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My kids love Mr Beast. I'm uncomfortable with it and can't put my finger on it. It feels like he makes life look like you stand a good chance of having someone

• paintman252 3y ago
  >But is the time spent on that channel worth it over doing other things? Now apply same standard to literally any other Youtube channel
• zik 3y ago
  I'm also uncomfortable with it. There's nothing inherently wrong with philanthropy but what I'm seeing is a very successful business with an enormous and very expensive campus. MrBeast himself is very rich. So what I'm seeing is a corporation claiming to do everything for the benefit of others while actually taking a lot of the money very visibly for themselves. His channel made $54m from youtube in 2021, and probably a lot more from corporate sponsors. Make no mistake, this is big business - not charity. And some of his side businesses are downright shady. His burger chain is run out of ghost kitchens which make food for multiple virtual chains like MrBeast's. The burgers are apparently a crapshoot - it depends on which ghost kitchen made your burger as to what you get. Quality control is zero. Yet they charge top dollar for the MrBeast name.
  • a-user-you-like 3y ago
    It can be and is both a business and philanthropic.
    • citizenkeen 3y ago
      That was my takeaway as well. As a parent, I vet everything my kids watch and will for a few more years. I have no idea how you don't.
    • freddie_mercury 3y ago
      Isn't every philanthropic foundation also a "business"? The Gates Foundation had $150 million of income from their investments in 2022. The CEO of the Gates Foundation was paid $1.176 million last year. Their net assets went up by $13 billion in 2022 and up $20 billion since the beginning of 2021.
      • azurelake 3y ago
        The difference is that Gates is an industrialist who does acts of philanthropy. MrBeast does acts of philanthropy to be an industrialist.
      • goodpoint 3y ago
        > Isn't every philanthropic foundation also a "business"? No, only the corrupted ones.
  • lagt_t 3y ago
    Making philanthropy profitable is kinda genius.
    • pictureofabear 3y ago
      The Susan G Komen foundation figured that out years ago.
      • NoZebra120vClip 3y ago
        Charities like Komen, and the American Cancer Society, and all those charitable Foundations and Societies that fund research on incurable diseases: they are exactly the reason why breast cancer and all the other diseases will never, ever be cured. They must never be cured. Billions of dollars in revenue depend on their incurability. Scientists and researchers have an amazing cash cow, a goose that lays golden eggs, and to identify a cure for breast cancer would strangle that goose where it sits. EDIT: I think I like the cow metaphor much better in this case. Therefore, mark my words: donate to the "X For A Cure" charities at your own peril, because the perverse incentives mean that they will move Heaven and Earth to avoid finding a cure for anything at all.
        • kaba0 3y ago
          I don’t fundamentally disagree with you, but I think people’s conception of curing cancers is just out of touch with reality. Cancer is a group of diseases, and we have come a very long way in successfully treating many members of that - there are many many millions who would have gotten a death sentence just a decade ago, being completely cured nowadays. I don’t know about these foundations, maybe it is mostly funded by governments/EU funds, whatever instead, but there is good research out there.
    • BurningFrog 3y ago
      It also makes the philanthropy sustainable.
  • no_wizard 3y ago
    Not attempting to be an apologist, however it sounds to me like there just needs to be some quality control over the licensing of the brand, perhaps? Not sure how that's shady, sounds like it might be a bit egregious but its not like he isn't honest about this being a business based around his brand of philanthropy either.
    • prepend 3y ago
      It’s shady because he puts his name on crap and doesn’t care because everything is BS. Would you start a burger business without quality control? Would you let random companies put your name on crap? That’s shady.
      • no_wizard 3y ago
        Licensing deals aren’t the same as starting a burger business. Clearly the partnering institutions aren’t living up to par but he’s just licensing and marketing which is a pretty common arrangement for these sorts of things. Not sure I agree it’s shady, egregious maybe.
        • pictureofabear 3y ago
          Certainly not shady. Many brands put their label on crap merchandise.
          • pfffr 3y ago
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          • mihaic 3y ago
            Just because something is widespread doesn't mean it's not shady.
        • basch 3y ago
          I believe he is supplying the food. So if the ghost kitchen is a burger chain, they have their own burgers and then separately cook his as well. All of the quality control issues should be from preparation.
  • paulpauper 3y ago
    His channel made $54m from youtube in 2021, and probably a lot more from corporate sponsors. Make no mistake, this is big business - not charity. that is is? that is a rounding error for almost any decent-sized tech company. We're talking a household name, and one of the most popular channels ever, which is on the front page of youtube by default. I would have thought it would be more. yes, he made $54 million, but surely a lot of expenses too?
    • lathiat 3y ago
      $54m was just a forbes estimate and that was 2 years ago in 2021. He reached 50M subscribers sometime in 2021, 100M subscribers in July 2022, in June 2023 he has 163M. Then if you look at video views, he was doing about 500M/month all of 2021-2022 but in only 2023 he is doing 1000M baseline with spikes to 1500M-1800M for some of the big hitters. See: https://socialblade.com/youtube/user/mrbeast6000 https://socialblade.com/youtube/user/mrbeast6000 Also: https://www.forbes.com/sites/chloesorvino/2022/11/30/could-mrbeast-be-the-first-youtuber-billionaire/?sh=6b551d9d191a https://www.forbes.com/sites/chloesorvino/2022/11/30/could-m... That's just his main channel, he has many other large channels (Beast Gaming, Beast Reacts) plus the other social platforms (TikTok, etc). Then in the last 2 years he launched Beast Burger and Feastables (mostly chocolate bars currently). There are some public numbers about $10m revenue on feastables in the first few months and over $100m of revenue on beast burger orders sometime last year. He spends a lot, talks about it a lot, $2-4 million per video on each main channel video. He has also talked a lot about re-investing everything back into the channel to grow and grow. Which seems evident by the growth rate if nothing else. That's just snippets of info and I'm not remotely experienced enough in any of these spaces to make any attempt at a real number but between the increased views, feastables and beast burger I don't see how it's any less than 100s of millions of revenue at this point. My main point, though, is that he has grown a lot from 2021-2023 where that $54m number came from :) But having said that.. he was still very popular and long on the front page of YouTube back in 2021 perhaps with those much more modest numbers. Something like this is worth a watch. While I'm sure there is plenty he doesn't talk about, he talks about a lot publicly including money spent, strategies, statistics, etc: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGrk7Mzm4uo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGrk7Mzm4uo
  • garrickvanburen 3y ago
    My extraordinarily poor experience with the burger project was enough to validate, my up until that point just gut-level, uncomfortableness.
  • Brian_K_White 3y ago
    There's a mr beast product display at my corner 7-11, something like usb cables or some other random plastic junk. Guy must be all over.
  • bnlxbnlx 3y ago
    > There's nothing inherently wrong with philanthropy Why not? To be able to "give" you first need to accumulate way beyond what you need to attend to your material needs. Accumulating such wealth means taking more resources than you need in the first place. It's still fully within the scarcity and separation mindset of capitalism.
    • j45 3y ago
      Everyone can give. You can give. Giving time, care, an ear to listen is really valuable. These things make big differences because it’s often what people pay money for too Giving is not just for after earning lots of money.
      • bnlxbnlx 3y ago
        I believe you misunderstood me. I was specially referring to philanthropists' "giving"? I'm fully aligned with what you say.
    • erikerikson 3y ago
      > you first need to accumulate way beyond what you need Or... Produce way beyond... The kleptocapitalism narrative as well as the neocapitalist narrative depend on using a myopic perspective. There is a fair debate about the negotiation over what to do with the excess between all parties involved and that can be a useful conversation. If you didn't mean to agitate in that way I apologize for being too sensitive.
  • antoniuschan99 3y ago
    Check out Virtual Dining Concepts https://joinvdc.com/brands/mrbeast-burger/ https://joinvdc.com/brands/mrbeast-burger/ And this Eddy Burback Video https://youtu.be/KkIkymh5Ayg https://youtu.be/KkIkymh5Ayg on that rabbit hole. Also, seems like his Chocolate Brand is going to be in a ton of places now after seeing him announce the locations in his latest video (the cruise ship one)
  • listenallyall 3y ago
    Just like Holiday Inn, Marriott, or any hotel chain. So weird that you take issue, he makes it exceptionally clear his burger brand is all ghost kitchens.
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  • rowanG077 3y ago
    MrBeast claims he is not rich, that he puts all the money back into his videos. Of course that means he has a huge production. That doesn't mean it makes a lot of profit. Unless there is factual evidence to the contrary I'm inclined to believe MrBeast. He has never been caught lying, which is virtually impossible given his presence and reach.
• triyambakam 3y ago
  You could not let them watch it if it makes you uncomfortable.
  • scottLobster 3y ago
    Then they'll resent you and watch it on their friends' phones anyway when they can. And they'll suffer socially because they won't be able to talk with other kids at the lunch table about the most recent episode.
    • olyjohn 3y ago
      If you're worried about them resenting you, do you just let them do anything they want?
      • plewd 3y ago
        If the things they're doing with that freedom aren't too bad, I don't see why not.
      • scottLobster 3y ago
        Of course not. But building up resentment over an ultimately useless restriction is just a waste of resources and time. Make them resent you for smooth-brain restrictions and they won't listen to you when it actually matters.
    • memefrog 3y ago
      Your children aren't going to resent you because they can't watch a YouTube channel. Nobody has ever resented their parents as an adult because of something like that. My parents didn't let me watch adult-rated movies or play adult-rated games (eg The Godfather, Call of Duty) as a child, while others' parents did. You'd have to be insane to resent them for that. How far do you take this? No rules? "Sorry, no chores in this house: our children will resent us." No boundaries at all? Your children are more likely to resent you when they grow up incapable of hard work and with no sense of delayed gratification because their parents were terrified of ever imposing any rules or expectations on them for fear of causing "resentment". No child is going to suffer socially because they don't watch Mr Beast. It's literally one thing. A child might conceivably suffer socially if they're cut off from all leisure activities, but not being able to watch a YouTube channel is so minuscule as to be laughable. I didn't watch Saturday morning cartoons as a child, as my parents didn't like having the TV on in the morning. Did I suffer socially? Not remotely.
• paulpauper 3y ago
  he makes success seem so easy even though the odds are overwhelmingly stacked against someone else replicating anything close to his success, except for maybe a few people. when the barriers to entry are low means lots of competition. like muckbang videos. for every video that gets >100k views of someone shoveling food in his or her mouth, there are hundreds of videos that have just a few thousand to 10k views.
• teaearlgraycold 3y ago
  He doesn’t post a ton of content. Not sure if the time spent is enough to worry about. He also has a channel dedicated to showing his people helping poor and disabled people around the world. Pretty wholesome if you ask me.
• scottLobster 3y ago
  It's no different than Olympic Athletes and other professional stars telling kids to work hard in school and one day they too can compete in the olympics/be a professional athlete, with no mention to the tens of thousands of hours of training, long hours, strict diet, and frankly unhealthy levels of obsession typically required to propel someone to that level. As a kid I admired a lot of people/shows that I later wised up about. Probably harmless. In your place I might just every now and then watch it with them, play along with the better moments and shake my head at some of the stupider moments just to plant the mind-worm that what they see isn't "real life", but I'm also not sure how old your kids are or how they watch him.
  • Gigachad 3y ago
    It’s probably actually beneficial to believe some difficult task is reasonably obtainable. You’d try harder and be more motivated than if you believed it was virtually impossible.
    • YurgenJurgensen 3y ago
      Unsubstantiated evo-pop-psych incoming: I have believed for a long time that accurately assessing your chances of success on big bets is maladaptive. Ambitious projects (whether they be science, construction or mammoth hunting) could benefit society enough that on a societal level they're good even if a lot of them fail, but the benefit to the individuals taking on the risk could be low enough that it's not worth it for them (due to the diminishing returns of additional wealth on an individual level). Gambling is just exploiting this mechanism to extract wealth.
• scaredginger 3y ago
  For me, the discomfort is that Mr Beast's content relies on exploiting people's desperation due to the lack of social safety net. It's not his fault that they're in such dire straits to begin with, but he's nonetheless behaving opportunistically and his actions have no chance of changing the system that landed these people in such tough situations
  • voidhorse 3y ago
    Right, exactly. It takes advantage of systemic problems and relies on the perpetuation of those very problems for its continued feasibility and existence. This is why it feels kinda dirty and wrong to us even though it has a surface presentation of being "morally good". It's sort of like a recast economic version of colonial white savior ideology—"educate" the primitives—"donate" to the impoverished, all while ensuring the inequalities and social division persist.
  • cm2012 3y ago
    Would it better if he paid the people to make beads or dig holes instead of entertaining his viewers?
    • namarie 3y ago
      I think so, yes. It'd be even better if he just gave the money, no strings attached.
      • junon 3y ago
        But then he'd have no money to give away. I don't see how it's this difficult to understand. Either you have Mr Beast as we do now - curing blindness and deafness, giving people houses and cars, raising millions for tangible, proven reforestation and sea cleanup efforts - or we don't have Mr Beast at all. I also find his videos uncomfortable to watch for many of the same reasons stated here, but I don't find them harmful, and I can appreciate how he's helped these people.
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• voidhorse 3y ago
  I think the discomfort comes from a deep, pretty much unconscious understanding we all have about how capitalism, taken to it logical extremes, will always perpetuate inequality to the extreme degree, and how gross inequality donned up in the guise of philanthropy is still gross inequality. His content is a direct display of our economic system at the limit, at which point it becomes absurd. When you recognize that this is quite literally the system under which the majority of the world's economics are organized it becomes deeply serious and deeply uncomfortable. There's also the plain psychological elements surrounding the fact that the content takes something that used to be valued for its moral goodness (generosity, charity) and transforms it into something valued strictly for its economic fruitfulness (means for generating capital) but this is capitalism's totalizing effect at work: because money is such a pure abstraction it's possible to monetize anything thereby killing off the more humane and traditional values that used to make certain pursuits meaningful to humans.
  • kortilla 3y ago
    This has nothing to do with capitalism, it does have to do with the power dynamic though when one person can easily have a significant impact on another person’s life though. The same uncomfortablenesses would arise if this were videos of some govt leader going around granting early retirement to people.
    • voidhorse 3y ago
      And such power dynamics are (at least partially, if not to great extent) enabled by the fact that late-stage capitalism like we have in the US emphasizes individual wealth over social support systems that would otherwise redistribute wealth, make people more equal (read: give them less undue power over each other), and generally remove the conditions of possibility for this sort of content. I'm sorry but to watch Mr Beast's videos and turn around and say "it has nothing to do with capitalism" stinks to me of the worst kind of kool-aid drinking and willful ignorance. This isn't an either/or game. You can remain a capitalist and still be aware of the inherent flaws of the approach when it lacks proper guardrails, acknowledge the real problems we have, and level critiques to try and make the system more equitable. People get so dogmatic about it, it's practically a religion.
• smogcutter 3y ago
  Mr. Beast in a nutshell: https://twitter.com/pookleblinky/status/1309325764739858432?lang=en https://twitter.com/pookleblinky/status/1309325764739858432?...
• mostly_lurks 3y ago
  What makes me uncomfortable is the elitism running through many of his videos. Put 100 "poors" in a circle so they can fight it out for $500k [1]? It's just another rich person making poor people do demeaning things for his entertainment and profit. It's disgusting. 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxYjTTXc-J8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxYjTTXc-J8
  • garciasn 3y ago
    They explicitly call this out in the article, but, how is what he’s doing any different than what we always were told reality TV was doing or gameshows do? This is worlds better than casinos, sports betting, or any other form of gambling, IMO. People are entertained through watching or participating and some are making big dollars. My kids watch his videos because the algorithm feeds it to them and from what I’ve seen, I’d rather they be watching MrB than ads for DraftKings where they might believe that some day in the future their free $500 will make them rich. Or worse yet: state lotteries selling a dream for $2 and making millions off the stupidity of those who don’t understand basic stats because the education the lottery is supposedly funding doesn’t do a very good job. YMMV.
    • DropInIn 3y ago
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    • mostly_lurks 3y ago
      > how is what he’s doing any different than what we always were told reality TV was doing or gameshows do? It's not. Those things are bad too. > My kids watch his videos because the algorithm feeds it to them and from what I’ve seen, I’d rather they be watching MrB than ads for DraftKings I'm curious what your goal is here. It seems like you're disagreeing with me by saying "look, Mr. Beast is equivalent to/better than these other bad things, right?" I don't find your particular applications of whataboutism and false dichotomies terribly convincing or at all relevant to the discussion. Like, you understand that "these other things are bad too" and "it's this or draftkings ads" are not substantive or relevant arguments, right?
• darepublic 3y ago
  For me I felt the same way. To clarify I was watching one of the videos where contestants compete for large sum of money. Part of it may be that the contestants don't do anything useful. They are paid to degrade themselves, albeit it in a G rated manner Also that he is an arbitrary judge jury and executioner so to speak. A benevolent dictator.
• ftxbro 3y ago
  > "I'm uncomfortable with it and can't put my finger on it." orphan crushing machine
• noMarkit 3y ago
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• vfinn 3y ago
  1) His way of giving away things for free undermines the suffering people go trough to make a living; it makes effort and hardship look like a joke (maybe in the future no effort is required, and we are reminded about this possibility here, and it's sad); 2) It promotes consumerisms: getting stuff (phones, cars) is supposed to liberate us, and doing it in this way reveals how empty it all is; 3) It feels rarely personal and well-thought: he just throws away stuff, so it undermines the gift giving culture also.
  • xrd 3y ago
    This is really well said. And I just imagined trying to tell my kids that and can see that it wouldn't go well. They can only see that he is helping people by giving them money and that's a good thing to them. It just feels like it is creating a set of values for them that is very unrealistic.
  • tmn 3y ago
    It's almost like it's a parody of materialism/consumerism. Let's not pretend like Mr Beast is anywhere close to the genesis of this. Mr Beast is exposing what a lot of us don't like about the broader culture. Change will only start with the individual and the family. Secular values don't have to be the compass direction we drift towards.
• kaba0 3y ago
  It feels a bit like the “good news” like ‘kid sells all his toys to pay for mother’s chemo’, which are just insanely dystopian.
• bemmu 3y ago
  His videos are fun and well-edited. It’s usually superior entertainment to a random Netflix show. That’s enough for me. I also really enjoy how his feedback loop has resulted in the videos gradually having reached absurd scales.
• orange_fritter 3y ago
  I swear YouTube kids is worse for children than 18+ YouTube. My nephew was obsessed with MrBeast. Every device we had was littered with search histories of Mr Beast, and it was infuriating because of how low-brow the content is. It's teaching kids to turn their brains off. People are talking about charity, but they need to actually watch a few videos before commenting... it's really not something you want your kids imitating.
• wnkrshm 3y ago
  MrBeast is exactly the media phenomenon a broken system would come up with in some 80s cyberpunk movie, as a bandaid to give people the illusion of hope: the 'happy hour' show in a boring dystopia. That is not MrBeasts fault, it's the environment's. Say you see MrBeast give thousands of people help, and you have the same problem as these people - sure, you're happy for the other people but why didn't you get any help? The show is over, you're left alone, your problem is currently not interesting. Edit: There is also the power gradient in all of this performance that this video[0] highlights well. Nobody can complain about how they're being treated or portrayed, because they are in need. That is taking away something from the people who receive something, this kind of charity treats them as less - they're extras on stage. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LfJ-VxuqIQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LfJ-VxuqIQ
  • goodpoint 3y ago
    > MrBeast is exactly the media phenomenon a broken system would come up with in some 80s cyberpunk movie, as a bandaid to give people the illusion of hope: the 'happy hour' show in a boring dystopia. Nicely put. Some people claim that MrBeast's actions are better than nothing, but the money he's using are not growing on trees. The same money could have been used to fund a fair health system, where people receive treatments based on their needs without their life becoming an exhibit for youtube.
    • sodapopcan 3y ago
      But the YouTube exhibit is what keeps making more money. There's always somewhere else the money could go.
    • brightlancer 3y ago
      > The same money could have been used to fund a fair health system... Yes! How dare people choose where to spend their time and money? We should take it from them at the barrel of a gun and spend it for them! Stupid people are always spending their time and money on frivolities when there are smart people willing to spend it on purely benevolent things which never experience abuse or corruption. Personally, I want someone to threaten me with violence if I don't give them money. It's how I know I'm doing my part.
• iainmerrick 3y ago
  Right - I don't think kids understand the philanthropy angle, what they understand is the lottery angle. People randomly getting $10,000 (or $1,000, or $50,000) just for being a bystander in a video.
• mbrameld 3y ago
  > But is the time spent on that channel worth it over doing other things? Is that the standard by which you judge all leisure activities?
• davidguetta 3y ago
  Just explicitly tell them that its a buzz and not real life. Your are supposed to educate them and give them values, not be a victime of some random youtuber hit videos. Not to juge but as a parent you can have so much positive influence...
• jabl 3y ago
  > My kids love Mr Beast. I'm uncomfortable with it and can't put my finger on it. Same. I'm going to sound like an old-man-yelling-at-cloud, but the content is, well, just mindless drivel. There's a near-endless amount of informative content on youtube, but no, instead kids are drawn like a magnet to this kind of stuff. Not saying kids must spend all their screen time on Khan Academy or serious documentaries, but watching this drivel for hours on end can't be healthy for a developing brain either.
  • mid-kid 3y ago
    From an adult perspective, I'd agree, but on the other hand I've spent hours upon hours of my childhood watching fail compilations and random video game parodies and newgrounds animations on youtube. I'd say it's a "let kids be kids" kind of deal, even if I faint at the amount of money that goes into youtube video production these days.
• smudgy 3y ago
  He acts and looks like those dangerous cult leaders.
• lofaszvanitt 3y ago
  He is either a tool and does what he does because he has to, a benevolent, yet idiotic in his ways entrepreneur or a calculating one. Neither one is good. This miracle making is very very very bad for the average person imho. People need to learn that they shape their life by working on it, not waiting for some tooth fairy to give them a thousand dollars. Plus there should be institutions for those who are in need and health related services should be available to everyone. Mr Beast cannot fulfill these roles, no matter how hard he tries.
  • iinnPP 3y ago
    Being poor doesn't mean you don't work hard. In fact, poor people often work a whole lot harder than anyone making good money. Hell, the more I have been paid, the less I have had to work and use my brain. The same applies to each of my friends. I have never come across a person in the opposite scenario in my life. To what you say should be available: There is a state in the USA that has an overwhelmingly single party government which has overwhelming amounts of money (towering many entire countries). Their homeless population is ranked #2. MrBeast is substantially better for the poor than each person in this state who votes to keep things as they are. He's better than anyone who has conducted even slight amounts of NIMBYISM. It's unsurprising that HN has a negative view of the guy doing a better job than they are. Your downvotes don't matter to me.
    • lofaszvanitt 3y ago
      I don't know what would wake up people from their ego dream to see that in order to be a human, to be able to walk with your head held high and not live as a caged animal, you need to have certain basic things in your life. Free health services is one, a small space if you are homeless that is yours until you can get a better job/home/etc., where you can keep your things and the like is another. It's just mind boggling to see how people do not give a flying fuck about others and only care about their very surroundings and well being. MrBeast comes into this equation who earns his money by doing these stunts, but seemingly also gives back... I have ambivalent, but lopsided, feelings about creators who do videos about vulnerable people and playing the white knight in armor for who knows why. Anyway, it would be an interesting study how it affects those that are in need and I mean those who watch his videos and daydream away their life in hope for a better life.
• onetimeuse92304 3y ago
  I second that. I try to teach my family that the only way to success and happiness is working for it. Success and happiness come from satisfaction with who you are and that comes from knowing, on a deep level, you earned it. So not only your chance of winning a lottery is remote, even if you somehow win a lottery it is unlikely to make you happy. Interviews of people who won a lottery show it. I also think people have very distorted perception of where success comes from. People think it is a matter of chance and luck that somebody made this or that decision at a particular point in time. But my understanding is that luck only plays small part of it, much bigger part is the preparation to increase your luck and to be able to risk it and to be able to make something with it and to be able to avoid bad luck. All that comes from usually hard work and a certain mindset of being honest with yourself rather than playing a victim on every possible occasion. I have never heard about a person who would be constantly complaining about their bad luck and then got successful.
• subjectsigma 3y ago
  Whether Beast is a good person and whether what he’s doing actually helps people are two separate questions from whether he’s good for your kids to watch. My answers would be maybe, no, and no. Why ‘no’ for the third one? Mostly because it’s just intellectual sawdust. Nobody learns anything from a Mr. Beast video or engages with any new concept. It’s just the same ridiculous kinds of jokes and contests and clickbait churned out over and over again. He has literally no reason to stop making the exact same video 500 times over when people will still watch it. His video titles Obviously up to you and your wife/husband if you want to continue letting them watch it.
  • subjectsigma 3y ago
    I accidentally forgot a sentence somehow: *His video titles and thumbnails have set a new standard for low-quality, eye-catching, bottom-of-the-barrel hogwash and he is dragging the rest of YouTube down with him as people try to emulate his success.
• coldtea 3y ago
  >It feels like he makes life look like you stand a good chance of having someone walk in and give you $100,000. Maybe there is no harm in thinking that? It's the "system is so broken, that some guy can video charity acts to make money off of" that's icky. Some people will go "Where's the harm in that? Those people do get some money, that's a good thing, isn't it?" It's the normalizing of dependance on such charity / "acts of god", as opposed to having available decent jobs and health covered plus a government and a community support system.
• aqwsde 3y ago
  > can't put my finger on it It's all about repugnant materialism and self-promotion
• chrismcb 3y ago
  Is the time didn't on the channel worth it? Probably not, but it is entertainment. If rather watch it than half of the stuff in YouTube.