Name: MrBeast on the Biggest Misconceptions About Him
Uploaded: 2024-12-03T22:07:21.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'MrBeast on the Biggest Misconceptions About Him' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-12-03. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'MrBeast on the Biggest Misconceptions About Him' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-12-03. Transcript available.

like what are some common misconceptions about you or your work do you feel
like well that's a good
one um i i would say the biggest one is i think uh people think we make content
for kids and like
you know but oh that's a great one yeah great answer yeah and it's uh a lot of
because i've
been famous famous air quotes i don't know but for a while now and i the thing
is when i was like in
my young like 20 years i'm 26 now and i was like 20 or 21. i didn't have much
experience with
storytelling or like making these like videos with contestants and like how to
like show what
they were feeling or anything so back then the videos came across a little like
uh adhd like
fast-paced or whatever because i it's not like i had christopher nolan as a
father teaching me i was
just learning storytelling as i was going so a lot of my videos back then got a
lot of views and like
same when i was like 22 or 23 but you know the last three years we've really
leveled up the
storytelling and building characters and especially the last 18 months and
gotten better at like
making content that um you know people in their 20s and 30s would be like well
this is like good and
could enjoy but because a lot of people haven't seen my newer videos and watch
my older ones they
still think all my videos are like that so they just kind of like push it off
so like when someone
says like ah your videos are too adhd and you don't have any storytelling i'll
usually like show
them like one or two of our newer videos i was like oh my god this is great and
i was like yeah let me
guess you just haven't seen a video in two years i was like yeah and so that
kind of is a a little
bit of a misconception i'm constantly fighting yeah is that you're still like
this kind of just
entertainment for kids or that your your entertainment your ability to
entertain is also still junior
yeah exactly and so um which obviously younger people watch the video oh yeah
great i mean i think
like anyone you know could watch that bunker video and be like whoa this is
just high quality
entertaining stuff it's not oh i love that yeah it's like the child inside of
me liked it and the
adult inside of me liked it exactly you know so that that would be one um i
guess other misconceptions
of of it is like i we i mean we it looks like a lot of these videos just you
know it just looks like
me and the boys having fun because that's what i want it to look like i want to
put the boys in
an environment where they're just themselves and things like that i think
people think what i do is a
a lot easier than it is like um like these things are monster monumental
projects that are a pitch to
fucking do and it's like you know and you know a hundred plus million people
are going to watch it
and you know like so everything's just got to be fucking great and perfect and
but we don't have
years to do these things we're trying to do what most people do in a year in
two months so it's like
it you know it is tight timelines and it's it's just we don't have the budgets
of these giant
studios or anything when we're doing these youtube videos and it's just it's it's
very very difficult
you know what i mean like i have hundreds of employees full-time you do yeah
that depend on
that youtube channel you know what i mean mr beast productions yeah yeah i i
don't even know if i
guess mr b studios um but yeah it's uh it's just a lot of pressure because it's
uh yeah it's just a
lot of people depend on it these and it's it's just absurd to think that i have
all these employees
and we're spending all this money and i just assume like the magical youtube
algorithm when i post
this video is just gonna give it to 100 million people every single time and it's
like it's just like
that's a lot of stress and it's like it's a lot of people who you know watch
the con it's just a lot
of everything it's a lot of pressure a lot of stress and it's like if i don't
film then there's
no video so it's also not a typical business because you know you can any other
company you can replace
basically anyone but you are the business exactly i am like literally if i'm
just like yo for the next
month i don't want to film the business debt you know what i mean so it's like
it's uh yeah it's i
i i wouldn't i i yeah i just it's a lot it's just a lot no it seems like a lot
but do you did you
know it was going to be that much stress do you find that you like the stress
like i remember even
just for myself right like we have responsibilities now we do like six episodes
a month now yeah and at
first i remember i could barely do one episode a week was tough in some weeks
it still is but then
some days i'll go through and it's like this just starts to feel easier i start
to kind of acclimate
to where i am and then there's a part of my brain that's like okay well now
what can we do but that
same part of my brain is just the brain that that forgets like we barely just
got to this place
and are we even okay here right so it's tough for me to like monitor the
different parts of my brain the
one that wants to do more or try new things and the one that also wants to make
sure we're okay
we're at and not be happy right and be happy yeah yeah it's like yeah so most
of the time i work now
it's like um i guess what my question is like i don't know what it is man do
you know what it is
i get what you're trying to ask it's like how do you uh which side of the
pendulum are you swinging
between being stressed and wanting to die constantly or like prioritizing being
happy and and like that
basically yeah and are you able to battle that do you know did you know you
were as competitive in
and or do you think you're competing against like the algorithm or you want
people to see it like you
know what is that thing that are you able to notice like because i don't even
know sometimes what drives
me to do things or even want to learn more yeah i would say i like you i'm just
incredibly incredibly
incredibly competitive i i just love winning and i it's the thing is i think
people have a misconception
they like try to put everyone especially famous people in a box where it's like
this is what
motivates them and this one reasons why they do everything and i i believe you
can be motivated by
multiple things right like one thing that pushes me is the fact that you know a
lot of my friends i
grew up with work for me and right and i don't want to ever have to fire them
because we can't afford
to pay them i have people who you know moved across the world to come work for
me so you know that's
one thing that motivates me being able to provide for the people who risked
everything another thing that
motivates me is i just love entertaining people and the fact that i get to
entertain 100 million
people 200 million people or whatever it is like i think our average videos are
doing 200 million
views the first year like i know that's a thing that won't last forever right i
mean that's like
at some point you know i'm not going to be able to upload something and three
percent of the humans
alive are going to watch it you know what i mean so part of it is i want to
make sure i'm like
taking advantage of the opportunity i have here because this is like i what and
when i'm 40 i can't expect
that you know what i mean like um and so that's one and another one is like it
just for whatever
reason it just is like built in my blood like this is just what i do like
working is just what i live
for and like i don't really know what else to do with my life like it just i'm
just a machine that
goes and if i'm not working on something like stimulating and pushing and innovating
i just kind
of get depressed and like i'm like why am i alive what am i doing you know who
do you get that from
was you one of your folks you think no i've just kind of always been like this
my mom hates it because
i don't really celebrate wins or anything i just always grinding on things and
um yeah i don't
know i think just some people are hardwired like that and i think but i i i
think um you just got to
be who you are like that it just is who i am but there's there's other people
who see my lifestyle
because i've talked about on podcasts and you know a lot of creators want to be
like me and um and
then they end up scaling up bigger teams and they end up trying to do videos
like me and then they end
up there find out they're miserable and they'd hate it and it's too much stress
and pressure and
so i wouldn't i wouldn't advise this for most creators right like i don't i
like i don't have
work-life balance i just you don't work no yeah i just i mean i'm like there
are some months where
you know i film 28 days you know and i still have to run festivals i still do
uh you know uh film 28
days on the main channel that i i film for our beast philanthropy channel i
still film stuff for tick
talk because we have over 100 million followers to tick tock and i have to do
stuff on instagram
i still have to network and do these things and um it's like i mean it's
basically if my eyes are open
i'm there it's like you know i have a person whose job is just to help me
basically write everything i
want to accomplish on a whiteboard i mean it will take up the size of this wall
and it's like all my
priles and things i could be doing things i should be doing things other people
need me to be doing
and then you know we'll just go in the next seven days i'll circle all the
things i want to do
ancillary on top of what naturally i have to do and um and then he'll just like
schedule out basically
every second my eyes are open wow and and uh which is good because it helps me
i sometimes fall into
the trap of being reactive like you know my content you know channel needs me
to film this this needs
festivals needs me to do this and but you know you're never going to achieve
something great if you're
just constantly like like a ping pong ball being told what you need to do by
your employees so
occasionally you need to be proactive and do other things that you know other
people wouldn't think of
and be a little bit more of a visionary so doing that kind of helps make sure i'm
prioritizing things
correctly and things like that