hi everyone I hope you're all well so unless you have been living on mars for the last week
and a half will smith slapped chris rock across the face at the oscars because he made a pretty
insipid joke about his wife jada pinkett smith now you may be wondering daisy why are you so
late to the party on this topic why are you making a video about it just now well the answer to that
question is that initially i thought the slap was fake fakedy fakedy fake fake fake yep i was so
certain the whole thing was staged that i talked to twitter twice two days in a row to say so
now when i made those statements about the slap being staged a number of people were actually
quite upset with me i mean it certainly looked real as a lot of people pointed out
so i figure i should provide some clarity as to why i didn't have much faith in the um genuineness
of the situation my first thought when i saw it was that's fake because literally nobody would
do that in this situation in real life i mean that's absurd in that situation my second thought
was it seemed to me like a well-choreographed piece of stage combat let's revisit the moment
jaina i love you g.i jane 2 can't wait to see it all right
it's javascript that was a nice one okay i'm out here oh richard
oh wow wow will smith just smack the [ __ ] out of me
wow dude yeah it was a g.i james keep my wife's name out your mouth i'm going to okay
so i could oh okay
that was a greatest night in the history of television okay what went through my head
was that's not a punch that's a slap it glanced off chris rock's chin rather than hitting him
full in the face he dodged well to the side and his feet didn't move and i figured if you were
actually hit in the face with that amount of force by someone the size of will smith
you'd at least you know stagger or fall to the ground and put up your hands to steady yourself
and also it didn't actually sound like a slap it sounded kind of like a thunk as such i was
fairly sure that to create that sound either will smith or chris rock had surreptitiously
whacked their chest or back as they do in stage combat to make the scene seem more real and the
final reason i thought it was staged was because strange moments like that at award shows are
at least some of the time rehearsed and the incident i had in mind occurred at the 2014
mtv music awards at which zac efron won one of the more frivolous awards best shirtless performance
here's what happened when he accepted his award thank you so much guys this is uh
this is an awesome what i don't know i really don't know what to say but thank you
thank you so much to my fans
side note i know there will be many of you who will be pointing out the double standard
of people's reactions to objectifying men versus objectifying women and look
i get it believe me i do but that's a whole other video so please don't get annoyed if i
don't address it in this video anyway that whole thing looked pretty spontaneous yes
well not according to cameron diaz kate upton and leslie mann who appeared on australian tv
in the days after the awards show and this is what they had to say both of those things are scripted
i'm sure he knew that i think he would guarantee you a thousand percent well you could say that
he had a tan on down to his waist which means he obviously knew he was getting the shoulders
for the mystery and if you look closely zac efron does in fact have fake tan down to his
waistline as for the reason i thought will smith and chris rock and actually of course jada pinkett
smith as well would stage such an incident well i thought it could be for two reasons first and
most obvious i figured that the academy of motion picture arts and sciences must have
been inundated as well in order to create some notoriety around award shows i mean people have
largely tuned out of award shows over the last few years particularly 2020 and 2021
the ratings have really tanked but before we go into why they have tanked i am doing something
really fun in a couple of weeks that i would love you to be part of i am singing yes i sing
in a virtual concert on april 20th which will be streamed from sydney australia it is a wonderful
collection of the best of british starring not just me but two other incredible performers
if i should plant a tiny seed of love in the garden of your heart
the young married lady who was very much inclined to be just a little indiscreet
the stream will be available from 7pm australian eastern time and you have a 72-hour viewing period
so if you're not available exactly when it streams that's fine you can watch it anytime you want over
the next three days tickets for the stream are 24 australian dollars which is about 17 us dollars
and if you want access to the stream you must purchase your ticket prior to the concert i have
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so you can figure out when it's on in your hometown please click the link and book yourself
a ticket i would absolutely love for you to virtually be there it is going to be a whole lot
of fun so why have the awards show ratings tanked i think there are a few reasons first there's the
completely unbearable work strain that always runs through the whole thing second hollywood is not
the only place that people get their entertainment from anymore the advent of streaming services and
social media influences has created a new kind of celebrity and as such people's interest in what
hollywood heavyweights are doing has been diluted so to speak hence the general lack of interest in
award shows nowadays so since the academy relies on the ratings of shows like the oscars for a
lot of their funding i think it would be in their best financial interest to you know generate some
interest even if it did involve someone literally slapping someone in the face they don't call it
holy weird for nothing the second reason i thought it could be stage was if yada pinkett smith had
some sort of alopecia activism she was planning and that she and will wanted to start it off with
a bang with chris rock as the willing fall guy again would not pass it past those in hollywood
to do something like that celebrity activists will stop at nothing we know this right up to
the point where i can you know easily see them smacking each other in the face for a cause
again they don't call it holy weird for nothing however a few days after the oscars i began to
have some doubts and no they weren't because of will smith's heartfelt apology 24 hours later that
i assumed was a carefully timed publicity stunt to keep the incident alive in the media and they
weren't even generated by the fact the academy started conducting a disciplinary proceeding
against will smith again could very easily be explained away as another publicity stunt
see what little faith i now have in people i wasn't even swayed when people pointed out that
it made no sense for a will smith to deliberately lose his career over this because as if his career
is going to be ruined he's will smith he's one of hollywood's mr nice guys i thought that any dent
in his career like the fact he recently has had a number of projects put on ice after the incident
would be temporary also dare i say it he's not a white man his rage would be explained away by the
wookies in the media as a reaction to hundreds of years of racism and oppression and a complex
situation with three members of black hollywood spelled with a capital b that white people simply
shouldn't comment on which incidentally and jumping forward a bit is exactly what happened
anyway winding back the first doubt came when i read that despite the academy benefiting
financially from award show ratings they already have a pretty sizable war chest accumulated over
many years so i thought hmm if they aren't really bothered money-wise by low ratings would they
really go to such extreme lengths to generate new interest but the moment i knew the incident must
alarmingly be real was when will smith resigned from the academy and checked himself into rehab
now while i can imagine a celebrity faking a rehab stint for the lols on the clout
they simply would not resign from the academy of motion picture arts and scientists it's just too
prestigious i mean no celebrity would deliberately downgrade themselves like that not for any kind
of publicity stunt as such i had no choice but to admit to myself that i was in fact
wrong wrong that is wrong and he did the wrong thing wrong that is absolutely wrong and that
hashtag slap gate was in fact real and not staged and oh my goodness does that raise a few problems
first and most obvious will smith needs to be in rehab for an extremely long time i don't care what
anyone says about yatta pinkett smith and their relationship and the way that she allegedly treats
him etc etc etc you do not just walk up and slap someone in the face particularly someone smaller
than you i mean will smith is a lot bigger than chris rock because he made a joke you didn't like
even for someone in an allegedly weird relationship with a lot of history the reaction
of a normal person is to take the jokes to aside after the event express your displeasure and ask
for an apology that will smith's first reaction notably though after getting side a from jada
was to resort to violence indicates in my opinion that he needs to be kept under supervision for a
reasonable chunk of time and roundly therapized lest he hurt someone else or himself it is a
bad bad thing that he did and absolutely nothing excuses it which brings me to the second problem
way too many people or defending this action is somehow an acceptable reaction including
people on the left who just a couple of years ago who screaming that kind of male behavior
was toxic masculinity and should be hammered out of men from the time their little boys seriously
what smith did was not chivalrous it was sexist in the fact that it was possessive it was all my
wife don't talk to my wife that way i decide how people talk to her i'm the gatekeeper and before
anyone says oh daisy you are being unfair to men here who naturally have a protector instinct to
defend their wives there is a difference between the instinct to leap into action to defend your
wife's honor and acting like the gatekeeper of how she's interacted with which brings me to the third
problem the number of people on the left defending this action which if they were consistent in their
ideology they would be condemning is a real life reflection of the fact they genuinely believe
words are violence don't like words meet them with violence because words you don't like are
inherently violent so all you're doing after all by being violent in return is defending yourself
it's an incredibly insidious attitude and yet we are watching it unfold in front of our eyes
as for yata pink at smith's role in this much has been said already namely that they're in a kind of
open relationship that she subjugates him that she forces him to talk with her publicly about
her extramarital liaisons and that the slap was a combination of that frustration plus will smith
trying to take his manhood back etc etc now while that may be true i reckon it's more like a toxic
quasi-mummy complex will seems to try and try to please her to measure up and yet his efforts
are continually met with disappointment for example the day after her 37th birthday i hired
a teen to orchestrate her 40th birthday i hired a documentary team i traced mommy's family roots
her 40th birthday was going to be my thing this is going to be a splash there's going to be a splash
mary j blige mary j blige performed i debuted the film all of that it was going to be the
thing that lifted her out of this midlife crisis and she was going to be my deepest most beautiful
proclamation of love and she's told me that the party was the most ridiculous display of my ego
right and to this day i know i was crushed because it was true all in all i think that
episode reveals what we all already knew that behind the glitz and glamour and the
workness and the virtue signaling lies a cabal of people who are largely diabolical
and while for the most part they do a good job at hiding it that slap incident was a
teeny bit of it leaking out the sides as denzel washington said to will smith after the slap
in your highest moments be careful that's when the devil comes for you and ultimately you don't
get to that level of fame and fortune without making a few deals with the devil along the way
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