sometimes I just sit here and wonder I wonder if people will ever understand
how truly happy they could be if they quit caring so much about trivial things
that literally do not matter what is up everybody this is Chris from the rewired
so where we talk about the problem but focus on the solution and if you're new
to my channel my channel is designed for people who want to improve their mental
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notification about so today we are going to be talking Billy Eilish and this turn
industry plant that's been going around gaining some traction it's like
everywhere I look these days so I was doing some research on some new videos
and I just made a video about Billy Irish and fans and just kind of like
depression and promoting you know depression and are the solutions all
that you can check out the info card check that video out let me know your
thoughts on it but anyways as I'm looking into Billy Eilish and some other
people are popping up like someone named Baby Goth or whatever and by the way I
am NOT their demographic but this one industry plant keeps coming up Billy
Eilish is an industry plant baby goth is an industry plant
post Malone is an industry plant and I'm like what the heck is an industry plant
now I'm 33 years old I'm not always hip and down with the lingo so I did what
any good older man would do and at Google that business right so anyways
according to complex an industry plant they say it's tricky to precisely define
the merits of that accusation in general industry plant is a pithy derogative
that we parentheses haters wield to imply that a rapper or singer is an
upstart fraud a record label puppet a focus group tested vessel of creativity
so-called any musician with a hazy straight-up fabricated origin story a
recent example is post Malone is to be regarded with such suspicion and I'm
sitting there like oh okay so let me give you a little background a little
history on the music industry just from you know when when I was born and you
know artists that gained a lot of popularity I'm sure this has happened
for years and years and years and years since you know the dawn of like time
when it comes to the music industry maybe even like actors and you know
actresses and things like that so I grew up in the 90s and early 2000s and there
was this guy named Lou Pearlman now before I get started on Lou Pearlman let
me make it clear like dude is a piece of garbage all right
but anyways like famous he was he was known for creating these famous boy
bands that exploded like NSYNC and the Backstreet Boys that little you know
twins and teenagers everywhere oh my god right and this dude knew how to put
these groups together I know we would all like to live in this fairy tale
world where it's like you know what I bet the members of NSYNC of Backstreet
Boys they were like these childhood friends and then I grew up together just
singing they're like you know what we're gonna start a boy band but that's not
how it happened they created these groups but you know you know who did you
know who is not an industry plant my boys boys to men those dudes actually
got together grew up singing and did their thing anyway anyways but yeah this
is not something new this is not something new that is happening in the
world and it's important to kind of look at this so anyways like what does this
have to do with our mental and emotional well-being so I want to share a little
bit of my experience I grew up with not that much I grew up with a family that
wasn't that great you know alcoholic mom a dad who raises
but he was constantly working we didn't have much money or anything like that
and I was cautiously looking at other people and I just hated I got so upset
that people were just handed things to that
right it upset me so much like like first off I hated that my friends were
handed a good family they were handed you know a mother and father who loved
each other and stayed together meanwhile my parents got divorced at the age of
four right or I hated that these other kids even if their parents were split up
at least they lived in the same city I grew up in Las Vegas and my mom was in
California right and I hated that they were just handed this good life then I
grew up and I went to high school back high school it was like right in the
middle of like two different like kind of areas of town like there was like the
lower class like well middle to lower class right and then there was like rich
kids okay so I was in that middle lower class okay and like I didn't get a car
when I turned 16 I'm still riding the bus or I'll get rides from friends and
everything like that but the rich kids like you'd go to my school and even
though like half of it was kind of hood and the other half was rich kids like
those kids 16 years old and their parents would buy on like a brand-new
BMW a brand new Benz some kids had SUVs like all sorts of stuff and I hated it I
couldn't believe I'm like you just got this handed to you and then as I got
older I hated when people like got into better schools so they got better job
offers and it was just seeming like like handed to them or like kids who had
parents who were well-connected here in Las Vegas and they got jobs handed to
them because I didn't have any of these things but you know what you know what
that was me that was Chris staying in the problem and not getting into the
solution what it was was I was a dude sitting in self-pity
never moving up in life because I kept being a hater that everybody else had
everything handed to him so when I went on this journey of improving my mental
health six-and-a-half years ago starting with me getting clean and sober I
realized that this world doesn't owe me crap and what good is it doing me
whining and complaining about how things were handed to other people it does me
absolutely no good I stayed in that self-pity and that hater mentality for
years and when I finally when I finally just started putting in the work things
started getting better all right this is something that we see with people
everywhere maybe someone struggling with this
you're so upset that things got handed to other people right but like I see
this happening with you know YouTube creators that happened to me as a
YouTube creator when I was starting out my YouTube channel you should get so
upset when I'm researching topics and looking up other videos and everything
like that I see how just other people like the
algorithm just fell in love with them one day and just decided to just like
explode one of their videos and I'm just sitting here begging the algorithm like
algorithm please show me some of that love just show me a little bit of that
love right and it never happened you know what when I stop complaining about
that and just started putting in the work my channel started to grow okay
there's something called an internal locus of control and then an external
locus of control people with an external locus of control they're more likely to
be depressed anxious and have lower levels of happiness alright because they
believe in their mind that they can't do anything to change the outcome of their
situation it's all based on external factors but when I started to move to an
internal locus of control which I recommend all of you start thinking
about things started getting better an internal locus of control is when I
believe that my actions can create results right but the thing is that we
get twisted in our mind is is that we have a holder path so it's impossible no
no no no no no we have a harder path but it is possible okay when you start
working hard at your craft at your passion whatever the hell it is things
start to happen the problem with Humanity is is that we
are just the most impatient the most impatient sops ever we want everything
now we don't want to go through the struggle we don't want to go through the
hustle we don't want to go through the hard work this is something that I've
seen as well with mental health as a whole right like working at the
treatment center working with thousands of people like I saw this I saw this
over and over I saw this in my own personal experience I've seen this in
the experience of friends and family members other people who come to me for
advice and for help we want things now
right like for example drug addicts and alcoholics they get cleaned that get
sober they want it now they want to know they want the family to forgive them
they want the job they want to call them at the house they want the relationship
they want everything now right but this is a problem that humanity deals with
right we just want everything handed to us and then when we see something handed
to somebody else like the industry plants we get upset about it because we
didn't get that same opportunity but here's the thing here's my advice to all
of you love that struggle love it okay because like it built up this resilience
and plus you you have a better sense of self-satisfaction because you know
things weren't handed to you you worked your butt off for it so what I would say
to all the other artists out there who are whining and complaining about these
industry plants put in the work we are living in a time where social media is
at your fingertips if you have a cell phone you can get your your art your
music whatever it is out to the entire world if you're willing to put in the
work and and if the the public if the audience if the the community if whoever
it is does not receive it very well then maybe you need to keep working on that
craft and improve it but the only way that's gonna happen is by you keep
practicing right I started recording my videos I go watch my first video on
YouTube it was recorded on my cell phone like many of my first videos were and I
was so awkward and so uncomfortable and everything like that that's one of the
reasons why pump out content is because it's helped me be more comfortable on
the camera so if you're an artist who is complaining about like Billy Eilish
being an industry plant or baby goth being an industry plant work harder okay
I know that sounds cliche but oh you just work harder but know that you can
put in certain amounts of effort and get certain results okay and trust me at the
end of the day you will feel a lot a lot better about where you've where you've
gotten to because you put into the put in the work and it wasn't handed to you
alright so anyways what's the moral of this video quit being a hater put in
some work especially when it comes to
you mental health your mental health isn't
just going to improve magically by sitting there and complaining about how
great everybody else's life is all right but anyways let me know your thoughts on
this subject of Industry plants down below and yeah if you like this video
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