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The prominent content creator and YouTuber MrBeast has just hit the 100 million subscriber milestone today, and celebrated the occasion with a livestream watching the sub count continue to grow until it passed the mark.

Following the achievement, MrBeast spent a lot of the time thanking his friends and fans for helping him to get to this point and re-iterated his love and commitment to YouTube as a platform, with a lot of other prominent YouTubers and internet friends sharing their love and support for him on Twitter after the livestream.

This accomplishment comes just days after MrBeast faced criticism online for his most recent upload, in which he had 100 girls and 100 boys compete against each other in an "isolation challenge." The backlash and criticism came from MrBeast's use of girls and boys, as many online claimed that he was not being gender-inclusive or discriminatory against people who are non-binary by not giving them the chance to be included in the challenge or feel represented in the video.

This, as expected, created a counter-movement where people started to defend MrBeast and shout down others who were critical of him.

Undoubtedly, 100 million is a hard number to truly comprehend, as it is often just a figure only seen online without any real-world representation that's easy to understand. Thankfully, the math was done to show just how impressive this feat is, and how powerful MrBeast would be if he could mobilize all 100 million people together.


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Ass Railroad

Am I the only one who finds the whole Mr. Beast schtick disingenuous? The whole publicized philanthropy mixed in with showing off his wealth gained from doing this for years. Sure maybe it impresses the 10 year olds, but in my opinion he just likes like a rich kid trying to justify his continued richness by throwing a couple dimes to charity on occasion.

Not to get Biblical of all things but that whole "when you give alms let the left hand know not what the right hand doeth" passage comes to mind… which in modern terms is basically a 2000 year old statement to the effect of "those who pronounce how charitable they are by throwing money around in wheel barrels are full of shit." So yeah if people 2000 years ago were calling out the whole Mr. Beast schtick of pseudo charity, its a big part of why it all just seems to me like an act or show to get more money into his pocket at the end of the day.

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KoimanZX

It's almost like the wealthy use philanthropy is a means of control. Their donations are basically investments that net them better public relations, tax breaks, and the ability to influence policy as they create something of a dependency with their short bursts of money.

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