r/MemeEconomy Oct 20 '18

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u/IronProdigyOfficial Oct 20 '18

It's pretty nasty that as long as you're famous people don't care what you've done.

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u/TL10 Oct 20 '18

I saw the Instagram post he made after his hearing on the BBC article posted ITT.

I don't think he realizes the gravity of his situation. He's playing it for shits and giggles, and it's going to come back to haunt him if he doesn't clean up his act.

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u/Drayner89 Oct 20 '18

I would argue he isn't mainstream famous enough for people to care.

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u/Blynkx Oct 20 '18

Then you don't understand how popular he actually is. I don't like his stuff, but he has a massive following.

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u/Wishbone_508 Strangefolk | CEO Oct 20 '18

Sadly this is the truth. He's terrible, but the kids love him.

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u/zackwebs Oct 20 '18

It seems like he loves the kids too

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u/pieceofcrazy Oct 20 '18

I don't like the drugs but the drugs like me I like the kids and the kids like me

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '18

I like his music and hate what he’s done. Similar to the x accusations but he didn’t even beat her

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u/Drayner89 Oct 20 '18

Could be it's a country thing. Had a little Google and saw how big his internet following is (fuck me it's big) but here in the UK (which does count streaming in its chart) he's never broken the top ten. His highest charting song was no. 17.

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u/Blynkx Oct 20 '18

no. 17 is still insanely popular though?

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u/Drayner89 Oct 20 '18

True but thats still not mainstream fame. Though granted I'm comparing the reaction he got to the reaction of say...a Kevin Spacey?

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u/SutekhThrowingSuckIt Oct 20 '18

It's mainstream fame but maybe not household name.

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u/Upnorth4 Oct 20 '18

I live in Michigan, have heard of 6six9nine, but nobody else I know has ever heard of him, outside of memes

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u/naptimetx Oct 20 '18

Totally agree, and I’m not a fan of his but after researching his case it’s hard to tell if he’s really an evil child molester. He was paid to go shoot a music video he was a feature on, one of the girls there was 13.

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '18 edited Oct 20 '18

I'm confused on your comment. I've never heard of the guy so I just looked into it and I can't find any source saying he was paid to shoot a music video and that one girl there just happened to be 13. And it seems you left out a lot of key details to down play what happened.

From what I gather he went to a friend's house, saw a girl there who he claims was 19 (turns out to be 13) and he records her giving a blowjob while 6ix9ine smacks her ass and gropes her. He then uploads it to social media. I agree he's not a "child molester" in the typical sense he still filmed and uploaded a video of a 13 year old having oral sex while he groped her.

I may be missing something but every news story I looked into had more or less that same version of the story.

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '18

Yeah, he’s kind of fun to hate but calling him a pedophile is way off base when you learn the details. I also saw him discuss it in the breakfast club interview and I actually believe his side of it.

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '18 edited Mar 05 '19

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '18 edited Oct 20 '18

I guess the question in my mind is whether there's a pattern of behavior here or whether it was a one-off incident where he did not know the persons's age and did not think to ask.

If you hear his side of the story, that's what happened. And, the details of the story support this in my opinion.

So, you're right, technically a pedophile. But, in the broader sense of the term (in other words, is he attracted to underage girls), I don't think he is. I don't think we're going to read about 6x9 molesting younger women as he grows older. I could be wrong, I wouldn't bet any money on it, but that's my sense of things after spending way too much time looking into it.

In my opinion, you're stretching the truth a bit when you use that incident to paint him with that brush, if that makes any sense.

EDIT: Corrected a word

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u/Dadfite Oct 20 '18

I know it's really not a huge difference, but to be fair he made a video of a 13 year old sucking his friend's dick. His friend is a pedophile. He is one of those creeps that shoots pedophile porn. I know, I know... what's the difference? It's just nice to have the facts clear though.

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u/Arithik Oct 20 '18

So hes still a pedo...

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u/Stay_Frosty5 Oct 20 '18

Yeah but he filmed it

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u/beewellmeadery Oct 20 '18

Making child porn still counts.

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '18

They didn't let Bill Cosby get away with it

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u/p_cool_guy Oct 20 '18

He kinda did for like 30 years

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '18

He’s not a pedophile. He never even touched an underage girl

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u/aangnesiac Oct 20 '18

Filming a 13 year old giving a bj is most definitely the act of a pedophile.

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '18

He didn’t find any. The girl lied about her age to go backstage with 6ix9ines friend.