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Never Blindly Follow All "Stock Market" YouTubers | Possible Exposed Fraud [Tom Nash] & The 5 Reasons Why I Believe Tom Nash Is Lying

Hello everyone! This isn’t my usual kind of post, but man, I can’t stand to see how people just follow every freaking YouTuber out there blindly! In this post, we are going to talk about why I believe Tom Nash may be a fraud, so please do have some patience and read the full post, as I will go through an in-depth research of his past and his claims.
~Very Long Post~
Let’s start by talking about who Tom Nash is & says he is. He is a new & trendy “finance & stock market” YouTuber which has recently passed 150K subscribers after exploding during this retail investor boom, but here is a short video from his YouTube describing himself.
In the video he is claiming he is a former “senior financial analyst” which is very hard to believe in my opinion after doing a lot of research about him.
So let’s go through the 5 reasons I believe he is lying about his past & why you should never take anything any YouTuber out there says for granted and you should do your own research as well:
1) Let’s start with the biggest one, his valuation methods are flawed
Even though he has posted some videos that have panned out, it’s very hard to differentiate good analysis from pure luck in this recent bull market, even monkeys could throw darts at stocks in the past 11 months and be right after the March sell-off.
I was pretty curious of his valuation methods so I joined his channel membership and asked him a direct question, about his DCF valuation, to which he responded bluntly that I am doing things wrong. I also sent him a direct link to a well-known financial institute, where we can see that the most common cash flow used for financial modeling, which is the unlevered free cash flow, implies that you subtract any capital expenditures of the company, which contradicts the way he sees it and is plain wrong, it’s like he uses 2nd grade math, if you subtract a negative number then your cash flow actually increases, which doesn’t even make sense. How can something that costs you money be a positive on the free cash flow?
I’ll let you digest this as I will next show you some of his DCF valuations & how he uses absurd numbers and changes the formulas as he pleases just to reach some insane valuations for companies just to be catchy.
Here are a couple of short extracts from his Salesforce DCF calculations,
Exibit A - everything seems legit until here, now he starts with the biggest mistake in this DCF
Exibit B - I’ll be blunt you can never, ever add the Capex number to a DCF valuation, that literally throws the hole calculations off, but let’s continue…
Exibit C - So, using a discount rate of 6% is also insane, even with the current low interest rates, you should at least discount the average SP500 return, or use the WACC or any other type of metric, which is much safer than picking out a single company, as the SP500 has proven over long-stretches to be a great performer.
But yeah guys, this isn’t the first time he has done these kind of errors, you can see he is using most of these methods in many stock picks which are then spread out to thousands of new investors, who don’t really have the knowledge to test what he is saying. I’m just showing you here a couple of stocks like Dynatrace, Opendoor, Alibaba, Peloton, Salesforce as I showed in the previous video and even Apple that have been analyzed and spread to the public this way.
The other big issue with his valuations is that he is using insane long-term growth rates, as he used a 5% growth rate for Peloton to reach a higher valuation, so can you imagine? If Peloton grows at a 5% rate in perpetuity it means they should more than double the inflation rate every year and is way higher than any GDP growth the US has seen since 1984.
He is also implying that Peloton has no debt on it’s balance sheet, which is 100% false, as you can see HERE, he used the cash, cash equivalents & marketable securities to calculate the short term assets while completely ignoring the over $700M in accounts payable no to mention the other current liabilities which would add up to almost exactly the $1.4B in assets he added to his calculations.
But who knows guys? Maybe he is the real deal, as he has made some correct DCF implications for some stocks like Fortinet and FuboTV, by actually subtracting the Capex finally, though he doesn’t do this in every analysis, not even in the most recent ones while also keeping that big long-term growth rate at 5%, when I myself never use a bigger one than 4%.
Just for an example I took his CRM numbers and popped them up in my spreadsheets, and even given his methods I couldn’t quite get to the same results without manually editing numbers, as those implications resulted in a 7% undervaluation for the stock, while only adjusting the Capex to be a negative on the cashflows and not touching anything else that might be wrong in this DCF, resulted in a 10% overvaluation for the stock.
So, I think if he really was a 10+ years wall street analyst I don’t think he could have made these obvious mistakes.
2) So, Is Tom Nash whom he says he is or is he lying about his past?
HERE is the channel intro for his YouTube (Which I can't even see anymore, but i was lucky to download it a couple of days ago)
As you Can see, I don’t doubt that he actually went to Michigan or that he got and MBA, but I do doubt that all of his Successful “Senior” Financial analyst & consulting Career can be described with only a couple of weak-ass photos of him at an NBA game, or him casually at some kind of a course program as that is exactly what it looks like with the other guys in the back-left of the photo.
Also, are we to believe all of this great financial career ended with him just taking out his fake plant from his office, while also smiling as he threw away at least a decent salary for a gamble on YouTube, which is very hard to do, especially when you are starting, as YouTube doesn’t really help the small guys.
His YouTube journey seemed to have started on the path of exposing guru’s and not financial advice, as he also says in the video, so how did he turn to do financial analysis on YouTube? Seems pretty convenient that he just became an expert in stock analysis as YouTube videos on such things were booming.
You can see HERE, he didn’t make a single stock analysis for the most part of 2020, which seems pretty off, as now most of his videos are on stock analysis, and while his channel was created in 2017, he conveniently deleted all the previous videos, which is another weird move to do.
I also went on a deep internet dive and did a lot of searching about him and I found this video podcast of him.
His main intro in this podcast is that he works as a consultant indeed, from Israel, and also the consultancy job isn’t for a financial company, it’s rather to help people on YouTube grow, so let's look at some extracts from the video:
Exibit I - We can see the main part of the talk is nothing about anything related to his financial past, let’s continue
Exibit II - It seems he started with a gaming channel, not even a fake guru channel, and I also found something about that FB GROUP which isn’t active anymore and all of the videos he made for that have also been deleted as you can see in this post from way back in 2018 as he was teaching how to make money on YouTube well through 2019, and was even giving out free workshop experiences as he was pumping out creator content which is miles apart from financial analysis (BTW, he is using the same freaking photo in his old banner & logo as his current one, just changing the green screen background), just look at his old YouTube banner (YouTube tips & tutorials)
Exibit III - Yeah, it seems he also did some video on how to promote on Reddit, and what comes next guys is literally mind blowing, how much more can this dude lie & hide?
Exibit IV - Well… Nothing to hide then… He even had a Fiverr account which was called tomernash you can see clearly HERE, that is his username, and when I went out to check it out right now, he is using a fake picture & and still might live in Israel, not the US, and on top of this he might not actually even be from Russia, which he has been saying over & over again on his channel. You can SEE he reiterates he is a certified YouTube consultant with no mention of his financial skills or certifications.
And even more, you see what picture he uses as a logo yeah? Well, I did a reverse google search and found the other guy also has a YouTube channel about kinetic cycling.
Maybe he was one of his clients that he reached a deal to use his picture, wtf, the more I dig in the more I am amazed of the lengths this man has gone to reach fame on YouTube.
Exibit V - So… A financial analyst with no sheets, no paper, no nothing, great stuff for a senior financial analyst, I literally can’t take more of this so let’s move to the next reasons
3) Getting in front of the lie?
I believe that’s what he was trying to do to, by making a VIDEO on this very subject in mid-2020 and popping up higher in the search rankings before his channel boomed.
In the video he clarifies that Tom Nash isn’t his real name, but he also restated that he was working for a big consultancy firm as recent as this summer, and that he does shit tons of stuff which is very hard to believe, as usually this big consultancy firms have different departments for different things that he mentioned in the video. You can still find that video on his channel if you are interested
But, by the way, how was he working on that job while also doing hundreds of Fiverr jobs as a YouTube consultant?
He also claims to not offering any courses, e-books or other stuff like this, which is false as i showed in the previous reasons with his past YouTube courses & other stuff, and as you will see in the next reasons, something smells really bad out here.
4) Claims about his past
I also took a deeper dive into more of his past, as you can see in his previous channel cover and info, he had only about 4K subscribers as he was doing guru video reviews on YouTube, but all of a sudden, he became a senior financial analyst from wall street that was living in Israel & doing Fiverr gigs, I don’t know what to say but it seems pretty fishy to me.
I also checked his LinkedIn page, and all of his skills & endorsements seem to be related to his YouTube skills and nothing about finance or the stock market.
But I also found his profile on Quora, where he wasn’t that active but still, well back in 2017 he was posting things about gaming & YouTube while supposedly still working on Wall Street as a financial analyst, and it’s interesting that there is no mention of him following anything related to stocks, finance, economy, accounting, statistics or anything other related to the stock market.
So yeah guys, I guess when you make a new type of video and it boosts your channel from just 10K subscribers all the way up to 150K subscribers, you are willing to push the limits and lie about your past just to keep everything going, as YouTube is a really good way to make money right now.
5) The Transformation
He has had even more channels in the past not only this one, which he has transformed overnight from a YouTube Channel Reviewer to a Guru Reviewer and finally to a financial analyst , as He created a second & third YouTube account called GearlyReviews where he reviews electronics and EuroBall where he only posted 2 videos.
I also searched him through his Reddit posts and only could find things related to marketing & social media, nothing about finance yet again.

So, my personal opinion which I doubt to be wrong guys, if there is a case of a dubious & fishy person out there, he is one of them.

I believe that he has never worked as a senior financial analyst and especially not a stock market, asset or any other type of equity analyst.
Most of his stock picks are small-caps that are highly volatile or a couple of recent high flyers which are very catchy to any YouTube audience.
There are many things wrong about the picture he has painted about himself even though he has gone through a lot to try and erase his past. The fact that there are no mentions of things from the wall street or consulting firm, bad stock analysis and methods, fishy and dubious moves of his YouTube channels and especially fishy things about him being a consultant & analyst in early 2020 while he was already doing YouTube and other stuff back in 2017-2018 really makes me not want to buy his story.
Folks, be careful out there, you can find a lot of YouTubers out there who make more money from their advice giving on YouTube, Patreon or other kind of subscriptions and courses, compared to the actual money they are making or have ever made in the stock market.
So yeah guys, I don’t want to make a final judgment on this guy, but you should consider everything I have showed about him and all the problems with his past & his financial methods & just remember as always in a bull market everyone is an expert & genius, while in a bear market you can’t find any of these people as they all flee.
Later edit: He has currently disabled his Fiverr gigs, learned Russian and deleted the profile image LOL
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Never Blindly Follow All "Stock Market" YouTubers | Possible Exposed Fraud [Tom Nash] & The 5 Reasons Why I Believe Tom Nash Is Lying

Hello everyone! This isn’t my usual kind of post, but man, I can’t stand to see how people just follow every freaking YouTuber out there blindly! In this post, we are going to talk about why I believe Tom Nash may be a fraud, so please do have some patience and read the full post, as I will go through an in-depth research of his past and his claims.
~Very Long Post~
Let’s start by talking about who Tom Nash is & says he is. He is a new & trendy “finance & stock market” YouTuber which has recently passed 150K subscribers after exploding during this retail investor boom, but here is a short video from his YouTube describing himself.
In the video he is claiming he is a former “senior financial analyst” which is very hard to believe in my opinion after doing a lot of research about him.
So let’s go through the 5 reasons I believe he is lying about his past & why you should never take anything any YouTuber out there says for granted and you should do your own research as well:
1) Let’s start with the biggest one, his valuation methods are flawed
Even though he has posted some videos that have panned out, it’s very hard to differentiate good analysis from pure luck in this recent bull market, even monkeys could throw darts at stocks in the past 11 months and be right after the March sell-off.
I was pretty curious of his valuation methods so I joined his channel membership and asked him a direct question, about his DCF valuation, to which he responded bluntly that I am doing things wrong. I also sent him a direct link to a well-known financial institute, where we can see that the most common cash flow used for financial modeling, which is the unlevered free cash flow, implies that you subtract any capital expenditures of the company, which contradicts the way he sees it and is plain wrong, it’s like he uses 2nd grade math, if you subtract a negative number then your cash flow actually increases, which doesn’t even make sense. How can something that costs you money be a positive on the free cash flow?
I’ll let you digest this as I will next show you some of his DCF valuations & how he uses absurd numbers and changes the formulas as he pleases just to reach some insane valuations for companies just to be catchy.
Here are a couple of short extracts from his Salesforce DCF calculations,
Exibit A - everything seems legit until here, now he starts with the biggest mistake in this DCF
Exibit B - I’ll be blunt you can never, ever add the Capex number to a DCF valuation, that literally throws the hole calculations off, but let’s continue…
Exibit C - So, using a discount rate of 6% is also insane, even with the current low interest rates, you should at least discount the average SP500 return, or use the WACC or any other type of metric, which is much safer than picking out a single company, as the SP500 has proven over long-stretches to be a great performer.
But yeah guys, this isn’t the first time he has done these kind of errors, you can see he is using most of these methods in many stock picks which are then spread out to thousands of new investors, who don’t really have the knowledge to test what he is saying. I’m just showing you here a couple of stocks like Dynatrace, Opendoor, Alibaba, Peloton, Salesforce as I showed in the previous video and even Apple that have been analyzed and spread to the public this way.
The other big issue with his valuations is that he is using insane long-term growth rates, as he used a 5% growth rate for Peloton to reach a higher valuation, so can you imagine? If Peloton grows at a 5% rate in perpetuity it means they should more than double the inflation rate every year and is way higher than any GDP growth the US has seen since 1984.
He is also implying that Peloton has no debt on it’s balance sheet, which is 100% false, as you can see HERE, he used the cash, cash equivalents & marketable securities to calculate the short term assets while completely ignoring the over $700M in accounts payable no to mention the other current liabilities which would add up to almost exactly the $1.4B in assets he added to his calculations.
But who knows guys? Maybe he is the real deal, as he has made some correct DCF implications for some stocks like Fortinet and FuboTV, by actually subtracting the Capex finally, though he doesn’t do this in every analysis, not even in the most recent ones while also keeping that big long-term growth rate at 5%, when I myself never use a bigger one than 4%.
Just for an example I took his CRM numbers and popped them up in my spreadsheets, and even given his methods I couldn’t quite get to the same results without manually editing numbers, as those implications resulted in a 7% undervaluation for the stock, while only adjusting the Capex to be a negative on the cashflows and not touching anything else that might be wrong in this DCF, resulted in a 10% overvaluation for the stock.
So, I think if he really was a 10+ years wall street analyst I don’t think he could have made these obvious mistakes.
2) So, Is Tom Nash whom he says he is or is he lying about his past?
HERE is the channel intro for his YouTube (Which I can't even see anymore, but i was lucky to download it a couple of days ago)
As you Can see, I don’t doubt that he actually went to Michigan or that he got and MBA, but I do doubt that all of his Successful “Senior” Financial analyst & consulting Career can be described with only a couple of weak-ass photos of him at an NBA game, or him casually at some kind of a course program as that is exactly what it looks like with the other guys in the back-left of the photo.
Also, are we to believe all of this great financial career ended with him just taking out his fake plant from his office, while also smiling as he threw away at least a decent salary for a gamble on YouTube, which is very hard to do, especially when you are starting, as YouTube doesn’t really help the small guys.
His YouTube journey seemed to have started on the path of exposing guru’s and not financial advice, as he also says in the video, so how did he turn to do financial analysis on YouTube? Seems pretty convenient that he just became an expert in stock analysis as YouTube videos on such things were booming.
You can see HERE, he didn’t make a single stock analysis for the most part of 2020, which seems pretty off, as now most of his videos are on stock analysis, and while his channel was created in 2017, he conveniently deleted all the previous videos, which is another weird move to do.
I also went on a deep internet dive and did a lot of searching about him and I found this video podcast of him.
His main intro in this podcast is that he works as a consultant indeed, from Israel, and also the consultancy job isn’t for a financial company, it’s rather to help people on YouTube grow, so let's look at some extracts from the video:
Exibit I - We can see the main part of the talk is nothing about anything related to his financial past, let’s continue
Exibit II - It seems he started with a gaming channel, not even a fake guru channel, and I also found something about that FB GROUP which isn’t active anymore and all of the videos he made for that have also been deleted as you can see in this post from way back in 2018 as he was teaching how to make money on YouTube well through 2019, and was even giving out free workshop experiences as he was pumping out creator content which is miles apart from financial analysis (BTW, he is using the same freaking photo in his old banner & logo as his current one, just changing the green screen background), just look at his old YouTube banner (YouTube tips & tutorials)
Exibit III - Yeah, it seems he also did some video on how to promote on Reddit, and what comes next guys is literally mind blowing, how much more can this dude lie & hide?
Exibit IV - Well… Nothing to hide then… He even had a Fiverr account which was called tomernash you can see clearly HERE, that is his username, and when I went out to check it out right now, he is using a fake picture & and still might live in Israel, not the US, and on top of this he might not actually even be from Russia, which he has been saying over & over again on his channel. You can SEE he reiterates he is a certified YouTube consultant with no mention of his financial skills or certifications.
And even more, you see what picture he uses as a logo yeah? Well, I did a reverse google search and found the other guy also has a YouTube channel about kinetic cycling.
Maybe he was one of his clients that he reached a deal to use his picture, wtf, the more I dig in the more I am amazed of the lengths this man has gone to reach fame on YouTube.
Exibit V - So… A financial analyst with no sheets, no paper, no nothing, great stuff for a senior financial analyst, I literally can’t take more of this so let’s move to the next reasons
3) Getting in front of the lie?
I believe that’s what he was trying to do to, by making a VIDEO on this very subject in mid-2020 and popping up higher in the search rankings before his channel boomed.
In the video he clarifies that Tom Nash isn’t his real name, but he also restated that he was working for a big consultancy firm as recent as this summer, and that he does shit tons of stuff which is very hard to believe, as usually this big consultancy firms have different departments for different things that he mentioned in the video. You can still find that video on his channel if you are interested
But, by the way, how was he working on that job while also doing hundreds of Fiverr jobs as a YouTube consultant?
He also claims to not offering any courses, e-books or other stuff like this, which is false as i showed in the previous reasons with his past YouTube courses & other stuff, and as you will see in the next reasons, something smells really bad out here.
4) Claims about his past
I also took a deeper dive into more of his past, as you can see in his previous channel cover and info, he had only about 4K subscribers as he was doing guru video reviews on YouTube, but all of a sudden, he became a senior financial analyst from wall street that was living in Israel & doing Fiverr gigs, I don’t know what to say but it seems pretty fishy to me.
I also checked his LinkedIn page, and all of his skills & endorsements seem to be related to his YouTube skills and nothing about finance or the stock market.
But I also found his profile on Quora, where he wasn’t that active but still, well back in 2017 he was posting things about gaming & YouTube while supposedly still working on Wall Street as a financial analyst, and it’s interesting that there is no mention of him following anything related to stocks, finance, economy, accounting, statistics or anything other related to the stock market.
So yeah guys, I guess when you make a new type of video and it boosts your channel from just 10K subscribers all the way up to 150K subscribers, you are willing to push the limits and lie about your past just to keep everything going, as YouTube is a really good way to make money right now.
5) The Transformation
He has had even more channels in the past not only this one, which he has transformed overnight from a YouTube Channel Reviewer to a Guru Reviewer and finally to a financial analyst , as He created a second & third YouTube account called GearlyReviews where he reviews electronics and EuroBall where he only posted 2 videos.
I also searched him through his Reddit posts and only could find things related to marketing & social media, nothing about finance yet again.

So, my personal opinion which I doubt to be wrong guys, if there is a case of a dubious & fishy person out there, he is one of them.

I believe that he has never worked as a senior financial analyst and especially not a stock market, asset or any other type of equity analyst.
Most of his stock picks are small-caps that are highly volatile or a couple of recent high flyers which are very catchy to any YouTube audience.
There are many things wrong about the picture he has painted about himself even though he has gone through a lot to try and erase his past. The fact that there are no mentions of things from the wall street or consulting firm, bad stock analysis and methods, fishy and dubious moves of his YouTube channels and especially fishy things about him being a consultant & analyst in early 2020 while he was already doing YouTube and other stuff back in 2017-2018 really makes me not want to buy his story.
Folks, be careful out there, you can find a lot of YouTubers out there who make more money from their advice giving on YouTube, Patreon or other kind of subscriptions and courses, compared to the actual money they are making or have ever made in the stock market.
So yeah guys, I don’t want to make a final judgment on this guy, but you should consider everything I have showed about him and all the problems with his past & his financial methods & just remember as always in a bull market everyone is an expert & genius, while in a bear market you can’t find any of these people as they all flee.
Later edit: He has currently disabled his Fiverr gigs, learned Russian and deleted the profile image LOL
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Never Blindly Follow All "Stock Market" YouTubers | Possible Exposed Fraud [Tom Nash] & The 5 Reasons Why I Believe Tom Nash Is Lying

Hello everyone! This isn’t my usual kind of post, but man, I can’t stand to see how people just follow every freaking YouTuber out there blindly! In this post, we are going to talk about why I believe Tom Nash may be a fraud, so please do have some patience and read the full post, as I will go through an in-depth research of his past and his claims.
~Very Long Post~
Let’s start by talking about who Tom Nash is & says he is. He is a new & trendy “finance & stock market” YouTuber which has recently passed 150K subscribers after exploding during this retail investor boom, but here is a short video from his YouTube describing himself.
In the video he is claiming he is a former “senior financial analyst” which is very hard to believe in my opinion after doing a lot of research about him.
So let’s go through the 5 reasons I believe he is lying about his past & why you should never take anything any YouTuber out there says for granted and you should do your own research as well:
1) Let’s start with the biggest one, his valuation methods are flawed
Even though he has posted some videos that have panned out, it’s very hard to differentiate good analysis from pure luck in this recent bull market, even monkeys could throw darts at stocks in the past 11 months and be right after the March sell-off.
I was pretty curious of his valuation methods so I joined his channel membership and asked him a direct question, about his DCF valuation, to which he responded bluntly that I am doing things wrong. I also sent him a direct link to a well-known financial institute, where we can see that the most common cash flow used for financial modeling, which is the unlevered free cash flow, implies that you subtract any capital expenditures of the company, which contradicts the way he sees it and is plain wrong, it’s like he uses 2nd grade math, if you subtract a negative number then your cash flow actually increases, which doesn’t even make sense. How can something that costs you money be a positive on the free cash flow?
I’ll let you digest this as I will next show you some of his DCF valuations & how he uses absurd numbers and changes the formulas as he pleases just to reach some insane valuations for companies just to be catchy.
Here are a couple of short extracts from his Salesforce DCF calculations,
Exibit A - everything seems legit until here, now he starts with the biggest mistake in this DCF
Exibit B - I’ll be blunt you can never, ever add the Capex number to a DCF valuation, that literally throws the hole calculations off, but let’s continue…
Exibit C - So, using a discount rate of 6% is also insane, even with the current low interest rates, you should at least discount the average SP500 return, or use the WACC or any other type of metric, which is much safer than picking out a single company, as the SP500 has proven over long-stretches to be a great performer.
But yeah guys, this isn’t the first time he has done these kind of errors, you can see he is using most of these methods in many stock picks which are then spread out to thousands of new investors, who don’t really have the knowledge to test what he is saying. I’m just showing you here a couple of stocks like Dynatrace, Opendoor, Alibaba, Peloton, Salesforce as I showed in the previous video and even Apple that have been analyzed and spread to the public this way.
The other big issue with his valuations is that he is using insane long-term growth rates, as he used a 5% growth rate for Peloton to reach a higher valuation, so can you imagine? If Peloton grows at a 5% rate in perpetuity it means they should more than double the inflation rate every year and is way higher than any GDP growth the US has seen since 1984.
He is also implying that Peloton has no debt on it’s balance sheet, which is 100% false, as you can see HERE, he used the cash, cash equivalents & marketable securities to calculate the short term assets while completely ignoring the over $700M in accounts payable no to mention the other current liabilities which would add up to almost exactly the $1.4B in assets he added to his calculations.
But who knows guys? Maybe he is the real deal, as he has made some correct DCF implications for some stocks like Fortinet and FuboTV, by actually subtracting the Capex finally, though he doesn’t do this in every analysis, not even in the most recent ones while also keeping that big long-term growth rate at 5%, when I myself never use a bigger one than 4%.
Just for an example I took his CRM numbers and popped them up in my spreadsheets, and even given his methods I couldn’t quite get to the same results without manually editing numbers, as those implications resulted in a 7% undervaluation for the stock, while only adjusting the Capex to be a negative on the cashflows and not touching anything else that might be wrong in this DCF, resulted in a 10% overvaluation for the stock.
So, I think if he really was a 10+ years wall street analyst I don’t think he could have made these obvious mistakes.
2) So, Is Tom Nash whom he says he is or is he lying about his past?
HERE is the channel intro for his YouTube (Which I can't even see anymore, but i was lucky to download it a couple of days ago)
As you Can see, I don’t doubt that he actually went to Michigan or that he got and MBA, but I do doubt that all of his Successful “Senior” Financial analyst & consulting Career can be described with only a couple of weak-ass photos of him at an NBA game, or him casually at some kind of a course program as that is exactly what it looks like with the other guys in the back-left of the photo.
Also, are we to believe all of this great financial career ended with him just taking out his fake plant from his office, while also smiling as he threw away at least a decent salary for a gamble on YouTube, which is very hard to do, especially when you are starting, as YouTube doesn’t really help the small guys.
His YouTube journey seemed to have started on the path of exposing guru’s and not financial advice, as he also says in the video, so how did he turn to do financial analysis on YouTube? Seems pretty convenient that he just became an expert in stock analysis as YouTube videos on such things were booming.
You can see HERE, he didn’t make a single stock analysis for the most part of 2020, which seems pretty off, as now most of his videos are on stock analysis, and while his channel was created in 2017, he conveniently deleted all the previous videos, which is another weird move to do.
I also went on a deep internet dive and did a lot of searching about him and I found this video podcast of him.
His main intro in this podcast is that he works as a consultant indeed, from Israel, and also the consultancy job isn’t for a financial company, it’s rather to help people on YouTube grow, so let's look at some extracts from the video:
Exibit I - We can see the main part of the talk is nothing about anything related to his financial past, let’s continue
Exibit II - It seems he started with a gaming channel, not even a fake guru channel, and I also found something about that FB GROUP which isn’t active anymore and all of the videos he made for that have also been deleted as you can see in this post from way back in 2018 as he was teaching how to make money on YouTube well through 2019, and was even giving out free workshop experiences as he was pumping out creator content which is miles apart from financial analysis (BTW, he is using the same freaking photo in his old banner & logo as his current one, just changing the green screen background), just look at his old YouTube banner (YouTube tips & tutorials)
Exibit III - Yeah, it seems he also did some video on how to promote on Reddit, and what comes next guys is literally mind blowing, how much more can this dude lie & hide?
Exibit IV - Well… Nothing to hide then… He even had a Fiverr account which was called tomernash you can see clearly HERE, that is his username, and when I went out to check it out right now, he is using a fake picture & and still might live in Israel, not the US, and on top of this he might not actually even be from Russia, which he has been saying over & over again on his channel. You can SEE he reiterates he is a certified YouTube consultant with no mention of his financial skills or certifications.
And even more, you see what picture he uses as a logo yeah? Well, I did a reverse google search and found the other guy also has a YouTube channel about kinetic cycling.
Maybe he was one of his clients that he reached a deal to use his picture, wtf, the more I dig in the more I am amazed of the lengths this man has gone to reach fame on YouTube.
Exibit V - So… A financial analyst with no sheets, no paper, no nothing, great stuff for a senior financial analyst, I literally can’t take more of this so let’s move to the next reasons
3) Getting in front of the lie?
I believe that’s what he was trying to do to, by making a VIDEO on this very subject in mid-2020 and popping up higher in the search rankings before his channel boomed.
In the video he clarifies that Tom Nash isn’t his real name, but he also restated that he was working for a big consultancy firm as recent as this summer, and that he does shit tons of stuff which is very hard to believe, as usually this big consultancy firms have different departments for different things that he mentioned in the video. You can still find that video on his channel if you are interested
But, by the way, how was he working on that job while also doing hundreds of Fiverr jobs as a YouTube consultant?
He also claims to not offering any courses, e-books or other stuff like this, which is false as i showed in the previous reasons with his past YouTube courses & other stuff, and as you will see in the next reasons, something smells really bad out here.
4) Claims about his past
I also took a deeper dive into more of his past, as you can see in his previous channel cover and info, he had only about 4K subscribers as he was doing guru video reviews on YouTube, but all of a sudden, he became a senior financial analyst from wall street that was living in Israel & doing Fiverr gigs, I don’t know what to say but it seems pretty fishy to me.
I also checked his LinkedIn page, and all of his skills & endorsements seem to be related to his YouTube skills and nothing about finance or the stock market.
But I also found his profile on Quora, where he wasn’t that active but still, well back in 2017 he was posting things about gaming & YouTube while supposedly still working on Wall Street as a financial analyst, and it’s interesting that there is no mention of him following anything related to stocks, finance, economy, accounting, statistics or anything other related to the stock market.
So yeah guys, I guess when you make a new type of video and it boosts your channel from just 10K subscribers all the way up to 150K subscribers, you are willing to push the limits and lie about your past just to keep everything going, as YouTube is a really good way to make money right now.
5) The Transformation
He has had even more channels in the past not only this one, which he has transformed overnight from a YouTube Channel Reviewer to a Guru Reviewer and finally to a financial analyst , as He created a second & third YouTube account called GearlyReviews where he reviews electronics and EuroBall where he only posted 2 videos.
I also searched him through his Reddit posts and only could find things related to marketing & social media, nothing about finance yet again.

So, my personal opinion which I doubt to be wrong guys, if there is a case of a dubious & fishy person out there, he is one of them.

I believe that he has never worked as a senior financial analyst and especially not a stock market, asset or any other type of equity analyst.
Most of his stock picks are small-caps that are highly volatile or a couple of recent high flyers which are very catchy to any YouTube audience.
There are many things wrong about the picture he has painted about himself even though he has gone through a lot to try and erase his past. The fact that there are no mentions of things from the wall street or consulting firm, bad stock analysis and methods, fishy and dubious moves of his YouTube channels and especially fishy things about him being a consultant & analyst in early 2020 while he was already doing YouTube and other stuff back in 2017-2018 really makes me not want to buy his story.
Folks, be careful out there, you can find a lot of YouTubers out there who make more money from their advice giving on YouTube, Patreon or other kind of subscriptions and courses, compared to the actual money they are making or have ever made in the stock market.
So yeah guys, I don’t want to make a final judgment on this guy, but you should consider everything I have showed about him and all the problems with his past & his financial methods & just remember as always in a bull market everyone is an expert & genius, while in a bear market you can’t find any of these people as they all flee.
Later edit, Probably after reading the post: He has currently disabled his Fiverr gigs, learned Russian and deleted the profile image LOL
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[Megathread] Tiananmen Square Massacre

On June 4, 1989, Beijing’s Tiananmen Square resembled a warzone as soldiers from the People’s Liberation Army, largely amassed from the country’s hinterlands and conveyed to the capital in the preceding days and weeks, marched down Chang’an (the street of eternal peace) with orders to quash the “counter-revolutionary rebellion” and clear the square: “We cannot protect you if you are in the square. You must take responsibility for the consequences,” they billowed through megaphones to the demonstrators whose numbers had swelled over 300,000. The students, intellectuals, civilians, and workers there had engaged in strategic nonviolence (demonstration, hunger striking, and occupation of the square), but internal conflicts and foundering nonviolent discipline undermined their work. Whether you call it a massacre, event, or incident, June Fourth was the tragic culmination of a period of unrest, the ’89 Democracy Movement, which resonated throughout urban China. Rooted in the tension between Maoism/traditional socialism and reformism/internationalism which had been playing out since the Great Helmsman’s death, the Tiananmen protests were incited by the death of prominent Party reformist Hu Yaobang. Estimates vary, but it is widely agreed that hundreds, if not thousands (including some soldiers), perished in Beijing as a result of the CCP leadership’s decision to turn the PLA’s tanks, machine guns, and 200,000 soldiers on the people.
Today, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) expends near-incalculable sums on internal security, deploys a veritable army of wumaos and high-tech tools (e.g. artificial intelligence) to stymie dissent and enforce censorship online, and works tirelessly to erase the ’89 Movement and Tiananmen Massacre from China’s collective memory. In Tiananmen Square, the vestiges of that meticulously censored battlefield are embodied in the repressive architecture and surveillance state milieu which naïve tourists, patriotic Chinese, and would-be protesters alike are subjected to. Still to this day, the Tiananmen Mothers are denied an opportunity to mourn and the event is purposefully omitted from the Chinese education. Engagement with this restive period of modern Chinese history has been carefully stewarded by the State: nationalists are inculcated with the beliefs that Tiananmen was a Western conspiracy, that the movement’s success would have derailed China’s growth story (despite the fact that China’s economic ascendancy was the result of laudable reformist/internationalists leveraging the help Western economists and their own previously repressed intellect), and that only the CCP can guarantee social stability and thus prosperity.
We remember Tiananmen now not for what might have been, but for what was—the electrifying spirit of the Chinese people, the hope that the students exuded, and the brutal crackdown which paved the way for ratcheting authoritarianism. We remember Tiananmen because the CCP have too long avoided a reckoning.

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Background
Tension between the reform imperative and all-encompassing Maoist influence permeated the CCP from Mao's death through Deng's reform and opening up and into the 80s. This remains a contentious period of modern Chinese history.
June 4, 1989
Impact on Modern China
Tank Man & the Censorship Regime
Controversies
TLDR: Over thirty years later, we still remember Tiananmen. The CCP have too long avoided a reckoning. The '89 Movement and 6/4 massacre have consequences which continue to reverberate, most notably in Beijing's ratcheting authoritarianism and politicization of China's collective memory.

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We've created this megathread to help educate people on the event, organize as much information as possible so that people can actually take an interest in it beyond karma-whoring, and, ultimately, to set the tone. If you find something interesting but perhaps not substantial enough to merit its own thread, please post it here. If you're dying to share a meme, but suspect we might delete it, post it in this thread rather than clogging up the main feed.
If you haven't gotten the picture already, please note: Beyond just being an important event, this was a somber one. China has seen enough "Nothing happened" and "nevar forget" memes to last a lifetime. That said, here's a breakdown of the type of stuff we don't want to see (and which we'll be deleting):
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Part 2. The scroll of Longinus: The Professors view on the scrolls authenticity has me very troubled

Part 1. The scroll of Longinus: We discovered a scroll containing an eye witness account of the crucifixion. I really hope it is not true
That damned scroll! I wish we never found it. At least then, the truth of the world we live in would never have been revealed, and we could continue our lives oblivious to that which is too big for us to comprehend.
I thought it would be a good idea to allow the world to see, and determine the authenticity of the scroll for themselves. Heck, even Professor Alfredo Diamos thought it would be a good idea, being a work of literature for all to be able to access. He compared it to texts such as the Iliad, or even the Historia Augusta; Works that claim to recount true events, but have been slightly twisted and exaggerated, thus compromising their reliability.
It was, as the professor had said, something that should be taken with a grain of salt. The author, Gratus Cassius Longinus, was very likely present at the crucifixion of Jesus. But the spider eyed being that he described, was; in the words of Diamos “undoubtedly a fixture of the imagination, with a sole purpose to terrify the early Christians”. Even the supposed “Curse” of Longinus, was simply his interpretation of living an unusually long life for the time. The carbon dating of the scroll does line up with the age of Longinus, but Diamos was almost certain even that was an exaggeration.
Being a semi-devout Christian myself, a part of me felt somewhat offended by this text of Longinus. I may not have been as in tuned with my faith as my wife and children were, but nonetheless it was a part of my life that I couldn’t simply ignore. This motivated me even more to agree with Diamos as to the ludicracy of Longinus’ claims.
What I am about to reveal to you in this text will greatly contradict everything that Diamos, and even my initial self, held as fact. What we thought to be pure speculation and exaggeration, turned out to be very much the opposite.
It all started after Diamos brought up the idea with me to release the text to the public.
The other ten of my colleagues who had also been given the translation of the scroll were much less eager than I was to share it, when Diamos had told them. They were old school, rather leaving the information in the circle of the historically educated. They argued with Diamos and I, that it was too soon to be released to the public, and should be subject to further study. They further argued that it was against law to release it.
I remember the anger that Diamos showed to them. Had he not spent nearly four years analyzing the scroll? It was, after all, he who was the researcher and Historian that connected the finding of the coins in the field to the Villa in Volterra. He was adamant that he had all the rights to release the information. It was amusing watching every word they tried to counter Diamos, be quickly rejected. He was not giving in.
One of them, by the name of Lorenzo Sartor; representative from the Italian ministry of Cultural Heritage (MiBACT), threatened to take this matter to court if Diamos would pursue it. He knew that Diamos did not have permission from MiBACT, to release this content. The whole Volterra project was, after all, funded by MiBACT. Diamos was merely hired to be one of the lead researchers of the project. Anything found, from mere stones to the scroll itself, was at the authority of MiBACT to make the decision as to what happens to the artefacts outside of the circle of the project. What Diamos was wanting to do, greatly violated the contract he signed to be a part of this project.
But stubborn Diamos, did not surrender. The outbursts between the two of them became very heated. It eventually was just too much for the others to handle, and they all left the room. I decided to join them, feeling so annoyed at how childish these two were acting. I waited outside the room, shaking my head in disappointment, as I heard the muffled shouts and sharp movements they made. The other ten had taken off to call for security, as they began to feel uneasy with Diamos’ demeanor. I knew he could be hot headed, but I was sharing that same unease. This arguing was simply uncalled for.
Then, the shouting suddenly stopped.
It was about time they decided to be more civil.
Something felt off. The sudden silence was too unexpected.
Diamos hastily opened the door of the meeting room, and the look of relief on his face when he saw me was similar to that of one finding water in a desert. He firmly grabbed my arm and dragged me into the room, before immediately locking the door.
I dropped my jaw at the sight that beheld me. Lying in a pool of blood, Lorenzo Sartor was motionless. There was a deep gash in his chest, with blood still oozing out. One of the rusty nails that had been found on the site was on the floor next to the corpse; the weapon of choice.
“What the hell have you done!” I exclaimed as I gagged at the horrid site.
“We have little time” Diamos replied, being unmoved by the act he had just committed. He was frantically on his laptop deleting emails, and files that were valuable to this whole project.
I struggled to bring words out of my mouth. I had never seen a recently deceased body before, and to see things go south so quickly was completely out of my minds comprehension.
Finished, Diamos closed the laptop and threw it to the ground, destroying it. He then came up to me and forced a USB into my hands.
“I am so sorry to do this to you Mike. I have no time to explain this all to you, but you WILL understand soon enough” he said pleadingly. He grabbed my shoulders and looked me dead in the eye “There are greater powers than you can comprehend at work here. You must open the USB when it is safe to do so”
“OPEN THE DOOR!” shouted security outside, startling us.
They were determined to enter the room and began to bash the door violently so that it might give way.
Diamos forced the USB into my pocket, before he pushed me to the floor, next to the corpse of Lorenzo. He grabbed the nail and held it against my head. I didn’t know what the hell he was going to do. Was he honestly going to kill me now after just handing me this all-important USB?
“Goddamit Mike!” Diamos frustratingly whispered “Beg for your life. It’s the only way you will save it”
My mind at this stage was spinning in circles. I felt more like a hostage than an ally of Diamos, who at that moment was nothing more than a mad man to me.
I yelled. I pleaded for help from behind the door. I begged Diamos not to kill me, as he pushed the nail closer to my face. The sincerity of my pleas had driven me to tears. I just wanted to see my family. Diamos was yelling some hot words, but my mind was too fried to even register.
The door finally gave in, and police stormed into the room, Guns drawn and shouting at Diamos to drop the weapon and surrender. Diamos looked at them with a stare of utter hate. He held me down as though I was a hostage, with the nail right against my throat.
“Come closer and he dies!” Diamos shouted.
The policemen were ready to fire at any given chance. They just had to be careful not to jeopardize my life with a wrong move.
Diamos then gave me one last pleading look, winking his eye and saying “Remember”. He then loosened his grip of me and charged towards the officers as they began to lay fire on him. In what seemed like a split second, Diamos was now lying dead on the ground, and I found myself being tended to by the officers, who helped me out of the room.
Everything was a blur after this, and I could not remember much at all, whilst I was in the ambulance and taken to the hospital. My family were called up and they soon flew to Italy to be by my side. I was not so much in physical harm, but rather mentally. I had never experienced something so extreme as this. What was meant to be a simple meeting about the contents of the scroll, ended up with the murder of Lorenzo Sartor, and the death of Professor Diamos. I was in denial that something so fucked up could have happened. I honestly never thought Diamos had that in him. I greatly admired him during this project, and to witness his downfall was very troubling.
What would come next would be an extremely drawn out inquest to the death of Lorenzo Sartor and what had happened in that room whilst I was with Diamos.
I told them the truth. How I was outside the room when Lorenzo was killed, and then taken hostage, held up with the nail. They wanted to know everything, and the MiBACT representatives who were very much a part of the inquest, were particularly hard to please with my answers. They held an obvious suspicion towards me.
They knew that I was on the same page as Diamos in releasing the document to the public without MiBACT consent, and consistently brought it up. I openly admitted that I did share the same belief, though I never acted on it, nor was I as extreme with it as Diamos had been. As soon as I realized the illegal nature of this proposed release of information, I left it merely as a dead idea. They could not do anything to me because of this. Plus, with myself being held “Hostage” by Diamos, they were all inclined to believe me when I said that Diamos did so to me as a result of me siding with Lorenzo.
I was soon dismissed, being forced to hand over my copies of the transcript of the scroll of Longinus, and stood down from the whole Volterra Project. Further investigations on Alfredo Diamos’ Hard Drives and research papers were conducted by the Police in conjunction with MiBACT.
The biggest truth that they had failed to release from me was that I was given a USB by Diamos. I had not had the chance to access what was hidden within whilst I was in Italy, and especially during the investigations. It would not be until I returned home to Sydney, Australia that I could finally be safe and far from unfriendly eyes to be able to open the USB.
I plugged the USB into my laptop and opened up the files. There were two documents on the USB. One titled “The translated scroll” and the other titled “For Michael Brown”
I was completely thrown off guard to see my name on this document. It was the sole document on the whole USB that I was not aware of, and it was directly meant for me. Diamos must have been planning to give me this for some time. This was very, very strange.
I opened the document and began to read it.
There was not too much information, so it is attached below.
My dear Michael, If you are reading this I am most likely in custody or dead. Please, for your own safety, get as far away from Italy as you can. There is no more need for you to be there. This situation has become very dangerous.
I trust you to be able to understand and be on my side of this whole conflict, as you were the only human among all of them.
There was a reason that it took me four years to decipher the scroll. Because it pretty much confirmed a recent horror that I had been experiencing. This Gratus, saw Jesus as a horrible spider eyed creature. Well, I don’t know if it is a coincidence or not, but why have I been seeing flashes of these creatures before the scroll was even found? Before I even saw a description of them from another witness. People like Lorenzo Sartor, and the ten who were a part of the research team that had access to the scrolls contents, all gave me these frequent flashes of a horrible monster. I did not know what was wrong with me, and I decided to keep my mouth shut and see it through.
Then the scroll was found, and what Longinus described absolutely chilled me to the bone. This was exactly what I too was seeing flashes of. Not a full constant image as he did, but flashes between the human and the spider form.
I was worried, and what could have been released within a month, I decided to hold onto for as long as I could, to gather more information about it. The quieter I was on this front, the better.
During this time, I thought a lot about why these things were so interested in the villa and the scroll. Everyone who had come to the site on behalf of MiBACT, I was given the flashes of those creatures. It seems like they have temporarily taken over MiBACT for the purpose of the Volterra project. I have worked with them many times in the past, and never did I have any flashes of horrid creatures. Not to mention that most of the faces that I was seeing were completely new to me. They must want to claim the scroll for themselves. Perhaps they are afraid that the sole account of their greatest deception to humanity, would be read and many would begin to realize the truth. Better for them, that any possibility of bringing down their hard work of unifying the world, be hindered. Because if the information of the scroll does get exposed and does gain the right momentum, the chance of humanity uniting against them greatly increases.
I must admit, that I did lie to you Michael. There was a part of the scroll that I did not add to your transcript on purpose. It was the part that mentions the way to kill these things. The three nails that Gratus had apparently used to nail Jesus to the cross, supposedly had a power that could end them through their human disguise. Apparently, Gratus had them hidden in separate locations. One of them was among the ruins in Volterra, which is currently in my possession, and I plan to use to test its power in the near future. The other two however, are not mentioned. The scroll cuts off abruptly as Gratus begins to reveal the location of the second. I believe that something was after him. That was why his handwriting was so hastily written.
If I managed to kill one of them, and you see that it was a nail that did the job, than that should be enough evidence for you to know that the other two nails are likely going to have the same powers. Unfortunately, the one found in Volterra will be sacrificed as a result, for they will obviously seize it after my arrest, and there is no point in attempting to reclaim it from them.
I do not understand why I can see these things as Gratus described them, and I hope that I’m not the only one who does. Perhaps even you might, but I doubt this. It just completely baffles me that I share the exact same ability that was mentioned in the scroll.
Perhaps, unlike Gratus, who was able to see their true form constantly, thus gaining their own awareness of his awareness, I am unable to be detected as he was. Never had those dark black eyes locked onto my soul as they did to him. To them, I am just another petty human, used to do their tasks for them.
You, like I said earlier, were the only other human present who had access to the scrolls. I know this for certain, as you were free of the consistent flash of a monster. You remained human always, in my eyes.
That is why I trust this information and the attached document containing the transcript of the scroll to you. I am certain that they will confiscate the original documents I gave you once I have been taken into custody. You must expose this. And not only that, you must get the attention of Gratus. I believe that by anonymously posting the transcript of the scroll, you will gain the attention that is needed, without putting yourself in jeopardy, as well as potentially reach out to the author, who I am now inclined to believe is still alive.
If everything we think we knew to be true about the world is wrong, in which I strongly believe, after my recent occurring flashes of the described creature, then Gratus must be found. He knows the location of the last two nails. We need these to destroy them. But not only do we need the weapons but we need the words. It is of the highest priority that you post the transcript Michael. I believe it has the chance to snowball out of control in our favor.
I am sorry that this has all been thrown onto you so hard. As I write this, I am uncertain that you will even be able to get to see it. But if my plan of deceiving them by being an enforcer of the unreliability of the authors works, then there is hope that this USB may reach your possession at the right time.
The true motivations of these yet unknown organisms, is still to be revealed. Perhaps we are all the fools and these creatures really are God and his Angels trying to help humanity along. But seeing how much they want to cover up the truth of their disguise and deception to humanity, I have no doubt that there is something sinister to their motivations. I am very much inclined to share the same view as Gratus on this.
Michael Brown, you may very well be the most wanted man in the universe with the knowledge you have just been given. In all seriousness, the fate of humanity and the next step to exposing the truth of these creatures is in your hands. Find Gratus and do whatever it takes to stop them.
Best wishes
Alfredo Diamos.
I couldn’t believe what I was reading. Was he actually serious? How did the speculative professor turn into the adamant believer? He was good at concealing his act, that’s for sure. I would never had thought him to be so inclined to believe.
It was a lot to digest. For one as educated and respected as Alfredo Diamos, to be so certain of the truth of Gratus’ claims, shook the very foundations of everything that I thought was plausible. This would have been absolutely absurd if it came from anybody else. He surely must have been desperate to expose the truth if he was willing to sacrifice his life for it.
As much as it scared me to do so, I felt obliged to follow his instructions in posting the information and trying to contact Gratus.
The last thing I needed, was for my family to get caught up in this chaos, so I left them and ventured west to a town called Bathurst, where I purchased a new laptop with the sole purpose of uploading the transcript of the scroll. The further away I was from home, and with a disposable laptop, the likelihood of the source of the information being traced back to me was greatly limited.
I opened up various sites, from Facebook, Reddit, 4chan, Imgur, Twitter, Quora, Yahoo, emails; basically anywhere I could think of, I shared the file.
Each time I clicked upload, I felt a part of my soul depart my body. The terror that was going through me was simply unbearable. I could almost taste blood in my mouth, as I was so nervous and scared with what I was doing.
Once it was all completed, I immediately destroyed the laptop and disposed of it in a dam on some private property.
The waiting game had begun.
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"You Have Unanswered Questions In Your Quora Digest"

That's a strange email, I thought. I didn't recall ever signing up for Quora. I'd looked at it before, it seemed interesting, a bit more like a forum crossed with Wikipedia crossed with "AMA"s. But to get a notification about "my digest"?
I looked at the email's source and made sure any links would take me there, and not to a phishing website, and once I was sure, I clicked.
The regular Quora page opened up, with just one question:
Want to know what the funniest joke I've ever heard is?
1 Answer
Okay, sure, random person on the internet who asked me this. What was the funniest joke you ever heard? I clicked.
YOU
Well that was darn rude. There wasn't a listed author. Or at least, Quora let anonymous accounts answer.
I didn't really give it any thought, clicked away, and went on about my business.
Ding
"You have unanswered questions in your Quora digest"
Okay, what the Hell? Someone had signed me up for Quora, using my email account, and was pulling my leg. I clicked the link again.
Anonymous asked 2 minutes ago
How much longer do you think you can get away with being a fraud of a person?
0 Answers
Asshole.
I closed the tab and got back to work.
Ding
"You have unanswered questions in your Quora digest"
Sigh. I stood up and looked around. While my co-workers and I would rib the hell out of each other time to time, nobody here could keep a secret joke, so I walked around the office for a few minutes, waiting to find the culprit laughing over their phone or laptop. Zero results though.
When I got back to my desk, my email had another notification.
"You have 2 unanswered questions in your Quora digest"
All right, fine. I opened the email, clicked the link.
Anonymous asked 4 minutes ago
What makes you think you're anything special, or anything at all?
0 Answers
Anonymous asked 2 minutes ago
Do you know how stupid you looked stalking around the office like some kind of big shot?
0 Answers
I'd had it. I pulled the full email headers and looked over them. The IP addresses had to be spoofed; the emails were bounced to our server from "192.168.0.0" and "127.0.0.1" I rang up the IT department, then HR, then fired off an email to the boss, CCing as many people as I could think. This was neither funny nor clever anymore. IT security couldn't help; blocking 192.168.0.0 and 127.0.0.1 would of course cause things across our entire network to break. HR dutifully accepted the filed complaint. The boss man agreed it was pretty creepy.
I set up a rule in my email account to just delete any further emails from Quora, and caught up on the day. ...
When I got home and checked my Gmail account, I had a handful of new messages. Right in the middle, atop a list of five others:
"You have 6 unanswered questions in your Quora digest"
Shit.
I followed the link.
Anonymous asked 4 hours ago
How many fellow drones in your office did you have to blow to get your dead-end job, loser?
0 Answers
Anonymous asked 3 hours ago
When you die, will anyone care? You don't even have any pets!
0 Answers
I felt my blood run a little colder with that one, and the following ones weren't getting any better:
Anonymous asked 3 hours ago
Do you think you can hide? Do you even know what you're hiding from?
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Anonymous asked 3 hours ago
Do you think you deserve something quick and painless or would you like to suffer?
0 Answers
Anonymous asked 2 hours ago
Are you going to enjoy yourself on the way home, in your silver 2014 Honda?
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That one really scared me...but not as much as the last one.
Anonymous asked 20 minutes ago
Along with all the other mistakes in your life, would you consider not getting a security system for your shitty house one of the biggest ones?
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I went to the main Quora site and tried to find a link to get some help; the only thing handy was a contact form. I pasted all the links and emails in, and waited. I called the cops, they were less than helpful. I eventually got through to someone about cyberstalking, and filed a report. I told them I was worried since obviously whoever this was, they knew my car and at least some of the details of my life.
They said they'd send a patrol car around.
That was 20 minutes ago.
Ten minutes ago, I heard the crunch of gravel in the driveway and glanced through a slit between the curtains and saw a patrol car sitting there. I walked to the front door, waiting to greet the officer.
My phone sounded.
Ding
"You have 1 unanswered question in your Quora digest"
Anonymous Did you really think that would do any good?
0 Answers
I looked out through the slit again. I could see the patrolman from the legs down, lying next to the front porch.
Ding
"You have 1 unanswered question in your Quora digest"
Anonymous Are you ready?
I silenced my phone and ran up the stairs as quietly as I could, easing into my bedroom closet, closing the door softly behind me.
Buzz
"You have 1 unanswered question in your Quora digest"
Anonymous Looking for the gun?
...and now, here I am staring in terror at the closed closet door. For God's sake someone help.
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[Megathread] Tiananmen Square Massacre Thirty Year Anniversary

Thirty years ago today,

on June 4, 1989, Beijing’s Tiananmen Square resembled a warzone as soldiers from the People’s Liberation Army, largely amassed from the country’s hinterlands and conveyed to the capital in the preceding days and weeks, marched down Chang’an (the street of eternal peace) with orders to quash the “counter-revolutionary rebellion” and clear the square: “We cannot protect you if you are in the square. You must take responsibility for the consequences,” they billowed through megaphones to the demonstrators whose numbers had swelled over 300,000. The students, intellectuals, civilians, and workers there had engaged in strategic nonviolence (demonstration, hunger striking, and occupation of the square), but internal conflicts and foundering nonviolent discipline undermined their work. Whether you call it a massacre, event, or incident, June Fourth was the tragic culmination of a period of unrest, the ’89 Democracy Movement, which resonated throughout urban China. Rooted in the tension between Maoism/traditional socialism and reformism/internationalism which had been playing out since the Great Helmsman’s death, the Tiananmen protests were incited by the death of prominent Party reformist Hu Yaobang. Estimates vary, but it is widely agreed that hundreds, if not thousands (including some soldiers), perished in Beijing as a result of the CCP leadership’s decision to turn the PLA’s tanks, machine guns, and 200,000 soldiers on the people.
Today, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) expends near-incalculable sums on internal security, deploys a veritable army of wumaos and high-tech tools (e.g. artificial intelligence) to stymie dissent and enforce censorship online, and works tirelessly to erase the ’89 Movement and Tiananmen Massacre from China’s collective memory. In Tiananmen Square, the vestiges of that meticulously censored battlefield are embodied in the repressive architecture and surveillance state milieu which naïve tourists, patriotic Chinese, and would-be protesters alike are subjected to. Still to this day, the Tiananmen Mothers are denied an opportunity to mourn and the event is purposefully omitted from the Chinese education. Engagement with this restive period of modern Chinese history has been carefully stewarded by the State: nationalists are inculcated with the beliefs that Tiananmen was a Western conspiracy, that the movement’s success would have derailed China’s growth story (despite the fact that China’s economic ascendancy was the result of laudable reformist/internationalists leveraging the help Western economists and their own previously repressed intellect), and that only the CCP can guarantee social stability and thus prosperity.
We remember Tiananmen now not for what might have been, but for what was—the electrifying spirit of the Chinese people, the hope that the students exuded, and the brutal crackdown which paved the way for ratcheting authoritarianism. We remember Tiananmen because the CCP have too long avoided a reckoning.

A Closer Look

Background

June 4, 1989

Impact on Modern China

Tank Man & the Censorship Regime

Controversies

TLDR: Thirty years later, we still remember Tiananmen. The CCP have too long avoided a reckoning. The '89 Movement and 6/4 massacre have consequences which continue to reverberate, most notably in Beijing's ratcheting authoritarianism and politicization of China's collective memory.

Resources

Collections of Images
Videos
Scholarship
News & Popular Media

A final note regarding the use of this Megathread

We've created this megathread to help educate people on the event, organize as much information as possible so that people can actually taken interest in it beyond karma-whoring, and, ultimately, to set the tone. If you find something interesting but perhaps not substantial enough to merit its own thread, please post it here. If you're dying to share a meme, but suspect we might delete it, post it in this thread rather than clogging up the main feed.
If you haven't gotten the picture already, please note: Beyond just being an important event, this was a somber one. China has seen enough "Nothing happened" and "nevar forget" memes in the past few days to last a lifetime. That said, here's a breakdown of the type of stuff we don't want to see (and which we'll be deleting):
  • Low effort shitposts
  • nth time reposts
  • Unoriginal soapboxing
  • The usual detritus (racism, culture wars, the outrage machine)
We absolutely welcome your contributions otherwise. Thank you for your time, attention, and participation.
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Quora and you (x-post: /r/security)

Do you have a Quora (quora.com) account? Quora has acknowledged and claimed as a feature a very serious authentication(-less?) issue. You may have noticed that when you receive an email digest (possibly others), you appear to auto-login to the site. This might not seem unusual, although still questionable, and it has been brought up before. It logs you into a new session.
What you may not realize is that if you forward those emails to someone, say you wanted to share an interesting article, the recipient of your forwarded email WILL be able to login as YOU. Quora says the auto-login link ability expires at some point, but the countdown only begins after the link is clicked initially. As for how long this countdown is, I can't say, but the deeper issue is that every account that I can tell is vulnerable, since an auto-login feature comes with all those emails. Initially I thought that it required a google account connected and it may, but now I am not sure. I alerted Quora who acknowledged the risk of forwarded email recipients being able to login as the original recipient and concluded it was an acceptable risk. I would not have typed this up without the bug report having been marked closed by quora.
Full access to the users quora account is given, which means you can unlink trusted accounts and link your own twitter, facebook, google or linkedin, effectively hi-jacking the account completely. You can impersonate, edit and modify comments and articles, or just delete the account altogether. So next time you want to forward an article to a friend, or receive a forward, keep that in mind.
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Quora and you

Do you have a Quora (quora.com) account? Quora has acknowledged and claimed as a feature a very serious authentication(-less?) issue. You may have noticed that when you receive an email digest (possibly others), you appear to auto-login to the site. This might not seem unusual, although still questionable, and it has been brought up before. It logs you into a new session.
What you may not realize is that if you forward those emails to someone, say you wanted to share an interesting article, the recipient of your forwarded email WILL be able to login as YOU. Quora says the auto-login link ability expires at some point, but the countdown only begins after the link is clicked initially. As for how long this countdown is, I can't say, but the deeper issue is that every account that I can tell is vulnerable, since an auto-login feature comes with all those emails. Initially I thought that it required a google account connected and it may, but now I am not sure. I alerted Quora who acknowledged the risk of forwarded email recipients being able to login as the original recipient and concluded it was an acceptable risk. I would not have typed this up without the bug report having been marked closed by quora.
Full access to the users quora account is given, which means you can unlink trusted accounts and link your own twitter, facebook, google or linkedin, effectively hi-jacking the account completely. You can impersonate, edit and modify comments and articles, or just delete the account altogether. So next time you want to forward an article to a friend, or receive a forward, keep that in mind.
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Quora and auto-login

Do you have a Quora (quora.com) account? Quora has acknowledged and claimed as a feature a very serious authentication(-less?) issue. You may have noticed that when you receive an email digest (possibly others), you appear to auto-login to the site. This might not seem unusual, although still questionable, and it has been brought up before. It logs you into a new session.
What you may not realize is that if you forward those emails to someone, say you wanted to share an interesting article, the recipient of your forwarded email WILL be able to login as YOU. Quora says the auto-login link ability expires at some point, but the countdown only begins after the link is clicked initially. As for how long this countdown is, I can't say, but the deeper issue is that every account that I can tell is vulnerable, since an auto-login feature comes with all those emails. Initially I thought that it required a google account connected and it may, but now I am not sure. I alerted Quora who acknowledged the risk of forwarded email recipients being able to login as the original recipient and concluded it was an acceptable risk. I would not have typed this up without the bug report having been marked closed by quora.
Full access to the users quora account is given, which means you can unlink trusted accounts and link your own twitter, facebook, google or linkedin, effectively hi-jacking the account completely. You can impersonate, edit and modify comments and articles, or just delete the account altogether. So next time you want to forward an article to a friend, or receive a forward, keep that in mind.
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Bei Quora kannst Du Wissen erwerben und teilen. Quora ist eine Plattform, auf der man Fragen stellen und sich mit anderen Menschen verbinden kann, die ihre ganz eigenen Erfahrungen und Einblicke in Form von hochqualitativen Antworten beisteuern. D... Official Quora Account 4. Januar 2019 23:14; Aktualisiert; Wie lösche ich mein Quora Konto? Quora ermöglicht es Nutzern, auf Wunsch ihr Konto zu löschen. Durch Löschen Deines Quora Kontos steht der folgende Inhalt nict mehr zur öffentlichen Ansicht zur Verfügung : Dein Profil mit Fotos und Biografie ; Deine Antworten; Kommentare; Blog-Posts; Bewertungen; Zustimmungen; Nachrichten; Fragen The popular Q&A website announces the data of its 100 million-odd users has been compromised. The only thing is, a lot of those users didn't even know they had an account. If you login during the next 14 days, the account will be reactivated and deletion will be canceled. Once the 14-day grace period has expired and your account has been deleted, your content and profile will be permanently deleted, and personal data associated with your account will be removed from Quora’s databases. Quora doesn’t make it easy to delete accounts though: It takes 14 days to delete all your data. Meanwhile, if you login during the next 14 days, the account will be reactivated and deletion will I have seen users do this in different ways, but have never, or not intending to this in the future. The Quiet Way This can be done in two ways. Either deactivate your account without a fuss, or gradually stop using Quora. The DiscreetWay Tell... Click “Settings” in the upper-right corner of the page. Click the “Deactivate Account” link on the right side. Click the “Deactivate” button, and then click “Deactivate” again to confirm. This cancels your Quora account and displays a confirmation message. Quora is a place to gain and share knowledge. It's a platform to ask questions and connect with people who contribute unique insights and quality answers. This empowers people to learn from each other and to better understand the world. How To Delete Quora Account – If you’re are sure you want to delete your Quora account, then here is an article that will guide you on the steps by step guide you need to execute that want.But while you are on the quest to delete your account, have it in mind that it is irreversible. Quora has been a wonderful platform and will remain a wonderful platform where you can ask questions and Click on your profile picture in the top-right corner to open your settings menu. Select and click “Settings”. Click “Privacy” to the left and scroll down. Click “Delete account”. Enter your Quora account password to confirm. If you signed up for Quora using Facebook or Google, please create an account password here.

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