I’m sure plenty of other lemmings have seen it, but I’ve been avoiding it till it bubbled up into my feeds in a way I could no longer avoid. I genuinely detest drama focused on the terminally online influencer-verse, but I caved and ended up watching multiple hour long videos on this one…

What fantastic drama! I haven’t been this engaged I pirated season 5 of game of thrones. I was mostly expecting it to be a youtuber-face manufactured drama considering the source is a guy going by “Reckless Ben” and framing of whole thing.

Honestly it would be ignorable if not for

spoiler

the fact that they might have one of the most clear cut and massive civil rights lawsuits against a city and police department in the history of Utah. Its such clear corruption and abuse of power and its basically entirely documented. I could imagine them bringing a suit on the order of millions to tens of millions or even more in damages against the city and police department.

Its better than any tv show or series I’ve started in years (outside of onepiece, which I recently got into).

  • Reygle@lemmy.world
    104·
    10 days ago

    A friend shared this stuff with me last night. I “noped out” when I heard “had their life savings in Lego” and kind of tuned the rest out. I have this weird aversion to people doing stupid things having stupid things done to them.

    • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.worldOP
      191·
      10 days ago

      While I can understand it, its a pretty dismissive take. A family had a valuable asset (a large toy collection) and wanted to sell it to cover a medical bill.

      Basically a elderly family member had a life-long starwars lego collection they had been building since the 80s or some such, and commissioned a franchise consignment business to sell it to cover medical treatment. Not any different than working with a local car dealership to sell a classic car collection. Or maybe classic porcelain dolls. Or spoons. Or uranium glass. The franchising company then effectively canceled their agreement with the owners of the franchise location which had arranged the commission in an effort to steal the collection, which they did. Dismissing it because its a popular kids toy like legos is pretty vapid.

      The family and former owners of the franchise then got blocked in all legal attempts to pursue the issue civilly and legally, receiving threats from the company which did the stealing. Things looked on their last hope when a youtuber whose gimmick is trying to use legal loop-holes for good.

      Then shit gets extremely crazy. Like this is going to be a national headline for months or years level crazy.

    • glimse@lemmy.world
      7·
      9 days ago

      Translation: A friend sent me something they found interesting and instead of giving it a chance, I opted to form the wrong conclusion in the first ten seconds

      • Reygle@lemmy.world
        71·
        10 days ago

        Absolutely, 101% correct. I’d rather live anywhere else but my options are extremely limited.

  • Cherry@piefed.socialEnglish
    3·
    9 days ago

    Been watching the last few weeks. I can’t believe how much corruption is evident here between the corp, the police and the mormand.

    I hate YouTube usually but following this drama.

    • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.worldOP
      1·
      9 days ago

      This hits on the like, the garbage tier reality TV level, like pawn stars or storage wars.

      Without new seasons of breaking bad, its the best drama I’ve seen in years.

  • Darkassassin07@lemmy.caEnglish
    41·
    9 days ago

    https://bricksandminifigs.com/blog/

    Too little, too late; corporate is finally in damage control mode. They still refuse to admit fault and are trying to pin the whole thing on the previous franchisee though.

    The Gormans (the previous franchisees) aledge corporate forced them into default by freezing the stores bank account so automated rent and royalty payments would bounce and acrew debt.

  • c0wboy dani@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    2·
    10 days ago

    it’s so crazy, I’ve been following it closely since it started.

    did you see the new one today with the unredacted bodycam footage

  • cheers_queers@lemmy.zip
    2·
    8 days ago

    i have been a member of Ben’s patreon for like 2 years. i was obsessed with McKamey Manor and found him when he did a series on infiltrating and legally obtaining ownership of it in order to force the guy to stop torturing people. i highly recommend watching that playlist (cw violence) or the one where he infiltrates the 12 Tribes cult and obtains legal ownership of the Yellow Deli. he is crazy and i love him lol