every year approximately 300 patients
are admitted to Murphy's Psychiatric
Institute most of them suffer from
severe cases of schizophrenia depression
and other well-known mental disorders
however from time to time specialist
from Murphy's Institute are confronted
with yet undiscovered cases that become
the object of scientific research this
was the case of young Peter also known
as Peter vlogs 851 whose condition led
to the discovery of one of the most
dangerous mental disorders of the 21st
century peter was a typical kid he had a
happy childhood he was popular amongst
disappears as my only child he meant the
world to me Laura Higgins is a single
mother who lived happily with her son in
the small town of Sanford Maine things
started to get worse after his 18th
birthday I got him a camera for his 18th
birthday he always dreamt of making
videos and I thought this would be the
perfect gift for him what seemed like an
innocent present from a loving mother
triggered a series of shocking events
that nobody expected
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you guys I'm super excited today cuz I'm
gonna go to my friend's house and we're
gonna play some Xbox guess what we have
for breakfast today he was doing all of
these stupid things and pretending to be
happy even though he wasn't his life
became like a fake show for a few
thousand people on the internet and I
really started to worry about him
Peters behavior was changing fast he
often acted irrationally and came up
with pointless scenarios his condition
was about to get worse not only did the
daily vlogging worsen the relationship
with his mother
it also impacted Peters social life it
was an ordinary Friday in Sanford Maine
when he crossed the line I remember that
day as if it was yesterday it was my
birthday I had invited all my friends
including Peter I had never expected him
to do something like that what am I
gonna buy her chocolate or cosmetics
guys help me out leave a comment down
below what do you think is a better
present for Caitlin I wish I had never
invited him he brought his camera and
never turned it off we had no privacy
he was so fake and overhyped we can't
believe that this is the Peter that we
all liked he was acting differently and
there was something wrong with him and
he completely ruined the entire party
and that's when I knew that I had lost
my Pez none of Peters friends knew
exactly what was happening inside his
head
however they suspected there may be an
underlying health issue causing him to
act irrationally after the party they
told Peters mom that he should seek
medical attention they came at the right
time I wasn't sure if Peters behavior
was considered normal and
there are hundreds of daily vloggers on
the internet but the concerns of his
closest friends finally convinced me
that it was time for Peter to see a
doctor the first stop was Maine Medical
Center where Peter visited his primary
care physician dr. Richard pounder
physically he appeared fine
his blood pressure and respiratory rate
were normal we found no traces of drugs
in his urine and there were no obvious
signs of a physical problem what
concerned me however was that he was
recording the entire examination due to
his unusual behavior I decided to refer
him to a neurologist and I also
suggested that he seeks out a new
primary care doctor Peter wasn't just
going through a phase these were the
telltale symptoms of a much bigger
problem inside his head he was sent to
Murphy's psychiatric institute where he
met with dr. Luka Moretti a
neuroscientist who specializes in rare
brain diseases my thirty years of
practice I have never seen a case quite
like Peters we conducted a series of
tests and when the results came in I was
shocked I knew we were on the verge of a
disturbing discovery
persistent visual stimuli due to his
constant vlogging caused an
oversaturation of his occipital lobe
which somehow caused a majority of a
super marginal gyrus to disappear this
part of the brain is responsible for
empathy common sense and emotional
intelligence in other words Peter became
an [ __ ] we began to examine more
daily vloggers and the symptoms were
always the same these people cannot
distinguish what is interesting and what
is not they think that everything in
their life is interesting
from going to the gym to eating cereal
to go into the toilet apart from that
this shows signs of aggression and lack
of emotions while off-camera which may
be considered as a severe bipolarism the
research of dr. Maura T's team found an
even more alarming fact about daily
vloggers the area around their occipital
lobe was shrinking the more they've
logged which meant that long-term daily
vloggers had no brain at all
we were fully aware that this might be
the most dangerous mental disorder would
ever encounter but how does a regular
person become a daily vlogger to find
the answer we need to go back to the
year 2016 in 2016 YouTube significantly
changed their algorithms it involved two
major fundamental alterations in their
system firstly videos longer than 10
minutes got hugely promoted as YouTube
made more money and playing more hats
secondly YouTube started to promote
channels that constantly upload new
content again for financial reasons
these two modifications set the
foundation for a new type of content
daily vlogs took over the entire
platform at that time a lot of channels
have been struggling with these vine got
cancelled and suddenly had this exciting
new type of content that in most cases
didn't require any creativity or effort
and could potentially make a lot of
money that's why many people especially
those with no talent started daily
vlogging by the end of 2017 there were
thousands of daily vloggers Peter
basically the patient zero of the daily
vlogging was our initial hope we
immediately started with an alternative
treatments the unconventional therapy
methods involved taking away Peters
camera and admitting him in to Murphy's
Psychiatric Institute it was the most
difficult time of my life I was crying
every single day I knew he was suffering
so much
the treatment wasn't working he became
even more aggressive and threatened to
kill himself in his next vlog we opted
for the drastic solution great surgery
the idea was to place a super marginal
gyrus of a donor inside Peters brain and
filled the blank space damaged by daily
vlogging initial setbacks with finding a
donor forced doctors to appeal to Peters
fan community the brain donor was found
within hours and it was time for one of
the riskiest surgeries in the history of
Medicine
Peter surgery lasted 820 hours and it
was a stunning success he recovered
surprisingly fast and today he lives as
a healthy young man
I like Kenji and I like spider-man
unfortunately we weren't able to find
the clock was ticking and it's all the
subscriber six-year-old Matthew Reynolds
offered to donate his brain with the
permission of his parents we had no
other option I couldn't be happier Peter
maybe mentally to us now but at least
he's not daily vlogging anymore
so what are the prospects of finding a
cure and putting a stop to daily
vlogging in order to prevent pandemic
with the latest ad policy updates that
permit only the monetization of
family-friendly videos I'm concerned
that daily vlogging may become even more
popular as it's the definition of vague
politically correct content with no
value
I fear that without a cure we may be
plummeting into a world of darkness and
stupidity
even though research is still
preliminary at this point I'm confident
that we will find a cure for daily
vlogging but these leads us to more
disturbing question and perhaps an even
more comprehensive study what about the
people watching these vlogs
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