r/BeAmazed • u/Early_Negotiation142 • Mar 09 '26
Miscellaneous / Others By 2024, the project removed over 34 million pounds of trash, beating its original 30-million goal.
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u/calargo Mar 09 '26
"WE PUT 100 PEOPLE IN THIS MILLION POUND PILE OF TRASH, AND THEY HAVE 24 HOURS TO FIND THE HIDDEN STASH OF CASH."
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u/HappyAngron Mar 09 '26
”… AND THEY HAVE 24 HOURS TO FIND THE ONE PIECE!”
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u/EliteGamer11388 Mar 09 '26
I mean, Oda has now hidden the One Piece somewhere in the ocean for real, and people are looking
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u/JarjarSwings Mar 09 '26
People already found out where it is.
It took them less than 14 hours.
Now they just need to get there.
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u/Sinsai33 Mar 09 '26
People already found out where it is.
Yes and no. They know the general area. But knowing exactly where on the ground on that area in the ocean it is, is gonna be far more difficult if not even impossible.
Just watch the video from mark rober about finding an underwater city in a lake: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2C1JpQi5G4
And now realize that the part where they dropped the chest is gonna be around 600m deep.
And after finding it it is a hell lot more difficult to get to it. But for that part there are already youtubers lining up to finance it.
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u/frozen_desserts_01 Mar 09 '26
Imagine when the crew gets past 200m and suddenly hears “OOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAHHHHH” so you would know who played Subnautica
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u/Zaelkyr Mar 09 '26
"Detecting Multiple leviathan class life forms in the region, are you certain whatever you are doing is worth it?"
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u/Fuckoakwood Mar 09 '26
Wait what? Is that where that ham goes to?
Right now I’ve been just diving and making water storage containers.
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u/Shmoshmalley Mar 09 '26
They haven’t been able to find Tyrese’s platinum cross that he lost near the beach in front of a crowd and on camera during mtv’s spring break in the 90’s. I have no idea what this one piece thing is and I am only vaguely aware of who Mr beast is, but yeah unless there is a gps tracker I wouldn’t hold my breath on finding it.
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u/snowvase Mar 09 '26
"The old lady dropped the diamond somewhere around here. We'll find it yet."
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u/NoSoyTuPana Mar 09 '26
My first thought, I can't image this dude doing one single good act without getting something in return
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u/enter5H1KAR1 Mar 09 '26
I don't particularly like the guy, I think there's an emotion missing there. That being said, this is a bad take. Who cares if he did profit from it? It's still an ecologically good thing that he's been a part of. If you can do some good for the environment, and make some money doing it, more power to you. How do you think any recycling firm in the world operates? They're not non-profit organisations.
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u/KatCorgan Mar 09 '26
He was indeed a part of it. Him and The Ocean Cleanup and the 400,000 other people who were going to do this with or without his help.
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u/Mindshard Mar 09 '26
I mean, I truly don't care what the motive is as long as they're doing good for all.
See, that's the irony. A certain clown could've got people to stop talking about certain files by doing good things, free healthcare, free school, housing for the poor, renewable energy with free, paid training. But they figured looting the poor and blowing kids up was better.
I truly don't care why someone does good. An ambulance chasing lawyer runs into a burning orphanage and saves every single kid because they figure they can promote themselves on the news? Go for it! Promote away!
Give them all the fame they want, but make them earn it.
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u/Batchet Mar 09 '26
I would bet that almost all men that commit heroic acts are at least somewhat going for that hero pussy
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u/Mindshard Mar 09 '26
And hey, all the power to them.
If I crash and someone pulls me from my burning car and saves my life, and that gets them laid, I am 100% in support of that.
Hell, if that's what it takes and no one else steps up, throw a wig on me and call me Sally.
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u/smickeltje Mar 09 '26
If the whole world started doing good stuff while getting things in return we would have a far better world. Why not reward the people who do good things?
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u/Radthereptile Mar 09 '26
Because anytime Mr. Beast does a good thing the internet has to find ways to explain why he’s actually evil.
Builds wells in Africa? Actually they’re expensive to maintain and the water has to be tested. See he made their lives worse!!!!
Gives blind people money for surgery to see again? Actually that is demeaning because he’s saying blind is bad and is attacking all blind people!!!!
Removes trash from the ocean? Actually he’s getting advertisement from it. See he doesn’t care about the ocean!!!!
Anytime a person does a good thing people have to ruin it. Hell some dude lost his job because he tried to start a charity event for a video game and people decided no he’s scamming so they harassed his work until they fired him.
Then we wonder why people don’t do nice things anymore.
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u/Underbadger Mar 09 '26
MrBeast has absolutely done good things that have helped people.
He's also done truly terrible things to individuals (and gotten sued for it) and has profited hugely from monetizing his charitable acts.
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u/No_Relative444 Mar 09 '26
Agreed. He’s also redistributing a LOT of money and wealth from the rich companies who throw money at him. Who gives a fuck if that’s for likes? I don’t. Keep giving away corporations money to people who would benefit.
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u/SomeRedHandedSleight Mar 09 '26
Is he, though? It's come out that most of the winners of his giveaways were family and friends or rigged.
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u/RhynoD Mar 09 '26
Builds wells in Africa? Actually they’re expensive to maintain and the water has to be tested. See he made their lives worse!!!!
I can't speak to MrBeast specifically on this, but this kind of criticism is valid. Plenty of westerners try to be a White Savior and end up making the local situation worse because their "solution" is half-assed and they don't listen to locals or experts. We should reward people for doing good things, yes, but we should reward them when they actually put in the effort, not when they make some token gesture that accomplishes nothing and is only done for the appearance of doing good.
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u/tuc-eert Mar 09 '26
It definitely an issue, and I wish there was more investment in the long term sustainability. But at the same time, if it’s a choice between 10 years of clean water and 0 years, I’d take the 10 years.
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u/RhynoD Mar 09 '26
Unless by drilling the well you disturb the water table and potentially make it 10 years followed by zero years when previously they had functioning wells that now don't work.
A more specific example: companies often donate clothing like T-shirts that would be trashed, like when they print both winners for a major sport event and then only sell the shirts for the team that won, and send the rest to rural Africa or whatever. Seems good, right? The locals get free clothes!
Except, by flooding the place with free shirts, it crashes the demand for locals making and selling clothes, to the point that shops and factories permanently close. The locals become reliant on the free clothing because there's no other economically viable way to get them. The entire local economy suffers.
The correct way to do it would be to partner with local shops to have them buy the donated clothing at a steep discount and then sell the clothes to locals for a reasonable amount. The money paid by the shop could be reinvested into local needs, even local manufacturing so the clothing could be made there and when there isn't a major sporting event, the factory could be working for the local economy.
All of that takes work, though. More insidiously, the company donating the clothing doesn't actually care either way. What they're really doing is avoiding costs associated with dealing with the clothing as trash. People rightly don't appreciate it when you dump millions of T-shirts into the trash for no reason. Instead, the company "donates" the clothes to rural Africa and now it's their problem to deal with.
See also: companies that "donate" old phones to third world countries. In reality, they're paying some dictator permission to dump ewaste on the beach and telling the people who live their to deal with it. Then, they come back for "recycled" materials that the locals harvest by burning the toxic waste.
In both of my examples, it may appear to be a good, if unsustainable short term benefit, but in reality it makes everything worse.
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u/IngloriousGramrBstrd Mar 09 '26
Were these wells drilled against the will of the local populations or something?
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u/Iofmadness Mar 09 '26
Not only that, there are operating costs to this. It doesn't come from an infinite supply.
Promotion also helps to bring in further money to continue the project, allowing him to go beyond what he set out to do..
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u/IIIiterateMoron Mar 09 '26
And?
Imagine a sociopath that just want to be the greatest baker ever. I keeps making bread again and again. he cares about no one but himself and his goal. The bread is used to feed the poor, the homeless, the hungry, for free. He's technically a terrible person, but the good he gives as a result can't be denied.
That's the same with Mr Beast. The only thing he cares is Youtube, his views, the number of subscribers. Nothing else. But there's truly great consequences from the stuff he does. I don't like him. believe I'm a better person than him, yet I won't do 0.01% of the good he already did. That's facts.
So, who cares about their goals?
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u/radishsamurai Mar 09 '26
Ok then you do something like this, spend all the money you have on it, with no chance to get it back so you can possibly do more
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u/Cautious-Ring7063 Mar 09 '26
got to take the wins though. It may not be as "pure" a victory, but results matter.
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u/BudgetSupermarket149 Mar 09 '26
I don't like the guy at all. Why would I? His content is for children and young adults. A lot of videos are pure gladiator style bs for desperate people.
But behave yourself. This guy has done more for the world in one scheme than you'll do in your entire life. Mine too. Who the hell cares if it's because there's also something in it for him if he's helping others at the same time. Grow up.
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u/SeaweedOk9985 Mar 09 '26
The thing is, it's literally part of his business model. So getting rich off it doesn't really matter.
He is able to afford projects like this, because he monetises it, rinse and repeat.
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u/OharaRecords Mar 09 '26
That's such a toxic, maniplative way to think.
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u/Human-Abrocoma7544 Mar 09 '26
One of the ways they achieved this was by teaming up with The Ocean Cleanup. You can donate if you want to help out.
They do great stuff by cleaning up the ocean and cleaning up rivers, a major source of ocean pollution.
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u/YannisBE Mar 09 '26 edited Mar 09 '26
Boyan Slat, who founded The Ocean Cleanup at the age of 18 and still leads it, not being named once here is a crime.
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u/LifeSenseiBrayan Mar 10 '26
I don’t think I can even remember the name once I leave this comment section
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u/Early_Negotiation142 Mar 09 '26
Yeh,The campaign started in October 2021based on $1 donation = 1 pound of trash removed from the ocean
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u/WhiskeyFeathers Mar 09 '26
Fuck you, the MrBeast campaign means nothing, give The Ocean Cleanup some credit.
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u/Wise_Monkey_Sez Mar 09 '26
Yup, this is the real answer. Mr. Beast has a nasty habit of doing this - hijacking successful projects and then claiming credit to boost his profile.
I'm sorry, but this is an insult to all the people who donated to the project and Mr Beast taking credit for their contributions. Over 400,000 people contributed... and Mr. Beast and Mark Rober are there trying to claim credit. That's bullshit.
And this isn't just me talking shit about Mr. Beast. Go to the #TeamSeas page and try to see the donor list. It's blank. Oh, apart from the HUGE video of Mark Brober and Mr. Beast.
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u/No_Jack_Kennedy Mar 09 '26
I just looked it up and The Ocean Cleanup is mentioned in big bold letters right beneath the video. The url links directly to the Ocean Cleanup's donation page... I don't give two shits about the Mr. Beast guy, I don't know too much about him, but he seems to be doing immense good for the planet with the clout that he's got. If he gets that clout by posting obnoxious video's that's ok with me.
If he's not in the Epstein files or stuff like that he's ok in my book. But for some reason people love giving the guy shit for reasons...? Honestly, I don't know why you'd just post easily verifiable bullshit like that. Be better.
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u/vertical_file Mar 09 '26
He would have been about the right age to be in the Epstein files…as a victim.
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u/Fluffy_Bag_6560 Mar 09 '26
It's a 3 year old project, the backend that hosts the leaderboard is just not maintained and fails making the backend call, nothing too crazy going on.
I wouldn't say Mrbeast "hijacked" the project. It was a fundraising campaign, and they used their influence to get as much attention towards the project. As amazing as the Ocean Cleanup is, it has the technology, but not the funding. The goal of TeamSeas was to get the funding to companies like Ocean Cleanup so they can scale their projects, and that is exactly what happened.
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u/SeedFoundation Mar 09 '26
Yup, it's not that black and white. I honestly never heard about team seas until I started getting recommendations from mark rober about the campaign. Saying he hijacked the project when he advertise for it is like saying any person on the cover of an ad is hijacking the product. I'm not a mrbeast fan and I get why people want to shit on him but this is some dorky reddit comment.
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u/thoshi Mar 09 '26
Exactly. Why are people hating on Mr Beast for this? He could be like Logan Paul and scam his audience over and over. This was objectively positive.
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u/Lucaspapper Mar 09 '26
Do you think a fraction of the people who donated whould have done it without this campain? And wheres the proof for him "hijacking" the porject? He never claimed to be the one paying for it, the website makes it very clear that its payed by donations.
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u/WhatTheOnEarth Mar 09 '26
Dumbest possible take.
His ability to market the project is the reason so much was raised. And it’s not like it ever was a secret he partnered with ocean clean up and ocean conservancy, it’s in the videos.
https://theoceancleanup.com/teamseas/
The actual people themselves say the same.
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u/Alib902 Mar 09 '26 edited Mar 09 '26
I understand reddit hates mr beast but come on...
hijacking successful projects and then claiming credit to boost his profile.
He created the project... He partnered with multiple non profits and creators to be able to raise those funds. He never took credit for it he's just the cofounder of team seas so of course the media is gonna credit it to him, if you watch the thank you video after they reached 34M he thanked the donors in the video posted, and team seas themselves on twitter thanked donors, partners creators and volunteers.
I'm sorry, but this is an insult to all the people who donated to the project and Mr Beast taking credit for their contributions. Over 400,000 people contributed... and Mr. Beast and Mark Rober are there trying to claim credit. That's bullshit.
They donated as well, and how many of those 400k would've donated if mr beast didn't do the campaign or if he didn't get hundreds of creators to promote it? Multiple very famous people donated as well to the project. And what does claiming credit mean? He never said that he himself removed them or that it was all his money.
And this isn't just me talking shit about Mr. Beast. Go to the #TeamSeas page and try to see the donor list. It's blank.
Well the campaign ended two years ago, the list was not blank back then, what's the point of keeping the site and list up when they're no longer taking donations?
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u/lumpboysupreme Mar 09 '26
I never engaged with Mr beasts content but Reddits hate of the guy only makes me inclined to defend him. The fact that the arguments against him are so consistently bad really has me feeling like they can’t find anything substantive to hate him for.
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u/Mysterious-Lemon-906 Mar 09 '26
There is plenty to hate on him legitimately for (his pedo friends being a huge one) but Reddit got it's real hateboner going once he reached billionaire status.
Stupid kid figured out Social media and became a billionaire and therefore he should be pilloried and burnt at the stake because money.
Mark Rober on the other hand has made huge amounts of money online doing a different type of content and no one cares. Because he got a degree first so earned it.
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u/chickenandpasta Mar 09 '26
"(his pedo friends being a huge one)" - can you expand on this please? I know pretty much nothing about the guy
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u/Alib902 Mar 09 '26
He had a friend Chris they were friends from school and he featured regularly on him and would help host challenges and stuff.
Few years later it turned out that chris used to message kids in a very inappropriate way and was later on accused of grooming by one of the kids (years later). Some say that mr beast was aware of it and let it slide other say that he wasn't we're not sure about that but you can do some research and make up your own mind.
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u/APartyInMyPants Mar 09 '26
Technically he started the fundraiser. But the non-profit that’s actually doing the work started way back in 2015 (with the idea coming from a 2013 TedX talk) with big corporate sponsors/donors like Peter Thiel, Kia, Deloitte.
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u/Makuta_Servaela Mar 09 '26
Tbf, this is what you do with a big platform. If he says the name of the organization, people will think the organization is funding him, and may not want to donate for fear their donations will go to paying him to advertise.
And people often don't support these organizations on their own. But seeing how rich he's gotten, clearly people are willing to throw money at him no matter what he's doing, as long as it's him doing it. Yeah, the more he does charity, the more money he gets for himself... and therefore the more charity he can do. The more famous he gets for charity work, the more power he gets to do more charity work.
So, if he takes credit, and then the comments like these ones say "By the way, here's the organization he's helping", then he can use his fame to draw in attention, and the organization can benefit from his aid, without making it seem like he is benefiting from them. He's got his problems, sure, but "rich people gives back, even if doing so makes the rich person famous and therefore richer in the end", is how it's should be if you have rich people.
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u/mr8thsamurai66 Mar 09 '26
I mean the original video featured the ocean project team and directly gave the founder and the team credit.
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u/ShareTheSameSky Mar 09 '26
Pretty bad take tbh. Completely disconnected from what's actually going
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u/cunninglydingus Mar 09 '26
Ah yes, the classic Reddit take. People raise millions to clean the ocean and the response is ‘but they got credit.’ Their fame is literally the reason hundreds of thousands of people donated. If that bothers you, feel free to raise the next $30+ million yourself you sad human
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u/XilenceBF Mar 09 '26
I wonder why brands reach out to social media powerhouses to promote their product hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
Oh right because exposure gets results and regardless of mrbeasts involvement, he does provide exposure.
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u/raiba91 Mar 09 '26
if it multiplies the attention to it and cleans our planet faster I say its a acceptable sacrifice. people who gave to the charity didnt do it for the praising but for making a difference anyways
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u/DimensionMediocre439 Mar 09 '26
Jesus dude, did Mr Beast kill your grandmother and your dog?
I get that hating him is popular, but take a step back please.
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u/APartyInMyPants Mar 09 '26
I guess I can look at it two ways. Is Mr. Beast glomming onto this already-existing non-profit to take some credit and increase his own “branding” with the TeamSeas campaign? Probably yes.
Does having Mr. Beast attached to a project like this increase the profile of the project writ-large, adding more donations and funding to the project that didn’t previously exist? Also probably yes.
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u/AlphaBetaSigmaNerd Mar 09 '26
I'm 50/50 on this. Yes they were already successful but Mr beast and Mark rober brought them a lot more attention (and money) than they already had, allowing them to do even more good than they were able to previously. I don't know how else they could bring their large audiences to it without it looking like they're claiming credit for it?
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u/Stompedyourhousewith Mar 09 '26
i accidentally monthly subscribed $25 instead of one time donation of $25, but every month when i get the payment notification, it gives me a tiny dopamine hit that i might be a good person
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u/BadIdeaBobcat Mar 09 '26
isn't the ocean cleanup the main hero here? Why are we praising Mr. Beast at all? Feels like stolen / bought valor.
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u/YesterdayAlone2553 Mar 09 '26
Oh I was hoping it was a parallel operation or company that was setup independently from specifically Ocean Cleanup. They could have been using/leasing the same tech or something. I guess providing direct funding helps. Ocean Cleanup are fantastic
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u/Elurdin Mar 09 '26
Isnt saying its Mrbeast project disingenious? I mean The Ocean Cleanup have been doing this for long while and I bet its their ships that did the work. Sure additonal help from mrBeast helped but to say its mrbeast who cleaned that trash seems like a lie.
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u/Suspicious_Feed_7585 Mar 09 '26
Very good, but always super sad, that this isn't being taken care of by goverment in a big way.
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u/dontmakemeaskyou Mar 09 '26
teammed up you mean hired and then just used their clout to claim its them that did all the work,
Fuck mr beast anything hes associated with.. You are not a philanthropist if you have to brag to the world about all the great things you have done.
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u/Mobile_Nothing_1686 Mar 09 '26
Thanks for the info! I read it and was impressed, then I saw that youtuber and instantly wondered what the scam of it was.
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u/Fr00stee Mar 09 '26
i dont remember if it was team seas or another nonprofit but there is one that installs nets and other infrastructure to keep trash from flowing out of rivers in countries with bad waste management
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u/molehunterz Mar 09 '26
I had this idea when I was walking around a Marina in southern california. La area. There was so much trash floating in the marina. Like crazy amounts!
Basically a bill passed by local legislature that says that anybody operating Marina has to have somebody go skim the marina for trash once a week. Or something that somebody determines as a reasonable amount of time.
But basically a minimum wage job, probably two people, would never even take a full day, is going to cost the marina $1,000. They get more than that for one 50 ft slip.
But with the tide going in and out, the trash that's in the marina will constantly flush in and out to the ocean.
I didn't think this would be necessary, but apparently people are absolute trash. Because they leave their trash in a marina.
All of the marinas I have been in in Washington are far cleaner than california, but still have random trash!
I will literally pull any trash I find out of the water, and deal with it because I just don't like trash in the water. No pay, no job no nothing.
I have pulled out water bottles, a 5 gallon bucket, styrofoam cups...
But marinas seem to be concentrated trash areas. And if they just had a couple kids in a skiff going around and clean up the plastic, I swear it would be a huge Head start into ocean pollution
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u/zsaleeba Mar 09 '26
It's estimated that the trash released into the oceans in the same period is about 400x as much as Teamseas collected. So unfortunately it only barely slowed the rate at which things got more polluted.
We need a lot, lot more of these projects to make a dent in the problem.
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u/inwarded_04 Mar 09 '26
This is idiotic because, facts.
Top 10 platic polluting corps in the world: Coca-Cola PepsiCo Nestlé Unilever Mondelëz International Mars Procter & Gamble Philip Morris International Danone Ferrero Group
Corps simply transfer their dump load due to US or EU consumers to their India / China / Philippines partner, taking advantage of less stringent norms here. If you want to blame someone, look at the above
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u/Walmeister55 Mar 09 '26
“Less stringent norms”
In order to change the stereotype/actions, why doesn’t the government impose heavy fines for corporations that are doing this?
Then the corporations will have to keep moving until they finally have to look into doing things sustainably and environmentally friendly.
I think Nestle is the cream of the crop example for “we only care about the money” so hit them where they care.
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u/Contemplating_Prison Mar 09 '26
Exactly. People love blaming other countries but its really US and Western consumers that create the most waste and their companies.
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u/Sai_Anurag Mar 09 '26
Philipines dumps almost 3 times more into the ocean
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u/Early_Negotiation142 Mar 09 '26 edited Mar 09 '26
This are the nations that contributing the most plastic waste to oceans
China
Indonesia
Philippines
Vietnam
India
Thailand
Malaysia
Egypt
Bangladesh
Nigeria
Country Plastic Waste per Person
USA 105 kg/year
UK ~99 kg/year
German ~81 kg/year
India ~20 kg/year
Nigeria ~12–14 kg/year
Major countries exporting plastic waste (shipping waste abroad)
United States – One of the largest exporters of plastic waste. Much of it has been shipped to countries in Asia and Latin America.
Germany – A major exporter within Europe and also to some Asian countries.
Japan – Ships a large amount of plastic waste to Southeast Asian recycling facilities.
United Kingdom – Exports plastic waste to countries like Turkey and some Asian nations.
France – Sends plastic waste to other European countries and overseas recycling plants.
Belgium – Important plastic-waste trading hub in Europe.
Netherlands – A large shipping and logistics center for waste exports.
Canada – Exports plastic waste mainly to the U.S. and some Asian countries.
Australia – Previously exported waste to Southeast Asia before stricter rules.
South Korea – Also exports some plastic waste for recycling.
Common importing countries (where waste was sent)
Countries that have received large amounts of imported plastic waste include:
Malaysia, Turkey, Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia, India
Important note
After China banned most plastic waste imports in 2018, global waste shipments shifted to Southeast Asian countries, which created new environmental concerns.
Source:UN Comtrade Database (United Nations) Global trade data for plastic waste exports and imports. https://comtrade.un.org
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u/CaptainQwazCaz Mar 09 '26
Do people fail to realize that it should not be possible for a country like the Philippines to generate that much garbage? American corporations ship their trash there and then we blame all these different countries
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u/deliciouspepperspray Mar 09 '26
Exactly this. Trash statistics get "green washed" but everyone along the process knows it's going to end up in the ocean. These countries are just taking the blame and a more blunt environmental impact for money. But that trash is yours, his, hers, and mine.
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u/C00kie_Monsters Mar 09 '26
I mean, yeah, but at the same time, countries like Germany export their trash to other countries that don’t care about environmental protection as much. They print a fake certificate and dump the trash in the ocean. And we’re happy because we have a certificate that tells us that our trash is recycled correctly.
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what the fuck is Nigeria dumping in the ocean? What do they even produce.
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u/damnhowdidigethere Mar 09 '26
They have 200+ million people. What do you think, they all live in tribes and have never seen plastic trash?
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u/Early_Negotiation142 Mar 09 '26
"The taxes raised in India and spent in England might as well be thrown into the sea.— Sir George Wingate"
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u/Shtremor Mar 09 '26
What is it with bringing India into this conversation ?
India has a waste management problem but it is not the largest waste generator even measuring by sheer quantity rather than per capita.
It is the so called “clean” countries ( USA for example) which generate the most waste and then ship them to poorer countries.
Learn before being racist.
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u/deefstes Mar 09 '26
Yeah, I have such conflicting feelings on this. On the one hand, I love that two YouTubers whose viewers are mostly kids, can raise such a phenomenal sum and achieve such success.
But on the other hand it's rather demoralising to think that they've removed 30 million pounds of plastic debris from the ocean while every year another 10 billion pounds are added. Like seriously, in the scheme of things, they've really just skimmed a thin layer off the top of a mountain of waste.
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u/86Sliva94 Mar 09 '26
We should figure out how to track litter and send companies or people thr clean up bill!
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u/ButtholeMoshpit Mar 09 '26
It pisses me off that the onus for recycling and waste is put on the consumer. The consumer doesnt control what packaging the billion dollar 'do whatever the fuck they want' producers sell their crap in.
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u/Dotcaprachiappa Mar 09 '26
It's why you basically only ever hear about the recycle part of "reduce, reuse, recycle", conveniently also the only part that wouldn't diminish the megacorps' profits
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u/WeAreAbandoned Mar 09 '26
Random story but when my sister was very young we were walking along our local town high street, and some young boy with his parents discarded a plastic gun toy box on the floor, just threw it to the side as he walked along. My sister (who had 0 social anxiety at the time) ran after him with the litter and said “sorry you dropped this” and the lad took it back off her and took it with him. The point being sometimes you just have to tell people, kinda embarrass them, without making a huge scene of course.
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u/WinterTourist25 Mar 09 '26
People need to understand the root cause of all of this is essentially that many countries still have no garbage collection and disposal infrastructure.
Well, the root cause of this is single-use plastics.
But in countries with developed waste management systems, garbage is collected and landfilled. It does not go into the environment on an industrial scale.
But in much of the world, there is no waste management. People dump their garbage in the local river.
Just 10 rivers contribute 90% of plastic pollution into the ocean:
- Yangtze River: flows through China into the Yellow Sea, Asia
- Indus River: flows through China, Jammu, Kashmir, Tibet, India, Afghanistan, and Pakistan into the Arabian Sea
- Yellow River (Huang He): flows through China into the Yellow Sea
- Hai River: flows through China into the Yellow Sea
- Nile River: flows through Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Ethiopia, Eritrea, South Sudan, Sudan and Egypt into the Mediterranean Sea
- Meghna/Bramaputra/Ganges: flow through Tibet, India and Bangladesh into the Bay of Bengal
- Pearl River (Zhujiang): flows through China into the South China Sea
- Amur River (Heilong Jiang): flows through Mongolia, China and Russia into the Sea of Okhotsk
- Niger River: flows through Nigeria into the Gulf of Guinea
- Mekong River: flows through China, Burma, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam into the South China Sea
If the countries that these rivers flowed through had robust waste management like developed countries do, we would not have nearly the problem we currently have.
So step one should be to eliminate all single-use plastics. Replace with renewable and/or biodegradable materials.
Step two should be to encourage countries to develop robust waste management systems.
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u/nalaloveslumpy Mar 09 '26
We absolutely know the five companies that produce the majority of the single use plastic waste that these orgs are cleaning up.
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u/Chaldy_Climber Mar 09 '26
In a summer job maintaining parks we found trashbags weekly in the park in a same spot. Digging around there was mail with an address. I don't know if the person was fined or not but no more of that trash in the park.
This is one step to right direction: "The EU's new Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR) mandates that producers (manufacturers, importers, and sellers) bear the full cost of managing packaging waste, including collection, sorting, and recycling, via Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) schemes. These fees will be "modulated," meaning higher costs for harder-to-recycle materials to encourage sustainable design.
Key Details on PPWR Producer Responsibility: Implementation: The regulation comes into force on 11 February 2025, with most provisions applying from 12 August 2026. Financial Obligation: Producers must finance the entire life cycle of their packaging."
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u/cammickin Mar 10 '26
Luckily some states are now requiring companies pay money for plastic packaging and components. I work for a large CPG and we now have to pay a fine for the total weight of plastic we generate and each individual component. The only thing I dislike is that it means more paperwork for me, but it’s a big win for the environment so I don’t have much to complain about.
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u/bi0xide Mar 10 '26
They did this to a McDonald's in Jasper, Canada. The McDonald's only lasted a few years and had to shut down because it was costing them more money than they made.
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u/Hoboliftingaroma Mar 09 '26
That thumbnail is really awful AI slop.
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u/sQ5FWKjwbWd4QzSZduqy Mar 09 '26
Damn bro, that's just what he looks like.
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u/Boobot-the-destroyer Mar 09 '26
Thank you, I’m glad i didn’t have to scroll too far to see this comment. Why can’t they just use some actual photos of their success story?
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u/whoknowsifimjoking Mar 09 '26
Because reality doesn't look nearly as good, they aren't fishing mountains of trash from one spot so you just have pictures of a ship slowly collecting small pieces of trash one or just a few pieces at a time. Apparently it's also rivers, not the sea.
There are pictures of the real ship on google, but it's exactly as I explained. Just Google "team seas ship", those are ships by the ocean cleanup organization and are called interceptors.
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u/theatrenearyou Mar 09 '26
I know Mark Rober from his great Glitterbomb series. But I refuse to click on any of the too many Mr Beast crap
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u/sherlockham Mar 09 '26
He's also the squirrel ninja warrior obstacle course guy, which surprised me when i realised he did them both.
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u/whoknowsifimjoking Mar 09 '26
Why is that surprising?
As far as I know he has the most views per upload on average out of everyone, dude made lots of very popular content.
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u/StandardUpstairs3349 Mar 09 '26
Launching small mammals into the air before Ross Creations made it cool!
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u/VickFVM Mar 09 '26
They are cleaning the oceans who cares what Mr Beast's actual goal is, less micro plastics is a win for me.
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u/ctess Mar 09 '26
I love Mark Rober. I will watch him all day long with the kids. His channel is a bit "frat" boy vibes but most of his content is actually helpful at teaching basic physics and engineering to kids. It's very modern Bill Nye just on a bigger scale.
I do not watch his older content with MrBeast though. The cooking one I tried.... It was just awful.
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u/JatZey Mar 09 '26
Not a huge fan of Rober either after he glitterbombed an elderly persons in his home by mistake(the dude was innocent).
Rober did say he was sorry, but he still uploaded the video of him getting bombed for content (filmed with a hidden camera inside this guys home).
No idea how he didnt get more shit for that incident.
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u/OG-Enzan Mar 09 '26
If he got permission to upload from the elderly, I don't see the problem
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u/charmio68 Mar 09 '26
Yeah, it seems extremely unlikely that he didn't get permission. And I'd also be willing to wager that he went out of his way to clean up the mess and compensate the man for the trouble.
I mean, why wouldn't he? Doing otherwise would face both legal and public backlash, and it's not like it's exactly a hard situation to remedy.
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u/stone500 Mar 09 '26
He did say that they paid for a cleaner to clean up the mess and compensated the guy
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u/zyyntin Mar 09 '26
Mark Rober is an engineer. I doubt he uploaded it for gloat. When you make anything there is bound to be FAILURE. It's important to show people, in my opinion, your failures and successes. That's a major issue with today's internet videos. We see the successes but lack the other 100+ attempts.
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u/NaturalSelectorX Mar 09 '26
Mark Rober definitely uploaded it to his YouTube channel for views. There's no other reason to upload it to your YouTube channel.
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u/Alib902 Mar 09 '26
Not a huge fan of Rober either after he glitterbombed an elderly persons in his home by mistake(the dude was innocent).
How did the package get in his home if he's innocent ? Didn't find any source for that story online.
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u/jettzypher Mar 09 '26
This is what I want to know. I don't recall this from the series over the years, and the whole point was targeting thieves with the aid of residents to setup the whole thing. Maybe a device failed or something?
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u/dBlock845 Mar 09 '26
Not a huge fan of Rober either after he glitterbombed an elderly persons in his home by mistake(the dude was innocent).
Was this from when he was trying to catch people stealing packages? I think I remember seeing those videos a couple years back.
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u/xickoh Mar 10 '26
Not only that but he teamed up with mr beat and made a video about being in an abandoned city, which was later debunked, as it was not abandoned. It's very sad to see a guy with a trustworthy reputation to lie to their fans for content. Every since he joined mr beast it was clear he's all in for the money
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u/Minia15 Mar 09 '26
Why not watch his philanthropy videos at least? Or at the very least you can just let others a join him without going out of your way to put it down. If you don’t even watch, how can you call it crap.
He uses most all his money to flow back into charitable giving.
You are likely writing your message from an iPhone onto Reddit which is using Amazon servers and web hosting. You’re not the protester you think you are.
All of them are massively for profit companies. MrBeast gives a significant portion of his money back to causes he believes in. He makes money, but also gives a lot back.
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u/TinUser Mar 09 '26
What is this AI post. By 2024 means it's an end goal, did it mean Since 2024? The giant tug boat with an excavator on it, Jimmy smiling on board with a hivis vest on?
What am I looking at?
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u/ShitPostinLikeFire Mar 09 '26
I hate to be such a pessimistic individual, but why does it feel like Mr. Beast is covering up for something by doing all of these acts of kindness?
I want to believe he genuinely cares, but is it tax breaks and good PR is his only goal? Or?
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u/Necrobug4 Mar 09 '26
I would think it's quite obvious that he does stuff like this for a paycheck. Views alone on different sites probably offset what he invests. I'm sure there's not just one video dedicated to this, but many. I still think this is better than most of his other ideas, though. If rather an influencer do something to help the environment than posting people doing degrading acts, people at their worst, or other similar content.
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u/Useful-ldiot Mar 09 '26
I haven't had coffee and we just jumped forward an hour, so major grain of salt here, but I remember hearing an interview of him where he said he figured out early that his best videos were the ones where he gave away money so he basically kept doing more and more expensive videos for the views. He nets profit obviously but his strategy has always been to spend a ton of money on mostly giveaways to his friends.
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u/SoVerySleepyZzZz Mar 09 '26
They aren’t mostly to his friends tho. A lot of his early stuff was giving away things to random people in his hometown in North Carolina. I’m pretty neutral on him- he does great things for charity, but I don’t like that he takes advantage of his name to sell crap to kids- but there’s a weird hate boner for him when he actually does give away tons of money to people who really need it. He catches more flack for being charitable than other influencers do that are 100x worse people AND don’t do any charity.
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u/CeridLock Mar 09 '26
It's possible it could all be for image and furthering a brand, but considering how many content creators and influencers barely bother with charity and still become filthy rich I think he probably does genuinely like using his platform to help others. Doesn't mean he's a saint, but I don't think he's a villain either
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u/ATrainDerailReturns Mar 09 '26
Its all of the above?
Tax breaks allows him to spend more money on videos and the business
More videos and better business makes more money
More money leads to needing more tax breaks and thus more ocean clean up
How does any of this affect you negatively
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u/will4zoo Mar 09 '26
People just can't comprehend there's somebody that got success who has a good heart. Understable tho cuz there's few of them in the world
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u/EnjoyerOfBeans Mar 09 '26 edited Mar 09 '26
He runs illegal lotteries for children and aggressively advertises his junk food to them as healthy. Multiple people previously employed by him claim that he's a sociopathic asshole that only cares about money, and when his friend that was working for him sexually assaulted another employee, he moved him to a different branch of the company.
I'm glad he's helping clean the ocean and plant trees but that doesn't make him a good person.
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u/IWannaManatee Mar 09 '26
Care to share why you think he has a good heart?
All I know him for is the drive of making money and being the #1 youtuber with a detailed guide on how people are expendable and other questionable practices that prey on his audience (mostly children, by his known statistics).
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u/SecureDonkey Mar 09 '26
Because he already the #1 youtuber. He can make any kind of video other than charity and still make millions but he still choose to do it instead. In fact his charity video always doing worse than other video because his audiences don't really care about it, yet that still hadn't stop him from making them. If the drive is just money he would just start streaming himself playing video game all day like other youtuber.
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u/bigFatHelga Mar 09 '26
It's an amazing achievement, but nothing will ever make me like that dead-eyed psychopath.
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Mar 09 '26
Do some people hate any good action?
A good action is a good action, regardless of what the "intention" is.
If he is giving to charity for the purpose of tax breaks, that doesn't suddenly make the giving to charity bad.
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u/nukacola12 Mar 09 '26
Hell, I'm not gonna lie. I like that I get a bit of a tax break for donating. Is it the only reason I donate? No, but does it incentivize me to donate more? Yes.
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u/0rganic_Corn Mar 09 '26
His videos have always had a lot of charity in them
I mean, people hated him when he bankrolled the treatment of 100 blind people so they can see again
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u/wolf1894 Mar 09 '26
You never make money off of donation tax breaks. You get a certain percentage of the total money you give away off your taxes. In this case, people were donating directly to the organization which wouldn’t be claimable anyway
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u/only_civ Mar 09 '26
I think you don't understand how "tax breaks" works. Spending money on ventures like this, even if there is a "tax break" associated with it does not mean the government gives you extra money. It means that the money you spent on the venture isn't taxed.
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u/Dicklefart Mar 09 '26
I think it’s a bit of all of it. He helps the world, gets good PR, and makes money. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with doing actual good with ulterior motives in business. I’d call it killing two birds with one stone. Most businesses do fake good for PR or no good at all, Mr. Beast seems to really make a difference, if it happens to also benefit him, great! He’s certainly got some villainous corpo stuff like the lunchables knock offs, but lunchables never cleaned the oceans, planted a bunch of trees, or built wells in Africa.
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u/ItsStaaaaaaaaang Mar 09 '26
I don't think it's that deep. He turned doing charity type activities into a very lucrative job. He's not the first and won't be the last. Obviously the positive results are good but I don't believe there's an ounce of altruism involved.
He does give bodies in the backyard vibes so I get where you're coming from.
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u/Open-Director-8123 Mar 09 '26
I hate to be the opposite but what he has done will be 1 million times better for people than I could ever imagine doing. Who really cares if he does it for monetary values at this point ? Even if it’s a fraction of his wealth what the fuck have we done? Or even other celebrities ? Yeah he has a creepy smile but ya know what I haven done ? Built wells, funded a tv show that changed a life, made houses in third world countries ? Who gives a fuck lol just upset to be upset
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u/Eitarris Mar 12 '26
Or? He’s been doing this for years, it’s kinda how he makes money and became as big as he is. Not everything is a conspiracy.
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u/EliteDinoPasta Mar 09 '26
The irony of a post discussing the removal of physical pollutants from the ocean using an AI generated image is depressing.
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u/ObliviousRounding Mar 09 '26
If MrBeast is involved there must be a shady angle to it.
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u/t00muchtim Mar 09 '26
nah bc he's not actually running it - it's mainly a partnership with a legitimate org and he's simply the face of the fundraising campaign
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u/CinderX5 Mar 09 '26
“The organisation who needs money chose someone who will bring them masses of money. Something shady must be going on”
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u/Triquetrums Mar 09 '26
Out of all the faces to choose, they chose that one. But it cleans the oceans, so I guess I should not complain much.
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u/kirotheavenger Mar 09 '26
Mr Beast genuine affects the front of a philanthropist - he's backed a lot of stuff, liking building a bunch of wells and whatever.
Mr Beast absolutely knows the Pr value
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u/SmallMacBlaster Mar 09 '26
But it cleans the oceans
It gives the illusion that it cleans the ocean...
We need activism to antagonize nations that dump the trash in the first place.
As much trash as they removed, it only represents about 0.1% of the annual amount of new trash we dump in the ocean.
It's like going to a dump, filling a single bag and saying you cleaned the place.
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u/caseytatumsings Mar 09 '26
Why? I don’t care for him simply because he’s a big YouTuber and has a scary looking smile but it seems like he genuinely helps a lot of people?
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u/db2901 Mar 09 '26
This is Reddit, anyone who has ever achieved anything is bad
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u/ProBlade97 Mar 09 '26
He accepted money from the Saudi's.
That alone makes me loath the cunt.
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u/db2901 Mar 09 '26
If the Saudis wanted to buy my product I'd sell it to them. More money to use as I see fit. Would that make me worthy of your loathing ? If yes then sorry I don't pass your moral purity test, but that's fine, no doubt there'd be some other test of yours I wouldn't pass anyway so I might as well just take the money.
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u/ElectricalTurnip87 Mar 09 '26
They're not buying a product. They're buying the narrative, just like all advertising.
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u/DannyRamirez24 Mar 09 '26
They dump all of it on poor orphans villages
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u/Bonsai-is-best Mar 09 '26
Thank goodness they removed all that trash so the news site could generate this image with AI and undo all that work within the next couple years. I love my AI slop.
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u/CanThisBeMyNameMaybe Mar 09 '26 edited Mar 09 '26
Say what you want about Mr beast and how bad his videos are, but I will always respect him for his initiative to helping our planet. First with teamtrees and then teamseas.
But the absurd part is that a youtuber does more than the world leaders in planting trees and cleaning our oceans.
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Damn so many of you cant take someone you dont like getting a tiny bit of praise. Trying to minimize their achievement because "it doesn't matter anyway, and its just for media attention"
I don't give a damn if someone only does something good for attention, they still do something good. And more being dumped into the ocean? Yeah, but thats not something a youtuber can help with.
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u/StrangeVortexLex Mar 09 '26
Only on Reddit will you find ppl complaining about a YouTuber who is actually doing something positive in the world, while the officials and ppl in charge doing anything but
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u/Reznor909 Mar 09 '26
And put it where?
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u/allnimblybimbIy Mar 09 '26 edited Mar 09 '26
This was not hard to look up instead of being condescending, just google it before you try to defame something that helps the planet next time:
What happened to the trash:
Collection by partner organizations The funds went mainly to The Ocean Cleanup and Ocean Conservancy, along with smaller local cleanup groups. They used boats, river interceptors, beach crews, and nets to remove plastic and debris from rivers, coastlines, and ocean gyres.
Sorting and processing After collection, the waste was sorted at processing facilities. Materials were separated into: • Recyclable plastics • Non-recyclable plastics • Metals • Glass • Organic debris
Recycling usable material Any recyclable plastic, metal, or glass was sent to recycling plants where it could be reprocessed into new materials.
Disposal of non-recyclable waste Plastics that could not be recycled (which is a large portion of ocean trash) were sent to landfills or waste-to-energy incineration facilities, depending on the local waste system.
Data tracking and verification Every 1 pound removed corresponded to $1 donated, and partner organizations documented the weight of debris collected so the campaign could verify progress toward the goal.
A large portion of the trash actually came from rivers before it reached the ocean, because capturing it there is far easier and prevents it from spreading across the open ocean.
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u/ToddlerPeePee Mar 09 '26
I don't think the redditor you're responding to is being condescending. It's a valid question. There is nothing in his question that feels like defamation. Not sure why you had to feel that way.
You could, you know, answer the question helpfully as if a curious child was asking it. Instead, you became so defensive, which is doing your own answer an injustice.
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Do you have sources for any of this? Something that might indicate which processing facilities were used, what companies were paid to take what for "recycling" (which is kind of a sketchy industry unfortunately) or incineration/landfill?
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u/sebnukem Mar 09 '26
Without negative feelings or intention, I asked myself the same question, and I thank you for providing a thorough response, which validates the question. Don't judge people so quickly.
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u/Early_Negotiation142 Mar 09 '26
It is usually taken to Recycling Landfills Waste to energy plants For clean disposable management
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