On January 12th, popular YouTuber Verbalase, host of the series Cartoon Beatbox Battles, was revealed to have paid approximately $50,000 on commissioning a single 2-minute and 40-second animated video of himself getting seduced by the character Charlie from the show Hazbin Hotel, containing no actual NSFW content and ignoring the fact that Charlie canonically is not attracted to men.

While the video itself is questionable, the outrageous price he paid for it and the fact he quite literally bankrupted himself in the process was what caught the attention of nearly the entire internet, Verbelase and Hazbin fans alike. Calamity ensued as the internet united to mock how someone could spend 50 grand on an animated porn short for himself getting dommed that didn't even have any porn. Verbelase responded to these accusations by blaming "Woke mentality" and not his own idiocy.

Many began to draw comparisons of what he could have bought with the $50,000 rather than a self-insert r34 short. Some explained how he could have flown to Las Vegas and hired workers to dress as the character he fantasized about and actually do what the animation did to him for mere pennies compared to the money he spent on the video.

On r/grimdank, a site dedicated to memes about the universe of Warhammer 40k, user r/rodan1993 pointed out that with the money Verbalase spent on the video, he could have bought an equally insane army of 23 Warlord Titan models. The Warlord Titan is considered the "Holy Grail" of Warhammer 40k models. The size of a newborn toddler, this model comes in at a whopping $2,175 and is the endgame for only the most dedicated 40k fans out there. The fact that Verbalase could have purchased an utterly ridiculous 23 copies of the model puts into perspective how expensive the models truly are or just how much money Verbalase spent on something even more ridiculous than the Titans.

Many have joined in on the train on comparing Verbalase's purchase with equally insane items he could have bought with the money using the template, including 8333 HG-UC Guntanks and an Arizona iced tea, or a fully functioning Ultra-Light Aircraft, rather than a 3-minute fantasy of you being seduced by a fictional character that causes you to literally go bankrupt.