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  • Me and my twin sister used to share a single Neopet account.

  • Which was a dumb decision, because it was completely free to make a second Neopet account-

  • And we already struggled at sharing things in the non-virtual world.

  • But the reason we co-ran our Neopet account was because we didn't want to put our pets through a divorce,

  • And because we wanted to save up our Neopoints for a paintbrush.

  • For those of you who grew up with real video games,

  • in Neopets, a paintbrush was a super-rare item that would change your neopet's appearance based off the paintbrush you used.

  • There were christmas paintbrushes,

  • baby paintbrushes,

  • Guy Fieri paintbrushes,

  • and an invisible paintbrush that just...

  • Turned your Neopet invisible.

  • Why?

  • When I said that paintbrushes were a rare item, I meant it.

  • You see, your average neopet paintbrush would sell for about...

  • 1/2 Million Neopoints.

  • And the most me and my sister had ever saved up was about 100,000.

  • [James] WHY DID YOU SPEND 3K ON FOOD? WE'RE TRYING TO GET PAINTBRUSHES!

  • [Faith] IT WAS FLOWER67'S BIRTHDAY, AND YOU SPENT 4K GETTING THAT STUPID JACKET!

  • [James] THE JACKET IS COOL AND YOU KNOW IT!

  • One day, my sister went searching in the back alleys of the internet

  • for other ways to obtain a paintbrush.

  • And she stumbled upon this website that said:

  • "Get Free Paintbrushes!"

  • And all she had to do was enter in her username and password,

  • and they'd send us a fairy paintbrush!

  • Oooh!

  • And in a moment of desperation, she entered in the login details of our SHARED ACCOUNT

  • into a shady website.

  • And you'll never guess what happened next...

  • We log in our account and there were 3 fairy paintbrushes in our inventory and-

  • JUST KIDDING! We got hacked.

  • And we lost all 100,000 of our neopoints

  • and we never got the paintbrush we were promised.

  • But we learnt a valuable lesson that day which was:

  • People will try to scam you so, trust... no one.

  • We were lucky enough to only lose virtual money.

  • But some people aren't that lucky.

  • On the internet you have to deal with people trying to scam you constantly.

  • There's probably comments underneath this very video of people using

  • my name and profile picture saying:

  • "Click on this link and get a free gift card!"

  • And they always use a stupid amount of emojis so their comment sticks out more.

  • I thought it was obvious those comments were fake but some people still fall for them.

  • Listen, we need to get one thing straight about our relationship.

  • If I ever, use this many emojis...

  • I want you to shoot me.

  • Scammers like to target non tech-savvy people or what I like to call: Babies and Baby Boomers.

  • There's a lot of things you can do to help prevent people from taking advantage of you on the internet.

  • But my rule of thumb is:

  • if something sounds too good to be true...

  • it is.

  • No one's giving out free gift cards,

  • Your long lost uncle didn't wire transfer you money,

  • And you can't get free paintbrushes.

  • You can't cheat the system that's just life, man.

  • Also if you ever get a popup saying:

  • "Your computer has a virus! Call this number to fix it."

  • Don't.

  • A guy with an indian accent named Jason will charge you real money to "fix the virus"

  • but won't do anything.

  • Cause you never had a virus in the first place.

  • But those are all illegal scams.

  • People go to jail over those scams.

  • Identity theft is not a joke, Jim!

  • Millions of family suffer from it every year.

  • However there are some scams that are, for some unknown reason, completely legal.

  • And frankly, I think we should reopen alcatraz for the people who do these scams.

  • (009 Sound System Dreamscape) So here's my list for the top 4 legal scams that shouldn't be legal.

  • The first legal scam is mobile games.

  • I was doing a show with this nine-year-old kid named Ariah.

  • And in the show, he was going to punch me like this: (Ariah punches James).

  • And one day while we were rehearsing Ariah asked me:

  • [Ariah] Can I play some games on your phone?

  • So I gave him my phone and his Dad told me

  • [Ariah's Dad] Hey man, I don't even trust my kid with my phone.

  • And I thought: What's the worst thing he could do besides tweet something or delete my YouTube channel.

  • But he did something, so much worse.

  • He downloaded a free game,

  • and inside the game you could buy a VIP Member version.

  • that gave you extra lives and more skins.

  • The thing that was a scam was that the app gave you the VIP member

  • free for 3 days then charged you $6 a week!

  • That's a dollar a day, not including Thursdays, to play some stupid mobile game.

  • It's more expensive than a Netflix Subscription and

  • a tasty, hot and ready $5 Little Caesars pizza.

  • Now some of you might be thinking,

  • "Okay, yeah that's a ridiculous price for a mobile game.

  • But that's not a scam, they tell you how much it's going to cost right there on the screen''

  • But here's the thing, roughly zero people bought the VIP member pass

  • because they were fans of the game and didn't mind the price.

  • NO ONE IS WILLING TO PAY A WEEKLY BILL FOR A GAME WHERE ALL YOU DO IS THIS:

  • [Kevin MacLeod - Carefree]

  • But 100% of the people who pay for the subscription are kids

  • using their parent's phone and bought the VIP pass because they have no concept of money.

  • And you don't even have to enter in your credit card information

  • so it's easier for kids just to hit the "Purchase 6000 Gems" buttton

  • It's targeting kids and I don't like it; SCAM.

  • I wish I had the confidence of a mobile game developer

  • to charge someone $312 a year to play their stupid game.

  • My proposal to fix this scam is to ban mobile games entirely and everyone play Tetris 99.

  • Nintendo Online is cheaper than the VIP club subscription anyway.

  • The second legal scam is...

  • COLLEGE.

  • Textbooks.

  • We live in a society, where all human knowledge and misconceptions

  • are contained on the Internet.

  • But if you print out that knowledge and bind out the pages

  • suddenly you've made a best-selling book that people are required to buy.

  • There are some textbooks that are just a CD or a code

  • that you need a computer to even access the book

  • so what's the point of BUYING the textbook

  • if you have a computer that's connected to the internet in the FIRST PLACE!

  • And don't tell me that the books are better for people that don't have internet.

  • I know you have an internet connection...

  • cause...

  • c'mon

  • My solution to this scam is to drop out

  • and make YouTube videos.

  • The third legal scam is...

  • psychics.

  • I don't wanna debate whether or not psychics are real.

  • Because they're not. My horoscope told me so.

  • My belief is that no one can talk to dead people

  • because we're not living in a cartoon.

  • And it just makes me sick that there are psychics who are taking advantage of

  • people who are grieving, and are so desperate to talk to their loved ones again

  • that they'll try anything. Even paying people to lie to them.

  • *tss* Ooooh I burnt my finger on that

  • hot take

  • Now, I don't think that every psychic out there is trying to scam people.

  • most of them are, but I do think

  • there are some psychics

  • who legitimately believe that

  • dead people use them as a vessel to talk to their living relatives.

  • And in their 3 eyes, they are helping and giving their clients closure.

  • I understand that a very small percentage of them are just trying to help.

  • But it doesn't matter because they're all fake.

  • My soulution to this scam is that you don't pay a psychic unless they can guess how much money

  • you're going to pay them. Should be.. close to zero hopefully..

  • And the last legal scam is...

  • Multi Channel Networks. Wait, did you guys hear that?

  • It sounds like bridges being b u r n e d.

  • When your YouTube channel starts growing, you'll be contacted by a Multi Channel Network.

  • or, MCN. And they'll make empty promises that if

  • you join their network, they can help your channel grow

  • and earn more money! And they'll brag about how many people are in their network,

  • but really, that just means theres less of a chance they'll care about you.

  • And all you have to do to join is give them a percentage

  • of your YouTube money every month. And once you sign your soul away,

  • what the network will actually do is nothing..

  • except take a cut of your money every month.. It's like showing your dog a

  • tennis ball, and then pretending to throw it, and then when the dog

  • realizes, he's chasing nothing,

  • he's already signed a three year contract to keep chasing the fake ball.

  • I know this last scam might not apply to everyone watching,

  • but if this video helps at least one up

  • and coming YouTuber to not join an MCN, than it

  • will have been worth it. So that's my list for the top 4

  • legal that should.. not exist

  • and D I E . I don't think this video

  • I don't think this video is gonna actually change anything, people will always

  • be greedy and try to get money anyway they can.

  • So, anything you should take away from this video,

  • is that I'M GIVING AWAY FREE GIFT CARDS! CLICK THE LINK IN THE DESCRIPTION TO CLAIM YOUR

  • PRIZE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11!!!1!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • MMMM, good morning everyone, I hope you enjoyed my list of

  • of the top 4 legal scams that should be illegal..

  • If theres any psychics in the audience that I offended.. uhh..

  • you shoulda known before watching this video that I

  • don't agree with you.

  • and theres any MCNS watching this video..please stop emailing me.

  • so, I'm really excited to announce some HALLOWEEN

  • MERCH. Which includes a FREAKING HALLOWEEN

  • COSTUME. I know it's August, but I don't really

  • get a lot of chances to update you guys on things, so,

  • we're doin it now. If you wanna get your hands on a costume,

  • You should order it soon, because we only ordered

  • a certain amount of costumes, so once they sell out,

  • they won't be ready until.. next year..

  • If you have any questions about the sizing, or the shipping,

  • then be sure ta ask my business email,

  • Thank you for reading the subtitles, and sticking around to listen to the endcard,

  • I know a lot of people click off once the endcard starts, but..

  • .. at least you're cool..

  • Subtitles by: Hannah King, *insert names here if you helped* and until next time,

  • w e a r y o u r s e a t b e l t .

Me and my twin sister used to share a single Neopet account.

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應該是非法的騙局 (Scams That Should be Illegal)

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    Yanqin Yang 發佈於 2021 年 01 月 14 日
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