He is an evil individual who fails to address systemic issues or assist people for their own benefit.
As a game show host, he humiliates and exploits participants, boasting about his own virtues without any regard for the contestants.
Examples:
- https://youtu.be/9RhWXPcKBI8
- https://youtu.be/tnTPaLOaHz8
- https://youtu.be/gHzuabZUd6c
- https://youtu.be/DuQbOQwVaNE
I believe legal intervention is necessary to limit his actions towards people and prevent him from exploiting them for personal gain.
Quick note: while I believe that results of some of his videos is good ( which he did to show how good of a person he is), that does not change the facts about his evil videos, the same way bezoz donations does not make him a good person.
I mean, most of his content is clickbait BS “I did this dumb thing for 20/30/40+ hours”.
When he involves his subscriber base, he’s typically expecting the same idiotic crap from them…
I don’t really watch his stuff, but that’s literally all I’ve seen him do.
Legal interventions in what way, he hasnt broke a law.
Its just boring virtue signalling.
My guess is OP thinks there SHOULD be a law preventing people like me beast from profiting off of this sort of “entertainment”. I’d say I agree but I don’t know how I’d draw that line. I just don’t watch.
Either bring back high taxes on the rich like President Theodore told us or don’t condemn the rich for giving away money to make money. We fucked ourselves. Let’s unfuck it, not talk shit about rich people giving shit away
A bum fight organizer and promoter.
I don’t particularly like his style - it’s too loud, flashy and obnoxious - but I don’t think he’s an inherently bad or evil person, and actually does a whole lot of good with his charities.
Sure, some people get to look foolish in his shows, but none of them are going to suffer from long term negative consequences.
People forget how short-lived the internet is nowadays, and it’s not like any of the people are ever listed with their full names or even aliases.
I’ve said much the same many times (I wouldn’t go quite so far too say he’s “evil”, but he’s very clearly not a good person) and it’s wild how many people will leap to the defense of the multi-millionaire. “He’s helping people” they say, as if he’s not explicitly aiming to enrich himself further with even his most philanthropic videos. That he did a straight up squid game enactment is completely tasteless.
I think you’ve hit it. He’s not evil as much as opportunistic and amoral.
I saw this mini documentary about him where he simply admitted he would do anything to be famous. If the documentary is to be believed, he started filming random acts of kindness because he tried everything else and failed to achieve his goal of being famous.
I have always felt he is a bit of a psychopath. Not the evil, serial killer TV trope psychopath, but still one with that blinded, single vision, relentless pursuit mentality.
From watching interviews, he’s absolutely the epitome of grind culture, but he’s not doing it for cash or influence. He seems to legitimately be doing it because he wants to see how far he can go with it. But, he’s so calculated and single minded with it, if feels borderline unhinged on the outside looking in. He’s probably not trying to make a skin suit, but if he thinks it’ll get views, he’ll do anything.
I don’t know anything about him but he has that cold look in his eyes. Sorta like Terrence Howard and Kanye West. But with a fake smile. Creeps me out.
I think this opinion is (thankfully) becoming more popular (all of these youtubers have their “fall” eventually when a younger and more charismatic persona comes along…only a matter of time).
what have you done for your community lately?
this answer is synonymous with “nothing”
I don’t think this adequately addresses OP’s criticism. You can be a hypocrite and still be correct.
The point being made is that if this is the standard for “evil” then pretty much everyone is evil.
He’s turning poor people into clowns to entertain other poor people. It’s ad supported it’s not like a private club.
How’s that saying go again? Something like
“If you do good, while having evil intentions, and the outcome is still overall good, it’s good?”
The reasons he helps people matter not, since he actually is helping people.
Right this thread is so fucking dumb, and it’s not even very unpopular in certain circles
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Honestly a lot of people complain about Mr Beast, saying that his charity/etc is done purely for attention and views.
But I figure there are a ton of high profile YouTubers who make a ton of money, and just spend it on themselves or doing elaborate set ups for videos. It seems weird that Mr Beast gets more criticized for doing some good than all the comparative YouTubers who are doing nothing good. It’s like by trying to do anything good he’s gotten himself judged by a much higher standard than everyone else.
I think that performative charity pisses people off more than people who don’t pretend to be a philanthropist.
Meh, it’s still money for charities.
That’s what I say when people go crazy criticizing corpo charities. Sure it’s corpo but to the people who received the aid help is help. I’m not saying to not criticize but chill out a smidge.
The problem with corporate charities is they don’t allocate the majority of the funds to their stated cause. More often than not that money is funneled into a myriad of other organizations controlled by the corporation/groups of corporations. Large non profits aren’t very transparent and there are a lot of tricks they can use to divert funds away from their stated cause.
There’s also the whole “paternalism” thing for lack of a better word. They use what’s left of the money for flashy, headline grabbing things that may not be beneficial or even wanted by the people they’re supposed to be helping. They tell those that need help how they need to be helped instead of asking them what they need. Clothes donations to various African countries come to mind. It looks good in articles when we ship all of our worn out novelty T-shirts to a bunch of poor people. But in the areas they go, it puts local manufacturers out of business, and oftentimes a lot of the clothes get thrown out. So sure, those people have “clothes” but their local economy is worse off. Had you asked the people of these counties how they would liked to be helped, they’d probably ask for investment in the local textile industry over getting a boatload of our leftovers.
I mean, the concept of corporate charities is sort of fucked to begin with. It’s a PR front for terrible companies. Nestle does charity work in Africa. A continent that they literally killed babies in back in the 70s. In counties that they are currently stealing their water from, leaving many of the citizens in said country without clean or safe drinking water. But they threw $50 at a farmer somewhere on the continent so help is help right? It’s just frustrating that they can get away with this shit
In a world with Andrew Tate and Joe Rogan OP goes after the most popular YouTuber simply because he makes videos that sometimes only help poor people a little. Instead of actively corrupting our youth and making men more likely to commit violent acts.
Those other YouTubers don’t make their fortunes convincing much poorer people to make fools of themselves for a miniscule sliver of what beast is making by monetizing it.
But he uses the monetization to reinvest into future charity.
Ah yes. He must be the first ever ethical multi-millionaire to make their money by giving it away. He keeps trying, but he just can’t help being a millionaire, near billionaire. It’s a curse!
And as he gets richer, he increases the amount of money he puts into his charity videos. Him having more money is pretty directly a good thing for those he helps. It’s also a good thing for him, but that’s not wrong.
Ok, bud.
“Hmm, I don’t have a good response to this. Let’s imply I simply have more intrinsic wisdom by assuming a false position of authority! That’ll show him!” - You
You’re the one defending a millionaire. What more do I need to say?
This is the inverse of what I call “the Donald Trump effect”. If you’re a horrible person, and do something morally neutral, people will be amazed at your good deed. But if you’re a generally good person, everything you do is held to a significantly higher standard. I think people just aren’t used to and/or don’t like seeing people do good for some reason.
Feels like anyone who criticizes this guy has never seen a gameshow before.
But he just looks sketchy, and something feels wrong about his freaking “gameshow persona”…
“Looks sketchy” and “feels wrong” is a strong argument.
Don’t get me wrong, I’ve only watched like two of his videos. Seems pretty harmless and kinda fun compared to lots of boring YouTubers stuck in their algorithms.
Oh shit, this is close to the perfect unpopular opinion.
Does MrBeast employ any PR services that do astroturfing?
Edit to add: MrBeast is a fascist. If I wind up choked to death on some ghost kitchen MrBeast branded meal, avenge me
gotchu fam
can you elaborate with more information?
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I would not haunt you for this. Secure the bag
If we can’t protect you, you can be damned well sure we’ll avenge you!
Exploitation is the essence of capitalism. There are worse than Mr Beast.
