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The compilation has passed 24 million views, with viewers challenging whether marker color makes signatures harder to copy.
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The Real Reason Celebrities Refuse to Sign With Blue Ink
Kai Cenat insists on a black marker. Patrick Beverley supplies the explanation. But beneath Klimt's biggest upload of the week, viewers are questioning the distinction: wouldn't modern scanning tools reproduce a signature in either color?
That discussion gives a new wrinkle to "The Real Reason Celebrities Refuse to Sign With Blue Ink," which has reached about 24 million views since Friday. The clips channel brings together autograph encounters involving Duke Dennis, Russell Westbrook and Cenat, then cuts to Beverley's podcast account. He says he was taught that blue signatures could be copied and stamped onto other jerseys for resale, while black or gray ink could not be exploited the same way. That is Beverley's explanation, not something the footage establishes.
Several prominent comments challenge that claim, focusing on what scanners and image-editing tools can do regardless of ink color. Others suggest keeping autograph signatures separate from those used on official documents. The argument has become as much a part of the clip's appeal as the marker refusals themselves.
Klimt posted three uploads, with its challenge and pawn-shop clips drawing much smaller audiences. The blue-ink compilation also dominates its current viewing momentum, although "Why Do Athletes and Celebrities Sign Camera Lenses?" gives the archive another active autograph curiosity.
The channel added roughly 5,000 subscribers over the week, and daily views are running well above their usual level. Among nearby clips channels, Lunar sync had the larger weekly viewing gain; Klimt's own week was overwhelmingly shaped by a pen-color question.
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What viewers say
I think the ink colour matters less than people assume. A signature can be replicated regardless of whether it's written in blue or black.
@viveksajeev3724See it on YouTubeI can literally just scan and copy any signed object no matter the ink colour
@robbspinks4397See it on YouTubeme listening to this like im gonna be signing autographs
@NeoDerekTVSee it on YouTube
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Celebrities can always have two signatures one for autographs and one for official documents, i mean they can scribe a special nickname of theirs , this makes it much more safer for them and it doesn’t matter which marker and which paper they sign it’ll be a simple sign 😅
@RonithAnugantiSee it on YouTubeSo can you use any other marker like green? I have a pop figure signed by Sean Schemmel and it’s in silver. Idk I’m trying to gauge all this stuff.
@WastedGTAZSee it on YouTubeThe best part is now a days technology it doesn’t matter the ink colour
@joeyjohnson8021See it on YouTubeCommon myth is that blue markers are easier to copy stuff but it’s the exact same as other markers just different color
@BubbaStacksh24See it on YouTube
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The videos drawing views on Klimt right now
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- Klimt
- Subscribers
- 181,000 ▲ 5,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 29,460,778
- Videos published this week
- 3
- Video published
- November 6, 2026
- Video views so far
- 24,341,735
- Views on its first day
- 2,673,224
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💡 Test your knowledge
Which basketball player supplies the podcast explanation about blue ink in Klimt's clip?
The compilation cuts to Patrick Beverley explaining what he was taught about signing with blue pens.