• HairyHarry@lemmy.world
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    24 days ago

    Completely out of the loop:

    Who’s Mr Beast, what does he do, why should I know him?

    What does it mean “I have”? What does he have? A new type of game show? A movie, book, play, game?

    Is this real or satire?

    Edit: Thanks everybody! Seems like I missed nothing.

    • Agent641@lemmy.world
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      24 days ago

      That is Lucifer, the great beast, the biblical devil. Hence “Mr Beast”. He revealed himself to humanity in the mid 2010s, expecting to incite the apocalypse. But everyone was already pretty shook at the general state of the world, so nobody cared. He still tries to shock the world with diabolical stunts, but he really just can’t compete with politicians and billionaires. Kind of tough to see, tbh. Kinda sad.

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      24 days ago

      He’s a YouTuber who does “game shows” with concepts like in this post. The tweet might be fake though, OP didn’t post a link.

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        24 days ago

        Note, he’s not just ‘a YouTuber’, he is currently the most popular one by quite a margin.

        Note that this doesn’t mean his content is good or worthwhile.

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      24 days ago

      He runs a poverty porn channel - do this thing and if you do it you get money. He pretends its about altruism but its about clicks. Oh and he’s also been closely associated with a number of crypto scams where a coin is launched and then rugpulled.

    • moopet@sh.itjust.works
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      I have only vague knowledge, but I think it’s real. He’s a twat that a huge number of kids look up to, who is essentially the end boss of capitalistic decay.

    • zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      24 days ago

      He’s a wildly popular streamer guy that does wacky shit like this and it somehow translate to lots of views/money. I didn’t know who he was for a very long time to many peoples’ surprise. I was truly disappointed he didn’t look like Beast from the X-men.

    • Rusty@lemmy.ca
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      24 days ago

      The only thing I know about him is that he is very good at Dune Imperium board game and he hosted multiple tournaments for it.