X appears to be juicing MrBeast’s views to woo the YouTuber to the platform, pushing video upload into users’ feeds as an unlabeled ad::undefined

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      10 months ago

      The largest individual youtuber in the world. He has several channels, the main ones are Mr.Beast and Mr.Beast philanthropy.

      I think the main selling point of youtube is watching people do things you cannot, either due to time, expertise, or money. Mr.Beast kinda personifies that, as many of his videos cost over $1M to make and are original owing to nobody else being able to make them, ala ‘I made a lazer dungeon, first person to reach the end wins $500k’ .

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        10 months ago

        I’ve seen some of those videos since my son likes him. The issue is that a lot of his content is obviously scripted. If the content itself is scripted (faked), why should I believe that money is actually given out in the end and, again, not just part of the script?

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        10 months ago

        He also was one of the first to master the YouTube algorithm and perfected the video format to engage viewers the most.

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          10 months ago

          I agree but in a way where I absolutely hate that he did this. Mr Beast is one of the worst things to happen to YouTube.

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            10 months ago

            Double edge sword. We now know better than before about how the algorithm works thanks to him. Unfortunately, that also means that others are now equipped with similar spam knowledge.

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      10 months ago

      I don’t really know either but my son definitely knows.

      Somehow Mr. Beast vacuums kid’s brains into a mind sucking vortex that has landed Mr. Beast as one of, if not the #1 most subscribed YouTuber in existence.

      Perhaps that also makes him the highest earning YouTuber as well, because the guy is seemingly just giving away insane $ figures at every turn yet always has more.

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        10 months ago

        Mr Beast uses the revenue he got from YouTube views and donates them. Which he then videos and create more revenue. Not a bad business model if you ask me. He wasn’t even rich to begin with. His assets and wealth all started from YouTube.

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          10 months ago

          For companies, it’s free PR. “Mr Beast donates thousands of turkeys for thanksgiving!” - all of the them brought to you by [company], because they really care about you, for realsies!

          And, according to some videos, most of his challenges are setup for a specific person to win.

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          10 months ago

          Yeah that seems like a smart business model. Something about his style makes this work… I don’t think most people could pull it off.

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      10 months ago

      Some rich guy that makes YouTube videos to make profit off of his philanthropist tax write offs