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[–] 194 points 2 years ago (5 children)
  • [–] 112 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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

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  • [–] 42 points 2 years 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.

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    [–] 147 points 2 years 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.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years 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

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    [–] 114 points 2 years 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.

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  • [–] 52 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Philanthropy porn

    What an excellent description of this kind of behavior.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years 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.

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    [+] 90 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
    [–] 65 points 2 years ago (7 children)

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

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  • [–] 45 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years 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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    [–] 60 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    He certainly smiles like a sociopath.

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    [–] 56 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Effectively an admission..😅

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  • [–] 95 points 2 years 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

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  • [–] 36 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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

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    [–] 43 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    What a sociopathic thing to do.

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    [–] 35 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Just his smile is all you need as an evidence.

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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    [–] 32 points 2 years ago

    sign of a true sociopath

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  • [–] 30 points 2 years 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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    [–] 28 points 2 years 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.

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    [–] 27 points 2 years 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.

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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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    [–] 17 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 49 points 2 years 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

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  • [–] 34 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

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

    <Checks calendar>

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