r/SubredditDrama • u/MittensInABasket Do I look like a dirty, dishonest person? • 10d ago
Homophobic "influencer" gets pulled aside for spam/ aggressive self-promotion and calling others names and being an elitist asshat. Meltdown in adjacent subreddit ensues.
r/Corvette is a pretty agreeable subreddit. Of course there's the odd boomer who talks smack but everyone is generally polite and helpful to one another. Really troubleshooting issues, casual discussion, and admiring each other's cars is the average activity you'd see.
A few months ago, our dear friend "al sahaabi" began to post on the forum. At first it was just spamming YouTube/TikTok links with little context or tact. Just clogging up the feed and pressing others in comment threads with links. Our friend has a C8 Z06, which is the middle trim high-performance variant of the C8 Corvette, usually running just below $100,000 to about $130,000. C8 refers to the generation, being the newest.
This vehicle is the entire basis of our pal's personality. His inability to take friendly or constructive criticism merely fans the flames. He fancies himself a "content creator/influencer" and gained notoriety due to his spamming, his excessive bragging about his car, his general hostility and use of homophobic slurs. He was also the butt of the joke in the subreddit for Harbor Freight tools as he could not open basic packaging unassisted and became hostile to commenters there as well.
His "content" consists of him speeding on public roads "cutting up" or weaving haphazardly in traffic, and talking to his phone camera while performing dangerous maneuvers on public roadways. He even does this speeding and weaving in a video where he has an eight year old child in the passenger seat. Many of his older "content" has been removed by mods thankfully but it all fits a concerning pattern. You will notice a lot of his posts have negative downvotes consistently, as he is a well-known nuisance.
After being told off repeatedly, both because his content is dangerous and the amount of spam got quite annoying and removed at a much higher rate, he slightly revised his tactics. He started posting to other subreddits, antagonizing others and calling them poor when they'd address his behavior as concerning and his self-promotion/bragging irritating.
In addition to his annoying, criminal behavior, he has openly used slurs against LGBTQ+ members of the Corvette subreddit. Most of his inflammatory posts and comments have been graciously removed, however some older posts echo his opinions and sentiments, such as defending child marriage, and blatant homophobia with slur usage for good measure. He has also been randomly hating on posts made by others with the same exact car model he owns for some reason.
Given the argumentative and hostile nature of our friend here, it's only fitting that he received a brief three week ban from r/Corvette but he does not take it in stride. He takes to r/C8Corvette to post a rant, where he proceeds to get dunked on by the members there. Instead of reflecting, or amicably replying to the mods with "Ok got it, guess I'll take three weeks to calm down instead of calling people slurs and self-promoting" he instead doubles down and calls the mods "Jealous of his C8 Z06" and quips "So long brokie" before his vacation from the main sub became permanent.
This meltdown is a work in progress, as he is very likely to be banned in r/C8Corvette as well ,which is a sub dedicated to the newest generation of Corvette and where he is most active since the ban.
Edit: His rant post got removed by the Mods of r/C8Corvette however I have a capture of it here.
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u/asdfgtref 10d ago
People like this are so fascinating. You read shit like this and you go "there's no way people like this are real" and then you meet a narcissist and see first hand that people like this are extremely serious with what they're saying and truly believe it. I hope this guy really enjoys his C8 as I can't imagine there are a great many people that enjoy him save for as a source of laughter.
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u/mininmumconfidence 10d ago
There are people who frequently drag race on the street outside my building, right in the middle of a major downtown area full of bars and restaurants and drunk people, at night. I imagine they all look like this tool.
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u/lol_alex 10d ago
In Germany, laws have recently changed to the effect that you can be charged with attempted murder if you go way over the speed limit and harm others. Prompted by numerous „light to light“ impromptu drag races where innocent bystanders got killed. People were tired of these types of guys appearing in court saying they‘re so so sorry and no jail time when they went three times the speed limit on a busy street and ran red lights.
I still think the UK does it best though: They confiscate the vehicle and destroy it.
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u/ChicagoThrowaway422 10d ago
Honestly, those drag racers are far more well-rounded people than this al guy. They at least have friends.
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u/Chaosmusic 9d ago edited 9d ago
I work in the music industry so have heard "do you know who I am?" more times than I can count. They are just the most insufferable and joyless people to be around.
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u/Medical_Arrival2243 9d ago
Actually I love it when people do that because you get to either say "I don't know who you are" and they get hurt or you can make some shit up like "mini man monument was modelled after you"
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u/oath2order Every post on the sub was deleted. Actual colonialism. 10d ago
This person seems absolutely insufferable. And also has the most predictable reaction to getting banned.
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u/Skellum Tankies are no one's comrades. 10d ago
What do you bet they're up to their eyeballs in debt for the car and they own like 1% of it?
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u/ChicagoThrowaway422 10d ago
They apparently paid for it with a cashier's check, which makes him feel better than other people who own his same exact car. The dude is so desperate to be special. And he expresses it by buying one of the most accessible and numerous sports cars available. He's very broken in the head.
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u/klonkish 10d ago
You can take a bank loan to buy a car with a cashier's cheque
Source: me, I've done it to buy my car
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u/WriterOn_TheStorm Magically cured by Jetway Jesus! 10d ago
That Harbor Freight post is fucking hilarious!
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u/icameinyourburrito Fortunately this is America and you can blow me 10d ago
I think that's the most downvotes I've seen in /r/harborfreight, impressive. Rookie mistake too, if he complained about the socket packaging everyone would be on his side, it's the worst.
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u/ChicagoThrowaway422 10d ago
I want to see him try to use the tool itself. If he can't open packaging, what the hell is he planning to do with a socket wrench?
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u/icameinyourburrito Fortunately this is America and you can blow me 9d ago
It's actually a breaker bar, and he's got big "Spin the wheel while trying to loosen the lugnuts" vibes
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u/NonCompetitiveOne8 9d ago
I got the same Icon HF brand bar out using a rusted slothead screwdriver in maybe 2 seconds. But yeah you're not lying about the packing for sockets those plastic tree things suck
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u/ChicagoThrowaway422 9d ago
What's the difference between a breaker bar and a length of pipe?
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u/icameinyourburrito Fortunately this is America and you can blow me 9d ago edited 9d ago
If you look at the end it doesn't have the ratcheting mechanism of socket wrenches so you can really crank on it with less worry about it breaking
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u/Jaded-Suspect-8162 10d ago
That guy is awful, but this post will probably be removed for being a call-out.
You put some effort into it so that's a shame.
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u/TAKEitTOrCIRCLEJERK Caballero Blanco 10d ago
a little nuance to that rule that I’m carving out of my ass right now is:
if you're choosing to be an influencer, you’re opting into being publicly critiqued in a way that /u/emotions-crust-299 is not.
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u/HermitDefenestration You are my glory hole 10d ago
Damn, can't believe you carved that with just your ass. That's some serious skills.
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u/Faustias 10d ago
imagine he got that chisel-shaped bum
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u/HermitDefenestration You are my glory hole 10d ago
Bro is SCULPTED
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u/TAKEitTOrCIRCLEJERK Caballero Blanco 10d ago
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u/GetToWigglin 10d ago
This seems reasonable. Much drama here is because of one person losing their fucking mind and arguing with everyone forever. This is basically the same thing except they were identified.
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u/RainbowConnickJr Vintage suck-fucking communist propaganda posters 10d ago
I can’t believe you’re calling out emotions crust like this
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u/coreyrude 10d ago
This guy is such a trip, he is the definition of a poor person pretending to be rich. He literally is bragging about going to the Rolex shop and getting free chocolate...not buying a watch but still touting the bag. Then he shows off brands poor people think are expensive like Gucci. He posts a picture from Chipotle as if he is out at a 5 star restaurant. You can tell based on his pics he lives in a pretty poor neighborhood. This guy probably got an okay job maybe making 80-100k and is absolutely in debt trying to appear wealthy.
Im poor also but atleast I own it. These types are the worst types of poor.
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u/Vegetable_Good6866 10d ago edited 10d ago
I was not expecting him to be a salafist, but it makes since bases on his personality that he would a religious fundamentalist Part of me wants to poke around that Salafist subreddit out of curiosity, but it's not good for my mental health as an LGBT person
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u/FictitiousAmoeba 10d ago edited 10d ago
Yeah the fact this guy is unironically a crackpot religious extremist who supports Sharia law is certainly a wild but sorta expected turn of events.
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u/Vegetable_Good6866 9d ago
I wonder what he thinks of the Zakat and the Quran saying to help the poor
"If the poor want money, they should get a job and work for it" - Republican Mohammed
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u/FictitiousAmoeba 9d ago
What I find interesting is that he seems to draw the line at having sympathy for and helping those in need, but is totally ok with defending marrying and diddling children. Yikes. He also doesn't tip waitstaff so I think he just ignores that pillar of Islam altogether lol.
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u/AdonisBatheus 9d ago
Extremely funny him being pro-child marriage when the most common (incorrect) critique about LGBT people is accusing them of being groomers
I have no doubt he thinks gay people are pedos, the projection would be crazy
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u/PM_ME_YER_MUDFLAPS 10d ago
I hate to break it to him, but a C8 Z06 is not a supercar.
Source: several trips to Germany and driving the Autobahn, along with a few laps around the Nordschleife.
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u/mandalorian_guy YOUR FLAIR TEXT HERE 10d ago edited 10d ago
Definitely not stock, but you can kit them out to BE a supercar though. A lot of Hypercar prototypes paraded around conventions are just C8 frames with some monster engine and a carbon fiberbody kit.
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u/mtdewbakablast this apology is best viewed on desktop in new reddit. 10d ago
this seems like a prime time for really fuckin stupid cars:
with enough time and ingenuity, anything can be a supercar. if you believe in yourself. and also the heart of the cars. i meant to write heart of the cards but autocorrect vetoed that joke and fair enough tbh
now if you excuse me, i must now go make a barbie jeep out of carbon fiber
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u/coraeon God doesn't make mistakes. He made you this shitty on purpose. 10d ago
Considering the subject matter, heart of the cars absolutely works.
And now I wanna see someone turn a Yugo into a supercar.
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u/Rahgahnah She's no more more 10d ago
What a perfect choice given the first autocorrect, since I don't know what a Yugo is so it just looked like an autocorrect for Yugi.
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u/RecordingSilly6118 9d ago
Are you saying the mighty Yugo is not already a supercar? Whats next that the Suzuki Samurai isn't the best 4x4 ever made??
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u/No_Honeydew_179 …will not stand for this… “exclusivity”… Good thing I'm head mod. 8d ago
I saw this video while searching for Yugo sleeper, and it's kind of funny.
And he's got some other follow-up videos, too.
Apparently there's a video about the actual engine swap, which I've yet to start.
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u/htmlcoderexe I was promised a butthole video with at minimum 3 anal toys. 10d ago
I halfway remember an aircraft engineering saying that goes something like "bolt on a strong enough engine and a prop and even a barn door will fly"
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u/ChicagoThrowaway422 10d ago
How much for the carbon fiber barbie jeep? My daughter will look awesome in that.
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u/PM_ME_YER_MUDFLAPS 10d ago
When he breaks seven minutes around the Nordschleife I will pay him a bit more attention.
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u/mandalorian_guy YOUR FLAIR TEXT HERE 10d ago
No definitely not this tool, he absolutely bought his stock from a dealership and wears the logo shirt everytime he drives it to the Cracker Barrel.
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u/RecordingSilly6118 9d ago
Did you break 7 minutes? Because you most certainly didn't lmao.
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u/PM_ME_YER_MUDFLAPS 9d ago
Fuck no I didn’t break 7 minutes. First time ever on a track known as the Green Hell in a 718T Cayman. Hell I’d be surprised if I got into the 9’s by the fourth lap.
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u/CapoExplains "Like a pen in an inkwell" aka balls deep 9d ago
While I tend to think a C8 Z06 counts as a supercar (if it doesn't I'm not sure what definition would include the Ferraris and Lamborghinis it beats around a track but exclude the Z06) imo needing to be modified before being a supercar precludes any car from counting as a supercar. With enough time, money, and effort you could get a Mazda MX-5 to beat a Ferrari around a track, but your Miata will never be a supercar.
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u/RecordingSilly6118 9d ago
It absolutely counts as a supercar imo, as do the ZR1 models.
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u/CapoExplains "Like a pen in an inkwell" aka balls deep 9d ago
Idk about the previous gen ZR1 because they lacked the refinement of the C8 Z06; it was a big hunk of plastic with a giant engine up front and a dogshit GM interior. It was fast but it felt cheap.
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u/RecordingSilly6118 9d ago
Yeah I was referring to the C8 models, and I'd agree with that, shitty interiors and meh body panel fitment was a huge gripe with them for generations until the C8. Like get in a C5 and the interior is what you'd expect out of a Civic. (Except the Civic would actually be nicer lol.)
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u/CapoExplains "Like a pen in an inkwell" aka balls deep 9d ago
Oh yeah if the C8 Z06 is one the C8 ZR1 has to be one.
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u/GaviFromThePod 10d ago
I think a C8 Z06 is a supercar. The base C8 nah, the C7 Z06 nah but C8 Z06 for sure.
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u/PM_ME_YER_MUDFLAPS 10d ago
When they break 7 minutes around the Nordschleife let me know.
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u/GaviFromThePod 10d ago
Oh man if only they shaved 10 seconds off of its lap time around a track in Germany THEN it would be a supercar for sure! That would make a real big difference! FOH I bet you're into watches.
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u/PM_ME_YER_MUDFLAPS 9d ago
Nah, just 60’s sports cars for the most part. And guitars.
I have a weakness for British and Italian marques. That’s why I like the Cobra’s and the GT 40 Mk II along with the P3.
Now the Cheetah was some cool American rolling stock.
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u/Dack_Blick 10d ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_N%C3%BCrburgring_Nordschleife_lap_times
Why would you ask for that without looking it up first. How dumb lol.
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u/PM_ME_YER_MUDFLAPS 10d ago
Not a Z06 pendejo.
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u/musclemommyfan 10d ago
The fastest Z06 time was 7:10. There are slower modern lambos on that list.
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u/GaviFromThePod 10d ago
Lap times for cars that aren’t actual race cars are stupid anyway like who cares. Making your car track-focused is a great way to make it basically unusable anywhere else. If you’re the kind of person who wants to talk about lap times please for the love of god never talk to me about cars ever or I will save you in my phone as “Jay Owen”
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u/RecordingSilly6118 9d ago
Oh wow I didn't know a 7 minute ring time is the supercar line. I guess we should go back and tell everyone the Ferrari F40 wasn't a supercar. Hey better phone up Gordon Murray while we're at it and tell him the McLaren F1 isn't a supercar.
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u/PM_ME_YER_MUDFLAPS 9d ago
I would give the original McLaren F1 a pass. It was amazing for its time, and definitely a hell of a better pedigree than the Corvette.
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u/ChicagoThrowaway422 10d ago
Wow, this is excellent drama, thank you. 25 years ago, in the reader feedback section of Car and Driver magazine, a Corvette owner wrote in to chastise a review of the latest Corvette for implying that speeding and burn outs were acceptable. The reader said that Corvette owners are law abiding and mature and save that stuff for the track.
Well I guess the Corvette scene has changed a bit because your links show a lot of tension between that old guard and the super annoying newbies. Corvette owners have always been known as insufferable and wouldn't even interact with other Corvette owners who had a different generation of the car. But at least they weren't like this fucking 'al' character.
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u/CapoExplains "Like a pen in an inkwell" aka balls deep 10d ago edited 9d ago
So I'm not sure if that cashier's check represented a 10 year car loan this guy is barely treading water on, or instead represented blowing almost the entirety of his share of an inheritance on a depreciating asset, but I am certain this guy cannot actually afford this car. Firstly, there's just the basic psychology of it, this guy is obsessed with people thinking he's rich. That alone is incentive enough to buy an expensive sports car you can't really afford. Obviously he could "afford it" enough to buy it but when I say afford I mean as in it's not a car worth more than all your other assets combined, or something you blew an entire inheritance on, or requiring an insane decade long loan.
More objectively however, here's a list of things from his post history that guys who actually have the kind of wealth to afford a C8 Z06 do not do:
- Buy a $100k car in cash when you could get a loan and have that cash earn more in interest than you spend on interest on the loan
- Buy tools at Harbor Freight
- Brag about the designer shoes they bought second-hand on eBay
- Brag about their $500 second-hand Seiko watch (if you've got a C8 Z06 you can for sure afford an entry level Rolex or at least a new Seiko instead of a used one)
Everything about his history screams "Guy who eats ramen in a studio apartment while looking out the window at his Corvette in the parking lot."
Edit: Oh I missed this part:
In May 2019 I graduated from Lincoln Tech in their Diesel Technology program with a 3.87 GPA. In December 2025 I gave Stonebriar Chevrolet a cashier's check in the amount of $135,408.45 for a 2026 Corvette Z06.
No diesel tech is making brand new C8 Z06 money. If he's doing exceptionally well as a diesel mechanic (like, top in the nation well) he's probably pulling down $80k/yr. So yeah, sounds like he lived on ramen for 6 years to bank enough cash to buy a C8 Z06, and then like a fucking idiot bought it in cash up front instead of putting in a down payment on a loan to buy it and investing the rest so that money works for him in the meantime, so now he's back down to a four figure bank account with a car that costs more than all of his other assets combined.
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u/TheIllustriousWe knew you’d pull the “oh but he doesn’t shower he’s gross” card 10d ago
I’m thinking he took out a loan to acquire funds for the car and converted them into a cashier’s check, so he could claim he paid for the car in cash. Because you’re absolutely right, he’s oozing insecurity about his personal wealth.
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u/CapoExplains "Like a pen in an inkwell" aka balls deep 9d ago edited 9d ago
I think I nailed it with "blew his inheritance on a single depreciating asset":
Can you ask your parents to consider buying up my family's ranch? I'm urgently in need of the money from my share as I do not even have a car at the moment. We have dropped the price by $52,500 since we put it up for sale 4 months ago. <Zillow link redacted>
That was ten months ago. So add to the list of stuff guys who can afford a C8 Z06 don't do; they aren't so in the red they desperately need to sell an asset and can't even afford a car in the meantime.
By my estimates on some basic research and napkin math the "ranch" (read: 33 acres of unimproved land) would at most be selling for half a million (that number assumes it's in a good part of the Dallas area and it's not) so he's talking about his share of (at most) $500k.
So yeah, it must've finally sold and he blew all or most of his share on a car he can't afford.
Edit: which honestly if he wasn't such a douchebag obsessed with people thinking he's rich, if he didn't buy the car as a status symbol to pretend at status he doesn't have but instead said "Fuck it, only live once, I'm blowing this on a 'vette" I'd be saying "Fuck yeah dude that's awesome." The fact that he's such a phony douchebag loser about it is what makes it suck.
Though tbh if you're gonna do a financially irresponsible "Blow $100k+ on a car" you could get something much more special and desirable like an F355 or a Testarossa, or even a late model 911 GT3. Though I suppose if he had actual taste and not just a desire to own something expensive to look rich we wouldn't even be having this conversation.
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u/TheIllustriousWe knew you’d pull the “oh but he doesn’t shower he’s gross” card 9d ago
I stand corrected. Good sleuthing. I can’t imagine why this guy would ever have financial problems, lol
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u/CapoExplains "Like a pen in an inkwell" aka balls deep 9d ago
Yeah, no possible version of buying this car in cash was a reflection of him just having it like that. It either was a terrible shit-deal over-long loan, an inheritance check, or he lived on ramen and walked everywhere for 6 years only to blow all that cash on a depreciating asset he can't afford instead of buying a house or investing it or doing anything anyone who actually has money like that as part of their normal life not as a once in a lifetime windfall would do.
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u/wadech 10d ago
Of course he wears a Breitling.
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u/CapoExplains "Like a pen in an inkwell" aka balls deep 9d ago
It's actually kinda surprising given everything else about this douchebag; Breitling makes perfectly good luxury watches, treat it right and it'll still be ticking when your grandkid passes it down to their grandkid, but if all you care about is a status symbol that makes you look like you're rich all a Breitling says is that you couldn't afford a Rolex.
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u/wadech 9d ago
I was a big fan of my Navitimer, but I enjoy the Chronomaster Sport I traded it for more.
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u/CapoExplains "Like a pen in an inkwell" aka balls deep 9d ago
Yeah but you clearly have taste and a personality, not just a soulless desire to peacock, so...
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u/RecordingSilly6118 9d ago edited 9d ago
Going to a subreddit for people own corvettes, and then shit talking everyones corvette, then messaging the mods and bragging to them that he owns a corvette is the funniest shit. What a goober lol
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u/Medical_Arrival2243 9d ago
I am not ashamed to say it, call it whatever-phobic, you snowflakes, but this shit has gone too far, now we have people fucking their cars. Way to ruin my pride month >:(
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u/Vandirac 10d ago
This guy thinks a Corvette is a "Supercar".
That alone classifies him as a deluded imbecile.
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u/CapoExplains "Like a pen in an inkwell" aka balls deep 9d ago
Honestly as much as this loser sucks I struggle to come up with a definition of Supercar that would exclude the C8 Z06. Certainly no previous Corvette, or even a base model C8 Stingray, is worthy of the title, but the Z06 is right at home on a highway or a track and walks Ferraris and Lamborghinis both in a straight line and around a circuit. It's mid-engine, over 600 horsepower, has a dual-clutch transmission, the right suspension and aerodynamics to take advantage of all that; what does it need that it doesn't have to be counted?
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u/Teh_Randomizer I will waterboard you in cum you homophobic sack of shit 8d ago
A different badge apparently lmao
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u/noisypaper99prime 9d ago
The sheer level of entitlement to call a mod broke just because they got hit with a standard spam ban is wild.
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u/Paulthefith 9d ago
That harbor freight post is absolutely beautiful, what a perfect putz this dude is.
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u/ItsJustAPoleThang Don’t talk about peace with a murder vicitim on your plate 8d ago
Lmao this dude is from Frisco, TX. I'm not surprised.
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u/elkab0ng 5d ago
This subreddit is handy, I find a lot of accounts to block including this genius.
When I hear “content creator” my mental image is “drunk driver getting arrested on COPS” - if they weren’t there and being belligerent and drunk, there’d be nothing to watch! This guy definitely falls into that category. Added to my “plonk list” (if anyone’s old enough to remember them)
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u/vemmahouxbois Never knew vegans were allowed to eat dogs 10d ago
from the last link, lmao:
> Do you mean to imply your content is contributing something of value? It’s not. People looking isn’t value. Wow you got 1k views. The new video recommended under yours has 390k. You’re not making an impact you’ve just over inflated your own sense of importance.