#one that isn't my account with recs turned off and a computer full of adblockers and other privacy extensions

[shinobicyrus]

I too have never seen a single MrBeast video, nor had one recommended to me since I keep recommendations turned off. My first glimpse of him was in the real world, where I saw his unnaturally smiling face over a display for...energy bars, or something? I saw that and thought, 'that's not what he really looks like, is it?' The teeth were all wrong, the smile unnatural. Surely, it had to be some poorly photoshopped monstrosity because MrBeast couldn't even be bothered to do an actual photo-op for some shitty product with his name on it. I have learned he looks like this in all of his thumbnails.

Is MrBeast even real? Is this like an Idoru situation where he's a carefully manufactured influencer made from AI and mutated Youtube algorithms?

At this point I am too afraid to ask.

Reading articles about MrBeast's dominance of YouTube is fucking bizarre because, from my perspective, the dude isn't even on YouTube. I've never watched one of his videos. YouTube has, to the best of my knowledge, never recommended one of his videos to me. Every thumbnail screenshot of his looks like something you could tell me was a photoshopped parody of YouTube culture, and I'd believe you. No one I follow on YouTube ever mentions him, even negatively or in passing. The first time I ever heard his name was in regards to the quality of his ghost kitchens. The only way I know he isn't a mass, shared hallucination is that I've witnessed the thoroughly mid-looking chocolate bars he sells at Walmart for some reason