X appears to be juicing MrBeast’s views to woo the YouTuber to the platform, pushing video upload into users’ feeds as an unlabeled ad::undefined

  • kjPhfeYsEkWyhoxaxjGgRfnj@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    He was on Lex Friedman’s podcast a while back. Honestly he seemed like a smart guy but I came away feeling like he was pretty cynical about the whole thing. It really did just feel like a neurotically trained intuition about boosting view metrics.

    He did seem like a decent dude I guess. Its hard to tell from those kind of things.

    • TheDarksteel94
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      9 months ago

      Yeah, fair enough. Who knows, maybe I’ll be eating my words sometime in the future.