SNEAKO - The Dark Truth About SteveWillDoIt

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- 0.77

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. 0.99

00:02:47.600 Yo, he drives fast as f***, bro. 0.98

00:02:49.420 He has like 12 different cars. 0.98

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. 0.99

00:03:59.160 Disgusting. 0.86

00:03:59.540 I think it was like a 2-6. 0.93

00:04:00.720 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 0.92

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, 0.95

00:04:07.880 I've never seen that in my f***ing life. 0.84

00:04:10.800 Kyle Forgard was one half of the YouTube channel Nelk, 0.92

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 1.00

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. 0.99

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. 1.00

00:06:09.260 Bro, I was in this shit. 0.96

00:06:10.260 I created the Sneeko channel 2013, chat. 0.96

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? 1.00

00:07:06.760 It was a stupid amount of time. 1.00

00:07:08.540 History. 0.99

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. 1.00

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 1.00

00:11:43.560 on stupid materialistic shit. 1.00

00:11:45.660 You're going to be always in the mall. 1.00

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, 1.00

00:11:52.860 like nobody will complain about that shit. 1.00

00:11:54.600 The left is like, 1.00

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 0.78

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. 0.99

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! 0.99

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. 0.99

00:16:53.700 Really, really, really stupid. 1.00

00:16:55.620 Unfortunately for Steve, 1.00

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, 1.00

00:18:30.100 like I fucked. 1.00

00:18:31.000 The woke left 1.00

00:18:31.660 preys on your downfall.

00:18:33.100 You're happy. 1.00

00:18:34.040 It was kind of just fucked up. 0.99

00:18:35.280 So this YouTube employee 0.98

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. 0.88

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. 0.99

00:21:07.160 Damn, 1.00

00:21:07.440 why do you gotta say that, bro? 1.00

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.

SNEAKO - January 31, 2023

The Dark Truth About SteveWillDoIt

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