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FarkingChas
2023-02-01 11:09:29 AM  
Did he 100% use donations to do it?
Is there a paper trail for the donations?
Documentation on the 1000 people?
 
Smashed Hat
2023-02-01 11:13:39 AM  

FarkingChas: Did he 100% use donations to do it?
Is there a paper trail for the donations?
Documentation on the 1000 people?


What? The thumbnail image isn't enough evidence for you?
 
Kitty2.0 [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-01 11:25:22 AM  
A friend of mine had this surgery. Very successful. Good on him for helping these people.
 
hoyt clagwell [OhFark]
2023-02-01 11:31:58 AM  
Who is Mr. Beast?
 
mongbiohazard
2023-02-01 11:33:12 AM  
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Kitty2.0 [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-01 11:36:32 AM  

hoyt clagwell: Who is Mr. Beast?


A Twitch streamer with like 30millionbazillion dollars.
 
Wine Sipping Elitist [TotalFark]
2023-02-01 11:41:08 AM  
I keep thinking people say Mitsubishi when they say Mr Beast
 
Thosw [BareFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-01 11:43:30 AM  
This is the guy who's just leveraging other people's money through his YouTube channel advertising, right?
 
FarkingChas
2023-02-01 11:49:34 AM  

Thosw: This is the guy who's just leveraging other people's money through his YouTube channel advertising, right?


I think that is what he does. The YouTube front page is filled with promoting his videos.
 
Gleeman [BareFark]
2023-02-01 11:51:17 AM  

FarkingChas: Thosw: This is the guy who's just leveraging other people's money through his YouTube channel advertising, right?

I think that is what he does. The YouTube front page is filled with promoting his videos.


Apparently he's popular with the kids or something.
 
Lumbar Puncture
2023-02-01 12:00:25 PM  

FarkingChas: Did he 100% use donations to do it?
Is there a paper trail for the donations?
Documentation on the 1000 people?


He wouldn't need to, the ad revenue off of any of his videos would've been enough to cover it.
That should cover the second question as well.
The people in the video? I guess could all be actors along with the doctors but the streamer is mega rich with multiple companies including one for charity specifically, so I'd probably guess that he knows what paperwork needs to be involved and that making a video otherwise documenting fraud would be pretty stupid.

If you want to get cynical though about it, it's pretty farked up that $1,000 people who couldn't afford access to healthcare to save their vision (he says they're blind in the video though cataract surgery doesn't cure blindness, though it does make it possible to see much better again) and that they have to rely on the generosity of a rich person who wanted to make streaming content and absolutely more than likely that he made more money than he spend on the procedure. The procedure full out of pocket if done in an OR without insurance contracts is around $12k, and he makes tens of millions of dollars for each video.

So yeah the most cynical thing about this is that if you have a medical condition in the US that you can't afford treatment for you might have to wait until a rich streamer decides the condition is potentially viral enough (pun intended!) to be used as video content.
 
JolobinSmokin
2023-02-01 12:10:49 PM  
Terrible news about our country.

We can't even afford to give people the surgeries they need. Have to crowd source medical care.
 
Ambivalence [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-01 12:12:06 PM  
It's horrible that people need charity to get healthcare. Yes, it's nice of him to step up, but we shouldn't need rich philanthropists to help people get healthcare in a civilized country.
 
quo vadimus
2023-02-01 12:12:47 PM  
I can't tell why the part that he's doing this as a massively well-paying job bothers people. Would they rather have one more CEO of one more Purdue Pharma?
 
Lumbar Puncture
2023-02-01 12:17:09 PM  

quo vadimus: I can't tell why the part that he's doing this as a massively well-paying job bothers people. Would they rather have one more CEO of one more Purdue Pharma?


It doesn't bother me he's doing this as a well-paying job. Good on him for doing so.

It bothers me that those people had to wait until someone decided they'd make good video content to get medical care.
 
Muso
2023-02-01 12:17:31 PM  
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FarkingChas
2023-02-01 12:22:07 PM  
quo vadimus:
Muso:

A lot of people donate to charities. They don't use the donation to make money for themselves. There are already charities that do what he did. YOU ever donate to anything?
 
No Line For Beer
2023-02-01 12:23:38 PM  

Lumbar Puncture: (he says they're blind in the video though cataract surgery doesn't cure blindness, though it does make it possible to see much better again)


Legally/functionally blind, not Stevie Wonder blind.
 
Lumbar Puncture
2023-02-01 12:31:31 PM  

No Line For Beer: Lumbar Puncture: (he says they're blind in the video though cataract surgery doesn't cure blindness, though it does make it possible to see much better again)

Legally/functionally blind, not Stevie Wonder blind.


Yep, but still a pretty important distinction especially when claiming to cure someone of it.
 
Kitty2.0 [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-01 12:35:31 PM  

Lumbar Puncture: No Line For Beer: Lumbar Puncture: (he says they're blind in the video though cataract surgery doesn't cure blindness, though it does make it possible to see much better again)

Legally/functionally blind, not Stevie Wonder blind.

Yep, but still a pretty important distinction especially when claiming to cure someone of it.


Only for pedants on Fark.
 
quo vadimus
2023-02-01 12:40:07 PM  

FarkingChas: quo vadimus:
Muso:

A lot of people donate to charities. They don't use the donation to make money for themselves. There are already charities that do what he did. YOU ever donate to anything?


No, I've never donated to anything in my life. Can you point me to an active fund to cure people who pretend they can't understand a discussion point in order to maintain their ability to assume they know anything about a stranger on the internet?
 
Lumbar Puncture
2023-02-01 12:42:39 PM  

Kitty2.0: Lumbar Puncture: No Line For Beer: Lumbar Puncture: (he says they're blind in the video though cataract surgery doesn't cure blindness, though it does make it possible to see much better again)

Legally/functionally blind, not Stevie Wonder blind.

Yep, but still a pretty important distinction especially when claiming to cure someone of it.

Only for pedants on Fark.


Probably also for those suffering from complete blindness, such as those who have total cataracts without light through their lens long enough that no surgery will correct it. But I guess defending slight criticism of a streamer is more important than any of the other context of the cruelty of the medical system in general, so yay, at least y'all got to the important part of my comment.

My apologies for commenting on MrBeast saying he's curing blindness.
 
skyotter
2023-02-01 12:58:55 PM  
I enjoyed the comments from first world nations.

"This is routine free surgery in my country.  Wait, America just lets you go blind?!"
 
mongbiohazard
2023-02-01 1:04:43 PM  

skyotter: I enjoyed the comments from first world nations.

"This is routine free surgery in my country.  Wait, America just lets you go blind?!"


Every farkin' time. Every American human interest story works that way. "Look at this amazing person who's doing a nice thing that should be utterly unnecessary in a civilized country. Ignore the horror, and pretend that this is a feel good story."
 
hoyt clagwell [OhFark]
2023-02-01 1:19:13 PM  

Kitty2.0: hoyt clagwell: Who is Mr. Beast?

A Twitch streamer with like 30millionbazillion dollars.


Thanks!
 
MusicMakeMyHeadPound [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-01 2:07:48 PM  
Good for this dude doing what he's doing on an individual level, but GODDAMN it's an indictment on us as a country.
 
Parallax [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-01 2:35:02 PM  

Lumbar Puncture: (snip) The procedure full out of pocket if done in an OR without insurance contracts is around $12k, and he makes tens of millions of dollars for each video.

Well... no. His biggest ever video (Squid Game) is currently at 355M views, and at around a buck per thousand views earned, it only pulled in $355,000 on its own. He does reportedly earn about $50M per year in total though (between ad rev from all his uploads & also a few licensed retail products), and is hopeful to be YouTube's first billionaire by the end of the '20s. So if anyone can afford to occasionally spend a few million bucks curing blindness, it's him. Pretty amazing for a 24-year-old kid just having fun with his friends.

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I created Farkman back in 2001, so I got a major kick out of this. <3
 
Farkenhostile
2023-02-01 2:35:43 PM  

Gleeman: FarkingChas: Thosw: This is the guy who's just leveraging other people's money through his YouTube channel advertising, right?

I think that is what he does. The YouTube front page is filled with promoting his videos.

Apparently he's popular with the kids or something.

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little big man [TotalFark]
2023-02-01 2:40:17 PM  
He gave that kid a Tesla?  Hasn't he suffered enough already?
 
winedrinkingman
2023-02-01 2:54:40 PM  

Kitty2.0: hoyt clagwell: Who is Mr. Beast?

A Twitch streamer with like 30millionbazillion dollars.


A twitch streamer who figured out how to make 30millionbazillion dollars by giving away about 20milliobazillion dollars.  He does a lot of good work, and honestly I am glad he figured out hot to make money doing good things, but at the same time you have to remember that while he helped a thousand people see again, helping every visually impaired person in the world, or even our country is well beyond him and all the do gooders put together, so we need a better plan.
 
Kitty2.0 [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-01 2:55:56 PM  

winedrinkingman: Kitty2.0: hoyt clagwell: Who is Mr. Beast?

A Twitch streamer with like 30millionbazillion dollars.

A twitch streamer who figured out how to make 30millionbazillion dollars by giving away about 20milliobazillion dollars.  He does a lot of good work, and honestly I am glad he figured out hot to make money doing good things, but at the same time you have to remember that while he helped a thousand people see again, helping every visually impaired person in the world, or even our country is well beyond him and all the do gooders put together, so we need a better plan.


I don't have to remember anything, I'm not the captain of this ship.
 
PvtStash
2023-02-01 3:09:26 PM  
this kind of chit do not make me feel good, it's just the best evidence ever that we are terrible uncivilized a holes.

Actual civilization wouldn't some rando 'good sanitarian' to help blind people, we'd be civilized and taking care of this ourselves as par for the course systematic for all heath care.


you can only feel good about this, if you believe this is also the right way for these people to get their help, and not that we as a group ought to just be civilized and provide that already cause you were simply born as a member of our civilization.

.
 
Rattrap007
2023-02-01 3:10:02 PM  
Why would you ever use that thumbnail picture? Look like he pulled the kid out of surgery to tell him while he was under he got molested. Shocked face and tears on the kid, big grin on Mr Beast. Yeah looks all kinds of wrong.
 
Manic Depressive Mouse [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-01 3:34:11 PM  

mongbiohazard: skyotter: I enjoyed the comments from first world nations.

"This is routine free surgery in my country.  Wait, America just lets you go blind?!"

Every farkin' time. Every American human interest story works that way. "Look at this amazing person who's doing a nice thing that should be utterly unnecessary in a civilized country. Ignore the horror, and pretend that this is a feel good story."


I don't think eye care is covered in Canada by the medical care either. I always needed private coverage to get glasses and eye exams. I think they might pay for eye exams (but not glasses or surgeries) for children and those over 65, but it's been a while since I looked it into it.
 
Flappyhead
2023-02-01 3:39:57 PM  

No Line For Beer: Lumbar Puncture: (he says they're blind in the video though cataract surgery doesn't cure blindness, though it does make it possible to see much better again)

Legally/functionally blind, not Stevie Wonder blind.


Legally blind person here.  The definition is broader than people think because there are numerous eye disorders that leave you with vision but nowhere near enough to function.  Take my glasses off and everything 6 inches past my nose is watercolor impressionist finger painting.  Best doctors can do for me is a retinal cleaning that would essentially give me the same vision as I do with glasses, which still isn't great.
 
EdgeRunner [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-01 3:53:28 PM  

Kitty2.0: winedrinkingman: Kitty2.0: hoyt clagwell: Who is Mr. Beast?

A Twitch streamer with like 30millionbazillion dollars.

A twitch streamer who figured out how to make 30millionbazillion dollars by giving away about 20milliobazillion dollars.  He does a lot of good work, and honestly I am glad he figured out hot to make money doing good things, but at the same time you have to remember that while he helped a thousand people see again, helping every visually impaired person in the world, or even our country is well beyond him and all the do gooders put together, so we need a better plan.

I don't have to remember anything, I'm not the captain of this ship.


Joke's on you! We took a vote while you were out of the room and now you are!

It's up to you if you want to wear the hat or not.
 
Kitty2.0 [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-01 4:01:54 PM  

EdgeRunner: Kitty2.0: winedrinkingman: Kitty2.0: hoyt clagwell: Who is Mr. Beast?

A Twitch streamer with like 30millionbazillion dollars.

A twitch streamer who figured out how to make 30millionbazillion dollars by giving away about 20milliobazillion dollars.  He does a lot of good work, and honestly I am glad he figured out hot to make money doing good things, but at the same time you have to remember that while he helped a thousand people see again, helping every visually impaired person in the world, or even our country is well beyond him and all the do gooders put together, so we need a better plan.

I don't have to remember anything, I'm not the captain of this ship.

Joke's on you! We took a vote while you were out of the room and now you are!

It's up to you if you want to wear the hat or not.


Goddamnit!!! *snatches hat off the table*

First order of business, every pharmaceutical stockholder is executed at dawn.
 
Kris_Romm
2023-02-01 4:09:53 PM  

hoyt clagwell: Who is Mr. Beast?


A person who could buy those 1000 houses or luxury cars too and still be in the black.
 
meanmutton
2023-02-01 4:13:30 PM  

hoyt clagwell: Who is Mr. Beast?


A dude who does YouTube videos where he helps people and gives people money, houses, etc. That's his entire thing - he videos himself giving away massive amounts of money.
 
meanmutton
2023-02-01 4:14:20 PM  

Thosw: This is the guy who's just leveraging other people's money through his YouTube channel advertising, right?


Basically. People pay him because he has about 100 million subscribers. He uses thaglt money go help people out.
 
Kris_Romm
2023-02-01 4:20:19 PM  

meanmutton: hoyt clagwell: Who is Mr. Beast?

A dude who does YouTube videos where he helps people and gives people money, houses, etc. That's his entire thing - he videos himself giving away massive amounts of money.


Yeah, someone called him a Streamer, but I really only know him from YouTube.

Annoyingly enough there's also a guy who calls himself "Mr. Beat" there too.
 
Kris_Romm
2023-02-01 4:21:31 PM  

meanmutton: Thosw: This is the guy who's just leveraging other people's money through his YouTube channel advertising, right?

Basically. People pay him because he has about 100 million subscribers. He uses thaglt money go help people out.


Also, he sells Hamburgers.
 
phimuskapsi [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-01 4:46:01 PM  

JolobinSmokin: Terrible news about our country.

We can't even afford to give people the surgeries they need. Have to crowd source medical care.


Well, good news because most of the surgeries were not done in the US, the majority were done overseas.

hoyt clagwell: Who is Mr. Beast?


He's a YouTuber who is worth about $105 million. His company pulls in $3M a month in ad revenue due to views; and with 131 million subscribers, he's easily the biggest channel on YT and has pulled in 22 billion views.

He got popular by doing these giveaways and games for people. To grow his channel he used to take all the ad revenue he got from an episode and put it into the next, making everything bigger. Just over his 5 biggest giveaways he's given away $6.1 million dollars worth of prizes, and probably $25 to 50 million overall. He was also the driver behind "Team Trees" that planted 20 million trees or something in a year.

In his interviews he has often said that he doesn't need money, doesn't even really like it. Drives a crappy car and largely lives simply just having fun with his friends. It's pretty nice to see today.

Good doc here:
The Origin and Rise of MrBeast | Full Documentary | Beyond the Spotlight
Youtube _Qq6sCvz4Z0
 
mongbiohazard
2023-02-01 4:49:15 PM  

phimuskapsi: JolobinSmokin: Terrible news about our country.

We can't even afford to give people the surgeries they need. Have to crowd source medical care.

Well, good news because most of the surgeries were not done in the US, the majority were done overseas.

hoyt clagwell: Who is Mr. Beast?

He's a YouTuber who is worth about $105 million. His company pulls in $3M a month in ad revenue due to views; and with 131 million subscribers, he's easily the biggest channel on YT and has pulled in 22 billion views.

He got popular by doing these giveaways and games for people. To grow his channel he used to take all the ad revenue he got from an episode and put it into the next, making everything bigger. Just over his 5 biggest giveaways he's given away $6.1 million dollars worth of prizes, and probably $25 to 50 million overall. He was also the driver behind "Team Trees" that planted 20 million trees or something in a year.

In his interviews he has often said that he doesn't need money, doesn't even really like it. Drives a crappy car and largely lives simply just having fun with his friends. It's pretty nice to see today.

Good doc here:
[YouTube video: The Origin and Rise of MrBeast | Full Documentary | Beyond the Spotlight]


I've gotten his ghost kitchen burgers before. They were pretty decent.
 
phimuskapsi [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-01 4:55:56 PM  

mongbiohazard: I've gotten his ghost kitchen burgers before. They were pretty decent.


I've heard that! It's a genius business model, because outside of one store, all the others are served by ghost kitchens or family restaurants as a separate business model, and they handle everything from marketing to food orders.
 
mongbiohazard
2023-02-01 5:12:21 PM  

phimuskapsi: mongbiohazard: I've gotten his ghost kitchen burgers before. They were pretty decent.

I've heard that! It's a genius business model, because outside of one store, all the others are served by ghost kitchens or family restaurants as a separate business model, and they handle everything from marketing to food orders.


Ghost kitchens are a big thing now. They exploded in popularity when COVID hit in 2020. A good portion of the restaurants in my area are ghost kitchens.
 
EdgeRunner [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-01 8:23:17 PM  

Kitty2.0: EdgeRunner: Kitty2.0: winedrinkingman: Kitty2.0: hoyt clagwell: Who is Mr. Beast?

A Twitch streamer with like 30millionbazillion dollars.

A twitch streamer who figured out how to make 30millionbazillion dollars by giving away about 20milliobazillion dollars.  He does a lot of good work, and honestly I am glad he figured out hot to make money doing good things, but at the same time you have to remember that while he helped a thousand people see again, helping every visually impaired person in the world, or even our country is well beyond him and all the do gooders put together, so we need a better plan.

I don't have to remember anything, I'm not the captain of this ship.

Joke's on you! We took a vote while you were out of the room and now you are!

It's up to you if you want to wear the hat or not.

Goddamnit!!! *snatches hat off the table*

First order of business, every pharmaceutical stockholder is executed at dawn.


Holy crapballs! Ship captains command that much power?

Never has this seemed more appropriate.

i.kym-cdn.comView Full Size
 
Kitty2.0 [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-01 9:13:21 PM  

EdgeRunner: Kitty2.0: EdgeRunner: Kitty2.0: winedrinkingman: Kitty2.0: hoyt clagwell: Who is Mr. Beast?

A Twitch streamer with like 30millionbazillion dollars.

A twitch streamer who figured out how to make 30millionbazillion dollars by giving away about 20milliobazillion dollars.  He does a lot of good work, and honestly I am glad he figured out hot to make money doing good things, but at the same time you have to remember that while he helped a thousand people see again, helping every visually impaired person in the world, or even our country is well beyond him and all the do gooders put together, so we need a better plan.

I don't have to remember anything, I'm not the captain of this ship.

Joke's on you! We took a vote while you were out of the room and now you are!

It's up to you if you want to wear the hat or not.

Goddamnit!!! *snatches hat off the table*

First order of business, every pharmaceutical stockholder is executed at dawn.

Holy crapballs! Ship captains command that much power?

Never has this seemed more appropriate.

[i.kym-cdn.com image 640x484]


Chris Janson - "Buy Me A Boat" (Official Video)
Youtube mQPjKSVe1tQ
 
medic2731 [TotalFark]
2023-02-01 9:17:24 PM  

FarkingChas: Did he 100% use donations to do it?
Is there a paper trail for the donations?
Documentation on the 1000 people?


His average video LOSES around $1.5 million.  He recently drew THOUSANDS to the American Dream mall in East Rutherford for a burger joint opening.  He is the most popular streamer on YouTube and loves giving money away.

Why does everything have to have an angle to it?
 
paulleah
2023-02-01 9:20:37 PM  

mongbiohazard: skyotter: I enjoyed the comments from first world nations.

"This is routine free surgery in my country.  Wait, America just lets you go blind?!"

Every farkin' time. Every American human interest story works that way. "Look at this amazing person who's doing a nice thing that should be utterly unnecessary in a civilized country. Ignore the horror, and pretend that this is a feel good story."


But to deny it's a good thing 1,000 can see now,  using totally legal and moral means,

We can talk all day about how they SHOULD have had the surgery anyway. But at least they can see now.

It reminds me of the homeless advocates who would rather people sleep in piss on the sidewalk than enter an "Inhumane" shelter.

For craps sakes.
 
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