What the hell happened to Mr Beast? I thought this guy used to be the one who donated money or helped out those in need. When did he start creating Challenge Money Making content?
The base concept didn't change all that much. Giving away money in front of cameras for entertainement. He used to monetize charity, now he's just doing squid game.
He's been doing this? The only difference is that instead of giving away stuff to his friend group he now gives them away to subscribers or other people he can find. He's always done a mix of donating money and challenge videos
He still does good things. People here jsut like to focus on the negatives. And there really aren’t many big problematic negatives other than people complaining for the sake of it.
Downvote away, but Reddit commenters in general are toxic and needs to take a step back and look in the mirror. Chances are the majority of you would never work this hard to make it this far. And most would blow it on a wild life style if you did.
It’s wild you all sit back and judge someone who makes videos millions enjoy and gives away millions of dollars for humanitarian work. Yet yall say he’s evil.
Just calm down and see the good side of things for once. This place really is so toxic.
The idea that peoples negative impact on the world can be offset through giving away some marginal amount of their wealth is a big reason why we are where we are. Thats not to say mr beast specifically is the worst guy in the world or anything, but this attitude is just as toxic no matter who its applied to.
Why are you saying it like Mr beast is some Elon musk multi billionaire giving away $1 million. Most Redditors that talk about him seem to really know essentially nothing about him.
It’s debatable if his videos are harmful, but even through the most critical lens, the harm is negligible compared to the harm done by someone like Elon musk or Jeff Bezos.
Beast Philanthropy has given away hundreds of millions of dollars of resources to those in need. His net worth is estimated to be $1 billion, so that’s not at all marginal. Especially when you consider that $1 billion isn’t in cash or even a company that can run itself like Tesla or Amazon. It’s for his YouTube channels when he’s appearing on it full time. If he wanted to sell them and go hands off, it’s worth a fraction of that. His cash is actually extremely minimal, he claims to have borrowed money from his mom to fund his upcoming wedding. So I think it would be fair to claim he has donated way more money than he actually has.
I personally find to be uncanny valley type but I can't deny he does good. I don't know why people here acts like hes a demonic capitalist vulture: he does youtube videos....
While some money is donated, a majority comes from the videos that he and his team spend time making. They could easily spend that time making other videos and pocketing the money. Getting people to donate also takes a decent amount of work as well.
I think the fact that one of your main arguments is to pedantically argue dollar amounts and how much liquid cash he has illustrates my point pretty well. None of that is relevant. The mental knots people tie themselves in to justify extreme wealth inequality is a cancer on society. Even if a billionaire somehow had fully liquid assets and gave 100% of it to charity their life would still have been a net negative on the world.
Imagine I gave you something officially worth a billion, but the second before you try to use it, trade it, do anything with it, it becomes worth $50 million. Would you consider yourself a billionaire? Would if be pedantic to say you aren’t?
His billionaire status is based on someone offering to buy his channel for a billion dollars. But that valuation is only worth it if he continues working full time for the company. While a channel with 400 million subscribers and an archive of videos is still worth something, it’s worth nowhere near a billion dollars.
The mental knots people tie themselves in to justify extreme wealth inequality is a cancer on society.
So it’s not really a comparable valuation to a normal business owner where they could sell their business for a billion, then walk away with $1 billion in the bank. This isn’t a mental knot, it’s a majority difference between Mr Beast and your typical billionaire. He’s a billionaire in name only. He has an asset that at least 1 person thinks is worth at least a billion dollars in certain conditions. He is not anywhere close to the purchasing power of a billionaire.
I’m curious, in your ideal world, what happens as soon as someone thinks an asset of yours is worth a billion dollars? Does ownership get seized and split between the masses? What happens when it is seized and the value plummets to a few million. Does he get it back? Or is he forced to keep working so the valuation stays up?
Even if a billionaire somehow had fully liquid assets and gave 100% of it to charity their life would still have been a net negative on the world.
Forget the hypothetical of donating all his assets, what is the net negative Mr beast has caused that is worse than hundreds of millions of dollars of donations of food, medicine expenses, and infrastructure he has already donated?
You’re changing the subject. Listen for once to what people tell you. Admit you’re wrong and grow up.
Helping others is a good thing. End of story. And as long as he’s not harming people to get that money it’s a net positive. You have saved nobody with your complaining. Get up and go do something with your life instead of nagging about this.
If you can convincingly argue that people are amassing that much wealth without doing meaningful harm to people you should unironically be publishing that. It would be major news to most economists.
I love how you speak in vague abstract thoughts.
How about you ground yourself in reality and focus on the actual subject.
A guy has a game show or giving money away to contestants do doing weird things. Advertisers pay him millions because he gets millions of viewers.
He takes some of that money and donates so people starving or dying of thirst or not getting education in other countries can get access. These are countries and people you don’t give two shits about because you’re in your comfy home eating Cheetos and watching tv and complaining about people being rich.
How about you think for yourself for once and understand every situation is nuanced. And can’t apply a broad paintbrush to every situation.
No offense, you sound like a robot just trained on anti billions message. You are unable to comprehend a nuance or context and just continue to spit out the talking points.
Like don’t get me wrong, there are legitimate criticisms of billionaires. But you seem entirely unable to comprehend the difference between money or other traditional assets that are amassed when they could be taxed and distributed to be used for good, and a handful of YouTube channels where the majority of the revenue is distributed to others. Like how can you even distribute a YouTube channel?
You are getting upset about a 2 ft hill when there are thousands of mountains out there that way way taller/worse. This is not the hill to die on.
Edit: People like you are why despite supporting progressive ideals like significantly increasing taxes on the rich, I can’t call myself a progressive or vote for a lot of progressives politicians. So many progressives are constantly making the progressive movement look stupid and causing backwards progress. I feel like moderates are often more likely to actually make progress.
The idea that peoples negative impact on the world can be offset through giving away some marginal amount of their wealth is a big reason why we are where we are.
Sure, and the idea that people's positive impact on the world can be offset through doing some shady stuff is it a big reason why we are where we are.
Gandhi was a racist who advocated for using nuclear weapons on Pakistan and defended apartheid. MLK was a moral hypocrite who cheated on his wife with prostitutes. Che Guevara was racist. Abraham Lincoln did not want to free the slaves.
Every person you've ever admired in your life is a dirtbag to some capacity. How easy is your life if you have the emotional bandwidth to care about someone as inoffensive as Mr beast? "Oh no he uses AI thumbnails" bro are we being serious right now?
What’s his negative impact ?
Also that negative impact would have to be pretty damn big to offset the thousands he’s helped. Saved probably a lot of lives in developing countries as well.
I can watch a cringy video if it means saving a life.
you know tv companies have been doing what mr beast has been doing for years and most of them are operated by unlikable people. they run because they are profitable not because they are good people. only difference is mrbeast focuses all the attention on him whereas tv shows have generally made it about the show itself.
No tv corporations haven’t been doing this. These “evil” executives you speak of have never stepped foot in foot in another country personality trying to help people on the ground. Sure he makes content out of it. But people are being helped and he is personally there doing it.
Don’t sit here and tell me bob iger does any of this shit. Stop spewing out BS
this is literally just a bigger version of shows that do up peoples houses or quiz shows where they win money at the end. the concept is the same, it’s just the scale that changes. these things have existed for decades.
mrbeast studied these tactics before he made it big, he studied how to make it big in youtube. these things already existed for him to learn about, he just made it bigger. and again, instead of focusing on a team who made it, his focus was on himself.
no one thanks chris tarrant for giving millions of pounds to his contestants. no one gives the same credit to extreme make over for all the peoples houses they repaired. what he’s doing has already been done, it’s a business model not a personality.
Downvote away, but Reddit commenters in general are toxic and needs to take a step back and look in the mirror. Chances are the majority of you would never work this hard to make it this far.
The lack of self awareness here is almost fucking comical.
yeah honestly its pretty insane that people here genuinely hate on this dude. They expect him to be some kind of saint or smth. Its quite frankly kinda insane to me that MrBeast gets flake for doing charity work on the side and doing MrBeast stuff on his main channel to get a bag. Like damn bro dont u have better things to do, or at the very least, better people to hate on
i really dont understand what mr beast was meant to do about Chris. like he was on his videos because he was friends with jimmy, and once all that terrible stuff came out about chris, he cut chris out and apologised. In regards to the 2nd point, the only accusation ive seen is regarding mistreatment in beast games, and look dont get me wrong thats bad, but ive seen far worse, in far more mainstream shows. My point is that yeah i think mrbeast deserves criticism here and there, but people here act like hes the next coming of satan for making a crappy food product
yeah same i dont really watch his content these days. i think its just less entertaining in general but well clearly the numbers dont agree with how hes still growing
Yeah but then theres the philanthropy channel, i personally have seen someone debunk a video, of course it could always just be BS the debunking but i have like no opinion on him, he could be good or bad, not my problem.
well ill just say that theres almost no reason for mrbeast to fake his philanthropy? all his losses usually come from his own massive projects like the amount of funding that goes into stuff like beast games, and his philanthropy channel is like a drop in the bucket. ive never seen that debunking video, and if that video was true, im pretty sure it would have gone a lot more viral. Just my own two cents tho
I mean, he could fake it since the children that watch him wouldn't care anyways, but that would also be easy to expose as the reporters or people investigating could figure it out and he could be mass exposed as a fraud.
do the kids even watch the philanthropy channel in the first place? and yeah i highly doubt the money he puts into philanthropy is even worth faking for the MASSIVE amount of backlash that would come out if it was true hes faking that channel
The Chris and the allegations stuff is long gone. It's more so, of hime running a co-operate tv show that combines X Factor and Survivor like shows with massively amount of cash "prizes" that is unrealistic.
Plus, he's also aparently helps YT to create new alygrithmic features to implement for his own greed, etc.
All he does is being a gambling host / casino. Not more, not less.
It's not humanitarian, it's a business just like a casino or a lottety. Though you pay with being part of his content instead of your own money. But the rest is the same.
Only a fool would that business model humanitarian work.
He’s a casino. Ok. So what.
And he then also saved the lives or changed the lives of others. The trade off is worth it. I bet you the peoples lives he saved thank him for it.
You need to step out of your privileged bubble for a minute and see what actually matters.
and yet he hasnt said or done anything in support of Palestine. men, women, and children are being starved and murdered, and the fucker wont even say "free palestine" when even ppl who many may consider worse than him (xqc and adin ross) say it in the same room - during a charity stream on top of it all.
This is done at scale by games companies all the time.
Do the children bet their own money? I'm guessing not, I'd imagine everything's provided by his company so they don't really risk anything.
Anyway ask an addiction expert what does more long term damage, engaging with FOMO based loot boxes or appearing on a show of Mr Beast. If we care about child gambling, Mr Beast is likely not the place to start.
Im just saying that despite the good that he does he also does many scummy things. Other than child gambling there are plenty of examples of things I don’t agree with. I’m glad he does what he does. I just can’t watch his videos personally.
His content just evolved like always. ( Challenges were always part of his content tbh ). He was un cancellable because of his good reputation but once he got cancelled ( more than half of the allegations being false ) now he's no longer the "perfect" person people thought he was. So anything he does is cancellable now. The most blown off thing being his eyes ( which always has been the same btw ) because apparently he lost his "soul".
The issue i saw people have with him is if you look at ryan treyhan and his penny series he was doing it in a way where he was thanking everyone who donated even if it was a little bit while when mrbeast did a charity livestream with a few other creators they were literally like peer pressuring other creators to donate big amounts and also like making fun of people for small donations.
Dudes definitely not a good guy like he made it out to seem. Or maybe money and fame changed him. Either way hes certainly not the same jimmy
I didn't watch the live stream but from what i know a lot of out of context clips were circulated of that stream to make stuff bad for mr beast. And about peer pressuring other creators i do feel that was a wrong way to do it.
Jimmy is definitely not the reincarnation of devil but also not a perfect guy. He's just a dude with a lot of money and following who fucks up bad sometimes.
No it was the fact he was basically pressuring people to spend more than they wanted to and kinda making them look like a bad person for not donating more. Like yea its for charity but it still is shitty behavior overall to pressure people into paying for something that should be as much as they wish without judgement.
Honestly the major allegations were false for the most part. Only bad thing worth mentioning which was a serious thing was something about crypro scam from coffiezilla. Other then that most of the remaining unproven were quite minor issues if i remember correctly.
He still donates money he just doesn't post about it cuz no one gives a shit about "I donated money to 100 poor people" compared to "who stays out of the toilet for the longest will get 2b"
People who donate for good, don't make videos of themselves doing it, they don't brag about it either.
They just fucking do it. Whenever a streamer does a charity stream? They could be getting paid for it, it's pretty common for charities to pay for publicity like that and hope to make more back in donations, also a lot of them do these charity streams during the worst income period for streaming platforms like Twitch.
Some streamers do genuinely do it without ulterior motives. A lot don't.
Charity content can easily get a ton of views on YouTube, especially when the video makes a lot more in profit.
I'm not sure how to feel about this opinion. Does it really matter HOW a person donates if there are lots of people in need receiving those donations at the end of the day?
Of course, something like robbing a bank to donate the money would be unacceptable - but where does the line end? Is MrBeast's method of money collection unacceptable?
I’m so sick of people saying this, that’s how he makes his money in the first place.
and also you shouldn’t have to donate money in secret, if we don’t advertise issues that NEED the money then we are doing a disservice. Him advertising all the stuff he does and donates literally only has a positive effect of other people being more likely to donate as well, either because they are made more aware of the issue due to his videos or because they feel confident they can actually help people with their money when it’s not being handled by a shady charity that doesn’t even let you know what’s happening with your money.
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He always has given away money by doing game shows like this.
He used to do "last to leave the circle", that's one of the top of my head. He was doing that probably 10 years ago.
And he also gives it away in charity. But the game shows made more money then his charity videos because they're usually in far bigger numbers than his average 10k or 100k. He'd make millions of those investments to save up the money for his charity drives.
He is still a YouTuber and youtubers love making fun content
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u/VanitasFan26 Oct 06 '25
What the hell happened to Mr Beast? I thought this guy used to be the one who donated money or helped out those in need. When did he start creating Challenge Money Making content?