These scammers using Mr Beasts popularity, generosity, and (mostly) deep fake AI to scam people into downloading malware, somehow do not go against Instagrams community guidelines.

After trying to submit a request to review these denied claims, it appears I have been shadow banned in some way or another as only an error message pops up.

Instagram is allowing these to run on their platform. Intentional or not, this is ridiculous and Instagram should be held accountable for allowing malicious websites to advertise their scam on their platform.

For a platform of this scale, this is completely unacceptable. They are blatant and I have no idea how Instagrams report bots/staff are missing these.

  • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
    18·
    11 months ago

    My understanding is he gives a lot of his money away to various causes so I suppose that’s why people like him.

    But of course equally he is part of that annoying YouTuber trend of bouncing around the screen being very loud and thinking that that’s a substitute for personality.

    • whatever@lemmy.worldEnglish
      121·
      11 months ago

      It is an interesting business model. Good for the people he spends money on, but no one should have that much money to begin with. And I am sure he takes his cut.

      But without having watched many videos of him (about 2), his appearance just screams devious weasel to me.

        • Suburbanl3g3nd@lemmings.worldEnglish
          6·
          11 months ago

          He had you donate to him instead of directly for the same reason businesses ask you to donate to X charity at the registers - tax breaks. I mean, I’m not an account but I imagine this is why he did it that way.