Gen Z Influencer Gives MACHETES & BOOZE To Homeless, Social Media PSYCHOSIS Is Here
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Summary
Viral videos of a man handing out machetes to the homeless have gone viral, and the media is fixated on it. But is it really about getting attention, or is it about radicalizing young people online?
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keeping the homeless in the streets. A series of viral videos captured the attention of the press.
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A man was giving out machetes, fireball cigarettes to the homeless. We have now seen videos popping
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up of homeless people angrily swinging machetes walking down the street. And why did this man do
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it? Because he is desperate for you to know who he is. He doesn't care about doing something good.
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He cares about eyeballs because in the influence economy, capturing attention is all that matters.
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And this man has gotten millions of views by doing this. Now, it does appear that TikTok has
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begun to remove many of these videos. And on YouTube and Instagram, there's not really much
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viewership at all. But these TikTok videos, they hit the millions. And when questioned, he said,
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so what? You got to do it to get the views. There is a sliding scale from mass shooter
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to, I don't know, influencer vlogger. And that is, there are people online that genuinely have
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something they're passionate about, something they want to say. I don't put them in the scale.
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That is, if you're a chess player, you make chess videos because you like talking about chess.
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Me, I like talking about news. Some things I talk about don't get as many views as something else.
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There's certainly ways to improve your viewership. But then there are people who are desperate for
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attention. And so they will make shock content to various degrees. Some people who engage in the
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utmost violence do it because they are desperate for recognition. Will anyone ever remember who they
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were? Then you have people like this that fall somewhere in between, creating very serious social
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problems because he knows it's shocking. I'm going to get attention. This phenomenon has been going on
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for about 10 plus years since the dawn of social media, to be completely honest. People used to do
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these prank videos where they dress up like killer clowns and jump out and lunge at people. And they'd
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get, they'd make a lot of money from it. There were people who would go into black neighborhoods and
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throw racial slurs around and secretly film it. There are viral videos where people go to casinos, throw
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fake money on the ground, and then get into fights with people. I don't mean like physical fights,
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because it's shock content. What we're looking at is a very similar component. It is the other side
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of the coin to what we see with the rise of the woke cult. And that is, what you experience online
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and your worldview is, it's a component of who you already are. So you will become more, you'll become
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more extreme in whatever it is you're already doing. What we end up seeing is liberals who hold
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this neoliberal, neoconservative worldview, and we say liberal now in the modern political context,
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believe the craziest things. They think that Donald Trump called Nazis fine people. He never did.
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They believe these things because videos emerged that played to their expectations,
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that made these media companies money, and then drove these people to a world of insanity
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and has created a political conflict. But what happens if you're a young person growing up in
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this world, and you don't actually have a moral worldview because you're a very young person,
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or you have a limited moral worldview? Well, you fall into radicalization, various cults,
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sex, or otherwise, or you become like this and go hand out machetes because the only thing that
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matters is that people see your face. And this is where we currently are. Now, there's a bunch of
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other trends that we've seen emerge that have resulted in young people getting hurt.
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We have seen the trend of quitting your job go viral because people get views from quitting their
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jobs. It is making us insane. But, my friends, there is a light at the end of the tunnel.
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Another big trend that's happening now is Gen Z's just logging off. They're getting offline. And there's
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more and more reports talking about it, which is very interesting. And people are starting to
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recognize these views. They are all fake. I actually tend to believe that most of the top personalities
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have fake views. And Twitch is getting called out very heavily for it because people are paying for
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bots. They're paying tens of thousands of dollars so they can just claim to the press they're the biggest
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streamer. If you're rich, why not? You only need a little bit of action on your stream. You buy the rest.
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And there you go. So, let me just say it like this. As we get into the story and break down exactly
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what's going on, and I'll show you these videos, I would like to throw one thing your way, my friends.
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There are many funny memes about TimCast and Tim Pool money that my friends have made, people you may
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know. Seamus Coughlin made a promo for his show, Freedom Tunes, where he says, we don't have Tim Pool
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money. Jeremy Hambly made a similar joke about how he was raising money to go to AmFest saying,
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we don't have Tim Pool money. I'm not doing it to humblebrag. I'm doing it to make a point.
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Tim Castile averages between YouTube and Rumble around 40,000 concurrent viewers.
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All legitimate. All real people. I just make videos, got millions of subs. There are other
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popular streamers who have comparable live viewership or better, but for some reason,
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don't have nearly as much money. Why? Well, these accounts are spending the money they make to make
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it look like they're big, whereas for us, we are just actually as big as we are, and we sell ads,
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and we make money, and we use it to launch skate events, and to build studios. Interesting, isn't it?
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You see, the reality is the internet's largely fake, and everyone's desperate to claim they have merit,
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even when they don't. Fake it till you make it to an extreme degree. So let's start here with who this
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influencer is and why he's giving out machetes, and then we'll look at more. Before we do, we got a
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but let's get to the news, and we'll start by actually showing you what this guy was doing.
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So he's handing homeless people machetes, and they're all just laughing and taking them.
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There it is. For those that are just listening, just walking up and handing out machetes to people.
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Here's him handing out booze and machetes. Full bottles of, I can't tell, but it looks like vodka.
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Oh, I think we can see what kind of booze that is. Looks cheap.
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There it is. Plastic bottle booze. Here's more machetes.
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He's also got a video. I don't know if they have it in here. Here we go.
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Today, I'm going to be making something special for people in need.
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Because of the government shutdown being in effect, there are a lot of struggling people out here.
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Everyone deserves a good meal, and I'm very grateful to be able to use it.
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If the only thing he did was lay out cigarettes and fireball, I would be laughing.
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And then he kicked it over and said, I'm not giving people booze and cigarettes.
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That'd be really funny. Nah, he actually goes and does it.
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This dude should be banned from every platform.
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Look, it's one thing if there's political speech that you don't like.
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It's another thing when you are giving out booze, cigarettes, and weapons to people for clout.
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Nah, I mean, I think it's fair to say these people are all over 18.
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But clearly, these are not people he should, it's wild, dude.
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A wannabe social media influencer went viral this week when he handed out 18-inch machetes and booze to homeless people.
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Keith Castillo, who goes by POV Wolfie, posted the video on Thanksgiving on TikTok, and he garnered more than 14 million views.
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I was on Instagram, and it recommended this video to me.
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A caption reads, keeping the homeless in the streets, apparently mocking the plight of those without a place to call their own.
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The stainless steel Gordon brand machetes were still wrapped in packaging.
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Castillo told the Post he purchased them in bulk from online retailer Harbor Freight for less than five bucks each.
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In another video posted on November 2nd, Castillo hands out four unwrapped machetes alongside handles of vodka.
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Handles to people on an unidentified Big Easy back road.
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In a November 20th post, the influencer distributed seven machetes that he termed a Big Ass Swords,
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in which he claimed it was an effort to keep the homeless folks safe.
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The 29-year-old told the Post he was on a nationwide tour, which began in October, and is currently in Little Rock,
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where he once again is handing out alcohol and machetes.
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I travel around, bulk record in one day, and then for my safety, go to another city, do the same thing.
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There for like two weeks and kind of travel around.
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So far, he's armed homeless folks in Austin, New Orleans, and Little Rock, but he has his sights on larger skylines.
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The Corpus Christi, Texas native, said he spoke to the police about handing out machetes and was assured he wasn't doing anything illegal.
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Castillo also doesn't think he's doing anything immoral and believes homeless will not use the blades to hurt him or anyone else.
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They have zero intent for what people are claiming they want to do.
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There's already videos popping up where someone filmed a homeless guy walking down the street swinging a machete and just pointing and screaming at people.
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He expressed no second thoughts on handing out alcohol to potential substance abusers.
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It's good for the clicks and the views, you know.
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Said retired NYPD sergeant and John Jay College of Criminal Justice professor, Joseph Giacalone.
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Well, you take a look at where he was and he had 3.9 million views in the Google cache.
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I'm pretty sure if you click on it, it just outright says it is unavailable.
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Take a look at his page now with those videos taken down.
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These aren't particularly notable videos of him apparently just playing Fortnite.
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My opinion, I don't have any, my reason to believe it is that you don't know who this guy is.
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And that he had to go do this to get attention.
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There's a prominent podcaster who gets real big guests and he's got millions of followers.
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And for some reason, no one ever comments, no one ever likes, but the views are there.
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Because I'm going to tell you, my friends, it's all botting.
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This is, he says, Rakai runs off after giving flowers to a woman without paying for them.
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And let's take a look at Gen Z social media psychosis.
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So here, for those who are just listening, he walks up to a bunch of flowers that are for sale.
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And this woman walks out having no idea what just happened.
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This dude shoplifted, not her, by claiming he already paid for it.
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When she was checking, she's receiving stolen property from this guy.
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How insane is it that these people are willing to literally commit crimes on camera?
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The penalty for shoplifting and what he did is less than the reward he gets from the social media.
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I say this dude should be perma-banned from every platform.
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This is the same videos we already showed from the other guy.
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The five most deadly TikTok challenges, including one that's killed over 100 people.
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There are fake videos emerging where people wash meat with dish soap.
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There are, man, there's so much fake stuff that's crazy.
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There are these fake cooking videos where women will go to their, they have like an island
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And they'll dump out a bunch of spaghetti sauce, sprinkle cheese just straight on the counter.
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And then they'll take a block of Velveeta and start ripping it into chunks.
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And then they'll take a bunch of nachos and put it on there.
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And then they'll mash it together into a paste.
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And they're acting like this is a great recipe.
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They pretend that it's a real recipe, but it's not.
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And they'll mix the eggs, the shells into it and break it up and say, the shells are a
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And, you know, it doesn't even affect the flavor.
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And you're sitting there watching this being like, what is wrong with these people?
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They're dumping dish soap and mouthwash onto their meat.
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There's a viral video of a woman taking ground beef, pouring dish soap all over it and washing
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They'll film that, throw it away, take regular ground beef, cook that, and then eat it and make
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It actually resulted, or first we have the blackout challenge.
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A hundred people have died where they would, I'm not going to explain what they do, mind
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you, strangle themselves so that they could pass out.
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The Tide Pod Challenge resulted in 35,000 emergency room visits.
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Now, the truth is, nobody was actually eating Tide Pods.
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For many of these people, your saliva would break the plastic, whatever coating was, dissolves
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And so there was one well-known story where a dude put it in his mouth, and it broke open,
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burning his tongue, and he went, and he aspirated, and he sucked a bunch into his lungs, and they
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started coughing and wheezing, struggling to breathe.
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He has scar tissue in his lungs, reducing his capacity to take in oxygen, destroying his
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The milk crate challenge was actually kind of interesting.
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The issue is, climbing across milk crates, they're not stable.
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The problem is, people who have physical abilities fell from a great height.
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Some people broke their spines, and fortunately, weren't paralyzed.
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But they're going to have that for the rest of their lives.
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I don't think the milk crate challenge falls in the same category as many of these things.
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Because if you're a professional athlete, you're not really batting an eye at something
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But if people decide to do feats of athleticism they can't do, I mean, you know, that's not
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People are putting alcohol on their skin and setting it on a fire.
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One kid burned his entire back and will now have to wear special liners and lubricants on
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Kids are overdosing on Benadryl, having seizures and giving themselves brain damage.
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Where Gen Zers, who don't value work because they don't make enough money, they're never
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going to own a house, and there's no light at the end of the tunnel, I don't really blame
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them, have found that quitting can make you go viral.
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What's happening is these young people have figured out that if they quit their jobs, they
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This is from a long time ago, and wow, look at this one, quitting my toxic job.
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I don't know how many of you know about this video, but here you go.
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And I'm not going to play the yay song because I don't get them flagging me or whatever stupid
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thing they're going to do, so we'll just mute it.
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And it's her dancing at her job, where she says, I work for an awesome company that produces
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And then she basically goes on to say that she's quitting, and this is the video she's making
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So Gen Z didn't discover this, but they're embracing it.
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So what's happening now is some of these young people have jobs that are actually fine, but
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they're like, if I quit and just say bad things, I can make way more money.
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Stable Ronaldo reveals that he has an upcoming meeting with Twitch about their view-botting
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I said, I want a meeting Thursday, doing a meeting with a lot of people.
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If you're actually popular, if you actually work really hard, but you never get ranked,
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you never get attention, but you do have that popularity, the point, what these people
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are going to see is they're going to say, listen, if the view-botters, if the fake
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I would be explaining why I'm successful, why people like watching my content.
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Instead, people assume the view-bots are the real content, and they're not.
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So high-profile people who don't view-bot are getting pissed off because they're ending
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up like ranked number 10, and the person who's number one has zero comments.
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Viewbotter.com, the best Twitch viewer bot that uses AI for authenticity, supercharge
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Julia Kin says Viewbot pricing can go up to $50,000 per month.
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If someone asked me, like Tim, how do you know the cost of Viewbotting?
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And I'd be like, I went to a couple of Viewbotting websites to see how much it costs.
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But imagine you're someone with like 20,000 concurrent viewers.
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And so at that level, and if you're doing consistent work, you could be making millions
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So you decide that if you're making, well, I mean, it's pretty crazy, 50,000 per month.
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But let's say you're somebody who's making, I don't know, 150,000 per month.
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And you're thinking, I can put myself at number one.
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And you're curious about what people are doing, how they're doing it.
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Me personally, I spend all my money on skateboarding.
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And while we do rank really well on Timcast IRL, we actually were doing fairly well.
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Over during the election, we were number two, just behind Steven Crowder.
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The truth is everyone's botting and all of it's fake.
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When we sell ads, for some reason, our advertisers always come to us and they say,
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And I say, well, the truth is, I think I do a pretty good job of selling products.
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And so like the ad I did for Beam earlier, for which I really am a fan,
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That's actually my Sleep 8 mattress sleep score, 94.
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So if you're like a lot of these channels where you just do a straight up ad read and you say,
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make sure you go to whatever.com, check it out.
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But I think the truth is, aside from the fact that maybe I do better sales pitches,
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This video might get 80,000 views, I think, on a good day.
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This channel used to get way more, but we changed the format and it is what it is.
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I have no problem saying four years ago, this channel was getting 500,000 views per video,
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And now those same videos are doing sometimes 200, but usually around 50 to 100.
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I stopped making the videos and so people stopped coming for it.
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I have no reason to buy fake viewers for this channel.
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And because of that, the conversion rates are normal.
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But what if you're buying ad reads from somebody who's botting?
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Well, unfortunately then, you're not going to convert anything because the viewers aren't
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Twitch cracked down a couple months ago and 24% of their viewership dropped off.
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Now, as bad as crazy as everything is, my friends, there is a light at the end of the tunnel.
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I think there's a high probability the population is much lower around the world than people
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There's a viral video where this guy says China's population may actually be 500 million, not
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When I talk about empty city streets, people say, Tim, it's because they're at home and they're
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Then why aren't they posting on social media anymore?
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The likely scenario is young people are leaving social media, and we've heard this trend for
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a while, because it's become painfully inauthentic.
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For our next story, let's talk about the internet.
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And that seems to have put off the people who make the internet, because they are going
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It says that social media activity is dropping across the world.
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Basically, people have stopped posting their lives on social media.
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When these platforms first came, they weren't so curated.
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They were breakfast photos, pet photos, gym selfies, random life updates that no one really
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It looks like a shopping mall designed by an AI bot.
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Every scroll shows you a skincare ad, a reel that you've already seen 11 times, a guy
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explaining how to make your first million by the age of 24, and an AI model who is definitely
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The reason it's not true is that social media has always been the highlight reel.
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It's always been curated, but not in the same way.
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I remember when Friendster first started getting into popular.
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And, you know, your GIF of the Incredible Hulk or the Banana Guy doing the peanut butter
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And Friendster is when things started to get more social.
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You know, they're driving in a car, and they're taking that selfie shot.
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They're at the club and the party, and it looks like it's so much fun.
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And I'd see these from my friends, and then we'd go out on a Friday night, and we'd be
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hanging out at a diner, and they'd be like, let's get a great photo together.
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And then I'd see that photo later and be like, it was not nearly as fun as that photo makes
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Videos you see on Instagram, they're advertisements.
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You'll see a commercial, or you'll see a video where a guy's like doing a man in the
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And then abruptly, in the middle of it, he'll be like, what kind of skincare product do you
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And it turns out a skincare company hired the guy to make it look like an authentic man
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in the street viral video, and then inject an ad in the middle of it.
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Everybody else is saying, bro, I'm not interested in playing that game.
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I do think it's fair to point out that the young generation is much smaller.
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The reason why we're seeing less posting from the younger generation is because there's
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But as long as they're accounting for demographic size, and it's posts per capita or however
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you want to do it, then, yeah, it's probably happening.
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Now, these people are still scrolling social media.
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The question will be, are you going to be real and authentic, and will you make it through?
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The one thing I can say is that while some people are stopping the posting, many others
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There's channels that make it look like they're botting so they look popular so they can say
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crazy things and build cultures and communities.
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I hope we break through it and find some authenticity.
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But I suppose we won't know for sure for 20 years, because this psycho generation of young
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social media-obsessed people, it's their whole worldview, and you can't shake it from them.
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But I suppose this is just one more instance, and we'll see where the trend takes us.
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Check us out, don't miss it, and we'll see you all then.