• Default_Defect@midwest.social
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    Do you guys have any idea how vindicating it is that people are finally seeing what a bunch of us suspected from the beginning? Mr. Beast has always come across as fake and I used to get SO MUCH SHIT for not fully supporting the guy making poor people compete for money to pay bills (and just giving the win to his friends instead).

    Edit: typo

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      Every generation gets to learn about their own iteration of con artists. Until they do they believe it’s something like the world has never seen before and nobody will talk them out of it.

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      You do not get to the level of success that Mr. Beast has without stepping on people to get there.

      It’s safe to say this of any hugely successful person. They by and large all have despicable qualities to them, the question is are they introspective and working to change those qualities in a positive way? I don’t think many of them are.

      This is less an indictment on Mr. Beast and more on ultra successful people in general.

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      He was never completely on my radar until the recent drama, but of course you come across his videos now and then. I always thought they looked dystopian af and he himself has that thousands yard psychopath stare.

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    Every billionaire is a policy failure, whether they’re a company owner, dictator, or streamer; they’re all needlessly hoarding wealth, harming us all. If you have more money than you could ever spend while people freeze and starve in the street, you are part of the problem and a bad person…

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      Billionaires are a symptom of a corrupt society. The more ultra wealthy individuals, the more corrupt the society is.

      Because the more an individual can manipulate the laws to their advantage in order to become wealthy, the more loopholes/hidden things/bribery/mazes in the net there are in the laws.

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      B-b-b-but he gives some of it back! Something something effective altruism 🫠

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        TBF, estimates are slightly lower than 1B, but he does reportedly earn $700,000,000. Every year…

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    His brand has used our software service for the last couple of years, and his credit card declined the other day. I got a good chuckle.

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    I still don’t know who this cuck is besides a YouTube star that got rich off kids whose parents babysit them with tablets. How anyone can stand looking at the guys face or hear him talking is beyond me. His face just oozes sociopath / narcissist.

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      One thing about him I saw in a Lemmy comment a couple months back, is that in every picture of him smiling, if you hide his mouth you’re left with his lifeless eyes, it’s like he was told how you’re supposed to smile when you’re cheerful so he goes through the motions but he’s not entirely sure what the point is. It works with all the pictures of him I came across since then, including the thumbnail of this post.

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      His early videos, clips I’ve seen in videos about him, show he’s a weird sociopath.

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    A person that made their entire brand and fortune off of having large amounts of wealth to throw around is not a good person?

    I am shocked I tell you, shocked! Well, not that shocked.

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      To “throw around”

      Is an interesting way of working “give to his friends while committing sweepstakes fraud.”

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    Looks like an asshole. I bet he sounds like one too, but I intend to never hear his voice.

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    Jimmy is a self described DEGENERATE. He says it WITH PRIDE. Do research on your “heroes”. They’re shit. Check his early interviews. AND he brands with KSI, another fucking scum bag.

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    This guy has that elon musk syndrome where he doesn’t know shit about logistics, especially specifics of the industries he tripped over his money into and assumes he can just throw cash at every idea he half bakes and everything will work out.

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      I don’t think the stuff would be molding 2 months before the best before date if he threw money at it. It’s a sign he cheaped out and is producing the stuff in an unhygienic facility.

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    He’s a victim of his own success. He’s really good at gaming the YouTube algorithm and thinks that means he’ll be good at other things where he is definitely not an expert.

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      I wish my 8 year old son didn’t admire his videos. But they hit right the spot And we curate them, there are videos he’s not allowed to watch of his.

      That’s the problem… Outside of this, how is a child to understand the concept of bad influencer? He got some of the chocolate and it wasn’t bad when it came to UK, then went up in price by 30% and shrunk by a half… But the videos? They’re entertaining and it is a little past time for the family.

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    His PR got confusingly bad recently. He went from someone that was a bit cringe but nobody hates to someone who has done a lot of good but still has an employee that was accused of sexual assault*.

    What’s the next thing to do to to save face? Start a brand with ‘suicide forest’ Logan Paul and ‘Thick of it’ KSI.

    I don’t get it, he had such a good thing going where he got essentially unlimited views.

    • tbh I don’t really keep updated with popular celebrities details might be off, the last time I watched Mr beast was the Insane Asylum one 5 years ago.
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      He’s not done a lot of good at all. He exploits the poor, often doesn’t pay them, and is selling trash food to children.

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    I’ve never even watched anything this guy has done. For a long time I didn’t even know who he was when I saw stories about him. Between him and the Paul’s idk what they are even famous for but I know they are pieces of shit