Is this news? He's been running unlicensed lotteries on his youtube for almost a decade now.
MrBeast Failed to Disclose Ads and Improperly Collected Children's Data
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Whatever he does is for show first and foremost and only. Whatever benefits other people gain in the process is always less than what he will gain from the views. It's very much not a charity although he sells it like one.
Is there no such thing as a win-win situation?
I'm sorry for the previous rambling. The word I was looking for is Exploitation. That's what it is. Making a show about poor people while it gets you rich as F. It's just wrong.
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Somewhere I hope there is a third kind of child who neither likes nor dislikes Mr Beast because of his content but who merely recognizes him for what he is, and opts in to the videos they seem likely to be entertained by while opting out of the videos they seem unlikely to be entertained by
His videos are obviously entertaining until you realize (for me it was a post few years ago here) how cruel they are. With likes of Squid Game you realize it is all fake. IMO few more years and YouTube will deplatform or deboost him.
No way. As long as he brings views in, YouTube will boost him. They only care about ad money.
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#174Does anyone remember when this person who worked for Mr Beast outed their fraudulent tactics? You couldn’t bring it up in a comment on their videos at all. They had a team continuous censoring all honest discussion on their videos. I find the whole phenomenon around Beast to be gross. https://youtu.be/k5xf40KrK3I
I agree, but at least it was possible to tell he probably plays fast and loose with the truth and would probably do almost anything for more money or more applause simply by watching a few minutes of his videos, or at least that was my experience.
As I get older and gain first-hand experience in the orbit of some extremely successful people, I'm starting to realize that what I believed about how to succeed appears to be quite the opposite of what I've believed for most of my life, at least anecdotally. I've been bummed to realize how manipulative and dishonest the most successful people I've known have tended to be. I think hard work, integrity, conscientiousness, etc will get you pretty far in life, but there seems to be a certain threshold level of success that starts to favor the Machiavellian types.
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It's not just kids. MrBeast had me convinced he has a perfectly good business model making more money than he gives away without having to pull shady things. And with me plenty of reasonable adults judging from his interactions with public figures.
Do you say his giveaways are fake?
I mean, it was obvious to me they couldn’t have been able to pull $10k of money per video at the start. Maybe now, with 400M subscribers that would work just fine.
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#176"Right now, however, Beast Industries is hemorrhaging money. It's had three years of losses, including more than $110 million in 2024. The viral videos account for all of it, overwhelming the profits from Feastables [a convenience store that "pulls in more than $200 million a year"]. Donaldson has been spending between $3 million and $4 million on every video he produces for the main YouTube channel, most of which lose money. In 2023, Beast spent $10 million to $15 million shooting videos it never released to the public because they weren't up to its standards."
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-09-22/youtube-s...
AI summary: "Creator" loses money due to production costs while third party intermediary "platform" (middleman) Google, twice convicted cybercriminal organisation, makes money by auctioning, selling, delivering and monitoring online ads, then taking a cut of advertising spend
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#177I hate this wording. Failure implies that he tried to, while he didn't even think about it
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I agree, but at least it was possible to tell he probably plays fast and loose with the truth and would probably do almost anything for more money or more applause simply by watching a few minutes of his videos, or at least that was my experience.
As I get older and gain first-hand experience in the orbit of some extremely successful people, I'm starting to realize that what I believed about how to succeed appears to be quite the opposite of what I've believed for most of my life, at least anecdotally. I've been bummed to realize how manipulative and dishonest the most successful people I've known have tended to be. I think hard work, integrity, conscientiousn…
Almost all "successful" people in white collar jobs are just better sociopaths than the ones below them. That's pretty much it.
Hard work is somewhat necessary at the start to buy you legitimacy (aka school & diploma) but it's not really a big difference maker after that.
In fact, I would say that if you work hard and produce great work this pretty much guarantees that you'll never evolve past a certain level.
I think that's actually the major difference maker for rich people: they got there that way and demonstrate how things work to their children who integrate the concept intuitively.
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Yes.