there's a massive problem with drama and commentary channels we're talking about
Inabber we're talking about angelika oles and we can't forget the viewers
voice they can't forget people like tea spill either everybody this is Chris from the rewired
so where we talk about the problem but focus on the solution and if you're new
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funny kind of not I was actually worried about using tea spills music for my
intro cuz I thought it would be funny but I'm like what if she copyright claim
this and I'm like wait a second she couldn't copyright claim this so after
all the stuff went down with mani so I use this so tea spill I love your girl
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so make sure you're following me at the rewired soul so a couple disclaimers
real quick this is not a problem with those channels this is a problem with us
the viewers the people all right I love watching commentary channels I love
watching drama channels they give me ideas for different videos and all of
that so no tea no shade alright but my fellow youtubers out
there you know how the algorithm works I just throw your names up in there to get
it all search friendly and whatnot so this video we're gonna be talking a lot
about psychology and just like sociology and human nature because it's some stuff
that I was thinking about so why was I thinking about this alright so I see
that a ton of commentary channels or a ton of you know drama channels they they
all cover the same story like so many of them cover the same story and I'm
sitting I'm like do people watch all of these like do i watch all of these like
what's my behavior i off and check in with my human behavior like
what am i doing like do I want to see what I never said about this and Angela
Cole said about this and there's someone like I'm at obsess about this and do I
see what tea spill says about this do I see what the viewers voice says I do I
see what all of these people say about this right but there's there's a
specific incident that comes to mind and I'm not gonna say what it is I'm going
to talk about it in another video go more in depth but there's a specific
scenario in which a ton of drama and commentary channels covered a topic and
all of them got it wrong but here's the thing that I noticed is that so many
people talked about it that everybody was just agreeing with it and I'm like
that's fascinating like that's really really fascinating like where are we at
where we just believed something because we hear about it more and more and more
and the more we hear about it why do we believe it's true so I started doing
some research I got on the phone with my mom I started going on YouTube today I
was listening to podcasts to do some research to try to figure out and
understand the psychology behind this thing so the first person we're gonna
start off with is this dude right here his name is Gustav Lebon all right
he is what they called a polymath so he had a bunch of different interests one
of those things being psychology now what Gustav is famous for is his
book called the crowd okay now this book is something that a lot of people
reference and it was fascinating when I saw it so he wants to know about like
crowd psychology all right and he breaks it down into three different states
three different states or three different you know parts of this so
there's a ton of more videos I could do all this alright so one of them is
contagion okay so what's contagion it's an idea it's kind of like what I'm
talking about it's an idea where when it's said by a group of people over and
over and over again it starts to spread right so you just start to believe it
okay we see this in all different parts of society but I want you to think in
the context of YouTube commentary drama channels think about Twitter think about
Facebook think about what everybody's sharing what everybody's talking about
what people are making video about contagion okay it starts to spread
and get into our minds all right then the next part is suggestibility
okay so suggestibility is once we start to get entrenched in the contagion what
they would they kind of talk about well when I say they I mean Gustav what they
talk about is this is almost like a form of hypnosis okay
so what's that mean we start to lose our sense of self we start to forget who we
are and what we would do so a lot of the podcasts and things I was researching
earlier they look at this as mob mentality they try to look at it with
you know different situations and how to you know defuse different situations
right because how are you gonna make this safe like if there's a riot or
whatever but I notice it a lot just you know being on social media is this
mentality and people become very suggestible when something keeps saying
being said over and over and over and over again right you just start to
believe it just because everybody's saying it here's the example I don't
know why this is an example I just keep thinking of but I know I know you love
my Sikh analogies but basically like imagine imagine you're in high school
right imagine you're in high school now imagine that a bunch of people you're
with a group of people a group of friends or whatever they're pointing out
a kid over there they're like that cou that kid over there is really stinky all
right they just tell you this all these people are telling you this right your
chances are based on the work that Gustav did is that you would just
believe you would believe that that kid over there is stinky but if you were by
yourself if you were an individual and you looked at that kid and you're like
that kids probably stinky you'll probably laugh at yourself and be like
why would I even think that right so the third part of this is something called
is anonymity we start to get more anonymity when we're in a group we do
things that we wouldn't normally do right so something that we wouldn't
normally do is just blindly believe something without evidence to back it up
so part of our human nature is to just believe these things just because a
bunch of other things other people are saying you like something else I was
thinking about is I think about ecology of this and what we're talking
about remember I like your parents would say like oh if everybody was jumping off
a bridge would you do it too you might you might because of the contagion
because of the suggestibility you know but this is one of the reasons and I
might make another video about this this is one of the reasons people are such
jerks on Mars because that anonymity like a lot of people wouldn't do that if
it was just them by themselves like had they not seen that mob mentality going
after like a figure out there right so I've been I didn't ask you guys
questions this is another reason you need to follow me on social media I've
been asking you guys questions on Twitter and on my community page and on
Instagram and stuff like that and I do this because I'm getting ideas for
videos so one of the questions I asked all of you is like what are some stories
that a bunch of commentary channels or drama channels covered now another
disclaimer mid video disclaimer real quick we're just talking about the
psychology behind these things I'm not saying any of these scenarios who was
right who is wrong my opinions I'm trying to keep them out of this but I
just want to list some stories for you and give you examples of what multiple
multiple commentary channels covered right most recently the many MUA
situation also the Gabby Hannah situation okay
the Jake Paul and rice gums situation remember all other drama get in last
year with you know Laura Lee mani mu a Jeffrey star Gabriel Zamora nikita
dragon right it's something that all of these people start tacking about all
right so I just want you to think about that for a second
think about what we were talking about with Gustav his work and and all these
people covering these things so do we get to a point where we're no longer
thinking for ourselves and we're blindly believing everything that we hear just
because a bunch of people are saying it right now we're gonna talk about
something called evolutionary psychology right I love me some evolutionary
psychology because it explains why why we have this today in 2019 and what our
ancestors therefore I was just listening to this
podcast and it made perfect sense it made perfect sense why we needed to
blindly follow the crowd so imagine you were in a tribe way back in the day
right you're in a tribe and everybody just starts running right everybody just
starts running okay so you would need that group mentality to run because
chances are dangers coming whether another tribes gonna come attacking
whether there's like a stampede or whatever like you just see people
running and you just book it to ask questions later right but people who who
were individual thinkers they might have sat behind started analyzing this thing
and said I wonder why everybody's running I wonder what the danger is on a
scale of one to ten happy you know then I get stampeding over you see what I'm
saying so based on natural selection a lot of the people who were individual
thinkers and didn't follow that that crowd mindset they were getting picked
off because they weren't staying safe by just believing the crowd and moving with
them right so because of the way evolution works and how slow it goes and
how long it takes right we're still in that mindset where we blindly follow
groups even though we're not really escaping danger because one of the
reasons we judge people and look at this stuff online and start judging the other
one because it's something that kept us safe does that make sense now the last
piece of psychology I want to talk about is something I've talked about a lot of
my channel confirmation bias all right so let's
let's combine all these things that we're talking about okay let's talk
about contagion okay this idea spreading let's talk about suggestibility just
starting to believe things and not even listening to our own logic or anything
like that let's talk about you know why we follow the crowd based on our safety
well now let's talk about confirmation bias so let's say you had a little
assumption just a little bit of an assumption that that person was a jerk
that influencer was a jerk right well now you see all these drama channels and
commentary channels covering it now your confirmation bias it's not that little
inkling anymore it turns into this validation aha I knew it right let's
think about that for a second so to play into your confirmation bias
you might neglect all of the facts you might neglect doing any of your own
research just because people said that well I know we're talking about just
like silly stuff like you know drama channels and call from not confirmation
bias but commentary channels I know that's what we're talking about right
now but think about how dangerous that is let's think about it to just blindly
follow what what the mass opinion is or what the mass you know news is or
whatever that is right and I'm not trying to get all you know tinfoil
Giardia or anything but I just want you to think about how dangerous that could
possibly be where you you become anonymous and you're no longer thinking
for yourself and and now they're just like okay well everybody else is saying
it so it must be true I think about how dangerous that is for a second look
what's the solution it's here at the rewired soul we talk about that solution
baby this solution you guessed it mindfulness mindfulness mindfulness
mindfulness remember mindfulness strengthens the prefrontal cortex the
logical part of the brain the part of the brain that gives us impulse control
the part of the brain that regulates our emotions the part of the brain that
allows us to pause and say okay a bunch of people are saying this but is it
possible that they are only saying this because this person is saying this is it
possible that this person's opinion is formed because they saw three other
commentary channels before them form this opinion and now they're just
agreeing with them and now am i agreeing with them because they're agreeing with
everybody else do you see what I mean so the solution is to be more mindful and
sit back and just pause and say okay what do I believe why do I believe it
because if you're only only evidence is that a bunch of people are saying it
that's probably the weakest evidence based on that evidence you can go to a
flat earther convention that doesn't mean that they're right you've know a
bunch of people are saying the earth is flat I guess I guess I'm not ashamed to
say my name is Logan Paul and I I think I'm coming out of the Flat Earth closet
now again I am NOT saying that anybody like Nick at the viewers voice or T
spill or I neighbor or angeleka oles or any other commentators out there or
wrong or anything like that I just want to help you improve your mental health
so I want you to sit back and look at this and see is this something that's
maybe happening at your school is this something that maybe is maybe happening
at your work like it's a bunch of people at your work do they dislike somebody
and you automatically dislike that person just because everybody else does
or have you done your own research and made that opinion I think about how
often you judge other people based on someone's opinion my god and do your own
research baby don't always judge a book by its cover or what everybody else is
saying alright anyways I am excited I was really excited to do this video I
really want to start bringing in some more cycle psychology and just like kind
of sociology and just philosophy and all sorts of stuff to just kind of get your
wheels turning and help you think and and question why do I think the way I do
why do I do these things right consumer nature is absolutely fascinating and the
more we can understand it the more will improve our mental health all right but
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