James Charles and tati Westbrook have had a little bit of a dispute going on
very publicly and most recently James Charles mother even got involved and
there's even more videos being made about that and as somebody who sits here
and kind of analyzes YouTube culture I think there's definitely something that
we need to talk about and what we learn about what this says about where
humanity is at today 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 sometimes what I like to do is take a look at the YouTube
community and try to turn this mess into a message so the end of that stuff makes
you subscribe and ring that notification about so I want you to sit back and
imagine this let's say you have a friend and both you and your friend go and
apply for a job you both get this job you two have been friends for a while
now you're both working in the same place all right
or maybe you had a friend who was working at a place and then they got you
the job well you two are working together everything's all hunky-dory and
your friend does something that kind of upsets you now imagine this imagine your
friend doing something to upset you and in front of the entire office in front
of the entire office you just voice how upset they made you all right let's
think about that for a second so it did not call up to speed about what's going
on with talk to tati Westbrook and James Charles that's kind of like what
happened okay so here's a little rundown of the story James Charles was at
Coachella and there was some gummy vitamins plays that like provided him
with some additional security he ended up promoting them on his
Instagram story and then tati Westbrook made a very sad kind of hurt
Instagram story being upset about this all right and since then James Charles
made a apology he just kind of wrote a note on an Instagram story and that was
kind of like the end of it but then James Charles mom got involved
Aeolus she was like liking tweets our comments defending James Charles so
like I do want to talk about how this is just like it's just fascinating to me
and I'm gonna talk about myself in a minute cuz don't worry all of you out
there who've been following me for a while like don't worry I'm gonna give
myself the business as well just like weird as a society I have trouble like
step back a little and just kind of really look at what everybody's doing
look at what I've been doing but like these two are or were friends they have
each other's phone numbers they have each other's phone numbers and then this
just put into the public spotlight like we're in a place where this is just
happening and it's not even like I was talking to somebody else about this and
they're like yeah you know like public relationships and public break ups that
can be makes a little bit more sense because everybody's kind of along for
that ride and then when they break up like people want to know but this
situation between Tommy Westbrook and James Charles could have been handled
1,000% off-camera all right but think about it too like just a few months ago
some people you know still believe there might have been some fake beef but ksi
and edgy those two are frickin brothers they're brothers all right and all this
stuff just happened publicly and it was mainly does eks I kind of tried his best
to just like squash it and whatever but like does he just keep kept making
videos and kept making videos and buy a premium like I the this video is kind of
like about response videos and these public like videos and like looking back
at my own history I'm like I'm somewhat embarrassed about the way I've acted in
the past with some of my response videos and it's something that I'm like trying
to not do in the future because there is going to be more criticisms of me and
things like that in the future it's inevitable you know what I mean but I'm
gonna try to handle it off camera or just not even engage in it you know what
I mean because the way I see it the way I see it when I see these YouTube's
response videos it is it is like this ultimate kind of like confirmation that
you're justified in your feelings like when you get into an argument with your
friends let's say you have a friend group and
you get into an argument with your friends or another person in your friend
group you're going to try to justify your feelings through that group of
friends right they did this to me here's how I feel this is what they did right
and you want them to agree with you meanwhile the other friend is gonna do
the same thing with the fun group right but in YouTube culture of such a massive
scale it's so much different because it seems like this ultimate craving and
need for like validation trying to get tens of thousands of people if not
millions like in taki Westbrook and James Charles case millions of people to
be on your side you are just like hey validate the way I'm feeling help me
feel justified and believing that that person is wrong and my feelings are
valid right like this is something that we all do right but what we're seeing in
YouTube is like it on such a massive and public scale which is very fascinating
to me but here's the thing - like during like my own time off and just kind of
something that I've just been finding myself in is a lot of you don't realize
this or maybe you do but there are a lot of little like niche communities on
YouTube where they are just constantly making these like back and forth
response videos and it's just like having like your audience versus their
audience there's people who like this channel more than this channel so we'll
have this person's back and not that person's back and I'm sitting there I'm
like what is happening like I I followed this one story of why public like five
or six really small youtubers just all making videos about one another and then
thinking they're audiences for having their back and other people were getting
upset and everything I'm like I'm like well whatever happened to just
communicating with one another you know what I mean so like I said well I look
back at like my own behaviors I'm like what am i doing in and I think the part
that bugs me about my own actions and just seeing this from like people like
Tati Westbrook and James Charles and just a lot of other youtubers is
the the influence we have on smaller creators the influence we have on the
audience but when I was watching these smaller niche communities make all these
response videos I'm like holy crap and I to blame for this or other youtubers to
blame for this because a lot of people model behaviors right if you're a child
you end up growing up and modeling the behavior of your parents or your older
siblings right so when you have these smaller creators on YouTube they're
looking at bigger creators like okay if I want to succeed I need to follow in
that path so I see it as bigger creators and I'm by no means a big creator in my
mind but like just be being a bigger creator than other creators like I have
a responsibility to be an example right and that's why I look at things that
I've done I'm like whoa right and something that'll be they're just gonna
keep saying but like wisdom is taking your knowledge and putting it into
action right like all of us can have nodes all of us can have common sense
like I shouldn't you know do this I shouldn't do that but do you do it do
you not do it right so I want you to think about that and I would love to
hear from you guys as the audience as well like how do you feel when you get
involved in it because something that I noticed even with some of the other
videos that I had in the past was like I was I was contributing to like splitting
audiences because most people I'd say 99.9% of people are subscribed to more
one more than one youtuber right so what happens when two of your favorite
creators are against each other now you feel like you got to pick sides and some
of it when I see it like even with Toddie Westbrook and James Charles when
I see it it almost seems to me like you know a kid whose parents are getting
divorced and the parents are at each other's
throats like which side do you choose why does there need to be sides like
what I respect about I'm Alex and Jack mate is they squashed their beef very
quickly like they should a lot of the same subscribers and very
quickly they got together they did a podcast together and they talked it out
and they squashed it which I wish would kind of happen more often or just settle
things off-camera like if you get back to the the origin of what happened
between I'm Alex and Jack made like Jack you know when he saw them he was hurt by
Alex or didn't agree with what Alex was doing should have just messaged him
right but you see people making these entire videos on it and here's the thing
and here's what's screwed up about this cycle is now I would love to hear your
thoughts down below like at what point do you need to defend
yourself though right like at what point because somebody
somebody is always the instigator there's usually always an integrator
there's the person who fires the first shot right so the question is at what
point does the other person need to publicly address it and defend
themselves if there's false information or like in James Charles case he tried
to you know explain you know and he tried to apologize and explain but like
he was put in a position where he had to do so so in my mind and as I'm trying to
grow as a creator and change the way I do things like I'm trying to like figure
this stuff out and you know maybe you can give me your input in the comments
below like at what point does a person need to defend themselves I saw this
happen just a couple weeks ago one of my favorite creators they were attacked by
somebody else who had almost like a million subscribers and I was like huh
you know should this smaller creator defend themselves you know what I mean
it's just it's really really interesting to me but again like more so I just want
you guys to like kind of think of where we're at as a society in 2019 with
social media especially with YouTube culture and my call-out videos and
response videos and everything like that like if you if you put this into your
real life in like these real life scenarios would this be socially
acceptable is it more socially acceptable
I like the analogy I gave like about being in a workplace like you know what
I mean like when I put it in those kind of terms in my mind I'm just like it
just doesn't really make sense you know so anyway so I would love to know your
thoughts on this topic down in the comments below if you like this video
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