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Mr. Beast was recently the subject of…I hate to say “cancel culture”, it’s rapidly become a thought-terminating cliche…but he was the subject of a recent cancel culture overreach that was possibly the dumbest thing I’ve ever seen.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/kelseyweekman/mrbeast-helping-blind-people-youtube-stunt-philanthropy
The awful radioactive naked singularity that spawned this cancel being…
https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/10/mrbeasts-blindness-video-puts-systemic-ableism-on-display/
…an article which posits that there is no such thing as disability, and all people are valid, and it’s charity porn to cure blindness, because how do we even know the “cure” will work?
A truly, shockingly stupid take, given it’s cataract surgery, which obviously works.
I think it's somewhat less an attempt to cancel him and more to bring an extremely popular 'independent' institution to heel since, well, can't have anyone out there who might go off-narrative and isn't marching in lockstep with the social justice cause of the day.
Not when his popularity could be used to spread 'the message' instead.
They tried the same with PewDiePie in his day.
Or consider Chris Pratt, and half-baked attempts to cancel him as his star is continuing to rise, despite being a practicing Christian with general conservative values.
Mr. Beast managed to walk the fine line but you can't get to that level of fame without attracting the ones who would like to access your audience for their own ends.
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