• SerLava [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    It’s just endlessly incredible that people can look at shit like this

    and be like no, it’s totally normal, his videos are like, charity.

    CMON, YOU GOTTA GO WITH YOUR GUT A LITTLE FUCKIN MORE THAN THAT

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      My favorite part about his videos is that every 5 minutes, the thumbnail seems to change. They SEO the shit out of the thumbnails, it is insane. I don’t know if there is a way to see every thumbnail used on a YouTube video without actively pulling it every few minutes and saving a copy, but I know his thumbnails are constantly changing. This was one of the alternates on that video:

      This is the current thumbnail for the followup video he made:

      They’re all so unhinged.

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          Because the people who watch them are like 9-year-olds. They have no concept of reality yet. According to him, his metrics are all fucked because 90% of the time kids are watching him on their parents’ YouTube accounts.

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        Turbo lib science channel Veritasium did a video about changing images and titles to do SEO and they demonstrated pretty clearly that it works and that every YouTuber should definitely do it. So I’m not surprised that Mr. Beast does…most of the top YouTubers almost definitely do

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        At one point he tested open mouth soyface vs closed mouth uncomfortable smile and found that a toothy grin drew 0.5% more clicks, leading him to update the thumbnail of EVERY VIDEO to a toothy grin

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        YouTube makes it very easy to replace titles and thumbnails, there’s even a tool that let’s you test multiple different ones at the same time and pick what’s doing the best.

        I think Mr beast actually put out a tool that let’s you see all the changed thumbnails/titles videos have had.

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      Good fucking god lol horrific.

      That thumbnail is a nightmare but honestly I would probably have like…half the reaction that I have seeing him around if it wasn’t for that bizarre uncanny valley smile. Shit freaks me out

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        Yeah it’s a tooth bare, not a smile, his eyes should be thinning but that would make the eye smaller and less noticeable which would be bad youtube SEO, so you get this fucking corpse smile

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      The intended audience is kids and teenagers which dont know any better. Clickbait is all they’ve known too, probably never saw the version of youtube or the web without

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        I’ve got the extension that replaces thumbnails with a frame from early in the video, and the other one that replaces clickbaity titles with crowdsourced ones that are more descriptive and neutral.

        seeing YouTube in its natural state is genuinely jarring, I don’t like it.

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        Yeah I get why kids would just not have the media literacy, I’m more annoyed that older, more intelligent people have suppressed the instinct they ALL had because they saw a few people online just saying it’s legit and fine.

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    How long, you think, until he starts leaning into the right wing grift because of all these recent revelations?

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    This is an incredibly compelling video. The allegations alone are wild, but the video itself is also well-crafted. This level of earnestness, both in the interview and in the presentation of said interview, is rare on YouTube. Here’s hoping we see MrBeast get crushed by all this, he seems like a lizard person.

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    “WE PUT JIMMY IN THE DEEP SEBERIAN THUNDRA!”

    camera boom pans out to bird sperpective

    “HE HAVE EVRYHTING HE NEEDS!”

    pands along compressed meal survival rations, watertank and a stack of theory books

    “IF HE WANT TO SURIVEVE HE*LL NEED TO FIND FULE TO FIGTH OFF THE COLD!”

    shot of tiny little wood stove in the drafty barracks and an axe

    "HE’LL GET $10 FOR EVRY DAY HE SURVIVES!

    holds up ten one-dollar bills for camera while soyfacing

    “IF HE TRIES TO FLEE, THIS SCHOCK COLOR WILL DELIVER 10’000v!”

    jimmy get’s pushed out from a van that quickly drives off

    “THIS IS … THE 100 YEAR GULAG CHALLANGE!”

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      I’m a little sus of dudes directly referencing Content Cop in their own content. That shit attracted a lot of unhinged baby right-wing chuds who ended up politically aligned with Sam Hyde.

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        I know it’s a low bar, but this guy genders Ava Kris Tyson correctly in the videos, unlike some other people covering the drama. Part of the vid covers a wage gap issue with a Black crew member. I think he’s probably a good kid.

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            It’s a suspicion shared by idubbbz too lol. I’m still suspicious of him though, he reeks of turbo-lib douchebag-surfer California CEO energy

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          I know it’s a low bar, but this guy genders Ava Kris Tyson correctly in the videos, unlike some other people covering the drama. Part of the vid covers a wage gap issue with a Black crew member. I think he’s probably a good kid.

          I am not so sure, after all the guy interviewed is shown crying and it felt like milking his torture for drama. Otoh, the videos arent monetized and the channel is just for those. No idea where to put him - just offering my observation here and definitely it’s good that somebody did these videos, whatever else I may think