This man always has the most forced smile I’ve ever seen.
Showing the whole face isn’t much of an improvement.
Is there a reason people hate him? I don’t watch his videos and I’ve only caught clips here and there, but isn’t he mostly known for giving away money and helping people out? It’s entertainment exploitation, for sure, but I’m sure the people he’s helped out don’t care much. I’d rather someone making money off of giving away money than someone making money and being an asshole to everyone.
Genuine question, I don’t have any investment in defending him.
A lot of the “contestants” and people he helps are allegedly friends and family of him and his producers. I don’t know how true that is but that’s when general opinion of him really started sliding.
He was also one of the forerunners of the big dumb face on YouTube thumbnails and I know some people blame him for that trend too.
I’ve posted about him before. To me, he’s always given off very disingenuous vibes. The smile is fake, and when he is not actively talking in his video, he just looks dead inside. Someone posted a story about him in college obsessing about how to game the YouTube algorithm. His only purpose was to get the most views, it didnt matter the content. To me, he is 100% the reason behind the click baity headlines and thumbnails that infect YouTube to this day.
When he says something like " I’m planting 1 million trees", he and 100 volunteers plant 2000 trees in one day and then he asks his followers to donate to a tree planting charity so that he and his followers “together”, can plant a million trees.
it isn’t that he’s not doing good things in small quantity as long as it is filmed and he is guaranteed to make more money off the video than he spends, it’s that his production methodology is so fucked up that you can’t trust any of his videos, or by extension his claims or intentions.
Is there a reason people hate him? […] isn’t he mostly known for giving away money and helping people out?
I may know why. The recently leaked PDF about how he runs his production company makes it patently clear: they aim to make successful YouTube videos, full stop.
Everything else is a side-effect. Not to suggest that they lack any ethics, but rather things like charity are there to get you to click and watch, nothing more. With enough exposure it’s easy to get the impression that something is “off” with being click-bated like that. I’m not saying that behavior is deserving of hate, but it may help explain why people don’t like his media.
Also, for people that are trying to make content in a much more honest fashion, Mr. Beast’s popularity can be disheartening and frustrating. YouTube has clearly decided to reward this eyeball-grabbing behavior without any regards to the quality of the content. It’s stuff made for the algorithm, rather than people showcasing their craft, skill, or interests. I’m guessing that people see their favorite makers and entertainers struggle to make a go of it by doing what they love, and see this guy come along and reap millions in revenue without any emotional connection to the output. To me, that’s a recipe for anger.
Personally, I refuse to view popular click-bait stuff to begin with, and routinely filter such content out (click “not interested”). As a result, my YT recommendations never contain Mr. Beast content and I actually had to fire up a privacy window and click on this nonsense so I knew what the hell everyone was talking about.
Those look within normal bounds. Maybe just low energy or a little mentally tired.
This is some dipshit-tier dogging on someone.
He’s definitely mentally tired, but I honestly see it as part of the problem. He dehumanizes those around him because he dehumanizes himself. He’s a content machine that assumes everyone else must have the same slavish dedication to views and capital that he has.
He’s a hollow billionaire who needs to lose his influence and popularity for everyone’s sake. His toxic workplaces are a result of him being a diehard capitalist who can’t even recognize the shit he swims in. He probably doesn’t realize that his for-profit charity props up an evil system that digests everyone, rich and poor alike.
I’m just happy we can finally call him out for the danger he poses. I suspect he’ll become more openly right wing as more progressive liberals turn on him, which sucks. I wish our world didn’t allow him to get this far.
Having watched interviews with him it’s an interesting case study cause you can kind of track how he just fell into it. He didn’t start as a rich kid, he lucked into the money with Bitcoin and started making random high-budget YouTube videos (his videos were always on the slop spectrum but in the beginning they were genuine). Over the years he has just devolved into chasing the views. He thought (and probably still thinks) that he does it for fun and it’s just his nature to follow the views but it’s pretty clear to anyone watching that fame via YouTube has changed him significantly.
Do people actually analyze each others visage like this or is it just because he’s a public figure
I’m suddenly very anxious about every picture I’ve ever taken of myself
You taking a photo of yourself probably isn’t used to peddle scams, plastic, and junk food as autruistic feel-good stories.
You also probably don’t plaster your face across every thing you post online.
You also probably have fun. Mr. Beast doesn’t do any of these.
He creepy
The hunger, voraciously clawing at his belly, is never sated. He, must, consume
He must make his viewers consume, he is vicarious energy vampire.
He looks so tired. He’s sick of this shit and ready to to something fun for once.
That would be more believable if he hadn’t made enough money to retire 1,000 times over now. $500m? I think most people can’t grasp how much money that is. Putting that money into a shitty high yield checking account would net him $21m in income a year. It is absurd how much money he has. If he wants to fuck off and do literally nothing for the rest of his life, he can still live like a god without spending a dime of what he’s earned so far.
Always look at the eyes when someone smiles, especially in advertisements. They come off as creepy once you know this trick.
And then there’s this guy, which in the context of Babylon 5, is absolutely perfect:
For anyone that hasn’t watched Babylon 5, Vir Kotto is the nicest, friendliest alien in the show. He gets his wish eventually.
Mr. Morden, isn’t even the Bester villain of the show.
I genuinely cannot tell if this man is smiling or plotting a murder in this picture
those are the eyes of a man making billions of dollars.
Is the trade off worth it? Well, we would probably do it, for a little bit at least.
Billions? I highly doubt. A billion is a fucking ludicrous amount of money.
He has ranked on the Forbes list for the highest-paid YouTube creator in 2022[25] and has an estimated net worth of $500 million.[26]
From Wikipedia
So he’s numerically closer to homeless than billions.
he’s numerically between billion and nothing, so he’s technically equidistant from being a billionaire, and being completely broke.
It’s also worth noting a lot of his business does revolve around spending lots and lots of money, so he probably has a pretty silly revenue stream going.
