X appears to be juicing MrBeast’s views to woo the YouTuber to the platform, pushing video upload into users’ feeds as an unlabeled ad::undefined

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    I do, and I miss it. What’s more I’ve never once seen a Mr beast video.

    Avoid the cruft, roll your own content and find smaller, individual communities like these tubes used to be a decade (or more) ago.

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      What’s more I’ve never once seen a Mr beast video.

      And nothing of value was lost.

      Mr. Beast only offers “charity porn” that makes him richer. He’s not doing anything to change the systems in place that make the problems he “solves” any better. He’s just putting band-aids on small groups of people while doing nothing to address larger issues. Hell, he himself is an example of a larger issue. We should not have to rely on the rich to fix societies problems, that’s what fucking taxes are for, and Mr. Beast needs to be taxed until his fucking channel is gone.

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        that’s what fucking taxes are for, and Mr. Beast needs to be taxed until his fucking channel is gone.

        Why until his channel is gone? If he’s a business, we need to tax him and his business appropriately. More, sure. But taxing a business until it’s gone is counterproductive, even if you don’t like what the business stands for…

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          His “business” is a charity. Charity shouldn’t have to exist in a world with enough wealth to support everyone.

          If his channel became something else, sure. But the point is he would be taxed until all those problems he “fixes” are solved, and then he wouldn’t have much to put on his channel, would he?

          If you take away the “charity” what the fuck does Mr. Beast even bring to the table?

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      I’ve had a much more enjoyable time on freetube because of this, actually. unlike youtube who feeds you content based on what makes them the most money, it tends to actually show you videos that are relevant to what you’re watching. whether it has millions of views or 100.

      it feels like the smaller communities are a little more warm and fun.

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        10 months ago

        Check out Brahkie on YouTube if you haven’t already