one of the biggest conspiracies that happened in 2018 involved the commentary
community as well as YouTube as a whole and this is one conspiracy that Shane
Dawson won't even touch and what we're talking about today is better hope one
who what you are about to watch may make you question everything you thought you
knew viewer discretion is advised this is Chris from the rewired soul where we
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started if you have not watched the video that I made last week about
Angelica oles the commentary community as well as crowd psychology turn this
video off pause it come back to it I'm gonna link that video up in the info
card down in the description and down to the pin comments you need to watch that
video and understand what happened with this whole quote/unquote scandal before
you understand what I'm talking about in this video right here alright but for
those of you who were on YouTube watching YouTube like in 2018 you you
obviously know what I'm talking about there was this huge better help scandal
and the reason why I'm using air quotes is because this was absolutely
ridiculous this was ridiculous as somebody who's been a fan of like you
know crime shows and I realize crime like the the ridiculous conspiracy going
around about better help online therapy would never ever in a million years hold
up in court and that might be the reason why none of
this ever went to court because it was absolutely ridiculous so those of you
who don't know what better help is better help is an online therapy
platform all right tons and tons and tons of creators were promoting it
including myself and then this pretty much all started to my knowledge with
the channel mammalogy 101 he saw that a bunch of creators were promoting better
health saying they were to pass and he started doing some digging
alright and this blew up every commentator channel on earth sort of
covering that better helpless some sort of scam alright even some of the biggest
creators on the platform like boogie2988 as well as philip defranco ended their
partnership with better help because of everything going on and philip defranco
actually had a closer relationship what better help because not only was he
promoting it but he was helping link better help up with creators to promote
the service even more alright but i'm gonna come back to boogie2988 as well as
philip defranco a little bit later but as this was all going on i was watching
so many commentary channels try to use the most ridiculous weak evidence to
talk about how better help is a scam not only random commentary channels but you
even had keemstar team star this guy with millions of subscribers on drama
alert calling this thing a scam and then going on ranting on and on other podcast
with absolutely no strong evidence like commentary channels were reaching so
much there came a point there came a point and if you miss this like let me
explain how ridiculous this guy there came a point where people were making
entire videos trying to link the YouTube creator Kati Morton to potentially
owning part of better help and they were using some of the most ridiculous
theories like I don't understand how people weren't watching these videos and
saying oh my god this is a reach alright like this reach went so far that your
hand would go off the edge of the Flat Earth that's how far that reach went one
of the main reasons this entire conspiracy was so ridiculous was because
everybody was pointing to the Terms of Service alright the loosely worded Terms
of Service okay this was the smoking gun that all of the commentary channels
thought they had against better help with some Terms of Service like sit back
and ask yourself real quick alright if we went through every company's tons of
service and use that as a gauge of whether or not we
weren't gonna use that company you probably wouldn't use a single app on
your freaking smartphone like let's look let's just compare this to some other
stuff that's been going on in the YouTube community all right okay so you
have better hope on one end where people are pointing to a loosely worded Terms
of Service but then you have kenza Cosmetics okay where the evidence was
there the evidence was there that people were not receiving their products not
only was that there but people were not receiving products that were of an $80
value okay for some people that $10 shipping cost was not just ten dollars
all right there was proof there was evidence there was people freaking about
it out about it online all right then let's look at the most recent one with
Weiss come in Jake Paul the whole mystery brand thing okay not only was
this promoting gambling to children but they were trying to convince people that
by buying their ridiculous mystery boxes you might get a mansion worth 250
million dollars all right but then you have better help over here which blew up
bigger than anything else because of the way a Terms of Service was worded not
only is that ridiculous but but in November of 2018 just to appease some
people better help went back and rewarded their Terms of Service and
here's what they said today we are happy to share with you the new terms and
conditions and privacy policy for better health instead of patching and fixing we
decided to take this opportunity to completely rewrite them we wanted to
make sure they don't just please lawyers but also resonate with everyone to
clarify nothing has changed in the way we do things we continue to go above and
beyond what's required by laws regulations and industry standards as we
always have we continue to take extensive measures to ensure that all
the counselors on the platform are credentialed and licensed as we always
have basically what they're saying is they only reworded these things for you
all right the reasons that I have backed better
hope this entire time is because of all the people who were a
promoting it or be trying to discredit it I am one of the only people on this
platform who has actually worked in the mental health field
aside from Kati Morton what they worded in their Terms of Service is nothing
it's you guys I was working at a drug and alcohol treatment center for over
three years where people would come into the facility drunk and high and sign
stacks of papers this thick okay while under the influence signing papers that
thick no clue what they were signing all right but it was a very credible
facility I do you want to make that clear but I'm just trying to get this
point across to you okay there were things in there like hey if like the
blanket that you brought here gets stolen we're not responsible for it okay
so just to make that perfectly clear not only that but my girlfriend Tristan uses
the service some of my best friends use this service I personally use the
service and we are people who look into these therapists and currently working
with a therapist who is licensed here in the state of Nevada and she is amazing
alright the other reason that I'm so passionate about this is because I'm
trying to make sure that people get help yes I am an affiliate of better help so
when people sign up through my better help affiliate link I get a little bit
in return all right but I am trying to provide people with a resource that they
can get help with and I have heard some of the most crazy mental health stories
all right did you know that right now in Florida and this has been going on for
years there are shady drug treatment centers
that are purposely getting people high making them relapse on drugs just so
they can check them back into their crappy rehab and milk the insurance
money all right people are going to jail for
this but the commentary community here on YouTube wanted to go after better
help because of some Terms of Service don't you think is better hopeless a
scam they would have a terrible rating at the BBB which is the Better Business
Bureau well that's not the case what seeing right here on the screen is that
better help has an A+ rating with an average of four and a half stars don't
you think if this was a scam that weighting would be a little bit lower
don't you think if better hope was a scam you couldn't even go anywhere on
YouTube with tons and tons and tons of people who had used this service talking
about how they had been scammed how they were working with somebody who wasn't
even really a therapist don't you think everybody would try to
get their 15 minutes of fame by talking about this no that's not it but not the
case and here's the other thing I'm actually making another video about this
at a later point in time but every time I get a comment on my channel saying
there's a better hope a scam I ask the person if they use this service 100% of
their time I've asked hundreds of people and all of them all of them say no okay
well some others do something else but that's for the next video all right but
don't you think don't you think if better help is a scam with millions and
millions and millions and millions of people hearing about this scam don't you
think all of the influencers on the platform who were promoting this service
would be getting flooded by being tagged in tweets or getting DMS right because
the influencers were scamming their audience don't believe me look what
happened to Gabby Hanover Kenza cosmetics it was publicly known that her
fans were reaching out to her talking about how they felt betrayed when was
the last time you heard somebody say that about an influencer because they
signed up for better help don't worry I'll wait like come on people like it
bugs me so so much because it just seems like people aren't using logic like what
I talked about in the Angelica O's video like just because a lot of people are
saying it does not mean it's true and this is what breaks my heart about
people like boogie2988 and philip defranco these people with such
influence such massive amounts of influences cut off their ties with
better help because of a ridiculous conspiracy theory that is absolutely
bonkers not only we're both boogie and philip defranco using the service but
philip defranco had friends and family members using the service without a
problem but he did it it's like exclusively for PR reasons
that absolutely sucks now people aren't getting help because of this all right
yes I know that they were therapist in your area but here's something that
people don't understand all right like do you know how many people are ad
or filming do you know how many people have the type of anxiety where it's not
as easy for them to talk in person to somebody do you know that there are some
people who have to drive an hour or two hours to their nearest therapist better
help and online therapy platforms like it give people an opportunity to get
therapy when they couldn't before I could literally just pick apart a ton of
different commentary videos that were thrashing better help with no good
evidence but I'm not going to in this video so here's what I suggest all right
I would like to call out my buddy I never Fraser actually it's not really
a buddy he's more of an acquaintance actually Frasier if you watch this I
consider you a friend if you're my friend
anyways I would like him to interview me he did a phenomenal job with Gabby
Hannah and I know I know for a fact he will ask me anything and have no problem
asking me he was one of the people who actually covered better help so if you
would like I never to interview me about this topic go ahead and tweet at him
alright and leave your comments down below I have no problem answering
anything about this service well I will not answer for other youtubers I will
answer any questions as it relates to better help how it works
to my knowledge because I'm not a representative of better help but I will
also explain why some of the things work the way they do because I have worked in
the mental health field alright so if you would like I never to interview me
go ahead and let them know alright but anyways that's all I got for this video
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