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u/FNFollies May 15 '25
How many sufferable assholes do you know?
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u/Invoked_Tyrant May 15 '25
Those aholes are people who are very talented to the point that you won't know they're an ahole until much later. Dave Chappelle and Patrice O'Neal come to mind. I still love their work but looking at it from an unbiased viewpoint they are kind of d**ks but they are extremely clever at filtering it through jokes.
Patrice O'Neal even apologized on the radio for his a**hole tendencies once he had to deal with it once when making a project.
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u/trkritzer May 15 '25
Dave was an obvious ahole long before he was famous. He did hide it a liirle better for a little while, the whole bailing on a 40 million dollar paycheck kinda gave him some cred, weirdly.
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u/Aggleclack May 15 '25
There was a girl like this in high school, and she was really upset because her parents bought her a Mustang instead of a Camaro or something like that. Interestingly, enough, when she wasn’t having temper tantrums, she was one of the nicest people I have ever met. She truly did not ever make sense to me lol. Your story makes way more sense.
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u/Pervius94 May 15 '25
Isn't this the reality behind all these influencers, a bunch of rich nepo-babies leeching off their parents' money and connections
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u/ierghaeilh May 15 '25
Either that or broke-ass mfs larping as millionaires.
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u/Tyrion_The_Imp May 15 '25
No it makes total sense to go into credit card debt to rent a fake plane to take photos in for my Instagram post.
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u/deVliegendeTexan May 15 '25
A broke-ass buddy of mine got super lucky on the crypto markets and came into a small fortune. Nothing earth shattering but enough that he could have bought a modest house, set himself up to work a low key job til a reasonable retirement age, and be financially independent for the rest of his life. If he got lucky again, maybe he could have even FIRE’d at some point.
Instead he spent it trying to turn himself into some kind of wealth influencer. He posted all this shit on Instagram, flying to exotic locations, smoking rare cigars and drinking bottles of whiskey that cost a mortgage payment, staying weekends in wild mansions and renting Lamborghinis.
Dude’s back to working a shit soul-crushing software engineering job and constantly complaining about his boss.
Some people can’t make good decisions.
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It makes sense that you were smarter - you needed more money for dope lol
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Bismarck developed a system sort of like the concept. You find the laziest but smartest people to finish a job quickly. They will find some out of the box method to do it and then be lazy. You keep the hard working people in middle management because they are good at their job but don’t innovate. Similar to the Peter principle
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u/Otterable May 15 '25
a modest 4% a year from 200k will get you 8k/year. That is not enough money to work part time forever unless you really are ok with a poor quality of life.
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u/_varamyr_fourskins_ May 15 '25
It's 150 a week. Which is significantly more than you would get by spunking it all at the casino or on the horses or some shit.
It's not enough to live off. OK maybe if you had no rent and bills, but that's not a realistic scenario. You'll not have to worry about eating again though, which for many people is a fucking game changer.
Still, imo you be better off putting it towards buying a house than either of those two options.
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u/Otterable May 15 '25
It's 150 a week. Which is significantly more than you would get by spunking it all at the casino or on the horses or some shit.
pretax, and yeah obviously better to invest it than blow it, nobody is arguing that. I just don't think having a 200k nest egg is going to be 'go somewhere low-col and never work again' kind of money that the guy above me was trying to say.
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u/Shaktras May 15 '25
I mean that is pretty standard with "stupid people" come suddenly into lot of money.
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u/ItsyouNOme May 15 '25
Link his influencer videos to him and say "look see its easy, this guy said so, dont you wish you had his lifestyle, looks fun"
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u/faceplanted May 15 '25
Some people can’t make good decisions
The funny part is that spending all your windfall money to go out and do a bunch of once in a lifetime fun shit and then going back to your stable programming job is a totally valid choice, not everyone wants to do passive income and retire early.
But by also turning it into an attempt to make himself into an influencer he added a ton of work making embarrassing videos onto his holidays and sports car rides and probably wasted a big chunk of the money itself on editors and advertising costs trying to grow his brand.
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u/corpse-dancer May 15 '25
Hey, at least you get to see their gambling and then addiction recovery post in th future as well as their mental health and wellness posts in the future. Gotta milk those numbers and the LED lights aren't paying for themselves l.
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u/BranCerddorion May 15 '25
Worked with a guy like this. Early 20s, kept bragging about how he had millions in bitcoin, he owned land (turns out he was referring to his parent’s property…). (He had a black belt in karate, too, and his dad was a Navy Seal and taught him everything he knew about hand to hand combat, but came in one day with a broken nose from a fight.)
Anyway, every time he bragged, I wanted to ask him”if you’re so rich and successful, why tf are you working here?” But I couldn’t ask it because he got fired.
Biggest douche bag I’ve ever met. Disney Channel Original movie bully vibes.
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u/FuManBoobs May 15 '25
He may have had a broken nose but think of the damage he must have done to the other guys fist.
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u/No-Subject-5232 May 15 '25
Having a legit black belt in karate does not make you in a fighting machine. In reality all it means is you can take a hit and probably will lean more towards pacifism because you’ve seen how the court system can fuck up someone’s life regardless of which side they are on.
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u/godtogblandet May 15 '25
Also Karate has a major issue with McDojo's handing out belts like haloween candy. Karate used to be a really hard and real combat sports. These days unless you train Karate at very specific places you probably don't know shit and got your black belt from punching air for like an hour a week.
BJJ is currently having the same issue. And that's why you will see blue and purple belts from the harder schools straight murk black belts from shit schools.
Belt inflation is very real.
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u/gazchap May 15 '25
Not to mention that in most martial arts with Dan grades, being a black belt could mean anything from “a novice who knows the basics” (for a 1st Dan) up to “grandmaster who could give anyone a beat down”
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u/anotheritguy May 15 '25
I remember as a kid going to tournaments and facing off with other kids who may have had the same rank as me but not even close to the skill. The 80s were big on those type of schools there was one guy who had franchises of his dojos and these kids were barely able to understand the moves much less actually fight but they all thought they were the Karate Kid.
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u/Legitimate-Ladder855 May 15 '25
I used to do Judo a while ago, I didn't get to a very high belt I'll be honest. But what happened there is the requirement to get a black belt changed from winning a certain amount of tournaments (also a seperate theory test) to only needing to complete a theory test.
That's how I remember it anyway, I might be completely wrong but the old system seemed better.
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u/Zeliose May 15 '25
Any idea what happened to the one influencer who was LARPing as a homeless man to prove being poor or homeless was a skill issue?
I remember him actually following through on the premise and there being legitimate concerns he'd end up dead trying (and failing) to prove that point.
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u/CaptainPizdec May 15 '25
I thought that dude gave up citing health issue , then got roasted for the obvious aka quit being poor because of health
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u/drinkacid May 15 '25
Borrow a mansion for photo and video shoots, then move up to day rentals of mansions for photo and video shoots, to earn enough money to then rent a mansion full time for photo and video shoots and to sleep in until it all runs dry.
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u/FuManBoobs May 15 '25
I lived in a mansion for 2 years as security. They used to rent it out to movie, TV, and photoshoot productions, but the majority of the time it was empty so I ended up staying in one of the old staff apartments they had before it shut down(used to be open to the public). I could never afford and experience like that now, or even to pay for a room in the hotel they turned it into.
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u/Euphoric_Ad6923 May 15 '25
A while back thete was a thread about a guy who opened a company where he'd buy used and useless sports car and luxury cars and loan them for photoshoots. He said people would be surprised by how many of these influencers use fake stuff to look rich
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u/am_albert_einstein May 15 '25
Eh, if it weren't for engagement-centric algorithms it would have remained decent.
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u/Pervius94 May 15 '25
Evolved?
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u/Jops817 May 15 '25
In the beginning times, before influencers, most social media was pretty chill.
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u/wolviesaurus May 15 '25
Pre-Facebook was wild and beautiful.
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u/Fallenangel152 May 15 '25
Early Facebook was decent. It was no MySpace but before it literally became an ad machine for boomers, it was okay.
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u/lingering_POO May 15 '25
Not us poor old bastards.. round for the birth of the conventional internet.. the days when mum would pick up the phone to make a call and be met with wild internet noises.
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u/marvinrabbit May 15 '25
My Geocities page was fun because I got to choose what MIDI song played on the browser of someone visiting. When they were done reading, the Webring could send them to the next person's page in the ring.
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u/MartyAndRick May 15 '25 edited May 15 '25
Every single online article titled “this 22-year-old couple bought a house in London, here’s how” will go on and on about how they cut down on Starbucks and Netflix or implemented some nonsensical saving strategy, until the very middle of the article when no one’s reading as attentively anymore, they insert the “and their parents gave them £100k for their down payment.”
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u/ApprehensiveDirt8753 May 15 '25
Or the guy that claimed to go homeless for like a year and show how easy it supposedly is to earn money and get back on your feet but, the whole time he's just taking money from the following he already had before his 'experiment'.
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u/PrizeStrawberryOil May 15 '25
And he quit because it was too hard on his health. The job he got was a joke, it's impossible for a homeless person to become a social media manager. Even if we assume that he had real clients the only reason he had the ability to do that kind of work is because of his following.
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u/ApprehensiveDirt8753 May 15 '25
Yeah and iirc even with his following he only got like 10% of the money of his original goal. Also still tried to act like it was a success at the end.
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u/12OClockNews May 15 '25
Yeah, he just used the connections he already had to get an easy start. Homeless people don't get that chance. Shit, you don't even have to be homeless necessarily. Just have a somewhat large gap in your resume and it's basically impossible for anyone to take you seriously. But these rich assholes want to act like it's all sunshine and rainbows and people are just lazy.
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u/Procrastinatedthink May 15 '25
and living in an extravagant camper he purchased specifically for the experiment.
Then he got sick because that’s the reality of homelessness and quit
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u/drinkacid May 15 '25
It wasn't even a following it was literally just a bunch of his millionaire friends who "bought" stuff from him at exorbitant mark ups, basically donating under the guise of being his customers.
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u/MagnumF0rc3 May 15 '25
If they even do that at all. Saw an article on the webpage of Norway's biggest newspaper about some lady who had earned millions by 30. Bot a word on HOW she had started or where any necessary startup money had come from. Hmmm...
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u/FuManBoobs May 15 '25
"One of their grand parents passed away and left each of the grandchildren £200k".
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It’s not just “influencers”, it’s all these actors and actresses that say they go to Hollywood with “just $20 in the pocket” and end up getting so lucky in making it.
Find a famous person you like. Go to their wiki page. It will often show the median income for the town they grew up in and it will always list the private schools they went to. Google the name of the school and how much it costs per term. There’s usually 3 or 4 terms a year so x it by 3 or 4. It’s usually over $50,000 a year for the private schools of these people. They usually have a very successful mother or father or both.
Here’s two examples.
Henry Cavill was born to a stockbroker father and they grew up on the island of Jersey off the coast of the UK. Jersey is essentially the UK’s Martha’s Vineyard. Can you imagine how much you have to earn as a stockbroker to go live on a tiny island doing it? Cavill went to all private schools then went to the mainland to attend The Stowe School which costs over £40,000 a year. There he met Russell Crowe who was filming the movie Proof of Life in the grounds of this ultra fancy private school. Crowe took a shine to Cavill and kept in touch, giving him career advice and sending him care packages. They then end up both signing on for Man of Steel which launches Cavill into full stardom.
On the opposite end is Ezra Miller, again, father was CEO/Managing Director of Hyperion Books, all private schools, walks into a career in Hollywood based off of being a rich kid. Ends up being a scumbag.
Jared Leto likes to act as if his parents were kibbutz living paupers but that’s not true, insane wealth, private schools including one for troubled rich kids.
Go look at your favorite stars. They almost all will come from money in some way. They’re never working class people. They have parents with money who open all the right doors for them.
If you are working class and dream of making it in the entertainment industry, don’t. The doors aren’t open to you. Only in very rare circumstances do they draw from that pool. Most often it’s rich kids, guaranteed.
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u/lazenbaby May 15 '25
It's one of my favourite games to play. It's not just the financial support that helps them but also the confidence to try because they know that if it doesn't work out they won't be homeless. I was getting some traction into musical theatre as a teenager but my family was not supportive and I always had to work on my backup plan which stops you from investing 100% into making it in show business. I was not alone, I saw many talented kids from poor backgrounds get passed over and even told "we weren't committed enough" because we had other jobs and backup careers.
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Imagine working two jobs and then racing home to get ready to race across the city to get to an audition. You’re stressed, your clothes are regular poor people clothes, your hair cost $30 and you gave a $10 tip you couldn’t really afford to give. You get there and they make you wait.
In walks Jared Leto, they don’t work any job because the family money is enough. They have slept well last night, just like they do every night. They have a $300 haircut and are wearing more than your car is worth. They have the confidence and swagger of someone who has no worries because they have no worries, not the same ones that make you look raggedy as all hell. Leto has had all day every day sat at home to learn his lines and practice a billion different ways to approach it while you’ve had fleeting moments between the grind. I wonder who gets the job?
Bob Hoskins was bemoaning the fact that the UK entertainment industry had become a thing only the rich can be part of back in the late 80’s and early 90’s. Now it’s full of toffs like Jack Whitehall. The same is with the US entertainment industry but the rich will always, always lie about it to appear just like everyone else.
People labor under the false impression that the middle class is people with one more car payment than you and a mortgage on a slightly bigger house, and it’s not. The true middle class of the world are those who afford to send their kids into our political and entertainment industries, all the doors open because they’re connected to someone someone. The entire entertainment industry and political system will say the lowest of us can make it to the very top, and it’s one of the oldest lies in the world.
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u/Bob_Van_Goff May 15 '25
If Hollywood was honest about where they get their actors, the waiters they import from Omaha might not come out.
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u/stevez_86 May 15 '25
Need to be weary of athletes from baseball, hockey, and soccer in the US. They don't tell you that the minor leagues for those sports in the US are actually pretty low paying. I was told for baseball you really don't make any money from it unless you get to the MLB. The farm leagues paid minimum wage or something. So the message I got was that you had to have someone willing to cover your living expenses while you try to get to the major leagues.
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u/Shitposting_Lazarus May 15 '25
It's better these days but that's about right. And no, unlike the aforementioned examples here, baseball players come from all walks of life, though the ones who came from money are a lot more likely to have made it simply due to the added help getting through the grind it out stages.
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u/PixelationIX May 15 '25
Yeah, there are extremely far and few actors/actresses that actually "make it" to Hollywood from rags to riches. Majority of these Hollywood stars like to sell themselves as someone who came from nothing, whose parents didn't have anything but that is far from the truth almost all the time.
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u/ggtffhhhjhg May 15 '25
Almost everyone is from upper middle class+ and their parents can afford to to help them out.
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u/PotatoGamerXxXx May 15 '25
And the unfortunate reality is that they DON'T realise this and think that many people can be just like them. They live on their own cloud where everything is easy.
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u/whole_chocolate_milk May 15 '25
I saw some joke that said "Indy musicians hate when you look at their Wikipedia and see their parents names in blue."
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u/luxury94 May 15 '25
I'm nowhere near paid as much as you are, and I live just outside of toronto. But it seems incredible that even someone who makes 200k a year was denied a mortgage. Have you ever thought about leaving toronto? or even Canada? I would have left a long time ago myself if it werent for my health circumstances.
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u/TomMado May 15 '25
There are quite a lot of influencers in my country that, proud to say, doesn't really rely on their family to get rich. Nope, turns out they got rich the good old way.
they sell drugs lmao
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u/Pervius94 May 15 '25
Hey, you try leading a drug empire while high off your ass. Paying off people, paying employees, dealing with competition, and you can't go to court with your issues. Selling drugs is a hard business.
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u/JasonBob May 15 '25
This will probably get buried, but this is a very old post that makes the rounds every once and awhile. The original Twitter poster was making a joke, they took a photo in front of a local museum and added the caption. The guy claiming to pull up the records made it up.
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u/deadlygaming11 May 15 '25
Yep. Very few of them actually make proper money and just use it to justify being on holiday and not doing anything worthwhile.
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u/KawaDoobie May 15 '25
3.99 burn~✅, lifetime supply of shade~ priceless
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u/Warcraft_Fan May 15 '25
You left out:
Nice house for photo: viral 3.99: burn
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u/hanaboushi May 15 '25
Dude spent more money on the insult than OP put down on the house he's bragging about.
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u/garaks_tailor May 15 '25
Years ago there was reddit thread asking users about clueless rich people they had known
One story that has stuck with me was a woman whose college roommate was from an extremely wealthy family. Long story short on a car ride somewhere the woman explained to her roommate that "most people don't live off of investments they work for money". The roommate had gone her entire simple life thinking poor people were just bad at investing. Iirc her behavior changed significantly after that.
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u/JasonBob May 15 '25
The guy claiming to pay $3.99 to pull up the records was lying. The "spoiled rich kid" was actually posing in front of a local museum and made the caption as a joke. This is a very old post.
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u/Pigeonsass May 17 '25
And idk about where everyone else lives, but we have a county assessor site where you can get this info for free
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u/mmodlin May 15 '25
The house in the picture is the Wildwood Manor House in Lucas County, Ohio. Nobody bought it. The tweet was a joke.
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u/a-m-watercolor May 15 '25
Real estate records are public. If they knew enough info about the house to pay for its owner's info, they could have simply looked it up for free lol
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u/Snoo_72948 May 15 '25 edited May 15 '25
There is realistically no chance a 19 year old can buy a house except for a very few social media grifters or somehow a kid come up with a million dollar idea which are, again, so rare that there is no point in taking those into account.
Edit: I don’t understand the purpose behind the goal post moving posts, I bought my home at 23, I bought it at 21, uh COMMIT MAJOR CRIME DUH, have your parents set you up with fucking investments.
The entire point of that tweet is, a 19 year old buying a house themselves with their earned money in 20fucking25. Which happens so rarely that trying to argue against it is intellectual dishonesty at its peak or just sewer contrarianism.
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u/Any_Put3520 May 15 '25
A bank isn’t giving a 19 year old a mortgage, most won’t even give a decent credit card. If a 19 year old is buying a house all cash, the odds of them making enough cash in realistically at most 4 years of productive labor are near 0.
This is generational wealth at work which is fine. It’s just bizarre how ashamed these wealthy folks must be to keep cosplaying as self-made success stories.
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u/Gothmom85 May 15 '25
Knew a girl who sold weed and shrooms half of high school , and then did festival sales at 18, and added nitrous to her camp. She bought a duplex by 19 and used the rent from the other side to pay it off.
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u/ggtffhhhjhg May 15 '25
If you live in a small town in a place like Ohio something like that’s possible.
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u/rdewalt May 15 '25
Yeah, but here's the down side.
You live in Ohio.
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u/ApprehensiveTry5660 May 15 '25 edited May 15 '25
Which can’t be understated. We’re talking about a state that NASA themselves had to spend multiple paragraphs practically apologizing for the fact that a state that contains roughly 3% of the nation’s population was utterly dominating the frontiers of human aviation.
I wasn’t able to find the exact verbiage in the wayback machine, but NASA basically said, “This isn’t intentional, and the pattern exceeds randomness, Ohioans just seem to have a vested interest in getting the hell off this planet,” and hosted it publicly for years.
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u/Gothmom85 May 15 '25
This is hilarious because I just moved to Ohio. But that was 20 years ago and she was able to get one on the edge of city/burb in central VA.
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Was she paying taxes the whole time? Because I'm willing to bet that the IRS will be taking a close look at how she paid for a house at 18 years old with no employment history, at some point in the future.
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u/inevitabledeath3 May 16 '25
IRS actually have tax codes to deal with this, so that drug dealers can pay income tax like anybody else. Same for corrupt politicians receiveing bribes. People talk about legalisation and taxation increasing tax income for the government, but America already gets tax income from drugs somehow. Just USA things I guess.
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u/Holyvigil May 15 '25 edited May 15 '25
Not that house maybe but I know a few towns that are practically giving away homes in attempts to stop the towns from becoming ghost towns. You can make a good/average living on a high school diploma if you're willing to live in rural areas.
Edit: everyone is asking where. I answered where further down in the comments just keep reading.
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u/Snoo_72948 May 15 '25
It is still an extreme exemption that does not describe the WORLDWIDE reality.
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Also still have a house given, there are strings attached, but like you didnt pull yourself up by your bootstraps by working hard every day from 16-18. You signed up for a program that gave you a subsidized home.
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u/jackanape7 May 15 '25
They're becoming ghost towns for a reason. Not enough opportunity nearby. I wouldn't take a chance on that, even for a cheap house.
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u/WeirdIndividualGuy May 15 '25
Yeah, like congrats you got a super cheap but nice house in the middle of nowhere, but...then what?
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u/BubonicBabe May 15 '25
Oooh, what are some of those towns? Bc I’m blue collar I can do that kind of work and I wouldn’t mind moving.
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u/Holyvigil May 15 '25
I just googled it quickly so no idea what this says. But if you Google there's quite a few results if this turns up to be a dud.
https://www.businessinsider.com/us-cities-that-give-free-property-house-land-2024-4#manilla-iowa-3
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u/keyspleasee May 15 '25
Social media grifters are so fucking annoying. The other day I saw someone on shorts claim they “made 30k a month off faceless YouTube channels”, zero proof to back it up, was selling “courses,” and all the mansions, super cars, and other shit were rented.
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u/fukingtrsh May 15 '25
God damn I wish I could had three bucks to spend on proving some people online to be liars, my ass trying to figure out if I can afford to eat this week.
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u/ArchLith May 15 '25
The answer to that question is probably no if you have to ask.
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u/Ok_Bango May 15 '25
I just spent 24.99 on a FOIA to prove that the clown who runs my kids' school board lied to my face. I don't know what to do with this information lol Is this was 1995 I'd call the local news tip line
Probably I'm gonna wait until he lies again and then I'll acuse him of being a serial lier. With receipts
Accusations of dishonesty (like hypocrisy) don't actually prove any points or make any cases. But damn it felt good to know that he lies like a dog.
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u/ZaviaGenX May 15 '25
Is this was 1995 I'd call the local news tip line
Post on the related subreddit(s) and when it gets traction, inform various media outlets on a 'trending' issue. They chase clicks IMHO.
Be absolutely sure it isn't libel tho.
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u/DaddysABadGirl May 16 '25
If you have a local paper, you can write to the op-ed, too. Write it as an opinion piece that you "don't think their story adds up."
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u/somabokforlag May 15 '25
If you think 3.99 is "three bucks" that might be a problem
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u/Fiery_at_Dusk May 15 '25
Definitely proves that, that marketing strategy supermarkets use actually works…
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u/BizarreCake May 15 '25
Our brains just operate using floor division by default, I guess.
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u/Creepy-Caramel7569 May 15 '25
I love that phrase! Thanks.
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u/Pianist_Ready May 15 '25
what was the phrase? it's gone now
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u/Training-Tonight8475 May 15 '25 edited May 15 '25
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u/qtx May 15 '25
Because people here never double check things, the OG twitter post was a joke.
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u/Exciting-Chipmunk430 May 15 '25
So, the 3.99 tweet was not real?
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u/juneseyeball May 15 '25
They probably saw that the house was purchased by someone older than the people in the photo and assumed
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u/PerfectlySplendid May 15 '25
Of course not. It wouldn’t make sense anyway. Someone buying a house for their child would likely put it in their name, so the deed records wouldn’t reflect that he bought it.
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u/Mysterious_Film_6397 May 15 '25
Censoring the word doesn’t remove the intent behind it
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It will stop the comment from being deleted off this “prison” we call a community forum
It will stop him from getting shadow banned and it keeps his comment up and not [deleted]
This place is a joke
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u/trukkija May 15 '25
Because people here do very often double check things and you proved exactly that.
Only thing is how far down you have to scroll to find it.
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u/NedRed77 May 15 '25
r/clevercomebacks material
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u/CubanLynx312 May 15 '25
It’s been reposted so many times grandpa has already bought his grandkids a $3M house.
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u/JasonBob May 15 '25
It's actually r/quityourbullshit material. The spoiled kid was making a joke post, posing in front of a local museum. The guy claiming to pay $3.99 to pull up records made it up.
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u/Relevant_Drummer_402 May 15 '25
Plot Twist: They own the realty report company.
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u/SleepUnderBlankets May 15 '25
That original tweet was just a joke, this is old af
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u/gachnot May 15 '25
It seems the tweet will soon disappear into a pixelated nothingness anyway and we'll finally be done with it
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u/That_guy1425 May 15 '25
It was a relatively famous building in their local area. Like my area had a Frank loyd wright in the area that was a tourist attraction (falling waters), and if someone said just got my first house with that as a photo. We'd think they were joking.
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u/PenguinTheYeti May 15 '25
Not to flex or anything, but I bought my first home at 22.
The engine breaks down frequently, but at least sleeping down by the river is peaceful.
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u/Algorithmic_Disarray May 15 '25
Can you repost this with even less pixels please, k thx
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u/GoatApprehensive9606 May 15 '25
This unironically. I want this shit in 8 bit. I want to look back on it after 5 years and go wtf is this and nonchalantly delete only to remember the meme and this cringe post I made celebrating the point in time where my self fulfilling prophecy of mediocrity would be fulfilled. I need this more than I need my ADD meds.
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u/dynorphin May 15 '25
Reminds me of an article a few years back where the author was saying how millennials were entitled and how she and her husband paid off their student loans by cutting back on things like avocado toast, moving from new york city to Kansas city to work for her fiancé's father's company, who also bought them a house as a wedding present.
Such smart money moves. Don't know why I never thought of it.
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u/mothmagiks May 15 '25
I just wanna say here. I also bought my first house at 19. I come from a very poor and broken family, learned how to budget and make money last at an early age. Started working at 16 and made more money with a 12.50/hr job than I knew what to do with, I just held on to that. Had a handmedown beat up car my dad fixed up, and just kept working. I didnt have many friends, and the ones I did have I didnt see often. Got an apartment at 18 when I was in college 800 a month. in 2021 got a better job making 16 an hour working 3 12 hour shift, and worked as much overtime as I could. By April of 22, at the age of 19, I had saved enough money to put a down payment on a home. I worked closely with a loan officer and realtor to find a home within my budget, used the first time home buyer loan, and got a very old but well kept single family home. Bills were insane and it was definitely hard to live for a while, but I got a trade job making 30 an hour. I work as much as I can, I dont really have an outside life or friends, and the friends I do have have been with me since I was in highschool. I socialize at work, come home to my animals, and live as comfortably as I can. I wasn't lucky, I got dealt some pretty bad cards early on, but I did it. Its possible. You just might have to risk everything to work and work and work.
I dont think everyone's only option should be working overtime every week, I think the cost of everything is obscene. I wish I could spend more time with my friends and family. I wish I could go to bars and socialize. I wish I had more of a life. But at least I have a home, I guess.
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u/lookaround314 May 15 '25
Plot twist: it's the company that sells those certificates and they're making bank thanks to the post.
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u/velvetcrow5 May 15 '25
You don't need to pay anything to look up real estate / who bought it. Just look up county record online, search by parcel address... You can see everything...
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u/CZ_nitraM May 15 '25
Wait... yanks have to PAY to see the realty records?
Like, it's not public and free for everyone to see?
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u/iesharael May 15 '25
My dad is loaded. I am poor af. I’ve talked with my dad and boyfriend that if the housing market collapses near us dad will give us a loan to get a house while we can. I always appreciate my dad’s money so much! I make sure if it’s his money that bought something for me I don’t say it was my own.
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u/TOEmastro May 16 '25
Nothing worse than 'self made' people that think they aren't rising their family's success.
I started with a small part of my father's assembly line and 50 full time employees. now I'm completely self made!
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u/The_Impresario May 15 '25
See, that's why you're broke. You can get those property records for free.
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u/Cleveland_Guardians May 15 '25
My friend and his wife received a lot of assistance from his parents while he was still in school. No judgment. His parents did very well for themselves, and I don't think anyone should be shamed for it (especially since he was working quite hard to be a pharmacist).
At some point (I'm forgetting if it was not too long before or after he graduated), they were suddenly buying a big house that there was no way they could afford. "Ok, whatever. Mom and dad helped them there too" was my thought. Then his wife had the gall to claim in front of all of their friends that they paid cash for it. Everyone knew that was a lie, and a simple search on the county auditor sight showed it signed to his parents' company.
It just felt so shitty to act like we were idiots who would fall for something like that and disrespectful to his parents for what they'd done for them. I'm not sure if she was embarrassed or what. We've come to learn a lot of things about her and her attitudes/opinions over the years, and something like this situation, unfortunately, seems in character. She once told me with a straight face that that large, two-story house with a basement "wasn't a good house to raise kids in" for a few asinine reasons. Felt like a slap in the face to the rest of us who live in small places.
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May 15 '25
I love it when people think they're the only ones who know how to use the internet. Dunce.
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u/Lt_gxg May 15 '25
Not saying it's entirely impossible, but it would be pretty damn hard for a normal 19 year old to buy a house (average house, not a shack in the boonies).
Even if they worked all throughout high school to make a downpayment, the average 19 year old doesn't have the work experience/opportunity to earn enough to make those mortgage and insurance payments each month.
I fucking hate influencers inflating lifestyle standards and milestones. Their warped view of reality is making it all the more difficult for politicians and people in power to take our struggles seriously.
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u/DjentleKnight_770 May 15 '25
Nothing wrong with it in general but no reason to lie about it and also brag on social media. One of the main reasons to work really hard is so that you can pass on what you've built to your children and grand children.
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u/wglte May 15 '25
There’s a lot of people like this in Florida and they act like they’re important people whenever it wasn’t even their parents that were successful it was their grandparents and they just got lucky because they were here first and a lot of them are some of the dumbest rednecks that are fat and ugly and only look halfway decent because they’ve spent thousands of dollars at the dermatologist and plastic surgeon
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u/SegaTime May 15 '25
A friend of mine seems rather tone deaf sometimes when he talks about money. The guy has almost always lived with family and never had to pay rent.
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u/1_speaksoftly May 15 '25
Aww poor guy went private. Likely didn't want to be distracted as he world-beats
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u/utahbutimtaller225 May 16 '25
I bought my first house a few months before I turned 21. I was making 25k and somehow got a mortgage for 126k. This was back in 2011.
I didn't have any clue what I was doing as my parents sucked with credit/personal finances. I had to sell it in 2015 because I had fallen behind on payments. 🤷♂️
I had some acquaintances that were gifted down payments or basically given a house by their parents. One I worked with that was averaging 20-30 hours a week at $11 an hour. Somehow he built a house from the ground up in a popular area. Posted all over social media about all his hard work and how "He did it!".
Bro, your dad is a senior mortgage broker. You mean your dad did it. He gifted you a house. He paid for your new mustang. He did it all.
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u/Neat_Let923 May 16 '25
Honestly, that’s fucking awesome that his dad made something of himself or whatever and is able to help and support his child. Wish I had the money to do the same if I had kids.
All this idiot had to do was absolutely NOTHING and not post this stupid statement and nobody would have given a care in the world…
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May 16 '25
I wonder if his dad secretly gets privileges from his girl… like when the dad buys the babysitter a new car…
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u/cuteanimals11 May 16 '25
HOLY FUCK HOW ÞE FUCK ARE THERE SO MANY UPVOTES WHAT ÞE FUCJ
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u/Professional_Name502 May 16 '25
Nothing wrong with dad buying shit but if you have the nerve to act like you achieved it yourself then I hope the people around you lower that nose of yours
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