I mena trolls are trolls it's whatever sometimes sometimes when I see some of
these comments I'm like man... who took a dump on your birthday cake you're running
around pooping on everybody's party cuz somebody must have done something
terrible to you because I don't know why you're saying these things but you know
it's a little bit funny to me sometimes I get a laugh out of it
when people are so ridiculous some of my favorite ones were like I go into a
Chinese supermarket and I had like two dollars or something and I gave each
person a dollar and somebody made a comment like look at you flashing that
money showing them something they'll never have like yeah money bags walks in
there with two dollars I'm poppin tags at the thrift store with these two
dollars here man It's just so silly it makes me laugh it really does make me
laugh sometimes there are many terrible terrible things happening in the world
right now I think we all need a distraction so today I'm gonna talk
about something that's not nearly as important and one of the reasons is I
want to spread awareness of these problems and the other reason is let's
just get our minds off of you know all this chaos um you know I
I've been in China and Japan for a long time like eight years and I know those
countries very well but what I don't know is the YouTube world the world of
YouTube is really new to me so this channel is not even a year old and
there's a lot of stuff I don't understand
but of course with anything that I take on I do a lot of research and there's a
lot of scams out there I'm not even joking this channel has been attacked so many
times in the last few weeks it's just amazing but we will prevail
probably the most common scam going around right now is something that is
called channel hacking and it can be done a couple of ways and I just got an email
today and I was like oh my gosh the hackers are trying to get at me to be it
was obvious it's like I gave this email to no one I do not give out my personal
email you can beg and plead and I just cannot give it out and I don't have it
written anywhere so I got an email from my sponsor the biggest thing that stands
out to me on this email that I got today March 30th is that I did not give anyone
my email how did you get this even if it was a legitimate sponsor how did you get
this email somebody found this through either my LinkedIn account which I've
deleted or maybe one of my relatives on Facebook that doesn't have good security
I know my grandma's Facebook was hacked into recently I don't know how they got
it but the point is they got it so hey Chris Christensen that's a very
interesting name Chris no title no phone number and no contact information at the
bottom Chris hey thanks for watching my videos about China I noticed that you
are making videos about China and Japan crap that's how you get attention if you
are looking for a sponsor blah blah blah click on this malware link malware
malware malware 100% I'm never gonna click on that link are you freakin crazy
don't ever click on this even you guys they don't have you know like YouTube
channels and stuff don't click on these links don't do that that is malware
it's gonna get downloaded onto your computer you won't even know it and
then bad things will start happening they can take your bank information they
can take lots of very sensitive stuff they could break into your Facebook your
Instagram your whatever and of course that's why it's very important to have
2-step verification on all your social media apps okay Chris nice try but quite
frankly even if you are a legitimate sponsor like my japanesepod101.com
sponsor I'm not going to promote products to
people that I don't use and I don't understand people
ask me hey Anming how did you study Chinese how did you study Japanese I'm
not gonna push products on you as the viewer that I haven't used myself
because I just feel that that's disingenuous and not honest I see that
you make videos about China and Japan says a guy I've never talked to and who
somehow got my email address that I didn't give out to anyone so immediately
I was way freaked out by this and it's like click on this link malware malware
malware malware like x 50,000 that's got malware written all over it and that's
that's how they get you like you click on a link it's got spyware malware and
then that's been used to have people's channels before they'll lock you out
usually it's best to do things like 2-step verification where if you ever
want to log into your YouTube account or social media account that includes
Facebook and Instagram then it's gonna ask for like a code that's sent to your
cell phone if you don't have that cell phone device with you like a hacker
would not then it's gonna be really hard for them to get in so of course I set
that up on all my stuff but I was not prepared in the beginning this is my
this is my purple beast and the purple beast can never be trusted again because
it got hacked it didn't have any security on it this is old I needed a
new computer anyway but it didn't have any good security protection on it and
it got hacked into it didn't have any security at all actually it got hacked
into in February and I was just rather shocked about that because I've never
had a situation where my computer mouse just starts moving a files start opening
they'll wait until after they've computed themselves in the wait until
you walk away from the computer for like 15-20 minutes thinking you went out of
the room at that time it looked like I had gone out of the room but actually I
was teaching an English lesson online on a separate device so I was watching this
go down like what the heck why are all my GoPro videos suddenly out on the screen
and yeah was a hacking and they took some videos or whatever ha
I'm not that up to speed I don't have like videos that are finished and
unpublished I do my videos in a day if you didn't notice by the spelling
mistakes like filmed edited published in one day and it's a little bit too fast
of a pace to be honest but yeah so they got some videos and and whatever that's
going to be useless to them and sometimes they'll use those to try to
hack a channel and continue to get money from it as they post new videos and get
money from google adsense so that's something to be aware of yes I can never
trust that purple computer again unless I wipe the memory I just don't even
connect it to the internet anymore and I got a brand new computer because that
was necessary it's a big loss if you didn't need a new computer already like
I did there were more creative scams than that that happened not just the
sponsorship scam but attacking my channel through our friend's channel now
I'm very careful about my editing I'm dealing with some of the most sensitive
topics in Asia America and China China and Japan and then let's just throw in
another one and I'm talking to people from Taiwan in the videos like that is
super sensitive stuff you have to be so careful about what you say cuz the yeah
I know remember I have a master's degree in diplomacy yeah I'm aware I'm aware of
how to skate around some of these issues and just to make a video about
people's lives without getting into any trouble or whatever oh yeah so I'm very
careful with my editing I choose my words very carefully you probably
wouldn't even notice by the way I present myself but I am so careful and
thoughtful about every single thing I say because people like scammers will
just look for a weakness in a video like my friend Yuki san
he has a channel and it's small it's hard to protect a small Channel but
he did a video you can compare the two my video from Kawagoe vs. his video
from Kawagoe mine was received pretty positively and his was received maybe it
was received negatively I'm not sure because it looks like a bunch of robots
were disliked in his video and trying to cause a scandal where there was no
scandal now what's the purpose of doing that ah this is where it gets really
complicated ransom money yes yeah that that was a elaborate thing so I want to
go into details about that and that was really weird
somebody sent me a message on Instagram as those dislikes were coming in on my
friend's video and said hey I'm a guy that never talked to you before on
Instagram I found this reddit hate page against you prepare yourself mentally as
you look at this I was like that sounds weird already and then I go to Reddit I
don't even use reddit I created an account just to look at this and it's
like ridiculous stuff on there so I made a reddit account and maybe that was the
problem maybe that's how they got my email address I don't even know if the
two events are connected it's hard to say but anyway having an email address
and without me clicking on malware is useless to them but okay so this picture
but Yuki Sancho's is kind of unfortunate I think it could be misunderstood do we
need Japanese let's talk in English that's exactly the opposite of what we
were trying to prove that day so actually I asked him to change it so
that reasonable people wouldn't misunderstand but this is clearly not
reasonable at all and the first thing that stood out to me here is the insults
against Japanese people so they're trying to say that I'm insulting
Japanese people but here they've called them bum F*** Inaka people Anaka is
countryside people why would you insult the people of Saitama when you're saying
you're protecting Japanese so that didn't make sense and
also they don't have very good knowledge of the geography of Japan because Inaka
the countryside is not Saitama not kawagoe that's more like the suburbs so two red flags there
and then just as I was reading through these how unreasonable they were and how
cruel they are to women and just terrible stuff like I can understand
maybe some people could get confused with this title if they don't see that
it's actually a Japanese person that made this video but some of this stuff
in here was just so unreasonable like clearly someone would check the video
out and see oh actually it's okay but some of this stuff your family really
just needs to stop having kids it's never too late for an abortion well
that's a lovely thing to say to a woman but you know like I bet this was one guy
doing this like these there's a lot of robot accounts up there you have to be
aware of so I was looking through these and I even commented at one point
I guess you didn't take the time to see that this video was made and posted on a
Japanese man's channel and when I went to comment it said sorry buddy you
didn't include the revenue stamp four thousand Japanese yen which is about $40
can't post yet so for me to make a comment on this and try to clear my name
this is probably fake no this is fake but to clear my name I need to pay $40
okay well you know what that was enough for me I figured out the Instagram BS
and then this BS and I'm leaving that dudes name up there because I don't need
to protect the privacy of people that are trying to hurt me so that's like
ridiculous stuff on there and I'm just thinking who the heck could be that
unreasonable or if it's a channel or a group that is trying to protect
Japan and loves Japan well first it doesn't make sense to attack another
Japanese citizen and number two the title itself bum bad word bum f-word
Inaka people so country people if you really love Japan you wouldn't call
Saitama those terrible things and if you really knew anything about Japan you
would know that Saitama is not Inaka come on Kawagoe is Kogai
that's the suburbs of Japan so they don't know anything about Japan they're
not protecting Japanese people they actually are saying racist things or
unkind things against people in the smaller cities in Japan so it's like you
know red flag red flag red flag and then I tried to make a comment and it asked
for money okay well the jig is up this is clearly fake
they must think I'm really stupid or really gullible maybe no I did my
research on this stuff and I know what to look for that's not saying that I'm
like you know invincible or anything but I am pretty aware of what's going on
because as my youtube channel got going and grew really fast
there I had to keep up with what's going on and I want to warn other people so I
hope this video gets a lot of views because everyone needs to be aware even
if you don't have a YouTube channel or anything like that your own personal
Facebook your own personal Instagram your own personal accounts can be hacked
very easily if you don't have that 2-step verification on that's really
important so I hope that this message gets out to more people and it's
unfortunate what happened thanks everyone who tried to make this
situation with Yuki's channel right and fighting for him and I felt like I left
my friend down a little bit there because here I'm trying to help him he's
got a small channel he just wants people to learn his language and he got
attacked like that and it was really more directed at me people who couldn't
find anything to pick on in my videos went to a video that he made that had
some weak points and they exploited it to try to get money from me or whatever
that's what I'm working with I will continue to make videos I'm not gonna
give up because they're not gonna win and
even if something terrible happened like this channel got hacked we will get it
back we're not at that point right now but hope we don't get there oh we will
win thank you so much for your support and I'll keep making videos and some
from home maybe if this situation improves I could do a little bit of
videos outside but really the the trouble here is that we are not
supposed to be using the trains too much nowadays if you don't have to use a
train which I don't then not using it so I can't go very far but stay safe where
you are and you know we'll get through this
see you next time