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On Mr. Beast and being alone in a circle for 100 days

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I've never seen a mr. beast video because I found the weird sex-doll gaping face on all his videos extremely off-putting and so I block every channel that displays one whenever they're suggested. In fact, the reason I learned it was possible to block channels at all was specifically due to these videos constantly being suggested. I only know what the name is because a picture of him showed up in some other video-- an…

How can you block YT channels ? I've only been able to specify "not interested in this channel"

Re: On Mr. Beast and being alone in a circle for 100 days

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

As a content creator Mr Beast only acts as a conduit for what we, the audience, are willing to pay for. It's not he who is the monster but us.

Exactly. Don't hate the player. Hate the game. And the game is humanity, who wants this type of content. But overall i disagree that anyone is monster here. No one forces these people to be a part of these challenges.

You could get people to fight to the death with enough money as a reward. Is that ok?

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A lot of Mr. beasts content feel like reverse kidnapping and mental torture situations. And the only “mental trick” you need to pull to illustrate just how horrible a human being he is, is to imagine he’d given them the money up front and told them that to leave his enter-torture-ment they have to pay up a ransom matching the initial gift. That’s what he’s subjecting poor people too, for fun and profit, because he kn…

As a content creator Mr Beast only acts as a conduit for what we, the audience, are willing to pay for. It's not he who is the monster but us.

> only acts as a conduit

That's a lazy analysis. His creation is expanding a small audience into a larger one.

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A lot of Mr. beasts content feel like reverse kidnapping and mental torture situations. And the only “mental trick” you need to pull to illustrate just how horrible a human being he is, is to imagine he’d given them the money up front and told them that to leave his enter-torture-ment they have to pay up a ransom matching the initial gift. That’s what he’s subjecting poor people too, for fun and profit, because he kn…

As a content creator Mr Beast only acts as a conduit for what we, the audience, are willing to pay for. It's not he who is the monster but us.

Our children are the victims. They're willing to watch anything, and unfortunately this is the kind of stuff that they think is normal and good.

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I've never seen a mr. beast video because I found the weird sex-doll gaping face on all his videos extremely off-putting and so I block every channel that displays one whenever they're suggested. In fact, the reason I learned it was possible to block channels at all was specifically due to these videos constantly being suggested. I only know what the name is because a picture of him showed up in some other video-- an…

How can you block YT channels ? I've only been able to specify "not interested in this channel"

On creator focused networks like YouTube, tiktok or instagram your recommendations get reset if you accidentally open a link to a video or channel you marked as “Don’t recommend this X.”.

If you really want to nuke them from your feed the easiest way is to report them. Might be ethical questionable but the 99,9X% of reports get ignored anyway so why not use it as feature.

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post #12
post #9

I've never seen a mr. beast video because I found the weird sex-doll gaping face on all his videos extremely off-putting and so I block every channel that displays one whenever they're suggested. In fact, the reason I learned it was possible to block channels at all was specifically due to these videos constantly being suggested. I only know what the name is because a picture of him showed up in some other video-- an…

How can you block YT channels ? I've only been able to specify "not interested in this channel"

Blocktube and sponsor block browser extension.

Re: On Mr. Beast and being alone in a circle for 100 days

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A lot of Mr. beasts content feel like reverse kidnapping and mental torture situations. And the only “mental trick” you need to pull to illustrate just how horrible a human being he is, is to imagine he’d given them the money up front and told them that to leave his enter-torture-ment they have to pay up a ransom matching the initial gift. That’s what he’s subjecting poor people too, for fun and profit, because he kn…

As a content creator Mr Beast only acts as a conduit for what we, the audience, are willing to pay for. It's not he who is the monster but us.

That’s like saying it’s OK to create CP or torture someone because there’s an audience. Complete nonsense.

Re: On Mr. Beast and being alone in a circle for 100 days

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post #12
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I've never seen a mr. beast video because I found the weird sex-doll gaping face on all his videos extremely off-putting and so I block every channel that displays one whenever they're suggested. In fact, the reason I learned it was possible to block channels at all was specifically due to these videos constantly being suggested. I only know what the name is because a picture of him showed up in some other video-- an…

How can you block YT channels ? I've only been able to specify "not interested in this channel"

Huh? On the front page I can for each recommended video select "Not interested" or "Don't recommend channel". This is on Firefox both desktop and Android.

Is it different for you?

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