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Snark Bait

What's the Snark on MrBeast?

Snark Bait

Cloud10

Society & Culture, News, Entertainment News, Tv & Film

4.6872 Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2025

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

MrBeast (née James Stephen Donaldson) counts hundreds of millions of subscribers and is probably moments away from becoming YouTube's first billionaire. How did he get here, and how terrified should we be about it? TRIGGER WARNING: This episode contains discussion of sexual abuse. Please listen at your own discretion. Make sure you follow us on Instagram and watch full episodes on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@snarkbaitpod⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠  ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@xknowsall⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@soph_ross⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ . JOIN OUR PATREON ⁠⁠⁠⁠HERE⁠⁠⁠⁠! . Approximate Timestamps: 0:00 -- Intro 8:00 -- Initial Thoughts and Feelings 15:00 -- Early Life / Background 19:00 -- YouTube Beginnings and Content (2012–2017) 25:00 -- Mr. Beast’s Rise to Fame 37:00 -- Mr. Beast’s Content 51:00 -- More (Major) Controversies and Criticisms (TW) 59:00 -- Philanthropy 1:01:00 -- Mr. Beast’s 2024 (TW) 1:15:00 -- Does Mr. Beast “Play God”? and Wrap-Up Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey guys, welcome back to SnarkBate. I'm Sophie. And I'm Christy. And we're going to be talking about Mr. Beast today. His early life, his background, his YouTube beginnings and the content he used to create, his rise to fame, the parasy social relationship he has with his viewers, the crazy controversies he's been involved in. I'm not going to lie, my job was literally on the ground. I was gasping multiple times. Sophie did such a fabulous job running us through this episode. Obviously his philanthropic efforts and all the controversial people he has underneath him. Are you ready to get into it, Sophie? Yeah, let's do it. There's a lot, you guys. So buckle up. It's a long one. It's close to an hour and a half.

0:38.1

So see you guys on the other side.

0:55.7

Hey, Sophie. I went, I went, hey, hey.

1:01.0

Hey, Christy, happy Monday.

1:04.0

It is Monday, May 12th.

1:05.5

How has your Monday been?

1:08.0

Monday is Monday.

1:10.1

I'm gearing up for my trip by the time this airs I will be en route to London to visit

1:18.1

Little Baby Monroe and I'm very excited about that. But other than that, life has been just pretty

1:25.3

boring, pretty average, very snorget-ated heavy, but all that is just kind of

1:30.2

where I wanted to be. How's your day been? How's your weekend? Good. Good. Oh my God. I've like

1:35.3

been disgusting. I just feel like I had one of those weekends where I ate out for every meal. I'm like,

1:41.8

what does like real like homemade food taste like anymore? So naturally,

1:47.2

I warmed up three day old Chinese leftovers for dinner tonight. And then I was like, I have not

1:53.7

had a nutrient all weekend. So I thought a good way of getting some nutrients in, orange juice.

2:01.4

Because we like don't have groceries right now.

2:03.6

We've just been like all over the place.

2:05.4

Orange juice with sparkling water.

2:07.5

I'm really into this combination.

2:09.2

It's very hydrating.

2:10.4

It's very crisp.

2:12.2

Wow.

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