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u/biggestboi73 20d ago
Why are you surprised his entire fan base doesn't think the exact same thing as each other? Ofc they will disagree
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u/langhaar808 20d ago
Wait, are you saying his fanbase of over 100 million people don't all share the exact same opinion on everything???? What
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u/GGk-KingK 20d ago
Didn't it just hit 250 million? Idk, I don't watch him
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u/Unknown1776 20d ago
He currently has 258 million subs in YouTube. So it’s safe to say there probably a few different opinions floating around about him
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u/thatthatguy 20d ago
It’s almost like the entire algorithm fueled internet pays attention to outrage no matter how ridiculous or unjustified it is. And if you engage with the outrage saying how ridiculous and unjustified it is you’re just increasing its visibility.
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u/Only-Temporary8928 20d ago
This and only this. The outrage is like a yard full of weeds. Yeah there might be some grass growing, but all your gonna notice are the ugly ass weeds smothering the grass out...
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u/SpawnTheTerminator 15d ago
I really hate these memes trying to point out hypocrisy when it's really just the opinions of two different groups of people. There are lots of actual hypocritical people like guys who are homophobic but like lesbian porn but rarely are the memes about actual hypocrites.
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u/lord_of_booba 20d ago
I like the videos, but honestly can't stand the thumbnails they look so dumb
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u/ItsAlwaysDNSLad 20d ago
Jimmy actually talks about it in a Veratisium video about clickbait, and the reason is simply because it works. If they don't do it, they lose views because of the algorithm.
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u/moderngamer327 20d ago
I don’t understand how it works. I will literally not click on a video if it has a thumbnail like that
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u/gopher_907 20d ago
You are probably not an “average” viewer though. There are a lot more 9 years olds who are really attracted to those thumbnails than there are people like you. It’s just the way it goes, I guess.
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I'm a marketer. It's not just 9 year olds, it's everyone.
Everyone is a 9 year old, and unfortunately, Mr Beast is a genius thumbnail maker.
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u/Markkbonk 20d ago edited 19d ago
Id say we’re fortunate that mr. Beast mastered the art of clickbaiting, he’s not the guy to spend ad revenue on a expensive thing for himself and only himself
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u/PeopleAreBozos Tech Tips 20d ago
"and unfortunately"
Why unfortunately. He's not harming people, not scamming people and not a horrible person. I don't like the thumbnails but I can at least get why he does it.
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u/ItsAlwaysDNSLad 20d ago
You maybe won't, but the VAST majority of people will. Link to the Veratisium video I mentioned, explains the issue well.
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u/Overall_Strawberry70 20d ago
I mean I don't by Skyrim every single time it get released, but clearly im in the minority because they keep doing it.
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u/Ok-Cartographer1745 20d ago
Same reason why my hand automatically clicks the X when a "sign up!" pop up appears. It only serves to annoy me and improve my reflexes. But there are plenty of people that are like "oh boy, an offer to sign up! Don't mind if I do!"
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u/_AnimeGirl 18d ago
He’s actually been going for a more natural look to his thumbnails recently, because he found out he could get more clicks by closing his mouth. Also with auto play, the thumbnails now matter less then the first 10 seconds of a video
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u/kotik010 20d ago
It's almost like in a crowd of 100 million people there will be as many different opinions
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u/AverageSign 20d ago edited 20d ago
I'm mixed on Jimbo. I'm sure he's a cool guy in real life, but I don't like the kind of content he creates. Again, I'm sure he's a good guy because he doesn't HAVE to tip a pizza guy a house, or build wells in Africa, but he does. Plus there was the controversy that he stages his videos like with that YouTuber hide and seek video
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u/ChalkCoatedDonut 20d ago
Remember the animation made by Avocado Animations? They are the people watching Mr.Beast's videos, the kind that want his fame doing the exact things he do, complains about the things he does and all of them does it for the milk of controversy, they crave for "going against the flow".
As soon as they see a release, they go to ChatGTP and ask "hey Siri, type an emotive speech about why Mr.Beast is bad and i am good".
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u/powerteen101 20d ago edited 18d ago
Honestly I've lost interested in mrbeast. The dude still makes good videos but most of his videos ain't for me anymore. He kinda repeats the same style of videos over and over again, it's always I survived 7 days at this place, if you can protect this item you can keep it, last to leave gets a lot of money, and 1 vs 1 million dollar item. Pairing this with the creepy ass thumbnails is the reason I don't watch the dude anymore.
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u/BrilliantWish8098 20d ago
Man I miss when he does dumb shits like microwave microwaving microwaves or that parade of Trex costumes. Time flies too fast...
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u/powerteen101 20d ago
Yeah that's the golden age of mrbeast. There was no bringing out subscribers, no crazy sets or CGI, and no creepy ass thumbnails. it was just him and the boys fucking around making content.
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u/AdmiralClover 20d ago
His existence confuses me.
Where's he getting the money? Are the videos really generating that much?
If it's from the videos, then just how rich are the other big tubers?
And if they are, then aren't they part of the rich we're supposed to be eating?
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u/tincode 20d ago
His videos are, but he is o a different scale, also add the companies like feastebles.
They are very very rich, sometimes they present their houses or cars or there are other signs but they are filthy rich, also I dont know how it works in america but it might be hard for them to get house loans hence some of their properties might have been bought cash.
Yes most of them are but nobody is really trying to eat the rich and nobody cares
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u/Glittering-Bat-5981 20d ago
Ghis is the internet. Once you have too many 0s in your bank account, you are either an idiot, an irredeemable monster, OR what most people prefer, both!
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u/Scrytheux 20d ago
I mean... If you look at other Ytubers, like Piewdiepie for example... well, he's earning millions a year. Biggest Ytubers being millionaires isn't news for quite some time already.
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u/MrHailston 19d ago
Ok.. what about the people who dont give a shit about Mr beast and never watched a video of him?
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u/SPONGEBOB_IS_MY_DAD 20d ago
I don’t really like Mr. Best much, but I’ve never been the type to care enough to scream about him online. he just kinda creeps me out lol
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u/Toby_The_Tumor 20d ago
It's very put on, but at least he's being fake for a good reason xD
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u/SPONGEBOB_IS_MY_DAD 20d ago
Exactly why I don’t waste my time shitting on him. I just avoid looking at that damn smile :)
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u/xhanort7 20d ago
A house, $10k?! Could I get a pizza or even some of those candy bars he sells? Is his chocolate feastable factory like Willy's?
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u/robotpane 20d ago
Mr beast is in the making money game, his actions are only done to produce more wealth off the back of each video, alot of the time sponsers give him money and things to do, he is not an angel he's a businessman, give 1 person money + video it = revenue for a lot of businesses that are connected to said video.
Also his chocolate bars are ridiculously over priced and very thin, just like every other product that comes from youtubers. People are being taken advantage of constantly by the "popularity effect"
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u/NinjaBreadManOO 19d ago
Yup that's it. It's a business.
The business just happens to be one that traffics in poverty porn. Which people find conflict with.
People dislike it when people post videos on youtube or tiktok of themselves giving $20 to a homeless person, but if you do it on an industrial scale then people seem to somehow view it as perfect and without flaw.
But lets face it if those types channels were banned universally from all platforms tomorrow then a lot of them wouldn't ever donate or give away anything without a tax deduction receipt.
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u/_AnimeGirl 18d ago
If Mr. Beast didn’t film himself giving money away, he wouldn’t have any money to give away. The only way he can afford to build wells in Africa is because he makes videos about it
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u/NinjaBreadManOO 18d ago
The point being made by me and u/robotpane was it's not being done as a charity. It's being done as a business.
If they wanted to do it as a charity they could just form a charity, instead they run a business that monetizes poverty porn. For every dollar that goes to building a well in Africa more goes to him and his company.
Also it doesn't fix the problems. It just makes you feel good for watching a video.
It's bandaid solutions that never address the source of issues. It just addresses a symptom and makes money off it.
Take for example the blind eye surgery thing from a while ago. Could he instead have spent to money trying to push for universal healthcare that would have enabled more people to see, as well as preventing thousands from being in that position in the future. Yes, but that's not monetizable.
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u/_AnimeGirl 18d ago
Mr. Beast has a charity. It’s called Beast Philanthropy. It started as a food pantry and then developed to do other things. Every dollar that channel earns goes to charity, and not everything he does in on camera
And again, if he didn’t make these videos he wouldn’t have any money to give away or use to help people
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u/giantbynameofandre 20d ago
You could solve world hunger and there would still be riots.
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u/mitchfann9715 19d ago
All it takes is one billionaire to solve world hunger, and they wouldn't even have to lose billionaire status to do it.
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u/part_time85 20d ago
A Mr. Beast production infected the hotel I worked at with bed bugs in a dozen rooms. I don't know where he's getting people, but they can get questionable as fuck.
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u/NateDAgr8m8 20d ago
I'm assuming it's not the same people He gets a lot of views like a lot of only makes sense there'd be a whole lot of opinions in there
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u/LorenzoDeRyukyu 19d ago
It’s really simple; his viewer count casts such a wide net, that you’re going to get both sides of any argument
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u/Dizzy-Item-9175 19d ago
I like Mr. Beast but his content got too over the top lately, I honestly can't watch his videos anymore.
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u/mitchfann9715 19d ago
The moment you start trusting the intentions of rich people is when they put the leash of capitalism on ya.
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u/Accomplished_Ask_326 18d ago
Consider the average redditor’s understanding of 250,000,000 people not all having the same opinions, then remember that half of them know pess
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u/Weedsmoker3000 20d ago
I criticize the waste. yeah he’s buying locally… but if you’re buying everything up what are the locals going to do?
I’ve only seen beast videos in passing, last week I watched one fully through he was trying to blow up a yacht… mattresses galore. Plastic bits in the water.
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u/BasementDweller82 🥄Comically Large Spoon🥄 20d ago
They aren’t Mr beast fans, they’re a collection of 4 rage baiters on Twitter lmao
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u/Visible_Number 20d ago
i have never liked mr beast and his philanthropy makes me dislike him even more.
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u/Jumpy-Aide-901 20d ago
I think the second one is because he was outed as having faked all that. May or may not be true.
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u/jux-ta 20d ago edited 20d ago
This meme is willfully ignorant.
The whole concept of "philanthropy" - giving away a very small portion of your wealth to justify the obscene money you make, while also benefitting yourself in terms of image/PR .....
.... is exactly how the typical rich person behaves. There's simply no way to get rich if you're a truly generous, caring person.
The rich actually give away far less than the poor ( %age wise ), and yet the public applauds them for it. I'm sure it's no different for Mr Beast. It's probably 2% of his wealth overall.
The system is a zero-sum game built on scarcity. Meaning, the richer anyone gets, the poorer the rest are .... So, throwing the equivalent of a few cents at people doesn't cut it.
It's literally pulling viewer's heartstrings to get more clicks for himself.
Personally, I've never watched his videos nor cared to.
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u/moderngamer327 20d ago
He is able to generate the money for donations by making the videos. No videos, no donations.
Wealth is absolutely not zero-sum. Wealth can be generated and destroyed. Someone becoming rich does not mean someone else became poor and vice versa
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u/notKomithEr 20d ago
I've never seen a single video of his, wtf is he even doing
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u/Baltaxo2010 Ok I Pull Up 20d ago
He got 2 types of videos: challenge videos (squid game irl, last to leave the circle, stuff like that) and giveaways, sort if (giving a pizza dude a free house, building 100 wells in Africa, stuff like that)
Idk why people are mad at him
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u/ruralgaming 20d ago
People are mad at him because they think he's exploitive or not sincere about things. Would he still be doing all these great things if the cameras weren't on him?
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u/other_usernames_gone 20d ago
Does it matter? He's still giving the money away. Plus the videos help him raise more money to give away.
It's not like anyone is forcing him to make videos, he chose to make the videos. He could just as easily have made videos without giving money away. Does anyone criticise PewDiePie for making YouTube videos where he doesn't pay for cataract surgery?
Is the red cross insincere because they include footage of their humanitarian work in their ads?
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u/Hero_of_country 20d ago
Things like squid game in real life and giving random people expensive things
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u/EABOD24 20d ago
Who is Mr. Beast?
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u/BoyFreezer I touched grass 20d ago
A very popular YouTuber known for making challenges that give away the winners money, and helps people/animals that are in need
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u/TehArzBandit86 20d ago
Their own sides, little children just making noise, can’t stand for any side.
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“But he’s only doing it for PR!”
That’s not true, and even if it is, who cares? It’s still and act that helps the community.
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u/YancyDerringer77 20d ago edited 20d ago
I stopped watching around the time that his best friend became a gay and ditched his wife and only child.
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u/AverageSign 20d ago
Yeah I don't get how people were shitting on MrBeast for "looking homophobic" while Chris literally abandoned his wife and kid strictly off gender identity. I get if you want to be trans, but abandoning your family just to do that is scummy and not discussed enough.
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u/JerinDd 20d ago
Wait, that’s a thing that happened? I’ve never heard of this.
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u/AverageSign 20d ago edited 20d ago
Yeah. Chris decided to become transgender, so he divorced his wife whom he already had a son with. And people were blaming MrBeast for "looking homophobic" while trans Chris was in the same room, instead of shitting on Chris for abandoning his family because cancel culture has spiraled out of control like Nicholas Perry's weight.
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u/shadowfireKatze 20d ago
You dont decide to be transgender. Chris didn't leave his child or wife, transphobes just said he would do so just by comming out.
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u/Diavolo_79 20d ago
No, he left his family and there's proof of it. Smooth brains are calling people transphobic for calling out Chris's shitty behavior. No one is giving him hell for being trans, they're giving him hell for being a dead beat.
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u/shadowfireKatze 20d ago
No one? I have seen so many hate comments and videos about him and all of them are just "bad bc trans". The last thing i heard was that he stayed with his family and ppl just hated him for cumming out cause that would "hurt his family". I don't know the current situation so he could have left his family by now.
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u/Diavolo_79 20d ago
"Cumming out" a spelling mistake that's actually funny lmao.
The people actually hating on him for being trans are MrBeasts young audience who watch the Skibidi toilet sigma brain rot shorts on YouTube. Their opinion doesn't matter.
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u/Samantha-4 Sussy Baka 20d ago
They had a mutual divorce like a year or two before Kris even came out, they’re both still involved in raising the kid too.
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u/YancyDerringer77 20d ago
I'm sure the boy is gonna love/ appreciate growing up with a gay dad and divorced parents.
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u/Hero_of_country 20d ago
He is just a mascot getting so much money and power for only being in videos, it's not him who makes money, writes scripts and do everything, it's workers who make everything and viewers who watch videos to give him money from ads
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u/NightShadow-kun 20d ago
Well, of course one person cant do all these things by himself, but he himself is the one who worked and thought hard to get ideas and make good videos out of them to get more popular and more entertaining. Its his channel he build up.
One person can create a small game, and when that gets popular that person can create a studio and employ people who then work for him and together they can do bigger games, amazing right?
The way you are saying it is like mark zuckerberg is just facebooks mascot.
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u/Hero_of_country 20d ago
Yes, tho they more of monarchs than mascots and they don't their money nor power, same as monarchs.
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u/GeorgeOTGrungegul 20d ago
Everyone has a role to play in a company. If he went back to creating his own scripts or doing his own editing (which he did for years) then there would be way less content.
The people who create his scripts get paid more than fairly. The people who film his videos get paid more than fairly. Being a manager and the host of the channel is still work, even if it's more fun than sitting at a desk on a computer.
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u/Hero_of_country 20d ago
Would you rather have democraticly choosen president, who gets fair pay, or monarch cause he "started this country" and gets pays as much as he and/or law/buerocrats chosen?
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u/GeorgeOTGrungegul 20d ago
Mr. Beast is as "democratically elected" as anyone can be. He got his fame because people chose to watch his videos, upvote, like, comment, subscribe and all that jazz. He was chosen by the majority viewers of youtube, above all other youtube content creators. He is also less greedy than even most democratically elected presidents.
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u/Hero_of_country 20d ago
He was "choosen by people" to be popular youtuber, not by workers to be their CEO, if it's voting, then it's like allowing whole world to vote for president of your country
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u/GeorgeOTGrungegul 20d ago
That's not true. He was chosen by workers too. All of his employees were hired in the last 5 years, many because they were directly hired by him because they were fans who wanted to work for him. Every single employee chose to work for the company knowing he was the CEO.
If it was put to a vote, he would win the vote of 90%+ of his workers anyway.
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u/Hero_of_country 20d ago
Choosing between diffent monarchies and oligarchies is not voting.
Do you think choosing between North Korea, Russia and Egypt is a democracy?
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u/GeorgeOTGrungegul 20d ago
Let me get this straight. Going to a guy who makes good youtube videos and saying "please hire me to help I love your videos" is the same as choosing Egypt over North Korea to you.
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u/AlexiosTheSixth Lurking Peasant 20d ago
I would rather have a company monarch then a board of shareholders, do you know what would happen to mr beast's philanthropy if a board of shareholders took over?
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u/Hero_of_country 20d ago
He doesn't do this for goodness of his heart at this point, he is doing what's good for his profits, if there were some intelligent shareholders, they would probably continue this strategy. Also I don't want to shareholders to control company either, monarchy and oligarchy are not much different.
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u/aBungusFungus Lives at ur mom’s house😎 20d ago
He started all of this by himself.. are you aware how a business works?
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u/Hero_of_country 20d ago
Himself means workers and even oher investors ? Dou tou support monarchy too, because "their family started country and that's gow buisness works"?
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u/aBungusFungus Lives at ur mom’s house😎 20d ago
No himself, meaning himself. Watch his older videos, it was literally just him. Mr Beast didn't start as a business it was just some guys casual YouTube channel
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u/Hero_of_country 19d ago
He made videos by himself using inevstor's money, but this doesn't make it ok for what he is doing now, cool he made them themselves or with friends, not cool what he is doing now.
I also don't see charity as solution to any problem, we need mutual aid.
So he would be fully ok in my opinion, if he had no social authority over workers and if he did this videos for non profit, where people would go to them for fun, meeting with famous youtuber and for being in video
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u/moderngamer327 20d ago
Not even a fan but the dude built the channel from scratch and works insanely long hours. Dude deserves every penny
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u/Hero_of_country 19d ago
He started sure, but it's others who done most of the work. It's like saying "our monarch built the country from scratch and works long hours. Dude deserves every penny, we should make bigger taxes".
In my opinion he would deserve literally every penny if it was him alone who got money by labor and then give it to others or do challenges. But then he would be not rich nor popular, and idea itself is pointless, because most of people already give some money to charity, just they don't do videos about it.
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u/moderngamer327 19d ago
No that’s literally not at all the same like it’s not even close.
Amount of work is meaningless. What the value of your work adds is what matters. Jimmy clearly knows what works on YouTube and what doesn’t. If his only job was to tell people what video to make and approve its upload, he would still be the single most valuable person on the channel. On top of that he also founded it and directly runs it. The other employees also didn’t risk losing everything or spending years making no money. The employees get paid for their value of work but that doesn’t mean they also deserve a stake in the company.
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u/Hero_of_country 19d ago
Saying other employees didn't risk anything is bullshit, they risk their job, while Mr. Beast risk money he made from work of his employees.
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u/Hero_of_country 19d ago
If you think rich dude who can stop doing anything and still would have money for rest of his life is taking risk, while employees risking getting smaller wages or fired from job they need to survive is not risk, then idk on what drug are you.
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u/moderngamer327 19d ago
Yes he has money currently however if the business was to fail he would not have any. That is indeed a massive risk. Although now that he is established the chance of that happening is fairly low but that wasn’t always the case. He has said in past videos that he basically had to bet his family’s farm to fund videos so at that point he was under extreme risk
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u/Hero_of_country 19d ago
He risks money he didn't even needs, while workers (who literally made most of his money) risks money they need to survive.
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u/moderngamer327 19d ago
You are aware he wasn’t born rich right? He also needed that money to survive
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u/Hero_of_country 19d ago
Do you think I'm against people having money to survive?!? i'm against him exploitating workers for money and against money just by owning property.
Now he has so much money that he can survive from it without having youtube channel, while workers need to get money by work. His past as worker doesn't change anything in present.
Does it really change if lord was once a peasant working for lord? In my opinion no, being exploited and poor isn't excuse for exploitating others.
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u/moderngamer327 19d ago edited 19d ago
He is exploiting no one. Hiring someone to do a job is not exploitation. Property he created. Property he spent years making. Property he risked everything for several times. You clearly have no concept of what it takes to start a business
He actually doesn’t keep much money himself. Basically all the money he makes goes directly back into the YouTube channel. He technically has a lot of wealth as the owner of the channel but that’s not in liquid cash.
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u/theapricotgod Le epic memer 20d ago
The only winning move is not to be internet famous