Long overdue update: Since September 30 2023, the company has been delisted, shares deleted, and you can no longer buy or sell any shares of the company as they were removed from your account. Kais continued to buy more until the last possible day, even setting up two GoFundMe campaigns in the process. One was to "help pay for his son's college", and the other was literally just "give me money". Nowadays, he still visits the same empty building that used to be a Bed Bath and Beyond every single morning for his daily upload, where he continues to rant about absolute nonsense. Additionally, he spends 6+ hours a day in Twitter Spaces calls talking about the company formerly known as Bed Bath and Beyond with a surprisingly large group of his followers, creating new conspiracy theories that all center around Q-Anon type beliefs. He regularly attacks and attempts (but usually fails) to doxx people who criticize him, as well as his usual antisemitic attacks on Twitter. Nothing to do with the current conflict in Gaza though, he just thinks Jews control the economy and are preventing Bed Bath and Beyond from resurfacing. Since the company has been deleted, all shareholders lost 100% of their investment and it is legally impossible for them to ever recover any of their investment. Try telling them that, and you'll be a victim of their harassment. I'm not going to do a follow-up video to this because this community has devolved into one of the most toxic on the internet, and it's not even worth giving them any more attention. If you want to see what they're up to, you can find it for yourself. Don't say I didn't warn you.
"it is legally impossible for them to ever recover any of their investment." wrong bro, when Donald wins in 2024 he's going to dismantle the SEC and then give it all back as $TEDDY shares. just watch. /s For real though, great video Jauwn! Just recently found your channel and loving it. My favorite part of this video was watching Kais pumping Supreme gas in his most assuredly average SUV 🤣
@@thegalacticfederation1212 When this video released he made a tweet saying that "Bed Bath and Beyond knows how much I love them that they paid to have this professional documentary made on my life". Not even joking, he thinks I work for them. The rest of the community seemed to think otherwise, thinking that I was paid by some hedge fund that was "heavily short" and I made this to make retail investors look stupid. But they've pretty much all forgotten about this video. It's FUD, so naturally discussions regarding it were silenced on their forums.
The scariest thing about someone this delusional is that Ryan Cohen could come out tomorrow and say very clearly and bluntly “my tweets are not hidden messages, my children’s books are just children’s books, I hold no stake in bed bath and beyond because it was a terrible company, and even if I wanted to I couldn’t because it no longer exists.” And these people, they wouldn’t just, not believe him. They wouldn’t think he’s lying or anything like that. The delusion is a layer deeper. They’d LOVE it. They’d tout it as the biggest Ryan Cohen hint yet. Bed Bath and Beyond no longer exists? Yeah! Because he’s merging it with GameStop! “My tweets aren’t hidden messages?” Guys, that’s him signaling that he’s aware of us while simultaneously getting the mainstream media off his tail so that only us apes will benefit from the merger! Him saying his books are just books is another diversion tactic, and by repeating the word book twice he’s strongly signaling that we need to book our shares! And by calling them “children’s” books, he’s telling us that when GME and BBBY merge, our booked shares will turn into Gmerica shares, the “child” of GME and BBBY!
"my tweets are not hidden messages" BECAUSE THEY'RE NOT HIDDEN THEY'RE OBVIOUS!!! He's actually calling everyone who doesn't notice the messages stupid and saying that we're super smart special boys who have seen his clear messages for what they are!!!!!1!!!!1 This is absolutely what he meant to say all along!
If I hadn't seen this exact sort of behavior countless times while browsing the various conspiracy circles, I'd have thought you're just making shit up and making fun of a strawman version of them. But no, you're 100% spot on. Your description of how they'd read that theoretical post is so chillingly convincing that if it weren't for the surrounding context, I'd have thought you were one of them yourself.
"we've never met but I know everything about you" is the absolute last thing you want to hear from a strange desperate looking man you meet on the street
If I heard that, I feel like I'd be flattered for exactly three seconds before my brain caught up. "Oh, you know who I am! That's really cool, I... uh... oh no, wait, actually, I just realized I have to be literally anywhere else."
His "college degrees" are probably of the same quality. In Germany we have big problems with migrants from Africa and the middle east because they come here with college degrees from their home countries and don't understand why those degrees are basically worthless here. Because the standards of German universities compared to those in other countries are vastly different. Some of those degrees are actual comparable to highschool graduation in Germany.
Former gamestop employee here. Working under Ryan Cohen sucked, policies and plans changed almost weekly. Edit: I just realized... this was the a-hole we were warned about. I remember one day my boss came in talking about not talking to nutjobs asking about stocks and crap.
Glad to see you don't work there anymore. I haven't been to one since 2014 or so but I can't imagine it was a very fun or rewarding job with how poor leadership is
Right? One of my friebds had a neckbeard waddle in to her store talking about how they'd be all rich under Cohen and various dumb shit for twenry minutes.
I know this story touches some dark corners of the human condition and I don’t want to minimize that but “I’m a reporter for Bed Bath & Beyond” is one of the funniest things I’ve ever heard.
I worked at a retailer once and we had a guy we just referred to as "The Lunatic" who would ride his bike around the parking lot screaming at the top of his lungs. After a while you just accept it
Reminds me of the I HATE HIGHMARK car from maybe a decade or so ago. Was a guy that drove this beat to death 70s boat of car with all kinds of unhinged statements about the Highmark corporation. He would drive it around circles the public square that was next to their building where many people ate lunch. The Highmark employees that I asked about it through it was funny.
unfortunately gets weirdly normal fast. typically ends up getting a name (the pervert was ours in our store. security was useless so myself and the other dude in the store would do the closing shift because otherwise there was the potential for one of the women to be by themselves in the store with him, and while he only molested mannequins nobody really wanted to risk that)
And not only that, the threat of losing your job constantly looming over your head because the company is about to go bankrupt. These people truly don’t get paid enough.
That's when you call for an EMT to come out and talk to the person. NEVER call the cops on someone you suspect is having a mental health crisis. Tell the 911 operator specifically that you need an EMT team at your location. If the cops come in behind them, eh, you can't do much about that. The pi-...um, cops, like to listen in and show up everywhere to justify their gigantic budgets. But the first point of contact should always be someone trained in how to handle someone having a crisis which most EMTs are trained for.
“The media can say whatever they want, but I can believe whatever I want.” That line is only 20 minutes in and I have a feeling that train of thought will get progressively worse as the video goes on.
that line of thinking isn't technically wrong, but he takes it too extreme, standing by your views is one thing, desperately clinging to information proven false is another.
@@sjfs231 There is a fundamental problem in thinking of the truth as a positive you can cling to. In reality, you can only discard ideas that don't align with your observations. Doing mental gymnastics to justify believing whatever you decided to believe in the first place is how you start a cult (or buy into one).
@@ekki1993 lol no, those that start cults are well aware of their own bullshittery, ESPECIALLY in the financial sector. That guy was just an delusional Cohen cultist trying to interpret anything into his personal Cohen evangelion.
Literally just hit this part of the video and scrolled down to see if someone else mentioned it - - This is HANDS DOWN the best advice anyone gives him in the entire video; and it goes practically unheard by him.
One of the worrying sign of these type of people is they treat it like a some kind of ARG where they think the people they idolize were dropping hints all across the social media and all the speech were chosen carefully as a dogwhistle for "someone in the know". Those guys could literally shout "STOP WHAT YOU ARE DOING! THERE IS NO HIDDEN MEANING AND CLUE!" and these people would hyper-analyse it to death. Kinda horrifying in a way.
There was a point where one of their 'idols' dropped his phone and accidentally tweeted an 'm' and they tried to decide that. Even after he said it was meaningless and that he posted that on accident.
"I love - _like_ him (Ryan Cohen) so much!" Because even in a mental breakdown expressing his devotion to his investment God-king, Kai can't have anyone thinking he's _gay_ or anything.
I think the scariest thing about this guy is his refusal to honor any type of boundaries. I noticed that anytime anyone asked him to/not to do something it was met with immediate push back no matter how minor or reasonable it was.
@@lordofminorannoyance3510 To be fair, being on the spectrum doesn't mean you're not capable of recognising and respecting boundaries. I'm on it, too, and if someone says no it means no.
@@lordofminorannoyance3510 I'm seeing some possible schizophrenia as well I feel. He sees secret messages only he understands in tweets and things people say. Every tweet his idol posts holds some secret hidden meaning or clue. Really makes me think of the Time Cube guy, and other people like him. In their brains it makes sense.
"You can wear these goggles and shop 24/7" You know what would be even better? Some sort of small, portable computer with many functions that you could carry around in your pocket and order items 24/7 just by tapping on it with your fingers. If only such technology existed...
Yeah that might be more convenient, but putting on a bulky device worth hundreds of dollars to do what you already can from a phone or computer is more futurey!
I worked at a group home and he reminds me of one of our clients. Dude was delusional, seeing patterns in random stuff. Like a clerical error on his birth certificate led him to start thinking he was a stolen baby being hidden from assassins in the cartel, cause he's a long lost member of the royal family. It made no sense, and all these delusions kept getting weirder and crazier. To the point he wrote his first cousin a love letter, since "They weren't really related" it was fine to him. Somehow he also had it in his head that he was also the nephew of Donald Trump and that Donald's border wall would stop the cartels so he could finally reveal himself as their long lost relative. The way this guy talks and just sees these "Hidden messages" is way too familiar. They even have the same cadence... The other story gets worse, too. His mom was actually a trainer and taught me CPR for the job. She was heartbroken and just wanted her son to get better, and stop saying she was actually his abductor.
I find it interesting how basically everyone I’ve heard of with delusional issues managed to make trump a linchpin in their identity. I have no idea how he even managed to rope together people with opposite nonsense conspiracies into the same money obsessed cult
Do you know what made him so delusional? Like, was he manic or schizophrenic? Did he have a brain tumor or some other damage that made his thinking so warped?
This guy has committed the following crimes on camera: -Giving financial advice that have actively hurt people -Serial stalking Ryan Cohen -Serial harassing Jim Cramer -Social engineering twice to get private info -Trespassing multiple times onto private property -Doxing "haters"
Agreed on almost everything but the last point. Doxing itself is not a crime, I’m not sure why people think it is. Unless you are spreading someone’s address and saying “hurt this person” or you obtained their information illegally, posting people’s publicly available contact info including their address isn’t illegal.
Imagine seeing the enormously oversized parking lots typical of every single big-box store in suburban America and thinking "Clearly this is so there will be room for all the trucks when they merge with Gamestop!" and not "This is because minimum parking requirements are too high!"
Oh I remember this NPC from Oblivion, yeah he was the weird one who talked about how Uriel Septim wasn't killed by mythic dawn agents and instead went into hiding to merge the fighter's guild and blackwood company into "G-Guild". he was also just obesseded with the nerevarine and his ebony stock in solstheim for some reason
Wow. He was just delusional from the very beginning, huh. 1, BBB doesn't own any of its locations. They're rented. 2, it would cost more to overhaul a consumer store into a freight capable warehouse than it would to just demolish it and build a real warehouse. 3, its just flat out illegal. All of those locations are zoned for retail business. You can't run a shipping company out of them. None of them are zoned for fuel handling. None of them can be. 4, if you've ever seen an actual UPS regional center, it makes a walmart supercenter look like an outhouse. Dude has no clue what the scale of shipping actually is.
I can stomach the goriest, grossest stuff but I had to skip past him calling the OBGYN because it was so viscerally upsetting to me. The idea some lunatic you’ve never met can call your HCP’s office and get the full details of your unborn child is nauseating
There was no info to provide. My impression of how that conversation went was that when continued asking for a delivery date on a baby they had no records even existed, they just had to give him a vague estimation of how long it takes to have a baby because he wouldn't leave them alone
@@jauwnI work in a nursing home, and in fairness a dob is standard to ask for for verification, and when you have so many family members making insane requests, that at a certain point you learn to do what this woman did, give as little info as possible and politely hang up
Between watching _This is Financial Advice_ , this video, and reading the pinned update, it all left me just really sad how many people are completely unable to admit they were wrong, or walk away at a loss. You can see it a lot in everyday conversations or news, you know how 'sunk cost fallacy' influences people, but seeing _this_ degree of obsessive self-delusion that also loses them increasingly vast amounts of money over time, over beliefs that are demonstrably false, is genuinely depressing. Also, just saying, delivery trucks usually don't park on the customer parking lot, they park on the logistics lot behind the store. So even that part was badly understood by this poor man.
I wondered why that guy looked familiar. Dan Olson showed a brief shot of him creeping out a Gamestop employee about Cohen and the "merger." So I came in assuming the worst, and am still horrified.
@@Gloomdrake Yeah, some individual members could use some more focus; he mentions “Queen Kong” twice as an influential figure, but doesn’t say anything else about her.
@queencyrys6309 Yeah, makes sense; he was talking more about the movement in general. But given he does go into detail about characters like DFV and Cohen, Queen Kong probably could have gotten at least a little more than 2 or 3 offhand mentions.
His attempt to get Cohen’s baby’s birthdate sent this from cringe to frightening. The sight of him at the gun range pushed it into the realm of potentially ominous. Hopefully I’m wrong about the latter. In any case, excellent documentary. Subscribed!
Pretty sure he is a schizophrenic, when I have unmedicated delusions like this personal borders are just.. not in my mind at all. They don't exist. Logic goes out the window, only these random things have value. I have seen the future in the symmetry of paint drops on my walls. It's a life ruining illness.
"We just moved overseas from Montreal Canada..." This guy clearly failed geography HARD to not realize you can just drive south to the united states from Canada.
As a retail worker, I think I better understand why I am so uncomfortable with people who speak with the same cadence as him and ask weirdly personal or irrelevant questions. Most of the time I can't really pinpoint a solid proven reason to feel uncomfortable/unsafe, but I think my subconscious is seeing proven patterns of "this person might be a bit off their rocker, you should keep your distance".
Only frightening if you don't understand schizophrenia, which I have. You should read up on it. We are generally not dangerous and statistics show we are more often the victims of violence rather than the aggressors. So, don't be scared.
@@DarkOmegaMK2 You are a monster who has no sympathy and the level of understanding of his problems that is often easily equated to the same level that was displayed by a socialist party from Germany circa 1940.
@@informitas0117 His behavior is frightening, but only because he will likely never actually get any of the help he needs. He will need an intervention from those around him or he will only progress into his madness.
"The manager knows me, they love me." She sounded like she had no idea who he was and she was laughing to try and lighten the blow of asking him not to record inside the store, which he did not obey.
this kind of stuff just makes me incredibly sad, it's honestly hard to watch. as someone who has a lot of mental health issues and a lot of family who does as well, it's not easy to notice when this kind of thing is happening to you. if someone you know is starting to speak and believe nonsense like this, please urge them to seek help; even if 'just to prove you wrong'. if they get to the point they are committing crimes like trespassing, harassment, stalking, or worse, please seek help for them. their actions can very likely escalate. on the other hand, if those around you tell you that _you_ are saying and believing things that make no sense, please seek help; even if just to prove them wrong. mental health is very real and very important. for the safety of yourself, those you love, and the others around you, please keep a lookout for warning signs.
This is an important message. I’m really sorry that you go through this, but really happy that you’re able to reflect on it and give others advice. As an outside you never really know how to respond. This was helpful
Insane how quickly he went from fairly innocent actions to literal identity theft, oh my gosh. 1:03:25 the first documented piece of this man getting some genuine advice
This is why rich people need to stop fucking with the rest of us. Ryan did a pump and dump and profited by taking from so many people that needed the Money more.
I mean... the anti-Semitic blathering's cued me in a little bit before the identity theft shows up, that's the number one red flag for dangerous conspiracy theorists.
You can see the people getting confused to amused to outright hostile towards him as the videos go on. Like a manager had to said "if some dude talked about a guy that faked his death feel free to tell to get lost"
I met a person like this once, she was just a friend who I talked to every week... she was a pleasant person, but her ideas and projects and investments forced her to ask for a lot of money and try to swindle even her own family when things were rough... I can't imagine sharing room and bed with someone like that.
@@teehee781My own theory is that his family left him as soon as he went all-in on this conspiracy theory, a few weeks before the birth of his RUclips "career". Probably why he needed a conspiracy theory to latch on to in the first place, because it doesn't seem he has anyone or anything going on for him anymore.
Haha thanks for that! A lot of people said it was too much but as someone who has watched the entire Chris Chan documentary I know there are other people like me who have a high tolerance for this insane cringe
Imagine being an employee at that store he frequented in Queens. You know the loss of your job is imminent, and as if that didn't suck enough, some lunatic shows up at the doomed store almost every single day to harass you and your coworkers and spew his deranged nonsense, making your and your coworkers' lives even more miserable and stressful. I hope those former employees are doing well these days.
What I find really striking is how effortlessly he lies to people when they catch him trespassing. No hesitation, no flinching. It's hard to not to feel sorry for his mental state but he's also clearly a pretty shitty person.
Today's the last day Bed Bath and Beyond stores are open, the company has gone into full bankruptcy and liquidation, and it's equal parts disturbing and amazing how deeply deluded this man got. The level of nonsensical conspiracy he's come up with in his head rivals Qanon in both scope and absurdity, but it's about something utterly pointless, a failed retail chain. This guy seriously needs professional help and now that the company has gone belly-up I'm very worried about just what he's going to do next.
I feel bad for the guy. I have interacted with people who suffer from paranoid delusions due to my work and the way he is acting and reasoning is eerily familiar. I can't diagnose him, not my field of expertise at all, but I would not be surprised if he suffered some kind of diseorder.
I feel bad for the people he interacts with! Like those working in the store, knowing their jobs are about to end, and having to put up with some crazy guy that skulks around on a daily basis. And the security guards, who don't get paid nearly enough to deal with some random jerk putting them on RUclips and accusing them of some sort of coverup.
@@daleglass7349 That is not mutually exclusive. His condition does make him actively detrimental to others, who deserve as much or more sympathy, but at the end of the day he is not doing this because he's evil but because he's broken,
You are right, he is clearly mentally unwell. My best friend developed schizophrenia in his late 20s and early 30s. He showed an occasional weird phase here and there in his teens, but 99.9% of the time was totally normal. Nicest guy in the world, I really loved him and he was a good man. Hard working, kind, generous. But he started rapidly deteriorating in his late 20s. It wasn’t him, he couldn’t control it, everything was a big conspiracy, everyone was out to get him, and it just got worse. He would have mental battles with himself over whether people he knew his whole life were really what they seemed, really good people looking out for his interests or sent by the devil to lead him astray or kill him, but with little windows of normalcy sometimes too. Anyway it got so much worse and he eventually did kill himself after an extreme breakdown, he hated the medicine and thought it was part of the conspiracy to take him down by suppressing him and his thoughts, which it DID do, it made him feel bad and empty. So he wouldn’t take it often. He kept thinking he was one breakthrough away from discovering “it”, the answer to everything. He thought he was hearing messages from god and I do think he may have hurt someone eventually, or done something terrible, his paranoid thoughts started taking him to some bad places, like some people were possessed by demons and needed to be “cleansed”. But it wasn’t him and he was a good guy, just broken, not evil. He needed more help than he could afford or get, maybe he couldn’t really be helped even. But oh how I cried the day he died, I’ve never cried that hard before or since ever again, and I probably never will. Anyway I see a lot of this in Kais. In a few more years he would be even worse, even without BBBY. I get the impression he was relatively successful and had a LOT of money in the line. I would be very worried if I was on the board for BBBY. I think the trauma of losing all that money, potentially 6-7 figures(I don’t think he ever disclosed how much) was so much stress it pushed him over the edge. You can see him deteriorating in real time. For Christ’s sake, he is even losing a lot of his teeth over a mere SIX MONTHS.
@@joemamr710 my spouse has had schizophrenia for years, and it affects every little thanks to medicine and therapy; schizophrenia doesn’t make person dangerous unless they uses alcohol and/drugs instead of medicine - schizophrenia *with substance abuse* is only mental illness which has been found to be more common among convicted than among general population, and substance abuse alone is over 10 times more common among convicted than among general population. It’s sad to hear that your friend died, but he likely wasn’t dangerous nor wasn’t impossible to help - very hard if he wasn’t able to get or willing to get help - though you wouldn’t have been able to help him any more than you already did.
💯! Pardon my french, but this guy has some screws lose, you don't need to be a medical professional in the field of psychology, to know that. You just have to listen to his ramblings for five minutes....
This was so hard to watch. I had to pause it at times. The way he completely lacks social awareness and is just bothering all these people made my second-hand embarrassment skyrocket to insane levels.
@@redjed100 Thank you for teaching me this new vocab word, it's a nice and concise way to say "secondhand embarrassment". Hope it becomes as well known in English as schadenfreude is.
@ShermTank7272 I know this is an older comment, but I just Google and it appears fremdschamen is the verb form and Fremdscham is the noun. Just in case you want to use it in future!
This guy is like that japanese soldier that kept fighting ww2 on that island long after the war was over. Harassing the people on the island to no end. They needed his old commander come to tell him that the war is over. Unfortunately no such person exist for this lone fighter.
@@imperialguardsman5726 nah, people with this level of delusion cannot be convinced that they're wrong. cohen could tell him face to face that he's completely wrong and he'd still take it as some kind of "code"
@@imperialguardsman5726 Cohen is just part of the conspiracy. Maybe its a hidden message. What could Cohen have meant by this? He must be encouraging me to fight harder!
@@leviadragon99 its not unreasonable to beleive in a company. I put everything i could into the startup i worked at. We all did. I also worked at a company that cures cancer. Work is how humans can and should constructively and productively interface with society.
@@emptiester Yeah, but there’s a difference. You worked there. You had an immediate connection to the company. You understood the inner workings of it and what it was doing, so it seems reasonable to be passionate in that aspect when you believe in the company you own and/or work at. This dude, though, just stood in the parking lot and obsessed over it.
It is terrifying to know that anybody with a last name, that person's date of birth, and that person's zip code can easily get access to that person's entire health history, based on the questions asked to the nurse who picks up.
@@r7calvinI've seen some crazy hippa violations that lead to nurses getting fired and blacklisted, I think there was also legal action but the documents are sealed so I can't say for sure.
Fun fact! If you ever need to break into a patient area of a hospital, you can do so trivially with a stretcher, a small, empty oxygen bottle, a vaguely official-looking polo shirt, a tablet computer, and a friend. Nobody will question the unfamiliar EMS team. At all.
1:15:55 he's right. The CEO should always be at the headquarters looking out the window. As the face of the company, they must show their face at all times, all hours, every day and night.
Wow, this is insanity. Some of the footage here was genuinely hard to watch. However, him saying "I don't wanna speculate" regarding the woman walking after months of rampant speculation about literally everything else is hilarious.
I think the part that seemed most ominous to me is a guy who sees messages hidden in tweets and children's books, telling his hero "just let me know if you want me to visit"...
@@jauwn Hold up, what are you talking about? I'm not American so I'm uneducated on these things, I would very interested in a video about this community If this was a joke I apologise for misunderstanding
@@Stars-SapphireHe's not joking, unfortunately. Look up "This IS Financial Advice" by Folding Ideas for a very in-depth explanation of the whole phenomenon, with several examples from the people of that community (even Kais is shown once).
@@Stars-Sapphire Folding Ideas recently released a video “This Is Financial Advice” detailing the history of the GameStop/Bed Bath situation and the community and conspiracy theories surrounding it; excellent context for this insanity.
Having seen documentaries on and met people with delusional paranoia and manic episodes, this behaviour is SUPER familiar. The need to talk, the theorizing, the seeing hidden messages, the lack of awareness of other's boundaries, the rambling into tangents, the obsessive behaviour... The difference is I saw those people get help. I really hope this guy gets/got help before he hurts himself or others.
The dude actually met Jim Cramer at a paid meet & greet a few days ago and the video was just as creepy as I expected. He got him to sign a wine bottle for Ryan Cohen's nonexistent baby
I know this is old, but watchlists are actually very, very harmful in situations like this. He needs a part time caretaker. If you look at his hygiene over the progression of this, he's failing to take care of himself. He's living in increasingly worse conditions. Organized surveillance is the last thing that would help him or anyone he's harmed.
@@obswalb4790 you're 100% right. I wrote this comment immediately after watching the video for the first time and after revisiting it and seeing how much Kais has deteriorated since this was originally recorded it's clear that he really desperately needs help. If I wrote this comment now it'd probably read something like "over the course of learning about this story I went from "wow, what a strange person" to "wow, this guy needs to be on a watchlist" to "wow, this guy needs help ASAP".
Genuinely pretty depressing seeing a man who is clearly struggling mentally try to deliver a package to a dead man. His utter denial to accept the genuine tragedy of other people's personal lives else he lose one of the few threads he has left to cling to in his is... horrifying.
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This is depressing. Hearing about this man digging His own grave while thinking he's climbing to the top evokes so Many emotions, and they're all adjacent to Horror and sadness.
Its even sadder to realize thatpeople actualky took his "advises" to heart, and now have lost a lot of money, safety and probably their faith in humanity.
Watching someone fall into an insane death spiral of increasingly absurd delusions actually does a pretty good job of showing why people stick with conspiracy theories, various forms of financial bag-holding, gambling, etc.
@@rustyshackleford1508 wait.. wich conspiracies have been confirmed ? i mean yes mega corps agendas help each other ,but they arent any mason cabal just assholes the moon landing was not early cgi.. the world is round so no ice wall etc wich ones been confirmed that your thinking of ? ^^
This is one of those videos I need to smash my right arrow to get through, not because the video is bad but the amount of second hand embarrassment I receive is insane. Great video.
Right?! So painful lol. For whatever reason, those conversations with store employees just murder me. When I was a teenager working a retail job and had terrible social anxiety those people were the wooorrrsst
@@idontwantahandlethough what would your anxious teenage self do if someone walked up to you and started running his mouth out on some imaginary merger? 🤔
The amount of times this kind of exchange happened in the video is equal parts infuriating, amusing, and sad: KM, to random employee: "Hey how do you feel about (insert absolutely insane shit)? Employee: **completely bewildered** "Uh, I dunno dude." KM: **smug as hell** Alright, man. Have a good day. **walking away, into his phone** yeah, so that basically confirms everything.
Well this started kind of funny and then ended profoundly disquieting. Side note the security guy that recognized him as the guy with the package and started roasting his ass, that man's golden.
It is absolutely CRAZY how he came to the conclusion of a video game distribution company and a furniture company on the verge of bankruptcy merging...
From what I remember from Folding Ideas’ video detailing the whole thing (This Is Financial Advice), it started when the GameStop short squeeze fell flat and a lot of the people left with worthless stock in that ended up starting the conspiracy theory about how the squeeze hadn’t ended and there was going to be an even bigger one that would make them rich. Carl Icahn got roped into this after people read too much into Ryan Cohen (the CEO of GameStop) taking a photo with him, and then they followed him to BBBY when he tried to get involved in that company. (Edit: It was Cohen who went from GME to BBBY; Icahn was a separate part of that.) It makes a little more sense if you follow how the community and theories developed over time as Dan’s video describes; it provides excellent context for all this insanity.
It's like the end state of capitalism. These companies are no longer physical entities that provide goods and services, they are just stock prices and narratives about miraculous profit.
His train of thought is completely off the rails. He's constantly doing the equivalent of someone screaming "The sky is pink! Spiders have three legs! My cat can do calculus! There's a vampire inside the Declaration of Independence! Wood turns into cotton candy when you pee on it!" and no matter what evidence you give him to the contrary he will mumble and gnash equally unhinged reasonings to support his previous points.
I had a friend who had schizophrenia, and I'm noticing he has a lot of the same tics that she had. The constant glancing to the corners of his eyes, the difficulty remembering commonly used words, the fixation on odd wordplay or strained metaphor. It's actually really uncomfortable seeing how bad he is, knowing how bad it was for my friend.
I used to live with a guy with schizophrenia. If I coughed, or if I crossed and uncrossed my legs, he would think I was sending him coded messages. This guy definitely has it
Excellent video! Watching Kais impersonate Ryan Cohen to get private medical records was horrifying. Hopefully he can learn from this entire saga and come out the other side in a healthier mental state.
"Brave silverbacks" lmfao. This guy has been stalking parking lots and corporate buildings, completely psychotic. The journey he is on is a tragic one.
This is the kind of stuff you would hear in the background section of a crime documentary. The stuff that makes you ask 'how did no one act on the warning signs?'
Honestly, that front desk worker's reaction is both sad and surprising: 1:01:44 Like... He know's he's gone, he knows he jumped. And this guy comes in, says he's got a gift for him and...
Exactly. That doorman probably saw him every day. Doormen culture in NYC is like that. They knew eachother. And he probably was one of the first people to see the aftermath of his suicide. Or perhaps he even saw it happen. Horrific to imagine
I was lucky enough to buy GME when it was $5. I watched my 2k investment hit 80k. I was blown away. The wall Street bets forum told me it would go higher... Well they were right about it this far, why not hold? Then I watched it plummet to 20k. I didn't realize that the actual people giving advice in the forum were now the new people who joined when it hit the news and just hoped it would continue to rise. I realized that too late. I was able to make 18k but it hurt realizing that.
Hey at least you did make a hell of a profit! It coulda been better but it coulda been a lot worse. And you didnt end up getting sucked into a nutty finacial cult
Nobody can guess exact highest point, the fact you cashed out and earned 18k is a win, stock market is gambling and gamblers always have that feeling that it COULD have been better because that's how humans are wired, and that's why people lose in the end - they can't be satisfied with JUST winning, it needs to be a jackpot.
@@KasumiRINAThe stock market is only a gamble if you choose to gamble on it. For most people, it's a long-term investment that's guaranteed to make money.
It wasn’t even the right doctors office, since they kept saying “we don’t have records of your wife here”. So if anything it’s just absolutely insane, but not technically illegal
@@jauwn FWIW, a lot of places will say "we don't have records of 'x person'" when the requester doesn't have authorization for the information. Because otherwise, you're giving them information by telling them whether the person does or does not have records there... and in the case where someone is just trying to stalk someone else, that can be all the information that is needed to do so 😬
@@jauwn Corroborating what sine people have said, it's pretty normal for us to say we don't have a record when someone seems to be fishing for HIPPA (the law that protects your medical records) information. It's a way of refusing to continue the inquiry that doesn't give either a yes or a no (since saying a patient ISN'T treated by a provider is as protected as saying they are.)
I feel like anyone who took this guy's financial advice after seeing a video of him or reading a post made by him was destined to lose their savings eventually since only those of little intelligence, sanity or with a massive gambling addiction would take any of his financial advice.
@@PhilipWester Pretty much. If not him, they would have just as easily taken financial advice from some other random Tom, Dick, or Harry that puffed out their chest and seemed confident in the nonsense they spouted. Someone else would have come along and easily goaded them into putting themselves into financial ruin all the same.
That was very good journalism. We never learned how big a bag he was carrying. More than he could afford, clearly. When he called his broker to buy more, it wasn't easy watching self harm like that. And then he posted a video while taking a dump... It's comedic but a very dark comedy. Obviously he's not talking about what happened to his family, about his despair. The antisemitism and his negative impact on others made him very difficult to root for. There's clearly some mental illness too, his proclamations weren't remotely rational. Still, you showed there was a human being there and it's fine journalism that shows humanity. Hell, I don't even play computer games and I thoroughly enjoy your channel. This is by far your best content yet.
right? i work retail, but i had to switch to the graveyard shift because i can barely handle customers who are mildly obnoxious. having to deal with mental illness is another ballpark entirely, and it's certainly not something that retail workers are trained for. they all handled themselves pretty damn well.
@@ArmundJay It's really put me off ever trying to work retail jobs not only hearing all the crazy stuff people get up to, but seeing even normal every-day interactions with random people get weird. I like talking to people I don't necessarily know, but imagine being forced to because it's your job 😩
This guy reminds me of the TempleOS guy, or Time Cube. I think society has an idea of what "schizophrenia" looks like (straitjacket, babbling incoherently, some kind of inherent violent danger), but really its a paranoid disorder that makes you lose touch with reality completely. And it can happen almost any time....especially to men it seems. You can just wake up schizophrenic. Honestly, I feel bad for him, but these kinds of cases rarely turn out happy. They alienate everyone who loves them, they travel sporadically and unpredictably, they can't hold jobs or keep money so they end up homeless...and then they just disappear. I kind of hate that social media has allowed us to watch the slow and painful degradation of someone's mind... I don't know if I'll finish this video. :(
Thats true and needs more attention. Despite this, Terry A Davis is a nice example of how people can have problems and still be a benefit to the world in their own way. When i stumbled over TempleOS some years ago and learned about this mans history it moved me. This man finished an enourmous project all while loosing a battle against his degrading mental state.
oh yeah, i thought of the templeOS guy instantly. it doesn't happen super often, but it's very sad to see the public mental breakdown of someone who's clearly very fragile and suffering from mental illness on the internet.
At least the TempleOS guy was actually pretty intelligent, in his own way. He was a programmer and an artist, and he generally had a very positive relationship with both his followers and his pets. Unfortunately his episode where he drove a stolen car through the desert, and the last one that claimed his life, happened despite so many others trying to take care of him.
Terry Davis was my first thought as well. He had a much better outlet in TempleOS, and was less liable to be a public nuisance, but he seemed to have a similar assortment of screws loose. Here’s hoping this story ends less tragically than his did.
This guy has the same kind of personality as the dude who accused the Japanese medical system of suffocating his son with a plastic bag. Like, you can see a clear point where something kicked in as a coping mechanism to prevent a total mental breakdown - but instead of working through the process and coming to terms with reality he found some form of validation and became addicted to it, with all the usual problems of addiction.
@@greenhowie why would you think I'd harass someone? just a weird thing to say to an individual lmao how would I even harass someone? I geniunely just wanted to know the case name I'm sorry if I came off that way
Admittedly, I'm only like half way through the video, so idk yet how bad things get but I have had the experience of being someone who has experienced delusions and psychosis, and having been a public librarian. You get a lot of severely mentally ill patrons coming into a public library. And, as the word public suggests, it's a public space - meaning things have to be extremely bad for you to ask someone to leave. You're also just there, available all day for the patrons to chat to. I worked inner-city. Free WiFi and a warm, safe place brings in a lot of vulnerable people. It was a daily experience to chat with people who were experiencing delusions. Librarians are neutral figures, and therefore usually viewed as trustworthy and safe to talk to. I heard a lot of deeply personal and sad things from total strangers. All it is mildly uncomfortable and a bit awkward. It's not much of an inconvenience. You just walk away thinking "that was sad," "that was alarming," or "that was weird." It's way more scary, distressing, confusing, and painful to be the person experiencing delusions. I've never personally had delusions directed at me, and I've never personally directed delusions at a specific person. I feel most sorry for Mr. Cohen, his wife, and those the delusions are directed at, personally. I feel sorry for Kais too, because he isn't living on the same planet as us, and is unknowingly ruining his life in a very ernest way, but he also seems to be in pretty good spirits, and appears to be in a constant state of delusion and psychosis, so he probably spends very little time actually cognisant of his mistakes. Bro is just rolling through from delusion fixation to delusion fixation. Hope he can get help under supervision, because he could really be a danger to himself if he ever comes down long enough to understand what he's done. I don't feel sorry for anyone who believed him without also having a mental illness that causes delusions, or some sort of intellectual disability, and invested as such. You'd have to be pretty stupid to not be able to see this man is not functioning with a grasp on reality and take financial advice from him. That would be rube behaviour.
I don't feel bad for him, I feel scared for everyone else, who crosses his path. This reads like unchecked mental illness that could spiral out of control.
@@cjboyo I get that but we did see him social engineer to get private medical information from Ryan's family which is very, very disturbing. Serial Stalkers can become violent and dangerous if they get to a certain point. I'm not a doctor but I've seen dateline and serial stalkers are not a joke.
Absolutely! This guy has problems that he needs to work on... But he's essentially doing the opposite of that (I am neurodivergent and have mental health stuff going on - not saying this from a place of thinking all people with issues are dangerous.... But this guy has the potential to fall into that category)
Unless I missed it, you missed the videos where he rode long distances to the fulfillment centers than asked people to send him money to help finance his trips. Watching sporadically as I can. Enjoying every minute of it.
just like he ends most his videos by saying "share this make it go viral" he will also sometimes say "also please send me paypal or venmo to help pay for gas". Not really anything more than that, would've just been a footnote
It's pretty hard-core to watch so many condensed instances of insanity in one video. The lack of self awareness on display here is stomach churning. I'm basically dying from second hand embarrassment watching this but I can't take my eyes off it. It's fascinating.
This is really well done. I did a series of posts on reddit trying to explain how risky this thing was from a pure Accounting perspective. And also trying to help people to decipher what BBBY management was saying in the footnotes about BBBY. Felt like a lot of it was lost in the noise, but it's felt like I had to try. Thanks for putting this together, interesting how it all evolved
I'm glad the wife wasn't a patient there since the nurse was ready to give over information if she was. He needs to be sued for the attempt though. Trying to violate someone's HIPAA because you're stalking them is insane and needs some serious punishment.
Its strange that while he talks so much about Bed Bath & Beyond and this merger but this video is barely about that. It's really about a guy getting lost in his own world of conspiracies. If it wasn't this one that got him another one would have. He could have been talking about gangstalking and the result would be the same.
One major aspect of this “outlet” in particular is that he lost so, so much money too. If he was just talking about gang stalking it wouldn’t at least have the added stress of losing tons of money too. I think that stress greatly sped up the onset/progression of his mental illness.
47:49 "We just moved from overseas - Montreal, Canada." ik that nurse sh!t a brick when she heard "overseas" and Canada in the same sentence lmao. She probably knew something was really wrong by that point.
This is a tough video to watch for someone who's had experience with undiagnosed mental illness in a loved one. I hope that his family has a support network to turn to, and that his inevitable crisis will not result in loss of life or any other trauma.
Long overdue update:
Since September 30 2023, the company has been delisted, shares deleted, and you can no longer buy or sell any shares of the company as they were removed from your account. Kais continued to buy more until the last possible day, even setting up two GoFundMe campaigns in the process. One was to "help pay for his son's college", and the other was literally just "give me money". Nowadays, he still visits the same empty building that used to be a Bed Bath and Beyond every single morning for his daily upload, where he continues to rant about absolute nonsense.
Additionally, he spends 6+ hours a day in Twitter Spaces calls talking about the company formerly known as Bed Bath and Beyond with a surprisingly large group of his followers, creating new conspiracy theories that all center around Q-Anon type beliefs. He regularly attacks and attempts (but usually fails) to doxx people who criticize him, as well as his usual antisemitic attacks on Twitter. Nothing to do with the current conflict in Gaza though, he just thinks Jews control the economy and are preventing Bed Bath and Beyond from resurfacing.
Since the company has been deleted, all shareholders lost 100% of their investment and it is legally impossible for them to ever recover any of their investment. Try telling them that, and you'll be a victim of their harassment.
I'm not going to do a follow-up video to this because this community has devolved into one of the most toxic on the internet, and it's not even worth giving them any more attention. If you want to see what they're up to, you can find it for yourself.
Don't say I didn't warn you.
What the fuck
"it is legally impossible for them to ever recover any of their investment." wrong bro, when Donald wins in 2024 he's going to dismantle the SEC and then give it all back as $TEDDY shares. just watch. /s
For real though, great video Jauwn! Just recently found your channel and loving it. My favorite part of this video was watching Kais pumping Supreme gas in his most assuredly average SUV 🤣
I have a question does he know about this video if so how has he reacted, or how has anyone within that community reacted?
@@thegalacticfederation1212 When this video released he made a tweet saying that "Bed Bath and Beyond knows how much I love them that they paid to have this professional documentary made on my life". Not even joking, he thinks I work for them.
The rest of the community seemed to think otherwise, thinking that I was paid by some hedge fund that was "heavily short" and I made this to make retail investors look stupid. But they've pretty much all forgotten about this video. It's FUD, so naturally discussions regarding it were silenced on their forums.
@@jauwn That's really funny but also very sad
The scariest thing about someone this delusional is that Ryan Cohen could come out tomorrow and say very clearly and bluntly “my tweets are not hidden messages, my children’s books are just children’s books, I hold no stake in bed bath and beyond because it was a terrible company, and even if I wanted to I couldn’t because it no longer exists.”
And these people, they wouldn’t just, not believe him. They wouldn’t think he’s lying or anything like that. The delusion is a layer deeper. They’d LOVE it. They’d tout it as the biggest Ryan Cohen hint yet. Bed Bath and Beyond no longer exists? Yeah! Because he’s merging it with GameStop! “My tweets aren’t hidden messages?” Guys, that’s him signaling that he’s aware of us while simultaneously getting the mainstream media off his tail so that only us apes will benefit from the merger! Him saying his books are just books is another diversion tactic, and by repeating the word book twice he’s strongly signaling that we need to book our shares! And by calling them “children’s” books, he’s telling us that when GME and BBBY merge, our booked shares will turn into Gmerica shares, the “child” of GME and BBBY!
Would I be correct in assuming you also watched the Folding Ideas video?
Somewhere in your comment my internal monologue morphed into Dan Olsens voice lol
"my tweets are not hidden messages" BECAUSE THEY'RE NOT HIDDEN THEY'RE OBVIOUS!!! He's actually calling everyone who doesn't notice the messages stupid and saying that we're super smart special boys who have seen his clear messages for what they are!!!!!1!!!!1 This is absolutely what he meant to say all along!
@@maikamaikamaikamaika 🤣
If I hadn't seen this exact sort of behavior countless times while browsing the various conspiracy circles, I'd have thought you're just making shit up and making fun of a strawman version of them. But no, you're 100% spot on. Your description of how they'd read that theoretical post is so chillingly convincing that if it weren't for the surrounding context, I'd have thought you were one of them yourself.
"we've never met but I know everything about you" is the absolute last thing you want to hear from a strange desperate looking man you meet on the street
If I heard that, I feel like I'd be flattered for exactly three seconds before my brain caught up. "Oh, you know who I am! That's really cool, I... uh... oh no, wait, actually, I just realized I have to be literally anywhere else."
It's so creepy, this guy scares me I swear I feel like he's going to hurt someone this is how people get murdered
@@Argusthecat if someone said that to me I’d probably feel the desire pull a gun in panic lol
@@Argusthecat "Then you'll know I have an appointment in Guatemala in six hours and I must leave now."
Right! I'd immediately file a restraining order. o_o;
"Here I am at Bed Bath and Beyond, in New York City, I'm not gonna mention which city" - Most intelligent meme stock hodler
@@ianirwin9480 well, he did clarify, he's not going to state what borough he was in
@@codycarney2311 the only one? 🤣
@@codycarney2311 The NYC borough is an anonymous city
To be entirely fair to him, he is not a native English speaker and he corrected himself after realizing he said the wrong word.
@@TheGuruStud there's 5 boroughs in nyc
The idea of Bed, Bath & Beyond and Gamestop teaming up to beat Amazon is like if someone thought that Guatemala and Nicaragua could invade the US.
they could, for probably about a week. A day if everyone says yes the first time
Even taking the Amazon part out of the equation, what the fuck do either company gain from that kind of merger?
@@GamingEelektrossGmerica branded gaming chair
You clearly have not seen the 1984 film, Red Dawn. They could easily do it, and only Patrick Swayze can save the day.
You mean like in Red Dawn? 😂
"Why waste money on a college when wikipedia is free?"
I think we just found out the answer to that question.
But if you look at the patterns in the articles, you can predict the stock market 🤣
Wikepedia not Wikipedia.
@RahulkumarMak
Nope. Wikipedia. Probably depends on the country your in.
His "college degrees" are probably of the same quality. In Germany we have big problems with migrants from Africa and the middle east because they come here with college degrees from their home countries and don't understand why those degrees are basically worthless here. Because the standards of German universities compared to those in other countries are vastly different. Some of those degrees are actual comparable to highschool graduation in Germany.
@@koppsrI think he's joking about how kais says wikipedia. Unless I'm giving the other guy too much credit which is very possible
Former gamestop employee here. Working under Ryan Cohen sucked, policies and plans changed almost weekly. Edit: I just realized... this was the a-hole we were warned about. I remember one day my boss came in talking about not talking to nutjobs asking about stocks and crap.
Glad to see you don't work there anymore. I haven't been to one since 2014 or so but I can't imagine it was a very fun or rewarding job with how poor leadership is
@@jauwn I lucked out, my store lead was an awesome dude. But not because of upper management but rather in spite of it.
Right? One of my friebds had a neckbeard waddle in to her store talking about how they'd be all rich under Cohen and various dumb shit for twenry minutes.
@@michaelmerritt7406 No WAY there were more than just Kais going into stores?
I know this story touches some dark corners of the human condition and I don’t want to minimize that but “I’m a reporter for Bed Bath & Beyond” is one of the funniest things I’ve ever heard.
Don't feel bad for Kais. He has always been a garbage person.
The fact that you played Oblivion music while this guy was interacting with normal human beings is absolutely sending me
Uhm acktually that's skyrim music
@@lytre_2983There's oblivion music
@@lytre_2983 Meh, both Jeremy Soule
Shout out to the Sonic CD _past_ music used in the prologue! That's a deep cut.
"Stop right there, criminal scum!"
"I went to a warehouse and it's full of stock!"
Yeah, that's the problem dude.
It's really that simple 😂😂😂
God those poor Bed, Bath and Beyond Employees. Imagine a guy just pacing and ranting in your parking lot for hours.
I worked at a retailer once and we had a guy we just referred to as "The Lunatic" who would ride his bike around the parking lot screaming at the top of his lungs. After a while you just accept it
Reminds me of the I HATE HIGHMARK car from maybe a decade or so ago. Was a guy that drove this beat to death 70s boat of car with all kinds of unhinged statements about the Highmark corporation. He would drive it around circles the public square that was next to their building where many people ate lunch. The Highmark employees that I asked about it through it was funny.
unfortunately gets weirdly normal fast. typically ends up getting a name (the pervert was ours in our store. security was useless so myself and the other dude in the store would do the closing shift because otherwise there was the potential for one of the women to be by themselves in the store with him, and while he only molested mannequins nobody really wanted to risk that)
And not only that, the threat of losing your job constantly looming over your head because the company is about to go bankrupt. These people truly don’t get paid enough.
That's when you call for an EMT to come out and talk to the person. NEVER call the cops on someone you suspect is having a mental health crisis. Tell the 911 operator specifically that you need an EMT team at your location. If the cops come in behind them, eh, you can't do much about that. The pi-...um, cops, like to listen in and show up everywhere to justify their gigantic budgets. But the first point of contact should always be someone trained in how to handle someone having a crisis which most EMTs are trained for.
“The media can say whatever they want, but I can believe whatever I want.”
That line is only 20 minutes in and I have a feeling that train of thought will get progressively worse as the video goes on.
Well?
that line of thinking isn't technically wrong, but he takes it too extreme, standing by your views is one thing, desperately clinging to information proven false is another.
@@sjfs231 There is a fundamental problem in thinking of the truth as a positive you can cling to. In reality, you can only discard ideas that don't align with your observations. Doing mental gymnastics to justify believing whatever you decided to believe in the first place is how you start a cult (or buy into one).
@@ekki1993 lol no, those that start cults are well aware of their own bullshittery, ESPECIALLY in the financial sector. That guy was just an delusional Cohen cultist trying to interpret anything into his personal Cohen evangelion.
@@sjfs231 that line of thinking is 100% wrong in any way or form, dude lol
"You gotta get off the internet bro"
Based building staff.
Actual based
Probably the best advice he got in the last 10 years
Literally just hit this part of the video and scrolled down to see if someone else mentioned it - - This is HANDS DOWN the best advice anyone gives him in the entire video; and it goes practically unheard by him.
Or at least off Reddit
1:03:25 for the clip
One of the worrying sign of these type of people is they treat it like a some kind of ARG where they think the people they idolize were dropping hints all across the social media and all the speech were chosen carefully as a dogwhistle for "someone in the know". Those guys could literally shout "STOP WHAT YOU ARE DOING! THERE IS NO HIDDEN MEANING AND CLUE!" and these people would hyper-analyse it to death.
Kinda horrifying in a way.
There was a point where one of their 'idols' dropped his phone and accidentally tweeted an 'm' and they tried to decide that. Even after he said it was meaningless and that he posted that on accident.
@@LostStarzOfTheSky Bet they even think that the follow up tweet was a hidden message too huh?
@@2ndeaster yep
literally qanon behavior lol
They're literally suing Ryan Cohen over their own wild interpretations of his completely mundane tweets.
"I love - _like_ him (Ryan Cohen) so much!" Because even in a mental breakdown expressing his devotion to his investment God-king, Kai can't have anyone thinking he's _gay_ or anything.
here is your cookie for being an edgy boy 🍪
@@IsaButecosbro this ain't edgy. Get ya words straight
@@IsaButecos
Someone can't read.
@@IsaButecos this is edgy for you? I'm guessing a ball is the sharpest thing your parents let you hold growing up
It's wacky to think and make the connection that sexual insecurity is part of mental illness.
The most respectable figure in this entire video is the guy that recognized him as the one who brought the package and called him an asshole
That guy is
in ultimate denial
He’s clearly a tool with anger issues.
I think the scariest thing about this guy is his refusal to honor any type of boundaries. I noticed that anytime anyone asked him to/not to do something it was met with immediate push back no matter how minor or reasonable it was.
@@lordofminorannoyance3510 To be fair, being on the spectrum doesn't mean you're not capable of recognising and respecting boundaries. I'm on it, too, and if someone says no it means no.
@@lordofminorannoyance3510 tbc, I don't think kais is incapable of upstanding boundaries. I think he just doesn't care.
@@lordofminorannoyance3510 I'm seeing some possible schizophrenia as well I feel. He sees secret messages only he understands in tweets and things people say. Every tweet his idol posts holds some secret hidden meaning or clue. Really makes me think of the Time Cube guy, and other people like him. In their brains it makes sense.
Yeah he's seriously mentally I'll obviously , like literally
@@EarthboundX don't do armchair diagnosis
"You can wear these goggles and shop 24/7"
You know what would be even better? Some sort of small, portable computer with many functions that you could carry around in your pocket and order items 24/7 just by tapping on it with your fingers. If only such technology existed...
Nah, that won't happen in a hundred more years
@@Callahan-zg6jnand now apple vr seems to be more successful attempt of it I guess.
Yeah that might be more convenient, but putting on a bulky device worth hundreds of dollars to do what you already can from a phone or computer is more futurey!
Wearing VR goggles and shopping 24/7 sounds like an actual nightmare
A pokedex ? That’s fiction
I never want to hear the words "bed bath and beyond" ever again
It’s now “Bed Bath and Blockchain: And Knuckles (Feat Dante from the hit series DMC)”
Imagine investing your life into a company with such a goofy name
@@Kaysab11 since the bankruptcy, its now Bed, Bath, No way! No way! No way! No way? And Knuckles.
His speech pattern is like a cognitohazard. It just...sticks to your brain
When I do, I feel nostolgic.
Oh my god, imagine an Uber ride with this guy
Reminds me of the move "conspiracy theory" 🤣
His face sort of reminds me of the "get out of my car now" guy for some reason. Can't place why, they looking nothing alike.
if my Uber driver tried to convince me to buy stocks for damn bbby then I might as well walk
Straight up _Taxi Driver_ shenanigans.
Idk why, but listening to him genuinely makes me really angry for some reason
“I know information that his own family doesn’t know”
> Lists off the first names of Ryan’s closest family members
“So yeah, that’s pretty much it”
Everyone: so that was a fucking lie
I worked at a group home and he reminds me of one of our clients. Dude was delusional, seeing patterns in random stuff. Like a clerical error on his birth certificate led him to start thinking he was a stolen baby being hidden from assassins in the cartel, cause he's a long lost member of the royal family. It made no sense, and all these delusions kept getting weirder and crazier. To the point he wrote his first cousin a love letter, since "They weren't really related" it was fine to him.
Somehow he also had it in his head that he was also the nephew of Donald Trump and that Donald's border wall would stop the cartels so he could finally reveal himself as their long lost relative. The way this guy talks and just sees these "Hidden messages" is way too familiar. They even have the same cadence...
The other story gets worse, too. His mom was actually a trainer and taught me CPR for the job. She was heartbroken and just wanted her son to get better, and stop saying she was actually his abductor.
I find it interesting how basically everyone I’ve heard of with delusional issues managed to make trump a linchpin in their identity. I have no idea how he even managed to rope together people with opposite nonsense conspiracies into the same money obsessed cult
This poor mother, I hope her son heals.
cosmic horror
Jesus, that's dark. Imagine the nightmare of having to watch you own child go through that.
Do you know what made him so delusional? Like, was he manic or schizophrenic? Did he have a brain tumor or some other damage that made his thinking so warped?
This guy has committed the following crimes on camera:
-Giving financial advice that have actively hurt people
-Serial stalking Ryan Cohen
-Serial harassing Jim Cramer
-Social engineering twice to get private info
-Trespassing multiple times onto private property
-Doxing "haters"
Is giving bad financial advice a crime?
1:27:38 throw this on the list too wtf
Agreed on almost everything but the last point. Doxing itself is not a crime, I’m not sure why people think it is. Unless you are spreading someone’s address and saying “hurt this person” or you obtained their information illegally, posting people’s publicly available contact info including their address isn’t illegal.
@@spaceaids1498 true but he did it with malicious intent to intimidate
half of those aren't crimes
Imagine seeing the enormously oversized parking lots typical of every single big-box store in suburban America and thinking "Clearly this is so there will be room for all the trucks when they merge with Gamestop!" and not "This is because minimum parking requirements are too high!"
the relief i felt reading this reply and not seeing a single carbrain arguing with you on this could carry me mentally for weeks
50:12 This guy actually tried to Doxx a child’s birth date out of a hospital thinking that the meme was an actual child’s ultrasound???
No he called a random obgyn
@@cjboyo so about the word tried
Yeah it was at that point that I hoped Kais' story ends in a jailcell.
Oh I remember this NPC from Oblivion, yeah he was the weird one who talked about how Uriel Septim wasn't killed by mythic dawn agents and instead went into hiding to merge the fighter's guild and blackwood company into "G-Guild". he was also just obesseded with the nerevarine and his ebony stock in solstheim for some reason
I approve of this comment
sounds like a classic Morrowind mod tbh
😆
pretty sure the nerevarine was long dead by the time of the oblivion crisis
@@God-ch8lq exactly.
This is why my Uber eats order is never on time
Thank you for lightening the mood, this video was getting really heavy and hopeless but that was fucking funny much appreciated
Wow. He was just delusional from the very beginning, huh.
1, BBB doesn't own any of its locations. They're rented.
2, it would cost more to overhaul a consumer store into a freight capable warehouse than it would to just demolish it and build a real warehouse.
3, its just flat out illegal. All of those locations are zoned for retail business. You can't run a shipping company out of them. None of them are zoned for fuel handling. None of them can be.
4, if you've ever seen an actual UPS regional center, it makes a walmart supercenter look like an outhouse. Dude has no clue what the scale of shipping actually is.
5, Juvenile tweets about sex positions from a CEO aren't a sign of brilliance.
Did you work in a shipping center before?
@@lemonsandaztecs3072 Explain why you asked that question.
6 Competing with Amazon as a brand new company retrofitting all new infrastructure isn't a way to print money it's a fast way to die poor
You're telling me he has no actual idea how literally anything works? Couldn't tell.
I can stomach the goriest, grossest stuff but I had to skip past him calling the OBGYN because it was so viscerally upsetting to me. The idea some lunatic you’ve never met can call your HCP’s office and get the full details of your unborn child is nauseating
He called the wrong doctor: so don't worry. Still very scary how willing they were to provide info
There was no info to provide. My impression of how that conversation went was that when continued asking for a delivery date on a baby they had no records even existed, they just had to give him a vague estimation of how long it takes to have a baby because he wouldn't leave them alone
Thank God for HIPAA, which would make giving this information to strangers illegal and a breach of medical ethics.
@AnonymousLovelyView because he wouldn’t shut up and they wanted to help
@@jauwnI work in a nursing home, and in fairness a dob is standard to ask for for verification, and when you have so many family members making insane requests, that at a certain point you learn to do what this woman did, give as little info as possible and politely hang up
Between watching _This is Financial Advice_ , this video, and reading the pinned update, it all left me just really sad how many people are completely unable to admit they were wrong, or walk away at a loss. You can see it a lot in everyday conversations or news, you know how 'sunk cost fallacy' influences people, but seeing _this_ degree of obsessive self-delusion that also loses them increasingly vast amounts of money over time, over beliefs that are demonstrably false, is genuinely depressing.
Also, just saying, delivery trucks usually don't park on the customer parking lot, they park on the logistics lot behind the store. So even that part was badly understood by this poor man.
I wondered why that guy looked familiar. Dan Olson showed a brief shot of him creeping out a Gamestop employee about Cohen and the "merger."
So I came in assuming the worst, and am still horrified.
Yeah, Folding Ideas’ video about this is fantastic.
@@KnakuanaRkaI do kinda wish he’d highlighted more individual leaders in the ape movement, like Kais and PP
@@Gloomdrake Yeah, some individual members could use some more focus; he mentions “Queen Kong” twice as an influential figure, but doesn’t say anything else about her.
@@KnakuanaRka it’s Economy of Time, it’s already a densely packed video at 2 1/2 hours
@queencyrys6309 Yeah, makes sense; he was talking more about the movement in general. But given he does go into detail about characters like DFV and Cohen, Queen Kong probably could have gotten at least a little more than 2 or 3 offhand mentions.
His attempt to get Cohen’s baby’s birthdate sent this from cringe to frightening. The sight of him at the gun range pushed it into the realm of potentially ominous. Hopefully I’m wrong about the latter. In any case, excellent documentary. Subscribed!
Yeah, this went from sad to scary real fucking fast.
Fuck him, that was disgusting
Pretty sure he is a schizophrenic, when I have unmedicated delusions like this personal borders are just.. not in my mind at all. They don't exist. Logic goes out the window, only these random things have value. I have seen the future in the symmetry of paint drops on my walls. It's a life ruining illness.
"We just moved overseas from Montreal Canada..."
This guy clearly failed geography HARD to not realize you can just drive south to the united states from Canada.
Same on all counts. This documentary got me to subscribe.
As a retail worker, I think I better understand why I am so uncomfortable with people who speak with the same cadence as him and ask weirdly personal or irrelevant questions. Most of the time I can't really pinpoint a solid proven reason to feel uncomfortable/unsafe, but I think my subconscious is seeing proven patterns of "this person might be a bit off their rocker, you should keep your distance".
Kais' behavior is genuinely frightening. I hope he gets whatever help that he needs.
Only frightening if you don't understand schizophrenia, which I have. You should read up on it. We are generally not dangerous and statistics show we are more often the victims of violence rather than the aggressors. So, don't be scared.
The only help he needs is to be locked away in an asylum. Just tell him that the padding in the room is from Bed Bath & Beyond.🤣😂🤣😂
@@DarkOmegaMK2 You are a monster who has no sympathy and the level of understanding of his problems that is often easily equated to the same level that was displayed by a socialist party from Germany circa 1940.
@@informitas0117 His behavior is frightening, but only because he will likely never actually get any of the help he needs. He will need an intervention from those around him or he will only progress into his madness.
@@informitas0117they didn't even mention schizophrenia, they just said HIS behavior was concerning
"The manager knows me, they love me." She sounded like she had no idea who he was and she was laughing to try and lighten the blow of asking him not to record inside the store, which he did not obey.
this kind of stuff just makes me incredibly sad, it's honestly hard to watch.
as someone who has a lot of mental health issues and a lot of family who does as well, it's not easy to notice when this kind of thing is happening to you.
if someone you know is starting to
speak and believe nonsense like this, please urge them to seek help; even if 'just to prove you wrong'.
if they get to the point they are committing crimes like trespassing, harassment, stalking, or worse, please seek help for them. their actions can very likely escalate.
on the other hand, if those around you tell you that _you_ are saying and believing things that make no sense, please seek help; even if just to prove them wrong.
mental health is very real and very important. for the safety of yourself, those you love, and the others around you, please keep a lookout for warning signs.
This is an important message. I’m really sorry that you go through this, but really happy that you’re able to reflect on it and give others advice. As an outside you never really know how to respond. This was helpful
Insane how quickly he went from fairly innocent actions to literal identity theft, oh my gosh. 1:03:25 the first documented piece of this man getting some genuine advice
This is why rich people need to stop fucking with the rest of us. Ryan did a pump and dump and profited by taking from so many people that needed the Money more.
Good advice /diagnosis at 50:55 also
I mean... the anti-Semitic blathering's cued me in a little bit before the identity theft shows up, that's the number one red flag for dangerous conspiracy theorists.
Those poor guys were like looking at each other like 👀👀👀 so like... Who's gonna tell him
imagine being a Bed Bath and Beyond employee and seeing some insane dude rant to his phone about stocks in your parking lot every day.
You can see the people getting confused to amused to outright hostile towards him as the videos go on. Like a manager had to said "if some dude talked about a guy that faked his death feel free to tell to get lost"
Imagine being some random guy, turning up to do some shopping and seeing some guy in the parking lot ranting about the french translation of '69'.
Imagine being this guy's family, having to watch his mental downward spiral in real time.
And it starts from an ill-advised stock purchase. It's really funny
I was just imagining all the terrible bed bath and beyond gifts he probably gave them
I met a person like this once, she was just a friend who I talked to every week... she was a pleasant person, but her ideas and projects and investments forced her to ask for a lot of money and try to swindle even her own family when things were rough...
I can't imagine sharing room and bed with someone like that.
I'm just confused why they don't call a psych ward to get some help. Dude is very clearly ill.
@@teehee781My own theory is that his family left him as soon as he went all-in on this conspiracy theory, a few weeks before the birth of his RUclips "career". Probably why he needed a conspiracy theory to latch on to in the first place, because it doesn't seem he has anyone or anything going on for him anymore.
With this video, you have perfectly optimized for my cringe tolerance. i keep hovering like i might close it or skip ahead but i never actually do it.
Haha thanks for that! A lot of people said it was too much but as someone who has watched the entire Chris Chan documentary I know there are other people like me who have a high tolerance for this insane cringe
@@jauwn to be fair, this guy is nowhere near the level of Chris. Still impressively wince-worthy though.
@@jauwnhearing this guy talk about “the merge” made my brain twitch
I had to actually skip a few interactions of his. It was just too much.
i had to skip blocking the road to talk to a truck driver
Imagine being an employee at that store he frequented in Queens. You know the loss of your job is imminent, and as if that didn't suck enough, some lunatic shows up at the doomed store almost every single day to harass you and your coworkers and spew his deranged nonsense, making your and your coworkers' lives even more miserable and stressful. I hope those former employees are doing well these days.
Love seeing this channel branch out a bit, while staying within the theme of “worthless securities and bag holders”
Short of the guy who carries around the nuclear launch codes, no man in America is more committed to holding a bag than Kais Maalej
What I find really striking is how effortlessly he lies to people when they catch him trespassing. No hesitation, no flinching. It's hard to not to feel sorry for his mental state but he's also clearly a pretty shitty person.
Today's the last day Bed Bath and Beyond stores are open, the company has gone into full bankruptcy and liquidation, and it's equal parts disturbing and amazing how deeply deluded this man got. The level of nonsensical conspiracy he's come up with in his head rivals Qanon in both scope and absurdity, but it's about something utterly pointless, a failed retail chain. This guy seriously needs professional help and now that the company has gone belly-up I'm very worried about just what he's going to do next.
With fewer assets, that just makes the merge easier to perform. Genius move by wallstreetbets and Kais
@@acacacacacacaccaca7666that's... insensitive and dark.
@@acacacacacacaccaca7666 that's... a messed up thing to ask....
Obviously they faked going bankrupt to get more attention for the merge.
I opened the replies to comment this was not how I wanted to find out but I wasn't expecting that goddamn
I feel bad for the guy. I have interacted with people who suffer from paranoid delusions due to my work and the way he is acting and reasoning is eerily familiar. I can't diagnose him, not my field of expertise at all, but I would not be surprised if he suffered some kind of diseorder.
I feel bad for the people he interacts with! Like those working in the store, knowing their jobs are about to end, and having to put up with some crazy guy that skulks around on a daily basis.
And the security guards, who don't get paid nearly enough to deal with some random jerk putting them on RUclips and accusing them of some sort of coverup.
@@daleglass7349 That is not mutually exclusive. His condition does make him actively detrimental to others, who deserve as much or more sympathy, but at the end of the day he is not doing this because he's evil but because he's broken,
You are right, he is clearly mentally unwell.
My best friend developed schizophrenia in his late 20s and early 30s. He showed an occasional weird phase here and there in his teens, but 99.9% of the time was totally normal.
Nicest guy in the world, I really loved him and he was a good man. Hard working, kind, generous. But he started rapidly deteriorating in his late 20s.
It wasn’t him, he couldn’t control it, everything was a big conspiracy, everyone was out to get him, and it just got worse. He would have mental battles with himself over whether people he knew his whole life were really what they seemed, really good people looking out for his interests or sent by the devil to lead him astray or kill him, but with little windows of normalcy sometimes too.
Anyway it got so much worse and he eventually did kill himself after an extreme breakdown, he hated the medicine and thought it was part of the conspiracy to take him down by suppressing him and his thoughts, which it DID do, it made him feel bad and empty. So he wouldn’t take it often. He kept thinking he was one breakthrough away from discovering “it”, the answer to everything.
He thought he was hearing messages from god and I do think he may have hurt someone eventually, or done something terrible, his paranoid thoughts started taking him to some bad places, like some people were possessed by demons and needed to be “cleansed”.
But it wasn’t him and he was a good guy, just broken, not evil. He needed more help than he could afford or get, maybe he couldn’t really be helped even.
But oh how I cried the day he died, I’ve never cried that hard before or since ever again, and I probably never will.
Anyway I see a lot of this in Kais. In a few more years he would be even worse, even without BBBY. I get the impression he was relatively successful and had a LOT of money in the line. I would be very worried if I was on the board for BBBY. I think the trauma of losing all that money, potentially 6-7 figures(I don’t think he ever disclosed how much) was so much stress it pushed him over the edge. You can see him deteriorating in real time.
For Christ’s sake, he is even losing a lot of his teeth over a mere SIX MONTHS.
@@joemamr710 my spouse has had schizophrenia for years, and it affects every little thanks to medicine and therapy; schizophrenia doesn’t make person dangerous unless they uses alcohol and/drugs instead of medicine - schizophrenia *with substance abuse* is only mental illness which has been found to be more common among convicted than among general population, and substance abuse alone is over 10 times more common among convicted than among general population.
It’s sad to hear that your friend died, but he likely wasn’t dangerous nor wasn’t impossible to help - very hard if he wasn’t able to get or willing to get help - though you wouldn’t have been able to help him any more than you already did.
💯!
Pardon my french, but this guy has some screws lose, you don't need to be a medical professional in the field of psychology, to know that. You just have to listen to his ramblings for five minutes....
40:40 the comedic timing of the employee turning on a leafblower is just... chef's kiss🤌
This was so hard to watch. I had to pause it at times. The way he completely lacks social awareness and is just bothering all these people made my second-hand embarrassment skyrocket to insane levels.
Yeah. At times, you could cut the fremdschämen (the German term for secondhand embarrassment) with a knife.
@@redjed100 Thank you for teaching me this new vocab word, it's a nice and concise way to say "secondhand embarrassment". Hope it becomes as well known in English as schadenfreude is.
@ShermTank7272 I know this is an older comment, but I just Google and it appears fremdschamen is the verb form and Fremdscham is the noun. Just in case you want to use it in future!
@@redjed100I am gonna steal that word. Thank you.
@@ShermTank7272 We already have a concise term for secondhand embarrassment, it's called cringe
Something tells me he’s just thrilled that your video title calls him “influencer” instead of “Uber driver”
At least Uber drivers contribute something to society.
This guy is like that japanese soldier that kept fighting ww2 on that island long after the war was over. Harassing the people on the island to no end.
They needed his old commander come to tell him that the war is over.
Unfortunately no such person exist for this lone fighter.
I mean if Cohen himself came up to him and said it, maybe?
He can't be convinced that the "war" is over because there is no "war" to begin with.
@@imperialguardsman5726 nah, people with this level of delusion cannot be convinced that they're wrong. cohen could tell him face to face that he's completely wrong and he'd still take it as some kind of "code"
@@imperialguardsman5726 Cohen is just part of the conspiracy. Maybe its a hidden message. What could Cohen have meant by this? He must be encouraging me to fight harder!
@@imperialguardsman5726 he would think that Cohen has been coerced or he would simply misunderstand him once again to fit his theory
Imagine dedicating your life to a stock of a bankrupt company
*a bankrupt towel company.
I used to think it was dumb how some chain email charlatans said silver would be $200 in 2008. Now silver is like $24. This is way way dumber.
Imagine dedicating your life to a company.
@@leviadragon99 its not unreasonable to beleive in a company. I put everything i could into the startup i worked at. We all did. I also worked at a company that cures cancer. Work is how humans can and should constructively and productively interface with society.
@@emptiester Yeah, but there’s a difference. You worked there. You had an immediate connection to the company. You understood the inner workings of it and what it was doing, so it seems reasonable to be passionate in that aspect when you believe in the company you own and/or work at.
This dude, though, just stood in the parking lot and obsessed over it.
It is terrifying to know that anybody with a last name, that person's date of birth, and that person's zip code can easily get access to that person's entire health history, based on the questions asked to the nurse who picks up.
Lots of potential HIPAA violations out there that the victim never finds out about
Social engineering
@@r7calvinI've seen some crazy hippa violations that lead to nurses getting fired and blacklisted, I think there was also legal action but the documents are sealed so I can't say for sure.
Fun fact! If you ever need to break into a patient area of a hospital, you can do so trivially with a stretcher, a small, empty oxygen bottle, a vaguely official-looking polo shirt, a tablet computer, and a friend. Nobody will question the unfamiliar EMS team. At all.
@@FrommermanAh, the Bavarian fire drill; look official and urgent enough and a lot of people won’t bother to ask further.
1:15:55 he's right. The CEO should always be at the headquarters looking out the window. As the face of the company, they must show their face at all times, all hours, every day and night.
Wow, this is insanity. Some of the footage here was genuinely hard to watch.
However, him saying "I don't wanna speculate" regarding the woman walking after months of rampant speculation about literally everything else is hilarious.
lmfao I thought the same thing. "You don't want to speculate. REALLY dude??"
Dude has the self reflection skills of a wooden post, I swear.
I think the part that seemed most ominous to me is a guy who sees messages hidden in tweets and children's books, telling his hero "just let me know if you want me to visit"...
What if i told you there is an entire community with hundreds of people who all agree with him
@@jauwn No, thank you, but no
@@jauwn
Hold up, what are you talking about? I'm not American so I'm uneducated on these things, I would very interested in a video about this community
If this was a joke I apologise for misunderstanding
@@Stars-SapphireHe's not joking, unfortunately. Look up "This IS Financial Advice" by Folding Ideas for a very in-depth explanation of the whole phenomenon, with several examples from the people of that community (even Kais is shown once).
@@Stars-Sapphire Folding Ideas recently released a video “This Is Financial Advice” detailing the history of the GameStop/Bed Bath situation and the community and conspiracy theories surrounding it; excellent context for this insanity.
Having seen documentaries on and met people with delusional paranoia and manic episodes, this behaviour is SUPER familiar. The need to talk, the theorizing, the seeing hidden messages, the lack of awareness of other's boundaries, the rambling into tangents, the obsessive behaviour...
The difference is I saw those people get help. I really hope this guy gets/got help before he hurts himself or others.
The dude actually met Jim Cramer at a paid meet & greet a few days ago and the video was just as creepy as I expected. He got him to sign a wine bottle for Ryan Cohen's nonexistent baby
My brain is having a hard time processing this sequence or words. What a fucking world we live in.
@@glitchedoomone that lets mentally unstable people roam freely. Clearly.
There’s a band name somewhere in there
@@OfficialROZWBRAZELRyan Cohen's nonexistent baby
@@glitchedoom well, hannahreloaded has been covering this insanity if you wanna peruse her vids.
over the course of this video I went from "wow, what a strange person" to "wow, this guy needs to be on a watchlist"
@@TheGeoshark pretty sure now her actually needs to be on an act list.
I know this is old, but watchlists are actually very, very harmful in situations like this. He needs a part time caretaker. If you look at his hygiene over the progression of this, he's failing to take care of himself. He's living in increasingly worse conditions. Organized surveillance is the last thing that would help him or anyone he's harmed.
@@obswalb4790 you're 100% right. I wrote this comment immediately after watching the video for the first time and after revisiting it and seeing how much Kais has deteriorated since this was originally recorded it's clear that he really desperately needs help.
If I wrote this comment now it'd probably read something like "over the course of learning about this story I went from "wow, what a strange person" to "wow, this guy needs to be on a watchlist" to "wow, this guy needs help ASAP".
Genuinely pretty depressing seeing a man who is clearly struggling mentally try to deliver a package to a dead man. His utter denial to accept the genuine tragedy of other people's personal lives else he lose one of the few threads he has left to cling to in his is... horrifying.
Hope it was worth the wait.
Thanks to everyone for your continued support over the last month while I worked on this video!
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Hell yeah it was, and so was the MOAM. Awesome work mate.
This was the moass that was foretold
I’m emphatically here for longform content 🎉
A video about "Apefather" next please lmao
It's great to see your content evolve. But please don't abandon the cause!
#ResistCrypto #ResistNFTs
This is depressing. Hearing about this man digging His own grave while thinking he's climbing to the top evokes so Many emotions, and they're all adjacent to Horror and sadness.
Its even sadder to realize thatpeople actualky took his "advises" to heart, and now have lost a lot of money, safety and probably their faith in humanity.
The entire subreddit reads like town criers in medieval times, mfs going “HEAR YE, HEAR YE”
Watching someone fall into an insane death spiral of increasingly absurd delusions actually does a pretty good job of showing why people stick with conspiracy theories, various forms of financial bag-holding, gambling, etc.
Sunk cost fallacy on steroids.
aka , sunk cost equation wich when adding emotional investment variables are added sad indeed
Well, you can probably take conspiracy theories off that list considering lately so many get confirmed true that we're running out of them...
@@rustyshackleford1508 wait.. wich conspiracies have been confirmed ? i mean yes mega corps agendas help each other ,but they arent any mason cabal just assholes
the moon landing was not early cgi.. the world is round so no ice wall etc
wich ones been confirmed that your thinking of ? ^^
@@rustyshackleford1508the government confirmed just last week that we are all under psychic control by lizard people who live inside the hollow earth
This is one of those videos I need to smash my right arrow to get through, not because the video is bad but the amount of second hand embarrassment I receive is insane. Great video.
Right?! So painful lol. For whatever reason, those conversations with store employees just murder me. When I was a teenager working a retail job and had terrible social anxiety those people were the wooorrrsst
@@idontwantahandlethough what would your anxious teenage self do if someone walked up to you and started running his mouth out on some imaginary merger? 🤔
The amount of times this kind of exchange happened in the video is equal parts infuriating, amusing, and sad:
KM, to random employee: "Hey how do you feel about (insert absolutely insane shit)?
Employee: **completely bewildered** "Uh, I dunno dude."
KM: **smug as hell** Alright, man. Have a good day. **walking away, into his phone** yeah, so that basically confirms everything.
I don't know why I'm laughing, it's not even a joke. This is just exactly what happened.
Well this started kind of funny and then ended profoundly disquieting.
Side note the security guy that recognized him as the guy with the package and started roasting his ass, that man's golden.
"Your mom's floor!"
It is absolutely CRAZY how he came to the conclusion of a video game distribution company and a furniture company on the verge of bankruptcy merging...
From what I remember from Folding Ideas’ video detailing the whole thing (This Is Financial Advice), it started when the GameStop short squeeze fell flat and a lot of the people left with worthless stock in that ended up starting the conspiracy theory about how the squeeze hadn’t ended and there was going to be an even bigger one that would make them rich. Carl Icahn got roped into this after people read too much into Ryan Cohen (the CEO of GameStop) taking a photo with him, and then they followed him to BBBY when he tried to get involved in that company. (Edit: It was Cohen who went from GME to BBBY; Icahn was a separate part of that.)
It makes a little more sense if you follow how the community and theories developed over time as Dan’s video describes; it provides excellent context for all this insanity.
@@KnakuanaRka Ah, I see, thanks!
It's like the end state of capitalism. These companies are no longer physical entities that provide goods and services, they are just stock prices and narratives about miraculous profit.
It was that Folding Ideas video that led me right to here.
Watching this guy deteriorate is like watching a horror thriller .
His train of thought is completely off the rails. He's constantly doing the equivalent of someone screaming "The sky is pink! Spiders have three legs! My cat can do calculus! There's a vampire inside the Declaration of Independence! Wood turns into cotton candy when you pee on it!" and no matter what evidence you give him to the contrary he will mumble and gnash equally unhinged reasonings to support his previous points.
"He explains how Gamestop will turn all their locations into Blockbusters after their merger with Bed Bath and Beyond" Is one hell of a sentence.
I had a friend who had schizophrenia, and I'm noticing he has a lot of the same tics that she had. The constant glancing to the corners of his eyes, the difficulty remembering commonly used words, the fixation on odd wordplay or strained metaphor. It's actually really uncomfortable seeing how bad he is, knowing how bad it was for my friend.
this is true but note that the last two are much more easily attributed to him being a non-native english speaker
It is very sad
I used to live with a guy with schizophrenia. If I coughed, or if I crossed and uncrossed my legs, he would think I was sending him coded messages. This guy definitely has it
The constant smiling and laughing when he is presented with the reality of his life.
He's just unbalanced thinking he's educated.
English is his second language so its more likely thats what it is than a random diagnosis
Excellent video! Watching Kais impersonate Ryan Cohen to get private medical records was horrifying. Hopefully he can learn from this entire saga and come out the other side in a healthier mental state.
He’s just committed a crime,he should be arrested
My man really looked at a big parking lot and went, yes, I will base my finances and entire life goal on this.
"Brave silverbacks" lmfao. This guy has been stalking parking lots and corporate buildings, completely psychotic. The journey he is on is a tragic one.
This is the kind of stuff you would hear in the background section of a crime documentary. The stuff that makes you ask 'how did no one act on the warning signs?'
Honestly, that front desk worker's reaction is both sad and surprising: 1:01:44
Like... He know's he's gone, he knows he jumped. And this guy comes in, says he's got a gift for him and...
Exactly. That doorman probably saw him every day. Doormen culture in NYC is like that. They knew eachother. And he probably was one of the first people to see the aftermath of his suicide. Or perhaps he even saw it happen.
Horrific to imagine
For somebody professing love of BB&B, he never mentioned a single trait he appreciates about it.
Well they have beds and baths and maybe even more
they're going to the moon (i legit think that's all he 'likes' about them. it's his get rich quick scheme)
Holy shit, it's THIS guy. I remember you going over his channel on stream but I did NOT expect you to make a feature-length video on him
Just the though of walking into an Uber where this guy is in the driver's seat gives me anxiety.
He's been reported several times, but Uber choses to ignore our fears. He's a very dangerous stalker.
What's worse than an uber driver that constantly tries to start a conversation? An uber driver who will spout about BBBY and trump for the entire ride
@@m6isme mentally unstable halal bro with a vehicle wins the prize here 💀💀💀
And that he might own a gun.
I was lucky enough to buy GME when it was $5. I watched my 2k investment hit 80k. I was blown away. The wall Street bets forum told me it would go higher... Well they were right about it this far, why not hold? Then I watched it plummet to 20k. I didn't realize that the actual people giving advice in the forum were now the new people who joined when it hit the news and just hoped it would continue to rise. I realized that too late. I was able to make 18k but it hurt realizing that.
Hey at least you did make a hell of a profit! It coulda been better but it coulda been a lot worse. And you didnt end up getting sucked into a nutty finacial cult
It sucks. But you still was able to make preaty nice profit.
Still 9x profit so all in all not a bad investment. Could've been worse, much worse.
But that's stock trading for ya. It's basically gambling.
Nobody can guess exact highest point, the fact you cashed out and earned 18k is a win, stock market is gambling and gamblers always have that feeling that it COULD have been better because that's how humans are wired, and that's why people lose in the end - they can't be satisfied with JUST winning, it needs to be a jackpot.
@@KasumiRINAThe stock market is only a gamble if you choose to gamble on it. For most people, it's a long-term investment that's guaranteed to make money.
The call to the doctos office has to be illegal... identify theft or stalking. Please don't tell me that's legal.
It wasn’t even the right doctors office, since they kept saying “we don’t have records of your wife here”.
So if anything it’s just absolutely insane, but not technically illegal
@@jauwn yeah I guess we cant be sure the birthday is right, could be random too
@@jauwn FWIW, a lot of places will say "we don't have records of 'x person'" when the requester doesn't have authorization for the information. Because otherwise, you're giving them information by telling them whether the person does or does not have records there... and in the case where someone is just trying to stalk someone else, that can be all the information that is needed to do so 😬
@@jauwn Corroborating what sine people have said, it's pretty normal for us to say we don't have a record when someone seems to be fishing for HIPPA (the law that protects your medical records) information. It's a way of refusing to continue the inquiry that doesn't give either a yes or a no (since saying a patient ISN'T treated by a provider is as protected as saying they are.)
I feel awful for anyone who took his advice. So many people having tough discussions with unknowing spouses/parents/family.
i still take it, he's a financial savant. everything he predicts is going to come true some day, just listen to his DD.
I feel like anyone who took this guy's financial advice after seeing a video of him or reading a post made by him was destined to lose their savings eventually since only those of little intelligence, sanity or with a massive gambling addiction would take any of his financial advice.
@@PhilipWester Pretty much. If not him, they would have just as easily taken financial advice from some other random Tom, Dick, or Harry that puffed out their chest and seemed confident in the nonsense they spouted. Someone else would have come along and easily goaded them into putting themselves into financial ruin all the same.
Financial darwinism
I think a chunk of the people saying they were following him and are now in debt were trolling him
That was very good journalism. We never learned how big a bag he was carrying. More than he could afford, clearly. When he called his broker to buy more, it wasn't easy watching self harm like that. And then he posted a video while taking a dump... It's comedic but a very dark comedy. Obviously he's not talking about what happened to his family, about his despair.
The antisemitism and his negative impact on others made him very difficult to root for. There's clearly some mental illness too, his proclamations weren't remotely rational. Still, you showed there was a human being there and it's fine journalism that shows humanity.
Hell, I don't even play computer games and I thoroughly enjoy your channel. This is by far your best content yet.
Thanks, and glad you enjoyed it
Those poor employees having to suffer this guy, they handled it well though
Goddamn the security guards at the jenga building
right? i work retail, but i had to switch to the graveyard shift because i can barely handle customers who are mildly obnoxious. having to deal with mental illness is another ballpark entirely, and it's certainly not something that retail workers are trained for.
they all handled themselves pretty damn well.
@@ArmundJay It's really put me off ever trying to work retail jobs not only hearing all the crazy stuff people get up to, but seeing even normal every-day interactions with random people get weird. I like talking to people I don't necessarily know, but imagine being forced to because it's your job 😩
This guy reminds me of the TempleOS guy, or Time Cube. I think society has an idea of what "schizophrenia" looks like (straitjacket, babbling incoherently, some kind of inherent violent danger), but really its a paranoid disorder that makes you lose touch with reality completely. And it can happen almost any time....especially to men it seems. You can just wake up schizophrenic. Honestly, I feel bad for him, but these kinds of cases rarely turn out happy. They alienate everyone who loves them, they travel sporadically and unpredictably, they can't hold jobs or keep money so they end up homeless...and then they just disappear. I kind of hate that social media has allowed us to watch the slow and painful degradation of someone's mind... I don't know if I'll finish this video. :(
Thats true and needs more attention.
Despite this, Terry A Davis is a nice example of how people can have problems and still be a benefit to the world in their own way. When i stumbled over TempleOS some years ago and learned about this mans history it moved me. This man finished an enourmous project all while loosing a battle against his degrading mental state.
oh yeah, i thought of the templeOS guy instantly. it doesn't happen super often, but it's very sad to see the public mental breakdown of someone who's clearly very fragile and suffering from mental illness on the internet.
At least the TempleOS guy was actually pretty intelligent, in his own way. He was a programmer and an artist, and he generally had a very positive relationship with both his followers and his pets. Unfortunately his episode where he drove a stolen car through the desert, and the last one that claimed his life, happened despite so many others trying to take care of him.
Terry Davis was my first thought as well. He had a much better outlet in TempleOS, and was less liable to be a public nuisance, but he seemed to have a similar assortment of screws loose. Here’s hoping this story ends less tragically than his did.
When you said “and all jewish people know each other” I thought you were making a sarcastic joke until the words “jews are united” left his mouth lmao
dude imagine working at that bed bath and beyond and this guy is out everyday, id be sketched out as hell
I imagine it was like working at games stop.
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Both apparently
he may have inadverntently led to the closure of his local BBAB by making customers uncomfortable with his filming and random comments.
@@Vault-Bornbut that’s just a theory..oh wait
This guy has the same kind of personality as the dude who accused the Japanese medical system of suffocating his son with a plastic bag.
Like, you can see a clear point where something kicked in as a coping mechanism to prevent a total mental breakdown - but instead of working through the process and coming to terms with reality he found some form of validation and became addicted to it, with all the usual problems of addiction.
You have more details on that?
I think it's the guy behind the website that's called something like 'save Ryan'? @@Penguinmanereikel
PLEASE elaborate. at least give us a case name
@@MartianCandies Jimmy's Wish. The channel "Scare Theater" did a deep dive followed by an interview. Pretty sad stuff tbh, don't harass anyone.
@@greenhowie why would you think I'd harass someone? just a weird thing to say to an individual lmao how would I even harass someone? I geniunely just wanted to know the case name I'm sorry if I came off that way
I can't get over the fact he tries to decipher twitter posts like matpat does with the FNAF lore.
I feel bad for this guy, but I feel a whole lot worse for all the service workers who have to deal with him
Admittedly, I'm only like half way through the video, so idk yet how bad things get but I have had the experience of being someone who has experienced delusions and psychosis, and having been a public librarian. You get a lot of severely mentally ill patrons coming into a public library. And, as the word public suggests, it's a public space - meaning things have to be extremely bad for you to ask someone to leave. You're also just there, available all day for the patrons to chat to. I worked inner-city. Free WiFi and a warm, safe place brings in a lot of vulnerable people.
It was a daily experience to chat with people who were experiencing delusions. Librarians are neutral figures, and therefore usually viewed as trustworthy and safe to talk to. I heard a lot of deeply personal and sad things from total strangers. All it is mildly uncomfortable and a bit awkward. It's not much of an inconvenience. You just walk away thinking "that was sad," "that was alarming," or "that was weird." It's way more scary, distressing, confusing, and painful to be the person experiencing delusions.
I've never personally had delusions directed at me, and I've never personally directed delusions at a specific person. I feel most sorry for Mr. Cohen, his wife, and those the delusions are directed at, personally.
I feel sorry for Kais too, because he isn't living on the same planet as us, and is unknowingly ruining his life in a very ernest way, but he also seems to be in pretty good spirits, and appears to be in a constant state of delusion and psychosis, so he probably spends very little time actually cognisant of his mistakes. Bro is just rolling through from delusion fixation to delusion fixation. Hope he can get help under supervision, because he could really be a danger to himself if he ever comes down long enough to understand what he's done.
I don't feel sorry for anyone who believed him without also having a mental illness that causes delusions, or some sort of intellectual disability, and invested as such. You'd have to be pretty stupid to not be able to see this man is not functioning with a grasp on reality and take financial advice from him. That would be rube behaviour.
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I don't feel bad for him, I feel scared for everyone else, who crosses his path. This reads like unchecked mental illness that could spiral out of control.
@@TheFlauschigThe chances of this man ever being dangerous to anyone but himself are slim
@@cjboyo I get that but we did see him social engineer to get private medical information from Ryan's family which is very, very disturbing. Serial Stalkers can become violent and dangerous if they get to a certain point. I'm not a doctor but I've seen dateline and serial stalkers are not a joke.
I love how his attempt to "disprove" BBBY's bankruptcy ended up not helping the company.
I'm sure Overstock is enjoying the rebrand though.
i think this quote is very very suitable here.
"Mental illness is not your fault, but it is your responsibility" - Marcus Parks
Absolutely! This guy has problems that he needs to work on... But he's essentially doing the opposite of that (I am neurodivergent and have mental health stuff going on - not saying this from a place of thinking all people with issues are dangerous.... But this guy has the potential to fall into that category)
Hail yourself!
Unless I missed it, you missed the videos where he rode long distances to the fulfillment centers than asked people to send him money to help finance his trips. Watching sporadically as I can. Enjoying every minute of it.
I think I may have cut that part out to save time but yeah that’s correct he does also beg for money in many of his videos
@@jauwn NGL you did him a huge favor cutting those out, I woulda loved to see those clips xD
just like he ends most his videos by saying "share this make it go viral" he will also sometimes say "also please send me paypal or venmo to help pay for gas". Not really anything more than that, would've just been a footnote
This is most unacceptable Jauwn. You know for a fact this will be the only thing Ken will be able to think about when he sees it.
Great work! This is definitely going to be entered in as evidence once Kais finally and inevitably snaps.
Thank you! Glad that you enjoyed the video
Parasocial shit is already weird but this dude chose to be parasocial to a business man, thats a new level of weird
It's pretty hard-core to watch so many condensed instances of insanity in one video. The lack of self awareness on display here is stomach churning. I'm basically dying from second hand embarrassment watching this but I can't take my eyes off it. It's fascinating.
The lengths the human mind will go to in order to avoid admitting the truth to itself are truly impressive.
...and downright terrifying.
Same😂
This is really well done. I did a series of posts on reddit trying to explain how risky this thing was from a pure Accounting perspective. And also trying to help people to decipher what BBBY management was saying in the footnotes about BBBY. Felt like a lot of it was lost in the noise, but it's felt like I had to try. Thanks for putting this together, interesting how it all evolved
I don’t feel sorry for them. They just ban anyone trying to give legitimate advice and instead choose to listen to terrible misinformation
@@jauwnWhy would they listen to "reasonable advice" when there's perfectly good """advice""" telling them "don't listen to reality, you'll be rich"
This is like believing in a cult leader after they repeatedly admit they’re bullshitting, and straight up dies in front of you
Well put. The delusion is insane.
"I am not the Messiah!" "Only the real Messiah denies his divinity!"
that obgyn call was something else. Despite everything else I was not ready for that level of cringe.
Impersonation is illegal
I think he left cringe a few videos ago and directly veered into unhinged creep territory.
I'm glad the wife wasn't a patient there since the nurse was ready to give over information if she was.
He needs to be sued for the attempt though. Trying to violate someone's HIPAA because you're stalking them is insane and needs some serious punishment.
Its strange that while he talks so much about Bed Bath & Beyond and this merger but this video is barely about that. It's really about a guy getting lost in his own world of conspiracies. If it wasn't this one that got him another one would have.
He could have been talking about gangstalking and the result would be the same.
I hadn't even considered that. He needs some serious help.
One major aspect of this “outlet” in particular is that he lost so, so much money too.
If he was just talking about gang stalking it wouldn’t at least have the added stress of losing tons of money too.
I think that stress greatly sped up the onset/progression of his mental illness.
He is a total fool. A qanon moron and like all qanons he is mentally ill and could snap any time.
47:49 "We just moved from overseas - Montreal, Canada." ik that nurse sh!t a brick when she heard "overseas" and Canada in the same sentence lmao. She probably knew something was really wrong by that point.
This is a tough video to watch for someone who's had experience with undiagnosed mental illness in a loved one. I hope that his family has a support network to turn to, and that his inevitable crisis will not result in loss of life or any other trauma.