Comment by mperham
5 days ago
Soap operas, reality TV and evangelists have existed forever in various guises. "Bread and circuses" is thousands of years old.
5 days ago
Soap operas, reality TV and evangelists have existed forever in various guises. "Bread and circuses" is thousands of years old.
I don't care so much about the dumb brain melting. However, what MrBeast and other youtubers do is exploitative to their audiences (which in the case of MrBeast skews young).
It's not great to see young kids addicted to content designed primarily to rob them of their money with false claims of success. "Oh, if you send me money, buy my shit, or subscribe to my channel, you could win millions of dollars!"
That sort of exploitative media should be illegal (and in the case of MrBeast appears to be illegal in some cases).