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I have never watched a 'Mr. Beast' video in full but I've caught clips here and there. From the very first time I saw his style of content I knew that it was so

I have never watched a 'Mr. Beast' video in full but I've caught clips here and there. From the very first time I saw his style of content I knew that it was something I would never let my kids watch willingly. His fake authenticity is sickening, and to be blunt I don't know how he's conned so many people into believing he is a genuinely good person that makes good content. My kids are still far too young for unsupervised YouTube/TV time and are still firmly in the "Bluey or Ms. Rachel" age, but there's already a hardline Mr. Beast ban in my house. Hopefully by the time they're old enough to want that kind of content Mr. Beast is but a memory and YouTube will have much better content controls in place. Sadly that seems unlikely - and AI-generated content is not going to help. Beast and so many other YouTubers that target the very malleable 10-13 years are causing brain rot like we've never seen before.

magneticcrumbs 2y ago
> I don't know how he's conned so many people into believing he is a genuinely good person that makes good content. A lot of people seem to genuinely believe that he is really doing good for the world and purely out of good will — these people literally believe what they see on camera and they don’t think twice about why someone would ensure that every act of philanthropy _must_ be on camera (MrBeast has said that on many occasions and even wrote it down).
kiba 2y ago
I don't have a problem with Mr. Beast doing charity as a business model. Better to reward good behaviors over demonstration of private virtue. It doesn't matter if Mr. Beast is a genuinely nice or good person if he's actually improving the world. However, his content is fundamentally uninteresting, and ironically non-addicting. In other words, it's boring, especially after a dozen or so videos. So it doesn't actually appears in my youtube recommendations, which I mercilessly and aggressively curate. So, the better question is...how do you make these videos feel uninteresting and uninspired?

magneticcrumbs 2y ago

> I don't know how he's conned so many people into believing he is a genuinely good person that makes good content. A lot of people seem to genuinely believe that he is really doing good for the world and purely out of good will — these people literally believe what they see on camera and they don’t think twice about why someone would ensure that every act of philanthropy _must_ be on camera (MrBeast has said that on many occasions and even wrote it down).

kiba 2y ago

I don't have a problem with Mr. Beast doing charity as a business model. Better to reward good behaviors over demonstration of private virtue. It doesn't matter if Mr. Beast is a genuinely nice or good person if he's actually improving the world. However, his content is fundamentally uninteresting, and ironically non-addicting. In other words, it's boring, especially after a dozen or so videos. So it doesn't actually appears in my youtube recommendations, which I mercilessly and aggressively curate. So, the better question is...how do you make these videos feel uninteresting and uninspired?