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Y’all Keep Letting The Wrong Influencers Off The Hook · The imuRgency Room

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  I hate to have to come on the Internet and defend Kaisenat in
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  2016. And before we get into this,
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  this is not to say that this is in defense of any of his
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  previous actions. Now what that says, hey guys,
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  what's up to emergency and welcome, welcome back to my
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  channel. We've done some reflecting on
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  rebranding in the new year, and now it's time to talk about
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  people who are actually brands in the new year, I guess.
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  And the main person we're bringing up in this conversation
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  is Kaisenat, who's been coming under fire or at least coming
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  under scrutiny recently for his recent brand switch up from
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  celebrity streamer and crazy Internet personality.
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  Now a thinker, A mogul, and get this a reader and we'll get more
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  into this. But the main reason I wanted to
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  spend a whole video talking about this whole thing was
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  because I thought that the whole response to this brand pivot and
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  the lack of grace given to him specifically is interesting to
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  note when compared to his peers and predecessors who quite
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  honestly have done much worse and have gotten away with it for
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  much less. So when it comes to things like
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  influencer rebrands and honestly, influencer career
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  revivals, let's take a little look and to who really has the
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  right to change and why. The big difference between a
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  warrior and a victim is that the victim represses and the warrior
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  refrains. We found.
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  A dead body. Unidentified aerial phenomena in
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  the sky. We don't know what they are.
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  EU it's very. Possible someone has been
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  alleging for years now that you, one of the largest commentary
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  creators on YouTube, knowingly committed a crime against her
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  when she was a minor. It's news to me, news to me
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  apparently, which is like annoying because they're already
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  paid for. I guess it's like against the
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  HOA rule. All right, I know there's like
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  an audience and content creator overlap at times, but let me
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  just let you in on some creator trade secrets.
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  OK so POV do you ever find yourself scrolling on the for
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  you page and find a funny TikTok and go like Oh my God this is so
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  funny let me go see this creator's other content only to
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  find the same video or at least like type of video done over and
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  over and over again on their page.
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  Or maybe you wonder why your favorite YouTube seems to have
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  the same thumbnail over and over and over again or just doesn't
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  branch out as much outside of their niche.
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  Well my friends, if you weren't already aware, that's because
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  platforms reward monotony, or at least how they say it, content
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  consistency. If you make a video that utterly
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  banks and brings in your highest viewership, you've now got
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  yourself a new target demographic and a brand new
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  content vertical that they will be expecting from you.
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  And is this necessarily true all the time for all creators?
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  No. There are of course exceptions
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  to this rule, but if you are trying to build an audience, in
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  many cases it does kind of go back to the old adage of if it
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  ain't broke, don't fix it and to just generally stay in your
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  lane. And yes, this is strategy.
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  I mean, believe it or not, this content stuff is a job for many
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  people after all, and that's why you may see people stick to a
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  certain niche, especially if this is their main source of
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  income. This is also why you always hear
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  from creators that content pivots are some of the hardest
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  things for creators to do, especially before you get to a
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  certain point. Like for example, in my case, I
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  used to be a show review channel over two years ago and there is
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  still a good chunk of you all or at least people on the Internet
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  that beg for that kind of content over the commentary that
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  I do now, just because that is the brand and that is the
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  vertical that I initially came up with.
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  And if you are one of those people that curves that kind of
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  content, go subscribe to my second channel and ask nicely
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  and we might do some show reviews over there.
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  But I bring all that up to say that I think that after you
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  reach a certain point of success, especially on social
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  media, you can make that flip to switch up your content because
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  not only is that safety there, the audience loyalty is there as
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  well. However, these pivots are not
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  always without criticism and repercussion, especially in the
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  public court of Internet discourse.
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  With the Internet being as punitive of a system as there
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  is, who has the right to change and reinvent their content?
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  Enter Kaisenat and his arguably performative rebrand.
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  Now, what initiated this whole thought process was the Internet
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  discourse taking place at the moment, which I do have to say
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  is usually on the other side of the Internet from me.
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  And that has to do with Kaisenat and his rebrand to reading more,
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  learning how to sew and start, and just generally working out
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  and hearing these things for the first time on social media.
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  I truly did not give a gap. I'm sorry, I hate to say it.
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  I don't mean to sound ridiculous, but I do not know
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  who this man is really beyond some sometimes problematic clips
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  that I see from him and his guests online.
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  But still, shout out to him. I mean, until I saw a world of
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  discourse behind a change that's seemingly innocuous as far as I
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  can tell, like reading more, learning how to sew, and working
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  out. We're on thousands of people's
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  New Year's resolutions this year.
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  So truly, why do we care? Actually, I'll tell you so for
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  those of you who are not into the streamer and Twitch world of
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  it all, and trust me, neither am I really.
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  You have likely heard of Kaisenat as he is one of the
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  biggest streamers on the platform.
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  He's known for his mixed bag content of gaming reactions
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  day-to-day IRL or vlog esque streams, as well as being the
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  host behind some of the largest streaming events over the past
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  couple of years like Streamer University as well as his 24
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  hour 32 day stream series called Mafia Thon.
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  He's also known for his many celebrity guests ranging from
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  Kim Kardashian to Mariah Carey to less savory characters like
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  Miss Macha Minaj. And I will say she was on his
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  stream pre like full mogification as well as people
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  like Chris Brown. And also side note here, how
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  does everyone continuously forget that he consistently
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  beats people? Like it's not just women that he
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  beats. Like that's bad enough.
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  He's beating everybody. Like check his track record up
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  until very recently. It's bad.
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  But getting back to Kai, he's recently announced that he's
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  quitting streaming or being online, which is clickbait, of
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  course, because in reality, he's just switching up the kind of
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  content that he's making, focusing now on time, reading
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  out loud, learning how to sew for his fashion line and again,
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  working out, which to my surprise, has caused quite the
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  stir online. And I think if the biggest
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  offense here, at least according to the online discourse here, is
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  the perceived coordinates and that all of this is
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  performative, I'll take it. Like we have much bigger and
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  much more felonious and hateful fish to fry you guys.
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  Like, come on, like what happened to the to be cringes to
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  be free people? Like, where are y'all at now?
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  On the other hand though, I think there is so much backlash
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  or at least judgement coming from people about this because
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  the person that Kaisenat is becoming and the way in which he
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  is choosing to become that person is not the person that
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  the audience that he cultivated knows him to be and who is
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  original content appealed to. According to stream charts, of
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  course, as of recording this video as the last 30 days, his
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  audience is primarily males ranging from the ages of 20 to
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  24 years old, which no shade is honestly higher than I thought
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  that it was going to be. I thought that it would
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  personally range from around 16 to 18 to 24, but shout out young
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  adults. But when we're talking about
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  this audience demographic specifically, we do have to take
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  into account the modern landscape of streaming and how
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  he and other streamers like him have built up their audiences.
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  And I don't mean to make a generalization because I know
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  this is not everybody, but the lot of people in these audiences
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  don't seem to be the most open minded community or those the
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  most accepting of change. With audiences often engaging in
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  similar sexist, racist, and oftentimes homophobic rhetoric
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  as their streamers and guests they watch too.
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  So like at the end of the day, we can't be shocked when the
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  audience that you cultivated that isn't the most open minded
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  to a lot of things aren't the most open minded to you in your
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  changes as well. Like truly, who set that system
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  up? These are the golden handcuffs,
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  my friends. But getting more on the
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  controversy itself, his fans and his haters are teaming up
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  because they both think this is an inauthentic move.
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  Because nobody had an issue with his rebrand.
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  When he came out and said, yo guys, I can't stream anymore.
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  It's taking a toll on my mental. I don't know how to outdo
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  myself. I had LeBron on stream.
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  I streamed for 30 days straight. People understood that that's a
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  lot to handle. And people gave him grace for
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  that. But then when he came and said,
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  but I want to be a fashion director, fashion designer,
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  dickhead. When I want to be a fashion
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  designer, that's when people started to get a little cautious
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  because of the fact that when you're rebranding, it either has
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  to be slow and compound on itself or has to be something
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  that's a natural transition. You know, he's a creator that
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  that makes comedy videos. Get into stand up comedy.
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  You stream a lot, you're on video, start acting.
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  Those are things that would have made sense the average viewer
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  and no one would have questioned.
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  With some fans also calling out this switch up as being
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  inauthentic, performative and not what they signed up for.
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  And very much unlike Kai, which like OK, he is a literal
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  performer being that he is live on Twitch all the time.
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  Like I don't know, again, this is no shader disrespect, but
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  like the concept of expecting authenticity from a streamer is
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  kind of crazy work. I'm sorry.
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  Like I just think that it's kind of foolish in our year of 2026
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  to expect authenticity from streamers and influencers at
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  this point. Like I'm sorry, but that is
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  literally the whole job. Like the whole job is to
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  perform, and I'm sorry if that breaks the immersion.
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  I'm sorry, but the concept of being an influencer and the
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  concept of being a content creator is to inherently be
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  inauthentic no matter what the creator says, no matter how
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  authentic the creator portrays themselves to be and how
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  authentic they may be in real life.
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  The nature of recording content and posting it online for people
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  to engage with so that you can profit off of it is inherently
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  inauthentic because it is no longer just about the craft.
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  It is no longer just about the connection.
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  It is a job and it can and oftentimes is a job that you can
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  enjoy and enjoy the community that you Foster and build
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  connections with and interact with on a daily basis.
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  But the foundation behind that is that it is a job.
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  And especially when you get to that level, when you are making
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  millions off of your content and you have millions and millions
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  and millions of supporters, that 100% becomes a performance.
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  Like there is no way to authentically show up for
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  millions of people as an individual.
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  Like we were not designed to do that.
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  Like expecting someone to be authenticated themselves at 100%
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  all the time is just unrealistic.
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  I'm sorry. So on the spectrum of all things
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  evil, it could be so, so much worse.
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  That's when I thought Kaisenat couldn't get any more
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  performative. He decides to drop this absolute
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  bang, this video. He's working on his new brand,
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  Vivette, basically some type of fashion brand.
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  And you know, he's staying up late writing down ideas, working
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  hard, and at one point he pulls out these Instax photos and
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  tapes them to the paper. Like, is this a vision board or
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  what? But that's not even really that
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  bad. Have you noticed the quality of
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  this video? That's because he used a 3DS to
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  record the video. As you can see his comment right
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  here. Recording off my 3DS.
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  We are reaching new levels of performative we have never seen
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  before. This guy grabbed this 3DS and he
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  might have even bought a 3DS just for this.
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  Mike Y'all would. Truly.
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  He had me strung up in Times Square, if this is what we're
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  going after. Tyson Hat is doing this thing
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  where he's reading on stream to improve his literacy and like,
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  First off, props, you know, anything to encourage literacy
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  is great. But I feel like he when you
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  watch that video, you will see that there's two things that are
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  a really integral part of like reading that Tyson Hat and a lot
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  of people don't have because reading is not just being able
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  to see a word and then say it. Part of reading is 1.
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  Like reading and comprehending. Like it is entirely possible to
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  read a page aloud and then come away and not have any idea what
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  it said. And when Kaisenat reads, you can
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  tell that he's tracking the words with his eyes, But is he
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  following the ideas with his mind?
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  I don't think so. And while I think that there is
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  some validity to the worry that he might be perpetuating A
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  harmful stereotype about black men, which again, I would agree
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  would be crazy if he's pretending to be reading like
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  that. And if that's the case, that's a
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  whole separate video. But taking that in good faith,
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  what if that's not the goal and he's genuinely, truly trying to
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  get better? What's the harm in that then?
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  I think oftentimes we forget that we really do have a
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  literacy crisis in this country in general.
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  And I know that he went to college for a little bit before
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  he dropped out to do content full time.
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  But the literacy crisis unfortunately does impact us
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  all. And also, again, I don't watch
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  his content regularly, but many people that do have said that
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  they noticed in old streams, he does tend to read that way.
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  So really the fake reading allegations are all speculation
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  at this point. Now with that said, when we're
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  talking about who gets re Brandon, who gets to change, I
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  would be remiss if I did not mention some of his offenses in
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  general because as I've mentioned, with a massive
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  following and viewership comes a equally, if not more massive
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  responsibility. And unfortunately with that, he
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  has platformed some rather terrible people such as Chris
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  Brown and Kodak Black, who are both well known abusers, as well
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  as multiple incidents of homophobic and misogynistic
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  rhetoric being used during extremes.
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  And these are obviously not great traits to have when having
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  an influential platform. But what gets me about this, and
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  this is how I know that I'm on a different side of the Internet,
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  is that no one is really going after this.
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  Like the core audience of Kaisenat stands do not care.
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  They do not care about that stuff.
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  That is fine. But where the line is being
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  drawn? The real problem here, the thing
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  that makes people question their support of Kaisenat, is him
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  sadly trying to read out loud and not be a good reader.
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  And I also did want to address very briefly, because this is
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  not substantiated and could very well be misinformation, and
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  having that with a big disclaimer.
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  And allegedly all around this, I was seeing comments online
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  saying that he was allegedly, allegedly endorsed by AIPAC,
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  which gagged me and not in the good way.
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  But in doing further research, neither my researcher nor I
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  found any substantiating evidence on this other than the
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  tweet of origin that comes from the account with the bio
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  professional rage baiter. So I'm personally not super
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  inclined to believe that. So unless you got a primary or
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  secondary source on this, I don't think that's that's true
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  because Elon Musk's Twitter is definitely not a reliable source
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  in the slightest. And this very well may be one of
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  the many cases of misinformation on that platform.
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  Now, with that said, let's bring this conversation into the
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  broader talking more broadly about the general question of
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  who has the right to rebrand? Who has the right to change
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  their career around? And why does this matter?
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  Because the times haven't suddenly changed and I'm not
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  suddenly a streamer gossip channel, OK, Things have nuanced
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  and there's a reason why I'm talking about this because this
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  whole little discourse got me thinking.
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  It got this little noggin running, OK?
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  And it made me think about how and the whole sphere of
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  influencer and content creation, who really is allowed to change.
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  And what I mean by that is who gets to change and rebrand,
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  especially after controversy or just a general fall from the
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  public's graces. Because unfortunately, and by
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  unfortunate, I mean very fortunately, we don't have Shane
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  Dawson going around anymore giving PR documentaries for
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  canceled influencers. And it just really got me
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  thinking of like other instances in which content creators or
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  influencers have been put on trial in the court of public
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  Internet opinion. And honestly, I did not like
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  what I found with the most prominent instances, including
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  sorry. Let me get in character for a
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  second. Hi everyone, hello.
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  And now I present to you best rebrand of the Internet.
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  Logan Paul, Japanese suicide forest vlogger to do do apology
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  video to podcaster that interviews the president Cody Ko
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  engaging with minors and now going back to making content
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  like nothing happen at an arguably higher rate.
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  All right anyways, next nominee PewDiePie history of being a
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  literal schnauzzi online and saying the N word now a sweet
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  relatable family man James Charles engaging with minors and
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  also now making content like everything is normal and still
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  has an audience. Well, let's give it up for our
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  nominees people. They are certainly here.
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  And see, you can definitely see that these influencers either
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  reinvented themselves or had major comebacks after some
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  egregious acts at best, in literal criminal activity at
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  worst. And again, they were still able
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  to rebrand and still have an audience to this day.
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  But now someone who wants to rebrand in an arguably positive
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  direction, even if it is performative or seemingly a cash
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  grab, is being yelled at and being held accountable, but not
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  for any of the stuff that actually needs to be held
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  accountable for. Like if the crime is being
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  performative, then perform got OK, do whatever you got to do.
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  But it's making these kids pick up a guy.
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  Look OK, the average American is reading at a fifth grade level.
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  Like someone needs to do something.
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  And I just want to say that these content creator
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  comparisons are not comparable at all in terms of action.
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  Like I'm not saying that Kaisenat is at the same level at
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  all as like the James Charles is the Cody KO's, the Pewdiepie's
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  of it all. But this is more so to speak to
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  the conversation of like, look who's able to come back from a
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  significant change, specifically a negative change, and still be
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  here making content and making money.
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  And like, not to racialize this, but like, let's racialize it for
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  a second. The white creators just
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  mentioned hit some serious offenses and again, not saying
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  what Kai has done in the past isn't harmful, but some of these
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  other people committed literal crimes and were still able to
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  come back to God's Internet and continue their careers OK.
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  They just had to shift the content around a bit.
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  Like evil white men can literally do anything and still
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  be successful thereafter. But God forbid a black content
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  creator or just a general content creator of color
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  switches it up or just tries to better themself in the name of
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  self improvement and then all of a sudden it's Courtney, it's
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  inauthentic, it's a cash grab and you should get off the
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  Internet. Like Kai changing his content is
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  nowhere near the level of this of course, but the fact that
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  there is almost a double standard of what gets persecuted
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  on the Internet is telling. And that brings me to the whole
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  concept of shaming and clowning a black man for reading.
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  Like honestly to me that is crazy.
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  Like y'all are seeing this right?
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  I feel like reading has become more of a conversation on the
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  Internet for a while now with many people saying that they
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  used to read and want to get back into it's help train or
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  better their attention span. So if that's the case why then
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  are we judging someone who already streams in their daily
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  life streaming themselves? Reading like this is really such
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  a non issue for real. And like, I get it, that might
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  not be what the initial audience was there because the content
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  that the initial audience signed up for was a bunch of
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  explosions, a bunch of screaming it honestly over stimulation
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  nation. But the fact that he's trying to
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  drastically change his life like this should not bring the state
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  of his mental health or the state of his brand in question.
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  Because let's get into the grift allegations because I think we
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  forget what words mean after so long of just regurgitating them.
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  A grift is quite literally to engage in petty or small scale
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  swindling. Like for example, when all these
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  podcasters started supporting Trump for a check and realized
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  that that wasn't the way to go when his policies actually then
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  impacted their bottom dollar. And I guess in Kaisa tuition,
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  the only murky thing here is that maybe he's using his
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  platform to get people to buy his brand and even then,
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  everyone with a platform does that.
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  Like I think I'm just not seeing the net negative here.
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  Like trust and believe. I am a skeptic most of the time.
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  And sure, there definitely is still a mystery afoot and only
• 16:54
  time will tell if this is truly a grip or not.
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  But to me, Kai posting videos of him learning how to sew and get
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  into fashion is literally fine. Like yes, OK, learning new
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  skill. And before you say I know that
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  the argument is that he can get into fashion and learn to sew
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  without commercializing it and modifying it literally right off
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  the jump into a fashion line, which is a valid critique.
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  But also this man has quite literally commodified every
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  other aspect of his life just like any other influencer and
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  streamer. Like to me at least, this just
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  seems like a natural step. And not just that this behavior
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  isn't new for creators. Like there are many influencers
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  in the millions here around his size that have gone off to other
• 17:28
  industries. Like if you really want to clock
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  it, these rich white influencers be doing literally any and
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  everything. Like love her down, but did you
• 17:34
  ever see Miss Emma Chamberlain reporting live from the coffee
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  field? Or like the roastery?
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  Did y'all see David Dilbrick have some kind of culinary
• 17:40
  experience that I didn't know about that made him the perfect
• 17:43
  person to open a pizzeria? And then there's other honorable
• 17:46
  mentions like Mr. B's Feastables and the Paul brothers and KSI's
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  and Lunch Lee snack packs that had mold in them and Kodico's
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  oatmeal brand after the statutory allegations.
• 17:54
  Like not saying that it's bad to start a brand out of nowhere,
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  but it can be argued that all of these are cash grabs and they
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  all had less transparency than what Kai is trying to put out
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  there. For a product that is not even
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  out yet. However, it still has people
• 18:05
  concerned about it being a potential grift.
• 18:06
  Like, it just really gives YouTube with a book deal and
• 18:08
  like, maybe a ghost of the 20 tens, but just maybe a more
• 18:11
  lucrative version for the times. Like, do we not feel like this
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  is just part of the course? Like, I don't know how you feel
• 18:15
  about Kaisenet doing this is up to you.
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  And time will tell his intentions.
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  But we really can't act brand new about how when people get
• 18:21
  money to do what they want, they then go and do that.
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  All in all, I think like, yeah, Kaisenet isn't getting a Nobel
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  Peace Prize anytime soon. And it can be argued that his
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  content and audience cultivation can be actually harmful for
• 18:31
  certain audiences to consume. But I think this change in this
• 18:34
  pivot kicked up a lot more negative feedback than it maybe
• 18:36
  should have. And also, don't lie to me.
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  This is about what holding people accountable looks like.
• 18:40
  Like if it was, people would have been holding the pitchforks
• 18:43
  way before this. OK Like this is literally just
• 18:46
  about him switching it up temporarily leaving the
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  shenanigans and at worst pursuing other shenanigans and
• 18:50
  at best elevating himself and his brand.
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  And at the end of the day we got to be real, the fans don't
• 18:55
  really care about accountability in his case.
• 18:57
  So what's truly the issue here? Like I would understand if the
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  conversation was about like the past acts of misogynistic
• 19:02
  rhetoric or platforming abuse. It's not being cool and taking
• 19:05
  accountability in that sense. But like his fans literally
• 19:07
  don't care about that and haven't cared about that.
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  So what's really tea Like truly none of this discourse really
• 19:12
  matters. Like this is some deeply online
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  for real and truly the biggest non issue in the grand scheme.
• 19:17
  But I think looking at how we react to different people and
• 19:20
  acting essentially similar rebranding or reinvention ways
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  on the Internet is interesting to talk about.
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  Because the gatekeeping of reinvention and evolution online
• 19:27
  seems to be falling on more racialized lines than we
• 19:30
  initially thought. Because yes, two things can be
• 19:32
  true and exist at once. But if you are cool with literal
• 19:34
  racists and criminals and don't want to have the real
• 19:37
  conversations about the real issues with streamers, please
• 19:39
  don't get my face by no costing that.