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YouTuber Mr. Beast Defends Himself After Posting Video “Curing” Thousands Of People’s Blindness

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4.14.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2023

⏱️ 6 minutes

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0:00.0

The Bird Show.

0:23.2

Yeah, let me just add to this, it's not just stunts, it's like a lot, most of them are philanthropic stunts, where he's like given away an enormous amount of cash to people that needed or surprising people and really trying to do a lot of good.

0:37.2

And that's what he did with his recent video, so he just posted a video a couple days ago about helping 1,000 blind people get eye surgery and see again.

0:48.2

And this video works hearing 1,000 people's blinds.

0:54.2

Most of us see the world like this, but here's the thing, 200 million people see the world like this, but I just made it one less.

1:05.2

Oh, wow.

1:09.2

She's just one of 1,000 blind people, we help from around the world.

1:13.2

They can't see, but we have all the technology to fix it.

1:17.2

Yep, half of all the blinds in the world is people who need a 10 minute surgery.

1:21.2

So Mr. Beast was arranging for people to get site restoring cataract surgery, and he filmed the patient's reactions to seeing clearly again.

1:29.2

And he collaborated with a nonprofit organization called See International, and they conducted 1,000 surgeries around the world over a three week period for this video.

1:40.2

And according to the nonprofit, my vision dot org cataract surgery costs an average of $3,500 per eye.

1:49.2

Now in addition to helping 1,000 people see again, he also gave away various prizes throughout the video.

1:55.2

So there were brief cases filled with $10,000 that he gave to people.

1:59.2

One person got a Tesla, another person got a $50,000 check to put towards a college fund.

2:05.2

So that was also sprinkled throughout the video, as well as the gift of sight.

2:10.2

And in the beginning, this video received overwhelming positivity in a very emotional response.

2:16.2

I mean, this thing was watched over 59 million times within the first three days, okay?

2:23.2

But then all of a sudden, there was a turn.

2:26.2

And political commentator and Twitch streamer Hassan Piker reacted to this video in a live stream.

2:33.2

And he said it filled him with rage.

2:36.2

And he goes, it is so extremely frustrating that it is up to one YouTube guy to decide to make content out of it

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