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It_s not that bad · THINK BEFORE YOU SLEEP

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  Speaker 1: What's your age?
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  Speaker 2: 22.
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  Speaker 3: Are you single?
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 4: How long have you had a man? Five years.
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  Speaker 5: And how long have you had a baby?
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  Speaker 4: He's almost two. So how much does he have to
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  Speaker 4: make to take care of you and your daughter? Um,
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  Speaker 4: at least a thousand a month.
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  Speaker 5: A thousand a month?
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  Speaker 6: Food, you know, groceries, car insurance, diapers, wipes.
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  Speaker 7: Cell phone, internet, electric bill, gas bill, gas for the car,
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  Speaker 7: medical checkups for the kid. There's no way you're supporting
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  Speaker 7: three people on $ 1, 000 a month. Unless you live with
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  Speaker 7: your parents, or we all misunderstood the question, and it
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  Speaker 7: was implied that she'd be working too. But that's beside
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  Speaker 7: the point. I'm getting too ADHD about this. We're supposed
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  Speaker 7: to be talking about women who don't have insane standards.
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  Speaker 5: Now, how much would you say a man has to
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  Speaker 5: make annually to take care of a family of three?
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  Speaker 6: Um, annually, overall, at least $ 30, 000 a year.
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  Speaker 1: On just a baby?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Or every expense you would need for a stay-at-home mom.
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  Speaker 4: And a child.
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  Speaker 7: Jeez, where do these people live? Am I that bad
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  Speaker 7: with money? I cannot figure out the math on this.
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  Speaker 7: Now she's saying she doesn't work, so I feel like
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  Speaker 7: you would need at least $ 50, 000 a year to support
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  Speaker 7: a family of three.
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  Speaker 5: But if he's spending $ 30, 000 a year on both you
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  Speaker 5: and your daughter, how much more would he need to
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  Speaker 5: live comfortably?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, we are comfortable.
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  Speaker 4: That's comfortable.
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  Speaker 5: So a family of three could survive off of.
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  Speaker 4: Just $ 40, 000 a year? Yeah, it's just not going to
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  Speaker 4: be a lavish lifestyle. Sounds great.
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  Speaker 7: She doesn't need frivolous luxury items to be happy. The
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  Speaker 7: point is here that for every woman out there who's
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  Speaker 7: asking for a guy's bank statement on a first date,
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  Speaker 7: there are also the majority of women who are way
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  Speaker 7: more down to earth, who don't do things like that,
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  Speaker 7: and are fine with making things work without an endless
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  Speaker 7: supply of expensive material possessions. However, the problem is that
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  Speaker 7: there are many creators on the internet these days who
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  Speaker 7: show very unbalanced content where, without any nuance, women are
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  Speaker 7: always the villain, and there's never anything like, Hey, I
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  Speaker 7: know there's this insane grifter named Tess Holliday who said
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  Speaker 7: she's anorexic despite being big enough to be on My
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  Speaker 7: 600-lb Life, but there's also women like Jeanette McCurdy who
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  Speaker 7: aren't massive liars who try to help people with their
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  Speaker 7: eating disorders. The problem with the no-nuance narratives in the
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  Speaker 7: modern day where people don't go outside is that there
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  Speaker 7: are many men whose only experience with women is this
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  Speaker 7: type of content, so of course if all you see
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  Speaker 7: is women doing bad things and you have little to
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  Speaker 7: no experience with women in real life, even as co-workers
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  Speaker 7: or in friend groups, then you're going to think that
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  Speaker 7: women are mostly evil gold diggers, which demoralizes people and
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  Speaker 7: makes them think that there is no point in pursuing
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  Speaker 7: a relationship. The issue is that's not reality. Reality is
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  Speaker 7: a lot more like this.
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  Speaker 5: So how much would you want him to spend.
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  Speaker 8: On a ring?
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  Speaker 6: Over like $ 300.
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  Speaker 1: But no less than?
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  Speaker 6: I wouldn't care.
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  Speaker 7: I think her heart's in the right place, but $ 300
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  Speaker 7: is very cheap for an engagement ring. But more importantly,
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  Speaker 7: not every woman cares about having a $ 40, 000 ring.
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  Speaker 4: How much do you.
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  Speaker 5: Expect him to spend on a wedding ring? I don't
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  Speaker 5: want him to spend too much.
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  Speaker 4: I think he should spend like less than.
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  Speaker 3: $ 2, 000.
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  Speaker 7: I think what you see on TikTok doesn't describe the
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  Speaker 7: majority of women. The majority of women value good connection
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  Speaker 7: over what you can buy them. I mean, statistically, it
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  Speaker 7: must pan out that way because most married men don't
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  Speaker 7: have the price of a new car to spend on
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  Speaker 7: a ring. Now, expensive items are great, provided that you
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  Speaker 7: have the means and a good relationship is already in place.
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  Speaker 7: But if they are valued and demanded over connection, like, say,
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  Speaker 7: someone with the facial expression of a sociopath like the
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  Speaker 7: wizard Liz or a manifesto would recommend, then that is
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  Speaker 7: a massive red flag. Couples shouldn't be preying on each
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  Speaker 7: other's prospects. They should be lifting each other up more
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  Speaker 7: like this.
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  Speaker 9: How old are you?
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  Speaker 4: I'm 21. Do you have a car? Yes, I do.
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  Speaker 4: Would you date a man who didn't have one? Absolutely.
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  Speaker 7: Who gives a fuck about any of that shit, genuinely?
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  Speaker 4: Who gives a fuck? Okay, clearly she's drunk. It's a format.
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  Speaker 7: A lot of these channels interview women in areas where
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  Speaker 7: they know there are going to be lots of people
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  Speaker 7: who are under the influence. That's how Hawk Tua became
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  Speaker 7: a meme.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, the guy should have a car, but yes,
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  Speaker 5: there are plenty of women out there who are willing
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  Speaker 5: to make a relationship.
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  Speaker 4: Work despite limiting circumstances. These are generally the women.
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  Speaker 5: That you want and not the ones who act like
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  Speaker 5: perpetual children.
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  Speaker 7: Expecting the guy to do absolutely everything in the relationship,
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  Speaker 7: such as your average female Instagram influencer does. The benefit
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  Speaker 7: of being in a relationship where both parties behave like
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  Speaker 7: adults is stuff like you preventing her from doing stupid
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  Speaker 7: stuff that's bad for her, and she prevents you from
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  Speaker 7: acting out around the police. I don't know if they're
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  Speaker 7: in a relationship, but that's the kind of person that
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  Speaker 7: you want around you. She might have just saved that
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  Speaker 7: guy from getting arrested that night. But moving back to
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  Speaker 7: the depressed and demoralized person who watches YouTube, it's not
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  Speaker 7: just with women. There's actually a whole market for content
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  Speaker 7: that appeals directly to these people in kind of a
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  Speaker 7: pathological way. It's a very weird form of content that
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  Speaker 7: friends of mine call loser reveals. Basically, a loser reveal
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  Speaker 7: is when people farm how bad their life is going
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  Speaker 7: for content. Like, I'm 38 and still living with my parents.
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  Speaker 7: You also have, I'm 35 years old and never had
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  Speaker 7: a girlfriend before. Now initially, I was sympathetic towards this
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  Speaker 7: kind of content until I learned it's like a proven
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  Speaker 7: format for views. Probably the most egregious producer of loser
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  Speaker 7: reveal slop content is this guy called Ask Japan, who
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  Speaker 7: started out as a Japanese teacher, but after he made
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  Speaker 7: this video and it did well, basically most of his
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  Speaker 7: videos have the energy of titles like this. I'm 50
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  Speaker 7: years old Japanese man. I am lonely on Saturday night.
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  Speaker 7: I play Sailor Moon on Super Famicom.
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  Speaker 4: Or you have.
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  Speaker 7: I'm 50 years old Japanese man struggling with midlife crisis.
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  Speaker 4: My life is miserable.
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  Speaker 7: He's done so many videos that are like this that
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  Speaker 7: I would say he's milking this for content more than
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  Speaker 7: Pegasus milked the Mr. Beast drama. Look at those views.
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  Speaker 7: That is a master class in slop content.
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  Speaker 4: Bravo.
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  Speaker 7: I'm not kidding with how popular of a format this
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  Speaker 7: is though. It pulls in so many views that channels
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  Speaker 7: like this one are clickbaiting depressed people with loser reveal
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  Speaker 7: content as a way of tricking them into watching a
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  Speaker 7: self-help video. Not as successful, but the loser reveal meta
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  Speaker 7: gets so many views. that it spawned the anti-loser reveal meta.
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  Speaker 7: Though what's always been fascinating to me is how much
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  Speaker 7: information can completely change the trajectory of someone's life. Good
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  Speaker 7: information and a willingness to change can exponentially make someone's
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  Speaker 7: life better in a matter of like two years. But
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  Speaker 7: on the other side of that, bad information can destroy
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  Speaker 7: people's lives, and there is no shortage on the internet
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  Speaker 7: of poorly researched material that is demoralizing people and causing
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  Speaker 7: them to burn years of their young lives doing nothing.
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  Speaker 7: I've talked about this a lot in terms of the
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  Speaker 7: woke stuff, and more recently, I've been talking about how
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  Speaker 7: the manosphere demoralizes people with bad or flat-out wrong information.
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  Speaker 4: One of the prime ways.
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  Speaker 7: They demoralize viewers is by being awful at interpreting studies
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  Speaker 7: or understanding data, or they're hiding crucial information that doesn't
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  Speaker 7: fit their narrative because it will get them less views,
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  Speaker 7: or they don't actually read the studies and they will
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  Speaker 7: cite data that they don't know the source of.
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  Speaker 4: That happens a lot. And I mean a lot. For example, these.
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  Speaker 7: Spaces love to quote a statistic that stems from this
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  Speaker 7: really old OkCupid study that mentions nothing about population size
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  Speaker 7: and say, look, women rated most men as unattractive, but
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  Speaker 7: forget to mention that women will still talk to these
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  Speaker 7: guys anyway.
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  Speaker 4: Do you know who is more exclusionary based on appearance?
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  Speaker 7: Men. Two-thirds of men are messaging the best-looking third of women, so, uh,
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  Speaker 7: no shit they don't get picked as often. Also, here's
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  Speaker 7: a guy who mentions that they don't really discuss how
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  Speaker 7: the attractiveness ratings were obtained. That matters because, for example,
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  Speaker 7: this totally decent-looking guy with a guitar here might have
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  Speaker 7: rated lower because he's a musician and that makes him
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  Speaker 7: look broke. Would he have rated higher if he took
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  Speaker 7: a picture next to a yacht in a suit or
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  Speaker 7: a lab coat in a hospital? How much of their
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  Speaker 7: physical appearance was related to markers of wealth, or this
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  Speaker 7: guy's lack of emotion and really terrible hairstyle, though to
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  Speaker 7: be perfectly honest, this study was removed from the OkCupid
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  Speaker 7: website like a decade ago, and the archive is difficult
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  Speaker 7: to find, so I think that almost none of these
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  Speaker 7: people who are talking about it have actually read the
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  Speaker 7: entire thing, yet they'll still quote it constantly, which is
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  Speaker 7: very irresponsible. You'll also see stuff like this Pew study
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  Speaker 7: where they'll say, look at all these single guys, it
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  Speaker 7: must be because women suck. Well, did the study say that,
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  Speaker 7: or is it possible that they are single because they
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  Speaker 7: never go outside, And women in those age groups are
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  Speaker 7: less likely to be single because women typically date older
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  Speaker 7: men who have better jobs and are more willing to commit.
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  Speaker 7: I mean, do these people even look at their own charts?
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  Speaker 7: It says on the right that there was an 11%
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  Speaker 7: drop in men looking for relationships between 2019 and 2022
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  Speaker 7: versus a 3% drop in women. So, uh, no shit
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  Speaker 7: there's a big change from 2019 to 2022 in the
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  Speaker 7: number of single men. They aren't looking for relationships as
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  Speaker 7: often as they were before. Not to mention that this
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  Speaker 7: data was obtained during COVID when it was illegal to
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  Speaker 7: go outside, which forces everyone to use dating apps that
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  Speaker 7: heavily favor women. Do you want a better chance of success?
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  Speaker 7: Stop using apps and go outside. Seriously, some of these
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  Speaker 7: arguments from these groups are so far from reality that
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  Speaker 7: you can tell these people haven't interacted with anyone outside
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  Speaker 7: of a Discord or Twitter argument in multiple years. I'm
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  Speaker 7: also getting really tired of every loser on the internet
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  Speaker 7: using some crazy chick on TikTok to justify why their
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  Speaker 7: life isn't going well, followed by statements like this.
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  Speaker 10: But I do think it's crazy that I'm about to
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  Speaker 10: be 34 and I have no family. Because my dad
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  Speaker 10: had two kids by the time he was 27.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 10: And I'm like, man, you know what the problem is, though?
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  Speaker 4: It's definitely not me.
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  Speaker 10: I think it's everybody else.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: That was funny. So is this whole Tenet Media thing.
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  Speaker 7: Speaking of bad research and bad arguments, let's talk about
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  Speaker 7: the black pill. There's a channel out there called Rehab
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  Speaker 7: Room who has reacted to some of my content, and
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  Speaker 7: he seems to really not like me, so let's look
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  Speaker 7: at some of the arguments. Now for those of you
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  Speaker 7: who are unfamiliar with the black pill, its most essential
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  Speaker 7: argument is that your ability to get women is solely
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  Speaker 7: based on genetics, so if you were born as an
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  Speaker 7: unlucky oofy doofy sub 5 out of 10 male, then
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  Speaker 7: you have no chance and your life is over. Here's
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  Speaker 7: some commentary that Rehab Room did on a Redditor.
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  Speaker 1: He made a public post on Reddit saying he can't
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  Speaker 1: get any matches no matter what he does. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it is really no surprise he's easier sub 5 in
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  Speaker 1: these pictures. Not that he's doing anything wrong, but rather
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  Speaker 1: he's looking wrong. That is the problem.
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  Speaker 7: Uh, there's actually a lot this guy is doing wrong,
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  Speaker 7: and there's a lot of things he can do to
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  Speaker 7: improve his odds. For one, he can go outside instead
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  Speaker 7: of using dating apps, he can get a decent job,
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  Speaker 7: he can lose weight, and he can gain muscle and
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  Speaker 7: grow a beard. If he ends up having bad bone
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  Speaker 7: structure after the weight loss, the beard will compensate for that.
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  Speaker 7: Welcome to fashion. Enhance your good features, hide your flaws. Now,
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  Speaker 7: does that mean he's going to get a 10 out
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  Speaker 7: of 10 woman after he does that?
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  Speaker 4: No, but it will increase his odds of finding someone,
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  Speaker 4: and traditionally.
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  Speaker 7: Rehab Room goes on to emphasize this point in sort
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  Speaker 7: of a passive-aggressive video reaction to me. Like, he doesn't
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  Speaker 7: specifically say that he's responding to me, but he is
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  Speaker 7: responding to arguments that came directly from this video that
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  Speaker 7: I made a few days prior, so I'm going to
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  Speaker 7: assume that this video, Get Better Hobbies, is a response
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  Speaker 7: to what I said in the video about Walter, the
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  Speaker 7: Starbucks guy.
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  Speaker 4: Let's hear Rehab's arguments.
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  Speaker 1: There are very few things on this earth that repulse
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  Speaker 1: people and make them cringe. More than a sub-five man
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  Speaker 1: with confidence. Today I am bringing you a prime example
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  Speaker 1: of this. Notice the difference in treatment these two dudes get.
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  Speaker 1: Not only by people they approach, but also people on
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  Speaker 1: social media. Like, same hobbies, same openers, the only difference
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  Speaker 1: here is their looks.
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  Speaker 7: Okay, so setting the stage here, Black Pillars have a
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  Speaker 7: lot of their own terminology, which means I'll have to
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  Speaker 7: translate some things... But Rehab Room is about to compare
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  Speaker 7: two photography channels and the types of responses that they
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  Speaker 7: get from female strangers. We have 1.6 million subscriber channel
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  Speaker 7: Danny Damien versus Z who has 1.6 thousand followers. Danny
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  Speaker 7: literally has a thousand times his following, so I'm sure
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  Speaker 7: there won't be any sort of skill gap between these
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  Speaker 7: two creators. Every response they get is going to be
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  Speaker 7: due to the fact that Danny is a Chad Light
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  Speaker 7: and because Z is a sub 5 male. Sub 5
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  Speaker 7: is incel terminology that means he's less than a 5
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  Speaker 7: out of 10 in attractiveness, and Chad Light is a
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  Speaker 7: guy who's like a 7 to 8 out of 10.
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  Speaker 7: Not quite a Chad, but almost.
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  Speaker 3: Stacey is any woman that an incel wants but cannot get.
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  Speaker 1: Because the guys they call Chads? Exactly.
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  Speaker 4: Anyway, let's continue starting with Z.
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  Speaker 7: Hello guys, sorry to bother you.
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  Speaker 6: I'm Z.
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  Speaker 4: I'm a street photographer.
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  Speaker 8: Oh god.
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  Speaker 1: We'll roll to the borough. Just brutal stuff, man. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: these females ain't even hot. Not even remotely. He seems polite, positive, smiling,
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  Speaker 1: asking people what makes them happy, and people still looking
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  Speaker 1: at him like they're in a hostage footage.
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  Speaker 7: Okay, so we didn't have that much time with Z here,
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  Speaker 7: and I don't think that this was the greatest clip
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  Speaker 7: to choose to introduce him to an audience. A big
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  Speaker 7: problem with Rehab's content is that he constantly assumes that
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  Speaker 7: everybody knows what he's talking about, which often comes off
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  Speaker 7: as confusing... so I'll have to slow things down here
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  Speaker 7: a bit. Now, you might have missed it, but I'll
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  Speaker 7: remind you that earlier, Rehab Room, in a backhanded way,
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  Speaker 7: called Z confident.
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  Speaker 1: There are very few things on this earth that repulse
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  Speaker 1: people and make them cringe, more than a sub-5 man
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  Speaker 1: with confidence.
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  Speaker 7: I'm not sure if Rehab has poor social skills or
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  Speaker 7: if he's experiencing a moment of confirmation bias, but Z
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  Speaker 7: doesn't sound confident in this clip. He sounds anxious. Let's
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  Speaker 7: hear it again. This doesn't sound confident. The minute they
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  Speaker 7: show the slightest disapproval, he rushes his speech.
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  Speaker 4: And gives up.
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  Speaker 7: A confident man would handle the rejection more calmly, so
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  Speaker 7: not the greatest example of rehab's argument that Z was
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  Speaker 7: rejected for his looks, and not because most people say
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  Speaker 7: no when they're being solicited.
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  Speaker 4: Next up is Danny.
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  Speaker 1: And now, let's remember what happens when you try the
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  Speaker 1: exact same line as a white shed light. Let's remember this.
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  Speaker 4: Unfortunately, it wasn't on, but.
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  Speaker 1: Guys, pay attention to the caption here, okay? The girl's
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  Speaker 1: skirt blew up, and they thought he filmed it. If
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  Speaker 1: this had happened with the first guy, Z, they would
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  Speaker 1: have called in the National Guard, the special forces. They
• 14:24
  Speaker 1: would say, oh my god, such a creep. Are you
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  Speaker 1: surprised people treat you this way?
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  Speaker 7: Again, these are terrible introductions to these creators. Not only
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  Speaker 7: was there a continuity error where Rehab said that Danny
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  Speaker 7: and Z said the exact same things to the women...
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  Speaker 7: when they, in fact, said completely different things, but we
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  Speaker 7: literally had less than four seconds before rehab hits the
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  Speaker 7: pause button on Danny in comments, which means we barely
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  Speaker 7: get any time to get to know him or perceive
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  Speaker 7: his social skills, or even get to see what he
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  Speaker 7: looks like outside of a small picture for our first impression.
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  Speaker 7: A quick clip like that should be in the middle
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  Speaker 7: of the video, after the audience already knows who you're
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  Speaker 7: talking about. Anyway, off-camera, the girl's skirt blows up like
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  Speaker 7: that famous Marilyn Monroe picture, And Rehab Room says that
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  Speaker 7: the only reason that these girls didn't immediately call the
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  Speaker 7: cops is because Danny is attractive. By the way, don't
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  Speaker 7: forget to show that you're different from the racist woke
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  Speaker 7: people by mentioning that Danny is successful because he has
• 15:16
  Speaker 7: white privilege. Did you catch that, guys? There's a lot
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  Speaker 7: of that kind of rhetoric in Rehab Room's videos. These
• 15:22
  Speaker 7: black pillars love using the same arguments that radical leftists use.
• 15:26
  Speaker 7: They just say them differently. Kind of like how the
• 15:28
  Speaker 7: manosphere promotes sexual promiscuity just like modern feminism does. But
• 15:32
  Speaker 7: is it possible that the reason that Danny got a
• 15:34
  Speaker 7: positive response here is because of how he handled the situation?
• 15:38
  Speaker 7: Why don't we watch it again? It's very quick, but
• 15:44
  Speaker 7: did you notice that they did accuse Danny of being
• 15:47
  Speaker 7: a creeper? And instead of flipping out or acting like
• 15:49
  Speaker 7: a deer in headlights, he maintains his composure and calmly says, fortunately,
• 15:54
  Speaker 7: it wasn't on. The reason women are calling the guys
• 15:57
  Speaker 7: creeps at rehab as accusing of being sub-fives is not
• 16:00
  Speaker 7: because they're unattractive. It's because when women say stuff like
• 16:03
  Speaker 7: what they said to Danny, those guys get anxious and
• 16:06
  Speaker 7: speed up their speech, or they freeze, or worse, they
• 16:09
  Speaker 7: get mad and say stuff like, No, I wasn't doing that.
• 16:13
  Speaker 7: How dare you accuse me of being a creep? Women
• 16:15
  Speaker 7: aren't going to feel safe around men who act like that,
• 16:18
  Speaker 7: which is why they get called creeps. I've seen plenty
• 16:20
  Speaker 7: of men who are less attractive than Z do well
• 16:23
  Speaker 7: in these situations. By the way, I don't think Z
• 16:25
  Speaker 7: is too ugly for women to like him like Rehab does.
• 16:28
  Speaker 4: Uh, Z looks fine based on his profile picture.
• 16:31
  Speaker 7: I swear, after watching a bunch of his videos, Rehab
• 16:34
  Speaker 7: acts like women bring out their rulers and measure a
• 16:37
  Speaker 7: guy's facial proportions before they decide how to treat him.
• 16:40
  Speaker 7: It wouldn't shock me if he's never been in a
• 16:42
  Speaker 7: relationship before because his portrayal of women is very much
• 16:45
  Speaker 7: like he only experiences them through internet videos. So like
• 16:48
  Speaker 7: I said, I've seen many guys who are less attractive
• 16:50
  Speaker 7: than Z's profile picture handle situations like this well. Now
• 16:54
  Speaker 7: this doesn't mean that the girl will go out with
• 16:56
  Speaker 7: those guys, but no one is asking anyone out here,
• 16:59
  Speaker 7: and despite what I've heard Black Pillars say numerous times,
• 17:02
  Speaker 7: you can navigate these situations without women thinking that you're
• 17:05
  Speaker 7: weird or dangerous.
• 17:07
  Speaker 4: Even if you aren't a 10 out of 10 Chad.
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: When it is a dude woman find hot, they are
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: gonna let him get away with anything. Meanwhile, people will
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: micro-criticize every little thing you do. Oh, dude, bro. There
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: wasn't enough distance, not enough space. Distance should have been bigger.
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: That is why you got rejected. You said, sorry, bro.
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: That is why she didn't vibe with you. Cop after
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: cop after cop.
• 17:29
  Speaker 4: Uh, no.
• 17:29
  Speaker 7: If some guy they didn't know started taking creeper shots,
• 17:32
  Speaker 7: even if he was a Chad, they would not be
• 17:34
  Speaker 7: okay with that. well, unless they were drunk or crazy.
• 17:37
  Speaker 7: This is where you can kind of see that maybe
• 17:39
  Speaker 7: this rehab guy doesn't go out that much and talk
• 17:41
  Speaker 7: to people, because for most women, unless they're in a
• 17:43
  Speaker 7: relationship or at least dating, they have pretty strong boundaries
• 17:47
  Speaker 7: about those kinds of photos, especially if they're non-consensual. Let's
• 17:51
  Speaker 7: see more from Z.
• 17:52
  Speaker 4: Hi, sorry to bother you guys. I'm Z, I'm a
• 17:55
  Speaker 4: street photographer, and I take pictures of people.
• 17:57
  Speaker 6: And I believe you both are looking amazing for the
• 17:59
  Speaker 6: photo shoot.
• 17:59
  Speaker 4: Can I take a few pictures of yours? No, we're
• 18:01
  Speaker 4: okay for a kiss.
• 18:02
  Speaker 7: Okay, thank you.
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: The face of pure cringe. She's cringing out of her mind, man.
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: Why wasn't this clip first?
• 18:10
  Speaker 7: This is a much better clip as a viewer who
• 18:12
  Speaker 7: has seen this for the first time, because you get
• 18:14
  Speaker 7: more time to experience Z, which will be more memorable,
• 18:17
  Speaker 7: and Z sounds more confident in this, which enhances an
• 18:20
  Speaker 7: earlier point that you made. Also, from an entertainment perspective,
• 18:24
  Speaker 7: the idea would be that you start with more attractive
• 18:26
  Speaker 7: female rejections, and bridge to less attractive women rejecting him,
• 18:29
  Speaker 7: which is a more interesting progression... because it's not a
• 18:32
  Speaker 7: shock for him to get rejected by more attractive women
• 18:35
  Speaker 7: if you already showed him getting rejected by less attractive women.
• 18:38
  Speaker 7: The way you formatted this makes future moments in your
• 18:40
  Speaker 7: video less surprising to an audience. You know, if you
• 18:42
  Speaker 7: actually outlined your content before recording or scripting, you wouldn't
• 18:46
  Speaker 7: make these mistakes. Anyway, I bring skill up because this
• 18:49
  Speaker 7: is also a skill issue on Z's part. These women
• 18:52
  Speaker 7: are in sweatpants and ponytails. On the other hand, this
• 18:55
  Speaker 7: girl that Danny took a photo of is made up
• 18:58
  Speaker 7: and ready to have pictures taken of her. So, uh,
• 19:01
  Speaker 7: no shit she said yes. I'm not going to show
• 19:03
  Speaker 7: it because it's kind of mean, but Z picks a
• 19:05
  Speaker 7: lot of women who look like they just got out
• 19:07
  Speaker 7: of bed or have zero fashion sense, which means they
• 19:09
  Speaker 7: probably don't want photos taken of them or don't like
• 19:12
  Speaker 7: taking photos. This is in contrast to Danny, who almost
• 19:15
  Speaker 7: always approaches attractive women who clearly know how to present themselves.
• 19:19
  Speaker 7: He obviously knows how to get 1.6 million subscribers.
• 19:22
  Speaker 6: Danny Damien photo kind of just seems like a thirst trap,
• 19:26
  Speaker 6: if I'm being honest.
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: At least it's tasteful thirst trapping?
• 19:29
  Speaker 7: Danny is also a much better photographer than Z, and
• 19:32
  Speaker 7: that's relevant because Danny commonly opens by showing women his
• 19:35
  Speaker 7: work before they say yes.
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: My name's Danny. I do free portraits for people. I
• 19:40
  Speaker 4: make little videos.
• 19:42
  Speaker 6: I was wondering if I could.
• 19:43
  Speaker 7: Do a free portrait for you?
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: What would I need to do?
• 19:47
  Speaker 10: Here, I'll show you an example.
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: My name's Danny. I'm a street photographer. I was wondering.
• 20:04
  Speaker 7: When Z takes photos, he just sort of randomly takes
• 20:11
  Speaker 7: them without time to consider lighting or framing or what
• 20:13
  Speaker 7: the person's doing. Because of that, you get these kind
• 20:16
  Speaker 7: of family photos where people are uncomfortably standing next to
• 20:19
  Speaker 7: each other, so of course tons of women are going
• 20:21
  Speaker 7: to say no. On the other hand, Danny takes his time,
• 20:24
  Speaker 7: he makes sure to set everything up, and he gives
• 20:26
  Speaker 7: people direction when they don't know what to do.
• 20:28
  Speaker 4: I don't know how to pose. I'm not very good
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: at it. I will do all the work.
• 20:32
  Speaker 6: Okay.
• 20:33
  Speaker 10: Yeah, sure.
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: Yeah, just look up at it. Yeah, fix your hair
• 20:38
  Speaker 4: one more time.
• 20:42
  Speaker 7: Wait, was that Earthbound music in the background of that video?
• 20:45
  Speaker 7: Didn't I mention that Danny's a huge nerd? I could
• 20:47
  Speaker 7: have sworn in one of the videos I heard Sonic
• 20:49
  Speaker 7: the Hedgehog music. But of course they're going to say
• 20:51
  Speaker 7: yes when he can take pictures like this. Good pictures
• 20:54
  Speaker 7: are like a status symbol to women because good photographers
• 20:57
  Speaker 7: are hard to find, professional photography is expensive, and Danny
• 21:01
  Speaker 7: tells them that he will give them the pictures for free.
• 21:03
  Speaker 7: And I will say that there's some very important information
• 21:06
  Speaker 7: that Rehab Room did not show his audience, which was
• 21:09
  Speaker 7: a compilation of Danny getting rejected. It's not that hard
• 21:12
  Speaker 7: to find. It's one of only a handful of videos
• 21:14
  Speaker 7: that he's done that aren't shorts.
• 21:16
  Speaker 10: Excuse me.
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: Could I do a couple's photo for you two?
• 21:20
  Speaker 5: It's free.
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: I'll give it to you. I would rather not.
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: Sure, no problem.
• 21:25
  Speaker 8: I'm a photographer.
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: I do free portraits for people.
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: Thank you.
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: No, no thanks.
• 21:32
  Speaker 4: All right, okay, never mind. Excuse me.
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: This might be a little strange, but I was wondering
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: if you'd like some pictures.
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: It's free.
• 21:40
  Speaker 4: No, we're good.
• 21:41
  Speaker 9: Thank you.
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: No problem.
• 21:42
  Speaker 7: Look at their body language. Look at how disgusted those
• 21:44
  Speaker 7: women were. So doesn't that paint a much different picture?
• 21:48
  Speaker 7: that Chad Light gets rejected too. He isn't just an
• 21:51
  Speaker 7: instantly successful guy who women would let get away with anything.
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: Remember that rehab room said that, by the way.
• 21:57
  Speaker 7: Bro, even Chad gets rejected at the club a bunch
• 22:00
  Speaker 7: before a woman says yes. Sure, it's a lot easier
• 22:03
  Speaker 7: to get compliance from people when you're attractive, but it
• 22:06
  Speaker 7: doesn't mean that you get to skip all the skill building,
• 22:09
  Speaker 7: nor does it mean that skill building is worthless for
• 22:11
  Speaker 7: less attractive people. I doubt that Danny's success rate is
• 22:14
  Speaker 7: still low these days because he can just say, look
• 22:16
  Speaker 7: I'm famous, but I bet when he got started, he
• 22:19
  Speaker 7: got rejected all the time. Rejection is sales 101. Everyone
• 22:23
  Speaker 7: who does sales has to get used to it. Even
• 22:25
  Speaker 7: when he approaches and gets rejected in that video, he
• 22:28
  Speaker 7: is still super calm the whole way through, which means
• 22:31
  Speaker 7: he probably has had tons of practice of people saying
• 22:33
  Speaker 7: no to him. On the opposite side of that, in
• 22:36
  Speaker 7: most of the videos that I've seen of Z, who
• 22:38
  Speaker 7: is a beginner, he sounds anxious and uncomfortable.
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: Now, what if I told you that contrary to.
• 22:43
  Speaker 7: What rehab said, there are women who not only consent
• 22:45
  Speaker 7: to having their photo taken by Zee, but are happy
• 22:48
  Speaker 7: about it as well.
• 22:49
  Speaker 10: Z shows a lot of.
• 22:49
  Speaker 7: Rejections, but that's not every interaction.
• 22:52
  Speaker 8: There's actually a number of them where he does very well.
• 23:15
  Speaker 7: In fact, these girls seem quite happy to talk and
• 23:18
  Speaker 7: have their photo taken. Oh look, their hair is done,
• 23:21
  Speaker 7: they aren't in sweatpants, and they're wearing makeup. What a
• 23:24
  Speaker 7: coincidence that these girls would be receptive to having their
• 23:27
  Speaker 7: photo taken. I don't know what he said in this
• 23:29
  Speaker 7: video here because there's no audio to it, but it
• 23:32
  Speaker 7: looks like he's nailing this conversation. Is he a Chad
• 23:35
  Speaker 7: Light now? Last, these girls were not only receptive, but
• 23:39
  Speaker 7: they even liked the photos.
• 23:42
  Speaker 5: Oh, he's a good photographer.
• 23:44
  Speaker 7: I'm not going to show the photos because I don't
• 23:46
  Speaker 7: think they were good. Z still needs to practice, and
• 23:48
  Speaker 7: I don't know who that other guy was, but who
• 23:50
  Speaker 7: am I to contradict customers who look happy? Now, if
• 23:53
  Speaker 7: you're going to make sweeping generalizations about people, then don't
• 23:57
  Speaker 7: you think for transparency's sake, it looks kind of bad
• 24:00
  Speaker 7: when you only show Z's failures while also only showing
• 24:03
  Speaker 7: Danny's successes? Danny has failed a lot, he just doesn't
• 24:06
  Speaker 7: show it as often. Here's a comment from an older
• 24:09
  Speaker 7: viewer saying that Danny is very awkward when he approaches
• 24:11
  Speaker 7: people from somewhere around a year and a half ago.
• 24:14
  Speaker 7: It looks like Danny ended up leaning into that, which
• 24:17
  Speaker 7: gives him an awkward confidence that is socially desirable.
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: I'm like the most awkward person ever.
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: Well, you met the second most awkward person. All right,
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: let's go. I think you're a nervous person like me, huh?
• 24:29
  Speaker 8: Oh, yeah.
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: I'm like a little bit.
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry.
• 24:31
  Speaker 7: The other problem with this whole situation is I don't
• 24:34
  Speaker 7: entirely think that Danny is someone who Rehab Room would
• 24:37
  Speaker 7: describe as a Chad Light. Rehab is one of those
• 24:39
  Speaker 7: people who thinks that your life is basically over and
• 24:42
  Speaker 7: a woman will never love you if you're under six
• 24:44
  Speaker 7: foot tall, and Danny is 5'8, which is shorter than average.
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: What's our heights?
• 24:50
  Speaker 9: 5'8.
• 24:51
  Speaker 7: No, he's not dating that girl in the video. It's
• 24:54
  Speaker 7: a long rabbit hole. Here's her real boyfriend. Don't waste
• 24:56
  Speaker 7: your time.
• 24:57
  Speaker 4: You're welcome.
• 24:58
  Speaker 7: But I'm old enough to remember that time that rehab
• 25:00
  Speaker 7: rooms said that you're a manlet if you're 5'8 or below.
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: You're a manlet, only 5'8.
• 25:06
  Speaker 7: This is what I mean with the whole red pill, manosphere, MGTOW,
• 25:09
  Speaker 7: black pill stuff. It's all poorly researched, which is why
• 25:12
  Speaker 7: they frequently come to bad or the wrong conclusions. Their
• 25:15
  Speaker 7: analyses are also often based on a single variable or factor.
• 25:19
  Speaker 7: It's usually things suck because women are bad, and they
• 25:22
  Speaker 7: very seldom listen to the other side's reasoning for why
• 25:25
  Speaker 7: they behave like they do. It's a major reason why
• 25:28
  Speaker 7: I distanced myself from those communities. In the Blackpills case,
• 25:31
  Speaker 7: this is particularly offensive because their entire moral argument is
• 25:35
  Speaker 7: telling people to give up because they weren't born with
• 25:37
  Speaker 7: the right genetics. They straight up tell people that nothing
• 25:40
  Speaker 7: matters except for how you were born, and they have
• 25:42
  Speaker 7: mantras like, never get up, which tells people to not
• 25:45
  Speaker 7: try to change what they can. Don't go to the gym,
• 25:48
  Speaker 7: don't work on your appearance, don't try to get a
• 25:50
  Speaker 7: good job, don't work on your social skills. I mean,
• 25:53
  Speaker 7: you're taking a bunch of depressed people telling them that
• 25:56
  Speaker 7: everything is doomed, and following that with don't try to
• 25:58
  Speaker 7: improve your life. This is legitimately suicide fuel, and it's
• 26:02
  Speaker 7: why I decided to make this video. Because oftentimes I
• 26:05
  Speaker 7: see guys like this 35-year-old virgin who's a little down
• 26:08
  Speaker 7: on his luck, but I've seen enough of his content
• 26:10
  Speaker 7: to know that he looks fine, and if he just
• 26:12
  Speaker 7: lost weight, socialized more, and stopped being a pushover, he
• 26:15
  Speaker 7: would have no problem getting a girlfriend.
• 26:17
  Speaker 10: The darkest thing that, in my opinion... The black pill
• 26:21
  Speaker 10: is done, okay? The worst thing that is done, that, like,
• 26:23
  Speaker 10: insult culture has done is convince average men that it's over.
• 26:26
  Speaker 10: It's such a dark thing. Because, like, average to ugly
• 26:29
  Speaker 10: men have, like, run the world for the past, like, 3,000 years.
• 26:33
  Speaker 10: The rulers of countries, of civilizations, the greatest artists, thinkers,
• 26:36
  Speaker 10: thought leaders in the world have been, like, 5'8, kind of, quote-unquote,
• 26:41
  Speaker 10: fugly guys. It's never really mattered. But there are people
• 26:44
  Speaker 10: that would have you think that if you're under 6',
• 26:45
  Speaker 10: you're totally fucked. and can never breed, and no woman
• 26:48
  Speaker 10: will ever be capable of loving you. Like, I don't,
• 26:51
  Speaker 10: it's like insane.
• 26:52
  Speaker 7: As for King Nobody, outside of the weight, it seems
• 26:55
  Speaker 7: like most of his problem is that he's socially awkward,
• 26:57
  Speaker 7: but you can fix that. I've also watched enough of
• 27:00
  Speaker 7: his content to know that he was a former alcoholic.
• 27:02
  Speaker 7: Imagine where he would be if he had gotten into
• 27:04
  Speaker 7: the black pill. He'd still be drunk every day, or worse.
• 27:08
  Speaker 7: And who knows, maybe he was black-pilled and finally woke
• 27:11
  Speaker 7: up in his 30s. but how many years of his
• 27:13
  Speaker 7: life did that waste? So there are plenty of guys
• 27:15
  Speaker 7: out there who are perfectly fine like King Nobody, or
• 27:18
  Speaker 7: there are guys that are on their glow-up arc who
• 27:21
  Speaker 7: angry black pillars are trying to poison into giving up.
• 27:23
  Speaker 7: What's this commenter's problem? This guy is going to do
• 27:26
  Speaker 7: just fine finding a relationship, and during the video, he
• 27:29
  Speaker 7: talks about going on dates with women who like him. Sure,
• 27:32
  Speaker 7: he's really awkward in front of the camera, but he
• 27:34
  Speaker 7: can fix 90% of that problem by just sitting down
• 27:38
  Speaker 7: or by learning how to properly frame a shot. Now,
• 27:40
  Speaker 7: of course, there are people who are further back than
• 27:42
  Speaker 7: others or way further back, but telling them to give
• 27:45
  Speaker 7: up instead of figuring out how to make do with
• 27:47
  Speaker 7: what they have will only make them more miserable, which
• 27:50
  Speaker 7: will make their lives worse and push them towards ending it.
• 27:53
  Speaker 7: You may have not been born under the best circumstances,
• 27:56
  Speaker 7: but you can always work with those circumstances to create a.
• 27:58
  Speaker 4: Life that you're happy with.
• 28:00
  Speaker 7: Going back to the video clips of Danny, it's not
• 28:02
  Speaker 7: just him saying that he's short. You can see that
• 28:05
  Speaker 7: he's the same height as Destiny as he stands next
• 28:07
  Speaker 7: to other people.
• 28:08
  Speaker 4: Could I ask you something?
• 28:10
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 28:11
  Speaker 4: Which of these two photographers do you think is better?
• 28:14
  Speaker 6: One guy, tall, handsome, obviously very fit. This other guy,
• 28:20
  Speaker 6: other than like, I guess a good jawline, he looks
• 28:24
  Speaker 6: kind of nerdy, kind of shrimpy.
• 28:28
  Speaker 7: With that in mind, let's watch this next clip that
• 28:30
  Speaker 7: Rehab responded to. thanks lighting equipment yeah you are super.
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: Cute oh thank you we're gonna we're gonna kidnap you
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: for drinks yeah they are.
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: Gonna kidnap him for drinks guys when did that ever
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: happen to you or to even average guy not only
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: you but for the oofy doofy as well like oofy
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: doofies are going to japan to pay 500, 600, just
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: to have a chance to have a drink with them.
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: That is the difference. And these two chicks here are
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: sold ETF. Sold ETF. Both of them. He could have
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: hit them both at the same time.
• 29:13
  Speaker 7: So this is missing some context from yet another thing
• 29:15
  Speaker 7: that would be easy to research. If you see any
• 29:18
  Speaker 7: of Danny's videos on camera, which I imagine Rehab Room
• 29:21
  Speaker 7: would have looked up because he's rating Danny's appearance. then
• 29:24
  Speaker 7: it is very apparent that he is very feminine. I
• 29:27
  Speaker 7: was actually shocked to hear that he wasn't gay because
• 29:29
  Speaker 7: I instantly thought that the second I saw him, and
• 29:32
  Speaker 7: I had to watch hours of content to find out
• 29:34
  Speaker 7: that he wasn't. So when you see these women saying,'
• 29:36
  Speaker 7: You' re so cute, we're gonna steal you away for some drinks,'
• 29:40
  Speaker 7: as they hug a stranger despite living in what looks
• 29:42
  Speaker 7: like a city, it is likely that they're doing that
• 29:45
  Speaker 7: and are open to him not because they're attracted to him,
• 29:48
  Speaker 7: but because they think he's gay and not a threat.
• 29:50
  Speaker 7: And also he just gave that girl a bunch of
• 29:52
  Speaker 7: free professional quality photos, which can be expensive.
• 29:56
  Speaker 4: I'm not saying that this is the reason, but it's frustrating.
• 29:59
  Speaker 7: To watch video after video from Rehab Room where there's
• 30:01
  Speaker 7: only one answer to every question.
• 30:04
  Speaker 4: Everything is about appearance. Women don't like you?
• 30:06
  Speaker 7: Well, it's because you're a sub-five male.
• 30:09
  Speaker 4: You suck at PlayStation?
• 30:11
  Speaker 7: That's because adults didn't give you enough positive reinforcement as
• 30:13
  Speaker 7: a kid because you were too ugly. Rehab Room is
• 30:16
  Speaker 7: very much a one-trick pony, and this is very lazy
• 30:20
  Speaker 7: analysis of a problem. But despite Danny's shortcomings, despite being awkward,
• 30:24
  Speaker 7: despite being below average in height... He still makes it work,
• 30:27
  Speaker 7: and as far as I can see, it works very well.
• 30:30
  Speaker 7: This guy has no difficulty getting some very attractive women
• 30:33
  Speaker 7: to pay attention to him. But just in case you
• 30:35
  Speaker 7: still don't think that social skills are important, here's a
• 30:38
  Speaker 7: guy impressing women that I'm sure that rehab room would
• 30:41
  Speaker 7: say is not attractive, nor is he tall, as he's
• 30:43
  Speaker 7: almost the same height as Emiru, who is 5'3.
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 30:50
  Speaker 8: A little bit closer, like right here.
• 30:51
  Speaker 6: Oh my, yes.
• 30:52
  Speaker 4: As you can see, this is a Sharpie. So like
• 30:55
  Speaker 4: I said, this is a Sharpie.
• 30:57
  Speaker 8: And Sharpies don't tend to erase that well when you
• 30:59
  Speaker 8: draw something on your hand. But regardless, I'm going to
• 31:02
  Speaker 8: draw a little heart mark.
• 31:04
  Speaker 7: Just like this.
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: Cute.
• 31:06
  Speaker 8: Now like I said, although Sharpies don't erase well, they
• 31:09
  Speaker 8: can actually transfer. So I can just get rid of
• 31:13
  Speaker 8: it just like that. And now it's actually inside my hand.
• 31:17
  Speaker 8: But if I flick it, Right inside yours. You can
• 31:21
  Speaker 8: slowly feel the heart being drawn.
• 31:23
  Speaker 6: What?
• 31:24
  Speaker 4: Flip it over.
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: What?
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: What?
• 31:34
  Speaker 7: What?
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: Wait, that was so cool.
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: What?
• 31:37
  Speaker 4: That was really amazing.
• 31:39
  Speaker 5: Wow.
• 31:39
  Speaker 4: How did he do that?
• 31:41
  Speaker 7: How was he able to impress him despite not being
• 31:43
  Speaker 7: an 8 out of 10? After watching Rehab's videos, I
• 31:46
  Speaker 7: would have thought that Emiru would have called the police
• 31:48
  Speaker 7: on him just for being in the same room because
• 31:50
  Speaker 7: he's not a Chad. I'll wait for one of the
• 31:52
  Speaker 7: five counterarguments that Black Pillars seem to exclusively use.
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: Giving DBDR solid, good, genuine advice is as effective as
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: trying to teach your dog to speak English. It'll usually
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: just result with him thinking you're either A. A gaslighting
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: normie B. Coping C. Someone who hasn't watched enough of
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: his videos and wouldn't understand D, a boomer who doesn't
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: understand current times. Or E, a Chad Stacey that could
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: never understand.
• 32:20
  Speaker 7: This guy did his research. This is basically every black
• 32:23
  Speaker 7: pillar that I've seen respond to criticism. They love to
• 32:26
  Speaker 7: dismiss alternative opinions with non-arguments. They love to say things like,
• 32:30
  Speaker 7: you're too old to understand the dating market. Things have changed.
• 32:33
  Speaker 7: This is despite the pure irony of them trying to
• 32:36
  Speaker 7: explain complex relationship issues without ever having been in a relationship.
• 32:40
  Speaker 7: So I'll wait as they cry anecdote on the magician
• 32:43
  Speaker 7: guy despite the fact that the vast majority of evidence
• 32:45
  Speaker 7: they use for their points is anecdotes, while at the
• 32:48
  Speaker 7: same time the non-anecdotal research they use tends to be
• 32:51
  Speaker 7: very bad proof of their points. Moving on, I find
• 32:54
  Speaker 7: it so ironic that Rehab Room considers himself well-researched when
• 32:58
  Speaker 7: he constantly uses a univariate analysis to describe every problem
• 33:01
  Speaker 7: in life. It's actually annoying to watch as a viewer
• 33:04
  Speaker 7: while he basically makes the exact same video over and
• 33:07
  Speaker 7: over again with the same conclusion every single time. And
• 33:11
  Speaker 7: he also uses the same five clips of David Goggins
• 33:13
  Speaker 7: or cringe PUA's in every video. There is straight up
• 33:16
  Speaker 7: no variation in his content. I had to have watched
• 33:19
  Speaker 7: around 30 videos that were all the same. Here's a
• 33:22
  Speaker 7: person in my story. Is he attractive?
• 33:25
  Speaker 5: No?
• 33:25
  Speaker 7: Well, then his life sucks and nothing will ever get better.
• 33:28
  Speaker 7: Here's a different person who is attractive. His life is
• 33:31
  Speaker 7: on easy mode, I'm jealous, and I want him to suffer.
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: The other day I was at a sneaker store. And
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: the kid working there, you know, the sales associate guy,
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: was some 8 out of 10 pretty boy. Like a
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: legit good blend of neotenous features and masculine features. Compact midface,
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: youthful baby face, but also a good jawline. Good hair,
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: you know, good eye area and stuff. And just from
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: the way he was smiling when he was talking to me,
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: just from his manners, I could tell. I could tell
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: that he was genuinely happy about his life. It wasn't
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: a fake expression that he puts on for customers. He
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: probably got some action that morning, only a few hours ago.
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: You know, I can't tell. I couldn't help but feel
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: an immense sense of jealousy right there and then. I
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: wanted to be like, dude, wipe that smile off your face.
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: You're annoying. But of course, you can't say that. Manners
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: don't allow that. Bro, I don't like people that are
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: too happy and positive.
• 34:29
  Speaker 7: That sat on his part and also kind of sociopathic.
• 34:32
  Speaker 7: But going back to standards of proof for their arguments,
• 34:35
  Speaker 7: Rehab Room's content is full of research blunders, including using
• 34:38
  Speaker 7: the same study multiple times to come to the wrong conclusion.
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: It is a statistical fact that most women consider 80-90%
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: of men to be below average in looks. So there
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: is a little difference if you are a 5 or
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: a 6. Expandable.
• 34:54
  Speaker 4: I told you these people always have to use that
• 34:56
  Speaker 4: OkCupid study. But really? Statistical fact?
• 34:59
  Speaker 7: He's going to make a strong claim like that from
• 35:01
  Speaker 7: a study that was missing basic crucial information like how
• 35:04
  Speaker 7: many people were in it? I don't know where this
• 35:06
  Speaker 7: claim on the right comes from or this middle graph
• 35:09
  Speaker 7: because he doesn't cite the sources for them as far
• 35:10
  Speaker 7: as I can tell, but let's pretend the numbers are
• 35:13
  Speaker 7: real despite not being able to verify them. Do you
• 35:16
  Speaker 7: notice anything? Women don't really give much of a response
• 35:19
  Speaker 7: to anyone. Even the top guys only got about as
• 35:21
  Speaker 7: much attention as the bottom 20-30% of women. To explain that,
• 35:25
  Speaker 7: for one, you have to rule out all the coomers
• 35:27
  Speaker 7: that message women on these apps asking for nudes, which
• 35:30
  Speaker 7: is not an insignificant number. Obviously, women aren't going to
• 35:33
  Speaker 7: respond to those. Second, men are the pursuers of their relationship,
• 35:37
  Speaker 7: so of course they're going to show more interest in women.
• 35:39
  Speaker 7: That's men's job. Women aren't supposed to approach men, they
• 35:42
  Speaker 7: are supposed to be approached, so they're only going to
• 35:44
  Speaker 7: do that for guys if they are above their level.
• 35:47
  Speaker 4: Third, how were these numbers obtained?
• 35:49
  Speaker 7: What were the population sizes of the male and female
• 35:52
  Speaker 7: groups in the study? Did they check how many profiles
• 35:54
  Speaker 7: the men swipe through versus how many profiles the women
• 35:57
  Speaker 7: swipe through? Did they rule out female bots or profiles
• 36:00
  Speaker 7: that are used to promote OnlyFans? Did they account for
• 36:02
  Speaker 7: the fact that way more men use these apps than women,
• 36:05
  Speaker 7: so of course they're going to get less attention and
• 36:07
  Speaker 7: less likes? So I don't think this chart is evidence
• 36:10
  Speaker 7: that a 3 out of 10 guy would not get
• 36:12
  Speaker 7: attention from a 3 out of 10 girl if he
• 36:14
  Speaker 7: asked her out in person, which, by the way, is
• 36:16
  Speaker 7: an area where he's not competing with two other guys,
• 36:18
  Speaker 7: if not more, because a lot of the female accounts
• 36:21
  Speaker 7: are bots. Have you ever tried going outside before and
• 36:24
  Speaker 7: asking a woman out in person like a man?
• 36:26
  Speaker 4: Grow a pair. So, uh, welcome to research. You can't
• 36:29
  Speaker 4: just look at the numbers.
• 36:31
  Speaker 7: You have to critically think about how those numbers were
• 36:33
  Speaker 7: obtained and what might be the reasoning for them. But
• 36:36
  Speaker 7: as I've shown in this video, this is not an
• 36:38
  Speaker 7: isolated incident. Rehab Room pretty frequently makes wild claims based
• 36:42
  Speaker 7: on studies he clearly hasn't criticized or tried to break.
• 36:44
  Speaker 7: I've already gone over a couple of them in this video,
• 36:46
  Speaker 7: so I'll just give one more example here because this
• 36:49
  Speaker 7: one led to the most ridiculous conclusion that I saw
• 36:51
  Speaker 7: him make. And not to say that I've gone through
• 36:53
  Speaker 7: every study that Rehab has posted, but the ones I
• 36:56
  Speaker 7: have were just garbage proof of what point he was
• 36:58
  Speaker 7: trying to make, and he makes a ton of assumptions.
• 37:01
  Speaker 7: I mentioned before that Black Pillars believe that everything is
• 37:03
  Speaker 7: genetic and luck-based, and here's Rehab flat out saying that
• 37:06
  Speaker 7: everything is luck.
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: Luck is everything. That's why I like Harvey Dent's character.
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: He has that famous line, this life is cruel. In
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: a cruel world like this, the only morality is luck.
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: It really is. The only morality of this world we
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: live in is luck. Pure, sheer, blind luck. What matters
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: in life, what truly matters, you cannot change. And what
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: you can change doesn't matter all that much. Your entire
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: life was determined the moment you were born.
• 37:34
  Speaker 7: Like I said, these are the same things that woke
• 37:37
  Speaker 7: people believe. You can't ever succeed because you were born
• 37:40
  Speaker 7: black in the wrong part of town. Same shit, different day.
• 37:43
  Speaker 7: How demoralizing. Why would anyone ever fix themselves after hearing this? Anyway,
• 37:48
  Speaker 7: Rehab believes so much that everything is luck that he
• 37:51
  Speaker 7: makes this argument.
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: Even hard work is genetic. That is what a lot
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: of people are missing.
• 37:57
  Speaker 7: Holy shit, I cannot believe he just said that. What
• 38:00
  Speaker 7: isn't genetic to these people? Are they going to say
• 38:02
  Speaker 7: that accents are genetic now? Because I know they love
• 38:05
  Speaker 7: to complain about how they can't get a girl because
• 38:06
  Speaker 7: they talk like a foreigner. So if you're going to
• 38:09
  Speaker 7: say that hard work is genetic, then you better have
• 38:11
  Speaker 7: some very strong proof. Because this sounds like obese people
• 38:14
  Speaker 7: blaming their genetics because they don't understand how calories in
• 38:17
  Speaker 7: versus calories out works.
• 38:19
  Speaker 4: I can't work hard. I have the wrong genes.
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: In the past, you know, laziness has already been linked
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: to some genetic factors, but there is actually a more
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: comprehensive study made about this in 2021, using and comparing 2,000
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: Japanese-to-ing subjects.
• 38:34
  Speaker 7: Now, I have watched a lot of videos from Rehab Room,
• 38:37
  Speaker 7: but I've yet to see him mention what he does
• 38:39
  Speaker 7: for a living or what his field of study was
• 38:41
  Speaker 7: in school. But I will say that you better have
• 38:44
  Speaker 7: a background in genetics and psychology if you're going to
• 38:47
  Speaker 7: accurately fact-check this study to the extent that you can
• 38:49
  Speaker 7: make the strong claim that you made. Though considering how
• 38:52
  Speaker 7: bad he's been with all the other research, I seriously
• 38:54
  Speaker 7: doubt it. But whether he does or not, surely he
• 38:57
  Speaker 7: wouldn't quote directly from the abstract multiple times.
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: Without boring you guys with the details, I will just
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: share the important lines from that study. I quote... Univariate
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: genetic analysis revealed that individual differences in conscientiousness measures were
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: moderately attributable to additive genetic factors, to an extent from
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: 62 to 64%. We obtained no evidence that shared environmental
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: influences were observed. Multivariate genetic analysis showed that for the
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: four measures used to assess conscientiousness, genetic correlations were stronger
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: than the corresponding number. environmental correlations.
• 39:32
  Speaker 7: Great, so we have Noah Sampson levels of research here.
• 39:35
  Speaker 7: The abstract is just a summary of the important findings.
• 39:38
  Speaker 7: It's not the study. Anyone who says, I read a study,
• 39:42
  Speaker 7: and quotes directly off the abstract, should be laughed at.
• 39:45
  Speaker 7: So many YouTubers do this to pretend they know how
• 39:47
  Speaker 7: to read research, when in reality, the study is in
• 39:49
  Speaker 7: the methodology and the results sections, not the abstract. Now
• 39:53
  Speaker 7: surely the remaining material that he uses isn't just him
• 39:56
  Speaker 7: parodying exact quotes that come directly from the discussion section,
• 39:59
  Speaker 7: is it?
• 40:00
  Speaker 4: Oh wait, he does do that.
• 40:02
  Speaker 7: Seriously, I'm not even a scientist and I have to
• 40:04
  Speaker 7: go around teaching everyone research methodology, which means all these
• 40:08
  Speaker 7: YouTubers are failing at this at a beginner level. Rehab,
• 40:12
  Speaker 7: you're supposed to be the expert here, which means your
• 40:14
  Speaker 7: discussion of the study to your audience should include your
• 40:17
  Speaker 7: thoughts on how the terms were defined, their methodology, and the.
• 40:20
  Speaker 4: Results they got.
• 40:21
  Speaker 7: The discussion section is their interpretation of the results, which
• 40:24
  Speaker 7: should be read, but if you have not received adequate
• 40:27
  Speaker 7: training in that field to give your interpretation of how
• 40:29
  Speaker 7: they collected that data, then you should not be using
• 40:32
  Speaker 7: this study as proof of your argument. Researchers make mistakes constantly,
• 40:36
  Speaker 7: and their methods and results should not be trusted blindly.
• 40:39
  Speaker 4: Not to mention, the biggest.
• 40:41
  Speaker 7: Eye roll here is that after Rehab Room reads out
• 40:44
  Speaker 7: direct quotes from the study without translating any of it
• 40:47
  Speaker 7: into common language, he calls his audience stupid. Is there
• 40:50
  Speaker 7: any self-awareness here? You essentially spend the remainder of that
• 40:54
  Speaker 7: video after the study saying that many of your viewers
• 40:57
  Speaker 7: are too stupid to reap the benefits of hard work,
• 41:00
  Speaker 7: and yet you think they know what a genetic intercorrelation is,
• 41:03
  Speaker 7: or a polygenetic factor, or even what the word conscientious means?
• 41:08
  Speaker 7: I really think the reason that he didn't elaborate more
• 41:10
  Speaker 7: on this study is because he didn't actually understand it either.
• 41:14
  Speaker 7: But what a shock! An internet researcher doing bad research! Okay, now,
• 41:19
  Speaker 7: full disclosure, I am not a trained geneticist, so I'm
• 41:21
  Speaker 7: not going to be able to fact-check absolutely everything in
• 41:24
  Speaker 7: this study. However, I do know a bit about psychology
• 41:27
  Speaker 7: and biology, so I have a few comments. First and foremost,
• 41:30
  Speaker 7: this study was an online survey, like it was just
• 41:33
  Speaker 7: a questionnaire of mothers of identical and fraternal twins, followed
• 41:37
  Speaker 7: by a personality test. When I watched this video from rehab,
• 41:40
  Speaker 7: I thought they were full-on taking DNA samples of genes
• 41:43
  Speaker 7: that they had already linked to the ability to work hard,
• 41:45
  Speaker 7: and seeing if they could predictably link them to test
• 41:47
  Speaker 7: subjects who were hard workers. That's a way that you
• 41:50
  Speaker 7: might be able to obtain strong evidence here. But in reality,
• 41:53
  Speaker 7: all they did was say, Hey, are you a mother
• 41:55
  Speaker 7: of twins?
• 41:56
  Speaker 4: Yes?
• 41:57
  Speaker 7: Okay, we'll take this online survey and we'll give you
• 41:59
  Speaker 7: some shopping money. This was all self-reported data, obtained in
• 42:03
  Speaker 7: the financially cheapest way possible. The ironic part of this
• 42:06
  Speaker 7: is that Rehab Room almost constantly tells his audience to
• 42:09
  Speaker 7: not trust self-reported data, particularly from women.
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: You see women do it all the time. They say, oh,
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: I just like how funny he is. He just happens
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: to be 6'4. Women state that say that it is
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: the kindness they find most attractive in men. Like, you
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: be the judge whether it is the truth.
• 42:27
  Speaker 7: Hey, I recognize that study. It's the one with the
• 42:29
  Speaker 7: huge population size from the Noah Sampson video. Though this
• 42:32
  Speaker 7: looks like yet another study that Rehab Room didn't actually
• 42:35
  Speaker 7: take the time to read, because he definitely would have
• 42:38
  Speaker 7: used data from it that shows women saying they prefer
• 42:40
  Speaker 7: an attractive face over an attractive body, because that fits
• 42:43
  Speaker 7: his confirmation bias. So you're welcome for that. More interesting,
• 42:46
  Speaker 7: let's look at the section about height. It says that
• 42:49
  Speaker 7: about 10% of women said they didn't care about height,
• 42:52
  Speaker 7: 80% said the guy only had to be taller than them,
• 42:54
  Speaker 7: And only 10% of women said he had to be
• 42:56
  Speaker 7: much taller. So it's not over for every guy who's
• 42:58
  Speaker 7: not 6'10. All you have to do is be taller,
• 43:01
  Speaker 7: so go find a woman who is shorter than you.
• 43:03
  Speaker 7: It should be easy because women are like 4 inches
• 43:05
  Speaker 7: shorter than men on average. But find that woman in
• 43:08
  Speaker 7: real life. Back to the hard work study. Like I said,
• 43:11
  Speaker 7: it was just an online survey where they ran a
• 43:13
  Speaker 7: couple of questionnaires and did some predictive math as far
• 43:16
  Speaker 7: as I can understand. Which begs the question of, how
• 43:19
  Speaker 7: in the hell were they able to gauge the importance
• 43:21
  Speaker 7: of environmental factors? The best they can do is measure
• 43:24
  Speaker 7: common experiences like, do you play sports? But it's not
• 43:27
  Speaker 7: like they're going to little Timmy's soccer practice, wait, they're Japanese.
• 43:31
  Speaker 7: It's not like they're going to little Daisuke's soccer practice
• 43:33
  Speaker 7: and seeing how the coach interacts with the players, or
• 43:35
  Speaker 7: what the team dynamic is, so their ability to truly
• 43:38
  Speaker 7: measure environmental factors here is almost non-existent. Even with that
• 43:42
  Speaker 7: in mind, they still didn't say it was a guarantee
• 43:45
  Speaker 7: that it was genetic and you're screwed if you don't
• 43:47
  Speaker 7: have the right genes. Now, I don't know how to
• 43:49
  Speaker 7: calculate these numbers, so I'm going to give Rehab Room
• 43:52
  Speaker 7: heavy amounts of charitability and assume they're all correct. Even
• 43:55
  Speaker 7: if they are right, it's still not a guarantee, which
• 43:58
  Speaker 7: I point out because Rehab Room not only put up
• 44:00
  Speaker 7: a graphic saying it's genetic, he also said it several
• 44:03
  Speaker 7: times during the video.
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: This is a brutal BP, guys. Even hard work. is genetic. Guys,
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: the more we learn about human anatomy and genetics, the
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: more understanding we have. It turns out that hard work
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: is also genetic. If you are not hardworking, that is fine.
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: Don't blame yourself. Because guess what? Even hard work is genetic.
• 44:24
  Speaker 7: I will caveat and say that he does spend about
• 44:26
  Speaker 7: half a second at the beginning saying that this is
• 44:28
  Speaker 7: not a but he insists that hard work is genetic
• 44:34
  Speaker 7: so many times that nobody in the audience is going
• 44:36
  Speaker 7: to remember that he initially introduced doubt. I didn't until
• 44:39
  Speaker 7: I had watched the video multiple times. It doesn't matter
• 44:42
  Speaker 7: if you give the disclaimer of, there's doubt in this,
• 44:45
  Speaker 7: if you just end up saying there's no doubt in
• 44:47
  Speaker 7: it a bunch of times later in the video. Last
• 44:49
  Speaker 7: but not least, I do happen to know that psychological
• 44:52
  Speaker 7: traits that are measured by the big five aspects test
• 44:54
  Speaker 7: like conscientiousness can change with age. By the way, just
• 44:58
  Speaker 7: for familiarity, the Big Five Aspects test is that survey
• 45:01
  Speaker 7: that Jordan Peterson promotes all the time. Maybe this will
• 45:04
  Speaker 7: help some people stay on the same page here, but
• 45:06
  Speaker 7: more importantly, the researchers note that conscientiousness, as in the
• 45:10
  Speaker 7: trait that rehab room was relating to hard work, can
• 45:12
  Speaker 7: change with age. It's right there in the study rehab. Seriously,
• 45:17
  Speaker 7: how does this happen every time? We have Ludwig, Noah Sampson, EthanIsOnline, Illimation,
• 45:23
  Speaker 7: and now Rehab Room, making mistakes that are easy to
• 45:25
  Speaker 7: not make if they just read the shit they were citing.
• 45:28
  Speaker 7: You don't even have to think or have a background
• 45:30
  Speaker 7: in the field, they just tell you. They also tell
• 45:33
  Speaker 7: you multiple times in the study that these things are
• 45:35
  Speaker 7: just related and they're not a guarantee. And when you
• 45:38
  Speaker 7: say over and over again that hard work is genetic,
• 45:41
  Speaker 7: when the study doesn't say that, it makes you look stupid.
• 45:44
  Speaker 7: That's why you should have a more reserved opinion when
• 45:46
  Speaker 7: you cover this stuff, so you don't unintentionally mislead your audience.
• 45:49
  Speaker 7: So we have a study that says there are strong
• 45:51
  Speaker 7: genetic correlations to conscientiousness, or what Rehab Room defines as
• 45:55
  Speaker 7: hard work, but the study barely does anything to determine
• 45:58
  Speaker 7: if environmental factors were what was actually affecting levels of conscientiousness,
• 46:02
  Speaker 7: probably because doing so would be prohibitively expensive or impossible
• 46:06
  Speaker 7: to study. And for the most part, this is why
• 46:09
  Speaker 7: I hate these kinds of studies in the biological sciences.
• 46:12
  Speaker 7: They are dogshit, and yet people keep doing them. They
• 46:15
  Speaker 7: keep taking complex factors that we have nowhere near the
• 46:17
  Speaker 7: technology to investigate, and try to break them down into
• 46:20
  Speaker 7: something that's cheap and easy to study, but has a
• 46:22
  Speaker 7: very large possibility of being inaccurate. I know this is
• 46:26
  Speaker 7: how drugs are made, but drugs fail or don't do
• 46:28
  Speaker 7: what they're supposed to all the time, and more importantly,
• 46:31
  Speaker 7: drugs go through clinical trials before there's any policy recommendation,
• 46:35
  Speaker 7: whereas plenty of influencers will say the most wild shit
• 46:38
  Speaker 7: based on a random study that says something like,' Material
• 46:41
  Speaker 7: A increases Material B, therefore Material A makes you live longer.'
• 46:45
  Speaker 7: ignoring the fact that there are like 20 other materials
• 46:48
  Speaker 7: or factors that affect material B as well as affect longevity.
• 46:52
  Speaker 7: Nutrition scientists do this shit constantly and it is very frustrating.
• 46:56
  Speaker 7: It's so frustrating that I'm going to show a coffee
• 46:58
  Speaker 7: enthusiast explaining why this kind of science is mostly dumb.
• 47:01
  Speaker 11: So someone made a video saying skip coffee because it
• 47:06
  Speaker 11: will cause you to spike your cortisol and therefore put
• 47:09
  Speaker 11: on body fat. And he makes the point that that
• 47:13
  Speaker 11: first part is true, coffee spikes cortisol, but if you
• 47:17
  Speaker 11: actually look at the randomized control trials, that isn't what
• 47:21
  Speaker 11: you see.
• 47:22
  Speaker 3: If we take people and we have them take caffeine
• 47:24
  Speaker 3: or drink coffee and all other things are equal, do
• 47:27
  Speaker 3: they gain body fat? No, they do not. In fact,
• 47:31
  Speaker 3: sometimes the opposite happens.
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  Speaker 11: And his argument is, what you've got here is a
• 47:35
  Speaker 11: single mechanism.
• 47:36
  Speaker 3: You find a mechanism, a specific hormone, and you say, ooh,
• 47:40
  Speaker 3: this raises that hormone. That means you're going to get
• 47:43
  Speaker 3: this downstream effect. Outcomes are not just a single mechanism. Usually,
• 47:47
  Speaker 3: whole body outcomes are the accumulation of hundreds, if not
• 47:51
  Speaker 3: thousands of mechanisms all occurring at the same time.
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: It actually results in an outcome.
• 47:56
  Speaker 11: And so you can't just pull one mechanism and expect
• 47:59
  Speaker 11: it to sort of directly produce a certain outcome in
• 48:04
  Speaker 11: the world of biology.
• 48:05
  Speaker 4: It's actually even worse than that. Here's part two.
• 48:08
  Speaker 11: The thing about mechanisms is you can just totally cherry
• 48:11
  Speaker 11: pick them.
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  Speaker 1: I'll give an example.
• 48:12
  Speaker 11: Adenosine, mentioned earlier on, well, genuinely, it increases hair growth
• 48:17
  Speaker 11: and hair thickness. And so if coffee does cause you
• 48:20
  Speaker 11: to have higher levels of adenosine in the blood, then
• 48:24
  Speaker 11: drinking coffee should give you a fuller, thicker head of hair.
• 48:29
  Speaker 11: Clearly ridiculous.
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: Or is it?
• 48:32
  Speaker 11: The message of this whole video is be skeptical of
• 48:36
  Speaker 11: simple mechanisms impacting complex kind of outcomes.
• 48:40
  Speaker 7: So with all that said, I really just don't like
• 48:42
  Speaker 7: how demoralizing black pill creators are. I very much think
• 48:46
  Speaker 7: they're taking a bunch of average people who have low
• 48:48
  Speaker 7: self-esteem but actually aren't that bad and making their self-esteem
• 48:52
  Speaker 7: far worse by telling them that most women hyper-focus on
• 48:55
  Speaker 7: things that they don't actually hyper-focus on. Sure, appearance is important,
• 48:59
  Speaker 7: but rehab will have you thinking that if you're not
• 49:00
  Speaker 7: a Chad, then you should just give up because your
• 49:02
  Speaker 7: life is over.
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: How do you see this facial expression, this cringing out
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: of my mind face being given to you? And you
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: can still keep doing this. Bro, just sit on your
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: behind and play some video games. That is what you
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: gotta do. That would be a lot more productive. And
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: look at his bio. Oh, life is all about cringing.
• 49:21
  Speaker 10: No, brother.
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: You have been sold a lie. Life is all about looks.
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: Ain't about creativity. Which you had to find out the
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: hard way. He isn't the rat. He would be better
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: off if he spent that time looking at a wall.
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: Looking at a brick wall. He would have saved himself
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: a lot of rejections at least. So guys, this is
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: what I am talking about. How much longer can you
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: keep doing this? This is truly soul crushing, man. I
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: don't know how you can keep doing this.
• 49:47
  Speaker 7: Jeez, this guy Rehab is such a wuss. Z gets
• 49:50
  Speaker 7: a little pushback and Rehab Room is like, it's over,
• 49:53
  Speaker 7: give up. Give up on your social hobby and switch
• 49:56
  Speaker 7: it for a non-social hobby like gaming. It's moments like
• 49:59
  Speaker 7: this that make it very hard for me to believe
• 50:01
  Speaker 7: that Rehab ever actually tried in his life, considering that
• 50:04
  Speaker 7: he's so fearful of the slightest thing going wrong. For example,
• 50:08
  Speaker 7: how do you get a good job if you're this
• 50:09
  Speaker 7: afraid of rejection? Also, keep in mind, I found this
• 50:12
  Speaker 7: during my research as well, but Z is a beginner
• 50:15
  Speaker 7: at this and he's only had three weeks of training
• 50:17
  Speaker 7: in photography, so of course he sucks. How is he
• 50:20
  Speaker 7: supposed to become good if he doesn't experience failure? Does
• 50:23
  Speaker 7: rehab not see how he's giving toxic advice? Now, I
• 50:26
  Speaker 7: will say that during all of my time watching Black
• 50:28
  Speaker 7: Belt content, one of the most confusing videos I've watched
• 50:31
  Speaker 7: was this one called How to Unloose Yourself in Your 30s.
• 50:35
  Speaker 7: where Rehab tells people to look smacks, talks about how
• 50:38
  Speaker 7: to get a good job that pays well, and talks
• 50:40
  Speaker 7: about how to prevent.
• 50:41
  Speaker 4: Balding, which is great.
• 50:43
  Speaker 7: I will add that if you started losing your hair,
• 50:45
  Speaker 7: get on medical treatment and medical therapy immediately, but this
• 50:48
  Speaker 7: was the most confusing video of his that I've seen.
• 50:51
  Speaker 7: I also saw this moment where Rehab talks about how
• 50:54
  Speaker 7: he used to be an alcoholic and gave advice on
• 50:56
  Speaker 7: how to quit drinking. So despite all the really depressing messaging,
• 51:00
  Speaker 7: I began to think that maybe he's actually trying to
• 51:02
  Speaker 7: help people? Then I began to think more about Blackpill
• 51:05
  Speaker 7: creators in general, and the reasoning behind why Blackpill creators
• 51:08
  Speaker 7: like DBDR were popular in that community, and why so
• 51:11
  Speaker 7: many people watch the I'm a 35 year old virgin videos.
• 51:15
  Speaker 7: I think it's because hearing other people's stories about how
• 51:17
  Speaker 7: they're going through the same things makes them feel better.
• 51:20
  Speaker 7: Rehab Room has some pretty awful and resentful takes, but
• 51:23
  Speaker 7: I'm actually shocked that he hasn't fallen into complete malevolence,
• 51:26
  Speaker 7: considering that he doesn't like his family and seems to
• 51:28
  Speaker 7: not have friends or have been in a relationship. It's
• 51:31
  Speaker 7: also shocking that despite the research blunders and low-effort fact-checking,
• 51:35
  Speaker 7: he does seem to genuinely be trying to make his
• 51:37
  Speaker 7: channel successful and puts a decent amount of work in,
• 51:40
  Speaker 7: and his viewership is really high for a channel with
• 51:42
  Speaker 7: only 20,000 subscribers. With that into consideration, I will say
• 51:46
  Speaker 7: that if rehab is trying to help people, then this
• 51:48
  Speaker 7: is not the way to go about it. It's one
• 51:50
  Speaker 7: thing to tell a relatable personal story or expose a grifter,
• 51:54
  Speaker 7: but at the same time, if people like Rehab are
• 51:56
  Speaker 7: making statements like, the black pill saves lives, but are
• 51:59
  Speaker 7: constantly saying give up or you can't change things that matter,
• 52:03
  Speaker 7: then they're going to push a lot of people into
• 52:05
  Speaker 7: ending themselves, especially if his channel gets bigger. It's something
• 52:08
  Speaker 7: to think about because instead of your message having the
• 52:10
  Speaker 7: intended effect of helping people accept their lot in life,
• 52:13
  Speaker 7: you could end up harming them. For example, stuff like
• 52:16
  Speaker 7: this is terrible advice.
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: But I know what people say. Oh, be honest and
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: open up to your mistakes like a real man. No,
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: you have to blame something or someone else. Never acknowledge criticism.
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: I am always setting things up so that I can
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: deflect to others if there is a problem down the line.
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: Hey man, it is not my fault. This is on
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: QA team. What are they getting paid for if I
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: am gonna do this as well, you know? Again, you
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: cannot do this if you are caught red-handed. This is
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: why how you do this matters. If you try to
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: blame others and people can tell it is a blatant lie,
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: then you are gonna lose credibility. And by the way,
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: I am not telling you to lie to yourself. The
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: difference is this, and this is important. Internally take notes
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: and don't repeat it again. Internally acknowledge and try to
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: see what you did wrong.
• 53:03
  Speaker 7: He's relaying something that he learned from the 48 Laws
• 53:06
  Speaker 7: of Power, which was in a section that was obviously
• 53:08
  Speaker 7: for people like politicians, that talks about how you can
• 53:11
  Speaker 7: make it so you can manipulate mass groups of dumb people.
• 53:14
  Speaker 7: But putting this kind of thing into practice in your
• 53:16
  Speaker 7: personal life will make people hate you. Everybody knows that
• 53:19
  Speaker 7: guy or that girl who blames their problems on everyone else,
• 53:22
  Speaker 7: and they don't like that person. and it's especially bad
• 53:25
  Speaker 7: in a relationship when someone won't ever take responsibility for
• 53:28
  Speaker 7: mistakes they've made or bad things they've done. I understand
• 53:31
  Speaker 7: that he gave a caveat, but since no one is
• 53:33
  Speaker 7: actually seeing his humility, I can't help but think that
• 53:36
  Speaker 7: this mentality very negatively affects Rehab Room and his personal
• 53:39
  Speaker 7: life when it comes to his family, friends, and potential
• 53:42
  Speaker 7: relationship prospects, and it's why he's not doing well in
• 53:45
  Speaker 7: these areas. It's certainly affecting his content because his entire
• 53:48
  Speaker 7: format is just blaming others for his problems.
• 53:51
  Speaker 4: Literally nothing is his fault.
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: One thing that successful people do to gaslight people in
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: tough situations, in unfortunate situations, is running the narrative that
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: it is their bad choices that let them there. They say, oh, dude,
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: you just didn't work hard enough. You didn't try enough.
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: Because then they can still cling on to their just
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: world fallacy.
• 54:12
  Speaker 7: Since we're talking about influencing others, I would highly recommend
• 54:15
  Speaker 7: reading this chapter of Robert Cialdini's book that talks about
• 54:18
  Speaker 7: how admitting to and apologizing for mistakes actually makes people
• 54:21
  Speaker 7: trust you more. Obviously, this can be done sociopathically if
• 54:25
  Speaker 7: you're an asshole, but the point is that you're not
• 54:27
  Speaker 7: going to ruin your reputation by admitting to a fault.
• 54:30
  Speaker 4: Now, I get it.
• 54:31
  Speaker 7: Some people are born way less fortunate than others. Some
• 54:34
  Speaker 7: people lose their hair at 19. Some guys grow out
• 54:36
  Speaker 7: to be 5'1. Some people have bad facial features. But
• 54:40
  Speaker 7: the good news is that many unfortunate things people were
• 54:42
  Speaker 7: born with can be fixed by modern technology, and that
• 54:45
  Speaker 7: technology is always getting better. Outside of that, you have
• 54:48
  Speaker 7: to focus on things that you can change because that
• 54:51
  Speaker 7: will make you feel more in control of your life
• 54:53
  Speaker 7: and make you happier. Contrary to what Rehab Room says,
• 54:56
  Speaker 7: you can change things that matter. It's a lot better
• 54:59
  Speaker 7: to be ugly in a luxury car than it is
• 55:01
  Speaker 7: to be ugly in a shitter car that's 10 seconds
• 55:03
  Speaker 7: away from breaking down. So fight to get a good job.
• 55:06
  Speaker 7: It's a lot better to be ugly with friends than
• 55:08
  Speaker 7: it is to be ugly without friends. Yes, it is
• 55:10
  Speaker 7: possible to socialize even if you're not a Chad. And last,
• 55:14
  Speaker 7: you can work on your addictions because it's easier to
• 55:16
  Speaker 7: be happy when you aren't a 300-pound guy who drinks
• 55:18
  Speaker 7: every day. But most importantly, your life gets a lot
• 55:21
  Speaker 7: easier if you don't constantly fill up your head with
• 55:23
  Speaker 7: limiting beliefs. As for rehab, unfortunately I didn't timestamp this
• 55:28
  Speaker 7: so I don't know where I saw it, but basically
• 55:30
  Speaker 7: I watched him say that if he ever gets a girlfriend,
• 55:32
  Speaker 7: then he's a sellout and not a true black pillar.
• 55:35
  Speaker 4: What kind of shit is that?
• 55:37
  Speaker 7: His obscene dedication to being a true Scotsman for the
• 55:40
  Speaker 7: sake of consistency... basically ensures that he will never get
• 55:43
  Speaker 7: something that he very obviously wants deeply. Because based on
• 55:47
  Speaker 7: what he said in the past, the minute he gets
• 55:49
  Speaker 7: a girlfriend, he's a grifter. And also in that same light,
• 55:52
  Speaker 7: if he ever gets successful at YouTube through hard work
• 55:55
  Speaker 7: and merit, then he's a sellout. He spends like half
• 55:58
  Speaker 7: his videos setting up traps for himself that limit his
• 56:01
  Speaker 7: ability to succeed, which is stupid because clearly based on
• 56:04
  Speaker 7: his subscriber to view count, he has the potential to
• 56:07
  Speaker 7: be a big channel. After watching like 30 of his videos,
• 56:10
  Speaker 7: I very much see the outline of a creator who's
• 56:12
  Speaker 7: entertaining enough to be successful, provided that a few things
• 56:15
  Speaker 7: were fixed. Now I don't know the future, but I
• 56:18
  Speaker 7: can't imagine that it's helpful for him to say multiple
• 56:20
  Speaker 7: times that he's a hypocrite if he ever experiences success.
• 56:24
  Speaker 4: Then you have shit like this.
• 56:26
  Speaker 1: Sometimes the damage is done in life, man. You can
• 56:29
  Speaker 1: look smacks, maybe get to a certain looks level, but
• 56:32
  Speaker 1: you will still have that bitterness in you. You will
• 56:35
  Speaker 1: always remember how you were traded before. You will have
• 56:38
  Speaker 1: that jaded feeling inside you. Like, for example, if I
• 56:41
  Speaker 1: had traded looks with that kid at the store all
• 56:44
  Speaker 1: of a sudden, right?
• 56:45
  Speaker 9: Poof.
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: We traded looks. I would still have that corner of
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: darkness calling for me. That is what happens when you
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: are too late to something, to that place. Sure, I
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: would feed my ego, go bang a different smoke show,
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: different cutie every day, get my ass kissed everywhere I go.
• 57:05
  Speaker 9: As someone who was unsuccessful for a long time and
• 57:12
  Speaker 9: then achieved pretty sizable amounts of success, I can say
• 57:16
  Speaker 9: if you do achieve success, after about six months, you'll
• 57:19
  Speaker 9: forget what a failure that you used to be.
• 57:21
  Speaker 7: It's pretty easy to let that stuff go when things
• 57:24
  Speaker 7: are going well for you. Consider that. Anyway, thanks for watching,
• 57:28
  Speaker 7: follow me on Twitter, and I'll see you in the
• 57:30
  Speaker 7: next video.