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Mr Beast is billionaire philanthropist apologia.
It normalizes that idolatry of one very rich guy paying off people's debt, or paying for all the food a poor person needs for a month, all for spectacle.
No address of underlying causes, no real calls to alleviating poverty.
My students love this dude, too, and their biggest worries are about their upcoming bail hearings, their trial status, or about their gang friends on the out who are getting into shit.
It's not just for kids with no realistic worries, it is about kids who have no real solutions within the world, who are repeatedly told that they can't really change the world, and who are trying to find shit that helps them experience some amount of happiness, even if it is vicariously through some YouTube star.
Plus, I think many or most of his fans do understand the reality of how fucked the world is, but because they see not action that they can take to actually change anything, they appreciate pretending that it's fine because of videos like this guy's. It's ultimately another form of escapism for them. Just like sports, theatre, movies, TV, books, etc are for all of us.
I assume some of them are because of the pandemic. I was 14 years old a couple decades ago, and even then there were ask outs and breakups over AIM and ICQ. So it stands to reason that kids are using whatever they have now for communication to...uhh...communicate and have/end relationships.
I graduated highschool in 2014 and breakups would happen over text a lot, but everyone at least tried to do them I'm person unless they really didn't like the other person.
I guess I was really unplugged though and only had a cellphone and gmail. Did get one breakup over g-chat and had a friend who was broken up with over Snapchat when it was still pretty new, but it was still mostly "meet me after school in the library" for the most part.
I forget what else I used, but I don't think I used MSN messenger. But I did use a 3rd party client that allowed me to connect to all messenger services at once...forget what it was called, but I thought it started with a d....
Stupid question: how does he even make all that money? It can't possibly only be through advertising.
Same way insta influencers "make all that money". By renting something for a day and pretending like they own it.
"You really think someone would do that? Just go on the internet and tell lies?"
He now has 6 (working on a 7th) separate YouTube channels that all generate millions of views and sells ton of merchandise. There are also lots of advertisers willing to give him all kinds of money because he is almost guaranteed to get the views he needs to be profitable. And he has internet friendships with many other very popular creators which help increase his popularity.
He was one of the stupid idiots during the mid 2010s that would video tape themselves doing increasingly stupid stunts like staying underwater for a day or breaking random shit for views. Unlike the rest of his fellow talentless hacks, he realized he could parlay those mindless subscribers into a marketing/advertising platform and venture capitalist funding, especially since the kids who watched him were getting older and realizing how stupid and awful his content was.
You shut your mouth when you're talking about Jim Sterling.
If you dig Hakim you should check out Yugopnik. I really enjoy is work too
I already am subscribed to both of them, and noncompete. We now have a total of four good YouTubers!
He's the final evolution of those "GIVING A HOMELESS BUM $100: GONE SEXUAL 😏" prank channels.
Just realized I wasted a potential bit when naming my island in Animal Crossing.
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She did a fantastic job gaming youtube's algorithm, her videos are always #1 on the homepages, sometimes I even see multiple of them. who is watching this shit?
I've never watched a single video of hers and have zero desire to. Just the most vapid slop on earth.
Ten years ago I thought YouTube Poop was as low as it gets. Fuck.
YTP: Pride Patties is the besr video on the site ypu cant argue witg me
On the gaming YouTube trending page it's just full of that "PrestonPlayz" guy. The general trending page is filled with the new UK royals drama, Peirs Morgan and episodes of local soapies uploaded by the state broadcaster. Come on South Africa do better!
Reject modernity, embrace drinking 5 gallons of olive oil and being on the toilet all night.
My youtube home page only recommends video game shit, obscure music, and educational videos. If I ever need to search for normie shit I do it in incognito mode because I refuse to fuck up my homepage.
