Nah those estimates are always highly exaggerated. Running such a huge criminal empire can't be done by one man. There are always partners on each step who take the cut. High ranking criminals dont work for salary they work for percentage.
It's a good day when disrupt disrupts my day, It never disappoints, and this one is no exception, keep up the good work, these are some of the best documentaries I have ever watched, Thanks for entertaining me, I hope you all the best.
these videos so hard to follow... i get that there are multiple storylines in each video but even within each thread i cant keep up. imo the intricacies of these cases arent expressed v well in such a fast paced format.
i kinda have to agree. I completely missed the relevance of Paul’s story until I saw some commenter spell it out for me. The connection was very loose and the video focuses on drugs business much more than it focuses on Wannacry.
yoooo my dude I just discovered your channel randomly, first saw the video about lulzsec which made me remember the whole situation back then, and now im here continue watching the cyber history I forgot.Amazing editing keep it up
@@osucarry1411 Wait, you saying that’s the point of the entire channel? I’m gonna watch a few other videos and see for myself. But it seems like a very flawed concept. It’s like reading half of one book, than reading half of another book. Afterwards you finish the first book and than the second one. I don’t really see how this creates suspense?
I might be here a year late, but you just got a sub off your first video I have seen. Edit: I'm high as shit right now continuing from the 5 minutes in I subbed. But this has got be the most captivating presentation I have stared at with a phone on my nose. BRAVO!
This feels like 2 or 3 documentaries in 1. So did Paul create WANNACRY? Or did they stumble on Paul because of WANNACRY? I know this video is 2 years old, but yeah, this is all over the place.
I agree that the quality is top-notch, but yeah the actual content can be hard to follow at times. Also nice to see ya here Wattles. Love your guides/ playthroughs.
@@joshmiranda5958 the videos look like they take a long time to make, so if they don’t get monetized it’s a huge waste of time for him, and he only has one ad per vid, which is extremely reasonable, and loads of other content makers do it like Internet historian.
I like the video, but I'm going to leave some feedback because I've got some mixed feelings. The look and presentation of the video are really cool, but the structure and pacing confused me. The transition between the two disconnected stories was pretty abrupt, and I kept waiting for events to connect back with wannacry, but, well, that didn't happen. I think my main issues are 1) the way the video is structured, and the way the script is written, made me (a new viewer) expect the two stories to be connected. I felt disappointed when the video just stopped without resolving the "connection" I expected. 2) the title and video length made me expect a deep dive into wannacry, but over half the runtime was dedicated to an unrelated story. It's a good story, but it's not the one I thought I was getting. I feel like both of these problems are related to just, like, better communication. Like if the title/thumbnail was something like "a virus led agents down a rabbit hole," "wannacry investigation unearths dark internet secrets," "wannacry was only the tip of the internet crime iceberg," etc., that would totally fix my second issue, because I'd be expecting some wannacry with a deeper focus on other internet crime. And if the transitions were handled a little differently, with just, like, an indication that this isn't a related story, instead of a cold open featuring characters we haven't met yet, I probably wouldn't be writing this comment right now. I'm not looking for a fight, I think this kind of stuff would genuinely improve this video and future videos like it. There's nothing wrong with videos that tell multiple interesting stories with the same theme - I love that kind of content, which is why I do still like this video - but I think this one looks juuuuust enough like a single-story video to confuse people who haven't watched this channel before.
I've just discovered this channel and was waiting for the other story to connect with wannacry. This channel is for sure to good to be free, but I wanted a deep dive into wannacry when I clicked here and genuinely got confused.
my only problem with disrupt, their need for "to be continued" at every story junction does more to hinder than to educate, it breaks the story up and you lose the flow of the previous plot point. the connection was the one dude who worked at that company making encryption software was using their work to build wannacry, he was involved in the whole drug dea conspiracy bullshit. it's like one tiny point that connects both stories and he doesn't highlight it very well. and even then i think im still wrong
yeah i cant deny i found this really hard to follow. i saw how all the drug stuff connected by the end, kinda, although it was tricky. I don't understand how WANNACRY related to any of it though. I did watch the whole thing but I don't think I will again with any more of this channel's videos
why does every "deadliest computer virus" video has an distorted image of an depressed man with some big melted eyes and some strong color like red green and blue?
Outro was legitimately the most fake deep thing I've heard in a long time. "This pillow would be different... If it was different. And we wouldn't know that it was different, because that's not how it is. Also, we might not be correct about the lifespan of the universe." Wow, how profound and meaningful. Her mastery of existentialist philosophy is truly mind blowing
I’ll be completely honest here, even though this video is a really well made from an aesthetics/presentation stand point, the pacing and structure is REALLY confusing. I’m trying to read comments to see if I missed anything, I get how the pharmacy company and murders and underground crimes are kinda connected? But they weren’t connected at all to the WANNACRY Virus unless I missed the part where it is. I say this with the hope that in the future your videos can be better explained, because I really like how it looks and I feel it could improve more. I just wished I didn’t feel stupid not understanding the connection and I feel a bit betrayed that the virus wasn’t really the point of the video, which is why I clicked on it. People saying this is clickbait are not entirely wrong.
I get that this particular video is confusing (it’s dense with an absolutely bonkers story that might deserve its own video, plus the title makes it seem like Wannacry is the main story), but these videos, the ones about viruses/cyber-crimes, are all in this format. Two completely/mostly unrelated stories in one episode, split into two parts each, switching between the two. Wannacry and the organized crime empire are NOT related. The video starts with Wannacry part 1, then crime empire part 1, then onto Wannacry part 2, and the rest of the video is crime empire part 2. Again, it is pretty confusing (and comments claiming connection between the two make it way worse), but that’s the format. Perhaps a disclaimer at the start saying “This video is about two separate real life events, here’s the structure of the video” would be helpful.
@@somekindofgnome8477 I know it's common for him to do it but if its a format that confuses multiple people I don't think it's that good of a structure for a video.
Pakito I don’t think there’s anything wrong with the structure. The other videos have the exact same structure, but there’s no confusion about any of them. It’s the title of the video, dating of the stories (these videos are often about events many years apart, except for this one), location of the stories (a mysterious virus and an international crime empire instead of well-defined settings), and lack of a satisfying conclusion to Wannacry that combined for a confusing experience that could’ve been prevented by a clarification at the start. Or maybe Disrupt shouldn’t have paired these two stories together in the first place. They’re both well worth covering in this series IMO, but together might’ve been a problem.
Even though the law states that online content-creators (i.e. RU-vid) have to legally disclose when a piece of content is promotional/sponsored/advertising (though no such law exists for other media like television for some reason) 🤷♀️
@@MrLackinator they're made with Artbreeder using album cover mode, Artbreeder is a neural network for generating images, you can make some fucked up shit with it if you know what values to mess with
I had heard rumors about his involvement in the criminal underworld but I never believed that he was involved in those horrific acts until I watched this video. He is a menace and needs to be stopped.
I’ve come from the future, I cannot tell you when, I was sent back before he released a unrivaled power against this world, but you need to stop him before his power becomes too powerful.
I thought it was cool for that reason. One of the main reasons I hate ads especially in videos like these is because they kinda break the mood, whereas this is only a part of the vibe. (Ofc he still has ads which break the mood but at least the sponsor didn’t ig lol)
It literally doesn't connect at all. This is the only video of his that I've ever been this confused over, although according to many of the people in the comments, they feel similarly about his other videos.
@@camerondailey2627 there were several times I had to rewind because I thought I missed something, just to realize he didn't really explain anything. like 26:45....out of nowhere he's just like "yea so Hunter gets arrested on a beach"
um guys its like 2-3 stories connected together like imagine it as episode 1 of one story ends and it switches to other story episode 1 then that ends so ep 2 of first story starts, like that i was hardly paying attention yet i understood everything
Although it takes inference I believe Paul is behind wannacry although the how/why part and some holes left from the lack of how/why are definitely there
Honestly, as good as the production value was here, I'd have to agree with some of the other people here and say this was difficult to follow. The two stories don't even have a minute connection to each other, and it's a bit confusing, and frankly irritating when you tell one part of a story, then make like House of Pain and jump around to another story instead of telling both in a coherent way that makes sense, like what another channel who's tied with your team's quality, Lemmino, does. That isn't to say it wasn't entertaining, it was, but for a channel who seeks to "provide high-quality, educational content for the masses," (taken verbatim from your website) this style of storytelling and cliffhangers do more to hinder than to educate. Plus, not clearly stating key points or information and requiring the viewer to infer it makes it pretty difficult for certain viewers, as when you have text that establishes a key point, dyslexic viewers might have trouble extrapolating what they've gotten, and autistic viewers, like myself, might not make the best inferences about certain things, thus making some of these vids inaccessible to said viewers. Other than all that, phenomenal work.
I feel like Disrupt’s first wannacry video (that he had to take down) about Marcus Hutchins brilliantly told two separate stories that ended up coming together perfectly. But these two stories seemed completely disjointed and unrelated. Maybe I missed something?
@@currentlybuyinggme7357 I remember him posting about it. I think it was the transcript he used for the rest of Hutchins' story was almost a direct copy from a website without agreement or credit. Admitting to that fault, he took it down and reworked it into this video. Still interesting, but not as good I feel.
I feel like the dots never get connected for me in his videos... What the fuck did any of this have to do with wanacry? The real estate lady being murdered? The pharmaceutical company? The guy with multiple wives? This was so disjointed and all over the place that it was honestly incomprehensible to me after the first 5-10 min. I feel like I learned absolutely nothing from this 30 minute video
@@whirlwind872 I agree on the second story not connecting to the first in any way being really annoying, and the video should've been titled differently to reflect the nature of the video being two different stories. I disagree with the notion that there is nothing to learn here. You learn 1) WANNACRY was a ransomware virus that spread pretty far due to an open port, and 2) there was a criminal drug empire that got taken down all because of a sloppily disposed of hit. Honestly, the title story wasn't as good as the true crime story imo.
Wait the dots got connected? lol I think this video was not well put together and the title subject and the actual content had nothing to do with each other.
@@whirlwind872 maybe paul made wannacry? He did say he funneled som things from that encryption thign he had been hired to do but im not sure, i cant see any other connection either
The video production quality actually gives me goosebumps, it gives me life. It's so exciting yet informative. It keeps you engaged, mesmerised and always has your attention. I can't explain how infinitely amazing all Disrupt's videos are. The visuals, the sounds, the clips, the glitches, effects. This channel deserves so much more. I'll always be overly excited when disrupt posts a new video.
want to know what WannaCry is? well probably dont watch this video cause what youll get is about 7 minutes of wanna cry, 21 minutes of an unrelated story, and over editing (honestly with such good quality and abundance of good animations and edits in general youd expect to at least know what youre watching at a given moment). basically click bait
I like the vids, but the montage sometimes make it very confusing. You cleary want to set up an ambiance and a rithm to the video, but The narration kind of jumps from place to place
Just a little feedback: when I saw this video in my recommended I thought it was one of the old ones and only realized it was a new one because of the upload date. It may be a good idea to change the title to something like “WannaCry” and the thumbnail in combination with the format being similar it may be though to be the same video. Because of this I almost didn’t watch, but otherwise it was a great video. Edit: A streamer I watch was about to watch this video and thought that it was the exact same one he watched before when he got linked it and chat had to tell him it was a new one so it’s not only me.
Actually this is the 3rd version of the "Earths deadliest [computer] virus" video. The first one featured MY.DOOM iirc and the last one featured ILOVEYOU. if you search up the title without WANNACRY you get all three where the MY.DOOM one was previously private. I have no Idea why its been done like this but the series if you can call it that is amazing
Maybe adding numbering to each of these could help, also shaking up the title might be a game changer. Earth's Greediest (Computer) Virus, Earth's First (Computer) Virus, etc.
They just got an ad with the same aesthetic as their video , it only made sense bc the entire video was unrelated and didn’t make sense. 💀after about 6 mins he started talking about some drug and it never came back
Yeah it came off as just another random tangent into another completely unrelated story just like the rest of his content. The sponsor ad could be for dog food and I would just assume it's another disjointed story. It's stupid.
First the worm thing then malware tech guy doin smthn and a woman killed then to pharmacies THEN mercenaries drugs and stuff idk man some connect but he just trashed the virus part i think
You need to stick to just one story throughout a single video, your best uploads are the ones that do this. This back-and-forth format might work for special cases where two stories are very closely related to each other and have a direct effect on how they end, but in regular cases like this it just breaks the flow of the video in a very strange way.
If you wanna talk about WannaCry, great If you wanna talk about Paul Le Roux, awesome BUT If you're gonna talk about both, say so in the video title please.
@@flowgangsemaudamartoz7062 no look at the desc you can see that there are multiple stories that he talks about such as "WANNA CRY" and "CORRUPTED SCREENS"
@@depsey8749 okay but that shouldn't be necessary. the title does not hint at all that there are two stories being presented, neither does the opening narration.
@@spinyslasher6586 Format is one thing, but titling the video about topic you barely talk about over the course of the video, and through the rest of it you talk about completely different topic, making a singular vague connection between them without any explanation is another. Also, the format being so crisscrossed doesn't help with noticing the connection either.
soooooo how does like 80% of this video have to do with the virus at all? Like cool visuals and storytelling, but it just shifts to a completely different story
read some comments, i completely missed the relevance of Paul’s story too. The main story doesn’t so much focus on Wannacry than it focuses on Paul and his Walter White drug business.
@@Xeziannot sure if they have any kind of spotify/ soundcloud but their youtube channel is "ELECTRONICOS FANTASTICOS!" so go check them out! the song featured in the video is in the soundtrack (in the description), or just look up "CRTelecaster at Home" to find it.
Yo I recognized them as well usually I recognize stuff like that because of my autism like I’ll notice the slightest stuff so im surprised someone else did as well especially since that band isn’t super big yet
I don't understand the choice to interconnect these two stories. They are not even tangentially related to each other and interlacing them like this is just bizarre. Just because one is about a cybercriminal empire doesn't mean it's at all related to wannacry. You built these up as if they're connected but they're not. Hell, wannacry is attributed to North Korea and you never even mention that. This feels like you guys came up with two separate videos but felt they didn't fill some arbitrary time requirement. The production value is great but you guys really dropped the ball on this one narrative wise........
But the title of the video is about the deadliest computer virus, so it's a little clickbait when it jumps around and doesn't focus on the computer virus itself.
I get what he’s trying to do with breaking up the story like he is, but this is RU-vid, not tv. We want the video to focus on what the title says it will.
for those as confused as i was: two unrelated stories in one video. they're split weird- it goes part one of the virus story, part one of the drug story, then part two of the virus story and part two of the drug story. two completely unrelated incidents woven together in a pretty but ultimately useless package.
same problem, read some comments, they explain the correlations between the two stories. Though, i admit the connection between them was so loose that it was hard to see the relevance of Paul’s story with Wannacry.
Uh, I'm pretty sure I clicked on a video about a computer virus. That I was recommended based on other videos about computer viruses. What does all of this crazy pharmacy mafia stuff have to do with anything? The editing is very flashy and cool to look at, but honestly I think it made the story (stories?) much harder to follow. The editing and images shows on screen often feel like they have almost no relation to what you're talking about, and it distracts a LOT from the narrative. The highly dramatized way that you've turn the stories into a script on top of that really doesn't help. You clearly have a lot of technical editing skills, but I think good editing is usually much more subtle than this and doesn't detract from the main content of the video.
The style of it gives the video a certain vibe, just some dude talking about a virus isn't going to get views and isn't going to be entertaining. If you want a lame video go watch a 2017 RU-vidr or something
@@Vrtpnwr I think that the first story (WANNACRY) was used to link to the second story about Paul's empire, which isn't clearly said. It's kind of confusing with the video being titled WANNACRY too, but that story wasn't even resolved.
Okay but that Roto Chair is basically every transhumanist nightmare in one. "Time to jack in to my internet apparatus and not leave for 48 hours" kind of thing. That said: I'll take your entire stock.
Not sure how the second half of the video had anything to do with the virus? The video quality was really high, it's just I'd rather for future videos you focus on the subject instead of going off on some tangent.
So I'm lost. How does any of this make wannacry itself "deadly", other than the fact that it's ransomware and got it's original distributer caught or whatever? The video kind of seems a little disjointed with the topics it jumps back and forth on0.0
I just realized something. These viruses seem to start out by something exploding. For the My.DOOM virus, it was a whale exploding. Now for the WANNACRY virus it seems like a bomb exploded.
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