if this James charles situation is what
it's like to have big youtubers as
friends then count me out 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
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look at the YouTube community all the
drama that's going on and try to take
this mess and turn it into a message
because what good is watching all this
stuff go down if we're not trying to see
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inspired this video is I'm sitting here
and channels are pumping out like every
single time and it's on Twitter to every
single time somebody unfollow scams or
our lines themselves with talk to you or
whatever it is I'm sitting here and I'm
just like what the hell like Geoffrey
star and things like that like I am just
absolutely blown away and I want you
guys to think about this think about
this in your life in your regular life
like so I I know that I tend to forgive
easier than most not even most but like
let's put it this way if you come from
an addiction recovery background you
probably forgive easier than most as
well those of you who are just now
meeting me hi I'm Chris I'm an alcoholic
and drug addict I got sober June 23rd
2012 so I'm coming up on seven years
silver next month and you guys I used to
be I used to be such an awful human
being all right I became addicted to
alcohol from the first time I drank when
I was about 18 years old I got sober on
my 27th birthday so there was a good
almost decade all right a decade of me
just running amuck cause II chaos
wherever I went throughout my addiction
I i screwed over many fellow employees
as well as my bosses which is one of the
reasons why i
fire dozens of times in my active
addiction
I screwed over women I dated I screwed
over friends my family members all sorts
of things I was not a great person any
of you who are in recovery you know what
I mean
any of you who might know somebody in
active addiction or you used to be an
active addiction you know what I'm
talking about - all right at the end of
my addiction friends wouldn't talk to me
family wouldn't talk to me I hadn't seen
my son in four months all right I was
not a great human being okay and in my
recovery when I got sober it took a long
time to get people's forgiveness and
some people still haven't forgiven me
for my past like that is just something
that I have to live with but something I
want to touch on real quick is like this
whole James Charles thing it's gonna
take time it's going to take time like
for anybody to forgive him like
immediately like that's just not human
nature but like the reality is it's like
like so many of us we sit here and we
act like we have just been these amazing
human beings our whole life and that's
one of the issues with the internet like
it is so easy to hop on Twitter or hop
on
you know like YouTube comments and you
are completely anonymous nobody knows
who the hell you are the shady things
you've done in your past right nobody
knows those things so it's so easy for
people to take a moral high ground
online all right that's something that's
never gonna stop but like I said like
when I see somebody like Jeffrey star
completely abandoning James Charles it
absolutely blows my brain up inside of
my skull all right James Charles is 19
years old okay 19 years old you know
what you know what Jeffrey star was
doing when he was younger he was doing
this
all right like what what like Jeffree
star expects everybody to forgive him
too and listen I'm not condoning James
Charles behavior here but he's 19 years
old I think the most serious the sirak
most serious issue with James Charles is
him lusting after straight guys which is
also something that explodes my brain
because this is something that's been
known for a long time but ii Toxie
westbrook brings it up now everybody has
an issue with it but going back to
Jeffree star had any of you Matt
Jeffree star boyfriend Nate does
anybody know who that is
Nate was a straight guy okay I hate to
compare the two because no I don't think
Jeffrey start like you know I like
imposed his you know position of power
or Nate or like hassled him or forced
him into anything but he'll I might be
absolutely wrong about that as well
because Nate was just this dude coming
from this little town you know what I
mean so like when I see when I see
Jeffrey star just completely removing
himself from the James Charles situation
like Oh looking look at this terrible
human being I'm like what what like how
old is justly star now like 13 maybe
like what were you what were you doing
when you were 19 you know what I mean
but then you have people like like even
Shane Dawson you know coming out like
Shane Dawson is no stranger to
controversy either but he's grown and
he's loving these things but we're
talking about blackface we're talking
about how clips from his podcast are
being brought up like every other month
about jokes about like pedophilia and
that thing that he you know supposedly
who did with this cat right like these
are things being brought up in their
past I'm like these are people there's
so many people who are supposed to be
mentors to James Charles like could you
imagine okay so I come from a 12-step
recovery background
could you imagine for one second some
newcomer getting sober right there life
is a mess
they're killing himself
with alcohol and drugs that come into
the program I start sponsoring with them
sponsoring is like a former mentor and
you share your experience to help this
person overcome their addiction walk
through the staffs go through the book
whether it's you know a big book or the
a a basic text or whatever it is and
imagine imagine sponsoring somebody and
they screwed up and then you just
publicly said in a meeting like oh you
know what I'm not I'm not with this
person anymore they screwed up like your
whole job as a mentor is to be there for
somebody when they screw up you know
what and that is why I love my damn
first sponsor when I got my first
sponsor one of the first things he told
me one of the first things he told me is
that Chris you're gonna screw up you're
gonna screw up a lot but learn from it
and move forward so like I hate to play
devil's advocate during this whole
situation because I know there's a
massive hate train against James Falls
but imagine for a second how lonely that
must feel right his every single one of
his mentor's just dropped him like a bad
habit
they dropped James Charles as hard as
the in bombs that Geoffrey star was
dropping back in the day so I just made
a video you know yesterday about ten
emoji Oh being tied up in this whole
situation and hopefully hopefully even
if it's not in front of the scenes where
we can see it hopefully Tana is still
there for James because that would blow
my mind as well because if you look at
Tanis history the end bombs that she was
dropping running a convention called
Tana Khan we're screwed over thousands
upon thousands upon thousands upon
thousands of people and let's not forget
the fact that Tana filmed a dead body as
well as you know all this other stuff so
if I don't I just don't get it and
everybody is just watching this thing go
down and they're not even questioning it
they're not even questioning these these
people who are all unfollowing James
Charles and cancelling him like I saw
like Demi Lovato unfollow James Charles
like Demi Lovato has had an entire
three of insane stuff happened - and
she's in recovery as well ah making this
video just it hurts my soul it hurts my
soul maybe okay let's let's make up a
fictional scenario real quick maybe
these people are just doing this
publicly for their brand or for their
image in it and then behind the scenes
they're telling James tall's that it's
gonna be okay but if that is the most
hypocritical ridiculousness
I've ever seen and like I said in the
intro of this video like if this is what
the YouTube community is like if this is
what it's like to have mentors in the
community who will drop you the second a
controversy comes around like now nah
man and so many so many kids out there
so many kids out there watching all this
stuff go down wannabe youtubers and
they're watching they're watching this
kid James just get completely abandoned
like I get it I totally get it
like Tati Westbrook like she needs to be
done with James Falls like I talked
about this in a previous video sometimes
you need to cut somebody off just for
your own well-being and mental health
but in in the YouTube community there's
so many like taking sides and all these
other things that everybody else
abandoning this person like I don't know
if I was in Jeffrey stars shoes knowing
the screwed-up history I had I'd be like
listen listen Tachi I know I know that
you have to separate yourself with James
Charles right now I understand that he
hurts you but this kid needs help
alright and it's only it's only gonna
make things worse if we all abandon him
right now so I'm gonna try to help him
through this situation you know what I
mean like what's the alternative what's
the alternative for these other
youtubers y'all just kind of like ditch
the dude and let it become worse you
know what I'm saying like I don't know
like because something that something
that I guarantee I guarantee for a fact
is going on in James Hall's heads
because this goes on in anybody's head
who's been cancelled low good poly we
talked about this in this interview with
Casey nice that when you're painted as
the villain and nobody is willing to
forgive you like you start to think
maybe I should just become that villain
that people think I am you know what I
mean
it's worked for other people so I don't
know it just bums me out people need to
be there for James Charles all of us
have screwed up in the past especially
anybody who's around my age or even
older like this whole thing of just
canceling somebody like like you've
never done anything in your past like
we've all screwed up like I said there's
not like James Charles didn't murder
anybody like chill out anyways I'm done
I'm done with this video let me know
your thoughts on this subject down in
the comments below please let me know
down in the comments below if you have
been a flawless human being since you
came out of the womb that would help me
understand this situation a lot alright
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