“Help, help! Break the f—king window,” he yells as Good Samaritans rushed over. One of the witnesses helped carry Doherty out of wreck while the 20-year-old continued to film himself.
Purely theoretical question. Just how big a catapult would you have to build to actually launch an average sized human male into the sun?
I asked the Guh-Puh-Tuh monster to break it down like Randall Munroe and the results were surprisingly amusing.
The short version is that the catapult needs to be many, many kilometers long, the human will be liquefied almost immediately, and there are much better ways to get to the Sun—namely, rockets.
Well I’m not seeing any obvious downsides and it is at least reusable, which would likely come in very handy over the next few years.
Oh my God, it’s that little cretin too.
His parents are the worst, and they have created one of the worst humans on the planet.
Sits with phone in hand while driving super car in the overtake lane in the rain.
Crashes car
Online commentators criticized Doherty for appearing to be more concerned about his wrecked car than his injured friend.
Not a person i’d want others to be influenced by really. I hope sponsors eventually realise
Idiocracy (2006)
This is our infrastructure. Car dependency is a literal dead end. Ban cars.
Stop making stupid people famous.
this guy is a real prick appearently, he got famous by assaulting people (calling it pranks).
The world doent need people like him.
Good.
If y’all don’t know how big of a piece of shit this kid is, it runs deep.
There’s a period of time where he would just taunt strangers to get into a confrontation, and then his bodyguard would step in.
Well, his bodyguard punched someone in the face and he’s getting sued like fuck.
He also is basically an only fans pimp. He gets 18-year-old girls drunk on yachts and gets them to sign contracts where they’ll do only fans content for a set fee per month while he takes all.
It’s truly amazing how big of a scumbag this kid is at such a young age.
Isnt signing a contract while being under the effects of alcohol make the contract invalid?
If not, why not? It feels like such an obvious thing so people dont sign contracts against their will
And now you need to prove that you were intoxicated out in international waters on this kids boat. Then you need to take him and his MacLaren money to court.
No wonder kid needs a body guard, he’s gotta have one of the most punchable faces in the world. I give it 3 months until he catches a stray round to the dome for being a twat and the world can go back to not being aware of his existence.
When will media stop with the “formerly Twitter”?
They’re trying to increase the relevancy of their “source” on X by saying it’s basically the same as Twitter once was.
But it isn’t. It’s a rotting zombie feasting on Twitter’s long-dead corpse.“influencer” I truly hate this word. It’s way overused. Like what is he influencing, markers flipping?
He influences his followers to buy products. An influencer is like a freelance marketer.
If you make your purchasing decisions on an “influencer’s” opinion, then man, do I have so many things to say about you.
They influence people who lack the attention span to make decisions for themselves.
He influenced me to not buy a McLaren.
McLarens are awesome cars, don’t let this guy ruin that. Besides, did you see that paint job? He just put the car out of its misery.
Glad the cameraman was okay; this guy shouldn’t be behind the wheel of anything.
People. Ever heard of Jesus Christ?
Personally, I like the word. Its very clear.
“Dumb rich kid crashes really expensive car. More at 11”
Who cares?
And perhaps my least favorite part, aside from him walking away relatively unscathed, was that this shitty article goes on to just use other YouTubers and influencers for reaction quotes.
It’s like the they tried to directly convert a 90 second YT local news story, into an article.
In their defense, it’s way easier than doing actual journalism.
Global News is a terrible sensationalist rag. I’m sorry it’s managed to fester outside of Canada.
Imagine being so annoyed by someone you have zero obligation to pay attention to that you wish them physical harm.
You mean someone who’s endangering the lives of the public for views…?
Someone whose actions could have easily killed someone… for likes and hearts…?
For the record, I’m not annoyed by them, I detest them. Not for their job, but because of their actions, you know, like a normal person would.
Normal person would be glad no-one got hurt rather than wishing someone did.
No, a normal person would hope that a shithead who is endangering the lives of the public, and who will eventually kill someone if they aren’t stopped, would have learned a lesson.
Walking away unscathed, and continuing to stream for hearts and likes, while your friend is bleeding from the head, does not impart that lesson upon them.
I didn’t say I wish they were dead, I said it’s unfortunate they weren’t hurt, because that might have saved someone else’s life in the future.
Okay, admittedly ‘a normal person’ is a quite low bar. A reasonable, ethical person then.
They totaled a several-hundred-thousand-dollar car in front of a million people, and the insurance won’t cover it because they were texting. If he’s capable of learning from mistakes, I’m sure he has.
What? You think his parents mortgaged their house for that car? Or that he paid for it, and his lifestyle, entirely from his streaming earnings? lol no.
If he hit a triple to get there, you might have a point. But he was born on third base, and something tells me his parents aren’t going to send him back to first.
But maybe you’re right, maybe we’re in the dawn of a new day where rich kids crashing expensive cars, and walking away unharmed, will actually make them better people and help them grow…
What a time to be alive when suggesting we shouldn’t wish physical harm on an idiot teenager / young adult who we’ve all been at one point, is met with such fierce opposition.
How unreasonable of me.
Influencer Culture is a cancer on society
No, cancer kills healthy patients.
This seems to be preying on the already ill, many of us seem immune.
Influencer.
That’s what he does.
We have failed.
You are aware that the majority of kids aspire to be social influencers as a desired life/career path, yes?
https://pro.morningconsult.com/analysis/gen-z-interest-influencer-marketing
The majority of current US children do not want to be doctors or professors or plumbers or coders or truck drivers or electricians… they want to pursue a career path that has something like a one in a million odds of making them stupidly wealthy.
Because that’s what they see. All the time. A constant super, uber version of a reality tv show of wealthy idiot assholes doing and saying whatever they want and almost never facing any consequences.
And to some extent, who can blame them?
Every other career path has exceptional upfront costs of time and money, involves much, much more challenging work (either physical, mental or both) and are seen as basically just as risky in terms of actually working out.
Fuck it. YOLO. Only got 10 or 20 years until the water wars or WW3 or climate change breaks everything anyway.
The majority of current US children do not want to be doctors or professors or plumbers or coders or truck drivers or electricians… they want to pursue a career path that has something like a one in a million odds of making them stupidly wealthy.
I, too, had dreams of being a rock star when I was a kid.
Money for nothin’. Chicks for free.
Checks for free. He’s talking about writing personal checks, like in the beforetimes, and them having no impact on his bank account later.
It’s a damning account of 80s hypermaterialism.
Yes, I know, history rhymes and Socrates was right about the youth being out of control.
That’s not what any of the lyrics sites I can find are saying.
https://genius.com/Dire-straits-money-for-nothing-lyrics
Pretty sure that line is about women throwing themselves at rock stars.
My bad, always had the other version because of the music video.
For real. Youthful day dreams are nothing new.
This is really different though. In so many ways.
Looking up to rock stars was different from parasocial relationships with people you watch hundreds and hundreds of hours of.
The volume of content dictates so many differences between rock stars and influencers just on its own.
Different in some ways? Sure, maybe, but go watch the videos of people at the Beatles concerts, or Michael Jackson concerts, etc. etc. They look like they’re losing their minds just while he is standing on stage looking around before the performance. Humans have incredibly sick relationships to any ‘star.’ Look at athletes and their incredible influence on kids. Holy hell, for a recent one just look at taylor swift and getting people to register to vote.
How many kids did anything toward that goal, such as forming a band, learning how to play an instrument or sing, actually landing that first gig at a local bar or something…
… vs how many kids nowadays … have a social media account they post to religiously?
Forming a band? Tons. You couldn’t drive down a neighborhood block without hearing someone banging on drums in a garage, or an amp pealing its notes out from an open window.
I would bet the amount of ‘bands’ that formed and the amount of kids that post videos to become influencers have a pretty similar number.
Fuck it. YOLO. Only got 10 or 20 years until the water wars or WW3 or climate change breaks everything anyway.
psst… don’t look now, but it’s less than ten years.
Pssst, we all wish, this shit is going to circle the drain for decades. Think it’s bad now? Just wait.
No, I get what you mean. It just depends on what we mean by “breaks everything”. I’m not saying we’re looking at human extinction in ten years, or the complete loss of advanced industrial civilization in ten years. But I do expect in that time span massive and permanent decreases in the average standard of living and the availability of goods, services, and information.
Newsflash: Egypt is already threatening sudan with war if they don’t get rid of the damn
And to some extent, who can blame them?
I agree with your entire comment, but from this point on, you really nailed it.
Who knows what my attitude would be if I was in my teens or early twenties? I would be old enough to understand that I have almost no chance of building a “good” life. Everything’s fucked. Political systems, the labor market, and worst of all, the environment. Might as well earn money by being an idiot. At least then I’d be my own boss.
The majority of kids dream of eventually owning a home… it looks like that’s unrealistic unless you can get 4-5 million together in some markets.
These are down the street from me. They are 1.3 million dollars.
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Is there a room for humans in those garages? Why does every house these days need to dedicate so much of their square footage to cars.
Also, I’m aware there are substantial price differences in different markets - I’m in Canada and, specifically, Vancouver - our market is insane… but gone are the days of a modest home for under 200k.
“Help, help! Break the f—king window,” he yells as Good Samaritans rushed over. One of the witnesses helped carry Doherty out of wreck while the 20-year-old continued to film himself.
I’d like to think that if was helping, I would have the presence of mind to realize he was filming himself. I would have taken a moment to grab his fucking phone and fling it as far away into oncoming traffic as possible.
