We’ve all sped, but few of us have posted the evidence to millions of subscribers like popular YouTuber Marques Brownlee did
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- YouTuber MKBHD, also known as Marques Brownlee posted a video that showed himself speeding.
- Shortly after posting it, viewers called him out for it and he deleted that section in the video.
- Now, he’s taken responsibility and apologized for his driving.
Tech YouTuber Marques Brownlee, known on social media as MKBHD has the pleasure of testing all sorts of cars. As a Porsche 911 owner himself, he seems to be a fan of things that can go quickly. That was as evident as it can get when he showed himself traveling at almost 100 mph (161 km/h) in a 35 mph (56 km/h) zone in a recent video. How that happened, what Brownlee did next, and how he’s reacting now are a bit comical and a good lesson to us all.
The video in question is a post sponsored by DJI and it mostly consists of Brownlee talking about how much he likes that brand’s cameras. He even mentions their excellent clarity and quality. In one very short five-second clip we see his point of view as he pilots a Lamborghini Revuelto down a road.
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Thanks to that excellent image quality we can first see that from the moment the clip starts, Brownlee is driving at nearly 60 mph in a 35 mph zone. Then, he accelerates and blurs out the speedometer reading in the gauge cluster. Hilariously, it seems that he or his editing team forgot that another display for the passenger shows the same thing and it isn’t blurred out.
As a result, it reads up to 96 mph in the clip as Brownlee accelerates and then passes a Children Crossing sign. Understandably, the entirety of the internet didn’t take well to the clip and called Brownlee out just about anywhere it could including on X and Reddit.
Not long after that gained traction, Brownlee deleted the five-second clip and posted a comment to the video saying “Cut out the unnecessary driving clip that obviously added nothing to the video. I hear all your feedback on sponsored videos too.” Then, he went further by apologizing online.
Look, the reality is here that we all speed from time to time. However, speeding to such an extreme—and then posting about it to millions of subscribers—is undeniably problematic. Good on Marques for apologizing, taking responsibility, and vowing to make changes. Hopefully, this entire situation is now water under the bridge both for himself and those who follow him.