I agree, it's super scummy. If you think somebody's video is important enough that it should be shared and spread, then just post the original video.
Also, a surefire way to ensure that PeerTube doesn't succeed is by associating it as a viable freebooting platform. No content creator will want to put their material on such a platform. It hurts both the video creator and PeerTube. It also puts the Lemm.ee admins at risk for facilitating this thread, if the video creator were litigiously-minded.
I always sort of assumed as much. For one, there is something about Mr Beast giving me bad vibes, I think he kind of gives off psychopath vibes. Maybe it's the eyes. I've also heard people who have interacted with him talk about how he spends basically all his time thinking about attention economy and views and just... it doesn't sound healthy.
But also, yeah no shit he basically does reality TV on steroids. And reality TV has been fake ever since they first figured out it's better TV than boring actual reality. So it tracks that his videos are also fake.
Honestly I feel like I see this smile a lot when you look at politicians, ceos of big or terrible companies. Its like they don't know how to smile, at best they do the thing with the mouth but the eyes just look cold and predatory. Ron Desantis looks like he's being involuntarily sodomized when he smiles in pictures, its like he can't even fake it.
Not that I think these people can't feel joy or genuinely smile, I'm sure you could get more expression from them if you paid them to physically torture helpless poor people. But when they smile for us, its always dead in the eyes
It's because when he smiles, he doesn't use his eyes. If you look at a photo of him smiling, and cover up the bottom half of his face, he always looks completely neutral. Maybe he has nerve damage and part of his face is immobile, maybe he's just faking the smile for the camera? Questions like that what pop into my mind when I see photos of him and are, for me at least, why I feel something off with his eyes, as well.
There's quite a bit of backstory there. SomeOrdinaryGamers on YouTube has been digging into it and has a few videos about it. If you like internet drama, Mutahar is usually a good source.
(Someone else could probably do a better tldr than I could.)
TL;DR: Groomed teens, pressured them to call him/her "Daddy", shared lots of NSFW images with them, proudly shared, supported, and distribute Loli drawings. Defended herself as "just being edgy."
Look. I believe in what I call "rational evil" where you genuinely do good things (not fake it, as it will eventually come out like most fraud) to keep the public's good will and plan for the future. Oil will die hard because they will not adapt and change. Even for future profit. Coal giants could use all of that money to diversify and dip into renewable energy as it is obviously the future but they (mostly) don't. What Mr. Beast is doing is fine as long as it promotes the right things and does some legitimate good. I'll never really care for what he's up to but I'll support him if he's promoting the things that are important and not acting fraudulent in the actions that make him look like a good guy. #teamtrees or whatever. Keep it up.
Only people of a certain age who grew up after Bill left MS ever thought he was a good guy. Prior to that he was fairly universally hated. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has done good things but that's kind of like outsourcing your human decency because you can't figure it out yourself.
Those people who thought that only did so because they did no research whatsoever and into his "charity" work. When you look closer at The Gates Foundation you start finding a lot of troublesome shit. I wouldn't even classify it as a charity, it's just a way to spread money around to their rich friends.
Kinda like how everyone thought Bill Gates was a good guy
The only people that ever thought this were those who knew virtually nothing about him... he donated a lot of money to a lot of causes, but got it all through dodgy ethics and cutthroat, scummy business practices. It was pretty well-known that he had (a?) mistress(es?).
And I use "he" lightly - his wife pushed hard for the philanthropy, and it's not likely that he would have done so on his own.
This comment section, lmmfao. Sorry to disappoint you kids, but in the pantheon on tech bad guys Bill Gates doesn't even rate. All told, all things considered, Bill Gates is a good and descent man.
However, the claim that Gates visited Epstein's private island in the U.S. Virgin Islands 37 times has not been substantiated.
Crucially, the flight logs that detailed the use of Epstein's private plane, including their destinations, do not show that Bill Gates ever visited the island, let alone on 37 separate occasions.
The logs, according to a 2019 New York Times report, state that while Gates met Epstein a number of times, he only flew on the plane from Teterboro Airport in New Jersey to Palm Beach, Florida.
A spokesman told the Times that Gates was not "made aware it was Mr. Epstein's plane."
Gates has since said that he regretted associating with Epstein.
Don’t let his Reddit Secret Santa PR campaigns blind you. He’s a rich guy with a fake story pulling the ladder up behind him and using his wealth to ensure things go his way, not the best way. Do just a little bit more digging than the superficial shit I’ve shared with you here and you’ll learn he’s really just a piece of shit.
The fuck are you even talking about? Bill Gates is a piece of shit for his underhanded and anticompetitive business practices; it has fuck-all to do with Epstein.
Gates was underhanded and anti competitive to other underhanded anti competitive companies. It was billionaires competing against other billionaires. Gates was a saint in the business world compared to IBM that came before it or Apple that it competed against as a peer.
If Apple has been victorious in the 80's instead of Microsoft, it wouldn't have been, "MS has an unfair advantage over Netscape because IE comes bundled." It would have been, "You can't install Netscape because we're Apple." Netscape would have been reduced to a reskin Safari. Because that's exactly what Apple did with the iPhone.
I don't think people are arguing that Mr Beast doesn't do good for the world, as much as it is people arguing that the good doesn't cancel the bad. If some generous gazillionaire decided to give every person on Earth $1000 a day for the rest of their lives, but also really loved clubbing seals, we'd probably question whether or not he's still a good guy.
If doing bad is what's necessary to fund doing good, we have to ask ourselves if the ends justify the means. Does improving the lives of impoverished people justify defrauding privileged children to fund it, as opposed to hosting a charity drive? I'd say it's a question worth discussing.
I think we can appreciate a person without this borderlineish splitting someone but… the social media is borderline. Everything is polarised to maximum.
Even if you say something as innocent as you don’t like Star Wars sequels you will already be seen as racist most of the times on social media.
We have became a mentally ill society with no room for nuance, only extreme polarisation. There’s no cure.
Charity has been a tool for the rich to fool the public of "good" since time immemorial.
Now that you've got impressionable kids overtaking social media, what mostly ends up on the front-page is either lowest tier dumb shit or over the top fake shit. Rest are ads disguised as content.