The Internet Cannot Stand Big Groove

Added: 2026-05-12

[00:00:00]Hello my gallivanting gurus of the gullible internet. I have some news to talk about today. Over the past few weeks, there has been a phenomenon of hating on a gigantic black creator and I don't mean big just by his number but by his actual body mass, the space he contains inside of the room and expands out because of his bulk and hulking muscles. I'm talking about the Grooving Gorilla. Grooving Gorilla? No, he changed his name to Big Groove. It used to be the Grooving Gorilla. Now, if you don't know who he is, let me show you.

[00:00:29]OH MY LOOK AT ALL THIS CHICKEN.

[00:00:35]A MOUNTAIN OF CHICKEN.

[00:00:38]You know what time it is?

[00:00:41]I GOT MY BIG FOOT CANDY.

[00:00:46]SHARK BITE.

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[00:01:19]Now, let's take a stark analysis of exactly what he just did there. Firstly, he grabbed the chicken bite, pretty simple, pretty effective, pretty efficient, easy to understand. I want to point this out, he does not only eat chicken, that'd be insane if he was a black man that only ate chicken, that would be very good reason to hate on him, but it is a ridiculous amount of food. He's a large guy, he grabs one bite, says shark bite, shows how big his mouth is, shows how big his lips are, and then he dances. He eats, shows his big black features, and then shucks and jives. And that's the base breakdown of what everybody is saying because people hate him.

[00:01:55]>> This may be an unpopular opinion, but if you're a restaurant and you bring Big Groove in there to go and promote your food, I'm not eating there. I'm not eating there. Because if you have to have someone shuck and jive to sell food, I don't think your food is good.

[00:02:08]>> And one thing about me, I noticed that when I watched this guy, I instantly get irritated. And [snorts] I had to ask myself, why am I irritated with Big Groove?

[00:02:18]>> Groove, you know, Grooving Gorilla, the the really strong buff black guy who goes to restaurants and say, "Shark bite." And he bites the food and he starts dancing. Yes, that man is a social anarchist and he's a cynic. He does not care about structural integrity within restaurants. He doesn't care about the structural integrity of social relations within a restaurant. If anything, he wants to destroy the norm.

[00:02:41]He realizes that he can create his own structure within the structure itself.

[00:02:45]The cynic because he realizes that the value that we put on social relationships are not inherent, but they're assigned.

[00:02:56]He They He understands that morality is a sign to how we perceive blackness.

[00:03:02]>> A crazy thought. It's crazy, but hear me out.

[00:03:07]If we all found out that Big Groove was on the spectrum and that what he does is actually stemming and it's actually his hyperfixation, wouldn't we look at him differently?

[00:03:20]Like maybe this man is autistic.

[00:03:25]TikTok is truly the place where scholars go to roast and have the greatest conversation among the public square of the internet. It is truly a town hall digitally of the internet for all opinions across all boards of the spectrum of opinion. It's outstanding.

[00:03:40]Now, the first two people that I showed you, they obviously hated Big Groove, weren't a big fan of what he did, doesn't like him at all. They just think he is the worst thing ever. They think he's disgusting, they think he's agitating. The second two, giving a little bit of an understanding of what he was doing. And the reason I want to show you those is to give you a bigger spectrum of opinions to go off of if you yourself hate Big Groove. But, I think we should understand what Big Groove is.

[00:04:04]People are treating Big Groove like he committed the worst crime of all time when he is dancing and eating in public and that is horrifying because, well, he's black. And because he's black, he has the collective shared trauma of all black people on the planet. And when you have the collective shared trauma of all black people on the planet, you have to act as such. Anything outside of the norm will be treated as a deterrent to how people view black people because inadvertently, when you become a big content creator on the internet and you are black, you are actively speaking for a lot of black people because black people are going to be perceived through you even if you don't want black people to see you that way. But, I think the reaction overall feels way louder than the actual act itself. The volume knob got ripped off because it got turned up so loud. Everybody is screaming at once at a man moving his body in a way that annoys people who are already irritated before he even showed up on the screen.

[00:05:01]And then this whole conversation drifts where folks attach historical weight just to his existence in itself. Now, a lot of people think that they're dragging in words and imagery that feel way bigger than a guy dancing in a restaurant booth. Suddenly, he's not a person making content, he's a symbol of of stretched and and twisted into whatever argument someone wants to win that day. It's not about him. It's about the projection machine that it would comes. And that's a very real fear a lot of black people have. Let me show you something for a moment. This is the depiction of somebody at a minstrel show. This is a black minstrel person.

[00:05:36]You can see the big exaggerated red lips. You can see the normally darker skin. And this is basically what hypothesized and well, hypothesized not the correct word, popularized a lot of black depictions in media. As a matter of fact, this is what commonly people do when they have blackface. A lot of white people back in the day would do blackface and they'd hire white actors to do the caricatures of black people, which was horrifying. Oh my goodness, horrifying for a lot of black people, destroyed how black people were viewed, and it made them be viewed as subhuman, and people start calling them monkeys.

[00:06:10]Let's freeze her right there, my bad, Frieza. But, that's also a side point I want to bring up. Black people really mess with Dragon Ball Z. A big reason part of that is because Frieza kept calling them monkeys and Goku turned into a great ape. And this is also a fun fact, this actually destroyed people's understanding of apes and monkeys. So, apes don't have tails. A monkey has tails. The gorilla is an ape right here.

[00:06:31]And then a monkey is such as this that has a tail. This is a monkey. Monkeys have tails. Curious George would be an ape, not a monkey. Big difference between those two things. Chimpanzees, those are apes. Just want to point that out so people can understand that. I believe the mandrill, the bonobo specifically, would be a monkey because of the tail. It's what's happening there. Just want to help you guys out to understand the difference between those two things. Might as well squeeze it in here since we're talking about this big dancing gorilla guy right here. When Big Groove first popped on the scene, he was known as the Grooving Gorilla. And that obviously elicited some imagery of a lot of racial stereotypes back in the day.

[00:07:06]People hated this for many reasons and many good reasons because he's a big gorilla guy, he's dancing. Oh my goodness, he's shucking and jiving. And people didn't want black people to be set back all these years, especially because he kept doing the same kind of content. And because black people were compared to animals and apes and monkeys, this just elicited the collective trauma of black people. You see, black people as a group, the reason we have such strong solidarity is because of all the common traits we all share. Now, there are a bunch of white people that share a lot of common traits. I don't want to take that away from you. Pain is stronger than relatability. We understand this. Hate is stronger than love in most instances.

[00:07:41]Look at Rebecca Black for a moment. You guys remember Rebecca Black and the song Friday? That was the most hated video on the internet. We all collectively came together to dogpile on this teenager because we hated her song that much. And looking back on it retrospectively, wasn't even that bad of a song, honestly. As a matter of fact, I I think it's quite good good to be a song. I think the mixing was a little bit off and the chorus was strange, but it was very catchy and people said obviously Friday is dumb. This showed us that as the internet, we collectively like to hate something more than we like to love something. And this is the big issue I'm seeing with Big Groove because a lot of people are wanting to cancel him.

[00:08:19]Understanding the history doesn't mean that he's horrible evil person. And I understand the kind of irritation that doesn't come from morality or harm. I get it. It comes from irritation. Reason I brought up Rebecca Black specifically because I think on the internet, irritation on the internet will always mutate into something way harsher than it ever needs to be. People feel justified going nuclear simply because something made them roll their eyes.

[00:08:44]Being annoying online is this weird social death sentence. It's strange.

[00:08:50]Really analyze what a Big Groove video is doing. If we can see it on screen here, we can see that he's dancing in a restaurant. Everybody around him seems to be annoyed by what he's doing. He's very loud, he's very ornery, he's agitating, he's using his big mouth, he's intimidating, and people are scared of those around him. And if they're not scared, they're clapping for him because big black man is dancing and they want to see the big black dance because black people, they entertain. As a matter of fact, it's all they know how to do.

[00:09:18]Black people are so good at dancing.

[00:09:20]Well, look at Michael Jackson. He invented new dancing, he set the foundation, became the world's biggest superstar just by virtue of his ability to dance. Black people, all they do is entertain. Look at LeBron James. Oh my goodness, he's such a tall black man, he knows how to entertain. Look at Michael Jordan. He entertains. Black people are so good physically cuz they're so stupid everywhere else. That's what it is. They can't invent or do anything. They're just that is. Oh, wait, I get black people are lyrically good, but that's only because of violence. You see, they're lyrically good with hip-hop because they rap about shooting each other, because they love hurting each other, cuz black on black crime is beautiful and more than should take each other out. This is the mindset. This is the trauma of black people and this is the perception that gets pushed down and watered down in many ways. Big Groove isn't just annoying people for a large part. He becomes a representation of something deeper, something historical, something loaded. That leak feels so horrifying for a lot of people. It's annoyance with a sense of purpose.

[00:10:20]Nobody wants to admit that this just annoys me. So, they dress it up in bigger language, heavier accusations.

[00:10:27]The conversation floats somewhere in the stratosphere where everything sounds serious but disconnected to what's actually happening. Because I have to talk about this phenomenon, it's a phenomenon of sameness. This is Family Guy. I reliably watch Family Guy a lot.

[00:10:42]I go to sleep to Family Guy sometimes because it is just background noise for me. As a matter of fact, this is Friends. Friends became a very repeatable formula of the same exact thing. Same with Big Bang Theory as well. You see, these three shows are very important to me because after a while they all blend into one episode.

[00:10:59]You can start anywhere in the series.

[00:11:01]The greatest strength you can have with a show is starting anywhere in the series. No matter what happened before or what happens after, you can pick up anywhere in the show, each is his own self-contained story, you have created an infinitely marketable, heavily repeatable, recyclable, infinite money-generating gag machine. That is the purpose of a lot of entertainment, to make it familiar so you yourself know what to expect. There's this Indian guy, right? Every time I see this Indian guy with his hat, he does this little dance and he goes in a little bit of a circle and then he does this shift thing with his feet. He does it every single time.

[00:11:35]This is basically what he does every single time. I have no issue with this man. I don't hate him. He just does the same content over and over again. And whenever he does this specific dance every single time, he racks up a million views on Instagram without fail. It is simple, it is easy, it is his favorite thing to do. And I wanted to hate him for a while but then I understood he was getting a million views for this. He tried to switch up his content. He tried to change it up. But what happened?

[00:12:03]People showed less interest because they weren't familiar with it so they moved on to the next video. You could bring up any show and any show that is wildly successful will always do this. Look back in the day at The Three Stooges.

[00:12:14]Three Stooges kept doing this. Look at Looney Tunes. The absurdist nature of Looney Tunes was something you expect.

[00:12:20]You expect the specific cartoon gags. If you look down, you fall. If you don't look down, you can cross an entire pathway in a mountain. Pretty simple, pretty efficient, pretty easy. Every repeatable formula works over and over again. Big Groove found what works. Look at any big YouTube star. Look at Mr. Beast. He found what was repeatable and what works. Big amounts of money, getting a bunch of people that are in horrible situations and offering it and dangling it in front of them to make it play for the money. Make them play for the money. It works. That's how people have always operated. This is the big issue with familiarity because if he switched up his content, let's say if he dressed up like, I don't know, Johnny Bravo right here. Let's say if Big Oh, that is Johnny Bravo. That's just Big Groove dressed up as Johnny Bravo. It gets significantly less views than everything else he does because he's not dancing, shaking, and jiving and people can't dogpile and hate on him on the internet. That doesn't get him as much money. As Mr. Krabs once said back in the day, the most important quantifier for how something successful it is, how successful something it is, how si- Words. Sentences Can I get sentences out? The big quantifier for how successful something is is money. People will do anything for money. And I have to ask you this very important question if I could. Let's say your caretaker, somebody you love deeply in your life, whether they be your mother, your father, or your brother were dying of an a very curable disease but you simply didn't have the money to do so. I ask you this very simple question. Would you sacrifice your pride? Would you sacrifice yourself to save them financially? Would you do that? Let me phrase the question better for you.

[00:13:55]Would you be hated by everybody? Would you be hated by the internet, the world in itself if you could save your family?

[00:14:02]Would you do that? I'm sure Big Groove is making crazy money from popping up at all these restaurants, doing one shark bite 40-second video, no copyrighted music in the background, and people are looking at the food and they may be thinking, "There's a lot of good food.

[00:14:14]It looks amazing. And this big black guy likes food. He looks like he eats. I enjoy this." The average person isn't thinking of the annoyance behind the situation. The average person is seeing a big black guy dance and say, "Okay.

[00:14:26]Well, I think I want to eat there." Cuz that's the message and importance of what he's trying to do. And I ask you this.

[00:14:34]Would you, as a person, suck [laughter] a phallic member, a man's Johnson, legless lizard for a million dollars? That's basically what Big Groove is doing. He is sucking the phallic stereotype caricature of black people. He's going crazy and sucking the white man's peen all for the bag. Would you chase a bag that hard?

[00:14:54]Would you keep your integrity? What has a man what has he got if not himself then he has not to say the thing he truly feels if on the words he won who nails. But this Frank Sinatra, My Way.

[00:15:07]Is he doing this his way or at the whims of someone else? And I think this is what's happening with Big Groove.

[00:15:13]There's this fun phenomenon I'd like to see in a lot of people. It's very simple and very efficient where we judge others by their actions. We judge ourselves by our intentions. You see, if you see somebody outside and they're yelling and they're agitated, you would say, "Huh, angry guy. Wonder why he's yelling." But his intention is to get his anger out as to not be angry and do something worse.

[00:15:36]You're judging him simply by his actions. If you were yelling, you would know why you were yelling so you're judging yourself by my intentions are good. Hence why the statement stands as values, "The road to hell is paved with good intentions." And I don't think the intentions of Big Groove are evil. I'm not sure he's trying to set black people back. I don't think he's trying to do that. I believe he's judging himself based on virtue of what he's doing as a human being. This is very important because I understand the history behind it. I understand why it's bad. I keep trying to align myself up with the hate.

[00:16:04]I want to. There's a button in my body.

[00:16:07]I want to press it. It lets me join in to the chorus without hesitation. But never clicks all the way in. I always stop halfway through cuz I think it's because I make content. Cuz I understand what it's like to have a repeatable, marketable strategy because I understand the business behind it. So, it hovers there. Hovers there over that button.

[00:16:25]Half-worn. I can see something underneath all of it that makes situation feel much more complicated than people want it to be. I get the irritation. I feel it too sometimes. The second-hand discomfort when someone's loud in a space and you should be calm.

[00:16:38]People at the restaurant are upset.

[00:16:40]People are going to have a bad perception of black people and if you're black, it's going to make your situation worse.

[00:16:46]But there's a line where irritation turns into this obsession and people sprint past it like a finish line. A human being sits in the middle of all this noise, a person who has a family who just wants to make money. And do you want to be back in that 9-to-5 drudgery? But I want to show you Big Groove again. I want to show you what he looks like. I want to show you what he does.

[00:17:14]SHARK BITE!

[00:17:15]>> [screaming] [cheering] >> DOES THAT PISS YOU OFF? DOES THAT make you [music] angry? Did that elicit something inside of your stomach that makes you foul out and have all this fire vitriol going into your keyboard and you type a comment onto that? He gets that reaction from you and he continually does that. You see that every time and you say, "We got to boycott those restaurants cuz they're hiring this Big Groove guy. We got to show them that we don't like this guy.

[00:17:52]We hate him." That's a very powerful statement, it's a very powerful sentiment. It it feels as though he's just annoying at the end of the day. And I understand that you don't want that menstrual imagery. I know you don't want that. But it's a guy who genuinely enjoys what he does. What would he do instead? Well, he should he should sponsor black voices and do black black activism and things that are right. What if he doesn't want to? Well, that doesn't get the word out. What if because he got this black platform, black black black. Never add an L to big. Doesn't make any sense. Silly way to do that. Never add an L to big.

[00:18:24]Because he's getting all this attention, I can understand what it's like to get a lot of attention. You see, imagine you found something that works.

[00:18:33]Something that brings attention.

[00:18:35]Attention rewires how you move, how you think, how you show up for work, how you do things. Fame isn't just about attention. It's momentum that keeps feeding itself. Once something taps in this app loop, once something taps in, once you find thing that brings out the reactions in people, you cannot do that.

[00:18:55]You cannot. And I know people think they're stronger than the pull and allure of peer pressure. You are not stronger than peer pressure. I know you're not. I'm not talking to you specifically, I'm talking about the average person. If you consider yourself above the average person, then guess what? You wouldn't have commented by now. But I'm sure if you made it even this far in the video, you've either left a comment or you have an opinion that you're keeping to yourself that you want to comment. And if you wish to express that, you're more than welcome to. More comments I get, the more reactions I get, the bigger this video gets, the more conversation I can have about discussions of this nature. But I can watch this happen in real time all the time. Even the thumbnail of this video was meticulously crafted to have people click on the thumbnail because everything is about getting you to click. Everything is about getting that reaction. The more people can complain, the more visibility the behavior gets, the more it re- forces itself because the system rewards it. That feedback loop digs deep, sharpens identity. It's shaping identity. It turns performance [music] into something that feels horrifically necessary. Dancing in a restaurant, making it loud, and being black as hell because part of a larger mechanism that rewards repetition and visibility. And walking away from that mechanism is deeply not simple. The people trying to shut it down are the same people keeping it alive. I didn't even know about this guy until somebody told me about him.

[00:20:18]Tell you a fun little story about what happened. And this is going to be really cool. You're going to love this. So, there I am minding my black buttery business inside of my humble abode, not doing anything inconspicuous. And then my friend, he just got fired and laid off of his job. So, he said, "Hey, man, can I come hang out?" I said, "Of course, brother. You can hang out anytime of the week, anytime of the day, anytime of the spectrum cuz I know you're on the spectrum. We're on the spectrum, Scooby-Doo saying on the spectrum. We'd love to see it." So, he pops on over and he says, "Hey, man, I got to show you something that's been pissing me off." And I'm thinking we're going to rally behind a cause together.

[00:20:48]We're going to do some fun activism. He shows me the black man dancing in a restaurant. And I didn't even think about a minstrel show. I just said he looks like he's having a good time. My friend broke it down for me. He explained the history of everything. He said, "Yeah, back in the day, they used to call us character traits. They used to make us black dance and shuck and jive." And I ask you this fun simple question. Are we not all already doing that already? When I see people such as Michael Jackson, when I see Michael Jordan or LeBron James who I brought up earlier, when I see them do amazing work and become superstars in their respective fields, people are going to attribute that to shucking and jiving, whether it be boxers such as Muhammad Ali, who I will not disrespect by calling him his previous name. That is what I'm saying.

[00:21:30]Even if you try your best, you are still going to be called a shucker and a jiver. Why not take control of the narrative the same way we have taken control back of the N-word? Reclaiming a power is much more important than trying to shut that power down in totality. So, they think we're gorillas and gigantic chimps and chimpanzees. They think we're that. We're big. We're strong. We are big and strong. So, they think we shuck and jive and dance good and entertain.

[00:21:58]We do entertain. But we will entertain for what we are. We will. And I know you may think it's dehumanizing to be a source of entertainment, but you're giving me money.

[00:22:09]You are allowing me to use that money to shape my life and build generational wealth. If all you need is to be entertained for a little bit, then by all means. I will not entertain for you.

[00:22:21]Going to entertain for me. I'll reclaim the ability to entertain. I will make my own stations. We made BET. I will make my own things. I'll create my safe black spaces. I'll make black restaurants. I'm going to do everything in my power to make sure that I have the strength to continue forward for who I am and for my people. And maybe Big Grooves is doing that. I don't know the guy. Here's what I do know. And this is going to be horrifying for you to hear, especially if you commented on a Big Grooves video.

[00:22:48]Every complaint that you have fuels that fire within Big Grooves. Every time you comment and do something insane or wild, every time you mention him, every time you comment about him, every time you say you're going to boycott a restaurant, there will be a drove of the people saying they'll be in support of it because they enjoy Big Grooves videos. As strong as the hate is, that's how strong the support is. You can try your best to cancel Mr. Beast, but there are millions of kids that love his content. You can do your best to destroy and tear down Asmongold, but there's a drove of people that want to be a part of what he is because people have this obsession with either being a part of something bigger or tearing down a great empire because they want to feel as if they have control over something because we are all secretly obsessed with the chaos behind the outside world because we have little control or agency in our own lives. I hate sitting in a weird middle ground. I hate being a fence-sitter. I love having a staunch, powerful position on things. But it's my understanding of things because I can understand where the frustration comes from, but can't justify the intensity of the reaction. Dancing while eating isn't a catastrophic disruption of society. It's a behavior that rubs people the wrong way. The internet inflates that feeling until it becomes something massive and overwhelming. And that inflation will distort everything around it. A simple annoyance stretches into a movement that starts pulling in unrelated consequences. Being annoying online carries a weight that sticks permanently in the eyes of certain audiences. And that's horrifying.

[00:24:20]Reminds me back in the day when I would not have my hair done or not have a lineup or not have correct clothing, and my mother would often tell me, "You represent me.

[00:24:30]You can't dance or do that. You can't wear clothes like that. You can't have your hair looking like that because you represent me. And if you represent me, you represent all black people." And I never enjoyed representing all black people, but then I got a platform and understood that even if I don't, I will.

[00:24:49]Just how the world will perceive me.

[00:24:52]And I can't control that. It is the horrors of trying your best to be an individual when the tribe requests that you do not. It is the ignorance of people that refuse to accept that somebody is just having fun. It is putting your worldview onto somebody else because you want to have everybody have your worldview. It is judging others for their actions and you by your intentions because what would your intention be if you were in that situation? How would that happen? I think of all the low cows on the internet, the Boogie2988s and the IceJJFishes and the Burger Andys, all the people that were ridiculed and made fun of, the neckbeards of the internet, the people that are Redditors, the big hats or the mods. I think of those people. I think of how often they're discussed. I think of the people that have done one thing that made them intolerable, the Logan Pauls, the Jake Pauls, whoever they may be, the Adin Rosses, the Nick Fuenteses.

[00:25:49]I think of how that hate mail fuels them to continue forward. I think of how if we just completely ignored these people, they would not be as big as what you would think. But you can't completely ignore it because something in your body, mind, spirit, and soul allows you to react. Because everybody has the freedom to voice their opinion. I think a big issue with a lot of people is that they have this freedom to voice their opinion. They have the strength to tell people exactly how they feel all the time. You have the ability to just say words. It doesn't even matter what the opinion is. If you think vanilla is the best ice cream on earth, you're going to tell somebody vanilla is the best ice cream. And someone says, "Well, actually the solidity of chocolate actually good.

[00:26:29]Like a cow bean was actually made in 1731 and that was actually a big export for multiple reasons. It actually made international trade amazing." We don't care about that. Vanilla is also a bean.

[00:26:39]Vanilla is good. But guys, have you considered mint chocolate chip, the S-tier ice cream? Actually, rhubarb is actually the better rhubarb. You think rhubarb is the best ice cream? You're a psychopath. I watch all this discourse unfold, filling the hole to hate, watching it dissolve into something softer, more complicated. The system that happens and the more the attention fuels it. And I hate to say this because I despise dismissing people's agitations, especially when it comes to something personal to them, because I think it's very anti-intellectual to say it's not that deep. But this is very not that deep. It is so not that deep. It is strange. I'd like to talk about money for a second because I think people aren't understanding the graphics of how much money you make. So, I make on YouTube, nah, like $3,000 a month, right? That's between Facebook, YouTube, Instagram. I make 3,000 in total between all that. And I'm at rent, but with between me and my wife is $1,800. So, I make just enough to pay rent. That's my job right now. I make two videos a day.

[00:27:42]That's basically how it operates. Big Grooves has 2 million followers >> [music] >> and every video averages 1 million views. He has a macro influencer tier.

[00:27:52]Now, this is where prices are going to jump up faster. Let's understand that.

[00:27:56]So, if I could do some severe pocket watching for a second, I'm going to estimate he makes about 20K to 27K a month just from sponsorships. And that money comes from multiple deals that he has with the restaurants and things of that variety. Now, for someone at his level, the typical pricing would be 2,000 to 5,000 just for a small restaurant appearance. So, he flies out, maybe hits a bunch of restaurants in one day. Let's say he hits 10 restaurants in one day. One day just by making 30-second videos, making them eat their food, that's 50K. 50K easy. Now, let's say he gets a bigger promo, big collab, right? Say he goes to a bigger restaurant, maybe a mid-tier restaurant.

[00:28:33]He gets about 5,000 to 15,000. The Woah To a Girl was charging 20,000 per an appearance just to pop out a club because of the virality of what she had.

[00:28:42]So, Big Grooves been in the game for a minute, maybe he has better deals. I'm not quite sure. But then we have the major brands, the bigger ones. And he's sponsored with many big brands before.

[00:28:51]He's been with Gamer Supps and all that jazz. So, about 15K in his pocket just for a 30-second video.

[00:28:57]And I'm not randomly guessing. That's just the standard for his audience size and the engagement that he has. That's what he gets. And I've been in many talks about this. I've rejected hundreds of sponsor deals. Oh my goodness, I've rejected so many because I just don't care about them. But it's basically how this works. He negotiates through a managing or a booking email. And then the prices change based on location, if I fly him out, how viral the business can go, whether it's publicly includes the posting on his socials, which socials get posted, how much that engagement happens. It could be YouTube.

[00:29:29]It could be Instagram. It could be anything. And then a lot of restaurants probably don't even pay him directly.

[00:29:36]They're maybe trading free food, exposure. Sometimes they're giving a smaller fee. But when a brand wants him officially, they're cutting a real check for having him out there. And if you could if you yourself Don't want you to really ask yourself this question. Look me in the eyes when I say this. If you yourself could get 100k for just dancing for 30 seconds, you would pass that up?

[00:30:02]Well, the black people would hate me.

[00:30:03]When have you cared about the opinions of all the black people online? Really, I ask you this. You with your faceless profile picture. You commenting with your faceless profile picture right now and explaining to me how it is. As a matter of fact, I'll do you one better.

[00:30:17]In all of my videos, I have an afro. For a while, I had a multi-colored afro and I would put that afro into two swans.

[00:30:24]You can see it on screen right now. So, let's keep this image up for a second cuz I want you to really understand why this was so viral for such a long time.

[00:30:32]Reason I have my hair like this was to show the love and bond I had inside of myself. Two sides coalescing, two swans kissing, >> [music] >> making a heart, making a whole center me. People said that I was embarrassing the black community by having my hair in swans. Oh, that's disgusting. You shouldn't have your hair like that. You look unruly. You look ridiculous. As a matter of fact, when you get your afro put in locks or twists or dreads or or braids. [music] You got to get your hair twisted up, man. You can't be walking around like that. We can't do that anymore. Having your hair out like that, that's ridiculous. This is how my hair grows. It's how it is. It's always has been. How it is. It's just what happens with my hair. But, I represent a bigger collective than myself.

[00:31:15]And that is the solidarity of black people is a double-edged sword. Would you betray your people for your personal family? For yourself?

[00:31:25]Would you?

[00:31:26]That's the question I have with Big Groove. So, at the end of the day, if you want my TLDR, I'll give it all to you right here. I think Big Groove is a fine content creator. I think he is one of the better content creators on the internet. I believe the more people hate him, the more money he is going to get and the more people are going to go to the restaurants. I think he is getting paid insane amounts of money. I think that he obviously hearkens back to menstrual shows based on how he dances, how big his lips are, how big his mouth is, and how he's eating the things, especially when he eats something such as chicken or watermelon because those things were racial stereotypes. He's feeding into the racial stereotypes to get himself a bag. Is that bad? Is that deplorable? We don't know his intentions. We can never will and we never should judge somebody in that variety. But, I understand what the greater black community at large is irritated with him. We've seen irritation on levels of droves and bounds with people such as hating on Justin Bieber when he was younger or hating on Rebecca Black for the song Friday or hating something because it is cringe and annoying simply because somebody is expressing himself too much.

[00:32:29]This happened wildly with the anime community all over the entirety of the internet. This is what happens. But, with that being said, this is how I feel about the situation. If you want to see more videos such as this, feel free to take a while to produce and make and things of that variety. And it just took a second for me to make. Really appreciate it if you'd like, comment, and subscribe if you want to see videos similar to this. And I would also really, really appreciate it if you went to my Patreon and just gave me a dollar a month cuz I'm going to make these videos every single day. I'm going to make them bigger, make them bolder, make them wilder, and give you guys the content you deserve because I haven't been putting my foot in this food and I need you guys to eat what I'm producing.

[00:33:09]So, that'll be the future of this channel going forward. Hopefully, you enjoy the channel. Let me know your thoughts in the comments section down below and I'm out. Peace. Bye.

[00:33:19]I'm your nicotine night. Be [music] my lover. Lover.

[00:33:24]Happy to [singing] try what you need.

[00:33:26]>> [music] >> Your world I love to live in it.

[00:33:31]I love to ride when you're free.

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