Sup you beautiful bastards hope you're having a fantastic Tuesday
Welcome back to the philip defranco show and let's just jump in doing the first thing when I talk about today
Is this whole?
Situation from just like the last 24 hours where people have been freaking out about this new Gillette and it kind of summarized the end
it's Gillette moving from their standard slogan of the best a man can get and pivoting it to the best men can be one of
The ways they promoted this video online was with the caption boys will be boys, isn't it time?
We stopped
Excusing bad behavior rethink and take action by joining us at the best men can be org and among the things that the ad dries
To touch on you have bullying fighting not making you strong sexual assault objectification of women
Cat calling as you get further into the video
You see other men intervening to stop bad behavior, whether it be with children or their friends a part of the closing reads
It's only by challenging ourselves to do more that we can get closer to our best and this ad was met with mixed
Responses it some like Micah MacKinnon saying once again, I'm very much
Ok with the shift in cultural standards be a good human is getting ever more
Commercially viable sound like this users posts that just blew up saying this is how you use your brand
This is how you engage with your audience Gillette being aware of mostly having a male audience and using their influence as a global brand
To make a change for the better other companies take notes
But then on the other side of this you had a completely different reaction with many people taking offense or being incredibly bothered by this
At your the likes of Piers Morgan tweeting
I've used Gillette razors my entire adult life
But this absurd virtue
Signaling PC guff me drive me away to a company less eager to fuel the current pathetic global assault on masculinity
But boys be damned boys
Let men be damned men others also seem to take this as kind of an assault on men like not just sound but just men
in general godson tweeting
it is grotesque to repeatedly ascribe collective guilt owns a half of humanity known as men being a man is not a disease nor a
Pathology Chuck Woolery tweeting. I'd like to think Gillette for reminding me how horrible it is to be man
this should sit well with your customers not as there are more and more examples if you just if you just searched Gillette on pretty
Much any social media platform right now as far as my response to it
I watched a full ad which I'll link to down below watching it. I'm kind of surprised that it became this
and while watching the video down I could see it as being
Preachy being a part of what I personally refer to as woken now mix essentially the monetization and some would argue
Exploitation of acting woke is a company to get more products sold
I don't personally see this as an attack on all men and the range of replies was really interesting
I was scrolling through the comments and you people screaming things like I have men in my family that served this country
How dare you and I was just reading this like who is who is attacking them?
Were they bullying where they can't calling were they sexually harassing someone no doesn't seem like it's about them understand in this moment
I'm not like yeah Gillette get him, but I just I personally just saw this as
masculinity can be seen as a different thing by being seen as a father who instills respect in their child someone that's not I mean
To kind of go into specifics someone that's not like a Piers Morgan
You got Piers Morgan out here just randomly attacking women because they're showing their bodies on
Instagram going after Daniel Craig cuz he's carrying his baby a certain way
Yeah
this guy is trying to shame this father that's taking care of his kid because he's doing it in a way that some people might
See is feminine like that's for me personally something I see is general insecure douchebaggery other people might refer to that as toxic
Masculinity also understand that up to this point. This is me kind of just talking about the general outrage
We have seen around this specific situation as far as making fun of this situation
I
Say go for it
the fact that we have a a razor
Company trying to instill values into our culture for example this morning at the likes of Ricky two-face tweeting
I used to love beating up kids at barbecues. Now. I realize that is wrong. Also, my balls have never been smoother
Thanks, Gillette people took that as him being against the ad to which you responded not against it at all
Should I only joke about things I'm against because it is a little bit funny
It's like if McDonald's put out an ad and was like don't hit your kids and you're like what what so we just here for?
The burgers what do you want to bet?
But I also think this point sound kind of a different type of consumer on both parts
You have a lot of consumers that just want the product to be the product just if you're a razor company
Just give me razors, whereas more and more. You have a lot of consumers
especially with young people that they like when a brand stands for something but then also with a part of the syrup you need to
Understand are people that are like, yeah
I like when a company stands for something what they're really saying is I like when a company stands for something that I also agree
With it's kind of like with how on my show a lot of people like Phil
I love the way you tell it like it is but with around 30% of that group what they're saying is I like when you
Say it like it is with something that I not all and I would even say a majority of the audience isn't like that
Especially the people that have been with me for a while in my opinions have evolved
But hey, that was a story my personal takeaway. And of course it passed the question off to you
what are your thoughts around this but that said it's very possible this whole Gillette situation may just be a smokescreen a
distraction to keep you from the news that once again Netflix is raising their prices and the price changes are 1 and
$2 $8 plans going to 9 the 11s going to 13 and the 14 is going to 60 if you're a new customer
This price change is immediate
If you were an existing customer that will be changing over the next few months and I will 100% not be unsubscribing
I love my Netflix account
I also think that's what Netflix and the market are counting on because as of recording this right now the stock is up over
6% and it's also probably due to the fact that if you're changing
The price of the subscriptions from one to two dollars you're talking very likely at least
137 million new dollars
Every month. The reason I say at least is because last quarter they had 137 million subscribers
They're expecting to get to 147 million this next quarter
I just want to use their last quarter numbers in case maybe there that maybe there are a mass on subscriptions
But still, I mean even with how big they are we're in this situation where the whole environment is still evolving
I was probably one of the last of my friends that actually had cable, but now I'm primarily on Netflix Hulu and YouTube TV
Oh and also Amazon Prime, but that's that was more for the shipping and then the other stuffs extra from that
I want to share some stuff I loved today and today an awesome brought to you by mid rolls
or if it was like two of our semi recent videos just weird jump cuts and the first bit of Awesome today is if you
Did not see which is possible cuz like I said this morning's video at least for a little bit was ding uploaded the extra morning
news show which was a deep dive into
Nexium and the content of the video is not also understand
I'm including this here because I think that a good number of people think it's awesome to get more console. Wow that story
Yeah, I know
So kind of on that note a big shout out and thank you to edward Hearst and all you have a beautiful bastard supporting us
With paid subscriptions over to Franco elite comm without y'all. We would just lose some money on these videos much love
I appreciate you man. We got the trailer for Black Earth rising
Yeah, dude
Perfect giving us mono rocket battle to screen junkies gave us the honest trailer for the new Halloween Sony Pictures gave us that brand new
Spider-man far from home trailer and if you want to see the full versions of everything
I just shared the secret link of the day really anything at Lynx has always earned the description down below
then in industry news YouTube just made some announcements that
depending on the kind of content you make this will either not affect you in any way or
This could completely change things YouTube today announced that they are ramping up enforcement across a few key areas
one regarding custom thumbnails
They say selecting a thumbnail that egregiously violate policies attaining pornography or graphic violence will now result in a Community Guidelines strike
Even if the video does not violate our policies and external links saying specifically adding links to external sites that egregiously violate our policy
pornography malware or spam will now result in a Community Guidelines
Straight and finally three and this is probably related to some stuff that we've seen in the news recently
dangerous challenges and pranks writing reminder content that encourages violence or dangerous activities that may result in serious physical harm
distress or death violates our harmful and dangerous policy also adding
We've updated our external guidelines to make it clear that we prohibit
Challenges presenting a risk of serious danger or death and pranks that make victims believe they're in serious physical
Danger or cause children to experience severe emotional distress and so initially when reading through dangerous challenges and pranks
most people would probably think most recently - Jake Paul driving with a blindfold on
unfortunately
Even in the news there has been the story of someone
crashing their car because they were engaging in this challenge that last part especially about children affects a lot of people including people that have
posted
immensely popular videos
I mean this ranges from the very obviously and in my personal opinion
disgusting of just
scaring small
children
people dress up as clowns or monsters all the way to content that I didn't even initially think could be a problem like when people
Went through that trend of tricking small kids into thinking that they were invisible
That was a trend picked up by a ton of people inspired by a Netflix magician show
I mean you had everyone from just random people on the street
I mean people like David Ober who is a massive creator on this platform
But the good news for dobrik or anyone else that thinks that maybe they are in the wrong according to these new rules YouTube announced
that they are giving people a grace period
this they said to allow time to review the updates and make changes to your content and adding in the following two months as we
Ramped up enforcement content that violates our community guidelines related to custom thumbnails external links challenges and pranks will be removed
But the channel will not receive a stripe but moving forward if you violate the policies that will result in a stripe personally I do
Wonder how big of a fact will this have on the platform?
The reason I ask that is because parts of the rules here, I mean who is defining the line for example, specifically?
you know cause children to experience severe emotional distress understand when I personally mentioned the trend in situation of little kids being tricked into being
Disappeared I'm mentioning it here because it has been referenced elsewhere
But for the severe emotional distress is that just a kid being scared. Is that kid crying?
Does that mean Jimmy Kimmel's I ate all of your Halloween candy challenge is now something that breaks the rule
I mean even the thumbnail appears to show small children in distress
Or is it not because no one's ever died from not getting candy or is that I don't know if that's true
You know is it not because there's no chance of the child thinks. They're gonna be in physical harm
They're just very upset
They feel betrayed and also kind of on that note will we see situations? Where?
People are not treated the same based off of their size
Yeah
that's really the end of the story and I just want to give out there one for
Creators out there just to make sure they are Satan - whether you be a creator or a consumer
I'd love to know your thoughts on these changes and then let's talk about the latest
LGBTQ crackdown going on in Chechnya
And if you didn't know the Russian Republic of Chechnya is known for having a predominantly Muslim and conservative
population and in Chechnya
There has been a new wave of persecution
against LGBT people
Backtrack a bit attacks on the gay community in Chechnya are not new by any meat and as part of this sounds familiar
It's because we actually talked about this on the show back in 2017 when authorities and military officials rounded up more than 100 men
They suspected of being gay those men were reportedly sent to secret prisons where they were beaten and tortured some survivors even claimed they experienced
Electric shock torture and were forced to turn over other gay friends or partners
They had one anonymous victim told NPR in
2017 that he was kidnapped and kept in a basement for 12 days saying authorities went through his phone and social media
Adding they put a black plastic bag over my head and put a gun to my head
He told me I wasn't a human being and deserved to be murdered
also saying that they forced him to contact someone who was dating telling him to go to somewhere and they kidnapped him as well as
You might remember Chechen officials denied the allegations at the time with the regions leader
Ramzan Kadyrov saying you cannot arrest or oppress people who just don't exist in the Republic if such people even
Existed in Chechnya law enforcement would not have to worry about them as their own
Relatives would have sent them to where they could never return and despite international condemnation
Over the human rights violations the attacks against gays in Chechnya continued and for months
We saw horrifying stories of people be executed going missing dying via honor killings
And so all of that brings us to now according to the Russian
LGBT network since December two people have been killed and 40 men and women have been detained as part of the latest roundup in a
statement released Monday
The Erb said two detainees died from torture adding that these detentions are actually being carried out by law enforcement in the group also believes
That this latest wave of persecution
Was sparked by the arrest of an administrator of a group for LGBT people on the social media network VK
That's because they believe that once the administrator was detained authorities accessed his contacts and used that info to start mass
Detention now this latest report by the LGBT network has not been corroborated by other outlets
But Amnesty International issued a statement on Monday supporting the group's finding and writing with lives in jeopardy
There is an urgent need for an international response
But on the other side of this you have a government spokesperson
Dismissing the latest death report as quote complete lies
Adding if even a single person were arrested let alone 40 the entire Chechen public would have known the claim that you were killed is
even more absurd and authorities in Chechnya have continued to deny that they are targeting an LGBT people by repeatedly claiming once again that Chechnya
Has no gay population at all
and as far as the Russian LGBT network
They said that they're monitoring the situation in Chechnya and helping victims as much as they can saying they've relocated around
150 LGBT people who are living in danger and also adding that it is becoming more and more difficult since police are now seizing detainees
Travel documents with the network saying that local authorities are making every effort to prevent victims from leaving the region or applying to the courts
In the future specifying they take away documents
They threaten the victims with criminal proceedings against them where their close ones and they force them to sign empty forms
And so with this latest wave of crackdowns LGBT groups are urging people in the area to delete
Information from their phones change their numbers and even destroy their devices as far as my personal opinion on this though
The last thing I want to do is to present this story as a he-said she-said
There's a reason we're hearing these horror stories and I tend not to believe people that say things
Like gay people those things don't even exist here
Especially when they go full gangster and they're like because if they did they'd be killed. Anyway, we wouldn't even know about it
That's horrifying. That's my personal takeaway and feelings on it. Of course, I'd be interested to know yours
And the last thing I want to talk about today
I cannot properly cover this story because it is happening right as I'm finished filming British Parliament voted against Theresa Mayes brexit plan
432 to 202 and to help you understand how popular this deal was
Teresa may is part of the Conservative Party the Conservatives have 317 seats
So that was a big no, and it was expected to be Pitt and tomorrow
The members of parliament will have a chance to debate the no confidence vote
And so now as far as the fallout from this expected failure, that's all we're gonna be watching. It's a mess. It's a mess
We'll be watching and a mess that we will be talking about moving forward and with this story
I did want to pass a question off to you whether you're in Britain or the EU
I love to know your thoughts on what happened with today's vote. Happy sad frustrated lost over it
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