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He got his very first start doing weird things for views.
But he got really famous by being a clickbaity charity funded by viewers. For example he paid for eye surgeries for 1000 people.
That got him mainstream because the religious right started publicly denouncing him for helping people without it being about Jesus.
He's constantly being front-paged on YouTube and getting shoved into everyone's recommended feeds. I have never heard anyone on the religious right mention his name positively or negatively. I doubt the Zoomers and GenAlpha folks who subscribe to him have either.
Not mine. I only know of him from my son.
My feeds are all techy stuff. Cherno, level 1 techs, Adam Savage, and lots of Dragonball shorts.
Hmm I wonder what would Jesus do?
100% denounce him /s
If he had done it quietly without a video crew I would have a lot more respect for him... Actually.. I would have any respect for him
If he had done it quietly without a video crew, Google wouldn't have given him millions to do his next project which was building free homes for the homeless.
Precisely my point...
Now he has a fucking netflix deal. His face in household around the world.. & he'll get paid.
He's a businessman, that's for sure.
You would have more respect for him if he stopped doing charity work????
He gets money for charity from the advertisers. If he stops the videos the charity stops.
He funnels a greater percentage into charity than any other charity like habitat for humanity or the Red Cross. Would you be happier if he funneled his YouTube profits into a prostitution ring like Andrew Tate?
What do you want from him?
Intent matters to me.
He seems incredible fake and artificial. I get zero trust from him. Just because someone hide some shit to charity doesn't mean shit. ESPECIALLY, if you consider his charity as a % of his wealth.
If you look at it that way, he gives less to charity than most of us, I would imagine.
JC yeah, he's like a family friendly Andrew Tate.. hahaha good one
His intent is to help people. If his intent was getting as rich as possible he would have continued filling swimming pools with orbeez.
It doesn't matter how fake he is. He gets results.
That's why the religious right hates him.
Hahah religious? Fuck those people. They in a cult.
I dunno.. he seems to be getting pretty rich. And very loved by American children . I think he knows what he's doing..
If he'd have done it quietly and without a video feed, he'd be called "Medicaid" and we'd be arguing over how much we need to defund him.
We? I sure af wouldn't... Especially since I ain't american.