https://twitter.com/EveryVowel/status/1465087476062633986
@MrBeast Squid Games video: 103M views in 4 days. It took 7 weeks to make.
@netflix’s Squid Games series: 111M views in 30 days. It took 10 years (!!) to make.
More views, less time, fewer gatekeepers. That’s the promise of the creator economy.
what the fuck is a "creator" lmao shut up you smoothbrain bourgeois moron...imagine being more fascist than the imperialist radlibs at Vice:
https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7dd7j/mr-beasts-squid-game-ripoff-is-exactly-the-kind-of-video-youtube-rewards
While the video is popular, it's a reductive rip off of the original, not a triumph for the "creator economy."
As a feat of production, it’s not just admirable, but enviable in how perfectly Mr. Beast recreated the sets of ths show. As a piece of media, it’s perverse. This doesn’t just badly misunderstand the anti-capitalist message of Squid Game, it’s a literal recreation of the villain's ultimate desire to watch desperate people compete for money purely for his amusement. In Mr. Beast’s version of Squid Game’s marble game the YouTuber’s research team even paired up best friends in an effort to emulate the tragic stakes of the original show. When the top six are asked what they’d do with the prize money, two of them say that they would give it to their families.
https://twitter.com/ChefLuBu_ATL/status/1465375822026522630
Mr Beast is the Christopher Columbus of creativity
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Beyond parody
Sometimes I wonder if the rich are just so stupid that they don't get the anti-capitalist message of this and Parasite, or so evil that they do get the message and are mocking us.
I think some of the ultra rich probably get it deep down, but your average well off person/millionaire/NOT people as rich as a Warren Buffet are so brainwormed it probably goes over their head.
That said, my opinion of rich people is not very charitable.
Fewer of them are evil than one would expect imo. They're usually just stupid or completely can't be bothered by someone else's struggle (or they commend the struggle as a "rising to a challenge"/bootstraps whatever)