I mean who is the president of the us?
Elected not once… twice.
Enh. “Elected”.
Will be three times before you know it
Wait I thought it was already 3
Considering Trump and Musk both bragged about rigging the election, that’s debatable.
Musk got people to vote by promising money which is illegal. I dont know much about the legal system in America but, there must be a lot of mentally disabled people to let it all happen and do nothing. Im not surprised after all most of these people lived through the leaded gasoline era.
Look at some of the long term representatives long before. Same story. That can go for both parties, btw.
Same reason Carlin didn’t go after the politicians. There wouldn’t be a problem if the demand wasn’t there. The public sucks.
Because there are a lot… A LOT of stupid/ignorant people in the world.
I have to interact every now and then with someone who is a MrBeast stan. He’s in his 20s or 30s and has a kid of his own. He’s also a fan of xxtentacion and even when he was confronted with facts about MrBeast being a scammer and abuser, and xxtentacion beating his pregnant girlfriend, he said it was just haters making up stories. I literally linked him an NBC article about whatever current controversial shit MrBeast was up to at the time, and he said that “y’know you really shouldn’t trust .com domains.”
Dude is a lost cause and he regularly tries to recruit others to watch MrBeast or buy his products.
I don’t disagree with Mr Beast being a scammer and abuser, and I also don’t disagree with a domain being untrustworthy just because it’s a .com domain.
That being said, I should point out that the news/media isn’t exactly reliable. NBC is no exception. Even if the article is true (which it most likely is), I wouldn’t blame someone for not trusting NBC.
I get it that the media is captured by billionaires but my point is that I don’t think that NBC, a television network that has been around for 100 years, would put their reputation on the line to publish lies about a random wealthy YouTuber, who likely has lawyers on retainer that could sue for libel.
“i DuNnO, mAn. TrUmP sUeS pEoPlE a LoT, sO tHeY mUsT bE fAkE111!!1!!1!”
That’s not what they said though. They said a .com domain was not trustworthy. Its a disyrust of ‘mainstream’ media.
As you yourself point out, NBC is not automatically trustworthy, but the choice of domain is not the reason why. The billionaire and corporate influence, combined with clickbait journalism is why.
Someone not trusting NBC is fine. Someone choosing to believe that it’s fake news just because it’s mainstream media when it refers to verifiabke facts and a mainstream personality is a failure of our society to adapt to the online world. A failure of education and a failure of media control and regulation.
“y’know you really shouldn’t trust .com domains.”
So basically half of internet? What a stupid stance.
So basically half of internet? What a stupid stance.
“Don’t trust half of the internet” is really not that stupid idea, although it should be much higher than half. But that approach from above is of course stupid on many different levels.
Some don’t know, some don’t care, some agree with their actions/opinions.
While it’s important every individual develop and maintain a moral framework, individuals rarely if ever use morality as the soul basis for day to day decisions/actions.
The world just doesn’t operate on a solely moral basis. Some don’t consider the morality of mundane acts, some find the morality of a thing excusable/justifiable when considered, and some come to find their morals agree.
Having read the comments section of those three to get an idea, you sum it up very well. Very many don’t care, are oblivious as to why the “charity” is played to so much (re: mrbeast), fully agree with them, and frequently enjoy them doing objectively bad that shit older people won’t, possibly out of vicariousness. They just wanna sit there and watch Ow! My balls!
When you say “we all know”, who are you talking about? Everybody that you know? That’s a social bubble, a self-selected subset of “everybody.”
“Horrible” is in the eye of the beholder, and people have differing opinions on stuff. You probably like and subscribe to someone that lots of other people would consider “horrible” in turn.
Why is facebook still a thing? Or Xitter?
Everyone that follows them is a terrible person. There are a lot of these arseholes around,
Apart from Logan Paul, what have they done? I don’t follow celebrity drama and stopped watching mr beast after he stopped reviewing youtube intros
MR beast said he "studied the algorithim and what makes youtubers/audience tic, so he made his videos accordingly targeting mainly children, plus hes selling his unhealthy snacks overseas as well, which he apparently has a fanbase with asian countries. i felt like logan felt out of the youtube sphere, thats why he pivoted maga now.
There are plenty of horrible people that exist
Because sheeple are horrible
They’re not targeting me and you. They’re targeting kids. Their whole thing is be kid friendly enough to take advantage of that lane while still being horrible people. Kids have always had a crazy “don’t to this at home” type of influence in life. Evel Knieval. Pro Wrestling. Jackass. Now it’s these guys. They’re more insidious because their reach is way larger and easier to get. A smart person looks at them and goes ‘this is shit.’ What if you don’t know any better? What group is that? Kids.
Because most people don’t know. Most people are not spending hours online doomscrolling politics, pedos and such. I’m from Mr. Beast’s area and no one here has a clue. Most of my coworkers do think a lot of his products are stupid, though.
My wife who is normally a pretty well read person feels that MrBeast is great and is “one of the more generous content creators “
Some people just don’t wanna take their head out of the sand for crappy videos
why mr beast is horrible?
Watch the Folding Ideas videos about his participation in the Beast Games.
I mean… that was stupid, top to bottom, I think all that makes him not that bright, undercuts his image, and makes his company look more idiotic than I imagined possible for something so successful, but it doesn’t really make him a bad person in the way I feel someone like Logan Paul is. It’s not on the same level as something like a crypto rug pull.
I’m aware Mr Beast exists, but I know nothing about him. I mean, I would have assumed he is awful, because money does that to people, but I’d have nothing to back up my gut feeling.
And I’ve never heard of KSI…
It’s also not really an accident either. Their popularity is not fully natural.
All these companies, Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, tiktok, reddit, etc are not apolitical entities, they gain by pushing right-wing content to certain demographics of vulnerable users.
I’ve noticed that personally I can’t use algorithmic media like this because it will shove that content like that down my throat and I refuse. But not everyone has that self-awareness and introspection. And some of the content is really subtle, not enough to be noticable at first.
