• Anas
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    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.

    • @answersplease77@lemmy.world
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      58 months ago

      he stated out what is going to be in part 3 in the begining of 2nd video. He’s also making them as fast as he can from what it seems not even waiting a response lol

    • @yeahiknow3@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      128 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.

    • @TheBest@midwest.social
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      538 months ago

      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.

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        To be honest, they seem to be taking a very media literate approach (impressively so, they definitely learned some stuff about YouTube and how to do this kind of thing) to this whole thing, so I kind of get the “farming for views” stance.

        But I get it since that means they are actually getting traction instead of just being a thing that drama YouTube talks about for a week and gets swept under the rug. The video notes he’s a very powerful figure in a relatively small town, so they need media pressure on their side.

      • @Logical@lemmy.world
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        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.

        • @TheBest@midwest.social
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          168 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.

  • @Snapz@lemmy.world
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    68 months ago

    Who is the author of this video? What type of stuff do they usually do? Generally credible?

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      He’s an ex-worker at Jimmy’s firm. If everything he said is false, it’s an easy defamation lawsuit for Jimmy versus him. He dug his own grave. I think he wasn’t dumb to do that. The points he made made sense to me, except the legal stuff. I’m not an attorney. Anyway, we haven’t heard Jimmy’s side.

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        Why do people call him Jimmy so often? We don’t know him. He signs MB on his merch so it seems unnecessary.

        True that if the guy making accusations does not have proof, it will be a pretty shit position to be in. I have seen other creators giving him the benefit of the doubt based on their experiences collaborating Mr. Beast though, so it’s kind of early to tell. And the illegal lottery accusations seem pretty straight forward to prove based on archived videos circulating.

        Edit: reworded first few sentences.

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          If he did conduct illegal lotteries, what a 💩 way to treat your viewers, many of whom were kids, seemingly. He said something like “The 10th buyer in the next 5 min will win 30000.” right? Did those winners get their prizes? If no, it was a scam.

          The 💤 deprivation was inhuman. The running thing was cruel.

  • @drawerair@lemmy.world
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    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.

  • Jerkface (any/all)
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    158 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

  • AsakuraMao
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    238 months ago

    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.

    • Iapar
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      168 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.

    • @TheMinions@lemmy.world
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      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

    • @Qwazpoi@lemmy.world
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      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

  • @stoly@lemmy.world
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    488 months ago

    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.

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        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.

  • cheers_queers
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    358 months ago

    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

    • @ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
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      178 months ago

      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

      • Angry_Autist (he/him)
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        The guy’s an absolute shitstain but protected because he makes youtube bank.

        His kids snacks are disgusting and unhealthy, the clothes he sells fall apart after 3 washes, but since he makes kids glued to the screen, all of society will protect his assholery.

        I hope he gets caught fucking a cow corpse.

    • @stoly@lemmy.world
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      108 months ago

      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.

      • cheers_queers
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        118 months ago

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

  • @thrawn@lemmy.world
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    I’m not a YouTube guy; I only follow one channel I found during the Covid lockdowns, this kid called Technoblade who was low key while being really good at the game Minecraft. They worked together sometimes. Didn’t make Mr Beast seem very cool.

    From what I’ve seen, he just inserts his loud personality into things by throwing money at people. It was never “hanging out with Mr Beast”, but “Mr Beast is giving out money”. Those guys are generally bad people, I cannot think of an exception.

      • @thrawn@lemmy.world
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        Yeah, extremely saddening. I watch his father’s videos sometimes and they can be difficult.

        Techno’s death was a lot harder to hear about than I expected. I heard about it from a friend that I’d shared a video with and felt genuinely sad. I didn’t even know the guy or watch that many of his videos. I’ve watched dozens of them in the time since when I have nothing else to do and honestly, it’s the celebrity death I’ve cared about most.

        He was so young too. Probably younger than 90+% of this site. Such a tragic death.

        • @Daxtron2@startrek.website
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          I had the same reaction when TotalBiscuit died 6 years ago. Loved watching his reviews and his humor was always top. It’s hard to lose someone who you don’t know but feel like you do from all the hours of their lives they’ve shared with us.

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    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.

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

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

      • @Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
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        Maybe the downvotes are because firing him into the sun would be very expensive. Just fire him into a volcano or something more local than the ball of plasma 8 light minutes away that we have way too much momentum to hit easily.

  • @corstian@lemmy.world
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    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.

    • Angry_Autist (he/him)
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      He broke laws to encourage children to gamble, he isn’t dancing the border, he’s flat on the Evil side with a good PR team.

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      My nephew introduced me to him via a video of him taking is friends through more and more expensive airplane trips.

      It was cool, extremely showoffy, I never watched any of his stuff after that.

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    I have seen enough to know those is all some weird ass bullshit campaign too fuck this guy. It’s all been so engineered and vague. What a joke

    Actually reading these comments I’m starting to get it. I think mr beast is a bit of a powerful influencer. But generally apolitical. Inn order to sway him the right will make these huge pushes trying to find dirt to force these influencers to end up like Russell Brandt where he looks for an audience on the right after the left eats the onion

    • Angry_Autist (he/him)
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      It’s not vague at all, Mr Least actively broke gambling laws multiple times during livestreams to push sales. May I remind you his primary audience is children, he was encouraging children to illegally gamble for prizes and money.

      So I think you have to be a part of his shitty PR team and have now blocked you for all eternity.

    • @J12@lemmy.world
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      Conspiracy time: about a month ago he did say he would run for president if they lowered the age.

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          It’s really not that bad for me besides the one angry dude from last night. It’s definitely easy to get sucked in that nonsense though.

      • Angry_Autist (he/him)
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        He broke laws live on stream to convince kids to gamble. This has nothing to do with any possible presidential run.

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          I’ve looked but I can’t find anything regarding this besides him running some kind of giveaway and breaking a no purchase necessary law. Is that what you’re referring to?

          Angry Autist is a Spez plant. Don’t let him destabilize this community. Block and move on.

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            … it’s literally in the video… Twice…

            And now because I know you are here to do nothing but waste my time, you will probably ask me for a timestamp, and I would normally provide it of course because I want to keep the discussion intellectually honest.

            But it’s pretty clear that you don’t, and of course after ignoring my timestamp hyperlink, you will make up some vapid arguments on how it is unpossible for Mr Least to ever have done such a thing and that I’m stupid for misunderstanding federal gambling laws.

            And we can go back and forth for hours, me posting evidence, you saying whatever stupid shit that comes to your mind to push the discussion far away from the original point that Mr. Least is illegally involving children in gambling.

            And I am so just fuckdamn tired of intellectually dishonest people like you ‘just asking questions’.

            So

            Amazingly

            Fuckdamn

            Tired.

            So you’re blocked now.

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              Lmao Jesus Christ. It’s a 50 minute video that I was actively watching and I was reading comments and watching at the same time.

              Anyone that’s not a maniac want to give me a timestamp? Because I don’t have time to watch a 50 minute video tonight.

              I couldn’t find it earlier because I googled “Mr Beast live stream gambling” when I should’ve googled “Mr Beast Child Lottery”

              https://youtu.be/i_MuVUbjJo0?si=T9iQxErlb5c_zH0T

              • Angry_Autist (he/him)
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                Anyone that’s not a maniac

                Your abelism infuriates me. If I were younger, I’d waste an hour rhetorically browbeating you.

                You could have already completely watched the video by now but still you are here whining for timestamps just like I predicted you would. The more shitstain forum sliders keep using the same tactics, the easier it is to call your uncreative asses out on it.

                Mr. Least encouraged children to gamble, broke gambling laws to increase buying pressure, and even less shocking apparently hasn’t made good on most of the ‘winners’ anyway.

                Yet you are here pretending he just accidentally bent a few obscure sweepstakes laws instead of the critical point that he USED HIS INFLUENCE OVER CHILDREN TO CONVINCE THEM TO GAMBLE!

                • @J12@lemmy.world
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                  the absolute hilarious thing is I finally did find it all on my own and I agree with you about Mr Beast. I was simply asking a question.

                  I’m not sure what type of people you come across online to act this way but Jesus Christ tell me where so I can avoid it.

                  Block me because I’m going to return the favor.

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      Wendell is a leftist. His current newest video has him say that.

  • @yamanii@lemmy.world
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    Kudos to Kavernacle for being the original hater, he was shit talking Mr Beast 4 years ago in the height of his popularity.

  • jprice
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    Jimmy has done plenty of interviews where he says he is a degenerate. He doesn’t hide it. He’s a dirtbag. If you just watch his videos you may not know, but it’s pretty much in plain sight.

    • sunzu
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      hiring a sex offender when his audience is focused on kids is suspect… then covering for two of them?

      GTFO

  • @Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca
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    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.