This is going to be a long post but lets go through what Mutahar said about his school and job history back in 2013 and how his lies snowballed over the years.
2013
When describing his career path and direction in life, Muta described himself as feeling "stuck in a rut" in his video "100,00 Team Members" from
April 19, 2013.
https://youtu.be/k7HRMFTWHCg?si=ApRAOE0X1zPw3YpA (Archive)
He would elaborate on this in "A Personal Thank You..." from August 19, 2013.
"Before this ever began, I used to be an individual who really was following a predetermined path. A path that in my opinion was going to be very boring I. I went into Computer Engineering and Sciences. I actually studied there for a while before I changed my major to film, which I'm going to be doing now. I was going to go through pretty much the basics getting out there.
Doing a 9 to 5, hopefully, that was a dream back then and now that's all changed and it's all really changed be because of you all. You know the people that come here to watch me. you all have really helped me change what I wanted to do".
https://youtu.be/DMjgtlJJoTM?si=c3Iv-B-d-_lgRKef (
Archive)
Back in 2013, he referred to having a 9 to 5 in computer engineering as a "dream". No mention of coding for bank apps or working in cybersecurity. He went to college for Computer Engineering and Sciences for a bit before changing his major to film due to his Youtube channel taking off.
Rightoff the gate, it's clear what happened. This guy was an aimless college student getting into a major he hated but switched to film due to his youtube channel starting to get some traction. His only experience in engineering or coding was the time period when he was majoring in computer engineering and sciences before switching to film.
In his "200,00 Team Members" video, he mentions stuff he has to deal with in his personal life, like "school and whatnot". No mention of working a gig, engineering or film.
https://youtu.be/GWLamg1dHQg?si=DcDVJgiTNccuqdFs (
Archive)
2014
In his video, "Quarter million...", from January 19, 2014 he reiterated the same thing he said in his "A Personal Thank You..." video. If it wasn't for his youtube audience, he would have gone down the path of having to work a boring 9 to 5, u guize are my heckin family, blah blah blah.
https://youtu.be/__9tSgDh19M?si=NGZZEG6ye1c2XF3a (
Archive)
Then, here's something interesting, in his video "Thank You + A Pretty Important Update" from November 3, 2014, he described working in the video editing industry for television and film. He then described not being able to have a vacation in four years and stated "for four years I have been pretty much working the same job".
https://youtu.be/t-4O_ix0WrU?si=67xflh7_BoCufx7S (
Archive)
Muta was 20 at this point so he was inferring that he was working as a video editor since he was 16 years old back in 2010. Bear in mind, he only started college in 2013 and described only starting to edit back in 2012 in his 40k subscribers video from January 10, 2013.
https://youtu.be/utsMM8dV2BM?si=6vLB0N8jSbwWYwav (
Archive)
So even back in 2014, Muta was already embellishing his credentials to make himself look more impressive than he really was. If he was editing since he was 16, does that mean he worked in cybersecurity and coding bank apps when he was 15 or younger or is Muta a lying liar who lies?
2015
2015 was the year when Muta really started telling tall tales. His video "Inspiration..." from February 1, 2015 is likely his first instance of stating that he used to code bank apps before starting Youtube.
https://youtu.be/JFU1pqL82Zw?si=YWQ7TMjFfoNlqFED (
Archive)
So he went from just studying in computer engineering and sciences for a while to full on coding apps for banks. Yet somehow, the prodigy programmer who was doing this at the age of 16-18 felt that he was in a dead end position.
Then on May 5, 2015, Muta uploaded a video called "WATCHING OLD VIDEOS! - Why Youtube is Important". In it, he complained about a GoFundMe e-begger who wanted money for a Youtuber setup. In this video, there's a moment that's funny in hindsight of Muta referring to Youtube as kind of being a career.
But that's not what is important. What is important is the portion of Muta flexing his family's credentials and eventually his own credentials as an editor.
https://youtu.be/Rq4mICJa-bk?si=vDE8gnsuz7DzBFgT (
Archive)
Here, Muta described traveling to Tokyo, Paris, LA, and Dubai for his editor work. However, Muta made a post a few months before this (January 13, 2015) where he claimed to "finally have been able to go out and edit and produce in the biz".
https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=862376877142592&id=100045395026009&_rdr (
Archive)
He made posts on Facebook of him working on projects before this but most, if not all, of them were for film school, which he was attending from 2013 to 2015. You would think that if Muta' was really traveling that much in less than five months (January to May 2015), his busy schedule would result in him uploading less but of course daily uploads persisted.
But then there's the elephant in the room of his history in cyber security. From 2012 to May 2015, he made zero mention of his career in cybersecurity. That was until he uploaded a certain video that blew up.
What's interesting is that in this first video, he made no mention of having experience in cybersecurity. Even noting that this style of video was out of the ordinary for his channel.
Then, after that video blew up, he made a video gauging interest in future installments of the series. This is (likely) the first instance of Mutahar claiming that he had past experience in cybersecurity.
https://youtu.be/1zISstN6bPA?si=HDjvwNRNBckEUFHx
Even in the span of two or three years, Mutahar told several different stories in regards to his work and education. He went from being aimless and only majoring in computer sciences and engineering for a bit before changing to film all the way to having worked in cyber security and in coding bank apps before he changed to editing.
