YouTuber scandals: let's talk about them

Mental Makeover

Lauren Curtis

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 601 Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Let's be real: we've all indulged in gossip before. Someone you know (or maybe even don't know) has done something to upset you or someone close to you, and so you talk about it. Maybe with one person, maybe with 10, maybe with more. You feel justified in doing so, because they did something wrong, right? You want that person to be held accountable, so you seek justice in the form of forming a group of people together who know how bad that person is and doesn't want to be friends with them anymore. You've won, because you've proven that you're innocent and they're guilty. Most of the time though, these things blow over. Everyone moves on and becomes friends again. Some feelings might have been hurt, but that's about it. Now, let's consider what happens when a YouTuber has a scandal. Tens of thousands (if not millions) of people join together to actively ruin someone's career. They want them to lose their jobs, their income, their stability, their friends, their support, their sanity and sometimes, when it gets bad enough, their lives. All for what? A bad makeup launch, a misconstrued tweet, befriending the wrong person or a mistake they made when they were a teenager, over 10 years ago? Internet culture has taken a turn for the worse, and someone needs to speak up about it. Let's chat... If you enjoyed today's episode, please leave a rating and a review and subscribe if you haven't already :) You can also follow my Instagram page here! x

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0:00.0	Hey guys, welcome to the Mental Makeover podcast. I'm Lauren Curtis. You've probably heard the phrase,
0:06.4	the grass is always greener on the other side, but I believe it's greener where you water it.
0:12.2	This podcast is here to provide you with meaningful advice from myself and others in order to give
0:18.2	your little patch of grass the best chance to grow and flourish.
0:23.9	Hey everyone, as always, I like to jump straight into it. So, where should I begin? This is going to be
0:32.8	a very chatty episode. I don't really have anything that I really want to cover or mention. It's just
0:40.7	something that I've been struggling, keeping quiet about for probably, oh gosh, I don't know,
0:48.6	but it feels like a long time because I'm scared of backlash. And I guess it's kind of what today's
0:57.6	video is about it's like I know the term cancel culture is thrown around a lot
1:04.5	these days and a lot of the time for good reason but it's also just kind of like
1:09.0	internet culture nowadays it's just it's also just kind of like internet culture nowadays. It's just, it's almost become
1:13.9	the norm. And you're probably thinking, what are you talking about? What has become the norm?
1:20.1	The desire for the general public to end someone's career or to cancel them, which means to say you're not
1:32.3	relevant anymore, no one cares about you, you shouldn't be here, you need to give up, or to
1:37.3	want someone to basically crumble into a little ball of defeat and say, hey guys, you
1:43.6	are, I'm a terrible person like you all think I am.
1:46.1	It's basically like when enough people come together with a similar opinion
1:52.5	and they bully someone enough until that person believes what they're saying,
2:03.4	believes what all these people are saying about them is true and gives up and goes away and doesn't come back. For example, say I, I don't know,
2:13.7	said something that was taken out of context and someone took it the wrong way. That person is
2:22.4	very public about the fact that they think that I said something offensive. This is just an
2:27.4	example, by the way. This hasn't actually happened to me, but just an example. And then they
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