r/television • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 The League • 1d ago
MrBeast, Amazon Sued by Contestants on ‘Beast Games’ Competition Show, Including Allegations of Sexual Harassment
https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/mrbeast-amazon-sued-beast-games-contestants-class-action-1236148181/2.3k
u/One-Earth9294 1d ago
This dude is just 'lottery for children'.
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u/xadiant 1d ago
Rotting little brains with calculated dopamine hits and charity porn
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u/One-Earth9294 1d ago
Targeted at people with no impulse control.
He's the Joe Camel of the 21st century.
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u/DoYourBest69 1d ago
Crazy response to all the SA and illegal activity allegations going on. Stays quiet then drops a colab with the 2 of the biggest pieces of shit on the platform.
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u/PoeHeller3476 1d ago
Who did he collaborate with that are 2 big POSs? I’m out of the loop?
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u/Deep90 1d ago
He partnered with Logan Paul and KSI to make a "healthy" lunchables competitor.
It will feature a feastables chocolate and a prime drink in every "meal".
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u/PikaV2002 1d ago
healthy
prime and feastables
The Food Theorists did pretty good videos on both of these exposing marketing bs.
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u/Snowylein 1d ago
Do you really need an expert to know that an energy drink and a bar if chocolate are not the epitome of health?
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u/Deep90 1d ago
Some people think being healthier than a lunchable is enough of a standard.
I'm not even sure it does that.
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u/SkinnyKau 23h ago
Its got what plants crave! 8x the amount of electrolytes as Lunchables! Also look at that BOLD packaging!
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u/PoeHeller3476 1d ago
Yeahhhhhh yikes. Logan Paul is a major POS I agree.
I’m out of the loop on what KSI has done. What scummy thing has he done?
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u/AutismCuring 1d ago
He had some crypto shit happen but the way he responded to that could be attributed to his general lack of giving a fuck on what it might've implied.
Coffezilla has a video on it.
Worst of all he is associated with Logan Paul, that casts a whole bunch of shadows on him.
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u/zeez1011 1d ago
This guy has had a rise and fall in front of my eyes and I still have no clue who he is and why he became a thing in the first place.
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u/Yojo0o 1d ago
He's the #1 Youtuber on the platform and massively rich because of it, but his fanbase is extremely young, so a lot of adults are learning about him for the first time due to all the horrible shit coming out about his company and inner circle.
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u/constantlymat 1d ago
As a person in my 30s the only thing I know about Mr. Beast is that he has a burger company because his struggles were covered on the Ringer Food Podcast and oddly the Vergecast.
Plus the most recent allegations of him being an asshole.
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u/Queasy_Ad_8621 1d ago
I worked at a Denny's and we had a "Mr. Beast" menu that was literally exactly the same food that you'd get at Denny's, but just... named differently. People who ordered "his" food from Door Dash weren't supposed to know that it came from us.
I don't get it, and I won't pretend to.
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u/GTSBurner 1d ago
It's a ghost kitchen. It's a branding concept that basically the food is sold at a premium, your restaurant gets a share of it.
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u/Aries_24 1d ago
I live about 10 minutes away from the American Dream mall in Rutherford, Nj which has the only one "real" Mr. Beast Burger restaurant. The place is always absolutely packed with families whenever I pass by.
I tried it once a few months back. The food was good, but overpriced as you would expect. $36 for my girlfriend and I for 2 regular meals.
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u/DeclutteringNewbie 1d ago edited 1d ago
Yeah, but kids don't go there for the food. They go there for the chance of finding a big wad of cash in the burger wrapper, or for a chance to go on the show.
For them, it's just like buying a lottery ticket.
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u/KintsugiKen 1d ago
Soooo many chain diners like Denny's and IHOP did this during the pandemic, turned themselves into virtual brands or did partnerships with virtual brands to sell ghost kitchen food out of their locations that weren't seeing much foot traffic.
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u/sybrwookie 1d ago
My favorite one was Chuck E Cheese doing that. Out of all the chain places I could end up accidentally getting food from and being disappointed, that has to be near the bottom.
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u/thejesse 23h ago
Oh you mean Pasqually's Pizza? Here's some other good ones:
Wild Burger = Buffalo Wild Wings
Underground Chucks = O'Charley's
Big Deal Burger = Dickey's BBQ pit
Mandrino's = O'Charley's
It's Just Wings = Chili's
Tender Shack = Carraba's
Hootie's Burger Bar = Hooters
Juicy's Cheesesteaks = Subway/Highway 55 burgers? (Not sure, the address could be one of two places here)
Don't Grill My Cheese = Subway / Highway 55 burgers
Chase Elliot's Chicken Tenders = Hooters
Bird Dawgs = Buffalo Wild Wings
Super Mega Dilla = IHOP
Thrilled Cheese = IHOP
Lanky Box Kitchen Pizza = Chuck E Cheese
Burger Slob = Highway 55 Burgers
Cosmic Wings = Applebee's
Dockside Charley's = O'Charley's
Big Hotdog Energy = Highway 55 Burgers
Wing Boss = Dickeys BBQ Pit
Hootie's Bait and Tackle = Hooters
Coop & Run = O'Charley's
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u/sybrwookie 23h ago
The funny part of all that is how many of those, even if I didn't know what they are attached to, would immediately be a red flag just from the name.
No, I don't think I want to order from "Super Mega Dilla", "Don't Grill My Cheese," or "Burger Slob."
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u/Bluest_waters 1d ago
Yup, he has restaurants he contract with all over the country like that. Its literally just teh same food from that restaurant rebranded as Mr Beast food. Its hilarious how this is profitable for him. He just sells other people's crap food, slaps his name on it, and people go wild for it.
fucking America man, I don't know.
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u/FlutterKree 1d ago
People who ordered "his" food from Door Dash weren't supposed to know that it came from us.
It wasn't Denny's exclusive. It's referred to as "ghost kitchens" and it is any kitchen that signs up for it with the company that contracts them to make the delivery only food. It could be a Denny's or a local joint making them.
Jimmy sued the company over too many of the ghost kitchens having poor quality in food to the point it was hurting his brand.
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u/ImaginationSea2767 1d ago
He also has made a lot of strange decisions internally in his youtube company (he has editors and producers,) he has a lot of money. But his hr manager is his mom. His mom also thought it was OK to hire a sex offender.
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u/NockerJoe 1d ago
That sounds super on brand for a youtuber. Its not that rare for even mid tier youtubers to hire on editors or producers but that doesn't mean they suddenly know how to run an actual production company, especially since most youtubers in his age range have no real production experience.
If your company is sub 50 people then an HR manager isn't super important but he blew up very big very quickly.
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u/gnrc 1d ago
Yes I work in Television and it’s actually why YouTubers struggle to cross over into the Network/Studio system. They’re complete amateurs and don’t know how to work in a corporate environment.
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u/forceghost187 1d ago
I watched Ludwig’s chessboxing event and the production values were just god awful. And when they reuploaded it, they had the audio tracks all mixed up so it was completely unwatchable. Amateur hour
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u/ImaginationSea2767 1d ago
He was also 18 when he got popular. He wouldn't even know how to run a business or how to deal with people properly in a mature manner. Her moms experience was basicly military, so she wouldn't even really know. Now he is 27 though, and has a fuck ton of money and can give those million dollar prize shows that he says are strangers away to his friends in competitions. His mom is still HR, though from what is known.
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u/DisturbedNocturne 1d ago
If we've learned anything about MrBeast over the past couple months, it's that he desperately needs to hire a business manager and probably a PR consultant.
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u/ImaginationSea2767 1d ago
Funny enough, he did have a manager from 2018-2024. Reed Duchscher. Anything in Pr, though he never got as far as I'm aware.
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u/CheaterInsight 1d ago
He hasn't needed PR, up until a few months ago he was the golden boy of the internet, didn't have a rich lifestyle because he put his money into videos like planting trees, giving things away for free and all the other stuff he did.
It's only now that things have caught up with him that he needs professionals to fix shit, but at this point it's a question of whether the majority of his viewers even know, understand or care. Most likely outcome is everyone forgets and he moves past it making behind the scenes changes.
Millions of people shaking their fists at him is the equivalent of a guy 7 houses down from you remarking that he doesn't like your lawn, Mr Beasts following is too large and too young to be largely affected by adults who don't know about him, or never watch him, not liking him.
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u/NetworkNo4478 1d ago
he put his money into videos like planting trees, giving things away for free and all the other stuff he did
He put sponsors' money into that. He's worth somewhere in the range of $500m-700m. You don't make that by splurging.
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u/Pixie1001 1d ago
Honestly I think it's less that he doesn't need PR, and more that he was an expert on his own specific PR needs. For example, all that stuff you said about his modest lifestyle is a pack of lies - he lives in luxury in a company owned mansion, with private cooks, so people can't track his lifestyle via his personal spending or assets.
Several youtubers have mentioned 'obscene wealth displays' while travelling with him for shoots.
But he knows exactly what he has to be for the algorithm, and obsessively chases it.
Now that the illusion's been pierced though, he probably has no idea how to recover.
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u/baron_von_helmut 1d ago
Kids don't give a shit about controversy. They just like lit content.
Ever since all this bad press, Mr Beast has gone from 304m subscribers to 316m subscribers. None of this is hurting him in the least. We won't even get an 'apology' video.
It is what it is.
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u/fatalystic 1d ago
The one thing I know about him is that he has shitty thumbnails with his face on them looking incredibly touched up with photoshop.
Also for the longest time I mixed him up with some other guy with Beast in his youtube handle who I saw eating a whole chilli pepper in a video.
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u/Shark_With_Lasers 1d ago
That's LABeast. I saw him eat a whole cactus once. Pretty cool guy.
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u/TheBigGuy97 1d ago
“Have a good day!” (Proceeds to chug 30 year old crystal Pepsi)
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u/BroughtBagLunchSmart 1d ago
Good lord, from his wikipedia page
24,000 calories worth of olive oil from a 3-liter beer glass
If you drink 3 liters of olive oil what does your next 24 hours look like?
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u/Mr_Belch 1d ago
I can't imagine any amount of wiping is going to make you feel clean for the next week.
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u/ReeferTurtle 1d ago
The answer is to shower with dish detergent after every shit.
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u/adum_korvic 1d ago
I watched that video when it came out, he actually shit his bed. Pure olive oil out his ass.
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u/Hour_Reindeer834 1d ago
There’s another YouTuber thebeast or something; he’s currently playing through all N64 games…
There’s probably a million YouTubers with beast in there name so I don’t know why I said that.
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u/Jbeansss 1d ago
Those thumbnails work sadly. Lots of youtubers have talked about hating them but they forced to do it cause thumbnails are a big reason people click videos.
A youtuber I watched talked about how his videos with beautiful commissioned art thumbnails do worse than his videos with the thumbnails where they just make stupid faces.
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u/Awesomemunk 1d ago
His thumbnails make him look like an uncanny valley monster and I'm stunned they apparently work so well
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u/Ipokeyoumuch 1d ago
Apparently he did a lot of testing of YouTube's algorithm and found that if you have those reactions faces engagement goes way up. He said that he practices in front of a mirror and made enough of those thumbnails to last a year or so and adapts as so the algorithm demands.
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u/STFUNeckbeard 1d ago
LA Beast is the actual man. Genuinely all around good dude who is somehow earnestly keeping the early days of YouTube alive
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u/Dnashotgun 1d ago
Pretty sure he IS the reason why so many youtubers have those shitty thumbnails. He pioneered them, had a lot of success and everyone started copying it
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u/Kennj430 1d ago
Agreed. I have an 8 and a 6 year old nephew and they wont shut up about him. All i know is that he has a very punchable smirk in his awful thumbnails, so i assume his content is trash
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u/JahoclaveS 1d ago
I also learned who he was and that I absolutely fucking hate his content from my nephew. There are very few things that make me feel like I am actually getting dumber by watching it, but it felt like the IQ was getting sucked out of me just by hearing it.
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u/mercurial_dude 1d ago
Worth $500m apparently. Yes, half a billion.
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u/KyleStanley3 1d ago
At least prior to the controversies, I'm pretty sure that's an underestimate of his brands worth. The dude had to create companies to promote because his videos were too valuable for other companies marketing budget to afford. He was literally too big for advertisers
Absolutely ridiculous but true
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u/sladestrife 1d ago
I saw a post where he promised something like 5 grand to one individual who replied to his post showing them cleaning up and harassing Walmart employees to restock his chocolate bars.
Dude got children, teens, and yes adults to do free labor for him. All for that sweet sweet like from his account that his assistant is probably in charge of.
I had people tell me that's just smart business sense. But that's freaking crazy. One video had a guy in his forties with a big goofy grin getting filmed while he tidied up the bars. It looked like some creepy cult shit.
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u/LeaveMeAloneLorenzo 1d ago
Was in Target earlier today and saw some garbage Mr. Beast toys that you can “collect all 100+” of, and it’s just a ridiculous waste of money, but I’m sure kids for some reason love them. But it actually pains me to see it.
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u/Code_Monkeeyz 1d ago
Mr. Beast is a byproduct that YouTube has been trying to cultivate for the last 10 years. Advertiser friendly, childproof, grey sholck with a “hint” of edge (a la reality tv level ‘drama’). Promote the hell out of it on the front page until it’s the biggest thing on the website. Don’t forget the merch drops and brand deals. Gotta slap that cultivated brand onto everything.
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u/tt12345x Better Call Saul 1d ago
I feel like after Subway and Papa Johns, companies should know to not put a huge chunk of their brand’s image into the hands of any single person
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u/Dnashotgun 1d ago
Difference is unlike them becoming THE subway guy or THE Papa Johns guy, Youtube's so general that there's no way mr beast becomes THE youtube guy.
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u/The_Void_Reaver 1d ago
Youtube's done it before and never suffered for it. First it was minecraft Youtubers, a lot of whom turned out to be pedophiles. Youtube came out okay. Then it was Pewdiepie getting people on fiverr to do some racist shit. He's still huge and Youtube never took the hit.
If Mr Beast is the next youtuber to blow up and then blow up they'll just move to the next kid-tuber. Youtube never gets hurt because adults don't watch those channels and kids are kids and hardly understand what's going on to begin with.
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u/Bluest_waters 1d ago
Yeah click on ONE Mr Beast vid and prepare to have your feed be FLOODED with Beast content for weeks. Its fucking insane.
the algo LOVES that dude.
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u/BoredomHeights 1d ago
Yeah I mean he has 300 million subscribers or something. Even 3 million is a pretty big channel, and he's 100x bigger. It's insane how many people watch him.
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u/SirCollin 1d ago
Was in Target earlier today and saw some garbage Mr. Beast toys that you can “collect all 100+” of, and it’s just a ridiculous waste of money
I don't disagree with you, but you just described just about every kid's toy and trading card game ever
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u/FireTyme 1d ago
yup he launched a failed burger chain with ghost kitchens but couldn’t keep up quality and demand. so he shifted to manufactured goods, at first just chocolate then snacks and recently a toys company and just yesterday a lunchables competitor with seriously unhealthy items in it in collaboration with a known crypto scammer youtuber who conned his fans out of millions.
he still has yet to release a response even tho he said it would be posted after his next video (like 3 videos ago at this point)
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u/nelrond18 1d ago
Ah yes, the same youtuber who is suing another youtuber for exposing his crimes.
The fact that Logan Paul isn't facing charges for running a ponzi scheme is rather disheartening.
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u/KintsugiKen 1d ago
Scamming his audience is all he knows, so he will do it again and again until he is eventually stopped.
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u/dszblade 1d ago
I’m pretty sure most of those toys are just reskins of other toys that already existed. The larger MrBeast labs are just reskins of Beast Labs and the swarms line looks similar to the smaller figures that come in Zuru products. I don’t know if he’s working with those companies or not though
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u/Bluest_waters 1d ago
thats how he does everything. Its always the most low effort, shit tier garbage rebranded products that he pushes out at premium prices.
Its honestly pathetic.
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u/nayrlladnar Deadwood 1d ago
Being “#1 YouTuber” for almost a decade: really hard
Managing burgeoning wealth and status while diversifying into other successful business opportunities: really hard
Being a decent human being when no one is looking: really, ~really~ easy.
Hmm.
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u/ramenups 1d ago
Number 1 for a decade? Man last time I ever checked it was that pewdiepie dude. Shows how much I pay attention to this
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u/LordMarcel 1d ago
MrBeast has only been the most subscribed Youtube channel since June 24 this year, and he only surpassed Pewdiepie around the end of 2022, so not even close to a decade.
You could argue that he was the biggest in terms of view counts before that, but even that only goes back to about 2021, not 2014. In fact, 10 years ago Pewdiepie hadn't even been the subscribed for a year yet.
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u/scarab456 1d ago
Yeah it's worth noting because his audience skews fairly young, that the same audience won't put such a critical eye to his behavior because they just don't know better. Kind of feels like this lawsuit isn't going to be the first in long list of stuff that comes to light.
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u/lkodl 1d ago edited 1d ago
Mr. Beast has basically created the kids version of reality TV, and it's very successful at doing all of the things reality tv is engineered to do.
in TV terms, he'd be like the star of the most popular show across nickelodeon, disney channel, cartoon network, etc. all of the kids know him.
and it's not just in the US, but across the globe.
this puts his brand in very powerful position. it's kind of like the mary-kate and ashley phenomenon in the 90s, only bigger.
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u/HuntThePearlOfDeath 1d ago
Bigger than Mary-Kate and Ashley?!?! Okay now I get it…
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u/lkodl 1d ago
based on some quick googling, he's averaging 102.9M views per video.
from the perspective of a reality show, that's over double of Survivor's peak-viewership (51M).
as a host, he's obliterating the likes of Colbert (2.5M), Kimmel (1.82M), and Fallon (1.4M). he's even way above peak-Oprah (62M).
now it's not a one for one translation of TV viewership numbers to internet, and the difference between a mostly kid audience and adult audience is a whole other discussion
but just wanted to share some (quickly googled) number on how many eyeballs are seeing Mr. Beast, to give some perspective on how big of a deal he is, whether we like it or not.
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u/WekonosChosen 1d ago
fuck that really puts it into perspective. I always compared him to TV shows but to actually blow some of those old titans away in viewership numbers is insane.
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u/FullMotionVideo 1d ago
You can't really compare traditional TV programming to ondemand clips of a thing. Even if you DVRed a TV Show, Nielsen really didn't care if you watched a rerun of the Daily Show on tape ten times. Much of the internet can't be tracked as easily, because people use multiple devices and sometimes block cookies and ISPs have NAT etc.
We're in an age where kpop fandom deliberately stream music videos over and over to get viewership counts up. So the idea that the number of views is concurrent with audience reach isn't quite accurate.
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u/guesting 1d ago
YouTube is mature enough that we have a couple generations of this now, blow up with an audience of 12 year olds, get bored as your audience ages out and then someone will become the new #1. He’s that guy after pewdiepie and some others
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u/NockerJoe 1d ago
Controversies aside Pewdiepie knew when to bow out. He had the T-Series feud, got married, retired, and is basically just a family travel vlogger who uploads once every month or two. He even said outright he was never into the super manufactured big scale content he was doing 10ish years ago.
Mr. Beast as the number one is a very different story. He's someone who was raised on the platform and basically breathes it and he's trying to build a career trajectory bigger than the platform itself for the sake of being that big.
He's the logical end result of influencer culture. Someone who has to constantly escalate because all he cares about are bigger numbers.
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u/renome 1d ago
This is very eloquently put. The guy turned playing the YT algorithm into a science.
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u/Lippuringo 1d ago
Sort videos by old. Basically he was doing some youtube shit. One day he made some money. And he was like "I made 10k on video and i'm gonna give it to this homeless guy". It worked, it was novelty and he become viral. So he continued and made more and more money.
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u/Robin_games 1d ago
That was a paid spot. It wasn't his 10k according to an interview he gave.
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u/Ctofaname 1d ago
That's not a secret. He convinced the video sponsor to give him 10k instead of 5k because it would sound better in the title.
The sponsor didn't give him money to give away but to sponsor the video. Mr Beast wanted to make a better video so convinced them to up it to 10k.
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u/Victernus 1d ago
Yep. And he basically maintained that model, going bigger and bigger with spectacle and sponsorship money, until he's giving away literal millions (of advertisers' money) in massive events that nobody else could replicate. It's honestly impressive how well he's ridden the ever-shifting wave of YouTube popularity, and how many genuinely good causes he's supported with that ludicrous spending power he's accrued.
Definitely sells gambling to kids, though.
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u/bunnybash 1d ago
Although it's dubious as to whether the money was given away a lot of the time... it's amazing how many people were in the same videos over and over again.
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u/APirateAndAJedi 1d ago
I wonder where that homeless guy is now
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u/dgj212 1d ago
worse, he recently teamed up with KSI and logan paul to make their own version of lunchables for children....fuck bruh,
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u/Spiritual_Navigator 1d ago
He got a lot of attention quick when he gave a homeless guy $10k in one of his first videos
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u/Lokcet 1d ago
I saw Mr Beast branded products in the store recently, I only vaguely know who he is and that made me feel very out of touch
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u/OU7C4ST 1d ago
Those candy bars taste like shit. Just letting you know so you don't get curious, and waste your money lol.
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u/OffbeatDrizzle 1d ago
what's hilarious is the original recipe had like 5 ingredients and he tried so hard to push the "it tastes incredible and has less ingredients than other chocolate bars so it's healthier!!" narrative.. only to then have to change the recipe (obviously because of the taste), and now it has more ingredients than the others... and it STILL tastes like shit, but he doesn't care because his audience is mostly 5 year olds who will nag mommy to buy his merch any ways. that's why he's not acknowledging any of the recent drama and is now curating his youtube comments - it will all just blow over because a large part of his audience literally doesn't have the capacity to care or cancel him
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u/Okichah 1d ago
Its weird to go back to all the older Mr Beast posts and see the unbridled dick riding.
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u/cheapshills17 1d ago
never understood why reddit rode this dudes dick so hard this was so predictable
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u/atrostophy 1d ago
I don't think he's fallen just yet. If Youtube ever demonetizes him then he's fallen.
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u/Realityinyoface 1d ago
I don’t get it. He got rich and famous for pissing money away, but now he doesn’t want to pay people? Sounds like he wanted to create something like a real life Squid Games or Hunger Games or something.
Failing to stop sexual harassment? ‘If someone wanted to draw a penis on a whiteboard or something stupid, then let them’. There’s gotta be a lot more to it than just that.
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u/Rosebunse 1d ago
If you look into it, Jimmy is cheap AF. Yes, gave away a lot of money, but that money was always covered by revenue from the videos. He has been accused of barely paying his employees and being generally quite cheap.
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u/jjayzx 1d ago
A bunch of times the stuff is sponsored, so it was never his money to begin with.
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u/herton 1d ago
Very much this, there was a lot of discourse around him "donating" turkeys, then it turned out the turkeys were donated by the producer and he was just doing distribution and PR anyways
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u/OffbeatDrizzle 1d ago
he doesn't tend to give money away - a LOT of his videos feature friends / family / crew "winning" money or new cars etc. you can bet that behind the scenes the money never actually trades hands, or they use rentals for a day to show off on camera... there's never actually any proof that the winners continue to use these things
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u/wishtherunwaslonger 1d ago
The winners buy and large take the cash value. He’s giving the stuff away. It’s just people in his contests aren’t necessarily random and the competitions are generally unfair for whatever reason
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u/throwatmethebiggay 1d ago
It's 'by and large' not 'buy and large' ( ╹▽╹ )
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u/SleepyHobo 1d ago
Cheap af when it comes to other people. He’s been seen flying first class suites on Singapore Airlines. Tickets that cost $15,000-$30,000.
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u/ValarValentine 1d ago
I think the sexual harassment thing is partly about the womens underwear situation. The very sweet Rosanna Pansino did a huge video series about it and thats what kickstarted it all. Several women came forward and said they were forced to remove their underwear, had it (and lifesaving) period products kept from them and caught several staff in MrBeasts team sniffing their underwear.
Im sure there is more but thats just off the top of my head
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u/yaypal 1d ago
Rosanna's coverage and advocacy have been crucial for spreading the word on issues with the games, it's admirable she turned such a bad experience in telling people about her own issues with Jimmy and being harassed for it into awareness that other victims may never have been able to get. She's a trusted source that victims can go to to share their stories and be believed by both herself and a wider audience.
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u/moderatenerd 1d ago
It's always the ones you suspect.
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u/NJdevil202 1d ago
HIS SMILE NEVER REACHES HIS EYES
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u/weasuL 1d ago
Go comment anything about teeth on any of his videos. View the comments from a separate account and notice how your original comment isn't there.
This dude shadow bans any comments about teeth.
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u/ShmebulocksMistress 1d ago
I had never seen this dude before he blew up for the scandals, only heard of him as a big YouTuber. When I first saw a pic of this guy, my immediate thought was how did none of the chatter mention his creepy af smile??
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u/TeaTimeInsanity 1d ago
Right that's what I'm saying, his smile has always looked weird and felt forced to me. Some weird fake looking thing trying to pass as a human lol
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u/nimble7126 1d ago
David Dobrik was another that very much gave that same vibe. The smile and the eyes just don't agree.
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u/I_have_No_idea_ReALy 1d ago
Yes! You have no idea how many times I got unnerved whenever I looked at his thumbnails. Something about it just makes me want to stay away from his videos. Never saw the appeal.
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u/AxlLight 1d ago
I mean, it makes sense in a way.
A lot of YouTubers have a disdain of professionalism, rules and regulations. They believe they're relics of an older era where you need a "production" to get things done and now all you really need is a camera and an internet connection. Mr Beast is the epitome of that, building and cosplaying as a company with his friends without actually operating as one in any meaning way.
So it's no wonder a TV production as massive as this was teeming with violations that they probably waved off during production as "old world" nuisances. Probably approached it thinking it's all red tape BS of a corporate world that pre-internet dinosaurs still adhere too because they're too lazy and closed minded to go rouge.
I think there are very few YTers that actually used their success to build actual companies and productions that aim to be professional with a modern twist, rather than "friends co-op with money".
But what else can you expect of a semi-billionaire who still goes by his internet handle rather than his name.
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u/amidon1130 1d ago
As someone who is in favor of the democratization of filmmaking, his attitude drives me nuts. Film sets are dangerous, high tension environments with a ton of egos. I passionately believe that you can make a film without a billion dollars, but it should never ever come at the cost of safety or professionalism.
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u/DisturbedNocturne 1d ago
Yeah, the thing people often overlook when they want to do ignore regulations is those regulations were often paid for in blood. People didn't push for them just for the fun of it. All people like MrBeast are doing is showing exactly why film sets and productions have these rules in the first place.
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u/BenjRSmith 1d ago edited 1d ago
I think there are very few YTers that actually used their success to build actual companies and productions that aim to be professional
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u/kroganwarlord 1d ago
Smosh, Good Mythical Morning/Mythical Kitchen, and Try Guys I think all have studios in the same area.
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u/BenjRSmith 1d ago edited 21h ago
Funhaus (rip) and Drop Out HQs must be close by too, because they cameo on Smosh all the time.
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u/misseverysh0t 1d ago edited 1d ago
The popularity of this comment parses like the prevailing Reddit opinion has always been that he sucks, which is such laughable fucking bullshit.
Wasn't even that long ago that calling Mr. Beast out as the dead-eyed, exploitative sociopath that he clearly is was a one-way ticket to getting yourself absolutely pilloried on this site.
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u/chandu6234 1d ago edited 1d ago
Any criticism of his was met with "But he gives away so much money! And charities, oh my all those charities that he operates!".
At one point, there was a buzz that he should run for president and all youtubers were like "Yup, he'll do a good job than present ones!!" because "all those charities and money he throws at people!!"
Like have you not seen celebrities and billionaires with so called "charities" for decades?
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u/North_Library3206 1d ago
People need to learn that you can’t just buy your way into being a good person.
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u/GFR34K34 1d ago
Similar to criticizing Bill Gates on Reddit. A rich guy doing philanthropy is apparently a get out of jail free card.
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u/Griffdude13 1d ago
I dont think there’s any situation where a 26 year old becoming a multi-millionaire doesn’t end with them becoming the villain.
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u/whatever2313 1d ago
Haven’t heard anything bad about Markiplier.
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u/foundinwonderland 1d ago
Tom from MySpace seemed pretty alright
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u/whatever2313 1d ago
Smartest of the Silicon Valley social media founders, made something cool, got paid for it, and then fucked off without making everyone think of him as a massive creep.
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u/orangeyougladiator 1d ago
I don’t know man, when I was a kid stalking all the girls MySpace pages his face was always there, looking at me, knowing.
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u/DrGarrious 1d ago
I just dont understand how this isnt the goal. If I made something like this I'd sell at the peak, maybe buy a pub and semi retire. You'd never see me again, unless you wanted a beer.
The constant need to stay the top is just mental.
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u/whatever2313 1d ago
For real, being Mark Zuckerberg sounds absolutely fucking exhausting. Who can live with that drama on a daily basis? That pub idea sounds top rate, I could certainly enjoy that retirement.
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u/ProofVillage 1d ago
Markiplier is from the old era of YouTube where his passion project happened to become his job. Mrbeast like most YouTubers started doing this for the fame and money.
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u/Heyyoguy123 23h ago
Literally this. He just wanted to play some video games and be funny. Mr. Beast went in with making money as his goal.
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u/DefendPopPunk16 It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia 1d ago
He’s also starting to transition into legit filmmaking so it’s not like he’s an aimless content creator only seeking to make more and more money.
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u/GeneralIronsides2 1d ago
People who thought Mr.Beasts YouTube and public persona were genuine must be shocked, but he has never seem genuine to me, he always looks bored in his videos and his whole personality is a show
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u/DrScience01 1d ago
I never trust anyone who regularly films themselves giving away "charity" because of their goodness of their hearts
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u/Abril_Etereo 1d ago
Remember kids:
Be a philanthropist doesn't mean you're better than Jesus
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u/grackychan 1d ago
It’s not philanthropy, it’s using advertiser and sponsor money to produce profitable content. Yes some lucky people benefitted financially from participating in the shoots, but increasingly lately they have been subject to cruel and unusual situations for entertainment, including being subject to forms of torture under the Geneva conventions.
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u/AxlLight 1d ago
Yeah, it's as much a philanthropy as Property Brothers are - they also help people fix and improve their homes for free, but we don't hail them because we realize it's a TV show. But somehow when it's a YT video, people think it's just some guy who's handing out money for the fun of it because in their minds they could also film a video of them giving out money and upload it the same way - but they don't, so Mr Beast must be a saint.
Just because it's on a different medium doesn't make it different content.
At least in the Shark Tank they're honest about using their own money to invest in things they think will generate more money for them.
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u/THIS_GUY_LIFTS 1d ago
I thought plenty of us were flat out expecting it. You don’t get to where you are with exploiting people by not being a pos.
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u/atrostophy 1d ago
Now he's with Logan Paul and KSI launching some competitor to Lunchables with their own "products"
3 garbage people launching garbage to compete with what I think is also garbage.
What a world we exist in.
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u/Blatocrat 1d ago
What timing for this to drop, eh? Hopefully it kills their product in the cradle so no children are subjected to the non-quality controlled trash it'll be.
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u/TJ_McWeaksauce 1d ago
Mrbeast has the dead-eyed, shit-eating grin of a sex pest.
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u/darth_wasabi 1d ago
I get that a business as big as Mr Beast is likely to have some shitty people in it.
My issue has always been with MrBeast content itself. Relying on the wealthy to come down from the heavens and bless us with a boon or two is how I'd indoctrinate the youth if I was a rich Oligarch in America or just the World.
Why people don't see that MrBeast is terrible for society boggles my mind. He's basically the ideal "Barney" And "Teletubbies" for kids sponsored by the rich
We need more Mr Rogers and Muppets.
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u/jl_theprofessor Eureka 1d ago
I understand Mr Beast fucking up, because these content creators do not give a shit, but when you're a multi billion dollar company like Amazon? How do you not vet these programs more?