I honestly can’t watch an hour long video right now. Does anyone have a TLDW? I skimmed through the first 10 mins and it’s all about his videos being scripted, edited, and using paid actors. That’s not really surprising. What I’m curious about is if he really gives away all that money and stuff (i.e. cars, houses) to people. The video probably goes into that later on but I haven’t gotten to it.
The TL:DW is Mr. Beast is a master of using gambling psychology to capture kids’ attention, to then sell them horribly unhealthy foods. His contests and giveaways are largely fake and/or are rigged to favor other creators, friends and family. He constantly fails to deliver promised prizes, and he runs live streams that are essentially child gambling masquerading as sweepstakes. He violates sweepstakes laws all the time but seems to get away with it by taking down old streams, and DMCAs any clips that get uploaded by others. He has also promoted a scheme to get his fans to act as child labor and stock/organize his products at Walmart.
Damn how is this just now coming out?
Like I figured most of it had to be bullshit when I found the “Mr. Beast Burger” ghost kitchens on Uber eats.
I ordered it once and I was very disappointed when it wasn’t actually ground Mr. Beast.
0/10 and have started a class action lawsuit if anyone wants to join.
Can we file joinly against the Girl Scouts?
There has to be some kind of violation of the Mercantile Act.Somoas indeed…
The video author posted this comment under the video which goes over his main claims:
"Claims I provide evidence for in this video:
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Many MrBeast videos are fake, contests are unfairly rigged, and contestants are often undisclosed friends and family of MrBeast employees, or employees themselves.
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MrBeast has run multiple illegal lotteries targeting children. (I estimate they profited over $10,000,000 from these lotteries)
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MrBeast knowingly sold merch with fake autographs while claiming on his website that “The autographed piece is genuine”. (fraud imo)
Also MrBeast knew about Kris being a pdf"
how do you convert “pedophile” into PDF?
Adobe Acrobat can do anything these days
Right click on him and click “print.” Then where you pick a printer choose “convert/print to PDF.”
Ohh that’s what was meant. I thought it was about some document before reading your comment.
People saying pdf file instead of pedophile because of internet brain rot. What a cool thing to discuss serious topics and call them stupid fucking names in the least serious way possible.
I really hate the culture of self censorship people are developing. Fuck the corporate clean Internet.
I’m not advocating for being uncivilized but we should name the things we are discussing by their names.
I hate how people call it “cheese pizza” for “CP/child porn.”
Like, I get that YouTube is fucking bullshit about censoring things that don’t immediately bring them as revenue, but it’s still gross imo.
You’re not defending anyone by calling it something entirely unrelated aside from the first letter of each word.
Its very prevalent in Commie-China-Places. Pooh-Bear to mean XiPIGpIng. 8964 for TiannamenSquare Massacre. Taiwan #1 Country. All those are censored behind the Great Firewall of China.
I’m pretty sure that the Chinese can’t get on Lemmy anyway though. If they somehow find a way then they don’t need to censor themselves because obviously.
Seems like a weird justification.
Pretty sure that cheese pizza originated in IT because it was so common to see, and ignore, CP on exec’s computers when you had to go fix them. It was used to share the info without getting busted talking about it.
It’s like how people censor the word Microsoft as M$. Like why, say the name
That isn’t a censor, it is a statement and an abbreviation… I suppose PDF could be an abbreviation as well with pedo being one letter longer. PDF file on the other hand is just censor circumventing or their brand of humor.
No it isn’t because they’re abbreviating it to a phrase that’s more complicated to type. As opposed to the obvious abbreviation that even Microsoft use of MS
It’s because on many social media, the word pedo / pedofile wakes up the censor bots while PDF / PDF file does not. Yet.
I would tell you but I’m not signing up for the legalese involved in an Adobe Premiere Cloud Subscription. Fuckers reserve the right to use my art as AI training data?
I draw the finest chocolate starfish.
With some sort of Adobe tool I suppose. The use of TLAs by the US crowd is becoming increasingly confusing to me.
Well you understood what he meant, so you tell me.
"The autographed piece is genuine”. (fraud imo)
The PIECE is genuine. The autograph isn’t! Lmao
Also MrBeast knew about Kris being a pdf"
What is this about? I tried looking it up but all I’m getting is weird right wing shit.
It’s spoken about in the video, but a woman called Kris that worked for Mr Beast had some controversy come about I think grooming children or being a pedophile (not sure about details). Mr Beast feigned ignorance about it, but the guy in the OP video claims it was an “open secret everybody knew”. He also says it’s even worse than “just” that because Mr Beast’s company specifically works with understanding how to manipulate child psychology and bring children in, and videos etc have brought minors into easier access by Kris.
You might be getting a lot of weird right wing shit because Kris is a trans woman and a common right wing accusation against trans people is that they are pedophiles.
I’m like 90% sure it’s not true. Right wingers love to accuse LGBTQ+ people of being pedophiles because they’re intolerant little cunts. LGBTQ+ people can of course be pedophiles, but it’s no more likely than cishet people being pedophiles.
Problem is that trans people have been around non-western cultures for several millenia and are either tolerated or abused. But it has always been that trans was not treated as a problem in most of those societies that had them.
If PDF files / pedo-philes are using the trans “identity” as a sword and shield, it is ABSOLUTELY a BIG PROBLEM. Trans people should vehemently ban and completely villify these abhorrent criminal kiddie-diddlers for what they are.
Right-wing Nazis will use these and anything else as an excuse to go after the community supporting or hiding criminals. DO NOT LET THAT HAPPEN.
If you wish for a latest and greatest example of people abusing “identities” … #MeToo failed due to excessive AmberTurd, AnitaSNarkeesian, ZoeDQuinn publicity while mainstream media failed spectacularly. Most recently, DEIDIEESG and BRIDGE are also going to become like this and are well on their way to getting buried. DO NOT BECOME THESE KIND OF EXAMPLES. Elevate yourselves and keep the Criminals OUT.
I don’t really understand what you’re trying to say. LGBTQ+ people are at far higher risk of being the target of sexual abuse rather than the perpetrators. Why do you think they’d be any more willing of defending that abuse than any other group?
The police are the group most likely to defend abuse. Why aren’t they being targeted for being groomers?
Your comment, as far as I can understand it, is basically victim blaming LGBTQ+ people for being harassed by the right wing bigots. They’re not calling LGBTQ+ people groomers because they’ve got a genuine concern. They do it because they want to undertake genocide against LGBTQ+ people.
wow! somehow you came to the conclusion that I am victim-blaming ? :-/
the perpetrators are the ones who are going to victimize the groups who cant defend themselves.
Be prepared for all sorts of predators, pedo-philes, serial killers to start their closet journey and they will claim victimhood better than most normal people.
Police will defend their own people even if police commit the crime.
Right-wingers will claim special providence when their people commit the crime.
Criminals will claim to be part of a vulnerable group just so they can commit the crime.
Make up your own mind and judgement what is the safest choices.
Do not become victims of criminals.
Be Safe and Carry on living peacefully.
Add onto this that he is using lotteries to get people to buy his chocolate (even though its consistently rated as not as good as others) and he is lying about the healthiness of said chocolate.
Why would I expect more from a legal tv channel, say, owned by Murdoch or “left leaning” like CNN?
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I feel the same. For me, anything over 10 minutes and I speed it up to 1.5 speed. I barely notice and saved roughly 20 min off of it. This is also continued so it seems like there will be like 3 or more videos covering various subjects.
You can do x2 speed. I promise you. I believe in you.
I used to have a lecturer at university and I got to the point where I could not stand being in his lectures, and I had to watch the recordings at two times, just to make him sound like a normal human.
He didn’t speak slowly, he just drooled every word, sooo heee woulddddd talllllk likeeeee thissss.
😂I wish that YouTube would have 3x speed, like my podcast player
The problem is that kids obviously don’t care about this, and parents will dump the iPad or phone on their kids so they don’t have to deal with them, thus keeping his channel alive.
Funny thing: On modern reddit you would be downvoted to oblivion because the majority of the current userbase is exactly children raised with an iPad in their hand.
Fuck I hope its true, he’s been setting off alarm bells with me since day one and I couldn’t put my finger on why. Never mind the whole “do a song and dance and I’ll buy you new eyes” thing.
His regular monetization of giving desperate people money has always rubbed me the wrong way. Of course they’re going to take it and agree to be on YouTube, they really need it
Holy shit tell me about it, but I kinda thought maybe I was just being paranoid about it because of all the money that he has put towards philanthropic things.
hope it’s* true
Thanks.
Thank’s
Actually thanks is already plural so it would be thanks’…
Ouch, I’ve been punished
Thank.
I was gonna downvote you but the I saw your username. good one I guess
My kid has come across his videos several times, the algorithm absolutely pushes his stuff to kids. I haven’t known about him for very long, but he does create some interesting videos. Never watched any that were giveaways or stuff but I have seen some of the contest and destination ones. They were obviously edited videos, but it’s a shame to also hear the games and people used are all setup as well. Guess we’re about to add another horrible YT personality to the canceled list?
Same. My kid isn’t into it, thankfully, but he was the topic of the week a fews ago.
I don’t see why people were larping that shit to begin with until realized the audience is are teenagers.
Just another celeb milking the system. Stop giving them attention, they will die off on their own lol
Souless eyes, like a doll’s eyes.
I hope he gets fined hard for all the crimes he has done! He makes me angry 😤
YouTubers do things that are scripted, and kids like to watch them? What a nothingburger
If you actually watch the entire thing, it’s clear that yeah it’s not something to cancel over but it’s also worth saying. Mr. Beast’s brand is all about two things: it’s all real and viewers (just by subscribing, interacting) can win a lot of cash or items worth a lot of cash. The next thing to understand is Mr. Beast’s main target demographic is children, and that never plays well when it comes to these kinds of things.
Mr. Beast would market his candy bar as more healthy and also if kids buy them they can gamble for a ticket to get a chance to be in a video and win yadda yadda yadda. He says part of his motivation is to defeat obesity, yet his chocolate candy bar had twice the amount of sugar then the competitor he mentions. He isn’t altruistic, he’s cashing in on these kids and using a FALSE moral high ground to do it!
The more you watch the clearer the picture becomes, and no it’s not shocking; Mr. Beast is running a company to make money. Cool, no worries. It’s not so cool however when it is based off of manipulating kids. SO MUCH OF HIS VIDEOS are edited, faked, scripted. SO MANY OF THE WINNERS are friends, family, and employees of the company even though it is advertised as random viewers. The editing is done in part to preserve this charade. Later in the video he talks about Mr. Beast wanting to participate in known scams and having to be talked out of them, it’s pretty gross (especially keeping in mind the target demo.)
It is essentially reality TV for kids, but this doesn’t end at the TV show. It stretches into these kid’s candy, the fast food (mr beast burger), the lotteries and gambling, it’s a bad look. Mr. Beast is the wrong guy with the right amount of money and it shows. It’s weird to see so many people jumping to defend this extremely wealthy person who takes advantage of his viewer base of children.
If this video wasn’t enough for you, try this one next, FAR worse: https://discuss.whatever.social/r/TikTokCringe/comments/1edezhy/the_lowdown_on_mr_beast_beast_games_for_those_out/
This came out before the Kris news, my guess is to add to his “look how perfect I am” persona since it was tarnished by this former employee.
Dude is almost certainly a kiddy diddler too
Dude is almost certainly a kiddy diddler too
Is there some evidence to back this up?
False accusation are counter productive esp when it related to egregious crime like this.
So if we are gonna do it, it better be true…
Uh oh, looks like the Mr Beast Media Management Machine is hot on the case!
Or people don’t want empty accusations…
Esp in involving serious crimes.
Every false accusation is used to discredit actual victims of crime.
It is fucking disgusting how much false accusations we have by bad faith actors while real victims are not taken seriously because their story is not worthy of “news”
People need to get better and judge this on evidence, no how good click bait it is.
Evidence or stfu.
His long time cohost is a groomer
- That’s a different person.
- I thought that was already debunked as alleged victim said they were not a victim?
Edit: victim said it was not grooming but inappropriate conversations did happen. Hopefully we get them posted here. But either way that allegations against MrBeast’s staff have merit and should be checked out by law enforcement
i believe that one alleged victim said they were not a victim but they were not the only alleged victim
Thank you for clarifying.
Do you know what the actual allegations are?
hmmm I thought I did, I saw a little bit on Twitter talking about the video essays discussing the allegations. And then the tweet from the alleged victim saying that it was nothing, and then a tweet from someone who I thought was the creator of one of the video essays saying that the above alleged victim was not actually one of the victims they talked about.
But now I can’t find any of that exchange, or even the original video essays, and all the news outlets are referencing just that tweet from the alleged victim and only seem to be referencing a single victim, but that might just be that the news outlets are trying to post things too early
“I was not groomed” would just as easily come from someone being groomed as someone not, since the victim is unlikely to know it’s happening to them in the moment. IIRC, the chat logs for that situation were cancel-worthy by themselves - grooming accusations aside.
Where can we get the logs? Link or post here?
I’ve seen some screenshots sifting around, and it’ll take a minute for me to hunt those down.
For now, here’s a xeet from the victim after rereading the chat logs directly.
Edit: I forgot about this, woops. I did find a Redditch megathread about the issue that has some screenshots of discord chats. That is probably the best aggregation of info and evidence currently. Apologies about reddit.
Thank you. Sounds like something that should be checked out by a prosecutor tbh
We clearly see a pattern where these YouTube clowns are using YouTube for access. Law enforcement again ignoring it
The new Catholic church 🤡
Dude is almost certainly a kiddy diddler too
Please avoid making those kind of statements based on pure speculation
