on this beautiful platform of YouTube we
have a whole niche of commentary
channels and basically in a nutshell
commentary channels are here to keep
other youtubers accountable but who is
keeping commentary channels accountable
what is up everybody this is Chris from
the rewired so where we talk about the
problem but focus on the solution and if
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it's live over on Twitter and all that
kind of stuff but anyways I was talking
about the subject of ignorance verse
lying on the podcast and it made me
think of the body language expert Derek
van Schaik all right basically I
remembered that Derek van schaik's most
recent video was reading the body
language of James Charles in his apology
video to tati Westbrook and calling
him a liar now before I get started I
just want to make it clear I find the
technique of body language reading very
very fascinating I read like the number
one book on body language called what
everybody is saying it's from a former
FBI agent who was like legit when it
came to interrogating people reading
their body language it's very
interesting to me but at the end of the
day is kind of a pseudoscience if I'm
being honest I do prefer Reagan Wolfe
and I'll explain why pretty soon but I
think the point of this video will kind
of let you know so anyways to catch you
up to speed on what happened most of you
if you're watching this video you know
about all of the James charles drama that
happened then James charles came out with
his video saying no more lies boom
receipt receipt receipt receipt oh my
god James charles
charges but it had me thinking it had me
thinking so as I was talking about
Derrick van shade and accusing people of
lying I went and I checked out his
YouTube channel because I was like wait
a second his last video was using body
language to accuse James Charles of line
but since he made that video it came out
that James Charles was telling the truth
so my question was did derek van
Schaik do one of a few things did he
take that video down did he release
another video correcting that video like
did he do anything to say like yo I was
wrong about this right and I looked and
there's nothing so one of the first
things that I'll just say like I'm just
gonna use one example to talk about one
of my issues with body language and it
comes from this clip right here Oh
everybody in animation what you'll
notice is that James has the smirky grin
on his face through most of his apology
video which indicates he's not as
sincerely sorry as he says a sincere
person shouldn't be smiling why would he
person be smiling if they truly believe
they hurt their close friends all right
like that for me is a terrible example
like when you read the book on body
language it talks about how body
language is something we're like you
usually have to have multiple encounters
with a person to understand their tells
right and I hate that example of like
aha see he's smirking this is an
indicator that he's lying like I think
that is a little bit rough because so
many people have so many different
reactions when they're nervous or when
they're afraid and like it is common for
some people to giggle smirk laugh or
whatever it is when they are nervous all
right like this is common so it is very
difficult to say okay there's a smirk
you're automatically lying like that is
not a very obvious tell but his videos
are kind of littered with things like
that so like I said it came out that
James Charles was telling the truth and
this is where I think it's important to
realize that we as youtubers anybody
who's doing commentary anybody who's
judging a situation we have to have our
own accountability we have to have a
certain amount of integrity for what we
are doing the problem I have and I've
brought this up in
another video that I made about the
difference between News Channel's
commentary channels drama channels and
the like is like different levels of
integrity okay so when I talk about
integrity what I mean is doing the right
thing doing the right thing especially
when nobody's looking just do do the
right thing all right and something that
youtubers can get caught up in and I
won't accuse Derrick man sheikh of this
because i don't know him i don't know
what's going in his mind but the problem
that some of us youtubers can struggle
with is chasing views and chasing
narratives right and it's a very
important for you as the viewer to
understand this and to watch when you're
watching youtubers watch it with a
certain level of skepticism because we
are all human we can all create our own
biases and just based on the information
we're taking again so for example when
it comes to commentary channels or when
it comes to somebody like myself a
derrick handshake or anybody else who's
doing commentary I'm like kind of
looking at what's going on in the
YouTube community we can start to create
a bias based on the information that's
coming in here's what I mean by that the
videos that we're watching on the
subject right
the the people talking on Twitter and
what they're saying James Charles is a
prime example because it was originally
thought that James Charles was a
terrible awful human being so everybody
was making video saying James Charles is
a terrible awful human being so then one
possibility is we create a video and
perpetuate that narrative we throw out
facts recent recent inge logic evidence
out the window we're like okay there's a
narrative going on
I can play into the audience's
confirmation bias by making a video
agreeing with what everybody is saying
and this is dangerous this is why we as
youtubers have to have a certain level
of accountability but who's there to do
that nobody there's nobody policing you
know the commentary channels right and
I'm not I'm not here to attack Derek
specifically but I hope to open up a
larger conversation now again
and although you know a lot of us
commentary channels we talk on trending
topics and things like that some of this
bias and perpetuating a narrative and
creating a bigger dog pile on a person
it happens on a subconscious level
because like I said we are receiving a
lot of information right and that's why
we all need to take a step back and
something I try to teach you as the
audience is be be very very careful
about mob mentality or it's talked about
a lot in crowd psychology when you keep
hearing the same narrative over and over
and over again you start to believe it
and then you get into a situation of
groupthink you are no longer being an
independent thinker and I feel that we
as creators we have an even bigger
responsibility to be self-aware when
that's happening to us now again the
reason I'm making this video is because
you know I went back and I checked it
don't van shakes video : James tells a
liar
based on body language has almost 1
million views almost 1 million views it
is touched almost a million people I
don't know how many of those are unique
views but I don't know how many of you
watch the same video over and over but
imagine all the likes the shares and
everything like that well so this is a
massive massive accusation going out
there to almost a million people and
then there has been no attraction no
follow-up statement on that end and this
gets to my final point this is why I
respect Regan wolf and what she's doing
because Regan wolf was probably the
first body language channel that I found
and I agree and disagree with her in
certain instances like some of her
videos why I could tell like like a
great example is her own you see on
videos I'm like ok you don't like omishi
on so your mind might create you know
additional you know negative things
about him even though anis odd isn't a
great guy by any stretch of the
imagination but as I'm consuming her
content I have to be like ok how much is
your bias coming to play when you're
judging somebody's body language but the
point I'm getting out here
Ragan wolf has come out and she's talked
about and corrected herself I Kayla
number which video was it might have
something to do with Melanie the
musician and you know the accusations
that gets her with her old friend
Timothy but it was on Edwin's generation
in his video he brought a Reagan wolf on
there for a guest segment and she talked
about how she you know she was newer at
it and everything like that and she she
wanted to correct those things right
and that's that's awesome that is so
awesome I have given props to I neighbor
for doing the same thing he removed one
of his first James Charles videos for a
similar situation so all this is very
very important so again I just want you
to think about and just be very mindful
of the content you're consuming and
don't believe everything a person says
just because they're on YouTube they are
human they're going to have biases and
things like this are gonna happen
alright but anyways that's all I got for
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