@egirlyuumimain@Hoss my take is that he stood by his friend back when he was pervert freak behind closed doors but a visibly normal dude in the public eye (mistake). then Chris came out as a troon and beast felt he couldn’t just drop him for PR reasons at that point. so he had to give Chris enough rope to hang himself and have a casus belli to fire him that would stand up to woke outrage. maybe I’m projecting but he seems like a guy that above all prioritizes his business.
in this whole situation he’s like 20 or something so I’m gonna let him slide on it. people live and learn 👍🏻
@egirlyuumimain@Hoss I’m not totally up on the details like if he knew Chris was perving on 12 year old boys on discord it’s different but just him being a freak with shadman art in his room i kinda get. beast is obviously uber busy and not keeping up with the details of every member of the entourage’s life
@egirlyuumimain@Hoss a ton of people hate him, wish death on him etc and its weird. I think it’s 1) he’s so successful and 2) he’s autistic and has a weird affect
@john_darksoul@bebe@lonestarr@Hoss@hazlin His core business is his YouTube channel. Anyway I’m not saying he’s a great guy. He’s a genre and era defining artist. Good artists are gonna be fringe people. Salvador Dali kicked his little sister in the head on purpose because he felt like it and was a weird freak. There’s a zillion examples of stuff like this. I don't hate him for it. I do think the government should crawl up his ass and teach him not to market gambling to kids.
@john_darksoul@lonestarr@bebe@Hoss@hazlin I don’t think you can talk about this era of YouTube/short form content without talking about Mr Beast. I think he’s unironically a very influential and innovative artist. never heard of the Ryan guy.
@hazlin@lonestarr@Hoss no I’m curious what you mean. he isn’t a Christian if thats what you’re talking about but I think it’s obvious that he doesn’t fit the prophecies in revelations about the anti christ
@hazlin@lonestarr@Hoss Eh, the way I see it he realized that giving money away/charity is an algorithm hack and transparently exploiting it to the hilt. People legitimately hate him now for some reason though. Like every comment thread online is full of wishes for his death and ruination. I think people took him at face value for a while but have realized that his charity is totally self serving. But in terms of ways to get ahead giving people money, building homes, restoring children’s sight or whatever etc has some obvious positive externalities and I think that should be supported and applauded even if it’s self serving. “Greed is good“ (when it has positive externalities). People are supposed to love the antichrist though which they don’t love him. In terms of seeing him as a savior I think they mainly see him as a source of free money and want a chunk of it.