this week the LA fires were labeled the worst natural disaster in US history AI Brad Pitt scammed a woman out of $850,000 Humanity's largest gathering has begun for the first time in 144 years I am being forced by Alex to try his favorite tea and the Tik Tok ban is actually getting insane people are trying to buy it Americans are flocking to actual chinese-owned and operated apps to just hand over their data and Reports say that Tik Tok plans an immediate shutdown for all us users on Sunday with them not being able to access the app at all woo so what does that mean for 170 million people well all of that and so much more so let's stop the yapping and let's get cored okay let's start today off with the Tik Tok ban because only three days out it actually looks like this might happen contrary to what I believed in for so long and what we all thought was going to go down if this actually does happen was that you know it just wouldn't be able to be downloaded on the App Store anymore you could still use it but it wouldn't get updates and it'll just slowly drift into irrelevancy but then yesterday shocking reports came out that Tik Tok plans an immediate shutdown on Sunday meaning that even if you have the app downloaded on your phone you may not be able to access it at all once this B then comes into effect now the initial reports come from a news Outlet called the information uh but is now being widely reported on by multiple outlets and they say that sources familiar with Tik tok's plans say that people attempting to open the app on Sunday will see a pop-up message directing them to a website with more information about the ban the report also says that Tik Tok plans to give users an option to download all of their data so they could just take it with them how freaking tragic now here's the thing the law doesn't mandate Tik Tok to go out this way shut up so why would they well the report says that what the law does explicitly prevent is us-based hosting services from supporting the app that includes app stores but also and much more importantly Cloud providers like Oracle which currently hosts Tik Tok us users data and they say that without access to these hosting Services Tik Tok would face significant operational challenges in maintaining its platform with the United States they also say that while they could consider migrating their data to its servers located in China one that would be a really terrible look but two it could introduce severe latency issues so they report that it just makes sense that Tik Tok goes dark for all Americans just like that and holy if this is actually the way that Tik Tok goes out there will be riots in the streets and I mean as users and even myself you know we desperately look to some hope turn our faces to hope hope hope comes in very strange forms I just got out of a meeting with a bunch of billionaires Tik Tok we mean business this is my lawyer right here we have an offer ready for you we want to buy the platform America deserves Tik Tok give me a seat at the table let me save this platform Tik Tok and now look I know what you all are about to say Mr Beast has money but he doesn't have that kind of money not app buying money okay I know that all right but did you hear he said we just had a meeting with a bunch of billionaires and honestly if anyone was going to take over Tik Tok would Mr Beast not be the number one option I mean if all of these Anonymous billionaires you know band together to buy the app and then take Mr B say you're running that now I think that's a pretty good investment on their Hof brother would know he would know how to run it I mean heck I would high-five the US government if this is how it worked out cuz it would work out better in the end but to dash our hopes and dreams Tik Tok still to this day maintain that they refuse to sell even to Elon musk you know which was kind of weird reports that came out in the past few days that Tik Tok also denied they called it Pure Fantasy or fiction I think it was also the latest development was that the bill to try and extend the Tik Tok ban by 278 days died in Senate almost immediately as it was introduced Tik Tok isn't just another social media platform Tik Tok is a Chinese Communist spy app that addicts our kids Harvest their data targets them with harmful and manipulative content and spreads communist propaganda so let me be Crystal Clear there will be no extensions no concessions and no compromises for Tik Tok so yeah we're not going to get saved that way but there is Trump he has said before that he does have a soft spot for Tik Tok and also reports today say that he's considering an executive order in hope to save the app and delay the ban key word though delay because even he can't just wave his hand and single-handedly eradicate something that was voted on to be put into law bite dance and the Chinese Communist had plenty of time to make a deal in fact the legislation allows the president to Grant a 90day extension to the Sunday deadline though only if negotiations have substantially Advanced so you see the bill that would effectively ban Tik Tok does have a little claw in there that says the president has the power to you know delay the ban by 90 days but only if they are in serious negotiations to sell the to America which currently that we know of they are not that apparently comes from bite dce the parent company saying it's not happening and I mean with that thought in mind where it's just that there's almost seems like there's no way of saving it Americans are now flocking over to a fully chinese-owned and operated app called red note or Little Red Book of course as a big old Fu to the government because we could talk about the t's and C's of this app and uh its Community guidelines for another video because I don't think many people read those and I mean as funny as I think it is and I support the valyant fu for making this happen to the government I don't think red note Little Red Book lasts at least for Americans for reasons I'll talk about it in a separate video and if hypothetically Americans can never use Tik Tok again starting Sunday I don't think Tik Tok lasts either at least for English-speaking countries I'm going to say it Tik Tok just wouldn't be the same without its American creators they are predominantly the ones that Drive the trends Drive the memes and add the cultural relevancy to the app I think wherever they go is where other creators in other countries follow I mean even when I was doing the review on red note for a Tik Tok video you know how many British creators are on red note now why are you there it Tik Tok is not even getting banned in the UK yet you find them already following the Americans and even though I live in the UK and it's not getting banned for me the vast majority of my audience is American so if they go that's not good for me that's pretty devastating honestly I have a lot more to say on the subject but for time sake of Alex editing this to get this out tonight I will save it for a separate video okay and that will be coming out in the next few days so with a very heavy heart let's move on okay let's run through a rapid fire of all of the latest updates from the LA fires because believe it or not they are still burning and also Reports say that the wind is picking back up again causing fears that it's going to Fan those flames and make it even worse again all right ready first of all California's government told NBC that this could be the worst natural disaster in US history you're living through that right now the death toll has reached a tragic 25 and the total area burnt by these fires is so far remember that everyone everyone was talking about how I was saying oh uh last video you thought it was so bad you wanted to stress the word two days this is all happening 2 days no I didn't say it that many times Alex and the damage is and remember on two days and the damage is and remember on just two days are thought to be in the realm of around $50 billion that was in fact that was such a a a mistake from Alex today Alex is going on the whip wall reminder put Alex on the whip wall sorry let me continue so far the area burnt so far the area burnt by the fires is bigger than the size of Paris roughly 75% of Pacific Palisades has now been destroyed 75% Alex do not play that five times 75% and is now threatening nearby areas like Brentwood and enino where many famous people have houses like Cala Harris LeBron James Arnold sweger and many more the FBI has now got involved they've launched an investigation to find the Drone operator whose drone collided with and grounded Canada's super scooper aircraft that was fighting the LA fires who would have thought a bloody drone taking Corin casserole like that down Elon has sent out a massive Convoy of cyber trucks and they're now being used as mobile base stations to provide stalling internet to areas without internet connectivity multiple people it's like every time I go on Twitter there's someone new uh they've been filmed around La starting allegedly starting fires 32 people have been arrested for looting homes including one who disguised himself as a freaking firefighter to rob houses this is actually one of the best visuals that gives you a perspective on the fire's location and its sheer size and there's Al a fantastic animation created by CBS News which gives you an idea at the speed at which it grew there was a video posted showing a man coming back to his home finding out that his dog named Oreo was still alive acuweather estimates that these wildfires have so far so far God damn it cost more than 250 billion in Damages and economic loss for cost show that the wind speeds are picking back up into the double digits and will continue to increase all the way through to Thursday uh but of course I'll keep you updated as things develop moving on oh also something that's wild that I you probably don't know is happening this week for the first time in 144 years Humanity's largest gathering has officially begun it's called the Maha kumela festival and over the next 45 days all right this is crazy lock in 400 million million people are expected to come to this River and bathe in it as part of a religious Hindu TR tradition that's like every single person in the United States plus 70 million bathing in this River what and the event is so large that it can be seen from freaking space our minds cannot compute that many people now the reason it's so massive is that it's believed that if you wash yourself in this sacred river that it will cleanse you of your sins you're pufy your soul and will free you of the cycle of birth and death and although this kumla Festival happens once every 12 years this one known as the Maha or grand kumela only takes place once every 144 years and it's due to the stars and the astrology basically that's why it's such a big deal but to welcome what's expected to be the largest gathering in its history to a city that's only Built for 6 million people it takes years of planning and not just planning 400 km of new road 200 km of new sewage lines 13,000 train Services 160,000 tents 40,000 police 15,000 sanitation workers 150,000 toilets and the list goes on and on and I mean 150,000 toilets 400 million people damn anyway moving on now have you ever wondered what it's like to be an addict of soda well today you find out because this is what the average day looks like for a soda addict that drinks up to 36 cans a day this is basically like if you swapped out tea with soda and now you have Alex the editor which I am very I cannot wait I've even put a little cover on here to make it make sure it's nice and steamy and all promise you I have not tried this I literally just boiled the old cat brought it in and I'll do it after this story so he starts off every single morning with four cans of Dr Pepper on the way to the gym drinks about 1 to 2 liters of water water while at the gym and then on his way back he fills up his almost 3 l bottle just to drink on the way home from the gym America now when he gets home and he starts actually working he can go through about nine cans every 30 minutes and then at the end of the day if he goes like to the cinema he can go through three of these 900 mil cups just throughout the movie I would also 6 to 12 cans right before bed so on this entire day that he actually recorded bro pounded 21 L of soda 21 l i mean just think about how many times you would have to pee ingesting that much liquid actually it's a hey hey Chachi PT let's see if I can ask how big the average bladder is please have internet please I want to know okay well whatever Alex what is the size of the average bladder in milliliters I wish I could be shocked with you but um I can't unfortunately because don't have any Internet in my soundproofed garage now you're probably wondering how much money does bro spend well kind of surprising on this one he says that he hustles the system hard and he really uses those you know buy two get three free discounts which you have in America buy two get three free what are the profit margins so although he cops roughly 21 12 packs every week he says that he only spends around $40 to $50 that's pretty that's pretty good oh but that doesn't account for all of the flavors and creamers that he adds to the soda to just give it a little bit of extra summon summon I've never done that but um that feels like aeric final boss and here's the craziest part so despite his soda addiction starting 20 years ago and increasing its severity every year uh he said that so far that he knows of there's been no health or mental issues related to the soda that's pretty crazy oh we also said that he quit for 5 months once but he started up again because life was just wasn't as fun okay now speaking of cuz I know that Alex is editing this like really relating to it from a tea perspective let's try it Yorkshire gold and this is so good as well cuz I'm in a cold ass garage it it it looks strong from what I [Music] [Laughter] one okay before I say them one more I have a verdict that's a good cup of tea damn yeah no that's good it's got that um got that Zang at the end it's a bit more powerful strong a bit more brutal on the old taste buds which I like because I've been having a okay I don't want to go into my te little having Brew tea and it's not a shut up moving on well done Alex good tea I'm going to drink it all right well on the subject of drinks we might as well do this one for for our next story this is unhinged episode this is why doing a singular episode just focusing on one thing is so much more cohesive because I don't have the opportunity in between stories to go on these rents so where the start the story um you might not know this but the amount of water that AI uses is absolutely and utterly astonishing according to a report by The Washington Post if you ask chat PT to write you a 100w email it uses 519 mL of water and I know for a fact some of you and me I'll be honest are asking this fing AI sorry beep sorry I can't even put a sentence this is Alex's nightmare oh to write us multiple novels a day I'm I'm just s sat there having chats with chatu BT at some points I'm just when when they dropped that Santa update I'm not even going to lie ask Maddie we were chatting to that thing for like man this is terrible I wish I knew this before I won't chat with chat chbt anymore I once asked it give me a long summary of the start of the beginning of time until this point and don't miss out any detail I'm kidding I didn't do that I didn't um and just to make this whole scenario even crazier chachu PT has 200 million users so hypothetically if all of them just got it to write two emails in a day which is 200 Words which let's all be honest is going to be more than that that would use a staggering 27 million lers in one day one day and that's not even considering all the other companies using AI now like meta Google Apple Microsoft and I mean this water for anyone that doesn't know is used for cooling all of the servers um and it can I believe be recycled so it's not like it one one use gone but still absurd how much water that needs all right moving on also this week a French woman who thought she was dating Brad Pit was scammed out of $850,000 after finding out that all of the pictures were a I generated and the whole thing wasn't real 850,000 is tearful and at first I know like when you see these images and you see the whole headline and stuff you might you might be tempted to laugh and think how could anyone fall for someone like this but hold the laughter because this actually has a pretty freaking sad ending so let me tell you about it so this 53-year-old interior designer in France gets this message one day from someone who says that she's Brad Pitt's mother and she says to her her son Brad needs someone like her she said At first she thought it was fake and she said you know this this is ridiculous but and this is this is the sad heartbreaking part because there's so many people of the older generation that that don't get fully social media but she basically says she wasn't used to social media and she doesn't really understand it and she didn't really understand why it was happening to her so she kind of just went along with it and for the next 18 months they were messaging back and forth and this AI Brad Pit was sending her poems Declarations of love fake AI images and eventually a marriage proposal and she said because you know she's never had a man speak to her like this before and it was so nice she enjoyed it and she thought it she wanted to believe that it's real when you want to believe something is real not much stops you from believing it but then the inevitable happens the requests for money start rolling on in because apparently this AI Brad said that he was sending her luxurious Brands but told her that she had to pay the custom bills uh the first being $110,000 now eventually after you know well over a year of chatting they were deeply in love and she started divorcing her millionaire [Music] husband she starts to get messages saying that AI Brad was in hospital and dying of kidney cancer and at first she kind of had her doubts right but then that is when she starts to get all of those AI images you know and um seeing all of them she really believ it so she transfers her life savings $850,000 into a bank account in turkey and man I mean like from the perspective of like this actually being real to give your entire life savings that amount of money to someone that is dying to pay for their medical bills that's some good person sh that kind of person doesn't deserve to get scammed you know anyway she finds out that all of this wasn't real and she had been scammed when she saw a news article about the real Brad Pit being spotted somewhere in France with his real partner man that is rough she spoke about all of this to a French news station but the network later pulled the interview because she was being Cyber Bullied so not only did she get scammed out of her life savings people started bullying her too and she has also since been hospitalized for severe depression she said I asked myself why they chose to do such harm like this to me I've never harmed anyone these people deserve hell yes they do man that's actually freaking tragic let's let's move on it's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything let's lighten the mood because as the Tik Tok ban looms we need our three sacrificial Lambs to remind us all to subscribe to the channel and that not subscribing has consequences as you'll see in 3 2 1 wait let me write their names first wow I haven't put anyone on the whip ball in so long it feels good to get the whip arm back you are going to get a ferocious whip in oh and don't let me forget Alex you are going on here for what was it oh yeah making me repeat multiple times after just two days and the damage is and remember on two days and the damag is and remember on just two days all of you say your last words subscribe to the damel or El and one special one for Alex nauy Alex [Music] woo but also well done Alex for for recommending this this a fantastic tea Yorkshire okay it is time for something we haven't done in a while while and that is oh what the heck what the what the flip is this now so much has happened since our last news round up that I got to be quick and I can't Yap about them all all right so let's go Ukrainian troops have captured two injured North Korean soldiers which marks the first ever living proof that North Korea is directly involved in this war next a man who accidentally threw away a hard drive containing 8,000 Bitcoin in 2013 has just been denied permission by a UK judge to excavate a Welsh landfill to find it and you're wondering why would you want to go to all that trouble to excavate an entire rubbish dump well that Bitcoin is now worth approximately $74 million what how freaking pissed at yourself would you be by for throwing that away next I don't know how this one is possible but thieves this week cut through a fence at a Army Reserve in California and they went in and stall three Humvees and other military equipment including machine gun mounts medical supplies and Yorkshire Tea gold I mean what kind of robber are you if you're if you're targeting army bases what the flip I guess technically it's an Army Reserve Center but all the same two of the Humvees have since been recovered but the up armored hanvey and other equipment Still Remains missing and the suspects no one knows who they are yet next Starbucks has introduced a new coffee house code of conduct In America which now says if you don't buy something get the corn casserole out so no more chilling in Starbucks on your little laptop and and not buying anything it's happening today you're buy something or leave next Japan was hit with a 6.6 magnitude earthquake and South Korea's president today has been arrested that unprecedented event marks the first time ever in history a South Korean president has been arrested wo making an old history in 2025 how freaking normal damn you know what I really feel like we needed that didn't we a good old Roundup of Anarchy and woo and um you know good old Yorkshire tear yeting me through Tink I really feel like these are uh these really these ones these are for the ogs right they may not be for every all the new people coming through this is like mostly Anarchy with a little bit of news whereas the regular ones are news with a little bit of Anarchy so um anyway I'll stop the Yap start the goodbye uh see you whenever well I don't even know anymore cuz my life's falling apart now that Tik tok's gone and H whatever all right love you bye [Music] all right you want to see how many lights I have to turn off before I leave another one another one should my next video just entirely be done like this give me a spooky uh vibes