MrBeast employee alleges she was harassed for years and fired after maternity leave in a new lawsuit

>dissecting the awful structure of Beast Games 2 [Big Joel got you there, fam](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEvDZn95E3s)

Dan did a podcast/interview with a youtuber called Mr. Beat (he addresses the name in the video. In short, no relation.) and Dan posits that Jimmy simply doesn't process metaphor. He expounds on an example he uses in the main Mr. Beast video where Jimmy gets upset over comparisons of Beast Games to Squid Games. Jimmy doesn't see or understand Squid Games' critique of capitalism wherein contestants are so impoverished (or in some other severe financial trouble) that not winning the game is tantamount to a death sentence. They desperately need the money and the in-universe game show exploits that. The game show dramatizes the consequences by immediately, graphically killing them rather than letting the financial hardships, to which they would otherwise return, do it 'naturally'. The game show is life, if that's not obvious. Beast Games, a clear ripoff, inherits the yuckiness of Squid Games but sheds the critique that makes the concept work. Jimmy points 37 cameras at everyday people as they desperately clamor for life-changing amounts of money, exploiting them for entertainment and his own profit. But, to Jimmy, the two shows aren't comparable. Because ~~Amazon won't let him kill people on camera.~~ people don't die in Beast Games, Jimmy only gives contestants money. Therefore, they're completely different, or so Jimmy would claim. edit: there's a bit of extra nuance here, which Dan acknowledges, and that's that Jimmy also has a legal incentive to distance his creation from another copyrighted work. Point being, Jimmy can't, or can't be bothered to, interrogate those themes. Beast Games is a tone deaf ripoff that embodies the very thing the show it apes is critiquing. Something like a reverse parody, maybe.

Jimmy has a weird dunning-kreuger effect going on that he can info dump any topic and become an expert in 20 minutes. It's basically the same attitude as the NFT/crypto bros, that since you understand one thing (In Jimmy's case the youtube algo) that by extension \*every\* thing is easy to do. A lot of Dan's essay topics end up being related around this mismatch between what someone thinks of themselves and the world and the reality of their mediocrity or limited specialization. See also Decentraland and even the AVGN episode.

Crazy that an evangelical movement haven't raised a stink over a huge influencer being literally named Mr Beast, but DnD somehow gets the hate mob.

I stopped watching Patrick after a few of his videos had blatant misinfo in them &/or purposely left out important info to paint a certain narrative. He's a hack & should be looked at as entertainment only.

"I won diabeetus from making my diet 100% Mr. Beast 'Feastable' candy bars."

Another clickbait vid and Prime regret

is it insane that I have been on youtube for 20 years and never once got one of this videos recommended to me?

Basically Elon Musk without the apartheid or rockets.

There's Bernie Madoff, but of course, he fucked over rich people. Can be letting that go unpunished!

He should be wildly unpopular. His content is so dry and predictable. Even in the YouTube age he was targeting kids.

Generally I’d agree, and I’m not sure I’d bet against you being right(especially in 20 years when MrBeast is considered nostalgic…*shudder*), but I will say that if anyone can manage it Jimmy seems like the type. Everything I’ve seen about how he runs his company is very 2010s “move fast and break things,” with a chronic inability to rein in spending or tighten his operations. For some god forsaken reason his people f****** flew Folding Ideas of all people in for a studio tour, for example. He’s exactly the kind of guy who I could see refusing to scale down his operations even as he slowly fades from relevancy, because he’s convinced that enough spectacle and excess can bring the glory days back even as he gets buried under lawsuits. He’ll *probably* be fine, but I do think there’s a real possibility he ends up turning what should have been a lifelong success story where he can milk his residual fame and fans forever, into an epic flameout.

Paper billionaire. Feastables is the only (or largest) profitable part of the enterprise despite its small portion of revenue.

Arguably Epstein faced consequences at the end. But only because he was probably gonna plead out and incriminate other billionaires.

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Elizabeth Holmes, Allen Stanford, Raj Rajaratnam, John Kapoor, Bernard Ebbers, Jay Lee, Walter Anderson. Tom Kwok.

He’s only worth as much as his brand. He’ll be set for life but if the world turns on “Mr. Beast” the sponsor deals stop, Amazon pulls the shows, YouTube numbers dwindle.

I pretty sure he's not at billionaire yet, but he's a good way there

I think it depends on if he either chooses to grow up with his audience or if he can consistently get new crops of 5-15 year olds to follow him.

I think it’s possible that he ends up his own worst enemy. He’s seen success specifically because he’s the kind of creator who just keeps upping the ante, and everything I’ve seen and read about him suggests that his company is ran incredibly sloppily and that he genuinely is almost pathologically unable to avoid overspending. I don’t know if he really has it in him to just do a podcast or downscale and pivot the way he ought to as his popularity dwindles. I still wouldn’t bet against him having a cushy life and never really flaming out….but it wouldn’t shock me either if he ends up this generation’s MC Hammer. He just seems to have a really bad combination of brand and personality traits for surviving a long term decline.

You’ve distilled that down to the exact glaring problem. 🔥 Mr Beast’s rise to fame and wealth came from the stepping on others.

Unfortunately, the things I've seen about his "charity" work is actually pretty bad. Since, you know, he doesn't actually give a shit about any of it and is just using it to make more money. So he maybe kind of helps some people and also hurts others or helps them briefly while make their futures more difficult. A lot of helping people is about consistency and listening to them. Which are not things he does. Hard to tell for sure though.

It's because when he smiles, his eyes don't change shape. Usually when people smile, they smile with their whole face. Mr. Beast only smiles with his mouth; nothing else on his face moves.

lmao sure that's why people watch him... it's kids bruh it's always been kids that watch big ass channels like that

Nah that never stopped him. He had a kid and stepped back.

After he got canceled he went on to have a massive feud with T-Series over who'd be the biggest channel on YouTube. After he lost, *then* he started scaling down his presence.

Yeah the legal documents from this so far are hilarious. Their slipshod "HR handbook" includes the phrase "let the boys be boys." The filing also makes it sound like Mr beast can't be around certain women employees without going to the restroom to jack off? Levels of legally cooked I didn't think were possible

Probably also for that woman's great grandkids. Good for her ❤️ Also wait what?

Yes, but the employer has to be pretty damn sure they have plausable deniability. In this specific case you have an employee who's record was spotless, who was fired immediately upon returining from FMLA to a role she was demoted to (officially because she was now "overqualified for the role"), and then replaced immediately by a man. If you read the actual filings it's a whole smoking gun shit sandwich all the way down, and that's before you even get to the point where Beast Industries own lawyers were writing to them years ago that their employment practices and policies were "non-standard" and needed to change.

One of the original “reaction” video channels. Basically his reaction to things in the news or tabloids. He also was a daily vlogger for a while.

I’ve really appreciated seeing him evolve over the decades.

Dude tried YouTube to not have to go to college. He Litterally doesn't have any econ or polsci degree. I'm not saying he is dumb, he isn't, but he has to learn a bunch of stuff he could have been taught in college

I love that Doug Walker just drank the coolaid. He’s such a simp.

Wait, the nostalgia critic guy? I didn't even know he was still around although I kinda stopped watching a long while back

I'll never understand our culture and how people like Trump, Rogan, and MrBeast are popular in any way. If we were in the 80s these guys would all be pushing used cars and penny stocks, yet somehow in this day and age people listen to them. I just don't get it, is everyones bullshit detectors just broken?

Dude saw Squid Games and decided that he should make a version of that, but in real life and everyone just went along with it. Like completely missed the point of the show.

They are not "basicly" slaves, they are slaves.

"theme park" is generous, it's more like a branded fun fair

Oh man, he’s got some real bangers. The line goes up and this is financial advice about nfts and meme stocks are particularly good. The flat earth one and why it’s rude to suck at Warcraft too. He’s all over the place though. He recently(ish) did one on call of duty ghosts of all things.

Craft Brewing?

Chimney sweeping