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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  • fox [comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    Late to the party on this one but it's a good critique regardless. Most people let the irony of a 1:1 recreation go unsaid but pointing out that it directly places MrBeast in the role of the overall villain, complete with identical motivation, is always useful.

    • Mehrunes_Laser [comrade/them, any]
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      3 years ago

      And his name is Mrbeast. If the onion wrote this, we'd all laugh at how on the nose it is. But no, it's real life.

      "YouTube star MrBeast stages live action squid games for his own personal sexual amusement. States "I just can't reach completion anymore unless poors are begging for my money."-The Onion

  • Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]
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    3 years ago

    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.

    • corgiwithalaptop [any, love/loves]
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      3 years ago

      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.

    • spectre [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      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)

    • Straight_Depth [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      Not just the sidewalk, it's literally pissing onto the people who are even lower on the rungs of the caste ladder; it's the same corrupt money game with less sanctioned murder (and presumably only because they couldn't get away with it)

  • Leon_Grotsky [comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    I liked the part of squid game where squid game is too difficult to explain to the g*mers so they play musical chairs instead

    I also liked the part in squid game where they give $2000 to the people that died

    I also have not seen squid game