- Hey guy, welcome back to 2020. New year, new me? Hell nah. I'm still a little bitch. In the spirit of entering a new decade and looking back on the 2010s
and all the fun times we had, I wanna start this year
off by revisiting some of the topics I've talked about on this channel over the past three years and see if things have
gotten better or worse or changed at all. And today we're gonna start that by looking back at Edfluence, which was one of the most
blatant scams I've ever seen from a YouTuber that weirdly didn't really
affect Jake Paul at all. I guess, cause he was pretty busy with some other scandals at the time. I called him out about it back in 2018, but haven't addressed it since then. And since so much time has passed, I'll get DMs on Twitter every so often, asking me to post an update. And I'm also just curious myself to see what has come of his scam, to see if they'd done
anything to validate the cost or change it at all. So that's what we're
gonna be looking at today. First though, lemme real quick recap what Team 1000 actually was. Or I guess wasn't, because it was nothing. So in late 2017, Jake started
advertising on his channel, his new service called Edfluence, where for a small fee of just $7, you could learn all the tips
and tricks that he's used to become the most hated
YouTuber in the world. The thing is though, once you paid the $7, thinking you had then unlocked
all this extra content, you were immediately prompted
with a second screen, where you were asked to
pay an additional $57 to unlock everything you
thought you just bought. So at that point you
could either just give up and forget about the $7
you just wasted on nothing or because you're a child and you're using your mom's credit card, you could just click
the big button that says pay an additional amount of money, because you have no concept of money. What's another $57? Money doesn't mean anything to you. You've never had a job, you're a child. And then once you click that button, it would automatically
just charge you again, because it already has your
mom's credit card information saved onto the website from
the previous smaller payment and you're fucked. Very shady, not cool, but
that was just the scam part. Once you got onto the
actual website with all of its brand new content, it was very obvious right away that Jake just kinda filmed all
of this shit in an afternoon and was speaking out of
his ass most of the time. - 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, you should follow it, click. Ready to go? Cool, cool, cool, cool. - But the most disappointing
and confusing element of this website was Team 1000, which is like team 10,
but with more zeros. This was a massive part of
Jake's pitch on Edfluence. Basically saying that
for just a few bucks, you could join Team 1000, which he described just vaguely enough to peak the interest of young fans, without really saying
what it actually was. And so finally comes the big reveal. Once you've paid $64 to join
what you thought was Team 1000, you click on the tab that says Team 1000, only to find out that
team 1000 is coming soon. Which is not usually
how transactions work. It kinda reminds me of that
episode of Nathan for You, where he would sell
underage people alcohol, but they couldn't
actually take the alcohol until they turned 21. Except it wasn't as
funny when Jake did it. So overall Edfluence, Team 1000,
whatever you wanna call it, kinda stinky if you ask me. But it has now been two years
since I posted this video, which I think puts us well
past the window of soon. So the million dollar question is, did Team 1000 ever come? Actually I don't like
the way I worded that. What happened to Team 1000? (upbeat music) Are you fucking kidding me? If you are a visitor
contact the website owner or try again later. Well there's no contact
information for the website owner, so I don't think I'll be able to do that. Don't think I can just
give 'em a phone call if I don't have their number. Okay, let's go to
Edfluence's Twitter page, which has not tweeted since November 2018. And the last thing they tweeted was, "stay calm there's still time
to get Edfluence half off." Oh and then the tweet
before that was 30% off. And the tweet before that was 30% off. And the tweet before that was 50% off. Basically they were just tweeting
all through November 2018 with all these new sales. Probably knowing full well,
they were gonna shut down the website almost immediately afterwards. - Team 1000. - Okay, you know, it was bad enough that two years ago I spent $64 to access an unfinished website, but now it doesn't even exist anymore. So I can't even retroactively enjoy all the useless informational
videos that Jake Paul filmed. There are a couple breadcrumbs
we can sort of follow here to get to the bottom of this. If you go to Edfluence's Twitter bio, they advertise another
Twitter page "Demeanor." Which sounds like the
same thing as Edfluence, but maybe they just rebranded. Learn from the people you love. Online courses taught by influencers. So it sounds like maybe
they expanded Edfluence to include influencers besides Jake Paul, sort of like masterclass,
but taught by idiots. All right, so let's visit Demeanor.co, because it seems like
Edfluence no longer exists. Demeanor is a platform for influencers to make and sell their dream products. Tell us your vision and
we'll make it happen. All right, sounds legit. Low upfront costs. So there's a small set up fee, but don't worry, then we
won't charge you another cent until your products are selling. From courses to purses,
to games, to watches, we'll make it happen. You just need a vision and a fan base. Okay, so this definitely sounds a lot different from Edfluence. Edfluence was willing to target anybody who
would give them money. It didn't matter if they were an established creator already or not. This sounds like you need
to be an established creator and have a fan base already
and then they'll help you. Sort of like an MCN or any
type of management company that you would approach hoping for help with logistical stuff like this. So at this point I'm
invested, I'm curious, I gotta see what Demeanor is all about. So I'm gonna click get in touch, fill out all this information and now I guess we just
wait for a response. This could take a while. (upbeat music) All right (claps) so it
has been one whole week since I sent that request and the response I got, was nothing. I'm really not surprised at all. Actually after a couple of days, I submitted another application
pretending to be Sommer Ray, that butt girl on Instagram
with like 20 million followers. I thought it would have
been a really good fit. I wanted to sell hats with her butt on it and it would say, "what's
that smell? It's my but." Weirdly that great idea wasn't enough to at least a response. So I'm just gonna assume that no one works at Demeanor anymore and they don't exist. So we went from Edfluence to Demeanor, to nothing in a matter of two years. I'm so interested in this, I don't know why more people
aren't talking about this. How could you just like sell something and then act like it's gonna keep growing and you're gonna keep expanding and then you never make good
on the promises you made and then get rid of the
unfinished version of it. But that's Jake Paul in a nutshell. The ultimate internet salesman. He's not a creator, he's a
salesman, let's be honest. He's a business person
who's just always trying to sell a product. Whether it's his merch or his
online courses or himself. He's a salesman, that's who he is. If YouTube never worked out, I have no doubt he'd be working at like a Toyota dealership
right now, slinging Prius's. To him maybe after dominating social media for a couple of years, he wanted to take on his
biggest challenge yet. He wanted to sell the ultimate product. You give him money and
he gives you nothing. And maybe he just wanted to see how many people
he could get to buy it. I mean, it's amazing what the power of a good sales pitch can do. Oftentimes the marketing of something is way more important than the
actual thing you're selling. Like I think a lot of people
tend to buy things based on how the packaging looks or the
color scheme of the logo. I've been using Old Spice
deodorant for years now, just because I thought their
commercials were funny. Edfluence was packaged
in a really appealing way to his young fans. He used all the right words, threw in a couple obvious
manipulation tactics that went right over their heads. - If you can't follow the roadmap, then there's just no chance
you'll make it into Team 1000 or maybe even as a
social media influencer. - And they bought into
what he was selling. I would guess he sold thousands, maybe tens of thousands
of subscription packages. You can scroll through YouTube
and see countless videos of like "my Edfluence journey." Day one, joining team 10 or team 1000. And then fast forward one year and can't even access the
website anymore, it's just gone. In fact it was pretty
much exactly one year. They launched the website in December 2018 and somewhere between August
2018 and January 2019, it had been downgraded
into an error screen. Oh but not before we throw out a couple of last minute fire sales
to see if we can't milk a few more bucks out of this. And then he vanished into the
night, never to be seen again. Well, that's not true. One of my favorite tactics he used to try and sell Edfluence,
was quoting a Chinese proverb and then saying, see, that's
why you gotta give me $64 because of this 1000-year old wisdom. What an insane connection to try and make. I feel like that's like
trying to use Socrates as a testimonial. Let him that would move the
world first move himself, on a brand new bike. You know how I know Demeanor is bullshit? If it's a service that
handles merch operations and it was started by Jake
Paul, why doesn't Jake use it? He uses Fanjoy, he's been using Fanjoy for years to sell his merch. He's not even using his own service, so why would people trust it? Speaking of which, let's
see which creators that... Okay, I'm starting to notice a theme here. Well, I don't really know what
to say about this anymore. I mean, the fact that
they have just gotten rid of Edfluence is sort of a
fitting end to the saga. But also it just means I
don't really have anything to react to. Before we wrap things up though, I did say I wanted to do revisit a few things I've talked about
in the past, not just this. And although scrolling
through my past videos, there's not a lot of things
that are that interesting to me, in terms of doing a follow up. One of my favorite videos
I've ever made was called, "why did you think this would work?" It was about a bunch of apps
where people were frustrated that they didn't work even
though any rational human being, would be able to tell you,
of course it wouldn't work, it's an x-ray machine. That being said, I've downloaded a couple
pregnancy tests on my phone and we're gonna find out together if I'm currently with child. Looks like all I have to do
for this one is start testing, by clicking this blurry ass buttons. All right, just like when you
buy a regular pregnancy test that you pee on, there is a mid-roll ad. Okay now it's gonna scan my finger. Is it, my finger's on it, is it doing? I knew it. (soothing music) Now that I've gotten that out of the way, it's time to answer the question, "boy or girl do you have?" Let's find out. (upbeat music) What is this? Oh, that's my stomach. So what's this right here? If this is my stomach, is
that my dick and balls? I knew it, it's a girl,
a beautiful fetus girl. Wait, this developer also has an app called Baby Thoughts Simulator. I gotta know what my baby's thinking. All right, well, I don't have a baby yet, but I do have a goobie. So let's scan him. What's goobie thinking about? Is scanning, thanks for the update. I want to sleep. That's all you ever do,
let's try this again. Is scanning. I want to sleep. Is this the only response they programmed? Get outta here. Now the only thing left to figure out is what is this baby girl gonna look like? So let's get to the bottom
of that using Future Baby. Why would I need notifications? (soft music) Wait, babies don't wink,
babies don't have secrets. Dad's photo. (camera clicks) Awesome, mom's photo. Here we go. Oh, well I wanted to
crop that one, but okay. Okay, so I guess I'm also the mom. I have to pay $5 a week
to see my future baby. I knew this app wouldn't give an accurate image before downloading it. However I am black, the
other person was also black. How are we able to
create twin white babies? The babies were adorable, but I thought it would merge
me and the other parent's face to create a baby photo, not
have someone's real baby photo. Well, that's unfortunate. I guess we'll just keep it a mystery then. I don't know what my beautiful baby girl is going to look like until the
day she comes out of my ass. Well, I guess that's it. Not much else to talk
about with Edfluence. I mean, I can only react to
an error page for so long. I think it's a beautiful
ending to the saga. Just like I said, there's nothing else
for me to say about it. But I do have a few words to
say about today's sponsor. I love my data. In fact, my data is
probably my best friend in the whole world. Which is why I need to
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which is my name. Hopefully you knew that by now. You knew that, right? And I will see you guys
out on the worldwide web. Now back to my chair, which is right over here,
I'm just gonna walk. Thank you guys so much
for watching this video. Sorry it wasn't as
climactic as I was hoping, I guess 2020 is off to a bit
of an underwhelming start. But that means there's
nowhere to go, but up. Oh wait, hold on before
you get outta here, I just wanna say one more thing. Please go like my Facebook page. We're about to hit 10K on there and that would mean so much to me because I don't actually post
on there or use it at all. And I don't log into
it and I don't respond to any of the messages, but if we hit 10K, that would just mean the world.
It really shouldn’t have surprised me that nothing ever came of Team 1000, but I guess I underestimated Jake’s scumminess
"Babies don't wink...babies don't have secrets!"
and now I have a new user flair
I really thought he was going to have a pregnancy announcement after all those apps at the end.