• circuscritic@lemmy.ca
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    165
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    edit-2
    1 month ago

    “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.

      • nepenthes@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        5
        ·
        1 month ago

        Global News is a terrible sensationalist rag. I’m sorry it’s managed to fester outside of Canada.

    • ContrarianTrail@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      arrow-down
      17
      ·
      1 month ago

      Imagine being so annoyed by someone you have zero obligation to pay attention to that you wish them physical harm.

      • circuscritic@lemmy.ca
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        17
        ·
        edit-2
        1 month ago

        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.

          • circuscritic@lemmy.ca
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            15
            ·
            1 month ago

            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.

            • ContrarianTrail@lemm.ee
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              1
              arrow-down
              9
              ·
              edit-2
              1 month ago

              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.

              • circuscritic@lemmy.ca
                link
                fedilink
                arrow-up
                10
                ·
                1 month ago

                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…

                • ContrarianTrail@lemm.ee
                  link
                  fedilink
                  English
                  arrow-up
                  1
                  arrow-down
                  9
                  ·
                  1 month ago

                  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.

  • foggy@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    120
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    edit-2
    1 month ago

    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.

    • 3ntranced@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      10
      ·
      1 month ago

      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.

    • RandomVideos@programming.dev
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      4
      ·
      edit-2
      1 month ago

      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

      • foggy@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        11
        ·
        edit-2
        1 month ago

        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.

        It’s low level extortion.

    • InverseParallax@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      8
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      1 month ago

      No, cancer kills healthy patients.

      This seems to be preying on the already ill, many of us seem immune.

  • Kekzkrieger@feddit.org
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    81
    ·
    1 month ago

    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.

  • penquin@lemm.ee
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    71
    ·
    1 month ago

    “influencer” I truly hate this word. It’s way overused. Like what is he influencing, markers flipping?

    • ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      23
      arrow-down
      2
      ·
      1 month ago

      He influences his followers to buy products. An influencer is like a freelance marketer.

      • penquin@lemm.ee
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        8
        ·
        1 month ago

        If you make your purchasing decisions on an “influencer’s” opinion, then man, do I have so many things to say about you.

      • tomkatt@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        9
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        1 month ago

        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.

  • cosmicrookie@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    51
    ·
    edit-2
    1 month ago

    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

  • paraphrand@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    21
    ·
    1 month ago

    “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.

  • superkret@feddit.org
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    23
    arrow-down
    3
    ·
    1 month ago

    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.

  • Blackmist@feddit.uk
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    18
    ·
    1 month ago

    “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?

    • BrundleFly2077@sh.itjust.works
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      8
      ·
      1 month ago

      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.

      • Blackmist@feddit.uk
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        7
        ·
        1 month ago

        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.