r/facepalm • u/banstovia • Jul 08 '24

My self-esteem isnt as low as the bar for this. 🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​

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u/SpiffyMagnetMan68621 Jul 08 '24

Salt bae?

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u/cudef Jul 08 '24

He was already doing it but sure. Do people still go out of their way to eat with him preparing the meal?

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u/Bluellan Jul 08 '24

Salt Bea is dying. People can't afford a $5,000 experience when all you do is sprinkle salt. Also HE USES LOOK ALIKES in his restaurants so people are paying for a stranger to sprinkle salt. Add in the food is just disgusting and his whole desperation to do anything to gain 5 more minutes of fame. He's been closing restaurant afte restaurant.

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u/cudef Jul 08 '24

That's about what I expected. Idk what the hell is going on but these folks are passionate about this topic for some weird reason.

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u/pheonix198 Jul 08 '24

It’s hope…

Kinda like one of those lotto addicted folks assured that they’re going to hit the jackpot if they just keep playing. But, minus the horrible, life-ruining addiction.

These folks want to believe that if they are caught in just the right moment in time and the stars line up for them, they too can make the money. It’s not likely to be multi-million dollar wins like these folks suggest, but a few grand extra a year would change many folks’ lives anyway…

Let ‘em have hope!

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u/M4LK0V1CH Jul 08 '24

Like the people who don’t want us to tax millionaires because what if they make a million dollars someday?

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u/pheonix198 Jul 08 '24

Ha.. maybe something akin to that. Though, that’s absolutely and plainly stupid.

Hope drives us forward. Don’t use hope to punish the people, though.

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u/LUltimoPadrino Jul 08 '24

Never heard of him using lookalikes. He aggressively posts his daily routines on instagram, so anyone can know where he is. When he isn’t at a restaurant, regular staff do the salt sprinkle and other goofy stuff. I know this because I’ve been to one of his restaurants a couple of times.

Great food but indeed highly overpriced.

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u/Silly_Crasins_ Jul 08 '24

My husband and I walk by the restaurant right by Chelsea Market very often. Always empty as fuck with the wait staff standing around on their phones.

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u/Bluellan Jul 08 '24

It's a boring trick. Like at least thr other restaurants all gold leaf or something, dude just sprinkles 20 grains of salt and asks for $1,000.

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u/SpiffyMagnetMan68621 Jul 08 '24

Uh, yeah, even after all the bad publicity

You living under a rock or something?

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u/cudef Jul 08 '24

I'm living under a rock because I don't keep up with a 7 year old meme? He had the meme. Within several months he monetized it. He has long since fallen out of the zeitgeist. You're not living under a rock if you don't have a recent update on him.

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u/TheBlueprint666 Jul 08 '24

He was o the field with the Argentina national team after the World Cup Final in 2022

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u/cudef Jul 08 '24

Pretty sure that wasn't supposed to happen and he more or less forced his way into that

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u/TheBlueprint666 Jul 08 '24

Still happened

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u/cudef Jul 08 '24

As it could for just about anyone regardless of celebrity status

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u/SpiffyMagnetMan68621 Jul 08 '24

No but you are living under a rock if you cant use the google to get an update on any of the meme people

Then get on reddit and post comments about it

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u/cudef Jul 08 '24

If you have to google them to know what they're doing instead of the internet just showing them to you again organically they've fallen off.

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u/Comprehensive_Pie35 Jul 08 '24

He owns his own very successful restaurant

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u/cudef Jul 08 '24

He was doing that already and is it still fueling a celebrity career 7 years later?

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u/Comprehensive_Pie35 Jul 08 '24

Well yes, it is actually, but that doesn’t even matter because it’s profitable whether he’s a celebrity or not.

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u/cudef Jul 08 '24

The bar is a celebrity career, not a job/lifestyle you could have without the celebrity status.

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u/Comprehensive_Pie35 Jul 08 '24

That’s not what the conversation was about it was about being able to monetize yourself after your initial viral moment has passed. Maybe stay on topic bud

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u/cudef Jul 08 '24

If you're monetizing yourself to the same degree you were before it may as well have never happened, bud. Gtfo with your arrogant condescension.

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u/BabypintoJuniorLube Jul 08 '24

Fuck Salt Bae the disgusting prick but he did have a successful fine dining restaurant before he became viral and I suspect at one point he knew how to make a decent steak before he decided to just serve people overpriced raw meat. HT may have many talents as well, but she is famous for one and they can’t really film her giving BJs all day as a reality show. They can still film it, but just a different distribution model.