Sup you beautiful bastards, hope you're having a fantastic Friday. Welcome back to the Philip DeFranco show
And if you're new here on Fridays, we do things a little bit differently. On Fridays
I try to cover stories from earlier in the week that we weren't able to get around to and also cover more viewer requested stories
And so with that said, let's jump into it. And the first thing I want to talk about this week
I got a ton of requests for more information around this is how did our testing go this week?
And if you're new to this channel, or if you haven't watched the shows this week in addition to the regular Monday Tuesday
Wednesday Thursday Friday Philip DeFranco show at the regular time in the afternoon at least in the United States this week
I also posted one to two story morning videos on Tuesday
Wednesday and Thursday
covering topics that we thought were probably more likely to get us demonetized or have our video suppressed where it's not showing up on
Recommended or home pages and the general thinking of "I want to cover this topic"
The audience's will get more content here and if it does get dinged *Demonetized*, it doesn't drag down an entire Philip DeFranco show
And so the results this week we got are
Nothing is clearer to me
So this week the Monday Tuesday, Wednesday Philip DeFranco shows the things that I was trying to keep clean
All of them got demonetized. The Wednesday video was also suppressed but then that got reversed upon review
None of the morning videos got hit by YouTube
In fact, the Thursday morning video was number one trending on YouTube and so nothing is clearer to me
but I guess on a positive note a bunch of you love all the additional news coverage and looking at this week the only
Thing I could really do is try and make a semi educated guess and the three videos that had been dinged obviously
It's only 2 now
The only thing they had in common was the coverage of the Argento story this week
Which I think could make sense given what that story is about, the metadata that goes along with it
that could be a reason why those got hit but the thing that kind of throws a wrench into that idea is I saw other
News channels covering it where they had ads displayed on those videos and it wasn't even just the mainstream guys
You had like indie liberal outlets like The Young Turks talked about it
They had ads which I will say was actually kind of shocking to me given a jinx hot take on the issue
we all
relatively speaking acknowledge that most
Seventeen-year-old males in that position would be thrilled
Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe I'm totally wrong and no they would be horrible like oh
You're gonna give me oral sex and you're beautiful, you're gonna have sex with me. I don't want it. I don't want it under any circumstance
Maybe, and by the way, everyone is different
me I'll be honest with you. I would have not liked it loved it
Okay, and sometimes people will say. Oh no. No you think you would have liked it, but you would've been traumatized
No, I know myself. I would have loved it. Okay?
Now that doesn't mean everybody's like me
People can be traumatized everybody's different
and while the video didn't get dinged if you look through the comments and the likes versus dislikes there
were a lot of people that had issue with that and I mean one because he was
disregarding California law, the age of consent there is
18 people saying that he was being a hypocrite that it was disgusting that he was saying because she was
Attractive that somehow it makes it more
okay saying that he was promoting a double standard where if you had a 37 year old man and a
17 year old girl that you know, would he have the same reaction there?
essentially saying that what he was putting out there into the world just adds to the stigma for male victims now is something Jimmy
Bennett addressed when he released his newest public statement trying to explain his actions at the time saying I tried to seek justice in a
way that made sense to me at the time because I was not ready to deal with the
ramifications of my story becoming public at the time
I believed there was still a stigma to being in the situation as a male in our society
I didn't think that people would understand the event that took place from the eyes of a teenage boy
And a note that I would want to say here is I don't know what actually happened between the two people in this case
but I do believe I am of the mindset that the genders of the accused and accuser don't change whether an allegation is valid or
and a big part of a lot of these allegations is the abuse of position and power and that's in addition to the actual breaking
of a law
But all of that said I'm straying from the main point here morning news videos are something that I do want to continue moving
forward with I think that long term it is still going to help us make sure that the philip defranco show once we
Figure a few more things out. It'll stay safer. I guess the biggest thing is just in the midst of all of this
Thank you to you you beautiful
Bastards you guys being excited about the new news videos excited me and excited the team you guys liking more sharing more I saw
Even more people going to DeFrancoelite.com to subscribe as a paying subscriber there
Thank you so much whenever it comes to something like this
I struggle to find all of the
Appropriate words to really convey how I'm feeling and so I end up just saying thank you. Thank you. Thank you a million times
I love your faces. I love what I do. I love this community and the back and forth that we have
Yeah, that's where I'm gonna end this one. Then we had an update around the Kelly Marie Tran situation in case you missed it
She had been on the receiving end of just a lot of hate much of it also
Sexist and racist some of this appeared to be from fans. That didn't like her in Star Wars: The last Jedi a
Lot of it also seemed to be just ignorant piling on from other people. She ended up leaving social media and much of the conversation
Was just from from outsiders looking in or other members of the cast as of Tuesday
She post an op-ed in The New York Times
A lot of people were saying you know, what do you think of it?
And before I say, I'll just read a few of her words, and she said it wasn't their words
It's that I started to believe that their words seem to confirm what growing up as a woman and a person of color already taught
Me that I belonged in margins and spaces valid only as a minor character in their lives and stories their words reinforced a narrative
I had heard my whole life that I was other that I didn't belong that
I wasn't good enough simply because I wasn't like them and that feeling I realized now was and is shame a shame
For the things that made me different a shame for the culture from which I came from and to me the most
disappointing thing was that I felt it at all and she then goes on to talk about how she is aware of just what a
Privileged position she is in that she gets to tell these stories and open doors. I think she knows how important that is
She is not giving up and in fact, she's just getting started
I will say well I fully appreciated the whole thing kind of as a as a white guy
I could really only
Identify with a very small part of the op-ed that the worst part of getting hate from people online
Is when it's something you already think about yourself or something. They make you believe. Now for me having done this for so long
It's really just the things I already think about myself
And also I have what I call a big small spotlight and I'm fortunate enough to talk to one to two million people every day
But I'm not Star Wars big spotlight and I'm not entering into a long-standing beloved franchise
It's closest I'll ever get to that is when you're number one on
Trending and people that don't know you watch your stuff and will let you know how garbage they think you are
I think the thing that kind of always bugged me with the kelly marie trans
Situation and the amount of hate that she was getting was you can dislike her role in the movie
You can dislike whatever about the character. But why would you then harass the the actor? I mean, this is a genuine question
What do you think that accomplishes and I say to you wouldn't it
even if you have a real gripe, wouldn't it make more sense to you to go after the casting director the
actual
Director the writers because I know that there's no stopping your hate but I'm just very confused as far as the targets? But then again
Looking at the the kind of hate she received I think some of it did not really have to do with the movie
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Anything at all links is always on the description down below then let's talk about this story out of Bloomington
Illinois and the story of unsurprisingly blew up given the headline Bloomington Police discover over
200 penises during raid at funeral employees home. There was a man collecting penises from dead bodies
No, there wasn't actually it was all a hoax. Honestly isn't the thing that's really scary and sad
Is that for a second he thought it was real?
Really think about that for a second that we live in a world where we go "Yeah, that's definitely possible"
Honestly, the way that this year is going even if this story was real
I don't know if it would make top 10 craziest stories the main point the reason people found out that this was fake is they
found out it originated on Fox News... -us.com
and so actually on that note if you are under the age of 60 years old and you saw this story on that website
and you thought it was real just just leave the internet forever, please also the thing that's most unfortunate
But also maybe the most hilarious thing about this. Is that the actual coroner Glynn County
Coroner Kathy Davis well for the rest of time or at least until the internet stops
existing have her name and picture associated with articles where she had to release a statement denying a story about
200 severed penises so, you know just another day on the internet and then let's talk about something really interesting
We saw out of California this week on Wednesday the California State Senate passed a bill to automatically expunge or reduce marijuana conviction the bill
Passed 22 to 8 in the Senate and now just needs Governor Jerry Brown to sign it
And so with this there's the question of okay. Well, how does this work?
well one this applies to cases between
1975 and
2016 when California passed its legal marijuana law into the cases in general that would qualify would be nonviolent felony convictions for possession or distribution
And other non violent misdemeanor crimes and so within a year specifically by July 1st 2019
The DOJ is required have compiled and given a full list of eligible cases to the DA's office after that
The DA's office will have another year to dispute any cases
They think shouldn't be eligible now would most likely mean people that the DA's office recognized as having violent histories having a severe enough past
criminal conviction
So then after the July 1st 2020 deadline the wall would then kick into gear and specifically give priority to anyone serving a jail
Sentence and if this story sounds somewhat similar to you
It's actually because we talked about the building blocks to this a while ago back in 2016 when California passed prop 64 that legalized marijuana
They also retro actively changed some parts of the Penal Code
So for example in the past if you were caught with marijuana concentrates in any amount
You could have gotten a misdemeanor charge and up to a year in jail
now if you're of age up to 8 grams of marijuana
Concentrate is legal also before 2016 penalties were pretty harsh for people under age in possession of marijuana
Example if you had more than an ounce of marijuana as a minor you could face up to six months of jail time
But now the punishment is an infraction and a combination of drug education and community service
but even after Prop 64 the catch at that time was people still had to go and petition the courts to reduce or expunge their
crimes on their own
and you didn't have a ton of people taking advantage of this because
One a lot of people didn't know that this was even a thing and two it costs money
You got lawyer, fees court fees, if you have a job, you have to take off work
You also had a few DA offices in California that we're taking it upon themselves
To go and fix this the San Francisco da looked back to 1975, found
3,000 misdemeanor cases that might be eligible for erasure which by the way on the note of well
How many convictions were there how many people could be affected? Well, according to the California DOJ. They estimate that there are nearly
220 thousand cases that are eligible for reduction or
expungement but with all of that said where I want to end this story is on the debate of
should this be a thing? The general argument for supporters of this bill is it is something that is not illegal now we
Shouldn't be punishing these people. There's also a side angle
I didn't even think of which came from Joel Anderson who was a Republican state senator
He praised the bill for potentially returning gun rights to people
He thought should be able to have weapons saying this bill will take those people off of the prohibited list save us time and money
However on the other side of this you also had Republican lawmaker
Jim Nielson who said this directs us to forget any prior behavior that was illegal. He should not be given a pass
So I passed the question off to you
Do you agree with Jim Nielson here that if you if you broke the law before you even though the law has changed?
changed now do you think they should still be punished, this thing should be held against them or no?
We're in a new world and we should be living by these new rules
I and if you even remotely know me, I think it's pretty obvious that I don't believe that
Nonviolent marijuana related crimes. I don't think they should be held against people. but, it isn't about each individual story
My personal take away
It's about the back and forth here and whether you agree or disagree with me, I'd love to know what you think none
Let's talk about updates around that chaotic and messy
YouTube beauty vlogger story, we covered Monday and involved massive names in the beauty vlogger and entertainment space on one side
You had people like Jeffree Star and on the other side
you had Laura Lee, Manny mua,
Gabriel Zamora, and Nikita Dragon instead of rehashing the entire situation to kind of just hit on the main point
There's a now-deleted photo posted with all four kind of flipping off the camera
the caption makes it appear that it is about Jeffrey stark and after some back-and-forth that also
Involves a morris saying that Jeffrey star is a racist, the internet took it upon themselves to find
old, ofensive problematic tweets from these four and most noted and point out among all the things that were pointed out where tweets from Zamora and
Lee one from Zamora where uses the n-word and one for Lee where she says black people should pull up their pants so that they can
run from the police faster
There's massive backlash online when we last talked about this Laura Lee had made a video that is now at over seven million views
And I have not seen any video that horribly received in a very very long time at that point
She had lost around a quarter million subscribers. And as of according this video right now, she has lost over half a million subscribers
Manney MUA also released an apology video and lost over two hundred
Thousand subscribers, but then interestingly enough the person that initially posted the photos, Zamora comes out with a video where he
Apologizes and he ends up gaining over three hundred thousand subscribers
Although I do want to note the quality of his apology video is good
it actually
just feels like- I'll just read some of the top comments: top comment with eighty eight thousand likes: "Wow a real apology Laura needs to
Take this as a great example" "This felt like I was sitting with a friend it felt honest and real this is an apology video"
As far as the ups and downs of the situation that is where we are there
And once again with Laura Lee, we haven't seen something like this since the finebros
I mean there were live streams of people cheering on her losing subscribers a viral apology video being memed and fantastically parodied
I retweeted stuff (and by retweet I mean tweeted myself, but I'm gonna say retweet because
It sounds better and like I'm detaching myself from the situation.) I can't even look at myself
And it's also not just followers this is definitely going to affect her money partners and businesses
She was aligned with severed ties, beauty retailer Ulta released a statement:
"We've decided not to move forward with the launch of Laura Lee Los Angeles." sunglasses company diff:
"We've taken this issue very seriously
and do not support the comments that were made" and her frames are no longer available on the website. Cosmetics firm morphine has put all of her
Products as sold out, removed images of her from the website and a subscription box started by the name of boxycharm
They made a video denouncing her. That's where we are right now with this story
I've also had people asking you know, what do I think about it? To that
I'll say I'm not sure what to think right now
the reason that this story stands out to me though: one I think it is evidence and an example that different internet communities that we
Have online react far differently to scandals
We've talked about far worse scandals and less genuine reactions and people have just done incredibly well from them
But then also two it's just we really don't see many things like this happen, like usually when you see a scandal like this
Yes, okay, the the brands leave maybe you lost a show the fans stay but I guess in this situation
It's it's if someone feels genuine or not
So it feels like that's very much one of the main things here along with just really owning what happened in the situation, right?
Really calling yourself out which I think is incredibly
Important if you are genuinely trying to become a better person or at least your version of what you think a good
Person is that's what I'm gonna leave that one and I'll pass the question off to you
What do you think the difference with this situation is compared to pretty much any other
Outrage story involving celebrities that we've talked about in the past. That's what I'm going to end
Today's show but also remember I want these to be a conversation
so whether it be the last story the first one anything in between
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