• BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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    Because he’s just a boy in a basement. Don’t judge, you’d keep a boy in a basement if you could, too.

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      Wait, you guys don’t already have a basement boy? What do you use to get rid of the scary spiders and cobwebs down there?

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    Did Mr. Beast just use the words cop and criminal interchangeably? Or am I misunderstanding something.

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      With a cop in the same cell? Probably not very common, but seeing that this is show with cameras around, I don’t expect anything genuine

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          Right, and how commonly they’re put in the same cell? Last I checked, they commonly get special treatment

          EDIT: Nevermind, I completely missed the joke because I live in a country that respects police since they actually serve the public

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              Northern Europe. Or East Europe depending on who you ask. Baltics.

              EDIT: Just to elaborate with some exceptions: I ride an illegal Ebike, but police knows this and has pretty much made a verbal exception because I’m always respectful of others, don’t break laws, don’t speed, I’ve been riding it for a decade with multiple random stops and checks and explanations, etc. - always everything being good except for the voltage of my ebike, but I do live in a rural region where after I leave small city of 10k, I have to drive 7km to my home and I can’t drive a car due to medical condition. They have always been understanding.

              Another one is that each time I’ve had to call them, they genuinely showed real interest and all problems were promptly solved - flooding from neighbouring farm after they messed with dams, some jackasses using shitty rural roads as dragstrip (probably saved their lives), laptop theft

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    Completely out of the loop:

    Who’s Mr Beast, what does he do, why should I know him?

    What does it mean “I have”? What does he have? A new type of game show? A movie, book, play, game?

    Is this real or satire?

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      He’s a wildly popular streamer guy that does wacky shit like this and it somehow translate to lots of views/money. I didn’t know who he was for a very long time to many peoples’ surprise. I was truly disappointed he didn’t look like Beast from the X-men.

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      Being serious:

      • started as a YouTuber that did trend videos like “I did the latest trend, but did it BIGGER”
      • figured out a (very exploitative) formula for maximising viewer retention whilst getting as many sponsorship deals into a video as possible
      • Became the first YouTube Millionaire
      • Started amping up this formula by making the challenges shocking and attention grabbing, such as “I PUT 10 PEOPLE IN AN UNLOCKED HOTEL ROOM, LAST TO LEAVE GETS $5 MILLION”
      • realised he could wash his terrible reputation by occasionally releasing a charity video instead, kept it being exploitative though, his most famous example was “I CURED THE BLINDNESS OF 100 PEOPLE” (all blind because they had treatable, easily, diseases but American Healthcare is so exploitative they couldn’t afford to get the treatment)
      • Managed to get a TV series called “Beast Games” that’s this but TV

      He’s basically everything wrong with YouTube rolled into one person

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          I barely know who Mr Beast is, I’ve NEVER seen one of his videos, but Publix had one of his candy bars on their Clearance Shelf (I love the Clearance Shelf), and it was really good chocolate, much more like European Chocolate. It was smoother without that vomity alkaline taste that American chocolate has, that we’ve all gotten used to.

          It didn’t turn me into a fan, but his chocolate bar was actually really good.

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            It’s definitely not really good and like European, but it is a step above Hershey. It sits somewhere in the middle. If you found it cheap it was probably a good value.

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            Very much agree. As a UK bod, American chocolate bars generally taste like poison and smell like sick.

            My kids were big fans of Mr Beast when the chocolate bars came out, so of course we had to buy it when we saw it. And honestly, it was actually really good.

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      That is Lucifer, the great beast, the biblical devil. Hence “Mr Beast”. He revealed himself to humanity in the mid 2010s, expecting to incite the apocalypse. But everyone was already pretty shook at the general state of the world, so nobody cared. He still tries to shock the world with diabolical stunts, but he really just can’t compete with politicians and billionaires. Kind of tough to see, tbh. Kinda sad.

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      I have only vague knowledge, but I think it’s real. He’s a twat that a huge number of kids look up to, who is essentially the end boss of capitalistic decay.

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      He’s a YouTuber who does “game shows” with concepts like in this post. The tweet might be fake though, OP didn’t post a link.

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        Note, he’s not just ‘a YouTuber’, he is currently the most popular one by quite a margin.

        Note that this doesn’t mean his content is good or worthwhile.

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    This guy has half a dozen people locked up for “content”. Is anyone else seeing how this is hugely problematic?

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      Yes, in fact there’s a whole genre of video essay where people explain how Mr Beast is problematic.

      But to be fair, he’s just an extension of the last 30 years of reality tv. Lure some desperate people with a large sum of cash, make them suffer in front of the camera, edit liberally, air for the entertainment of millions.

      Additionally, one of the most popular tv shows of the decade is a criticism of exactly this phenomenon. Mr Beast did a whole tv series that tried to be Squid Game unironically, completely missing the moral of the story and spawning another round of criticism. Something something Guy Debord, something Jean Baudrillard something.

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      If the people are doing it voluntarily, and the minor(s) have parental consent, I don’t see the issue. I doubt they have no way to leave early.

      Now, it may be problematic from a societal standpoint, that people want to do such a thing because they don’t make enough money.

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        Sounds like you haven’t watched Black Mirror. Most episodes are worth a watch, but for this conversation, I recommend starting with Series 7 Episode 1.

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        That’s precisely the point of the proplem: he exploits misery and dreams of wealth in a society that by design creates misery and glorifies money.

        Imagine someone neeeding the money to save an ill relative. Would you still call it"voluntarily"?

        And all those kids who dream of getting rich by suffering on video, what kind of value is that promoting?

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        Some dude who agreed to one of these extended challenges released a video exposing the behind the scenes abuse they do to get you to stay as long as possible so they get more content from you. Their whole investment of time and hype isn’t worth it if you leave after a few days like you’re tempted to. It was pretty disturbing, I believe it’s still on YouTube.

        The only set ups that aren’t as abusive imo are the ones that can only last so long and are in public. I believe one was whoever keeps their hand on the car the longest wins the car. That one is pretty harmless with a decent pay off.

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        I feel like there are various pieces of cinema pointing out why this is very fucking problematic

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        It would be pointless if they had no way to leave early. The entire premise is that they have to voluntarily endure the situation for the reward.

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    Why any of these? I am confused. Seems like anyone living in a gym and being paid money would lose weight. They all sound pretty stupid.

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      Because it’s not supposed to make sense as a game concept. It’s just supposed to generate a video that will get clicks. That it doesn’t make sense for the actual contestant isn’t a factor.

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      Jimmy is a fucking idiot. See any of the behind the scenes stuff and weird attempts at making Beast Games work. No planning, no actual experience with logistics, game design, filming, editing, etc.

      He’s just some schmuck with money, and people keep giving him more.

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    If Mr Beast was twenty years older, he would’ve been the one paying bums to fight.

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        Bum Flights: a show about trying to find among 100 unhoused people any of them who are capable of learning flight sims and eventually becoming pilots. Like crop duster level pilots realistically. Airline pilot certification is probably too far along to be entertaining.

        Exploitative? Still probably exploitative. Guaranteed to be at least marginally better than whatever the Beast Studios people are making

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        D’oh. I’ve edited it so now your comment doesn’t make sense. Flight -> fight.

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        Is this like flying super kids, just with adults instead?

        Yeah people would watch jumping gymnastics

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    All of these are just working people being toyed with by the rich for their entertainment and profit

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      Dude literally watched Squid Game and said that shit would be better if it were real then set out and did it.

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          Of course you would. I probably would too. It’s life changing money. But the morality of these ‘challenges’ is extremely fucked. And $5k a day is pocket change to Mr Beast who makes $1.6 million a day 🤮

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      A 2.5 million private jet is, uh, probably not new.

      The smallest Very Light Jets, like the Cessna Mustang or HondaJet, start around $5 million new.

      So you’re probably looking at a decades old plane, almost certainly not enough room to fully stand up, and possibly no lavatory.

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      All of these are just working people being toyed with by the rich for their entertainment and profit

      That’s literally a description of society. Not just modern society, society throughout all of history. The rich and powerful have always toyed with the peasants.

      These are just variations of game shows. Do X and you can win $/Prizes while they film it and play advertisements while people watch.

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    The first thing i think about when I see this is npt Squid game but The ones who walk away from Omelas

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    I have a pilot where one beast is captured and chained by each limb to ratchets. Ever 100 likes tightens a ratchet one notch. Which limb will give out first? Will the beast survive?

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      I know someone who’s 28. She doesn’t work, has a well-off partner and is behaving like a child/teenager. So uh, yeah, checks out only kids (actual or otherwise) watch him. The rest of us are grossed out by the idea and creeped out by his soulless eyes.

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        Ahhh, I always wondered who watches the super high views, super shitty clickbait garbage. Turns out it’s the same people who play the f2p-but-it’s-all-microtransactions games.

        Depressing.

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          There’s a pretty big viewerbase of toddlers, that’s not the Mr Beast territory. That’s the unboxing toys kinds of videos, somewhat due to them almost being incapable of leaving a loop

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      I think so unfortunately.

      I recall hearing about the pilot one as the twist was that his family was waiting outside as the end approached and this sick fuck tried to get him to stay in longer for more money.

      Haven’t heard of the others mind you. They’re on brand for him though.