a lot of you requested for me to do a video about danielle cohn so let's do
this thing
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rewired soul so yeah oh my god today might be a busy day Tristin is still out
of town so I might make three videos I wasn't going to make this video I've had
a lot of you requested I'm like who the heck is Danielle Cohn but then I was
watching my girl GC's video she has a channel ready to glare and she made a
Danielle Cohn video so after I got back from the gym I'm eating breakfast right
beside the watch I'm like wait Dani Cohn looks familiar so Tristan and I we
watched this series on Netflix called follow this and it's from BuzzFeed right
and they dive in a different topic someone interesting some aren't but we
watch the one about these like teenage you know celebrities right and Danielle
Cohn was actually in this episode so I'm like oh I know who Daniel Kohn is
and I saw interactions with her mom and I interviewed her mom and everything but
I never also made a video on Danielle Cohn I know some other creators and
making videos on Danielle Cohn so GC video actually said this I do think it's
very concerning and I even just wonder what happens to a person's brain a young
person's brain when they're kind of either force or choose to grow up fast
like I don't know how I would be today if at 12 or 14 I was on
are you taking like these extravagant a little bit to trying to be older / sexy
bikini type pictures you know like I don't know what that does to your psyche
and I don't know what that does to your relationship with well I guess the
opposite-sex and same-sex depending on if they're lesbians are attracted to
women you know what I'm saying so yeah I do want to dive into some psychology as
well as neuroscience around what's going on with Danielle cone as well as like
some really important mental health topics for young people but I think
people of all ages can learn from this so those of you who don't know who
Danielle Cohn is Danielle Cohn - my understanding she started out on
musically I got a huge on there I think now she messes with like tick tock she's
like 2.7 million followers on Instagram - one of the things that people have
been debating about is her age she says she's 14 but iNabber said that you know
there's proof that she's actually 12 but the fishy part about this video comes
(iNabber) from the actual upload date of this video because it says that it was
uploaded in June 2012 but it says that she's also six years old and if it was
uploaded on that date and she was 12 then that would make Daniel Cohen 12
years old what I'm really here to talk about like young is young like your
brain is developing until you in your mid-20s the prefrontal cortex the
important part of your brain that's responsible for like impulse control and
logical decision-making and emotional regulation that doesn't develop until
your 20s so like I don't really care if she's 12 or 14 like some of this stuff
like that's going on like I don't even feel comfortable like I'm glad GC made a
video on this because as an adult man I don't feel comfortable like even looking
through this girl's Instagram like it's messed up anyways anyways so let's talk
about childhood celebrities and everything so what other things is is
reinforcement right so our brains our brains are designed our brains are wired
for reinforcement okay when we get a good feeling our brain wires itself to
do that same thing again social media is playing into this so much and they
actually have people with knowledge of neuroscience working at social me
companies like I hope you understand that social media is designed to get you
hooked like I'm reading this new book right now and they were just talking
about like doing things like a social media detox I have certain views on that
my social media is something that I don't think you should quit I just think
you need to be more mindful of how you use it but we need to also be cognizant
of what social media is designed to do social media is designed to give you
spurts of dopamine all right so dopamine is what rewards you it makes you feel
good so every time you're gonna like a retweet a share of subscription a
comment whatever it is that engagement every time a little notification goes
off in your phone you get all spurts of dopamine how do I know that well there's
an amazing book that I love that I think all of you should check out it's called
the craving mind by dr. Judson Brewer I'll link it down in the description
but anyways in that book he talks about an NPR episode that they did where they
they did a neurological study on teenagers using Instagram they actually
hooked them up to brain scans and they monitored their their brain activity
right and every time they got a like or a share or a retweet
especially on Instagram they would get burst of dopamine so what that's doing
is its reinforcing that so young people such as Daniella Cohn their brain is
getting trained to become addicted and hooked on that right but it's the same
with any type of celebrity and like something that I want to talk about too
is this isn't new this is not something new what absolutely drives me bonkers is
how people do not see the parallels like you guys nothing new is happening in the
world I know we have technology but nothing new is happening like my biggest
fear for young people in this social media age and getting famous and stuff
is is all the other childhood celebrities like let's talk about it
real quick let's run through the list real quick okay this is a very short
list by the way Lindsay Lohan became super messed up and she's still pretty
messed up did any of you guys see that video where she was trying to like
kidnap a girl a young girl from her family because she thought the young
girl was abducted this is the Arab there's not Arab you're ruining every
culture by doing this show lower looks
you're taking these children they want to go I'm long Steve I'm with you I'm
with you boys don't worry she was mine okay this is a childhood star then you
have people like drew Barrymore drew Barrymore is actually in recovery though
but she got started when she was very young I believe they said her cocaine
have it happen like when she was like 10 or 11 years old don't quote me on that
but I happened when she was super super young okay but drew it like I said drew
Barrymore is actually in recovery now then then we have amanda Bynes a lot of
you asked me to do a video about her I haven't I don't know if I will maybe I
will anyways amanda Bynes had a very public meltdown
and she got hooked on substances she's another child star I remember seeing her
on that old Nickelodeon show all that and then I like got out of that phase
and grew up a little but anyways she got addicted to substances and it just came
out like she's like doing great and she's sober now and everything right so
like as parents and this is a whole nother video I can do we need to be
mindful of what we're encouraging our kids to do like but my son and many
other young people like if you asked if you if you have kids it's like ask them
ask them or ask their friends what do you want to be when you grow up right a
lot of kids will tell you that they want to be a youtuber or or a stream on
Twitch right and my son has a channel and we were really into it but around
that time my channel starting to grow too and see how my son is developing
right now I don't know if that's the best thing for him it's something that
we do together and it's fun because we play video games and everything but
we've gone back on it because I want to make sure it's something that he wants
to do right for a multitude of reasons what is the interaction but the other is
to and this is part of a different video I can make so let me know down in the
comments below is parents living vicariously through their children or
they want to live off their children is something that I mentioned during the
Jay Paul series with Shane Dawson and their father Greg and it's something
that I can kind of see with Danielle cones mother - all right like especially
after watching the Netflix follow this episode like I'm like this is a little
weird but kids are growing up in a way where they're getting reinforced by
these things and in this day and age it's so much easier than ever before to
become famous right like you don't have like I don't know when I was a kid like
you had to go to like a talent agency and hope you got like booked in a
commercial or whatever like kids nowadays if you have one of these you
have the chance to get famous right and that could be very dangerous so we need
to be mindful of that anyways the next topic I want to talk about in regards to
mental health is one of my fears for young people but it's also something
that all of us struggle with as adults - is is the message going out about
reinforcement based on your appearance right so Danielle cone being 12 years
old she's learning at a very young age that looking good means that you'll get
attention right you'll get the things that you want you'll make money nothing
wrong with that like there's plenty of models who love doing it successful in
their career absolutely right but one of the reasons that so many people are
depressed because of social media is because we're constantly comparing
ourselves to others right we're constantly comparing ourselves saying oh
if I could just look like that if I could do that then I would be happy I
made a video about Lilly Singh a few weeks ago when stuff was going on with
her and I talked about how people chased these things only to find out that
that's not the thing that that made him happy and I had so many comments so many
comments that talked about people who lost massive amounts of weight like I
remember seeing comments I'll try to put them up on the screen people who lost
like a hundred two hundred pounds and they said they're absolutely miserable
okay like there's nothing wrong with being healthy and losing weight like I
am down 50 pounds in the last year I just got back from the gym this morning
after like falling off my diet over the Christmas break and my mom came into
town but there's nothing wrong with being healthy but for mental health we
need to understand that achieving a certain look does not guarantee our
happiness okay it can help with your health it can
maybe help you with some confidence but if that is your only thing that you're
working on and you're not working on this thing up here no matter what you
look like you can still be mentally unwell so that's one of my fears with
young women and even young men looking at people like Danielle cone getting
famous off their looks and things like that because we're teaching our new
generation this younger generation that you need to look a certain way to be
successful right and and this is this is upsetting because I did I've made more
videos about like eating disorders lately like when referencing like
Eugenia Cooney and everything and there's so many young people out there
not just women although statistically it's more likely for women but there's
also young men too we're looking at these images and they aspire to be that
way which could then lead to eating disorders you can also lead to other
things like body dysmorphia and all that kind of stuff so like there are many
issues here like like as far as like you know her pictures and stuff like oh I
know is that if I had a daughter like oh this would be messed up oh if my son and
my son was doing this I'd be a little messed up about it alright but again if
you want me to do more videos on different topics and we're guys sent an
email account let me know down in the comments below or let me know your
thoughts let me know how social media triggers your dopamine or how you
compare yourself to others that you see on social media all right speaking of
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