 You know what? I'm probably wrong. Onision completely understands what abuse is. What's 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, what I try to do, take different topics from the YouTube community and try to see what lessons we can learn from them. So if you're into that stuff, make sure you subscribe and ring that notification bell. And if you're not yet, follow me over on Instagram and Twitter at the Rewired Soul. So before I get started, I'm gonna jump into a few topics and I'll explain why. But anyways, I have to address this. So when I started on YouTube, primarily doing one type of content that I transitioned into blending YouTube topics and commentary with other topics and everything. And since I started doing that, I've had so many requests to do videos on Onision. So 10 months ago, I released this video. I'll link it down in the description up in the info card, but it was titled, Like Why I Don't Talk About Onision. Long story short, if you don't wanna check that video out, basically Onision is an attention seeker. As much as he's been claiming videos lately, he loves when people talk about him. And I didn't wanna feed into that, all right? So I just stayed away from all of the topics regarding Onision. So I've changed my policy on that. As many of you watching this are well aware, there has been a lot of new updates and everything. And I've debated over the last year or so. I'm like, do I need to chime in on this? Plenty of people are chiming in on this. Like, do I really need to talk about it? But I've changed my policy a bit because I see like, I watched that awesome video that Repsion did. I'm gonna link his video down below too. Like it's an hour long or is it an hour and a half? I don't know. It's long, but it has a lot of information. So go check it out. Please share it. But anyways, I just wanna talk about a little bit more from a different angle, from like psychology and neuroscience that I don't see people talking about. And I just feel it's important that we discuss it because in my opinion, it's a very dangerous thing that's going on and I feel that it might influence others, all right? So before I jump into this, I am not a psychologist, all right? I am just a nerd who reads a ton of books on psychology and neuroscience and philosophy, all right? So let's talk about this. So the biggest recent accusation of Onision is grooming this young woman. And yeah, we need to talk about this for a few reasons, okay? So the first question I wanna ask you is, do you know why there are laws around different ages such as the age of consent, such as drinking age and everything like that? Like aside from the obvious, like the obvious that it's just like a bad thing to do, like a lot of this is actually rooted in science, okay? Like we need to understand that the main part of the brain that separates us from other animals is the prefrontal cortex. That is the last part of the brain to fully develop, all right, and this part of the brain is responsible for things like logical decision-making and emotional regulation and fear modulation. What fear modulation is, it's a part of our brain that tells us what we should be afraid of. This is why young people participate in much riskier behavior. For example, I go to a lot of concerts, right? I used to go to a lot more. And when I was younger, I was like in the front, I was in the mosh pit and everything like that. As I've gotten older and my brain has developed and my fear modulation is better, I've scooted back at concerts. I'm one of those guys now. But anyways, children are not as afraid as they should be of different situations. But another issue, and many of you have watched like the Nerd City video about Jake Paul marketing to kids and everything like that, another issue is that children have a hard time separating like, you know, fiction from reality, all right? And this is quite common with YouTube as well because you have people who portray characters and personas and everything like that. And this is one of the topics of conversation that comes up when you have YouTubers who have a lot of authority or, you know, that power, right, talking to younger fans, okay? And when you have children who look up to these people, it creates an issue, okay? So it's not just like, oh, that's bad. Like, there are actually reasons rooted in science as to why these things are bad. So here's the thing about Onision. Onision has his own kind of philosophy about life, all right? And something that, you know, I find fascinating is that psychology, which is now being more rooted in science, branched off from philosophy, all right? But the problem with somebody like Onision is, is that it's 2019. And although you can have your own kind of philosophies, I believe it's also important to integrate science, right? So in Onision's mind, what he's doing is okay. Like, if you watch the Repsion video and you see like that weird, what was it called? Some website he had, it was like kind of cultish and things like that. Like, Onision has his own philosophy and hundreds of years ago, that wouldn't have really been a huge deal. But now that we know, you know, the effect that, you know, certain situations can have on people, especially people who are younger and the vulnerable. Like, it's an issue because now we have more scientific evidence around psychology. So what I wanna talk about now is taking advantage of people in a vulnerable state, all right? Like, this is the part of the story that really bothers me. Like, everything bothers me about the story, but here's what really bothers me. So the young woman who Onision and Kai let move in with them. Like, when you hear how it happened, this young woman was having troubles, all right? Internally as well as externally. She was having her own emotional issues. And like we said, you know, part of, you know, being a child is poor emotional regulation. She was also having problems with her family. I don't know all of the details around that. I don't know if it was abuse or just fighting or whatever, but how many of us, you know, fought with our families. But here's the part that's really troublesome. Onision and Kai took this young woman in, in that vulnerable state. And that is so wrong, all right? Like, this is something that many predators do. They look for the weak and vulnerable, all right? Like, when you look at abusers, and some of you can relate to this, if any of you have ever been in an abusive relationship, like, look back and see why you, you know, why you got into a relationship with them, because typically what happens, and I used to do this back in the day, when we are more vulnerable, we drop our standards in our bar, right? And there are certain people who prey on that, okay? But aside from just abusive relationships taking advantage of somebody who's in a vulnerable position, this is something that, you know, like I'm also fascinated with the psychology of like, you know, cults and things like that. And something that you see is very common is they take advantage of vulnerable populations. Like, did you watch that documentary on Netflix, what was it, Wild, Wild Country with Osho and stuff? Like, that shows in there, like what they started to do is take a lot of people who are homeless and everything like that and bring them in. It's a lot easier to manipulate people who are extremely vulnerable, they don't really have anywhere else to go. They, you know, they're teetering on hopelessness and everything like that, because you appear as their savior. So there are so many things psychologically wrong with this story. And like I said, the reason I want to talk about it is because I get concerned that there are fans of Onision watching this and thinking like, hmm, I guess that makes sense. I guess it makes sense why he did that. You know what I mean? But here's the thing, Onision, like I feel, and this is just my opinion, I feel that he purposely stays ignorant. Like it's a lot easier to sit there and root your own beliefs in like this kind of philosophy that you've created because if you watch what Onision says, it's never rooted in any kind of studies or books or anything like that. He's like, well, I thought it, this is my logic, so this is okay. We need to understand that throughout the years there have been thousands upon thousands upon thousands of studies seeing what human behavior is actually like in different situations, how the brain responds in different situations. And to wrap this video up, I do wanna apologize because I'm gonna link a tweet down below that actually made me wanna make this video. And it's an old video clip of Onision talking about abuse. And if you put yourself in that situation, it's your fault and everything like that. And this circles back to Onision's philosophy of personal responsibility and accountability. I was gonna show the clip in this, but from what I've seen, Onision's claiming literally everything. So I thought this would, might keep me a little bit safer. But anyways, like I said, go check out Repsion's video. I'm gonna link all that stuff down in the description below. But yeah, I do think I will do one more video just about something else. But anyways, stay tuned, alright? 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