The Tennis Star Who Faked His Entire "Career"
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- Опубліковано 24 чер 2022
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Darko Grncarov had it all. Fame. Wealth. Insane Tennis Talent. Unbelievably, Darko was even on the cusp of an extraordinary professional tennis comeback after suffering a stroke induced coma. He had loyal fans, media outlets, and famous celebrities cheering his every move.
Behind the spectacle however, the stories, the diehard Darko fans, everything… was nothing. None of it was true, and in the today’s day and age where anyone can seemingly reinvent themselves overnight, a kid named Darko Grncarov managed to convince the world he was tennis’ next superstar… with nothing but a laptop.
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Due to much of the original press and public information on Darko having since been deleted, redacted, and privated, a considerable amount of this story’s journalism came from Ben Rothenberg’s original article. Check it out: slate.com/culture/2018/02/how...
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@@CULTTENNIS Roger Federer is third best of his era.
Darko Grncarov has never lost a match at any of the major tournaments. A true legend of the game.
Darko Grncarov has never lost a boxing match to Muhammad Ali. Fact
Darko is UNDEFEATED against the big 3.
What an anticlimactic ending. The way more fun ending would've been if a tournament gave him a Wild Card due to his fame and he actually played and got exposed that way. Instead it's just a Rothenberg article.
rottenburg ruins it as usual
He may be a master liar but he's not that dumb 😂
Should’ve fakes his death or something. Build it up talking about concerns with his play and then have a family member state his death
Yes. The ending could have been "better" 😂
Ngl. That does sound far better.
LMAO this dude is a straight up genius and this just goes to show how gulible most people are
"genius"? You really have no idea what that word means.
@@kshillingford4921 i mean, he fooled pretty much the entire tennis community and got sponsors out of it 🤷🏿♂️
Pineapple liberals are
@@kshillingford4921 Not Genius. One of the greatest Con-Men ever existed.
@@nishanthvemula3852 you'd have to be a genius to be one of the greatest con-men to ever exist though lol
Wow I can’t believe he fooled adidas, can’t believe they wouldn’t look a little more into it
Makes you really think about how far you can go just by lying.
Another awesome video mate :) Would love to see Darko vs Tomic for ultimate 🐐 status haha
Hey cam
And the winner gets to face against Donald Young
Darko v. Tomic would require a CULT TENNIS takeover on TENNIS TALK for a day!
Darko is the true GOAT novak and rafa can only dream of getting on his level
Frrrr
Idk man it’s either him or Donald Young they gotta face each other
@@wdsa7129 Don't forget Artem Bahmet
@@wdsa7129 I laughed so hard when he memed donald young in his "battle of the surfaces" video xD
Incredibly based
He just said exactly what the elites wanted to hear, and they promoted him and gave him money.
Well played Darko. He understood perfectly how the world works, and tricked us all.
I am not sure if he received any money.
this!
Damn Im from Macedonia and this is the first time I hear about this guy and I know all of the guys in our country
lmao
north macedonia*
@@panagiotisanastasakis7908 The youth doesn't give a fuck, both macedonians and greeks. We're both poor as fuck dude...
Грција е наша МАКЕДОНСКА *grabs popcorn
@Panagiotis Anastasakis No one's ever gonna call it North Macedonia. We've known it as Macedonia all our lives, that's what it is.
Macedonian here and we celebrate our sport successes very passionately. I've never heard of this person until I saw this video.
Content is always fire. Thank you so much for having literal fantastic audio.
Come back soon!
Dude I'm from Macedonia (North, you peski greeks. Calm down, nobody cares) and i play tennis, I'm not into the world of tennis, i don't even follow the big names nor watch it on tv or whatever. I love the sport for what it is. But i hang with people who follow tennis religiosity, no one have ever mentioned this dude. This is marvelous story and it shows how powerful the internet is if you know what you're doing ... Great story, well told. You got yourself a new subscriber.
Brilliant. He exposed social media for what it is.
Another banger video! How can someone do all that just for clout? That's nuts to have swindled big companies like that. Just goes to Fake it till you make it, then get caught and lose it all. fools.
Keep up the great work on these videos Cult Tennis! Good stuff!
More to come!!
I never knew about this. Great video!
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God damn you never disappoint cult tennis! I had no idea about this WILD story!
Thanks for watching :)
Currently watching stef vs rba then yt notified me about this newly uploaded vid of cult tennis. Thanks for this!
Always a great day when cult tennis posts
0:04 Correction: Jeremy Lin was never an all-star, although he sure played at that level for a few games. What could’ve been…Linsanity made New York believe again
I always get excited when I see that you uploaded a new video!
Darko’s story reminds me of that one lady Tia Norfleet that bamboozled everyone into thinking she was a legitimate NASCAR driver and I think CNN interviewed her without doing a shred of due diligence on her and checking her out. That’s what lead her to her downfall was going on CNN. Sadly, she’s still online running with the lie.
1 minute in and it's already looking like a banger. People who fake their backgrounds suck.
Nahhh this dude really finnessed the entire tennis world 💀
One thing is for a newspaper to want to run with a story another thing is to fool players and racquet companies. It takes one second of watching him to know it’s a hoax.
Did non of y’all see Darko matched against Nadal where he won 6-4 6(7)-6(5) 6-2?
This video was Great!!! Your style of videos are perfect, keep up the great work
Thank you!
Your videos are always high quality. Keep ‘em coming!
Fantastic video as always. You really deserve more subs!
I love how "Kallang, Singapore" is listed as though it's a city within a country... Kallang is just a neighbourhood in our tiny city state haha
Lol Darko just took advantage of our plagued virtual signalling society and I applaud him for it... Absolutely hilarious. Not much different from what Jessie Smollett tried to pull off.
Very well done and great content as always
The algorithm brought me here. I'm not into Tennis, nor sports in general, but this is a very fascinating video!
Imagine pulling this off in any field. Possibilities are endless
Another superb video, bravo.
Been waiting for some time for your new video!!!
You always make interesting videos!
Another great video. Cheers.
Man these scams are not only in sports, but also in other fields as well. This scam reminds me of another scam which was pulled of due to lack of investigation by media before reporting
The sad thing is, you know people who called him out early would be met with a dozen variations of "You really think someone would lie about this??" in replies.
Haven’t even watched the vid but I already know this will be a banger 🔥
When you watch Catch Me If You Can and think...f**k it
Awesome video! I will also consider subscribing to Nebula solely because of the second channel, you are the only tennis channel I watch and like.
It is a good day when CULT TENNIS posts
I dont think he kept his twitter private. He actually privated it for like a month after the story came out and then continued right after as if nothing happened. Obviously just tweeting out generic stuff about the Williams sisters as always. Now I even see his twitter handle is completely gone.
I just started tennis and I only watch this channel
Glad you found the channel!
Congrats on the nebula stuff!
Great video!
When you're showing the various Instagram posts, it's quite clear from reading some of the comments that he's got bot accounts replying to and liking his stuff, all driving engagement and increasing "legitimacy". It's an incredibly common tactic used among those trying to fake fame until they become famous for real.
Every time you upload it makes me so happy.
Yeah!
This is one of the most well-researched and entertaining tennis video I’ve watched
This is the only tennis video Ive ever watched
I love your channel and is also incredible that My country El Salvador appear :)
I already knew who this was about. I followed this in real time. haha
Amazing video! Please do one on David nalbandian!!!
Wow, the social media's power!!
The internet doesn't lie.. ( but I guess in this case it does)... lol
I would have figured this guy out right away I always look up someone's record when they tell me they've done this and that.... I've had so many people tell me stories about oh I used to be ranked top 500 in the world... come on.. I played every week for 10 years... I would have seen you... I then sayto them, "okay when did you change your name??"
😊🤣😂😅
Also if this Darko character really wanted to fool people he could have had somebody that nobody knows play matches for him and win matches for him under his name!
Lol
🤣🤣
ITF results don't lie 😂
@@CULTTENNIS you should hear the stories people have told me about what they were ranked....
I would say.. "when did you change your name??" 😅
All i can say is that there is a surprising lack of due diligence at a lot of levels
Awesome video
wake up babe new cult tennis video just dropped
I can't believe I've never heard of this dude!
Well he became famous in some way in the end and honestly that's dope.
I'm curious how much money he got at the end of everything ? Cult Tennis says "he wasn't doing it for the money", implying he made 0. Someone got some info?
i was waiting for you to cover this. crazy how easy it is to fool people with the internet
Never heard of this guy before this vid
I'd pay to watch Serena v Darko.🤔
This is one of the coolest videos I've seen, my respects to the guy for fooling almost everyone, I'm happy he got caught tho 😂
Dude out there provint that the "verified" on twitter don't mean shit lol
Jeremy lin was never an all-star in the NBA, only once in the CBA
The sign was there from the beginning in the tweets from 2017 he’s 20 but if only a year before he was 17 that doesn’t work
Im pretty sure it was recently found out that one of the top reporters in Germany was actually a fake persona. Crazy what people can pull off online
Was that guy you showed as the high level junior kokkinakis?
Yep, the pen is mightier than the sword.
He pulled a Lorenzo Von Matterhorn
People can be so easily deceived.
Liars and frauds are easily swindled and duped by other liars and frauds.
The Carlos Henrique Raposo of Tennis
LOL
Sounds like any election: creating fake news, profiles on different platforms, followers, tweets, retweets, shares, etc!
the carlos kaiser of tennis, what a legend
The way you pronounced Troicki bruh
Darko is HIM, the undefeated GOAT
The man gaslit adidas into a brand deal, I think that's pretty goated
The saddest thing to me is... if this guy built himself up like this and actually could play tennis? even if he was like, barely top 500 ranked,,, he'd be getting top 100 money and sponsorships cause of how well he played it. Honestly,,, like it's genius what he did but, it woulda been pretty wild if he actually was training to play and at least tried to improve and get wildcards etc. Instead he just wanted to troll people for some short lived fame.
We live in a society where reallity does not matter anymore. -what counts is perception. You don't need things to happens, you just need to create the perception of that in people's mind. This is the result of living in a completely fake and futile society, where the image you project is what matters and if you create the perception that you are a tennis prodigy, people will believe and act accordingly without you having to show them your tennis skills a single time. If the internet and social media say he's a tennis prodigy, then he's a tennis prodigy even if he can't play tennis!
The media should feel ashamed, but they don't.
I wonder what was even the objective of this... This amount of scamming isn't cheap to make
Reminds me of that woman who pretended to be a 9/11 survivor or the one that pretended to be black and faked getting threats and harassment as a social activist. Also the cancelled Comedy Central show where a guy made up the company that sold pre sneezed tissues
I thought I’d the 9/11 story as well and she kept that up for 3 years, became the president of a survivor group and even gave a tour to the frikkin mayor of NY on live tv. It’s insane the lengths people will go!
Never heard of him. The only Darko II know is Donnie Darko.
Huh what a weird story
the only thing worse than a sham artist is somone who fakes caring tomake money...wait... the irony isgoingto be lost on you all here.
He really knew how to play Twitter.
I know a man who has invented himself to be a former military medic. He's gone to small town newspapers with his story and since these guys don't check, his lies are published. He points to these articles and photos of him on tourist events as proof of his story. He has used these lies to get access to critical care patients, despite never flying the missions he claims. It's startling easy to set up a false identity.
I'm gonna recreate this for another sport.
Ain’t gone lie to you chief, I am not ever going to touch nebula or this curious shit though I like your vids
The more prominent people he's duped, the more uncomfortable I get while watching the video...
I know that’s actually scary
Not so hard to fake a fake world anymore
*DARKO* looks like the name of a supervillain.
wow
People get upset when u treat them the way they treat you and then they call u fraud and fake. It's all a character play . It's a well played out strategy.
Although I can't say with certainty it was the case in this particular instance, more often than not, these types of events are intelligence agency's thought experiments.
Epic troll. Go Darko!
Seems like he just made a great prank.
LoL, what a story !