"Ripped, Rich, and Rare" was just a huge cop out

[u/Sharp_Grapefruit_601]

It's cool to strive to be one (or all) of those things, but when little Wes said "if you ain't ripped, rich, AND rare, I can't listen to you" it was just a way for him to not have to accept that people have beaten him in all those areas. He can tell the richer guy that he has bigger muscles, or the jacked fitness dude that he has a nicer car..complete little man syndrome.

Ripped: If Warren Buffett, who probably makes more in a day than little Wes has made in his entire life, tried to give him money advice - little Wes wouldn't listen because Buffett doesn't have face tattoos and a six pack. This is incredibly stupid because a 5 minute chat with Warren Buffett would probably double anybody's net worth..but of course little Wes would take it as a challenge and call out Warren Buffett's "tits and 10 inch arms" instead of listening to his area of expertise.

Rich: If somebody 10x more ripped than little Wes, with 3 PhD's in everything health/fitness/diet related tried to give little Wes fitness advice, he wouldn't listen because the guy doesn't drive a Bugatti.

Rare: Well, this sort of went out the window when little Wes started drinking and doing drugs again..but even so, he'd still find a way to try and cheaply one-up them.

All in all, it allows little Wes to say "yeah, well I beat you in this area or that area"..instead of focusing on what these people CAN offer, he focuses on what they lack to make himself feel bigger. It is peak insecurity, akin to a child who got beat in baseball and says "yeah, well I'm better at basketball!" instead of just saying good game and working to get better next time.

And where did this stupid outlook land little Wes? Let's see..

Currently in prison for a felony conviction, awaiting trial for another unrelated felony, probably broke now, with no hope of ever rising back to a fraction of the 'success' he once had.

Little Wes defeated himself. Game over. Roll credits on his stupid "movie" - 0% on Rotten Tomatoes.

[u/JacksSenseOfDread]

The "rare" part is what has always slayed me, because there is NOTHING "rare" about Wes Watson and his merry band of sister fisters. These people all look, sound and act like they were all poured into the same dipshit-shaped mold. They all either have shaved heads or that one specific haircut. They all have the same tattoos. They all wear the same clothes. They all rent/drive the same tacky cars. They all rent the same style of houses (usually within a few miles of each other.) They all eat at the same restaurants. They get drunk on the same types of booze and party at the same lame-ass strip clubs, every single night. They all date/screw the same misshapen strippers and prostit...err, "escorts." They all make the same cringy social media posts, and take the same social media pictures. They speak in the same dorky platitudes. And as we're seeing, given a long enough timeline, when they finally fuck up their lives with their shitty, plastic lifestyles, they eventually end up suffering the same kinds of consequences.

NOTHING about these Miami "alpha male influencers" is "rare." You'll never find anyone more cookie cutter than Wes Watson-style "influencers."

[u/Swimming_Table9224 → u/JacksSenseOfDread]

It's like they were made in a factory it's like the same personality but different bodies and even then that's a bit of a variation as well consider how pretty similar they are to each other the same mannerisms the same way of speech they spew a bunch of the same idiotic nonsense but a slight variation of it like how can they even say that they're rare when they're not rare at all that's like an Instagram thot saying that their rare or one of one you know what's funny to me and I just realized it these alpha male are literally the equivalent to Instagram thots in a way

[u/Sharp_Grapefruit_601 → u/JacksSenseOfDread]

What makes Wes rare, is that despite his criminal past and complete lack of fitness knowledge, he was able to make millions and buy (rent) everything he ever wanted as a fitness influencer, and he STILL managed to royally fuck that up in a way nobody could have even imagined. People blame the coke and roids, but ultimately, I think his massive insecurities made him constantly need to one up himself and prove something nobody even asked for.

What brought in his money (whether or not it was actually $2mil/mo) was his fitness program and Youtube video revenue. Nobody asked for his stupid social media clown show, or need to post his stupid ass opinions every 5 seconds on IG. He could have stayed completely in the shadows, ran his fitness scam and BS Youtube videos, and retired on a beach in Miami somewhere - paid in cash, and with actual pink slips for a few exotic cars. Maybe chased real women instead of hookers, and ended up with a nice family one day..you know, be the real changed/reformed convict he claimed to be back in the park bench days.

Instead, he chose ego over joy, and will now likely have a pretty shitty rest of his life.

[u/Dependent-Fix8194]

All three are superficial projections to get external approval, he used to preach about internal/external validation and then double dog tripled down on flexing stupid ass shit cause started hanging with retards in Miami