I'm testing a new thumb and title, but there's a new episode here: ua-cam.com/video/afagZF782d8/v-deo.html The Most Malevolent Man On Earth, on TBH Podcast ep 22 w/ Dolan and Colossal
Came back to rewatch after the seeing the TBH, really helped as a follow up to help digest this video, almost a bit like the first episode with jaystation. Keep up the great work, it doesn't go unappreciated
Yes. The guy has always been a conman and this nft fad was just the perfect grift for him. It’s sad to think about all the working class (and lower class!) people that wasted their money on this bs.
I saw this guy selling veefrends at the Chicago sport card show. That guy was sell like crazy, all by giving the kids the false illusion they were getting cashed out if they got the 1/1. It made me sick to the stomach.
This is literally just MLMs for men, it seems. I feel so bad for people that get sucked into this stuff. It's like, the word "opportunity" pops up, you can almost guarantee it's a scam, YOU are the product, & the person offering you something is really offering to take you for a ride for their own benefit. Every time.
@@rosecity_christhat's how I feel. They're dumb, and fools often part from their money. The fact a lot of these assholes have families to look after and they're taking chances like this with their savings proves how stupid and naive they are. They're proof that some people shouldn't be having kids.
There is, he is a manic person who is f-ed up on dopamine. Or in the less PC-term, he is crazy. Either way, malevolent or not, what matters is that he is harmful.
I went to school for digital marketing and we always had to watch this guy. My program’s professors treated what this man said like gospel. I never really liked him, I felt he was too boisterous but slowly it got darker. Mans is just evil.
@@towon How is sowing false hope to earn money off of naive people not malevolent? Its the same as some wannabee christian super healer on TV in the 90's/2000's....
@@nerdcitylol, damn, that downvote can be a real menace. I respect the heck out of you as a creator and think you should be able to do whatever you want with your channel. I kinda agree with Nicky tho tbh. I think it subtracts from your message and what you're trying to accomplish is all. Anyways, thanks for the great content.
Well, he's absolutely ambivalent to the harm he causes (just doesn't care), but "malevolent" implies that he _intends_ to cause harm.... which is harder to argue as a third party that doesn't know what's actually going on in his head.
was that clip of gary holding up the spider and cat pictures right after that its always sunny scene for real or edited in? because realizing how almost identical gary's schtick is to charlie's personality makes it seem like that is too much of a crazy coincidence and he's just pulling a charlie on everyone lol
Being halfway through the video the only conclusion I can make is what happend to Nerd City is he spent all his money on NFTs, became homeless and stopped uploading
I know this is a little off topic but I simply can’t understand that there are people that think the process of creating a bitcoin is environmentally friendly. I used to work for a company that has rows and rows of rigs mining bitcoin, and for it to even a get a fragment of a bit coin could take weeks. For it to get that fragment, it takes so much electricity and energy just to do so. Not only that the rigs are super loud and they produce massive amounts of heat, and they have to have dedicated isles to push the heat out of the buildings and push into the environment around them just so the rigs don’t overheat.
It kinda baffles me that so many people took this man serious. His whole demenour, the body language and his, at times, erratic behaviour (most likely coked up to kingdom come) could be the poster child for a snake oil salesman. But thank god you came back, when we needed you the most
I had a friend of a friend who was obsessed with Gary v I would constantly tell him this dude is a coked up scammer and still to this day that guy has a “business advice” instagram… he’s mid 20’s with no car, lives with his grandma and works at chipotle…. What advice could he possibly have
It's just factually accurate that deranged intensity and exaggerated levels of animation is something social media influencers share with crazy people.
Snake oil salesmen act in that particular manner because it works. Might not work on you or me (though I imagine most types of people can be successfully targeted in one way or another) but it works on the subset of people that are the easiest to rope in anyway. Why try a subtle and complicated gambit that needs to be tailored to a particular audience when you can just do the standard A1 schtick and people will come to you?
Great video, but saying Gary V doesn't know what he's doing with this stuff is really ill-informed. He knows his audience is struggling, desperate people and he makes money off of driving them further into poverty.
@@RADkatehow is it a scam? If you knowingly pay him to teach you something and he then teaches you that exact information, it's not a scam because there was no manipulation, you get exactly what you signed up for, fundamentally it's no different than online college
Yeah like half an hour of talking about a scam artist, then selling a _Discord class_ on digital art felt very weird. And then preempting responses to possible comments people would make about it.
@@toagradius8856 And a lot of the answers were either references to conspiracies or just saying "No". Dude's gonna be a controversy in 6 months I guarantee.
@@nerdcitywhere did everyone else go? Why not do a video explaining that you’re channel couldn’t be sustained from videos alone and this is how your fixing that? it’s sucks that this is the video you posted after waiting so long for your next release but it’s your life and channel and we don’t knows what’s going on behind the camera so I can’t judge
@nerdcity What are your thoughts on effective altruism? That's the left's version of WEF. The left sees it as an accelerationist doomsday cult trying to deregulate everything to try and bring on the so called cyberpunk future. It's tangentially related to Eliezer Yudkowsky and Sam Bankman, the FTX guy.
Look, I hear you. I’m not calling you a grifter or scammer, but the moment someone gets to the “N” in “NFTs” I stop listening. Most sane people would not buy an NFT if someone told them to at gunpoint. I would, at this point, much rather purchase digital art in any other way.
I think the malevolence is obvious when he describes scamming people as a "sport". People losing their money, houses and in some cases their lives, is a "sport" to him. If ever there was a justification for gulags, thats it.
Same lol. What's the point of it again? Just to validate some "channel membership" external to UA-cam? Or is it a licence for the software which he barely spoke about? I need 5x more detail on it than this video provides
Look, I like your content, and I don't think your foray into this space as a Tryhards experiment is inherently without value. It's interesting to see what can be done when the point isn't a cynical pump and dump, even if the end result is just a novel way of validating a paid membership. The fact that an "ethical" NFT pfp collection drop is such a novelty kind of betrays the issue, though. The reason people are asking if you've watched all of x or y is because they, like myself, find it hard to imagine watching and understanding something like "Line Goes Up" and still having your neutral opinion about NFTs. You correctly say that any potential utility for artists has been undermined by the entrepreneur crowd. Could the underlying tech have been of some use to bona fide artists? Sure, maybe. With wider adoption it might have been possible. I guess. Where this framing falls short is it assumes that NFTs were ever intended to serve a utility. They weren't, or at least that was secondary to the grift. They are a post-hoc use case built onto crypto technology because it isn't very good at being currency (its stated primary use case). People who own crypto needed another way to convince "bigger fools" to buy in. Otherwise their money stays tied up in this otherwise not-very-useful asset. NFTs are just a selling point for what essentially functions as a Ponzi scheme. There could be legitimate use cases for the underlying blockchain technology but for an outsider, nobody who already bought in can be assumed to be an honest actor. They have an interest in convincing you to join them. Whether they're trying to cash out or hodl to the moon, the value of their asset is dependent on people continuing to buy in and drive demand (and also on convincing their peers not to sell, which would increase supply) TL;DR: Gary Vee isn't the exception in this space. He's the rule. NFTs exist for people like him to make money off rubes. And those rubes need to find bigger rubes to make their money back.
i was just thinking, that a shoutout to top donors in the end of a youtube video would be very non-fungible on its own. as for the art, perhaps artists could just take a special commission from the donors or customers. having it on a blockchain allows for the reciept of the art to change hands, but thats about the only value it provides. in the end, it doesnt seem to justify the use of blockchains, especially considering the environmental impact along with other things.
I cant believe you dont think he’s “malevolent” thats an insane take after this whole video, do you really think he doesnt know exactly what he’s doing?
While I get that it's probably just doctor downvote being himself, doesn't it take away from the video that you had him call this guy not malevolent?? He's literally a conman. I really think it would be best to cut that line out of the video entirely, regardless of the character.
What I find fascinating with those scams is that even when someone makes a 45 minutes video to explain it to me, I still don't understand what even was the value proposition in the first place.
if a perceived rich man says "hey this is worth a lot of money!" there will always be a subsection of people who trust that man simply based on the way he says those words with confidence, and the perceived idea that those with lots of money must know the value of money, because "how else could they have been so rich if not for understanding how to get money and what the worth of money is?" but sadly it seems people forget that cosmic wisdom on the market's doesn't get passed down with nepotism, and a good robber, thief, or con-man, is only ever a good liar, extortionist, and thug, and not much more.
You know how when you buy a lottery ticket, you don't usually win, in fact you never have, but the idea of winning and the odds not quite being zero are incentives enough for some people? Take that idea and then misrepresent it to make it seem like winning is inevitable if you buy another 200 tickets as if that's an *investment*
You don’t understand because you’re not in the cult of Gary Vee. He has built his entire persona around collecting sycophants who follow his lead and never question anything he says, does, or recommends. He’s been a con from the moment he started billing himself as an expert.
I have no idea where the myth that the Netherlands is the 4th largest agriculture exporter in the world came from but they aren't in the top 20 by any metric.
A quick search on "largest agriculture exporter" suggests they are in 2nd place. So there is a good chance that they are in the top 20 by at least 1 metric.
Which metric? If you do a quick google search they take pretty much second place across the board in food products. Only this year 2023 reports show them at 4th. If you look at production they obviously aren't since they export the biggest amount straight from their harbor in Rotterdam. It's a lot of re-exporting.
@@mr_pike4609 so basically because a lot of it gets imported and exported people mistake that for exports, well that explains how that nonsense claim came about.
@@ZontarDow Production is Production and export is export. While it does feel weird it isn't really nonsense since well, they export a shitload and earn a lot of money doing so. You also can't under estimate the amount of work it takes to do it. While it might feel unpure in your eyes it isn't really nonsense.
@@mr_pike4609 Given it literally 100% of cases it's used to hype of some mystical agricultural production method no one nation knows of in conversation it's kind of a myth that needs to die once and for all. I mean hell all sources that gather data on food exports don't count it which is why no lists have them high enough of note.
So is the idea that by mainting extreme scarcity and creating something of value to a very select few amount of people, youre trying to artificially create the kind of value a super rare comic book might have 20 years after the comic bubble bursts?
The way it played out for people like Gary Vee and Logan Paul is much worse than that; they wanted all the money of an ancient and scarce collectible up front and had no patience to layer in the value and let it happen naturally from market forces. So my thesis is that for something to become collectible it has to be relatively affordable at first, or thought of by most people as worthless. My offerings will always be given away or sold for the time I put into it. And then I'll add the value over time and keep it relevant for the smaller amount of royalties.
@@nerdcity okay, I think I see what you mean, but there's something I'm not fully getting; if you want to slowly build the value instead of trying to force it like Logan Paul and Gary v did, how do you do that without the people buying into your project using the same tactics Logan Paul and Gary V did to get more value sooner?
well, I'm not saying I'll make more money than them. It depends what metric you use for success.. Scammers and people who breaks laws sometimes make ungodly amounts of money. But by not doing that, will I be able to sleep at night? Yes, so far :)@@tylerr472
Trying to make an "ethical" nft line is a cool idea but imo the time has since passed to try to make any meaningful difference in the market. it is such a novelty at this point that it seems rather pointless, though pertaining to a niche of viewers you relate to is a good idea. Also ofc find the end about youtube comments insufferable but isn't that the point of this whole channel?
I'll expand on that last segment later, but if I didn't mention those things, people would keep telling me all the misinfo like I somehow never heard it yet.
One of Italian BIGGEST conwoman, Vanna Marchi (used to sell on tv remedies for "malocchio", bad luck, until she was arrested) once said: "Morons exist to be screwed over". And that's very true and very sad.
It is actually very scary to think that some people with such bad intent get as much attention as important broadcasted political speeches would have a couple decades ago. The people that did this shit on TV 1 or 2 decades ago were somewhat bound to contracts and there is only one way to see see them, and that was the TV. But now everything spreads like wildfire and people pick up on these stories because they truly believe them.
This is really just Snake Oil selling, selling you stuff and telling you they have value, but this time, the Oil doesn’t exist and it literally has 0 value.
As an artist who has been approached multiple times to work for various nft projects, I'm still not workin' on that shit. Great vid as always, glad to have ya back nerd 👍
No reason to pair with anyone less talented who needs you and get a boss all over again. If it makes sense to work into your own art, try it out. The market is welcoming to good artists.
@@nerdcity That's fair, I'm really happy for all the artists who are doing good work & supporting themselves with their passion. It's just not the kind of career I want.
Hate how popular these gurus have become. Don’t ever let someone convince you how to live your life. Yet so many people fall for it, materialism has ruined us imo. Great video as always
Of all the people i might listen to about anything... this gary dude is not on the list. Well, unless i want to become a proffessional menace to society.
Yep, To find actually intelligent or wise people on the internet is hard and usually you stumble upon them by accident, and they never tell you how to live your life. This applies as well to financial gurus or ''spiritual'' gurus, one famous guy that comes to my mind when I think of fake gurus is sadhguru.
I guess I'm just confused what is the point of the dead avatar project? Is the benefit your getting out of owning one just the community discord and tutorials? I also don't understand, are they free? The website says they are 0 eth, but then how would they ever have worth. I guess I just don't get it on a fundamental level. I'd rather just subscribe to a patreon tbh
My thoughts exactly. I guess he's trying to legitimise the concept, but it's not explicitly mentioned that the project is about getting artists paid, so I can only assume it's 100% profit
Nerd said in a patreon episode of his podcast that he’s doubtful it’ll happen in the near future because nobody cares about Jaystation anymore and also because he’s absolutely tired of Jaystations voice and videos that he couldn’t bring himself to edit
Mark Cuban is why I purchased a large amount of etherium. Then I got to watch my money disappear for 6 months, but luckily pulled it out during a spike and broke even. I figured a millionaire investor like Mark would be on top of investing opportunities. I learned a big lesson from this, and luckily it didn't end up as painful as it could have.
I gotta say, as a long time nerd city fan, I found this video to be extremely disappointing. Its clearly extremely high effort, and I applaud you for all of the hard work. I just feel like this video is missing alot of things that I love about the Nerd City channel. The ensemble of memorable characters has always been one of the most entertaining parts of previous videos. Seeing Dr. Downvote, the devil, nicki, and other youtubers always adds an extra level of entertainment. Dr D is barely in this video, and theres no one else. I feel as though this is such a missed opportunity. To have more chaotic delivery from Dr D can really emphasis alot of the points youre trying to make in more interesting ways than what is in this video. The various characters really helped separate Nerd City from feeling like any old video essay channel. This video feels closer to standard video essays than what I would expect from Nerd City. There was also alot of hyper stylized editing done in previous videos that really enhanced the information being communicated. The ending bits of "A parents worst nightmare" and "The worst youtuber of all time" hyper edited commentary from various characters together, and really made the videos feel like they had a satisfying climax. This video doesn't really feel like that. I get a feeling that there is one consistent energy in this video from beginning to end, which can feel boring. In previous videos, there was lots of ebs and flows with different music, editing, characters, or points being made that gave different sections of those videos more weight to them. Also, titling the video "What Happened to Nerd City?", when the video never addresses this topic, is just terrible clickbait. The title is flat out lie. I find it a bit concerning for you that you have barely uploaded in 3 years, and I really hope the best for your mental health. If you want the reason you've been absent to be private, I totally understand. But, don't lie in the title of your return video, to the 900k people that actually want to support you. This level of clickbait seems like something you would criticize other youtubers for doing. this video is definitely better than 99% of what's on youtube, but I just feel like it's not up to the Nerd City standard. I'm glad you're back, and I will definitely watch the next video, and I hope you are doing well.
I got handed one of those Gary V books at an event for free. My friend was completely spellbound by it. I, on the other hand, didn't want to go through the effort of burning it later.
Why does every Gary video looks like he owes money to the mob and just got spotted at the mall and he is hiding in the changing room knowing that they are right behind him.
It is just so strange to me how people manage to get convinced of anything by people posting these poorly-filmed insane vlogs where they're exhibiting some kind of mania or controlled substance abuse.
@@Vanity0666 They weren't purchasing a jpeg they were making an investment. You know that some of these people borrowed against their retirement accounts right?
Hah, bold move to still keep going with the NFT project. I guess it's a cool way to support a creator and get a token out of it. Maybe that's the best use for them really... as an alternative to patreon-style support. Unfortunately isn't really useful if you're an artist who doesn't have support in the first place. And ultimately it's still artificial scarcity, made with assets that are randomised character creation. Still, I wish you the best with this project.
Ethereum has changed from proof of work to proof of stake, which basically means they cut how much energy consumption Ethereum uses by about 30,000x what it used to be, and uses 50,000x less than bitcoin. So it used to have some environmental impact but now there’s virtually none
Dude this makes me feel like I'm in some sort of Truman show scenario. Straight up just checked Nerd city socials an hour ago to see if anything is happening after years of not thinking about this channel and this comes out. Wild
Two days ago I was wondering where they went. Searched them up on Twitter and noticed they were still active on there and thought, "huh cool they are alive". And now this lol
Did the DAP ever actually come to fruition I remember getting threatened by the discord mod to have my entire account terminated and then I just got banned for FUD or something lmfao
in a later video will dive in, for sure. But there are a lot of reasons! The fees are much lower. There's no monthly rebills (better for supporters). You can trade out of it if you don't want it anymore (better for supporters). There's no censorship worry from Patreon (better for artists). There's no possibility of charging back on last day of month (better for artists). I've witnessed the harshest side of all of those problems. Plus this is more fun, and there are endless world-building options using the trait system. It's worth experimenting with!
Any way to combat the lack of exposure youtube gives y’all? The videos are amazing, fleshed out, and it’s clear your core audience is your peers, not just people who consume UA-cam. Makes me sad because I know these take a while and UA-cam tends to punish channels with slower content output. Fill us in
That point (36:24) you made about how influencing people to become entrepreneurs on the next big fad being more harmful than good is so important. That's the message that needs to be perpetuated from this point onwards. Sure there were very likely similar people doing the same thing back then, but the internet itself has caused it to become much more wide spread and frankly cancerous to innovation and virgining tech.
Exactly, being an entrepreneur isn't the issue, you can live a very comfortable life that way if you're good at what you do, just don't go into dumbass bullshit as you said. Open a grocery store, open a repair shop, start a construction business, hell, open a laundromat (maybe not that one) something proven, and something that people actually need and requires skill and knowhow to be able to do or that most people dont want to do. The issue is these people all want "get rich quick with the least amount of effort" when that really doesn't exist, or at least its so rare that the percentage chance when rounded to the nearest ten thousandth is 0, it might as well not exist. People have forgotten that hard work truly does pay off most of the time; you just have to work hard at the right things.
@@DingDingTheUA-camBuddy I just watched a documentary about the biggest laundromat in America. The dude said he did it all for the money, BUT he said, that doesn''t mean that he needs to screw over people or not do nice things. He helps people get their laundry clean, pays entertainers to have special parties for kids and even cooks food. Everything done to make the thing more popular and to make him more money, but at the same time everything also helps the people visiting the laundromat. Selling shitcoins literally makes every single person save very few happy, and even those are only happy becase they ignore how they screw up peoples' lives.
I wish you the rest of your collaborators success in your project, seeing as you try to make it as ethical as possible, but i feel like that ship has already sailed for the vast majority of people. NFTs are associated with scams first and foremost (for good reason), and it's going to be hard to undo that. Also great video, took me a full day to watch because Gary makes me physically cringe.
The idea is that you can sell your art like you could a physical piece. In reality, it has been just a bunch of pirates making money off of an artist, with no benefit to the artist. For every artist that actually benefits, many, many artists just have their art stolen.
Is there something wrong with me that the first thing I thought about is how many trees this guy wasted? He printed all these books that no one will ever read and will eventually just be destroyed. "Hey, help me burn a bunch of paper and I'll trade you a link to a shitty digital doodle I drew." - That essentially describes what happened.
Garry records videos like he's being held hostage. Its always so close, he's looking around like he's looking for a tail, he's so quiet and frantic, it's so weird
I know a guy who knows him. He told me this dude straight up walks around the office giving wisdom nobody asked for 😆 And they have to listen and agree bc he's their boss
I keep feeling like something is missing...and I just realized that the vid has practically no backing music. Is this a new wave of something...bc, I prefer the musical interludes and overlays/underlays.
@@ekmadagreed. My second time watching the vid, I noticed that some sections had the backing tracks, and in others it was just missing...I guess the general dreariness I feel during discussions of GaryVee quiet-washed my viewing experience.
highest paid artists oder: 1. twitter nsfw fetish drawing weirdos 2. the guy who made certified boylover album cover 3. garry 4. Maurice Johnson 5. some guy who offered to draw a sketch of me infront of Big Ben for 70 quid like brother i aint paying you nothing you draw like a 5 year old stop bothering me tf
We need to stop calling glorified hype beasts/club promotors "marketers." Salespeople are bad at most marketing work, they just push product (I would know, I've worked with both)
Omg! I seriously found this cause Oompa mentioned the channel and I was immediately hooked. Crazy lucky for a brand new upload after a year! Impeccable timing and quality!
Was just thinking bout you the other day. Checked the channel and was like daaaamn it's been a long time hope all is well. My prayers have been and answered
He can never just make eye contact with a camera lens to spew his bs. He’s constantly looking around. Even in his own home. Because he knows subconsciously he should always be on alert and watching his back for people coming to _get_ him.
I love you Nerd, amazing quality videos in such a long, drawn out, few and far between, uploads. Peak content and you're my favorite channel to watch. No other content creator can have me sit down and watch a video without pausing like this. I hope these artist get the proper treatment and respect they deserve.
For those upset/confused about the ending, let me explain (at least how I understand it) cause I do think he missed the mark on the explanation. If you paid attention to the whole video, this video wasn’t an anti-nft, this was an anti-nft scam video. For those who have forgotten NFT’s, before they were scams, were suppose to be a source of income for talented and underpaid artists. Can you right click and save the image? Sure, and you can also pirate any movie or video game on the internet with literally zero consequence, so why do people bother to pay for games and movies? Out of convenience, or to support the creator. If you don’t have the money to support a good artist, then don’t, that’s okay, but it seems Nerd City is trying to take this NFT project in that direction. Actual art, not randomly generated trash, and unless I misunderstand, you’d have some sort of access to a server to learn something? So it’s providing a tangible service as well as income for actually talented and deserving people. Now, I’m never gunna buy an NFT, but I don’t think they are inherently bad. I think 99% of them are scams, but there are some actual good purposes out there. The point was made at the beginning that the tulip market crashed and rose from the ashes, and amazon, eBay, and other companies have a similar story. Nerd City is claiming NFT’s are sharing that story. They got inflated, and people were scammed into placing unrealistic values on them, and then it crashes, but there is actually a use for this technology that will rise from the ashes from people who actually care about delivering a good product, and that is what I think Nerd City is trying to do. If I am wrong, please correct me. Maybe I got some specific stuff wrong because I can’t memorize the entire video, but I think that’s the general gist of it.
I dont understand so far why the title is so misleading hopefully there is an explanation at the end that isnt clickbait or meta clickbait, cause this video doesnt need that
Maybe it was just an example of Gary Vee techniques? Expect something but end up getting none of what was pitched. I know there’s a much better way to say that, but I hope you get what I mean. Still enjoyed the video but yeah I wasn’t too fond of that.
Here's Nerds response why (found it in the comments:) *"I dunno, just fucking around. I might change it to Gary Vee something later, I just wanted to say hello again."* So I guess there's literally no point. He just did it just to do it, LOL
5:26 Soon as I saw the Star Wars figures melting in acetone I was so hyped to see RLM and then Mike at 5:30 was gold. I was worried he was only gonna show the figures melting.
When you randomly search Nerd City because you wanna rewatch the Sniperwolf video for the 10th time but realize he recently put out a new video... Good friday fo sho.
@@nerdcity They always do. They dont understand nuance and can only see things from their ivory towers while LARPing as oppressed proletariat online. They'll claim x is going to hurt people, but then claim organized retail theft is just fighting oppression... meanwhile, businesses leave, food deserts appear, jobs leave, regular poor people fall into despair. Happening all over the US right now. They can't zoom out and see higher resolution.
@@FloedekageI hope not! Tankies are legit retards. "Authoritarianism is bad, unless it's leftwing authoritarianism." It's just such a non-principled position lol.
I'm testing a new thumb and title, but there's a new episode here: ua-cam.com/video/afagZF782d8/v-deo.html The Most Malevolent Man On Earth, on TBH Podcast ep 22 w/ Dolan and Colossal
so much more indicative of the video and will doubtless quell the comments. good shit king
@@AirSpanii Finger guns handshake low five high five kiss on cheek double butt bump
Just listened to it the other day. Super informative and provides so much insight into the video. Should be required listening
fair enough, the podcast made this video much deeper than i initially thought it was
Came back to rewatch after the seeing the TBH, really helped as a follow up to help digest this video, almost a bit like the first episode with jaystation. Keep up the great work, it doesn't go unappreciated
I think it's absolutely a mistake to not think of a guy like Gary as malevolent. He's a conman. He knows what he's doing.
This. Anybody profiting from the emotional stir of the promise of money for the poor is malevolent.
If he isn’t a conman he has the reverse Midas Touch. Everything he’s associated with turns to shit.
all of (((them))) know.
Yes. The guy has always been a conman and this nft fad was just the perfect grift for him. It’s sad to think about all the working class (and lower class!) people that wasted their money on this bs.
@@akingtonone turn to shit for other people. He isn't the one holding the bag.
Great video as expected, but the 50,000 books i bought will be worth something one day, mark my words
peenuz
how are you so chronically online
Hey Pewds how you been?
when the great catastrophe comes youll have all the knowledge
Maybe as some kind of firewood in the post-global warming world ?
Wait, the con artist who taught me how to con people ended up conning ME? I thought we were friends.
veefrens™
I didn't think the leopards eating faces party would eat MY face
I saw this guy selling veefrends at the Chicago sport card show. That guy was sell like crazy, all by giving the kids the false illusion they were getting cashed out if they got the 1/1.
It made me sick to the stomach.
It's even worse than that. When Gary Vee fans get conned, they thank him for the privilege, treating it as proof that he's good at the game.
You know you fucked up in life when someone can accurately compare you to any character from It's Always Sunny.
He even sounds the same as Charlie.
Best comment award 🏆
I legit for a second thought that Gary is just Charlie Day without the beard... lmao
@@rosee8140Honestly, charlie was more convincing
Tate - Dennis
Gary - Charlie
Now who's next?
This is literally just MLMs for men, it seems. I feel so bad for people that get sucked into this stuff. It's like, the word "opportunity" pops up, you can almost guarantee it's a scam, YOU are the product, & the person offering you something is really offering to take you for a ride for their own benefit. Every time.
basically yeah. mlm's at least try to portray selling some product that someone is producing and someone else would be using though for legal reasons.
I feel bad for some...but a lot of them are assholes regardless and kinda deserve to get got.
all those "male universities" are MLM's for men, but they think they are too alpha and cool to fall for it.
@@rosecity_chris Yeah, can't disagree there.
@@rosecity_christhat's how I feel. They're dumb, and fools often part from their money. The fact a lot of these assholes have families to look after and they're taking chances like this with their savings proves how stupid and naive they are. They're proof that some people shouldn't be having kids.
Gary V is absolutely malevolent. There's no way to rationalize otherwise.
There is, he is a manic person who is f-ed up on dopamine. Or in the less PC-term, he is crazy. Either way, malevolent or not, what matters is that he is harmful.
and obvious...nerd city knew .
His last name rhymes with “wiener suck”
I went to school for digital marketing and we always had to watch this guy. My program’s professors treated what this man said like gospel. I never really liked him, I felt he was too boisterous but slowly it got darker. Mans is just evil.
not targeting children tho at least,menchilds at worst@@nootnewt9323
"I don't think Gary is malevolent" bro what? He's a textbook grifter.
i don't think he does what he does with bad intentions. he just doesn't care about others, he just wants to sell and that's what matters to him
@@towon yeah he rips off rubes. That's malevolent.
@@towon How is sowing false hope to earn money off of naive people not malevolent? Its the same as some wannabee christian super healer on TV in the 90's/2000's....
You know why he thinks that? Because Nerd City tries to do the same thing that Gary V is doing at the end of the video.
That line was from the perspective of Dr Downvote apparently. I get that it could potentially detract from the premise though.
I think that actively preying on vulnerable people definitely gives him some degree of malevolence
Nicky wanted me to cut that line. But Downvote develops his own takes sometimes, he's an evil scientist
@@nerdcitylol, damn, that downvote can be a real menace. I respect the heck out of you as a creator and think you should be able to do whatever you want with your channel. I kinda agree with Nicky tho tbh. I think it subtracts from your message and what you're trying to accomplish is all. Anyways, thanks for the great content.
I think he comes off as a big city homeless guy... not all there. The fact that people followed him is mind boggling.
Well, he's absolutely ambivalent to the harm he causes (just doesn't care), but "malevolent" implies that he _intends_ to cause harm.... which is harder to argue as a third party that doesn't know what's actually going on in his head.
@ars3nic he's indifferent, not ambivalent. If he were ambivalent some part of him would feel bad.
I'm absolutely over the moon about the fact that I live my life with a circle of people who never knew who this Garry Vee guy was until today.
U n Ur friends r exit liquidity next cycle
Ditto
Well done
Same
@@AlexWoahWTFwow I love the image you’ve used for your profile picture!
Those clips of Gary Vee spliced with Charlie Kelly were so genius lmao
I can never be annoyed at the wait-time for NerdCity drops SOLELY ‘cause of this level of fun cleverness that’s always guaranteed.
I will never unhear it, it's just too perfect.
was that clip of gary holding up the spider and cat pictures right after that its always sunny scene for real or edited in? because realizing how almost identical gary's schtick is to charlie's personality makes it seem like that is too much of a crazy coincidence and he's just pulling a charlie on everyone lol
And the spider cat thing. Jesus christ. I can never see gary vee as anyone but a charlie now.
Being halfway through the video the only conclusion I can make is what happend to Nerd City is he spent all his money on NFTs, became homeless and stopped uploading
and tries to be the victim selling shit to children and the fake behind from his gf. stop it no-one feels for u nerd city.
flew too close to the sun, he thought he could do it all
one man 2 many scams lol@@RobotIceCreamSandwich
I know this is a little off topic but I simply can’t understand that there are people that think the process of creating a bitcoin is environmentally friendly. I used to work for a company that has rows and rows of rigs mining bitcoin, and for it to even a get a fragment of a bit coin could take weeks. For it to get that fragment, it takes so much electricity and energy just to do so. Not only that the rigs are super loud and they produce massive amounts of heat, and they have to have dedicated isles to push the heat out of the buildings and push into the environment around them just so the rigs don’t overheat.
Should've rerouted their wallet address to yours.
It kinda baffles me that so many people took this man serious. His whole demenour, the body language and his, at times, erratic behaviour (most likely coked up to kingdom come) could be the poster child for a snake oil salesman. But thank god you came back, when we needed you the most
most of the population are NPCs ... sleepwalking through life ... sheep to the slaughter ... do NOT feel bad for them
I had a friend of a friend who was obsessed with Gary v I would constantly tell him this dude is a coked up scammer and still to this day that guy has a “business advice” instagram… he’s mid 20’s with no car, lives with his grandma and works at chipotle…. What advice could he possibly have
The emotional intelligence of the people who fall for this stuff is extremely low.
It's just factually accurate that deranged intensity and exaggerated levels of animation is something social media influencers share with crazy people.
Snake oil salesmen act in that particular manner because it works. Might not work on you or me (though I imagine most types of people can be successfully targeted in one way or another) but it works on the subset of people that are the easiest to rope in anyway. Why try a subtle and complicated gambit that needs to be tailored to a particular audience when you can just do the standard A1 schtick and people will come to you?
Great video, but saying Gary V doesn't know what he's doing with this stuff is really ill-informed. He knows his audience is struggling, desperate people and he makes money off of driving them further into poverty.
Yes but it's that he doesn't know about the stuff that gets him there
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Oh the dead avatars thing wasn’t a bit…
a png will never be worth that value are you insane @@nerdcity
60-80 bucks? The time I spend teaching classes alone makes it literally worth that@@cats9thlife704
online classes are the definition of a scam so...@@nerdcity
@@RADkate nonsense.
@@RADkatehow is it a scam? If you knowingly pay him to teach you something and he then teaches you that exact information, it's not a scam because there was no manipulation, you get exactly what you signed up for, fundamentally it's no different than online college
the ending of this video is so strange
Yeah like half an hour of talking about a scam artist, then selling a _Discord class_ on digital art felt very weird.
And then preempting responses to possible comments people would make about it.
@@toagradius8856 And a lot of the answers were either references to conspiracies or just saying "No". Dude's gonna be a controversy in 6 months I guarantee.
Nothing I mentioned is a conspiracy theory, you absolute bonehead.@@Scyborg832
@@nerdcitywhere did everyone else go? Why not do a video explaining that you’re channel couldn’t be sustained from videos alone and this is how your fixing that? it’s sucks that this is the video you posted after waiting so long for your next release but it’s your life and channel and we don’t knows what’s going on behind the camera so I can’t judge
@nerdcity What are your thoughts on effective altruism? That's the left's version of WEF. The left sees it as an accelerationist doomsday cult trying to deregulate everything to try and bring on the so called cyberpunk future. It's tangentially related to Eliezer Yudkowsky and Sam Bankman, the FTX guy.
Look, I hear you. I’m not calling you a grifter or scammer, but the moment someone gets to the “N” in “NFTs” I stop listening. Most sane people would not buy an NFT if someone told them to at gunpoint. I would, at this point, much rather purchase digital art in any other way.
The only way I am buying digital art is when I ask for a specific piece and get it.
@@VanessaScrillions Same... Shaking and crying rn
but I will call it grifting. I smelled it from Germany. smells like a grift walks like a grift .
bro lost me in the last bit wth 😭
I watched the whole video and still don't know what happened to Nerd City :/
I think we can all agree GaryV is the most deserving person of criticism on youtube at the moment
Sure he's up there but the MOST? Yt harbours some crappy ppl.
It's a very hard contest cause there's so many contenders lol
what he deserves are a ban and a couple of criminal charges.
There's some absolute delinquents on this app
WHO?!?!?!??!?!!?!?
This video was simply sublime but, I watched the whole thing and I still don't know what happened to Nerd City.
"I'm not tired, I'm just Eastern European" - the only clever and relatable thing Gary Vee has ever said. Nice to have you back, Nerd City!!
*Angry Yugoslav noises*
Happy Easter! 🐰🐣🌱
To be fair he probably stole it from some comedian or something.
@@JohnGardnerAlhadis He's Ukrainian
@@ekmad I meant that _I_ was Jugoslav. 😜 Ergo, Easter(n) European.
I think the malevolence is obvious when he describes scamming people as a "sport". People losing their money, houses and in some cases their lives, is a "sport" to him. If ever there was a justification for gulags, thats it.
very bold to still do your NFT project after the market has COMPLETELY crashed.
It needed to; everyone was being charitable to say even 1% of it made any sense. Such a shame, it didn't have to be like that
I respect that a lot!@@nerdcity
Yeah, there's no shame in cutting your losses. The sunk cost is what it is, the only way to win now is likely preventing further losses
I'm really hoping the Dead Avatars thing is an elaborate joke or a prank
Same lol.
What's the point of it again?
Just to validate some "channel membership" external to UA-cam?
Or is it a licence for the software which he barely spoke about?
I need 5x more detail on it than this video provides
it's not
Look, I like your content, and I don't think your foray into this space as a Tryhards experiment is inherently without value. It's interesting to see what can be done when the point isn't a cynical pump and dump, even if the end result is just a novel way of validating a paid membership. The fact that an "ethical" NFT pfp collection drop is such a novelty kind of betrays the issue, though.
The reason people are asking if you've watched all of x or y is because they, like myself, find it hard to imagine watching and understanding something like "Line Goes Up" and still having your neutral opinion about NFTs.
You correctly say that any potential utility for artists has been undermined by the entrepreneur crowd. Could the underlying tech have been of some use to bona fide artists? Sure, maybe. With wider adoption it might have been possible. I guess.
Where this framing falls short is it assumes that NFTs were ever intended to serve a utility. They weren't, or at least that was secondary to the grift. They are a post-hoc use case built onto crypto technology because it isn't very good at being currency (its stated primary use case). People who own crypto needed another way to convince "bigger fools" to buy in. Otherwise their money stays tied up in this otherwise not-very-useful asset. NFTs are just a selling point for what essentially functions as a Ponzi scheme.
There could be legitimate use cases for the underlying blockchain technology but for an outsider, nobody who already bought in can be assumed to be an honest actor. They have an interest in convincing you to join them. Whether they're trying to cash out or hodl to the moon, the value of their asset is dependent on people continuing to buy in and drive demand (and also on convincing their peers not to sell, which would increase supply)
TL;DR: Gary Vee isn't the exception in this space. He's the rule. NFTs exist for people like him to make money off rubes. And those rubes need to find bigger rubes to make their money back.
i was just thinking, that a shoutout to top donors in the end of a youtube video would be very non-fungible on its own. as for the art, perhaps artists could just take a special commission from the donors or customers. having it on a blockchain allows for the reciept of the art to change hands, but thats about the only value it provides. in the end, it doesnt seem to justify the use of blockchains, especially considering the environmental impact along with other things.
Was looking for these comments
My thoughts exactly
Yep. This is the first video they've dropped where my eyebrow started to raise during the video and I was like: wait... no.
TLDR… bro go touch grass
Still waiting for my $200
LOL U ASKED FOR 200 IN THAT SUB REDIT???
😭🙏
why did this video end with strawman arguments that felt fucking weird lmao
I cant believe you dont think he’s “malevolent” thats an insane take after this whole video, do you really think he doesnt know exactly what he’s doing?
you're listening to an insane evil scientist in that moment, wasting some paper and scaring people is a misdemeanor to Downvote
what? @@nerdcity
Nerd City didnt upload for so long people forgot characters in his videos have their own personalities and biases@@ThatOneEnder
@@ThatOneEnderit’s a character, not actually him. The characters in the video have differing opinions sometimes.
@@nerdcity *applause*
While I get that it's probably just doctor downvote being himself, doesn't it take away from the video that you had him call this guy not malevolent?? He's literally a conman. I really think it would be best to cut that line out of the video entirely, regardless of the character.
It doesn't if you're not mentally handicapped. Holy shit.
MOM! The yearly Nerd City video is out and it's about...NFT's...🙄
And after they themselves tried to shovel some pixels. So dumb.
really cool video and you guys are one of my biggest inspirations.
nft is still dumb as hell.
I forgot to unsubscribe on this account after they pushed that scam.
What I find fascinating with those scams is that even when someone makes a 45 minutes video to explain it to me, I still don't understand what even was the value proposition in the first place.
if a perceived rich man says "hey this is worth a lot of money!" there will always be a subsection of people who trust that man simply based on the way he says those words with confidence, and the perceived idea that those with lots of money must know the value of money, because "how else could they have been so rich if not for understanding how to get money and what the worth of money is?" but sadly it seems people forget that cosmic wisdom on the market's doesn't get passed down with nepotism, and a good robber, thief, or con-man, is only ever a good liar, extortionist, and thug, and not much more.
You know how when you buy a lottery ticket, you don't usually win, in fact you never have, but the idea of winning and the odds not quite being zero are incentives enough for some people? Take that idea and then misrepresent it to make it seem like winning is inevitable if you buy another 200 tickets as if that's an *investment*
If you can't tell what the product is, you are the product.
You don’t understand because you’re not in the cult of Gary Vee. He has built his entire persona around collecting sycophants who follow his lead and never question anything he says, does, or recommends. He’s been a con from the moment he started billing himself as an expert.
And it's never explained how V-friends made 91 millions for him
I have no idea where the myth that the Netherlands is the 4th largest agriculture exporter in the world came from but they aren't in the top 20 by any metric.
A quick search on "largest agriculture exporter" suggests they are in 2nd place. So there is a good chance that they are in the top 20 by at least 1 metric.
Which metric? If you do a quick google search they take pretty much second place across the board in food products. Only this year 2023 reports show them at 4th. If you look at production they obviously aren't since they export the biggest amount straight from their harbor in Rotterdam. It's a lot of re-exporting.
@@mr_pike4609 so basically because a lot of it gets imported and exported people mistake that for exports, well that explains how that nonsense claim came about.
@@ZontarDow Production is Production and export is export. While it does feel weird it isn't really nonsense since well, they export a shitload and earn a lot of money doing so. You also can't under estimate the amount of work it takes to do it. While it might feel unpure in your eyes it isn't really nonsense.
@@mr_pike4609 Given it literally 100% of cases it's used to hype of some mystical agricultural production method no one nation knows of in conversation it's kind of a myth that needs to die once and for all. I mean hell all sources that gather data on food exports don't count it which is why no lists have them high enough of note.
So is the idea that by mainting extreme scarcity and creating something of value to a very select few amount of people, youre trying to artificially create the kind of value a super rare comic book might have 20 years after the comic bubble bursts?
The way it played out for people like Gary Vee and Logan Paul is much worse than that; they wanted all the money of an ancient and scarce collectible up front and had no patience to layer in the value and let it happen naturally from market forces. So my thesis is that for something to become collectible it has to be relatively affordable at first, or thought of by most people as worthless. My offerings will always be given away or sold for the time I put into it. And then I'll add the value over time and keep it relevant for the smaller amount of royalties.
@@nerdcity okay, I think I see what you mean, but there's something I'm not fully getting; if you want to slowly build the value instead of trying to force it like Logan Paul and Gary v did, how do you do that without the people buying into your project using the same tactics Logan Paul and Gary V did to get more value sooner?
well, I'm not saying I'll make more money than them. It depends what metric you use for success.. Scammers and people who breaks laws sometimes make ungodly amounts of money. But by not doing that, will I be able to sleep at night? Yes, so far :)@@tylerr472
Trying to make an "ethical" nft line is a cool idea but imo the time has since passed to try to make any meaningful difference in the market. it is such a novelty at this point that it seems rather pointless, though pertaining to a niche of viewers you relate to is a good idea. Also ofc find the end about youtube comments insufferable but isn't that the point of this whole channel?
I'll expand on that last segment later, but if I didn't mention those things, people would keep telling me all the misinfo like I somehow never heard it yet.
@@nerdcity hows your little scam going? let me guess you got a bag and never thought about it again?
u posted cringe bro@@HankHillspimphand
The Charlie/Gary comparison is SO CLEVER
I have no idea how I haven't seen anyone else do it, or how I didn't think of it myself
It’s perfect. It matches so well lol. Can’t wait for their next video in 9-12 months
Not really
@@NateGUYYYIncorrect.
UNDERRATED FR. I can’t get over it at all
One of Italian BIGGEST conwoman, Vanna Marchi (used to sell on tv remedies for "malocchio", bad luck, until she was arrested) once said: "Morons exist to be screwed over". And that's very true and very sad.
It is actually very scary to think that some people with such bad intent get as much attention as important broadcasted political speeches would have a couple decades ago. The people that did this shit on TV 1 or 2 decades ago were somewhat bound to contracts and there is only one way to see see them, and that was the TV. But now everything spreads like wildfire and people pick up on these stories because they truly believe them.
This is really just Snake Oil selling, selling you stuff and telling you they have value, but this time, the Oil doesn’t exist and it literally has 0 value.
She's right but that takes away the responsability of the conman.
D'ACCORDO???
Kinda based. Ngl
As an artist who has been approached multiple times to work for various nft projects, I'm still not workin' on that shit.
Great vid as always, glad to have ya back nerd 👍
No reason to pair with anyone less talented who needs you and get a boss all over again. If it makes sense to work into your own art, try it out. The market is welcoming to good artists.
@@nerdcity That's fair, I'm really happy for all the artists who are doing good work & supporting themselves with their passion. It's just not the kind of career I want.
Hate how popular these gurus have become. Don’t ever let someone convince you how to live your life. Yet so many people fall for it, materialism has ruined us imo. Great video as always
hardship builds character, but some people just keep going throught hardships because of the things they do and they never learn
Of all the people i might listen to about anything... this gary dude is not on the list. Well, unless i want to become a proffessional menace to society.
Gritonomics BABY
Yep, To find actually intelligent or wise people on the internet is hard and usually you stumble upon them by accident, and they never tell you how to live your life. This applies as well to financial gurus or ''spiritual'' gurus, one famous guy that comes to my mind when I think of fake gurus is sadhguru.
I guess I'm just confused what is the point of the dead avatar project? Is the benefit your getting out of owning one just the community discord and tutorials? I also don't understand, are they free? The website says they are 0 eth, but then how would they ever have worth. I guess I just don't get it on a fundamental level. I'd rather just subscribe to a patreon tbh
My thoughts exactly.
I guess he's trying to legitimise the concept, but it's not explicitly mentioned that the project is about getting artists paid, so I can only assume it's 100% profit
@@popcorny007 We don't have to make assumptions. You can check it out for yourself. Peace 🙏🐟
@@SaintConnor i legit thought it was satirical. So it is real? like is he actually doing the scheme after bashing it for a good half an hour? :D
Yeah, wasn't a bit
@@emergensiexiti also thought it was supposed to be a joke.
Gary is his own biggest fan. Never in my life have i seen someone talk so much yet not actually say anything at all.
A bigger question would be what happened to part 2 of the video you made over a year ago.
I was wondering the exact same thing, feels like something legal happened
what video was it?
@@talan2861it was the video about JayStation he did with Clown. If I recall, the part 2 was meant to go up on Clown's channel
Wasn't there a podcast with them too that only had like 1 or 2 episodes?
Nerd said in a patreon episode of his podcast that he’s doubtful it’ll happen in the near future because nobody cares about Jaystation anymore and also because he’s absolutely tired of Jaystations voice and videos that he couldn’t bring himself to edit
"noooo someone made a jpg scam before I could"
No Fuckin' Thanks
Mark Cuban is why I purchased a large amount of etherium. Then I got to watch my money disappear for 6 months, but luckily pulled it out during a spike and broke even.
I figured a millionaire investor like Mark would be on top of investing opportunities. I learned a big lesson from this, and luckily it didn't end up as painful as it could have.
Huge disappointment off a "return"
I gotta say, as a long time nerd city fan, I found this video to be extremely disappointing. Its clearly extremely high effort, and I applaud you for all of the hard work. I just feel like this video is missing alot of things that I love about the Nerd City channel. The ensemble of memorable characters has always been one of the most entertaining parts of previous videos. Seeing Dr. Downvote, the devil, nicki, and other youtubers always adds an extra level of entertainment. Dr D is barely in this video, and theres no one else. I feel as though this is such a missed opportunity. To have more chaotic delivery from Dr D can really emphasis alot of the points youre trying to make in more interesting ways than what is in this video. The various characters really helped separate Nerd City from feeling like any old video essay channel. This video feels closer to standard video essays than what I would expect from Nerd City.
There was also alot of hyper stylized editing done in previous videos that really enhanced the information being communicated. The ending bits of "A parents worst nightmare" and "The worst youtuber of all time" hyper edited commentary from various characters together, and really made the videos feel like they had a satisfying climax. This video doesn't really feel like that. I get a feeling that there is one consistent energy in this video from beginning to end, which can feel boring. In previous videos, there was lots of ebs and flows with different music, editing, characters, or points being made that gave different sections of those videos more weight to them.
Also, titling the video "What Happened to Nerd City?", when the video never addresses this topic, is just terrible clickbait. The title is flat out lie. I find it a bit concerning for you that you have barely uploaded in 3 years, and I really hope the best for your mental health. If you want the reason you've been absent to be private, I totally understand. But, don't lie in the title of your return video, to the 900k people that actually want to support you. This level of clickbait seems like something you would criticize other youtubers for doing.
this video is definitely better than 99% of what's on youtube, but I just feel like it's not up to the Nerd City standard. I'm glad you're back, and I will definitely watch the next video, and I hope you are doing well.
Forget the dead avatars, im still just waiting for the conclusion of the youtuber merch project
I got handed one of those Gary V books at an event for free. My friend was completely spellbound by it. I, on the other hand, didn't want to go through the effort of burning it later.
so excited to wait another 3 years for Nerd’s next work.
this is certainly a video that was published on the youtube platform
amongus
Why does every Gary video looks like he owes money to the mob and just got spotted at the mall and he is hiding in the changing room knowing that they are right behind him.
It is just so strange to me how people manage to get convinced of anything by people posting these poorly-filmed insane vlogs where they're exhibiting some kind of mania or controlled substance abuse.
Because the people with the money to invest in shit like this are doing the exact same substances and experiencing the exact same manic episodes
@@Vanity0666 But they're not. These were mostly lower middle class people who thought they had found secret knowledge.
@@Kandralla $40,000 for a jpeg is not a "lower middle class" purchase not sure if I need to make that clear to you or not
@@Vanity0666 They weren't purchasing a jpeg they were making an investment. You know that some of these people borrowed against their retirement accounts right?
@@Kandralla in what universe does having the necessary funds to make a $40k purchase on a jpeg qualify as "lower middle class"
Hah, bold move to still keep going with the NFT project. I guess it's a cool way to support a creator and get a token out of it. Maybe that's the best use for them really... as an alternative to patreon-style support. Unfortunately isn't really useful if you're an artist who doesn't have support in the first place. And ultimately it's still artificial scarcity, made with assets that are randomised character creation. Still, I wish you the best with this project.
Can someone elaborate more on how nerd city's token doesn't affect the environment? actually curious
you can only buy it from ETH which is less harmfull, its the only reason I can think of
Ethereum has changed from proof of work to proof of stake, which basically means they cut how much energy consumption Ethereum uses by about 30,000x what it used to be, and uses 50,000x less than bitcoin. So it used to have some environmental impact but now there’s virtually none
@@chancebattenberg8400should probably have explicitly mentioned proof of stake in the video instead of a single-word dismissal lol
Seconded. Even though he's right I just want to make it clear that I'm still mad for no reason.
@@popcorny007yeah, that's the one and only part of this video where I was kinda like 🤨🤔 and I don't think I'm alone there.
Dude this makes me feel like I'm in some sort of Truman show scenario. Straight up just checked Nerd city socials an hour ago to see if anything is happening after years of not thinking about this channel and this comes out. Wild
Two days ago I was wondering where they went. Searched them up on Twitter and noticed they were still active on there and thought, "huh cool they are alive". And now this lol
@@Klykeain't that something how a video just came to reality when you thought it was all gone? It's a present everytime they drop a vidya.
I literally commented "I miss this channel" a couple of days ago and then today BAM! New upload from NerdCity. God exists yo.
Whats even being sold at the end? Just like a face you can play with or something?
you were the chosen one you meant to destroy them, not join them!
That's what he's trying to do. He's destroying them and then going to show the world how it can be done better.
@@epiccodygamer which is not at all
Did the DAP ever actually come to fruition
I remember getting threatened by the discord mod to have my entire account terminated and then I just got banned for FUD or something lmfao
what was your discord?
The cutting between Gary Vee and Charlie had me in stitches 🤣
I don't know why it took me so long to see it, literally just put it together two weeks ago
Nerd City still holding the title of *BEST EDITING ON UA-cam* after all this time.
Ehh I’d say Captain Disillusion barely edges him out
You haven't seen Max0r then
@@sreejandutta1174 yeah if you prefer a complete sensory overload
@@sreejandutta1174sseth does his style better
@@sreejandutta1174 firing a bunch of shitty memes and flashing colours at the camera doesnt count as good editing
I wish you guys uploaded more often.
This was one of my favorite channels, with the best aesthetic
It makes me feel nostalgic for something I can’t quite remember
I don't exactly see how it's an asset to digital artists...
That ending was in such trash taste. And whilst this episode was "informative" I'm honestly not sure it's said anything new.
@@wegotbagels Nerd is scamming people? Please elaborate!
Can you explain why you'd choose this dead avatars project over something like patreon?
in a later video will dive in, for sure. But there are a lot of reasons! The fees are much lower. There's no monthly rebills (better for supporters). You can trade out of it if you don't want it anymore (better for supporters). There's no censorship worry from Patreon (better for artists). There's no possibility of charging back on last day of month (better for artists). I've witnessed the harshest side of all of those problems. Plus this is more fun, and there are endless world-building options using the trait system. It's worth experimenting with!
Any way to combat the lack of exposure youtube gives y’all?
The videos are amazing, fleshed out, and it’s clear your core audience is your peers, not just people who consume UA-cam.
Makes me sad because I know these take a while and UA-cam tends to punish channels with slower content output.
Fill us in
Tell only the coolest people you know. Thank you for asking :)
That point (36:24) you made about how influencing people to become entrepreneurs on the next big fad being more harmful than good is so important. That's the message that needs to be perpetuated from this point onwards. Sure there were very likely similar people doing the same thing back then, but the internet itself has caused it to become much more wide spread and frankly cancerous to innovation and virgining tech.
Exactly, being an entrepreneur isn't the issue, you can live a very comfortable life that way if you're good at what you do, just don't go into dumbass bullshit as you said. Open a grocery store, open a repair shop, start a construction business, hell, open a laundromat (maybe not that one) something proven, and something that people actually need and requires skill and knowhow to be able to do or that most people dont want to do. The issue is these people all want "get rich quick with the least amount of effort" when that really doesn't exist, or at least its so rare that the percentage chance when rounded to the nearest ten thousandth is 0, it might as well not exist. People have forgotten that hard work truly does pay off most of the time; you just have to work hard at the right things.
@@DingDingTheUA-camBuddy I just watched a documentary about the biggest laundromat in America. The dude said he did it all for the money, BUT he said, that doesn''t mean that he needs to screw over people or not do nice things. He helps people get their laundry clean, pays entertainers to have special parties for kids and even cooks food. Everything done to make the thing more popular and to make him more money, but at the same time everything also helps the people visiting the laundromat. Selling shitcoins literally makes every single person save very few happy, and even those are only happy becase they ignore how they screw up peoples' lives.
@@oesyps3 I agree, the shitcoins suck ass, I agree with everything you're saying
I wish you the rest of your collaborators success in your project, seeing as you try to make it as ethical as possible, but i feel like that ship has already sailed for the vast majority of people. NFTs are associated with scams first and foremost (for good reason), and it's going to be hard to undo that.
Also great video, took me a full day to watch because Gary makes me physically cringe.
Holy shite, that mash-up of Gary and Charlie was PERFECT.
I still dont see how it actually benefits artists, but im glad you are at least providing viable options
The idea is that you can sell your art like you could a physical piece. In reality, it has been just a bunch of pirates making money off of an artist, with no benefit to the artist. For every artist that actually benefits, many, many artists just have their art stolen.
@@1234bobfoxyou can do this already by commissioning an artist
Holy shit, he litterally is Charlie doing schitzo sales pitches
Is there something wrong with me that the first thing I thought about is how many trees this guy wasted? He printed all these books that no one will ever read and will eventually just be destroyed. "Hey, help me burn a bunch of paper and I'll trade you a link to a shitty digital doodle I drew." - That essentially describes what happened.
there is nothing wrong with you. That's a very valid thing to be mad at
Garry records videos like he's being held hostage. Its always so close, he's looking around like he's looking for a tail, he's so quiet and frantic, it's so weird
god this production is purely beautiful. well done everyone who worked on this vid.
Bro it just dropped
dude really commented something good for likes like he watched a whole 50 min video in 4 minutes.
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@@CarlosHenrique-ns3ed??? lmao, u can tell it’s well made within the first ten minutes? just trying to show my appreciation dawg it’s not that deep
You never told us what happened to Nerd City.
Every single phone clip of him makes it seem like he's looking around for that raccoon that he KNOWS is about to find him.
It’s time for our yearly NerdCity video!
Has it really been only a Year?
I know a guy who knows him. He told me this dude straight up walks around the office giving wisdom nobody asked for 😆 And they have to listen and agree bc he's their boss
sounds like employees should pay him!
I keep feeling like something is missing...and I just realized that the vid has practically no backing music. Is this a new wave of something...bc, I prefer the musical interludes and overlays/underlays.
The audio levelling is kinda screwed at points too
@@ekmadagreed. My second time watching the vid, I noticed that some sections had the backing tracks, and in others it was just missing...I guess the general dreariness I feel during discussions of GaryVee quiet-washed my viewing experience.
@@OtterMunchy Yea honestly, this video seems more neutered then the others.
Why do I get the feeling like I've dropped into the middle of a conversation?
Been a noisy few years on Twitter
highest paid artists oder:
1. twitter nsfw fetish drawing weirdos
2. the guy who made certified boylover album cover
3. garry
4. Maurice Johnson
5. some guy who offered to draw a sketch of me infront of Big Ben for 70 quid like brother i aint paying you nothing you draw like a 5 year old stop bothering me tf
We need to stop calling glorified hype beasts/club promotors "marketers." Salespeople are bad at most marketing work, they just push product (I would know, I've worked with both)
Omg! I seriously found this cause Oompa mentioned the channel and I was immediately hooked. Crazy lucky for a brand new upload after a year! Impeccable timing and quality!
Finally, my decision to check nerd city’s page every day for the last year has paid off
I wish I could level you up or give you XP for that
@@nerdcity you could always leave a little gift... figure it out!
Holy shit! Napoleon! Both of the channels with the best editing on the platform.
Was just thinking bout you the other day. Checked the channel and was like daaaamn it's been a long time hope all is well.
My prayers have been and answered
Yikes. Just sell art like fucking normal without the insanely huge black hole sized gray area.
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He can never just make eye contact with a camera lens to spew his bs. He’s constantly looking around. Even in his own home. Because he knows subconsciously he should always be on alert and watching his back for people coming to _get_ him.
After reading your comment I noticed the shifting look from garyv it's very weird thanks for pointing it out
I think its for his online image, he’s always alert,always busy with something. But its all a facade.
Exactly felt the same. Like hes expecting the fbi busting in any moment
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@@sanketm1663 no its adderal/coke and the paranoia creeping in lol
I love you Nerd, amazing quality videos in such a long, drawn out, few and far between, uploads. Peak content and you're my favorite channel to watch. No other content creator can have me sit down and watch a video without pausing like this. I hope these artist get the proper treatment and respect they deserve.
@@DaWoWzer can i have a tl dr
At what point is this simping
Unsubscribed.
For those upset/confused about the ending, let me explain (at least how I understand it) cause I do think he missed the mark on the explanation.
If you paid attention to the whole video, this video wasn’t an anti-nft, this was an anti-nft scam video. For those who have forgotten NFT’s, before they were scams, were suppose to be a source of income for talented and underpaid artists. Can you right click and save the image? Sure, and you can also pirate any movie or video game on the internet with literally zero consequence, so why do people bother to pay for games and movies? Out of convenience, or to support the creator. If you don’t have the money to support a good artist, then don’t, that’s okay, but it seems Nerd City is trying to take this NFT project in that direction. Actual art, not randomly generated trash, and unless I misunderstand, you’d have some sort of access to a server to learn something? So it’s providing a tangible service as well as income for actually talented and deserving people.
Now, I’m never gunna buy an NFT, but I don’t think they are inherently bad. I think 99% of them are scams, but there are some actual good purposes out there. The point was made at the beginning that the tulip market crashed and rose from the ashes, and amazon, eBay, and other companies have a similar story. Nerd City is claiming NFT’s are sharing that story. They got inflated, and people were scammed into placing unrealistic values on them, and then it crashes, but there is actually a use for this technology that will rise from the ashes from people who actually care about delivering a good product, and that is what I think Nerd City is trying to do.
If I am wrong, please correct me. Maybe I got some specific stuff wrong because I can’t memorize the entire video, but I think that’s the general gist of it.
I dont understand so far why the title is so misleading hopefully there is an explanation at the end that isnt clickbait or meta clickbait, cause this video doesnt need that
Maybe it was just an example of Gary Vee techniques? Expect something but end up getting none of what was pitched. I know there’s a much better way to say that, but I hope you get what I mean. Still enjoyed the video but yeah I wasn’t too fond of that.
@phoenixgirl70 thats a good thought I guess, maybe
Here's Nerds response why (found it in the comments:) *"I dunno, just fucking around. I might change it to Gary Vee something later, I just wanted to say hello again."*
So I guess there's literally no point. He just did it just to do it, LOL
@@viderevero1338 haha, alright then :)
I’m confused, do I have to buy a nft to talk to you in discord? I went to the website but idk what to do
i'm so glad that my adhd, autism, and depression stops me from having the motivation to fall for motivational influencers lmao
Don't think if I've lost all respect for Nerd City, but I don't know where I put it. I'm sure I had it a moment ago...
What an odd take
loved the video, but would have preferred the title to match the content
5:26 Soon as I saw the Star Wars figures melting in acetone I was so hyped to see RLM and then Mike at 5:30 was gold. I was worried he was only gonna show the figures melting.
Literally came to the channel last week to check on you guys. Cool to see you guys back.
Me too!! It feels like Christmas or some shit 😊
Glad you guys are back!
When you randomly search Nerd City because you wanna rewatch the Sniperwolf video for the 10th time but realize he recently put out a new video... Good friday fo sho.
Glad to see your avatar around these parts. The tankies got rustled by this one
@@nerdcity They always do. They dont understand nuance and can only see things from their ivory towers while LARPing as oppressed proletariat online. They'll claim x is going to hurt people, but then claim organized retail theft is just fighting oppression... meanwhile, businesses leave, food deserts appear, jobs leave, regular poor people fall into despair. Happening all over the US right now. They can't zoom out and see higher resolution.
@@nerdcity I guess I'm a tankie?
@@FloedekageI hope not! Tankies are legit retards. "Authoritarianism is bad, unless it's leftwing authoritarianism." It's just such a non-principled position lol.