and I've made some videos about Eugenia cooney lately but there's a much bigger
problem and it comes to YouTube ads and marketing as a whole what is up
everybody this is Chris from the rewired soul where we talk about the problem but
focus on the solution and if you're new to my channel my channel is all about
mental health what I like to do is pull different topics from the YouTube
community they're trying to teach you how to improve your mental and emotional
well-being but part of what I do too is try to be an advocate for mental health
and increase awareness and there's some messed-up stuff going on when it comes
to marketing to people who have different types of mental illnesses and
just kind of advertising as a whole but anyways you're into improving your
mental health make sure you subscribe and bring that notification battle
before I jump into that topic also I just got the urge to send out an email
blast this morning so if you are online mental health motivation email list go
check it out I made a video about another video I made an email about
embracing your struggle because especially after I made that video about
spill the other day a lot of people can relate to what I was saying we're like
we wish we had it as easy as other people but in this email I talked about
how your struggle is actually a really good thing and it pretty much makes you
awesome and very resilient so anyways I will link that email down below if you
want to check it out and if you want to sign up for the email list I just sent
emails try to give it give your day a little jumpstart in the right direction
all right anyways so yeah what what's going on with this video what am i doing
what am I talking about today so I made a couple of videos about Eugenia Cooney
and raising awareness and I was getting I was getting some comments
about the ads on my video and I'm like okay like nobody comments about ads on
my video like what are you talking about asking and people were telling me that
like some of these places that sell like some of you know the flat tummy tees or
those suckers are advertising on my videos about Eugenia Cooney and that is
mess okay so let me talk to you guys for a
minute let me talk to you all for a minute okay just about how like YouTube
ad works and how like the YouTube algorithm works so when I make a video I
touched on this a little bit before and all of you creators out there take notes
you put as much information in the title description is tags so YouTube knows who
to send your videos out to right so in my videos if you look in the tags you
know I have things like you know Eugenia cootie eating disorders whatever just
mental illness type stuff youtuber type stuff well from the advertiser angle
right they can target who they want to market to and that is so sick and
disgusting and twisted that it blows my mind so this means this means that these
companies that are promoting this like weight loss flat tummy T or the suckers
or whatever other products they are specifically telling YouTube we want to
target people who have eating disorders we want to target people who like
channels like Eugenia Cooney think about that for a second that is
messed up this is something I've wanted to talk about for a long time so on
Instagram the out of the way that algorithm works is that you use hashtags
right so hashtags that so people can find what you're talking about different
categories well I have different saved documents for different hashtag list
that I've made some one for depression someone from an anxiety someone for
relationships some are motivational but one of them that I have is for sobriety
okay sobriety is one of them so some of them
some of them like I post about like hey staying sober like you know here here's
some motivation to stay sober there are alcohol and drug companies out
there that are looking for posts that use hashtags like sober and sobriety so
they can market to drug addicts and alcoholics like it's and I'm the only
one seeing a problem with this like what is happening what type of person thinks
it's okay it to be like hey you know I know you're struggling with your
alcoholism but let me tell you about this tequila that I got over here like
that's nuts and this is something I've had issue with for a long time even
before I got into YouTube and Instagram and stuff so as somebody in recovery
like stays sober is difficult more people are dying from addiction than
pretty much any other preventable cause of death out there right and there are
bars out there for example who will give you free drinks if you turn in one of
your AAA coins but think about that like I get it I get that it's like kind of
like quirky and a joke and stuff like that boy can you imagine you imagine a
guy or a woman who has destroyed their family because of their alcoholism right
their spouse is about to leave them their kids won't talk to them they're
about to lose their job whatever it is they get sober they get sober for maybe
two months maybe three months things are starting to get better for them things
are starting to look a little bit brighter in their lives so one day
they're struggling right one day they get a little stressed out and there's a
bar right down the street that will take your coin and give you free drinks so
the bar they think that's a funny little marketing campaign you don't need to
stay sober no big deal this person relapses at that bar turns in their a a
chip and now they lose their wife they lose their kids they lose their job they
lose everything that they've worked hard for these last 90 days like is this
making sense to you like this is just one of those issues that you know we
face as a society where a lot of these places just see us as numbers and not as
people that's one of the reasons I try to stay so connected to all of you in
the comments section like I never want to forget that each one of you is a
human being each one of you has family it's one of us friends each one of you
has children each one of you has a light and this pursuit of happiness like we
can't just do stuff like this and I wanted to make this video to increase
awareness but the other topic that I want to talk about is just marketing as
a whole so I know both men and women struggle with body image issues but this
is a big problem with women in general like so after
really ignorant and silly but I've told some other people about this but after I
did some of my Eugenia Cooney videos and I said I was reading all the comments I
was totally ignorant to the fact the eating disorders were such a huge
problem like why are we not talking about this I put a poll up on my
community page just asking how many people are in recovery from an eating
disorder and how many people are currently in the midst of an eating
disorder there were thousands upon thousands of votes and every vote means
that somebody is either currently in the midst of it or is recovering from it and
that blew my mind I'm like oh my god and so what is what is the reason for this
so there's I'm not going to do a whole video right now about the cause of
eating disorders but I do want to talk about the problem of marketing right now
okay so something that I'm always trying to teach all of you is to check you
check your value system right I talked about these youtubers who need to check
in with their values but there's a lot of them think like oh once I get this
many subscribers I'll be happy or you might be like oh well take it this job
then I'll be happy once I get this relationship then I'll be happy once I
get this amount of money then I'll be happy right well a lot of this also has
to do with body image and something that's been kind of in the news recently
I know Philip DeFranco talked about it was that there are a bunch of
celebrities endorsing these products like flat tummy teas and these suckers
and it's all over Instagram it's all over Instagram so one of the best things
that I ever heard that I'm gonna tell all of you and I want you to remember
this like write it down put it on your mirror do something like just remember
this in your brain the worst advertisement ever would be one that
told you that you were perfect the worst advertisement ever would be one that
said you're fine just the way that you are the worst advertisement ever would
say you don't need anything to make people like you more right because then
why would you buy it advertisements are designed to make you
feel bad about yourself that's what they do
because if there's nothing for you to fix why would you buy anything okay like
this is an issue and we need to be aware of that so when you see all these like
Instagram models or celeb whoever it is telling you like oh use
this product use this product you look like me and then you could be happy like
you guys do you know how many people with the quote-unquote perfect body are
freakin miserable I do understand that like remember like well I made a video
about body positivity like a while ago before my channel started getting bigger
like I you know always weight loss journey and stuff like that but
something I realize is that only losing the weight not working on this is not
gonna help it's not gonna solve my problems but it's like they set you up
with these false expectations - so this is an insane this is an insane
absolutist and I would do some research before I recorded this video my name is
Stephanie Soo aka MisMangoButt and today we are back with another skinny mint gummies so this is
the first one it's supposed to make your body burn fat
this one is helped curb your appetite you know when you want like the midnight
- I have obviously been loving and been using key that is Stephanie Soo aka MissMangoButt
whatever mukbang youtuber where she sucks her face on camera that's a whole different
thing that maybe I'll talk about at some other point anyways she is like a twig
and she's endorsing he's like weight-loss gummies like what what you
guys okay alright so like remember how earlier I was talking about how like in
my email how embrace your struggle and stuff like I always thought it wasn't
fair like I've been a bigger dude my entire life but my best friend my best
friend in the world who I grew up with he is like five times more than I do and
he has the body of a Greek god okay some people were just blessed with amazing
genetics and amazing metabolism so I don't like when somebody like Stephanie
sue is like saying hey you can board your face eat 10,000 calories a day and
you can look like this no you cannot okay
you cannot and we need this is one of the reasons why I promote people like
learning about science and stuff because you need to realize that that is a false
expectation okay but the last thing I want to touch on is this please read
that email that I sent out because it ties perfectly into this conversation
that we're having okay embrace your struggle embrace your struggle okay go
to the gym eat healthier meal plan do all these things that I'm trying to do
myself because at the end of the day you will feel so much better about what you
did taking shortcuts does not give me that
same sense of accomplishment and often with any short clip in life there are
drawbacks to it and when it comes to these it's the fact that they're
unhealthy for you okay when you're taking these weight loss T's and all
these other things or appetite suppressants whatever it is okay so
please remember that please remember again the worst advertisements on earth
would be ones that are trying to make you feel good about yourself
advertisements are designed to make you feel terrible alright anyways I would
love to hear from all of you down in the comments below like have you seen
advertisements pop up like for for things that are supposed to be against
something right like for example I'll throw this out there like earlier this
year there was a big hubbub about LGBTQ youtubers having anti LGBTQ ads on their
videos like that's messed up anyways let's have a conversation down below
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