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On September 20, MrBeast — the world’s biggest YouTuber with 517 million subscribers — released a video showing him building an entire village from scratch on empty land in Ghana, complete with houses, a school, wells, and farms, all in an effort to end the child labor rampant on the country’s cocoa farms. The project cost roughly 1.6 billion yen (about $10 million), and the video racked up over 39 million views in under a day. Reactions on 5channel were mixed: many were stunned and impressed by his enormous subscriber count and the sheer scale of the project, while others voiced skepticism about how much the aid would actually help, and a debate broke out comparing his spending to the charitable efforts of popular Japanese YouTubers.
On September 20, American YouTuber MrBeast (517 million subscribers) released a video titled “I Built A City To Save Kids From Illegal Labor.” The project set out to eliminate illegal child labor on Ghana’s cocoa farms by building an entire village from scratch on an empty field, at a total cost of about $10 million (roughly 1.6 billion yen). The video has drawn more than 39 million views in about a day since release.
MrBeast is known for large-scale projects like the reality show “Beast Games,” which offered a $10 million prize, and a game of tag in which he tried to evade 100 real police officers. He boasts the world’s largest subscriber count at 517 million. He’s also a dedicated philanthropist, and through his chocolate brand Feastables, he has repeatedly raised awareness of child labor in the cocoa industry.
This time, the project involved building an entire village — complete with houses, a school, wells, and farms — from nothing on empty land in Ghana’s Eastern Region. He opens the video by saying, “So many kids are being forced into illegal labor,” before declaring, “Over the past year I spent about $10 million to take on the biggest project (I’ve) ever done.”
Source: yutura.net / Original article here
What people said
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Wasn't he nearly dying of some illness?
He's just selling cup noodles and barley tea…
Huh
So he's one of those big-budget-stunt YouTubers
Seems like the kind of guy who had capital behind him from the start
This guy is way more impressive
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nKSzNWrPqLQ&list=PLU8XCsqyASJVtLhsJ8ajr3a8hbK0MbpKS&index=20&pp=iAQB
People always jump in with 'actually this other guy is more impressive,' what's the point?
It's true that MrBeast spent about $14 million (roughly 2.1 billion yen) building a massive town on empty land,
but that wasn't to solve child labor — it was built as a filming set for a big reality show that streamed on Amazon.
MrBeast does run a charity channel, and in the past in Africa
he's done projects supplying schools and hospitals and building houses and bridges.
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That's what Gemini's telling me, anyway
Don't just blindly trust AI
Go actually watch the video……
Ghana's had a gold mining boom lately,
and the mercury runoff from that is contaminating the cacao.
MrBeast sells kids' lunch sets and drinks too, you know
The world's a big place.
that's like Earth's population level from way back.
If you don't specify a time period, literally everyone's subscriber count matches some past era's world population at some point.
HIKAKIN doesn't even crack the top 500 in the global YouTube rankings
They probably think being a YouTuber just means copying whatever's trending.
Yasuko got dragged for her kids' cafeteria charity thing though
Of course you can't compete — he's an English-speaking, Western YouTuber, that's home turf for this stuff,
and he easily picks up fans across the whole English-speaking world — UK, Canada, Australia too.
That's why his subscriber count is an entirely different order of magnitude compared to other countries.
If you want to look down on him, you'd better out-earn those 'poor' Japanese YouTubers first.
It's more about 'he spends his money differently,' that's the point.
is, well, dumping 1.6 billion yen into charity is one thing,
but he takes a build that took a huge crew tons of time and effort
and edits it down, speeds it up 20x, and packs it all into a 19-minute video.
No wonder the whole world watches it — great time-efficiency (tai-pa, Japanese slang for getting a lot of payoff for time spent).
Well yeah, because watching the actual construction process isn't interesting at all
Re: #93
If nothing's left behind afterward, I'd say they're on the same level
Background and Points of Debate
Through his chocolate brand Feastables, MrBeast has repeatedly drawn attention to the child labor problem deeply rooted in West Africa’s cocoa industry, and this project is an extension of that ongoing effort. Child labor on cocoa farms is a real issue that international bodies like the ILO have flagged for years — it isn’t something invented for this story. One thread post claimed, based on an answer from Gemini (AI), that the project was actually a reality-show set rather than a genuine child-labor initiative, but other posters pushed back, saying ‘just watch the actual video and you’ll see’ — a moment that highlighted the risk of taking AI summaries at face value. The thread also lit up comparing this to donation amounts from popular Japanese YouTubers, but it’s easy to overlook that subscriber counts and ad revenue are on an entirely different scale between the English-speaking market and the Japanese-speaking one, which complicates any simple comparison of ‘generosity.’
※This article is compiled and summarized from the 5channel (Geisoku Sokuho+) thread ‘MrBeast, World’s #1 YouTuber with 500 Million Subscribers, Builds Entire Village in Ghana for 1.6 Billion Yen — But Why?‘
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