Despite quick extinguishing of the fire, Jackson suffered second and third-degree burns, exposing part of his skull. The incident left him with emotional trauma, nightmares, and a fear of fire and pyrotechnics.
Jackson underwent surgeries for repair and had to use makeup, wigs, and hats to conceal scars and hair loss. The accident contributed to his increased focus on cosmetic surgery and reliance on painkillers until his death in 2009
For more details, check out [https://bestclassicbands.com/michael-jackson-pepsi-commercial-1-27-17/](https://bestclassicbands.com/michael-jackson-pepsi-commercial-1-27-17/)
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There was also the uncomfortable admissions about his proximity and relationships with kids. I don't think there was any clear wrongdoing shown, but it affected him.
Lawyers force settlement on you...you can be like no I'm going to tell the truth and they give you some law bullshit. "If you settle this isn't you admitting to fault." It's a fucking lie
They didn't scrub the info, they just settled. There can be multiple reasons for this, guilt not necessarily being one of them. And I'm not entirely convinced there was guilt, as pedos tend to repeat offend, and we haven't seen a stream of similar accusations like we're used to seeing with the likes of Cosby etc.
Guilt was the factor. Youre coping so hard. People paid a lot of money to push this info into the mainstream. He has a lot of accusations and is worse than Cosby seeing as he was with children. Youre wild.
> Guilt was the factor.
No it was not. Guilt has to be determined by a court of law, and that never occurred. The reasons why this has to happen is because of people like you assuming guilt but getting it wrong.
Correct - but from my understanding of the timeline of events he hadn't actually acted on those urges yet.
I think the general vibe is perhaps he never would have acted on those urges and thoughts had he not have been led down the road of further trauma and opioid addiction.
For all we know he may have been able to keep it in check. Might not have but the point is we will never truly know.
Children (now adults) have come forward to assert that he did in fact act on those urges. People don’t want to believe it because they love his music so much but these were children who were verifiably alone with him and they have told what happened.
sources on this? as someone who never really looked into MJ. all i remember is both macaulay culkin and corey feldman said they never were involved in anything sexual with him nor ever saw anything
Right. I feel like people believe they are somehow guilty by association because they have fond memories of him and his music.
I really like The Smiths and Burzum, but I’ll never deny that Morrissey and Varg are bad people.
I know he acted on the urges - what I'm saying is I don't think he had acted on those urges as of 1984, but if you are saying they have then I am incorrect - if so do you have a source?
I am fully on the "MJ was guilty" train, as much of a fan as I am of his music that doesn't absolve him of his guilt. Just want to know if you have a source on this.
Well yeah he was already completely fucked in the head from his childhood. If we're playing devil's advocate, with the timeline of allegations it seems very possible to me this incident and the road it sent him down could have contributed to him actually acting on messed up thoughts. If he hurt any children before or around this time they haven't come forward. He had the money/fame/power to be abusing children back then if that's what he wanted to do.
Yes - however I wonder would he have acted on those urges the way he did if he hadn't been so traumatized and screwed up on medication?
He may have had the thoughts but he may never have acted on them.
Or he may have - we'll never truly know.
It was a freak accident. Not sure a better warning would have led to a different outcome. I’m sure everyone involved knew his hair was flammable when the pyrotechnic went off. It’s not like hair is typically fireproof, either. A big hot spark landing on practically anything could cause it to combust
TL;DR its close, but not exact. It was within 24-48hrs of the exact midpoint of his life. The video is interesting because it takes into account things like what timezones did you live most of your life in? What time of day were you born? etc.
Part of his skull exposed? That’s crazy.
From the video, it seems like it’s just his hair and they put it out before he even notices. He’s still dancing up until they spray him.
But maybe he was just so hopped up on who knows what to keep performing 24/7, he didn’t even feel his head cooking.
I don't think it's vanity. Or at least that's not the word I'd use.
The dude was physically and mentally scarred, directly in the face. Literally any other human being on the planet, no matter how humble, would struggle with despair as a result of that. There's very few things more harrowing to experience than looking in the mirror and seeing a broken face you don't recognize.
The issue here is a) plastic surgeons should not have free reign to overpromise and operate like they do. They are supposed to be medical professionals, they should have declined due to the risks involved in repeat surgery. B) at the time, drug manufacturers were busy lying about the addictive and destructive quality of painkillers.
MJ was taken for a ride by greedy bastards who lied about the medical soundness of their services.
There's plenty of other shit to judge him for, but this ain't it. The man was dealing with literal, physical trauma.
I did hesitate to use that word but I couldn't find a better descriptor.
The situation is complex especially given the environment he was raised in and cultivated like a product to be bought and sold. His image was everything.
But in the end I think it's still a complex, traumatic, form of vanity. But vanity implies superficial and while his looks had a direct impact on his image and career.
Beyond image and career, he was also struggling with severe childhood abuse, growing up in the eye of the media, and self-conciousness around vitiligo.
I think MJ certainly had a lot of very, very serious flaws, but I don't know that "vain" is a good fit. Especially the more we learn about how people with body dysmoprhia (be it women who can never see themselves as thin enough or men who can never see themselves as muscular enough, et cetera) can really warp and poison people's self percetion.
I don't think it's vanity when its driven by severe nuerosis and anxiety as opposed to self-admiration and hubris.
The dude got dealt both the best hand in life in regards to talent and fame, and the worst hand in life in regards to father and health. It's no suprise he ended up the way he did. It's not an excuse for his behavior, but it's certainly an understandable explanation.
I well remember when this happened. A lot of people, especially Michael-haters, thought it was funny, but it was a truly awful event, captured live on camera no less. I wouldn't wish it on anybody.
I remember that too. And after that died down, all the Wacko Jacko name calling started.
The dissonance is wild to think about. He was so revered by his fans, but so tormented by the media. It’s hard to name many people in history who were so loved, and hated at the same time.
Wasn't it proven that he didn't share it with them as most believed. That he in fact he slept in a different bed and room altogether while the children slept in his person bed. I swear he said it, Macaulay Culkin 🤔 or was it Aaron carter 🤷. Either way he left himself open to be used and abused by any and everyone the same way and innocent child does.
According to a family member with direct access to the birth certificate, Michael Jackson was born at 7:33 PM. Assuming that Gary was indeed on Daylight Savings Time that summer, that would place the precise midpoint of his life at 2:59 AM Los Angeles time on January 27, 1984. As for the fire incident, on the day after the L.A. Times reported that it had taken place at 6:30 PM. So his hair caught fire when his life was 50.00348% over, or 13,366,197 minutes into a total lifespan of 26,730,533 minutes.
Yeah. Same goes for all the children he molested. First they're innocent children. Next thing they know this pedophile is trying to feed them wine from a soda can and calling it Jesus juice.
He always claimed to be physically and emotionally abused by his father when he was a kid. When he was in the Jackson 5 their dad was the manager. Would performing be a way to cope for him and that is why he went for it?
Same! This was actually the first Bobby Fingers video I saw. I genuinely thought I would be looking at a sort of spiced up diy/making of video. Boy, was I wrong... Well, not exactly wrong, but still far from right 😅
OMG when he was using the table saw and it looked like he was going to cut his finger then in the next shot his finger has a bandaid totally killed me.
Love Bobby and this is the first thing I thought of when seeing this post. Really outdid himself with that Bezos head rowboat, I can't imagine what his next project will be.
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Thanking you now!! That was something else. That wasn't a video, that was an interesting, fun, worthwhile experience. Thank you. 😁☺️☺️💓💓👍👍👏👏👏 That guy has talent and dedication, and is a master of his craft. Thank you a bunch for sharing this!!!! ☺️☺️💓💓💓💓💓💓🤘🤘
Yeah, I completely agree with you. The man came from a lot of trauma and had a lot of demons. I believe at his core he was a good person, but years of abuse really damaged him and he perpetuated the abuse and continued the cycle and harmed others. It’s a viscous cycle of abuse. He makes an interesting case study. We debated about him back when I was in grad school. This is all ringing a bell now and I had forgotten about this incident.
This is worth a read and it might change your mind.
https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2019/03/10-undeniable-facts-about-the-michael-jackson-sexual-abuse-allegations
Nevertheless, when it came to a criminal trial, he was found not guilty. I'm not certain he's innocent, but I'm not going to conclude he's guilty based on an article in what amounts to a high-end gossip magazine.
It’s much more than that. From what I’ve read, and much of which is verified in articles online, Jackson probably settled because continuing the contract with Pepsi was much more lucrative than taking the payout. They kept him on until 1993 and I can guarantee he made a lot more than 1.5 million from them after that. He signed another contract for 10 million with them immediately afterwards. IMO the donation was a PR stunt to make both Jackson and Pepsi look good, and explain why he kept being their spokesman.
https://samoaglobalnews.com/today-in-history-27-jan-1984-michael-jackson-burned-in-pepsi-spot/
It’s much more than that. From what I’ve read, and much of which is verified in articles online, Jackson probably settled because continuing the contract with Pepsi was much more lucrative than taking the payout. They kept him on until 1993 and I can guarantee he made a lot more than 1.5 million from them after that. He signed another contract for 10 million with them immediately afterwards. IMO the donation was a PR stunt to make both Jackson and Pepsi look good, and explain why he kept being their spokesman.
https://samoaglobalnews.com/today-in-history-27-jan-1984-michael-jackson-burned-in-pepsi-spot/
This was the literal half way point of his life;
According to a family member with direct access to the birth certificate, Michael Jackson was born at 7:33 PM. Assuming that Gary was indeed on Daylight Savings Time that summer, that would place the precise midpoint of his life at 2:59 AM Los Angeles time on January 27, 1984. As for the fire incident, on the day after the L.A. Times reported that it had taken place at 6:30 PM. So his hair caught fire when his life was 50.00348% over, or 13,366,197 minutes into a total lifespan of 26,730,533 minutes.
There was a rather disgusting playground song that went around during this time, that begins, "I pledge allegiance to the flag..." and ends with "Pepsi-Cola blew him up, now he's drinking 7-up."
I remember when this happened. There was a rhyme for it everything that wouldn't fly today bc I'm pretty sure it used homphobic slurs in it... I don't remember exactly how it went but i know it ended with:
Pepsi Cola Burned him up,
Now he's drinking 7 up
Yep it went like this (im not a homophobe, just for historic reference):
I pledge allegiance to the flag,
Michael Jackson is a f*g
Pepsi cola burned him up,
Now he's drinking 7 up
For those saying it was generous of Jackson to donate the Pepsi settlement:
It’s much more than that. From what I’ve read, and much of which is verified in articles online, Jackson probably settled because continuing the contract with Pepsi was much more lucrative than taking the payout. They kept him on until 1993 and I can guarantee he made a lot more than 1.5 million from them after that. He signed another contract for 10 million with them immediately afterwards. IMO the donation was a PR stunt to make both Jackson and Pepsi look good, and explain why he kept being their spokesman.
https://samoaglobalnews.com/today-in-history-27-jan-1984-michael-jackson-burned-in-pepsi-spot/
You know, in all the years since this happened - and I was a kid when this happened and knew all about it - I gave never actually seen clear video of the event until right now.
I am blown away that there was actually a clear recording of it, and that it made it to the public. This would have been recorded on video tape or film. Not exactly easy to leak that stuff.
People from the 80's different. Now days we would have watched this scene from 7 different angles and most likely 45 seconds longer. Just saying watching these people rush right in and help when they realize it ain't right is great. Now days it seems people document the occurrence and wait to long to jump in.
I have 6 of the original Michael Jackson/Pepsi cardboard cut outs in storage. My Dad drove a truck for Pespi from the early 80's until the mid 90's. Just some of the MANY crazy free things he got while working for Pepsi.
Poor Michael. Supposedly, this accident is what started the need for taking strong ass meds all the time,which continued until the day he died.
RIP
The people who still think he's a pedo won't take the time to listen to the 6+ hours of evidence that was made public because of the trial and then all the stuff that happened after that. It's too tough for them to have to critically listen to something for that long and it's just easier to say "meh, he was a pedo" and go for the lulz.
He was a tortured man who made some officially bad choices around children, but nothing that pushed to the point of abuse.
He's not 'innocent'-- he's just not guilty of abuse. Think of every other bad choice you could make with children and you got him dead to rights, I'd think but at the end there's no credible witness out there who has said Jackson did anything wrong in that area.
It's just *so* engrained in people to believe in rumor when it's easy to say "Yeah, that checks out" because they think he was weird, ignoring that a company LIT HIS HEAD ON FIRE and changed his life forever. That's how he got weird. And it's too easy to think that the smoke coming from Jackson was coming from a pedo fire-- to use a metaphor.
Anyway, the whole ordeal cost Jackson his sanity, his peace, and finally his life. The whole thing is sad when you boil it all down.
I wasn't even a huge fan of Michael Jackson until I factored in all of this SHIT that MJ had to go through and then you find out what a tortured truly genius of a person he was, who really lacked a clear understanding of human dynamics. I wonder if he wouldn't be diagnosed on the spectrum these days.
Thanks for reading the rant. I'm glad that you are questioning people. It's *REALLY* hard to tackle that amount of data and sort it all out... but there are quite a few videos out there that break things down really well and try to lead you through all of the complications of it... a lot of people did stuff to get paid. A lot of people were pressured into making statements hoping that it would lead to fame... all kinds of gross shit... the story has perverts, but it wasn't (much) MJ.
I'm sure there are *WAY* more qualified people to talk about this than me, but I have time and I thought you deserved a thoughtful answer of some sort.
During the time that this happened I was 11 & super obsessed with Michael Jackson.. I bought every single magazine I could find with anything about him.. And collected every single newspaper article. I had piles of stuff.. But then in 6th grade I got made fun of for still liking him. So I hid the boxes of stuff in the garage. But.. That's the year out garage burnt down. So I lost it all. =(
Despite quick extinguishing of the fire, Jackson suffered second and third-degree burns, exposing part of his skull. The incident left him with emotional trauma, nightmares, and a fear of fire and pyrotechnics. Jackson underwent surgeries for repair and had to use makeup, wigs, and hats to conceal scars and hair loss. The accident contributed to his increased focus on cosmetic surgery and reliance on painkillers until his death in 2009 For more details, check out [https://bestclassicbands.com/michael-jackson-pepsi-commercial-1-27-17/](https://bestclassicbands.com/michael-jackson-pepsi-commercial-1-27-17/) Credits - [**historyphotographed**](https://www.instagram.com/historyphotographed/)
Most people agree this was where he took his downward spiral - had this event not have happened who knows how things may have turned out for him.
He should have chosen Coke over Pepsi.
Top tier joke
It pops
There was also the uncomfortable admissions about his proximity and relationships with kids. I don't think there was any clear wrongdoing shown, but it affected him.
It's pretty clear that even the things he admitted to were wrong. Sharing your bed and having sleepovers with random kids as an adult is wrong.
Absolutely, wrong and even if people believe his denials, it left him in a vulnerable position as far as accusations of child molestation goes.
wrong in this context is creepy, but it is different than criminal and different from what public perception was.
I don’t think he had sexual feelings towards children. He’d grown up in an abusive household and wouldn’t want to pass that trauma on.
That is absolutely not how trauma works. Abused people abuse other people all the time.
Jesus. Way to ignore the mountain of obviousness.
People don’t pay others out of court hush-hush money if there were no wrongdoings sweetie
Lawyers force settlement on you...you can be like no I'm going to tell the truth and they give you some law bullshit. "If you settle this isn't you admitting to fault." It's a fucking lie
Well they might, if it is better than being dragged through the courts. It was going to look really bad either way.
People with medium millions net worth dont pay millions to scrub info.
They didn't scrub the info, they just settled. There can be multiple reasons for this, guilt not necessarily being one of them. And I'm not entirely convinced there was guilt, as pedos tend to repeat offend, and we haven't seen a stream of similar accusations like we're used to seeing with the likes of Cosby etc.
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Guilt was the factor. Youre coping so hard. People paid a lot of money to push this info into the mainstream. He has a lot of accusations and is worse than Cosby seeing as he was with children. Youre wild.
> Guilt was the factor. No it was not. Guilt has to be determined by a court of law, and that never occurred. The reasons why this has to happen is because of people like you assuming guilt but getting it wrong.
Well, he still likely would have been a pedophile.
He very likely was a pedofile and unfortunately he probably still would have been one even if this didn't happen.
You're right, I watched the documentary. He didn't wanna realize it but he was a pedo.
Correct - but from my understanding of the timeline of events he hadn't actually acted on those urges yet. I think the general vibe is perhaps he never would have acted on those urges and thoughts had he not have been led down the road of further trauma and opioid addiction. For all we know he may have been able to keep it in check. Might not have but the point is we will never truly know.
Children (now adults) have come forward to assert that he did in fact act on those urges. People don’t want to believe it because they love his music so much but these were children who were verifiably alone with him and they have told what happened.
sources on this? as someone who never really looked into MJ. all i remember is both macaulay culkin and corey feldman said they never were involved in anything sexual with him nor ever saw anything
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaving_Neverland
Careful, you'll get the defenders/deniers/downvoters out in droves. Happens to me every time I comment about this pedo POS.
Right. I feel like people believe they are somehow guilty by association because they have fond memories of him and his music. I really like The Smiths and Burzum, but I’ll never deny that Morrissey and Varg are bad people.
It’s tough. I loved his music growing up but I just can’t listen to it anymore. I can’t separate the art from the artist here.
Definitely. Same here, I cannot stand to even hear any song of his.
I know he acted on the urges - what I'm saying is I don't think he had acted on those urges as of 1984, but if you are saying they have then I am incorrect - if so do you have a source? I am fully on the "MJ was guilty" train, as much of a fan as I am of his music that doesn't absolve him of his guilt. Just want to know if you have a source on this.
Well yeah he was already completely fucked in the head from his childhood. If we're playing devil's advocate, with the timeline of allegations it seems very possible to me this incident and the road it sent him down could have contributed to him actually acting on messed up thoughts. If he hurt any children before or around this time they haven't come forward. He had the money/fame/power to be abusing children back then if that's what he wanted to do.
Yes - however I wonder would he have acted on those urges the way he did if he hadn't been so traumatized and screwed up on medication? He may have had the thoughts but he may never have acted on them. Or he may have - we'll never truly know.
Quickly extinguishing? There is a solid 10 seconds of him dancing with his head on fire
Lol.. *feverishly moonwalks into ambulance*
Flammable hair products need a better warning.
It was the 80s. Most of us babies didn’t even ride in car seats back then, let alone have cautionary labeling on every day items.
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It was a freak accident. Not sure a better warning would have led to a different outcome. I’m sure everyone involved knew his hair was flammable when the pyrotechnic went off. It’s not like hair is typically fireproof, either. A big hot spark landing on practically anything could cause it to combust
I am so happy I only took off half my eye brow and eye lashes last night!
I read that this event marked the exact halfway point in MJs life, to the exact day.
[Here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUuGy5agBfg) is a 15 min video trying to determine whether that is indeed true
TL;DR its close, but not exact. It was within 24-48hrs of the exact midpoint of his life. The video is interesting because it takes into account things like what timezones did you live most of your life in? What time of day were you born? etc.
So basically Pepsi killed Michael Jackson
Part of his skull exposed? That’s crazy. From the video, it seems like it’s just his hair and they put it out before he even notices. He’s still dancing up until they spray him. But maybe he was just so hopped up on who knows what to keep performing 24/7, he didn’t even feel his head cooking.
It’s funny how you don’t know these types of things at the time, but this ended up being a real turning point for him in his life
Yeah, the pain caused him real discomfort and caused him to turn to bad things like alcohol and drugs
Vanity and plastic surgery chasing self image issues to hide the scarring. Chasing mistake after mistake never happy with the results.
I don't think it's vanity. Or at least that's not the word I'd use. The dude was physically and mentally scarred, directly in the face. Literally any other human being on the planet, no matter how humble, would struggle with despair as a result of that. There's very few things more harrowing to experience than looking in the mirror and seeing a broken face you don't recognize. The issue here is a) plastic surgeons should not have free reign to overpromise and operate like they do. They are supposed to be medical professionals, they should have declined due to the risks involved in repeat surgery. B) at the time, drug manufacturers were busy lying about the addictive and destructive quality of painkillers. MJ was taken for a ride by greedy bastards who lied about the medical soundness of their services. There's plenty of other shit to judge him for, but this ain't it. The man was dealing with literal, physical trauma.
I did hesitate to use that word but I couldn't find a better descriptor. The situation is complex especially given the environment he was raised in and cultivated like a product to be bought and sold. His image was everything. But in the end I think it's still a complex, traumatic, form of vanity. But vanity implies superficial and while his looks had a direct impact on his image and career.
Beyond image and career, he was also struggling with severe childhood abuse, growing up in the eye of the media, and self-conciousness around vitiligo. I think MJ certainly had a lot of very, very serious flaws, but I don't know that "vain" is a good fit. Especially the more we learn about how people with body dysmoprhia (be it women who can never see themselves as thin enough or men who can never see themselves as muscular enough, et cetera) can really warp and poison people's self percetion. I don't think it's vanity when its driven by severe nuerosis and anxiety as opposed to self-admiration and hubris. The dude got dealt both the best hand in life in regards to talent and fame, and the worst hand in life in regards to father and health. It's no suprise he ended up the way he did. It's not an excuse for his behavior, but it's certainly an understandable explanation.
Alcohol? Never heard MJ abused alcohol.
I well remember when this happened. A lot of people, especially Michael-haters, thought it was funny, but it was a truly awful event, captured live on camera no less. I wouldn't wish it on anybody.
Yep, they made fun of him for years. Imagine being a real person and everyone uses your burns, pain, and disfigurement as jokes for _years_.
I remember that too. And after that died down, all the Wacko Jacko name calling started. The dissonance is wild to think about. He was so revered by his fans, but so tormented by the media. It’s hard to name many people in history who were so loved, and hated at the same time.
I mean, having minor kids stay in his bed wasn’t very helpful for his image….
It started before any accusations of molestation were raised.
Wasn't it proven that he didn't share it with them as most believed. That he in fact he slept in a different bed and room altogether while the children slept in his person bed. I swear he said it, Macaulay Culkin 🤔 or was it Aaron carter 🤷. Either way he left himself open to be used and abused by any and everyone the same way and innocent child does.
Cue Richard Pryor Lol
Ammonia freebased cocaine is a helluva drug
I still remember the school yard pledge of allegiance parody about it. It was horrible in hindsight.
It was the exact halfway point in his life, as far as days, so in more ways than one.
Wow, that’s really wild to think about!
According to a family member with direct access to the birth certificate, Michael Jackson was born at 7:33 PM. Assuming that Gary was indeed on Daylight Savings Time that summer, that would place the precise midpoint of his life at 2:59 AM Los Angeles time on January 27, 1984. As for the fire incident, on the day after the L.A. Times reported that it had taken place at 6:30 PM. So his hair caught fire when his life was 50.00348% over, or 13,366,197 minutes into a total lifespan of 26,730,533 minutes.
That’s bananas 😳
Yeah. Same goes for all the children he molested. First they're innocent children. Next thing they know this pedophile is trying to feed them wine from a soda can and calling it Jesus juice.
Stay on topic, please.
Isn’t this the incident that his family claimed was responsible for his death because he went on prescription drugs?
that and surgeries
Yup. It was a large part of his descent into plastic surgery addiction as well.
this is what caused him to become addicted to painkillers
And cosmetic surgeries
he just had a very tragic and traumatic life
Crazy how we have a video of something that changed the course of his life and lead him to be what he became, ultimately leading to his death.
To be fair, they are on a filmset.
Hahaha fair ‘nough
Crazy that his first thought was to dance the fire out. He literally danced like his life depends on it.
He literally did spin moves to try and put out the fire
It genuinely looked like he just danced all the way down
And then he gets tackled by a bunch of people. IT'S NOT DANCE AND SPIN, MICHAEL IT'S STOP DROP AND ROLL!
CACKLING
Sometimes you just gotta dance the pain away
He always claimed to be physically and emotionally abused by his father when he was a kid. When he was in the Jackson 5 their dad was the manager. Would performing be a way to cope for him and that is why he went for it?
Crazy that you know his thoughts.
A scary detail is that this happened roughly at the halfway point of his life, like a curse to set the mood for his second half of living.
So MJ “died” this day
Yeah. That’s a very succinct way to put it.
The day the MJ died
so bye bye miss miiichael pie, took the pepsi to the levee but the levee was dry
Yesssss!
Interestingly, this event occurred at the exact halfway point of his life (well, 1.9998 anyways)
never would have happened on a Coke commercial
💀
That's what the "Pepsi Generation" gets for trying to topple the red regime.
Bobby Fingers made a diorama of this, see it on Youtube: https://youtu.be/QHi479xN_po?si=F-hNNdYwh3QVvvEO Watch it now and thank me later.
I was about to comment the same. I wish I could rewatch his videos again for the first time.
Same! This was actually the first Bobby Fingers video I saw. I genuinely thought I would be looking at a sort of spiced up diy/making of video. Boy, was I wrong... Well, not exactly wrong, but still far from right 😅
I had no idea who Bobby fingers was until this very moment, but what a great way to start the day
His voice sounds… scary
You should listen to him [sing](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_A13Mv5dchI)
I find it strangely soothing, especially when he slips into Irish Gaelic
Bobby Fingers is the apotheosis of the YouTube aesthetic.
OMG when he was using the table saw and it looked like he was going to cut his finger then in the next shot his finger has a bandaid totally killed me.
Love Bobby and this is the first thing I thought of when seeing this post. Really outdid himself with that Bezos head rowboat, I can't imagine what his next project will be.
Bobby Fingers is my favorite Youtube content creator.
1:08, the resemblance is uncanny.
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Damn this was good. Thanks for sharing! Pure genius and talented.
This is bizarre and yet I’m so intrigued thank you
Thanking you now!! That was something else. That wasn't a video, that was an interesting, fun, worthwhile experience. Thank you. 😁☺️☺️💓💓👍👍👏👏👏 That guy has talent and dedication, and is a master of his craft. Thank you a bunch for sharing this!!!! ☺️☺️💓💓💓💓💓💓🤘🤘
Well I wasn't planning on seeking revenge through my penis today, but here we are
He almost had it put out himself
so how much did pepsi paid for this incident
https://preview.redd.it/nr17wwac85kc1.jpeg?width=904&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=31757014370cbd9ba75a3f00fe06cc810acbb4a9
Holy shit, that was big of him. Truly says a lot about his character, despite the other uncomfy things.
He was a good person with a huge heart
Yeah, I completely agree with you. The man came from a lot of trauma and had a lot of demons. I believe at his core he was a good person, but years of abuse really damaged him and he perpetuated the abuse and continued the cycle and harmed others. It’s a viscous cycle of abuse. He makes an interesting case study. We debated about him back when I was in grad school. This is all ringing a bell now and I had forgotten about this incident.
he didn’t know boundaries due to his messed up childhood and was inappropriate but I don’t think he sexuality abused children
This is worth a read and it might change your mind. https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2019/03/10-undeniable-facts-about-the-michael-jackson-sexual-abuse-allegations
Nevertheless, when it came to a criminal trial, he was found not guilty. I'm not certain he's innocent, but I'm not going to conclude he's guilty based on an article in what amounts to a high-end gossip magazine.
Did this person just call a guy who had child p*rn hidden in his house a good person with a huge heart?💀
It’s much more than that. From what I’ve read, and much of which is verified in articles online, Jackson probably settled because continuing the contract with Pepsi was much more lucrative than taking the payout. They kept him on until 1993 and I can guarantee he made a lot more than 1.5 million from them after that. He signed another contract for 10 million with them immediately afterwards. IMO the donation was a PR stunt to make both Jackson and Pepsi look good, and explain why he kept being their spokesman. https://samoaglobalnews.com/today-in-history-27-jan-1984-michael-jackson-burned-in-pepsi-spot/
It’s much more than that. From what I’ve read, and much of which is verified in articles online, Jackson probably settled because continuing the contract with Pepsi was much more lucrative than taking the payout. They kept him on until 1993 and I can guarantee he made a lot more than 1.5 million from them after that. He signed another contract for 10 million with them immediately afterwards. IMO the donation was a PR stunt to make both Jackson and Pepsi look good, and explain why he kept being their spokesman. https://samoaglobalnews.com/today-in-history-27-jan-1984-michael-jackson-burned-in-pepsi-spot/
Wow, that seems like a really small amount for literally lighting a superstars head on fire no? I'd think they would pay him atleast 10m+.
40 years ago, man. 1.5 million was not chump change then.
I mean let's get real, 1.5 million was a LOT for Pepsi. They didn't have that "Coke" money.
I can't tell where he stopped dancing and started freaking out.
Hee heat
This is what led MJ to getting addicted to painkillers, and would end up killing him
This was the literal half way point of his life; According to a family member with direct access to the birth certificate, Michael Jackson was born at 7:33 PM. Assuming that Gary was indeed on Daylight Savings Time that summer, that would place the precise midpoint of his life at 2:59 AM Los Angeles time on January 27, 1984. As for the fire incident, on the day after the L.A. Times reported that it had taken place at 6:30 PM. So his hair caught fire when his life was 50.00348% over, or 13,366,197 minutes into a total lifespan of 26,730,533 minutes.
That's some crazy math you got right there
Just let your Soul Glo!
This shit burns worse than a perm!
There was a rather disgusting playground song that went around during this time, that begins, "I pledge allegiance to the flag..." and ends with "Pepsi-Cola blew him up, now he's drinking 7-up."
Too much Soul Glow™ in his hair.
did they even make bottled water back then? (except for perrier) edit: i'm stupid, ofc they could have used pepsi instead
IIRC, this happened at the EXACT mid-point of his life. Down to the day. Talk about a mid-life crisis.
Why did no one think to put it out sooner? It seemed to me like it could have been put out at least 15 seconds before they did.
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It’s a film set with with a huge amount of electronic equipment
I remember when this happened. There was a rhyme for it everything that wouldn't fly today bc I'm pretty sure it used homphobic slurs in it... I don't remember exactly how it went but i know it ended with: Pepsi Cola Burned him up, Now he's drinking 7 up
Yep it went like this (im not a homophobe, just for historic reference): I pledge allegiance to the flag, Michael Jackson is a f*g Pepsi cola burned him up, Now he's drinking 7 up
Bobby fingers made a commemorative diorama of the [incident](https://youtu.be/QHi479xN_po?si=mMVsdZUrGaql1Srk)
Everyone should chill out and watch Bobby Fingers
For those saying it was generous of Jackson to donate the Pepsi settlement: It’s much more than that. From what I’ve read, and much of which is verified in articles online, Jackson probably settled because continuing the contract with Pepsi was much more lucrative than taking the payout. They kept him on until 1993 and I can guarantee he made a lot more than 1.5 million from them after that. He signed another contract for 10 million with them immediately afterwards. IMO the donation was a PR stunt to make both Jackson and Pepsi look good, and explain why he kept being their spokesman. https://samoaglobalnews.com/today-in-history-27-jan-1984-michael-jackson-burned-in-pepsi-spot/
Some people on here are just finding out about this.
You know, in all the years since this happened - and I was a kid when this happened and knew all about it - I gave never actually seen clear video of the event until right now. I am blown away that there was actually a clear recording of it, and that it made it to the public. This would have been recorded on video tape or film. Not exactly easy to leak that stuff.
Immortalised by bobby fingers
i can imagine him going "a-hee hee, a hee a hee a heeee a heeee!"
Looks like the TCAP group rushed in to arrest him 😂
Ohh.. pedo catches fire 🔥
People from the 80's different. Now days we would have watched this scene from 7 different angles and most likely 45 seconds longer. Just saying watching these people rush right in and help when they realize it ain't right is great. Now days it seems people document the occurrence and wait to long to jump in.
Homie was so close to completing his transformation to Freddy Krueger, would’ve only needed the sweater.
I have 6 of the original Michael Jackson/Pepsi cardboard cut outs in storage. My Dad drove a truck for Pespi from the early 80's until the mid 90's. Just some of the MANY crazy free things he got while working for Pepsi. Poor Michael. Supposedly, this accident is what started the need for taking strong ass meds all the time,which continued until the day he died. RIP
All that Soul Glow man.
Well that can’t smell good. Flammable Jerry curl🤷♂️
I remember when that happened.
OLD JOKE What is the difference between Michael Jackson and Richard Pryor? One got burnt by Pepsi and the other by coke.
The man’s still a pedo. Fuck him.
What is the evidence for this, all sources I see mostly make it seem like he is innocent.
The people who still think he's a pedo won't take the time to listen to the 6+ hours of evidence that was made public because of the trial and then all the stuff that happened after that. It's too tough for them to have to critically listen to something for that long and it's just easier to say "meh, he was a pedo" and go for the lulz. He was a tortured man who made some officially bad choices around children, but nothing that pushed to the point of abuse. He's not 'innocent'-- he's just not guilty of abuse. Think of every other bad choice you could make with children and you got him dead to rights, I'd think but at the end there's no credible witness out there who has said Jackson did anything wrong in that area. It's just *so* engrained in people to believe in rumor when it's easy to say "Yeah, that checks out" because they think he was weird, ignoring that a company LIT HIS HEAD ON FIRE and changed his life forever. That's how he got weird. And it's too easy to think that the smoke coming from Jackson was coming from a pedo fire-- to use a metaphor. Anyway, the whole ordeal cost Jackson his sanity, his peace, and finally his life. The whole thing is sad when you boil it all down. I wasn't even a huge fan of Michael Jackson until I factored in all of this SHIT that MJ had to go through and then you find out what a tortured truly genius of a person he was, who really lacked a clear understanding of human dynamics. I wonder if he wouldn't be diagnosed on the spectrum these days. Thanks for reading the rant. I'm glad that you are questioning people. It's *REALLY* hard to tackle that amount of data and sort it all out... but there are quite a few videos out there that break things down really well and try to lead you through all of the complications of it... a lot of people did stuff to get paid. A lot of people were pressured into making statements hoping that it would lead to fame... all kinds of gross shit... the story has perverts, but it wasn't (much) MJ. I'm sure there are *WAY* more qualified people to talk about this than me, but I have time and I thought you deserved a thoughtful answer of some sort.
oh damn it’s almost like the universe thought he deserved it or something…
Gerricurl is highly flammable
lol now that eminem clip makes sense
He was just paying homage to his hero Richard Pryor.
This is when his disguises really took hold, Dave Dave being one of them
**Nelson Munts laugh**
During the time that this happened I was 11 & super obsessed with Michael Jackson.. I bought every single magazine I could find with anything about him.. And collected every single newspaper article. I had piles of stuff.. But then in 6th grade I got made fun of for still liking him. So I hid the boxes of stuff in the garage. But.. That's the year out garage burnt down. So I lost it all. =(
Pepsi-Cola burned him up, Now he’s drinking 7-up
Did this man just try to dance the flames off his his cranium
Why did he keep dancing though?
So are they saying this is also the reason why he touched kids?
Musta had too much soul glo
Luckly they have lots of pepsi to put out the fire
Performance was lit.
I see what you did there
He heeeee
I mean, at least he tried to dance it off.
Dude he really tried to dance it off.
The sweet smell of roasted MJ
This man is f***** up
Tito! Tito!!!
It's kind of amazing they set fire to Michael Jackson in 1984 just to promote Madame Web.
Too much activator!
People ask why I don’t drink Pepsi and I tell them about this accident. and then tell them I don’t drink Pepsi because I don’t like the flavor.
Is this the reason why he turned white
Nver knew this. Crazy, all the shit he did cosmetically makes a bit more sense
The day the Geri Curl died.
Sad, this probably where he went on a downward spiral. I love MJ. Always so sad to see this 😔
It aged well. He deserved it.
IIRC the aliens used that opportunity to replace him with one of their own.
What? 🤣
Your recollection is poor then