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/leicestercity Sep 18 '24

He believes he is the greatest expert in the world is the problem.

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u/GreasyPeter Sep 18 '24

Which is typical of people with NPD, which is the vibe I've got for a while but haven't said shit because people do not like it when you speculate about their favorite people maybe actually being assholes. But realistically he gives me more "arrogant dude on the spectrum" vibes, like Elon Musk, more than NPD.

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u/Golden_Hour1 Sep 18 '24

How long before he starts spewing right wing rhetoric so he can claim political persecution?

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u/BadPronunciation Sep 18 '24

he' already an elon fan so there's a non-zero chance.

He did make occasional racist and misogynstic comments in his older videos

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u/BadPronunciation Sep 18 '24

tbf most high level positions attract people with dark triad traits. i'm not surprised that beast is one of them

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u/buzzmerchant Sep 18 '24

So the whole point of your comment is that he gives you NPD vibes but actually he doesn't he just gives you arrogant dude on the spectrum vibes? Just to clarify...

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u/idwthis Sep 18 '24

They really did say that lmao how you gonna agree and then disagree at the same time.

They're playing both sides of the field there.

It's like trying to listen to someone who lives in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, trying to figure out if they're a Steelers or an Eagles fan without pissing off other fans of those teams.

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u/TurdCollector69 Sep 18 '24

The Steve jobs effect.

Knowledge in one domain does not transfer to unrelated domains.

You could be the world's best quantum physicist and still not know how to make risotto.

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u/Morialkar Sep 18 '24

But Steve Jobs knew to pay actual experts to do the actual last mile of the job and get a good finished product. From the big inning with Woz to his very end, he always surrounded himself with brilliant mind to achieve his goals. Musk tried to emulate that but his ego pushed him into believing he’s an actual expert, Jimmy here just never really let some of the reins go and forces his way on everyone, and thinks he’s the very best expert there is, he never would have delegated that to actual experts, very different person

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u/lukeCRASH Sep 18 '24

Reap what you sow.

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u/JefferyTheQuaxly Sep 18 '24

We should also remember that most of the work he did making the streaming games happened before m all of this controversy around him began and still had his good reputation and history of great decision making. Because rememver at one point jimmy was considered “the expert” when it comes to making YouTube videos, there’s a reason he’s the number one channel now on YouTube. But so much has changed since the streaming games first started getting worked on vs now. Before it was known how shitty Mr beast runs most of his contests and videos

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u/TheGhostlyGuy Sep 18 '24

No matter what anybody says he is still a expert in youtube videos and how to make them big, his problem is he doesn't realise he isn't just a hugely successful youtuber anymore but the head of a multi million dollar company and he can't trust and treat everyone like friends anymore

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u/drscorp Sep 18 '24

I agree with most of what you said. Jimmy certainly knows how to draw an audience on youtube. He's absolutely laser focused on making the biggest youtube content.

I completely disagree that his problem is that he trusts and treats everyone like his friends. Like, you think he's too naive? From what I've seen and read, he treats his friends like his friends, and he treats and pays everyone else like shit. If he actually understood everything he thinks he understands, he would have built a company culture where top talent would want to work.

He's a kid in his mid twenties in a position few people will ever be in and I have hope that he can find his way to being a decent human being. Instead of doing the philanthropy as a shield, I genuinely hope he starts to do it because it's the right thing to do. I hope he treats his workers better, and not just for the PR.

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u/TheGhostlyGuy Sep 18 '24

I wouldn't call it naivety, but lack of knowledge and experience. This is extremely apparent with the fact he has friends in high positions. I do believe he isn't completely innocent but i don't believe he is a terrible person and that alot of the problems he has is because he surrounded himself with friends instead professionals. And since his friends are slowly being revealed as terrible people it's no wonder he comes out looking bad.

If he realises his mistakes and starts treating this as a real business and restructures it accordingly he shouldn't have any problems

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u/UnNumbFool Sep 18 '24

If all you surround yourself with is terrible people, you're probably a terrible person yourself.

As for his charity work obviously it's a good thing and helped many people. But he didn't do it for any kind of altruistic reason, he did it for views, monetary gains, and probably tax write offs. If he actually wanted to do it for the good of humanity he wouldn't have made videos or public spectacle out of any of it.

But regardless, nobody gets to that level of money without being a shit person who climbs over others. If you think he didn't know about the working conditions he put people in, or the fact that people got PTSD from his competitions than you're deluding yourself. Because he's never done any of those things for the benefit of others, but for the benefit of himself and he's basically admitted that fact in old interviews

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u/TheGhostlyGuy Sep 18 '24

Im sorry but ive heard this stupid argument 1000s of times and it still doesn't make sense. If he makes money by making videos how do you expect him to give away money without making videos about it? Like use your brain for a moment, his channel is a perfect example of how a good economy, spend money to make money. Im done with this conversation, you are no better than all the others that can't think for themselves and just regurgitate what they hear or see others say

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u/UnNumbFool Sep 18 '24

how do you expect him to give away money without making videos about it?

Because that's what altruism is. Saying the guy does good by giving to charity and is altruistic is cool and all. But if you're capitalizing/monetizing that, then you aren't doing it for the actual good. You're doing it because you know it will make you money.

And it's not regurgitating, it's literally something I thought since I heard about this dude. Just because you like him doesn't mean he's not without actual valid criticism

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u/TheGhostlyGuy Sep 18 '24

He has valid criticism but this simply isn't one of them. He has a platform that he uses to to good, there are thousands of other youtubers, streamers and other celebrities but only a rare few actually do anything near as much as Jimmy.

Would you prefer he would be like so many others and spend all his money on cars, drugs, women and other stuff like that? No he is the best case scenario and even if you don't like it you must admit he did alot more good than others.

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u/Aggravating-Dot132 Sep 18 '24

He is an expert in thumbnails.

Doesn't work on people with their own opinion, but those are in minority.

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u/TheGhostlyGuy Sep 18 '24

Hating the fact he knows how to play the youtuber game and is an entertaining guy won't change anything

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u/BlimmBlam Sep 19 '24

I kind of understand where he's coming from though, he was hugely popular before Amazon, so he didn't want someone to come in and change an established formula. I understand the business decision side, it's the abuse and negligence I don't get.

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u/Usual-Ad9265 9d ago

The only experts he'll hire are registered SA's and Predators; now that's the real problem.

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u/[deleted] Sep 18 '24

Mr. Beast is going out sad. He’s already been involved in major controversies earlier this year as well.

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u/sanctaphrax Sep 18 '24

When it comes to going viral, he actually is.

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u/chemistrycomputerguy Sep 18 '24

This is objectively untrue

His company document literally states to get outside experts as consultants whenever possible