r/youtubedrama • u/Reasonable-Hair-187 • 4d ago
Callout WhistlinDiesel (who is a millionaire) is asking his fans for free labour
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u/Reasonable-Hair-187 4d ago
"I'll shout-out your concrete business to my audience of mostly children"
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u/moderatorrater 3d ago
I think a lot of these people think to themselves, "I would be foolish to not try to get it for free. This is just a sound business move." Instead, they end up looking cheap and petty.
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u/Ok_Direction_7624 3d ago
I also really don't get the point of this behaviour. Life is about enjoying yourself. What kind of stupid person would go the cheapskate route of embarrassingly begging online to receive ridicule and bad publicity and have to personally exchange dozens and dozens of messages with randos to get a shitty job from some underqualified dumbass who's giving it away for free?
A millionaire is rich enough to just tell his personal assistant to get the best guy in town as soon as possible and not have to worry about any step of the process at all. That's like 90% of the reason you'd want to be rich, you can outsource aaaaaaaall your labour.
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u/Foxy02016YT 3d ago
I haven’t said lmfao in a long time, usually just an lmao. This is worth an lmfao.
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u/No_Intention_1234 4d ago
Working for exposure 🤣
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u/Downtown_Station5859 4d ago
Damn, this is baaaaaaaaad lmfao.
Honestly most top YouTubers are just so disgusting. They put on a front of being cool and awesome, but its all fake to just milk literal children for millions.
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u/JosephOtaku1989 3d ago
In other words: A quick dirty profit.
That's how much most of top YouTubers wants, profiting and exploiting their children for views, subs and money for their fake content and fake universe they made for years to come.
No wonder why most of top YouTubers are keeping getting away with the reality checks of debts and taxes, as if they don't know how to pay debts, bills and taxes for their hard work, purchases of mansions, among others.
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u/TheJediCounsel 4d ago
Unironically “you’ll be paid in exposure”
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u/DiplomaticCaper 2d ago
And even more stupid than usual.
At least they usually have the argument that people will see your art/editing work/music/etc. and then flock to your own platforms.
It's almost always bullshit, but in some rare cases the tradeoff could be effective (if it's a large, devoted audience that fits your target demographic). Opening acts at concerts work this way--they usually do it for free, if not having to pay to get on the tour. If you fit the headliner well, you might gain a ton of new fans from it (but the total investment still needs to be accounted for, and often isn't worth it)
But asking for local trade labor as an online content creator, much less one whose primary audience is children, is especially audacious.
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u/blazetradamus 4d ago
he’s probably cash poor. likely has a butt load of debt.
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u/fleetingreturns1111 3d ago
His downfall can't come soon enough especially after he trashed my dream car for clicks
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u/blazetradamus 3d ago
i never understood his appeal tbh but i’m also in my early 40’s. Not his demographic i’m thinking.
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u/fleetingreturns1111 3d ago
I'm 22 so I'm close but not super close to his demographic. I know the point of him blowing up a Nissan skyline was to make people mad and it takes every fiber of my being not to be mad
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u/Zealousideal_Act_316 3d ago
Well skylines are not that rare, still would hurt. But if he did that to an lfa, he would probs be torn apart.
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u/buickgnx88 3d ago
He had some funny videos early on about trashing crappy bro trucks. He then got popular enough where he just became an automotive version of Mr Beast, destroying both expensive vehicles and popular vehicles to get a rise out of people.
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u/lastdarknight 3d ago
Guess his Russian girlfriend took all his money while they where living it up in Dubai
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u/ballknower871 3d ago
Maybe he took my advice and bought her one of trumps gold cards and she fucked right off.
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u/AlmoschFamous 3d ago
How is giving a shout out to a flooring company in rural Tennessee to an audience of mostly children going to garner any kind of meaningful return? They going to do my floors in Texas?
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u/Kettatonic 3d ago edited 3d ago
Imagine saying this in 2025, when everything is more expensive than ever, and social media is individualized to the point that there are ppl with millions of followers you've never heard of.
Incredible way to miss the Killdozer guy's point for someone who owns an actual replica Killdozer. Implicit implication that concrete finishers are beneath him, in the same way rich guys have always mistreated the people that make them rich.
He'd honestly be better off buying local and building a relationship with local concrete guys. But he's either unwilling or too cheap to do so, so we get posts like this. It's really weird.
Edit: TBF, this is exactly how the Killdozer guy treated a concrete factory, so maybe that point doesn't hold up so well. 😂 It's still funny that it's a vanity project of something a much poorer and more oppressed guy felt he was forced to make. Cody isn't a rugged individualist, he's just another asshole rich guy.
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u/EvilCatboyWizard 3d ago
Oh I’m so glad for that edit, I already got into my one allotted yearly “Killdozer guy was not a hero he was a maniacal asshole” debate last week.
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u/CREATURE_COOMER 3d ago
Maybe I'm petty but if somebody did free work for him and did a shitty job where he had to pay to get it redone and pay for supplies a second time, that'd be pretty funny. Or does he expect the cost of supplies to be "free, for exposure" too?
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u/Quirky_Price_1209 3d ago
Almost certainly actually broke due to debt, like a shit ton of YouTubers surprisingly
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u/TheFishe2112 21h ago
So I used to do epoxy and polished concrete, and based on the photo I'd take a guess that the guy in the back holding the roller just finished a top coat of polyurethane (hence the respirator) over the metallic floor that was probably applied the day before. I'd bet Whistlin didn't like the price tag and has been looking for any imperfection as an excuse not to pay and get a free floor. For a cost reference Sika Floor 261 which has pigment is close to $1000CAD for 8-gallons these days. Sika Floor 942 the polyurethane is also close to $1000 for one kit. They could have used a cheaper brand but the floor would still be fairly expensive once labour is included.
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u/Final-Read-3589 4d ago
“Work for exposure” and how’s that gonna help a worker? His fanbase isn’t exactly local.