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[–] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 117 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

If it were any two of us on day 100 we would be so deep in some obscure struggle session we'd be like "go away we're not done arguing".

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 132 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Two comrades enter, three parties leave!

[–] forcequit@hexbear.net 55 points 1 year ago (2 children)

indoor cars struggle session let's go

[–] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 62 points 1 year ago (2 children)

cars shouldn't be outdoors, therefore the only logical place for them is indoors

[–] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 62 points 1 year ago (4 children)

All beds will be those sick racecar beds under socialism.

[–] WIIHAPPYFEW@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The left wants to take away your big beds with your beautiful wives smh

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[–] forcequit@hexbear.net 28 points 1 year ago

it's for their own safety, and ours. Any cars found outdoors should be captured, spayed, and impounded.

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[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 32 points 1 year ago

If it were any two of us on day 100 we would be so deep in some obscure struggle session we'd be like "go away we're not done arguing".

![side-eye-1](https://www.hexbear.net/pictrs/image/1cbb04a6-ba97-4c28-af8e-acf9c9fb0416.png "emoji side-eye-1") ![side-eye-2](https://www.hexbear.net/pictrs/image/7a2b5f76-6cd4-4313-9209-f597ef54a7ad.png "emoji side-eye-2")

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[–] CommunistBear@hexbear.net 99 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I would not trust the dude to not put me in the cube with a plant who walks out on day 99 just to watch me break down for the views

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 41 points 1 year ago

Reality TV brain's byproducts made "influencers" like him over time, so it's pretty likely he would do that for clicks.

[–] hotcouchguy@hexbear.net 36 points 1 year ago

10000% there is a catch

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[–] GorbinOutOverHere@hexbear.net 67 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Is this even a question? Mr beast knows a lot of people have roommates, right? Who have to live with each other much longer than 3 months??

I would do this shit in a heartbeat like god damn. Fuck rich people for making a game out of my life but I'll take literally 25 years of income in exchange for 100 slightly awkward days

[–] GorbinOutOverHere@hexbear.net 61 points 1 year ago

Oh the "if one of you leaves you both lose" is how he'd fuck me

[–] people_are_cute@lemmy.sdf.org 34 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

You don't live 2400 hours at a stretch with your roommate with zero breaks or outtimes, bro. I doubt you can even live with your SO that long without going out once. Even those in jail get to go out of the room every day.

IIRC there is a popular folk tale about this. A king was exasperated with his princess who got down bad for some peasant, so he locked both of them together in a room for a month and when they came out both of them had nothing but abject hatred towards each other.

[–] GorbinOutOverHere@hexbear.net 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I would have 0 problem with living like this, it's called "ignore each other" lol

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago

I will get so much fucking sleep back.

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[–] TheObserver@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It seems easy but for the clickbait views mr beast always does some dumb shit to annoy the contestant or make it 10x harder than it needs to be. I'd imagine they will make it hard to sleep/concentrate or some other dumb method to speed the process up.

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Those lights may never go off. Not like bazingas like MrBeast value sleep much.

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[–] sloth@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago

Bet you $1000 they start blasting Guantanamo Bay tier music for 6-12hr periods before day 20.

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[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 64 points 1 year ago

So much of that creepy saccharine ghoul's antics involve flicking his pocket change at the peasants to see them scramble and perform for him.

This is Rockefeller shit all over again. ![capitalist-laugh](https://www.hexbear.net/pictrs/image/fdc96d7d-9fc4-4fc0-95ef-17aaf25405a2.png "emoji capitalist-laugh")

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 58 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

100 days doing nothing for a guaranteed $250k seems kinda easy tbh, biggest concern I'd have is whether the second person is a fool or not because like 14 weeks is fucking nothing.

[–] GaveUp@hexbear.net 26 points 1 year ago (7 children)

You sure? I feel like this is really difficult unless somebody already like literally never goes outside and never opens their curtains for weeks at a time

[–] charly4994@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago

I've gone like actual months without leaving the house and even this I couldn't handle. No privacy, obnoxious lighting that'll trigger a migraine in a heartbeat, no entertainment. Just sitting day after day staring at the wall because the stranger and you had a falling out on day 2.

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[–] nat_turner_overdrive@hexbear.net 51 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Would you shoot mr beast for fifty bucks?!?

no i'm genuinely asking, would you? hmu

[–] emizeko@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago

I would pay way more than fifty bucks

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[–] llama@midwest.social 51 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What if we get Mr beast to lock himself in a room with Jake Paul and say whoever makes it from now on will be the only content creator on YouTube. Then we just never let them out and turn off the Livestream.

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[–] JeffBozo@hexbear.net 48 points 1 year ago (3 children)

If your source of entertainment is putting people through misery to test how desperate they are for money then I don't give a fuck about whatever good PR he may have, he's a ghoul.

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[–] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 48 points 1 year ago (1 children)

i hate this, and i also hate that my answer is "yes"

[–] Llituro@hexbear.net 31 points 1 year ago

i'm going to choose not to hate that my answer is yes, capitalism has my sorry ass trained for nothing less than feel miserable all the time, might as well get a house out of the deal y'know

[–] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 43 points 1 year ago

The $500k is a lie

[–] Cummunism@hexbear.net 41 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

that immediately tells you how much he would make from it. Probably 5 times that amount. Plus he would probably find some real abhorrent people to do it, like people who don't shower or something.

![gulag](https://www.hexbear.net/pictrs/image/5132a068-3744-4b65-a00d-5cbe83da2e53.png "emoji gulag") the youtubers.

[–] SpiderFarmer@hexbear.net 40 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So it's just a soft prison and you come out richer? I could afford the therapy I need after something like this, as well as the therapy I likely need already.

[–] Llituro@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago

i just want to know if there's anything to do

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[–] WhyEssEff@hexbear.net 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)

![mr-beast](https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/39852a12-4ed4-4f25-beb4-841fb47ed2e6.png "emoji mr-beast") I TRAPPED MY SUBSCRIBERS IN A ROOM, AND THE ONLY WAY TO GET OUT IS TO GET THE KEY SURGICALLY IMPLANTED INTO THEIR LEGS!

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[–] kristina@hexbear.net 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

nah, id have to interact with mrbeast and id rather die than do that.

[–] Moss@hexbear.net 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm gonna do this because if you lock me in a room for 100 days with someone either we fuck endlessly or kill each other. Either way it will be unmonetisable

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[–] sloth@hexbear.net 29 points 1 year ago

Japan has been doing these type of 'game shows' for decades.

The west is just now catching up , see The Eggplant show.

[–] EmmaGoldman@hexbear.net 28 points 1 year ago

Yeah, actually this seems like a dream for me, would be a super easy win as long as the other person doesn't get tired of me. Can I actually just move in, without the cameras?

[–] footfaults@hexbear.net 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

For half a mil sure but I'd need some books and a stationary bike to keep from going nuts.

Actually fuck it human sized hamster wheel

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[–] Dialectdezenuts@hexbear.net 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It’s not long until mr beast reinvents Bumfights but when he goes on Dr Phil it will be to talk about how wholesome it is

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[–] ElChapoDeChapo@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Depends, what months will this take place? If it's November and December then count me in, this sounds way better than spending the holidays with my family

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[–] wrecker_vs_dracula@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago

No Exit by Sartre.

That’s the comment.

[–] psivchaz@reddthat.com 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Every once in a while I see a pretty large amount of money and it causes me to have an existential crisis. This is life changing money for most of the world, but also there's places that it doesn't even buy one of the cheaper houses. Where it really messes me up, though, is remembering that even those places have retail workers and food workers and day laborers and... how? How has the whole house of cards not collapsed?

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