How to succeed in MrBeast production (Leaked PDF)
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How to succeed in MrBeast production (Leaked PDF)
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Re: How to succeed in MrBeast production (Leaked PDF)
#2Any ideas what is being referenced with this quote?
> Do not leave consteatants waiting in the sun (ideally waiting in general) for more than 3 hours. Squid game it cost us $500,000 and boys vs girls it got a lot of people out. Ask James to know more
Re: How to succeed in MrBeast production (Leaked PDF)
#3Any ideas what is being referenced with this quote? > Do not leave consteatants waiting in the sun (ideally waiting in general) for more than 3 hours. Squid game it cost us $500,000 and boys vs girls it got a lot of people out. Ask James to know more
Willing to Die for MrBeast (and $5 Million)
Re: How to succeed in MrBeast production (Leaked PDF)
#4> “I Spent 50 Hours In Ketchup”
Mr Beast throwing out viral video ideas sounds like the Family Guy joke generator from South Park[0].
Doing a quick web search, it seems several people have made idea generators based off his formula.
Re: How to succeed in MrBeast production (Leaked PDF)
#5This is a great "leaked" pdf and honestly, shows the evolution (or degradtion) in media. Typical phrases, e.g. sign of the times, if it makes money of course it exists, etc etc but really it's great insight.
I personally don't/wouldn't do this, but I can't ignore the money making machine youtube has become / the producers of said videos.
Re: How to succeed in MrBeast production (Leaked PDF)
#6So basically:
Come up with contrived BS that caters to younger audiences, micromanage anyone who is holding you up, and attempt to game a blackbox algorithm on a site you don't pay for (YouTube)
The whole modern social media / influencer sphere seems like a huge bubble that will pop eventually. Google has already started wiping inactive accounts[0] presumably because storage isn't truly infinite or cheap. I imagine YT will also take the same path eventually.
0: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/12418290?hl=en
Re: How to succeed in MrBeast production (Leaked PDF)
#7On one side, an army of HN commenters: “Repeat after me. Don’t build on someone else’s platform.”
On the other side, Mr Beast:
> Your goal here is to make the best YOUTUBE videos possible. That’s the number one goal of this production company. It’s not to make the best produced videos. Not to make the funniest videos. Not to make the best looking videos. Not the highest quality videos.. It’s to make the best YOUTUBE videos possible. Everything we want will come if we strive for that. Sounds obvious but after 6 months in the weeds a lot of people tend to forget what we are actually trying to achieve here.
Re: How to succeed in MrBeast production (Leaked PDF)
#8I was fully expecting to read a load of nonsense, but it chimes quite a lot with military training, which shouldn't actually be that surprising.
e.g. if someone is your bottleneck make them aware, give them a due date, check in regularly, in person comms is better than written etc.
Re: How to succeed in MrBeast production (Leaked PDF)
#9So basically: Come up with contrived BS that caters to younger audiences, micromanage anyone who is holding you up, and attempt to game a blackbox algorithm on a site you don't pay for (YouTube) The whole modern social media / influencer sphere seems like a huge bubble that will pop eventually. Google has already started wiping inactive accounts[0] presumably because storage isn't truly infinite or cheap. I imagine Y…
How does it fall under the definition of a bubble? Sure, view counts contribute to more views. But that's not the main retention mechanism of these videos.
Re: How to succeed in MrBeast production (Leaked PDF)
#10> “I Spent 50 Hours In Ketchup”
> In general the more extreme the better.
I may be sounding like "get off my lawn" guy right now but should there be some realization that these people are a cultural analogue of if not heroin than at least cigarettes? They are making a good living from making things objectively worse in a society by tickling the base instincts of the addicts. I am not calling for government intervention or any of such BS but is it too much for me to expect at least some cultural pushback here?