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[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 57 points 2 weeks ago

Why am I the only person to have no fucking clue who this is?

[-] Danakin@feddit.org 80 points 2 weeks ago

Everything I know about MrBeast I have learned involuntarily...

[-] Lemminary@lemmy.world 33 points 2 weeks ago

I think it's because his audience is mostly kids & teens.

[-] sprolemo@lemmy.world 26 points 2 weeks ago

Grumbles in elder millennial: I'm quite annoyed that we're in the era of some youtubers and streamers getting so popular that I'm forced to learn of their existence like athletes, actors, and pop music people. I was not prepared for this new reality.

[-] Sauerkraut@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 2 weeks ago

Fellow millennial here and I'd say the common culture of the past that made us feel stupid for not knowing certain famous people is mostly dead. Society is so splintered in what media we consume that even my friends with very similar interests consume different games, movies, books, music, etc.

[-] nutsack@lemmy.world 20 points 2 weeks ago

there's a good chance you are over the age of 15

[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

You are correct

[-] EnderMB@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago

Why not Google him then? It's what the vast majority of people that know him have had to do, because we sure as shit don't watch his content.

[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world -5 points 2 weeks ago

Because I don't really wanna know who he is. He sounds horrible and like he won't be very popular in the future anyhow.

[-] AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee 9 points 2 weeks ago

This is exactly how boomers act. "This thing I don't understand and refuse to learn about makes me angry"

[-] EnderMB@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

Right? Lemmy is fucking wild sometimes. I don't know why so many people here feel the need to show off about ignorance...

[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world -5 points 2 weeks ago

I don't know why so many people have to whine so much about an innocuous internet comment

[-] EnderMB@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Why post about him then? Why be publicly ignorant about someone you dislike?

[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world -4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Why respond to me? I was basically asking if I was alone and found out I'm not. Nowhere in my comment did I ask anyone to argue with me

[-] yannic@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 weeks ago

One of those until-recently mouth agape YouTubers.

[-] quixote84@midwest.social 5 points 2 weeks ago

I wonder if the "mouth agape" Youtube phenomenon has anything to do with that pose being overly represented in AI generated images.

[-] bluewing@lemm.ee 5 points 2 weeks ago

No, you are not. I'm in the same boat. The only thing I know about him is he is a big shot youtuber. Never seen anything he's ever done to be "famous".

Nor do I care to. And I can't be arsed to even read the article about him.

[-] eran_morad@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago
[-] bitchkat@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

I think he's the youtube guy that consumes dubious food/beverage.

[-] IMNOTCRAZYINSTITUTION@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago
[-] atlas@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago

and that man is a legend.

unlike this polished turd

[-] bitchkat@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Whichever one was second chose a poor name.

[-] BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee 2 points 2 weeks ago

I saw that face on a toy thing in the supermarket. Which is odd to ve honest.

[-] forgotaboutlaye@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

You might know of him by his food lines. Beastbars are all over the supermarkets in Germany. The marketing on the packaging didn't really fit in with what I expect to see (he doesn't look like a footballer or athlete) so I looked him up and learned from there.

[-] Blaster_M@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago

Because you aren't browsing videos on youtube's Trending page on the daily? MrBeast started as a gamerbros do things channel and got popular, then started becoming a cursed gameshow host (but the youtube version). He's an antivillain, through and through. I've known that from the start. However, until allegations show something that's not just edgy teenager groupchat dirt, I won't judge further.

Is he a good guy? No. Is he the scum of society? Not yet.

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