so I was doing some more research into various kpop bands and like going
through and checking out different articles and videos and things like that
and seeing how exhausted they are and there's compilations of the fainting and
collapsing on stage like and what I use this video as an opportunity to kind of
start a conversation what is up everybody this is Chris from the rewired
soul where we talk about the problem but focus on the solution and if you're new
to my channel what I'd like to do is pulled into topics from pop culture and
try to see what kind of lessons we can learn from them so if you're into that
stuff make sure you subscribe and ring that notification bell so yeah like kpop
is something that I'm trying to learn more about and understand like I'm
always just fascinated with you know society and just like how our minds work
and what grabs people's attention and things like that and something that's
been like a phenomenon is kpop and it's everywhere and I'm like okay well what's
going on so I've been trying to understand you know I did a video about
B - yes and trying to see like you know what the fan base is like what's what's
drawing people to them but something I've heard about just watching channels
like Philip DeFranco and some other news channels something I've heard about is
just the conditions in which kpop stars like work under and they're exhausted
and I was just researching this and one of the things I came across was you know
these compilation videos of kpop stars being so exhausted that they're fainting
and collapsing on stage and this led me to do some more research and I'm
deciding ok what else is going on and there's entire videos and compilations
just about like this dark side of kpop in South Korea I saw one about you know
a group I think it's called the east light and they were being abusers talk
about abusing you know these young kids is like a baton like strangling with
like guitar strings and then there's talk of like prostitution and by plastic
surgery that is sometimes not even like the k-pop stars idea to do it we're
talking about these things called like slave contracts
talking about 20-hour days and I've seen them like holy crap
right so I'm just sitting here and I'm thinking about this and like I I'm not
you know putting like a hardcore opinion on this but like I mentioned in the
intro I kind of want to just discuss this to start a conversation because
something that just fascinates me just about all of us is just the lack of
connectedness that we have and you have something like kpop which a lot of
people have asked me to start doing videos on which I'm trying to do we're
trying to learn more about because of the positive message that they send out
there and the you know positivity and I've seen comments on like my own videos
and I've done lately and people saying like oh my god you know I love their
music so much it's hope you know brighten up my day somebody even said
like it helped like save their daughter's life and all that I'm like
man this is powerful this is such a good thing right but when you're seeing what
the k-pop stars are going through it's like we're you know what well we have
with this thing because it's like they're going through such horrendous
things to give us this thing that we want weak way if we need whether it's
being connected with their music or just having you know these like ultra stars
to kind of look up to and be excited about so like where's that balance
because they're influencing millions and millions of millions and millions of
people and brightening up their day and bringing smiles to faces but like
they're suffering at the cost of this right so the first thing I want to talk
about is just us as a society and I think about this stuff um like I don't
know where you know my clothes came from you know my pants my shoes not my socks
I don't know who made those things right like did they come from you know a
sweatshop is it from like a place with like good working conditions like what
is going on I look at you know I have an iPhone and what are the conditions like
there and do I research it as much and for
like that ignorance is bliss like I don't want to know where this came from
I don't know I don't want to know the story behind this I know what I don't
want to know about those working conditions because these things make my
life better so do I not want to know so should we be investigating it more like
just going back to the topic of clothes and things like that I don't know if any
of you watch last week tonight with John Oliver but he had a whole episode on the
clothing industry and I just watching that it has me just like rethinking all
these things so I don't know what the solution that is like do I research
everything that I buy wear these clothes coming from how are they made all those
things and then part of it is when you look at that
it honestly jacks up the price right so we as people since we're so disconnected
like what do we do when we look at like this cheap price you know like and it's
it's difficult because we don't want to talk about that stuff we don't want to
think about those things so we're listening to like kpop music and it's
pretty well known like what they're going through right so I don't know if
BTS is like I don't know not having these issues if they're just
everything's great for them like I don't know what that is you know but it even
goes to like the foods we eat and I and when I talk about this stuff like again
I'm just trying to present a conversation because I'm a vegetarian
right I'm not one of those moral high-ground vegetarians I'm like you
awful person right if you want to eat meat do yo thing right but like it came
to a point for me like I'd mainly started become being a vegetarian mainly
for health reasons six and a half years ago I had congestive heart failure
so some blood pressure issues going meat-free has helped me out a lot I'm
not 100% vegan they helped me out a lot but then like the more I looked at
things and thought about things I'm just like okay like are you know factory
farms is that something that I want to you know be a part of because the more
we feed into that the more they're going to keep creating it right so with kpop
stars getting all these fans and making so much money
you know it doesn't really tell the the music industry that we don't want this
right so I don't know what the solution to that is like when kpop stars are so
exhausted that they're fainting and collapsing on stage it's like but
they're fainting and collapsing in front of thousands and thousands of people
filling up stadiums and things like that so that goes back to like this kind of
positive reinforcement we are as a society feeding into that but the other
topic I want to go into is the price that so many people pay for fame you
know what I mean and and this can go back to like childhood so something that
I was learning about in my my research is that like they started grew these
these kids so you know within this span when they become like teenagers or
whatever they'll be these like k-pop stars or always try to be k-pop stars so
a lot of this like we've already seen it happen in like Hollywood with talent
actors and everything like that like now that I'm an adult and I've seen so many
child actors just completely like fall and just you know get into drugs and
just have mental health issues and all that I look at that and when it comes to
kids I'm thinking about the parents and the parents pushing this on their kids
because most kids don't even know what they want to do or they know what they
want to do but if you're an adult like think about how many times those things
change but for the children or even teenagers or even people in their 20s or
even us me and you like what is the cost of that thing that dream that we want to
pursue is it worth it so it's very well-known because even like even though
I'm not like fully into like kpop like I've known about these these working
conditions I was like I said I've seen stories I'm Philip DeFranco so if these
k-pop stars know what it's like why are they getting into that right and then
that all goes back to like what we believe is going to make us happy you
know what I mean all right those BTS dudes from what I can see they seem
pretty happy they're putting a little positive message out there right but so
many of us like how many of you out there
work your butt off and put in your blood sweat and tears of work and euro working
overtime they're doing all this stuff just so you can move up the ranks in
this you know system at your work and get promotions and raises and all this
and why do you want that is it for status is it so you can buy things which
is also a form of status oh look at the nice car I have look at the nice house I
have like what are you willing to put yourself through to get that thing and
when we look at this we look at celebrity mental health issues it's like
what's it worth it was it worth it to get that thing and part of it I guess I
can see two is you know one person saying you know what I'm gonna go
through this just so I can help out other people through my music or through
my singing or through my work or whatever it is like something that I
knew damn well making this YouTube channel was I'm putting myself on the
front lines for criticism for hate for people to try to you know dig up things
for people to create narratives about me for all these other things I knew I was
getting into that doesn't mean that it doesn't suck sometimes
but I knew that's what I was doing and one of the reasons I'm still here is
because I feel like I have an important message that I want to get out there so
it makes it all worth it so I guess in a sense I can kind of see where some of
these k-pop stars might be doing it what some of their motivation is but again at
the same time you would have to kind of make that your motivation if there's
some of these contrasts that lock you in for like a decade so you might as well
make the best of that situation but it's something I came across to was you know
k-pop stars you know taking their own lives and things like that yeah I'm just
like so that's something I might talk about it another point when I learn more
about those stories but again I just want to have this conversation like what
do you view as a consumer or kpop fan like think about these things what what
can we do or where where is that balance you know of what they're dealing with
and what our enjoyment is and is that wait is it wrong I don't know but I just
wanted to make this video because I was doing some research and it's on my mind
I want to talk I like talking with you is what I like doing so leave your
comments down below let's have a conversation okay anyways that's all I
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