I never understand why people love Mr Beast content. I never enjoyed it.
It’s reality TV for kids.
Everyone can blab about this for ages but you’ve put it so poetically and succinctly.
make sure not to eat it!
His hide and seek videos are funny.
A lot of it feels like filler but there’s a few gems.
I watch his content cause he and his team put actual effort into the crazy sets they build and it’s interesting to see some of the scenarios that only someone with a lot of money can pull off
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Fuck Mr. Beast, he literally preys on children by falsely framing his videos all as possibilities for them if they subscribe to the channel. He shills things like chocolate bars that are healthy to defeat obesity yet those same bars have twice the sugar than others like hershey bars. He gets kids to buy his shit on the guise of ‘oh maybe we’ll slip something in your order box! Maybe an iphone!!!’ and now you have kids stumbling over themselves to beg their parents to buy Mr. Beast merch / mr. beast burger / mr. beast feastables / etc.
He’s not a terrible person but this shit is gross, a lot of it is gambling-adjacent and the kids EAT IT THE FUCK UP. Yeah Mr. Beast is a businessman, but his business is manipulating children.
I don’t disagree, but it feels like every other cereal, pack of crisps and bar of chocolate I see in stores advertises you can win a car or something. Which is stupid, but it’s weird to call out some guy for doing something very common across many other products.
I was buying crisps to win plastic Pokémon and ice cream to win money 25 years ago. Sure, call out the practice, but you are making it sound like it’s not an ubiquitous type of promotion.
The way his content is structured and edited is like junk food for your brain. There’s a formula that appeals to the least common denominator and he (his team) excels at it.
The topics he picks usually hit some nerve of vicariousness (game shows contestants) or suspense from wanting to know what happens next (challenges and clickbait).
Isn’t all youtube content engineered in that way though?
Not really. You might think that from looking at thumbnails, because thumbnails all have to basically look like clickbait for people to actually engage with your videos. But there’s tons of good YouTube content out there.
It’s the only platform I still regularly engage with minus this, being lemmy, tildes, and watchpeopledie.tv/h/slavshit because I get a lot of interesting stuff to watch and people still come on there on their own to express themselves about stuff I care about. But yeah, the fact that YouTube weathered the onslaught of russian bots and kept all my UA supporting channels up earned my respect. Which it’s a great way to keep up if you’re not on Telegram, or are just depressed by the shit, I think it’s a damn good platform. Best thing google has imo.
But to each their own. I’m not like the vast majority of people.
Edit: I’ve been suspicious of Mr. Beast for many years. The deadness behind the eyes clued me into him actually. No one that successful with that kinda look is squeaky clean. That’s been the only thing besides the obvious this person is wealthy, probably not amazing, that’s made me dislike his stuff. Also the clickbaity nature of his content.
Probably more than half, but there’s actual decent content on there too.
Most of his content is gameshows. Some people catch a serotonin high watching other people win money.
I liked his content when he did a series called “Worst Intros”. Ever since those were set private, I haven’t enjoyed that content.
Remember when he counted to 100,000?
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.
Ignore 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
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”
Teens are idiots. That’s why.
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.
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.
Source: OP is Teenager(me)
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.
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
never watched a second from any of his brainrot videos in my entire life
Gambling sells.
A) flashy, loud, snippy content that works on people with no attention span or who are easily amused like kids (and annoys everyone else)
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.
