 Have you ever been in one of those toxic relationships where the other person keeps hurting you over and over and over again but you quickly forget about all of the terrible things they've done? That's one of the main reasons why I'm really concerned that Jake Paul is manipulating Shane Dawson. 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, my channel is all about trying to help you improve your mental and emotional well-being so what I like to do, I like to pull things from the YouTube community or pop culture in general and try to teach you how to improve your mental health and I've been recapping pretty much every Shane Dawson episode for this Jake Paul series so make sure you subscribe and ring that notification bell and for all of you who aren't new, I have an exciting announcement. Zach is back and he is actually editing this video so let's give a round of applause for Zach. All right so again quick reminder this video is for you so in this video we're going to be talking a lot about toxic relationships and I'm also going to dive into some brain science okay so before Shane started this series when he like announced or even when it was rumored that he was going to be doing this series on Jake Paul a lot a lot of his fans were worried that Shane was going to try to make us sympathize with Jake Paul and like I don't know that was really fascinating to me I'm like okay you guys like calm down like why do you have to hate somebody so so so much you know like it's just kind of an interesting thing and as this series is going on we're learning more about Jake Paul and I've mentioned that I can relate to Shane in this kind of like overly empathetic way and I'm kind of like well you know he is young and he has kind of a rough childhood even though I've mentioned that it's not an excuse but like as I was driving back home from Los Angeles I got this thought I'm like wait a second wait a second wait a second Jake Paul is still a pretty awful person like I was getting sucked into this thing too so like the first thing I want to talk about is we cannot forget we cannot forget about the nerd city video that came out about Jake Paul right before this documentary series happened Jake Paul is a complicated personality on the one hand Jake should be respected as an expert on social media and as a wildly successful entrepreneur but on the other hand Jake should be reviled for exploiting children as young as preschoolers so for those of you who haven't seen the nerd city video I'm gonna link it down in the description below but basically like he he shows like Jake Paul is not a good person and there's a few main points I want to touch on about this because it's not being discussed at all so far in this documentary series from Shane Dawson so the first one is is Jake Paul taking advantage of kids right when it comes to making money off of them so nerd city I love that dude I love that dude so much he did a ton of research and investigation so I'm not gonna quote everything that he did but again I'm gonna link down to his video but there's actually laws that are in place to protect Maya Maya quit playing with the carbonates but yeah there are actually laws in place that say that they cannot they cannot overly advertise to kids on children's shows okay so I forgot what the exact percentages was but you couldn't put more than a certain amount of advertisements in a kids show because kids will like go to their parents and beg them and beg them and beg them and take and the people selling it to the kids know they could take advantage of the kids in that way so what nerd city did in this video he showed like just a Jake Paul video and like the percentage of the amount of advertising that Jake did in this video I think was about 50 percent which is absolutely bananas that's 23 separate ad reads built into one video out of a 13 minute and 50 second video nearly seven minutes of that time is devoted to advertising products 50 percent so yeah it's also important to remember that nerd city pointed out that Jake Paul is very very aware of this he mentioned it in news interviews that his primary audience is like eight to ten years old so he knows exactly what he's doing but unfortunately because of the way that technology progresses there's no laws against this on YouTube so the second thing that nerd city pointed out is the way that they um hopped on this trend Jake Paul and team 10 hopped on this trend of scaring the bejesus out of children children who have a very hard time separating reality from fiction and they knew this so for those of you who don't know if you're like me and don't follow Jake Paul what they did what him and Erica did was they had killer clowns break into the house and kidnap them and kids all around the world lost their freaking minds okay they beat him with a bat to death like i'm so mad right now knowing that your favorite youtuber might die is really sad kids were uploading videos like oh my god like Jake Paul and Erica go oh my god and they were freaking out right and like this this is not cool okay just because i'm a big neuroscience nerd and by the way this isn't the neuroscience thing i was going to talk about but it just popped into my head but like this is way different than like um like jimmy kimmel or somebody doing like oh prank i ate all my kids halloween candy this is much much much different all right so even the thing that um logan paul did where he pretended to die in front of all his uh his kid fan base in the hotel room like these things are not cool they can even be so much traumatic and like i'm not trying to like over exaggerate this thing but the fact that they spread this out and went on for so long like these kids were experiencing a lot of stress because they didn't know that it was fake all right now the next thing i want to touch on is like and i can make an entire video about this but i'm kind of sick and tired how people are painting Erica as this like saint and what i've seen today but also just been a lot of research and from what i've heard from nick and like other people that i trust you are kind of like the only so bad to say uh oh well the only hope that jay has all the normal life um and it's really funny because you're not the first person that says anything like that and if you guys want me to make another video about this but i've talked about it in other videos already on my broken picker playlist um but like people are acting like erica is this like almighty savior and she's gonna save jake paul and everybody says that she's so good for jake like cut the crap but cut is just as guilty as jake paul is when it comes to this stuff because she participated in the killer clown thing she knows exactly what jake's doing when it comes to marketing the children so like it's not like she's like steering him on this nice like altruistic amazing enlightened path or something like that all right so like again i can make an entire video about that so let me know if you would like me to do that so here's the thing when it comes to shane dawson i don't know how the timeline matches up i don't know if shane started this series before or after the nerd city video came out i don't know if shane dawson saw it i know for a fact jake paul saw it because the video last time i checked i like over half a million views but anyways like so i don't necessarily fault shane for this but i think it's important for all of us me and you to realize that jake is still doing this jake is still doing bad things all right my girlfriend and i had the stomach the last jake paul video because somebody said hey jake paul made a video about you know uh elissa and then shane being interviewed by shane dawson and we watched it by the way to save you some time like the first like 10 minutes or something like the first 75 as a vlog and then he jumps into the elissa thing so we just skip forward to that part um but anyways at the beginning and end of that video he shoves his merch and this sale they have the fan appreciation sale he shoves it down people's throat with his awful merchandise so today is a day of merch $10 t-shirts $20 sweatshirts and $10 hats are you kidding no so again like this is important for all of you like i mentioned in the intro this is something that we all need to be aware of like we forget about the terrible things that people have done and don't get me wrong those of you who know me i'm a huge huge huge advocate for forgiveness and believing that people grow that people change like i am living proof of it i used to be an awful person in my drug and alcohol addiction and i have changed i did a complete 180 but like it's important to realize who's changing who's trying to change and who isn't doing crap right Jake Paul is literally doing nothing okay so he's still that person and i think Shane might be forgetting that or he wasn't fully aware of all of those things and this is why Jake might be manipulating Shane but the other two things i wanted to note real quick is we don't know and i've seen a lot of your comments but we don't know about the the physical assault accusations against elissa all right we don't know for sure but like what we do know for sure are the things that have been caught on camera and something that hasn't been addressed yet which i don't know if elissa will talk about it was it was on camera Jake Paul spitting in elissa violets face all right so i think it's important that we remember that and then to call back to the nick uh crompton episode we also need to remember that even if the martinez twins are lying about the bullying and all that stuff like we can't forget that we have video evidence of Jake Paul saying racial slurs to these two men all right so like let's like let's not forget these things so like i just kind of wanted to talk about that when it comes to always starting to over sympathize with Jake Paul and Shane painting him in a good light but like here's here's a thing that my uh my wonderful girlfriend and i were talking about yesterday is that Shane is in a in a really tricky position all right because he's he's trying to make sure that Jake is on board with everything and all of that and we know for a fact that Jake is having Shane cut certain things out so my concern about that is Shane getting some backlash because Jake is having him cut certain things out like imagine this like you know if you had an investigative journalist like going to like expose some company for doing something terrible but the company was allowed to tell them hey by the way don't mention all these bad terrible things that would make me look bad you know what i mean so i'm worried that Jake is having Shane cut out these things that would really like expose Jake Paul for the not so great person that he is so but here's the thing like i do cut Shane some slack like Shane is in very very new territory he is being like a frontiersman when it comes to what he's doing on youtube but no matter what the case is like i always say there are no losses there are only learning experiences so that's what's happening and Shane gets some pushback about that i hope he grows before he does his next series of learns from this so the last part i wanted to discuss um and i was gonna make a separate video but i figured i would just toss it in here is i got an awesome comment from one of you beautiful subscribers out there and this subscriber is raffaella so she says also since you mentioned you're a fellow neuroscience nerd i would like to point out something out in defense of Jake that i haven't seen anyone talk about he's 21 years old the prefrontal cortex which is responsible for among other things logic decision making initiative planning etc fully matures around the ages of 23 or 26 depending on which journal you trust um i know many would argue that the hypothalamus is the powerhouse of the brain the 4s fighting fleeing feeding mating lol but in my opinion the pfc and the hippocampus are the true powerhouses of the brain i can literally go on and on about this for hours girl so can i and i agree prefrontal cortex hippocampus amygdala too all right so then she says does that justify the dumb stuff he did no does that justify failure to take responsibility for one's actions again no however his pfc is still developing the dude just needs more time to grow as a person and build character while his pfc fully matures those oh that's my two cents love your videos thank you rafiella yeah i love it i i love meeting like fellow neuroscience nerds but anyways yeah like this is a good point so i've said it in other videos like back when i was a much smaller channel but i've mentioned it like kids are dumb young people are dumb like that's no offense it's just like like what rafiella was saying it's just the way the brain develops the prefrontal cortex i talk about this a lot this is the part of the brain that separates us from the animals and it doesn't fully mature until your 20s or early 30s so like rafiella said it depends on which scientific journal you look at so i've seen some that say you know what she's saying but like i did want to point this out some journals say that the the prefrontal cortex fully matures in females around my 25 to 28 years old and for men it's closer to early 30s so keep that in mind real quick all right but anyways yes the prefrontal cortex is responsible for all of the things that help make us good people so it's responsible for logical decision-making impulse control fear modulation and also um self-awareness right and a whole bunch of other stuff one of my favorite favorite favorite neuroscientist is uh dr dan seagull and he has some great books about this but he has like the nine core functions of the prefrontal cortex i'll try to link that down in the description as well but anyways we have to understand that jake's brain is still fully development developing and what you need to realize is when you realize what the prefrontal cortex does it explains a lot of his behaviors okay now something that my mom mentioned in one of the videos that i did with her is um the way his morality and his maturity is kind of stunted right so he may not fully develop that prefrontal cortex and all of its abilities until even later than in life you know what i mean so again this is an excuse like the thing is is that people in jake's life need to point these things out to him not enable him and separate themselves from him again i just want to call back to the whole erica thing like i do not think erica is his perfect angel that people are trying to paint her out to be right now you know what i mean but anyways that's what i got about this but i want to hear from all of you down in the comments below can you relate to what i was talking about like being in a toxic relationship whether it's with a significant other or a family member where they keep doing bad things over and over to hurt you but then you like you forget you get this weird amnesia about all the awful things they did and you're like huh they're not that bad like i know this is something that a lot of addicts and alcoholics struggle with right where they forget how terrible the last drunk or drunk uh high was and they're like huh it wasn't that bad but a lot of us do that with people too so if you can relate to that make sure you let me know down in the comments below all right but anyways that's all i got for this video so if you like this video please give it a thumbs up and if you're new i'm always making videos to help you out with your mental health make sure you subscribe and ring that notification bell and a huge thank you to everybody supporting the channel over on patreon you help me make these mental health videos and i love you oh so much and if you would like to join and 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