i hated having to bite my tongue any time a normie irl asked me if i “saw mr beast cure all those blind people” as if he’s literally jesus
even besides all the rigging and shit, anyone doing “charity content” is obviously a grifter by their very nature of existing lmao how have some people not learned this by now? you’d think its just dumb kids but its been all adults asking me about mr beast
Typical "philanthropy" defender: "BUT HE GIVES AWAY MONEY! HOW MUCH MONEY HAVE YOU GIVEN AWAY?"
Predecessor "philanthropy" defenders over 100 years ago, watching Rockefeller flicking shiny dimes from his car to watch the poors brawl over the dimes:
There’s a lot of dumb or incurious people out there. The type who thinks the rich give to charity because they’re such caring people
As long as I don't count all the times I was wrong, I'm an amazing prophet! I see super successful YouTube person I immediately think they're more than likely an egotistical asshole that is abusing someone along the line.
By default I don't trust any "influencer," especially if they're basically "famous for being famous" and their growing popularity is because of their popularity, especially on top of that if it involves throwing parties for their underage fans.
I had this with Midwinter Minis. He always seemed "off" to me. He was always trying to appear as "wholesome family man that just likes doing neat hobby things."
Turns out he's a fucking deadbeat who left his wife for his assistant he deliberately sought after. Refusing to pay above the bare minimum in child support, kicked his wife and newborn twins out of the house, doesn't give her any of the revenue for videos she helped make, etc. etc. so on and so forth.
It's like in order to be a successful YouTuber, you go down the same path as people who become president: you have to be a narcissistic egomaniac looking for ways to gain power over others so you can abuse your authority.
Honestly this applies to most celebrities/pop culture figures/whatever you want to call them. At this point I just assume they have some skeletons in their closet or some other bullshit they're responsible for until I'm proven wrong. Even seemingly innocuous creators like Midwinter Minis can be complete garbage
Holy shit, he did what? I stopped paying attention a while ago because his videos stopped being good lol.
Yeah his now ex-wife made a post about it and people living in his town dug up some ads he had put out. It's something like this:
So his wife has their twins. Guy posts an ad looking for local help since Penny is recovering from giving birth. This is a ruse because he DMs a camerawoman from several towns over. He says the position has been filled, thanks everyone for applying (no interviews or calls with anyone local). He and new assistant start having an affair. Penny finds out. Guy has money saved up or whatever and hires a better lawyer. Gets Penny out of the house and hands her sole custody. He then pays the bare minimum in alimony. Penny makes a post on r*ddit, Guy makes a video about his wife's departure. Penny unloads all this shit before deleting it (on the advice of her lawyer). People do some digging and verify some of her claims. Guy admits he DM'd new camerawoman and she never applied to begin with.
I think that's all of it. I only watched a video or two, got kinda creeped by him, then found out all the drama in the comments. Of course, comments were being deleted, but people were screenshotting and posting elsewhere.
both kneel before me who has never watched a mr beast video nor had him occur in my thoughts independently of being talked about here
Me, ever since I first heard of that "BUT HE GIVES AWAY SOOOOO MUCH MONEY" empty-eyed creep:
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COOL S IN THAT NOTEBOOK Do we have an emoji for it?
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One of the oldest memes in existence lol
Two big videos recently came out about his manipulative behavior, faking videos, faking results, faking giveaways and mostly just giving money to his friends disguised as contestants, etc, etc. Separate but related accusations of him protecting a pedo employee, which then got looped back into the videos. 1 and 2 if you really want to go down the rabbit hole.
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You know how you always kinda got rhebfeeli g he was deffinitly a drifter and probablly a creep.
Multiple videos have come out showing that it really is always the people you most expect.
Well I knew for a fact he was a creep capitalist pig waving money in the faces of the destitute to profit from them. But I somehow doubted that that would get him canceled lol
I was also resigned to a fate of quietly mumbling about individual solutions to institutional promises whenever somebody asked me about how cool he was, this is certainly indicating if nothing else.
wait what? war crimes? I must have missed a lot, guess I'm gonna have to find the time to watch that "Mr. Beast is a fraud" video
Forcing a person to stay awake for multiple days is considered torture under the Geneva Convention
BUT IT WAS LIKE IN THE SQUIDGAMERINOS
(yes, I know, not exactly like that particular show, but my point stands when it comes to how these vampires justify their ghoulish spectacles)
we're not forcing them, this is just for extra ration credits, which are required unless you wish to die early from the toll taken by skibidi toiling
What about those of us who have never cared? I've heard of Mr Beast but I have never seen any of his videos or videos about drama surrounding the guy. I cannot muster enough energy to have an opinion about him.
It's cool and good to have never heard of such a cultural parasite before, sure.
That said, you did have the energy to post here about your indifference, so do you want something for that?
I wanted to assert my moral superiority and flaunt the purity of my media consumption, because deep down (who am I kidding, it's surface level) I'm a sad, sad man and I thought it would make me feel better.
Hey its ok! i also haven't heard of mr beast other than his being on some commercial on tv the other day. Its not cuz i don't love treats (i was watching football after all) my brand of treat dismissal is Internet celebrity cuz I'm crotchety and old and he is lumped in with all the others as "some Internet punk"
Truthfully, I think it's a blessed thing if you truly never heard of that grifter before until recently.
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