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The part of YouTube I hate most is Mr Beast. I can’t get rid of the guy. He creates new channels just as quickly as I can block them from my recommendations. I’m sure that is a strategy to force himself in front of people. I wish there was a way to say that I don’t want any Mr Beast channels, I don’t want any Mr Beast collaborations, and I don’t want any Mr Beast reactions.

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This is the first i'm hearing of MrBeast having multiple channels so I looked it up. Turns out he has 5 channels total which includes his main channel.

The creation dates of his channels are as follows:

Feb 19, 2012

Apr 24, 2016

Apr 7, 2020

Aug 21, 2020

Sep 17, 2020

How often are you blocking? MrBeast is one of the most popular Youtuber(I think he is the second largest American channel) so he is going to be a large part of their platform whether you like it or not.

He's a clickbaity youtuber profiting on 'free money scams' I hope he gets banned.

When youtube used to let me report malicious ads, it used to tell me those ads and channels were based out of India... and youtube has had a long-standing issue of not vetting their ads for scams. If it's not MrBeast, it's the "how to get a free Coke mini-fridge" (or Louis Vuitton handbags, or Milwaukee tools).

How are they scams? Assuming you're talking about the videos where he gives people free money

He also paid an advertisement (still running on youtube I assuming, seen it within the last week) "Anyone who visits this page get $1200" or something in that range..

Are you sure that it was him promoting it? Scams like "Send $$$ to Musk/Bezos/MrBeast and get 2x $$$ back" are extremely common but they're just that, scams by random unaffiliated scammers.

I wrote a tamper monkey script that filters out YouTube videos that contain certain keywords, with the main one being any video that contains the word "react".

I'm perfectly capable of reacting to a video myself, the meta-aspect of watching someone else react to another video has a veneer of Bob Saget all over it.

It also helps that I'm a svelte guy myself. :)

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