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 :(

You sir are a talented investigative journalist. I'm hooked

Thanks!

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

what’s the next video?

this is literally what I thought this video was about, rofl

Same 😂 still watched it though

@@Jamsomeone Me as well.

Same

I said exactly the same thing out loud :'D

I was hoping the same as I'm currently studying Economics in Uni. But shit went dark real quick

The camel on the sand path definitely was misleading xD

Same here

Me too 🤪

😭

Yeah, that was so callous, non-chalant and heartless.

So casual. Like he was sending an email to his boss or something

And imagine theres countless idiots on youtube supporting him and wishing he would be free

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.

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.

kash Bamba same

get agrop

Well it was an historic trade route for the internet

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.

Dread pirate

I am forever going to call silk "worm-cloth" now, thank you

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

Piehogger mood

Aha same here i was hoping for some epic stories about the Mongols or something

Lmaooooo same!

It depends on exactly how the statutes are worded. The legal issue would've been the same regardless of who he was talking to.

That's what I don't understand about people religiously defending him, mainly extreme libertarians who are high on the kool aid. Ok, so the people that he ordered hits on were fake and he got scammed. Sure his stupidity and gullibility, as well as te stupidity of running a dark web illicit marketplace that facilitated the drugs and arms trade that was tied to his freaking Gmail account is pretty hilarious, but the bottom line is, at the time of ordering the hits he very much believed it was real. Thats the important part his white knights seem to put so much effort into ignoring, probably hoping it goes away. Everything I'd need to know about this guy's moral compass is thanks to those messages. Was tge scammer in the right? Of course not, but it tells you that the people who run sites like the sill road and all their clones, as well as most libertarians who defend them aren't doing it in your interest as a consumer being screwed by a tyrannical government and bureaucratic red tape, but in the interests of criminals. They want to make it harder to catch, try, and punish these criminals who ate more than capable, at least psychologically, of doing great harm to others with zero remorse. Sure the scammer is also a POS, but he accidentally did us all a favor by revealing the evil behind these so called attempts to stick it to "big government".

It’s pretty widely assumed that he was indeed talking to LE

@@BigFreem assumptions mean absolutely nothing without hard proof.

Absolutely nailed it.

Shut up, fucking weeb. -fucking weeb.

@@josephoyek6574 You sound like a moron -a moron

@@candeeartist8590 Artists are irrelevant - a smart man

@@chloewinnaa1515 I don't know what you're implying but whatever go off sis

@@candeeartist8590 just comtinuing the chain of insulting the person above. Nothin' personnel kid

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?

@@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

Who was redndwhite and friendlychemist ?

takitaki rumbah the same person, ross got scammed

@@fatpen9731 I think they were all the same guy... Lucy, Rednwhite and friendlychemist were all this James Ellingson guy that later got arrested.

soo glad i am not the only one!!!!

me too!

Fr, his voice is so comforting

Haha same here

How? this shit makes me so paranoid and uncomfortable

Its called not being street smart

@@mbtravel7294 Mhm

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

The hell does being from Texas have to do wit anything 😂😂

UT Dallas

Me too.

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.

@@curtislowe4577 nah, computers are too stupid to understand context or humour

Just read books about silk road.😂😂

I was thinking the same

Was literally thinking the same thing Haha

Did you know what I was thinking before I even thought about it?

Best comment

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.

@@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

the encryption would be useless once it was in the hands of the FBI they would crack that computer for everything it has

Also just straight up leaves computer open in public. Id never do that and I don't have that much to hide lol

Exactly. Blew my mind when BS said the sentence was too harsh. Ross did not care about anyone’s life but his own.

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

Which was arguably entrapment, not to mention the max penalty being 9 years in prison, not life without parole

​@@TheTERMlNAT0R So you would be willing to commit murder to maintain your business?

@@dogguy8603 How was this entrapment? It wasn't law enforcement doing this, it was a scammer

THANK YOU! but it was worth it

honestly yes

He got me

He got me, but HE DIDN'T. Because I am also a huge internet guy.

Came for the world history, stayed for the lulz

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.

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.

@@davidr5284 How do you know all this? lmao

wongoli wongo HAHAHHAHAHAHAH

Isn't it awesome!!! There's so many single milfs near me!!! And they all wanna fuck!!! They email me all the time!!!

RNW:"hi stranger, I am a criminal and have commited multiple murders recently. Even though I know nothing about you and would have to assume you are a cop I will offer you multiple 1st grade murder felonies. All good? Now when are you going to pick me up?" The whole story had more holes than cheese

The man was inexperienced in this whole type of operation. I would not be surprised if the FBI hit had similar amount of holes in it. Dude's ego high was probably getting the better of him and made him think illogically

Because Ross was just a regular guy who was in way over his head. He's not the violent drug lord slash criminal mastermind the government made him out to be

those hell's angels folks seem mighty fine

Kevin Nix r/woooosh

@Kevin Nix I either love u, or hate u for that comment.

@@jacksonelh they are canadians after all

@@RadkeMaiden we do quite enjoy our crack addicts.

Thats the kind of thing that would be in a comedy movie

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

My take is the guy was a complete idiot who's narcissism made him believe he was untouchable. His arrest was inevitable.

Almosy makes it sound fake... or like he was set up.

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

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

Who else is here from the tweet 👇

​@@AdityaKumar-uf5home

U were talking like u saw this video earlier... nah bro, u just watched this video because of the tweet

Hey Daily! Found this video after seeing your tweet

Came here after your recommendation. Currently downloading, will watch it later.

"Tony76 AKA Canuck"... Ummm, I don't think his name was simply "Canuck" 😂

"I walk through minefields...YEEEAAAHHHHH!" - Keith Flint (Prodigy)

@@suprcrzy GD you can't say nipple??? YT sucks

Karl Dennis lucy in the sky with Tony

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.

KZfaq is backwards.

Shhhhhh don’t say anything YT doesn’t fix anything they just ban the next thing people bring up aswell

Liberal democrats

(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.

You can still read the drug names

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?

@@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.

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

high caliber trolling

I want to laugh and not at the same time

@ghost Yeah I'll take a bucket, too

@@Thanosdidtherighthing op

@@Thanosdidtherighthing you got any of the hard stuff like strepsils?

duuude saame, i thought this was about THE silk road....but this is interesting too ig

What's about marco polo

@@seaweed6668 He was a writer and explorer who allegedly travelled to East Asia via the Silk road

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Funniest comments thread yet (amongst MANY funnies!)

omg i think you just won every comment section ever. i really hope everyone does understand this as history even recent like ww2 history is being forgotten, oh man my stomach hurts this was such bad dry humor that it hit the nail on th head in one strike i'm dead

facts

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.

It seemed a little too perfect half way thru, obvious some bs was happening

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.

@@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.

@@spartanxdj reallucydrop also talked about friendlychemist without DPR saying anything about him

How is it a prank and what would be the point

Money Laundering, Drug Trafficking, and FAKE Hitman Prank/Social Experiment (GONE SEXUAL!) *NOT CLICKBAIT*

Imagine the judge setting him free 😂

@@brendan1871 with a fatass red arrow

Imagine the judge then being like "understandable, have a nice day"

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)

@Rich depends on the criminal but usually yes

Social engineering 101

@MrKalashnik0va OK pickle Rick

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.

Lol I would have expect him to be a smart Mafia boss but bruh got caught so easy

Real life day z, loose it al

Can We Get A F In Chat?

E

The 'Ole lovers quarrel, gets 'em everytime

He scammed him tho

Yes! Me too, I am puzzled by their politeness. I mean, these are men that torture and kill others (ostensibly).

New idea for a yaoi fanfic ❤❤❤

Well the customers were probably libertarians so I don't feel too bad.

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.

Nice spotting, I missed that.

they probably meant the hidden side.

@@aBlindManOnAcid what the fuck

@Grace Asher Drugs. Thats the bright side

@kie fuck mdma do lsd or shrooms stay away from the addictive shit even psychedelics can be addictive

Drugs are good. A lot of people use them recreationally. People exchange money safely online for drugs. That’s good for any economy

Same

You're not the only one 🙂

Same here

Your school project will be alot more exciting if you write about this

Then you’re dumb

should have taken a class from Skillshare to not get scammed haha

Should’ve changed identities using dollar shave club

You know what he should snack on while tucked away, hiding from hitmen? Nature Box.

should have played raid shadow legends

Could have saved about 15% of the trouble by using honey

BDtetra one piece reference? Lmfao

I literally dropped my phone from laughing

He should have quoted wesley in the court case when they asked if he was DPR

no i want my fucking drugs

BDtetra That is _not_ how you use an apostrophe.

Flaming Goomba same! It wouldn’t be surprising if it was though. The Silk Road was certainly a dangerous and interesting trade route.

Omg me too and it took me a good minute to realize it wasn’t

I was dissappinted to find out it wasn't

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!

Same, I feel like it was the camel in the thumbnail.

😂😂😂

kurapikaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Bruhhh

Hahahahah

"Art requires a certain... cruelty" -some dude from a popular MOBA game who is obsessed with the number 4

Lol. Yeah. The week in question was also the week of Ross Ulbricht's birthday. Damning indeed.

Mm yes yummy porkchop

Same thing I thought. Hahahahahh!!!!

Unreal.

That rack of ribs was calling his name

Richard Roberson I mean he does have friendly in his name.

Walter White IRL

I DID THIS FOR YOU

Why not? He dealt LSD, far from heroin or even cocaine. They're just people, you're elevating them into something else.

@@infiltr80r People endangering their families for extra cash?

Oh wait nvm, that's why

@@blackwersus LOOOL best comment!

and tech savvy too!

The hells angles do some crazy shit but iv had family members say that they are polite and genuinely like to help people

@@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 😇

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.

@@cylemons8099 Death note style

@@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..

Yup.

@@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

i’m watching at 4am

@@rebeccac324 shit, me too

I’m watching it at 2:15pm but it’s dark out cause it’s rainy

its 4 am and i'd watch it again

Shit put me to sleep

For real, all those coins would be a fucking fortune today

It’s like a fucking treasure

Literally 1 coin is 28k now

facts holy fucking shit

@@youthening That first hit as of a couple hours ago would have been worth 58 million. lol

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.

lmaooo i thought that too

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.

Thank god I wasn’t the only person expecting a historical video lmao

I thought the same thing as well

Me too, I was pleasantly surprised by this though

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. 😂

He was fucking with ross let's be honest lol

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

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

the most polite drug dealer ever

Trust me, nobody cares

Don't worry we don't consider this an issue - Not the NSA agent ;)

I swear I'm watching this because I thought it was the trade route silk road

Same

@@danny8284 Y Yyyy Y Yiy Yy

Right? Like holy shit, that’s insane.

289 million by now. This shit really is crazy.

it's crazy because that's not even a 10% of what he got seized back then. He'd have over 5 billion today.

It’s fake

@@user-bs1lr4qj8r youre fake, robot

What really scary is this is how ALL people with enough power think and operate. Including those in government.

"He's gone." Damn son.

DPR really called a hit on a guy with a wife and kids like Damn he deserves to be locked up

The guys he called a hit on were threatening to cage/kill thousands of people. Kinda an important detail you left out :s.

@@dennisne Cage? Yeah. Kill? Debatable. You could say comprising those people to the feds would put their lives in danger but he wouldn't put them in any physical harm directly. Also all DPR had to do was give him the money which is much more reasonable than taking a man's life considering DPR was insanely rich. Now that I think about it didn't he pay more to have him killed than he would have just giving him the money? He put the hit on him because he was a liability to his money, no moral reason.

these nerds are scary, my guy

@@TxBzSpectral I was shaking the entire time watching this whole ordeal. Amazing how these sorts of things are occurring on a day-to-day basis without the average person knowing a thing.

LMFAOOOOOOOOO yo I laughed so loud at this comment

No they're just intelligent criminals.

@@issamdjadja8701 “shacking” 🤔🤷🏽‍♂️🤯

No man it was the wish list

Lmfaooo

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

"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

SAME

f in the chat

it make me so fucking happy when I heard RedandWhite was scamming him. It probably means the real people involved in the distribution were working alongside Hells Angels to scam the man.

@@jvlinx665 damn I agree

SPOILERS

Hahaha good point

He made and used that gmail when he was just starting to make that website. Then forgot or couldnt destroy all mentions of that gmail from the internet.

I never understood why people use their entire name as their email. That's just dumb.

That sounds like trouble waiting to happen.

People are really smart until they aren’t.

It's amazing, isn't it?

Caleb Sherman YESSSSSSS!

I’m not mad

only the BEST documentary

Shane Dawson should take notes.

Dont be foolish. All of that shit really happened

Hahahahaha I forgot he said that. Man that makes the burn critical

Eli Elshani - Ross is a Savage, I would be scared shitless being blackmailed

XD

NurseCarnivore EXACTLY!

Agreed!

Saame maybe we're being targeted to investigate into some new "silk road" iam an avid tripper.

Explosive Joseph avid tripper? 🤔 tell me more 🤓

@@NurseCarnivore dont think too deep into it. means i trip avidly. If you dont understand my terminology you need more fun in your life.

And then ending up in prison for talking to himself like a real bozo lmao.

That's some shutter island shit HAHAHAHA

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.

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?

Love this…

Subbed btw

You mean Fight club, right?

@@bounzig Damn, you're right.

F**** C***

I hate that I laughed hard at this for a while

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.

What is the mafia but a bunch of drama about money?

Drug dealers go through a ton of fucking drama.

100th like

You can hear Mexico nervously laughing in the distance.

Drama that could get you killed though...

it is history, just not that far back

@@benadrylsmoke5481 if I had a Reddit account id whoosh you so hard bro

@@harrylane4 doesn't work bro considering 50% of my humor comes from taking things literally so r/woooosh

relatable

@@benadrylsmoke5481 r/saved

Lmaoo

It was a social experiment bruh

logan paul walks out of the back rooms of the court IT JUST A PRANK BRO

Why you mad bruh just a prank bruh

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