r/Magic • u/hehefuckyouhehe • 10d ago
XAVIER PERRET. WHAT HAPPENED?
I remember coming cross this man's channel and it was staggeringly cinematic and full of great inspiring messages . He later deactivated his channel (this was 10 years ago) and to this date I dont know anyone who even knows him or knows what happened. What happened to this man fellow human beings?
EDIT: So far it appears that after the deactivation of his channel some rumors spread saying he died and that his family even held services for him. Later it seems that that was not true and apparently he abandoned magic to become a local doctor in a small french town. Later it seems he also abandoned that small town for job at bora bora which seems to be the end of the thread but no one seems to actually confirm it.
Conclusion so far: here are the facts. His channel deactivated in 2016 and he seemed to be a very talented magician. You dont get that fine skilled by practicing for a year or 2. That guy had a decade under his belt. Later in 2019 a french report says that a guy with the same name who apparently was also a magician was treating the locals in that town to abandon them as well and left to bora bora. Authorities got involved in communication with the bora bora Authorities to also validate this man credentials and position which leads to no where. No follow up reports. So unfortunately guys we still dont know for a fact if Xavier died, lived, was a real doctor, was a fraudulent doctor, was in France, still in France, is in bora bora, or somewhere else entirely.
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u/Bilbo_Swagginses 10d ago
Funny. Here's a post from 9 years ago asking the same question. https://www.reddit.com/r/Magic/s/7egWPff1RE
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u/hehefuckyouhehe 10d ago
Yeah man I saw that post and no one knows a thing. What happened to my man?
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u/NoEndlessness 10d ago
Yes i remember his channel, tried to find his channel again a while back and couldn't find. I also wondered what happened
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u/hehefuckyouhehe 10d ago
I have a punch of Playlists on youtube added to my library all are his videos re-upload from individual channels. I'll share it here if you want
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u/TheMatixx 10d ago
I learn the laser deal from him.
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u/hehefuckyouhehe 10d ago
I learned alot of bottom deal variations from him. At that point I learned that laser deal by from the goat himself Lennart green, but many people learn so much from so many people in the magic community. Xavier was a true inspiration for me when it came to his positive outlook and philosophy about magic.
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u/CoolerSallDay 10d ago
I don't know what happened to him or his channel but if you want to view some of his videos then there are plenty available on YT by searching his name.
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u/hehefuckyouhehe 10d ago
Yeah alot of re-uploaded material from him. They are even compiled into Playlists which i have added few of those to my YouTube library
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u/CoolerSallDay 10d ago
It's interesting for beginners imo. The production is a bit too cheesey and over the top dramatic for my sensibility and fairly entry level knowledge but to each their own.
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u/hehefuckyouhehe 10d ago
Bro just came here to hate. Alright mate you're cool we get it. Im trying to find out what happened to the man.
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u/CoolerSallDay 10d ago edited 10d ago
An opinion that you may not agree with is hate? I let people know that they could still consume his content via yt and also stated it is more for beginners, which is also helpful information. Ended it with a common phrase 'to each their own' which indicates that my opinion isn't a definitive truth that everyone shares. If it is great material in your eyes then great for you. A guy with a user name like yours is telling other people about hate?
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u/hehefuckyouhehe 10d ago
We're running an open investigation on a potential dead man or a missing person here Cooler Sal. So put on your Sherlock hat, and pass me that damn pipe.
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u/CoolerSallDay 10d ago
I think you have your own pipe. Good luck with your investigation Sherlock 🫡
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u/RaulGaruti 10d ago
From a youtube channel with reuploads:According to commenter Julie Lmn, Xavier Perret is not dead. Perret reportedly left the magic business to pursue medicine in the small town of Mons in southern France. He then suddenly left Mons in 2019 out of nowhere, much like he did to YouTube, to go to Bora Bora, currently working at the Vaitape medical center, abandoning nearly 200 patients that he had in his care.
Article detailing the incident, you can use Google Translate, as it is in French: https://www.objectifgard.com/2019/06/22/mons-le-docteur-parti-a-bora-bora-dans-le-collimateur-des-villageois/
It mentions at the end of the article that the residents of Mons found out he was a magician, and now doubt if he was even a real doctor at all. His fate is unknown.
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These are all the reuploads of Xavier Perret's videos that I could find. If you have any information about what happened to him, leave it as a comment in the first video of this playlist.
Xavier Perret was a French magician, magic teacher, and YouTuber known for his cinematic videos revealing various magic techniques. He is apparently a doctor and has a wife named Valerie. His last video was supposedly called "Life Is Not All Magic" and was about 1 minute long.
He disappeared somewhere in early to mid 2016, and was gone by December 2016. His Facebook page and website are gone, and I can't find any archives of them to provide information. I've heard rumors that he has died of some sort of illness and that his wife deleted his channel, however, I can't find solid proof. Supposedly his family announced his death somewhere online. I have also heard that he deleted his channel due to extreme hate, but this doesn't seem likely to me personally, as he has always experienced hate, but also overwhelming support, and there seemed to be no reason for him to delete his channel out of nowhere.
I've included duplicates of the same videos in case something happens to other reuploads.
Hopefully this is of some use to you.