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

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

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Post by unglaublich »

unsupp0rted wrote: post #24
throwaway12388 wrote: post #11

I never watched his videos. Do yourself a flavour by blocking his and similar channels they all produce nothing but crap.

I really try to block them but somehow Youtube keeps finding new ones to put in my feed every single day. How can I tell Youtube: * I will never watch a Mr. Beast video * I will never watch a music video * I will never watch a sports video * I will never watch a video about cars * I will never watch a video about Minecraft, or any video game at all

- Click 'not interested' whenever you see such a suggestion. - Never click the suggestion! - Like and subscribe to content that you want to see instead.

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

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Post by sph »

throwaway12388 wrote: post #11

I never watched his videos. Do yourself a flavour by blocking his and similar channels they all produce nothing but crap.

YT being useless as usual because you can only tell it you don't like a video only in specific sections, but still happily shows hidden channels elsewhere, like search, with no option to tweak it. And search is useless anyway, biased towards trending and just vaguely being related to your search keywords.

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

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Post by mdrzn »

"It’s terrifying that a man spent one hundred days in a small circle in an empty field. It’s even more terrifying that this is solely at the whims of a single former Minecraft YouTube creator who happened to find the perfect niche to build a platform and happens to have a perfect sense for what his millions of anonymous viewers want from a video."

Cannot agree less on this take. There's dozen of interviews with Jimmy (Mr. Beast himself) where he explains his POV, why he does what he does, and what his goal is: make the best YT videos possible.

Nobody is forced to partecipate in his videos.

Maybe this difference in opinion in based on age? Or some other metric?

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

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Post by sph »

unglaublich wrote: post #31
unsupp0rted wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I really try to block them but somehow Youtube keeps finding new ones to put in my feed every single day. How can I tell Youtube: * I will never watch a Mr. Beast video * I will never watch a music video * I will never watch a sports video * I will never watch a video about cars * I will never watch a video about Minecraft, or any video game at all

- Click 'not interested' whenever you see such a suggestion. - Never click the suggestion! - Like and subscribe to content that you want to see instead.

Not all videos have a 'not interested option'.

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

#35

Post by strken »

isitmadeofglass wrote: post #2

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…

I'm not that badly off and have never watched a Mr. Beast video prior to this. I would gladly stay within a 300ft circle for 100 days while some dude blasted clown noises at me in return for $500k. There's a library, a garden, some exercise bands, stationery, and 3000cal/day of food. I did 21 days isolation in an apartment at the start of the pandemic, which is 20% of the way there except with less floorspace.

There's a really good essay titled The Copenhagen Interpretations of Ethics[0], which makes an argument that the moment you interact with a problem you become responsible for it in the eyes of the world, even if you strictly improved it in a utilitarian sense, and even if the people judging you have done exactly nothing to fix the problem. Reminds me a bit of this.

[0] https://blog.jaibot.com/the-copenhagen-interpretation-of-eth...

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

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Post by tpush »

zemvpferreira wrote: post #4
isitmadeofglass wrote: post #2

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.

Nonsense. Mr. Beast isn't an unthinking tool, but an intelligent human being. Exploiting people for money is unethical no matter how much 'the audience' wants to see it.

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

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Post by pjc50 »

> "Whenever I watch these videos I’m awed and scared at the lengths to which humans in the twenty-first century will go to slurp up the drips of unimaginable wealth that the algorithm leaks out through Mr. Beast."

That's it, isn't it? It's the exact opposite of dignity of labour: it's compensation for degradation. The "voluntary" part is just highlighting how willing people are to trade in unnecessary misery for the entertainment of the comfortable.

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

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Post by Freak_NL »

nullc wrote: 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…

> I've never seen a mr. beast video because I found the weird sex-doll gaping face on all his videos extremely off-putting […]

Glad to hear I'm not the only one put off by whatever that look is (interestingly worded too). For me it's something in the eyelids giving him a sort of watery look that triggers a deep-seated automatic feeling of disgust (and then there is the topic of the content itself which makes it a rational disgust).

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

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Post by keiferski »

A lot of the Internet popular culture really is just an echo of something someone else did years before, but with less fanfare, no money involved, and without the desire to get as much attention as possible. One of my favorite performance artists is Tehching Hsieh, who did 4 time-based works:

- One Year Performance 1978–1979 (Cage Piece)

"In this performance, which lasted from 29 September 1978 through 30 September 1979, the artist locked himself in an 11.5-by-9-by-8-foot (3.5 by 2.7 by 2.4 m) wooden cage, furnished only with a wash basin, lights, a pail, and a single bed. During the year, he did not allow himself to talk, to read, to write, or to listen to radio and TV. A lawyer, Robert Projansky, notarized the entire process and made sure the artist never left the cage during that one year. His loftmate came daily to deliver food, remove the artist's waste,[3] and take a single photograph to document the project. In addition, this performance was open to be viewed once or twice a month from 11 am to 5 pm.

- One Year Performance 1980–1981 (Time Clock Piece)

For one year, from 11 April 1980 through 11 April 1981, Hsieh punched a time clock every hour on the hour. Each time he punched the clock, he took a single picture of himself, which together yield a 6-minute movie. He shaved his head before the piece, so his growing hair reflects the passage of time.

- One Year Performance 1981–1982 (Outdoor Piece)

In his third one-year performance piece, from 26 September 1981 through 26 September 1982, Hsieh spent one year outside, not entering buildings or shelter of any sort, including cars, trains, airplanes, boats, or tents. He moved around New York City with a packbag and a sleeping bag.

- Art / Life: One Year Performance 1983-1984 (Rope Piece)

In this performance, Hsieh and Linda Montano spent one year between 4 July 1983 and 4 July 1984 tied to each other with an 8-foot-long (2.4 m) rope. They had to stay in the same room when inside, but were not allowed to touch each other until the end of the one-year period. Both shaved their hair in the beginning of the year, and the performance was notarized initially by Paul Grassfield and later by Pauline Oliveros.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tehching_Hsieh

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