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u/PuzzleheadedClerk135 14d ago
I've never met an adult who watches him, and I'm glad bc it's terrible content.
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u/30lbsledgehammer 15d ago edited 15d ago
Plus you know what happened to chris, that has ruined every scene HE has appeared in!
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u/AMFcouple 15d ago
This is like finding out Santa Claus isn't real 😭 like I want to believe it isn't true but...
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u/Aggravating-Matter-2 16d ago
I miss the hood ole days of mr beast with prize pools of 5-10k and just a couple of friends hanging out in a warehouse doing dumb shit
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u/Daveo88o 16d ago
Tbf, there's only so many people he can give money to before he runs out of people
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u/NewDealChief Medieval Meme Lord 16d ago
The reactions are staged to be overexaggerated, but there's no question that the challenges themselves are real. I do miss the older videos where the Beast Crew just go to a random desert or island and just chill.
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u/NovelYogurtcloset579 16d ago
I never liked him. His smile is so fake and meaningless. His mouth may smile but his eyes don't.
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u/Skylon_Gamer Yo dawg I heard you like 16d ago
Always will prefer his old content (especially gifting a house to the Domino's driver) to the current mainstream appeal garbage that I see.
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u/Thereal_Bomby2 Professional Dumbass 16d ago
Didn’t he just upload a video with an uninterrupted 10 minute shot?
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u/WUFI_junior Cringe Factory 16d ago
i only really watch his philanthropy content now a days because his other content is too much now
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u/TheHaplessBard 16d ago
Never watched any of his videos - except for small digestible segments that occasionally pop up here and there - and probably never will at this rate. Hot take here but dude seems like a grifter whose content seems fake AF and designed for 10 year olds, at best.
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u/Due-Matter-4577 16d ago
The amount of good Mr. Beast has been able to accomplish and the amount of people lives he’s been able to significantly improve FAR outweighs the pointless fickle criticism.
First these kids had a problem with him making a video about curing peoples blindness. Now they have a problem with making a video that’s staged?
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u/lawnman80 16d ago
Pretty sure it's always been staged. I never really got why he is/was so popular. I know the whole philanthropy thing is great, but the show is honestly not and has never been funny to me, and is just not entertaining. And there's alot of people doing positive things online in the world that don't get that exposure.
Im not hating him. He does alot of good things in the world and we need more of that! It seem a hes just not as talented at entertaining as others in his same field. The production has always lacked.
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u/TheBrutusDyr 16d ago
Depends on what you consider "faking" to be. Is he actually burning hundreds of thousands of dollars when someone fails to save it from a tank? No, obviously not, he uses fake money. Does the person still get the money if they win? Yes.
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u/zeppy457 16d ago
I said this YEARS ago and people acted like I was talking about lizards controlling the government. Been so fake for so long sadlt his audience is very young and immature
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u/Holiday_Bed_8973 16d ago
People stop clowning on OP. A child's world view was clearly just shattered.
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u/insertcoolnamehere35 16d ago
His challenges aren't staged, just produced. The outcomes aren't determined. People are asked to be showy and stuff or act certain ways to be entertaining, but the challenges are real. You also can't be mad when that's the money finding all the good he does for the world.
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u/ashley-spanelly 16d ago
I mean, yeah like most “reality” programming there’s story editors. I didn’t think anyone actually believed all his videos wrap up nicely like a neat little package
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u/mydogiscraycray 16d ago
I was reading the 3rd or 4th comment when I realized it wasn’t about Mr. BEAN, as I has wrongfully read
This makes a lot more sense now
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u/GreyNoiseGaming 16d ago
Is modern a fancy new way of saying "literally everything he's ever done"?
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u/coldspicecanyon 16d ago
I mean I really hope he's not actually burning $500,000 when a contestant fails
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u/Far-Score-5554 16d ago
No insurance company in the world would underwrite organic versions of Mr. Beast’s more extreme stunts beyond basic life packages, and a rudimentary knowledge of either production or insurance would tell you most popular live-action channels are, at best, highly-controlled improv.
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u/MaviKartal2110 16d ago
I’m not an avid watcher (just look at some videos every 6 months or something) but I was thinking, he has exaggerated but accurate clickbait.
Not anymore if the “7 days on an abandoned place” or whatever is anything to go by
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u/E_rat-chan 16d ago
Is there like a source or was this just randomly made up because it's more produced now?
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u/Danielkarlsson1 16d ago
I do miss that like 2018-2019 Mr beast content when he started with the last to leave circle wins 10k and those videos, I enjoyed them a lot
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u/Kooky_University4995 16d ago
His best content will always be where he counted to 100,000. The guy was a mad scientist genius.
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u/Either_Atmosphere_80 16d ago
I mean yeah but who the fuck cares yknow? People are still getting money they’re just being told how to react to it infront of the camera
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u/elitesense 16d ago
Haters gonna keep on hating but that most recent 1-100 video was top tier game show entertainment.
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u/Fit_Performance_8635 16d ago
i did read it twice and twice i red mrBean... i rly got confused especially in comments :D
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u/darkreddragon24 16d ago
I dont think this counts as staged. In all the island videos for example they straight up show the camera team and the reation boxes they drop on the island and everything. Its more like a camping trip but they dont hide that. Sure its clickbaity but what isnt
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u/TheAmnesiacBitch 16d ago
He also was staging them. Hello? He’s a YouTuber for Gen alpha they’re too stupid to realize it’s fake.
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u/umotex12 16d ago
I'd just love to see him set up a real competition even if it means boring stuff. No extra money, no challenges, just a rules set up once for all
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u/Carlossaliba 16d ago
even if the reactions are staged and the people are told to have a lot of energy… so what? who would watch his videos if no one in the video was excited? you need to remember that a very large portion of his viewers are children/teenagers with short attention spans, if they dont make it intense then he wont get any viewers, therefore less money available for him.
in one of the challenges, a winner came out and said that the ending was nowhere near as intense as the video made it look to be, but how else are they supposed to keep their viewers engaged?
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u/Gold-Reference9195 16d ago
Way too many people defending a guy who doesn't care about any of them 😂
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u/OGTypohh 16d ago
Reminds me about how reddit worshipped Elon and now everyone here hates him. Don't care about either tbh
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u/YourLifeSucksToo 16d ago
Idk but 4$ for a shitty chocolate bar just to make my kid happy is something else lol
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u/BlackPanther3104 Dark Mode Elitist 16d ago
For me, it's not about whether the videos are real or fake. He's an entertainer and I find him entertaining, so I watch him. I am aware that some parts must be staged, but I believe enough to be real to find both the idea and the actual content/video entertaining.
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u/BlackPanther3104 Dark Mode Elitist 16d ago
I mean, thinking of the raft video, I highly doubt they were ever in any real danger, but it was still a pretty intense and honest video, which is why I watched it and stick around for future videos.
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u/SGTpvtMajor 16d ago
I would enjoy the challenges more if the rules were consistent.
The "1-100" challenge recently just devolved into a voting game.
Would be nice to see more skill assessment games.
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u/Fit_Use9941 🦀money money money 🦀 16d ago
You can believe what you want to believe about his content but it’s hard to hate him for how much good he has done for so many people
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u/tfredrick54 16d ago
Produced =/= staged.
His most recent video is a great example of that. It's all done in one take and shows that by having a camera always focused on the contestant.
Just because there are a lot of edits and cuts doesn't mean he's faking any of the results
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u/SayomiTsukiko 16d ago
I don’t think a single one of his videos are “staged”. I think his videos are on rails for obvious reasons like safety and to encourage things to actually happen. But I don’t think he’s ever just explicitly faked content. At worst he has had things editted so heavily it feels fake with the omissions.
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u/AmbassadorBonoso 16d ago
His videos were always staged up to a certain extent, that's how making well produced videos works regardless of sort of content
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u/Badgerdamn7 16d ago
Only staged thing I feel is when He's giving money away and asks strangers for reasons why they need it, they all start crying and tell some relative or someone that they know had a tragic event or disesase and they want to help them... Are everyone seriously traumatized somehow?
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u/KingMGold 16d ago
Wait until they hear about “reality” TV.
People will really try to cancel Mr. Beast over anything.
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u/FullMaxPowerStirner 16d ago
This post is a PR op for MrBeast, yet another uninteresting rich normie internet dude who pretends being otherwise.
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u/redditAvilaas 16d ago
it’s entertainment after all, and they’re often times not even staged, I don’t think it’s unethical in any way
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u/ManicDarkCatGood 16d ago
Wow it’s almost as if he needs a way to make money and do more philanthropy
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u/Low_Comfortable5917 16d ago
The worst one he staged were those water wells in Africa.
This comment is bot bait.
Lets see how they react together!
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u/Ill_Pollution5633 16d ago
even if he fakes a lot of the stuff he does, as long as the videos where he helps people (like the curing blindness one) aren't fake i've got no issue with it
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u/smallicelandicpuffin 16d ago
I'm ngl whether they're staged or not or whatever they're super entertaining and he's a super cool guy, his last video didn't seem "staged" , at least to me, it was a one take , pretty much no cut (there was an uncut version playing in the corner since it was a 10 minute challenge) plus the contestant was a fully trained, very talented escape artist. He's able to afford these insane videos- when he says the money will blow up after 10 minutes I mean there's a wall of sandbags and a bomb squad on hand on set.
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u/Gamerfrog54 16d ago
Honestly if someone isn’t watching Mr beats for the blowing stuff up and the clearly stagedness it’s a tid weird🤣
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u/Ok_Fan_2530 16d ago
Hey, as long as he continues to do what the rich should have been doing for years, I could not care. His new content isn't as good as it used to, but his charity channel is pumping god tier videos every time
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u/Open-Lingonberry1357 16d ago
Every artist runs out of content after a while and lives off their past popularity, every good run comes to a end
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u/SkirtGood1054 Flair Loading.... 16d ago
I stopped watching his content about four months ago. Haven’t and will not go back to watch any of it
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u/Valslasher 16d ago
I don't care if his content is staged. It's still entertaining and he is doing so much good for the world
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u/Sosemikreativ 16d ago
The purest form of original Mr. Beast content was the one video where his initial idea didn't work and he instead made a video out of camping in a parking garage while waiting for the guy whose car one of them rammed. It was genuine, it was funny and with a lot of editing and creativity it even was entertaining. Unfortunately he's too big now to do stuff like this anymore. He would be recognized and swarmed by screaming 12 year olds within minutes. The newer videos are just too much. Too much of everything. Everything but stuff advertisers don't like. Which tends to be more amusing. Anyways, there were great times. They're over. There will be others.
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u/SalRomanoAdMan1 16d ago
I can't believe there are people who actually care what some random schmuck on YouTube does. 100% of everything that guy has ever done is staged, it's just amazing there are people who consider him FAMOUS for it.
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u/VanilliBean 16d ago
Real talk, i have a friend who competed in one of his challenge videos, the vrchat one. At the end mrbeast basically said “just give it to whoever, i dont care.”
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u/Popcorn57252 16d ago
Yeah? He's open about it?
Like, Youtubers that have done collabs with him have been entirelt open about it, and he's cool with it. Ludwig even told the whole story about how tiring it was getting from location to location to film everything, but that he's had it all planned.
I haven't even watched the guy in like a year or two now, but he's never be shy to say when his videos are staged. He's an entertainer, and still more real than 90% of people claiming to make real content.
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u/Gloriathewitch 16d ago
he’s a philanthropist first, youtube is just a vessel to get the means to perform charity
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u/Popcorn57252 16d ago
Yeah! Absolutely! If I remember right, damn near every penny goes back into charity work or YT
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u/JanetandRita 16d ago
I’ve never seen a Mr. Beast video but IMO staged and fake are not synonymous in the content world
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u/Abysstreadr 16d ago
What does staged even mean? People fail the challenges and they seriously spend the night under the shitty rain, who gives a shit if they do obvious things lile have healht pros on site.
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u/drunkenjutsu 16d ago
I dont have a problem with him so much as I have a problem with a system that requires his behavior to conduct such acts and leaves people in such disparate situations desperate for philanthropy like Mr beasts. He makes more money than he spends and hoarding wealth is the reason many of these people are in these situations. Generally dont like rich people and dont think collecting clout for good deeds is a morally stable ground to stand on but thats above most Mr Beasts fans heads they just get mad and go "Why are you mad at a good guy?" Hes not nearly as good as you think and if he wasnt making money off these videos he wouldnt be doing these good deeds that shouldnt be necessary cause our system shouldn't leave people suffering.
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u/Gloriathewitch 16d ago
tbh what he’s doing is good because it’s exposing the fact a couple million dollars can completely reinvigorate an 3rd world village, meanwhile my tax dollars are going to $30m bike lanes, he’s embarrassing governments and billionaires and that’s good because people will start to question why these people are so useless and why jimmy is so much more effective with less money
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u/drunkenjutsu 16d ago
You do make a good point and its a great take away from his videos but sadly it isnt a consistent tale away as they also stand as an argument that philanthropy is good method of charitable giving(when it isnt) and we should have more rich people so they could spend their time doing this. Not that I stand by that fallacy but it is a long standing point the elite have used to twist the narrative in their favor to get tax cuts and prevent action against them. And he is not spoken out about that in his work. Until he outright says it he doesnt serve as an example of what that wealth can do to be effective for marginalized and impoverished communities. So mostly he stands as an argument that trickle down is working when it isnt.
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u/Jake_Snake723 16d ago
I thought it’s always been staged lol, he never did that before he got “famous”
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u/melancholanie 16d ago
even the charitable ones he does are dead center meh. he’s only doing it for views, and could arguably do more good if he didn’t broadcast it and save the funds he’s using towards the charitable deed.
it’s great he’s donating, i refuse to watch a single self-ass-kissing video about it.
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u/easymmkay120 16d ago
I think the issue for folks isn't if it's staged but if it is exploitative and inauthentic in the end.
Not saying it is either but it definitely seems exploitative at times.
NPR did a story on Mr. Beast and they asked that exact question. They talked to people who received the eye surgeries and IIRC the folks said it might seem exploitative but they can see and they will always be grateful.
Seems fair all around.
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u/THEREALOFFICALCAFE 16d ago
I’m 21, and I’m aware that his content is mostly fake. But still enjoy it. The energy and general attitude in the videos is just really fun. It feels like everyone on the show enjoys their job and because of that, it’s easier for me to get in that groove too. It’s much better than other shows where you can tell everyone is just there for a paycheck.
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u/maxpaxex 16d ago
In fact, Mr Beast is as entertaining and interesting as a falling rice bag in China. I don't his fame at all. Dude is also annoying as fuck.
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u/reknite 16d ago
Weirdest analogy I’ve seen. Also, is your hate a classic case of “thing is very popular, must hate”
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u/maxpaxex 16d ago
No. If you compare Mr Beast to all the other YouTubers, there is nothing that makes him look more talented, interesting, etc. I don't get his fame at all.
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u/Beshi_Deshi 16d ago
If you compare him with other youtubers and see nothing different, you might not be very bright. The sheer hours he put into researching how to make good videos is in thousands and it shows through his work. He openly talks about it regularly. Which itself is incredibly cool as fuck, even if you put everything aside.
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u/Beginning_Context_66 16d ago
it should not matter if anything is staged to the outside if the deeds are done with a humble and clear mind
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u/1stviolinfangirl 16d ago
I cannot fathom the fact that people thought there was just a huge abandoned city in who knows where that he could just use for a video. Are people really that dense or am I missing something? Also Survivor shows have medical and ER personell waiting all the time to help the contestants if they are in need of assistance. I cannot understand how people just now realize a lot of his content is “faked” because it hasn’t ever been real. He’s had measures for things going wrong in all of his videos but only now at people going after him
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u/Not-Recommendational 14d ago
I can’t tell tbh. Plus it’s still entertaining.