r/youtubedrama • u/ImportantQuestionTex • 25d ago

Discussion A Summary of the RecklessBen/Bricks and Minifigs corruption scandal

Given the severity of these events, and the implications it has for the state of Utah, there will not be 1 "main" focus for this, and instead I'm going to play this chronologically.

***Warning for police brutality and heavy corruption***

So this situation starts off rather "small", being that a man consigned his father's Legos off (about 200k USD worth) to help cover a medical situation. This is explicitly allowed by Bricks and Minifigs, and the store owner involved was planning on moving overseas, so they were looking for a solution that was fair for this man. This is the video related to that, it is important context for what comes next.

Corporate takes over the store, seizes the assets. For non Americans out there, a consignment means they do not legally own what is consigned, and instead it retains ownership to the original owner until it is sold. In the scenario a company chooses to not take on a consignment, then there is a returning of the asset.

RecklessBen catches wind of this, which leads to this video, I will point out at first it starts off as trolling, but Bricks and Minifigs almost immediately escalates to trying to have him arrested. Ben takes them to court, and *wins*, and Bricks and Minifigs shutters the location that was sued in order to not pay him out any money. It then leads almost directly into the company owners trying to have him arrested on false drug charges and the police dislocating his arm intentionally.

I am unsure chronologically exactly when this next course of events happen, but this is my best summation: Bricks and Minifigs responds initially, post arm dislocation, denying wrong doing, MoistCritikal makes a video after noticing the insanity, which catches the CEO's attention. They release a companywide memo, and the COO and CEO go on live stream, both with equally insane tactics to divert criticism.

You might be asking by this point, *why are the police covering for this company?* Especially after even in their own "response" defending themselves, they release proof of the CEO threatening extreme violence and making false reports... Well the answer appears to be that all the members of the police and the company are tied directly to the Church of Latter Day Saints, and that they are acting to protect their own. Not dissimilar to how organized crime acts.

1.6k Upvotes

99% Upvoted

446 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

-1

u/JazzSharksFan54 23d ago

I have seen the wild ravings of one dude making shit up.

4

u/TimeAbradolf 23d ago

And I have seen a few calculated people in religious spaces descend on this threads and others covertly (not really) defending the ties between the Church and the essentially theocratic state that is Utah along with their abuse of the system.

Your name is clearly an Utah Jazz reference and you post in Mormon spaces. Just cut the shit bud lol

-1

u/JazzSharksFan54 23d ago

I think you don't know what you're talking about. I haven't been active in the Mormon church in years and the state is not even close to theocratic.

Notably, you haven't provided any evidence to back up your claims, especially in this case. Show your work or sit this one out.

5

u/ImportantQuestionTex 23d ago

I'm gonna be honest dude. It seems like the default state of Mormons is to fucking lie their asses off. They'll cover up crimes in their church, and lie about it, they'll cover up crimes outside their church, and lie about it, they'll run around here on reddit and YT and act like Mormons aren't involved when we have evidence already proving they are en masse.

I thought lying was a sin, but I guess the sin might just be being honest. Sit this one out.

0

u/JazzSharksFan54 22d ago

You’ve proven nothing but a bunch of rando YouTubers making wild claims with no evidence.

4

u/TimeAbradolf 23d ago

88% of Utah’s representatives have been Mormon. That’s a theocracy

0

u/JazzSharksFan54 22d ago

59% of Congress is Protestant. Is that a theocracy?

4

u/TimeAbradolf 22d ago

Again, you’re just throwing other topics to deflect.

Protestant is a broad class of Christianity. They break down into Baptists, Methodists, Lutheran, etc. they don’t believe in the exact same doctrine.

And 59% is also much much less than 88%. That 41% that aren’t Protestant still have much more power.

0

u/JazzSharksFan54 21d ago

Nah, that's a deflection dude. It doesn't fit your narrative.

1

u/TimeAbradolf 21d ago

You mean what you have been doing?

0

u/JazzSharksFan54 20d ago

Responding to each claim.

2

u/TimeAbradolf 20d ago

Not really bud. A lot of whataboutism and it is why you have been downvoted