Who Is The Glitter Industry's Largest Buyer? - Reddit Mysteries

[@harrisonfamily4903]

My daughter spilled a whole box of glitter in my house 2 years ago...I still see that shit sometimes

[@themate28s]

Similar story: My younger brother brought a huge bag of plastic BBs into my room and spilled the whole bag by accident; It's been 3 years, I throw them away every time I see them, and I still find them.

[@DMXtreame1]

@@themate28s vaccume my dude

[@Pulang_Diwa]

The way you wrote your comment reads like a veteran getting Vietnam flashbacks. Haha.

[@zubrhero5270]

I've moved houses three times, renovated, redecorated... and I STILL find these tiny little silver confetti glitter heart things in my house from a "gift box" a girlfriend made me 20 years ago. I wish I was joking, but I swear she set the thing to go off like a bouncing Bettie or something when I unwrapped it in my bedroom, the things got into my books, DVD cases, comic sleeves and longboxes, guitar cases, everywhere.

[@pioneer5400]

@@zubrhero5270 you still with that person?

[@thelurkingpanda3605]

>This guy was too lazy to even look up what he was talking about and got three reddit awards average day on reddit

[@klittlet]

It's really sad and pathetic

[@wackantheduck6883]

@@klittlet Not much unlike reddit in general

[@antiven0mYT]

@@droopy_eyes A boat is a nice asset, reddit good boy points aren't worth much.

[@MrJin520]

@@antiven0mYT most boat owners will tell you that their boats are actually liabilities rather than assets. Here's a very commonly known quote that succinctly explains it: "The two happiest days in a boat owner life are, the day that they buy their boat and the day that they sell their boat". As a boat owner, I definitely agree.

[@plugshirt1684]

Alexander Carey well not much but they give you money

[@rivertrash9862]

2:27 No, she made perfect sense. She means you can see it, but you probably won't realize it's glitter. In metallic automotive paint there are tiny flakes that reflect light at certain angles giving it the "metallic" look. It's usually expensive paint, so if people found out it was just really fine glitter in the paint it would lose value.

[@kmsthanks]

I mean, what else could it be?

[@TDGCmote]

painter here, can confirm edit- apparently I can't type.

[@growlo6245]

@@TDGCmote I'm suprised honeslty people didnt know that well

[@TheMusicalKnokcers]

i thought i was obvious that paint has glitter

[@bupirochi]

@@kmsthanks I remember saying something like "lol, this boat looks glittery, kinda cool" and my neighbor (the owner) said "IS NOT GLITTER" I don't know why, but boats owners don't like recognise the glitter in the paint.

[@evertonc1448]

"what? That makes no sense. Why would they hide that it's boat paint?" Said 350 IQ Redditor, with his digestive system full of microplastics.

[@Ryan-fk3oi]

This is far more logical than every Reddit theory

[@Ryan-fk3oi]

My original hypothesis was that it's used in tasers and ammunition for law enforcement to leave evidence of usage and discharge that couldn't easily be covered up

[@fematrailer]

Lol, it's an actual scandal. They found a real life conspiracy with a cover-up and everything, and they basically said that it's dumb because it's not radioactive gay bombs or Panama City Beach. Are they saying that it's too lame to be true or are they just disappointed?

[@felicity6385]

It's sad that they think that it being used for boats makes less sense than the government covering something up. I think they need to learn that not everything is a government cover up.

[@OtakuUnitedStudio]

@@Ryan-fk3oi Unfortunately there such a reason is likely that it won't without tremendous outside pressure to do so. But it's a great idea, because you'll never be able to get it all up.

[@toonbat]

It's used as feedstock for the government's secret reserve of magical unicorns.

[@maiaallman4635]

That's the most logical explanation I have heard so far.

[@Twotimeslvk]

Makes sense

[@donnanmoncada4768]

yeah that checks out

[@catlovingtrio]

Spock agrees.

[@jweezy9994]

This makes sense 👁👄👁 👍

[@snyd80]

The boat thing really made me think. I started messing around with making soft plastic lures for fishing this year and every single one has glitter in it . The fish eat it all the time , and you lose 4 or 5 in the water every time you go out. And I’ve never thought of how much glitter that actually puts in the water.

[@panqueque445]

I can't stop imagining boat people in denial that their fancy boats are just regular boats with glitter. lmao

[@OrangeC7]

People can get so pretentious lol

[@Yomom12388]

Well that’s kinda why I assumed the Glitterex lady wouldn’t say who the buyer was. The boat and/or automotive manufacturers that use glitter in their paints don’t want people to know that it’s glitter. Not because of micro-plastics being ecologically damaging, companies could obviously give a fuck less about that. No, it’s just because glitter is seen as “gay” and all these MANLY boat and car buyers wouldn’t get these fancy looking vehicles if they knew they were covered in glitter.

[@kristoffervatshelle1418]

Yomom12388 they don’t even look good on cars.

[@juliakercsmar6587]

And the irony of your hobby boat slowly killing the fish you're trying to fish and if eaten getting the glitter back to us. 🤣

[@SpaceMissile]

it's so poetic because stereotypical boat/fishing people (in my experience) are very anti-glitter. anything remotely "fabulous" and they're like "nope."

[@ohhadivist]

As soon as I heard the story my thought was: okay so it's definitely the automotive industry that doesn't want you to know it's glitter. because my dad and I go to car shows, and every time I say "oh look at the glitter on this one!" my dad is quick to say "it's not glitter, it's metal flake"

[@Pavlinka__]

lol same

[@champagne.future5248]

OhHadivist I agree, it’s probably about protecting the machismo of boat and car owners, not about environmental concerns

[@adamofblastworks1517]

Having worked in a car factory... I still don't know, but yeah that seems right for certain paints. But not others. I didn't work near the actual paint booths, thank goodness. I did work in that general section of the plant though from time to time. I think the jig deck was my third worst work memory. That's just a tangent though.

[@thejudgmentalcat]

When I was young (70's), they called it metal flake, but it was just glitter.

[@agoodballet]

I’ve actually used “glitter” from hobby lobby in some paint work before lmao.

[@sierrajohnson717]

When I was a kid I loved staring at cars up close, bc car paint is so sparkly. I asked my mom something about “the glitter in the car paint” and my mom said “that’s not glitter” so that combined with the auto paint direction, I’m gonna conclude it’s in car paint. Everyone has a car, so I would understand why it’s so much ordered

[@amazingabby25]

Agreed it’s car paint

[@HarmonicFox]

The "G" in 5G stands for glitter.

[@ItsRubyGD]

me after driving past a 5g tower and having nightmares of the glitter people after glitter gets in my brain

[@astaut2659]

Ebil

[@maxmustermann1203]

😳

[@Ricardo-fv2qi]

No, it's patrick!

[@revenevan11]

But they've bought a lot more than 5 glitter though 🤔

[@RaynmanPlays]

When discussing glitter, I like to remember the immortal words of the wise sage, Dmitri Martin: "Glitter is the herpes of craft supplies."

[@warbossgegguz679]

"Because once you've got it, that shit is never going away."

[@entertaininghobbyexperimen4843]

Dimitri Martin is great. I own a book

[@shaneb3149]

🤯🤣👍🏻

[@wilsonscudder6920]

Dmitri Martin is severely underrated

[@knockeledup]

Dude. I went to a concert and the person behind me had glued glitter to her shirt. I was finding that shit in my purse for YEARS!

[@someguy1508]

I used to deliver glitter by the ton to a small company that made paint for lines on the road. I really think that’s where it’s all going, and it’s obvious to see why they want to keep that secret.

[@ELTABULLO]

Why's that?

[@donlotto6976]

That might be it 👆🏿

[@someguy1508]

@@ELTABULLO oh that stuff gets kicked off the road and into the surrounding environment. I can’t imagine any creature should consume that stuff.

[@marshalepage5330]

I remember how road paint use to sparkle in the 90s but doesn't any more.

[@drchocolatetv]

someone once poured glitter into my afro, it took almost 4 months to get it comepletely out, I had sparkling eyelids for months. Although I looked faboulous it got tiring being asked if I was gay

[@WanderTheNomad]

Part of me feels really sorry for you but another part of me wants to find out where you live so I can pour glitter in your hair.

[@ItsRubyGD]

@@WanderTheNomad im staying away from you thats for sure

[@demetrijohnsonssirenvideos3590]

Jesus that sounds like a mundane form of torture!

[@Rudenbehr]

I’m so sorry that happened to you

[@aitor.online]

@@demetrijohnsonssirenvideos3590 its so mild yet sooo annoying since it lasts forever.

[@markwuahlbuargg4780]

"Big Glitter" is one of those thing I would have never thought I'd hear.

[@kevinm5940]

I once heard someone on Reddit unironically claim that there was a conspiracy by 'big bidet', because they had heard multiple people say they liked them, and genuinely could not understand how that was possible.

[@BlastinRope]

Imagine you just arrived at prison and the other inmates tell you that "big glitter" cant wait to meet you

[@juch3]

@@kevinm5940 oh yeah the global conspiracy by toto to sell electronic bidet so they can spy on your toilet activities.

[@geotechms]

Yeah they and “big play-doh” are low key running Canada

[@LuizAlexPhoenix]

@@kevinm5940 Fuck, I just coveredy screen in water as I choke laughed at this. #WashYourArseGang

[@bighaverlegend33]

The suspense of “what has glitter in it” is amazing

[@angelamazakas2624]

"Glitterex" also sounds like a name for a strip club

[@williamwilliam4944]

Glitterxxx

[@denistreacy5460]

Clitterex is more appropriate

[@nate_storm]

the glitter factory?

[@muajin]

haha there is a Glitterx gentlemen's club in Vegas actually. :P

[@angelamazakas2624]

@Adarsh kumar people like my comments, what can I say? Lol. I was thinking of actually uploading soon tho

[@Kore_YT]

"Who Is The Glitter Industry's Largest Buyer?" My girlfriend is apparently. She is CONSTANTLY trying to glitter bomb me. It's "with love" so I have to accept it.

[@skeetsmcgrew3282]

That is borderline toxic behavior but it's hilarious so I'm gonna side with her on this one

[@specialegg9723]

Yeah imaginary girlfriends are the worst

[@kuromi8384]

@@skeetsmcgrew3282 Toxic? It what world?

[@Kore_YT]

@@skeetsmcgrew3282 No where near toxic, it's just a back and forth we have. Nothing serious :) Sorry if I gave the wrong idea!

[@boyisland2859]

@@Kore_YT Whats her ig? I need me a side piece

[@Lassoloc]

"You need enthusiastic consent to put glitter on somebody." - the assistant camp director at a day camp i volunteer at

[@userequaltoNull]

This is the one time I agree with Enthusiastic consent.

[@adamthedog1]

@@userequaltoNull you... you dont normally agree with enthusiastic consent??????

[@Shrekfromthehitmovieshrek]

@@adamthedog1 mum pick me up I’m scared

[@EmiStar070]

Please, you need enthusiastic consent and a signed contract that they will never come after you when they're still finding glitter in 2 years

[@rynfornow3411]

“it’s not glitter on the boat, it’s MANLY FLAKES!”

[@philm5380]

That's the real reason they don't want to talk about it.

[@franklinkz2451]

Que the Simon Whistler “Ya Boy wit da Blaze” drum fill! Lol good joke. I liked it

[@GoodSoup]

IT'S WHITE FLAKES!

[@GoodSoup]

@@fruitygarlic3601 Me: yo use head and shoulders dude him: *TESTOSTERONE POWDER!!!*

[@deusexaethera]

*SPOILER:* Vampires are buying all the glitter. They use it to make body makeup that reflects sunlight away so they can go outside in the daytime. It turns out Twilight was right all along.

[@temkin9298]

Side glances to Twilight Vampires Yeah it seems about right. And i would add supersoldier formula, high bio-tech teeth, red eye lens, red wine, auto hair cutter 9000, i can't understand this metamorph potion 10000. Oh and red robes, hoodies, leather jackets, they have quite much of those. too.

[@npc6817]

Or they could just use sunscreen, it's even transparent to the naked eye

[@CB-ie8gb]

so the more a person uses highlighter, the likelier it is that they are a vampire?

[@CB-ie8gb]

is the makeup industry ruled by vampires??

[@temkin9298]

@@CB-ie8gb Possibly yes and it would be appropriate since vampires were traditionally nobles.

[@AnasatisTiMiniatis]

A little point of reason: It's very common for companies to be contractually unable to disclose their customers. I would guess this is the most likely case here.

[@ianism3]

but the journalist was not asking for specific customers. it was asking for the _industry_ that purchased the most. she didn't want to say because it would force boat makers to stop using glitter, which would hurt her company.

[@thisisgettingold]

@@ianism3 because they would switch to using... What... Exactly?

[@shieldbrother7425]

@@ianism3 why would they stop using glitter lol, mist people already know it's in boat/car paints/clear coats, it's also cheaper than true metallic paint

[@PurpleColonel]

I love non-mysteries where people just overlook one detail because they want a spookier answer. Like the Roanoke colony.

[@TheSavannahhhhhh]

What really happened?

[@PurpleColonel]

@@TheSavannahhhhhh The word "Croatoan" was something they were told to carve if they were going to leave for Croatoa. So they probably left for Croatoa. Years later people started seeing natives in that area with blonde hair and blue eyes.

[@Samm815]

@@PurpleColonel They still technically never found them.

[@PurpleColonel]

@@Samm815 Yeah but it's a ton of circumstantial evidence.

[@AcornsBest]

Source? I've looked into Roanoke. I was under the impression that people had no idea what "Croatoan" was in reference too.

[@yeeturmcbeetur8197]

As a big fisherman, I’ve known this for a long time lol. It’s actually a pretty often conversation between my friends and I who fish often. If you ever see a fiberglass bass boat, there’s a CRAZY amount of glitter on those boats. Every square inch is covered in it lol. This literal sentence cane out of my mouth last weekend while fishing on the bayou with my friends. I said to them, “do y’all think tracker buys the most glitter in the world to cover their boats with?” And it got us thinking. We came to the conclusion that there isn’t much glitter being bought other than for parties (which we cane up with a number of 5%) and we said paint was the other 95%. Out of cars with glitter, there’s not that many, but boats on the other hand? Lmao. You don’t see fiberglass bass boats that AREN’T covered in glitter nowadays.

[@temkin9298]

There is some transparent toys use glitter. It was sold as small containers while i was small as well.

[@brocklee9539]

I'm surprised no one has mentioned that swimbaits, dough baits, and lures use glitter in it and that is why fish has plastics and glitter in their system. Once the clear coat on these bass boats is cured, it would take a lot for it to break down and leech glitter into the water.

[@hickrick]

@@brocklee9539 yep, i suspect that this is related to the real answer

[@TobyIKanoby]

@@brocklee9539 I wonder how long it takes, it can't be that long, 10 to 20 years?

[@ItsRubyGD]

i read this in a southern fisherman style accent

[@GeekRaj]

I love the way you search mysteries, you provide a logical and rational analysis and stay away from stupid conspiracies or forced paranormal stuff that other channel push around too much. Your channel is a gem. You are such an amazing creator.

[@actioncircus1]

I do collision repair and I knew right away what it was. A lot of vehicles have "metallic flakes" or "pearls" in the paint to make it sparkle in the sunlight. These flakes used to be aluminum, but since aluminum powder is explosive, they switched to polyester flakes. I figure their largest buyer is boat builders because a different company is making all the "glitter" for automotive use. I'm positive the glitter is being used in paints.

[@6idle4ever49]

sorry mate i don't think i can, my car's white lol

[@celticwinter]

The effect pigments in automotive coatings aren't glitter though and it's also not plastic

[@imperialguard451]

nope. the site acknowledges boat industry using their glitter so it isnt boats

[@jay6440]

If it were boats they wouldn’t need to cover it up.

[@madkills10]

thank you, someone that actually knows something lol

[@Freak80MC]

Weird part is, if they wanted to not cause any controversy by not saying what it was, then it really REALLY fucking backfired on them as now basically everyone thinks glitter is in some real shady products because of just how cryptic they made it out to be.

[@SlightlySociable]

I think the journalist played it up for backlinks and extra traffic. Pretty sure the person who posted it to Reddit was the author but wasn’t certain

[@tylerjeynes223]

Slightly Sociable yeah probably exaggerated what she said to him to get more mystery and that means more clicks on the article

[@theodour8617]

That's so me. Everything backfires for me and then basically everyone thinks I'm weird and shady. Just because I'm cryptic... If I don't give straight answers they believe the worst!

[@theodour8617]

Like, if I want to hang out in the dark, in the woods and chill. I don't need to explain it or give a reason.

[@cheezburgrproduction]

@@theodour8617 seeing how thats not day to day activites of the average human species it raises concerns and questions. Not everyone who asks you for clarification wants to judge you. some are curious others genuinely care, but continue thinking everyone else is the issue.

[@egg3143]

As someone who dances, all the glitter goes into our costumes, no questions asked, its everywhere, I can't walk into my studio without seeing Atleast one thing covered in glitter

[@EmiStar070]

And after every class gets their recital costumes in the same week, the whole building shines, never mind the actual studio

[@vishnuprakash7829]

"wHy dOn'T yOu loOk liKe eVerYoNe eLsE oUt oN tHe LaKe.".,.. The accent was on point.

[@Summerbabe08080]

Omg lmao that was so great 😂😂😂

[@RealShaggy]

7:04

[@nothereanymore3941]

Everyone on reddit saying "IT'S JUST BOAT PAINT?!?" feels like the kid from A Christmas Story screaming in disbelief when he finds out about the ovaltine message

[@iii-ei5cv]

...because the shit is probably coming off and being distributed in the water and never degrading

[@yourresume373]

always has been

[@samuelmoore8154]

Car paint with the flake in it was my very first guess.

[@ayandas874]

Samuel Moore same.

[@DanielLopez-bg4gx]

What's the Ovaltine message?

[@zinxderobo]

Once at red rocks I was on acid. I had a girl tap me on the shoulder and blow glitter into my face. It got in my eyes and what was intended as cute ended up being a waking nightmare. Needless to say I hate glitter.

[@thisisgettingold]

Ah man Red Rocks is amazing up until you get glitter blown in your face when you are tripping balls.

[@TheDjacob]

Wow

[@rhiannonhooper1508]

I know someone that had to go to hospital because of this he shares Ur hate for it

[@rickkroll]

Dude gnarly lol. Gotta be like when people throw glowsticks and the one wonked out guy gets hit too hard lol. God wwhy are you doing this to meeee

[@allaion2897]

"She guided me to automotive grade pigments" she literally gave him the answer. Are you seriously telling me that you've never looked at a car's paint and realized that its full of really fine gliter?

[@NoksUndKutten]

Did you even watch the video further after that?..

[@allaion2897]

@@NoksUndKutten yes I did. I was referring to the idiots who were given the answer yet still couldn't figure out what it was used for. While, yes, boats probably use a majority of the glitter, go up to almost any car and you'll see little specks of glitter throughout the paint

[@kris6682]

But they call it metal flake and they charge you a ton for it when I was in school painting cars we ordered some metal flake for a kids car and when it came in we were like wtf we could have gotten regular old glitter at Walmart

[@allaion2897]

@@kris6682 all metal flake is, is a type of glitter that is more resistant to chemicals and heat, so its still just glitter

[@kristoffervatshelle1418]

Pretty gay if you ask me

[@trinidad17]

*enter scary droning music* "Let's talk about who is buying glitter, guyss."

[@trevorc3063]

*music intensifies* "Guys holy fucking shit... It's the boating hobbyist industry"

[@emilylogan2379]

My kind of mystery

[@jankemjunkie6564]

I always wondered why glitter wasn’t put on the chopping block when the topic of micro-plastic first arose.

[@johnnyboy90528]

I don't like glitter, it's small, and shiny, and irritating, and it gets everywhere.

[@HarpsiFizz]

Why I hate children.

[@Helga-fe5xl]

It's coarse and rough

[@buddinglearner7085]

school projects where glitter was on of the main ingredients for decoration would get on everybody's face even if we didn't use it

[@azrael4457]

@@HarpsiFizz bruh

[@thedeliveryboy1123]

Imagine Obi Wan just throws glitter in Anakin's face and he falls into the lava

[@ParisChristianne]

The true culprit is the guy who's been making porch-pirate glitter bombs for the past 3 years lol

[@AshHeaven]

Mood

[@chairwithoutwheels9148]

Mark rober is God thank u very much

[@GI-yy1ex]

@@chairwithoutwheels9148 jeez, yeah make more fake idols. He is a creative guy but dang the amount of worship from your comment.

[@chairwithoutwheels9148]

@@GI-yy1ex i was making a joke lmao hes just rly cool

[@chairwithoutwheels9148]

@@GI-yy1ex the only fake idols i take are from hololive B)

[@martinharris5017]

I customize cars for a hobby. There's a thing called metalflake paint. You pay a fortune for it. I made my own using glittter from a craft store and threw it in some clear. Its also added to fiberglass resin to make a glitter finish. This is why she mentions the automotive industry. Its the fancy custom metalflake finish used on beach bugs and custom cars and yes its also used on boats:)

[@rust44]

“I can’t imagine that being good for the environment” I think we’ve established that businesses don’t care about the environment.

[@frankmerker630]

They only care if there is a risk of significant litigious backlash

[@Samm815]

@@frankmerker630 Or if it risks their bottom line.

[@iReima]

my former employer created so much microplastic byproduct from cutting up long sheets of acrylics and they didn't care about disposing it properly. Just into the trash. Don't even bag it up properly.

[@kukumundi]

Only if you're Patagonia

[@HidekiShinichi]

You are wrong by saying "businesses dont care about environment" True statement would be: "On a market that is restrained and regulated by government businesses will shift their focus from serving the customer, which include being environmently friendly, that is the only way of earnibg the money on free market to focusing on manuvering between all the regulation to suck up as much government help with as little effort"

[@icarus9340]

I don't need sleep I need answers

[@LiakkDoesStuff]

I don’t need sleep I need answers

[@nkhockey09]

It goes deeper than just boat paint.... the fishing lure industry is huge and adds tons of glitter to their molds / lures. Likely the reason microplastics are showing up more and more in fish.

[@DarkFruit]

I know man, I won't sleep for days now he's reminded me about this, look at my comment above, it's in the chemtrails man...

[@pakassassin9605]

I want to sleep 😭

[@sainttesuque7940]

I don't need answers. I need sleep. Goodnight everyone.

[@elenaruh2144]

Y'all hating on glitter but that hate comes from the love you once felt for it

[@sunshine8338]

I actually love how you can make such small topics sound interesting. Keep it up!

[@roonkolos]

"""Big Glitter""" That made me laugh a little more than it should have

[@Swampertchamp]

Same lol. Also. I'm a fox!

[@chrisoliver3642]

Same here. Big Glitter is the name I dance under!

[@nano_sweet]

"[K]eep their largest clients (boat manufacturers) on board". Nice one.

[@AvoytDesign]

"I can't imagine [using glitter in sand] would be great for the environment." ...you really think that would stop them?

[@emmaig789]

i think what he meant was that it would visibly ruin the beaches. like, if you regularly dump a bunch of glitter into a beach, it would kill all the bugs and birds and sea life that keep algae and gunk and dead stuff from building up and you'd get a gross beach which would be bad for tourism. sparkly glitter = sparkly beaches is an insane fantasy equation

[@AvoytDesign]

@@emmaig789 ahh, that's fair.

[@stask.]

Who is the glitters largest buyer: That one person from the math question test.

[@JoeBob79569]

A friend of mine once wore glitter to a fancy dress party at my house, and that crap just never went away. Months, and even years, later I'd randomly see it in cupboards, or on the carpet, on my clothes, and even on my face when I'd wake up in the morning.

[@keermat]

It’s Cristine, the Holo queen buying it all.

[@purplegill10]

I understood this reference

[@muajin]

It could be Suzy Lu or pokimane. :P

[@MotherMimic]

wHaT dO yOu ThInK? Haha, but seriously, i would not be surprised

[@mariamilchman5399]

Yes, that’s true, she took the glitter

[@vickyle4518]

Cristine* she actually posted a podcast episode surrounding this very topic on her podcast channel, simplypodlogical! (And she made the same joke lol)

[@missavella8624]

‘Big glitter was hiding secrets...’ I weep for humanity

[@nicholascopsey4807]

Gives the rest of us entertainment while we wait for the world to burn

[@stephenconnolly3018]

One of the largest buyers of glitter is the military. It is used by tanks and armoured vehicle. it is used to refract laser beam from targeting systems. So there is no coherent laser strike or dot on the targeted vehicle. When in the killing fields the tank commander can use compressed air to blow a rainbow like cloud of glitter all around the tank. This anti missile system is both effective and very pretty. How often can you say that about war.

[@ClubPenguinMaster88]

I will say, glitter is a horrid thing in every single way, but its use in paint isn't as notoriously bad as can be thought. If we're being fair here, the paints as a whole are equally dangerous to fish, and the clear coat on top will have to go before the glitter starts to enter the environment.

[@Skaelya]

I mean the while boat is ^^'. It's a gel coat paint... So WE use it on composit boat. And boy, it this thing the less ecological and the most common toxical most that exist. Like every time de build on of those boats we need a hight grade filtering mask (at the bare minimum a painting mask) so yeah... It isn't really good. Also it isn't reusable, it's thermosetting which means when it's broken... Well you can't really do anything with it, you can melt it and buid a new boat (there are some thermoplastic boats... But they're heavier since it a less solid material you need more of it to get the dame strenght. So no one use theim :/). So yeah... Not so great... Metal boats are better... I think... Actually antifouling might be worse. So yeah... Not good... Sorry environnement we'll try to improve out way of making baots. Sincerly, a ship building student.

[@gyuziburcsany]

I have no idea why, but the black liquid background is horrifying, even for light-hearted or outright mundane stories.

[@apollo6662]

Get pavloved

[@spofet]

The ocean being full of microplastics is terrifying.

[@wholesomebaker5410]

It represents the mind of redditors

[@assassinaria]

it's relaxing

[@Jrez]

It reminds me of Little Nemo

[@JohnDlugosz]

I can only imagine the bane of having a family member work at a glitter factory. It probably gets into everything around the home.

[@ryantitsworth]

Man when you said, “well why don’t you just look like everyone else on the lake” in a hick tone, I actually completely lost it and spit my mouthful of glitter everywhere.

[@hobartbartholomewpepperidgejr]

They had us in the first half, not gonna lie

[@noiXion13]

Me at the beginning: "Why the hell should I care about glitter?" Me at the end: "Those poor fish..."

[@temkin9298]

And you eat it. Have a nice day.

[@YChan620]

"it's a way to flex on other fishermen" ..never thought id hear that sentence

[@mbralliable]

"They don't want anyone to know the product is glitter." It's automotive paint. I'm sure of it. "She guided me toward automotive pigments." I knew it! "Bass boats" Close enough...

[@OtakuUnitedStudio]

Well, boats are automobiles. They're self-propelled vehicles. But while boat manufacturers may be the largest of the group, plenty of other vehicles also use glitter too.

[@cheezburgrproduction]

@@OtakuUnitedStudio hot rods and the hydraulic filled low riders come to mind

[@xkisskissx8187]

I thought this was... well known? I have no idea why this is a secret...

[@creampop8553]

Do some automotive paints use plastic glitter? It looks like they sell Aluminum glitter too, and I’ve read about that being used in car paint.

[@mbralliable]

@@creampop8553 I do know for sure that some use aluminum paint. I had a car where that was actually a feature in the brochure.

[@_sleepyaisha_]

"They probably sprinkle some in the sand to make it sparkle more." My guy... Do you not know what sand is or how it looks?

[@temkin9298]

Apperantly no. No, he does not.

[@AshHeaven]

He does not get out much.

[@serse8455]

I do. I consume it to increase my power.

[@boyinutil]

Redditor: this is glitter Reader: DEAR GOD!!! Redditor: theres more Reader: NO

[@VIM365]

I have done nothing but teleport glitter for three days!

[@okie9025]

More like The answer: glitter is used in boat paint Redditor: DEAR GO- wait, boat paint? This shit is whack

[@princekylo7715]

QUESTION.

[@dushdjtoedushdjtoe3298]

My immediate thought when I first saw the section from the interview was, oh god it’s in food isn’t it.

[@Brendan-Black]

Same.

[@ItsRubyGD]

pretty patties!

[@runedoom]

Or at least some ads for food

[@ananthropomorphictalkinggo6641]

Well the way that lady reacted was not appropriate for anything other than food. "Oh god no! I can't tell you because we don't want people to know the glittery finish on boats is glitter?" What the fuck kind of stupid ass reaction is that?

[@artsartsart]

Thank you for raising this matter again - pollution is a real problem, especially for something so apparently inconsequential as boat decoration

[@AshHeaven]

7:04 “Why don’t you just look like everyone else out on the lake.” That accent tho...

[@johnladuke6475]

The hilarious part? Everyone else on the lake has a fabulous glitter boat.

[@abbacadaver]

I find it weird that she was saying they don’t want people to think it’s glitter. It’s obviously glitter??

[@cypher237]

Thinking that too... 😆

[@FlpDaMattress]

My first thought would be Peril in automotive paint. which is what the interviewee specified in the initial NYT article.

[@cypher237]

@@FlpDaMattress yeah, kinda the same thing... they use a bit in car paint, but more boats are getting decked out in heavy glitter than cars... only low riders are that flaked. 😏 I would've thought the make up industry...

[@naomira_nee]

If it's seen as something expensive maybe they just don't want people thinking too much about it. Because "wait did I seriously pay more for cheap coloured flakes of plastic, wow my expensive boat kinda feels tacky now."

[@hungrymoose7627]

The slang for that kind of paint is metal flake. They want people thinking its metal not plastic. If you've ever mixed it before though, yeah its obvious that its just glitter.

[@zinxderobo]

Also love the content so far. You're my next binge. Thank you!

[@skydroid3141]

The boat glitter theory is actually darker than those "secret goverment" theories.

[@purplegill10]

Seriously. Microplastics are a gigantic problem RIGHT NOW but it's like it's somehow worse for companies to be doing camo with glitter when we're reaching a point where we may never be able to clean up all the plastic in the ocean.

[@Exarian]

It's an example of how many of the worst things are boring and mundane and done without a second thought. There's no overriding controlling conspiracy, it's just the inevitable result of the systems we operate under. Malevolent gods are better than none.

[@shimmershine944]

I know right??? An industry is willingly contributing to the destruction of the environment, THAT should be scary

[@narhwallord6985]

@@purplegill10 LMFAO. Dude, we are way past that point. It is called MICROPLASTICS. There is NO realistic way of dealing with it. All we can try and do is reduce their use.

[@cloudthief8918]

@@SpyderT22 is it gonna be the andromeda strain all over again? Lol

[@diddly-dee-its-me215]

This is night good, have a barely sociable

[@colemanwerts721]

night is good*

[@k2a2l2]

Joey Maxon 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣ᵇʳᵘʰ🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@diddly-dee-its-me215]

Joey Maxon :( barely sociable liked it okay, chillax smh

[@Joseph-mm4zu]

@@colemanwerts721 das ist naht an tumah

[@rlr5048]

I'm sorry did I just have a fucking stroke?

[@MBkufel]

The thing about chaff - glitter also seems to sometimes be aluminium. IDK if they do, but they certainly could manufacture chaff during wartime

[@adrianrainer2864]

The phrase “big glitter” made me actually laugh out loud.

[@ianism3]

the number of useless industries that are quietly contributing to the destruction of ecosystems is humbling.

[@zuppang361]

i want to drink the liquid background, am i allowed to do that?

[@SlightlySociable]

New gfuel flavor

[@monky1285]

@@SlightlySociable lead is my favorite

[@skeetsmcgrew3282]

Dawg if natural selection were still a thing you would not have lasted long 😂

[@lungshenli]

me and my homies gifting each other glitter bombs on .every. possible. occasion single handedly keeping an industry afloat

[@KSMinhoka]

"Once glitters gets anywhere, it's impossible to clean that shit up" As a brazillian who goes to Carnaval, YES. (found some pink glitter on my hair and some clothes through March/April. I remember the GF using some in February)

[@ancellery6430]

This would have generated so much less attention if she just said the truth about what it was used for

[@fjhatsu]

I think that's the point lol. To get dem juicy clicks

[@cr4zyj4ck]

NDAs are a thing my dude. Likely unwanted things could happen if she spilled the beans.

[@GlowBerryPumpkin]

Glitter is colorful, reflects light at different angles, is incredibly small and doesn't degrade fast. It also can contain metals. Particles similar to confetti have been used to block signals. Without the color or reflection, glitter wouldn't be easy to spot. That's all I can come up with at least.

[@glumbortango7182]

I was fully expecting the secret buyers to be some food product the way she worded it

[@casyop7402]

@@glumbortango7182 same!

[@noahmcdarby5417]

Lmao the thing about using it to jam enemy radar had me weak!

[@jasonbuck5256]

They “are going to keep their mouths shut, if it means keeping their largest client ON BOARD.” I see what you did there.

[@nate_storm]

very punny

[@alternatesportshistory3605]

OK I'm going to admit it--I was probably the #1 proponent of "it's a taggant for explosives" back in the day (and I used the same name as here as on Reddit, so you can look it up). And while I'm not surprised that it turned out to be boat paint in the end, I have to say this was not an example of Occam's Razor, or even that the answer was going to be obvious from the beginning. I mean...the Glitterex rep in the interview blatantly lied when she said that "you wouldn't be able to tell it was glitter" if you saw it. Hell, every person I know who even has a passing interest in boats calls it "glitter paint." Everyone knew glitter was in there. So the fact that the Glitterex rep said it didn't look like glitter would have ruled it out...if she was telling the truth. But she wasn't. Feh. I need to be more cynical I guess.

[@SlightlySociable]

It’s all good, it happens to all of us. I often have to take a step back after finding something just to make sure. Given how much excitement was up on that thread I sorta understand how the internet gets carried away.

[@alternatesportshistory3605]

@@SlightlySociable I think the biggest part of the blowback was simply that...if she hadn't lied in the first place, there would have been no mystery at all. It's as if you released a video that started something like "this is the mystery of the disappearance of John Smith" then ended the video with "Oh, all this time I was lying, there is no John Smith and there was no disappearance". I don't think that would be one of your more popular vids!

[@BigBeerus]

Probably because it is cars and they call it "metal flake" its hella expensive too. Even though it really is just glitter mixed in paint

[@TendoTheDude]

About half way through this video it really hit me that I'm spending my Sunday afternoon watching videos about a conspiracy on...glitter. What has my life become?

[@kookyjoeb5524]

Try the one about portobello mushrooms. You may never eat another one…

[@robertoXCX]

Easy, it's Cristine

[@aerielblair8333]

Hahaha!!

[@hnanetoo]

That explains everything...her obsession with holo ☠️ she is the glitter king pin

[@Hydratiun]

makes sense

[@demonflowerchild]

Hello fellow holosexuals

[@17blackroses82]

My actual first response to seeing the thumbnail was Cristine 🤣

[@almostshawn3230]

Interviewer: What is glitter's largest buyer? Person: Boats. Interviewer: Doesn't glitter fall off the boats when wet? Person: Yep! We are constantly inadvertently dumping large quantities of glitter into the ocean. Interviewer: So you pollute the ocean because....? Person: People like to buy shiny things and glitter makes boats shiny.

[@satibel]

also chances are muh manly metallic paint being glitter is quite bad for business

[@misham6547]

I don't really believe thet that much glitter gets added because paint is sealed

[@BruceNJeffAreMyFlies]

Paint falls off when it gets wet? What?

[@levinausley288]

@@misham6547 found someone with some sense! Flake doesn’t just fall out of paint, there’s an entire layer of clear coat covering it.

[@almostshawn3230]

​@@misham6547 Yes, boats have a seal to prevent large amounts of paint/glitter from falling off. But they're not a hundred percent. Even if one boat gives off one flake, there are hundreds if not thousands of boats on the water at a given time with glitter on them. It adds up.

[@Kapfz]

This is some crazy info i bet any news source would had loved to take part in, big codolances for posting this on youtube👍

[@OkMakuTree]

Big Glitter is just too funny, what a great name. I suppose there’s a industry leader for every product though. Even the stuff we never think about.

[@tedecker3792]

I thought Big Glitter was a drag queen.

[@terrytheboxwithlimbs]

It’s like 12:00 am mate.

[@savourypotato]

2.30pm here mate

[@Channel-dp3wc]

11:42 or 12:42 am

[@BlueEyedMessiah]

Same lmao

[@glitterfists]

6 am here

[@arvasugupta]

Not for us Asians though

[@capitalbbrandambassador3998]

Without skipping a beat I answered in my head: Drag queens

[@Learn.The.Hardway]

Man, I love the random deep weird shit you cover for us. I'd never have dreampt to think of the "biggest glitter procurer". But now I'm "hooked". Love your videos. Been watching since Lake City Quiet Pills. Keep doing what you love. Even if its rapping. 😉

[@benlewis3847]

The Silk Road got me hooked. I think I’ve listened 3 tumes

[@the_womb_raider4517]

Also been here since LCQP, I'm so glad I found this channel

[@ThatGuy-ou4ev]

Meanwhile...she was just embarrassed to say that the biggest buyers are ³casino's, ²stripclubs and ¹the porn industry. 😂🤣😅

[@margaretnash9553]

IKR❗🎶💕🎉🎈💃🌹🎊💯✔

[@cosbronaut4405]

I thought the glitter for boat paint was a pretty fitting and surprising end to this mystery, it didn’t feel disappointing to me at least

[@RoxanneONeil]

I wanna know who's keeping circus peanuts in business 🤔

[@i_jumxo6948]

True villains and old people

[@chistinelane]

*ME*

[@phoenixfritzinger9185]

My mom is absolutely nuts for them

[@stevemcraemanager7119]

I'm 5 minutes into the story and I am immediately thinking automotive paint pearls and flakes.

[@morbidmanuscript9324]

I’m loving the future image of archeologists getting to our eras layer while they’re digging and it’s just Extremely Sparkly.

[@matthewdrummond1340]

My dad drives a Jeep Grand Cherokee that is a dark shade of grey. It sparkles. I think it's in some regular automotive paints as well.

[@agroteraaaa]

this is slightly off topic but when i was in middle school i tried to start a religion around glitter so maybe in an alternate universe the church of glitterism is the biggest purchaser of glitter

[@agroteraaaa]

@Emily Barclay yes

[@mr.infinity1887]

Sign me up too

[@DutchmanRadio]

Where do we sign up?

[@wolfiemuse]

Early glitter wasn’t plastic, it was metal. So some military applications wouldn’t be suprising. Theres a whole video where one of the original founding family members who was removed from the business by the family did a whole interview about it

[@Kajnake]

KZbin: hey kid, you wanna know where all the glitter goes? Me: No, not really Also me: Actually...

[@yourself1788]

Summary: The biggest buyer of glitter is boats

[@imperialguard451]

its not boats. the person refused to say who it was/ what it was used for and the site acknowledges the boat industry. is whatever it was that didn’t want anybody to know, didnt want her to tell anybody, why would they allow glitterex to put it on their site.

[@GlowBerryPumpkin]

@@imperialguard451 plus they said you would be able to tell that it is "something" but it probably wouldn't look like glitter. So it could be anything. My theory would be that they put glitter hygiene products but don't put color or as much metal into it.

[@analsausages4605]

automative flake made me think car flake paint on classic cars - good cover. i love having a sub to your channel lol

[@analsausages4605]

also relevant cause now the netherlands has found microplastics in humans blood samples

[@MrLurker906]

You think the bass boat central forums members are aware of the acronym of this website?

[@SlightlySociable]

Bahahah

[@the_original_Bilb_Ono]

What would that have to do with anything?. Im sure fishermen are no stranger to raising cocks. Ive done it for years, got a few hens ready to lay some eggs now ... KZbin keeps deleting my comment so i gotta keep editing it while trying to keep the joke intact.

[@Oceanblue_Art_]

Sponsored by Wonder Boner

[@pmteaches]

I started art teaching three years ago and within the first week I evidently didn't wash my hands well enough before I left for the day. Glitter has been embedded in my steering wheel for three years.

[@pepperbytez8128]

Instead of dye packs for robberies, there should be glitter packs.

[@THECHAOS111]

someone poured glitter on top of my head at prom and even though i obviously wash my hair really good i still very occasionally find a little piece of those little blue glitter flakes 9 years later, it's fucking unbelievable there is no getting rid of it.

[@evzevz06]

9 years? I think someones trolling you putting more in every now and then

[@pebbe5583]

its mr.beast, hes planning a big video with glitter

[@EvilApted1992]

I would have guessed the biggest buyer of glitter would have been greeting card companies

[@shyguy54321]

i assumed it was car paint and they didn't want to admit it's glitter and not metal flakes, to drive up prices.

[@ulisesroman7259]

I'm totally with you on this.

[@yardwolves2773]

I'm sure it is both.