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I realize this is semantics but he’s not a fraud, because he delivers on the things he says. If he didn’t spend 48 hours (or however long) underground that would make him a fraud, but he did. The content might be of dubious quality, but it’s not fraudulent


I see you haven't done even a casual search.


Here's a video titled "$1 vs $10,000,000 Job!" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wdjh81uH6FU). He then proceeds to look at a number of jobs, with a job that make basically no money ranging to an NFL player. It's clickbaity, there are a lot of easy jokes in the episode, but there's nothing fraudulent. He's not lying about anyone's salary, he pays people out in shows where they make money, and nobody is being scammed. All of his videos are like this. I'm not saying you have to like him, but fraud describes something very specific which he is not doing.

I'm sure there's some disgruntled employee complaining somewhere, but I have not seen any legitimate complaints about him. All those "Mr Beast is a fraud!?!" videos have no substance, and are just people using his name for views.


Search harder--maybe even do a few string literals. I know you can do it.


See https://youtu.be/k5xf40KrK3I

It alleges that many of the “contests” are staged and artificially manipulated and potentially violate laws around such games. I think to many that might feel like fraud.




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