MR BEAST MUST BE STOPPED! How YouTubers EXPLOIT Poverty for VIRAL Videos (Fidias)
1,644Mr Beast is one of the most successful and famous YouTubers on the platform. The owner of a YouTube empire, Mr Beast has various channels that rake in millions of views every week. His main channel focuses on competitions and stunts designed to go viral and garner as much attention as possible. His over-edited loud content has a massive appeal to younger audiences who will defend everything Beastie boy does. Mr Beast also has a charity channel and does massive philanthropic stunts to supposedly help save the environment - despite him being a massive shill for cryptocurrencies.
I have been one of the few Youtubers (literally so brave) to criticise Mr Beast's content. Whether it be the excessive amounts of money he spends or more importantly Mr Beast using poverty and serious social issues as backdrops and playgrounds for his viral childish content. Whether that is touring a poor neighbourhood of a contestant winner or spending time in a prison with his friends.
Unsurprisingly, the rise of Mr Beast has inspired multiple copycat channels. Recently, one that has gained some notoriety on social media has been Fidias. A Cypriot YouTuber, Fidias himself is obsessed with Mr Beast and went viral by saying his name 1 million times, before meeting Mr Beast on another video before actually featuring on a Mr Beast video - winning himself a $300k Lamborghini - he became just like Tye Lopez!
However, not to be outdone by his inspiration, Fidias’s videos have become increasingly bizarre. While many of his videos are pretty standard viral challenges he has also exploited poverty as a backdrop for his content in a much more obvious way than Mr Beast. Advertising his trip to Burundi, the world’s poorest country, as if it were a viral Mr Beast challenge.
In this video, I document the rise of Fidias, his relation to Mr Beast, and how his content evolves on the blueprint started by Mr Beast but taken to a even more off putting level.
.00:00:00 - Intro
00:04:25 - Mr Beast’s exploitative content
00:07:30 - The Rise of Mr Beast’s biggest copycat - Fidias
00:10:13 - Fidias goes to the poorest country in the world
00:17:00 - Fidias Save Burundi
00:22:08 - Fans Criticise Fidias
00:27:05 - Fidias Visits a Tanzanian Tribe
00:31:00 - Fidias Goes to LA
00:37:30 - Closing Thoughts
Fidias Burundi Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4O4FHxKqodE
Fidias LA video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9OwhvRr9ng
Fidias Tanzania video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMCgPOXiUxQ
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