• LalSalaamComrade@lemmy.mlOP
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      I’ve never liked this guy. When he started YouTube, his channel was filled with extravagant nonsense. Like for example, dumping food in the pool, or some weird stuff like that, and that really rubbed me off in a wrong way as someone from a low-income family. And then the philanthropist bullshit, like come on, you’re not fooling anyone with that. Maybe kids, and privileged adults, but not us.

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        Yea my entire perception of him has always been he’s a drifter I just didn’t understand what his angle was yet.

        Then he started branding burger kings as pop up restaurants or something.

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    Fuck. The trans person on his show, who transitioned visibly over the years, is into Loli porn. While bad enough by itself, it’s going to be milked so god damn much by reactionaries.

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      Texting minors and having a loli artist (Shadman, I think) as her friends, but that was before she transitioned. MrBeast is no different - he made comments about Bhad Bhabie when she was 14 and he was 19, about “putting his dick” in her. Now that podcast video was deleted, but you can find a reupload somewhere.

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          Shad was really big for a moment, I think it was kind of the last gasp of the “shock culture” that the internet used to have before it got paved over (Mr Beast transitioning from being that kind of guy to being a corporatized product perfectly encapsulates the change).

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    Kinda weird but I was in Ava’s discord channel like 10 years ago and accidentally found a reddit post of hers where she described her super abusive boss who used to be her friend (mrbeast). I knew it was her because she posted a pic of her dog on it. I hoped for mrbeasts downfall ever since but didn’t expect her to play such a role in it.

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    Looks like its already shadow-banned. Not surprising, YouTube is getting better about being on top of criticism of their largest channels.

    Edit: Never mind seems like it’s working on ‘most recent’, disregard my comment.

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        Tried looking it up by name in the app after reading some comments about it. It might just be YouTube’s crap search algorithm though, I haven’t tried ‘most recent’.

        Edit: Pops up on ‘most recent’, I gotta stop reading YouTube comments.

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      The most chilling part is that he did it to himself. Years of chasing content and he turned himself into a human ChatGPT model that just outputs whatever gets clicks on YouTube.

      Add to that that he’s self aware of it, it makes him miserable, and he can’t stop.