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[–] lena@gregtech.eu 13 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I'm not particularly knowledgeable about mrbeast, what has he done?

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 48 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

He was the guy riding the cresting wave of YouTube enshittification. A lot of the more obnoxious marketing gimmicks - Soy Face, most notable - were pioneered by his team.

Idk if you can blame him explicitly for a generation of slop. But he's the physical embodiment of doing literally anything for attention. His mannerisms and soulless self-promotion have become the curse of the GenZ demographic.

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

He even picked the most obvious villain name!

[–] TabbsTheBat@pawb.social 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Worked with multiple pedophiles at this point afaik :3

Plus working with people like logan paul and other stuff

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 29 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Also massive safety issues and borderline human rights abuses at his weird squid game event which he had direct knowledge off and did nothing about.

[–] TabbsTheBat@pawb.social 14 points 1 month ago

Oh yeah there's a bunch :3.. didn't he also get accused of running illegal lotteries and rigging games?

I can't say I kept up with most of the drama well enough to verify many of the specific claims tho