I’ve been debating with myself whether or not I should
make a video about the Paul brothers´for quite a while.
Everyone has done videos on these two at this point,
and I wondered whether or not there actually would be
something for me add to the situation. However, after
watching countless of the Paul’ vlogs, and the rebuttals
against them on YouTube and other social media platforms,
I’ve not come across anyone who was Jake’s age, who’s
spoken out about this.
Hi. My name is Michael Novak, and just like Jake Paul,
I’m also 20 years old. And despite all the shit him and
his brother have pulled - I still in a way sympathize with
them. I mean, it’s the Nash Grier incident all over again.
Back in late December 2013 Viner Nash Grier, Cameron Dallas
and Jc Caylen made a 10 minute video titled
“What Guys Look For In Girls”, and the internet boiled over.
This was due to the young men having a large female
underage audience, listening to their pretentious,
and shallow rhetoric demands. Here’s the thing.
The reason why scandals keep happening to these young,
former Vine stars, is because of the medium.
Back when Vine was still around, young people were able
to make 6 second clips of themselves doing a lot of weird
and crazy stuff. This was what the platform was built around.
The whole point of Vine was to showcase short random
“spur of the moment” clips, with very little thought
process going into it. Now, let’s talk about the medium
of YouTube. YouTube was built on a platform of being able
to express yourself, freely, openly, and with full
control over the content. This used to allow creators to
talk about subjects they felt strongly about, while giving
it their own personal twist, to make the content more appealing.
Now, here’s why the 2 platforms are so different.
Attention spans.
Once Vine shut down, this random new style of media
collided with a world.
A digital content creating world, that was not only built
on different values, but also takes inspiration from the
TV-and Film business. This results in 2 very different
audiences colliding. The one audience who's used to the
“fastly paced, loud-noises, lowest common denominator”
humor, and the other audience, who’s been growing not only
their attention spans, but ultimately growing their
demands for quality content for more than a decade.
And here’s where the Paul brothers (and other Viners)
come into the equation.
Jake Paul and Logan Paul are geniuses.
Now, before you crucify me, then just hear me out.
In late 2016 when Vine announced it was shutting down,
a ton of young impressionable men and women found
themselves becoming unemployed. A lot of them faded into
obscurity, but the ones who stayed, were the ones who
managed to collide these two worlds, and make a profit
out of it. The Paul brothers, and others like them
succeeded in doing - just that. They were able to bring
their new form of digital media content, into the world of
established content creators, and comedians.
Jake Paul and Logan Paul knew they needed to expand their
content, and make it longer, but they also knew they had
to keep up with the fastly-paced, random, short-lived humor.
And they managed to do that, by creating a new form of
video logs, that beat all the others in the competition.
They simply, changed the game. In the matter of less than
a year, these two brothers have been able to change an
entire platform, and the way the content on this platform
is produced. How were they able to do that? By using their
enormous fanbase, that they each had acquired on Vine to
get them off the ground. The rest was simply a question of
networking with other YouTubers, networks, and social
media influencers, to attract a new audience, to blend in
with the old one. However, this required a lot of work,
and dedication.
The Paul brothers are dealing with a fanbase of young
impressionable people, who want to see the same type of
“shock value” content, that they were used to on Vine,
and another audience, who want to embark on the
“Casey Neistat” experience, and they both came to the
conclusion, that these types of random, wild, fastly paced
vlogs would be the best solution.
And they were absolutely right.
That’s what makes these two buttheads geniuses.
They simply changed the game.
Now why do I feel sorry for Jake Paul?
Because he’s 20 years old.
A 20 year old homeowner, boss, business owner, and TV-celebrity.
All this attention, money, and the non-existing
responsible parents has set this young man onto a path of
self-destruction. All the money has allowed Jake to
surround himself with the “yes sayers”.
This is where the employed members of Team 10 enter the picture.
It’s the Toby Turner situation all over again.
"The Problem with that, is that it's a hollow feeling,
it's a fleeting feeling. It will go away, and in my opinion
over the years, to counteract that, Toby has sorrounded
himself with yes-men, yes women. People willing to do
pretty much anything that he wants. To validate everything
he says and does" - Phillip DeFranco.
Having all these other young social media influencers
who surround Jake Paul and praise every little thing he
does, is bound to fuck up his priorities just a bit.
Just think about it. When you hear Jake Paul in the
channel 5 news report ask the reporter why he shouldn’t
climb onto the channel 5 news vehicle, you have to take
into account, that this young man, consciously surrounds
himself with people, who will hype him up to do these
things constantly, and encourage reckless behaviour,
or else they will be fired, and evicted from the
Team 10 house. (case and point: Alissa Violet)
Surrounding yourself with people like that will change
the way you view yourself, and your actions.
It changes your inner moral compass.
This is why you’ll hear Jake saying that the things he
does aren’t such a big deal.
The only role model Jake has.
The only person that straight up will tell him when he
needs to “bring it down a notch” is Logan Paul.
Now the only problem with that is that Logan Paul has the
same job. The same ambitions, and most importantly, the
same audience, and therefore makes the same type of content.
Jake views this as something he should attempt to recreate,
but he hasn’t gotten the maturity of his older brother,
and that ruins his social interactions with law-enforcement,
and other authority figures.
This has placed Jake in a seriously scary situation,
where real life catches up with him, and he has to deal
with the consequences. My conclusion is this:
If Jake Paul had more responsible parents, or simply
didn’t receive all this fame at such a young age,
he would’ve been able to avoid this entire situation.
It’s hard enough being 20 years old as it is.
You have to remember: At the age of 20, is when you’re
confronted with the real world for the first time.
For most people, this is when you get your first REAL job,
or start a real education. This is the time, for most
young adolescents when they move out, and have to start
living life on their own. That can be very stressful
in itself, but when you have over 9 million young
impressionable teen girls screaming your name,
and worshipping you as a God, you prevent yourself from
being properly introduced to this world.
That, or all this thing is a major publicity stunt,
and the Paul brothers are laughing behind our backs,
which is also a possibility…
Now, do I think that Jake Paul is responsible for this
situation himself as well? Absolutely! Never in my life,
have I pulled the victim card, and I don’t apply it to
others. I don’t feel sorry for serial killers, because
they’ve had a rough childhood, and I don’t feel sorry for
a pretentious prat like Jake Paul.
However, I always feel it’s interesting to look at
situations from the different angles, and take even the
little things into consideration before “choosing sides”.
People are complex, and situations like these,
certainly are too!
But that’s JUST A THEORY! -Oh wait, not my channel.
Speaking of Matt Patt, I strongly encourage you to check
out his video titled “The Viner Invasion of Jake Paul
and Logan Paul!” - It brings up a very interesting theory.
Lastly I just want to say, that I created this video
because I’ve been following all the Paul drama since the
beginning, and I know them both from the Vine days.
Having been a YouTube regular viewer for over 8 years now,
and having been a Viner for 2 of those years, I’ve noticed
quite a few things about the two platforms, and the
algorithms of these platforms, and hopefully I was able
to add something useful to the situation. But be a gent,
and let me know, in the comments below.
Alright. I’ll see you guys next time for another exciting
video (I’m in the Logang btw). Be a maverick, and join
the Michael Novakers gang today y’all!
Thanks for watching! Be sure to check out some of my other content,
if this video interested you in just the slightest.
Alright, dope. Imma go watch the Emoji movie now. Bye!
(Subtitles by: Michael Novak)
