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[–] AshMan85@lemmy.world 194 points 2 months ago (5 children)
[–] Dorkyd68@lemmy.world 112 points 2 months ago (3 children)

His face is oh so punchable. He has the weirdest fake smile and it creeps me tf out

[–] Grass@sh.itjust.works 42 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I never watched any of his videos but to friends that did I always said he would eventually make headlines for some kind of problematic behavior or involvement, and when asked what it was based on I just said I could tell by his face. Unnatural and disingenuous in appearance and actions if questioned further but none of them could see it.

[–] Ioughttamow@fedia.io 17 points 2 months ago

Always that stupid fucking grin

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[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

doesn't smile with his eyes

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[–] KingJalopy@lemm.ee 146 points 2 months ago (7 children)

My 10-year-old daughter recently mentioned Mr. Beast and I said what do you know about him? She said I don't know but my friends showed me his videos and I think the guy's a creep. I pretty much gave her a high five and said she can have all the ice cream she wants LOL.

[–] cordlesslamp@lemmy.today 17 points 2 months ago (2 children)

If only I can send her some more money for even more ice cream, but then I would be the creep lol. Could you give her a high five for me and tell her she's the best 10yo kid in the world and she's awesome, please

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 32 points 2 months ago (1 children)

also giving a way free money is a pipeline to becoming Mr Beast

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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 113 points 2 months ago (38 children)

Philanthropy porn is just disgusting to begin with. That alone should have ended him. But people think it's a "feel-good story" so they keep watching. A lot of times, the follow-ups to such stories feel less good since the people getting that philanthropy often can't afford to pay to maintain whatever they've been given.

[–] ThunderWhiskers@lemmy.world 52 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Philanthropy porn

What an excellent description of this kind of behavior.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago

I was going to say I got it from somewhere, but apparently the term is usually "charity porn." I think "philanthropy porn" works better though because it's just as much about the philanthropist themselves as it is about what they're offering.

[–] n3m37h@sh.itjust.works 19 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Spend $1,000,000 in 24 hours!

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[–] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 90 points 2 months ago

Oh lordy.

That's never a good sign.

[–] Muffi@programming.dev 65 points 2 months ago (7 children)

I rarely enjoy schadenfreude, but I will savor every moment of the fall of Mr. Beast, the cancer of YouTube.

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 45 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, he always felt slimy to me. His "charity" videos that seem to take advantage of impoverished people and him convincing children to promote his chocolate brand (and sabotage competitors) as examples. I hate that someone who seems to be this bad was able to have this power in the first place but boy do I love seeing him be brought down. Hopefully it doesn't just go away like so much else does.

[–] Melody@lemmy.one 18 points 2 months ago

In general he is not a nice person when criticized. This is usually obvious in his content and social media interactions.

His content is low quality, 'feel good', Reality TV garbage. Think like Dude Perfect; except they give out giant wads of cash and recruit random people. He has TWO FAILED BRANDS; Mr. Beast Burger, which is a chain of low quality ghost kitchens, and his Chocolate brand; which shows a clear lack of business acumen and capability. Much of his video content is clickbait; written explicitly to game the algorithm and garner attention with only minimally required guardrails to obey ToSes and relevant laws that are actually enforced. Frequently he invades other YouTuber's channels for a video or more to "promote his brand" and spread his junky content around. This is sometimes fine; when the channel is celebrity centric or otherwise good at staying on it's own topic; but I've heard...horror stories from certain youtubers about working with Mr. Beast...and even the Greens, (John and Hank, vlogbrothers) don't seem to like him all that much it seems like; as evidenced by their large lack of interactions with him. Sure, they 'professionally respect' him; but that's about as far as that seems to go. I think a lot of Nerdfighteria (Fans of the vlogbrothers) doesn't seem to interact with Mr. Beast that much and it makes me wonder.

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[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 60 points 2 months ago (2 children)

He certainly smiles like a sociopath.

[–] chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 36 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Because he doesn't smile, he snarls, we've just lost out prey instincts after being on the top of he food chain for so long.

[–] Arbiter@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago

Tell that to my chronic anxiety.

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[–] fisco@lemmy.ml 56 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Effectively an admission..😅

[–] subignition@fedia.io 95 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It's real dangerous to look at someone seeking legal representation and take that as an implication of guilt.

Not defending Mr Beast at all, I'm sure there is no shortage of actual evidence of wrongdoing

[–] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 36 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (7 children)

This isn’t even a reaction to known allegations—apparently he’s just anticipating potential future trouble:

the reason that Donaldson hired the flashy lawyer is to conduct an internal audit of his company, the likes of which has recently come under fire as the result of various scandals.

So I think it’s fair to say it’s an admission that his conduct might be legally questionable, without taking it as a confession of guilt

[–] minibyte@sh.itjust.works 16 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

IIRC there was significant backlash over the Squid Games clone, or what was supposed to be. This is probably a wise decision.

If you wait until you need a lawyer, you waited too long.

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[–] takeda@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago

The allegations are that he is a dickhead, and him resorting to hiring a flashy lawyer to fight it pretty much confirms that.

He is not a defendant here he will be a plaintiff in those suits.

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[–] sndmn@lemmy.ca 43 points 2 months ago (4 children)

What a sociopathic thing to do.

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[–] BurnedDonut@ani.social 35 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Just his smile is all you need as an evidence.

[–] Zozano@lemy.lol 23 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Its funny, I came to the comments to write the same thing.

His smile is so fucking dead. It's all in the eyes.

If you want to convincingly deceive people, you first need to deceive yourself.

It doesn't matter how good your mouth muscles can stretch; if your eyes are lying, then you're fucked.

[–] ThePyroPython@lemmy.world 23 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (7 children)

Kind of reminds me of this.

Kind of reminds me of this.

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[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 32 points 2 months ago

sign of a true sociopath

[–] linearchaos@lemmy.world 30 points 2 months ago (2 children)

That whole underground bunker series is starting to get a little too reality TV like for me. I don't watch him often but when it shows make it outside of his channel I end up catching glimpses.

Jaden animation recently won a million dollars to give to her subscribers.

But he pit a bunch of the YouTubers in a squid game competition which makes the ratings but isn't a great look.

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[–] thesporkeffect@lemmy.world 28 points 2 months ago (3 children)

He's finally cooked. Enjoy the long slow ride into irrelevance. Enjoy the fake friends fading away as the money tap dries up.

[–] Amanduh@lemm.ee 25 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I mean he's probably rich af and set for life

[–] I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 38 points 2 months ago (19 children)

People like to pretend that karma is somehow real. It's not. In real life, the bad guys win and live long and happy lives.

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[–] Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world 27 points 2 months ago

You don't get to where he is by being normal. So his success alone is proof he is divergent. He should just own it and move on.

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 23 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I don't think being a sociopath is illegal?

I get the feeling that lawyers do a lot more for rich people than they do for us...

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[–] Roflmasterbigpimp@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I'm OOTL and the article is not really helping, what is going on with Mr. Beast? Why is he so hated atm?

[–] sunglocto@lemmy.zip 49 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (7 children)

Watch DogPack404's 3 videos on him on YouTube. Essentially, Jimmy is a massive loser who has rigged and faked challenges, caused sleep deprivation, knowingly hired and protected multiple sex offenders, commited illegal lotteries, having a degrading work culture: (from one of his documents)

No doesn't mean no

And has attempted to silence anyone who speaks out about him with cease and desists, attempting to find any ways to discredit them using his employee's own Xitter accounts, accusing them of being mentally ill or distrustworthy. He is a complete sociopath and nobody should watch him

[–] dev_null@lemmy.ml 34 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (9 children)

After watching the videos, and the analysis from Legal Eagle, I find the criticism a little dubious.

"Rigged challenges" is how he introduces surprise things mid-video, like "I'll give you $10,000 if you quit now, but your team loses a team member!" It's obviously part of the show and participants agree to it happening before hand.

"Knowingly hired a sex offender". Well? Should everyone on the sex offender registry be jobless forever, or what is the point? The person in question was convicted when he was 16, and was hired 7 years later with nothing indicating he would reoffend. Don't we have courts for justice? Instead they should never be hired as punishment? To me it sounds commendable he's not prejudiced against people's past.

"Attempted to silence anyone" Did he? There is tons of people criticizing him and I only heard about one cease and desist. Do we know that C&D was baseless?

That DogPack guy seems to have created his YouTube channel solely to attack MrBeast, do we have anyone more trusted?

Like many, I find the MrBeast videos a cancer of YouTube, which makes hearing any critique of him convenient. But I don't like assuming, and I have a feeling the DogPack guy has an agenda and isn't offering an objective view.

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[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

he began in 2012 at 13 years old. Over two decades later

<Checks calendar>

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