I know this is going to sound like some clickbait bullshit title, but I’m genuinely curious, asking in good faith. My two oldest sons are enamored with him, and he seems like a genuine guy, so I’m asking - is he a nice guy? If you google the question, you get a bunch of reddit hate, which I don’t always trust, because…it’s reddit. I have not watched much content (not my thing, I’m old) but I’m just curious what the fediverse has to say.
I don’t know what kind of person he really is, but I do know that there are tons of scammers that pretend to be him and are ripping off young folks. So your boys should be super careful around him and alleged giveaways.
He is one of the kindest people you can find on social media. He has helped lots of people through financial and other means. Some say he’s evil for recording and posting these acts of kindness but the views from his channels are what enable him to do these things. He also has a philanthropy channel named Beast Philanthropy.
Basically this, he does a lot of good stuff, but since he does it “for views” some people hate him/think he’s “taking advantage of their situations.”
IMO, he didn’t make those situations, and he’s providing an avenue for those situations to get resolved (even if maybe someone has to get “embarrassed” by virtue of appearing as the benefactor of one of his videos – to be clear, he to my knowledge never does anything like “kiss my feat and I’ll give you a million dollars” to these people).
Kind of one of those, “there’s always going to be someone who doesn’t like you” things; if you ask me, he’s overall doing good.
From his own personal content I haven’t seen a single thing that would indicate otherwise though I’m not entirely up to date with what he’s made. I think the majority of people who no longer directly work with Mr. Beast had nothing negative to say about him when they parted ways.
I think that’s been my reservation about Mr Beast. I don’t have an issue with him recording his good deeds or whatnot. I’ve just been concerned that when you put someone up there … They’ll come out with some controversy down the road.
So I’ve never been a fan of Mr Beast, mainly because his videos aren’t my thing. I’m not a hater neither.
If all is on the up and up, and like you said, so far no one’s said anything negative … then more power to him. He’s also quite young, so he should have a good amount of leeway too.
Mr Beast is fine. His content is fine for kids to watch, that is his demo. He demonstrates that doing good things with the money you have is the best thing to do. Mr Beast gets a lot of flack for his videos but as far as online entertainers go, he’s a good one. Are his videos entertaining to me? No. Are they entertaining to millions of others? Yes. Is he a negative influence on children? No. The only real PUBLIC criticism for Mr Beast is he supports LGBTQ people and his video “exploit” medical problems of people.
Edit since it seems people think me mentioning he supports LGBTQ. Criticism for his support for Chris exists in the world. OP didn’t mention their politics, I mentioned the two things Mr Beast has received criticism for in the public space.
There isn’t anything wrong with it, but OP didn’t mention their politics. It is a fair warning for someone asking about an influencer they don’t know much about.
The fact that you mention LGBT folks as if they’re a problem or whatever is problematic.
he seems mostly well-intentioned, and probably won’t be a terribly bad influence on your kids, moreso than any other algorithm slurry youtube videos, so on that scale he’s probably fine for your kids to watch
if we were trying to assess his overall morality it would get into “is clickbait millionaire philanthropy an ethical way to spend your wealth” territory, which is a huge can of worms that’s difficult to find a solid answer for
