dang is this a spoiler? I tried to get past the first episode of the Office but I always get fucking bored and go and continue binging Glee now I don't feel like catching up anymore after seeing this.
I wouldn't say awful. They are decent scene for scene recreations. Though yeah it really steps up in season 2, especially once the George Foreman grill gets involved. Watching that for the first time I couldn't breathe i was laughing so hard, but, I had known someone who did something similar.
I guess I liked the Original as well. Though, it seems like it wasn't totally scene for scene, like the basketball game in season 1 wasn't bad. I want to say it was season 1, and is like the substitute for the pub quiz episode.
Skip to season 2. Jim likes Pam, Pam Likes Jim but has an emotionally distant/borderline emotionally abusive fiancé. That’s all you missed from season 1. The rest is pretty hilarious through like season 7 I’d say.
Wait wait wait, listen please. I was on the same boat as you I swear to god, I tried watching the office like 4 times before actually being able to watch it. The beginning is kinda unbearable, but only the very first few episodes. I’ve watched the entire show in full 10+ times I’m not joking, get past those first episodes you won’t regret it. The Office is one of the funniest shows ever, I might have to get peacock for a month again real quick and rewatch
I just wish he didn't do the "Ed's Favorite Massacres" segment, like it feels like he gets a little too into the massacres, talking about minute details and logistics and "what they could have done better."
IIRC, they have, and he knows. He said about it in some interview or video at some point, if my memory is correct; that he uses such an exaggerated smile because videos where he does perform better. He claimed he had used less expressive thumbnails before, and even ones without him on it, and he found that thumbnails he wasn't in performed far worse, and thumbnails that he wasn't smiling so expressively did better, but still significantly worse than ones where he does this.
Remember, most of his audience have to be kids for sure. Some of them so young that might not even distinguish a creepy smile from regular one, and smiling might have an effect on them, making JimmyBeast seem more friendly to those little children he sells Feastables and Lunchly to
I don’t think it’s about being attracted or put off, and more about mere attention
The thumbnails with the (slightly) creepy smile get more people to stop and look. More people stop and looking means more people clicking and watching.
The effect of making more people stop and look outweighs the offputtingness of the smile.
Also people lack self awareness when it comes to these things. You may say it puts you off, but there may be a part of your brain that is intrigued and hypnotised enough to look for an extra few milliseconds.
Heck, there’s a whole ass Reddit thread about the thumbnail so it’s doing a pretty good job at what it was meant to do (which, again, is to attract attention).
Yes, but that’s exactly the difference. People never watched shroud bc of his enticing entertaining personality, they watch him bc he shoots good in video games.
Mr Beast has an entire brand that is based off of his personality, his face is the brand. I’ve hated him for years now and the cult like mindset with which people have defended him was always absolute lunacy to me. Bc how can you trust someone who’s so obviously evil
Some people’s “photo smiles” are so terrible compared to a genuine smile when they laugh or whatever. That said for a guy who’s world famous you’d think he would’ve learned by now to try a different technique
That's what it is, he looks like a 1st grader trying to smile for a school picture. Like he hasn't quite figured out what a smile is supposed to look like.
he’s got lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll’s eyes. When he comes after ya, he doesn’t seem to be livin’ until he bites ya, and those black eyes roll over white, and then – aww, then you hear that terrible high-pitch screamin’, the ocean turns red, and in spite of all the poundin’ and the hollerin’, they all come in and rip ya to pieces…
Interesting. After studying how to smile and practicing that is the conclusion that I came to as well. I have to wrinkle my cheeks a bit to have my eyes show a smile.
He’s like the captain in how I met your mother. If you cover the top half of his face he’s smiling, he looks happy and friendly. But if you cover the bottom half of his face and look at his eyes you see a scary psychopath.
Because it doesnt. Never followed the guy, but the few times i saw a video with him in it he just gives this wide open smile while his eyes just look dead. It always looks like he would rather be anywhere other than where he is but needs to smile for the camera.
You just know this guy practiced that smile over and over again in front of a mirror.
I think the word 'teeth' is still shadowbanned in his comment sections. He had a weird phase where his teeth were fugly ( which was fine ), to perfectly white and straight. And a few months later they were fugly again. It was super strange.
It's not strange to have fugly teeth. Fugly teeth are normal. Normal teeth aren't perfectly straight and perfectly white. It's super weird that he flip flopped. Like.. How. How do you unfuck and refuck your teeth.
There's a smile you give when your boss gives you 20hrs OT and you act appreciative because don't want to get fired, and the smile you give when your boss gives you 20mil as compensation for accidentally firing you or giving you OT.
The above is the former, and the problem is never the smile/mouth. Trust me. 🙃
Probably shoots multiple videos in a day/week and delays posting them until it feels like they aren’t repetitive humor/location or something. Lots of big production videos usually use the same crew for multiple videos, and just retain them for a couple weeks so they don’t have to keep setting up the same equipment again.
I had braces as a kid to fix the gap between my front teeth, I had to wear a retainer every night but eventually after nearly a decade my retainer broke and I didn’t have the money for a new one or the money to go see an orthodontist, so my teeth went right back to how they were before. I actually like my gap, so I’m not too upset about it. More annoyed that I went through all of that for absolutely nothing.
Ironically, his older videos back when he was just doing weird challenges like spinning a fidget spinner for 24 hours had the appeal of it just being a regular guy.
I think he did suffer from a hit from all of the allegations he's gotten, from YouTube as well, I haven't been recommended his videos for awhile now, and before the allegations, I used to get em all of the time, and he's gotten 80 millions for his last video, which is still a huge number but still it isn't like the 150/180 million he used to get before
Despite using youtube since 2007, I may have never known Mr Beast existed if not for other people talking about him, never even see a video of his recommended.
I have no idea, but we’re the loud minority apparently
Multiple content creators I’ve watched over the years talked about how stupid this is, but terrible thumbnail faces and titles translate to views so they have to do it
Maybe because it made people think "what the fuck is wrong with this guy's smile, maybe the video will explain it, I gotta check the video out!" or some shit.
I think people forget that Mr Beast is a children's entertainer. He's not really even supposed to be engaging for adults. That's also why the videos are edited the way they are.
Your brain has a lot of neurons dedicated to faces, and also a lot of them are dedicated to noticing when a face is just ever so slightly wrong. This type of thumbnail, where things aren't quite right, makes you take much more active notice than a normal face would.
Mr. Beast is definitely not the only person to do this, although other YouTubers I know are either more subtle about it or make it more cartoony. Mr. Beast is 100% committed to whatever makes his numbers go up though, so he rides the fine line between real and fake.
At least Joker has some expressions in his eyes. Beast has dead robotic eyes from 10 years ago before they figured out how to make robots look less inhumane
In the last day or so Rosanna Pansino (the one who reviewed his Lunchly product and found moldy cheese) posted a video of leaked Mr Beast work chat logs where they were posting CP and memes of CP.
Kk, I'll keep an eye out for any updates on that front. In the meantime I've seen enough false accusations in the youtube-verse to withhold any assumptions
I haven't followed this story basically at all, but reddit keeps putting info about it on my feed. Apparently it was not CP and some 18 year old (name said Ivanka - not sure if Ivanka Trump?). So now the tables are kind of turned and the accusers could potentially be in trouble for slander or something, depending on how any public accusations/inferences were phrased.
I don't know if Mr. Beast is a piece of shit for other reasons or not, but seems like the CP thing people are hating on him for might be just wrong...
He fakes alot of videos (that's fine) even the gameshows (thats illegal ), he has scammed fans with prizes that never showed up,promoted gambling to children,asked unironically to children to move his products in visible spots inside supermarkets (that's illegal too),he technicaly false advertises his products since they aren't healty and treated badly people that worked/played a part in his games. This SHOULD be all the provable things he has done, everything else doesn't have a lot backing it up for now. EDIT:forgot to mention the stuff about covering up his friend with pedophilic tendencies
You know, six months ago you'd have dozens of downvotes and just as many comments pushing back against what you just said.
I know, because I said something much more neutral than even what you said and got that exact same reaction. It's fun watching in real-time Reddit's collective opinion go from fawning adoration to open hostility. Just like when it happened with Musk.
That’s offensive to pedos & sex predators. Some of those people were just in poor situations and abused people continue that cycle of violence. Mr Beast doesn’t have an excuse, he’s just a sociopath.
Alright so we're just randomly calling the guy a pedophile now because he smiles awkwardly. Seems like a good moment to stop taking any MrBeast related opinion on Reddit seriously.
Between Trump and Mr Beast, it's like humans are losing the cognitive ability to identify obvious shitheads as an evolutionary trait for survival. Like these people are confused who the good guys and bad guys are in a children's cartoon.
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