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[–] Rojo27@hexbear.net 75 points 3 months ago (1 children)

SEO face and it's consequences.

[–] Roonerino@hexbear.net 18 points 3 months ago

I love this term, never heard it before, it's perfect though.

[–] Goadstool@hexbear.net 67 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Nothing Verhoeven did was even close to as garish as this. I feel like I am genuinely becoming a little bit more unstable every time I see one of these thumbnails.

[–] NewLeaf@hexbear.net 66 points 3 months ago (4 children)

I heard somewhere that Mr. Beast is miserable trying to keep up his brand. I hope that's true

[–] axont@hexbear.net 71 points 3 months ago (2 children)

The interview I saw about him was more like he doesn't feel any emotions outside of making money. Like he gets bored or twitchy if he's not doing something connected to making videos or generating revenue.

Inhuman, soulless husk. Meat puppet generated by capital to do its bidding. Marx was correct when he said the bourgeoisie are more of slaves to capital than the workers are. People like Mr. Beast are barely even conscious entities anymore.

[–] booty@hexbear.net 52 points 3 months ago (2 children)

honestly i think mr. beast is the kind of guy who doesn't really know what misery and joy are. you know, the kind of guy who would be working voluntary overtime in like a warehouse or something if he were born poor because he just doesn't know what to do with his time if he isn't just increasing the number in his bank account. the kind of guy who has a girlfriend because guys are supposed to have girlfriends. everything is an obligation/responsibility

when i made that connection it made a lot of sense to me. ive met guys like that in warehouses before. they'll literally be working like 90 hour weeks across multiple jobs but driving to work every day (in the deep south summer) with broken AC in their car because the car still works and they just don't care. they'll be hoarding money like a dragon and never spending any of it, because society tells them acquiring money is how you win and they figure that if nothing brings them joy they might as well win.

[–] TechnoUnionTypeBeat@hexbear.net 36 points 3 months ago (1 children)

the kind of guy who has a girlfriend because guys are supposed to have girlfriends. everything is an obligation/responsibility

According to an interview with him, he literally sees his time with his girlfriend as transactional, that he considers every hour spent with her as being an hour he's lost money because he's not making content

[–] BountifulEggnog@hexbear.net 29 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's honestly astounding to me the level of shit some people will put up with. That poor woman.

[–] booty@hexbear.net 28 points 3 months ago (1 children)

i mean she's got a rich boyfriend who has like less than no expectations of her, she might have a real boyfriend on the side and just goes out with mrbeast every now and again for free food and/or gifts

sounds like a good deal to me, i'd do it

[–] Tunnelvision@hexbear.net 13 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Or maybe she actually loves him but will probably never get that same affection back?

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[–] Tabitha@hexbear.net 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

they'll be hoarding money like a dragon and never spending any of it

are these guys vulnerable to gold diggers? asking for a friend

[–] fox@hexbear.net 10 points 3 months ago

There's the misers who want to die with the biggest number, the alienated who amass money because grifters told them that's how you earn respect and friendship (but who cannot legitimately befriend anything), and the grifters. Probably have some shot with the last two

[–] 2Password2Remember@hexbear.net 42 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

the fact that mr beast specifically is miserable and hates himself is one of the few silver linings in this world

Death to America

[–] Llituro@hexbear.net 34 points 3 months ago (1 children)

He's like a singular human embodiment of modern capitalism. He doesn't even have the motivation of profit, he has apparently operated near, below, or at cost for a long time. A modern Mr Beast video costs something like $1m to produce apparently. It's literally just growth for growth sake and nothing else. Absolutely demonic, no way he knows what happiness is.

[–] ryepunk@hexbear.net 28 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah but now he has merchandise... So everything he does is just a promotion to sell more of the crap that makes him money. Like his shitty chocolate bars that sell for three times the price of a Nestle or Cadbury chocolate bar. Chocolate is like the ultimate sin food. It's bad for you if you eat it, and the production of it was likely bad for everyone involved, and the money goes to ghouls who just want more money.

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[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 56 points 3 months ago (3 children)

It took me a couple of years but I managed to curate my yt feed to only show me stuff I will actually watch and yet I'm still one misclick away from getting Little Ben Shapiro and PragerU shoved down my throat.

[–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 34 points 3 months ago

I use newpipe so I don't get recommendations. My recommendations typically come from other people.

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[–] WeedReference420@hexbear.net 44 points 3 months ago (1 children)

MAKING TWO HOMELESS PEOPLE PLAY RUSSIAN ROULETTE FOR $100,000!!! soypoint-1

[–] crazyminner@lemmy.ml 14 points 3 months ago

Sadly this would probably get a bunch of views. Just make it a nerf blaster or something as like the cherry on top click bait.

[–] angrytoadnoises@lemmygrad.ml 43 points 3 months ago (1 children)

literal ghoulish depictions of the image of man dreamed up by the soulless

i hate thumbnails. i hate search engine optimization. i hate algorithms. i miss feeling like people on the internet were ever at all genuine

[–] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 30 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] mathemachristian@hexbear.net 43 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 29 points 3 months ago (1 children)

My will stipulates that I be buried with a Mr. Beast mask so I can look dead on the inside as well as the outside.

[–] mathemachristian@hexbear.net 22 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Imagine its the zombie apocalypse and youre getting chased by someone with a mr beast mask. 😱

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 13 points 3 months ago

Somehow the DJ Scooter rave mix of Supertramp's Logical Song is playing in the background

[–] Thordros@hexbear.net 38 points 3 months ago (2 children)

There is a special corner of my heart that is reserved solely for how much I hate those FGTV motherfuckers. It's just a couple of rich assholes spoiling their kids with every fucking treat on the planet.

[–] EmoThugInMyPhase@hexbear.net 30 points 3 months ago

Giant acres of empty lawn owned by 20 year olds while some poor guy has to rely on a youtuber for food lol

[–] VapeNoir@hexbear.net 37 points 3 months ago

Surprising Family at 3 AM with a CLAW HAMMER!

[–] AlicePraxis@hexbear.net 36 points 3 months ago (1 children)

it's depressing that we have to live amongst people who will click on all these videos

[–] FloridaBoi@hexbear.net 23 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

We had a family live with us for a few months one summer and YouTube did all of the parenting for hours on end everyday for kids 8-15

[–] RNAi@hexbear.net 26 points 3 months ago (1 children)

AI looking mfs, count the teeth

[–] g_g@hexbear.net 18 points 3 months ago (1 children)

no, see, here's the thing... how does every single one of these look WORSE than the slop Dall-E spits out??? why don't they just have the ai make the thumbnails instead of this???

[–] AlicePraxis@hexbear.net 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

it looks worse in the sense that it's an obvious photoshop where the subject was badly composited into the scene. AI might not have that same issue but would look worse in so many other ways like generating weird blobby nonsense

AI also probably won't do a good job at making someone's exact face unless you train a model on lots pictures of the person which takes time, effort and knowledge of how AI works. it would actually be a lot more difficult to get a passable AI result than just slapping a picture of your stupid face on a background image

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[–] dumpster_dove@hexbear.net 25 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I think the almighty algorithm has decided that videos with some kind of reaction face in the thumbnail are to be prioritized

[–] fox@hexbear.net 10 points 3 months ago

A significant number of YouTube users are children who are tricked by pareidolia into clicking on this slop

[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 23 points 3 months ago

Thank goodness I've finely honed my yourube algo to show me shit I like so I don't get these faces from the gate to hell

[–] WIIHAPPYFEW@hexbear.net 22 points 3 months ago

This is the most joker-shopping I’ve ever felt while looking at an image so far in my life

[–] ClimateChangeAnxiety@hexbear.net 21 points 3 months ago

I think it’s notable that Mr Beast has switched away from the open mouth smile in favor of the closed mouth smile and the others haven’t caught up yet

I definitely find the closed mouth less annoying (still sucks, just less) and I know Mr Beast tests shit like that to an extreme degree so it probably gets more views

[–] GeorgeZBush@hexbear.net 20 points 3 months ago

The fucking LED clickbait Twitch streamer aesthetic has got to go. Along with, you know, all the stuff connected to it.

[–] micnd90@hexbear.net 15 points 3 months ago (3 children)
[–] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Use DeArrow! It not only removes clickbait thumbnails, but replaces them with community-sourced ones, allowing one to choose a thumbnail frame from the video and have it better put up for a vote, and it does the same thing for the video's title! It's made by the same guy who made Sponsorblock.

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[–] Thordros@hexbear.net 12 points 3 months ago

Mr. Beast is just bum fights with more steps.

[–] alexandra_kollontai@hexbear.net 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

how are his teeth so fucking bright white

[–] Hexphoenix@hexbear.net 12 points 3 months ago (2 children)
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[–] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 3 months ago

Is that nostalgia critic at the bottom?

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