Reading through the document, this company seems hellish for its employees. I wonder how the pay and perks are
How to succeed in MrBeast production (Leaked PDF)
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Re: How to succeed in MrBeast production (Leaked PDF)
#42On 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…
For every MrBeast there are tens (hundreds?) of thousands (millions?) you've never heard of. And for some of them, it's because the platform pulled the plug on them.
If someday YT decides to pull the plug on MrBeast, he might start singing a different tune. Or not, I mean, his millions and millions of dollars will probably make him feel better.
Re: How to succeed in MrBeast production (Leaked PDF)
#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ever see Dhar Mann brainrot videos? I don't see it going anywhere. It's a big reason why films aren't good anymore. Content producers cater to the intellectual tastes of their respective societies. Long story short, we get what we deserve. Long live Criterion Collection for the handful of us who abstain from mass produced trash.
There's plenty of good film and TV out there, and you don't even have to look hard to find it. I find this attitude to not just elitist but lazy and ignorant.
Try this fantastic movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nycksytL1A&t=1s
Re: How to succeed in MrBeast production (Leaked PDF)
#44On 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…
Building on someone's platform is a gamble.
It paid off for Mr. Beast.
Maybe it will pay off for you, or maybe you will get banned before you make enough to retire or create another company. This is prime example of survivorship bias.
Re: How to succeed in MrBeast production (Leaked PDF)
#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
When people realize they can spent a fraction of what they pay for advertising and get the same results.
Do you have any proof of that?
Re: How to succeed in MrBeast production (Leaked PDF)
#46So 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…
> "contrived BS", "mircromanage", "game a blackbox algorithm"
Wow! There is a lot of bad faith in this comment. This is hacker news, not X, can you please be more thoughtful here?
Re: How to succeed in MrBeast production (Leaked PDF)
#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
These influencers' accounts are certainly not inactive.
No, but the cracks are starting to show. My point is that YT may go down the same path and get stingy with video storage.
You're really overestimating the cost of video storage and streaming compared to the kind of revenue they're able to get.
Re: How to succeed in MrBeast production (Leaked PDF)
#48So 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…
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Re: How to succeed in MrBeast production (Leaked PDF)
#49I really liked his distinction between A, B and C-team players. This could be a really good framework for recruiting in an ambitious startup.
Re: How to succeed in MrBeast production (Leaked PDF)
#50On 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…
I read that as less about "building on someone else's platform" (though that's still a risk they're taking) and more a youtube / media content producer version of "perfect software doesn't pay the bills, shipping software does". I've known plenty of good developers that if they didn't have hard deadlines and people reminding them about what the real goal of the company is, would spend 6 months developing a perfect, provably correct PDF to JSON converter for reading any possible design of tables in all PDFs. Missing the fact that they only need to parse the tables in the CSV files that the vendors are sending us so we can invoice the customers.
That quote reads like its reminding people that youtube and a youtube production company job is not where you go to make art house silent films.