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Outrage as Influencer Asks Company for Free Car in Exchange for 'Exposure'

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0:00 you might have big fakies and she sits there and does the whole like oh spicy spicy spice ice cream's so good dude I can't stop watching that I can't either where is it on tick tock tick tock I tried to watch Oppenheimer but I was too busy [Music] came across this ████ uh letter that a an influencer wrote In order to try and get a free car in exchange for exposure what do they have like other followers do they have 500 followers send me the ████ every tomorrow a whole card so here's the letter it says hi there my name is blah blah blah I'm just reaching out to hopefully get the opportunity to test out one of your vehicles I will return the favor by advertising the vehicle on my Facebook

0:50 and Instagram platforms I currently have over 33 000 on Instagram and around 6 000 on my business Facebook and over 1 000 friends on my original Facebook I'm currently learning to drive my neighbors who are both key workers will be teaching me to learn in my own car I currently own a provisional license I am on disability benefits because I do suffer with anxiety so I find learning with instructors I don't know quite overwhelming hence why my neighbors are both willing to teach me I would like to take this opportunity to see if you would be willing to loan me a vehicle or gift me a vehicle I would prefer an automatic but I'd be massively grateful for any if you are not willing to gift or loan me a vehicle is there any way I could rent one from you second hand would even be massively appreciated I am a 32 year old single mom who has a big goal to pass my test by the time I reach 33 I would love to be able to

1:40 drive my daughter to and from school and I would love for you to help me achieve this goal financially I cannot afford a new car so I'm hoping you can help me achieve my goal thank you so much you know there's so many twists in this I thought it was going to be way worse I thought it was gonna be way worse this is kind of respectful I was kind of hoping it'd be like real yeah ████ where were you hoping oh just like I have like all these followers and like it could really benefit your platform and like I could be shining a light on like your on your product all that kind of I'm giving you a great deal yeah you're getting so much exposure when you work with me this is working how does she have 30 000 followers and how is she 32. yeah that's a provisional license at 32. maybe she's hot wait provisional license is that UK because we call it a permit yeah yeah I think if it's anything weird it's definitely she might

2:30 have big fakies and she sits there and does the whole like ooh spicy spicy spice ice cream's so good dude I can't stop watching that ████ I can't either where is it on tick tock tick tock I tried I tried to watch Oppenheimer but I was too busy it's 70 ████ milliliters that is the wildest ████ I've never heard of anybody advertising how many Facebook friends they have as a leverage sounds like your influence sounds like you don't have brand deals dude yeah he's talking about Facebook group or all friends business but Paige has over 6 000 and then her actual original Facebook has over a thousand friends that's pretty legit actually yeah she has a lot of friends doesn't she so we're kind of like being like yo you should give her a car yeah the way that she wrote it what I mean

3:20 it's pretty common where if a new car is coming out they'll do a campaign and then they'll be like hey you can you can we'll loan you this car for a couple months dude I know some tubers who've got a ████ Ford Fiesta not exactly a brackable thing but they were stoked on it well I remember that campaign yeah dude oh my key is sold dude what's that you ever do that campaign I also I competed for that actually I remember that was big for a sec I did a RAV4 brand deal and I just I couldn't even drive it away I just had to take pictures next to it yeah what didn't you also get a Harley Davidson but you could that one was cool I actually had the bikes in my garage I could ride them whenever but that's awesome the RAV4 one was like they hit up all these influencers oh we have this whole RAV4 campaign I'm gonna get cool and I thought I was gonna be able to take one home but no you just have to go and take a picture with it I'm like oh all right take a picture with a RAV4 hey don't another ████ car don't leave them in

4:11 the ████ box because the Ford Fiesta hate muscle head get off that ████ they got to drive it around well it's a fiesta but you still get to have a car four primes are sick though hey Meathead cover up your ████ test you scared away the customers what looks like you're about to steal the ████ thing what was that what was your heart campaign that one was cool I dropped this bike did you well not hardcore the Hardy one was cool I think for them that ████ was a monster they're trying to hit like uh the neck what generation am I am I Millennial or Millennials hit the millennial Market that's such a boomer thing it's dying it's dying hard it's super dying hard yeah the youth don't ████ ████ with Harley-Davidson yeah in Glendale they have a whole like Warehouse full of Harleys that's used for movies so they're like oh we have this whole lot that has every single

5:02 model um why don't we rent them out to influencers so they hit up me and Geo to go and then every month we can check out a new one and and we'll go there and pick and then they'll deliver it to our house on a flatbed which is ████ still no they don't have that anymore well we actually I think on our own like conscience because we just had taika like and we had to like take turns watching them like there's no way that we're gonna be riding so we're just like you know what like we feel bad having these bikes at our house and then after like three or four months we just canceled it with them that's nice of you pass it on bro no I probably wrote it more than Bart did and then you dropped it I was on I was in sandals too and I was like God damn this is crazy and this was right no you know what's funny he doesn't wear shoes I didn't even ████ like Drop it hard I was doing

5:52 like a little U-turn and it was like as like ████ slow as ████ and it went cook and I was like oh ████ they're heavy they're really heavy yeah and then like my dumbass was trying to like get it back up it was like oh that's so it was like 2 000 pounds and then this neighbor felt bad and he opened the door you need help bro and I'm like no I got it and I finally got it up yeah yeah I was just right I would just ride it just to get mail just to have fun a little bit and then go back that's how big his house is his mailbox you're one of those PO Box writers what kind of safe dude this guy damn so yeah this chick obviously deserves a car with some of this sicker ████ brand deals you guys ever actually got can I tell you about one that I was about to get and I didn't get it I'm like ████ you yes you can it doesn't even make any ████ sense so I literally got this

6:42 email I think last month and they said hey we're doing you guys ever see those influencers do like a whole military experience oh yeah they do Army Navy whatever no well I was in the Army for a day or whatever oh damn so they hit me up to do a marine one they go we love we saw like your family Vlog channel that would be really cool if you did a marine one would have sent you send you the Quantico Virginia which is a marine HQ you're gonna do all this blah blah and I was like did they know you're a marine they didn't know so I was like dude that'd be ████ dope I'm like I'm always talking about the military anyways it's perfect I had a really great experience in the Marine Corps and I felt like it benefited me a lot I would love to do it um and we were and then they would send me there and then they're gonna send me to another like Afghanistan that's a brand deal yeah yeah I know yeah that's the new scam is let's get these influencers to just do the war

7:33 Horus we're sending you the front line of Ukraine you're like oh that's kind of cool I haven't been to you I was gonna be uh it was gonna be three days in um Virginia and then three days to Mexico and check out the embassy over there and I was cool so we defended and all this stuff and then they wanted me to bring on a camera guy and you know and it seemed like it was going to go through and they're really excited until they found out that I was a marine and then they said oh actually uh we'd want non-military personnel and I was like what the ████ I'm like no one is gonna tell you like better than someone that has the inside on it and then they're like no sauce I can kind of understand the idea of it being like an influencer who's not an experienced Marine to go through a

8:23 new experience but if you're trying to like right now recruitment is at an all-time low right if you're trying to recruit recruit old debtors yeah yeah well if you get people that are actually actually full dollar prior military that is gonna work better than anyone else like like Tim Kennedy is probably packing more people into boot camp yeah than ████ ████ Brett man Rock talking about how he liked the Army for a day you know ████ that guy huh it is true though that a lot of the people that set up and put your deals are kind of dumbasses man yeah they just don't get it brand deal companies are hilarious though like they rigidly stick to whatever the stupid structure is and it's like you just made that up anyway you could alter it as much as you want but they don't they don't want to deviate from the campaign yeah no yeah they want to do as little work as possible honestly so if you give

9:13 them a better idea even though they know it they don't want to do more I don't want to do more work no yeah well then they have to convince their superiors yeah it's just too much it's one more conversation before they leave the office they're just like I'm not doing that ████ it's like it's not a big deal that he has military experience they just looked up a JK video where he talks about lying about being Korean and they're like it's just hilarious to me that he's him being ex-military hurt him with the Marines that's ████ up I was like what the ████ dude and it's all whoever was like the liaison was just like I don't want to work this is what I've been ████ perfect yeah do you know any of the other influencers who actually got the deal no they'll send me links of Prior campaigns and then they're like ████ a rapper YouTuber that did it or a ████ makeup YouTuber that did it you know you know would be actually a good idea is if they got Dylan and Mulvaney to do it oh my God that'd be honestly that's the next level I'd watch that I'd watch the ████

10:04 out of it afford him why not no her sorry her what's what's the best brand deal that ever came to JK I would say maybe when we worked with Scion and then they let us do JK news at the LA car show with Steve Aoki oh ████ that was a really fun brand deal really because I actually just enjoyed it so much that I was like I would have done it for free yeah well but unfortunately there's no more Scion and yeah is that under Toyota still oh no it was a Toyota company boxy looking piece of ████ anyway it just went back to being to what would be a dream uh brand deal for JK a tattoo shop that would sponsor all of the messages that's pretty good how about a ████ camera company that gives us video cameras instead of Photography we had a sick Road one back in the day yep we did

10:55 have a really good road uh brand deal that one was pretty sick road yeah that's how we got all like when we were shooting like skits and stuff back in there that's how we got all these like boom mics wait these are our video cameras that's like Ryan doing how would a real estate brand deal we're gonna stick office that would be cool that would be insane yeah a real estate brand yeah we knew people that got real estate brand deals you know what like in the whole Asian American Community we're coming up because we're the ████ bastard dirty children that no one wanted to deal with like there's like these Asian real estate Moguls they'll be like oh you need an office space use mine this place has been vacated for like three years and I'm like what the ████ what about me and they're like oh we don't want to deal with you guys what about James Wang dude that's on my ████ dream the ████ lawyer yeah

11:45 dude you sponsored us that's our brand deal we just get put on a little one-inch slot on his ████ place talk about making it brother or like hey have you recently been injured called James Wang I've never had brandias but we're too small for James win you never have brand deals not like that no not for Quest For Real no way yeah not at that level that's crazy the quest was do TV level you guys made it like Beyond JK nah that's still I would have assumed Paul Mitchell would have sponsored you guys yeah dude they never Paul Mitchell never no no we got a lot of like stuff but nothing to the level of like this is really cool that they're giving us a car or something yeah like because you got to promote because like also you have to think about like we you we didn't have like a regular channel that we were uploading content to oh and if you're gonna give us

12:35 something you got to give ████ 12 guys the same thing like what the heck it would give us not scary farm passes worth it but I've seen really cool ones like like Redfoo got a ████ um a Kia Soul because of the Kia Soul hamster commercial oh yeah oh yeah they gave him one of those did it get stolen yeah this is stolen immediately it's still around actually and then um smack got a freaking super 73 from the freaking oh I love those I ████ tried to enter a contest for one of those guys I actually thought it was cool it's like trick uh bicycle that's like but it looks like a small yeah it looks like a small like dirt bike yeah they gave her one of those and and like did the shoot and everything and paid her wow wow that's ████ sick she's way cooler than she gets cool ████ though yeah maybe I should go clean [Music]

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