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sounded like a good idea, but it was
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not. That's all I made. And that's when
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I was like, am I going to jail? I wish
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we knew what we
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The Hawk tour falloff really has to be
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studied. If you remember Haley Welch,
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infamous and hilarious meme when she
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went out into the streets and said,
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"Hulk tour, spit on that thing. Hulk,
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will you shut the hell up?" This was
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like a meme that was uh kind of funny.
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You know, she should not have become as
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famous as she did. That's because Jake
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Paul swooped her up and got her involved
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in managing her podcast. And also, how
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can we forget the crypto rug pull that
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she did, which then led her to going to
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bed for 4 weeks. Anyh who, I'm going to
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go to bed and I'll see you guys
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tomorrow.
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It was kind of funny. I get it. You did
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not need Hawk to a t-shirts, Hawk to a
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mugs. There's probably a subset of 50 RQ
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individuals that got Hawk to a tattoos.
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We really do forget how quick the
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internet moves, but this was probably
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one of the biggest memes of 2020 by far.
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that. And of course, who could forget uh
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the low tap of fade meme from Ninja, a
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hilarious laugh out loud meme that he's
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not running into the ground. It's
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actually really rare to see memes like
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Hawk to a blow up to the point that they
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have. You know, something that starts
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out on basically I funny, the Facebook
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side of the internet, and then passing
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over to Gen Z. Like Hawk Tour would have
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been a funny meme that your parents
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probably would have lolled at. But the
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reason why it became so big on the Gen Z
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side is because Gen Z has ran out of
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memes and all they do is just irony post
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all day. So thing that is really
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unfunny, it's that bad. We could
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actually make it funny again. I mean,
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the only example I can think of of memes
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that were irony poison so much were
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those like, you know, when people were
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like minion posting quotes back in 2019
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or something. People lost their minds
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over this kind of stuff. And even going
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back, there was actually an article that
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Vox made. If you know Vox, they make
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informative videos on YouTube. They're
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basically like Vice at their peak, but
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more boring. She was hailed as a hero,
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revolutionary, and the ITG girl of the
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moment. you you're talking about like
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she served two tours in Afghanistan or
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something, man. Hawk tour was me'd and
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mimicked and people were seeing Hawk
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tours everywhere now that Hawk Tour a
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girl has opened their eyes to the Hawk
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tours around them. By the way, the
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article is titled Hawk Tour explained by
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Straight Dudes. Now, of course, you guys
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definitely remember, like I said
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earlier, that cryptocoin rug pull that
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Haley was trying to do. I'll be honest,
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she's probably if if there is a queue of
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people, she's probably right at the back
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of the queue for celebrities or Okay, I
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did not just call her a celebrity of e-
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celebs basically trying to do a rug
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pull. I've talked about this before.
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Every commentary channel has talked
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about this before. It was a really
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obvious pump and dump scheme. They sold
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the links to pre-investors before the
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coin went public so people could buy low
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and then sell for high. And then
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obviously when the coin went public, all
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the pre-investors pulled out their coin
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because they would be in profit causing
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the entire coin to crash. Now Haley was
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needed for this whole plan because
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anyone can do a rug pull, but like who's
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going to buy your coin if there's no
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like kind of meme or face or name behind
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it. So that was it. She was basically
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the face of this coin. Usually coins
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need to grow over the span of basically
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years to see any kind of profit. But
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obviously a coin that gets so much value
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so quickly, it's going to be worth
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nothing because as soon as it exceeds a
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limit, people are going to just pull
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out. And this is one of the main reasons
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why people hate crypto rug pullers is
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because it's relying on your audience to
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basically make you money. I mean, great
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examples because you're here watching
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YouTube videos. You probably hate ads,
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right? You've probably got ad block, you
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disgusting, dopamine efficient little
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broky. You also probably don't like
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watching sponsors either. You just skip
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them. I know I do the same thing. But at
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least in these situations, there is some
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kind of trade-off. like you're
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supporting a creator and in turn you
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kind of get something afterwards. You
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know, if you watch an ad, if you support
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a creator, then that creator gets money
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and then they can do more content. The
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same goes for a sponsor. But with these
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Rugpool coins, you're getting nothing
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out of it. You are basically just being
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scammed by someone that you watch. Now,
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I've gone over all of this, but recently
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Haley Welch has came back onto her talk
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to her podcast to actually talk about
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this situation. Now, if you remember
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again when she was confronted by
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Coffeezilla, one of the most miserable,
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horrible launches I've ever seen in my
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life. Okay, then why the are you on? She
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h she was a little bit tired, guys. She
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had to go to bed and she went to bed for
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about a month. Now, I'm not sure about
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you, but I only really need about 6 to 8
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hours of sleep at night. 3 weeks, that's
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quite a long time of sleep. Now, at the
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time, apparently, Haley was not legally
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allowed to talk about the coin because
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she was being investigated by two
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different governmental agencies. Now, on
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the podcast, her close friend Chelsea
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Bradford is doing the interview
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questions. The thing is, I don't know if
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it's because I'm a YouTuber, but me
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looking at this podcast, it's really,
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really obvious that this was all
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pre-rehearsed and and just scripted.
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Well, my team advised me to start
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looking for PR crisis team management.
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It was a show. That's definitely why it
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took so long. I don't know. I didn't
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know who to trust at that time. Yeah,
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that's such a hard position to be in. It
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was very difficult. It's definitely why
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everything took so long to like play
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out. Like I'm not saying that she's
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reading off an auto prompt or anything
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like that, but it's really obvious that
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they talked about beforehand
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that okay, let me use a different word
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apart from talk to her. It's obvious
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they rehearsed this beforehand so she
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knew exactly what kind of questions she
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was going to get, but at the same time
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it is her podcast, so it does kind of
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make sense. Well, no, it's a podcast
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that she runs that is actually owned by
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Daddy Jake Paul. But at the same time,
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it is meant to be a podcast, but it's
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obviously there's been a lot of
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preparation put into this. The questions
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have been shown beforehand. But then
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again, if you're looking for
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hard-hitting interviews, uh the Talk to
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Her podcast surprisingly might not be
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the best place to go. Now, Haley also
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goes on to say that she had apparently,
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and I believe her. She's such an honest
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person. Apparently, she had no part
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whatsoever in the rugpole. Welch goes on
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to say that there was an unnamed man
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behind the scenes. Quite ominous. I'm
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not sure whether it was like John Doe
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from Seven or something. Come. And this
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unnamed man apparently offered both
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Welch and Bradford money for marketing
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the coin and extra money to go into the
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Hawk Tour animal charity. We were both
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promised money up front for doing that
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just like a spokesperson would for a
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coin. And then we were also promised
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money for our charity. We'd had plenty
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of money for our charity. Now this
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animal charity surprisingly isn't called
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the Hawk Tour charity. It's called Paws
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Across America, which if anything
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reminds me of the Hands Across America
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back in the 1980s. But you probably
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don't know that. You probably only know
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it from the film Us, where all the scary
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people that kill people with scissors
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end up holding hands at the end of the
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film. Now, this is like the most
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surprising part because you know the
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whole thing where she went to bed for a
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month and basically never came back
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before that month ended. A lot of people
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thought at the time, including myself,
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that she made a ton of money, took it
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all and ran. But she's adamant on the
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podcast from her own opinion that she
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didn't actually make any money from that
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coin whatsoever. That is apart from one
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monetary reward being marketing payment.
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So, did you make anything from the coin
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at all? So, the only thing I made from
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the Well, it wasn't even from the coin.
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I got paid a marketing fee. That's all I
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made. I did not make a dime from the
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coin itself. But all of the money she
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got from that marketing payment has gone
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into her law fund and PR team. Okay,
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Hawk Tour girl, if you have a PR team,
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you need to fire them. I I don't know
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what you're paying them, but I didn't
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even know you had a PR team. What kind
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of advice did your PR team tell you to
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go to bed for 4 weeks? I have seen
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nothing. I have seen no damage control
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here whatsoever. I actually forgot you
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existed until you came back and did this
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podcast that at the time of recording is
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on like 20,000 views in 2 days. So, the
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worst outcome out of all of this is
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apparently Haley has gone broke, ruined
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her entire career, and really not got a
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single penny in profit. That is if we
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can believe anything that she's saying.
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According to Welch, this unnamed guy,
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I'm just going to call him Mr. Hawkcoin
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from now on, Mr. Hawkcoin would send
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Haley short scripts for her to read out
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and then he would post them on her
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Twitter. And she even admits in the
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podcast she had no idea what she was
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even saying or what any of this meant.
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Yes. And you had to video it for me.
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You're like, "What does that mean?" I
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was like, "I don't know. I couldn't tell
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you." Well, he would text me and
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occasionally he would call me, too, and
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be like, "Oh, well, you can do it like
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this." I'm like, "Okay." But he would
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text me like paragraphs with different
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bullet points like what to read off and
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what kind of videos he needed. Now, you
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could say that she's playing dumb, that
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this is like an argument of ignorance
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kind of thing. You know, I didn't know
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what I was doing, therefore I can't be
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held accountable for it. But in reality,
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like even in the best case scenario, it
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just shows that she is insanely insanely
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moronic. Now, the crypto scam eventually
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uh attracted the attention of the FBI
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and they physically arrived at Haley's
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grandmother's house, which is where
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Haley lives. So Haley ended up going to
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Nashville, Tennessee, and was then
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interrogated by the FBI. The feds come
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to Granny's house and knocked on her
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door, and she called me having a heart
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attack, said, "The FBI is here after
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you. What have you done?" I was like,
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"What?" They asked her about her links
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to the crypto world. They went through
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her phone, asked a bunch of questions
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surrounding the Hawkcoin. Could you
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imagine? Like LA Noir sat there in the
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detective room like, "What's this?
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What's this hawkcoin? Hawk to say that
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again. Did you make the hawk to our
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coin? Are you a mad man? Dude, if like
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you had someone interrogating Haley
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Welch, you just spam like the doubt
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button to like everything she's saying.
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And then when she says something like
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actually truthful, you just say lie.
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Thankfully for Welch, she was cleared by
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the end. And by the look of it, the FBI
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have actually set their sights on the
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Mr. Hawkcoin guy, the criminal
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mastermind of this entire situation.
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This then escalated from the FBI and
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then went to the US Securities and
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Exchange Commission. And this is a
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federal agency that are basically trying
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to fight against market manipulation and
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fraud. The SEC, much like the FBI, also
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wanted access to her phone. And it
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sounds like they actually downloaded a
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copy of all the information on it and
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then sent it back to her. And after
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their investigation, the SEC also
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cleared Welch. Hawk Sisters. We cannot
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stop winning. We cannot stop touring.
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She has been investigated by two federal
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agencies and both of them found nothing.
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She also talks at one point. She also
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speaks at one point talking about the
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money that she lost in the initial rug
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pull. Apparently, it was reported to be
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around 1.2 $2 million. However, from
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Welch's sources, I mean, probably the
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FBI, it was discovered that only
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$180,000 of that was like real people's
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money. The rest of the money actually
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came from scammers, snipers, crypto
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bros. It's still a massive amount of
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money, life-changing money, but nowhere
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near that $1.2 million mark. So, did
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anyone actually lose money from the
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coin? See, that's the part I asked
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about, too. So, evidently there was like
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1.2 two million that got lost, but then
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they done some research and it was like
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180k of people's like real money that
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got lost. Like the rest of it was just
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like I don't know scammers, snipers,
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whatever they call them on there. The
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class action lawsuit that Berwick Law
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also brought forward that was mentioned
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as well. They opened an avenue so that
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victims of the Hawkcoin could, you know,
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possibly get their money back. This was
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a huge thing at the time that I did
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cover in a previous video. But from what
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Haley's saying, apparently it just
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didn't go anywhere because as we know,
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nothing ever happens. That or she's not
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really in contact with Burwick anymore
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because this was basically an incentive
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that she set up to try to get people
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their money back. Apparently, their main
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method of communication was Twitter, but
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this elusive Mr. Hawk coin man
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controlled the Twitter account and has
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apparently sold it off to someone else
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entirely. So, someone else is running
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that Twitter account now, basically. But
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they took my name and everything off of
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it, so I guess it's their account now.
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They just have all the followers and
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everything else. So, the biggest
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question, did she fall off? Yes. Is she
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guilty? It's quite complicated. If what
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Haley is saying on the podcast is true,
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she basically had little to no
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involvement in the coin. She was just
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like the face promoting it. And that was
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apparently all Mr. Hawk Coin's plan. If
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that was the case, if she was just
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promoting it, then that takes a little
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bit of heat off her, especially if the
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FBI and SEC investigations didn't really
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find her involved at all or at least to
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the point where she could be guilty. The
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thing is with Haley, she did still agree
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to promote the coin and she had her face
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and brand identity tied to that and she
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was obviously promised a lot of money.
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And you know, everyone knows that rugps
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are bad. They're not bad if you're
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involved in it, like if you're the face
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of the coin or you're pre-investing. But
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to everyone else, it's pretty bad. It
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could actually be one of the fastest and
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simplest ways to basically destroy your
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entire brand reputation. But then at the
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same time as well, not that it excuses
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her, who is buying hawk tour coin? Like
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I get it. I get it. Like it was an irony
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drenched meme. Like everyone was getting
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in on it as a joke. But there's a fine
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line, right? Once you actually have to
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get your wallet out and pay for
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something. Oh, it's not ironically funny
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anymore, guys. It's just cringe. And you
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can see the way that she talks in this
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podcast. She basically has no idea what
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crypto is. like there's a funny coin on
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the internet and you like you like make
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money off it. You make money off like
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invisible things on the internet.
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Imagine when Haley uses a computer, she
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just like drags her mouse on the
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monitor. But at the same time as well,
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even if you bring like Haley's, you
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know, knowledge into question, you could
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literally just look up like crypto
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memecoin and you will see endless
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articles and examples of scam coins
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where the original person that makes the
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coin has obviously only made it to
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rugpull people. I just think in this
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situation, like even if Haley was found
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innocent, it was obviously really
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irresponsible to use their platform like
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that. And it's not even like she was
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surrounded by a bunch of yesmen either.
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When Burwick actually asked Welch what
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she'd do differently, uh she said she'd
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listen to Uncle Whiz, who I assume is
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another character in this extended Hawk
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tour multiverse. This uh Uncle Whiz
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character, again, I I actually don't
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know where we're getting these people
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from. None of these people have been
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proven to exist, by the way. But
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apparently this person told Haley to not
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tie her name to anything and that she
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basically needed to do the research and
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make sure she knew what she was getting
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into because there could be
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consequences. I definitely would have
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listened to Uncle Whiz. He said don't
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tie your name to just anything. He said
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don't always say yes. And in this way,
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yeah, like she's stupid. She didn't do
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her due diligence in researching. And
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you know, I mean, I'll be honest with
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you, we're all cooked, right? All of our
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attention spans are cooked. If there was
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like a Tik Tok or something that
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basically explained how investing
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worked, I'm pretty sure she'd be totally
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fine with it. But how are we rating this
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apology video? It wasn't ukulele bad,
00:13:45
but again, that's like Mariana Trench
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levels there. She did apologize and she
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said that she felt bad about all the
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people that lost money, but at the same
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time, I don't really think she's
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actually figuring out or even thinking
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of a concept to pay them back or give
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them some kind of compensation and also
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offloads pretty much all of the blame to
00:14:02
this elusive Mr. Hawk coin man. I'm
00:14:04
guessing she can't legally name who he
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is because he'll come for her and like
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sue her. But at the same time, I can so
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easily see people saying that you've
00:14:11
just like made up this fictional
00:14:13
character. But again, that wasn't the
00:14:14
point of this video. The point of this
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video was to say, did the Hawk tour girl
00:14:18
fall off? 100%. Unfortunately, I could
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really see this happening now. I can see
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Jake Paul and his investors having a
00:14:25
quiet little conversation with Hawk tour
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girl and be like, "Uh, bro, you used to
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get like half a million views a video
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and now you're getting like barely 20K."
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Keep in mind when she first started the
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podcast she was basically getting views
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upward of like a million views. But
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obviously at the same time as well a lot
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of this was people drenched in irony
00:14:43
saying that it was the best show ever.
00:14:44
If you noticed as well if you went on to
00:14:46
the IMDb for the Hawk Tour podcast
00:14:48
people were just giving it 10 stars like
00:14:50
completely sarcastically. And the thing
00:14:52
is because she built an entire fan base
00:14:54
off like irony drenched Jenzers. It was
00:14:57
never really going to last. I cannot see
00:14:59
myself making another video on the Hawk
00:15:00
tour girl. Critical hasn't talked about
00:15:02
this. Uh, Voidzilla, Coffeezilla's
00:15:04
second channel, hasn't talked about
00:15:05
this. I just think everyone has
00:15:07
basically forgot about this girl and the
00:15:09
memes surrounding her and also the
00:15:10
crypto scam, which is again, it's just a
00:15:13
tale as old as time. It really shows how
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terrifyingly fast the internet moves
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that after a week, people just forget
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everything.
