• Lena@gregtech.eu
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    9 months ago

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

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      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.

      • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de
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        9 months ago

        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.