listen at the end of the day I want everybody to sit back and ask himself
one question what would etika want you to do what's up everybody this is Chris
from the rewired soul where we talk about the problem but focus on the
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learn to improve our own mental and emotional well-being and something that
I'm extremely passionate about is mental health and I'll be talking about that a
lot in this video but anyways if you're into any of that stuff make sure you
subscribe and bring that notification belt so yeah a lot has been going on and
I've been debating on making this video about keemstar but yeah let's let's
discuss because ever since the tragic news about etiqa keemstar has been just
in the forefront getting so much flack so much attention aside from the idiocy
that j station did but anyways let's talk about this all right and I want to
preface this whole video by saying like I have one of the longest track records
of openly speaking out about the insane terrible things that keemstar said
perpetuating the mental health stigma I've made plenty of videos about it in
the past keemstar is not a fan of mine so let's
let's run down some of the history and there's probably things that I'm going
to miss I first started speaking out against the way keemstar talks about
mental illness I think it was last year around this time when the whole
fouseytube thing was happening right like all of us watching the situation we
knew we knew that phousi was going through some type of manic episode
fouseytube has talked about how he's been diagnosed with bipolar how we
stopped taking his medications everything like that
and yeah we we saw the entire doc you series that keemstar made you know since
he you know thought that was a great idea because of what you know Shane
Dawson just got all that fame from but anyways like one of the things that was
concerning was like that interview that he did with fouseytube
after the whole situation but himself constantly talks trash about people with
mental health issues now one of the most recent things was some of you might
remember this some of you don't the cube so it was on Twitter talking about how
social anxiety is fake right and he and he said that he wanted to make a new
docu-series in anybody who struggles with social anxiety make a video
discussing your experience with social anxiety right and a lot of people made
videos and I think they titled it like keemstar I have anxiety so his whole
thing was I don't think this is a real thing people just get nervous around
other people right well one of the other things that happened most recently was
he ended up taking down a video that he made about Deji and ksi and all that
drama and everything and this was just right before what happened to Etica but
anyways he was spouting off about Deji blaming mental health issues even though
i don't think that's what desi was saying but keemstar got so much pushback
because he was talking about how people blame their mental health on everything
now obviously the thing that everybody is bringing up is the interview that
keemstar did with etiquette and I talked about that when it happened like I
thought that was ridiculous I thought that was irresponsible and cube sauce
been on Twitter defending himself for what he he did and why he interviewed
Etica and like here's the thing like I I'm a huge advocate for Hamlin's razor
which is do not attribute to malice which could easily be attributed to
stupidity in my opinion watching keemstar over this long
he doesn't know anything about mental health or mental illness and I'm really
hoping this situation opened his eyes but anyways he was like will the doctors
released and so he was fucking normal to me so I thought it was ok to interview
him and here's what I want to say to that like interviewing Etica on drama
alert like right after that like that is like somebody just having some kind of
surgery and then roughhousing with them right after you know what I mean even if
that person told you they were fine like the situation that Etica was in like
having a standoff with the police like they were beating down his door he had
to go to the hospital you know what I mean like like within 24 hours of his
release like this is why just more people need to be educated about mental
health like we need to understand how this thing works and that's one of the
reasons why I try to you know explain mental health the same as physical
health you know what I mean like if this was somebody this was somebody who just
went to the hospital for some kind of surgery you wouldn't do that right after
like it would click for you right this is why we need to spread awareness and
discuss these things but here's the thing like I saw the two mad video I
know a lot of other people have - and I want to say this for the most part I
1000% agree with twomad like keemstar has been an issue on this platform for
years now and it blows my mind that people even still support him alright
let me make that very clear but here's the thing when it comes to blaming
keemstar with Etika like I think I feel personally that a lot of us need to
chill a little bit on that and like I said at the beginning of this video in
the intro like what would edit I want you to do like I've experienced so much
death in my life alright and those of you who don't know
me like I am a recovering drug addict and alcoholic I've lost many friends to
the disease of addiction I worked in addiction treatment for a little over
three years many people to overdoses and suicides
and something I try to do when it comes to honoring their memories like what
would they want me to do how would they want me to live you know what I mean
but when it comes to blame like I get it like everybody's going through pain
right now losing somebody there's a lot of pain and I talked about this in
previous videos but we're all looking for people to blame and here's the thing
keemstar is the easiest target he's just the easiest target he is a
face where we can point the finger at him and said this was your fault and
here's one of the reasons why I'm empathetic towards Kim start getting all
that blame because working in drug and alcohol treatment center like we we
would do everything we could right like we weren't doing what King Saul was
doing obviously but we would do everything we could for a client right
therapy groups one on one support love forgiveness everything you can imagine
medications that they would get from the doctors for their mental illness and
sometimes people would leave treatment make the decision to go out and relapse
and they would overdose and people want to blame the treatment center right and
something I mentioned in a video I did the other day which a lot of people
understood but some people didn't and I I just want to clarify that is there's
only so much we can do for one another and that's one of the trickiest things
about mental health like something I learned from my own personal addiction
like no amount of love and affection was going to keep me sober it wasn't gonna
keep me clean I had a son I had friends and family members who loved me so much
and I still didn't want to live anymore you know what I mean and that's why I
just do not believe in the idea of blaming somebody for this because there
are so many contributing factors to this and the part that kind of bugs me and
it's been on my mind is how many people out there do
think our spamming keemstar blaming keemstar but they were the same people
making memes when Etica was first having his mental breakdown tonight that's one
of the things about the internet it gives everybody this anonymity like
we're not commentary channels like myself we're not gonna make a video
about you and what you've done you know what I mean so so many people are hiding
behind this mask and so many things were contributing to the issue right because
if we want to we can blame the hospital of that Etica went to we could blame the
doctors who released him we could blame so many things and like here's the thing
I just recently watched the debates and I'm gonna be talking more about politics
and everything like that like if mental health is on the forefront of your mind
now okay like get involved and start voting okay
because there are so many things and that's what I try to educate people
about mental health there are so many different components of like the mental
health care system how we treat one another that stigma and all these other
things and we need to make changes in policies here in the United States so
people get the help they need and part of it comes from educating people all
right like there were so many things that were going on when Annika was first
missing or even before then where people were just purely ignorant to what was
going on so we need to educate ourselves about this stuff but pointing the
fingers and blaming and everything like that like I try to think like would
Etica what I think I want everybody attacking keemstar like I think Etica
would think it's hilarious like I didn't know him but I think you would think
it's hilarious that people are like span and came Stover like cockroaches and
things like that but I don't think that he would want people blaming keemstar
for what happened you know what I mean so anyways I just really felt the need
to make this video I'm not a still not a fan of King star and I think he should
be punished for some of the things that he's done in the past but putting the
blame on somebody for a dad it's just it's it's a little much
alright but anyways that's all I got for this video I'll see you guys in the next
one