So It Turns Out Honey Was A Scam...

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  • @accuratememin
    @accuratememin 3 дні тому +771

    Seeing Markiplier talk for 20 minutes about how he was right and is a prophet is probably the best thing to come out of this. Sucks for the creator, though.

    • @copuim_dealer
      @copuim_dealer 3 дні тому +25

      The 3 minute clip from 2020 has surged in views

    • @Narinjas
      @Narinjas 3 дні тому +14

      ​@copuim_dealer The new one, that Markiplier(MP) made after the MegaLag(ML) video dropped, where he(MP) was hoping he(ML) was talking about him(MP), when MegaLag said "except one"... and the fact that he (MP) is hoping he (MP) will get mentioned in the second or third part.
      It was a "private" stream that got recorded and posted on YT recently.

    • @copuim_dealer
      @copuim_dealer 3 дні тому +3

      @Narinjas i know the video it was mmamm #140 and he talked about it for like 24 minutes
      I'm just talking about the original clip from 2020

    • @squeebers
      @squeebers 3 дні тому

      RIGHT! Mark is amazing!

    • @livesinalazywonderland4021
      @livesinalazywonderland4021 3 дні тому +1

      Reminds me of when he streamed that one dark web game with real footage of murdered kids

  • @isoclinal
    @isoclinal 3 дні тому +450

    friendly reminder for everyone pie the new ad blocker youtube is trying to shove down people's throats is also owned by honey

    • @RageofHades
      @RageofHades 3 дні тому

      Not owned by Honey, remember Paypal bought it. This is the co-founder of Honey that is now part of PIE and do not trust that BS at all!!

    • @dd-di3mz
      @dd-di3mz 3 дні тому +23

      no clue, I'm using two adblockers at once and haven't gotten a single ad in like 5 months since I downloaded a second one.

    • @BotFisherman
      @BotFisherman 3 дні тому

      Pie has been the only ad to occasionally break through Ublock Origin on my laptop, it's been alittle annoying

    • @linkshunter608
      @linkshunter608 3 дні тому +4

      Damn really? I use pie just for the twitch focused adblock and I like it

    • @SleaderXY
      @SleaderXY 3 дні тому +2

      Source?

  • @EEEEE-p6y
    @EEEEE-p6y 3 дні тому +295

    "If it's free, then you're the product."
    - Some dude on the internet

    • @Blue_FirewalI
      @Blue_FirewalI 3 дні тому +9

      trust us we watched the video too

    • @jablue4329
      @jablue4329 21 годину тому

      Thing is, a lot of people were okay with their data being mined and sold off to advertisers. That's, unfortunately, a given nowadays for pretty much any free product, so a lot of people put up with it. This ploy is far more insidious, imo.

  • @heximiasmagaming3995
    @heximiasmagaming3995 3 дні тому +86

    Avoid the PIE adblocker. Made by the same ppl behind Huney, offers same ridiculous incentives, "Use us to avoid ads, or watch them at your leisure and get paid." Big fat NOPE.

  • @Dire_Pants
    @Dire_Pants 3 дні тому +118

    A while back, Markiplier's podcast(Distractible) did an episode on conspiracy theories. Mark mentioned he had one that he wasn't going to say on air because he didn't want to be judged for it... I wonder if this was it...

    • @bazzfromthebackground3696
      @bazzfromthebackground3696 3 дні тому +17

      Nope, he recorded his Honey rant, was no hiding. Wasn't on the podcast though.

    • @thiccsucc9725
      @thiccsucc9725 3 дні тому

      He went on a honey rant in 2019 when doing his Damien breakdown, he wasn’t hiding his opinion my guy

  • @sooswillbebeat
    @sooswillbebeat 3 дні тому +182

    the craziest part about this all is that the new pie adblocker is made by the same people who made honey

    • @elbruces
      @elbruces 3 дні тому +18

      I'm guessing they figured out how to steal Google Adsense revenue in a similar way. We'll see though.

    • @bazzfromthebackground3696
      @bazzfromthebackground3696 3 дні тому +6

      Pie does the same thing, people have already dug into it.

  • @squeebers
    @squeebers 3 дні тому +44

    33:27 I love Markiplier SO MUCH! He knows his sh*t! His discernment is amazing! He also cares about his audience. Won't take brand deals that he doesn't believe in. I can't remember the last time I saw a Markiplier video on UA-cam that was sponsored by something. (Now his Dostractible podcast is different, but he doesn't choose the sponsors for that.)

  • @CrimsoniteSP
    @CrimsoniteSP 3 дні тому +39

    I think one of my all-time favorite photos I have is when I used Honey for a purchase, there was confetti all over the screen, they were telling me how amazing of a deal I got. Brother, I saved 1 american penny. 1 cent.

  • @DragonEdge10
    @DragonEdge10 3 дні тому +68

    It should be noted that Linus was not the sole exception that discovered their bad behaviour and didn't bother calling them out, but rather that Megalag did not realise/include the context of this ruse having been discovered in the tech influencer space on a somewhat large scale (relative to the niche community). Linus has stated that he did not feel the need to specifically make the announcement when they were not the groundbreaking party and when they (at the time) only knew about the affiliate poaching, which is not really a consumer/user facing issue, which is what they would have made some sort of content for.

    • @milamber319
      @milamber319 3 дні тому +11

      Just to be even more clear. Linus didn't "bother" to call them out because they were publicly outed by someone else and didn't feel the need to repeat it as it didn't affect the consumer.

    • @crimsonJapery
      @crimsonJapery 3 дні тому +2

      Still should have said something then or even now

  • @STVRHAVEN
    @STVRHAVEN 3 дні тому +39

    i really hope the person getting gaslit on that forum sees this

  • @Derglesnaf
    @Derglesnaf 3 дні тому +27

    What’s even funnier is that the same people behind honey made an Adblock which is advertised as:”block ads, get money” found a Reddit post about it and people asking if it’s a scam. Guess who showed up on the Reddit to defend it? The OWNER of Honey. 2 months ago he replied to that post reassuring that it was legit and nothing to worry about. 200 replies later, I get to the replies from a week ago where everyone starts clowning on him. So worth the 7 minutes it took to get to them.

  • @daviddonahoe1303
    @daviddonahoe1303 3 дні тому +10

    I like the old saying "If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is." I always knew Honey was some kind of scam but now I know how they pull it off.

  • @SpacePirate549
    @SpacePirate549 3 дні тому +13

    you know what's also wildly suspiscious? youtube shoving pie ads down everybody's throats after they've just made a big hoopla about how terrible ad blocks are. and guess who owns pie? HONEY. absolute criminal scammers.

  • @Spika94
    @Spika94 3 дні тому +33

    31:30 This is basically all microtransaction deals. There are no "discounts" because everything that cost money on these stores are arbitrary numbers. "Get a free skin with this bundle"? No, you're not getting a free skin with that bundle, because you have to buy it to get it, it isn't free at all. So many people fall for this crap it baffles me. I have a friend who bought an Overwatch 2 bundle because it had a "free skin"... he doesn't even play that character... Brilliant f-ing manipulation tactics. Fooling m*rons left right and center.

    • @accuratememin
      @accuratememin 3 дні тому +3

      youre right but are you really censoring "morons"

    • @Iwbsjdbkd
      @Iwbsjdbkd 3 дні тому +4

      ​​@@accuratememin you would be surprised how stupidly strict these filters get now.
      sometimes they dont even go for comments with a lot of swear words, they go for comments with one word that can be seen as offensive.

    • @justzanu9338
      @justzanu9338 3 дні тому +1

      ​@@accuratememin Let the man be seen and not shadow banned

    • @Hoodini2253
      @Hoodini2253 2 дні тому

      @@Iwbsjdbkdwhich is basically anything that comes out of anyone’s mouth at all times in todays world…

  • @JDeathh
    @JDeathh 3 дні тому +10

    25:55 overwatch jumpscare look away

  • @dilldragon1959
    @dilldragon1959 3 дні тому +26

    Markiplier Knew all along!! W

  • @xtrem5428
    @xtrem5428 3 дні тому +4

    9:18 This is why I always keep a bit of doubt even when everyone say it's fine. Sometimes it just means no one really looked into it.

  • @theuigauss
    @theuigauss 3 дні тому +6

    My fovorte part time streamer spreading put to differnwt contetn love to see ot

  • @LadyVineXIII
    @LadyVineXIII 3 дні тому +1

    I live on the North Shore of Lake Ontario and I have to back what you said about the snow. When I was a kid, 20 years ago, we got a decent bit of snow and a white Christmas. By the time I was in highschool. Barely any snow in winter, at least one nasty ass ice storm a winter and we had a Tornado go through freaking Vaughn which, if you don't know, is part of the GTA and in a bloody city complex. If global warming isn't real, why is the weather getting so crazy and where did winter go?

  • @lilywashere638
    @lilywashere638 3 дні тому +4

    My dad once said if its free and sound too good to be true? Leave and never look back
    Coz its either gonna hurt you or someone else in return

  • @xtrem5428
    @xtrem5428 3 дні тому +2

    7:40 That doesn't surprise me at all. I knew there had to be a way for Honey to make money from the transaction. Typically with discount codes, the the "commission" is made by people using the code, in exchange that the person distributing the code is promoting said code and thus the product and platform it's sold on. But Honey doesn't promote anything, and only comes in play at checkout, after you've already made the decision to buy that product on that platform.

  • @hoodiesempai5608
    @hoodiesempai5608 3 дні тому +4

    I remember watching Mark lose his mind about honey years ago and laughing thinking it was just a good bit. Yeah markimoo called that 😂

  • @taymus13
    @taymus13 2 дні тому +3

    I now need to know if Paypal just owns honey, or if paypal has been directly handling honey. I have other means of buying stuff online without paypal and I will drop them so fast

  • @squeebers
    @squeebers 3 дні тому +2

    5:23 He is referring to "affiliate" links that content creators/influencers DO earn a commision from.

  • @ebhaenger8246
    @ebhaenger8246 3 дні тому +1

    Idk why he didn't call the scamming of the company for what it is. That's straight up blackmailing.
    "If you don't partner with us, you gonna loose money because users get bigger discounts on your shop"

  • @alex_the_polyam_dev7911
    @alex_the_polyam_dev7911 18 годин тому

    People are confusing "Endorsment" and "Trustworthy" with "Sponsor"

  • @pouria8172
    @pouria8172 3 дні тому +2

    If Mr.beast is promoting it you know it's a scam

  • @joefox7135
    @joefox7135 14 годин тому

    As a Canadian, I believed what he felt was true. Bc as everyone says. Nothing is true online.

  • @mickfrick
    @mickfrick 2 дні тому

    The transfer story you told Flats was actually really informative thank you

  • @MrNeCr01
    @MrNeCr01 19 годин тому

    31:00 This concept of "No such thing as a free lunch" is just as harmful as it is informative. People use the same argument against Single Payer Healthcare in the US, but the reality is you're already paying double the cost of any other nation just to get ripped off anyway. Not only is Single Payer actually free, it's actually putting money back in your pocket; especially if they run it on a progressive tax system where only the top tax brackets pay 60% of their income for these benefits, and the average worker is far more likely to pay LESS in taxes AND FEES than their American counterparts.

  • @soldier-qb1dm
    @soldier-qb1dm 15 годин тому

    With LTT and not going public on their channel I wonder if the company itself had to do something like an NDA but as far as the employees themselves never signed so as long as they don't talk about it under the LTT name they're fine

  • @chrisre7662
    @chrisre7662 7 годин тому

    I had the same guts as Mark😂.
    When you think "nothing in life is free" your guts starts to tell that "hey man, ¿you see this honey thing?, yeah, ¿sounds good right?.. maybe too good".
    But man, Mark wtf, he even give the year, what a prophet😂😂😂

  • @jace_playz4802
    @jace_playz4802 День тому

    Crazier part is no one is talking about it now even though all this has come to light

  • @MrNeCr01
    @MrNeCr01 20 годин тому

    Honey codes worked like 7 years ago, but even then it was only ever like 1 out of 5. They've simply been reposting old codes ever since and it was painfully obvious.

  • @RickyJessie-j6c
    @RickyJessie-j6c 3 дні тому

    Thanks for the breakdown! I have a quick question: I have a SafePal wallet with USDT, and I have the seed phrase. (alarm fetch churn bridge exercise tape speak race clerk couch crater letter). What's the best way to send them to Binance?

    • @tanktahu
      @tanktahu 2 дні тому

      Just so anyone unfamiliar with this SCAM is aware, if you use this phrase to open the wallet, it will open an actual wallet. However you can't withdraw anything without paying fees first, which requires you to add money to the account. Once this has been done, the scammers will then drain the account before you can withdraw anything, meaning they get to keep the money you transferred and you get nothing. They have priority over the account so even if you got to the withdrawal stage before the draining finished, you actually wouldn't be able to do anything until they're done.

  • @rafiki_tiki
    @rafiki_tiki 3 дні тому

    thats crazy because for our school events we had to pay too participate.

  • @saidsofsadie
    @saidsofsadie 3 дні тому +1

    honestly so happy i never had a use for it 💪

  • @darksoul4734
    @darksoul4734 9 годин тому

    "if something looks too good to be true, it is." - TheOdd1Out

  • @darionmcclinton351
    @darionmcclinton351 8 годин тому

    That's why I never used it. It's hard to trust free stuff

  • @burkhardt7694
    @burkhardt7694 День тому

    Markiplier predicted this would happen. Always trust your instincts

  • @Otacool009
    @Otacool009 3 дні тому +1

    when you realize you actually had a commission but honey took it face 7:44

    • @Otacool009
      @Otacool009 3 дні тому +1

      and for years you thought the advertisement was the payment

    • @frozencrow8735
      @frozencrow8735 3 дні тому

      Sad part is that it doesn't matter if you were sponsored by them or not. You can still get your commission taken even though you didn't have anything to do with them.

  • @szkraft220
    @szkraft220 3 дні тому

    yo see that video mark was watching in the honey rant clip, thats damien, you should totslly check it out, whoever you are reading this
    same for a date with markiplier, who killed markiplier, a heist with markiplier, DAMIEN and in space with markiplier
    you should totally do it not enough people talk about these genuine pieces of art mark has directed

  • @rachelhughes8487
    @rachelhughes8487 День тому

    I literally didn't even wait for the video to finish before I went and uninstalled Honey. I had previously talked my family and friends into using it and genuinely was happy about how much money it actually saved me as I do most of my purchasing online.
    I can't imagine how much stuff this scummy company stole from content creators I cared about.
    Heck, after this, I might get rid of my Paypal account on principle.

  • @evilninjoe
    @evilninjoe 3 дні тому

    On choosing not to buy a house cause its close to the water: VALID
    Since climate change is a "political" topic now I always tell ppl to dumb it down and ask: How is money moving around this particular topic?
    Money hardly ever lies

  • @jeverydk
    @jeverydk 3 дні тому

    The Brave browser is financed the same way

  • @NitroToxico
    @NitroToxico День тому

    Knew from the start that it was a bad idea to get Honey, and my only reason is because the way they promoted and talked about the website felt wrong in many ways for me. Guess i was right for so many years ago

  • @ahmadruzaini4646
    @ahmadruzaini4646 3 дні тому

    it could some companies pay honey to messed up their rival business so that they HAVE to raise the price and the scum business offer a lower price..and that can circle back to influencer...what a messssssssss....

  • @soldier-qb1dm
    @soldier-qb1dm 15 годин тому

    29:20 you're not wrong except when you're backed by or are already the big dog like say PayPal then you can push around and do whatever you want

  • @riverbendgrowing420
    @riverbendgrowing420 День тому

    dont use pie same people. Pie Adblock is a browser extension developed by Ryan Hudson, the creator of the popular shopping extension Honey.

  • @kujas
    @kujas 3 дні тому +1

    Marky mark on some wisdom before honey conspiracy

  • @jiaverse
    @jiaverse 3 дні тому

    honestly i was the same as mark in having those doubts but i just thought they sell your browsing or shopping data or both to companies, somehow they’ve came up with a new cutting edge shitty way of making money though LMAO like i had no clue it was THIS bad

  • @hobabo9703
    @hobabo9703 3 дні тому

    The fact that Honey basically said "yeah of course we're taking money lol" in the response emails is so baffling and evil that I laughed.
    Also, Markiplier was completely right, I've never installed it cause something just felt off about it. I don't know if the incessant push from UA-camrs made me turn away from it or if it was the 'too good to be true' concept of the addon, but something just felt off

  • @bexzilla6388
    @bexzilla6388 День тому

    An app. Called honey. Being a honeypot scheme. Is wild. 😊

  • @shmooks6267
    @shmooks6267 19 годин тому

    Flats watching a 30 min video, obviously not trying to get a game of Overwatch but my man keeps hitting the queue button.

  • @darienwilliams6686
    @darienwilliams6686 3 дні тому

    I knew to never trust honey from the start now hearing this honey is screwed

  • @samdinar3958
    @samdinar3958 3 дні тому

    I said the day one friends and family but they didn't believe me and called me insane oh I never use the app this makes me like a cynical bastard right now

  • @guinve5971
    @guinve5971 2 години тому

    they think shits sweet 😭😭😭😭😭😭

  • @lc77713
    @lc77713 3 дні тому

    I agree with the DNA thing but if you’ve ever had medical labs done then they probably already have it.

  • @jonaswest6993
    @jonaswest6993 3 дні тому

    I remember Roosterteeth was full of honey sponsor ship so I'm not surprised they had financial trouble

  • @dmvelocity5181
    @dmvelocity5181 11 годин тому

    it blew my fucking mind finding out flats lives in mass. ive lived here my entire life

  • @toxic_icecream
    @toxic_icecream 3 дні тому

    Bruh the tuition story is crazy, so you tell me they just increased the price to include all this unnecessary bs without you ever knowing so when you don't use the stuff you payed for they just pocket the money?

  • @katelynx3x3
    @katelynx3x3 3 дні тому

    i wasnt nearly as smart about it as markiplier, but i have never ever used honey because i was sus about it too. i was more of a they stealing info and ad targeting, so i was off about it. but i was as distrustful as him! i never saw this video before but i cant believe we were right! i figured i was being weird about it.

  • @WicketParakeet
    @WicketParakeet 3 дні тому

    i never use this kind of stuff i am from a small contruy so i am very much not luking for stuff in amarica so i never use stuff creatores recomend

  • @brian21282
    @brian21282 2 дні тому

    Honey is like a react youtuber who put in real work to scam and sometimes provides its audience with real value.

  • @jaydeeao
    @jaydeeao 3 дні тому

    Yo, back when you seen honey everywhere I said it was a scam. I didn't know how it was a scam, there was no way for me to prove anything.
    However there was one thing that I was hanging my hat on which was that "nothing is free".

  • @zackwalker2172
    @zackwalker2172 День тому

    Cant wait for the 12 second "i was right" video from mark.

  • @not.alexanderr
    @not.alexanderr 3 дні тому

    Its so silly seeing people freak out over this as if 99% of the stuff youtubers promote isn't a scam

  • @nickdavid1846
    @nickdavid1846 3 дні тому

    Whenever I heard "literally real money" I knew it was bs. Honestly I always wondered were the money came from. And Mark is spitting with DNA tests as well.

  • @Adam-je2cp
    @Adam-je2cp 2 дні тому

    IJ has a thing about NJ storing babies dna

  • @brandonhammond1362
    @brandonhammond1362 15 годин тому

    class action incoming

  • @johnbarnhart5258
    @johnbarnhart5258 День тому

    Your social security number is ur number that’s a price code for other countries looo at the the people that have gone missing around national parks plus they know all ur medical info and more are worth more trust me

  • @coolasgaming
    @coolasgaming 3 дні тому

    Not me alt-tabbing thinking i accidentally queued a game

  • @igetwoahs3073
    @igetwoahs3073 21 годину тому

    Sawa video a few weeks ago where they're tool markipliers video and intentionally used it out of context to make it seem like he was talking about honey from bees.

  • @Charmcharchar
    @Charmcharchar 3 дні тому

    Wasn't flats just describing the world of Gattaca? instead of SSN you have DNA for identifiers and such

  • @littlejimmycratner
    @littlejimmycratner 3 дні тому +1

    do not trust anyone

  • @revtemp
    @revtemp 3 дні тому

    Heyyyy so here's a fun fact, anyone who is telling you you'll get a discount/free item without personality knowing you IS trying to sell you something for far above what they say they want 👍

  • @rileytardini
    @rileytardini 3 дні тому

    Not going to lie, how Markiplier felt distrust to honey, i feel the same about temu, my like gen z internet scam detection intuition goes off every single time i see it, am i wrong, maybe but i still refuse to use it

  • @Vabiscool
    @Vabiscool 20 годин тому

    the only thing i dont like about flats is that he acts surprised that companies can do bad things, like come on dont be that blind dude

  • @breeze004
    @breeze004 3 дні тому

    I still think it’s funny that flats watches theses videos while waiting for a match lmao

  • @Yasha_U
    @Yasha_U 3 дні тому

    I think you saying you worry about your ads is a good sign you're an alright person flats

    • @beanjuice6012
      @beanjuice6012 3 дні тому

      Sounds like you trust people way too much without knowing them in person. Thats an issue lmao.

  • @TheRyderShotgunn
    @TheRyderShotgunn 3 дні тому

    "whats the catch?"
    "there is no catch!"
    so what youre saying is that there is a super scummy catch that you can't tell me or you'll sink your entire business, got it

  • @yadagunther
    @yadagunther 3 дні тому

    i used honey once and didn't do shit so I never used it again

    • @beanjuice6012
      @beanjuice6012 3 дні тому

      The deals were always ass, never really used it after trying it out once 😂

  • @duongnguyen-s1i
    @duongnguyen-s1i 2 дні тому

    so honey makes thing worse for the content creator, customers and business like no one wins... well except for honey ofc.

  • @Stinktootoot
    @Stinktootoot 3 дні тому

    Dude I love megalag so much

  • @MrBastionOverwatch0
    @MrBastionOverwatch0 3 дні тому

    Will we potentially get a coffeezilla reaction video (the logan paul crypto zoo one maybe )

  • @tuinhoofd1923
    @tuinhoofd1923 3 дні тому

    I like flats a lot, but I feel like a lot of his reaction videos have become just watching the video pretty much uninterrupted, without adding that much, or being transformative

  • @JustAGoose_Z9
    @JustAGoose_Z9 3 дні тому

    35:33 what has all the data????

    • @accuratememin
      @accuratememin 3 дні тому

      Ancestry. It's a rather popular site that was used for people to track down their family history and profiles, bloodlines, usually "long lost families" type shit.

    • @bobbobington3895
      @bobbobington3895 3 дні тому

      23 and Me went under and everyone's DNA data is gonna be sold off

  • @Maobles
    @Maobles 3 дні тому +4

    where is honey, getting the money....

  • @Fahimkarranikhan
    @Fahimkarranikhan 11 годин тому

    Easy capitalism baby

  • @laithamalexander5830
    @laithamalexander5830 12 хвилин тому

    mark number 1

  • @boopboop7868
    @boopboop7868 3 дні тому

    i love markiplier

  • @Tze52
    @Tze52 3 дні тому +3

    I wonder how these influencers feel now. They promote a product that actually ends up biting them in the back PLUS tons of people who had nothing to do with Honey. Because they didn't do research...

    • @JoshDun6
      @JoshDun6 3 дні тому +2

      how do you research that if you are youtuber that buys woman clothes? like did you go and inspect the cookies of every thing u go on to see if it is bad or something? or what about people and promoters that are doing fashion, art, blogs, traveling and many other things that doesnt require pc skills?

    • @tanktahu
      @tanktahu 2 дні тому

      I mean when it first came out nobody knew anything was wrong with it really. It's not like youtubers are just gonna randomly start manually monitoring their cookies when clicking affiliate links, especially if they're not knowledgeable about the internet.
      The only thing that was really suspicious was the fact that they seemed to be handing out alot of money while providing an allegedly 'free' product, while still making a profit, but there still wasn't alot of proof out there.

  • @CausticGas
    @CausticGas 3 дні тому

    LOGANG

  • @lowqualityyy
    @lowqualityyy 3 дні тому +1

    Oh no. He’s turning into a react streamer.

    • @ShadowSword88ee
      @ShadowSword88ee 3 дні тому

      When was he not a react streamer?

    • @tanktahu
      @tanktahu 2 дні тому

      I mean he's always been reacting to stuff? Plus this is literally his react channel.

  • @pouria8172
    @pouria8172 3 дні тому

    If Mr.beast is promoting it you know it's a scam

    • @tanktahu
      @tanktahu 2 дні тому

      Yeah he was one of the biggest promoters of honey, wonder if there's anything up with that. He's actually reason I knew honey existed in the first place.