he’s running
I hope he runs off a cliff
Is he shitty? I don’t know anything about him other than he makes videos and does flashy philanthropy. It’s exploitative to make entertainment out of philanthropy, but in this case that entertainment makes money that contributes to the next act of philanthropy. The necessity of that is hellworld shit, but I’m not sure I’d personally fault him for it.
He’s completely dead inside and has turned his entire life into a slop maximization algorithm. I don’t want to go chasing it down right now, but he basically never stops “working” and considers every waking moment in terms of the opportunity cost associated with not working, up to and including shaming his girlfriend for costing him money by wanting a date night. Could there be a moment of real empathy under there? Maybe. But I’m not convinced he does anything for any reason besides self promotion/profit generation until proven otherwise.
He’s an odd character. The people from his small community in NC have nothing really bad to say about him from what I’ve heard, but his whole schtick is basically conspicuous charity. Which again, is better than no charity, but the fact that the Ouch My Balls guy is popular because social welfare and social services are so bad is worrying.
He does legitimately put everything back into his garbage or into charity though. Dude still just live in a normal house in Greenville NC, and does a lot for the area.
Wouldn’t be surprised if he ends up just running for mayor or something there at some point…
He does legitimately put everything back into his garbage or into charity though. Dude still just live in a normal house in Greenville NC, and does a lot for the area.
He is literally a billionaire. The fact that he is the kind of shitty billionaire who chooses not to live like one doesn’t improve that. His “charity” is performative garbage that hurts more than helps because of the way it makes people complacent and redirects attention from actually worthwhile efforts to stuff that makes mr beast richer.
Definitely not defending him, he just has a major cult of personality in his direct area that I see since I live in the state. Clearly he’s done enough to make people in that area actually kinda like him.
The big problem is that he’s able to garner support doing essentially selfish bullshit.
That wasn’t aimed at you specifically, some of the comments on this post are really, really concerning with the amount of slack they’re giving a billionaire who got his wealth from “doing charity”
Which again, is better than no charity,
diverting charity from stuff that’s actually effective to his spectacle can be negative charity. i forget all the details but i remember a few years ago he was in on some river trash thing that was just worse than a different thing conservationists were already doing.
Agreed, he’s not like some altruistic super selfless individual with some grand vision of an equitable future for all. He’s just some weirdo who’s so obsessed with his clout that he will literally just give money away so people like him. Not in a way that fixes the underlying issue, or even in a way that promotes some private interest like most liberal/conservative/religious charities. He’s just a selfish chaotic neutral.
He has been doing illegal child gambling and most of his “competition” style videos are rigged and fake
Some of his videos are legit dangerous and would get smaller channels banned/demonitized. He had something like “escape from being tied up in a house that’s on fire” type shit. Then there’s his unhealthy snacks targeted towards kids. I forget what it was. IIRC they were marketed as health foods for kids but had a bunch of corn syrup and no nutritional value.
Oh yes there was the chocolate marketed as the healthy alternative and it had more sugar than average chocolate
‘just five ingredients’
i’m the guy who hates obama not for the murders or the racism or the concentration camps but for making me eat healthy lunches in high school
hold up what is child gambling
He would do streams to sell merch and he would take an iPhone or stack of cash and put it in the box with a hoodie and say “whoever buys a hoodie right now will have a chance to get this prize” but then he wouldn’t send the boxes with the prizes. So kids would see the stream, use their (parent’s) money to buy his stuff because they think they are going to get a free PlayStation or something, and then have 0% of actually receiving it.
That was one example, a former employee made a video exposing a lot of it and he gave different examples beyond that
somebody else’s shipped iphone could accidentally get in the box with the hoodie so technically
Of course he’s shitty. He’s extremely wealthy! Likely a billionaire. So this is someone who became a literal billionaire by “doing charity”, meaning that he has enough money to just straight out end a lot of the problems he pretends to care about, but he doesn’t, because spending a few hundred grand installing wells in poor African villages makes him wealthy but fighting to end the exploitation of Africa that creates that need doesn’t. He is a massive, irredeemable piece of shit, and obviously so. He is perhaps the most predatory member of an entirely predatory class.
Santos/Beast 2028
if he’s the vice president he can keep doing youtube full time
Have you seen Trump’s presidency? He could YouTube full time either way
Yeah I was gonna say, this is some shit he’s gonna point to during the campaign lol
Dude seems absolutely addicted to “do big thing, number go up.” We just need to convince him that the biggest things he could be doing are pressing the communism button and doing massive record-breaking infrastructure projects. Make a YouTube video about eliminating homelessness by seizing property from landlords! Another one about building transcontinental high-speed rail!
I would rather never look into his dead eyes again so long as I live, but it sure would be a wild ride
At this point I’ll take it. I’ll live in the beast hype house dorm if it means free housing and I can emancipate myself from my shitty family.Rebranding the means of production as Seizables™️
provide him with a UI like Vicky 3 and all the lines are tuned towards increasing living conditions
Eh, close enough to project cybersyn. I’ll take it.
“I put 10 000 CEOs into minimum wage service jobs and gave every customer a gun, last CEO standing gets to go to the gulag!!”
There’s this one guy one youtube called the Kavernackle and he’s been saying for years that running for president is one of MrBeast’s ambitions. He’s getting more validated every dad.
Kav is great. One of my first internet friends in the political sphere. Wished he streamed more these days tho.
But yeah he was early on YT for articulating Mr. Beast’s horrifying existence
Mr Beast V Donald Trump 2032, who wins (besides non Imperial aligned countries) (Yes I am presupposing Trump wins 2028 and runs again in 2032 because these ghouls are immortal, against all odds and decency)
And yet, he’s starting that bank
He’s very “ceo brained”. I’ve said before that I think it’s best to analyze his charity videos as kind of a marketing expense, and I stand by that, with the addition that he also pretty clearly shows how normal people can be pretty incoherent in their beliefs and actions.
I thought he made a net profit from his charity videos, so they’re not even an expense.
The charity itself can still be considered an expense even if the video overall makes money, because it’s part of what draws people to watch the video, that’s what I mean when I compare it to marketing.
Fuckin Cost Of Goods Sold ass charity
He definitely does which is why the whole thing is sustainable, but it does seem like he reinvests all of it into the business instead of paying it out into his own pockets. But I don’t know much about him, maybe that’s not quite true.
He is extremely wealthy. Maybe not quite a billionaire but that’s the level of wealth we’re talking. So no, it’s not all going to charity. It is all ultimately about making him wealthier. That’s the only way to get as wealthy as he is.
Never thought I would see people defending Mr fucking beast here of all places.
Is he taking the money in cash or is his wealth the part of his business that he owns?
Also I think he’s horrible and making a lot of kids think that nihilistic “grinding” is good and a replacement for doing something meaningful and fulfilling in life.
I mean, I assume that’s largely the value of the business, yeah. What’s your point? It still has that value. It’s still all ultimately a deeply cynical exploitation of young people’s empathy to gain personal wealth and power and he still chooses his acts based not on whether they’re effective but whether they benefit him personally. There have been a few deep dive videos on the dude and he seems to be truly repugnant.
Morally you’re 100% correct, I’m only looking at how, from a business perspective, he’s running it very conservatively and taking little for himself in cash. That’s not morally better than if he took all the money out now and spent it on the best drugs in the planet, but we were specifically talking about how he runs his business at the start of the thread.
Probably A/B testing what does more for his brand: feigned class consciousness, or usury.
- these things are unrelated. no I will not consider the matter further, that would hurt my moral self assessment
welcome back friedrich engels
I think if Mr beast end up being the Engels for the American revolution it will be proof this reality is all one cruel prank against Marxists for having any hope
Cresting the pile of tires I see the chain link fence of the Feastables Repository, true to the coordinates I received from Beast HQ before the bombs fell. I take a sip of my canteen. It tastes like battery acid. What used to be a rat watches me. I can hear more of them.
What used to be a rat watches me
Asmongold still sticking around I see
this is a horrid insult to rats
asmonmold is a cockroach and thus very capable of surviving a nuclear holocaust tyvm
Synanthropic cockroaches wouldn’t survive a nuclear apocalypse. They are very vulnerable to cold, so nuclear winter and humans dying and stopping heating their homes will kill them very quickly.
I remember what things were like before, too. The friends we used to call our own, my loving family and what little I could remember of someone I used to call my wife. I remember her soft lips, the color of her eyes, sometimes, when I sleep and her hair that carried the faint scent of almonds with her. These days, more and more of those memories are replaced by the routine of struggle and daily survival underneath these crimson skies, growing darker each and each day as the Feastable™ Front™ grew closer to the city…what was left of it anyways until The Feast™.
The crops have withered, the animals have died and people collapse from the exhaustion of just living. It’s been years since I’ve seen a cat or a dog or even any mosquitoes in what feels like this never-ending summer. Yet as the Earth and her spoils are consumed by our new self-proclaimed deity, The Beast™, we can only keep praying for a rogue orbital-drop of Feastables™. An act of pity, but of a reminder of their divine might in the form of Drippy™ Cheese™ that we sustain ourselves to live on.
With no cows and no farms how does the Feastables™ cheese get so drippy? These days, the only question that mankind can ask the gods born out of their gluttony and greed.
America Decides 2028: MrBeast vs Ms. Rachel
Ms. Rachel
If she ever downloads whatever form you need to fill to run as anything, she’ll get Mossaded within 20 minutes
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