r/youtubedrama • u/MustbeMagicx • 1d ago
Response A Brush With Bekah painted with uranium-based paint far less radioactive than the average x-ray, gets harassed and reported to the NRC by a random Tiktoker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=js05OEsmsm0139
u/aflockofmagpies 1d ago
Lady made like 80 videos in the course of a month about Brush With Bekah. D:
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u/IceColdWata 1d ago edited 1d ago
I personally think people should stop cosplaying as experts when they actually don't know what the fuck they're talking about (the TikToker).
This YouTuber clearly knows what she's doing, she's done the research, and this short form content dumbass knee jerk reacted to something that was completely not needed to be knee jerk reacted to. Good on Bekah for actually contacting a proper expert and showing how fucking stupid this is.
I am also so fucking sorry she had to deal with that much harassment over nothing.
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u/skele-enby420 1d ago
Been a decent amount of nuclear fear mongering lately what with her, the fella in aus that might go to jail for buying a teeny beeny lil sample of plutonium from an element collection website, and that small nuclear scare in aus where some workers found a spooky rock that said it were radioactive (it wasn't actually) in a wall of a house they were working on.
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u/dblspider1216 1d ago
I saw pinely’s video on this a week or so ago and that tiktoker needs some serious help. her obsession is insane.
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u/might_be_alright 1d ago
It was an Evil Pinely video, Regular Pinely would never cover a topic like this
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u/ungranted_wish 23h ago
Imagine beefing with Bekah, who just wants to educate people and paint, holy SHIT
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u/lastdarknight 1d ago
isn't the random TikToker someone who works in nuclear safety?
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u/Kendall_Raine 1d ago
Turns out people lie on the internet
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u/the-pp-poopooman- 8h ago
Wait! Your telling me people just raw lie! On the internet! And they do so to be a smug Andy for 3 minutes!
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u/Training_Tadpole_354 1d ago
The Russian dudes that were running Chernobyl in the Soviet Union also worked in Nuclear safety.
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u/VioletMetalmark 1d ago
Wasn't the Chernobyl thing due to mainly cutting corners on safety measures? Feel like a better example would be that guy with the screwdriver
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u/Training_Tadpole_354 21h ago
A part of the corner cutting was not properly vetting the people they hired to run the plant. They literally had people with less than a months training who had no idea what they were doing running reactors.
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u/-Trash--panda- 1d ago
Even if she is telling the truth it doesn't mean that she actually knows and isnt just over reacting. Plenty of idiots somehow fail upwards despite being incompetent and pleanty of people lie on the internet for dumb reasons.
Does she actually give evidence of her own credentials?
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u/Kendall_Raine 19h ago
If she works in nuclear safety, you'd think she'd have more important things to do than make like 80 videos about one woman online. This is the kind of obsession that happens when you've got nothing else going on in life.
I think she's just lying tbh.
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u/folkwitches 1d ago
Homer Simpson also worked in nuclear safety.
Most of the information the TikToker provided has been debunked by credentialed nuclear scientists.
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u/Speletons 1d ago
Homer Simpson isn't real bro.
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u/Kendall_Raine 1d ago
Neither is the tiktoker's expertise
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u/Speletons 1d ago
I believe you.
But you realize someone genuinely claiming that Homer Simpson, a fictional character, works in nuclear safety thereby means someone dumb can work in nuclear safety IRL is not someone who would instil a lot of confidence that they know what they're talking about suggesting that tiktoker is dumb, right?
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u/Muad-_-Dib 1d ago
Having worked in a power station, let me assure that people who are as dumb as rocks do in fact work in the industry.
The other poster wasn't so much citing homer as a literal example, they were demonstrating that just because someone claims they work in a sector, it doesn't mean they are an expert on it.
I've worked alongside guys who legitimately didn't know that prawns needed to be cooked, he had a date with his GF and "cooked" her a seafood meal with prawns in it. They both ended up violently sick and the next morning this fucking guy didn't put 2+2 together and ate the leftovers from the night before, cue round 2 of being violently sick. And that guy was a team leader in charge of the safety of a dozen guys who worked on the plant.
There's a massive amount of work required to run a power station, and most of it doesn't require specialist knowledge.
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u/Speletons 1d ago
Again, it wasn't that I doubted the claim or doubted that someone dumb could work in such a field.
But you can't pull a fake person to establish that claim, it doesn't achieve that. That's why in your comment, you pulled an anecdotal claim.
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u/Muad-_-Dib 20h ago
It's not meant to be a literal example of something, it's just meant to ridicule the original claim.
They used Homer to mock the claim, not as concrete refutation of it.
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u/Ordinary-Distance453 1d ago
I don't believe that for a second. I knew someone who worked in radcon for a while, which takes like six months of training/certification before they can start to work, and we talked a bit about radiation exposure levels that the average person has - lifetime levels, yearly exposure limits, etc, and what every day things you do expose you to radiation.
And just listening to that person's explanation, I knew more than this weird Tiktoker about the facts behind radiation. Especially since they seem to just not care about the facts, claiming Bekah didn't have anything to measure the radiation (except she literally shows the geiger counter in the video?) and so forth.
There's so much factual information out there, only a true moron would believe the Tiktoker. Looking at the numbers, Bekah was exposed to less radiation - especially with the PPE - than eating a banana.
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u/Blackbiird666 1d ago
I think I've seen her before? People always overreact about her handling vintage, often toxic pigments, but this is too far!