this week we've got videos going viral from dozens of people showing off their fake looking rubbery food the search for missing British teen J Slater has finally come to an end and oh my Lord I was 87 seconds away from being absolutely destroyed in the comments all of that and more so let's get cracking okay let's kick today off with this introducing all of the people that you are arguing with online yes what you are seeing is the Chinese phone Farms now this is just one example of the hundreds if not thousands of these Farms that exist all around the world today each Farm has hundreds upon hundreds of smartphones all with their screen and their batteries removed which are placed into racks and then connected to one single computer each of these phones represents an individual user one command from the computer operated by The Click farmer can trigger hundreds of identical likes follows com ments or star ratings and now with the introduction of AI you can get intelligent almost humanlike interactions unique to the video that we're talking about to the point where you don't even know what's real anymore I mean anyone who spent any time on Tik Tok will know what I'm talking about when I say Ashley she has got smart over the years but I guess the question is why why go to all of this effort will it can range from simple things like making money all the way to threats to democracy but we'll get to the second one later making money is pretty simple because click Farmers basically get paid for fake engagement they can receive 2 cents per th000 views they get on Tik Tok 11 cents for 1,000 likes on Instagram and they even get payment for streams on Spotify so if we do fail to hit that 100K each video by the end of the year you know where I'm going and I mean just to put into perspective how rampant this is 6 years ago onethird of all traffic generated online in China was due to these Farms so I I am terrified to think what it looks like in 2024 with AI but yes it can also go all the way up to threats to democracy hurah this is because Studies have confirmed that in 2016 Russian troll Farms were found to have created thousands of fake social media accounts that pretended to be Americans supporting radical political groups try to influence people's opinions and of course ultimately sway the election man good luck for this year I don't even and and being in this industry myself right now it's I don't even no it's going to be a wild wild lead up to the elections okay what kind of American are you so I guess ultimately the advice is next time you see a comment or a video that gas lights the hell out of you just maybe think twice about where it may have come from before you waste your time going into a comment war and I mean speaking about comments and we'll talk about this later but I am furious with last video's comment section but before we get there let's move on to the next story okay we need to ask the question what the hell is going on with food in America because recently a bunch of videos have gone Mega viral and I'm talking like 40 million views in one video viral showing food that looks fake and rubbery leading everyone in the comments to say uh laughs and European or America's food industry is cooked [Music] so the question is is America's food industry actually cooked well firstly watching these videos some of them have pretty standard explanations like take the avocados you know they often look like this when they're not ripe maybe it's just because not enough people eat vegetables or is an avocado a fruit yeah fruits have seeds it's a fruit it's just usually when I think of fruit I think of sweet I don't have to justify myself to you put in there Alex non justification however other fruits uh like the single rubber blueberry in a pack of real ones is pretty hard to explain and kind of strange but then again um humans are kind of insane because when I lived in Australia someone was putting needles into strawberries so yeah one rubber blueberry and a pack of real ones it's not too hard to imagine someone doing but aside from all of that the real question and the concern for all of these people in the comments is about GMOs genetically modified organisms and for the few people that don't know it's essentially a pretty common practice now of altering a plant's DNA for specific purposes for example 92% of us corn is genetically engineered to resist certain types of pests and in terms of whether genetically modified food is safe and good it's a rabbit hole to go down because the vast vast vast majority of studies say it is perfectly fine and there I don't think there is one taste study that I've come across where people have become ill because of consuming this but then again it's very very hard to control and track someone through their entire life and how do you even control the variables because you're eating a piece of fruit but think about all of the other things that you're doing in your life that could cause sickness so there's all of that stuff and then there's also other countries that have banned genetically modified crops like Peru and we'll get to that in a second so the science says it's okay other things say it might not be so that was the whole reason I'm not going to get into that now with that aside I'm not here to defend America's food industry because it's it's far from ideal and they have dozens of food items that are banned or heavily regulated in other countries due to their ingredients which they think it's fine and if you read this book is slightly concerning but when it comes to these rubbery fruit fruits going viral on Tik Tok I don't think America is to blame at all because firstly it is highly unlikely that these fruits are even from the US in the first place and that's because the majority of fruit that Americans eat is imported from other countries secondly all of those rubbery fruits in those videos are not even on the fda's list of GM crops in the US so them being genetically modified in America at least is very very no it's it's actually not possible I was going to say unlikely so then thirdly could it be you know from another country that they just genetically modified it well very unlikely because the number one and number two seller of fruit to the UK Mexico and Peru which combined make up a huge proportion of imports to America well they both banned GMO crops in 2021 so I mean considering all of this the truth is there are so many reasons as to why these fruits could have this strange texture like them not being ripe their temperature were they frozen and unfrozen what were their growing conditions like all of the process that they go through in storage and handling before they even get to the store heck people even faking these videos for views and likes but despite all of these more probable potentials it is far more of an interesting story to say that America is poisoning their population with fake fruits so I guess naturally people go with that and I mean let's be honest people refuse to eat a watermelon with a strange texture in the name of Health but then have absolutely no problem slamming down chocolate bars and fast food and all the other [ __ ] that is actually killing you slowly we are not logical creatures but I would love to hear your thoughts on that subject moving on now we've got a couple of stories here that are updates from last week starting with the search for the missing British teenager Jay Slater uh because yesterday that was officially called off and not because they found him because they couldn't find him yeah uh wish I had better news for you so basically yesterday authorities urged the public this time to do one final push hoping for a massive turnout and they could finally find him but only six people turned up weird especially because this has been a pretty big public case in the news and everyone like the views that it gets is insane so six people hm anyway these volunteers along with officials which made up a group of about 30 to 40 people searched all day and still nothing was found and that is on top of almost two weeks of searching now because of this a spokesperson for the tenie police said that they cannot keep on looking forever and although the search is now concluded and they're calling it off the investigation will remain open so what that seems to signal is that they might just be shifting their f Focus onto other ways he may have disappeared and not just him collapsing trying to walk home or losing his footing or something like that they declin to respond as to whether they're thinking about criminal side of things now and I mean I we kind of called it last week but officially as of right now this situation doesn't make any sense but when it starts to of course I'll keep you updated okay I didn't think that I was going to be talking about the H girl again but here we are that's because yesterday she came out of hiding and spoke about the whole situation for the first time actually to be fair the first time she was seen publicly after this was she went on stage with Zack bran and then for some reason met Shaquille O'Neal and uh boy look at that man's face I don't even want to know what bro is thinking anyway as we can see by the past couple of days she's not only embracing this new found Fame but she's capitalizing on it and not in a bad way that's okay please and if she does what she says she's going to do you might be seeing the HW to girl a little bit more often so a couple of interesting things from the podcast she said that when the video went viral basically people lied about everything shock for someone that works in the news industry this does not surprise me they lied about who she was what job she had who her dad was and ex I just want even talk about all of that uh she said that her family including her dad for everyone in the comments doesn't really care and thinks it's funny so she said that she's had loads of creepy people reaching out to her including and this one is horrible but someone asked the man who was helping her sell those hu T caps to ask her if she would Huck Tu into a jar and then sell it to him for $600 too much information probably so maybe this clicked something in her brain but she realized woo there is a money-making opportunity right here so she's decided to quit her Factory job employed management already uh got a camera crew following around and has some big plans for the future now I'm not exactly sure what she means by this but she said that she's going to start a show and I guess by show that's either YouTube or podcast cuz I know they like to call podcast shows but then of course I imagine she's going to get on Tik Tok Instagram the whole lot and when I heard this I was like oh no here we go again because here's the thing a lot of people don't understand about going viral and I'm not saying that this is going to happen to Haley but as a Creator myself who came up on Tik Tok I have seen this thing happen over and over again people accidentally go viral on Tik Tok all the time it's kind of what Tik Tok was all about but going viral versus becoming a content creator are two very different things so many people I've seen throughout the years got so many followers off of you know one specific dance or one specific type of video but then when they start creating other types of content you know because doing one dance for the rest of your life isn't exactly sustainable people unfollow because it's not what they followed for in the first place and the new stuff that they're creating just isn't that good I mean I'll use myself as an example I have over 11 million followers over on Tik Tok and one of the reasons I've refused to tell any of them I have YouTube apart from obviously I love you guys is because I actually need to get good at making YouTube content before any of that if I decided to flood everyone over from Tik Tok on YouTube on the first day and my content is crap it doesn't matter who you are no one wants to watch bad content and everyone will just slowly dwindle away so ideally I want to get to the point where my YouTube content is good enough that it speaks for itself on YouTube without you know my Tik Tok audience carrying me and then you can open the floodgates and they're like damn this is great content I'm so glad that there's also more you know but you got to lay the foundations and it's the exact same as the hak girl sorry let's just call her Haley from I I don't need to keep on saying that H A lot of people will follow her and watch her content going forward because she's super famous now but if the foundations of her being able to actually make good content for them to watch isn't there it simply won't last that is if she does decide to make a show I mean she could pivot into a whole different direction and I guess thinking about it now it's kind of annoying for her that uh the the HW comment that she's most famous for she probably won't like doing the pivot that makes the most sense Alex uh heavily imply with visuals what I'm trying to say here because I can't actually say it but damn that would be a good pivot anyway with all that being said I am rooting for her she does seem like she has a great personality so I reckon she can definitely make something It Anyway best of luck h i mean Haley Haley Welsh everyone from the Empire wishes you luck moving on okay so this last one is a little bit of a wild one so England played last night right and everyone thought they were going to kind of just walk over Slovenia you know they were they ranked 45th in the country England's ranked fourth but then they went 1 n down in the first half and it stayed that way until the 95th minute and for everyone that doesn't really know about football a football match is 90 minutes so they were five minutes in to 6 minutes of extra time and honestly the closer and closer it got to the final whistle all that was going on in my head was holy [ __ ] a couple videos ago I said that England was going to win the entire thing that was my prediction you know remember we all put predictions in England was mine and if they went out this early I was going to get torn apart in the comments and I mean at this point I didn't really care about you know England going out all I was thinking about you know the 30 minute long video I was going to have to make dedicated purely for whipping people that were you know saying nonsense in the comments and then this [Applause] happened yes with 87 seconds before I was going to get brutally verbalized verbally abused in the comments Jude Bellingham scored a goal that will go down in English History and then Kane scored the second goal in extra extra time and we won wo my prediction stays alive but Italy did lose so for anyone that predicted Italy we can now just shame them Alex put everyone that voted Italy that predicted Italy right here shame shame shame shame you suck you suck ha okay with the shame out of the way there's two or three things of of personal stuff that I want to talk about first of all uh let's okay let's get the bad ones out of the way first seasonal whippings um first of all I'm kind of baffled flabbergasted flab flabbergasted to what the hell I saw in my last video usually I pick out one or two or three maybe of really disrespectful comments just to really put them in line and put them on the wall of whips what do we call it Alex can't even remember but as I was going through the comments there were hundreds and they were all just about me being late I don't even think there was one good comment it was just you're late you suck I can't believe you're late again here we go so at this point and I'm sorry for maybe there was the the good ones in there I'm sorry but you're just all getting thrown in so Alex every single person that commented on that video put him there because [Music] we are going to make the news daddy Empire respectful again no not again no no no no no [ __ ] [Music] didn't exactly go to plan I'm not going to lie [ __ ] rip to a good one for that you bastards I want this video to have zero comments zero comments now man why am I getting a call from Sunderland England guys I think it is only right that we lay our poor fallen soldier to [Music] rest let's see if we can put him in heaven in case forever because you are a truly beautiful fallen soldier oh God not the most stable of chairs get off CRS all right the little pieces shall go up at the top parts of his body will be remembered oh my God all right let's let's put you in heaven good boy all right now our fallen soldier will always be remembered he ah I mean come on you can't tell me that doesn't actually look a little bit better maybe with the efforts of trying to lay him to rest he's come back with a vengeance but anyway fallen soldier you are one of the good ones you don't want to end up like our fallen soldier there like and comment it's good funeral man do I even make the next announcement my God okay well I will but just know that I'm furious I have a pretty massive announcement that's going to come in the next video and um potentially one of the biggest and it has it might make me take some time off of YouTube but because of that announcement I was also wanting to float the idea of creating a Reddit so I want to create a Reddit and get everyone in there so I can have a segment of just reactions for you know whatever people want to post whatever you guys want to post it could be new stories it could be just anything that you want to post people can upvote it down vote it and I'll have a segment in each video of just stuff to uh you know that the community wants to speak about even though that Community is real bastards right now bloody bloody [ __ ] you oh I hope they get the reference I hope you get the reference um so I'm just flooding that idea I will create it uh but just let me know if you want a Reddit section so you can you know bring your stuff to this video uh as well so it could be an us thing woo okay right with all of that out of the way it was a bit of a wild one today we did lose a light but we served some justice to some bloody West turs thank you all I will see you on um Thursday or Friday uh but until then let's get it out without