i have mixed feelings on the pred catching channels on YouTube. they often interfere with real police investigations and can make it for police departments to actually charge these people with crimes. with that being said, bringing awareness to them can be a positive thing, as it can lead to them being known in their local communities for being predators.

channels like Skeeter Jean, however, are garbage. from the way they present their material and interact with the people they catch, it gives the impression they don’t actually care about stopping predators. from the gimmicks in their videos to the nonstop jokes they make throughout their interactions, they clearly care more about entertainment rather than keeping children safe. they present their videos as entertainment rather than anything serious.

before anyone accuses me of somehow wanting to protect the predators, no. fuck anyone trying to meet children. i just wish the people catching predators actually care about the issue more than they care about making content and getting money.

Quick rundown for those who don't know -- he's a(n admittedly small, dunno if this is punching down or anything and if it is then I'm really sorry) YouTuber who's been making videos he bills as unbiased about the MrBeast drama, and he's been a pretty staunch critic of DogPack for a while now. I know that Dawson handled everything terribly, but I don't know, it just seems that Stucky's most recent videos have taken his "fall from grace", if you will, to run rampant defence for MrBeast. I could be looking too deeply into this, and no one seems to mention this, so I just wanted to get some thoughts.

So I been hearing this from a lot of sources, and apparently this subreddit was censorsing positive information on Mr Beast while allowing negative information to stay. Now I've seen some screenshots/ archives so I was wondering if this was true, and what was the reason for this?

I want to vent about @Jadecanbark, the YouTuber. She recently turned 21 but is still friends with kids aged 12-14, justifying it by claiming these kids are mature enough to understand what’s predatory. She also points to having an 18+ partner as proof of her innocence, but that doesn't really prove anything. The issue is that she seems to only befriend kids under 14, calling them mature and venting personal things to them. She even encourages them to attack anyone who questions her behavior. It’s really uncomfortable and suspicious.It’s possible that Jade, whether intentionally or not, might be perpetuating harmful ideas that could make kids more vulnerable to manipulation. By dismissing or oversimplifying the realities of grooming, such as suggesting minors will inherently recognize it, they may be undermining the importance of education and awareness about these situations.

This kind of narrative can unfortunately prepare kids to accept harmful behavior because they might assume everything is fine unless it matches a specific, obvious idea of grooming. Whether intentional or not, it's a dangerous mindset to promote. As a victim of grooming, I need to emphasize that grooming refers to adults forming relationships with children for exploitative purposes. When I was groomed, I didn’t realize their true intentions, which is a key aspect of how grooming works. It’s incredibly harmful and misleading to suggest that minors will always recognize when they’re being groomed.

She is putting kids and risk when users genuinely are concerned she flat out blocks them and only replies to trolls to make people feel bad it's really disgusting.

They seem to have a bunch of videos (which I found myself interested in) where they deep dive A LOT of cold cases, missing persons, mysteries, etc. but I don't see any sort of information on their resources? Nothing is cited from their information on any video, and I can't even find a half job like illuminati had. Is this creator just plagiarizing sources and just "writing an essay" from their point of view and saying it's their own? I don't want to jump the gun and automatically assume that a content creator is just ripping things off, which is why I'm coming here to ask. Sorry if this isn't the right place!

https://preview.redd.it/ulryv8ycda4e1.png?width=947&format=png&auto=webp&s=55c965938878eecdd6d32eb6b71ab5a343a0cb49

TL;DR: Influential millionaire YouTuber shills blatantly unfinished product that he's invested in to his cult-like fanbase.

Linus from Linus Tech Tips invested $250,000 of his own money in the development of software called HexOS. It's basically a fancy looking user interface that's literally built on top of existing free open-source software, TrueNAS.

You don't really need to know the technical details of these products to understand this post, but I'll direct you to the following wiki pages if you're really interested:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network-attached_storage

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TrueNAS

Like I mentioned, HexOS is built on top of TrueNAS. TrueNAS is free software that's been available for years.

But HexOS costs money. It costs $99 right now during Black Friday/Cyber Monday, $199 during early access, $299 when it's fully released, with paid subscriptions planned in the future.

After years of development, HexOS is finally ready to be sold to the public, so Linus uploads a video to his main channel with over 16 million subscribers dedicated solely to covering HexOS, titled "Revealing my NEW Investment!":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiXSswB45kY

And it's clear that it's incredibly unfinished, missing many basic features, generally being sold on "promises" of this and that. Here's a compilation made from the linked video:

https://www.reddit.com/r/LinusTechTips/comments/1h3wome/i_dont_know_about_you_guys_but_i_love_spending/

This video's existence goes directly against a message that Linus himself has pushed, which is "Do not buy a product based on future promises". Here's an example of when he reviews a product negatively because it was released too early and missing many features:

https://www.reddit.com/r/LinusTechTips/comments/1h4d2m0/linus_on_the_rabbit_r1_its_not_ready_yetthe_only/

Now, genuine credit to Linus for being transparent. You don't see that often with these "early access" products. So, that's appreciated.

But it doesn't cancel out the fact that it's an unfinished "early access" product that costs real money in the first place. And Linus is shilling it to his incredibly loyal fanbase, many of whom are willing to spend their money on products solely because he's positive about them.

While I don't expect anything here is a "smoking gun" or anything of the sort, I think it's important to point out that MrBeast's promotion of crypto (which he most likely owned - but this is speculation) goes back further than most people realize and/or are talking about.

Mostly, I think the value of this lies in the idea that MrBeast was trading crypto for longer than most realize, and was more involved in it than would seem to be implied by the concept that he's "too dumb" to be involved with trading.

Reposting encouragement to buy $SNOV.

Reposting speculation on the rise of $HTML.

Reposting outright pressure to buy $HTML or regret it.

\"We\", implying that there was crypto ownership in whatever form while posting these.

An added post about how involved in crypto he was in 2018.

Here is the archive link, in which multiple posts and reposts promote various crypto purchase:

https://web.archive.org/web/20180111174021/https://twitter.com/MrBeastYT

At the time, he was MrBeastYT on Twitter (as shown by the account being linked from archived versions of his channel, etc.) At the time, he had 2,000,000 subscribers, which is still a lot of potential influence.

NOTE: Both $HTML and $SNOV crashed in 2018 and never came back up.

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Thoughts on that Magician from Kai's stream, that caused Kai to ban all magicians from his platform?

https://youtube.com/shorts/riDklWzeo_0?si=9Qe8O3C6XT07LFeb

Alright so I’m gonna be brutally honest, I’m super lazy and really don’t wanna watch all the 50+ hour long videos about this situation that Adam is posting constantly on his YouTube.

I’m subbed to both of them but apparently there is some sort of drama going on between both of them and now there’s a situation with Jason Derulo?? And who’s this Paige person he keeps referring too. Watching the videos really feels like when you skipped a bunch of lectures and then come back a week later but you’re completely lost lmfao.

Who’s bad guy here?…should I unsub to someone and not support them?….should I not?…..I’m very lost lol

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With all of the controversies related to nearly every youtuber now, it makes me wonder if the current CEO of Youtube, Neil Mohan has gotten into any controveries.

It's pretty common in this sub to see people get called out for poor behavior and face career damaging consequences, but has anyone ever been redeemed?

Not just survived controversy by having an audience that doesn't care about said issue. But recovered by making amends?

Has apologizing ever worked?

For creator's trying to survive controversy, does NEVER apologizing work better?

Please share examples and links to relevant threads bellow.

https://youtu.be/W6ikWU3yaVg?si=KuaxTiy3cTl0JRwp

I always hear "peolle don't change" which yeah it makes sense to say, especially if your a victim of someone's horrid actions.

But has there been a case of a YouTuber who got exposed as a shitty person but then actually improved themselves and stopped doing the horrible things that got them exposed

(Note: for this I don't mean YouTubers who said something stupid 10 years ago and it resurfaced, I mean YouTubers who actually did horrible shit)