Today's video is brought to you by Squarespace. Head over to Squarespace.com/drew to start your free trial and to get 10% off your first purchase. Yes guys, I know exactly what you're thinking right now. Drew, You can make a video about anything in the world anything at all and you've chosen to make two consecutive videos About the Paul brothers. I get it, I know, I understand that in doing so I'm sort of part of the problem I'm helping perpetuate their fame Even if I'm talking about them in a negative way. But I wholeheartedly believe this will be the last video I ever make about Jake Paul. The last video I made will be the last video I ever make about Logan Paul, And I implore you guys to hold me to that But yeah, so today I'm gonna be talking about Jake Paul's recent business endeavor that he Created called edfluent. He first announced this in his New Year's video titled "Here's Why 2017 Was the Best Year Of My Life." Now on its own, this is actually kind of a funny video It's just like from start to finish, or at least from start to the point I finished, which was about a third of the way through, it's just a brag fest. Here's what I bought. Here's all the money I have. Here's my nice car. One of the hilarious tidbits in here is when he mentions how he Wrapped up his second and final season on the Disney Channel to, quote, focus on other acting jobs. "So I could focus more on other acting jobs" Sure, that's one way to put it. You could also say that he got fired, and You'd be more correct if you said it that way. So after he lists like the 30 things that he's done this year he's very proud of, he transitions into his big announcement for edfluence. "I literally think I have one of the best jobs on the Earth." "I get to do what I want, where I want, with who I want and make a lot of money doing it," "And so I wanted you guys to be able to do it too." "So in 2017 guys, I spent hours and hours and hours developing something I call edfluence." So he just spent the last minute, Well actually he spent the last six minutes kind of building up to this, because by bragging about all the things he was able to buy And the things he's able to do and then transitioning into being like look, I live a great life You know that oh, wait I think there might be a way for you to Live the life that I've showed off to you. "Edfluence is a course that you guys can take right now online." "How to do social media, secrets, tips, tricks, all things that have taken me years to master." "You can even potentially be able to join Team 10 if you take this course." Okay. I'm intrigued. *burps* So let's check it out I cannot wait to figure out what type of influencer I am, so let's go and take this quiz. "I currently use the following platforms" Facebook, absolutely not, Instagram, no, snap, no. I don't use any of them, and I don't want to. "At a party this sounds most like me: the party don't start till I walk in" That sounds the most like me, for sure. "Money, or fame?" Unfortunately, there's no option for neither. I'm not about material possession, but I'm gonna go ahead and go with money. "I'm this committed to becoming a popular influencer:" Not interested. "My game of choice:" Can I only choose one? I'll go with Angry Birds. "Being a social media influencer is - whatever, it just is." I like that all of these questions have an answer that is exactly what I was already thinking. "I would make these kind of videos:" "Comedy, Daily Vlogs, Fitness" *grunts* "If I decide not to become a social influencer, I will:" I would never! I would never do anything else "My dream car" Don't care. Just a car. Is that it? *I made a huge mistake* Okay, so now what we've got here is an Unskippable video, and we're teased that a big announcement is coming in about 7 minutes, so let's watch "I'm Jake Paul," "And if you know me you probably know all about Team 10 as well and, at the end of this video," "I have a crazy new announcement about something. I'm calling Team 1000." I literally have goosebumps I'm gonna be on Team 10, uh, Team 1000. "Making videos, making massive business deals, working with brands, sponsorships," "Designing my own merchandise," "Travelling all across the country," "Basically I get to play for a living." I want to do that! "Ten years ago, social media influence, actually," "Five years ago, even, social media influencers like me didn't it even exist." You heard it here first guys five years ago, Jake Paul didn't even exist. He was created in a laboratory about four and a half years ago "We have a bigger audience, get more engagement, have more viewership, "and even make more sponsorship money than many major TV shows." "Take for example Keeping Up with the Kardashians." "It's a big show right? They get 2 million viewers in episode and posts an episode every week." "So over the course of a year they get a hundred and four million views." Does he think that they have a new episode every week throughout the year, Like there's no season break, there's no off time, it's just 52 weeks in a year, one episode every week. "I'm posting every single day, averaging about twelve point six million views per day over the course of the year That's 4.6 billion views So, you tell me. Which one has more influence?" THE BIGGER ONE "Having freedom and financial freedom and" "The cars and stuff are all cool and stuff too." "As you know Team 10 is a super exclusive group of top influencer" "talent that I've personally hand selected and once an influencer makes it into Team 10," "They're basically made. I'm talking millions of views and engagement off the charts." "But not just anyone can make it into the house and to be honest, most people aren't ready to be on Team 10," "And still have things to learn, and this is why I'm stoked" "To introduce you to something super special today," "Team 1000." It's like Team 10, but the number is bigger. "Steps in this really aren't that hard." "We've done the hard part of figuring out how to do this, so if you can't follow the roadmap," "Then there's just no chance you'll make it in the team 1000 or maybe even as a social-media influencer" "You know already that there are millions of Jake Paulers watching this right now," "And if you wait on this you'll probably miss your shot at 1000." Oh, no he's right! There's so many other people who are gonna jump on this chance, and if I don't do it right now, Then I'm gonna miss out. I can't, I don't even have time to stop and think about it. I just gotta freaking grab my credit card, sign the heck up before all the other Jake Paulers beat me to it! "If you're a kid out there like I was trying to start my social media career, you could become successful," "And if you can't sacrifice some Starbucks for the next few weeks, then maybe that just means this life isn't for you." I can sacrifice Starbucks for a few weeks! I don't, I don't need that! I just need to become Jake Pauler then I could have all that Starbucks I ever want in my life. Inspirational stuff I'm ready to fucking get started. Let's do this shit. Good on him for only charging seven bucks, so let me go grab my credit card. I feel like he really overhyped the whole Like go without Starbucks for a few weeks thing, because $7 is literally, like, one and a half coffees. This is a very useful feature. I've never seen this, um, when entering my credit card information before. Next to where you put in your credit card number, It's got like an up and down arrow, so you can just, like, click up until you get to your credit card number. *laughs* Great! Yeah this is going to take a while. You're purchasing an inner-circle one-time charge of seven dollars. That's not so bad. Alright, so here we go. What took him five years I'm gonna figure out my two days. I'm gonna zip through this shit. I'm noticing though over here on the left, This is chapter 1, but chapter 2, 3, 4, 5 - oh my god all these chapters are locked. Do I have to watch them? "Ay Ay Ay Ay! What's up guys? Jake Paul here." "And I'm so stoked that you took action and picked up the road map to 1000." "Join Jake's inner circle." I thought I already did. It said one time purchase, $7 for inner circle, but now if I want to join his inner circle, I have to pay $57! *gulps* That's a lot of Starbucks "Hold Up! The inner circle is the only place to get the secret strategies that team 10 use and still uses to get and keep" "attention, build our audience and become top social media influencers. Do you want to see what's in the inner circle?" Yeah! That's why I paid $7. This is so fucked up. Here's what I'm picturing is, a kid has just watched this. He's a huge Jake Pauler He watches a video. He's like, Oh my dreams will come true, I just need to get the road map, and he sees seven bucks, that's nothing! So he asked his mom for her credit card number. She puts it in because it's like okay Seven bucks to, you know, learn how to become like, whatever, parents don't give a shit, right? Maybe she watched the video too, and she's like okay Yeah, sure that seems reasonable so she puts in her credit card information He pays the $7 and then immediately is asked to pay $57 But here's the best part! The parent has already put in their credit card information So you don't have to put it in again. You just click one box, and you just charge your mom's card another $57. You don't even have to get her permission at this point There's absolutely no part of me that thinks it would be a smart decision to spend another $57 But I set out to do something today. My mission was to join Team 10, And I'm not gonna let a small road bump followed by a much bigger road bump get in my way. Dear God, I'm sorry for what I'm about to do. Please forgive me. Love, Drew. *clicks* My card was declined? What? Holy shit guys, I just got a text from American Express. It was a fraud alert, so I wonder if this has happened so many times now with parents Calling and being like I didn't authorize his purchase I authorized the first one but not the second one. Maybe this is like an immediate red flag for the credit card companies? That is hilarious. It seems I have been gifted a second chance. Someone out there was looking down on me and said, "Drew, Don't be an idiot. Do not give this guy $57. I'm gonna give you one more chance to not do that" And, uh *coughs* Well I'm gonna blow that chance. "Success! You may now continue viewing the members' only content!" Welcome to Team 1000, bitches! We made it. I'm not gonna bother with Chapter 1 because I already had that, and if I only watch Chapter 1, Then, uh, why did I just spend $57? So I'm gonna skip around. Let's go to Chapter 12. "What type of content should you post on YouTube to get the most hits?" Holy shit "Oh hey," "Didn't even see you guys there. Oh, sorry. I put this YouTube mug away, but," "It's kind of ironic," "That..." "We are talking about YouTube," "Chapter 13," "Sorry about that guys, it's actually Chapter 12," "Come on Jake, what are you doing? Sorry Jake. There's a lot of chapters. All right, Jake, let's do this. What is up?" People paid $64 for this! That was like the first one I watched and he's like stumbling over his words. Oh, this is perfect. This video is 17 minutes long. Why did I do this? Why am I doing this? What - no one - no one forced me to do this. This is my idea. I thought this would be fun. I thought this would be funny. It's neither of those. It's miserable. And now I have explain to my wife why I used our kids college fund! "What I have found works the best within the videos," "Are drama," "Stories," "Crazy things like, like pranks." Slow down Jake "Animals," I can't keep up with you Jake "And comedic stuff." Comedic stuff, "And also like sad stories, or"
Sad stuff, sad stuff, that's good I'm learning so much already. "The more content, the more views," "The more people clicking into your channel, the more subscribers that you're getting," "The more money that you're making so that" "You can spend even more time on making videos," "Which helps your videos to be better, so guys be consistent," "Stick to a schedule," "Don't-" "Don't go away from it." "One thing that you can do is-" Alright I like this one. "How to close deals when working with brands" "Oh, you're what, mom, you're watching this Edfluence course?" "Oh my gosh, you're blowing up, mom?" "Oh my gosh. Yeah, I know, because everything in this course is right, and you should follow it." *click* *clear throat* "Cool, okay, cool." ??? "Episode 4." This is so half-assed! I-I'm sure there's some valuable information in here, but every time I click on anything, It's just like everything's the first take, like he couldn't be bothered to say something again. I understand he's busy, but people spent $64 on this and I don't even know what he's saying half the time. "I don't know if that's going to be in the final cut. Don't put that there ??? voice cover it so it might be i'm saying something different like-" This was $64. I'm still confused, like, what exactly is Team 1000? One of your big selling points in your introductory video is, like, you can be a part of Team 1000, I'm so excited to announce Team 1000. You know Team 10. You can't be part of that, you're not good enough, but maybe Team 1000. So give me $64, follow these steps, and then maybe you can join Team 1000. Here's the thing though. I still don't know what Team 1000 is. Am I on Team 1000 now? I noticed just now that there is a tab that says Team 1000 near the top. You click on Team 1000. Get this baby. You ready for this? Team 1000 coming soon. Stay tuned for updates Winky face. So I spent $64 on a screen that says Team 1000 coming soon. I thought I was paying $57 to become a part of Team 1000 and yet it seems the only information I have about Team 1000 is that it doesn't exist yet. So what the hell man? Now according to the terms and conditions that I agreed to, And that everyone agrees to by joining this, I am accepting that at any point in the future they can just charge me again. So, sure, Team 1000, It's coming soon right? But who's to say that when it does come out, they don't automatically charge my card again? They have my credit card on file. I got an immediate fraud alert, which, I don't know if that happens to you guys a lot. I have never in my life gotten a fraud alert from using a credit card on any website, and I bought things from weird websites before. I've traveled without calling my credit card company. Like I-I'll be in Florida one day and then in New York the next day using my credit card, And I'll never get a phone call. That is so funny to me that this has clearly been problematic for people, and for parents I assume. I think in conclusion Edfluence is just one more example that kind of proves the point I tried to make in my last video, Which is that, Jake and Logan, Their number one goals in life are to one-up each other in terms of getting people to pay attention to them, And they both, simultaneously, seemed to run out of ways to do that, And so seemingly in unison they each respectively did the worst thing they were capable of. Logan, the entertainer, wanted to, quote, "show people something they had never seen before," "by doing something that had never been done before," right, And then you have Jake on the other hand, the, uh, business person, He's literally gilding people into giving him money, so then, so they have a chance to live the life he lives. In his video, he talks about how you need - you used to have to be lucky, But now it's all about hard work and talent, and to an extent that is true, But there is still so much luck involved, and for him to say "You have to do this if you want to be successful like me," Well, there's plenty of people who are successful on YouTube that didn't pay him $64. It's not even impressive manipulation, right. These kids spend every day watching his videos, Dreaming of living the life that he lives to the point where so many kids don't even have Reasonable aspirations in school anymore because it's just like "oh, I'm just gonna be a famous youtuber like Jake Paul," "I want to be like Jake Paul when I grow up" When it's so fucking unrealistic to live that life and for him to just take advantage Of that and basically say "for a couple of bucks, I'll tell you how I do it!" "You can be a part of Team 1000, which doesn't exist." It's easy to do that shit. In his introductory video he's just driving around showing off all the things he has. He's telling you all the money he makes. Everything's very vague though, And he just kind of promises that you can do it too. That is not a difficult thing to do. There's nothing about that, that's impressive to me. In fact. It's so simple that I went ahead and did it too. Yo, what is up Little Stinkers my name is Drew Gooden, but you already fucking knew that, huh, cuz I'm famous as fuck. Welcome to my place, just taking Mr. Honda out f-for a little spin, for a little joyride. You know, something we do when you're famous like me. Welcome home. Let's take a look around. Here's a little something you may not know about me. Even though I've only been famous on YouTube for a few months now, I've already made exactly 1 million dollars from my videos. Don't believe me? Yeah, you think I could afford a place like this without having exactly 1 million dollars in my bank account? Not a chance. 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You know, I thought that Jake Paul was a little manipulative with his excessive marketing of his merch to children, but this is a whole other level. He is literally scamming his fans, children who don't know any better. Can the Paul brothers get any worse? (Probably)
Amex on top of their shit lol
Of all the slimy things these cunts have done, I think this may be the worst.
Charging 7 dollars upfront, then an additional 57 dollars, knowing that the kids already have their parents credit card information. Pretty fucking despicable.
I hope this gets more attention.
This is disgusting. But it’s a hilarious video. Drew never disappoints
This is some scummy behavior. The Paul brothers are absolute trash.
I admire his dedication for this video and spent the extra $57
So (not just content with the millions he's already making a year) he's going to get $64 out of millions of idiotic kids, because their parents can't say no, then going to charge them continuously after that.
Wow, this nonsense is on the same level as televangelists. What an absolute slimeball.
Is this legal?