 Well, Danny Cohn and her boyfriend Mikey Tua just announced that their whole pregnancy and marriage was a prank and we definitely need to talk about this. 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 pull different topics going on in the YouTube community or pop culture and see what kind of lessons we can learn from them. Doing that kind of stuff makes you subscribe and ring that notification bell. So before I get started on this video, before I get started on this video, calm down and remember what I am saying. Remember the words coming out of my mouth. I do not condone what Danny and this dude Mikey did, okay? I don't condone it, alright? It was a brutal prank. It was kind of awful but I'm a little bit of an optimist so I'm going to take a different angle on this subject than most of the other commentary channels are going to take. Alright? Those of you who are wondering what the hell I'm talking about, you've been living under a rock. Basically, Danny Cohn is a 15-year-old influencer, blew up musically which is now TikTok, gained a massive following. She has a YouTube channel with over a million subscribers, everything like that, alright? So anyways, she started posting on Instagram and some other places that she was pregnant with her boyfriend's baby and supposedly she's not even 15, she's 12, a bunch of people are saying that. I don't know. I don't know. Alright? Anyways. But anyways, they posted about this and they've done a series back and forth on each other's channels about getting pregnant, getting married and then they just did a final fourth video about a gender reveal in which halfway through or about several minutes through, they're like, yo, this was a prank and everything like that. By the way, that was the most awkward thing I've ever seen in my life but let's move forward, okay? So people are furious. People are so upset about this. Like, how could you? This is nothing to joke about. It's very reminiscent to what Justin Bieber did on April Fool's Day faking a pregnancy and people freaked out about that and for Danny Cohn and Mikey Tua, like, I don't know, would have been better on an April Fool's Day thing but anyways, like I said, I'm an optimist. I'm trying to look at this situation from a different perspective and I think this was a good thing. Overall, I think this was a good thing. Now remember, I don't condone what they did. Like, it is clear that what their motives were. It is absolutely clear what their motives were and what they were trying to do was get people talking, to get views, to get money, all right? The whole back and forth of the videos that is YouTube 101 bounce views back and forth to each other's channels, both of you guys benefit, you get a bunch of views. Even in this last video they made, they put a bunch of ads but they said 50% of the profits are going to Planned Parenthood, which was not linked in their description which I think was a little bit weird but anyways, I don't think their motives were pure. I don't think when they started out on this prank, I don't think they were like, hey, we're going to get the word out there about teen pregnancy but here's the thing, with so many people being upset, all right, let me make it very clear, Danny Cohn is not the problem. Mikey Tua is not the problem, okay? We're the problem. All of us are the problem. Like people are lying to themselves on a daily basis, right? Like I remember, I remember my son asked me, he's like, daddy, why is the news always just sharing negative things? Because that's what we want. That's what humans want and the thing is that so many of us lack the self-awareness to just admit that, okay? We don't admit that we love watching the tea. We love controversy. We love these things, right? People were so invested in this story because Danny Cohn is underage, she was getting pregnant and she was getting married. That is why people were invested in it, all right? That's the only reason, okay? And until you admit that, until you admit that to yourself, I'm letting you know right now in my opinion, things won't get better, okay? Like I was drawn to this story because of the same reason. I have no problem admitting that. But again, Danny Cohn is not the problem. We're all the problem. We think all the commentary channels and drama channels and everything like that explode because everybody wants to see it. Everybody wants to be curious about it. I just did a live stream earlier talking about the root of all of our problems and so much of it is because we don't like looking at ourselves. So many of us just sit on YouTube and we want to watch other people and how messed up their lives are. We constantly want to judge other people and say, oh, your life is messed up and we don't even look at ourselves. That's why, all right? Like I said, you are lying to yourself if you think that you would have watched this video. If Danny, if Danielle Cohn and Mikey Tua made a video that just said teen pregnancy TSA and you think you would have watched it, you're a liar, all right? Because you wouldn't have. Here's the thing. I did a little research. I wanted to do some research. I went up and I looked up teenage pregnancy PSAs on YouTube, okay? The number one video, the number one video with I believe over 6 million views as a reaction to a PSA, okay? The second highest video is 1.1 million views, which was from six years ago, okay? Danielle Cohn is on track to surpass the second highest viewed video about teenage pregnancy. So at the end of the day, it's a good thing. More people are talking about it. They're making videos about teen pregnancy and Danny Cohn. It's a good thing. It got the conversation going because you know why? I hate to break it to you. I really do. People are not on YouTube looking up teen pregnancy PSAs. That's just the reality of it. So again, do I think Danielle Cohn's motives were pure? Hell no, I don't. I think it was for views, for money to get attention, you know? That's what it was. But it got people talking about this on a variety of different channels. Videos of people are now aware of it and now they're talking about it. So I think it was an afterthought. Probably I'm assuming, I will assume that somebody in Danielle Cohn's life was like, yo, you need to do something kind of positive with this, this prank like it's on kind of far like you need to do something positive. And I think it was an afterthought for them to do their little, you know, talk at the end giving advice to like young kids. But the other thing that you have to realize too, who her primary demographic is, her primary demographic is kids around her age. So do you think me, a 33 year old man, if I made a video about teen pregnancy, do you think anybody would listen to me? Hell no, you know how I know that because when I was her age, I didn't want to listen to people talking about this stuff. So I think it is cool just pulling, just reaching in and pulling out the positives from this. I think it's cool that her and her boyfriend were talking about this stuff and the younger audience is watching it. Now, something else I saw in the comment section is a bunch of people saying Danny Cohn is canceled. Okay. So I'm going to deem this the rice gum effect. All right. So those of you who aren't familiar with rice gum, he's not a great guy, but his primary audience, even though he's like 20 something, his primary audience is kids. Okay. So I dubs another content creator who has a series called content cop made a video on rice gum. Amazing video. One of the best just breaking down and dissecting a creator. Just boom, right? I dubs video has over 41 million views. And guess what? Rice gum, it was not canceled. And here's the reason why. Because the people I dubs reached was people like me, people like you. He wasn't reaching kids. A bunch of kids probably saw it, but here's the thing. Kids do not care. They do not care about the same moral and ethical things that you and I do. Rice gum still has over 10 million subscribers. He's getting millions of views on his videos. He's still gaining views because his demographic does not care. So for people who think Danielle Cohn is getting canceled because of this, that is ridiculous. Like you can go look at her social blade right now. She has been gaining subscribers consistently throughout this entire situation. Yesterday she lost some and she's already gaining some again. So to her, it literally doesn't matter because her demographic does not care. Okay? So at the end of the day, she got a conversation going with her demographic, which is young people, and talked about these things. So like I said too, it's awesome that she's taking 50% of the proceeds, donating it to Planned Parenthood. In my personal opinion, the whole PSA portion of it could have been better. It could have been a little bit more informational. They could have practiced some lines in the description down below. They put two links with barely any information about what those links are. They did talk a lot about safe sex options. If you do get pregnant, they also really emphasize. I think they did a good job emphasizing on opening up and talking to your parents about this. If you are a child, or if you're a young person, talk to people about this, what you're going through, practice the safest methods. They even mentioned STDs and everything like that. Do I agree with these kids doing their thing? Of course not. I'm a parent. I have a 10-year-old son. It's something that I worry about all the time in the coming years and when he's a teenager. But the thing is, at least they're getting the conversation going. So was this a horrible prank? Yes. Do I condone it? No. But there are some positives that we can pull from the situation. And that's all we can do, baby. That's all we can do. All right. So let me know your thoughts on this topic down in the comments below. Chances are that you watching this video were not subscribed to Danielle Cohen. So there's nothing to even unsubscribe from. But anyways, I'd love to hear your thoughts down in the comments below. But if you liked 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 over on Patreon. You are all amazing. And I just made the post for the April Patreon Q&A. Go over, check it out, ask your questions. 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