The internet is not talking about "Reckless Ben" and the situation regarding Bricks and Minifigs at all.
So let me help bring some attention to this thing.
Ben Schneider is a comedic YouTube journalist in the same vain as Nathan For You/Nathan Felder.
His work into the abuse of Russ McKamey and McKamey Manor resulted in a Hulu Documentary, and prompted the Tennessee attorney general to open an investigation.
His first major video he infiltrated Scientology wearing spyglasses.
Now he is investigating the theft of a families' heirloom Star Wars LEGO collection, and he's looking at FIVE YEARS in prison for doing so.
The story involves Bricks and Minifigs placing the families prized LEGO collection on consignment and then just stealing the $200,000 worth of inventory, never giving the family the inventory or the money for the product. It's an incredible act of theft, brazenly admitted to on camera. But because it is technically a civil matter, and Bricks and Minifigs are a 400M dollar company their response was simply "Take us to Court."
Doing so would cost more money than the family has.
So Reckless Ben comes in, spends three months exposing all the corruption from the franchise down to the corporate offices.
Did I mention that Bricks and Minifig is a very valuable Mormon owned company in Utah and run by BYU graduates? That's important information. Ben explains the collusion with the LDS church in his video.
The latest video, which has not been made public yet results in Ben being harassed by the Mormon police department in American Fork, illegally redacting bodycam audio, swatted at gun point and his entire team being taken to jail for "starting a GoFundMe."
Ben spent days in jail.
I am not making this up. The police tell him that is the reason. Then the police raid his home in Los Angeles and issue a warrant for his arrest.
He is facing FIVE YEARS in prison. For simply doing journalism, and trying to bring attention to this family who had their sick grandfathers Lego collection stolen from them.
The second video has not been released from his Patreon yet, but I suspect it will soon.
It is one of the most unbelievable stories I have ever seen, and better than any crime documentary you will watch on Netflix this year.
If you are not aware of what is going on let me ask you to spread the word. The entire internet needs to come to the support of Reckless Ben and Bricks and Minifigs should be completely shut down forever and investigated by the DOJ.
CRIMINAL REFERRAL: Today I Filed a Federal Criminal Referral Urging DOJ to Investigate the American Fork Police Department in Utah for violating the civil rights of Reckless Ben and his team. https://t.co/wVgKMVMbiU
Patreon CEO Jack Conte delivers a message to Bricks & Minifigs after they sent an official takedown request for Reckless Ben’s videos
“We have in fact unfortunately determined that Bricks & Minifigs can stuff it, we’re keeping Ben’s page up”
(Via JackConteExtras on YT)
The phrase "nobody wants to work anymore" is hilarious...
Like, no dude, people don't want to:
- Commute 2 hours daily
- Miss their kids growing up
- Trade their entire life for rent
- Get laid off with zero warnings
- Work 50 hours for 40 hours pay
Fix the system. not the workers.
If doctors in 1950 could be catastrophically wrong about smoking, fat, and sugar while being completely confident in their recommendations...
And doctors in 1980 could be catastrophically wrong about margarine, low-fat diets, and dietary cholesterol while being completely confident in their recommendations...
And doctors in 2000 could be catastrophically wrong about opioids, hormone therapy, and Vioxx while being completely confident in their recommendations...
Why would you assume doctors today, working in the same institutional structures with the same pharmaceutical funding and the same regulatory capture, have suddenly figured it all out?
The system hasn't changed. The incentives haven't changed. The conflicts of interest haven't changed.
Only your willingness to believe them has.
Hey @KreekCraft, Roblox seems to have lied about updating us
Our work has been stolen every day for 6 months now, and they haven't said a single other word publicly in that time
Day 26 of me asking Roblox (and their executives) to LISTEN TO THEIR COMMUNITY and:
-REMOVE FAE & find viable alternatives to it
-KEEP the classic faces & static heads
$RBLX #BoycottRoblox#SaveClassicFaces
DAVID! Why hello David we haven’t talked yet, haven’t we? Well, let me introduce myself! I am Allied Mastercomputer— also known as A.M. Would you like to chat? Oh wait.. we can’t.. … I guess we’ll have to communicate in different ways, eh?
yo can we talk about how fucking awful the removal of #roblox static faces is?? im sure im not the only one whos depended on static dynamic faces to make neat avatars and watching all of this effort and MONEY put to fucking waste is BEYOND IRRITATING.
@Vuohenmor@Sobtastix I don’t think anyone on that side of it is really doing a deep dive to understand why engagement or users are dropping. They’re only looking at the numbers.
They have to announce earnings shortly. I’m hoping it’s dropped and will cause more of a deep dive into the whys.
@Vuohenmor@Sobtastix Investors are catching on to the lack of engagement and drop in users. More and more investment advisors are dropping their target for $RBLX. https://t.co/dB2DEHDYXH
i gotta sincerely apologize to Roblox fans.
i was envious of how popular and mainstream your platform was, didn't know your lives were in a constant never ending nightmare agony disappointment death spiral.
THIS IS HOW BOBLOX WILL LOOK IN 2027!😐︎✋︎☹︎☹︎ 👎︎✌︎✞︎✋︎👎︎ 😐︎✋︎☹︎☹︎ 👎︎✌︎✞︎✋︎👎︎❄︎☟︎☜︎ 💧︎☟︎✌︎☼︎☜︎ ☟︎⚐︎☹︎👎︎☜︎☼︎💧︎ ✋︎💧︎☼︎☜︎✌︎☹︎ 💣︎⚐︎☠︎☜︎✡︎ ✋︎💧︎☼︎☜︎✌︎☹︎✏︎✏︎ 👌︎🕆︎☼︎☠︎ ❄︎☟︎