#377: #1 YouTuber of Korea BEATEN to film videos, then blackmailed by “Social Justice” Youtubers

36:35Yes. Invite only through the link. So he says he's going to make an unlisted video because he says, I've experienced this before. Okay. If I request an interview with a YouTuber or with an influencer or a celebrity, you know, then they're going to make the first move confessing and explaining while playing on emotions and crying and trying to be the victim and spin the story their way first and all of that freaking crap so he's saying he's gonna have a video locked and ready so if they don't cooperate he will release it right away no he's saying if i reach out to jiang and her agency she might be like oh no he knows i gotta make a video first but if he send a video to them directly yeah say watch what i have yeah and if they don't respond then he can make it public instantly he doesn't Because the amount of time for him to press a few buttons to make it public versus they have to come up with their side of the story, sit down, film a YouTube video, edit it, and then post it online.

37:33The time difference is different. I can't believe this. Yeah. And Jin is confused. Is Ji-young really that type? I mean, I don't think that Ji-young is going to be able to resolve this information with just emotional appeal to her viewers and explanations. But Jin, did you know this? Ji Young is paying two girls she used to work with at the hostess bar$4 ,300 each totaling over$8 ,000 a month hush money they work at the hostess bars when you say hostess bar is it so they say room salon I opted to say hostess bar because room salon in South Korea is very much implied that it's a bar that involves sex work which is Eita which they call it call like second level and hostess bar is kind of you know the bars where they spend time with the clients but it's it's not guaranteed that there is after activities she worked at a room salon she stated that she never engaged in sex work so but they keep referring to it as a room salon which the heavy implication is that it's almost guaranteed sex work so i'm saying hostess bar she did not engage in sex work but she did work at a bar where it does involve kind of entertaining customers and pouring their drinks and spending time with them versus just like a bartender here i mixed you a drink okay next yes and jen is so confused oh my god really she's paying these girls hush money amazing wow okay but look so jian's company is doing this because she's still making a lot of money and it's more profitable for them to pay hush money right Right.

39:17And Jay says, you know, for example, let me tell you what I'm scared of. Right. If this breaks out, they're screwed. OK. But if I get sued at worst, I'm going to get a fine of maybe like a few thousand dollars. So Jiang's company is doing this because she's still making a lot of money and it's still more profitable for her to pay these girls hush money. Right. Underdog Jay says, OK, let me break it down for you. Right. Even if I get sued for blackmail. okay at worst i'm gonna get a fine from the government of maybe a few thousand dollars if i want to do this big i would say in my opinion we should get at least 150 000 in cash from jian to keep quiet on this 150 000 in cash that's really good that's good i don't know but i again i'm not usually someone who takes this kind of thing so don't misunderstand too much all of a sudden jay is switching up he went from i bought my car from hush money to i don't really ever do this type of stuff but jen is just ignoring him jen is like i think it's actually a lot more practical and better for both sides in this case i mean i think it's gonna help jayang and her image if none of this gets out and it's gonna help us get some money and i just feel like it's kind of a no-brainer underdog jay is a little bit more pessimistic i just have a feeling jayang is going to backstab me.

40:33Okay. I just have a gut feeling. I'm anxious and I'm afraid. But I mean, Jay, if they backstab us, how are they going to backstab us? Like sue us, file charges, report us. It's not about suing. I'm afraid that they're going to expose us. Like, oh, Jay, the YouTuber asked me for money and it is blackmailing. You think they do that? Then we need to choose our words carefully. Yeah. I'm afraid that those bastards might say that I asked them for money. Well, blackmailer is saying, oh my God, they're gonna call me a blackmailer oh no and jen is like well i mean if they start trouble with you then it's obvious what we're gonna expose them for see that's what i'm anxious about jen that's what i'm anxious about because once this gets gets a little bit of exposure people are gonna be like oh my god i bet jay asks other people for money hasn't he done this before i bet he's done this before and then this kind of conversation continues i mean truly i've never taken money to attack someone or turn a blind eye on something i mean i have received money before from people but i gave all that money to the victims.

41:34So I'm going to make a video first and then maybe I'll give Ji-young and her agency a call. Yeah, that's the plan. So regardless of his gut feelings, I guess he's going to go through with it and he's going to call Ji-young and try to blackmail her. And Jin is like, okay, sounds good. So after this phone conversation, the implication is that Jin is just following Jay's lead. Jay's going to do all the work for the both of them. And Jin is going to get a cut of that blackmail money yeah now in the next phone call jay informs jen that he talks to jian he's like i talked to her agency i didn't talk to her directly but i talked to her agency and i wasn't able to get 150 000 i was able to get seven thousand dollars and jen is like seven wait that means they did successfully blackmail them yes that's prison jail that's and he said i got seven and i can give you two thousand dollars because you have blackmail of her working at a hostess bar i've got crazier blackmail on her that i'm not even gonna tell you yeah it's crazy so i'm gonna take five you're gonna take like twenty two hundred dollars and jen is like i mean i'm just so surprised it's so low but jay is explaining to him i mean i wanted to get more but if i do jian's probably gonna get beat up beat up yeah this is the part where people are like, what does that even mean?

42:54Right. What do you mean? And he goes on to say, also, I heard her story and she was like, they were just giving me her backstory and it's kind of sad. I kind of felt bad for her again. What does that mean? And so all I did was ask for like$7 ,000 and I'll give you about 2 ,200. Jin just goes along with it and he takes the money. And the truth is Jay actually received a lot more than that. He received tens of thousands of dollars more than that he took like 40 000 from jian and he only gave jian two these people are crazy yeah like the shadiest of the shadiest people oh yeah it's really bad like they don't like they're constantly trying to one up every single person around them yeah trying to freaking scam blackmail extort like just do everything like i don't think that they understand what a normal relationship with anybody is it seems like they're literally vultures wow yeah unbelievable the next audio clip is of caracula the pretty well-liked cyber wrecker that helped with the pusan roundhouse kick case that helped with the parasite actor case yeah and jay underdog jay the two of them are talking and he's warning jay he's telling jay if i were you i wouldn't go against jian i mean just think about how valuable she is to youtube as a platform i mean you're not really just going up against jian you might be going up against youtube at that point like that's a little bit i mean he's saying from a youtube standpoint jian is a giant that gives birth to golden eggs it's better not to mess with it he's saying telling him like not to blackmail jian yeah jay is like i'm about to blackmail jian and caracula instead of being like whoa why would you commit a crime i'm gonna expose you for committing a crime he's saying i wouldn't do that i just think she's not the person to do that too she's way too big on youtube all it takes is probably one call from her to her youtube manager and your channel is demonetized these people's logics are crazy yeah so he basically tells Jay, I would weigh out the options, you know, future monetization on all your videos or whatever number you're asking Ji-Yang for.

45:13It's got to make sense. Like you're risking your whole YouTube career. This number better be good then. Yeah. No words. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Wow. All for what? All because Ji-Yang used to work at a hostess bar. Is that really what they're blackmailing her for? Or is there something else?

45:42back in 2020 there was a huge youtube scandal so there's so many scandals involved okay in 2020 there was a huge youtuber incident in south korea and it was the biggest topic at the time under the table ads now it was revealed that a lot of the top youtubers in korea were not disclosing their paid partnerships. They were getting paid in cash in higher sums to just pretend like they naturally like something instead of stating outright, Hey, I do in fact like this product, but just to let you know, I am getting paid. So like, you know, that could obviously sway the way that I say things, but keep that in mind.

46:17Okay. Instead, these top YouTubers would act like they themselves chose to spontaneously talk about this one product that they are just so head over heels for just over the moon for and the these brands have no idea they have no involvement in any of the things that they're saying and then they would get a bunch of cash under the table for it another huge mukbanger eat with bookie was involved in that scandal and this youtuber named cham pd went out on a live stream and he was just so fed up with all of this he was talking about how truly being in this industry he's seen so much of every single youtuber of every single size you could be talking a thousand followers a hundred thousand followers a million followers 10 million followers and they're all taking under the table ads champ pd was very open about the conversation as he felt that it was very unfair to viewers he said that they were being deceived by the people that they watch is he another expose channel no he's like a food reviewer oh he's not he's i wouldn't really call him a mukbang hey i guess he's kind of a mukbanger but he goes to more like restaurants he's a foodie and he's talking about this like is he exposing the issue or he's commenting so a lot of mukbangers were exposed for it so he was commenting on it because he was like yeah i mean i i've known about this and it's just so frustrating because he didn't do that no no and uh at that time he listed a few names and jiang was on that list of names and he says i can name them all you know the Korean YouTube industry is a mess.

47:51They're all guilty of completely manipulating their subscribers. Immediately after Chan PD's live stream, all the YouTubers that he stated had to post apology videos. But later, Ji Yang went on to post that, no, I never did any under the table advertisements. And maybe Chan PD got the wrong information. Maybe he didn't realize that, or maybe he didn't do his research. So regardless, this whole situation was a mess and it's important for later so keep it in mind but Chan PD had to post an apology video and then he posted another video next to Ji Yang the two of them filmed a video together so he had just accused her of doing under the table advertisements Ji Yang said I never did that and the two of them sit together and Ji Yang can barely hold her head up all of her hair is covering her face she can't even look Chan PD in the eyes she looks terrified for her life and he apologizes to her on live stream he even bows to her.

48:48Chan PD was heavily bullied after accusing one of the biggest, most beloved South Korean YouTubers wrongfully of shady business practices. His family was followed. He was bullied for years and someone literally threw a rock at him on the street because they hated his guts. So now people are listening to this blackmail audio and they're thinking, okay, so she worked at a hostess bar. Is there more? Like what else is going on? Is this the bigger scandal that they're referring to that everything's getting redacted? Is she doing under the table ads still? Is this the scandal that she has to retire from?

49:21Like what's going on? What is underdog Jay keep alluding to? Because remember, underdog Jay wouldn't tell Jin what he has on Ji-young, but he kept saying it's big, it's big, it's big. There's more than that. Yeah. More story. He's like, oh, it's more than the room salon. Like if I tell everyone what I know about Ji-young, her career is over. Okay. So people are like, does it have anything to do with the 2020 ad scandal? Like what's going on? A few hours after Kim posts the blackmail videos on YouTube, Ji Young goes on live. She titles the live stream, I will tell you everything. Right off the bat in the video, you can tell that she's not the happy bubbly self that she normally is, which is fine considering it's a very tough topic.

50:04I mean, she's accused of a bunch of things, but you know, obviously there's something more in her demeanor. She seems really anxious and nervous. she keeps rubbing her palms together in almost like a self-soothing manner. Like every sentence, she'll just kind of rub her hands together as if she's trying to comfort herself. And she's trying very hard not to cry. You can tell that she's clearly taking this incredibly seriously and she's trying to be as transparent as possible. I mean, she almost sounds like she's nervously rambling in the beginning. Her voice is shaky and sore like she's been crying all day.

50:37And she states that she wants to address this because it's becoming a bit of an issue. It's a bit rushed. She doesn't have her thoughts collected or together or anything. Nothing is organized. But she feels like she needs to be the one to tell her viewers herself. She said, I know I turned on the live stream a bit rushed. It's a bit sudden. But anyway, I still think it's the right thing for me to do to tell you quickly. She said that she doesn't have a script. She's just going to be talking from her emotions. And she has a few things she wrote down so she doesn't forget to share it. I don't even know how much I should share or where to start, but I have this thought.

51:14I think it's right for me to tell you how it all started and how it all ended. I think that would be the right way for me to handle it. So yeah, from beginning to end, I'm going to tell you my story. And she starts talking not about tax evasion, not about under the table advertisements. She starts talking about a previous relationship that she had been in. she was taking a year off of university and she met this guy at first it was really nice the relationship spiraled pretty quickly he was treating her very well he was kind they just kind of clicked but soon after he got very violent and when she's talking about this part you can tell it's still very fresh like the trauma is very strong she keeps choking up and she has to stop multiple times to collect herself.

52:04And she keeps apologizing, like, I'm sorry, I'm going to try and be clearer with my words. She starts talking about the abuse. She says it was like hell on earth for her. And she says she took a leave of absence from university. She was trying to make money. And she meets this guy, Lee Donghyun. And very quickly, he gets violent. And she immediately decides the minute he gets violent, the first time, I'm going to leave. I'm not going to stay with someone like this. I'm not going to put up with this, but when she tries breaking up with him, he laughs and shows her his phone where he has a video of her, an intimate video that she did not know he filmed.

52:41And he basically told her, you break up with me and I'm going to spread this everywhere because you're not going to break up with me. So from there, he felt like he held all of the power. She said that after that attempted breakup, I got hit a lot. There were things that it just felt like hell he would grab an umbrella and start hitting her or whatever innocent random object would be around blunt objects he would just start beating her with it which would explain why her bruises were not necessarily like circular because if you were to shield yourself with your arm and someone whacks you with an umbrella it could be a little bit more straight and a bit of a bigger blotch wait so this is when she was already big on youtube no she is in this relationship before YouTube and it continues for years during her YouTube career.

53:30Okay. So very quickly, she said that he dragged her to his place of work, which was like a hostess bar. And he was a manager and he said, you're going to be one of the girls here. You're going to be pouring drinks and you're going to be flirting with male customers. Now, Jiang said there was no sex work involved, or at least she didn't participate in sex work. And she said at the time while being beaten, he just forced me. He told me, you need to sit and pour drinks for customers. Just be the conversation partner. So at the time I did the job of sitting and pouring drinks and I couldn't tell my friends about being threatened.

54:03So I didn't even tell them what I was doing this job. And some people found out. I told them it's because I wanted to. It was just really for a short amount of time, not that long at all that I worked at that bar. He took all the money that I earned and kept dragging me around every day. And I told my ex-boyfriend, I was really sorry, but I couldn't do it anymore that I wanted to stop. But again, he used violence and threatened to tell my family everything so I couldn't resist. And he kept trying to gaslight her into going to work for the seedier bars, basically trying to get her to engage in sex work.

54:33And she kept saying, I don't want to. And he would explode at her. Well, how are you going to make me money then? That's when Ji Young thought of doing the only thing that she could think of. A while before this, when she was still in class, she didn't have enough money for food and everyone around her knew that she could eat. so they told her hey you should try mukbang like they're killing it online these days everybody's doing mukbang maybe you can at least cover the money for food right she said she told her boyfriend i can try live streaming to earn money i can try it that way i can eat a lot she starts her youtube channel because of him she said i was beaten in the house that i did my very first broadcast in she said for many years of her youtube career for four years she had been a victim of essay illegal filming dating violence blackmail and extortion for four years she secretly went through all that abuse and was blackmailed her boyfriend took at least three million dollars of youtube earnings because she very quickly rose to fame the boyfriend took all her earnings too Practically all her earnings over the span of four years.

55:43Wow. Yeah. Yeah. He refused to let her go. She said, I was beaten twice a day. I did videos while being beaten every day, even after the videos. He hit my body saying my face would show signs of abuse. He took all the money that I earned from my first broadcast. My boyfriend would hit my body just to make sure that nobody can tell. and it was, I didn't even have enough money to order the fried chicken to eat during the videos. Like she was left with nothing. I do think that her YouTube channel was a double-edged sword. Yes, she was doing this to make him money and he was holding that as control over her.

56:22But at the same time, she stated she really loved doing videos. She really loved the mukbangs. She said it was really the only thing in her life that she enjoyed. Even if he was taking all the money from it, she said I love I love doing the video so much and I would be so happy reading comments and every time I would do it and every time I would read the live stream comments it was just so comforting and it made me so happy that I think that I was able to endure it for so long I mean that was truly the biggest thing for me I just loved communicating with viewers so much and I wanted to keep doing it and there were a lot of things that I couldn't tell you guys about but I'm really so grateful to those who supported me and I just was so grateful beyond words.

57:04Eventually as her channel exploded he wanted to find more ways to monetize her basically as his captive. He created an ad agency a management agency where he was 70 % owner and she was 30 % owner. He would take 70 % of all of her earnings without doing any of the work which 30 % of millions of dollars is still a lot of money but she barely saw that too if he wanted more money which was all the time he would just take it it's unclear if she even consistently saw anywhere near 30 percent of her own earnings during the time that he was in control and this is really strange but he would even give blackmail material to his friends on jian and tell them hey if you ever need money blackmail jian kidding me This is...

57:47Yeah. What the... He's letting his own friends make money from her by blackmailing her. It's so strange. She was blackmailed by his friends to the tune of$150 ,000. She did everything herself. Filming, recording, eating, editing, everything. He did nothing. On top of that, any advertisements like sponsorships, she would see zero revenue. Zero.

58:23She said,

58:42her anymore i was just really young and naive at the time so it's fascinating because you would think that originally once she starts getting a little bit of recognition on youtube she would feel a little bit more free but it was actually a bit more daunting because the idea of something negative being released now there's more people talking about it it becomes a conversation and the pressure of that i don't even know on her scale her scale is insane but even on a smaller scale it's a lot like millions people already know you and that's millions of people will judge you yes or be disappointed in you or feel like you harmed them or feel betrayed by you for whatever reason it's just so much pressure that she starts feeling like this pressure to yes be the person that her audience wants her to be yes when behind closed doors so much is happening that nobody knows about the channel did grow to the size where they did need to hire full-time staff which is very reasonable in south korea even smaller youtubers have like a full team in korea it's a very common thing jiang hires a production team and her ex has no fear no shame in beating her in front of them he would just beat her if they tried to protect her or break up this one-sided violent fight he would start smashing cameras and monitors in the set like in the room how's nobody like report it because again jian didn't want them to i see i see she would beg him and she said and because these things were happening i really couldn't endure it anymore so recently i begged my boyfriend to leave saying i would give him all the money that i had all the assets but the answer i always got back was it's not enough that's what he always said for four years he always said things like you know you're broadcasting because of me right all your money is mine and everything you you earn in the future is mine too.

1:00:34Eventually he starts threatening to kill staff members to have more control over her. I'm assuming by this point, so originally maybe the first few years of her YouTube channel, she's feeling that pressure and it actually becomes more of a chain to him that she doesn't want to disappoint her viewers. But I think at the end of the four years, whether it's her being emotionally fed up, physically fed up, or perhaps her YouTube channel has grown to the size where maybe it's giving her strength, like maybe her viewers are giving her the confidence that she needs. It feels like he senses he's losing his grip on her.

1:01:09I mean, sure, he has blackmail, but it's she's kind of becoming a bit of a wild card. She's the name. She's the face of the brand. She could run away and try to expose him for the truth. Or she could be so fed up that she's ready to burn the house down with both of them in it. she could be at the stage where she's like who cares if we lose it all let's lose it all together he seems nervous and he starts threatening to kill her family her friends and even her staff members if she doesn't do as what he says she tries to pay him off to get him to leave her alone and he refuses she said that is where she drew the line because at this point for the past few years she had desensitized herself to the threats even the physical violence she was so desensitized She was so detached from it.

1:01:55But her employees were like her family. She did not want anything to happen to them. And they were the reason that she felt like she could fight him. She said, they said they couldn't stand watching us, that we should file a lawsuit together, that I could quit broadcasting. Even if they lose their jobs, they didn't care. And I told them, no, it's too painful for me to fight right now. And I don't want to do any of this. I beg the employees, don't do anything. Okay, it's okay. It's really, it's going to be okay. but they cared for me so much. They didn't even talk about things around me to avoid hurting me.

1:02:29And they were so careful with their words and they always did everything for me. They were like family and I didn't want to quit because, because of that. Honestly, even though those days were like hell, I was still so happy with the employees who loved me and stayed with me. And I loved the love that I received. I loved it so much when viewers liked me to the point where I wondered if it was okay for me to even receive this kind of love while I was hiding everything behind the scenes. But now there's nothing that I'm hiding anymore. Yeah, everything's out in the open. This is her live stream.

1:03:01I'm going to try and endure as much as I can for as long as I can. I don't want to ever bring harm to the employees who treated me like family or their families by hiding and quitting my broadcast is not going to solve anything. So no matter how much I'm cursed stat or I'm hated on after all of this, I am going to endure it for as long as I can. Ji Yang's lawyer was on the live stream with her and she stated that they have a mountain of evidence against the ex-boyfriend. She said Ji Yang's suffering was immense and the evidence is extensive. There are over 3 ,800 files containing details of her victimization and as a criminal defense attorney handling many cases, this one was shockingly severe.

1:03:47She also briefly mentions how when she first started taking on Ji-young's case, Ji-young was too scared to do anything, to even talk to her. She had to talk to Ji-young's staff. Wait, so Ji-young has decided to go after the ex-boyfriend? Yes. Is that why the lawyer is saying that? Yes. Now Ji-young says, So only recently was I able to become independent like this. And I just, I don't want to be known in this way. Even if I'm a victim, I still did bad things, right? So she's saying she still technically participated in under the table ads because her boyfriend forced her to do it. Oh, so she did do it.

1:04:25Yes. But earlier you say. Oh, we're going to get there. So she's saying that she did things that she probably shouldn't have done in her career because her boyfriend forced her to. Okay. And so she's saying she still wants to be held responsible and she did do wrong. She is owning up to that. And she says, but I think I always had it in my heart that someday I wanted these things to be revealed. That's why I turned on this live stream so quickly today, because I haven't been free from anxiety for the past five years. And now I have the confidence to speak about it. I think many people will be really disappointed about me pretending to be okay all this time.

1:05:04I'm sorry for hiding all of this. I really just didn't want to talk about it online. So I'm sorry if you feel like I was hiding a big part of something from you. I just I'm really sorry and I regret my actions and choices I'm sorry the one thing that I always tried to live by was don't harm others around you so never not even once not even once have I ever harmed anyone I've never done anything violent or anything like that so I mean even when I was harmed I endured to never harm others she ends the live stream by saying thank you I tried really hard not to cry while watching the supportive comments and i'm really thankful so thank you thank you and thank you and i'm really grateful to each and every one of you okay so she went live because the recording of the blackmail conversation was released so everyone is like she worked at a hostess bar she did tax evasion what is this other thing that underdog jay is talking about like what did she do that is so bad so then she goes online and is like hey i need to tell you my story first of all this is why i started youtube this is what's been happening behind the scenes and there have been instances maybe we did evade taxes like the management company did but it's because it was out of my control so she's saying like we're looking into it i don't know i didn't have any control at that time i don't know what he did with anything ah i see it was literally just like forced to make videos so like i don't know what to say okay so now people listen to this they're like oh my god i didn't know yeah su yang is being controlled and abused yes essayed by ex-boyfriend yes and beaten like right after she stops filming her videos every single day for four years okay so that was the biggest news i see and as for her ex-boyfriend is he in jail now that's what everyone wants to know is he in jail what happened to him well no because he's dead according to ji yang's attorney, Ji-young filed a lawsuit against her ex-boyfriend for habitual assaults, threats, injury, and extortion, as well as coercion and violation of the Sexual Violence Punishment Act.

1:07:13Ji-young was seeking$3 million in settlement funds, stating that is how much he took from her YouTube career. She's not even asking for more money. She's like, hey, just give me the money that you literally took from my career. And she wants out of the unfair contract where he gets 70 % of her earnings for the agreed upon amount of time. So Ji-young states that she never, ever wanted to file a criminal complaint against him. But like she said, he was trying to threaten to kill her employees. So she had to draw the line. She contacted attorneys, lawyered up, filed the charges. There were two lawsuits against him.

1:07:47One of it was criminal. So the prosecutor's office was looking into him for his crimes. And then the other one was civil, which is between two parties. He was facing$3 million in settlement funds that he had to repay back, Money he did not have because apparently he was blowing it all after stealing it from Ji Young. And two, he was facing up to five years in prison for all of his crimes. Now, the cases were both closed, the civil and the criminal lawsuits, because he self-exited. We don't know too many details about his self-exit, but we do know that he passed away with his mom. This is very interesting.

1:08:25With his mom? yes so we know that his mom and he died around the same time both of them died in cars but there's no further details whether it was a car accident whether it was carbon monoxide poisoning it's unclear and they weren't even in the same car yeah so he self-exited why oh he just couldn't handle it the idea handle the lawsuit yeah he couldn't handle the idea that he was facing five years in prison his name was about to be disgraced and he owed her over three million dollars really and it's fascinating because jian was in a living hell for the past four years of her life getting beat twice a day with an umbrella and the first sign of something difficult such as i don't know the consequences of your own actions he just could not handle it one netizen wrote the fact that that man crumbled instantly but this woman stayed strong though through it all shows how amazing that she is how resilient he ends up self-exiting with his mom so the cases are closed and nobody really found out about it this was a while back before this blackmail tape was released this year like perhaps a year ago did she release this information or her attorney did her attorney released this information so after all of this is revealed jiang starts clearing things up and sharing her side of the story and most people I would say almost all people were very supportive of Ji-young they just wanted to help in any way that they could her subscriber count searched over 200 ,000 new followers in 24 hours after her initial live stream one comment reads just give life sentences to those trash who blackmail with sex tapes thank you for never giving up in your life you're stronger than anyone I know thank you so much for enduring all of that take a good rest and we're going to be back when you get back.

1:10:21We will all be waiting for you. The former agency CEO is really a terrible person dying by self-exit without facing punishment. Horrible human being. I hope he receives burning punishment in hell every single day. But a few netizens were focused on something else. They were asking, wait, then who the hell is the leak? So if the ex-boyfriend is dead, who reached out to all these YouTubers to give them blackmail material on Jiyang? because they're thinking okay if the ex-boyfriend is alive but what what are they even trying to blackmail her with they're saying basically she's like doing illegal that she worked at a hostess bar in the past that she is potentially evading taxes because that's what the boyfriend was doing and that she was probably still doing under the table ads even though she said she wasn't in 2020 I see wow like who would reach out to these YouTubers like Jay and Jin and give them these materials if it's not the ex-boyfriend because the ex-boyfriend is dead a while back maybe a year back Ji Yang gets a call from an attorney and he tells Ji Yang's agency he doesn't meet with Ji Yang in person he meets with her producers and he tells the producers I'm starting a new business I'm going to be selling air fresheners and maybe some deodorant.

1:11:42And I would like this to be promoted on the biggest channel in South Korea. I want Ji Young to endorse my products. The producers are looking at the attorney like, first of all, what do you know about air fresheners? And second of all, I mean, this just does not align with Ji Young's YouTube channel. It's just so, what is she gonna do? Be eating Korean barbecue and then show off the air fresheners? It's just a little bit weird. I don't think that she's gonna feel comfortable. And he says, okay, yeah, no. that's completely fine so instead of promoting my business for me i just want you guys to pay me about 1200 a month for the indefinite foreseeable future the attorney yeah the attorney is like hey promote my product for free no you don't want to do that okay then jian you pay me forever or until I say I don't want to be paid anymore Okay So he gets paid $1 ,200 a month In total, Ji Yang paid him$17 ,000 Because why?

1:12:47Because this attorney is one of the few people that knows the truth about Ji Yang's ex-boyfriend and the whole situation with him Because this attorney was Ji Yang's dead boyfriend's attorney he is here to blackmail her yes a fucking attorney is a blackmailing well he says it's not blackmail he said that he signed on that was a retainer he was providing advisory services for jian this okay what in the world attorney choy wu seuk is the attorney for jian's ex-boyfriend When Ji Yang sued her ex-boyfriend, he hires attorney Choi. Attorney Choi takes on his case. He knows all the information. Of course he does between the ex-boyfriend and Ji Yang.

1:13:37Ex-boyfriend dies. The attorney goes to Ji Yang and is like, Hey, my new business, promote it. I don't even know how to process the level of fucked up of this situation. Yeah. Number one, you are attorney. number two you represented a abuser and you lost the case like your client was a fucking trash yeah so like he's evil yeah but you turn around you're like let me harass the victim even more for more money yes like i don't even know how to process how fucked up this is yes but it's going to get even worse because a few months prior to him approaching jiyang and her whole company to promote his new products he anonymously emailed a bunch of youtubers tips on jiyang anonymous leaks for what reason we don't know this is crazy this this doesn't even sound real like every single dude yeah in here is trying to blackmail her now this is the public's perception Of course, he's an attorney.

1:14:51What is he going to do? Blackmail me? Okay. So basically this is the public's perception of what the attorney did. He goes to these YouTubers, emails these anonymous tips, because I will say that one reoccurring theme in today's case is it appears that some of these men just have a chip on their shoulder that a woman is doing better than them because truly for this attorney, I don't know why he would email these anonymous tips to these YouTubers because what does he gain to benefit? He's anonymous. he's not making money so he emails jay he emails jen and is like hey here's some insider news about jian and then for months they don't do anything because they're colluding onto blackmailing her okay time passes and the attorney is like well i got nothing out of that and jian is doing better than ever and i'm starting a new business so i'm gonna ask her to promote my business oh she doesn't want to promote my business then maybe she just pays me money in cash wow so just to recap all of this okay jiang meets a guy he forces her to make money for him at a hostess bar she refuses he beats her blackmails her keeps her in this relationship this violent relationship she starts a youtube channel to make him money.

1:16:12She ends up becoming a successful YouTuber. He makes millions of dollars, steals it all from her doing none of the work, and then finally gets what's coming to him. He gets sued. He hires an attorney who does all of this, that emails two YouTubers about all of her scandalous past. These two YouTubers start talking about how they're going to get money out of Jihyang. then another youtuber stumbles upon these audio tapes of them committing a crime and he hates one of those youtubers so he sends it to another youtuber that youtuber is like you know what i don't want people talking about miryang so i'm gonna use this to cover that up sends it to another youtuber and that youtuber goes you know what this could be good publicity for my channel i'm gonna post it and what's crazy is all of them knows damn well that she She didn't do anything wrong.

1:17:08She's a victim in this story. And posting this is something that she didn't want this to be public. And it will ruin her whole life. Yeah, and truly, what they gain from it is so stupid. Publicity, revenge on your little emotional beef between you and your buddy. Oh, sorry, you're friends with SA-ers. Maybe you shouldn't have been. like what is this piece of audio get passed by so many big youtubers and none of them none of every single time you think one of them is going to come to their senses and try to do something about it whether it's go to jiang herself and say i have this maybe you need to take this to the police maybe i can take it to the police with you or something no they they look at it they hear it, they see all the trauma and they go, you know what, how can I use this to benefit myself?

1:18:03Whether it's because they want to get revenge on a former friend, whether it's they want to help their friends cover up their essay crimes of a middle schooler, whether it's they just want publicity for their political career, whether it's they want money. Like a woman's life and career is a complete afterthought. She is just collateral damage in their hysterically emotional games that they're playing. The anonymous tipster, attorney Troy, made a statement on his blog, after all of this was exposed that he is the leak. He said, hello, this is attorney Troy. Thinking about the Jay incident and the audio tapes makes me angry.

1:18:38Reporting tax evasion was a public tip-off that I made to a YouTuber, but I didn't expect it to be used to extort money from the YouTuber. So he's saying, I told Jay about tax evasion, but I didn't expect him to blackmail Ji-young. Geez. Wow. Yeah. I'm just, wow. He said there are many parts that are not true to this story, but regardless of the reason, I'm sorry. I can't go into specifics, but it's frustrating that for years, events have become fixed as being true based on a few phone calls with me. I intend to live humbly. I will provide free legal consultations and support for those in legal blind spots.

1:19:16My office is always open, so please feel free to reach out or visit. I'll offer a warm cup of coffee and assistance to those in need. And then get blackmailed. by your attorney. That's what anybody will get if you go to this person. Forget attorney-client privilege. Yeah, he will blackmail you for money. Yeah, and guess what, Attorney Choi, sue us, okay? Which I don't know if he has a fan or likely he wrote this comment himself, but there's a comment under that blog post that reads, don't leave malicious comments here. You will be reported. The attorney responds to that comment. I don't plan on reporting anyone.

1:19:54I would rather use that time to work for the public as if he is this holier than thou public servant of the year. But that's not even the unhinged part. The unhinged part is that before he was outed as being the anonymous tip sender, he wrote an article about Ji Young's case when it exploded. Right when the blackmail tapes came out, he wrote an article about it because everybody was talking about it. He wrote a legal article acting as if he had no connection to this case. He wrote, in this instance, would a crime of defamation be established? There are two types of defamation, defamation under the Information and Communications Network Act and defamation under the Criminal Act.

1:20:33He's literally acting like a random attorney online that's giving their input on this mainstream media news that's unfolding. It's absolutely unhinged. I mean, netizens commented on this whole situation of him being involved, saying, I feel so bad for Jiang. there are so many people attacking her and do you think that even a lawyer is doing it i mean how many people are trying to bring this girl down why are there so many old bastards trying to get something out of her it's fucking scary ridiculous that somebody works so hard to become an attorney and then leaks information to youtubers why are there so many trash crazy people out there even this attorney is crazy yeah exactly i feel nauseous thinking about her case how many people are trying to get something out of a 20 something year old girl.

1:21:19I mean, my heart truly hurts. I applaud Ji Yang for getting the courage to speak out about it. I hope the rest of her life is filled with just good memories. I mean, it's so sad that we still live in a world where everything a woman has worked for her career, her success, everything means nothing to anyone. As long as someone thinks that they can call her a slut or has some sort of weakness about them. I mean, I don't understand. And to think that she is the most powerful YouTuber in South Korea makes this all more depressing.

1:22:07One of the main YouTubers who are involved in the initial phone call, the blackmail calls, Jin he makes the first apology video this is not the main guy underdog Jay this is Jin so he's like the one calling like oh got like two thousand dollars from the blackmail now it's an apology video that he starts off by basically stating more accusations and just baseless rumors against Jiang he's like by the way I also received other tip-offs that her voice is so raspy because she throws up after every video it's like what what are you doing right now and he's I don't think he can help himself he no he says it as if he's just being so transparent and stating the facts of how everything went down but it's so clear that he's hoping to cause more harm to jiang or he's hoping that this will be the main conversation that people will talk about yes yes like he i i think he said that because he truly believed that this will discredit her like this will make her seem like a liar or a fake person or whatever it is like he does not feel sorry he's still trying to find a way to wiggle his room out of this and what makes it even more disgusting and vile is like this is not true by the way like she has multiple times had public doctor's checkups where she's like live streaming doctor's visits they are testing her and a lot of the doctors have even talked about very few people have conditions where they don't metabolize the food well so they don't actually consume the calories of that it's like in and out type of vibe right even if this were true which it's not even if it were true the fact that he thinks that the public will hate on her rather than feeling sympathy towards someone who potentially might have a condition that they are battling and struggling with is crazy yeah he's trying to manipulate yeah it's like what are you doing now he thinks that this is going to steal all the attention away but it's very hard to do when the rest of his video is a dumpster fire He explains how he received a tip-off about Jiang in 2020, and he thought it was credible.

1:24:05It didn't really align with the content that he was producing. He was producing like, hey, this video is manipulated and staged. He wasn't really an expose social justice warrior channel talking about how YouTubers are committing tax evasion and working at hostess bars. Is this from the attorney? I'm sorry, the tip-off? Yes, it appears so. It's unclear. He states it was from a former roommate of Jiang's, but I'm not sure. could be the attorney could be a former roommate but if it is a former roommate that's even more depressing that there's just more bad people involved yeah yeah oh my god because there's also the two girls at the hostess bar that are forcing her to pay hush money remember so there's just like literally her whole life is just being non-stop blackmailed because of what because of a violent ex-boyfriend who blackmailed her and then everything just starts spiraling and she becomes this target for everyone.

1:24:58Yeah. He said that he didn't have direct evidence. It was just an anonymous tip off. So he really hesitated on making a video for it. He said for the next two to three years, he went through a lot. You know, he closed down his restaurant and he moved to Seoul. And while talking to people in Seoul, he just kept hearing very negative things from other YouTubers about Ji Young. And he said at the time, I believe Ji Young and her former boyfriend were on the same side, that they were both tax evaders and just bad people. And I would say that my financial hardships and my negative perception of Ji Young and my assumption that other YouTubers like Jay had taken and extorted money from other people, it made me think, is he really that bad to take money from a bad person?

1:25:43This guy is out of this world delusional. Yeah. He said that he would hang out with the Wrecker Union, the YouTubers, and they would always joke about how they need to stop, quote, eating money from all the people that they're extorting as a joke. And like, he he we're going to go to hell if we keep extorting people. He he's so funny. And he said he would always go home after these dinners and think to himself, these people just make money so easily. And here I am. Like, what am I doing with my life? It's so hard for me to make money. And he thinks that people is going to feel understand him and feel bad for him.

1:26:20Precisely. it gets worse he said i started thinking to myself it's not that bad since she's already a bad person right he goes on to state guys this is not a pity party i'm not sharing all this information to like cater to emotions but um one time i went to a wedding my friend's wedding and this friend of mine was a very very close friend who would help me through all the hardest times in my life and in Korea you give which is straight up cash instead of giving gifts usually you give up cash in an envelope you walk into the wedding and there's a person with a table and a stand and they have this little list like a guest booklet and you write your name down and you write the amount that you're giving to the couple and I didn't have enough money to give money to my best friend during his wedding and I even got this text message from him and he puts a text message on the screen and it's his friend saying hey jina like did you forget to write your name down on the chigigum like guest list basically saying i was too embarrassed and i was in so much pain that i couldn't even give money to my best friend for his wedding a friend who really helped me through everything what yeah how is that how is that our problem also what does that have to do with anything but why do i feel like okay explain to your friend then or yeah like even if it really means that much like i don't know ten dollars twenty dollars or whatever it is like or how about this get a job like you don't have to be a youtuber get a regular job yeah like i don't know it just seems much shadier than yeah if this is your best friend he says look i'm not trying to give you guys the pity party with these stories i only want to share my full story with you this was the situation i was in at the time which is just as goofy as goofy gets he continues i succumbed to the temptation and I contacted Jay.

1:28:25While I was talking to him, I was thinking about arranging a meeting with Ji-young's agency, but Jay told me that he was going to handle it. So I never actually met up with the agency. Eventually I did receive extortion money, about$2 ,200. This was the first and last time I received money with ill intentions during my time on YouTube. He also tries to use the fact that he got such little money as a point that he's a good person. He said at the time, my only thought was, I guess I'm not getting a lot of money because she's already being extorted by so many people he continues because it was his very first time blackmailing someone he's a good person see it's his very first time he wasn't even really sure how much to receive like how much he would even ask for so he just like took 2200 thinking okay i guess that's what the market is which is just i'm i'm smiling because this is like this is almost he's doing our job he's like like dumb and dumber like yes he's like like a criminal but like so dumb and yeah like i'm smiling because it would have been really annoying if he was so smart that he was actually able to use his evilness to convince people that he was somehow not this bad person right but he's just so dumb that he's sitting here digging his own grave it's crazy it's crazy he genuinely thinks stupidity and that it's his first time doing something is something to be proud of he argued you know if i had felt good about what i did i would have just continued blackmailing other youtubers for money but instead i didn't do that i tried to create different types of videos that you guys might like like i put a lot of energy and effort into pivoting my content because he's basically saying he's struggling to make money on YouTube and instead of blackmailing more YouTubers on top of Ji-young he was like I didn't really feel good about blackmailing her so I just like as you can see I focused on pivoting my content as you can see huh yeah he continues I did not fully recognize that she was a victim that suffered for a very long time okay so this point is fascinating in the blackmail calls they talk about how Ji-young's ex is accused and charged with domestic violence basically so clearly they know that she is a victim in some capacity and they also talk about if i asked for more she might have gotten beat up see that's the thing it doesn't fucking matter yeah it doesn't like he still don't realize like it doesn't matter who they are you don't fucking blackmail people that's just that's crime you go to jail so why are you keep talking about all the bullshit just own up to your mistake he won't yeah he refuses he's like oh and he states you know i wrote it off I wrote all of those conversations off of, oh, it probably wasn't that bad.

1:31:07Like most people, couples, they get into these passionate fights. Like maybe I just thought like that's what's going on. What's going on? Passionate fights? He's saying, I didn't think that his, I didn't think that Ji Young's boyfriend was actually abusive. I thought that they just would get into passionate fights. What are you saying? I deeply regret not resisting that one moment of temptation and making a wrong choice. I am learning firsthand that committing bad deeds comes with significant consequences. Now, this next part of the apology needs to be studied by the American Psychiatric Association and placed into the DMC-6 or something because I don't even know how to describe it.

1:31:47He says, but regardless of the situation, the fact that so many people are supporting and rooting for Ji-young now is such a relief to me. I know it really isn't my place, but I hope that Ji-young will continue with her success and not be burned by others and will be happy. He said in light of the situation, he does try to look for the silver lining of things and he gets to defriend all the cyber wreckers. You know, he didn't really want to be friends with them anyway. So this is a good way for him to not be friends with them anymore. He also had this image on YouTube, he said, that made him uncomfortable.

1:32:20You know, people thought he was kind of this moral guy, good guy. And it was a lot of burden for him. and now that reputation is gone. So, and he was also trying so hard to hide his financial wreck status from everybody. But now that's out in the open as well. Wait, I'm so sorry. He said, people thought I was a good guy and that's burdensome to him. Yeah. To like live up to the standard. Well, you must be a really fucking shitty guy to be burdened that people thought you're a decent guy. Yeah. That is crazy statement to be made. The fact that he's - I can't believe people think I'm a good guy.

1:32:55Like I'm evil So the fact that I was stressed Now that everybody know that I'm evil I feel relieved Because I am evil Now that you like pointed out that way Yeah, no, it's Yeah That is a crazy statement And the fact that he's like I was trying so hard to hide The fact that I was broke from everyone And now that that's out in the open too It does feel better He's like it does feel like a weight has been lifted off of me I really think that he needs to be studied by the American Psychiatric Association wow he also states that the video was uploaded a little later than he wanted because for the past few days since all of this news broke all he's been doing is sleeping he said it's not because I was talking to Jay and Caracula and trying to figure out how to get our story straight we're trying to figure out the best way to play this it's truly because every day for the past three days all i did was avoid reality i slept all day i ate just one meal a day the just eating one meal a day he also says it like everyone is going to fall to their knees and start babying him in the comments like the way he says it is very like hunky like one meal netizens naturally wanted to light his apology on fire it feels very much like he's trying to justify his actions because he believes other people are so much worse than me so i'm okay because remember this is the guy that runs the youtube channel figuring out which videos are staged or manipulated it's called chujak and one netizen commented why couldn't you detect the chujak of jay receiving 39 000 and burning your life for just two thousand dollars bro lol jay received forty thousand dollars basically okay but lied about receiving seven thousand and gave you like$2 ,200?

1:34:46LOL. Another comment reads, I don't know at all that you're struggling financially. Like, I don't care. Why are you explaining it in such detail? Wedding gift money? Ha ha ha ha ha. What do you want me to do about it? Why are you selling your feelings? Ha ha. Another one reads, so what he did throughout this whole video was, one, I didn't know. Two, I didn't have money. Three, it's my first time, okay? Four, I'm being treated unfairly. five i'm having a hard time i only ate one meal six i'm not that bad of a person yeah that's basically what he said yeah another netizen comment just reads honestly he just seems like the biggest idiot out of the three yeah that too yes now jay underdog jay goes on to address the situation through a video as well if he were to sit there and tell you on camera that he sprouted a second nose on his forehead i believe that would hold more truth than the video that he actually posted the whole thing smells like bullshit also he uses jayang crying from the live stream in his thumbnail which like okay fine thumbnails but why is he doing that it's so bizarre is he apologizing or no i think there is a fine line between confidence and pure delusion i think jay has never even seen that line because he is so far deep into lulu land he is sitting with confidence in front of the camera and with his full chest he explains this is not a case of jiang being blackmailed by me and by youtuber jin this is a case of two scam artists youtuber ak and youtuber pan the first two that received the blackmail footage so ak gets it from jay's phone and gives it to pan see see these people all of them are pointing finger at someone else yeah and saying that no they are the messed up one it's so bad yeah first ak the youtuber former friend of his took his phone and illegally obtained a copy of the audio second pan the youtuber allegedly using his story to cover up for his alleged assayer friends involved in the miryang 44 case this is them okay speaking of the title of this video is i will report ak and pan for their second assault incident against Ji Yang.

1:37:07It's not an apology. It's yeah, it's a video about AK and Pan. He says this is truly about how they victimized Ji Yang a second time. This is not about him. This is how they illegally obtained recordings to expose private matters, to open Ji Yang's wounds just to what? Explain themselves, feel better about themselves, get revenge to cover up for Miriam44, he states, I indeed did in fact receive money from Ji Young. However, I did it. I received the money to give it to other YouTubers who are blackmailing her. I am the middle man. I was going to use$40 ,000 that she gave to me to give to YouTubers who were trying to make videos on her so that they could keep her past a secret.

1:37:51I was like a consultant. He said that on the phone call with jen the audio that was released i had to pretend to be the bad guy in order for him to confess all of these things i don't know what to say wow i had to guide them into believing that this was all they could get and that i was on their side okay does he think we're dumb yes Yes, absolutely. Because he says it with his full chest for 20 minutes straight. I just wanted them to leave her alone. And once they get their hush money, they'd be gone. I just needed to act like one of the bad guys. I acted like a double agent. That's what I was doing.

1:38:37I got money from Ji Young, not because I was blackmailing her, but because I was a double agent. He said if he needs to apologize right now in this situation, What he did wrong is he failed to protect Ji Young's right to keep her pains hidden. That's what he said he did wrong. He couldn't protect her forgotten rights. I mean, you have to give it to him. He is fully committed to his stupidity. He is married to this dumb story. This is his story and he's not backing down. He said he received an anonymous tip about Ji Young's past. We now know that anonymous tip to be the ex-boyfriend's attorney, but he received it.

1:39:13And he said that he would normally ignore stuff like this. But it seemed credible. And the anonymous tip star was able to provide incredibly specific details, claiming that Ji Young was forging documents, accusing her ex-boyfriend falsely of domestic violence, bullying small businesses, used to work at a hostess bar, doing all these things that go against her image of being this nice girl online. Which, I mean, you would expect him to immediately, as a cyber wrecker, make an expose video on Ji Young, right? Well, he said it was odd. The way that the anonymous tip was written was almost like a step-by-step manual on how to film a YouTube video.

1:39:46it was basically like step one this is what it was just so organized so neatly you know what that made me think of i thought the attorney shared that information because it's almost like hey you make youtube video on these people let me give you this information and you maybe can pay me money or whatever as an exchange right but instead he shared that information anonymously yeah so he's not getting anything in return exactly so it's just trying he's just trying to ruin her yeah that's all and then he's like well she didn't get ruined so i might as well get some money out of it yeah that's fucking evil you know what sue me this is my personal opinion attorney choy i think that he is just very upset that a woman is doing better than him yeah but look at why she's doing better than you.

1:40:34You are an ass attorney. Wow. He said it was like a step-by-step manual on how to get the most damage on Ji-Yang in a YouTube video. Essentially, it felt very odd. It felt like a script was handed to him, basically. So not only that, but Jay's fellow YouTuber friends, other cyber wreckers were calling him up and they all had gotten similar emails from a leak, but they were about different crimes that Ji-Yang had committed, quote, crimes, right? so all of them are getting information and he reaches out to jiang's agency to tell them hey these are so oddly specific i think you got you got a mole on your team or something someone that works with you or used to work with you is out here sabotaging you this is his story this is fake i think jiang and her agency ask him for help to find the identity of the anonymous tipster and to figure out all the youtubers that are foaming at the mouths to incorrectly expose around these things and jay's like you know what i will help you i will take you on for quote risk consulting so he takes forty thousand dollars for his risk consulting services that's what he says but it's very much likely it was just blackmail because they did need a contract and they can't write blackmail on the contract yeah so they wrote risk consulting for forty thousand dollars what are you talking about right now yeah and he starts reaching out to all the youtubers that received anonymous tips to see what they were going to do with the information.

1:42:01And he said, the controversial recording that YouTuber Jin happened while I was building rapport with these YouTubers who had negative feelings towards Ji Young to obtain all of this information. All the information I gathered was handed right over to Ji Young's agency. At the time, I foolishly thought that paying YouTubers was the only way to stop them from exposing Ji Young and making videos. I even used my own money to pay. I paid some of these YouTubers with my own money and then when i didn't have any more money that's when i reached out to jian and they gave me money 40 000 to pay wow wow he's still trying to be a hero yeah and he said i just feel bad because i haven't been able to perform that task properly obviously so therefore i will return the full amount to jian as soon as possible he states i'm sorry for not being able to protect Jiang's right for this incident to be forgotten.

1:42:54What I'm clearly stating is, I swear to the heavens that I have not done anything to be ashamed of, and I will do my best to stay by Jiang's side to protect her rights. Let me say this again. I have not received any money through shameful means, nor have I acted in a shameful way. Please just wait one day. Just as always, I will come out as the winner in the end.

1:43:16Which is his version of events. it's a bizarre hero complex trope at best at worst it's fully re-victimizing jiang and spreading lies to clear his name so that he can continue making dirty money and netizens were confused on how someone could be so confident stating such a bold-faced lie they commented so in conclusion he did not expose jiang himself but instead received forty thousand dollars to help make sure nobody else exposed her but because he was recording himself and gave his phone to his former friend ak who along with pan revealed the audio recordings he accidentally appeared like the bad guy while everybody else caused jiang secondary harm this is just like the most co-winky dink oopsie i'm actually not the bad guy story am i getting this right yeah exactly yeah he also posted pictures of the contract for risk consulting that he has with jiang's agency and a few netizens pointed out the contract date for him receiving money from jiang to help her and her agency figure out who's spreading these malicious lies was february 27 2023 the audio recording of him and jen plotting to blackmail jiyang is february 20th 2023 wait say that one more time he signed the contract with jiyang's agency seven days after the blackmail audio tape so he's like no i was pretending to be bad on the audio tape to build rapport it's like yeah yeah so he's already he working for Ji Young before he's working for Ji Young?

1:44:41Because he said that it was only after talking to Ji Young and finding out the truth he felt like oh I'm on her side I'm gonna help her but he hadn't talked to her yet. So what does any of this mean? Netizens have commented on Jay's very fascinating brain and how it should be studied. They commented it costs money to protect her painful forgotten rights eh? Is that why you blackmailed her? I guess it costs$40 ,000 to protect someone's rights now another netizen pointed out it seems like he's playing both sides maybe he initially made it seem like he was the good guy to jiang's people till they found out that he wasn't which is honestly worse right so he might have he might have not been like hey i'm blackmailing you he might have told jiang like i'm gonna help you right which honestly is worse right yes oh my gosh yes that makes sense they say for jay it seems at best if we say it as nicely as possible he's basically running a racketeering scheme forcing businesses to pay him a protection fee to operate yeah another netizen just said a double agent please go see a therapist but also if jay's story is true why did jiang and her attorneys file a complaint with the Seoul Central District's prosecutor's office against Jay, Jin, and the no longer anonymous tipster.

1:46:00Another thing that's very fascinating about Jay that people have pointed out is that none of this would have been known had Jay not recorded all of his calls with other YouTubers. But it turns out he was so deep in the business of blackmail and extortion that he recorded basically every phone call just in case. He was so desperate to be able to blackmail them one day to have leverage on them that he was willing to record himself committing a crime. One netizen comments, if you're going to record yourself blackmailing someone, maybe learn how to take care of your phone a little bit better. And that's so fascinating because I'm assuming AK made a copy of Jay's phone, probably with blackmailing intent.

1:46:41Yeah. Right? Like, why the hell would you... You're digging for something to blackmail someone. so all of these people are just the shittiest of the shittiest people yeah another one just said i think jay should be eradicated we should just douse him with pesticides and get rid of him curricula broke his silence this is the one that gave advice he is like the more well-liked cyber wrecker i wouldn't say he's like beloved he's not like Ji-yang where most people like him but he was a little bit more well liked he did have previous controversies but you know um he was the one that gave advice that Ji-yang is the golden goose that lays the golden eggs so maybe don't blackmail her he broke his silence after the whole incident and he posted a paragraph that reads I had a fever in the morning and last night so I took some medicine and fell into a deep sleep I woke up this morning to 40 missed calls and my youtube channel filled with hate comments and I'm all over the news as if I'm a son of a bitch who took money under the table I'm not sure if this is a dream or reality but my head is in a daze this morning I'm not sure if this is revenge for my coverage on another incident that I think Kim and Jay didn't like but he writes Jay and Kim are you sure you can handle this war oh it seems like he's mad at Kim because he's the one that exposed the audio he's mad at Jay because they were supposed to be friends but then he recorded the whole conversation and that's the recording that was leaked in the first place and he said you guys want war he writes are you guys ready you can handle this war are you sure because the person who has nothing to lose isn't as scary as the person with a lot to lose who's willing to lose it all he posted a threat i swear on my two sons that i've never received any dirty money this is the only thing i'm proud of as a youtuber which is like the bar is so low I'll be putting a pause on the scheduled content And quickly return with evidence proving my innocence Please put your neutral helmets on viewers and wait for me I'm not going to go down like this For whose benefit?

1:48:46Then he posted a YouTube video stating that he is being slandered Accused of being a blackmailer He says in the video that he did not receive a single cent from Ji Young He ends the video by sending a public request to Ji Young And her legal team asking for help in resolving how unfair he feels the situation is Netizens obviously do not like this His request in and of itself is ridiculous. What do you mean you're sending a public request? Why should she do anything for you? Why should she give you the time of day? Why are you putting the responsibility on her? Soon afterwards, Caracula has announced his retirement in a YouTube video.

1:49:19He said, after being active as a YouTuber for the past five years without rest, I am stepping down to convey my sincerity. All recent allegations are my fault. I foolishly responded by involving innocent kids out of fear after being accused of being a blackmailer overnight. If I had known about Ji Yang's heartbreaking past while talking on the phone with Jay, I wouldn't have spoken so lightly about, you know, blackmail her, not blackmail her, even if it was a personal call. This was inconsiderate and wrong on my part. I have never conspired to threaten or take money. I really hope everyone believes me on this.

1:49:52He tries to explain one time that he took money and... Wait, wait. I thought you said he never took money. he says it was not blackmail money kind of he said okay it's somewhat paraphrased for clarity but he said that he was receiving money from a person known as suit who's currently in prison for fraud he said in 2021 my channel was about cars which is why my channel name is caracula car and dracula combined and it was not about social issues back then i introduced suit to another businessman and the two of them were gonna raise money for a new business and they gave me 22 000 to provide media attention to their business i use that money personally what the so you took money yeah and you spend the money you stole the money yeah that's supposed to be for marketing and you used it to do your own shop like what what but he's justifying it by saying suits business turned out to be a scam and he's now in prison ah so that makes him innocent yes because you know if they're bad people yeah so he didn't take the money no okay yeah that never happened it's like two negatives equal a positive right okay and he says a is also on trial for a crypto related case so you know and he said i wanted to hide all this but i won't conceal my crimes anymore and i will fully cooperate with the investigation if i'm to be punished i will accept it willingly and i'm truly sorry i have ruined myself and will for the rest of my life live in reflection and repentance the prosecutor's office came out with a statement that they will start actively reclaiming revenue earned by youtubers through spreading fake information or malicious content youtube has also demonetized most of their channels curricula jinn and jay's youtube channels demonetized wow so that means youtube has officially got involved yes because um it goes against their partner program policies and you have to be a youtube partner to monetize your videos what part goes against like what like is it blackmail yeah it's against the crime and extortions so after he got demonetized he say i retire yeah like a lot of them just retired after they got demonetized okay it's not you okay you got fired yeah yeah okay yeah and um the prosecutor's office is saying that they're going to be reclaiming revenue earned by youtubers that spread fake information or malicious content which on surface level sounds great because if they can reclaim some profits maybe they can give it to the victims some netizens really supported it initially but it's too good to be true right other netizens are concerned they comment in other words sure this case but think about all the other cases in other words all channels the prosecutors find offensive will be considered criminal channels and they can claim profits from them.

1:52:46So they have control. Yes. And another comment said, there's so much room for this to be abused. If the prosecutions can claim profit as proceeds of crime for defamation, it means they can pressure the political channels that criticize the government or their work. Another comment reads, so they want to bully YouTubers who talk shit about them. And they're using this case as the excuse and the example. So it's getting very messy. The Bar Association is investigating attorney Choi, the one that leaked the information to the YouTubers. Some people say that he might not actually get in any trouble because technically there is no attorney-client privilege since A, the client is dead.

1:53:21Additionally, he did not leak any information that I guess is unfavorable to the dead client. And Ji-Yang was never his client. He also signed the contract with Ji-Yang to be her advisor after he already leaked the information to YouTubers. Which is morally even more disgusting, but legally it could help him is what a lot of netizens are concerned about. And this just feels like a case of a bunch of men feeling like they could take a piece of that they're all just trying to exploit her weaknesses, her victimization to further victimize her. Like they look at this successful woman who has already been victimized to hell in back and they think how can i get something out of her next exactly one netizen sums it up pretty well and they say fuck so jian was simply in the middle of a fight amongst nasty ass men and yeah i will say this case made me lose a lot of hope in men except um remember champ pd the youtuber who in 2020 was talking about all the under the table ads well the truth is jian did do under the table ads at the time because her boyfriend had forced her to.

1:54:37Champy D made that video where he exposed Jiang of doing it. And after that video was released, Jiang's ex-boyfriend called Champy D in the middle of the night and stated that, yes, Jiang did take those ads, but I'm going to kill her and I'm going to kill myself. And Champy D is like, what are you talking about? And he's like, unless you can help me put an end to this, we're both going to die. Wow Chan PD lies on camera after that He posts an apology video Where he says that his information was wrong And Jiang did not take under the table ads He goes on a live stream with Jiang And even though he wasn't wrong It didn't matter to him Because Jiang's life was in danger I don't think that he knew That the ex was abusing Jiang to that extent But clearly he's a very scary person if he's threatening to, you know, self-exit with her.

1:55:31He just thought, I can't let her die. And so in that video where he apologizes to Jiang, they're both sitting at the table and Jiang is crying. She's very emotional and it makes him appear worse because a lot of the comments at the time said, look at everything he's putting her through. For what? Fake information? He just wanted to spread lies on women. And the truth is, Jiang was so sorry that he was doing this for her. and terrified that her boyfriend was going to kill her and emotional about the shitty situation that she was in that she couldn't even look at him. And she, because you know when you're so guilty and you feel so bad someone is doing this for you and like basically ruining his career for her?

1:56:11She couldn't even look him in the eye. At one point, he bows to her apologizing and you see her almost shake her hands like this. Like, no, no, no. Like, don't bow to me. Yeah, like, don't bow to me. Like, no, you didn't do anything wrong. But she can't say anything because her ex is threatening to kill her. He continues to apologize. And during that time, he received over 80 ,000 malicious hate comments. And he was physically assaulted. A viewer threw rock at him on the street because they hate him. He was just the most disgraced YouTuber for a long period. He never said anything. No. And Ji-young was able to gain her career back after that because people actually rallied behind her.

1:56:56How and this information was shared when? By another YouTuber who seems to have audio conversations between them. I don't know if a friend leaked it or something, but there is a phone conversation after all of this. And it's Chan PD talking to Ji Yang. And he basically says, it's OK because I was able to save someone. And I'm a business person. So even if I don't do YouTube anymore, I will make a living doing something else. and jiang is profusely apologizing to him and he just tells her you don't have to worry about me how's your health you don't have to feel guilty it's a happy ending if you keep brightly doing your broadcast for the fans who have been waiting for you i'm much older than you and i have a lot more experience in society and i can endure it i hope you stay healthy and you spread your positive energy to others personally as a fan i would love to see you broadcast again soon because she keeps apologizing and he keeps reassuring her.

1:57:53If you keep worrying about me and thinking about the attacks on me, everything we've done becomes meaningless. Okay. That just makes it harder for both of us. Just take care of your health and stay mentally strong and don't pay attention to the trolls and haters. You have lots of good fans around you and fans who truly love you. You felt that a lot, right? This time you felt the fans love. So stay strong. Okay. I want you to do well jian and rest well and make sure to eat properly okay thankfully he's getting a lot of love now i don't think he's addressed the situation at all he's just posting his little food review videos and people are like how can there be such horrendous people on the same platform as Jihyang and Chan PD.

1:58:42And Jihyang's team, they seem like her protectors as well. They never really get the recognition because they're behind the camera, but it seems like they were the ones that gave her the strength to even get an attorney. And Jihyang herself, she's a survivor. While all these other men involved, I mean, I don't know. I don't think that there are acceptable words in any language to describe what they are. To them, they see a women's success and they can only think, how is that going to benefit me? How can I take that from her? How can I get a piece? Back in 2021, and this makes me even more upset, a netizen even suspected that something strange was happening with jiang in 2021 they wrote in an online forum jiang seems a bit naive i don't know something about her videos it feels like a bear that is doing all the work while someone rich behind the scenes is making all the money i mean have the people that work for her and her channel have they ever been revealed like her business who is their manager does she have some sort of agency i don't know how else to put it it just feels like she's doing all the work and someone else is profiting the comments on that post in 2021 were flooded with disagreeers they said i actually think it's the opposite i think it's her trying to be perceived as naive honestly i think she seems more calculating to me she's a bit more of a fox than a bear i think she's really good at manipulating her viewers and making it appear that she's this innocent girl but she's a crazy clever cunning businesswoman she's very manipulative is the feeling not naive another comments i think the op is more naive she's not naive trust she's making money

2:00:26it's crazy how even when someone noticed something odd the comments are not even giving the idea the time of day they are so quick to say that a successful woman is manipulative sneaky cunning manipulative and all these things and that she's pretending and acting and she's pulling the wool over on her viewer's eyes. Yet maybe she's just a nice girl who really enjoys food. Okay. And maybe she's going through a lot behind the camera. One potentially comatose netizen comments, and this is after the abuse was made public. Ji-young got involved with the manager of a hostess bar while working there, LOL.

2:01:01That's why she's willing to pay and cover everything up with money until this incident broke out. Ji-young, stop trying to cover up your establishment work history with all of this what forced work are you talking about another comment let's be real jiang met her boyfriend while working at the room salon lol you're saying the ex-boyfriend forced her to work don't make up stories now just because he's dead another comment reads honestly this whole situation can be summed up like this jiang comes from a room salon background she endures violence because she loves a guy and even tolerates being secretly filmed in sexual situations without pressing charges.

2:01:34She and the others are all birds of a feather. Another comment reads, what's so great about Ji-young that she's allowed to destroy so many people around her? She should have behaved better from the start and none of this would have happened. Another comment reads, I find everyone hard to believe. Jae because of his past controversial behavior, but even Ji-young. I wonder if we can truly trust her just because what? A few tears and a few pieces of evidence? Another one reads, if you look at this closely, Ji-young was blackmailed about her past, but instead of reporting it, she gave money. It's clear there's probably something bigger she wants covered up.

2:02:10Her ex self-exitives, so if Ji-young says she's the victim, then the story is she's the victim. To me, they all just seem like the same kind of people. One comment from Ji-young's video reads, from now on, we ban your I'm sorry. Those who should apologize are walking around with their heads held high and why is the victim apologizing let's stop doing that so i would say that most people are supporting jian and they're rallying around her and we don't know if she's going to come back soon or later with her regular content but i hope she is doing well and that is the very complicated case of jian i did see some coverage of the case in English and I do think that the biggest element of the case obviously is Jiang's story and her abuse but I think even the re-victimization of the blackmail and just this series of people because her ex-boyfriend I'm so sorry to say this is dead and I think that that can give closure so that he can no longer hurt more victims and victimize other people and continue to victimize Jiang whereas these YouTubers they're very much around and they can victimize more people they can continue doing these deeds and i think that they have influence exactly yeah and they have money it seems so i do think that that is something that needs to be talked about it's not just her ex-boyfriend it is a series of really bad people that took advantage of jian what are your thoughts on this case did you know that it went this deep and this dark let me know in the comments i'm sorry if it got a little bit confusing and stay safe i will see you in the next one