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   monkϵyborg 🦾🐵 (monkeyborg@triangletoot.party)'s status on Saturday, 11-Feb-2023 01:31:37 JST monkϵyborg 🦾🐵

   Mr. Beast is going around curing the blind now. What if he is literally the antichrist? Motherfuckers spend two millennia poring over Revelations trying to figure out *what it all means* and then the Beast shows up all like

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     Mr. Funk E. Dude (mrfunkedude@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 11-Feb-2023 01:31:36 JST Mr. Funk E. Dude

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     @monkeyborg What I don't get is no one was complaining when he was giving away cars, and homes, and millions of dollars to people...

     But give 1000 people eye surgery and he's suddenly the anti-christ for making money from YouTube and sponsors, while he's doing it.

     Because it would be HORRIBLE if he made money from it so that he could go and help more people. ?

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     monkϵyborg 🦾🐵 (monkeyborg@triangletoot.party)'s status on Saturday, 11-Feb-2023 01:44:46 JST monkϵyborg 🦾🐵

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     @Mrfunkedude Lol yeah, to be clear Iʼm an atheist and donʼt actually believe he (or anyone else) is the antichrist. And people having as much money as him for doing stunts on YouTube, and the need to fix things like people not being able to afford cataract surgery, are both systemic problems that should not exist. But among people who are in a position to move that much money around, he seems to have chosen to use his powers (mostly) for good.

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     Mr. Funk E. Dude (mrfunkedude@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 11-Feb-2023 01:44:50 JST Mr. Funk E. Dude

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     @monkeyborg same.

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     Mr. Funk E. Dude (mrfunkedude@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 11-Feb-2023 02:40:22 JST Mr. Funk E. Dude

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     @monkeyborg @nlarson830 at least he's doing something with that clout. I heard in an interview that aside from paying his associates a living wage and helping his mother to retire, the vast majority of his earnings goes back into his channel so that he can fund his next video.

     Essentially he's farming views to make money to help others and to have fun so that more people can watch and buy his merch so that he can reinvest it back and help more people.

     What an asshole.

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     monkϵyborg 🦾🐵 (monkeyborg@triangletoot.party)'s status on Saturday, 11-Feb-2023 02:40:23 JST monkϵyborg 🦾🐵

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     @nlarson830 @Mrfunkedude As I understand it, the concern is that heʼs doing this from impure motives, i.e., to increase the number of pageviews on his account.

     So I guess weʼre pretending now that the YouTube generation invented trading philanthropy for clout.

     Mr. Funk E. Dude repeated this.
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     Nick 'The Viking' (nlarson830@techhub.social)'s status on Saturday, 11-Feb-2023 02:40:24 JST Nick 'The Viking'

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     @Mrfunkedude @monkeyborg

     Are people misunderstanding that it's a good thing to help people see again?

     If he convinces other people/orgs to give him money to then help other people that's a charity, and depending on how he runs there will be taxes.

     Is he trading these eye surgeries for the folk's next born child or what's got people bent?

     Has anyone checked the lifestyles of most eye surgeons and what sort of profit margin they operate under?

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     Mr. Funk E. Dude (mrfunkedude@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 11-Feb-2023 02:41:51 JST Mr. Funk E. Dude

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     • Nick 'The Viking'

     @nlarson830 @monkeyborg you never know. One of those cars might have helped someone save up or earn eye surgery.

     But you know what they say, "no good deed goes unpunished".

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     Nick 'The Viking' (nlarson830@techhub.social)'s status on Saturday, 11-Feb-2023 02:41:52 JST Nick 'The Viking'

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     @monkeyborg @Mrfunkedude

     Well yeah, it is something the Youtubers just invented so there's that ?

     It seems that folks don't understand that giving someone a car, and giving someone cataract surgery of equal cost.... is not at all the same thing.

     Buncha crybabies.