Shiny_Flakes: The Teenage Drug Lord

SHINY_ FLAKES: THE TEENAGE DRUG LORD tells the unsettling true story of a bright 19-year-old German computer whiz named Maximilian Schmidt who created and singlehandedly ran an online store called Shiny_Flakes for a couple of years from his childhood bedroom. The enterprise generated around four million Euros in revenues. He brazenly sold openly on the internet, becoming a kind of Amazon of illegal substances, using the German postal service as his unwitting couriers. He was paid in advance and much of the proceeds seems to be in bitcoin, funds the police still can't find. Although he was meticulous in covering his tracks both online and in the real world, mailing parcels from different mailboxes around Leipzig, using few couriers, and doing most of the work himself, an armed police SWAT team raided his bedroom in 2015 and seized large amounts of cocaine, MDMA, uppers, downers, and illegal prescription drugs. He's an enthusiastic participant in re-enactment scenes created by documentary director Eva Muller, including rubber-gloved handling of mock merchandise as well as measuring, packaging, and shipping the goods. He also seems to enjoy re-enacting his arrest. He's smacked in the face by the actors playing cops, thrown to the ground, and handcuffed. Crime may be punished here, but not severely enough to make this criminal embarrassed or remorseful about his misdeeds. He evades the question of whether he has hidden assets from his criminal activities while he powers through the local waters in his speedboat. Using records Schmidt kept of customer names and addresses, the police opened 4,000 criminal investigations of buyers. As of March 2021, Schmidt has been under investigation for a new drug scheme. At one point, after he's been caught, convicted, and jailed, he verbally abuses a civil servant at a courthouse window, telling us all we need to know about who he is.