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

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Post by ActionHank »

Aeolun wrote: post #38

I think MrBeast is a very good way to tell my child that “not everything you see on the internet is true”, cue the “But why would he lie?”, “Because he wants you to keep watching his videos.” Even if 215M in revenue on chocolate bars suggests that they might be perfectly capable of funding all their $5K and $10k givaways.

We've explained this all to our son at length and he's ended up fairly anti-Mr Beast. Problem is that other kids and their parents are convinced he's a swell guy and not marketing directly to them.

This has been a great learning experience for our son about how the average person doesn't question what is happening or why.

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

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Post by DoneWithAllThat »

Why is the title of the post here on HN so substantially different from the actual press release? The HN post tries to make it personal, claiming an individual is doing it, while the press release (correctly) refers to the companies. That seems an impotent distinction that the HN headline carefully erases.

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

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Post by ryandrake »

dylan604 wrote: post #32
semiquaver wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not officials. BBB is essentially Angie’s list.

That's strange to me that you'd compare something that's been around longer to the thing that's more recent in this way

The point is that despite their deliberately confusing decision to have the word "Bureau" in their name, they have absolutely nothing to do with the government or anything official. They are as official as JD Power, Consumer Reports or Yelp. I wonder how many millions of people continue to be fooled by their deceptive name?

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

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Post by bayarearefugee »

I guess its good that this is drawing some light on the subject, but nothing will happen.

Even if MrBeast were to be investigated by a government agency for similar issues, his business links to noted Trump sycophant Chamath Palihapitiya would shield him from any consequences for his actions.

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

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Post by abfan1127 »

freedomben wrote: post #43
Aeolun wrote: post #38

I think MrBeast is a very good way to tell my child that “not everything you see on the internet is true”, cue the “But why would he lie?”, “Because he wants you to keep watching his videos.” Even if 215M in revenue on chocolate bars suggests that they might be perfectly capable of funding all their $5K and $10k givaways.

It really is remarkable how credulous kids are for these things, especially for some reason Mr. Beast. Good, but painful, lesson for them

Kids? how many people try and pay IRS debt with Apple Gift Cards? How many people just dumbly trust sales people? Its best they learn at this early age rather than later in life when they grifted for $1000s.

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

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Post by password54321 »

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?

That's just your intuition telling you the person you are seeing doing "good deeds" is actually shady and a fraud.

People tend to have a good intuition for these kind of things. Every time my alarm bells have gone off it turned out they were in fact wearing a mask.

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

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Post by seydor »

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?

This is not an era for long-term effort. This is about moving very fast breaking things and growing as fast as possible , so that when it all goes bust you can still leave with a cushy fortune. This culture is everywhere now, from arts to business

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

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Post by BanazirGalbasi »

exabrial wrote: post #35

LOL. Just wait until you see TikTok, SnapChat, Facebook, Apple, Google, etc.

This is whataboutism. Just because they are also doing it doesn't mean its okay to do at all. It just means that Mr. Beast is the one being focused on here, and that other organizations will have to wait their turn.

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

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Post by _fat_santa »

freedomben wrote: post #43
Aeolun wrote: post #38

I think MrBeast is a very good way to tell my child that “not everything you see on the internet is true”, cue the “But why would he lie?”, “Because he wants you to keep watching his videos.” Even if 215M in revenue on chocolate bars suggests that they might be perfectly capable of funding all their $5K and $10k givaways.

It really is remarkable how credulous kids are for these things, especially for some reason Mr. Beast. Good, but painful, lesson for them

> remarkable how credulous kids are for these things

Is it though? We're talking about kids whose brains aren't fully developed yet. IMO there's a certain genius in marketing to kids, as they are far more likely to buy wholesale into what you're selling. MrBeast probably does the best job but if you look through kids Youtube there are some really shady folks out there that just make videos designed to suck kids in, and just based off their view counts you can tell they are making disgusting amounts of money off AdSense.

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

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Post by wasabi991011 »

DoneWithAllThat wrote: post #52

Why is the title of the post here on HN so substantially different from the actual press release? The HN post tries to make it personal, claiming an individual is doing it, while the press release (correctly) refers to the companies. That seems an impotent distinction that the HN headline carefully erases.

You can email the mods to let them know, they are pretty responsive
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