Children’s Culture Guide for Adults: Who Is Mr. Beast?
This week kids are stealing things from school, giving out incredible amounts of money, and getting nervous about the Matrix reboot.
Who is Mr. Beast and why is everyone watching his video?
Kids Only YouTube Channel Jimmy Donaldson, also known as MrBeast , is the king of endurance tricks on YouTube. The Kansas native has mastered the art of punishment and ridiculous trials, such as in his first breakout video, which was a 24-hourvideo in which he counted to 100,000 , setting the stage for his “bigger is better” style.
Among many other exploits, he spent50 hours in solitary confinement , buried himself alive anddrove through the same passage 1,000 times . He also loves handing out money – tons of money – to his viewers , themoms of his viewers ,random restaurant workers ,his dumb friends, and even the trees. MrBeast’s charity, Team Trees , has spent over $ 23 million planting trees.
All adversity and charity brought the Beast 113.4 million subscribers on his YouTube channels, more than 12 billion views and about $ 25 million. MrBeast is 23 years old. When I was 23, I worked part time on the mini golf course.
TikTok Meme of the Week: Tricky Licks
School is back, and the hottest new trend among students is stealing ridiculous things and posting videos online. It all started with TikToker @ dtx.2cent , who showed off a stolen bottle of hand sanitizer and signed it, “Just a month in school and got this totally insidious lick.” Other licks followed, with imitators hunting for microscopes , fire alarms , a pool with a fountain, and a clock that hangs on the walls of every school on the ground .
The grumpy old man in me is like, “These are my tax dollars, punk!” but I can’t help but love the absurd theft of completely useless things for no reason. (I mean, what exactly is this TikToker going to do with hundreds of COVID test kits ?) And I can’t deny my own teenage sly joke , like when I stole flashing lights from a construction site and brought them home and thought, “What, what the hell should I do with this ? “
This Week in the Movies: Back to the Matrix
If you haven’t already, join over 11 million others and click on the link to watch the first trailer forThe Matrix Resurrections . This is amazing. Why isn’t Lawrence “Morpheus” Fishburne in the movie? The featured pill giver (played by Yahya Abdul-Matin II) is a younger Morpheus? Does the film depict what would happen if Neo took the blue pill instead of the red one? Can we pretend there never was an original sequel to The Matrix? Isn’t it really an adult version of Ted from The Excellent Adventures of Bill & Ted or Matt from River River ? Isn’t living in a simulation and being a living battery better than living in the real world?
Moviegoers on the Internet are going crazy with fan theories based on the stylish clip, and all of these questions and more will be answered on December 22nd when literally everyone on earth sees the movie.
Public Service Announcements This Week: Don’t Swim in Flood Waters
As flooding in large cities can turn into a depressive seasonal event, authorities are warning against swimming or otherwise recovering from flood waters. The people of Philadelphia (God bless them) went viral, contracting viral infections from swimming, diving and other pleasure from the excess water that poured into the city from Hurricane Ida. But according to the public health agency’s swear words, it’s not a good thing. Swimming in flood waters is not cute. This is not turning lemons into lemonade . So they get sick with cholera.
Adam Thiel, dual fire commissioner and director of emergency management in Philadelphia, said: “ Stay out of water , stay out of mud. It’s not something you want to swim in, or put in tubes, or whatever we’ve seen people do, “before adding,” If you did, I would definitely advise you to get a tetanus shot. among which are other things. “
Internet fights abortion ban in Texas
The supreme court crippling Roe v. Wade will surely lead to high-profile legal battles and millions of angry Facebook posts, but young people are doing more than just posting status updates. Led by influencers , Satanists and random people, Internet residents have completely destroyed a Texas website dedicated to reporting women getting abortions.
The www.prolifewhistleblower.com website was created to take advantage of the civilian “reward” that citizens can collect for whistleblowing someone who is having an abortion or helping them. Once the site went live, it was subjected to a DDOS attack and inundated with countless reports of abortions performed by Dr. Nick Riviera, Dr. Funkenstein, and other members of the fictional medical community.
Web hosting GoDaddy.com responded to public pressure and dropped their support, leaving the site in the hands of right-wing hosting company Epik. Soon, even Epik refused to host the site because it violated their terms of service by collecting information from third parties without consent.
The creators of the Texas Right to Life site vow to return , but at the moment, their snitch site no longer exists.
Viral Video of the Week: Blues Clues Host Explains Why Dump Us
In a video that brings an end to an emotionally devastated nation, Steve Burns, the first host of the cult kids show Blues Clues, finally reveals where he went and why he left us with his eerily similar brother Joe.
Steve, who looked young like a time machine, said, “I understand it was pretty unexpected. I just got up and went to college. And by the way, it was really difficult, but great, because I had to use my mind and take it step by step, and now I literally do a lot of what I wanted to do. “
The video dispels longstanding rumors that Burns left the show because of a car accident or drug addiction. Amazingly, the rumors that Stevelost half to becoming an indie rocker are completely true.
Despite reports to the contrary, I didn’t cry over this video and I didn’t have a lump in my throat when Steve said, “I guess I just wanted to say that after all these years, I never forgot you. Is always. And I am very glad that we are still friends. “