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I've been messaging them. I am forgetting and knowing that is how i created the plan. I can't do the plan if i knew it the whole time, because i'd be cracking up, so i make myself forget. I am infinitely intelligent, so i can make myself conor murphy once had a reputation as an extroverted disciplined go-getter, whose athleticism easily rivaled other top-tier fitness influences.
However, as the years rolled by and conor's channel faded into irrelevance, his mental state would sadly decline alongside it. I used to be so happy when i was a dude. This is called times market. I love this place because the gospel of thomas is where it's at see the people who wrote the bible, or i was actually put into a psych ward for over two weeks when, in the psych ward, he said he was god he was offered antipsychotic medication.
Every emotion in me is just rapid fire. The whole universe is me: i am consciousness. I know that mom has a strong belief in having a new dad. It's in essence, you can feel it.
You can feel god within someone now. This, ladies and gentlemen, is a man who has officially lost his mind: breakdowns psych, ward, strange podcasts and the belief that he had become god were all captured right here on the youtube platform, with his path to insanity, beginning on the 9th of january 2016, when conor Murphy would post his very first video title began when he was younger. He wasn't really the coolest kid in his class before going on to show numerous photos of his skinny younger self. This would all change when he began to hit the weight room at the age of 13 building a pretty reasonable physique in the four years that followed.
However, this had become even more impressive by his 21st birthday, having built his body to the point where he could stand out as a fitness youtuber on the platform he began by posting. Why did he do it uh? What he actually did? Do you what i mean simple, workout and nutrition guides, in which it was clear that connor had a genuine desire for improving the lives of his viewers? It's to help you look as impressive, as you possibly can for your next instagram picture or youtube video. Everyone wants to look good, i'm gon na help. You guys out these instructional videos were interwoven with basic fitness.
Pranks such as pretending to be a fitness mannequin in the mall. However, it will be when conor posted the first video in what would become his aesthetics on omegle series that his channel began to explode. The premise of the series was pretty basic: he'd wait to match with females on omegle before taking his shirt off and simply recording their reaction. Within six months of posting, his first aesthetics on omegle video conor murphy had passed a hundred thousand subscribers. However, the most notable part about this video was the information it revealed to. Connor people were interested in watching him. Take his shirt off in front of girls spawning a new series of bizarre prank type videos in which he would leave the bedroom and instead look for excuses to take his shirt off in public. There were classics such as a conor murphy, shirtless, on the roof of chipotle, conor murphy goes grocery shopping and who could forget how to impress a girl instantly? So if i can impress you in just one second, i get both of your numbers.
So when does the timer start right now, so here's my phone, you guys can just put your numbers in the videos were incredibly cringy. However, this was offset to some degree by conor's, self-awareness and likable attitude in the beginning. I really hope you don't think that i'm too much of a douchebag, but even if you do please subscribe because my view to subscriber ratio is getting absolutely insane. However, even with the likable attitude without context that videos were incredibly easy to roast individuals such as h3h3productions, who was reigning supreme in the commentary genre at the time uploaded this video titled.
My girl is leaving me for this guy to an audience of over 9 million. So what do you think about connor murphy? The first thing i think, when i look at this guy, is that, when he's having sex he's watching himself, you know what i'm saying and while most youtubers would see this level of criticism as a negative, it simply gave conor murphy another opportunity, a chat always says Chad at anybody or anything that that is cringe, but not hated right, but anything is hated. It's pepper, panes and haha. That's how it is anybody at all.
Anybody who's absent cringe, lord right, nobody really hates them subscriber all of his videos are hilarious, including his recent one. My idol conor murphy. I think it's the best one yet, so you guys should totally go check it out, providing a pathway for conor murphy to hit 1 million subscribers only a year and a half after beginning his channel. However, while such a milestone would have been incredibly exciting for conor murphy, it seemed to trigger a serious decline in his motivation for making videos, as only six months after achieving one million subscribers.
He disappeared from the platform for over five months upon returning he'd upload. Only eight videos within the space of a year less than one per month with only half of them cracking the one million view mark. As a result, conor murphy's average monthly view count began to tumble he'd go from 20 million views per month at the beginning of 2018 to less than 5 million per month by the beginning of 2019. Only 12 years later, in addition to his five-month break, his decline in viewership had also been aided by reduced interest for prank related videos in 2016 and 2017. His ideas were fresh and on par with the youtube meta. At the time, however, they were certainly feeling a little dated by 2019, as two thousand oh definitely had not only become even more dated, but conor was facing a new problem. Almost all of his viral ideas required outdoor social interaction with females which had been halted by us lockdowns, forcing him to return to older video ideas. I know it has been forever since i've made an omegle video, but since it's pretty much the only type of content i can film right now i figured it was time to do another one.
Can i return to the streets whenever lockdowns were lifted on sixth street? Thank goodness, it is back like the good old days. However, the overall limitation would drop his monthly view count to less than 2500 per month, forcing connor to try a new career path. With a sane and coherent mind, conor murphy made the decision to move to la in pursuit of becoming an actor, and while the potential of a new career path was incredibly exciting, this would be the point at which things began to go downhill rapidly for a while. Now he's come under fire for his physique, essentially deteriorating compared to when he first started youtube.
He's kind of like, doesn't look nearly as good as he when he first started. It looks like he's, probably lost about 10 to 15 pounds of muscle, while connor's physique was still incredibly impressive by item standards, obvious that his body wasn't built to the same standard as it had been in the early days of his channel. Is this just me or is conor looking a little smaller and less strict, not hating, just noticing bro, your videos are awesome, but what's wrong with you, you don't look like a bodybuilder. Your abs are disappearing.
You don't look shredded focus on your physique, more bro, although i enjoy watching your vids conor explained the reason for his loss of gains to be body fat percentage and over the course of the last few months or whatever i've probably gained guys like one guys. I did the upper yeah, i did the opposite. I didn't look see that looked at me before and after look at that and then look at it. You gamble on getting good skins for a game.
You don't play why the should you be able to trash holy? Stop being a hypocrisy that guys guys, that is raw material, brick stone! The second thing man is lighting. However. Others speculated that his weight loss might have been the result of some kind of addiction. Oh that's skinny.
Do i you might man? Maybe you lost, i mean you're, definitely bigger than me, but yeah. I have lost a lot well, you weigh less. You weigh less than me by a lot now because you've lost uh 31 31 pounds, something like that. Yeah these suspicions will be confirmed to some extent when his friend and fellow youtuber, patrick lyons, would upload a video explaining that in early 2020, connor tried psychedelics. For the first time, conor has taken a substance called ayahuasca for the first time he took it about a year ago and when he took it a year ago, it is what led to the first period of like concerning video content creation on his part, uh related To what he called enlightenment, i mentioned a concerning video content began with this video in late 2020 titled. Why i deleted my old videos and how to access them in which his audience does? I want to my channel or i i want to have rants about uh a. What do you call? I would call this like yo dude, yo dude, this drug and that drug is impossible to overdose. It's not toxic, it's natural and you have a bunch of narratives and like that, right and i'll say a bunch of a bunch of people did it.
The problem is, these type of drugs are uh in the class of psychedelics, and the problem with those sometimes is that they kind of in your head open, uh, new doors that are um normally closed in in terms of um ideas. If you may and then um, you explore certain parts of whatever right and then you kind of like change some stuff in there and then uh once you're gon na come down that you kind of reclose them whatever sometimes um. You know some things like this will happen where um they like kind of break a bunch of, and then they kind of come down and boom. Now you're kind of you know uh it i'm not saying everybody, but it can happen that you kind of uh.
You know rearrange some wires if you may, if i may, if i may right, um so yeah, you know yo be careful to witness the first example of conor giving up his old gym, related branding, replacing it with a much more hippie vibe wearing a hoodie and Necklace, while standing in front of a damp rainforest poster throughout the video conor would discuss, i can't speak for i'm sorry dude, it's just because i'm trying not to sound like i know i i know everything but i'm just trying to because myself in a chat with Chat says: oh dude, mushrooms dude, you can't overdose bro, it's not dangerous. Yeah, dude, uh physical death. Okay, is a completely different topic than going mental. Okay, sometimes even even the the the slight things can, and it will make you mental depending on how prone you are and and how, how flexible and sometimes things, snowball right and when breaks and kind of goes it snowballs like crazy, and that can happen, and i I hate to say it: i've seen it uh with a lot of friends and acquaintances, and it's not it's not fun or or cool, or whatever man.
I've seen some. What one of one of our friends went back when i did, but he did some spice some k2 uh, which is a kind of different topic, but i mean he went complete mental man. That's the many downsides of success in a relatable, articulate and intelligent manner. I reached this point of success: the great physique, the girls, the money still and while his new introspective message might have resonated with some in the months that followed, it became blatantly obvious that conor murphy was diving deeper into what you might call the spirit realm. As his ramblings became increasingly incoherent through deep meditation and consciousness work, you can realize that you can be free of the compulsive nature behind thought. Of course, you will still think, but there won't be any addictive qualities to that thought. You can detach her from your thoughts and be the observer of the thoughts, rather than identify with the thoughts that is probably the biggest addiction of all at around the same time, conor would post a picture to his instagram holding a graduation certificate alongside a caption reading. I am now it's not even a question guys what he said is somewhat true and an accepted thought: okay, okay, okay, i asked another friend genuine thing: okay, i'm not gon na i'm not, and i advocate for anything, i'm just it's.
It's just an anecdote. Okay, settle down so done. Okay, my friend would keep a smoke cigarettes at them. Uh like he was like.
Oh then, like change, smoke or whatnot, and then um he took certain amount of psychedelics or whatever right and then um. You know you could tell it was like very thinking and he was kind of like busted busted right and then i'm not getting the next days uh. He never smoked again right so yeah that can happen. You know, like officially a doctor.
That's right. I received an honorary doctorate in spirituality from the los angeles development church and institute simply from making a donation. This honorary degree lets me legally use the doctor title in front of my name. I can legally be referred to as doctor his former friend and fellow youtuber.
Patrick lyons, who had originally updated everyone on connor's ayahuasca use, then went on to explain that connor's dosage had increased substantially. He took that ayahuasca the first time a year ago, and i don't know where, along the lines, these things happened, but he has increased his frequency of consumption to every two hours, which would also be reiterated by another friend of connor called jane. I asked connor: how often do you do ayahuasca and he said every two hours, connor's extreme dosage will become apparent: okay, okay, dude, okay, dude, when a channel called micah would upload a video titled. We went to save connor murphy in which connor's apartment could be seen in complete and utter disarray shown.
Similarly, in jane's video, i drove my guard to conor's apartment complex. There were a bunch of boxes and trash bags in front of his door. We went inside his apartment, and this is what i saw. The stack of boxes was so huge that it took up half of the apartment and spilled out through the front door, connor apologized for being so messy but said that he hadn't had time to clean because he'd been so busy making content. I've just been so focused on getting up all this content. I just haven't had time to clean. That's why i'm here so i just started unboxing the mountain of packages and it was a bunch of totally random stuff. Just a few of the things were: a harry potter, invisibility, cloak 12 cans of oxygen and a cat tower.
I asked him if he had a cat and he said no before he'd go on to imply that he'd completely given up on his porsche diet. How you've been getting all your calories in wrong? I just eat whatever i want now later in the video connor's mental health problems will be put on full display. My name is stewie stewie griffin and belle delphine. You like this.
I'm about to eat some vegan macaroni and cheese vegan. It's made out of plants just like your when the two guys who are filming the video left, connor's house they'd, receive this caller, showing that it clearly wasn't fake. In other videos, conor appeared more sane. However, there were still signs of mental illness such as this video, in which he would attempt to pick up girls by telling them that he had become god.
I am god, okay, i'm done yeah. How do you feel about that? I mean why do you think you're gone yeah just just so. I i have a moral uh foot on this. I think that was kind of weird, though calling like that and then acting weird on camera and be like.
Oh, we didn't go past this guy. I think that's just just being weird yeah you're a friend but you're also gon na kind of a weirdo. I don't know i don't i don't like it so well. Why do you think that i even exist? Conor's god complex would then lead him to produce even strength.
It's proof: okay, okay, proof of what as a crime committed is there is there an initiative needs to be reported on or proven what proof of what we're talking about proof of what of the of the the content creation tribunal. Whatever you're talking about man, stranger videos such as this one titled failing to enlighten my parents, in which he would sit in a zoom call rambling incoherently to his mother and father for an hour and a half straight. If you truly had faith - and you knew that heaven on earth existed, that's the only thing you'd be searching for you wouldn't be working, you wouldn't be stressing. All you would be doing is doing everything you can to experience heaven on earth accompanying these incoherent ramblings was a complete overhaul of his instagram from a former aesthetic showground to a psychedelic wasteland he's starting to wear like costumes and and he's like going around at night Time doing weird stuff and he starts posting. These uh mario became enlightened when he realized that he is the pixels. You are living in the matrix, connor zad uh call me the happy, hatter and he's wearing some costume in the early days of his channel. Connor had talked about his passion for golf. My two main more serious sports were basketball and golf.
I played those both in high school and i play golf in college right now, which would be reignited in the strangest way after he had become enlightened, as explained by derek for more plates more dates. I look at my dms and i'm in this weird group and it's called like conor's like enlightened cult or something the members of this group. It's like connor me tiger woods. The pga tour keemstar like some like the weirdest schwerkesborg combination of individuals ever and conor, is just like posting weird voice messages in his matthew, mcconaughey accent and i'm like like what are we doing here? Dude like what is going on, presumably his uh enlightenment sort of led him towards the realization that he was going to win a major golf tournament professionally.
As far as i understand in the same, video derek would go on to explain that connor had gone so far off the rails, that he began posting his saved passwords to his public instagram him showing every single password on his phone. That is saved like every single account he has and the email associated with it. So, like bank of america, amazon, even his bang energy password apparently derek, would then host a podcast talking about conor murphy with another youtuber who would state that his actions seemed indicative of schizophrenia that is psychotic behavior yeah, like that is very indicative of somebody with lingering Mental instabilities uh such as a family history of schizophrenia, while it didn't seem like things, could possibly get any worse. Is this guy, like a like a like a psycho evaluator, or something like that? Who is this guy, this guy um? Hmm? What is this guy? It's a drug andy uh such as a family, history of schizophrenia, and while it didn't seem like things, could possibly get any worse, they were about to connor's audience would come to find out that i think that's awesome after he'd upload a video simply titled goodbye in This video connor would explain that he felt as though he was going insane being at his quote: mental breaking point.
What is happening? I've gone literally mentally insane how the past few days. I don't understand because, because i feel like if you're not a professional making uh making medical conclusions about somebody's mental well-being is kind of odd. I took my mental breaking point. He then go on to state that he was doing anything to try and show his family.
How to be happy for six days i've stayed up, i haven't slept. I wrote i wrote a 70 page book in two days to try to explain happiness to them and it's claims crazy, but it's yeah, i'm crazy, but i just wanted to be happy. I'm trying to save their lives, they don't realize how happy they are before going on to lake his address. You can come here to one six, seven one after posting his address in a public youtube. Video police would pay him a visit before taking him to a psych ward, where he would remain for two weeks in the process. He'd remain in contact with his best friend who'd state that, even after being put in a mental hospital, conor was unable to stop talking about his spiritual enlightenment. So conor spent two weeks in a psych ward, and i called him every few days. Rather, he called me and we talked every few days and he was able to get to a point where he was able to hold a normal conversation and speak normally.
But yet one thing remained the same. The one thing that stayed the same was he just didn't want to talk about anything other than his enlightenment and his awakenment. It seemed to be the only thing that mattered to him. After being, let out of the psych ward connor would upload a video titled.
Yes, i'm alive and i'm sorry in which he would state that the goodbye video was all an act done for the purpose of potentially grabbing the attention of a movie studio. I had this crazy idea. I'd make some acting reels that were so dramatic and so controversial that it would grab the attention of producers, and this would be my one final shot at becoming an actor in los angeles. However, at a later date, he'd gone to release the book that he'd been discussing in the original goodbye video.
I wrote a 70-page book in two days in which he would state that he planned on replicating the path of jesus by faking, his death. So more people could focus on his spiritual message. What, if i uncovered the true knowledge and was able to spread it to the world? What, if i thought up the most mind-blowing youtube stunt of all time to spread it? What if i could start to awaken other people and change the world? What if i could actually tell the modern day story of jesus did little to bring him back to reality in another statement reading i recently had what the doctors called a manic episode and i call a spiritual awakening. Okay, i admit there might have been some mania involved, but i can promise you not an ounce of it was negative.
Perhaps in his own mind, none of it was negative. However, his total subscriber graph told a different story since he began to lose his mind in 2020, connor has lost over 150 000 subscribers and now barely gains over a million views per month. He'd also mentioned in a recent video that he didn't have any money left. The moral of this story is that i'm broke, so if you have a business opportunity for me, maybe you want to help me, get some brand deals and make some commission at this point i have zero shame and i'm open to pretty much anything.
However, he does sound fairly sarcastic, so this might have been a joke. The silver lining to the story is that conor has deleted almost all evidence of his crazy spiritual phase, replacing it with fitness content as he had posted in the past. His spiritual channel, titled conor murphy talks on which he used to post incoherent ramblings when completely silent. Until one month ago, at which point conor returned with a normal articulate story relating to his high school days in which he's looking and sounding substantially healthier than he had been 12 months, almost all of his comments discussed the obvious recent improvement in conor's life. So hopefully his insanity was nothing more than a minor hiccup in what will become an incredibly successful life over the long term holy well. I wish we got to see more of that ending uh. You know that the good things hmm tonight.
Never believe what you read on the internet. Like X says, there's a narrative that you can't overdose on pshycs – or even that weed isn't addictive. This kind of stuff is said by people who haven't tried these drugs long term, or they're addicted/have been fucked up themselves and they're in denial.
I microdosed mushrooms for a month, and it fucked my brain up. I now have OCD. Lights are too bright. It released childhood trauma all at once, which is extremely harmful. I had the same song looping in my head for weeks on end, constantly for over a year. I had intense brain fog, that made me very slow. I thought I was going insane.
Also, weed is one of the hardest drugs to stop taking in my experience. Sure, you don't get physical withdrawal symptoms. But it is extremely addicting mentally.
This was over 2 years ago now and I'm still recovering from both shrooms and a couple year long weed dependence. Still don't feel as sharp as I was before. I believed all the shit I read on Facebook. I thought people that said "don't do drugs" were nerds. But I wish I never did.
In my opinion psychedelics can be the most dangerous drugs as some people can just go full on mental permanently from one time. I have seen this personally with friends some have life changing experiences for the good or bad. People will tell you have to be ready and have a good trip sitter but that actually doesn't matter as your brain chemicals decide not nobody else.
its funny to me that people are gonna make video about the broad scope of the fitness industry and one of the most influential people in it, and not mention the excessive amounts of peds, steroids that also led to his health and mental state degrade , its sad they cut out all the important parts of the story that needs light shed on hollywood, celebs, influencers its all fake in that realm of fitness and the fact people grow up for generations past and to come thinking people like arnold, the rock, chris hemsworth etc are natural gives so many false expectations in the public eye and needs to change.
anyone who said "roids" is just coping really hard, the dude was already working out for 8 years at the age of 21.
If you only did calisthenics for 8 years you would look like a god.
He probably got drug induced psychosis but a lot of those symptoms and god complex is more a long the lines of bipolar and schizophrenia. If he was more prone to mental health issues cause of certain genes it would make sense and depending all the drugs he was doing and how long then unfortunately this can happen. Usually when you stop the drugs for a long period the issues can be reversed or if it is a mental illness then he has to look more into it.
What does ayahuasca do to a healthy mind? Like I heard of it helping ppl who had trauma or overcome severe negative aspects of themselves but Connor just doesn’t seem like he has the kind of trauma ayahuasca will help with. The last I heard of him was that he started an onlyfans I did not think he broke down that bad Dirty apartment, incoherent, drinking ayahuasca every 2 hours!!
He really doesn't seem clinically insane more like just going through a serious existential crisis and it only got worse because no one around him could empathize and he was actually highly ridiculed instead. That'd be enough to make most people actually go crazy. Also people started blowing things out of proportion puttimg unnecessary psychological twists on his previous videos or social media trying to turn his usually harmless pranks or trolling into a case for serious mental health issues when it never was. Not having anyone to turn in dire times also likely led him to drugs which probably made him seem even more outlandish during the time he we doing them to cope with his existential crisis/pressure breakdown. I feel bad for him and actually have always liked him even if he was a bit cringe sometimes.
Psychedelics are fine in controlled doses/environment and there are currently studies showing the benefits of taking them – it’s just when people abuse them that they become dangerous
psychedelics are for sure something to be taken very seriously and not used to just get high. Oregon I believe has passed for therapeutic treatment on patients with the use of Psilocybin, they have come and agreed on a single strain of mushroom in particular to legalize. I believe soon, at least mushrooms will be on the same level as cannabis, with having their own shops displaying many different strains. Will be a very great day.
I think most fucked up part is that these ''youtubers'' instead of helping Connor they just milked,made videos about him and even made fun of him Apparently Connor needed help wtf wrong with these people
Sounds like he experienced an actual spiritual realization. He just wasn't able to re-establish his life purpose. Combine that with some hysteria and an ego on steroids and this is what you get
The problem with psychedelics is that, while you wont die as a direct result of taking copious amounts, it May lead you to – without proper supervision – do something dangerous.
Another issue is how it Can trigger underlying afflictions such as schizophrenia.
Theres more, but this is getting too long.
TL;DR: Psychedelics Can be fun, interesting, profound, BUT, do proper research and take precautions
I don't think any of Connor's behaviour (that has been shown here) is really indicative of psychosis or clinical insanity. Seems to me like ayahuasca got him to some place he had been searching for his whole life, and then he developed a dependency on the drug to relive that experience. Seems to me that he was really just an addict, and yes, addiction to psychedelics appears as psychosis, but these alterations to your psyche and delusions are temporary.
The 'mania' he experienced, which he called spiritual awakening, has elsewhere been referred to as 'the honeymoon or awakening', which describes the period just after awakening when you think you're the shit and one of the few who actually knows, and so you feel the need to share that with others, but you will sound insane. This period usually lasts around a year or two, and ends when you realize that actually, most everyone your age or older already knows and your ramblings are unnecessary. Some of his ramblings have nothing to do with the drugs, but thinking he was the shit and could do no wrong definitely fed into his addiction.
Really this goes to show that although psychedelic drugs can help people to achieve 'enlightenment' or whatever you wanna call it, one should never be dependent on a drug for their spiritual development, cause it will take over your life just like any other addiction. Real spiritual development independent of drugs and new-age movements will not hinder your development in other aspects of your life, actually it will help to facilitate it.
He was also on gear (anabolic steroids) for sure which DEFINITELY contributed to his mental state as all the literature suggests that use of these substances increases delinquent, behaviour, psychosis, even after discontinued used by a large margin. I’m surprised the video maker didn’t discuss this. He was even losing his hair at one point which is an extremely common symptom of AAS abuse, once his hair loss started he came off cycle and then lost a significant amount of muscle mass (pic was shown in the video). It’s not really possible to remain as low body fat % as he was year round at his peak, while still gaining muscle. Natty lifters have to cut and bulk because you can’t build a significant amount of muscle in a caloric deficit. Man was a fake natty through and through and profited off of selling workout regiments that promised natural lifters they could look like him. Honestly it’s kinda detestable, but the fitness industry is rampant with this stuff. Calibrate your goals folks.