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Elon Musk Urges Mr Beast to Post Videos on Twitter for Equal Earnings (i.imgur.com)
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[-] nuke@yah.lol 416 points 2 years ago

Public begging? How embarrassing

[-] s08nlql9@lemm.ee 51 points 2 years ago

Desperate times call for desperate measures

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[-] EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 222 points 2 years ago

plz :(

-Elon Musk

[-] scarabic@lemmy.world 186 points 2 years ago

I didn’t realize anyone earned anything on Twitter ever. Is this just video views? Is this new?

Also, fuck Musk, etc.

[-] jonne@infosec.pub 60 points 2 years ago

I think it's new, he decided to add it to attract Tucker Carlson. I don't know who would watch a whole 20 minute video on their phone though.

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[-] Fisk400@lemmy.world 175 points 2 years ago

How is he going to be able to handle more videos when he has to ration text views because it's melting his servers.

[-] MargotRobbie@lemmy.world 154 points 2 years ago

He's always been desperate for attention, but now the public sentiment has finally turned against him everything he does just looks sad.

Oh and his memes were always stale AF.

[-] Toribor@corndog.uk 54 points 2 years ago

Elon just wants everyone to think he's funny and smart.

Unfortunately he's so determined to be constantly visibly online it's completely shattered that illusion.

[-] MargotRobbie@lemmy.world 36 points 2 years ago

He's just not funny.

A lot of comedy comes from situational absurdity of unexpected actions, and there is nothing that kills the joke faster than to realize that they are not pretending. It was funny at first when a boomer (Ok, elder Gen X) billionaire started posting bad middle school humor on Twitter, it immediately stopped being funny when it turns out his real maturity level never got past middle school.

Which is also why Trump is such a black hole for comedy, you just can't make fun of him, because any absurd and ridiculous thing you can think of him doing, you would expect him to actually do it.

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[-] popemichael@lemmy.world 143 points 2 years ago

Two people in this world that you should never get an IOU from: Trump and Musk.

They just don't pay their bills. It's not worth the effort.

[-] CrunchyBoy@lemmy.world 139 points 2 years ago

With what money, Elon? You can't afford to pay Google or office rent but you're going to pay Mr. Beast?

[-] mriguy@lemmy.world 42 points 2 years ago

He’s perfectly capable of paying both. He doesn’t want to, and because he’s rich, he doesn’t have to. There is a reason billionaires end up with so much money, and fairly compensating other parties isn’t it.

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[-] ghariksforge@lemmy.world 135 points 2 years ago

Every time Elon begs for money, I donate to my Mastodon or Lemmy admins.

[-] Moonwalk@lemm.ee 59 points 2 years ago

You should be really wealthy, my friend.

[-] trigonated@lemmy.world 55 points 2 years ago

Not for long, it seems. With all that donating.

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[-] dns@lemmy.world 128 points 2 years ago

A company notorious for revenue problems and missing bill payments is definitely who I would want to enter a business relationship with. Where do I sign up?

[-] existential_crisis@lemmy.world 51 points 2 years ago

And run by a guy notorious for not paying his bills

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[-] croobat@lemmy.world 115 points 2 years ago

Richest man in the world begging for pennies.

[-] Selmafudd@lemmy.world 37 points 2 years ago

Yeah and his best offer is I promise I'll pay you what you're already being paid...

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[-] spark947@lemm.ee 97 points 2 years ago

Doesn't Elon hate trans people or whatever?

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[-] harry_h0udini911@lemmy.fmhy.ml 95 points 2 years ago

How can MrBeast post a 10-minute video on Twitter? Should he make a thread for a video? 😆 😆

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[-] tartan@lemmy.world 79 points 2 years ago

Fuck Musk. He should do us all a favour and go suck on the tail end of one of “his” rockets.

[-] emax_gomax@lemmy.world 64 points 2 years ago

All the jokes aside, it's still amazing the CEO over a year in doesn't even know how profitable being an user that drives engagement on the site is compared to a (I guess) competitor like youtube. He's just like we're as profitable as youtube for you, or if not we can be, like the guy knows nothing and is just throwing claims out there with no basis in reality or plan to follow through on them.

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[-] user_already_exists@lemm.ee 58 points 2 years ago

This looks so desperate

[-] ultimate_question@lemmy.world 56 points 2 years ago

Interesting that he would try to use the potential number of views as a selling point while also publicly decimating the reach of Twitter posts lol

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[-] fross@lemmy.world 54 points 2 years ago

Not sure elon could afford the cloud bills if mrbeast actually did that

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[-] lemmyshmemmy@lemmy.world 51 points 2 years ago

Can Lemmy do anything besides post about Elon, Threads, Zuckerberg, and Reddit? Is it just a bunch of bots spamming the place?

I came here to avoid all that shit, not talk about it.

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[-] puppy@lemmy.world 51 points 2 years ago

Shouldn't Mr. Musk pay his server bills first?

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[-] Furbag@lemmy.world 49 points 2 years ago

Even billionaires are begging MrBeast for shit now, lmao.

[-] Zetta@mander.xyz 48 points 2 years ago

Top bad Twitter's video player is very bad, and Twitter's but rate is very noticably worse than YouTube.

Also I don't watch Mr beast so I don't give a shit in the first place.

[-] cloudless@feddit.uk 53 points 2 years ago

You spelt "but rate" wrong. It should be "butt rate".

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[-] KittyBitTees@lemmy.world 47 points 2 years ago

Wish Twitter would just stop existing already. Why do people acknowledge the shitty owner of the site at all? Just keep this scum out the news. Easy.

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[-] Stach@lemmy.world 47 points 2 years ago

No one would watch videos in GARBAGEp resolution when 1080p is right behind a corner on YT

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[-] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 42 points 2 years ago

Lmao elon is so thirsty, it’s hilarious

[-] 4am@lemmy.world 40 points 2 years ago

“We’ll pay you!” - Guy famous for not paying Twitter bills

[-] KuchiKopi@lemmy.world 36 points 2 years ago

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[-] _987@lemmy.world 35 points 2 years ago

fuck elon

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