The Random Crap Thread 2: It Hits the Fan.

GasBandit · 2025-02-04T09:34:05-0600

The people who live in my house are all about Mr. Beast. The GF even orders from Mr. Beast Burger even though I've told her it's a ghost kitchen.

Celt Z · 2025-02-04T09:45:51-0600

I'd say you're sort-of lucky you've gone this long without knowing? Last I checked, Li'l Z has never watched any of his content, but he's surrounded by perpetually online kids, so he's known who Beast was for years. He seems to have made a brand out of "altruism", which I have always found very suspect, but then he goes and markets... himself, so I dunno. We have an actual Beast Burger restaurant north of us, and I took Li'l Z once. It was a decent burger, so there's that. He's also gotten some Beast-branded candy when he was out with friends, but I wasn't going to buy him any more of it. (He seems to have lost interest halfway through it, anyway.) He's also appeared in Fortnite, iirc. My biggest issue is he seems to be using the "get 'em young, get 'em for life" advertising model, which makes me trust him as far as I can throw him.

GasBandit · 2025-02-04T09:48:19-0600

Somebody remind me why this thread is tagged xlyex? I don't remember discussing polymer resin...

PatrThom · 2025-02-04T09:55:53-0600

Could just be because random.

--Patrick

Dave · 2025-02-04T09:57:04-0600

GasBandit said:
Somebody remind me why this thread is tagged xlyex? I don't remember discussing polymer resin...

Or gorilla smut?

Celt Z · 2025-02-04T09:57:07-0600

Does it say who tagged it? I remember it going up, but I don't remember why.

GasBandit · 2025-02-04T09:58:04-0600

Celt Z said:
Does it say who tagged it? I remember it going up, but I don't remember why.

It does not, but I have my suspicions

GasBandit · 2025-02-04T09:59:16-0600

Never mind, a simple forum search would have revealed the answer to me, if I were not lazy

Bubble181 · 2025-02-04T10:01:00-0600

GasBandit said:
Never mind, a simple forum search would have revealed the answer to me, if I were not lazy

But since you are lazy, now how are you going to find out why it's on the tags? :troll:

Celt Z · 2025-02-04T10:02:14-0600

Wasn't he a spam/troll poster here once?

PatrThom · 2025-02-04T10:08:20-0600

GasBandit said:
Never mind, a simple forum search would have revealed the answer to me, if I were not lazy

Ah, ya beat me to it.

--Patrick

drawn_inward · 2025-02-04T10:25:51-0600

PatrThom said:
What??? Next you'll be telling me you've never seen a promo for SSSniperWolf!

--Patrick
(I don't sign into YouTube unless I absolutely have to, and I clear cookies constantly, so YT's recommendations are almost always based on generic "here's what's popular" and SSSW is always in the top 20 or so recommendations, no matter what)

Haven't heard of this either. I guess my brain is still stuck in early 2000s YT when I had definitely seen all the popular videos. I forget how insanely large the platform is now.

GasBandit · 2025-02-04T10:53:42-0600

drawn_inward said:
Haven't heard of this either. I guess my brain is still stuck in early 2000s YT when I had definitely seen all the popular videos. I forget how insanely large the platform is now.

"Early 2000s youtube."

MRW Youtube was launched in 2005
"Sus"

drawn_inward · 2025-02-04T12:03:35-0600

GasBandit said:
"Early 2000s youtube."

MRW Youtube was launched in 2005
"Sus"

Uff. Mid 2000s. It sure feels like early 2000s.

drawn_inward · 2025-02-04T12:05:11-0600

Celt Z said:
I'd say you're sort-of lucky you've gone this long without knowing? Last I checked, Li'l Z has never watched any of his content, but he's surrounded by perpetually online kids, so he's known who Beast was for years. He seems to have made a brand out of "altruism", which I have always found very suspect, but then he goes and markets... himself, so I dunno. We have an actual Beast Burger restaurant north of us, and I took Li'l Z once. It was a decent burger, so there's that. He's also gotten some Beast-branded candy when he was out with friends, but I wasn't going to buy him any more of it. (He seems to have lost interest halfway through it, anyway.) He's also appeared in Fortnite, iirc. My biggest issue is he seems to be using the "get 'em young, get 'em for life" advertising model, which makes me trust him as far as I can throw him.

TIL Mr Beast has a restaurant.

Celt Z · 2025-02-04T12:12:31-0600

drawn_inward said:
Uff. Mid 2000s. It sure feels like early 2000s.

The 90's were ten years ago, and I refuse to hear otherwise!

GasBandit · 2025-02-04T12:32:43-0600

drawn_inward said:
TIL Mr Beast has a restaurant.

A Ghost Kitchen. Ghost kitchens are a new trick to flood your way to profit by pretending to run 300 restaurants out of the same kitchen for food delivery purposes (99% have no dining room), to drown actual local restaurants out of the food delivery apps by sheer volume.

Oh, and apparently they aren't even affiliated with MrBeast any more (since mid 2023) and he regrets the whole thing.

blotsfan · 2025-02-04T13:14:43-0600

I once actually did takeout from a ghost kitchen and it was weird. They allowed it but it was very cleary not set up for it.

drifter · 2025-02-04T13:21:12-0600

Mr. Beast collabs with Jake (or is it Logan? Doesn't really matter) and KSI. I feel it's likely he's a piece of shit.

Dei · 2025-02-04T13:24:03-0600

Mr Beast is 100% a piece of shit, there is a ton of drama there. If you really want to know a bunch of it, Rosanna Pansino does some videos about it that you can search for.

Celt Z · 2025-02-04T14:32:06-0600

drawn_inward said:
TIL Mr Beast has a restaurant.

GasBandit said:
A Ghost Kitchen.

Most were ghost kitchens, but the one we went to is an actual restaurant in the American Dream Mall. It still exists, I think.