Why do they still have subscribers?
Mostly kids or teens who are unsupervised and so horribly impressionable. Moreso if a percentage of those bastards’ viewership also come from developing countries whose young populations have access to smartphones and cheap internet but are lacking credible role models, and so instead Youtube becomes the substitute. As these influencers discover that audience base, they do tend to pander to those markets, like enticing them with freebies as their viewership count skyrockets.
Because the algorithm loves them.
These guys don’t pop into children’s feeds on accident.
Their fans are dumb children or dumb adults. They simply do not care so long as they are entertained.
I once saw someone defend Chris Brown by saying if you got rid of all the criminals in the entertainment industry, they’re be no entertainment left.
That being said, I know about Beast and Paul, but what did ksi do?
separate the art and the artist
I mean who is the president of the us?
Elected not once… twice.
Considering Trump and Musk both bragged about rigging the election, that’s debatable.
Musk got people to vote by promising money which is illegal. I dont know much about the legal system in America but, there must be a lot of mentally disabled people to let it all happen and do nothing. Im not surprised after all most of these people lived through the leaded gasoline era.
Enh. “Elected”.
Will be three times before you know it
Wait I thought it was already 3
Acthually, it is 4 times! He won back in 2000 but the lame stream media is too scared to admit it.
Look at some of the long term representatives long before. Same story. That can go for both parties, btw.
Same reason Carlin didn’t go after the politicians. There wouldn’t be a problem if the demand wasn’t there. The public sucks.
Because most children don’t know this and have unsupervised internet access
In the words of Marilyn Manson, “Raise your kids better or I’ll be raising them for you.”
My understanding is… Being popular (a.k.a. having lots of subscribers) requires someone to be entertaining and be good at self-promotion. Being entertaining is independent from being a good person. For the latter, I once saw a streamer say something along the lines that anyone who is willing to do that level of self-promotion likely self-selects for at least some level of narcissistic traits
… and a lot of their subscribers are relatively young and likely don’t care, probably
Because the subscribers are horrible people too.
Dude, they’re all 12 lmao
Ah early starters.
Most of their subscribers are pre-teen kids and kids in their early teens who don’t really have a strong enough sense of self to differentiate what they’re being visually presented with with the external realities of that presentation. Combine that with parents that are too tired and too distracted with their own, quite possibly terrible media fixations and you have a perfect storm of negligence and predation.
I mean, Mr. Beast, as a whole, is a terrible thing, but his individual videos show people having fun doing interesting things, and you get to parasocially enjoy them. It’s entertainment media geared towards kids, and it presents itself as being family-friendly, so the people who cannot look past the presentation believe it to be family-friendly.
Nah they mostly kids I think
Some don’t know, some don’t care, some agree with their actions/opinions.
While it’s important every individual develop and maintain a moral framework, individuals rarely if ever use morality as the sole basis for day to day decisions/actions.
The world just doesn’t operate on a solely moral basis. Some don’t consider the morality of mundane acts, some find the morality of a thing excusable/justifiable when considered, and some come to find their morals agree.
Having read the comments section of those three to get an idea, you sum it up very well. Very many don’t care, are oblivious as to why the “charity” is played to so much (re: mrbeast), fully agree with them, and frequently enjoy them doing objectively bad that shit older people won’t, possibly out of vicariousness. They just wanna sit there and watch Ow! My balls!
Because there are a lot… A LOT of stupid/ignorant people in the world.
I have to interact every now and then with someone who is a MrBeast stan. He’s in his 20s or 30s and has a kid of his own. He’s also a fan of xxtentacion and even when he was confronted with facts about MrBeast being a scammer and abuser, and xxtentacion beating his pregnant girlfriend, he said it was just haters making up stories. I literally linked him an NBC article about whatever current controversial shit MrBeast was up to at the time, and he said that “y’know you really shouldn’t trust .com domains.”
Dude is a lost cause and he regularly tries to recruit others to watch MrBeast or buy his products.
“y’know you really shouldn’t trust .com domains.”
So basically half of internet? What a stupid stance.
So basically half of internet? What a stupid stance.
“Don’t trust half of the internet” is really not that stupid idea, although it should be much higher than half. But that approach from above is of course stupid on many different levels.
I don’t disagree with Mr Beast being a scammer and abuser, and I also don’t disagree with a domain not being untrustworthy just because it’s a .com domain.
That being said, I should point out that the news/media isn’t exactly reliable. NBC is no exception. Even if the article is true (which it most likely is), I wouldn’t blame someone for not trusting NBC.
I get it that the media is captured by billionaires but my point is that I don’t think that NBC, a network that has been around for 100 years, would put their reputation on the line to publish lies about a random wealthy YouTuber, who likely has lawyers on retainer that could sue for libel if they really were making stuff up.
“i DuNnO, mAn. TrUmP sUeS pEoPlE a LoT, sO tHeY mUsT bE fAkE111!!1!!1!”
That’s not what they said though. They said a .com domain was not trustworthy. Its a disyrust of ‘mainstream’ media.
As you yourself point out, NBC is not automatically trustworthy, but the choice of domain is not the reason why. The billionaire and corporate influence, combined with clickbait journalism is why.
Someone not trusting NBC is fine. Someone choosing to believe that it’s fake news just because it’s mainstream media when it refers to verifiabke facts and a mainstream personality is a failure of our society to adapt to the online world. A failure of education and a failure of media control and regulation.
Because most people don’t know. Most people are not spending hours online doomscrolling politics, pedos and such. I’m from Mr. Beast’s area and no one here has a clue. Most of my coworkers do think a lot of his products are stupid, though.
My wife who is normally a pretty well read person feels that MrBeast is great and is “one of the more generous content creators “
Some people just don’t wanna take their head out of the sand for crappy videos
why is ksi horrible?
Who is KSI
mentioned in the title, youtuber, seemed an ok human being despite
Gestures broadly
Who are they? Not very popular I presume, first time hearing.
Because you are still talking about them.
I’ve gone 3 weeks without seeing, or heading about them and well here you are…
when the beast, KSI drama came out about lunchly last year, people were complaining about him and also wierdly defending him at the same time. thats how hes still here.
Again every time you bring them up, whether that is to denigrate, or defend, you’re still talking about them.
You are giving each of them the power to live rent free in your head.
I don’t even know who or what KSI is
They’re not targeting me and you. They’re targeting kids. Their whole thing is be kid friendly enough to take advantage of that lane while still being horrible people. Kids have always had a crazy “don’t to this at home” type of influence in life. Evel Knieval. Pro Wrestling. Jackass. Now it’s these guys. They’re more insidious because their reach is way larger and easier to get. A smart person looks at them and goes ‘this is shit.’ What if you don’t know any better? What group is that? Kids.
