 Fraser aka iNabber just made his response video to the alphideus slash jackmate slash i'm alex situation and this is something that i've actually been thinking about since it happened so let's talk about it and see what we can discuss 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 i do all sorts of stuff but the overall message i'm trying to get out there is take the content that you're watching see what you can learn from it to improve your own life so if you're into that make sure you subscribe and ring that notification bell so some of you have noticed i've done a little bit of rebranding the intro is slightly different uh my banner is different talking more about social commentary so in this video i'm definitely putting on the old commentary hat so yes uh Fraser just released a video he finally spoke about the situation with um alphideus he and i'm alex both went on his podcast jackmate made a video i'm alex did a livestream Fraser kind of stayed out of it and yeah i sent a tweet out saying yo Fraser thinking about doing a response to this he's like all right cool but anyways so just to kind of catch you up on this situation because i've been thinking about it since it happened i was like should i make a video on this and then seeing Fraser's video i definitely wanted to but anyways so um Fraser alex jack have all made videos on people like alphideus as well as zoella they are all commentary channels they comment on the youtube community okay remember this remember the word commentary okay they do this now alphideus invited inaver to be on his podcast and i never brought i'm alex over to just as kind of like you know some support and the first thing i'll say is Fraser if you watch this like man take it easy on yourself like dude you did phenomenal phenomenal on that podcast i remember watching i'm like dude you're killing it all right so kudos to you like i will say this and not just because you know Fraser and i talk you know we're kind of buddies but i will just say this like i think especially this video solidifies it and by opinion Fraser is one of the best commentary channels on youtube and i'm so happy to see him grow and the reason why i say this video that he just did solidified it is because the dude is growing and maturing and very open and honest about it and he touched on this in so many great ways like so many ways that i cannot even articulate when i try to make my videos and my channel kind of exploded in the last year but i i've recognized what what Fraser's talking about right like he shows old clips of himself like he called himself out on a clip he used saying like zoella was scum right and he says like you know that was wrong he doesn't think you should start a video out like that and and yeah like it's so cool to see him growing and evolving on this platform and learning from this thing because that's all we can ask from anybody right like so many people point out these small little things like nitpicking like Fraser was talking about it taking these like small little things these little clips these little phrases and like nitpicking them right and like that's just kind of what blows my mind about society as a whole is that we want we want to say like oh well remember what you said this time remember what you said months ago or years ago as if people are supposed to stay the same forever right like you're supposed to have one opinion and never change it and Fraser has been very open especially in you know some recent videos just about how his opinions are changing how he's growing as a creator he's changing the way he words things and does things he's picking his topics a little bit more carefully and that's one of the reasons why absolutely love watching his channel because he acknowledges this I'm not saying that no other creators do this but what I appreciate about Fraser is that he kind of takes us along that journey with him so we can see it because sometimes I like I watch a creator and I wonder if if they even acknowledge that they're doing it because I think it's important for us all to be self-aware if we're learning if we're growing and things like that so anyways that whole situation when Fraser and Alex went on the Alphideus podcast it it triggered Jack made to make a video and he kind of called out I'm Alex quite a bit and then after watching I'm Alex's live stream it kind of got me thinking and I just want to present the second half of the video to all of you to kind of ask you guys what your thoughts are on the commentary community and just like where these lines are right because it really does seem like commentary on YouTube it's huge okay like a lot of you have seen what I've done to grow this channel right it's it's it's this blend of commentary with a different kind of angle that I take and all of that like I'm always just trying to pull lessons from everything that we consume but commentary has been around in various other media outlets right there's there's movie critics there's food critics right there's critics for everything and the YouTube commentary community comments with their opinions their views on other youtubers right and I made a video about this a long time ago go check it out I use Angelica Oles name to kind of bring people in but I talked about crowd psychology like my one main concern with the commentary community as a whole me included is creating an echo chamber right creating more and more videos that all have the same opinion right and a lot of these opinions are based on the opinion from another video and a lot of them are that they are opinions but so many of us as viewers or even creators like myself we might fall into the trap where we blindly follow certain opinions and by the way this whole second half of the video I'm not talking about Fraser specifically like I said I just want to kind of get your wheels turning but what I think from the outside looking in of the situation that happened between Fraser and Alex and Jack it's kind of it's kind of seeing this line moving so for a lot of commentary channels you're just making videos right you're making videos you have an opinion about something you're like you know what I'm gonna sit down and make a video on this but as your channel begins to grow you start to meet these other creators you start to meet these these people who are in the same realm as you and it seemed it seemed from the outside looking in that Jack was upset with Alex for not going as hard on Alfie days but what Alex was talking about was like he's mech this dude he has context on this guy right so he doesn't have that same harsh opinion that he does but that's that's where it gets a little a little tricky right our opinions often change of people once we meet them like with all of the stuff that I've been through I've had plenty of people who left plenty of people who stopped talking to me but I've had plenty of people who stuck around because they have context on me right so they can look at videos being created about me and say well I know Chris and that doesn't line up with what I know about him right so when we look at people like Alex and Frazier who met Alfie days like their context of him has changed now they may not they may still not agree with everything that Alfie's done but Jack Jack is in a different situation so for all commentary channels it's just fascinating to me because their opinions can change based on whether or not they meet the person because something else has come up a lot I did a live stream a while back that I I just set to unlisted but I said like if I start talking about youtubers again what would you recommend and the number one suggestion the number one suggestion was you should get their permission and I'm like wait what so for for example like one of the reasons that silly is when you're a smaller youtuber and you reach out to a bigger youtuber they don't answer you like that so so that is a weird standard to set because what if they never answered you right and and the other thing is too something that came up and a lot of you know about my situation how I'll say the Trisha Paytas situation and Frazier actually made a video about that that's still appreciate to this day but Trisha Paytas asked me to stop making videos on her so where does that line go as well if if let's say Angelica Oles or Jack or Alex or Frazier or you know any commentary channel if a youtuber reaches out and says hey please stop making videos about me should they stop and I'm asking you this as an audience because the way I view commentary channels is two things one is their opinion but two to call out behavior that they don't agree with or they think might be bad for the community so do you think it's fair or even right or justify for a creator to say yo stop making videos about me if it doesn't align with the commentary channels views on I'm calling out certain behavior but the the last thing I kind of want to touch on is again these are opinions these are things where they only matter as much as we think they matter in our own mind right so just because we're talking about Zoella Alfie days and things like that I don't follow those too much but I remember when Zoella's advent calendar came out and there were just so many videos about how it was a ripoff and all these and and all that and like I'm sitting back here and like I'm like yeah I think that's a ripoff but I just wouldn't buy it you know what I mean but like I've I've worked at a variety hell I worked in the car dealership industry and I worked in service and the markup on parts like parts to fix your cars is insane it is mind blowing because on my computer screen I can say here's the cost here's the price we're selling it for it's bananas right like did you know when you go out to like a fast food place and you pay however much you pay for like a drink like most of what you're paying for is just the cup you're not even necessarily paying for the drink and that's what I'm saying is like when like when people are going after Zoella like oh my god you're charging so much for this I'm like sitting there I'm like eh like a lot of businesses do that and what we're seeing is we're seeing more youtubers becoming entrepreneurs and things like that now like Fraser said about Jack Jack has his right to his own opinion he has his right to his own opinion but again my concern is the echo chamber that it creates because in reality when we look at the value of things and how much things cost and all of that like it's all really how much value we put on it like there's so many things that I would never buy like I'm not like a uh uh uh like Texan addicts right like I am not gonna go spend thousands of dollars on a new TV like the last two or three TVs I've had have been given to me for free just because I don't place that much value on a TV but I place more value on a computer because I like to play video games and things like that so it's these are just things that I kind of want everybody to start thinking about but in general like I enjoy the commentary community I like seeing other people's opinions on things but I think all of us as a whole what we need to do is take a step back and really form our own opinions and try to look from a wider lens of what's going on does this creator know that creator does this create have enough context on this other person how do I feel do I know something about this creator that maybe this commentary channel might have missed right but I do think it is a necessity to have commentary channels here on the platform and it's it's it's kind of just like policing behaviors right because YouTubers as well as many other influencers whether it's you know just social media or celebrities or whoever it is they have a massive influence on a younger audience who is easily influenced so it's good to have content creators out there who are calling out certain behaviors and that's just my opinion but again I'll finish with this Frazier I thought you did amazing on that podcast even though we didn't get to see the the whole thing um you're a great commentary channel all right so if you haven't subscribed to i never yet make sure you go do so all right but anyways that's all I got for this video let me know your thoughts and comments down below if you like this video please give it a thumbs up if you're new make sure you subscribe and ring that notification bell and a huge huge thank you to everybody supporting the channel over on patreon you are all amazing thanks again so so much for watching I'll see you next time