Why do you hate Mr Beast? - Protip: it's not his putrid-looking thumbnails or stupid fucking face

[Phil The Thrill]

Or it might be, I can only speak for myself.

I've recently started to read about, follow, and chuckle at DSP's daily life and '15 year YooToob legacy dood'; it truly tickles my pickle what a great time it is to watch him right now, he does something funny daily, it's like watching an animal in the zoo. Isn't this thread about Mr Beast? Why am I talking about the Pigroach? Because following the latter had made me realise something about my distaste for the former.

Before I discovered DSP, I had no idea about the concept of a 'whale'.

Spoiler: For those unaware of what a 'whale' is

Whales are the people you see in TF2 with expensive, obnoxious, tasteless hats, of course all unusuals; whales are the people who you see on the top of the leaderboards of the gacha game you play, having all the rare characters from the latest event (I don't play gacha, excuse the poor description thereof); whales are those annoying stream regulars who come in and drop hundreds of dollars in tips and gifted subs, making the stream grind to a halt.

Watching him, I became increasingly annoyed with his whales. I could see exactly what they were doing: the streamer builds a parasocial relationship with the viewer, the viewer realises that the only way they can reliably interact back with the streamer is to give them money (they read out the tip message and respond to it), the more money the viewer gives the more positively the streamer reacts. The viewer is essentially paying for a positive response from their streamer 'friend', for them to acknowledge the viewers' presence and express their gratitude for showing up to their stream.

I had thought about it, came to the conclusion you have just read, and moved on. Then one day, I open YouTube to check on what Pharms' Phavourite Philantropist Philliam had been up to lately, and I see Mr Beast's stupid face on the front page with a title along the lines of 'I PAY $100,000 SO THESE BLIND PEOPLE CAN SEE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN THEIR LIFE'. And then it hit me.

Mr Beast is a professional whale.

He has managed to turn the whale mechanism of appreciation (read: ass-licking) on its head, making the viewer the one who shows gratitude and the khantent kreater the whale. This way he exploits the altruistic image that whales build to boost their ego and status in a community to draw in views, build his brand, and ultimately capitalise on it. It's brilliant and I'm not sure he actually knows this, his (managers') feeble brain(s) probably see it as 'put face in thumbnail and spending lots of money for good thing in title = views' without understanding why or what is happening.

But yeah, his face is really fucking stupid and I wish YouTube would stop making me look at his dumb overbite smile, he looks like a fucking 6 year old when he does that. For fuck's sake you're a millionaire, can you seriously not spend a few thousand on orthodental work?

 

[Coolio55]

I always thought that there was something deeply unwholesome hanging over the entire thing but I didn't want to say anything because at least a portion of the money was going to people who needed it even if the entire thing is a bit attention whorey.
It doesn't really matter who it is. ANYONE who's the current No. 1 youtuber is automatically suspect to me.

 

[winterfag]

Philanthropy is nice and all but he has literally nothing backing up his content outside of having money

No matter how hard he mugs for his clickbait thumbnails, the smile never reaches his eyes. I'm happy for the people he's helped but he as a person is offputting to me

 

[Administrator Flotsam]

There's more to his content than just the money and the thumbnails. He holds Elon-Musk status among youtubers for being man who gamed the system. He encourages new youtubers to chase mass appeal instead of niching down / specializing and he's a part of the reason why the 5 second rule is so prevalent in video editing. He's so big that he's famous for being rich and famous and not much else. But as the user above said, even if a small part of the sums in his thumbnails reaches people who need it, he is still tolerable.

I think its better than having a thot or SJW on the most-subbed throne; and given youtube's trajectory, I think it won't be long until that happens.

 

[Tequila Jong]

I've never seen any video of his and I don't plan to - The thumbnails alone tell me I'll fucking hate him.

 

[RACISM]

No matter how hard he mugs for his clickbait thumbnails, the smile never reaches his eyes. I'm happy for the people he's helped but he as a person is offputting to me

He reminds me of a rich kid who buys all his friends but isn't stupid enough to not realise it.

 

[BirdUp]

he has bottomless funding because he traded his soul away

 

[Tony Vivaldi]

I've never seen any video of his and I don't plan to - The thumbnails alone tell me I'll fucking hate him.

This fat soiboi showed up on my algorithm and I thought the same thing. They really are trying to push this faggot on people.

 

[Antenna7]

Why do you hate Mr Beast?​

 

[glass_houses]

I'd never heard of him in my life until I read about the blind surgery stunt. After that, Sideserf Cakes did a collaboration with him. He strikes me as annoying and fake as, but hey, at least a heap of people got much needed surgery paid for. He's no different to a tv celebrity spruiking a charity so they look good. Only instead of pouring money into a charity where 98% of it is chewed up by 'administration' he actually did some genuinely needed things

Also, why do people pay good money to watch other people play video games? Tutorials are one thing, and maybe even showing others how you finally won that one insanely difficult boss fight, but who gives a flying fuck about some random playing Minecraft day in, day out? It's bonkers. Adults who can't tell the difference between real relationships and parasocial ones deserve to lose their money.

 

[General Emílio Médici]

Mr. Beast is so inoffensive and bland he becomes deeply offensive and disgusting.

He is like a perfect corporate person. He has no real human characteristics. Everything he does has been maximally planned and thought about to be as mass marketable and brand friendly as possible. He has no controversies, no opinions on anything divisive. His entire content is based on perfect algorithm gaming and appeal to minimal standards.

Mr. Beast is a hollow shell of a person. He really comes off in a deeply uncanny way, sort of Patrick Bateman type of "I say the right things and am in on all the cool things" that has been planned. His entire channel is this. Endless slop appealing to the absolute most minimal common denominator. He has no real "niche" or thing he does that is exclusive to him.

Dude makes me mad uncomfortable. I can never shake the feeling he isn't even real. In a way I am glad he is just a youtuber super star he would have made a terrifying politician.

 

[Whistlin Troopie]

Simple. He's friends with a troon, I hate troons and so I hate him by association.

Also am I also the only one who finds him so nice (probably for attention) to the point where it's annoying and so you just have to hate him?

 

[Some Dumb Faggot]

Because he and all the other influencers are so obviously fake and artificially pushed.

Then on top of that they live in an ivory tower and talk to their "fans" like they are retarded.

These people have no talent or charisma yet act like they are so much better than everyone else. Really they are just smug pricks who got lucky or were neopist hires.

They also have a tendency to fuck up their entire career by getting involved in Degenracy or drugs, you would think they would be smart enough not to fuck up the easy life they've been handed and yet most of them still do.

 

[Matt Damon]

I don't know anything about Mr Beast.

 

[frozen_runner]

I don't hate him. I know very little about him.

I just hate his thumbnails. And the troonery in public he is now enabling.

 

[Gravityqueen4life]

dont hate him. he's just the latest puppet to his masters.

i do dislike him for making the soyface thumbnail a thing.

 

[Administrator Flotsam]

It just occurred to me that this man might be the next Bill Gates.

 

[Angry Alt Right Nerd]

Watching him, I became increasingly annoyed with his whales. I could see exactly what they were doing: the streamer builds a parasocial relationship with the viewer, the viewer realises that the only way they can reliably interact back with the streamer is to give them money (they read out the tip message and respond to it), the more money the viewer gives the more positively the streamer reacts. The viewer is essentially paying for a positive response from their streamer 'friend', for them to acknowledge the viewers' presence and express their gratitude for showing up to their stream.

Don't really care, being a dumbass should hurt, I'd exploit them for money too if I wasn't an extremely antisocial autist.

 

[1440p Curved Monitor]

I don't like his Mr Beast persona, but I know that it's just a persona. It's his brand, and we're in a world where you want to avoid being political and he has to look soulless to do so. Its inauthentic but it gets him popular with parents and children because people don't constantly want shit shoved down their throats. I do think he's smarter than he looks - there's no way an idiot can consistently roll in money for this long and he's diversified his brand past the YouTube sphere. I respect the grind, and if he can change a few people's lives along the way, that's fine with me.

 

[Lord of the Large Pants]

I don't give him nearly enough thought to hate him.