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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 nullc »

sumedh wrote: post #100
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 found the weird sex-doll gaping face on all his videos extremely off-putting The contestants have to play by Mr Beast's rules, Mr Beast has to play by Youtube's algorithm rules. The algorithm recommends videos with clickbait thumbnails and titles.

> > I found the weird sex-doll gaping face on all his videos extremely off-putting

> The contestants have to play by Mr Beast's rules, Mr Beast has to play by Youtube's algorithm rules. The algorithm recommends videos with clickbait thumbnails and titles.

And, if we choose, youtube has to play by our rules. I'm trying to do my part, you can join me.

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

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Post by ZephyrBlu »

prepend wrote: post #65

> In interviews, he explains that many of his videos lose money, and he invests almost all of his earnings from You back into more videos I dont think this is true. He either doesn’t understand his revenue and costs or is misleading and spinning BS to seem more relatable. He’s the 5th most subscribed YouTube channel. He’s making gobs of money off all his videos. That’s why he’s quite wealthy now. He seems totally ful…

He spends hundreds of thousands to millions on producing videos, it's very likely he doesn't make a profit on a lot of them. It also seems like he's expanding at a pretty incredible rate.

>In this case it was a simple, boring task and 100/100 anyone dropped into that circle would stay for 100 days to get $500k

Crazy how the video of this simple, boring task has 32M views. Mr Beast manages to make this kind of stuff very engaging.

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

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Post by prydwen »

mattbrewsbytes wrote: post #61

Many people are ignoring some interesting aspects of Mr. Beasts business and instead are focusing on the content which is mostly attention grabbing, silly, ridiculous game show premises. The content isn't for me or likely many HNers but I see similarities with startups and his business model. From watching a couple of interviews, things I've picked up - when his youtube videos were grossing $20-30k a month he started…

Just this week he did a one hour interview with 'The iced coffee hour' (I think that's the name of the channel), and he goes really into details about his revenue streams, costs, his plans for the future etc. Really interesting

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

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Post by ZephyrBlu »

prydwen wrote: post #104
ZephyrBlu wrote: post #59

This feels very doom and gloom. Mr Beast gets to make the videos he wants, viewers get to watch amazing videos and people who are featured in the videos generally get paid. Everyone wins. Most of his videos are basically excuses to give people money and you rarely see participants not having a good time. Having the guy sit around for 100d is the most 'exploitative' video I've seen, but that really doesn't seem like t…

To be fair this video also felt a lot like an excuse to give someone half a million dollars. He brought his kids around on Father's day so it wouldn't be too difficult. The circle was big enough and equipped enough to be able to exercise, maintain good hygiene, do some gardening... The 'toughest' bit was having a marching band play all night, ONE night. I'm a fan of the survival show 'Alone' and there people have to…

Exactly. He's hardly torturing these people. On the contrary, most of the challenges are pretty damn cushy.

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Post by M4v3R »

sweetheart wrote: post #103
Vt71fcAqt7 wrote: post #66

>Their strict standards resulted in content that was homogeneous and boring, but safe. It’s terrifying that a man spent one hundred days in a small circle in an empty field. This isn't terrifying. People do much worse for 100x less. Prostitution and porn, for example, many times drive people to suicide. People stay on ships for months at a time without seeing their family, not too long ago, sailors would go years on…

> The author wants to live in a world where everyone gets everything at no cost: that isn't even admiribale, it's childish. Why is it childish to want a life in which you don’t need to labor to have everything you need to be happy? It’s childish to think that human beings are born worthy of a happy peaceful safe life? Why do we need to earn those things? Are they not inherent within us?

Because at the end of the day you need to obtain food, clothing, shelter and other necessities to even survive to the next day, not even mentioning doing anything for pleasure. Either through labor of your own, or by doing labor to earn money to buy these for you possibly your family. Thinking that "human beings are born worthy of a happy peaceful safe life" is childish - the world doesn't owe us anything, and if we want to continue living on it we have to earn it.

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Post by hnrodey »

mattbrewsbytes wrote: post #61

Many people are ignoring some interesting aspects of Mr. Beasts business and instead are focusing on the content which is mostly attention grabbing, silly, ridiculous game show premises. The content isn't for me or likely many HNers but I see similarities with startups and his business model. From watching a couple of interviews, things I've picked up - when his youtube videos were grossing $20-30k a month he started…

>I would love to see an experienced interviewer with knowledge of the business world/startups interview him.

It doesn't fully match your requirements but Mr. Beast was on Joe Rogan a few months ago. A fantastic interview and they talk a lot about the stuff you mention (voice actors, hiring people, etc.)

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

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Post by hnrodey »

andrewfromx wrote: post #99
mattbrewsbytes wrote: post #61

Many people are ignoring some interesting aspects of Mr. Beasts business and instead are focusing on the content which is mostly attention grabbing, silly, ridiculous game show premises. The content isn't for me or likely many HNers but I see similarities with startups and his business model. From watching a couple of interviews, things I've picked up - when his youtube videos were grossing $20-30k a month he started…

My kid made me listen to the whole joe rogan interview with him. It was very insightful. Maybe rogan isn't "an experienced interviewer with knowledge of the business world/startups" in some people's mind, but I thought he covered many issues well.

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