I’m trying to write a video on Mr Beast and the state of the entertainment industry but it’s really hard cause every week he’s up to some new shenanigans - ThreadSky

theabigailthorn.bsky.social • 3 days ago

I’m trying to write a video on Mr Beast and the state of the entertainment industry but it’s really hard cause every week he’s up to some new shenanigans

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Jimmy Donaldson, better known on YouTube as MrBeast, has co-written a thriller novel with author James Patterson. The book is reportedly already at the center of an eight-figure bidding war for publishing rights.

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englishhurler.bsky.social•2 days ago

He's a Jimmy?

kyefox.com•2 days ago

Title it "Is Mr. Beast Giving Hitler?" and make it a mad libs sort of thing where you announce it then finish it based on what people think it's about.

thetwistedlight.bsky.social•3 days ago

On day , to keep raising the stakes, The Beast will have to start actual life and death survival games
Or just
"I HUNTED 1000 PEOPLE FOR SPORT!!! 🤪😱🤯"

canrugger.bsky.social•2 days ago

Make sure to mention he is a racist and homophobe

nonbeanie.bsky.social•3 days ago

I am pretty sure I considered James Patterson either a cryptid or an MLM a long time ago.

badger597.bsky.social•2 days ago

Remember when conspiracy theories were fun and harmless? Mine is that MrBeast doesn't actually exist. Because some completely forgettable generic white dude that I've never actually encountered anything attached to somehow having obscene amounts of money and clout feels like the actual conspiracy...

paradigmpins.bsky.social•3 days ago

Mr. Beast twitter post hyping an upcoming video where he's got a famous thriller author locked in his office for 30 days with nothing but a vintage typewriter, 30 boxes of paper, and a very enthusiastic 'fan' in

3...

2....

1....

rowyourbot.bsky.social•2 days ago

Holy shit I just googled and he’s worth over a half a billion dollars. That is insane.

toasty.cx•3 days ago

eight figure bidding war

they have money for this but not like... good things?
what a mess

maxmcmarx.bsky.social•3 days ago

Isn't that guy into vore? Y'know here in México we used to have thought out telenovelas, now is only the lowest denominator reality show in the duopoly Televisa/TV Azteca.

erictheorange.bsky.social•3 days ago

ah the good old, "dance for me poors. this is life changing money to you but pocket change for me."

krory.bsky.social•3 days ago

Oh good, more tat with his dead-eyed face on it clogging up the shelves. It's like he's going isle by isle at Wal-Mart and deciding how much space he can waste.

bosh.worstpossible.world•3 days ago

i’ve been tracking that guy for a while. have you listened to our ep about him? it was a couple years ago at this point but i think we called some shots

theabigailthorn.bsky.social•3 days ago

It’s on the research list

d957.bsky.social•3 days ago

prepare for next week's game show, Flood! The! Zone!

he's just taking over for the United States press secretary and every time someone asks an incriminating question he just beans them with a brick of money.

queenstodge.bsky.social•2 days ago

Oooh, this going to be an upcoming PhilosophyTube?

sorrowsoftheluna.bsky.social•3 days ago

if it makes you feel better I'm sure neither Mr Beast or James Patterson were involved in the writing of their novel

aiyume7.bsky.social•3 days ago

"Mr. Beast and the State of the Entertainment Industry: Part One (Up to March 2025 Because No One Can Keep Up with This Shit)"

greatjoe.bsky.social•2 days ago

This isn't related to anything, but

the man can't smize.

Literally every picture of him has him do the 2nd grader "smile for the camera" smile. All mouth, no eyes. The eyes are dead. It's not just unprofessional, it underlines his cynicism.

yojimborice.bsky.social•3 days ago

Maybe James Patterson is ghost writing the other half of his own book for Mr. Beast

dgcatanisiri.bsky.social•3 days ago

…

That headline sure has words I recognize individually…

coolcolin.bsky.social•3 days ago

Can someone come and put this dying planet out of its misery

theenbyone.bsky.social•2 days ago

He's like a Fear from the Magnus Archives universe.

sammydemagica.bsky.social•2 days ago

wouldn’t be surprised if AI is involved in this book too lmao

elerose87.bsky.social•2 days ago

Alex Cross doesn't deserve this.

prof.hazardlabs.com•2 days ago

Is there anything left to say? @lackingsaint.bsky.social pretty much deconstructed his shit down to the bone

lauralitebrezia.bsky.social•3 days ago

I…. James Patterson, Maximum Ride, Alex Cross, Witch and Wizard, Daniel X…. THAT James Patterson…. And Mr Beast.

I… what timeline is this

valociraptor.bsky.social•3 days ago

James Patterson is such a hack. He wrote the first book I got mad at because it was so stupid. I think it was the fourth book in the Maximum Ride series, the one with the tortoise woman? I was told the next books weren't good either.

karimancer.bsky.social•2 days ago

I don't know if he's actually even written a book himself in years. He mostly just seems to lease out his name for ghost writers to stamp on the cover.

schweika.bsky.social•3 days ago

You’re just living this meme

nrowland2.bsky.social•3 days ago

I think there would be a lot of value in a PhilosophyTube video discussing parasocial relationships and death of the author. What do we do about creators who we find personally repulsive but produce good content?

emmelinemay.bsky.social•3 days ago

Leftist Cooks did a really good one

https://youtu.be/T31HKuabyMA?si=Hsk7A2iXSUkwfXTf

zokbar13.bsky.social•3 days ago

Aside from death of the author being a theory of interpretation of a work, not an ethical theory about whether to engage with a work, what does "produce good content" have to do with Mr. Beast?

nrowland2.bsky.social•3 days ago

I don't follow him, either as a creator or in the news. I'm just kind of assuming that he has gotten up to good or ill. However, the question of should you follow someone because they are good or bad, or because their content is good or bad, is a question worth exploring.

zokbar13.bsky.social•3 days ago

That still isn't what death of the author is.

nrowland2.bsky.social•3 days ago

I've clarified what I meant by my statement. If you feel that "death of the author" isn't the a good fit for what I mean, so be it. I'm not going to claim I'm a literary scholar.

zokbar13.bsky.social•2 days ago

Hey, I'm sorry that came across as pendantic. I didn't mean to make you feel that way. I agree that your point here--how to deal with work you like that was made by a terrible person--would be an interesting topic to see Abigail talk about.

mrsplatypus.bsky.social•2 days ago

Jesus, I spent good two minutes convinced it was Mr Beast and Jordan Peterson writing a book together. That would probably require a dedicated 3-part PhilosophyTube mini-series to unpack.

athenaalmighty.bsky.social•2 days ago

As well as copious amounts of alcohol

pandorahex.bsky.social•3 days ago

He seems like a guy who is trapped on the conveyor belt of “Content”, I can’t imagine him relaxed and on holiday or something, y’know?

rqwisenheimer.bsky.social•3 days ago

The only thing I really know is that nobody in Scotland would be calling themselves that name.

rthrtylr.bsky.social•3 days ago

Is that because of what I think it’s because of?

dragoncrowngames.bsky.social•2 days ago

Each day, I grow prouder in the fact I've never watched any of his content nor purchased any of his products.

screamingcactus.bsky.social•2 days ago

I hadn't even heard of him until he was already the biggest channel on YouTube. Here I was thinking it was still PewDiePie, and no, it was this other little freak who just crawled out of the sewer

ramblinactivist.bsky.social•2 days ago

I tried to write a video script about neofeudal fascism and the rise of Liz Truss. I started five months before Truss was PM, but they were gone before I could finish it :-(

Now I really don't know where to go with that work now, other than Narnia: It's so 'fantasy fascist league'.

ramblinactivist.bsky.social•2 days ago

Then again, we may have passed the point of 'fantasy fascist league' now and we're playing more simplistic 'top Trumps'.

lurdiak.bsky.social•3 days ago

You need to figure out a way to get him to stop doing things.... permanently.... hmmmmmm

helkite.bsky.social•3 days ago

We. We as a collective should stop grim from doing things. I believe she has enough on her plate already

worldofcardboard.bsky.social•2 days ago

Okay, but is there a more perfect duo than Mr. Beast and Patterson?

archimicarus.bsky.social•2 days ago

Oh god this thing is going to have Jigsaw-like torture game sequences where the incentive structures don’t math out right

andros-haldane.bsky.social•3 days ago

wait wat

lithelyunshod.bsky.social•3 days ago

I wonder if they got yet a third person to actually write it.

lupusastartis.bsky.social•2 days ago

most likely. or they used ai.

sdschap.bsky.social•3 days ago

Was it not Nobel Laureate Richard Feynman who said:

I think I can safely say that nobody understands Mr Beast.

jginsburg.bsky.social•2 days ago

The first time I heard about this guy was when I saw his candy bar in the store, then I find out he is the biggest guy on YouTube for doing freaky taskmaster. There is some seriously up with this

d0gm3at.bsky.social•3 days ago

I feel like mr beast is the physical manifestation of a dystopia

karl1ok.bsky.social•2 days ago

So, just extremely american then?

darkfry.bsky.social•3 days ago

I had to shelve my Mr. Beast video because by the time I recorded it it was outdated in like 20 different ways

tbskyen.com•3 days ago

The speed of Mr Beast outstrips our ability to understand it

retrohistories.bsky.social•2 days ago

like a cloud formation, every Mr Beast you can perceive is but a fleeting phenomenon you project your own shape and meaning on to. we look at nothing and imagine we see something, but as soon as we look away, it’s gone. it’s transient and strangely beautiful.

bornmiserable.bsky.social•3 days ago

please tell me the thriller novel is about a guy who solves crimes but the one crime he cannot solve is his creepy ass smile

petermcgladdery.bsky.social•3 days ago

"I Locked 100 Ghost Writers In A Room for 2 Weeks"

squidrecluse.bsky.social•3 days ago

Strange, I was just thinking the other day how Mr. Beast is a lot like Raid: Shadow Legend. I hear about it all the time, all over the internet, but I don't know a single person in real life who actually plays it (or watches, in the case of said Beast).
Who is actually sustaining these entities?

carucath.bsky.social•3 days ago

Well in the case of Mr. Beast it's children (in multiple languages as he has official dubs in several)

frskogstad.bsky.social•3 days ago

Children, indeed. _Everyone_ in my kid's (8yo) class knows well who he is, many of them watches his content (and have their parents buy his merch, either licenced or knock-offs) regularly.

dafrgama.bsky.social•1 day ago

the only logical explanation for jimmy’s unstoppable rise and also general personality is that at some point in 2016 he encountered satan and proceeded to exchange his eternal soul for youtube virality

dafrgama.bsky.social•1 day ago

or idk, maybe that’s too complicated. maybe he just straight-up is satan

alwayshavetosay.bsky.social•2 days ago

I’m more interested in James Patterson. Just looking at his catalog, wtf?

smokedbison.bsky.social•3 days ago

It'll be an NYT bestseller.

Right beside a cookbook that sold 0 copies but is also somehow a NYT bestseller.

The whole world is fucking meaningless.

lexabro.bsky.social•3 days ago

Ok hold on I don't believe either one of them wrote more than like 20 pages each

roseschmits.bsky.social•3 days ago

He’s like an eldritch horror with ever shifting form to try and behold him in its entirety will drive one to madness

madscientist212.bsky.social•3 days ago

Picking a name like "Mr Beast" for his online moniker is some next level hiding in plain sight shit.

melhadf.shite.name•3 days ago

That explains that not quite human smile that is so persistent. He learnt it from wikihow, and it said that humans smile to show they are friendly.

theabigailthorn.bsky.social•3 days ago

I am going to shock you with my take lol

daankeiman.bsky.social•3 days ago

Not sure if you’re already planning on this but I’d love to hear some reflections on what an inverse Mr. Beast would look like. A game show that promotes cooperation, reveals how systems and hierarchies work, then seeks to build something new rooted in compassion. Rewarding altruism and mutual aid.

zokbar13.bsky.social•3 days ago

"The President is Missing," which James Patterson's ghost writer co-wrote with Bill Clinton's ghost writer, was a bestseller. But Bill Clinton appeals as a stunt co-author credit to middlebrow reades who buy James Patterson's conmodity novels. They don't know who Mr. Beast is.

zokbar13.bsky.social•3 days ago

And Mr. Beast's tween audience isn't going to demand mom or dad buy a thriller for them, and they don't know who James Patterson is. It will be surprising if this makes back its advance. The only guarantee here is crowding out a publisher's book list, because they blew their budget on this idiocy.

hooliet.bsky.social•2 days ago

I feel at this point your video could be you just standing in front of a screen, pointing at his bullshit while screaming and somehow that would be enough.

rokhausen.jeffbezosmicrowavingahotdog.com•2 days ago

What the flying fuck?

ostonox.com•3 days ago

don't forget to mention how he was set to become a member of the board of directors for Forbes

no one knows this one because it was so subtly slipped into his own Forbes profile!

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230919938349/en/Forbes-Acquisition-Attracts-Next-Generation-Business-Leaders

rowyourbot.bsky.social•2 days ago

He sure as hell knows how to make money.

specialunderwear.bsky.social•2 days ago

You radicalized me against mr.beast

pnwcrabapple.bsky.social•3 days ago

I feel the same way about Mr. Beast as I did about Elon musk 15 years ago. An initial whothefuckisthisguy followed by an increasing weary dread of fuckihatethatiknowwhothisguyis

dulcet-abyssal.bsky.social•2 days ago

his shenanigans have one common feature. him. it doesn't matter what the details are. it's all shit.

tttransformer.bsky.social•3 days ago

It's like a youtube version of boris johnson's strategy:

Pepper everyone with gaffs so no one can know which one to pay attention to

zeekar.bsky.social•2 days ago

I really fucking thought that said jordan peterson at first and I nearly lost my jaw

doubleharold.bsky.social•2 days ago

He's the Emperor of Youtube.

legato2057.bsky.social•2 days ago

I bet $100 that he used AI to write it.

karimancer.bsky.social•2 days ago

Patterson mostly just rents out his name for ghost writers anyway. They're a match made in hell

deadling.bsky.social•3 days ago

Also "people" like him prove that at least some parts of MIB are true.

deadling.bsky.social•3 days ago

Yeesh, thought those lame gacha toys were bad.

dusanmitrovic.rs•3 days ago

Careful there Abigail, he's the industry's golden boy. And nobody touches their golden boy.

schlocktacular.bsky.social•2 days ago

Today we have 100 ghost writes competing to write our new novel. If any of them step off their platform they will be eliminated.

Actually I’m bored now, we’re going to have them balance a ball instead for some reason.

This is still too slow. Now we’re just going to have them vote each other off.

scratching92.bsky.social•3 days ago

Damn. The pace of Mr Beast is outstripping our ability to PhilosophyTube about him...

caelarkh.bsky.social•3 days ago

Nemik Marx predicted this

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