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YouTube star MrBeast said Sunday that he had been invited to join a submersible trip to the Titanic wreckage but declined.

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[–] Ech@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Pretty gross how people are using this to pump up their notoriety, from Beast here to the others saying they "knew" this would happen. Even if it were true, it's not something you start bragging about. People died. Disgusting.

[–] dango@fedia.io 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@Ech ehhh, someone posting "that could have been me" on their personal twitter account isn't really "pumping up their notoriety", more like... a normal human reaction to learning you avoided death

blame cnn for making a "news" story out of it

[–] Ech@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That "someone" has 21 million followers and makes a living on notoriety.

[–] Ganondorf@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Seems like an irrelevant point. What Mr Beast said was that he was invited to join for a trip via sub down to the Titanic. Assuming the same company involved with the implosion offered the invite, that has to be traumatic for him - which he seems to be expressing via that tweet.

[–] GunnarRunnar@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

So only one I'm feeling bad about is the kid that was apparently pressured to the trip or something. Couple billionaires less is kinda whatever to me, compared to the migrant ship that sank while Greece and the rest of EU just stood there dicks in their hands.

[–] Harlan_Cloverseed@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

I don’t think mr beast needs any help from this