Yeah I know probably not the first time Alan has been called out in terms of some of the racist and nonsense stuff that I recall... But this actually caught me off guard as my brother linked it to me and asked me to listen carefully around the 14 and a half minute mark (to be fair and to get full context he did also blame the Europeans for the diving up and redrawing the borders of cultural areas at the time of decolonization) but damn bro...

When I left a comment a couple hours ago calling out Israel's crimes I got the expected that "they are the victims"... So yeah.

Just calling it out this is just a screenshot of the video but like I said the discussion starts a little roughly around 13 minutes in change and the offended part happens around 14 minutes and 30 seconds. Feel free to discuss but if it's not a big deal and since this is already known about generation tech/Alan.. just wanted to remind people. :0

A bit of a megathread of what's going on with the Try Guys, please let me know if I missed anything!

3 days ago, they posted a challenge video in Disney World as well as a short on Youtube/Insta/Tiktok.

The longform video has been receiving backlash due to seemingly using AI in the thumbnail (here's a link with the original thumbnail) as well as cast members acting entitled and rude in the park to employees and other guests.

The short has seemingly been deleted, but the idea was to see how long you can hug a cast member before they end the hug. Understandably, this had made many viewers uncomfortable.

Zach comes out in the Try Guys Discord to give an apology, so far no public statement outside of that. Apparently they were invited by Disney to shoot the video and that's why they acted a certain way.

Thoughts?

Like there have been a good handfuls of lolcows that have had allegations against them- Novaonline, Tophiachu, and Jupiter the Hybrid to name a few.

I don’t really get it, is there something I’m missing here?

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I've been lurking on iNabber's community tab after I saw that people were annoyed that he is repeatedly promoting the same podcast episodes. Apparently the podcast has been up for a month and has under 5k subs when iNabber has over a mil, idk if that's normal or if that means it's flopping. People are arguing over whether the repeat posting is desperate or just marketing.

Anyway there seem to be some light rumblings about Obesetobeast. Some people are excited about the collab, and a few others are disappointed and don't like him. Maybe I'm getting older and more paranoid with every new cancellation / controversy, so I'll touch grass after this post lol. But something about it makes me side-eye and wonder if these two will one day be caught up in the same kind of drama they critique others for (seems to happen a lot with commentary/exposé channels), so I'm asking... What is up with these two creators? Is there some past drama making people not want to watch or is this pretty standard for a new channel launch even with a big creator? I saw that there was beef between Obesetobeast and another creator a while back but idk how much that might affect anything now.

Can someone fill me in on John Tron. I've heard around that he isn't great and rather problematic but I've been out of the loop for years.

The bottom left ad is the offending ad, I've added this version where you can see that the advertiser actually attached their name and location to the ad.

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I've left the web address visible, I wouldn't suggest going too it without a VPN enabled. When you enter the website it gets you to play a game where you always win, you then get taken to a payment page. None of the widgets on the page are interactable and are there to look like the official KFC website.

Edit: I am currently jumping down a rabbit hole on this, I checked who the person that posted the scam ad is. It led me to an official filing here with an officially filed company here called "Laser Power Limited" trying to find laser power limited leads us here this appears to be the same company in London owned by the person above. On this page we can find a phone number which when searched on google gives us a company under a different yet similar name "Laser Energy" which is run by a different person Nigel Hartnup.

What this tells me so far is that the first mentioned person is running an officially registered shell company using the phone number of a very similar company to they are pretending to be so that when called it will throw off the scent. It's most likely this shell company is being used to set up scams on websites like google and youtube. I'll be phoning the police to hand over this information shortly but thought I'd provide this incase anyone can help track down some more info.

For context this is the youtube channel "mrwhostheboss" collaboration with mr beast

HE HAD TO STOOP THAT LOW DIDNT HE