Sits with phone in hand while driving super car in the overtake lane in the rain.
Crashes car
Online commentators criticized Doherty for appearing to be more concerned about his wrecked car than his injured friend.
Not a person i’d want others to be influenced by really. I hope sponsors eventually realise
Good.
Stop making stupid people famous.
this guy is a real prick appearently, he got famous by assaulting people (calling it pranks).
The world doent need people like him.
If y’all don’t know how big of a piece of shit this kid is, it runs deep.
There’s a period of time where he would just taunt strangers to get into a confrontation, and then his bodyguard would step in.
Well, his bodyguard punched someone in the face and he’s getting sued like fuck.
He also is basically an only fans pimp. He gets 18-year-old girls drunk on yachts and gets them to sign contracts where they’ll do only fans content for a set fee per month while he takes all.
It’s truly amazing how big of a scumbag this kid is at such a young age.
“Dumb rich kid crashes really expensive car. More at 11”
Who cares?
And perhaps my least favorite part, aside from him walking away relatively unscathed, was that this shitty article goes on to just use other YouTubers and influencers for reaction quotes.
It’s like the they tried to directly convert a 90 second YT local news story, into an article.
Imagine being so annoyed by someone you have zero obligation to pay attention to that you wish them physical harm.
In their defense, it’s way easier than doing actual journalism.
Global News is a terrible sensationalist rag. I’m sorry it’s managed to fester outside of Canada.
“influencer” I truly hate this word. It’s way overused. Like what is he influencing, markers flipping?
He influences his followers to buy products. An influencer is like a freelance marketer.
They influence people who lack the attention span to make decisions for themselves.
He influenced me to not buy a McLaren.
McLarens are awesome cars, don’t let this guy ruin that. Besides, did you see that paint job? He just put the car out of its misery.
Glad the cameraman was okay; this guy shouldn’t be behind the wheel of anything.
People. Ever heard of Jesus Christ? I like the word. Its very clear.
Influencer Culture is a cancer on society
No, cancer kills healthy patients.
This seems to be preying on the already ill, many of us seem immune.
When will media stop with the “formerly Twitter”?
They’re trying to increase the relevancy of their “source” on X by saying it’s basically the same as Twitter once was.
But it isn’t. It’s a rotting zombie feasting on Twitter’s long-dead corpse.Influencer.
That’s what he does.
We have failed.
You are aware that the majority of kids aspire to be social influencers as a desired life/career path, yes?
https://pro.morningconsult.com/analysis/gen-z-interest-influencer-marketing
The majority of current US children do not want to be doctors or professors or plumbers or coders or truck drivers or electricians… they want to pursue a career path that has something like a one in a million odds of making them stupidly wealthy.
Because that’s what they see. All the time. A constant super, uber version of a reality tv show of wealthy idiot assholes doing and saying whatever they want and almost never facing any consequences.
And to some extent, who can blame them?
Every other career path has exceptional upfront costs of time and money, involves much, much more challenging work (either physical, mental or both) and are seen as basically just as risky in terms of actually working out.
Fuck it. YOLO. Only got 10 or 20 years until the water wars or WW3 or climate change breaks everything anyway.
The majority of current US children do not want to be doctors or professors or plumbers or coders or truck drivers or electricians… they want to pursue a career path that has something like a one in a million odds of making them stupidly wealthy.
I, too, had dreams of being a rock star when I was a kid.
Money for nothin’. Chicks for free.
Checks for free. He’s talking about writing personal checks, like in the beforetimes, and them having no impact on his bank account later.
It’s a damning account of 80s hypermaterialism.
Yes, I know, history rhymes and Socrates was right about the youth being out of control.
For real. Youthful day dreams are nothing new.
How many kids did anything toward that goal, such as forming a band, learning how to play an instrument or sing, actually landing that first gig at a local bar or something…
… vs how many kids nowadays … have a social media account they post to religiously?
This is really different though. In so many ways.
Looking up to rock stars was different from parasocial relationships with people you watch hundreds and hundreds of hours of.
The volume of content dictates so many differences between rock stars and influencers just on its own.
And to some extent, who can blame them?
I agree with your entire comment, but from this point on, you really nailed it.
Who knows what my attitude would be if I was in my teens or early twenties? I would be old enough to understand that I have almost no chance of building a “good” life. Everything’s fucked. Political systems, the labor market, and worst of all, the environment. Might as well earn money by being an idiot. At least then I’d be my own boss.
Fuck it. YOLO. Only got 10 or 20 years until the water wars or WW3 or climate change breaks everything anyway.
psst… don’t look now, but it’s less than ten years.
The majority of kids dream of eventually owning a home… it looks like that’s unrealistic unless you can get 4-5 million together in some markets.
These are down the street from me. They are 1.3 million dollars.
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Is there a room for humans in those garages? Why does every house these days need to dedicate so much of their square footage to cars.
Also, I’m aware there are substantial price differences in different markets - I’m in Canada and, specifically, Vancouver - our market is insane… but gone are the days of a modest home for under 200k.
“Help, help! Break the f—king window,” he yells as Good Samaritans rushed over. One of the witnesses helped carry Doherty out of wreck while the 20-year-old continued to film himself.
I’d like to think that if was helping, I would have the presence of mind to realize he was filming himself. I would have taken a moment to grab his fucking phone and fling it as far away into oncoming traffic as possible.
Come on, Cosmos. He didn’t have a scratch on him.
Do better.
Who is McLaren?
The son of Laren.
Nice bloke, tried to help me fix my car once.
It ran like shit afterwards but it’s the thought that counts.It’s Spanish for “my clarin”
Don’t give this dip shit any more publicity.
He shouldn’t have a license
Insurance ain’t gonna pay that claim. And he got banned from the platform.
But I’m sure most of the money came from his parents anyway. McLarens aren’t cheap; I doubt he bought it himself.
