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- 0:00Speaker 1: If you are a large content creator, both literally and metaphorically,
- 0:03Speaker 1: you should be willing to accept a degree of scrutiny.
- 0:06Speaker 1: I know I do. Every time I release a video,
- 0:08Speaker 1: people attack me for various things. Sounds good.
- 0:11Speaker 2: I'm glad Chris is so open to criticism. For those
- 0:13Speaker 2: of you who don't know, there's been a little drama
- 0:15Speaker 2: going on in the Japan YouTuber space between Oriental Pearl
- 0:18Speaker 2: and the owner of probably the biggest foreigner in Japan
- 0:21Speaker 2: YouTube channel, Chris Broad. The whole thing has been shocking
- 0:24Speaker 2: because previously I was a longtime fan of Chris, He
- 0:26Speaker 2: seems like a genuine good guy who is fun to watch,
- 0:29Speaker 2: but what I've ended up finding out while watching this
- 0:31Speaker 2: whole event unfold is that Chris is kind of a
- 0:33Speaker 2: petty sociopath who is probably guilty of at least two
- 0:35Speaker 2: different crimes. If you want the full story, then you
- 0:38Speaker 2: can watch this video here that I made, but for
- 0:40Speaker 2: the people who haven't seen it yet, let's do a
- 0:42Speaker 2: quick recap of the stuff that's happened that's related to
- 0:44Speaker 2: this video. This whole thing started out when Oriental Pearl,
- 0:47Speaker 2: or Alyssa, made a video called What is Happening to Japan?,
- 0:51Speaker 2: where she tries to bring awareness to problems like graffiti, homelessness,
- 0:54Speaker 2: and a popular news story in Japan about teenagers who
- 0:56Speaker 2: are runaways from abusive homes.
- 0:58Speaker 3: The graffiti just seems to be getting worse. I've seen
- 1:01Speaker 3: this over the last few years.
- 1:03Speaker 2: The city actually did come and repaint this whole bridge.
- 1:06Speaker 1: Because it looked like that green wall before.
- 1:09Speaker 2: But as you see, it's already back. Chris didn't like
- 1:12Speaker 2: this video, so he went onto Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, the
- 1:15Speaker 2: YouTube community tab, and Alyssa's comment section to air out
- 1:18Speaker 2: his grievances and to be an apologist for criminals. to
- 1:21Speaker 2: which I'm sure the Japanese people are just super happy about.
- 1:25Speaker 2: In response, Alyssa posted on Facebook and made a video
- 1:27Speaker 2: asking Chris to remove the comments, which, as I said
- 1:30Speaker 2: in the prior video, I can see why she asked
- 1:32Speaker 2: him to do that, but I think it was a
- 1:33Speaker 2: bad move because it looks a lot like censoring critics. Next,
- 1:37Speaker 2: the most egregious part, Chris releases this video here where
- 1:40Speaker 2: he does such bad research on homelessness... that I can
- 1:42Speaker 2: only assume that it was intentional to minimize how much
- 1:45Speaker 2: of an issue it is in Japan.
- 1:46Speaker 1: The area is also synonymous with Tokyo's homeless population as
- 1:49Speaker 1: far back as 2003, which, according to the statistics, is
- 1:53Speaker 1: thankfully going down. If you walk around there today, compared
- 1:56Speaker 1: to 10 years ago, there are far less homeless people.
- 1:58Speaker 2: This is wrong. The article that he got these numbers
- 2:01Speaker 2: from admits they are inaccurate right under the headline. Chris
- 2:04Speaker 2: also takes Alyssa out of context numerous times, one of
- 2:06Speaker 2: which where he's CNN-style or BBC-style editor to make it
- 2:10Speaker 2: look like she's laughing at homeless people.
- 2:12Speaker 1: A few years ago a friend showed me a clip
- 2:14Speaker 1: of a video in which the same person walked through
- 2:16Speaker 1: an economically deprived part of Tokyo filming homeless people.
- 2:20Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, this is a rough area.
- 2:22Speaker 1: Under the guise of showing the real Japan.
- 2:25Speaker 2: What actually happened here is that Alyssa was being sexually
- 2:27Speaker 2: harassed and was laughing uncomfortably after a guy offered to
- 2:30Speaker 2: buy her for sex. Chris's edit of this moment very
- 2:55Speaker 2: much looks like defamation, and in Japan, where they both live,
- 2:59Speaker 2: defamation I believe is a criminal offense.
- 3:01Speaker 1: And last, Chris has filmed a number of videos that
- 3:04Speaker 1: look a lot like paid advertisements.
- 3:05Speaker 2: And hasn't exactly been transparent about being compensated in return
- 3:08Speaker 2: for for promoting companies like Japan Railways. In fact, it
- 3:20Speaker 2: seems like in this one, he went out of his
- 3:22Speaker 2: way to convince the audience that it wasn't an ad.
- 3:24Speaker 2: This is a crime in America, and I'm not a
- 3:26Speaker 2: Japanese lawyer, but I believe it's also a crime in Japan.
- 3:29Speaker 2: Which brings us back to Chris' video, What is Happening
- 3:32Speaker 2: to Japan?, where he has changed the pinned comment to
- 3:34Speaker 2: respond to recent events. Now, this comment has been edited
- 3:38Speaker 2: multiple times, but for the sake of authenticity, I'm going
- 3:40Speaker 2: to use the original. Over the past couple of days,
- 3:43Speaker 2: an onslaught of channels, many of whom appear to be
- 3:46Speaker 2: friends with the creator in question, have criticized this video
- 3:49Speaker 2: and myself. An onslaught of channels? Chris, go fuck yourself.
- 3:54Speaker 2: Your video alone got like ten times the exposure that
- 3:57Speaker 2: our videos got, which, by the way, was just four creators,
- 4:00Speaker 2: and this is not including the additional two or so
- 4:02Speaker 2: million views of exposure that Chris got because of all
- 4:04Speaker 2: the people who blindly agreed with him. To sit here
- 4:07Speaker 2: and call this an onslaught of channels against you and
- 4:09Speaker 2: pretend that you're the victim here... When you started this
- 4:12Speaker 2: and you by yourself have way more influence than all
- 4:15Speaker 2: of us combined is insane. Not to say that my
- 4:18Speaker 2: channel is small, but Chris is friends with like PewDiePie
- 4:20Speaker 2: and a ton of the most popular influencers on the internet.
- 4:23Speaker 2: This is by no means a fair fight and he
- 4:25Speaker 2: is not the victim. I originally hoped to draw a
- 4:28Speaker 2: line under the matter, but since a handful of viewers
- 4:30Speaker 2: have asked for further context, I'm absolutely willing to elaborate.
- 4:34Speaker 2: He's talking about me here. This comment was made in
- 4:36Speaker 2: response to my video. Who else would he be talking about?
- 4:39Speaker 2: He kept his mouth shut about this for over three
- 4:41Speaker 2: weeks and conveniently had a response two or three days
- 4:44Speaker 2: after my video released. But notice that just like how
- 4:47Speaker 2: he blurred out Oriental Pearl's face and her channel name
- 4:49Speaker 2: in his video, he did not cite any of the
- 4:52Speaker 2: source material that he's talking about here in the pinned
- 4:54Speaker 2: comment or let people know where they could find the criticism.
- 4:57Speaker 2: It's almost like he doesn't want people fact-checking him by
- 5:00Speaker 2: watching the source video. And make no mistake, the reason
- 5:03Speaker 2: he is saying something now is not because like three
- 5:05Speaker 2: or four viewers wanted further clarification. It's because he likely
- 5:08Speaker 2: was just caught committing multiple crimes. He doesn't want people
- 5:11Speaker 2: to know about this, which is why instead of going
- 5:13Speaker 2: on to every social media platform in existence to air
- 5:16Speaker 2: out his grievances, like he originally did with Alyssa, he
- 5:19Speaker 2: posts this response on the pinned comment of a video
- 5:21Speaker 2: that's already gotten most of the views that it will
- 5:23Speaker 2: get for the time being. So the millions of people
- 5:25Speaker 2: who were misinformed by that defamatory edit he made of
- 5:28Speaker 2: Alyssa won't see this response. Moving on, in CNN or
- 5:32Speaker 2: BBC-like fashion, Chris starts his post off with a bunch
- 5:35Speaker 2: of irrelevant filler bullshit content that he is using in
- 5:38Speaker 2: the hopes that his viewers will get bored of reading
- 5:41Speaker 2: before he actually responds to the most egregious allegations. This
- 5:44Speaker 2: makes you look guilty, Chris. Anyway, so he starts his
- 5:47Speaker 2: message out with whataboutism filler content about faces not being blurred,
- 5:51Speaker 2: and just to quickly address this, clearly Chris knows how
- 5:54Speaker 2: to use a blur effect, yet he didn't blur any
- 5:55Speaker 2: of these faces either, so obviously he doesn't actually care. Anyway,
- 6:00Speaker 2: let's skip all the word vomit and move on to
- 6:01Speaker 2: the tiny bit at the end where Chris actually addresses
- 6:04Speaker 2: a single issue that I brought up in my first video,
- 6:06Speaker 2: which was the defamation claim. After this video was published,
- 6:10Speaker 2: one edit to that montage was made, removing a couple
- 6:12Speaker 2: of seconds of audio to avoid any potential confusion about chronology.
- 6:16Speaker 2: This did not alter any argument or claim. Chris, you're
- 6:19Speaker 2: full of shit. Also, technically it was two edits because
- 6:22Speaker 2: he showed that moment twice. The moment in question is
- 6:25Speaker 2: the one where he edits the audio to make it
- 6:26Speaker 2: look like Alyssa's laughing at homeless people, when in reality,
- 6:29Speaker 2: she's being sexually harassed by a guy who isn't homeless.
- 6:32Speaker 2: But sure, he did it to make certain that people
- 6:35Speaker 2: wouldn't be confused about the sequence of events. Don't worry,
- 6:38Speaker 2: it didn't alter any of my claims. Except your claim
- 6:41Speaker 2: is that Alyssa doesn't care about homeless people, which is ridiculous.
- 6:44Speaker 2: Alyssa has been doing homeless outreach work for years, so
- 6:47Speaker 2: his claim is that she doesn't care about society's most vulnerable.
- 6:50Speaker 2: and she's treating them like some sort of exhibit at
- 6:52Speaker 2: the zoo for her content. And he's saying this as
- 6:55Speaker 2: he edits her out of context to make it look
- 6:57Speaker 2: like she's laughing at them. That clearly does alter people's
- 7:00Speaker 2: perception of her, and it obviously was an intentional edit.
- 7:03Speaker 2: What a respectable media-literate guy with journalistic integrity such as
- 7:07Speaker 2: Chris claims to be would be stupid enough to use
- 7:09Speaker 2: someone being sexually harassed as a weapon against them.
- 7:12Speaker 4: He took such a horrible moment, I'm sure it was
- 7:15Speaker 4: horrible for her, being treated like a prostitute, to use
- 7:18Speaker 4: a point where she was uncomfortable... So again, clearly he
- 7:21Speaker 4: intentionally took her out of context and sold an untrue
- 7:22Speaker 4: narrative to enhance his point and make her look bad.
- 7:24Speaker 4: He does that all over his video. This was just
- 7:26Speaker 4: the most egregious example.
- 7:46Speaker 2: But all of this begs the question of, if none
- 7:48Speaker 2: of this stuff from Chris is about moral standards or
- 7:50Speaker 2: helping Japan, then why did he attack Alyssa? Well, why
- 7:54Speaker 2: don't we go over some information that I held back on?
- 7:56Speaker 2: I think a part of the reason is personal drama,
- 7:59Speaker 2: and the other part is about politics. I mentioned in
- 8:01Speaker 2: the prior video that it would be difficult to tell
- 8:03Speaker 2: how malicious Chris has been without insider information. Here's primarily
- 8:07Speaker 2: what I meant. Chris wants to pretend that he had
- 8:10Speaker 2: no idea who Alyssa was before this event.
- 8:12Speaker 1: I was accused of painting Japan as a utopia. I
- 8:15Speaker 1: was accused of excluding her from my friendship group. Somebody
- 8:18Speaker 1: I've never met, never spoken to.
- 8:20Speaker 2: He's trying to play word games here to make his
- 8:22Speaker 2: audience believe that he had no idea who Alyssa was
- 8:24Speaker 2: until like a month ago. That's not true. The Western
- 8:27Speaker 2: expat community is very small, and it is very easy
- 8:30Speaker 2: to randomly bump into other expats, especially if you both
- 8:33Speaker 2: live in Tokyo. Chris absolutely knew who Alyssa was before
- 8:37Speaker 2: this whole event. He admitted to bumping into her before
- 8:39Speaker 2: on a Sora the Troll livestream, and you can even
- 8:42Speaker 2: see him slip up during the video where he's like,
- 8:44Speaker 2: I don't know her at all. So anyway, a friend
- 8:46Speaker 2: showed me this video of hers a few years ago.
- 8:48Speaker 2: That being said, here's what I held back on in
- 8:50Speaker 2: the previous video. I have Discord leaks of Sharla, Chris's fiancée,
- 8:54Speaker 2: talking about Alyssa from as far back as 2022. Here's
- 8:57Speaker 2: the reason why there is animosity between Chris and Alyssa.
- 9:00Speaker 2: You can see here that one of the members is
- 9:02Speaker 2: sort of complimenting Oriental Pearl or Alyssa, And Sharla chimes
- 9:06Speaker 2: in and says that Alyssa wrote some mean comments on
- 9:08Speaker 2: her YouTube page. And then it ends with someone complaining
- 9:11Speaker 2: that Alyssa called out some scammers who were pretending to
- 9:13Speaker 2: be fluent in like 15 languages for money. I wonder
- 9:16Speaker 2: why they would have an issue with that. But the
- 9:18Speaker 2: next question is, what was said? So I asked Alyssa
- 9:20Speaker 2: for more context. The exact videos from Sharla have since
- 9:23Speaker 2: been deleted, but Alyssa remembers having about 100 subscribers at
- 9:26Speaker 2: that point, and Sharla was making a lot of cat videos,
- 9:29Speaker 2: like a lot of cat videos. So in response, and
- 9:32Speaker 2: as a fan during this time... Alyssa said, I'm not
- 9:35Speaker 2: really feeling these cat videos. How terrible, she's so mean.
- 9:39Speaker 2: The second comment that Alyssa made was on a video
- 9:41Speaker 2: with Sharla and her ex-husband where his head was cut
- 9:44Speaker 2: out because he didn't want to be on camera, and
- 9:46Speaker 2: Alyssa said that was kind of awkward. That was it.
- 9:49Speaker 2: Multi-year grudge because of a couple of comments that are
- 9:51Speaker 2: basically just viewer feedback from someone who wasn't really a
- 9:54Speaker 2: YouTuber at that point. And because of that, Sharla has
- 9:58Speaker 2: been doing things like gatekeeping Alyssa from going to local
- 10:00Speaker 2: events that other people want her at. So basically a
- 10:03Speaker 2: lot of the attacks from Chris are because Sharla hates
- 10:05Speaker 2: Alyssa over some petty bullshit. Well, maybe she also hates
- 10:08Speaker 2: her out of jealousy because Alyssa has been married to
- 10:10Speaker 2: a Japanese guy for multiple years now, whereas how many
- 10:13Speaker 2: years were Sharla and Chris together and unmarried? Close to
- 10:16Speaker 2: a decade? Three year engagement, holy shit. That doesn't sound
- 10:20Speaker 2: like someone who has a lot of faith in their relationship.
- 10:22Speaker 2: A little life advice, if you want someone to trust you, Sharla,
- 10:25Speaker 2: then I would highly suggest that you refrain from shooting
- 10:27Speaker 2: OnlyFans content. I'm sorry, that was petty. I shouldn't have
- 10:31Speaker 2: said that. But when someone who has the obvious jealous
- 10:33Speaker 2: energy of an obese man who's about 5'7, gets millions
- 10:36Speaker 2: of views defaming your friend, you tend to feel a
- 10:39Speaker 2: little bit petty. So that's what this whole video from
- 10:41Speaker 2: Chris is about. It has a lot more to do
- 10:43Speaker 2: with his fiancée or whatever being catty than it does
- 10:46Speaker 2: to do with calling out morally objectionable behavior. This is why,
- 10:49Speaker 2: despite him saying that the Japan is over content is
- 10:52Speaker 2: like this huge trend in his video, he only goes
- 10:55Speaker 2: after Alyssa.
- 10:55Speaker 1: It's extremely important to portray objective reality as best you
- 10:59Speaker 1: can online. When you're a big creator, there is a
- 11:01Speaker 1: burden of responsibility. Imagine if I had made a video,
- 11:04Speaker 1: the original What's Happening to Japan video, myself, right, with
- 11:08Speaker 1: an audience of three million people. Some people, rational people,
- 11:11Speaker 1: would have called me out and been like, Chris, mate,
- 11:13Speaker 1: a bit of graffiti and some bin bags is not Japan.
- 11:17Speaker 1: But a lot of people would have been Oh, Chris
- 11:19Speaker 1: is a figure of several million followers. I respected some
- 11:23Speaker 1: of his previous videos. He's right on this. And I
- 11:26Speaker 1: am in a position to shape opinions.
- 11:28Speaker 2: I mean, in reality, it seems like you're very aware
- 11:30Speaker 2: of what you can get away with because people see
- 11:32Speaker 2: you as an authority figure, and you actively exploited that
- 11:35Speaker 2: to attack a creator that you don't like. He doesn't
- 11:37Speaker 2: care about any of this shit morally. He's doing most,
- 11:40Speaker 2: if not all, the bad things that he accuses her of,
- 11:43Speaker 2: which is why I think this is far more about
- 11:45Speaker 2: personal drama his fiancée has than it is about morality.
- 11:49Speaker 2: And this isn't the first time that Chris has taken
- 11:50Speaker 2: shots at Alyssa.
- 11:51Speaker 1: With Tokyo vlog content overload from other channels, anything unique, exciting,
- 11:55Speaker 1: and new from abroad in Japan that we haven't seen
- 11:57Speaker 1: before when you move to Tokyo. Well, now that I'm
- 11:59Speaker 1: here in Tokyo, I can assure you, you're going to
- 12:02Speaker 1: see the most groundbreaking, dynamic, original Japan-based content that you
- 12:06Speaker 1: have ever seen. Content like White Man Speaks Japanese to Strangers,
- 12:10Speaker 1: Shock Surprise Sugoi, Minds Blow.
- 12:12Speaker 2: This is almost a direct copy of one of Alyssa's thumbnails.
- 12:15Speaker 2: More proof that he's actually known about her for years.
- 12:18Speaker 2: She's not someone he just found out about. This attack
- 12:20Speaker 2: right here is purely about him not liking her. It's
- 12:23Speaker 2: not about the content format because, you know, when it's
- 12:25Speaker 2: a Japanese creator doing this like Kazu Languages or Namaste Kohei,
- 12:29Speaker 2: Chris says nothing. Alyssa isn't even the most popular person
- 12:33Speaker 2: in this niche. I believe that it's Xiaoma who is
- 12:35Speaker 2: so ridiculous that he literally made a video where he's like,
- 12:39Speaker 2: I surprised monkeys by speaking monkey to them. So again,
- 12:43Speaker 2: none of this was about morality. All of the grandstanding
- 12:45Speaker 2: was clearly just a way to attack Alyssa. I don't
- 12:48Speaker 2: really know how anyone can ever trust a guy again
- 12:50Speaker 2: who would defame someone and try to cover it up
- 12:53Speaker 2: because his girlfriend of like eight years got offended by
- 12:55Speaker 2: a comment saying, I'm not feeling the cat videos. And
- 12:58Speaker 2: Chris will sit here playing the victim saying how this
- 13:01Speaker 2: put him through a dark and depressing chapter, which personally
- 13:04Speaker 2: I think has a lot more to do with alcohol
- 13:05Speaker 2: abuse than another creator making a video he didn't like.
- 13:08Speaker 2: But he'll say that this is such a dark time
- 13:10Speaker 2: for him as he defamed someone and essentially got away
- 13:13Speaker 2: with it. Though, as I said, there's also a second
- 13:16Speaker 2: part of this which is about a difference in politics
- 13:18Speaker 2: that normally I wouldn't have cared about. However, I now
- 13:21Speaker 2: find this political difference between Oriental Pearl and Chris to
- 13:23Speaker 2: be a little concerning, especially considering that he now knows
- 13:26Speaker 2: he can get away with defamation and get overwhelming support
- 13:29Speaker 2: from his audience and other creators. The concerning part is
- 13:32Speaker 2: that Chris is actually fairly politically radical, but he's hiding
- 13:36Speaker 2: it because he has a mixed audience and doesn't want
- 13:38Speaker 2: to lose followers. Before I elaborate on that, let's talk
- 13:41Speaker 2: about the comments section from Chris' video. Now, I would
- 13:44Speaker 2: be lying if I said I didn't notice that Chris's
- 13:46Speaker 2: comment section changed a bit after my video came out.
- 13:48Speaker 2: That's just what happens when anyone gets criticized on YouTube. Unfortunately,
- 13:52Speaker 2: there's nothing that you can really do about it. However,
- 13:54Speaker 2: the issue here is that prior to this, Chris made
- 13:56Speaker 2: a big deal by saying it was censorship when Alyssa
- 13:59Speaker 2: asked him to remove his comments about her, and did
- 14:01Speaker 2: a speech on how creators should be open to scrutiny.
- 14:03Speaker 1: Now, I think if you are a large content creator,
- 14:05Speaker 1: both literally and metaphorically... You should be willing to accept
- 14:09Speaker 1: a degree of scrutiny. I know I do. Every time
- 14:11Speaker 1: I release a video, people attack me for various things.
- 14:14Speaker 1: And if I see something that I believe misconstrues reality,
- 14:16Speaker 1: then I'm going to call it out as well.
- 14:18Speaker 2: Well, I just so happened to notice that after Chris
- 14:20Speaker 2: went onto every social media platform in existence to trash Alyssa,
- 14:24Speaker 2: and after tons of creators were trashing her as well,
- 14:26Speaker 2: she didn't delete the comments that came from his fans.
- 14:29Speaker 2: Even after weeks of constant brigading on multiple videos, Alyssa
- 14:33Speaker 2: also did not delete Chris's comment on her video either. However,
- 14:36Speaker 2: two days after my video released, I noticed that all
- 14:39Speaker 2: the comments on Chris' video made by new viewers mysteriously disappeared,
- 14:43Speaker 2: and so did everyone else. Here's something else that happened.
- 14:46Speaker 2: Much like Chris felt free to post in Alyssa's comment section,
- 14:49Speaker 2: Alyssa posted this message offering a chance to work things out.
- 14:52Speaker 2: Alyssa is a conservative Catholic. She's actually very Catholic, and
- 14:55Speaker 2: a part of her faith is to genuinely offer forgiveness
- 14:58Speaker 2: to people who've wronged her. Anyway, Chris deleted that comment
- 15:01Speaker 2: almost instantly.
- 15:02Speaker 4: Right.
- 15:02Speaker 1: I found this comment here, too, saying that Chris is
- 15:05Speaker 1: immune to hate comments, which is why he spends tons
- 15:07Speaker 1: of time deleting them, especially ones that might notify his
- 15:11Speaker 1: fans that he defamed someone. Wait, did he like his
- 15:12Speaker 1: own post? And for some clarity, I really don't dislike
- 15:29Speaker 1: this person. I dislike their content, not just this video,
- 15:32Speaker 1: but some other videos, which I'll discuss. I know I
- 15:34Speaker 1: can be sarcastic and silly, but I'm genuinely not a
- 15:37Speaker 1: malicious person. I quite honestly wish her well. And I
- 15:40Speaker 1: ask you if you disagree with her, if you disagree
- 15:43Speaker 1: with me, that you always comment in a respectful manner
- 15:46Speaker 1: and don't share any hatred online.
- 15:48Speaker 2: I think he's just saying that. I have a lot
- 15:50Speaker 2: of trouble believing that this wasn't malicious, considering the prior
- 15:53Speaker 2: drama with Charlotte and the defamatory edits. And also the
- 15:56Speaker 2: numerous false allegations in his video against Oriental Pearl that
- 15:59Speaker 2: were pretty easy to prove as untrue, with a small
- 16:02Speaker 2: amount of research. But I mean, what's the point in
- 16:04Speaker 2: being respectful if you're just going to delete Alyssa's comment anyway? However,
- 16:08Speaker 2: I think what's more telling is the comments that he
- 16:10Speaker 2: didn't delete. In fact, there were two comments that I
- 16:13Speaker 2: noticed that he liked. Here's the first one. Thank you, Chris,
- 16:16Speaker 2: for being a voice of reason in these trying times.
- 16:19Speaker 2: What did AI write this? All the haters are coming
- 16:21Speaker 2: from a right-wing YouTuber called Think Before You Sleep. Now,
- 16:25Speaker 2: there were a number of sycophants supporting Chris in the
- 16:27Speaker 2: comments after my video released, but I only personally saw
- 16:30Speaker 2: him like this one, the one that mentions my politics.
- 16:33Speaker 2: The other like was found by somebody else. But when
- 16:35Speaker 2: Chris started going on his comment deleting fury, he removed
- 16:38Speaker 2: this like and deleted the comment below it that ratioed it.
- 16:42Speaker 2: Here's the second like by Chris that was thankfully caught
- 16:44Speaker 2: by a YouTuber who goes by Evildea. It comes under
- 16:47Speaker 2: a comment talking about Chris's edited clip, and it says,
- 16:50Speaker 2: You meant white nationalists think before you sleep? I mean,
- 16:53Speaker 2: if Chris wants to say I'm a white nationalist when
- 16:55Speaker 2: all I did in my video was say what Japanese
- 16:57Speaker 2: people are saying, then I think that maybe Japan isn't
- 17:00Speaker 2: that great of a fit for him. He literally liked
- 17:02Speaker 2: a comment that had the energy of, everyone I disagree
- 17:05Speaker 2: with is a Nazi, and I get labeled as this
- 17:07Speaker 2: because I said that foreigners need to learn English if
- 17:09Speaker 2: they want to live in America, illegals should be deported,
- 17:12Speaker 2: and we shouldn't import too many people at the same time.
- 17:15Speaker 2: These are all things that Japanese people believe. By the way,
- 17:18Speaker 2: the evidence of this like is also gone. But thankfully,
- 17:21Speaker 2: what's happened here with all these likes is that it's
- 17:23Speaker 2: confirmed a little suspicion that I've had, because it's hard
- 17:25Speaker 2: to tell what Chris's exact stances are. However, he will
- 17:28Speaker 2: slip up a bit with dog whistles like this.
- 17:31Speaker 1: In fact, the king of America himself is here in
- 17:35Speaker 1: Japan for, I think, 48 hours. Mr. Trump, President Trump
- 17:39Speaker 1: is here.
- 17:40Speaker 2: There's also this little moment here when he talks about
- 17:42Speaker 2: the menu from when Japanese Prime Minister Takeichi and Trump met.
- 17:46Speaker 1: I've just found the menu for what they had for lunch.
- 17:48Speaker 1: The Prime Minister had lunch. Here's what they had. I mean,
- 17:51Speaker 1: the steak sounds good. What do you reckon? Would you
- 17:54Speaker 1: be happy with that if you're the dictator?
- 17:58Speaker 2: You can see he kind of stopped himself there. And
- 18:00Speaker 2: these sort of seem like innocuous comments, but he said
- 18:02Speaker 2: them to virtue signal to his leftist audience. without pissing
- 18:06Speaker 2: off the people on the right who also watch him.
- 18:08Speaker 2: He wants the left to know where he lies politically,
- 18:10Speaker 2: but he still wants the YouTube money and the tourism
- 18:12Speaker 2: money from people on the right, so he'll purposefully make
- 18:15Speaker 2: his exact stances unclear. But there are dog whistles like
- 18:18Speaker 2: this all over Chris's content. And what I've found is
- 18:21Speaker 2: that when you get people like, say, Illymation, who are
- 18:23Speaker 2: pretending to be non-political while at the same time not
- 18:26Speaker 2: being able to shut up about their politics, these tend
- 18:28Speaker 2: to be people who are very much towards the extreme
- 18:31Speaker 2: end of their side. Make no mistake, if you scroll
- 18:33Speaker 2: back far enough, you can see a less calculated Chris
- 18:36Speaker 2: expressing some Trump derangement syndrome on Twitter in 2016. And
- 18:40Speaker 2: to this I say, Chris, nobody cares about your opinion
- 18:43Speaker 2: on Trump. You aren't American, nor do you live in
- 18:45Speaker 2: America or have US citizenship. How about you stay out
- 18:48Speaker 2: of politics that you aren't beholden to?
- 18:50Speaker 1: What's your favorite thing about Donald Trump?
- 18:54Speaker 2: Ah, there isn't a favorite thing.
- 18:56Speaker 1: Zero. My favorite thing about Donald.
- 19:00Speaker 3: Trump is that one day.
- 19:01Speaker 2: He will Yeah, yeah. Messed up, right? Instead of fighting
- 19:06Speaker 2: against a chatter wishing death on Trump, Chris agrees with them. Now,
- 19:10Speaker 2: Conor did have enough sense to say the comment was morbid,
- 19:12Speaker 2: but neither of them say they disagree.
- 19:14Speaker 1: You know that video I did with you where you
- 19:16Speaker 1: went to Love Hotel and I jokingly read Art of
- 19:19Speaker 1: the Deal?
- 19:19Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 19:20Speaker 1: Some people thought I was serious. And were like, I'm
- 19:23Speaker 1: really disappointed in you, Chris. Supporting Donald Trump.
- 19:27Speaker 2: And it's like, no.
- 19:28Speaker 1: I was making fun of the world's shitest book.
- 19:32Speaker 2: So after seeing this, I don't think it's too outlandish
- 19:34Speaker 2: to point out that the second reason I think that
- 19:36Speaker 2: Chris attacked Alyssa, and thought it was okay to defame her,
- 19:39Speaker 2: is because she is politically on the right, and he's
- 19:41Speaker 2: a part of the segment of the left that openly
- 19:43Speaker 2: hates and dehumanizes people they disagree with. But also, it's
- 19:47Speaker 2: a little bit bigger than that, and I do have
- 19:48Speaker 2: strong concerns about Chris's politics, considering that he has a
- 19:51Speaker 2: lot of influence on foreign communities. And that's not just
- 19:54Speaker 2: his channel in itself, but also all the channels that
- 19:56Speaker 2: he influences through his friend group and his tourism brand agency,
- 19:59Speaker 2: Sekai Studios. These are huge. Chris and his Trash Taste
- 20:03Speaker 2: friend group have a lot of influence. And that's not
- 20:05Speaker 2: to say that tourism is bad or immigration is bad.
- 20:08Speaker 2: But in Japan, it's gotten ridiculous. And Chris has repeated
- 20:11Speaker 2: the sentiment that he is unhappy when there isn't a
- 20:13Speaker 2: constant flow of tourism.
- 20:15Speaker 1: Both the Lost Bar team and the JJ Eason team, right,
- 20:18Speaker 1: both must be like, Chris, oh my God, numbers are low.
- 20:21Speaker 1: There's less people in the bar. What's going on? I'm like,
- 20:23Speaker 1: have you not looked out the bloody window?
- 20:25Speaker 2: It's Tsuyu.
- 20:26Speaker 4: It's Tsuyu.
- 20:26Speaker 1: It's rainy season. For all of June, it basically rains
- 20:31Speaker 1: and it doesn't stop. And no tourists come to Japan.
- 20:35Speaker 1: The number of tourists massively drops off a cliff. It's
- 20:38Speaker 1: a good time to come here, though.
- 20:39Speaker 2: Right, just make sure the local population never has a
- 20:41Speaker 2: break from over-tourism. I think I already established that Chris
- 20:45Speaker 2: has a huge profit motive in helping drown out Japanese
- 20:47Speaker 2: culture with a constant flow of tourists, but this isn't
- 20:50Speaker 2: the only concerning thing that he has promoted.
- 20:52Speaker 5: The number of foreigners working in Japan hits an all-time high.
- 20:56Speaker 2: 25% come from the same country.
- 20:59Speaker 1: It's quite a cool thing to see. much needed given
- 21:04Speaker 1: the decline of population. The LDP, the ruling government over
- 21:07Speaker 1: the last sort of decade, has been kind of sneakily
- 21:12Speaker 1: bringing in more and more people. They've done a pretty
- 21:14Speaker 1: good job bringing in sort of quarter of a million
- 21:17Speaker 1: foreigners a year to fill the gap and try and
- 21:21Speaker 1: fill in the void of workers. Because there just aren't
- 21:24Speaker 1: enough young people in Japan to fill all the jobs,
- 21:26Speaker 1: the vacancies that are popping up in convenience stores and
- 21:29Speaker 1: restaurants and whatnot.
- 21:30Speaker 2: He means the third world. If you look at the
- 21:32Speaker 2: article they're reading, it's mostly people from poor countries that
- 21:35Speaker 2: are immigrating. That's who you'll see working in the convenience
- 21:38Speaker 2: stores if you go to Japan. And by the way,
- 21:40Speaker 2: just as a side note because the topic of anti-foreign
- 21:43Speaker 2: sentiment came up in Chris's video, when it comes to
- 21:45Speaker 2: anti-foreign sentiment, Logan Paul and Johnny Somali aren't really that
- 21:49Speaker 2: big of an issue. They're just a hot-button topic for
- 21:52Speaker 2: Westerners who don't know that much about Japan. Japan doesn't
- 21:55Speaker 2: really have a lot of prejudice towards Americans. The actual
- 21:57Speaker 2: prejudice towards foreigners from Japanese people is towards the Chinese
- 22:01Speaker 2: and Southeast Asians. And I mean Japanese people really do
- 22:05Speaker 2: not like the Chinese because they're infamous for poor behavior.
- 22:08Speaker 2: They see the Chinese how Twitter sees Indians. Now, Chris
- 22:11Speaker 2: does bring up long working hours being a problem in
- 22:13Speaker 2: Japan when it comes to low birth rates, but outside
- 22:16Speaker 2: of that, he doesn't really push back against mass immigration
- 22:19Speaker 2: at all. Instead, he's like, No, actually, it's a good
- 22:22Speaker 2: thing to destroy Japan's culture by importing infinite poor people
- 22:25Speaker 2: who will accept lower wages and lower working conditions just
- 22:28Speaker 2: like they do in the West.
- 22:30Speaker 1: You know, I think people are shocked and surprised when
- 22:33Speaker 1: they go into a store and they don't see any
- 22:34Speaker 1: Japanese workers anymore. It's quite a big change. Quite a
- 22:38Speaker 1: big deal in Japan, I think. Yeah, it's quite a
- 22:39Speaker 1: big change.
- 22:40Speaker 2: I think this is a retarded solution to the problem,
- 22:43Speaker 2: and we should all be rejecting the idea of globalism
- 22:45Speaker 2: where the entire world is just a blob of every
- 22:48Speaker 2: kind of person and nothing is actually unique or rich
- 22:50Speaker 2: in culture like Japan. And while it is true that
- 22:53Speaker 2: labor shortages can be a problem, Chris's solution to this
- 22:56Speaker 2: issue is becoming vastly unpopular with Japanese people. And it's
- 23:00Speaker 2: unpopular because mass immigration will not fix the core issues
- 23:03Speaker 2: that are causing low birth rates. All it's going to
- 23:06Speaker 2: do is turn Japan into the third world. However, I
- 23:09Speaker 2: don't think stuff like drowning out the culture of Japan
- 23:11Speaker 2: matters to Chris, because I don't think Chris is really
- 23:14Speaker 2: all that interested in genuinely helping Japanese people. I think
- 23:17Speaker 2: he just sees it as a place to profit. The
- 23:19Speaker 2: reason I think that is because of something else that
- 23:22Speaker 2: I held back on from the previous video. I don't
- 23:24Speaker 2: think Chris speaks Japanese. I don't think he cares enough
- 23:27Speaker 2: about Japanese people to learn the language. And apparently, I'm
- 23:30Speaker 2: not the only one who feels that way.
- 23:32Speaker 1: Because honestly, I don't know if a broad in Japan
- 23:33Speaker 1: is fluent at this point.
- 23:34Speaker 4: I don't think he is.
- 23:35Speaker 1: Out of the two, I would say Oriental Pearl is
- 23:37Speaker 1: probably a better speaker, which could be part of the problem.
- 23:39Speaker 2: Honestly, I thought I was the only one who thought
- 23:42Speaker 2: it was incredibly suspicious that you can never find Chris
- 23:44Speaker 2: speaking more than like three words of Japanese. outside of
- 23:47Speaker 2: maybe two videos that were made years ago. In one
- 23:50Speaker 2: of them, he goes to a Japanese language learning school,
- 23:53Speaker 2: and his Japanese is so basic that they had to
- 23:55Speaker 2: put him in a beginner class despite having lived in
- 23:57Speaker 2: Japan for almost seven years at that point. During the video,
- 24:01Speaker 2: not only is his pronunciation horrendous and I can't emphasize
- 24:04Speaker 2: enough how much Chris butchers the Japanese language in his videos,
- 24:07Speaker 2: so not only that, but if you know Japanese, you
- 24:10Speaker 2: can see that he mistranslates the specific nuance of what's
- 24:13Speaker 2: being said in the subtitles.
- 24:21Speaker 1: These subtitles are wrong. The teacher said, when did Chris
- 24:24Speaker 1: come to Japan? And the students responded, six years ago.
- 24:30Speaker 1: Chris's translation was.
- 24:32Speaker 3: How long has Chris been in Japan? And the students responded,
- 24:35Speaker 3: six years, which is wrong.
- 24:50Speaker 2: Now, this may seem super nitpicky because he got the
- 24:53Speaker 2: gist of it correct, however, he makes multiple nuance errors
- 24:56Speaker 2: in his translation throughout the video, and the problem is
- 24:58Speaker 2: that this Japanese is very basic. This type of conversation
- 25:02Speaker 2: is the first thing that you learn in Japanese study,
- 25:04Speaker 2: and if he's making nuance mistakes on stuff this basic,
- 25:07Speaker 2: close to seven years after you moved, then he did
- 25:09Speaker 2: not put that much effort into studying, which means there's
- 25:12Speaker 2: no way that he understands any complex Japanese. and it
- 25:15Speaker 2: shows in other content even when he's not speaking that much.
- 25:18Speaker 2: For example, in this video that was in my first
- 25:20Speaker 2: video about Chris, I noticed something that I didn't really
- 25:23Speaker 2: elaborate on because other people that are more fluent than
- 25:25Speaker 2: me thought me on it because Chris has been living
- 25:28Speaker 2: in Japan for 13 years, of course he can speak Japanese.
- 25:32Speaker 2: So in this video, I noticed that not only does
- 25:34Speaker 2: he fail at basic pronunciation and stumbles a lot when
- 25:36Speaker 2: speaking despite only saying three words at a time, he's
- 25:39Speaker 2: speaking in short sentences because it makes it easier to
- 25:41Speaker 2: hide how bad he is, That's a technique that fake
- 25:44Speaker 2: polyglots use a lot. So not only that, but the
- 25:47Speaker 2: Japanese lady is using a lot of borrowed English words
- 25:49Speaker 2: instead of the Japanese words for them to help them out,
- 25:52Speaker 2: and she's gesturing a lot to indicate the meaning of
- 25:55Speaker 2: the words that she's using.
- 25:56Speaker 1: What about business?
- 25:57Speaker 3: Well, after Chris came and uploaded it on YouTube, a
- 26:04Speaker 3: foreign customer said, For those of you who can't speak Japanese.
- 26:13Speaker 1: To put it simply, she's speaking to.
- 26:15Speaker 3: Him like a retard, despite him living in the country.
- 26:18Speaker 1: For seven years at that point.
- 26:20Speaker 3: Now, Chris did release this video.
- 26:24Speaker 2: Here around a year prior, where he is noticeably better,
- 26:40Speaker 2: despite still speaking low-level Japanese, so either he cheated with
- 26:43Speaker 2: scripting and editing, or he got worse over time. But
- 26:47Speaker 2: in this video, he provides some clarity on why he
- 26:50Speaker 2: has such poor Japanese, even though he had been living
- 26:52Speaker 2: in Japan for a long time.
- 26:53Speaker 1: I haven't actually spoken Japanese in a long time.
- 26:55Speaker 4: It's good practice.
- 26:56Speaker 1: I really don't speak it as much as I should,
- 26:58Speaker 1: because a lot of my friends speak English rather well.
- 27:01Speaker 1: That's the thing, and they always want to practice English,
- 27:03Speaker 1: so you feel bad speaking Japanese with them.
- 27:05Speaker 2: So he lives in a gaijin bubble. Gaijin means foreigner
- 27:08Speaker 2: for those of you who don't watch anime, and it's
- 27:10Speaker 2: not uncommon for foreigners in Japan to only associate with
- 27:13Speaker 2: other foreigners or Japanese people who speak English, and so
- 27:16Speaker 2: they don't learn the language. Chris appears to be one
- 27:18Speaker 2: of these people despite knowing a few words and a
- 27:20Speaker 2: little bit of grammar, and he hides his speaking ability
- 27:23Speaker 2: so much in recent years that I don't think he's
- 27:26Speaker 2: gotten better at the language since these videos were made
- 27:28Speaker 2: several years ago.
- 27:29Speaker 1: Content like, White man speaks Japanese to strangers. Shock, surprise, sugoi.
- 27:33Speaker 1: Mind's blown.
- 27:34Speaker 2: Chris, you couldn't make these kinds of videos. You don't
- 27:36Speaker 2: have the skill to make these videos. Korean is Alyssa's
- 27:39Speaker 2: fourth language, and she's better at Korean than you are
- 27:42Speaker 2: at Japanese. I mean, he had the audacity to call
- 27:45Speaker 2: this slop content when his Japanese is so bad that
- 27:47Speaker 2: people speak to him like he's a child. He actually
- 27:50Speaker 2: admits that he stopped studying Japanese for multiple years in
- 27:52Speaker 2: the pinned comment of the language school video. So half
- 27:55Speaker 2: the time he had been in Japan when that video
- 27:57Speaker 2: was released, he was not studying. And the three years
- 27:59Speaker 2: prior studying that he did was a lot, but it's
- 28:01Speaker 2: not enough to be highly fluent at Japanese unless you
- 28:04Speaker 2: practice all day. Learning Japanese takes a very long time.
- 28:08Speaker 2: But geez, he's LARPing in this comment. There's no way
- 28:11Speaker 2: he's anywhere near JLPT 1. I think he would struggle
- 28:14Speaker 2: to pass JLPT 4 after seeing this video. Also, you
- 28:17Speaker 2: can pass the highest level of that test and still
- 28:19Speaker 2: not be able to speak Japanese, so the JLPT is useless. Anyway,
- 28:23Speaker 2: him not knowing Japanese makes all this grandstanding really funny.
- 28:27Speaker 2: He's out there basically saying that Japanese people don't really
- 28:30Speaker 2: think that graffiti is a problem. Well, how the fuck
- 28:32Speaker 2: do you know? You can't even talk to them or
- 28:33Speaker 2: understand the news.
- 28:34Speaker 1: At the end of the video, I talked about how
- 28:36Speaker 1: I've lived here 13 years and people write off my
- 28:39Speaker 1: opinions because I'm not born in Japan. I'm not Japanese.
- 28:43Speaker 1: And at what point do I become a local? At
- 28:45Speaker 1: what point does my opinion matter something? I saw people
- 28:49Speaker 1: react being like, I think it's important we've got the
- 28:51Speaker 1: locals' opinions on this. I am inherently a local. And
- 28:55Speaker 1: I lived in Meguro for three years or so. But
- 28:58Speaker 1: at what point do you become a local? What point
- 29:01Speaker 1: does your opinion become valid?
- 29:02Speaker 2: It counts when you can speak the language, Chris. If
- 29:04Speaker 2: you're not going to learn it, then leave. Go back
- 29:06Speaker 2: to England. Alyssa was taking college courses in Japanese at
- 29:10Speaker 2: the six-year point, yet at that point, you couldn't even
- 29:12Speaker 2: handle Harry Potter or, say, basic sentences without stumbling. How
- 29:16Speaker 2: am I supposed to believe you have an informed opinion
- 29:18Speaker 2: on the ideas of Japanese people? when you can't even
- 29:21Speaker 2: speak to them on a level higher than a six
- 29:23Speaker 2: or a seven year old.
- 29:23Speaker 1: I had people attack me this year. They'd be like, well,
- 29:26Speaker 1: Chris is wrong. He's just a foreign guy living in Japan.
- 29:30Speaker 1: You know, we had some things happen earlier on this year,
- 29:32Speaker 1: which I went dredge up, but people were ruling out
- 29:35Speaker 1: my opinion because I wasn't Japanese.
- 29:37Speaker 2: Let me clarify that because I think he's being unclear.
- 29:40Speaker 2: here on purpose. He had Japanese people attack him for
- 29:43Speaker 2: stupid opinions that he had. I mean, Chris, you're the
- 29:46Speaker 2: exact kind of entitled foreigner that everyone hates in places
- 29:49Speaker 2: like America. You don't speak the language, you advocate in
- 29:52Speaker 2: favor of things that Japanese people don't want like vandalism,
- 29:55Speaker 2: and you're like, Yeah, what Japan really needs is a
- 29:58Speaker 2: ton of poor people from foreign countries who won't learn
- 30:00Speaker 2: the language to move here and replace the local population.
- 30:03Speaker 2: Then you go and defame someone who's actually trying to
- 30:05Speaker 2: help the Japanese. I'm sorry, I guess your film studying
- 30:09Speaker 2: hobbies were more important than learning the language and respecting
- 30:11Speaker 2: the culture that's invited you in. Anyway, it's actually insane
- 30:15Speaker 2: how easy it was for Chris to defame Oriental Pearl,
- 30:18Speaker 2: because basically no one fact-checked him. I think the lesson
- 30:21Speaker 2: of the day here is that we shouldn't just blindly
- 30:23Speaker 2: believe people, especially if they aren't very transparent about their sources.
- 30:27Speaker 2: Like maybe if, say, a former professional doxer named Candace
- 30:30Speaker 2: Owens starts citing her dreams as a resource, you should
- 30:33Speaker 2: be suspicious.
- 30:34Speaker 5: Like I just said, had a vivid dream this weekend,
- 30:37Speaker 5: and Charlie came to me and he told me that
- 30:40Speaker 5: he was betrayed. And so for me, you don't have
- 30:43Speaker 5: to believe that, but I do believe that. And it
- 30:48Speaker 5: was the immediate sense I got actually that, and I
- 30:51Speaker 5: don't know who exactly it is that betrayed him, but
- 30:53Speaker 5: I also felt in the dream that it is soon
- 30:55Speaker 5: going to be revealed, that it's actually inevitable that it
- 30:58Speaker 5: is going to be revealed, that there is nothing and
- 31:00Speaker 5: no one that is going to stop the truth from
- 31:01Speaker 5: coming out, and it is going to have international consequences.
- 31:05Speaker 4: Take that to the bank.
- 31:06Speaker 5: Quote me on that.
- 31:07Speaker 2: You should probably just laugh at people like this instead
- 31:09Speaker 2: of giving them millions of views. That's really the issue here.
- 31:13Speaker 2: It's the lack of ridiculing people for not being transparent
- 31:15Speaker 2: about their resources. Anyway, thanks for watching, follow me on Twitter,
- 31:19Speaker 2: and I'll see you in the next video.