YouTube star MrBeast buys youth-focused financial services app Step

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• SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  This guy is creepy AF. I must be too old to understand the appeal of YouTubers.

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  • Tetsuo@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    to understand the appeal of YouTubers.

    Come on, are you really putting all the Youtubers in the same boat as MrBeast ?

    Take a look at channels like :

    • Veritasium
    • Technology connections

    They only share a platform with MrBeast but it’s nor fair to compare them to that prominent idiot.

    It’s akin to saying all books are bad because you didn’t like your last book…

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    • noride@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I will say it’s a little ironic you mentioned Veritasium considering the channel was literally bought into by a corporation focused and maximizing revenue of YouTube channels. Good content, sure, but I think it’s indicative of exactly what’s wrong with the platform as a whole.

      Also, to everyone and no one, if you like the content from Technology Connections, Veritasium, etc., AlphaPheonix is likely your speed, too.

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    • Aeao@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I watch a lot of YouTuber myself. Answers with Joe being one of my favorites.

      I can’t help but feel like there’s something off about him. Like years from they’ll find a bunch of dead homeless guys in his garage or something.

      It might just be that smile, or the over enthusiastic way he talks. Like all preformers are fake. Joe from answers with Joe is also putting on a performance but Mr beast it just like an alien pretending to be a human.

      And games just feel problematic and exploitative, on the other hand poor people have done far more degrading things for lesser domes of money.

      Anyway long story short there’s just something about him that creeps me out

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    • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Come on, are you really putting all the Youtubers in the same boat as MrBeast ?

      465 million followers.

      Veritasium

      20 million followers

      Technology connections

      3 million followers

      Jake Paul

      21 million followers

      I rest my case about YouTube users.

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  • Lfrith@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I don’t get it either. I see millions of followers but their streams don’t give off a vibe of someone with charisma worthy of that type of obsession.

    Most of them off of as really obnoxious loud people ranting into a mic. Well…maybe it does make sense seeing the type of people society has rallied around to hold positions of power.

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    • Soulphite@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I prefer watching YouTube videos where no one talks, they just do, building things, working on cars, etc. These kids screaming into a make “LETS GOOOOO!!” about every little thing and pranking and all that shit is just obnoxious.

      I also enjoy those Police Activity videos and Audits too, so I suppose I just don’t follow the typical “influencer” hype either. Other than that, YouTube is great for various content.

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    • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I see millions of followers but their streams don’t give off a vibe of someone with charisma worthy of that type of obsession.

      At some point, Youtube customers only watch the videos to get some kind of personal relationship with the YouTuber.

      Lock Picking Lawyer explains why he is anonymous, and just how weird/dangerous youtube fans can get.

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  • x00z@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It’s just some sort of modern television.

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• bravesilvernest@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Youth focused what now? Fucking hell

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• Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I’m sure the philanthropic man that he is will use it to educate consumers and totally not to swindle them…

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• danh2os@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I’m so glad my kids are grown up now.

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  • Hominine@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Right there with you and cannot help but feel for parents that have to navigate this hellscape.

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    • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      My kids concluded quickly Youtubers are mostly fucking idiots and grifters.

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• BlackEco@lemmy.blackeco.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  What could possibly go wrong?

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• EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  This dude had his 15 minutes of fame. Can he just fade into obscurity now.

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• melsaskca@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  He’ll be making that big interest money from all of that credit debt, but for a younger crowd.

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• Hadriscus@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  The other day we were at my SIL’s and all the nephews and nieces were unsupervised watching AI slop on youtube, then one of them changes channel and it’s MrBeast, auto-dubbed by youtube, doing a show where he locks up a guy in a fake store and… the premise made no sense at all, and the show was essentially a typical dumb TV game/show from 20 years ago : gratuitous premise, vacuous talk and lots of money involved (the guy made like 100 grand from putting items in carts and living inside the fake store for a month). And once in a while the MrBeast itself appeared and gave the camera this creepy smile, saying “I gotta go now, I have a shoot planned in Africa!” I rolled my eyes. “In Africa”. It could be anywhere… That guy is ignorant to top it off

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