 What's up Greg? So I was sitting here and I was thinking about the time where Ethan on the H3H3 podcast was making fun of Prince EA because Prince EA had this video talking about social media. It was kind of like a poetry type deal and at one point he talks about how social media has shortened our attention spans. Now while there isn't much scientific evidence behind this I've seen personal evidence about this. When I have fellow Greg's commenting on a Danny Gonzales video I made a long time ago and that's why I'm introducing to you the Danny Gonzales challenge. 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 sometimes what I like to do is pull different topics from the YouTube community and try to see what we can learn from them. So if you're into that stuff make sure you subscribe and ring that notification bell because I make a ton of videos. So before I jump into the Danny Gonzales challenge and what that is I need to give you a little bit of a backstory alright. So on October 24th of 2018 I made a joke video. Well it starts out as a joke and then I get into the actual topic okay it's a 14 minute video. So in that video I was clearly joking. Well what I thought was clearly joking. I had terrible acting like this. Danny Gonzales aka young faced. More like I'm a silly liar face am I right? And even worse acting like this. If you pay attention he always says don't look that up. Don't look that up. Don't look that up. Don't look that up but it's true. Why do you think that is? Why do you think Danny Gonzales is telling you not to look that up? Is it because Greg is not the fastest growing army on the internet? I think so. And basically what I was doing was exposing Danny Gonzales for being a liar that Greg is the fastest growing army on the internet alright. Now I didn't want to make this joke go too long. So at about 3 minutes and 10 seconds again of a 14 minute video I explained that this whole intro to that video was a joke alright. Now this video has over 13,000 views now. And basically every time Danny Gonzales uploads a new video the Greg army comes at my throat and they send comments like this. I mean yeah he lied but as far as I know it's a joke. No need to put stock in those jokes. You're Greg by the way Greg is a joke. He's just having fun and it's not official or anything. It's a simple tagline for him. Oh my god it's a joke. You're hella dumb because we know he's a joking YouTuber so shut up honey learn some facts. One humor. Two he's joking. Three he great. Four every single YouTuber jokes pikes that. Honey go back to kindergarten. Do you get that he's joking about being the fastest growing channel on YouTube? That's why he says don't look that up. Hair flip. So yeah I still get these comments. And now you're asking what is the Danny Gonzales challenge? Well here's what it is. As humans we are very emotional creatures okay. We react rather than respond. We do things on impulse. We have short attention spans because of our emotional reactions. So what happens is is this is something that I struggle with as well. So I'm doing the Danny Gonzales challenge too. I have a tendency to where I'm watching a video I want to comment before it's even over right or if I see a comment that's very long I can have the habit of skimming right and then I want to reply before I even read the entire thing. You know what I mean? So what this challenge is what I want for all of us is when we're watching YouTube videos or in the comment section of another person's YouTube video or even on social media or we're getting text messages or whatever it is let's read the entire thing or watch the entire thing. Let's take it all in and let's pause before we react all right. Let's let's respond rather than react. I always thought that this would be great for YouTube right. I know everybody has like suggestions for YouTube and how it works and everything but I thought this would be great. I thought it would be awesome if YouTube had a setting maybe on the creator side if they wanted to where you could not comment on a video until it was watched 90% of the way through all right. Like they had to watch it before the comment section unlocks for them to say something because this is something that I see constantly and and yeah like this is just a larger issue as a whole like one of the reasons I believe this is in just my opinion is that we are in a very fast-paced society right like you got Twitter you got Instagram you got Facebook you got YouTube everything like we're just inundated with information constantly constantly constantly and I feel that a lot of us like we're trying to keep up with that so we're like oh I don't have time to watch this whole thing I don't have time to read this whole thing and sometimes it's even on the subconscious level like we don't even recognize that we're not taking the time to completely consume something all right so I want all of us to just slow down just a little bit and and see how that changes things like something that I've been working on personally is just realizing how often I don't need to respond right like I watch a lot of YouTube obviously I'm a YouTube creator I I'm a fan of channels like Danny Gonzalez and many many others and yeah sometimes like I just don't even leave a comment like I don't don't leave a comment if it's you know something that you know I didn't like mainly when I leave a comment it's something that I do like and I give congratulations to that YouTuber or I say hey this was a very great topic that you brought up I appreciate this and da da da da so that's something that I'm personally working on as well as reading my own comment section um I've I've minimized the amount of comments that I reply to I used to be all up in my comments now I kind of you know take more breaks and just kind of check them every now and then reply to a few of them and all that kind of stuff and that's something that I'm working on as well so let me know down in the comments if you know that you have a tendency to do this where you comment on videos like are you one of those people who like to put first I'll give you that pass if you want to be first on comment sections go for it right but are you somebody who watches YouTube videos and before it even gets to three minutes into the video or before the video is even over you're leaving comments on that video or are you somebody who's replying to comments without reading them all the way through all right so do me a favor join me in the Danny Gonzalez challenge all right but anyways that's a like out 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 over our patreon you are all amazing and don't forget the April Q&A for patrons is up so go over to the patreon website or app or whatever it is and ask your questions for April all right thanks again so so much for watching I'll see you next time