The Whittakers Go To The State Fair 

I love this man's content so long ago too see how much he has grown is great. If he really ever wants an underbelly story unlike any other, I got him and a tale never told. Change Lives one day. I just moved to WV as a city kid been a year an im ready go back to city hahs.@whiteunderbelly

The transformation from when the first time i saw a video about this family to now is amazing bless everyone that has and will help this family

Thank you, Mark, and all the other folk involved, for doing this valuable work. You've changing lives, by shinning a light on all the forgotten and misunderstood folk, who just get eaten up by an uncaring system. God bless you all.

Is Lauren Mark's wife or girlfriend?

Poo poo o921q😅qq😅.

It's really sweet. I needed to see this today.

Totally agree.

I was gonna say this too ! it filled my heart with warmth to see that

I second your sentiments but I think you meant "rapport".

​@sev7463 you beat me to it.😂 I totally agree as well.

Well said.

Thank you for the kind comment Nick. If anything, I’m glad I’m helping the world see others differently. Whether it’s a poverty stricken family in Appalachia or a drug addict, a gang member or a prostitute, we all could use a little compassion for those we don’t understand and if my work helps us do that then I’m pleased. Have a great holiday weekend everyone.

I agree 💯! Mark is tremendous for being so kind. ❤

​@@SoftWhiteUnderbelly🙌 🙌 🙌

​@@SoftWhiteUnderbellyRay doesn't look well,His eyes are verry red 🙌

Aaaaand now the dark truth is revealed again.

They all seem to act more normal than when we first met them ! They are heartbreaking !

Mark, your girlfriend is very beautiful.

More humans on earth need to smile like Timmy does huh

funny I thought exact samething

@nikkir3637 I loved seeing this too! I also loved seeing him working on a page in what was clearly his coloring book and a nice sized supply of what looks to be colored pencils or adult color Crayons!!!

Timmy had no handicap At all growing up. In his late 20s he smoked marijuana a couple times and this is what it did to him. The same with Lorraine. She was completely normal and an RN. For 20 years. Smoked the reefer once and she’s been like fbis ever since.

@@oldironsides4107 --Dang, was not aware that a Reefer could do this to ones Mental state...

They were shy, and now they see Mark as gifts and money. He does have to pay these people for their exploitation. At least, I pray he does. They need the help.

Thats what I think as well but maybe enough people from that area see these videos to actually acknowledge the Whittakers when they are seen in public, which would be a huge difference from before the video interviews @@edie4321

@@edie4321he does. He pays them. Gets them stuff for the house, he got the siding and roof done on their house. He has an interview with Joe Rogan talking about the Whittaker’s.

I don't catch every video so I may have missed some info, but I'm wondering if any relatives, or anybody, has crawled out of the woodwork because they think there may be some money to be had by association?

Serving others occurs in various ways. Paying for content showing empathy and compassion hopefully widens peoples perspective and hearts. What Mark does is not exploitation at all it is a huge gift to society!

She adds nothing. And is totally awkward.

@@xulphytenah man she clearly has become Timmy’s favorite and interacts with her differently than anyone else. She is a gem

Awkward are you kidding me! She's great and Timmy especially loves her. You're just a miserable person and jealous 🤨

@@xulphyteshe seems awkward at first but then you see how she’s very gentle and understanding especially with timmy. you can tell that he trust her a lot and seems to enjoy her company.

21:32

Gorgeous little guy, blue eyes. 🙂

I lost it too!

very well said, @LorrieB330 :) I enjoyed that moment, too.

that brother, I forgot his name, Kenny I think, used to say he never really would visit the rest of them. Seems he is there often now.

Wasn't that hug a beautiful surprise? Love Mark an this family.

You’re a legend

Maybe they should get a visit from Chip?

@@jaypowell1712unreal

I'm concerned about Lorraine's health. She's usually the one in control. This is just like her. Take care her Mark and your wife is just adorable ❤️

😂😂😂😂❤

My face hurts from laughing so hard!

lol came here to see this comment 😂

Alpha move

Claimed his territory.

100%

@@karaburch7611 I wanna be your demon if Hell is real.

@@karaburch7611ist actually not illegal in many places and not even imoral in many holy books but is a result in reduced genetics

​​@@karaburch7611 Unfortunately it's generational around that area. West Virginia is known for it. The extremely extremely poor folks. It goes back years and years. Not their fault they were born into it.

I have what would be considered an average everyday family and I wish we cared for each other like this family does. I don't even speak to my "family" anymore because of what selfish terrible people they are. They only help themselves and if someone has fallen on hard times instead of helping them they choose to gossip about them. It must be nice to have a family that's close and who care about each other. I wish I had that more than anything, especially because I have a son and he doesn't even know my family. It's sad.

​@@none_ya001 It also is prominent in the middle-east among Muslims.... There are videos on RU-vid of adult children in the Middle East like Pakistan and Afghanistan where the children are blind, deaf and mute except they can kind of yell out. It's terrible. But it does go on in other countries and cultures.

She is one of the sweetest people and prettiest women I've ever seen. She seems so nice and smart.

I love working in memory care, and she immediately remind me of so many sweet ladies I've had the pleasure of caring for and being friends with. Such a sweetie :)

I have so many emotions! 😢

Betty a true Angel

They seem like such lovely people, great to see Timmy so happy and social.

Betty really is a sweet woman. Being a momma is what she knows best and has spent her whole life doing just that.

not imbread thats why

@@doomslayerforever2858*inbred and how does him being loved, happy and healthy have anything to do with him not being inbred?

@@doomslayerforever2858 they may be inbred, but they take care of eachother and have more of a caring and loving family than most, they’re happy also

​@@doomslayerforever2858may want to research your family tree before the 1900s cause yours has some straight branches too .

@@amandaparker7582 nah

Whittershitter

Couldn't agree more.

did you also enjoy the part where ray whipped his schlong out?

lol

Yes it truly is. What amazing people. You are nothing without a good heart.

So people like them cause theyre inbred

Thank you Mark 😂😂😂 No worries his bank account is singing from this video alone so no need to thank him.

I think the carnival barker understood the whole vibe…he was very kind to them. Nice guy!!!

Yes that was awesome too see the vendor doing that with the Whittaker family

What a solid guy.

The balloon guy reminded me of people when we were kids. Some people just "get it" and he was one of those guys. It's nice to see that there are still people like that in the world.

I was just fixing to comment this. I watched him telling Loraine to make herself at over a dozen times 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Lorraine was CHILLIN!

I loved that too and kept repeating it to myself 🤣I just posted it and seen other people noticed it too ❤

​@@britp288Lorraine looks like she needed help getting up

This all of usa, only Cali on New York west and east doing good

It’s because mark knows how to understand people. I think it takes a broken person to be able to understand broken people fully.

It's confusing to me since he was obviously exploiting them in the first videos, and was even run off by a concerned neighbor. Maybe they appreciate the exposure he's given them? I'm sure plenty of compassionate people have reached out.

See the look of absolute disgust from the young lady when she didn’t realise cameras were filming

@@Mark-ww1ii where? what timestamp?

21:32

They are so deserving of a break like this from normal everyday life.

I love you Tiffany, all the best👍🏼

How much money is Mark making on them versus the monetary help they are receiving? Truth.

I dont necessarily think most would avoid them. It's just that they live so far away lol. I wouldn't mind visiting and helping any way I could. Getting there is an entirely different obstacle. Plus you're not supposed to be randomly, "bothering", them. I know local law enforcement does not want random people just showing up out of the blue, with camera in hand like they're some museum display.

​@@joesmith1830so there's always one person to point out that there's some alternative agenda. Would you rather them be completely ignored and not helped? Sure, he makes money off of the vids, but I don't think he means to exploit them. Theyve benefited in more ways then financially from it. He's known them for 20 yrs. At this point, he's technically family.

Brave man standing in front of all those darts.

21:32

I thought they were going to vomit all over the pretty girls on the ride. You can see she’s visibly bothered by their stench.

@@oldironsides4107think Timmy has a crush on her..............I wont blame him at all!!!!

​@oldironsides4107 why you on here old Iron smuck nobody needs ur shit ass comments

I just wish he would have some pants that fit! Then he wouldn’t have to walk around, holding them up!😂

@@lisaheltonhudson I think Mark got him a belt, but lord knows where that went 🤣🤣 Hes a riot

I love all of them! Especially Ray! ❤️

21:33 :D@@lisaheltonhudson

She was so proud … as she should be 🙌

It brought me joy to see they having such spontaneous fun and happiness.❤

I'm worried about her.. it seems like they might have had to cut the trip short a bit by the way she was walking out at the end.

@@staind.raindropyea it’s definitely a struggle unfortunately. Even more reason to go out and enjoy things before you can’t anymore:(

they are not called non verbal as they can make verbal sounds , non verbal is a mute

That wasn't excitement, she tripped and almost fell over, she grabbed her shirt to catch herself.

@@Cobradaddywell she got so excited she almost fell over you have to remember she probably hasn’t thrown anything probably ever

Our boy Ray just throws his dart at the counter, I hope he's just having a bad day, he's starting to look old and tied, poor little guy.

@@fredzep01 looks like he has some eye infections. hopefully thats all, i agree i hope hes ok.

@@hhimynameischris Yep, I should imagine you're right, you can't help but feel for him, I hope to god, somebodies looking after his welfare.

Muy generoso por parte de Mark. Le pago el juguete que no ganaron

❤

Ofcourse he working on a fair it is his job to make money on disabled people and on kids but at 30:15 he made me pretty mad because Ray did clearly want the mushroom!

At least the crowd at the fair wasn't rude.......like folks staring 8......or giving rude remarks or teasing.

The guy at 29:00 is legend

I just noticed they are all left handed throwing the dart except for eldest lady at the end.

I don't know if the dart game guy was paid extra to start with or if he let them all win out of the kindness of his heart but either way it was great to see them all win and be excited about the win and proud of themselves. Usually when I try that dart game the balloons blow around a lot, I suspect there's a fan involved. Lol I can always win at the guns that shoot pellets shoot out all of the star game though.

They really did do great popping those balloons at the dart game and the man was so sweet and understanding. If all humans could act this way towards others especially those with difficulties the world would be a better place

You're right, the dart booth employee was such a great person. He just wanted to make sure the family had a fun and memorable time.

When Timmy, who is my favourite, won his prize he was as happy as an athlete who'd just won a Gold medal at the Olympics. I'm not sure what the prize was, a banana?, but I doubt he let go of it for the rest of the day. I don't know if Timmy's got a crush on the girl, I can never remember her name, but he seems to want to be beside her every chance he gets. 😂 not that I blame him, she's very attractive.

FOR SOME OF US IT'S JUST THE LITTLE THINGS THAT MEAN THE WORLD. SO PRECIOUS

Yea exploiting them for internet clout is extremely sad though.

I loved Ray took his D out before entering the toilet, then roaring when walking towards the urinoir with his D out so the other customer instantly left. @@patriciagamble7137

The guy running the dart game was so kind and patient with them.....❤

Mark, great to see another Whitaker video. I love all your work you put so much into these. Ran

Mark great to s

Wow your dumb.

Yeah what a wonderful guy. Not exploitative at all.

This is really sad to me. More so than even skid row addicts because these people seem born into this lifestyle and have no opportunity to escape. I hope AI forces society onto basic income so the situation can improve for this family and those like them.

Being from WV myself nor my family joke about where others live or where they are from. I guess we just know better and do better here in wild, wonderful WV.

@@willsmith39 yeah, living in ignorance is far better. He's literally taken nothing from them and helped them more than you've ever helped anybody except yourself. People like you always talk shit about people trying to do a little good , but never actually contribute anything yourselves. Guarantee you look the other way when a homeless person or a person with disabilities are near. Sad fact of life is that if you want to make a life helping people, you have to be able to fund that life. He brings awareness to the varieties of people in this world because ignorance is killing us, and he helps them financially, either with his own money or through crowdfunding. If you haven't noticed, this channel brings out the best in people, both from audience and the interviewed. Most people would just call his subjects trash and go on with their lives without insight like he provides. And you are likely no exception. go be miserable somewhere else.

I'd say that once they're lifted up like this, it's in theirs and our best interest to help them maintain certain qualities on their own. It might even be possible to add 10 more IQ points to some of them with enough hard work, and there might even be jobs that some of them can perform safely to supplement any social platform loot.

Newsflash! Decent people don't rape and screw their own family members. These people don't even take their dogs to the vet when they get their paws chopped off. Stop trying to pretend these are roll models. Smh 🤦

If you go back to the earliest episodes you can see the animals were surprisingly healthy and happy. I think Mark may have even commented on how well taken care of the animals were compared to themselves. Im sure Mark and the SWU crowd have made that even more so and has enhanced/extended their quality of life.

these people are inbred

@FilbinCreekPhil Oooohhh, Mark "said" the animals were well taken care of. Welp, that's good enough for me! What a wonderful bunch of people. I think I'll go knock my sister up so we can have a wonderful amazing family that puts our animals first, even though they'll run around with paws ripped off. 😫🤦

Their life really improved... locals and others went to from thinking it was some Wrong Turn situation telling stories around a campfire and harassing them/driving by... to knowing they are just a normal family in a low income area. Plus many people are out there donating now, praying for them etc.. but being honest when Mark released the first video alot of folks thought he was exploiting them/others. It wasn't until they started seeing what he did for them, with the new roof etc.. I think Mark's probably a really good person. You can see his beliefs come out during the interviews. He believes in forgiveness and trying to make the most out of life

Yes that was a beautiful moment

21:33 was such a lovely moment ;D.

I loved Ray took his D out before entering the toilet, then roaring when walking towards the urinoir with his D out so the other customer instantly left.

I loved Ray took his D out before entering the toilet, then roaring when walking towards the urinoir with his D out so the other customer instantly left. @@slaydog5102

he also cares enough to pull his weewee out. 21:34.

​@@slaydog5102holy shit hahahahah

Rays first dart throw had me dead

@@slaydog5102 loll isnt it illegal to record in bathrooms

​@@goronlee7569 public bathrooms or private yah

I would be smiling too with Mark's daughter on my arm 😁

@@mortanicus5871 Not his daughter

@@Hanzyscure my bad!

Amen!

@@mortanicus5871Not his daughter. His coworker.

Mark, you and your wife are beautiful and sensitive souls.

😊😊❤god. Bless. U. Mark.

Close-knit is an understatement! 😳

Agreed 🌴☕

Well said❤

Something about Timmy coloring choked me up

@@stephaniebenton9070agree-We’re never too old to have a great childhood :-)

Agree

💯🫂🥰

Where was the hug??

Yes! That baby is so loved by this family.

Lorraine patting the baby was really good to see, too.

You can tell there careing look at there animals.

Absolutely!! If it wasn't for Mark this family may have never got to known the simple things like the fair,haircuts,and a trip to walmart...Mark is a true benefactor of humanity to these people!!

But he is mocking them in the picture for the video of the channel .. he knows by putting these people looking different will get more views ..

@@paulinev1757I’m pretty sure he doesn’t care about how many views it’ll get, u can tell he’s a got a soft spot them. You could hear it from mark when he was on the joe Rogan podcast. Mark didn’t talk about them much even tho Rogan ask about them.

@DJCharmstrong well said, I 100% agree.

He cares about the Whitakers and also the views. It's ok for us to be honest about that. It's obvious in the thumbnail, but that doesn't mean he's mocking them. He's been following and connecting with this family for years and has always shown them genuine love, while also being as fascinated by them as we are.

Aww yes the way they had their new outfits on! Sweet as can be ❤

Totally agree I was thinking the same thing.💜🙏🏽

Having sex with your own family shows dignity? How so?

They didn't do it willingly. They were born into it. Go back and watch before you say stupid shit.

@@tombrzozowski173Why are you hanging around his channel leaving your ignorant comments all over the place? I bet you didn’t bother to watch his intro video. Shows how much of a 🤡 you are.

@@Beccastyles_ get round rear x

I agree. I think that Timmy is my favorite. He’s so child like & innocent. Love to see him smile while he colors. I also loved how Larry really praised his coloring job too ❤

I remember that Lorene was born in the year of 1953 from Betty’s words, so she should have been in her 71 in that case.

That's what I was thinking too. I bet her bones were hurting! I would've loved to see them eat and drink during the fair too!

Mark knows them for about 14 years now.

Agree ❤

Mark single handedly boosted their life expectancy by 10%, i don’t how much of the slice their content has paid mark, but I hope he keeps on guiding money towards them.

Just look at a trumpy rally

The baby is adorable 🥰

Timmy was just a regular guy until the age of 35 he smoked one marijuana cigarette. I’ve sssn it a thousand times. Loraine suffered the same fate as well and was an RN flor nearly 25 years

​@@oldironsides4107😊

I swear Timmy is the happiest person on the planet just coloring

@@oldironsides4107 lol

@@oldironsides4107 the devil’s lettuce! I smoked crack all my life and was fine but the first marijuana cigarette messed be up like 40 years of crack never could. I haven’t blinked since 2009.

Unfortunately no evidence of a soul whatsoever only nature will guide

@@matimus100wat

​@@matimus100huh?

Yes, it is encouraging...Most of us have gotten to know the Whittakers through Mark's work and we have grown to love them...but sadly once it gets chopped up and shared on Tik Tok, etc... that's when you see all the ignorant and heartless comments that can be quite disheartening.

There was unfortunately a very negative comment that I felt the need to straighten out it’s unfortunate that some feel the need to project their bitterness and hate into what is otherwise a very positive and meaningful experience for them without mark asking for anything in return . Yea he gets content but it’s not for selfish reasons. Sad some can’t see past their hurt and animosity. I wish they find a mark In Their lives so they can experience genuine love and joy.

​@@LuisaD93 Sorry but it's called freedom of speech and someone's opinion. I feel It's fine if it's delivered with respect.

@@joelashadali it is indeed. Did you see the comment I’m speaking of? It’s somewhat hidden. And I also have that same freedom of speech and allowed to give my own opinion on it so what’s your point? That I stood up for Marks values? LMAOO! Even when you speak of positive things someone has to comment negatively. 🤦‍♀️

Remember the first vid Mark did with them? At least 50% were negitive. Even the Walmart trip got a bunch.

Amen!

hillbilly central.

@deborahbryant7045 I'm from Europe and I know West Virginia, from the song of John Denver (country roads). From that song, I felt like West Virginia was a very nice place with the mountains.

Ain't nothing "backward" about WVA, I lived there in the early 70's and it was hip AF plus the people are about 10 times nicer than most places, if I am able I will retire there.

@@2dogarageoxo we welcome everyone!!

Well said.

❤

He looks like Larry from 3 stooges.

Timmy was having the time of his life.This was such a good thing for them all.

@@TheHarryDunne he does! 😂🩷👍🏼

@@garygosselin4918 it really was. I know I personally love the fair. I look forward to it all year round. 🩷 I'm so happy they got to experience it as a family.

I am also a retired teacher. I taught in a country school my first two years. We took the kids to Cincinnati and many had never seen the river or been over such a long bridge. We took them to a place called Findlay Market. They had never seen people of different races. backgrounds.

Me too, I got choked up

Me, too! 🥹 We take so many things for granted daily. Seeing the pure joy on their faces is everything!

drugs sets you open for demons, Please come to Jesus so you can be saved from hell

Yeah I worry about Lorraine too. I hope they are getting proper medical care and bloodwork and things like that. I noticed that Ray has some pretty bad arthritis all over and he needs to be taking vitamin D every day

@@texasgina Lorraine did look better in the next video which was filmed the next day actually. Maybe it was just too much walking for her. I’ve grown so fond of the Whittakers. 😊

Yes! Maybe Ray too, he is the oldest. ❤

🎉 Brought me so much joy to watch

So cute! The best thing I’ve seen all year 🥺