The Fitness YouTuber Who Went Clinically Insane

every single conspiracy theory you ever know is 100 percent true the government is reptilian overlords joe rogan is in on it elon musk is in on it tiger woods is it on you can check my story i've been messaging them i am forgetting and knowing that is how i created the plan i can't do the plan if i knew it the whole time because i'd be cracking up so i make myself forget i am infinitely intelligent so i can make myself conor murphy once had a reputation as an extroverted disciplined go-getter whose athleticism easily rivaled other top-tier fitness influences however as the years rolled by and conor's channel faded into irrelevance his mental state would sadly decline alongside it i used to be so happy when i was a kid this is called times market i love this place because the gospel of thomas is where it's at see the people who wrote the bible or i was actually put into a psych ward for over two weeks when in the psych ward he said he was god he was offered anti-psychotic medication every emotion in me is just rapid fire the whole universe is me i am consciousness i know that mom has a strong belief in having a new dad it's in essence you can feel it you can feel god within someone now this ladies and gentlemen is a man who has officially lost his mind breakdown psych ward strange podcasts and the belief that he had become god were all captured right here on the youtube platform with his path to insanity beginning on the 9th of january 2016 when conor murphy would post his very first video titled connor murphy national body transformation the video began by stating that when he was younger he wasn't really the coolest kid in his class before going on to show numerous photos of his skinny younger self this would all change when he began to hit the weight room at the age of 13 building a pretty reasonable physique in the four years that followed however this had become even more impressive by his 21st birthday having built his body to the point where he could stand out as a fitness youtuber on the platform he began by posting simple workout and nutrition guides in which it was clear that conor had a genuine desire for improving the lives of his viewers it's to help you look as impressive as you possibly can for your next instagram picture or youtube video everyone wants to look good and i'm gonna help you guys out these instructional videos will interwove with basic fitness pranks such as pretending to be a fitness mannequin in the mall however it will be when conor posted the first video in what would become his aesthetics on omegle series that his channel began to explode the premise of the series was pretty basic he'd wait to match with females on omegle before taking his shirt off and simply recording their reaction within six months of posting his first aesthetics on omegle video conor murphy had passed a hundred thousand subscribers however the most notable part about this video was the information it revealed to connor people were interested in watching him take his shirt off in front of girls spawning a new series of bizarre prank type videos in which he would leave the bedroom and instead look for excuses to take his shirt off in public there were classics such as a conor murphy shirtless on the roof of chipotle connor murphy goes grocery shopping and who could forget how to impress a girl instantly so if i can impress you in just one second i get both of your numbers so when does the timer start right now so here's my phone you guys can just put your numbers in the videos were incredibly cringy however this was offset to some degree by conor's self-awareness and likable attitude in the beginning i really hope you don't think that i'm too much of a douchebag but even if you do please subscribe because my view to subscriber ratio is getting absolutely insane however even with the likable attitude without context the videos were incredibly easy to roast individuals such as h3h3 productions who was reigning supreme in the commentary genre at the time uploaded this video titled my girl is leaving me for this guy to an audience of over 9 million so what do you think about conor murphy first thing i think when i look at this guy is that when he's having sex he's watching himself in the mirror you know what i'm saying and while most youtubers would see this level of criticism as a negative it simply gave conor murphy another opportunity to display his humility ethan klein from h3h3productions i've honestly been a longtime subscriber all of his videos are hilarious including his recent one my idol connor murphy i think it's the best one yet so you guys should totally go check it out providing a pathway for conor murphy to hit 1 million subscribers only a year and a half after beginning his channel however while such a milestone would have been incredibly exciting for conor murphy it seemed to trigger a serious decline in his motivation for making videos as only six months after achieving one million subscribers he disappeared from the platform for over five months upon returning he'd upload only eight videos within the space of a year less than one per month with only half of them cracking the one million view mark as a result conor murphy's average monthly view count began to tumble he'd go from 20 million views per month at the beginning of 2018 to less than 5 million per month by the beginning of 2019 only 12 months later in addition to his five-month break his decline in viewership had also been aided by a reduced interest for prank related videos in 2016 and 2017 his ideas were fresh and on par with the youtube meta at the time however they were certainly feeling a little dated by 2019 as 2020 rolled around the prank genre had not only become even more dated but conor was facing a new problem almost all of his viral ideas required outdoor social interaction with females which had been halted by us lockdowns forcing him to return to older video ideas i know it has been forever since i've made an omegle video but since it's pretty much the only type of content i can film right now i figured it was time to do another one connor returned to the streets whenever lockdowns were lifted on sixth street thank goodness it is back like the good old days however the overall limitation would drop his monthly view count to less than 3 million per month forcing connor to try a new career path with a sane and coherent mind conor murphy made the decision to move to la in pursuit of becoming an actor and while the potential of a new career path was incredibly exciting this would be the point at which things began to go downhill rapidly for a while now he's come under fire for his physique essentially deteriorating compared to when he first started youtube he's kind of like doesn't look nearly as good as he when he first started it looks like he's probably lost about 10 to 15 pounds of muscle while connor's physique was still incredibly impressive by average standards it was becoming increasingly obvious that his body wasn't built to the same standard as it had been in the early days of his channel is this just me or is conor looking a little smaller and less shredded not hating just noticing bro your videos are awesome but what's wrong with you you don't look like a bodybuilder your abs are disappearing you don't look shredded focused on your physique more bro although i enjoy watching your vids conor explained the reason for his loss of gains to be body fat percentage and over the course of the last few months or whatever i've probably gained like one to two percent body fat the second thing man is lighting however others speculated that his weight loss might have been the result of some kind of addiction oh i'm that skinny do i you might man maybe you've lost i mean you're definitely bigger than me but yeah i have lost a lot well you weigh less you weigh less than me by a lot now because you've lost uh 31 31 pounds something like that yeah these suspicions would be confirmed to some extent when his friend and fellow youtuber patrick lyons would upload a video explaining that in early 2020 connor tried psychedelics for the first time conor has taken a substance called ayahuasca for the first time he took it about a year ago and when he took it a year ago it is what led to the first period of like concerning video content creation on his part uh related to what he called enlightenment the mentioned concerning video content began with this video in late 2020 titled why i deleted my old videos and how to access them in which his audience would witness the first example of kind of giving up his old gym related branding replacing it with a much more hippie vibe wearing a hoodie and necklace while standing in front of a damp rainforest poster throughout the video conor would discuss the many downsides of success in a relatable articulate and intelligent manner i reached this point of success the great physique the girls the money and i became depressed and while his new introspective message might have resonated with some in the months that followed it became blatantly obvious that conor murphy was diving deeper into what you might call the spirit realm as his ramblings became increasingly incoherent through deep meditation and consciousness work you can realize that you can be free of the compulsive nature behind thought of course you will still think but there won't be any addictive qualities to that thought you can detach her from your thoughts and be the observer of the thoughts rather than identify with the thoughts that is probably the biggest addiction of all at around the same time conor would post a picture to his instagram holding a graduation certificate alongside a caption reading i am now officially a doctor that's right i received an honorary doctorate in spirituality from the los angeles development church and institute simply from making a donation this honorary degree lets me legally use the doctor title in front of my name i can legally be referred to as dr connor murphy his former friend and fellow youtuber patrick lyons who had originally updated everyone on conor's ayahuasca use then wanted to explain that connor's dosage had increased substantially he took that ayahuasca the first time a year ago and i don't know where along the lines these things happened but he has increased his frequency of consumption to every two hours which would also be reiterated by another friend of connor called jane i asked conor how often do you do ayahuasca and he said every two hours connor's extreme dosage will become apparent when a channel called micah would upload a video titled we went to save conor murphy in which connor's apartment can be seen in complete and utter disarray shown similarly in jane's video i drove my guard to conor's apartment complex there were a bunch of boxes and trash bags in front of his door we went inside his apartment and this is what i saw the stack of boxes was so huge that it took up half of the apartment and spilled out through the front door connor apologized for it being so messy but said that he hadn't had time to clean because he'd been so busy making content i've just been so focused on giving up all this content i just haven't had time to clean that's why i'm here so i just started unboxing the mountain of packages and it was a bunch of totally random stuff just a few of the things were a harry potter invisibility cloak 12 cans of oxygen and a cat tower i asked him if he had a cat and he said no before he'd gone to imply that he'd completely given up on his bodybuilding diet how you've been getting all your calories in wrong i just eat whatever i want now later in the video khan's mental health problems will be put on full display my name is stewie stewie griffin and belle delphine you like this i'm about to fit some vegan macaroni and cheese vegan it's made out of plants just like your when the two guys who are filming the video left connor's house they'd receive this call please i'm begging you man i'll pay you anything please get over here dude yeah i'll let you know we probably will i will give you all the money in the world it's a worldwide phone call all right showing that it clearly wasn't fake in other videos conor appeared more sane however there were still signs of mental illness such as this video in which he would attempt to pick up girls by telling them that he had become god i am god okay [Music] how do you feel about that i mean why do you think you're gone so well why do you think that i even exist conor's god complex would then lead him to produce even stranger videos such as this one titled failing to enlighten my parents in which he would sit in a zoom call rambling incoherently to his mother and father for an hour and a half straight if you truly had faith and you knew that heaven on earth existed that's the only thing you'd be searching for you wouldn't be working you wouldn't be stressing all you would be doing is doing everything you can to experience heaven on earth accompanying these incoherent ramblings was a complete overhaul of his instagram from a former aesthetic showground to a psychedelic wasteland he's starting to wear like costumes and shits and he's like going around at night time doing weird stuff and he starts posting these uh mario became enlightened when he realized that he is the pixels you are living in the matrix connor zad uh call me the happy hatter and he's wearing some costume in the early days of his channel connor had talked about his passion for golf my two main more serious sports were basketball and golf i played those both in high school and i play golf in college right now which would be reignited in the strangest way after he had become enlightened as explained by derek from more plates more dates i look at my dms and i'm in this weird group and it's called like conor's like enlightened cult or something the members of this group it's like connor me tiger woods the pga tour keemstar like some like the weirdest schwerkesborg combination of individuals ever and conor is just like posting weird voice messages in his matthew mcconaughey accent and i'm like like what are we doing here dude like what is going on and presumably his uh enlightenment sort of led him towards the realization that he was going to win a major golf tournament professionally as far as i understand in the same video derek would go on to explain that connor had gone so far off the rails that he began posting his saved passwords to his public instagram him showing every single password on his phone that is saved like every single account he has and the email associated with it so like bank of america amazon even his bang energy password apparently derek would then host a podcast talking about conor murphy with another youtuber who would state that his action seemed indicative of schizophrenia that is psychotic behavior yeah like that is very indicative of somebody with lingering mental instabilities uh such as a family history of schizophrenia and while it didn't seem like things could possibly get any worse they were about to connor's audience would come to find out that with every high there's an equivalent low after he'd upload a video simply titled goodbye in this video conor would explain that he felt as though he was going insane being at his quote mental breaking point what is happening i've gone literally mentally insane over the past few days i don't understand i've been my mental breaking point he then going to state that he was doing anything to try and show his family how to be happy for six days i've stayed up i haven't slept i wrote i wrote a seventy page book in two days to try to explain happiness to the moments claims crazy but yeah i'm crazy but i just wanted to be happy i'm trying to save their lives they don't realize how happy they are before going on to lake his address you can come here [Music] to one six seven one zero after posting his address in a public youtube video police would pay him a visit before taking him to a psych ward where he would remain for two weeks in the process he'd remain in contact with his best friend who'd state that even after being put in a mental hospital conor was unable to stop talking about his spiritual enlightenment so conor spent two weeks in a psych ward and i called him every few days rather he called me and we talked every few days and he was able to get to a point where he was able to hold a normal conversation and speak normally but yet one thing remained the same the one thing that stayed the same was he just didn't want to talk about anything other than his enlightenment and his awakenment it seemed to be the only thing that mattered to him after being led out of the psych ward connor would upload a video titled yes i'm alive and i'm sorry in which he would state that the goodbye video was all an act done for the purpose of potentially grabbing the attention of a movie studio i had this crazy idea i would make some acting reels that were so dramatic and so controversial that it would grab the attention of producers and this would be my one final shot at becoming an actor in los angeles however at a later date he'd gone to release the book that he'd been discussing in the original goodbye video i wrote a 70-page book in two days in which he would state that he planned on replicating the path of jesus by faking his death so more people could focus on his spiritual message what if i uncovered the true knowledge and was able to spread it to the world what if i thought up the most mind-blowing youtube stunt of all time to spread it what if i could start to awaken other people and change the world what if i could actually tell the modern day story of jesus i had some work to do before showing that the psycho i did little to bring him back to reality in another statement reading i recently had what the doctors called a manic episode and i call a spiritual awakening okay i admit there might have been some mania involved but i can promise you not an ounce of it was negative perhaps in his own mind none of it was negative however his total subscriber graph told a different story since he began to lose his mind in 2020 conor has lost over 150 000 subscribers and now barely gains over a million views per month he'd also mentioned in a recent video that he didn't have any money left the moral of this story is that i'm broke so if you have a business opportunity for me maybe you want to help me get some brand deals and make some commission at this point i have zero shame and i'm open to pretty much anything however he does sound fairly sarcastic so this might have been a joke the silver lining to the story is that conor has deleted almost all evidence of his crazy spiritual phase replacing it with fitness content as he had posted in the past his spiritual channel titled conor murphy talks on which he used to post incoherent ramblings when completely silent until one month ago at which point conor returned with a normal articulate story relating to his high school days in which he's looking and sounding substantially healthier than he had been 12 months ago almost all of his comments discuss the obvious recent improvement in connor's life so hopefully his insanity was nothing more than a minor hiccup in what will become an incredibly successful life over the long term

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Length: 16min 43sec (1003 seconds)

Published: Thu May 05 2022