So, there's a small group of people trying to cancel me.
...Right.
And, you know, I’ve had people dislike me 
or my content and say nasty things towards me
and even some people saying, "ah, I can't wait till this happens to you," you know? I’ve had-- I’ve had-- I’ve had it all but
to the extent where they've actually 
created an account and actually tried it, right?
Try to, sort of, report on all my perceived 
"sins" and wanted me to repent on this...
it's something else.
A smear campaign using many buzzwords that would typically get the general public riled up here in 2020, especially given the current climate.
So I want to respond not because I feel it's a
requirement or I feel some sort of pressure or guilt.
If anything, it's because it did affect my mental health,
 I don't-- I don't mind admitting that, like,
my mental health was already in a really bad place
 before this and then they had to put the cherry on top
and that's because they're messing with something traumatic that I went through in my life with me and my partner
and, uhm, I don't-- I don't take that lightly, you know? For them-- for these people to try to rewrite the narrative and I'll get to that.
That'll be the most important thing that I want to make clear in this video because I do want to have a source
that people can go to in case that-- that's
 trying to be spread around again, you know?
I want to make sure that it's solidified 
what I’m-- what I’m saying.
And some of you may have already been made aware of the smear campaign against me because there's been some sock accounts
that have been messaging my followers, literally going through my followers list and, like, tweeting them
or sending them messages on Instagram and stuff, letting them know, "hey, did you know this about Edwin?"
"edwin's generation is a manipulative racist and a liar. check out this account please. they exposed him:"
"edwin's generation is a hypocrite and he's also 
racist. check out this account. they exposed him:"
And this is my favorite because
 the person responded, they said:
"you might want to look into this.
it's about Edwin's Generation."
"What is this?"
"Edwin being exposed for being a hypocrite. 
Just check it out. It's a thread of Edwin's lies with proof."
"But who's this? And why are you sending me this?
 Like, why me? I don't know Edwin." [laughs]
It was really only a matter of time 
till even I got cancelled.
Let's go.
Now, considering the amount of people
that let me know that they were being messaged
by random sock accounts about
 "an exposed" account on me,
I can only assume that there were even more people that just didn't let me know so I posted an Instagram story that read:
"Has the time come for Edwin to be cancelled?! I received a slew of messages informing me
that someone had created a page to quote-unquote
'expose' me. Someone is going through my followers
through a sock account and telling 
them to check out the exposed page.
(totally not creepy or suspicious). 
I’m looking into it all now.
I’m sorry to those who have been targeted 
and thank you for letting me know.
I might have to move some videos
 aside to address this."
When I saw these messages, I recognized
the username of the account trying to expose me
because I’d interacted with it once before
on Twitter before they were trying to "expose" me
and also it's kind of hard to forget a
username that has the word "bean" in it
because, you know, I love my tacos
 and frijoles, you know? [laughs]
I’m a proud frijolero.
So, let's talk about my first interaction with this account totally not targeting me as a frijolero. [laughs]
It first got my attention when I saw the reply to Haley who is someone that the YouTuber Onision has harassed in the past
and they said to her, "Edwin bullied Sarah to his fans behind her back for not giving him enough information
for content and wanting to back up and keep to herself."
As soon as I read that line, I immediately replied in anger and said, "I have never bullied Sarah. You can F right off with that one."
and blocked that person because I found it 
so inappropriate that we have Haley over here 
opening up about something serious on Twitter
and then this random account wants to redirect attention to me for some reason just to dirty up 
my name, really, with lies too.
Because I’ve been nothing but supportive
 of Sarah both online and offline.
So to see this random account be like, "hey! I got something more important than what you're saying!
You know that guy you talked to? Edwin? 
Well, he actually kind of sucks because uh...
eh, let me pull something out my bum,"
you know? It's-- I don't know, 
it rubbed me the wrong way and
I should know better than to react emotionally.
And the rest of the tweet reads, "Not to mention
 belittling victims right on live-streams
and naming himself judge for whether 
their experiences are worthy of telling."
I have no idea what this person is talking about but
 he's saying all of this as if it's common knowledge.
Okay, so why is nobody backing you up?
I know why: because you're full of beans.
But it's curious the way they perceived the situation 
because they @ replied to someone else and they said,
"He told me to F off and blocked me when
 I called him out for something else lol."
You didn't call me out for anything.
You straight up lied to somebody else 
about me and I said, "F off with your lies."
If you called me out on something truthful, you could have made me look real dumb had you proven it.
Why didn't you pull up a receipt?
I'll say it: cause you're full of beans.
They made another reply saying, "Truth has a funny way of coming out when the time is right. Cancellation is on the way.
Still fine with belittling women
on stream though, huh.
Keep being mad and trying to climb up the ranks via your peers who are newer than you but are somehow growing faster. Hm."
I-- I don't know, it seems like
they're going on a little rant there.
Now, like I said, I did get mad at this person
when I @ replied them and I blocked them,
I have no problem admitting that because, you know, 
Sarah is someone that I’ve supported online and offline
so it rubbed me the wrong way that this person I had 
never seen before is trying to, like, accuse me out of this
out of thin air as if it's public knowledge, right? But 
he's got a point, I shouldn't have reacted out of anger
because haters feed off of emotional 
reactions the most, you know?
And, as we see him right now acknowledging,
 he's planning on canceling me.
Wait a second, they're not trying to cancel me.
They made a tweet replying to my Instagram story saying, "It's not about being canceled, Edwin.
It's about accountability and setting the same
standard for yourself as you do others.
You report on others behaviors condemning
 them when you have done the same
and in the same time period, 
sometimes even encouraged it."
I have questions but let's keep going.
"It's not about cancel culture. 
On the contrary, it's an end to it."
Oh!
They're ending cancel culture.
"The realization that you're not above it.
Owning up to your own lies and past problematic behaviors before condemning others."
I’d love to hear the person who's writing this 
actually say this out loud because what?
"You're so proud of destroying others careers, 
years pass and you still flaunt it."
Whose careers have I destroyed?
And when have I flaunted it? 
What-- what does this even mean?
You know, I actually messaged 
this account and I just said, "hey."
We'll see whether they reply, maybe while I’m filming 
this video because I’m seriously curious about these--
these questions.
Now, they continue to say, 
"The people you condemn aren't innocent either;
but they can admit to what they've done and 
express remorse and growth. Can you?"
W-- Who? What?
Like, what-- what are you-- what is this even? [laughs]
"They also don't set a higher standard for others than they do for themselves and go on to publicly slander them for views.
Again, this is not about admitting what you've done. It's about admitting that you're not on a pedestal above everyone else.
In fact, sometimes you've been worse."
I’m not sure what they're referring to here because I don't see myself above every-- anyone else, really, I don't.
And I just want to straight up apologize 
off the bat if I’ve come off in that manner.
I guess the same could be argued-- 
could the same not be argued for this person?
Where is their pedestal? I mean, they're 
hiding behind-- behind a fake account with
some cartoon character. [laughs]
"If you're making the decision to publicly shame people 
about their past, you need to start with yourself.
Anyone in this field of reporting
on others and exposing their lives and careers
had better have a squeaky clean past, 
perfect themselves and never mess up."
So, again, I want to put a mirror up-- up to your face.
Who are you? And do you have a squeaky clean past?
Because I’ve never presented myself to have one.
And, again, I only want to put a mirror up to their face because they're the ones saying that you have to be
perfect in order to be critical of others. 
I-- I strongly disagree with that.
I believe that anyone should be free to 
have critical opinions on anyone, you know?
You don't have to be perfect for that, that's-- 
that's so-- so weird, what a weird notion, you know?
But there's a lot of hypocrisy, obviously, going on here, especially starting with the fact that
they said that cancellation is on it's way 
but it's not about canceling me.
Okay.
"-Often these people do not 
identify as part of the cancel culture
but rather they promote the idea that 
they are warriors in a great moral battle."
But, Edwin, this Twitter account's bio reads, "I’m just the guy standing in front of another guy asking him to take accountability."
Oh.
Is he?
Is that why instead of responding to my DM,
 he ended up making a thread screenshotting my DM
which was just "hey" and then
 trying to do an exposed thread.
Really.
So tell me again how you're not trying to
 cancel me and want me to take accountability
because, if you're actually a guy trying to make me take accountability, you would have a conversation with me like a person.
"-Cancel culture simply makes everything worse.
A course of action that allows for 
development would make more sense.
I think a dialogue makes more sense; 
it's more effective than an attempt to cancel.
Some type of discussion that 
can allow for a meaningful change."
Recently, I did a live stream and I told the chat that I was contemplating doing a video addressing some of the claims made on this account.
The live chat was all like, "it's not worth it,
 it's not worth your time," right?
And I agree. The only reason I’m giving this account an ounce of attention is because they're weaponizing
trauma that both me and my girlfriend went through some years ago and collaborating with
the-- the person that ab-sed my girlfriend and
put us through a lot of horrible stuff. The-- the--
the reason why I’m doing this is because 
the person that this account is collaborating with
is the reason why I do the kinds of videos that I do.
Her name is Dasha and she's the first person 
that I've ever exposed here on YouTube
for literal first-hand experiences that she put me and my girlfriend Mina through.
Dasha: "And we're trying to get his video
taken down and then another video taken down
professionally by an agency.
And if he gets that three times, 
then his channel is going to be deleted."
Most of you probably won't recognize her name
- and I wish it could have stayed that way -
and that's because I haven't mentioned her
name in a video in almost two years
and, apparently, she hasn't done anything 
with her life since then either.
If you'd like to see Mina recap Dasha's ab-se, check the first link in the pinned comment for a 7 minute video
or, if you got a few hours of free time, you can
watch the detailed videos I’ve created on the situation.
Now, the reason why I know that
 this account is collaborating with Dasha
is not only because they follow each other on Twitter  but also because this account is literally peddling points from Dasha.
So besides this account being mutuals
 with Dasha,  what else gave me the clue that
they're collaborating with Dasha
 and Dasha is all for the Edwin cancellation?
Exhibit A: they claim that I sprinkled little "white lies" into the "story line" of what Mina had to endure
when Mina flew over to L.A., okay? Cyr and Dasha flew her over and they would always get her alcohol
and get her drunk all the time, okay? And because in a video I captioned "Mina was 19 & didn't drink before being flown to L.A."
I’m not saying that she never drank once
in her life. I’m not saying that she-- she,
like, experienced her first time being drunk
in L.A. They also went on to show tweets
from Mina from before she visited L.A. as if she presented herself as some saint that never touched alcohol
when, in reality, this is
what Mina had to say:
"--like, it was very much, like, drinking
a lot every single night and then it started to--
it made me feel like sh-t, really, because I never used to drink every single day, that wasn't how I would be.
And then I started, like, noticing little things, like, she would always be like, 'oh, let's get-- let's get drunk, let's all drink tonight'
and then she wouldn't, she would never drink anything but then she'd make sure everyone else has a drink
or she'd make sure that I’m drinking more, like, 
there were times where she would be pouring it
and it would be more than, you know, 
than I should actually have."
Mina saying that she never used to drink every
single day does not mean that she never drank at all,
like, how do you get that? But this is what I’m dealing with and you guys will continue to see more examples
of this account trying to catch me on technicalities to 
prove that I lie and what else could I be lying about?
Dude, come on, man. Get a grip.
And I’m willing to bet a few dollars that this account 
will not own up to all this BS that they're spreading.
Like, look-- [sighs]
It's-- look, I’m sorry. It's really hard for me not to get emotional about this because for them to try to, like,
get-- "oh, I got-- I got a 'gotcha' moment!" on this bullsh-t, it's, uh, it's-- it's triggering to say the least. [laughs]
And I-- I hate it, you know?
I hate it.
"-They are okay doing things wrong 
to combat what they believe is wrong.
Two wrongs make a right and I think that really captures the essence of, again, this extreme subset of cancel culture."
This next post requires some backstory - so,
back when this drama was going on a few years ago,
since it was being broadcasted online,
people were talking about it naturally
and, more specifically, there was a gossip forum called lolcow which was basically, like, an image board, you know?
People would post their pictures and share their gossip about the people that they're talking about in the drama.
So it was me, Cyr, Dasha and Mina all being  talked about mostly in a negative light and this did not sit well especially with Dasha
to the point that she took it upon herself to post on this anonymous forum thinking that she wouldn't get caught.
The administrators caught her posting at least 142 times on the forum
so I did a video reacting to a lot of the 
posts that Dasha had made on this forum.
Many of Dasha's posts included photos of Mina
with the intent of humiliating her and degrading her.
Now, among these posts, 
two of them were of Mina naked.
"-This is another picture that Mina has never
posted online or shared with anyone at all.
She's naked in this. This is a crime.
How many pictures of Mina do you have and-- and why?
Why, after a year and a half of not communicating
 with her, do you still have pictures of her?
As if that weren't enough, Dasha proceeds to post two pictures of Mina in nothing but a bra so she's basically naked.
These are two pictures that Mina 
has never shared online before."
So I reacted to those pictures in shock thinking
that Mina had never posted those before.
Now, apparently, Mina did actually post the image
in the second part of the clip I just showed you
to her Twitter in early 2016 so, 
obviously, I made a mistake.
When I was filming that video, the reactions were off the cuff completely improvised so the mistake is completely on me,
I have no issue owning up to that. 
However, my only question is:
why has it taken Dasha more than two years to bring this up? I mean, I-- I have no issue owning up to it, like I said.
I have already edited that part out
of the original video and right now I’m saying,
"hey, I made that mistake."
However, Dasha still posted that image to--
 to the forum just to talk bad about Mina.
In no way am I saying that this account is Dasha.
All I’m saying is that they're spouting Dasha's words for her. And I’m not just saying that because they follow each other.
A few weeks back, someone made a thread about how Cyr and Dasha groomed them when they were a teenager.
They detailed how they were fan of Cyr and 
would make Onision memes and send them to Dasha
who was Cy'rs girlfriend at the time 
and Dasha would respond favorably.
Eventually, both Cyr and Dasha followed them on Instagram and Dasha straight up gave them her phone number and put them in a group chat with Cyr.
They went on to say that "the entire group
chat became a little Mina and Edwin hate club"
and Dasha and Cyr would send videos like this.
Dasha: "Do you have a word for the camera?
[laughs]"
And apparently after I exposed Dasha, she
went into full meltdown mode and the 16-year-old fan
locked themselves in a toilet often because they felt like they had to guide a 27-year-old man out of his panic attacks.
It really doesn't make sense for Cyr to go to this 16-year-old fan and make them feel bad for his girlfriend.
Dasha would encourage this 16-year-old fan to write parody fan fictions about me and Mina to quote-unquote "troll" us and, afterwards,
she apparently sent them little voice notes like this:
Dasha: "Vincent really can't get over how smart you are."
It's a pretty long thread. They also go over how Dasha 
would send them videos of Cyr super drunk, I guess?
Dasha: "Vincent, please.
Eat the toast." 
Cyr: "Hm..."
Discuss how Dasha offered to hang out with
them and this is all because they had trained
this young fan of theirs to literally
 harass me and Mina and troll us.
Before Dasha was outed for posting on the gossip forum herself, she would send her fans to do her dirty work for her.
Here's an example of Dasha complaining about the forum to the teenager and making them feel bad.
You see the fan's immediate reaction is to check 
on the forum for her so she doesn't have to.
And Dasha says, "you are 
the best friend I have ever had."
Eventually, they wanted to remain neutral because
 they were being attacked by the gossip forum
and this is what Dasha said to them, "I want to
say so much. But I won't. Take care."
and the fan said, "What? Did I do something?"
Then Dasha ignored them so the fan sent an 
iMessage saying, "Say what you want to say,"
and Dasha said, "What?" "What you said on WhatsApp. You said there's things you want to say but you won't,"
and Dasha ignored them again.
I know I got a little carried away but I feel like context 
is very important because, in this particular post,
here they are admitting that Dasha 
frequently sent Mina's unedited nudes
or nudes that she hadn't posted into the group chat as well as going as far as sending Mina's phone number
just to harass her.
Surprise, surprise, Dasha responded to this thread and she said,
"Hey, I just saw this and I almost didn't 
recognize the way I was talking to you.
I can't believe I was like this at some point in my life.
This is not me trying to be 'manipulative,' I genuinely want to apologize for the stress and trauma I have caused you.
I should have never interacted with you in the first place but I was really lonely and in a bad head space.
I’m not trying to excuse my behavior, I just want to let you know that I am truly sorry about everything.
Bullying Mina was wrong of me.
Seeing these videos and screenshots 
make me question who I was.
I am deeply ashamed for the way I was talking to you and others. I hope you can accept this apology and heal.
Genuinely."
So, from there, Dasha proceeded to slide into her 
former fans' DMs, I mean, her former "best friend," right?
Dasha begins a different conversation with this younger fan. As you can see, there's a picture of me and then right there it says,
"For some reason the link to her nude isn't sending."
Huh.
What's that about?
So she was having an issue 
sending a picture of Mina's nude.
Oh, of course Dasha would know where she 
got that nude that she posted on lolcow.
Again, my question is: why does she wait 
more than two years to correct us on this, right?
And why is she doing it behind the scenes? 
And what's especially rich is Dasha saying this:
"I have done a lot of things wrong and I understand 
that but I’ve grown from it (at least I like to think that)
so I’d rather let people believe all this crap than have Edwin prepare something else he wants to take out of context
and split into a four part series."
Home girl is really trying to prove that she's changed 
and grown while actively trying to poison the well
and let this former fan know that, "hey, Edwin and Mina still lied about me, by the way. Look-- look what they said here."
She goes on to say that Mina framed her and deleted the 
link to those "nudes" which, as we already established,
the nudes were never deleted so
 I-- I don't know what she's talking about.
And I want to really put emphasis on
this because on January 2nd of 2016,
the day that Mina posted the picture of a preview
of the modeling pictures that she had taken,
she didn't have a following, okay? As it stands, as of 
today, the tweet literally has four retweets and five likes.
One of those retweets being from the 
skeletor account trying to "expose" me,
another retweet being from an
account called anitafromm1 captioning,
"I thought Dasha leaked those?" and then there's another 
retweet without a comment also from anitafromm1.
So, in reality, before this past month, 
this tweet had literally just one retweet.
Mina: "First of all, I never framed Dasha
and I didn't delete that tweet.
However, I’m choosing to delete it now because 
having it up just makes me very uncomfortable
and before I explain all of this, 
I just want to say sorry because...
it's really hard for me to explain 
so I’m sorry if it isn't explained well.
So, my agent sent me the picture of a contact sheet
and it had pictures of me modeling that I shared 
in January 2016 - almost five years ago now.
Those pictures were pictures that
 a photographer didn't want to give me
because during that shoot he had s-xually harassed me
and this is a story that Dasha knew about
 because, while I was in that apartment,
she was asking me about bad experiences I had with photographers
and I just want to elaborate on how uncomfortable this all makes me because, after posting those pictures,
I had forgotten about them over time and 
I pushed that experience to the back of my head.
I’m sorry that I forgot about posting them but it makes me wonder why Dasha wanted to share those images
on that forum in the first place 
knowing what had happened to me.
And this isn't the first time Dasha 
has done something like this either.
When I told her the photographers
who had done bad things to me,
she asked me the names of a couple of them 
and went out of her way to message them.
I remember asking her why she wants to do this
 and she told me, 'don't you want to get back at them?'
I remember saying, 'I don't want to speak to them' and she began messaging two of the photographers I mentioned
and when I looked over to see what she was saying, she was just having a normal friendly conversation with them.
I remember looking at her confused
 and her looking back at-- smiling at me.
I-- [sighs]
I felt really uncomfortable but I didn't know what to do.
She ended up following one of them on Instagram
 and continued messaging the other on Snapchat.
I was clearly not trying to be involved in any of this and 
I never asked her to message these people."
Let's go back to that message where Dasha says that she's grown because she says that she'd rather
let people believe the things that I’ve said than have me prepare something else that I’m gonna take out of context, right?
So-- so she's saying that, "hey, look-- look what he lied 
about but you know what? I’m over it, it's no problem."
Yeah, isn't it interesting how this conversation took
place just days before the account "exposing Edwin"
began posting tweets sharing 
the same exact rhetoric? Huh.
If you're thinking, "Edwin, that's just a coincidence" then you don't know Dasha because coincidences don't exist with Dasha.
Just watch 30 minutes of some of the videos that 
I’ve made about her and you'll see what I mean.
But, to save you some time, let me 
show you why it's not a coincidence.
To further prove this point, 
back in April, Dasha reached out
to one of my good friends, one of my good 
YouTube friends, Reagan Wolf on Instagram.
"Hey, I’m not hoping to gain anything from
this. I’m simply hoping I could talk to you...
My name is Dasha and a while ago Edwin
made some videos about me where he
accused me of different things and even
 asked you to make a video about it."
That's completely untrue, I have never asked Reagan to
 make a video about anything regarding my situation.
See, and that's Dasha or "Julishka"'s problem
- she can't go a few sentences without lying.
She continues on to say, "One of the things
he accused me of was revenge p-rn...
he said I had taken a photo from his 
girlfriend's phone and posted it on a forum."
That sentence on its own is completely true.
I said that and I stand by it.
"-This is another picture that Mina has never
posted online or shared with anyone at all."
But, of course, Dasha is referring to the
reactionary mistake that I made in my video.
However, my mistake does not diminish the fact 
that she did post revenge p-rn on the forum, you know?
Just because I made one mistake it does not 
overshadow the fact that you still posted revenge p-rn
which is what she's trying
to sell here.
"The truth of that actually is that she had posted 
the nude on Twitter and then deleted it to frame me."
Again, another weird reckless unnecessary lie because, as we already established, Mina never deleted that tweet.
After all, Dasha herself sent the tweet to the former 
fan and the account "exposing" me also posted it.
And that's not even where it ends.
Back in February, Dasha was in a group chat with a bunch of Chandler Riggs stans; these are, like, 10 to 17-year-old girls
and she was saying the same thing about Mina.
But that's a whole other fish that we 
haven't got the time to fry in this video.
"I’m not sure if either of them is aware 
that nothing truly ever gets deleted off the Internet."
Oh my God, this is so cringe.
"Therefore, I can prove that she posted it and deleted the nude in order to frame me," like, dude, what?
"I was just hoping to maybe just talk
about your experience with Edwin."
Oh, God...
But why would Dasha reach out to 
one of my good friends here on YouTube?
Dasha: "I just reached out because I 
thought maybe you, as somebody who,
you know, does body language analysis or something, 
maybe you would care to doubt things, you know?
That's what I thought, that's why I reached out."
Oh, that's right because Reagan 
does body language videos...
[scoffs]
So, as you can see, she's been telling people for a little while now that she was framed with absolutely no ulterior motive.
No, none at all, you know? It's just a coincidence that this account trying to "expose" me is suddenly using her narrative.
At this point in time, I’ve almost tripled the amount of subscribers that I had when I first made the videos
exposing her so I completely understand if the-- the fact that there are no coincidences when it comes to Dasha is not fully accepted yet.
So let me further prove the point that Dasha is 
collaborating with this account trying to "expose" me.
Remember how Dasha sent the former fan 
a picture of me right before talking about Mina's nude?
Well, back in early June, I received a message 
from a mutual on twitter and she said,
"someone with zero followers and zero following is 
DMing me asking me to help expose you for wearing a racist t-shirt."
"I have tea on Edwin's generation that hasn't been posted 
yet, I just need to find someone who will call him out for it."
"ok what is it?"
"He wore a racist shirt."
Now, at the time, I didn't make anything of it until 
I saw this exchange between the former fan and Dasha
because what a d-mn coincidence that Dasha happens 
to send that same exact picture to the former fan.
Why?
So I asked the former fan if there was 
any context to Dasha sending the shirt
and this is what Dasha said: "What I also find funny is that Edwin never seemed to have a problem
with my sense of humor until it was convenient for me. Also saying that my n-zi humor is really inappropriate
is kind of hypocritical coming from someone who 
wears a shirt of the last Jew getting shot in Vinnitsa."
Now, straight off the bat, even though it is Dasha calling me out behind the scenes - someone who has literally
been anti-semitic towards one of my best friends and Cyr's old roommate - I do want to say that I never meant to offend,
I did not know any history behind that shirt.
It was-- it's a band t-shirt that 
I got when I was 17 and I apologize.
I already archived the picture, I didn't know there 
was any history to that so I was just uninformed and
I never meant to offend, nobody 
ever checked me on that and I’m sorry.
Now, the first time that this picture was brought
 to my attention was back in May so obviously
it really stuck out to me that Dasha was sending
 this picture to the former fan here in late June.
So I went back to the person that sent me the DM on Twitter and I said, "hey, did that account say anything else to you by the way?"
and then I was shown the rest of the conversation from that account with zero followers and zero following that is totally not Dasha.
"It's actually really bad. The picture 
displays the last Jew getting shot by n-zis.
Maybe it's a band shirt but it's still 
incredibly bad to wear that."
And then they copy and paste
 the Wikipedia of the photo.
"I just find this ironic since, I don't know if 
you remember this, but he called out
his ex best friend's girlfriend for being anti-semitic
around the same time that photo was posted."
Okay, now let's compare that to Dasha's message.
"Also saying that my 'n-zi humor is really inappropriate'
is kinda hypocritical coming from someone who wears a shirt of the last Jew getting shot in Vinnitsa ."
Now, wait just a second here.
All of a sudden, Dasha is sounding 
a whole lot like anitafromm.
Huh.
Surely they can't be the same person, right?
Surely there's not a pattern in behavior.
Surely Dasha wouldn't do
 the same stuff years ago, right?
Okay, let's keep going.
Well,there's a few things that seem to line up here: Dasha's has been wanting for me to be "exposed"
since April and this anitafromm account
 has been wanting for me to be exposed since May.
Another thing that's for sure is that their stylometry is the same, basically, the way that they write.
Now, fast forward to late June, their wish seems 
to be coming true through this twitter account.
Oh!
Dasha follows the account, in fact, she's the account's 
third follower and the account begins to spread
her narrative but, of course, she can't retweet
this stuff as much as she wants to, so
there's this other account, anitafromm,
 that does retweet the account.
This account does seem to take note of people that interact with me and starts sending them messages
spreading the word about this 
Twitter account that's "exposing" me.
"you might want to look into this. it's about 
Edwin's Generation." Okay, take note of that
because that message looks like an exact copy and paste of this account on Instagram
that also is messaging my followers on Instagram. 
I mean, this is obvious to me, you know?
And-- and I know her, this is someone that I’ve known and, like, I’ve met and I know how she talks and I know how she is.
"What is this?" and they said, "Edwin being
exposed for being a hypocrite.
Just check it out. It's a thread of 
Edwin's lies with proof." [laughs]
She loves the word "proof," by the way.
Look, guys, if you have hours of free time, I encourage you guys to watch my old videos exposing Dasha and you'll see how it all lines up perfectly.
It's just so exhausting that she's back just trying to F my 
world up because it's seriously so, like, stressful and exhausting
that-- that people are trying to rewrite the narrative 
to-- to discredit what me and Mina went through.
"-And I told Edwin, 'yes, I’m f-cking-- 
I’m going to actually get you kicked out
if you literally take Mina's side over your best friends,' 
I said that to him. I’m owning up to that.
I told him that I’d ruin his life because I would if he takes 
a f-cking British c-nt - I’m sorry - over his best friend.
He's absolutely right. 
I stood there smiling, I stood there smiling."
Now, last but not least, let's go back to
that account trying to "expose" me.
"Explain the double standards you have when
you stay silent about your openly anti-semitic
friends but attack Dasha for making similar
jokes. (if anything nowhere near as horrific
as what Maya and Repzion have had to say) and even 
give yourself a pass for that same quote-unquote 'humor'"
What are you talking about?!
We gotta take a moment here because there's a whole
 lot of stupid to unpack from just that tweet alone.
First of all, I never attacked Dasha
 for her anti-semitic humor.
I called her out and I criticized it because she was literally speaking German and saying inappropriate
phrases and doing the heil Hitler hand gesture 
in front of Cyr's old roommate who was Jewish.
"-You would actually do those n-zi salutes
and speak German phrases around Sam,
Cyr's old roommate who was Jewish, and he was very
expressive about how uncomfortable it made him
and you didn't seem to respect
 that at all. You weren't even, like,
Cyr's roommate or really, like, a girlfriend for a long time at all, you just really, really was testing your boundaries back then
and Cyr didn't seem to tell you to stop, I guess, 
because you kept on kept on doing it, you know?
You kept doing your little n-zi salutes."
And she did the similar things around my 
own best friend when she visited us in L.A.
So, I mean, okay? But if you want to call 
that "attacking," - me criticizing that -
then you've been attacking me on your 
whole account, wah, wah, wah, come on.
And, like, being hypocritical around 
my  "openly anti-semitic friends"?
Who? What?
Repzion and his girlfriend?
They're not even my friends, like, if I interact with
someone, if I tweet someone on-- on Twitter,
it does not mean that they're-- 
I’m responsible for whatever they say, okay?
I don't know what they've said so to try to, like, connect
whatever-- if they said inappropriate stuff,
why are you tagging them on to me? I’ve never met 
Maya, I don't even have Repzion's phone number.
I met him twice and that's it
but, like, that doesn't make us friends, okay?
No offense, like, he's an all right dude but, like, we don't know each other, like, that's it, like, he'll tell you the same thing.
And I guess they searched my username with the word "Chinese" attached to it because they found a tweet of me saying,
"I’m gonna get a sketchy -ss Chinese 
$20 massage as soon as I get to L.A."
Okay?
Yeah, when I lived in north Hollywood, there was a massage place, a Chinese one, that only cost $20 and it was kind of sketchy.
Really?
Really?
They also try to say I’m homophobic by searching my username and the word "gay" and came up with tweets like,
"what even is your s-xuality?" and I said "not gay"
because I’m not gay
and I’m also not straight.
All right, let's take it down a notch.
These people are trying to cancel me by inserting their own context, misconstruing the actual context or providing no context at all to old posts of mine.
These people nullify the room for change and growth, they refuse to accept that such concepts could be palpable
because it's not in their genuine interest.
They've already made up their minds, they assume the worst while pretending to hold the moral high ground and opinions of the general population.
And this is what keeps them going, you know?
It's the validation that they require in order to 
remain fixated on these negative ideas towards me.
There really isn't any consideration for an 
explanation that doesn't suit their narrative.
Everything I’m saying right now - 
they don't care,  you know?
They'll figure out a way to twist my words or deflect or say "no, you!" or "what about this from four years ago?" you know?
Nothing will be satisfactory for them because if they did
 care and genuinely did stand for accountability,
would it not be logical for them to respond to my private
 message instead of making a whole parade of it?
They could have gotten quite a few clarifications by the looks of this video but, of course, that wasn't in their agenda, you know what I mean?
They were tagging a bunch of creators on their
Instagram exposing me, so...
Their agenda is obvious and very similar to Dasha’s:
they want to find dirt on me,
they want to make me look bad and then they'll try to get other people to talk about it so, you know, it's not on them.
Since they've already made up their mind about me, anything that even remotely looks like they could suit their narrative
is ammunition against me.
For example, they shared this tweet of mine from 11 years ago which shows me quote tweeting a friend of mine,
a black friend of mine, making a
comment and me saying "lol."
"-Cancel culture declares that they understand
morality better than anyone else could
but, in reality, of course, they are simply trying to increase their position by decreasing the position of others."
I’ve played several clips from Dr. Grande's
video on cancel culture throughout this video because
it's just so well put, especially considering the fact that cancel culture is a relatively new term here on the Internet.
I know I don't have a squeaky clean past,
 I know I’m not perfect but I don't want to be perfect.
There are three things that I also 
do know about myself for a fact.
One: I know I’ve made mistakes
 online, I’ve said stupid things.
I don't refute that I’ve made tasteless jokes and 
even had bad takes and of course I can be petty.
I also know that I will likely make more mistakes in the future
and I’m okay with that because I know myself, 
where I stand and my core beliefs.
For the past few years, I’ve been trying to learn not to 
internalize negative comments, try not to engage.
I’ve had to remind myself that, sometimes, once people
 make up their minds about you, there's no changing it.
Despite how much you want to be heard, 
it's best to move on from those who don't want to listen.
And this leads me to the third fact about myself:  I know that I’ve grown.
I know and acknowledge my personal growth.
My growth comes from both my mistakes and
successes, my joy and my doubts,
my happy tears and my mental anguish, my misunderstandings and my willingness to move forward.
I also know that my growth will continue. 
And, once again, growth is not a concept
that this hate account wants to accept from me.
In a post where they shared several tweets of mine 
from 2009, they said, "You're a public figure.
You were climbing toward being a public figure at the time and you chose to post these words on your public page."
Now, I'll accept that I’m a public figure, sure.
Granted, it was a little hard for me to accept after being an irrelevant YouTuber for as long as I was, you know?
And that actually leads into the next point:
In 2009, I was not working toward being a "public figure."
I was literally studying psychology at ASU.
I was posting videos for fun, you know, I didn't have
 a huge audience at all, I had 60 000 subscribers
in early 2017 so that just goes to show you that, relatively speaking, this growth that I’ve had
for the amount of time that I’ve been on YouTube is relatively quick for me so I’m still grasping it, sure.
But I definitely wouldn't hire you to write 
my biography with all these assumptions.
I want to inspire people to think critically. I’ve always wanted to be someone that my younger self could look up to
and I feel like now I’m reaching the point that I can 
possibly inspire others to think critically, you know?
To avoid situations that I’m calling out in my videos.
I don't like making videos about myself, I don't like this, I don't-- I don't think that this channel needs to be about me, you know?
I made the name "Edwin's Generation" when I was
 9-years-old and it just kind of stuck.
I only started figuring out what I really wanted
 to do on YouTube in mid-2018, you know?
That's when I started taking shift of this channel 
and taking it  in a direction that it is today
and, even still, it's not perfect, my 
content is not perfect, it is not without flaws.
I personally feel I’ve had an immense amount of growth 
in the way I produce content since just last year alone.
I’ve learned a lot and in no way do I think that I’ve mastered my craft just yet - meaning there's still room
for significant amount of growth, you know?
 I feel genuinely, like, I grow from almost every upload
whether it be from the research, the interactions that
 I have with people, the editing, the-- the reception,
I feel like there's so much room 
for growth even still, you know?
And, you know, this is not the first time that I’ve had people dislike me or my content to the extent that they felt the need
to dig things up on me, you know, try to 
make me look bad, discredit me, right?
And, at first, I-- I thought of it like, "hey, 
doesn't this just show my growth?"
But now that I’ve seen it be used in this way where they're forcing this narrative against me, you know,
it gets to the point where it's-- it's just not 
worth the distraction because I feel like I’m
really passionate about what I’m doing on this channel
and it gets to the point where it's not only distracting 
but just exhausting, like, it's exhausting to have to, like,
try to deal with this.
I feel like they're trying to set up a trap for me
 to walk into like, "oh, explain this one, Edwin!
Look at this stupid post you made seven years ago, what 
about this one from eight years ago or six years ago?"
It's just not worth it to explain myself to 
people that don't want to hear me anyways.
So I’ve been privatizing a lot of my videos not 
because I did something offensive or-- or horrible.
I mean, maybe I did because, you know, nowadays, you 
could nitpick everything and it's like the saying goes,
you know, "if you look for something
 hard enough, you'll find it."
But I just don't have the time to get hung up on my old content and try to watch through every one and see if I
can detect something that
 might be offensive to someone else.
And it's the same with Twitter - I deleted most of my 
tweets from before 2017 which was, like, over 31 000.
Don't worry, I didn't do it manually. There's no 
way I was going to read through all that, you know?
But if somebody wanted to, I’m sure 
they could find something to pick apart and
the thought of that exhausts me a lot more than me thinking about, "hey, maybe one day I'll look back on my tweets from
15 years ago and see how much I’ve
grown," like, that-- I’m just over that,
I feel like it's just not worth it.
And, to be honest, this whole experience has 
already made me feel like I can't tweet or share much
about my personal life without feeling hyper scrutinized so you've probably noticed, if you follow me
on other social medias, that I’ve shared 
a lot less about myself or my thoughts or feelings.
I’ve always been super transparent and, to an extent, probably over sharing of a person and it's unfortunate
to have to kind of sacrifice that but I think
it's worth it because I’d rather not
have people try to discredit the messenger and
just listen to what I’m saying, you know?
Listen to the message in the videos because
the unfortunate reality is that, nowadays,
people will say, "oh, Edwin made that one video" or "said 
that one thing, therefore, I can't consume any of his content"
and that's okay. It's never been my intention to offend or upset people but I acknowledge that I don't decide
how someone feels when I say or-- or someone comes 
across something that I have said, you know?
I am sincerely sorry if I’ve caused you or any-- any viewers to be upset because that's never been
my mission here on this channel, you know? I-- I want people to be informed or-- or just to be entertained or just-- just to absorb
information that I provide and--
and escape reality, you know? Just-- just-- I don't know,
 I don't know how to say it, you know, I just...
I want to educate and spread awareness 
and do good, I-- [sighs]
But I do understand that I can't decide whether someone is offended by something I’ve said or say in my videos, you know, like, I get it.
If you're offended, I--
I think it's okay for you to take a break from watching the videos or unsubscribe if you have to.
It's okay to set boundaries, I think-- I think
 people have kind of forgotten to do this, you know?
And I do mean it when I say I strongly encourage people to practice setting boundaries especially with parasocial relationships, you know?
Because me or other creators may not live up
 to expectations preset by the general public.
It's okay to separate yourself from content that bothers 
you because it's important to take care of yourself.
Alright, Edwin, it's 3 AM and 
you're getting a little preachy.
Let's wrap it up.
Now, while there are people trying to discredit my work or diminish the amount of work that goes into my content,
I know the amount of labor that goes into my content and I do recognize that there's a vast amount of people
that acknowledge the work that goes into my content 
and the amount of support that I have.
I-- I swear to you, this is something that
 I-- I do struggle with, like-- like,
the amount of support, the amount of subscribers that I have, it all feels still surreal to me, like, I’m still trying to wrap my head around it
because I’ve been on this website for a long time and I’ve had, like, more popular YouTube friends for a long time
so I’ve always been, like, the loser lesser 
popular guy so it just feels weird to
have people
acknowledge my work and to have found
my niche, really.
And I just want to say thank you, really, that-- 
that's what-- that's where I was trying to get to because
I do want to say that I-- I see you and-- and I’m
so grateful
and I’m sorry
that I know that this is probably not the content that you signed up for but I thought that this was necessary.
Every day that went on that I didn't talk about this or wasn't working on this video or was trying to even make this video,
you know, it wasn't until
I was finishing up this video that
I felt such immense anxiety revisiting this-- this trauma.
And, you know, back around February,
 I was first considering doing a video about Dasha
because I had learned that she was, once again, manipulating young fans to ab-se and harass somebody else
just like she had done to me and Mina.
It felt like a moral obligation for me to 
bring attention to this but, at the same time,
it was a really stressful thing, like-- like, 
knowing that she was the center of it,
it wasn't like any other video where I could just talk
 about it because it was very personal, you know? And
it's not pleasant to revisit that-- her.
So even though I had this idea since February, I pushed it
away because I didn't want to deal with, like,
this-- this mental anguish
 and this, like, chest, like...
[winces in pain], 
you know?
So it wasn't until this account came up that
was peddling Dasha's rhetoric that I was like,
"okay, this is not okay" because people--
people were eating it up and I was like,
"no, no, honey, that's not how it works, you don't
get to rewrite my life. Not like this."
That was when the push became the shove so this
video that I’ve been considering since February
is finally gonna happen.
It'll be my next video and it'll be about how Dasha, in 2020, is still grooming minors to harass and do her dirty work for her.
Isn't that just a perfect cover up though?
Have other people fight your battles 
with knowledge that only you've shared.
Hm.
I’m also considering an interview with 
Reagan about her experience talking to Dasha
but I think that might go on the second 
channel because I don't want to--
ugh, I really do think she feeds off this attention.
Anyway, if you want to see that, 
give this video a thumbs up.
Thank you
guys for enjoying-- it feels weird to say,
"give this video a thumbs up"
 on this kind of serious video but,
honestly, guys, I-- I am eternally 
grateful for you guys and,
yeah, let's-- let's keep it going.
I’m so glad to be f-cking done with this.
