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[–] [email protected] 139 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Ill post this comment here too since it's the same video, but you might want to put a content warning on this video, it's pretty rough.

The first video is largely about him running illegal lotteries, which is pretty terrible given the scale they operate at, but it's something that the average person might not know about or really think about it being essentially child gambling.

This second video is an interview with a former employee who was put in solitary confinement for a video that never made it to YouTube because it was actually just them torturing him. Like, legitimate Geneva Convention war crime torture. Constant noise, no idea what time it is because you can't see the sun, constant lights so you can't sleep, constant monitoring, and him running until his feet bled.

If any of it is anywhere near true they need to be sued off the face of the planet in addition to going to prison.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Mr. Beast’s suppurating carcass should be fired into the sun.

EDIT: along with anyone who downvoted this comment. Sorry, pacifists.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

Upvote for suppuration

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[–] [email protected] 72 points 11 months ago (4 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 11 months ago (4 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 71 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 80 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago (1 children)

i need a monthly reminder of this - fuck Phil.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

We’ll be right back

[–] [email protected] 51 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I've never watched a single video of his and I could have told you that he's a sociopath. Normal people do not act like he does.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago (2 children)

How do you know how he acts if you never watched a single video?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

I think he's the most popular YouTube currently, or close to it if not. You can't get around without hearing about him occasionally. The biggest thing I know about him is he does charity videos that he films where he gives poor people a little bit of money. It's pretty obvious to me it's just exploitation to improve his image, and also he makes far more money off the video than he gives away. Clearly he isn't doing it because it's a good thing, yet somehow people call him a good person because of it.

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 11 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 37 points 10 months ago (2 children)

i literally had no idea who this guy was until like last year.. my partner showed me some clips and i immediately got bad vibes. i told her i thought he was just doing these nice things for the money and attention and she was shocked. but here we are lol

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Someone showed me a video of him giving 100 people (age 1 to 100 or something) a chance to win money

The whole thing was gross and exploitive but he’s just laughing at them

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

People like him prey on the naivety and good will of others. It's basically the same behavior as people like Trump and Musk--they need to be constantly adored by others.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

that's exactly the feeling i had, he needs people to see him being a good person. that's usually an indicator.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 10 months ago

Guess who's gonna make the alt-right turn in a month?

That's right! It's Mr ~~Beast~~ Couch

[–] [email protected] 32 points 11 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago

I don't use the word cringe much, but the way this was presented gave me second-hand embarrassment. It was hard for me to watch, content notwithstanding.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 25 points 11 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 57 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago

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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[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago

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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[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 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.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

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

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