To state the obvious, on YouTube views equal money. Since the financialization of the platform with advertisements around the late 2000s several genres or types of content have developed that successfully yielded a lot of cash for creators. Among the most depraved and sadistic of these is the philanthropy-entertainment complex, where YouTubers carefully stage a scene wherein they are framed as virtuous Saints helping out the poor and downtrodden, and soak up all the direct cash from the views alongside the much more lucrative cultural and social capital that emanates from it, in the form of personal PR for themselves and their brand which major corporations then jump on to be associated with so they can leech off it as well and get some of the “goodwill” (I much prefer social and cultural capital to “clout”, which is too vague and doesn’t clarify how exactly this is directly transferable to economic capital. For more on these concepts
What’s aggravating is that Mr. Beast was so close to “getting it”. When reflecting about it the eye surgery he commented “if this is so easy to do, then why doesn’t the government take care of it already?” Of course he proceeded to shrug his shoulders and not give it anymore thought.
I had my suspicion on Mr. Beast for a very long time but I couldn't put my finger on it, this article has shown what my suspicion was, he's a fake Saint only giving money in front of the camera, and also apparently he is allowed to do Human Experiments because of some agreements and money.
Maybe the Human Experiment Scientists were all doing it the wrong way.
What’s aggravating is that Mr. Beast was so close to “getting it”. When reflecting about it the eye surgery he commented “if this is so easy to do, then why doesn’t the government take care of it already?” Of course he proceeded to shrug his shoulders and not give it anymore thought.
I had my suspicion on Mr. Beast for a very long time but I couldn't put my finger on it, this article has shown what my suspicion was, he's a fake Saint only giving money in front of the camera, and also apparently he is allowed to do Human Experiments because of some agreements and money.
Maybe the Human Experiment Scientists were all doing it the wrong way.