Under the Influence: AntiSocial Media
A lot of people seem to think that working in media is glamorous, even those who undertake the difficult task of building their own enterprise via social media.
Some also seem to think that even small creators are making oodles of money. Mr. Beast isn’t a small creator; he’s the single largest creator on YouTube with over 363 million subscribers. His alleged YouTube earnings leaked recently.
If the leaked screenshot is accurate, his estimated total revenue for the preceding 28 days in which he amassed 2.688 billion views and over 162 million watch hours was just $4.2 million.
That may still sound like a lot, but it’s only $0.02 for every hour of content consumed, and $0.0011666 for every view. Most people are gracious and grateful for the work that creators do to inform, educate, and entertain them.
We love and appreciate our subscribers and the support that they show for the work that we do. Here are some of the kind comments people have left us recently.
Presumably in an effort to feel good about themselves, a much smaller percentage of people are more than happy to leave abusive comments.
Studies have shown that people who engage in this kind of behavior, seeking to inflict interpersonal harm, also show high levels of psychopathy, Machiavellianism, narcissism, and sub-clinical sadism. Can you think of anyone else like that?
Sometimes when people leave comments like this, being journalists, we look them up to figure out who they really are. We have identified this person’s real name and his social media accounts via clues he did not realize he was leaving on his alts.
This style of self defeating, self sabotaging behavior is common across domains in psychopaths, even in sub-threshold psychopaths. It is an aspect of their mask of sanity slipping, as we discuss in both the article and Murder Talk Radio episode on the psychopathology of the criminal mind.
We came in contact when we corrected false information he posted about a victim on a Facebook page. What is a troll, anyway? Professionals in the mental health field have noted that these kinds of people will lie, exaggerate, and offend to get a response.
In addition to the lies related to our initial interaction, there is no evidence that anyone got the ID channel to stop their “I’m an ID addict” ad campaign; there’s no trace of any such controversy on the internet.
This deception was intended to be intimidating; when it didn’t work, he attempted to turn this around on us, and threatened to report us to the police in a city we didn’t live in for threats we never made.
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