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::undefined
Yesterday I told a Tesla recruiter I won’t work for musk
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
Submitted 3 months ago by L4s@lemmy.world [bot] to technology@lemmy.world
https://mashable.com/article/x-twitter-elon-musk-mrbeast-video-unlabaled-ads-creator-monetization
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HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 3 months ago
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
Beautiful. More people need to do this with more shitty companies than just Tesla.
brlemworld@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I’m ok with it. Im just not going to give up remote work and don’t want to live in Austin or Silicon Valley.
JoeKrogan@lemmy.world 3 months ago
They can have him sick of seeing him shoe up in thumbnails
sharkwellington@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Can he please hire someone to teach him how to smile? He’s got the money for it.
NaoPb@eviltoast.org 3 months ago
That smile is like how I look when I try to smile for a picture. I guess I don’t have the muscle controll. It looks weird as fuck just like that guy.
DrWeevilJammer@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
He just needs to squeeze one eye a little bit and it would be a perfect “filling my diaper” face
Octopus1348@lemy.lol 3 months ago
You will hate MrBeastify
blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Do not recommend this channel anymore. ✅
ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world 3 months ago
There is something not right with that guy. Apologies to all the Mr. Beast fans, but there it is.
The first time I ever even heard about him was from a news article about a year ago. Some disadvantaged little kid got pranked by people claiming to be on Mr. Beast’s staff promising him [something] that made him light up with joy, but was then deliberately stiffed on whatever the promise was, and of course it broke his little heart. It was clearly not a scam and the kid was just destroyed by it, so much so that it upset his community and finally hit the local media.
When contacted, Mr. Beast and his staff denied they had anything to do with it, which is entirely possible – but what really got my attention was just the callous kind of half-assed apology and oh well response the kid got from them. They could so easily have tossed the little guy some kind of bone; instead it was more of a shut-up-and-go-away response.
I have my YouTube subscription tightly curated so I rarely see any of the really popular stuff, but at some point after all this a Mr. Beast video was offered, and I remembered it was that guy. So I went and looked at his channel and ALL of it just seemed to have a very strong ick factor. Okay, maybe it’s just my poor taste, lol.
But now he’s on my radar, and I’ve noticed something else: I have never actually heard a completely positive word about him. There’s always some kind of controversy involved. Contrast that with other celebrities: there are many who never have a bad word spoken about them. Not this guy.
And now Elon Musk wants him on X. Keep in mind that Elon Musk is openly repelled by those he cannot manipulate, including anyone with working conscience who is repelled by the kind of propagandistic hatred X serves up on the regular, and Musk tirades against that kind of ethical “wokeness” regularly. Yet he loves Mr. Beast enough to run Beast content (for free? as an ad?) to get Mr. Beast onto his platform. That’s not the kind of recommendation decent people get from Musk.
Yeah. There’s something just NOT right about that guy.
TheDarksteel94@sopuli.xyz 3 months ago
You’ve never heard a positive word about Mr. Beast / Jimmy? I have, quite a lot actually. Maybe you don’t watch the people who interact with him more, idk. He seems like a nice guy who uses his videos to generate revenue that he immediately puts back into making more videos. Like, almost all of it if I understand correctly. All while helping tons of people in the process.
Also, Musk is desperate for Jimmy’s attention lol. He asked Mr. Beast in a tweet recently why he doesn’t upload his videos on X and basically got the answer “It’s not worth it” lol
31337@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Meh, I’ve never watched a video of his, but seems like it’s just a modern day game show/home makeover/dystopian feel-good story sort of thing. Neither good or bad. It’s good that he helps some people, bad that the people and many, many more need help.
Facebones@reddthat.com 3 months ago
I agree that it sucks that we need people to help pick up the slack in our social nets and whatnot, but I think it’s unfair that people attack Mr beast for using that YouTube money to help people to make more YouTube money to help more people. Loads of these youtubers rake in more and do jack with it but never face any individual flak, but he does something different and he becomes the poster boy of evil youtuber to people.
FWIW Beast Philanthropy is a registered 501c3, feeds like over half of NC, and has done alot of disaster relief work in a bunch of states and a handful of countries. I don’t think it’s evil that they shoot some footage in the process and a quick ad read to feed 100% of the revenue from the philanthropy channel back into the 501c3.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
And now Elon Musk wants him on X. Keep in mind that Elon Musk is openly repelled by those he cannot manipulate, including anyone with working conscience who is disgusted by the kind of propagandistic hatred X serves up on the regular, and Musk tirades against that kind of ethical “wokeness” regularly. Yet he loves Mr. Beast enough to run Beast content (for free? as an ad?) to get Mr. Beast onto his platform. That’s not the kind of recommendation decent people get from Musk.
Excellent write-up. This paragraph especially speaks volumes. Honestly, it’s an angle I hadn’t even considered, but when faced with it, yeah, exactly! How the hell does Mr. Beast not get the same “wokeness” critique as other people??
TheDarksteel94@sopuli.xyz 3 months ago
Musk is just a suck-up. Also, Mr. Beast doesn’t really do anything he could clown on, and he’s well connected. It would make Musk’s reputation worse than it already is.
lledrtx@lemmy.world 3 months ago
OMG, thank you! I’ve been saying for years that something is not right about him but I can’t pinpoint why. We will see with time, I guess!
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Mr. Beast is never off. I’ve never seen a candid picture of him. He’s probably clean, but something’s very fake about him.
The first project I heard of his was “#TeamSeas”. Which collects donations to dredge trash out of the ocean. Except realistically, that trash is constantly getting replenished. The efforts should have been to reduce plastic waste, either by promoting less consumption or switching all drink bottles to recyclable aluminum. Neither of those look as good on camera as a specialized ship pulling trash out of the ocean and promoting anti consumption probably wouldn’t sit well either his audience or sponsors.
His viewers mainly consist of people who want to feel charitable vicariously or people fantasizing about about being on the reviving end of his charity. It’s not much different from the people who watch Life Styles of the Rich and Famous.
anarchy79@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Same here. I always found the fandom and the whole concept suspect AF.
thesporkeffect@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Mr Beast is a fascist
HUMAN_TRASH@lemmy.world 3 months ago
But, he’s trying to manipulate him by inflating view counts? Also, pretty sure musk wants him because he’s a huge creator and it would be good for twitter, not because he can sense he’s bad or whatever. I don’t really care about Mr Beast, never watched his videos, but I’ve heard much more good about him than bad.
Sanctus@lemmy.world 3 months ago
No matter what, the amount of money, contests, and just absolute overindulgence capable by Mr Beast is insane in any functioning society. The disparity is so bad these influencers and people with money swoop in, gift people egregious and lavish gifts are rewards for contests, and use that to further enrich themselves through monetized channels. Its sickening to watch. This shouldn’t be reality.
Kungfusnorlax@lemmy.world 3 months ago
The old system where the networks got all the money was way better.
RFBurns@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Suddenly it’s 1960.
Microsoft, Apple, Amazon and Google have replaced ABC, NBC, PBS and CBS.
Your “
personal computerinternet appliance” is a black-box running rented software, just like in the ‘dumb-terminal time-sharing’ era.
dreamer@lemm.ee 3 months ago
For sure but Mr. Beast doesn’t actually keep any of the money for himself.
lone_faerie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
He does though. You can’t build fancy sets and put on huge productions without having money. Like yeah, Jimmy might not have millions of dollars in his personal bank account, but his business sure does.
KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
I feel like MrBeast is smarter than this.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
Smart enough to show support for his trans staff member while also being friends with someone who would deny every trans person their human rights?
He’s a fucking piece of shit speaking out of both sides of his mouth.
You can’t support Kris and be friends with the likes of Elon Musk.
He’s not smarter than this, he’s fucking greedy just like Musk.
wahming@monyet.cc 3 months ago
Where in the article does it say anything about their being friends?
xc2215x@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I don’t think Mr.Beast needs the platform.
trafficnab@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
To put into perspective just how unimportant Twitter is in the grand scene of things, Mr Beast’s most popular YouTube video has 40 million more views than Twitter has total monthly active users, and 100 million views is frankly a pretty underperforming video for him
BlackNo1@lemmy.world 3 months ago
id love to punch them both in the face really really hard
Chickenstalker@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Mr Beast is the AntiChrist gog and magog. I hate him with the passion of a thousand Hiroshimas. His corpse face splattered all over youtube triggers an uncanny valley effect on me. A repulsive simulacra, a predator animal disguised as a human.
sugartits@lemmy.world 3 months ago
You need to get out more, mate.
RoverRacecar@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Good Job Caveman!
Laticauda@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
Isn’t one of Mr. Beast’s friends trans? He has a vested interest in not associating with Elon.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 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.”
Laticauda@lemmy.ca 3 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.
Jolan@lemmy.world 3 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.
GoodEye8@lemm.ee 3 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
Facebones@reddthat.com 3 months ago
Why is it people who hoard wealth and use that wealth to hoard more wealth by fucking as many people as possible always get this dismissive “eh of course they do shrug,” - but as soon as somebody finds wealth and is like “how can I do something useful with this” then uses that wealth to start a food bank and fund water/energy projects for needy communities we gotta spend our day breaking down how they’re evil and sus?
Phegan@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Because people who get this rich do it by exploiting the poor. They aren’t going to turn around and be nice. People who get this rich start as absolute shit bags. They remain the same after.
WoahWoah@lemmy.world 3 months ago
… that doesn’t answer the question they asked.
Facebones@reddthat.com 3 months ago
My brother in Christ he’s a fucking YouTuber. If you don’t want to be in a video, say no. 🤷
Of course for all this screeching about exploitation I’d happily put down $50 that says you wouldn’t turn down a free car because you “don’t want to be exploited.”
Go tell the people in the 21 counties of NC his food pantry travels to that they’re being exploited and see what they think of your hot take.
tsonfeir@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Remember, when people made content just for the fun of it
4grams@awful.systems 3 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.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
And nothing of value was lost.
Nima@leminal.space 3 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.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 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!
pacmondo@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
I remember having popup blockers, but not a whole cloth ad blocker.
PlasmaDistortion@lemm.ee 3 months ago
I actually bought things from their ads because I wanted to support them. Those days are long gone.
jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 3 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.
jak@sopuli.xyz 3 months ago
Anders loves Maria
ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Slightly off topic, but I was just thinking about BOFH/PFY an hour or so ago, lol. Good times.
AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 3 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.
runjun@lemmy.world 3 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.
Guest_User@lemmy.world 3 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.
wolfcatreader@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Word!
JDPoZ@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Feels like I’m probably gonna get dogged on for this as some will just call it self-promotion, but I’ve been making “content” for a long long long time - I think my oldest personal completely original YouTube video is like 14 yrs old… and I used to just make it for the fun of it.
The problem came when my own stuff started getting bogus takedowns and copyright claims and other people sticking ads into my work or claiming that because 2 seconds of my 20-video essay has a clip from a popular movie, I should get no revenue for the other 19 minutes and 58 seconds of detailed analysis… or that - because I chose to use the cartoon theme music from the 1980s animated show for the background music for a 2+ week project on a highly detailed transforming 3D model animation, I should get zero credit or possible revenue from it…
My choice was either to delete my shit to spite them and move it somewhere else or just give up…
Sometimes I said fuck them and deleted it. Other times I moved it somewhere else. Other times I shifted what I spent time on.
Now though, I honestly try to put stuff up not ONLY for the fun of it, but to try and make some sort of tiny bit of money.
My job contract with a company I had been with for 10+ years ended at the end of last year… and I got a new 6-month contract position at a different company… but it pays way less.
Being able to make content “just for the fun of it” is nice and easier when you’re young and still on your parents’ dime, but that’s kind of a luxury to some of us older folks who are now just also looking to secure some sort of income in an increasingly shitty world where there are no safety nets, and no job seems safe from elimination.
The worst part is that - over the years as Google and other companies have increased the requirements for being able to have any sort of monetization whatsoever, I went from making a couple hundred bucks a year to not even qualifying anymore to be a YouTube partner.
Now with 1,100+ subscribers and over 1.1 million views on all the stuff on my channel (some of which is honestly garbage or just the best versions of otherwise maybe lost media I do NOT own and so am NOT complaining about a lack of making revenue on), I still have yet to make enough from any of the stuff that IS my original work over that 14+ years to even have it be significant to show up as required on my taxes.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 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.
tsonfeir@lemm.ee 3 months ago
May I ask what kind of stuff you created?
GrammatonCleric@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Bro, that was like 20+ years ago 😂😭
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
Absolutely true, but should we be okay when every aspect of human communication must be monetized to matter?
tsonfeir@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Yeah?
diviledabit@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Just don’t get the guy musk hired.
los_chill@programming.dev 3 months ago
If someone is getting rich off of it though, it had better be the creator.