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[–] MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 147 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Literally everything this guy does ends up feeling like a scam lol

[–] Enkers@sh.itjust.works 94 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Even his face is a scam. I've never seen anyone whose entire facial expression looks like a constant veneer, barely hiding how he only sees others as an opportunity for exploitation. It's uncanny.

[–] scytale@lemmy.zip 48 points 10 months ago (4 children)

It’s his eyes. He smiles but if you cover the bottom half of his face, all traces of a happy or pleasant look from the smiling disappears. A genuine smile also makes the eyes “smile”.

[–] ThePyroPython@lemmy.world 33 points 10 months ago
[–] RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

His eyes look a bit ketaminey to me

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Can we not equate ketamine with sociopathic losers?

Ketamine doesn't make you a piece of shit.

[–] RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Did I offend the ketamine addict community? So unbelievably sorry 😭

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com -1 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)
[–] RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 10 months ago

Good point.

[–] Anomalocaris@lemm.ee 35 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (4 children)

maybe I'm cynical, but he always gave me the wrong vibes.

like I'm waiting for the revelation that he did something terrible.

I get the same vibes from blippy, I hated when my ex let my kids watch it in unlimited autoplay.

[–] MrStranger@lemmy.zip 23 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Didn't that already happened? Like his ex employees coming out and talking about bad or missing payments and about the setup of his games being biased. It's been a while so I don't quite recall the details.

[–] Anomalocaris@lemm.ee 10 points 10 months ago

yhea, crazy he is still successful.

[–] Sineljora@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Yeah, all that sweepstakes fraud, plus the torture/abuse in videos that never aired, like Jake Weddle in dogpack404s video.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What revelation are you waiting for? He's already awful.

[–] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

diddling minors, mr Beast, maybe, Blippy, I'm sure

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's not like the threshold for being bad is as high as hurting children lol. You can still be a bad person even if you're not diddling minors lol.

[–] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

i know, but my gut tells me to never let my kids near blippy.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm not saying Blippi hasn't done anything (I don't even know what the allegations are), I'm just saying even if Beast didn't diddle children he's still bad.

[–] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

there's no allegations against blippy.

he just creeps me out so much.

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

No allegations, but there's still the Harlem shake poop video.

It's on archive.org if you feel the need. I don't recommend it.

[–] zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com 5 points 10 months ago

Same vibes Ellen always gave me. You can feel it in the eyes

[–] BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago

blippi did a harlem shake video where he shit all over his friend

[–] sexy_peach@feddit.org 25 points 10 months ago (1 children)

He's a pretty empty shell of a person I think. There was a yt vid about his tv show being idiotic and that he just doesn't understand being funny or entertaining and thus does his weird money things

[–] tormeh@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If his shows aren't entertaining why are so many people entertained by them? Makes no sense. People may have no taste, but that's a different issue.

[–] sexy_peach@feddit.org 5 points 10 months ago

You're right, entertaining is the wrong word

[–] skozzii@lemmy.ca 16 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It is, he gave stuff away, but was sponsored or he was still making bank. There are so many selfless people out there, but he is not one of them.

[–] enbipanic@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 10 months ago

While I agree with Mr Beast being a scam, I do have to take issue with your definition

Being sponsored and making bank would be key to a sustainable cause if he were genuine about it.

Of course he's not, but the monetisation isn't what we should demonise

[–] boaratio@lemmy.world 51 points 10 months ago (2 children)

He just can't seem to figure out how to smile.

[–] VetOfTheSeas@discuss.online 18 points 10 months ago

No life behind the souless eyes.

[–] TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 3 points 10 months ago

He's still learning how to walk in his human suit. Reptiles can't smile

[–] LarryDanieldson@lemmy.zip 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] wanderwisley@lemm.ee 9 points 10 months ago

Mr Beast sucks.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

In other news the Prime Directive is to protect your clickthru rate.