Unpopular Opinion

I only know a little bit about Mr. Beast and saw a couple of his early videos about giving away thousands of dollars in cash to homeless people. I haven't followed what he did after that except heard some controversy about him being involved in either hamburgers or chocolate (or both?).

However, if THIS is your metric...

He is an evil individual who fails to address systemic issues or assist people for their own benefit.

...it begs the question, what are you doing to address systemic issue or assist people for their own benefit. If nothing, does that mean you are evil using your logic?

I really don't care about MrBeast or his channel and obviously he's doing it for the views and to grow his brand but, evil? That's quite a stretch. If that's considered "evil" then we're all evil.

As others have mentioned, what are you doing?

Well I think of it this way.

If Mr beast didn't exist:

A few thousand people wouldn't have been embarrassed on the internet

Tens of thousands of people wouldn't have been given access to clean water.

Hundreds would have never received medical care.

Amazing charities like ocean clean up and team trees would have never gotten the level of support they did.

Many were lifted out of poverty both on main channel, games channel, and philanthropy. They wouldn't be.

Thousands wouldn't be employed in jobs they like.

So given the fact that we are in the system we are in, I'm glad we have him.

As annoying as it is, to help people, you need money. People who help people without monetizing it, run out of money. It's just what it is. He's playing the game, and unlike 99% of billionaires, the game involves enriching others.

I'm fine with a system where building a home for the needy rewards you with the money to do it again. Better than the alternative.

Something about him rubs me the wrong way, I can't put it into words. I won't be surprised if we find out he eats people or fucks kids or something.

He's a man-child with too many resources. There was recently an interview with him, where he just suddenly left in anger, because a set piece was not the way he imagined it. Instead of trying to communicate his disappointment he just got angry and left. You could see on his crew that this is how he acts all the time, and that they were fed up with having a child as a boss.

There is something wrong with how we have structured society when a POS like him can get that successful.

I've said much the same many times (I wouldn't go quite so far too say he's "evil", but he's very clearly not a good person) and it's wild how many people will leap to the defense of the multi-millionaire. "He's helping people" they say, as if he's not explicitly aiming to enrich himself further with even his most philanthropic videos. That he did a straight up squid game enactment is completely tasteless.

Yeah I don’t care if he does an amount of good. I just don’t like the guy, there’s something off.

Oh shit, this is close to the perfect unpopular opinion.

Does MrBeast employ any PR services that do astroturfing?

Edit to add: MrBeast is a fascist. If I wind up choked to death on some ghost kitchen MrBeast branded meal, avenge me

Honestly a lot of people complain about Mr Beast, saying that his charity/etc is done purely for attention and views.

But I figure there are a ton of high profile YouTubers who make a ton of money, and just spend it on themselves or doing elaborate set ups for videos. It seems weird that Mr Beast gets more criticized for doing some good than all the comparative YouTubers who are doing nothing good. It's like by trying to do anything good he's gotten himself judged by a much higher standard than everyone else.

Exploitation is the essence of capitalism. There are worse than Mr Beast.

I had a discussion here on Lemmy about him and was pretty roundly downvoted. His exploitation of the recipients of his actions to make more money to repeat the feat really just rubs me the wrong way. Yeah, he does good. He also gets really rich off of it. No different than charities that consume a far larger portion of their income than ever gets delivered to those they help. Do they help? Sure. But they pay themselves first.

Evil? No. I don’t think so. Many charities just take care of basic needs without messing with the system that created the problem. Mr Beast is self-aggrandizing and profitable? Sure.

A bum fight organizer and promoter.

He is just indoctrinating kids into being materialist muppets..

I always see Mr. Beast get a lot of hate every once in a while....and I get that he has a accumulated an insane amount of wealth and fame as a kid which has given him a "unique" look on this world.

But as far as we know the know... Now in adulthood, the guy has yet to actually do anything horrible.

I mean the only thing he is guilty of is having a massive following of mindless people that feed him more eyes.

Yet people keep constantly hating on him for this. Idk if they wish they had his money, fame or what the deal is.

I see true evils happening in the world all the time yet someone always posts this focused hate on this Mr. Beast dude.

I don't think the hate is gonna stop until he is as destitute as the rest of us.

Being in obnoxious is not a crime.

Majority of jobs here in the USA exploit and humiliate a lot more than any of these videos.

That's all for my rant. Ty.

I can guarantee you and I are on vastly opposite ends of a wide variety of opinions and views, but one thing everyone should be able to collectively agree on is this right here. Mr beast needs to be purged from the internet.

How's that saying go again? Something like

"If you do good, while having evil intentions, and the outcome is still overall good, it's good?"

The reasons he helps people matter not, since he actually is helping people.

Legal interventions in what way, he hasnt broke a law.

Its just boring virtue signalling.

Feels like anyone who criticizes this guy has never seen a gameshow before.