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Why am I the only person to have no fucking clue who this is?
Because you aren't browsing videos on youtube's Trending page on the daily? MrBeast started as a gamerbros do things channel and got popular, then started becoming a cursed gameshow host (but the youtube version). He's an antivillain, through and through. I've known that from the start. However, until allegations show something that's not just edgy teenager groupchat dirt, I won't judge further.
Is he a good guy? No. Is he the scum of society? Not yet.
Everything I know about MrBeast I have learned involuntarily...
there's a good chance you are over the age of 15
You are correct
Why not Google him then? It's what the vast majority of people that know him have had to do, because we sure as shit don't watch his content.
Because I don't really wanna know who he is. He sounds horrible and like he won't be very popular in the future anyhow.
This is exactly how boomers act. "This thing I don't understand and refuse to learn about makes me angry"
Right? Lemmy is fucking wild sometimes. I don't know why so many people here feel the need to show off about ignorance...
I don't know why so many people have to whine so much about an innocuous internet comment
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The fuck are you even doing in this thread then lmao
exactly. "oh look. some new piece of shit is shaping the minds of the dumbass kids that the dumbass breeders sit in front of their dumbass devices while they go plug into their job pods"
humanity is a garbage pile.
I wish I could argue with this but I really cannot.
Why post about him then? Why be publicly ignorant about someone you dislike?
this is how we display our disdain for this mindless garbage
Through ignorance?
I'm all for hating Mr Beast, but at least know why to hate the cunt.
i'm smart enough to not waste my time knowing this garbage.
Why respond to me? I was basically asking if I was alone and found out I'm not. Nowhere in my comment did I ask anyone to argue with me
they must be a fan
Grumbles in elder millennial: I'm quite annoyed that we're in the era of some youtubers and streamers getting so popular that I'm forced to learn of their existence like athletes, actors, and pop music people. I was not prepared for this new reality.
Fellow millennial here and I'd say the common culture of the past that made us feel stupid for not knowing certain famous people is mostly dead. Society is so splintered in what media we consume that even my friends with very similar interests consume different games, movies, books, music, etc.
I think it's because his audience is mostly kids & teens.
One of those until-recently mouth agape YouTubers.
I wonder if the "mouth agape" Youtube phenomenon has anything to do with that pose being overly represented in AI generated images.
yep. pretty much.
No, you are not. I'm in the same boat. The only thing I know about him is he is a big shot youtuber. Never seen anything he's ever done to be "famous".
Nor do I care to. And I can't be arsed to even read the article about him.
I saw that face on a toy thing in the supermarket. Which is odd to ve honest.
I think he's the youtube guy that consumes dubious food/beverage.
that's LA beast
and that man is a legend.
unlike this polished turd
Whichever one was second chose a poor name.
me too bruh
You might know of him by his food lines. Beastbars are all over the supermarkets in Germany. The marketing on the packaging didn't really fit in with what I expect to see (he doesn't look like a footballer or athlete) so I looked him up and learned from there.
Some people are boomers in age, some are boomers in spirit. Time comes for us all, ever in the form of "I don't understand the kids these days"
If you think the defining characteristic of a boomer is disliking weird new culture, I think you missed a lot.
Thank you for putting it so succinctly! It's definitely one of the boomer characteristics, automatically hating on culture that changed from when you were a kid.
No, that's called humanity. Boomers have a whole host of things unique to them and this ain't it.
OK, Boomer
oh god I'm so bothered that a 15 year old doesn't understand things
OK, boomer