 Emma Chamberlain has had a ton of success and for some people this is a massive problem. 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 mental health and what I like to do is pull different topics from the YouTube community to try to teach you how to improve your mental and emotional well-being. Make sure you subscribe and ring that notification bell and I got exciting news. I finally finished recording the audiobook for Rewire Your Anger so make sure you're following me over on Instagram and Twitter at the Rewired Soul. It should be up tonight or by Monday. So make sure you follow me because I'll announce when it's up and all that good stuff. I know a ton of you have been waiting like over a month for the audio version. Finally figured it out. Finally got it all recorded. Zach's editing it. It'll be up soon. Anyways, let's talk about Emma Chamberlain. I was just watching on a live stream, I have a little viewing party for the Right Opinions video on the rise of Emma Chamberlain and her changing. There's been a lot of videos about Emma Chamberlain and how she changed and that was kind of the topic of the Right Opinions video on her. Before she moved to LA, after she moved to LA. I love the Right Opinion. I love them so much. And I couldn't help but somewhat disagree with him. So basically the Right Opinion, he talked about how she has changed, but not really. And here's what I mean by that. And spoilers for the Right Opinions video, but anyways, like she's changed in certain things that she likes, the fact that she's moved, but she's still the same person at heart. You know what I mean? So although she's like making more money, she moved out to LA, she's still pretty much the same person. Now, I love the Right Opinion, but I kind of disagree. And it's from a more social aspect, right? And one of my biggest fears as a YouTube creator and growing my audience is feeling disconnected and forgetting where I came from. I never really watched like the before and after stuff on Emma Chamberlain. I think she's an awesome creator. She's super creative. It's awesome, right? But like when the Right Opinion was using these before and after clips, I'm like, oh my God. I'm like, oh, she's she's lost touch. And this can be an issue for some people. While some people don't see it as an issue, people like me do. And I'll explain what I mean by that with a little bit of a story time. So those of you who don't know me, I am a recovering drug addict and alcoholic and recovery, all right? I have been sober for over six and a half years. No drugs, no alcohol, none of that stuff. And I'm somebody who had multiple relapses. It was so hard for me to stay sober for even a day. All right? It was very, very difficult. So I didn't have money. I didn't have health insurance. I couldn't go to rehab. The only thing I could do was go to 12 step meetings because they're free. And the first meeting that I started going to, since I couldn't drive, that's often a consequence of people who become drug addicts and alcoholics, I couldn't drive. So the meeting I went to was within walking distance from my sober living house and would walk over there pretty much daily and go to the meeting. And the meeting was filled with old timers. And when I say old timers, I mean people with a lot of time, not old people, okay? So for those of you who don't know, in the rooms, people have different lengths of sobriety. Some people have 30 days, 60 days, 90 days. Then you have people who have years of sobriety. We're talking about people who have been sober longer than I've been alive. And at that time I was 27 years old, I'm 33 now. But when I heard people sharing about their recovery and they had a lot of clean time because they were an old timer, it didn't click for me. It didn't give me that hope. It didn't give me that inspiration. It didn't feel like I was connected to them, right? I'm trying to figure out how to stay sober for 30 days, right? I'm trying to figure out how to stay sober for 60 days. And when you are newly sober and you see somebody even sharing that they have five years sober, that seems like a lifetime. Like telling me what it's going to be like when I get to five years sober, you might as well tell me, like, oh, one day, Chris, you're going to be the president of the United States, right? It seems impossible. So I didn't feel connected with them. Like all the issues and struggles that they were going through, I didn't feel connected. So what I had to do was I started to have to go around people who were in the same place that I was, right? Like when I was in my first week, two weeks, month, two months of being sober, I was looking at people with 90 days or six months. I'm like, OK, how did you do that? Like if I had 30 days and you had 60 days, that seemed like something that I can grasp onto, right? But when I ended up finding a sponsor, or for those of you who aren't in recovery, someone like a mentor, I needed to find somebody. Like some people choose to find somebody with decades of recovery, right? They want those all that clean time. And that's cool. We all have our preferences. But for me personally, I found a sponsor who had three years sober because it felt like when I was sitting down to talk to him about how messed up my brain was, all the stuff I went through, how difficult it was, and all those things, it felt like he understood. It felt like he remembered. Like I didn't want to, you know, have some dude with like 30 years clean and not even remember what it was like to be in my position. You see what I mean? And by the way, for anybody in recovery watching this, it's all based on preference. Like there's nothing wrong with getting a sponsor with a lot of clean time. But I'm circling this back to Emma Chamberlain. So stay with me for a second, all right? But anyways, one of the things that I noticed was not only was it hard for me to connect, it was also hard. I felt like it was hard for them to remember where I was, right? Because people with a lot of clean time, you know, they had their family back. They had their job, the cars, the money, you know, the clothes, you know? Like when I was getting started in my recovery, I had like three or four pairs of clothes. I had no money. My mom was giving me $40 a week for an allowance. Like I had no vehicle. I was taking the bus or walking places, right? So it seems like they forgot where I came from, right? Or, you know, I've seen this with people with more clean time where they forget what that struggles like. So something that I love about recovery, even my mental health recovery, let's put it this way for all of you who haven't quite clicked with what I'm saying. All of you working on your mental health, I love all of you. I love reading the comments. Like a lot of you like wonder like why I read the comments or why I heard them or whatever it is. Like, you know, and I look at what you're saying on Twitter and I love when you guys tag me and stuff like on Twitter or Instagram and I love sharing it. Like when you're telling me like what you did because you helped me humble myself. You helped me remember where I came from. You helped me remember that struggle. So even though I have six and a half years sober now, like I need to talk to people who are going through it right now because it remembers, it reminds me rather to always remember where I came from and to be humble and not to get too cocky, not get too confident. Like when you guys talk to me about your depression, about your anxiety, about your family struggles or whatever, like it brings me back. It brings me back and then I try to get on your level and I try to relate to you. You see what I mean? I've never wanted to become that guy where I forget about what those struggles were like because if I forget that, how the hell am I supposed to help you? Right? So going back to Emma Chamberlain, like Emma Chamberlain when she started out on her channel, it was very relatable. It was very relatable. Like this girl didn't even want to buy a Spotify premium account. Like girl, I get you, you know? And she was talking about like looking up, you know, stuff online, like she looked at something at Gucci and it was like hundreds of dollars and she's like freaking out. Extremely relatable, right? A lot of us, most of us can't afford that stuff, you know? But now that she's, you know, making a ton of money over six million subscribers over on YouTube, you know, the right opinion, like he put it next to, you know, a clip of her and James Charles and the Dolan twins, all millionaires. Like, oh, we're gonna go to Gucci. You know what I mean? Like for me, I'm sitting there. I'm like, oh my God, you're disconnected, you know? And this is something that I see with a lot of YouTubers. This is one of the main reasons why I feel like a lot of YouTubers struggle with depression. They struggle with feeling dehumanized. Like you guys, like all my YouTuber friends watching this, like imagine this. Well, nobody really watching this is like Gucci level YouTuber, I don't think. But like imagine this, imagine you like, you like complaining about, you know, shopping at Gucci or something like that. Like I'll never forget. And I'm sorry for all of you Markiplier fans out there. But I remember like living in my ghetto apartment, Tristan and I sitting there watching a Markiplier video and he was like complaining about like his Tesla. And I'm like, are you serious, bro? Like are you kidding me? I think that was at a time before I even had my first like new car, you know? So we see this all the time. For example, Keemstar, Keemstar was publicly on Twitter complaining about how he's only, how he's only making $4,000 a day. You don't believe me, it's right here on the screen. All right, like I look at this stuff and as my channel begins to grow, I have to remember that like, oh my God, like I will feel like such a D bag if I ever get to that place and complain to you all about that. Like there is a huge issue with the wage gap in our country. And like, not even in our country, all over the world. I was literally just telling Tristan, like right before this video, like I'm fortunate enough to do this full time now and YouTube isn't the only thing, right? The book, like the audio book I just said, you know, we got our merch, we got our Patreon, everybody like, you know, that's how you guys support me and it allows me to do this full time, you know, and do something I love, which is helping people, right? I was telling Tristan how grateful I am, how fortunate I am for that. You know what I mean? And I need to stay in that place. But I think a lot of YouTubers need to stay in that place where they never forget where they came from before they send out a tweet, you know, talking about how terrible their rich people problems are. Like, and I'm not saying Emma Chamberlain specifically, I'm talking about all YouTubers. And before they send out that tweet, like imagine who that audience is. Like, like somebody like Keemstar talking about, you know, only making $4,000 a day off of YouTube, off of freaking YouTube, and he has, let's see, Keemstar has 2.4 million followers on Twitter. So when he posts that he only made $4,000 that day, does he think that that tweet is connecting with his audience? No, like call up FaZeBanks and let him know that you only made $4,000 that day. Do not tell your audience that crap because you look scummy. And I don't know how to switch to Keemstar, it's just something that popped into my head. But going back to Emma Chamberlain, I think this is a problem of successful people in many different aspects. And if you're watching this, please, please, please, never forget where you came from. Because I know a lot of you aren't YouTubers. I know a lot of you are just people who have worked your butt off to get where you're at, at your job, at your position, or whatever it is. And something that we should all, all of us should strive to do, is give back to communities where we came from, right? Like I try to give back to people struggling with mental health issues, with addiction issues. I try to give back to people to give them hope and let them know, hey, working my butt off on my mental health and my recovery, maybe you can get to that place too. You know what I mean? So if you're somebody who is fortunate enough to be making decent money and things like that, like you don't have to, but I recommend, even if you're not giving like, you know, donating to a charity, figure out something to give back. Like a great example of this is going back to your old neighborhood, going back to your old school and just talking with people. You know what I mean? Like here on my channel, I try to talk to you about the work I've done to get to a better place mentally. Maybe you can go back to your old neighborhood, your old school or whatever it is, and teach them how you got to a good place, whether it's mentally, whether it's financially, whether it's getting into the career that you dreamed of. You see what I mean? Give those people the tools so they can emulate that and succeed as well. So the last thing I'll say is, I think Emma Chamberlain, as well as a lot of other YouTubers, they could do a better job to stay connected by not even transforming their channels, but keeping it in their mind, like to let people know, hey, I'm somebody who didn't come from much and now I'm here, okay? And like use that as inspiration. This is crazy. This is crazy. For all of you who think I give Tana Mojo too much crap, I do appreciate, I do appreciate how Tana reminds people that she started out as a girl in her bedroom, recording videos, and now she lives the life that she does. That might inspire some young women or even young men out there that they can do the same. I hope all of you realize that I started my channel on my cell phone and now we're, you know, hopefully getting to 100,000 subscribers soon. All right, but anyways, that's all I got. The moral of this story is never forget where you came from. Stay connected with people. 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