8mo ago

Mr Beast apparently my have lied about paying for 1000 eye surgeries.

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MrBeast DID NOT PAY for 1,000 EYE SURGERIES!!! 👀

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Lie surgery
The weird thing is he did pay for a lot of surgeries in the US but international ones are
. So why lie and embelish the numbers. Then taking footage not approved or something
- The weird thing is he did pay for a lot of surgeries in the US but international ones are :desolate:
  Not that weird, USAmericans see foreigners as lesser
I'm going to have a hard time explaining this one to my kid.
- I can imagine. We have a firm "No Mr. Beast" rule in our house but my kid still learned about him through school and I'm having a hard time explaining the nuance of Mr. Beast helping people since it's all profit motivated. But I've also suspected Beast was a sham so this year's revolations have been "fun".
  
  I have a 9 year old I have 50/50 custody with. We don't do much youtube, if any, in our house but his mom is extremely Laissez-faire with electronic devices so I think he's basically freebasing youtube over there.
  Both logistically and ethically you can't really keep your kid in a perfect bubble and its unavoidable they're going to get exposed to stuff like this so unironically: do talk to your kids about it. Especially with the future of AI: I believe Media literacy is going to be INSANELY important to start grasping as soon as possible. My partner and I have used Mr. Beast as a starting point to have conversations about how people can be playing themselves as a character or presenting things as reality even though they're scripted. We've also used it to engage in conversations about how liking/enjoying certain content isn't a value judgement on the people creating it and how we all enjoy things written and created by people who weren't super great humans. I encourage checking out "making of" docs also. He's 9 so I can't say how well this all plays out long term...but I have observed him noticing recurring tropes in some of his media so I feel like there's something to it.
I'll sound like the average chud here, but why wait until now?
- Strangely the vid was out for 8 or so months. Its only gaining traction now in light of other findings of mr beast
- Just a guess here but "hey, the charity we did wasn't supposed to be totally free" could come across as a bit of a dick move?
  
  No I get why they are complaining, but hasn't that video been out for ages? Did they suddenly realize or what motivated them to just now speak up, is what I'm asking.

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