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hey everyone me kevin here this video is about what the new york times just said behind my back this is the march the 28th 2021 edition of the new york times it is the sunday paper inside of it they have stuffed the new york times magazine and when you open up the new york times magazine to not the first page but to we gotta get past the table of contents right so pronounce the simple contents you get to the first article in there is my face let's talk about what the new york times had to say the easiest way to actually read this is for you to be able to follow along so of course we're going to pull up the story on the ipad too because after all we can nft what's on the ipad i can't nft this alright folks so here we go why finance gurus switch their bait from millions to thousands of dollars okay all right let's uh we get starting off with a little bit of a cynical tone i see here let's go into this uh mark your calendar there's a big day coming on january 9th with the dream of a two thousand dollar stimulus check not yet deflated the southern california real estate broker kevin paffraut uploaded a video to his meet kevin youtube channel updating viewers on the status of stimulus and sitting before an array of glowing led screens yup and pop culture paraphernalia a star of mario yeah and thor's hammer yes uh pathfinder i don't know what that means wiry white man in his late 20s how about dude who's 29 uh with a close crop beard it's kind of messy but okay leaned into the lights and greeted viewers yeah that's true using the earnest eye contact of a veteran youtuber uh he ran through a summary of the situation the interest at play in congress the details of the proposed bill the tangled qualifications for relief out of focus over his shoulders the monitors reminded us of his meet kevin school and sign and sign up for courses to master stocks at the end of the video we are invited to become more that's the old coupon uh through through investing to subscribe to his channel and of course smash the like button i guess that i guess this is a little subtle reminder to always hit the like button little thumbs up there in the below big day coming two thousand dollar stimulus check jan 14.
well we may as well pull that one up really quick to see what video inspired this i always think that's interesting let's see meet kevin big day coming jan 14. oh hey here it is okay hey everyone so uh what's interesting about this video is take a look at this let me share this here uh in this video i do actually uh yeah i go through yeah it looks like i'm going through the new stimulus package that uh biden is proposing to give the full two thousand dollars which we know is the fourteen hundred dollar plus up uh on top of the six hundred dollars oh wow encourages automatic triggers yep we never got that ah this is like a throwback that's interesting mansion oh my gosh you know right now they're thinking of trying to well at least there has been talk about convincing joe manchin to become a republican and if trump manchin became a republican it would make him it would basically flip the balance to 51.49 i don't think it's going to happen anyway we'll keep going back to the article wow okay cool so i mean that's a detailed video with the i like the flow charts i don't know this video would be just one of dozens about the potential stimulus packages posted that day um oh okay in general yeah not me i didn't post dozens of videos a lot but that doesn't uh even that evening many of them from finance influences like paphrath whose pitches normally involve real estate well yeah back before coven stocks or airline points true credit cards oh my gosh we haven't talked about credit cards in a while a year ago they were promising to share the proprietary secrets for achieving wealth well we do that all the time it's gotta gotta get those wedge deals uh staging monologues in the driver's seats of luxury cars and pool and poolside on cruise ships so you know what he's talking about is this video right here it only has 28 000 views the future of tesla stock price analysis february 4th 2020 before the pandemic i'm driving in the car talking about tesla stock price that's crazy uh and then there was one other one the cruise ship one the cruise ship one was fun passive income real estate uh that was good here it is oh man i think people really enjoyed this one this one almost has half a million views which is super cool it was a good video ah that's cool they they did reference a couple good videos here so i like that uh all right let's keep going here uh i i don't know that i would call it a monologue but okay brian kim oh hey look shout out to clear value here uh uh who had previously been explaining tax prep including how high earners could reduce their obligation and rami once raised a complimentary glass of champagne from a first class airplane seat and offered to explain how he uses airline rewards to get there uh you know i've actually never flown first class so uh good good for romney now all that has changed the thumbnails on their channels may have kept their usual style buffoonish facial expressions what not that buffoonish glaring yellow text but it was videos about stimulus checks that came to dominate their feeds ah okay they vied for the role of soothsayer before a wrapped audience with a seemingly insatiable demand for information about when the government would offer financial relief i mean there's so much freaking crap to weed through i always thought those were helpful i mean we haven't been posting in these in a while but uh yeah there was so much to unwind or sort of unpack it just it was a mess personal finance influencers turned out to be natural for this part they were par they were already performing as the shamans of a core of american mythology i mean this is like a world of warcraft reference that although the world may be divided into halves and have nots the only thing standing between you and the life among the haves was some arcane savvy this guy is definitely a world of warcraft player look the only the only thing standing between poor and not poor is investing real estate stocks and owning businesses because why those are the three things that always get bailed out first and look back at the beginning of the pandemic what get what gets bailed out first businesses ppp loans come on everybody get stimulus checks the ppp loans those were the biggest freaking stimulus check that people got uh that you've gone obviously uh the real estate bailout oh just don't pay your mortgage oh tenants no you still owe your you still owe your rent but maybe you won't get evicted and uh and stock market come on we got jpow to bail us out in the stock market it's ridiculous the influence was exactly like you they promised it's just that they had cracked the code and would in their magnamity break a taboo to share its secrets with you this is a little bit of a cynical tone here simply sign up for their classes buy their books and use the appropriate coupon code i check it i mean do use the appropriate coupon code to check out this is true their shift to stimulus content was sudden and significant but it was merely a change to the type of knowledge in which their enlightened everyman personas were trained instead of decoding real estate or cryptocurrencies they opined on means testing and party politics well the good news is i talked about everything i just made more videos i feel like i still talk about real estate still talk about stocks just kind of added steam on top uh in pav rat's case stimulus check updates began doubling the views of his other view began doubling his other videos and views yeah i will say people liked stimulus more than they liked real estate videos that's for sure one update became the most popular video on his channel this one went number one on trending 1.1 million views that's true for other finance gurus these updates took over their entire output or their output entirely not mine their audiences grew dramatically but the shift required a tacit admission that the people they had been teasing with paths to affluence had ended up sitting around with everyone else hoping for a check i mean i don't know i you know i play i play games with uh some of the people who who found me through the stimulus updates and i mean it's nice to check in every once in a while and know what the heck is going on so you could play more games you know they're good summaries you know it's been like 12 to 16 hours a day trying to uh you know produce a good summary content whether it's about the market or stim but i don't know man viewers i don't know how great this sounds viewer demand didn't come it kind of sounds roasty viewer demand didn't come from the upward bound entrepreneurs at all it seemed but rather from those enduring the kind of precarity where the precious ti or precise timing of the two thousand dollar deposit could mean keeping the lights on or the difference between housing and eviction uh these audiences didn't want yesterday's news or even this morning so the slightest budge towards progress was meaningful and welcomed yeah that's true uh the output of youtube updates was relentless every hour a glut of new videos provided on the latest provided the latest on whether the relief was coming and how many dollars were likely to arrive uh pav rath tippy can we just go with me kevin please typically upload i'm going to start doing that me kevin typically uploaded two videos a day some content makers uploaded three or more there was often simply not much to say okay well that's why i did post other content too uh the key to collecting views was simply to serve as a foil as to what the audience saw as an infuriating lack of urgency from congress and the president uh lowercase president interesting usually we capitalize present the youtubers tended to mimic the calm authoritative style of cable news anchors but other than reading other people's reporting of printer paper there was a little to do beyond trying to match their viewers exacerbations oh that's pretty rough i i think right here they're kind of slamming our beautiful flow charts that i guess they don't like our flow charts the visuals comically featuring the same techniques used to press press investment schemes stock images of fanned out 100 bills oh i never use that and tantalizing clickbait of a 4200 stimulus i don't think i've ever talked about 4200 stimulus but okay me kevin has a charisma that cuts through all this his exception exceptionally talented well apparently i'm not i may not be exceptionally talented at reading i suppose he's exceptionally talented at talking okay so i think what they're doing is they're merging together a bunch of other youtube channels here as well he's exceptionally talented at talking to a camera a natural salesman make sure by the way to sign up for your free uh up to eighteen hundred fifty dollars stocks when you sign up for weeble deposit a hundred dollars and get up to two free stocks with weeble okay where were we somewhere around here somewhere around this oh yeah but when he turns to a flow chart breaking down biden's stimulus proposal what might what might even be sincerity leaks out man the tone of this geez new york times so i like that full-on roast fest here judging by the ad-hoc community formed in his comment section his viewers appreciate it plus the bitcoin scammers avoid the people telling you to reach out to them via whatsapp geez uh then you remember the neon advertisements behind him and the exhaust exhortations to go from zero to millionaire and beyond that meet kevin a multi-millionaire landlord who once extolled the virtues of misleading tenants and vigorously refusing to rent to people with sub-optimal credit scores has become an exacerbated avatar for emergency economic relief for the neediest most of whom would be spending it on rent feels deeply typical america typically american i think this person has a very negative view of of america that's kind of sad i think this is kind of very out of context here i don't extol the virtues of misleading tenants i think being honest and having strong communication with your tenants is very very important uh but the only thing that this could reference is the fact that i openly and we talk about this all the time on the channel and real estate videos i openly say do not tell tenants you're the property or you're the owner you are always the property manager because if you were the owner you are 10x more likely to be emotionally involved and when you're a landlord you've gotta remember you're running a business and so sometimes as a landlord running a business that means going to the city the county of la and saying look this is a business decision i'll take the eighty percent and i'll waive the other twenty percent of the rent so that my tenant can get rental relief that's a business decision an emotional landlord uh might get caught and even though even though i don't think the city or or the state of california or county la should be encouraging landlords to take any kind of hand haircut on rental relief because that's not the intention of uh of the rental relief programs when you are a property manager and you portray yourself as a property manager which you are even if you were the owner you put on a business hat when you are an owner you expose yourself to the potential of uh emotions getting in the way like this tenant hasn't been paying on time they're so mean to be or whatever no no it is what it is business decisions maybe somebody lost their job make business decisions uh so it's it's simply the hat you wear i don't see that as misleading but maybe maybe uh and vigorously refusing to rent to people with suboptimal credit scores well yeah i mean we have a written criteria that says if you're below a certain credit score we don't rent uh that doesn't mean you're a bad person that doesn't mean you won't pay rent that's just that's just a system that we've established and that has worked very well with knock on wood never had an eviction so okay little i mean pretty cynical i mean they're not wrong i mean i guess that's right but it's very very cynical especially when they call that deeply american uh in the context they put that in i feel like this is a kind of a not great portrayal here a cnbc profile reported that meet kevin actually makes most of his money not from the industry he built his status on not from investing or buying rental properties but his audiences himself his youtube channel advertising revenue and affiliate programs but the thing is i'm totally transparent about all this if you type into youtube meet kevin how much youtube paid me for 31 days you'll see this right here and uh let's see if we just we'll just to exit here look at this i mean in may youtube was paying seven to eight thousand dollars a day up to ninety eight hundred dollars a day like yeah i i cannot i do not make that as a real estate agent i do not make that as a positive cash flow from real estate uh like that's the numbers are absolutely incredible what youtube pays now i make a i have a course a youtube course on how i break down how i make my videos and my strategy for making videos and the tech that i use and so on but uh yeah i mean look there's there's no hiding it and i'm very transparent about this uh this revenue too it's it's a blessing and this is one of the reasons why i encourage people to start a business especially related to youtube because it it is insane uh so again not wrong uh just very i don't know coming across as a as if that's a horrible negative uh okay whatever this confluence of the sincere and the cynical recurs constantly in the stimulus check youtube are they talking about themselves uh it serves as a uniquely american need even at the height of desperation nothing can ever dispel the mirage that riches are available to anyone with the work ethic if you insist a little savvy and if you insist a little savvy i mean i totally think anybody can build wealth and there are many stories on my youtube channel about how i started with nine thousand i mean what type this into youtube meet kevin here we'll do it together really quick this is a really good one to watch uh meet kevin start with real estate with ten thousand five hundred dollars meet kevin start with ten thousand five hundred dollars this one right here look at that 858 000 views how i turned 10 500 into 210 000 at 19 in 90 days beginner real estate you know how anyone can make 200 in 15 minutes easy side hustle you know these these i'm transparent about how you can build these or accumulate this wealth in the days leading up to the relief bill becoming law paphrath meet kevin's stimulus content remained his most popular product soon he was posting videos calming those members of his audience for whom the fourteen hundred dollar deposit had not arrived can the path forward for someone like pathfi meet kevin really lead back to making videos from the driver's seat of a tesla promising to make viewers rich or will what he see what he has seen during this stint months of tending to a public desperate for news of a couple thousand dollars opened his eyes to the possibility of just of being just another rich person hustling the poor wow adlen jackson is a writer from kingston jamaica who writes about music in new york this is his first article for the magazine screen grabs from youtube okay wow wow kind of harsh i have to say though it is kind of cool uh the the having the this new york times uh uh oh look it's under the it's under reality check that's cool it's literally the first thing under the magazine so you got you open it up you get the table of contents and an ad reality check and then there's that's so cool though like even though it's totally a roast i mean this is cool we did this together thank you everyone this is super cool i appreciate all your support hopefully you don't think uh this about me i mean that's uh it's a roast uh you know there's a lot of context missing a lot of context missing it's uh you know out of context the things aren't untrue uh but yeah yeah i don't know i'd love to hear what y'all think about it it's a it's a good roast i'll take it thank you new york times i appreciate you uh see what the wall street journal has to say next about the nyt and folks we'll see in the next one
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