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

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

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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 think in MrBeast's case it goes beyond just overexposure to seeming like a sketchy guy because of how hard he tries to project the image of being a good person while simultaneously flaunting his wealth. It's very reminiscent of many crypto-scammers, who flaunted their wealth and talked about wanting to help others become wealthy too, only to eventually rug pull.

I don't think he's flaunting wealth per se. He doesn't claim to be wealthy. If anything he claims the opposite, always talking about how he immediately reinvests everything and keeps barely anything for himself or as a reserve.

But he is definetly flaunting something. I'd maybe label it as flaunting generosity, or the ability to change people's lifes

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

#93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

On a related note, I'm terrified of typing his name into search or watching any of his videos because once yt thinks I'm interested in the "topic" I'll never be able to get rid of his face from my recommended videos or news suggestions. I have his channel blocked but I suspect that if you watch a blocked channel voluntarily they will treat it as an unblock.

I've been overly aggressive blocking channels on youtube whenever i click on shit like that by accident and my recommendations are mostly safe.

The problem is the copycat and adjacent channels. You watch and block $BOZO, you now get suggestions for $BOZO reacts, $BOZO extras, $BOZO clips, and all of $BOZO's competitor channels.

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

#94
post #3

As far as I can see this is a non-Governmental non-profit doing this. So it has no legal merit. Can’t tell if this is the ad industry attempting to self-regulate? The Wikipedia articles are quite mealy. I do tend to agree with the findings, regardless.

Yeah, ironically, it's the BBB, which used to rate businesses based in part on how much the business paid them (without disclosing this to consumers, of course).

https://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/business-bureau-best-ratings-...

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

#95
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.

> But why would he lie?” SPOILER - Three Body Problem (book, series on Netflix) I love the scene where the human tells the aliens that humans sometimes lie and the aliens conclude that humans can never be trusted so they break communication.

Enjoyed it ans well. Ended the age of cultural exchange.

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

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post #85

There’s going to be a big controversy about him one day and his evil will be shown, mark my words.

Evil is a very strong word.

It’s not that strong. Evil isn’t just genocide. It would be evil of me to go around leaving trays full of beer outside just to drown slugs in them. It would be evil of me to shove razors into candy apples and hand them out at Halloween.

Not all evil has to be some grand world-level conspiracy and it can still be evil.

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

#97
post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't know much about him, but he does lots of stuff about bringing water to places in Africa and curing blindness or deafness as well from what I've seen. Not sure of the ratio of what to what.

This is not how you judge character. Character is what you do when you have nothing to gain or even something to lose. These are merely performances for YouTube videos that help his brand and generate millions of views. Adults at least should be aware of this, because this is how you get scammed.

Ok so David Attenborough is no good then?

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

#98

Does 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 Worked For MrBeast, He's A Fraud

He learned from the master lol. Missing a wide-eyed surprised face thumbnail though.

I mean not a lot of people are out there making "I Worked for ________, They Were Awesome & I Was the One Who Sucked" videos, right?

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

#100

Pretty much every Youtube channel has at one point or another failed to disclose advertising. For a good while they were all doing it and sponsored videos containing sponsored content were entirely undeclared. Its a lot less common now presumably there is some enforcement now but I still see it quite often.

MrBeast is not just a YouTube channel but a huge business/brand and should be held accountable at much higher standards.
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