It must be exhausting to keep the outrage meter turned up to 11 every single day.
Jimmy Donaldson, better known by his online persona “MrBeast”, has garnered over 130 million subscribers on YouTube for his videos with elaborate, expensive stunts that are frequently centered around philanthropy.
His latest video published on Sunday definitely fit in the philanthropy category — he paid for the surgeries of 1000 people to give them back their sight.
We helped 1,000 people see, literally. Go watch the new video!
— MrBeast (@MrBeast) January 28, 2023
Here’s the video:
It was wildly successful. It racked up over 50 million views in one day.
I did not expect this video to do this well 😮 pic.twitter.com/XNjeUy23Zx
— MrBeast (@MrBeast) January 30, 2023
While some had a little fun with the “giving sight to the blind” theme of the video…
If his next video has wine in it then Mr Beast has some explaining to do pic.twitter.com/gXVBTqlLbr
— SmallAnt (@SmallAnt) January 29, 2023
UHHHH pic.twitter.com/g8zI8gyyOF
— SmallAnt (@SmallAnt) January 29, 2023
…others were upset that MrBeast was “curating content by exploiting the poor”. Yep, the leftists, the commies, and even the champagne socialists were all crapping on MrBeast’s video.
Popular leftist Twitch streamer, Hasan Piker, reacted to the video and explained why he was upset by it.
Twitch streamer Hasan explained why he’s filled with rage from watching MrBeast’s newest video where he cures 1,000 people’s blindness pic.twitter.com/KBHPF9iVXA
— Dexerto (@Dexerto) January 30, 2023
This is the nephew of The Young Turks co-founder Cenk Uygur. Like his uncle, Piker built his entire brand on pushing his far-left socialist political stance.
Piker was also (rightfully) bashed online for his reaction.
Millionaire @hasanthehun is upset that @MrBeast helped cure 1,000 people's blindness.
I wonder what @hasanthehun does with his money to help people. https://t.co/PuNZVNV4Ys— Leftism (@LeftismForU) January 31, 2023
Oh, we know how Piker has used his fortune…
BREAKING: Twitch Streamer Hasan Piker buys $200,000 Porsche Taycan.
Congrats to @hasanthehun on getting his dream car! pic.twitter.com/lCIuFtqdWB
— ostonox (@ostonox) February 5, 2022
Hasan has said on his stream that he helps sex trafficking victims… oh, wait, no. He admitted on his stream that he was a customer at a brothel in Germany that was raided in 2016 for sex trafficking. My bad. https://t.co/J8A4fGQsEH
— K. Walker (@TheMrsKnowItAll) January 31, 2023
Meanwhile, MrBeast pushed back at some of the criticism he was getting online.
In one tweet that should’ve been a boon to the so-called Democratic-Socialists who constantly warble on and on about the need for single-payer healthcare, MrBeast even questioned why this simple, life-changing procedure wasn’t something that governments were funding directly.
I don’t understand why curable blindness is a thing. Why don’t governments step in and help? Even if you’re thinking purely from a financial standpoint it’s hard to see how they don’t roi on taxes from people being able to work again.
— MrBeast (@MrBeast) January 30, 2023
He just couldn’t understand the outrage.
Twitter – Rich people should help others with their money
Me – Okay, I’ll use my money to help people and I promise to give away all my money before I die. Every single penny.
Twitter – MrBeast bad
— MrBeast (@MrBeast) January 30, 2023
Welcome to the club. My working theory is that wokescolds abhor being happy and want everyone else miserable, too.
Its not like you’d want someone who is successful and wants to help other people to continue to be successful so that they can continue to help more people, or anything… isn’t that right, socialists? We should all just wallow in misery together and complain that “the system” is the problem.
A number of social media users are coming to MrBeast’s defense because bashing him for paying for surgery to make blind people see is just stupid.
if this triggers anyone, good. block me. y’all are garbage.
— Shibetoshi Nakamoto (@BillyM2k) January 31, 2023
People are mad at the Mr Beast video paying for blindness treatments because it is causing cognitive dissonance that they could have been doing this all along instead of whatever Current Thing the GAE is promoting for new spending
— Jack Poso 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) January 31, 2023
I say we should all cheer on MrBeast’s philanthropy. After all, that’s what Jesus would do.
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