Coastal_Explorer

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[–] Coastal_Explorer@feddit.online 7 points 12 hours ago

Some quick OCR work on this image:

How-To-Succeed-At-MrBeast-Production.pdf (page 34)

to draw from so much stupid shit in his head as inspiration to make jokes and be quirky. As a result he is fucken hilarious. But let's imagine a different Chris, let's say instead of cartoons and stupid shit, his information diet was stocks and investing advice. And for 5 years that's all he consumed. Do you think he'd be just as funny as he currently is? No. He in my opinion wouldn't even be 20% as funny. If you're a writer or director you really need to monitor and perfect your information diet. If your diet is not correct, you won't have a good pulse on culture. I don't want you to be a chris, in fact, I think that would probably do you harm. Talent needs to inhale cartoons so they can be funny, writers need to inhale inspiration. Let's say there is a purple fruit in the middle of Australia that when eaten makes you 2 feet taller. If it truly did exist, you wouldn't have known that until just right now. But now that you know of it, you can draw on it for inspiration for every piece of content you write going forward. That's beautiful, it can now sit in the back of your mind waiting for that one video where it is needed. It might take 10 videos or even 100 but eventually you'll be brainstorming a bit and think of the right one to use the fruit for. Apply this to everything on this fucken planet. You. Can't. Get. Inspired. By. Things. You. Don't. Know. Exist. So how do you learn more about what's out there in the world? How do you stay up to date on the latest memes? How do you know what's going on with celebrities? What's trending on youtube? What other creators are doing? What's popping on tik tok? Your information diet. Consume things on a daily basis that help you write better content.

It's okay for the boys to be childish

If talent wants to draw a dick on the white board in the video or do something stupid, let them. (assuming they know all the risks and arn't missing context on why it's not safe) People like when we are in our natural element of stupidity. Really do everything you can to empower the boys when filming and help them make content. Help them be idiots

We don't fake things

Make sure to prep contestants and try to create an environment where they feel comfortable talking.

For the other way around:
Wedding cake looks great but usually tastes awful (compared to other cake). These cakes are usually drier, or are starting to get old by the time they get eaten.

The Avatar movie depicts what could happen in a scenario where we find intelligent life, but we're the more advanced civilization.

Adding onto this, the reason they press charges against the money instead of you is that, in the US, you would be innocent until proven guilty. They get around this by "charging the money" instead in which case it can be considered "guilty" until proven innocent.

What happens next is that you would have to sue them to prove the money/property innocent in court to get it back. Additionally you can't sue and recover legal fees. So, if they only confiscated a few thousand dollars, you would likely spend more money trying to win in court than you would get awarded in the end.

It's also worth noting, there's an incentive for the TSA to tip off DEA agents to sieze the cash because the DEA will then share some of the money back to the TSA. Likewise for local/state police, even if they can't sieze it under local laws, they can sieze it for some federal law and then the cash will be split between the law enforcement agency that siezed it and some federal agency.

More information here from a group that's been fighting this in court (and winning some cases with the Supreme Court) here: https://ij.org/issues/private-property/civil-forfeiture/

 

The Berries and Cream Starburst commercial went viral shortly after it aired in 2007. This video was created as a follow up.

 

I did a quick search but couldn't find too many details about this video. It was posted around 2007 or earlier. This particular video has 164 million views.

 

Another video that went viral in the early days of YouTube. Liam Kyle Sullivan continued to make other videos that went viral. In 2008 this video won the People's Choice Award for User Generated Video. He had multiple cameos in shows such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Gilmore Girls, 8 Simple Rules as well as cameos in some music videos.

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Liam_Kyle_Sullivan

 

This video was originally created by Erwin Beekveld in 2005 and uploaded to AlbinoBlacksheep.

The video went viral and was shared on many websites by many different users. This was one of the older videos shared on YouTube that I could find.

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/They're_Taking_the_Hobbits_to_Isengard

 

The How it Should Have Ended series started off with releasing 3 videos on the 30th of June, 2005.

  • How The Matrix Revolutions Should Have Ended
  • How Saving Private Ryan Should Have Ended
  • How Star Wars Episode IV Should Have Ended

This was before YouTube was owned by Google and before users could even subscribe to channels. YouTube had only just barely started hosting videos at this time.

This episode is one of those first 3 that were published to the internet. Originally it was published to the official website: HowItShouldHaveEnded.com and it quickly went viral.

The official YouTube channel was started a little later in 2007 where additional videos have continued to be published since then.

 

You might recognize Jemaine's voice as the same voice used in a few movies/shows such as the giant crab in Moana, Tamatoa. Or Bret for a few of his acting/composing/writer roles in the film industry.

Their comedy duo performances were uploaded to YouTube and became wildly popular.

 

So many good music videos from OK Go were posted to YouTube. While they had some success with a few earlier videos, this particular video is the one that stood out from their previous videos and quickly went viral. They would go on to produce a number of other viral videos.

 

This video was uploaded to Newgrounds in 2003.

There's a bonus animation that can be accessed if you pause the video at the exact moment that a certain spell is being fired at someone and click on the green star. This isn't possible on YouTube, but it is still possible on the original upload to Newgrounds:
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/140341

Tip: for those on mobile, make sure to request the "Desktop Version" of the site, then zoom in on the controls to pause and skip around the frames that occur during the spell animation. The star only appears for a single frame.

 

The original was uploaded to Newgrounds in 2004.

Well, at least I didn't have any Charlie bite my finger.

This can also have the opposite effect. There are a number of cases where the wrong person has been arrested simply for sharing a name with someone else that has a warrant for their arrest.

[–] Coastal_Explorer@feddit.online 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Downvoting means something different to everyone. It could just be that they felt you didn't add to the conversation well with a simple LOL and some emojis.
Some people downvote whenever they see an emoji.
I doubt anyone is downvoting because they "disagree" with you on this case, since the one user that actually downvoted the post didn't even downvote you.

I would just ignore these downvotes and move on.

[–] Coastal_Explorer@feddit.online 9 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Most people actually agree on the same thing once you get down into the details of abortion. For some reason everyone likes to lump themselves into "pro-life" or "pro-choice" camps and then argue about the extreme takes from either side.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/321143/americans-stand-abortion.aspx

[–] Coastal_Explorer@feddit.online 2 points 2 months ago

There was a former employee for MrBeast (Donaldson) who posted 2 very long videos about his time working for him:

Allegations from DogPack404 On July 24, 2024, former employee DogPack404 posted a YouTube video accusing Donaldson of staging contests, running illegal lotteries, falsifying signatures, and misleading viewers.[172][173][174] He followed with an interview of former staffer Jake Weddle, who described being denied sleep during productions, said the team employed Jake Franklin's brother-in-law despite his status as a registered sex offender, and alleged that a cameraman tried to intoxicate female participants with paint fumes.[174] Weddle identified the cameraman as "Delaware", claiming Donaldson knew about his conviction, which stemmed from an incident when Delaware was 16 and the victim was 11.[175]

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/DogPack404#cite_ref-173

The videos he posted are long (~51 and 54 min), but he does comment a lot on MrBeast's character while making his case against him. His second video focuses a lot more on this and he brings in another former employee while showing off some screenshots of others who wanted to remain more anonymous.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHFvR0ArXPs

He mentioned a part 3 video, but never posted it.

On the other side, Legal Eagle offers a shorter video, focused only on the legal aspects of the DogPack's allegations in the first video. Basically, MrBeast is likely protected by whatever waivers he has his employees/contestants sign.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4CePWWN1Xs

[–] Coastal_Explorer@feddit.online 2 points 2 months ago

I've never heard of Falun Gong until now, but looking into it, the 2 groups don't seem to be related.

[–] Coastal_Explorer@feddit.online 1 points 2 months ago

No, I've actually never had phrases get stuck in my head. Nowhere near the way songs do at least.

[–] Coastal_Explorer@feddit.online 4 points 2 months ago

If you're concerned about privacy, you should probably know that a lot in the fediverse is very open by design so that other instances can communicate effectively.

That's why everyone can see what you upvote/downvote, even if Lemmy itself doesn't show this to you in its UI.

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