Comment by JKCalhoun
2 days ago
I did not realize, thanks for the clarification.
I think you're leaning a little too hard on Kevin though. Grifting is putting a bit of a fine point on it.
2 days ago
I did not realize, thanks for the clarification.
I think you're leaning a little too hard on Kevin though. Grifting is putting a bit of a fine point on it.
I saw him as a content creator doing some research, like pewdiepie or mrbeast. He's a good writer though. The article was a fun read.
> Your goal here is to make the best YOUTUBE videos possible. That’s the number one goal of this production company. It’s not to make the best produced videos. Not to make the funniest videos. Not to make the best looking videos. Not the highest quality videos. It’s to make the best YOUTUBE videos possible. Everything we want will come if we strive for that. Sounds obvious but after 6 months in the weeds a lot of people tend to forget what we are actually trying to achieve here.
- mr beast
I figured not, apologies for not making it clear.
KK is basically encouraging people to go out in the world and say "what can this place do for me today?" which is bad enough on its surface, but he's doing it while interacting with people (in this story at least) who have much, much less than him in so many ways. I'm not sure what you want to call it exactly, but it feels exploitative and antisocial to me at a minimum.
"Grifter" is exactly the word that came to my mind as I was reading the article, for whatever that's worth.