ALERT!!! Young US vlogger "almost trafficked" in Siem Reap

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John Bingham wrote: ↑Mon Jan 09, 2023 3:16 pm
orichá wrote: ↑Sat Jan 07, 2023 12:12 pm YouTube is an utter waste of time. It's for illiterate people and for plasticky fake "influencers" who want to make money talking about any petty nonsense-impressions of anything unimportant...
You know you can watch documentaries, films, music videos, instructional videos, news and lots of other stuff on YouTube besides travel vloggers?
AND fluffy cute kittens
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2sevensclash wrote: ↑Mon Jan 09, 2023 3:43 pm
John Bingham wrote: ↑Mon Jan 09, 2023 3:16 pm
orichá wrote: ↑Sat Jan 07, 2023 12:12 pm YouTube is an utter waste of time. It's for illiterate people and for plasticky fake "influencers" who want to make money talking about any petty nonsense-impressions of anything unimportant...
You know you can watch documentaries, films, music videos, instructional videos, news and lots of other stuff on YouTube besides travel vloggers?
AND fluffy cute kittens

And don't forget psychological torture videos like this 10 hour one:



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phuketrichard wrote: ↑Mon Jan 09, 2023 1:11 pm if someone wants sell drugs, take selfies, makes you tube videos, be an influencer, builds houses, flies airplanes or shovels shit>
who really gives a fuck how anyone else makes money??
I don't

Money is money
as long as your satisfied with how you make it, yea hats off to them one and all
I give a fuck. Apparently I'm a rare moralistic dinosaur.
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siliconlife wrote: ↑Mon Jan 09, 2023 4:46 pm
phuketrichard wrote: ↑Mon Jan 09, 2023 1:11 pm if someone wants sell drugs, take selfies, makes you tube videos, be an influencer, builds houses, flies airplanes or shovels shit>
who really gives a fuck how anyone else makes money??
I don't

Money is money
as long as your satisfied with how you make it, yea hats off to them one and all
I give a fuck. Apparently I'm a rare moralistic dinosaur.
Kidnapping, extortion, selling meth to kids, mugging old folks, burglary, land-grabbing, usury, illegal gem-dealing - it's all fine with Richard - money is money. :?
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phuketrichard wrote: ↑Mon Jan 09, 2023 9:31 am
ItWasntMe wrote: ↑Mon Jan 09, 2023 8:41 am What sucks is I've been working hard to save enough money to be able to travel and live this life while these mofos are making even more money by simply doing it with the addition of a GoPro.

Seriously annoying. Fuck em all!

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:please:
JEALOUS that someone thought of a way to make $$$ while you work your ass off?

I say Hats off to them!!! :beer3:
A tounge in cheek comment ;)

I follow a bunch of traveling youtubers and many other variants, more entertaining than most Netflix shows foh sho.

Would recommend Bald & Bankrupt for traveling, he really goes into the details and history of the places he visits. With a certain fascination for the old Soviet union.

Far & Fearless is another really good one doing extreme but well documented stuff. Been doing mostly Africa lately.

How People Live another very good one from a Russian guy. Does a bit of everything but it's extreme and informative.

Not too much for the people eating streetfood in Phnom Penh or whatever but with the right character I guess that's fun also :)

Cheers!
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orichá wrote: ↑Sat Jan 07, 2023 8:56 pm
Doc67 wrote: ↑Sat Jan 07, 2023 12:44 pm
Vidiots... that's a keeper.
I did not coin this term... "Vidiots" was spoken by Dennis Hopper, I think, in the picture, "Blue Velvet" by David Lynch, way back in 1986...

Dennis also said, "You’re like a turd that won’t flush."

(Now there's a REAL hoodlum who fucked more sluts than any of you old amateur shysters...)
Coined before in this gem of an American film - Joysticks, where the main antagonist is named "King Vidiot", a highly entertaining low brow tits and ass movie with a good slice of nostalgia for anyone old enough to have spent their youth in the arcade, free on Tubi, also on youtube.

Fun fact: After rewatching it a couple years ago since the 80s, I realized I somehow/somewhere acquired the Hawaiian shirt the fat dude wears.

https://tubitv.com/movies/413152/joysticks

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Weird that so many appear triggered by some guy making YouTube videos. I am always more amazed by the fact one can apparently monetise these videos, the fact that there have been so many views on some vid. Popularity, lowest common denominator etc. etc.

Also amazed that Videodrome is already 40 years of age, if you have never seen this film it is a must-see and available integrally on the Internet Archive (link below). Directed by David Cronenberg, starring Debbie Harry and James Woods.

Although the effects are rather dated from a 2023 lens, the predictions on media consumption and viral videos (pun intended!) are still relevant today.

https://archive.org/details/videodrome-1983-720p

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Videodrome: Remember it very well. Agree with all of Flexxman's comments. Great movie. and yes, prophetic. What goes around does sometimes comes back around.
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Could say the same about ExiztenZ, Cosmopolis, and Eastern Promises, the guy is quite on an edge between science fiction, anticipation, and twisted fantasies of his own, of his time and beyond....
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Ghostwriter wrote: ↑Tue Jan 10, 2023 2:50 am Could say the same about ExiztenZ, Cosmopolis, and Eastern Promises, the guy is quite on an edge between science fiction, anticipation, and twisted fantasies of his own, of his time and beyond....
Seen the new Crimes of the Future? Classic Cronenberg divisiveness.
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