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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 (mashable.com)
submitted 10 months ago by L4s to c/technology
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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

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[–] kjPhfeYsEkWyhoxaxjGgRfnj 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

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