 We need to talk about scars. So I just watched a video from a bioliner. If you don't know who the liner is, I did a calibration with her last week. It's what my BB do. She has a YouTube channel meant to help with the liner and that grunge girl. She had a video taken down because of self-harm scars. And I wanted this table minute to talk about scars. The thing is, when you have mental illness, it's in yourself seems like an option. Because it's a way of minimising pain. And it's a way of making yourself feel like you're alive. When you feel normal, it just makes you feel something. I have self-harm in the past. I actually, today, I'm in a month and seven days, bleeding from self-harm. Scars are a part of our body. We can't do anything about them. We can't get rid of them. If I could get rid of all my scars, I wouldn't have had to get my blood in a heartbeat. My arm has a massive scar that runs down it from when I try to kill myself. When it comes to self-harm and suicide, we don't mean for things to happen. We don't do it for attention. We don't do it because we want to do it. We do it because it feels like something we have to do. So we can't get rid of scars. They're a part of our body. That's something that we have to live with. And we're judged for it. They ate today. I walked down a street with short sleeves on and people stare at my arms. I don't know what they're looking at. And it just starts to get to you. So when YouTube took down our arms really young, they basically send a message saying, don't wear scars, which is so wrong on so many levels. Instagram are the same. They take down pictures of people's scars all the time. Now I've had videos taken down in the past because of self-harm scars. The last two videos I've done on self-harm haven't been taken down by YouTube and they are fully monetized. I don't know if a video is going to be an exception to that because I've mentioned suicide on self-harm in it. It might be demonetized. I think it's so wrong that they took down Alana's video. Now I didn't see the video when it was up. I was asleep because if you don't know, Alana's in Australia. So there's a bit of a time difference. Scars are a consequence of the symptom of mental illness and shouldn't be judged by YouTube or Instagram. It's not like we're showing fresh self-harm. If it was fresh self-harm, I might have completely understand they love taking stuff down and blocking it and take the same note to it. I don't understand that, but they don't. That's the thing that bothers me. You see photos of fresh self-harm all the time on Instagram and Twitter and YouTube, you see it. But when you show scars, they get taken down. It just seems a bit wrong. This is a bonus video for the week. This isn't my Friday video. But I want to ask a question. Have you ever heard of something taken down because of scars? If you have, leave a comment down below because I'm very interested in hearing your story and how you dealt with it. So yeah, let me know your thought on this. Thanks for watching and I'll see you guys in my next video. If you're new, subscribe during the growing family and I'll see you on the phone. Peace.