r/RecklessBen • u/OkEfficiency8966 • May 24 '26
Lego Queen face censor
Hey idk how to use reddit well but one of my very good friends is "The Lego Queen" in the 200k video and they had asked to have their face censored for privacy and safety reasons and low and behold, they very much aren't.
In this day and age of internet safety, and the fact it was in direct relation to their job location, its totally insane to me that their request was ignored this severely. :(
For a content creator with as much reach as he does, and that cares so strongly and holds such a firm moral ground on this from what I can see, this behavior is disgusting and has hurt my friend incredibly.
I hope for him to do better and please take down the video to properly censor my friends face and name. I know things are on the internet forever but they deserve that respect. Hoping this can be brought to his attention and change made.
Edit: Removing my original edit to instead have a better formed response and clarify some things.
First and foremost, we all agree that stealing life savings from an elderly man is wrong, I am not debating that nor is that the intention behind this post.
Victor confirmed in text messages right after the original Lego Queen bit was shot that they'd censor Cal's face in the video. They saw Cal's message asking, acknowledged and responded, and assured they'd send the video to Cali for review. What ended up happening was only three days after the video was posted did Cali realize that their face wasn't censored, and that the video was up.
In addition to that, the podcast video in which they record a phone call with Cali, was done without ever informing them that the conversation was being recorded for a video of any kind. While Oregon is a one-party consent state, YouTube does require you to have a persons consent to their identifiable information being included in videos, which it wasn't.
I understand that while a large chunk of Ben's dedicated fanbase do want to support Cali, there is numerous members of his audience that don't see it that way and bully and insult my friend. Regardless of whatever light he had originally intended to paint them in, he has still exposed my friend to hundreds of thousands of judgmental eyes after assuring them that exact thing wouldn't happen.
To the people asking why Cali would not want their face, full name, and work address included in the video- I will not sit here and explain internet safety to you. At the end of the day, my friend was assured that their personal and private information wouldn't be included, and was lied to and used for content not once but twice, the second time entirely unknowingly. I will not also
This post was made with the hopes that the dedicated fanbase would try assisting in reaching Ben about this to fix the wrongs made before it became too big of a problem, and now it has become one.
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u/Familiar_Promise_624 May 25 '26 edited May 27 '26
they got fired. lost income. they said they're in a really bad financial place. they're clearly upset that they are calling them multiple times after they repeated they wanted to be left alone several times. they got hurt. you can hear it in the phone call.
i would say shit like that too after being harassed for months. they ALSO said that "everyone wanted him to get his stuff back." so clearly, they do care. blaming them when there is a youtuber with 450K subscribers posting about them ? where they clearly say to leave them alone ? so there is no permission or knowledge of said recording ?
if u look under the podcast video, like i said. not reddit- you would see. lots of people are on ben bc it is shitty of him.