• Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip
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      amazon marketing basically put all their advertising budget by making mr beast create an event themed around it, and most people didnt get the memo that it was an actual game.

      if you dont watch him, or know someone who watches him, you basically would have never known. similar to how most pc players werent aware of concord at launch because its only advertisment was if you happen to watch state of play, a sony event.

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        I’m a millennial and had never heard of or seen Mr. Beast until he had that controversy around the same time he started launching shitty foods, which was enough for me to be like “don’t care for anything this guy’s involved with moving forward.” and have since then not even seen ads for anything he does except maybe once? before a Fallout episode.

        They must have their targeted advertising on lock ‘cause I guess they got the message from my lack of interest that I’m not in his demographic and aren’t advertising to me.

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          Millennial also, very glad not to have Mr. Beast advertised to me. I had one glance at that mf and I knew he’s just doing it for the money. Phony ahh bish.

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            Claims to be a millennial then uses “ahh” like a 14 year old girl on ticktock. Something here is fishy.

            I denounce your claim of millennial status. No self respecting depressed millennial would be caught dead using Gen z brain rot algospeak

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          mr beast was so cringey when he did that cringey “al qaeda in a cave like skit commercial” with him and other influencers being forced to eat his poisonous food.

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        Wait you are telling me that the very generation of kiddos who find Mr Beast amusing and enjoy spending their free time watching others play video games didnt end up playing the video game that was heavily marketed towards them?

        I’m sure Amazon will be giving the pink slip to a few people and they’ve really earned it.

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        plus people are getting turned off by mr beast and his content/ behaviour too. and the cringey DIY commercial he did with lunchly.

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        That makes a lot of sense.

        I don’t watch mr beast or know anyone who does and I’ve never heard of this game until now.

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      I’ve seen double digit posts about it closing, which is super weird on Lemmy.

      Before that is never heard of it either

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      Yep, not until today did I hear about this thing.

      Not that it would have mattered really.

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        Comments on youtube trailer for this game show that 2 months ago people knew it flopped. Also, apparently they had MrBeast help promote this game.