welcome back to another beautiful day
during Mental Health Awareness Month and
this is nuts because I had a whole angle
for a video planned out but I just scrap
the entire script get rid of it because
I'm a burr and I'm Alex completely
opened my eyes what is up everybody this
is Chris from the rewired soul where we
talk about the problem but focus on the
solution if you're new to my channel I
try to take different topics from the
YouTube community and try to see what
valuable lessons we can learn from them
because what is the point of watching
all of these YouTube videos if we're not
acquiring some of that knowledge and
applying it to our own lives
but we need to know what to look for so
if any of that stuff makes you subscribe
and ring that notification about so
something I'm very very passionate about
is mental health and in case you didn't
get the memo my books I wrote three of
them are now bundled right now for
Mental Health Awareness Month that link
is down in description below if you want
to check it out one of them is about
overcoming anxiety depression and
addiction one of them is about anger
management one of them is about helping
a loved one who is struggling with
addiction alright so yeah this is a
video about how Jojo see wha and her
whole dream tour it kind of was the
victim of council culture and before I
dive into that by trust me Jojo siwa
or her management team or Nickelodeon or
whoever is you know the puppet masters
in this situation like they are not
totally in the clear right like the clip
floating around of Jojo siwa like hey
kids get your parents American Express
card like that is a little concerning
alright
but anyways one of the biggest fears I
have just for our society is just like
groupthink right and this can become a
very very big problem especially on
YouTube because a lot of you watch
commentary channels like mine like I
never like I'm Alex like a tozi or you
watch like more of like the drama
channels and things like that and like
something that I think about a lot right
because groupthink can be a very very
big problem because of crowd psychology
what is crowd psychology so this is
something that was first introduced by a
dude by the name of Gustav Lebon all
right and it was in a book called the
crowd and basically basically just to
summarize it I've done a more in-depth
video on this in the past but basically
what this is is how an idea spreads
right how an idea spreads and basically
the more people are talking about it the
more people are saying and parroting the
same thing while just over and over and
over and over and over again it turns
into this kind of groupthink and
everybody in the crowd they turn into
this mob and they lose their ability to
be an independent thinker and it is very
very dangerous especially right now in
the internet age so till rewind a little
bit this story about Joe Joe CY and her
dream tour actually kind of starts with
James Charles alright because Joe Josie
wast war became an issue after the James
Charles backlash those of you who don't
know Jim Charles he announced a tour his
VIP tickets are like 500 bucks and you
get a meet-and-greet and some other
things like that but because of this
some people did some more research on
these like youtuber tours and jojo siwa
was apparently selling tickets for
like $5,000 which is absolutely insane
right now whatever story like this
breaks myself and many other commentary
channels they make videos on it right
the reason why commentary channels are
so popular on YouTube is because it is
probably the easiest way to game the
algorithm and get exposure because
basically like I kind of call it like
when I'm talking with other youtubers
and kind of explaining like you know the
way I run my channel and the way some
other successful channels work like with
the way the YouTube algorithm works I
kind of call it like catching the tail
wind of a trending topic alright so when
something is you know notable or it's
attached to like a youtubers name or
celebrity or a movie or a TV show or
whatever when you make a video on it
YouTube is more likely to recommend that
to other people I talked about this in
another video
about how YouTube affection mental
health because with the way the
algorithm works it is trying to keep you
in a bubble it's trying to keep you in a
loop so if you watch one video about Jo
Jo see wha and hurt war you're going to
get recommended other videos about Jojo siwa  and her dream tour right so the first
video I saw on this topic was from atozy alright so while everybody was talking
about James Charles he tells you what's
the first video I personally saw about
Jo Jo siwa or and charging like
five thousand dollars so I watched this
video on it he's a great dude love his
videos
funny awesome dude hopefully he hits his
million very soon so I watched it and
then next thing you know Inabber made a
video on it the next thing you know imallexx
made a video on it so whenever I
see this happen I get concerned I get
worried because I'm like okay alright do
I want to watch these other videos I
love I maverick he's one of the best
dudes I love that dude and Alex is great
too and but I'm like do I want to watch
this because I try to check in with
myself and you know is my opinion going
to be affected by watching more videos
on this and so I do watch them right I
go into them but I go into them knowing
that my opinion might somewhat be you
know not even my own if I just keep
listening to people saying the same
things so when I see inabber and
imallexx make these videos I'm like are they
providing any new information are they
going to provide any new information and
this is something as a commentary
creator this is something I check in
with when I make a video because I ask
myself two questions right one of them
is are there too many videos on this
topic already okay and the other
question is is can I provide a different
angle a different outlook right a lot of
you who have been following me for a
while you know I try to look at these
situations see what we can use from them
to apply them to our own lives to try to
use that little spin on them but there's
some topics that I stay away from
because I'm like oh that topic might get
me some views but I don't think I can
add any value to it
so when I saw I neighbor's video pop up
I was like okay maybe this
is an opportunity to provide some more
context to the idea of groupthink quad
psychology and things like that so my
original video idea was going to be to
watch a toesies video I nablas video and
imallexx video I do a compare and
contrast and then I completely scrapped
that video all right like I even have my
notebook right here with my notes but
when I watched Inabber video and
then Iimallexx's video I'm like oh my god
we need to talk about something
completely different so in an average
video when he made it he talked about
through his own research on this topic
was that JoJo's sea wall actually wasn't
charging $5,000 for tickets what he
found and he does a really good job
going in-depth on this was that this was
you know it's not exactly the wrong
information but it's not the correct
information either because the Joseph C
wah website is linking to reseller
websites and people have been doing this
for ages right the the most common time
is like around Christmastime when
there's like a hot toy and everybody
buys it up and then resells it for a ton
of money there's a great episode of the
office on that where Dwight Schrute does
that so the original video I watched
from A to Z it didn't have that
information now no fault against a tozi
like you know there is some
accountability that comes into play
that's cool about hey man all of us have
a point in our time when we get stuff
like that wrong right so then I went on
to watch analysis video and he touched
on another great point he touched on the
point that some of these pictures were
actually photoshopped and people were
just retweeting him and Twitter was
blowing up and they were doing this all
willy-nilly without doing their own
independent research or questioning it
and this is why confirmation bias is
such a problem well two things
confirmation bias and our short
attention spans so what is confirmation
bias okay this is something all of us
have me you scientists have it even when
they're doing research this is one of
the reasons that peer review studies are
so damn important is because we have our
own confirmation bias confirmation bias
is
when we we look we look for things that
will confirm the beliefs that we already
have let's give the example of like the
superstition that black cats are bad
luck ok so let's say you have that
superstition you think black cats are
unlucky so a black cat crosses your path
and now you notice all of the bad things
that happen to you that day but if you
were to do you know the scientific
method and just really analyze this
thing compared to other days did
anything really change did more bad
things happen to you that day than they
would any other day by mere coincidence
or did you have just happen to focus on
all of the negative because your brain
is trying to confirm your old
superstition that black cats are unlucky
personally I don't think any cats are
unlucky they are amazing adorable
creatures now let's think about it in
the context of youtubers and where
confirmation comes in so if you think
that a certain youtuber is a bad person
right or let's say you think a youtuber
is a scammer or youtubers in general
make too much money or whatever it is
your brain will try to find anything
that confirms that all right so you will
hyper focus on those things and because
of our own confirmation bias in the age
of the Internet we retweet we share we
post these things everywhere all over
the place to show people and say haha
see I was right my suspicion was right
about this youtuber so that is one of
the reasons why this Jo Jo seawall
situation blew up on Twitter because a
lot of people you know had that bias
already in their brain that these
youtubers are these money-grubbing
people and all right and not to say that
no youtuber isn't ok some are doing it
for the money some you know are making
more money than you know I don't know is
even needed in a lifetime but we have to
be careful about these things the reason
why this topic is so important and why
I'm touching on it right now is because
next year and 2020 is the elections and
we do not want a repeat of 2016 so those
of you who did not get the memo Russia
tampered
with the United States election because
they know how we operate all right so
the Russian government made a bunch of
fake Twitter accounts Facebook accounts
and everything like that
and they started posting these fake news
stories okay so they knew they knew that
because of our confirmation bias because
of our sort attention spans we would
read headlines and share it all over
Facebook all over Twitter without doing
the proper research okay so this is a
big deal not just in the context of
youtubers so what do we do about it what
do we do about this what is the solution
the first one is be an independent
thinker okay think for yourself don't
let anybody tell you how to think sit
down analyze the situation and ask
yourself what are your thoughts on the
subject
check your confirmation biases I can't
stress this enough when you're going
into any situation check your
confirmation bias like if you aren't
even going into a movie do you think
it's going to be bad see if you can walk
into a situation with a clean slate see
people walk into an article or a YouTube
video with a clean slate completely
erase what just happened with the last
video you watch or the news that you
heard hello this is one of the reasons
why they select jurors who aren't too
familiar with the case lastly check
multiple sources all right because like
I said I have a completely different
angle on this video but until I checked
multiple sources I would have got the
information wrong and it's kind of got
me rethinking this whole crowd
psychology thing and why we need more
people to cover the same story the last
thing is this is just something that I
personally do and it's a suggestion to
all of you follow people who don't agree
with you okay
whether it's youtubers who have a
different view on things than you do
whether it is news organizations who
have a different view than you do I lean
more towards the the liberal side of
things but I follow I follow Republican
news sources or conservative news
sources just so I can check my own
confirmation bias because it is a
problem with mainstream media where they
have their own biases and they will
neglect to put in certain
formation on purpose to play into their
own bias alright so I like to get
information from multiple sources and
then sit down and try my best to be an
independent thinker alright
but anyways anyways this was a great
video to make I'm glad we got to talk
about it during Mental Health Awareness
Month let me know down in the comments
below
what are your thoughts on this subject
about cancel culture things getting
spread around that aren't true people
not being independent thinkers all those
things let me know your thoughts down in
the comments below alright anyways
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