so in the last 24 hours both Shane Dawson and James Charles have had their
twitter accounts hacked and this is a big problem that we definitely need to
talk about what is up everybody this is Chris from the rewired so where we talk
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e-book for free and yeah with this topic of Shane Dawson and James Charles
getting hacked on Twitter like both of these two have had canceled culture and
internet hate mobs come after them and we're gonna be talking a little bit
about how that might affect them in the future but this is really important
because like we live in the Internet age and a syphon cancel culture like being
hacked this could happen to anybody so at the end of the video I'm going to
talk about some ways that you could protect yourself because it's something
that I definitely had to look into when people on the internet started coming
after me and just you know putting myself out there right because we all
you know need to protect our privacy so yeah for those of you who don't know I'm
Shane Dawson was hacked yesterday morning and oh my god I felt so bad for
him like he ended up getting it back the first thing I will say before I forget
you see one of your favorite youtubers get hacked on Twitter or anybody on
Twitter somebody posted this like reporting and say this account has been
hacked like with the massive audiences people like Shane Dawson and James
Charles have I think the best thing to do is flood Twitter with notifications
that their account has been hacked so it just stops because the people who are
doing this it was actually the same people who hacked both Shane Dawson and
James Charles so anyways this happened yesterday morning to Shane Dawson I felt
bad because like the dude and it's like all night long and he's working on his
new series with Jeffery star so I'm pretty sure he's been up all my editing
and he was probably asleep while this was happening but these guys hacked his
Twitter here's some screenshots I've edited a little bit some vulgar stuff
some racist stuff and things like that but like first off like I don't know I
don't know what's gonna happen but like I really hope you have people out there
or just anybody out there looking to do something stupid really pays attention
to this like these guys are faces like hey here's where to find us right and I
don't know how like internet forensics work but I'm pretty sure it's a bad idea
to like promote your other Twitter accounts and like your discord server
and everything like that but anyways I'm Shane Dawson to my knowledge hasn't even
addressed it yet I know Geoffrey starr said something on snapchat like oh my
god like somebody had came by anyways like I felt super bad for Jane Shane
this went on for maybe like an hour or two and then Shane got his account back
and all those tweets they got deleted so today it happened to James Charles the
exact same group did this alright so this was much quicker James tall's ended
up getting his account back a lot quicker all right so that's good now
what are the major issues that we see like with this group that's hacking
people I'm gonna talk about how it's happening too as well as some ways to
protect yourself many ways this group they they said you know use this hashtag
and tell us who you want us to hack next right and like please don't engage with
that do not promote this type of behavior that's what keeps it going the
same thing with like doxxing it's a lot and all that kind of stuff like like man
like don't don't promote that don't engage with it all right like just
denounced it don't give them the attention that they want so much stuff
is done just to get attention especially when it comes to you know messing with
other people right so anyways like how's this happening um keemstar tweeted this
out and I don't know the specifics of it but anyway it's like he says in this
tweet it sounds like it has something to do with AT&T as a service provider so if
you have AT&T maybe like call them and see if there's something you could do to
prevent it it sounds like they're calling and
switching like SIM card information and I don't even know how that's possible
like with the the service provider that I use which I'm not gonna say which one
it is like I have to have like specific information to give them right like
there's some security questions and stuff like even just to talk about my
billing so if you're an AT&T customer beware and if any of my youtuber call
the he's out there watching this like just know this has happened to two
youtubers already I know a lot of us aren't nearly as big as James Charles
and Shane Dawson but protect yourself alright so one thing that is interesting
not even interesting but we need to look at is James Charles was starting to be
held hostage and this is something that we saw happen to Whitney Cummings
recently it also happened to Bella Thorne where they got hacked and the
hackers are trying to hold them hostage by saying like oh I have access to your
nudes or whatever and I'm gonna leak leak them unless you pay me money right
so it was just like last week where the comedian Whitney Cummings had this
happen and she ended up just exposing ourselves to said look I'm not gonna be
held you know hostage by this I'm gonna I'm
gonna release it myself Bella Ford did the same thing James Charles just did
the same thing and I don't know the specifics of that but it sounds like the
hacker said hey we have this what are you gonna do to give it to us so James
released it himself and I'll say this like this is one of
the most empowering things I think you do in this crappy situation it's
just like yo like you ain't gonna hold me hostage and I think it's I think it's
kind of cool for like body positivity and stuff like that like don't go
plastering in Boots on Twitter or anything like that but I'm
glad some of these celebrities like James Charles Whitney Cummings
that'll thorn are basically saying like yo you're not gonna you know hold this
as leverage over me you know but it just it just sucks man that you know people
have to worry about that because then it turns into like this kind of like
victim-blaming thing and stuff like that and that's that's not cool like this
ideology like oh just don't take them then you don't got to worry about it's
like well how about people just quit hacking other people and being d-bags
you know what I mean like let's blame the perpetrators not the victims of this
but the other thing I was thinking about which is pretty scary like so when when
the internet came after me it was one stupid DM that got leaked I was really
trivial right and I'm thinking about how you know people like Shane Dawson and
James Charles like if they got hacked their Twitter accounts got hacked and I
don't know how much access they had to their phones but like how much
information these hackers were able to get before then like I'm worried for
them and what might come out or what might get Lee to just just little DMS
that you could send or text messages can be just twisted taken out of context
like we saw this happen with James Charles with this talk to Westbrook
situation that happened right like Jim Charles they had this inside joke about
I'm a celebrity and then talk to us what kind of twisted that so like if they had
access to their DMS like that could potentially become an issue but like I
said both James Charles and Shane Dawson has had like the internet hate mob come
after them for different things and here's one of the reasons I feel bad for
them like Shane Dawson we've all seen it he's had to explain things that he did
in the past like when he had more edgy humor and stuff like that those things
still come up and now there are going to be
shots out there things that came from Shane's Twitter account when he got
hacked and now he's gonna have to explain that right like I just imagined
you know two three four years from now somebody pulling these hacked tweets
from Shane Dawson and then trying to accuse him of being a racist like it's
messed up all right so I made a video the other day that really hasn't gotten
that many views but like here's one of the issues with just bad actors on the
internet a journalist by the name of Taylor Lorenz she she got doxxed you
know and this is something that we have to worry about as creators
so like any creators watching this like I highly recommend you talk with local
law enforcement see what you could do to prevent being swatted that is much more
dangerous than people of you know guys you know in incidents like that but also
daxing like do whatever you can to scrub the Internet of your private information
like there are some companies that do it and I'm not sure what the company's
names are I just kind of went through and did it myself but it's something I
don't worry about like once you have people who disagree with your opinions
online or don't like who you are like having a Republican from me or your
private information out there it can be very dangerous so the last thing I want
to talk about is VPNs so some of you have probably heard of VPNs and just by
the way no this is not sponsored but Nord VPN or Express V pit if you're
watching this video I want to sponsor brother you know where v be all right
but VPNs are very helpful um you've probably seen a lot of youtubers be
sponsored by VPNs like Nord VPN or expressvpn I know Philip DeFranco has
been sponsored by him drew Gooden he was just sponsored by like expressvpn
I think Liam lush so basically what this does is it masks your IP address all
right now I'm a little bit of a computer nerd so bear with me if this gets a
little too nerdy for you by 2019 so I think a lot of people know this stuff so
if you have an internet connection you have an IP address
all right and that IP address can be traced back to your physical address and
this is an instance where I've seen many people get doxed or people get swatted
because they weren't protecting their IP address so what a VPN does is it makes
it look like you're in a different location like when I show my location it
could say that I'm in like Germany or something you see what I mean
so that's what VPNs are helpful now something that I heard but I'm not sure
cuz I'm not a hacker I heard it's easier to find your IP
address when you're doing live streams alright so like whenever I do a live
stream if I'm just doing like a Q&A or streaming video games or whatever I make
sure I turn on the VPN because it can be easier to hack you while you're live
streaming so if this is something that you're worried about I highly suggest
you check them out and and like support creators like I said a lot of creators
have been sponsored by these companies not me but some of the people I listed
go find theirs use their code and like how did you support creators if they
have a link for a service that you're going to use like use their link because
it helps support them so even if you can't like do that patreon or buy their
merch or whatever if it's something that you're already buying use that it helps
support the creators like when I built my website recently I used Squarespace
and I love philipdefranco so I found one of his videos where he was sponsored by
Squarespace and used it but anyways I hope this information helps some of you
out there kind of protect yourself and I hope youtubers out there you kind of
think about this stuff again if you have a TMT like find out about this hopefully
this is something that AT&T fixes if there's anything I left out on how to
kind of protect yourself and protect your online safety like let just have a
conversation down in the comments below because I'm sure there are many many
things that I miss but anyways I hope the best for Shane Dawson and James
Charles I hope they catch this chuckling gang or whatever they call their little
squad of mist I hope these guys get caught and it's
made an example of you know what I mean but anyways don't don't encourage this
type of behavior it's it's it ain't cool well I think it's like I said my new
book canceled is out now I dive into YouTube cancer culture internet mob
mentality psychology behind it and a bunch of different instances that have
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