James Charles Andy signor slazo and now ProJared how long is this going to
continue to go on where the internet hate mob attacks people because they're
guilty until proven innocent in this video we're going to be discussing Pro
Jared situation but I'm hoping we can all learn from it with a little bit of
social psychology what is up everybody this is Chris from the rewires soul
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much like many many other people I watched Pro Jared's return video
yesterday and he cleared up a bunch of stuff and that's what we're gonna be
talking about today but anyway it's real quick for those of
you who don't know I was a victim of online hate mob insanity as well so I
wrote a book about it called cancelled inside YouTube camps of culture and I
also discussed the pro Jared situation in the situation with Holly Conrad and a
bunch of other situations that have happened throughout YouTube like some of
the ones I mentioned in the intro like with slaw zero with James Charles
anyways my brand new book cancelled inside YouTube canceled culture you can
get a free copy of the ebook until the end of the month so you got about three
days so check out the description check out the pin comment down below because
this stuff needs to stop alright so anyways to get this thing started like
make sure you go check out Pro Jared's video one of the things that I discussed
in my book is the initial accusations that gets spread like wildfire even when
you come back and defend yourself and release the truth there is only a flash
of the people who will see that so help Pro Jared out and share his video so
some of the people who are contaminated by the false accusations in the
beginning of this whole thing will get the correct information now but anyways
I want to start out by talking about this real quick clip from the intro of
Jared's video and I've already seen a lot of posts from people telling me to
move on or that the tea is cold I'm sorry that this is no longer
entertaining for them but just because they're bored of it doesn't mean that
the harassment stopped or that the story is final and over I am so glad that
ProJared said this I am so glad like this is something that until you go through
it like you don't get it and I'm not asking for pity or sympathy or anything
like that but I just hope you the viewers you understand like this might
all be like fun and games and entertainment for you
you know drama channels and commentary channels who do these things and like
like perpetuate these narratives like there is a real person on the other end
of that so even though you guys or some people might not want to hear Pro Jared
side of the story anymore like that dude and Holly Conrad are still getting
harassed like everybody who goes through this has psychological effects that
happened to them and it's ongoing I had somebody yesterday when I was talking
about something on Twitter say oh what are you just gonna move on like do you
really think that on a daily basis I'm not getting harassing comments or even
threats like it still happens months later so I'm so glad that pro jared
talked about this but anyways again make sure you subscribe because this is going
to be part of the series all right I'm reading a really
interesting new book about social psychology and I want to use the social
psychology of witch-hunts to kind of talk about
different situations that have happened in YouTube like I mentioned with James
Charles with Andy signor with Slava and things like that alright and this is the
first one so real quick intro of this topic so there was a social psychologist
famous dude named Emile Durkheim alright and he studied human behavior alright
and he was a very smart dude well in the 1960s a guy by the name of James
Ferguson wrote an essay called the durkheimian theory of witch-hunts with
the Chinese Cultural Revolution all right so what's really interesting
Before we jump into what Ferguson talks about using durkheim's theories is if
any of you have heard of Gustav laybourn I've made some videos about him in the
past but Gustav von he is famously known for writing a book called the crowd and
it's all about crowd psychology and mob mentality so the more you learn about
this and you know the crowd psychology and mob mentality and you blend that in
with the social psychology of witch-hunts like it's absolutely crazy
so for example what burke i'm talked about is how we humans he calls us homo
duplex right we have two different levels so as individuals we are very
rational right we are independent thinkers we make up our minds but when
we become part of a collective so much of that just goes out the window and we
are insane people and logic just flies out
it's just Dada weird logic oh it is no longer there all right and that's what
happens during these witch hunts so when Bergesen put together his
durkheimian theory of which haunts he said it had three main components all
right the first one is that these things arise extremely quickly and seemingly
out of all right like the Escalade like they go
from zero to a hundred like that number two they evolved crimes against the
collective so everybody in the collective in the community can be
affected by this and lastly the so-called offender alright
a lot of this stems from either a something very trivial or be something
that's completely fabricated all right and there's a fourth thing that we're
gonna be talking about which is that when this happens people are afraid to
defend the person who was accused all right so we're gonna take these four
components and relate them to the pro Jered situation these arise very quickly
and seemingly out of nowhere I had never even heard a pro charity a lot of you
have is a pretty big creator right but this all started when his ex-wife Heidi
release all this information about the Alpha person Jared was when they got a
divorce and also I forgot to say this in the beginning but do not go harass Heidi
either all right jared has not asked you to do that you are not you know
defending him by harassing her like that's something I
hope everybody learns about you know this whole cancel culture and mob
mentality like just going from one like Haiti one person to another it's not
getting anything done alright I talked about that quite a bit in the book
anyways came out of nowhere escalated extremely
quick when this happened with Pro Jared it was trending on Twitter all right so
these involve crimes against the collective so Pro Jared was accused of
soliciting nude from minors which he cleared up 1,000% but how does this
affect the collective how did that how did the entire YouTube community turn
against him well we've had stories of people like Austin Jones who was doing
this there's people like Romeo whoever the tattoo guy who is doing things like
this and even Jared acknowledges in his return video that there's somewhat of a
power imbalance and that's something can make a whole different video about
right but the fear is is that this can affect the entire community and is it
irrational it that one's a difficult one right because there are many people out
there not just YouTube creators but people who use their position of power
to manipulate people who are lower on the power dynamic you know what I mean
but anyways that's how this whole thing started to escalate because people were
saying jared is doing things that could affect the entire community number three
the offenses often send stem from something trivial or fabricated so this
is actually both a right so fabrication the accusations against Jared for
soliciting news from minors that was completely fabricated all right we now
know that unless new evidence comes up and where we're at right now Jared
provided enough evidence to at least give enough give us reasonable doubt and
something I try to talk about I talked about this in my video yesterday about
Dave Chappelle is we need to start looking at the court of public opinion
and trying to hold it to a standard of like the actual court of law
all right because so many of these things that are happening people are
guilty until proven innocent and are with due process people are supposed to
be innocent until proven guilty all right but the trivial aspect okay
and and some of you might disagree with me on this but hear me out
trivial this all started from Heidi claiming that Jared cheated on her okay
so in a personal relationship that's a huge deal but ninety-nine point nine
nine nine nine nine nine nine nine percent of the people who have been part
of the hate mob on either side it's trivial you know why because you're not
in this relationship what those people do is none of your damn business
all right it's none of any of our business so the whole Waxman that this
Oh God alright it is over something that literally does not affect you when it
comes to the relationship with him and Heidi and him and Holly all right also
something trivial and I'm glad that Jared kind of stood his ground on this
and even his ex wife Heidi kind of discussed this like like they you know
they have their own sexual things that they like to do and they were you know
swapping nudes and it was consent between adults or people who said they
were adults and lied to them and stuff like that like what you do in the
privacy of your own home or wherever like do your thing if it's not hurting
anybody quit caring so much about other people's
sex life okay Thanks so number for fear of defending
the accused this happens every single time like when
you watch Jared's video he talks about how he tried to distance himself away
from his other friends so they weren't being hit with the collateral damage but
the problem when these when these things happen especially on YouTube is that
people don't want to come to their to your defense because they'll be attacked
by the hate mob as well like that was one of the most painful things for me
like you you feel completely isolated like I had friends who tried to stand up
and defend me and they were threatened they were attacked
like it was nuts like I had people who were just like hey Chris isn't that bad
of a guy they were getting threatened with physical violence alright so this
is one of the issues when that hate model attacks is like nobody can even
defend you because the mob will just go after them as well and say oh whoa if
you're not with us we're against you you know what I mean and that is absolutely
brutal I'll tell you this the only time the only time I've ever seen people come
to the defense of the accused is when it happened to James Gunn the director of
guardians of the galaxy and outraged culture just sort of freaking out but
the cast of guardians of the galaxy and many other celebrities were
now this ain't cool and they came to us defense I wish that happened more often
so yeah those are the four main components of witch-hunts and I hope you
now see kind of how this happened to Jared but I want you to look at a
greater whole so this is gonna happen again
we're like barely over halfway done with 2019 and it's already happened four
times this year probably more that I'm not even listening right so the next
time this happens and the internet hate mob is piling on someone I want you to
step back and ask yourself these things like okay is this turning into something
that's escalating too quickly right is this something that we believe involves
forming the collective is this stemming from something trivial or is it even
possible that these accusations are false you see what I mean like start
thinking in that way so the last thing I want to talk about here's what really
bums me out there are so many creators and Jarrow talked about this in his
video there's so many creators who helped fan the flames and spread this
narrative that was going on about Jared and I'm telling you this right now so
many of those creators who made videos like that are not going to correct
themselves all right I believe the right opinion tweeted out yesterday that he
took his video down just because there's new information and props to him on that
but I guarantee you many other creatives won't do that because this is what
happens every time but here's the second part of it if they do because I kind of
like analyze these things the creators who come back and say okay Jared cleared
his name about soliciting news from minors what they'll do after that
completely based on pride completely based on ego in an effort to save face
they're still going to play into the narrative that Jared
Hidy with Holly even though there is evidence that it was a sloppy
polyamorous relationship all right and like that is what's really sad because
I'm telling you this right now Holly Conrad is not gonna get anywhere near
the justice that she deserves for being caught up in this entire thing and this
video is longer than I planned but again don't go harass Heidi but it's
interesting when you watch Heidi statements based on Jared's like Heidi
is much more aggressive all right and I understand you know when you go through
a breakup when you get divorced there's a lot of pain there's a lot of hurt and
everything like that but I think that energy is fueling some people to still
send hate towards Jared towards Holly all right but anyways again this stuff
needs to stop and make sure you check out my book you can get a copy of it for
free until the end of the month my new book is called cancelled inside YouTube
cancel culture where I take a deep dive and give you kind of a behind-the-scenes
look about how all this stuff happens and yeah I will be making more videos
breaking down different situations using social psychology and discussing all
this happens all right but that's all I got for this video if you like this
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