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[–] nuke@yah.lol 430 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Public begging? How embarrassing

[–] s08nlql9@lemm.ee 52 points 1 year ago

Desperate times call for desperate measures

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[–] EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 232 points 1 year ago

plz :(

-Elon Musk

[–] scarabic@lemmy.world 192 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I didn’t realize anyone earned anything on Twitter ever. Is this just video views? Is this new?

Also, fuck Musk, etc.

[–] jonne@infosec.pub 61 points 1 year ago (25 children)

I think it's new, he decided to add it to attract Tucker Carlson. I don't know who would watch a whole 20 minute video on their phone though.

[–] kartonrealista@lemmy.world 140 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[–] Fisk400@lemmy.world 183 points 1 year ago

How is he going to be able to handle more videos when he has to ration text views because it's melting his servers.

[–] MargotRobbie@lemmy.world 160 points 1 year ago (2 children)

He's always been desperate for attention, but now the public sentiment has finally turned against him everything he does just looks sad.

Oh and his memes were always stale AF.

[–] Toribor@corndog.uk 57 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Elon just wants everyone to think he's funny and smart.

Unfortunately he's so determined to be constantly visibly online it's completely shattered that illusion.

[–] MargotRobbie@lemmy.world 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He's just not funny.

A lot of comedy comes from situational absurdity of unexpected actions, and there is nothing that kills the joke faster than to realize that they are not pretending. It was funny at first when a boomer (Ok, elder Gen X) billionaire started posting bad middle school humor on Twitter, it immediately stopped being funny when it turns out his real maturity level never got past middle school.

Which is also why Trump is such a black hole for comedy, you just can't make fun of him, because any absurd and ridiculous thing you can think of him doing, you would expect him to actually do it.

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[–] popemichael@lemmy.world 146 points 1 year ago

Two people in this world that you should never get an IOU from: Trump and Musk.

They just don't pay their bills. It's not worth the effort.

[–] CrunchyBoy@lemmy.world 140 points 1 year ago (3 children)

With what money, Elon? You can't afford to pay Google or office rent but you're going to pay Mr. Beast?

[–] mriguy@lemmy.world 42 points 1 year ago (2 children)

He’s perfectly capable of paying both. He doesn’t want to, and because he’s rich, he doesn’t have to. There is a reason billionaires end up with so much money, and fairly compensating other parties isn’t it.

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[–] ghariksforge@lemmy.world 138 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Every time Elon begs for money, I donate to my Mastodon or Lemmy admins.

[–] Moonwalk@lemm.ee 59 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You should be really wealthy, my friend.

[–] trigonated@lemmy.world 55 points 1 year ago

Not for long, it seems. With all that donating.

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[–] dns@lemmy.world 132 points 1 year ago (3 children)

A company notorious for revenue problems and missing bill payments is definitely who I would want to enter a business relationship with. Where do I sign up?

[–] existential_crisis@lemmy.world 51 points 1 year ago

And run by a guy notorious for not paying his bills

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[–] croobat@lemmy.world 117 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Richest man in the world begging for pennies.

[–] Selmafudd@lemmy.world 38 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Yeah and his best offer is I promise I'll pay you what you're already being paid...

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[–] spark947@lemm.ee 98 points 1 year ago (15 children)

Doesn't Elon hate trans people or whatever?

[–] harry_h0udini911@lemmy.fmhy.ml 96 points 1 year ago (12 children)

How can MrBeast post a 10-minute video on Twitter? Should he make a thread for a video? 😆 😆

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[–] foggy@lemmy.world 82 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Pretty sure Mr Beast is a company, not a person. I mean, we know who he is, but like, he isn't the guy managing millions of dollars.

Pretty sure they are a well oiled machine, still making ridiculous amount of money.

Asking them to come to your platform publicly like that would be like BC college asking the Red Sox to play a few games on their turf for funzies.

They wouldn't show up without a down payment equal to what they pull down on an average night at home.

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[–] tartan@lemmy.world 79 points 1 year ago

Fuck Musk. He should do us all a favour and go suck on the tail end of one of “his” rockets.

[–] emax_gomax@lemmy.world 65 points 1 year ago (1 children)

All the jokes aside, it's still amazing the CEO over a year in doesn't even know how profitable being an user that drives engagement on the site is compared to a (I guess) competitor like youtube. He's just like we're as profitable as youtube for you, or if not we can be, like the guy knows nothing and is just throwing claims out there with no basis in reality or plan to follow through on them.

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[–] user_already_exists@lemm.ee 59 points 1 year ago

This looks so desperate

[–] ultimate_question@lemmy.world 57 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Interesting that he would try to use the potential number of views as a selling point while also publicly decimating the reach of Twitter posts lol

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[–] fross@lemmy.world 55 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Not sure elon could afford the cloud bills if mrbeast actually did that

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[–] lemmyshmemmy@lemmy.world 55 points 1 year ago (30 children)

Can Lemmy do anything besides post about Elon, Threads, Zuckerberg, and Reddit? Is it just a bunch of bots spamming the place?

I came here to avoid all that shit, not talk about it.

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[–] puppy@lemmy.world 54 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Shouldn't Mr. Musk pay his server bills first?

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[–] KittyBitTees@lemmy.world 51 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Wish Twitter would just stop existing already. Why do people acknowledge the shitty owner of the site at all? Just keep this scum out the news. Easy.

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[–] Zetta@mander.xyz 51 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Top bad Twitter's video player is very bad, and Twitter's but rate is very noticably worse than YouTube.

Also I don't watch Mr beast so I don't give a shit in the first place.

[–] cloudless@feddit.uk 54 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You spelt "but rate" wrong. It should be "butt rate".

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[–] Furbag@lemmy.world 50 points 1 year ago

Even billionaires are begging MrBeast for shit now, lmao.

[–] Stach@lemmy.world 50 points 1 year ago (28 children)

No one would watch videos in GARBAGEp resolution when 1080p is right behind a corner on YT

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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 44 points 1 year ago (7 children)

His new CEO is desperate as well.

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Lmao elon is so thirsty, it’s hilarious

[–] 4am@lemmy.world 40 points 1 year ago

“We’ll pay you!” - Guy famous for not paying Twitter bills

[–] Boris@lemmy.world 39 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Nobody's going to watch long form videos on Twitter as long as YouTube exists

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[–] eppic@lemmy.world 37 points 1 year ago (11 children)

Just when you thought he can't be any more embarrassing...

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[–] Thedogspaw@midwest.social 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Big 14 year old begging game dev to port gta to switch energy

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