That Cringe 2015 MrBeast Video Reveals Everything Wrong With YouTube’s Vanity Metrics Treadmill
In 2015, a teenage MrBeast recorded a message to his future self, obsessing over hitting one million subscribers like a gambler fixated on a slot machine jackpot. The video is unwatchable—a monument to the algorithmic Stockholm syndrome that YouTube has engineered into an entire generation of content creators. MrBeast now sits at 440 million subscribers, … Read more