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From Markiplier warning his audience
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about the massive honey scam six years
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ahead of time. There's some shady
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going on. I can't put my finger upon it.
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To Jack Septic Guy's brutally honest
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warning. Do you think Mr. Beast ruined
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YouTube? Yes. Here are eight times
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YouTubers tried to warn their audience.
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Starting with Markiplier, who spent a
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few minutes during a 2019 stream to vent
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about a product that every YouTuber
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except him was promoting. I don't know
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why, but I naturally distrust Honey.
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With Honey being a free browser
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extension promising to help people save
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money, Markiplier went on to explain his
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doubts about it. My gut tells me
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that nothing in life is
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free, so where is all these savings
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coming from? They push so much
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advertising on YouTube. They do brand
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deals with other YouTubers. Despite
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admitting that Honey might turn out to
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be fine, Mark couldn't bring himself to
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trust it. I got no problem with like the
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concept of an app that like clips coupon
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codes for you. That's great. That sounds
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great on its surface, but there's some
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shady going on. People are getting
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money out of it and then people are are
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saving money out of it and that makes
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sense, but the other part doesn't make
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sense. And then something's going on
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here. Who where's all this money coming
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from? Capping it off with a bold
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prediction. I have a feeling there's
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going to in like a couple years there's
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going to be the great honey conspiracy
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of like 2022. This would become eerily
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accurate in 2025 with tech reviewer Mega
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Lag being the first YouTuber to expose
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the ugly truth. Honey is a scam and the
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majority of claims promoted by those
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influencers aren't even remotely true.
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The scam affected both the user and the
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content creator. The user would always
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get the worst possible discounts while
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the creators would lose affiliate
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revenue to Honey. Once Mega Lag spoke
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out, other YouTubers stepped forward
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too, including tech reviewer Marcus
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Brownley, who would also explain the
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scam and credit Mark for getting it
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right all along. And there was a a
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hilarious clip of Markiplier from like 4
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years ago, being very suspicious of
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them. Mark admitted that while he knew
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something was wrong, the extent of the
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scam still shocked him. I just knew that
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it didn't feel right. I never took a
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Honeyde because I didn't trust it. And
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holy it was so much worse than I
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ever could have imagined. Markiplier has
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every reason to feel smug about his
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prediction. Much like PewDiePie, who was
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the first YouTuber to warn about the
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dark side of Ryan's world. It's kind of
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like seeing child stars on television
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cuz, you know, like their parents are
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literally forcing them to do it. And
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it's just something sad about it. He
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would make this comment on January 3rd,
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2017 when he sat down to react to an
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article making a bold claim. What is
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this? 5-year-old threatens to dethrone
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YouTube king PewDiePie over my godamn
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dead body. Peudes would go on to review
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this up and coming channel only to be
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left thoroughly unimpressed. But it
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wasn't just the content that left a bad
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taste in his mouth. Who will you hatch?
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See, she doesn't even let him finish. He
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was clearly about to say something
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there. Besides the pattern of parental
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manipulation, Peudes noticed another odd
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thing about Ryan's channel. Have you
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ever seen a video with 11 million views
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and 9,000 likes? Please direct me to
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that video because it doesn't exist.
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These are not real people. These are not
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real views. PewDiePie would end his rant
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with a funny skit that would end up
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being scarily close to the reality of
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most child YouTubers. Can you do it
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again, baby? But can you do it with more
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energy? More energy? Yeah. Hey, here's a
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Red Bull. Okay. Mommy needs some
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dollars, so you need to look happy.
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Eight years later, Ryan's channel has
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come under intense scrutiny for parental
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exploitation and shady business
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practices, ultimately proving Peudes
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right. But while PewDiePie didn't
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personally know Ryan, controversial
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YouTuber Wicki would give a chilling
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warning about someone she knew very
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well. Wa Vicki, real name Victoria Rose,
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first rose to fame in 2017 after using
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racial slurs and claiming to be black. I
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took this test and they said I'm black.
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That means I have the right to tell
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y'all that I'm black. But it became
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pretty clear that Vicki was just
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building a persona to chase Clout. Much
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like fellow flexer Lil Tay, I dropped
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200 racks on this car and I'm only 9
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years old. Vicki and Tay's paths would
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cross due to Vickiy's feud with another
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controversial teen, Bad Baby, aka the
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Cash Me Outside girl. Me and my blood
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sister. You feel what I'm saying? He
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broke ass bad babies. But on June
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29th, 2018, Vicki would make a
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surprisingly serious video after she
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discovered the concerning truth about
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her friend. Lil Tay is a little girl,
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little 10-year-old girl who came from
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Canada who plays ballet. You know what
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I'm saying? She don't know nothing about
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no rapper. She don't know nothing about
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flexing. It's it's her brother that runs
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her count. Going on to explain why this
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was so bothersome. She's really a good
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person. Like, it's just her brother in
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her ear telling her what to do. He
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started yelling at her and was like,
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"Why'd you do that? You did it wrong."
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D. And then she started crying because
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like she's 10 years old. She doesn't
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know how to handle all that. Fans were
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quick to appreciate Vickiy's rare moment
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of maturity. Her warning highlighted the
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exploitation in Taye's life, leading to
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more people exposing the truth about
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Taye's family and eventually allowing
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Lil Tay to live her own happy life. By
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exposing Taye's brother, Vickiy's video
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became her most popular one to date.
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Much like YouTuber Pauly Dagal, who
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exposed primitive technology channels in
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his most viewed video ever. Just like
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Santa Claus and the Queen of England,
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primitive technology channels are a lie.
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Backing his claim by pointing out
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inconsistencies with primitive tech
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videos. This dude is using a stick to
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carve out this giant hole, which leaves
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very small marks in the dirt. And if you
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look above, you see these really big,
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wide marks, something that a shovel
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would make. He then points out the
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evident excavator treadmarks in the
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video, further proving the use of
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machinery behind the scenes. But that
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wasn't all, as the inconsistencies with
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nature kept adding up. What's this? He's
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splitting bamboo with a hatchet.
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Hatchets do not pop up in nature. All
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right. Have you ever seen a field of
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hatchets? Me neither. Putting the final
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nail in the coffin by highlighting the
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scheme behind these channels. Either
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like the village or some company came
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in, they hired a team, and just every
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once in a while they said, "Hey, stop
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working. We're going to have this dude
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come out and hit it with a stick a
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couple times. Since then, many YouTubers
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have exposed the truth about primitive
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technology channels in recent years,
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prompting people to appreciate Paulie.
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Now, while Polyactyl can gloat about
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being right, the Sideman can pat
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themselves on the back after warning
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their fans of a scam. In 2025, the
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Sidman charity football match was taking
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place in Wembley, featuring popular
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YouTubers like Kai Sonat and Logan Paul,
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causing the tickets to be in hot demand.
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But in the months leading up to their
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event, the group became aware of a
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disturbing activity. Bots and fake
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accounts are claiming to sell charity
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match tickets. These are most likely
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scams. People were grateful for the
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timely announcement. Surprisingly, this
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wasn't the first time the Sideman had to
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deal with ticket trouble around their
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annual event with the 2024 edition
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affected as well. We check on eBay, uh,
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people reselling. I really dislike the
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fact that people have thought, hm,
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there's a charity event. Let me go and
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buy a ticket so I can sell it to make 10
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times the price of the ticket for
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myself. Among the many stars who took to
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the field in 2025 was Mr. Beast, who had
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been the subject of a warning by
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YouTuber Jack Sedakai. Do you think Mr.
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Beast ruined YouTube? Yes. Before
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getting this question during a lie
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detector test, Jack would be asked by
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Tommy Innant about his thoughts on
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YouTube. Would you say YouTube changed
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for the worse? Yes. Leading to a
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follow-up question that revealed a
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shocking confession from Jack. Don't you
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like Mr. Beast? No.
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Jack. Do you think Mr. Beast ruined
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YouTube? Yes. When asked about his
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reasoning, Jack didn't hold back because
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it became more about views, money, and
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popularity than it did about having fun.
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The clip went viral, prompting Mr. Beast
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to hit back with a response on X. Most
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of the internet sympathized with Mr.
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Beast, with some even questioning Jack's
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motives. But while Jack didn't respond,
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his words would loom large a few months
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later as Mr. Beast faced one controversy
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after another. From YouTube medical
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expert Dr. Mike criticizing Lunchly and
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I usually don't make videos discussing
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creators products. But when terms like
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healthier or better for you get tossed
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around, I feel it's important to set the
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record straight to allegations around
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the dangerous conditions in the Beast
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Games. Over a dozen people who
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participated in the first installment of
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Beast Games said that they had not
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received adequate food or medical care
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and that some competitors had suffered
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injuries from the physical challenges.
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The internet has started digging into
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the problems with Jimmy's content,
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giving even more weight to Jack's
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morning. However, Jack Sudakai isn't the
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only one to have been wary of Mr. Beast,
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with British content creator Chris Broad
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also taking digs at the world's biggest
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YouTuber for his association with Logan
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Paul. It's very strange. How could Mr.
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Beast, a guy who is famed for being a
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genius who mastered the algorithm, how
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could he not calculate that partnering
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with such a man would be anything other
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than a idea? Logan Paul wouldn't be
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spared a warning either. And in the
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years since, the headlines surrounding
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this guy have continued to spell bad
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news. There's not been much in the way
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of a redemption arc. Bringing it full
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circle with Haku a girl. What makes it
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crazy is how she condensed the 5-year
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lifespan of a modern influencer into
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just like two or three months. Step one
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of a viral mobile. Step have a podcast.
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Step three, unleash a cryptocurrency
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which quickly goes wrong. Chris doubled
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down on his warning, explaining why it
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was important to heed it for future
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generations. And if the people at the
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top of this platform with unimaginable
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reach don't have a good moral compass to
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guide them, then we all lose for it.
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Particularly the next generation growing
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up watching this, especially if they're
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raised on a diet of lunch. My message
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this Christmas is simple. Choose very
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carefully who you watch on YouTube.
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Along with his video gaining almost 2
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million views, Chris would also be
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praised by fans. While Chris's warning
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is being taken seriously by the
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internet, the same can't be said for
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American YouTuber TJ Kirk, aka the
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Amazing Atheist, whose warning about a
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Finnish gunman went unheard. On June
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8th, 2007, TJ filmed a rant on the
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infamous Coline school shooters Eric
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Harris and Dylan Claybald, and the
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people who admire them. I want to talk
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about these these kids, and not just
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kids, there's adults, too, who seem to
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extol Eric and Dylan here on YouTube.
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I'll link to all of their profiles once
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again. TJ would end his rant with a
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chilling warning about the exact people
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who should be investigated. We're always
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talking about how about warning signs
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and could we have seen it coming? Well,
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you know what? If you want to look for
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warning signs, there they are. Those are
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your warning signs. One of the profiles
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on TJ's list was Natural Selector 89,
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real name Paka Eric Ainan, a Finnish
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teenager who would go on to unal alive
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seven students and his principal at a
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high school 5 months after TJ's warning.
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In the aftermath of the tragedy, TJ
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would express his disappointment at his
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warning falling on deaf ears. You can
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probably tell that I'm not happy about
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my vindication because it was something
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that I warned you would happen.
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Something that I told you to be mindful
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of and you didn't. You weren't mindful
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of it. You criticized me for it.
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However, his accurate prediction would
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push him into a brighter spotlight with
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the internet crediting him for being
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ahead of his time. I haven't seen this
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video in over 10 years, but the
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algorithm treated me well today. In a
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way, it's prophetic of the time we live
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in now, where mass shootings are part of
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the regular news cycle, making TJ's
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warning one of the most relevant ones of
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our time.
