SNEAKO - January 31, 2023


The Dark Truth About SteveWillDoIt


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Length

21 minutes

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186.20816

Word Count

4,081

Sentence Count

329

Misogynist Sentences

4

Hate Speech Sentences

4


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Steven Delanartes has always been the guy who will do what it takes to get your attention. His first YouTube channel started in 2012 shows him attempting the cinnamon challenge in his friend s backyard. One year later, he randomly met one of his YouTube idols, Shoe Nice, and challenged him to a burger eating contest. Steve was constantly testing his body. From downing bottles of hot sauce with no hands to eating chewing tobacco on tortilla chips, Steve was punishing himself for other people s entertainment. But two months after starting his new career, he was arrested in Florida at the age of 18, charged with possession of marijuana, possession of drug equipment, and knowingly driving while license suspended.

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00:00:00.000 Patrick CC, the truth about Steve will do it.
00:00:02.000 It dropped seven hours ago.
00:00:03.260 You think it's going to be a hit piece?
00:00:04.500 I think it's going to be slightly positive.
00:00:06.080 Patrick CC is like the only based documentarian
00:00:08.920 that doesn't just try to slander you
00:00:10.320 and actually like sees the good
00:00:11.800 in what creators talk about.
00:00:13.120 There's this like new trend on YouTube
00:00:14.480 where if you don't get any views
00:00:16.300 and you don't have any unique personality
00:00:18.060 or you don't want to inspire people at all,
00:00:19.600 all you do is make documentaries about other people
00:00:21.460 like the downfall of Lil Pump,
00:00:24.200 the devastating demise of Lil Tay Tay.
00:00:27.280 It's just like, who cares?
00:00:28.640 But people like to watch drama.
00:00:29.840 They're like, ooh, this person failed.
00:00:32.220 Gave away over $1 million in cash,
00:00:34.860 32 cars, 52 watches, and three houses
00:00:38.520 before having his channel permanently deleted by YouTube.
00:00:42.300 His Mr. Beast level generosity
00:00:44.360 earned him 1 million subscribers
00:00:46.060 in his first month making content,
00:00:48.420 one of the fastest growing YouTube channels in history.
00:00:51.460 But Steve is nothing like Mr. Beast
00:00:53.680 and YouTube executives are not fond of his business practices.
00:00:58.740 From drinking challenges and illegal substance challenges
00:01:02.340 to meetings with Donald Trump
00:01:04.080 and promoting offshore gambling casinos,
00:01:06.980 YouTube wanted him off their platform forever.
00:01:09.520 But the reason they did it is so small,
00:01:11.800 it's almost unbelievable,
00:01:13.380 leading us to realize that Steve's story
00:01:15.320 is a scary warning sign for all creators.
00:01:18.580 Steven Delanartes has always been the guy
00:01:21.200 who will do what it takes to get your attention.
00:01:23.400 His first YouTube channel started in 2012
00:01:25.560 shows him attempting the cinnamon challenge
00:01:27.560 in his friend's backyard.
00:01:29.140 Yep.
00:01:30.820 Look at him, a man of God.
00:01:35.380 Try swallowing it, try swallowing it, swallow it!
00:01:37.920 One year later, he randomly met one of his YouTube idols,
00:01:41.680 Shoe Nice,
00:01:42.340 and challenged him to a burger eating contest.
00:01:45.520 Steve was constantly testing his body.
00:01:49.240 Hey, you remember Shoe Nice?
00:01:51.020 Body's limits.
00:01:52.100 After dad-
00:01:52.300 Shoe Nice used to just chug bottles of everything
00:01:54.300 and then he ended up kind of going crazy.
00:01:55.580 Dabbling in bodybuilding competitions in high school,
00:01:58.140 meeting his girlfriend,
00:01:59.180 and going through the typical teenage party phase,
00:02:01.680 he was desperate to make something of his life.
00:02:04.080 At one point, I was like, enough is enough.
00:02:07.180 Like, I just wanted to do-
00:02:08.440 I wanted to f***ing be something.
00:02:11.860 That's when I started making Instagram videos again.
00:02:14.480 In April of 2017,
00:02:15.820 the infamous Steve Will Do It Instagram account was created.
00:02:18.960 His friend, Alyssa Wilson,
00:02:20.300 actually made the account for him
00:02:21.720 and even came up with the alias, Steve Will Do It,
00:02:24.300 and he would truly live up to his name.
00:02:26.480 From downing bottles of hot sauce with no hands
00:02:28.980 to eating chewing tobacco on tortilla chips,
00:02:31.880 Steve was punishing himself for other people's entertainment.
00:02:35.220 But two months after starting his new career,
00:02:37.200 he was arrested in Florida at the age of 18,
00:02:39.820 charged with possession of marijuana,
00:02:41.700 possession or use of drug equipment,
00:02:43.600 and knowingly driving while license suspended.
00:02:46.100 He disappeared from Instagram.
00:02:47.600 Yo, he drives fast as f***, bro.
00:02:49.420 He has like 12 different cars.
00:02:51.060 Every day we go to the gym, he's in a new car.
00:02:53.880 I'm like, oh, he's like,
00:02:54.660 this is a Porsche 9 1700 Turbo S.
00:02:57.900 I'm like, bro, I just got my Hellcat.
00:02:59.020 Yeah, he's like, oh, this is 1,200 horsepower.
00:03:00.660 Yeah, I just got this one.
00:03:02.120 Yeah, oh, this is, uh,
00:03:03.600 and he's there like the convertible thing.
00:03:06.480 It's going up and we're going through traffic.
00:03:08.640 I got my Hellcat up pretty fast,
00:03:09.780 but he's just zipped.
00:03:10.500 I'm like, okay, bro.
00:03:12.000 Okay, we get it, we get it, we get it.
00:03:13.620 Then a few months later,
00:03:14.920 Steve was arrested again at the age of 19 years old,
00:03:17.840 this time for possession of marijuana with intent to sell,
00:03:20.820 possession of drug equipment and resisting arrest.
00:03:23.540 He was now on probation and his life was spiraling down.
00:03:27.040 Steve Will Do It is making a comeback.
00:03:28.480 Can people request things for me to do anything but liquor?
00:03:31.940 Eager to get his life back on track,
00:03:33.560 he remained consistent with his crazy challenge videos,
00:03:36.120 even though they were only being posted to a few hundred followers.
00:03:39.280 But one of those followers was about to change his life.
00:03:42.020 Steve, the story with him, I think my boy, uh,
00:03:44.840 my boy, Matt, who ran the full Send IG.
00:03:47.500 Okay.
00:03:48.080 Um, I think he sent me, or Lucas, or both of them,
00:03:51.920 they sent me like a video of Steve and he was chugging Jack.
00:03:54.580 This is Leia's studio.
00:03:55.480 Jack Daniels on his driveway.
00:03:57.620 Like, like a full.
00:03:59.160 Disgusting.
00:03:59.540 I think it was like a 2-6.
00:04:00.720 Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:04:01.300 It's disgusting.
00:04:01.840 Like, what?
00:04:02.880 Yeah, yeah.
00:04:03.560 Like, I saw that and he's just on his driveway
00:04:05.220 and he just pounds the whole 2-6.
00:04:06.860 And I was like,
00:04:07.880 I've never seen that in my f***ing life.
00:04:10.800 Kyle Forgard was one half of the YouTube channel Nelk,
00:04:14.100 which in 2018 was already over 1 million subscribers.
00:04:17.420 Not only were they known for being viral pranksters,
00:04:19.860 their brand and slogan, Full Send,
00:04:21.740 was based around the idea of being reckless,
00:04:23.900 heavy, drinking, partying, and living a fast-paced lifestyle.
00:04:28.240 So when Kyle discovered Steve,
00:04:29.820 he knew he would fit right in with the Nelk.
00:04:31.700 Yeah, hanging out with the Nelk boys is strange
00:04:33.520 because I've watched every single one of their videos.
00:04:37.060 Every single one.
00:04:38.640 I love the channel.
00:04:39.560 And then, like, I'm there on New Year's with Kyle,
00:04:42.560 stuff like that.
00:04:43.120 I talk to Salim every day.
00:04:44.840 It's really weird, like,
00:04:46.320 when you start to get into this creator space
00:04:49.320 and you start hanging out with the people that you watch.
00:04:52.480 It's pretty surreal.
00:04:53.960 Boys, just a few months after their first DM exchange,
00:04:57.120 in late 2018, Steve made his first appearance
00:04:59.660 on the Nelk channel in a video called
00:05:02.000 Drinking in Lectures Prank.
00:05:03.520 And we want to introduce you to one of our boys.
00:05:05.640 Steve will do it.
00:05:06.520 What's up?
00:05:06.880 Good, baby.
00:05:07.440 What's up, man?
00:05:07.960 Nelk fans immediately latched onto Steve.
00:05:10.580 They loved his genuine smile
00:05:11.980 and willingness to do anything.
00:05:13.960 He started to play a larger role
00:05:15.520 with each video he appeared in,
00:05:17.280 helping Nelk create more viral videos like
00:05:19.820 We Completely Ruined a Wine Tour in Italy
00:05:21.760 that has close to 10 million views to date,
00:05:24.180 where Steve infamously slammed a bottle of wine
00:05:26.640 and dove across a table,
00:05:28.260 shattering every glass along the way.
00:05:30.380 I mean, El Hedonism,
00:05:31.720 but this video, I told Kyle,
00:05:33.520 this is, like, literally one of the funniest videos
00:05:35.220 I've ever seen on YouTube.
00:05:36.140 In under one year,
00:05:37.280 Steve Will Do It gained 1 million followers on Instagram,
00:05:40.180 making underage drinking videos on probation.
00:05:43.040 At this point, he was too popular
00:05:44.720 to just be a side character on the Nelk Boys channel.
00:05:47.620 Listen up and get ready.
00:05:49.380 Steve Will Do It is starting his own YouTube channel.
00:05:52.920 The Steve Will Do It YouTube channel
00:05:54.540 was created on May 30th, 2019.
00:05:56.780 And thanks to Nelk's cult fan base,
00:05:59.260 he had over 415...
00:06:00.920 Look, okay, Steve Will Do It got canceled
00:06:02.460 and came over to Wumble,
00:06:04.280 but he started in 2019 and got canceled in 2022.
00:06:07.940 Like, three years.
00:06:09.260 Bro, I was in this shit.
00:06:10.260 I created the Sneeko channel 2013, chat.
00:06:14.820 2013.
00:06:17.400 That's...
00:06:18.380 I grew up...
00:06:19.460 My life was on that channel.
00:06:22.560 You don't...
00:06:23.100 Come on, man.
00:06:23.780 415,000 subscribers in the first three days alone.
00:06:26.880 Dude, check the stats.
00:06:29.260 415,000 subscribers in three days, bro.
00:06:32.940 That's insane.
00:06:34.080 And his first video went number one trending on YouTube.
00:06:37.380 Unlike the typical Nelk vlogs and prank videos,
00:06:39.860 he would kick off his channel the same way
00:06:41.440 he started his Instagram page back in 2017,
00:06:44.360 with extreme and potentially dangerous
00:06:46.280 drinking and eating challenges.
00:06:48.000 I ate 4,500 milligrams of THC edibles,
00:06:51.720 attempting to eat 30 burgers
00:06:53.320 at In-N-Out,
00:06:54.140 the world's biggest joint challenge.
00:06:55.960 In one month,
00:06:56.880 Steve Will Do It hit 1 million subscribers on YouTube,
00:06:59.660 making him one of the fastest growing channels in YouTube.
00:07:02.000 So it took him a month.
00:07:03.240 You know how long it took me to get to a million subs?
00:07:04.980 What was it like, chat?
00:07:05.560 Like nine years?
00:07:06.760 It was a stupid amount of time.
00:07:08.540 History.
00:07:09.180 But Steve's content was far from the advertiser-friendly videos
00:07:12.560 that YouTube wanted on their platform,
00:07:14.500 making him an easy target for demonetization
00:07:16.920 and strikes from the very start.
00:07:18.860 In fact, it wouldn't take long at all
00:07:20.740 for his videos to start being taken down.
00:07:22.900 They don't let me post what I want.
00:07:24.320 Like I posted a video of me drinking beer
00:07:26.840 and it got 2.5 million views like that.
00:07:30.100 It was actually very quickly.
00:07:31.200 And then I posted a video of me drinking a bunch of wine
00:07:33.320 and then they deleted that video
00:07:35.140 and my beer video.
00:07:37.040 Even with the extreme success
00:07:38.460 his channel experienced early on,
00:07:40.360 it didn't make sense for Steve
00:07:41.660 to continue uploading videos
00:07:43.280 just for them to get removed a few days later.
00:07:45.580 He needed to adapt,
00:07:46.660 but he had a plan.
00:07:47.620 And in 2020,
00:07:48.840 we would be introduced to the new Steve Will Do It.
00:07:52.720 Steve Will Do It is changing lives
00:07:54.800 with car and cash giveaways.
00:07:57.020 Steve abandoned the crazy challenges
00:07:58.500 and took the David Dobrik slash MrBeast approach to YouTube,
00:08:02.480 gifting his friends and family cars and jewelry,
00:08:04.900 giving away tens of thousands of dollars to single moms,
00:08:07.760 showing up to dealerships and buying cars for veterans,
00:08:10.400 blessing kids in underprivileged areas with cash,
00:08:13.160 and giving away $100,000 to strangers in Mexico.
00:08:16.780 He separated himself from the Nelk Boys around this time too.
00:08:19.720 Leaving LA and purchasing a $3 million penthouse in Miami
00:08:22.860 meant he could no longer appear
00:08:24.520 in all their prank videos and vlogs.
00:08:26.340 It's pretty wild how successful Steve's videos were
00:08:28.800 because he didn't really have any concepts.
00:08:31.000 It was just a weekly lifestyle vlog
00:08:32.700 where 50% of the content was him giving away stuff
00:08:35.500 and each video would get a few million views.
00:08:37.760 But YouTube didn't like Steve's presence on their platform.
00:08:40.800 Chad, what do you think is the reason why then?
00:08:42.880 Was it his association with Trump?
00:08:44.840 Because I don't really think it's the hedonism,
00:08:46.940 it's the gambling or what is the reason
00:08:49.240 that they were actively trying to censor him so much?
00:08:51.060 In the same videos where he would do extremely generous acts,
00:08:53.960 he was smoking, going to the club with rapper 6ix9ine and gambling.
00:08:57.620 There are plenty of music videos on YouTube
00:08:59.320 that portray the exact same lifestyle
00:09:01.660 and are even more graphic and those are fully monetized.
00:09:05.140 Which makes no sense.
00:09:06.360 Why do they allow everything in hip hop
00:09:08.340 that they don't allow in the world?
00:09:09.360 Generating hundreds of millions of views
00:09:11.320 but that is considered art.
00:09:13.540 If a vlogger does it,
00:09:14.820 it's considered not suitable for advertisers.
00:09:17.700 As a result, Steve was not making any money.
00:09:20.120 Is it the fact that he's,
00:09:21.700 that it's inspiring in a vlog
00:09:23.460 that someone sees that like,
00:09:24.540 oh, that's a lifestyle I can live.
00:09:26.120 Whereas hip hop,
00:09:26.920 it's more just glorified as like something unattainable.
00:09:29.740 ...directly from YouTube's partner program.
00:09:31.980 But he was getting at least six figure brand deals per video.
00:09:34.500 We have, we have offers from two companies that we actually,
00:09:39.080 you know, we love.
00:09:40.640 And there's six figure deals for YouTube advertisement.
00:09:45.060 But many people, including myself,
00:09:46.920 were wondering the whole time how he got so much money.
00:09:49.680 Private jets, massive giveaways.
00:09:51.960 He was...
00:09:52.380 Gambling money.
00:09:54.700 Jack, gambling money hits different.
00:09:57.180 And I, you've, I've been offered that.
00:09:59.660 Type of one,
00:10:00.620 if I should take a gambling deal.
00:10:02.340 Type of two, if I shouldn't.
00:10:04.220 Because it's tempting,
00:10:05.240 but I'd rather do,
00:10:06.720 you know,
00:10:08.120 the godly way or whatever.
00:10:10.040 You know,
00:10:10.500 like, just let me do,
00:10:11.760 let me avoid all type of allegations or whatever.
00:10:16.480 One,
00:10:16.680 if I should take a gambling deal for a bunch of bread,
00:10:18.900 two, if I shouldn't.
00:10:19.440 Clearly spending hundreds of thousands of dollars.
00:10:21.840 And with his channel being demonetized,
00:10:23.620 it wasn't blatantly obvious how he was so wealthy.
00:10:26.580 How was Steve Will Do It making his money?
00:10:28.980 Gambling.
00:10:29.420 Look at all the twos in the chat.
00:10:30.380 Okay.
00:10:30.620 All right.
00:10:31.120 You guys.
00:10:31.380 Yeah.
00:10:34.180 Okay.
00:10:35.540 Fine.
00:10:36.180 Fine.
00:10:36.720 But then I released a course
00:10:38.180 and look at this website map.
00:10:40.220 And then people were like,
00:10:41.640 what?
00:10:42.640 What are you trying to?
00:10:44.000 It's a pyramid scheme, man.
00:10:45.440 What?
00:10:46.440 It's $50.
00:10:47.780 And I'm in there three times a week.
00:10:50.660 I have millionaire professor
00:10:51.700 that I took so long to vet
00:10:53.160 and everything like that.
00:10:54.280 This is, I think,
00:10:55.020 is a good thing.
00:10:55.620 It's teaching people how to make money online.
00:10:58.020 But then for some people
00:10:59.100 get all butt mad about this too.
00:11:01.000 I mean,
00:11:01.340 to be honest though,
00:11:02.140 people are going to get butt mad about everything.
00:11:03.520 But check out the website, man.
00:11:05.560 Look at that.
00:11:06.740 Just took a long time to make.
00:11:10.900 Oh, look at all these different wealth creations,
00:11:12.500 TikTok, virality, web design,
00:11:14.540 e-commerce, sales and branding.
00:11:15.980 And we have a crypto professor.
00:11:17.700 It's all the ways to make money.
00:11:18.820 But people,
00:11:19.260 the truth is,
00:11:22.740 the truth is,
00:11:23.720 people don't like to know how you make money.
00:11:26.720 They want you to just make it.
00:11:27.820 They just want to watch it
00:11:28.660 and get the advertiser money.
00:11:29.760 But I think that's worse.
00:11:31.080 I think that's worse
00:11:31.940 because if it's free,
00:11:33.880 then you're the product.
00:11:34.680 And if you're constantly being advertised at
00:11:37.040 by the ads that Google prefers,
00:11:40.940 then you're going to be spending more money
00:11:43.560 on stupid materialistic shit.
00:11:45.660 You're going to be always in the mall.
00:11:46.860 You're going to be more distracting.
00:11:48.000 Ooh,
00:11:48.260 they're going to be spying on you.
00:11:49.880 You're going to say the word vacuum
00:11:50.820 and then it's going to pop up.
00:11:52.260 Ad money,
00:11:52.860 like nobody will complain about that shit.
00:11:54.600 The left is like,
00:11:55.060 well,
00:11:55.260 you're not doing a scam.
00:11:57.160 But I think it's worse.
00:11:59.460 I think it's worse.
00:12:00.060 We do know that Full Send
00:12:10.600 featured a collection
00:12:11.600 of Steve Will Do It branded apparel
00:12:13.140 around 2019.
00:12:14.540 And according to the New York Times,
00:12:16.420 Nelk sold $50 million
00:12:17.580 in Full Send merchandise in 2020
00:12:19.740 and could surpass $70 million in 2021.
00:12:22.960 So he probably made a decent chunk of revenue
00:12:24.880 before distancing himself from Nelk.
00:12:27.020 We also know that he helped them
00:12:28.300 launch their happy dad,
00:12:29.360 hard seltzer brand.
00:12:30.560 There are no official numbers released,
00:12:32.260 but they have had a really hard time
00:12:33.740 keeping up with demand.
00:12:35.000 Liquor stores are selling out
00:12:36.180 of all of their inventory
00:12:37.380 within hours of stocking shelves.
00:12:39.480 It's very possible happy dad
00:12:40.840 is generating tens,
00:12:42.160 if not hundreds of millions
00:12:43.500 of dollars in sales.
00:12:44.900 If Steve even has a small percentage
00:12:46.800 of ownership,
00:12:47.620 that's big money.
00:12:48.400 But just before Steve's demise,
00:12:50.200 a questionable sponsor popped up
00:12:52.020 and took the internet by storm.
00:12:53.940 Rubet.
00:12:55.040 By the way,
00:12:56.000 make sure you're drinking water.
00:12:58.660 Yes.
00:12:59.360 That's five free spins, baby.
00:13:03.000 In 2021,
00:13:04.200 Steve turned an addiction
00:13:05.220 into one of his biggest sources of income,
00:13:07.380 thanks to a sponsorship
00:13:08.240 with the offshore crypto casino,
00:13:10.540 Rubet.
00:13:11.200 Alongside the likes of Aiden Ross,
00:13:13.020 Faze Banks,
00:13:13.760 Ricegum,
00:13:14.360 and the rest of the Nelk boys.
00:13:16.000 Look, everyone's doing a chat.
00:13:17.480 Everyone's doing it.
00:13:18.280 And you're like,
00:13:18.720 oh no, no, no,
00:13:19.820 you can't do it.
00:13:20.600 Okay.
00:13:21.780 All right.
00:13:22.780 All right.
00:13:23.400 Steve was now flying out to Mexico,
00:13:25.240 since it was illegal in the United States,
00:13:27.040 to gamble on the website
00:13:28.200 and stream it for his millions of fans.
00:13:30.400 Winning and losing up to hundreds of thousands of dollars
00:13:32.840 in each session,
00:13:33.900 it was hard for viewers to look away.
00:13:35.860 This only increased the popularity of Rubet,
00:13:38.260 who paid Steve big time money.
00:13:40.380 After accidentally pulling up a conversation
00:13:42.240 with another crypto casino on his stream,
00:13:44.420 Aiden Ross leaked that they were making
00:13:45.940 more than $1.4 million a month.
00:13:50.360 You offered $1.4 million and didn't want to cover expenses.
00:13:53.380 Rubet covering expenses.
00:13:55.080 Let's get a referral code.
00:13:56.920 $1.4 million a month?
00:14:01.580 BUMBUCKA!
00:14:02.560 Wow!
00:14:04.960 Look at that hedonistic money chat.
00:14:08.360 That's the demon temptation right there.
00:14:10.460 Month from Rubet.
00:14:11.240 Plus, these influencers were profiting off referral codes.
00:14:14.860 The more viewers they got to sign up,
00:14:16.720 gamble, and lose money on the site,
00:14:18.380 the more money they made.
00:14:19.580 Steve allegedly wasn't even gambling
00:14:21.080 with his own money at the time either.
00:14:22.800 Instead, using a fake currency provided by Rubet.
00:14:26.080 If I started putting my own money in this,
00:14:28.560 I feel like I could...
00:14:30.580 I feel like if I just filled myself with $4,000,
00:14:33.960 it's like, right?
00:14:34.940 You got $32 million.
00:14:36.520 Oh, baby.
00:14:37.140 Like, I feel like I could, like...
00:14:39.180 But also, it could be dangerous.
00:14:41.900 But I see it as there's no point
00:14:43.160 in putting my body or your mind
00:14:44.780 through that type of stress.
00:14:46.660 I don't need it.
00:14:47.700 You definitely don't need that, bro.
00:14:49.680 Steve basically admitted here
00:14:51.120 that he's not using his own money,
00:14:52.920 and he could never imagine himself doing that.
00:14:55.220 So with no risk, Steve was driving...
00:14:57.280 Yeah, it's all advertisement.
00:14:59.480 It's just...
00:14:59.800 It's one...
00:15:00.860 It's one big scam.
00:15:02.600 ...young fans towards
00:15:03.580 one of the most addictive vices on earth,
00:15:05.500 making potentially millions of dollars
00:15:07.300 a month in the process.
00:15:08.420 However, he was using this same sponsorship money
00:15:11.140 to give back to people in need.
00:15:12.760 This was an ethical dilemma
00:15:14.000 that would set the internet on fire,
00:15:16.140 especially after CoffeeZilla
00:15:17.440 and some ordinary gamers
00:15:18.800 released a five-part series
00:15:20.220 exposing Steve and Rubet.
00:15:22.040 Ending with Steve getting on the phone
00:15:23.480 with CoffeeZilla
00:15:24.260 and admitting that he has a gambling problem,
00:15:26.620 and that gambling problem is not good.
00:15:28.740 And then you're making
00:15:29.920 the majority of your money
00:15:31.680 from getting other people to gamble
00:15:34.780 while you yourself
00:15:36.160 don't really want to do it anymore.
00:15:38.380 Like, isn't that kind of like a problem?
00:15:40.680 Yo, this guy's a professional pocket watcher, though.
00:15:43.580 Um, it's definitely...
00:15:46.120 It could be a problem
00:15:47.320 because gambling's not good.
00:15:48.600 But just like most internet controversy,
00:15:50.860 this blew over relatively quick.
00:15:52.480 And in 2022,
00:15:54.140 Steve and many others
00:15:55.120 were back online gambling
00:15:56.380 with a new crypto casino,
00:15:58.660 Steak.
00:15:59.220 With megastars like Drake
00:16:00.600 partnered with the company,
00:16:01.980 Steak quickly became
00:16:02.920 one of the biggest crypto casinos
00:16:04.440 in the world,
00:16:05.260 opening the door for influencers
00:16:06.580 who caught heat from the Rubet scandal.
00:16:08.800 At this point in 2022,
00:16:10.540 the Steve Will Do It YouTube channel
00:16:12.060 was doing better than ever.
00:16:13.320 He was just shy of 5 million subscribers,
00:16:15.640 the giveaways and vlogs kept getting bigger,
00:16:17.700 and Steve was now sponsored by Steak,
00:16:20.060 making a killing.
00:16:20.840 His second channel was also doing well.
00:16:22.840 After streaming himself gambling on Twitch,
00:16:24.820 Steve would post clips of his streams
00:16:26.300 to his second channel,
00:16:27.500 which is completely allowed
00:16:28.520 and nothing out of the norm.
00:16:29.720 However, there is one unbelievably small thing
00:16:32.220 with these gambling clips
00:16:33.440 that YouTube takes very seriously,
00:16:36.200 the URL.
00:16:37.220 According to what YouTube told Steve,
00:16:39.360 www.steak.com must be blurred out
00:16:42.880 or not visible in the videos
00:16:44.500 under any circumstances.
00:16:46.460 You're allowed to say
00:16:47.300 that you're playing on Steak,
00:16:48.800 show yourself gambling on the website,
00:16:50.460 but the viewer should not be able
00:16:52.020 to see the actual URL.
00:16:53.700 Really, really, really stupid.
00:16:55.620 Unfortunately for Steve,
00:16:57.040 this one ridiculously small rule
00:16:59.300 would cause everything he built
00:17:01.020 to fall apart.
00:17:02.340 After his editor forgot to blur the steak URL,
00:17:04.900 his gambling channel was deleted.
00:17:06.660 Steve created a new second channel
00:17:08.320 and promoted it
00:17:09.180 in one of his main channel vlogs.
00:17:10.980 But before he did that,
00:17:12.340 he checked in with a YouTube rep
00:17:14.380 who told him,
00:17:15.340 you should be fine
00:17:16.160 if the Google AdSense account
00:17:17.760 on your main channel
00:17:18.800 isn't associated with your second channel.
00:17:20.940 Because if you don't know,
00:17:22.100 you could have theoretically
00:17:23.220 hundreds of YouTube channels
00:17:24.920 that all just get paid out
00:17:26.220 to the same account.
00:17:27.180 According to Steve,
00:17:28.040 he had a totally separate AdSense account
00:17:30.000 that he claims he didn't even own
00:17:31.980 or he didn't have the password to.
00:17:33.920 But at the end of the day,
00:17:35.320 that didn't matter.
00:17:36.280 On August 1st, 2022,
00:17:38.120 Steve would get the call from YouTube
00:17:39.380 letting him know
00:17:40.180 that his Steve will do
00:17:41.260 a channel was permanently deleted.
00:17:44.260 Usually YouTube requires
00:17:45.460 three strikes for a channel
00:17:46.720 to be wiped off the platform for good.
00:17:48.820 But Steve didn't even have one.
00:17:50.100 His main channel was in perfect standing
00:17:52.040 when this all went down,
00:17:53.340 causing many to speculate
00:17:54.320 that this was a targeted ban.
00:17:56.200 And maybe YouTube was waiting
00:17:57.400 for any reason
00:17:58.460 to take Steve off their platform.
00:18:00.220 YouTube never gave me a call
00:18:02.500 or let me know.
00:18:03.200 They called me the day of deletion
00:18:04.680 and it was a girl.
00:18:07.080 He actually got a call?
00:18:08.900 Chad, nobody called me.
00:18:11.400 I'm just on Rumble.
00:18:13.100 She seemed pretty stoked
00:18:14.720 I was getting deleted.
00:18:15.800 I was like the set.
00:18:17.740 She seemed happy.
00:18:18.740 And I was with me and my editor
00:18:20.360 and we were like,
00:18:21.180 bro, she's happy.
00:18:23.480 Like you're giving someone
00:18:25.300 the worst news possible
00:18:26.740 and you're doing it
00:18:27.620 in a way to where it's like,
00:18:30.100 like I fucked.
00:18:31.000 The woke left
00:18:31.660 preys on your downfall.
00:18:33.100 You're happy.
00:18:34.040 It was kind of just fucked up.
00:18:35.280 So this YouTube employee
00:18:37.340 seeming excited
00:18:38.420 confirms his suspicion
00:18:39.840 that it was a targeted ban.
00:18:41.580 Because at first,
00:18:42.340 the only information
00:18:43.080 that he got
00:18:43.780 was that he had,
00:18:44.800 quote,
00:18:45.380 repeated violations
00:18:46.460 of the community guidelines.
00:18:48.220 But that's extremely vague.
00:18:49.880 When the news hit,
00:18:51.080 fans,
00:18:51.760 friends,
00:18:52.300 celebrities,
00:18:53.320 they were all shocked
00:18:54.200 and confused.
00:18:55.380 If this happened
00:18:56.120 when he was slamming alcohol
00:18:57.360 and taking substances
00:18:58.360 on camera,
00:18:59.160 that would have made sense.
00:19:00.140 But when he switched up
00:19:01.140 his content,
00:19:02.120 giving away hundreds
00:19:02.980 of thousands of dollars.
00:19:04.200 They just didn't like him.
00:19:04.960 Look, he's wearing shirts,
00:19:05.920 making fun of Biden.
00:19:06.800 He's meeting with Trump.
00:19:08.200 He's an influential,
00:19:09.020 young, masculine man.
00:19:10.100 It just goes against the agenda.
00:19:11.360 To people,
00:19:11.960 what happened?
00:19:12.720 Well, Steve finally opened up
00:19:14.200 about it many months later.
00:19:15.760 Yeah, yeah,
00:19:16.120 post gambling clips.
00:19:17.140 At least he got a call though, bro.
00:19:18.840 On my second channel,
00:19:20.380 which you're allowed to do.
00:19:23.220 You're allowed to show yourself
00:19:24.800 playing stake.com.
00:19:27.260 You're allowed to say,
00:19:27.880 I'm on stake.
00:19:28.980 I'm,
00:19:29.280 hey guys,
00:19:29.620 I'm playing on stake right now.
00:19:31.480 But if stake.com is in the video,
00:19:34.360 your channel,
00:19:34.980 they delete the video, right?
00:19:36.240 So the issue started
00:19:37.160 on his second channel,
00:19:38.600 Steve Will Do It Gambling.
00:19:39.880 His editor forgot to blur
00:19:41.400 the stake URL
00:19:42.660 in one of his videos,
00:19:44.340 which led to his gambling channel
00:19:46.640 getting terminated.
00:19:47.840 So Steve made a new gambling channel,
00:19:49.900 but that qualifies as ban evasion.
00:19:52.140 If you don't know,
00:19:53.280 you aren't allowed
00:19:53.940 to just start a new channel
00:19:55.260 when your old one gets banned.
00:19:57.180 You out.
00:19:57.920 Once they ban one of your channels,
00:19:59.100 they ban you.
00:19:59.840 He made it even worse
00:20:00.760 when he promoted
00:20:01.560 the new gambling channel
00:20:02.800 on his main
00:20:03.740 Steve Will Do It page.
00:20:05.160 That now gives YouTube
00:20:06.500 grounds to terminate
00:20:07.740 his main channel as well.
00:20:09.480 For example,
00:20:10.440 if I got banned
00:20:11.180 on my second channel,
00:20:12.180 PatCC,
00:20:13.060 even though it's
00:20:13.620 totally different content,
00:20:15.260 I'm still the same owner.
00:20:16.580 And while I was banned,
00:20:17.880 I wouldn't be allowed
00:20:18.860 to post on my main
00:20:19.840 Patrick CC channel.
00:20:21.200 And if I did,
00:20:22.340 I could be banned
00:20:23.040 on my main as well
00:20:24.320 for ban evasion.
00:20:25.380 Steve thinks that YouTube
00:20:26.900 finally got him
00:20:27.980 in the perfect loophole
00:20:29.200 to wipe his 5 million subscriber
00:20:31.660 empire off the platform
00:20:33.260 because no other YouTuber
00:20:34.600 was banned for gambling
00:20:35.940 on stake.
00:20:36.940 It's crazy to think
00:20:37.680 that this entire catastrophe
00:20:39.160 came about
00:20:40.180 because he forgot
00:20:40.940 to blur a URL.
00:20:42.640 From here,
00:20:43.280 he signed an exclusive deal
00:20:44.520 to make weekly content
00:20:45.580 on the site Rumble
00:20:46.660 in September of 2022.
00:20:48.200 This site is becoming
00:20:49.380 known as the
00:20:51.900 free speech platform
00:20:53.020 where banned creators
00:20:54.120 flock to
00:20:54.800 since the terms
00:20:55.760 and conditions
00:20:56.300 are very, very loose.
00:20:57.940 Since he's been banned,
00:20:59.180 Steve has definitely
00:21:00.120 taken a massive hit
00:21:01.360 in relevance
00:21:01.920 since his viewership
00:21:03.100 is much lower
00:21:03.960 on the new site
00:21:04.780 and it keeps getting
00:21:05.640 lower with every upload.
00:21:07.160 Damn,
00:21:07.440 why do you gotta say that, bro?
00:21:10.360 Why are you doing
00:21:10.860 my man Steve like that, man?
00:21:12.600 And now that he can
00:21:13.280 never come back to YouTube,
00:21:14.840 his career will never
00:21:15.820 be at the heights
00:21:16.480 that it once was.
00:21:17.340 Now that he can
00:21:24.500 never ship
00:21:24.980 is much lower
00:21:25.860 on the new site
00:21:26.720 and it keeps getting
00:21:30.240 lower with every upload
00:21:31.480 and now that he can
00:21:32.360 never come back
00:21:32.960 to YouTube,
00:21:33.900 his career will never
00:21:34.900 be at the heights
00:21:35.580 that it once was.
00:21:38.220 Good video,
00:21:39.080 good way to detail it.
00:21:45.460 That's it.
00:21:47.340 good.
00:21:52.320 Good.
00:21:52.540 Good.
00:21:52.940 Good.
00:21:53.940 Good.
00:21:54.420 Good.