The Corrosion of Bart Baker
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Manager: He's not very handsome.
Moment of silence for Bart.
He put "very" so that means he is handsome
@@y0n_8 thanks for trying to be nice... But we all know what the manager meant. Some people are just not handsome
@@angiet7380 I know, the manager needs a punch in the face though.
The manager did that in order to delegitimise and demoralise Bart so he stays doing what he’s doing and doesn’t venture off with his talents. Bart is not the kind of handsome you see in top Hollywood stars but he IS handsome/attractive in his own right. Anyone with eyes can see that.
@@MmmMulholland I agree tbh, dude definitely isn't ugly. But he definitely isn't attractive enough for hollywood looks alone.
He *really* does not look like he's happy. Something about him just *looks* like his soul has been crushed and honestly it's pretty depressing. I feel bad for him.
Oh yeah, if I was a multi millionaire, I'd feel so sorry myself.
He's a greedy, spoiled idiot.
@@zoeym4868 It doesn't matter if he's rich or not. That dude is clearly not happy with his life at all. Money can't fix his mental health
@@addicted.spirit5305 This guy has a reputation as being nicest happiest man in the business. Wise words from a wise man, the King of Parody for 40 years.
th-cam.com/video/8pTdRJAAFis/w-d-xo.html
Instead of making fun of him, Bart should learn from him.
@@zoeym4868 He is not greedy, he was able to find a fortune with something he really loved to do and for youtube to take it away from him, that type of shit leaves people lost
It's his eyes. He looks like he's having a blast in all his parodies, but in these new videos he just looks lost.
An american singing a chinese song while a korean boy group dances in the background... he really is mr worldwide
Pitbull be shaking
M r w i d e
I WHEEZED when i saw it
lmaoooo
dalé
He became the kind of person he probably would have mocked
The mocker of people he called sellouts became a sellout himself indeed
"You either die a hero or live long enough to become the villain."
“He became the very thing he swore to destroy”
“He became the very thing he swore to destroy”
@@cephalonia5001 Dent
I used to really like his parodies when I was in middle school. They stopped being funny to me as I got older and I kinda forgot about him, and haven't really thought about it since. It's a little surreal seeing his name come up again in this way.
Katherine Ma same! i saw this video and i got a major flashback :/
Me too! His videos were funny to me, but now that I'm a little bit older I just don't see how I found it funny anymore. Still sad to see him go downhill though
Literally my thoughts exactly basically
exactly the same for me... bart couldn't grow up with his fanbase.
Katherine Ma same
His parodies peaked in 2014. All the ones I remember were from that summer. I loved him. He seems so... empty. I truly wish the best for him
You should go watch his earliest stuff from 2010-2012. That stuff is far better than anything in 2014.
You know what else happened in 2020 ,yep Taylor swifts 1989 era,most of his good parodies include Taylor swifts 1989 songs like blank space,shake it off,badblood
@@cryoraptora303tm2 that’s what’s up, I remember watching when I was like 11-12
Yeah, poor Weird Al- ✋Bart...
I'm just wondering if his massive subscriber climb has any impact on his income like it would on yt, 𝘰𝘳 if he ended up on the NSYNC side of a Lou Pearlman deal, if you know what I mean.
His parodies were only entertaining because I was an immature child, his channel went kaput because cause his fan base grew up
That manager is so slimy. This story just makes me sad.
PyroShayNiac Well, Baker seems pretty slimy himself so it seems to be a good match.
Hey quick question can men get pregnant, my homie came inside me the other day and i really need to know.
PatrudingVango3243 yes you can bro. I recommend you go see a doctor for further information.
Oh shit
@@AMan-ct1gu only if you are omega
He looks like a man who literally sold his soul.
Imagine if you were to tell him in 2006 that he would work for the President for life of Communist China while they operate re-education camps
News Announcement wow never thought the day would come that I would want to shoot myself just by reading your comment Jesus the horrendous grammar is too much for my head
@@selfdeprecatingprick1018
What?? Its not that bad at all. Its tame for a youtube comment.
What he meant to say is
"Imagone telling someone they would be working in the future for a country that massacred it's people in Tiananmen square".
@@dam11232 your comment seems normal but there's some weird blank space at the end? Almost as if the end of the comment didn't happen or something? Weird.
He did
He's addicted to fame. He lost his audience on TH-cam so he had to find & cater to another. He got money. He should just retire.
Exactly! It would of been time to sit back and work on producing and directing work
easier said than done. chinese companies and corporations tend to be brutal, he most likely signed a lengthy contract boxing him in and forcing him to make these videos for a long time - or until his company can no longer make a profit off of him. he'd need a hell of a lawyer to help him out, and legal battles take a lot of money and a lot of time especially when contracts are involved, it will be a hard case to win. the legal system in china is also extremely difficult to reason with and i don't see them siding with the american tiktok star coming to china looking for fame unfortunately. i honestly feel really bad for him. but he did sign his life away essentially, and he's got no one to blame except himself. i honestly think that with the experience and resume he could build up, he could've made it big in the entertainment industry anyway, but i assume he didnt want to trade in his online popularity for a "simple" producer/director/videographer job just yet. a true shame. hopefully one day he'll come back and just sit down and say his truth and how it really was working in china. i'd find it really interesting to hear.
Maybe he has a mortgage
Well, how would you feel if a platform took away all the rights of you making content and were left for nothing? Wouldn't you want SOME of that fame again?
@@silentoccasion4359
I'd either retire or find another way that isn't bad to get some fame
It’s sad to see what way his channel went, Bart baker was an icon and so bold and brave to produce what he produced.
I remember watching his parodies, time flys.
@ honestly yeah
@शshank the taylor swift ones were pretty good they had a stupid storyline
@ yeah they were some of the worst parodies I've ever seen he's the first TH-camr I've seen that talks about shit in his parodies
Bold and brave? >_>
Fun fact: douyin is the chinese name for tiktok, and they're the ones who bought musical.ly and launched "tiktok" as its american counterpart.
yeah basically douyin is the mainland Chinese version of tiktok. The rest of the world has tiktok as the market name. But it's essentially the same thing.
No wonder tiktok banned lgbt posts a while back; as far as I know china isnt very tolerant towards lgbt.
Tik tok was usually meant for China because they don't have TH-cam , Facebook, PS4 etc so many Chinese apps are really popular across Asia and Musically (Tik Tok) happens to be successful internationally.
Tiktok is just a Chinese data farm. Glad I still haven't downloaded it.
@@dreamlandbuds7710 China at the most is "neutral" and "passive" towards LGBT when compared with most of the Asian continent. It has a long way to go, but I really don't know why everything is flat-out demonized when it comes to China. The goverment-owned medical system is starting to de-stigatimze LGBT vs AIDS on their official social media already. THE CORE PROBLEM IN ASIA IS CHANGING FAMILY VALUES. If that doesn't change, no law would actually work.
someone help this man, they got him google translating chinese songs and singing in front of a video of korean boys dancing with a dead look in his eyes
I would even dare say I would rather kill myself listening to BTS or rather trying, than watching Bart Baker's corpse using BTS while singing in a terrible chinese accent and terrible translations as well!😭😣
LOLOLOL 🤭🤣🤣🤣
@@redduskironsky1058 lmao what
@@janycebrown4071
Why are you laughing?
Damn, I forgot all about Baker. His Chinese content is disturbing; he looks like his spirit's been broken and his energy has just been snuffed out.
That's because his ass is getting older😂..Hell, he tired!
I remember about him when pewds made a video about him. I felt kind of sad when I saw how he was doing and how depressed he seemed.
@@mrssolo78 looks actually have a lot more to say with your mentality and how beaten down you are than it does with age. stress greatly makes your looks different, and he's feeling that and much else in huge quantities. take a similar example, a person losing significant numbers of weight will often look way younger mostly because believing in themselves.
I HATE TH-cam(SNAKEU)
Keos Armanto ?
This is so sad. They’re laughing at him, not with him
"They are laughing at me Micheal!"
He’s still making money though. Doubt he cares.
when he was making parodies people were laughing at him too what is the difference
Paunz296 yeah but he would make the parodies with the purpose of them being laughed at
Paunz296 thing was that was the point
My friend is obsessed with Bart Baker parodies, constantly quoting lyrics and showing me the same videos over and over. He was devastated when he stopped making them. I don't think he knows what has happened to Bart. I'm not sure if I want to tell him.
ThunderRatBoi don’t tell him
I mean it’s not like his life depends on Bart making parodies
For the love of all that's holy please don't tell him
Tell him. I dare you. Life will still reveal the sad news to him later.
Bro, don’t.
bart baker? now that’s a name i haven’t heard in a while
e g g and that’s how he ended up like this
More like fart faker (sorry)
Dannaye your a poopy fart face
Mitch Watkins Am i Cute!? 🐶🐾
西施小狗Ling Ling NO!
Bart looks like he's dead and unhappy on the inside, and it's a waste because he's really creative. I grew up watching his parodies, damn what happened to him is really unfortunate.
What happened to him? He's a multi millionaire who's greed is more important to him than what you want.
Zoey M he’s depressed because YT screwed him over and he’s being laughed at instead of with
@@TardisInTheSkye this feels horrible tbh, it's like he became the joke without him knowing it
@@TardisInTheSkye Bart needs to watch this clip of the King of Parody, known as the nicest, happiest man in show business, for 40 years.
th-cam.com/video/8pTdRJAAFis/w-d-xo.html
I saw a clip of Bart looking down on him. He should get off his high horse and learn from him.
Yeh, ultimately it's YT's fault for pulling his ads and removing him from the preferred sections.
I’m a Chinese and it’s painful to see him like this...
And some of his lyrics don’t make any sense in Chinese
Do they (people in your country) at least like him tho? Because I just feel like they make fun of him and that he pretends not to know this, and that's really depressive tbh
@@txkj7 I'm Chinese, I don't use that tiktok stuff, but I suppose people might like him, seeing a foreigner 'desperately falling in love with China' helps to feed their ego and patriotism. Believe me I know my people well, I dont think he's been made fun of though. But people who are not that brainwashed might feel sorry for him, or for us too.
@@planktonscollective7129 uummph sad to hear so I assume you're out of china so you can criticize them now I'm Asian so I can say that before you take any offense
@@brgan557 the country doesn't harm you if you criticize the government and most chinese don't believe state propaganda
@@no4812 well that's good to know
This type of thing is so absurd yet so disheartening.
A man became what he mocked. Poetic irony? Satire? Idek.
It's sad and almost creepy.
@@sms5879 FR
It's "black mirrory"
Sorry for being off topic but, Is that Yoonji in your pfp?
@@vocasoti yes
I remember being able to find porn on TH-cam like 8 years ago now you can’t even swear
oh-
Nikkō it was a sad and lonely childhood
@@Daveluvutube i-
it’s good that that is gone
@@yeskaitlyn8029 no-
Fun fact: Bart Baker randomly followed me on Twitter when I was like 15 and I wasn’t even following him. I found the screenshot the other day and was confused all over again.
Kate Arnold same here! only i can’t check my twitter acc anymore cause it got taken down
same happened to me, he followed me out of the blue
He added me back on Snapchat when I was younger..thankfully he never responded to me when I would message him constantly haha
he did that to me omg i forgot about that lmaoo
He didn't target kids. He followed hundeds of thousands of people so they would follow him back. I remember on twitter he followed like 300k
Bart: "Everyone is China is so nice!"
His manager: "we didn't see much potential in him, he's not handsome. But he had 10m subs and I knew we could use that. Also his personal problems will help our company."
(That's not even touching on how shitty the Chinese government is.)
I think you're being a little farfetched here. The manager's working ethics don't have anything to do with the Chinese government. Or maybe you want to criticize China for not embracing the political correctness culture....
Yining Fan I wouldn’t say banking on someone’s personal problems is PC culture it’s shitty business practice that involves taking advantage of someone down on their luck. I guess calling him ugly can be considered against PC culture but you don’t have to be PC to have empathy for someone’s situation.
Jasmine - Ruff-Puff he’s being used and it’s so incredibly sad to see
@@yiningfan4642 It's as simple as this: I don't think the government that refuses to give people proper human rights could ever be seen as nice.
@@yiningfan4642 Chinese Police beating up Hong Kong protesters.
Yeah, great nation. Even the USSR was better than your shithole.
Poor guy. The life in his eyes is gone. He knows he sold his soul & the regret is obvious.
Annie1962 He looks so depressed in that Vice video. Like he hasn’t slept in days
r3conwoo lmao wanna know why ? cause democrats treat republicans like shit. like they are horrible simply for having different opinions.
Mind you that bart sold himself willingly. They approached him but he was the one that accepted
cendra belle because they are shit
cendra belle that’s what happens in society when you have fucked up beliefs.
Sad part is, this dude is unironically really good at singing. He probably could have pursued a normal musical career and been just as, if not, more successful.
He did try, it just didn't take off.
All he needed was one Filthy Frank feature (or Joji). A fellow TH-camr helping out another one. That might have been all he needed.
"and been just as, if not, more successful.": I doubt that. The entire artist market (actors, musicians, writers, directors, ...) is so oversaturated that only the most successful ones even make a living.
i forgot about him, wow.
ellie same.
Yup
ellie same 😂
We pretty much all did. That's why China was able to buy him. :(
😔
I remember this guy back in his prime, it’s crazy to see where he’s ended up
lmao this is his prime, money fame millions of views. he just changed the audience.
Bart Baker is like that one episode of black mirror, when the judges give him a show targeted towards a certain group
It’s called 15 million merits
This is almost exactly 15 million merits.
Is it just me or does Jaubrey always sound like he's about to burst out laughing? Lol.
YES.
It's because he realized that his life is a comedy.
Yess J Aubrey and Priminik both, I love their voices.
He talks so fast he makes me want to take a breath
😂😂😂
His life became a parody of himself
Ouch!
oOp
Thus the cycle is complete, he had parodied life and so forth, life hath parodied him.
Dark humor at the finest.
Bart : I always thought, It was a tragedy but I now realized it was all a parody
Actually “douyin”is literally tiktok and tiktok is from China
But its technically different since the TikTok we're use to is banned in China
i mean, to be fair, that chinese dude actually said " well, we just thought hes handsome but hes not that handsome" its still not very nice but its a more accurate translation
@@stronk8107 welcome to Korea, Japan and China, were fuckboy looks are the most handsome shit ever
@@redduskironsky1058 not rlly, the beauty standard at least in korea for men isn't determined by "flowerboy" or "fuckboy" (the flowerboy aesthetic was more popular for years tho), if u have for example a sharp jawline, are very tall, pale, double eyelids (etc) then ur conventionally handsome, doesn't matter if you appear though or delicate.
@@markly5460
The fame of Kpop stars that go through surgery to become handsome beg to differ.
@@Bollibompa yea but they don't have a choice tbh. Without good looks they would become irrelevant and their years of training would go to waste
@@eobardsprodigy dont forget that their companies sometimes force surgery on idols, fucked up shit
And I used to know all the lyrics to some of his parodies
Citronnade rose I downloaded some of them on iTunes LOL
i still know all the words
Omg there are so many songs that I don't know the actual lyrics to thanks to him
Lol same
Everyone continue the lyrics!
This song is all bout butts! These girls all have big butts!
Bart Baker? *takes long cigarette drag* I haven’t heard that name in 20 years
I don't speak a word of Chinese but his accent when speaking Chinese makes me wanna tear my ears out
Dat Boi same bro same
as a person who speaks chinese, lemme tell you: it's quite bad, his accent and pronunciation are off, and his translated songs/"chinese" have grammatical errors, considering how he uses google translate
Isn't it... Mandarin?
@@old.skeleton6944 yep
@@lonelyones and how is he supposed to know how to pronounce it perfectly lol, how do you know he's not already trying
"he's not very handsome" our baby Bart did not deserve that
Right? He didn't have to do him like that
And he isn’t even a bad looking guy, he still looks fine at 33.
it's true,bart baker is famous not by his face,actually,there is so many cute and handsome white guys in China,so bart wanna be famous in China,he should use his Talent talent
our???
@@maritzax yes, "our"
vice: why did you hire bart?
manager: IDK he's pretty ugly
HAHAHAHAHA OMG
Wait he's ugly? I'm from hk and he's just the standard westerner, kinda chill, kinda handsome??? No homo but I would never call him ugly
@Angel Ma I mean I would really call him handsome either.
@@stankyratman5685 agreed
Angel Ma I meant wouldn’t oops
I still can't believe Bart Baker is now Winnie the Pooh's Slave
Amatsu Kami Mikaboshi ikr that’s so sad..
So racist
@@peterchi5606 jeez, who cares?
Ok, so I hate how he’s sold his soul for this new venture, but he’s catering to chinese TikTok/douyin users and working for that company, not the government. Everyone keeps generalizing the government into the entirety of China. There’s a pretty big difference.
Rebecca and who do the heads of those companies answer to because it’s obviously not the people of China
Man seeing him do that live stream was sobering... its really sad
He should comeback home. His eyes start to give a dead eye vibe
China does that to you
I feel so bad for Bart on how TH-cam screwed him over. I just wish he didn’t sell himself to China.
Why? He is not hurting anyone?
lammergeier100 It’s obvious he’s miserable doing this.
Ugh, what do you mean to China, he chose this path for money or whatever. He sold himself to this company in China, not China. Stop shitting on the entirety of China for no reason omg
Austinn West nah youtube didnt screw him over. people should be lucky that youtube is even giving them money when it’s original purpose was to allow people to upload videos for fun. literally hundreds of different routes he could have went down to make money but he chose this one. this is on him.
Not only that, many foreigners who came to China and praise China for how "safe" they are compared to their countries. This is a BIG LIE since those 1st and 2nd tier cities in China are safe since they are pretty much the rich community with lots of bodyguard and such.
However, if you went out of big cities to rural area, KIDNAPPING WIVES, Kidnapping children, Human's Trafficking from other countries to fuel the imbalance of gender from 1 child policy in China.
You can search for them on youtube and worst of all, HARVESTED ALIVE for Ogans in China:
Harvested alive -10 years investigation of Force Organ Harvesting
th-cam.com/video/CBtjRJXEzIQ/w-d-xo.html
"Chinese tiktok". Spoilers but Tiktok is also.... chinese....
@omgbeckylookatherbutt I was surprised when I first found out too, but yeah before it became popular the userbase was entirely Chinese
they have a special echo chamber in the China y know?
Witchprince i knew abt tik tok b4 it was popular in america
Technically ByteDance, the Chinese parent company, has Douyin, a version of TikTok just for China, while its main version is the US-based international version. Hence the form “Chinese Tik Tok.” What Tekashi said.
Tiktok is more mainstream in America but I get what ur sayin
Jesus christ, youtube killed this mans soul. I normally don't feel bad for rich people but this guy genuinely had talent and ambition and got everything pulled from under him without notice. Its a damn shame he couldn't find work with some media company in the west before China got to him.
feel the same. bark is back from the god damn china, selling nft stuffs now, he is becoming the person he once satirized sadly.....
I mean in all honesty, he was old enough to find something else to do with his life. He wasn't penniless and forced to go to China. He didn't have to become a parrot. He *_chose_* to.
When you said he "translates songs in English" I was like "Oh, cool. He clearly must've learned one of the hardest to master languages and spends a long time taking the emotion/meaning as well as the words into account while his version" and then Bart says "I just put it in google translate"....(」°ロ°)」What. The. Fuck.
Yeah, I had the same reaction. I thought that he has some friend that knows Chinese that helps him with the translations at least, but nope, he is just taking random words that Google Translate manages to get right and then me makes up a context for them so it still sounds like a song. That is not "translating" at all.
i had the same thought as you at first as well so i was impressed since i learned chinese and it was tough, but then i read the chinese lyrics and listened to his lyrics and i knew he must have just used google translate because his translations were really inaccurate smh
He wasted EVERYBODY'S talent and time, be it actors, camera and audio crews and audience, by not knowing how basic syllables and word stress works. He's a mumble rapper of parodies and I've always despised him for getting success off of everyone working with him because those lyrics are clearly his and his only. And they are awful.
How can you tell all those lyrics are what he contributed to getting his fame?
He does EXACTLY the same thing in China. That's why people see the cringe now - because he's been stripped off all the talented people around him and is decaying alone in China.
@@DajJednego yikes
That’s why the lyrics make no sense in English lol
“We didn’t think he was anything special. He’s not very attractive” 💀💀💀💀
Look, I'll never blame Bart for this. This is literally 100% TH-cam's fault for being really shitty as platform managers.
this is just a black mirror episode, a very long one.....
All of the Black Mirror episodes are pretty long ngl
@@Dailylovenotes3 i know, but not like half a year long
@@rodache7200 true, true
a real one too
@@Dailylovenotes3 lol
13:28 my brain couldn’t process that he’s singing in Chinese while green screening bts into the background- I have never been this confused in my life
i cant even understand him half of the time even though im chinese 😭
Dude, he sounds like Chinese nickelback.
Just searched "Bart Baker" to try and figure out wtf happened with him and got pretty lucky that you posted 9 minutes ago on this topic. I watched your Superwoman video, so Im stoked to see what you have to say about Bart!
Amber Ingargiola really appreciate the support! :)
Sorry accidentally hit the thumbs down when I meant thumbs up lmao
My man looks like he’s dying inside
China really has ruined him
Main reason was youtube and their stupid demonetisation problem. There’s TH-cam kids for a reason, why should other channels suffer because parents can’t be asked to monitor their kids
Really? Who put a gun to that greedy idiot's head?
Greed, my friend, greed.
Zoey M I’m seeing you reply everywhere, you’re such a negative nancy, damn.
@@SoupyGal I'm so pissed at the way Baker is manipulating everyone to feel sorry for him. Nice people are falling for his crap and I can't help but try to point out how this multi millionaire is using them.
Zoey M He’s not manipulating anyone though...?
@@SoupyGal He's NOT manipulating? You must be very young and naive. Be careful, you're going to be hurt very badly one day.
I hope you learn to recognize a player when you see one. Baker is playing you like a fiddle.
this video is everything shane dawson wanted his documentaries to be and werent
He could have just started a Patreon...
WeiYinChan omg...you’re right.
Or got a job
He did...
Patreon would not be enough
@Rina was it popular?
God I remember binge watching his parodies...
This was such a good documentary!
Taiyah Jackson glad you enjoyed!
I live in Shanghai and the old uncle that manages our building loves to send his videos to our group chat. None of us knew if it was a parody or not. And now I know who he used to be. 😢
13:21 Bart translates a Chinese song into English while he has BTS a Korean boy group in the background. This is a whole mess.
@Chicken Choker No it's not a BTS song it's just some Chinese song that he translated into English but he decided to have a video of a KOREAN group which is BTS dancing in the background.
i think thats because it fits the beat
That was just odd to me.
I honestly feel like it’s not his content that was the problem it was his failure to diversify his revenue. He could easily get a $25k sponsor per video with those views. He could set up a patreon for exclusive BTS footage/early videos. Upload to places like Facebook and collect ad revenue from there. Just a few ideas
tomlinvision really excellent point
Exactly I think he was TOO dependant on TH-cam for money, he could of even made merch or at least up the prices slightly if he had too, it’s rlly sad he didn’t try harder
Yeah I was wondering why he didn’t just use patreon. That’s why basically every youtuber has moved to since YT is a piece of shit nowadays
tomlinvision in his video, he explained why he didn't want to use patreon. He was against begging people to pay to watch his content because he didn't think it was fair to his audience.
tomlinvision so you like 1Direction
I think now I know what Kurt Cobain meant by "It's better to burn out than to fade away" :(
That's Neil Young from After the Gold Rush "Rust never sleeps". In my day anyway 🤫
'Jeffrey Epstein didn't kill himself'
I love you TRO.
@@crazymazy5256 he did
Gabriella Randle idgaf about Jeffrey epstein
@@LyricsThatFly Nobody cares that you dont care.
He did
@@beadistar3523 nah
So we’re just gonna ignore how most of the songs are talking abt how great China is? I-
Propaganda
.nothing wrong with china. Good government beautiful scenery. Come Visit! You like!!
@@nelsonblundon393 eww
@@nelsonblundon393 your government bullied our country. I'm vietnamese
@@nelsonblundon393 Good government? Nothing against China but the gov is communist and abusive to workers
the YT PG-family-friendly shift was so stupid
don't blame the content creators then, parents should monitor their children's internet activity, or like explain to them the things they didn't understand tf
it’s not about that. it’s about the fact that advertisers do not want their name attacked to certain content. that’s why countless advertisers pulled from youtube 2ish years ago when a guy made a video about child pornography on youtube. it’s all about the money
@@mikeykeller2163 goddamnit
His Chinese is so terrible I can barely make out what he is saying.
to be fair its not his first language!! and hes only been doing this china stuff for a little while now.
@@TheREDACTED141 That's kind of dark, but unfortunately very true.
@@seaglitter9944 i've learned Mandarin 5 years ago and haven't had classes since. my pronunciation isn't that bad, he'd just lazy.
Gungi ginga gungi ginga
Something I was searching for!I was asking myself of his Chinese is even close to being good, but that answers it
damn the manager was so harsh in that Vice interview, now i feel bad for Bart
In China, politically correctness doesn't really exist, except for college students receiving some international liberal arts education. So basically, his comments are considered normal in China! It's just a different culture...
@@yiningfan4642 He may not be hollywood (where everyone gets their plastic surgery) level of famous but he is handsome. Maybe beauty standards in China are different where everyone wants to date a piece of plastic (same as SK) but for a normal guy Bart is fine.
Yining Fan i feel like i see u on every comment saying the same stuff like “darn pc culture china is nothing like that yall suck”
@@cthulhu7156 i was really confused, i'm a dude but i think bart is good looking and everyone could see that.
Not sure why would he say he isnt good looking, and coming from someone like him is not beleivable
@@elbattarijamil7781 Probably to keep Bart's ego on the low so he doesn't go looking for work elsewhere.
So he basically became the popstars he was parodying.
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You either become the hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the villain.
I feel like Bart could have created his on production company, making music videos for youtube musicians or possibly managing them. I think TH-cam made him so depressed that he didn't see himself doing that kinda stuff and being successful at it.
Baker is simply a greedy, spoiled idiot.
@@zoeym4868 wanting money for your work isn't greedy
@@Firegirl483 Crying because you want MORE millions, is greedy.
makes sense.
I wonder why these "TH-camrs" wont just get another job somewhere else when their channel will start to go down, I think he probably have earned something from all of those videos right? He could've go back to school and earn a degree or something. Like look at Michelle Phan she was able to do it, she gave TH-cam a break and went to school cause she had a practical mindset about being a TH-camr, although she was still able to come back to Yt tho and it might be not as impactful as before but atleast she has a business now
I can literally feel his depression through the screen. He was probably already depressed and now he’s probably at his lowest. No offense to Asian countries, but places like China, Japan, and South Korea really only think about business over mental health the majority over the time. At least in the U.S. you have more knowledge and freedom to change.
It's not about the country, it's about nature of the business. Because as I am sure you know mental health is a huge part of pharmaceutical business, and plenty of social engineering goes into creating demand for drugs/therapies through generating more people who "need help". So in US it's not the case of thinking about mental health over business, it's the case of stimulating another branch of business. There are plenty of people like Bart in US and all across the globe that are being milked in exactly the same way.
@@mfits It is about the country. You cannot deny that people in China, Japan, and South Korea are more depressed than many people from developed or even developing countries. Most of them go through anxiety and depression and don't even acknowledge it because they barely tackle these issues. It is no secret that the suicide rate is pretty damn high there, especially in Korea and Japan, and from my personal experience, many people there are very disconnected from reality and sharing just an opinion can be seen as a very bold and outrageous action, let alone if it is controversial. They have a very developed economy, but to what price?
Baker needs to watch this and get his head straight.
th-cam.com/video/8pTdRJAAFis/w-d-xo.html
40 years in and still happy. Watch and learn Baker, watch and learn.
@@lavender4322 well said. i'm not from east asia but i think most people at this point know about how it's fucked up like that.
@@snakm Exactly. Some people need to stop romanticizing those places and focusing only on the sides that they want to see of it. It is true that there are depressed people everywhere, but depression just like any other societal phenomenon, is more likely to be found in some places than others. Under the layers of kpop, "kawaii" culture, anime and technological/economic development is to be found a terribly depressed society.
reason why he failed on the long run : he has no back bone... he's willing to let go of his pride for a couple bucks
"On a chinese version of TikTok"
Isn't TikTok originally Chinese? I thought TikTok was born from a Chinese company buying Musically.
It is
Tik Tok/Musical.ly are owned by a Chinese company, buy has a headquarters in California that caters to Western audiences.
The Chinese version is called Douyin, while the global version is called tiktok. Basically the same thing.
@@ItsRawdraft2 Almost exactly the same thing; they're the same platform, only on different servers
It’s called Douyin
**Sings a Chinese song**
**Puts Korean group, BTS, in the background**
ah yes love that subtle racism
Racism at its finest
@@sri6567 That's not racism, but ignorance. Many people who have no experience with different cultures simply see "Asian people" as one thing. They simply see Korean and Chinese people the same way they look at French and British white people.
And Japanese typical music instrumental
@@Riko442 They're literally different countries so I'm really not seeing it. Who sees white French and Brits as basically the same thing? Just comes off as him not giving a shit tbh.
I watched Bart for years and years and love his stuff, but let's face facts: if you are basing your entire income off of youtube with no fall back position, than that's a problem. It's the same with Twitch, some people can make it, but most never will, and a lot in the middle get bitter because they think they deserve more. But the problem isn't youtube or twitch, it's assuming you will make money or continue to make money off it forever.
That line at the start sums it up: "you don't know how many youtubers are depressed.....because of youtube." You're not depressed because of youtube, you're depressed because you assumed youtube was an actual job with sustainability and it turned out it's still just youtube and not a real job.
Bart abandoned multiple channels and makes Chinese/English songs, doesn't that say it was always about the cash and not about the fans? Just read that twitter post...no longer makes anything for the US, works for the Chinese because 10 million follows...$$$$. It was always about the fame and money.
I don't think it's a matter of not caring. Like you said, he needed an income. So he saw an opportunity for one and took it. His post even said to follow his Douyin account.
Bart Baker: *_*comes back*_*
me: *_*vietnam flashbacks*_*
i love your profile
tbh i never liked Bart baker that much but this is just depressing
His parodies always edged too far into being hateful for me. The Key of Awesome was a lot less... vicious in how it insulted the celebrities it parodied, especially around 2013-14. Plus their production value for the actual MUSIC was much, much better in terms of impersonation, rather than being ""funny"" because it was a dude singing off-key.
He should have angled more towards merch while he had a following. Most of his viewers weren't going to bother watching his vlogs, they didn't scratch the same itch as the parodies themselves. Key of Awesome died off because it wasn't making enough and the production value dropped when Todd left. Bart Baker's shit died off because a lot of people who liked it grew out of it when they realised that pulling exaggerated faces and insulting to the point it's hateful just to be edgy aren't all that funny.
@@EnglishRosie Weird Al is my man. The ONLY parody artist that asks permission and pays the artists he parodies.
@@EnglishRosie Totally agree, Bart's parodies were vicious. His Taylor Swift ones really crossed a line IMO.
@@zoeym4868 Meanwhile whenever a record label would claim plagiarism, Bart would get his fans to attack the artist on social media and flood their mentions even if they had nothing to do with it. Weird Al will always be the king of Parodies.
Same I never liked Bart his parodies were so unfunny to me, same fart noises same devil jokes, the singing was bad (That was the point but I couldn't bare it) the jokes weren't clever and he seemed too vicious KOA seemed much better to me (I miss them lol) but still feel kinda bad for Bart.
we need a full circle with people making parodies of him lmao
yep!
OMG count me in. Just tell me when, where, and how lol
I wanna do it. Sign me up.
I remember LOVING his parodies. They’d make my day. I’d show other friends too, it was great. I’d even make parodies with friends as a joke, at one point. But damn, when he completely changed...*i felt that*
He could've gotten sponsors, I bet Raid: Shadow Legends would love to throw money at him with his sub count. Sponsors + Patreon = no need to sell soul.
He still makes hundreds of thousands of dollars. He's greedy, that's all.
Zoey M Yeah because he totally didn’t have to pay his production team, the rent for the set, and the materials. You blame him for hating, but here you are, hating on him as well. And you’re actually worse since his content is simply parody and it brought laughter to millions of people, while you waste your time commenting your nasty hate from your delicate sensitive ass.
Zoey M that sounds like a big assumption
@@Laura-Yu being a sold out is just by itself sad, even if you feel satisfied and gain a lot of money for doing it
@@zoeym4868 I've seen you in a dozen comment chains. You really need to find yourself some hobbies, if you have this much free time to trash on a guy that you've only seen through a computer screen.
Dude, I completely forgot how much of my time was spent watching these parodies as a kid. What a blast from the past!
Editing is ON POINT. ITS LITERALLY A MASTERPIECE AND IM IN AWE
Pearl ramos thanks so much! :)
nobody:
jaw bree: C O R R O S I V E
Blood wing has got all the elements at her disposal
@@eddrum I thought the same thing
Oboeshoes?
Call me?
I always thought it was pronounced like “jay aww-bree” 🤔
He’s so talented. He deserves so much better
So instead of just changing his content, he just went to China? Neither of those options allowed him to make the parodies he loved.
Instead, if he put the parodies in the back burner and focused on stuff like podcasts on TH-cam and parodies on instagram, he could have solidified a new audience. He could have also made parody documentaries to mock the serious tone of TH-camr documentaries.
Despite going down in adsense, the shifts in TH-cam made other types of income sources much more accessible. He could have made some parodies or videos Patreon exclusive. With his reach and (assuming) lengthy connections, he could have directly looked for sponsorships. He could have also networked to get some mainstream media exposure like Lily Singh.
For someone who is as opportunistic and ambitious as Bart, I feel that he just gave up and latched onto anyone who would give him a 'solid' solution. I didn't care much for his content but it's sad to see ambitious and talented people eating shit like this.
I think he did what he did because he was unprepared for post-2015 TH-cam and didn't adapt, not to mention his head was probably exploding from the pressure of the adpocalypse at the time, lapsing his judgement. Now he just looks dead inside.
絶望ALBINO I only agree with some of your points. Lowered income from the ads doesn’t mean more accessibility of other types of incomes, that makes no sense. And podcasts, no. Viewers from Ryan Higa’s channel are saying his podcasts is killing his channel (I love his podcasts but I agree with the sentiment that he should’ve created a new channel). But remember, Bart is not marketed as a personality like Ryan. Other than that, I agree that he had opportunities to parody other content
not everyone wants to go super pg and uncreative at the end of the day he sold out to china for the cash but the main issue here is youtube being trash
but the issue is that, he's not pg, so no brand would want to associate with someone who acts so "deranged". for example, lily singh did pg children's content, and she was wholesome while being a female poc so her being in the spotlight is the most obvious choice. Bart leaning into edgy humour for kids is frowned upon. and with the patreon thing, it would've been impossible for him to have been able to sustain such high quality content with only patreon. like I said, his content is aimed at kids, under 16s, who will very clearly not have a full understanding of money, let alone a bank account
I definitely feel Bart should have explored some of the options you mentioned before making such a drastic decision, he is so talented and with the right agent I definitely see him at least working behind the scenes within various forms of media, maybe he’s been somehow put off by his experiences with TH-cam,
Although Bart’s parodies were genius his parodies did involve going after big celebrities and he would often call them out on their morals and with some he touched on the dark side of the music industry, so a lot of his parodies did focus on exposing many celebrities in different ways, so I wonder if he angered some big shots and possibly got blacklisted, Bart was clearly frustrated with changes at TH-cam, possibly thought the regulations may become worse; I believe they will, as TH-cam seems to be putting things in place to avoid paying influencers as much as possible, do feel he’s missing his lifestyle back in America and probably will leave China depending on length of contract, working conditions will be hard there, hope he gets through this, because he doesn’t seem to be enjoying this he looks miserable ...
A 21 minute from j aubrey on the dude that's having the biggest crisis ever. Hell yeah
he is so unaware that he isn’t part of the joke, he is THE joke. there is a very thin, very clear line between people laughing with you, rather than at you. {shudder}
I've been waiting for an explanation to his disappearance for a long time, finally!
j aubrey: they dealt him a two and a seven
me: yes mhmm cards
everything that happened to him looks like a twilight zone episode
In the 60s there wasn't TH-cam
i think you mean dark mirror (the social media/internet version of twilight zone)
I'm sure Bart had enough money left from TH-cam to be able to live a normal carefree life but unfortunately some people are just tied to money and fame to the point of losing their last bit of dignity.
let_me_explain exactly, he could of retired from TH-cam :/ instead now he looks dead inside doing this Chinese stuff
Devoir thats the fucking dream right there
"He isn't too hansome"
frick off mate you look like marge simpson
Infectious Sheep don’t insult marge like that
@@toonkidd8864 poor marge she didn't deserve to have her look stolen by bootleg etika
Marge Simpson is pretty though :(
@@zee6174 hot MILFS in SPRINGFIELD
@@BlaiyND Hahahaha YES!
in one of the videos interviewing the chinese dudes who took him under his wing, they legit said something along the lines of "he's not very handsome, but he was marketable and had potential" so there's that
look its not just that youtube's algorithm backburnered his content. People outgrew his skits, just like they did Shane Dawson and everybody else from that time period. Unlike others from back then though who noticed their fanbase grew up, he didn't. Also his whole shtick was drag, making fun of celebrities and fart jokes. like, am I suppose to whip out my tiny violin for this dude?
I still love Shane Dawson
Hickory Lemur They meant his older stuff. Like hanging with shane and his podcast.
Are you supposed to feel empathy for a man who clearly isn't happy and possibly even depressed?
As a human being, yes.
@@CartoonHangout i can certainly feel bad for the guy but I also understand that its his choice to sell his soul like he's doing now. he could of gone smaller and maybe gone with crowd funding but he clearly cares more about fame and money more then what he actually creates
No, but seeing him and the other guys in drag makes me whip out my tiny meat.
His singing voice sounds like a robotic version of Spongebobs
Troy is that you
@@jordanh4362 No it's Patrick
I remember watching his videos back when he started popping off, i was with my bestfriend and would just go on a binge of shit we found funny. Knew him for 16 years, but he died last year by suicide.. and this video now just reminded me of the good days past
''he's not very handsome'' well the manager isn't very atractive himself
No but you are
VOLAIRE'S MINION woah buddy
Yes but he is just manager, he will not use his own face for content
Ivonne is the type to say "why don't YOU make a better movie huh?" then post finger snapping K-pop gifs
Very ugly I would say
His new persona for his autotuned chinese work makes me feel literally physically nauseated.
I like how he tells us the special guest voice like we don’t instantly know it’s TRO. I’ve been bingeing him so hard I can pick his voice from a throat clear haha
I mean his parodies just kinda stopped being funny and just ended up being yelling.
they werent funny in the first place, we were just 12
^^
@@blegh33 Exactly
I'm not going to like your comment because it's at 420....
@@blegh33 facts
I feel kind of bad for him. Hope he makes some money and gets the hell out of China. This can't be fulfilling.
Usually those that get involved with Chinese business
Getting out...is REALLY HARD
One does not simply... get out of China.
He's probably stuck now. He signed away his life to them, and the Chinese government probably keeps close tabs on him because he's a good propaganda machine to them.
They'd know immediately if he tried to book a flight out of the country, and then he'd disappear into a work camp or something.
White people actually get paid pretty well in China they're like commodities
I respect this dude, he still putting food on his mama table, creating a good life for his family so he gets respect from me straight up.
i used to love him, too. to think all of my childhood youtube staples are hitting rock bottom.
Shane and Jenna marbles both seem to be doing fine
I remember when I found his channel back in maybe 2015, I binged a bunch of his uploads and couldn’t wait for new ones to come out. But then sometime in maybe 2016 or 2017, I kind of lost interest in his new content, maybe the parodies then weren’t the same to me, or I just lost interest in the humor, but I unsubbed.
There were moments I checked on his channel out of curiosity, and at first seeing all the changes in his content concerned me but I just accepted it was his new path. The whole demonetization wave really did change creators, and Bart is a large example of it.
Space Man Mark it’s amazing to see just how far some of these early creators have fallen
17:30 There's 1.4 Billion people in China. 10 Million is just a drop in the bucket.