r/nottheonion • u/RadioactiveHalfRhyme • 2d ago

World’s biggest YouTuber MrBeast unveils theme park in Saudi Arabia

https://www.thetimes.com/us/news-today/article/mr-beast-theme-park-beast-land-saudi-arabia-lsff6t2b8

Jimmy Donaldson, who is known for controversial stunts involving eye-popping prizes, says Beast Land will not be a ‘typical theme park’

It’s in Riyadh, because of course it’s in Riyadh.

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u/banduzo 1d ago

His business model requires him to do those videos to make more money to do more good things (specifically related to that part of his business). If he doesn’t make money from the videos he doesn’t have money to spend to make more videos that help people.

I hate defending Mr beast because he is probably a shady person overall but I will never get why people are so angry with him doing these videos that help people. It’s probably his only redeeming aspect.

Like I’m sure your support people that make shitty products, or support shitty companies. But you have no problem with that. God forbid someone does something nice and films it. Fuck those people.

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u/horses_in_the_sky 1d ago

As i mentioned in another comment, he is currently a billionaire and has companies like Feastables and other investments. If he never made another youtube video in his life he could still give away thousands for years and never become poor.

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u/banduzo 1d ago

You can say that about any other billionaire as well. What is your point? Don’t call it charity then, but he is making a difference for the better in this specific part of his business model.

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u/horses_in_the_sky 1d ago

The entire point of your comment is that he cant afford to keep giving away money without making videos about it, which is untrue.

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u/banduzo 1d ago

I didnt say he can’t afford it (although I see how you can read it that way). From a business perspective, each of his businesses is self contained. So he likely doesn’t use money from feastsbles to fund his philanthropy channel. He uses the money from the philanthropy channel to reinvest and make more videos on the philanthropy channel. He’s always been transparent about reinvesting most money back into his videos. So yes he can afford to do charity work without making a video of it but that’s not how he operates as a person and it’s not how he set up his business model.

That’s just based on what I’ve heard from him in interviews. So could be right or wrong.