I understand the controversy,
but I look at it like this.
I'm Santa Claus 2.0.
Nobody gets upset
at
a guy dressing up
in a Santa suit.
Even if it's not Christmastime,
I am your favorite lord and savior,
Jesus H. Christ,
and
I used to just be
a lowly mortal in the film industry.
But now...
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...I'm making glorious videos on the Internet.
♪ Hallelujah ♪
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It's me, Jesus, and this Fiverr gig
is the answer to your
prayers, and it will be awesome.
Hey, it's me -- Jesus.
And this is the story of my side hustle.
I am a creator,
but what I do for a job is Fiverr.
Fiverr and Cameo is what I do.
You can pay people,
strangers on the Internet,
to do stuff for you, whether it's, you know,
make a business card for
you or dress up as Jesus
and tell your,
you know, Mama,
"Happy 75th birthday."
No Bibles. No Bibles.
We're good.
I can remember
a lot of the thoughts
going through my mind
when I was going to
do this,
which was like, "You're crazy."
You know, "Do you realize
what you're doing?"
I just, like,
had happened to be,
like, deciding to, like,
grow out my -- my hair and beard.
And I was shooting
really high-end weddings.
I wasn't getting, like,
the fulfillment from that.
I kind of saw this opportunity
to do something a little bit different.
And I wasn't
sure until later, I was, like,
walking down the street,
and I think twice in one day,
someb-- I overheard somebody be like,
"That guy looks like Jesus."
I went on Amazon
and tried to find a tunic.
I found one and made a video.
I did an unboxing of, like,
an authentic
crown of thorns from the Holy Land.
And it got like 50,000
views like immediately.
Then I knew, I was
like, "This is it.
This is defini-- I got
something here, for sure."
And I was just kind of blown away
that there wasn't somebody else doing it.
My first order was --
I still remember the
script, like, from memory.
It's, "If I if I could give
you one piece of advice..."
...it would be to visit MormanThink.com.
And that was it.
And I was, like, in tears.
I was like, "This -- This is awesome.
Like, this is what this could be used for."
So, this is my
photo album from my mission.
Back up.
I was hard-core Mormon.
I did the Mormon missionary.
I went two years to Argentina.
Had lots of baptisms there and
came back.
It just followed the steps.
You know, I got married,
went to the temple,
started having kids.
I hate the person I was.
Like, I was a very,
very different person than I am now.
This I would get
in big trouble showing you guys.
This is my temple clothing
from my time as a Mormon.
This is the stuff you have to wear
in secret when you go
and do some secret ceremonies,
and it's kind of kooky.
I started having problems
with the Mormon Church.
And I -- you know, I kind of
started having those doubts,
and then I started googling things,
and that's when, of course, I --
The trap door swung open,
and I was like, "Oh, no, I'm in a cult."
Everybody was against me.
I mean, it was like I was on my own.
I was kicked out
of the house, was completely miserable.
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This is where I'd crank
out all the Fiverrs,
and then I even do Cameos right here.
I started with Fiverr first.
So what I do is, I just
have people send me a script.
And I charge them, you know,
$10 for 50 words.
And then, I can add more things to it,
like, if you want me to add
sound effects or extra words,
and it just kind of goes up.
Creciendo -- Damn it.
I gotta do that again
now. Creciendo una barba.
I do a lot of Spanish videos.
[ Claps ]
Hola, kiki. So yo Jesus.
♪ Jesus ♪
Generally,
people get what's called the
'Glorified Package.'
I've got, like,
holy rays behind me, and it says...
♪ Jesus ♪ when I come up.
I'll just throw in a hallelujah in there
every once in a while.
From the Mormon Tabernacle
Choir, too, by the way.
They're -- They're not
getting any royalties from me.
My average video from
Fiverr I think I make $18 from.
Hey, Emily.
It's me, your favorite Lord and savior.
Cameo --
That one's a lot easier 'cause
it's just on your phone.
I make like $25 from one of those.
Amen.
Hi.
And then I hit send, and that one's done.
Hello, gamers.
Hi! It's me.
Jesus approved!
Happy fucking whatever.
I mean, I've done over 20,000 videos.
It's my entire income.
It's good. It's enough for me.
I mean, I don't -- I don't drive a fancy car
or anything like that.
You're a scumbag.
We will be observing what happens to you
from cockship.xxx and cumship.xxx.
May the Lord grant
your asshole mercy.
Yeah. I'm like, what the --
what the fuck was that?
I don't know.
But thank you for
your $45. Next.
There was a controversial video
where PewDiePie
hired a bunch of people on Fiverr,
including myself,
to -- to do different things.
Mine was simple.
Nothing controversial there.
But there was another Fiverr creator
named the Fiverr Funnyguys.
Their shtick was to write things out
on, like, a scroll and unroll it.
And his script was "Death to all Jews.
Subscribe to Keemstar."
And the great
ad apocalypse of YouTube,
where all the biggest
sponsors pulled out was pretty much
in direct response
to that PewDiePie video.
And I was in it.
And the moment I knew, like,
"Oh, this is a big deal," was I got recognized
by my Uber driver.
He was like, "You're the guy --
you're the Jesus
guy, right?" And I was like, "Yeah."
And he's like, "Yeah, I saw you on
TMZ."
And I was like, "TMZ?"
And he's like, "Yeah,
you were on TMZ."
And I was like, "No, no, that
wasn't me."
And he's like, "No, yeah,
the PewDiePie thing, TMZ --
that's you."
I was doing like
150, 200
videos a day, exhausted,
and then I had like
a th-- 150 more more to go
or something from that initial thing,
and that's when I got
banned from Fiverr.
My Fiverr account
has now been suspended.
And I don't know why.
They didn't tell me why.
They just suspended my account.
I was banned from Fiverr
for three days.
I honestly do not think
I would have been
brought back onto the platform,
but the Internet
came through, helped me.
They totally saved my holy ass.
Like, they, like, tweet brigaded,
and then they
brought me back after that.
So the prophecy's true.
Yeah, three days.
So, I'm
youtube.com/ thejesuschrist.
And I've got right now 1.17 million followers.
And I get a lot of e-mails
every day, where it's --
it's a lot of people
trying to change my opinion
or -- or get me to
see the light or call me to repentance.
Like, I get it. When I -- When I
piss people off doing what I do,
I get it.
Like, I know.
I know what they're feeling.
But I think what they're feeling is good.
Cognitive dissonance
can be a good thing, I think,
if you recognize it, and you're like,
"Why am I feeling so uncomfortable
that there's this guy who says he's Jesus?
Like, why does this make me so angry?"
And, you know, like,
if you really think
about it, why?
I get called the
Antichrist all the time.
That's a big deal.
Like to be a Antichrist or the Antichrist
is like -- it's kind of a badge of honor.
Like, it's -- it's kind of cool, like,
All right. Thanks, I guess.
Yours is almost
dead. Do you want to use mine?
-Yeah. -Okay.
Okay. Hold on. ♪ Da na ♪
♪ Go, go, go, go ♪ -Yeah.
And then we'll move. Okay.
Mm-hmm. Okay.
♪♪
♪ Go, go, go ♪
Okay, stop. Okay.
Is that okay?
I have, like, a hand here.
-Yeah. -Is that weird?
This was a lot of things. It was more than a job,
but it was a way to actively protest
and get my parents'
attention, my family's attention,
my ex-wife's attention.
It worked,
but it also caused a lot of problems,
and one of that being that my ex-wife
wanted to move out of state.
When custody came back up again,
I didn't want them to be taken from me,
because she was
fighting for -- for full custody
instead of 50/50.
Man, I was in a bad position
with that, like, because I knew,
"Oh, now I'm gonna have
to go to court in, like,
one of the most conservative
counties in all of California.
And then, we could
just do -- Instead of me
saying anything,
you can just do text --
"Jesus loves everybody."
Yeah, or we could do both.
"Especially the gays."
Ultimately, I lost.
I lost.
But I won.
That's one thing I've
never really been able
to explain to people.
Like, I -- I did lose. Like, I lost the case.
Like, that was the case, but I actually won,
like, in a sense that
I've never been closer
with my kids than I am now.
Like, I spend more time with them now
because I still lost the case,
but I get more visitation,
like, a lot more
visitation than I had before.
We're here in Oregon,
and things are awesome.
And, like, I actually love it here.
I feel so much better.
And my kids love it.
"The son of God would never curse."
I cursed a fig tree. -[ Laughs ]
-Boom. -That's cringey.
But what it did do was validate me.
I'm a good dad. Like, I'm not this
terrible apostate that
my family and my ex-wife's family
think I am or just see me as.
Here is an actual clinical
psychologist saying, like,
"Oh, yeah, your kids love you.
They, like, trust you.
They feel safe with you."
All this good stuff,
it's, like, right there, proof.
I think it's pretty cool. He does what he loves.
I mean, he's not hurting anybody,
so I don't really
see, like, it would be bad or anything.
Here, give me a hug. Love you.
You're welcome.
Thank you.
You're welcome.
I feel very fortunate
to be in a position that I am.
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Why do people believe what they believe,
and why can't
they change their minds
even when confronted with evidence?
I like to poke that part of the brain
that's like, "Wake up, wake up.
Come on. You can do this."
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I'm always gonna have opposition,
and I need opposition.
Christ needed it then the teach his message.
Trying my best to just do what I really
honestly think Jesus would do now.
Because he was just a dude.
He was a cool dude,
hippie dude, just
walked around
and pissed a lot of people off.
Like, that's mostly
what he did was make people angry.
Anybody anywhere
in the world can do something
and get
hugely successful for it
in their bedroom with a webcam.
What's your angle? What's your hook?
I forgive sins.
I'm good at loving
and forgiving and suffering.
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