4.4 • 645 Ratings
🗓️ 4 February 2020
⏱️ 5 minutes
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0:00.0 | The next grifter on the list is one that I had no idea who he was until I read this, |
0:08.4 | but it got me immersed in this man's body of work. |
0:12.7 | Okay, the judgment that you gave early on about me being into grifters, |
0:18.1 | like you are obsessed with this guy. |
0:20.4 | I know. |
0:22.9 | I mentioned writing an article about it now. |
0:28.7 | So this is the laziest grifter, and it is Blippy. Yeah, I didn't know who Plippy was either. |
0:40.3 | An editorial board posted an article about him in the Slack, and that's how I found out about him. |
0:44.3 | Yeah, he's a, he's a children's entertainer. |
0:47.3 | He's a YouTube star who does these horrifying videos for children. |
0:51.3 | I asked my sister who has kids if they ever watched Blippy and she said, she tried, and she found it terrifying. And they've not watched it since. But it's really |
0:57.7 | popular. He has tons and tons of views, like a shocking number of views. Over six million |
1:01.9 | followers, upwards of four billion total views according to YouTube statistics. It kind of sounds fake, |
1:06.2 | but like that's what YouTube says. Yeah. And he's on the list for a particular thing he did, which is that Blippy's usually popular, |
1:14.2 | so he supposedly went on tour, and then all the parents found out that it was just an actor playing Blippy. |
1:20.8 | They wouldn't get the real YouTube Blippy on stage, and, you know, the refunds were awarded, so... |
1:28.7 | But, like, these entitled fucking parents. |
1:31.6 | Because, like, what do you think? |
1:32.8 | He's just, he's just making these videos all day, |
1:35.3 | and of course he's doing a world tour. |
1:36.8 | Like, who do you think he is? |
1:38.4 | What kind of time do you think people have? |
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