- I never done it.
- Oh my god! - Oh my god!
- Oh hell no, Aria, bye.
- Hi there,
I'm Aria,
we're here in very very sunny Los Angeles.
And today
I'm gonna purchase something off of the dark web.
It's a good way to spend a Tuesday, yeah?
Or is it Wednesday.
Oh it's Wednesday.
- [Man Off-Camera] It is Wednesday, bro.
Last year we did an investigation into
the dark web.
So the reason why I want to buy something
off the dark web is twofold.
Firstly, pretty cool bucket list item to knock off.
And B., I actually want to see what legal goods
can be purchased on the dark web.
Okay so last time I went on the dark web,
I got in a little bit of trouble with our I.T. department
for using my work computer
as well as the Buzzfeed network to get online.
So this time they're insisting that I get
a burner laptop before I purchase anything
off the dark web.
Let's go do that first.
Oh.
We don't know the password to the burner.
- I'm trying to see if he knows
the password.
Gabe still hasn't responded to me,
I'm probably gonna have to go down there.
- No save your time,
we're gonna shoot some extra stuff.
Ah, there's Zach Cieszynski
from Multiplayer.
- [Zach Cieszynski] What're you doing?
- [Aria] Dark web stuff.
- Get his wedding gift from the dark web.
- [Aria] That's not a bad idea!
- Oh!
You know it's a little early
for a wedding gift actually.
- No, I'm gonna get whatever,
you need this.
Zach is engaged
to beautiful woman Katie L. Harper.
- [Zach Cieszynski] That's her.
- Yeah.
Does the 'L' stand for Lori?
Lorraine?
- No.
- Lele?
- I'm not gonna say.
- Welcome back.
- Hello, what are you doing today?
- I'm buying something off the dark web.
- Oh, are you allowed to do that?
- Yes.
- You got permission this time?
- Yes.
She has a date tonight.
Nookie, maybe.
Fingers crossed.
- I got my period this morning.
It's fine.
(Alaina chuckles)
It's fine.
- I didn't know how to react to that.
- For the password on this,
it's just (beep).
- So the password is what?
- (beep).
- Okay.
There's Devin Lytle!
- Hi Aria.
Oh, hello!
- That's Devin Lytle from Ladylike.
I'm purchasing something off of the dark web.
- Oh, Jesus.
- I love hugging that man.
Luckily my dark web expert Jake
is still around
so we're gonna hit him up
and hope that he can help navigate me through
purchasing something off of the dark web.
All right Jake we're back,
back on the dark web.
- One year later.
- Unfortunately we can't buy anything illegal.
Although that would be a lot more fun.
But obviously if we bought ourselves
several pounds of coke
and had it shipped to Buzzfeed
that might not look too good.
H.R. already have quite a file on me so.
(Jake laughs)
- Do they really?
- We don't need to talk about that.
(both laughing)
- So we can't buy
uncut Columbian Fishscale cocaine.
- Ah.
So the struggle for us right now
is using marketplaces known for selling illegal goods
to try and find something legal.
We've been here before,
we've got dissociatives,
we've got stimulants,
some of these sound like k-pop groups.
(Jake laughs)
5-MeO, 2C.
- Who's gonna like a band named--
Stolen pictures.
- [Aria] There's a lot of nudity.
- [Jake] Yeah.
- [Aria] I'm gonna have to blur this.
- That's unfortunate.
- Viagra.
You know what,
I'm gonna call our legal rep.
- See if we can buy some Viagra?
- Because Viagra is legal, right?
- I'm pretty sure it's prescription.
- [Aria] But it's legal to use.
- But if you don't have a prescription
you can't buy it.
- I'm gonna double-check and ask.
- [Automated Answering Machine] Your call has been forwarded
to an automatic voice message system.
- Hey Adam,
just wanted to see if I could buy some Viagra.
Give me a call back when you have the chance.
- Counterfeits.
Also hack one of our colleagues.
- Yes, that's a great gift.
There are several colleagues
that I wouldn't mind getting hacked.
- I don't actually want to do that.
- I might.
Look, new Instagram followers,
real 1,000 high quality.
There are a lot of influencers
here at Buzzfeed that might be interested in this.
- The only thing about that is
this guy only has one review
and he has zero stars.
- I mean for six dollars
I'm willing to give this guy a try.
- Who are we gonna give the followers to?
- What do you want to do Dan,
'cause they're gonna get your name.
And information linked to your profile.
- Well I'm not doing this through
my personal.
- Okay well I just need your Instagram handle.
- See my wife and I have a noise band
and we have currently 110 followers.
So sitting at a cool 110.
- It's gonna be 1,110.
- [Daniel] 1,110!
- So this is interesting to me
that they sell harm reduction here,
like needles, test kits.
- So we could get something off of that.
- That would be something legal we could buy, yeah.
Cash out, hacking,
I.D.'s, passports--
- Do paraphernalia.
- I haven't done that yet.
I want to check out other, too.
- We've been here over
almost an hour and a half now.
Took us some time but we've managed
to just plow through all the illegal goods
to find the few legal goods we could purchase.
- Saw way more porn than I wanted to see today.
- Just about the right amount I wanted to see today.
So how does this process work?
- Basically we're gonna have to go on,
we're gonna have to buy crypto-currency,
we're gonna have to transfer it to a wallet,
secure wallet,
after we transfer it to that wallet,
you're gonna send your money
to the escort service,
the escort service is gonna hold it
confirm they have the money with the vendor,
when the vendor gets the confirmation they have the money,
they send the goods,
and then when you confirm you get the goods,
they escort service releases the money.
If you don't get the goods that you're buying,
you can do the reviews.
So you review the vendor,
you can actually see people who have been ripped off.
And then those vendors usually will get booted
off these marketplaces too.
It's about as sophisticated as a regular market place.
Just for illegal goods.
I have a feeling this is gonna take a little bit.
- That's okay,
so do your thing Jake.
While Jake is currently in the process
of purchasing our goods off of the dark web,
I'll take this moment right now
to address one of the points of confusion
from our last video.
There are a lot of comments along the lines of,
"Oh, now that you've visited the dark web
"you should visit the deep web."
With the implication of course
that the deep web is "darker" than the dark web.
This is false.
So if you think of the internet
as an iceberg of sorts,
everything we do on a day-to-day basis
on YouTube, or Facebook,
or Google,
this can be considered the clear web.
Beneath the surface of the water though
is then the deep web.
The deep web refers to pages
that aren't indexed by search engines like Google,
so this can mean pages that are behind
a paywall or that require a special login
or something along those lines.
But these pages can still be accessed
on regular browsers like Chrome
or Firefox or Safari,
if for some reason you use Safari.
But then beneath the deep web
is the dark web,
and the dark web refers to sites
and pages that you can't access through normal browsers
but only through special routing software
like TOR.
So that was my quick crash course
as to what the difference between
the clear web, the deep web, and the dark web
actually is.
So now Jake is just gonna finish up the purchases,
and we'll just wait 'til our goods get here.
- And we're on track.
We have the Bitcoin.
This is the first time
I've ever purchased anything on the dark web.
That we purchased something on the dark web.
It's actually a lot easier
than I thought it was gonna be too.
All right, I'm doing it.
I'm gonna buy it.
- It's been about 17 days since we've placed the order.
And this is the only thing I found in my mailbox.
This is what a package from the dark web looks like.
Very standard fare.
We ordered actually a few more things
that actually aren't here.
This is also on top of the fact
that we ordered fake Instagram followers
for Dan Watkins,
we bought 1,000 followers
for his Instagram account.
And we were promised 24-hour turnaround.
It's been over 15, 16 days
and he still has the same amount of followers.
That guy's getting a bad review.
But I feel a few things in here.
'Cause we ordered a few items
from the same seller
so I think we got a couple of goodies in here.
I'm excited to open them.
Jake unfortunately couldn't be here today
to do the unboxing with us.
Since Jake's not here,
I thought it'd be a bit fun to share
this dark web joy with a few of my coworkers.
So let's see what they think about these items.
- What the hell is this?
- Where's Aria?
- 'Sup, man?
- Wait, wait I'm scared!
I had cancer last year.
I shouldn't have to do this.
- Why it gotta be here?
Next to the trash?
- And why does it have to be (beep) dirty?
You can't (beep)ing wipe down the thing?
- Oh god, lord in heaven.
- Joyce and Gadiel,
two beautiful people.
Accomplices, truly.
- Actually no, my name is Jerome Garcia.
- Yeah, I do not know this man.
- You shipped it to our friend Fernando
which is weird.
- I shipped it to my address but I used his name.
(laughter)
What's worst case scenario, what's in there?
What are you most afraid of?
- I keep imagining body parts,
but it's obviously not that.
- I feel like it's like
a trave bag made of the scrotum of some kind of animal.
- Okay.
That's very specific.
- Okay.
- Megan, I'll let you do the first one.
- I don't want to!
- That's the scrotum part.
- The camera's rolling.
You know as a people not to do this.
- No, is that a bug?
I hate you!
- Is this for drugs?
- That's to pick a lock.
- There's a mirror.
Oh god,
is that a (beep)ing razor?
- This looks like it's for drugs!
- Aria, is this for to smoke crack?
- It is a cocaine kit!
- I never done it.
- Oh my god! - Oh my god!
- That's to snort cocaine!
- Oh my god,
it's to scoop it.
- What the (beep)?
Aria!
- Oh, that's fun.
(laughter)
- Your reaction's so different to Joyce's.
- Oh hell no, Aria,
bye!
- I just like this tiny spoon.
Is this what you keep coke in?
- Yes, I would assume so.
- And it has like a hook
so you can keep it on your pants.
- Why would you make me,
what if they did drugs off of this
then you make me touch this?
- It's clean, I'm sure it's clean.
- You don't know that!
(jangling)
- What the hell is this?
- That's a razor.
- Another cocaine--
How badly do you want to do cocaine on this shoot?
- What is this?
- Is that drugs?
- No there's no drugs!
There are no drugs anywhere.
Joyce where you going girl?
- [Joyce] I'm not associated with no (beep)ing cocaine!
- There's no cocaine in here!
- We'll fight right now.
- What is--
Oh my god!
- What is it?!
- This is just a mirror!
- No it's not!
- Then we have this.
- Oh, is it just for sniffing?
- Permanent marker?
- No, I'm not even touching that.
- Oh wait.
- Is the coke gonna be in here?
- [Girls] Oh!
More cocaine!
- [Joyce] What is that?
Aria!
- It's another vial.
That's all it is!
- Does it write though?
- Let's try it.
- No it doesn't.
- Aria's been wanting to try this drug
for very long.
- No I have not,
I certainly have not.
- He ordered a starters kit.
- My armpits are sweating.
- So apart from just the physical items
you can buy electronic items.
So Jake bought e-books that are scans
of restricted texts.
- So these texts are not legal?
- They're legal they're just hard to find.
You can't get them in a bookstore.
And some of them are voodoo and dark magic.
- So you called us here because
we're Dominican and Asian?
- I did not call you here for that reason.
I certainly did not.
- Let's talk about the voodoo,
you went straight to the voodoo!
(laughter)
- Magic from Mexico, includes some spells,
incantations.
Now look, this ones for love here.
- Oh I need that one.
- Is this how this is happening,
you've cast a love spell?
- On you?
- Yeah. - You wish.
- Would you like to cast a spell?
- Okay.
I don't want to say it for myself.
- Say it for yourself, Megan!
Ladies and gentlemen out there
that would love a wonderfully talented,
caring, beautiful woman--
- Funny, sweet.
- @megan_boykoff,
she has her own drug kits.
(speaking in foreign language)
- No!
- I gotta finish the spell!
- Give me what I desire.
(speaking in foreign language)
- Amen.
- How you feeling?
You feel something?
- I don't know let me see.
- How will I know if it worked?
- Oh I guess you were supposed to light some candles,
three drops of myrrh oil,
image depicting an oriental master.
- I have that.
- Oh, you have pictures of me.
- Right.
(laughter)
- I got it I just didn't laugh.
Y'all meant for each other.
(Aria and Merle sigh)
- This is what I deal with.
These are my friends.
This is what they want to do on a Monday morning.
After lunch.
- Jake also ordered 16,000 dark web links
which are links to more sites
that are deeper in the dark web.
- But what's that link for?
- So you have here--
- Bitcoin wallet.
- Diamonds!
- Anonymous instant messaging,
drugs, cheap drugs,
pedo videos.
- Oh, no. - Jesus Christ.
- Yeah.
- So this is how pedophiles still
get their (beep),
like they see,
what is that, child porn or some (beep)?
Wow.
- My body is physically nervous right now.
- Oh I'm sorry,
we'll stop talking about that.
- It is really really upsetting.
I feel like it kind of shows you
the underbelly of society
that you don't necessarily want to see
and it's unfortunate that these things
like pedo pornography are available
because that means some kid somewhere is--
Anyway.
It's awful.
- I have no problem with people buying
their weed.
I think the dark web was probably a really cool
and interesting place and you can find great things
that are positive.
But like everything in life
there's a lot of negatives.
It's just the idea that that's available
and has access to people
and children are getting hurt.
That's the part of the dark web
when I think of that.
- You know what's dark about that?
Is that those links cost ten dollars.
For ten dollars you can watch--
- The worst stuff!
- When we were browsing the dark web last time,
we only saw surface level stuff.
We saw drugs,
we saw some weapons, some fraud.
But we didn't see sites like pedo sites
and the fact that you can pay ten dollars
or so for these links.
What about the stuff that's not
readily available to be purchased?
- As human beings we can be very horrible people.
So I couldn't imagine something like this
how far people are willing to go.
- This was a good way to dip my toes in.
If any of you out there would like to see
me dive even deeper into the dark web,
let me know.
- The links are what scared me
more than the witchcraft.
- Will you stop going on the dark web please?
- What a time.
- So do I need a special--
I need to download something special in order to surf?
- Yeah, I'll send you.
It's a browser, special browser.
- Gadiel, I'm gonna go to your (beep)ing house.
I'm gonna bring a (beep)ing machete.
I'm gonna put that (beep) to your neck.
If you go on the (beep)idng dark web.
- I'm just curious!
- [Joyce] You go on the dark web around me--
Absolutely not.