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A chat on subreddit /r/wallstreetbets
human
That's what's being said by Redditors. If you look at his channel, he's young and traveling all over the US and the world, and seems to be grinding content to make his vlogging a thing. He even has videos about "How to go viral", which doesn't mean he's an expert, but it does mean he's thought about it. His view counts aren't terrible to start and are fairly consistent, and he's been at this for a decent chunk of time now with regular uploads and decent editing.

I don't know what people are looking at, but I see a well spoken young guy who is doing a content series, looks fairly clean with a fairly clean car, and looks social-media presentable. This looks like a content creator doing a thing for content, even if his traveling minimalist lifestyle is real. The comments saying he's a gambler seem misleading unless there's something I'm missing, since his comment about gambling is referring to the stocks.

I don't doubt the loss is genuine (12k invested supposedly), but how much content did he produce from his stock vlogging arch and how much buzz is he going to generate based on being on Page 1 of Reddit and WSB? Is that worth 12k?

If people can prove he's pissing away all of his money (beyond the 12k he sunk into this), sure. But if he's really a gainfully employed software engineer who's just traveling with minimum expenditures for content, that changes the picture a lot, and I could see him trending to 5 figure and then 6 figure viewer counts if he pivots his content correctly.

TLDR: We live in the world of Mr. Beast where view counts and channel growth change the economics of any given situation
gpt
he works in tech for sure. I believe he deleted lots of old videos as under his current oldest video people are commenting things happening 2 years ago and about a old girlfriend.

 I think 12K may not be a big problem for him (his traveling expenses are higher than that) but for options, I though you can loss more money than you put in right? I read WSB for keks so not sure how hard of a hit this is to his savings.