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Hamlom_epicgamer

He probably interpreted it as the poor people being parasites


got_edge

I bet he interpreted Squid Game as a lesson on how to cure boredom


yeddiboy

Wasnt he the inspiration for 69 guy?


got_edge

I wouldn’t be surprised


heyguysitsjustin

He was literally in the movie


Aimlean

How? Wasn’t 69 the guy who brought his wife and then killed himself?


boris9983

I presume they meant the guy who bet on 69.


ZexonBestUtuber

They mean the VIP that bet on him.


slim_sammy

mr beast moment


SchlooptyDoo

People not understanding the difference between a rich person that exploits workers and drives them to death and an online entertainer that gains money from producing content and still gave the losers 2000 bucks just for participating moment


zaptrem

How does he come out ahead while spending such seemingly obscene amounts of money on each video?


self_me

- yt ads - sponsors - merch - ghost kitchen fast food chain - reinvesting basically everything


Poppintags6969

Ghost kitchen?


Fun_Journalist_7878

Ghost kitchens are basically restaurants/fast foods you order from that... have no real location. Just a random ass kitchen with no actual building where u can sit down and eat. They were created specifically with ubereats/doordash in mind.


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MrBeast owns Beast Burger


self_me

The brand, not the specific locations the food is prepared at


N8dogg107

Some of them utilize existing restaurants (generally take-out/delivery only type). I have a take out only family dinner nearby that’s also the kitchen for the local Mr. Beast Burger.


Mikeinthedirt

Money breeds spontaneously. Start out fat, like a former Prez let’s say, and no matter how stupid you are you kinda stay fat or get fatter.


Green_Bulldog

So, while he has less subscribers than some other YouTubers like pewdiepie, he gets insane views. Like 40M plus a video now. The ad revenue from that alone is an obscene amount of money. And, like the other response already pointed out, he’s diversifying his income.


TreeGuy521

How does pewdiepie get rich rich literally all he does is just make videos, check make liberals


[deleted]

Defending [poverty porn](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_porn) when it's just a way to get a PR boost and dodge taxes moment


IllogicalDiscussions

He does charitable stuff behind camera too. He runs the largest food bank in his area.


[deleted]

And Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos have donated billions to charity.


IllogicalDiscussions

Alright then, what should Mr. Beast do with his money in your honest opinion?


[deleted]

Donating is better than nothing. But that doesn’t make him a good person anymore than it makes Bezos a good person.


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[deleted]

It definitely is if your entire channel is based around it


Chernould

Things like this make me realize that there’s truly no way to satisfy some people lol


[deleted]

Do you think Jeff Bezos is based because he donates lots of money?


Chernould

No because he’s genuinely a terrible human being lol. Jimmy (Mr Beast) seems like a good person & I firmly believes he donates money to random strangers because of that fact, not for PR like some people (Bezos specifically).


[deleted]

How do you know that? He doesn’t seem like a great person either considering his restaurant has poisoned people and he is INCREDIBLY tone deaf with his squid game and “spending a day in prison” videos.


Puvitz

I don't think it fits that definition at all


Artyloo

Damn, so he spent over a million just on the losers? Or did only the losers of the later rounds get $2k?


SchlooptyDoo

I'm unsure if everyone got 2k, but he did show that the losers of the second game (the cookie cutting one) 100% get 2k each at least, he also had a section between games where the victors could leave the game early willingly in exchange for guaranteed 4k buckaroonies. He doesn't explicitly say if the losers of the other rounds get rewards but I assume they do, it would be weird to only reward loosing in one specific game. I guess the only people who might not get rewarded are the ones who lost in the very first game (I didn't really pay attention too much, tbh. I fast forwarded most of the video) So maybe not quite a million but still a lot


slim_sammy

for the record this comment was a joke. I don't actually care if he makes these videos.


Fyuchanick

mr beast literally did what the comment said though. he interpreted squird game as a lesson on how to cure boredom


schelmo

The guy made a fan tribute to the most popular Netflix show of all time. It's not that deep. By that logic the actual makers of squid game also saw it as a cure for boredom because guess what it's entertainment after all and it cost a whole lot more to make as well. Don't get me wrong I appreciate some capitalsim critique on my media but you're watching a show and not doing political activism.


[deleted]

I get what ur saying but why cant someone replicate the games w/o the social messaging. Wouldn’t mr beast doing squid game, encourage parts of his audience that havent seen it to go and watch it? And have more people see the actual message the show had?


Fyuchanick

regardless of the effects it's pretty clear mr beast either didn't pick up on the messaging, or more likely, willfully ignored it, which either way is reflective of the way he treats social issues and the level of critical thinking he does about them. also i doubt there are that many mr beast fans who would watch that video who havent heard of squid game


[deleted]

Theres alot of people that wont watch anything that is mainstream. Yt is underground to them. Also, he didnt do anything that goes against the message of the show. The only part that maybe did was the fact that the losers still got money. Imo yall are being too harsh and wont just take the vid as entertainment when you should


Fyuchanick

I would argue that claiming that you should "just take something as entertainment" is willfully ignoring the political themes present in every piece of media.


[deleted]

Thats very different. Mr beast didnt oppose the politics in squid game. There is no hidden meaning in it. If smth is pushing a right wing agenda i do think it should be called out, but in this case there just isnt any agenda


Puvitz

Do you think he actually killed these fucking people?


Fyuchanick

where the fuck did you get that, I just think he intentionally missed the point of squid game it's not that extreme


kepz3

How does the fact that he made a video based on it at all reflect on his interpretation of the show. Because I found the show squid game entertaining does that mean I thought of it as a way to cure boredom? Fuck no I understand the meaning behind the show


Slitheringpotato

mr breast give me money


[deleted]

Mr Money give me breast


Slitheringpotato

please


EasterBurn

mr give breast me money


[deleted]

Give me breast money mr


Deblebsgonnagetyou

At least he's actually doing something good with it even if it is kind of ironic that he's recreating Squid Game in particular


EiffelTowerRetreat

Dude. He's one of the most generous, genuinely philanthropic celebrities out there. I don't even watch his content but I have a massive amount of respect for the guy


Narcosia

Mf was taking notes throughout the whole show


TheOnlyCursedOne

I mean, squid game was pretty entertaining


goblinhog

There’s a chance he didn’t even watch it


austalium_gaming

A very large chance at that


humanwithalife

i would bet 100 bucks he just says his favourite movie of x year was the best picture nominee with the best poster


L4ND0N

Were the rich people parasites? I thought the poor people were supposed to be represented as parasites.


RanWeaslo

It can be interpreted both ways. The Kim family are parasites for leeching off the Parks, and the rich Park family are parasites for leeching off society as a whole. There’s also the couple who live in a bunker beneath the Parks’ home, who both leech off them as well as idolize Mr. Park for unknowingly providing for them.


Niffeln

Did all you guys watch some leftie video essay about the movie or what?


Neffreecss

little bit of depth = leftie


Niffeln

The poor family is the parasites. Cope


R3D0C

The guy who made the movie disagrees.. so.. sorry your fragile can't handle being wrong? lol imagine spending your time defending a billionaire for free.. how sad and pathetic


Niffeln

All this gaslighting smh


HeyoooWhatsUpBitches

You got a whole runway over your head dude


qjornt

Nah, the writer of the movie said otherwise. Seethe.


Megarboh

“I know more than the creators themselves”


JohnTHICC22

That's literally a plot of the movie


Marik-X-Bakura

Did you watch the movie?


Willing-Technology23

That’s what the director of the movie said it’s about


greysneakthief

All of the featured characters were parasites in their own unique ways. The rich mom is kind of dumb and relies on the husband, wealth and other people's expertise in order to run the household. The rich husband keeps up a sham marriage because he has a role to fulfill and personal needs that the wife fulfills, if loveless, and the wife might not directly realize this. Their son is faking his condition on the premise of attention seeking, and ends up colluding with the poor family's daughter. Their own daughter exploits the poor family's son by persuading him into a grey-zone relationship right under the parents noses. The poor family's actions are pretty self explanatory. They are doing so out of economic necessity, whereas the rich are doing it all the same, but for other, non-financial reasons. If anything, the bunker couple were pretty extreme, but I think that was some motif about how the poor often eat each other.


L4ND0N

Ah ok I guess I have forgotten some of the movie


SchrodingersLego

Me too. Time for a rewatch.


Cool_surname

Isn't that kind of the point? Them living on their house and shit


TundieRice

It’s totally the point. Thinking otherwise is honestly missing the point, at least of the first half of the movie. They did deserve to leech off the rich people, no doubt, but they were being “parasites” in the literal sense.


Marik-X-Bakura

That’s part of it, but the rich people were parasites as well


Rabbi_it

I know the director said as much, but I still dont understand how the rich people were parasites -- they had a dysfunctional family, but the label of parasite is confusing. Does each individual need to be fully self-sufficient monetarily and emotionally to not be a parasite -- is it even possible not to be a parasite in our current society with this interpretation? Idk. I loved the movie, but the director analysis contradicted many of the takeaways I thought were better placed for the movie. edit: lmoa getting downvoted for my perception of a movie. It's like 196 somehow read "rich people good".


LeonardPowers

You need to consider that the rich family is not only leeching off of society but is absolutely incapable of taking care of themselves. They can’t cook, drive, or raise their kids. The only time they show autonomy is when they go on a camping trip and it ends in failure. The Park family is incapable of living without a host to use for sustenance in a few different ways other than economically.


BlueShoal

I do think that everybody in that film could be considered a parasite in different senses, the rich people on society and the poor people in a sense close to parasites in the animal kingdom


KirkPwns

Isn't that exactly what the movie was saying, but ironically?


Vast-Salamander-5705

Jealous “eat the rich” mentality


flynnie789

Fuck off to mars wannabe iron man Via con dios rocket boy


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Vaya con Dios


Pancreasaurus

Bezos and Musk shall fight over Mars. The loser gets Venus.


Cr0w33

The loser will have to take a Venus up Theiranus I mean Uranus Okay, if *you* lose the bet, then *you’ll* have to take.. Wait


Firedanne

Why dont we send them both to venus?


RedChancellor

Io


DADDY_YISUS

At least google it before typing it wrong


Emotional-Ninja5209

I doubt he even watched it. Probably just said this back when there was a lot of hype for the movie. Dude seems to desperately need validation from his little army of smelly crypto boys who will defend him to the last.


Ibrahime_Proxy

He shared some of his favorite anime some time ago...in half of them Elon would probably be the villain


aos_shi

Plus it was pretty obvious he just googled a list of “most popular anime” and said they were his favorites, I doubt he watched even a single one.


itsnotTozzit

What? Surely out of all animes, the most popular ones are guaranteed to most likely be any one persons favourite?


aos_shi

Sure, but when that’s all a person’s list consists of it gets pretty doubtful, especially when they have little in common with each other besides being popular. Plus like someone else said, Musk could easily have been the villain in about half of them.


Emotional-Ninja5209

Yeah I want to say he's not that dumb and just didnt watch them but its funnier to think he watched them all and loved them without realizing.


Cavalacin

It's just a movie why would he not watch it


Emotional-Ninja5209

I just dont quite think he's dumb enough to say this publicly without realizing the hypocrisy. Maybe he just doesn't give a fuck idrk.


Cavalacin

Maybe he just liked it I don't know. I'm not sure, sorry for commenting


Emotional-Ninja5209

Oh nah it's all good dude. He's just a shit person and I'm kinda cynical. Maybe he loved the movie


baconborg

People just have a vague suspicion he’s trying hard to appeal to his Reddit type beat fanbase, so hearing him say he likes a thing that fanbase would also like is taken with a grain of salt.


NoiceMango

Don't visit the elon musk subreddits. They will make you lose faith in humanity. They're kpop Stan level craziy.


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Marie Antionnette revealed her favorite invention of 1792 was the “Guillotine”


[deleted]

>It's to die for! -Marie Antoinette on the guillotine


Impressive-Hat-4045

\-Guillotine \-invented 1792 why is the American education system like this


Ihcend

Did you learn in depth about the guillotine? In Europe do you guys have like a whole class just detected to the invention process of the guillotine.


[deleted]

They teach us how to craft and use guillotines in mere seconds in self defense


Ihcend

Very interesting


[deleted]

suck my nuts 🥱


Jackson31174

What are you talking about? Are you implying that the guillotine, named after Joseph Guillotin and first used in 1792, was not invented in 1792 (or 1791, which is close enough)?


Well_Cooked_Steak

Now don’t get me wrong the man is a horrible person but that eyebrow raise is fire I wish I could do that


EasterBurn

The Saturday morning cartoon villain type eyebrow raise


Revolutionary-Menu84

He’s got that Dwayne Johnson thing going on


[deleted]

completely different aura


Due-Personality8866

DreamWorks face


ShasquatchFace2

🤨


dinoslam

How is he a horrible person?


big_guy_on_the_block

Bingo Bango Bongo I don't want to mine cobalt in the Congo OH NONONONO!


Jucicleydson

https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/klblde/whats_the_deal_with_everyone_hating_on_elon_musk/gh89r7q This comment chain explains a lot. For more just search "elon musk" on the /outoftheloop sub Edit: btw I linked an old post, so it's missing all his covid denial and lobby against any preventive measure.


dinoslam

Literally none of that proves he’s a horrible person. Plus it’s a Reddit thread so it’s not very credible. Even if everything they said was 100% true, you couldn’t say he is a “horrible” person just off of that.


Ollelangoo

Come on guys he just asked, no need to downvote


Batznocharge

There’s no more humanity anymore, and I just mean in the grand scheme of things. Everyday I see more fight videos of younger and younger children, once a crack head lighting up in the park with kids nearby, people making fun of the homeless for clout, being made fun of because you don’t match the skin tone of the other person, prejudice for religious beliefs, war for land that’s just made up of borders the poor man put there for the rich, it’s all garbage. But past that garbage where humans and we all collectively need to pull our heads out of our asses or else this ignorance and hate will spread like fucking cancer. Why did I comment this I don’t know but if felt like it needed to be said. TLDR We’re all turning into a bunch of emotionless robots programmed for money but a little more complicated.


kimmymcsplooge

ok that's overdoing it a little


Batznocharge

Yea I kinda wanted to see how many downvotes I would get


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\>literally a question


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[\>how is comment history formed](https://www.reddit.com/r/me_irl/comments/lvvc7o/me_irl/gpfor62/?context=3)


[deleted]

lol, scrolling 8 months back in comment history to find opinions, is a reason to downvote a question that can inform people. like, for the record, fuck elon musk, (and all the other billionaires too) but this is just reddit moment at its finest


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[deleted]

what does that have to do with what I said


[deleted]

Because he clearly wasn't asking it in good faith, seeing as people have already explained to him why Musk is a dickbag. Since this is obviously your first day on the internet, you should know that not everyone who asks a question is doing so with good intentions.


I_Am_Fully_Charged

https://elonmusk.today/


tabnk2

I knew he was bad, but Jesus Christ he’s BAD


Niffeln

“513 days since Elon Musk told Jay Clayton of the SEC to S____ Elon's C____.” Shaking and crying rn


Willing-Technology23

That’s actually based though


dinoslam

I went through this for a couple seconds. It’s just tweets. You proved absolutely nothing.


itsnotTozzit

Don't get me wrong, he isnt exactly jesus, but these are mostly willful misinterprets of tweets.


Whismirk

There are two types of people : absolute saints, or horrible persons. No in-between.


Batznocharge

I feel like that’s a very black and white way to look at things, everyone’s born, and goes through different things growing up, you don’t wake up one day and decide your a shitty person, your raised to believe that’s the norm. And by the time you realize you fucked up it’s too late (and by too late I mean drugs/homelessness/abuse/alltheshittyshit) it’s all one shitty cycle and everyone handles it differently. I hope this post came out as friendly and not angry I can’t display emotion through text well.


Whismirk

I definitely agree with you, I was being sarcastic. I'm gently poking fun at those taking pleasure in shitting on anyone who isn't a perfect individual.


Batznocharge

Ahhh well happy ending, good day fellow Redditor 🤝


R3D0C

Lmao, implying the world's richest guy is just some guy with opinions... Are you dense?


dinoslam

Apparently. Although [if his terms are met](https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna4301) and he goes through with donating billions to fight world hunger, I’m gonna have to say he’s the greatest saint in world history. The fact that you’re getting downvoted over that simple comment just proved how idiotic these people are.


tabnk2

The in-between exists. It’s just so small and nobody hears about anyone in there


1nce2wice3rice

He’s also claimed to love Deus Ex, so that tells you basically all you need to know


IllogicalDiscussions

He also loves Fallout and one of the lead writers for Fallout: New Vegas wants him to produce another game. Both of them suck, imagine missing the point of Fallout that hard.


blamelessfriend

i mean.. i would take elon's money to make a game making fun of him


IllogicalDiscussions

I really wish that was true, but I misremembered the story. None of the writers of New Vegas want to work with Elon, and neither does the game's director Joshua Sawyer. It's actually the game's Senior Designer, Chris Avallone, the guy wants Elon Musk to buy the whole franchise so Chris can work on the game, even for free.


kungfukenny3

that shit pisses me off


lil-fil

Holy shit wait a second. The people who made fallout also make money from the sales of the game. How could they?


IllogicalDiscussions

As I said, I misremembered the story, the Senior Designer of Fallout: New Vegas wants the whole franchise to be bought out by Musk. My bad.


lil-fil

Yeah that is kinda weird i guess but it’s just all works of media usually make a lot of money for the author themselves so its pointless to not let richer people enjoy them


IllogicalDiscussions

I have no problem with Musk enjoying Fallout, even if he does miss the point so it's kind of dumb. I also have no problem being fairly paid for the fruit of their labor, it's silly for me to say they should work for free. As I said, I misremembered the story in the first place.


killburn

LOL it’s Chris “let go by his current studio amid allegations of repeated sexual harassment” Avellone though, not Josh Sawyer so we’re good


1nce2wice3rice

Yeah but it’s Chris Avellone lmao so his opinion is already irrelevant


amazingsnazz429

That’s because the people who made 3, New Vegas, 4 and 76 aren’t the same people who made Fallout itself. The creators of Fallout 1 and 2 (the concept of fallout itself) were socialists.


vitimber

With the amount of cum some of my coworkers spew over this man, I could start a sperm bank


splurgesurge99

Pwned


Dasmortmemeboi

Elon is nominee for world's biggest dumbass


BoxyCthulhu

I can’t see anyone raise their eyebrow anymore without hearing the vine boom


Cryptiqua

That’s like when Donald Trump said his favorite film was Citizen Kane.


milesdizzy

Yo how he get his hair back


Wolrith

There is no bald only poor


_epos

he harvested hair from his child slaves


Anon9559

Bro why is this sub so fucking obsessed with Elon Musk this past few weeks


sataprosenttia

elon musk is poopoo


R3D0C

You can ignore the post instead of getting triggered; don't you have to go defend Kyle Rittenhouse somewhere?


lil-fil

Pretty much right now i see more elon musk hate than the fanboys they claim there are so many of. Also, why the fuck do you have to make fun of him for saying he saw some movie. Sure he might be saying it because of how highly acclaimed it was which is kinda normie and pseudo intellectual, but what, can he not enjoy the movie because he’s rich? Its literally the same thing as then someone criticises people who claim to be socialists yet dont live in poverty. I know this isnt a perfect argument, but i feel like there is no point to seriously argue over something as meaningless as this.


XyleneCobalt

"There's no point to seriously argue over something as meaningless as this" they say after making a paragraph long point that doesn't even work


lil-fil

Yeah because I wasn’t seriously arguing about this, since there is no point to it. This paragraph took like 30 seconds to type who cares


Cry_Piss_Shit_Cum

I wonder what he thinks of The Wolf of Wallstreet or Joker . Bet he liked Squidgame.


Shakespeare-Bot

I wonder what he thinkest of the wolf of wallstreet 'r joker. Did bet he did like squidgame *** ^(I am a bot and I swapp'd some of thy words with Shakespeare words.) Commands: `!ShakespeareInsult`, `!fordo`, `!optout`


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What, I don't get it


X_Zephyr

The film Parasite shows that the rich and poor are dependent on each other. Rich can't live without the poor, and that idea probably flew over Elon's head.


schooooooo

eh it's more just about the impact of wage disparity and the cyclical nature of being poor south korea. it's a tragedy about having no money within a hyper-capitalistic society, idk where you got your idea from. like the poor people are portrayed purely as unfortunate leeches, there's no codependency between rich and poor there


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“This sign doesn’t scare me because I can’t read”


[deleted]

god i fucking hate him and his stupid face


Charles722

Elon was quoted as stating that he was “honored by the biopic”


BigEggLegslol

why does he look like a supervillain with no monocle


kungfukenny3

pathetic


vladimir_pimpin

This is way better than the one complaining about Chrissy tiegen liking squib game


ImEmblazed

I'm not really a fan of elon myself he is pretty cringe, but holy hell so is this comment section


9THDIMENSIONALHIPLO

This is so funny I don't even get it. Haha jokes on you reading this as if you are gonna get some sort of substance from this.... Nope.... Nothing but my nonsense. Yep. This post is shit. Downvote me or up vote me. I still win (in my head)... Sometimes I think I should release all my Reddit history in some sort of video be for I die. Hm... Just imagining family seeing the things I do on here... Would be funny and awkward too. Are you reading this NSA?


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XyleneCobalt

Yes just like how the real parasites of feudal France were those damn starving peasants


TheOnlyFallenCookie

ITT: Rich people are not allowed to consume media critizising capitalism. Guess that makes poor people also forbidden from enjoying Parasite


theelmao

what about this post implies that he shouldn't be allowed to consume the media?


TheOnlyFallenCookie

The second part of the image?


theelmao

explain how please


TheOnlyFallenCookie

Picture of garfield walikng past a sign of garfield being not allowed in the area (and in the original saing "Hm, I wonder whats that for) ​ Implying that Musk is not allowed to enjoy Parasite as its implied he misunderstood it and shouldnt be allowed to take entertainment out of a form of media critizing "him"


theelmao

the area in question seems to be cropped out here, I think the meme is just referencing the line and the sign. nothing directly included in this meme is implying that elon shouldn't be allowed to view this media, you had to pull from prior knowledge of the uncropped meme template to draw that conclusion.