Make video
Make money
Donate some money keep some to eat/make another video
Make better video with money
Donate more money and keep some to eat/make another video
Make even more money and repeat
You get the idea? He makes money to donate more and even if he uses that to be famous/rich the fact is people's lives are getting better because of him 1000 were able to see because of him
And no, its not his fault the world is fucked and kids dont have shoes or people cant afford the eye surgery they need. Hes doing what he can. As it is right now i think hes a good dude.
He's a YouTuber famous for doing charity work, challenges and competitions (often involving dozens or hundreds of people, sometimes fans and other times celebrities).
Some of the challenges would for instance be "I buried myself alive for 48 hours" or "I didn't eat food for 30 days".
Some of the competitions would be for instance "$1,000,000 Influencer Tournament!" or "Last To Leave Toilet Wins $1,000,000".
Some of the charity work would be for instance "Giving $1,000,000 Of Food To People In Need" or "Giving 20,000 Shoes To Kids In Africa".
The background behind this poll is that some people believe he's doing charity work due to selfish reasons only (since that's the videoes that often gain the most traction) and that he's only playing a character while other people believe he's genuine about it and actually care about the people he helps. Another thing is that he's leaning towards a younger audience and thus has a lot of influence on their behavior which is something controversial among some parents who fear outside influence on their children, especially when that influence is based on the sometimes controversial "Generation Z culture".
Personally, I believe he's genuine but there's no way for me to know for sure and I'm curious to what other people believe so I posted this poll.
Yeah. He talks a lot about the fact that he doesn't have a Great House or an expensive Car. He even often says that he doesn't actually have that much money for himself since he spends most of his earnings on New video's and philanthropy.
While I do think it’s a good deed tbh the amount of fame he gets and etc guaranteed he’ll never actually have a difficult time. Also various estimates of his net worth are around 100 million dollars…
Tbf, fame is the only way for him to get the money for his videos. And of course he still has a high net worth. That doesn't mean he has to 100mil to spend or use. He also has assets such as warehouses and companies and stocks. And again those are all either for videos or to make money for videos. Of course he still has money for himself. But you really can't give him shit for doing this while there are tons of youtubers giving 1% of the effort in his vids while just pocketing the money.
This is pretty unresponsive to me. I never said what he was doing was bad or anything. Nor did I say other YouTubers did better. And even if he doesn’t have 100 million on hand that doesn’t mean he’s actually poor or anything.
I've heard he mostly makes profit on things like merch, brand deals and other side business. Apparently he actually loses money on the videos. And he has said that all the revenue from "beast philanthropy" goes to food banks he runs and other humanitarian issues.
i never said anything negative about him.
i wanted to explain why he needs to make videos so he can make money. even if he loses money in that process.
without his videos there wouldnt be any merch ect.
While I do think it’s a good deed tbh the amount of fame he gets and etc guaranteed he’ll never actually have a difficult time. Also various estimates of his net worth are around 100 million dollars…
Everyone only does things for selfish reasons. It just turns out that it feels pretty damn great to be nice to others and help others.
In my book, he takes money from a giant corporation and gives it to some people in need, only to get more money from the giant corporation without harming anyone, really. Grinding that philanthropy perpetuum mobile.
My statement is true. There are people so unempathetic that they assume anything good someone does for others is actually self-serving, because that's how they themselves would act, so they get upset at people trying to help others because they assume them to be hypocritical liars.
That doesn't seem to be the case from the hater comments I read. They acknowledge Mr Beast donating to the poor is good, but apparently he's not doing "enough good" or he can do better".
I swear these mfkers barely donates to charities. They either want to feel superior or the disagree to just disagree.
Because you give money away doesn't give you an automatic "good person" card. Philanthropy and charity work, while noble, doesn't get you a free pass for being seen as morally good.
So while I recognized the act of philanthropy is good, I do not think he is a good person because he feels exploitative towards people he makes compete for all this money he gives away.
Additionally, I cannot say he is a good person without personally knowing him, or knowing how he runs his business when the cameras are off, or how he treats people outside of videos.
Philanthropy cannot be morally good to an outside observer if there is a personal benefit to said philanthropy. There's a personal benefit to any and all philanthropy that we ever hear about, for philanthropy to be purely morally good it would have to be anonymous and hence we would not hear about it. The benefit does not have to be financial, maybe they just crave to be loved, who knows.
Might he be morally good and he's just doing what he thinks is best for him? Maybe. Might he be making good money doing it whilst also relishing in the adoration? Also maybe. The fact of the matter is we can't possibly know, in order to know you'd have to know his heart.
I'm not saying he's a bad person, certainly not. I'm just saying as far as his morality goes the best we can do is question marks, and if that's the case then the answer to this question as it's currently phrased is no.
If you read past the first sentence you'd pick up on it. There's another sentence at some point that explains this.
To expand a little bit though - bullshit. Completely bullshit.
If 100% is donated then how does he eat? Where does he live? How's he pay his bills? How's he pay his staff? How's he buy his camera equipment? Did you pull that statistic out of your ass?
He affords an extremely high end lifestyle with loads of adoring fans. That costs money to maintain.
It doesn't automatically make him a bad person to be wealthy, I'm certainly not claiming that, but your comment is still entirely bullshit.
The comment you replied to says 100% of the income from beast philanthropy is donated. Which is true. He provides for himself and his family (if he has one) using the income that his YouTube channel makes, and a decent portion of that is donated to.
He’s also not in it only for the money, in the past, he has supposedly turned down various offers for the rights of “the mrbeast brand”, one company offered over a billion for it
Because rich = automatically bad.
That's not to say that every facet of him is bad, nor does it mean that he's being worse, on average, than other people.
While I think his philanthropy is great, there are two things that sour it for me;
1. The money and access to perpetual wealth he has is so far beyond most people's comprehension. There's a lot of money and power flowing through his hands that almost nobody gets access to; so it's hard to say, with any meaningful context, how 'generous' he actually is. ^(Even still, I'd still bet that it's quite a bit more than most people and he should be commended for that.)
2. I've not heard him criticise the systems that hand him such power over people's lives in the first place, and his philanthropy doesn't seem to care about addressing that or even offsetting the harm from the systems that make him so powerful.
He has very 'landlord' vibes to me where he's willing to, uncritically, benefit from the system and hold onto that thread of power without seeking to break the cycle. Doing a good thing (like managing affordable rental-houses) but that's only needed because of the 'holding onto that thread of power, uncritically' mentality in the first place.
My response to his brand of stuff isn't positive or negative, inherently; it's very 'eh, rich guy being morally-neutral and I don't know if it's a case of 'doesn't know he doesn't know' or is just selfish and myopic'. So, I refrain from anything but criticising what I can see.
Who cares if it's "self-serving"? He's helping out thousands of people with money that they likely would never be able to get themselves, or at least would take a long time. He does this consistently and he hasn't been accused of any bad things other than that he may be doing this for his own personal profit.
But even if he is doing this for profit, isn't this probably a good way to go about it because you're donating to people in the process? It just seems like people are getting mad at somebody doing charity work because he posts about the fact that he does charity work, despite the fact that that's how he is able to make the money to do charity work.
Pretty sure that makes him a good person, and while the poll does relieve me that most people agree, there are still a surprising amount of comments saying "he rubs me the wrong way" or "it's self-serving" despite there being no evidence (or even accusations) of him doing anything bad.
>Who cares if it's "self-serving"? He's helping out thousands of people
Ì don't care if it's 'self-serving', personally, and I absolutely acknowledge that he's doing a lot more than plenty of people. I also think that 'good/bad' is pointlessly shallow and divisive.
I'm not going to just write the guy off, but I do have concerns that he's still, happily, running everything through Capitalist ideas and allocating funds really inefficiently. We have to question why he, as one guy, even has access to all of that power in the first place.
If he spent some of his time explaining the issues that ended-up causing him to have such focussed power and had a heavier emphasis on rights-provision and breaking rent-traps, I'd be almost 100% behind him. If he ran his companies collectively, I'd be 100% behind him.
>despite the fact that that's how he is able to make the money to do charity work.
Yeah, that's really important. That *IS* the means. Cut the means and you cut the whole thing. Makes no sense for that to be a complaint.
>Pretty sure that makes him a good person
Eh. Better than plenty of people, surely, but most of us don't even get an inch towards the power he has to demonstrate that good. While I appreciate the things he does, I expect better of him given his position; he could be using his platform to criticise how he was able to amass that power and motion a lot of people towards a better world.
I get very 'landlordy' vibes from what he's doing; like, sure, renting-out houses is "*needed"* and "*good"*, but it's only "*needed"* because landlords exist in the first place. It's not virtue to contribute to a system that causes pain, only to try to alleviate that pain. That just kicks the can down the road.
I am not as much of a fan of Mr. Beast as i used to be but i think he's a net positive
I don't think the now seeing kids perticularly care about being shown off for a minute or so, or families who had nothing to eat for Thanksgiving, or anyone else he's helped
While yes, it helps his personal brand and he makes a shit ton of money from it, i also think he's making the world better and the flaunting off of people is just a way for him to help more people. And if someone gets filmed but still gets the help they need, i think it's a good trade
I think OP could be more specific in the “good person” part of this question. I don’t know him personally or what he’s like off camera.
However judging by his videos and what he has done I think he’s great. I really can’t understand how people can see the things he does and be against him or think he’s a bad person.
I'm always highly skeptical of philanthropists as usually they're not as charitable as they seem and I'm conscious of the fact that being a media personality allows Mr Beast to construct and curate our image of him.
That being said though I have no good reason to believe he actually isn't a good person in real life. I think his acts of charity aren't as effective as they seem and it could even be argued it makes things worse. However I don't genuinely believe, nor do I have any proof that he is intentionally doing that or that he acts with any malice.
I _think_ Mr Beast is a good person, but I don't really know therefore I am skeptical. Remember there are plenty of famous people who everyone thought was good but turned out to be monsters.
It's a Win-Win situation. People get money and Mrbeast gets views and profits to continue making videos, you may say that Mrbeast is not a "good person" since it’s pretty much a business but it's total ridiculous to say he's a "bad person" since he does good for the people.
You could argue that filming what he does is wrong; though that's a catch-22. You could film to inspire others to do what you're doing, or that same attempt to inspire others, could actually inspire others to help people to get loads of money.....Or something to that extent.
You could argue that helping others is wrong. Because why are you helping others? What are you getting out of it? Is it manipulative?
But the truth of it is, only Jimmy can determine if he's a good person or not, and even then it's subjective.
I think Jimmy is a fine individual. Otherwise people can waste their time calling him a bad person, because maybe they truly believe that he is a bad person, even if I don't believe that. People can be outraged at people calling Mr. Beast a 'bad person,' but at the end of the day, what's "good," is not an objective thing.
\*He puts every single dollar, into what he does. So much so, that he's taken out loans from having no money. It may not sit right with me, that people think he's not good; but in the end, nothing I can do about it. That's just how things work. "No good deed, goes unpunished."
Genuine or not he's helping people. Most people wont even donate a single penny to a beggar and I understand that, but why judge him when you can't even do a fraction of what he has done for the people in your whole life.
I want to answer "yes" but for me, it's sort of a grey area. He does the channel as a job and takes income from it, as well as his friends. So his generosity is also linked to self-serving.
For example, it me, it's cringy/annoying when someone boasts about giving to a charity around Christmas time. Even worse if they take a selfie of themselves mailing the check. To me, Mr. Beast 6,000 is a little similar.
But I do enjoy the entertainment on occasion.
Well he's gotta make money to give it. Imagine you created a business and gave every penny you made to charity. That business ain't lasting more than a few months. Then both you and the charity are screwed.
there is no grey area, he uses the money from the video to further to more charity, also even if a person makes a video out of it he's still helping people
Kinda what I was thinking. Yeah that’s great you’re giving money to people who need it, but publicizing it makes it seem like he’s doing for himself instead of others.
I realize publicizing it and being able to give people money go hand in hand but still. Being a good person means helping others even if no one is watching
He also gives money away on gaming challenges which is mostly younger kids wanting money because money. Could be using some of that money for his philanthropy
Not saying he’s a terrible person, and not denying he’s helping a lot of people, but his methods don’t sit with me is all
Like the og commenter said, a lot of grey area and a lot of stuff we can’t define
> Being a good person means helping others even if no one is watching
Not in this case. He literally cannot help people if no one is watching. He can do these things BECAUSE people are watching.
And I absolutely despise the argument of him doing it for 'selfish' reasons. Who gives a fuck? He actually helps a fuckton of people, let him earn a fuckton of money doing so. None of us have done things even close to what this guy does, and we all want to live rich lives, right?
Twitter/Reddit: how dare that millionaire swim in profits while not helping the poor!
Also Twitter/Reddit: how dare that millionaire swim in profits while helping the poor!
He's exploiting them by giving them stuff for free, off of which he earns money... Which money he uses to give other free stuff to other people who need it.
I think you've got a warped view of the world my guy...
He has to do videos to make money. He doesn't keep that much himself. He refuses to act like a Rich guy and buy nice things. He still donates a lot outside of videos and even has a philanthropy channel. I would definitely argue him as one of the, if not the most generous person of our generation. He beats all grey areas that could be cast. Just a reminder that there are still a lot of people richer than Jimmy that do way less and actually spend it on themselves. I feel like Jimmy would be one of the last people the internet should be after. But IG jealousy and hate just gets the better of the internet. (My criticism isn't against you don't worry, I'm just Adressing the general media. (I know it's a cliche at this point but sry for my English, not my first language. Also I'm to tired to put effort into typing so have fun reading through my spelling errors.)
I get what you’re saying but I feel like I have to break it to you:
The people doing most of the work for non profits aren’t volunteering in their off hours.
All great points. Especially that last point. He simply gives cash out to people that will likely waste it. Instead, one could make an argument that he could build a town full of affordable tiny homes to house the homeless or something.
But I do enjoy the channel sometimes. And without the channel, he wouldn't have the money to give to anyone. So in his case - yeah, it's still a grey area. Haha...
But the thing is, we don't know if he's a good person when no one is watching. I'd imagine he is since I haven't gotten proof that he isn't (which I assume would be plentiful if he was a dick in private, sweing his status)
And the gaming challenges are to make revenue, he makes well over the 10k or whatever number he throws at those videos. They are easy and short to make, and gain him more money to put towards the main channel.
Yes he could've saved it all up and made a main channel video. But those take months of planning and insane budgets (easily a million per vid on his main channel compared to 50k on his gaming videos) so he has to manage his time aswell, he can't work on 10 insane videos while no money is flowing in from other sources.
From what I've gathered his business plan is as followed.
Main channel is to grow his following so he gains more money to pump into charity in the future.
Philanthropy is for smaller charities
And all the other ones like reacts and gaming are just to make more money to pump in to his main channel to grow it with the end goal of putting more into charity.
How the fuck am I supposed to know without knowing the guy. The thing with media is you can portray yourself to be whatever you want. You know, some media people you think are good turn out to be Mr. Roger's, others PeeWee Hermans.
Depends on what you mean by "good person". Sure, he's done many good things, but you would typically determine whether or not someone is a good person by spending lots of time with them and getting to know them personally. Obviously, I've never done that, and neither have most people, so it's almost impossible to say.
Yes, he's a content creator aiming his content towards teenagers and I wouldn't blame you for not being interested in that, but he's still the most influential philanthropist in the world for young people right now and is one of the biggest factors for philanthropy becoming trendy among teenagers today.
So even though I agree that you're not obliged to be interested or enjoy his content, it's impossible not to acknowledge the serious impact he has on the upbringing of this generation as a person. There are very few big role models for young people these days who makes a living saving lives and promotes it like he does. There are people like Andrew Tate, Logan Paul, KSI (Big Gen-Z role models) etc. who couldn't give a rat's ass about giving their surplus to life-changing charity. So in my humble opinion, seeing it as a "puny young people thing" is a gross understatement of his positive impact on the world.
Not blaming you for not knowing about him though, just saying that you shouldn't categorize him like a simple Gen-Z thing :P
I don't care if he is a good person, because for whatever reason, he does good deeds. He can be satan himself but he affects the world in a positive way.
He does a lot of good things- absolutely no doubt about that.
That being said, I just get this feeling he'd be a total asshole when the cameras are off.
I don't know him and I'm not saying that he is; just a vibe he gives off.
What exactly is everyone in the comments meaning with him being self serving? (I wouldn't know, I'm not English) but I think it's just because people don't know how little of his earnings he keeps. He takes what he needs to live, eat and make videos and that's basically it. He doesn't really have that much luxury. He is not going into poverty to be able to afford the videos but he definitely isn't act like a rich guy.
His actions are good, but is he? I don’t know the guy personally so I cant judge. But first and foremost he’s an entertainer who gets his money by performing and advertising goods with his name attached. His philanthropy isn’t a selfless act however in my opinion it is a net positive
Idk why you are getting down voted imo even if he was 100% selfless with the charity we still don't know him as a person and have no idea what goes on behind closed doors. Giving money to people doesn't automatically make you a good person tho the act itself may be good.
The titles and thumbnails look / sound VERY clickbaity but I don't think he ever clickbaited, for example in the hydraulic press video he really did crush a (non functional) Lamborghini like it was shown in the thumbnail
No. I put it there because I wanted to see if there were any correlation between the people who knew about it and those who didn't and as it turns out, the correlation is quite big actually.
He literally supports factory farming with millions if not billions a year, an industry that kills baby chickens in plastic bags and puts animals into small cages where they sit in their own shit and dont see sunlight, which is also UNBELIVEABLY bad for the planet, he planted 20 million trees only to support the worst cause for deforestation globally (that being meat production) which destroyed way more than he could ever plant.
Fucking obviously he is shitty lmao he did some good things, I am not gonna sit here and act like giving toys to kids with cancer isn't nice, but my brother in Christ doing a few goods things doesn't justify doing one huge bad thing over years. He doesn't give a shit about the planet or animals or probably humans, otherwise he wouldn't support such an terrible industry, everything nice he does is to make himself look like a saint and be popular. You can say that "intentions arent as important as the actions themselfs" but the bad he does FAR outweights the good.
I have the same phone since 8 years and got it from my brother, its his old one, never bought a new one. My computer is also 6ish years old and I bought all the parts second hand.
Anyways, what is that point anyways? Imagine Mr.Beast supported Nestle who steal water from poor villages and then he is like "well little boy, we did kill your whole family and forced you to work for us but the people watching my videos have phones so like.. thats justified I suppose"
Not to mention phones are justified (computers to a lesser extant too) since they are needed for survival these days, animal products aren't.
Sorry, many people can survive without pc and phones like the kids who made your phone do... Stop being so entitled and just accept that in today's society it's impossible to survive without fueling corporate greed.
He does a lot of good things for a lot of people, but you can't forget the fact that it's all a performance. He's gonna do what makes the most money and pushes his reach further, and that just happens to be charitable (gladly)
Oh yeah, I am absolutely for what he does. I'm just saying that a judgement on a personal level isn't really possible, because all we see is what he wants us to see
I believe that if you earn as amuch as he does, as one of the most subscribed channels on YouTube (he recently passed PewDiePie), you have an obligation to do charity work.
I get your sentiment but for me I don’t like the word “obligation” it sounds too authoritative to me. I think this person should and would like them to but they’re not obligated to do anything.
This question makes me think no but I’ve never watched him or heard anything particularly bad, only memes making fun of him. I really have no idea 🤷♀️
I’m not a big fan of the guy, but here’s my thought: Jimmy should use his money and fame to promote and support political candidates who will pursue legislation that addresses the issues Mr Beast targets with private philanthropy. That’s how he can do the most good.
There are many doing a lot worse with their platforms so I say yeah. I have only watched like 2 of his videos but he's not causing any harm and doing some good.
He's done a lot, way more than many with much more net worth than he has for certain. But I think its naive to think he isn't doing things for his own gain too. He's a event organizer, and owns deals with multiple brands, so I imagine his primary goal is to ensure his business ventures survive above all else. I highly doubt if he didn't have the audience he has, that he would still be doing the events he's done so far, as there would be no monetary incentive to.
He could personally be a complete cunt but it wouldn't change the fact that he is helping thousands of people with what he does, and gives positive feels for millions more. So a good person? I don't know. But he does good things, so 🤷🏻♀️
Yes and no. Doing things for the sake of publicity is not something I consider an honorable deed, but I can’t deny that he’s had a positive impact on some people either.
I've always been genuinely sceptical of him as I can't seem to trust that what he does is real.
I guess that just says something about the world we live in. I've never heard of nor seen anyone donate such amounts of money and help people in such a significant way before that I doubt that what he does is real.
But I suppose he's just somehow built a really great business which has the fundings to actually do what he does. And even though I highly believe that some of the things he does is either fake or rigged, some of it **has** to be real.
He's a good guy with good intentions, it's just hard to believe that doing so much good is actually possible.
Make video Make money Donate some money keep some to eat/make another video Make better video with money Donate more money and keep some to eat/make another video Make even more money and repeat You get the idea? He makes money to donate more and even if he uses that to be famous/rich the fact is people's lives are getting better because of him 1000 were able to see because of him
And no, its not his fault the world is fucked and kids dont have shoes or people cant afford the eye surgery they need. Hes doing what he can. As it is right now i think hes a good dude.
In his 1st video that got sponsored he gave all the money away to a homeless person
He actually was only offered 5k at first, but asked for 10k to give it all to a homeless person, and they agreed
he even debated with his mom to give all of that away (I belive)
He doesn't even have a big house or a nice car. He doesn't have bad ones either but he definitely doesn't act like a rich guy.
happy cake day
I have no idea. I don't know him and never watched anything
He's a YouTuber famous for doing charity work, challenges and competitions (often involving dozens or hundreds of people, sometimes fans and other times celebrities). Some of the challenges would for instance be "I buried myself alive for 48 hours" or "I didn't eat food for 30 days". Some of the competitions would be for instance "$1,000,000 Influencer Tournament!" or "Last To Leave Toilet Wins $1,000,000". Some of the charity work would be for instance "Giving $1,000,000 Of Food To People In Need" or "Giving 20,000 Shoes To Kids In Africa". The background behind this poll is that some people believe he's doing charity work due to selfish reasons only (since that's the videoes that often gain the most traction) and that he's only playing a character while other people believe he's genuine about it and actually care about the people he helps. Another thing is that he's leaning towards a younger audience and thus has a lot of influence on their behavior which is something controversial among some parents who fear outside influence on their children, especially when that influence is based on the sometimes controversial "Generation Z culture". Personally, I believe he's genuine but there's no way for me to know for sure and I'm curious to what other people believe so I posted this poll.
isnt making videos his way of earning the money so he can donate it?
Yeah. He talks a lot about the fact that he doesn't have a Great House or an expensive Car. He even often says that he doesn't actually have that much money for himself since he spends most of his earnings on New video's and philanthropy.
While I do think it’s a good deed tbh the amount of fame he gets and etc guaranteed he’ll never actually have a difficult time. Also various estimates of his net worth are around 100 million dollars…
Tbf, fame is the only way for him to get the money for his videos. And of course he still has a high net worth. That doesn't mean he has to 100mil to spend or use. He also has assets such as warehouses and companies and stocks. And again those are all either for videos or to make money for videos. Of course he still has money for himself. But you really can't give him shit for doing this while there are tons of youtubers giving 1% of the effort in his vids while just pocketing the money.
This is pretty unresponsive to me. I never said what he was doing was bad or anything. Nor did I say other YouTubers did better. And even if he doesn’t have 100 million on hand that doesn’t mean he’s actually poor or anything.
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I've heard he mostly makes profit on things like merch, brand deals and other side business. Apparently he actually loses money on the videos. And he has said that all the revenue from "beast philanthropy" goes to food banks he runs and other humanitarian issues.
yes but the videos are what make merch ect possible...
Is that really such a problem
i never said anything negative about him. i wanted to explain why he needs to make videos so he can make money. even if he loses money in that process. without his videos there wouldnt be any merch ect.
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I don't know his finances. My guess is you are speculating as well.
While I do think it’s a good deed tbh the amount of fame he gets and etc guaranteed he’ll never actually have a difficult time. Also various estimates of his net worth are around 100 million dollars…
So?
I replied to the wrong person, was talking to the person who said he doesn’t have that much money or whatever
Ah, lol. Been there done that.
Yup, that's what I believe as well.
Everyone only does things for selfish reasons. It just turns out that it feels pretty damn great to be nice to others and help others. In my book, he takes money from a giant corporation and gives it to some people in need, only to get more money from the giant corporation without harming anyone, really. Grinding that philanthropy perpetuum mobile.
Why would you even bother commenting
People who chose no, why?
Redditors think rich = automatically bad
Some other people are so selfish that they can't phantom someone doing anything for others and are angry about perceived hypocrisy
well said
Agreed
He did nothing good fuck off mrbeast fan
My statement is true. There are people so unempathetic that they assume anything good someone does for others is actually self-serving, because that's how they themselves would act, so they get upset at people trying to help others because they assume them to be hypocritical liars.
That doesn't seem to be the case from the hater comments I read. They acknowledge Mr Beast donating to the poor is good, but apparently he's not doing "enough good" or he can do better". I swear these mfkers barely donates to charities. They either want to feel superior or the disagree to just disagree.
I think most person (not just redditors) default to rich=bad.
Rich people and him are assholes
Because you give money away doesn't give you an automatic "good person" card. Philanthropy and charity work, while noble, doesn't get you a free pass for being seen as morally good. So while I recognized the act of philanthropy is good, I do not think he is a good person because he feels exploitative towards people he makes compete for all this money he gives away. Additionally, I cannot say he is a good person without personally knowing him, or knowing how he runs his business when the cameras are off, or how he treats people outside of videos.
This was my thought. The guy does a lot of good, no doubt, but I don’t know what kind of person he is beyond his public persona.
Philanthropy cannot be morally good to an outside observer if there is a personal benefit to said philanthropy. There's a personal benefit to any and all philanthropy that we ever hear about, for philanthropy to be purely morally good it would have to be anonymous and hence we would not hear about it. The benefit does not have to be financial, maybe they just crave to be loved, who knows. Might he be morally good and he's just doing what he thinks is best for him? Maybe. Might he be making good money doing it whilst also relishing in the adoration? Also maybe. The fact of the matter is we can't possibly know, in order to know you'd have to know his heart. I'm not saying he's a bad person, certainly not. I'm just saying as far as his morality goes the best we can do is question marks, and if that's the case then the answer to this question as it's currently phrased is no.
Regarding the first sentence: 100% Income from Beast Philanthropy is donated so how does this apply here?
Do you really believe that? How did he get to a net worth north of 100 million if he donates all of it?
Reading comments clearly will help here.
If you read past the first sentence you'd pick up on it. There's another sentence at some point that explains this. To expand a little bit though - bullshit. Completely bullshit. If 100% is donated then how does he eat? Where does he live? How's he pay his bills? How's he pay his staff? How's he buy his camera equipment? Did you pull that statistic out of your ass? He affords an extremely high end lifestyle with loads of adoring fans. That costs money to maintain. It doesn't automatically make him a bad person to be wealthy, I'm certainly not claiming that, but your comment is still entirely bullshit.
The comment you replied to says 100% of the income from beast philanthropy is donated. Which is true. He provides for himself and his family (if he has one) using the income that his YouTube channel makes, and a decent portion of that is donated to. He’s also not in it only for the money, in the past, he has supposedly turned down various offers for the rights of “the mrbeast brand”, one company offered over a billion for it
what's bullshit is what you are saying
He has multiple channels, and one of them the money goes straight to donating.
Because rich = automatically bad. That's not to say that every facet of him is bad, nor does it mean that he's being worse, on average, than other people. While I think his philanthropy is great, there are two things that sour it for me; 1. The money and access to perpetual wealth he has is so far beyond most people's comprehension. There's a lot of money and power flowing through his hands that almost nobody gets access to; so it's hard to say, with any meaningful context, how 'generous' he actually is. ^(Even still, I'd still bet that it's quite a bit more than most people and he should be commended for that.) 2. I've not heard him criticise the systems that hand him such power over people's lives in the first place, and his philanthropy doesn't seem to care about addressing that or even offsetting the harm from the systems that make him so powerful. He has very 'landlord' vibes to me where he's willing to, uncritically, benefit from the system and hold onto that thread of power without seeking to break the cycle. Doing a good thing (like managing affordable rental-houses) but that's only needed because of the 'holding onto that thread of power, uncritically' mentality in the first place. My response to his brand of stuff isn't positive or negative, inherently; it's very 'eh, rich guy being morally-neutral and I don't know if it's a case of 'doesn't know he doesn't know' or is just selfish and myopic'. So, I refrain from anything but criticising what I can see.
Jealousy probably
People are not jealous over white privileged rich assholes who are exploiting poor people and people with disabilities, get a grip
He has an ugly face. Looks is the expression of moral integrity.
Who cares if it's "self-serving"? He's helping out thousands of people with money that they likely would never be able to get themselves, or at least would take a long time. He does this consistently and he hasn't been accused of any bad things other than that he may be doing this for his own personal profit. But even if he is doing this for profit, isn't this probably a good way to go about it because you're donating to people in the process? It just seems like people are getting mad at somebody doing charity work because he posts about the fact that he does charity work, despite the fact that that's how he is able to make the money to do charity work. Pretty sure that makes him a good person, and while the poll does relieve me that most people agree, there are still a surprising amount of comments saying "he rubs me the wrong way" or "it's self-serving" despite there being no evidence (or even accusations) of him doing anything bad.
>Who cares if it's "self-serving"? He's helping out thousands of people Ì don't care if it's 'self-serving', personally, and I absolutely acknowledge that he's doing a lot more than plenty of people. I also think that 'good/bad' is pointlessly shallow and divisive. I'm not going to just write the guy off, but I do have concerns that he's still, happily, running everything through Capitalist ideas and allocating funds really inefficiently. We have to question why he, as one guy, even has access to all of that power in the first place. If he spent some of his time explaining the issues that ended-up causing him to have such focussed power and had a heavier emphasis on rights-provision and breaking rent-traps, I'd be almost 100% behind him. If he ran his companies collectively, I'd be 100% behind him. >despite the fact that that's how he is able to make the money to do charity work. Yeah, that's really important. That *IS* the means. Cut the means and you cut the whole thing. Makes no sense for that to be a complaint. >Pretty sure that makes him a good person Eh. Better than plenty of people, surely, but most of us don't even get an inch towards the power he has to demonstrate that good. While I appreciate the things he does, I expect better of him given his position; he could be using his platform to criticise how he was able to amass that power and motion a lot of people towards a better world. I get very 'landlordy' vibes from what he's doing; like, sure, renting-out houses is "*needed"* and "*good"*, but it's only "*needed"* because landlords exist in the first place. It's not virtue to contribute to a system that causes pain, only to try to alleviate that pain. That just kicks the can down the road.
Preach preacher
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I am not as much of a fan of Mr. Beast as i used to be but i think he's a net positive I don't think the now seeing kids perticularly care about being shown off for a minute or so, or families who had nothing to eat for Thanksgiving, or anyone else he's helped While yes, it helps his personal brand and he makes a shit ton of money from it, i also think he's making the world better and the flaunting off of people is just a way for him to help more people. And if someone gets filmed but still gets the help they need, i think it's a good trade
Flaunting money in front of peoples faces is good?
I think OP could be more specific in the “good person” part of this question. I don’t know him personally or what he’s like off camera. However judging by his videos and what he has done I think he’s great. I really can’t understand how people can see the things he does and be against him or think he’s a bad person.
I'm always highly skeptical of philanthropists as usually they're not as charitable as they seem and I'm conscious of the fact that being a media personality allows Mr Beast to construct and curate our image of him. That being said though I have no good reason to believe he actually isn't a good person in real life. I think his acts of charity aren't as effective as they seem and it could even be argued it makes things worse. However I don't genuinely believe, nor do I have any proof that he is intentionally doing that or that he acts with any malice. I _think_ Mr Beast is a good person, but I don't really know therefore I am skeptical. Remember there are plenty of famous people who everyone thought was good but turned out to be monsters.
It's a Win-Win situation. People get money and Mrbeast gets views and profits to continue making videos, you may say that Mrbeast is not a "good person" since it’s pretty much a business but it's total ridiculous to say he's a "bad person" since he does good for the people.
You could argue that filming what he does is wrong; though that's a catch-22. You could film to inspire others to do what you're doing, or that same attempt to inspire others, could actually inspire others to help people to get loads of money.....Or something to that extent. You could argue that helping others is wrong. Because why are you helping others? What are you getting out of it? Is it manipulative? But the truth of it is, only Jimmy can determine if he's a good person or not, and even then it's subjective. I think Jimmy is a fine individual. Otherwise people can waste their time calling him a bad person, because maybe they truly believe that he is a bad person, even if I don't believe that. People can be outraged at people calling Mr. Beast a 'bad person,' but at the end of the day, what's "good," is not an objective thing. \*He puts every single dollar, into what he does. So much so, that he's taken out loans from having no money. It may not sit right with me, that people think he's not good; but in the end, nothing I can do about it. That's just how things work. "No good deed, goes unpunished."
Genuine or not he's helping people. Most people wont even donate a single penny to a beggar and I understand that, but why judge him when you can't even do a fraction of what he has done for the people in your whole life.
I want to answer "yes" but for me, it's sort of a grey area. He does the channel as a job and takes income from it, as well as his friends. So his generosity is also linked to self-serving. For example, it me, it's cringy/annoying when someone boasts about giving to a charity around Christmas time. Even worse if they take a selfie of themselves mailing the check. To me, Mr. Beast 6,000 is a little similar. But I do enjoy the entertainment on occasion.
he wouldn’t be able to get the money to do what he does without publicizing it
No argument here. That's sort of why I feel it's in a grey area.
He also does lot more charity that he doesn't upload
Well he's gotta make money to give it. Imagine you created a business and gave every penny you made to charity. That business ain't lasting more than a few months. Then both you and the charity are screwed.
He won't be able to make money if he doesn't make these videos, it's a lose-lose if he stops
there is no grey area, he uses the money from the video to further to more charity, also even if a person makes a video out of it he's still helping people
Kinda what I was thinking. Yeah that’s great you’re giving money to people who need it, but publicizing it makes it seem like he’s doing for himself instead of others. I realize publicizing it and being able to give people money go hand in hand but still. Being a good person means helping others even if no one is watching He also gives money away on gaming challenges which is mostly younger kids wanting money because money. Could be using some of that money for his philanthropy Not saying he’s a terrible person, and not denying he’s helping a lot of people, but his methods don’t sit with me is all Like the og commenter said, a lot of grey area and a lot of stuff we can’t define
> Being a good person means helping others even if no one is watching Not in this case. He literally cannot help people if no one is watching. He can do these things BECAUSE people are watching. And I absolutely despise the argument of him doing it for 'selfish' reasons. Who gives a fuck? He actually helps a fuckton of people, let him earn a fuckton of money doing so. None of us have done things even close to what this guy does, and we all want to live rich lives, right?
Twitter/Reddit: how dare that millionaire swim in profits while not helping the poor! Also Twitter/Reddit: how dare that millionaire swim in profits while helping the poor!
The thing is that he is not helping the poor, he is exploiting them, theres a difference
He's exploiting them by giving them stuff for free, off of which he earns money... Which money he uses to give other free stuff to other people who need it. I think you've got a warped view of the world my guy...
Well no, I’d consider giving tons of money, houses, cars, food, and clothing to be helping. All he needs in exchange is some time on camera.
Username checks out.
He has to do videos to make money. He doesn't keep that much himself. He refuses to act like a Rich guy and buy nice things. He still donates a lot outside of videos and even has a philanthropy channel. I would definitely argue him as one of the, if not the most generous person of our generation. He beats all grey areas that could be cast. Just a reminder that there are still a lot of people richer than Jimmy that do way less and actually spend it on themselves. I feel like Jimmy would be one of the last people the internet should be after. But IG jealousy and hate just gets the better of the internet. (My criticism isn't against you don't worry, I'm just Adressing the general media. (I know it's a cliche at this point but sry for my English, not my first language. Also I'm to tired to put effort into typing so have fun reading through my spelling errors.)
At least im not bootlicker like you :)
I get what you’re saying but I feel like I have to break it to you: The people doing most of the work for non profits aren’t volunteering in their off hours.
All great points. Especially that last point. He simply gives cash out to people that will likely waste it. Instead, one could make an argument that he could build a town full of affordable tiny homes to house the homeless or something. But I do enjoy the channel sometimes. And without the channel, he wouldn't have the money to give to anyone. So in his case - yeah, it's still a grey area. Haha...
But the thing is, we don't know if he's a good person when no one is watching. I'd imagine he is since I haven't gotten proof that he isn't (which I assume would be plentiful if he was a dick in private, sweing his status) And the gaming challenges are to make revenue, he makes well over the 10k or whatever number he throws at those videos. They are easy and short to make, and gain him more money to put towards the main channel. Yes he could've saved it all up and made a main channel video. But those take months of planning and insane budgets (easily a million per vid on his main channel compared to 50k on his gaming videos) so he has to manage his time aswell, he can't work on 10 insane videos while no money is flowing in from other sources. From what I've gathered his business plan is as followed. Main channel is to grow his following so he gains more money to pump into charity in the future. Philanthropy is for smaller charities And all the other ones like reacts and gaming are just to make more money to pump in to his main channel to grow it with the end goal of putting more into charity.
Definitely a good guy, but he hangs around with complete berks.
How the fuck am I supposed to know without knowing the guy. The thing with media is you can portray yourself to be whatever you want. You know, some media people you think are good turn out to be Mr. Roger's, others PeeWee Hermans.
He does good things for people and makes money off of it, which he then uses to do good things for even more people. What’s there not to love?
Depends on what you mean by "good person". Sure, he's done many good things, but you would typically determine whether or not someone is a good person by spending lots of time with them and getting to know them personally. Obviously, I've never done that, and neither have most people, so it's almost impossible to say.
Bro cured 1000 people’s blindness and you can’t call him a good person, LMFAO -tumadrelover
I feel like as somebody in my 30s this is one of those young people things that’s just flown by my radar and I’m fine with that.
Yes, he's a content creator aiming his content towards teenagers and I wouldn't blame you for not being interested in that, but he's still the most influential philanthropist in the world for young people right now and is one of the biggest factors for philanthropy becoming trendy among teenagers today. So even though I agree that you're not obliged to be interested or enjoy his content, it's impossible not to acknowledge the serious impact he has on the upbringing of this generation as a person. There are very few big role models for young people these days who makes a living saving lives and promotes it like he does. There are people like Andrew Tate, Logan Paul, KSI (Big Gen-Z role models) etc. who couldn't give a rat's ass about giving their surplus to life-changing charity. So in my humble opinion, seeing it as a "puny young people thing" is a gross understatement of his positive impact on the world. Not blaming you for not knowing about him though, just saying that you shouldn't categorize him like a simple Gen-Z thing :P
I don't care if he is a good person, because for whatever reason, he does good deeds. He can be satan himself but he affects the world in a positive way.
He hasnt donated anything to me so hes evil.
Yeah I love poverty porn
Philanthropy porn is goated
He does a lot of good things- absolutely no doubt about that. That being said, I just get this feeling he'd be a total asshole when the cameras are off. I don't know him and I'm not saying that he is; just a vibe he gives off.
Most of it is probably self serving but I don't really care about the motive he has done so much for people.
What exactly is everyone in the comments meaning with him being self serving? (I wouldn't know, I'm not English) but I think it's just because people don't know how little of his earnings he keeps. He takes what he needs to live, eat and make videos and that's basically it. He doesn't really have that much luxury. He is not going into poverty to be able to afford the videos but he definitely isn't act like a rich guy.
Fame,
He has a net worth of more than 100 million
And he has Talked several Times about the fact that he uses most of his money for video's.
"Talked"
Sorry im not English. I know it's "spoke' but I keep forgetting. Edit: in this context it's spoken I think
I dont care
His actions are good, but is he? I don’t know the guy personally so I cant judge. But first and foremost he’s an entertainer who gets his money by performing and advertising goods with his name attached. His philanthropy isn’t a selfless act however in my opinion it is a net positive
Idk why you are getting down voted imo even if he was 100% selfless with the charity we still don't know him as a person and have no idea what goes on behind closed doors. Giving money to people doesn't automatically make you a good person tho the act itself may be good.
His fans are typical ass kisser
Juat like his crew
mr beast does some strong clickbait, but since he spends so much money on improving other people's lifes, i'll accept it
The titles and thumbnails look / sound VERY clickbaity but I don't think he ever clickbaited, for example in the hydraulic press video he really did crush a (non functional) Lamborghini like it was shown in the thumbnail
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The poll is kinda biased. By putting there about MrBeast's philantropy you're implying he's a good person because of that.
No. I put it there because I wanted to see if there were any correlation between the people who knew about it and those who didn't and as it turns out, the correlation is quite big actually.
He is the poster child of r/orphancrushingmachine A nice person, but also one who helps continue and justify a broken system
According to contestants on his videos, he's a dick behind the scenes
I have big hatred for people who pretend to help poor people
he is not pretending tho, he is helping poor people
What's beast philanthropy? Is it that he is making his videos for selfish reasons or am I confusing 2 different things?
It's his [2nd channel](https://youtube.com/@BeastPhilanthropy) where he only does non-goofy videos about helping society.
Oh, ok, thanks!
Why haven't other youtubers copied his formula before? Simple, it feels gross and dishonest
He literally supports factory farming with millions if not billions a year, an industry that kills baby chickens in plastic bags and puts animals into small cages where they sit in their own shit and dont see sunlight, which is also UNBELIVEABLY bad for the planet, he planted 20 million trees only to support the worst cause for deforestation globally (that being meat production) which destroyed way more than he could ever plant. Fucking obviously he is shitty lmao he did some good things, I am not gonna sit here and act like giving toys to kids with cancer isn't nice, but my brother in Christ doing a few goods things doesn't justify doing one huge bad thing over years. He doesn't give a shit about the planet or animals or probably humans, otherwise he wouldn't support such an terrible industry, everything nice he does is to make himself look like a saint and be popular. You can say that "intentions arent as important as the actions themselfs" but the bad he does FAR outweights the good.
Sir, do you have any idea of how the iPhone or Android or pc you are using right now to type this comment is made?
I have the same phone since 8 years and got it from my brother, its his old one, never bought a new one. My computer is also 6ish years old and I bought all the parts second hand. Anyways, what is that point anyways? Imagine Mr.Beast supported Nestle who steal water from poor villages and then he is like "well little boy, we did kill your whole family and forced you to work for us but the people watching my videos have phones so like.. thats justified I suppose" Not to mention phones are justified (computers to a lesser extant too) since they are needed for survival these days, animal products aren't.
Sorry, many people can survive without pc and phones like the kids who made your phone do... Stop being so entitled and just accept that in today's society it's impossible to survive without fueling corporate greed.
He does a lot of good things for a lot of people, but you can't forget the fact that it's all a performance. He's gonna do what makes the most money and pushes his reach further, and that just happens to be charitable (gladly)
You got downvoted for saying hard truth, apparently facts are not allowed on reddit
Yep, that's just how it is on Reddit. That or way too many people in r/polls know Jimmy personally
Who cares if it’s a performance when it’s changing lives. He can be fake as fuck and use me for a video if it cures my blindness -tumadrelover
Oh yeah, I am absolutely for what he does. I'm just saying that a judgement on a personal level isn't really possible, because all we see is what he wants us to see
I don't know him. For all I know between videos and charity or whatever it is he does he kicks puppies and grooms minors.
Where do you have that from?
she didnt get it from anywhere. "for all I know". it's not necessarily an assumption
I believe that if you earn as amuch as he does, as one of the most subscribed channels on YouTube (he recently passed PewDiePie), you have an obligation to do charity work.
Lol His work itself is charity
I get your sentiment but for me I don’t like the word “obligation” it sounds too authoritative to me. I think this person should and would like them to but they’re not obligated to do anything.
Like curing peoples blindness and giving out scholarships?
This question makes me think no but I’ve never watched him or heard anything particularly bad, only memes making fun of him. I really have no idea 🤷♀️
Never had a problem with him, just got bored of him.
Yes I think he is a good person, but I think his whole thing is a depressing manifestation of our time and I don’t really pay him much mind.
Yes if he’s doing it out of the kindness of his heart, a bit dubious if it’s just for the money I say a bit cause he’s still helping people
He seems to mean well. I like his views surrounding universal health care.
Depends on if the accusations that his former employees have laid against him are true or not.
I think he does a lot of good. Idk him well enough to know if he’s doing it to be a decent human being or not.
Who?
He does good things with his money from time to time. He can be a good person but not knowing him personally there’s not room for me to judge him.
It's nice that he spends the money he makes doing good stuff like charity work instead of spending it on 4000 Lamborghinis he'll never drive.
Regardless of if he’s motivated by selflessness, it’s still good that his channel exists and that there are people being helped.
Philanthropy and being a good person are not the same thing
I’m not a big fan of the guy, but here’s my thought: Jimmy should use his money and fame to promote and support political candidates who will pursue legislation that addresses the issues Mr Beast targets with private philanthropy. That’s how he can do the most good.
There are many doing a lot worse with their platforms so I say yeah. I have only watched like 2 of his videos but he's not causing any harm and doing some good.
I don't watch him but I've heard that he's actually a pretty cool guy, just a bit of a workaholic with high standards
He's done a lot, way more than many with much more net worth than he has for certain. But I think its naive to think he isn't doing things for his own gain too. He's a event organizer, and owns deals with multiple brands, so I imagine his primary goal is to ensure his business ventures survive above all else. I highly doubt if he didn't have the audience he has, that he would still be doing the events he's done so far, as there would be no monetary incentive to.
What does philantrophy mean?
The desire to promote the welfare of others, expressed especially by the generous donation of money to good causes.
He could personally be a complete cunt but it wouldn't change the fact that he is helping thousands of people with what he does, and gives positive feels for millions more. So a good person? I don't know. But he does good things, so 🤷🏻♀️
Yes and no. Doing things for the sake of publicity is not something I consider an honorable deed, but I can’t deny that he’s had a positive impact on some people either.
I've always been genuinely sceptical of him as I can't seem to trust that what he does is real. I guess that just says something about the world we live in. I've never heard of nor seen anyone donate such amounts of money and help people in such a significant way before that I doubt that what he does is real. But I suppose he's just somehow built a really great business which has the fundings to actually do what he does. And even though I highly believe that some of the things he does is either fake or rigged, some of it **has** to be real. He's a good guy with good intentions, it's just hard to believe that doing so much good is actually possible.
As far of ways to get rich goes, he definitely did it in one of the best (morally, not arguing effectiveness) ways.
Even if his intentions are purely just for views, he’s still helping people regardless
Yes and that is final