The Normie Cultural Mafia

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Whats interesting about him is he seems to be the exact same type of guy as zuckerberg and bezos but despite that his 'product' is himself. Conpletely reptillian anti-personality that becomes more disturbing the longer you look- the exact opposite type of person youd want doing his job yet hes one of the most popular entertainers in the world.
 
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From something I tried to write about MrBeast and his philantropic content:

In interviews, MrBeast talks about having been obsessed with Youtube since childhood. He hated school, had few friends, and cared about little else than making videos. He speaks proudly about the years he spent as a college dropout in manic pursuit of the formula for the viral video: the tone of voice, the quickness of the cuts, the colorgrading of the thumbnail. I think this part of the story is crucial to understanding what drives him, how his mind works.

To me what he represents is not narcissism but a sort of personality that only makes sense within its native domain of the internet, one that has internalized its binary laws, its own language of transactions, to a degree that is difficult to relate to. The absurdity of these videos doesn’t arise out of our encounter with something immoral, but with a morality whose natural terms has been abstracted away in the logic of content.

Reflecting on the spectacle of America seen from across the Atlantic, Baudrillard writes: “If you approach this society with the nuances of moral, aesthetic, or critical judgment, you will miss its originality, which comes precisely from its defying judgment and pulling off a prodigious confusion of effects.” Might there be a clue here to how we should approach a case like MrBeast, a phenomenon that itself appears dramatically capable of this confusion of effects: the good with the evil, the beautiful with the ugly?

My point is that if we suspend this continental weltschermz for a moment, isn’t there something genius about the enterprise MrBeast has designed? What he has created is a genuine perpetual engine of philanthropy, fused together by the moral and monetary circuits of the internet. It is a veritable Peter Pan-world with all its trappings, its eschewal of seriousness and moderation. Cringeworthy, yes, but also sort of magical.

I think there is something artful about all this, this paradox he presents us with, this bizarre recursion that short-circuits our moral instincts and turns our critical judgement into a part of the joke, into a part of his own grand revenge on the sensibility of adult life, which is left with little to say for itself except a bad taste in the mouth.
 
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entertainment said:
From something I tried to write about MrBeast and his philantropic content:

In interviews, MrBeast talks about having been obsessed with Youtube since childhood. He hated school, had few friends, and cared about little else than making videos. He speaks proudly about the years he spent as a college dropout in manic pursuit of the formula for the viral video: the tone of voice, the quickness of the cuts, the colorgrading of the thumbnail. I think this part of the story is crucial to understanding what drives him, how his mind works.

To me what he represents is not narcissism but a sort of personality that only makes sense within its native domain of the internet, one that has internalized its binary laws, its own language of transactions, to a degree that is difficult to relate to. The absurdity of these videos doesn’t arise out of our encounter with something immoral, but with a morality whose natural terms has been abstracted away in the logic of content.

Reflecting on the spectacle of America seen from across the Atlantic, Baudrillard writes: “If you approach this society with the nuances of moral, aesthetic, or critical judgment, you will miss its originality, which comes precisely from its defying judgment and pulling off a prodigious confusion of effects.” Might there be a clue here to how we should approach a case like MrBeast, a phenomenon that itself appears dramatically capable of this confusion of effects: the good with the evil, the beautiful with the ugly?

My point is that if we suspend this continental weltschermz for a moment, isn’t there something genius about the enterprise MrBeast has designed? What he has created is a genuine perpetual engine of philanthropy, fused together by the moral and monetary circuits of the internet. It is a veritable Peter Pan-world with all its trappings, its eschewal of seriousness and moderation. Cringeworthy, yes, but also sort of magical.

I think there is something artful about all this, this paradox he presents us with, this bizarre recursion that short-circuits our moral instincts and turns our critical judgement into a part of the joke, into a part of his own grand revenge on the sensibility of adult life, which is left with little to say for itself except a bad taste in the mouth.
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Corpsey

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I thought you'd referred to Baudrillard as "Mr. Baudrillard" there and was disappointed to see you hadn't.

I was going to do a thread about the concept of "Basic" but is this essentially that thread? I've not read any of it, you see.
 
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entertainment said:
From something I tried to write about MrBeast and his philantropic content:

In interviews, MrBeast talks about having been obsessed with Youtube since childhood. He hated school, had few friends, and cared about little else than making videos. He speaks proudly about the years he spent as a college dropout in manic pursuit of the formula for the viral video: the tone of voice, the quickness of the cuts, the colorgrading of the thumbnail. I think this part of the story is crucial to understanding what drives him, how his mind works.

To me what he represents is not narcissism but a sort of personality that only makes sense within its native domain of the internet, one that has internalized its binary laws, its own language of transactions, to a degree that is difficult to relate to. The absurdity of these videos doesn’t arise out of our encounter with something immoral, but with a morality whose natural terms has been abstracted away in the logic of content.

Reflecting on the spectacle of America seen from across the Atlantic, Baudrillard writes: “If you approach this society with the nuances of moral, aesthetic, or critical judgment, you will miss its originality, which comes precisely from its defying judgment and pulling off a prodigious confusion of effects.” Might there be a clue here to how we should approach a case like MrBeast, a phenomenon that itself appears dramatically capable of this confusion of effects: the good with the evil, the beautiful with the ugly?

My point is that if we suspend this continental weltschermz for a moment, isn’t there something genius about the enterprise MrBeast has designed? What he has created is a genuine perpetual engine of philanthropy, fused together by the moral and monetary circuits of the internet. It is a veritable Peter Pan-world with all its trappings, its eschewal of seriousness and moderation. Cringeworthy, yes, but also sort of magical.

I think there is something artful about all this, this paradox he presents us with, this bizarre recursion that short-circuits our moral instincts and turns our critical judgement into a part of the joke, into a part of his own grand revenge on the sensibility of adult life, which is left with little to say for itself except a bad taste in the mouth.
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oh god that splash screen is so reminiscent of the ancient and now defunct SO SOLID CREW website which was all done in flash

I had a mate who grew up in Streatham, he told me how Lisa Mafia used to knock on doors on the estate selling shoplifted items from JD Sports

one of my favourite documentaries is the one where SO SOLID CREW are recording at THE MANOR and the resident 5 star Michelin chef doesn't meet with their approval and they have to phone the local KFC for some wings

edit: this may be extremely UK specific, lol




^ @Negative Miami - this is proper UK hardcore continuum circa 2000 AD, ragga style chatting shit over bass which is pure acid house at some points, unpopular opinion



featuring So Solid, Pay As You Go, Darqwan, Agent X, Roll Deep, Wiley, etc.,
 
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i just read through this excellent thread. a beauty of joining this forum "past its prime" is that there is a treasure trove of 20+ paged threads that are at my disposal to readd through. so much information and knowledge for me to read through, i just have to find it. i will say i do give credit to luka as just often will drop links to threads in convos of other threads so the forum is like a rabbit hole i keep falling down.

i have begun jotting down messages in my notebook to go along with james joyce lines i like.

with this thread i was drawn to it because i have this own internal conflict within myself over this.... i find myself exposed to many niche subcultures online that i have somewhat of a foot and input in but, but not enough of weirdd lived experiences that the others do, but i have enough of a personality for people to continue interacting and mentioning me. so i almost feel like a "normie" in these online spaces, but when i hang out with my friend from hs ive reconnected with, and when i am with my sisters extended family and friends, i feel almost deeply alienated due to what i expose myself to online an the communities of people i communicate with, like if i even tried to explain any of these forums to these people they would just not understand.

it is almost a similar feeling i had when i would go to mr suspended reason's place for his weekly get togethers this summer. each week there would be mostly a different assortment of his crew, and i would almost act as a voyeur most times just observing the conversations having no idea what they were talking about, the books, the people, the art, the whatever, this kinda made me feel not stupid but "less advanced", but then on the other hand i made sure not to make myself feel bad about this because i would also look around at these people and think to myself that i could strike all these people out with three pitches and also beat them all 1 on 1 in basketball, who cares if i dont know anyhting about what theyre talking about.

no quesiton im posing here, but just something i think about often as i talk to people in real life and then log in online to these spaces
 
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