 There's a massive problem with drama and commentary channels. We're talking about iNabber, we're talking about Angelica Oles, and we can't forget the viewer's voice. We can't forget people like T-Spill either. 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, my channel is all about mental health and what I like to do is pull different topics from the YouTube community to try to teach you how to improve your mental and emotional well-being. So if you're into that stuff, make sure you subscribe and ring that notification bell. You know it's really funny, kind of funny, kind of not. I was actually worried about using T-Spill's music for my intro because I thought it would be funny but I'm like what if she copyright claimed this and I'm like wait a second she couldn't copyright claim this so after all the stuff went down with Manny so I used it. So T-Spill I love you girl. Anyways, anyways, if you're not over on Instagram yet, over follow me at the Rewired Soul. I already announced the winners this morning so make sure you go check it out. Email me if you're a winner so you can get your copy of Lost Connections and I have another giveaway happening on Instagram in two weeks so make sure you follow me at the Rewired Soul. So couple of disclaimers real quick. This is not a problem with those channels. This is a problem with us, the viewers, the people all right. I love watching commentary channels. I love watching drama channels. They give me ideas for different videos and all of that so no T, no shade all right. But my fellow YouTubers out there you know how the algorithm works. I had to throw your names up in there to get it all search friendly and whatnot. So this video we're going to be talking a lot about psychology and just like sociology and human nature because it's some stuff that I was thinking about so why was I thinking about this all right. So I see that a ton of commentary channels or a ton of you know drama channels they all cover the same story like so many of them cover the same story and I'm sitting there I'm like do people watch all of these like do I watch all of these like what's my behavior I often check in with my human behavior like what am I doing like do I want to see what I never said about this and Angelica Oles said about this and then someone like I'm out of says about this and do I see what T Spill says about this do I see what the viewer's voice says like do I see what all of these people say about this right but there's there's a specific incident that comes to mind and I'm not going to say what it is I'm going to talk about it in another video go more in depth but there's a specific scenario in which a ton of drama and commentary channels cover the topic and all of them got it wrong but here's the thing that I noticed is that so many people talked about it that everybody was just agreeing with it and I'm like that's fascinating like that's really really fascinating like where are we at where we just believe something because we hear about it more and more and more and the more we hear about it why do we believe it's true so I started doing some research I got on the phone with my mom I started going on YouTube today I was listening to podcasts to do some research to try to figure out and understand the psychology behind this thing so the first person we're going to start off with is this dude right here his name is Gustav Le Bon all right he is what they called a polymath so he had a bunch of different interests one of those things being psychology now what Gustav is famous for is his book called the crowd okay now this book is something that a lot of people reference and it was fascinating when I saw it so he wants to know about like crowd psychology all right and he breaks it down into three different states three different states or three different you know parts of this so there's a ton of more videos I could do on this all right so one of them is contagion okay so what's contagion it's an idea it's kind of like what I was talking about it's an idea where when it's said by a group of people over and over and over again it starts to spread right so you just start to believe it okay we see this in all different parts of society but I want you to think in the context of YouTube commentary drama channels think about Twitter think about Facebook think about what everybody's sharing what everybody's talking about what people are making videos about contagion okay it starts to spread and get into our minds all right then the next part is suggestibility okay so suggestibility is once we start to get entrenched in the contagion what they what they kind of talk about well when I say they I mean Gustav what they talk about is this is almost like a form of of hypnosis okay so what's that mean we start to lose our sense of self we start to forget who we are and what we would do so a lot of the podcast and things I was researching earlier they look at this as mob mentality they try to look at it with you know different situations and how to you know diffuse different situations right um because how are you gonna make this safe like if there's a riot or whatever but I notice it a lot just you know being on social media is this mentality and people become very suggestible when something keeps saying being said over and over and over and over again right you just start to believe it just because everybody's saying it here's the example I don't know why this is an example I just keep thinking of but I know I know you love my sick analogies but basically like imagine imagine you're in high school right imagine you're in high school now imagine that a bunch of people you're with a group of people a group of friends or whatever and they're pointing out a kid over there that like that kid that kid over there is really stinky all right they just tell you this all these people are telling you this right your your chances are based on the work that Gustav did is that you would just believe you would believe that that kid over there is stinky but if you were by yourself if you were an individual and you looked at that kid and you're like that kid's probably stinky you would probably laugh at yourself and be like why would I even think that right so the third part of this is something called is anonymity we start to get more anonymity when we're in a group we do things that we wouldn't normally do right so something that we wouldn't normally do is just blindly believe something without evidence to back it up so part of our human nature is to just believe these things just because a bunch of other things are other people are saying it like something else I was thinking about is like if you think about the psychology of this and what we're talking about remember how like your parents would say like oh if everybody was jumping off a bridge would you do it too you might you might because of the contagion because of the suggestibility you know but this is one of the reasons and I might make another video about this this is one of the reasons people are such jerks online is because that anonymity like a lot of people wouldn't do that if it was just them by themselves like had they not seen that mob mentality going after like a figure out there right so I've been I've been kind of asking you guys questions this is another reason you need to follow me on social media is I've been asking you guys questions on twitter and on my community page and on instagram and stuff like that and I do this because I'm getting ideas for videos so one of the questions I asked all of you is like what are some stories that a bunch of commentary channels or drama channels covered now another disclaimer mid video disclaimer real quick we're just talking about the psychology behind these things I'm not saying any of these scenarios who was right who was wrong my opinions I'm trying to keep them out of this but I just want to list some stories for you and give you examples of what multiple multiple commentary channels covered right most recently the many mua situation also the Gabby Hannah situation okay the Jake Paul and rice gum situation uh remember all of the drama get in last year with you know Laura Lee many mua uh Jeffrey Star Gabriel Zamora Nikita dragon right it's something that all of these people start talking about all right so I just want you to think about that for a second think about what we were talking about with Gustav uh his work and and all these people covering these things so do we get to a point where we're no longer thinking for ourselves and we're blindly believing everything that we hear just because a bunch of people are saying it right now we're going to talk about something called evolutionary psychology right I love me some evolutionary psychology because it explains why why we have this today in 2019 and what our ancestors needed it for so I was just listening to this podcast and it made perfect sense it made perfect sense why we needed to blindly follow the crowd so imagine you were in a tribe way back in the day right you're in a tribe and everybody just starts running right everybody just starts running okay so you would need that group mentality to run because chances are danger is coming whether another tribe is going to come attack you whether there's like a stampede or whatever like you just see people running and you just book it to ask questions later right but people who who were individual thinkers they might have sat behind started analyzing this thing and said I wonder why everybody's running I wonder what the danger is on a scale of one to ten have you know and then I get stampeded over you see what I'm saying so based on natural selection a lot of the people who were individual thinkers and didn't follow that that crowd mindset they were getting picked off because they weren't staying safe by just believing the crowd and moving with them right so because of the way evolution works and how slow it goes and how long it takes right we're still in that mindset where we blindly follow groups even though we're not really escaping danger because one of the reasons we judge people and and look at this stuff online and start judging other one because it's something that kept us safe does that make sense now the last piece of psychology I want to talk about is something I've talked about a lot on my channel confirmation bias all right so let's let's combine all these things that we're talking about okay let's talk about contagion okay this idea spreading let's talk about suggestibility just starting to believe things and not even listening to our own logic or anything like that let's talk about you know why we follow the crowd based on our safety well now let's talk about confirmation bias so let's say you had a little assumption just a little bit of an assumption that that person was a jerk that influencer was a jerk right well now you see all these drama channels and commentary channels covering it now your confirmation bias it's not that little inkling anymore it turns into this validation aha I knew it right like think about that for a second so to play into your confirmation bias you might neglect all of the facts you might neglect doing any of your own research just because people said that now I know we're talking about just like silly stuff like you know drama channels and confirmation not confirmation bias but commentary channels I know that's what we're talking about right now but think about how dangerous that is like think about it to just blindly follow what what the mass opinion is or what the mass you know news is or whatever that is right and I'm not trying to get all you know tin foil hatty on you or anything but I just want you to think about how dangerous that could possibly be where you you become anonymous and you're no longer thinking for yourself and and now you're just like okay well everybody else is saying that so it must be true like think about how dangerous that is for a second but what's the solution it's here at the rewired so we talk about that solution baby the solution you guessed it mindfulness mindfulness mindfulness mindfulness remember mindfulness strengthens the prefrontal cortex the logical part of the brain the part of the brain that gives us impulse control the part of the brain that regulates our emotions the part of the brain that allows us to pause and say okay a bunch of people are saying this but is it possible that they're only saying this because this person is saying this is it possible that this person's opinion is formed because they saw three other commentary channels before them form this opinion and now they're just agreeing with them and now am I agreeing with them because they're agreeing with everybody else do you see what I mean so the solution is to be more mindful and sit back and just pause and say okay what do I believe why do I believe it because if you're only only evidence is that a bunch of people are saying it that's probably the weakest evidence based on that evidence you can go to a flat earth or convention that doesn't mean that they're right even though a bunch of people are saying the earth is flat I guess I guess I'm I'm I'm not ashamed to say my name is Logan Paul and I I think I'm coming out of the flat earth closet now again I am not saying that anybody like Nick at the viewer's voice or tea spill or iNabber or Angelica Oles or any other commentators out there are wrong or anything like that I just want to help you improve your mental health so I want you to sit back and look at this and see is this something that's maybe happening at your school is this something that maybe is maybe happening at your work like is a bunch of people at your work do they dislike somebody and you automatically dislike that person just because everybody else does or have you done your own research and made that opinion I think about how often you judge other people based on someone's opinion like go out and do your own research baby don't always judge a book by its cover or what everybody else is saying all right but anyways I am excited I was really excited to do this video I really want to start bringing in some more psychology and just like kind of sociology and just philosophy and all sorts of stuff to just kind of get your wheels turning and help you think and question why do I think the way I do why do I do these things right because human nature is absolutely fascinating and the more we can understand it the more will improve our mental health all right but anyways that's how 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 a huge huge thank you to everybody supporting the channel 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