 Some of you younger members of the audience out there might not remember this, but does anybody remember that amazing Will Smith song for the Men in Black movie? Here come the men in black, won't let you remember. The good guys dressed in black, remember that just in case we have a face-to-face and make contact. I am ridiculous. 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 am absolutely fascinated with YouTube culture, so sometimes I dive into a little YouTube commentary. So if you're into that kind of stuff, make sure you subscribe and ring that notification bell, and you know I got them sick raps. But anyways, yeah, I wanted to talk about this. It's like Danielle Kohn just pulled a Men in Black, and I'm fascinated by it. And I just wanted to discuss it a little bit. I was actually just texting with a fellow YouTuber friend of mine about it. So any of you who are not caught up to speed and what's been going on, like Danielle Kohn was just all over the place for like the last week and a half, two weeks. Okay? It all started out with some like Instagram pictures, some Instagram stories with her boyfriend, Mikey Tua, still don't know if it's Tua or Tua or whatever it is. But it appeared as though she was pregnant. And one of the controversies that's always been surrounding Danielle Kohn is her age. All right? She says she's 15. Some people say she's 12. All that stuff that is just something I don't feel like diving into. I don't care. But anyways, so but yeah, her being pregnant at that age was controversial, right? Then her and her boyfriend ended up coming to Vegas and they got quote unquote married, which we found out was fake and everything like that. Then they posted a video of a gender reveal party where they announced, hey, it's a girl. Yeah. And everybody's freaking out. And then boom, they dropped the bomb on everybody. This was all an elaborate prank, which they did then turned into a PSA about safe sex, teen pregnancy, and all that stuff. All right? But anyways, I was just absolutely blown away by this because cancel culture is a thing that we live in, right? And I remember seeing Danny Kohn's video going up and people are saying like, oh, you're canceled, you're done, you're through, da da da da. And it's true. When she posted that video, boom, she lost like 3000 subscribers, which is absolutely nothing, by the way. So here's her social blade. All right. So on her social blade, as you can see, leading up to this when all this news was going on when everybody was talking about her, she was gaining tens of thousands of subscribers, tens of thousands, right? On average, she gets a couple thousand a day. So there was one day where she lost 3000 subscribers. And after that, she made him right back. And like, here's the other thing. Like everybody's just forgotten about it, including Danny Kohn. Like she actually deleted that video and then put it back up. So she didn't really delete it. Usually you just hit like the private setting or unlisted setting so the public can't see it. But it's back up. It's there. I just saw this as I was thinking about this. But like, check out her Twitter. Like, check out her Twitter. She just acted like nothing happened. And I'm like, dang, girl, that's hell of a men and black style right there. Like, and nobody's talking about it. Nobody's talking about it anymore. And that's cool. Like, I think we should all move on. But it's just fascinating to me because as a society, like we move on very quickly. And I have a few theories about why this happens. So one of the things is, is the 24 seven news cycle, right? We are constantly inundated with news constantly, just constantly, whether it's like YouTuber news, celebrity news, but also like major tragedies happening in the world. There's a lot of political stuff's going on. Like we're living in a time that is different than any other time in history, where news is constantly just being thrown in our face, right? So, so I think a lot of us what we do is we prioritize like what's important, right? Like a 15 year old girl, like pretending to be pregnant and getting married for views like not that high on the priority scale, especially when you take into consideration like the Mueller report was just released and there's a lot of stuff going on with the Trump presidency. That awful tragedy that happened in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday, you know, like these are like major things that are happening. So how long are people really focusing on this? And I mentioned this in my last video about Danny Kohn as well. Like she's not going to get canceled because you have to look at who our primary demographic is, right? It's kids. It's kids. They don't care. They're like, cool. Nice video. You know, like they don't care. They don't care. Like the videos made about it. We're getting hundreds of thousands of views and she barely barely got it. Like my man, Chris Dalia would say, didn't even get a debt. All right, like just nothing. And she's still just going and thriving, just talking about it like just talking about nothing happened like so. So the other thing is to just within the commentary community, like how long does a story go on for? How long do people talk about it for? How long is it relevant? I feel like for the commentary community, Danielle Kohn is always a topic of conversation just because she is so young and she has so much fame. And a lot of people see what she's doing is controversial. But the next thing, the next theory I have as to why everybody just kind of forgot about this thing and moved on is because she's young. Okay, something I talked about in a video I did a while back about Angelica Oles and the commentary community as a whole, myself included, is I talked about expectancy theory. I talked about confirmation bias and all these other things, right? So expectancy theory is this psychological theory about what we expect from different people, right? So I think her age plays a role into how quickly people moved on from this story, right? She's 15, possibly 12, like she's young, she goofed, like she didn't even have to make an apology video. Like in the realm of like social media influencers and YouTube influencers and all of that, like apology videos are like the thing. Like I've had my own history with those, but she didn't even have to do that. Like all she had was what you guys see on the screen behind me was just like, Hey, sorry, we tricked you. We just thought it'd be kind of fun. You know, so she's a kid. So like, I think that's another reason why we moved on very quickly and everybody just kind of forgot about it. Now, something that is constantly brought up is Danny Cone's mother. Like Danny Cone's mother is clearly involved in the work that Danny Cone does, like being an influencer on TikTok, on Instagram, on YouTuber and all those. Like Danny Cone's mother is clearly involved. She's also been in videos with Danny Cone. So I guess the question is, is like, how much responsibility is on her and everything. But here's the thing, like through some other videos I saw about Danny Cone, Danny Cone comes from, you know, a background of like childhood pageantry and things like that. And I never watched it, but I think like even JoJo Siwa came from like the dance moms, you know, whatever it was. But, you know, that's just kind of how those parents, parents, I guess, you know, and it's something that, I don't know, something that I battle with because a lot of kids these days, they want to be a YouTuber or they want to be an influencer. And I, you know, I have a 10 year old son. And when I see what kind of goes on in the culture of social media and YouTube and Twitch and everything, I'm like, eh, so he's kind of, he's kind of backed off it. And I'm not really like trying to pressure him into it. But if it comes up again, it's these are all things that I take into consideration as a parent. All right. The last thing, the last thing I think why everybody kind of moved on and forgot about this thing. So, so quickly is, is because Danny Cohn herself moved on, right? Like Danielle didn't make an apology video. The only thing she had was that right there. She didn't even address publicly, to my knowledge, why she deleted that video or took it down and then put it back up. And she's just tweeting. She's on Instagram, you know, just she's uploaded this like her third or fourth video since the gender, the gender reveal party prank, the whole pregnancy prank thing. Like Danielle just kind of like kept it moving and just kept doing her thing. Like, she just moved forward. I'm like, dang, right? And I don't know. I don't know. Like, I am just constantly analyzing everything and like cancel culture is something that's just very fascinating to me. And I'm extremely against it because I don't I don't know. Everybody's human. They're going to make mistakes. And it's just about turning knowledge into wisdom and wisdom is taking action on your knowledge. Right. So did Danny Cohn like learn from this? I don't know. Maybe, maybe she did. I would figure that she did see the negative feedback once she posted the video with saying how it was all a prank, even though everybody kind of knew it was already. But I don't know, she's just continuing to do her own thing. And these are just a few factors as to why I personally believe everybody kind of forgot about this and just move on from it. But I would love to hear your thoughts on this down below because in the YouTube community, we've seen other controversies and everything be drawn out for days, weeks, months, even. And this was kind of just like, boom, it happened. Now we all forgot we got we just got men and blacked. All of us did. So let me know your thoughts on the subject down below. What factors do you think have to play in? Do you think it's the constant news cycle? Do you think it's the age? Do you think it's the fact that she just kind of moved on and didn't address anything? There's some other YouTubers that I can think of that kind of did the same thing. And they kind of came out on the other side pretty much unscathed. All right. But anyways, that's all I got for this video. If you liked this video, please give it a thumbs up if you're new. 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