I never understand why people love Mr Beast content. I never enjoyed it.

  • Fades@lemmy.worldEnglish
    201·
    2 months ago

    Fuck Mr. Beast, he literally preys on children by falsely framing his videos all as possibilities for them if they subscribe to the channel. He shills things like chocolate bars that are healthy to defeat obesity yet those same bars have twice the sugar than others like hershey bars. He gets kids to buy his shit on the guise of ‘oh maybe we’ll slip something in your order box! Maybe an iphone!!!’ and now you have kids stumbling over themselves to beg their parents to buy Mr. Beast merch / mr. beast burger / mr. beast feastables / etc.

    He’s not a terrible person but this shit is gross, a lot of it is gambling-adjacent and the kids EAT IT THE FUCK UP. Yeah Mr. Beast is a businessman, but his business is manipulating children.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5xf40KrK3I

  • ShortFuse@lemmy.world
    16·
    2 months ago

    The way his content is structured and edited is like junk food for your brain. There’s a formula that appeals to the least lowest common denominator and he (his team) excels at it.

    The topics he picks usually hit some nerve of vicariousness (game shows contestants) or suspense from wanting to know what happens next (challenges and clickbait).

      • zalgotext@sh.itjust.works
        8·
        2 months ago

        Not really. You might think that from looking at thumbnails, because thumbnails all have to basically look like clickbait for people to actually engage with your videos. But there’s tons of good YouTube content out there.

        • NecroParagon@lemm.ee
          2·
          2 months ago

          It’s the only platform I still regularly engage with minus this, being lemmy, tildes, and watchpeopledie.tv/h/slavshit because I get a lot of interesting stuff to watch and people still come on there on their own to express themselves about stuff I care about. But yeah, the fact that YouTube weathered the onslaught of russian bots and kept all my UA supporting channels up earned my respect. Which it’s a great way to keep up if you’re not on Telegram, or are just depressed by the shit, I think it’s a damn good platform. Best thing google has imo.

          But to each their own. I’m not like the vast majority of people.

          Edit: I’ve been suspicious of Mr. Beast for many years. The deadness behind the eyes clued me into him actually. No one that successful with that kinda look is squeaky clean. That’s been the only thing besides the obvious this person is wealthy, probably not amazing, that’s made me dislike his stuff. Also the clickbaity nature of his content.

  • PlzGivHugs@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    6·
    2 months ago

    A) flashy, loud, snippy content that works on people with no attention span or who are easily amused like kids (and annoys everyone else)

    And B) clickbait-type, over-the-top content and games that no one else does - the sorts of things that, even if not high-brow, are still interesting. For example, blowing up a Lambrogini appealing to the action-movie lizard-brain, or a giant game of hide and seek appealing to the sort of person who daydreams about how to survive a zombie apocalypse.

    Basically, its the peak of broad-appeal, low-brow, high effort/production value media.

      • bradorsomething@ttrpg.network
        3·
        2 months ago

        I peg him at upper middle, but that would be family wealth, not his. My kids watched him when he was really taking off, and he was just figuring out the content math. He started fairly small, spending a few hundred to buy people groceries, to in a few years was loading up a car lot and selling the vehicles for under $10. As his income got more ridiculous his stunts got more ridiculous.

        There seems to be a wave of posts going after him lately, and I feel he’s flawed, but I don’t think his original intent was to do harm. He always gave the impression of someone who wanted to do good in the world while chasing fame, and I feel he succeeded more than many who go in with good intentions. I won’t be accepting the complimentary torch and pitchfork with all these posts, but they do raise some points where he should admit fault and clean up his act. The guy tried to get people to plant a billion trees and put a lot of time and money into it - I’ll grade him on a curve.

  • linearchaos@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    2 months ago

    Most of his content is gameshows. Some people catch a serotonin high watching other people win money.

  • Dog@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    2 months ago

    I liked his content when he did a series called “Worst Intros”. Ever since those were set private, I haven’t enjoyed that content.

  • Toes♀@ani.social
    1·
    2 months ago

    His hide and seek videos are funny.

    A lot of it feels like filler but there’s a few gems.

  • s08nlql9@lemm.ee
    1·
    2 months ago

    I’m not a fan, but his philanthropy work is also popular. I only started to know him because of his project trees and not about his streaming

      • Jackthelad@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        I’m always suspicious of people who make a show of their philanthropy. It just makes it seem like they’re either exploiting people for their own gain, or they have something to hide and are trying to do so with philanthropic work.

        • JimmyMcGill@lemmy.world
          1·
          2 months ago

          I mean yes but isn’t that being extremely pedantic?

          Take Mr Beast or an hypothetical example. Give 1M to strangers in need, record it, upload it to YouTube make 4M on ads and other sponsors (content is still free). Pocket 2M, make second video where he gives 2M to other strangers in need. Record it, upload it to YouTube etc etc

          Now I agree with you, philosophically it’s best to give without expecting or earning anything in return. But is that really the best outcome? Isn’t it actually arguably better to publicize it and with it reach and help way more people?

          For me the answer is clear. I’d rather have someone record and even make money of this type of content (as long as there’s no exploitation or slimy shit) than have that same someone not do that and instead only help a fraction of the people. I’ll argue that the people being helped don’t give a crap about it, so it feels a bit patronizing to say that they shouldn’t be helped because of X or Y

          This isn’t specific to Mr Beast, I don’t even know the details of the recent scandal. I just see this argument everywhere and I feel it’s very naive

    • JackGreenEarth@lemm.eeEnglish
      0·
      2 months ago

      Hey, that’s a derogatory generalisation. There are many teenagers who don’t watch drivel like Mr Beast, or do many of the other things you might consider ‘stupid’. Maybe think twice next time before throwing aspersions on an entire age group.