He’s residing the excessive life.
Social media influencer Chris Kim – who goes by the nickname Blazin’ Asian, and has 50,000 on-line followers — earns $2,000 a month performing outrageous pot-smoking challenges and sparking up with strangers.
“I made my first cash off Instagram once I was 18,” the 22-year-old faculty senior stated. “I acquired $25 simply by linking to some CBD firm’s web site. I assumed, ‘Oh s–t. I made cash from smoking weed – one thing I’ve been doing my complete life.”
In his most up-to-date YouTube video, Kim, of Bergen County, NJ, and fellow influencer SpiceddieOG, visited Washington Sq. Park and caught their heads inside five-gallon water jugs rigged as much as a large bowl.
Instantly after lighting the ganja, their faces disappeared behind clouds of white smoke, and 25 seconds later, they ripped the jugs off, coughing their lungs out and almost puking.
“That complete expertise was fairly intense, and I acquired excessive immediately, however truthfully, we smoked a blunt, like, an hour later,” stated Kim, who admits he smokes not less than 4 instances a day.
Public weed-smoking in metropolis parks is prohibited and tokers may wind up with a $50 ticket, however enforcement is on the police’s discretion. Two officers kindly requested Kim to take it out of the park and even gave him a pat on the again.
For his subsequent stunt, Kim — who claimed he’s making an attempt to chop again to spare his lungs irreversible injury — plans to encase his total physique in a large empty fish tank and pump it filled with smoke.
Kim’s followers are available in all ages — 76-year-old Marcia Lawther gladly accepted a free joint as they crossed paths on West Third Road final week.
However others aren’t followers of his antics, worrying he has a harmful influence youngsters.
“‘Hashish influencers’ can solely amplify the already widespread misapprehension amongst youngsters that as a result of marijuana is authorized in lots of states, THC is simply as secure for his or her creating brains as it's for adults’ brains. It’s not,” stated psychologist Pamela Paresky.
And for all his reputation, Kim stated his mother and father – first technology South Korean immigrants – aren’t thrilled about their stoner son’s profession going up in smoke.
“It’s going to take time for them to simply accept it totally,” he stated. “I simply wish to get to some extent the place I can do that full time and make more cash than with an workplace job. By then, it needs to be no downside in any respect for them.”
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