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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

RULES:

  1. Your post must be a screen capture of a microblog-type post that includes the UI of the site it came from, preferably also including the avatar and username of the original poster. Including relevant comments made to the original post is encouraged.
  2. Your post, included comments, or your title/comment should include some kind of commentary or remark on the subject of the screen capture. Your title must include at least one word relevant to your post.
  3. You are encouraged to provide a link back to the source of your screen capture in the body of your post.
  4. Current politics and news are allowed, but discouraged. There MUST be some kind of human commentary/reaction included (either by the original poster or you). Just news articles or headlines will be deleted.
  5. Doctored posts/images and AI are allowed, but discouraged. You MUST indicate this in your post (even if you didn't originally know). If an image is found to be fabricated or edited in any way and it is not properly labeled, it will be deleted.
  6. Absolutely no NSFL content.
  7. Be nice. Don't take anything personally. Take political debates to the appropriate communities. Take personal disagreements & arguments to private messages.
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[–] gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 27 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

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

[–] Karmanopoly@lemmy.world 9 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

You didn't even mention his terrible chocolate and candy

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 2 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

I barely know who Mr Beast is, I've NEVER seen one of his videos, but Publix had one of his candy bars on their Clearance Shelf (I love the Clearance Shelf), and it was really good chocolate, much more like European Chocolate. It was smoother without that vomity alkaline taste that American chocolate has, that we've all gotten used to.

It didn't turn me into a fan, but his chocolate bar was actually really good.

[–] FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 5 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

It's definitely not really good and like European, but it is a step above Hershey. It sits somewhere in the middle. If you found it cheap it was probably a good value.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 1 points 4 hours ago

It was like 75 cents to try it.

[–] Apepollo11@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago

Very much agree. As a UK bod, American chocolate bars generally taste like poison and smell like sick.

My kids were big fans of Mr Beast when the chocolate bars came out, so of course we had to buy it when we saw it. And honestly, it was actually really good.

[–] gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 9 hours ago

Ooh yeah true I did