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NEVER Be A Simp | A CRP video

Channel: CRP Archive
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJQB5zwA3uA

Using an anecdote about an acquaintance who left a 100 dollar tip for a bartender, the speaker defines a "simp" as a man who throws disproportionate money at a woman to buy her attention, and argues it never works because it signals he believes he has nothing else to offer.

Key points

  • Opens with a story about "Ethan," whom he calls a fat loser, leaving a 100 dollar tip on a roughly 10 dollar tab at a Knoxville bar to impress a mid-20s bartender. She pocketed it, gave him no attention, and he never saw her or the money again.
  • Definition: a simp is a guy who shells out disproportionate money to a woman to curry favor.
  • Core claim: roughly 95 percent of women are not gold diggers and do not want to be seen as one, so a simp's money actually makes them give him less attention. Only the 5 percent who are gold diggers (and "ethots") cultivate simps.
  • Throwing money signals low self-worth: the simp thinks only his money is valuable, not himself. He is "scraping the bottom of the barrel."
  • Distinguishes a one-time splurge by a broke young guy (which a woman likes) from taking a girl to a Michelin-starred restaurant on a first date (which only attracts a gold digger). Even a sugar-daddy arrangement is more honest than simping because its exchange is explicit; a simp just makes a woman feel like a prostitute without the agreement.
  • Notes simps congregate and commiserate in chat rooms, throwing 100 dollar super chats at the same "ethot."
  • Closing claim: hot women do go for rich men, but they want access to his world and social milieu, not the cash itself. The fix is to find what you genuinely have going for you rather than leaning on your wallet.

Reception

  • Many top comments are confessional ("we were all once simps") and say they wish they had heard this when younger.
  • Strong agreement on the central thesis; one widely-liked comment warns men never to show "loving feelings" early as women read it as weakness.
  • "Ethan the FF" and "Simp Alert" became running jokes in the thread.
  • Some pushback toward cynicism, with commenters arguing via hypergamy that effectively all women are gold diggers.
  • A large share are memorial tributes (RIP / gone but not forgotten).