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I suspect the intent was the best for the customer. Like it or not, YouTube is the customer here. The viewers are YouTube's customers.


I'd say the viewers are YouTube's quatloos.

Advertisers and people seeking behavior modification out of populations are YouTube's customers. MrBeast understands this. The MrBeast goal is to get and stay #1 at whatever YouTube wants, for the purpose of being #1 at whatever YouTube wants. That purpose can be any number of things, MrBeast doesn't care. It's purpose-agnostic.




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