Influencer, 20, crashes McLaren while livestreaming on the highway
Influencer, 20, crashes McLaren while livestreaming on the highway
Influencer Jack Doherty, 20, appeared to be distracted on his phone before crashing his US$200,000 car while driving and live-streaming in heavy rain in Miami.
"Dumb rich kid crashes really expensive car. More at 11"
Who cares?
And perhaps my least favorite part, aside from him walking away relatively unscathed, was that this shitty article goes on to just use other YouTubers and influencers for reaction quotes.
It's like the they tried to directly convert a 90 second YT local news story, into an article.
176In their defense, it's way easier than doing actual journalism.
35Global News is a terrible sensationalist rag. I'm sorry it's managed to fester outside of Canada.
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Imagine being so annoyed by someone you have zero obligation to pay attention to that you wish them physical harm.
-17You mean someone who's endangering the lives of the public for views....?
Someone whose actions could have easily killed someone... for likes and hearts...?
For the record, I'm not annoyed by them, I detest them. Not for their job, but because of their actions, you know, like a normal person would.
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If y'all don't know how big of a piece of shit this kid is, it runs deep.
There's a period of time where he would just taunt strangers to get into a confrontation, and then his bodyguard would step in.
Well, his bodyguard punched someone in the face and he's getting sued like fuck.
He also is basically an only fans pimp. He gets 18-year-old girls drunk on yachts and gets them to sign contracts where they'll do only fans content for a set fee per month while he takes all.
It's truly amazing how big of a scumbag this kid is at such a young age.
121No wonder kid needs a body guard, he's gotta have one of the most punchable faces in the world. I give it 3 months until he catches a stray round to the dome for being a twat and the world can go back to not being aware of his existence.
11Isnt signing a contract while being under the effects of alcohol make the contract invalid?
If not, why not? It feels like such an obvious thing so people dont sign contracts against their will
4And now you need to prove that you were intoxicated out in international waters on this kids boat. Then you need to take him and his MacLaren money to court.
It's low level extortion.
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Influencer Culture is a cancer on society
95No, cancer kills healthy patients.
This seems to be preying on the already ill, many of us seem immune.
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Stop making stupid people famous.
this guy is a real prick appearently, he got famous by assaulting people (calling it pranks).
The world doent need people like him.
89"influencer" I truly hate this word. It's way overused. Like what is he influencing, markers flipping?
75He influences his followers to buy products. An influencer is like a freelance marketer.
21If you make your purchasing decisions on an "influencer's" opinion, then man, do I have so many things to say about you.
9"freelance marketer" is being too nice. They are billboards with legs and mouths.
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He influenced me to not buy a McLaren.
12McLarens are awesome cars, don't let this guy ruin that. Besides, did you see that paint job? He just put the car out of its misery.
Glad the cameraman was okay; this guy shouldn't be behind the wheel of anything.
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They influence people who lack the attention span to make decisions for themselves.
9People. Ever heard of Jesus Christ?
Personally, I like the word. Its very clear.
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Sits with phone in hand while driving super car in the overtake lane in the rain.
Crashes car
Online commentators criticized Doherty for appearing to be more concerned about his wrecked car than his injured friend.
Not a person i'd want others to be influenced by really. I hope sponsors eventually realise
54Influencer.
That's what he does.
We have failed.
46You are aware that the majority of kids aspire to be social influencers as a desired life/career path, yes?
https://pro.morningconsult.com/analysis/gen-z-interest-influencer-marketing
The majority of current US children do not want to be doctors or professors or plumbers or coders or truck drivers or electricians... they want to pursue a career path that has something like a one in a million odds of making them stupidly wealthy.
Because that's what they see. All the time. A constant super, uber version of a reality tv show of wealthy idiot assholes doing and saying whatever they want and almost never facing any consequences.
And to some extent, who can blame them?
Every other career path has exceptional upfront costs of time and money, involves much, much more challenging work (either physical, mental or both) and are seen as basically just as risky in terms of actually working out.
Fuck it. YOLO. Only got 10 or 20 years until the water wars or WW3 or climate change breaks everything anyway.
33The majority of current US children do not want to be doctors or professors or plumbers or coders or truck drivers or electricians... they want to pursue a career path that has something like a one in a million odds of making them stupidly wealthy.
I, too, had dreams of being a rock star when I was a kid.
44And to some extent, who can blame them?
I agree with your entire comment, but from this point on, you really nailed it.
Who knows what my attitude would be if I was in my teens or early twenties? I would be old enough to understand that I have almost no chance of building a “good” life. Everything’s fucked. Political systems, the labor market, and worst of all, the environment. Might as well earn money by being an idiot. At least then I’d be my own boss.
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25“Help, help! Break the f—king window,” he yells as Good Samaritans rushed over. One of the witnesses helped carry Doherty out of wreck while the 20-year-old continued to film himself.
I’d like to think that if was helping, I would have the presence of mind to realize he was filming himself. I would have taken a moment to grab his fucking phone and fling it as far away into oncoming traffic as possible.
22Good.
20Don't give this dip shit any more publicity.
19“Help, help! Break the f—king window,” he yells as Good Samaritans rushed over. One of the witnesses helped carry Doherty out of wreck while the 20-year-old continued to film himself.
Purely theoretical question. Just how big a catapult would you have to build to actually launch an average sized human male into the sun?
19I asked the Guh-Puh-Tuh monster to break it down like Randall Munroe and the results were surprisingly amusing.
The short version is that the catapult needs to be many, many kilometers long, the human will be liquefied almost immediately, and there are much better ways to get to the Sun—namely, rockets.
8Well I'm not seeing any obvious downsides and it is at least reusable, which would likely come in very handy over the next few years.
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I believe a trebuchet may be the way
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When will media stop with the "formerly Twitter"?
They're trying to increase the relevancy of their "source" on X by saying it's basically the same as Twitter once was.
But it isn't. It's a rotting zombie feasting on Twitter's long-dead corpse.19Idiocracy (2006)
16Come on, Cosmos. He didn't have a scratch on him.
Do better.
14What a massive cunt.
14ha... what a dumbass; also still recording the aftermath for clout? Damn bruh...
12Insurance ain't gonna pay that claim. And he got banned from the platform.
But I'm sure most of the money came from his parents anyway. McLarens aren't cheap; I doubt he bought it himself.
11Oh my God, it's that little cretin too.
His parents are the worst, and they have created one of the worst humans on the planet.
10He shouldn't have a license
10I like it except for the part where he put other drivers at risk. Put this idiot on a private racetrack with a brick wall at the end of it and let nature take him out.
8He ruined the car with that paint job first
6Called influencer and doing stupid shit. Might need to pass some laws on these things like you can't yell fire in public locations because people might get hurt or marketing drugs and alcohol to kids because they might be tempted to use. The dumbasses influence our kids to do stupid shit.
6This douche nozzle belongs in jail.
5Good.
2This is our infrastructure. Car dependency is a literal dead end. Ban cars.
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