Hi! Long time no see! So, as a bit of context for this video, originally this was a “discarded” video topic that I had intended to be a main channel video, but it eventually just sort of fizzled out. In February of this year, I revisited the topic, worked on it a bit more, and then recorded this video. The recording then remained in “the vault” for several months until late August, when I revisited it again, and edited it into this video for the second channel. The video I am currently working on for my main channel has spiralled into an hour-long-ish video and is taking a lot longer than I had anticipated, thus my lack of posting. When it became apparent I wouldn’t have a video to post for a couple of months, I decided to take a quick little break from the main channel vid, to edit this archived one, as a bit of a “sorry I haven’t posted in a while”! I hope that you enjoy this video and I hope to have the main channel video ready soon. Thank you all for your continued support on both channels! :)
It still does not explain the severe lack of photographs of it. Why? Well, because it took place in the bloody New... York... City... after all. To Hell with all the apathetic Newyorkers; the place should have been brimming with tourists, so they would have taken most of the pictures, . . . . . . so where the heck are they?
I was in New York around that time and didn't even know it existed. If that was their idea of marketing, they failed. Edit: Forgot to mention, I was a documentary photographer, so if I'd known a world's second-biggest whatever-the-crap was going to be around, I would've photographed it.
I'm curious, and I'm not asking this to be be condescending, I'm legitimately curious how old you are? Because in 2007 MySpace was at its peak, Facebook and RUclips existed, the iPhone and Twitter were each one year out and the term "to go viral" had already been a thing for a few years... with examples like the Star Wars Kid and the dancing baby that were each nearly 10 years old as hugely popular memes by then. It's impossible to know why this marketing campaign wasn't successful with the information we have, but I think it had just as much of a chance to go viral in 2007 than it would today. Personally I think the interesting story here is that M&M invested in a hugely expensive marketing campaign that involved creating a giant M&M Statue of Liberty to float down the Hudson River and literally no one cared.
@@GarettAndCarissa Because times change, including what people find funny and what trends. For example, if Charlie Bit My Finger, an incredibly well-known meme that was posted in 2007, was posted in 2024, I am almost certain it would be sitting at, like, 20 views. The internet has evolved so much since 2007, and that includes social media and what people wanna watch. The Statue of Liberty M&M is more what you'd see go viral today, with Twitter memes like the Lisa Rinna M&M, being much more popular nowadays, hence me saying it was ahead of its time. Also, whether you find my reasoning sensible or not, it really doesn't matter. My comment was supposed to be a joke about an M&M in the image of the Statue of Liberty, not an actual analysis of trending topics from 2007. If you think the internet is nothing but analysis, facts, and serious topics, this must be your first time online.
@@Lunicaplayslmao so you're basically saying by today's standards marketing is at its peak because our generation is easily exposed to capitalism which makes more money for these shallow corpos.
Im shocked something this big was so badly documented, like what were new yorkers thinking in 2007😭 wdym no one took a picture and posted it to some social media?!
People didn’t carry cameras everywhere before the smartphone era, which technically began in late ‘07. Which means someone would have to have purposefully had a film or digicam on them for one specific ice-cold January day, taken a photo, went home, downloaded it to their PC, resized it(internet was so slow then), found a place to host the image, uploaded it, and then manually shared it via email, forum post, or maybe on MySpace, because Facebook was featureless and lame at the time. Most of the free photo hosting sites from then have folded, along with MySpace.
I was about to say that any news of it probably got overshadowed by the Boston Mooninite Panic of 2007 (which, happened in the same exact month) but remembered that it happened like 20 days after the M&M Statue of Liberty got put up
Social media was barely a thing in January 2007 and there weren’t any phone apps for the platforms that did exist. I still remember using Twitter’s SMS feature to post tweets to my account, that’s why their character limit was 140 for so long.
In 2007 it could take 30 minutes to upload one picture to social media on good internet, which would fail if the quality was too high. That's assuming you had a digital camera and a computer that could read the medium your camera stored it on. SD cards were still fairly new, then.
Back then you have to be careful and discrete when taking photo of Liberty and Brooklyn Bridge. Even taking photo in subway station might have the cops questioning you. It was the war on you know who era and before the proliferation of smartphone that made taking photo at non-human subject acceptable
I used Facebook in 2007; it was possible to upload pictures but internet speeds were low enough that it was time consuming to do, so, not as many pictures were posted. Facebook was mostly personal status updates, free low quality flash games, and pokes to your friends' profiles. Oh, and you had to have a college email to even join, so not as many people even used it then.
As someone who graduated high school in '07 I can confirm the lack of pictures is weird. I didn't know anyone with a smart phone yet but my flip phone was capable of taking better pictures than its screen could display.
🤦 Oh no, not another one of these kids. Okay, children, listen: things existed BEFORE those little rectangular flat objects that start with a lowercase "i".
I feel like the fact that many photo hosting sites popular during that time have either gone defunct or made photos inaccessible (e.g. photobucket) could be one reason.
@@WhatDoesMyChannelNameMean Yeah. Duh. Obviously. Cameras existed before they were in phones at all too if you didn't know that. That has nothing to do with my post though. I was referring to the likelihood someone actually has a camera in their pocket. Once they were on phones, and a broke guy like me has one, that's pretty much everyone.
@@WhatDoesMyChannelNameMean You keep commenting this effect, which is bizarre because nobody's claiming the concept of photography hadn't been invented yet, rather that smartphones hadn't (which is true, the first iPhone was released later that year), and so cameras were less widespread then than they are now. If you think smartphones haven't increased the amount of photos people can and do take, I don't know what to tell you. Well, I do, and it's the same thing thing I'm going to tell you regardless: get over yourself, the "kids bad" attitude was never productive, nor was it ever correct.
@@WhatDoesMyChannelNameMean You're annoying, everybody knows cameras existed before the iphone. You're just trying to make it seem as though you're better than everybody else
hi! i’m related to the CEO of Mars so maybe i can find something? it’s not close family but it’s close enough that we’ve seen the ceo’s son at weddings & funerals.
You can barely even see the Statue of Liberty itself from NYC, even from Battery Park, that's how far into the Hudson Bay the island is and don't forget the statue of liberty is 300 feet tall, this statue is 6 times shorter so it would be even less visible. It's actually not surprising at all that nobody noticed or at least not enough people noticed to actually care to take a photo
@@Dell-ol6hbI live in NYC and I usually go inland so I barely see the Statue of Liberty entirely, only on the tip of Manhattan or in the World Trade Observatory. No-one would have seen that at all if most people aren’t at the outlines of the city
Love it when you do the most Unemployed™ activities humanly possible and it circles back around to something akin to a 40 hour work week, 2 kids and a mortgage. My hero
I only just realized that it was only just posted, and that I has so few views! I assumed that it ended up pretty popular haha Also I love your work man! Keep it up
I got to about 3:45 and decided to try and find my own picture of this statue. I looked for only 20 minutes but found nothing. So you are definitely right. It’s quite elusive, for some bizarre reason. I’m interested to see what you find from this point in the video forward.
I also have paused at 3:45 but it's more because the second "citation" of the sighting is simply restating what the first blog reported. So it's actually NOT proof of the sighting. That being said, I am 💯 invested in this story now! I love that this is now an interactive video - we are all watching and investigating along 😂
I love that an advertising agency proudly boosted about their great advertising skills such as with the 55' M&M statue, which was such an advertising failure barely anyone knew it ever happened and they didn't even have a professional video or photographer.
Potential long-shot approach: Since it never made it to headquarters there is a high probability it was hauled away by someone. There are a large but finite number of construction debris disposal firms in NYC. You could try contacting some of them to see if they remember hauling away a 55' M&M statue of liberty. I'd imaging if anyone did and was still working there, they would remember something like that. Then again, it is New York, so that may be far from the weirdest thing they've hauled away.
Pretty sure this wasn't in the video, but I actually found two clips about the m&m statue of liberty! One is 10 minutes long, and one is less then a minute which is a news report. It's posted by the channel "rosenbe". Both videos are titled "M&M New York". I searched up the randy m&m video title to find them, I barely had to scroll to find it! Hope this uncovers a little more information about her.
My parents and I lived in New Jersey RIGHT next to the Hudson River at the time… I was only freshly 3 years old (as the statue was displayed on Jan 19th and I had just turned 3 two days prior on the 17th) so I don’t remember much at all, but I asked my parents about this statue and somehow they also have never heard of it… how!!? We lived right next to the Hudson and you’re telling me you not only didn’t see a 50 foot tall m&m Statue of Liberty floating down the river directly next to your apartment but also don’t recall ever hearing any news about it from the media nor in conversation with anyone at the time???
This is the high quality content I don't only expect, but demand from RUclipsrs. Keep up the good work. Constantly raising the bar and doing it, flawlessly.
I’m pretty sure plenty of photos were taken. But in 2007, *posting them online* wasn’t the social habit it’s become today. Most likely, the majority of photos of Lady Liberty’s M&Msona are sitting in dust-caked memory cards in the drawers of a thousand former tourists, or lingering in digital family album montages not played for years.
I love when people on the internet go on deep dives about things like this. As a very curious person myself these videos are always very intresting to me. It's truly weird that the News, New Yorkers or even tourists didn't photograph the statue and it does look like a dead end. However, there have been many instances in the past where the internet worked together to unveil the truth and so, I know that if enough people see this, we will know what happened to her eventually. Keep us updated please.
"The 55 foot tall M&M Statue of Liberty from 2007 remains erect inside of all of us, in our hearts and in our memories, and no one can take that away". Forget Shakespear, this is the single greatest line ever created in the history of the world.
From all things big that float, my interest was peaked at the big rubber ducky from way back and I want to say it was during this time in history too as I kinda vaguely recall seeing Ms Liberty in an article along side the rubber duck.
I remember this advertising stunt! I saw it on a morning talk show! I remember saying how i wished i could go see it. If i remember correctly, it happened around my bday, and i bargained with my parents, but they were saving up for a surprise WDW trip for the family, so i was denied. I still think this was a cool stunt for the time it happened during. I wish i had gone to take pictures, though - even if the Disney trip was great.
Sometimes whenever I eat M&Ms, I like to hold two m&m's in between my fingers and squeeze as hard as I can until one m&m cracks. I eat the cracked one, and the one that didn't crack becomes the champion. Then I grab the other m&m, and force it to compete with the champion in this deadly game of m&m gladiators. I do this until I run out of m&m's, and when there is only one m&m left standing, I send a letter to m&m's brand with the champion m&m in it with a note attached that reads: "Please use this m&m for breeding purposes."
I know exactly how you feel, to find something really amazing that nobody even talks about, or heck even remembers, despite clearly having broke records and stuff like that. My experience is with The Misadventures of PB Winterbottom.
55’ M&M statue of lady cosplay said “oh no no no no we aren’t not even going to WHAT I DO’s house” and then realized “mama a girl behind you” and then she said she had to go to ellie & mason HOUSE 🤍
i love how i generally wouldn’t give a damn about this statue if there were a lot of photos out their but the fact there’s only one and nobody thought to take a photo so it’s literally just a ghost atp
this was a really stellar video and a really great runtime. kept me so invested. no notes! thank you for providing this queen with her spotlight finally!
It takes a lot to get the attention of New Yorkers 🧐 the NY400 in 2009 has some photos but barely was talked about and some people don’t even know the city turned 400 years old this year, not to mention the countless events that go unnoticed in a city of almost 9 million that’s really dense. There is literally a wildlife refuge inside the city that no one talks about and goes to even though it’s accessible by subway, bike, ferry, and car. Also a plane crashed into a neighborhood in Queens a month after 9/11 yet not a peep. Additionally next to no videos of countless parades such as 08 and 12 Super Bowl aftermath and even few attention of the 2001 loss. It’s just so bizarre 😵💫
LMFAOOOOO, the LinkedIn callout is so damn funny, as someone that’s also needed to use LinkedIn once for that, and forgot to cancel, I felt that in my soul.
To be fair... New York was still pretty wounded at the time. Watching the twin towers burn and crumble after watching them get struck by airplanes kinda made people a bit numb to the NY skyline for a bit... Looking at it and seeing the empty space brought back painful memories. Especially on that particular side... I can understand why not too many people would have taken pics that lived there.
the most impressive thing isn't that newyorkers didn't take a picture. but that the guy who did it didn't think of taking more than one. people may not have had cameras in their pockets, but wedding photographers existed and were more numerous. hiring a professional photographer for an advertising campaign was ubiquitous.
Actually the statue can shapeshift so she turned into chappell roan and is currently pretending to be chappell roan and she was originally miss piggy too
7:35 you're forgetting that in 2007, yes everyone would have taken photos, but few would upload them anywhere outside thier friend-only Facebook and MySpace pages
@@rawmaw So that covers blogs that were caught in a web-crawl since 1996 - and also being able to find them on the Wayback Machine at all, given the volume present currently. It's rolling a gamble on top of a gamble (the latter being that people who ran an active blog decided to post their photographs of the 50ft M&M Statue of Liberty onto it - which is already a pretty limited pool, given that it would have to be someone in the New York area at that point in time).
@@rawmaw Looking at the machine now, I don't even know how I would begin to look for those blogs - most of which would have very specific names, not easily searchable in a few runs. Going for just "m&m statue of liberty" brings pretty much nothing related to that, mostly just things related to the individual search keywords.
I'm not sure why the youtube gods thought I'd like this, but they were right. Funny, informative, cute accent and great editing. You may be going places! 💚
im pretty sure its been dismantled and dropped off somewhere in Vancouver, i seen the thing when it was in NY when i was 6, im pretty sure its near Vancouver. If its not then its definitely in a city or large town in Canada.
I mean, it was 2007, not every phone had a camera and probably back then the people that did have a phone with a camera didn't got the reflex to get it out to take pictures of everything they find weird like they could have done today
Back then you have to be careful and discrete when taking photo of Liberty and Brooklyn Bridge. Even taking photo in subway station might have the cops questioning you. It was the war on you know who era and before the proliferation of smartphone that made taking photo at non-human subject acceptable
Hi! Long time no see! So, as a bit of context for this video, originally this was a “discarded” video topic that I had intended to be a main channel video, but it eventually just sort of fizzled out. In February of this year, I revisited the topic, worked on it a bit more, and then recorded this video. The recording then remained in “the vault” for several months until late August, when I revisited it again, and edited it into this video for the second channel.
The video I am currently working on for my main channel has spiralled into an hour-long-ish video and is taking a lot longer than I had anticipated, thus my lack of posting. When it became apparent I wouldn’t have a video to post for a couple of months, I decided to take a quick little break from the main channel vid, to edit this archived one, as a bit of a “sorry I haven’t posted in a while”!
I hope that you enjoy this video and I hope to have the main channel video ready soon. Thank you all for your continued support on both channels! :)
Take your time Joe, good things take time, but if you don’t mind, could you give us a hint about the the vid? (btw great video) ✨🔥🥰
The 50ft statue of Liberty m&m (forgotten version) (from the vault) (12 min version)
girl bye I thought you quit- 😭
shrek guy
An hour? I’m all for tha luv, I’m all for tha.
Its so hilarious and honestly unsurprising that new yorkers are so used to madness they didn't even bat an eye
I was literally about to say this 😭😭 crazier things have happened in NY but still
in the future historians will call this the new york effect. why so many ridiculous things can happen in one place and very little of it is recorded
It really is just a Tuesday for us 😭
@@Dell-ol6hb Tuesday in New York is quiet infamous 💀
It still does not explain the severe lack of photographs of it.
Why?
Well, because it took place in the bloody New... York... City... after all. To Hell with all the apathetic Newyorkers; the place should have been brimming with tourists, so they would have taken most of the pictures, . . . . . . so where the heck are they?
I can't believe they ordered a 55' statue and didnt hire any photographers or tell any journalists. There exist no stock photos at all.
This is cliche but it could have been a massive tax write-off of some sort
I was in New York around that time and didn't even know it existed. If that was their idea of marketing, they failed.
Edit: Forgot to mention, I was a documentary photographer, so if I'd known a world's second-biggest whatever-the-crap was going to be around, I would've photographed it.
@@angeldoe1229 How would this possibly be a tax write-off.
@@SissypheanCatboy its art, rich people buy and make art for tax write-offs all the time.
@@angeldoe1229That’s not how that works.
my girl gave us EVERYTHING, including her own tour, just to be underappreciated. rip 55' m&m lady liberty statue, you will always be in our HEARTS 💚
She will always be in our HEARTS💜
She always be in our HEARTS 💜
Shes not gone silly! Shes just on her way to ellie and mason HOUSE💜
It was such a hard time for me.😔 Thanks luv.💚
@@MissBayaSeed omg MOTHERRRR
National Treasure 3, but Nicolas Cage is trying to find this statue in some M&M themed lost city beneath a national landmark.
amen
“I am going to steal the statue of M&M”
Under the Statue of Liberty, in a cave.
11:45 "She remains erect inside all of us. In our hearts and our memories." That's beautiful.
Truly beautiful
I am horrified
Lmao
@@joiford251 Understandably
i’d rather she be outside of me
New York is so jaded they didn't take a single picture. That's impressive.
There’s probably pictures sitting in random albums or photo development things from cvs 😂
This diva was so ahead of her time. If it happened this year, it would go viral.
Fr fr she would have a collab with Chappell too 😢
@@jenkinsjrjenkinschappell LMAOOOO
I'm curious, and I'm not asking this to be be condescending, I'm legitimately curious how old you are? Because in 2007 MySpace was at its peak, Facebook and RUclips existed, the iPhone and Twitter were each one year out and the term "to go viral" had already been a thing for a few years... with examples like the Star Wars Kid and the dancing baby that were each nearly 10 years old as hugely popular memes by then. It's impossible to know why this marketing campaign wasn't successful with the information we have, but I think it had just as much of a chance to go viral in 2007 than it would today.
Personally I think the interesting story here is that M&M invested in a hugely expensive marketing campaign that involved creating a giant M&M Statue of Liberty to float down the Hudson River and literally no one cared.
@@GarettAndCarissa Because times change, including what people find funny and what trends. For example, if Charlie Bit My Finger, an incredibly well-known meme that was posted in 2007, was posted in 2024, I am almost certain it would be sitting at, like, 20 views. The internet has evolved so much since 2007, and that includes social media and what people wanna watch. The Statue of Liberty M&M is more what you'd see go viral today, with Twitter memes like the Lisa Rinna M&M, being much more popular nowadays, hence me saying it was ahead of its time.
Also, whether you find my reasoning sensible or not, it really doesn't matter. My comment was supposed to be a joke about an M&M in the image of the Statue of Liberty, not an actual analysis of trending topics from 2007. If you think the internet is nothing but analysis, facts, and serious topics, this must be your first time online.
@@Lunicaplayslmao so you're basically saying by today's standards marketing is at its peak because our generation is easily exposed to capitalism which makes more money for these shallow corpos.
Im shocked something this big was so badly documented, like what were new yorkers thinking in 2007😭 wdym no one took a picture and posted it to some social media?!
People didn’t carry cameras everywhere before the smartphone era, which technically began in late ‘07. Which means someone would have to have purposefully had a film or digicam on them for one specific ice-cold January day, taken a photo, went home, downloaded it to their PC, resized it(internet was so slow then), found a place to host the image, uploaded it, and then manually shared it via email, forum post, or maybe on MySpace, because Facebook was featureless and lame at the time.
Most of the free photo hosting sites from then have folded, along with MySpace.
I was about to say that any news of it probably got overshadowed by the Boston Mooninite Panic of 2007 (which, happened in the same exact month) but remembered that it happened like 20 days after the M&M Statue of Liberty got put up
Social media was barely a thing in January 2007 and there weren’t any phone apps for the platforms that did exist. I still remember using Twitter’s SMS feature to post tweets to my account, that’s why their character limit was 140 for so long.
In 2007 it could take 30 minutes to upload one picture to social media on good internet, which would fail if the quality was too high. That's assuming you had a digital camera and a computer that could read the medium your camera stored it on. SD cards were still fairly new, then.
Back then you have to be careful and discrete when taking photo of Liberty and Brooklyn Bridge. Even taking photo in subway station might have the cops questioning you. It was the war on you know who era and before the proliferation of smartphone that made taking photo at non-human subject acceptable
kinda crazy how she gave a tour and no one DOCUMENTED HER
people were too busy harassing britney
I'm sat and patiently waiting for the next step in the M&M Statue of Liberty Saga. We need to know the rest of her story
“I’m sat”
My phone fell into the couch while I was watching this and I had trouble getting it out so this video just kept playing for like a solid 3 minutes
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@@Ifx-no no this is actually GOOD
@@NintendoBrazillian W
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mama a 50ft m&m statue of liberty is behind YOU 💜
LMFAOOOOOO
HELPP IM DEADD
wow this is FUNNY 💜
“Don’t be silly honey,” *proceeds to walk into the store.*
Oh nonono we are not going to 50ft staute m&m staute of LIBERTY 💜
You’re telling me NO ONE posted a picture of this on Facebook?!
Facebook in 2007? Surely you mean MySpace... LOL
I used Facebook in 2007; it was possible to upload pictures but internet speeds were low enough that it was time consuming to do, so, not as many pictures were posted. Facebook was mostly personal status updates, free low quality flash games, and pokes to your friends' profiles. Oh, and you had to have a college email to even join, so not as many people even used it then.
Make it Jesus and they’ll say “Amen” in a heartbeat.
if u think ab it, everyone saying amen to those are desecrating their baby jesus@@nobbyfirefly57
Facebook in 07 was only still accessible to college students with a university email at the time
As someone who graduated high school in '07 I can confirm the lack of pictures is weird.
I didn't know anyone with a smart phone yet but my flip phone was capable of taking better pictures than its screen could display.
🤦 Oh no, not another one of these kids. Okay, children, listen: things existed BEFORE those little rectangular flat objects that start with a lowercase "i".
I feel like the fact that many photo hosting sites popular during that time have either gone defunct or made photos inaccessible (e.g. photobucket) could be one reason.
@@WhatDoesMyChannelNameMean Yeah. Duh. Obviously.
Cameras existed before they were in phones at all too if you didn't know that.
That has nothing to do with my post though. I was referring to the likelihood someone actually has a camera in their pocket. Once they were on phones, and a broke guy like me has one, that's pretty much everyone.
@@WhatDoesMyChannelNameMean You keep commenting this effect, which is bizarre because nobody's claiming the concept of photography hadn't been invented yet, rather that smartphones hadn't (which is true, the first iPhone was released later that year), and so cameras were less widespread then than they are now.
If you think smartphones haven't increased the amount of photos people can and do take, I don't know what to tell you. Well, I do, and it's the same thing thing I'm going to tell you regardless: get over yourself, the "kids bad" attitude was never productive, nor was it ever correct.
@@WhatDoesMyChannelNameMean You're annoying, everybody knows cameras existed before the iphone. You're just trying to make it seem as though you're better than everybody else
If things like this can just slip through the cracks, just imagine how many crazy things like this have been entirely forgotten.
To be fair, people in New York ARE famous for ignoring even the weirdest things happening around them.
hi! i’m related to the CEO of Mars so maybe i can find something? it’s not close family but it’s close enough that we’ve seen the ceo’s son at weddings & funerals.
We're rooting for you, Nuggie!
Nuggie please you’re our only hope now
what happened
This is so random, yet so interesting. Like, HOW DO YOU *NOT* SEE A GIANT M&M COSPLAYING THE STATUE OF LIBERTY, LIKE HOW!?!?
im guessing it wasnt facing the more populated shores. so a lot of people saw it from behind and couldnt tell what it was
You can barely even see the Statue of Liberty itself from NYC, even from Battery Park, that's how far into the Hudson Bay the island is and don't forget the statue of liberty is 300 feet tall, this statue is 6 times shorter so it would be even less visible. It's actually not surprising at all that nobody noticed or at least not enough people noticed to actually care to take a photo
@@Dell-ol6hbI live in NYC and I usually go inland so I barely see the Statue of Liberty entirely, only on the tip of Manhattan or in the World Trade Observatory. No-one would have seen that at all if most people aren’t at the outlines of the city
Unrelated but love your Windows XP frog profile pic.
Gasp polygon donut
“the New York, 55-foot-tall M&M Statue of Liberty from 2007 remains erect inside of all of us” is certainly a sentence…
But very, very true
Love it when you do the most Unemployed™ activities humanly possible and it circles back around to something akin to a 40 hour work week, 2 kids and a mortgage.
My hero
Rip the 55ft m&m statue of liberty u wouldve luved m&m lisa rinna
New York people must have really hated taking pictures that day
They didn’t have the time😭 or care tbh. Maybe they thought it was dumb
dude this is an S tier video. Storytelling wise and all. I'm surprised it has just 4k views, and I guarantee it wont be like this for long.
I only just realized that it was only just posted, and that I has so few views! I assumed that it ended up pretty popular haha
Also I love your work man! Keep it up
Wtf I didn't expect to see a minecraft duping youtuber on here. Lol
Yooo horizon
@@timbo303official9do u think youtubers just dont watch youtube at all lol
I got to about 3:45 and decided to try and find my own picture of this statue. I looked for only 20 minutes but found nothing. So you are definitely right. It’s quite elusive, for some bizarre reason. I’m interested to see what you find from this point in the video forward.
I also have paused at 3:45 but it's more because the second "citation" of the sighting is simply restating what the first blog reported. So it's actually NOT proof of the sighting.
That being said, I am 💯 invested in this story now! I love that this is now an interactive video - we are all watching and investigating along 😂
Your voice is too calm for this chaotic situation, this is too funny
This right here is why RUclips will stay on top. Traditional media cannot make peak content like this. Love you 😭
She's still there bobbing along the river but people still don't take pictures of her...
And he came back when I needed him most….❤️
Joe finally remembered to post
I love that an advertising agency proudly boosted about their great advertising skills such as with the 55' M&M statue, which was such an advertising failure barely anyone knew it ever happened and they didn't even have a professional video or photographer.
Potential long-shot approach: Since it never made it to headquarters there is a high probability it was hauled away by someone. There are a large but finite number of construction debris disposal firms in NYC. You could try contacting some of them to see if they remember hauling away a 55' M&M statue of liberty. I'd imaging if anyone did and was still working there, they would remember something like that. Then again, it is New York, so that may be far from the weirdest thing they've hauled away.
Pretty sure this wasn't in the video, but I actually found two clips about the m&m statue of liberty! One is 10 minutes long, and one is less then a minute which is a news report. It's posted by the channel "rosenbe". Both videos are titled "M&M New York". I searched up the randy m&m video title to find them, I barely had to scroll to find it! Hope this uncovers a little more information about her.
Thank you for sharing, I’ll look into them now! Glad to see that there were a few more cameras there that day!
oh wow!
I cant wait to check it out myself rn :D
if it was made of fiberglass it probably crumpled in on itself during disassembly
My parents and I lived in New Jersey RIGHT next to the Hudson River at the time… I was only freshly 3 years old (as the statue was displayed on Jan 19th and I had just turned 3 two days prior on the 17th) so I don’t remember much at all, but I asked my parents about this statue and somehow they also have never heard of it… how!!? We lived right next to the Hudson and you’re telling me you not only didn’t see a 50 foot tall m&m Statue of Liberty floating down the river directly next to your apartment but also don’t recall ever hearing any news about it from the media nor in conversation with anyone at the time???
This is peak journalism btw🤭
Seeing passionate journalism like this gives me faith in humanity
This is the high quality content I don't only expect, but demand from RUclipsrs.
Keep up the good work. Constantly raising the bar and doing it, flawlessly.
I’m pretty sure plenty of photos were taken. But in 2007, *posting them online* wasn’t the social habit it’s become today.
Most likely, the majority of photos of Lady Liberty’s M&Msona are sitting in dust-caked memory cards in the drawers of a thousand former tourists, or lingering in digital family album montages not played for years.
Got this randomly recommended to me. I appreciate the level of detail put into this missing statue investigation (where is sheee)
No matter what kind of lost media it is I always feel unsettled by it even when it’s a damn statue of liberty m&m made of fiberglass
You make the silliest topics genuinely really interesting, love it!❤️
I love when people on the internet go on deep dives about things like this. As a very curious person myself these videos are always very intresting to me. It's truly weird that the News, New Yorkers or even tourists didn't photograph the statue and it does look like a dead end. However, there have been many instances in the past where the internet worked together to unveil the truth and so, I know that if enough people see this, we will know what happened to her eventually. Keep us updated please.
I love how half the video is just this guy complaining that nobody took pictures
Miss M&M Lady Liberty was sick of not getting the attention she deserved so she decided to step down and pursue other opportunities.
"The 55 foot tall M&M Statue of Liberty from 2007 remains erect inside of all of us, in our hearts and in our memories, and no one can take that away". Forget Shakespear, this is the single greatest line ever created in the history of the world.
From all things big that float, my interest was peaked at the big rubber ducky from way back and I want to say it was during this time in history too as I kinda vaguely recall seeing Ms Liberty in an article along side the rubber duck.
I love how I’m as invested in a documentary about finding a 55’ M&m as I would be for a documentary about the colossus of Rhodes or something.
The fact this happened quite literally the DAY before I was born into the world (January 20th - 2007) only for me to learn abt it 17 years later 😭
Dude not to be that person but damn in 2007, I was getting on chat websites as a kid. That's crazy that it was 17 years ago. :'(
Close enough, welcome back M&M statue of liberty!!
What the fuck You are a baby
I was watching Transformers at theaters in 2007
I did not even turn 6 back then
@@NayanM0ri sometimes…i can feel her spirit within me 🙆🏾🗽🟢
this is the tea i signed up for.
I remember this advertising stunt! I saw it on a morning talk show! I remember saying how i wished i could go see it. If i remember correctly, it happened around my bday, and i bargained with my parents, but they were saving up for a surprise WDW trip for the family, so i was denied.
I still think this was a cool stunt for the time it happened during. I wish i had gone to take pictures, though - even if the Disney trip was great.
The voice 0:20 sounds like Daria
u right
I was thinking the same thing too
This wouldn't have happened if the New Yorkers had seen a 55' tall M&M and took a godamm picture
Omg u remembered the password for this channel
Sometimes whenever I eat M&Ms, I like to hold two m&m's in between my fingers and squeeze as hard as I can until one m&m cracks. I eat the cracked one, and the one that didn't crack becomes the champion. Then I grab the other m&m, and force it to compete with the champion in this deadly game of m&m gladiators. I do this until I run out of m&m's, and when there is only one m&m left standing, I send a letter to m&m's brand with the champion m&m in it with a note attached that reads: "Please use this m&m for breeding purposes."
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girl was so iconic she nearly became lost media. WE STAN ♥️
I can just imagine this guy discussing his week with his friends like “oh yea I stalked an m&m statue” 😂
I know exactly how you feel, to find something really amazing that nobody even talks about, or heck even remembers, despite clearly having broke records and stuff like that. My experience is with The Misadventures of PB Winterbottom.
Joe Forget video jumpscare
Lady Liberty? More like Leighdee Leiberteigh!! (it’s september/christian girl autumn 😭)
Happy Christian Girl Autumn to all who celebrate! :)
I thought you were gonna use cupcakke wording-
*It's just Girl Autumn.
What does any of that mean
oh god... not that naming sense 😂😂
“it’s all we should’ve talked about since” period
55’ M&M statue of lady cosplay said “oh no no no no we aren’t not even going to WHAT I DO’s house” and then realized “mama a girl behind you” and then she said she had to go to ellie & mason HOUSE 🤍
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Just people glorifying terrible behavior as usual@@therealjames2009
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Cans 💛
Gurl wth 😂
THANK YOU FOR RELEASING THIS !! This has to be one of my favorite videos of your EVER! No joke I laughed so hard
28seconds ago
i love how i generally wouldn’t give a damn about this statue if there were a lot of photos out their but the fact there’s only one and nobody thought to take a photo so it’s literally just a ghost atp
I remember seeing the missing statue as a kid in Ew York. I always wondered why it was gone. Great video!
this was a really stellar video and a really great runtime. kept me so invested. no notes! thank you for providing this queen with her spotlight finally!
I’m obsessed with this actually. CEOs should learn to prioritize. 55 foot M&M statue of liberty > everything else
Thanks for spreading awareness for such obscure thing
HELP THE WENDY WILLIAMS FADING IN AT 3:43
The most interesting thing is that whether or not we know what happened to her, something did and someone knows
I bet Shaquille O’Neal is using it in his living room as an M&M dispenser…
I definitely would've taken a photo of the 55' M&M Statue of Liberty but I don't live in America and in 2007 I was unfortunately a baby.
Hope the internet does their thing and can solve this very important and time sensitive mystery
It takes a lot to get the attention of New Yorkers 🧐 the NY400 in 2009 has some photos but barely was talked about and some people don’t even know the city turned 400 years old this year, not to mention the countless events that go unnoticed in a city of almost 9 million that’s really dense. There is literally a wildlife refuge inside the city that no one talks about and goes to even though it’s accessible by subway, bike, ferry, and car. Also a plane crashed into a neighborhood in Queens a month after 9/11 yet not a peep. Additionally next to no videos of countless parades such as 08 and 12 Super Bowl aftermath and even few attention of the 2001 loss. It’s just so bizarre 😵💫
maybe the real 55 Foot Tall M&M Statue of Lady Liberty is the friends that we made along the way
2:15 so real
LMFAOOOOO, the LinkedIn callout is so damn funny, as someone that’s also needed to use LinkedIn once for that, and forgot to cancel, I felt that in my soul.
charli xcx and chappel would have gone crazy with her
how did the world forget this diva...
she was the target of a third plane… 💔
@@OdyMandrellbruh
@@OdyMandrell😭
To be fair... New York was still pretty wounded at the time. Watching the twin towers burn and crumble after watching them get struck by airplanes kinda made people a bit numb to the NY skyline for a bit... Looking at it and seeing the empty space brought back painful memories. Especially on that particular side... I can understand why not too many people would have taken pics that lived there.
I can’t offer much, I apologize, but I can tell you this.
She’s happy. She’s safe.
She just wants to be alone…
the most impressive thing isn't that newyorkers didn't take a picture. but that the guy who did it didn't think of taking more than one.
people may not have had cameras in their pockets, but wedding photographers existed and were more numerous. hiring a professional photographer for an advertising campaign was ubiquitous.
Tucker Carlson on his knees screaming at the M&M Statue of Liberty
Actually the statue can shapeshift so she turned into chappell roan and is currently pretending to be chappell roan and she was originally miss piggy too
H O T T O G O
That makes sense
Real.
we should lowkey be friends ur funny
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i got an m&ms ad right before this video
7:35 you're forgetting that in 2007, yes everyone would have taken photos, but few would upload them anywhere outside thier friend-only Facebook and MySpace pages
Blogs?
@@rawmawlink rot has taken most of those out of circulation, unfortunately - whether through outdated webpages, expired servers, or otherwise
@@1boldearth Wayback Machine
@@rawmaw So that covers blogs that were caught in a web-crawl since 1996 - and also being able to find them on the Wayback Machine at all, given the volume present currently. It's rolling a gamble on top of a gamble (the latter being that people who ran an active blog decided to post their photographs of the 50ft M&M Statue of Liberty onto it - which is already a pretty limited pool, given that it would have to be someone in the New York area at that point in time).
@@rawmaw Looking at the machine now, I don't even know how I would begin to look for those blogs - most of which would have very specific names, not easily searchable in a few runs. Going for just "m&m statue of liberty" brings pretty much nothing related to that, mostly just things related to the individual search keywords.
GOT AN M&M AD ON THIS!! I’M SO HAPPYYYYY
I love it when the pretty monotone video essay guy has a good sense of humor
I'm not sure why the youtube gods thought I'd like this, but they were right. Funny, informative, cute accent and great editing. You may be going places! 💚
im pretty sure its been dismantled and dropped off somewhere in Vancouver, i seen the thing when it was in NY when i was 6, im pretty sure its near Vancouver. If its not then its definitely in a city or large town in Canada.
My guess is that most pictures were taken by tourists and now those photos are stuck in lost sd cards everywhere around the world
we cheered
seeing the m&ms website where you make yourself an m&m pulled a memory from my brain
I hope this gem is found one day! THIS IS SO COOL
I mean, it was 2007, not every phone had a camera and probably back then the people that did have a phone with a camera didn't got the reflex to get it out to take pictures of everything they find weird like they could have done today
I’m literally born and raised in nyc, and I never even saw the mnms statue
This is so investigative it’s journalistic mama
Back then you have to be careful and discrete when taking photo of Liberty and Brooklyn Bridge. Even taking photo in subway station might have the cops questioning you. It was the war on you know who era and before the proliferation of smartphone that made taking photo at non-human subject acceptable
"the sacred monument" subscribed right then and there 😂
She vanished just like my dad getting milk
i'm not even halfway through the video but i'm so invested already I NEED TO KNOW MORE