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$397,000.
Not a good day to be me. It's a big decision.
>> There's going to be a bomb and it's going to be at Jonathan's fault.
>> I love talking about Mr. Beast. Usually because whenever I talk about him, the videos do one out of 10 on the YouTube studio. Now, unfortunately, it seems that Mr. Beast is in quite a lot of controversy. Right. I'm not going to keep doing the voice. I I really I can't keep doing that. But he is in quite a lot of hot water because his latest video uh he basically bailed on the entire challenge and changed the entire game last minute. So he uploaded a video basically pitching a bunch of random people inside of a supermarket with the chance to win a so guys we did it amount of money to any of the new gens that's $250,000. So he goes into a grocery store, picks out some random customers and then says hey guys you're now in a Mr. Beast video and the last person to leave will win a quarter of a million dollars. Now, the challenge lasted for 67 days. I wish I was joking. It's even in the thumbnail. I mean, the only time 67's been funny is that guy that was wearing like a fat suit to make him look like the nutty professor. 67.
I'm such a fat [ __ ] ch. So, on the 67th day of our lord, there were only four people left who refused to leave the store. And then Mr. Beast basically offered to modify the competition if they all agreed to the new rules. This meant that they'd restock the store and they could all work together to stay in the store, but on the condition that they basically have to eat every single item inside of a supermarket. But the prize would be bumped up from a quart of a million to $1 million. Now, this doesn't sound too difficult, right? I mean, they're American, first of all, but an entire supermarket worth of food, that's going to take well about a year, I'm assuming at least several months.
And they've already been in there for 67 days. So, when they're deciding on what they're going to do, Mr. Beast asks what's making the decision hard and a lot of them give their personal sides.
You know, they usually give like a bit of a sub story. One guy says he's got a wife and two kids.
>> A wife and two kids. Okay, that's a lie.
It's a big decision.
>> One of the finalists has a son who apparently was in the challenge but left early. And ultimately, they all agree, you know what? We're going to stay. One guy even says because the money was so life-changing to him that he will stay in that supermarket for 2 years if he has to.
>> I can stay.
>> I can stay a year, two years. The problem is have to eat and eat it because I would I would even stress that if I were you. You don't have health.
You have you have train.
>> Now this isn't the first time he's changed the rules. I do remember when he did the finalist stream with the streamers where they were inside that box and you had like your rage rakai unfortunately that became so slow and they weren't hitting the targets even though they had test groups play it beforehand that they basically had to modify the rules slightly. But this is huge compared to that live stream.
>> So easy. I guarantee I hit a heart.
And obviously it got a lot of negative reaction on Twitter. I mean people on Twitter basically hate everything and everyone anyway. But people seem to be running with the narrative that what he did initially was give money away to people as a good gesture. But now it just seems to be, hey, do you want to break yourself psychologically to get a bunch of money? And there was even one contestant as well who was pregnant doing this challenge while pregnant.
>> I turned 11 weeks today. And obviously there's the whole aspect as well that you can win that money, but also you're probably going to be separated from your loved ones for at least several months.
Now, I've said this a lot about Twitter before. Twitter hates everything and everyone with the only exception being their one specific autistic hyperfixation that they will tweet about constantly. And yeah, Mr. Beast did begin his videos initially by, you know, giving money away to homeless people, giving money away to like, you know, pizza delivery guys. I mean, even before that, he was just saying like PewDiePie on repeat over and over. But unfortunately, what seems to happen a lot is this is just YouTube. I'm not giving Mr. Beast a pass here, but this constant escalation, I mean, the biggest irony I've always found is YouTube was always meant to be an alternative to mainstream TV, right? It was meant to be a way that people could express themselves without the heavy regulations. You know, people could actually speak their mind. That's why you see most people on Twitter that work with like a news company, they'll, you know, put something in their bio saying, "Views are my own. They're my own views, guys. Please, if if I retweet like another sports team, I don't want to lose my job. YouTube is a way to freely express yourself. But now, the more that I've seen it over the years, the most successful YouTubers are basically just emulating what TV has become, especially with a lot of the larger group channels like the Sidemen and stuff just ending up doing like game shows. Like, it's entertaining. Sure, even though I'd never personally watch it, but we really have just come full circle there. And the problem is with Mr. Beast, he's stuck in quite a predicament because he made his entire career off giving money away. There's actually a really good video that came out from the channel Folding Ideas who was invited to the Mr. Beast compound and even he kind of realized these guys, they're kind of screwed. They are filthy rich. They're making an insane amount of money, but they're putting so much money into their videos that the only thing they can do is just constantly one up that bar every single time. There'll always be people that watch Mr. Beast. He will always garner tens of millions of views. He is incredibly successful and he clearly has an audience that enjoys the content. But in that folding Ideas video, there was some really interesting things pointed out because despite Jimmy being incredibly successful, basically the biggest YouTuber on the planet, he actually doesn't have like a core audience. Everyone knows about him and most people watch him, but he doesn't really have like I guess a dedicated fan base. And that's something that Folding Ideas went into in his video. Now they're kind of trapped because they already have a core audience that's here for the tacky spectacle and excess and Jimmy screaming, "Think about the money in someone's ear." And also another point that Folding Ideas made is because they're hemorrhaging money so much, they basically just have to always they have to keep one uping. And the biggest irony is everyone is now comparing Mr. Beast challenges and videos to Squid Games, right? He really doesn't like that. That that that is something that he does not associate with, which is really ironic.
Jimmy seems both resistant to and frustrated by comparisons to Squid Game.
>> First off, we didn't kill people.
>> When I raised the subject of Squid Game, he became quite worked up. In his mind, Squid Game kills people and Beast Games makes millionaires.
>> Not a good day to be me. So, to anyone here that watches Asmin Gold, I've got some terrible news. He's in some serious trouble. So, while he was streaming, he was a little bit shook and then realized he got a certified mail from the IRS, Inland Revenue Service, that he owes $397,000 in unpaid taxes. Guys, do you guys mind if you give me a couple of minutes here?
I um I I I had to get certified mail from the IRS and it says I owe them $397,000.
And they're even saying in that letter that they have an intent to seize his property.
>> So which I mean honestly I think that would be convenient for me. Then I then that would just work itself out.
>> Now to anyone that's watching that isn't British, there was this show that was running in the UK called like Can't Pay We'll take it away. Kind of reminds me of that. It was this show which was honestly really just dark to think about in retrospect where cameramen would follow baiffs around the UK where they would go to houses where people didn't pay their rent or they didn't pay court fees and because they refused to pay baiffs would go into their house chalking up their property seeing how much you know everything was valued.
>> I'm having a proof.
>> That could be what would happen to Asmin Gold if he didn't make double that amount every stream. Now, he does also say if he had his stuff seized, it would be beneficial because he probably wouldn't have to clean his house. And then he said at the end that's not even a tenth of it and he needs to do like charity or something to get the write offs. I've got to get some [ __ ] write offs. Okay. Like I I didn't know that.
We got to get like I I got to be like signing this house up to like a write off or something like that. Oh my [ __ ] god. I uh Wow.
So, esports seems to be going through it at the minute. We've seen that generational gift of that guy on the losing team and he's downing I think like a mini bottle of soju or something.
I'm not talking about that. But instead, what happens if you're a sore loser? Do you cry? Do you drink like that guy did?
That would actually be the better outcome here because there's a professional Counter-Strike player that had a Will Smith moment at this tournament where he punched an opponent directly in the face after losing. Now, the player is a 31-year-old boomer.
It's like Bri's like four years older than me. It's over. His name is Ma Shine. He was competing at the Kagus gaming event in Lepzig. This is in Germany and apparently it was set off by a bunch of trash talking during the match even though there was like no cash prize whatsoever. And the punch happened not during the game but the postfinals awards ceremony where the two finalist teams were invited on stage and then when he was walking up with the rest of the players he punched a player called Spider Gum across the face. There we go.
Walk of shame. Nothing to see here. No physical violence yet, >> dude.
And the fact that they cut the cameras immediately.
What a coward.
>> Knocked the glasses right off him. Yep, there he is.
>> immediately trying to hide himself by hand shaking other people. By the way, going for the double shake there. No, no, no. I I cannot process the emotions of what I did. No, no, no, no, no. I was watching Patrick Baitman Tik Toks this morning. I've got to be Sigma. I need to lock in. Genuinely always so interesting seeing how people like process when they do really shitty things. Usually they just try and lock in and just act like, "Oh no, everything's fine." And I'm not even talking like a slapping tournament kind of thing where, you know, it's a slap and it's all consensual and they chalk up. No, he just like fullon haymaker the guy. I mean, you get communities, right, that get like very verbally, very physical. There were some videos floating around online like for example talking about the fighting game community the amount of like raging and trash talking broken keyboards but you know that felt kind of funny because it was like a performance you were watching. This is just really pathetic and sad and shows how much of a sore loser the guy is and it's like you've probably been banned forever had your entire career thrown away and there wasn't even a cash prize and as a surprise to absolutely no one the guy was quickly banned permanently from the German Dutch league for 10 years. So, it basically is a Will Smith moment because I think he got banned from the Oscars for 10 years. There was another company called Fragster that also banned him as well. And the incident on top of that was also reported to the Esports Integrity Commission. Ooh, that sounds like a rough job. They have to like post game, they have to get all the crumbs and sweat in between the keyboards as well. So, Ma Shine hasn't actually commented on the incident. He's probably too busy at home nursing his poor little knuckles after that hay maker that he pulled. I mean, honestly, the way that that guy went in, that was like a Resident Evil 5 Chris Redfield haymaker punch. You know, the exact one that I'm talking about here, dude, that that haymaker was so powerful. He clipped through the wall.
That's probably what went through his brain when he was doing that punch. Now, the best way to end this story is the guy that was punched in the face, spider gum. He actually tweeted about it saying, "Sick, experienced everything.
B3B cactus CS2 winner. Bullseye from Mouse Shine. Better aim than with the AWP and especially on stream.
Imagine Imagine being like hey naked Chris Redfield style and then you just end up turning it into a W. Good lord.
>> And now unfortunately we have another update on clavvicular. Thankfully he's out of the hospital. But recently to gain back his aura after that monumental aura loss of going to the hospital. Who does that right? Cringe. That's not looks maxing, that's looks downing. So, to gain back his aura, he recently collaborated with Andrew Tate and started copying him by wearing shades on stream with him. And Andrew Tate, to be fair, in the only moment I've ever seen in his entire career, genuinely gave some good advice. He was basically saying to Clvicular that the fact that you need to blast like drugs to feel normal around women, that just shows that this is all pointless. You need to actually be happy with yourself. He didn't say it in that way. He said it in the kind of Andrew take way like you need to stop taking drugs. You don't got it's not it's not good for you.
>> Like you know the drug stuff came in.
>> I heard you say that and that was really upsetting to me Clav because I know no because truthfully truly if you have to poison your body and take drugs and alter your mind to make a [ __ ] talk to you then she ain't worth [ __ ] talking to bro. And if you have to do the same thing but no but if you have to do the same thing for these people at home to watch you [ __ ] them too. like you are who you are and it's not up to you to poison yourself to entertain any of these people. If they're unhappy with how you act and the things you do, unless you're going to take illegal substances, then let them all [ __ ] off.
>> And then in a generational cooking, which was really sad to watch, he basically said to Tate, "Hey, you want to you want to go to the club with me later? Go. I got some girls. Let's go rooftop thing. You know, you see the stars. We can we can watch the we can watch the sunrise together." And he basically goes, "No, I'm all right. I got to go. We'll do well.
>> Are you going out tonight?" I'm going to uh another rooftop. So, um do you want to go out?
>> I've got four or five things to do, but let's stay in touch.
>> Hey, let me know.
>> All right, brother. Thanks for coming on.
>> All right, bro.
>> You're the man.
>> So, Clav then thought to himself, "Okay, I need to rebuild my character. What do I do here? Let me interact with the elderly. It's always known that elderly are neglected at with age. Family visit them less. They can feel lonely.
Isolation is one of the worst things that can ever happen to someone's mental health. So, why don't I go to a retirement home to tell old people about looks maxing?
>> Um, but yeah, we could talk about how everyone could looks max. Um, and you know, >> yeah, I need help with that.
>> They need help with that.
>> I'm not saying I don't. I mean, I could use some, of course. Yeah, >> some.
So in the clip he advises them to face lift max and despite them being in their 80s to get on hair loss prevention protocols like dutasteride and then explaining how it works >> through five alpha reductase enzyme so you block that process that way your hair doesn't fall out.
>> The old man asks him is it ever too late and then Clav says can you look down so I can get a good look at your hair?
>> So it's never too late.
>> Um I mean look down a little bit.
>> Um >> yeah I have a spot up here. Yeah, >> maybe you could. Uh, >> okay.
>> I don't want to I don't want you fall just maintain that position.
>> I just won't I won't I'll just walk around like this.
>> He also explains the menopause to them.
I assume one of his managers taught him what that was about 5 minutes before the interview started.
Yeah, I've been told this thing like what what what's the birds and the bees?
Does anyone know what that means?
>> Something called menopause, which obviously you guys know about. um and that kind of wrecks your hormones and causes a lot of aging.
>> And he also says that they should be using vaginal cream like topical estrogen on their face to do is use topical estrogen uh on your face. So like vaginal cream uh you could use that on your face and it's ideal.
>> Now it's really obvious what happened here. Clav went there to do a bunch of clip farming with a bunch of old people and you think it'd just be really depressing, but honestly they kind of comedy mogged him. Like one of the old guys was joking saying that, you know, he's used that cream before an on accident.
>> Yeah, cuz I did use some by mistake.
>> Yeah.
>> Oh my god.
>> Look. Okay, it's not the best jokes in the world, but they're boomers, okay? It was it was a different time. We were genuine back then, not laced with irony, and everything has to be a bit What? Why did I say that? Like I'm in that age bracket. Well, yeah, I'm 28. I basically am. He also has one of the old guys try to uh take out the height lifts in his shoes. Oh, I got too much foot for these, don't I?
>> Too much foot for those. What size shoe do you wear?
>> I wear a You know what? I try to be cute.
>> Good lord.
>> Can I put the other one on?
>> These things have put you up to the moon.
>> And then to wrap everything up, he went to a club and he kissed a girl's mom and then went up to the daughter and kissed her as well. I've also seen a lot of quote tweets whenever Clvicula gets in for a little smoochy smooch saying, "That's not how a straight guy kisses.
That is not how a guy kisses that enjoys women."
gentlemen. And I'm saying gentlemen because looking at my audience ratio, it's a complete sausage fest. I've said this before. It's about 90% male to the 10% female. Again, congratulations on your transition. But some bad news. The group chat has been leaked. There's a college student in Florida that was arrested for making a bomb threat joke about an upcoming school event. And this joke was pertaining to Benjamin Netanyahu.
>> Netanyahu, if you can hear me, dropped some bon bonss for us Capstone students in Ocean Bank Convention Center. Now, I know everyone's quivering in their boots, people in the group chat using Israel as some kind of punchline. Every time I get a clip recommended to me of someone reacting to a scene from the show Hasbin Hotel, the top comment will usually be something pertaining to IDF's strongest soldier. Now, she made the joke in a WhatsApp group with 215 students in it. So, this isn't even like the boys group chat. This is basically an audience of people. So the group chat they were discussing an event scheduled for Friday at the university's bank convocation center where her and other seniors were going to make their capstone presentations. And here is the joke in question. Netany and Yahoo, if you can hear me, dropped some bun buns for us capstone students in Ocean Bank Convention Center. She also apparently made another bomb joke saying that there's going to be a bomb at the convention center and it's going to be all Jonathan's fault. Jonathan being another student in the group chat.
There's going to be a bomb in the Ocean Bank Convocation Center and it's going to be at Jonathan's fault.
>> So, apparently some of the students didn't really like this joke and they kicked it from the chat and she had to apologize. And then when they came back, they made the best apology of all time.
All charges dropped.
>> I made a dumb joke that should not have been made. I sorry we had face.
>> Now, she was arrested for threats on Wednesday and then appeared in front of Judge Mindy S. Glazer the next day.
These names, man. Glazer.
Now, the judge, as you see, is Mindy S.
Glazer. And speaking of Glaze, this is actually the same judge who I saw years ago in a very viral video where she was talking to someone who was in prison and then she found out that this was someone that she actually went to school with and she basically glazed the guy saying how nice he was.
>> Yes, ma'am. Did you go to Nautilus for middle school?
>> Oh my goodness.
Oh my goodness.
>> I'm sorry to see you there. I always wondered what happened to you, sir.
>> Holy glaze.
>> Oh my goodness.
>> This is the nicest kid in middle school.
>> The glaze, bro. Let it go.
>> Oh my goodness.
>> He was the best kid in middle school.
>> Can Can we get a gif on like the top right corner of that donut being glazed that people spam in the comments?
football with him, all the kids, and look what has happened. I'M SO SORRY.
>> OH MY GOODNESS.
>> He actually he can't take the glaze.
>> Mr. Booth, I hope you're able to change your ways. Good luck to you.
>> Oh my goodness.
>> What's sad is how old we've become.
>> Oh my goodness.
>> Off his dick.
>> Good luck.
>> Hop off. Hop off it. Hop off it. Stop the glazing. Okay. Hop off it. Now, Mindy Glazer with the more recent situation, she did glaze a bit. She said, you know, I understand that what you're saying is a joke, but she said that to an objective person, probably a dumbass, it would be enough for probable cause. She's currently being charged with threats to kill or do bodily harm with prejudice, and her bond has been set at 5 grand. Her college, the Florida International University, put out a statement saying, "Stop it. Stop it.
Stop trolling in the group chat. I'm going to tell someone, guys. Stop it.
>> So, this is a really moronic story somehow compared to everything else I've talked about so far. So, according to the Irvine Police Department, there's a man in California and he's been arrested for stealing over $30,000 of Lego pieces by opening the boxes, taking the Lego out, and then replacing it with pasta.
Now, the man is 28-year-old Jerel Austinine. Honestly, with the same age, he's obviously doing a lot better with his life than I am. And he was charged with grand theft after gaining $34,000 in fraudulent transactions, and he's been tied to at least 70 thefts across the country. The Irvine Police Department also put out this edit of his arrest onto their Instagram reels. I can't wait to take all this Lego home and replace it with Rigotony.
They also did this hilarious laugh out loud LMAO XD Rufflecopter statement that was just full of puns and it was definitely generated by chat GBT. A suspect purchased Lego sets from Target and removed valuable minifigures and pieces from the boxes and in some cases replaced them with dried pasta. You read that correctly. We are talking about derum wheat semolina pasta and what we are calling a pastivively terrible pl Oh my reddit. Oh my Reddit. Shut up. I can just feel like the updates being generated reading that. Holy [ __ ] Now, photos posted by the police show the kind of Lego sets he was stealing. One of the biggest ones he stole was this Marvel Avengers tower building set, which is a $5,21 piece kit that retails for $500 on the Lego website. And on Amazon, it's almost $700. Now, obviously, certain collector things with Lego just always have insane value. Like at the Lego San Diego Comic-Con in 2013, there was a Spider-Man edition, and that's been valued as high as $20,000. So, this means that Lego theft now has become more common. I mean, in April, there were actually three men that were arrested by authorities because they received around $1 million worth of Lego sets that was stolen in transit when it was on its way to Texas. Honestly, I don't really care for Lego. If you enjoy Lego, you probably have more than 3,000 hours on Factorio and you need to get help.
Now, to wrap everything up, a little update on the extra Emily viewbotting situation. There were allegations of her viewbotting. I'm going to be honest, I've said it before, most of your favorite streamers are probably viewing.
I mean, there was even a clip that went around today of the streamer Ed Matthews. And this is a really insane clip because he probably sobered up from doing so much cocaine that he had a coherent thought and basically said to chat, "Yeah, I've got like 3,000 people that are watching the stream that are basically bots. We have 16.5k in there, but right now I have 3,000 bots in and that's all I've ever used.
>> Holy [ __ ] >> And that's me being 100% right now.
>> But to add on to that situation, two streamers, your rage, who was the winner of the Mr. Beast challenge, if you remember that, and Los Polus TV, the fat man that sits with his fat dad and reads comments out loud with a chipmunk filter bullying him and then pays a bunch of people to clip that and spread it all over Instagram reels. They had a really awkward moment because Lass brought up a viral clip from Extra Emily's stream.
You know that clip where she accidentally revealed that she was visiting a view butting website and then Rage asks Los if he knows who Emily is and he just goes, "What the viewer?"
>> Emily in a Emily.
>> The viewers that >> do I care? No. I'm probably going to stop viewing at this rate.
Heat. Heat.
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