He’s huge with the college and younger crowd. It’s insane how big his empire is. If you’ve seen pictures of him he’s one of those guys that doesn’t smile with his eyes. Super creepy, no charisma that I can see, but kids love him.
He was a bit too showy for my tastes but as I understand it he initially got big for his stunts and challenges which I get. The problem is that its gotten to the point where he’s famous for being famous if that makes any sense, which is usually a bad sign.
Dan olsen put out an excellent video essay about him and his “empire” after he was bizarrely invited to their HQ.
If you dont know Dan, he mainly publishes infrequent thought provoking videos into cults, scams, and culture, which is basically the opposite of Mr. Beast content.
Just watched this last night. Ironically, I kept skipping over it because of the thumbnail of a grumpy Dan. Then there was the part of the video of the Mr Beast production team thinking of the thumbnail first then making the video from the thumbnail. It’s a concept so counter intuitive and yet encapsulated the whole Mr Beast thing so well.
Fuck if I know. I just know he popped up in my periphery from the challenges since I do like low stakes challenge shit like All The Gear. But his stuff before that? No clue.
Yeah part of the reason they’re so good is because they have enough personality to hold things together while also bouncing off of each other. Plus the weird budget nature of it all helps it stand out from similar things, can’t think of anyone else who would try to make a bed out of chicken wire, outside of Uwos Lab but he’s doing his own thing.
I’d never heard of him, till his name started showing up in the news for being an asshole.
I guess I play on the opposite side of YouTube from where he infects.
He’s huge with the college and younger crowd. It’s insane how big his empire is. If you’ve seen pictures of him he’s one of those guys that doesn’t smile with his eyes. Super creepy, no charisma that I can see, but kids love him.
He was a bit too showy for my tastes but as I understand it he initially got big for his stunts and challenges which I get. The problem is that its gotten to the point where he’s famous for being famous if that makes any sense, which is usually a bad sign.
Didn’t he got famous for giving money away in his videos? Or was that after he was famous?
I never watch his videos but sometimes he appears in videos of another guy I follow and I can’t stand him. Same for PewDiePie
Dan olsen put out an excellent video essay about him and his “empire” after he was bizarrely invited to their HQ.
If you dont know Dan, he mainly publishes infrequent thought provoking videos into cults, scams, and culture, which is basically the opposite of Mr. Beast content.
He posted this video for a reason.
Just watched this last night. Ironically, I kept skipping over it because of the thumbnail of a grumpy Dan. Then there was the part of the video of the Mr Beast production team thinking of the thumbnail first then making the video from the thumbnail. It’s a concept so counter intuitive and yet encapsulated the whole Mr Beast thing so well.
Dan is great! And this video was as usual really good.
I was glad to see how see how many world records it got. His team deserves them all.
Fuck if I know. I just know he popped up in my periphery from the challenges since I do like low stakes challenge shit like All The Gear. But his stuff before that? No clue.
I’ve found All the gear recently because I was looking up camping videos. They’re awesome! Which somehow led me to Sorted Foods which are also awesome
(Kitchen gear and food reviews/some challenges like home cook vs professional)
Yeah part of the reason they’re so good is because they have enough personality to hold things together while also bouncing off of each other. Plus the weird budget nature of it all helps it stand out from similar things, can’t think of anyone else who would try to make a bed out of chicken wire, outside of Uwos Lab but he’s doing his own thing.