Thread by @DogPack404

Cease And Desist Response & Update (thread)

Some updates: I was originally going to expose MrBeast's philanthropy efforts being more for aiding private interests and boosting MrBeasts image than actually doing anything good but in that investigation I came across something far more interesting that no one else has ever found. Part 2 will be far more damaging to MrBeasts career than part 1.

As far as MrBeasts largest fundraiser Team Seas, it's pretty well known that it had no statistically significant impact on ocean pollution. Still people will say "Well it's still better than nothing". This is a drastic oversimplification that doesn't factor in the money, time, effort, and carbon costs associate with raising the money and removing the trash. Also where did the trash go? Landfills? Where over time it will break down into microplastics that blow back into the ocean? Or "recycling" plants (DYOR on why recycling is a lie). Team Seas also promoted the false narrative that plastic pollution is a problem solvable by people.

In this interview with @MKBHD MrBeast even acknowledges that it was not actually about the impact of removing 30M pounds of trash but team seas was frequently advertised as a way to "save the ocean".

Team Seas was frequently advertised as a way to "Save The Ocean", but in all of Team Seas marketing material they never once addressed how corporations and governments contribute to the issue.

This video uploaded by Team Seas 3 weeks ago continues to push the false narrative through intentionally vague claims: "Team Seas is proof that when a huge amount of people get together to help make things better on this planet big things can happen"

No @MarkRober, Team Seas proved the exact opposite. It proved that even when there was a Herculean effort to reduce plastic pollution, even when all the largest influencers on the internet rallied their audience towards a clean up solution, it did not make any positive difference.

@MrBeast and @MarkRober also went on to promote single use plastic garbage, this video by @StayAhnest goes more in depth on this.

Mark, I like that your content promotes STEM to kids, you seem like a nice guy but come on, you should know first hand that clean up efforts like Team Seas are useless and this problem is only solvable through regulatory action like banning unnecessary single use plastics.

So why did Team Seas never mention corporate pollution or push for a ban on unnecessary single use plastics? And instead push the narrative that this problem is solvable by people and clean up efforts? Could it be that 50% of the money went to a Peter Thiel funded startup whose largest sponsor is Coca Cola?

Why is plastic pollution so bad anyway?

First the scale of this issue is unfathomable, some scientists say that the average human consumes more than 1,000 microplastic particles per week, or 5 grams, or 1 credit card worth of plastic every week.

Microplastics have "Trojan Horse" effects that allow them to pick up and hold a variety of different chemicals that they come in contact with including the over 10,000 chemicals that have been identified as plastic additives, 2400 of which have been identified as "detrimental" to marine and terrestrial life, and 1000 of which have been identified as "Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals" Or EDCs.

Depending on the size of these microplastics they can phase through gastrointestinal tracks, cellular membranes, and even blood brain barriers (phasing like danny phantom). All while potentially carrying thousands of different chemicals that are attacking your body in ways that are mostly not well understood or researched. (it's almost impossible to study microplastics because there is no control group, no humans on this planet have not been exposed to MPs and their associated chemicals.

Microplastics are effectively biological malware.

Anyway this was kind of an unstructured rant probably full of spelling mistakes (i wrote this high on meth) but I wanted to address how team seas was a complete joke, explain the scale of plastic pollution and why its such a big issue, and offer a potential solution.

Also yeah, part 2 is going in a different direction but when it comes out mrbeast is 100% done.