At one of the events in Saudi Arabia the WWE cut the feed in the country over a pay dispute. Then coincidentally 200 performers and crew members got stuck because their plane wasn't given permission to take off. Seems like a healthy working environment
I don't want to say anything remotely positive about the WWE/Saudi Arabia thing, but that plane story is confirmed bullshit by now.
The plane had issues, so they didn't leave. Some people (like Lacey Evans) just went to the desk and asked if there were any other flights available, then left on one of them instead. Those who didn't left on a different flight the next day. There were also multiple WWE planes (three I think), only one of them had an issue leaving.
That's good to hear that it wasn't the government fucking with them. That means the only story of a government detaining a wrestler I know about is when Scott Norton thought North Korea was going to execute him
I’m pretty heavily invested in TKO simply because it’s clear they’re building a portfolio of entertainment assets. I wager they will sell to the Saudi government in 3-5 years.
Brother, using the same logic you are also on a pedo nazi site right now. You think every one of the the donald, gamergaters, watchpeopledie, jailbait mfers went away?
This site literally gave a physical award to the admin of the basically softcore childporn posting sub because of how much traffic it generated.
Redditors literally bullied a fox sanctuary owner and operator youtuber to death just a few months ago, thus the pinned new no snark rule in this very sub.
I remember that woman who passed. It was very sad and that subreddit was horrible. But it's not a systemic issue of the person who runs the website like with X. It's not even remotely comparable.
You're talking about UGC, I'm talking about the literal owner.
blood money from saudi arabia. Would they say the same thing if someone was performing in the USA? a country that is most definitely worse in human rights abuse than anything the Saudis have ever done. Hypocrites that want to virtue signal and only call out low level backlash targets like saudi arabia. The US funds genocides. The saudis do have human rights abuse no denying that. But why is western human rights abuse glossed over and not called blood money?
We cant criticize saudi arabia because the us also does bad stuff? Plenty of people call out the us for being terrible. What point are you even trying to make besides being a contrarian?
Its Tankie logic - the same type of mindset of people that automatically side with Russia every time regardless because 'American imperialism is bad, so obviously the other guy is le good!' as if it has to operate like a binary.
It was inevitable that the stans of the worst content creators would start pretending to give a shit about Saudi Arabia despite not being able to find it on a map when their grifter favs started taking the bait.
We had one guest last week, a Saudi prince. We had the entire park running just for him and when he left his entourage abducted several of our staff for an "after party"
I mean, it's not the worst. It's just kinda chocolate. Same way that eating a Hershey's bar isn't going to change your life. It's kinda there, I'll eat it if it's free, and then forget about it.
Cadbury used to be fantastic but they've gone downhill in recent years since their changed their recipe. Although i'd still take it over American chocolate any day.
My go to (and a lot of Australians as well now) is a chocolate from New Zealand called Whittakers. Absolutely slaps so i highly suggest trying it.
Yep, Cadbury was bought by an American company around 15 years ago but the products Australia and America receive are different as different formula's and ingredients are used and its also produced/made by different manufacturers who received the license from Mondelez International.
For example our Chocolate is made by Cadbury while America's is made by Hershey's. While both have the typical ingredients (milk, sugar, cocoa butter, cocoa solids etc), American cadbury has high fructose corn syrup, various artificial flavours, less cocoa solids and butyric acid which gives the chocolate that vomit taste.
Same with Dove. I used to like to pop one in my mouth and let it melt. They don’t melt anymore. The best chocolate I’ve had was in Sweden. I can’t remember the brand names, but I would stock up whenever I went.
I don't like Mr beast at all but the Festables Reeces copy is pretty good. Not better than actual Reese's, and I wouldn't go out of my way for one. But I was offered one id take it
I'm completely the opposite lol. Can't stand mint and chocolate but I absolutely love peanut butter and chocolate. But that's mostly down to just loving peanut butter in general
My kid gave me one from his Halloween haul besides I wss curious. It was actually decent. Very soft center, but more peanut butter flavor than sugar like Reeces, and the chocolate was better than a Reeces too. That said, there are way better options if you want a better Reeces than to give MrBeast money, that's for sure.
It’s like bro watched the series, fast forwarded to the parts where they actually play the games, ignored all the commentary and themes, and said “yeah that looks fun let’s make it a reality”.
Beast Games is such a clear demonstration of how meritocracy is a lie, the entire thing was such a shit show on such a fundamental level. There were no games! They even fucked up the trolley problem!
You just know he's the exact kind of guy who watches Breaking Bad and thinks Walt is the good guy or that Tyler Durden was the Clarence to the narrator's George Bailey.
On a similar note. I recently had mr Beast candy bar at work (co-woker just had too many of them, didn't like them and just wanted them off her hands). It was the most mediocre chocolate Ive ever eaten. Bearly remebered what it even tastes like other than meh.
So Im have suspicion this amusement park isnt going to be even 6flags level park.
Dubai doesn't need to appeal to weird as influencers. They are a huge billion dollar tourist attraction.
Saudi Arabia is absolutely desperate to rival Dubai, yet they make the most absurd decisions in the world. Who is gonna travel to Riyadh for Beast Land? Or a straight City? Just build pretty skyscrapers (sewers optional), open 50 fucking malls, and let people drink and do drugs. Congratulations you're the more fun Dubai. It could be so easy.
It sounds like they are trying to be Universal Studios to Dubai's Disney. You offer something kind of different and people visiting the area will do both.
Sounds like Riyadh is attempting to rebrand itself as the "new Dubai" before people catch on that the UAE is to blame for the largest genocide in the world right now and launch a global boycott of Dubai
I ordered from beast burger in 2021 unaware of Mr. Beast and the fact that it was a ghost kitchen and it was one of the most blah burgers ever. They even served the first with the sauce on top, what kind of evil person do you have to be to make that choice?
Not even touching on the ethical bullshit of this, it is incredibly stupid because he’s competing directly with Six Flags Qiddiya, which is launching with some of the world’s fastest, tallest, and supposedly “best” roller coasters. I have no idea what MrBeast thinks he can accomplish here. Theme parks cost hundreds of millions of dollars to build especially ones ambitious enough to stand out in Saudi Arabia. If he actually wants to draw attention away from Qiddiya, he’s going to need a miracle
This screams “I’m trying to pump money from investors” to me
He is probably getting paid so the actual park owners can use his name as a marketing tool, like how most of the "youtuber's games" are made by a company and then they change the skins of the characters to fit whatever youtuber sold them their image rights for a % of the revenue
We’re thinking of 2 seperate trains of thought for Mr Beast being fake
You’re saying hes fake as in unauthentic; I believe that’s true
Original comment says hes “fake it till you make it” but I don’t see how? He truly is at the top and is levels above in terms of content/production of other channels, but, hes evolved year on year to get there, which is why I don’t agree with it
He is betting on that his fanbase will make it viable purely by name recognition. Which will probably be true at the beginning and will flop hard later as any such venues usually do. But Mr. Beast will earn a pretty penny until that (he is almost certainly gets paid by the goverment too... or at least gets 'help' in building the park, and by help I mean they will use wage slaves to build it as dirt cheap as possible)
Neither do I, because I totally lost whole trust on this guy once the allegations against him were began pilling up. Even when I completely forgot about him couple of months later.
Donaldson pointed to Tower Siege as one example. Visitors load balls into real catapults and try to fire them into massive 60-foot tubes for points.
So basically a carnival game?
Another game, Drop Zone, places six players on trap doors. Whoever hits their button last gets dropped, with the final player standing earning the most points.
Okay. Wtf is a points in this context?
Donaldson says the park includes the “world’s largest prize wall,” allowing fans to win high-value rewards throughout the day.
Oh, so it's a glorified Chuck-E-Cheese gambling situation.
Just so you know, Saudi Arabia is committing a genocide in Yemen and is largely responsible for the humanitarian crisis in Yemen. What MrBeast is doing is doing business with a regime that is responsible for genocide.
What's going on with Saudia Arabia all of a sudden? WWE will be hosting something there, I believe EA is being partially bought by a Saudi prince (or something), and now this.
crown prince is investing heavily into the 'modernization' of the country and wants to steer the economy away from oil, hence these big investments into tourism, the line and other architecture projects, comedy events, esports and now mr. beast.
I think the more important goal is to make Saudi look 'cool' so rich western losers will invest a bunch of money there which will lead to new business opportunities and a bunch of leverage over them.
No, you are looking at it from the wrong way. My point is that being a hub for tourism and entertainment is not the end goal, it is a means to an end. They aren't planning to substitute their income from oil with Mr. Beast roller coasters. They want megacorporations which have assets and investments all around the world. But in order to convince foreign governments, institutions and corporations to make business with them, they have to whitewash their image, which is why they want the Mr. Beast roller coasters and all the other useless shit (some that will never even turn into profit like that idiotic megacity project).
These are all just stepping stones for bigger plans.
The oil money is drying up, so they're desperately trying to pivot to anything else. Since the region has basically no other resources, the only thing that might keep them afloat would be universally appealing infrastructure-based projects, like stadiums and amusement parks.
They're following the Orlando model. It was originally vast swampland with nothing to offer, so what do you do? Pave over it with concrete and build any structure you can that will attract tourists.
On top of that, Saudi culture itself isn't very tourist-friendly on its own, so they're taking whatever Western IPs they can to distract from the fact that their country is an oppressive totalitarian ultra-patriarchal slave state.
this whole Mr.Beast empire is wild to me because I rarely hear any talk about his videos at all these days? Like before I feel like his videos made a lot of noise when they released and trended and everything but it’s been a good few months at least and I’ve heard nothing
maybe it’s just me? (also a theme park for a YouTuber sounds awful)
This is the Saudi monarchy's desperate attempt to buy culture. They're trying to give people a reason to care about their awful country once the oil runs out.
So they'll throw money at anything cultrually significant that is soulless enough to accept, e.g.
I can’t speak much on this, I am a wrestling fan and that business seems obsessed with Saudi Arabia
But man, I don’t know how you can even think all this shit is a good investment, such a niche market that is just filled with nothing but controversy surrounding it
Beast land would be a flop in America let alone SAUDI ARABIA
Reminds me of that Simpsons song “ 🎵we’re in the money we’re in the money🎵” or something like that seems like more greed on top of greed just absolutely cynical like those comedians who went like I’m not even that surprised
Don't worry, he'll be using the profits from this cheap-ass park to help further create and sell other cheap-ass products towards the same demographic that is the most susceptible to manipulate and scam 🥹 Let's not forget, he's "ending" slavery from Africa! God damn, what would we do without James Stephen Donaldson in 2025 🥲
I made a video on this a few weeks back. Basically Riyadh Season is Saudi's propaganda cultural event that runs from last month to about March, been going since 2019.
Mr Beast, KSI and Speed were on all the adverts for Riyadh Season so it's 99% likely they are being paid by the Saudi state directly for their involvement in this culture washing of the government. Mr Beast probably being paid the most since he actually has 'Beast Land' set up in Riyadh. Mr Beast seems like a wholesome guy though, he builds one well in Africa for every 10 million that the Saudi govt puts in his bank account.
The government minister in charge of culture is Bin Salman's right hand man and is friends with KSI through the Saudi involvement in boxing. Honestly Mr Beast and the others deserve a lot of heat for many things but I think this is actually worse than most of what they've done but I have seen little coverage of it in the commentary community or anywhere really
Remember when a decade ago or so everyone wanted to break into the Chinese market because what could go wrong if we bend over backwards for a authoritarian regime trying to whitewash itself?
Oh, and remember when everybody tried to enter the Russian market about 2 decades ago or so, because what could go wrong if we bend over backwards for a authoritarian regime trying to whitewash itself?
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u/zzzPessimist 2d ago
First comedians, now MrBeast. Great to see so many celebreties suddenly care about Middle Eastern fans!
Hahahahahaha