The Worst Influencers of 2023 

It's solid proof that our society has a deficit on intelligence.

Or that people actually send him money. DSP also fits into this niche

I know. That guy who put $500K into Cryptozoo makes me cringe... Like, how are you that stupid yet you have $500K liquid?

Johnny has spent several nights in Japanese jail and idk how long he’s been in there

He was released a week or two ago @@napostrophen

Nah, definitely North Korea should be his next stop.

the worst person in that list simply for how he reflects a very bleak future if too many teenagers follow in this guys footsteps...

Lol that’s if he can get out Japan. He’s been in jail for awhile past time I checked from the Atozy videos

We do my friend. Send him over 😂

Be the last thing he does haha

Ignorance truly is bliss. 😢

It’s a good idea. I employed a similiar tactic. Out of curiosity, which platforms did you put on this list? For me it’s; • Facebook • TikTok • Instagram • Twitter

wow, you're so special

hate to break your heart bud but youtube is one of those platforms you dont use

I also just hit the "don't recommend channel" whenever one of these braindead morons is recommended to me, works pretty well honestly

TBH, Jirard's is a pretty small fry compared to Tate and company

If you go back in time, this stuff started with shows like Donahue to shock, but they would try to set people straight at the end. Then came Jerry Springer where people were just wallowing in the negativity and conflict- no happy endings needed. Then there are staged 'group shows' where the point is people arguing and fighting- just noise, pointlessness and chaos. Shows where the rich endlessly flaunt their wealth and encourage envy. I could go on and on but in my view, all this has conditioned people to literally seek out and invite negativity into their lives, like being quietly happy is somehow boring and 'wrong'.

Is called 'othering' ...and until people stop shit like that u will never have honest debate and resolution. Trump or Pearl is not 100% bad. If you(reader) disagree, you are part of the problem.

​@mbarker_lng sadly, your last sentence is extremely accurate where being "quietly happy" is now seen as boring rather than something to aspire to. You'd be surprised how many decent marriages end these days simply because their partner (typically the husband) is "boring" despite being a good parent, spouse, etc. that does everything they should that would historically be considered ideal. Most of these people come to regret it as time passes, but modern culture has convinced them that stability and responsibility is less important than excitement and chaos bc it's all we see in media (especially social media).

@@bradblumhof6917

People crave something to hate and rally to it. Religion and race difference were the previous primary sources. Social media made a better outlet for more and plentiful things to hate.

Ngl that's a hilarious quote

Santos really has what it takes to be an incredible tinpot dictator

The most impressive thing is that he has absolutely no shame even after all his lies and deceit went public. Not an ounce of regret, shame, or even embarrassment.

​@@bradblumhof6917that's what I've been noticing lately ... it's not ignorance or lack of information, it's an inability to feel shame. God, it must be nice to live a reality in which you're NEVER wrong

I swear I heard that in a fucking three stooges skit

If you cant pay for commodities provided to you by society, that are considered incredible luxury in the third world, you are in trouble. If you are able to start a successful business or invest into a lucky stock, you become a millionaire. You are right, we do live in a great world full of choices.

@@FreePalestineF-Israel #Perspective

@@FreePalestineF-Israel Sounds like you love Indian scam call centers. Ef off!

@@FreePalestineF-Israelif you’re paying for it outside of tax payments society is providing you nothing.

@@HeyyyitsLissy Income tax rates go up the more you make. My federal income tax rate is 12%. Rich people ($578,000+) pay 37%. They pay more in taxes. Without them the system would collapse. You sure can't pave a road or build a school with what they get from me.

It's the selection process. They get power by the amount of people that follow them. And the best way to get people to follow you is to abuse the system. In this case, to lie, manipulate and skirt the borders of legality without regard for morality.

For many of them, the majority of the audience is childrens. And i remember being kid. Not gona lie. If i was 10 i would probably follow some of them. Back in the day we just watched stuff like CKY or Jackass

"dangerous" its called free speech.

It's mass programming of vulnerable minds.

@@Ixnatifual No, see that belief is exactly the outcome of watching drivel. To think people are being mass programmed.. Its not that sinister, its just shallow vapid entertainment for stupid bored people. Ever seen the movie Idiocracy? That's exactly what's happening.

@@Ixnatifual yup, get them indoctrinated. Then cash in on their loneliness. When I grew up? we learned from the real world.

I have a friend who half lost his mind to the pandemic. I used to believe what he said, but now it seems every conspiracy theories is fair game, from 5G to deep state, stolen elections, Russia, vaccines, WEF, replacement theory, everything. And when one theory gets harder to defend, he jumps onto another one. He's become on of those so called "free thinkers" who just regurgitate everything they've been told within their internet bubble. Apart from that, he functions without any issue within society

There’s a lot of irony in this thread I think.

There used to be people called Vlad the impaler because he jammed a stick from his ass out the top of his head. A little fraud is no big deal

It's Crypto and the SEC which should be policing it refuses to (likely for lack of funds)...

@@George2647g But Fraud is Fraud, and we have other people who went to jail for crypto scams... ( by my understanding )

Good thing we're smart enough to see right through that b.s so we don't need big daddy government to restrict our freedom to hear it.

@@adoe2305 Sure pal. Whatever lets you sleep at night.

@@ekki1993 you must not be American. God bless. I hope you resolve whatever ignorance and hate you have in your heart.

@@adoe2305 Nah I'm about to get a PhD with no student debt. Your country is the one with a problem of not letting people stop being ignorant.

@ekki1993 I know where you're headed right after graduation 🇺🇲 😂 Funny. You don't know what problems are when the United States protects a pathetic little country. Envy is a ugly color on you.

You got it backwards. Influencers have a selection process, and the ones who rise to the top are the ones that manipulate people into giving them attention. Furthermore, you can't solve a societal problem like this by "educating everyone", but you can prosecute the people explicitly manipulating people for profits. You know, otherwise you're as good as the people defending gambling platforms abusing people with a gambling addiction.

@@ekki1993 I agree with you that if people did not render services, they should be sued into oblivion. But otherwise I have to disagree, people learning how to avoid scams is necessary or another influencer will just take the place of the previous ones.

@@SnackCakes It's necessary but it's not a solution by any means. There will always be a bottom line for scammers and influencers no matter how much you try to educate everyone.

@@ekki1993 We'll agree to disagree on this one.

​@ekki1993 your comment manipulated me for my attention. 🤬

He's another lousey grifter. Morgan will never do anything that upsets his master. Mr Murdoch.

@@aye3678 you described all big media

Another name for that is judas goat.

name rings a bell, but looking at him. He reminds me of the dude from "V for Vendetta" and his manners are very alike..

@@aye3678 haha that's the dude I had in mind xD. He's suspisciously familiar..

Absolute weakling for doing it in such a peaceful, placid country. I hope he tries that shit in Australia. We have a bit of a saying.. "some people act like they've never been punched in the face for something they've said".. that's youth today.

if so, good riddance

Thanks, I'm 33, so I definitely don't consider myself young, but more than some, I suppose :)

I don't think young kids invested 18 million dollars in nft

You're absolutely right, well said.

It's a calculated risk, at worst. This issue and these people are not important enough for me to put much of my own time into deep dive research. If Kira we're 100% wrong, it would not affect me in the slightest. That said, I knew about both Somali and Paul before this, and his estimation of them sounds correct to me. I have also watched plenty of his other coverage on different matters and found it to be fair enough, even if I don't completely agree with every thought he has. Finally, knowing what it takes to get to the position these folks have in a general sense (quite typically involves unethical behavior), and combining that with the above gives me confidence that his characterization of those who I don't know is probably pretty accurate. As I stated elsewhere, I'm willing to bet that any further research would do little to prove any point provided herein terribly incorrect.

That was argued in a constructive way though - recognising positives and describing things you'd recommend changing.

@@cleverlyblonde Thank you

That's the issue with the entire red-pill movement tbh (and Kira touched on it in his video on it): They say some true things and the talk about real issues (Men need more self-assuredness, men's issues are often overlooked or trivialized, success is self-made, etc) and they do it just enough to where you could watch a 10 minute compilation of Andrew Tate saying true, smart things, but they always bundle it up with a bunch of unnecessary bullshit. They found out the cheat code is say just enough obviously true things to turn off the "This guy's full of shit" alarm most people have.

It’s seems most of the ‘female influencers’ that promote men’s rights are also only fans girls. Just catering to their audience to promote their bodies.

Atleast Shoeonhead seems decently down to earth from what i've seen of her, much better than pearl.

​@JonahTV yep. The ironic thing is that the red pill community is as counter productive as the feminists I encountered. They all had good points in the beginning but then they take it to the extreme and you just get turned off by it.

Yeah, she went off into left field...... women shouldn't vote though. And no fault divorce should be abolished. Not a complete ban on divorce, but you shouldn't be able to destroy a family on a whim, nor should you be able to steal from your spouse.

your comment makes me enjoy him more.

Limeys shoulda stayed tf home.

We were never that good of a species

Believe or not, things had been, can be, and in some places, will continue to be, worse than it is now. With that said, things can also always become better with time depending on the approach taken.

They always existed, it’s just much easier to have a platform nowadays. These people were the “town coot” a few decades ago, the internet just provided them with a way to find other crazy people.

Wow, very idealistic of you to have expected more from the worst of us.

They always existed. Social medias just give them exposures to the whole world.

Grifter really is the perfect word for her bc she says things solely to get more views. Unfortunately, there are plenty of grifters like her on every social and political side.

are you restarted?

Except they definitely do influence people. Idiots and children mainly.

Just because you don't like them, doesn't mean that they don't have influence.

Some do influence the death of healthy brain cells from said consumption

I hate the fact that anyone can say "I'm an influencer" as if that's automatically a fact, and people take it as "oh, ok - they must know what they are talking about."

I think she suffers from a positive feedback cycle and it's been going on for so long she had become a extreme version of herself I honestly blame youtube, officer tatum and conservative black perspective also went through the same thing they used to give interesting comment and now are just insufferable and pandering in my opinion

Yes & No. Giving my two cents: I find learning about Pearl both interesting, and depressing, because she doesn’t seem to come from the same background many anti-feminist or grifters come from (socially speaking). That, and from the glimpse we get to see in her personal life and the folks surrounding her, she seems to be an outlier in her beliefs, versus the rule- most of the folks surrounding her, including her love ones, don’t really seem to believe in this stuff. But she, to some capacity, even if limited, seems to legitimately believe in it. Or looking at it another way, if the folks surrounding her are conservative, then she’s the type of conservative who puts down other conservatives for not being on her level, or not having the same views on those who are different.

Let's hope that's true. Because the alternative is that she means every word. (Unfortunately, there are some women that are actually like that.)

​@@fudgen.a1249 she makes a decent amount of money with her hottakes. That's why she does it.

100% agree - you don't have to dig too deep to find evidence she is likely a grifter who not so long ago held beliefs she now bashes other women for having, for clout. Any debate or conversation I've seen with her, she is loud and condescending, which is how people debate when they have no idea what they're talking about.

Piers you mean?

Same :D

He literally stated a few of them out loud. I.e., she doesn't think women should have the right to vote, or get divorced (even from abusive marriages)

Google him and educate yourself before speaking. "Harmless" Lmao

FR, like I wouldn't be surprised if there was an increase in racist harassment of Black content creators because of this dick.

No, I’m pretty sure it’s the people he harassed is the bigger problem

Yeah, I feel like he single handedly RUINED it for a lot of black people who wanted to go to and/or live in Japan.

It didn't. This video was ready, and the other wasn't. It'll still release when it is.b

He’s left wing, so he’s more “palatable”

Because he's a champagne socialist

Kira is probably a fan of his.

That is a great shout. Kira's own words: "Where talentless and tasteless individuals are given major platforms to spread their gospel of glorified garbage." but somehow Piker doesn't count? He's been at it for years.

I don’t know if anyone noticed but Kira is a lefty. I still like his content but he can’t hide his political leanings.

@@wingit7335 what do you mean with what lol, money laundering, wire fraud, identity theft, misappropriation of funds while in public office, which i think is covered in the wire fraud, but hey im no legal expert, im sure there are so many crimes if they just look, i bet they could all use an audit

Hasn’t he already been charged multiple times?

🎉100 percent

yeah but this guys is bit of a wet blanket so what can you do

I think your are delusional if you really believe that.

It's not an accident.

It comes down to the lexicon and that is a grifter is basically someone who doesn’t really believe what they’re saying or dojng. But doing it for financial gain. It’s def become changed

I almost wrote comment about Illuminaughtii and James Somerton. But then realized that those 2 only have few million followers (or rather... HAD) and while them stealing from others is bad... all the 5 people here have way worse influence around them. Somali actually harrasing people irl AND his videos pretty much spur clones that are doing the same thing now. And the 5 other people have bigger social media following and/or they have way more money involved. I'd argue that Morgan and Santos have more influence to world around them than most youtubers no matter the view/subscriber counts. Are you seriously saying that politician doesn't have any influence? Also while tv is less watched than internet streams there still are millions of eyes on those tv shows - Morgans influence isn't as direct and easy to see because he isn't selling you a product like sponsored tiktok influencers are. But if you read any book about tv and propaganda you'd realize that tv does also have influence on people. If you are in denial or need proof look for any video about Edward Bernays (the guy who is the sole reason why people now eat bacon and eggs for breakfast.... let me rephrase it... a single man had enough influence to trick a whole nation into changing their breakfast habits. Dude was also behind making smoking attractive for women). Yes both of them are horrible people and did more things wrong not just plagiarized majority of their scripts for videos - but the influence these 2 have is actually relatively pretty small. Like maybe Somali could had been swapped with one of these 2 but again: these 2 kinda stay in their own corner while Somali had influence in creating more badly behaving copycats around him. I don't see people trying to copy illuuminaughtii thus i am not that surprised that she wasn't on this list.

Santos has been a social media influencer for a while now. If you want you can even buy a cameo 😂 You calling Piers Morgan a normal journalist is disgusting. This showcases how far journalism as whole has degraded for you to think that. Journalism IS NOT monetization of human suffering.

Being an influencer isn't limited to how many people copy what they're doing, and stealing content is probably the tamest thing illuminaughtii is accused of doing. Johnny Somali had a tiny following and he was hardly the first person to annoy people in public for views. There are far more popular/influential pranksters and "first amendment auditors" than him. Somali was IP2-tier in terms of relevance. You also contradicted yourself by defending Santos' appearance on the list. Who copies him? He's one of hundreds of congresspeople and he only made the news for lying. Your standard for who is an influencer is either wrong or you're selectively applying it just to justify who Kira picked. Illuminaughtii had hundreds of thousands of views on daily videos. How many people watched a George Santos speech - total throughout his life? A hundred thousand tops? It's silly to argue he was influential at all. I'm not arguing that Piers isn't influential, I'm saying he isn't a negative influence. Controversial people and subjects should be discussed in the open. I don't know who Kira thinks was harmed by watching Piers Morgan debates. Maybe it's a U.K. attitude where they are stricter on what is allowed to be said. @@samamies88

More likely just another grifter preying on lonely men.

Money, some people will do anything for money even if it gets people hurt

It’s just someone exploiting the incel community. They truly are pathetic. They make me sad. They just need a makeover and some excercize, but they’re between 15 and 24 and they’ve already devoted themselves to a life of loneliness.

She doesn't argue the women are inferior to men just that there are things that men are better at and thay we are not equal so shouldn't be treated as such

She's the 10th child of a rich family. It's likely that her habit of doing and saying outrageous things for attention goes way back

They aren't. Someone who is a grifter is called a grifter though.

Piers is great.

@@purefoldnz3070 he doesn't bother me any more than other outlets. But then again I try to stay away from the mainstream "news" outlets.

@@mufasafalldown8401 that's a good first step. Best thing about Piers is that he very anti mainstream media, anti woke bs, he very much goes against the grain. I dont agree with everything he says but at least he opens up topics to debates.

A great movie called, "LA Confidential" one my favorites from the 90's

@@jameswhitaker9169 thank you - that’s been bothering me for years