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Stephanie
You know those videos that are like this is me before being in a relationship and then this is me during a relationship. And you can just tell whoever this person was in a relationship with, they're like a dementor. They are a death eater sucking the living life breath soul out of this girl. Well, there is a new variation of that and I need you to guess what happened to this woman. I need you to guess because it's worse than a relationship. It's probably the worst thing that's not a crime. Obviously. That could happen to somebody and it is being displayed blade online in South Korea on a daily freaking basis. Her name is Jadudu.
Cathy
Okay?
Stephanie
That's her nickname.
David
That's her uniform.
Stephanie
Yeah.
David
Oh, in Korean, it's Chadudu. Is that her real name? I'm assuming not.
Stephanie
No, no, no, no. That's like her little nickname. That's like. Is my real name Ms. Minkop?
Cathy
You know what I mean? Okay, watch that be her real name.
Stephanie
No, it's not.
Cathy
So it's not.
Stephanie
It's chatutu, Chadu, Chatu du. Okay? And she was once a nobody. And somehow I don't know how this happened. I don't know what's been going on with my algorithm. She kept showing up on my feed and I kept having to watch and watch and watch. And then I became so obsessed with this woman and something in me and I never do this. I truly never do this. Unless it's like, has nothing to do with this channel. And more so about, like, rotten mango. Like, I will never be like, hey, my lovely Korean researchers who don't want to be named for safety reasons, can you just, like, reach out to this woman? Just send her an email in Korean. And she doesn't know me. She doesn't even know I exist. But just tell her there is a little Korean girl in America who's fucking obsessed with you.
Cathy
That's it.
Stephanie
That's the email. Don't tell her anything more. Don't ask anything from her. Just tell her we love her, we support her, and if she ever needs help, call us because we're worried for her. She is making me worry on a daily basis. I'm gonna show you. My husband has already seen some of these videos. Okay?
David
But I can always watch it again.
Stephanie
Just to give you a little bit of background, just so you know that Jet Dudu is a very normal person. Jet Dudu, when you first start watching her, she's a live streamer. She actually wasn't originally a live streamer. She was working, like, an office job, an entry level office job in South Korea. And she's just an ordinary company worker. They don't pay young people a lot over there or over here or really fucking anywhere. And so she decides, I'm going to start a side hustle. I'm going to start a second job, and I'm going to be live streaming. And when you first watch her initial live streams, everything about her is giving cute Korean girl live streaming. She's put together, she has makeup on. Sometimes she'll wear, like, cute little costumes. Make it festive. Each livestream will have a theme. She'll answer questions. She's very prim, she's very proper, her hair is put together. And then you almost see, like, a mental health decline. Like, you see her reach the bottom of the bottom gutters, and all of a sudden she's bawling on the camera. She's got no makeup on. She's in her PJs. You know when you take a really good nap and then you're like, hair.
Cathy
Is kind of stuck to your face because you're sweating.
Stephanie
She's got, like, hair stuck to the.
Cathy
Sides of her face and she's looking into the depths of the camera and there's just snot and jewel dripping down.
Stephanie
Her face and she's just bawling and it feels like a human experiment. It feels like a torture chamber.
Cathy
Whatever is going on in her live.
Stephanie
Streams, especially if you don't understand Korean, it seems like someone is holding her at gunpoint. Forcing her to make these videos. It's like a human rollercoaster of emotions on display. I don't think a single person. I can't name a single actress that can display the range of human emotions that Ja Du Du can and nobody he can because this isn't acting. This is very fucking real for Jadudu. This is her fucking life, okay? This is her life. I'm so serious. And she's very serious and people are donating to her and they want her to spiral. They want her to go to the deep end. I'll show you the video. So this is her when she first starts livestreaming.
David
She looks like a K pop star.
Stephanie
Yeah, she looks like an idol. She looks like a nice girl, young Korean lady. Okay? She's beautiful.
Cathy
I mean, she's beautiful afterwards, right?
Stephanie
But you'll never understand what she's saying right here is not so innocent, okay? This one question is gonna fuck up her life and it's the innocent question of, should I try margin trading?
David
Margin trading? That's crazy.
Cathy
Okay, are you read.
David
What did she say?
Stephanie
She's saying she better take you out just like a motherfucking motherfucker.
Cathy
I mean, it's not exact translation, but if I had to encapsulate her energy into a translation, it would be that. It would be that.
Stephanie
And so this is the beginning of what I would like to call a mental health experience experiment into the dangers of crypto trading. We see a lot of guys go into crypto trading and I see a.
David
Lot of like Reddit crypto or margin margin trading or stock trading?
Stephanie
Both. Oh, she does crypto both. She does everything.
Cathy
She. She does too much.
Stephanie
And I mean that with love, genuinely.
Cathy
Love and like happiness.
Stephanie
She needs to calm the fuck down. I don't know what she decided to get into.
Cathy
You know what?
Stephanie
I do know exactly what's happening. So what happened was she has this office job. She's getting paid fourteen hundred dollars a month and she's like, this is nothing.
Cathy
I can barely live.
Stephanie
You want me to live off a fucking triangle? Keep up from 7:11 for the rest of my life.
Cathy
I need.
Stephanie
She's ambitious. She's like, I need better for myself. Also keep this in mind, but her dad does get diagnosed with cancer and the family needs to make money to pay for a lot of the cancer treatments. And so she decides that she's going to be a live streamer. But as she's livestreaming, it's so competitive. She's trying to look pretty for the camera, but these viewers they're still stingy. They got so many fucking requests. Can you put on this maid outfit and say this? Hello. You've never been touched before. Sit down. Okay. Why are you calling me names all of a sudden?
Cathy
I didn't even do anything to you.
Stephanie
I'm just trying to make a living, okay? So she decides I got to reach out to my friend. Her friend is like, have you ever tried margin trading?
David
And so she starts with margin trading.
Stephanie
Yeah. So she tries margin trading. It doesn't work. And so then her friend is like, you know what's easier than margin trading and a lot safer, and you'll probably.
Cathy
Do, well crypto trading. And so she goes into crypto trading.
Stephanie
And the way that she livestreams crypto trading, I've never seen before. I see a lot of guys in the United States that are day traders, and they're all like, hey, you don't work hard enough day trading. Let me show you what working hard means. I brought my computer to Italy, so.
David
Right now is 958. I woke up before, already made 25 grand.
Stephanie
Exactly. I'm in the south of France, 24 grand up. Beep boop, bop, beep bop. I just made another 70k. If you want to make 50 bajillion dollars in the next 12 hours, sign up for my course, brother. I know you know the bitches love money. Like, that's the vibe that a lot of these live streamer crypto traders in the US Have. This is a vibe that I've never encountered before.
David
I think her version is more like real version. What happens when you start day trading.
Cathy
Yes. Some people were using this before and after of her vastly different live streams.
Stephanie
So in some of them, she's like.
Cathy
Like, oh, you're calling me pretty. Like, thank you so much. And then she's like, mother fucking f.
Stephanie
What is she doing?
David
What is she doing?
Cathy
She said, I'm a fucking God. So anytime she makes a little bit of money, like, she'll be up $5. O noodu literally melts my brain. Every time I think about Jandu Du, I go into a coma, okay? She will be fucking screaming at the top of her lungs, I'm a fucking God. I'm a fucking legend. Yeah. And the worst part is I was watching it with my Korean researcher, and I'm like, wait, how much did she just make?
Stephanie
And they're like, oh, I think she's up $500. And then I'm like, wait, I thought you said earlier today, the same day.
Cathy
She just lost $10,000. They're like, yeah. So she'll be down $10,000. The next trade, she makes up a thousand. I'm a fucking God, bitches. And she'll try to take off her shirt.
David
The Korean researcher said compared to amount of entertainment she brings, she is so underrated as a creator. She should be like, kaisen.
Cathy
That's also crazy, is that I discovered her a long time ago, and we've been keeping an eye on her and always watching her. And I never really talked about her because I just thought, like, I don't know, it's just someone that I watch.
Stephanie
And every time I talk to my Korean researchers, we'll just be like, how are you? How are you?
Cathy
Oh, yeah, How's Jae Doo Doo?
Stephanie
And always their response is, oh, yeah. I checked her YouTube feed yesterday. Made some money, lost some money. You know how it is.
Cathy
And that's just how she sits to it. And we just, like, randomly talk about this woman we've never met before. And so a lot of people have been taking this video. This is the difference between dating and marriage.
Stephanie
Some people say no amount of watching YouTube shorts prepares you for something this.
Cathy
Intense to come up on your algorithm. And there's this one part where she literally makes money. And so she's screaming, I'm a God. I'm a God. And then instantly the chart starts going.
Stephanie
Down, and she goes, I'm a fucking idiot.
Cathy
I'm a fucking idiot.
David
She said, I'm a God. Literally, yes.
Stephanie
And she's just. Just the way that her transformation has been. Has been intense. And so I just needed to know more about this girl. I find this YouTube video titled, who is Ja Du Du? It's a Q and A video from August of 2023.
Cathy
Turns out she made it.
Stephanie
Yeah, turns out.
Cathy
Guess her mbti, same as yours.
David
No fucking way. That makes so much sense.
Cathy
I'm not touch any stock.
David
Like, everything is on Stephanie's face. Like, you can't read her like a book. Everything.
Cathy
She says, oh, yeah, my mbti, I'm an isfp.
Stephanie
She says, as you can see from my trading, I'm completely an emotional person.
Cathy
I'm practically just a bundle of emotions, okay?
Stephanie
And so she explains that she got.
Cathy
Started in crypto after her dad fell.
Stephanie
Sick, and now she's doing this. She's lost a lot of money. You know, she has been really bad. At one point, she was really depressed.
Cathy
She, like, couldn't even eat.
Stephanie
And, like, I'm laughing because the Q and A really shows her multifaceted personality.
Cathy
I don't know if this is how people feel around me. I'm starting to feel this is how people feel around me. But the way she transitions from emotions is so quick. I'm, like, on a roller coaster.
Stephanie
So she's talking about her sick dad, and I'm, like, getting really sad. And then she's talking about how she lost a lot of money and how it was really impacting her mental health. It was really difficult for her.
Cathy
And then all of a sudden, in the midd. In the midst of all of that.
Stephanie
Someone asks her, what's your biggest charm? Okay.
Cathy
And she says, all right, I think it's my snaggle tooth. She's got one tooth.
Stephanie
She's got one tooth that sticks out.
Cathy
More than the others. Her canine tooth sticks out more than.
Stephanie
So she goes from, yeah, I was really depressed. It was really dead. So I think my biggest charm is my snaggle tooth. So I think if I had to put it down to that, it's that also, if you had to ask me who my ideal type in a guy is, I'm the youngest in the family. In my heart, I'm the youngest in the family. So I'm really needy.
Cathy
I need a lot of attention.
Stephanie
So someone who gives me a lot of attention is usually my ideal type. Okay? That's when I realized I am obsessed with this woman on the other side of the planet. And the way that I found her is not because she's selling crypto courses.
Cathy
It's not because she's so famous on YouTube.
Stephanie
I actually discovered her from a YouTube short where it's. The dangers of investing in cryptocurrency is the title of the YouTube short. And you know how people like to make it very educational. And everyone's like, oh, well, cryptocurrency, it could crash at any moment. You don't really know. It's not really regulated. We don't know what the fucking feds are gonna do. They're saying all this shit. She is sitting there and this convinced.
Cathy
Me I'm never touching any investment. Okay? It's all you, boo Boo.
Stephanie
She is sitting there shaving off her.
Cathy
Eyebrows in silence, staring at the camera. Shaving off her eyebrows?
David
Why?
Stephanie
She lost all of her money, and a viewer said that they would pay her $800.
Cathy
Oh, my God, no. So she starts. She got the shaving foam.
David
Oh, my God.
Cathy
And she starts shaving off her eyebrows.
David
Are we allowed to laugh?
Cathy
Yeah, I think so.
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Stephanie
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David
Also, she does know us, by the way. Yeah, we've made the connection.
Cathy
Yeah.
Stephanie
So I feel like she's okay with us.
Cathy
Latin.
David
Yeah, maybe we'll bring her on the channel.
Cathy
Yeah, maybe we'll just, like, invest with her. There's this one clip of her that replays in my head right now because I was like, oh, is she gonna understand what we're saying in this video? First of all, she speaks English, okay? Because there's this one clip of her.
Stephanie
Where she goes, why so serious?
Cathy
Someone asked her, why so serious?
Stephanie
And she goes, why so serious? Why not?
David
Oh, my God. So good.
Cathy
I cannot believe this woman is real. And she's so unserious. She was on this very formal interview where she's like, not day trading currently.
Stephanie
So she's like, you know, all dog interview with Who? Like a little news station.
David
Oh, yeah, yeah.
Stephanie
And she's like sitting there in pram and proper. And I don't know what the fucking.
Cathy
Interviewer was thinking, but the interviewer is like, hey, didn't you just lose money right now? Look at the chart. And she's like, yeah, yeah. She looks very anxious. And then near the end, she's just holding up the clip of her screaming into the camera.
Stephanie
Okay. And she's just. To my future husband, I just want to say, this is not me. I don't know this person. This is not me. And this is the type of energy that Ja Du Du has. But I need to tell you more because one of her most viewed videos is titled Just Bitcoin.
Cathy
It's all liquidated.
Stephanie
I don't even know what that means. But for most Koreans, this video is actually titled the dangers of Bitcoin.
Cathy
That is how it's been circulating on Korean social media.
Stephanie
The video starts with her.
Cathy
I got you.
David
Wait, when was this though? Like this year and last year?
Stephanie
I think this one was last year.
David
But then bitcoin just hit all time.
Cathy
Highs, so I hope she held.
Stephanie
Okay, so the video starts with her very proper blue dress shirt. It's giving finance, bro. Wall street trader. She looks put together. I mean, she is running her hands through her hair. However, we have faith. She looks optimistic. She says, I just have one thing to say right now. She's pretending to cry because she's hitting back at the haters. She said to all those bastards who made fun of my tiny seed money and mocked my capital because she only started with like $6,000. She said, you know what? Just you fucking wait. I'm gonna make a hundred thousand dollars.
Cathy
I already have $13,000, but I can.
Stephanie
Make a hundred thousand dollars. Fucking punks.
Cathy
You all kept making fun of me.
Stephanie
For trading with small girl money, but this will be payback for all the mockery, the humiliation. I've got it. She takes a quick little break and she comes back wearing a cute little blue sweater. And just like me, I think blue.
Cathy
Might be our color. Life is good.
Stephanie
She's happy. When you see her relax on the chair like this, that's a good sign. It's on the up and up.
David
Why do I see so many randos? Is it going down?
Stephanie
She's a. She likes to short.
David
Oh, she's shorting.
Stephanie
Yeah, yeah, Seriously.
David
Okay, so shorting, basically you're betting on something to go lower. So when it goes lower, she makes money.
Stephanie
Yeah, so she's. She's like kids Didn't I fucking tell you?
Cathy
Why go long when you can go short?
Stephanie
And she gets one of those, like, club fake money things, and then it won't work.
Cathy
Just like, everything money related in her life, it doesn't work. And she's like. She cusses a lot. She's like, why doesn't it work? Okay, she's like, whatever, you get the point. Okay? She's in a good mood. She's rocking in her chair, like on Auntie Bev, like, swinging around in her fucking office chair.
Stephanie
She's making jokes.
Cathy
She said, you know, someone just asked in the chat if my boyfriend's a whale.
Stephanie
Now, side note, whale means, like, a big boy in crypto. It means you hold enough stake to influence market prices.
Cathy
Correct?
David
Yeah. Yeah. You just have a lot of money in crypto.
Stephanie
Okay, These are Korean crypto slang, so you might not know some of these. Ants in Korea means small investor working hard with little capital. And then there's just big whales swimming about. And Koreans also have a saying that my Korean researcher was telling me, and they were like, you don't know about burger power. And I was like, what the fuck is burger power? And they say, oh, burger power. It's when we're in Korea at nighttime and the US Market opens and the numbers start moving around because burger power, American burger. So the burgers got money.
Cathy
They.
Stephanie
They call American investors burgers.
David
You burger.
Cathy
Yeah. So they'll literally be like, all the.
Stephanie
Koreans got freaked out, so we started.
Cathy
Selling, but the burgers held on. They call them burgers.
Stephanie
Yeah, but some of them call Korean traders kimchi. So they'll say things like, kimchi panic. Selling burgers, holding strong. Come on, what's going on? Another one in Korea is apparently. What floor are you on?
David
What floor?
Stephanie
Yeah, it's when you lose a lot of money and, like, the floor you're on is how high you bought in. And now the price has crashed, so there's only one way out, which is to jump, and you're screwed. So you ask, like, what floor are you on? And the higher the floor, the more money you've lost.
David
Oh. Oh, yeah.
Stephanie
And there's no way out but down.
David
Oh, got it.
Stephanie
There's the Shoulda Coulda Parrot.
David
Oh, okay.
Stephanie
Okay. Which means you regret selling or buying. Should have sold, should have bought. Should have sold, should have bought.
Cathy
And so they say, I should have sold. But I didn't. So now I'm just walking around like a fucking ghost parrot.
Stephanie
Like, should have sold.
Cathy
Should have sold. I should have fucking sold. What I should have sold.
Stephanie
So it's the shoulda coulda parrot. There's also human indicators. Yeah. And they say, you know, that friend that never makes money in the market? They're a human indicator. So actually, you should always invest the opposite.
Cathy
And that's.
Stephanie
You find the human indicator.
Cathy
You do the exact opposite of what they do. There's.
Stephanie
Which is dishwashing, which is you sell your crypto at a huge loss. Everyone else, though, they made profit. So it's like, you know, sometimes when everybody loses, it feels like everybody lost, and we're all in this together. Sometimes it feels like everyone made money. How come you lost money?
Cathy
Right.
Stephanie
And so it feels like you're at a party. You didn't get to eat the food, you weren't invited for the dinner, but you got to do all the dishes.
Cathy
Of everybody else's plates.
Stephanie
That's called your dishwashing now.
Cathy
Yeah.
Stephanie
Mm.
Cathy
Yeah.
Stephanie
So clearly Chia Du Du is in a good mood in the beginning of this video because she's joking around that.
Cathy
Her boyfriend's a big whale. You know what I mean? It's fun and games, isn't it?
Stephanie
Until the fuck it's not.
David
Her boyfriend is not a whale.
Stephanie
She has no boyfriend.
David
Okay, okay. Yeah, Yeah, I see.
Stephanie
Yeah. So she went to a clairvoyant who was like, do you want a boyfriend? And she said, I kind of just want money.
Cathy
I was like, I kind of love her. She's like, you guys are asking me if my boyfriend's a whale.
Stephanie
She's in such a good mood, she decides that she's going to go sleep. She's even asking herself before she goes.
David
To sleep, go sleep is crazy.
Cathy
She's like, am I allowed to be this good? Like, why is it so easy to buy and sell these days?
Stephanie
This is is mastery.
David
So, like, how much money is she making right now? Do we know?
Stephanie
I think she's, like, just breaking even.
Cathy
Probably ever in life right now.
David
Okay.
Cathy
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
David
No, like in this. This video, you can't really tell, huh?
Stephanie
Oh, yeah. Oh, wait.
David
It's a seven. That looks like about probably like 10,000, but 15,000 USD.
Stephanie
Her seed money is probably, like, 13.
David
So it's like, okay, she's making a little bit of money. Okay.
Stephanie
And she's like, okay, this is what I'm telling you. She make a little bit of money. She was saying, this is mastery, bitches. This is real life mastery. I make money every time I short.
Cathy
Why bother going long anymore?
David
Okay, to clarify, short is you betting something to go down long.
Stephanie
Means you're betting it to go up.
David
Go up. Yeah. But when you're shorting, your loss is infinite. Technically, you can lose more money than you have. Like, you can be in debt. Regular trading, like, long. You just lose 100%. Everything.
Stephanie
Like, the money that you invest, you lose.
David
Yeah. But when you're doing this shorting, you can go in debt.
Stephanie
So it's literally gambling.
David
Yeah. No, it's worse because gambling. Most gambling, you don't go in debt.
Stephanie
Oh.
David
Yeah. So, like, she's like, I'm gonna do this, and I'm gonna go to sleep.
Cathy
Okay. Okay.
Stephanie
I didn't realize that was a bad thing.
Cathy
I was like, why wouldn't she go to sleep? Okay, so she goes to sleep.
David
That's crazy.
Cathy
Now, mind you, we're looking for more red because she's betting it's going down. Okay.
Stephanie
You see the green start going boom.
David
God damn. Oh, my God.
Stephanie
She's saying, none of this is making any sense. She's like, how do I just go to sleep, wake up? Is this correct? Like, how does it make sense that I wake up and it went up a thousand dollars? She's like, I should have gone long.
Cathy
Why did I short in a bull market? Who keeps pushing this up? Where's the correction?
Stephanie
Why is this happening? Okay, and then as you see the green bars go up and up, you see her mental state decline and decline, and she starts getting a little bit more angry.
David
Oh, my God. Oh, my God.
Stephanie
She said her mental state is to crack this.
David
Keep going.
Cathy
She said, hold on. Does this even make sense right now? She's freaking out. She's running her hands through her hair.
David
Oh, my. Oh. Oh. Oh, my God. Is this real?
Cathy
Yeah.
David
That's crazy. Oh, my gosh. She's losing it. Oh, my gosh. She's about to lose it all.
Stephanie
She's crying.
Cathy
We're troll and snot, and she's saying, where's my money? And it's. She's just saying, you bastards. My money.
Stephanie
And then eventually it does get worse. Basically, she sold to cut her losses.
David
Uhhuh. And then came down.
Stephanie
And then it started plummeting.
David
Yeah. So basically she said, okay, if she waited a little longer, she could have made some money back.
Stephanie
Yeah.
David
This is like, exactly what happens when you start doing these type of. Oh, my God. It came down. It came back. Oh, my God.
Stephanie
She's pounding on her desk. And because ja du du, I feel like I am ja du du. When you are having a bad day, it can only get worse.
Cathy
It can never go up and so.
Stephanie
She pounds on her desk in an.
Cathy
Act of frustration because why can't we just.
Stephanie
God forbid a girl have fucking emotions, okay?
Cathy
God forbid a girl try to compete.
Stephanie
With finance bros. She broke her monitor.
David
Oh. Oh, my God.
Cathy
Oh, my God. So she's just sitting there with a broken monitor in her lap, just contact, contemplating her whole fucking life.
Stephanie
And that is ja do.
Cathy
Okay?
Stephanie
The comments read, thanks to you, I'm more convinced than ever that I should never let crypto into my life. Thank you. Another says, while it's very difficult for chadoonim, which neem is like an honorable little thing, you know, like when everyone thought Future was Korean, we were like, future name. You know what I mean? So they're like, I haven't laughed in a while, but this brought my laughter back. So thank you. I'm looking for more liquidations in the future. Some people say.
Cathy
I mean, you gotta applaud Chadunim's class act for taking shorts with a beast's heart. When everyone's going long, okay, she's going against the opposite.
Stephanie
Then there's another video where she's lying.
Cathy
On a mattress on the floor and you can just see again. I am cha doo.
Stephanie
I am Chadu du. When things are going well, we get.
Cathy
A little too comfortable. We get a little too happy, we get a little too excited. Excited. Like the minute that I unsprained my ankle from a pickleball injury, I'm out there acting like I'm fucking Annalee Waters. I don't know her name. I don't know anything about pickleball, okay?
Stephanie
It's like bird brain.
Cathy
We forget the pain of two seconds ago.
Stephanie
And so she's laying on a mattress on the floor and she's got a face mask on, and she's rolling around.
Cathy
Like an upside down cockroach that's having the best time of their life. That's like getting high on a pesticide or something. She's just, like enjoying herself. She's one second away from kicking up her feet and she's caclette. She's singing. She's singing. I gotta show you this clip. She's laying there with her phone. She got her LED lights.
Stephanie
She got a face mask on.
Cathy
She's got her arms above her head.
Stephanie
You only sleep like that when you're.
Cathy
Having a good day. Like, you only sleep, sleep with your arms like this when life has been good to you recently. That's how I like to sleep when life is good. I think I have one where I'm like this.
David
I don't think so.
Cathy
Don't you have a picture of me sleeping?
David
Like, oh yeah, one picture. Yes. And I made it into an emoji, a sticker.
Cathy
And he sends it into every group chat known to mankind. Okay, so she's laying there like this. She's having a good day.
Stephanie
She's singing and she said, this is why I do crypto. Hehe. My coins make money even while I sleep. Okay, I just need a little bit more. She's giggling, she's laughing.
Cathy
She falls asleep and her viewers decide.
Stephanie
That they're going to pay money because you can pay money and have Jadidu's.
Cathy
Computer say something out loud.
Stephanie
And this is specific alert.
David
Oh, she's live streaming her sleeping.
Cathy
Yeah.
David
That's crazy.
Stephanie
So she's fallen asleep on this mattress and the alert is, your Majesty the Queen, please come forth. She's in. I make money in my sleep. Hahaha. And then it starts tanking.
David
Crashing.
Stephanie
Yeah.
David
Oh my God.
Stephanie
And she's down.
David
This is like black mirror, y'. All.
Cathy
Look at her face when she wakes. The way she dramatically puts her blanket off of her, walks up to the camera, her hair is sticking all over her face. You know that sleep hit good. Okay.
Stephanie
So the comment says she needs to bow deeply to whoever gave the alarm donation. This girl is the real deal. Her expressions are so extreme. This is some real live streaming I have.
Cathy
I have to subscribe.
Stephanie
Others say this is a warning. This is what happens. My uncle also invested in cryptocurrency and I'm telling you, it makes your mental health as fragile as. Like a cookie, like a bitter. It's like a. There's a Korean cookie that's known for being very brittle. It's like a thin cookie, a biscuit. Another one of my favorite videos is titled I Found Religion through Bitcoin, where the video starts with her sleeping. And I have a feeling that anytime she sleeps, nothing good happens. When Ja Du Du goes to sleep. And she fucking knows this, okay? Because in another video she comes home and she goes, I literally stepped outside to get food.
Cathy
Why me? Why does everything bad happen to me? Like I can't even leave the computer otherwise some shit goes down.
Stephanie
And so she's sleeping and then she wakes up and then she starts singing because she's losing money and she starts, you know when you have a pregnancy.
Cathy
Scare, what I feel like this is not that niche, but when you have.
Stephanie
A pregnancy scare and you're really not ready to be pregnant and you grew up in a religious household but you have not been Religious for a long time because you have religious trauma. But then you sit down with a little pee pee stick in your hand and you say, dear God, I'm going to go back to church every Sunday. I'll be right there singing along. God is good all the time. All the time. God is good. I'll be there. Just please hit me with a negative.
Cathy
I'm begging you. I'm gonna die. Help me. Okay, that's Ja Dudu. She starts singing a God, and the grass keeps going down.
Stephanie
And then she's like, you know what? Fuck this.
Cathy
I believe in Buddha now. She changes religion. Yeah. So she's like, I'm sorry, I. I thought I knew a God. I know a different God now.
David
She said, buddha, yeah.
Stephanie
She's like, I'm going for Buddha.
David
And the chart goes up.
Stephanie
She prays that she will not go to church. She will only pray to Buddha from now on. The graph starts rising.
David
Oh, shit.
Stephanie
And then so she starts praying harder. Buddha, please listen. Okay? This is like an earnest girl's plea. It's really hard living a life as.
Cathy
A girl to a girl to make a living. It's my sins of. My sin of being too greedy. It's my sin of not cutting law.
Stephanie
And then the chart starts going down.
Cathy
And she starts getting on her knees. It's my sin of not to switching. I know my sins too well. If you just let it go just this one time.
Stephanie
And then eventually she tells her viewers, I just met Buddha. He exists. I couldn't meet God, but Buddha says he'll make it go up. He said he'll let it go just this once. And she's on her knees, bowing, praying. She looks like she's trekked across the planet to try and find her soul and redeem it. Salvation never comes when you're desperate.
Cathy
She's praying, I just like, I have bad karma with lungs. Buddha, I won't ever go log again. Which, like, people are like, you have bad karma with shorts too.
Stephanie
So she said, I will be careful.
Cathy
With my actions, please. You say not to steal from others, but what about me? Why do I get stolen from? Why are people taking from me? My only sin here is that I'm too easily fooled by people's words. And the problem is I trusted people too much, and I was so foolish. And that's my only sin. I won't ever do anything again. And the graph keeps going down and she starts begging, bowing, praying. And then finally she decides, okay, you know what? Buddha doesn't love me.
Stephanie
She cuts her losses and Almost instantly the graph goes up again. This girl cannot catch a fucking break. Some people say the crazy thing is, even if you try to fake this and like, let's say she's a, a skit, she's an actress, it doesn't matter. The timing on this, it doesn't make sense.
Cathy
You can't even. This is her life. This is her life.
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Stephanie
You know those people, I'm those people. Where like it just never goes the.
Cathy
Way it was planned. Never.
Stephanie
That's her. But, but sometimes when she does, well.
Cathy
She live in large. She's sitting in her office desk, beer.
Stephanie
Can, and she's ranting. You know, how, how could you understand a woman's heart when you yourself have such poor instincts?
Cathy
Do you know why women have higher.
Stephanie
Returns in the market than male investors?
Cathy
You're laughing too hard. Why are you laughing? I'm just kidding. No, she's so funny, she's like, you know why?
Stephanie
And everyone's like, oh, let's maybe chat you.
Cathy
I don't think it's women. I think it's you. Ja du, du. Okay.
Stephanie
She says it's cuz we have quick instincts. And everyone goes.
Cathy
Coming from the woman with the worst instincts.
Stephanie
We know how to read the charts. You know, we ride the flow. The flow. The screen shows she's down another thousand. She says women have better returns.
Cathy
Meanwhile, she's got the worst returns.
Stephanie
Anytime she's bragging, she's like, I made 16,000. Trading with my heart, I made 16,000. Are you disrespecting my heart right now? This is what being a trading God is all about, you know, this is the heart trading God method. You long obsessed people who trusted BlackRock, you're screwed.
Cathy
I shorted it.
Stephanie
I shorted the stock. I shorted it. Chart goes down. She says it feels good cuz she shorted it. So she needs it to go down. She's like, feels good. Feels good being right. And at the end of it, she makes $2,000. But she had lost $14,000 earlier that day. So the comments are reading. Truly, she's the only one that can celebrate when she makes 2k after losing 14k. Yeah.
David
Buy high, sell low. Let's go.
Stephanie
No.
Cathy
Every single time she buy high. That's her motto.
Stephanie
Another comment says, gentlemen, be careful with women with eyes like that. Others say, I feel like this is textbook gambling addiction, but I can't stop watching. Another one says, meeting a woman or man like this will literally ruin your life. Because can you imagine getting married to them and this is what they're doing with your marriage money. But you know what? Will it ruin your life? Because here's why I love Jaju Duke in 2023. Her YouTube streaming profits. Not her, like, earnings from trading. I don't know if she had any. And I don't mean that with disrespect. I mean that with concern. Okay. Her 2023 YouTube earnings was $10,000. She took it out the bank cash, put it in an apple juice container.
David
What the hell is that?
Stephanie
In Korea, apple juice comes in, like, a box, okay? And then you open it up, and there's little boxes in there. It's like a nice box, like a gift box. She put the cash in there. Like, she's doing, like, a ransom drop.
Cathy
I'm like, are we doing organized crime? Are we that desperate? What's going on, Jen Doodoo? I can't stop watching. She puts it in a little apple.
Stephanie
Juice box, and she says, it's too much cash to put in my wallet. And I feel nervous putting it in my purse. And she goes straight to the hospital where her dad was treated for cancer, and she donates her full year of YouTube earnings.
David
Dang. Really?
Cathy
Yeah. I love Jae Doodoo. I'm gonna cry. I love this woman. Please go watch this woman. You don't need to speak Korean. Like, there's no language when it comes to trading.
Stephanie
You see the chart, you see her reaction, and you say, oh, that's not.
Cathy
What she wants the chart to do.
Stephanie
And then you watch, and that's all you need to do. You don't need to speak the language. Money is universal.
Cathy
They say money is universal.
Stephanie
And so there's other videos where she says, and this is coming from someone who's not making a lot in trading, and she still donated because at one point she's like, everyone told me to go on a diet. Yeah, well, I got no choice now.
Cathy
Because I only have $7 left. Okay?
Stephanie
So, yeah. And so she begs her viewers that she will shave off her eyebrows if they can donate money. So one of her viewers says, I'll give you $800 if you shave off your eyebrow.
David
Dang.
Cathy
Let me pull the video. Okay, Let me get the video. She said, also the fact that my life is in this situation where I'm even. Okay, the captions say I'm selling my hair. But the.
Stephanie
The translation is, I'm out.
Cathy
Here even selling my fur. She's talking about her eyebrow hairs. Okay. If you're wondering where this one went, someone already paid for that.
David
She sold them separately.
Cathy
Yeah, but actually she sells them in halves. So actually she only shaves like the half of that.
David
She'S auctioning.
Cathy
In fact, she's selling people.
Stephanie
Hey guys, since I'm already doing it, can we just get it in one go?
Cathy
Is anyone else gonna give me money for the other half? And nobody offers. So that's why she's got half left over. Oh my God. Yeah, so she's like 1/4 and she'll.
Stephanie
Make a lot of crazy expressions with these newly shaved off eyebrows. And people say, cause you know, like when you only have half of the end of an eyebrow, it goes down.
Cathy
So people say, even her eyebrow chart goes down. I feel like this hits harder because you're into shit like this. It's so crazy.
Stephanie
A lot of young kids in Korea have gotten into cryptocurrency because I mean the youth, it's an irresistible promise of fast money.
Cathy
Right. Quick money. Who doesn't love that?
Stephanie
And so a lot of parents are actually thanking judge to do and they say thank you. I mean, making money is very difficult. I'm going to show this to my kids so that they'll continue to study.
Cathy
Yeah.
Stephanie
So she does do a Q and A. She's very responsible. And someone asks her, should I quit my job as a teacher and become a full time investor? And she tells them no. And she gives them a very well thought out explanation of, you know, when you're investing, you just become a little bit more desperate because your job income is starts feeling like nothing. Like you just, you need to manage risk through your main job. And it's like a very serious conversation. Meanwhile, all the comments are just linking.
Cathy
Jadu Du's own videos.
Stephanie
They're like, ja, Dudu, this is not.
Cathy
How you convince someone not to quit their job. This is what you do.
Stephanie
So then she posts another video and it's just titled I will stop investing in coins. Now she's wearing a pink shirt, sitting at her desk. She is talking about how she made money off of bitcoin and the way, I mean, you saw what happens when she loses.
Cathy
Also. Also. Ja Dutu. Why? What's going on?
David
What is going on? What is that?
Cathy
She's just losing her mind. I love her.
Stephanie
Okay, so this is what happens when she makes money plus 4.7 million won. How much is that?
David
Like a few thousand.
Cathy
Oh, she made a few thousand?
David
She made a few thousand.
Stephanie
Yes. And if you think her losing money is dramatic, her making money is equally dramatic. Okay?
Cathy
Oh.
David
Is she so happy?
Stephanie
She was so happy, but also so sad because after she sold, she could.
Cathy
Have made more money too. So it's a very.
David
She said, I can't look at it. I could have made more money.
Cathy
Yeah. So it's a very mixed reaction. And I mean, just like so many.
Stephanie
People in finance, Ja Dudu's got lots of opinions about burger people, including Trump. Okay? So first of all, she's like a finance bro in the sense of.
David
Okay, who's a finance bro?
Stephanie
Ja Dudu. So first of all, first of all, if you're an American citizen in the country of America, and because one president is making you money, does that make them a better president? Probably not. Definitely not. Does it make their deeds that they do suddenly okay? Or we can overlook it. No. However, Ja Du Du is not an American citizen.
Cathy
She didn't give a fuck about American politics, nor should she, because Korean politics is already stressful, okay? She's got a lot on her mind.
Stephanie
So she starts the video and she's.
Cathy
Waiting on a Trump press conference.
Stephanie
And she's like, trump, brother, why are you standing like that? Like an awkward spoon, like a wooden puppet. Why do you stand like that? Huh? Why do you stand like that? And then Trump is like, hello, bitcoiners.
David
Bitcoiners?
Cathy
Yeah. And he's like telling bitcoiners that we love bitcoin or something like that. And then all of a sudden, Jadu Du is screaming up and down net, Trump. Trump never sell big.
Stephanie
She went from, what the fuck? You stand like that, you weirdo, why you built like that? To holy shit, America.
Cathy
Yes. Okay?
Stephanie
Cuz she's got bitcoin and she needs to make money off of her bitcoin. And then at the very end, someone asks her, why are you so serious about this? And she said, why so serious? Why not? Okay, that's all I can tell you about Jadu Du. She's also made a trade based off of a fortune telling that she went to. And really, the only thing that I can. The only thing that I can describe what watching Jadu Du feels like is this one comment left on her page and it just reads I am most worried about you and that is my experience watching Jadutu.
Cathy
I'm very concerned for her. I'm worried for her but at the same time I love her.
Stephanie
I can't stop rooting for her. I feel like she should stop investing but I can't stop watching. And I don't know what's weirder. What are your thoughts on Jadudu? Can you guys please. I'm gonna leave a link in the.
Cathy
Description for her channel because I just.
Stephanie
Feel like there is no such thing as a language barrier. There is only money and making money and boosting money.
David
There's only buy high, sell low and.
Cathy
That is the case. I'm Jandu Du. What are your thoughts? Let me know in the comments. And I missed you guys. And I will be back next week with another mots. Bye.
In this gripping episode of Moral Of The Story, host Stephanie Soo delves into the tumultuous journey of Ja Du Du, a South Korean livestreamer whose descent into mental instability and extreme actions have captivated and concerned viewers worldwide. The episode meticulously unpacks Ja Du Du’s transition from a regular office worker to a compulsive live streamer entangled in the high-stakes world of cryptocurrency trading.
Ja Du Du, originally an office employee in South Korea, sought financial stability amidst modest earnings of $1,400 per month. Faced with her father’s cancer diagnosis and the mounting expenses for his treatment, she turned to live streaming as a side hustle in hopes of supplementing her income. Initially, her streams were endearing and well-curated, featuring festive costumes and engaging themes that resonated with viewers.
Stephanie Soo (02:11): “When you first watch her initial live streams, everything about her is giving cute Korean girl live streaming. She's put together, she has makeup on. Sometimes she'll wear, like, cute little costumes. Make it festive.”
However, the competitive nature of live streaming and relentless viewer demands soon took a toll on her mental health. The pressure to maintain an appealing online persona led to erratic behavior, marking the beginning of her downward spiral.
As Ja Du Du became more obsessed with maintaining her livestreams, her content took a drastic turn. Viewers began exploiting her emotional vulnerabilities, prompting her to engage in increasingly desperate actions to secure donations. One of the most harrowing moments captured was when a viewer offered $800 for her to shave her eyebrows—a request Ja Du Du reluctantly succumbed to.
Stephanie Soo (15:21): “She is sitting there and this convinced […] but just tell her we love her, we support her, and if she ever needs help, call us because we're worried for her.”
This incident exemplifies the extreme lengths to which Ja Du Du went to appease her audience, highlighting the toxic dynamics between content creators and their viewers.
Ja Du Du’s foray into cryptocurrency trading exacerbated her mental strain. Unlike the often boastful and overly optimistic demeanor of Western crypto streamers, Ja Du Du’s authentic and emotionally charged reactions provided a stark contrast. Her streams oscillated between moments of elation upon making small profits and devastating breakdowns when facing significant losses.
Cathy (08:39): “She’s got no makeup on. She’s in her PJs. You know when you take a really good nap and then you’re like, hair stuck to your face because you’ve been sweating.”
This emotional volatility was further intensified by the unpredictable nature of crypto markets, where Ja Du Du frequently experienced rapid financial swings, leading to heightened anxiety and further destabilization.
The interaction between Ja Du Du and her viewers became increasingly antagonistic. Donations were often tied to degrading or harmful actions, such as shaving her eyebrows, which served as a demeaning method to extract money from her emotionally distressed state.
David (15:45): “She said, I'm shaving my eyebrows. Someone already paid for that.”
These actions not only underscored the exploitative nature of her audience but also painted a grim picture of the psychological impact on Ja Du Du, who desperately sought financial relief through her streams.
Stephanie Soo provides an insightful exploration into the cultural nuances of Korean cryptocurrency trading slang, which adds depth to the narrative. Terms like "burger power" (referring to significant American investors) and "kimchi panic" (indicating market instability) illustrate the unique challenges Ja Du Du faced within these specific trading communities.
Stephanie Soo (21:00): “Ants in Korea means small investor working hard with little capital. And then there are big whales swimming about.”
Understanding these cultural elements is crucial in comprehending the full extent of the pressures Ja Du Du was under, both socially and financially.
Ja Du Du’s mental health deteriorated as the pressures of live streaming and crypto trading compounded. Episodes of extreme emotional distress, including crying on camera and aggressive outbursts, became routine. Her inability to maintain financial stability led to self-destructive behaviors and a continuous cycle of highs and lows.
Cathy (27:54): “She’s just saying, I’m out.”
These moments were not mere performances but real indicators of her struggle to manage the overwhelming stress and anxiety stemming from her dual roles as a livestreamer and crypto trader.
Stephanie Soo concludes the episode with a reflection on Ja Du Du's tragic trajectory, serving as a stark warning about the darker side of live streaming and the volatile world of cryptocurrency. The host emphasizes the need for better mental health support and awareness for content creators who are often exploited by their own audience for financial gain.
Stephanie Soo (47:33): “I am most worried about you and that is my experience watching Ja Du Du.”
The moral of the story, as Stephanie aptly notes, is ambiguous—there is none—leaving listeners to ponder the implications of internet fame, financial desperation, and the human cost behind viral content.
Moral Of The Story presents Ja Du Du’s harrowing experience as a poignant exploration of the intersection between online fame, financial instability, and mental health. Through detailed analysis and empathetic narration, Stephanie Soo sheds light on the personal costs of viral success and the urgent need for systemic changes to protect vulnerable content creators.