"how is this legal" is giving "how dare these poor plebs eat the same food as me for less money" energy

Seeing how surprised Shane is by store brands, everyone's like "oh that proves he's been cosplaying as a poor person this whole time" but it's deeper than that. Him being so shocked makes it seem like he's literally never been in a grocery store.

Did he think they were going to like genetically engineer their own pistachios? Of course the pistachios are the same

my favorite part is he didnt dare step foot into a walmart to get the animal crackers, he had to order them from amazon

Shane Dawson supposedly grew up poor but is shocked by cheap off-brand private labelling in grocery stores.

The fact that he's treating generic foods like this just proves to me that he was never as poor as he claimed

I genuinely wish I was as stupid as Shane. Imagine living a life where even the smallest most innocuous things can blow your mind. Life would be one hell of an adventure.

If Shane is shocked by stores having “off-brand” food and stuff, wait till he finds out about medicines doing the same😮

How is someone so out of touch that they are so completely shocked by the existence of off-brand products

Could you imagine coming in to Aldi to do your weekly shopping, only to find Shane Dawson and his friends freaking out over generic cereals?

So actually I used to watch Shane as a pure innocent child not understanding things years ago and I was also a bit of an animal nerd So one time Shane was reviewing a video that “proved we lived in a simulation” in a conspiracy video. This was also the last Shane Dawson video I ever watched cuz it annoyed me that much. It was a video of someone on a train filming a bird that was stationary in the air. That apparently proved everything as it was “the earth glitching”. I’m a paranoid person at the best of times. But oh my god that is just proof of a lack of understanding. I tried to talk to my friends about it and THEY ALL BELIEVED IT TOO. Lost my mind trying to explain it was just a kestrel which are famous for their ability to fly into the wind to stay still to hunt for prey. Got no where so I’m commenting this here for the hopes someone hears me cuz omg I am still loosing my mind over it to this day.

I never realised he tried to replace Andrew so directly oml did he go hunting for someone with similar mannerisms or did he straight up tell the man to act that way

The fact that the entire first theory was just Shane realizing that off-brand foods are a thing is pretty annoying for someone obsessed with playing poor.

For someone to have “grown up poor” he sure seemed to forget generic brands existed once he got famous

As someone who works at Chuck E Cheese, it’s kind of infuriating that I work so hard to make pizza dough, go through rushes by myself, and make menu items for people to then accuse me of reusing someone else’s work. Edit 9/18: I just got a promotion! I’m a kitchen trainer now! I have lots more knowledge than before lmao

Shane's the kind of person that thinks just because he didn't know something it's a huge conspiracy

shane being appalled by generic brands is just fueling my conspiracy theory that he hates poor people

I grew up in a very poor family. We almost specifically only shopped at Aldi's for a lot of my life. It's Wild to see someone who claims to grow up poor have such a disconnect from how making fun of these things can be harmful to lower income families.

i'm pretty sure my mom explained generic brands to me when i was like 6 because i was confused why they were selling the same thing twice. her explanation was "the generic is cheaper". i said "oh. ok" and then the wildest thing that happened about it was i thought i was a brilliant savvy little saver for picking out generic products at the grocery store more often. lil me was so proud to be above being fooled by flashy packaging. lmao it was kinda silly how proud i was of myself. but apparently by shane dawson "conspiracy" standards i was an absolute genius for noting that incredibly common business practice

What Shane should do next is pay $100 for a vial of insulin in the US and then travel to New Zealand, but generic insulin for $5 and be scandalized.

I find it so baffling that Shane is suprised that one bag of Pistachios is exactly the same as another?? They're pistachios???? How different could they possibly be???

All Shane's conspiracy videos can be summed up as "this could've been an email"

The psychology of store layout is very real and very well documented. Costco moves things around intentionally so that you have to go through the whole store to find the thing that you want.

I am so glad Andrew and Garrett left because they are awesome and are actually funny and entertaining and GOOD PEOPLE that got wrapped into the wrong crowd

Jarvis here has the energy of in school when you KNOW you fucked up badly because the super sweet and laid back teacher is actually visibly angry.

it baffles me that shane is still making content

I find it wild Shane felt so comfortable making content based on his own cluelessness. Looks like he'd have done a Google search, realized that it wasnt a conspiracy and like...picked a new content.

Okay but even growing up middle class, we still always got the generic brands because companies charge extra for branding, and that was understood.

as someone who grew up in poverty, Shane's video is literally the funniest thing for the wrong reasons. it's the equivalent of that one video of Kendall or Kylie Jenner cutting a cucumber.

"i understand storytelling, okay? like i understand building suspense and all that, but like... i'm a hater. what can i say? i'm a hater today" i felt that in my very soul

The pistachios in particular really tickled me. Why does he expect a different brand of nut to be different. Its still a nut 😂

Did the audio randomly keep cutting out for anyone else?

An hour of Shane Dawson being so priveleged that he doesn't know what generic food brands are

The outrage over the pistachios is wild. Imagine going to two different grocery stores and being rattled to the core that the roasted and salted nuts they sell are the same 💀

As someone who grew up going to aldi and eating generic brands (we weren’t even super poor like Shane claims he was) I’m in shock that he doesn’t somehow know this like I thought everyone’s moms were like “oh get the generic it’s the same”

The dumbest part of this whole thing is that he *knows* about private labeling because he worked with morphe- a private label makeup company. He’s just smelling his own farts at this point.

I am sorry am I hallucinating or did Shane Dawson just tried to make the fact that pistachios are all the same a conspiracy theory???

i work in a craft store and so many people complain about them losing service and try and argue that it’s so “they can’t access the coupons and pay more” but it’s literally just a giant metal building

This reminds me of when I worked at Marshalls and I overheard two teenage girls looking at the clearance shoes section. They scoffed at the prices and one of them said, "Why would you buy this here at Marshalls for $20 when you could buy it at the actual store for $200?" They laughed, put the shoes back, and left the store. To clarify, Marshalls does sell the real designer brands, just at a discount for being last season, etc. They just wanted to be able to brag about spending the full price.

The real "conspiracy" is that like 10-20 major companies own conglomerates of all the 1,000+ 'competing' brands in american grocery stores. Although its somewhat easy info to find online, shane dawson could never find it 😅

As a person who has directly profited off of selling shitty makeup just because it was under his name/label and Jeffree Star’s name/label, you would think Shane would intimately understand the value of branding and why companies charge more for it. Lol.

Am I about to suffer through watching something stupid Shane Dawson did just because I want to hear Jarvis call me premium? Yes, yes I am.

jarvis was mad as hell this whole video and i’m so here for it 😭😭

This is genuinely the most infuriating video I’ve seen in a while; this is a grown man getting shocked about something that any *normal* person who’s been in a supermarket would know. Their weird “oh we thought this was homemade by Trader Joe’s personal cookie chefs in their backrooms, it’s bespoke!” viewpoint of all this is one of the most out of touch things I’ve heard in a while. Lmao

shane dawson thinks it should be illegal to have access to cheaper versions of a product?? does he not see how insane that is to say :')

The thing that stuns me the most about Shane is that he's the same character that he was 10, 15 years ago. People change and grow naturally. But Shane has refused to do so. In his personal life, he might be different. But his YT character is still acting like a 13 year old from the Valley who is shocked about the smallest things we all moved on from after middle school.

imagine being a struggling single mother doing your weekly grocery shopping at aldi just to turn down the snack isle and see a grown man and a camera crew absolutely losing their minds that generic brands exist

When I was a gullible kid who used to watch Shane Dawson before all the bad stuff came to light, I believed so many of his conspiracy theories. It got to the point I was being detrimental to my own health bc I was so afraid that using things like chapstick would end up being bad for me. Just knowing that there are still kids who watch his videos and believe in all his bullshit fills me with such primal rage

cannot believe shane made essentially an entire video giggling and laughing with his cronies while pointing at food that poor people have to buy lmao

shane quite literally made his personality off of being “poor” or living lower class as a child yet acts as if no name brand cereal is the same thing as the AI generating. It’s just insane to think he has been living in his own bubble for so long he is so ignorant.

shane must pay his camera man big bucks to act surprised, cause if someone showed me the cookie stuff i would have been like, 'yeah? so what?'

Them acting shocked at a lack of cell service in the huge warehouse-like stores WHEN MOST OF THOSE STORES HAVE THEIR OWN FREE PUBLIC WI-FI FOR THAT EXACT REASON is so frustrating to me

Shane’s next conspiracy theory: “What if I told you… Facebook sells your data?”

Watching Shane, Ryland and Chris trying to figure out the logic behind private labeling is like watching three sofa cushions trying to play chess. They're all so collectively, intractably stupid that it's unnerving that they have so much money.

21:28 don’t let Shane Dawson find out about Omega Mart, if he does then we’re all doomed.

It brings me a lot of joy that Eddie's video on ghost kitchens still has over double the views that Dawson's attempt to cash in on it has

They’re SO OUT OF TOUCH to see generic brands as a ~conspiracy theory~ and be in shock about it 😭 have they never been to a Walmart or typical grocery store…

with how often shane and Ryland say "I'm scared~ 😨", i'm genuinely surprised they're able to get out of bed in the morning, given how much fear they must overcome daily to do things like /checks hand/ eat cookies? my goodness, i'm impressed they haven't died of fright yet.

i used to work at a red robin and trained hosts thru ghost kitchen to go orders and our boss would get so mad if we accidentally used a red robin bag instead of a plain brown bag with a chicken sammys or fresh set sticker, as if the people ordering it didnt realize they were walking into a fucking red robin to pick it up.

Here’s my conspiracy theory: Shane’s never actually gone grocery shopping 👀👀

This just came to my mind, but Matpat from Game Theory actually came out to disprove the Chuck E. Cheese thing. He even tested it out across multiple restaurants and came to the conclusion that they look like that because it’s cheap pizza cut with a dull rocking knife. The funniest part of the whole thing is that he refused to say Shane's name out loud, as though just mentioning him might get him demonetized 😅😅😅.

"I can't believe Trader Joe's scammed us by telling us they were bougie organic" they literally did not

…The entire point…of Trader Joe’s…is that they sell generic versions of bougie groceries… so you can get them cheaper… it’s not a conspiracy it’s literally how their business functions. Like. What???

Shane: is this stupid? Is this only crazy to me? Jarvis and I simultaneously: YES.

Shane really tried to make a conspiracy out of him not understanding how food and shopping works for the working class.

I work at Aldi, people do this shit all the time, just come in and make fun of the stuff at the budget grocery store specifically designed to be accessible to people with lower income. It pisses me off lmao Also the generic of Gogurt is called Moo Tubes and that's my favorite thing 😂

Trader Joe's definitely has some original products unique to them as every brand does; but why is it such a shock to them that they have knockoffs of stuff 😭

Oh man, it really pisses me off buying pistachios, a notoriously expensive thing, for a fraction of the price of Wonderful. What a scam. I can’t believe Trader Joe’s doesn’t have a pistachio tree in the stock room.

If this is a surprise to Shane imagine how absolutely pissed he will be when he finds out the pears at different stores all come from the same place.

Shane calling everything a conspiracy has the same energy as tiktok ppl slapping “core” onto everything

Anyone else seeing parts of the video where the audio cuts out momentarily?

12:00 when i’m in nyc for school i literally go to trader joes BECAUSE of how much cheaper it is 😭

Shane Dawson: I was so poor Also Shane Dawson: Generic brands are a thing?!?!

Should we tell Shane Dawson about the conspiracy theory that people who work at these grocery stores wear the same outfits? I think the stores may be forcing them to do this. Sometimes different stores with the same name have same outfits too.

The fact that Shane doesn’t know that generic brands are extremely common in ANY STORE YOU EVER SHOP IN IS SUCH RICH PEOPLE BULLSHIT!!!!! Like what the hell????

It’s crazy that Shane made an hour long video that could’ve just been like two sentences

Every single Shane video is me writing an essay 30 min before the due time, without any research, just reusing one argument 6 times, slightly differently worded.

"I never get cell service at the grocery store!" My mom used to get bad service at the elementary school she worked at. It wasn't a big conspiracy about them blocking teachers from the outside world, we just had shitty cell service.

I feel like I just watched Jarvis experience his own version of the Sisyphus myth

I'm so glad you made this video because I was recently curious what Shane was posting after yet another cancellation, but didn't want to give him the views.

Shane Dawson when products are made in the same factory: 🤯😔🙏

Shane Dawson's conspiracy made working at Chuck E Cheese more of a nightmare than just working at Chuck e Cheese. I was there for 8 years and the worst was fielding calls from parents making sure we didn't recycle pizza. 🙃

Weird comment- I rewatch videos for comfort, and I watched this video two days ago and it was normal. Right now though, there's random parts of the video that are suddenly muted? I've checked everything with my phone, it's not me, I'm so confused what happened

Wow, them making fun of the toaster tarts really gave off the same energy that elementary schoolers would give when making fun of someone for having off-brand snacks and stuff. also, as someone who works in a grocery store, not having service or good wifi is a super common occurrence. it's just because there's a ton of people in there and a lot of other technology that slows it down

I loved the fact that Shane acted like he's never been in a grocery store in his life. Grocery stores always have the generic brands next to the name brand because it's there to be a cheaper alternative. Thank you for going through the pain of watching that entire video to give us this GOLDEN content.

Shane is showing us the dangers of surrounding yourself with yes-men. NOBODY TOLD HIM THIS WAS A BAD IDEA.

I may be late but, here’s a note about stores having horrible connection: A) You are within a building of THICK brick/ substance (it Atleast enough for it to be sturdy and a box) B) The stores he referenced often have metal roofing + lining and basically metal everywhere which (obviously I’m not putting this perfectly) can cause issues with connection due to electronic currents and metals being conductive. (Can a physics person please explain in more depth because I am for too lazy to do that!! )

I'm confused, does Shane think all store brands are just name brand products in a different package? They can be sometimes but we've all had a store brand something that is clearly not the same. In fact most of the time it's not the same. Also, sometimes the store brand happens to be better lol

Wendigoon has said that one of his main inspirations for starting a KZfaq channel was so that Shane Dawson wouldn't be the face of conspiracy theories on KZfaq anymore 😂

Another very infuriating moment in this video was when they ran 5 steps through the rain with their off brand groceries from Aldi or something and Ryan complained to Shane in the car that this was an absolute humbling experience

when i loose phone service in a store i dont go "😨😨😨CONSPIRACY!" i simply think aw man my music stopped and continue to do my shopping

The fact that someone got pissy enough to claim and mute part of this video... It's commentary, it's fair use-

I will never forget how his original Chuck E Cheese pizza video was spliced into his friend’s story of escaping an abusive relationship.

Wait til Shane learns about generic brand medicine 🤯

Not only did I grow up on generic brands but I now work at a factory that does something similar for other companies. It's funny to watch someone lose their minds over this. Great video :3

He didn’t even touch what I feel is the most problematic part of private labeling, which is big stores rebranding or renaming products so that it’s harder to compare prices. Wayfair and Overstock do this on everything. Or like how Home Depot and Lowe’s have big manufacturers use different product numbers for the same items, so it’s harder to cross-shop. Even those aren’t conspiracies either, but they are much more anti-consumer than anything in Shane’s video… SMH

his conspiracies always felt like he heard a random rumor and thought it was more important than it was. "theres a conspiracy that if you eat beans they make you toot. there is even a children's rhyme calling them 'the musical fruit'! They arent shown that way in grocery stores, so today we eat some beans to see if the conspiracy is true!"

There's a way to build suspense & there's a way to build an annoyance

One of Canadas most iconic brands, the No Name brand, is a generic brand. Like that’s our equivalent of the trader joes brand. It’s a beloved generic brand and literally every Canadian knows about it. Like generic brands are SUCH a well-known concept Shane is just such a damn idiot I can’t 😭

I actually did an experiment for my stats class about the aldi doritos!! And shane was straight up lying about how they taste exactly the same, they taste completely different!! They look visually different, and the aldi ones have a much stronger flavor!