But I Am Telling You Right Now This Man Is Not Real | Henry Davis Ep 286

08-12-25

Episode Transcription

00:00 Hey, hey man, I'm happy to be here. Good, glad, glad to you say that. Hey, have you ever heard of Henry Davis? The second is that that's a president right now. Who am I thinking of? 00:16 Oh, I'm thinking of President Henry Henry Davis. The second we had a Henry Harrison, a Henry Ford. Yeah, I think I'm an Harrison, probably Henry B Earing. What let me see President Davis. We had a Jefferson Davis. I don't know if we had, but that was the Confederacy. Oh, that's what I said. It was that one of our presidents. I'm in the Confederacy. You're right, Tim. 00:46 You're right, thanks. 00:51 grabbed Douglas and left Edward unconscious on the floor. I was able to escape safely before the law arrived and am now making this post back home safely. Hopefully the police will apprehend Edward as I was diligent enough to plant some hardcore drugs in his pocket. That is all Davis out. Diligent enough. Things I learned last night. 01:22 No Henry Davis, the second here's a picture of him. This was of it. You know this photo was taken okay, wait what is going on in the floor in the background? You see what I'm about. I think this might have been twenty twenty 01:36 okay, just a scour around. Yeah, yeah, this looks like a guy that you got into an argument with on Facebook. Yes, and you're just like this. So your whole episode is. Have you heard of Henry Davis? That's really funny that you've had some weird Facebook with somebody that I've mad and so for the audio listener, he looks like the kind of guy who would say he would go on the comment section like he would go on like a pretty girl's Instagram and he would just comment seven point five. You know I'm saying 02:06 it looks like that kind of guy and it's not even like it's not even like a picture that you would expect a comment like that. It's like a picture. It's not like a yeah. Yes, it's it's her mom and you don't know which one he's talking about. I don't know yeah, so Henry Davis is an interesting character on here. was a second and every day is a second. His Instagram handle is Henry Davis, Nineteen Hundred and it's interesting. Oh, this is because it is the person we're talking about yeah. 02:35 because this guy and I want you to look at him right. I want you to just take a bit yeah. This guy has seven hundred and thirty four thousand followers on Instagram okay and like a cult following on Instagram and it's interesting. If you go back over the years so for Virginia and though for real. If you're listening, he's wearing a leather jacket with an American flag patch and a bass pro hat and he's probably forty four 03:04 I mean I would guess he's over fifty about your guess over what I would guess, but that's just me okay, so he it's very interesting. I want to. I want to probably kick off this episode by referencing a brand new youtuber. I believe brand new a new issue tuber. His name is literally august. He did some investigative journalism on this guy. How I ended up finding this video. I don't understand the worm hole. Are we about to go? 03:33 but you know what I think it is. It's the stories that I know where we're going is where I interrupt more. I've realized yeah, because this is something where I go I okay tell me I need to know what happens yeah yeah yeah that's fair, but so august this relatively new youtuber did some investigative journalism on this guy because it's strange. He got really big seven hundred thirty four mil or thousand not million hundred thirty four thousand Instagram followers, kind of a cult following on Instagram, but you look at his content and it's a little strange. 04:03 that he has such a large following because he's posting. I mean selfies like this and a lot of times he's got captions or you things go this, but you've put you've put the same selfie up three times now because now that I'm looking at it, all the other pictures I have are parts of the story and so I don't have any other examples of him posting like so he's posting stuff like that and then he'll post like there's no expression on his face guys. He's just straight up looking at the camera like yeah the Gen Z stare. 04:30 Yeah, kind of. And he'll post stuff, like, sometimes he posts stuff that has a caption that's a long story, but sometimes he's just posting stuff that's like, I'm at the coffee shop or whatever. Like, it's very just like some dude just kind of documenting his life. Very typical older guy on social media. he's got this huge following. On the other hand, there's some kind of storyline arcs on his Instagram that appear to be the reason for his following. And so if you go back through the timeline. 05:00 for him in the early days of his Instagram, like the late 2010s. He's kind of pretty political. There's a lot of political content, and those do decent, like a few hundred likes on those. But somewhere in the late 2010s, there's this pivot, and there's a moment where he posts this picture of him and his son. And his son, I don't know if you can tell from this picture, is an emo kid. 05:26 Yeah, this is a very blurry image on Yes, well, I'll explain why later. There's a reason most of these images are going to be pretty dang blurry, but there's a reason for that, and so he puts this picture with his son who's an email kid. Why does his hand look weird? Is this part of it like his hand on his shoulder? I think it's just just the really blurry. So his son is an emo kid. It sounds an emo kid yeah, and so he puts this picture with his son and basically tells this story about how him and his son have a pretty estranged relationship. 05:55 Yeah, because his son kind of got mixed up with the wrong crowd crowd into a weird scene, the wrong crowd. Yeah. As in like the tumblr kids, kinda and it becomes like this, this sort of issue for him and his family. And then it becomes a thing where every few posts, this storyline of the relationship of him and his son, his emo son named Edward just kind of keeps sinking back into his Instagram feed. Okay. And so you see stuff 06:24 like this. All of a sudden one day there's a post that says this is a very long. I'll let you it okay, woke up from my okay. I'm just going to read it the way I think he talks okay, woke up from my evening nap to the sound of glass shattering and young voices shouting. I instinctively grab my Mossberg five hundred out of the out from below my bed and ran to the driveway to my surprise to Gare was no one to be seen. I checked my car and saw the damage 06:52 I look closer inside the shattered window to see something terrifying laying on the seat, a single finger. There's only one explanation for this. My eldest son at Edward Henry Davis is back to making my life hell for revenge. This time I'm going to put an into it Davis out okay, and so this just kind of cryptically hits his feet. 07:21 and when he does this or he okay? 07:26 someone damages car yeah yeah and then he's saying there was a single finger look and he's like it has to my emo son, so it's like a bit he's doing this like oh he left his calling card. Let this go card. No, I think he's like he's like oh it has to be my son's because he's one those weird emos and they wear the fingerless gloves or he's like I recognize that glove. It's my son's weird email. year was that posted? This was two hundred seventy one weeks ago. Twenty yeah, it's something like that and this was 07:55 a change for him because before this moment his post would get a few hundred likes. This got two thousand likes and so this was a change in the storyline for for Edward Davis or not ever Davis for well for Edward Davis. Yeah Henry Henry Davis and so he continued posting the same kind of stuff he would post but every few I no idea how I'm going to do thumbnails for this video or how I'm going to promote this video at all and then go look at this guy's Instagram. 08:22 This is not a paid ad by the way. Look at this guy's Instagram, so every few posts he would post. How often is he posting? I don't know how often he's posting, but I mean regularly enough that people are like a part of the story like excited okay, so okay, and so he goes. It becomes a thing where now every few posts there's kind of a new installment into the story line between him and his son sure. 08:49 and so then we started seeing things like this show up on his feet and this is going to be blur. You're going to have to okay. I can read, I can read, but so for the audio listener, it's in the woods and he's made a little. This looks like a survivor like yeah hut yeah like he's made like a ten or call it a tent, but there's like you know it's you know he's made almost a tp looking shape. 09:11 with the got a floor in there and there's a and then covering it yeah. He's like this is like a full structure, I volist situation. The caption and she's is set up camp for tonight. This looks like it took him four days to build. There's no way I mean like this is sawed off wood. You know I'm saying like that's not found. Those are those are saw challenging yeah set up camp for tonight. It's not waterproof set up a rainwater collector in the open. I currently am charging my phone using a solar battery charger thing. My son had 09:41 I'm in camouflage and scouting the area for or any wildlife to kill and eat. I didn't want to bring my rifle, so I put a scope on my desert eagle dessert. No desert eagle. I made sure to bring my anvil and coal in case I find scrap metal and want to make any tool 10:04 him hoping to come across some horses or something to ride because my stuff gets heavy quick about thirty or so miles northwest. I saw some smoke or something rising. I will be going there to check it out at sunrise tomorrow. I will update you guys if I find and scrap metal or get any animals Davis out, but this is two hundred seventy two weeks ago. This is a week before the Edward post. Oh interesting. I didn't notice that. No yeah. 10:31 that's 10:59 after twenty four hours of aimless searching. I stumbled up upon opal a camp. A tribe has taken me in and been generous enough to give me food and shelter. They've been teaching me their language and other useful skills. To be clear, the picture is a selfie. He's in a cut off t shirt by the way, like this is and he's got a pretty recent haircut. It looks like 11:24 They've been teaching me their language and other useful skills. I am clueless as to where I am at the moment, but I will deal with that later. Since I have more than enough power, I will update you all when necessary. Davis out in parentheses, another selfie in front of a different body of water, wearing a two button up shirts and a backpack. It's a polo underneath like a flannel, which is that sees Davis in 11:53 Today I woke up with a plan. I decided I was going to create a distraction and make off with one of the tribes horses. This morning I lit one of the huts on fire and snuck away to the other side of the camp. I found a horse, grabbed my supplies and got out of there. I've decided not to go to Canada due to getting a threatening message from my son suggesting he is in my home. If he hurts my dog, he is going to be in a world of pain. That is all Davis out. 12:16 hashtag horseback riding, hashtag fun, hashtag trump, twenty, twenty, hashtag, hashtag arson, 12:35 In the early days of this show, we did like affiliate ads where we were like a sign up for grammar land, use code till and and we got like fifteen cents and now we just do patreon. It's a much better way. It's better for us as creators. It's better for you as listeners and it's a much more fun way for us to interact. We do monthly hangouts like on zoom. We just hang out and play games online and and get to know each other. It's a really fun time so 13:02 but still use our code till in at grammerly dot com because I think it's still I might get like a couple cents from that, but join us on patreon because we're having a great time. Yeah, if you don't, we're going to have to start doing mobile game ads. 13:20 listen. All right, ready? Okay, so for the audio listener, I'm just reading freaking Instagram post. Is that what this episode is so far? Yes. Oh my gosh bro. Okay, so now we are looking at a picture of a broken back door like a sliding back door clearly smashed in or out a lot of glass on the outside. Just the glass is shattered. She's okay. Here we go. 13:50 Here's the caption from Henry Davis, 19 hundred managed to make it home early this morning on horseback and instantly saw that my door to into the backyard was completely shattered. I called for my dog Douglas for almost thirty minutes to no avail. He was hiding in the attic. My dog has been stolen by my P my I mean P P, you know, piece of crap son Edward, but he put 14:17 piece. The reason that stumble on that is that it's P HAC E C E so it's piece of crap son Edward, my best friend, my favorite family member and who I would consider my son Douglas has dog strip from me never mess with the man's dog. I was heading to the liquor store earlier when I noticed one of my son's emo 14:43 good walking on the sidewalk. I snuck up on him and forced him to answer a series of questions about my son's whereabouts and he told me exactly where he is. I'm coming for you, Ed. Keep your eyes peeled Davis out. Okay, this is what it takes to go far. This one's so long. I can't read this. There's no way this is a picture of him and I who I assume is Douglas the dog also and I cannot overstate this enough. 15:10 the beauty filter from take talk is on the dog, but not on him, so you can see the wrinkles in his face, but the dog's face is moved very with a snapchat filter. Okay, 15:29 you could. Okay, hold on. You could definitely refer to last night as a success. I left my home at approximately two a.m. arrived and ready. What Oh, armed and ready. Okay. To go after his son, Ed, according to the goon, I investigated. My son was camped up in the back of a nearby hot topic, so he just rambles. This is what this is. This is how you go viral is you just got to open and just ramble. When I arrived, the doors of the mall were 15:58 kicked, so I was forced to break an enter when I did yeah. That makes sense. That makes way more sense than kicked. I wandered until I noticed the hot topic. There was a dim light emulating from the back room, emulating hey good for you for isn't using words. I this is not a word. I would have expected in this long paragraph as I approached. I heard the familiar 16:27 bark that belonged to Douglas. I picked up the speed and ran as fast as I could when I got to the front of the door. I saw him Douglas is sitting next to a rack of disgusting clothing where the back of the main store now closing near the back of the main store. I instinctively ran to him to free him when none other than Edward himself emerged in the back room. He was wielding what looked to be part of a pipe over his head. 16:56 he brought it down over my back, causing me to fall to the ground. He leaned back to strike again by the time, but this time I was too fast. I grabbed the regret of what storm from my pocket, jumped up and pistol whipped my son in the face. He collapsed unconscious. I returned to untied Douglas and came back to finish the job when a very loud screeching sound began to ring through the mall stop 17:26 I noticed two of Edwards goons had been watching from afar and had activated an alarm. I decided it was safest to get away as fast as possible, so I grabbed Douglas and left Edward unconscious on the floor. I was able to escape safely before the law arrived and am now making this post back home safely. Hopefully the police will apprehend Edward as I was diligent enough to plant some hardcore drugs in his pocket. That is all Davis out in enough 17:57 So this guy just this guy is like the guy from your high school that just makes stuff up right, kinda yeah, and so this story arc was happening over the yeah, he's just getting on and just going about how his son is strange and emo and that makes man and these posts were getting a couple thousand likes for each one in the middle. He had like random posts like with the one I shared at the beginning a few times and his follow count is starting to go up. He's starting to kind of 18:27 I wouldn't say go viral, but he's getting yeah, just getting there and then one day in the middle of all of this. He keeps posting all this stuff one day. He's just like oh here I'm energy drinks, hashtag ad, hashtag arson, so then out of the blue he posts this other picture and he says here's a photo from a few years ago when I sat on a plane next to Whiskalifa. 18:53 and that's whiz. 18:58 okay, and this does very, very well and yeah. So then a couple days later he's like he's like well, that's not the only rapper I've met and so he posts another picture. So this guy under audio listener think of the worst rapper that you would want to get picture with right now very much in the name. You're like no, there's no way he posted that picture. Did he know yeah he did he did and then he started posting other 19:28 pictures with other rappers. I mean it was a couple years ago, so it before all that hit the news. Nothing, there's nothing going on up there. He didn't post that picture, did he? Yeah, he did. 19:50 I didn't get to get to get the joke. Okay, he didn't post that picture. He did he okay. I get the joke. She's so starts posting all these pictures with rappers and he is like kind of to call your favorite comedian. I assume that Jeff Don is your favorite comedian. I know you don't have any taste and so he starts. He realizes oh this. This did really well people like 20:19 Yeah, so this like he's got to go meet famous people. This was getting like there's a thirty forty and like thousand lines things where it's like I'm nervous when I go to the airport because surely he's going to recognize me, but there's a guy who goes to Lax every day and streams live on YouTube and literally just sits in LA. I don't know why he's allowed to do this, but he literally just streams and then waits to for celebrity sightings and then just goes up and talks to them on his YouTube really interesting. 20:47 a similar thing that this guy must be doing because all of a sudden after that, after the Wiz Khalifa video, he just starts posting pictures of him with various different celebrities, people from different movies. Okay, there's a picture of him kissing ninja on the cheek. Okay, and just why is he in these circles and I don't know where he's meeting these guys, but a lot of these like and why does he go back, go back, go back and I know that we go 21:17 two more back now before kissing ninja before kissing yeah, go back to these he's in a suit and tie like he looks like normal in these in the other pictures. He looks like a kind of guy that's like like some of these posts aren't believable, but like you could believe that that's happening in his head. You know yeah, I know what you're saying yeah that he looked like in his previous posts. All those stuff that we were reading seemed like that could be happening in his mind. 21:44 Yeah, but these posts he's more like a suit and tie. That's a normal person, so he's clearly doing a bit. Yeah, well, I think like for like now, no, like long pose, like, you know, oh, I found a tribe and they're teaching me different stuff. Yeah, that's clearly doing a bit. Yeah, probably. Yeah. Well, around this time, I mean, to explain the suit and tie around this time, he makes a post where he doesn't like docs himself or anything like that, but he does say that he is on the city council where he lives. 22:13 and this was a like he's like a guy. He's like a normal. He's a normal guy yeah. He's a normal guy who happens to meet a lot of celebrities and so realizes like has an Instagram account where he just makes up some lower about you don't say that's what I say like it's like he shifted whatever he realized. Oh people just like my celebrity photos. I've seen a lot of celebrities. You know I was actually talking to Chama about this is that the interactions will have at shows is I mean people don't care like you know will because it sucks to do a comedy club and I'll do like a one nighter at a comedy club 22:41 and the person who's doing the following two nights is just someone who has a podcast that really blew up and they're not going to stand up, but they've sold out this tour because, me and Shama were talking about, the people who go into these, they sell out this whole tour. They're making so much money. They're so, so bad at stand up. But they do this whole tour and because people just want a picture. Shama was saying, Shama said something pretty succinct on this, where he said the picture with that person they follow, 23:09 will be their most liked picture. Yeah, for sure that's interesting for sure and that's exactly what this is a proxy celebrity yeah because he does he just because he's always just putting himself seriously does this yes goes around and meet celebrities and post pictures with the stories and so this account blows up when he starts doing this because he's kind of piggybacking off of the size of all these other celebrities right obviously and he realizes that oh if I do dead celebrities then 23:38 it gets even bigger because people you can't I can't recreate that. Well, people are like almost liking it as a chance to say like, oh yeah, rest in peace. Like they're engaging. So he starts going like, oh, I met a lot of dead studies to and posting pictures of him with dead celebrities, some of which I would show. But on our podcast, we can't show these pictures because they're 23:59 Like middle fingers and stuff? like that. And so a lot of dead rapper photos. Yeah, you know, like when he's flipping out the camera and all that kind of stuff, it was just pretty sad that that's Betty White was. And then, so he blows up and sometime in the mid 2020s, he hits like 600,000 followers on Instagram and he starts selling shirts. And so he starts selling this merch. says in Davis, we trust. 24:26 and okay with an a k for it's not him. It's a very jacked drawing of someone that he probably thinks looks like him yeah. Well, it was probably an artist he hired to be like hey, make me look like I'm on steal team six. You actually make me look like remember rescue heroes. Yeah, he's like make me look like one of these toys. It's really a white t shirt with like a it's like a like a pencil drawing of like him. Can you actually make shirts with us? Yeah one for each of us sure 24:53 and we trust yeah, I realized to be jacked. Oh, seven years would be unrealistic. 25:03 Okay, we get it and then he's sort of selling this one which that's his son. I don't know if you guys have seen lately, but I've been freaking Tim's been getting fat, but I'm not actually Tim. We reposted some old episodes to give you a break and I don't know if you saw how fat you used to be. I used to both of us used to be chonkers yeah, lost a lot of weight over the last two years gained it all back of the last two months. So then he started selling this shirt, this other shirt of a sniper scope on his son. 25:31 his son's ad feels see that's what I'm saying. Like that's obviously like a bit yeah and well he had another bit about how he thinks you should be allowed to have pipe on legalize pipe bomb carrying yeah where that is. Well, here's a shirt of him wearing that I have what's funny is that there's police behind him and he's in a cinder block buildings. He arrested for this. I don't know. I don't know. There is there was a storyline where he robbed the shields and took a gun from shields 26:01 so like that was a story line somewhere in there. So so here's the thing he starts having all these random story lines of crazy things from his life, meeting these celebrities, doing these crazy things, trying to kill his son and then he actually does get very public online beef with this guy. 26:20 Oh, my eyes just lit up because you guys are about to find out what side of the internet me and Tim are on Martin is my favorite creator on the internet because here's the thing. I've never followed an account that Martin has ever posted from, but Martin appears just happens to make it because whatever new account he starts the internet's like Jaren wants this Martin's the guy 26:47 who will open the video and he'll be like, he'll be like, Hey, I just bought this, this new product. It's this, you know, did you know that you can just drink helium? That's pretty crazy. Today's topic is how they killed people in the inter like what yeah, it's insane. It's so it says the most out of pocket stuff. Yeah, unbelievably out of black pocket stuff, but yeah, 27:11 but martin's not doing bits right in martin like crazy. I think martin is crazy. I think my I don't think martin is doing a joke. I don't think I'm pretty sure martin's like got like in some issues. I yeah. I think you're right so him and martin got beef Henry and martin. sorry for audio listeners. The picture if you don't know what martin we're talking about square say si 27:36 martin short. If martin short was making those videos, fabulous, amazing, okay, so around this time to he's blowing up. He's got this public beef. He's got all these posts that are going to be if he's just like. don't like you. I don't know what the public beef is. I just know they had public beef. He puts out a rap album about pipe bombs. This is the description from 28:02 sound. My debut single is message to Edward Davis in which he disses his own son and for good reason. He has shown a great obsession with shoe bill storks in which he calls them the best animal to ever exist. This is just from his Wikipedia. This is this is the description of his his account on sound. So he has high hopes for his album pipe bomb dreams set to release in twenty twenty two. 28:28 that's from his sound, so he became a sound. Here's what I'm saying dude. He has shown a great obsession with shoe bill storks in which he calls him the best animal ever exists. How does like I'm a creative person? How what do you to tap into your stream of consciousness to just go? Storks are cool. He has shown a great passion for shoe bill store. You know, like how do you how do you what do you find that come from? Yeah, I mean 28:56 have you seen that what's that alien guy who talks to aliens you're talking about? Oh yeah, yeah, but shower or whatever. This is the same level of tapping into something yeah that's just he literally takes that selfie. It's so low level content for him because he takes a selfie and then he is opens and he just goes. I was abducted by a try. I stole one of their horses. I created a divert and like how do you just let that 29:24 Thanks for checking out this episode. you like it, there is some great news for you. We have a mailing list. that mailing list, we give updates on past episodes. So things in the news, things that happen for episodes. We've got over 200 episodes we've done and every week things are changing. New updates are coming out and we're keeping you up to date on what's happening in the happenings of Till and Topics. So if you want to keep learning stuff, even beyond the content of the episodes, that's a great place to do it. Also, we give updates on things that's happening in the Till and Verse. 29:50 I like that. I've never said till inverse before, but I'm sticking with it. 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This guy's making eye contact with him like this. Yeah, it's a little too like this is like an engagement photo. Yeah, they're big crazy. They are crazy looking. They look like someone in costume honestly, okay, except for the legs are super thin anyways, so he likes those a lot. Okay, he also why is this? How is this an episode? He also 31:13 Hold on, hold hold on. He also launches a discord and so he gets a really big discord where everyone's big fans of every Davis and they're all involved in this discord, kind of like ours, but it was free. And so this gets really big. And then that youtuber that I talked about August is watching all this happen and he says, this is very weird because why is this guy one? How does he meet so many celebrities? Yeah, two, 31:43 you're telling me we find out somewhere along the line. He's fifty two years old and like you're telling me a fifty two year old guy. Is this active on Instagram? Yeah, has a discord is a SoundCloud rapper knows who Wiz Khalifa is triple extantation like all these like rappers that are pretty young world rappers and ninja. This is something about this is kind of fishy to me and so he starts digging into it it becomes kind of like an obsession for him. 32:12 it goes back over everything. It begins to realize that if you look at a lot of these pictures, they look like a similar guy, but it doesn't look like it's probably I was saying guy yeah, it's like if you say that these happen over the course of many years, you could probably say oh yeah, maybe he's aging or maybe like he was losing weight, weight, more Russian in this one kind of yeah yeah, but especially this one. It's like I don't know if that's the same guy at all and okay, so 32:41 He starts doing some digging to try to figure out, where does this guy actually live? Like lot of what he's talking about isn't like something you could like verify who he is. But he finds a photo and in the photo he's with one of his other sons and his son is wearing a baseball shirt and he can't see the whole thing but he can see that it says Soda on the end of it, like Sarasota. And so he's like, I think that he lives in Sarasota. He says he is on city council and that's public information. So I can see if there is a Henry Davis on. 33:11 on City Council there. There's not. Maybe there's other Sarasotas or other sodas. It's towns that end in soda, but the cracks are starting to form for him. And so he continues digging. And long story short, as he works down the rabbit hole, he begins to track down a lot of these photos of him with these celebrities are shockingly similar to photos of random other people with celebrities. Right. And he realizes 33:38 like that one on the far right with Califa. That's a different person. That's a different face that was put on to this famous person. And so he starts to ask the question, Oh, is Henry Davis content farming like like farming and going and just putting his face on other people's faces to get a bunch of these photos of him with other celebrities, maybe to sell product, maybe to become a SoundCloud rapper. What is his end goal here? What's the what's the sure what's the action? 34:08 and so he ends up tracking down to make a very long investigation short. He ends up tracking down a guy by the name of Mark Marlow. Here's a photo of Mark with his not emo son okay and so this is the original picture yeah, not as blurry as earlier yeah and his not emo son yeah. So this is but everything else about this is the same, but it was the original picture was just blurry and then put the emo hair on the sun hair on them yeah. 34:37 but other than that, it's like the this is mark marlo. Yeah, mark marlo and this is the person whose face is being used. Yeah, and this guy has a private facebook account and a private instagram and so august the creator is like i got to go to to maine i gotta meet this guy ends up managing to get connected to him and finds this guy and reaches out to him over text and they have a long conversation and eventually get to the point where he realizes that 35:06 Mark Marlowe is aware of Henry Davis and knows that Henry Davis is pretending to be him online. Because he's using his face, using his photos for a lot of these pictures and these posts. So August, this YouTube creator, reaches out to Mark Marlowe and Mark Marlowe is like, yes, I'm aware of Henry Davis. Henry Davis is taking my pictures and he's pretending to be me on the internet. And he's amassed 700,000 followers for it. And he says, I have 34 followers. And he's like, it's very... 35:35 different situation going on here. He's clearly trying to profit off of my like my image and likeness and then, but why he's going to say this image didn't look real like when you look at this side of his face, the sharp yeah, there's an interesting edge on there. It's strange that that room is such a freaking mess. Yeah feels like a I yeah yeah yeah a hundred percent and so then he reaches out to August August text him and August gets this text from Mark. Okay, here's the here's the tech 36:05 Here's the text from Mark. 36:13 I was never contacted about using my likeness or profit. This whole situation has involved FBI, ATF and someone else requiring me to come to a police station. This would be due to my likeness supporting pipe bomb. I obviously had no interest in even joking about anything that would bring public harm. My emo son, so he talks like 36:41 the Henry Davis. So who is Henry Davis then? So that's what's interesting is he, August the YouTuber, reaches out to Henry Davis and the Discord starts reaching out to the mods in the Discord to be like, are you guys aware that he's pretending to be someone he's not? And he gets kicked out of the Discord and he reaches out to Henry Davis and Henry Davis threatens to sue him if he doesn't back off. And so he gets blocked on Instagram. 37:10 and so he can't see anything anymore. And this other, the actual Mark guy, he tells him, I don't know who is doing this, but what I can tell you is when I post a photo, almost immediately, that photo is retouched and posted on Henry Davis' account. And he says, my accounts are private. I have 34 followers. So one of these 34 people. Somebody I know. 37:36 is pretending to be me online and they have a mass 700,000 followers and they're selling stuff as me. They're selling these shirts. couldn't August then just be like, let me follow you and so can see your followers. Yeah. So I don't know what's going to happen with this because August posted this a week ago and after he posted it at the end of it, he said the government's not going to like the law enforcement's not going to do anything about this because there's not like, like it's just kind of a parody account and they're like not going to put their resources towards it. 38:06 But he says, I think whatever this creator is doing is wrong. And so he says, so I think he says you should go report them. after almost immediately after that video went out, this video got a lot of views, like 200,000 views. A bunch of people went and reported them and that account's been taken off of Instagram. So Henry Davis's account has been locked at least right now. And so I am curious to see what happens next because August does reference. 38:35 that there's a part two coming and that he has looped in another YouTuber named Chupple. 38:43 it just it makes the whole thing a clown. It makes the whole thing. I'm thing makes the whole thing August and Chappell are on the case. We got August August and Chappell are going to figure it out. 38:59 What is it? I asked again where I sat down and I said hey man, I flew here today. I'm pretty tired. You're gonna waste my time and Tim went yeah, I did say that. I did say he said we're gonna bring up August and I guess the temple yeah. Here's another picture of him with the sun. That sun looks like he's in a but this is a fake one yeah yeah. That's on. Is it can you can look at the lighting and they look like they're in two different rims yeah and so 39:27 It's very interesting because you can tell over time, whoever this was, was like, I'm going to make an Instagram and see if I can grow an Instagram account. They started learning the algorithm. It started to grow and they began pivoting because it began very political, like political rage bait and it did okay. And then it became this crazy storyline with him and his son. And that did pretty good, but it kind of had a ceiling. And then it became... 39:53 this weird celebrity, like I'm meeting all these celebrity things and it got huge. And then it started selling all these products and it became kind of this like, I don't even know like the following. It seems that the following was well aware that this was a joke. Yeah. And that there was nothing real here and they were buying all this merch and all this stuff to be a part of the joke. Meanwhile, there's a guy somewhere whose face is now attached to this crazy storyline. 40:22 And so it's just an interesting thing that's happened. It's an interesting phenomena of the world we're in right now where someone could become famous for something they weren't involved in at all. Well, and I mean with AI now, mean, that is another interesting thing. Generative images. You can literally just create. You can post your picture to chat and then go, you know, put a picture of me with Will Smith or whatever. Yeah. 40:50 Earlier this year, he jumped 100,000 followers because he started posting reels. And so they were obviously all generative AI because he didn't have reels of Henry or of Mark. And so you can call him Henry. Thanks. character. Thanks. So we don't know if he actually killed his son or not. Sorry, unalived his son or not. But keep an eye out. I guess we're going to see the end of this story at some point. 41:19 there's more to the story. Yeah, but the time this episode comes out part two of August and Chappell's investigation is out, so yeah, and then if you if you want to look up gloop gloops footage on what he just uncovered, you're not going to believe what Snick Snack just figured out. Okay, because Womble gum. Oh my gosh, just uncovered. Probably the biggest scandal of 41:44 the current presidency. So what does they like? What's trouble? Why are you wasting all of our time with this and making me read made up stories? I honestly thought the beginners I was like he's going to turn out that this is like real crazy and there was like yet. I was really did all really really I didn't know. Oh wow! 42:09 you see that all the twist is that the stuff is Douglas real. No, yeah, Douglas. Is it real? There is no Douglas. That was just a photo of some random person with a dog that he put his head over. Oh my God. 42:29 all right. I okay, we've reached the end, the part of the video where you go. Wait, is that is that all that was a video? Hey, that's it. Are we done here or part of the audio? There you go. Was that the video? No, because you listened because you listen instead of watch. Yeah, you should have won you dumb. You are a D. Hey, so next the thanks for joining us on 42:59 on things I learned last night and next week's episode is available right now. If you want to you just shooting me out sure right now, you know, whatever you wait for the fiddle off to it off, I guess. 43:15 and 43:45 will link it genuinely. Chuckle, womp, womp, they're great creators, so we're supporting them. You're going join our discord. You can support us on patreon. Yeah, I'm not going to join there for free, but we're going to kick you out. If you doubt, wow, what a good time, huh? All right, thanks for listening to our show though. For real share with somebody, tell somebody about it. Tell them about the other episodes though. They're don't tell about this one. 44:13 Whatever you need, don't tell him about this one. follow up when we know more about this.


In the age of viral fame, few stories are stranger than that of Henry Davis and the Deep Fake allegations. Henry Davis became a social media sensation with over 700,000 Instagram followers, posting a mix of political commentary, strange personal tales, and celebrity encounters. But behind the carefully crafted image was a web of deception that would soon unravel.

From Ordinary Posts to Outlandish Stories

At first, Henry Davis posted ordinary political content. Then, his page shifted to dramatic and bizarre narratives involving an “emo” son named Edward. Posts described confrontations, stolen pets, and wild survivalist adventures. Each story ended with his now-iconic sign-off: “Davis out.” These strange updates drew thousands of likes and comments, fueling a cult-like following.

Celebrity Sightings and Sudden Fame

Henry’s profile exploded when he began posting photos with famous musicians, actors, and internet personalities. Soon, his page was filled with images of him alongside rappers, influencers, and even deceased celebrities. Fans believed he had uncanny access to the A-list. But something didn’t add up.

The Deep Fake Revelation

An investigation by a YouTuber named August revealed the truth: many of these celebrity photos were altered. Henry Davis and Deep Fake technology had merged to create fabricated encounters. In reality, the face in the pictures belonged to a private citizen named Mark Marlow, who had no idea his likeness was being used to sell merchandise, promote music, and fuel an elaborate online persona.

The Real Victim Behind the Face

Mark Marlow, with just 34 social media followers, was stunned to learn his photos had been manipulated and broadcast to hundreds of thousands. Even more disturbing, his likeness had been tied to posts promoting controversial and sometimes violent themes, including “pipe bomb” jokes and hostile rants toward the fictional son.

The Fallout and Future Questions

After the exposé, Henry Davis’s account was reported en masse and removed from Instagram. While law enforcement saw the profile as a parody rather than a prosecutable offense, the incident raises serious questions about privacy, consent, and the misuse of Deep Fake technology. If a private citizen’s identity can be hijacked to build a massive following, what protections truly exist in the digital age?

Closing Thoughts

The saga of Henry Davis and Deep Fake deception is a cautionary tale for our time. It shows how quickly fiction can be presented as reality—and how little control individuals may have over their likeness in the age of AI manipulation. As technology advances, these cases will only become more common, making public awareness and digital literacy more critical than ever.


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