{"id":17369,"date":"2025-01-19T12:37:25","date_gmt":"2025-01-19T11:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/19\/mrbeasts-degrading-game-show-is-a-dystopian-nightmare-perfect-for-america-in-2025\/"},"modified":"2025-01-19T12:37:25","modified_gmt":"2025-01-19T11:37:25","slug":"mrbeasts-degrading-game-show-is-a-dystopian-nightmare-perfect-for-america-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/19\/mrbeasts-degrading-game-show-is-a-dystopian-nightmare-perfect-for-america-in-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"MrBeast\u2019s degrading game show is a dystopian nightmare \u2013 perfect for America in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon\u2019s Beast Games reflects the greed, narcissism and worship of aggro-capitalism that has brought us our second helping of Trump<\/p>\n<p>The YouTube superstar Jimmy \u201cMrBeast\u201d Donaldson vowed to make his Amazon TV series Beast Games the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aboutamazon.com\/news\/entertainment\/beast-games-mrbeast-prime-video\">biggest reality competition show ever<\/a>\u201d, and by most metrics, he succeeded.<\/p>\n<p>A little over halfway through its run, Beast Games has hit No 1 on Amazon in over 80 countries and is now the streamer\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/beast-games-prime-video-most-watched-unscripted-show\/\">No 1 unscripted show ever<\/a>, with over 50 million viewers in just 25 days on the platform.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/tv-and-radio\/2025\/jan\/19\/beast-games-mrbeast-amazon-prime\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/6d6cbcd487e37091a49a3afb3ad5ba333cd80c88\/0_159_4782_2869\/master\/4782.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=372c4b722b0a5e80d560e282a7682ebd\" title=\"MrBeast\u2019s degrading game show is a dystopian nightmare \u2013 perfect for America in 2025\" \/>Amazon\u2019s Beast Games reflects the greed, narcissism and worship of aggro-capitalism that has brought us our second helping of Trump<br \/>\nThe YouTube superstar Jimmy \u201cMrBeast\u201d Donaldson vowed to make his Amazon TV series Beast Games the \u201cbiggest reality competition show ever\u201d, and by most metrics, he succeeded.<br \/>\nA little over halfway through its run, Beast Games has hit No 1 on Amazon in over 80 countries and is now the streamer\u2019s No 1 unscripted show ever, with over 50 million viewers in just 25 days on the platform. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon\u2019s Beast Games reflects the greed, narcissism and worship of aggro-capitalism that has brought us our second helping of Trump The YouTube superstar Jimmy \u201cMrBeast\u201d Donaldson vowed to make his Amazon TV series Beast Games the \u201cbiggest reality competition show ever\u201d, and by most metrics, he succeeded. A little over halfway through its run, Beast &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/19\/mrbeasts-degrading-game-show-is-a-dystopian-nightmare-perfect-for-america-in-2025\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">MrBeast\u2019s degrading game show is a dystopian nightmare \u2013 perfect for America in 2025<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":17370,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17369"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}