What the hell is this? Is this his full 'commercial'?? It looks like Youtube 2007 - all it lacks is a Xbox Live Microphone.
The implication of the music copyright on top and we got ourselves the next genius move.
The full-length (1 min) commercial Ygg Studio were working on for Smokey Vibes, Elko, Nevada has been released on Conrad's twitter handle:
The only non-literal who so far shown is Spice 1 (shown in your "BillyElko3" snapshot), a 90s gangsta rapper (naturally white boys are going to idolise him), who has produced and sold many albums and singles since the 1990s and is a rapper legend in his own right; maybe someone with more rap knowledge than me can fill us all in. His most popular video on his official Youtube channel is the music video to "Welcome To The Ghetto", with almost 12 million views:
https://youtu.be/S8K31tTV554
Spice 1 main evented "Back2tha Vibes w/Spice 1" (at Smokey Vibes, also in Elko, Nevada) last night; the only connection I can see between that show and Riley's upcoming one tonight (besides Conrad being excited for both of them beforehand on Twitter and attending the one last night) is that co-performer Zelda (@selda775) appears on both of them. So it looks like Riley is piggybacking on last night's show's success (it was sold out, at $25 per head:
https://www.illzakiel.com/show-tickets/423-elko-nv-wspice-1, archived:
https://archive.md/COCVe), with a (former) big star's name and appearance attached to it, for his own show tonight.
To return to my earlier theory that Riley's main intention of travelling approximately 2,469 miles from Virginia Beach to Elko, Nevada, was not for a gig where hardly enough people turned up to (see attached images; I was honestly expecting a worse turnout, tbf) to cover the costs of travel ($10 per head), but to leech off the legendary status of 90s gangsta rapper Spice 1, who appeared on an entirely different (only Zelda appeared on both) and more successful show (sold-out, $25 per head) the night before.
Again, I can only assume Riley, or at least the venue, had the legal matter of using a live recording of Spice 1's "Strap on The Side" in Ygg Studio's commercial covered. Spice 1 doesn't know or wouldn't care to know Riley, whom he would just see as another fan he took a picture with at another minor gig in some hick town. Maybe Spice 1 is altruistic enough to help a budding production studio like Ygg, but considering he raps about obtaining a black Lamborghini I suspect he would demand payment for any use of his intellectual property as an artist; he didn't become a legendary gold record rapper by being charitable.
Considering neither Riley or Conrad have tagged Spice 1's Twitter handle in any of their tweets involving the commercial, I suspect they are avoiding bringing it to Spice 1's attention and are just handling this job lowkey with the venue owner. Perhaps Spice 1 couldn't be arsed to deal with a lawsuit with Riley & Co anyway.
It makes one wonder what Riley's true intentions are with the Ygg Studio brand, which has hijacked Digibro's old Youtube channel with 321K subscribers. It was an anitube blogging channel, with a fanbase that doesn't want (primarily, at least) rap (and gunt fights) and, vice versa, with any incoming rap viewership unlikely to be enthralled by Digibro's anime analyses of old, which makes Riley's burst of anger towards Conrad for deleting his old anime videos without consulting him stranger. If Ygg Studio's main focus now is on music, along with its production and promotion, why wasn't Digi's Turntable Youtube channel rebranded for such purposes instead?
Sadly, it's Digibro's 321K subscriber count that makes him an appealing target for the likes of not only Riley but even Dick Masterson, who has a ho-hum 33.9K subscriber base, compared to the personalities Digi hates, such as Mumkey Jones, with 178K subscribers, and even Maddox, with his post-lolsuit count still standing strong at 256K subscribers. Digi never needed Dick, Dick needed Digi; to bring in the latter's much larger fanbase for views. In turn, Dick's fans were never going to watch Digi's content, considering they are at best indifferent about his work, if not actively hostile towards him. Dick sees himself as a Howard Stern, bringing in a wack pack of autists to get cheap clicks. Digi, however, is a Moby-Dick among them, prime for hunting for his subscriber count.
The greatest revenge Conrad could have on his detractors in Ben Saint and Mumkey Jones is take pride again in the subscriber count he has build up over a decade, return to his solo career as an analyst (of anything, really, his After Dark channel showed he is a capable and entertaining commentator on any given topic) and show to the world that he can still pull viewing numbers and even likes again. Then again, that would require him to at least kick drugs (for good; it never has been just recreational for him; nor for Riley, who is apparently has to take "tolerance break" from weed), accept that his gender identity issues need to be properly examined by a psychiatrist and most importantly, kick scumbags like Riley leeching off his subscriber count and Dick using him as an oddity out of his life for good.
Say what you like about gender pronouns and "deadnaming", but Ben Saint's obsessive but diligent use of the "proper" pronouns and name(s) for Conrad shows that he still cares for Conrad as a friend and as a human being, despite their falling out, proving that Saint is still a good sort, Commie or not.
All that being said, Conrad is currently enamoured by TikTokers, as well as using the platform quite a bit himself recently, leading one to fear he will just become just another Boogie2988, just with a different kind of eating disorder. I predict a rather lulsy Tiktok-fuelled arc will soon follow this RV one.
[Edit: minor changes for clarity sake and deletion of anything I could not substantiate after further reading]
nonsense of someone who lacks romantic experience)
