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by mdrzn
1307 days ago
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He has never hidden the fact that he only cares about doing the BEST video ever for YouTube. He doesn't really care about becoming a billionare or giving away $10m a month, he cares that the video will be the BEST ever so if giving away money is a way to make a video more interesting, so be it.
There's hours of interviews with him, if you want to understand him deeper just watch a few. He's transparent in what he does. |
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I’ve explained things to my kids, they get it now too. And if he’s honest about what he’s trying to do then I thinks it’s mostly okay and I can just recalibrate my thinking, nudge things towards putting his category of content in the same box as something like the Survivor reality TV show, which is mostly fine. MrBeast has simply distributed his content in a different way.
Good thread! part of why I come to HN. One of the few places for public discourse online where there’s opportunity for an actual exchange of ideas and changing opinions. (I mean it’s possible, plenty of people still dug in and are resistant to discussion of something in a way that could change their mind. Which is still even okay, we all have harder held opinions, and because disagreement here is often still productive to read through and rarely descends to toxic levels.)
Today, I am thankful that HN is not a toxic waste dump of flame wars and troll bait and provides an outlet to discuss interesting things with random stranger who are often way smarter than me. Happy Thanksgiving to all of the Americans reading this! As you sit down to meals with family and friends or even if you’re alone, I wish you all well and hope you all have ample things to be thankful for.
For parts of the world that don’t celebrate a thanksgiving of sorts on this day, f&ck you. kidding! I’m thankful for all of you too and wish you well just as much. We’re all entirely too interconnected these days to ignore the fact that what’s good for $X group of people in the world, to the extent that it doesn’t harm others in any significant way, adds an incremental amount to the collective uplift provided by civilization.
From one American to the global HN community, I’m thankful for you all. Except #@dang. Dang is too good. I’m convinced ycombinator either has like a GPT-5 model bot trained to do things here or there’s an army of not-dangs working behind the scenes to keep this community roughly on the rails. ;) Happy Thanksgiving Dang(s)!