I Pissed Off The Woke People On The Internet. Here's What Happened

I'd like to thank the woke blue haired people of the internet for making me go viral! Appreciate you!

[@themikeblack]

The biggest thing I forgot to address in this video is that when I say people are pissed I'm really talking about what I call the blue haired people. We all know the blue haired people. They're the loud minority that hate everything and everyone- including themselves. They are angry at the world. Those are the people who are pissed. The majority of people aren't like this - and the vast majority of people have been extremely supportive and I haven't done enough of shining a light on them and how great they are. So I just wanted to thank the people that have supported me and I also want to give an even bigger thanks to the blue haired people for blowing this up on twitter and reddit. Those are actually the people I want to help the most - so thank you.

[@RuyGedares_GuyRedares]

Watching the video, I just wanted to know if that 300k invested was just used for filming costs (payroll, equipment, management of businesses while you were away?, etc.) I think around the end of the video you cleared that up also, correct? I conclude your journey isn't something meant to be exactly replicated, but close to it, and I can see it. Thank you for your efforts, it helps me see the world in a different way.

[@ToRlrk]

We all know it, well said. Also, that series was inspirational regardless of what the outcome was. Thanks bro.

[@JohnDoe-es9ft]

Anyone who disagrees with me is “blue haired”! You can’t invent this kind of ignorance, it’s hilarious to watch though!

[@chriswright1627]

@@JohnDoe-es9ftlol exactly right.

[@chriswright1627]

You’ve deleted four of my comments so far… should say more than enough about you. You are making excuses about why people are wrong for objectively calling you a terrible person. Keep stroking that ego

[@PatDavis1989]

If you can quit being homeless and go back to being rich, you're not really dealing with homelessness. You're camping.

[@minethesky]

He doesn't have the balls to do that

[@PatDavis1989]

​@@minethesky There are some legit examinations of homelessness/extreme poverty where the author cuts themselves off from their social network, puts themselves in the shoes of a low wage worker and has to pull the plug because it is unsustainable. See: Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich. This guy just wants to shame poor people though.

[@joannot6706]

Yes, he is actually rich and could always stop at any point for emergencies. Any other deep and insightful remarks you'd like to share?

[@thedrzoidberg4559]

​@@joannot6706poor people don't have that luxury. He quit his little challenge to prioritize his health? Poor people stay unhealthy. None of this should distract you from the fact that he was over $900k short of his goal before quitting, proving his thesis wrong. He failed, made himself look foolish, and didn't even have the balls to own his failure like a man. Always something else to blame. I bet you're going to say something like "he's still rich" because You've never had an original thought in your life.

[@str0ngman53]

@@joannot6706 Then it’s just a social experiment. A true experiment would have had him go to the doctor, go into debt, pay it off, and still try to make a million in a year. He opted out cause it was too hard. Maybe glaze some more? Could help

[@Riflemanforever]

Thank you for proving you don't have to be intelligent to be a millionaire. Just born into it.

[@leopoldvanstotch437]

The guy worked for this……. He wasn’t boen into it

[@Riflemanforever]

@@leopoldvanstotch437 this and other myths at 11

[@evanbradford8732]

Did you even watch the video?

[@jonaspall2363]

Thank you for proving you dont have to watch a video in order to comment on it.

[@equityoffmarket]

I love your mindset 😁

[@OJorgeDeAlmeida]

Says it's not a social experiment, describes a social experiment

[@Leto2ndAtreides]

The point was to generate useful knowledge for other people, not to try something random to see how it turns out.

[@Zakaru99]

@@Leto2ndAtreides He failed miserably at that.

[@nathaniellamb2154]

@@Zakaru99 the one useful thing he could have learned from, "I was doing ok, until an unforeseeable personal crisis complicated things" but absolutely fails to connect the dots.

[@nerd888]

Then you didn't watch the fucking video

[@matt5721]

And is a pathetic failure

[@Matt-lq9xd]

No one is pissed at you, they are making fun of you

[@fatpandaman4563]

The worst part is seeing someone to refuse to admit they’re wrong. Imagine starting a game with cheat codes enabled and still not being able to reach the goal

[@nickjimbob2776]

man, I wonder if i could get a 64k If i got my own apartment paid for me, and then got paid by my friends.. Crap, I don't have any friends who can pay me for speaking to a crowd. damn.

[@UnspeakableFerret]

Imagine starting a game with cheat codes enabled and still not being able to reach the goal *but still claim you did to the point you gaslight yourself into believing it

[@str0ngman53]

Then claims inaccuracies of the tweet saying it’s not a social experiment. HE QUIT due to it being too hard. It’s the weakest shit I’ve ever heard and puts a bad mouth in other business owners who do give a shit.

[@Leto2ndAtreides]

@@str0ngman53 He didn't quit because the project was hard. He quit because his dad was dying and because the stress was exacerbating his autoimmune condition. He was already at a decent run rate. He just needed to keep growing. If he'd hit a million in 2-3 years from $0, that'd still have been a respectable achievement.

[@fatpandaman4563]

@@Leto2ndAtreides In real life people aren’t able to quit when an emergency like that happens. Him pretending as if it was possible for poor attain (not even counting all the other advantages he had, like getting shelter on the first day) just shows how disingenuous he is.

[@nickp.2390]

You know most "Poor" people just can't stop working to focus on their health. You were born into a life of privilege and proved you dont have what it takes to become rich on your own.

[@Leto2ndAtreides]

He was making > $10K / mo by the time he ended the project, after having started from zero and having used no skills he already had, nor any of his network, and despite the distraction from his dad having a terminal disease. And once you have some savings, you can always focus on your health for a while. Excess negativity just creates self-harm.

[@loydjohnson8759]

@@Leto2ndAtreides no he was making $15/hour lol, stop posting on your alt account, Mike

[@justinhowe5346]

Nice burner account

[@fearwater5]

@Leto2ndAtreides there are so many holes in his project. First of all, he already had knowhow although tell me, how can you sell something that's not yours? What if the owner sells to someone else while you are looking for a buyer? Where can you find an idiot who barely knows you to co-sign a lease? Not very realistic and proves no point.

[@Razzy_D9111]

HE FAILED PRECISELY BECAUSE WE DONT LIVE IN A BUBBLE WHERE YOU CAN BECOME MILLIONAIRE, how dense can you be that a homeless person can't quit for their "mental health" like the dumbass in this video.

[@Subject91121]

I’m conservative but blaming liberals is a clown move.

[@nfmosphotos4624]

He's trying to find anyone to take his side

[@brentoncarter4275]

Bootlicking conservatives are his base of support. Good for you for thinking for yourself. Now do the rest of the upper class and you'll see you have more in common with a socialist like me than you think. Bonus points: you can still hate liberals as a socialist.

[@luunicolini]

Liberals and conservatives are on the same side 😂

[@qstionblomens6138]

He’s pulling clown moves cause he’s the whole circus

[@lv67890]

I’m here as a regular 51 year old working mother. I’m not a blue hair. I have been nearly homeless. I’ve worked every hard for what little I have. Frankly? You don’t see the big picture. Even if you can make millions selling other peoples’ furniture or whatever, the world needs janitors. The world needs clerks and cooks. We should pay them living wages. Selling furniture on Craig’s list is not the answer. Ending wage theft is. That’s why I am unimpressed with your stunt.

[@mistersquare7327]

The rich live in the world of their own. And they don`t want any real changes - higher wages for us=less profit for them. They`d rather see America collapsing and dying.

[@GodofDisco]

You have a political belief, which we all disagree with. Simple.

[@nickjimbob2776]

@@GodofDisco Shut up child

[@stream2watch]

@@GodofDisco What is her political belief? The living wage part?

[@Leto2ndAtreides]

The point is more that if you try hard, you can often get beyond where you are. Often, we give up and accept whatever we have as being good enough. As for wage theft... If you look at the entire more than 100K years of humanity's history... People have been much worse off throughout history. Now, even a cook can have a fairly decent life and access to many things that old kings could not... And you don't have anywhere near high a chance of just starving to death, or seeing more than half of your siblings die as you grow up. The world is richer, and everyone has more than they did before. And in time, everyone will likely have yet more. But generally speaking, your contribution to society only entitles you to so much in return... And thus a waiter in China, doing the same work as a waiter in the US, will be able to afford a lot less.

[@michaelmemory6938]

The way he smiles describing his enjoyment of pissing people off, made him come off as even more sociopathic than the initial story may have done.

[@themikeblack]

It really makes you mad huh?

[@michaelmemory6938]

@@themikeblack after watching the video in full, I actually thought what you did was well intended. Lesson I would take away was “Life can be unexpected for the likes of anyone, even when thinking you have full control.” Appreciated it even. Then I see you responding to comments like a 15 year old, and lost it. Enjoy the week of relevancy while it lasts I guess.

[@Leto2ndAtreides]

@@michaelmemory6938 It's not a bad tool / defense mechanism though. Success requires being able to manage your negative emotions. If this helps keep his emotions stable so that he can keep going on and not take things personally... It's fine. This actually looks like a pretty decent solution for a mostly regular but enterprising guy. Why over-complicate?

[@etroxzy]

@@themikeblack man child mike… did your parents never teach you others are entitled to their own opinions? You don’t have to get so offended mr blue hair, people are just making jokes why are you so defensive and upset?

[@nsbd90now]

@@themikeblack Nope. Makes me disgusted and repulsed. Not mad at all. But still you'll never get it right 'Cause when you're laid in bed at night Watching roaches climb the wall If you called your dad he could stop it all You'll never live like common people You'll never do what ever common people do Never fail like common people You'll never watch your life slide out of view

[@aclown36]

*>gets a bailout from 2.4m trust fund*😂😂😂😂

[@TimAyro]

You were GIVEN an apartment. You tried to cosplay as a poor person and you failed even when so much was given to you for free.

[@Leto2ndAtreides]

He was not "given an apartment". He was given a couch. The correct lesson to take from that is that there are nice people out there who will help people who has nothing.

[@loydjohnson8759]

@@Leto2ndAtreides yeah nah a majority of people aren’t going to do that. It’s already hella sus that he “coincidentally” got shelter on his first day. Guy was already crying from a day on the streets and didn’t have to even sleep there

[@tristanward9937]

@@Leto2ndAtreidessleeping on a couch is not homeless. Either commit to the challenge or shut the hell up.

[@brentoncarter4275]

​@@Leto2ndAtreidesbeing given a couch is not homeless. Do your brains work at all?

[@nerd888]

yall ignorance is crazy, none of you even watched the video or series, if you did you'd realise all your comments are completely irrelevent

[@Mad_Oph]

Your entitlement is matched only by your obliviousness. Impressive that you've spent two years living through the consequences of your actions and you still haven't learned a damned thing.

[@evanbradford8732]

How is his dad getting cancer the consequence of his actions?

[@GodofDisco]

It's funny how disconnected from reality leftists (who we all hate) are, his dad getting cancer is not his fault.

[@fatpandaman4563]

@@evanbradford8732 its God punishing him for being a dick and refusing to admit he’s wrong

[@freezice]

@@evanbradford8732 Because he had the privilege to just quit being "homeless" because his dad got cancer and he got sick. Real poor people don't have that luxury.

[@ChicknTendr]

@@freeziceyeah but let’s be fuckin real for a second - ur dads dying and u aren’t gonna do anything? but continue with ur homeless experiment ? - I don’t think so dude - if that’s how you honestly think people should respond to situations like that then ur so out of touch with the world just like everyone who liked ur comment

[@ulyssesalvarenga2608]

The saddest part is how much you didn't learned. You could become a true beacon to the 99% and decides to keep the "selfmade man" charade of the 1%.

[@alexflynn4195]

Imagine if someone made a video called "Man runs a marathon to prove anyone can do it" then proceeds to run little over 1/20th of it, insults paraplegics and gets piggybacks from multiple strangers along the way. Then when people ask what the point was he tells them they don't understand because they're too woke

[@nfmosphotos4624]

😅 perfect analogy!

[@xavierheadbang]

Exactly, he learnt nothing from it, 😢😢

[@t3nse7en]

Did y'all even watch the video or check what he was saying?

[@alexflynn4195]

@@t3nse7en did you make an account just to say that?

[@t3nse7en]

@@alexflynn4195 Did you just make an account to drum up hate, damnit Mike, get a life!

[@fearwater5]

Didn't you quit before the 12 month, though? Can the poor quit being poor when they get sick?

[@alarickfort1007]

I guess we are too woke for it to make sense.

[@Ethan-yg8me]

If you started a 12 month challenge and your father (or someone else youre close with in your family) got cancer, would you not quit the challenge to spend more time with them? If you have the option then you absolutely should. I get not everybody has that luxury which is very unfortunate but he fortunately did and he chose to spend time with his dad. There are more important things in life sometimes than a challenge and I don’t get why there’s all the hate over someone failing a challenge even tho they still did better than most people would have

[@thesaintnoodle]

@@Ethan-yg8me for most, it isn't a challenge... fuck me, calling it a challenge is abhorrent lmao what the fuck is wrong with your brain.

[@IlIlIlIiLoveCuteBoysIlIlIlIlI]

@@thesaintnoodle you just reiterated what OP said and failed to use deductive reasoning to figure out why your argument is invalid. hide and go seek isnt bad because feds are trying to find kidnapped children. please delete your youtube account and stay contained on twitter because this is exactly the type of mistsake you re-darts make all the time. im not on this guys side, you are just intellectually the worst.

[@fearwater5]

@@Ethan-yg8me he made it sound like his autoimmune condition cause by stress was the main reason. He could still be with his father without the amenities he meant to give up. Do you think poor people don't lose loved ones?

[@geekvsdork1674]

For anyone wondering and who don't have plugins for it. 190 likes, 450 dislikes as of posting this.

[@wareq]

It's a pity dislikes don't show up so easily now

[@Muhluri]

It's 238 likes, 623 dislikes now

[@shannnz9148]

Dude, you failed and you had a taste of the harsh realities everyone else has to deal with. You couldn't even handle real life man. There's nothing inspirational about it.

[@Leto2ndAtreides]

Dude went from 0 to > $10K / mo in 10 months, without using any of his existing skills, or network, and with his dad having a terminal disease and him being distracted. Not finding that at least a little inspiring shows a complete lack of common sense.

[@shannnz9148]

@@Leto2ndAtreides I acknowledge he tried but he wasn't gonna make the goal even making 10k a month because he was gonna run out of time before he could achieve the goal anyway. See I thought the inspirational story was gonna be him proving through hardwork and dedication you can be a millionaire within a year, no matter your circumstances. If you set an objective and don't meet it, you failed. I'm not inspired by failure.

[@fatpandaman4563]

@@shannnz9148 he also only made minimum wage, which was too much for him to the point where he quit because of himself getting sick, not his dad

[@Leto2ndAtreides]

@@shannnz9148 The million was a pretty high goal. More so because he couldn't use his own skills. But, take away the dad's illness, and I think he'd have made $150K in the first year. Take away the "Having to document and do KZbin videos for everything", and he might have gotten much farther. Even the best experts estimate wrong. And he wasn't depending on expertise, just effort and adaptability. Normally though... It's fine if your estimate is only off by 2-3x. Mainly, "a million" was a symbolic goal. But even without the goal being reached, there was plenty of content that might help people who wanted to improve their lives and get ahead of where they were. If 1000 people make $1000 more because you inspired them, that's also a million dollars of positive outcome. It does look like a decent number of people were benefited by his project.

[@Michael-zp8fz]

@@Leto2ndAtreides So poor people's dads don't get cancer apparently

[@AndreaJ9x]

Newsflash: you didn’t just piss off woke people. 😂

[@Alphadom1c]

He should of said I pissed off broke people. One letter off from the cold hard truth. 🤣

[@joeykujo222]

Hey Mike, i’m curious, why didn’t you change your mindset to finish your challenge? I’m just confused because you said anything is possible but you didn’t complete even of a fraction what you set out to do. Thanks!

[@chasehuynh6330]

Now imagine actual homeless people who can't just escape their situation due to "health concerns"!

[@Leto2ndAtreides]

Once you've reached $10K/mo, you're not doing badly anyway. He exited at a point where he was already doing better than most people.

[@fatpandaman4563]

@@Leto2ndAtreides this dude was not making 10k a month, he was making barely above minimum wage and the stress from it literally gave him health problems he couldn’t deal with, resulting in him quitting

[@areallyboredguy5825]

@@Leto2ndAtreideshe also happened to have a place to stay for free from a friend and speaking engagements to earn money.

[@brentoncarter4275]

@@Leto2ndAtreides youve left some of the most retarded comments I've seen today. And I've been on Stephen Crowders comments.

[@Ethan-yg8me]

@@fatpandaman4563wasn’t the main reason of him quitting was to spend more time with his dad who got cancer? If that’s the case I absolutely would’ve done the same. (Also if he addressed otherwise in this video I haven’t watched it yet, just going off memory from his old videos)

[@reddrift3022]

Your video proved exactly the problem most people have in life and you somehow ended on the ABSOLUTE opposite conclusion. THATS why people hate you. If you failed, were humble and told a story on understanding the struggle and that not everyone can, people would praise you for the genuine authenticity.

[@Leto2ndAtreides]

It's not a real failure just because he couldn't hit a million. Given the constraints he did incredibly well. It appears that most people don't even have the sense to see a recognize a reason to feel hopeful for themselves. The real goal was to inspire people... And it does sound like he gave a decent number of people an example that helped them improve their lives.

[@nfmosphotos4624]

@@Leto2ndAtreides no matter how much you spam these comments, people arent believing your bs

[@reddrift3022]

@@Leto2ndAtreides not my point at all

[@alexflynn4195]

​@@reddrift3022I think it's Mike's alt account, he's writing paragraphs on every critical comment

[@nerd888]

yall love to play ignorance then, i bet 90% of you didn't even watch the video or you'd realise this isn't what the series is about

[@edwarda8451]

Look at me I'm a rich guy pretending I'm homeless. To prove I can fail upwards due to my status in life. Now I'm calling anyone who disagrees with me woke.

[@MasterP86]

Just found out about this thing, and the funniest part is all the talk about "making excuses" that coach like people like to say, then you quitted because of your dad's health, a noble thing to do, but still a "excuse", poor people cant quit being poor when they are too stressed or when someone in their family have a health problem. The biggest thing this "experiment" proved is that everything is a "excuse" to not work hard until it happens with you.

[@scottstiefel2061]

This one should be pinned at the top

[@thetechlibrarian]

So true.

[@squ1dTr1cksandclouds]

You didn't give homelessness people hope. You made a mockery of it. You had an entire team behind you. Go out on the streets alone.... completely alone and see how far you get

[@GodofDisco]

No one likes you.

[@ChicknTendr]

U act like he was some big time influencer - most people haven’t even heard about his experiment until recently. I HIGHLY doubt homeless people were watching and rooting for him lmao ffs dude

[@thedrzoidberg4559]

@@ChicknTendr you're right. The only claim to fame this guy has is being a complete failure in public and then not being able to own up to it. That's the only notable thing he's done. So he should be more humble and you should find better heroes.

[@Leto2ndAtreides]

@@thedrzoidberg4559 It's not a failure to reach $10K / mo from zero, without using your existing skills, or your network. Take away his dad's disease and his own autoimmune problems, and he might well have been at $100K / mo by the end of the first year.

[@alexflynn4195]

​@@Leto2ndAtreides10k from nothing in isolation is positive but he set a target and missed by a large margin, it's a failure defined by his own terms.

[@nfmosphotos4624]

When he starts talking about excuses, why is the color of skin the first excuse he always brings up? He seems real eager to shoot down that excuse when he definitely looks like a white guy to me.

[@Leto2ndAtreides]

Being black has never stopped an enterprising guy from making money. Plenty of black people start from zero and succeed. The point of the project though was to show the process of striving for more, and getting ahead little by little. As long as you keep trying to advance, you'll keep finding ways to advance.

[@nfmosphotos4624]

@@Leto2ndAtreides sure thing Mike, or i mean "Leto". The point is this dude has no right to label people's experiences as mere excuses when he has never lived through those experiences and never will. He's ignorant and seemingly proud of it.

[@thesaintnoodle]

@@Leto2ndAtreides easy for you, a white man, to say...

[@Muhluri]

​@@Leto2ndAtreidesyeah but when companies reject your job application because you have a black sounding name, what are you gonna do? There's a reason why some black people give their children white names

[@user-wh3mn1iy6n]

Are you gonna work for a racist boss😂? You leftists think the world is still racist but in reality, its basically non existent although there are few. Leftist are forever going to be the victims of their own mind.

[@loydjohnson8759]

Bro your video is already getting ratio’d and barely anyone even knows it exist because it has 4k views. If you think only a minority of people hate you, you better prep for reality.

[@Leto2ndAtreides]

People are probably finding it because of the Tweet. They'd likely made up their minds before they ever came here. Most of the commenters haven't actually watched the video.

[@loydjohnson8759]

@@Leto2ndAtreides I didn’t, all I saw was a loser who failed his own challenge and couldn’t own up to it. In real life getting sick doesn’t mean you can quit being poor.

[@Leto2ndAtreides]

@@loydjohnson8759 He made $60K that year, doing things he had never done before in his life, with no help from anyone, and $0 to start with... Despite his dad developing a fatal illness, and despite the fact that a decent portion of his time was invested in making the KZbin videos of how his challenge was going. It may no be a million, but it's still insane compared to people who go to college and what not and end up getting jobs that don't pay them them $60K in the first year. And the goal was never really to "make a million". It was to create an example that people might benefit from to improve their lives. And even in this comment section, you have at least a decent number of people sharing that it did benefit their lives.

[@intcheese]

​@@Leto2ndAtreides If he'd done all that without using the plight of homelessness and poverty as a prop, I would consider him a positive influence on the world.

[@scottstiefel2061]

The Martin Shkreli of social experiments

[@Ecotopias]

Poverty is systemic. The wealth of the richest is extracted from the majority. Without profiting from the work of the workers (that create the real added value), it's virtually impossible to become a millionaire from your own work. But even if it was possible to become a millionaire out of zero, that wouldn't be at the reach of many who endure hardship while growing kids, taking care of their parents, suffer any disability or disease, etc, etc. The best way to eliminate poverty is to observe the countries who have succeeded on it, socialdemocratic countries in Scandinavia: public policies to support people in need.

[@coreyah]

Glad you got a taste of reality from your extremely privelage life. Too bad you didn't learn too much from it though.

[@themikeblack]

It seems that I angered you huh?

[@DaniotheManio5]

It's pretty aggravating seeing someone LARP the struggles they experience every day. I'm sure there's a decent amount of anger wishing they could just "opt out" of their struggles due to their health. The audacity to pretend like you experience anything akin to their struggles is also probably setting them off.​@@themikeblack

[@josuecosta1399]

​​@@themikeblack it does not seems like it... He made a post... You made a video response.

[@ervinsavage392]

"Privilege life". Bro, his parents worked hard to gain those money. It's not privilege, it's simply your parents and you being lazy, while his family isn't lazy, as it seems. What a hilarious jealousy about people having money.

[@coreyah]

@@ervinsavage392 that's one way to say you're a sheep.

[@kenjihobbs2942]

Poverty vacation - not so fun when you’re actually dealing with the reality of being poor in America is it?

[@nauti31210]

Important to point out that he was given an apartment to live in, and got his friends to pay him for speaking engagements. What a fraud lol.

[@Leto2ndAtreides]

Couch surfers do not get given "an apartment".

[@tristanward9937]

@@Leto2ndAtreidesthat’s not homeless….

[@stream2watch]

Coffeezilla rips you a new one today. Now THAT is a content creator worth his salt. You are not.

[@ready2roll]

***Cognitive Dissonance Intensifies***

[@mikeshashimi1405]

Lol. You failed. And now you're deflecting.

[@Leto2ndAtreides]

A decent number of people were inspired and improved their lives. The core mission was accomplished.

[@renatobrasa162]

Yes, now everyone who followed his advices are now in the hospital, and they will start from 0 after they get the medical bills.​@@Leto2ndAtreides

[@user-wh3mn1iy6n]

He failed the challenge, but had a positive impact on a few people. Why are you mad?

[@SenorBeastt]

You mention the word homeless in the first intro video to your project 2-3 years ago. You introduced the word homeless. You mention it’s not about making a million dollars. It’s about starting over. You also mention people are struggling with depression, bankrupt businesses Anxiety. And you say it’s about stepping into the shoes of someone at their lowest point. I have no personal issue with mike black of the idea of making a challenge. But that’s what this is a challenge. Want to know when you were at your lowest point? It wasn’t at the beginning of the challenge. It was at the end. It was when life got diffcult. It was when you started getting sick. When others around you were also suffering. When money was tight and depression set in and your mind was tired stressed and concerned for other things other than continuing the challenge. THAT was your lowest point. And at your lowest point you had to stop production and participation in a project that you chose for yourself with a clean bill a health. A meal in your stomach and a safety net if anything went wrong. Again. I Beleive there is value in your challenge. But I can see why people react strongly when the implication and underlying basis for the project doesn’t match your actual life conditions. I have no issue with going viral or drawing attention. I’m also not surprised by it.

[@SenorBeastt]

It’s interesting to note that at your personal lowest point in the middle a challenge that you created your priorities changed. At your lowest point you didn’t care about making more money. Or growing the businesses or completing the challenge. Again to be clear. Your project has value. Your challenge in my eyes is not a failure. But I’m not surprised by the mixed response to the underlying claims surrounding the project.

[@SenorBeastt]

Watching more of your series there’s a lot of valuable tools and you did some cool things especially early on to get a foundation.

[@thisisyoutubehandle]

Valuable comment.

[@SenorBeastt]

@@thisisyoutubehandle i read this as sarcastic. And then as genuine. Curious if you mean that?

[@thisisyoutubehandle]

@@SenorBeastt I thought it was valuable comment to this discussion. I watched this whole film and saw some of Mike's points being genuine. But your notions about the lowest point really hit me. It's easy to start a project and be excited. I was excited about going to army, not so much after the first six months. So after all Mike did not talk to those people he wanted to help, because those people had to keep going when the real low point finally hit.

[@plastikcaik2585]

“I wanted to show people that it’s okay to fail and that’s part of life.” you failed to survive 12 months even before having to quit is the takeaway that homeless people fail and die, and that’s life?

[@Leto2ndAtreides]

The lesson seems to be that caring for your family is more important than spending time trying to help people you don't know and who will never give you anything. He made a decent effort to try and give inspiration to people he had no personal connection to. Even his failure is a pretty respectable achievement overall. How many people can develop skills on their own in new markets with no guidance, and crawl their way to $60K in earnings, despite an illness in the family and significant personal illness also?

[@kinesissado9636]

@@Leto2ndAtreides the only reason he crawled his way to 60k was because “some guy” let him crash in his RV

[@thesaintnoodle]

@@Leto2ndAtreides what the fuck does this obliviously deranged bat-shit utterance even mean?

[@thejohnsmithshow]

Dude you failed at your own "experiment" that you cheated at

[@coolsparks3816]

So is the lesson just get health issues so you can go back to being a millionare?

[@anonimo5912]

At least everyone is roasting you in the comment section...

[@scottstiefel2061]

It's a comedy goldmine in here

[@fkm512]

You’re completely out of touch my guy, sad to see

[@Leto2ndAtreides]

Dude didn't use any existing skills, didn't use his network, and despite distraction from his dad having a fatal disease, he was still at $10K / mo, 10 months in when he killed the project. What exactly are you objecting to?

[@loydjohnson8759]

@@Leto2ndAtreides except, he did.

[@Leto2ndAtreides]

@@loydjohnson8759 He started by doing arbitrage between Craigslist and Facebook... Not exactly a skill. Then he figured out how to do very basic social media management - also not something he'd been doing before. Those are things that anyone else can also potentially learn to do with some effort... Which is the point.

[@alarickfort1007]

​@@Leto2ndAtreides Yea no he did and he also did quit so you're wrong.

[@overtonesnteatime198]

He actually came to the comments to try and brainwash us into thinking that most people are actually on his side lmao. Now he's fucking gaslighting us bahahahah

[@shadiahmad6487]

Regular haired conservative here. This is word salad.

[@litojonny]

this guy is soft af

[@nickjimbob2776]

They ran out of trees making toilet paper for him

[@pointymoustache]

also guess what, homeless people can't afford education. when you are a bit more aware of these, come back to reality

[@Leto2ndAtreides]

The point was that he started without his existing skills. Thus things like flipping stuff between Craigslist and Facebook. What you're talking about is not having a brain at all.

[@Ultimacomanda]

Genuine question and I really hope you answer. For all the people that don't have the fallback resources you did, what do you say to those people? You keep accusing people who disagree with you as "Blue Haired Haters". Well, I disagree with your concept but I wanna be civil so please explain.

[@giorgiogirardi4661]

Guess the grind would have to go on. He used the fallback because he had one and the health problems were unforeseen extreme situations. People with no fallback could share their journeys. That would be very interesting.

[@renzoloyola1146]

His answer is "Mindset. You're still mentally weak and that's what's holding you back"

[@str0ngman53]

He doesn’t have anything to say. He’s doing this to get viral, views, and more income. He didn’t even complete his own experiment cause it was too hard. Typical snake oil salesman

[@krillin6]

He doesn't have an answer, it is something called 'minimization' and basically all narcissists do this.

[@Leto2ndAtreides]

He'd hit $10K / mo, and his business was growing - without using any of his fallback resources. For people with no resources, his achievements to that point already show enough of what they need. It's not like he failed and gave up at making $500 / mo. $10K / mo, is enough for a decent life for most people.

[@vesperyo]

I wish i could give up and return to a millionare life when im worn out.

[@thedoreoman]

Mike Black sir after watching your video and the millionaire challenge series, you have inspired me to become a clown. You sir are truly talented.

[@nussbert5878]

I watched the whole project. There are problems with it. Nothing of it has to do with bad framing by the post on X. You had 2 people working for your last coffee project. One was your girlfriend, the other was your camera man, who suddenly started working for your coffee project. So sadly you didn't proof much after flipping the bikes

[@xSh4dowNinja]

Any challenge of this nature likely isn’t going to be perfect. But that’s still not the point. The point is to eliminate as many excuses as possible to improve your life.

[@RuyGedares_GuyRedares]

​@@xSh4dowNinja For this to be correct, I am going to assume the 300k invested into this (originally supposed to be 120k) only went for filming this challenge and nothing else. That way, no one needs six figures in liquid assets in order to perform this challenge.

[@RuyGedares_GuyRedares]

Ok now rewatching at 21 mins and later, it definitely appears that the 300k was just for filming costs. In that case, this challenge has a bigger case for being legit.​@@xSh4dowNinja

[@realgrilledsushi]

⁠@@RuyGedares_GuyRedaresThe reality is you have to start somewhere. Classic rags to riches. This is why most people are just meant to work with other people.

[@squartbotai1383]

Yeah his dad had to bail him out

[@brunogoncalvesbasto]

It costs 300k to go homeless? I can't afford it

[@duhbead]

And youre loving it lol.. but people arent on your side.

[@themikeblack]

*the blue haired people aren't on my side.

[@DroogOz]

I think your stuff is great Mike. This haters are total losers. Left wing victim hood mentality

[@LoV1415]

@@themikeblackyou cant call everyone who criticizes you the “blue haired people” as if they are the only ones who see your failure

[@jevil987]

@@themikeblackno one likes you

[@williamle4474]

@@themikeblackcalling every critic “blue haired” is such a coping mechanism 😂

[@pointymoustache]

Hey mike, guess what, thank you for proving yourself wrong

[@pickleman5041]

Wierd, did he reset his education as well?

[@wareq]

You are to social experiments what Stockton Rush was to submersible engineering

[@shadiahmad6487]

Regular haired non-liberal here. What this guy doesn't realize is that a lot of us know what we are capable of, and we all have to deal with life issues. Life doesn't stop for your projects, and it doesn't care if you have to actually rely on it just to live.

[@pognarchy]

This is just cope and I haven’t even watched the video yet

[@FactsNoCare]

At 7:50 in that video when you watch the start of it you explain that you're giving up everything even your home with the challenge of making a million dollars. I get you explain later in the video its not about hitting that million but you opened with the challenge and then labelled every video "Million Dollar Comeback". Its fair for people to see it as just a challenge of making a million when you reinforce it like that

[@Leto2ndAtreides]

Seems he had at least some sense for how to try to be catchy... Project might've gone viral if he'd had more people to learn from on KZbin. Anyway, good to at least try and have a big goal. Even if it doesn't work out.

[@thesaintnoodle]

@@Leto2ndAtreides no one wants to see some rich guy cosplay being poor. we see it too much already from many privileged fucks pretending to be poor because they're bored of their privileged upbringing and all their fancy toys...

[@Boatfornicator]

Hahahaha what a loser. At the end of the day he just points at a group to blame and bawl with the victim card

[@matthewmewhorter4726]

Dude, you have such low insight and that’s why people are making fun of you. I highly recommend anyone to look up the monopoly experiment that was discussed in TEDTalk. You are absolutely the guy that was given two dice to roll and double the money at the start. The professor who conducted the monopoly experiment did further studies to find that those born into wealth or wealthy situations have decreased insight. You absolutely embody what he is talking about.

[@JustinFischer42]

You made a bold claim, you failed, and then tried to call it a success. This is just trolling for grift at this point.

[@mizzy2309]

This guy can’t talk for 5 seconds without cutting the video, jesus

[@cuentadoble-sports]

Thank you for proving everybody right!

[@alarickfort1007]

5k views with under 200 likes lol your ego did you wrong 😂

[@MatheusCampos-ex8et]

At least you said it, we can't get rid of all the excuses because some of them... come from real issues and are not going away. First and foremost, you shouldn't have labelled your series as a road to one million, but most importantly: your framework can only be a reference to a handful of people, not the ones who need it the most. That should've been made more clear, you're either being dishonest or simply oblivious. Well you reap what you sow I guess, good luck trying to get rid of the stain lmao

[@realgrilledsushi]

All I see is excuses from people who hate on him. Like this one.

[@sickbailey21]

@@realgrilledsushi lmao, the guy finished the timeframe only achieving 3% of his goal (30k profit). While he was sleeping at his girlfriends pad for some of it? The creator is a complete joke

[@owainraysor5108]

@@sickbailey21not to mention that he straight up failed bc of illness. If he were an actual homeless guy he’d just straight up die, yet he tried to spin it as some “anyone can achieve their goals” message

[@Leto2ndAtreides]

It's only one message. It doesn't need to help everyone. A few people benefiting and finding hope is still progress. There are no complete solutions in the world.

[@danielsouza-zq6pv]

Meritocracia não Funciona. 👎

[@angrynorway]

It was harder than you thought it would be so you quit. Not much more to it than that, is there?

[@Muhluri]

You just _had_ to make it political😑🙄 The harsh truth is that both liberals and conservatives struggle with money. Unlike you, they don't have the choice to run away when a crisis arrives

[@JoseCruzOficial]

Do you still believe in meritocracy? If so, why don't you do the experiment again, this time documenting your entire day to day life and proving that at no point did you use your contacts to gain an advantage, that is, starting from the same point as 99.99% of people who have than starting from absolute zero, setting a longer deadline, if 12 months is not enough to become a millionaire and publishing obviously non-monetized videos.

[@i-rogi]

What a joke 🤣

[@FactsNoCare]

Second comment: I like your series and I think there's plenty of value in watching it. But my problem with it is that you have a way to fall-back when you fail or in this case have health problems. We're all only human and for the majority of us we struggle with balancing work, family, free-time and health problems ourselves.

[@MrLogicallyrandom]

Right? That's part of trying to get anywhere in life and he gets to dismiss it.

[@realgrilledsushi]

Either you find solutions that held you back or post comments like this

[@gregor3851]

​@@realgrilledsushidid you have a stroke?

[@Leto2ndAtreides]

Even if he'd randomly died during the project, the project would still have been valuable. It's more about what you learn and contribute, that others can then learn from and build upon. I think he did pretty well given his constraints... More so because he didn't use his existing skills even. Learning new skills and monetizing them is tough. That idea of his deserves more attempts by more people to generate more knowledge. Ultimately, most knowledge is developed through the learning and cross-pollination of ideas among many people over time.

[@IlIlIlIiLoveCuteBoysIlIlIlIlI]

As a Right-Winger, this man does not speak for us.

[@renatobrasa162]

Some coments have more likes then the video... Maybe this means somethig?

[@krillin6]

You make more excuses than anyone else I've ever seen...

[@ICallBullTV]

I was ready to hate but I watched the whole video and I'm inspired by your cheap laptop to 2k retainer story

[@Leto2ndAtreides]

I've seen a couple of people use ManyChat to build chatbots for businesses and get multiple clients at around that $2K / mo price point. You could try exploring that... It's easier than learning to build websites, or manage content more generally.

[@user-jy7wl6lp9b]

Why didn't you try to help homeless people? why just try to prove that you can make it from homeless to being a millionaire when they can't? Were you just trying to prove that you're better than other people because the experiment literally shows that you're not. You're just a rich man who didn't even sleep on the streets pretending to be homeless.

[@sanjanaaktersweety6464]

Mike black, DONT FEEL BAD, keep doing the videos you do!

[@aeson6294]

I haven't followed the details of this, but let me guess; a trust fund baby who hasnt had to do anything their whole life, decided life is easy and wanted to show everyone. He then fails miserably and goes back to being a rich asshole? I'm warm, aren't I?

[@Leto2ndAtreides]

That's some dangerous stuff that you seem to want to believe about the world. He did decently well, starting with none of his own skills, no money, and no network. He was making a couple of thousand dollars a month a few months in (with completely new skills that he learned himself), when his dad got cancer. And although he gave up to focus on his dad and for health reasons around month 10, he was at over $10K / mo at that point. If we ignore the health stuff and assume that trajectory, he'd have hit a million in a few years. Which isn't bad for someone who's not using his education or anything else as a crutch to get ahead.

[@nfmosphotos4624]

@aeson6294 your analysis was spot on, ignore the burner account

[@nsbd90now]

It's like the song "Common People" but in real life.

[@LikaLaruku]

Well, you can always try again. This time you can't have a phone or use any job skilks you aquired in college, university, tech school, or trade school, because almost no homeless person has those things. Also, instead of a bank account of zero, you'll need to be in debt. It would also help if you were mentally ill or addicted to drugs, like most homeless people are. If you can't do that last one, pretend to have a crippling gambling addiction.

[@zebra1327]

You sound so out of touch with reality, you're fitting to be on Twitter yourself

[@thetechlibrarian]

Remember when you said being outside from noon to 11:00 at night was the hardest day of his life

[@ala-th3ln]

It's a really cool project, but i honestly don't understand what you have proven. The project itself failed, right? The million dollar threshold was not achieved, not even remotely close, so i don't really understand why you call people who state this "braindead". You state that it's ok to fail, yet you seem to struggle with accepting that you failed. Also, sorry about your dad and i hope your health gets better.

[@Alphadom1c]

As someone who watched the project years ago, and I love that you are back to do this video. I was defending you like crazy on that twitter post. People are just miserable.

[@Alphadom1c]

As someone who has been homeless and built his way out of it. You motivated me and I appreciated the project. The problem is in a world filled with angry 9-5ers that are super loud. It doesn't mean that people didn't love the project that are more entrepreneur like. Miserable people will always be miserable people. F em.

[@ChrimeCast-wn6de]

What happened is u couldn’t do it period

[@DyslexicMitochondria]

Delusional dude

[@kevintownsend3720]

still haven't learned anything eh?

[@kevintownsend3720]

To be fair, I think the "project" was an interesting idea, ignorant, but interesting if coming from genuine feelings, it's the fact that you learned absolutely nothing that has me roflmao

[@nfmosphotos4624]

@@kevintownsend3720actually if you hear his comments about the people that “make excuses “ it sounds like the “challenge “ was supposed to be some sort of middle finger to them and not some sort of inspiration

[@user-wh3mn1iy6n]

Their is fine line between justified and valid excuses and bs excuses ok? Imagine you slap a guy because he stole your money and you go to court, you explain why you slapped that thief and the judge just says "EXCUSES"

[@nfmosphotos4624]

@@user-wh3mn1iy6n totally irrelevant analogy, but ok! You (mike) dont get to decide if your excuses are more valid than others just because you say so.

[@dondenar8377]

hehe, oh wow, such a bs excuses this guy is giving. Seriously. And I'm not a blue hair person :D

[@sauceboxpodcast6681]

I love that this only has 12k views 😂

[@memky777]

Dont swear Miike

[@jerryvargas3591]

L

[@sanjanaaktersweety6464]

Mike Black IGNORE THE HATE COMMENTS, your video of the journey of starting over had inspired me! Also DISCOVERY channel had did a similar concept like this before, ITS CALLED UNDERCOVER BILLIONAIRE THE billionaires had to create a million dollar business in 90 days, starting with only a phone & $100

[@thisisyoutubehandle]

I don't get it. Why was your budget for this being homeless-project 120 thousand dollars? edit: ok so you do say you're going homeless in the first video.

[@memky777]

When??????

[@DoofSenpai]

If you do it again I want to see you complete the one year project.

[@nickjimbob2776]

and not cheat

[@-ReHaven]

@@nickjimbob2776it’s quite literally impossible for him not to cheat unless he genuinely loses everything

[@Leto2ndAtreides]

​@@nickjimbob2776 Except that even if he succeeded, he'd have spent that year without any personal gain and only be worse off overall. Altruism is nice and all, but... He seems to have already inspired a decent number of people in the past. And maybe that's enough of a contribution.

[@JenDeyan]

I'm interested in where you are going to go with this. I get what you're doing. It's great that you want to help people and I can see that people are putting words into your mouth. You're not trying to put down people who are struggling in life by saying they are lazy and not doing enough. You're just trying to give people hope and some kind of framework to help them in a bad situation. My criticism is that the people who can actually take your advice and make something out of it is very narrow. If you're okay with that, if that's what you're aiming for great. You've done what you wanted and put some good out into the world. But if you really want to help more people, if you really believe what you achieved is possible for anyone regardless of race, gender or background, you need to go deeper. You need to stop ignoring the naysayers and step up to challenges they are giving you. Are you just going to descend into the rhetoric of every get-rich scammer who's ads I'm seeing on this video or are you going to do something that will make a difference for a larger portion of the people in this country?

[@Leto2ndAtreides]

What you're talking about would be a far more serious project - and the kind that would benefit from some serious funding. One man's story will usually only connect with so many people. But a general purpose solution... Is rather like asking for an overhaul of the educational system. Which would be a good ambition. But it's also a very tough ambition. And I'm not sure he sees himself as enough of a messianic figure to commit his whole life to that kind of ideal... Which is kinda what you'd have to do. - Normally, learning spreads from one person to another. If a few people learned from him and were inspired and then they tried their own things and shared their learnings... That's more how great change usually evolves.

[@alexflynn4195]

​@@Leto2ndAtreidesso something that's actually worthy of being content is too much effort?

[@jusapoet72]

So now the project is just about "starting over" not about actually being homeless? First of all, you weren't really experiencing homelessness and you STILL couldn't do it. And YES you DID mention that homelessness was the starting point. And you never corrected any media restating that! You're talking about an entire portion of our society that experience dehumanizing states daily (and NONE of them have another rich person to CO-SIGN on a HUGE fancy house, nice enough for business people to rent)! And YOU literally SAID in YOUR OWN video that you were going to sleep on a bench! wtf? Just go back to being a millionaire and leave our communities alone! We are busy trying to simply survive and you apparently have other millionaires to coach.

[@user-hs7ry4nx7l]

Uh huh. Not so easy, is it?

[@TechM3X]

No one is pissed. They're clearly laughing at you. 😂

[@Bex81]

He's the pissed one 😂.

[@thesquidthatdid1591]

Ad Hominem

[@SenorBeastt]

So out of curiosity this was to clear the air about the discrepancies between the intention of your challenge and the perception based on the video and tweet that were created? If that’s so. It’s seemingly understandable that the tweet and video title would cause mixed reactions. Including annoyance , negative reactions and anger.

[@Leto2ndAtreides]

He is saying that making a million was never the real goal. And that his initial project also didn't have massive reach. Whereas the few times he has gotten a lot of attention has been because people talked about him in a way that was optimized for virality. His main goal was just to show that you can start from nothing, be enterprising, and turn your life around... Which he did a fair job at despite some problems that occurred along the way. It also seems that he did manage to positively impact a decent number of people. So, his core mission was achieved.

[@user-zc7yg5bm3c]

Hey Mike, I read about your story in telegram and I found your video on KZbin and now I am watching it. I am really proud of you what you did with your project Please accept my condolences on the death of your father.!!