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A 2.5 million private jet is, uh, probably not new.

The smallest Very Light Jets, like the Cessna Mustang or HondaJet, start around $5 million new.

So you're probably looking at a decades old plane, almost certainly not enough room to fully stand up, and possibly no lavatory.

All of these are just working people being toyed with by the rich for their entertainment and profit

That's literally a description of society. Not just modern society, society throughout all of history. The rich and powerful have always toyed with the peasants.

These are just variations of game shows. Do X and you can win $/Prizes while they film it and play advertisements while people watch.

Basically a gladiator spectacle but with less obvious class dividers.
I mean it's from top to bottom, including the reward (monetary instead of livelyhood)

Back during the George Floyd protests I was watching a live stream from NYC. Several people in the comments were saying the store owners should shoot the protesters if they broke windows. I asked chat, "Do you really value property over human life?" No one said "no", and three explicitly responded "yes!" to me. I'll never forget that, I was a bit shocked.

it's going to leave an entire generation of people who will value money over everything else.

Yes because that doesn't already exist...

Dude you obviously have not seen game shows from well forever the last 50 60 years at very least. Mr beast is just a continuation of those game shows. I for one had never really heard or watched him before beast games came out. And then I started saying more and more of his stuff. But it's always been a part of game show culture and everything else culture to value the game and the money over anything else. However even watching those games and even his games you'll see quite a few people that value other things over the money.

The funniest/saddest thing is hearing stories from niche youtubers that did one of his events talking about kids they meet finding out about it and immediately asking them for money. Just an instant switch from bored disinterest to excited begging.

Hell, I'd pay to see flying bums.

Yes, in fact there's a whole genre of video essay where people explain how Mr Beast is problematic.

But to be fair, he's just an extension of the last 30 years of reality tv. Lure some desperate people with a large sum of cash, make them suffer in front of the camera, edit liberally, air for the entertainment of millions.

Additionally, one of the most popular tv shows of the decade is a criticism of exactly this phenomenon. Mr Beast did a whole tv series that tried to be Squid Game unironically, completely missing the moral of the story and spawning another round of criticism. Something something Guy Debord, something Jean Baudrillard something.

children let loose on an unrestricted internet without familial oversight

I upgraded to an Attic Lad -ages- ago. Those squirrels never knew what hit them.

If you criticize him for having a boy in a basement that just means you're jealous of his success

Jimmy is a fucking idiot. See any of the behind the scenes stuff and weird attempts at making Beast Games work. No planning, no actual experience with logistics, game design, filming, editing, etc.

He's just some schmuck with money, and people keep giving him more.

I think so unfortunately.

I recall hearing about the pilot one as the twist was that his family was waiting outside as the end approached and this sick fuck tried to get him to stay in longer for more money.

Haven't heard of the others mind you. They're on brand for him though.

Being serious:

• started as a YouTuber that did trend videos like "I did the latest trend, but did it BIGGER"
• figured out a (very exploitative) formula for maximising viewer retention whilst getting as many sponsorship deals into a video as possible
• Became the first YouTube Millionaire
• Started amping up this formula by making the challenges shocking and attention grabbing, such as "I PUT 10 PEOPLE IN AN UNLOCKED HOTEL ROOM, LAST TO LEAVE GETS $5 MILLION"
• realised he could wash his terrible reputation by occasionally releasing a charity video instead, kept it being exploitative though, his most famous example was "I CURED THE BLINDNESS OF 100 PEOPLE" (all blind because they had treatable, easily, diseases but American Healthcare is so exploitative they couldn't afford to get the treatment)
• Managed to get a TV series called "Beast Games" that's this but TV

He's basically everything wrong with YouTube rolled into one person

That is Lucifer, the great beast, the biblical devil. Hence "Mr Beast". He revealed himself to humanity in the mid 2010s, expecting to incite the apocalypse. But everyone was already pretty shook at the general state of the world, so nobody cared. He still tries to shock the world with diabolical stunts, but he really just can't compete with politicians and billionaires. Kind of tough to see, tbh. Kinda sad.

He runs a poverty porn channel - do this thing and if you do it you get money. He pretends its about altruism but its about clicks. Oh and he's also been closely associated with a number of crypto scams where a coin is launched and then rugpulled.