Yup. He had a community post saying he was too young to run but if he could run it wouldnt be about left or right, he'd sit down with both sides and work out a compromise. Previously i thought the minimum age should be lowered but after seeing something so naive i reconsidered.

I would love to think that people wouldn’t just vote based on who they recognize most from TV but here we are

You gotta go with the people who don’t want the job

Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy has got you there!

The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them. To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

for a little while he was my only friend

I just don't understand it. I once watched a video of his out of curiosity, as he had the largest YouTube channel, and I just don't get it. Our country's TV channel for children is more interesting.

He often does the reverse, paying people exorbitant sums to do mundane things like spending 3 days in a circle. He practically started and got famous of that genre.

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.

Basically, yeah. He also has a habit of giving away large sums of money.

He started out doing challenge videos like "counting to x" and it was literally like a multi-hour long video where he counted to 10,000 I believe. It's insanely boring but it showed his "dedication to the bit". Another is saying " pewdiepie like 10,000 times. I may have exaggerated, I'm not at a computer to look up the numbers. Eventually, after tormenting himself and gaining some followers and he got paid some money from youtube. With his first paycheck he made a video of him taking that check and giving it to a homeless person (IIRC). His philosophy was always to take any money he makes and dump it right into the next video. This has allowed him to slowly make bigger and bigger videos. He still regularly does challenge videos (buried himself alive for multiple days, not eating for several days, etc.) But, him dumping all of the money he makes, into the next video has grown from giving his first, probably couple hundred dollar check, to a homeless man, into giving literally millions away per video.

He also kind of pioneered the thumbnails you are talking about. And yelling at the beginning of the video to grab your attention by showing enthusiasm was also really his thing too. I mean some people had probably used it before. But, he used it regularly and had the type of content that really was that exciting.

Whether you care for challenge content, giving away money, some combination of both, or neither he also has Beast Philanthropy. That's his channel where he does good "because he can". He puts a bunch of money and gets sponsors to give money for causes like, building wells, building houses, paying for surgeries, building hospitals, etc. I thought it was a bit gross to make videos out of charity work at first. But, it helps a lot of people in under served countries, and raises awareness to them and the charities that try to help them. Also, all the money they make on that channel goes to the charity of each episode.

That was more than I thought I would type for sure..

I do think centrist nonsense like what Mr. Beast has said he would do should be opposed. He stated that if he did run, he would "listen to the best of the left and the best of the right," which manifests a mystical property on the center of arbitrary lines being "good," somehow.