Is Boonk Dead?

oh dear lord my youtube's collectible just went live and um is that making me sweat available in limited quantities for 24 hours i think it might be time you had your very own nigel to have your way with about a month ago i posted a very special insufferable instagram recapping almost all of the previous series subjects to see how they were surviving these days in the unforgiving battle for online relevance and you guys really seemed to enjoy it but i made one fatal mistake i left out the godfather of deplorables the infamous boot gang and boy did you guys let me know it in the comments good christ now in my defense book wasn't technically part of insufferable instagram because i hadn't solidified that as a series at that point anyways enough of the semantics here's your flipping boot gang update jerks [Music] so my initial video about bunk was published november 25th 2017 in which i was very critical of him as a person in the tactics he was using to go viral online now i was certainly not alone in this criticism and to this day buke remains one of the most hated online celebrities i can think of in recent years but as you and i both know by now hate can sometimes be a stronger fuel than admiration when it comes to lighting the fire of someone's popularity so here's a quick recap of why boonk had become infamous up to the point i published my initial video in november of 2017. boonk's brazen instagram videos often showcased him stealing harassing the working class and showing a general disrespect to everyone and everything for the sake of his own virality initially going viral for a video where he jumped behind a counter at popeyes and nonchalantly stole a meal for himself his nothing to lose attitude and repeated willingness to embrace criminal behavior on camera would garner him 3.6 million instagram followers in the short span of just over six months he started trends like the hood slip and slide coined the popular phrase and he was responsible for the term getting boot becoming synonymous with getting played or stolen from he was the living embodiment of the worst side of social media fame now the trickle-down effect of boonk's distasteful behavior and subsequent popularity was evident everywhere online with kids all over the place trying to forge their own path to stardom using the same disregard for the law and disrespect for basic human sensibilities and it was that influence on these young kids that probably bothered me the most to be honest and at that time i would have loved nothing more than to see boonk's existence get deleted off the internet and if he went skydiving and his parachute didn't open probably wouldn't have lost a wink of sleep over it but i like to think i've grown since then and i want to approach this matter more delicately from a place of human empathy instead of just anger and i think a great place to start is his no jumper podcast appearance that took place just one month after i made my initial video but before we jump head first into that nigel's been begging me off camera to have a quick word with you guys so what's up bro yo what you mean what's up fat ass you already know what it is today's the live day for my youtube's collectible baby nigel's famous now [ __ ] we finna pop bottles and smash models [Applause] oh snap you right these did just go live and just to clarify this is my collectible not yours and you can get yours now if you pause this video and go to youtubes.com amen leon and i'm here to tell the tomato mafia what kind of life-changing benefits they can expect when they get their very own leon lush collectible you'll now have someone to keep you in perfect focus while you're vlogging your definitely exciting life he acts as a michelin five-star rated safety helmet for scenic bike trips he even stunt doubles as a dryer sheet he can replace your child and he will never cry or shoot his pants he's a delicious addition to your morning cereal providing three billion 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outside of the obnoxious viral videos that he became famous for i mean i'm coming from nothing i think i should lose i mean that's that's what you could tell that's what i would say when i watched your videos at first i was like man this guy got nothing to lose yeah you know and i got to do something with my life i started making videos from his abusive and broken home life to his foster care and homelessness roaming the streets his stealing out of necessity before the cameras were around because his mother didn't keep any food in the house and he had no clothes to put on his back bunk was clearly a dude that was dealt a rough hand growing up and he was doing whatever he could to survive without any sort of boundaries and i'm not excusing his behavior by any means i'm just offering some additional perspective on where he came from he talked about his heavy percocet and xanax abuse which i believe fueled his online debauchery as he started to realize the stuff he had grown up doing to survive he could just film himself doing and garner a massive amount of attention online and that attention became a new kind of addiction giving him quick dopamine hits every time a video would go viral helping further anesthetize the pain of his childhood now at the time of this interview it seemed like a turning point for bunk where he was very adamant about leaving behind the stuntman boonk which he called himself that initially made him famous and trying to embrace what he considered his real self boonk the rapper or musician are you really leaving all this behind yeah like it kicked off i'm glad it kicked off you know what i'm saying i got everybody's attention right but that's not who i want to be i didn't want to be a um a stunt man right i want to just give the people the artist out of boom game so i'm so glad that we got this interview when you were sober now due to his checkered past with the law and is already handful of arrests because of some videos he had recorded it's probable that this come to jesus moment for bunk was a necessity to keep himself out of jail but it was a promising turn for sure a sober boot gang wanting to make some better life choices hell yeah baby i'm here for it unfortunately that sobriety would turn out to be short-lived as 2018 turned out to be one of the most difficult times for this master of thievery he started out the year waving a loaded gun around at a radio interview with his finger on the trigger making everyone there uncomfortable uh rightly so and proved that he really hadn't made that much progress as a human yet i wouldn't pull the gun out and i don't feel comfortable having a gun in the studio you could put it in one bus with shots no not in here fast forward to march and police get a warrant to search boonk's residence in calabasas probably in large part due to his self-incriminating posts he was putting on social media which is always so serendipitous when this happens to people but they they search his place and he gets arrested for having assault weapons and narcotics he didn't have a prescription for whoops a daisies anyways he got out on a 35 000 bail and from here things start to spiral pretty rapidly now boonk had mentioned in the no jumper interview the possibility of him getting signed with offset but that never came to fruition and it seemed pretty clear over these past couple months that he had really been pushing the music career and it wasn't quite popping the way he had hoped it seemed shocker that people just weren't as interested in his music as they were in him recording himself being a brazen criminal so now it's july 1st 2018 and bunk inexplicably posts stories to his instagram of him engaging in very explicit acts with some primo thoughts i was pretty clear at this point that bunk was back on the drugs heavy and his motivation behind posting these is mystifying everybody knows if you do that sort of thing on instagram you get deleted i'm sure his judgment might have been a little clouded but his need for attention probably played a role as well and he did go viral on twitter he was a trending hashtag and those instagram stories saw over seven million views a piece before the next day his instagram account got deleted get that crap out of here hope it was worth it newsflash it wasn't now in hindsight boonk wasn't dealing well with the reality of losing his 5.2 million follower instagram account and just a few weeks later on his now famous return to the no jumper podcast boonk is pretty much circling the drain in this interview with atom22 who's visibly concerned and irritated [Music] all right well listen this this is this interview going viral well he was right about that so what what's going on no no no we're not in there in we're not in the navy yet we're just chilling right now so you know we're live though right now from what i understand this was unplanned bunches showed up obliterated to adam's podcast studio and adam didn't want anything to do with it but he just rolled with it for about 30 minutes of boonk's incoherent ramblings and were able to get a couple of points out of him before his famous clip of him basically passing out and falling into the wall of the studio okay why did your instagram get deleted why my instagram get get deleted have you seen have you seen my instagram not in a while because it got deleted all right before it got deleted with high bcny ins i did see you getting some top all right you see me getting top but is that fair that my instagram get deleted i would say that's pretty clearly like a violation of their terms of service yeah no so boom's basically like you adam did you see my instagram he's like well not for a while it was deleted moon's like well did you see it before it was deleted it was popping and adam's like yeah well that doesn't really matter if it just gets deleted i got i got 8 million views in like 6 hours was it worth it yeah yeah it was worth it because listen i don't think bunk really had it set in yet that he wasn't going to be able to get his account back at this point 5.2 million before they deleted me okay so but i mean it's no use getting a bunch of followers if you're just gonna get your account deleted no no listen listen listen i'm not deleted i'm suspended for how long spoiler alert forever when i come back on the ground i'm gonna come back more str i'm gonna come back more stronger people are missing me people are wanting to see me you know what i'm saying right so when i do come back they're gonna be like finally yes he's back spoiler alert again it never came back boom boom game a whole lot of games you already know we are here so eventually boonk starts falling asleep mid-sentence so they wrap it up and it ends with this iconic moment shout out to the homie boonk oh my god now there was a mixed response to this podcast a lot of people were concerned rightfully so there was a lot of people that were pumped about it because they're like screw this guy karma's a [ __ ] because he had a lot of people that didn't like his online existence myself included but i personally i had mixed feelings i never liked to see or celebrate someone clearly struggling with addictions or some serious demons which is clearly what was going on with boon gang at this point so following that interview bunk was clearly flirting with rock bottom i think more and more is the realization that he wasn't getting his ig account back the reality started to set in he was posting what seemed like christ for help on his socials hosting things like i do drugs because i feel alone when i'm high i feel nothing when i'm sober i feel everything and my whole life people push me away acting like they care about me shortly after that he had uploaded some videos of him crying and then this all culminated into him uploading stories on his way to the hospital bloody because apparently he had been shot two times in the leg now at the time nobody knew what had happened everyone was concerned they didn't know if someone was trying to kill him or if he had tried to do it himself uh but as things unfolded it looks as though bunk had actually shot himself in the leg and it was pretty murky as far as the details but a lot of people were speculating that he did it on purpose for clout because we know how addicted he is to that attention or he had possibly failed an attempt at taking his own life or accidentally shot himself no one really knows the truth i'll let you make your own assumption on that [Music] so boonk's ig gets deleted he hits rock bottom he's struggling hard he's back on the drugs he's exhibiting some scary behavior which ultimately leads to him recording himself in a car on the way to the hospital with two self-inflicted gunshot wounds to his leg what happens next well let's fast forward to october john cabana here and um i just want to say really quick that drug addiction and drug abuse is a real thing and everybody take drugs for their own reason i tell drugs because um i felt and i i still feel empty inside you know i got a lot of [ __ ] going on in my in my personal life that i'm not going to get into but uh i had to stop and slow it down because i felt myself dying lately felt myself dying and i realized that it's too early for me to die i just turned 22 i got a lot to live for and i want to say if there's anybody out there with a drug addiction problem that i hope you stop and slow it down and that you realize that you have a lot to live for as well you know god loves you but um i'm offended i'mma finish enjoying this beautiful day outside and this uh donut everybody stay safe let's get to this bag you know what i'm saying we all got a lot to live for oh what a turnaround good lord book is back he is two months clean and he is just so genuine in this video and speaking with so much self-awareness it really made my heart tangle on a human level it made me happy to see a video like this look at hit rock bottom scratched and clawed his way out of it and now two months sober we witnessed the death of boonk gang in the birth of john gabbana he released an album around this time as john gabbana and he had some world star hip hop exclusive music videos that were being uploaded he wasn't getting the same amount of attention as he was when he was boonk but he was making a legitimate effort and getting some spins no i listened through a lot of the album and most of it was pretty trash but there was one song called ii that i think objectively speaking could hold a candle to other rap songs commercially speaking cause i don't do what wouldn't i be quick to lose my temper it'd be hard for me to think i mean that low key kinda slaps now so now we're in 2019 in the first couple of months john gabbana would be spending in jail is boonk in jail that's a good question my dude right here will be able to answer that a lot better i can't answer that question to be honest yeah is bunk in jail yeah no you know what i'm saying real crook just got out yesterday so it looks like he was eventually sentenced for the may 2018 arrest for the assault weapons and the illegal narcotics spent a couple months in jail and then was released uh late february 2019. when we're having some guns you know what i'm saying some regular [ __ ] some guns can't run guns zanny's so at this point everyone still knows him as bunk that whole side of his online presence is dead and he did say that he's on three years probation now after getting out of jail so he can't possibly be doing that type of stuff anyways so he's full bore into the john gabbana music and in may he updates us with this little video february 22nd got to jail a month later last month april 8th signed a record deal so i'm an official artist onto the universal allen wreckers congratulations yes i know i got a uh project dropping cdp to boogie john all my fans you already know about that you know what i'm saying six songs no features so far no features apparently he signed a record deal with universal island records he's got an ep on the way at this point in time nothing's been released but it looks like things may be looking up for the future of john gabbana six weeks or enough while you're together or not because six weeks ago in the beginning of july apparently boonk was out and gotten an altercation with some people nobody knows really what led up to it some people are theorizing that he was going back to his old ways and trying to do some dumb pranks in public but some guy came up out of nowhere and sucker punched him in the jaw and just shattered it to pieces i'm not gonna show the footage for obvious reasons but it's easy to find online but anyways boonk had to have his jaw wired shot for six weeks which makes it not only difficult to eat but probably can't do a whole lot of rapping in those six weeks so it might have to put john gabbana on ice for a bit now as you might expect there was an overwhelming response of people happy that he got demolished and had to have his jaw wired shut because the stink of his ex-career as a thieving [ __ ] hasn't quite washed off yet even though he's trying to make strides in a new direction as john gabbana so here we are the legendary thieving boot gang whole lot again is now john gabanna the rapper his socials are an absolute mess from what i can tell his twitter is deleted obviously his original ig got deleted his john gabbana ig i think got deleted and now he goes by gabbana.ig which is literally just three posts of him promoting his new release which just came out yesterday at the time of me recording this so although bunk may be dead and replaced with john gabbana he will forever live in our hearts as one of the most obnoxious pieces of to ever grace the internet and now he has gone from a caterpillar and flourished into a beautiful butterfly flying into a career as a cookie cutter um pretty untalented rapper so shed a tear for boonk if you must but grab your air pods and settle in because universal's fresh and upcoming artist john gabbana is probably currently laying down some fire bars through a wired shut jaw thank you guys so much for watching thank you for heading to youtubes.com and picking up this limited edition collectible and thank you for liking and subscribing until next time this is lou baga with mambo number five over and out you

Channel: Leon Lush

Views: 1,895,593

Rating: 4.8614702 out of 5

Keywords: boonk, insufferable instagram, where are they now, instagram, comedy, comedian, supremem patty, dan the meme man, instagram comedy

Id: oEpuvtlIPTc

Length: 18min 35sec (1115 seconds)

Published: Sat Aug 03 2019