I honestly don't know what's worse: Ned being the wife guy and cheating on his wife with an employee that worked with his wife and knew about pretty personal stuff, or Adam Levine naming his daughter after his 20yo mistress without the knowledge of the mother.
@@Londonworldrest that’s so disgusting. It’s bad enough when you disrespect your partner enough to cheat on them, but to have such arrogance and contempt that you would suggest the name of your mistress for your kid… awful, awful people
The most interesting thing here is that one of the prizes for Miss USA is free plastic surgery. Like it's a BEAUTY pageant, these women are already supposed to be the prettiest, yet we're rewarding them with plastic surgery???
You've discovered the predatory cycle of the beauty industry. No one, not even the prettiest women in the United States, will *ever* be pretty enough, because if they're pretty enough they can't be sold things anymore.
Wasn't it a local round tho. Maybe there's no actual cash prize and modeling gig cuz this is just a tie-up with a local business and preps the girl for nationals
Honestly, kudos to the fans that witnessed Ned’s infidelity in NYC and notified the guys and the people that were directly affected by the affair instead of just posting straight to the internet. It would have gotten really ugly if the company and spouses found out via the internet…😬😬😬 Also thanks to those fans, the guys and their company was able to have the opportunity to handle this before the public got news of it.
@@kiera_klark8171 the theory that i saw everywhere is the leak came from Alex’s former fiancé since some of the screenshots seem like they’re from his POV.
And just the other day people were able to tie a neighbor app post about a Tesla driver having sex in their car in a park from back in May (including a photo with the license plate) to Ned’s Tesla, that had the same exact plate in the paparazzi video that came out the day after he was publicly fired from the Try Guys.
The chess anal beads accusation is absolutely hilarious and the fact that you can get charged with THREE FELONIES for cheating in a fishing competition is fucking funny as hell. Absolutely wonderful video topic, 100/10
I cared a lot about the Ned situation. I was really impressed WITH how seriously the rest of the guys took it. Men who behave like Ned are rarely ever held accountable by other men, and it makes women look hysterical. What they did was important.
Cheating on someone is horrible. It’s an abuse of trust. But I don’t like how it has to become EVERYONES business. What’s this fixation with other persons business. I think trafficking in controversy is unhelpful for anybody.
Lmao, have you seen how women excuse any cheating if its a woman who do it? I literally have seen woman saying its the bf fault for his gf cheating coz he was tired after work and didn't want to go out and party.
@@BigLeagueChew11 As was said in the video, Ned was the superior of the woman he was having the affair with. This is not just cheating, it's the legal definition of sexual harassment.
I find peoples reaction to the Ned thing very interesting. Part of why the internet lost their mind over it is that Ned's brand was the "my wife guy." When the try guys made their bobble head dolls Ned's was holding a baby and had a voice clip saying, "my wife." He made the date night cookbook with his wife. His entire brand was being a loving husband obsessed with his wife. The try guys put out one video basically saying. Hey this is really hard we had a friend for years who we built a company and a brand with carry on an affair with an employee and we fired him. Then SNL made a really really tone deaf skit that reframed the reason Ned was fired as he didn't tell his friends about a kiss. The try guys handled it pretty well. They took swift action made one video and have been trying to move on as quickly as they can.
The Take just made a fantastic video about this topic, that's how I learned about the situation. It's really great and explains the dangers of men building their entire brand around being the wife guy, but also other aspects of this type.
Like also, often you're friends with your friends partner, so the other try guys were friends with Ned's wife. Their friend hurt another friend of theirs
I'm not glad the chess controversy happened, however, I am looking forward to the Netflix movie or documentary. I've been bereft of chess drama since the Queen's Gambit ended.
If (more likely WHEN) they make a documentary, I wanna know how seriously they take the anal beads allegation 😂 Will they have interviewees laughing at the idea, or will they bring in experts who will break down the exact way the vibrations of an anal bead can be translated into chess moves? The possibilities are endless
It's not plastic surgery it's beauty treatments (facials or whatever) from a spa that also does plastic surgery. Obviously Miss America wouldn't need that bfr
when you said "cheating at fishing" i assumed there was a guy in scuba gear with a bag of pre-prepared fish sticking them on the hooks from underwater, but this was funny too. I had no idea that fishing was so high stakes, that it could cause multiple felony charges.
@@SoManyRandomRamblings could it also have to do with animal cruelty? i could totally see them pressing charges for forcing lead weights down the throats of living animals when the competition is supposed to be a catch-and-release type of deal.
fishing is a sport. Its a muti billion dollar industry just like FIFA only you have to already be rich enough to own a boat to join. Wealthy men competing for anything...of course there has to be turbo strict cheating rules, those fools would be testing all day because they can afford to. The only real prize is pride and we all know how nasty that can get
@@mylabot I mean competitive fishing has always been a more working to middle class sport than upper class. The fishing boats these guys are using cost less than a used mid range car when new, and many get them used. It’s not rich guys tossing money around, these are just normal guys with a particularly intense hobby.
I think the fishing scandal is the funniest to me because it was so easily proven. They literally showed that there were weights in the fish and there's not much the cheaters can say to defend themselves at that point. Everything else has too much grey area and confusion.
@@Saibellus LOL that's the only thing they could have even tried to say. It'd be hilarious, though - say the fish ate a couple weights like a year prior, somehow - nobody would believe it if it WAS true!
Please make more videos about niche controversies like these !! I love this vibe of "your friend is info-dumping twitter drama," which as someone who doesn't have twitter anymore is GOLD.
the fish one is kinda a big deal because they won money and even a boat, plus got sponsors so they honestly were cheating everyone out of a fair chance
And committing animal abuse and cruelty. Wouldnt you consider shoving lead weights down a living beings throat abuse and cruelty? I sure hope someone else would for anyone who doesn't agree it's abuse if that happened to them. But at least the person who disagrees can still probably talk and advocate for their self that they're probably in excruciating pain (((:
As someone who has competed in competitive fishing tournaments in the past..... People take those super serious. Even small local tournaments use polygraphs (even though they don't actually work). The smallest of slight at one of those tournaments is potentially career ending or even something that can cause a tournament trail to be disbanded.
The fishing story is more insane when you realize that they wrapped the weights in raw fish fillets and stuffed them down the fish, that were probably still alive
“Favoritism” in the Miss USA pageant?! A contest to pick the most favorite of a selection of women competing to be the most favorite? Noooooo! Say it ain’t so! 😂
@@zogwort1522there are no universal standards and women aren't objects for you to 'enjoy' them (neither men, tbh, but the again, there aren't many beauty pagents for men out there)
@@beafraid5467 Its ridiculous how uninformed ppl are about the dedication, mental toughness and hard work that goes into preparing for and competing in a pageant. All professional sporting disciplines consist of ppl who had some sort of genetic advantage that they nurtured through training like running fast, swimming fast or jumping high so why is being objectively beautiful any different? These women train their bodies for months, make sacrifices and get involved in their communities to help with social issues. Pageants present an opportunity just like landing a well paying job to improve their financial situations and help their families. Winners have to demonstrate high levels of charisma, poise and intelligence to make it far because it is so competitive. Submitting yourself for the judgement of hundreds of people, carrying the weight of representing an entire country is no trivial feat
I know! I didn't even want to believe it because at first, when I heard that she was the first Filipina and Asian American winner, it felt a bit racist to me presuming that all the women were white (I checked them and most are but not all) and the accusation that's it's favoritism kind of goes in the fetish-y angle but I also didn't know who the judges were. I'm sure these are valid accusations that are concerning
Can you imagine those guys going to jail? "I killed a man while robbing a bank, what are you in for?" "I cheated at a fishing competition." "You monster!" 🤣
It's always interesting to me that people never bring up that Ariel is also a Try Guys employee as a Try Wives. She works on their podcast plus appears in videos all the time. So not only did he cheat on his wife, but also employee with another employee.
RIGHT lmao she is a member of the team, which means Ned was already having a consensual workplace relationship with an employee… which means that he cheated on her not just in the home but in the workplace too
His cheating scandal is just layers upon layers of bad decision making Having you, your mistress, and your wife all working together at a company you partially own is so messy
Yeah I had a friend who was talking about how it wasn't fair he got fired over it and as soon as I told them his wife was an employee in the company they changed their mind right away lmao. Both his wife and mistress being employees is the most important part of it imo.
Uh. That doesn't matter at all. He married her before he even joined Buzzfeed. As his wife, she was also a part owner of the company which makes Alex an employee of Ariel. Ariel wasn't an employee. If she is still working there....then she is an employee NOW. Since her husband isn't a part owner of the company anymore.
I'm surprised the winner doesn't also sue, because this, if it's true, and she won via favoritism, this could cause her to look bad and cause her deals.
the fisging now has me interested. I feel terrible for the new Ms. America who became the first Asian woman to win, to then have people say that she may have won because of others doing shasty shit. the Ned thing annoys me because he tried to brush it off when it was their livelihood. I mean, Eugene, Keith, Zack AND Ariel, put time into this fucking company along with Ned. Ariel was working for the Tryguys as well taking care of their 2 young sons. What got me fucked up was listening to the Ariel talk (On the You Can Sit With Us podcast) about how Ned complained about her throwing out the garbage but didn't focus on her keeping the house clean or taking care of the kids. Becky, Keith's wife, mentioned how Keith admitted that what Becky had a method and he didn't understand how she did things in the house but her methods made the house better. It just showed that Ned and Ariel's marriage wasn't that great as he claimed.
i was an Irish dancer for 10 years (competitive and professional) and the cheating scandal that just broke out is our first major scandal. it's wild to see people finally get a look into how insane this world really is, but i'm glad it's being exposed. if anyone sees this, look into it for a crazy ass ride.
I’m surprised you didn’t talk about the Poker cheating scandal that happened recently. I don’t know a lot of poker terms but I think the person bet all their money on a hand that wasn’t that good but ended up getting lucky and everyone was mad at her because of it. I guess her logic was that she would have lost or won so she took a chance but people are saying she had a buzzer in her ring or something.
She had misread her cards but got lucky that it ended up in her favor. The dudes at the table were salty she won. I watched the whole video of that game. No wrongdoing, no sleight of hand.
I'm so over the internet calling out people, especially women, for not displaying emotions the way they expect and claiming that as "proof" of deception. Different react to surprise in different ways, some people look "shocked" other people are just stunned silent, people with stage training are probably not going to appear as overwhelmed as people who don't have stage training, not everyone reacts the same way there are a million little things that could go into why someone reacts a certain way at a given time to any kind of event. I'm not trying to say one way or another whether the Miss USA contestants claims of favoritism are valid, I'm just over all of the "She's lying because she didn't look surprised!" bullshit.
a beauty contestant? the one who extensively trains on how to maintain an attractive facial expression for hours at a time?? didnt have the visible reaction you expected???? i am shocked, here is proof 😐
ppl are trying to be body language experts these days. its all pseudoscience but ppl still widely believe in polygraphs too so ig thats not too surprising. no doubt theres an element of misogyny here, i dont think u can avoid it when a womans facial expressions r under scrutiny.
Another update: Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman who were the right wingers who tried to commit election fraud are facing the same fine and prison time as those two anglers who got caught cheating with lead weights stuffed in the fish 😂
My moms whole side of the family has been lifelong fishers(for survival at times), and my uncle is a competitive angler, so this fishing scandal has Absolutely been at the top of my radar, lol.
As someone from Ohio, and who live in Cuyahoga, I live for listening to people pronounce our county and city names. Side note, this video was so funny. I loved it
Every. single. time. You'd think they would at least Google it or watch a news clip. I'm pretty sure the only ones I have heard pronounce it correct are MatPat and Chris Stickman and it's because they are from the area.
@Dylan Rodrigues a large number of names for locations in the US are! If something seems like it's spelled randomly and weirdly here, good chance it's actually the place name in another language.
Another update on Ned, someone took his license plate from the paparazzi video, did a search online and found someone complaining about people having sex in that car at 5pm. Based on the date and location, fans found that try guys did film a video on that location called something like "Living in a mansion for a day." And in that video, Alex and Ned show up together. Just gross all around. Thanks for this video. I knew about these stories but besides the Try Guys one, I didn't know the full story behind each of them. Another cheating story that's a bit more controversial you could have talked about is the guy who won an art competition using AI art. As an artist I do consider it cheating, but have no problem with AI artists having their own category or something as I know of does take time and skill. But it's not the same as having years upon years of art lessons and practice along with the time it takes to make art.
My personal perspective on AI art is it's totally fine if you wanna use it to generate a reference, and then draw/paint that picture yourself, because then you still have to show mastery of the materials & medium. But you can't actually have a robot paint it all and then present it in a gallery, or just submit that image to a digital art contest.
For the Ai one, ethics of submitting it in a competition aside, as a computer science student, the fact than an ai created a piece of art that was preferred over art made by people is incredible.
Ayyyy. Thanks for the shout out on the fishing story. Really weird story all around, and even more information has come to light on it since I talked about it. EDIT: I usually fish in bass fishing tournaments, so I only knew of fish being released afterwards. So when I talked about this on RUclips, I found out that in walleye fishing tournaments, the walleye are in fact dead when weighed and are harvested, but in most cases, the teams donate their catch to local soup kitchens for meals. However, the team of Runyan and Cominsky usually were one of the few teams who never donated their catch. Now it’s pretty obvious why. Nobody wants lead poisoning from their fish.
I didn't know that both chess masters were being accused of using the beads to cheat but I think I moreso love the fact that the fishing scandal has brought about felonies and that polygraphs are legitimately used for these tournaments
I don’t think they’re both being accused. That was a joke post. The original theory about the beads was a joke about “how did he even cheat without people noticing?” So this Reddit post was joking about how the guy making the accusations could’ve even known that the guy was cheating, especially when he’d made one move and it was unclear how he’d be cheating. Hence the joke theory he’s also a cheater using the same bead method so knew things were up with the vibrations were going wild. It’s just silliness.
The felony thing is extremely fucked up. Being designated a felon makes it legal to discriminate against a person in housing, employment, pretty much anything. Anti-discrimination laws, the right to vote, the entire Bill Of Rights, they all have a deeply immoral caveat: “unless we brand you a felon.” To charge someone with a felony for something so frivolous is appalling. Prisons are already overcrowded with nonviolent drug offenders from overpoliced, impoverished neighborhoods subject to draconian stop-and-frisk laws, who will never again vote or enjoy freedom of speech or freedom of association. Aaaand also unsportsmanlike fisherman I guess 🤷🏻♀️
One thing I would like to touch one though is that these arguments of "she didnt seem suprised enough" always give me the ick. Not talking about the padgant drama specificly here but as a neurodivergent person (adhd & autism) I hate these arguments. Sure maybe she doesnt look suprised because she knew she would win but maybe also how she react just didnt fit in your appropiate range of reaction? As someone who mask everyday I always like to give people the benefit of the doubt that their reaction are valid and doesnt need to satisfy my expectations or so. Also body language is one big pseudo science bullshit that is often rooted in racism or support a euroscentric view on things. I highly recommend checking out münecats video on them she posted last week those body language "experts" are truly something
Another thing I really hate is the stupid and untrue claim someone made that not looking someone in the eye is a sign of dishonesty. Someone neatly debunked that by noting a shy person can be completely honest while a manipulator with no conscience can look you right in the eye while lying to you.
Way late to this video but as a same person, I completely agree. I hate body language analysis like have you not seen someone lying literally looking into your eyes and someone (me) can’t make direct eye contact even with my friends in normal conversations.
I for one would love to see Amanda review the Miss USA handbook. I don't particularlly care about the competition, I just wanna see her roast their ridiculous rules and drama :))
I’ve been following the chess situation for a while and the anal beads thing comes from a livestream. Basically a large(ish) streamer (idk I don’t use twitch but he had a couple thousand people watching) was discussing the situation and someone in chat brought up how he could’ve used anal beads and the host joking said something along the lines of “ya for all we know he could’ve used anal beads” and then journalists collectively shit themselves because the clickbait literally wrote itself.
I'm a bit late, but the whole Miss USA thing just reeks of racism. I'm only half-Asian, and I've been told/overheard that I didn't deserve to win, usually because of things like "Asians always win," "it's rigged," etc. We are constantly told that we should be held to a different, higher standard because Asians on average do better in school, academics, etc. Never mind the fact that I worked my ass off for my accomplishments, spent hours studying, and was genuinely passionate about the things I won. Same tune, different song. I think the same thing is happening here; all of the allegations sum up to a whole nothing burger, and were (in my opinion) easily explained by the winner.
That is correct. He’s being accused of cheating seriously, and the anal beads is a joke hypothesis on how he was able to. No one believes he actually had a sex toy in him
Regarding Ned, it has also come up that he publicly fornicated in his car with Alex while children and adults were around. The witness took a picture of the license plate, same car from the paparazzo video
Not brought up in the video because it just happened 2 days ago but the VP of Miss Usa. Max Sebrechts who is also married to Crystle Stewart had to step down because he was sending unwanted text messages to other contestants. The plot thickens.
As someone who abhors cheaters, a lot of them "get off" on the thrill of doing something they know they aren't supposed to do. They absolutely do not care about the person they are cheating on (many are narcissists who lack empathy).
"just break up" doesn't work for a marriage and that's something a child says, or someone who has never intertwined their life with someone else's, legally and physically.
@@somegeese Nobody is saying that’s not true. But, if you decide that you want to cheat on the person you consciously decided to intertwine your life with, then there’s no reason to continue that marriage. Just break up.🤷🏾♀️
The anal beads thing came from GM Eric Hansen talking on a stream about how Hans could have had a hidden computer and someone in chat was like "where would he hide it" and Hansen was like "I dunno, anal beads?" as a throw-away joke.
As a native Ohioan, I'm glad we could provide you with this quality entertainment. We don't joke about walleye. Also hearing you pronounce Cuyahoga like that made me smile.
The fishing thing is funny, because I’ve seen people argue that fish will often swallow lead weights. And yeah, that does happen. Sometimes they’ll pull a drop shot or a split shot weight off your line by mistake and swallow it. But it’s not a common thing, and they certainly don’t accidentally swallow as much lead as these guys took out of them. There were also walleye fillets stuffed into the fish too, probably to add weight in a more believable way. But again-fish don’t just swallow fillets by accident. These guys definitely fed these weights and fillets to the fish to rig the tournament.
You should read up about the recent Irish dancing contest cheating scandal here in ireland. It's shocking but also hilarious 😂 I think you'll enjoy it.
@@doctorphoenix1498 it's a worse scandal than any of these 🤣mostly because kids seem to get a massive trophy at a feis for merely burping, so the fact that this level of cheating is going is just gas!
I was definitely obsessed with the Ned cheating scandal. Just the gall of that guy (wife guy) being out in the open like that. SNL did a crap job of making fun of it, they didn’t understand it at all. Cheating with a random person and cheating with an employee are not the same thing. The fishing thing I also heard about, watched the video. I really thought they were gonna get punched. I didn’t know though that they were charged with felonies. How is this a felony? Gotta go look that up.
Apparently the SNL thing was intentionally biased in favor of Ned/trying to minimize his actions, the writer of the sketch is a college friend of Ned’s. That shit was purposeful.
The fishing thing is sort of up in my neck of the woods (I'm in Michigan, it was in Ohio, but sport fishing is huge and many guys who are into it, like people we know, travel around the region on the weekends for these tournaments). When I started reading about what happened, basically there was no way they would get away with it. The fish they held up would have NEVER weighed that size. I'm glad they got caught, there's huge money in the sponsorships in those contests - boats, equipment, actual money.
My husband is in the competitive fishing community and when I tell you the world that exists is so incredibly wild. And I didn't know but it's crazy. The money and trophies. Wild. And the memes produced in the Facebook groups because of this situation are.... Chef kiss. Perfection.
On top of this, there's an ongoing cheating scandal in the competitive Irish dance world -- someone leaked screenshots of text conversations that show twelve teachers asking judges for favors for certain dancers, and there are even more teachers implicated in other conversations that haven't been shown to the public. My best dance friend and I have been talking about it for weeks. It's... honestly not a _massive_ shock to me given how much of a pipeline competitions are for Riverdance and other touring shows, but it's still disappointing nonetheless. The texts included kids' names, too, and those weren't redacted, so that's introduced all sorts of unnecessary nastiness.
I guess they'll have to wand every fish now before determining a winner and make the chess players squat and cough prison style. As for Ned and Alex, they were so reckless with their cheating it's like they wanted to be caught. I used to think wife guys like Ned were so sweet and romantic but over the years I've learned that it's only an act. They get a kick out of deceiving everyone. As difficult and painful as it is, Ariel needs to cut Ned loose and move on.
Oh (big) fishing tournaments are sooo tense. The amount of shit you have to do to be eligible for a prize is insane - you have to submit your crew, your equipment, you have to record the catch. It's a whole freaking thing. I love it.
Not US cheating but have you heard about the cheating/favoritism of Irish dance competitions? I feel bad for all the kids who are questioning if they’re actually good at dancing because their coaches were cheating.
“For people who really like fishing it’s like fun for them. Unless they’re with family then it’s war” as someone who loves fishing as an escape from family I can confirm
The fishing story is by far the best but I have to say the Adam Levine cheating story is way more interesting than Ned Fulmer. I'm sorry but asking your mistress if you can name your new born baby the same name is insane!
I don’t really understand how a beauty pageant can be “fair”. The amount of money spent on costumes, hair and makeup would already favor those with more money. And everything being “judged” are subjective to begin with. Of course the judges already got their favorites in mind going into it. I don’t really know how fairness plays into it, it’s not even like gymnastics or figure skating, there’s no obvious mistakes or perfect execution that everyone can agree on.
It makes me so sad to think that they were going to release those poor fish back into the wild to suffer and die with those lead weights inside of them.
I love how I know all of the stories in detail about each incident in the thumbnail. All of it out together is wild lol. Edit: the fishing one is the one that is the most hilarious and shocking to me. Because it’s fishing lol. Oh and the chess anal bead theory.
The shear level of aggression the tourney had when he said “there we go!” Wound up and pointed at that dude in the face like he was gonna punch him seriously made my day don’t ask me why it just did.
Watched two guys get in a parking lot brawl at a fishing comp because one guy told the other to watch his rod while he did something, the other guy caught a fish with his rod and they couldnt agree whose catch it technically was. Fishing comps are crazy.
The chess butt bead rumor started after Magnus alluded to Hans cheating on Twitter. Another GM, Eric Hansen was streaming on Twitch and someone in the chat asked how you would even cheat at chess. Eric said it would be very difficult, and then crafted the bead theory which was so funny, it spread like crazy.
You are so dang adorable. That being said I really like how your videos slowly shifted focus to be entirely your opinion. People are interesting, and i think you make the most out of that fact.
As much as cheating really hurts people, it’s my guilty pleasure as far as drama goes. Drama usually stresses me out cause I feel like the “sides” can be so complex, but cheaters are cheaters and deserve all the backlash.
The chess one was very much sleep until the beads were mentioned because then we were all like "can those even help?? Be used to cheat???" The fish video was wild to watch like a Renaissance painting. The poker one was my fav tho, seeing that bro lose his mind because he got played. Poker ain't just the odds, bb, doing weird off the wall stuff is its own strat as is reading your opponent.
I love watching your content knowing you have such a good grasp of journalism and media. I was watching a video from Sloan the other day and he said unironically "I mean it must be true otherwise why would the Daily Mail report it?" Oh my God I did the biggest FFS sigh before having to click off the video entirely. I had to show my appreciation after you called the DM out for being garbage 😊👌
The fishing one was my favorite. Just warmed my midwest heart. I loved that that week on twitter was so insane that you didn't even get to the poker cheating scandal
The fishing controversy had me-excuse the pun-hooked! When that clip first came out, I lead showing everyone I could and at one point exclaimed, “This is high drama!”
I was wondering if you’d talk about the Irish dancing rigging scandal that was just revealed!! It even implicated Irish dancing schools in the States and UK. My friends who used to compete told me it’s been an open secret for years
Between u and Ludwig, I am completely up to snuff on all of the internet cheating scandals internet-wide. Thank you, as always, for your service to filling us nosey assholes in haha
Giiiirll I know we are not suppose to comment on other peoples appearances and all, but you look like a freakin princess today!!! So cuteeeee and classy
omg not the fishing community 😢 edit: also, as an Ohioan, I love hearing people pronounce Cuyahoga lol. Technically its "kai-uh-HO-guh" but most people in the area shorten it to "KAH-guh"
I honestly don't know what's worse: Ned being the wife guy and cheating on his wife with an employee that worked with his wife and knew about pretty personal stuff, or Adam Levine naming his daughter after his 20yo mistress without the knowledge of the mother.
He did WHAT?! How fucking sick.
Wait Adam Levine did WHAT???
Bringing your kid into it is always worse.
@@eye.sexual Adam Levine isn't the only one to do that! Steven Segal also named his daughter after his mistress with out his wife knowing...
@@Londonworldrest that’s so disgusting. It’s bad enough when you disrespect your partner enough to cheat on them, but to have such arrogance and contempt that you would suggest the name of your mistress for your kid… awful, awful people
The most interesting thing here is that one of the prizes for Miss USA is free plastic surgery. Like it's a BEAUTY pageant, these women are already supposed to be the prettiest, yet we're rewarding them with plastic surgery???
You've discovered the predatory cycle of the beauty industry. No one, not even the prettiest women in the United States, will *ever* be pretty enough, because if they're pretty enough they can't be sold things anymore.
Wasn't it a local round tho. Maybe there's no actual cash prize and modeling gig cuz this is just a tie-up with a local business and preps the girl for nationals
Maybe it’s a beauty spa that does facials and haircuts and stuff along with plastic surgery?
That's just too much power 😩
They aren’t the prettiest, please stop denigrating femininity
Honestly, kudos to the fans that witnessed Ned’s infidelity in NYC and notified the guys and the people that were directly affected by the affair instead of just posting straight to the internet. It would have gotten really ugly if the company and spouses found out via the internet…😬😬😬
Also thanks to those fans, the guys and their company was able to have the opportunity to handle this before the public got news of it.
That's the rare positive power of fandoms
I agree but then it still ended up being leaked eventually, presumably by the same people since no one else would have that information or proof
@@kiera_klark8171 the theory that i saw everywhere is the leak came from Alex’s former fiancé since some of the screenshots seem like they’re from his POV.
@@kiera_klark8171 the person that leaked it claims to be Alex's fiance (or fiance at the time. I don't know if that is true, but that's the claim.
And just the other day people were able to tie a neighbor app post about a Tesla driver having sex in their car in a park from back in May (including a photo with the license plate) to Ned’s Tesla, that had the same exact plate in the paparazzi video that came out the day after he was publicly fired from the Try Guys.
The chess anal beads accusation is absolutely hilarious and the fact that you can get charged with THREE FELONIES for cheating in a fishing competition is fucking funny as hell. Absolutely wonderful video topic, 100/10
Understandable since you're essentially stealing the prize money
Seriously 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I agree 1000% but also incredible name!!! ❤️🐸❤️
Fraud I guess
yeah, Attorney Tom discussed this in a video, it differs each state, but it was fraud for their state.
I cared a lot about the Ned situation. I was really impressed WITH how seriously the rest of the guys took it. Men who behave like Ned are rarely ever held accountable by other men, and it makes women look hysterical. What they did was important.
Cheating on someone is horrible. It’s an abuse of trust. But I don’t like how it has to become EVERYONES business. What’s this fixation with other persons business. I think trafficking in controversy is unhelpful for anybody.
Lmao, have you seen how women excuse any cheating if its a woman who do it? I literally have seen woman saying its the bf fault for his gf cheating coz he was tired after work and didn't want to go out and party.
@@alexforce9 yeah, men just ignore it but women literally encourage it
@@alexforce9 petty people on both sides believe that, I'm sure. In the world I live in? Nope.
@@BigLeagueChew11 As was said in the video, Ned was the superior of the woman he was having the affair with. This is not just cheating, it's the legal definition of sexual harassment.
Obviously none of the cheating is actually funny, it's just everything surrounding each entirely separate situation is absolutely hilarious.
The anal beads is pretty funny
disagree, i think the fish cheating is hilarious
I find peoples reaction to the Ned thing very interesting. Part of why the internet lost their mind over it is that Ned's brand was the "my wife guy." When the try guys made their bobble head dolls Ned's was holding a baby and had a voice clip saying, "my wife." He made the date night cookbook with his wife. His entire brand was being a loving husband obsessed with his wife. The try guys put out one video basically saying. Hey this is really hard we had a friend for years who we built a company and a brand with carry on an affair with an employee and we fired him. Then SNL made a really really tone deaf skit that reframed the reason Ned was fired as he didn't tell his friends about a kiss. The try guys handled it pretty well. They took swift action made one video and have been trying to move on as quickly as they can.
Wife-guys are just suspicious in general.
The SNL skit was just.. Horrible
@@TacticusPrime the only one I trust is Ryan Reynolds. But we'll see if he lives up to it or not
The Take just made a fantastic video about this topic, that's how I learned about the situation. It's really great and explains the dangers of men building their entire brand around being the wife guy, but also other aspects of this type.
Like also, often you're friends with your friends partner, so the other try guys were friends with Ned's wife. Their friend hurt another friend of theirs
I'm not glad the chess controversy happened, however, I am looking forward to the Netflix movie or documentary. I've been bereft of chess drama since the Queen's Gambit ended.
If (more likely WHEN) they make a documentary, I wanna know how seriously they take the anal beads allegation 😂 Will they have interviewees laughing at the idea, or will they bring in experts who will break down the exact way the vibrations of an anal bead can be translated into chess moves? The possibilities are endless
I feel this so hard
2001
You know that there will definitely be a 🔞 adaptation
@@emilydennie2712 i bet they did too
“Miss usa isnt just about looks, it’s not shallow”
Winners: get complimentary plastic surgery. Make it make sense
That was honestly my biggest takeaway from this video. How bizarre
I never understand that. Hey, you’re so beautiful and talented, you won the pageant! Now fix all your appearance issues 😂
I was thinking this too. Honestly so so sad to think about all the pressures put on women to look a certain way - even as winners of a beauty pageant
@@ameliavelasco8602 right?? literally saying, youre the prettiest woman in america! now go edit your face ugly
It's not plastic surgery it's beauty treatments (facials or whatever) from a spa that also does plastic surgery. Obviously Miss America wouldn't need that bfr
when you said "cheating at fishing" i assumed there was a guy in scuba gear with a bag of pre-prepared fish sticking them on the hooks from underwater, but this was funny too. I had no idea that fishing was so high stakes, that it could cause multiple felony charges.
It becomes attempted theft of the prize money
I was thinking the same thing
@@SoManyRandomRamblings could it also have to do with animal cruelty? i could totally see them pressing charges for forcing lead weights down the throats of living animals when the competition is supposed to be a catch-and-release type of deal.
fishing is a sport. Its a muti billion dollar industry just like FIFA only you have to already be rich enough to own a boat to join. Wealthy men competing for anything...of course there has to be turbo strict cheating rules, those fools would be testing all day because they can afford to. The only real prize is pride and we all know how nasty that can get
@@mylabot I mean competitive fishing has always been a more working to middle class sport than upper class. The fishing boats these guys are using cost less than a used mid range car when new, and many get them used. It’s not rich guys tossing money around, these are just normal guys with a particularly intense hobby.
I think the fishing scandal is the funniest to me because it was so easily proven. They literally showed that there were weights in the fish and there's not much the cheaters can say to defend themselves at that point. Everything else has too much grey area and confusion.
the fish just ate them of their own free will, i swear!
I thought the same thing
I thought the same thing
@@Saibellus LOL that's the only thing they could have even tried to say. It'd be hilarious, though - say the fish ate a couple weights like a year prior, somehow - nobody would believe it if it WAS true!
That's why they look so still in the video while everybody freaks out LMAOOOO
The way the mob immediately turned on those fishermen. I'd have ran away so fast.
Please make more videos about niche controversies like these !! I love this vibe of "your friend is info-dumping twitter drama," which as someone who doesn't have twitter anymore is GOLD.
Saaaaame. I love these train wrecks but Twitter is bad for me, so I have to get it where I can. Amanda delivers!
"I went to a fishing tournament so you dont have to" I would watch that
I want her to compete but with no knowledge of how to compete and see what happens. It would be amazing to see her use a child’s fishing rod
@@botansaluki4553 That would be hilarious to watch. Especially if she had beginners luck and won. The other competitors would be so annoyed.
SERIOUSLY
i would love to see that video lol
yes to this!!!
the fish one is kinda a big deal because they won money and even a boat, plus got sponsors so they honestly were cheating everyone out of a fair chance
And committing animal abuse and cruelty. Wouldnt you consider shoving lead weights down a living beings throat abuse and cruelty? I sure hope someone else would for anyone who doesn't agree it's abuse if that happened to them. But at least the person who disagrees can still probably talk and advocate for their self that they're probably in excruciating pain (((:
I mean that’s the same with the chess and ms USA pageants
As someone who has competed in competitive fishing tournaments in the past..... People take those super serious. Even small local tournaments use polygraphs (even though they don't actually work). The smallest of slight at one of those tournaments is potentially career ending or even something that can cause a tournament trail to be disbanded.
The fishing story is more insane when you realize that they wrapped the weights in raw fish fillets and stuffed them down the fish, that were probably still alive
So basically forced some innocent creatures to eat probably their distant family member. That's just cruel and unusual man
@@MartianCandies yeah seriously fucked up. “fish fear me” but for real this time
@@MartianCandies i mean fish eat other fish all the time lol
@@lgal56 they dont eat probably their friend or cousins fileted body 💀💀💀
@@MartianCandies sorry this is late but lots of fish engage in cannibalism, especially the omnivorous ones. force-feeding's still pretty messed up tho
“Favoritism” in the Miss USA pageant?! A contest to pick the most favorite of a selection of women competing to be the most favorite? Noooooo! Say it ain’t so! 😂
Favoritism is supposed to happen DURING the competition. The problem is they seemed to pick the winner BEFORE the competition even began.
@@yasikins6646 so they wasted everyone's time.
The idea of beauty competitions is so dumb. Beauty is entirely subjective, so having a competition around it makes absolutely no sense
@@zogwort1522there are no universal standards and women aren't objects for you to 'enjoy' them (neither men, tbh, but the again, there aren't many beauty pagents for men out there)
@@beafraid5467 Its ridiculous how uninformed ppl are about the dedication, mental toughness and hard work that goes into preparing for and competing in a pageant. All professional sporting disciplines consist of ppl who had some sort of genetic advantage that they nurtured through training like running fast, swimming fast or jumping high so why is being objectively beautiful any different? These women train their bodies for months, make sacrifices and get involved in their communities to help with social issues. Pageants present an opportunity just like landing a well paying job to improve their financial situations and help their families. Winners have to demonstrate high levels of charisma, poise and intelligence to make it far because it is so competitive. Submitting yourself for the judgement of hundreds of people, carrying the weight of representing an entire country is no trivial feat
The controversy occuring with the first Filipina winner is just heartbreaking. Like this will shadow the win even if it's found that nothing happened
I know! I didn't even want to believe it because at first, when I heard that she was the first Filipina and Asian American winner, it felt a bit racist to me presuming that all the women were white (I checked them and most are but not all) and the accusation that's it's favoritism kind of goes in the fetish-y angle but I also didn't know who the judges were. I'm sure these are valid accusations that are concerning
Can you imagine those guys going to jail?
"I killed a man while robbing a bank, what are you in for?"
"I cheated at a fishing competition."
"You monster!" 🤣
Well the fishing tournament cheating was fraud because tens of thousands of dollars in prize money was at stake
It's always interesting to me that people never bring up that Ariel is also a Try Guys employee as a Try Wives. She works on their podcast plus appears in videos all the time. So not only did he cheat on his wife, but also employee with another employee.
RIGHT lmao she is a member of the team, which means Ned was already having a consensual workplace relationship with an employee… which means that he cheated on her not just in the home but in the workplace too
His cheating scandal is just layers upon layers of bad decision making
Having you, your mistress, and your wife all working together at a company you partially own is so messy
@@Jenninka just fucking gross. Imagine having your mistress in the same office with your wife who KNOWS ITS YOUR WIFE. The fuck.
Yeah I had a friend who was talking about how it wasn't fair he got fired over it and as soon as I told them his wife was an employee in the company they changed their mind right away lmao. Both his wife and mistress being employees is the most important part of it imo.
Uh. That doesn't matter at all. He married her before he even joined Buzzfeed. As his wife, she was also a part owner of the company which makes Alex an employee of Ariel. Ariel wasn't an employee. If she is still working there....then she is an employee NOW. Since her husband isn't a part owner of the company anymore.
I'm surprised the winner doesn't also sue, because this, if it's true, and she won via favoritism, this could cause her to look bad and cause her deals.
She was in on it tho
the fisging now has me interested. I feel terrible for the new Ms. America who became the first Asian woman to win, to then have people say that she may have won because of others doing shasty shit. the Ned thing annoys me because he tried to brush it off when it was their livelihood. I mean, Eugene, Keith, Zack AND Ariel, put time into this fucking company along with Ned. Ariel was working for the Tryguys as well taking care of their 2 young sons.
What got me fucked up was listening to the Ariel talk (On the You Can Sit With Us podcast) about how Ned complained about her throwing out the garbage but didn't focus on her keeping the house clean or taking care of the kids. Becky, Keith's wife, mentioned how Keith admitted that what Becky had a method and he didn't understand how she did things in the house but her methods made the house better. It just showed that Ned and Ariel's marriage wasn't that great as he claimed.
Yes you should absolutely 100% review the Miss USA handbook
i was an Irish dancer for 10 years (competitive and professional) and the cheating scandal that just broke out is our first major scandal. it's wild to see people finally get a look into how insane this world really is, but i'm glad it's being exposed. if anyone sees this, look into it for a crazy ass ride.
"Hermes says cheating is bad, but fighting dirty depends on the situation"
Perfect
That should be merch tbh
I’m surprised you didn’t talk about the Poker cheating scandal that happened recently. I don’t know a lot of poker terms but I think the person bet all their money on a hand that wasn’t that good but ended up getting lucky and everyone was mad at her because of it. I guess her logic was that she would have lost or won so she took a chance but people are saying she had a buzzer in her ring or something.
It might be too recent and she's waiting for more details to come out
I thought that that was already disproven? I read that multiple men have done the same move in the past and never got any backlash
She had misread her cards but got lucky that it ended up in her favor. The dudes at the table were salty she won. I watched the whole video of that game. No wrongdoing, no sleight of hand.
Thought about that case also
I defer all my poker knowing things to Victoria Coren-Mitchell. She seems to be on the side of "Well, that sure looks like a game of poker."
I'm so over the internet calling out people, especially women, for not displaying emotions the way they expect and claiming that as "proof" of deception. Different react to surprise in different ways, some people look "shocked" other people are just stunned silent, people with stage training are probably not going to appear as overwhelmed as people who don't have stage training, not everyone reacts the same way there are a million little things that could go into why someone reacts a certain way at a given time to any kind of event. I'm not trying to say one way or another whether the Miss USA contestants claims of favoritism are valid, I'm just over all of the "She's lying because she didn't look surprised!" bullshit.
a beauty contestant? the one who extensively trains on how to maintain an attractive facial expression for hours at a time?? didnt have the visible reaction you expected???? i am shocked, here is proof 😐
ppl are trying to be body language experts these days. its all pseudoscience but ppl still widely believe in polygraphs too so ig thats not too surprising. no doubt theres an element of misogyny here, i dont think u can avoid it when a womans facial expressions r under scrutiny.
My favourite thing about this is that every niche community has its huge scandals and I LIVE for that
ooh you need to check out the hobby drama subreddit
Why is that good lol
@@private755 it's not *good* per say, I just like the drama 😌
@@private755 no one said that it was good. But it' funny
Another update: Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman who were the right wingers who tried to commit election fraud are facing the same fine and prison time as those two anglers who got caught cheating with lead weights stuffed in the fish 😂
Great videos by Oki about Jacob Wohl called “Documenting a modern psychopath” if you want some insight into his madness
My moms whole side of the family has been lifelong fishers(for survival at times), and my uncle is a competitive angler, so this fishing scandal has Absolutely been at the top of my radar, lol.
As someone from Ohio, and who live in Cuyahoga, I live for listening to people pronounce our county and city names. Side note, this video was so funny. I loved it
same!!! I laughed hearing it but I understand it's not the easiest word if you're not from the area
Every. single. time. You'd think they would at least Google it or watch a news clip. I'm pretty sure the only ones I have heard pronounce it correct are MatPat and Chris Stickman and it's because they are from the area.
@Dylan Rodrigues actually you are right, it was pretty insensitive of me to say that
@@mandalorian_guy omg same, i’m surprised she was as close as she was
@Dylan Rodrigues a large number of names for locations in the US are! If something seems like it's spelled randomly and weirdly here, good chance it's actually the place name in another language.
Another update on Ned, someone took his license plate from the paparazzi video, did a search online and found someone complaining about people having sex in that car at 5pm. Based on the date and location, fans found that try guys did film a video on that location called something like "Living in a mansion for a day." And in that video, Alex and Ned show up together. Just gross all around. Thanks for this video. I knew about these stories but besides the Try Guys one, I didn't know the full story behind each of them. Another cheating story that's a bit more controversial you could have talked about is the guy who won an art competition using AI art. As an artist I do consider it cheating, but have no problem with AI artists having their own category or something as I know of does take time and skill. But it's not the same as having years upon years of art lessons and practice along with the time it takes to make art.
My personal perspective on AI art is it's totally fine if you wanna use it to generate a reference, and then draw/paint that picture yourself, because then you still have to show mastery of the materials & medium. But you can't actually have a robot paint it all and then present it in a gallery, or just submit that image to a digital art contest.
Oh my god, I just watched that video. It was the same day??
Gross
ai art takes no time and skill it’s literally putting a sentence into a generator
For the Ai one, ethics of submitting it in a competition aside, as a computer science student, the fact than an ai created a piece of art that was preferred over art made by people is incredible.
Ayyyy. Thanks for the shout out on the fishing story. Really weird story all around, and even more information has come to light on it since I talked about it.
EDIT: I usually fish in bass fishing tournaments, so I only knew of fish being released afterwards. So when I talked about this on RUclips, I found out that in walleye fishing tournaments, the walleye are in fact dead when weighed and are harvested, but in most cases, the teams donate their catch to local soup kitchens for meals.
However, the team of Runyan and Cominsky usually were one of the few teams who never donated their catch. Now it’s pretty obvious why. Nobody wants lead poisoning from their fish.
Amanda- “Fine, I’ll talk about Ned just because I have to slip it in.”
Me- “heh, that’s what Ned said too”
I want to like this comment, but 69 likes is pretty fitting lol 🤣🙃🤭
I didn't know that both chess masters were being accused of using the beads to cheat but I think I moreso love the fact that the fishing scandal has brought about felonies and that polygraphs are legitimately used for these tournaments
I don’t think they’re both being accused. That was a joke post. The original theory about the beads was a joke about “how did he even cheat without people noticing?” So this Reddit post was joking about how the guy making the accusations could’ve even known that the guy was cheating, especially when he’d made one move and it was unclear how he’d be cheating. Hence the joke theory he’s also a cheater using the same bead method so knew things were up with the vibrations were going wild. It’s just silliness.
The felony thing is extremely fucked up. Being designated a felon makes it legal to discriminate against a person in housing, employment, pretty much anything. Anti-discrimination laws, the right to vote, the entire Bill Of Rights, they all have a deeply immoral caveat: “unless we brand you a felon.”
To charge someone with a felony for something so frivolous is appalling. Prisons are already overcrowded with nonviolent drug offenders from overpoliced, impoverished neighborhoods subject to draconian stop-and-frisk laws, who will never again vote or enjoy freedom of speech or freedom of association. Aaaand also unsportsmanlike fisherman I guess 🤷🏻♀️
One thing I would like to touch one though is that these arguments of "she didnt seem suprised enough" always give me the ick. Not talking about the padgant drama specificly here but as a neurodivergent person (adhd & autism) I hate these arguments.
Sure maybe she doesnt look suprised because she knew she would win but maybe also how she react just didnt fit in your appropiate range of reaction?
As someone who mask everyday I always like to give people the benefit of the doubt that their reaction are valid and doesnt need to satisfy my expectations or so.
Also body language is one big pseudo science bullshit that is often rooted in racism or support a euroscentric view on things.
I highly recommend checking out münecats video on them she posted last week those body language "experts" are truly something
Preach
Another thing I really hate is the stupid and untrue claim someone made that not looking someone in the eye is a sign of dishonesty. Someone neatly debunked that by noting a shy person can be completely honest while a manipulator with no conscience can look you right in the eye while lying to you.
Way late to this video but as a same person, I completely agree. I hate body language analysis like have you not seen someone lying literally looking into your eyes and someone (me) can’t make direct eye contact even with my friends in normal conversations.
I for one would love to see Amanda review the Miss USA handbook. I don't particularlly care about the competition, I just wanna see her roast their ridiculous rules and drama :))
I’ve been following the chess situation for a while and the anal beads thing comes from a livestream. Basically a large(ish) streamer (idk I don’t use twitch but he had a couple thousand people watching) was discussing the situation and someone in chat brought up how he could’ve used anal beads and the host joking said something along the lines of “ya for all we know he could’ve used anal beads” and then journalists collectively shit themselves because the clickbait literally wrote itself.
I'm a bit late, but the whole Miss USA thing just reeks of racism. I'm only half-Asian, and I've been told/overheard that I didn't deserve to win, usually because of things like "Asians always win," "it's rigged," etc. We are constantly told that we should be held to a different, higher standard because Asians on average do better in school, academics, etc. Never mind the fact that I worked my ass off for my accomplishments, spent hours studying, and was genuinely passionate about the things I won. Same tune, different song. I think the same thing is happening here; all of the allegations sum up to a whole nothing burger, and were (in my opinion) easily explained by the winner.
I thought the beads was entirely random fanfiction not an allegation of real people doing real things with real money on the line
I think it started that way, but through a game of internet telephone became an actual allegation being lobbed.
That is correct. He’s being accused of cheating seriously, and the anal beads is a joke hypothesis on how he was able to. No one believes he actually had a sex toy in him
i love videos where you just talk about stuff because you want to, it’s like gossiping with a friend about really specific stuff
Regarding Ned, it has also come up that he publicly fornicated in his car with Alex while children and adults were around.
The witness took a picture of the license plate, same car from the paparazzo video
"Unless they go with their families, then it's war" I don't know why but that really resonated with me xD
Chess 3:10
Fishing 8:45
Miss USA 13:20
Try Guys 25:25
Love the Vid!
Not brought up in the video because it just happened 2 days ago but the VP of Miss Usa. Max Sebrechts who is also married to Crystle Stewart had to step down because he was sending unwanted text messages to other contestants. The plot thickens.
If you want to cheat, you should just break up, IMO
literally !! or have conversation about having an open relationship. open communication is so important in relationships
As someone who abhors cheaters, a lot of them "get off" on the thrill of doing something they know they aren't supposed to do. They absolutely do not care about the person they are cheating on (many are narcissists who lack empathy).
@@pookeywan I've never known a "Wife Guy" like Ned who didn't fit that profile.
"just break up" doesn't work for a marriage and that's something a child says, or someone who has never intertwined their life with someone else's, legally and physically.
@@somegeese Nobody is saying that’s not true. But, if you decide that you want to cheat on the person you consciously decided to intertwine your life with, then there’s no reason to continue that marriage. Just break up.🤷🏾♀️
The anal beads thing came from GM Eric Hansen talking on a stream about how Hans could have had a hidden computer and someone in chat was like "where would he hide it" and Hansen was like "I dunno, anal beads?" as a throw-away joke.
As a native Ohioan, I'm glad we could provide you with this quality entertainment. We don't joke about walleye.
Also hearing you pronounce Cuyahoga like that made me smile.
If Amanda isn’t binge-reading the HobbyDrama subreddit, she should be.
I love that subreddit, it's so gossipy and so niche
I was going to suggest that, its so good for enjoying messiness
The fishing thing is funny, because I’ve seen people argue that fish will often swallow lead weights. And yeah, that does happen. Sometimes they’ll pull a drop shot or a split shot weight off your line by mistake and swallow it. But it’s not a common thing, and they certainly don’t accidentally swallow as much lead as these guys took out of them.
There were also walleye fillets stuffed into the fish too, probably to add weight in a more believable way. But again-fish don’t just swallow fillets by accident. These guys definitely fed these weights and fillets to the fish to rig the tournament.
You should read up about the recent Irish dancing contest cheating scandal here in ireland. It's shocking but also hilarious 😂 I think you'll enjoy it.
I was scrolling the comments to find this. Idk if I should be relieved or disappointed lmao
@@doctorphoenix1498 it's a worse scandal than any of these 🤣mostly because kids seem to get a massive trophy at a feis for merely burping, so the fact that this level of cheating is going is just gas!
I was definitely obsessed with the Ned cheating scandal. Just the gall of that guy (wife guy) being out in the open like that. SNL did a crap job of making fun of it, they didn’t understand it at all. Cheating with a random person and cheating with an employee are not the same thing. The fishing thing I also heard about, watched the video. I really thought they were gonna get punched. I didn’t know though that they were charged with felonies. How is this a felony? Gotta go look that up.
Apparently the SNL thing was intentionally biased in favor of Ned/trying to minimize his actions, the writer of the sketch is a college friend of Ned’s. That shit was purposeful.
It’s a felony because they lied in order to get at least a million dollars over the past year. Fraud is fraud is fraud.
I think it’s a felony because the amount of prize money/value of the prizes they had won due to fraud.
The fishing thing is sort of up in my neck of the woods (I'm in Michigan, it was in Ohio, but sport fishing is huge and many guys who are into it, like people we know, travel around the region on the weekends for these tournaments). When I started reading about what happened, basically there was no way they would get away with it. The fish they held up would have NEVER weighed that size. I'm glad they got caught, there's huge money in the sponsorships in those contests - boats, equipment, actual money.
My husband is in the competitive fishing community and when I tell you the world that exists is so incredibly wild. And I didn't know but it's crazy. The money and trophies. Wild.
And the memes produced in the Facebook groups because of this situation are.... Chef kiss. Perfection.
That intro tho. Gotta love the honesty. lol
On top of this, there's an ongoing cheating scandal in the competitive Irish dance world -- someone leaked screenshots of text conversations that show twelve teachers asking judges for favors for certain dancers, and there are even more teachers implicated in other conversations that haven't been shown to the public. My best dance friend and I have been talking about it for weeks. It's... honestly not a _massive_ shock to me given how much of a pipeline competitions are for Riverdance and other touring shows, but it's still disappointing nonetheless. The texts included kids' names, too, and those weren't redacted, so that's introduced all sorts of unnecessary nastiness.
I guess they'll have to wand every fish now before determining a winner and make the chess players squat and cough prison style.
As for Ned and Alex, they were so reckless with their cheating it's like they wanted to be caught. I used to think wife guys like Ned were so sweet and romantic but over the years I've learned that it's only an act. They get a kick out of deceiving everyone. As difficult and painful as it is, Ariel needs to cut Ned loose and move on.
Would love to see you dive into the Miss USA guidebook
Oh (big) fishing tournaments are sooo tense. The amount of shit you have to do to be eligible for a prize is insane - you have to submit your crew, your equipment, you have to record the catch. It's a whole freaking thing. I love it.
Not US cheating but have you heard about the cheating/favoritism of Irish dance competitions? I feel bad for all the kids who are questioning if they’re actually good at dancing because their coaches were cheating.
This was the most satisfying way to consume the cheating scandals. It felt like a guilty pleasure
All I can think of about the chess story is 'no one is allowed to like an underdog story anymore'.
I get being nosy. I went fishing for details on a convention over the weekend when I heard it was a mess. lol
“For people who really like fishing it’s like fun for them. Unless they’re with family then it’s war” as someone who loves fishing as an escape from family I can confirm
There’s also a cheating scandal around competitive Irish dance, the kicker is there are no prizes when you when 😅
The fishing story is by far the best but I have to say the Adam Levine cheating story is way more interesting than Ned Fulmer. I'm sorry but asking your mistress if you can name your new born baby the same name is insane!
As someone who was surprised the walleye cheating thing wasn’t local to them, I would love to see you go to a fishing competition for the drama
I don’t really understand how a beauty pageant can be “fair”. The amount of money spent on costumes, hair and makeup would already favor those with more money. And everything being “judged” are subjective to begin with. Of course the judges already got their favorites in mind going into it. I don’t really know how fairness plays into it, it’s not even like gymnastics or figure skating, there’s no obvious mistakes or perfect execution that everyone can agree on.
It makes me so sad to think that they were going to release those poor fish back into the wild to suffer and die with those lead weights inside of them.
As a chess person I simply cannot believe how big this story has gotten
I love how I know all of the stories in detail about each incident in the thumbnail. All of it out together is wild lol.
Edit: the fishing one is the one that is the most hilarious and shocking to me. Because it’s fishing lol. Oh and the chess anal bead theory.
The shear level of aggression the tourney had when he said “there we go!” Wound up and pointed at that dude in the face like he was gonna punch him seriously made my day don’t ask me why it just did.
Imagine explaining to your fellow inmates that you're in jail for putting weights in fish
The chess scandal sounds wild to me. I mean, because of this, chess tournaments are probably gonna have to do extra security checks 🤣
Watched two guys get in a parking lot brawl at a fishing comp because one guy told the other to watch his rod while he did something, the other guy caught a fish with his rod and they couldnt agree whose catch it technically was. Fishing comps are crazy.
The chess butt bead rumor started after Magnus alluded to Hans cheating on Twitter. Another GM, Eric Hansen was streaming on Twitch and someone in the chat asked how you would even cheat at chess. Eric said it would be very difficult, and then crafted the bead theory which was so funny, it spread like crazy.
Fishing scandal one was my favorite literally because "WE GOT WEIGHTS IN FISH" has lived rent-free in my head for weeks now
I wondered how long Amanda would take to talk about the chess stuff. She just has those vibes
“We got weights in fish” has been inked and embossed in my lexicon forever
You are so dang adorable. That being said I really like how your videos slowly shifted focus to be entirely your opinion. People are interesting, and i think you make the most out of that fact.
"The reason I'm making this video is entirely because I am nosey" good, that's the reason I'm watching it! 😂
As much as cheating really hurts people, it’s my guilty pleasure as far as drama goes. Drama usually stresses me out cause I feel like the “sides” can be so complex, but cheaters are cheaters and deserve all the backlash.
The chess one was very much sleep until the beads were mentioned because then we were all like "can those even help?? Be used to cheat???"
The fish video was wild to watch like a Renaissance painting.
The poker one was my fav tho, seeing that bro lose his mind because he got played. Poker ain't just the odds, bb, doing weird off the wall stuff is its own strat as is reading your opponent.
My spouse has been immersed in the Hans Niemann cheating thing since it started. Kinda wild to hear it from a source other than them hahah
ok the miss usa situation is exactly the plot of a dream i had a few years ago except it was also a phineas and ferb episode
Just wanted to say that I listen to you while I crochet and every time you laugh it’s contagious, I feel like im with a friend ❤
How could he just do that... Ruined a perfectly good fish with all that lead. Cheaters never prosper, they poison the town the lead.
I love watching your content knowing you have such a good grasp of journalism and media. I was watching a video from Sloan the other day and he said unironically "I mean it must be true otherwise why would the Daily Mail report it?" Oh my God I did the biggest FFS sigh before having to click off the video entirely. I had to show my appreciation after you called the DM out for being garbage 😊👌
The fishing one was my favorite. Just warmed my midwest heart. I loved that that week on twitter was so insane that you didn't even get to the poker cheating scandal
It somehow took me until the 3:50 mark to figure out you were talking about competition cheating and not relationship cheating.
Usually I’m not aware of online drama like this, but its fun to hear you talk about it
First. I don’t cheat. It doesn’t make any sense. Just be honest
Second. For anyone curious just become a Patreon SIMP
Life not a disney movie. You got to adapt to challenges
@@mrdee2454 They're cheating at things that ultimately don't matter. It's not like any of these are part of a fight for survival.
The fishing controversy had me-excuse the pun-hooked! When that clip first came out, I lead showing everyone I could and at one point exclaimed, “This is high drama!”
I was wondering if you’d talk about the Irish dancing rigging scandal that was just revealed!! It even implicated Irish dancing schools in the States and UK. My friends who used to compete told me it’s been an open secret for years
Between u and Ludwig, I am completely up to snuff on all of the internet cheating scandals internet-wide. Thank you, as always, for your service to filling us nosey assholes in haha
Giiiirll I know we are not suppose to comment on other peoples appearances and all, but you look like a freakin princess today!!! So cuteeeee and classy
omg not the fishing community 😢
edit: also, as an Ohioan, I love hearing people pronounce Cuyahoga lol. Technically its "kai-uh-HO-guh" but most people in the area shorten it to "KAH-guh"
Also yes, please review the Miss USA Handbook xD
Gotta be honest, I thought you meant a different kind of cheating. Still good vid though. Was very interested in your opinion on the chess story.