Some of the details are horrific, this entire article is worth reading:
> “One contestant had a seizure; they just left him there,” said Hannah, describing one of the seizure incidents. Medical attention wasn’t brought to them until nearly an hour later, she said.
Holy cow. This feels sort of like fyre festival, but it's hard to tell precisely what is going on here. This team has run big productions before, supposedly?
Have they? Has MrBeast had 2000 people at one event before?
No, but it says on the article they hired people that did and didn't listen to them.
It's like a movie production, you hire companies that do things for you. Most folks are technically contractors that work for their own businesses.
Seems like the standard for MrBeast stuff.
Hire people to ostensibly run things, but all the leadership roles are just MrBeast's mates...
> Production worker Jack said that higher-level managerial positions, like producers, were primarily held by people in MrBeast’s camp.
The fact that the MrBeast YT channel has over 300 million subscribers, and has such a profound grip on youth attention, is something that I occasionally wonder about (in terms of what it says about culture, youth, etc). From my perspective as a 35+ yr old male in the US, everything about it screams idiocracy.
Could not agree more. I have never been able to figure out the appeal of his product, and it has never captured my attention. Ever.
It’s because you’re an adult. It’s specifically crafted to engagement hack literal elementary school students. And youtube rewards him for it.
It's honestly sad.
Cartoons and other media for children have always been ridiculous, over the top, a bit silly, etc. But this stuff is on another level in a way that clearly isn't just some sort of "back in my day" rant. It's creepy.
Let's look back at this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41549649
Is this the result of a team solely consisting of "A-players" who "learn from mistakes"? The document cites previous failures such as "Do not leave consteatants [sic] waiting in the sun (ideally waiting in general) for more than 3 hours."
Among other things, I'd say: these types of documents rarely bear any relation to the reality of a company.
> Among other things, I'd say: these types of documents rarely bear any relation to the reality of a company.
They sort of do, but not in the way one might think or hope.
> However, the three videos published afterward averaged a like-to-dislike ratio of 55.1%.
How are they measuring this?
Three are extensions and tools that reveal the dislikes - they are still there even if Youtube doesn't expose them by default.
The extensions display an estimate based on how many of the extension's users disliked the video. Youtube doesn't expose an API for getting the exact dislike count, except to the creator of the video.
https://github.com/Anarios/return-youtube-dislike/blob/main/...
https://support.google.com/youtube/thread/134791097/update-t...
I don't think they are exposed through any public API, the extensions generally just track it themselves (which of course means only dislikes from those that have the extension installed are counted: apparently they extrapolate their returned count, which does likely mean the result is biased)
Maybe the real contestants were the producers, medics, and support staff.
> Earlier in July, Medics on the Go collaborated with doctors stationed nationwide, eliminating applicants based on their medical records who they felt could be at risk during the competition. At the time, April said Medics on the Go was not privy to age information. April said pharmacy medics learned of the contestant’s age when they first visited the pharmacy and shared their identification wristbands.
> Recalling one healthy 82-year-old lady, April said, “She got banged up and scratched up when it comes to money, people are ruthless.”
I hated reading this article. Disgusting behavior by a YouTube star who will be spared all consequences.
12 Porta-pottys for 2000 people, squid game indeed.
I would assume it was 12 of those semi trailer bathrooms
Would those leak or overflow on contestants sleeping bags as per the article?
the real winner gets to poop
I think it’s funny people never use his real name. Why is that?
Because that’s not the name that most readers know him by.
Sounds like another spoiled rich kid selfishly exploiting others for gain.
He's got to be nearly 30 at this point. I don't think he qualifies as a "kid". Just a rich guy who buys peoples affection so he can exploit them for profit.
He's 26, a year under my self-proscribed cougar line. The medical industry seems to think brain development has largely stopped at 25. No, he's not a kid by any reasonable measure. Let's split the difference; call him a man-child.
People did the same with Ross Ulbrecht and Silk Road. Regardless of what you feel about that marketplace, his attorneys made numerous statements in court:
> just a young kid who made some stupid mistakes
> youthful indiscretion
Except Ross had already turned 30, and wasn't even created until he turned 28...
Can we set the benchmark against the average age of our lawmakers? As they age into a gerontocracy, so too do we age into our midlife crises being 'youthful indiscretions'
Depends on how much money you have