Hi, Jimmy: Dan Olson's Beast Studios essay keeps finding viewers
The nearly three-million-view visit to MrBeast's production operation, written with Nathan Landel, still carries Folding Ideas through a week with nothing new.
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Why was I invited to Beast Studios?
What does Folding Ideas watch over while Dan Olson is between videos? Mostly MrBeast. "Why was I invited to Beast Studios?" went up 170 days ago and is still the channel's busiest video, now close to three million views. It is a long one, as Olson's usually are: five theories about the invitation, then a second part that walks through the product, the culture, the optics and the fandom, ending on a chapter called "Twelve YouTubers."
The description has its own fun. Olson says the team kept A/B testing the title and thumbnail as a little performance of "Beast-ness," and apologizes to anyone fooled into thinking it was new. He addresses the question many expected him to answer, about Doug Walker, who was on the same trip: the two chatted amicably, he writes, and Doug let him use his footage. It closes with a greeting to Jimmy Donaldson himself.
Right behind it sits a companion piece, "Beast Games 2 Strong/Smart: an Exhaustive Review," written by Nathan Landel, with a nod in the description to Big Joel's different take. And between the two, "This is Financial Advice" keeps turning: a two-hour trip through GameStop, Bed Bath & Beyond and the meme-stock believers, now more than three years old and past eight million views.
With no uploads, the channel ran a little below its usual daily pace and its subscriber count held still. Among reaction and commentary channels of its size, ZacSpeaksGiant had the big week; Folding Ideas sat mid-table, about where an Alberta documentarian on a break should be.
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