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MrBeast stuff is professionally produced. He is only the face and boss of a large company with a lot of employees.

They don’t look very professional in the Folding Ideas video. They look like a bunch of 20 something friends with outsized resources bumbling their way to content production. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0dwagg5wYY4&ra=m

Yeah. In the videos I've seen, the execution has been weak and haphazard.

And yet, they are massively successful measuring by content consumption and profitability. Those outsized resources come from actual money their videos make.

Would you rather be an investor in a “professional” production like Madame Web which was very well produced by well known people and studios and lost a high 8 figure amount, or invested in a YouTube channel that appears to be 20 something friends “bumbling their way to content production” that reliably rakes in millions.

It may look bumbling and disorganized, but they are consistently producing the most viewed content on YouTube and making millions.

One of my main investing goals is to not support highly finalized nihilistic slop factories that target children

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