• @[email protected]
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    1410 months ago

    Kudos to Kavernacle for being the original hater, he was shit talking Mr Beast 4 years ago in the height of his popularity.

  • YeetPics
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    Guess who’s gonna make the alt-right turn in a month?

    That’s right! It’s Mr Beast Couch

  • Anas
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    I’m going to preface this by pointing out that I don’t watch Mr. Beast, and I didn’t watch either of the two videos. My only comment is that it’s a little suspicious that this person is stretching out the accusations across two (three?) videos, across multiple days. Feels like they’re farming for the drama views for as long as possible.

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      Yes, it’s so suspicious that to cover the crimes of a psychopath with a media empire would take several hours of documentary evidence.

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      511 months ago

      he stated out what is going to be in part 3 in the begining of 2nd video. He’s also making them as fast as he can from what it seems not even waiting a response lol

    • @[email protected]
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      30 minutes of this video is an interview… that touches on different aspects of the beast operation beyond the scope of the first.

      The YT account only has two videos (the two about beast).

      I don’t believe he himself (the creator) was an influencer.

      He turned off monetization on the video.

      Thanks for the preface, but all this reply does is stir the pot without adding anything of value to the convo.

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        To be honest, they seem to be taking a very media literate approach (impressively so, they definitely learned some stuff about YouTube and how to do this kind of thing) to this whole thing, so I kind of get the “farming for views” stance.

        But I get it since that means they are actually getting traction instead of just being a thing that drama YouTube talks about for a week and gets swept under the rug. The video notes he’s a very powerful figure in a relatively small town, so they need media pressure on their side.

      • @[email protected]
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        People have to be able to question the motive of content without being accused of “stirring the pot”. Personally I really appreciated that the comment you replied to was posted, as it led you to reply to it, so that I could get more context and information.

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          Ya know what? Fair.

          I do think that’s a reasonable take, but the person I replied to seemed unwilling to engage with the content in question but still wanted to chime in casting random uninformed doubts. Doesn’t add much of anything. If they had cited parts of the video that made them question it I wouldnt have said anything, because honestly I ALSO asked myself those questions.

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    I went into these two videos expecting them to be overblown and petty, totally changed my mind with a good solid string of evidence and explanations.

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      Which is funny because the top upvoted comment is about how there were no specific claims made.

      I agree with you, the evidence is damning, but most of lemmy doesn’t seem to think so (or this thread is being social media managed by Mr. Least’s PR team).

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    The whole “content cop” vibe of this video is fucked considering its such a serious topic. We need an actual journalist to dig into this.

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      He’s an ex-worker at Jimmy’s firm. If everything he said is false, it’s an easy defamation lawsuit for Jimmy versus him. He dug his own grave. I think he wasn’t dumb to do that. The points he made made sense to me, except the legal stuff. I’m not an attorney. Anyway, we haven’t heard Jimmy’s side.

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        Why do people call him Jimmy so often? We don’t know him. He signs MB on his merch so it seems unnecessary.

        True that if the guy making accusations does not have proof, it will be a pretty shit position to be in. I have seen other creators giving him the benefit of the doubt based on their experiences collaborating Mr. Beast though, so it’s kind of early to tell. And the illegal lottery accusations seem pretty straight forward to prove based on archived videos circulating.

        Edit: reworded first few sentences.

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          If he did conduct illegal lotteries, what a 💩 way to treat your viewers, many of whom were kids, seemingly. He said something like “The 10th buyer in the next 5 min will win 30000.” right? Did those winners get their prizes? If no, it was a scam.

          The 💤 deprivation was inhuman. The running thing was cruel.

  • @[email protected]
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    No shit. Billionaire pays poor people to embarrass or endanger themselves, uses it to promote himself.

    Here’s an idea for a video: Mr. Beast and the Box of Knives. Him, the people he exploits, and a box of knives. Whoever kills him gets to keep his money.

    That’s the content I want to see.

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      That’s the content I want to see.

      Not in this here country, boy!

      Here the rich punk the losers with impunity while any pleb resistance will be treated as violent felony for even suggesting you are entitled for a raise for the work you do.

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      This is what I’ve said about Mr.Beast from day 1. First video I saw of his was putting his friends in a taped off square in some backyard and the last one to leave keeps the car. So a rich asshole makes people dance for money and then he profits off the video for more than he paid. Mr.Beast is 1 of 2 youtubers that I have used an extension to explicitly block me from seeing his videos in my feed.

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          BlockTube. It let’s you block all kinds of stuff from specific videos to channels, even block shorts outright. I only use the channel block feature, so your milage may vary with the rest of it, but it’s pretty easy to use so it works for me.

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      I’ve got to say, I’m disappointed in Lemmy for the amount of upvotes you’re receiving for a comment as sickening as this.

      Killing someone just for revenge should never be the answer. That’s the kind of tactic that makes dictators and fascists what they are. The desire to watch something like that is even more alarming.

      • 𝓔𝓶𝓶𝓲𝓮
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        Yeah bloodthirst is never a good look, especially about something that doesn’t even affect you and is some abstract internet drama vol. 2762

        It indicates you are some emotional ball of unpredictable that should probably be monitored by fbi and locked up at any signs of planning. A picture of greasy hair, basement, ar15 appears in my mind. Stained Mickey Mouse tee

        Half of hexbears are like that

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        They’re not killing him for revenge. They’re killing him for money. Big difference. I’m sure he’s killed quite a few people for money, so I don’t think he has any room to complain.

  • AsakuraMao
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    What’s with the recent traction for the Mr Beast hate train? There have been a few posts lately talking about how bad this guy is.

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      Just people finding out that Santa isn’t real but in fact a company which uses psychological warfare to sell you something that is bad for you.

      A story as old as capitalism.

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      There’s a part 1 to this video that goes into it. Basically:

      • videos are faked (reality level TV stuff - making the timers look like they’re still counting down)
      • there was a person who was recently on staff who was a sexual deviant named Ava Kris Tyson who also seemed to be obsessed with teenagers and ran a discord server talking about inappropriate stuff (this is worse than my description sounds)
      • Beast was on this server for a time but doesn’t seem to have been an active participant
      • Illegal lotteries from the Streaming “giveaways”
      • claiming his chocolate is “healthy” and encourage kids to eat it to have a chance at randomly winning a prize
      • in Aus, having an app for the chocolate that says you win a prize when you pull the slots but you actually don’t win anything (basically getting triple 7s and getting told you win nothing)
      • safety issues with the beast games, moving to Canada so no union workers can join, etc.
      • this video explains some horrible stuff Mr Beast and team did for a single video

      Really the biggest deal I think is the illegal lotteries. Because those are actual criminal acts

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        Part 1 also shows some evidence of fake contestants (who are actually actors) that end up winning the prize.

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      Since nobody pointed it out yet there’s also controversy because his friend was being inappropriate with and allegedly touching kids using the fact that they work with Mr beast. That just came out before all this. And Mr beast fired them, but there’s a lot of discord messages that Mr beast was in on as well where some of the inappropriate stuff towards kids was happening as well

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    This fella loves using his leverage manipulating people into whatever the fuck he wants them to do. The border between good and evil is so close it is nearly indistinguishible. Stay the fuck away from him if you can.

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      My nephew introduced me to him via a video of him taking is friends through more and more expensive airplane trips.

      It was cool, extremely showoffy, I never watched any of his stuff after that.

    • Angry_Autist (he/him)
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      He broke laws to encourage children to gamble, he isn’t dancing the border, he’s flat on the Evil side with a good PR team.

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    I’m not a YouTube guy; I only follow one channel I found during the Covid lockdowns, this kid called Technoblade who was low key while being really good at the game Minecraft. They worked together sometimes. Didn’t make Mr Beast seem very cool.

    From what I’ve seen, he just inserts his loud personality into things by throwing money at people. It was never “hanging out with Mr Beast”, but “Mr Beast is giving out money”. Those guys are generally bad people, I cannot think of an exception.

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        Yeah, extremely saddening. I watch his father’s videos sometimes and they can be difficult.

        Techno’s death was a lot harder to hear about than I expected. I heard about it from a friend that I’d shared a video with and felt genuinely sad. I didn’t even know the guy or watch that many of his videos. I’ve watched dozens of them in the time since when I have nothing else to do and honestly, it’s the celebrity death I’ve cared about most.

        He was so young too. Probably younger than 90+% of this site. Such a tragic death.

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          I had the same reaction when TotalBiscuit died 6 years ago. Loved watching his reviews and his humor was always top. It’s hard to lose someone who you don’t know but feel like you do from all the hours of their lives they’ve shared with us.

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    Fuck Mr. Beast. The real heroes worthy of praise are your friends and neighbors who are out there volunteering and/or doing good things for others without making a fucking spectacle of it.

    Mr. Beast with his bucky ass face and products plastered on every last corner of the earth has left a bad taste in my mouth for years, but up until recently people have been unable to criticize him in any way without a thousand others rushing to his defense and declaring what a beautiful, selfless person he is. It’s Ellen all over again.

    People truly are blinded by philanthropy-for-clout and mistake it for genuine goodwill. Truly good people do not film themselves handing out food and money.

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    I think Dogpack is brave. Jimmy and his attorneys can cook up a worthless lawsuit to hurt Dogpack financially. Jimmy is so rich legal expenses won’t be problematic. While Dogpack may have a hard time with legal expenses, I think.

    It’s like Logan Paul versus Coffeezilla. Logan is so rich; Coffeezilla isn’t.

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    I have seen enough to know those is all some weird ass bullshit campaign too fuck this guy. It’s all been so engineered and vague. What a joke

    Actually reading these comments I’m starting to get it. I think mr beast is a bit of a powerful influencer. But generally apolitical. Inn order to sway him the right will make these huge pushes trying to find dirt to force these influencers to end up like Russell Brandt where he looks for an audience on the right after the left eats the onion

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      Conspiracy time: about a month ago he did say he would run for president if they lowered the age.

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        See how hard the responses are just for saying anything. Same shit markings on any of these things lately.

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          It’s really not that bad for me besides the one angry dude from last night. It’s definitely easy to get sucked in that nonsense though.

      • Angry_Autist (he/him)
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        He broke laws live on stream to convince kids to gamble. This has nothing to do with any possible presidential run.

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          I’ve looked but I can’t find anything regarding this besides him running some kind of giveaway and breaking a no purchase necessary law. Is that what you’re referring to?

          Angry Autist is a Spez plant. Don’t let him destabilize this community. Block and move on.

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            … it’s literally in the video… Twice…

            And now because I know you are here to do nothing but waste my time, you will probably ask me for a timestamp, and I would normally provide it of course because I want to keep the discussion intellectually honest.

            But it’s pretty clear that you don’t, and of course after ignoring my timestamp hyperlink, you will make up some vapid arguments on how it is unpossible for Mr Least to ever have done such a thing and that I’m stupid for misunderstanding federal gambling laws.

            And we can go back and forth for hours, me posting evidence, you saying whatever stupid shit that comes to your mind to push the discussion far away from the original point that Mr. Least is illegally involving children in gambling.

            And I am so just fuckdamn tired of intellectually dishonest people like you ‘just asking questions’.

            So

            Amazingly

            Fuckdamn

            Tired.

            So you’re blocked now.

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              Lmao Jesus Christ. It’s a 50 minute video that I was actively watching and I was reading comments and watching at the same time.

              Anyone that’s not a maniac want to give me a timestamp? Because I don’t have time to watch a 50 minute video tonight.

              I couldn’t find it earlier because I googled “Mr Beast live stream gambling” when I should’ve googled “Mr Beast Child Lottery”

              https://youtu.be/i_MuVUbjJo0?si=T9iQxErlb5c_zH0T

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                Anyone that’s not a maniac

                Your abelism infuriates me. If I were younger, I’d waste an hour rhetorically browbeating you.

                You could have already completely watched the video by now but still you are here whining for timestamps just like I predicted you would. The more shitstain forum sliders keep using the same tactics, the easier it is to call your uncreative asses out on it.

                Mr. Least encouraged children to gamble, broke gambling laws to increase buying pressure, and even less shocking apparently hasn’t made good on most of the ‘winners’ anyway.

                Yet you are here pretending he just accidentally bent a few obscure sweepstakes laws instead of the critical point that he USED HIS INFLUENCE OVER CHILDREN TO CONVINCE THEM TO GAMBLE!

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                  the absolute hilarious thing is I finally did find it all on my own and I agree with you about Mr Beast. I was simply asking a question.

                  I’m not sure what type of people you come across online to act this way but Jesus Christ tell me where so I can avoid it.

                  Block me because I’m going to return the favor.

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      Wendell is a leftist. His current newest video has him say that.

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      It’s not vague at all, Mr Least actively broke gambling laws multiple times during livestreams to push sales. May I remind you his primary audience is children, he was encouraging children to illegally gamble for prizes and money.

      So I think you have to be a part of his shitty PR team and have now blocked you for all eternity.

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    the guy who got famous by reading the entire dictionary and counting to a million on live camera is a sociopath?! i did not see this coming. /s

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    Look at all these people white knighting for a Sociopath being a for profit charity and scammer.