 Alright, alright. So some of the biggest news going around right now is how Spill was exposed as an actual company. YouTube creators like D'Angelo Wallace and Petty Page have made videos about this. More and more people are talking about it. But in this video, I want to discuss why Spill being a company isn't necessarily a bad thing. 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, what I try to do is take different topics going on in the YouTube community and try to see what lessons we can pull from them to improve our own mental and emotional well-being. So if you're into that stuff, make sure you subscribe and ring that notification bell. And those of you who don't know because I'm going to be touching on some of these topics in this video, my brand new book, Canceled Inside YouTube Cancel Culture, is out now. Check out the description. Check out the pinned comment down below. It's over at my website. So if you want to kind of a behind the scenes look about cancel culture in the YouTube community, I share my own personal experience. I talk about some experiences of others that have gone on in the YouTube community, but check it out. There's an e-book and an audio book available. All right. So yeah, to catch you up to speed, D'Angelo Wallace, you know, he came out with his video that went viral about Spill possibly being a company and then Petty Page. I had a bunch of people leave me comments and message me about Petty Page's video or her series about Spill. And yeah, some of you came to my channel because you saw my original video titled Why I Hate Spill. All right. But anyways, yeah, it looks like Spill is a company. This is a theory that I've had for a very long time and now it's true. So in this video, we're going to be talking about why that's not necessarily a bad thing. All right. But first, let's talk about some of the bad things. All right. Like one of the one of the main things that we need to talk about is like deception. Okay. Like this is something that is a growing problem on YouTube. Hell, look at the Tana Mojo and Jay Paul situation, right? Like YouTube was this platform that was originally created for like authenticity for creators to hop on and be themselves and everything like that. And we're starting to see this kind of blurred line where we don't necessarily know what's real and what's not real. So my biggest issue with Spill is just trying to promote the idea, the reality that they are just some kids working on this and they even made their own video to kind of expose themselves. And it's just like, you guys just come out with it. And I think D'Angelo Wallace did a great job discussing why companies and corporations try to humanize themselves a little bit more, especially in this day and age of social media. And you know, it's something like, let's talk about Jarvis Johnson. If you're not subscribed to Jarvis, you best go subscribe to Jarvis, right? But Jarvis has talked about this multiple times, like when he reviews like different corporate Twitter accounts and how they interact and like, you know, just try to be like actual people and stuff like that. But when it comes to Spill, when we're talking about, you know, promoting this idea that, you know, this is the reality when it's really not like Jarvis does a lot of videos on the channel, the YouTube channel actually happened. It's an animated channel where they promote these stories as being real, even though there's evidence to support that they're not real. So deception is just, it's something that is, it's tricky in this day and age with social media because social media is supposed to be like real people doing their thing because like, we already spent the last, you know, almost 100 years with, you know, TV shows and corporations doing this thing and YouTube was supposed to be this platform of authenticity and things like that. Now, for those of you who didn't watch my previous video on Spill, like, I don't have a problem with companies and corporations coming onto YouTube. So in my last video about Spill, I asked you, the audience, I said, Hey, how many videos do you watch on a specific topic? And most people, it was anywhere from like three to five, some people said six or seven, right? So I don't, I don't agree with the idea that, you know, companies coming in, it's going to take away views from other channels and individual creators because that's not what happens. All right, people watch multiple videos, like just because you're subscribed to one channel, doesn't mean you're not subscribed to another. All right, sometimes you would prefer to watch a video from this creator than another, but I'm actually really proud of you, the audience. All right, because a lot of you said that you watch multiple videos on a subject to get different perspectives to help you form your own opinions, something that I get worried about a lot when it comes to cancel culture and mob mentality is just, you know, just following what everybody else says. So I'm really proud of anybody who's watching, you know, different videos to get different perspectives on situations. But yeah, it seems like Spill, being a company, they're trying to do what they see works on YouTube, right, which is drama, which is animation. They even started their new channels and stuff, and they're taking these different angles of successful genres on YouTube. All right, so let's talk about why this isn't necessarily a bad thing. And drama channels out there, commentary channels out there, I'm sorry, but I'm just going to speak the truth. All right, so the first thing is, my original video, why I hate Spill, right, like there are so many comments like, you're just jealous, you're just jealous. And yes, it was a video about jealousy and what we do when we start to get jealous or envious of other people. So like, here's the thing, like, I know a lot of drama channels and, you know, people out there trying to expose Spill, they're trying to be like, aha, look, I'm doing this for the greater good. Like, they are full of it if they aren't willing to admit that there's some jealousy behind this. Like, it sucks. It sucks, like, watching Spill's growth and how they did it and all the effort that they can put in to a video that us individual creators can't. Like, it sucks, right? But like, it's something that we just have to deal with. It's the same as when you open up a mom and pop store in your town and there's a Walmart across the street. They have more resources, they have more money and they can do that. You know what I mean? But in this digital platform, we're not at the same risk as a mom and pop store of being put out of business by these people. But I think that's part of that fear. But I think it would be helpful if the other drama channels or commentary channels or news channels would just admit that, like, part of it is just like, wishing that, you know, wishing that we could do what Spill does with the animation, the research, the captioning, all of that stuff. You know what I mean? So the biggest reason why Spill being on YouTube isn't a bad thing is because of drama channel bias. All right? Like, I look at this constantly because I'm researching different topics and everything like that to get ideas of how, what angles I want to take and everything. And you guys, like, it is clear as day that influencers, specifically people in the beauty community or just kind of in that, that realm, like, man, they manipulate the hell out of drama channels. And I was thinking about doing a whole separate video about this and I might, but you guys, like, they're such a bias. And when it comes to Spill, since they're trying to take a more journalistic approach and they are a company, like, you can kind of rest, be rest assured that their opinions on certain subjects aren't going to be swayed. Like, if you guys pay attention, check out your favorite drama channels, right? And look at how they cover different influencers. There are different influencers that each drama channel wants to, you know, kind of be friends with or get clout from, you know, or whatever. And you could see, like, when they cover stories about those people, they're very soft, they're very light. But then there's other influencers who they don't like, who they want nothing to do with, and they are so hard on them. You see what I mean? Like, there is such a bias. Like, you guys, like, and you see these influencers, like, hang out and do collabs with these drama channels, like, I want you to do this. If you think that I'm crazy, all right? I think it's cool when influencers hang out with, like, the drama channels or commentary channels or whoever. I love when influencers interact, but it does sway their opinion. So if you think I'm crazy, go watch some collabs that have been done, like, okay, did this influencer, like, I know Jeffrey Starr is hung out with some channels. I know that Trisha Paytas has hung out with some channels. All right? So check out those channels who they hung out with. See how they cover stories about the people they've hung out with versus how they cover stories about other people, specifically people like Jacqueline Hill, people like James Charles, right? So there is this major bias that's happening with these stories that are getting covered, whereas, like, these drama channels are almost holding influencers hostage, like, listen, if you're not nice to me, if you don't hang out with me, I'm going to come after you in videos, right? And this is something that we don't have to worry about with Spill. So not only is Spill well researched, right? And the production's great. And they go really in depth. We also don't really have to worry about them being influenced for the sake of, like, clout or being friends with these big influencers. All right? But the last thing I want to talk about, and this is something that I talk about in my book, canceled extensively. And it's just the reality of it. All of us channels, whether you do commentary, drama, news, like with exceptions like Philip DeFranco and a few others, like there is no journalistic standard or integrity that has to be upheld. All right? Like, I talked to quite a few journalists who cover like YouTube stories and stuff like that. And here's what I mean. Like, when drama channels and commentary channels and news channels, when they put information out there, like they have no responsibility when it comes to it. Like, there are so many situations where they have put out lies or misinformation and there are no repercussions. Like, I watched so many stories and I have talked with different journalists. I'm like, what would happen at your job if you released this story and it was found out to be wrong? Like, we have seen so many times lately. They're like, oh, I'd get fired, right? Or we'd get sued because an actual media company, they would get the crap sued out of them if they said some of these things that drama channels, commentary channels, and everything like that, like the misinformation, like YouTube channels, they don't have to do retractions. They don't have to correct stories. And listen, this is something that I'm really passionate about because it happened to me. It happened to me. There are dozens and dozens and dozens of videos out there that are just spreading lies and misinformation about me and nothing can be done about it. So when it comes to spill, like, you go spill, do you damn thing, right? Because at least they're trying to take a journalistic approach when it comes to these things. They're trying to get stories right. So when you combine that with them not having this kind of bias of being swayed by different influencers, like more power to them. So some of you watching this, you know my history, there is an infamous Trisha Paytas apology video. I put that in quotes because it wasn't really a Trisha Paytas apology video. That was deleted. And if you read my book, I discussed this story in detail. But that video, I was seriously considering looking into legal options because of the slander that was happening about me. And with the people I talked to who understand law and everything like that, they're like, yeah, Chris, you have a case. You have a case and you can go after these people. But one of the issues is when you're an independent creator, if you take legal action against another creator, it is pretty much career suicide. Imagine what would happen. And that's one of the reasons I didn't do it because I didn't want to set that precedent. So I get why people are upset about spill being a company and trying to make it seem as though they're one person. But I appreciate that spill is covering these topics in a way that actually has some integrity behind it because we don't have to worry nearly as much about bias, slander, and all those other things. All right, so you may completely disagree with me, but I'm telling you right now, company or not, spill is still the best tea channel drama channel, whatever you want to call it on the platform. 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