Why does he talk like he's explaining something science-y but being very condescending about it? Sir you're just trying to justify being a deadbeat pls
I think the fact that he thought Maddie had millions of followers and had an executive job at Netflix shows how disconnected he is from their life. He doesn’t know those simple facts about his own child
He didn’t even know her birthday!! My dad left when I was 5 and never visited or paid child support and still could remember my birthday. This dad sucks because he thinks he did his job because he paid a court ordered amount of money 🤦🏼♀️
To me, it seems that he consciously extraggerated her success to make himself look more like the victim and her like a clout chaser that is using the story for content.
@@Huff-and-PuffHe did know her birthday. He even sent her $200 early for her birthday. The "?" Was just a typo. He posted a second video with receipts. She's the one wrong here.
"I lived down the street, they could've biked here any time!" The fact that he doesnt follow that up at all with any examples of how he spent time with them at any point but especially while he was the adult living down the street is really telling.
lol I bet you could totally ride a bike from California to Florida as a child. They just didn’t try hard enough! Silly 8 yr old never even tried to visit me! 😂
He did follow up with it in his second video. You clearly haven't watched it. The second video is more detailed than the initial response. How is she going to act like he is such a bad dad yet text him practically everyday, get help to pay for her car, get $5000 as a starter fund to move to LA, have the dad as her cosigner on her LA apartment, continuously ask him for money, and it was her choice not to see him when he went to hang out with him. But he's the "supposed" absent father.
@@aeri143 you're right that I haven't watched it. Not going to. Everything you're saying sounds like stuff that happened after she was an adult. He left when she was six. Was a six year old asking for him to cosign, or for car payments? Why was it the responsibility of a six year old to be the one to reach out? There's nothing that shows how he tried to maintain a relationship while she was a minor. That's a bad absentee dad.
He is displaying the standard smiling, smirking, dismissive behavior of a lying man who is acting like the woman (in this case his daughter) is crazy and not to be believed.
He didn't portray her as crazy. It just seemed like he was being understanding of her perspective having been a very young child when these events unfolded. Of course, she is old enough to understand the nature of their relationship now, but a 5 year old knows nothing of adult life, much less where anyone lives in respect to their own home.
Y’all will believe everything you see/hear, he definitely proved he was not a deadbeat. 😂😂😂 The fact she posted that video with videos of him was a major redflag, because why would she do that. Go to therapy. She was simply clout chasing & didn’t that her dad would respond
@@aeri143 It's actually horrendous if that's true. Pisses me off even more if she had a dad who provided for her and she says things like that. You are so lucky if your dad takes any responsibility for you. Even if it's just monetary. That would have changed my life and she takes it for granted.
He did another follow-up where he explained the refusal to pay medical bills was that he didn’t want to fund her therapy after a breakup because therapy is all a load of 💩 to turn women against men (or something like that) definitely started to show what he’s really like imo
I saw a lot of people saying stuff like "the girl is a typical annoying entitled millennial, the dad is based, therapy is bullshit." and were just talking about how the dad is sooo likable and charismatic, the daughter is a brat, etc. eventually they started using the C word and saying that it's typical women..... yeah
I commented this on a diff vid about this situation, but I've gotten to the part that really pisses me off... "I just lived down the street. Just a bike ride away." There is no way, if that was the case, that his children would feel abandoned. How do I know this? My dad actually did move just down the road after he and my mom divorced. I have NEVER felt abandoned by him; I saw him everyday. There wasn't split custody, but he drove me to school every single day. When I had my learners permit, he'd pick me up and have me drive his car to my hs for just that little bit of extra practice. I was a drama kid in school, and he made sure to ALWAYS come to my plays/performances (unless it was like the school musical we'd put on for multiple nights in a row. He'd just come for the first and last shows) I am the ripe ol age of 25 right now. I still see my dad regularly. It helps that I still live in the same city as both him and my mom. We had a tradition of him picking me up early from school to see whatever the newest marvel movie was. We still do that. The last one we saw all together, him, my brother, and I was Spiderman no way home lol. He's been in and out of hospital so we've postponed the outings for now. Despite my dad struggling with mental illness (cptsd, bipolar, social anxiety), that man has NEVER ONCE forgotten my birthday. And he can't even spell my middlename right (tbf he's atrocious at spelling lol), but every year when my birthday is getting close, he's texting me asking what I was for a present and getting mad at me for not wanting anything. He's asking what kinda cake he should get me, if I want to go out for dinner or do something. Every year on my birthday he texts me the minute he wakes up to wish me a happy birthday and ask if he can call me. And you know what? My mom didn't get 5 million or 15k a month in child support. It's not about the effing money. He'd buy me anything I needed without complaint. He put EFFORT into remaining in my life and being my father. I know I can count on him for anything. That's what happens when you're not a deadbeat; you'll be in regular enough contact that you won't forget their effing birthday. Anyway this man just pisses me off so much. If you were a present dad, no one would say you were a deadbeat.
The dads voice in his video was giving 'Gaslight, fake professional, mansplain monologue' vibes. When one person shows receipts and the other shows themselves breakdancing I think it's clear whose most dillulu.
Her father is a gaslighter. Deadbeat 101. I gave your mother money and you could have come to see me via the “sidewalk” and “bike.” Wow, groundbreaking parenting. It’s so dishonest to act as if Maddie is still viewing her parent’s divorce and his fathering, or lack there of, through the lens of a 5 year old. She’s an adult and I’m sure can process what happened and continues to happen, i.e., “Happy Birthday(?)” appropriately. It was also very shitty for him to mention his other children ‘cause they had no part of this. Also also, his break dancing sucks.
One thing I will say about the question mark in the happy birthday message is that was likely an accident. I accidentally put question marks instead of exclamation points all the time due to having chubby fingers. Totally agree about all other points though!
I'm a social worker and this man is your typical dad who can't come to the terms that he did in fact abandon his family. It looks like from what I've seen he only showed up for big events like bdays and graduation. Many parents who leave their children will often to do this as a way to make it seem to themselves and those around them that they are still a part of their child's life when they really aren't. They also believe child support is the same as being in their kids lives and will say they are a parent just for providing financial support. Mind you they rarely see their children. They usually blame the parent who is actually raising the kids on their own for everything. Everything he said and what I've seen come out about this tells me he is one of those people who pretend to be a parent when they honestly really have nothing to do with their children.
@@MillennialPawz It’s also a very typical mindset of a certain kind of man that the only thing a father is supposed to provide is money, and that “nurturing” is the mother’s job.
@khills Yep absolutely and society is to blame for that. We are taught that men provide the money while the wife raises them. That way of bringing up children just isn't healthy. Providing financial support is such a small factor in raising children. It's important but not as important as being in your child's life.
In general, I think parents shouldn't get to decide whether they've been good parents or not. They might feel like they've done their best, but it's up to the child to express their feeling about it
I agree. But I also like to think that every parent tries to do as best as they can and know. Don't be mad at them. Just try to do better for your own children in the future
I don’t think that’s sustainable. People like to blame everything on their upbringing nowadays. It’s trendy to be a victim. I grew up in a similar situation but I sill love my father, I could never make such video about him. And from what I’ve seen I wouldn’t mind having him as my dad too they’ve done a lot of things together, things that I’ve always wanted to do. Many kids are brainwashed by their other parent too, to believe that they’re bad. Many people have spoken up about it. One of the biggest TH-camrs in my country had such mother. He had a very tough upbringing but now he has turned his life around and become a great father. I’m very proud of him.
If the child had the impression that they were a bad father why can’t the father have an impression that they were a good father? It’s up to neither the child nor parent to decide. You need to listen to each other and try find common ground.
As a daughter with a delusional dad like this, I knew exactly what the deal was when I saw his video. There aren't even words. "I gave x amount of money in the divorce so that means you can't be mad about anything else I did" it's family court dad attitude from the start. It's not just that he's delusional it's the narcissism and emotional abuse that goes along with that. I fully believe Madi because I literally am her in this situation. Hope she's looking after herself
Literally same situation with my father. You absolutely cannot convince this man he wasn’t a stand up guy and if it wasn’t for my “mean bitter mother,” he would have been there. Sir, you’re a deadbeat!
He comes across like this 100% Claims THEY could have walked to his house anytime but isn’t able to give ANY examples of how he spent time w his kids. Just wants to flaunt the money. And doesn’t address that he doesn’t even know his bday. Abandoned means he left and was never a dad. Which sounds 100% accurate w his personality.
@@blammela Also he said he was a mile away from his young children. (Says Maddie was 5) why wouldn’t the ADULT FATHER put in the effort to come “just a mile” to see his children? 🤔 Like sir you’re the one with the car. And don’t tell me you didn’t have a car after paying $5mil lol.
This guy is giving me *THE WORST VIBES* Hes talking like how one of my abusers would talk to me when he was trying to tell me how stupid i am and how right he is. He makes me want to go hide in the bathroom.
Yep. It’s that smarmy “calm” voice. The “I am so in control, why are you hysterical” where they equate any inflection or emphasis to be hysterical overreaction. I’m glad Robert has no frame of reference there, but I’m kinda curious how many of us had that particular trauma button jabbed listening to Delusional Dude.
@@medjed4 Which is apparently what he was hoping for; someone said he’s been trying to get Musky Husky’s attention for a while now. Best way to get it? Get CO and crew to start talking about you, cuz those are the folks Musky Husky relies on for news.
And consider that he chose to wear it. He wasn’t caught off guard, nobody rang his doorbell and put a camera in his face. He chose to wear that shirt, sit down to make a video, and justify his bs toward his family by saying he paid them off. And then proceeded to break dance. Peter Pan all the way.
He’s also a MARKETING mogul! His whole job is to lie and manipulate to get you to buy stuff. Of course he knows how to spin a narrative to make himself appear to be in the right.
His daughter called him a deadbeat dad and his response is to lie about his own daughter and then proceed to break dance is enough to tell you how unhinged he is
So instead of having any type of relationship with his kids, he sent court ordered checks to their mom. He doesn't know his kids. I have a mother like this. She left when I was 2. She took me and my baby sister to an all night daycare and just left us to run away with a musician she met in a bar. My father raised my sister and I with zero input from her or her family. It's like we didn't exist. Found her about a decade ago. This man made no effort to have any kind of relationship with his children. Never even mentions the abandonment.
@@Melissatnyeah but they're mostly from big stuff. He should've been calling them multiple times a week. Video calls. Sending pictures and memes. There shouldve been thousands of texts. Hundreds of photos from over the years of small everyday things like helping them make chocolate chip cookies or whatever or of them just playing and goofing off.
Ugh. This guy is so narcissistic. Like as in personality style. This is just kinda gross to listen to. He's saying that there is no way he could be a bad dad because his children are successful. This is creepy.
Deadbeat parents also point to their children being successful as some sort of indication of their parenting. When most of the time, their children are successful in SPITE of them.
Exactly my thoughts. Narcs do like to take ownership of their children’s accomplishments. Also the weird belief anyone wants to know if he can still breakdance..? And.. doing a demonstration..?? In a video responding to his daughter sharing about her abandonment trauma..???
@@dvdh4856 for real! He just had to make it all about him and how cool he thinks he is. One trick pony, terrible father. His kids are better off without him.
I have a terrible relationship with my dad and see him maybe 3 times a year (if he doesn’t cancel). But he would tell you he has a great relationship with his kids and sees us constantly all the time. There are people that will lie about small things that you would think no one would lie about. So I totally believe her side of the story.
Money does not make up for leaving. Living a mile away does not mean the kids came to his house all the time. He did not take into account any of her feelings
That sidewalk goes both directions. He could've used his feet to walk or pedal a bike to his kids just the same as he said they could. It's not on the kids to interact with the parents
That's true and she absolutely has every right to discuss her trauma. But god I wish my dad had at least provided monetarily. He did nothing for any of his kids and hasn't bothered talking to me in ~30 years. My brother went into a coma and I had to talk to his wife, she even asked him if he wanted to talk to me and I heard him say "No." I guess there's always someone who has it worse, and that never means you can't be hurt and angry. But I always hope if someone gets any help from their dad they realize it's so much better than nothing. It sounds like he decided money was enough and they should be happy with that and it's not. I would be on his side more if he admitted he just wasn't a good dad and he didn't realize he hurt her so much. He just kept invalidating her.
I hate that he uses his children's succes as proof of anything he did. Lots if children from single parent homes have turned out to be successful!!! Doesn't prove $h%t about his parenting! A father who was present in his kids' lives knows when their birthday actually is. His taking the time to break dance during his response video shows how narcissistic he is.
🎯🔥💯Well said. A totally self absorbed, delusional narcissist. As for his comment about the children living on a street with pavement and them having bikes? It is not the children's responsibility to arrange visitation. That's your job as a parent, Delusional Deadbeat Dad. He thinks the shows were having him on because he was so good at break dancing. When really it was the "Come laugh at this old douche. Maybe he'll pop a hip?" section of their program. He was the comic relief. The jester. The clown.
Yeah. I know someone that is a successful lawyer in the heart of Cali...Doesn't mean her dad being one of the biggest movers of meth getting high off his own supply is an okay thing.
He sounds very out of touch and full of him self. Some people think just bc they pay for their kids that's all they have to do. It's about alot more than money.
For reasons I have yet to understand, quite a few men seem to believe money is an adequate substitute for a loving and involved father. Some even seem to think they deserve adulation for doing even that bare minimum.
@@AngryReptileKeeperbut then these same man cry when they're treated as an atm, but also get upset when their family tries to have value in them that isn't just about money amd say that's too much like work amd that since they're an atm, that's all that should be needed and you shouldn't expect more from them.
So are we supposed to believe that he gave a $2 million lump sum settlement when he can’t even tell the difference between 70,000 followers and millions? 😂
@@Nightsisters_ClanI think he was totalling the initial divorce payment and all he alimony and child support (2m + 18k/m for a “while” then 12k/m) Edit: not defending the piece of crap dad, but that’s just how I understood it
The giant Bitcoin flag and the whole MLM interior decor vibe lost the father any credibility. I will say he may actually think his daughter is a famous Hollywood screenwriter. For years I kept correcting my grandmother when she told people I owned an advertising agency until finally one day I was like, you know what, that's fine, if you say I own an advertising agency I guess I own an advertising agency somewhere. Maybe I'll find it one day.
This is where I fall on it too. Even IF everything he said was true he's still a bitcoin bro and weird mlm pusher. 95% of the people I've seen defending the dad have either been manosphere weirdos or Bitcoin grifters.
@@strayiggytvwith the release of pictures and receipts, it seems the girl lied. She lied about the money. But she also lied about the abondonment because the dad is in all the pictures of her birthdays and graduations. So this could be the mom's influence on the kids.
@@Jeremy-wp4yh I mean my point still stands. Dude is a Bitcoin pushing mlm weirdo. That was the entire purpose of my post. Plus you can still be a dead beat dad and show up for special occasions and give lots of money. Showing up for a photo opp at Christmas aint parenting my guy
@@strayiggytv clearly you have a bias which is fine. But that bias doesn't change the facts. Yes he's a bid coin guy. But the daughter still lied to go viral.
In another video, the father went on some weird rant about schools programming children to be trans and what not... So I'm not super inclined to think of him as a good person/role model
“Daddy dearest” is living in cloud cuckoo land! Her feelings are important and shouldn’t be dismissed, and to make a video justifying his absence growing up is a little bit pathetic. He needs to admit he was an absent father. Throwing money about doesn’t make him a good parent. Unconditional love is priceless!
My feelings on this is that regardless of the details, the mood between these two is concerning. Particularly the dad should have been more mature about it and reached out to his daughter to talk about how she's felt all this time. He's more concerned about his public image than about how his daughter had been feeling about him, apparently unbeknown to him, for years, despite having been in her life all this time, right? He looks way too fishy to me.
Well she's not really a child so why didn't she discuss her feelings for him to him in private instead of doing a video. They're both doing too much and just needs to get off the Internet.
@@Vbear-bn4wmwe don’t know if she has or hasnt before , she very well could have. Besides it doesnt seem like she wants to be the one to repair their relationship, and she shouldn’t have to, if everything is true. He’s the one who should have been putting in the effort as her dad throughout her life, not leave it to her to fix it herself.
@@Vbear-bn4wmbecause this wasn’t the point of her video. She wasn’t trying to illicit a response from him. She simply addressed her funny trauma and asked others to share if they had funny trauma. She was laughing and looking back at a time when it was hard for her but ended up being kind of funny. If you can’t laugh at the pain, then it will consume you. And since her dad refused to pay for therapy, she’s using her TikTok platform to interact with others, share her story and make a funny antidote. She didn’t ask for a response video from him, and to be honest, I think she painted him in a better light then he may actually have been in. It sounds a lot like he sucks and is mostly selfish and concerned with himself and less about why his daughter might feel the way she does. He also dragged the siblings into this, which she specifically didn’t mention at all aside from to say it was a mom and 4 kids. His entire video was to passive aggressively state that he wasn’t a bad dad, Maddie and her siblings had every opportunity to take his $5,000,000 and walk down the sidewalk to his house in Illinois. And to smear the mother. He missed the point big time. Now with that being said, I don’t know these people. But I am a child of divorce, my dad did abandon me and my mother to go be with the woman he cheated on her with, he raised that woman’s 2 kids while ignoring my brother and I for nearly 17 years. At his mothers funeral, my own father asked his brother who me and my brother were, because he didn’t recognize us. He didn’t pay child support and he didn’t ever use his visitations. He would say he was coming to pick me up, and I would sit on the couch in my shoes, backpack, and jacket, waiting for him to come. I’d fall asleep and wake up in my bed the next morning and he would have never showed or even called. So I know how it feels to be abandoned and how it feels to watch your dad walk away from your life to pursue other dreams and the confusion and anger that goes along with not understanding how the person who gave you life, can simply walk away and forget about you. I feel for Maddie. And to me, personally, when I speak on my past and what others have done to me, I don’t like it when other people try and defend their actions and say stuff like “this is a private matter” or “you should talk to them about this” or “you’re talking badly about your dad” because I don’t care? If the father in this doesn’t like that his daughter told people what he did and he doesn’t like that other people have an opinion on his actions, then he should have thought about that before he acted. Act better. Do better. Be better. And Maddie won’t have anything bad to say about you. If he had been a great dad, she wouldn’t have made that video. He’s just mad that everyone knows how much he sucks now.
I don't think anyone would not address the person publicly who publicly called them a deadbeat. I know I would publicly address the very public accusation, as well. 🤷🏾♀️
I definitely believe her. It's not on the kid to keep or maintain the relationship with the parent. Ever. It seems like he feels since he gave her mother all this money he did his part & that was all that was needed. The fact that it also seems like he wrote an essay, then went on film to condescendingly read it, & then finish it by showing off his break dancing, kind of shows his priorities. A real dad would have called her or spoke to her in person about her feelings & find out why she would say that or feel that way, & not use it as a way to "get himself out there" even more. I was abandoned by my mother when I was around 12 & even though she'd call us every now & then doesn't mean that she was there. He obviously just doesn't understand her feelings nor does he want to.
He can dance if he wants to He can leave his kids behind Cause his kids don’t dance And if they don’t dance Well, they‘re no kids of his (Sorry not sorry)
As a child of divorce, who’s parents openly and freely talked the most obscene trash on each other TO their small children, I learned that you have to take the middle ground between the 2 claims because both sides exaggerate, even if they don’t realize they’re doing it. They dramatize based on their own perspective, so you have to assume there is SOME truth in what they say, while knowing they’ve fluffed up the most dramatic bits to make themselves seem more of the victim.
Same here. My parents arent divorced but they were never in good terms and they still aren't. They constantly talked shit about each other to us and even told us the most random weird facts about their issues like ma'am no I don't wanna know that about my father? Lol I used to hate my father now I still don't like my father, he is a narcissistic evil asshole but I realised my mom was not a saint at all and basically fucked us all mentally with the things she said and done just to be the "right side." There is just no right side.
His video is so edited to ensure he looked positive, believable and media friendly. That to me is suspicious af, and it's further solidified from the lies he tells regarding his daughter's profession and social media standing.
I feel like the way he worded it was specifically calculated to try to get that reaction from the media, esp: "millions of followers" "Hollywood screenwriter" "great plot for a movie". Making himself look like a victim and making her look like she's lying to get a movie deal, in the most subtle way he could.
@@LadyThinblood Yep. Given his fascination with Elon Musk, he almost certainly phrased thinks hoping to get Musky Husky’s attention. Which you do these days via right wing media attention. (But also like,… you don’t find too many left-leaning people hanging a bitcoin flag next to an American flag while also wearing a bitcoin shirt, sucking up to Musk on X…)
Throwing money at your kids doesnt make u a good dad 😭 idk him he may have been amazing but as someone that grew up with a dad that didnt really care and thought he could just buy us stuff and that would be good enough its not love and it just sucks
He’s in shape I give him that but he’s no breakdancer. He has one move and he’s not even in rhythm. And all that bitcoin merch says something weird is going on.
He's more disgusting when you search him and the court history. Why would he lie as he does knowing the records are readily accessible? Oh because narcissistic people always have an excuse for everyone anyway
Anybody else feel like the dad sounds heavily rehearsed like he wrote everything down, practiced it over and over and over again he got it exactly right with the exact tone of voice.
While I agree, she also doesn't have the whole story and made it seem like he also financially abandoned them too and that's less than true to be fair.
Adult children don't just decide one day to have a poor relationship with their parents. That takes years of trauma and abuse. Then years of therapy to learn that parents aren't just perfect by default and it's okay to not like them. This dude comes across as a textbook narcissist, so yeah. He for sure doesn't see a problem with how he treated his children. He can't do anything wrong. The family honestly is probably better off with him leaving. That way, they at least weren't around that toxicity as much.
No way I am gonna believe a guy in a bitcoin shirt. Plus, I don't get why people are always dogging on people for "airing family drama." You mean their life? They're not about to talk about their life because it might make someone who hurt them look bad? Be so for real. 😂
i'm honestly schocked that anyone would believe what the dad is saying 😂 the "left so he could pursue breakdancing" part is probably exaggerated but that's what makes it funny
100% got narcissistic/gaslighty vibes from the dad. My best friend has a parent who is a serious abusive narcissist and he sounds exactly like this guy. They have no problem lying at all, ESPECIALLY to save their own reputation. He's also exaggerating about his kids' success because narcissists only value their children based on their successes. It's almost like using your kids as trophies, like "I'm such a good parent, my kids are all very successful" even though it may be untrue. Narcissists do not allow for failure in their children's lives. It's all a facade. (I should mention I also have a psychology degree and have done a lot of research on narcissism) Narcissists are very fake. Their whole world revolves around them even if it means hurting others, they don't care as they have very little empathy. We can see this as the dad completely dismissed his daughters feelings and then lied. They are almost like actors in a play. Even his voice sounds like he's acting. Then at the end, he tries to draw positive attention through breakdancing on camera. It almost feels like he's taking this as a joke. Even though what Maddie posted was framed in a funny way, the truth behind it is a lot of pain. People don't just make up their parents abandoning them, that's a serious issue. Not diagnosing him, just my thoughts. Love you Robert 🥹
You don't have to (and shouldn't) bad mouth the absent/neglectful parent. As children get older, that parent's behavior will speak for itself. Kids catch on quick.
Exactly! My kids are 20 and 17 and had stopped talking to their dad years ago. I never told them how bad he was, I covered for him, they never knew he was scary and abusive, they didn't know how much of a compulsive liar he was, how he would spend every last dollar and lie about where the money went, how much of a complete narcissist he is. I never had to tell them. As they grew up, they saw him for who he really is. He still tells anyone who will listen how he is a great father and how I turned the kids against him.
Wow. 30 seconds into watching him made me call bullshit on him! He's trying to get a tik tok following from this. Body language, demeanor, everything. He's delusional. The amounts of money he claims to have given is also bullshit. This man needs help!! Love these videos Robert! Keep them coming!❤
At the end of the day we don't know these people. I will say this though: I will never trust a person with an American flag and a Bitcoin flag in the background. I will also say as someone who has worked in mental health and has their own family trauma that 9/10 if someone says their parent(s) completely switched the narrative and are delusional that's usually what it is. It's rare for there to be such an unhinged kid that compulsively lies about their actually decent family. Parents are adults age-wise but many do not have the emotional strength to face what damage they have done and apologize/change behaviors. And I say that as a person who has one parent like that and the other has at least tried and apologized. Both can exist but the latter statistically outweighs the other too often.
I love the way he was able to invalidate and gaslight her feelings, and then wrap up the whole video by saying the point of the video was that is never too late to break dance😂😂😂😂
The daughter has more conviction in her voice and she seems genuine, while her father on the other hand, sounds like he is reading from a script. Also bitcoin, such a red flag.
What he says: "I paid money, I lived just down the road, the kids turned out great." What he doesn't say: "I went to recitals/games/performances, I helped with homework, they stayed at my place a lot." Just because you paid for everything and lived close by doesn't mean you were not abandoning them, physically and emotionally.
Oh my gosh the original tiktok had me riveted. Dad is such a piece of trash. Bless his daughter for being so honest and open about what happened to her, she's such a trooper.
I feel like she could've been exaggerating a bit to say he left the family in order to pursue breakdancing when the situation was probably a bit more complicated than that, but just the fact that he responded by making a TH-cam video instead of contacting her or her other family members to sort it out shows that their relationship is definitely not as good as he claims and all he cared about was defending his image.
My dad told people I played bass for years when I had only really tried it ONE time. Also to say “they could come over any time” is putting the responsibility on your kids to maintain the relationship. If they don’t want to see you, it’s probably on you.
If Candace Owens hates you, you must be doing something right. Also, if daddy has invested as much of his money in bitcoin as the giant flag and shirt imply, we can be sure of one thing, he’s not as rich as he used to be.
IMO, Mattie’s father is a bitcoin bro, who’s full of shit, delusional, and trying to get clout from his daughter to get attention for himself, gaining sympathy, followers, business, etc. I believe her because she has details and we’ve already seen him lie and exaggerate. 🤷🏻♀️
Why does he think his children's education by itself, plus him paying legally required money, means he was a good father? Does he know or care what his children feel like when alone with themselves at the end of their successful day? How they process feelings? How they feel about and manage relations with others? Self-confidence? Respect? Trust? Consideration for others? ...Anything except the label of "accomplished" in the eyes of others?
Choosing to pursue a dream, however odd, I’ll always support. Choosing your passion though doesn’t mean not supporting your kids, even if from far away!!!!
You neeeed to do a video on the Glasgow Willy Wonka 'Experience' pleeeaaase. The whole thing is so funny (assuming people get their money back!). And you're the first person I thought of that I'd love to see your breakdown of it, because your reaction would be hilarious 😘 Also Maddy's dad is nuts. And anyone who has CO hating on them for something as asinine as this is clearly the one in the right, poor girl 😬
He also thinks everyone should homeschool their children because schools are "woke" now, and he keeps replying to Elon Musk "I love you" on Twitter/X, so...
@@janinepannell Yeah, I’d definitely wanna see the receipts for that one. He strikes me as the kind of guy who’d go to one of those shoddy “X money was worth Y in year” websites and cough up some inaccurate result. Especially since he said inflation was 50% from then to now, which… no, no it was not, no matter how high grocery prices are right now…
After seeing his 2nd video, I still believe her. Having video and picture proof of the times you put in effort or decided to show up doesn’t prove it was consistent or that you were around regularly. I was raised by 2 different types of addicts, one stayed in the home. Neither were good parents but we have plenty of pics and videos of us ‘being happy’. There was court ordered support and allowed visitations, doesn’t mean any of it replaced having a good parent. My only hope is to not be the reason my sons develop issues and/or need therapy
But exactly what proves she telling the truth? 😂 You want a movie of every time they together? She said he was not there for her, that was totally a lie & you still believe her. The fact that she exposed him with videos is immature-the internet is forever-go to therapy or talk to your dad. Y’all are attaching your experiences when it clearly has nothing go do with you. Maddie had both parents physically & financially, that’s what we call “privileged” beyond just “visitations” she probably has never worried money her whole life. She has never worried about her parents being addicted to drugs….it sounds more like her mother has lied to her 😅😅😅
its so funny as a cf (childfree) woman to see so many men try to plead to me that having children is a necessity, yet the very same guys turn out just like this lmfao😭
Elon Musk loves him, so that's weird. And he has a video where he rants about how schools are turning kids Trans, so everyone should homeschool their kids and a bunch of other things that make me think that his kids were probably better off without him.
I also have a dad who is totally and completely delusional and in his brain he never did a single thing wrong so I think most of the truth lies in her version of events. Best of luck to her, and I hope she will be able to come to terms with him never taking any accountability for things he has done, because people like that never do 😑
Poor girl, shame she had to deal with such a person like her father. Those type of people really think they did nothing wrong, they're just so disconnected & delusional, like it's gotta be some kind of severe mental illness right?
I feel you hun. Narcissistic dad, completely detached and emotionally unstable. My mum enables it. When ever my sister or I bring up things it’s ’that never happened or really?’ Denial. I told them I have ADHD and my mum questioned me and told me I didn’t , my dad blamed me/my school for not realising sooner ‘why did it take so long’. Sending love and strength. ❤
Yeah, my father went down that delusional route in 2019 (gee wonder what could have fostered that) and we’ve maybe traded a dozen text messages since then, all very brief and meaningless happy new year’s stuff - he didn’t even bother calling me when I was hospitalized with sepsis, or on a multi-week PICC line with the kind of very hard to get antibiotic whose release has to be approved by multiple agencies sort of thing, just to try to save my life. I got a Cricut “get well soon” card from his new wife like, two months after the eventual amputation that had to happen. And that’s ignoring all the “we need to eradicate immigrants from America, even the ones with green cards” crap he was up to before that… you know, at the time that included his son-in-law. But he’ll tell you he’s a GREAT dad. 🙄
I don’t care how much money he threw at them, he abandoned them. He wasn’t sharing custody like a good dad should. You don’t “visit” your kids, you raise them. This happens a lot with men, they leave and go pursue these careers and act like they did it all on their own when in reality, they couldn’t be what they are without the women who took on raising their kids full time…He’s also gaslighting the shit out of her.
A child might pick up the ‘abandon’ from the parent but even living a mile away he may have never gone to visit - which is still abandonment. I believe Madi - cause the dad is a weird creep
I hate the dad's voice. He sounds completely mocking, like he thinks hes so charming. He also sounds like Casey Cassum. Ugh.
Was giving me anxiety!
Just the words Casey Cassum cause a visceral reaction in me.
He didnot abandone his daugther tho. He is stiff with feeling but this is also the mom's fault aswell
Casey Cassum - do you mean the longtime DJ who did the AT 40 stuff before Ryan Seacrest? Or is there one with that spelling who is someone else.
If you see his 2nd video where he posts family videos from when the kids were growing up, he just speaks like that
Why does he talk like he's explaining something science-y but being very condescending about it? Sir you're just trying to justify being a deadbeat pls
Honestly though!! He sounds like he’s reading a children’s book !! 😂😂😂😂😂😂
well he's in marketing
He does sound like he's on E News or hosting of those 90's dating shows.
He's a bitcoiner, that's how they talk. 😊
That would be the narcissism
I think the fact that he thought Maddie had millions of followers and had an executive job at Netflix shows how disconnected he is from their life. He doesn’t know those simple facts about his own child
He didn’t even know her birthday!! My dad left when I was 5 and never visited or paid child support and still could remember my birthday. This dad sucks because he thinks he did his job because he paid a court ordered amount of money 🤦🏼♀️
You hit the nail on the head! Seems like he's pretty delusional to me.
To me, it seems that he consciously extraggerated her success to make himself look more like the victim and her like a clout chaser that is using the story for content.
Yeah I think he's being a sarcastic asshole
@@Huff-and-PuffHe did know her birthday. He even sent her $200 early for her birthday. The "?" Was just a typo. He posted a second video with receipts. She's the one wrong here.
"I lived down the street, they could've biked here any time!" The fact that he doesnt follow that up at all with any examples of how he spent time with them at any point but especially while he was the adult living down the street is really telling.
lol I bet you could totally ride a bike from California to Florida as a child. They just didn’t try hard enough! Silly 8 yr old never even tried to visit me! 😂
He appears to think the responsibility is on his _children_ to make all the effort to spend time with him, rather than the other way around.
He did follow up with it in his second video. You clearly haven't watched it. The second video is more detailed than the initial response. How is she going to act like he is such a bad dad yet text him practically everyday, get help to pay for her car, get $5000 as a starter fund to move to LA, have the dad as her cosigner on her LA apartment, continuously ask him for money, and it was her choice not to see him when he went to hang out with him. But he's the "supposed" absent father.
@@aeri143
That’s what he made her believe he is, a money machine
@@aeri143 you're right that I haven't watched it. Not going to. Everything you're saying sounds like stuff that happened after she was an adult. He left when she was six. Was a six year old asking for him to cosign, or for car payments? Why was it the responsibility of a six year old to be the one to reach out? There's nothing that shows how he tried to maintain a relationship while she was a minor. That's a bad absentee dad.
He is displaying the standard smiling, smirking, dismissive behavior of a lying man who is acting like the woman (in this case his daughter) is crazy and not to be believed.
He posted receipts in his second video on TH-cam. It's called Ben Hart. The daughter is in the wrong and lying here.
He didn't portray her as crazy. It just seemed like he was being understanding of her perspective having been a very young child when these events unfolded. Of course, she is old enough to understand the nature of their relationship now, but a 5 year old knows nothing of adult life, much less where anyone lives in respect to their own home.
Y’all will believe everything you see/hear, he definitely proved he was not a deadbeat. 😂😂😂
The fact she posted that video with videos of him was a major redflag, because why would she do that. Go to therapy. She was simply clout chasing & didn’t that her dad would respond
@@aeri143 It's actually horrendous if that's true. Pisses me off even more if she had a dad who provided for her and she says things like that. You are so lucky if your dad takes any responsibility for you. Even if it's just monetary. That would have changed my life and she takes it for granted.
@@aeri143Receipts that she has millions of followers and is a huge screenwriter in hollywood?
He did another follow-up where he explained the refusal to pay medical bills was that he didn’t want to fund her therapy after a breakup because therapy is all a load of 💩 to turn women against men (or something like that) definitely started to show what he’s really like imo
Oh he’s one of those people.
@@Abi-Grey8 but he's such a nice guy /s
Oh. OH. Gooooot it.
Haha id have loved to be a fly on the wall at the divorce proceedings 😂😂. Because that shows exactly why they got a divorce
I saw a lot of people saying stuff like "the girl is a typical annoying entitled millennial, the dad is based, therapy is bullshit." and were just talking about how the dad is sooo likable and charismatic, the daughter is a brat, etc. eventually they started using the C word and saying that it's typical women..... yeah
Parents who say to children 'you could have called me' when the child was like 6 need to take a long walk
I commented this on a diff vid about this situation, but I've gotten to the part that really pisses me off...
"I just lived down the street. Just a bike ride away." There is no way, if that was the case, that his children would feel abandoned.
How do I know this? My dad actually did move just down the road after he and my mom divorced. I have NEVER felt abandoned by him; I saw him everyday. There wasn't split custody, but he drove me to school every single day. When I had my learners permit, he'd pick me up and have me drive his car to my hs for just that little bit of extra practice. I was a drama kid in school, and he made sure to ALWAYS come to my plays/performances (unless it was like the school musical we'd put on for multiple nights in a row. He'd just come for the first and last shows)
I am the ripe ol age of 25 right now. I still see my dad regularly. It helps that I still live in the same city as both him and my mom. We had a tradition of him picking me up early from school to see whatever the newest marvel movie was. We still do that. The last one we saw all together, him, my brother, and I was Spiderman no way home lol. He's been in and out of hospital so we've postponed the outings for now.
Despite my dad struggling with mental illness (cptsd, bipolar, social anxiety), that man has NEVER ONCE forgotten my birthday. And he can't even spell my middlename right (tbf he's atrocious at spelling lol), but every year when my birthday is getting close, he's texting me asking what I was for a present and getting mad at me for not wanting anything. He's asking what kinda cake he should get me, if I want to go out for dinner or do something. Every year on my birthday he texts me the minute he wakes up to wish me a happy birthday and ask if he can call me.
And you know what? My mom didn't get 5 million or 15k a month in child support. It's not about the effing money. He'd buy me anything I needed without complaint. He put EFFORT into remaining in my life and being my father. I know I can count on him for anything. That's what happens when you're not a deadbeat; you'll be in regular enough contact that you won't forget their effing birthday.
Anyway this man just pisses me off so much. If you were a present dad, no one would say you were a deadbeat.
I said this on another comment! You’re the adult with a car!! Why is a 5 year old supposed to make the arrangements to see you?! 😂
The dads voice in his video was giving 'Gaslight, fake professional, mansplain monologue' vibes. When one person shows receipts and the other shows themselves breakdancing I think it's clear whose most dillulu.
He sounds like one of those AI ad voices.
THIIIIIIIIIIIS
It’s so grating
LMFAOOOO
Dilluluuuuuuuuuuahahahaaaaaa 🤣
Her father is a gaslighter. Deadbeat 101. I gave your mother money and you could have come to see me via the “sidewalk” and “bike.” Wow, groundbreaking parenting.
It’s so dishonest to act as if Maddie is still viewing her parent’s divorce and his fathering, or lack there of, through the lens of a 5 year old. She’s an adult and I’m sure can process what happened and continues to happen, i.e., “Happy Birthday(?)” appropriately.
It was also very shitty for him to mention his other children ‘cause they had no part of this.
Also also, his break dancing sucks.
It's embarrassing to watch!
One thing I will say about the question mark in the happy birthday message is that was likely an accident. I accidentally put question marks instead of exclamation points all the time due to having chubby fingers. Totally agree about all other points though!
This exactly! Someone else covered it and I was shocked at the amount of people who came to the defence of the father and berateed maddie 😅😢
He’s a marketing guy, they are professional liars and manipulators. He is just saving face
Since he wasn't there for the milestones after the age of 5, he has never allowed her to age emotionally in his head.
Why does it sound like he’s selling me a sofa?
I know. It’s gross, huh?
I want to see a psychologist analyze his video
Truly a bizarre response to your daughter calling you a bad dad and saying you abandoned the family
I'm a social worker and this man is your typical dad who can't come to the terms that he did in fact abandon his family. It looks like from what I've seen he only showed up for big events like bdays and graduation. Many parents who leave their children will often to do this as a way to make it seem to themselves and those around them that they are still a part of their child's life when they really aren't. They also believe child support is the same as being in their kids lives and will say they are a parent just for providing financial support. Mind you they rarely see their children. They usually blame the parent who is actually raising the kids on their own for everything. Everything he said and what I've seen come out about this tells me he is one of those people who pretend to be a parent when they honestly really have nothing to do with their children.
@@MillennialPawz It’s also a very typical mindset of a certain kind of man that the only thing a father is supposed to provide is money, and that “nurturing” is the mother’s job.
@@khillsyeah, like a dude covered in bitcoin symbols😂
@khills Yep absolutely and society is to blame for that. We are taught that men provide the money while the wife raises them. That way of bringing up children just isn't healthy. Providing financial support is such a small factor in raising children. It's important but not as important as being in your child's life.
@PsychologyInSeattle Get on the case please!!
In general, I think parents shouldn't get to decide whether they've been good parents or not. They might feel like they've done their best, but it's up to the child to express their feeling about it
I agree. But I also like to think that every parent tries to do as best as they can and know. Don't be mad at them. Just try to do better for your own children in the future
I don’t think that’s sustainable. People like to blame everything on their upbringing nowadays. It’s trendy to be a victim. I grew up in a similar situation but I sill love my father, I could never make such video about him. And from what I’ve seen I wouldn’t mind having him as my dad too they’ve done a lot of things together, things that I’ve always wanted to do. Many kids are brainwashed by their other parent too, to believe that they’re bad. Many people have spoken up about it. One of the biggest TH-camrs in my country had such mother. He had a very tough upbringing but now he has turned his life around and become a great father. I’m very proud of him.
If the child had the impression that they were a bad father why can’t the father have an impression that they were a good father? It’s up to neither the child nor parent to decide. You need to listen to each other and try find common ground.
Just as long as the children dont feel intitled an compares everyone to eachother....
Absolutely
As a daughter with a delusional dad like this, I knew exactly what the deal was when I saw his video. There aren't even words. "I gave x amount of money in the divorce so that means you can't be mad about anything else I did" it's family court dad attitude from the start. It's not just that he's delusional it's the narcissism and emotional abuse that goes along with that. I fully believe Madi because I literally am her in this situation. Hope she's looking after herself
Literally same situation with my father. You absolutely cannot convince this man he wasn’t a stand up guy and if it wasn’t for my “mean bitter mother,” he would have been there. Sir, you’re a deadbeat!
He comes across like this 100%
Claims THEY could have walked to his house anytime but isn’t able to give ANY examples of how he spent time w his kids. Just wants to flaunt the money.
And doesn’t address that he doesn’t even know his bday.
Abandoned means he left and was never a dad. Which sounds 100% accurate w his personality.
@@blammela Also he said he was a mile away from his young children. (Says Maddie was 5) why wouldn’t the ADULT FATHER put in the effort to come “just a mile” to see his children? 🤔 Like sir you’re the one with the car. And don’t tell me you didn’t have a car after paying $5mil lol.
Hang in there, you can't choose your family but there are others out there who will love you and are able to be loved. Hope you're all doing OK ❤
This guy is giving me *THE WORST VIBES*
Hes talking like how one of my abusers would talk to me when he was trying to tell me how stupid i am and how right he is. He makes me want to go hide in the bathroom.
Yep. It’s that smarmy “calm” voice. The “I am so in control, why are you hysterical” where they equate any inflection or emphasis to be hysterical overreaction. I’m glad Robert has no frame of reference there, but I’m kinda curious how many of us had that particular trauma button jabbed listening to Delusional Dude.
he's also conservative and completely unhinged on his twitter, elon musk replied to him all buddy buddy
deadbeat dad to deadbeat dad
@@medjed4 Which is apparently what he was hoping for; someone said he’s been trying to get Musky Husky’s attention for a while now. Best way to get it? Get CO and crew to start talking about you, cuz those are the folks Musky Husky relies on for news.
@@khillsyep. Trauma button well and truly jabbed.
Very this
I will never believe a guy in a bitcoin shirt. Sorry. 😂
And consider that he chose to wear it. He wasn’t caught off guard, nobody rang his doorbell and put a camera in his face. He chose to wear that shirt, sit down to make a video, and justify his bs toward his family by saying he paid them off. And then proceeded to break dance.
Peter Pan all the way.
Deffinitly believe Maddie, it feels like dad is reading it from a poorly written letter, while daughter feel way more genuine.
He is reading! Look at his eyes.
And all the weird video cuts. I truly believe Maddie in this situation
He’s also a MARKETING mogul! His whole job is to lie and manipulate to get you to buy stuff. Of course he knows how to spin a narrative to make himself appear to be in the right.
His daughter called him a deadbeat dad and his response is to lie about his own daughter and then proceed to break dance is enough to tell you how unhinged he is
So instead of having any type of relationship with his kids, he sent court ordered checks to their mom. He doesn't know his kids. I have a mother like this. She left when I was 2. She took me and my baby sister to an all night daycare and just left us to run away with a musician she met in a bar. My father raised my sister and I with zero input from her or her family. It's like we didn't exist. Found her about a decade ago. This man made no effort to have any kind of relationship with his children. Never even mentions the abandonment.
He posted receipts videos and photos of them throughout the years read messages etc. Its all in his 2nd video
@@Melissatnyeah but they're mostly from big stuff. He should've been calling them multiple times a week. Video calls. Sending pictures and memes. There shouldve been thousands of texts. Hundreds of photos from over the years of small everyday things like helping them make chocolate chip cookies or whatever or of them just playing and goofing off.
Ugh. This guy is so narcissistic. Like as in personality style. This is just kinda gross to listen to. He's saying that there is no way he could be a bad dad because his children are successful. This is creepy.
It's the text that does it for me. The audacity and vapidity😂😂😂 "I lost track of the date.... happy birthday?" 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Deadbeat parents also point to their children being successful as some sort of indication of their parenting. When most of the time, their children are successful in SPITE of them.
Exactly my thoughts. Narcs do like to take ownership of their children’s accomplishments. Also the weird belief anyone wants to know if he can still breakdance..? And.. doing a demonstration..?? In a video responding to his daughter sharing about her abandonment trauma..???
@@dvdh4856 for real! He just had to make it all about him and how cool he thinks he is. One trick pony, terrible father. His kids are better off without him.
He has a Bitcoin flag and talks like the leader of a cult .........hmmmm. My money's on Maddie.
I have a terrible relationship with my dad and see him maybe 3 times a year (if he doesn’t cancel). But he would tell you he has a great relationship with his kids and sees us constantly all the time. There are people that will lie about small things that you would think no one would lie about. So I totally believe her side of the story.
Money does not make up for leaving. Living a mile away does not mean the kids came to his house all the time. He did not take into account any of her feelings
That sidewalk goes both directions. He could've used his feet to walk or pedal a bike to his kids just the same as he said they could. It's not on the kids to interact with the parents
That's true and she absolutely has every right to discuss her trauma. But god I wish my dad had at least provided monetarily. He did nothing for any of his kids and hasn't bothered talking to me in ~30 years. My brother went into a coma and I had to talk to his wife, she even asked him if he wanted to talk to me and I heard him say "No."
I guess there's always someone who has it worse, and that never means you can't be hurt and angry. But I always hope if someone gets any help from their dad they realize it's so much better than nothing.
It sounds like he decided money was enough and they should be happy with that and it's not. I would be on his side more if he admitted he just wasn't a good dad and he didn't realize he hurt her so much. He just kept invalidating her.
I hate that he uses his children's succes as proof of anything he did. Lots if children from single parent homes have turned out to be successful!!! Doesn't prove $h%t about his parenting! A father who was present in his kids' lives knows when their birthday actually is. His taking the time to break dance during his response video shows how narcissistic he is.
🎯🔥💯Well said. A totally self absorbed, delusional narcissist.
As for his comment about the children living on a street with pavement and them having bikes? It is not the children's responsibility to arrange visitation. That's your job as a parent, Delusional Deadbeat Dad.
He thinks the shows were having him on because he was so good at break dancing. When really it was the "Come laugh at this old douche. Maybe he'll pop a hip?" section of their program. He was the comic relief. The jester. The clown.
Also we don’t actually know if ANY of that is true! He completely lied about Madi and her accomplishments so why wouldn’t he lie about the other kids?
YES!
Yeah. I know someone that is a successful lawyer in the heart of Cali...Doesn't mean her dad being one of the biggest movers of meth getting high off his own supply is an okay thing.
He sounds very out of touch and full of him self. Some people think just bc they pay for their kids that's all they have to do. It's about alot more than money.
For real! He the way he keeps talking about how “well” they grew up and flaunting what they do is a big sign he wasn’t there for that journey
For reasons I have yet to understand, quite a few men seem to believe money is an adequate substitute for a loving and involved father. Some even seem to think they deserve adulation for doing even that bare minimum.
@@AngryReptileKeeperbut then these same man cry when they're treated as an atm, but also get upset when their family tries to have value in them that isn't just about money amd say that's too much like work amd that since they're an atm, that's all that should be needed and you shouldn't expect more from them.
Isn’t it a narcissistic parents’ thing to inflate their children’s success (in public) to make them seem like amazing parents!?
As someone with two narcissistic parents, one a covert and the other overt, yes 🤡
Dad is a typical, elderly boomer. There are millions like him. Have fun in the home when no one will come see you, Ben!
HAHHAHAHA
So are we supposed to believe that he gave a $2 million lump sum settlement when he can’t even tell the difference between 70,000 followers and millions? 😂
Notice at the end of his rant, it went up to 5m.
@@Nightsisters_ClanI think he was totalling the initial divorce payment and all he alimony and child support (2m + 18k/m for a “while” then 12k/m)
Edit: not defending the piece of crap dad, but that’s just how I understood it
The giant Bitcoin flag and the whole MLM interior decor vibe lost the father any credibility. I will say he may actually think his daughter is a famous Hollywood screenwriter. For years I kept correcting my grandmother when she told people I owned an advertising agency until finally one day I was like, you know what, that's fine, if you say I own an advertising agency I guess I own an advertising agency somewhere. Maybe I'll find it one day.
This is where I fall on it too. Even IF everything he said was true he's still a bitcoin bro and weird mlm pusher. 95% of the people I've seen defending the dad have either been manosphere weirdos or Bitcoin grifters.
@@strayiggytvwith the release of pictures and receipts, it seems the girl lied. She lied about the money. But she also lied about the abondonment because the dad is in all the pictures of her birthdays and graduations. So this could be the mom's influence on the kids.
@@Jeremy-wp4yh I mean my point still stands. Dude is a Bitcoin pushing mlm weirdo. That was the entire purpose of my post.
Plus you can still be a dead beat dad and show up for special occasions and give lots of money. Showing up for a photo opp at Christmas aint parenting my guy
@@Jeremy-wp4yh also his views on women are really abhorrent as shown by his own videos. Dude just sucks all around
@@strayiggytv clearly you have a bias which is fine. But that bias doesn't change the facts. Yes he's a bid coin guy. But the daughter still lied to go viral.
In another video, the father went on some weird rant about schools programming children to be trans and what not... So I'm not super inclined to think of him as a good person/role model
Yes! He seems like a horrible person
Yeah he said the reason why he didn't pay for her therapy was because he felt it's only used to turn women against the men that own them. 🙄
“Daddy dearest” is living in cloud cuckoo land! Her feelings are important and shouldn’t be dismissed, and to make a video justifying his absence growing up is a little bit pathetic. He needs to admit he was an absent father. Throwing money about doesn’t make him a good parent. Unconditional love is priceless!
He said ‘pretty chagrined ’ which is means ‘I was humiliated or upset’. A tad ironic, I’d say.
Robert's DEEP confused side eye when trying to process the breakdance dad situation 😂😢
My feelings on this is that regardless of the details, the mood between these two is concerning. Particularly the dad should have been more mature about it and reached out to his daughter to talk about how she's felt all this time. He's more concerned about his public image than about how his daughter had been feeling about him, apparently unbeknown to him, for years, despite having been in her life all this time, right? He looks way too fishy to me.
Well she's not really a child so why didn't she discuss her feelings for him to him in private instead of doing a video. They're both doing too much and just needs to get off the Internet.
@@Vbear-bn4wmwe don’t know if she has or hasnt before , she very well could have. Besides it doesnt seem like she wants to be the one to repair their relationship, and she shouldn’t have to, if everything is true. He’s the one who should have been putting in the effort as her dad throughout her life, not leave it to her to fix it herself.
absolutely right on
@@Vbear-bn4wmbecause this wasn’t the point of her video. She wasn’t trying to illicit a response from him. She simply addressed her funny trauma and asked others to share if they had funny trauma. She was laughing and looking back at a time when it was hard for her but ended up being kind of funny. If you can’t laugh at the pain, then it will consume you. And since her dad refused to pay for therapy, she’s using her TikTok platform to interact with others, share her story and make a funny antidote. She didn’t ask for a response video from him, and to be honest, I think she painted him in a better light then he may actually have been in.
It sounds a lot like he sucks and is mostly selfish and concerned with himself and less about why his daughter might feel the way she does. He also dragged the siblings into this, which she specifically didn’t mention at all aside from to say it was a mom and 4 kids. His entire video was to passive aggressively state that he wasn’t a bad dad, Maddie and her siblings had every opportunity to take his $5,000,000 and walk down the sidewalk to his house in Illinois. And to smear the mother. He missed the point big time.
Now with that being said, I don’t know these people. But I am a child of divorce, my dad did abandon me and my mother to go be with the woman he cheated on her with, he raised that woman’s 2 kids while ignoring my brother and I for nearly 17 years. At his mothers funeral, my own father asked his brother who me and my brother were, because he didn’t recognize us. He didn’t pay child support and he didn’t ever use his visitations. He would say he was coming to pick me up, and I would sit on the couch in my shoes, backpack, and jacket, waiting for him to come. I’d fall asleep and wake up in my bed the next morning and he would have never showed or even called. So I know how it feels to be abandoned and how it feels to watch your dad walk away from your life to pursue other dreams and the confusion and anger that goes along with not understanding how the person who gave you life, can simply walk away and forget about you. I feel for Maddie. And to me, personally, when I speak on my past and what others have done to me, I don’t like it when other people try and defend their actions and say stuff like “this is a private matter” or “you should talk to them about this” or “you’re talking badly about your dad” because I don’t care? If the father in this doesn’t like that his daughter told people what he did and he doesn’t like that other people have an opinion on his actions, then he should have thought about that before he acted. Act better. Do better. Be better. And Maddie won’t have anything bad to say about you. If he had been a great dad, she wouldn’t have made that video. He’s just mad that everyone knows how much he sucks now.
I don't think anyone would not address the person publicly who publicly called them a deadbeat. I know I would publicly address the very public accusation, as well. 🤷🏾♀️
Delulu Daddy is crazy lol he literally ended his response video with a breakdancing clip 😂😂
Dusty Delulu Dancing daddy! All the Ds😂😂😂😂😂😂
You can tell by the cadence of the dads voice that he’s lying
He legit sounds like a person with no conscience whatsoever. It’s creepy.
I definitely believe her. It's not on the kid to keep or maintain the relationship with the parent. Ever. It seems like he feels since he gave her mother all this money he did his part & that was all that was needed. The fact that it also seems like he wrote an essay, then went on film to condescendingly read it, & then finish it by showing off his break dancing, kind of shows his priorities. A real dad would have called her or spoke to her in person about her feelings & find out why she would say that or feel that way, & not use it as a way to "get himself out there" even more. I was abandoned by my mother when I was around 12 & even though she'd call us every now & then doesn't mean that she was there. He obviously just doesn't understand her feelings nor does he want to.
He was NOT a good break dancer. That makes his abandonment even worse.
He's a legend in his own mind.
He's not even ON the beat!
He didn’t leave for breakdancing though. And yes, for a 60 year old who only breakdanced for 10 years he is good.
@@yesplatinum7956 Oop found his one fan
@@yesplatinum7956 my uncle could break dance circles around him and he's been dead for 28 years and was in a wheelchair
He was like, "Yay! Thanks, Madi! Attention and free advertising !"
He can dance if he wants to
He can leave his kids behind
Cause his kids don’t dance
And if they don’t dance
Well, they‘re no kids of his
(Sorry not sorry)
😂 💀
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This is the level of input I can manage for this family’s story.
You won. You won this comment section 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Robert this father is a giant liar. I feel bad for his children who despite him became successful. That man makes me vomit 🤮 ♥️☮️🖤
YES 💯👏👏👏 Thank you!
The dad sounds so patronising
Yes! It’s so gross.
Exactly. He sounds sooo exhausting to be around.
As a child of divorce, who’s parents openly and freely talked the most obscene trash on each other TO their small children, I learned that you have to take the middle ground between the 2 claims because both sides exaggerate, even if they don’t realize they’re doing it. They dramatize based on their own perspective, so you have to assume there is SOME truth in what they say, while knowing they’ve fluffed up the most dramatic bits to make themselves seem more of the victim.
I think both parents are a-holes.
@@jamesnylan Agreed lol
Same here. My parents arent divorced but they were never in good terms and they still aren't. They constantly talked shit about each other to us and even told us the most random weird facts about their issues like ma'am no I don't wanna know that about my father? Lol I used to hate my father now I still don't like my father, he is a narcissistic evil asshole but I realised my mom was not a saint at all and basically fucked us all mentally with the things she said and done just to be the "right side." There is just no right side.
Robert, did you notice that he was reading when listing what his kids were up to? 😂 So embarrassing
If Candace Owens is on the dads side, then Madi is definitely in the right.
That’s what I was thinking!
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Yeah if Canned Goods Owens has entered the chat, that dad is in the wrong.
His video is so edited to ensure he looked positive, believable and media friendly. That to me is suspicious af, and it's further solidified from the lies he tells regarding his daughter's profession and social media standing.
I feel like the way he worded it was specifically calculated to try to get that reaction from the media, esp: "millions of followers" "Hollywood screenwriter" "great plot for a movie". Making himself look like a victim and making her look like she's lying to get a movie deal, in the most subtle way he could.
@@LadyThinblood Yep. Given his fascination with Elon Musk, he almost certainly phrased thinks hoping to get Musky Husky’s attention. Which you do these days via right wing media attention. (But also like,… you don’t find too many left-leaning people hanging a bitcoin flag next to an American flag while also wearing a bitcoin shirt, sucking up to Musk on X…)
Throwing money at your kids doesnt make u a good dad 😭 idk him he may have been amazing but as someone that grew up with a dad that didnt really care and thought he could just buy us stuff and that would be good enough its not love and it just sucks
He’s in shape I give him that but he’s no breakdancer. He has one move and he’s not even in rhythm. And all that bitcoin merch says something weird is going on.
The way nobody did even the most BASIC, simple fact checking is not surprising but alarming
What do we really expect from Candace 😂
He's more disgusting when you search him and the court history. Why would he lie as he does knowing the records are readily accessible? Oh because narcissistic people always have an excuse for everyone anyway
Anybody else feel like the dad sounds heavily rehearsed like he wrote everything down, practiced it over and over and over again he got it exactly right with the exact tone of voice.
Omg. He is totally reading from a script! Watch his eyes go up and then back to the camera. 😂😂😂
Dad totally dismissed his daughter feelings. Just tried justifying his poor behavior. Money doesn’t buy love and support from a parent
While I agree, she also doesn't have the whole story and made it seem like he also financially abandoned them too and that's less than true to be fair.
It's better than being abandoned and poor. Lol
He seems very self-absorbed. But I'm just some rando on the internet.
a lot of her feelings stem from thinking he didn’t help them financially though
Nah I think the daughter made alot of it up...I think her story was bullshit for attention
Adult children don't just decide one day to have a poor relationship with their parents. That takes years of trauma and abuse. Then years of therapy to learn that parents aren't just perfect by default and it's okay to not like them.
This dude comes across as a textbook narcissist, so yeah. He for sure doesn't see a problem with how he treated his children. He can't do anything wrong.
The family honestly is probably better off with him leaving. That way, they at least weren't around that toxicity as much.
100%
No way I am gonna believe a guy in a bitcoin shirt.
Plus, I don't get why people are always dogging on people for "airing family drama." You mean their life? They're not about to talk about their life because it might make someone who hurt them look bad? Be so for real. 😂
I absolutely Love Robert's Channels. He's intelligent, funny and adorable. Deserves a lot of success and recognition. 💜
Agreed!😊❤
i'm honestly schocked that anyone would believe what the dad is saying 😂
the "left so he could pursue breakdancing" part is probably exaggerated but that's what makes it funny
I would be so embarrassed if my dad was on national news break dancing lmao
100% got narcissistic/gaslighty vibes from the dad. My best friend has a parent who is a serious abusive narcissist and he sounds exactly like this guy. They have no problem lying at all, ESPECIALLY to save their own reputation. He's also exaggerating about his kids' success because narcissists only value their children based on their successes. It's almost like using your kids as trophies, like "I'm such a good parent, my kids are all very successful" even though it may be untrue. Narcissists do not allow for failure in their children's lives. It's all a facade. (I should mention I also have a psychology degree and have done a lot of research on narcissism)
Narcissists are very fake. Their whole world revolves around them even if it means hurting others, they don't care as they have very little empathy. We can see this as the dad completely dismissed his daughters feelings and then lied.
They are almost like actors in a play. Even his voice sounds like he's acting. Then at the end, he tries to draw positive attention through breakdancing on camera. It almost feels like he's taking this as a joke. Even though what Maddie posted was framed in a funny way, the truth behind it is a lot of pain. People don't just make up their parents abandoning them, that's a serious issue.
Not diagnosing him, just my thoughts. Love you Robert 🥹
Agreed!
Team Maddie. Dad seems completely delulu & untethered from reality. And he speaks like Tucker Carlson ffs.
You don't have to (and shouldn't) bad mouth the absent/neglectful parent. As children get older, that parent's behavior will speak for itself. Kids catch on quick.
Exactly! My kids are 20 and 17 and had stopped talking to their dad years ago. I never told them how bad he was, I covered for him, they never knew he was scary and abusive, they didn't know how much of a compulsive liar he was, how he would spend every last dollar and lie about where the money went, how much of a complete narcissist he is. I never had to tell them. As they grew up, they saw him for who he really is.
He still tells anyone who will listen how he is a great father and how I turned the kids against him.
Abandonment is a feeling, not a financial situation. He emotionally abandoned those kids and had never accepted it.
the way the dad talks makes my blood boil the cadence of his voice is so documentary like idk, i hate it it sounds like he's reading a script
To answer your question; If he was my Dad, I probably wouldn’t mind him leaving.
I mean hey, I've known plenty of people who were glad one of their parents left. Life was easier and happier without them around.
He isn't ok in the head 😂 I don't believe him, at all😮
Wow. 30 seconds into watching him made me call bullshit on him! He's trying to get a tik tok following from this. Body language, demeanor, everything. He's delusional. The amounts of money he claims to have given is also bullshit. This man needs help!!
Love these videos Robert! Keep them coming!❤
He really sounds like he’s explaining how they cloned dinosaurs for Jurassic park
At the end of the day we don't know these people. I will say this though: I will never trust a person with an American flag and a Bitcoin flag in the background. I will also say as someone who has worked in mental health and has their own family trauma that 9/10 if someone says their parent(s) completely switched the narrative and are delusional that's usually what it is. It's rare for there to be such an unhinged kid that compulsively lies about their actually decent family. Parents are adults age-wise but many do not have the emotional strength to face what damage they have done and apologize/change behaviors. And I say that as a person who has one parent like that and the other has at least tried and apologized. Both can exist but the latter statistically outweighs the other too often.
I love the way he was able to invalidate and gaslight her feelings, and then wrap up the whole video by saying the point of the video was that is never too late to break dance😂😂😂😂
The daughter has more conviction in her voice and she seems genuine, while her father on the other hand, sounds like he is reading from a script. Also bitcoin, such a red flag.
What he says: "I paid money, I lived just down the road, the kids turned out great."
What he doesn't say: "I went to recitals/games/performances, I helped with homework, they stayed at my place a lot."
Just because you paid for everything and lived close by doesn't mean you were not abandoning them, physically and emotionally.
Oh my gosh the original tiktok had me riveted. Dad is such a piece of trash. Bless his daughter for being so honest and open about what happened to her, she's such a trooper.
If your choices are- any person you know nothing about vs a 66yo adult man crypto bro, you believe the person you know nothing about.
I feel like she could've been exaggerating a bit to say he left the family in order to pursue breakdancing when the situation was probably a bit more complicated than that, but just the fact that he responded by making a TH-cam video instead of contacting her or her other family members to sort it out shows that their relationship is definitely not as good as he claims and all he cared about was defending his image.
My dad told people I played bass for years when I had only really tried it ONE time. Also to say “they could come over any time” is putting the responsibility on your kids to maintain the relationship. If they don’t want to see you, it’s probably on you.
If Candace Owens hates you, you must be doing something right. Also, if daddy has invested as much of his money in bitcoin as the giant flag and shirt imply, we can be sure of one thing, he’s not as rich as he used to be.
I just made a similar comment then saw yours. 100% agree x
IMO, Mattie’s father is a bitcoin bro, who’s full of shit, delusional, and trying to get clout from his daughter to get attention for himself, gaining sympathy, followers, business, etc. I believe her because she has details and we’ve already seen him lie and exaggerate. 🤷🏻♀️
Why does he think his children's education by itself, plus him paying legally required money, means he was a good father?
Does he know or care what his children feel like when alone with themselves at the end of their successful day?
How they process feelings? How they feel about and manage relations with others? Self-confidence? Respect? Trust? Consideration for others?
...Anything except the label of "accomplished" in the eyes of others?
Lol, he doesn't even know their birthdays! 😂
I INADVERTENTLY HONKED LIKE A GOOSE when you said "why aren't you breakdancing??" oh god
Choosing to pursue a dream, however odd, I’ll always support. Choosing your passion though doesn’t mean not supporting your kids, even if from far away!!!!
You neeeed to do a video on the Glasgow Willy Wonka 'Experience' pleeeaaase. The whole thing is so funny (assuming people get their money back!). And you're the first person I thought of that I'd love to see your breakdown of it, because your reaction would be hilarious 😘
Also Maddy's dad is nuts. And anyone who has CO hating on them for something as asinine as this is clearly the one in the right, poor girl 😬
Just the way he talks is annoying. Maybe she felt abandoned? He seems a bit delusional.
Since he lied about so much I doubt the 5 mil thing.
He also thinks everyone should homeschool their children because schools are "woke" now, and he keeps replying to Elon Musk "I love you" on Twitter/X, so...
@@janinepannell Yeah, I’d definitely wanna see the receipts for that one. He strikes me as the kind of guy who’d go to one of those shoddy “X money was worth Y in year” websites and cough up some inaccurate result. Especially since he said inflation was 50% from then to now, which… no, no it was not, no matter how high grocery prices are right now…
@@rachelnotluf4585 Yikes...!
Are we gonna get a video on the 50+ story about the woman’s husband who was a pathological liar? I haven’t watched it so I’d love the highlights 😂
Neesa Teesa
Just another man thinking the only part of raising kids they need to be involved in is throwing money at the kids/wife.
After seeing his 2nd video, I still believe her. Having video and picture proof of the times you put in effort or decided to show up doesn’t prove it was consistent or that you were around regularly. I was raised by 2 different types of addicts, one stayed in the home. Neither were good parents but we have plenty of pics and videos of us ‘being happy’. There was court ordered support and allowed visitations, doesn’t mean any of it replaced having a good parent. My only hope is to not be the reason my sons develop issues and/or need therapy
But exactly what proves she telling the truth? 😂 You want a movie of every time they together? She said he was not there for her, that was totally a lie & you still believe her. The fact that she exposed him with videos is immature-the internet is forever-go to therapy or talk to your dad.
Y’all are attaching your experiences when it clearly has nothing go do with you. Maddie had both parents physically & financially, that’s what we call “privileged” beyond just “visitations” she probably has never worried money her whole life. She has never worried about her parents being addicted to drugs….it sounds more like her mother has lied to her 😅😅😅
its so funny as a cf (childfree) woman to see so many men try to plead to me that having children is a necessity, yet the very same guys turn out just like this lmfao😭
Opening a can of worms then being surprised that he responded? They both could've kept this 😂
Elon Musk loves him, so that's weird. And he has a video where he rants about how schools are turning kids Trans, so everyone should homeschool their kids and a bunch of other things that make me think that his kids were probably better off without him.
He said he was " pretty chagrined" like pretty embarrassed
I think he was thrown by the weird American pronunciation
I also have a dad who is totally and completely delusional and in his brain he never did a single thing wrong so I think most of the truth lies in her version of events. Best of luck to her, and I hope she will be able to come to terms with him never taking any accountability for things he has done, because people like that never do 😑
Poor girl, shame she had to deal with such a person like her father. Those type of people really think they did nothing wrong, they're just so disconnected & delusional, like it's gotta be some kind of severe mental illness right?
I feel you hun. Narcissistic dad, completely detached and emotionally unstable. My mum enables it. When ever my sister or I bring up things it’s ’that never happened or really?’ Denial. I told them I have ADHD and my mum questioned me and told me I didn’t , my dad blamed me/my school for not realising sooner ‘why did it take so long’. Sending love and strength. ❤
Yeah, my father went down that delusional route in 2019 (gee wonder what could have fostered that) and we’ve maybe traded a dozen text messages since then, all very brief and meaningless happy new year’s stuff - he didn’t even bother calling me when I was hospitalized with sepsis, or on a multi-week PICC line with the kind of very hard to get antibiotic whose release has to be approved by multiple agencies sort of thing, just to try to save my life. I got a Cricut “get well soon” card from his new wife like, two months after the eventual amputation that had to happen. And that’s ignoring all the “we need to eradicate immigrants from America, even the ones with green cards” crap he was up to before that… you know, at the time that included his son-in-law.
But he’ll tell you he’s a GREAT dad. 🙄
BROOOOOO the way I would immediately pass away if I tried to breakdance.. my titties would suffocate me, to start 😂
Nah, bro is just unhinged.
He is so disconnected from his daughter that he forgot her birthday … I think that constitutes abandonment
He’s posted follow up videos with receipts but I’m sure 90% of people would ignore
It seems you are correct
I’m impressed the dad didn’t try to sell his breakdancing course at the end of his response video
I don’t care how much money he threw at them, he abandoned them. He wasn’t sharing custody like a good dad should. You don’t “visit” your kids, you raise them. This happens a lot with men, they leave and go pursue these careers and act like they did it all on their own when in reality, they couldn’t be what they are without the women who took on raising their kids full time…He’s also gaslighting the shit out of her.
When I heard his voice I thought an advert came on
The dad seems crazy. I'm with the daughter. Perception is reality. Period.
Next Twins Channel episode. Manly breakdancing... in the wild.
A child might pick up the ‘abandon’ from the parent but even living a mile away he may have never gone to visit - which is still abandonment.
I believe Madi - cause the dad is a weird creep
He is soooo creepy
As a child of divorce, when a parent issues a statement where they sound like an AI bot it's a red flag, they're definitely hiding something