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Thank you to Savy over at Savy Writes Books for helping out with this video - youtube.com/c/SAVYLEISER
Emma Thorne - The Mikkelsen Twins' "Publishing Life" Scam? -    â˘Â The Mikkelsen Twins' "Publishing Life... Â
I spared everyone the part of the story where I got COVID and spent months recovering. A Skeptic's Guide to Hypnosis is available for you to read for free, the hitch is that it's been distributed to Patreon subscribers who have permission to hand out as many copies as they want.
Written and performed by Dan Olson
Crowdfunding: www.patreon.com/foldablehuman
Twitter: twitter.com/FoldableHuman
00:00:00 Preface
00:05:03 GRIFTMAP
00:22:19 SAUSAGE FACTORY
00:34:12 I WROTE A BOOK
00:45:39 LET'S GET SOME CHARTS
01:01:11 SAVY WRITES BOOKS
01:11:00 LET'S WRAP THIS UP
Views : 2,891,697
Genre: Entertainment
Date of upload: Sep 27, 2022 ^^
Rating : 4.961 (837/84,323 LTDR)
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"Amazon's best kept secret.... Audible"
He missed his true calling as an actor because being able to say that with a straight face is legitimately impressive
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As someone concerned with ethics, I am sickened by their efforts to rob people of their money.
As an engineer, I am truly even more sickened by how just... fucking inefficient they are at robbing people.
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Their little rant about success is surreal. They tell you âWork three jobs, get your money, then get back to work.â As if having three jobs is not working
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Dan's not making passive income; he's making passive aggressive income.
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On one hand "A Sceptics Guide to Hypnosis" may only have sold one copy; on the other hand I did really enjoy it
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The analysis where Dan acknoledges how, in essence, he was playing "easy mode" with what was already an incredibly stressful and soul destroying task is amazingly awful. Just thinking about how much worse the situation would be if he actually had to deal with an editor, and having to buy groceries and truly needing the money.. This is truly horrific
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This video came out right before the advent of chat gpt. I canât help but think that the Mikkilesens have pretty much cut real people out of the writing process.
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The fact that Dan didn't title this video "I Forced Myself to Write a Book About a Topic I Knew Nothing About- in Less Than a Month" shows a level of journalistic integrity I don't think this platform deserves. Stellar video as always
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Dan striding on screen with a mostly gray beard, a sensible sunhat, and using the word "nonsense" in the first sentence -- peak dad energy.
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Everytime someone trains people to be apparently a competitor to themselves you can safely assume it's not working anymore
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"Even if you're a little unsure, please hand us $2000 immediately." Holy crap. Who even has $2k to just spend?
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"The crystal healing community deserves better than these two"
That's... Bleak
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Blurring out just one of the twins' faces is an underrated joke.
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The introduction was all based on REAL ads that were super prevalent during covid, when YouTube was desperate for advertisers. The audio was unmistakably and uniquely horrible in each, and he absolutely nailed mocking everyoneâs pitch. There really was a shirtless guy in front of a bad greenscreen promising ridiculous returns (I think he was high). Strange times.
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When I worked with The Urban Writers as a ghostwriter, the Mikkelsen Twins featured our company as one of the ones they liked to use for their grift to get books written quickly and cheaply like you mentioned in the book. For whatever reason, the higher-ups apparently saw this as a compliment and proudly let us all know, which I guess then later turned into "friends of the CEO". That was about when I realized I needed to quit and find a job that paid better/valued my time and energy more lmao
Also, you're right: we used to have no contact with the person who placed the book order, and could just write the book and pass it along. Then 2 years into my stint there they shoved the burden of interfacing with the customers on us, PLUS constant revisions through the platform's chat and edit features. As one of their higher tier writers, I was repeatedly pressured to take on multiple 30k+ word books at a time, sometimes meaning I was writing for 10 or more hours straight every day with no days off. In short, it was a terrible place to work that gave me burnout I am still recovering from to this day
Sidenote, the advice the Mikkelsen Twins give people for how to write outlines to pass along to the ghostwriters is horrible and made these clients a hundred times more annoying to deal with than if they had just given us nothing but a title
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I love how contrived the poster board bit was cause the charts were animated so he could've easily just used the blank wall behind him but he paid $10 for the board to do the bit
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Dan Olson is in the "internet grifter bounty hunter" phase of his YouTube career, and I couldn't be happier
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The fact that there has been two guys saying 'Hey you could just like use slave labor to barely make money' and are still walking free is insane
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Plot twist: this whole video was a clever and elaborate ad for "The Skeptic's Guide to Hypnosis."
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1 year ago
âIâm here within 400 feet of an elementary school to prove the haters wrong!â Easily one of the funniest things Iâve ever heard
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