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9 y/o Stealing $118k From Dad's Company's Credit Card HAS TO BE A Hoax | Mighty Mike Plays · Papa Gut

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  Let me get into this guys. It's time to, it's time to shut
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  up and do the video. I actually saw a clip about this
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  and then somebody posted in the Discord about this kid who
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  supposedly spent like $100,000 on his dad's like work credit
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  card or something and they questioned him.
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  I wonder if it's valid though. We're going to, we're going to
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  investigate a little bit. I wonder if it's valid.
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  I was kind of looking through their stuff and they've only
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  been posting for like a month so I find it a little hard to
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  believe that they spent $100,000 in a month.
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  It is still possible but I feel like.
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  And then on top of that, this is going to sound really weird.
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  They do YouTube shorts but then they also like this sounds so
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  stupid. They're long term long form
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  YouTube. Jesus Christ what is wrong with
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  me? They're YouTube shorts.
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  They post them in both vertical and horizontal.
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  So this is a clip that you can totally hear.
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  What the hell is happening to my?
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  Right. And then he also made this as a
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  regular video. I think it's this one.
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  It's. Not to be to my friend.
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  Bro what the hell is happening to my?
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  So to me, it's like, oh, this kid seems to like have a little
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  bit of understanding of what he's doing.
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  I don't know. So I'm a little skeptical.
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  I feel like this might be like some kind of attempt at like a
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  virality campaign. But I also might be like
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  completely wrong. I'm just I'm just kind of
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  question that, you know, he seems a little more intelligent
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  when it comes to this content than other people do or somebody
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  who like doesn't do anything. And he's only been operating for
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  a month. So I'm like a little bit I'm a
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  little like skeptical, like is this real or is this just like a
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  trying to be like a quick rabbit some views.
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  But anyway, I don't know, let's just watch, man.
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  Let's take a look at this. Let's go.
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  Sup Chat the day. Wow, listen, you need a better
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  mic, kid. Maybe.
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  Maybe it's not, Maybe I'm wrong. I have some, I have some sad
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  news, and it's not going to be me explaining, it's going to be
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  my dad explaining. This might be the end of Mighty
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  Mike Place. Damn.
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  Not Mighty Mike, brother. Come on.
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  Come on man. I'm feeding for that Mighty Mike
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  content. He's my favorite creator
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  brother. Hey everyone.
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  Hey, man. If you don't know me, I'm Dave.
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  I'm Mike's dad, so. Can I tell you this is gonna
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  sound so stupid? I didn't know my mom's first
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  name for like ever. It's it's gotta be weird being
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  like an 8 year old kid not knowing what your what your
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  dad's name is. Apparently Mike's son has been
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  running some high budget campaigns on YouTube that I was
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  pretty much unaware of. That's crazy.
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  And looking at all the comments and stuff, I realized that a lot
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  of people were actually telling him that, you know, your parents
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  will find out about this and etcetera.
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  But I haven't been really monitoring the comments like
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  that. He's 9.
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  He's pretty tech savvy so. It's a little it's not like a
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  huge red flag because I, it makes sense to me that like dad
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  wouldn't really super well watch the comments because he probably
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  figures like, oh, this kids not going to like have a like it's
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  he's probably not getting a ton of engagement.
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  So that that doesn't have to be like super concerned.
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  So he probably just texted every once in a while, you know, like
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  who, like most people don't think that their kids going to
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  like end up becoming a successful creator.
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  I'm not like insulting the kid. This isn't like a ha kid you
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  suck or anything. This is just like AI get it?
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  Do you know what I mean? So for people who are like, why
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  weren't you watching him more closely?
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  Like, I get it, you know? He just thought he was having
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  fun. But he probably should be
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  monitoring his stuff a little. More playing, you know, video
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  games, uploading them to YouTube but basically today I got called
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  into the office at work I walk in and we got the corporate
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  manager, we got people from finance they pull up a laptop,
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  show me some tables on the screen and.
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  It's possible. It's possible this is fake
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  though. Basically asking me to explain
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  why there's $118,000 missing from the company card that was
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  assigned to me I. I just, you know what it is one
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  of the things that that makes me so skeptical is like $118,000 in
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  a month because this kid only has content for like a month,
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  118,000 in a month. And how come it took them so
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  long to like find it out And like, why do you have 118?
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  Like how, how big is this company credit card?
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  How what is the company? How big is the company?
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  You know, like that seems pretty crazy to me.
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  Didn't really have an answer at first, but once we saw where all
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  of the actual transactions were going, I kind of connected the
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  dots. So basically here we are.
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  If you guys have been watching my son's content, this is a
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  channel that he's been playing like Minecraft and Roblox on.
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  If you've been here for a while, you already know that so just
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  bear with me. I'm just trying to collect my
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  thoughts. You know?
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  All of this honestly never started as anything serious.
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  He was about 8 years old. He'd sit there and watch other
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  people play Minecraft and Roblox for hours on you.
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  Yeah, that sounds like pretty much both skids.
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  I mean they do be on they phone too much and.
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  A tablet. Eventually, one day, he asks,
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  hey, you know, can I upload my gameplay, etcetera.
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  And we were like, you know what? It's at least it's more
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  interactive versus just sitting there and staring other people
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  play. I was like, all right, sure,
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  dude. Yeah, you could.
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  That that part does make sense to me, yeah.
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  We can try it out. So I figured out a way to get
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  the gameplay broadcasted straight from, you know, the PS
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  Five. OK, cheap headset.
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  That was basically the whole setup.
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  No editing software, no fancy equipment, just hit and go live
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  and it uploads. Dude, this reads as like this
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  is, this is like, listen, bro, I don't know.
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  I feel like this is so fake because like, what Dad's doing
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  right now, dad's doing, doing is like humble bragging on his kid.
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  Yeah, You know, my kid would watch Roblox stuff.
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  And I was like, you know what? I want him to actually, at least
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  he's doing something instead of just sitting there.
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  You can actually play and you know, we don't have any added
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  like fancy stuff. We're just kind of these normal
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  people. And I would say that right now
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  there is a kind of a, a, a reasonable push for authenticity
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  from people. And so this like guys were
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  really authentic. Like our content isn't super
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  high quality, which can be a big pull depending on the context.
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  You know, it's like dad's really, dad really wants you to
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  know that his kid is just grass roots and it's like, OK, now,
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  now in to be fair, it's also possible that dad is like, I got
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  to get this. I got to make this fucking money
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  back. I got to make some of this money
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  back. Somehow we got to figure this
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  out. So like, what if I, what if I
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  talk my kid up and be like, oh, he's so good and blah, blah,
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  blah, blah, blah. That's also very possible.
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  But I'm sitting here and I'm like, I don't know, boss.
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  This feels very it feels very inauthentic, but I could be
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  wrong. So like the first video he did
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  got like, you know, like 5 views, nothing, you know,
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  nothing happening, no momentum. But you know, he loved it.
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  He enjoyed it. Every single day was like that.
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  Can I make another video? Can I go, you know, record?
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  I was like yeah sure. You know, if I'm being honest, I
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  loved it to getting to sit next to him, watch him, you know,
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  play genuinely excited, you know, building stuff on Roblox
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  finally being some level he's been stuck on.
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  You know, it was it was fun for me to and somewhere along the
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  way, without anyone really noticing, you know, stop being
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  11 views. It became like, I guess an
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  actual channel with actual people watching actual comments,
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  which, you know, honestly still kind of blows my mind anyway.
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  So now that you have some context.
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  I'm a little curious. I wonder because I know he like
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  there's a couple of YouTube lives in here from 11 to 13 days
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  ago and I'm just kind of like wondering and he's still posting
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  stuff like playing Descenders with my dad.
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  He posted that like 2 days ago. So I just like it's, it's
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  interesting like how like I guess there's playing offline
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  then 'cause I thought he was streaming to PlayStation.
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  Maybe he's streaming like wouldn't you stream like what's
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  he playing on Twitch? Maybe he's playing on Twitch and
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  he just tried YouTube streaming. I'm just so skeptical about this
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  kind of stuff. I'm just like so super skeptical
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  about like all that's crazy. I'm so skeptical about this I
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  have no idea dude. Like is this even real?
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  Because that kind of matters for where I'm going with this.
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  My actual job, the one that actually pays bills around here
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  and all that stuff, is in marketing.
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  I work. I, I fucking knew it.
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  I fucking knew it. I should have said it.
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  I should have said if this guy's in marketing, then that like
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  increases the chance that this is fake.
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  Of course he's in fucking marketing of court, dude.
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  I I don't know, of course he's in marketing.
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  Of course, why didn't I? I should have, I should have
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  fucking said it. I'm like, I'm sitting here and
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  I'm like, this guy's in fucking marketing.
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  Like he knows what he's doing. Of course he's in fucking
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  marketing. This, I do this.
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  I don't know. I guess the only way to, to
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  figure it out is like, for how long has he been talking about
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  like doing like where like I want, like, what's the, is there
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  proof of like people saying in the comments like, hey, you
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  should probably stop doing such and such with your dad.
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  Good, Super good video. Sad news.
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  I don't. I don't really care about the
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  news. People talking about the ad.
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  I'm sad that there's no mighty mic till Friday.
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  My motherfucker got himself an ad.
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  This guy going to be crazy famous.
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  Can't prove it though. Is this the first one with an ad
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  on it, I wonder? Oh, you see, he's not marketing.
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  Oh my stupid. Because that kind of matters for
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  where I'm going with this. My actual job, the one that
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  actually pays bills around here and all that stuff, is in
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  marketing I. He just says it is work.
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  For a large company, and like a lot of people these days, might.
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  He just said it. He just said he's not in
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  marketing. He just said he is in marketing.
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  Are you fucking gaslighting me? For a large actually pays bills
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  around here and all that stuff is in marketing I.
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  It's a is in marketing, is in marketing.
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  He didn't say isn't marketing. Why would he specifically say
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  I'm not in marketing? Yeah, he said is in marketing.
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  If he said it's not in marketing, that's even more
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  suspicious because it's like, why would you say that?
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  Unless like I don't understand. I will say that there, there
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  there are comments that are like 6 days old saying boy use his
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  parents credit card to advertise his job.
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  Maybe this is legit, but like how much does it cost?
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  Like how much does YouTube ads ads Listen?
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  I don't, I don't know how much it costs to do promotions on
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  your YouTube videos, but it sounds to me like he was taking
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  his videos and making them into ads that run on other people's
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  videos. Does that make, does that make
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  sense? 100K on ads is like like
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  especially now with like especially now where YouTube
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  decided to change their ads, which now it makes sense.
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  I wonder if YouTube decided to change their ads or not their
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  ads, their views on videos. Like when somebody clicks on
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  your video, boom, it's a view instantaneously.
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  That's all it is. It's boom, It's it's that's it.
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  Like I don't even know if 100412K is like a lot view tech.
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  How much is it view view wise? Like how much is that money?
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  It says upwards of like let's say, OK, it says.
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  So what I'm looking at is like YouTube paid promotions
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  typically cost like $0.05 per view using the built in Adsense
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  thing. So like $118,000.
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  Like, what is we multiply that by 20, right?
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  So we'd expect him to get over like 2, like 2,400,000 views,
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  right? Yeah, that's how I found him in
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  the beginning as Ed was on a GQ video.
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  That's fucking crazy. Wait, so you would expect him to
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  have about 20, like 2.4 million views, maybe a little less.
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  So like, maybe we'll go through this.
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  Let's do this. All right, so -412,000.
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  OK then this one is -285,000 then -230,000 then this is oh
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  dude that shit. This might be legit.
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  Holy fuck -180,000 -, 85,000. This is 61 -, 61,000 -42,000
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  minus another 42,000 -30 like I'm just wondering 37 K and we
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  got -30 then we got, we got, you know, 29 and then we got another
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  24. I, I don't know, I don't know if
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  this is legit. I, it's, I struggle a little bit
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  'cause like, I mean, you guys are saying he did an actual ad
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  like, but how legit is this? Because right now there's still
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  861,000 views to contend with. And I'm like kind of skeptical.
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  I'm a little skeptical that this would be like, yeah, there's,
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  you know, there's no way that this, these last few ones are
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  800,000 views. I don't know.
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  It's, I'm a little, I'm on the fence.
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  But like, maybe it is real. Maybe I'm just fucking dumb and
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  I'm just like really skeptical. Like maybe my nature is just to
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  be like super skeptical. You got to think that the views
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  might be inflated since the news came out.
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  Yeah, maybe that. I mean, maybe that is part of
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  it. Maybe that like the the overview
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  that I got, maybe the overview that I got was based on this
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  video. It shut the fuck up.
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  What maybe sorry, maybe that was based on like a pre inflated at
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  pre inflation, like YouTube ad inflation.
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  But I checked the comments and the comments seem to be kind of
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  legit. Like the comments are like, yo,
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  this guy bought an ad and I was looking for like older ones like
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  so maybe this is like actually legit.
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  I just wonder if it's $118,000. Yeah, I don't know.
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  I mean, there was there was people commenting about about
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  it. So maybe this is legit, man.
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  I'm just very skeptical. Like you really didn't find out
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  about this that quickly. And also like, I feel like,
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  wouldn't your job want to flag that sooner?
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  Like you're spending tremendous amounts of money and they're
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  like instantly like, well, what's going on here?
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  Like why would they wait? Why would they wait?
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  Like, like how long would he do this over a month?
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  Like, why would they wait that long for that, you know?
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  I work for a large company and like a lot of people these days,
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  my whole digital life is tied into like 1 Google account.
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  My work e-mail runs through it, my calendar, my files, payment
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  methods, and that's kind of where all of this went.
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  S you know, looking back at everything now, that was kind of
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  my mistake. That was the biggest mistake I
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  made, is having all of that sitting under one login.
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  At some point a while back, Mikey asked if he could buy some
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  robots. I think it's called totally
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  normal, harmless requests. I put in the card information
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  myself, figured that that was that end of the story.
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  What I didn't think about, not even for a second, was that
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  saving my company's card meant it was just going to sit there
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  afterward, ready to go, pretty much available anytime he opened
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  an app on his own. I want to pause here and be
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  really clear about something because it.
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  The one thing I'm not understanding is like, so you
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  got your kids Roblox? It's what it sounds like you're
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  saying to me is that you use your company credit card for
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  Robux. Or maybe what he's trying to say
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  is that he used his credit card for Robux, but for some reason
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  his company's credit card was the default credit card that was
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  used because it's on his Google account.
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  Is that what he's trying to say? Matters a lot to me that you
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  guys hear this part. I'm not blaming him for what
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  happens here or what ended up, you know, happening later.
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  He's only 9. He didn't fully understand what
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  a company card meant, or that a large number on the screen
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  represent real money and people are eventually going to notice
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  that money being used to him at nine years old.
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  If the button worked, I guess it worked.
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  That was the whole thought process.
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  I'm the adult in the situation. I'm the one who should have set
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  up the limits. What the fuck are you talking
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  about? I don't know.
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  I don't know if I believe any of this honestly.
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  Or use a separate card entirely. Like, I don't I so I don't doubt
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  that the kid like spend money on his dad's credit card or
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  something. I'm just like so skeptical if I
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  don't know. We're done literally anything
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  besides what I did, which was nothing, but I didn't know any
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  of that yet. As far as I was concerned, that
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  was just a completely normal week.
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  So few weeks until this the sun comes up to.
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  I'm not. I'm also not understanding like
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  I guess maybe I just don't understand the way that YouTube
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  works. So you were logged in on your
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  your your Google account is logged into your work stuff on
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  your home computer. You don't have like a separate
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  work computer. They don't they don't like make
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  you do something like that. I don't know to.
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  Me and he's like upset. He's like, hey, Dad.
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  I'm not. I feel like either this is
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  bullshit or dad honestly. I mean this could sound rude.
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  Dad maybe should get fired. I don't know.
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  I don't know because holy fuck. Like this is so incompetent.
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  This doesn't even make sense to me.
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  This is this is like so this is so this is just so it's I don't
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  know, it's not adding up to me. I get I.
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  It doesn't feel right to me. I'm not getting any views, no
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  subscribers. Like it would make sense if he
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  if he racked up a bunch of money from his dad in general, but I
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  don't really understand the connection with the credit card.
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  But maybe I'm just fucking wrong.
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  Look, I get it, when you're 9, all that stuff is kind of
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  important. You see, you know, other kids
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  your age, they have more subscribers and views.
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  So I said, all right, bro, let's set something up.
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  I think I put like $20 into a small ad campaign just to get
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  like one of his videos in front of like a few people.
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  Nothing crazy, nothing serious. And while I was doing it, I was
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  kind of like talking to myself and like explaining the process.
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  You set a budget, you pick who sees it, you hit run, it goes
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  pending, it goes live, etcetera. I did not think for one second
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  that this was going to be an issue.
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  Huge mistake on my part. Turns out he was watching a
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  little more closely than I realized.
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  A little after that I find out and basically he had like gone
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  in there and uploaded his own campaigns and stuff.
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  OK, OK so here here's the thing. Let's say that this is like
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  actually real. Let's say that like this isn't
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  just like some kind of an attempt, like a really clever
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  marketing campaign from the dad who is in marketing to try to
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  get his son famous on on YouTube by like running a couple ads on
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  there not for $118,000 but for less.
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  Let's just say that it is real though that the kid stole the
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  credit card. The kid didn't sell the credit
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  card though, right? Like what it what?
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  What you're telling me is that you decided to use your company
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  credit card to run an ad campaign for your son's YouTube
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  channel. Why would you do that?
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  Does like, why would you be worried about getting fired?
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  Like that's what you, that's what I'm hearing here.
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  I, I basically he stole to an extent he stole his company's
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  credit card. I know that he has it in his
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  possession, but you're not supposed to use it like that.
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  Basically, it's like he stole his his company's credit card to
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  put an ad campaign on his son's. YouTube and like, he maybe he
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  was just like, God, it's 20 bucks, who cares?
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  But I mean, I would, I don't know.
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  Yeah, I guess it's only $20.00, but that's still fucking dumb.
• 20:15
  But don't you think that that was stupid as shit?
• 20:18
  Like, I don't know. I mean, like, listen, it's
• 20:20
  plausible. I could see him doing it.
• 20:22
  Like people fuck around with their company shit all the time.
• 20:24
  I, I, I would, I, you know, I used to only exclusively shit at
• 20:27
  work. You know what I mean?
• 20:29
  Yeah, I don't get paid, get paid for pooping, But that's just
• 20:32
  sounds so dumb. This is like I was browsing the
• 20:35
  Internet moment. Like I I don't know, dude.
• 20:37
  I want to know, did dad get fired?
• 20:39
  And if he didn't get fired, like, like I don't want, I don't
• 20:43
  want him to get fired, but like, what does he do for the company
• 20:45
  that made him such a valuable asset to make such a huge
• 20:48
  fucking mistake? I don't know.
• 20:50
  So like, here's the thing where I had put like $20.
• 20:53
  He didn't really register that that was supposed to be some
• 20:56
  kind of limit in his head. The logic was simple I guess.
• 20:59
  And beat his ass. Dude I'm not going to be rude
• 21:01
  but fuck man you kids what the hell?
• 21:03
  More money. He doesn't sound as upset as he
• 21:06
  should for what's going on. More views.
• 21:09
  Anyway, turns out a nine year old gets access to an ad account
• 21:13
  with no limits and the credit card it just says approved every
• 21:17
  single time no matter what. He does not.
• 21:21
  He does not think that what he's doing is wrong.
• 21:25
  So anyway, here's here's where everything changes.
• 21:27
  I get a message today from work, you know, hey, can you stop by
• 21:30
  the office? We could talk to you about
• 21:31
  something you know that's not. Or if he or if he did, you may
• 21:36
  have been able to write off the $20 as I'm trying a marketing
• 21:38
  idea. I don't think that's true.
• 21:40
  I understand what you're saying, but like he's working for a
• 21:43
  business. It's not the same thing.
• 21:45
  It's like I thought if I, if I just, if I had a son and I did a
• 21:49
  campaign for my kid, maybe I could write that off because I
• 21:51
  do YouTube and I'm like a small person that's like my business.
• 21:54
  So I guess I potentially could, but I don't.
• 21:56
  I don't think so in this case. Exactly the kind of message you
• 21:59
  want to get. I figured, OK, this is probably
• 22:02
  a client campaign, maybe a budget thing, nothing major.
• 22:07
  I was not even close to prepared.
• 22:10
  To yeah, I don't know, he said. He I don't really understand why
• 22:12
  the Robux matters in this instance.
• 22:14
  I'm not understanding that because he said he did a
• 22:17
  campaign for his son himself. So like what the fuck is the
• 22:19
  point of mentioning the Robux? What actually happened?
• 22:22
  I sat down. It's not just my manager in the
• 22:25
  room. There's a bunch of people from
• 22:26
  corporate, there's like financial people.
• 22:30
  There's some finances sitting on the laptop.
• 22:32
  They slide out this, this table. Full breakdown of ad spend from
• 22:36
  like the past three weeks apparently.
• 22:39
  Three weeks. OK, He asked me very calmly.
• 22:43
  Which? $100,000 in three weeks?
• 22:46
  I don't think so. I don't know.
• 22:48
  I don't know, boss. Honestly, kind of made the whole
• 22:52
  thing worse is like, hey, can you explain the $118,000 that's
• 22:58
  been spent on this account? And I'm like, you know, I'm
• 23:02
  staring at it because in my head, I'm doing the math, you
• 23:06
  know? And it dawned on me like, oh,
• 23:09
  crap, this is something my son probably did, doing the math.
• 23:13
  I'm like, personally, like, you know, I'm, I'm, I'm having a
• 23:17
  personal crisis. At that point, the numbers
• 23:20
  sitting on the page in front of me had about five more digits
• 23:24
  than it should have had. I asked if I could look at the
• 23:26
  breakdown line by line. And that's when they saw it it
• 23:31
  it was all spent on like YouTube advertorials, titles like Mighty
• 23:37
  Mike, Epic, Roblox. Mighty Mike.
• 23:41
  Epic. Roblox Baby.
• 23:44
  Whatever, like Minecraft gameplay.
• 23:47
  I was like, OK, we have a problem here.
• 23:51
  So after the meeting wrapped up. Well, you know, listen, I feel
• 23:55
  like we're missing AI. Don't know.
• 23:58
  We're missing a step. What the fuck did they say?
• 24:00
  Like what? There's no way they didn't fire
• 24:01
  this guy. I was told this whole thing is
• 24:04
  getting escalated. Unfortunately, going up to Corp,
• 24:07
  you know, even higher corporate people not just staying within
• 24:10
  our headquarters anymore. They're going to review this
• 24:14
  situation, review the span, all of it, and decide what happens
• 24:17
  next. You know, I want to be honest
• 24:20
  with you guys about this part because I think it's kind of the
• 24:22
  whole point of this channel being, you know, I guess just
• 24:26
  authentic, you know? There we go, the the plea to
• 24:30
  authenticity again. This is not like a ha ha funny
• 24:32
  story, everything worked out fine kind of situation.
• 24:35
  I mean, not yet at least. There is a real, genuine chance
• 24:39
  that I end up personally having to pay some of that or all of
• 24:42
  that back. Yeah, a duh.
• 24:45
  I don't mean to be rude, but yeah, duh.
• 24:48
  If they don't, if they don't fire you, I imagine it's just
• 24:50
  because they want to make their fucking money back.
• 24:54
  What like what wait, did they? Is that what he said?
• 25:00
  That is another good point though.
• 25:01
  Is that like like like why the fuck is there a Minecraft like
• 25:06
  gameplay in the background? You know, I, I and the the best
• 25:12
  case scenario is that is like fuck it, let's try to capitalize
• 25:14
  on this. Let's try to let's try to wait a
• 25:18
  minute, dude, wait, hold, hold on a second.
• 25:19
  No, this is fake. This is 100% fake.
• 25:21
  I guarantee you this is fake when I would this is.
• 25:23
  There's no way. This is definitely fake.
• 25:26
  This has to be fake. Sub chat today.
• 25:34
  This has to be, I feel like this has to be fake.
• 25:37
  The reason is 'cause like I'm sitting here, I'm like, oh man,
• 25:38
  he spent $118,000 on this. And like, it doesn't really make
• 25:43
  sense to me because of the views that he has.
• 25:45
  He doesn't have enough views. I feel like for $118,000 though,
• 25:48
  his most viewed video though, this is this wouldn't have an ad
• 25:51
  on it. He wouldn't put another, He
• 25:53
  wouldn't put another ad on to this video.
• 25:55
  You know what I mean? Like he wouldn't put an ad on
• 26:00
  this video. So this one does not have an ad
• 26:02
  on it. This video does not have an ad
• 26:09
  on it. So like the views already
• 26:12
  weren't stacking up in the 1st place.
• 26:14
  The calculation wasn't stacking up.
• 26:18
  I don't know. That's not really worked up
• 26:20
  enough. The kid.
• 26:20
  I feel like this is not, this is not fucking real.
• 26:23
  And it's, it's like kind of like stupid and harmless at this
• 26:25
  point, like it's whatever, but I feel like this is just like some
• 26:28
  bullshit ass fucking story. I think this is some bullshit
• 26:31
  fucking story, dude. I don't know.
• 26:34
  This doesn't make any sense to me whatsoever.
• 26:36
  I'm not, I'm not convinced of this.
• 26:38
  All right, all right, here's another thing here.
• 26:41
  He does not think that when he's doing it wrong.
• 26:43
  So here's here's changes. I got a message today from work,
• 26:45
  you know. He's a message today from work.
• 26:47
  So sorry. So this is he gets a message
• 26:49
  today from. Work not think that he's doing
• 26:50
  wrong. So anyway, here's here's where
• 26:52
  he changes. I get a message today from Work.
• 26:54
  He gets a message today from work.
• 26:56
  So he gets a message today from work.
• 26:58
  The first thing he does is he goes home and he makes a fucking
• 27:01
  YouTube video with his son playing Minecraft with the
• 27:04
  calmest tone in the entire world, even though he's
• 27:07
  apparently his son stole $118,000 of his company money.
• 27:13
  I don't think so. I don't think so, dude.
• 27:16
  You know, I want to believe the story because you know, like
• 27:19
  what a fun, wholesome kind of situation in some capacity, but
• 27:22
  I can't. It's just like impossible to
• 27:23
  believe, you know what I mean? Like in in the fucking today's
• 27:27
  world. Come on man.
• 27:30
  Out of my pocket. And we're not some family with
• 27:34
  six figures just sitting around somewhere.
• 27:37
  That's not a, you know, it's not a reality, so.
• 27:41
  If you had like unfettered access to this fucking thing and
• 27:45
  they didn't catch it for $100,000, you're probably
• 27:47
  pulling in a stack. So this guy's fucking rich.
• 27:50
  I don't know what you're telling.
• 27:51
  Like, maybe not rich, but he's definitely upper middle class.
• 27:54
  Like, he may not have $118,000 laying around, but this guy,
• 27:57
  this guy can fuck him. This guy has like, this guy has
• 27:59
  like a small boat, you know, and he, he rents a spot at the
• 28:04
  Marina, you know what I mean? I'm still waiting to find out if
• 28:06
  I still have a job. You know, I have to find out if
• 28:10
  this is going to come out directly out of my pocket.
• 28:12
  And then, you know, entire time I'm looking at these comments
• 28:16
  people are writing, it's like, hey, this kids going to get in
• 28:18
  trouble. His parents have no idea of
• 28:20
  what's coming. Turns out you were right, guys.
• 28:24
  I did not think trouble was going to mean corporate, you
• 28:29
  know, finance sitting down and review my personal account.
• 28:35
  So why? Why wouldn't you think that the
• 28:39
  corporation would look at your account?
• 28:41
  I don't understand that. I got a few days to sit and
• 28:44
  figure out what happens next year.
• 28:46
  I'm not going to lie to you, I made an actual list of what to
• 28:51
  do to Mike. At this point he is going to be
• 28:53
  punished. What to do to him?
• 28:58
  What the fuck? I'm going to have a serious
• 28:59
  discussion with him. Serious conversation.
• 29:02
  Take away the iPads, the Playstations.
• 29:07
  This isn't making any. I'm going to take away the iPads
• 29:09
  and the Playstations. Meanwhile you got fucking
• 29:11
  Minecraft gameplay going on in the background while you explain
• 29:14
  how your kids stole $100,000 from your fucking company.
• 29:18
  No way dude, no way he's. Definitely going to be like
• 29:23
  mowing lawns until he's 18 or something like that.
• 29:26
  Whoa, that's so harsh. Yeah.
• 29:29
  I even looked into maybe what the adoption process actually
• 29:34
  evolves just. What the fuck?
• 29:36
  There's no way this is real. There's no way he's trolling.
• 29:41
  You're going to look into the adoption process?
• 29:43
  Are you making a joke? Please tell me you're joking.
• 29:45
  Instead of curiosity. I'm kidding, obviously.
• 29:49
  All right, all right, all right. He's just being a little fun.
• 29:51
  He's just being a little fun, all right, all right.
• 29:53
  He's just being a little silly. I'm sitting here, I'm like, this
• 29:56
  guy's got to be fucking kidding me if he actually said that.
• 29:58
  Seriously, I'm like, this is fake as fuck, all right?
• 30:00
  He's just making a joke, all right?
• 30:02
  I get, I get that. I make jokes when I'm stressed
• 30:05
  and uncomfortable too, all right?
• 30:09
  It's so stupid. Nobody's getting adopted.
• 30:12
  True, Who the fuck would adopt A kid anyway?
• 30:15
  He just fucking stole 118,000 times.
• 30:20
  Imagine it's like, oh, why is this kid in the in the, in the,
• 30:22
  the inside of the adoption center?
• 30:25
  Oh well, he stole $118,000 from his fucking dad from his dad's
• 30:29
  corporation and he lost his dad at his job.
• 30:30
  Oh fuck. But I'll be honest with you, for
• 30:34
  about a full minute, I had some unhinged thoughts in reality.
• 30:40
  Look, he's he's our son. We love him.
• 30:42
  I would have given the kid a If it was my kid, I would have
• 30:44
  given him a stone cold fucking stunner.
• 30:46
  An absolute stone cold stunner. I wouldn't be calm as shit,
• 30:49
  especially the day of. I don't know who the fuck rushes
• 30:53
  the day of to go do some shit on there.
• 30:56
  You know, maybe, maybe, maybe his brain is just so he's so
• 30:59
  marketing brained. That could be possibly what it
• 31:01
  is. Maybe this is real, but that is
• 31:03
  so marketing brained because he works for marketing that he's
• 31:05
  like, OK, this is really fucked up.
• 31:07
  Like how can we? How can we, how can we go
• 31:11
  capitalize on the situation? Like, yeah, you know what, let's
• 31:14
  jump on it. Let's make the video today.
• 31:16
  Maybe we can get some views and we can make some money on the
• 31:18
  video so I can use that to pay it back.
• 31:20
  That's totally possible. That is possible.
• 31:22
  I just, I'm fucking skeptical of it.
• 31:25
  We're going to figure this out together as a family.
• 31:28
  But you know, in that specific moment, staring down 6 figures
• 31:32
  of unauthorized advertising money spent from our company,
• 31:38
  you know, it's just, it's, it's a sobering moment.
• 31:43
  I'm sure it is. Sure it.
• 31:44
  Is. OK, you know, here's where we
• 31:47
  are there. There needs to be consequences.
• 31:50
  You know, he's listening to me right now.
• 31:51
  He, even though he's the one doing a little Minecraft stuff
• 31:58
  over there at this point because I just gave it back to him.
• 32:00
  I'm just just kind of really down and out right now.
• 32:04
  Yeah, make him play. Make him play Sega Genesis games
• 32:07
  as a punishment so he'll get really upset.
• 32:10
  You know something needs to happen, so he actually
• 32:14
  understands that actions have real consequences.
• 32:17
  Yes, I understand how punishment works so you don't need to keep
• 32:19
  going on about. It and honestly for me too, if
• 32:21
  I'm being fully transparent. You, you, you need to take.
• 32:25
  If this is real, you need to take some accountability here.
• 32:27
  That's your fucking. You're an idiot.
• 32:29
  I'm not trying to be fucking rude, but there's no way I
• 32:32
  don't, I don't even believe this, frankly, but you fucked
• 32:34
  up. I feel like more than I get.
• 32:35
  That I need to figure out how to manage all of this like computer
• 32:41
  time, screen time, a little bit better.
• 32:44
  Me and my wife have to have a serious discussion.
• 32:47
  Oh, you haven't had the serious discussion.
• 32:49
  You, you and your wife have to have a serious discussion.
• 32:52
  You, you decided to come to YouTube before having a serious
• 32:56
  discussion with your wife. This is what I'm talking about.
• 32:58
  I don't, I don't, I don't believe, I don't believe these
• 33:00
  things that he's saying. I don't really believe some of
• 33:04
  the stuff that he's saying. I, I, I this does not make that
• 33:09
  doesn't make a lot. That doesn't make a lick of
• 33:10
  sense to me. I don't believe that, you know.
• 33:14
  I really don't know what else to say so about, you know, is is
• 33:19
  Mighty Mike plays actually over for good?
• 33:23
  Why would you? Say that like, you know what I'm
• 33:26
  saying is Mighty Mike plays actually over for good.
• 33:33
  Like like click bait, You know what I mean?
• 33:35
  Like that's the that's the most click bait thing I've ever heard
• 33:38
  in my entire life. No fucking shit.
• 33:41
  Maybe, maybe not. It might.
• 33:44
  Is Mighty Mike plays over for good?
• 33:46
  Come on dude. You know, it might be on pause
• 33:48
  for now. We need a little bit of time to
• 33:50
  reset, get, you know, really down to like the nuts and bolts
• 33:56
  with the, you know, all of this. You know he needs to know that
• 34:00
  actions have consequences. Your actions have gone.
• 34:04
  So, you know, moving forward, for anyone who's been asking in
• 34:07
  the comments already, you know, we're going to set up some real
• 34:11
  like actual parental controls spending caps no more saved.
• 34:16
  Oh yeah, you're going to put up some parental Your son stole
• 34:19
  $118,000 from your company that could threaten your job, but
• 34:25
  you're going to put some some nice soft limits on there.
• 34:28
  What are you talking about? This is like, beat em, don't
• 34:33
  beat em. But like what?
• 34:36
  Yeah, We're doing some soft limits here, $118,000.
• 34:41
  You haven't even talked to your wife yet about it.
• 34:45
  Is Mighty Mike plays over? Is Mighty Mike?
• 34:48
  Is Mighty Mike plays over? I feel like people in marketing
• 34:51
  have to be fucking sharks. This guy's a fucking pushover.
• 34:54
  This guy's a this guy's a goofy dingus pushover.
• 34:57
  Payment information on any. Find out is Mighty Mike over?
• 35:01
  Find out next time on Dragon Ball Z.
• 35:05
  Is that what we're doing here? Dude, that was the most cringe
• 35:07
  thing I've ever done. We need some guard.
• 35:11
  Piccolo needs some guardrails. Like, what are we doing?
• 35:14
  What the fuck? What the fuck are you talking
• 35:18
  about? Dude?
• 35:20
  What are you talking about? Counts, and if and when he does
• 35:24
  come back, and I genuinely think he he might, it's going to be
• 35:28
  with real guardrails in place, not just.
• 35:31
  If he comes back, which he might, what are we talking
• 35:33
  about? Dude?
• 35:34
  This is The thing is that like what we're hearing here is
• 35:39
  supposed to be like, he just heard out.
• 35:41
  He just heard about this today. He was at work.
• 35:44
  Let's say he's working a nine to five.
• 35:46
  He's at work, he's gotten his, he's getting his ass shoot out
• 35:49
  for stealing $118,000 on his company credit card, which is a
• 35:54
  huge issue because it could also be like a huge tax liability for
• 35:57
  the supposed multi million or billion dollar marketing agency.
• 36:00
  I mean if they didn't check $100,000 of his money, how much
• 36:05
  is this company worth If they didn't check it for three weeks,
• 36:08
  3 weeks, $30,000 a week that this guy was spending on this
• 36:11
  company credit card and they didn't get to him until 3 weeks
• 36:13
  later? Fucking doubtful.
• 36:15
  Fucking doubtful. But this is supposedly the same
• 36:17
  fucking day that the dad heard about this kid stealing money.
• 36:21
  The same fucking day that the dad heard about this kid
• 36:24
  stealing fucking money, he could lose his job supposedly and he
• 36:28
  gets home like what 4 hours later and he hops on to he
• 36:31
  fucking hops on to YouTube and makes a fucking video saying
• 36:35
  that might message from dad. Mighty Mike plays is over
• 36:39
  talking like such a bitch. Like I'm not trying to be an
• 36:41
  asshole. There's no energy.
• 36:43
  I'd be fucking livid. There'd be no question in my
• 36:45
  mind that this kids channel was over.
• 36:47
  Even if that was my emotional response that day, everybody
• 36:50
  would have that emotional response.
• 36:51
  But instead we're having this video is mighty like plays over
• 36:54
  what are the things that he's saying don't make any sense to
• 36:55
  me. None of this sounds authentic
• 36:57
  whatsoever to me. This this whole situation is
• 37:00
  fucking yucky. Just like good intentions like
• 37:03
  before. OK, so that's.
• 37:04
  Pretty much the whole story. This story. 9 year old kid
• 37:07
  literally ransacked my company card and literally I saw a video
• 37:14
  by this famous YouTube. Never my fault.
• 37:18
  Who made like a funny short. I guess it was about his channel
• 37:22
  and he's talking about like how this is.
• 37:25
  Sorry, you saw what? Who?
• 37:28
  Are you short tuber? Literally I saw a video by this
• 37:34
  famous YouTube. Never my fault.
• 37:38
  Never my fault. Is the YouTube OK?
• 37:41
  Who made like a funny short? I guess it was about his channel
• 37:45
  and he's talking about like how this is going to cost.
• 37:48
  I think he says like 6 grand. Not quite Brother 6 figures.
• 37:56
  What are you talking about? What?
• 37:59
  What are you? What are you saying He made a
• 38:01
  funny short? What when?
• 38:08
  What the fuck are you talking about?
• 38:10
  He made a funny short. Dude, is this even real?
• 38:17
  Is this real? This guy, this guy's a video.
• 38:18
  Is Clash Royale the real reason Clash Royale is dying?
• 38:21
  Great. Thanks for letting me know.
• 38:23
  What are you talking about? What?
• 38:26
  What? Six figures because if you look
• 38:29
  at the views, some of those videos like three of those
• 38:32
  videos have like 200,000 views so.
• 38:36
  Oh, he's saying that that guy is skeptical.
• 38:38
  That guy thinks that this guy's full of shit.
• 38:40
  I agree 1000%, 1000%. Which video is he referring to?
• 38:44
  My shoes in Minecraft is built to work in TV.
• 38:47
  Why is Minecraft difficult to learn?
• 38:48
  There's something wrong with Minecraft.
• 38:49
  Minecraft what? What did he say in the short?
• 38:52
  What short are you fucking talking about?
• 38:55
  What is he talking about here? What?
• 38:57
  He made a YouTube short before you found out, before you
• 39:01
  announced it publicly. When this is the short he's
• 39:05
  referring to, it's six days old. That's why I'm assuming that's
• 39:08
  the oldest comment is from six days ago and they don't tell you
• 39:12
  how old shorts are. The.
• 39:14
  Weirdest Minecraft ad I've ever seen.
• 39:16
  What ad? It's just a kid playing
• 39:18
  Minecraft for 30 minutes straight as an actual ad.
• 39:21
  Yeah, someone actually paid for that.
• 39:22
  It can't be that expensive. Couple bucks maybe.
• 39:24
  YouTube charges per view though, so 100 views. 200 I mean it's
• 39:28
  already at 60,060 thousand at $0.10 a view.
• 39:31
  That's that's 6. Grand.
• 39:33
  I wonder if his parents even know.
• 39:34
  They're gonna find out fast. Want to see it?
• 39:37
  That's my son's world. Wait, what?
• 39:39
  That's his skin, that's his world.
• 39:41
  This is the. No.
• 39:43
  What? A swap?
• 39:46
  OK. If you name a sheep, shut the
• 39:51
  fuck up. This is the weirdest.
• 39:53
  I tend to agree that it's like fake though, because like first
• 39:55
  of all, what I saw was anywhere from like 1 to $0.05 of you, not
• 39:58
  $0.10 of you. And in no fucking way shape or
• 40:01
  form does this kid, this kid, this kid doesn't.
• 40:05
  There's not enough views on his videos to to to hit $118,000.
• 40:11
  I don't think so. I don't think so whatsoever.
• 40:17
  So especially since this video here obviously wasn't used with
• 40:21
  ads. This is a message from that.
• 40:22
  They wouldn't put an ad on that one.
• 40:23
  See, it was 30 minutes. So they do they I don't know if
• 40:25
  they charge more per minute on the ad.
• 40:27
  No, the ad, it doesn't matter how long the ad works.
• 40:29
  It's it's per view. It doesn't matter.
• 40:35
  Yeah, you play a a flat rate. No, Yeah, this has nothing to do
• 40:38
  with that. No, no idea.
• 40:42
  I'm not questioning that they ran ads.
• 40:44
  I'm questioning the narrative around this.
• 40:46
  I'm questioning like the the the company credit card narrative
• 40:49
  around this. That's what I'm saying.
• 40:53
  Yeah, that's pretty much just the whole story.
• 40:55
  That's exactly how my $20 little advertisement turned into
• 40:59
  $118,000. A meeting with corporate and me
• 41:05
  laying awake probably for the rest of the a few weeks trying
• 41:11
  to basically understand what just happened.
• 41:15
  You know, if you want to see updates on where things actually
• 41:18
  land, whether we come back, whether I still have my job at
• 41:21
  the end of all this, whether he's ever allowed anywhere near
• 41:25
  a device again in his life. I guess we'll still check the
• 41:31
  comments. You guys can let us know.
• 41:34
  Check the comments OK. You can stay subscribed if you
• 41:37
  want, and I think he'll eventually come back, but that's
• 41:41
  pretty much all I have to say. Thank you, I guess, all for
• 41:46
  listening. Thanks for sticking with us
• 41:49
  through this whole situation. And Michael, do you have
• 41:52
  anything you want to say to your viewers?
• 41:57
  This is just so obviously fucking what Like fake to me.
• 42:02
  I'm definitely cook. He's definitely Kirk.
• 42:06
  Oh my God, that's an inappropriate joke to me.
• 42:08
  He's definitely cooked. I think he said all right.
• 42:11
  Fuck. OK, well you want to know what
• 42:13
  guys? That was quite interesting.
• 42:15
  I don't know how authentic it was, but I will say, you know
• 42:19
  what isn't $118,000? It's a Papa Gut membership that
• 42:22
  I forgot to plug much sooner in the video.
• 42:25
  For $2.00 a month you can Get full access to the members only
• 42:28
  discord. It's a great way to support and
• 42:30
  it reduces the live stream ads. For $5 a month, you can get a
• 42:34
  tremendous backlog of content, as you can see here, with the
• 42:38
  exact same rewards on Patreon, in case you rather go through
• 42:41
  there, especially if you're somebody watching through a
• 42:43
  Spotify or Apple. Those are things I'm on now as
• 42:48
  well. If you're going to do what you
• 42:49
  don't have to do on YouTube, you should do it through your
• 42:51
  desktop so it doesn't give you any additional charges.
• 42:53
  There's also a podcast with my wife.
• 42:55
  It's a lot of fun. It's in the description and
• 42:57
  we're also selling stickers. They're also in the description.
• 43:00
  There you go. Everybody says that it's worth
• 43:02
  it, 5 bucks a month for like two or three members only videos a
• 43:05
  week. I mean come on.
• 43:07
  I mean come on, that's crazy. Anyway, I want to check out most
• 43:08
  critical's take on this, see if there's anything that I missed
• 43:10
  before giving like my final thoughts.
• 43:13
  So I remember you used to hear stories all the time about
• 43:15
  children that went into their mom's purse and took her credit
• 43:18
  card to buy Fortnite V bucks and cigarettes, Roebucks and all of
• 43:21
  that. And I imagine that still happens
• 43:23
  frequently. But you know what I've never
• 43:24
  heard of before? A child taking his parents
• 43:27
  credit card company credit card mind you very important and
• 43:30
  spending over $100,000 on YouTube ads to try and grow
• 43:34
  their YouTube channel, their Roblox YouTube.
• 43:36
  Well, Roblox, smart kid am I right?
• 43:39
  Smart kid am I right guys? Blocks in Minecraft YouTube
• 43:41
  channel. Sub chat.
• 43:43
  Sub chat. I have some, I have some sad
• 43:46
  news and it's not going to be me explaining, it's going to be my
• 43:49
  dad explaining. Seeing this might be the end of
• 43:51
  Mighty Mic Place. Hey everyone, if you don't know
• 43:57
  me. It's funny because somebody said
• 43:59
  that like in the chat, there's like, hey, he sounds so
• 44:01
  distraught. He doesn't sound distraught at
• 44:02
  all. What?
• 44:03
  I'm Dave, I'm Mike's dad, so apparently Mike's son has been
• 44:08
  running some, oh, high budget campaigns on YouTube that I was
• 44:12
  pretty much unaware of. Now, if I'm being honest, my
• 44:15
  bullshit alarm started sounding, yes of course, furiously at the
• 44:19
  intro to this video. I was smelling the fumes of
• 44:21
  lies, fibs. To me, it just felt kind of
• 44:24
  unbelievable that if the story was true, that his son had taken
• 44:27
  the company card without his knowledge and started making
• 44:29
  over $100,000 in purchases for ads in three weeks.
• 44:33
  Yeah. That he would then handle that
• 44:35
  publicly on that YouTube channel almost immediately after.
• 44:39
  Like, having the Sun intro, like, what's up, chat?
• 44:41
  So what's up? YouTube?
• 44:42
  Looks like Mighty Mike going out of business here.
• 44:45
  And then having the dad explain it like that felt kind of wild
• 44:48
  to me. But I'm guessing it's just part
• 44:50
  of like the lesson here about how bad this was, because it
• 44:54
  does actually seem real. A lot of people were, I don't
• 44:57
  think so, actually telling him that, you know, your parents
• 44:59
  will find out about this and etcetera.
• 45:01
  But I haven't been really monitoring the comments like
• 45:04
  that. He's 9.
• 45:05
  He's pretty tech savvy. So we just thought he was having
• 45:08
  fun playing, you know, video games, uploading them to
• 45:12
  YouTube. But basically today I got called
• 45:15
  into the office at work. I walk in and we got the
• 45:19
  corporate manager, we got people from finance.
• 45:23
  They pull up a laptop, show me some tables on.
• 45:27
  Today, he says. Today come.
• 45:29
  On on the screen and basically asking me to explain why there's
• 45:33
  $118,000 missing from the company card that was assigned
• 45:36
  to me. I didn't really have an answer
• 45:39
  at first, but once we saw where all of the actual transactions
• 45:44
  were going, I kind of like the dots so.
• 45:47
  Now, initially when I was watching that video, I thought
• 45:49
  this whole story was barnacles. I still think it is fake.
• 45:52
  I thought it was a load of fish paste just fake to try and make
• 45:54
  the channel pop off through a viral wacky story like this.
• 45:57
  You know, a nine year old kid runs rampant with his credit,
• 45:59
  his parents credit card to spam YouTube ads to blow up their
• 46:02
  channel only to, you know, eventually get found out and
• 46:05
  then the channel gets shut down. I thought it was just one of
• 46:07
  these like fake storylines, this ruse that, you know, the father
• 46:11
  was actually the mastermind behind all of it.
• 46:13
  He's the mightiest Mike and that the kid.
• 46:16
  I think it's Mighty Dave. That would be Mighty Dave, an AI
• 46:19
  voice or something. But looking at the channel, it
• 46:21
  seems like it actually is the kids channel, like going to
• 46:24
  shorts. There's like a children's boxing
• 46:25
  class there, I guess if you really try and get into the
• 46:28
  weeds. And no, they definitely spent
• 46:30
  money on the channel. I just don't know about this
• 46:33
  whole, this whole business thing.
• 46:35
  I don't know about the narrative that's being proposed.
• 46:37
  I think that they spend money on the channel.
• 46:39
  Maybe even the kid took something, maybe didn't even use
• 46:42
  the company credit card. And now, like there's just like
• 46:44
  a campaign to like capitalize it.
• 46:46
  Dad's like, yeah, we can try to get your YouTube channel
• 46:47
  popular. Dad, like makes a lot of money
• 46:49
  because he works for a marketing company or something.
• 46:51
  And he's like, yeah, I spent like a like 10 grand or
• 46:52
  something on these, on these fucking views or whatever.
• 46:58
  That's what I think happened. Or maybe even the kids stole
• 47:01
  some of his dad's money. I don't think it was 118,000
• 47:03
  like mental gymnastics. There could be a conspiracy
• 47:05
  theory where like the dad filmed his son's like boxing classes
• 47:10
  and stuff and posted it on the channel in order to really sell
• 47:12
  the idea that it's a kids YouTube channel.
• 47:14
  But I find that highly unlikely. It seems far more reasonable
• 47:17
  that this is just the kids channel.
• 47:18
  It's been here for like a month or so and when you start
• 47:20
  clicking on some of the videos like Minecraft Part 1, you see
• 47:23
  how it has 240K views. Well, you can't see my fucking
• 47:25
  face, hands blocking it, but you click on it.
• 47:29
  Back to another Mighty Mike Plays video.
• 47:31
  Also all of them start with him addressing chat.
• 47:32
  Chat Welcome back to another. Even though it's not live
• 47:35
  streamed, I don't think it always starts with like, hey
• 47:37
  chat, hello chat, greetings, chat, what's up chat and then
• 47:39
  you go here and it's everyone. Well, I think it is live
• 47:41
  streamed something. Maybe the dad kind of referenced
• 47:45
  that, but talking about his ads. Well, my face game is still
• 47:47
  blocking it. Let me just move.
• 47:49
  So like, I like your ad. This ad popped up.
• 47:50
  These ads cost his dad. Well, this one's too new, but
• 47:53
  like 2 weeks ago, you can see everyone talking about all the
• 47:55
  ads they're getting served there.
• 47:56
  And it's like that across like every video that has like more
• 48:00
  than 100 views. So like you come down here,
• 48:03
  let's come down here because it looks like he started doing it
• 48:04
  about two weeks ago and that's when it started to like pop off
• 48:08
  for him. So let's see, where's another
• 48:10
  one with like, oh like these are recents I got to go to oldest.
• 48:14
  I'm navigating this really fucking poorly here.
• 48:16
  But like here, Minecraft part 2401K views.
• 48:18
  I bet this also has comments about the ads.
• 48:21
  What's up Chad? Welcome to Part 2 of.
• 48:24
  How much did kid pay to get this video on the front page of ads
• 48:27
  here after I randomly got this ad?
• 48:29
  How much were the ads? So like it seems like he
• 48:32
  actually was doing this. Like this is a real thing.
• 48:34
  They were purchasing ads. It seems like this.
• 48:36
  That part is definitely confirmed that ads were
• 48:39
  purchased. I will say that yes, kid was
• 48:41
  purchasing ads on his dad's credit card without him knowing.
• 48:45
  No, I guess I don't know why I keep tossing around conspiracy
• 48:48
  theory ideas, but it's kind of fun just to toy with that.
• 48:51
  I guess you could also maybe make an argument, you know, so
• 48:53
  funny because I'm going to post this video.
• 48:55
  I guarantee you it's so funny. Some of the most like a divisive
• 48:59
  like comments that I get are on some of the the stupidest
• 49:02
  fucking videos. Like, you know, people, people
• 49:05
  are going to get more upset with like a video like this then like
• 49:08
  my coverage of the Lindsey Clancy trial.
• 49:11
  You know what I mean? Like this is going to be people
• 49:13
  are going to like they've already committed their idea to
• 49:15
  it. I think it's fun to imagine that
• 49:16
  this is true, which again, I really don't think it is true.
• 49:21
  And it's also like such a low stakes, like silly, stupid fun
• 49:23
  drama that like people want to believe it, right 'cause like
• 49:26
  what's what else is happening in the world?
• 49:28
  The every terrible thing in the the most terrible things ever
• 49:32
  are happening right now, right? So it's like, it's fun.
• 49:35
  It's like fun to believe that Oh yeah, this is true.
• 49:37
  Oh, this is fun. You know, this is a fun one.
• 49:41
  You know what I mean? That the father knew, but I
• 49:44
  don't think it's real about it. Like maybe he wasn't, you know,
• 49:46
  unaware of it. Maybe in fact it was his dad's
• 49:48
  idea. Maybe he pitched it like, hey,
• 49:50
  let's really get this channel with some steam.
• 49:51
  Let's go after it with gusto. 118K on the company card here to
• 49:56
  really pop off the channel. Junior.
• 49:59
  I find it highly unlikely that would be outrageously reckless.
• 50:02
  True, who would go online and lie and jeopardizing his career?
• 50:05
  But I guess there is that possibility though a very, very
• 50:09
  slim chance. I imagine that this was behind
• 50:11
  his back and he had no fucking clue.
• 50:12
  I, I, I do think that is probably the real, the truth of
• 50:16
  it. So Mighty Mike's father got
• 50:17
  called in by the council here, Lantern Corp, and was impressed
• 50:21
  about where this $118,000 has gone.
• 50:24
  Which of course Mighty Mike's father had no idea where it had
• 50:27
  gone. As he said, he wasn't like
• 50:28
  reading the comments on the channel or anything like that,
• 50:30
  at least not enough to understand what they were
• 50:32
  talking about with the ads that were kept that kept being
• 50:34
  brought up there. I will say a little bit of a red
• 50:37
  flag. You're not paying attention to
• 50:38
  the comments on your son's YouTube videos.
• 50:40
  Like checking in every once in a while that there are so many
• 50:44
  different things that we had to fail on here.
• 50:47
  Like if I had to fucking write it down.
• 50:49
  Like what are the things that this kid felt like this
• 50:52
  Minecraft kid failed on? You know, like we let's let's
• 50:56
  write it, let's write it down, Let's write this down.
• 50:59
  OK, so let's see dad never checked the ads of the the never
• 51:10
  check the comments. OK, that's one that's
• 51:12
  definitely, definitely one of those.
• 51:14
  Let's get a nice bullet on there.
• 51:15
  OK, Beautiful. Dad got called into work the
• 51:22
  same day he posted video. Bad isn't mad really mad?
• 51:31
  3 weeks and the So he got three weeks before the company found
• 51:38
  out on 118K right? Didn't even talk to his wife
• 51:48
  yet. That's what he admits in the
• 51:50
  thing. Minecraft gameplay in the
• 51:55
  background is Mighty Mike done forever right?
• 52:02
  That comment was like fucking insane to me.
• 52:05
  What? I mean, what else do we have
• 52:07
  here? What else do we have here?
• 52:13
  Sun is still alive. What else do we have here?
• 52:20
  The view, the the number of views don't add up for the money
• 52:28
  spent right? So the amount of we got let's
• 52:33
  see, I want to say like so it was about like roughly like
• 52:43
  we'll seem to say roughly 1.2 million views. 1.2 this isn't
• 52:48
  the right thing. 1.2 mil views, right?
• 52:55
  So like he spent $118,000 though what I'm seeing here is it's
• 53:00
  like it's either a a penny to 5 cent one to $0.05 for standard
• 53:04
  content. Competitive niches like finance
• 53:06
  or tech can cost $0.10 to $0.50. I doubt it.
• 53:10
  I doubt it. I doubt.
• 53:13
  Oh, Charlie's covering on my notes.
• 53:14
  Yeah, that's fucking that's that's pretty unfortunate for
• 53:16
  me. I doubt it though.
• 53:23
  I really doubt it. Like even if it's $0.10, does
• 53:29
  that make 1.2? I don't know, $0.10.
• 53:33
  If it was $0.10 per view, then I guess maybe.
• 53:36
  Is it possible? I don't know.
• 53:39
  That's too fucking calm. They say that already.
• 53:41
  Dad's too fucking calm. I mean, there's just so many
• 53:45
  different things. Let's son have a final word that
• 53:53
  does none of this makes any sense.
• 53:55
  Didn't instantly get fired. There's no way.
• 54:04
  There's no fucking way. I'm so skeptical of this.
• 54:06
  I don't know. Let's just continue.
• 54:09
  So he didn't understand either and then eventually figured out,
• 54:12
  holy shit, it's my son buying ads on YouTube for his channel.
• 54:16
  My actual. Oh yeah.
• 54:17
  What? Was there another one?
• 54:18
  Didn't check that wasn't checking comments.
• 54:20
  Wasn't that another one? Oh, you know, I already had that
• 54:22
  in there. Sorry, guys.
• 54:23
  Sorry guys. Job, the one that actually pays
• 54:25
  bills around here and all that stuff isn't marketing.
• 54:28
  I work for a large company. Oh, that's another red flag.
• 54:31
  Like a lot of people these days, my whole digital life is tied
• 54:33
  into like 1 Google account. My work e-mail runs through with
• 54:37
  my calendar, my files, payment methods, and that's kind of
• 54:41
  where all of this went. S you know, looking back at
• 54:44
  everything now, that was kind of my mistake.
• 54:46
  That was the biggest mistake I made is having all of that
• 54:48
  sitting under one login. At some point a while back,
• 54:52
  Mikey asked if he could buy some robots.
• 54:54
  I think it's called totally normal.
• 54:56
  He thinks it's called. Harmless requests.
• 54:59
  I put in the card information myself.
• 55:00
  Figured that that was that end of the story.
• 55:02
  Well, it's not, it's not 2.1 million views.
• 55:05
  You didn't get 2.1 million views.
• 55:06
  You got like 1.2 million views. I don't know where you're
• 55:09
  getting 2.1 million views from. Corey, what I didn't think
• 55:13
  about, not even for a second, was that saving my company's
• 55:16
  card meant it was just going to sit there afterward.
• 55:20
  Because again, he's not going to.
• 55:21
  He's not going to put it he didn't.
• 55:22
  He wouldn't run an ad campaign on his most viral video, which
• 55:26
  is the dad saying that the kid stole the credit card, that
• 55:28
  those views are instantly, tinously cut out.
• 55:31
  So. He'd go pretty much available
• 55:33
  anytime he opened an app on his own.
• 55:36
  The bread crumbs for disaster have been laid.
• 55:39
  Professor Newtonium accidentally added an extra ingredient to the
• 55:41
  financial disaster. One login Roebucks was just the
• 55:45
  gateway drug. It it planted the seed of evil.
• 55:49
  So having all of the payment methods there in one central
• 55:53
  spot, one headquarters there put the company card on the hook
• 55:57
  here, which is what he's talking about.
• 55:58
  So he bought. Oh yeah, he references that that
• 56:00
  that that he references here's a YouTube short.
• 56:04
  I don't know I don't know if that would actually add that one
• 56:06
  to the list. I don't know, maybe a small
• 56:08
  robot, but then that also gave access to like basically the
• 56:11
  whole kit and kaboodle because all of it was wrapped into one
• 56:14
  big package here 10. That's another red flag.
• 56:16
  The dad, the dad said dad said like says he used the company
• 56:22
  card initially to run $20 campaign unless he unless he
• 56:37
  miscommunicated. That's another one, an account,
• 56:40
  which is something he talks about as being a mistake, which
• 56:42
  it is. It's an unfortunate mistake
• 56:44
  here. Absolutely like I do feel
• 56:46
  terrible for the father. And he also went on to explain
• 56:48
  why the what the fuck if you didn't say bless you, you're
• 56:53
  going to hell. He he was explaining why his son
• 56:55
  even had the YouTube channel at his age.
• 56:57
  And he was saying that he loved watching others play these games
• 57:00
  and then really wanted to make videos of his own playing those
• 57:02
  games. So he found it to be like
• 57:04
  harmless. And his son showed so much
• 57:05
  excitement doing it. So he thought it was like a good
• 57:07
  thing. Personally, I've said this
• 57:09
  before, on the modern landscape of the Internet, I would never
• 57:12
  feel comfortable letting my child have unrestricted access
• 57:14
  or make videos online with them, you know, front and center,
• 57:19
  their voice, everything there that yeah, I mean, it depends.
• 57:22
  I, I, I could, I don't really see a particularly big issue
• 57:25
  with it. If it's, I don't see a
• 57:30
  particularly big issue with it considering his, his face is
• 57:37
  like covered or whatever. So whatever, you know, that
• 57:40
  would just not sit right with me.
• 57:42
  And another odd thing is that the channel has comments as I
• 57:45
  understand it, kids content like when it's child creators.
• 57:47
  I thought comments were disabled by default, but I guess that
• 57:50
  wasn't really the case here. Or maybe the channel wasn't set
• 57:52
  up to be like a kid channel. I don't that I just ever
• 57:54
  considered dad might be incompetent.
• 57:57
  No, why would that? That there's that it, doesn't
• 57:59
  it? Yeah, yes.
• 58:00
  I mean obviously he is incompetent if it's true.
• 58:03
  I just don't believe the narrative that's being sold.
• 58:05
  Really. No, but anyway, I just wouldn't
• 58:07
  feel comfortable with that personally.
• 58:08
  Because now you have a bunch of strangers leaving comments
• 58:10
  directly engaging with your 9 year old.
• 58:12
  I've been on YouTube since 2006. I started when I was a child as
• 58:16
  well. I started making videos at 11,
• 58:17
  posting on YouTube in 2006 and it was just a totally different
• 58:20
  landscape. How old was I in 2006?
• 58:22
  I was 16. Dude, what the fuck?
• 58:25
  God damn. Especially with the content I
• 58:28
  was making when I was that age, it was like old like viral clips
• 58:32
  from games and other like media and shit.
• 58:36
  And then when I did start making my own videos with Gears of War
• 58:38
  montages and glitch videos and stuff, it was still never me
• 58:40
  putting myself out there like my voice, anything like that.
• 58:43
  No one was ever connecting with me or learning about me on a
• 58:46
  personal level. It was just like gaming clips
• 58:48
  and there weren't people ever trying to like talk to me in the
• 58:50
  comments. It was just them talking about
• 58:51
  like the game or whatever was being showed or in the montage,
• 58:54
  that kind of thing. So like in the current climate
• 58:56
  of the Internet, I just, I I wouldn't feel comfortable having
• 58:59
  my child making videos, making content.
• 59:02
  But that's just me. I wanted to briefly mention it.
• 59:03
  It is very peculiar though that there even are comments enabled
• 59:06
  on the channel. Like I said, I thought those got
• 59:08
  turned off automatically for made for kids content.
• 59:11
  The sound comes up to me. Well, maybe they don't consider
• 59:13
  it made for kids content I. Don't know.
• 59:15
  And he's like upset. He's like, hey dad, I'm not
• 59:18
  getting any views. No subscribers.
• 59:20
  Look, I get it, when you're 9, all that stuff is kind of you
• 59:23
  see, you know, other kids your age, they have more subscribers
• 59:26
  and views. Hey, listen, it happens more
• 59:28
  than when you're just nine, dude.
• 59:29
  Everybody, everybody stresses out bro.
• 59:31
  So I said, all right bro, let's set something up.
• 59:34
  I like that he calls his kid bro.
• 59:35
  All right, bro, I'm just going to put that in there, all right,
• 59:38
  bro? I say.
• 59:39
  I'm adding it. All right, bro.
• 59:43
  Halls is bro, what was I doing? I was 16.
• 59:49
  I was playing, I was playing a lot of Dota.
• 59:51
  That's what I was doing at 16. It was and World of Warcraft.
• 59:54
  I, I think I put like $20 into a small ad campaign just to get
• 59:58
  like one of his videos in front of like a few people.
• 1:00:01
  Nothing crazy, nothing serious. And while I was doing it, I was
• 1:00:03
  kind of like talking to myself and like explaining the process.
• 1:00:06
  You set a budget, you pick who sees it, you hit run, it goes
• 1:00:09
  pending, it goes live, etcetera. That doesn't even make any
• 1:00:16
  sense. You were talking to yourself.
• 1:00:17
  What? We were OK.
• 1:00:18
  I did not think for one second that this was going to be an
• 1:00:21
  issue. Huge mistake on my part.
• 1:00:23
  Turns out he was watching a little more closely than I
• 1:00:26
  realized. He mentioned multiple times that
• 1:00:28
  it's entirely his fault being the adult here and not
• 1:00:30
  considering these things about like a limit or anything like
• 1:00:33
  that and all the things he could have done differently with the
• 1:00:36
  access the 9 year old had to the financials here of the family.
• 1:00:39
  So now he's talking about how his son came up to him very
• 1:00:42
  upset that he wasn't getting a lot of views.
• 1:00:44
  And then the my father decided to do like a small $20 ad
• 1:00:47
  campaign to put his video in front of others so that way he
• 1:00:49
  could get some eyeballs on it. That's very sad to hear that a
• 1:00:53
  nine year old is already like laser focusing on like clout and
• 1:00:57
  numbers online. Yes.
• 1:00:59
  And actually this is a bit of a hot take.
• 1:01:01
  I think that that's one of the often not considered issues with
• 1:01:04
  having your kids online. I don't think that like
• 1:01:07
  fundamentally you showing your kid on the Internet or even your
• 1:01:10
  kid maybe having an Internet presence is bad, but they it's
• 1:01:14
  the 100 different tendrils of it that they're a problem, right?
• 1:01:19
  Like, obviously comments are going to be an issue because
• 1:01:24
  they could harass your kid in a way.
• 1:01:25
  It could be bullying. It could be, you know, gross
• 1:01:28
  people, you know that. But like also there's the idea
• 1:01:35
  of like being either over affirmed or under affirmed
• 1:01:37
  people being like, wow, I like this a lot.
• 1:01:38
  And you getting that like high and then the highs always go
• 1:01:41
  down and you get lows. You know, that's just how the
• 1:01:42
  nature of content creation, it's also big.
• 1:01:45
  But like, yeah, a kid having like mental health anxieties
• 1:01:47
  over getting fucking views on YouTube.
• 1:01:49
  Yeah, that's not, it's not good. Like I do content.
• 1:01:52
  You're right. And like, again, content, great
• 1:01:53
  job. Like I love it.
• 1:01:56
  It's better than any real job I've ever worked.
• 1:01:58
  And I very appreciate it. But it has its own set of
• 1:01:59
  struggles. And one of those things is
• 1:02:01
  you're constantly obsessing about your fucking abuse, 'cause
• 1:02:04
  you're like, fuck, dude, I want to be successful, you know, and
• 1:02:07
  like, you know what I mean? Like it's and I, I'm decently
• 1:02:09
  successful, but you know, you always like to go out more.
• 1:02:12
  You know who doesn't right. But imagine a kid contending
• 1:02:16
  with that issue like not even developed yet.
• 1:02:18
  I mean, you're, you're that's that's just not good for for his
• 1:02:22
  mental health. So there are so many different
• 1:02:24
  problems with it. Like in order to operate and run
• 1:02:27
  a channel or have your kid have an online presence without them
• 1:02:31
  stressing out is like, so I think almost impossibly
• 1:02:34
  difficult that I'm sure that there are also things that even
• 1:02:37
  I'm still not considering. So like for most part, it's
• 1:02:40
  probably better off to not have your kid do something like that.
• 1:02:42
  But like whatever the kids have is a robot has a fucking YouTube
• 1:02:45
  Gaming town or whatever bullshit.
• 1:02:46
  I mean like whatever, it's just Roblox's face isn't even the
• 1:02:48
  next fine. But I'm I'm just saying to me,
• 1:02:51
  that's such a symptom of the modern age where everyone's
• 1:02:54
  fighting for brownie points and numbers online.
• 1:02:57
  It's like this is a nine year old that like that's something
• 1:02:59
  that should never even be like a a thought like like that
• 1:03:03
  actually just makes me feel really bad that he's nine years
• 1:03:07
  old and already just thinking about numbers and the algorithm
• 1:03:09
  and like using an ad Dude, it's your fault, Charlie, bro, you're
• 1:03:12
  you're so successful. He wants to be like you and
• 1:03:14
  campaign to get more eyeballs to maximize the number of views he
• 1:03:16
  can get on his videos. Like it just sucks.
• 1:03:19
  And I understand the father here.
• 1:03:20
  Like, you know, you don't want to see your child upset and sad,
• 1:03:23
  you'll do anything to try and help make them happy or fix the
• 1:03:25
  problem. So he comes up with a strategy
• 1:03:26
  of doing the ad campaign to push the video to people to drive
• 1:03:30
  those numbers up, get those puppies pumping.
• 1:03:32
  And that then opens the door showing the child this strategy,
• 1:03:36
  which he then runs hog wild with because he is very determined to
• 1:03:40
  grow the Mighty Mike brand. He wants Mighty Mike's name to
• 1:03:42
  be the next time. Mighty Michael.
• 1:03:44
  So that's when the huge dump of 118,000 Mighty Michael.
• 1:03:49
  Mighty Michael plays Fortnite with Nick Shirley, right?
• 1:03:51
  Didn't. Oh no, Who?
• 1:03:53
  Who am I thinking of? Somebody played Fortnite with
• 1:03:56
  Nick Shirley. Who am I thinking of?
• 1:03:57
  Is that not? It's not it's not the oh, that's
• 1:04:00
  that's like Connor eats pants. Sorry, always in the YouTube ads
• 1:04:02
  comes in. A little after that I find out
• 1:04:05
  and basically he had like gone in there and uploaded his own
• 1:04:09
  campaigns and stuff. So like, here's the thing where
• 1:04:12
  I had put like $20. He didn't really register that
• 1:04:14
  that was supposed to be some kind of limit in his head.
• 1:04:16
  The logic was simple, I guess. More money, more views.
• 1:04:20
  More money, less problems. You know what I'm saying, dude.
• 1:04:24
  Anyway, turns out a nine year old gets access to an ad account
• 1:04:27
  with no limits and the credit card it just says approved every
• 1:04:30
  single time no matter what. Does not, does not think that
• 1:04:35
  what he's doing is wrong. That really is a very really
• 1:04:38
  very expensive ad campaign. And this is actually somewhat
• 1:04:40
  enlightening as to how effective YouTube ads themselves are.
• 1:04:44
  So the 9 year old spent $118,000 to grow the Mighty Mike YouTube
• 1:04:48
  channel. Supposed, supposedly, supposedly
• 1:04:52
  I don't care one of those two. A couple of instances it did get
• 1:04:54
  a lot of views on certain videos like that one getting 240K, but
• 1:04:58
  the channel itself has 10,000 subscribers.
• 1:05:01
  So I guess to extrapolate here based on the data, for $118,000
• 1:05:06
  you can maybe get 10,000 subscribers worth out of it.
• 1:05:10
  That doesn't seem like a super great return on investment
• 1:05:13
  there. The ROI.
• 1:05:14
  Damn YouTube's Tate is catching strays.
• 1:05:17
  Well, it's going to largely have to do with like finding the
• 1:05:20
  right circles for people and if your content is engaging enough.
• 1:05:23
  Like, you know, you could spend all the money you want to market
• 1:05:25
  something, but if it's not a good enough product, people
• 1:05:27
  aren't going to be like super highly likely to to invest, you
• 1:05:31
  know, their time into it right there is pretty brutal.
• 1:05:35
  So to me that shows that pumping YouTube ads here to grow your
• 1:05:39
  channel, pumping those ads. Definitely not the right
• 1:05:42
  manoeuvre. Probably not.
• 1:05:43
  They got to do something. But I invest like time.
• 1:05:47
  Well, you know, money basically, I pay people to do it, but like
• 1:05:50
  for clips and stuff, you know, you just kind of have to do it.
• 1:05:53
  You got to do something like that.
• 1:05:55
  I mean, I do, I don't think Moist Critical really does.
• 1:05:57
  People probably just clip him because he's so big already.
• 1:05:59
  So he's kind of like a too big to fail type of a thing.
• 1:06:01
  There's some finances sitting on the laptop.
• 1:06:03
  They slide out this this table, full breakdown of ads spent from
• 1:06:06
  like the past three weeks. Apparently he asked me very
• 1:06:09
  calmly, which honestly kind of made the whole thing worse.
• 1:06:13
  Is like, hey, can you explain the $118,000 that's been spent
• 1:06:17
  on this account? And I'm like, you know, I'm
• 1:06:20
  staring at it. You know, I'm having a personal
• 1:06:22
  crisis. At that point.
• 1:06:24
  The numbers sitting on the page in front of me had about five
• 1:06:27
  more digits than it should have had that.
• 1:06:28
  I already write down immediately gets fined, did not get
• 1:06:30
  immediately fired. I asked if I could look at the
• 1:06:32
  breakdown line by line and that's when they saw it.
• 1:06:35
  It was all spent on like YouTube advertorials, titles like Mighty
• 1:06:40
  Mike, Epic, Roblox. Epic Roblox.
• 1:06:44
  Whatever, like Minecraft gameplay.
• 1:06:47
  I was like OK, we have a problem here.
• 1:06:50
  So after the meeting wrapped up, I was told.
• 1:06:52
  Michael, we have a. Problem.
• 1:06:54
  This whole thing is getting escalated, unfortunately, going
• 1:06:56
  up to, you know, even higher corporate people not just
• 1:06:59
  staying within our headquarters anymore.
• 1:07:01
  Bro, that must have been. It just doesn't make any sense.
• 1:07:05
  We're going to have to escalate this that that.
• 1:07:07
  I got to add that to the list. I got to add that to the list.
• 1:07:10
  Agonizing. Holy shit I genuinely couldn't
• 1:07:16
  imagine being a family in that room.
• 1:07:18
  A father realizing his son has been buying $100,000 worth of
• 1:07:22
  YouTube ads for their Roblox and Minecraft channel off the
• 1:07:25
  company. Guys I think I spelled escalate
• 1:07:27
  correctly and corporate correctly.
• 1:07:28
  Shut the fuck up. Don't even don't even look at
• 1:07:30
  this. A credit card.
• 1:07:30
  And now obviously the company knows about it.
• 1:07:33
  So just sitting there like I was going to say getting grilled on
• 1:07:38
  it but from the way he describes it, it sounds more like it was
• 1:07:40
  handled calmly and then escalated.
• 1:07:42
  Which I don't, I don't know how you would add that.
• 1:07:45
  I don't know how you would do this calmly, $118,000 isn't
• 1:07:49
  surprising, $100,000. Yeah, it happens all the time,
• 1:07:52
  guys, is a huge number that just can't really be overlooked by
• 1:07:56
  like any company like that is getting into a very, very, very
• 1:07:59
  alarming territory. So I bet, I bet his heart was
• 1:08:02
  pounding out of his chest. Yeah.
• 1:08:04
  It's not real for this. I don't think it's real.
• 1:08:05
  And again, it's one of those things where it's a nine year
• 1:08:07
  old. You can't even blame the child
• 1:08:09
  and the father throughout this. Yes, you can.
• 1:08:11
  You can blame a nine year old like I like, I don't know, I
• 1:08:13
  guess especially the dad for not teaching his son what money
• 1:08:15
  means. I'm not nine years old.
• 1:08:16
  They're fucking blasting through money.
• 1:08:18
  It's crazy. He doesn't, he reiterates
• 1:08:19
  numerous times like this really is my fault.
• 1:08:21
  I, I should have been paying more attention.
• 1:08:22
  I should have noticed. I shouldn't have had everything
• 1:08:24
  in one location. I shouldn't have, you know, done
• 1:08:27
  the ad campaign and then let him like see how it all works and
• 1:08:29
  all that. Like because it is a nine year
• 1:08:31
  old, he's not going to know what any of these numbers mean, which
• 1:08:34
  is something his father points out.
• 1:08:35
  I don't know if that's true. Do nine years old have nine?
• 1:08:39
  You have 0 concept. I don't know.
• 1:08:41
  But he doesn't know what these big numbers are.
• 1:08:43
  To him, just getting the check mark that it went through OK
• 1:08:45
  means that it's OK and there's nothing wrong.
• 1:08:47
  Like he's not doing anything wrong.
• 1:08:49
  So it's just, it's so rough. You know, I want to be honest
• 1:08:52
  with you guys about this part because I think it's kind of the
• 1:08:54
  whole point of this channel being, you know, I guess just
• 1:08:58
  authentic. You know, this is not like a ha
• 1:09:00
  ha funny story. Everything worked out fine kind
• 1:09:03
  of situation. I mean, not yet at least.
• 1:09:04
  There is a real, genuine chance that I end up personally having
• 1:09:07
  to pay some of that or all that back.
• 1:09:10
  Is there's a chance you'll have to pay some of it or all of it
• 1:09:13
  back? Why is there just a chance, just
• 1:09:18
  just a chance he has to pay some or all slash all of it back?
• 1:09:27
  That's another question. What?
• 1:09:28
  That doesn't even make any fucking sense whatsoever to me.
• 1:09:31
  What are you talking about? Out of my pocket and we're not
• 1:09:33
  some family with six figures just sitting around somewhere
• 1:09:37
  that's not a you know, it's not a reality.
• 1:09:39
  So I'm. That's another thing we don't we
• 1:09:42
  this family doesn't have 6 figures sitting.
• 1:09:43
  Around still waiting to find out if I still have a job.
• 1:09:46
  Like OK this this family doesn't have 6 figures laying around but
• 1:09:58
  it took three. It took three weeks to notice
• 1:10:02
  118K. Like really, you know what I
• 1:10:07
  mean? Like, I feel like you like that.
• 1:10:10
  I I feel like if you have that much money, if you're able to
• 1:10:13
  spend that much money without anybody's checking on you for
• 1:10:16
  almost a month, you probably are like upper middle class.
• 1:10:19
  You know, I have to find out if this is going to come out
• 1:10:22
  directly out of my pocket. And you know, entire time I'm
• 1:10:24
  looking at these comments people are writing, it's like, hey,
• 1:10:27
  this kids going to get in trouble.
• 1:10:28
  His parents have no idea of what's coming.
• 1:10:31
  Turns out you were right, guys. I did not think trouble I was
• 1:10:35
  going to mean corporate, you know, finance, sitting down and
• 1:10:38
  review my personal account. You can hear it in his voice.
• 1:10:41
  He is crushed. This is devastating.
• 1:10:43
  I don't know, having to pay back $118,000, that's no small task.
• 1:10:48
  That is an outrageous amount of clams.
• 1:10:50
  And like he said, he doesn't even know if he's going to be
• 1:10:52
  able to keep his job because the job might fire him because, you
• 1:10:56
  know, 118,000 might fire him, might make him pay some of it or
• 1:11:00
  all the back knowledge came out of their account on his watch.
• 1:11:04
  It's a very real possibility. True.
• 1:11:07
  It's bro like it's true. Genuinely.
• 1:11:09
  Like when I was first watching this, I was like, it has to be
• 1:11:11
  fake. This is just like it has to be
• 1:11:13
  it can't be real. This has to be staged.
• 1:11:15
  But it just again, based on all evidence here, it's not it's not
• 1:11:18
  fake. This I disagree.
• 1:11:19
  This does seem like a legitimate thing that has happened.
• 1:11:22
  I think, again, I think that the ad campaigns are legitimate.
• 1:11:24
  But now he goes on to talk about like, you know, Mike does need
• 1:11:28
  to learn a lesson from this as well.
• 1:11:29
  Like he talks about, you know, what he's going to do, do to
• 1:11:32
  like reduce the screen time and then taking like reduce the
• 1:11:35
  screen time iPad away and stuff like that.
• 1:11:37
  He tries to like make light of it a little bit too.
• 1:11:40
  But it's very clear that he is just, as he said in his own
• 1:11:43
  words, kind of down and out and how sobering this whole thing
• 1:11:46
  was staring down the pipe of a $100,000 bill that he might be
• 1:11:49
  accountable for. Well, again, Mike, why would you
• 1:11:51
  might be what? Also potentially losing his job.
• 1:11:54
  He then explains that Mike is obviously there.
• 1:11:57
  He's the one playing Minecraft and the father's just kind of
• 1:12:00
  talking about everything and just trying to collect his
• 1:12:02
  thoughts and verbalize them. It's it's rough like it, it is
• 1:12:05
  actually very rough. He does reiterate that, you
• 1:12:08
  know, he does still love us on. They're gonna figure it out as a
• 1:12:10
  family. But it's just a really, really
• 1:12:11
  hard spot to be in right now with everything that's unfolded
• 1:12:14
  here. And yeah, I, I imagine it is.
• 1:12:18
  I, I got really sad listening to his father here towards the end
• 1:12:21
  of the video, just being clearly devastated.
• 1:12:24
  How to manage all of this like computer time, screen time, a
• 1:12:29
  little bit better? Me and my wife have to have a
• 1:12:30
  serious discussion. I really don't know what else to
• 1:12:34
  say. So about, you know, is is Mighty
• 1:12:37
  Mike plays actually over for good?
• 1:12:40
  Maybe, maybe not. It might, you know, it might be
• 1:12:43
  on pause for now. We need a little bit of time to
• 1:12:45
  reset get, you know, really. Is Mighty Mikes on pause for
• 1:12:50
  now? Down to like the nuts and bolts
• 1:12:52
  with the you know all of this you know he needs to know that
• 1:12:55
  actions have consequences. Michael, do you have anything
• 1:12:58
  you want to say to your viewers? I'm.
• 1:13:00
  I'm definitely cooked. I'm definitely cooked.
• 1:13:03
  I'm definitely cooked. I'm definitely Kirk, what the
• 1:13:05
  hell? The father says that the future
• 1:13:07
  of the Mighty Mike channel is he's definitely what unknown and
• 1:13:10
  that he believes is he's going to allow his son to come back to
• 1:13:12
  the channel at some point. But like real guardrails in
• 1:13:14
  place this time and limits and and all of that.
• 1:13:17
  So unknown what capacity Mighty Mike makes a triumphant return.
• 1:13:20
  But obviously right now it's in a very tough position here.
• 1:13:24
  And then signing off MM talked about, you know, how cooked he
• 1:13:27
  is. So even in the the end of the
• 1:13:31
  mighty mic brand, he at least tries to entertain the chat.
• 1:13:35
  So anyway, man, I I had to yap about this when I learned about
• 1:13:38
  it. Well, rather when I learned that
• 1:13:40
  it's most likely legitimate. You see all the time these very
• 1:13:44
  blatant attempts to farm like a viral story and you just fake
• 1:13:48
  something pretty like over the top and just like an egregious
• 1:13:51
  attempt to just form. And this to me had all the
• 1:13:54
  makings of that. All the DNA is just one of those
• 1:13:55
  like too ridiculous to believe stories, but looking into it, it
• 1:14:00
  seems like it is a real story. It has been picked up by like
• 1:14:02
  other outlets as well. Oh really?
• 1:14:04
  I'm because they never they never pick up bullshit stories.
• 1:14:06
  Huh? Under the impression that
• 1:14:09
  they've also done some vetting too, even though that is well,
• 1:14:11
  what's the really vet like? Oh, this some people are saying
• 1:14:15
  this is happening like what's the really vet here?
• 1:14:17
  I think this is a story people want to believe.
• 1:14:19
  That's it. Been probably false in many
• 1:14:20
  cases from a ton of outlets in recent times, but still, all
• 1:14:23
  evidence seems to point towards this being real, that this child
• 1:14:26
  spent $118,000 of his dad's company's money without him
• 1:14:30
  knowing. And now the family is in a
• 1:14:33
  really, really, really bad spot. So, yeah, anyway, just I want to
• 1:14:36
  talk about a little bit. I'm wishing that family the
• 1:14:38
  best. Man, that's brutal.
• 1:14:39
  It's about it. Yeah.
• 1:14:41
  All right, All right, cool stuff.
• 1:14:43
  Cool stuff. I wanted, I want to review my
• 1:14:45
  final thoughts after looking at everything in this situation.
• 1:14:51
  All right, these are my questions about this whole
• 1:14:57
  Minecraft YouTube 118,000. You know, the kids stole the
• 1:15:02
  dad's company credit card thing because none of this it doesn't
• 1:15:05
  make sense to me. What I actually think happened
• 1:15:07
  is the kids like stole money. I'm like the dad's credit card
• 1:15:10
  or something, but it wasn't anywhere near 118,000 and it
• 1:15:14
  wasn't like a company credit card, but it happened.
• 1:15:16
  Or maybe it's a camp marketing campaign try to get this kid
• 1:15:20
  popular for for several reasons. I'm going to go through them.
• 1:15:23
  All right. One dad admits he never checked
• 1:15:26
  any of the comments on the kids YouTube channel.
• 1:15:28
  I find that hard to believe. You didn't check them.
• 1:15:29
  There were constant comments saying, oh, there's ads on this.
• 1:15:31
  What the heck? You're going to be in
• 1:15:33
  generational debt. The dad never does.
• 1:15:36
  Why wouldn't you check your kids YouTube comments?
• 1:15:38
  That makes sense #2 the video was posted that that they were
• 1:15:43
  talking about was posted this like the same day he got called
• 1:15:48
  into work. Dad literally says in the video
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  I got called into work today. Today 4 hours later you're
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  making a calm, cool and composed video about your dad or your kid
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  basically stealing $118,000. Three.
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  Dad really isn't very angry. Maybe this is just me growing up
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  where my mom was angry at me if I stole $118,000 on company
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  time, you know, but OK. Or this took three weeks for the
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  kid to rack up $118,000 bill at this company and they only found
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  out about it 3 weeks later. I that doesn't make any sense to
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  me. They have people watching the
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  credit cards. There's no way.
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  And it's going to be like a bunch of Google AdSense reviews.
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  I don't think that that would happen.
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  I guess you are going to be like, well, he was in marketing,
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  maybe he was doing it for some other campaign maybe.
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  But would he be even be the one that would be like executing the
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  marketing campaigns? Or is that just a company credit
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  card in case you have to do things like have a gas or
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  something? I don't know.
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  He didn't even talk to his wife yet according to this video, he
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  has had a serious conversation with her.
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  There's fucking Minecraft gameplay playing in the
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  background of this video, which doesn't make any sense to me
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  unless the dad's logic was like, hey, we might as well try to get
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  this video viral since you you spent $118,000 that I might have
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  to pay back. I'm going to get into that.
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  He he drops this line that was so confusing to me where he's
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  like is mighty mic done forever? It gave me like Dragon Ball Z
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  vibes. The dad said that it's it feels
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  very YouTube quick baby right? I personally $118,000 for like
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  1.2 million views makes no sense.
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  The most viral video on that Channel is the video where
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  they're talking about the, the, the, the, the situation, which
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  they wouldn't run ads on. So 1.2 billion views for
• 1:17:35
  $118,000. What is that?
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  Like that's, that's just a $0.10 a view.
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  That doesn't seem to be how much it would cost.
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  I looked it up and it's anywhere from like a penny to like 1 to 5
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  pennies per view. Maybe I'm wrong.
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  YouTube did change the way that they calculated views.
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  Now maybe that's something different.
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  I don't know. That's too calm or talked about
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  that he let the sun have a final word and the kids like I'm
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  cooked. Like, I don't know.
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  That makes no sense to me. Dad didn't instantly get fired.
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  That one's crazy to me. I'd fire the fuck out of this
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  guy for stealing $120,000. He's it's grossly negligent.
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  He actually makes a fucking comment at a certain point where
• 1:18:08
  he's like, I might have to pay some or all of it back.
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  According to the corporate, some are all maybe some are all of it
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  back. What are you talking about?
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  They would either fire you or they make you stay on and
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  garnish your way wages. There's no way they wouldn't.
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  They may like a maybe doesn't make any sense to me in this
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  supposed meaning they would have to we're going to have to
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  escalate to corporate. I don't know.
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  They didn't I I just that doesn't make any sense that
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  there's just like a weird comment as in marketing.
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  So this would be a pretty good marketing campaign, which is
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  obviously working. Who sang 2.1 million views for
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  118,000? I said 1.2 million views.
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  I don't know where you're getting 2.1 from anyway, but
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  where are you getting 2.1 million views from?
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  I'm adding this onto the list. The thumbnail is too good and I
• 1:18:55
  you're going to say that's not true.
• 1:18:57
  The thumbnail that says it's over like this again, this is
• 1:18:59
  really, this is like very like moist critical style.
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  Maybe the kids just so terminally online, but this is a
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  good thumbnail. It's like it's it, it really is
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  for what it is. This makes sense to me.
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  It's over like this. Actually, this is the exact way
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  that you'd want to do this. It's over.
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  You know what I mean? I know that that I might not be
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  able to communicate that to people.
• 1:19:20
  According to this channel, his entire channel only has 1.1
• 1:19:23
  million views on it. I don't know how accurate that
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  is anyway. Oh, another thing is the dad
• 1:19:30
  just like accidentally and casually dropped from what it
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  sounded like, this idea that the original campaign that he ran
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  for his kid was $20 on his company credit card.
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  Why would you do that? Why would you even risk that?
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  For some reason there was a moment where the dad called the
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  kid bro. I don't know.
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  That was just kind of weird to me.
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  I mean, my wife called me bro every once in awhile, but I
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  don't know. Oh, and then I guess the last
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  thing that was weird was he was like, yeah, we don't just have 6
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  figures laying around to pay it back.
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  And I'm sitting here and I'm like, probably not, but this is
• 1:19:59
  upper middle class problems, right?
• 1:20:00
  Like like how, how often do you like 118,000 dollars, $118,000?
• 1:20:06
  And like, like you were able to spend $118,000 without it being
• 1:20:12
  checked for three weeks at your company, but you don't make a
• 1:20:13
  tremendous amount of money. Why would they trust you that
• 1:20:15
  much? That makes no fucking sense to
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  me whatsoever. So that these are all the
• 1:20:18
  questions that I have. Frankly, I again, I think it's
• 1:20:21
  fake. I think that the kids stole the
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  credit card. I think that maybe the kids
• 1:20:28
  stole his dad's credit card or something and ran ad campaigns
• 1:20:30
  on it or something. I don't think it's to the tune
• 1:20:32
  of 118 Ki think that like frankly, I think all of it's
• 1:20:36
  fake. I think that they, they just
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  like they manufactured the situation to get their kid
• 1:20:39
  popular or the kids stole some money like maybe like $10,000
• 1:20:42
  and the dad's pissed and he's trying to figure out a way to
• 1:20:44
  get it back. Either way, this is a lot of the
• 1:20:45
  questions that I have. It doesn't really matter.
• 1:20:47
  Just the controversy is like very low, low stakes.
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  But I don't know, just skeptical.
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  Personally, I'm just skeptical.