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It’s always so sad, yet predictable, when people that get famous become drunk with power and make poor life choices that hurt others. If put to good use, the power these people wield could do so much good.
This world needs more people like Mr. Rogers, Steve Wozniak, and Keanu Reeves. Not this shit.
I think in MrBeast’s case, he got big precisely because he was willing to hurt and manipulate others, not that he changed once he made it. He seems like a grade A PoS.
The thing I’m most surprised about is that it took so long for the cracks to show.
You should never judge the book by its cover, but god those thumbnails always made me very suspicious of him
and Keanu Reeves
Unfortunately, not him either. He’s such a big fan of the bigot Graham Hancock that he’s involved in Hancock’s Netflix series.
And you don’t have to believe me about Hancock. There are indigenous Americans that are happy to tell you all about it.
The description for the Secrets of the Ancients program listed on the Chaco filming permit application said the program would explore “one of archaeology’s biggest mysteries: the peopling of the Americas”.
It went on to state: “We’ll uncover the latest findings about the earliest inhabitants of the Americas and reveal remarkable scientific knowledge that’s been handed down for generations. Where did humans settle first in the Americas, and what do we know about them?”
Hancock, who is not an archeologist, has attracted the ire of those in the profession, as well as Native groups, for pushing a theory that an advanced ice age society, responsible for modern understandings of maths, architecture and agriculture, was wiped out by floods triggered by comet strikes nearly 12,000 years ago.
Evidence of this is found at ancient sites around the world, Hancock claims, with the writer visiting such places in countries including Turkey, Mexico and Indonesia in the first season of the Netflix show, aired in 2022. During the show, which Netflix promoted with the tagline “What if everything we know about prehistoric humans is wrong?”, Hancock railed against “mainstream archaeology” for not accepting his theories.
“[Hancock] presents his theories as being superior to what the first inhabitants of the area say about their own history,” said Stewart Koyiyumptewa, tribal historic preservation officer for the Hopi Nation.
The Hopi people have lived in or near the Grand Canyon for at least 2,000 years and claim a sacred site inside the canyon as their place of emergence. They also have strong ties to Chaco Canyon.
A Grand Canyon national park staff member who is Native American also pushed back against issuing a permit to ITN.
“This is embarrassing and a discredit to our agency when we have been working hard to respect Indigenous people and right many historical wrongs,” wrote the staff member in an email to Grand Canyon park management. “This is just degrading.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/01/netflix-ancient-apocalypse-canceled
Pseudo-Scientific Documentaries of that kind has made me cancel my Netflix subscription over two years ago.
It’s a shame what they sell us as facts.
Why? Ancient apocalypse is a blast to watch.
Granted you have to watch it for the entertainment, god forbid you take stuff like that seriously - but it is very fun!
Always remember: No one is immune to propaganda
You either die a hero or live long enough to start making bad decisions. And Keanu is hundreds of years old.
I was a big fan but unfortunately this is all true and can be verified. Very sad
“[Hancock] presents his theories as being superior to what the first inhabitants of the area say about their own history,” said Stewart Koyiyumptewa, tribal historic preservation officer for the Hopi Nation.
The Hopi people have lived in or near the Grand Canyon for at least 2,000 years and claim a sacred site inside the canyon as their place of emergence. They also have strong ties to Chaco Canyon.
Obviously Hancock is a crackpot but saying that he offends other people with equally falsified theories is not exactly strong criticism…
How about this, then?
IMO that’s basically white supremacy. The most generous possible thing you could say is that Hancock is too stupid to recognize racist bullshit when he sees it in terms of things like Quetzalcoatl being a white man (utter bullshit) but I don’t think he’s that stupid.
Hancock is a con man plain and simple but what part of that makes this more acceptable?
The Hopi people have lived in or near the Grand Canyon for at least 2,000 years and claim a sacred site inside the canyon as their place of emergence.
The fact that it’s an indigenous folk belief and not just some crazy guy’s white savior ideas?
So it’s bullshit, which granted it is pretty harmless, but it’s still bullshit when discussing the origins of people.
It doesn’t deserve to be repeated in an article about someone denying science. That claim also denies science (and common sense).
The bigger issue is Hancock’s idea of indigenous people worshiping a white savior. Check out the excerpts from his book I pasted.
I understand your stance but compared to Mr. Beast, not the same comparison. Mr. Rogers, Steve Erwin, and Levar Burton (should always be included) I would listen to their input on helping everyone. They are smart and good.
Keanu and maybe Woody Harrison are more of good people that you don’t hear horrible stuff about that are universally famous.
No kid touching, woman abusing, racist rants, or Nazi praising episodes. Morgan Freemen and Bill Cosby use to be that way but over time it started to crack. Even Dave Grohl has fallen from the list. Of course these examples are not a 1:1.
The second group, like I said, is more good not smart. They have flaws but are universal good people. Ross was a great person but horrible judgment in some people. Look at his son’s battle for his family name.
He’s a bigot for having his own Lil theory about settlers from 12,000 years ago?
Nobody knows what’s going in inside that melon except him, but it really does reak of the old mindset of colonials " discovering" lands where people had been living already for millennia, and assuming they’re too dumb to be considering. Or even making a spectacle of them like they’re some sort of animal.
Even if is not intentionally malicious, that sort of disregard has some amount of bigotry attached.
There were colonials 12,000 years ago?
Please read the excerpts from his book I pasted below. He thinks indigenous Americans worshiped white saviors.
According to the first video made by the youtuber dogpack404, he had been doing bad things from the begging
In July 2024, Ava Kris Tyson, a former employee of MrBeast, left the YouTuber’s team after allegations surfaced that she had “groomed” a young fan.
Just hours later, Donaldson vowed to investigate the situation and claimed he was unaware of any prior wrongdoing. However, this new information indicates that the YouTuber may have known more than he initially let on.
“I have received thousands of messages from an official MrBeast work chat,” begins Pansino in the new YouTube video.
“These are all just their work chats from 2020 to 2021,” she revealed before also stating that she “verified the legitimacy of these chats with former MrBeast employees, and let me tell you, they are insane.”
She further noted that these leaked messages were from a Telegram channel that MrBeast used when speaking to his employees. She also included a trigger warning due to the “inappropriate topics” mentioned throughout the conversations.
Telegram
That in itself is a red flag.
I hate the reputation Telegram has gotten (though I understand). I still use it for family group chats ever since I left iPhones and iMessages. Back then it was basically just a less restricted WhatsApp
Without end to end encryption.
Back then
They need to get better moderation tho
No doubt. Luckily I can keep my family in line ;)
Very much so.
Yikes
Right? Every time I see MrBeast’s name in the news, my reaction is always, “oh fuck, what now?”
Mine’s been more: ah of course
Never liked the guy, so it’ll be interesting what becomes of this.
Why am I the only person to have no fucking clue who this is?
Everything I know about MrBeast I have learned involuntarily…
I think it’s because his audience is mostly kids & teens.
me too bruh
MrBeast has changed for the worse.
MrBeast is being revealed as who he always was underneath the veneer.
I have never trusted people who did philanthropy porn and I never will. It’s all self-serving.
I think it was the selfish gene that introduced me to the idea that even the most selfless altruism is still selfish, because it’s there to either further human survival or to make the person who donates feel better. The feeling better about themselves is a bigger joy than the helping
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Trump might win the US election… again.
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I’ll be honest, I never cared for him, and it was clear to me from the start that his optimized to maximize engagement with his target demographic vs being personally authentic.
He’s revealed himself to be worse than I’d ever expected.
Anyone who’s too good to be true, always is
Isn’t his entire show about manipulating peoples behavior? He seems like a sociopath.
That chat looks like a bunch of dark humor posted by teenagers. I don’t like Mr Beast, but this isn’t really illegal afaik, and I don’t care about it.
Doesn’t say anything about why the FBI would be interested.
Yeah! Why would the agency that investigates online child sex abuse be interested in chat logs that potentially contain information about online child sex abuse?
It doesn’t say that? It mentions a former employee was a groomer. But it also doesn’t mention why company chat logs would have anything to do with that.
Do you think that grooming doesn’t fall under child sex abuse? Do you think that the FBI wouldn’t be interested in logs that may show prior knowledge of this abuse and would contradict prior statements that MrBeast was unaware? Do you think if he was aware of this abuse and didn’t say anything that this wouldn’t count as covering up child sex abuse, aka being an accessory to a crime?
Didn’t say or suggest any of that…
Then what did you say? There seems to be some kind of major disconnect between you, the implications of the linked article, and why the FBI could be involved.
I would suggest looking at the videos in the tweets. It’s not clear exactly what is posted because it goes by too quickly, but you can definitely see that a lot of it is sexual and if some of it is CSAM, I wouldn’t exactly be shocked based on what I could see.
Are you seeing something treadful and I aren’t seeing? Because I’m with him, I don’t see what you’re referring to. I only see one tweet in the article, and all it says is:
I have reported what I found and my concerns to the authorities @FBI. Hopefully they will look into these MrBeast Telegram Company Chats Logs and other concerns.
I don’t see any videos, nor any clarification in the article as to what the chat logs are at all.
That’s the tweet that should’ve been in the article. I dunno why the author chose a tweet that doesn’t say anything to include in their article that also doesn’t say anything.
It was.
They never connect the dots when reading the chain of articles. If you go back through, you can find a vidcap of the telegram chat in question.
Looks like it from back in covid. It’s a bit raunchy. Honestly not unlike any chat you’ll see between a handfull of immature guys. It’s kinda hard to follow, it just scrolls by for 7 minutes, mostly memes, dicks on catoons and them bitching about people leaving them needy or critisizing comments.
If Tyson did groom an underaged kid, maybe there’s something in there damning, I didn’t see anything obvious.
Presumably to be a bureau doing investigations into alleged federal crimes and related matters.
FYI, OP edited the link in the post, so you and I are not seeing the same article as others are. Some are seeing a Newsweek article about the story, and I think you’re seeing the Insider Gaming article that I’m also seeing, which provides basically zero details.
