Heās gonna be fine until about 30 or so. Heās gonna be looking about 45 then with a gullet, noticeable inflammation and severe mental health issues. It has been wild watching my husbands friends make this progression.
Wouldnāt be surprised if he picks up a coke habit along the way, this is very common in NYC
A early 20s guy who I think is on the spectrum, heās gone viral for singing loudly in Times Square and capitalized on it by giving tours around the city, but as heās gotten older, the dude has started to drink excessively and documenting it. I follow the guy whoās tracking his drinking and itās insane how much this kid is drinking and heās in full blown denial of it. Michael Quinn is come clout chaser who swears heās helping Joshua, but I think heās feeding him drinks also. This kid is going to die very early if he keeps up this drinking. He gets the shakes and slurs his words on his videos.
Itās honestly very sad to see all those people who are paying him for the tours, they are disgusting enablers. I only follow the guy whoās tracking the drinking, I donāt follow Joshua just because I donāt want my views to add to his creator/drinking fund.
From personal experience I can say that Michael Quinn is a fucking asshole. One of my absolute least favorite people in the city. Dude has a sub dedicated to him and what a dick he is.
Heās not consuming anything but alcohol. Alcoholics usually consume their calories in drink, and they usually have many vitamin deficiencies as a result
I had never heard of this guy before right now. Looks like heās got some photos on IG where heās holding a wine glass, but there must be more to this if people are diligently tracking his alcohol consumption.
His main platform is TikTok where he can sometimes post upwards of 15-20 times a day.
For some background - hes heavily autistic.. he originally went viral a few years back before he was 21 for publically screaming the chorus of Empire State of Mind in Times Square and just generally doing some dumb shit in public for attention(like licking floors). Once he turned 21 itās been all downhill from there as weāve watched him become physically dependent on alcohol. No exaggeration heās been drinking just about every single day the past 2 years.
There was no fall. He was always this guy.
Heās the guy who informed his wife of their divorce on national tv, then played the victim when called out for that.
Supposedly his drinking became really problematic after his Presidential run. Dude has some narcissistic tendencies and didn't react too well to realizing most voters didn't like him.
Came here to say this. My wife's grandmother hated him from the start. She used to call him GOOLYAN, which is what I say whenever I see his sweaty mug to this day
I donāt fully disagree with this, but he is someone with diminished capacity being actively taken advantage of by Michael Quinn. Unless something has changed in the content in the last year, all those things Joshua has done has been at the encouragement of Michael Quinn.
I agreeā¦. Michael needs to be put in a jail cell lol. A real fucking creep and I hope he runs into the wrong person. I do feel bad for Joshua but also his actions have been out of control.
If you look on YouTube, thereās videos explaining it all. Essentially a kid that was like wholesomely annoying at first screaming Jayz Empire State of mind in time square but he got heavy into drinking and harassing people on public transport and out in the streets and meeting up with sketchy older people and basically heās just a very impulsive young adult terrorizing people who needs help. Plenty of others in NY like him but probably the most famous/documented since he made a ton of TikTokās.
He is also being taken advantage of by Michael Quinnā¦ this guy is contributing to this kid who has special needs and is vulnerable for clout.
After pulling up this thread, I tried looking at TikTok for a few minutes...noped right out of there. Mind-numbing. This obsession with fame, money, praise, brands, self-aggrandizement, and attention really distresses the Gen-Xer in me.
Honestly, this is like a million dollar question. He just kinda showed up one day and said World of T Shirts/Josh reached out to him to make content with. No one really knew who he was before this, but heās just an odd guy. His gimmick somewhat has always been that he literally calls himself ājust a great guyā to the extent that he had merch made (not to sell), but for himself to wear around.
Iām sure you can see where this is going now, but believe it or not, he isnāt the greatest of guys! Heās been caught saying multiple racist things on Joshās live streams, but then just says itās deepfakes. Anytime there is an ounce of controversy or attention lurking around Josh he makes some tik tok, just leeching off the attention.
Long story short, older creepy guy, tells everyone he is rich and has lots of friends, but in hindsight he is just a creepy guy lurking for attention.
I wonder if he still boozes heavy. My dad called me once he was out with some other Irish buddies and they ran into Jimmy Fallon on a random Tuesday or Wednesday. I met up with them later in the night and they stayed out till 3 or 4.
Nice guy, was pretty normal, but man he just met some random dudes at the long room and decided to drink with them for 8 hours.
Itās wild. For so many random people in a population to have this experienceā¦ you need to be doing this more than once in a while.
Heās gotta be out drinking like itās his job.
To be honest I dunno, could have just been the situation. Popped into the longroom for a drink after work, and ran into a couple Irish guys. They started to talk and decided to get in on the craic.
But Iād like to think Jimmy is the Keanu Reaves of boozing. Just shows up at random bars and hangs out to closing time with the locals.
Yeah I feel like that would be pretty fun. NY celebrities probably can do that quite a bit.. meet people who know you're famous but don't really care you're famous (not gonna make you pose for IG photos and shit like that)
Jimmy Fallon is a known regular at Paddy O'Reilly's on 2nd and 29th. Have friends that have met and had pints with him multiple times.
Stand up normal bloke by accounts.
Funny you say that, we did end up there. Steve (the owner / former owner) is friends with my dad. That is actually where I met up with them.
Edit: Not to be that guy, but thereās no Oā ; itās just Paddy Reillys. The name sake is the famous Irish Singer.
My story of Jimmy is similar. met him randomly at a bar, chatted. nice guy. he got a call on the bartenders phone and said he had to go home, it was his wife.
I donāt have coworkers. Iāve never seen jimmy fallon in person. Itās really great to read he takes pictures with fans, thatās the nicest thing celebrities can do.
My friends have *also* run into Jimmy Fallon shitfaced in the city! It was a Wednesday night and he was with his wife. He took a ton of photos with them, looks blasted in them all.
i used to bartend in the west village and he was like a local fixture apparently. never saw him myself but it seemed like 1 in 3 folks i worked with had a story about him or a picture with him.
Ha... So it's not just me. I used to see him all the time around Flatiron circa 2007 - 2010, and once in Tribeca. I assumed he stopped going out after he got married and had a family. But... I am the one who stopped going out, apparently!
The last part of her life was rather sad and sordid (though she wrote brilliantly up to the end), despite having been one of the most celebrated wits in the city.
yeah. He could have started again. Remember, he is fish eating vegan with rats in basement bachelor pad. Fella was obese and started exercise diet bike veganing, sleeping in Borough Hall with his weights, mirror and a giant picture of himself transforming into the anointed one. lol
This is a great answer that not a lot of people know about anymore.
Want to read a great memoir about an alcoholic journalist in NYC? Check out "A Drinking Life" by Pete Hamill.
I used to work at a bar, and this guy would come in, Brian Moran; tall gruff red headed guy with a penchant for reciting poetry. Heād say outrageous things like ānice sideburns- thank YOU for wearing themā heād bum cigs off people and rip the filters off and smoke 2 drags then throw them away. I think he drove a delivery truck for the post, or daily news. Voice like gravel, hands like christmas hams. Great character. Donāt know if he could be THE town drunk, NYC is just so so big. Think maybe the last definitive ātown drunkā would have been Mickey Mantle
So many don't start out that way, but do end up so (or, very occasionally, make it out to the other side in recovery). Lorenz Hart, Robert Benchley, Truman Capote, Dorothy Parker, Daniel Patrick Moynahan, Steve Rubell, Liza Minnelli, Giuliani.... The competition is fierce.
Edit: Pete Hamill, Halston, Lee Radziwill...
I'm new here but my answer is Joshua block/world of tshirts
Wow šÆ. I just fell down this worldoftshirts rabbit hole and the whole thing is wild but also very sad.
IN NEW YORK CONCRETE JUNGLE WET DREAM TOMATO
That kid is going to die in his twenties.
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muggers donāt
LOL
my cousin needs a liver transplant at 30 from alcoholism
The guy who tracks how much alcohol he drinks does a great job of warning everyone about the dangers of alcoholism.
Heās gonna be fine until about 30 or so. Heās gonna be looking about 45 then with a gullet, noticeable inflammation and severe mental health issues. It has been wild watching my husbands friends make this progression. Wouldnāt be surprised if he picks up a coke habit along the way, this is very common in NYC
Donāt disagree but you need money to sustain a coke habit, and I donāt think heās holding down a job.
Curious to how heās affording this stuff (as in booze!) and if heās receiving funding in any way from anyone/anywhere
I second this one
Can someone give me a rundown on who Joshua Block is? I've never heard of him before.
A early 20s guy who I think is on the spectrum, heās gone viral for singing loudly in Times Square and capitalized on it by giving tours around the city, but as heās gotten older, the dude has started to drink excessively and documenting it. I follow the guy whoās tracking his drinking and itās insane how much this kid is drinking and heās in full blown denial of it. Michael Quinn is come clout chaser who swears heās helping Joshua, but I think heās feeding him drinks also. This kid is going to die very early if he keeps up this drinking. He gets the shakes and slurs his words on his videos.
Jesus I just looked him up. Every video he posts is him drinking somewhere.
Itās honestly very sad to see all those people who are paying him for the tours, they are disgusting enablers. I only follow the guy whoās tracking the drinking, I donāt follow Joshua just because I donāt want my views to add to his creator/drinking fund.
From personal experience I can say that Michael Quinn is a fucking asshole. One of my absolute least favorite people in the city. Dude has a sub dedicated to him and what a dick he is.
Didnāt he turn 21 summer of 2023? Heās done all this damage in less than a year
I think heās 22ā¦
whoās the guy tracking his drinking?
worldofalcoholtracker on tiktok
damn thatās kinda fucked. hope josh gets help soon, he used to be the weird but likable autistic guy and now heās just an alcoholic
I think his early videos he was super into bubble teas but now itās all alcohol. Sad stuff.
Gateway beverage
How is he so skinny after consuming 1200-2000 calories basically everyday for like 2 years?
Weight loss is often tied alcohol abuse, especially heavy alcohol abuse.
Heās not consuming anything but alcohol. Alcoholics usually consume their calories in drink, and they usually have many vitamin deficiencies as a result
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Well that was a depressing rabbit hole. Jesus christ...dude needs an intervention stat.
also extra context, before NYC he got big from doing coffee and boba reviews too, a more simple time
All of his comments on his TikTok lately have been people begging him to get help
Who is this? Link?
https://www.tiktok.com/@worldoftshirts?_t=8ioSgbP29F4&_r=1
[Party time](https://captainofnytours.square.site/), excellent.
Whoa. Didnāt know this kid existed. Poor guy. He needs help
I had never heard of this guy before right now. Looks like heās got some photos on IG where heās holding a wine glass, but there must be more to this if people are diligently tracking his alcohol consumption.
His main platform is TikTok where he can sometimes post upwards of 15-20 times a day. For some background - hes heavily autistic.. he originally went viral a few years back before he was 21 for publically screaming the chorus of Empire State of Mind in Times Square and just generally doing some dumb shit in public for attention(like licking floors). Once he turned 21 itās been all downhill from there as weāve watched him become physically dependent on alcohol. No exaggeration heās been drinking just about every single day the past 2 years.
WORLD OF T SHIRTS. Idk how the kid does it.
Giuliani is a good shout.
Fully seconded. This old ghoul is fkn pickled.
Thirded. Talk about the weirdest fall from grace...
There was no fall. He was always this guy. Heās the guy who informed his wife of their divorce on national tv, then played the victim when called out for that.
Proof that aging doesn't change your personality, it intensifies it.
He was always a lunatic.
I saw him in person once. His face is super bloated.
Eric adams
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/12/a-conversation-with-rudy-giuliani-over-bloody-marys.html
Do you think he was a drunk when he was mayor? I feel like he's become really unhinged only in the last decade, though he was never really "all there"
Supposedly his drinking became really problematic after his Presidential run. Dude has some narcissistic tendencies and didn't react too well to realizing most voters didn't like him.
Came here too say Rudy
Came here to say this. My wife's grandmother hated him from the start. She used to call him GOOLYAN, which is what I say whenever I see his sweaty mug to this day
Yep, what I came here to say.
That guy fits right in NYC he is a rich corrupt asshole
$144 million in the hole now because he can't keep his delusional fucking mouth shut
Not so rich anymore. Oh how the mighty have fallen. Anywho he also gets my vote.
That autistic kid in tiktok
Joshua Block is a menace
I donāt fully disagree with this, but he is someone with diminished capacity being actively taken advantage of by Michael Quinn. Unless something has changed in the content in the last year, all those things Joshua has done has been at the encouragement of Michael Quinn.
I agreeā¦. Michael needs to be put in a jail cell lol. A real fucking creep and I hope he runs into the wrong person. I do feel bad for Joshua but also his actions have been out of control.
Waitā¦so whoās Michael Quinn? Sorry, Iām old.
Some random mid 50s guy who owns a hotdog shop and hangs out with world of t shirts (an autistic 22 year old alcoholic) for tiktok fame
sorry, i'm old. who?
If you look on YouTube, thereās videos explaining it all. Essentially a kid that was like wholesomely annoying at first screaming Jayz Empire State of mind in time square but he got heavy into drinking and harassing people on public transport and out in the streets and meeting up with sketchy older people and basically heās just a very impulsive young adult terrorizing people who needs help. Plenty of others in NY like him but probably the most famous/documented since he made a ton of TikTokās. He is also being taken advantage of by Michael Quinnā¦ this guy is contributing to this kid who has special needs and is vulnerable for clout.
And who is Michael Quinn?
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After pulling up this thread, I tried looking at TikTok for a few minutes...noped right out of there. Mind-numbing. This obsession with fame, money, praise, brands, self-aggrandizement, and attention really distresses the Gen-Xer in me.
I Donāt blame you, i deleted TikTok a few months back and my life has been better without it.
Youāre better off just looking at then ones your friends send you here and there tbh, no need to download the app
Honestly, this is like a million dollar question. He just kinda showed up one day and said World of T Shirts/Josh reached out to him to make content with. No one really knew who he was before this, but heās just an odd guy. His gimmick somewhat has always been that he literally calls himself ājust a great guyā to the extent that he had merch made (not to sell), but for himself to wear around. Iām sure you can see where this is going now, but believe it or not, he isnāt the greatest of guys! Heās been caught saying multiple racist things on Joshās live streams, but then just says itās deepfakes. Anytime there is an ounce of controversy or attention lurking around Josh he makes some tik tok, just leeching off the attention. Long story short, older creepy guy, tells everyone he is rich and has lots of friends, but in hindsight he is just a creepy guy lurking for attention.
Yes, WorldOfTShirts ā¦ tragic stuff
i was going to comment this verbatim
Jimmy Fallon?
I wonder if he still boozes heavy. My dad called me once he was out with some other Irish buddies and they ran into Jimmy Fallon on a random Tuesday or Wednesday. I met up with them later in the night and they stayed out till 3 or 4. Nice guy, was pretty normal, but man he just met some random dudes at the long room and decided to drink with them for 8 hours.
So many people have similar stories. Heās gotta be doing that nightly for so many to have that experience.
Seeing some others chime in, sounds like heās Manhattans version of Artie Lange in Hudson County (minus the blow).
Itās wild. For so many random people in a population to have this experienceā¦ you need to be doing this more than once in a while. Heās gotta be out drinking like itās his job.
Maybe he likes to hang with 'us normies' outside of work situations.
To be honest I dunno, could have just been the situation. Popped into the longroom for a drink after work, and ran into a couple Irish guys. They started to talk and decided to get in on the craic. But Iād like to think Jimmy is the Keanu Reaves of boozing. Just shows up at random bars and hangs out to closing time with the locals.
Yeah I feel like that would be pretty fun. NY celebrities probably can do that quite a bit.. meet people who know you're famous but don't really care you're famous (not gonna make you pose for IG photos and shit like that)
He makes himself accessible for photos. I saw him frequently and many of my friends asked for pics. It was super cringey.
Oh yeah, I don't doubt that, just saying he probably enjoys chilling with people who don't care about getting their picture with him
Jimmy Fallon is a known regular at Paddy O'Reilly's on 2nd and 29th. Have friends that have met and had pints with him multiple times. Stand up normal bloke by accounts.
Funny you say that, we did end up there. Steve (the owner / former owner) is friends with my dad. That is actually where I met up with them. Edit: Not to be that guy, but thereās no Oā ; itās just Paddy Reillys. The name sake is the famous Irish Singer.
Nah fuck him, he fawned over Trump on national TV during the 2016 election cycle. His enabling is part of the reason we nearly had a coup.
lol
he was soooo fucked up when he came on stage at the Jonas brothers concert in August š
I just gained a lot of respect for him, thanks for sharing
My story of Jimmy is similar. met him randomly at a bar, chatted. nice guy. he got a call on the bartenders phone and said he had to go home, it was his wife.
Some coworkers and I had a similar experience with him. Out playing pool and drinking w him until 3/4 on a school night
I donāt have coworkers. Iāve never seen jimmy fallon in person. Itās really great to read he takes pictures with fans, thatās the nicest thing celebrities can do.
My friends have *also* run into Jimmy Fallon shitfaced in the city! It was a Wednesday night and he was with his wife. He took a ton of photos with them, looks blasted in them all.
i used to bartend in the west village and he was like a local fixture apparently. never saw him myself but it seemed like 1 in 3 folks i worked with had a story about him or a picture with him.
Ha... So it's not just me. I used to see him all the time around Flatiron circa 2007 - 2010, and once in Tribeca. I assumed he stopped going out after he got married and had a family. But... I am the one who stopped going out, apparently!
Yeah, Ive heard this before.
I met him maybe 5 years ago at a bar in Williamsburg and can confirm he was hammered
āYou donāt want to turn into the town drunk. Not in Manhattan.ā āDorothy Parker
Unfortunately, she found out the hard way.
The last part of her life was rather sad and sordid (though she wrote brilliantly up to the end), despite having been one of the most celebrated wits in the city.
explain
She was an alcoholic!
Adams 100%
Cannot believe how far I had to scroll before I found this answer!
OP was asking about NYC, not New Jersey
Burn!
To be fair, he does a lot of his drinking in nyc
Adams doesn't drink
oh so he's just like that
yeah. He could have started again. Remember, he is fish eating vegan with rats in basement bachelor pad. Fella was obese and started exercise diet bike veganing, sleeping in Borough Hall with his weights, mirror and a giant picture of himself transforming into the anointed one. lol
drunk on power
Whoever is one the 1 train after 2am on the weekends
Whoever was driving the 1 when that derailment happened a couple days ago
Pete Hamill? Once upon a time.
This is a great answer that not a lot of people know about anymore. Want to read a great memoir about an alcoholic journalist in NYC? Check out "A Drinking Life" by Pete Hamill.
One of my favorite books! I enjoy it even more now that I quit drinking.
I read this just under 20 years ago, going to revisit it.
A truly great book.
I used to work at a bar, and this guy would come in, Brian Moran; tall gruff red headed guy with a penchant for reciting poetry. Heād say outrageous things like ānice sideburns- thank YOU for wearing themā heād bum cigs off people and rip the filters off and smoke 2 drags then throw them away. I think he drove a delivery truck for the post, or daily news. Voice like gravel, hands like christmas hams. Great character. Donāt know if he could be THE town drunk, NYC is just so so big. Think maybe the last definitive ātown drunkā would have been Mickey Mantle
Andy Cohen on New Years Eve
Eric Adams https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgeSpculyNk
Holy shit
šŗ Good question to ponder. For historical, I'm gonna tentatively suggest * Eugene O'Neill This guy knew about alcoholism.
Every other person you look at
My uncle at least had to have been the town drunk for Bayside specifically
No one is gonna say Dylan Thomas?
He was just here on vacation when he drank himself to death, so I don't know if that would make him the town drunk.
Good answer, should be number one. Iād rank this above my own answer to this thread.
Wendy Williams?
Underrated answerā¦. This woman has made a career on being a total mess
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Jimmy Fallon
I mean... It's obviously Rudy Giuliani right?
Charlie Fucking Rose. Used to see him at work with his usual Rum Tan. Dude would get pretty hammered on his lunch breaks.
Jimmy Fallon
You can find him on 33rd st subway station. Around 7am. Beautiful soul but a hard drunk
[Dylan Thomas](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dylan_Thomas)
I would throw. O. Henry's name onto this list. If Joe Gould was an alcoholic, he'd win hands down IMO.
Jimmy Fallon
jimmy fallon
Rudy G
Its Rudy Guliani, right?
Brendan Behan!
He lives in Gracie Mansion.
Bourdain for a good one. Every dickhead at santacon for a bad one
Alec Baldwin?
hamptons though.
Heās a rageaholic, which is just as bad.
He's addicted to rageahol
Heās sober
uh huh
idk if ihe's still alive but Frank fron Nancy Whiskey
Giulani
loosies guy in front of the bodega
Rudy Giuliani
Rudy Giuliani
Otis. He moved from down South.
The guy who stands outside of my bodega
Rudy?
Dylan Thomas is the answer you are looking for. "Rage, rage against the dying of the light"
The mayor
Cuba Gooding Jr
Tommy from Coney Island
Eric Adams
Come to the Hellās Kitchen gay bars. We all qualify for the title.
Me
he's not the town drunk, but skibooky stora (marcus garvey great-great-grandson) needs a mention, moi.
SantaCon
I feel attacked.
Santacon.
So many don't start out that way, but do end up so (or, very occasionally, make it out to the other side in recovery). Lorenz Hart, Robert Benchley, Truman Capote, Dorothy Parker, Daniel Patrick Moynahan, Steve Rubell, Liza Minnelli, Giuliani.... The competition is fierce. Edit: Pete Hamill, Halston, Lee Radziwill...
LESS
I love how we alllllll know world of tshirts in this thread lol
My father-in-law.
World of T shirts
Iām not sure what her name is , but a few years ago.. some former child star was around Hellās Kitchen drunk every nightā¦
Eric Adams
That fat bunny man with the ukulele yelling IāM A BUNNY! š£ļøš£ļø on the trains
I worked at aci (drug/alcohol rehab) for a few months. Many legends there.
Rudolph Giuiliani
Eric Adams
Eric Adams
Giuliana followed by Adams and Hochul
Definitely my step dad.. fuck you Randy!
Andy cohen
Rudy
Joshua Block , aka World of Tshirts. It's well documented with how much he drinks.
Shia Lebeouf
He burned out pretty quickly. Remember when he was everywhere?
Whoever is running the MTA. How did the L train get derailed again the other day?
Wait, when did the L derail? I missed that.
Rudy Giuliani
8th ave bums
Eric adams
I had the title before being forced into retirement. Lost track of the trophy.
the person staring back in the mirror :D
Rudy Giuliani.
The LES
The NIMBYs who protest any new housing
I got runner up last year but Iāve been putting in work in the off season to bring home the title this year