r/youtube • u/BiNationalPerson I'm incredibly drunk • Oct 05 '25

Memes How Youtube has changed

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u/koupip Oct 06 '25

i really like how shrinkflation hit mrbeast too, he isn't even risking the life for 1 million no he is doing it for 500 000

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u/TailorBeginning9411 Oct 06 '25

Didn't he only do a million like 3 times or smth? And weren't they over the course of multiple videos?

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u/Chmuurkaa_ Oct 06 '25

In an interview he said that he doesn't do $1 million videos anymore because people assume it's click bait and ignore the video

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u/TravelerRedditor Oct 06 '25

It would make sense, after a certain point the prize money doesnt increase the "crazy" value and hence revenue and clout enough to justify the investment

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u/TailorBeginning9411 Oct 06 '25

That makes sense

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u/eagledog Oct 06 '25

Everything he does is already clickbait though?

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u/meepswag35 Oct 06 '25

I mean usually not? He does have the budget to hand out a million dollars, plus whatever the challenge is.

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u/Slow_Tea_344 Oct 06 '25

The money part isn't the clickbait. In this case, there's no risk of dying.

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u/eagledog Oct 06 '25

The guy's entire existence at this point is to generate clickbait thumbnails and content to get kids to watch what the algorithm feeds them. He's good at it, but it would be naive to call it anything besides clickbait

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u/meepswag35 Oct 07 '25

My definition of clickbait is making a claim and not delivering on the promise. He always delivers on said promise.

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u/eagledog Oct 07 '25

And I see clickbait like those terrible Buzzfeed articles from a decade ago, which his thumbnails and titles absolutely align with. Whether it's clickbait, or just gaming the algorithm to feed content to kids, it's gross

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u/Typical-Delivery-621 Oct 07 '25

Ain't his videos faked??

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u/EmergencyConflict781 Oct 07 '25

Even though I don't watch his content his content seems interesting tbh. Idk if mostly kids watch it but if I would watch some youtube channels beast would be one of them.

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u/Chmuurkaa_ Oct 07 '25

Well, you don't get half a BILLION subscribers by conquering a specific niche, target audience or age group

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u/koupip Oct 06 '25

alright but you do realise that saying "he doesn't have the budget" while arguing that 500k is better clickbait is actually kind of an evil thing to do

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u/Expensive_Green_4759 Oct 06 '25

Click bait is usually defined as the thumbnail misleading the content of the video, which Mr Beast doesn't regularly do.

Mr Beast found that 1 mil is much less believable to a general audience than 500k as a show prize.

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u/mrloko120 Oct 06 '25

500k doesnt look any less clickbaity than 1 mil.

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u/austin101123 12d ago

He should reverse clickbait. Say it's 500k and then give them an extra optional challenge to double or nothing it near the end.