• valar@lemmy.ca
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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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      2 months ago

      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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        I watched a video about it, and what’s interesting to me is that he had an enormous budget for this Squid Game remake. He spent it on setting up hundreds of cameras, building a whole set where the game would take place, hired all kinds of camera operators… but didn’t do even basic play-testing of the games he was going to have people play.

        As a result, some challenges that were supposed to last for an hour or so ended up taking more than 12 hours. Some challenges that were supposed to eliminate half the contestants instead eliminated over 90%. Some challenges didn’t work because people refused to eliminate their friends.

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

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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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    I really cannot wait until this guy’s audience grows out of his stupid garbage. Though unfortunately, it’s going to leave an entire generation of people who will value money over everything else.

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      Back during the George Floyd protests I was watching a live stream from NYC. Several people in the comments were saying the store owners should shoot the protesters if they broke windows. I asked chat, “Do you really value property over human life?” No one said “no”, and three explicitly responded “yes!” to me. I’ll never forget that, I was a bit shocked.

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      The funniest/saddest thing is hearing stories from niche youtubers that did one of his events talking about kids they meet finding out about it and immediately asking them for money. Just an instant switch from bored disinterest to excited begging.

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    2 months ago

    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.

    • Final Remix@lemmy.world
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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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        He’s just some schmuck with money

        To his credit, he did come up with the perfect formula to get kids’ attention. If you look at his first videos and compare it to the recent ones, it’s insane the difference. Nowadays there isn’t a wasted second, no moment for a thought to begin to bubble in your head.

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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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      They gonna give the contestants challenge and set them up to fail by mentally torturing them.

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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?

    Edit: Thanks everybody! Seems like I missed nothing.

    • gwl [he/him]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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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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      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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      He runs a poverty porn channel - do this thing and if you do it you get money. He pretends its about altruism but its about clicks. Oh and he’s also been closely associated with a number of crypto scams where a coin is launched and then rugpulled.

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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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      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 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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      The only thing I know about him is that he is very good at Dune Imperium board game and he hosted multiple tournaments for it.

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