 So it's been one year since the disaster that was tana con and tanimojo just sat down with paper magazine to tell the truth about what really happened and I read the whole thing so you don't have to 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 like to do is take a look at what's going on in the youtube community 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 by the way my birthday is tomorrow not only will I be 34 years old which is I will also be celebrating seven years of sobriety so do me this one birthday favor go follow me on instagram and twitter at the rewired soul I would love love love to get to 10 000 followers over on instagram so I can get that beautiful swipe up story feature oh it would make my birthday so much better all right but anyways yeah uh tanimojo just did an interview with paper magazine and it really got me thinking all right so let me catch you up to speed let's talk about what's going on tana con I'm sure a lot of you know but let's recap it so tanimojo she used to attend vidcon and she wasn't treated with the respect she felt she deserved right and a lot of other creators felt the same way but tanimojo made a video saying f vidcon and kind of set this thing in motion and just talked about how she wasn't going to vidcon um in 2018 and how they screwed her over and this got a bunch of people riled up a bunch of other creators started making videos saying how they've been screwed over by vidcon and the seed got planted in tana's head that she should start her own convention and call it tana con right and this is going to be just this amazing event with all these creators who felt like they were controversial and didn't get the uh respect and attention they deserved from vidcon so she was going to throw tana con and she paired up with this dude named michael weist who was a young CEO of an organization that was you know putting on events and things like that called good times right so they end up doing this event and it failed miserably all right like thousands of people showed up a lot of them from california but there were also many people who showed up from different parts of the world and yeah they they overbooked the venue um just a lot of things went very bad a lot of people were stuck outside in the sun everything like that and yeah basically they had to cancel the whole event and some people got refunds a lot of people got refunds but there was a lot of people who were still kind of left to the wayside who spent money on travel and everything like that a lot of parents were really upset well anyways after that michael weist made a little short documentary of the whole event from his point of view and everything and shane dawson did his series prior to that and yeah it was a bunch of finger pointing and blame but anyways paper magazine just sat down with tana mojo to discuss what's it been like a year later and just so you know like if you want i'm linking the article down below but trust me there's there's nothing new there's nothing new about tana con in that article there's some interesting things but nothing new if you watch the shane dawson series if you've watched the michael weist documentary that came out like you did not miss anything all right so in the article tana mojo still says that she takes full responsibility which is kind of iffy like whenever we're saying that we take responsibility for something but then still shuck some blame somewhere else like we're not taking full responsibility and when you put your name on something like tana con like it is full responsibility right before sending down to record this video i was actually thinking about the parallels between like tana mojo and tana con and then jacklyn hill and what happened with her lipstick and how she was putting the blame on the lab it's like when you put your name on something like you must take 1000 percent ownership of it all right but anyways there were a few interesting things in this article though because something that i'm always thinking about like i mentioned i'm a recovering drug addict and alcoholic and my question is is like do people change can people change because i'm a huge advocate that people can change and i've been watching you know news about tana mojo i don't like subscribe to her channel watch like all of her stuff but obviously like i know everything that's gone on with her and i'm sitting here and i'm watching and like i'm asking myself like has tana mojo changed because i think that everybody can change but the question is do they put the work in do they put the effort in so like i've looked back at like tana's past and she's done a lot of things aside from tana con like i made a video a long time ago about how she was driving while high and apparently she didn't even have a license but she was high she ended up wrecking the car there was the video of her filming a body in a bathroom with somebody who overdosed and everything and a lot of people are like no that was that was logan paul well tana mojo did the same thing but anyways she she is a very young woman and she she seems to be growing so one part of this article was when she talks about like her story time and how she kind of grew her channel and she shares her stories because she lives this crazy life and she says something i'll put it up on the screen right here but she said something along the lines of like i attract the craziest stuff right and here's a thing for anybody out there because i used to be the same way i used to be the same way i'm like why do the craziest things always happen to me i'm just trying to have a normal life and do my normal thing but the reality was i was getting into a lot of crazy situations i was hanging out with a lot of crazy people i was doing a lot of crazy things and when you do those things statistically it increases your chances of crazy things to happen right like a lot of us want to sit there and just be like i don't know things just magically happen to me right but when we see what we're doing the choices we make you know the behaviors that we have it pulls that type of stuff into happening now something somebody brought up the other day was like tana mojo has learned a little bit throughout this process because she's not really doing the story times like she used to and that's what kind of grew her audience but something that was pointed out in content cop is that tana mojo does have a a flaw where she kind of blows up and exaggerates stories some might even call it lying and things like that and lately she's been just filming more of her like actual life and that makes me wonder if she's grown a bit too because like i don't know if you can relate to this maybe let me know down in the comments if you can but i know i can like back in the day like i used to lie about everything for no reason for no good reason some of it though was to try to impress people and i would inflate stories and i would you know make things crazier than they were and it was because i was insecure and what i wonder what tana mojo is if she's growing as a young woman and she's starting to understand that people actually like her or enjoy being around her without her having the craziest stories and things like that like she's friends with shane dawson obviously and shane dawson has had a lot of controversy from his podcast where he kind of like made this kind of like shock humor and like made up these stories and everything like that to get laughs and he's talked about many times how he's not that old shane dawson anymore and he's more comfortable with who he is and i wonder if that's happening with tana mojo as well now something else that i found interesting in this article was they asked her about her lil zan story right and she talked about how she shared that story and uh one thing was that she did take some responsibility like what did i expect like she said something along the lines of like what did i expect dating a sound cloud rapper i'm like yes yes because like that's something that all of us need to learn from right like we we have a type right we have a type a certain guy or a certain girl whoever it is and they were surprised when certain things happened like my type used to be crazy women right and then i was absolutely blown away when crazy stuff would happen so it is awesome that tana mojo was like yo what do i expect but anyways she talked about how she got a lot of feedback from her audience and a lot of people said they can relate to that so that got me thinking a little bit more because one of my main issues with tana mojo for a long time was she has such a young audience right so by the way if you watch tana mojo let me know how old you are down in the comments or if you're a parent let me know if your kids watch tana mojo because this is just something i think about so those of you who don't know i'm the father of a 10-year-old boy and yeah like i think it is up to us as parents to take the responsibility of knowing who our children are watching on youtube or tv or whatever it is right and i asked myself like you know is tana mojo a good or a bad influence on kids right and i'll always say that parents need to take the full accountability for that like would i let my son watch tana mojo yes and no the thing that's tricky with people like tana mojo and even sometimes shane dawson because my son loves watching like old shane dawson videos but he recently got into like shane's old conspiracy videos is that you never know what you're gonna get like sometimes like a video might be totally like pg or pg-13 right and then next thing you know like when they were doing their chillies mukbang they were talking about boofing a lot right you never know what you're gonna get but like now tana mojo for the most part i haven't seen her talking about the abuse of like prescription medications like she used to talk a lot about like adderall and xanax and things like that and now like every other five minutes she's talking about getting high smoking weed right and i sit there i'm like is this a terrible influence because even though i'm a recovering drug addict i have no problems against weed right i don't smoke weed because it always led me back to like sniffing pills but i don't think it's bad for anybody else smoke weed hell it's a lot safer than alcohol right so i look at that i'm like huh like i don't think tana is as bad as she used to be and if you are more of a tana mojo fan than i am and you know some crazy stuff she's doing that i don't know let me know down in the comments below but as somebody who makes videos to try to get the audience to learn from the people that we're watching like it feels like she is growing and she is maturing like you know i wouldn't say she is like the role model of youtube right but if you watch somebody's behaviors in their actions like we always have to ask ourselves like are they changing are they growing because too many of us hold on to resentments against people and we believe that they can't change or they'll never change but it's a process like growing takes a long time we have to notice these kind of subtle things and i was reading this article i'm like huh i think tana has changed just a little bit but her new mtv shows coming out and stuff like that and only time will tell and she's going to be a vidcon this year by the way if you're going to vidcon i'm going to vidcon too come say hi to me all right but let me know your thoughts in the comments down below like a year later do you think tana mojo has grown has changed or has you grown or changed as a person do you think that's important to give people the opportunity to grow and change let's have a discussion down in the comments below all right but anyways that's all i got for this video if you like this video please give it a thumbs up if you're new make sure you subscribe and ring that notification bell because i make a ton of videos and don't forget to follow me on instagram and twitter at the rewired soul and a huge huge thank you to everybody supporting the channel over on patreon you're all amazing if you like to become a patron click or tap right there all right thanks again so so much for watching i'll see you next time