 So before you freak out on me about my Amelia Fart title that I just made, hear me out. 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 or movies or TV shows or pop culture and try to see what lessons we can learn from them. So if you're into that stuff make sure you subscribe and ring that notification bell and make sure you're following me over on Instagram and Twitter at the Rewired Soul because I love engaging with all of you beautiful people out there. All right so yeah I have heard a little bit about this story between Amelia Fart and Airbnb and I've heard her talking about how you know she was discriminated against because of how she looks and like I love me some Amelia Fart. You watching this video you probably love Amelia Fart like Amelia Fart like she she is what this platform needs right like she is just authentically herself she talks about her mental health which is something that I love she knows that it's okay to be weird it's okay to be different like I think it's very inspirational to a lot of people out there and yeah when I first heard her talking about this and being discriminated against like she was talking about it on Twitter like I was like that's messed up like I'm against that like I hate that like just since I was a kid I never thought that was right I never thought it was right to judge a book by its cover right to judge people by what color their hair is what clothes they're wearing like I love tattoos like I don't have that many tattoos I have a few but like I love tattoos but I knew like growing up like I wanted to get sleeves and everything but I was like I can't because somebody might discriminate against me for my tattoos so I don't like that so when I heard that that happened to Amelia Fart with Airbnb like I was like oh my god like this sucks right but she just posted her video so know that I went into this thing like ready to like be on a Amelia Fart side and like boycott Airbnb but like listening to her story it doesn't sound like that actually happened all right like I envisioned this story originally I thought it was like you know she she tried to stay at a place you wanted to for Airbnb maybe they saw her picture and they were like no that's what I thought it was but the story is actually much different so just to kind of summarize this story she she stayed in Southern California right outside of LA and it's an area where you know people are weird and they know whatever and that's why she wanted to stay there and there was a few things right so one thing to note is the guy cares about five star reviews okay now there was a few issues with the place like she asked if she could take down some curtains to let some more light in maybe for filming or you know she also talks about she likes you know light and everything um then there was an issue with a lamp not turning on and the guy came over like because she let him know about it but she was very kind and generous and you know she wasn't a jerk about it right and yeah while she was there she ended up breaking a plate um she went to Trisha Paytas's birthday party and she had a bunch of stuff she couldn't fit in her suitcase and she left a lot of stuff there okay so as she's telling this story I'm like huh like I'm sitting there and I'm sitting there I'm like wait a second wait like so she did get to stay at the place the guy didn't kick around like where's the discrimination going to come in like I wanted to hear that and I was like and as I was listening to it and hearing about how much stuff she left like a bunch of water bottles a bunch of like like Gucci boxes and everything and she talks about how she assumed like he would like it or enjoy it or whatever like if somebody like left a bunch of Gucci stuff in my house like I'm like what what am I what am I gonna do with this right okay let me give you an example when we were in college um we weren't in dorms we had these apartments and we had a roommate who was kind of a dick and he ended up moving out and like he moved out he packed all his stuff but he left so much stuff just so much stuff and the garbage it was weird we were like at the top of this hill like there was apartments that went up this hill and the garbage cans were all the way at the bottom right he left so much stuff and we're like dude you left all this stuff he's like oh just throw it away like he thought it was like no inconvenience to us to have to lug all his crap down there like it was just rude and like I was remembering that a figure of this story as Amelia Farrell like oh I just left it like he thought he was being nice like oh you guys can have my old stuff and we're like we don't want your stuff you come back and you throw this stuff away right but anyways what ended up happening was she ended up getting a bad review so a few things a few things on this point and by the way this isn't like to knock Amelia Farrell like yes obviously you know she's a topic of this video but to give some context to all of you as well because like we need to be better and we need to have some self-awareness so like Amelia Farrell like I do empathize with her because she talks about some things like she wasn't raised a certain way you know whatever but I'm very fortunate something my dad always taught me was this leave things better than when you found them right like pre Airbnb my dad and I we used to travel a lot for his work throughout California when I was really young and we'd stay at his friend's houses a lot of them would travel to and they would leave us a key and we'd stay at their house or whatever and he showed me he taught me as a child like before we left like we we made the house cleaner than when we got there right and I continued this as an adult like I was just telling my beautiful girlfriend Tristan about a time I watched my friend's pets while she was out of town and before they got back I thought it would be a nice gesture because I remember what my dad said and I cleaned up their house her and her boyfriend's house and made it look better and they were very very very appreciative of that so like when I'm sitting here and I'm hearing Amelia Farrell's story I'm like wait a second like you left all of this stuff there and just left it up to this guy right like then she reads the review and like I feel on Amelia Farrell's end of things there's a lack of self-awareness and there's a lack of empathy right like she didn't take a moment at any point throughout this process to put herself in the homeowner's shoes at all and this is something that we have to do like we expect other people to understand us and empathize with us but we don't do it in return right and here's the thing like again Amelia Farrell do your thing boo if you want to wear boas and put makeup on and do your thing like that is amazing but at a certain point we have to ask ourselves like when that guy walked in right to fix the lamp like we have to ask ourselves like what are they going to think is happening like you see it in sitcoms all the time someone like walks in is like whoo it's not what you think it is right but like there's a stranger in your house right that's part of what Airbnb is it's a woman with a camera out and boas all over the place like if you're somebody who doesn't know not even what YouTube is but if you don't know who Amelia Farrell is like think about walking into that into somebody staying in your house and what you're going to immediately think I was reminding Tristan about when we first moved into this apartment and I didn't have like my my setup and everything and I was recording videos like in our bedroom I set up like my box light I put on I put up a the tripod and everything I was recording videos sitting on the bed and like when you walk in when you walked into the room I started cracking up I went oh my god I was like it looks like we're filming a porn in here right like there's a tripod and lights like facing the bed you know what I mean so like I laughed about it because if somebody walked in they would have think it's a porn I wasn't doing a porn obviously I was like filming videos for YouTube you know so like I just I just feel that she needs to have some empathy and understand what he thought like I would think like if somebody walked in and they walked in and saw that like hey just so you know I do YouTube videos and da da da da I would have like joked about it and I get at Amelia Farrell probably you know is a little awkward and thing maybe shag but I would say hey this isn't this isn't what it looks like all right but anyways the last thing I want to talk about is the perception of discrimination like that that's just one of the reasons I wanted to make this video because don't get me wrong like I'm half African-American I I'm a recovering drug addict you know I struggle with mental health issues all these things like stigma discrimination all these things are very very very real but it's also important that we have self-awareness because not every bad thing that happens to us is based on how we look or based on a certain aspect of our lives and it's important that we understand that if not we're just constantly making excuses for our behaviors right like it's easy for me like if I start being a dick to people right and somebody doesn't like me I can easily make up excuses like oh they just don't like me because I'm fat right or oh I just didn't get that job because I'm a man or you know whatever it is like I can make up all these stories like I I feel like Amelia Fart or any of you out there when something like this happens like take a step back and ask yourself like have some personal accountability and be like did I do anything that warranted this right like it's not always about how you look it's not always about your gender it's not always about your sexual orientation like that's the thing like we need to understand like when there are certain things that we did that we need to take responsibility for again like I went into this thing just ready to you know just fight for my girl Amelia right but as I heard the story and when she shared what that guy left in his review like I was like wait like what he said matches up with what you said the only thing the only thing that was incorrect about that was that he assumed that she was a cam girl all right that was an improper assumption okay but but that was just like that was a side topic primarily that guy gave her a bad review because of the stuff that was left behind from his perception that lamp was working fine before she came you know what I mean so there should have been more of a conversation about that but in my personal opinion I do not think this was discrimination against how she looks but maybe I'm crazy let me know down in the comments below if you watched her video which I'll link down in the description let me know your thoughts on it because it sounds it sounds and I'm sorry Amelia if you ever see this but just sounds like you weren't the best guest all right and and yeah it's no wonder why like yeah Airbnb can't just take down any negative review about a person then what would be the point of reviews you know what I mean anyways 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 and if you'd like to support what I'm doing here get access to my new book for free that already 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