What is up everybody? It's Chris from the rewire. So we're we talk about the problem but focus on the solution. And as you can see I am in a beautiful new location. I had to go for a little walk this morning and this is a video I've been planning on making for weeks now and because of some events that happen I'm like you know what Chris it's time to make this right so I'm at beautiful Red Rock Canyon, here in Las Vegas to kind of go for a walk. Simmer make a calm collected video if you will. All right and yeah there's gonna be some changes to the channel. I'm not going anywhere so calm down all right but there's gonna be some shifts in the way I do this thing. And yeah like I have to discuss why I'm choosing to leave this drama community. Now those of you who follow my channel and you know what I'm trying to do here. I typically pull in drama topics to try to teach people about their own mental health right and somebody asked me not that long ago like Chris how are you not a drama channel? What separates you from drama channels and for me that answer is simple and some of you get that some people don't but when I watch a drama channel it's just drama. That's all it is. It's just drama maybe a little bit of an opinion if you're lucky right but what I try to do is I try to take that give you some context and then have you look at your own life and see okay can I relate to anything in this video that might be affecting me right and I want to make it very clear from the start like I look at drama channels and commentary channels very differently like my buddy Ein Aver I look at him as a commentary channel drama channels what I see is them I kind of classify them and everybody has their own different perspective but I look at a lot of stuff like if they're talking about beauty influencers a lot typically I classify that as a drama channel right anyway here's a little backstory of how I got involved in this community in the first place I made hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of videos and they weren't really getting any views I wanted to get this message out there to teach people about mental health the importance of mental health raise awareness all sorts of things and my message really wasn't going out there then my beautiful girlfriend Tristan and her friend Shelby they are heavily involved in like all the makeup gurus and like the gossip and drama that goes around it and they were showing me videos and I'm like oh my god like this is there's a lot of problems and no solutions being talked about right so I decided to try something right I was like okay maybe I could take these topics and just help somebody you know who might be able to relate to the people who are being discussed in these stories right because I remember I remember back in my active addiction I was a type of guy where I would watch intervention right I would watch intervention while drunken high and think about how messed up those people were you know what I mean and I know that a lot of people watch reality TV or even YouTube or whatever and they think about how messed up everybody is on the opposite side of that screen without self-reflecting so I was like okay let me try doing this so like when I first started doing it I think it was right when like drama get and what's happening and I was talking about a lot of stuff going on in there and relationships and everything I'm like huh this is kind of working and then I started broadening out and you know I did you know the Shane Dawson series with Jake Paul a lot of you found me through that and then I kind of like okay so this is how you do it people don't want to talk about mental health so this is how you do it but again like it it's surprising but not surprising like I pulled in the drama community like that is the the market if you will of people who I was grabbing the attention from and what I've found is that I've reached as many people as I'm gonna reach you know in that community and now it's time to move on and broaden this thing you know but there's so much toxicity and I get it I've talked to you guys all about like negative bias and like if you watched the video I did on the YouTube rewind when you focus on the negative or even like selective attention theory like when you focus on that stuff your brain is trained to do it right and it bumps me out like I made a video earlier this morning about a conversation I had with Carly Steele and how I have trust issues and all of that and you know there's there's probably gonna be some videos coming out and like that's one of the many reasons why I'm not I don't want anything to do with the drama community anymore but a lot of you know what happened with Tricia Paitis and Tricia Paitis put drug addicts in a very negative light okay we have tens of thousands of people each year dying from drug addiction that was me as well and part of my channel is to bring awareness advocate and stuff like that so seeing as how I was kind of involved with that community I met some friends and things like that like I was like okay how about instead of just talking about like what James Charles said or what Jeffrey star did or what you know whoever else did here here is a YouTuber with millions of subscribers talking about drug addicts or just drug addicts right putting this negative light on drug addicts here's a topic that I think you could talk about to help raise awareness about the addiction stigma and the mental health stigma as a whole and and now I don't know how well I need to know how because that's what they do the perception is being that I was trying to quote unquote capitalize on that situation so that's another thing is when you're training your brain to focus on the negative and trying to expose people left and right you don't even see it's hard to even see the bigger picture like it's hard to even sit back and say wait a second maybe this guy's trying to bring awareness to a very serious situation that's plaguing our word right now no that's not what it is right so I was being you know tagged on Twitter this morning and all that but that's that's just the long and short of it but anyways and yeah so part of my mental health and what I have to do is I have to set up boundaries and you know what I realized was not only or you know did I do I have these drama channels starting to stir up stuff but they all have a community too who's looking for that right and if you want to stay in the drama community by all means do your thing right but what I have found especially throughout my life is that I have to separate myself from those people but I see I've had even you know just subscribers of my channel who have talked to me at length and I've talked to them and helped them out and you know given them advice and tips and resources to go see a therapist or whatever and now because you know they came from the drama community they're trying to capitalize on this stuff right like oh I'm gonna make a video about Chris and all this and I'm like oh my god but again it's not surprising that is the audience that I pulled from you know what I mean so this morning on Twitter I started blocking a bunch of people and stuff like that and like that's a boundary that I have to set like call me petty if you want all right but I have to set boundaries today like you guys like some people don't understand my mental health is my number one priority all right and my mental health leads to my sobriety which almost killed me and if I don't keep this thing on straight my son doesn't have a father Tristan doesn't have a boyfriend my mom doesn't have a son my friends don't have a friend you know what I mean so I I have to set up a boundary and get away from that so basically what I wanted to say was no I'm not leaving YouTube and I'm not even saying that I'm not going to talk about YouTube related topics anymore but there's going to be shift shift in my channel some of you have already seen it this last week or two so what I'm going to try to do is what I originally wanted to do on YouTube was talk about TV shows and how they depict mental health mental illness same thing with movies I want to do more song reviews because there's a lot of songs to talk about mental health and addiction and all of that something I'm trying to figure out is how to not have them copyright claimed or even copyright striped so that's one of the reasons I stayed away from them um but yeah I want to talk about what's going on in the news I want to talk about what's going on with the mental health care system all these other things you know what I mean like those are the things that I want to talk about now when I feel that there is a situation in which you know um something in that community like people might be able to benefit from maybe maybe but as a general rule of thumb if you see all of the drama channels talking about something I'm probably going to stay away from that like it's the plague all right and trust me I get it a lot of you found my channel for drama based stuff and like I might lose thousands upon thousands upon thousands of subscribers but I always talk to you guys about where your values are your value systems and everything like that and and that's the thing like that's okay with me because I want the people to stay who care about improving their mental health who care about advocacy who care about spreading awareness and all of that so if you came here just to get a different spin on the drama or the tea or whatever like I'm sorry but this channel is going to be refocused and like this is something that I've been working on to thank god for you know my support group like I mentioned in my video with Carly Steele there are people who I'm no longer going to be talking to as well like I don't know it just sucks but anyways like yeah I am focusing on my mental health and part of that journey is helping all of you with the things that I learn the things that I educate myself about and all that so if you're into that stay tuned if you're not thanks for hanging around for a while you know what I mean and the last thing I will say I don't mean to make a blanket statement but it's just how the mind works where we focus on the negative and you know I I love commentary channels but I've had to unsubscribe from a lot of drama channels just to kind of cleanse myself if you will so people like I'm Aber who I love you know even like Leon Lusher and Elvis the alien I'm Alex and people who are like you know being funny and just like talking about things and talking about Instagram things like that like mental health to me is supposed to be kind of funny and kind of laid back because I want to make a more of a conversation but yeah anyways like it's really pretty out here so that's all I got for this video thanks to all the patrons thanks for everybody who's been supporting the channel knows what I'm all about and what I'm here for and I'll see you soon