Logan's Failed Apology and Facebook's Hypocrisy

Hello everyone! Welcome back to YouTube.com. My name is Drew Gooden and today I am... Oh, there it is; I'm sorry. Today I'm going to talk about Logan Paul. Normally I would paint a little more context for a video in case there is someone out there who doesn't know what I'm talking about, but I feel like in this case I don't have to because it's so obvious you probably wouldn't click on this video. if you still don't know what Logan Paul did. But to sum it up in a few words: basically, this week, Logan Paul managed to do what he previously thought was impossible and made Jake Paul look not so bad.

The two of them really make a pretty good team... And by that I mean that every time one of them screws up, it makes the other one look not so bad in comparison. And then the other person makes so many mistakes that you forget what the other person did wrong. And it's like this endless cycle of two idiots... trying to outdo each other and those are like the two most popular people on YouTube so... Uhm... Things are good right now. Things are great. The main thing about this is that it is a revelation of character. It is not an error.

There is a difference between a mistake and an action that shows people who you really are. One of the biggest arguments of all these Logan Paul apologists is like, "Oh, you..." "Oh, you're a perfect person? What? You've never made a mistake before, huh? You've never... "You've never made a mistake in your life." "Yes, everyone makes mistakes. But normally, when you make a mistake, you know it instantly. That's how you know you've made a mistake: it's that instant regret. There was no instant regret here. There was no regret when it was and He did it. He didn't regret it while editing it.

He didn't regret it when he posted it. The regret came when he started getting harassed by probably people he respects; People, like Aaron Paul, who basically said he's human trash. I'm sure that when Logan Paul saw that, that's when he realized. That's when you realize that when you've made a mistake that's when you get a backlash for something. And to me that's not a mistake because if you don't recognize that you've made a mistake until thousands and thousands of people tell you that you did it. I made a mistake. Especially when it's something where the mistakes should be so obvious from the beginning, that's not a mistake.

That's a revelation of character. As far as As far as your

apology

video goes, I don't think it was insincere. I think he felt sincere, but again, the sincerity of his

apology

didn't come from a place of, "Oh, I made a mistake." It's like, "Oh, people are turning on me. People are mad at me. I'm sorry that I did something that made people not like me... that's how sorry I am." His written apology seems very boastful, as NerdCity pointed out on Twitter. He basically pointed out eight, I think it was, boasts in this brief apology. It was more of an excuse.

It was more about him getting defensive than it was about him apologizing. I think his main point is, "I do this shit every day, I didn't stop to think about what I was doing because in the life I've created for myself, I don't have time to stop." think." I think that's a valid excuse, but my answer is, Logan, if by your own admission, you've reached a state where your brain doesn't recognize that what you did was wrong because you're so "content." all the time. If, by your own admission, that was the reason you would mess up it's because you've done too many vlogs.

So here's some advice: take a break, man. Take a few weeks off. Take a month off. You know, no one wants to see you right now, and you need to, you need to remember what it's like to be a person again. We've seen what happens when you do a "TV show" every day for 460 days. This is what happens. So maybe don't do that anymore. That would be my advice to Logan. My general advice to everyone (this is something I wish would change) how about we stop making these idiots famous? We can do that? Have we already learned that this is what happens?

In his apology, he quotes Spider-Man and says, "...with great power comes great responsibility." Well, how about we not give so much power to people who are so fucking irresponsible? Jake Paul becomes more famous every day. Logan Paul becomes more famous every day. He checks out his Social Blade right now, even after the worst incident I can remember on YouTube, he still gets tens of thousands of subscribers every day. Why are we doing this? My question to everyone is: what did we expect? I think the last thing I'll address from your written apology is that you said, "I'm sorry to say that I mishandled that power.

It won't happen again." I really hope it doesn't happen again. And I hope the reason it doesn't happen again is because you walk away. The daily vlogging life should be put on the back burner right now. You need to live your daily life. Lucky for you, the world we live in now is something like this: "Something is so important today and then it's not." There are so many other fucked up things going on in the world that this will eventually just... People will lose interest in this. I hate that damn cycle. I hate that that's the world we live in.

Which is like if you do something bad, you can do something worse or someone else can do something worse and we all leave that behind because we're distracted by this new thing. — I hate that, but that's the reality. And you will benefit from that, so the best thing you can do now is. —It just disappears. The only way to show that you're sorry for what you've done is to get out of the public eye because if you just go back to where you were, I don't think that shows remorse. You need to show that you have changed.

You must show that you want to grow from this and growing means taking a step back. It means learning from your mistakes. It means listening. What it definitely doesn't mean is apologizing, but then continuing to do the same thing. So that's my advice to you. My advice to everyone is to stop making these people famous. I'm so tired of this. Now I want to talk about something that has no relation to Logan Paul. So hopefully this will clean up your system a bit. I want to complain about something that, compared to what I just talked about, I'm not that angry about.

It's basically just another reason why I hate Facebook. I guess content-wise, Facebook isn't much different from Twitter. But the problem with my personal Facebook is that I have... I have 10 years of acquaintances and people I don't think I've ever met. And that's like Facebook saying, "Oh, you have to see this, Drew!" "Hey, Drew! We picked this out for you!" "You know that guy you haven't talked to in eight years, who you have nothing in common with," And now he looks completely different, you probably wouldn't even recognize him if he didn't have his name right next to his face. of the? "Uh, yeah, he shared a funny video.

He shared a really funny video of... oh wait, it's not a video. "It's a picture of a meme that looks like shit, but it turned into a video. "It's just a still image for about 20 seconds. "And then at the end it'll be like /Female Thoughts/. Sometimes I even, if I'm lucky, click on it, look at it and a mid-roll ad appears... in an image! So I don't like Facebook. I'm not continuing on that. I don't talk much about it. It's just... it's this that I've accepted what I don't like. But last night something happened. And I wanted to make a video about this, but I didn't think it was worthy of a full video, so I added it to the end of this one.

My lovely fiancée, Amanda, was going through old videos of her on her phone and found one that she had edited. We were playing racquetball and just joking around. We kept filming each other doing, you know, ridiculous hits. And she had edited together and played the song "Party Up" by DMX. It's like a super aggressive song. That's all. So, I wanted to post it somewhere. I thought, “Oh, put it on Facebook,” right. So he went to put it on Facebook and, of course, not in his likes. Not on a public page that has a ton of likes and followers and the kind of things that would somehow generate income for us, right?

It's like your private Facebook page. The only reason I'm saying all that is because you got this message when you tried to post it: "Your video is partially muted because it may contain music that belongs to someone else." Facebook is committed to protecting all intellectual property, "so we inform you that your video contains material that you may not have the rights to use." And here's one thing: I'm all for it... so that the intellectual property isn't stolen and... And so that someone else doesn't repost that that's something they found somewhere else or repost a song that they found somewhere else.

You don't have the rights. I'm all for that! It's your

hypocrisy

. Do you know how many people post viral videos where they have ads and make money directly from where they have other people's intellectual property? Now, when it comes to content creators who use popular songs in their videos to tell jokes, who is the first person that comes to mind? Obviously, it's Brent Rivera. Let's go ahead and click on the most recent video of him. This is "Christmas as a CHILD versus TEENAGER." It would be very relatable, I'm sure. He even said to share it, if you can relate to it.

Girl: "Here's my Christmas list, all 120 items." Brent: "I just want some money and a gift card." Oh wait. Then Brent Rivera can post a video where all the music is in the background. An obviously copyrighted song by Mariah Carey. Now, I didn't see any mid-roll ads in this video, but that exists now on Facebook. You get mid-roll ads. So maybe you're not directly making money from this video, right? But your post right before is an advertisement. It's an ad for the Disney Channel app. So this guy who has 5 million likes can use any song he wants and make money from it.

Whether directly or indirectly, he benefits from the use of these songs in his videos. It just doesn't make sense to me. You know, I love the idea of ​​having a system that protects copyright. I love that, but what are you protecting? Well, that's right: Is DMX going to be mad because Amanda wanted to show the video of her to 50 people? For me, posting something on your private Facebook page is almost the same as sending a video in a group text message. So you're really going to lay down the law on it, but not on someone who has 5 million views.

Is it because it makes you money? However, I'm curious to know if this copyright detector or whatever is limited to just music or if it also... if it will also track when people repost other people's videos. I doubt that will be the case, at least for now. It would be nice to get to that point, but certainly right now, you know, all you see is stolen videos all over Facebook. This is probably my most popular video from last year. It was the short video I made in the video "5 Días Con Piques". It's always stolen on Instagram, and then it was also stolen on Facebook, from a page, ironically called "Stolen from Somewhere." Facebook didn't seem to care that they were posting an entire video they got from someone else.

They have almost 200,000 likes on their page, all of them from stolen content. This appears to be a new system, so I'll give them the benefit of the doubt. I'm sure they're still figuring this out. I hope in the future they fix this and stop these big sites from making a lot of money from other people's content. I very much agree with that. I love that idea and if Facebook can get it right before Instagram or Twitter, they'll win some points with me and maybe I'll use Facebook more often. Did you know? No, I take it back.

Facebook sucks. Alright guys, I think that will be enough for today's video. I want to sincerely thank the 65 people who ordered something from my merch store. Obviously I did this all as a joke as a parody of other people's merch. I wanted to let you know that "cutting edge merchandise" was just a bunch of nonsense. But 65 of you... actually wanted to get in on the joke and buy a stapler, which was sold out, or buy a mug, which was also sold out. I can not thank you enough. I think it's really fun and awesome and... most of all, it's good that I'm not going to lose money on this.

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I don't know. I'm trying to think of a clever way to end this, but I'm so fucking hungry my brain isn't working right now, so I'm going to turn off the camera and go get something. food. Thank you all so much for watching and we'll see you in the next video.