cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/23795825
The Pentagon also approved funding for content involving YouTube star Jimmy Donaldson, a.k.a. MrBeast, who was slated to lead a humanitarian effort in Puerto Rico.
What a headline, what an article.
He puts himself first with his charitable exploitation porn. I’m sure he deserves to be a billionaire.
Only less than the profit he made. He’s also a fraudster and abuser and deserves to be in jail.
Has he really or has he just directed sponsors money to organizations he likes?
Citizens: please give us healthcare or infrastructure or education or help the homeless…
Gov’t: m i s t o r b e e s t
Do you want health care? All you need to do is make it through this obstacle course.
That is kind of the gist of basic training though… And the military has free healthcare…
Can anyone explain Mr. beast to me, and what his appeal is?
He and his team figured out the YouTube algorithm. He then took the money and spend it back on production. Because there are no guidelines or regulations of YouTube videos production, he is able to use any ethical or non-ethical tactics. His videos is treated like a high budget movie where every second count.
Companies sees his money and everyone want to get piece of the cacke so he is more visible to demographic outside of his target audience.
He’s a bucky little fuck with dead eyes and a forced smile who practices philanthropy for clout, but up until recently you couldn’t criticize him because of the philanthropy – even when pointing out that said philanthropy is weird and immoral when it’s only being done for fame and self-promotion. Due to this paradox, he had everyone in a sort of stalemate. Fortunately, a lot has since come out about him being a sociopathic piece of human shit, so now we can kick him while he’s down.
I gave his AMZ prime show a chance. After the 3rd self-sacrifice round and a bunch of lame games I couldn’t continue. Something about his smile reminds me of this
Beats me. I keep seeing his stupid ass face in search results that are completely unrelated to my search, and the sheer amount of views. I can’t even comprehend as to why people watch this ass. At least now it is somewhat known that he’s a scumbag. Unsurprisingly & unfortunately it did not seem to have any effect on his popularity.
That’s an interesting thing I’ve observed–we seem to be past “cancel culture” or it only gets credit when a known scoundrel gets de-platformed. We’re in the age of too-big-to-fail celebrities. If they have a large enough base, there’s unlikely anything they can do to completely lose them or fall that far into obscurity.
Cancel culture only really is a thing when the person on the receiving end is capable of feeling the tiniest shred of embarrassment/remorse for what they’ve done (not being caught). People fade into obscurity when they get “cancelled” because the massive outcry from the public convinces them they can’t ignore that what they’re doing is wrong anymore. In the case of most fascist hucksters (as well as Mr Beast), they are incapable of seeing that what they’ve done is wrong, so they can never be convinced of the need to stop
I think it’s more “there’s no such thing as bad attention.”
Any engagement compounds, and at some point, turns into money. It’s not a mystery either, it’s a systemic issue from the way people are fed information now, thanks to the engagement optimization race to the bottom.
Celebrities can certainly fall, but it’s only if they’re boring.
I don’t believe in “cancel culture” anyway. If I have issues with people, be it for their extremistic political views, or because they’re just asocial assholes, then I’m obviously not going to bother watching their content, or buy their products, whatever the case may be. That’s been just regular people behavior until the US culture war bullshit made a buzzword out of it when people didn’t put up with various MAGA people stuffing their beliefs into everyone’s face. Skip forward some years later and we reach the hypocrisy of them doing / advocating to do the same thing regarding left leaning people.
The more concerning matter though is just how many people watch not just people who are assholes behind the camera, but in front of it, like all those “pranksters” and whatnot.
We’re in the age of too-big-to-fail celebrities.
I think there’s a certain category of net denizen that becomes a more devote fan the more it comes out that the person is a scumbag.
Reminds me of when I argue with some members of my family and it seems like they wait for me to have a position just to take the opposite of it to be argumentative and contrarian.
Things like surviving in a nuclear bunker, surviving stranded on an island appeals to the imagination of kids. The only difference is that he actually* does it.
*As real as a realityshow, but it’s a big difference with the usual clickbait.
Oh. I thought he had a kids’ show. That shit appeals to MY imagination. He really does those things? Not that it matters; I can’t stand looking at his face.
Yes, I have no clue how he gets his videos budget but it somehow works out. I have only seen a few videos because the way it’s presented, the constant shouting, and the over the top video effects have prevented me from enjoying them.
I did watch a recent video from Jeff Geerling in which he helped to set up the stage for a game, it was quite interesting to have a look behind the scenes.
Finally, my tax dollars going to things I want!
MrBeast doesn’t need it.
