Trustafarians: When the Rich Pretend to be Poor 

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I saw somewhere “metal heads are nice people cosplaying as mean people, and hippies are mean people cosplaying as nice people” and I’ve never been able to unhear that

This guy has a fire aura about him, almost as if he could control fire in some capacity

Hippies have always been rich college kids. No factory worker is at the park playing his banjo at 2 o'clock on a workday. 😂

I worked with one of these people once. His Dad had died when he was young and he was left with a large trust fund. At age 16 his mother found out he had smoked marijuana so she immediately sent him to military school. In military school he started using the hard drugs that the rich kids were using. After military school he went to an expensive "hippy college". He got a bachelors degree in "adventure travel". I laughed and asked him what he planned to do with that degree and he said "nothing". He thought he was going to get a huge sum of money from the trust fund when he turned 21. It turns out his mother spent all his trust fund on his college degree and her living expenses. He died of a drug overdose a few years later.

"Cosplaying as a good person" is the perfect description of the "relatable" wealthy elites.

When you’re rich you can afford being poor.

Funniest thing about hippies (nowadays called "wooks") is the whole "I don't put garbage in my body, hey can I get a bump of your coke?" BS

All the 20-something "van life" people with their $150K+ mini RVs

As a indigenous person I love that everyone who claims to have "native ancestry" says they have a grandfather that was a Cherokee chief or a grandmother who was a Cherokee princess, like how come none of you had a relative that was just a random indigenous person lol

Drake “started from the bottom” The ‘bottom’ being the basement of his 5bd 3ba single family home in the burbs of Toronto. Truly dedicated cosplayer

‘How she have a body like this’?’ Surgery lol. She looks like a completely different person from a few years ago

reminds me of the kid i knew in college with a seemingly endless supply of weed who thrifted at places that charged $30 for a shirt while complaining about being broke. mf had a pool in the backyard of his new york suburban mcmansion and played the oppression olympics so fuckin hard

In my country we call them "hippies with health insurance"

I love how no matter what rich people do, it's always just them using poor people as props for clout and virtue signaling. Money truly is fucking power

My ex was a trustafarian, was into a "spiritual" life, loads of healing and other BS. They always try to keep it secret that they're a trustafarian.

Lol when I was 17 I was doing the international baccalaureate and you need to do 180 hours of CAS (creativity, action and service). My school knew that none of us would be able to complete 60 hours of community service on our own so we spent like 10 or 20 hours "fundraising" (asking parents to give us money) and then traveled to Malaysia to "build houses for the poor". Fun fact: none of us knew jack shit about building houses. We had a local Malay mason named Mickley who loved Spider-Man who attempted to teach us how to lay bricks (umm, maybe 1 or 2 kids out of our 20+ class actually figured out how to build a semi-straight wall by the end of the trip). Everything that we did had to be redone by pros after we left lmao. But I keenely remember the feeling of mixing cement with a shovle in 80% humidity under the tropical 30 degree sun and thinking to myself "I get why these people are poor, I wouldn't want to build a house for myself given how fucking hard it is under these conditions" lmao. Also as a practical joke I think one of the local Malay coordinators had some of the more pretentious and annoying boys and girls from the class go step in a literal raw sewage canal and "excavate it" so that the shit could flow from a Point A to point B without our teacher's knowledge. When our teachers found out about how unsanitary it was they freaked out cos they were afraid one of the kids might contract some horrible tropical disease and die. I was just peeing myself laughing at the time thinking of the "pretty girls" being told to literally stand in a river of shit and try to dig it as some kind of a cruel joke from this Malay guy that was like "fuck these kids" xD. All in all, 10/10 experience would recommend to all future generations of Trustafarians xD

“My great grandad was a cherokee chief” is the most WASP thing you could possibly say. No ones ever related to the pima, lumbee, cree, osage, ect. Its always,ALWAYS, some cherokee chief or princess

Killed 4 people, evaded arrest, caught with a naked 14 year old unconscious girl. 12 HOURS of community service. What.

She kept her body cuz she has money to get the whole mommy makeover surgery, tummy tuck, lipo, and breast augmentation lol

"You "smoke" ayahuasca to get the demons out of your head but really is just the fxcking key that unlocks the door for the to come in" dude you nail that one right on the head

Hippies are mean people cosplaying as good people. Metalheads are good people cosplaying as mean people

I love how this went from "haha look at these cringey rich kids cosplaying as decent people" to "oh shit we actually live in a dystopia".

A coworker went to 'save turtles' in some South American country for a few months. She quickly got bored and left to continue her holiday elsewhere, after getting all the photos with small turtles all over social media.

You just talked about how they have a ton of money and believe that chick's body is real? Okay dude.

I have an uncle who fell for one of these new age hippie girls. I heard someone say "These are the type of women who will cheat on you and forgive themselves for it" and its the truest statement I've ever heard about these people. Uncle got in a situation where she siphoned court payments from an accident and he now lives in a hotel while she took a literal million dollars from him. She does not give a fuck and has a website offering "spiritual consulting"

I grew up a homeless orphan. Even in America, even decades ago, people used it was clout. Politicians give you a crappy coat for winter for a photoshoot then bug off immediately. Your "Big Brother" from Big Brothers/Big Sisters parades you around their church to show how selfless they are. Rich foster parents make you sit in the living room when guests are over like you're decoration.

As someone how as in a hippie commune. I found out very fast hey fake everyone was. They actually originally adopted me when I was homeless, but as I started working and putting forth my share, they wanted me to work for them full time on top of paying them more than rent.

speaking as someone who has spent 40 yrs living in a ski resort i assure you the term is not new

Ahh yes the "my great great grandfather, whose name I don't know, was a Cherokee chief" claim.

Rich kids cosplaying as poor kids and doing drugs is literally what the OG hippies were lol

Hi! I work at factor and I once saw a guy sneeze into an industrial braising pan and keep on cooking. I’ve also seen a line worker that plates the meals let a big glob of snot fall onto the plate and just let it go, Quality did nothing

loved when i met the singer of Dead Kennedy's, he ranted about yuppies. The irony is that he is from boulder Colorado and rich.

Man hippies back then were also rich as hell. Found out most of them in the 60's and 70's had stupidly rich families to where they could afford to do that shit

My estranged younger sister is actually dating one of these types of ppl. He’s from a richer Christian family, and graduated as a valedictorian at my high school, but he dresses like a massive hippie, has chakra tattoos all across his back, and even traveled with my sister all across India and some parts of South American and North Africa all on a “retreat” to “find his place in the world.” It’s absolutely ridiculous.

1:09 those girls are actually just some random Polish teens and I am pretty sure their parents are not wealthy lol

I grew up n Lake Tahoe and she’s squatting in that place. It’s owned by a man “Jeff” who recently shot himself in the face and lived. I don’t know how she got in maybe through some of his weird hot tub parties but he’s currently in a psych ward and she’s pretending that his house is hers.

Worked as a site manager for a company that organized voluntourism trips and it’s all a charade. 99% of the projects are completed by local workers.

Trustafarian has been a term in underground dance music circles for years now. We also call them wooks.

Those kids that woman is dancing with are literally called The Ghetto Kids a dance troupe of young kids from Africa who now travel the world and have appeared in music videos, making someone BANK while they still film videos in impoverished areas.

13:52 Don’t think people truly understand the devastation of this tourism stuff. This is a regular occurrence and not at all uncommon. It’s normal and wrong. The locals have their buildings torn down that they made because the charity deems it unsafe and builds new ones that have to be taken down because they’re often meant for the short term or poorly structured and when students like this get involved things get worse. Now imagine this with shops and businesses and homes and just how disruptive that’d be? Never mind all the other consequences like taking businesses away from the locals because you’re doing everything for free and handing everything out for free, never mind how it takes jobs away incentivizes them to not work and creates poor “assistance” for them to get any help at all

Imagine being so rich that you are bored of being rich

In native circles, there is always the running joke "my grandma was a Cherokee princess" of course she was.

Befriend Trustafarian Become best friend Get invited to BlackRock Thanksgiving ??? Change the world

No excuses ladies says...this guy lol

My Mum was a hippy back in the 70's and she eventually got a Psychology degree; mainly so she could start and win every argument using mind games because she was actually completely bonkers. Hippies are the absolute opposite of what they pretend to be.

A couple years back, I turned this trend into a DnD character. A high elf barbarian with the noble background. Trust fund hippie, who's never had to work a day in his life and went to Fantasy Burning Man once. The source of his rage was how disappointed his parents were in him.

5:01 The look on Ben Stiller's face is one that can only be rooted in his windfall surrounding him which seems to say, "hey, Scholomo, look at this fresh walnut sauce factory I recently acquired, I bet you're jealous as hell over there in America. Brb, gonna gargle this vat down, I had one this morning and I can't wait for this photo op to be done."

Ayahuasca has very different tastes, but it generally tends to be rancid and gross. It's got this whole ritual period tied to it which contains a lot of puking. What it does is (from what I know, I've never done it, most of my family has), it essentially gives you insane post nut clarity x10. You begin to ponder your position in the universe and contemplate on how to be a better person etc... . It's not dangerous if the requirements are met (if you have physical problems, do not use it). It's known to be pretty intense and can, similar to how you get high on weed, be a lot of fun, but also one of the worst experiences of your life.

Rich people pretending to be with "nature" or dress "poor" has always been a trend in the 2000s because honestly they got nothing better to do, they're bored.

Fun fact: Shanin and her posse went to Hawaii when the fires happened. Got told by a local that knew about her that the government said tourists had to leave, and *allegedly* her group still stayed on the island for 3 days to sightsee before leaving. Which just adds that extra layer of insult to Shanin flippantly using the Hawaiian way of saying sorry (a sacred phrase/ritual) in her song.

New slang? Buddy, we were calling kids Trustafarians back in the 90s, lol.

Backpacking bananas is literally just a backpacker showing you how much places cost 😂

I knew a bunch of kids in high school that were like this. I was one of the few poor kids that lived on the outskirts of a rich neighborhood, so I went to the local high school. The school was like something you'd see on TV. The cafeteria had its own sub line and pizza spot, every day, on top of the regular hot lunch. There was even coolers filled with different soft drinks and teas and whatnot. One of the girls from this wannabe hippie group, invited me to a party. I brought a sick bong, took my eyes off of it, and one of those rich a-holes stole it off the table. They are super stingy though, rude, and unwelcoming. They were nothing like the real hippies. They would use people if they saw something that they liked or wanted. They would dress the part and paint their rooms all psychedelic, with mushrooms and fairies and shit, but were the worst group of kids I ever met. They were so stuck up and exclusionary. I saw one of the girls crying in the bathroom, ask her if she was okay, and she basically told me to mind my business. Same girl liked my drawings and asked me to draw some psychedelic pics on her cloth bag. Then she acted like she didn't know me. Oh, and I've met the rich Buddhists too. Also, the meanest, most unwelcoming narcissists you've ever met.

Her dad works for Lockheed Martin 😂😂 she’s literally the spawn of an arms dealer/designer

I am a trust fund kid. My dad is worth a couple hundred mil. He made his money in a construction adjacent business. I got my first job at 14 years old, loading dumpsters by hand so they would be packed efficiently. Worked every shit position at his company until I turned 18 at which point he kicked me out of the house and cut me off. I was raised being told I would never inherit a penny. When I turned 30 my dad revealed that it was all a lie, and that my siblings and I each had a trust with enough to retire that we would get access to at 35. I managed to eek out a living, mostly paycheck to paycheck though. My savings and investments are currently worth around $100k (not that I have liquid access to any of it). 5 more years until I can actually start living. Part of me hates the kids in this video, but part of me envies it too. Life is hard.

My Latin teacher at school joked how she was a hippie at university, a hippie wearing clothes imported by France (in like the 60's). They're truly everywhere.

As a Cherokee, Shanon B is hella offensive, Im tired of hearing the " Um actually my grandma was a cherokke princess" Yeah and I own a Penthouse on the moon

Trustafarian as slang is more than 30+ years old - I remember that used to describe festival kids in 1994

1:05 Imma island gurl...

Used to live in Santa Cruz and that town is like 50% trustafari. Cool to chill with as long as they share their weed.

I went on student exchange into an aristocratic French family. Their son tried so hard to be a relaxed surfer/hippieguy. Funniest moment was when he was skateboarding casually around a 5* ski resort in the Alps during Summer blasting Bob Marley and wearing a Jamaican beanie. Wasn't going anywhere. Just wanted to people to see how chill he was. Note: he was definitely *not* chill.

Lmao “Van life” but the vans cost more than my house

0:37 how did he know I was thinking to myself "nuh hunnuhr, what exactly _is_ a trustafarian?"

The missionary, not a doctor, was wearing a tee-shirt that Said "We don't mess around with diarrhea" Nice.

Shannon Blake is Belle Delphine for people who think that 'van life' isn't homelessness.

happens in the punk scene also, trust fund punks be living like us suposedly paycheck to paycheck screaming fuck 12 but call the cops the second they slightly scared

In Argentina they are called ‘hippies con OSDE’ is like saying ‘hippies with the most expensive healthcare coverage’ you do have those specimen too? They are known to be ‘working’ at their dad’s multiple off shore entreprises. They do ‘various tasks’ such as send an e-mail for a month to make a trip of self discovering to the asiatic southeast for the rest of the year.

Great video as always, introducing things that I've never heard of

so, I was homeless but also had a (what i guess we call trustifarian now) friend in my hometown. Their dad worked for Apple in a corporate position, they lived in a huge house, pretty much a farmhouse, but without the farm and they were definitely more folk/gutter an-com punk, rather than holistic crystal healer/hippie, however, had good acid either way. So when I was homeless, they just joined me. Honestly, I don't know how I would have survived without them. They kept me fed and taught me some traveling kid skills to survive the streets. They went on to travel across the country, diving dumpsters to feed people in the Vegas tunnels and Slab City. However, I should say, their parent's support was kinda to a minimal, they were mostly independent, but was given the old family van to travel. But they definitely didn't like their free spirited nature, as they were a strictly conservative Christian household. They eventually passed away due to a drug overdose in their parents' home years after all these adventures. They were my best friend and I miss them everyday. Sorry to put a damper on that. Just wanted to respect one of the good ones. However, there was another, not as rich of a family, but definitely glorified being homeless and just being a scumbag. Now, he was way more holistic healing/ hippie type. Had dreads, would beg for money when he had hundreds and parents that would wire him if it came down to it, shamed me for declining to join, while being homeless with no choice. He went on to be a serial SA offender. So yeah, just a horrible scumbag.

My friend and I did the math for missionary lady. On the lowest end and with the highest benefit of the doubt (being her direct actions only killing 1 person a month). Her total is 98 dead which puts her top 4 of the serial killer list by victims. Edit: parentheses

In the words of my best friend who’s a hippie. “I hate hippies”

6:25 being the most replayed part of the video is kinda hilarious

as a person from a third world country, this is true, sometimes they disrespect our culture, expect us to change our ways just because they are around (like speaking their language), waste our resources and complain about the poor conditions. but i also see this a lot with rich people in general "visiting" poor areas and treating it like a show. im from a rich family and have seen good friends of mine impressed that poor people "are just like us" its really disgusting

The advice: “Get rich parents that pay for everything and if you don’t, L ratio to you”

“His words are MUFFLED” 💀

Ayahuasca is not a drug by itself, but a shamanistic ritual where 2-3 types of drugs are administered through ingestion. The first one contains a large quantity of MAO-inibitors; which disrupts the function of the enzymes responsible for deaminating certain biochemicals like tryptamines. Then the second dose is a batch tryptamines like DMT. Normally DMT gets smoked and only lasts like 5-10 minutes per hit and eating DMT doesn't really do anything because it dissolves in your stomach; but after taking MAO-inhibitors you can just eat DMT and experience a trip that lasts hours. There's possibly a third drug just to prevent you from puking your guts out - but there's going to be puking no matter what.

"Trustafarian" is an OLD term. We used to use it in the early 90s living in Humboldt. Rich students at HSU dressing down like hippies.

They were called Yippies in the 60’s, a combination of Yuppie and Hippie. We started calling them Trustafarians in the early 90’s! It’s mos def NOT a New Term.

John and Hank Green are probably my favorite examples of how to use your wealth for the betterment of humanity. They have multiple charity organizations that actually live up to what they claim, they are some of the most kind and humble people I've ever seen, and they never flaunt their money around or make a big show over the fact that they are wealthy. Nor do they try and pretend they're poor to be "relatable." A lot of their money goes into these organizations they run and for Crash Course, SciShow, and things like that. Just genuinely great people with compassion and empathy for others despite their wealth. If rich kids need role models, they should look to them over the people mentioned in this video. You can use wealth for good if you don't allow greed or your ego to consume you.

6:45 “not a single stretch mark. How is that possible Nick?… cocoa Butter” …. If she’s RICH, she can afford to maintain her same appearance.

There's 2 types of van life. Rich people larping and poor people that have no where else.

You can just see the flames radiating off his aura.

Came across your neon video earlier this morning and after these 2 vids, I'll definitely be here for awhile. Great content!

I side with the rich kids in this video

A girl I went to highschool with did this. Her family was well off but she became homeless "by choice," dressed like those in this video, and mooching off the generosity of people that could have gone to actual people in need.

I dated a girl like this, she acted like this down to earth person but turned out to just be very selfish. Don’t recommend dating a hippie

Reminds me of the time a group of graduating high school students coming to my country to teach us youngins about our lord and savior Jesus Christ and how the US is amazing, and being shocked that we weren’t living in huts. Our school was an international one too so like??? The confused look when I said how weird it is, is still stuck in my head.

the story of the kids getting their shit undone and fixed by the other people at night is what it was like when i moved from a farm and started working with people from the city lol.

I do landscaping for a living and we maintain several multi-million dollar estates near a ski resort (summer acitivty) area, it is a very upscale area and the propery value is probably unbelievably high. MOST of the yards we do, nobody is there.. ever. The monstrous 10-20 bedroom houses just sit there, in immaculate condition, with nobody living inside. I'd say over 90% of the properties we landscape are empty homes that are owned by millionaires but never actually used/lived in. They also pay my boss $7,500 a summer for landscaping service, which is just mowing trimming and trash/stick removal, some light mulching. They pay 10k a summer to have a beautiful yard attached to their 12M home they never even visit. Inequality is 100% absolutely sickeningly out of Control. Also side Story: my couson went on a volunteer trip with his highschool years ago to Africa for a week to help a village that had recently had some form of natural disaster. The school paid for him and 1 other student to go and they were 2 of 100s that signed up. In their group he said there was a group of wealthy kids from Washington, who also had volunteered to help but paid their own way on the trip. Apparently when the instructor got them to an area near the African village and handed everyone gloves and trashbags to help clean up garbage, the rich kids REFUSED and even sat on the ground in a mini protest of having to "work" for the volunteer group.. my cousin said the worst part was that the instructor gave in, let the rich kids do something else that wasn't physical work, and they badically just had a weeks long vacation in Africa. And he said they complained about their accommodations the entire time they were there. This whole video is true. This is absolutely ehat reality has become. The rich think they are truly more than Human. 🤢 Sorry for the essay 😅

As a former broke hippie these guys kept me stoned for free during my 20's working dead end jobs while being an artist. Now I work in the trades, I would like to thank them for letting me mooch before I was stable

This reminds me of a British comedy group called The Unexpected Items did a series of sketches featuring this well-spoken trust fund kid talking to his posh friends about his "Gap Yah" .

We have had trustafarians in Missoula Montana since at least the mid 90s. Nothing new

East African countries did try to ban second hand clothing so as to boost our own textile industries but only Rwanda implemented it and was excluded from AGOA by the US as punishment.

This guy gives off fire vibes, like if he had a superpower it would be controlling fire

Ayahuasca is highly mistreated by tourism and the original/traditional uses are being stomped out. The shaman is supposed to drink it, not the person needing healing

The Psyched Substance interview at the end absolutely killed me. Great video!

all over the world.... in india recently a 17 yr old kid got drunk and killed a young couple on a bike with his porsche taycan. he was detained for 15 hrs and released on bail on the following conditions of undergoing counseling and writing a 300 word essay on traffic laws. guy's dad had a politician to get the kid out of prison, where he was being treated like a VIP by the police with pizzas and snacks.

I was friends with one 25 years ago in college. He was our dorms weed dealer. He never set out to be a drug dealer he just always had weed and kinda became the dealer for the building. Dude was from Los Gatos California (silicon valley). We'd get high and make him tell us rich kid stories. He told us how Steve Woznick (yeah he actually lived in the same neighborhood as the Woz) would throw parties and give out super expensive apple products as prizes to guests. Once a kid he knew won an iBook and you'll never guess what that little shit did. The kid went up to Steve Fucking Wozniak and asked him if he can give him a better one with more ram instead! The dude just won a laptop that when adjusted for inflation cost in the neighborhood of 3 grand and he GAVE IT BACK because he wanted something better! And Steve didn't even bat an eye, he just took it and said "sure" and apologized! That's the only story that stuck out since it was so long ago and I was always high when he told the stories. He did say though how at his high school it wasn't uncommon for girls to get rhinoplasty and boob jobs for their 16th birthday. Anyways the dude presented himself as a total hippie and would complain about spoiled rich kids and how he and his parents weren't rich. Then one day his parents come to visit him and that weekend decided they love the town and decided to buy a million dollar home in the area all on a whim. The only thing my buddy cared about was that he'd have to deal with them more often. Didn't even occur to him that just deciding to buy a house, much less a house costing millions of dollars, isn't something "not rich" people can do. I grew up in a house that could have been in the movie Gummo, that fucker should have been giving me weed for free.

Finally someone brings this to light