Opinions Are Just Like......

The internet has convinced a lot of people that their opinion is priceless, and that every hot take deserves a microphone. We push back on that hard, starting with a simple reality: attention is currency, and social media monetization turns outrage into income. When you argue in the comments, hate-watch, or quote-post someone you can’t stand, you may be funding the exact behavior you say you hate. 

We also get into parasocial relationships and celebrity worship, from stan armies to folks who talk about artists like they grew up together. We talk about why privacy used to protect creators, why “everything is content” makes real life messier, and how obsession can replace the care you should be giving your own people. If you’ve ever felt your mood shift after doom-scrolling, this conversation puts language to that feeling and offers a better way to move. 

Then we address the uglier side of online culture: racist trolling, propaganda, and the way harmful behavior can get amplified and even rewarded. The goal isn’t to stay angry, it’s to get free. We end with the most practical mindset shift of all: build real skills, learn a trade, understand your financial documents, and protect your money from anyone counting on you being uninformed. 

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Transcript

Welcome And The Internet Opinion Problem

SPEAKER_01 0:00

Welcome back to another episode of the Way to Money Podcast, and I'm your host, Dante. And today, I got something to say. You ever just had that moment in time where you just get tired of people's opinions and other and worried about other people's business shit? I know I do. It's time for someone to let y'all know no one cares about y'all's opinions. So before y'all try to get offended, Will, don't put your business on the internet and I won't have an opinion. Y'all still find some way to go dig up stuff about people. That's the parasocialness in this internet culture that we have of today. And I say this with the most utmost disrespect. You need your phone taken and smashed to pieces. We know we live in a world where a lot of people think their opinions hold any type of way. And now I get that no one is going to take take the likeness of everything or may have something to say about this thing if they find it distasteful, and that's fine. But taking advantage of your following to spread propaganda, racist comments, and also unhinged commentary, it's just a flat out note.

Monetization Rewards Loud Takes

SPEAKER_01 1:13

Social media makes it worse because of the monetization policy. It's based on how many interactions they get as a whole. So with that being said, if I say this person podcast sucks. It sucks. It has no clarity, it has no model, it has no type of audience or whatever the case may be. And that person is widely known for having a podcast. Now, it's now people try to like, oh, now he said he wasn't doing this, or he's faking content, or he's doing this and that for a podcast view. That's an ongoing cycle. And now you even see a bunch of white people making racist comments. You got people like Chud the Builder, you chimping out. It's just people doing anything in their power to get a view, to get a click. Whether it's outraging you, making you trying to make you laugh, or even worse, trying to make you feel sympathy for them for something that they put on themselves. Constructive criticism is one thing, but always feeling negatively affected by just what by whatever you watching just because you don't like it, that has to, that's some mental, that's a mental condition. And most importantly, y'all people as a whole need to stop living that living through their insecurities. And what I mean by this, a lot of people are so insecure with themselves. They deflecting on every relationship, everything that they do in their day-to-day life. And it hurts them more than help. Because how do you expect people to understand your situation and cause? Meanwhile, they don't even know what you're going through. But at the same time, you won't go get help. But you'll get online and try to bully somebody else based on how they feel or based on something that they just stayed in the end. A lot of times, just scroll. Just keep scrolling. You don't have to interact with these things. These things are optional to interact with because all you're doing is making these people money at the end of the day. Because I'll

Everything Is Not Content

SPEAKER_01 3:27

be honest and say this. And I feel as though this is what a celebrity feel is doing. We have seen it from time and time and time again. We think it's funny, because some celebrities be clowning on certain people, like finesse two times that we know him. No, new. Like he has his spouse and stuff like that. And it's funny. It's funny until stuff gets real. Because even though it's funny to us, he really feels like it. And that's why I say everything is not content. Everything is not for the show of the internet, too. And that's why I feel like it was better. Artists were better consumed and just gravit. Yeah, artists just as a whole were better consumed when their life was private. They regular life was private. Now every time you got sex tapes, you got people using their premises and just posting baby bumps and all that as rollouts. And it's a lot of stuff that's wrong with celebrities now as a whole that people just need to just dial back. Like, get out these people live, bro. They don't know y'all. And and that and that understandable. You're gonna like their music, you're gonna like what they do, you're gonna like direction what they're going in their career. But stop getting in their personalized, stop trying to, it be people out here literally calling these people from their first middle and last name, like they raised them, like they gave them the name. Y'all too deep in. It don't get that shit. Don't go in there, man. Like I have seen it before. And it's it's to the point to where you feel like even these so-called community artists' community. Oh my god. And we talking about from the barbs, the the Swifties, the Beyonce, the what the Beyonce call themselves. I forgot. Oh, the B, the the the B the beehive, the beehive. Well, all number, they literally, y'all gotta understand too. Y'all say, God, okay, even this all for my Christian people, man. You tell me if I'm wrong. God says, God says in the Bible, there's one of the Ten Commandments, thou shalt not worship another God. God is a jealous God. And all this. You worship these celebrities to the point, anytime something happens, um, they right the whole time. You don't need your own family like this. The people that actually need you and they like to take up for them, you not there. But you'll do it for these celebrities and thinking it's like, and it's cool to do, and it's embarrassing. You 40-something years old following up behind a lady or a guy that's younger than you.

SPEAKER_02 6:42

I know what he likes, I know what cologne he wears, I know what size shoe he wears.

SPEAKER_01 6:47

What's the point? Why? Don't you think it's a little obsession? And

Racist Clickbait Gets Funded

SPEAKER_01 6:55

another thing, like one of the situations that I did bring up earlier was Chubb the Builder. Even just like that situation, and if you're not aware of who Chubb the Builder is, he's a screamer who went around different parts, different areas and stuff like that, um, antagonizing black people, seeing they're chimping out, which is basically referring to them as the racial, as the racial uh connotation of them being monkeys. He got jailed because a person retaliated, was trying to retaliate against him, and he ended up shooting him. Now, mind you, before I even get to get more into this episode, he deliberately antagonized black people. Walk up, you're chipping out. You're tripping out. Walk up, he walked up playing. Other even people, other black people even tried to tell him, no, you can't be doing it. This is not funny. No, it's not funny, it's not. And you know what type of stuff that comes with this. So why is you sitting up here playing and you doing this in front of a bunch of other white people who already you're just cosigning what they because a lot of times racism is it is always been prominent, but it's showing now they they don't even care no more. They putting it in cards, they putting it on the internet and talking about, oh, it's me being a doctor or this and that. They putting it on the internet, where there's racial propaganda, uh religion, religion propaganda, all this other type of stuff, false gossip. It's a lot of stuff going on now. And like people don't care, but at the same time, these people folded up money for this man to get out of jail. And I'm glad the court order ruled that he could not use any funds that precede that he got because he got tipped over $10,000, mind you. And he the one that shot and antagonized black people. But it seems like when you do this type of behavior, you get rewarded as a white man. Even if, and then it's a situation. I know it's another situation not too long ago. The lady at um, the lady at a restaurant, Cinnabon. The lady at Cinnabon, Linda called this customer, I called them an N-word. The hard R raised up over $20,000 on her GoFundMe. Because they five. Over $20,000. But meanwhile, you can't even give the people that actually need your time, right? The people that actually need your time, your consideration, the hard work, the people that be standing outside on the corner, some money. And I'm not saying you must donate, but look what look what calls you donate to. You donate to a racist person, a person that's openly racist, but you validating them, and that's why I said too, y'all have to stop allowing y'all selves to look to stop co-siding this. But y'all all believe in the same thing. But then when y'all get called out for.

SPEAKER_02 10:26

Oh no, I don't I don't do that. I love, I love black people. I love black people. It's not that it's it's um it's not that I want to um I I just feel like it was an injustice, an injustice to who?

SPEAKER_01 10:42

They they got what they deserved. Luckily, it wasn't worse. And that's why I said I don't wish no home buying home on nobody. But y'all gotta understand the stuff that y'all doing is consequences that come behind it. Stop playing with people. We don't care that much. And I'm gonna tell you something too, and not to even get too much topic off topic on this episode. I'm gonna tell you this too. For

Online Persona Versus Real Life

SPEAKER_01 11:09

all the white people out there who use this disgusting narratives and these racist AI, Ray, uh, I mean, I say Rayi, AI posts, we don't care. We shake, I'm gonna tell you what we do. We shake our head at you. And don't forget, after all this is over, after all this little wave is over, this little wave of y'all being open and out about it. Because guess what? Once the top dog leaves, y'all, you know, y'all gonna send me back down. Y'all gonna send me back down for some. But guess what? Ain't gonna forget what you do on the internet stays on the internet. So be be careful what you post, people, and just even then. You seen another screen. He got knocked in the mouth for being, he seen all the size, he being, oh, I'm red pill. I'm I'm the I'm the biggest, mightiest Omega male. Meanwhile, he cooking. That's that's that that don't make sense. Y'all gotta understand where these these overly want-to-be dominant males are coming from. Y'all don't come from the same line of thinking. Y'all just y'all pretending to look like this on the internet, but then when somebody actually trying to speak the truth and actually trying to speak life into people, y'all don't perceive that. Y'all like people like drum. Y'all like the drone. Y'all like this. But at the same time, with certain opinions that y'all have on and hold no mirror. Because y'all characters don't even match what y'all be typing on the internet. A lot of y'all are lonely, are lonely, ain't been outside, probably ain't took no bath. You got dirt everywhere. I'm talking about dirt just everywhere. You ain't cleaned up nothing. You don't even mop. But you can be a comp a Microsoft Word soldier and type all day long. My life miserable. So let me go talk about people that got more money than me. Oh, we should cancel him. We should cancel them. You need to go, uh, you need to go get a job education. A lot of y'all don't even work, and not even just saying I know it's hard times for people that don't work. Y'all won't go get no trade, y'all won't get no uh, y'all won't even go to the cap center. None of that. Y'all don't do nothing. And it's so bad now, and it's so bad now. Y'all have the most opinions to say, but when people start telling you about your life and really getting trying to help you, man, I ain't trying to hit it. I ain't trying to hit it. Now it ain't no. How you gonna be now? How you gonna try to act like you doctor fake with me? But now I'm trying to talk to you. Now it's a problem. Now what's wrong with y'all? Y'all wanna be critics and wanna be doctor feel so bad on this social media, but let a person start coming to you about real life situations you cannot relate. We live in this troll center. We I hate the fact that this trolling and all this stuff, and it just seemed like harmless fun now. No, y'all hide that with no, y'all try to cover that, sprinkle that on top of racism. That ain't fun, that ain't trolling either. That's y'all, and that's how y'all really feel. Y'all gonna stay the coastline, and that's why I said we as black people, we done already lost hope for y'all. For a lot of y'all. And we know, and I'm glad, even though I hate this, I hate this presidency happening. We are I'm glad that y'all got a taste of y'all owned. Um I'm just whoo, I'm ecstatic because now it shows you what it's like for you to be in the bottom, for you to be in the bottom, the bottom league, too. See, we all play the same. See, we don't play by the same rule, we don't play by the same game. But due to recent events, you had no other choice but to. You feel me? You see what I'm saying? Now it's it's a little bit more sympathetic in here. Now it's a little bit, oh, we need we need you to march first. And who the hell finna do that? I ain't gonna march for no. What's the and then oh, we should get the Black Panthers and do no. I'm gonna give you that same thing. I'm gonna give you that same thing. You watch my Malcolm X in that movie when it was a white lady in that film who was saying, Oh, oh, yeah, I love you because I love this, and all that.

SPEAKER_02 16:24

And I wanna, I'm down with the black people. What can I do?

SPEAKER_01 16:28

Nothing, nothing, you can't do nothing for us, and this is the thing, too.

Black Culture Gets Copied Then Hated

SPEAKER_01 16:33

We are the culture, we are the predominant culture in the United States. Black culture is we fuel what's cool and what's not. We do from the shoes, the the artists, the the music artists, and I can even give you an example when it comes down to even to the music artists. Look at Michael Jackson. People, even in China, has adapted. People make anime characters dress like with the hair and all. They took that style, and now it looked like it just ate the culture. No, all that came from one person, Mike Jack.

SPEAKER_00 17:13

Michael Jack.

SPEAKER_01 17:15

No, that print, my bad. Came from that one man. He put that black and white attire, the black suit, the black glove, now the the sign of gloves. Yes, all that was him. And it's proceeded through time and generation, but y'all don't give back thanks to us either. They took that all from a black man. Even if you watch the movie, it shows you how this industry, how this industry and people running with narratives, line. Because it was, he was so powerful and he had so much influence that once you up here, they have to tear you down. Same thing they did with Fred Hemp. Same thing they did with Fred Hemp. He had so much influence and gave black people so much vigor and so much, so he gave black people so much aggression to be of the cause. He put them in position. They came to his home and killed him and his family. They wanted him. He was target. So for the for the people that that feel like your words mean so much, and all the means are funny and all that that you do against black people. Y'all obsessed with it. We ain't obsessed with y'all, and we never will be. Your wife wants us, your kids wanna be like us, you wanna be us, but you can't. Why you think she left you, Bob, Jeff, Steve?

SPEAKER_00 18:55

Why you think she left you for a black man? You see her son, her skin shining now.

SPEAKER_01 19:01

She using cocoa, but a boy, she ain't never using nothing like that in your house. She cooking with vegetable oil and seasoning. You ain't got that. All you use is paprika. Y'all steal everything that we do. As far as the culture, the dressing, the way we talk. But y'all hate us. Y'all feel the need to talk about us. Even another scenario I'm gonna bring up as a right now. The Michelle Obama stuff. So, Big Dunny called that nigga Big Dunny, because he he really living hards physically. So, Big Dunning had a UFC thing on the yard. He had a UFC man. This man delivery said up there, Michelle Obama is a man. Do you agree with me? You remember when I said we kind of look, we look over y'all like we have to look over y'all like y'all have a disability, which y'all do. When since we talking about Trump derangement syndrome, y'all have a black derangement syndrome. And it always been that way. Your stick, your kids got it, you got it, your granddaddy got it, your grandma, and all them other racing people in your family. Y'all have y'all got black obsession. Yo, y'all, ooh, y'all, y'all can't stand us. But guess what? We in everything you watch, we selling you them cars, them trucks, them pickup trucks you got, them that you buy. We at the dealership, we at the loan place, we at we cooking your food. We doing everything. We in our space. So help me understand something. So I'm like, so what a problem is? That's what I'm saying. And if you don't, then yeah, okay, cool. You ain't got to like me. I don't like you. We don't like you. We ain't trying to fit in with you. I never have been. What? Some do.

SPEAKER_00 21:00

We got we trust and believe, we got some cooners. 100%. Shout out to Kim and 100%.

SPEAKER_01 21:07

But people, here's what I go to say about you.

Build Skills And Know Your Paperwork

SPEAKER_01 21:10

Just here's what I go to say about that thing, just about this topic overall. Your opinion don't affect the people that you are that unless them people are let them get to. It's been people in the industry over 20, 30, 40 years. People that have been doubted, people that have been talked about, people have even then felt like the spaces they were trying to get in, they couldn't even get in, but they still made a name for themselves. White predominantly spaces, black people have still made a name for themselves. Black people have still made studios and made this. We're gonna make it work. This is what y'all don't understand. We don't need to play the game no more. It's not sprinkled with this. And this is what I'm saying. Playing the game is not necessarily even working under y'all. Playing the game is taking your knowledge, your training. I'm gonna do everything. I'm gonna Move, I'ma construct myself on how you move and yo. I'm gonna take all my skills I need to build up. I'm forming skill instead of building up skill. That's the same thing why people tell you to take trades. You take trades, but you end up when you once you learn how to use this skill and learn this, learn, learn this, these components on how to make this thing work or learn these uh learn learn this context to see how they can come together, you'll be unstoppable. Can't nobody else tell you nothing. That's even when it even comes down to your own financial documents, and they can't know CPA, can't no uh CLT or none of that can tell you how to get your stuff up if you know your paperwork. That's why I said you know your paperwork better than any official. Therefore, if they stealing money from you, because you have people that will steal money from you under your nose, no matter the age. You can be grown, you can be young. If they find you ill-informed and misinformed, and then they'll act like they don't know where the money went to. And by the time that you get a hold to it, that already left. They ain't tracked, you can't even track it. That didn't hit you for a million dollars, hit you for a hundred thousand. And I don't care how much money you got, having millions stolen from you, that's a lot.

Final Word And Where To Follow

SPEAKER_01 23:17

And that'll be all for this episode. I just wanted to put that on y'all's head to let y'all know these opinions that y'all trying to spit and all this other type of stuff, even the openly racism stuff, we don't care about that. Y'all can have it. We taking y'all, we I ain't even we ain't even entertaining y'all no more. We ain't even entertaining y'all no more. We cuz y'all, life is so miserable for y'all at this point. Y'all blaming, y'all trying to, y'all always point the finger right back at it. And when they say when you point at somebody, three finger point back at you, and y'all the caused up situation. So I mean, what do we as people have to gain for even interacting with you all? Not nothing at all. Sorry to say. And even that, even okay, and it's like I said, even the stuff about the Asian. All this person's all people said was we finna stop giving, we finna stop giving a black dollar. We finna to Asian people. To to Chinese people.

SPEAKER_00 24:18

What? Um, I don't know what you said, what you said, but all this anything hate. Um you're um black, uh you're black, uh fatigue niggerism. Huh?

SPEAKER_01 24:37

What you said, what I don't know no black people that use no hard out like that. Nigga, that's not a term. When the hell that when the hell that became a term? This my first time hearing that. Wow. I said, well, I said, look, oh well, it just look, it it just uh it's it's like a little a racist grocery list. All y'all coming out the play, and we glad for it, and we glad for it, because now we know where you at and we know where we at the same time. You gain from us, and it's just and just as the many Asian people who have nail shot, nail 20 dollar, 20, 20 dollar, 20 da, we can go to a black, we can guarantee you a black, it's pretty black nail salon, plenty of black hair salons, and people, it's a lot of people that even got their like beautician license and lock license, hairstyle, all type of licensing, but they don't have a building. Why you think there's so many people in the area that do hair, but don't have a building to do it out of it? Come on now, 15 minutes, 15 minutes.

SPEAKER_00 25:48

Ha ha ah, boy y'all crazy, and y'all think it's upset, y'all think that it's upsetting us.

SPEAKER_01 25:56

No, we make the trends. I keep telling y'all this. We make the trends, and no, it's not well. Y'all always think girl, this and that. We are, we spent too many years and decades thinking that we wasn't, even our ancestors, but now it's time out. We have more knowledge and more common sense now to know better. We know we influence y'all. We can see people over there in Asia, rapping like us, talking like us, dressing like us, sagging.

SPEAKER_00 26:30

Don't they don't even sag over there? Where did they get that from? Black, black, what are we talking about?

SPEAKER_01 26:38

Oh, we finna really just play stupid in here and act like we don't see what was going on. It's cool. Malibu most, bruh. Most of y'all are Malibu Mo's woman. If you know what that movie is, you understand. Y'all are B ragged. For so it's a bunch of B rabbits out here, and they well, you gotta keep the rabbits, keep the rabbits away from them because they're but y'all have to understand people. We know our worth. And don't be mad when we did when people start discovering their worth and actually moving on with their lives. Just understand your opinion don't hold as much value as you could be as a person is. Because if y'all have so much, oh, you eat chicken and watermelon, you drink Kool-Aid, all this other type of stuff, these old tired racist stereotypes that y'all have. Like, bruh, don't nobody care about these little AI posts. No nobody cares who you worship, don't nobody care about your prison or who you feel like we don't care, bruh. Stop trying to make people coincide with y'all. Y'all not cool. Y'all, y'all the lame niggas in school that try to get people.

SPEAKER_00 27:54

Look at me, look at me.

SPEAKER_01 27:55

Like, bruh, no, bruh. Sit down, bruh. You ugly, sit down. Real talk, we not even finna pay you no no attention. And it's not even that. A lot of y'all need a mental reset. To be honest, and I'm and it this all jokes aside, a lot of y'all need a mental reset. Cause something ain't clicking for y'all, and I don't know what it is, and y'all still getting left behind in this loop, life will soon wake you up. But if it don't, you know, hey, that's fine too. But all I know is if it's if if you it's time for us, if it's already been time for us to stick together. So once we band together on one thing, we're unstoppable force. Y'all gotta understand it. And that's what people hate. They don't like that. They don't like, they don't, they don't like like people sticking together. Yeah, they want us to rap about killing each other and shooting each other, nah, all this. Yeah, they enjoy the culture. They enjoy the culture for sure. But that's why I said when we stop and point the weapons at them, then it won't be so enjoyable now with it. And I'm gonna let y'all go. And I appreciate y'all for always tuning in. Make sure you subscribe to the YouTube, like the video, comment, follow us on Spotify, Facebook, Amazon Music. And I'll see y'all in the next episode.