits what Youtubers like.
Gambling sells.
never watched a second from any of his brainrot videos in my entire life
Toes♀His hide and seek videos are funny.
A lot of it feels like filler but there’s a few gems.
Children watch antyhing
I’ll never forget the time someone showed me a shitty YouTube video of pregnant spiderman.
Wait what!?
You might be interested in “Elsagate”
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.
treadfulIgnore 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
It’s not that I disagree. Your whole comment just reads like it was written by ChatGPT.
Ok I guess
But ChatGPT is way too polite for such a comment
BASIC? Ew.
Right? Like are we talking GW-Basic3, Turbo Basic, or C64 Basic?
These are dependent clauses, not questions