I Worked For MrBeast, He's A Sociopath

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• li10@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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.

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  • technohacker@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Technology Connections is a nice breath of fresh air in the YouTube space if you want something tech related

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    • Agrivar@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      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!

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    • HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I love how subtly unhinged he is.

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    • NewNewAccount@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Did you hear about Technology Connection’s beef with xQc?

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  • Donkter@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Tom Scott was a good YouTuber because his ego was able to handle him voluntarily stepping down.

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  • pwnicholson@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Destin at Smarter Every Day and Steven Mould seem like solid guys, and content similar to Tom Scott if you haven’t seen them.

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    • zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      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.

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    • Lupus@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      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.

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    • jerkface@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Dustin is so American and military power it creeps me out.

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    • Eldritch@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Mould is great. Matt Parker too.

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  • paddirn@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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.

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    • IzzyScissor@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      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.

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  • Taako_Tuesday@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Channels with absolutely zero drama that are still active and I would describe as " interesting content made by someone who cares about it" :

    • cracking the cryptic: solving sudoku puzzles twice daily

    • chessnetwork: explaining famous chess matches and occasionally playing online chess, but with none of the bro culture that has grown up around chess recently

    -Folding ideas: great video essays about film or modern phenomena like NFTs

    • Technology connections: already reccommended, but in depth explanations about how electronics work

    • Language Jones: videos about linguistics and learning new languages

    • Numberphile/Matt Parker - interesting math videos

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    • Zahille7@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If you like gaming YouTubers, there are plenty who try their best to stay drama-free.

      RTGame, Spiffing Brit, AmbiguousAmphibian, Dunkey, Game Grumps, General Sam just to name a few.

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    • p5yk0t1km1r4ge@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      How Dare you not mention dougdoug!

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    • AstralPath@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Add Computerphile to the list too! Great stuff.

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    • Cowbob12@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’d like to add to the list a few entries on history and physics channels:

      -The Histocrat: in depth video essays regarding the history of many neolithic to bronze age cultures around the world as well as the history of several mythological creatures.

      -Fall of Civilizations: podcast describing a detailed picture of many ancient cultures around the world, from their beginings to their golden ages to their fall.

      -North02: EXTREMELY detailed videos (sometimes bordering on documentaries) about many stone age cultures and topics, I loved his essay on neanderthals and just how long it was.

      -Trey the Explainer: great YouTube channel talking about many topics that often dive into history. I recommend watching his video on the first joke in history.

      -Angela Collier: AMAZING channel regarding physics with the great Angela Collier, if I remember correctly she has a PhD and has explained many physics topics history of physics and physics as an academic field.

      -PBS SpaceTime: I think this one is WAY more recognized but in case it is not, this channel is physics oriented and also provided very detailed explanations of many topics of the field.

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    • VirtualOdour@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Vsauce2 has some amazing ones, the videos about problems with the justice system are well worth a watch

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    • sparkle@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’ve seen a lot more chessnetwork drama than you’d believe

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  • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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.

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    • Guntrigger@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      10/10 would be outraged again

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  • teft@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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.

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    • very_well_lost@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Anton is the GOAT if you’re into space. He basically spends all his time reading recent scientific papers and then summarizes them for a general audience without exaggerating or editorializing like you see with most other science reporting.

      He’s perfect for anyone with a deep love of science who wants to keep up with the very latest developments but doesn’t have the time to keep up with the ‘literature’.

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    • Eldritch@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I liked Anton’s content. The forced smile at the end always kind of weirds me out a bit. I’m sure there’s a story behind it or something. But that’s not a comment on the content he produces. It’s definitely watchable

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  • MissJinx@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I keep thinking I should look into this MrBeast drama, then I remember I just do not give a single fuck.

    You represent me

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  • macrocarpa@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Check out Camping with Steve. It’s the antithesis of drama. Dude just wants to sleep weird places and have a quiet beer, as far as I can tell.

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    • nomous@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Steve is a good man and he deserves all the success he finds. Him losing people close to him so close together must’ve been incredibly tough and I’m happy he hasn’t hung it up yet.

      RIP Beautiful Wife and Crazy Neighbor. They’ll be waiting for him in the hereafter with a trusty Step 2

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  • mediOchre@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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

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    • NostraDavid@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      SmarterEveryDay is nice too, though that’s more focused on engineering stuff.

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  • Nougat@fedia.io ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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).

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    • llii@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I like Aging Wheels.

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    • Zoidsberg@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m desperate for drama-free car stuff. I was excited that Pumphrey stepped away from everything to start his own channel, then his first video was him emotionally talking into the camera for 45 minutes.

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  • Angry_Autist@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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.

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    • NostraDavid@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The older generation survived 4chan and worse. We’ll be fine.

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  • yamanii@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You are so cool for not caring about exploitation of vulnerable people by one of their peers.

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    • tux7350@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      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?

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• fhqwgads@possumpat.io ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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.

  The 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.

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  • yeahiknow3@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Creatures like Mr. Beast need to be destroyed and his carcass displayed as a warning to others. That would be obviously moral but really impractical so I’m not promoting it.

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    • fox2263@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Upvote for suppuration

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    • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      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.

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• ZhaoYadang@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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.

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  • NotAnotherLemmyUser@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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.

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    • yamanii@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Maybe the french should’ve just asked nicely for the nobles to treat them better.

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    • AstralPath@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah, I agree with you. That shit’s fucked up.

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    • ZhaoYadang@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      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.

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    • Emmie@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah bloodthirst is never a good look

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  • IGuessThisIsForNSFW@yiffit.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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.

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    • Kalothar@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Please, what is the extension, the people need to know without googling

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  • probableprotogen@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Mr. Beast is playing some deathmatch irl

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• cyborganism@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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.

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  • snooggums@midwest.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Is anyone surprised that someone who goes by Mr Beast is living up to his stage name?

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    • phdepressed@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      To my understanding he got his internet fame primarily from videos of giving people money. Never watched his stuff though.

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  • yogurtwrong@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Idk I kinda like when he burns and crushes stuff. We watch other more “human focused” videos like “don’t get out of chamber” with my family but those have a more of a TV show vibe than a youtube video

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• Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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.

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  • LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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• stoly@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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.

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  • viking@infosec.pub ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    How do you know how he acts if you never watched a single video?

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• drawerair@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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 while Coffeezilla isn’t.

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  • Mr_Blott@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m so, so glad I have absolutely no clue who any of these people are. Your brain must be the consistency of wet toilet roll

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• cheers_queers@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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

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  • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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

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  • stoly@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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.

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• SilentStorms@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The whole “content cop” vibe of this video is fucked considering its such a serious topic. We need an actual journalist to dig into this.

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  • Casual_Harper@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I don’t use the word cringe much, but the way this was presented gave me second-hand embarrassment. It was hard for me to watch, content notwithstanding.

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  • yamanii@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Youtube drama being presented in the youtube style is fair.

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  • probableprotogen@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah the delivery would be better in some normal clothes tbh

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• YeetPics@mander.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Guess who’s gonna make the alt-right turn in a month?

  That’s right! It’s Mr Beast Couch

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• VirtualOdour@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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.

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  • Angry_Autist@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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).

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• thrawn@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m not a YouTube guy; I only follow one channel I found during the Covid lockdowns, this kid called Technoblade who was low key while being really good at the game Minecraft. They worked together sometimes. Didn’t make Mr Beast seem very cool.

  From what I’ve seen, he just inserts his loud personality into things by throwing money at people. It was never “hanging out with Mr Beast”, but “Mr Beast is giving out money”. Those guys are generally bad people, I cannot think of an exception.

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  • Daxtron2@startrek.website ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m not sure if you know already but techno passed away not too long ago :(

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• corstian@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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.

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  • Angry_Autist@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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.

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  • redisdead@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    My nephew introduced me to him via a video of him taking is friends through more and more expensive airplane trips.

    It was extremely showoffy, I never watched any of his stuff after that.

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• anas@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m going to preface this by pointing out that I don’t watch Mr. Beast, and I didn’t watch either of the two videos. My only comment is that it’s a little suspicious that this person is stretching out the accusations across two (three?) videos, across multiple days. Feels like they’re farming for the drama views for as long as possible.

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• jerkface@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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

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• Mastengwe@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Who?

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• yamanii@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Kudos to Kavernacle for being the original hater, he was shit talking Mr Beast 4 years ago in the height of his popularity.

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• demizerone@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Look at all these people white knighting for a Sociopath being a for profit charity and scammer.

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• Snapz@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Who is the author of this video? What type of stuff do they usually do? Generally credible?

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• Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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

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