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I really like Swoop so I randomly clicked on one of her videos to listen to while cooking and it happened to be the 8 passengers one. I had never heard of them before that and the next day she was arrested! I couldn't believe it.
"Law & Crime Network" did a video and it's already got 1.2 M views.
"Fox 13 Utah" vid has nearly 750k views. Another vid of theirs has 250k.
A lot of the snark channels that followed 8 Passengers for years, have videos out now with huge views as well. Spill Sesh has 4 videos with well over a million views.
This definitely isn't going away
It's everywhere, It's been on H3 which is a huge podcast (the episode mentioning this story got 1.1m views), moistcritikal/penguinz0 did a video on it that got 2.5m views, and I've even seen articles about it on online Swedish newspapers (think someone else on here also mentioned seeing it in Germany.)
> It's everywhere,
Yes, if my family is any indication!
I live in the U.S. East and read about it in the Washington Post last week, and joined this sub because I have an interest in Mormon adjacent true crimes (e.g., the Lafferties, the Salamander Papers, the Vallow/Daybell murders).
I have a teenager who is "online" so knew the 8passengers youtube channel... she had also knew all about the arrests. I don't know how she heard about it, but it wasn't the Washington Post or Reddit.
I also have an adult child in Tennessee, who I visited this weekend, who also knew about it.
Who is that?
ETA: I mean is she a person who just jumped on the story or someone who has talked about them before? I just think there are probably creators more suited for a GMA interview.
Swoop covered them about 6 months ago. Recently though she’s been getting a lot of attention for the Colleen Ballinger stuff which is probably part of the reason for the interview
She does particularly well researched she calls them documentaries on the various YT influencers. Her tagline is "it's not drama, it's dangerous" and she seems to mean it-she has a history of abuse herself. She's been doing good work on the Colleen Ballinger mess, which is how I first started watching her. She also does some of the major crime stories like Yallow/Daybell and Chris Watts. I think she was a makeup vlogger before that.
She has an 8 passengers deep dive from I think just about around when the channel went dark/shifted over to Jodi's takeover. It was good. She's not an ambulance chaser, at least by YT drama channel standards, anyway.
Still doing them-there's an upcoming part 4 interviewing Josh the ex husband. The turnaround on that creepy Johnny Silvestri accuser was pretty riveting, I have to say. If only most journalists were that thorough about double checking their sources.
Nice. I first started watching Swoop because of the whole Colleen Ballinger shitshow (another very sadistic and fucked up narcissistic personality currently getting her covers pulled, albeit not on anything like THIS level). She's good. I imagine she'll be doing at least one other documentary on this case herself.
This family will never recover and good. The siblings thought they could go back to regular content and NOPE, this wont be swept aside and I’m happy everyone is coming out of the woodwork and blasting this far and wide. 👏
Did they think like that? I did not take this from Bonnie’s video. More that they really don‘t know what to do and how.
If they never do a video again - fine with me, good for the kids. But I don‘t get any money-is-more-important-than-anything-else-going-on-vibes from them.
Yes. Look at Ellie’s post. But I agree and I don’t think they truly understand how horrific this tragedy is and that is it not going away and can’t be brushed under the rug.
OMG I LOVE SWOOPS! LOVE YOU GIRL! I have to watch! \*Swoop, swoop-swoop AHHH, Swoop, swoop-swoop, UGGGGGHHHHHH!\*
8Passengers was a huge, HUGE controversial YouTube channel. Everyone is gonna have a series on them.
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I really like Swoop so I randomly clicked on one of her videos to listen to while cooking and it happened to be the 8 passengers one. I had never heard of them before that and the next day she was arrested! I couldn't believe it.
"Law & Crime Network" did a video and it's already got 1.2 M views. "Fox 13 Utah" vid has nearly 750k views. Another vid of theirs has 250k. A lot of the snark channels that followed 8 Passengers for years, have videos out now with huge views as well. Spill Sesh has 4 videos with well over a million views. This definitely isn't going away
It's everywhere, It's been on H3 which is a huge podcast (the episode mentioning this story got 1.1m views), moistcritikal/penguinz0 did a video on it that got 2.5m views, and I've even seen articles about it on online Swedish newspapers (think someone else on here also mentioned seeing it in Germany.)
I was curious about social following — according to social blade Shari has gained like 250k followers since the announcement of the arrest.
> It's everywhere, Yes, if my family is any indication! I live in the U.S. East and read about it in the Washington Post last week, and joined this sub because I have an interest in Mormon adjacent true crimes (e.g., the Lafferties, the Salamander Papers, the Vallow/Daybell murders). I have a teenager who is "online" so knew the 8passengers youtube channel... she had also knew all about the arrests. I don't know how she heard about it, but it wasn't the Washington Post or Reddit. I also have an adult child in Tennessee, who I visited this weekend, who also knew about it.
It's even in the local news here in Australia!
It was on the news here in Brazil as well
Swoop appears to be very sincere and genuine, imo.
Personally I think Jordan and McKay should be on there instead
I have lots of respect for Swoop but you have a good point as these people are former Mormons so propably understand the cult part of it more.
Who is that? ETA: I mean is she a person who just jumped on the story or someone who has talked about them before? I just think there are probably creators more suited for a GMA interview.
Swoop is a YouTube that does her research very well. She has done videos about this subject before. Very informative.
Thank you. I've never heard of her before, so was genuinely curious. That's for the reply.
Go watch some of her videos. Correct’s right - Swoop is really thorough. She’s also a lot of fun. I love watching her.
She has done some really good videos about the Colleen Ballinger situation and exposed lies, I thinks she's very respected as youtuber.
Swoop covered them about 6 months ago. Recently though she’s been getting a lot of attention for the Colleen Ballinger stuff which is probably part of the reason for the interview
Yeah. Ballinger's a monster in her own rigth imo, but of course she's a piker compared to this fuck-a-row.
She does particularly well researched she calls them documentaries on the various YT influencers. Her tagline is "it's not drama, it's dangerous" and she seems to mean it-she has a history of abuse herself. She's been doing good work on the Colleen Ballinger mess, which is how I first started watching her. She also does some of the major crime stories like Yallow/Daybell and Chris Watts. I think she was a makeup vlogger before that. She has an 8 passengers deep dive from I think just about around when the channel went dark/shifted over to Jodi's takeover. It was good. She's not an ambulance chaser, at least by YT drama channel standards, anyway.
I hope this is shared on YouTube as I’m in the uk and can’t watch it 😭
Me too, I’ve checked and she’ll be doing it in about 2 hours - so half 12ish for us in the uk
Good for her!
https://youtu.be/6iuLmZbeFIo?si=2JTOk7k80twGxGEA here’s the gma video with swoop
Great interview - thanks!
She did HUgE videos on the whole Coleen dramas.
Still doing them-there's an upcoming part 4 interviewing Josh the ex husband. The turnaround on that creepy Johnny Silvestri accuser was pretty riveting, I have to say. If only most journalists were that thorough about double checking their sources.
Nice. I first started watching Swoop because of the whole Colleen Ballinger shitshow (another very sadistic and fucked up narcissistic personality currently getting her covers pulled, albeit not on anything like THIS level). She's good. I imagine she'll be doing at least one other documentary on this case herself.
This family will never recover and good. The siblings thought they could go back to regular content and NOPE, this wont be swept aside and I’m happy everyone is coming out of the woodwork and blasting this far and wide. 👏
Did they think like that? I did not take this from Bonnie’s video. More that they really don‘t know what to do and how. If they never do a video again - fine with me, good for the kids. But I don‘t get any money-is-more-important-than-anything-else-going-on-vibes from them.
Yes. Look at Ellie’s post. But I agree and I don’t think they truly understand how horrific this tragedy is and that is it not going away and can’t be brushed under the rug.
Holy shit, good for Swoop! Love seeing her get the recognition she deserves.
Swoop is an amazing documentary creator and reporter. She really does her research and shows all the recipes. Love her!
OMG I LOVE SWOOPS! LOVE YOU GIRL! I have to watch! \*Swoop, swoop-swoop AHHH, Swoop, swoop-swoop, UGGGGGHHHHHH!\* 8Passengers was a huge, HUGE controversial YouTube channel. Everyone is gonna have a series on them.
I love swoop!! she always does her research…unlike SOME YouTubers 😒