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

Laticauda@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  He’s got vested interest in gargling Musk’s balls.

  “I’m about to finish this book and I want you to know that I respect the hell out of you,” he wrote on February 11, 2020. “Ever since I started learning about your work ethic and passion I’ve been more motivated than ever to make a difference. I look up to you.”

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  • Laticauda@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I mean Musk wasn’t as loud about his bigotry at that point, not in the way he is now at least, and Mr Beast has been openly supportive of trans people. It’s entirely possible he’s changed his mind about Musk in 3 years. I’m not a Mr Beast fan by any means, I don’t watch his content or anything and tbh I found his reaction to the Jacksepticeye thing to be annoying which hasn’t endeared him to me, so I don’t have any skin in the game on his end of things, but there were a lot of people who didn’t hate Elon after the cave diving thing who do hate him now so I wouldn’t really treat that post as gospel personally.

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  • Jolan@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    He probably just didn’t know about how shit of a person he was. In 2020 everyone loved musk, me included, mostly just because most people didn’t dig deep into what type of person he was. I want to give Mr beast the benefit of the doubt here because I don’t think he’s an innately bad person like Elon is.

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    • SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      To note, 2020 was a couple years after Musk called the cave diver that saved kids a pedo.

      That was the moment that all rational people figured out he was a complete asshat. Mr. Beast didn’t.

      Just quoting myself here for good measure. *shrugs

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      • Jolan@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Like I said, most people didn’t know that.

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  • GoodEye8@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I don’t know much about him but from what I know he seems like the kind of guy who would put money above all. I’m guessing as long as he thinks he can get money from Musk it doesn’t matter

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