After YouTuber MrBeast made a video about paying for 1,000 blind people's eye surgery, critics raise questions about “stunt philanthropy” and “charity porn”
Is it stunt philanthropy or self-funded charity in the YouTube age? — A YouTuber just helped treat 1,000 people with blindness and low vision.
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@austen
Austen Allred
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This makes a great point. Mr. Beast didn't ask, “Would you like to no longer be blind, or would you prefer to remain blind?” We're left to simply assume that people who decided to undergo surgery that can cure blindness wanted to no longer be blind. How dare he. https://twitter.c…
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@mrbeast
Mr Beast
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I did not expect this video to do this well 😮 https://twitter.com/...
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@mrbeast
@mrbeast
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Twitter - Rich people should help others with their money Me - Okay, I'll use my money to help people and I promise to give away all my money before I die. Every single penny. Twitter - MrBeast bad
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@kantrowitz
Alex Kantrowitz
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Mr. Beast paid for 1,000 people to have blindness curing surgery, raised awareness for it, and this is the reaction. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
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@steven_aquino
Steven Aquino
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If you wanna see a microcosm of how the ableist mindset pervades society writ large, check out the replies to Mr. Beast's tweet on disabled people being ROIs. They essentially say disabilities are a failure of the human condition and thus require eradication.
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@saeeddicaprio
@saeeddicaprio
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the entire mrbeast discourse in one picture https://twitter.com/...
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@wapplehouse
Kristi YamaGuccimane
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It's the never ending cycle of content creation that makes Mr Beast feel insidious. The underlying notion that if the camera wasn't on to feed the machine nothing would happen. The dystopian thought we're reliant on YouTube views instead of competent government for assistance.
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@ibridge08
@ibridge08
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the chronically online: rich ppl should help the poor mr beast: *helps the poor* everyone: https://twitter.com/...
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@katimcf
@katimcf
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has no one talked about the mr beast thing wrt inspiration porn and disability or did I just miss it
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@loudmouthjulia
Julia Alexander
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There's a really interesting potential piece in stunt philanthropy and commercially driven idea that every act is done in search of return, whether it be financial or cultural stature, how YT's algorithmic recommendations support and dictate this behavior. This piece isn't that. …
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@lunaluvvy
Luna
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mr beast buys 1000 black women beyonce tickets
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@joshuaphilll
@joshuaphilll
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I don't hate Mr. Beast. I don't particularly care about Mr. Beast. What I hate is a system where good deeds are only done if they're profitable, where people are forced to rely on the unreliable benevolence of the rich because they have no other way of having their needs met.
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@jezzerat
@jezzerat
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I'll be brutally honest and admit that 99.99% of my visceral dislike of Mr. Beast is about how every time he appears on my TL he looks like this https://twitter.com/...
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@jack_raines
Jack Raines
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The dunking on @MrBeast for paying for sight restoration surgery for 1,000 people is insane. “Oh if he REALLY wanted to do a good thing he wouldn't put it all over Youtube.” You realize he can afford to do this stuff *because* he puts it on Youtube, right?