bruh, he was faking everything after all
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5xf40KrK3I
for those of you who can't watch a 50 minute video, just watch this 15 second clip from the end of the exposé
on top of faking videos, it turns out he's promoting gambling to minors
this is truly not the time to be underage
Watch the clip at the end (literally 20 secs)
Summary of the rest:
For personal challenges, multiple misses in timelapses where it shows that Jimmy and his friends are actually not going through the whole challenge.
For "random subscriber" competitions, video evidence of him placing multiple Mr. Beast employees into the competition. (his HR manager literally competed in a video lmao)
Additionally, screenshots of employee DMs confirming that production works to skew the result to be most favored for audiences.
Multiple examples of editing timers in post, as well as faked contestant dialouges added in post.
He has pushed gambling to millions of kids and places his employees in competitions for "random subscribers", on top of possibly enabling Ava based on most recent screenshots of Discord logs.
Also, saying that he has done more humanitarian work than most governments is insane and shows how many good things get taken for granted because they don't have a youtube video recording it with a guy screaming in your face.
Like I said in response to someone else, the faking by itself is nothing crazy. It's just incredibly lame when every video he goes "uHuHUh mY vIdEoS aRe 100% rEaL & nOt FaKe" and then he is faking everything. Even then, the faking is secondary to the literal illegal practices he uses in his videos and brands.
It's a bit strange. The promotion of gambling to minors is obviously not good but it's not like they have unrestricted access to money, they still have to ask their parents and I'm sure, or I'd like to think that their parents would definitely spend within what they can. Gambling is already promoted so much it surprised me that people were focused on this so much. It's scummy that not many people actually received a prize from these lotteries and a lot of the signed merchandise had fake signatures but the money actually does end up being used to help people. Mr Beast has a philanthropy channel where they just donate, make houses or build water wells in countries that need them and that's real as far as I know. It's a small amount of money out of people who can afford it to give living neccessities to people. It's hard for me dislike him when he's done so much. It's extremely unethical when you know someone of mr beast's following could hold a fundraiser and amass similar results though it'd take much longer to get how much he could get from one of those giveaway streams. I don't even care about the videos much; never cared if a family of working middle-class citizens got some money to spend on stuff they would've figured out eventually anyway, such as the mortgage or college tuition.
The charity work is great and all, but it doesn't make the other stuff ok. Mr beast should not be using predatory gambling practices on his young audience.
Yes, parents buy things for their children. If there wasnt the promise of winning prizes, those children would want to buy other things.
The unfortunate reality is that all the charity he's done is a small percentage of his profits. Don't get me wrong, I'm not here to debate how much of a person's wealth should be used for charity. The point is that when you use only a small portion of your profits, lie that you're using so much that you don't profit, and get that money in a scummy way, you are a scumbag.
This just leads to the same arguments as the cs gambling
Fact is kids already gamble an unreal amount of money on his stuff. Where they get it from doesnt exactly matter, the money is being made from the kids regardless. However kids gambling is especially problematic since theyll be more likely to be addicted by the time they have their own income.
This would be morally deplorable yes but fine at the end of the day (sorta... not really imo, but at least its still a moral problem). However if the allegations in the video are true its just outright breaking/bypassing gambling laws and manipulating people (children) to a degree not even casinos are allowed to do.
If casinos are (allegedly) exhibiting better morals than you then you got a problem.
And 100% gambling is everywhere, but that doesnt mean you have to ignore it. Youre talking about the youtuber with probably the best mainstream reputation here.
Assuming this catches on, the debate following regarding how we deal with the extreme monetization on youtube channels aimed at children is going to be really important. So we'll see what happens ig.
And while we cant go into this due to forum rules, your way of apologizing this behavior is just not valid at all. Like whatsoever. This is SUCH a dangerous way to dismiss criticism. This is how some of the worst religious/charity abuses get away with their shit. We have to hold youtubers to a higher standard.
Also just for the sake of mentioning it: this stuff is tax deductible. Youre not gonna be ignoring Elon Musks or Jeff Bezos' bs just because they donate billions to charity.
The ideas of his videos were cool, but I was never into it seeing how content minded the videos actually were. Anyone with more than two braincells knew that the content was fake (which is not that big of a deal, considering the scale of his videos). The main point being continuously lying about it to his audience and building his brand on authenticity, especially to his target audience. Circling back to my first point, the videos always seemed to lack soul to me (maybe because how they were edited) and lacked passion. And the fake contestant part is real scummy, giving actual contestants false hope that they can win something when it is actually rigged against them is very scummy.
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