I figured it would just die down and
nobody would care. And you know what? It did for a couple of weeks, until Aaron
Carter decided to make everything worse. (silence).
Hi. Welcome back to me talking about whatever I want. Today, I
want to talk about Aaron Carter, A.K.A, the most embarrassing celebrity I've had the misfortune
of hearing about recently. I already knew this guy was bad from some stuff that was happening
a couple of weeks ago, but recently, he's just gotten even worse. However, of course, I'm going
to do a common shout out for my last video. I was one goes out to Butterball Auto Customs who says,
"I'm convinced D'Angelo just doesn't sleep." Well, as I'm sure you noticed, my bed is always made,
and that is, in fact, because I don't use it. So who in the world is Aaron Carter? You know the
Backstreet Boys, right? Yeah, he wasn't in there. Aaron Carter is the younger brother of one of the
Backstreet Boys members, Nick Carter. So Aaron Carter also tried to join in the music scene,
releasing such masterpieces as Aaron's Party. That was literally the name of the album. Basically, he
only got famous because his brother is famous, and it became largely apparent that he was completely
untalented, so that's why he's not famous anymore. But I guess he didn't get the memo, because he
has all the ego of major celebrity with none of the relevance. And the results is just a sad,
sad man, doing sad, sad things on the internet, which I can relate to, except he's using his power
to harass people. Enter JoJoesArt. JoJoesArt is the polar opposite of Aaron Carter, mostly in the
fact that he actually has talent and is likable. You may have seen some of JoJoesArt's art floating
around before because it's really good. He paints a lot of lions, and space, and altogether, it's
just pretty epic stuff. Well, I guess Aaron Carter thought so too, because this is why everything
went South. So apparently, Aaron's launched a clothing brand, which I'm going to discuss in
a bit, but in promoting that brand on Twitter, he used one of JoJoe's pictures. Now, this is
obviously not right, because he's literally profiting off of someone else's artwork, but being
completely fair, I can understand seeing some cool picture, and thinking it's cool, and using it
to share something that you also think is cool. I wouldn't use someone's art like
that without giving them credit, but if you're not an artist, I can understand
how you wouldn't see anything wrong with that, until the artists politely lets you know. So JoJoe
politely let him know, "Hey, Aaron Carter, you're using my artwork to promote your merchandise. I
have not given you permission to do so. My art is being commercially exploited by people on
a daily basis. We artists have rights too. I'd really appreciate if you could retweet this, so
he'll see it." I have to say, that's a lot more polite than I would have been. I would have been
like, "Yo, Aaron, if you're going to steal my art and try to make money off of it to promote your
lousy merchandise brand, could you at least make sure the merchandise looks good?" I've never seen
somebody use a dollar bill to promote a penny, but that's probably why it's a good idea that I
wasn't the one getting my art work stolen. So as professional as JoJoe was, what do you think Aaron
did? Let's play a little guessing game, okay? Welcome to my game show. Did he A, apologize
and taking the artwork down, B, block JoJoe and refuse to stop using his art, C quietly
remove it without making it into a big deal, or D, began insulting JoJoe and everybody related
to him in a desperate attempt to gain some quick relevance? If you chose D, congratulations, you've
used the internet before. "You should have taken it as a compliment, okay? A fan of mine sent
this to me. Oh, here they go again. The answer is no. This image has been made public and I'm
using it to promote my clothing line. Guess I'll see you in small claims court." Okay, one of
my initial questions is who exactly is going to court? Are you assuming JoJoe is going to sue
you? Is that a joke about how he could only do it via small claims court? Are you threatening to
sue JoJoe because you used his artwork? Do you think that once something becomes public, that
immediately makes it public domain? Because that would make all of your music free for me to
use without giving you any credit or revenue. Then again, that one doesn't make any sense
because even Aaron should know that his music was so trash, nobody would want to use it for
anything. Well, because this happened on Twitter, of course, Twitter had a lot to say about that.
There were a lot of people siding with JoJoe for obvious reasons, but I was shocked and appalled
to learn that apparently this Aaron Carter guy has stans. "You do realize that once an image
is out publicly, that it can be used by anyone, right?" Where do I begin? It's not even like
I would say this person has no understanding of copyright law, it's just like this person has
no understanding. If something doesn't belong to, generally, you shouldn't be using it. But even
at that, at the point where you do use it, and the original creator is asking you not to
because they don't appreciate being profited off of, why would you react this way? This
person said, "I've actually seen this photo many places. Just saw it attached to a quote two
days ago on Facebook, so maybe you should start tagging your art if you don't want it 'stolen'."
I really appreciate how this person puts stolen in quotes as if to imply that it was less stolen
than it actually was because it was, in fact, stolen. Yes, officer, I guess I did break the
law because I stole that stuff. That aside, it was tagged, JoJoe put a watermark there, right
on the bottom, just to avoid situations like this, so really don't know what this person's talking
about. "Wait, so he's not actually using your artwork on his clothing line and selling it?
He just happened to tweet out a pic of it on the post about his clothing line because he
liked it? This seems like a huge overreaction, bub. It's Twitter. People share random pics all
the time." Mindy Robinson, way to let everybody know that you have no talent and no creative bones
in your body. I think if you had even a shred of creativity, you would understand that the things
that people create are not just random pictures, especially something as detailed as an
illustration. I really don't know where she was trying to go with this, but she didn't get there.
So thankfully, there weren't that many tweets in his favor. It's just such a shock to my
system that an artist Aaron Carter would not see something so wrong as cheating another
artist out of his rightfully earned revenue, but that just goes to prove that Aaron Carter has no
musical talent. If he cared about artistry at all, he would immediately understand why the situation
is wrong. I think even if you don't draw, you would understand why they situation is wrong.
Thankfully, there were some good tweets in there, like, "Who's Aaron Carter?" That's my favorite one
because honestly, same. "I have a huge issue with you referring to Aaron Carter as a celeb." I never
really hear Aaron Carter's name brought up unless it's some sort of drama. I guess he's famous
enough that when he does bad things, we care, but he's not famous enough for anybody to stream
his music, so that one's on him. This person said, "Okay, so if I use an Aaron Carter song in a
video, don't copyright claim the video because the song has been made public."
To which this other person said, "Why would you want to ruin your video like that
though?" Seriously, if you think I'm exaggerating, go listen to this man's music. It's a
reminder of a dark time. Ultimately though, my entire opinion on this situation is summed
up by this one tweet. "I can see retweeting the pic in the first place. No harm, as I see it. Not
like he's going to start searching all over Google to see who the creator was. Where I find the
problem is when the creator made himself known, and the artist chooses to ignore him, and even
mock him." And the thing about it was this blew up, it went super viral, there was even a
Forbes article about it, and I chose not to talk about it just because I didn't really have
anything to add to that situation. Thankfully, it was very cut and dry who was in the
wrong, and I figured it would just die down, and nobody would care. And you know what?
It did for a couple of weeks, until Aaron Carter decided to make everything worse.
Did you ever square that away with that artists with the lions? Or did you-
No, no, no. I will not acknowledge anybody who has that kind of attitude. He
told me, oh, I need to buy a canvas of his, from him for $10,000, hang it up in my house.
They're going to try to keep using it because they want to use me for clout. His little story
that he got on his Instagram is the most attention he'll ever receive for the rest of his life.
"His little story he got on Instagram is the most attention he'll ever receive for the
rest of his life." Well, now, I'm mad. How in the world are you going to say that when
you're the most irrelevant person I could name? His little story that you're talking about
that's the most attention he's going to receive, got more attention than anything you've done
in the past ten years ever has. At this point, a new generation of people knows who you are
because of JoJoe's art. You owe him any shred of relevance that you have right now, half
a shred, a shred of a shred. So this little livestream that he was doing that 300 people
were watching, by the way, I guarantee you, if I go live right now, more than 300 people
would watch it. If I go live on Instagram, more than 300 people would watch it. JoJoe could
upload a video of him sneezing, and it would get more intention than your live streams. At what
point can we just call it what it is? Slander. He claims that JoJoe tried to extort him for
$10,000. First of all, do you have $10,000? I feel like if JoJoe did extort Aaron Carter for $10,000,
that wouldn't work in the first place. I'm not going to go try to extort Burger King for a Big
Mac. That's just not something they have. And see, I like this JoJoe guy because he showed up with
actual receipts. So I'm going to put the tweets up on screen, where you can see that JoJoe was
calmly asking for compensation for having his work stolen. There were no demands. There was
no mention of $10,000 whatsoever. If anything, Aaron Carter is lucky that he's not being sued
right now, because if this was me, we wouldn't even be having this conversation on Twitter. We'd
be having it in front of a court. Thankfully, at this point though, Twitter was completely against
Aaron because how can you justify outright lying? Then again, they didn't seem to have an issue
with justifying outright stealing, so I'm not sure I have any faith in these people at all.
It's very evident at this point that the only person in this situation begging for attention is
Aaron. Still, he struggles with common decency, and apparently as selective memory, I feel like
this is a level below lack of common decency. He's just talking about things that didn't happen. "I
can't take this video seriously. All cozy in bed, being a grump reminds me of a toddler that doesn't
want to go to sleep." This person actually brings up a good point. Why are you live streaming in
bed? What level of laziness is this? And I say this as somebody who makes very basic content on a
daily basis. I guess I should just turn the camera this way. Hi. Welcome back to me talking about
whatever I want. That would be absolutely tragic, and yet, somehow, it wouldn't be nearly as tragic
as Aaron Carter's entire internet existence. This person says, "This man's ego is out of
control. I just want to know where it's coming from. You have never been talented. You have
always been Nick Carter's little brother. I could somehow find it within myself to understand, had
you ever created anything of relevance or worth in your entire life, but you haven't, because
you're incapable of doing so. So I really don't understand where this ego is stemming from, when
everything about you is fake." If I go to his profile right now, I can see that Aaron Carter
has 625,000 followers. I can also see that he gets less than two hundred likes per everything.
How do you have 600,000 followers and less than 200 likes? Imagine if I was making the videos on
this channel with my subscriber count right now, and I got less than 200 views. Now, usually, I
would say, "Oh, I can't say for sure if this is bought." No, he bought the followers. Either Aaron
or someone on his team is desperate to keep the internet from realizing just how inconsequential
everything he does is at this point. I personally believe 600,000 of those 625,000
followers are bought. 600,000 minimum. If you do have thousands and thousands of followers,
where are they? How could you fall this far from relevance, and then find it within yourself
to treat other people badly? Another thing I've noticed is, I think this man is running out of
money. Now, here's the reason I say this. Selling merchandise isn't always an indication of running
out of money. Speaking of which, this Nobody Cares hoodie is coming out soon. I actually designed
this. Designing merch can just be something fun, but I took a look at the hoodies on his website.
They're just embarrassingly bland. They're clearly just there so people can buy them and he can
get money. There's no artistic thought behind it. It's not remotely funny. Another reason
that leads me to believe he's running out of money is he follows people who donate to him.
If you have to follow people for them to donate to you, if you are following people for them to
donate to you, how badly do you need donations? Even his latest music is irrelevant. He hasn't
put out an album since 2018, but I'm really confused by how one of these songs has 87 million
plays, and a lot of the other ones don't even have 150,000. There's something really weird going on
with Aaron Carter's numbers, and it rhymes with, they're all bought. I'm on his Instagram right
now, and a lot of the pictures are just him in bed, unironically. If your entire existence has
devolved into lying around in bed live-streaming, and angry tweeting, and stealing other people's
work to replace the lack of artistry in your own work, I'm glad that the entire world knows what
kind of person you are right now, but I'm sad that you had to get any shred of attention
in the process. Ultimately, JoJoe is still 10 times more popular and talented than Aaron
Carter will ever be, so ultimately, who cares?
