#but when you take all of the mrbeast allegations into account with that fact.... it is just evil

[aroceu]

this isn't aimed at anyone or any post in particular but i do think a lot of people (especially adults - i'll get to why in a second) who don't know a lot about the youtube content creator sphere know that the reason why mrbeast is even popular in the first place, and why the current controversy surrounding him is such a big deal, is because his audience is comprised primarily of children

teens, kids, whatever. the point is that his videos are specifically geared to people without enough life/world experience to recognize a scam or something fake just by instinct, people who are impressionable and have short attention spans and are easy to manipulate into trusting just by smacking "charity" in the title of a youtube video. i would bet that a vast majority of adults, especially left-leaning ones, have never seen a mrbeast video. i haven't either!

but that's not relevant in the controversy, because we were never really the audience in the first place. mrbeast does not care about some progressive adults patting themselves on the back for never being short sighted enough to have watched his videos. but it (the company) does care when swaths and swaths of kids are influenced to no longer be naive enough to take his videos seriously much less watch them, and no longer participate in his bullshit lotteries/gambling/whatever else thing he does as a rich person looking to exploit people for even more money.

i know it's easy to see mrbeast, the youtuber, as just some stupidly successful and financially backed youtuber that rubbed you the wrong way. believe me, i was there too before all this started. but after watching a lot of videos and doing a lot of digging, i feel like it's important to say (especially as an adult who watches a lot of youtube videos) that mrbeast is far more insidious than that. the entire brand is founded on "charity" displayed in a way to appeal to kids' attention spans. mrbeast's content is aimed at children.

and when you add the knowingly hiring pedophiles allegations (on TWO separate accounts!!!!!) not to mention abusive employee treatment not to mention abusive contestant treatment and not to mention just the exorbitant flaunting of wealth (if we want to be real for a second)........ this is not just about mrbeast as an empire falling. this is about exposing someone that children have been manipulated by - and still are! - as someone who is genuinely not good or charitable, no matter what his manipulation has told them. and i think that needs to be mentioned a lot more by us laymen when talking about his downfall.