0:00 Everything has to pass the sledgehammer test. First. >> What if it's a glass cup? It's like a glass cup. >> Part, go over the test. What if it's What if the product is a sledgehammer? Welcome back to another episode of the Careful Boys. Hey, are you guys following this from an influencer point of view cuz you know, we're all big time influencers. Is de-influencing now bigger than influencing? What's de-influencing? Have you guys been seeing any of the Like it's almost like um now there's like I don't even know if you call it a trend, but people are like almost telling people what like not to get, what not to buy, things that like, you know, as a first time parents, things that you don't need. >> I agree. I agree with that 100%. >> Like this is overhyped. >> Bought all these top things, but I regret or like
0:50 >> Okay, so this is my take on a lot of this stuff. Because of how many people are getting into drop shipping and how like Like everyone's talking about oh, get my product Everyone's buying their own ████ and selling it to masses on Shopify or whatever. The quality of most things you get now are all garbage, I think, a lot of the times. Like for me at least. So I feel like nowadays you need someone to really tell you what you need to spend your money on because there like Temu, all the ████ on T- I'm not saying you buy ████ on Temu. >> roasted. >> But I feel like even when you go on Amazon, you buy something like that, you it's the same ████ you get on Temu. You know? It's the s████████ stuff there. >> It's a lot of recycled stuff, especially Amazon, bro. Like whoever makes it to the top >> Yeah, same manufacturer, same fake ████ reviews. It's like there's such
1:40 a formula, especially when you know how to how it like the the sausage is made, you go you can't really trust reviews, you can't trust the five stars, you can't trust trust pilot or You can't even trust when something says 100% cotton. Because everything They all say >> polyester when it arrives. >> say whatever the marketing claim is, they say it 100% and there's no like repercussions if it doesn't work or not. >> Yeah, there's no That's why I hate >> It's worse than ever now. >> You buy something off a IG ad and there's nothing you can do about it if you just don't get it. >> You just got got. >> And the product images are AI now, so they don't even have to take real photos. I bought this walking pad and the the the image was so ████ ridiculous. So I was trying to get a size of what the walking pad is, right, to see if it'll fit in this part of our house. And the lady was this and the walking pad was like this. I was
2:30 like, "You're telling me the ████ treadmill is the size of a car, dude?" But they just probably probably typed in AI image, make this look huge. >> They just don't care. >> The actual width of the walking pad is 16 in. Dude. I'm like, "Dude, you made it look like the walking pad was ████ 8 ft wide." That's ████ crazy. >> Yeah, they don't give a ████ dude. >> bought something and then you got tricked? Like last time I bought a paddle board cuz I thought it was a really good deal and I should have known. It was 12 bucks. And I was like, "A paddle board's coming, baby." And it was just a paddle. Just a paddle? It was just a paddle. That makes sense. And I didn't read the fine >> Yeah, you got to think you read though. Are you one of those guys that just bought the box from Xbox? Oh, that's messed up. >> Cuz like the whole thing it was a it was they were No, they scammed people. >> But that's what I'm saying. >> And I went back and then all the comments are like, "Don't buy THIS. IT'S NOT THE PADDLE BOARD."
3:20 >> They optimized the landing pages and the pictures to make you buy as soon as possible. >> They highlight the paddle board. >> You don't get buyer's remorse. Like that's their whole game plan. How fast can we get you to click buy and how fast can we get your credit card information in that like 20 seconds? >> And they know that most people won't return. So if they just buy it, they're like, "F███ it. They're going to be pissed, but they're not going to return it." >> Dude. Or or even if they do return it, but you got to pay the re-shipping fee and stuff like that. They don't mind a 50 plus percent of returning it. >> Yeah, it doesn't matter. >> Tiff bought a dresser, right? I'm putting it together halfway through, I realize half the parts aren't there. Like in in the instructions just don't work. >> It's just so maddening, dude. I have to take it apart, put it in the box, send it back, and I'm and Tiff was like, "Why I have to send it back?" And I'm like, "Oh, f███." So I have to put everything back in the box. We send it back. They sent it back to us and refunded our
4:12 money. Like They probably don't want to DEAL WITH IT. >> EXACTLY. EXACTLY. >> YOU TELL ME how that makes sense, bro. >> cost us money to throw it away. You throw it away. >> Exactly. They lost money. Shipping it twice. >> hoping that I wouldn't send it back. >> Yeah. They were hoping that I wouldn't send it back and they wouldn't get it. And they're like, "F███. All right, they sent it back. All right, send it >> That's why I ████ like stores. You go in there, you can go You can do the old Asian guy thing. "This is good. Okay. Let me get I want this." Wait, so what makes it de-influencing? That just sounds like also influencing. I mean, I think it's just it's like what he's saying though because we're so oversaturated. We're all bought. All the influencers are bought, dude. If they're telling you to buy anything, it's fake. >> like want something that is at least reasonably priced like gym equipment or something. So you go on, you have to watch reviews. I almost don't trust a review if they don't also talk ████ on a ████ quality product.
5:02 >> What? Like they have to Like somebody actually has to be like, "This is a real person judging a real thing." I don't like they have to disclose this this was given to me, but I'm going to give you an honest review. They have to disclose like, "Hey, I didn't buy this. I bought or I bought this on my own accord. It they didn't give it to me. I just wanted Like those little things will tell me if I'm going to actually trust this influencer when they're talking about things because I don't know what to trust anymore. Everybody's going to like randomly get paid to say great all the great things and then you actually apply it to yourself and you're like, "F███, dude. This this is really okay. That was a waste of money." We're going to have a new show idea called ████ This Product. So if any of you guys want to send your product >> That's great. I'm so in, dude. We'll we'll get the product and you got to sponsor this ████ video cuz I ain't going to showcase your product. But maybe you could put it to the test and
5:53 then we'll we'll put it under the Careful Boys stress test and then we'll just be like, "F███ this product, right?" And then we'll test it out, see how we like it, whatever. We'll do the review and we're going to talk as much ████ as we can and if we can't, that's a good product. >> That is That is a good product. We're going to find all the products. >> Everything has to pass the sledgehammer test. First. >> What if it's a glass cup? It's like a glass cup. >> Part, go over the test. What if it's What if the product is a sledgehammer? Then would it take two >> Oh, it's a good sledgehammer. It doesn't break. But that's the thing though is like every influencer is shilling something, you immediately especially nowadays, I don't know about you guys. Immediately I think they're lying. Immediately. Like But what if they're up front? Hey guys, I'm sponsored by blah blah blah. >> It's unless I know their reputation. If I know the or if I it's a
6:43 creator that I follow, then I'm like, "Oh, I know that they're trusted." Then it's okay. Or unless I want to like the product. >> Cuz there are still good products out there. There are still good ones out there. Then I'll be like, "Oh, yeah. See, he said it. It's good." Sure. But then how do you know that like like if you have a de-influencer, right? And he's talking about like which products suck and he doesn't have a high following, that's more trustworthy because there's no way someone's paying that guy, right? But eventually if they grow in popularity because of this, they will get paid to say something's good. That's true. No. It's It's also more so this too. It's like like again, new new dad type ████ I'm looking at all these Everybody's telling me like must have, I wish I got this, blah blah blah blah >> What was a must have? What's a must have you think? >> Uh like baby bottle cleaner and freaking the sterilizer, right? The
7:33 Momcozy one for 300 bucks or whatever, which is on sale on Etsy. You can't use a dishwasher? They don't work anymore? No, you can, but then like when you want like really really certain types of conveniences and blah blah blah blah blah. It's actually pretty tight. That's not the point. We use the anti-tech guy though. Everybody's going off on like different products that are must have for this reason, this type of bassinet, this type of blah blah blah convenience, like things that they don't tell you. It's so much that when one video pops up and it's like things that everybody recommended that I don't think you need, suddenly I'm just in tune with it. I have no idea what they're going to get from it as an influencer. I'm just like now I'm hella watching this one and I believe it just because I'm like trying to see anybody say something on the other end. And so I'm I'm realizing I'm I'm randomly just more attentive to those things because it seems less common, but they're more impactful right
8:24 now. Yeah. When I'm being overly stimulated over And it's see of influencers. >> I just bought all the cheapest ████ cuz if Gio's being her ass family of ████ 12 nephews and nieces could ████ all survive on that cheap ass ████ anybody can. >> Which is hella true though, right? Because like you you look at like freaking uh Tight. Tight. You look at new age strollers and those are ████ cars. >> Yeah, they're expensive. Yeah, they got freaking Hotchkiss suspension. I box springs and ████ Lowering springs. And then you think to yourself like how did I get around? And there were those little colorful plastic ones that are just like almost like tripods. >> Yeah. You know what I'm saying? And you're just like duh We just bought like a cheap ass Graco one or whatever and it works fine. I can slam it around. My parents just came visit for the first time. They just met their their granddaughter for the first time. Wow.
9:14 >> They came by and they're looking at the stroller and I'm having my dad push this Nuna stroller that was gifted to us. Thank you, aunt. Nuna's balling. That's how you know Anthony's balling. >> I didn't buy I didn't buy it. I didn't buy it. It was gifted to us. Baby showers. That's why you have to have baby showers. Who gave you that one? My uncle and auntie and cousin. But point is and my and my mother-in-law for the car seat cuz they're two separate very expensive things. Bro, that's a ████ racket, isn't That's what I'm saying. And now my dad's pushing this thing and he's cracking up because he's like, "Wow." And he's trying to explain features to my mom cuz she doesn't process it. And then he's explaining how when I was a kid, they would in the house just leave me in the plastic stroller cuz I would be asleep and I liked it. So it's I'm not even going somewhere. They're just like, "Oh, he likes sleeping there." They would just put me in the stroller in the house. The plastic one. And so now I'm sitting here and I'm like, "This is a This is beautiful. Again, thank you auntie uncle cousins everybody. It is a work of art the new ████ It's like 1600 bucks total or some nonsense. But now that's your
10:05 daughter's standard for life. And you're only going to use it for ████ a month. You're only going to use it for a few months. They ████ learn how to walk and ████ soon. And I'm cracking up at the idea that I I think I turned out fine. I don't know I'm coming out in 2026 type ████ but you would just sleep in this plastic thing that they would get from Chinatown. You remember you would just see every neon color that you could buy. Maybe get a discount if you bought two. Yeah. Yeah, a weird. And that was our stroller back then but yeah man. That's why I need people online to also be like don't get this. I I do think I do think that's going to be a wave though. People are going to opt out of all that ████ Like eventually they're going to start to see like I don't want to listen to these influencers anymore and they're just going to kind of kick it old school and kind of do what by the old ████ Yeah, like what Bart did and just ████ slam that ████ ████ around all that ████ If it works for ████ it works for me. And that's the name of the company. Works for ████ works for me. Yeah,
10:55 that's I think I don't think that's taken. It's a little long I think but man it sucks that like you know what sucks though is when you get to entertainment products. That's when it's a little bit harder cuz like these things all have very clear utility whether or not they work or not or they're useless or useful. But when it comes to like like I've been following when you've followed the same person for a long time and you think that's how they are and then you see that they eventually reach a point cuz there's a dude that I follow so closely that that reviews a lot of retro games and I ████ love this guy. And then like he's very critical of like lots of different games and very critical of like the Double Dragon series which I ████ love which has been going on since the 80s and then they released a new one which was complete dog ████ But this guy was obviously paid to promote it and he's the one ████ guy that loves it out of everyone who hates it. And people are like oh dude we ████ lost you man. It's it. You sold out. Yeah, it's cuz
11:45 like those guys who who are way more critical have a higher price tag on saying something's good. And it sucks to see that happen. But what if it was like right I got paid 20 Gs. Would you be like all right all right all right all right that's cool that's cool that's cool. What if it's some like Ratatouille ████ like the food critic though like he for real is like that and then there's just something about the game that's so sick to him. Yeah, I think that's why for entertainment it's it sucks more because they can always justify it. You know they can always be like well it took me to this place in my mind and mechanics that I appreciate that and it has its flaws but you know I still think it's a good game. You know what I mean like whereas if you had things that were utility based it's really ████ hard to say if something's good when it obviously your child's on fire. Yeah, yeah yeah true. Ryan's like I like the old Kanye. Yeah yeah yeah yeah. I actually love the new Kanye.
12:35 He's my favorite. Dude, I actually want to go to his concert in LA. That's that one he did. Yes in in Asia the ones he do does in Asia on the dirt. He did that last minute one ████ he did in Mexico City too. Holy crap. Kills it and it actually looks dope. You guys are big fans of his Hail Hitler song huh? That's It's it's a banger. I you know what you know what I ████ yeah I'll say it I am. The whole joke was like can he make it a banger and it kind of is a banger. He ████ fascinates me like He's fascinating. I don't think we'll ever get another guy that's that ████ nuts. He was kicking it with Nick Fuentes and and Alex Jones before it was cool. He get mask out on Alex Jones. You know and that's part of it. He was calling out Netanyahu back then too. Remember he brought a net and a Yahoo bottle? He said Netanyahu and he everyone was like who the ████ is Netanyahu? Nobody knew who he was. That's true.
13:25 Like the yeah that's true. He's ahead of his time. Ironically appreciate this guy and like him legitimately at the same time. >> anti-Semitic before it was cool. He predicted it. It's cool. It is cool now. All right I think that's the end of the video.
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