after watching Blaire White'sTrisha Paytas video I finally subscribed and some
might ask why is a sis man subscribing to a trans woman but there might
actually be a psychological explanation for this and it might also explain why
so many people start dating their co-workers 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 what I try to do is take different
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description and in the pin comment below alright so here's my history with Blair
white so obviously I've heard of Blair white over the years my girlfriend my
beautiful girlfriend Tristan watches a Blair White and yeah I've heard about
some of Blair wives you know opinions and views and everything like that but I
never really watched her and I don't know what it was it was like a month two
months ago something like that where YouTube was just recommending the hell
out of Blaire white to me alright and like I'm a YouTube creator and I'm
really nerdy about like the algorithm and all that stuff works and it was
really confusing to me because like I don't watch content really related to
Blair white either but she just kept popping up on my recommended so fully
after a while my okay Blair why keeps popping up on my
Amanda let's let's see what's going on with Blair white and I clicked on it i
watch and yeah she is a very very smart young woman
I do enjoy how she's you know like intelligent but she's also a little
sassy and stuff and I don't agree with all of her opinions but I respect that
she has those opinions and it's interesting to me always getting a
different perspective on things but still I didn't subscribe and after that
YouTube's really just pushing Blair while I'll be like yo you want to watch
some more Blaire Whiteto my alright so I lost some of her other videos I'll watch
some videos that she did on Jessica Yaniv I think I did i watch the yeah I
watched the interview that Blaire white did with that young woman who was all
mixed up with onision and everything like that and then finally because of
this Trisha Paytas situation obviously I've been you know covering that from
different angles and everything I was recommended Blair White's
video about Trisha Paytas and finally I subscribed to Blaire white now why is
that so well many people might think well Chris you just Worcester you you
know enjoy her content or opinions which I do but it might actually be a little
bit more complicated than that alright so something that I don't think we take
into consideration enough is why do we like the things that we like right we
all have preferences whether its food whether it's colors all these different
things you know what I mean and why does this happen so it turns out this may
have something to do with something called the mere-exposure effect all
right so we're gonna turn to Professor Jonah Berger who is a best-selling
author of books such as contagious and invisible influence and invisible
influence was the first book I read by Jonah Berger I just finished his other
book until you justice actually came out first but anyways I cannot recommend
invisible influence enough like when you read that book it kind of just debunks
this myth of free will that we all have in our mind just through all the
different studies that he talks about about why we have certain preferences
and everything like that but I do want to focus on one part of the book where
he discusses the mere-exposure effect all right so he discusses a study that
they did where they showed people Chinese calligraphy all right and
basically what they did was they said okay we're gonna show you some shapes
and on a scale of 1 to 100 how satisfying do you find these shapes
alright this is stage 1 of the experiment all right now here's the
kicker when they showed them these shapes they showed them for 5
milliseconds all right if you don't know how long 5 milliseconds is it's about
how long it takes for a bee to flap its wings alright it's not even enough for
you to really even comprehend it ok so that is how quick they flash these
shapes in front of people all right so they were flashing a shape and they were
shown them like a solid color kind of cleanse their visual palate a little bit
and then they brought them over to stage 2 of the experiment same thing on a
scale of 1 to 100 how satisfying do you find these shapes and they showed them
three different types of shapes one of them was the Chinese calligraphy that
they already showed them before all right in those 5 milliseconds or nobody
can even comprehend them all right the second shapes they showed them was
different types of Chinese calligraphy all right so Chinese calligraphy but
some they've never seen before and in the third set of shapes they
showed them was just random polygons all right so what they ended up finding out
what's even though they flashed those shapes in front of the participants
before they could even comprehend what they were saying when they showed them
those same shapes for the second time they found them more satisfying compared
to the other shape all right so this is where they started to develop the idea
of the mere-exposure effect the more you see something the more satisfying it
becomes alright so they took this a step for
all right there this study has actually discussed in the book as well but I
found an article about this where I'll link it down in the description below
alright so this article discusses another experiment where says one of my
favorite demonstrations of this effect comes from a 1992 study the researchers
arranged for four different women of similar appearance to attend a college
class a certain number of times throughout the semester
one of these women didn't actually attend at all one attended five times
one attended ten times and the last woman attended fifteen times these women
didn't interact with the students at all they just sat in on the lecture at the
end of the semester the students in the class saw pictures of each of the women
and rated them on several scales like physical attractiveness despite never
having interacted with these women the students showed a clear mere-exposure
effect that is they evaluated the woman who they had seen fifteen times much
more positively than the woman they hadn't seen at all so this actually
explains why so many relationships begin at the workplace or begin with people
that you meet at school what's interesting about this is it kind of
screws up your whole idea of you know soul mates and everything like that so
am I in love with Blaire white no but this is just a really fascinating
subject to me like when I learned about this and something I'm really fascinated
with is the pair of social relationships between the viewers and youtubers and I
think this kind of explains those pair of social relationships were you not
only like this person even more because you keep watching their content but this
kind of like relationship and then obviously on the severe end of the
spectrum there are people who developed obsessive relationships with you know
celebrities and people in the public spotlight right so the other thing that
I find interesting is when it comes to YouTube as a whole we
have no control over the algorithm there are certain things that we as creators
can do there's certain things you know that you the viewer are doing like I'm a
viewer as well and I discussed how Blair White was recommended to me just
constantly even though I wasn't subscribed to her like this is something
that I think is just really interesting when it comes to the psychology of
YouTube how subscribers work and everything like that because the more
something is recommended to you the more you see somebody in the thumbnails the
more you see a channel you're going to like it
based on the mere-exposure effect right now don't get me wrong I don't want to
make it seem like oh this is the only reason like this this subliminal thing
going on it's the only reason I subscribed to Blair white like Blair
white makes really awesome content and obviously she knows a lot more about the
trans community the trans experience than I ever will and I really I really
think it's important for all of us to watch other creators who are in
different niches and everything like that but also in our regular life too
right we need to learn from other people who have different experiences than us
so they can broaden our mind so many of us are just stuck in our own bubbles and
the mere-exposure effect explains why like why we stay in our bubbles right
why we don't hang out with other groups while we don't talk with other groups
you know what I mean but just know the more you hang out with other people the
more you watch content from other people the more you'll start to not only like
their content which you may never like their content but it helps give us a
different perspective and like I said like with my channel I really try to
just look at these from different angles and try to get our wheels turning and I
feel that maybe if we can start understanding how our minds work you
know on a psychological level like it might explain like why we're so
close-minded about certain things but not others while we have biases towards
certain things and not others why we don't have the well balanced opinions
that we believe we do why we hold so tight on to our beliefs even when
were presented with new evidence there's so many reasons behind that and I think
part of just making this world a little bit better of a place is acknowledging
what's going on and working towards you know just be more mindful that these
things are actually going on all right but anyways a little Inc Blair White's
channel down below make sure you go check out her stuff go subscribe and
like I said even if you I know she could be a little polarizing but even if you
don't agree with her like you don't have to agree with everybody like just get
new perspectives alright and don't forget to share this video 20% of all
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