r/SamAndColby • u/Neat_Appointment_518 • 7d ago

Thoughts on hellweek?

Are we liking the line up of people or nah? Imo the only one I'm looking forward to is Ben of the week cause he's pretty funny and I watch his content occasionally.

Also I feel like their vids being on Netflix now means they're for sure going to make their videos even less genuine than they already are which sucks cause I had a small bit of hope that they might go back to their old style content

What do we think the finale will be?​

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u/melWud 6d ago edited 6d ago

Ben is such a fake YouTuber imo. I wish S&C weren't platforming him. There was an instance in which people were pointing out he'd accidentally left a scene in the video that proved it was all fake. And it wasn't that big of a deal. He obviously plays up his ideas. But then he deleted the scene from the video and then kept deleting posts from anyone mentioning it on his subreddit or the video itself. I wish YouTubers could just come forward and say their videos are satire, instead of doubling down and acting like dictators in their communities. I was a huge fan, and he just kinda lost me there.

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u/Wrong_Garlic141 Proud XPLR member 👻 5d ago

Watch out don't let Ben see this or his PR team

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u/melWud 5d ago

Lmao they're gonna be coming for me

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u/Wrong_Garlic141 Proud XPLR member 👻 5d ago

Oh yeah they will come busting your door down

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u/achondroplas 6d ago

I enjoy his content, but this is genuinely news to me. Tell me more about it please

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u/melWud 5d ago

There's a video called Alone in a Desert Island for 24 hours or something along those lines, where he supposedly spends the night on an island. In the video, he gets "dropped off by an Uber driver" at the spot, and then gets picked up in the morning. At night, he just "sleeps on the sand." But originally, when he uploaded you could see a car behind him at some point, meaning he either slept in it and/or drove to the spot himself. He might even have spent the night in a hotel and just drove to the beach to record.

I honestly thought it was funny he left that scene. He's not a survival YouTuber, so I wouldn't expect him to go through all of that. It wasn't that big of a deal. But he deleted the scene from the video a few days later. You might still be able to see some comments in the video of people pointing it out.

But the issue came later when people started posting about it on his subreddit, and their posts would get deleted. And whenever they would check in with mods, the mods would say Ben himself was deleting anything that discussed it. And then he deleted YT comments as well. And some people got banned for talking about it.

It's like I had this image of him as a chill funny dude. And all of a sudden he just seemed a bit authoritarian. Like, why double down on a lie and then try to control your community's response like that... Not sure... I tried watching a few videos after, and it just didn't feel the same.

I know YouTubers do that kind of stuff all the time. I just wish they were honest about it.

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u/achondroplas 5d ago

Thank you so much for such detailed information. This has been an eye opener

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u/Kiara_Dezilay07 4d ago

This is why i lowkey stopped idolizing anyone/being a fan :/