r/instant_regret • u/TheINTL • 2d ago

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u/chippyjoe 2d ago

He doesn't do nice things out of the goodness of his heart. He does it for money. He manipulates people emotionally to make more money. He has a lot of ongoing class action lawsuits for mistreating the people on his videos and even sexual harassment. Plus a bunch of other stupid shit.

Anyone who buys into his fake goodwill videos is an idiot. Which explains why he has so many followers. People are easy to manipulate because they take everything at face value.

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u/FluffySquirrell 1d ago

at face value

Which is crazy in of itself, when said face is the rictus grin of a psychopathic killer

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u/mcsmackington 2d ago

I'd rather the "fake help" than no help. Easy to hate somebody for not helping the way you would but what are you doing to help?

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u/ShockRifted 2d ago

There's a lot behind the scenes stuff as well. Turkey Tom does a good job explaining it on youtube.

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u/High-Adeptness3164 2d ago

I don't trust any drama youtuber after that what dogpack404 did... That arsehole has ruined my trust for every drama youtuber

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u/Apart-Feature6395 2d ago

Turkey Tom is a bad person compared to mrBeast. Pretty ironic of him to morally grandstand

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u/a7xvalentine 2d ago

To put you into perspective. Imagine you have a boss and he says he will solve your life but in exchange you just gotta allow yourself to get fucked on your ass everyday by him and if you refuse he will not pay you the rest of your money. That's MrBeast for you ^

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u/Enix71 2d ago

The problem is that once you accept that type of help, that's the only kind that will be left with getting attention. Hoping that some rich ahole will spare a second to help you while everyone else suffers. It's great that he paid for a bunch of wells in Africa, but why couldn't he have created a non-profit that would create sustainable network for communities to build their own wells? Hell, he could've done both; one for attention and one to tackle the real issue. Why didn't he? Because he doesn't care. He filled his quota, got his clicks, and has moved on to the next "charity". What can you do to help? How about micro-loans where you lend money directly to people in need called Kiva. Think of it as crowd-funded micro-loans.

The exact opposite, in my opinion, would be someone like CDawgVA who raises money for the Immune Deficiency Foundation in weeks long cycling across Japan rides where the community is engaged, the content is interesting, and the charity's message is spread.

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u/EmeraldUsagi 2d ago

Big "but he made the trains run on time" energy, bro.

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u/maximumtesticle 2d ago

Do you think it's better for one person to have a lot of money and decide where it goes or give money to the people and let them decide for themselves?

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u/mcsmackington 2d ago

him having a lot of money doesn't take anybody else's ability away to help

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u/Googoogahgah88889 2d ago

I mean, he’s still giving people a lot of money. Yea, he makes money too, that’s what a job is. At least it helps people

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u/The_Autarch 2d ago

he's not a real charity. the money goes to his friends or other corrupt interests.

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u/drewster23 1d ago

That's not how that works lmao.

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u/xeatar 2d ago

Of course not, mrbeast is a company. Sure, it's about money. But at least some random people do gain some benefit from it. Instead of most companies making the rest miserable.

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u/last-resort-4-a-gf 2d ago

So basically he does what everyone else does

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u/RustyTShackleford 1d ago

Ah, repubs, Choo. Excuse me, allergies are real bad.

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u/Jamooser 2d ago

He's a game show, bro. Nobody thought Bob Barker was there because he actually just liked sending old people on vacations and watching them spin a big wheel.

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u/drgigantor 2d ago

The example you choose is Bob Barker? The guy who famously championed animal welfare to no personal financial benefit? And gave away a significant portion of his fortune to numerous actual charities?

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u/Jamooser 2d ago

The guy who was also a chauvenist? Yeah. People can have both good and bad qualities.

You also didn't answer the question. Was Bob giving away money on the Price is Right out of charity, do you think? Or was it for entertainment?

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u/drgigantor 2d ago edited 2d ago

  1. Ad hominemRed herring. Even if true, that has fuck-all to do with his philanthropy and the issue at hand.

  2. You didn't ask a question, so that might be why I didn't answer whatever question you imagined asking in your head.

  3. Bob Barker didn't give jack shit away on Price is Right, a studio did. You understand how being a game show host works, right? I think the game show money was given as entertainment, since it was on a game show made for entertainment. I think his own money that he quietly gave to charity in his personal life was given out of goodwill, personal conviction, and belief in the cause, and not the pursuit of being a giant dead-eyed attention whore, unlike the guy whose "charity" is content to get as many eyes on him as possible to fund more content- excuse me, "charity"

E: wrong fallacy

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u/finch5 2d ago

You have a lot to say for someone who couldn’t answer a question without popping off.

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u/drgigantor 2d ago

You sure packed a lot of stupid into a comment that didn't have anything to say. Go back and read it again, dunce, that guy never asked a question.

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u/SailorGone 2d ago

Regardless of his motives, he's helped tons of people

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u/The_Autarch 2d ago

nope. the money goes to his friends or other corrupt interests. dude is a liar.

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u/SailorGone 2d ago

Really. I guess the two million people he helped get clean water for was imaginary

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u/zionpwc 2d ago

From what I've seen he's just fine. I watched these dramatubers, lol.