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Re:MrBeast Became the Willy Wonka of YouTube by junon on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @02:18AM (#36306224)
Team Trees and Team Seas weren't enough?

Good lord, y'all are just never satisfied with charity work.

"Mr Beast literally cured blindness for a thousand people and gave them a bunch of money, no strings attached."

"Yeah but he did it for views!"

So what?! He markedly improved 1000 peoples' lives in the process. What have YOU done today?

Get over yourselves.

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Re:MrBeast Became the Willy Wonka of YouTube by throwaway2990 on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @03:02AM (#36306595)
Not only did he improve 1000 lives. He bought awareness to 100s of 1000s of people who didn’t know it’s relatively affordable or can be cured for some.
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Re:MrBeast Became the Willy Wonka of YouTube by plewd on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @03:15AM (#36306690)
> What have YOU done today?

None of us are in his position to make as much change though. Are we not allowed to criticize someone that has far more power than us for not using it to its full potential?

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Re:MrBeast Became the Willy Wonka of YouTube by sokoloff on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @04:16AM (#36307184)
You can criticize anyone for anything you want. Many people will ignore you or think you're a crank when you criticize someone for restoring the sight of 1000 poor people because it wasn't "to its full potential".
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Re:MrBeast Became the Willy Wonka of YouTube by bobsmooth on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @04:22AM (#36307219)
The stereotypical HN user is a highly paid SW engineer. Have you donated to charity lately?
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Re:MrBeast Became the Willy Wonka of YouTube by junon on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @04:39AM (#36307370)
No. That's such an absurd take that I don't even know where to begin.
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