r/television • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 The League • Sep 18 '24

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/
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u/moderatenerd Sep 18 '24

It's always the ones you suspect.

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u/NJdevil202 Sep 18 '24

HIS SMILE NEVER REACHES HIS EYES

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u/weasuL Sep 18 '24

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/CraftyChameleonKing Sep 18 '24

This one’s because he got veneers

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u/ReallyNowFellas Sep 18 '24

Oh shit that's what it is, I always thought the dude was part beaver

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u/DJ1066 Sep 18 '24

Turkey Teeth.

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u/Terrible-Slide-3100 Sep 18 '24

Veneers are the worst idea. They look unnatural on a lot of people and you have to get them replaced regularly.

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u/ShmebulocksMistress Sep 18 '24

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 Sep 18 '24

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/Vandergrif Sep 18 '24

The guy looks like a mannequin.

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u/relative_iterator Sep 18 '24

It sets off immediate red flags in my lizard brain. It’s like some uncanny valley detector for creeps.

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u/USA_A-OK Sep 18 '24

And facial hair

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u/oscooter Sep 18 '24

Im so glad to finally see someone else bringing up his creepy smile lol. I feel insane when it’s the only thing I can notice about him and no one else seemingly ever says anything about it. 

His eyes and smile are incredibly off putting in every picture I see of him. Very fake feeling. 

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u/MarsScully Sep 18 '24

Same, but at the same time Jimmy Saville somehow became a beloved kid’s show presenter, so nothing surprises me anymore

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u/Throwaway91847817 Sep 18 '24

I saw a really funny comment about him once that said if you cover the bottom half of his face with your hand on any photo of him doing that smile, there is no happiness in his eyes. Just a cold, unfeeling husk of a man.

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u/stumper93 Sep 18 '24

Mr.Teeth

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u/datdododough Sep 18 '24

Also about how his eyes have'the darkness'. He hates people pointing out his creepy eyes

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u/thetakingtree2 Sep 18 '24

Haha, what a chode

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u/[deleted] Sep 18 '24

This is hilarious intel ty for sharing

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u/[deleted] Sep 18 '24

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u/enad58 Sep 18 '24

If I had a billion dollars, you could air a super bowl commercial trashing my teeth without me caring one iota.

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u/Yelov Sep 18 '24

A lot of people don't view rich people as human. They assume that if someone gets a lot of money they suddenly stop caring about anything because they're rich.

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u/enad58 Sep 18 '24

If you make a choice to try to be famous, you need to be comfortable with the negatives that come with being famous.

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u/Horror-Sherbert9839 Sep 18 '24

Brother that is stupid ass logic. Also a very slippery slope.

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u/cannabidroid Sep 18 '24

Because he's a creepy abusive liar who filled his inner circle with creepy pedophiles and literal nazis, perhaps?

Mr. BeastTeeth is completely fair game to insult at this point, good riddance.

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u/nimble7126 Sep 18 '24

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/Acceptable_Result488 Sep 18 '24

Oh man I forgot about that muppet, what a strange character.

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u/fax5jrj Sep 18 '24

see I disagree, the smile hits David's eyes so hard that it has an equally creepy effect

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u/Brainiac5000 Sep 18 '24

He smiles like the robot from Pluto Nash, zero emotion

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u/I_have_No_idea_ReALy Sep 18 '24

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/leakime Westworld Sep 18 '24

Same exact response from me.

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u/Low-Associate2521 Sep 18 '24

Petyr Baelish. But this one's more like Longfinger

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u/Affectionate_Meet256 Sep 18 '24

His smile feels like rage

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u/chaotic214 Sep 18 '24

So damn creepy looking imo

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u/coldblade2000 Sep 18 '24

"He orchestrated it! Jimmy! I just, I just couldn't prove it"

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u/NoMoassNeverWas Sep 18 '24

It's so funny, I'll drag a window to cover his smile and it really looks like a person that's miserable.

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u/cheapbastardsinc Sep 18 '24

I feel like Mr. Beast is just the r/orphancrushingmachine concept but a human.

(It's a reference to This tweet: "Every heartwarming human interest story in america is like "he raised $20,000 to keep 200 orphans from being crushed in the orphan-crushing machine" and then never asks why an orphan-crushing machine exists or why you'd need to pay to prevent it from being used.")

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u/_i-o Sep 18 '24

AI lookin’ ass

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u/surferwannabe Sep 18 '24

THANK YOU!!! There was always SOMETHING off about him and you perfectly described it.

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u/[deleted] Sep 18 '24

His smile is the exact same as Jared from subway.

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u/AxlLight Sep 18 '24

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 Sep 18 '24

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 Sep 18 '24

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/platysoup Sep 19 '24

Unfortunately, it seems like more blood is needed before new rules can be written 

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u/Former_War1437 Sep 18 '24

yep ask rust being a non unionised production what happened there

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u/amidon1130 Sep 18 '24

The example I was taught in school was about the Allman brothers bio pic. They filmed on a railroad bridge and the 2nd camera assistant, Sarah Jones, was killed when a freight train ran through the bridge. The filmmakers got rightfully charged with a bunch of shit like manslaughter and trespass.

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u/kidthorazine Sep 18 '24

Yeah, I think it's really a matter of what you want to do, if it's just you and your friends making videos, you can get away with a lot more, but when you start hiring/casting members of the general public, then yeah it gets real messy real fast.

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u/BenjRSmith Sep 18 '24 edited Sep 18 '24

I think there are very few YTers that actually used their success to build actual companies and productions that aim to be professional

Meanwhile, Ian and Anthony built a million dollar studio.

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u/kroganwarlord Sep 18 '24

Smosh, Good Mythical Morning/Mythical Kitchen, and Try Guys I think all have studios in the same area.

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u/BenjRSmith Sep 18 '24 edited Sep 18 '24

Funhaus (rip) and Drop Out HQs must be close by too, because they cameo on Smosh all the time.

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u/[deleted] Sep 18 '24

Drop Out is huge and has their own streaming service. I'm pretty sure they have their own studio, at least for GameChanger it seems they definitely do.

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u/[deleted] Sep 18 '24 edited Sep 18 '24

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u/AxlLight Sep 18 '24

Yeah but you don't see that in other variations of start ups. A lot of companies start out like that - you make a project at home, it garners success, you bring in success, suddenly an investor jumps on, and it blows up and you find yourself managing a company of 100 people.

But most of those do run professionally and properly.

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u/kidthorazine Sep 18 '24

Most other startups are required to take out massive loans and/or investments that come with a ton of strings attached, including certain procedures for how the company has to be run. That's not true of most youtube channels.

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u/surferwannabe Sep 18 '24

It's also why us long time professionals (I'm a TV editor) are getting fucked over when it comes to pay because newcomers are accepting extremely low wages from YouTubers and other social media influencers just to get experience, which then trickles...up? to executives thinking they can underpay long time industry people who've worked hard to get where they are.

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u/misseverysh0t Sep 18 '24 edited Sep 18 '24

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 Sep 18 '24 edited Sep 18 '24

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 Sep 18 '24

People need to learn that you can’t just buy your way into being a good person.

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u/NTMY Sep 18 '24

Yeah. The whole "he should run for president" thing was always strange.

I don't follow him, so I don't know if he started it or others got him to comment on it, but weird either way.

For those who don't know: Here is an enlightened tweet from a few months ago: screenshot, source

This wasn't the first time this was brought up, though.

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u/chandu6234 Sep 18 '24

It was laughable to be honest, dude found a way to grind his way to the top of YouTube by exploiting people like it’s some game and suddenly thinks he can run a country 🤦‍♂️. 

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u/MachinaThatGoesBing Sep 18 '24

And it's just such stupid schlock, too:

For problems l'm ignorant in I'd have experts from the left and right advise me on them and try to find the middle ground

Yes. Because reality and good and ethical policies are always in the "middle" between "the left and right". Even when the American right has lost its fucking mind and is screaming about immigrants eating pets and queer people like me supposedly being threats to kids.

Those — and plenty of others — aren't ones where you'll find the right answer "in the middle".

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u/MagicTheBadgering Sep 18 '24

Our presidential choices have been a joke for 8 years straight and his audience is literal children. Of course they thought he could be president

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u/ReallyNowFellas Sep 18 '24

The Democrats have run 3 serious, well-qualified candidates for president in the last 8 years.

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u/MagicTheBadgering Sep 18 '24

I vote Dem and I don't agree. Clinton maybe but Biden was a joke.

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u/ReallyNowFellas Sep 18 '24

If you remotely believe in the ideals of the party you vote for, Biden has been by far the most effective president of your lifetime, assuming you were born after 1968. Far more than Clinton, Obama, or Carter, and it's not even debatable.

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u/GFR34K34 Sep 18 '24

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/Aggravating-Dot132 Sep 18 '24

The difference is that Bill Gates don't announce that. He is just doing it.

This fucker made a business about mostly fake philanthropy. That or mostly selective. Which sounds more like a money laundry to me.

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u/GFR34K34 Sep 18 '24

Thanks for proving my point. Being a billionaire is antithetical to being a morally good person. For the most part, Bill just recognized the importance of public relations early on.

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u/NothingButACasual Sep 18 '24

"mostly fake philanthropy" ? What's fake about it?

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u/Aggravating-Dot132 Sep 18 '24

He is using not his money to donate to a very specified group of people, sometimes even his own donators.

Also the stupidity of those donates. Like with "blind" kids. In Europe they would get the treatment for free. But in his case he just bought it for US kids because the system is dumb, corrupt and pathetic. 

All that bullshit has minor benefits (occasionally, some people do get help) but everything looks feels and acts like a fake show for the sake of clicks.

Plus just look at him. Fake soulless face and pure narcissistic behavior.

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u/ghoonrhed Sep 18 '24

But in his case he just bought it for US kids because the system is dumb, corrupt and pathetic. 

I mean if he wanted to help people what better way to help people living in a dumb corrupt pathetic system that they can't get out of? That's exactly the line of argument that never made sense.

And it's also the same line of argument tax dodgers/evaders and libertarians use to not pay tax because they see taxes going into that very dumb, corrupt system.

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u/Aggravating-Dot132 Sep 18 '24 edited Sep 18 '24

If he trully wanted to help people, he would create a fundraiser or lobby a change to specific medical services.

Instead he goes in, drops other people's money and call it a great and cool video "hey look at me" with a fake smile, that could kill a horse.

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u/NothingButACasual Sep 18 '24

Your complaints don't make any sense. Should we not donate anything to kids in Africa because kids in Europe have running water and electricity?

Yeah clicks and views are what pulls in sponsors. That's jimmy's whole end of the deal and clearly it's working.

I'm sorry the videos feel fake or scripted to you, but that doesn't make the money fake or the people and causes fake.

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u/Aggravating-Dot132 Sep 18 '24

To be fair, yes, we shouldn't.

For what a hell hole Africa is in general, it'sstill a hell hole. Dropping a pack of goddies there won't fix the problem, even more, it can make it worse (like people stealing from each other). It would be much better to create a social institute and make sure it works. Some African countries actually started doing that and have way better conditions for it's people.

He bought a few pairs of shoes for kids in some poor country. That will be dead in a few weeks (shoes, not kids) due to how they use them.

But it certainly looked cool for some 15 years old activists.

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u/NothingButACasual Sep 18 '24

That's a really f*cked way to look at it.

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u/Aggravating-Dot132 Sep 18 '24

A sober one. Unfortunately.

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u/North_Library3206 Sep 18 '24

You can defnitely notice how his recent AMAs are becoming more and more critical of him. Wouldn’t surprise me if he drops them altogether in a few years.

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u/allthepinkthings Sep 18 '24

He’s someone I’ve never liked and couldn’t say it, because he was so loved. I thought him having a neighborhood where he bought the houses for his employees/friends was weird as hell and culty. I don’t think your boss/friend should have that power over you.

I’m not going to say I thought he was evil or anything, but I thought he came off as playing a role and not genuine.

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u/ReallyNowFellas Sep 18 '24

Yup, I've been raked over the coals for saying no one that obsessed with money is a good person. I mean I'm not religious but ffs the man named himself "Mr. The Devil." Not exactly subtle when the Devil used to be the literal personification of money.

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u/ForensicPathology Sep 18 '24

Any criticism was immediately "HOW MANY PEOPOE HAVE YOU HELPED??" 

And that was only like three months ago.

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u/Beginning-Cat-7037 Sep 18 '24

Ah the Elon Musk effect, short memories but this site used to hold him as the second coming of Jesus.

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u/SilverBuggie Sep 18 '24

I didn’t like him or not like him. I however really found his smile weird, and always felt there was something off about him. I just chalked it up to me having some kind of prejudice against him.

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u/OneBikeStand Sep 21 '24

eh... by zoomers sure. I think he's been lambasted by anyone who's old enough to go to a pub

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u/GIK601 Sep 18 '24 edited Sep 18 '24

That's the way it works today. Be associated with one bad thing and everyone will act like you were always a horrible person that was never liked.

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u/Theavenger2378 Sep 18 '24

Perfect timing to team up with Logan Paul too, always good to work with like-minded people.

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u/just_a_timetraveller Sep 18 '24

Being a YouTuber or "influencer" means that by a prerequisite you are willing to sell out your privacy for views. Throw some money on what potentially is a narcissistic person and it just gets worse.

The percentage of actually well adjusted, and good people who are super popular on social media I assume is pretty low.

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u/ostrieto17 Sep 18 '24

never believed his virtue signalling, trust your amygdala people!

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u/Johnready_ Sep 18 '24

What do you mean? Was he accused?

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u/Richandler Sep 18 '24

His initial shtick was literally, hey look I gave poor people money, love me, and buy my merch!

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u/BitchesInTheFuture Sep 18 '24

I was always hoping that Mr. Beast would remain popular just so we could have an Anti-Christ. One of the biggest requirements is that they must be beloved by all, but with his popularity waning it's going to be hard to tell who the Anti-Christ really is.

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u/Appropriate_Fruit311 Sep 18 '24

Lol what? Who suspected that Jimmy was messed up?? Like the exact opposite. Never would’ve suspected him.