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I keep thinking I should look into this MrBeast drama, then I remember I just do not give a single fuck.
I went through a h3h3 phase when I was like 20, then realised that any YT drama is just toxic and it’s best to avoid it entirely.
I miss Tom Scott, just made quality videos with none of the BS. Nothing over the top, just interesting content from a genuine guy who cares about his audience.
Technology Connections is a nice breath of fresh air in the YouTube space if you want something tech related
He’s GREAT! I just wish he had more content… but then it probably wouldn’t be as good. I guess I really wish I hadn’t already binged his whole channel!
Cathod Ray Dude.
EDIT: There is also
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Calum - dude does weird deep dives on niche topics like secret bunkers from WWII, snow mobiles or camper planes.
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Our Own Devices - mostly 10min videos on old military devices.
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Destin at Smarter Every Day and Steven Mould seem like solid guys, and content similar to Tom Scott if you haven’t seen them.
Destin’s religion is a turnoff for me along with the inclusion of children. His reactions are way too over the top, too. Used to watch it a bunch but have slowly drifted away.
Destin at Smarter Every Day
I enjoy his content and like him and his style but I still have a bitter taste in my mouth from him being a former missile guidance engineer at Redstone and making this low-key military ad series. I mean he has been pretty upfront about his past career and such but he also knows that his channel is probably watched by a lot of children.
I don’t know, something feels off about it.
Destin is so American and military power it creeps me out.
Tom Scott was a good YouTuber because his ego was able to handle him voluntarily stepping down.
You might like Anton Petrov. He’s a science youtuber that does a different video every day. He mostly focuses on space science but he’s pretty uncontroversial. I like his videos a lot.
I keep thinking I should look into this MrBeast drama, then I remember I just do not give a single fuck.
You represent me
If you like “car stuff,” Sleeperdude is top of the charts, and I’ve got a list of other channels too many to list here. Language? RobWords. Math? Numberphile and Stand-up Maths. General interesting stuff? Joe Scott (unrelated).
I like Aging Wheels.
you can just make up two stupid names in your head and get all the benefit of youtube drama - here:
did you hear than Zzzamboney copied a video from Mr457? Turns out that the latest in ZB’s “I’m a chicken” series is actually 457’s “Birdalike” vid but with the turkeys swapped for chickens.
You are so cool for not caring about exploitation of vulnerable people by one of their peers.
You’re not going to win over people with condescension. You do see the irony of being a dick while trying to defend people, right?
I think Atomic Frontier is the closest channel we have to Tom right now, though I would never say that on his comment section. He might get too pressured lol
Channels with absolutely zero drama that are still active and I would describe as " interesting content made by someone who cares about it" :
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cracking the cryptic: solving sudoku puzzles twice daily
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chessnetwork: explaining famous chess matches and occasionally playing online chess, but with none of the bro culture that has grown up around chess recently
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Folding ideas: great video essays about film or modern phenomena like NFTs
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Technology connections: already reccommended, but in depth explanations about how electronics work
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Language Jones: videos about linguistics and learning new languages
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Numberphile/StandUpMaths- interesting math videos
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Primitive Technology: Just a guy out in the forest making stuff by hand, absolutely no talking, no drama. It’s somehow relaxing to watch. He may have even built the camera itself out of sticks and stones.
I think it’s awesome that the silent vibes were an accident. He just didn’t want to have to explain everything while he was doing it and found it easier to summarize in the closed captions afterward. People fell in love with the vibe, so he kept it up.
Honestly he got a ton of people into ASMR that didn’t even know such a thing existed.
haha wait till you see the generation of fuckups that growing up on youtube will produce. The Elsagate generation will be a special and wholly new kind of damaged.
You can feel free to not give a fuck but you will still have to deal with the consequences as they age into society with all the moral framework of a spiky haired n-bomb dropping shock streamer.
The older generation survived 4chan and worse. We’ll be fine.
Right lmao.
Younger folk, all the content you think about being on the “darkweb?” That was just the web. 🤣
I remember a time when seeing a gif of someone getting their head blown off was basically restricted to sites like rotten.com and the more edgy forums.
Now they’re used on 9gag like punctuation to a joke…
And people tell me not to take it so seriously, it’s only a gif…
When 4channers came of age they started live streaming shooting up churches, I wonder what gen alpha will choose to do with their careless meme violence.
I’ve never watched a single video of MrBeast. The topics just don’t interest me at all. I really don’t see the hype.
I have no idea who the guy is, but why is anyone surprised that someone who goes by Mr Beast is living up to his stage name?
To my understanding he got his internet fame primarily from videos of giving people money. Never watched his stuff though.
No, he got his fame (which ENABLED him to start giving away stuff, which became his formula, but didn’t bootstrap him) by performing superhuman feats of will and mental and physical endurance. Seriously. The man is not like most people on the inside. I won’t speculate what’s there but it’s different.
No shit. Billionaire pays poor people to embarrass or endanger themselves, uses it to promote himself.
Here’s an idea for a video: Mr. Beast and the Box of Knives. Him, the people he exploits, and a box of knives. Whoever kills him gets to keep his money.
That’s the content I want to see.
This is what I’ve said about Mr.Beast from day 1. First video I saw of his was putting his friends in a taped off square in some backyard and the last one to leave keeps the car. So a rich asshole makes people dance for money and then he profits off the video for more than he paid. Mr.Beast is 1 of 2 youtubers that I have used an extension to explicitly block me from seeing his videos in my feed.
Please, what is the extension, the people need to know without googling
BlockTube. It let’s you block all kinds of stuff from specific videos to channels, even block shorts outright. I only use the channel block feature, so your milage may vary with the rest of it, but it’s pretty easy to use so it works for me.
I’ve got to say, I’m disappointed in Lemmy for the amount of upvotes you’re receiving for a comment as sickening as this.
Killing someone just for revenge should never be the answer. That’s the kind of tactic that makes dictators and fascists what they are. The desire to watch something like that is even more alarming.
They’re not killing him for revenge. They’re killing him for money. Big difference. I’m sure he’s killed quite a few people for money, so I don’t think he has any room to complain.
Maybe the french should’ve just asked nicely for the nobles to treat them better.
Yeah, I agree with you. That shit’s fucked up.
Yeah bloodthirst is never a good look, especially about something that doesn’t even affect you and is some abstract internet drama vol. 2762
It indicates you are some emotional ball of unpredictable that should probably be monitored by fbi and locked up at any signs of planning. A picture of greasy hair, basement, ar15 appears in my mind. Stained Mickey Mouse tee
Half of hexbears are like that
What’s with the recent traction for the Mr Beast hate train? There have been a few posts lately talking about how bad this guy is.
There’s a part 1 to this video that goes into it. Basically:
- videos are faked (reality level TV stuff - making the timers look like they’re still counting down)
- there was a person who was recently on staff who was a sexual deviant named Ava Kris Tyson who also seemed to be obsessed with teenagers and ran a discord server talking about inappropriate stuff (this is worse than my description sounds)
- Beast was on this server for a time but doesn’t seem to have been an active participant
- Illegal lotteries from the Streaming “giveaways”
- claiming his chocolate is “healthy” and encourage kids to eat it to have a chance at randomly winning a prize
- in Aus, having an app for the chocolate that says you win a prize when you pull the slots but you actually don’t win anything (basically getting triple 7s and getting told you win nothing)
- safety issues with the beast games, moving to Canada so no union workers can join, etc.
- this video explains some horrible stuff Mr Beast and team did for a single video
Really the biggest deal I think is the illegal lotteries. Because those are actual criminal acts
Just people finding out that Santa isn’t real but in fact a company which uses psychological warfare to sell you something that is bad for you.
A story as old as capitalism.
the guy who got famous by reading the entire dictionary and counting to a million on live camera is a sociopath?! i did not see this coming. /s
I’ve never watched a single video of his and I could have told you that he’s a sociopath. Normal people do not act like he does.
How do you know how he acts if you never watched a single video?
I think he’s the most popular YouTube currently, or close to it if not. You can’t get around without hearing about him occasionally. The biggest thing I know about him is he does charity videos that he films where he gives poor people a little bit of money. It’s pretty obvious to me it’s just exploitation to improve his image, and also he makes far more money off the video than he gives away. Clearly he isn’t doing it because it’s a good thing, yet somehow people call him a good person because of it.
I went into these two videos expecting them to be overblown and petty, totally changed my mind with a good solid string of evidence and explanations.
Which is funny because the top upvoted comment is about how there were no specific claims made.
I agree with you, the evidence is damning, but most of lemmy doesn’t seem to think so (or this thread is being social media managed by Mr. Least’s PR team).
Look at all these people white knighting for a Sociopath being a for profit charity and scammer.
I think Dogpack is brave. Jimmy and his attorneys can cook up a worthless lawsuit to hurt Dogpack financially. Jimmy is so rich legal expenses won’t be problematic. While Dogpack may have a hard time with legal expenses, I think.
It’s like Logan Paul versus Coffeezilla. Logan is so rich; Coffeezilla isn’t.
Fuck Mr. Beast. The real heroes worthy of praise are your friends and neighbors who are out there volunteering and/or doing good things for others without making a fucking spectacle of it.
Mr. Beast with his bucky ass face and products plastered on every last corner of the earth has left a bad taste in my mouth for years, but up until recently people have been unable to criticize him in any way without a thousand others rushing to his defense and declaring what a beautiful, selfless person he is. It’s Ellen all over again.
People truly are blinded by philanthropy-for-clout and mistake it for genuine goodwill. Truly good people do not film themselves handing out food and money.
i need a monthly reminder of this - fuck Phil.
This fella loves using his leverage manipulating people into whatever the fuck he wants them to do. The border between good and evil is so close it is nearly indistinguishible. Stay the fuck away from him if you can.
He broke laws to encourage children to gamble, he isn’t dancing the border, he’s flat on the Evil side with a good PR team.
Who is the author of this video? What type of stuff do they usually do? Generally credible?
He’s an ex-worker at Jimmy’s firm. If everything he said is false, it’s an easy defamation lawsuit for Jimmy versus him. He dug his own grave. I think he wasn’t dumb to do that. The points he made made sense to me, except the legal stuff. I’m not an attorney. Anyway, we haven’t heard Jimmy’s side.
Why do people call him Jimmy so often? We don’t know him. He signs MB on his merch so it seems unnecessary.
True that if the guy making accusations does not have proof, it will be a pretty shit position to be in. I have seen other creators giving him the benefit of the doubt based on their experiences collaborating Mr. Beast though, so it’s kind of early to tell. And the illegal lottery accusations seem pretty straight forward to prove based on archived videos circulating.
Edit: reworded first few sentences.
If he did conduct illegal lotteries, what a 💩 way to treat your viewers, many of whom were kids, seemingly. He said something like “The 10th buyer in the next 5 min will win 30000.” right? Did those winners get their prizes? If no, it was a scam.
The 💤 deprivation was inhuman. The running thing was cruel.
Ill post this comment here too since it’s the same video, but you might want to put a content warning on this video, it’s pretty rough.
The first video is largely about him running illegal lotteries, which is pretty terrible given the scale they operate at, but it’s something that the average person might not know about or really think about it being essentially child gambling.
This second video is an interview with a former employee who was put in solitary confinement for a video that never made it to YouTube because it was actually just them torturing him. Like, legitimate Geneva Convention war crime torture. Constant noise, no idea what time it is because you can’t see the sun, constant lights so you can’t sleep, constant monitoring, and him running until his feet bled.
If any of it is anywhere near true they need to be sued off the face of the planet in addition to going to prison.
Mr. Beast’s suppurating carcass should be fired into the sun.
EDIT: along with anyone who downvoted this comment. Sorry, pacifists.
Maybe the downvotes are because firing him into the sun would be very expensive. Just fire him into a volcano or something more local than the ball of plasma 8 light minutes away that we have way too much momentum to hit easily.
i literally had no idea who this guy was until like last year… my partner showed me some clips and i immediately got bad vibes. i told her i thought he was just doing these nice things for the money and attention and she was shocked. but here we are lol
People like him prey on the naivety and good will of others. It’s basically the same behavior as people like Trump and Musk–they need to be constantly adored by others.
that’s exactly the feeling i had, he needs people to see him being a good person. that’s usually an indicator.
Someone showed me a video of him giving 100 people (age 1 to 100 or something) a chance to win money
The whole thing was gross and exploitive but he’s just laughing at them
The guy’s an absolute shitstain but protected because he makes youtube bank.
His kids snacks are disgusting and unhealthy, the clothes he sells fall apart after 3 washes, but since he makes kids glued to the screen, all of society will protect his assholery.
I hope he gets caught fucking a cow corpse.
I have seen enough to know those is all some weird ass bullshit campaign too fuck this guy. It’s all been so engineered and vague. What a joke
Actually reading these comments I’m starting to get it. I think mr beast is a bit of a powerful influencer. But generally apolitical. Inn order to sway him the right will make these huge pushes trying to find dirt to force these influencers to end up like Russell Brandt where he looks for an audience on the right after the left eats the onion
Conspiracy time: about a month ago he did say he would run for president if they lowered the age.
He broke laws live on stream to convince kids to gamble. This has nothing to do with any possible presidential run.
I’ve looked but I can’t find anything regarding this besides him running some kind of giveaway and breaking a no purchase necessary law. Is that what you’re referring to?
Angry Autist is a Spez plant. Don’t let him destabilize this community. Block and move on.
… it’s literally in the video… Twice…
And now because I know you are here to do nothing but waste my time, you will probably ask me for a timestamp, and I would normally provide it of course because I want to keep the discussion intellectually honest.
But it’s pretty clear that you don’t, and of course after ignoring my timestamp hyperlink, you will make up some vapid arguments on how it is unpossible for Mr Least to ever have done such a thing and that I’m stupid for misunderstanding federal gambling laws.
And we can go back and forth for hours, me posting evidence, you saying whatever stupid shit that comes to your mind to push the discussion far away from the original point that Mr. Least is illegally involving children in gambling.
And I am so just fuckdamn tired of intellectually dishonest people like you ‘just asking questions’.
So
Amazingly
Fuckdamn
Tired.
So you’re blocked now.
Lmao Jesus Christ. It’s a 50 minute video that I was actively watching and I was reading comments and watching at the same time.
Anyone that’s not a maniac want to give me a timestamp? Because I don’t have time to watch a 50 minute video tonight.
I couldn’t find it earlier because I googled “Mr Beast live stream gambling” when I should’ve googled “Mr Beast Child Lottery”
Anyone that’s not a maniac
Your abelism infuriates me. If I were younger, I’d waste an hour rhetorically browbeating you.
You could have already completely watched the video by now but still you are here whining for timestamps just like I predicted you would. The more shitstain forum sliders keep using the same tactics, the easier it is to call your uncreative asses out on it.
Mr. Least encouraged children to gamble, broke gambling laws to increase buying pressure, and even less shocking apparently hasn’t made good on most of the ‘winners’ anyway.
Yet you are here pretending he just accidentally bent a few obscure sweepstakes laws instead of the critical point that he USED HIS INFLUENCE OVER CHILDREN TO CONVINCE THEM TO GAMBLE!
the absolute hilarious thing is I finally did find it all on my own and I agree with you about Mr Beast. I was simply asking a question.
I’m not sure what type of people you come across online to act this way but Jesus Christ tell me where so I can avoid it.
Block me because I’m going to return the favor.
Username checks out.
It’s not vague at all, Mr Least actively broke gambling laws multiple times during livestreams to push sales. May I remind you his primary audience is children, he was encouraging children to illegally gamble for prizes and money.
So I think you have to be a part of his shitty PR team and have now blocked you for all eternity.
