https://twitter.com/MrBeast/status/1707869557161955744

  • Nakoichi [he/him]
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    9 months ago

    If it were any two of us on day 100 we would be so deep in some obscure struggle session we'd be like "go away we're not done arguing".

  • CommunistBear [he/him]
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    9 months ago

    I would not trust the dude to not put me in the cube with a plant who walks out on day 99 just to watch me break down for the views

  • GorbinOutOverHere [comrade/them]
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    9 months ago

    Is this even a question? Mr beast knows a lot of people have roommates, right? Who have to live with each other much longer than 3 months??

    I would do this shit in a heartbeat like god damn. Fuck rich people for making a game out of my life but I'll take literally 25 years of income in exchange for 100 slightly awkward days

    • people_are_cute@lemmy.sdf.org
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      9 months ago

      You don't live 2400 hours at a stretch with your roommate with zero breaks or outtimes, bro. I doubt you can even live with your SO that long without going out once. Even those in jail get to go out of the room every day.

      IIRC there is a popular folk tale about this. A king was exasperated with his princess who got down bad for some peasant, so he locked both of them together in a room for a month and when they came out both of them had nothing but abject hatred towards each other.

        • Awoo [she/her]
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          9 months ago

          I will get so much fucking sleep back.

      • AbbysMuscles [she/her]
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        9 months ago

        I remember an anecdote from The Expanse books. A crew of some ship were stuck in a room in some kind of emergency situation for months. When they were rescued, a handful of them formed lasting marriages, and the rest never spoke to each other again

    • @TheObserver@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      9 months ago

      It seems easy but for the clickbait views mr beast always does some dumb shit to annoy the contestant or make it 10x harder than it needs to be. I'd imagine they will make it hard to sleep/concentrate or some other dumb method to speed the process up.

      • UlyssesT [he/him]
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        9 months ago

        Those lights may never go off. Not like bazingas like MrBeast value sleep much.

          • UlyssesT [he/him]
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            9 months ago

            You trust a rich asshole like MrBeast to allow you to take any personal belongings in for his paid rat cage experiment?

              • UlyssesT [he/him]
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                9 months ago

                I don't know. He might expect hospital gowns or some other way to further demean his inmates, I mean, contestants. Hooray if he doesn't.

      • sloth [none/use name]
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        9 months ago

        Bet you $1000 they start blasting Guantanamo Bay tier music for 6-12hr periods before day 20.

      • GorbinOutOverHere [comrade/them]
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        9 months ago

        "make it hard to sleep"

        Dawg i have insomnia. At least i wouldn't be not sleeping and then working a 10 hour shift

  • UlyssesT [he/him]
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    9 months ago

    So much of that creepy saccharine ghoul's antics involve flicking his pocket change at the peasants to see them scramble and perform for him.

    This is Rockefeller shit all over again. capitalist-laugh

  • Awoo [she/her]
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    9 months ago

    100 days doing nothing for a guaranteed $250k seems kinda easy tbh, biggest concern I'd have is whether the second person is a fool or not because like 14 weeks is fucking nothing.

    • GaveUp [she/her]
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      9 months ago

      You sure? I feel like this is really difficult unless somebody already like literally never goes outside and never opens their curtains for weeks at a time

      • charly4994 [she/her, comrade/them]
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        9 months ago

        I've gone like actual months without leaving the house and even this I couldn't handle. No privacy, obnoxious lighting that'll trigger a migraine in a heartbeat, no entertainment. Just sitting day after day staring at the wall because the stranger and you had a falling out on day 2.

      • beef_curds [she/her]
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        9 months ago

        I think it'd be harder alone, but with someone else there to talk to, that's easy. With a common goal, you could also hype each other up.

        Though for 500k, that's lifechanging, I think could do it alone too. There's enough space and props in there to exercise and make my own fun.

      • barrbaric [he/him]
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        9 months ago

        Depends on what else is in there tbh. I gave myself photosensitivity after a few years not opening my curtains.

      • Parzivus [any]
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        9 months ago

        It would suck but this is also like 4+ years of income for most people. You'd have to drag me out of there lol

        • GaveUp [she/her]
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          9 months ago

          I'm just concerned the damage to your mental health wouldn't be worth it

          Way harder to fix that than fix poor finances

          • raven [he/him]
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            9 months ago

            I've struggled with depression for around a decade now and I can't even imagine that this would damage my mental health more than owning a house no one can take away from me would help it. I'm not the person you said "somebody who never goes outside and never opens their curtains for weeks at a time" I play a summer sport and a winter sport, go camping, exercise. 100 days is nothing and 250k (I read it as 500k each but still) is in fact 8 years of median income in the US or almost 7 in my state. That would put you more than 8 years ahead if spent smartly, that's 8 years pay up front

            Being in a room with another person for a couple months cannot be near as painful as being micromanaged at work.

            I'm not trying to "debate you" about your perspective, just sharing mine rat-salute-2

  • @llama@midwest.social
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    9 months ago

    What if we get Mr beast to lock himself in a room with Jake Paul and say whoever makes it from now on will be the only content creator on YouTube. Then we just never let them out and turn off the Livestream.

    • Llituro [he/him, they/them]
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      9 months ago

      i'm going to choose not to hate that my answer is yes, capitalism has my sorry ass trained for nothing less than feel miserable all the time, might as well get a house out of the deal y'know

  • JeffBozo [he/him]
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    9 months ago

    If your source of entertainment is putting people through misery to test how desperate they are for money then I don't give a fuck about whatever good PR he may have, he's a ghoul.

  • SpiderFarmer [he/him]
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    9 months ago

    So it's just a soft prison and you come out richer? I could afford the therapy I need after something like this, as well as the therapy I likely need already.

  • Cummunism [they/them, he/him]
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    9 months ago

    that immediately tells you how much he would make from it. Probably 5 times that amount. Plus he would probably find some real abhorrent people to do it, like people who don't shower or something.

    gulag the youtubers.

  • kristina [she/her]
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    44
    9 months ago

    nah, id have to interact with mrbeast and id rather die than do that.

    • ElHexo [comrade/them]
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      9 months ago

      lot of time on your hands to work on projects for that meeting with mrbeast

      the-doohickey

  • WhyEssEff [she/her]
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    36
    9 months ago

    mr-beast I TRAPPED MY SUBSCRIBERS IN A ROOM, AND THE ONLY WAY TO GET OUT IS TO GET THE KEY SURGICALLY IMPLANTED INTO THEIR LEGS!