MrBeast & The Cult of Money
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- Опубліковано 4 гру 2022
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In this video I'll be talking about MrBeast, money and the way we worship it in real life and in media, hope you enjoy! (this is a 3 part series)
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Really liked your video breakdown. I dislike MrBeast videos because it's obvious exploitation of stupid & impressionable people. It captures the attention by shoving money down their throat. It works very well on stupid people because they are easily influenced. But for everyone else with a brain, it's just meaningless and tasteless.
This didn’t age well :(
I really believe we as a society, need to talk about how we moralize wealth and how that leads to the worship of the wealthy.
And how it stigmatizes the poor.
@@sourgreendolly7685 that part!
@@sourgreendolly7685 i see you everywhere what's up dude
Dumb take. Ppl like money for what it does. Simple. Society is not forcing it. Even before the modern economic system, wealth in form of gold and animals etc was still looked up to
@@DivestedChristian Case and point why we need to talk about classism more. A lot of people fall into it without realising they do
_god i hate the victorians_
Remember when the bad guys in kids' cartoons were the rich villains spreading pollution? It's insane how this message has been reversed.
It's really absurd to think about. Me growing up, much of the cartoons were about friendship and living in peace.
@@elainelouve a lot still are
Both sides are wrong, people have to learn that it's never black and white. In the media of the past rich people were seen as the "villains" in some way like you said and over exaggerated, going too far on one side of the spectrum. That isn't right because it's very generalising of how wealthy people act, which is wrong as a lot of wealthy people are chill and you know.. have morals.
Now the media is going too far on the opposite end of the spectrum. It's fine to talk about money as that's how we ll be financially educated but at this point all that people seem to be interested in are "Mr beast style" videos when a massive amount of money (especially if it's money the public can win) is what has people obsessed with watching
@@elainelouve most still are, it's just that kids don't watch cartoons anymore, and the content they watch is gloryfication of money
They're "kids" cartoons for a reason but we all gotta grow up sometime
At the orphanage nearby I gathered a bunch of them in the local park and held a hunger games style competition where the lone survivor would be adopted by me. The crazy thing is that the winner ended up being the child I given up for adoption just the year prior because she refused to subscribed to Pinely’s channel. When we met at the winners circle she said “Papa, before we go home I want you to know I’ve been watching Pinely videos for the entire year and I have something to say; can we just take a minute to appreciate how good Pinely’s videos are?” I hugged her so tight. Then on the drive home she said something antisemetic so I pushed her out of the car and went and got a Beast Burger. It was a good day.
I can only imagine how drunk you are when you were writing this comment
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@@respectedcow1490 I wish. This is what my brain does sober after reading the millionth “can we just…” comment
Thank you a lot for this amazing comment
rollercoaster comment
It makes me uncomfortable how we're pushing to kids even more of the idea of you need so much money and items in order to be whole narrative
See: Ryan’s toy reviews
You must live with your parents. Save your money while you don’t have bills, kid
Too bad we live in a Society.
@@SimonVanliew26 ….what?
@@SimonVanliew26 Imagine getting triggered over critiquing toxic capitalism. Couldn't be me.
The story of what happened with Ian, Anthony and Smosh is really depressing. They did not make current UA-camr millions. They sold their channel to a shit company for stock in that company. The company never went public and then folded. They were paid a salary by that company and that’s all they got. Rhett and Link ended up buying Smosh just so their friend could continue doing what he loves.
Damn never knew that, props to R&L for doing that
Anthony makes amazing work rn though, can't say he ended up in a bad place.
@@crazydragy4233 ore of what happened with OG smosh
@@crazydragy4233 ehh. The intent is good but there's a lot of misinformation in some of his videos and he doesn't try to fix that, it seems. And I do question all of it because of his racist, homophobic girlfriend...
@@carnuatus To be fair I don't follow him closely so I don't know that. But I always got more of he's an entertaining listener kind of vibe with the interviews which is a flawed approach to loads of topics he "interviews" on
I don't think Mr Beast is a bad guy, I just wish people would see him for the bandaid salesman he is. Bandaids are helpful but they'll never cure a serious problem.
What have you done to help anyone ever?
ah yes because people cant criticize others unless theyre a saint@@retsbewnoelopan
@@okiokipooof burnn
@@retsbewnoelopan Everyone has helped anyone at some point. But, unlike Mr. Beast, we don't need to broadcast our helpfulness..... and most of us certainly don't monetise it.
@@retsbewnoelopan The typical "But what are you doing?" argument used to shift attention away from the main issue.🙄
can we all take a moment to appreciate how pinely has two thumbs
Wait wtf ive seen your videos
What are you doing here
Famous people aren’t allowed to just casually post in other famous people’s comment sections
Gotta appreciate how he has more than 2 teeth
i think its really cool that he has two ears
Its also pretty cool that he has two kneecaps
@@meisstupid1831 Don't lie, we don't even see his knees.
Wolf of Wallstreet is definitely one of those stories where some of its biggest fans completely miss the point
Yes and people still worship the guy. He went to prison, he ripped off regular people just like them. It’s just like they saw he would buy sex workers for his employees and that’s the greatest thing ever in their tiny little minds. I wonder how many of them could actually recall the story or just that Leo seemed so cool and there were a lot of boobs.
Frfr TOP G
wolf of wall street 🤝 american psycho
having fans who miss the whole point
this is cos it blows up on sigma tiktok. i love tiktok but they mischaracterize movies and shows SO MUCH
@@mammoneymelonI just watched Vampire's kiss, and i kinda wish those creeps would do the same with THAT. because if they tried emulating a nicholas cage persona.....
Apparently that movie was a big inspiration for American Psycho(like 2 scenes almost feel ripped off they were so identical, very similar plotline too), and nicholas cage acts like a complete lunatic while deluding himself the whole movie.
I’ve gotten a weird vibe from him for the past few years. It feels like he’s grown to a major corporate conglomerate rather than some dude. I feel like he does so much performative charity that people don’t want to constructively critique him or think he’s anything but perfect. I think the more he goes with only positive feedback, the more corporate he’s going to get.
Every time he's speaking candidly and honestly, or when he's talking to "finance influencers", I never get a positive impression. He seems extremely greedy and cynical. The "charity" is the way he found to get himself rich. I don't see his heart being in helping people at all. It's 100% a game, and he rubs me the wrong way more and more.
@@WinterReflections The two polar opposites
A. He is doing this for charity and to help people
B. He is greedy and cynical and he is doing it to help himself
Personally Im... In between? Maybe he started out with good intentions. But he has failed time and time again to target the actual issues. Its a bandaid, not a solution. And charity like that is based in the rich people believing theyre more moral than poor peope.
And frankly treating unfortunate people like props? Hah. No. Gross
@@elvingearmasterirma7241 i think it’s both.
You see this all the time with people who get famous or write books about helping the needy while travelling. They’ll take photos with the poor and sick children, show off how much they’re helping them then once the cameras are off, they don’t care. It’s all to push out the idea that they’re helpful and kind, while infact they don’t care about the people they’re helping, they just care about their image.
Mr beast uses the people in his videos as props. Several people have said that in real life, he’s rude. His former employees alleged he berated staff and created a toxic work environment. Yet on camera, we see a kind man who’s giving away his riches. It’s all a farce.
Whenever I see people giving away stuff on camera for views/admiration/money, I automatically think of communal narcissism.
I am in no way going to attempt to diagnose him as I don’t know Mr beast. I’m also not a mental health professional. It’s just important to acknowledge that this type of narcissistic behaviour is common within rich/powerful groups. While I don’t think refusing to support someone due to them being a narcissist is a good enough reason, I do think insincerity and lack of compassion is. Mr beast has been shown not to truly care about the people he showcases in his videos. People’s core values don’t change because of money and people don’t lose empathy because of money. Lack of empathy is something that develops during the childhood years, and generally lacking empathy for those around you can be an advantage if you want to make a good bit of money.
That’s my take on him anyway
I never seen people want such a reason to dislike someone 😂😂😂. I’m curious to these videos that he has had where he’s greedy. Dude had to get a house in a better location because his house was getting broken in to.
Ignorance is truly bliss
@@WeWantJ3sus On other podcasts, with smaller spread than his main channel, he could open up more. I haven't watched, any, of those episodes, and the only clip that comes to mind is the one where he admitted to buying a nft (kill me). If he's seemed worse in those, I'll doubt we'll be able to not hear about, when it inevitably spreads, somewhere (Musk is killing twitter so it ain't gon start there)
A note that Pinely probably already knows: in Judaism there are differing tiers of charity, and the highest is when it is entirely anonymous, meaning giving to give, no potential of gain or gaining clout off of it.
It’s also the only Mitzvah that I know of where doing the action does not have a prayer, you are supposed to give once again for the sake of giving, not to get attention from god or anything like that.
I didn't know that, thanks for sharing! It's a seriously beautiful idea, I wish more people looked at charity that way.
@@poilaaliop thank you. It seems that beyond just the making of big public charity efforts to seem good, where we have reached with Mr. Beast goes beyond that to just the commodification of charity as contradictory as that sounds
I've got to do some more research on Judaism. I'm not religious, but many of my ancestors are Jewish, and they seem to have a lot of good ideas.
@@henryfleischer404 yeah, it’s interesting since a core part of Judaism is studying the Torah, which then also lead to study of other things and also constant discussion of and thus reinterpretation of the text based on the norms of the times and the writings of previous rabbis, allowing Judaism to frequently modernize successfully and smoothly despite being a religion from the Bronze Age, though it’s also divided heavily across differing opinions and traditions. There are some funny stuff with the rabbis writing and discussing and looking at what those who came before said, like the part of the Torah that says that a disobedient child will be stoned. Of course any reasonable person beyond the time where it was originally written (and even then likely only in severe circumstances) can see that stoning your child is… dumb, so you have the first rabbi who looks at the wording and determines that the child specifically has to have gotten drunk off of a specific type of alcohol and eaten a specific food or something, then the next guy comes along and based on some funny wording (and creative liberties) that the text is clearly implying that in order for the requirement to be fulfilled the parents have to be… identical, then like a couple other people add on similarly and expand the ideas of previous rabbis, then you finally have the last one who, seeing all of the things that get in the way of the rule being carried out as presented and argued by the previous generations of rabbis, that this could not have possibly been upheld and so could not have possibly been meant to have been upheld, what an interesting and enlightening piece of text it is which does not lead to the stoning of children, how wise is the lord. You get the point. Basically beyond the Torah the next most important text is the Talmud, which is the discussions of rabbis on the text, formatted in an interesting way showing the evolution of ideas basically from the inner-most to outer-most, which is then followed by the Midrash, which is basically another layer of that, rabbis discussing the Talmud
Ah shit i rambled. TLDR: something something rabbis scholarship interesting ancient discussions
A similar message is in the new testament, (Mathew 6:1-4) wish it was more emphasised in Christianity. Although it does still promote the idea of charity for heavenly rewards, which I disagree with as an atheist.
All this reminded me of this guy I used to hangout with who wanted to start making videos. We started brainstorming ideas, he wanted to do prank videos and stuff, etc. Then at one point he had the idea of doing videos helping homeless people around our city, filming ourselves buying food and giving it to them, stuff like that. And at first, I thought that was a really good idea, that's a good thing to help people and would probably get views. Then we hungout one time and I said "why don't we just do that without filming it some time?" to which he said "then how does that benefit me?". Ever since that moment, that's the vibe I get from all these charity adjacent things on youtube. Is the charity overall a good thing, in the macro? Sure. Is it altruistic, and would these guys be doing it if they didn't stand to profit from it? I really sincerely doubt it.
Those videos also make me uncomfortable because it feels like there is such a power imbalance at play. The UA-camr could choose any one random homeless person, but if the homeless person doesn’t react the exact right way, they probably won’t get those important things, like food.
Of course, the wider spread the charity work like this is, the better it is. If you are giving hundred people food, you aren’t going to film all of it for a video, so you can respect any wishes for privacy. I also don’t necessarily have anything against channels that basically only go around cooking and feeding homeless people, since I have the feeling that any money made goes to help them be able to afford good quality food for so many people.
Exactly the why you do it is the most important thing I think if you do something great but in your heart you intentions are bad then what’s the point
Yeah, I can't stand these people that film all their charity.
Way to suck out any actual benefit from helping people, and just make it all about how awesome you are.
I wonder how many of these people even know that anonymous donations are a thing for a reason .
I'm really glad you mentioned that people seem to completely ignore all the wrongs someone does just because they do "charity". While many Burundians and other Africans (including myself) expressed their discomfort about that video and how annoying it is that some people only see Africa as this poor, desolated region (and I say region because many forget it's a whole continent) they can use to make content or make themselves look good, we were met with comments dismissing it with "but he did this and that! Clearly he's a great guy!"
it's the middle class american mom saying "there are starving children in africa" whenever their kid doesn't like a certain food. like ma'am, they're allowed to dislike that food and poverty is shockingly (/sarcasm) not exclusive to one continent. an unfortunate amount of people still somehow think that the entire continent of africa isn't just a desert full of war and poor, starving kids
In the UK there was a kids presenter who did loads for charity, got knighted had tv shows to make kids dreams come true. Most kids thought he was creepy and gave off bad vibes while adults thought he was amazing. When he died loads of stories came out about his sinister goings on. I get the same vibes from Mr. beast but it’s the kids that love him and say you’re jealous while the adults think he’s a bit creepy.
I work in the charity/non profit sector and I can confidently say that although any donation to charity is really really apperciated Charities almost always prefer long term donation instead (like giving monthly) because it allows them to budget for the long term. they can’t hire staff or take on a bigger plan with it because that money will run out but and you they’ll no longer be able to afford those expenses. Even if you can only give a little every month that money goes farther than a one time donation
I love Pinely’s MrBeast videos. Still won’t top the one where he mentioned the creator that went to the Poorest Country in the World.
@Merry Christmas was hoping for Rick roll :(
@Merry Christmas Holy shit is Santa
That was seriously nuts and painful to watch. It’s disturbing as hell to see someone treat other people like they’re visiting aliens or some shit.
@@davidbowman2001 "This is the best day of my life! It's like a movie to me!" People are starving, Phineas. Holy hell...
@@TuesdaysArt "I really wanted to go to the orphanage, because I wanted to see the poorest people in the poorest country"
(Probably Phineas off camera) "WHY DIDN'T THEY LET ME IN TO SEE THE CHILDREN WHO ARE DYING OF MALARIA. WHO DO THEY THINK THEY ARE"
can we take a moment to appreciate how pinely has to clarify his real name in every single video
@@PickleFan1Orr
Yeah I do appreciate him clarifying how to say his name 😅 because I can forget easily
@@lauryntonio or what
@@chefroach3739 good joke - that's his name
@@lauryntonio "That" is his name? Kinda weird, but okay.
When that girl said "Good job! Spending money!" something inside me, something I thought was already dead, screamed and then died again.
the giant amounts of cash have started to feel sterilized. in the first few videos I watched from MrBeast the money was blowing me away, it was so insane, the whole focus went to the big big money number. now the money just has "lost its magic", it's a means to an end. I've started enjoying the moments of the challenges and people in them more than the moments with the money.
If you pay attention, most of the time the money isn't the focus of the videos anyways. Even the first video he did where he gave $10,000 to a homeless man, most of the video was focused more on the homeless man talking about his experience. Some videos this is more true than others, but even looking at his most recent video it seems, aside from all the random goofy ahh challenges and moments they throw in to appeal to little kids, they're trying to push a narrative that's less about money and more about family.
@@bro748 Money can only do so much storytelling.
It's the hook to get you to click. Eventually the premise has to be paid off.
“Unfathomably based,” as some might say
"Kidz Bop version of the Wolf of Wall Street" was the funniest and most accurate phrase I heard all day 😂
can we take a moment to appreciate how when pinely in the most youtube?
It's you
It's so crazy, $1000 seems like so much to me. It would be a crazy help to me and my family, but that's so little in any mr. Beast video. Like that's the MINUMUM he gives to people.
That "keep all you can carry" challenge would be a nightmare with plastic British money that slips out of your hands and doesn't fold.
wait is british money like credit cards? that's annoying
@@sourgreendolly7685 It's thinner than credit cards. It bends, like you can touch the two long ends together without damaging it, but it pops back. There's a lot to be said for it. It's cleaner, it lasts way longer (so is more environmentally friendly), you can send it through the wash, it's harder to counterfit. But yeah, it's weird to handle.
@@camipco Is it still possible to keep a wad of thousands of dollars folded in half with a rubber band like Tony Soprano?
they dont slip out of ur hand and u can fold them tho
I definitely don’t LIKE folding it, but it technically *can* be folded lol. I’ve never had it slip out of my hands, though.
Most importantly, however, I believe you probably could keep thousands of dollars in a wad with a rubber band (a la Tony Soprano).
Don’t take my word for it tho im very poor and have never had thousands in cash
The concept you're looking for to describe those "Kids with an unlimited credit card" videos is "conspicuous consumption". It's the idea that holding capital isn't enough; the wealthy must also flaunt it in a way that induces envy and imitation in their neighbors. Conspicuous consumption in this sort of media serves a second purpose, which is to suggest to the audience that this excess and luxury is attainable to them, as long as they keep their heads down, keep "grinding" (read as "getting exploited"), and get incredibly lucky.
a moment of silence for mrbeast, we will miss him dearly 🤧
Rip Mr breast
mr beast content is the worst tbh
I won't
He got abducted to the Fortnite dimension.
He is dying very soon 🙏🙏🙏🙏📿
This video is amazing and also mildly soul crushing. Great stuff!
Yes, getting your soul crushed is some great stuff lol
Some actual quotes from people in a Mr. Beast video in which he gave people cases of $10k to hide in a mall and would take it away from them if he found them within a time limit. Also at a point in the video he called in a swat team who used drones with thermal cameras to find people and then let the swat members keep the money from the people they found.
- "I'm a super broke college student. This money would actually change my life."
- "10 grand would mean a lot, not only for me, but for my family."
- "My kids are gonna have a real vacation."
How does nobody see how insane that is? Actual cartoon villain behavior.
You’re joking right
@@cheesebread3 About the quotes and video or that I think it's exploitative and wrong? Because it is a real video, those are real quotes from people in said video, and I genuinely believe it's utterly dystopian and creepy.
@@chadmasta5 I also find it creepy and dystopian that people defend him like
They really... They really let their emotions get in the way of the reality of what MrBeast does.
Hero worship sucks
@@iulianatesu3316 Its creepy and dystopian that he uses less fortunate people as items in his videos that make him more money
@@iulianatesu3316 Sincerely what part of that is hard to understand.
I don't care if he buys five houses for himself. He can swim in it for all I care.
I care how he makes poor people props for his videos.
I care how his videos make a spectacle of people's situations.
I care about how he sees it as a game when to the people in the videos it can be the difference between food on the table, paying rent or medical bills.
I hate how poor people become objects for entertianment.
Do you understand?
Your brother seems like an absolute sweetheart, his answers to your questionnaire were so charming and perfect. Two thumbs up.
I hate the idea that because someone has done or is doing charity that means their actions are above criticism.
can we take a moment to appreciate everyone taking a moment to appreciate pinely
But can we take a moment to appreciate eveyone for giving us that parasocial dopamine for saying "can we take a moment to appreciate Pinely?" when we already took it by watching the video?
Can we take every moment that will come from this point on? Someone else took mine :(
I cannot express how much it bothers me that this money-centric content is pushed towards kids. Literally last week we were getting snacks for a movie night with my younger brother and a friend & my friend was like “uh, who’s paying for the snacks? I’m broke lol” and before I could say I was, my brother said, “oh, don’t worry, Amelia will. She has a card”
Like??? Yeah, I am buying snacks but you think that having a card = unlimited money??? It just seemed so bizarre not only because it’s a crazy thing to believe but also because we were definitely raised to be frugal.
Also, you KNOW I made him switch out that name brand soda. Who does he think he is smh
I'd be petty enough to refuse to buy the brother snacks after that 😭😭
In fairness, having a card implies you have money at all. Definitely a shitty way to say that though. I mean saying it at all is pretty shitty.
@@thevioletbee5879 you can have negative balance on a card tho lol
I wonder if he launders money, like unironically
With how famous he is it wouldn't even be worth it risking that
Remember: Only ironic money-laundering if you wanna keep it above board kids!
@@sourgreendolly7685 He made a tax evasion joke in a recent ludwig video 💀
He doesn’t. I can tell you that right now. He has been losing money on his main channel for years.
I'll never forgive the "alpha/sigma" people for ruining that song. Skriptonite is one of my favorites and everyone stole/blatantly ripped off his song and now it's associated with the worst kind of people
Same thing with The Matrix. Wait until the misogynistic guys find out it was made by 2 trans *women*. I've never seen it but damn.
@@roxassora2706 mf, i'm pretty sure they know
@@darkpinkgirl6684 If they know, then why is the film being misinterpreted?
This is very interesting given MrBeast has exceeded Pewdiepie in subscriber count. It set off a debate on whether they are on the same category since MrBeast can be considered a corporation at this point.
I mean yea Mr beast isn't really a UA-camr
More of a gameshow host of sorts whilst Felix still makes videos from his room
Mr beast on the other hand spends millions on sets with tens of cameramen and lots of other people involved
At that point that's just TV rather than UA-cam
I wonder what Felix’s subscriber count would be though if there wasn’t that campaign/contest against T Series. There were a lot of people who subscribed just to participate but didn’t or don’t watch his content but never bothered to unsub. Even if you’re subbed to a channel, if you don’t watch it YT will stop notifying you of videos and you can forget you’re even subbed and don’t bother to unsub. His views compared to Mr. Beasts aren’t even close. (Sorry, I’m very sick right now so you got a 📕 instead of a comment).
We need to divorce the idea of charity from itself. What I mean by that is that we shouldn't consider charity good on its own. The intention matters. If we day that it doesn't, then we turn the world into some kind of version of a GTA world. Do a bunch of bad things that give you a bad reputation, and then get rid of all that "badness", whether legal, moral or ethical, by simply paying a charity a fraction of what you possess.
and what exactly did mrbeast do bad in this whole scenario? make a bunch of money and then give that money away while filming and posting it on youtube only to make more money and to give it away again and so on and so forth while also living a minimalistic lifestyle? and that's somehow bad. literally nothing illegal or exploitative going on behind it either
so how about we put the burden of teaching kids the meaning of money and what makes you truly happy on parents and the education system instead of some youtuber
That is an interesting point but I think it needs more nuance. Regardless of intention, someone benefiting from that charity would benefit even if the intention was good or bad. To the person being helped, it doesn’t truly matter. Charity itself is seen as a good thing because there is always someone being helped, so it would be almost redundant to say “you helped this person but your intentions…” because you still helped them.
@@yurrskiiii i mean, he didn't imply to Mr. Beast.
While I'm not a huge fan, i would say Mr. Beast intentions are good.
But there are so many copycats that are doing it for the sake of money and there where the problem lies
@@yurrskiiii Would you really say it isnt up to the youtuber to make sure the content they are creating isnt sending a bad message? Sure he doesnt HAVE to, whatever, but i think selling gambling to kids is bad in the same way i think its bad to exploit childrens' impressionable minds by teaching them to be materialistic. Sure hes not responsible for whoever watches but he knows exactly what hes doing and who his audience is. Dont you think its a bit low to do that?
@@nonagone9570 and how exactly is he teaching kids to be materialistic?
Mr. Beast fans are some of the most frustrating people on this site.
There was a video on what happened with the Piggly Wiggly, where he had to cancel a video because word spread that he was buying the entire store out. Someone commented that they would only ask for a picture. I explained the generational differences, that most of the people in the video had kids with them, that the median income of the area was relatively low, that Piggly Wiggly wasn't a high-end market, etc. The conversation ended with two whole, entire, theoretically sentient people conflating being poor with being a bad person and accepting help or charity with stealing.
These were probably just kids, but they have bought so fully into the idea of meritocracy that they see people in need and assume they have actively done something to deserve to be there. They would defend a millionaire's potentially hurt feelings over people's survival. These fans definitely aren't learning to be more charitable and empathetic.
it's like a person with a tank of water walking into a dehydrating community. like, you don't see the problem with this very good example of capitalism
i just like his cool videos. unless he does something _truly_ wrong, im still gonna like him
@@Chibi_Mercury That's fine. Being entertained is okay. I still watch Disney productions, and there's plenty of shady stuff there. The problem is that the worldview that many of the fans I've interacted with hold (people are rich because they're good and moral and people are poor because they're bad and lazy) is alarming.
I definitely think UA-cam will have cultural shift when it comes to money over the next few years. With reports of a potential world recession, I feel people's attitudes could easily change to the way they view some of these UA-camrs that make it all about cash in their videos.
Even recently, I've noticed (at least in the irish space twittersphere) that former people who used to love MrBeast quickly changed their opinion about him when he interacted with Elon Musk on twitter. So it will be interesting to see what happens if a recession does happen and the way people view creators that make their videos all about money.
Fantastic video essay as always :D
Could well be. There's a lot in this materialistic worship of money and designer clothes that resembles the 80's. The yuppies and all the crap that American Psycho critizises. It all went down with the recession and the grunge culture. At least where I live.
people on twitter are pretty unstable tbh i wouldnt use twitter users as an example
@@skinnybuggo I’m more referring to broadcasters and people that work in media in Ireland on twitter that were reacting to the change.
there was that twitter trend where everyone tried to cancel any celebrity who tried to show even a bit of money during lockdown. I can see them moving on to youtubers eventually.
When we are all living in the streets we won't care anymore about Mr Beast videos because no one will have money to pay for wi-fi.
I have a younger cousin who is around 12 and he used to be OBSESSED with money based challenges, especially a couple of years ago. he's since grown out of it as he's matured but it does worry me that kids younger than him might not grow out of the mindset
indeed
When i visited my half sisters last year they wouldn't stop talking about money, mr beast, lamborghinis, and tesla cars. And I knew it was because of the youtubers they watch. I spent all my savings taking them on days out, I was BROKE but they just kept asking if I would get a tesla when I get my licence. They're gonna grow up thinking making that much money is easy and it's gonna break their hearts.
Growing up my dad always taught me to spend wisely and that money is important
So even now I don't waste anything if I have some spare cash left
You simply have to value money
Even a 100$ is a lot of money but nowadays when I see 1k$ on UA-cam it doesn't faze me I am so desensitized to it
I feel like kids are being taught the wrong lesson.
They need to value money
teach them than an hour of labor is around 8 bucks, teach them to quantify items in terms of hours of labor. Your issue will be fixed.
"This shirt costs 3 hours," is how I think about luxury purchases, I've never overspent. I was homeless for bout a decade but had more in savings than a lot of middle class families because I just never spent what I didn't need to. There's a happy middle, obviously, you don't have to break your lease and start hopping freight trains to save cash, but I was already a hobo so 🤷
The fact that your little brother would use the money to abolish the meat industry is honestly so wholesome 🥺
On one hand, the mistreatment of animals would go down by a little bit. On the other hand, those who cannot go vegan (as their bodies may not withstand it) may not live to see another day.
I didn't mean to start this... I guess I cannot express my thoughts on the internet...
lol that would sure fail horribly what are you going to replace it with bugs plus I'm sure their will be a over population of animals then what
Why are y'all critiquing a 10 year old's dream to stop slaughterhouses lmfao
@@christopherlie3590 because, yes
@@christopherlie3590 I'm not. Just typed a thought.
I wonder if the glorification of money will have similar effects down the line similar to how Instagram creates insecurity about looks.
Like when Jimmy says that his young fans donate their pocket money to charity I cant help but think how inadequate they would feel when they're 20 and can't afford to donate because of rent. Idk maybe I'm just extrapolating too far but I think the analog to body Image and insecurity is worth talking about.
A lot of the stuff we engage with/consume now relies on us feeling incomplete or not fully secure as people and body image/your perception to other people in the case of money or giving to charity are just other examples of it. It sucks ass, and a lot of these people are going to take a long time to figure out what might have taken us a couple years at most since it really picked up
Becomimg the best version of yourself is the only conceivable thing I can think that isn't tied with numbers or how one looks and even that's vague at best. Even if it's hard, we can't roll over and accept it as anything other than harmful
Can we take a moment to appreciate how Pinely might just be one of the UA-camrs ever?
yes, he is truly one of the youtubers ever!
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He truly is ever one of the UA-camrs.
I thought he was two of them. 🥺
How do you fail a npc comment
Epic video I loved 11:32 so much aha
Can we appreciate how Pinley has cool colored lights and dynamic camera angels in his videos. Truly makes his videos feel like cinema, Scorsese would approve.
yeah he really gonched the hell out of this vid
His use of lights and cameras angles bring a fresh feel to the video genre.
The Tommy innit thing is actually sooo funny I cannot believe ppl thought he was being serious 💀
Mr. Beast is in Fortnite now and I hate capitalism
please tell me you're joking
@@notrod5341 Nope
I'm so mad that he's being put in fortnite because rich. Like literally just because he's rich and kids who need more parental supervision over their viewing habits love him.
Reason #3245346235 I will never touch Fortnite (tho I do love the gifs of Sasuke doing emotes, I’ll give them that)
@@okayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy Too late for me sadly.
In the US, donations can be used as tax write offs. Wonder if this is relavant to this genre of content 🤔
Really makes you think
shoutout to orr's 10 year old vegan little brother, absolute king
Mr beast and his content just gives me weird vibes... idk it's hard to argue against a guy giving away tens of thousands (up to a million) of dollars away go schools and families and stuff but something about the challenge aspect and how he films it and promotes it to children feels weird. Also anyone who just shows off how much money they have access to feels sorta scummy, even if its under the notion of "charity"
It kinda has the "dance for me pleb" vibe to me.
@@Bob-wr1md This is probably the reason ua-cam.com/video/w-mZ2Qnp_Uc/v-deo.html
It is a profitable TV show production with prizes. It is nothing new.
I'd agree with this take if MrBeast didn't use the money from these videos to continue his charity work. He's done it in a way where putting his donations on camera is a good thing whether it's for the clout or not
Gee, its almost as if he needs to make money in order to have it to give away.
Charity exists for the purpose of capital holders putting their capital toward whatever they are ideologically in favor of rather than paying it to society in taxes. That's not to say it doesn't do good in society, but it's a way of forestalling wealth redistribution.
Also tax avoidance. Lets be honest here
I can’t join the patreon but I fully support it! You’ve been on a roll lately and I really look forward to your video essays, they’ve become some of my favorites to watch. Not only because of the interesting topics that I usually don’t see being covered but also just the stylistic choices, structuring and delivery of the videos makes them so great!
It's kind of embarrassing how films like Wolf of Wall Street and Fight Club are some of my favorites. Because like Piney explains even if they clearly show the downfall of these characters and lifestyles, most people only notice the glorification.
feel like its interesting to mention how for some of youtuber, the money they spend to charity is so little money for them in comparison how much they earn
I feel like it’s more interesting to mention that the video they create for charities usually will make more than however much they spent on charity.
don’t forget the tax breaks! and the soft power of influence
While I have barely watched enough Mr Beast to comment on him with any specificity, I would like to bring up the fact that we always tend to look at morality as a polarity. Actions lie on a spectrum from evil to godly. That's why it feels wrong to criticise someone who is giving away so much money to charity. But that isn't necessarily the best way to look at morality. What if good and bad deeds didn't cancel each other out. What if the same person can be seen as both evil and good, and we attempt to look beyond the dissonance it causes.
Imagine an alternate history where Hitler had committed all the atrocities he did but he also somehow developed a cure for cancer. It would be insane to suggest that because he cured cancer, we cannot criticise him for being an evil tyrant. But it would be equally insane to not value the contribution to medicine that a cure for cancer would represent. One does not cancel out the other. Both are significant in their own right, and as difficult as it as for the human psyche to sit with this dissonance, I think its important that we start practicing this kind of mindfulness.
Lmao so surprised to see myself in the intro 😂thanks for making this series. This and the last video are definitely a must-watch for any creator.
The videos I create usually lean on something (e.g. in this case the glorification of MrBeast/money) to share a message about tech (e.g. the value tech companies like UA-cam create, beyond its own market cap). Wonder if there is a better way to get the message out without having to lean on things like the glorification of money.
I gotta point out your music choices, they have been AMAZING in the past few videos. Really enjoyed the video. Keep it up pinely.
Can we just appreciate how Pinely is genuinely a cool dude who makes sure to call out stuff when it’s due?
attacks you shaves all your hair off
Can we take a moment to appreciate the fact that this man and his brother conducted a survey? And the fact that children actually took the time to respond?
this is weird to say to a complete stranger, but I am so proud of you! When I first subscribed to this channel you were making pretty run-of-the-mill commentary videos about the latest trending topics, (which is totally fine, not knocking that), but it's been so cool to see you grow and evolve into making these really thoughtful, interesting video essays that dig deeper into the bigger issues behind the internet fads.
alpha bros love to quote the wolf of wall street and the matrix like they've never actually watched them until the end lol
I've actually avoided Wolf of Wall Street for the longest time because of how people glorified the worst aspects of it, which made me think that was what the movie was about: glorifying wealth and money. Now that I know the guy faces consequences, I can go and watch it rn.
Wall Street is a great morality tale. It still inspired the people who wrecked the economy in 2008.
*I love when MrBeast said "It's Beastin' time!" and Beasted all over the money. Truly one of the beasts of all time.*
i like how you thought your comment was hilarious enough to merit it being in bold
He beasted all over those poor children’s faces
Edit: nice sonic pfp lmfao didn’t notice that
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I hate it, but I liked it
Oof
The biggest problem I have with this whole situation is what will happen next, I feel these guys are constantly upping the bar with these challenges and it's already getting exploitative so my fear is that someone might genuinely get hurt if this keeps going
It feels like the real squid games might just be next. A bunch of desperate people having to complete absurd high stakes challenges to maybe get the money they desperately need to survive.
Mr. Beast cared about Team Trees so much, he gave away a private jet
One possibly similar but different flavor of the phenomenon is people who refuse to believe certain figures can do anything wrong. They give circular answers about how the wealth proves they are smart and right about everything, as if the only way to get rich is to genuinely have an impossible amount of merit.
Writing this I now wonder if there's any relation with those financial influencers that imply you can be wealthy like them
I wonder if people ever grow out of Mr Beast...and into the hands of people who will scam them, luring them in with the promise of a luxurious lifestyle.
the mrbeast-ification of pinelys channel
This has convinced me that greed should be a lower layer in dante’s inferno
well dantes inferno was made so long ago, we couldn’t have known the depths of avarice
Love the visuals and music in this video! I always felt discomfort watching those "we spend a lot" videos as I've been raised to believe wasting food is an awful thing to do and for me it's the same with money. I don't hate people who do it obviously but it's painful to watch.
I unsubscribed from Mr. Beast when I found out he applied and received funds that was intended for struggling small businesses during the pandemic (I don't consider a youtuber like him to be a "small business"), however I was already getting burnt out due to the videos placing more of an emphasis on the $1,000,000,000,000+ budget. It just feels so exploitative and empty, especially with the emphasis on people who are struggling financially. It really made me feel disgusted and used in a way - especially since I grew up in poverty myself.
Oh by the way, the music choices in this video are *chef's kiss*. I definitely recognized the Cuphead soundtrack in the background at the beginning of the video.
I often feel the same way
My father lost his job during the recession period in South Africa and we had to live with my grandfather. We weren't the richest before that but we did have some expendable income. After that?
Basically five people had to survive off my grandfather's pensions! And... I hate how if youre poor youre not seen as human.
And now even less. Because in his videos poor people become... An object. For MrBeast to use
It is inherently impossible to get "rich" without exploitation. Whether it is exploitation of the system, exploitation of the poor, or even exploitation of the rich.
There is not a single rich person on this planet whose hands are clean.
@@Cherryblossoms110 Based comrade
@@Sam-ui1llthe word "based" can kill itself
@@CantRead1 What a based thing to say. I agree.
That video of little Pinely dancing is so funny to me for some reason
I've never watched a Mr Beast video in my life but I'm always here for Mr UA-camr
Something on Mr. Beast is unsettling. Something about these glorifications of money is scary. It all feels like we're missing something.
I can't believe you were the mastermind behind "Little Freak Alien Child"! One of the real classics of UA-cam, been on my playlists for years!
I love the clip at 8:05 where tommyinnit is obviously taking the piss when logan paul just seems completely oblivious
The Jonah hill being a sweetheart line is evidence for why we generally shouldn't aasume what celebrities are like in their personal lives.
It’s crazy how people admire people just for being rich no matter how they acquired the money or how they used it
I miss the old Mr Beast. I used to watch him during the "cringe youtube outros" era of his channel. It all went downhill after the "last to leave the circle" challenge.
Honestly i really love your videos, Got your own unique style and your just speaking your mind
I love these longer videos from you! You can clearly tell that you put a lot of work into these 💕
his new content feels almost like the 2016 hypebeast creators. When he’s on an interview it feels almost like he doesn’t care about the charity anymore, just the fact that he still gets money from it
Loving the color choices with the lighting and scenes in all the videos recently! Really makes everything look better and cohesive
Can we take a moment and appreciate how pinely genuinely wants to create better content moving forward
@@PickleFan1 it's pinely
don't trust anyone with a smooth sounding voice 100%, that's how you get conned
@@lawrencelopez9839 What does this mean in context to my comment?
@@The_Wampy idk either but it's good general life advice
Whenever Mr. Beast is brought up, I remember his NFT stint. Most notably with a little guy called Gary Vee. And if you consider then that there was some pump and dump going on, with him and Logan Paul still supporting the next thing, all of that money suddenly feels weird, doesn't it? I don't know his actual character, but charity of this scale and this level of publicity should be a warning sign, not a celebration. To his own credit: Mr. Beast does say that it feels like hypocrisy that he lives in a 10 million mansion while doing these things. To his discredit: Man's got a lot more money than he'll ever know what to do with and has cooperated with less than optimal partners that use him for bettering their image. If he isn't aware of that, I'll call him all the synonyms for gullible and naive for the rest of the day. Because he should be aware of at least that much by now.
I really appreciate the long essay type of content. Your takes are really good and thought out (even if your brother and his friends are the only respondents in your scientific studies). Keep making what you want to make and I will do my part in keeping you in favour with the algorithm by liking your video's 👍👍
I love how the editor version of you just brings some good clarity to the situation. Thanks!
you are quickly becoming one of my favorite creators, watching your growth over the past year or two has been so fun :) keep it up man !!!!!
i really appreciate the nuance u bring to this subject, i feel like any critical thought about mr beast and his content gets shut down because of the good things he does, and his general character. i think it's important to talk about the fact that good people doing good things can still have negative side effects
On one hand, I respect when the UA-camrs i watch are honest and open about the money they make: it helps remind the viewers that this is their job and can give insight to any aspiring creators. Tbh I’m one of those people who thinks it should be normalized for people to talk about how much they make in every sector.
On the other hand, i find these kinds of videos genuinely disturbing. You can see with the language they use and their editing in so many of these videos that theyre geared *towards* kids. When I was little I would daydream about having $100 so i could get…idk books or something. I’m pretty sure when I was young I even saw a movie about a kid getting a credit card and going on a spending spree, and the movie ultimately framed this as a bad thing and a learning lesson for the audience. I give Mr Beast a pass, but it genuinely feels like his copycats are starting kids on the path of hypermaterialism and hustle culture.
I propose we combat this by indoctrinating children on a strict “eat the rich” agenda (/j …mostly)
honestly i enjoy your longer videos a lot more, so keep doing what you're doing! hope everything's going well with you
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I appreciate all the time and a sense of perspective that has been taking a step back and looked at for face value on these videos finally. He doesn’t let himself get caught up in the swell of fast, talking loud voices, and I would bet, watches everything twice to actually grasp at what is being presented, and not just stated.
Can we take a moment to appreciate how much of a nice soft boy Pinely is for us????
Is that not just his personality? 'For us' seems strange to me
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Tell me you didn't watch to the end w/o telling me :^)
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Omg, the little brother's answers were the most wholesome thing ever, I love it
Love the different lighting you did
I genuinely LOVE this style of content from you
It’s so refreshing watching someone connected to reality and questions things. It’s never a bad thing to look at all sides. Especially with the almost deification of billionaires in today’s world. Everyone of them had a leg up, access to family wealth, and also stepping on a lot of people (not paying them enough to live), and yes, luck in what’s turned out to be just a pissing contest now of who’s the richest. There’s no humanity in it, only ego even when giving. Especially when you find they make that money back in a day.
Great video man. I’ve always had a lot of thoughts on this and this video perfectly describes my feelings on it 👍
can we appreciate how pinely used MY favourite piece of classical music, Mozart's ouverture to Le nozze di Figaro in this video??
The point of how money always gets an reaction or emotion is really intresting for me, bc I see it to the extend that watching a Mr.Beast Video is like watching some random guy hacking a game and showing of what that game has to offer.
I have an Ex boyfriend that, when we were together, really suffered from the thought that he didn't make as much of his life as he thought he would. He was only 22 but for some reason he thought he had to be rich and successful already. He always imagined what he would buy, how his life would be and he honestly kind of broke down under all these thoughts. And I think a big part of that was this culture of showing everyone how much money you make (even if you don't actually make that kind of money). I heard many people talk about it and the more I see of this part of our culture it really Shows how money has kind of replaced Religion. These companies, products and simply mountains of money are something many people work towards as if it were their absolution. Money is what frees people from living their life working for a big Corporation, spending half their life in an office. It's worshipped and I can't help but feel disgusted at the thought of something like money being worshipped like that. Of course it's nice To have some but nobody needs these amounts...
UA-cam has definetly changed. When I was my little brother's age (13) my main UA-cam channel I liked was Good Mythical Morning and I spent my time playing Animal Jam online, my brother, however likes all these shoe trading channels and is looking into buying really expensive shoes and selling them for more on online stores. Good for him I guess, but I feel like you shouldn't be that focused on money as a tween
Man, I hope it's a phase for him. That's one of the grossest subcultures in my opinion. It's the one of the most extreme cults of consumerism out there with a lot of toxic mentalities. I'm sure your brother is a great kid, and I got into things at that age that I look back on negatively. Try to get him into some of the healthier and more mentally stimulating or just positive stuff you like man, lol. My opinion means nothing though and I'm sure he will be fine.
Thanks for making this, it was really helpful for me to crystalize my thinking around this. My son (like so many others) is obsessed with MrBeast, and he has always rubbed me the wrong way, but I couldn't express *why*. Pointing out that he performs charitable acts explicitly in service of content and getting more views seems to have stuck with him. I hope it helps him keep things in perspective in the future!