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Re: MrBeast Failed to Disclose Ads and Improperly Collected Children's Data

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Post by squigz »

highwaylights wrote: post #17
pyaamb wrote: post #9

is there a name for the phenomenon where you get so tired of seeing someones face pop up over and over and over that you start to hate the person and despite their good deeds feel no remorse for them when they end up in trouble?

What good deeds? Isn’t this the guy that gives out cars to one random person on YouTube while their friends get nothing then films the reactions for megabucks?

I'm confused. Is your problem the giving away of cars, or that the receiver's friends don't also get cars?

Re: MrBeast Failed to Disclose Ads and Improperly Collected Children's Data

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Post by hofo »

pyaamb wrote: post #9

is there a name for the phenomenon where you get so tired of seeing someones face pop up over and over and over that you start to hate the person and despite their good deeds feel no remorse for them when they end up in trouble?

Social media algorithm overload

Re: MrBeast Failed to Disclose Ads and Improperly Collected Children's Data

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Post by bcrosby95 »

_zoltan_ wrote: post #4
theZilber wrote: post #2

No surprise there. Good thing some officials try and do something about it.

[flagged]

If I go out and randomly punch someone in the face but buy a homeless person dinner, hey, I did something good, but maybe I still shouldn't have done the former.

Re: MrBeast Failed to Disclose Ads and Improperly Collected Children's Data

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Post by latexr »

its-summertime wrote: post #7

Probably should use the original title in some form, which makes it clear its not a legal judgement

The original title is almost double the maximum length for HN titles, and it’s confusingly dry. “Children's Advertising Review Unit” does sound like it could be a government entity. I do agree the current title could be slightly misleading, but hopefully there is a middle ground. I don’t have a suggestion offhand, but if you do, HN moderators do tend to take user suggestions into account in these cases.

Re: MrBeast Failed to Disclose Ads and Improperly Collected Children's Data

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Post by deadbabe »

smcl wrote: post #12
pyaamb wrote: post #9

is there a name for the phenomenon where you get so tired of seeing someones face pop up over and over and over that you start to hate the person and despite their good deeds feel no remorse for them when they end up in trouble?

When it comes to people that wealthy, the money they're using for their "good deeds" are the bare minimum they think they need to get you off their case. So when you say "I don't think someone should be a billionaire, that means something has gone seriously wrong" they can point to how he filmed himself giving a homeless guy a house.

It’s not that difficult to become a billionaire. If you can collect $1 dollar from a billion people, you’ll be a billionaire. If you increase that to $10, you only need 100 million people, roughly a third of the United States.

What you need is some kind of platform on which you could collect those dollars. In recent history the internet has become a powerful platform and that is why we have so many more billionaires.

But what has not changed is our sensitivity to good deeds. If you’re a billionaire, giving all your wealth away is not really going to be appreciated much more than doing some highly visible good deeds that give smaller amounts of wealth away. So why do it? There is diminishing returns for good deeds. You’re better off staying a billionaire until you die, after which your wealth will be distributed anyway.

Re: MrBeast Failed to Disclose Ads and Improperly Collected Children's Data

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Post by wang_li »

pyaamb wrote: post #9

is there a name for the phenomenon where you get so tired of seeing someones face pop up over and over and over that you start to hate the person and despite their good deeds feel no remorse for them when they end up in trouble?

Overexposure. Desensitization. Regardless, someone doing something good doesn't excuse them when they do something bad. You can be a civil rights icon who improved the lives of millions of people, but when you stand around, watch, and give advice as your buddy rapes a woman, you are a piece of shit.

Re: MrBeast Failed to Disclose Ads and Improperly Collected Children's Data

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Post by doublerabbit »

_zoltan_ wrote: post #4
theZilber wrote: post #2

No surprise there. Good thing some officials try and do something about it.

[flagged]

No. He has no compassion nor authenticity for what he does.

He's been doing it to paint an image to mask what's goes on behind the screen. He's a narcissistic psychopathic arsehole.

Re: MrBeast Failed to Disclose Ads and Improperly Collected Children's Data

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Post by pyaamb »

pyaamb wrote: post #9

is there a name for the phenomenon where you get so tired of seeing someones face pop up over and over and over that you start to hate the person and despite their good deeds feel no remorse for them when they end up in trouble?

I'm not saying he doesn't deserve the feedback he's receiving right now. Just saying whatever you want to call this phenomena, its what i'm experiencing. He would have been a lot more likeable if he wasn't so aggressive in self promotion but I've heard him boast about it on podcasts and I think he knows what he was doing

Re: MrBeast Failed to Disclose Ads and Improperly Collected Children's Data

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Post by Workaccount2 »

highwaylights wrote: post #17
pyaamb wrote: post #9

is there a name for the phenomenon where you get so tired of seeing someones face pop up over and over and over that you start to hate the person and despite their good deeds feel no remorse for them when they end up in trouble?

What good deeds? Isn’t this the guy that gives out cars to one random person on YouTube while their friends get nothing then films the reactions for megabucks?

The reeks of someone who has watched clout-chasing rage bait videos on Mr. Beast, but never actually watched Mr. Beast.

Re: MrBeast Failed to Disclose Ads and Improperly Collected Children's Data

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Post by pyaamb »

hofo wrote: post #22
pyaamb wrote: post #9

is there a name for the phenomenon where you get so tired of seeing someones face pop up over and over and over that you start to hate the person and despite their good deeds feel no remorse for them when they end up in trouble?

Social media algorithm overload

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