Late stage capitalism, babeeee! But seriously, motivation matters. Examine your parasocial relationships, talk to the little gremlins coming up behind you & teach them media literacy vocabulary. Once they know the words, they can tell when it rhymes. 🖖🤙
@@18puppies91trust me when I say that given the chance a polar bear would eat you gleefully😅 the only thing standing between a polar bear and buffet a la human, is usually a 50cal and a dream
Aside from the whole thing being distasteful, it might be a bit redeemable if they were actual games. Over half of the "games" were just getting people to betray one another.
@@yippieskippy2971 Not really. It's been a while since I've watched reality game shows, but many of the games in question don't have constant self sacrificing games, or games that would deliberately put everyone against each other or make it so that it was every man for himself. Sure, a few games in reality TV shows are like that, but it's only in that state at the end of the season, and not at the very beginning of said TV show
@@yippieskippy2971I mean the biggest one is survivor that does rely a lot on the interpersonal connections and making alliances and breaking them, but survivor still has games and those games are very important and don’t just influence rewards and saving people from elimination but also impacts how alliances are made, I don’t know a lot of reality game shows that are just about getting people to betray each other
@@yippieskippy2971 it’s less so about it being reality tv and more so because, since it’s based on squid game, one should be able to assume that the challenges would be games from childhood, not just sacrificing yourself and taking bribes
It's like no one actually understood that Squid Game is a psychological thriller/horror story. The only antidote is the "Do I Hear $1?" Episode of Gamechanger.
i know this really isn't relevent to the video but 'jimmy donaldson' would be one of the first names i would think of if someone told me to make up a fake name
So unsurprised that the guy who waves money in poor people's faces and says "do you want medical treatment? Then dance monkey :)" chronically mistreats poor ppl/Anyone he can strong arm and say "what you dont want a million dollars? Hm?" This guy literally acts like a super villian
I feel for all the kids who will feel their first parasocial betrayal. It's been sucky for me as an adult and finding out about the horrific backstories of beloved artists. (Bowie cuts deep😣)
@@AriGatoVT You never see him doing charity work off camera. All of it is on camera. In addition, the way he throws his money around and seems to not give money off camera comes off more as if he's waving people's whole livelihoods in their faces and having them get it as long as they're on camera
@limespots Except he does charity off camera, you just don't know it because, well, he didn't show it on camera, but please, do a little bit of research first
@@AriGatoVT except even some of the charity he DOES on camera has been exposed as false or at least not the way it was portrayed or promissed to the audience
bezos and beast together, in real life, making this spectacle of poverty would already be the worst game show of all time without the painful, sickening irony of Squid Game's premise enrobing it like one of Mr Beast's fail chocolate bars
I know it’s been said time and time again, but the fact people watched squid games and thought “hey this would be a good idea for a game show!” Is fucking wild
I mean, the plot of the latest Hunger Games movie was that an audience seems to prefer having a person to root for, instead of an anonymous collective. Maybe the producers missed that movie? (As they seem to take inspiration from movies/shows)
I was astounded when no one took the million. Less so when I learned only four people were given that option, but still. That is the only chance at that kind of money those people will have in their lives.
Exactly!! I think they got too caught up in the bad feeling of eliminating their team but only one person wins the final pot anyway so if you want to play to win youd by definition have to eliminate the rest anyway!!!
4:28 that Disney bumper impression awoke something in my brain. I feel like ive been a sleeper cell this whole time and that made me remember my mission lol
no bc the lil yachty was the best part of the show it was so stupid but the only time i genuinely laughed instead of feeling horrible for these poor people
Making an incredibly uncharismatic sociopath the host of your TV show is a bold choice, Amazon. Only something Bezos could pull off as a fellow uncharismatic sociopath.
Turning down 1 mil for the chance to win 5 mil means you think you have greater than a 1/5 chance of winning. Team captains are stupid for that imo. You cant be scared of eliminating other people to get paid, bc even if you want to compete to the end that would mean youd eventually have to eliminate everyone else anyway the only difference is doing it now and getting a confirmed large payout or waiting til later and having a much higher chance of getting eliminated yourself
It makes some sense if you consider that they'd want to have won the money "Fairly" by being better than their competitors at whatever games they had planned. The difference between winning a competition by being the best vs winning by cheating and poisoning all the other competitors, for example. Of course, that goes out the window when all the "games" turn out to be the same negotiation/accept bribe stuff, instead of actual physical-skill based activities, but hindsight is 20/20. The real injustice is that the most empathetic people who would use that money on things like paying for a relative's medical bills or donating to charity, etc. Are also the ones least likely to take the bribe, whereas the people with the most selfish reasons to take the bribe are much more likely to take it since they're less likely to care about it being unfair to the other competitors.
MrBeast once asked what's the retention rate for movies to an executive and executive replied to him usually 100%. Because when most people sit down in a theater, they stay. That's how out of touch he is and why he employed so many UA-cam tactics even in a TV show to keep retention instead of building more of a connection to keep people invested for longer. Also it's not fun to hear a cacophony of people in despair. That's like bringing hell to life and watching for fun, which my non psychopathic self does not get. Nor is it fun to watch people just sacrifice themselves for more selfish pricks, instead of having people use any type of real strategy. It gets boring fast. And idgaf about anybody left.
23:54 I'm certainly not going to look up this episode to check, but I hope that's the real audio quality that made it into the show. Jimmy sounds like he's talking through a blanket lmao
Something I realized from another review of this show was that it’s really hard to root for anybody because there is too many games about selflessness so only the selfish make it farther then episode one two
How is it possible that NOBODY took the million dollars? I would've taken it in a heartbeat. These people are strangers and I would never have to work one more day in my life
The entire structure of that round was designed to discourage taking the money. Maybe on accident, too, seeing as Donaldson seemed like he might be genuinely bewildered that no one took the bribe. Which is an incredibly funny possibility. A quick rundown: - Mutual observation between captain and team provides heavy social pressure not to betray the group - Mutual observation with other captains provides social pressure to conform to that group (if one broke and took the deal, they all probably would have) - High-intensity delivery and a short decision-making window encourages the strongest emotion to dictate choices, which in this case is going to be the pressure _not_ to take the bribe (especially since the money was not tangibly represented to the captains as it is elsewhere in the show, while their team was Literally Right There) - Ramping up of bribes (I _assume_ it didn't just jump straight from $1000 to $1mil for the contestants, though I didn't watch the show myself so idk how it's presented) increases the cohesion of the captain group and entrenches the captains in their decision not to take the money, especially as their teams react positively to each refusal - The fact you remain in the game after taking the bribe heavily disincentivizes taking it. This sounds backwards, since forfeiting the chance of 5mil sounds like a bad thing, until you imagine spending being trapped for possibly _weeks_ in an uncomfortable shared space with dozens to hundreds of other people who _all_ think you suck and should lose the game you're all participating in. If the captains took their bag and got to go home, they would have escaped all immediate social consequences for betraying their teams, and it would have been an easier decision. Also Donaldson was definitely encouraging them to take it/talking up the money and given he was play-acting a villain, that's additional motivation not to do it.
The people who gave up the 1 mil had to be plants. You have that many in the game giveing you 1 in over 100 chane to win 5 mil. Or win 1 mil now. Who says no. People hired to say no.
26:59 Can absolutely say Alex Trebek was a great host. I was on one of his final episodes in 2020. RIP to an absolute gentleman. 27:57 That rictus grin of Mr. Beast's looks like an Aardman character come to life.
I've been watching this show and honestly just skip through it because I have no interest in most of the contestants. Why? Because we barely know them. Most of the time, you only see contestants right before they're eliminated. The show could've worked with a lot of different changes, but Jimmy has a formula and he won't change. Man it's just such a bad show.
I guess this is doing reasonably well as a show or whatever and so did the Squid Game reality show, but I don't see them sticking around for 20 seasons. And yet if you remove the cash prize, keep the cast small and just make it silly and you have Taskmaster, which is just about to start its 19th season and has been on the air for a decade. So I'm not sure the idea of stakes is really actually serving the format here.
With game shows there's two main forms of appeal: The personalities of the contestants/hosts, and the games themselves. The games in Beast Games are boring, Jimmy frankly lacks much of a personality, and there's so many contestants we don't have the opportunity to get to know them and therefore their personality isn't really a draw either.
The difference is that something like taskmaster requires at least 1 likeable person on the show. Put $5 million on the line and suddenly you can get by with putting a literal cardboard cutout as the host because nobody is actually watching to be entertained. They're watching to see who wins.
The thing i just cant get past, they tried so hard to replicate Squid Games, large cash prize, masked guards, contestants with numbers. They some how managed to miss the entire commentary that was that show. Its honestly so ironic.
Out of all the commentary channels desperate to pick of anything newsworthy, literally none of them have talked about what was supposed to be "The biggest reality tv game show ever" I had no impulse to watch the show to begin with because Mr. Beasts style of videos never really interested me, but this is the first response I've heard from it and I still have no impulse to watch it. Thank you lol
harry i am a woman with severe scoliokyfosis and also severe anxiety about clothes but everything you wear (you know, hoodies and hawaii shirts) looks INCREDIBLE and i want to look as hot as you do soo i'll keep earring hoodies and hawaii shirts
Agree 100%. I half-watch the show, and while they try to have the viewer feel bad for contestants, I think everyone on the show is likely just the worst. The selection process probably had a questionnaire including “Would you push your mom in front of a moving train to win $5M?”. And with that, I don’t care when people are eliminated. The self sacrifices make no sense. Maybe in a context where they show people have been there for weeks making friendships, but even that wouldn’t change my opinion. Self sacrifice is group bullying someone to fall on the grenade for no reason. They go home and their actual friends ask why did you self sacrifice - and they’re going to have no logical reason. They went there to earn money then after a week of being put through mind games, refusing to take a bribe, they just decide to go home with nothing. Ok, let’s get to the $1M bribe. This was actually interesting, bc the chances of winning $5M are very slim, but with the press of a button the contestant could win $1M? Plus, half those people were getting eliminated next round anyways! But they held strong. I think that challenge was missing one thing. It needed an elimination aspect between the leaders. Maybe have it that if no one chose the bribe, all 4 leaders would be eliminated. Now they had to to choose between betraying their group they don’t know, or eliminating themself from the game and going home with nothing. Someone would have pressed the button. Add in one more elimination factor: whichever leader presses the button, gets the money, and stays in the game BUT the other 3 leaders get eliminated! Now there’s competition to see who would sell out for the least amount of money. That would have been much more interesting. Overall, the beast games are pretty stupid. More fun to watch with a friend and trash talk everyone on the game. The private island? Would anyone actually take that as the prize, instead of the cash value? No. Taxes alone would be about $800k on winning, so you’d need to pay near $1M to claim your private island prize - and then you’d need deep pockets to actually use the island for anything. So, no one in these games. I’d love it if there was no cash alternative prize, and the winner was just stuck with an island they couldn’t sell.
the ryan devlin shoutout just made my day alshdjsksks. my sister and i were OBSESSED with the first few seasons of ayto, and she literally asked me to be her maid of honor in her wedding with a custom made shirt of his face. he genuinely made that show!!! no host has ever stuck out to me in the same way
Imagine watching a show abouy the horrors of capitalism and the way rich people exploit the desperate for their own entertainment and then thinking "I should make that for real!". How do you get from point A to point B in that thought process? How do you not experience severe cognitive dissonance?
the final event of Episode 5 (leading into episode 6) is exceptionally dumb because they made one mistake. Because both players were allowed to swap a suitcase, it screws over the person who goes first so that they *can't* win. First person who swaps, if they guess wrong the other person can swap the suitcase they just got for the other person's suitcase and win. If they guess right the other person can swap their empty suitcase and get a deed back. The way you are *supposed* to do something like this is only one person gets to swap per attempt and you alternate the swapper. Just a massive oversight, and the person who won the island was basically handed victory because of this obvious flaw.
Each person got to choose which case they wanted from the other person, then they swapped at the same time. It was supposed to involve questioning the other person and lying or telling the truth, but it didn’t play out that way. The way they did it, if each person chose the right case, they’d have swapped deeds, and have to play another round. The order they chose didn’t matter bc they didn’t switch the cases until both people chose.
@@stephen3164 From the end of episode 5 it looked like he made his choice on what to swap and then she chose before they revealed, rather than same time. In that case she'd have a huge advantage because she'd know what he picked and whether or not he selected her deed which means all she'd have to do is call to swap for his other case which would very likely be his deed, because why would he give her his deed.
Watching Rotten Tomatoes' series on the real-life version of the torture inflicted on homeless South Koreans - the thing Squid Game was actually based on - makes it horrific to see Jimmy went with BLUE track suits. Why not bring back the salt baths and 30-foot high walls, too?
I just don't care about anything Mr Beast does. He’s shown his true colors from allowing poor stuff to contestants to befriending people like Logan Paul.
from what i've seen of clips and my sister watching it, it seems more like each challenge is just "get rid of as many people as quickly as possible" instead of any actual challenge of skill. but also, the fact that the original is basically a horror story of capitalism and what people will do when capitalism is declining, and not one but TWO major corporations did "hey this looks like a fun way of entertainment what if we did the same thing" and are making themselves the people in charge of dehumanization for entertainment of the rich.
Squid Game wasn’t made for people to replicate.... it was made to warn people about how dystopian our world might be when people like Mr. Beast do this nonsense.
I only ever watched one Mr. Beast video, but he always seemed so ungenuine to me. Some people worshipped him because he supposedly did the stuff other people claim rich people should do (as in, using his money to help other people), but he made a show of even that.
I love when someone creates “Don’t Create The Torment Nexus: The Show” and then not one, but two billion dollar corporations create the Torment Nexus.
Late stage capitalism, babeeee! But seriously, motivation matters. Examine your parasocial relationships, talk to the little gremlins coming up behind you & teach them media literacy vocabulary. Once they know the words, they can tell when it rhymes. 🖖🤙
the torment nexus is my favorite bit of online culture
Apollo with his head in his hands as the prophecy, “the torment nexus post,” falls from his grasp
The children yearn for the Torment Nexus!
For anyone curious, a polar bear guard is an actual job. Their main purpose is to prevent people from becoming a polar bear's dinner.
Poor polar bears
@@18puppies91trust me when I say that given the chance a polar bear would eat you gleefully😅 the only thing standing between a polar bear and buffet a la human, is usually a 50cal and a dream
Aside from the whole thing being distasteful, it might be a bit redeemable if they were actual games. Over half of the "games" were just getting people to betray one another.
Isn't that all reality tv, tho? Genuine question, I don't watch tv.
@@yippieskippy2971 Not really. It's been a while since I've watched reality game shows, but many of the games in question don't have constant self sacrificing games, or games that would deliberately put everyone against each other or make it so that it was every man for himself.
Sure, a few games in reality TV shows are like that, but it's only in that state at the end of the season, and not at the very beginning of said TV show
@@yippieskippy2971I mean the biggest one is survivor that does rely a lot on the interpersonal connections and making alliances and breaking them, but survivor still has games and those games are very important and don’t just influence rewards and saving people from elimination but also impacts how alliances are made, I don’t know a lot of reality game shows that are just about getting people to betray each other
@@yippieskippy2971 it’s less so about it being reality tv and more so because, since it’s based on squid game, one should be able to assume that the challenges would be games from childhood, not just sacrificing yourself and taking bribes
mr beast bravely asks the question of would you rather have unlimited games but limited money or unlimtated money but no money
It’s a tough question indeed
controversial take
it’s actually, games…unlimited games.
“Unlimited money but no money” is a great description of capitalism itself
Would you rather have unlimited bacon, but no games, or games, infinite games, but no games?
It's like no one actually understood that Squid Game is a psychological thriller/horror story. The only antidote is the "Do I Hear $1?" Episode of Gamechanger.
Next Jimmy will recreate the Hunger Games.
i know this really isn't relevent to the video but 'jimmy donaldson' would be one of the first names i would think of if someone told me to make up a fake name
Random capitalist name generator’s really been carrying the season
So unsurprised that the guy who waves money in poor people's faces and says "do you want medical treatment? Then dance monkey :)" chronically mistreats poor ppl/Anyone he can strong arm and say "what you dont want a million dollars? Hm?" This guy literally acts like a super villian
I feel for all the kids who will feel their first parasocial betrayal. It's been sucky for me as an adult and finding out about the horrific backstories of beloved artists. (Bowie cuts deep😣)
What do you mean "he waves money in poor people's faces"?
@@AriGatoVT You never see him doing charity work off camera. All of it is on camera. In addition, the way he throws his money around and seems to not give money off camera comes off more as if he's waving people's whole livelihoods in their faces and having them get it as long as they're on camera
@limespots Except he does charity off camera, you just don't know it because, well, he didn't show it on camera, but please, do a little bit of research first
@@AriGatoVT except even some of the charity he DOES on camera has been exposed as false or at least not the way it was portrayed or promissed to the audience
bezos and beast together, in real life, making this spectacle of poverty would already be the worst game show of all time without the painful, sickening irony of Squid Game's premise enrobing it like one of Mr Beast's fail chocolate bars
I love ignoring internet news and then finding it all out months later from you
harry you really cooked with this one. i hope the prize for the next challenge is his marriage license, rightly signed "mr. beast"
how did you post this an hour ago? The video just came out
roommate privileges
@@harryjamesmiller historically accurate
@@harryjamesmillergot it
That season will be a ripoff of the chancellor instead of trying to go after the survivor vibes.
I know it’s been said time and time again, but the fact people watched squid games and thought “hey this would be a good idea for a game show!” Is fucking wild
I think that we should be realistic about the fact that Jimmy Donaldson will someday run for president
it's 1000% going to happen and i even want to know what that will look like
Please don't give that wierdo any more ideas😂🤣🤣🤣🤣
With other game shows the main focus is on the games and contestants, but on beast games the main focus is on the money
That's so true
"I broke several records!"
I mean, the plot of the latest Hunger Games movie was that an audience seems to prefer having a person to root for, instead of an anonymous collective. Maybe the producers missed that movie? (As they seem to take inspiration from movies/shows)
That's also a theme in the original hunger games. Maybe the most famous reality-tv centric dystopia ever.
i love harry's new english teacher energy. motif? expository dialogue? incredible.
Mr. Beast saying there's an unlimited budget while continuing to set limits on money is really something lmao
Genuine question: why isn't Netflix suing for squid games plagiarism?
Honestly that’s been my question
They don’t steal any of the game formats of Squid game
Because its not squid game plagarism? If you watched the show you would know that
@@sosig8655 it's quite literally called "Beast games" and it obviously ripping off Squid Games
@@DrBoyZepho is squid games then a copy of hunger games?
i mean, i’d take the 1 million even if that meant everyone hated me after. that’s 1/5 the final pot of money. that’s amazing for a bribe
especially when you figure the odds of winning the actual prize are way way way lower than 1/5
I was astounded when no one took the million. Less so when I learned only four people were given that option, but still. That is the only chance at that kind of money those people will have in their lives.
If I was in there, I would take the million dollars and get the fuck out of there
Exactly!! I think they got too caught up in the bad feeling of eliminating their team but only one person wins the final pot anyway so if you want to play to win youd by definition have to eliminate the rest anyway!!!
I think they were plants
It’s funny hearing you mention Zack and Cody coz if you told me you were the secret third Sprouse brother I would believe it without hesitation
He looks so similar to them!
He makes Chris McLean look ethical.
"I wanna be! I wanna be! I wanna be famous!"
mrbeast would recreate squid game murder and all if he could
4:28 that Disney bumper impression awoke something in my brain. I feel like ive been a sleeper cell this whole time and that made me remember my mission lol
no bc the lil yachty was the best part of the show it was so stupid but the only time i genuinely laughed instead of feeling horrible for these poor people
Making an incredibly uncharismatic sociopath the host of your TV show is a bold choice, Amazon. Only something Bezos could pull off as a fellow uncharismatic sociopath.
Danganronpa ass flashback editing.
Turning down 1 mil for the chance to win 5 mil means you think you have greater than a 1/5 chance of winning. Team captains are stupid for that imo. You cant be scared of eliminating other people to get paid, bc even if you want to compete to the end that would mean youd eventually have to eliminate everyone else anyway the only difference is doing it now and getting a confirmed large payout or waiting til later and having a much higher chance of getting eliminated yourself
It makes some sense if you consider that they'd want to have won the money "Fairly" by being better than their competitors at whatever games they had planned. The difference between winning a competition by being the best vs winning by cheating and poisoning all the other competitors, for example.
Of course, that goes out the window when all the "games" turn out to be the same negotiation/accept bribe stuff, instead of actual physical-skill based activities, but hindsight is 20/20.
The real injustice is that the most empathetic people who would use that money on things like paying for a relative's medical bills or donating to charity, etc. Are also the ones least likely to take the bribe, whereas the people with the most selfish reasons to take the bribe are much more likely to take it since they're less likely to care about it being unfair to the other competitors.
I would have sacrificed my entire team for 1 million dollars. Even if I never won at the end, at least I got 1 million.
MrBeast once asked what's the retention rate for movies to an executive and executive replied to him usually 100%. Because when most people sit down in a theater, they stay. That's how out of touch he is and why he employed so many UA-cam tactics even in a TV show to keep retention instead of building more of a connection to keep people invested for longer.
Also it's not fun to hear a cacophony of people in despair. That's like bringing hell to life and watching for fun, which my non psychopathic self does not get. Nor is it fun to watch people just sacrifice themselves for more selfish pricks, instead of having people use any type of real strategy. It gets boring fast. And idgaf about anybody left.
23:54 I'm certainly not going to look up this episode to check, but I hope that's the real audio quality that made it into the show. Jimmy sounds like he's talking through a blanket lmao
It sounds weirdly like AI in my opinion.
Something I realized from another review of this show was that it’s really hard to root for anybody because there is too many games about selflessness so only the selfish make it farther then episode one two
How is it possible that NOBODY took the million dollars? I would've taken it in a heartbeat. These people are strangers and I would never have to work one more day in my life
The prize is 5 times that I suppose people are naive enough to think they will win?
Theres this thing mature people have called "integrity"
@@alexpietsch7997 dude screw integrity that’s my entire life set
The entire structure of that round was designed to discourage taking the money. Maybe on accident, too, seeing as Donaldson seemed like he might be genuinely bewildered that no one took the bribe. Which is an incredibly funny possibility.
A quick rundown:
- Mutual observation between captain and team provides heavy social pressure not to betray the group
- Mutual observation with other captains provides social pressure to conform to that group (if one broke and took the deal, they all probably would have)
- High-intensity delivery and a short decision-making window encourages the strongest emotion to dictate choices, which in this case is going to be the pressure _not_ to take the bribe (especially since the money was not tangibly represented to the captains as it is elsewhere in the show, while their team was Literally Right There)
- Ramping up of bribes (I _assume_ it didn't just jump straight from $1000 to $1mil for the contestants, though I didn't watch the show myself so idk how it's presented) increases the cohesion of the captain group and entrenches the captains in their decision not to take the money, especially as their teams react positively to each refusal
- The fact you remain in the game after taking the bribe heavily disincentivizes taking it. This sounds backwards, since forfeiting the chance of 5mil sounds like a bad thing, until you imagine spending being trapped for possibly _weeks_ in an uncomfortable shared space with dozens to hundreds of other people who _all_ think you suck and should lose the game you're all participating in. If the captains took their bag and got to go home, they would have escaped all immediate social consequences for betraying their teams, and it would have been an easier decision.
Also Donaldson was definitely encouraging them to take it/talking up the money and given he was play-acting a villain, that's additional motivation not to do it.
@@Vashjxn key word: mature
What is life if you have lost your identity? What is identity without honesty?
this show is peak brainrot core and not in an endearing way
This channel is like my own hidden gem. Keep up the good work!
The Disney Channel bumper comparison is killing me, because at least those were a little charming.
I thought total drama island was satire, man. This is crazy.
So many of these “games” are just people getting eliminated from the will of others with mo defense. Which is not entertaining
The people who gave up the 1 mil had to be plants. You have that many in the game giveing you 1 in over 100 chane to win 5 mil. Or win 1 mil now. Who says no. People hired to say no.
26:59 Can absolutely say Alex Trebek was a great host. I was on one of his final episodes in 2020. RIP to an absolute gentleman.
27:57 That rictus grin of Mr. Beast's looks like an Aardman character come to life.
mr beast city son or gag city daughter
easily gag city daughter
Jimmy has such a gross robot smile.
That's what I'm saying. His smile is creepy af. He looks like a serial killer
If I had a nickel for every time a large corporation decided to recreate a horrific situation for views, I would still be poorer than them.
It feels like watching a really long trailer for a movie i don't want to watch
He really likes saying "cull the herd"
Idk if I was just ovulating but I couldn’t through the first episode without crying
I've been watching this show and honestly just skip through it because I have no interest in most of the contestants. Why? Because we barely know them. Most of the time, you only see contestants right before they're eliminated. The show could've worked with a lot of different changes, but Jimmy has a formula and he won't change. Man it's just such a bad show.
I guess this is doing reasonably well as a show or whatever and so did the Squid Game reality show, but I don't see them sticking around for 20 seasons. And yet if you remove the cash prize, keep the cast small and just make it silly and you have Taskmaster, which is just about to start its 19th season and has been on the air for a decade. So I'm not sure the idea of stakes is really actually serving the format here.
With game shows there's two main forms of appeal:
The personalities of the contestants/hosts, and the games themselves.
The games in Beast Games are boring, Jimmy frankly lacks much of a personality, and there's so many contestants we don't have the opportunity to get to know them and therefore their personality isn't really a draw either.
The difference is that something like taskmaster requires at least 1 likeable person on the show. Put $5 million on the line and suddenly you can get by with putting a literal cardboard cutout as the host because nobody is actually watching to be entertained. They're watching to see who wins.
This show feels like how the Hunger Games start 🫠
If I had a nickel for every time there was a narcissistic/childish rich man with the word "Donald" in their name in a position of power...
Why doesn’t mr beast smile with his eyes I’m scared
The thing i just cant get past, they tried so hard to replicate Squid Games, large cash prize, masked guards, contestants with numbers.
They some how managed to miss the entire commentary that was that show. Its honestly so ironic.
Well, after taxes 10K isnt exactly life changing. Nice, sure, but not LIFE CHANGING
What if, cruelty was the only point?
🙃
we're so back!!!
i guess jimmy missed the memo that yachty can't give you no swag neither
$69,000!!!! Edit: I was wrong, it was way less. (15:00ish, for reference).
its worse now on survivor, at least outback stakehouse conjures up some idea of outdoorsy-ness but now they get applebee's
Idk why he isn’t being criticized by the entire internet but the contestants are like no he the horrible one
Nice album on the wall
here from jacks flims, your'e amazing btw
omg a harry video ! hi ♡ you deserve a polar bear guard tbh
14:00 the Jessie J reference got me good
Out of all the commentary channels desperate to pick of anything newsworthy, literally none of them have talked about what was supposed to be "The biggest reality tv game show ever"
I had no impulse to watch the show to begin with because Mr. Beasts style of videos never really interested me, but this is the first response I've heard from it and I still have no impulse to watch it.
Thank you lol
Mr Beast asked many channels to react to the first episode, so many of the reactions weren't even organically done.
Came from jjacksfilms, and Im pretty sure Im here to stay! Really cool stuff.
the zabar's sweatshirt is like this video: absolute fire
harry i am a woman with severe scoliokyfosis and also severe anxiety about clothes but everything you wear (you know, hoodies and hawaii shirts) looks INCREDIBLE and i want to look as hot as you do soo i'll keep earring hoodies and hawaii shirts
Anyone else come here from the jjjacksfilms' suoutout and stayed for the content? You've got some good videos, my dude
The dictators of the world are rolling in their graves when they see mr beast being alive he is truly their worthy successor
here from jacksfilms, keep up the great work, dude!
You look like if Jake Doolittle was a good person
😂😂😂
Would definitely donate to HJM's charity
As much as I am enjoying this show I can Admit that it does get Boring and the cliff hangers get very annoying
"jimminy beast" lmaoooooo staaaaaawp
Agree 100%. I half-watch the show, and while they try to have the viewer feel bad for contestants, I think everyone on the show is likely just the worst. The selection process probably had a questionnaire including “Would you push your mom in front of a moving train to win $5M?”. And with that, I don’t care when people are eliminated. The self sacrifices make no sense. Maybe in a context where they show people have been there for weeks making friendships, but even that wouldn’t change my opinion. Self sacrifice is group bullying someone to fall on the grenade for no reason. They go home and their actual friends ask why did you self sacrifice - and they’re going to have no logical reason. They went there to earn money then after a week of being put through mind games, refusing to take a bribe, they just decide to go home with nothing.
Ok, let’s get to the $1M bribe. This was actually interesting, bc the chances of winning $5M are very slim, but with the press of a button the contestant could win $1M? Plus, half those people were getting eliminated next round anyways! But they held strong. I think that challenge was missing one thing. It needed an elimination aspect between the leaders. Maybe have it that if no one chose the bribe, all 4 leaders would be eliminated. Now they had to to choose between betraying their group they don’t know, or eliminating themself from the game and going home with nothing. Someone would have pressed the button. Add in one more elimination factor: whichever leader presses the button, gets the money, and stays in the game BUT the other 3 leaders get eliminated! Now there’s competition to see who would sell out for the least amount of money. That would have been much more interesting.
Overall, the beast games are pretty stupid. More fun to watch with a friend and trash talk everyone on the game. The private island? Would anyone actually take that as the prize, instead of the cash value? No. Taxes alone would be about $800k on winning, so you’d need to pay near $1M to claim your private island prize - and then you’d need deep pockets to actually use the island for anything. So, no one in these games. I’d love it if there was no cash alternative prize, and the winner was just stuck with an island they couldn’t sell.
who's here from jjjacksfilms
the ryan devlin shoutout just made my day alshdjsksks. my sister and i were OBSESSED with the first few seasons of ayto, and she literally asked me to be her maid of honor in her wedding with a custom made shirt of his face. he genuinely made that show!!! no host has ever stuck out to me in the same way
It felt like they needed to constantly telly you about what was on the line because the games where boring af
Imagine watching a show abouy the horrors of capitalism and the way rich people exploit the desperate for their own entertainment and then thinking "I should make that for real!". How do you get from point A to point B in that thought process? How do you not experience severe cognitive dissonance?
All they saw was another opportunity to exploit others for money and fame/popularity
Mr beast is Jerry Springer for the 20s
U got a shoutout from jacksfilms!!!
I feel like im in a zoom call except we're talking about mr beast and beast games instead of doing math
yayyy i'm glad this is back up
Would you rather have unlimited beast games, but no money, or unlimited money, but not unlimited money
It’s good to see that MrBeast has completed his transformation into a real life Chris McClean
the final event of Episode 5 (leading into episode 6) is exceptionally dumb because they made one mistake. Because both players were allowed to swap a suitcase, it screws over the person who goes first so that they *can't* win.
First person who swaps, if they guess wrong the other person can swap the suitcase they just got for the other person's suitcase and win. If they guess right the other person can swap their empty suitcase and get a deed back. The way you are *supposed* to do something like this is only one person gets to swap per attempt and you alternate the swapper. Just a massive oversight, and the person who won the island was basically handed victory because of this obvious flaw.
Each person got to choose which case they wanted from the other person, then they swapped at the same time. It was supposed to involve questioning the other person and lying or telling the truth, but it didn’t play out that way. The way they did it, if each person chose the right case, they’d have swapped deeds, and have to play another round. The order they chose didn’t matter bc they didn’t switch the cases until both people chose.
@@stephen3164 From the end of episode 5 it looked like he made his choice on what to swap and then she chose before they revealed, rather than same time. In that case she'd have a huge advantage because she'd know what he picked and whether or not he selected her deed which means all she'd have to do is call to swap for his other case which would very likely be his deed, because why would he give her his deed.
Watching Rotten Tomatoes' series on the real-life version of the torture inflicted on homeless South Koreans - the thing Squid Game was actually based on - makes it horrific to see Jimmy went with BLUE track suits. Why not bring back the salt baths and 30-foot high walls, too?
Harry can you repeat all that sorry i checking my emails
Beast isn't even hiding it anymore.
Mr Beast Island us a very unfortunate name, considering another well-known island named after a famous man
If your going to sign up to something to win money, expect whatever comes after
Good video, and I just want to say your hair looks really nice like this. Longer hair really suits you, Harry!
I actually laughed out loud at the world’s smartest horse part, thank you Harry I needed the laugh ✨
I just don't care about anything Mr Beast does. He’s shown his true colors from allowing poor stuff to contestants to befriending people like Logan Paul.
It was only a comment about you not being Jake Doolittle that made me realise you were not, infact, Jake Doolittle
from what i've seen of clips and my sister watching it, it seems more like each challenge is just "get rid of as many people as quickly as possible" instead of any actual challenge of skill. but also, the fact that the original is basically a horror story of capitalism and what people will do when capitalism is declining, and not one but TWO major corporations did "hey this looks like a fun way of entertainment what if we did the same thing" and are making themselves the people in charge of dehumanization for entertainment of the rich.
Imagine a universe where the Cube movies came out this year. Mr. Beast would go all out 😂
Ayo Yolanda Winston mention 🚨🚨🚨
6:16 is that a watsky reference or just a coincidence lmao
Squid Game wasn’t made for people to replicate.... it was made to warn people about how dystopian our world might be when people like Mr. Beast do this nonsense.
YES Ryan Devlin from AYTO deserves the recognition. His arc thru the seasons is gripping
he's TRULY. one of the best to ever do it.
@ was truly devastating when he left. The magic was gone. I love your vids keep up the great work!!!
Very cool classic j drewgooden scott the woz
I only ever watched one Mr. Beast video, but he always seemed so ungenuine to me. Some people worshipped him because he supposedly did the stuff other people claim rich people should do (as in, using his money to help other people), but he made a show of even that.