so after watching a little fireside chat with Joey Graceffa and James Charles and
Nikita Dragon I had this whole video planned out but then I saw Angelika oles
on Twitter and I'm like you know what we need to talk about two things in this
video what is up everybody this is Chris from the rewired soul where we talk
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with all you beautiful people out there so before I get started and I might dive
deeper into this topic in a podcast like here's my disclaimer okay I I want this
channel and I hope other channels who do commentary or drama or news can foster
this as well like we should be able to disagree with one another have
criticisms of one another without hate mobs from the community going and
attacking people all right so while I will be critical in this video as I am
with some other videos like if if you're ever one of my audience members and
you're attacking other people like I don't want you as part of my audience
alright like cancel culture is ridiculous but I
think we have to find this balance where we can have disagreements and talk about
different things without the turning into this like name-calling cussing
people out fest that happens all the damn time but anyways anyways let's jump
into this topic so yeah joey graceffa over on his channel he's doing something
new and he just had James Charles and Nikita dragon on there and for those of
you who don't know this week is suicide prevention awareness League all right
and towards the beginning of the video James Charles I think it was around like
the 15 or 17 minute mark James Charles talks about how he doesn't think he
would have survived what happened earlier this year if it weren't for the
support group that he had like and he he elaborates a little bit more he's like
no I legitimate Lee don't think I would have survived I'm so glad you didn't
have that like that would have been so different that I'd be dead right now
guys I say that like not even like being dramatic I don't think I would have made
it through everything that went on like without them being with me making sure
that I was okay and like waking up a little late to check on me every time
minutes make sure I didn't like literally do something dangerous right
and we need to talk about that because that is a major part of cancer culture
like if you haven't yet I highly recommend the book so you've been
publicly shamed and check that out like if you don't realize that this can
happen to anybody you don't have to be an influencer for this to happen to like
you need to go read this book so you've been publicly shamed there are multiple
stories in that book of people who have taken their lives because of the hate
mobs and canceled culture and this is something that we've seen on a regular
basis so I'm really glad that James Charles opened up about this and
discussed it but yeah like I'm not saying what he should be immune from
criticism like criticize him I think that he screws up plenty
all right the same way that I do the same way as everybody does right but
there comes a point where it's just like you screwed up and then there's a point
of like you should just not be existing on this earth anymore right but we've
seen how the online mobs can drive people to taking their own life right
like in the gaming community we just lost Alec coloca to suicide a few months
ago we lost Etica to suicide and there's a debate on whether that was canceled
culture or mental illness or the internet spamming him with cloud emojis
and everything like the reality is it's just
thousands of thousands of strangers coming at you is not good for your
mental health so as many of you know I have a brand new book out called
cancelled inside YouTube cancel culture and something that I didn't talk about
in that book and I don't know if I should do a separate video on this cuz I
don't want anybody to be worried like but these thoughts crossed my mind
during my cancellation process but I want to make it very clear that's
nothing to be worried about like for example I've been clean for seven years
from drugs and alcohol and I'd be lying to you if I said that that thought of
using or drinking hasn't crossed my mind every time I walk into the grocery store
past the pharmacy I'm like Oh what kind of pills they got passed back there
right but the thought is fleeting now but yeah when I was being canceled and
had hundreds of thousands of strangers just say the worst terrible things about
me like the thought crossed my mind a few times right and then I snapped out
of it so I think it's important that we do discuss that a lot of us get these
very dark and terrible thoughts sometimes but it's like are you
ruminating on them are you obsessing on them do those have the potential to turn
into action or do they just come in and leave right because thoughts just come
out of nowhere it's just how are you dealing with those thoughts but anyways
if you want me to do a deeper conversation about that let me know in
the coments down below but whenever I see somebody like James Charles talk
about that or I remember Thomas Halbert talked about that like I can definitely
relate but anyways Kati Morton just put up a video for suicide prevention
Awareness Week go check that out I'll link that down in the description below
she has some information in there that may help you help a loved one or if you
need help maybe you can get help all right but anyways I was you know on
Twitter and Angelico's her her tweet showed up on my feed and I just wanted
to talk about it real quick and close she says I hate drama channels and drama
does yet another interview centered around drama
are you that boring as a human being that you have
nothing else to talk about and here's just one I want to talk about now here's
my disclaimer Louis for like I am NOT an angelic old fan and through my own
experience like I haven't been a fan of a lot of people in the commentary and
drama community not everybody like there are some amazing awesome people out
there who are fun and they poke fun and it's just fun right like they take
criticism and and turn it into something fun and light-hearted but there are
certain creators out there like who I'm just not a fan of and I watched this and
I've been reading so many books about like social psychology and everything
like that and I'm just like God Jesus like do people understand what what is
happening right now like I just don't get how we are hosting these people up
and giving them massive audiences for like being a dick like that's being
celebrated now for being a dick now don't get me wrong like criticize people
all you want but I see countless creators like Angelica owls in this
example I may do more videos talking about this where they are just like
publicly a dick to somebody right and people like yeah yeah you go girl and
like there's this weird thing out there where if you're a self-admitted
dick or asshole or whatever you want to call it like then that's not a problem
we'll let it slide all right and it just blows my mind like I've
talked about that with people like keemstar in the past like just because
you own it doesn't mean it's a good thing and the issue I have with it is
because when you have people with massive audiences promoting that like
you're influencing people so you have these commentary and drama channels
trying to keep people accountable like oh there's such a bad influence for
people I'm like do you see your behavior and again like we need to just we need
to find the balance like if you want to criticize somebody cool but if you're
constantly publicly taking jabs at them like that's where it's like okay like
this is something completely different you're no longer just criticizing them
like you are trying to take digs at them all right but something else that
bothers me Angelica oils her banner is her being blocked by
James Charles and it's not just Angelica holes like this is some kind of badge of
honor that people probably wear on Twitter people love people love bragging
about how they're blocked on Twitter like I just don't understand the logic
of that like here I want you to take that in any other context outside of
Twitter and realize how insane that sounds right
like what if your friend was like lol I keep calling and texting my ex-boyfriend
and he had to block my number hehehe like you look at that person like
that's not something to be proud of or what if you like haha look at this
restraining order somebody filed against me ha ha ha
like in any other context outside of Twitter
you wouldn't be publicly bragging about being blocked from somebody like I just
don't get why that's like I know an achievement on Twitter and here's part
of it people wear that as a badge of honor because they feel like ah ha see
this this is proof that I was right like that's not proof that it was right what
is proof of is that person is setting up some kind of boundary with you alright
like for example don't get me wrong like people have blocked me on Twitter okay
like an example I'll bring up right now Taylor Nicole Dean blocked me on Twitter
in an emotional state I said some real dick things to her like I can be a dick
sometimes and it wasn't being critical I was a dick to her and she blocked me
alright and when I realized what I did I felt bad I apologized publicly and
privately alright but something I didn't do is run around bragging that Taylor
Nicole Dean blocked me like I wanna ward alright look I really want you guys
to just sit back and think about that for a second like why are we looking at
Twitter like it is some accomplishment to be blocked by people the last thing I
want to talk about some of you know that I've been diving into politics lately on
the channel and everything like that now I want to talk about the clear bias like
the absolutely clear bias of these channels that you're watching all right
so like let's look at two major American news stations okay CNN and Fox News CNN
is clearly bias for you know live a liberal point of view right Fox News is
clearly biased for a conservative point of view is that wrong yeah I don't think
so my goal is to just have you be aware of it like just know you're going to get
very biased information and it's going to keep you in an echo chamber all right
you're never going to hear the opposing ideas or views and things like that and
it keeps you in this in a bad place like it's important that we open up
conversations we listen to opposing ideas and we talk like civilized human
beings all right but I don't think anybody on earth would deny that you
know CNN is more liberal Fox News is more conservative right but here's the
thing like when you look at channels like Angelica oles and many other drama
channels I talked about this the other day there is clearly a bias and what's
happening is it's creating an echo chamber of this influencer is a bad
person these influencers are bad people and don't get me wrong I've said it a
million times in this video if you want to be critical of people go for it I
want you you the audience to realize that these people are not coming to you
with objective points of view all right we're all gonna have some kind of bias
but I just hope you realize that you are seeing a very very bias opinion like
when a creator like Angelica oles does not like James Charles you can rest
assured any video she makes about him is probably gonna be unfair alright and
again Mike I don't care not a big deal to me it's just when you walk into it
just like if you walk into watching something on CNN or Fox News just know
that the bias is there it's not just in politics it is also all over the place
when you look at commentary and drama channels and all that stuff alright
but anyways final thoughts do not do not reward people purposely trying to be a
dick that's not the lesson we should be trying to put out there into the world
and no you are not a badass because you got blocked somebody nobody out there is
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