so I wasn't even planning on recording a
video today but seeing James Charles and
just about every other creator freaked
out I decided that we need to talk about
this what is up everybody this is Chris
from the rewired soul where we talk
about the problem but focus on the
solution and if you're new to my channel
what I try to do is take different
topics going on in the YouTube community
try to see what lessons we can learn
from them to improve our own mental and
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soul I just posted kind of kind of just
me talking a little bit um I wasn't
planning on doing a video today I I'm
really trying to switch my content up
and dive back into psychology and
philosophy and just adding more you know
any more to my content that kind of
separated me before so I'm not a huge
fan of just hopping on here and sharing
my opinions like everybody has opinions
and like I don't know for a long time I
was different you know but anyways
anyways make sure you follow me on
social media so yeah you probably heard
the news everybody's getting unverified
what's that mean there's a little check
mark on YouTube and YouTube sent pretty
much I don't know they said just about
everybody this this email saying that
they weren't getting I'm not getting it
you know I create they're gonna be
unverified and people upset so check it
out I want to talk about why YouTube did
this house how it's ridiculous but most
of all I want to talk about the life
lessons that all of us can learn from
this situation because holy crap like
you would think that we we just got
warned that we're about to be hit by a
nuke or something like that but anyways
like YouTube says that they're they're
doing this because they've heard a lot
of people you know bring this topic
but literally nobody nobody has ever
said that it's kind of like when
politicians like when you watch the
Democratic debates and stuff when
they're like people want their private
health insurance like I haven't heard
anybody say like I love my health
insurance plan and the deductibles I got
and all this other stuff like I really
haven't heard people talk about that
like I've never heard anybody say I love
spending this much money on health care
all right so YouTube kind of just pulled
back on an end and I get everybody's
frustration because YouTube keeps
talking about being transparent with us
and they keep biessing us all right like
I understand like from a business
standpoint why YouTube does a lot of the
things it does but I wish it would just
be like hey like we're not gonna explain
everything every part of this or you
know we are it's one of the two but like
but we creators the YouTube community
were not nearly as stupid so when they
say stuff like oh bunch of people didn't
like this so we're doing this you know
it's like nobody asked for that so I
understand why creators are upset and I
empathize with people who are upset too
because this is kind of like an
achievement right so I get why people
are upset like a lot of people are upset
I've seen some people say they're
quitting YouTube and stuff like that
just like this is the straw that broke
the camel's back but real quick let's
hop into some philosophy some psychology
real quick of conspicuous consumption
all right so this is something this is a
term that came out when pretty much like
royal families and you know people who
had money they wanted to be able to
separate themselves from you know us
low-level commoners and everything like
that so they started wearing like fancy
things or buying fancy things and all
those right so they would wear these
things who say yo look I'm different
than you I'm better than you you're here
I am here right and this is something
that we see throughout life like this
has happened for hundreds of years you
know today you might buy a watch or a
car or a certain phone or wear certain
clothes
to put off this this message of this is
my status all right and it's interesting
how we do that because the question is
it's like does that really matter right
does this really affect your well-being
right because as many of us know we know
people who have the nicest things on
earth and they're not happy well today
in the realm of social media that
verification is what separates people
like look I am verified I am an official
youtuber or Instagram influencer or
personal and Twitter it is I am above
look at this cool little check mark I
got right for those of you who aren't
youtubers watching this if you're
wondering like what does that do
absolutely nothing absolutely nothing
like it's just it separates people a
little bit when I'm in a livestream with
my checkmark if I say something if I
type in the chat
it separates me from the other people if
I comment on another youtubers video
it'll give them a notification like I
get notifications when another verified
youtuber comments on my videos
everything like that but as far as like
money and things like that that people
are making it doesn't affect them in any
way shape or form so the bigger lesson
that I want to talk about when it comes
to this I'll start off by saying where I
was seven years ago
seven years ago I was a hopeless drug
addict I had a 10% chance of living
alright they called my mom from the
hospital and said you should come down
Las Vegas says we don't think your son's
gonna live through the night alright I
thought I was gonna die I was ready to
die I given up on life and I'm so
grateful for the experiences I've been
through and you might be able to relate
to this like adversity is one of the
best things that you can go through
because it makes you strong it makes you
resilient in one of the books I was just
finishing they were talking about this
um this kind of a thought experiment of
like if you if you had a child and you
could see every every time they were
gonna face a challenge in their life
like you know heartache or getting five
my job or just friends you know
backstabbing them or whatever like if
you could alter that would you like as a
parent you're like oh yeah right
but like I also want people think about
that for for themselves like if you can
erase every bad thing that ever happened
to you would you like I know a lot of us
we still carry around pain and that's
why you get therapy but for a lot of us
it just made us badasses right like when
I got sober I had nothing I started with
nothing I had like three pairs of
clothes no money and an oxygen tank cuz
I've been just I had congestive heart
failure and my life is phenomenal now so
those of us who have been close to death
or just been through any kind of
adversity
we don't sweat the small stuff all right
that's why we talk about Cadillac
problems that's why I've been talking
more on my channel about what people are
like all of our feelings are valid know
sometimes we blow things way out of
proportion like this checkmark alright
so anyways for those of you who don't
know I got cancelled earlier this year
and I think like I was just talking with
some other youtubers about this I think
that's why I'm very indifferent about
this check mark because I've been
through adversity and your opinion might
be Oh Chris deserved it alright but
check it out alright one DM that I sent
that got spread around and some kid
calling me a fake therapist led to my
downfall all right I hunted thousand
subscribers and lost them before I got
my silver play button okay I've lost
over twenty thousand subscribers since
then as well I never got a join button
on my channel even those smaller
channels have gotten it and I lost a lot
of money pretty much all of my ad
revenue was gone when I got cancelled
and you know some of you
the cruise you deserve it whatever your
opinion is but like let me say this is
and this is gonna sound harsh but it
made it so I'm not a wuss all right like
I'm seeing people just freaking out over
this check mark I'm like I have lost so
much stuff this year and like I said
I've seen people talking about quitting
YouTube like you guys like I had
channels making videos about me getting
hundreds of thousands of views just
talking crap about me there are people
out there who still find me to leave
hate comments and then like YouTube's
like hey we're gonna take your check
mark away at people like I'm out so like
for all of you out there all of you non
youtubers like appreciate the challenges
you've gone through like I sit here I
sit here and I watch people just
breaking under the smallest things and
I'm like wow thank god I've been through
some stuff because this is nothing to me
this is absolutely nothing do I think
it's a dumb decision by YouTube that
makes absolutely no sense of course but
I'm great in the grand scheme of things
does it really affect me no not really
I'm not gonna lose an ounce of sleep
over that you know what I mean so again
like I just really hope that a lot of
you watching this you're grateful for
the struggle you've been through like
just check it out like I something I do
on a daily basis i watch people who
clearly haven't really been through any
real adversity just whine and complain
about the the smallest things right I'm
like man like I don't know I'm grateful
I'm grateful that I've been through
stuff and it you know
toughened me up I I used to think that
my dad was just this you know this jerk
because he never like talked to me about
my feelings and he would just tell me to
walk it off if I was you know sad as a
kid or even when I was a teenager I went
through my first breakups oh my geez
like like maybe that toughened me up a
little so anyways moral of this story be
grateful for what you've been through
it's made you a badass it's made you a
warrior alright the anyways that's all I
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YouTube has taken away pretty much all
of my hat money so anyways that's all I
got for this video I'll see you next
time
