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[-] take_five_moments@hexbear.net 97 points 2 months ago
[-] MemesAreTheory@hexbear.net 51 points 2 months ago

I hope he runs off a cliff

[-] Riffraffintheroom@hexbear.net 14 points 2 months ago

Is he shitty? I don’t know anything about him other than he makes videos and does flashy philanthropy. It’s exploitative to make entertainment out of philanthropy, but in this case that entertainment makes money that contributes to the next act of philanthropy. The necessity of that is hellworld shit, but I’m not sure I’d personally fault him for it.

[-] MemesAreTheory@hexbear.net 55 points 2 months ago

He's completely dead inside and has turned his entire life into a slop maximization algorithm. I don't want to go chasing it down right now, but he basically never stops "working" and considers every waking moment in terms of the opportunity cost associated with not working, up to and including shaming his girlfriend for costing him money by wanting a date night. Could there be a moment of real empathy under there? Maybe. But I'm not convinced he does anything for any reason besides self promotion/profit generation until proven otherwise.

[-] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 21 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

He's an odd character. The people from his small community in NC have nothing really bad to say about him from what I've heard, but his whole schtick is basically conspicuous charity. Which again, is better than no charity, but the fact that the Ouch My Balls guy is popular because social welfare and social services are so bad is worrying.

He does legitimately put everything back into his garbage or into charity though. Dude still just live in a normal house in Greenville NC, and does a lot for the area.

Wouldn't be surprised if he ends up just running for mayor or something there at some point...

[-] Blakey@hexbear.net 19 points 2 months ago

He does legitimately put everything back into his garbage or into charity though. Dude still just live in a normal house in Greenville NC, and does a lot for the area.

He is literally a billionaire. The fact that he is the kind of shitty billionaire who chooses not to live like one doesn't improve that. His "charity" is performative garbage that hurts more than helps because of the way it makes people complacent and redirects attention from actually worthwhile efforts to stuff that makes mr beast richer.

[-] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 12 points 2 months ago

Definitely not defending him, he just has a major cult of personality in his direct area that I see since I live in the state. Clearly he's done enough to make people in that area actually kinda like him.

The big problem is that he's able to garner support doing essentially selfish bullshit.

[-] Blakey@hexbear.net 19 points 2 months ago

That wasn't aimed at you specifically, some of the comments on this post are really, really concerning with the amount of slack they're giving a billionaire who got his wealth from "doing charity"

[-] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 13 points 2 months ago

Which again, is better than no charity,

diverting charity from stuff that's actually effective to his spectacle can be negative charity. i forget all the details but i remember a few years ago he was in on some river trash thing that was just worse than a different thing conservationists were already doing.

[-] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 10 points 2 months ago

Agreed, he's not like some altruistic super selfless individual with some grand vision of an equitable future for all. He's just some weirdo who's so obsessed with his clout that he will literally just give money away so people like him. Not in a way that fixes the underlying issue, or even in a way that promotes some private interest like most liberal/conservative/religious charities. He's just a selfish chaotic neutral.

[-] Jabril@hexbear.net 26 points 2 months ago

He has been doing illegal child gambling and most of his "competition" style videos are rigged and fake

[-] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 17 points 2 months ago

Some of his videos are legit dangerous and would get smaller channels banned/demonitized. He had something like "escape from being tied up in a house that's on fire" type shit. Then there's his unhealthy snacks targeted towards kids. I forget what it was. IIRC they were marketed as health foods for kids but had a bunch of corn syrup and no nutritional value.

[-] Jabril@hexbear.net 11 points 2 months ago

Oh yes there was the chocolate marketed as the healthy alternative and it had more sugar than average chocolate

[-] KuroXppi@hexbear.net 8 points 2 months ago

'just five ingredients'

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[-] hollowmines@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago

hold up what is child gambling

[-] Jabril@hexbear.net 33 points 2 months ago

He would do streams to sell merch and he would take an iPhone or stack of cash and put it in the box with a hoodie and say "whoever buys a hoodie right now will have a chance to get this prize" but then he wouldn't send the boxes with the prizes. So kids would see the stream, use their (parent's) money to buy his stuff because they think they are going to get a free PlayStation or something, and then have 0% of actually receiving it.

That was one example, a former employee made a video exposing a lot of it and he gave different examples beyond that

[-] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 12 points 2 months ago

somebody else's shipped iphone could accidentally get in the box with the hoodie so technically

[-] Blakey@hexbear.net 22 points 2 months ago

Of course he's shitty. He's extremely wealthy! Likely a billionaire. So this is someone who became a literal billionaire by "doing charity", meaning that he has enough money to just straight out end a lot of the problems he pretends to care about, but he doesn't, because spending a few hundred grand installing wells in poor African villages makes him wealthy but fighting to end the exploitation of Africa that creates that need doesn't. He is a massive, irredeemable piece of shit, and obviously so. He is perhaps the most predatory member of an entirely predatory class.

[-] robot_dog_with_gun@hexbear.net 48 points 2 months ago

Santos/Beast 2028

if he's the vice president he can keep doing youtube full time

[-] LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net 24 points 2 months ago

Have you seen Trump's presidency? He could YouTube full time either way

[-] Comrade_Mushroom@hexbear.net 36 points 2 months ago

Yeah I was gonna say, this is some shit he's gonna point to during the campaign lol

[-] AernaLingus@hexbear.net 46 points 2 months ago

Dude seems absolutely addicted to "do big thing, number go up." We just need to convince him that the biggest things he could be doing are pressing the communism button and doing massive record-breaking infrastructure projects. Make a YouTube video about eliminating homelessness by seizing property from landlords! Another one about building transcontinental high-speed rail!

[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 27 points 2 months ago

yes-honey-left At this point I'll take it. I'll live in the beast hype house dorm if it means free housing and I can emancipate myself from my shitty family.

[-] Speaker@hexbear.net 24 points 2 months ago

Rebranding the means of production as Seizables™️

[-] Comrade_Mushroom@hexbear.net 27 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I would rather never look into his dead eyes again so long as I live, but it sure would be a wild ride

[-] Des@hexbear.net 23 points 2 months ago

provide him with a UI like Vicky 3 and all the lines are tuned towards increasing living conditions

[-] livestreamedcollapse@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago

Eh, close enough to project cybersyn. I'll take it.

[-] NPa@hexbear.net 7 points 2 months ago

mr-beast "I put 10 000 CEOs into minimum wage service jobs and gave every customer a gun, last CEO standing gets to go to the gulag!!"

[-] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 26 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Mr Beast V Donald Trump 2032, who wins (besides non Imperial aligned countries) (Yes I am presupposing Trump wins 2028 and runs again in 2032 because these ghouls are immortal, against all odds and decency)

[-] UmbraVivi@hexbear.net 19 points 2 months ago

There's this one guy one youtube called the Kavernackle and he's been saying for years that running for president is one of MrBeast's ambitions. He's getting more validated every dad.

[-] newacctidk@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago

Kav is great. One of my first internet friends in the political sphere. Wished he streamed more these days tho.

But yeah he was early on YT for articulating Mr. Beast's horrifying existence

[-] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 53 points 2 months ago

And yet, he's starting that bank

[-] Carl@hexbear.net 42 points 2 months ago

He's very "ceo brained". I've said before that I think it's best to analyze his charity videos as kind of a marketing expense, and I stand by that, with the addition that he also pretty clearly shows how normal people can be pretty incoherent in their beliefs and actions.

[-] buckykat@hexbear.net 16 points 2 months ago

I thought he made a net profit from his charity videos, so they're not even an expense.

[-] Carl@hexbear.net 23 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The charity itself can still be considered an expense even if the video overall makes money, because it's part of what draws people to watch the video, that's what I mean when I compare it to marketing.

[-] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago

Fuckin Cost Of Goods Sold ass charity

[-] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 10 points 2 months ago

He definitely does which is why the whole thing is sustainable, but it does seem like he reinvests all of it into the business instead of paying it out into his own pockets. But I don't know much about him, maybe that's not quite true.

[-] Blakey@hexbear.net 7 points 2 months ago

He is extremely wealthy. Maybe not quite a billionaire but that's the level of wealth we're talking. So no, it's not all going to charity. It is all ultimately about making him wealthier. That's the only way to get as wealthy as he is.

Never thought I would see people defending Mr fucking beast here of all places.

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[-] KobaCumTribute@hexbear.net 38 points 2 months ago

Probably A/B testing what does more for his brand: feigned class consciousness, or usury.

[-] MemesAreTheory@hexbear.net 13 points 2 months ago

mr-beast these things are unrelated. no I will not consider the matter further, that would hurt my moral self assessment

[-] mkultrawide@hexbear.net 34 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

America Decides 2028: MrBeast vs Ms. Rachel

[-] RNAi@hexbear.net 36 points 2 months ago

Ms. Rachel

If she ever downloads whatever form you need to fill to run as anything, she'll get Mossaded within 20 minutes

[-] into_highest_invite@lemmygrad.ml 33 points 2 months ago

welcome back friedrich engels

[-] Hyper_red@hexbear.net 18 points 2 months ago

I think if Mr beast end up being the Engels for the American revolution it will be proof this reality is all one cruel prank against Marxists for having any hope

[-] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 31 points 2 months ago

Cresting the pile of tires I see the chain link fence of the Feastables Repository, true to the coordinates I received from Beast HQ before the bombs fell. I take a sip of my canteen. It tastes like battery acid. What used to be a rat watches me. I can hear more of them.

[-] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 21 points 2 months ago

What used to be a rat watches me

Asmongold still sticking around I see

[-] GenderIsOpSec@hexbear.net 7 points 2 months ago

this is a horrid insult to rats angery

asmonmold is a cockroach and thus very capable of surviving a nuclear holocaust tyvm

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[-] 666@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 2 months ago

I remember what things were like before, too. The friends we used to call our own, my loving family and what little I could remember of someone I used to call my wife. I remember her soft lips, the color of her eyes, sometimes, when I sleep and her hair that carried the faint scent of almonds with her. These days, more and more of those memories are replaced by the routine of struggle and daily survival underneath these crimson skies, growing darker each and each day as the Feastable™ Front™ grew closer to the city...what was left of it anyways until The Feast™.

The crops have withered, the animals have died and people collapse from the exhaustion of just living. It's been years since I've seen a cat or a dog or even any mosquitoes in what feels like this never-ending summer. Yet as the Earth and her spoils are consumed by our new self-proclaimed deity, The Beast™, we can only keep praying for a rogue orbital-drop of Feastables™. An act of pity, but of a reminder of their divine might in the form of Drippy™ Cheese™ that we sustain ourselves to live on.

With no cows and no farms how does the Feastables™ cheese get so drippy? These days, the only question that mankind can ask the gods born out of their gluttony and greed.

[-] BeanisBrain@hexbear.net 31 points 2 months ago

Critical support

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