[–] 8 points 6 months ago (2 children)

If you want your votes to be (somewhat) private, probably the best thing to do is to create an alternative account and use that for voting without making any comments/posts.

PieFed also gives you an option so that your votes are only shared within the same instance. So, tools like "lemvotes" wouldn't be able to pick up on your voting history. In that case only the local instance Admins (and maybe moderators) would be able to see your voting history.

From this user it is fairly obvious that it was created recently. They downvoted 49 times in the first few minutes of activity. They then upvoted once a few days later.

https://lemvotes.org/user/PyroRondo@lemmy.world

Based on the first day of activity, it almost does look like this was an account created just for downvoting.

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  • [–] 11 points 6 months ago

    Some quick OCR work on this image:

    How-To-Succeed-At-MrBeast-Production.pdf (page 34)

    to draw from so much stupid shit in his head as inspiration to make jokes and be quirky. As a result he is fucken hilarious. But let's imagine a different Chris, let's say instead of cartoons and stupid shit, his information diet was stocks and investing advice. And for 5 years that's all he consumed. Do you think he'd be just as funny as he currently is? No. He in my opinion wouldn't even be 20% as funny. If you're a writer or director you really need to monitor and perfect your information diet. If your diet is not correct, you won't have a good pulse on culture. I don't want you to be a chris, in fact, I think that would probably do you harm. Talent needs to inhale cartoons so they can be funny, writers need to inhale inspiration. Let's say there is a purple fruit in the middle of Australia that when eaten makes you 2 feet taller. If it truly did exist, you wouldn't have known that until just right now. But now that you know of it, you can draw on it for inspiration for every piece of content you write going forward. That's beautiful, it can now sit in the back of your mind waiting for that one video where it is needed. It might take 10 videos or even 100 but eventually you'll be brainstorming a bit and think of the right one to use the fruit for. Apply this to everything on this fucken planet. You. Can't. Get. Inspired. By. Things. You. Don't. Know. Exist. So how do you learn more about what's out there in the world? How do you stay up to date on the latest memes? How do you know what's going on with celebrities? What's trending on youtube? What other creators are doing? What's popping on tik tok? Your information diet. Consume things on a daily basis that help you write better content.

    It's okay for the boys to be childish

    If talent wants to draw a dick on the white board in the video or do something stupid, let them. (assuming they know all the risks and arn't missing context on why it's not safe) People like when we are in our natural element of stupidity. Really do everything you can to empower the boys when filming and help them make content. Help them be idiots

    We don't fake things

    Make sure to prep contestants and try to create an environment where they feel comfortable talking.

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    Another video that went viral in the early days of YouTube. Liam Kyle Sullivan continued to make other videos that went viral. In 2008 this video won the People's Choice Award for User Generated Video. He had multiple cameos in shows such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Gilmore Girls, 8 Simple Rules as well as cameos in some music videos.

    https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Liam_Kyle_Sullivan

     

    The How it Should Have Ended series started off with releasing 3 videos on the 30th of June, 2005.

    • How The Matrix Revolutions Should Have Ended
    • How Saving Private Ryan Should Have Ended
    • How Star Wars Episode IV Should Have Ended

    This was before YouTube was owned by Google and before users could even subscribe to channels. YouTube had only just barely started hosting videos at this time.

    This episode is one of those first 3 that were published to the internet. Originally it was published to the official website: HowItShouldHaveEnded.com and it quickly went viral.

    The official YouTube channel was started a little later in 2007 where additional videos have continued to be published since then.

     

    This video was uploaded to Newgrounds in 2003.

    There's a bonus animation that can be accessed if you pause the video at the exact moment that a certain spell is being fired at someone and click on the green star. This isn't possible on YouTube, but it is still possible on the original upload to Newgrounds:
    https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/140341

    Tip: for those on mobile, make sure to request the "Desktop Version" of the site, then zoom in on the controls to pause and skip around the frames that occur during the spell animation. The star only appears for a single frame.

    [–] 3 points 8 months ago

    Downvoting means something different to everyone. It could just be that they felt you didn't add to the conversation well with a simple LOL and some emojis.
    Some people downvote whenever they see an emoji.
    I doubt anyone is downvoting because they "disagree" with you on this case, since the one user that actually downvoted the post didn't even downvote you.

    I would just ignore these downvotes and move on.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago

    There was a former employee for MrBeast (Donaldson) who posted 2 very long videos about his time working for him:

    Allegations from DogPack404 On July 24, 2024, former employee DogPack404 posted a YouTube video accusing Donaldson of staging contests, running illegal lotteries, falsifying signatures, and misleading viewers.[172][173][174] He followed with an interview of former staffer Jake Weddle, who described being denied sleep during productions, said the team employed Jake Franklin's brother-in-law despite his status as a registered sex offender, and alleged that a cameraman tried to intoxicate female participants with paint fumes.[174] Weddle identified the cameraman as "Delaware", claiming Donaldson knew about his conviction, which stemmed from an incident when Delaware was 16 and the victim was 11.[175]

    https://wikipedia.org/wiki/DogPack404#cite_ref-173

    The videos he posted are long (~51 and 54 min), but he does comment a lot on MrBeast's character while making his case against him. His second video focuses a lot more on this and he brings in another former employee while showing off some screenshots of others who wanted to remain more anonymous.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHFvR0ArXPs

    He mentioned a part 3 video, but never posted it.

    On the other side, Legal Eagle offers a shorter video, focused only on the legal aspects of the DogPack's allegations in the first video. Basically, MrBeast is likely protected by whatever waivers he has his employees/contestants sign.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4CePWWN1Xs

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