listen at the end of the day I want
everybody to sit back and ask himself
one question what would etika want you
to do what's up everybody this is Chris
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I'm extremely passionate about is mental
health and I'll be talking about that a
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belt so yeah a lot has been going on and
I've been debating on making this video
about keemstar but yeah let's let's
discuss because ever since the tragic
news about etiqa keemstar has been just
in the forefront getting so much flack
so much attention aside from the idiocy
that j station did but anyways let's
talk about this all right and I want to
preface this whole video by saying like
I have one of the longest track records
of openly speaking out about the insane
terrible things that keemstar said
perpetuating the mental health stigma
I've made plenty of videos about it in
the past
keemstar is not a fan of mine so let's
let's run down some of the history and
there's probably things that I'm going
to miss I first started speaking out
against the way keemstar talks about
mental illness I think it was last year
around this time when the whole
fouseytube thing was happening right
like all of us watching the situation we
knew we knew that phousi was going
through some type of manic episode
fouseytube has talked about how he's
been diagnosed with bipolar how we
stopped taking his medications
everything like that
and yeah we we saw the entire doc you
series that keemstar made you know since
he you know thought that was a great
idea because of what you know Shane
Dawson just got all that fame from but
anyways like one of the things that was
concerning was like that interview that
he did with fouseytube
after the whole situation but himself
constantly talks trash about people with
mental health issues now one of the most
recent things was some of you might
remember this some of you don't the cube
so it was on Twitter talking about how
social anxiety is fake right and he and
he said that he wanted to make a new
docu-series in anybody who struggles
with social anxiety make a video
discussing your experience with social
anxiety right and a lot of people made
videos and I think they titled it like
keemstar I have anxiety so his whole
thing was I don't think this is a real
thing people just get nervous around
other people right well one of the other
things that happened most recently was
he ended up taking down a video that he
made about Deji and ksi and all that
drama and everything and this was just
right before what happened to Etica but
anyways he was spouting off about Deji
blaming mental health issues even though
i don't think that's what desi was
saying but keemstar got so much pushback
because he was talking about how people
blame their mental health on everything
now obviously the thing that everybody
is bringing up is the interview that
keemstar did with etiquette and I talked
about that when it happened like I
thought that was ridiculous I thought
that was irresponsible and cube sauce
been on Twitter defending himself for
what he he did and why he interviewed
Etica and like here's the thing like I
I'm a huge advocate for Hamlin's razor
which is do not attribute to malice
which could easily be attributed to
stupidity in my opinion watching
keemstar over this long
he doesn't know anything about mental
health or mental illness and I'm really
hoping this situation opened his eyes
but anyways he was like will the doctors
released and so he was fucking normal to
me so I thought it was ok to interview
him and here's what I want to say to
that like interviewing Etica on drama
alert like right after that like that is
like somebody just having some kind of
surgery and then roughhousing with them
right after you know what I mean even if
that person told you they were fine like
the situation that Etica was in like
having a standoff with the police like
they were beating down his door he had
to go to the hospital you know what I
mean like like within 24 hours of his
release like this is why just more
people need to be educated about mental
health like we need to understand how
this thing works and that's one of the
reasons why I try to you know explain
mental health the same as physical
health you know what I mean like if this
was somebody this was somebody who just
went to the hospital for some kind of
surgery you wouldn't do that right after
like it would click for you right this
is why we need to spread awareness and
discuss these things but here's the
thing like I saw the two mad video I
know a lot of other people have - and I
want to say this for the most part I
1000% agree with twomad like keemstar
has been an issue on this platform for
years now and it blows my mind that
people even still support him alright
let me make that very clear but here's
the thing when it comes to blaming
keemstar with Etika like I think I feel
personally that a lot of us need to
chill a little bit on that and like I
said at the beginning of this video in
the intro like what would edit I want
you to do like I've experienced so much
death in my life
alright and those of you who don't know
me like I am a recovering drug addict
and alcoholic I've lost many friends to
the disease of addiction I worked in
addiction treatment for a little over
three years
many people to overdoses and suicides
and something I try to do when it comes
to honoring their memories like what
would they want me to do how would they
want me to live you know what I mean
but when it comes to blame like I get it
like everybody's going through pain
right now losing somebody there's a lot
of pain and I talked about this in
previous videos but we're all looking
for people to blame and here's the thing
keemstar is the easiest target
he's just the easiest target he is a
face where we can point the finger at
him and said this was your fault and
here's one of the reasons why I'm
empathetic towards Kim start getting all
that blame because working in drug and
alcohol treatment center like we we
would do everything we could right like
we weren't doing what King Saul was
doing obviously but we would do
everything we could for a client right
therapy groups one on one support love
forgiveness everything you can imagine
medications that they would get from the
doctors for their mental illness and
sometimes people would leave treatment
make the decision to go out and relapse
and they would overdose and people want
to blame the treatment center right and
something I mentioned in a video I did
the other day which a lot of people
understood but some people didn't and I
I just want to clarify that is there's
only so much we can do for one another
and that's one of the trickiest things
about mental health like something I
learned from my own personal addiction
like no amount of love and affection was
going to keep me sober it wasn't gonna
keep me clean I had a son I had friends
and family members who loved me so much
and I still didn't want to live anymore
you know what I mean and that's why I
just do not believe in the idea of
blaming somebody for this because there
are so many contributing factors to this
and the part that kind of bugs me and
it's been on my mind is how many people
out there do
think our spamming keemstar blaming
keemstar but they were the same people
making memes when Etica was first having
his mental breakdown tonight that's one
of the things about the internet it
gives everybody this anonymity like
we're not commentary channels like
myself we're not gonna make a video
about you and what you've done you know
what I mean so so many people are hiding
behind this mask and so many things were
contributing to the issue right because
if we want to we can blame the hospital
of that Etica went to we could blame the
doctors who released him we could blame
so many things and like here's the thing
I just recently watched the debates and
I'm gonna be talking more about politics
and everything like that like if mental
health is on the forefront of your mind
now okay
like get involved and start voting okay
because there are so many things and
that's what I try to educate people
about mental health there are so many
different components of like the mental
health care system how we treat one
another that stigma and all these other
things and we need to make changes in
policies here in the United States so
people get the help they need and part
of it comes from educating people all
right like there were so many things
that were going on when Annika was first
missing or even before then where people
were just purely ignorant to what was
going on so we need to educate ourselves
about this stuff but pointing the
fingers and blaming and everything like
that like I try to think like would
Etica what I think I want everybody
attacking keemstar like I think Etica
would think it's hilarious like I didn't
know him but I think you would think
it's hilarious that people are like span
and came Stover like cockroaches and
things like that but I don't think that
he would want people blaming keemstar
for what happened you know what I mean
so anyways I just really felt the need
to make this video I'm not a still not a
fan of King star and I think he should
be punished for some of the things that
he's done in the past but putting the
blame on somebody for a dad
it's just it's it's a little much
alright but anyways that's all I got for
this video I'll see you guys in the next
one
