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I Worked For MrBeast, He's A Fraud (yt.artemislena.eu)
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[-] scytale@lemm.ee 126 points 3 months ago

I honestly can’t watch an hour long video right now. Does anyone have a TLDW? I skimmed through the first 10 mins and it’s all about his videos being scripted, edited, and using paid actors. That’s not really surprising. What I’m curious about is if he really gives away all that money and stuff (i.e. cars, houses) to people. The video probably goes into that later on but I haven’t gotten to it.

[-] Aphelion@lemm.ee 215 points 3 months ago

The TL:DW is Mr. Beast is a master of using gambling psychology to capture kids' attention, to then sell them horribly unhealthy foods. His contests and giveaways are largely fake and/or are rigged to favor other creators, friends and family. He constantly fails to deliver promised prizes, and he runs live streams that are essentially child gambling masquerading as sweepstakes. He violates sweepstakes laws all the time but seems to get away with it by taking down old streams, and DMCAs any clips that get uploaded by others. He has also promoted a scheme to get his fans to act as child labor and stock/organize his products at Walmart.

[-] Zahille7@lemmy.world 41 points 3 months ago

Damn how is this just now coming out?

Like I figured most of it had to be bullshit when I found the "Mr. Beast Burger" ghost kitchens on Uber eats.

[-] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 41 points 3 months ago

I ordered it once and I was very disappointed when it wasn’t actually ground Mr. Beast.

0/10 and have started a class action lawsuit if anyone wants to join.

[-] Veneroso@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago

Can we file joinly against the Girl Scouts?
There has to be some kind of violation of the Mercantile Act.

Somoas indeed....

[-] vasus@lemmy.world 119 points 3 months ago

The video author posted this comment under the video which goes over his main claims:

"Claims I provide evidence for in this video:

  1. Many MrBeast videos are fake, contests are unfairly rigged, and contestants are often undisclosed friends and family of MrBeast employees, or employees themselves.

  2. MrBeast has run multiple illegal lotteries targeting children. (I estimate they profited over $10,000,000 from these lotteries)

  3. MrBeast knowingly sold merch with fake autographs while claiming on his website that “The autographed piece is genuine”. (fraud imo)

Also MrBeast knew about Kris being a pdf"

[-] whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works 64 points 3 months ago

how do you convert "pedophile" into PDF?

[-] luna@lemmy.catgirl.biz 102 points 3 months ago

Adobe Acrobat can do anything these days

[-] Nutteman@lemmy.world 38 points 3 months ago

Right click on him and click "print." Then where you pick a printer choose "convert/print to PDF."

[-] weker01@sh.itjust.works 16 points 3 months ago

Ohh that's what was meant. I thought it was about some document before reading your comment.

[-] arefx@lemmy.ml 19 points 3 months ago

People saying pdf file instead of pedophile because of internet brain rot. What a cool thing to discuss serious topics and call them stupid fucking names in the least serious way possible.

[-] weker01@sh.itjust.works 38 points 3 months ago

I really hate the culture of self censorship people are developing. Fuck the corporate clean Internet.

I'm not advocating for being uncivilized but we should name the things we are discussing by their names.

[-] Zahille7@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

I hate how people call it "cheese pizza" for "CP/child porn."

Like, I get that YouTube is fucking bullshit about censoring things that don't immediately bring them as revenue, but it's still gross imo.

You're not defending anyone by calling it something entirely unrelated aside from the first letter of each word.

[-] maniii@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Its very prevalent in Commie-China-Places. Pooh-Bear to mean XiPIGpIng. 8964 for TiannamenSquare Massacre. Taiwan #1 Country. All those are censored behind the Great Firewall of China.

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[-] Veneroso@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

I would tell you but I'm not signing up for the legalese involved in an Adobe Premiere Cloud Subscription. Fuckers reserve the right to use my art as AI training data?

I draw the finest chocolate starfish.

[-] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 3 months ago

Well you understood what he meant, so you tell me.

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[-] otp@sh.itjust.works 27 points 3 months ago

"The autographed piece is genuine”. (fraud imo)

The PIECE is genuine. The autograph isn't! Lmao

[-] trashgirlfriend@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

Also MrBeast knew about Kris being a pdf"

What is this about? I tried looking it up but all I'm getting is weird right wing shit.

[-] FeatherConstrictor@sh.itjust.works 19 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It's spoken about in the video, but a woman called Kris that worked for Mr Beast had some controversy come about I think grooming children or being a pedophile (not sure about details). Mr Beast feigned ignorance about it, but the guy in the OP video claims it was an "open secret everybody knew". He also says it's even worse than "just" that because Mr Beast's company specifically works with understanding how to manipulate child psychology and bring children in, and videos etc have brought minors into easier access by Kris.

You might be getting a lot of weird right wing shit because Kris is a trans woman and a common right wing accusation against trans people is that they are pedophiles.

[-] sandbox@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago

I’m like 90% sure it’s not true. Right wingers love to accuse LGBTQ+ people of being pedophiles because they’re intolerant little cunts. LGBTQ+ people can of course be pedophiles, but it’s no more likely than cishet people being pedophiles.

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[-] Pandantic@midwest.social 5 points 3 months ago

Add onto this that he is using lotteries to get people to buy his chocolate (even though its consistently rated as not as good as others) and he is lying about the healthiness of said chocolate.

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[-] HeyJoe@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

I feel the same. For me, anything over 10 minutes and I speed it up to 1.5 speed. I barely notice and saved roughly 20 min off of it. This is also continued so it seems like there will be like 3 or more videos covering various subjects.

[-] Mediocre_Bard@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

You can do x2 speed. I promise you. I believe in you.

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 5 points 3 months ago

I used to have a lecturer at university and I got to the point where I could not stand being in his lectures, and I had to watch the recordings at two times, just to make him sound like a normal human.

He didn't speak slowly, he just drooled every word, sooo heee woulddddd talllllk likeeeee thissss.

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[-] Balrog@lemmy.dbzer0.com 69 points 3 months ago

The problem is that kids obviously don’t care about this, and parents will dump the iPad or phone on their kids so they don’t have to deal with them, thus keeping his channel alive.

[-] Angry_Autist@lemmy.world 16 points 3 months ago

Funny thing: On modern reddit you would be downvoted to oblivion because the majority of the current userbase is exactly children raised with an iPad in their hand.

[-] Default_Defect@midwest.social 55 points 3 months ago

Fuck I hope its true, he's been setting off alarm bells with me since day one and I couldn't put my finger on why. Never mind the whole "do a song and dance and I'll buy you new eyes" thing.

[-] paf0@lemmy.world 26 points 3 months ago

His regular monetization of giving desperate people money has always rubbed me the wrong way. Of course they're going to take it and agree to be on YouTube, they really need it

[-] FeatherConstrictor@sh.itjust.works 22 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Holy shit tell me about it, but I kinda thought maybe I was just being paranoid about it because of all the money that he has put towards philanthropic things.

[-] TargaryenTKE@lemmy.world 18 points 3 months ago

While neither of these are specifically about Senior Beast, they provide some insight into why your paranoia isn't unfounded, so please see this or this

[-] HeyJoe@lemmy.world 47 points 3 months ago

My kid has come across his videos several times, the algorithm absolutely pushes his stuff to kids. I haven't known about him for very long, but he does create some interesting videos. Never watched any that were giveaways or stuff but I have seen some of the contest and destination ones. They were obviously edited videos, but it's a shame to also hear the games and people used are all setup as well. Guess we're about to add another horrible YT personality to the canceled list?

[-] TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago

Same. My kid isn't into it, thankfully, but he was the topic of the week a fews ago.

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[-] sunzu@kbin.run 25 points 3 months ago

I don't see why people were larping that shit to begin with until realized the audience is are teenagers.

Just another celeb milking the system. Stop giving them attention, they will die off on their own lol

[-] feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago

Souless eyes, like a doll's eyes.

[-] Petter1@lemm.ee 4 points 3 months ago

I hope he gets fined hard for all the crimes he has done! He makes me angry 😤

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