• Lena@gregtech.eu
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      2 months ago

      I’m not particularly knowledgeable about mrbeast, what has he done?

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        He was the guy riding the cresting wave of YouTube enshittification. A lot of the more obnoxious marketing gimmicks - Soy Face, most notable - were pioneered by his team.

        Idk if you can blame him explicitly for a generation of slop. But he’s the physical embodiment of doing literally anything for attention. His mannerisms and soulless self-promotion have become the curse of the GenZ demographic.

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          Also massive safety issues and borderline human rights abuses at his weird squid game event which he had direct knowledge off and did nothing about.

          • TabbsTheBat (they/them)@pawb.social
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            Oh yeah there’s a bunch :3… didn’t he also get accused of running illegal lotteries and rigging games?

            I can’t say I kept up with most of the drama well enough to verify many of the specific claims tho