Mighty Mike Plays Scam? Full Breakdown & Transcript

[00:00] There was no bigger story this week than that of Mighty Mike Plays. Had there been an alien invasion, I don't know if it would have gotten more coverage than this did. At so many outlets, everyone was talking about it, I made a video about it as well.

[00:13] It was a wild story of how a nine-year-old's Roblox and Minecraft YouTube channel nearly led to financial ruin for the family, and the fate of the father's job hung in the balance.

[00:26] The dad made a post on the child's YouTube channel explaining the situation that his son had spent over $118,000 in YouTube ads to get eyes on the channel. Without his permission, his company found out and put his job and career in jeopardy

[00:42] and made the need to pay back six figures. It was a sad story, and most of it made sense. There was a bit of fishiness, some breadcrumbs that maybe there was something awry here,

[00:54] such as using the company card to buy Robux which is what gave the kid access to the company card in the first place. But the way I understood it when he told it was that when he bought those Robux it was with his account

[01:07] his one account that had the company card on it not that he directly used the company card for it but regardless now it's starting to seem like the whole thing was a scam. Last night Dave the father

[01:19] posted a concerning update video with a lot of sketchy information in there that I have serious doubts on. It has all of the telltale signs of being a scam.

[01:33] This shit looks more fraudulent than Hot Tula Coin now. Even the thumbnail is a bit of a wacky one. 30 days. According to Dave, the company that has been defrauded by his nine-year-old

[01:46] for all of the YouTube ads that he was pumping, like it was fucking Shark Tank, and he was pitching the entire platform on why he should go sub the Mighty Mike Plays to these 35-minute Minecraft videos that he had playing his ads before, like Markiplier videos.

[01:59] But his company now, that is out of 118K, is ordering that Dave pay it all back in 30 days. And as you can see from the screenshot here, his methodology for doing so is by pushing Mighty Mike Plays merch.

[02:15] Failure's log, big update. As I was rendering this video, I noticed that Mighty Mike turned off comments on the latest video here from Dave. There were a lot of people in the comments pointing out tons of irregularities with how this is being handled

[02:32] and calling out certain things that got brought up in the video. And now comments are suspiciously disabled. Thought that was worth mentioning. Hey everyone, Dave here.

[02:45] I've been trying to figure out how to make this up to you. I know I said that I would probably do it on Sunday, but, like, I don't know, I feel like I just can't wait anymore.

[03:01] Let me remind you guys, I've been in the pretty best slump. Now, even though his voice does sound like Kermit the Frog, it does seem genuine. Like, in the first video, it sounded real, that he was devastated,

[03:14] which is why I and so many others were willing to take him at his word that this was something that happened. The ads were running. That is irrefutable. The ads were being absolutely cranked out across the platform there.

[03:28] Mighty Mike had more ads than Shard and Ultra Soft. So that was a real ad campaign. Was it $118? Probably not. There have been some people looking at what 118K ad spend on YouTube

[03:42] would likely net you, and what Mighty Mike got from it, far below what the expectation would be for it, but it's also entirely possible people saw the ads and didn't want to watch a nine-year-old playing Minecraft,

[03:55] especially when the ad is fucking 35-minute long Let's Plays of him talking to chat, even though there is no chat. So, it's possible it was that much? No way to know for sure,

[04:08] but it does seem like this whole thing was likely, as I speculated early, a ruse to have this channel explode and be able to make some money off of it. There were things that I talked about in my initial video where,

[04:22] why is the father making a video on the channel, assuming this is all real? That's a very odd step to take. It's to, like, teach the kid a lesson. I don't know if it really teaches the kid a lesson when the kid is still joking around in the video,

[04:35] such as talking about how kooky he is at the end of it. And also, why are there comments enabled on this channel if it's a nine-year-old YouTube channel? When you have a children's channel or a content made for kids, comments are automatically

[04:51] disabled, yet in the case of Mighty Mike Plays, they weren't, which leads me to believe it wasn't actually a nine-year-old's channel and was just made to look like it was. It's also very telling that the only two videos with custom thumbnails are the message from

[05:06] Dave going over the lore here and the tragedy that has befallen the family as a result of the nine-year-old insatiable gluttony to get the Mighty Mike brand popping off like he's, you know, CaptainSparklezV2.

[05:22] And also this video now about having some really bad news. And he's just fully playing the YouTube game now. He's got the custom thumbnail, 30 days, attention grabbing.

[05:34] The very, like, concerning title with the ellipses at the end. What's the update? Oh, no, what happened? And this is looking less like Mighty Mike plays and more like dubious David scams.

[05:48] You know, we've even had, like, news outlets reach out. Some really big channels have reached out wanting to interview me and my family and talk about what happened. And honestly, I don't know about that.

[06:03] Like, I don't know how I feel about that. I'm not saying I won't do any of it. But, like, I genuinely just don't know how I feel. Because, like, part of me keeps thinking, like, okay, what does that actually change?

[06:16] So if I, like, sit down with Fox or CNN or whatever, like, and I tell them my story, it's like, what does that change? Like, I'm still living in this reality, and I still have to sort of dig myself out of this hole.

[06:34] So he's trying to explain why he hasn't done any interviews about it with any channels or outlets or anything like that. And during the monologue, he flashes the Mighty Mike merch up there.

[06:47] A little, like, subliminal messaging there. Oh, whoopsie-daisy. Oh, silly me. I forgot. I didn't mean to do that. I didn't mean to drag my merch on screen here off-riff. Whoops! How clumsy.

[07:00] Oh, whoa. Wow. Wow, that's interesting. So his reasoning for not doing any interviews is because he doesn't think it would change anything. And, like, that kind of passes the smell test.

[07:13] Like, if you're going through a really hard time, you're not really going to want to sit down and just fucking spill your guts on it and, you know, go more in-depth on everything with strangers or, like, in interviews or on YouTube channels.

[07:27] Like, I do understand that to a certain extent. But in the case of this, where there's still no evidence provided at all, and just very limited information that comes directly from Dave and no other source it does seem peculiar that you wouldn be trying to like explain or show that this is legitimate

[07:46] You are the one that brought it to the Internet. So people's skepticism is understandable. But most people gave him the benefit of the doubt here and were very charitable that this is real. But now it's really looking like it's not.

[08:00] guys, please listen to me carefully we do not have a cryptocurrency we do not have a Mighty Mike coin, we don't have a 6-7 coin, we don't have any coins

[08:12] no cryptos, we don't have a GoFundMe we don't even have, we have no fundraising set up, okay, here I'm going to open my text here real quick because I even just saw one

[08:25] a minute ago, this is on a gifsendgo.com which I've never heard of. There's like an actual campaign set up. Guys, can you report those comments? I mean, report those fundraisers.

[08:37] It's not us. He's explaining that they don't have any crypto shitcoin, no give, send, go, no go fund me. It's all from bad actors, and they can go fund themselves. Because he's not doing any of that garbage,

[08:50] so he's shutting it down here and trying to protect people from falling victim to these scammers. but he does have merch so while they might not have 6-7 coin or anything like that

[09:03] they do have 6-7 t-shirts he has 14 Mighty Mike play shirts some of them AI generated from the looks of things that are about 6-7 and guess how much they cost between $67 and $97

[09:17] we're going to really dive into this and we're going to get meatballs on it in a moment excuse me so I finally got the answer that I was waiting for and um you know unfortunately it's not the answer I was hoping for um so I no longer have a job

[09:36] that's official now I'm not going to get into the details of the conversation that happened there are certain things I can't discuss because I have to sign something and I'm not you know I'm

[09:51] I'm going to respect that. So I got to be careful here. But the end result pretty much is I'm no longer with this company. And I'm also responsible for the money.

[10:03] The final amount is like a little over $118,000. And I've been given 30 days. 30 days. So, it is highly unusual for a company that has been defrauded to the tune of $118K to give the individual 30 days to pay it all back.

[10:25] I can't find any other cases of that happening anywhere. Now, I don't know the company. Maybe this is just how they do business. Maybe that's the way they handle it. But personally, I feel like this is just some shit you find in like a B-movie plotline here

[10:41] where someone owed money to the mafia and they gave them a very limited time. 30 days is extremely quick. From what I can tell, in instances like this, it's not going to be give it all back in a month when it's been spent.

[10:57] It's going to be in different... All the terms that I can see from very few cases this has happened have been very different, but it's been like installments. over a longer period of time. So, giving 30 days here is very peculiar.

[11:11] It even had me just squeak. I don't know if you heard the squeak in my throat. To me, the reason that 30 days might be here, assuming this is illegitimate, is because it creates a sense of urgency.

[11:23] 30 days is super fast. And this is a super big story. This is a massive story. All eyes are on it. So, if people feel like a time pressure, a time sensitivity, they're more likely to buy the merch to support him to try and get that paid back.

[11:37] That's why I think 30 days is here, not because that's actually what the company here gave him to pay it back. So he apparently got fired. He lost his job because his son spent $118,000 of his company money

[11:51] through the card that issued him. Another thing that was very peculiar that a lot of people didn't point out is that how would this company have allowed this to go on for like three weeks and not wonder where this over $100,000 was being allocated to.

[12:06] Like, how would that slip under their radar? There are a lot of, like, red flags, especially looking back in hindsight after watching this video. So, yeah, that's the story now. He did lose his job, and he has 30 days to pay back a little over $118,000.

[12:20] So that's where the merch comes in. He explains why he's not doing GoFundMe. It's all very odd. because, yeah, I don't have $118,000 sitting in a checking account.

[12:34] I wish I did. Obviously, my wife and I have been talking about what we're going to do. We've gone through basically every scenario.

[12:47] And I keep zoning off into my thoughts. So I'm kind of losing my words here. But yeah, one of those scenarios is our house. that's a very real possibility that we're gonna have to sell our home and that one is

[13:02] yeah that's hard like dr strange they peered into the endless multiverses and they didn't see a single one where go fund me was the avenue even though that is like standard protocol in situations

[13:16] like this of crisis where you know something terrible has happened the victims do start to GoFundMe and all things to great success. Yet, he doesn't want to do that. And instead, now he's talking about how they might have to sell the house.

[13:31] You're not selling a house in 30 days. Like, that's, it's impossible. That's definitely not happening. So, why would that even be one of, like, the viable paths that you would choose? That wouldn't accomplish the goal.

[13:43] You wouldn't be able to actually sell the house, get money in hand, in 30 days. and why would you jump to that extreme before doing like a GoFundMe you know the thing that everyone was telling you to do

[13:55] and it's something he even talks about like everyone's been telling us to do a GoFundMe but blah blah blah no and his reasoning for it makes no sense when we get there so you won't do a GoFundMe but you'll do merch it's very very fishy here

[14:09] I personally think the reason he's mentioning the house is because that's obviously a heartbreaking thing to hear that the family's about to lose their home because of all of this again it creates that sense of urgency like no I don't want that to happen

[14:21] I'll buy the merch to try and prevent that from happening and we only have 30 days to do it come on chat you'll see what I mean because it's not just a house that's where our families live that's you know that's where

[14:33] the kids live that's where our memories are and that's you know six seven six seven six seven buddy

[14:45] 6'7". Mike, do you even know what 6'7 means? Fair to me. I do not know what it means, but I think it doesn't mean anything. It's just something that makes

[14:58] people laugh and smile. I know what 6'7 means, Mike. That's how old you're going to be when you finally have to stop mowing lawns. That's retirement age, bro. That's retirement age for the general

[15:10] public but not for your old man After this situation apparently I going to be working until I like 94 Anyway where was I

[15:22] It feels very staged. Like, I understand if this is real, a nine-year-old is not going to grasp the severity of what's happened here, which is, again, something everyone was talking about when this story initially happened.

[15:35] But, like, the way that this is happening here feels so incredibly forced with the 6-7, and also that happens to be a big theme of the merch and everything, and now it's here in a very emotional moment

[15:48] with Minecraft gameplay and sad songs, sad royalty-free Facebook music going on as he's talking about what the house means to them and how hard it's going to be to have to sell the house to pay it all back. If only there was another way.

[16:01] a lot of a lot of signs that this isn't real like the dad does a spectacular

[16:14] job at the acting here if it is acting if this isn't real but like that does feel very scripted that one kind of breaks through the facade

[16:26] where it could go 6-7 and the dad chuckles 6-7 buddy six, seven, wiping a lone tear from his eyes. Kills. And the tone here is very different than the initial video.

[16:41] Dave does just keep reiterating how bad all of this is and how emotional it is and telling things like, oh man, that's retirement age, but not for me. Gonna be working till I'm 94 now.

[16:54] Like, they seem like all of it is there to make people feel very bad for them, garner a lot of sympathy. Understandable. Again, in the first video, yeah, that story did garner a lot of sympathy.

[17:06] It did feel real. And it didn't feel like Dave was hamming it up or anything. It felt like he was just being open and honest. Here, it feels far more artificial, far more manufactured. I was told directly by people above me

[17:20] that there is, like, a strong possibility that this could become a legal issue or something. like if the money isn't repaid on time and that I may need to get an attorney.

[17:32] I haven't been served with anything. I'm not telling you guys that there's a lawsuit filed against me. There isn't as far as I know right now. The GoFundMe comments. I want to address that because a lot of you said,

[17:48] you know, start a GoFundMe. But after talking to my wife, we have decided not to do a GoFundMe. And I'll explain why. So he spends some time talking about how thankfully it is that anyone would want to donate money to him directly to help him in a time of need.

[18:06] And then talks about GoFundMe itself and why that's not going to be the path they go, even in the midst of all of this hoopla where it could turn into a legal matter,

[18:22] where he might need to get an attorney and fight this legally. it could get real fucking litigious, but still doesn't want to do, like, the GoFundMe route or anything, but is very appreciative that people were so willing and wanting

[18:35] to help out and donate money to him. Well, I'm trying to say, like, like, society has kind of, like, normalized this concept of, like, asking everybody else to bail them out

[18:50] whenever something goes wrong. And look, before somebody takes that the wrong way, I'm not talking about people who experience horrible, random tragedies through absolutely no fault of their own.

[19:05] You know, someone gets sick, someone loses a loved one, someone's house burns down. There are situations where people genuinely need help. That's different. But, like, I still have my two hands.

[19:20] I can work. I can sweat. I can figure something out. Yeah, but the thing you're figuring out is selling your house, which you're understandably very upset about and talking about how difficult of a decision that would be, but looking like the only path and how awful that is because the cherished memories and everything the house means to you and your family.

[19:41] So, yeah, you still have your two hands. You can work. You're not going to find a job that's going to pay you $118,000 off rip in a single month. That's not happening. You are experiencing, assuming this is real, a financial tragedy that was a random act you had no idea about.

[20:00] So it makes no sense why GoFundMe would not apply to your circumstances here. You can chalk it up to pride and whatever. But to me, there's a very real reason why they wouldn't choose GoFundMe, but would instead choose to pump and shill merch instead.

[20:19] And for me, taking a single dollar out of that collective pot of human generosity and human goodness, where I'm still capable of getting up every morning and fighting my way out of this, it just doesn't sit right with me.

[20:38] I basically thought of something else, something where, like, if somebody still genuinely wants to, like, support us through this, at least you're getting something in return from us.

[20:53] And that's why, after, like, talking to Mighty Mike here, we decided to, like, build a little T-shirt website. All right. So on the surface, that does sound reasonable.

[21:06] being uncomfortable receiving money for nothing he instead would rather give something back to people that want to give money to them so that way it doesn't feel like charity and you get something in return for supporting them and helping them

[21:19] that makes sense right? I could pass the smell test but here's where it's interesting GoFundMe, if they did go the GoFundMe route and it does turn out that this is fake

[21:33] that would be a crime that would be a huge fucking crime Death by deception, it would be a massive issue, and it is something that has happened previously in the past. So by avoiding GoFundMe and instead selling shirts, if it does turn out this is fake, well, then there's a lot less risk there.

[21:47] He's not going to get bent over by the law here and have his asshole spread like it's the nether portal, because it won't be considered a donation anymore. You are not donating to Dave and Mighty Mike's family.

[22:00] You are instead buying an item. You are paying for an item. So, even if the story around the item isn't real, you didn't get scammed, you did get something.

[22:12] You got a shirt. You paid for a shirt. So, by going away from GoFundMe and selling shirts, it gives them protection if it's fake and it's proven fraudulent, because you're not going to be able to get your money back or come after them legally,

[22:28] because you paid for an item that you will receive. At least, I imagine you will receive here. I think that's the reason that they're doing shirts instead of just doing the more obvious and the one that people actually wanted them to do

[22:40] GoFundMe and the one that everyone in a position like this does turn to because it the most logical and does offer the most safety to people donating because again if It is time to be fraudulent in a lot of cases people have received their donations back and it is something that people get in serious legal trouble for That by deception

[23:00] With these shirts, that protection no longer applies, because you are buying something now, not donating. So yeah, very, very horseradish-y sense that I'm getting from all of this here.

[23:13] Like, I'm no Wolverine, you won't catch me huffing the fart fumes going point A to point B, but I can smell this. and it's leading me to believe that this is not real and that this is a scam. On the Mighty Mike Plays merch site, there are 14 shirts offered there with What's Up Chat,

[23:30] one celebrating $118K that got spent on the AdSense. There's the 6-7 shirts, and the price of these items ranges from $67 to $97.

[23:43] Very, very, very, very, very expensive. My goodness, that is a pretty penny. That's getting up there with fucking, like, Supreme pricing for the Mighty Mike Plays brand here. Holy fucking Toledo, man.

[23:56] It's just more expensive than what you'll find at, like, Gucci. Oh, wow. Also, very interesting that you used to do merch because that is not free. So you are actually paying more money to set up this website,

[24:08] and you are now also going to have to pay for these items that you're going to be responsible for shipping out. So, like, while it'll obviously be a net positive, you are still paying to do this.

[24:20] Yet you owe $118,000? I don't know. That doesn't seem like the normal path people would take there. I'm telling you, there is a lot wrong with this now.

[24:32] You know, some of the stuff you guys have been saying, the jokes, the cooks, the 6-7, all the ridiculous things that kind of became part of our lives now, you know, we turn it into like shirts by, by we, I mean,

[24:45] like I have friends who can build websites and stuff. A big friend of mine put together like a Shopify website. And look, I want to be very clear guys.

[24:57] Nobody needs to buy anything, please. Like I'm not making this update to guilt anybody into buying a t-shirt. If the money's tight, take care of your own family. Seriously.

[25:09] You know, listening to these updates, leaving comments, subscribing, sending us encouragement, that's enough. You know, but for all the people who've been asking how can we help, that's the way I'm comfortable doing it.

[25:23] You get something, we earn something, it's an exchange I can live with. I guess it's possible one of his friends made it for him for free, threw this together in like a day or something.

[25:35] I'm pretty sure like some of the art there is AI generated so I guess he could have saved money there too but again I don't think that this is normal and it leads me to believe that this is a scam

[25:48] he says this is how he's comfortable doing this because it's an exchange but no one's buying these shirts because they're good shirts and they want them no one's wanting to spend $67 or $97

[26:00] on a shirt that just has a 9 year old YouTube handle on it. Every single one of them, basically, there's a couple that don't, have at MightyMikePlays67. So a lot of people aren't paying $67 and $97 to walk around advertising a

[26:18] nine-year-old's YouTube channel just because it says, you know, 67 on it or I'm Cooked Chat or What's Up Chat. They're doing it because they want to donate to you and help you. But now there's a

[26:30] minimum to it. You can't just donate a dollar or five dollars like people would be able to if it was a GoFundMe. Now there's a minimum threshold of $67. That's expensive. That's a lot.

[26:43] And it's for some very cheap, lazy t-shirts. This isn't an exchange. It is still a donation. Except now it's one where it won't be classified as a donation legally

[26:55] should things go tits up and this is revealed to be illegitimate. he would no longer get in trouble because it's not a donation, it's buying a good, it is buying an item. The website is called MightyMikePlays.com

[27:09] I'll put the description like in the website I'm still figuring this YouTube thing out guys, like apparently my nine year old here is like the

[27:21] genius who knows how to do all this stuff he's the actual marketing department so except he's not your nine year old never made a custom thumbnail

[27:34] until it was a message from you leads you to believe that it was you that made that thumbnail I also don't think he made the 30 days thumbnail here either because for the entire month that the channel existed prior to that message from Dave

[27:47] there was no custom thumbnails what's up with that? I think Dave's a little more familiar with the whole YouTube game that he's letting on. I think he knows exactly what he's doing here.

[28:01] This video really unfortunately convinced me that this most likely isn't real. I hope I'm wrong. This would be an extremely fucked up thing to lie about and just exploiting the good will or the good natured people

[28:14] that have the willingness to help in the time of need for a stranger. And I hate to see that kind of generosity fucking exploited. but it really is looking like that's what's happening.

[28:26] So yeah, that's where we're at. I lost my job. I have about 30 days to figure out how I'm going to pay back the $118,000. There's a possibility this becomes a legal situation.

[28:39] We may have to sell our home and I genuinely have no idea what our lives are going to look like. Mike, do you want to say anything again to your people? Buy my merch

[28:51] It really helps with Over $119,000 You don't have to but You have to spend that school Like Sean Sean you got the drip Also

[29:03] Subscribe if you want to You don't have to but it would really help us With the money also Anyway That's a wholesome sign off Buy the merch You don't have to but it really helps

[29:16] We need it Otherwise, we're losing the house. Buy the merch. Alright. Again, really does seem like this was not real.

[29:30] If it was a GoFundMe, I think things would be different. I think it would look a lot more reasonable, because that's like a more normal thing to do, and there is at least some kind of protection in there for people that donate should this turn out to be not true.

[29:44] with this merch from this Mighty Mike Plays domain that got set up with these 14 shirts that got fucking squeezed out in like 24 hours.

[29:56] There's no protection there if it turns out to be fake and false because you bought an item. You didn't technically donate. Very weird, man. Very, very weird. I hope I'm wrong that it isn't a scam,

[30:10] but I every single fiber of my being is screaming out that yeah, this is a big time schmeckle dwarfing so I just wanted to

[30:24] give my thoughts on it here after checking out the new Dave video here on the Mighty Mike brand that's really about it yeah