Beast Games: An Autopsy

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second worst job i ever had was working on that city in the middle of nowhere (Toronto) all ill add is im pretty sure there weren't real toilets in the city.

As a Survivor fan it's puzzling to watch Mr Beast throw away more money at people for winning coin tosses than someobody gets for surviving on an island and playing a highly strategic social game. Capitalism is extremely silly where does this money come from

"I don't think Akira's like that" lmfao

loved this video! your exploration at the end was really strong for me, and resonated with the thoughts i was having as you reviewed the individual games—when the games are so boring, arbitrary and luck-based, the show becomes about the mental toll of striving for money, of competing against others and making choices for money, or sacrificing one’s access to money. but the interior dilemmas faced by individuals here are not explored, they’re only implied. beast expects us to understand these dilemmas instinctually, as we watch mostly boring and pointless games of chance that reveal nothing about who the players actually are within the story. most of them are not even games, they’re like human processing machines. the intense editing suggests that it expects us to feel this conflict as intensely and viscerally as the contestants. and obviously he’s replicating squid game again in this structure, and revealing how he missed the point of squid game—because the arbitrary nature of the squid games reads to a lot of people as a frustrating reflection on the dehumanizing and illogical experience of navigating capitalism (rather than a fun game show). but i also think in a funny way it also maybe reveals that jimmy is just more emotionally attuned to the flow of dollars than the average person. obviously money has emotional resonance to us for what it does for our lives, but it seems to be something else for him entirely. in beast’s mind there’s nothing more emotionally climactic than the abstract movement of money. the parties the money is moving between don’t really matter to him at all. it’s almost beautiful, it’s like he can feel the emotion of the money itself. the whole structure of the games feels like a movement towards making the most metaphysically distilled transaction of dollars he possibly can. a game to figure out who the money wants to flow towards

I'm waiting for Beast Games 4 when there are 5000 contestants, and a $40 million grand prize. We can watch them play electric football in the final.

I need more Joel now goddamit! I need more Joel!

I swear I’ve seen part of this video before, did this get posted previously?

Thank you Big Joel for watching this show and summarizing this trash so I didn't have to suffer I'd keep you on my hypothetical trolley problem

Mr Beast made a show with unlimited games, but no games.

Shocked by the amount of Get The Ball in the Right Spot games

Is this video going up on nebula?

It’s interesting that so many of the physical challenges are ripped straight from “Physical 100”, the Korean game show that’s also inspired by squid game

58:17 you said it backwards. "Does he want to eliminate these three women, or get a Lamborghini" he can have both. He gets to eliminate them and have the Lamborghini

I am so disappointed in Jeremy. What kind of Christian disrespects his wife by sharing a vehicle with another woman? I'm pretty sure that breaks at least six of the ten commandments.

So holy shit, how bad is this show? I didn't watch it and obviously I didn't think it'd be a masterpiece, but the amount of repetition and the absence of any sort of suspence are baffling. Like you said, it's definitely the transition from YouTube video to game show, but man... This guy has tens of millions of dollars to throw at this shit. Couldn't they have done a better job?

This whole show is an exercise in beast boy borrowing mechanics that he likes from other reality shows with zero insight into *why* he likes them or what makes them compelling

Modern reality shows always seem to take place in one of two locations: open field in undisclosed location, and black void.

Is it my birthday??? Might as well be 💕 thank you for feeding us

for those of you who watch it, I have a question but I only want you to tell me your answer after having seen the video............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................how much does the wonky selective focus during certain bits bother you?

woo woo !