The Dark Side Of The Silk Road

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Barely Sociable

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4 жыл бұрын

The silk road has a lot of history as a marketplace but very few people know the full story. In today's deep dive we will take a look into the untold side of the silk road
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@BarelySociable
@BarelySociable 4 жыл бұрын
Fair warning. Tons of spoilers in the comments. Follow up video: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Z7yKnsyCuuCthIk.html
@amuricuh6143
@amuricuh6143 4 жыл бұрын
Bro I was legit wanting an actual silk road documentary like the real life one. I am sad I have been click baited yet again :(
@Nik-ff3tu
@Nik-ff3tu 4 жыл бұрын
You sir are a talented investigative journalist. I'm hooked
@gaia260686
@gaia260686 4 жыл бұрын
Thanks!
@notbigboss9254
@notbigboss9254 4 жыл бұрын
We produce a lot of things that would get this video Demonitized, we also produce a lot of other things that would get this video Demonitized
@OwenTheTitan
@OwenTheTitan 4 жыл бұрын
what’s the next video?
@belainverso7455
@belainverso7455 4 жыл бұрын
Took me 8 seconds to realize this is not the about overland trade routes of the Han dynasty
@kuhataparunks
@kuhataparunks 4 жыл бұрын
this is literally what I thought this video was about, rofl
@Jamsomeone
@Jamsomeone 4 жыл бұрын
Same 😂 still watched it though
@NoobsofFredo
@NoobsofFredo 4 жыл бұрын
@@Jamsomeone Me as well.
@TheWicked696
@TheWicked696 4 жыл бұрын
Same
@Likes_Trains
@Likes_Trains 4 жыл бұрын
I said exactly the same thing out loud :'D
@niqul5654
@niqul5654 3 жыл бұрын
I watched this genuinely wanting a history of the dark side of a trade route 2,150 years ago, however still satisfied
@boywithoutsoul587
@boywithoutsoul587 2 жыл бұрын
I was hoping the same as I'm currently studying Economics in Uni. But shit went dark real quick
@lolineko2083
@lolineko2083 2 жыл бұрын
The camel on the sand path definitely was misleading xD
@eclecticsoffy
@eclecticsoffy 2 жыл бұрын
Same here
@jondoe2k
@jondoe2k 2 жыл бұрын
Me too 🤪
@Chrischrischis
@Chrischrischis 2 жыл бұрын
😭
@Costco_Employee
@Costco_Employee 10 ай бұрын
"I've only ever commissioned one other hit, so I'm still learning this market" is CRAZY
@gabrielcamposagrado
@gabrielcamposagrado 4 ай бұрын
Yeah, that was so callous, non-chalant and heartless.
@bajorekjon
@bajorekjon 2 ай бұрын
So casual. Like he was sending an email to his boss or something
@andreimoldovan1633
@andreimoldovan1633 2 ай бұрын
And imagine theres countless idiots on youtube supporting him and wishing he would be free
@JW-hn5nt
@JW-hn5nt Ай бұрын
he was probably fronting remember this guy wasn't some hardcore criminal he was a extremely well educated college student
@masterBong1
@masterBong1 Ай бұрын
@@JW-hn5ntdid you even watch the video? he did have it carried out but it never actually happened and was a sting by authorities.
@getajobmate1281
@getajobmate1281 Жыл бұрын
it's clear he was so enthusiastic about enacting a walter white-esque power play that he didnt stop to think about how anything actually worked
@aegonthedragon7303
@aegonthedragon7303 Жыл бұрын
And like Walter White his downfall came as a result of hubris. Even then Walt almost got away with it all if not for that book, while Ross was being tracked from the start.
@topspot4834
@topspot4834 2 ай бұрын
Yeah it's crazy that he didn't realize it wouldn't have been sustainable. There's always gonna be scam artists in any illegal business, it's the cost of doing business, and Ross should've treated it accordingly. No different from a retail store who includes leakage as an expense.
@alvaroprieto2092
@alvaroprieto2092 5 күн бұрын
​@@topspot4834 spillage
@Piehogger
@Piehogger 4 жыл бұрын
I was fully prepared to watch an hour long video about people being mugged in the sand over some chinese worm-cloth, but this works too.
@_pyxeled
@_pyxeled 4 жыл бұрын
I am forever going to call silk "worm-cloth" now, thank you
@choog2752
@choog2752 4 жыл бұрын
As soon as you left the protection of the Great Wall there was bandits who would rob you. Maybe they just didn’t go past the wall
@astersaur
@astersaur 4 жыл бұрын
Piehogger mood
@johnnypapa9248
@johnnypapa9248 4 жыл бұрын
Aha same here i was hoping for some epic stories about the Mongols or something
@2econd428
@2econd428 4 жыл бұрын
Lmaooooo same!
@SsnakeBite
@SsnakeBite 4 жыл бұрын
Am I the only one who finds it hilarious that the FBI's plan to get the laptop was to have two of their agents pretend to have a lovers' quarrel, until Ross felt so awkward he'd leave, hopefully leaving his computer with all the info for his black market platform open and unattended? And even MORE hilarious that it _worked?_
@newageweeb4049
@newageweeb4049 4 жыл бұрын
Thats the kind of thing that would be in a comedy movie
@matthewherr1588
@matthewherr1588 4 жыл бұрын
SsnakeBite the more I think about that, the funnier it gets. We see two tricks in this video: an elaborate scam with multiple identities and carefully thought out reasoning, and a classic case of “hey! Look over there at that distraction!” Somehow, Ross fell for both
@JoeNoshow27
@JoeNoshow27 4 жыл бұрын
My take is the guy was a complete idiot who's narcissism made him believe he was untouchable. His arrest was inevitable.
@TheDanAge
@TheDanAge 4 жыл бұрын
Almosy makes it sound fake... or like he was set up.
@californiapoontappa
@californiapoontappa 4 жыл бұрын
Cpuld you imagine the cop that grabbed it amd was like ok i got it. You cam stop. Like imagine being ross in that situation wtf lol
@DailyDoseOfInternet
@DailyDoseOfInternet 8 ай бұрын
Great video
@AdityaKumar-uf5ho
@AdityaKumar-uf5ho 8 ай бұрын
Who else is here from the tweet 👇
@mateuslira3411
@mateuslira3411 8 ай бұрын
​@@AdityaKumar-uf5home
@pro-ts9xu
@pro-ts9xu 8 ай бұрын
U were talking like u saw this video earlier... nah bro, u just watched this video because of the tweet
@ChristinaMagma
@ChristinaMagma 8 ай бұрын
Hey Daily! Found this video after seeing your tweet
@Tirth-Patel
@Tirth-Patel 8 ай бұрын
Came here after your recommendation. Currently downloading, will watch it later.
@joseamieva2168
@joseamieva2168 Жыл бұрын
I think one of the most insane parts of this story is that Ross Ulbright was so easily fooled. He’s from Texas, dude had a 1450 on his SAT and studied Physics at UT Austin. A classically brilliant man who for whatever reason was also incredibly gullible 😂
@mbtravel7294
@mbtravel7294 Жыл бұрын
Its called not being street smart
@brothermanbill8358
@brothermanbill8358 Жыл бұрын
@@mbtravel7294 Mhm
@jeremyb5407
@jeremyb5407 Жыл бұрын
I think his ego done him in. In his mind it was totally reasonable that he could convince some minions to gets an actual HA member to join his forum and engage him and do his bidding
@rykaz8081
@rykaz8081 Жыл бұрын
The hell does being from Texas have to do wit anything 😂😂
@teddyroth1514
@teddyroth1514 Жыл бұрын
UT Dallas
@wongoli
@wongoli 4 жыл бұрын
What’s up Ross being so trusting? I feel like he’s the type of guy to believe there are hot singles in your area.
@drcommondrate12
@drcommondrate12 4 жыл бұрын
wongoli wongo he was tempted with the offer of Hell Angels. He might be a tech-savant but he lacked of prospectives about human nature.
@davidr5284
@davidr5284 4 жыл бұрын
Incompetent. It was bound to happen, really. The commerce tends to weed out these kinds of people. Everyone knows hits don't have fixed rates, those depend on how the hit transpires, the payments weren't even made with escrow and all before the supposed hit was done. What an amateur.
@realawesomeperson24
@realawesomeperson24 4 жыл бұрын
@@davidr5284 How do you know all this? lmao
@princessulku
@princessulku 4 жыл бұрын
wongoli wongo HAHAHHAHAHAHAH
@ollyoxenfrey5417
@ollyoxenfrey5417 4 жыл бұрын
Isn't it awesome!!! There's so many single milfs near me!!! And they all wanna fuck!!! They email me all the time!!!
@phaineinTV
@phaineinTV 4 жыл бұрын
"I won't be blackmailed." - quote from man blackmailed.
@josephoyek6574
@josephoyek6574 4 жыл бұрын
Shut up, fucking weeb. -fucking weeb.
@candeeartist8590
@candeeartist8590 4 жыл бұрын
@@josephoyek6574 You sound like a moron -a moron
@chloewinnaa1515
@chloewinnaa1515 4 жыл бұрын
@@candeeartist8590 Artists are irrelevant - a smart man
@candeeartist8590
@candeeartist8590 4 жыл бұрын
@@chloewinnaa1515 I don't know what you're implying but whatever go off sis
@chloewinnaa1515
@chloewinnaa1515 4 жыл бұрын
@@candeeartist8590 just comtinuing the chain of insulting the person above. Nothin' personnel kid
@urnotreal420
@urnotreal420 Жыл бұрын
this is my comfort video. ive fell asleep to it so many times. I go to it when I feel down or when I feel happy. Thank you for making it.
@Tourettes0
@Tourettes0 Жыл бұрын
soo glad i am not the only one!!!!
@Obstile
@Obstile Жыл бұрын
me too!
@kurtgulbro1542
@kurtgulbro1542 Жыл бұрын
Fr, his voice is so comforting
@IIIDarkWorlDIII
@IIIDarkWorlDIII Жыл бұрын
Haha same here
@Jason-wp4hw
@Jason-wp4hw Жыл бұрын
How? this shit makes me so paranoid and uncomfortable
@harrickvharrick3957
@harrickvharrick3957 Жыл бұрын
Ross so terribly underestimated the forces that would come after him. it caused him fatal mistakes: not to have a much stricter instant lockdown encryption system on his laptop, and worst of all, leaving traces that led straight to himself, even carrying his own name.
@acat6145
@acat6145 Жыл бұрын
the encryption would be useless once it was in the hands of the FBI they would crack that computer for everything it has
@LDAR
@LDAR 6 ай бұрын
Also just straight up leaves computer open in public. Id never do that and I don't have that much to hide lol
@DancingProduce
@DancingProduce 4 жыл бұрын
"we produce a lot of things that would get this video demonetized" its really considerate of them to be so concerned with your video
@jacksonelh
@jacksonelh 4 жыл бұрын
those hell's angels folks seem mighty fine
@GeneralRaam03
@GeneralRaam03 4 жыл бұрын
Kevin Nix r/woooosh
@CODYLOUIS
@CODYLOUIS 4 жыл бұрын
@Kevin Nix I either love u, or hate u for that comment.
@2supergg
@2supergg 4 жыл бұрын
@@jacksonelh they are canadians after all
@britsaunders2151
@britsaunders2151 4 жыл бұрын
@@RadkeMaiden we do quite enjoy our crack addicts.
@tenko5541
@tenko5541 3 жыл бұрын
Came for the historic trade route. Stayed for the dreadlock pirate.
@joshuateran3728
@joshuateran3728 3 жыл бұрын
kash Bamba same
@feelingfriskyx560
@feelingfriskyx560 3 жыл бұрын
get agrop
@UltraNyan
@UltraNyan 3 жыл бұрын
Well it was an historic trade route for the internet
@GustavoTeixeira-hu1ck
@GustavoTeixeira-hu1ck 3 жыл бұрын
The same but I didn't stay, just stop the video and came see if someone else was mistaken by the title. I'm out.
@everything777
@everything777 3 жыл бұрын
Dread pirate
@Fuviy1
@Fuviy1 10 ай бұрын
The fact that he intended and was under the impression to have successfully have essentially 3 people taken out is enough for me to say he got what he deserved
@etherealsunflowers
@etherealsunflowers 6 ай бұрын
Exactly. Blew my mind when BS said the sentence was too harsh. Ross did not care about anyone’s life but his own.
@TheTERMlNAT0R
@TheTERMlNAT0R 4 ай бұрын
When you run a multi million dollar business…murder may indeed be a small portion of your success….i see no wrong here. He intended to do what anyone in his position hasn’t already done. Trust that shit
@dogguy8603
@dogguy8603 4 ай бұрын
Which was arguably entrapment, not to mention the max penalty being 9 years in prison, not life without parole
@the_tax_consultant
@the_tax_consultant 3 ай бұрын
​@@TheTERMlNAT0R So you would be willing to commit murder to maintain your business?
@wergthy6392
@wergthy6392 3 ай бұрын
@@dogguy8603 How was this entrapment? It wasn't law enforcement doing this, it was a scammer
@marcuscarana9240
@marcuscarana9240 5 ай бұрын
One of the craziest things is that the last episode of Breaking Bad where Heisenberg finally loses and dies aired on September 29, 2013. Breaking Bad was one of Ross's favorite shows. Ross was arrested on October 1, 2013. That means he was arrested just two days after the final episode was released. It was as if the universe was warning him, foreshadowing his ultimate downfall. And the parallels of Walter White and Ross Ulbritch is so unncanny. Both are incredibly talented, intellectual and educated people, uses their wits to get involved in the black market. Both became millionaires, but ulitmately became their own downfall in the end.
@reillymcwriting
@reillymcwriting Ай бұрын
Not just that but their motives were entirely similar. Both were not really that horrible at first, Ross wanting to make some money and possibly even make a free trade experiment, and Walter needing to pay for his medical bills. But it’s made more and more clear that neither of them ever cared about the innocent reason. They did it because they liked it.
@marcuscarana9240
@marcuscarana9240 Ай бұрын
@@reillymcwriting And both started as good individuals. Idealistic. Eventually they became corrupted. Both started to feel like a mafia boss and didn't mind having people kiIIed.
@user-dn8ox1rr2g
@user-dn8ox1rr2g 7 күн бұрын
It's another example of how real events can be even more impressive than a lot of fiction
@user-dn8ox1rr2g
@user-dn8ox1rr2g 7 күн бұрын
I imagine if we are all like the Truman show for aliens and they are all this crazy shit we do, I wonder what their opinions or feelings on our behavior are.
@marcuscarana9240
@marcuscarana9240 5 күн бұрын
@@user-dn8ox1rr2g I mean, people are interested at watching bees build a nest and ants digging. So I'm sure they might find us interesting to watch.
@flaminggoomba5785
@flaminggoomba5785 4 жыл бұрын
not gonna lie I thought this was about the ancient silk road for some reason (Edit) : sub to josh bean vlogs
@dandeliontea6299
@dandeliontea6299 4 жыл бұрын
Flaming Goomba same! It wouldn’t be surprising if it was though. The Silk Road was certainly a dangerous and interesting trade route.
@victoriaroybal5738
@victoriaroybal5738 4 жыл бұрын
Omg me too and it took me a good minute to realize it wasn’t
@josephbell3248
@josephbell3248 4 жыл бұрын
I was dissappinted to find out it wasn't
@nickrunyon1129
@nickrunyon1129 4 жыл бұрын
Same, I was so excited to watch a video about all the unnerving shit that happen on the silk road that we never learned about in history class. Then I started watching the video and got even more excited!
@user-sc4hv8qe6f
@user-sc4hv8qe6f 4 жыл бұрын
Same, I feel like it was the camel in the thumbnail.
@Matthew-qx3dh
@Matthew-qx3dh 4 жыл бұрын
This man straight up baited the whole entire World History fan community
@johntan5105
@johntan5105 4 жыл бұрын
THANK YOU! but it was worth it
@connorholt2979
@connorholt2979 4 жыл бұрын
honestly yes
@Jenkowelten
@Jenkowelten 3 жыл бұрын
He got me
@aryboss1514
@aryboss1514 3 жыл бұрын
He got me, but HE DIDN'T. Because I am also a huge internet guy.
@SmoreLegend
@SmoreLegend 3 жыл бұрын
Came for the world history, stayed for the lulz
@madnote43
@madnote43 Жыл бұрын
This is an absolutely brilliant video on one of the most fascinating true stories I've ever heard. Extremely well done sir!
@irohn
@irohn Жыл бұрын
I did think it to be clearly a scam until RedAndWhite appeared, I don't know exactly what it was, but before I knew it I was like "wait, so all those stories were actually real", and was completely hooked until the end. I think it was the same for DPR. The betrayal at the end that it was all a con was shocking and then hilarious. Like others mentioned it was still a tricky situation difficult to get out of, and that clearly played a part in fooling him (and me), but it's also so ironic that in trying to not be blackmailed he actually gave up twice than was originally asked for; it's just so beautiful, a complete and utter manipulation of emotions, intellect and intentions, a masterpiece dare I say
@8.5.edibles
@8.5.edibles 11 ай бұрын
The first two , Friendlychemist, and lucydrop talked the exact same way to me so i also initially thought it was obviously a scam, but yeah something ab redandwhites persona switched it up for me too, his lingo switched up and it definitely didnt have the similarities the first two had, but when redandwhite was avoiding chatting on video ross shouldve knew something was up
@toxicsaiyan7109
@toxicsaiyan7109 14 күн бұрын
​@@8.5.ediblesWere redandwhite, lucydrop, and friendlychemist the same person? I know lucydrop and friendlychemist were but I'm kind of busy and didn't pay attention all the way and it's a bit long I don't want to go through it again.
@sh.osmanov6792
@sh.osmanov6792 4 жыл бұрын
Dude was so manipulated didn't even question the blackmail.txt
@eyegrinder94
@eyegrinder94 4 жыл бұрын
I think there's a point where if you believe that a person is who they say they are and are telling the truth, you kind of stop scanning for things that might not add up, as long as they aren't so glaring that you can't help but question it. But still... blackmail.txt?
@kaiseramadeus233
@kaiseramadeus233 4 жыл бұрын
@@eyegrinder94 probably talking about how it seemed the guy legitimately thought he could get blackmailed. Not even a "wtf this is fake" kind of thing. Just believed it was true and worked to get several assassins in
@fatpen9731
@fatpen9731 4 жыл бұрын
Who was redndwhite and friendlychemist ?
@bcklee1
@bcklee1 4 жыл бұрын
takitaki rumbah the same person, ross got scammed
@styxzero1675
@styxzero1675 4 жыл бұрын
@@fatpen9731 I think they were all the same guy... Lucy, Rednwhite and friendlychemist were all this James Ellingson guy that later got arrested.
@jonathanngai5956
@jonathanngai5956 3 жыл бұрын
Did this guy literqlly just try to pull the "it's a social experiment" / "it's a prank" at the court
@miclelakes7413
@miclelakes7413 3 жыл бұрын
How is it a prank and what would be the point
@brendan1871
@brendan1871 3 жыл бұрын
Money Laundering, Drug Trafficking, and FAKE Hitman Prank/Social Experiment (GONE SEXUAL!) *NOT CLICKBAIT*
@yaboyjonez9476
@yaboyjonez9476 3 жыл бұрын
Imagine the judge setting him free 😂
@renefgc
@renefgc 3 жыл бұрын
@@brendan1871 with a fatass red arrow
@simonm-m8106
@simonm-m8106 3 жыл бұрын
Imagine the judge then being like "understandable, have a nice day"
@TakeNoteOfThat
@TakeNoteOfThat Ай бұрын
What a polite and well-spoken Hell’s Angel crime boss
@MrSlimSheaD
@MrSlimSheaD 9 ай бұрын
I’m a lawyer, and sometimes with criminal cases the Defendant simply refuses to take a plea deal against your advice and you have to go to trial despite not really having a defense. Also remember you’re innocent until proven guilty. Sometimes the best Defense isnt to present your own evidence but to simply say the State hasn’t provided enough evidence to convict me. In my experience that’s usually the argument people who’ve been caught red handed go with.
@TheTERMlNAT0R
@TheTERMlNAT0R 4 ай бұрын
I’m sure his lawyer thought they had some level of defense….or I believe the prosecution had some evidence that Ross’s lawyers didn’t anticipate?
@cherrycola1144
@cherrycola1144 4 ай бұрын
@@TheTERMlNAT0R probably not. There is very rarely evidence that one side does not anticipate… prior to any court proceedings, the prosecution is forced to share all their evidence with the defense (even if the evidence would hurt the prosecution). I’m willing to bet MrSlimSheaD is right, and it was DPR who rejected the deal. The plea bargain was actually very generous - only 10 years for his crimes. I’m willing to bet his lawyer had a hand in organizing that. However, DPR was stupid and kinda full of himself. Plus, he had been planning his defense for a long time. The whole purpose behind the DPR user was so he could argue that the site was not his in the event he got arrested (which he did). It’s almost like he fantasized about getting arrested and then arguing his way out of court… even though any sane lawyer could see DPR’s only chance was getting a good plea deal.
@expiredlettuce141
@expiredlettuce141 4 жыл бұрын
I like how at the end he says have a good night, because this is exactly the type of video you watch at night
@rebeccac324
@rebeccac324 4 жыл бұрын
i’m watching at 4am
@heretustay
@heretustay 4 жыл бұрын
@@rebeccac324 shit, me too
@samsfog3591
@samsfog3591 4 жыл бұрын
I’m watching it at 2:15pm but it’s dark out cause it’s rainy
@moldo7799
@moldo7799 4 жыл бұрын
its 4 am and i'd watch it again
@Yung813
@Yung813 4 жыл бұрын
Shit put me to sleep
@filippobrandini9233
@filippobrandini9233 3 жыл бұрын
“Can you make it 96 hours? I have big plans for the weekend...” when you are in a middle of a complicated standoff but you still want to show up at your best friends birthday BBQ... 😂
@creepypastagoblin1950
@creepypastagoblin1950 3 жыл бұрын
Lol. Yeah. The week in question was also the week of Ross Ulbricht's birthday. Damning indeed.
@Salukis
@Salukis 3 жыл бұрын
Mm yes yummy porkchop
@kregoryklements6918
@kregoryklements6918 3 жыл бұрын
Same thing I thought. Hahahahahh!!!!
@harrymills2770
@harrymills2770 3 жыл бұрын
Unreal.
@Profoundobserver
@Profoundobserver 3 жыл бұрын
That rack of ribs was calling his name
@cheesygoblin
@cheesygoblin Жыл бұрын
“We produce a lot of things that would get this video demonetized” made me laugh way too hard
@yungtec4560
@yungtec4560 3 ай бұрын
he was so caught up in this crime lord fantasy that he couldn’t even realize that all those accounts were the same person? Seemed so obvious to me
@gavriloprincipgaming7857
@gavriloprincipgaming7857 3 жыл бұрын
Me who wanted to learn about the ancient Mongolian trade route: *anger*
@adityarai5367
@adityarai5367 3 жыл бұрын
Me too.
@curtislowe4577
@curtislowe4577 3 жыл бұрын
That YT recommended this to me who watches many history videos tells me that YT's AI is either not very sharp and didn't know that this video was not about the dangers of the ancient trading route or it is not simply sharp but has become self-aware and enjoys displaying its newfound sense of humor by recommending this video to history aficionados.
@markusTegelane
@markusTegelane 3 жыл бұрын
@@curtislowe4577 nah, computers are too stupid to understand context or humour
@asadullahkhan1004
@asadullahkhan1004 3 жыл бұрын
Just read books about silk road.😂😂
@goodguycg
@goodguycg 3 жыл бұрын
I was thinking the same
@jkroeze4418
@jkroeze4418 4 жыл бұрын
Love how “hells angels” guy starts by claiming they don’t do hits and just a bit later he has all this intricate shit planned out
@agustinvega8969
@agustinvega8969 4 жыл бұрын
Exactly lol. “We don’t do hits” and then has guys that do recon, out of town guys, all professional’s who do it right and don’t f*** up. 😂
@theguywhocomments5713
@theguywhocomments5713 4 жыл бұрын
He was fucking with ross let's be honest lol
@adamarmstrong6646
@adamarmstrong6646 4 жыл бұрын
That’s what I thought lol they don’t call it that stuff when they don’t know for sure who they are talking to
@gothie9507
@gothie9507 4 жыл бұрын
yeah I've been threatned by them bc my dad fot ina fought woth one we almost brought it to court and they said they would kill all of my family we moved states
@cucumber623
@cucumber623 3 жыл бұрын
the most polite drug dealer ever
@democracyboys
@democracyboys Жыл бұрын
Sounds like a flaw in all the SR type sites. The fact that any dealer could blackmail the admin with lists of customers. I guess it’s only a few dealers like Ellingson that would be in a position to do this but it still seems possible with other sites too.
@noahconley7514
@noahconley7514 Жыл бұрын
facts
@aicsynthesizer
@aicsynthesizer Жыл бұрын
hells angels on a dark web market?? that's like the mafia selling on newspapers lol
@mortemdecay
@mortemdecay 4 жыл бұрын
ok but why do hitman requests sound like negotiating art commissions?
@spring7643
@spring7643 4 жыл бұрын
😂😂😂
@tonix1993
@tonix1993 4 жыл бұрын
kurapikaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
@LynnAgain83
@LynnAgain83 4 жыл бұрын
Bruhhh
@silariadown5468
@silariadown5468 4 жыл бұрын
Hahahahah
@tacomeme429
@tacomeme429 4 жыл бұрын
"Art requires a certain... cruelty" -some dude from a popular MOBA game who is obsessed with the number 4
@DrHotelMario
@DrHotelMario 4 жыл бұрын
It's like if Breaking Bad was a Discord server
@trainmaniacstudios8216
@trainmaniacstudios8216 4 жыл бұрын
Was literally thinking the same thing Haha
@connorowen1560
@connorowen1560 4 жыл бұрын
Did you know what I was thinking before I even thought about it?
@MrUkulele671
@MrUkulele671 4 жыл бұрын
Best comment
@elijahpepe
@elijahpepe 3 жыл бұрын
At the time Breaking Bad was pretty trendy so I would have imagined that Ross thought of himself as Walter, and that's probably part of the reason you think that way.
@joshuagtz95
@joshuagtz95 3 жыл бұрын
@@elijahpepe The book American Kingpin tells the story of how Ross made the Silk Road. There's quite a few parallels between him and Walter
@jonathanbailie
@jonathanbailie Жыл бұрын
This is absolutely one of *the* most interesting videos/docs on KZfaq. Very well done, and what a crazy story!
@mrrchh
@mrrchh 10 ай бұрын
I love the how the pure friendship and mutual respect was created in chats between R&W and DPR ❤
@2good4soccer
@2good4soccer 10 ай бұрын
He scammed him tho
@sw5646
@sw5646 7 ай бұрын
Yes! Me too, I am puzzled by their politeness. I mean, these are men that torture and kill others (ostensibly).
@atypicalpinetree4212
@atypicalpinetree4212 3 ай бұрын
New idea for a yaoi fanfic ❤❤❤
@torcoolguy
@torcoolguy 4 жыл бұрын
It is mindblowing to me that talking about hits and murders related to drug dealing is cool with youtube, but actually saying the names of drugs is tooooo much.
@TuberoseKisser
@TuberoseKisser 4 жыл бұрын
KZfaq is backwards.
@23mega23
@23mega23 4 жыл бұрын
Shhhhhh don’t say anything YT doesn’t fix anything they just ban the next thing people bring up aswell
@Thumper68
@Thumper68 4 жыл бұрын
Liberal democrats
@ZeranZeran
@ZeranZeran 4 жыл бұрын
(American here) Aren't american laws fucking stupid when it comes to our media? NO BOOBS! THE NAKED BODY IS A SIN!!!! THE KIDS CAN'T SEE THAT! But people being stabbed and bombed and shot? Yeah that's fine for kids. What the fuck is wrong with our country? Why is America so weird about Nudity on TV, yet also has everyone "secretly" watching porn? It's just strange. I hate Europe for a lot of reasons, but their appreciation and common sense approach toward nudity is something I envy and wish America would follow on. It's the Human body.
@spinetta0010
@spinetta0010 4 жыл бұрын
You can still read the drug names
@waspstomper6250
@waspstomper6250 4 жыл бұрын
Imagine; You own the biggest online drug market on earth, making millions per week. Your bit coin wallet will eventually be worth multiple BILLIONS of dollars. Then you get caught because a fed stole your laptop using the oldest trick in the book.
@evaluna122
@evaluna122 4 жыл бұрын
Lol I would have expect him to be a smart Mafia boss but bruh got caught so easy
@tachanka1283
@tachanka1283 4 жыл бұрын
Real life day z, loose it al
@chantzmccauley696
@chantzmccauley696 4 жыл бұрын
Can We Get A F In Chat?
@blackdevilwhitedemon
@blackdevilwhitedemon 4 жыл бұрын
E
@okandokandsson2078
@okandokandsson2078 4 жыл бұрын
The 'Ole lovers quarrel, gets 'em everytime
@Danielle-nz9tn
@Danielle-nz9tn Жыл бұрын
Ross’ parents are definitely in denial. They have already decided he is innocent and therefore they can ask “show me the evidence” all they want, but we all know they will just come up with some story about how it’s fake, how it was planted, how he must have been framed, etc. They SHOULD be advocating for him to get some sort of leniency instead of spending the rest of his life in jail without possibility of parole. But to say he should have been acquitted!!?? They are delusional. Just because the people he ordered murdered were never killed doesn’t make him any less dangerous, since he fully believed they were real people.
@piikes2627
@piikes2627 10 ай бұрын
put this video on expecting it to act as background noise while i finish a few essays, and wow. completely hooked. loved everything about the delivery and just thoroughly enjoyed. amazing watch
@motherdearest3928
@motherdearest3928 3 жыл бұрын
im high asf and i have no idea what’s going on but i like ur voice
@moonfestal
@moonfestal 3 жыл бұрын
My favorite comment
@aleksandram981
@aleksandram981 3 жыл бұрын
Aye I’m high too 😎
@awesomesauze7
@awesomesauze7 3 жыл бұрын
lmao best comment
@SuperCoopdogg
@SuperCoopdogg 3 жыл бұрын
Haha. This took me about 2 hours to watch cause i had to keep rewinding
@laststeelbender734
@laststeelbender734 3 жыл бұрын
Well guess what.....m high too and just rolling my eyes bank and forth
@sambutton8494
@sambutton8494 4 жыл бұрын
Okay well I clicked on this expecting some historical travesties about the Chinese trade route but jesus christ I got invested in something I was not expecting
@heyitsrin6556
@heyitsrin6556 4 жыл бұрын
lmaooo i thought that too
@raksh9
@raksh9 4 жыл бұрын
If you think this is a switch, wait til you visit r/superbowl on reddit. As a non-sports fan, I was very pleasantly surprised.
@jabby6709
@jabby6709 4 жыл бұрын
Thank god I wasn’t the only person expecting a historical video lmao
@davidlawrence9782
@davidlawrence9782 4 жыл бұрын
I thought the same thing as well
@carsoncarruthers9606
@carsoncarruthers9606 4 жыл бұрын
Me too, I was pleasantly surprised by this though
@masterofwit339
@masterofwit339 Жыл бұрын
Wow man. I watched a doc on this somewhere and it was good but this video is insanely great. I just discovered your channel and have already suggested it to so many.
@TheAleqzi
@TheAleqzi 10 ай бұрын
Coming back to this video, had to say, that still to this day this has been one of my absolute favorite videos on KZfaq. Thanks!
@bushidobrown9857
@bushidobrown9857 4 жыл бұрын
LMFAO avoiding demonization must have been like walking through a minefield
@suprcrzy
@suprcrzy 4 жыл бұрын
"Tony76 AKA Canuck"... Ummm, I don't think his name was simply "Canuck" 😂
@nealdamkjer192
@nealdamkjer192 4 жыл бұрын
"I walk through minefields...YEEEAAAHHHHH!" - Keith Flint (Prodigy)
@nealdamkjer192
@nealdamkjer192 4 жыл бұрын
@@suprcrzy GD you can't say nipple??? YT sucks
@alial-issa6893
@alial-issa6893 4 жыл бұрын
Karl Dennis lucy in the sky with Tony
@NorthernKitty
@NorthernKitty 4 жыл бұрын
I think you meant "demonetization"... unless you were talking about Ross Ulbrecht? In which case I think it's impossible NOT to demonize someone who puts out hits, so... yeah. A minefield either way.
@rickykrilovs9508
@rickykrilovs9508 4 жыл бұрын
So let me get this right, some guy tried to blackmail the owner of silk road for $500k, the owner wanted him killed to stop any info being leaked, so that guy created another account and pretended to be a member of Hell's Angels and faked his own assassination and others, so he could actually scam the owner for even more than he originally planned?
@sinsoftheswamp8346
@sinsoftheswamp8346 4 жыл бұрын
This is why people like him with no social skills or basic understanding of how the crime world works shouldn't be involved in crime(myself included)
@sinsoftheswamp8346
@sinsoftheswamp8346 4 жыл бұрын
@Rich depends on the criminal but usually yes
@luk7400
@luk7400 4 жыл бұрын
Social engineering 101
@starry_stelle
@starry_stelle 4 жыл бұрын
@MrKalashnik0va OK pickle Rick
@james_gemma
@james_gemma 4 жыл бұрын
I hear you on that. I thought Ross Ulbricht was a person with an above normal intelligence. But I was amazed that he could not put all this together and immediately see that he was being scammed, It seemed so obvious to me as I was reading the messages and timelines. I mean come on...Hells Angels!? LMAO. I would have banned all their accounts immediately with all that nonsense.
@Ajwct
@Ajwct 9 ай бұрын
Anytime I’m bored and have nothing to do I rewatch this masterpiece of a video.
@OliviaRubin9
@OliviaRubin9 Жыл бұрын
The funniest part to me is that the scammer actually fucked up at one point while acting as RedandWhite - they say that they kidnapped FriendlyChemist's partner, not LucyDrop's, at 32:55. And Ulbricht didn't even notice, he just assumes they meant LucyDrop's partner! The scammer definitely isn't a great person by any stretch (based on the fact that they seem to have screwed over plenty of end customers as well), but I'd be lying if I didn't say I got quite a bit of schadenfreude from watching Ulbricht walk directly into this trap.
@twinzzlers
@twinzzlers Жыл бұрын
Well the customers were probably libertarians so I don't feel too bad.
@IAmStillHere-ws4jc
@IAmStillHere-ws4jc 6 ай бұрын
I caught that too! Adding to the earlier slip-up with “real” Lucydrop asking how DPR knows Friendly Chemist… this guy’s really not paying attention.
@jimzafiriou7808
@jimzafiriou7808 2 ай бұрын
Nice spotting, I missed that.
@zp5718
@zp5718 4 жыл бұрын
I don’t remember the last time I watched an entire hour+ long video without skipping... great storytelling and narrative skills.
@caringheart34
@caringheart34 4 жыл бұрын
I watched inquisitormaster's 5 hour long video about John Doe with my eyes open about ten times already since 2017, let me say, it was bad.
@PeterMwangi-pe5uz
@PeterMwangi-pe5uz 4 жыл бұрын
Same here, his narrative skills and keeping us captivated shines through. Some channels even a ten minute video feels like torture
@maxwell1934
@maxwell1934 4 жыл бұрын
true
@cookie123.
@cookie123. 4 жыл бұрын
try fredrik knudsen
@HopeCasias10
@HopeCasias10 4 жыл бұрын
ZP accurate
@blackwersus
@blackwersus 3 жыл бұрын
I'm just amazed by the Hell's Angels' politeness and spelling.
@blackwersus
@blackwersus 3 жыл бұрын
Oh wait nvm, that's why
@RealRotkohl
@RealRotkohl 3 жыл бұрын
@@blackwersus LOOOL best comment!
@kayel2849
@kayel2849 3 жыл бұрын
and tech savvy too!
@Ryan_scott15
@Ryan_scott15 3 жыл бұрын
The hells angles do some crazy shit but iv had family members say that they are polite and genuinely like to help people
@Babyvalkyie
@Babyvalkyie 3 жыл бұрын
@@Ryan_scott15 yupp. My dad has ridden and worked on Harleys since I was a wee lass and the ones I've got to meet were nice 😇
@cuh5018
@cuh5018 Жыл бұрын
This is by far the best video i've ever seen on youtube. Just came back to rewatch it and its truly amazing.
@chickennuggetthedog
@chickennuggetthedog Жыл бұрын
This was so well put together. Thank you so much. I enjoyed this a lot.
@adelaideco.
@adelaideco. 4 жыл бұрын
Should've used NordVPN
@pwnmonkeyisreal
@pwnmonkeyisreal 4 жыл бұрын
should have taken a class from Skillshare to not get scammed haha
@0riain468
@0riain468 4 жыл бұрын
Should’ve changed identities using dollar shave club
@bulksquatthrust8792
@bulksquatthrust8792 4 жыл бұрын
You know what he should snack on while tucked away, hiding from hitmen? Nature Box.
@pr4thidude465
@pr4thidude465 4 жыл бұрын
should have played raid shadow legends
@starsax6451
@starsax6451 4 жыл бұрын
Could have saved about 15% of the trouble by using honey
@BioHazard634
@BioHazard634 3 жыл бұрын
The real twist would be if even DreadPirateRoberts was just another one of this dude's aliases and everything was just him talking to himself.
@kimgysen10
@kimgysen10 3 жыл бұрын
And then ending up in prison for talking to himself like a real bozo lmao.
@tempzira
@tempzira 2 жыл бұрын
That's some shutter island shit HAHAHAHA
@cbracing808
@cbracing808 2 жыл бұрын
Well if you can believe that dread was another alias of this same dude and Ross was a fall guy, then that was actually a pretty good idea. I assume this guy is serving time for drugs and blackmail, which I alot better than going down as the silk road mastermind which guarentee gets life in prison..... plus if that's that case, he probably has millions in bitcoin hidden because nobody looked that hard after they found ross..... I mean obviously Ross did this but that is an interesting alternative reality.
@utilitarian
@utilitarian 2 жыл бұрын
I honeslty expected this to be the case. IUnless I missed it, the narrator highlighted when "RealLucyDrop" mentioned "FriendlyChemist" for the first time that DPR hadn't mentioned FC to RLC but no more came of it?
@zimmermb64
@zimmermb64 2 жыл бұрын
Love this…
@itsryno532
@itsryno532 9 ай бұрын
Came here for a documentary about the road 2000 years ago and got this, still earned yourself a sub this was incredible
@karimlaghrissi4992
@karimlaghrissi4992 2 күн бұрын
Congratulations for great content. This was enticing and intriguing all the way. Thank you for such delivery and dedication.
@littledeath9540
@littledeath9540 4 жыл бұрын
How Ross was caught straight up sounds like a skit from snl
@reesetorwad8346
@reesetorwad8346 4 жыл бұрын
It wouldn't even be hard to render that method useless. If you take proper precautions, somebody "just grabbing your phone/tablet/laptop and running away" would be laughably easy to defeat. In a variety of ways.
@acreepykiwi6788
@acreepykiwi6788 4 жыл бұрын
I clicked thinking this was a history of the trade routes connecting Asia and Europe between ~200BC and ~1700AD
@rx500android
@rx500android 4 жыл бұрын
Same
@jekanbg
@jekanbg 4 жыл бұрын
You're not the only one 🙂
@jeffreytoman5202
@jeffreytoman5202 4 жыл бұрын
Same here
@cash3394
@cash3394 4 жыл бұрын
Your school project will be alot more exciting if you write about this
@imposter-982
@imposter-982 4 жыл бұрын
Then you’re dumb
@icep0pp
@icep0pp Жыл бұрын
I don’t have a shred of sympathy for Ross. He genuinely thought he murdered several people and was ok with that. I don’t even care if that’s not his charge. He’s a pretentious little slime ball and his parents are doing him NO favors by being in such denial. It’s pathetic, really. They’re now scammers themselves.
@the_lava_wielder6996
@the_lava_wielder6996 6 ай бұрын
Cringey to hear the barely sociable clinging to these idealistic capitalist "he's just the embodiment of a market force man" as a way to forgive this shitty guy
@toxicsaiyan7109
@toxicsaiyan7109 14 күн бұрын
I agree.
@Mackletackle
@Mackletackle 4 күн бұрын
I see a lot of fellow history buffs being suprised it isnt the trade route but yet still happily ready to learn
@NurseCarnivore
@NurseCarnivore 4 жыл бұрын
so glad this was randomly recommended to me. so fucking interesting
@gillhammer333
@gillhammer333 4 жыл бұрын
NurseCarnivore EXACTLY!
@NarcolepticNerdProductions
@NarcolepticNerdProductions 4 жыл бұрын
Agreed!
@popdelix581
@popdelix581 4 жыл бұрын
Saame maybe we're being targeted to investigate into some new "silk road" iam an avid tripper.
@NurseCarnivore
@NurseCarnivore 4 жыл бұрын
Explosive Joseph avid tripper? 🤔 tell me more 🤓
@popdelix581
@popdelix581 4 жыл бұрын
@@NurseCarnivore dont think too deep into it. means i trip avidly. If you dont understand my terminology you need more fun in your life.
@kevinkev417
@kevinkev417 3 жыл бұрын
Damn homie was ordering murders like I order underwear on Amazon. I take the 5 for $20 pack every time.
@garyball6986
@garyball6986 3 жыл бұрын
No man it was the wish list
@gaint6288
@gaint6288 3 жыл бұрын
Lmfaooo
@macalloway1
@macalloway1 3 жыл бұрын
This dude don’t order nothing but fake hits if you include the fbi one. There’s a lot of nuance in how people talk and type and it’s almost like a fingerprint. Who did he think he was talking to? A Harvard graduate criminal mastermind. Who would this person have to be to have the combination of skills to do all the crimes they was talking about and write detailed messages in that manner. It sounds too noir fiction
@elcomediante7717
@elcomediante7717 3 жыл бұрын
"everytime?" MAAAAANNNN stop LYING You know us as men buy one or 2 packs of boxer briefs and we will have them for like 2-3yrs before getting New ones hahaaha My fault im just ME I tell it how it is hahHaha
@TooCoolForYou-jy7vt
@TooCoolForYou-jy7vt 23 күн бұрын
i come back to this video every couple of months it never gets old keep up the good work man!
@selenasmith2248
@selenasmith2248 Жыл бұрын
I'm so shocked about the story that you are presenting I did not know that any of this was going on. I want to say I thank you for taking the time to do these videos to educate those who are in the world that these things were going on right under our eyes
@MuchWhittering
@MuchWhittering 3 жыл бұрын
The fact that FriendlyChemist was supposedly murdered on the 1st of April is an excellent coincidence.
@user-my9ok1nz1j
@user-my9ok1nz1j 3 жыл бұрын
high caliber trolling
@dazaway
@dazaway 3 жыл бұрын
I want to laugh and not at the same time
@BahhBahhBrownSheep
@BahhBahhBrownSheep 3 жыл бұрын
@ghost Yeah I'll take a bucket, too
@QVlogs.
@QVlogs. 3 жыл бұрын
@@Thanosdidtherighthing op
@twat3789
@twat3789 3 жыл бұрын
@@Thanosdidtherighthing you got any of the hard stuff like strepsils?
@BDtetra
@BDtetra 4 жыл бұрын
Maybe the real Dread Pirate Roberts were the friends we made along the way.
@suckmyb0222
@suckmyb0222 4 жыл бұрын
BDtetra one piece reference? Lmfao
@FanFicnic
@FanFicnic 4 жыл бұрын
I literally dropped my phone from laughing
@vertexed5540
@vertexed5540 4 жыл бұрын
He should have quoted wesley in the court case when they asked if he was DPR
@neophyticSeraphim
@neophyticSeraphim 4 жыл бұрын
no i want my fucking drugs
@asbestosfish_
@asbestosfish_ 4 жыл бұрын
BDtetra That is _not_ how you use an apostrophe.
@moquilla1
@moquilla1 11 ай бұрын
Couldn’t stop watching this, good stuff! Kept me entertained at work for a moment.
@ZitMaGaming
@ZitMaGaming 10 ай бұрын
Came to know about a 2000 year old trade route, stayed for an online black market
@Funnylittleman
@Funnylittleman 4 жыл бұрын
This is the scariest thing you've posted so far. Getting mixed up with people like this sounds like absolute hell.
@TheSapphyre
@TheSapphyre 4 жыл бұрын
@RWDS scamming criminals out of money is stupid and greedy, but is it really something that you should pay for with your life? That's not justice. If Ross was the one who ordered those hits (3 of which were of people who had hardly any connection to him, and no direct connection at all), and since he almost certainly was, he definitely deserves that sentence. He's no more than an intelligent and power hungry disease.
@homegrowntwinkie
@homegrowntwinkie 4 жыл бұрын
@@TheSapphyre You're right. It's stupid and Greedy. Is it really something you'd want to pay for with your life? That's what Friendly Chemist and Lucy Drop should've been thinking. It was their own Graves they dug. I was involved in the drug trade with extremely scary people by a normie's standards. But they never hurt me... Why? because I always conducted good business and made sure things were good. Ross was in the right, because he was being extorted, blackmailed, and his business was being threatened, as well as many other vendors. Ross was in the right. And Originally he just wanted to scare the guy so he'd leave him alone and quit trying to fuck him over. Sounds pretty sane to me. Also, I am aware that this is strictly a hypothetical, since LucyDrop, FriendlyChemist, and RedandWhite were all the same person and no one actually got killed.
@CarrotConsumer
@CarrotConsumer 4 жыл бұрын
@@homegrowntwinkie His business was illegal and shouldn't have existed at all. He should have cashed out and left it behind, not attempt to murder. No one was in the right here. He played a stupid game and he won a prize worthy of his actions.
@Marshmallow_Trees
@Marshmallow_Trees 4 жыл бұрын
It really was. 😳 Chilling in how cold and easy everything was said. It’s amazing the shit people get caught up in, the shit they do to each other, the shit they do to get themselves killed...FriendlyChemist threatened a lot of lives. Though what he actually knew had little significance, he himself didn’t know that. He was willing to sacrifice others for his greed, not even for his family’s life. If I heard the threat over my family’s life was lifted, or at least lessened, I’d be so goddamn grateful. Time to hide. But he persisted. People get killed in this shit all the fucking time, it makes me sick. And they just look like regular dudes. This seriously terrified me.
@homegrowntwinkie
@homegrowntwinkie 4 жыл бұрын
@@CarrotConsumer Yeah, but no. Legal actions hold no ground when it comes to what's morally right. Drugs shouldn't be illegal. If they weren't, then this kind of shit wouldn't happen at all. I'm really not going to go in depth over it, strictly because I've done this a million different times, and there's so many fallacies to point out about it, that it would take a book to explain it all. DPR Was right by having a market which was online, anonymous, and way safer than buying drugs in person. He created a network that he made a cut from. Simple business tactics. If you don't want it to exist(and there are literally millions of black market tor sites) then you decriminalize drug use. But, it's not that way, so these actions come with the territory. Now, let's say your child or something is held for ransom... And the police won't help you for whatever reason. What do you do? Whatever you can do to get your child back. He built something, only to have someone scam him for a portion of it. He was in the right. Someone was attacking his business, clientele, etc.
@skylarrose4176
@skylarrose4176 4 жыл бұрын
Jesus Christ this was incredibly well done. I had no familiarity with the case and couldn't sleep until I finished the video. I'm heartbroken to see that there are no ads. You put in so much work into these. This is by far my favorite of yours yet
@Link-ji7kx
@Link-ji7kx 4 жыл бұрын
Skylar Rose mine had an ad!
@XxdipstcklovrxX
@XxdipstcklovrxX 4 жыл бұрын
i had ads too :D!!
@thecclan2
@thecclan2 4 жыл бұрын
I have six ads! Legit don’t mind it because Barely Sociable put so much effort into this.
@cIeetz
@cIeetz 4 жыл бұрын
@Jesus Christ you obviously dont know what a shill is. only make sit more ironic that ur username is Jesus Christ and ur far from saintly
@loljustice31
@loljustice31 4 жыл бұрын
Why are you heartbroken? Think of how terrified you were while listening to this as an adult. Imagine if eight-year-olds sat here listening to this. As much as I love this channel and have so much respect for the creator, I don't think content like this should be so easily available to kids who feel like watching it. People like to say in response "it's the parents' responsibility to prevent their kids from watching" but when you were a kid, could your parents really stop you if you wanted to watch whatever you wanted? Even the best parents can't prevent their kids most of the time, it's just too easy and kids are smart enough to find a way to watch what they really want to watch. Demonetizing doesn't even prevent kids from watching, it just isn't advocated by youtube which is the very least they could do. But it bothers me that the general attitude on part of both creators and viewers is that they genuinely don't care how messed up kids would be by watching anything and everything they want online. Those kids would become adults, and I'm almost certain that any one of us can say we were messed up well into adulthood by at least one inappropriate thing we saw as kids.
@sayanneogy3079
@sayanneogy3079 8 ай бұрын
Genuinely one of the best videos on the internet.
@kadevohn
@kadevohn 11 ай бұрын
i know im late to the party on this one but outstanding video. you really did a great job with this one brother the boys are proud of you 💪🙏
@md.niamulahadchowdhury6407
@md.niamulahadchowdhury6407 3 жыл бұрын
Plot twist: Ross was DreadPirateRoberts, FriendlyChemist, and RedAndWhite. This was Fight Club. It was all in his head.
@bounzig
@bounzig 3 жыл бұрын
You mean Fight club, right?
@md.niamulahadchowdhury6407
@md.niamulahadchowdhury6407 3 жыл бұрын
@@bounzig Damn, you're right.
@gabriel-qz9ps
@gabriel-qz9ps 3 жыл бұрын
F**** C***
@Monasaurus_Rex
@Monasaurus_Rex 3 жыл бұрын
I hate that I laughed hard at this for a while
@kdawson020279
@kdawson020279 3 жыл бұрын
Hey, the first rule is that you don't talk about it. The second rule is that you don't talk about it. I jokingly asked my wife of almost 19 years now to marry me when she said she loved that film. 15 months later, I did. I am Jack's midlife crisis these days.
@borissaid4542
@borissaid4542 4 жыл бұрын
The man who scammed dread pirates roberts is a genius
@davidr5284
@davidr5284 4 жыл бұрын
It's not genius, it should be the norm for anyone dealing with this stuff, but of course, there are so many incompetents. Social engineering is a very powerful skill.
@Hausershawn
@Hausershawn 4 жыл бұрын
It seemed a little too perfect half way thru, obvious some bs was happening
@spartanxdj
@spartanxdj 4 жыл бұрын
Honestly it was very obvious that Lucydrop and FC was the same person. You can tell from the first message Lucydrop replies to DPR. Also, redwhite said “he never spoke with any high level hells angels officers, so he doesn’t have anything on us” yet, a high level hells angels officer was messaging DPR after FC told them to contact DPR. All too convenient. I’m gonna lean on the side that DPR was a crazed idiot instead of the scammer was a genius.
@davidr5284
@davidr5284 4 жыл бұрын
@@spartanxdj Definitely this. I even say the scammer was way too sloppy, but DPR was just so incompetent he fell for it. The real masters of social engineering in the trade don't get caught at all.
@syrup7894
@syrup7894 4 жыл бұрын
@@spartanxdj reallucydrop also talked about friendlychemist without DPR saying anything about him
@queefmince
@queefmince 11 ай бұрын
This is my comfort video I hope you know that I’ve watched this video over 20 times and I come back to it in my darkest moments because it’s such good storytelling and your voice is soothing
@cattisms
@cattisms 11 ай бұрын
it’s my comfort vid too :D i sleep 2 this vid
@Hugos68
@Hugos68 11 ай бұрын
Great video, been a while since I watched an hour video this focused
@jamiesachtleben2946
@jamiesachtleben2946 4 жыл бұрын
This guy must play GTA V roleplay servers like a God. Pulling off three different identities perfectly
@zeppkfw
@zeppkfw 4 жыл бұрын
When your years of GTA V roleplaying experience makes you a millionaire.
@jeobonilla
@jeobonilla 4 жыл бұрын
Wtf... this is a thing?
@zeppkfw
@zeppkfw 4 жыл бұрын
@@jeobonilla You must be new to the internet my boy?
@jeobonilla
@jeobonilla 4 жыл бұрын
ZeppKF Yeah day one... idk how I missed gta role play 🙄
@ColeFo
@ColeFo 4 жыл бұрын
jeobonilla you poor soul
@CiDK
@CiDK 3 жыл бұрын
You telling me the feds got his laptop by using the "look over there!" trick?
@cylemons8099
@cylemons8099 3 жыл бұрын
Even if he ignored the couple they would have tried something else later anyway. When the government is behind you and you dont know it, getting caught is just a matter of time.
@Johnny-tw5pr
@Johnny-tw5pr 3 жыл бұрын
@@cylemons8099 Death note style
@TommyGunz
@TommyGunz 3 жыл бұрын
@@generalhypocrisy1876 yeah it's called making sure the Gov't gets their cut, and you always play ball with them, and never piss them off. They're the biggest criminals of all, and have no issue working with and allowing other criminals to continue their business as long as you play by their rules and dont cause to many issues or draw to much attention..
@poeticdisaster7500
@poeticdisaster7500 3 жыл бұрын
Yup.
@generalhypocrisy1876
@generalhypocrisy1876 3 жыл бұрын
@@TommyGunz the thing with criminals are that they have a way of getting you and there’s always a way out. If someone speak with the right people, not those that thinks “sell sell money money” but those that are serious about it, you might be able to take from the government instead of kissing their ass. And on top of that we are on the good and the more intelligent side, there goes a lot more IQ and thought into doing drug dealing for the people that for example being a policeman because you want to show your glock. So if we find the right people we will Bruce lee those motherfuckers
@lindseyclair921
@lindseyclair921 3 ай бұрын
42:17 “good luck and be safe” had to actually come and look at my phone to make sure I heard that right because LOOOOOOOOOL
@krich451
@krich451 Жыл бұрын
Has anyone else rewatched this like ten times now? It's like an irl thriller movie.
@Tourettes0
@Tourettes0 Жыл бұрын
so so many times, it is a perfect video to listen to
@flywrite94
@flywrite94 4 жыл бұрын
Wow the person who scammed him hit a gold mine. Turns out the Friendly Chemist wasn't that friendly after all.
@notstinky9274
@notstinky9274 4 жыл бұрын
Hostile chemist
@LDAR
@LDAR 4 жыл бұрын
@@notstinky9274 i hate that i laughed at that
@LampyGames
@LampyGames 4 жыл бұрын
So basically his legal defense boiled down to "it was just a prank bro"
@ViralSavage_
@ViralSavage_ 4 жыл бұрын
Lmaoo
@codrinmoisa4290
@codrinmoisa4290 4 жыл бұрын
It was a social experiment bruh
@jaidynpeffer4242
@jaidynpeffer4242 4 жыл бұрын
logan paul walks out of the back rooms of the court IT JUST A PRANK BRO
@maybeja
@maybeja 4 жыл бұрын
Why you mad bruh just a prank bruh
@ducktape4502
@ducktape4502 4 жыл бұрын
Check the documentary about this. This video is kinda biased. The agents that stole the money have a bigger part in all of it. Same with the bitcoin exchange guy
@mikedeezy
@mikedeezy 9 ай бұрын
Awesome video! Crazy research went into this! Thanks 🙏🏼
@HistoricalShark
@HistoricalShark Жыл бұрын
Honestly, I feel like you’re the only creator outside of maybe yesterworld and like 2 others who actually puts thought and care into putting out a truthful and direct mostly unbiased documentary on events. Good on you man. Wish I had money to donate, but I don’t. Just know that I really enjoy your content.
@anonymousyoutuber1405
@anonymousyoutuber1405 4 жыл бұрын
Everyone says its terrirying but it just sounds like mafia fanfiction lmao
@ashleyshim2078
@ashleyshim2078 4 жыл бұрын
Lol😂
@Holygiant
@Holygiant 4 жыл бұрын
It's pretty disturbing until the reveal that it was all a scam. I was thinking the whole time that everything redandwhite said seemed way too Hollywood, but I figured crazier and more fucked up things have happened and the presentation made it seem like it was real. I was thinking, "oh shit, someone actually got lured to a warehouse and murdered, for real." Then it all adds up.
@ZeranZeran
@ZeranZeran 4 жыл бұрын
It's the implication.
@anonymousyoutuber1405
@anonymousyoutuber1405 4 жыл бұрын
@@Holygiant i dont know....i just couldnt get over how "hollywood" it sounded. I know the guy really thought he was killing someone, but I was so distracted by the fact that i KNEW it was fake by how phony it sounded that it just ended up being about a guy getting tricked out of a lot of money to me.
@xxxgpakos6237
@xxxgpakos6237 4 жыл бұрын
fr
@anomaly3340
@anomaly3340 3 жыл бұрын
Is it me or are DPR and R&W surprisingly polite to one another. “My mistake, I should have checked with you before sending all four hit men.” Lol
@emir2080
@emir2080 3 жыл бұрын
LMAOOO LIKE THEYRE TALKING ABOUT SENDING COOKIES 😭💀
@DavidHenderson1
@DavidHenderson1 3 жыл бұрын
I think we forget that everyone's human, including the bad guys. Bad guys have feelings (tho, a lack of sympathy towards their victims) and show politeness too.
@mzaki8503
@mzaki8503 3 жыл бұрын
because R&W is Canadian :D
@KraZSK
@KraZSK 3 жыл бұрын
They just tryna do business, plus they both hate scammers equally as much lmao
@anomaly3340
@anomaly3340 3 жыл бұрын
@@KraZSK well, one of them is a scammer
@pattiharvey1787
@pattiharvey1787 Жыл бұрын
Well done! I was riveted start to finish. Excellent!👍
@JaydnKearsarge
@JaydnKearsarge 8 ай бұрын
Not sure what I expected when starting this video. I knew it wasn't going to be about an ancient trade route, but I wasn't expecting this either. Well done though, I don't think anyone has ever made reading a bunch of other people emails for an hour so interesting!
@MohamedSalah-cg3is
@MohamedSalah-cg3is 3 жыл бұрын
IMAGINE a guy reading emails is much more entertaining than hollywood's action movies !!! What a channel !
@officialslaytovenmusic
@officialslaytovenmusic 3 жыл бұрын
real lifes a trip lol
@plaguerat7015
@plaguerat7015 3 жыл бұрын
Ok you’re kind of exaggerating here I’d probably rather watch a Hollywood action movie
@MohamedSalah-cg3is
@MohamedSalah-cg3is 3 жыл бұрын
@@plaguerat7015 I really did enjoy this video THAT much. Normally i might lose focus while watching a mediocre movie. but that one had me focused through out the whole thing. obviously the level of enjoyment might vary from a person to another.
@lightwalker1751
@lightwalker1751 3 жыл бұрын
bro that plot twist at the end blew my mind
@valskraacapo720
@valskraacapo720 3 жыл бұрын
@@lightwalker1751 That the hits/accounts was not real?
@crisissage
@crisissage 4 жыл бұрын
That friendly chemist guy and redandwhite stuff actually blew my mind. Literally played 10D chess and destroyed that guy.
@ewoknips5154
@ewoknips5154 4 жыл бұрын
Yea he did, it was like checkmate in 5 lol. Right before he started explaining the twist it just clicked in my head Shutter Island style and it totally blew my mind lol. That dude's epic
@abuasraf5273
@abuasraf5273 4 жыл бұрын
Amazing move.
@AverageAlien
@AverageAlien 4 жыл бұрын
it started off as 4D chess and ended up being 10D
@Ren-mu1tq
@Ren-mu1tq 4 жыл бұрын
He was too naive
@abpanda1596
@abpanda1596 4 жыл бұрын
@@Ren-mu1tq I agree. Who the fk sends 650k dollars without actually doing his research. For a smart guy he was unbelievably stupid.
@MuchWhittering
@MuchWhittering Жыл бұрын
Today is a historic day. It's 10 years since FriendlyChemist was murdered. Rest in Peace, "Blake".
@josephkony3993
@josephkony3993 10 ай бұрын
This is one of the best videos I've ever watched. Can't believe stuff like this is here for free
@alexduran1711
@alexduran1711 4 жыл бұрын
Oh my god, this is basically a documentary
@calebsherman886
@calebsherman886 4 жыл бұрын
It's amazing, isn't it?
@KandiBabyy
@KandiBabyy 4 жыл бұрын
Caleb Sherman YESSSSSSS!
@dns7095
@dns7095 4 жыл бұрын
I’m not mad
@ewok47
@ewok47 4 жыл бұрын
only the BEST documentary
@something6510
@something6510 4 жыл бұрын
Shane Dawson should take notes.
@beowulfmacbethson9675
@beowulfmacbethson9675 2 жыл бұрын
I love how almost everybody came in here expecting to hear about the actual silk road, eager to hear about the complications of such a wondrous and lengthy trade route, but instead they find one about a black market site of sorts. It's like going to an orchard expecting some apples and finding a bunch of oranges. Not what you wanted but hey, they're oranges, no complaints there.
@jamesporrell5687
@jamesporrell5687 2 жыл бұрын
'Almost everybody' lol, tell me you're over 40 without saying you're over 40. (Just joking! Insane that you've never heard of The Silk Road before two months ago!)
@mikiesnaxx4604
@mikiesnaxx4604 2 жыл бұрын
Its the thumbnail picture of the guy on the camel that is misleading
@ishid_anfarded_king
@ishid_anfarded_king 2 жыл бұрын
@@mikiesnaxx4604 that was the silk road website logo
@ninamarkovic4853
@ninamarkovic4853 2 жыл бұрын
@@jamesporrell5687 yes 48 year old lady here yes i clicked on this to learn about the old trade route called the silk road..i am a non techy and i heard of bitcoin as imaginary money..i can see why the banks do not like this concept...scam heaven..that they cannot control..interesting how this story unfolded..this old duck lives in the real world , i do appreciate the storytellers skill in explaining such things to the layman..
@Phantom_Zone
@Phantom_Zone 2 жыл бұрын
Especially when you like Oranges.
@So98902
@So98902 Ай бұрын
this video is so good man I always come back to it after I forget it
@technomickdocumentalist2495
@technomickdocumentalist2495 10 ай бұрын
Extremely well made documentary, new subscriber. 👌👍
@6000hall
@6000hall 4 жыл бұрын
Why the hell would you walk away from a computer while logged in to your multi-million dollar startup?
@dustinblack2006
@dustinblack2006 4 жыл бұрын
It's probably a stretch by the fbi to cover their asses about how they actually acquired the laptop.
@MemberNo2
@MemberNo2 4 жыл бұрын
Ulbricht didn't leave his computer. He simply turned his head to look at the commotion that was happening behind him. An FBI agent quickly walked up to Ulbricht's laptop (from a direction outside Ulbricht's peripheral vision), grabbed the laptop and then tossed it to a fellow agent. It all happened in a couple of seconds.
@derekk.2263
@derekk.2263 4 жыл бұрын
Why would you go to a library to sell drugs.
@billtheone3467
@billtheone3467 4 жыл бұрын
@@derekk.2263 public network
@6000hall
@6000hall 4 жыл бұрын
@@derekk.2263 For the thrill
@ReddoFreddo
@ReddoFreddo 3 жыл бұрын
"We import a lot of things that would get this video demonetized and import a lot of things that would get this video demonetized in massive bulk amounts." had me dying.
@N.Nocturne
@N.Nocturne 3 жыл бұрын
In case anyone is wondering, 28:55
@hieatus1039
@hieatus1039 3 жыл бұрын
If you read carefully you can still read it tho.
@woundedsanity
@woundedsanity 3 жыл бұрын
@@hieatus1039 shhhh! xD
@domhuckle
@domhuckle 8 ай бұрын
Love that this guy had a tab open on his laptop marked "evidence against me"
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