What are we about to do right now?
I'm going to look at the documentary that the Discovery Channel tried to get me to promote
before it came out.
Usually I watch things beforehand.
Because it's on Discovery, I feel like there's no way it can have things that shouldn't it
be shown on the internet.
Before we do that, our comment shout out comes from John Dominic.
Actually really like this comment right here.
D'Angelo seems like that chill guy who everyone's friends with in high school.
Absolutely true.
Also I was homeschooled.
Apparently the Discovery Channel, they have a streaming service called D+.
And one of their, I guess, go-to's to get people to sign up for D+ is they made a documentary
about Onision, in conjunction with Chris Hansen.
But where it gets annoying is they emailed every single YouTuber who has any sort of
connection to Onision, and said, can you please hype up our documentary before it comes out?
I have never even made an Onision video, but I guess, because I'm a commentary channel,
they emailed me.
Hi, D'Angelo.
I'm on the team at D+, which you might've heard is a streaming service that will air
the Onision documentary.
Since this story started on YouTube and was researched by YouTube, I want the YouTube
community to see it first.
I hope you'll consider making a commentary video about the story.
What I got from that was, we acknowledged that you YouTubers have done literally all
the work going into the story, but we also want you to promote it for us now that we
are also profiting off of it.
I wanted to make the context very clear.
I'm watching this because I'm interested.
If I choose to put something on the stream or on my channel, it's probably not because
I enjoy it.
There it is, trending under true crime, Onision in Real Life.
I feel like there's no way this really wouldn't be triggering.
So please get yourself into the proper head space.
The young women that he's victimized and manipulated and really abused emotionally, he doesn't
see them as victims.
I genuinely don't know why YouTube still allows him on the platform.
True.
It makes it almost a thriller to find out whether or not he's going to ever be held
accountable.
I'm getting mixed feelings about this.
This is very, very dramatic.
I started my career when I was about 13 years old.
I opened for Lady Gaga.
I remember Justin Bieber opened for me.
Onision ruined her life.
She absolutely could have been somebody that we still talk about today.
We're starting off well by actually talking to a victim.
I think that's a good thing.
I saw his I am a banana video.
I'm a banana.
Oh, god.
Why?
I understand this was peak 2009, but this should have been all the warning that we needed,
that we let this man get popular by dancing around in a banana costume.
I remember I reached out to him quite quickly.
He always put his information under every video.
He got back to me right away within 24 hours.
His email said, there's 7 billion people in the world.
You never know how you're going to love somebody in the future.
Imagine being a fully grown man and sending that to a 16 year old.
That we were trying to figure out how to meet.
And his main concern was that we weren't going to be able to have sex in the state I was
in.
So he checked the laws.
The man is a groomer.
I don't know how to feel about the documentary yet, but I'm glad that it's highlighting how
bad people use parasocial relationships.
I had no idea what loving someone was truly about.
She's 17 though.
I was a baby.
I was a kid.
I was naive.
I had no idea what I was getting into.
As a 22 year old, I'm so far removed from where I was when I was 17.
If an adult is telling you all these things, you're not processing it the right way.
That's something I didn't understand at the time
I get asked to be interviewed all the time.
In this specific case, parasite is a popular thing to call a reporter.
I have an ego, but that's just next level.
He becomes one of the top 100 most subscribed to channels on YouTube.
When he joined YouTube in 2006, people were overwhelmingly supportive of him being on
the platform.
Were they though?
It wasn't until these women wanted to talk that the overall dialogue started to change.
I don't think that's what happened.
Oh, yeah.
Onision was super popular, but then women came forward, and now he's not.
They literally just condensed 10 years of lore into one sentence.
They skipped the whole decline of Onision.
They went as far back as 2018.
Before that he was just purposely on a tour to piss off literally all communities of people.
He was attacking black women and their hair.
They didn't even talk about the forum he had either, where he was rating the girls.
And to just say, oh yeah, he was super popular, and everyone loved him, but then he got in
trouble for grooming, is a complete misunderstanding.
I had been doing some YouTube shows and people kept saying, you need to look into Onision.
Chris Hansen.
Who's a YouTube streamer who has been accused of-
A YouTube streamer.
The way he just took a wrecking ball to the whole Onision operation hurts my soul.
Very easy for people to become victims through social media, and sometimes not even know
it, because they're just too young and vulnerable.
You know what would make it a little harder for kids to become victims of groomers?
Deplatforming them.
I am absolutely okay with calling for the deplatforming of anybody who has demonstrably
used their platform to groom children.
To know that this little boy that was so sweet, innocent, and just a great kid would be at
this point in his life, someone who doesn't care who he hurts.
Greg was four and a half when I first met him in 1990.
He was the cutest little boy.
Yeah.
After divorce, their personalities all changed, and they all became very uncertain and insecure
and emotional.
Maybe I'm a bit extreme, but I'm very wary of any sort of explanation for why he does
what he does.
I would much rather this be focused on calling him out than, oh, he was a sweet kid.
Oh gosh.
They brought Shiloh back?
I was 17 by the time he said that he loved me, and he was getting a divorce.
This video just went in a loop.
At the very first few minutes, it was like, my name is Shiloh.
This is my story.
And then they abruptly ended that, switched it to Greg had a rough childhood, and it was
pretty bad because his dad was awful, and so was he.
And then they switched back to Shiloh.
And now they're doing the whole, she was young and at the height of her popularity thing
again.
We finished part one of the Onision documentary.
It was literally so poorly done.
What is the point of watching episodes two and three if it's this much of a waste of
time?
I think this is unironically too poorly done for me to justify spending two more hours
of my life on.
I just want to see what Eugenia is doing here.
Is Eugenia Cooney in this thumbnail just for views?
It's just this like steady string of toxic behavior.
This is so dramatic.
Onision first made a video that was kind of like in support of me.
Then super soon after, he made one- Oh my gosh.
... towards me that wasn't exactly very nice.
Of course, Eugenia Cooney would pop up.
Someone did Photoshop on her and how good she would look if she actually had some pounds
on her.
That chick needs eat more food.
She kind of was- This kind of commentary is what drives people
further into their eating disorders.
The algorithm is the one in charge of what videos are done or what videos get seen.
Be honest.
We're great together.
This video I made about you got 1.9 million views.
This video I made about you only a month ago, got 1 million views.
Another million.
These 2.5 million.
He was just getting millions of views antagonizing an anorexia girl on the internet.
At this point, YouTube is also beyond complicit, much like Shane Dawson.
YouTube, the company, is absolutely at fault here as well.
Let's go down a little list of how bad that was.
Editing, 0 out of 10.
It was almost impossible to follow.
Score, 0 out of 10.
The music was just overwhelmingly disrespectful.
They're literally just going down a list to any kind of epidemic sound type beat.
This is what they're doing.
They don't care about the situation.
Structure, 0 out of 10.
If I wasn't already familiar with the story of Onision, I would not know what it was supposed
to be about.
How did they handle this documentary?
Out of respect for Shiloh, I'm going to make that a -20 out of 10.
The little bit of a platform that they gave Shiloh, they were mixing it up with his dad.
That's so weird.
So poorly handled that, to the point where it was like, how did this get greenlit?
D+, is this what you wanted?
Be careful.
Watching the old videos and documentaries would be more useful than this trash timeline.
For example, two different Onision videos right here, both of which are fantastic.
So well done.
He makes absolutely no mockery of anything that occurs.
The Demented World of Onision by J. Aubrey.
Very well done video.
Absolutely has the right approach.
Repzion is very concerned and has been for the longest time.
That's somebody who I would trust way more to watch than the Discovery Channel and Chris
Hansen.
It was so clearly not done to bring any sort of attention to what's going on.
Poll.
Thoughts.
We are at a 99%, this is so embarrassing.
Discovery Channel, if you're watching this, I know you are, this is a 99% dislike ratio
with over a thousand participants.
This is now going to wind up being the highest number of votes I've ever gotten on a single
poll option for saying that your documentary, that you tried to get me to promote, was bad.
The moral of the story here is clear.
If you're doing a documentary where neither the subject of the documentary, nor any of
the victims of that subject, besides one person, show up, it was probably not going to turn
out that well in the first place.
Anyway, I'll be here all week, folks, at 2:00 PM central time.
If it's Monday, Wednesday, Friday, that means I'm uploading a new video here.
If it's Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, that means I'm going live over on Twitch.
Basically, what I'm saying is I'll see you tomorrow.
Unless, of course, tomorrow is Sunday, in which case, just watch this video again.
Okay.
Bye.