Whitey Ford
11-13-2023, 12:08 AM
Internet activists are mad at a famous YouTuber for the dumbest reason imaginable
https://i.imgur.com/SI8Mbag.jpg
It really is true that no good deed goes unpunished. The biggest YouTuber in the world, Mr. Beast, just did an amazing act of charity that he cataloged in a viral video — and some people on the internet are actually angry at him over it.
Mr. Beast used his massive resources to engage in an eight-month-long project through which he built 100 wells in Africa , which he says will provide clean drinking water to roughly half a million people in Kenya , Cameroon, Uganda, Zimbabwe, and Somalia. His efforts were greatly appreciated, as evidenced by the clips of people in the affected towns celebrating and thanking him profusely, after showing how polluted and unhealthy the drinking water they had access to really was.
One Twitter activist named Albert Nat Hyde decried Mr. Beast’s video as a form of “disrespect to Africans,” arguing that “Africans do not need water donation; we ain’t that poor and thirsty” and that “this is capitalism; he wanna low-key use these countries for profit.”
“America is part of the problem,” a Kenyan political activist named Francis Gaitho said in a fiery video rant that has since been viewed more than 1 million times. “And you, Mr. Beast, are not supposed to be coming here to validate some of these long-held stereotypes that Africa is poor.”
"... long-held stereotypes that Africa is poor.” :lol
Long held stereotypes that water is wet, fire is hot and lemons are sour are making the rounds as well. :lol
Washington Post columnist Taylor Lorenz accused Mr. Beast of having “received extremely light criticism in the past for the way you’ve monetized 'kindness' content that some vulnerable people found to be exploitative.”
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/courage-strength-optimism/youtube-star-built-wells-africa-people-angry
https://i.imgur.com/SI8Mbag.jpg
It really is true that no good deed goes unpunished. The biggest YouTuber in the world, Mr. Beast, just did an amazing act of charity that he cataloged in a viral video — and some people on the internet are actually angry at him over it.
Mr. Beast used his massive resources to engage in an eight-month-long project through which he built 100 wells in Africa , which he says will provide clean drinking water to roughly half a million people in Kenya , Cameroon, Uganda, Zimbabwe, and Somalia. His efforts were greatly appreciated, as evidenced by the clips of people in the affected towns celebrating and thanking him profusely, after showing how polluted and unhealthy the drinking water they had access to really was.
One Twitter activist named Albert Nat Hyde decried Mr. Beast’s video as a form of “disrespect to Africans,” arguing that “Africans do not need water donation; we ain’t that poor and thirsty” and that “this is capitalism; he wanna low-key use these countries for profit.”
“America is part of the problem,” a Kenyan political activist named Francis Gaitho said in a fiery video rant that has since been viewed more than 1 million times. “And you, Mr. Beast, are not supposed to be coming here to validate some of these long-held stereotypes that Africa is poor.”
"... long-held stereotypes that Africa is poor.” :lol
Long held stereotypes that water is wet, fire is hot and lemons are sour are making the rounds as well. :lol
Washington Post columnist Taylor Lorenz accused Mr. Beast of having “received extremely light criticism in the past for the way you’ve monetized 'kindness' content that some vulnerable people found to be exploitative.”
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/courage-strength-optimism/youtube-star-built-wells-africa-people-angry