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🗓️ 8 February 2023
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0:00.0 | Well, it would be like short-sighted to have a personal vendetta against these people as if their, |
0:05.5 | their agency was the fucking thing that is grotesque about this. |
0:10.3 | What's fucked up is like they, they are just like a symptom that you see of the, the system that we live in that is so unfair and weird and nonsensical. |
0:23.3 | And why does not everyone have access to resources and money, but we have this weird thing |
0:29.7 | where like one person could just stumble upon the right algorithm? |
0:33.1 | And I think that's part is also kind of problematic as well, because I think we're going to |
0:37.2 | be past |
0:37.6 | the age not just of like people making like a million dollars from a single YouTube video or whatever |
0:41.9 | but like past the age of like individuals being the primary drivers of like YouTube content |
0:47.2 | creation and more towards the like you know model that you see a lot in like K-pop where you have like |
0:52.3 | these large A&R style like people who just make like a hype house and they just find some like floofy hair at 15 year olds because now everyone wants to look like that. Everyone wants to be an influencer and they trap them into these like really predatory, you know, contracts because they know like this their kid's dream is to be Mr. Beast and like there won't ever be another Mr. Beast. At least not one that has the kind of freedom to, like, decide to be boring like he wants. |
1:13.4 | There'll be a lot of overworked tweens who are forced to unbox until their eyes bleed. |
1:18.1 | But there won't be, like, as many more, you know, Jake and Logan Paul is just people who get |
1:21.9 | famous online from doing nothing because the algorithm has gotten, has been cracked. And once you crack the algorithm, corporations just come in and they decide like, oh, yeah, |
1:30.1 | this is, this is how we make money now. |
1:32.2 | We don't, we want that Mr. Beast money. |
1:34.5 | And the first step was Mr. Beast signing some sort of deal with some production company or |
1:37.9 | whatever. |
1:38.5 | And next step, it's going to be like, we'll just make the next Mr. Beast. |
1:40.6 | We'll just, we'll make the... There's diminishing returns on every iteration of Mr. Beast |
1:44.2 | after him, and a great example of that is Mr. Beast's brother, CJ, has a YouTube channel, |
1:49.5 | where the top video is, I'm secretly Mr. Beast's brother. It has eight million views. It's not |
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