Is MrBeast a fraud?

[lezinterracial]

I never understood how they were able to give so much away and then the guy was still on track to be a billionaire. But, I do know, I never like seeing his face. Finally, I see something interesting about him.

What are your thoughts?

[Retiree]

Without even watching the video, he is obviously a plant.

Whoever made him famous with his money, will ask for something in return.

[PornoStar69]

He looks like a Charlie Chester.

[Huggles]

Originally Posted by Retiree

Without even watching the video, he is obviously a plant.

100%

According to my 8 year old, the two most famous people on the planet are Taylor Swift and Mr. Beast.

Mr. Beast came out of absolutely nowhere after he pulled stunts like saying a name 10,000 times or something over 24 hours, I forget, it was something whacky and dumb. His early "stunts" were weird challenges that weren't very interesting but the algorithm propped him up, big time.

I have never gone through his early content and actually tried to find where he blew up, but the guy became a massive star seemingly overnight. But quickly you can see that the production values behind his content were absolutely incredible, like he went from a nobody to having the ability to setup and do nearly anything, it just seemed a bit odd the idea that just some random dude could blow up so big, so quickly, and then seemingly achieve so much in such a short time without help from veterans at PR and staging stunts and events.

[KrisKross]

Originally Posted by Huggles

100%

According to my 8 year old, the two most famous people on the planet are Taylor Swift and Mr. Beast.

Mr. Beast came out of absolutely nowhere after he pulled stunts like saying a name 10,000 times or something over 24 hours, I forget, it was something whacky and dumb. His early "stunts" were weird challenges that weren't very interesting but the algorithm propped him up, big time.

I have never gone through his early content and actually tried to find where he blew up, but the guy became a massive star seemingly overnight. But quickly you can see that the production values behind his content were absolutely incredible, like he went from a nobody to having the ability to setup and do nearly anything, it just seemed a bit odd the idea that just some random dude could blow up so big, so quickly, and then seemingly achieve so much in such a short time without help from veterans at PR and staging stunts and events.

He started uploading videos to YouTube in 2012 at age 13, mostly just gameplay videos of Minecraft and CoD. He uploaded 100s of videos and his channel grew slowly over the next few years. In 2015, he started deleting many of his older videos and pivoted to mostly making videos about other YouTubers and YouTube in general. That's when he started picking up steam and grew from ~2K subscribers at the start of the year to ~15K at the end of the year. Up to that point, he didn't appear regularly in his videos and stuck mostly to narration.

He started expanding his content in 2016, doing comedy skits, giving away $100 gift cards, etc. After hitting 100K subscribers that summer, he dropped out of university to focus on YouTube. That sounds like a lot but it really isn't; in a video he released around the 50K subs mark, he said he had done ~650K views and $900 in ad revenue the previous month.

His first true viral video was in early 2017 (5 years after he started on YouTube) which was the 24 hour long video where he counted to 100,000. That's when he really started blowing up, doing challenges (much less complex than what he does now) and larger cash giveaways. He hit 1M subscribers towards to end of 2017 and kept growing and getting crazier from there.

So all this to say that he was definitely not an overnight success out of nowhere. And the quality of his videos grew as his subscriber count and revenue grew. There's a clear difference in quality between his 2018/2019 stunts and his more recent stunts.

And before you ask - his rise in popularity coincided with a time in my life that I watched way too much YouTube so I'm pretty familiar with him and other YouTubers from that period.

[Huggles]

Originally Posted by KrisKross

And before you ask - his rise in popularity coincided with a time in my life that I watched way too much YouTube so I'm pretty familiar with him and other YouTubers from that period.

And this is why GFY is so awesome!

[Axeman]

His videos have waned mostly in my interest as he repeats the formula so often and only so much you can ramp up. Always clearly were pretty bias/rigged games, which opens up possible issues with lottery and game show regulations and how they apply to streaming, which gets far more views than regular TV does. And the biggest issue to me is the turning children into gamblers, especially with his Feastables chocolate. He's definitely about to spend a lot of money on lawyers soon.

[mechanicvirus]

What if he changed his name to MrBreast and opened a porndude type site, then just dumped millions of dollars into owning the SERPS.

[mainstreammix]

God damn the right wing fucks on this forum are fully gone mentally. Do 0 of you know them in person so that you can get them some fucking help? Watching people spiral out of control like this is sad and pathetic.

[mainstreammix]

Originally Posted by Huggles

And this is why GFY is so awesome!

Do you ever stop and go "Well shit, maybe I shouldn't post unhinged conspiracy theory shit that is only loved by the other unhinged lunatics on this forum?"

Just curious.

[fuzebox]

His Joe Rogan interview was very interesting

[mainstreammix]

Originally Posted by fuzebox

His Joe Rogan interview was very interesting

All of his interviews are.

[Huggles]

Originally Posted by mainstreammix

God damn the right wing fucks on this forum are fully gone mentally.

My dude... everyone is sooooo hellbent on dividing each other into "left vs right"

We're all humans trying to eek out an existence in this extremely fucked up world... have some understanding and compassion for your fellow man and just TRY and not divide everything into "left vs right" or "chud vs libtard"

[Huggles]

Originally Posted by mainstreammix

Do you ever stop and go "Well shit, maybe I shouldn't post unhinged conspiracy theory shit that is only loved by the other unhinged lunatics on this forum?"

Just curious.

Man, saying actors or actresses are "agents" is not an unhinged conspiracy theory.

If you were an intelligence agency, socially fluid people like actors would be the exact best types of agents and people you'd want in your circle.

Do you remember the Nxivm sex cult?

I met Allison Mack, at least twice from what I remember in the 2010's, and she was openly such a slime ball and being sooooooo sketchy, but the people low on the totem pole in the film industry knew not to say anything about her. I have no doubt that "agencies" and such all utilize actors and actresses to gain intelligence and meet people they want to know more about, who else is socially fluid enough?

Mr. Beast could have started out 100% innocent, but maybe once he crossed a certain threshold of fame, the system deployed "guides" to help Mr. Beast come to make the right choices.

[Zuzana Designs]

Originally Posted by fuzebox

His Joe Rogan interview was very interesting

I don't know how I missed that one. I have a long drive this weekend and I'll have to check it out

[Zuzana Designs]

Originally Posted by mechanicvirus

What if he changed his name to MrBreast and opened a porndude type site, then just dumped millions of dollars into owning the SERPS.

LOLZ

[Axeman]

Originally Posted by Zuzana Designs

I don't know how I missed that one. I have a long drive this weekend and I'll have to check it out

Its a good listen for sure.

[fris]

Originally Posted by lezinterracial

I never understood how they were able to give so much away and then the guy was still on track to be a billionaire. But, I do know, I never like seeing his face. Finally, I see something interesting about him.

What are your thoughts?

all he winners of the contests seem to be related to him somehow, friends, etc

[King Mark]

Gfy 2024 🤣

[PornDude]

Originally Posted by mechanicvirus

What if he changed his name to MrBreast and opened a porndude type site, then just dumped millions of dollars into owning the SERPS.

It's a good idea

[adultinnovation]

MrBeast lawyers sending another Cease and Desist to the guy who made the "MrBeast is a fraud" video


https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/com...se_and_desist/

[adultinnovation]

[$5 submissions]

I remember when Mr Beast got hated on for drilling free water wells in Africa

Can't make this shit up

Sheesh

[MatureKing]

Originally Posted by PornDude

It's a good idea

can we exchange links?

[adultinnovation]

hell thailand

[paVlo]

i was thinking about it , i think we will never know the truth .

[DukeSkywalker]

Mr Beast has bigger problems

[CaptainHowdy]

Originally Posted by DukeSkywalker

Mr Beast has bigger problems

Do tell . . .

[mechanicvirus]

Originally Posted by $5 submissions

I remember when Mr Beast got hated on for drilling free water wells in Africa

Can't make this shit up

Sheesh

I actually remember when MrBeast did a thing and then other people were like "huh" and he was like "what" and then people on internet forums were like "opinion", it was wild.

[TheLegacy]

Never watched him though all my kids know him for gaming etc.

No clue why he's so famous nor how his payments from YouTube manage to pay for everything but I'm also getting tired of the scam where people say he's giving 10k away to everyone who signs up at a website - then they need to pay for something... I don't know but there are way to many fake commercials using celebs and TV personalities to push it likely through AI.