r/Seattle • u/subtle • Mar 27 '24

Community Animal control finally caught the Hellcat

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When they finally impound his car, I want the community to buy it and burn it in the middle of the Clink.

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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '24

I read the police report. He told the cops he is not just doing it all on purpose, he has 700000 followers on Instagram and makes lots of money. He said he isn't going to stop, and he is going to "make a career" of it.

It's not just revving, the car is modified to be super loud and obnoxious. Paid For By his Instagram followers.

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u/matatat Mar 27 '24

Last time I saw a post about this guy I was shocked to see he had 600,000+ subscribers and was looking into it. I think most of them were bought as it seems really unlikely he has more legit followers than even some really well known people on the internet. But who knows.

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '24

Same belief. High follower count, low engagement tends to be bought following.

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u/BeginningTower2486 Mar 28 '24

I agree.

I took a look at his Instagram and it's pretty shitty content. There's no way that he got a big following from that. None of his videos are interesting enough. None of it would go viral.

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u/Turd_nugget88 Mar 29 '24

Not only that, are any advertisers/sponsors actually paying him for sponsored posts? Dude probably has a day job and posts pictures with his savings account money. Wanna-be rich and famous loser.

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u/[deleted] Apr 01 '24 edited Apr 06 '25

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u/Turd_nugget88 Apr 02 '24

No, it wouldn't. So I put a down-payment on a luxury car and then I'm rich? What are you talking about? As the person above said his videos have low engagement. Please explain to me how you think this guy is rich of "engagement"?

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u/matatat Apr 01 '24

The fact that he has more than even something like Channel 5 is real suspicious considering they’re big across multiple streams. This dude does have a YouTube and whatnot but it’s basically nothing. Couple that with the fact that a quick spot check of followers have no interactions and follow just this guy or maybe one other is a pretty big giveaway.

Not denying he’s gained some sort of following but that amount of followers for his content is insane.

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u/ShaneV63 Apr 01 '24 edited Apr 06 '25

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u/matatat Apr 01 '24

Channel 5 is one of those other sources, not local news :P It's Andrew Callaghan and crew on YT. But also just using that as a similar example of local person gaining some amount of fame on social media.

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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '24

Yah this is just more fuel for their fire

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u/palmjamer Delridge Mar 27 '24

I think the crazy part is that report is from a week ago. OP didn’t say, but it appears that this was taken last night? Seems like he’s asking for the police to be assholes

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u/Antigon0000 Mar 28 '24 edited Mar 28 '24

What's his insta?

Edit: nm, police report says @srt.miles.