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800,000 people fell for that scam? Fuck me, that’s a lot of stupidity..
i think registration and actually sending any money will be two separate steps, but it is still lot of dumb people.
Maybe most of these are bots? And maybe paid by the owner to generate traffic?
At 50$ a pop it's 40 000 000$ Grifters gonna grift ! Sometimes I hate that I have morals stopping me from exploiting those morons.
It’s worse than you think; it’s $50/month!
Now part of the problem is we don’t know the average membership length, and it’s further complicated by the fact that the Tate brothers ran the ‘school’ like a pyramid scheme where enrolling another member earned you a kick-back (which is why so many random channels popped up a few years back sharing clips).
So pulling random numbers out of my arse, if the average membership period was ~6 months and they had ~30% operating expenses (servers, bandwidth, kickbacks etc.) they could have netted ~$168m from this scheme.
I too, share your self-loathing in my morals preventing me from exploiting these absolute morons.
it's closer to 100k, and it's 50$/month so totals closer to 5M/month
This George Carlin bit is relevant.
Yup, was one of the first bits I thought of too..
I still paraphrase his “your stuff is shit, my shit is stuff” to this day.. 😅
We really need someone to fill the massive shoes he left behind - an individual able to call out all the egregious bullshit.
Bill Burr comes close to George's savagery 😅 ( just my opinion )
People is stupid
It's like eight whole megastupid
8 magastupids of emails
Remember Trump University? Imagine putting that on your resume.