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Scams That Should be Illegal
Scams That Should be Illegal
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Me and my twin sister used to share a single Neopet account.
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Which was a dumb decision, because it was completely free to make a second Neopet account-
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And we already struggled at sharing things in the non-virtual world.
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But the reason we co-ran our Neopet account was because we didn't want to put our pets through a divorce,
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And because we wanted to save up our Neopoints for a paintbrush.
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For those of you who grew up with real video games,
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in Neopets, a paintbrush was a super-rare item that would change your neopet's appearance based off the paintbrush you used.
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There were christmas paintbrushes,
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baby paintbrushes,
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Guy Fieri paintbrushes,
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and an invisible paintbrush that just...
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Turned your Neopet invisible.
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Why?
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When I said that paintbrushes were a rare item, I meant it.
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You see, your average neopet paintbrush would sell for about...
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1/2 Million Neopoints.
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And the most me and my sister had ever saved up was about 100,000.
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[James] WHY DID YOU SPEND 3K ON FOOD? WE'RE TRYING TO GET PAINTBRUSHES!
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[Faith] IT WAS FLOWER67'S BIRTHDAY, AND YOU SPENT 4K GETTING THAT STUPID JACKET!
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[James] THE JACKET IS COOL AND YOU KNOW IT!
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One day, my sister went searching in the back alleys of the internet
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for other ways to obtain a paintbrush.
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And she stumbled upon this website that said:
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"Get Free Paintbrushes!"
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And all she had to do was enter in her username and password,
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and they'd send us a fairy paintbrush!
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Oooh!
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And in a moment of desperation, she entered in the login details of our SHARED ACCOUNT
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into a shady website.
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And you'll never guess what happened next...
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We log in our account and there were 3 fairy paintbrushes in our inventory and-
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JUST KIDDING! We got hacked.
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And we lost all 100,000 of our neopoints
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and we never got the paintbrush we were promised.
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But we learnt a valuable lesson that day which was:
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People will try to scam you so, trust... no one.
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We were lucky enough to only lose virtual money.
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But some people aren't that lucky.
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On the internet you have to deal with people trying to scam you constantly.
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There's probably comments underneath this very video of people using
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my name and profile picture saying:
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"Click on this link and get a free gift card!"
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And they always use a stupid amount of emojis so their comment sticks out more.
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I thought it was obvious those comments were fake but some people still fall for them.
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Listen, we need to get one thing straight about our relationship.
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If I ever, use this many emojis...
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I want you to shoot me.
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Scammers like to target non tech-savvy people or what I like to call: Babies and Baby Boomers.
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There's a lot of things you can do to help prevent people from taking advantage of you on the internet.
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But my rule of thumb is:
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if something sounds too good to be true...
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it is.
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No one's giving out free gift cards,
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Your long lost uncle didn't wire transfer you money,
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And you can't get free paintbrushes.
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You can't cheat the system that's just life, man.
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Also if you ever get a popup saying:
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"Your computer has a virus! Call this number to fix it."
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Don't.
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A guy with an indian accent named Jason will charge you real money to "fix the virus"
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but won't do anything.
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Cause you never had a virus in the first place.
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But those are all illegal scams.
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People go to jail over those scams.
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Identity theft is not a joke, Jim!
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Millions of family suffer from it every year.
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However there are some scams that are, for some unknown reason, completely legal.
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And frankly, I think we should reopen alcatraz for the people who do these scams.
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(009 Sound System Dreamscape) So here's my list for the top 4 legal scams that shouldn't be legal.
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The first legal scam is mobile games.
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I was doing a show with this nine-year-old kid named Ariah.
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And in the show, he was going to punch me like this: (Ariah punches James).
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And one day while we were rehearsing Ariah asked me:
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[Ariah] Can I play some games on your phone?
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So I gave him my phone and his Dad told me
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[Ariah's Dad] Hey man, I don't even trust my kid with my phone.
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And I thought: What's the worst thing he could do besides tweet something or delete my YouTube channel.
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But he did something, so much worse.
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He downloaded a free game,
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and inside the game you could buy a VIP Member version.
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that gave you extra lives and more skins.
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The thing that was a scam was that the app gave you the VIP member
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free for 3 days then charged you $6 a week!
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That's a dollar a day, not including Thursdays, to play some stupid mobile game.
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It's more expensive than a Netflix Subscription and
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a tasty, hot and ready $5 Little Caesars pizza.
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Now some of you might be thinking,
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"Okay, yeah that's a ridiculous price for a mobile game.
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But that's not a scam, they tell you how much it's going to cost right there on the screen''
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But here's the thing, roughly zero people bought the VIP member pass
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because they were fans of the game and didn't mind the price.
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NO ONE IS WILLING TO PAY A WEEKLY BILL FOR A GAME WHERE ALL YOU DO IS THIS:
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[Kevin MacLeod - Carefree]
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But 100% of the people who pay for the subscription are kids
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using their parent's phone and bought the VIP pass because they have no concept of money.
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And you don't even have to enter in your credit card information
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so it's easier for kids just to hit the "Purchase 6000 Gems" buttton
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It's targeting kids and I don't like it; SCAM.
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I wish I had the confidence of a mobile game developer
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to charge someone $312 a year to play their stupid game.
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My proposal to fix this scam is to ban mobile games entirely and everyone play Tetris 99.
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Nintendo Online is cheaper than the VIP club subscription anyway.
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The second legal scam is...
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COLLEGE.
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Textbooks.
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We live in a society, where all human knowledge and misconceptions
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are contained on the Internet.
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But if you print out that knowledge and bind out the pages
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suddenly you've made a best-selling book that people are required to buy.
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There are some textbooks that are just a CD or a code
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that you need a computer to even access the book
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so what's the point of BUYING the textbook
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if you have a computer that's connected to the internet in the FIRST PLACE!
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And don't tell me that the books are better for people that don't have internet.
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I know you have an internet connection...
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cause...
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c'mon
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My solution to this scam is to drop out
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and make YouTube videos.
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The third legal scam is...
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psychics.
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I don't wanna debate whether or not psychics are real.
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Because they're not. My horoscope told me so.
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My belief is that no one can talk to dead people
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because we're not living in a cartoon.
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And it just makes me sick that there are psychics who are taking advantage of
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people who are grieving, and are so desperate to talk to their loved ones again
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that they'll try anything. Even paying people to lie to them.
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*tss* Ooooh I burnt my finger on that
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ｈｏｔ ｔａｋｅ
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Now, I don't think that every psychic out there is trying to scam people.
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most of them are, but I do think
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there are some psychics
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who legitimately believe that
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dead people use them as a vessel to talk to their living relatives.
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And in their 3 eyes, they are helping and giving their clients closure.
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I understand that a very small percentage of them are just trying to help.
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But it doesn't matter because they're all fake.
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My soulution to this scam is that you don't pay a psychic unless they can guess how much money
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you're going to pay them. Should be.. close to zero hopefully..
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And the last legal scam is...
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Multi Channel Networks. Wait, did you guys hear that?
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It sounds like bridges being b u r n e d.
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When your YouTube channel starts growing, you'll be contacted by a Multi Channel Network.
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or, MCN. And they'll make empty promises that if
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you join their network, they can help your channel grow
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and earn more money! And they'll brag about how many people are in their network,
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but really, that just means theres less of a chance they'll care about you.
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And all you have to do to join is give them a percentage
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of your YouTube money every month. And once you sign your soul away,
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what the network will actually do is nothing..
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except take a cut of your money every month.. It's like showing your dog a
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tennis ball, and then pretending to throw it, and then when the dog
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realizes, he's chasing nothing,
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he's already signed a three year contract to keep chasing the fake ball.
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I know this last scam might not apply to everyone watching,
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but if this video helps at least one up
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and coming YouTuber to not join an MCN, than it
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will have been worth it. So that's my list for the top 4
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legal that should.. not exist
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and D I E . I don't think this video
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I don't think this video is gonna actually change anything, people will always
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be greedy and try to get money anyway they can.
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So, anything you should take away from this video,
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is that I'M GIVING AWAY FREE GIFT CARDS! CLICK THE LINK IN THE DESCRIPTION TO CLAIM YOUR
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PRIZE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11!!!1!!!!!!!!!!!!
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MMMM, good morning everyone, I hope you enjoyed my list of
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of the top 4 legal scams that should be illegal..
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If theres any psychics in the audience that I offended.. uhh..
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you shoulda known before watching this video that I
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don't agree with you.
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and theres any MCNS watching this video..please stop emailing me.
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so, I'm really excited to announce some HALLOWEEN
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MERCH. Which includes a FREAKING HALLOWEEN
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COSTUME. I know it's August, but I don't really
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get a lot of chances to update you guys on things, so,
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we're doin it now. If you wanna get your hands on a costume,
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You should order it soon, because we only ordered
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a certain amount of costumes, so once they sell out,
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they won't be ready until.. next year..
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If you have any questions about the sizing, or the shipping,
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then be sure ta ask my business email,
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Thank you for reading the subtitles, and sticking around to listen to the endcard,
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I know a lot of people click off once the endcard starts, but..
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.. at least you're cool..
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Subtitles by: Hannah King, *insert names here if you helped* and until next time,
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w e a r y o u r s e a t b e l t .
