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Fuck Mr. Beast, he literally preys on children by falsely framing his videos all as possibilities for them if they subscribe to the channel. He shills things like chocolate bars that are healthy to defeat obesity yet those same bars have twice the sugar than others like hershey bars. He gets kids to buy his shit on the guise of 'oh maybe we'll slip something in your order box! Maybe an iphone!!!' and now you have kids stumbling over themselves to beg their parents to buy Mr. Beast merch / mr. beast burger / mr. beast feastables / etc.
He's not a terrible person but this shit is gross, a lot of it is gambling-adjacent and the kids EAT IT THE FUCK UP. Yeah Mr. Beast is a businessman, but his business is manipulating children.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5xf40KrK3I
I don't disagree, but it feels like every other cereal, pack of crisps and bar of chocolate I see in stores advertises you can win a car or something. Which is stupid, but it's weird to call out some guy for doing something very common across many other products.
I was buying crisps to win plastic Pokémon and ice cream to win money 25 years ago. Sure, call out the practice, but you are making it sound like it's not an ubiquitous type of promotion.