So I guess I have to temporarily come back
into a community that I left, like, five years ago
just to try to give a message.
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Hello, how are you?
Welcome back.
So, if you are an OG of my channel
and of my previous channel,
you know that when I first started on YouTube,
I was a makeup guru,
and I was doing that for a few years
until I left for a couple of reasons.
One of 'em being that I can't foundation match
and contour to save my life,
and the other being that,
well, in my head, I was like,
there's too much nonsense going on,
and, I just, I wanna get out of here because it's too toxic.
Funny enough, I've come to realize
that really, every single community on YouTube
has toxic people, and you're never gonna escape it.
If you don't know what's going on,
long story short, every summer, it seems,
there's some big, like, dramatic thing happening
for a couple weeks, there's a lot of scandals,
which happens in every other community.
I mean, we've had it with the Paul brothers
and, you know, a bunch of other people.
But it seems like, in the beauty community,
it always gets the most attention,
and it's currently happening right now,
or it's been put to rest, but, you know...
Every time that happens, this happens:
A lot of people will say,
"Man, I wish we could go back to the old days
"where there were genuine YouTubers and blah, blah, blah.
"I wanna go back to when makeup channels
"were about makeup, et cetera, et cetera."
And I have to say that these people never went away.
You're just not giving them the time of day.
You say you want these people to rise up
or to be given attention,
but you're not giving them the attention
that you wish they were getting.
My friend, Samantha Ravndahl, made two tweets
that I would like to read to you.
Quote, "'the beauty community is in shambles!'", unquote.
"No, the .01% of the community you choose to watch
"is involved in monetary drama
"that you will forget about in a week
"after demanding to see 'real' people in their place."
I don't think people are gonna forget about it,
'cause they haven't forgotten about
what some of these people did over a decade ago,
but, yes, a very small section.
It's just the big, big, big YouTubers
that tend to get involved.
And then there's the next tweet
that I am more so talking about.
"And then the next time there's drama,
"you'll go back to being adamant
"that the industry needs to go," quote,
"'back to how it used to be,'" unquote,
"when it was," quote, "'just about the makeup,'" unquote,
"while continuing to not actually watch
"the kind of content you're insistent on creators making."
Boom.
And I believe Jackie Aina has
also said similar in tweets before.
My friend, Hollie Forrest, has also said
some things here and there, I think even just recently.
I have to say, and I want this to get into people's heads,
if you're not watching the content that you want
to see rise up, then why are you saying
that you want it to rise up?
You can't just say that you want it to rise up.
You have to be part of the solution.
You have to give these people your time of day,
share the videos, talk about them.
Sharing is also such an important thing when it comes
to helping the people that you want to see glow up, glow up.
And stop giving attention to the people
that you're not wanting to see.
And, obviously, this can be easier said than done.
It is easier said than done,
because we are just really addicted to the drama
and, even myself, I'm guilty of this, even as of recently,
and I and a couple of new friends are, like,
constantly talking about what was going on with this person
and this person, and then I'm thinking,
why are we bothering with this?
Instead of wasting our time talking about this person
that always seems to be having some sort of issue
that we don't want to get involved in,
that we hate seeing, and we're just like,
"Oh my god, why is this person still relevant?" or whatever.
Why not take that energy and use it to uplift, you know,
other people in said community.
Like, for me, let me, instead of whining about so-and-so,
uplift James Rath, Andrea, Jessica,
you know, everybody else that...
Just share that support.
Now that's not to say that you can't call people out
when obviously they're doing something wrong.
We've gone through periods of time...
I mean, just recently, a YouTuber has now been charged
with things, or he was already charged
with pedophilia and now he's going to prison.
We have to call that out, we have to talk about it,
we have to report that, obviously.
Some of the stuff that could have just been dealt with
behind the scenes, can we just leave it behind the scenes
and then just uplift other people?
And it's not just the viewers doing this,
it's the bigger creators as well, other bigger creators
that are always talking about doing that same thing.
But they also don't share their voice.
And these are the people that have the power
to be able to do that.
Now, some YouTubers do do this, but there's a lot
of other big creators that say this and this and this,
but don't do that, and that's what we need
to be focusing on, and I hope that we can get
to doing that really, really soon,
and, in fact, I hope we can get to doing
that yesterday, instead of tomorrow.
But also do it tomorrow.
And I'm going to practice what I preach,
and in the description box below,
I am going to leave a link to people that I fully support
and think that you should also support.
So take a look at these people down below.
I hope you'll watch them, I hope you'll enjoy them,
I hope you will share their content,
and let's lift these people up.
That is my message.
I hope you enjoyed this video.
If you would like to help translate this video,
I will have a link to do so down below.
Always helps out a lot, thank you very much.
Thank you very much for taking the time out of your day
to watch this video, and I will see you later.
Bye.
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