Comment on 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

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• 4grams@awful.systems ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I do, and I miss it. What’s more I’ve never once seen a Mr beast video.
  Avoid the cruft, roll your own content and find smaller, individual communities like these tubes used to be a decade (or more) ago.

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  • SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What’s more I’ve never once seen a Mr beast video.

    And nothing of value was lost.

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    • kautau@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah “Mr Beast Burger” is a great example of this. He hired a company known for shitty “virtual” restaurants (en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_Dining_Concepts) to slap his name on a ton of franchises to capitalize on his YouTube popularity and get kids to beg their parents to eat there

      And now they’re both suing each other

      variety.com/…/mrbeast-burger-lawsuit-inedible-res…

      theverge.com/…/mrbeast-burger-virtual-dining-conc…

      They both deserve each other

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      • gramathy@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I don’t even mind the concept of a ghost kitchen, if you don’t want to manage a front of house, fuck it, do pickup and delivery only like so many pizza places do, that’s fine, but just like everything else it gets labor exploited to benefit the owner class by running a dozen “restaurants” out of the same kitchen

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      • SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        People who quickly turn to lawsuits care about one thing only: money.

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    • otp@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      that’s what fucking taxes are for, and Mr. Beast needs to be taxed until his fucking channel is gone.

      Why until his channel is gone? If he’s a business, we need to tax him and his business appropriately. More, sure. But taxing a business until it’s gone is counterproductive, even if you don’t like what the business stands for…

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      • SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        His “business” is a charity. Charity shouldn’t have to exist in a world with enough wealth to support everyone.

        If his channel became something else, sure. But the point is he would be taxed until all those problems he “fixes” are solved, and then he wouldn’t have much to put on his channel, would he?

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  • Nima@leminal.space ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’ve had a much more enjoyable time on freetube because of this, actually. unlike youtube who feeds you content based on what makes them the most money, it tends to actually show you videos that are relevant to what you’re watching. whether it has millions of views or 100.

    it feels like the smaller communities are a little more warm and fun.

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    • BossDj@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Check out Brahkie on YouTube if you haven’t already

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• SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Fuck, remember webcomics?

  Achewood, Diesel Sweeties, Cat and Girl, Penny Arcade, Cyanide & Happiness, Joe and Monkey, Questionable Content, Dresden Codak (always updated way too infrequently), Dinosaur Comics, Gone With the Blastwave, Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, The Perry Bible Fellowship, When I Grow Up/WIGU/Overcompensating, Married to the Sea, hell, even CTRL+ALT+DEL left us with Loss. I could go on, there’s definitely more.

  …but I don’t like to talk about what happened with SinFest.

  A lot of these sites had advertising, but I don’t remember any of it being so off-putting that I felt the need for an adblocker. Honestly, at this point, I don’t even recall if adblockers were a thing yet in 2000-2005.

  So much content in those early aughts. I’m still waiting on a Complete Achewood. Damn you, Chris Onstad!

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  • pacmondo@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I remember having popup blockers, but not a whole cloth ad blocker.

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  • PlasmaDistortion@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I actually bought things from their ads because I wanted to support them. Those days are long gone.

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    • SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They mostly advertised other comics and merchandise from other comics, if I recall correctly.

      Also, Adblock originally released in 2002, and Adblock Plus came out in 2006.

      I do recall one of the reasons I respected webcomics ads was they weren’t ones that were animated, blaring music, or asking me to try to play a mini-game by clicking on something that specifically can’t be caught by your mouse.

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  • jjjalljs@ttrpg.network ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I still read the order of the stick, even though it updates glacially: www.giantitp.com/comics/oots.html

    It’s so good. Starts as a goofy DND joke strip, develops a ton of pathos.

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    • SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      What early 2000’s webcomics taught me is there were a lot of really great writers out there with some subpar art skills.

      When the writing is so good, you don’t give a shit that it’s all stick figures.

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      • Patch@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Some of them were actually pretty good artists; occasionally you’d see them do other stuff and it’d be genuinely good on an artistic level.

        The whole stick man, lumpy face, primitivist thing was just an “in” aesthetic (while also being conveniently really quick to produce).

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  • jak@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Anders loves Maria

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    • SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Hell, I’m about to go and edit my original comment and make links to any that are still around. Looks like a lot of them are!

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  • ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Slightly off topic, but I was just thinking about BOFH/PFY an hour or so ago, lol. Good times.

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  • AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    One of my absolute favorite webcomics is Peter and Company. I didn’t realize this, but the website lists the first strip as being from 2005 and the latest being from last month.

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• runjun@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There’s still plenty of people doing that. But their uploads will be inconsistent when they upload and quality. The views will also be low so YouTube’s algorithm won’t recommend it unless they pay to advertise.

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  • Guest_User@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    My YouTube recommendation page is full of channels with sub 100 subscribers. Because I actually watch them since I find those videos engaging for different reasons. I’d you actually watch small YouTube channels YouTube is more than happy to serve those channels to you.

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    • runjun@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I do get sub 1000 view recommendations from YouTube but I don’t know if I would assume those creators haven’t paid any money. You can pay to push your videos to a small, very targeted, audience for fairly cheap.

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      • Guest_User@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That’s a fair point, however with a good bit if the videos recommend to me I highly doubt they are paying for exposure. Many don’t have the absolute basic skills when it comes to cinematography. Personally I enjoy watching random non professionals show their interests. But I don’t think they are paying to show their videos to people like me.

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• wolfcatreader@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Word!

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• FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yes. In fact, it got me a lot of attention. I got into a bunch of newspapers, interviewed on NPR, etc. Then my audience started drifting away and on to the next thing… and then YouTube decided to monetize. My account was monetized for a while. I made a grand total of $100 before it was demonetized again.

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  • tsonfeir@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    May I ask what kind of stuff you created?

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    • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      My big hit was “The Skeletor Show.” It’s still on YouTube. But I did many other things on the account before deciding I didn’t feel like making comedy videos anymore a few years ago. Occasionally people post asking me to please come back, but I don’t know that I ever will.

      I will say that it did get me some jobs when I needed work, which was the original goal of the show anyway.

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      • SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Oh I remember this! A buddy of mine was making a similar style show during roughly the same period using the classic Star Trek cartoon. Similarly Sealab 2021 influenced.

        Very nice and thanks for the reminder.

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• GrammatonCleric@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Bro, that was like 20+ years ago 😂😭

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  • SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Absolutely true, but should we be okay when every aspect of human communication must be monetized to matter?

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    • GrammatonCleric@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      We have no choice in the matter, as you can plainly see.

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      • SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I’m definitely not okay with plenty of things I have no choices in the matters thereof.

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  • tsonfeir@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah?

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• diviledabit@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Just don’t get the guy musk hired.

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• los_chill@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If someone is getting rich off of it though, it had better be the creator.

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