The Cult of David Dobrik: How to Keep A Group Obedient

He is one of the five most viewed creators on YouTube today and at the young age of 24 he is already a pioneer of 21st century entertainment. For me it is the new Hollywood. His immensely popular channel has received almost 5 billion views. 5 billion with b but. With a big person who I feel is a unique and important person in this world, he is someone who has a very strong voice and a very large platform, there are accusations that have arisen against David Dobrik, Jason Nash and the

group

in general. It's called the vlogging team It's like a color It's like a

cult

How can I do?

I need to take a blood oath. I need to sacrifice something. I will join. It felt like really demonic energy. I had such a strict rule about that. The whole

group

knows who we are, we know our character, we know we're good people and we know that's not true from an entertainment perspective, they do a great job of entertaining. I mean, the numbers obviously show it, but just because you're popular, no. It doesn't mean you're a good person. He is going around on the excavator. David Dobrik leads it being irresponsible. He hits the thing. He's turning it too fast.

Of course, he comes back. Hit the thing. When you are a creator like David. The beginning and end of the set are very blurry, but it's your set. You know you have to take responsibility for the environment you're creating on set. They always come up to us and say, "I'll do it, I'll do it, I'll kiss." whoever it is for the vlog and it's just and it's scary, what does that say? Humans were so willing to do something sexually to be a part of something. I don't know what it is, but I regret doing that. Welcome to psychology. my name is donna.

I want to start this video with the disclaimer. Every time I make a video similar to this, I get emails and direct messages stating that I am teaching manipulation or that it is dangerous, even though it can be taken that way and many groups have used it. In that sense, these techniques have also been used positively to treat addiction, cope with trauma, etc., so the methods themselves are neutral, but individuals are the ones who take them in a negative or positive direction. Some are even used in sales. You can put three bodies in At the end of the day, although you can also take these techniques and protect yourself from anyone who could use them against you, I also have no idea how well the algorithm will treat this video because we will be talking and discussing controversial

cult

s, so no I don't normally ask this, but please share and like this video.

Okay, most of the theories in this video will be based on the book combating cult mind control by Stephen Hassan as we examine how to control a group with the vlogging team. As an example, is everyone exaggerating when they equate David Dobrik's outfit with a cult or is there something else going on? The emergence of drama involving popular YouTuber David Dobrik has sparked discussions about strange practices and group dynamics related to the group called the vlog squad. The Vlogging Team is a group of content creators best known for their extreme stunt pranks and giveaways. Dobrek is generally classified as the brains of the group, as he is often behind these extreme ideas.

The YouTuber also surpasses his counterparts in terms of number of followers. Opinion has effectively been split down the middle as to what constitutes normal behavior and expectations when joining such a group. On the one hand there are those who criticize the vlogging team for their cult-like behavior and on the other there are those who see the behavior as routine in a group like this, I think the skepticism towards this group is justified, there are too many former members who have had bad experiences with

dobrik

and the vlogging team ultimately don't see scandals like this coming out of vsauce perhaps looking at the systemic structure. of sects we can determine whether

david

dobrik

's accusatory information is an exaggerated hit or a dark and hidden truth for a brand-friendly organization.

Don't you want devoted followers who will leave their families for you? You give up their lives because you consider yourself God and they will kill for you. Don't you want to become a cult leader? It would be impossible for me, a third party, to confirm or deny the vlogging crew's classification as a cult. The other day he gave me some advice, he told me how to take my music career to the next level and I decided to follow that advice by getting a tattoo on my face. He was joking, did you get a tattoo on your face?

I did, oh thank god, you obviously scared me. Members and former members have access to external information. People can't achieve it. What we can do is examine the information that has been publicly disclosed from past and current members and infer whether the vlogging team has similar characteristics to these organizations. Are you Jesus? I am Jesus, yes, although I don't think Dobrik had any intention of starting a cult. The environment the group was in are the perfect conditions for one to thrive. I was once in this hospital visiting my aunt and I remember looking out the window and thinking how strange it was that a Scientology church building was right across the street from the hospital.

I later learned how ideal it was for the church and that location and surroundings play an important role in cult recruitment. In a survey of current and former cult members, data indicates that the majority of people recruited were contacted at a vulnerable time of stress in their lives starting a new job breaking up a new relationship experiencing financial instability or losing a loved one These parties prey on people's vulnerabilities and disguise themselves as an answer to these people's prayers, so here they are. There are a number of things that make the location of this building ideal for recruiting: Being in front of a hospital is optimal for finding those who are in a vulnerable time of stress in their lives, who are in danger of losing a loved one, or who may also be experiencing financial instability due to the unexpected costs of healthcare in the US. .USA Even more ideal is that this building is located in Hollywood.

The city attracts transients willing to make their acting dreams come true. This territory presents a series of vulnerabilities that Scientology is ready to take advantage of. of transient people often start a new job due to their move, break up relationships due to their move, and experience financial instability due to the move when I was homeless, I was standing in line at central casting to be a background worker and I was living in my car and a guy from Scientology came up to me and said, Hey, you can come and take these courses that will help you with life and stuff and maybe we can help you find housing and I said, I'll go to the manipulation of Scientology.

It's even more obvious since they will be offering acting classes to unsuspecting passersby, so in this ad they will say something like this how to get into the industry with tv actor gino montecinos in this workshop you will discover how to get an agent how to get a manager how to get into the film actors guild, so you can pay 20-30 and go to this workshop where you think you're going to meet a TV actor, a casting director, an agent, but they're actually Scientologists and it's going to be very quick. bait and switch to enter the church of scientology signed a course four aspiring actors will purchase these courses in the hopes of getting them where they want to be.

It's no surprise that Scientology chooses California as its second-best location to hold its real estate. The environment is ideal for recruiting The vlogging team environment works in an eerily similar way Most of the early members were former Vine stars looking to make a name for themselves on social media This dynamic checks quite a few boxes on our list of vulnerabilities The Most members I'm not a California native, so moving into a house together is very similar to having a new job when I first joined the group. You know, I was like 22 years old. I just moved to Los Angeles.

You know, I was looking for a cool group of friends. that I could work with and collaborate with, I can also be friends and also, you know, I have other interesting activities going on and you know that group, you know they were, they were great people when I met them and I liked what they did. Furthermore, the new movement creates difficulties in maintaining personal relationships with people from their hometown. Romantic or platonic. The early days of a social media career are not lucrative as view counts are inconsistent, leading to financial instability. closing Vines, they will close, they discovered a point where the line was made, like what am I going to do now? and we're all in the same boat, thank god David was there like filming vlogs while it was happening because honestly, I do.

I don't know where we would be right now. All of these checked boxes make members more likely to comply with actions that could possibly lift them out of their vulnerable state. These actions likely include content for David Dobrik's vlog. They make Jason make out with Seth, but. Seth doesn't know it's Jason he thinks he's like a girl yeah it's happened twice okay so I know every time Jason will like to take care of something or not it's not so Jason will take off the mask or whatever and be like, wait, let's meet with the guy, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, what are you mad about those things?

Well, that's not true. I was hearing about Seth. He is crazy. It's crazy. It's crazy. he said you specifically don't have to make out with boys, girls, moms, I don't care, I don't know what would happen if he was in a movie and had to do that. Imagine you give consent to kiss this person and you think it's a scene where you're going to help

david

dobrik with a vlog, it turns out he's pranking you by literally making you kiss someone you didn't give consent to at all, yeah I'm like you trying to kiss this girl they put a blindfold on her and me making you kiss a guy what does it mean like David is sitting there like oh you have to do this don't do this you're out of the group you know yeah of course , it's kind of like an unwritten thing where you see a pattern of people being like, no, I'm uncomfortable with this, hey bro, so isn't it really cool that all of a sudden they disappear and then they're not videos anymore if I do this and david I know views that are yelled at me in the vlogs this will help me financially gain respect from my coworkers etc. watch other people doing the most humiliating stunts jason, a man in his 40s who has to support his children, is often

obedient

to these Things and Jonah, a new addition to the vlogs submitted by another member is also this night, obviously these two have not come out and said that Dobreck's antics are abusive to them, that is not my point, if they agree with this, then they agree with This my point is that the more vulnerable you are, the more what you are willing to do for the vlog, even if it violates your own personal boundaries.

Members who are not in a vulnerable position are not susceptible to humiliating tasks. Liza Koshy and Josh Peck are some examples of vlogging. Squad member Karina Koff's evolution from vulnerable to non-vulnerable is another example of this dynamic happening before your eyes. The first few scenes of her in Dobrik's vlogs involve Karina being the butt of jokes and performing actions she wouldn't normally do if she were financially stable. I decided I was broke at this point, so David said he would help me and I'm going to get a tattoo on my finger. David's blog will say. What are you going to do now with your new tattoo?

For other people, how stupid you are, the more established his career became, the less prevalent these fragments were in Dobrik's Internet videos. Traditional media faces similar problems because it reflects this dynamic. Many are willing to engage in risky behavior for a chance at a high reward. The difference. Over the years, many intern writers and up-and-coming actors have fought to get laws passed to protect themselves, while Hollywood still has its shortcomings, the social media space is even more deregulated along with the natural environment in which it exists. the vlogging team is located. The internal structure of their work environment is very similar to that of a cult.

The desire of these individuals to launch their careers in the entertainment industry inadvertently creates a destructive top-down work structure. Cults are often authoritarian and structurally top-down with a single leader in charge. above and a smaller inner circle immediately below nowadays lord moon is considered as a messiah i will be god and within me there will be no other as the goal of the vlogging team members is to make the members of the follower count This structure based on follower count naturally falls into place, the members with the highest number of followers are at the top, while those with the lowest number of followers fall at the bottom.lower part reasonably, so this member can ask a lower ranked member to do something for his video because the lower ranked member will benefit through exposure.

While the highest-ranking member will benefit through low-cost labor, what if it were the other way around? This lower ranking member asks the higher ranking member to make a video. Well, there wouldn't be much incentive for the highest ranking member to participate, they already have more exposure. As the lowest-ranking member, this is why you rarely see Dobrik participating in humiliating scenes, even in her friends' vlogs. David never puts anything about himself in the box, he always gets something in return whenever one of us does something that's a little strange, he always puts it in and cuts it all out.

If we edited this blog, it would look very different. Healthy organizations have a system of checks and balances to prevent individuals from taking over established workplaces. They have a human resources department. The laws are instituted like the occupational health and safety law to protect employees, although this structure based on follower count is not explicitly verbalized to the vlogging team members, it is followed unconsciously due to the desire of the vlogging team members. Advance your career on social media. David Dobrik even addressed this in his second apology video and I want to be able to have a place of checks and balances I want to have human resources and I want to be able to have people communicate their discomfort in a way that they are comfortable with on this channel.

We have painted dobrik as a modern frank abignale capable of persuading. Anyone with charisma and charm, these characteristics have been key in helping him climb the ladder of influence using similar tactics to Jake Paul and still remain a likable figure to viewers, although useful charm and charisma are not enough to control to a group. Think Tyrion Lannister vs Daenerys Targaryen. persuade those around him while the other persuades an entire nation how can one person really gain control of a mass of people and if the dobrek set falls into this trap? What he was most interested in was talking to me about his experience of shock at how easy it was to scammers how easy it was to manipulate them how easy it was to get them to give up their money what was so fascinating to him was that many of his followers were young adults. and adults who had been very rebellious people and here he found them so willing once he fooled them with his soft talk his soft sell his I will love you forever your mind will create this new perfect order how easily he got them to obey and do anything in the Edgar Sheen's book coercive persuasion the process can be done in three steps unfreeze, change and refreeze if you have seen any cult documentaries, you will notice that the organization lives tremendously boring lives, it seems counterintuitive when you want people to stay in the group and yet they do it, but one asks that.

We meditate at least once a day, there are like 108 different meditations that are available to do and for us now at this point in ranch work is our meditation, this is done on purpose and refers to the unfreezing step that disorients a individual. They are more open to accepting a cult's new way of thinking. This can be done in a variety of ways, but the most common is through physiological means such as sleep deprivation. Members of the International Unification Church enthusiastically participate in a special campaign to clean up a very dirty area of ​​New York City, many are also fed low-protein, high-sugar diets or starved.

Several newspapers support this method, for example, when one is hungry, one is more likely to make brazen decisions, although I do not believe Dobrik does this on purpose. The hectic lifestyle of Trying to Make It in Hollywood certainly makes people live in such a way that defrosting occurs unconsciously. Your hours are not set like they would be in a traditional workplace. You constantly overwork yourself in hopes of making a name for yourself in the meantime, you may even be taking a part time job so you can eat and pay the rent while the person is broken, they are often bombarded with ideas that are very wrong, so you can Imagine my excitement when my grandfather took the school report and read it to 500 members of my community at a dinner and then said: we don't want women like you.

My stomach turned, I turned bright red, air was sucked in through my nose, but I couldn't breathe. I saw that my school teacher had written in my report a the phrase that reads lilia demonstrates leadership skills that could be useful for when I am older and my grandfather humiliates me for hours and this would become a common theme throughout my life. life. Sure the bits on dobrik's channel are framed as jokes, but they always take on a life of their own. off the vlog we both have this for you we've collaborated with mike come out nick look i got you a girlfriend another door look at this this is christine this is the big nick nick oh that's adorable not everything it has to do with doors like I just want you to look at me like a normal person.

There also came a point where people would recognize me in public and then they would make jokes about me and I would be like, dude, like I don't know you. your time on the vlogging team made you the butt of the joke and yeah that probably started to bother you you know and it's like suddenly everyone doesn't respect you, once these flaws are internalized they can be used as blackmail or a preventive measure to

keep

one in the cult here you see Jeff Whittick hinting at dirt he has on a former member who shared his perspective of being on Dobrik's team.

I know Big Nick came here and I mean, again, I don't know. I don't want to get in trouble with Big Nick, but yeah, he got caught doing some sketchy stuff and I'll just tell you the story we had as an Easter egg hunt vlog on uh you see, now I feel like a I'm right when Dobrik released a second apology. This former member conveniently says that he accepts the apology. Now obviously no one knows the truth except them, but one can't help but be suspicious because of this exchange. The next steps in gaining control of an individual are changing.

Once a person breaks down, it is time for their reality to change to that of the cults, so the change essentially means the process by which new information is given to the newly collapsed person, which can be done at through monotonous chanting, lectures and religious services in this performing sects can change their frame of reference through their dogma, making some actions acceptable in the minds of the members, for example, the majority of people in the world Westerners believe in the quality of gender, both men and women should be paid the same for the same amount of money.

Jobs should not be able to discriminate against someone based on their gender. Let's change the frame of reference to that of a religious person. In the Catholic Church, women cannot be priests even though many of its members support equality. This exception to the rule happens because religion. has been able to change the frame of reference let's look at another religion look how confused people are in this tic tac I don't shake a woman's hand for religious reasons I'll talk to you yes why one group claims to respect religion, while the other claims that this is sexist.

Social media and Hollywood are very similar in how they change an individual's frame of reference. There is no need for sermons or songs here. There is also no leader who cultivates the dogma of how things work. Instead, dogma is sustained by the common knowledge of the industry, along with, of course, the vulnerability of an individual. If you want to be successful in Hollywood, either you do what you're told, because if you don't, no one else will, although no one will force you. That sounds good in theory, this dogma has resulted in rampant child abuse, for example, 16-year-old Judy Garland, star of The Wizard of Oz, was forced to take diet pills and smoke cigarettes to lose weight because that's how It is if you want. be successful in a similar way, there is a dogma on social media that is also based on the common knowledge of how that industry works.

This dogma has been able to change the frame of reference in vlogging team members, causing them to perform acts they normally would not do. These acts may violate your personal boundaries and even the law that dogma is by opinion, possibly dogma held by the common knowledge of the public rather than the cult leader, may be better at getting people to do what they want. you want, for example, this member of the vlogging team performs a dangerous stunt. even though another member tells him he doesn't have to do it, he comes up to me and says, dude, listen, you don't have to do this, we already think you're cool enough, it's okay, you don't do it, it's just not So.

It means anything so you can get off the moped whenever you want. That thing about Jason made me think, shit, man, I can't back out, this is because the new member wants to join the group and assumes that if he doesn't. I don't do anything worth seeing, someone else will. This is all common knowledge about how social media works. I'm doing this to get views, but if this happened in traditional space it would stop immediately. This member was sent to the hospital, resulting in injuries. the trick when we got to the emergency room when they took him to the room and asked a nurse to look at him she immediately called another nurse and then another nurse at the puncture site, yes at the puncture, because I was in a very bad place.

Right next to his spleen, right next to his kidney, he was in a very dangerous place. More doctors kept coming and they kept asking us when it happened, when it happened and where, like it happened about an hour and a half ago and they Okay, the internal bleeding must not be that bad because he would have died an hour ago, about 30 minutes ago, like it was really bad, wow, like it was bad, like it would have been dead already if it was worse, not just. Does this affect the entire vlogging team? It also affects his fans.

There was one case in a vlog that was painted as normal at the time and probably shouldn't even have been that way. I thought it was normal because that's the frame of reference in vlogging. people are doing things to get views, 19 year old tana mojo and 44 year old vlogging team member jason nash decided to collaborate by making a video where they would go on a date so far, there is nothing wrong with that, there is an age difference, but they are both adults. and it's for work, the problem arises when the cameras are off, they were in the dressing room together, they were filming some kind of sketch and the cameras are off.

I've said this on my vlog before and Jason Jason felt like it was kind of like that. it's this is my moment she was her and he leans in to kiss me he just kissed me in the dressing room I don't know what's going on I really thought it was a fake date and I think he just turned it into a real date you just kissed me I chose you in the list you kissed me you picked me up I will fight you right now I will literally fight you this morning I want you to see the viewer is under the illusion that this is a random glimpse outing, but Tana and Jason actually meet for work, they are paid handsomely to do videos like this.

Vlogs do a great job of changing the viewer's frame of reference into believing that inappropriate behavior is okay because if everyone else is laughing, then that means it. everyone in the video agreed with this, what viewers don't realize is that things are edited so they can't get the full context of what happened. If you really examined the situation, it's no different than someone in the traditional entertainment space using their power and influence to trade opportunities for favors, if you know what I mean, the purpose of this outing was a youtube video and nothing more, You hear a lot of female artists say that it's hard to navigate because you don't know if someone really wants to work with you or they're just trying because vlogs are often presented as normal people doing normal things, viewers are manipulated into believing that this situation It's different, it's not a business move, although Tana hasn't called out Nash specifically to her. to famous older men and their influence in taking advantage of young tick-tock girls.

She also left a comment on trisha paytas' tick tock talking about jason nash. This change in frame of reference has affected viewers like me. Two years ago I uploaded a video called how david. Dobrik manipulates his friends even though the title suggests that I have been aware of this problem for a long time. I also say this before you, david dobrik stands up, kill me, i don't necessarily mean manipulation in a bad way, i just want to say that he has a certain charm about him that helps him get his way this is a positive video about david dobrik The resurgence of the vlogging team's dark past has also resulted in the resurgence of that video from two years ago three veryinteresting about the new popularity of In that video that suggests a lot about human behavior, one group of viewers felt that I was very smart for detecting Dobrik's manipulative actions back then, another group felt that I detected the behavior, but I had too much afraid of stains to really explain how I felt and the The last group felt I was really stupid for praising bad behavior now, even though the answers vary, there is one thing that all the answers have in common and that is that they assume that , as a third, you can see on the surface that a cult is a cult, some even say that because I have a degree in psychology, I'm supposed to know this, unfortunately, that's not how psychology works, psychology is not equal to psychic, if that were the case, dr. big todd would be calling out influencers left and right before any major media outlet did anyone.

Isn't that how the world works? It is difficult to identify a cult as a third party unless former members speak out against the group and you can gather evidence. Still, don't believe me, think about the smartest fan base you know. Definitely not anyone who has young viewers, but perhaps the smartest fans are those who watch educational content, maybe people who watch Ted Talks. More than 2 million people watched this video and no one found anything out of the ordinary. Some of you, yes you have. You may have seen this revealing. You know, if you look at everything, there's actually nothing wrong with it.

Well, the woman speaking supposedly runs a cult that tricks rich white women into taking classes and even going into debt for said classes. It wasn't until videos made by Buzzfeed and Anthony Padilla featuring former members surfaced that these videos generated criticism. Even then they have barely left a noticeable mark. This lack of suspicion does not mean that the cohort that follows the Ted Foundation is gullible. Mind control has no It has nothing to do with one's intelligence levels, but is carefully targeted to take advantage of one's vulnerabilities and desires. Have you heard of it? Krishna consciousness, this part is crazy.

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. That will work. A new and better life awaits you on our distant home planet, Blistonia. Hmm, it makes sense to be vulnerable and having desires is universal among all humans. Also, the image we have of cults is extremely outdated, which is why some of you may have had a visceral reaction every time someone called Dobrik's group that, but come on, if you saw someone approaching you like this , they would even run in the other direction. Some of the modern news stories about these organizations paint the members as an empty vessel hypnotized by some master manipulator.

Smallville Actress Allison Mack Pleads Guilty When I First Entered Jeunesse. She had just gotten out of a relationship. It seems like she is a shadow of the person. that I'm in she faces charges for what's called a sex trafficking cult the Nexium group there was an incident at my house she and a friend of hers and this guy said hey I'm going to talk to you forever we wanted to stop by here and there wasn't seen, she walked in, she was a different person, she walked in like she owned my house, literally, she owned my house, she walked in with her friends and they walked into the kitchen, I was like, hey, she was like, hey , as.

It's you and then I walked into my kitchen I started taking out pots and pans and I started cooking and I said what are you doing? that's right, come on, you know, let us know what it is and I asked them like, hey, you know you might want to leave soon and that's going to be good, the guy became almost violent, he was violent like him, I don't remember who what. I don't know his name because I didn't care, he was just like who is this guy really angry and I think he was onto something he was on and he just started cursing at me and Ethan was like friend.

I'm like, you know what dude? I don't know what it's about, you just walk in, start cooking at my house, you don't even say that, why don't you go? Why do I really like that you get? Walking out of my house, I remember waiting for Allison to jump up and say, I'm so sorry, no, no, he doesn't mean this, there was nothing, it was like they were zombies, there certainly must be. something is wrong with these individuals who joined this group depression problematic family life rational people like you and me would never fall for this type of manipulation why do humans make this assumption? why assume that you, a stranger or any stranger, should be able to say it? that the group is evil based on superficial information, firstly, accepting that mind control can be used effectively on almost anyone challenges the long-standing notion that human beings are rational and in control of all their actions, secondly , we all believe in our own invulnerability.

It's too scary to think that someone could take control of our minds. We all want to believe in our own ability to completely control our lives. You see, if we admit that this was not obvious from the beginning, we would be admitting that there is a possibility that we too could be manipulated. That same element is why victim blaming is common in these situations. There must be something about that person. that caused something bad to happen to him because I don't do that, that won't happen For me, a big misconception is that you'll be able to spot a cult and you'll think I'm not going to fall for it, but the amazing thing about cults is that they can actually occur In many ways, it could be a religion.

It could be a business, a motivational seminar, no one is going to come up to you and say "hey, you want to join my cult", people say all the time don't blame the victim, but I don't know if they know what they mean. they really are. saying that according to Hassan anyone can be a victim of mind control so if I asked you that question on Instagram what kind of person is easily brainwashed or manipulated the correct answer should be anyone let's see what you said woke up to the people, to the people who are on the internet all the time, a libtard brother, hell yeah they need some education to get smarter, Kona boomers Gen Z, sorry but Karen, someone in some kind of vulnerable state, I will say that it translates to anyone because everyone has been vulnerable at some point. in their lives and will continue to be vulnerable at certain times this answer is also acceptable young children who have not had time to form their own opinions but insecure people who will do anything to fit in weak minded people someone desperate for a purpose people pleasers insecure people without own strong values ​​uneducated naive protected people uneducated to give you credit some of you a minority of you responded with everyone or anyone literally everyone as long as they hear what they want to hear very true anyone if Know what It is important to them, as you can see, most of the answers believe that easily manipulated people have some kind of defect.

This could not be further from the truth. Remember when the viewers of this ted talk and whoever was in charge of this were deceived. We don't want to believe that we are also vulnerable to manipulation, so I'm sure that maybe when I made this video two years ago I could see manipulative behavior, but the frame of reference I was given was one of entertainment like Dobrik's. Another 18 million followers, this was a show like Jackass and they all gave their consent to Dobrik. Now that you know that cults recruit people from all walks of life, social media changes the frame of reference for vlogging team members and viewers, you start to see how damaging the comments are. like it's obvious, actually not only can you respond by saying well, if it was obvious, why didn't you make noise at the beginning, why is this energy coming right now, but it's also one step away from blaming the victim, although I think that most of these people come from a good place and are not actually blaming the victims.

The argument that it was obvious feeds into those who actually blame the victims because if it really was obvious from the start, victims should be able to avoid situations like this entirely, the reality is anyone can be. a victim of cult manipulation and recruitment, in this case the viewers are also susceptible to anything that the influencer paints on their image to be another frame of reference that the viewers present is the group of friends vlog squad team 10 and the house exaggerated, what do all these groups have? in common, they are all friends who moved to a similar place or area and are happy together.

They also went through some sort of scandal where their leader was accused of manipulation, intimidation, terrible working conditions, or all three. a coincidence maybe not again where is the vsauce scandal although viewers perceive that these groups are friends it is very difficult for that dynamic to exist when there is an imbalance of power david is like the boss you know he is the authority figure he is a person that he's in charge and it's like you're going to talk to your boss a little differently than you would talk to someone who's just your friend, you know, so I was just trying to communicate with him like I didn't really like him. that like please don't do it again like I'm not interested in being involved in any type of content like that I feel like it's wrong I couldn't really address the situation like hey bro if you do that again like me I'm out, healthy friendships They are equal in a give and take relationship, you buy your friend dinner, they can invite you next time and buy you lunch.

Relationships between employer and employee are unequal, the employer tells the employee what to do to make the company successful and the employee. Is that so? My theory on these groups, often started by people in their twenties, is that having these two types of relationships is difficult maintenance, while David is not technically their employer, they are incentivized to do his bidding because of the hierarchy of influence that We mentioned earlier in this video, while people at the top of the hierarchy feel that their friends are not their friends because they don't do a job, people at the bottom of the hierarchy feel that their boss is terrible and overloads them, the last step in gaining control of an individual according to sheen is refreezing the iceman this step refers to his cult identity being built to replace his former self-cult leaders they must be sure that the new reality of the individual cannot be shaken that their new beliefs and values ​​must be fully internalized here they are given a new purpose in life with new activities these beans are even better than the ones we had for breakfast and lunch we ate them here and your family wants to leave no, no we are mother, we love the leader casually, the most influential lifestyle It probably doesn't look like the lifestyle you had at home to help refreeze the members' new identity.

Some called to skip a new name for you guys, just to clear this up. My name is the nickname, it's not Jonah. The reason they call me Jonah is because that's the first one. What David said when I walked in, you know what you remind me of, you remind me of Jonah Hill, hell yeah, you're very strange to me, in a really cool way, many also changed the person's clothing style, haircut and anything else that reminded them. his past is the reason he didn't want us to make YouTube videos solely because he didn't want the characters in his vlogs to lose track, we all had a certain track in his videos, like a certain track in life, yeah, and he He was worried that our videos would show a different side of you, maybe they would show a different side of us in his book when the prophecy fails.

Leon Festenger described a sect that believed in UFOs and flying saucers whose leader claimed to know when the world would end. He told them that he was in contact with beings from another planet and because the end of the world was approaching, they should hand over many of their material possessions to him. They gave their houses their money while they were standing on the side of a mountain waiting for the extraterrestrial beings to transport them and save them from the end of the world. The next morning, the group saw that the end of the world never came, although some They became angry with the leader and used the event as a springboard in their decision.

Leaving this event made most people believe stronger in the group. Fast forward to this situation and we see Dobrek's team following suit, although many have spoken about the toxicity of the vlogging team. Several events have resulted in injured members. Damaged personal brand vlogs have violated For several people, there is basically a mountain of evidence suggesting that change is necessary, why do other members still insist on protecting the group when the story of Seth Francois and the kissing prank without Consent started gaining popularity on the frenemies podcast? The first line of defense was a video by Scotty Syre, amember who was not even involved or accused of being involved in a prank, not only was it strange that a member of the group decided to address a situation that was not related to him.

Sire often used language that was typically collected in the vlog. The squad does not address rumors and lies and we know who we are, we know our character, we know we are good people and we know it's not true, but that's okay, we're going to distance ourselves from you now, the video was quickly deleted after receiving it. The backlash in this video was probably the only apology/criticism video I've seen where the friend did it and not the actual person he's addressing. Furthermore, the father overlooked numerous points to which the public demanded answers. It is extremely strange that the father does not see it. people he once called friends speak publicly against the vlogging team as a red flag, some of these former members don't even like each other, but their stories line up, even jeff whittick who was slammed into a excavator during a stunt, continued watching the group. normal actions, sure he asked David for reparations, like wanting to see him jump with a parachute, but there were no security changes in the group.

Dr. Raymond was like he filed a lawsuit and I was like no, that never crossed my mind, like what we were doing was stupid. and I'm depressed for putting my life in David's hands and what David did was stupid, but the way I was raised, you know, maybe it's a good thing, it's a bad thing when I'm loyal despite receiving countless proofs of David's belonging. your group. Members who do bad deeds tend to defend it no matter what. This strength and belief can be explained by what Fessinger calls cognitive dissonance when it comes to cults. Stephen Hassan believes it can be best explained by a similar concept called the bite model.

Research on the theory of cognitive dissonance. It is robust and is used by leaders to control the group. Simply put, the theory states that humans need to maintain order and meaning in their lives through their thoughts, behavior, and emotions. If there is a discrepancy between those three things, a dissonance occurs and it makes us find a way to reduce it, for example, let's say you are a smoker and maybe you behave in such a way that you smoke a cigarette three times a week and then you find yourself with a well researched article that convinces you of all the negative side effects that come with smoking this very event has led to a discrepancy between your behavior and your thoughts creating what is known as dissonance you know that smoking is bad for you but here you are smoking To reduce this dissonance the individual can change their behavior and stop smoking or they can change their thoughts and convince themselves that smoking three times a week is not as bad as smoking every day according to Festinger, if you can change one of these, the other three will follow.

This is what makes cults so effective at controlling their members. Many are forced to live through situations that control their behavior, which likely leads to their thoughts and emotions following suit. Taking what we just learned about cognitive dissonance or, in this case, the bite model, we can easily see how a leader

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if he can trade one of these for the other. three are forced to follow look at behavior control it's no coincidence that these groups always move together to some kind of commune in the middle of nowhere july 1981 an organization known as rajneesh came to central oregon to the community of leaders of antelope cult who want to control your routine and lifestyle so that your information, thinking and emotion align with the groups on a smaller scale.

You can see this at a Scientology church service. There are images of the congregation literally playing follow the leader. All you have to do is follow the order. We start yes, keeping your care is quite easy, right? Sit in your chair, all right, sit in your chair, all right, sit in your chair, okay, sit in your chair, okay, here's the next one, oh, change it, here's the next one, oh, that's it. true, I mean, it sure doesn't seem like a big deal, but the function of this exercise is more likely to prepare you to let Scientology control your lifestyle.

Get used to doing something small at first and then the request becomes bigger and bigger. We have already mentioned behavior change with the dobrik team if you move to Los Angeles to achieve your social media dreams you are changing your lifestyle in the byte model Hassan has added information control which is the regulation of information available to members, Scientology for example discourages new recruits from researching anything about the organization online and that if you want to know something you should get it directly from them, like what do you recommend, I should research it and definitely not, it's the worst What they can do, it's the worst thing in Scientology.

I don't think it's good to sometimes look at the negative just to see what your thinking is. Yes, we generally only deal with truths that are only found when you observe them for yourself rather than reading someone else's thoughts. This element in the model. It's not really applicable to the vlogging team individuals, everyone is free to have their phones and computers. This is more applicable to fans of the vlogging team and actually describes fans of any influencer, fans only see moments that have been created to show them their favorite celebrity. as best as possible, this is done through editing and flagging, if a video receives negative attention.

Dobrexmcn is also known to delete said video on the Internet. David clearly has some protocol with his MCM with YouTube where, if someone uploads this clip, it is automatically blocked, which leads me to believe that David is somehow trying to suppress content that makes him look bad. People changing their minds about the James Charles situation is the best example we have of this. The guy literally went from guilty to not guilty and now he's guilty again. Imagine if he were innocent again, damn, this event shows how much withholding information or making it public can make or break public perception.

Thought is the next thing leaders take over using our smoking example, let's say a cult doctrine requires you to smoke. As a result, you begin to develop breathing problems that lead you to doubt the doctrine. It is essential for a leader to get control of that member's doubt before it leads him or her to leave. This is done through thought stopping techniques such as chanting and incorporating a new language system, unless Dobrik and his team have a secret ritual that we don't know about, they are not known to do strange chants just so you know, although You see this when Scientologists harass people who have left the church, they are not chanting per se, they are speaking loudly and calling whoever they are harassing repressive over and over again this technique makes it so that no outside information can penetrate their opportunity to return to germany in their smoking cult that would be like singing smoking is good for you over and over again until those who doubt the thoughts disappear incorporating a new language system is more than what dobrick's team does incorporating a new language system refers to using language to simplify and answer complex problems in the moonies, for example they have something called cane and ability problem, this is used when a member wants to question and doubt the group when that member expresses his doubts , superiors will usually solve it by saying oh that's a cane and ability problem, the member will be instructed to copy their mentor as this will resolve their doubts, it's essentially like telling them what you feel. sad and then they will solve it by saying well if you copy this senior you will feel better as we have said with the vlog squad the problems are solved with the phrase do it for the views you can see this use of language when he made a joke to the member jonah making him believe that had landed a big movie deal with seth rogen jonah is devastated when he finds out this was all a joke and asks them why they did this and their answer is essentially for the views this is just what we do this is what we do this is why we do it we do better than most people then we literally literally make people want to end their own lives.

Dobrick does not set clear boundaries or guidelines, this is simply how it usually is, the doctrine is absolutist and divides everything into black and white. or us against them we know who we are we know our character we know that we are good people and we know that it is not true everything good is embodied in the leader and the group everything bad is on the outside the doctrine says Answer all questions about all problems and situations, as silly as it sounds, the phrase "do it for the points of view" embodies that doctrine. Members do not need to think for themselves because the doctrine thinks for them.

Things are done by numbers, even if you can put it to yourself. in danger, even those who defend obrecht don't really have a good argument for why dangerous and non-consensual events happen, it all comes down to that's what it is when you join this group, but influencers are not exempt from ensuring the safety of your cast. and the team, if large corporations have to do it, they do it too, so the new group language aims to explain to a member why they are doing what they are doing, do it for opinions, there is a common pattern of emotion within all members of the sect.

Several in the group have expressed their feelings of being very black and white, either you are very loved at one time or very hated at another, there is no middle ground, it was this strange dichotomy of feeling very special but never being really good. enough there is a movie called midsummer that really sums up this feeling the best way to describe it is emotional confusion at the end of the movie you don't know if you should be happy or sad for the protagonist not only does director arie astor successfully illustrate it how groups of mind control recruit individuals, but the film also effectively manipulates the audience.

Midsummer follows a woman named Dany who has been scarred by the death of her sister and her parents. her boyfriend is an emotionally distant man who seems to be bothered by her needs, although he was about to end the relationship, he reluctantly makes the decision to extend it due to this recent tragedy along with his friends, the couple decides to book a trip to attend to a summer festival in a remote Scandinavian village, this is where the spectators begin. being manipulated reflecting what one can feel in a real life cult Dany is captivated by the culture of this community they welcome her with open arms and even give her the support that her boyfriend does not give them despite this her journey becomes increasingly strange when a cult member flirts with her boyfriend there are sinister images everywhere and death there is a lot of death every time they ask to leave something happens to happen that prevents them from doing so dany is bombarded by two simultaneous emotions love and fear as he The summer festival progresses, her friends are sacrificed by the group one by one, her boyfriend is manipulated into cheating on her with a girl from the sect.

At the same time, the group is the one that comforts Dany from all the tragedy she is facing, this emotional turmoil. of bombardment of love and then fear That's why viewers didn't know how to feel about the ending of this movie. Some viewers were happy that Dany finally found a group that gave her what her boyfriend didn't. I'm not kidding, someone even made a romantic video that she and Danny were excited about. He reminded the recruiter, the reality of this movie is that Danny walked from one abusive relationship to another, the emotional control seen in the middle of summer is very similar to what vlogging crew members go through, they are given money, cars and fame, so it's a constant bombardment of love.

The other side of the coin is that they are subjected to dangerous tricks: their reputation is sometimes ruined because they are subjected to something humiliating and there are accusations that sometimes the payment is not worth it, so there are ups and downs all the time that confuse people trapped in cults. something in my spirit was like dude, you have to come out like yeah, this isn't normal and I'm thinking, well, why would I be like you don't have those conversations with yourself? Well, why should it come out like this? The most popular group on the Internet, yes, yes, yes, it is even the fans who contribute to this emotional turmoil.

A woman came forward in an internal article alleging that a vlogging team member named dom zeglitis from dobrik's now-deleted video got over 5 million views. and at the time viewers didn't find anything wrong with it, it's not their fault, it was framed in a way that was comparable to almost any teen movie where their friends try to understand each other, even though the reality of what happened that night It was much darker. Hannah, an alias used in this article, was under the impression that she and her friends were going to film somethingwith talented creators, instead they were given alcohol and pressured to participate in a moment involving the trio with zegliitis.

Hannah did not consent to this and, in fact, she does not. I don't remember what happened because they gave him too much alcohol because of the way the girls were under the drinking age limit and no other member of the vlogging team has denied this event except ciglitis. Furthermore, there is a lot of evidence to support Hannah's claims about where emotional control occurs. how the audience reacts, it seemed like I had a super fun night with these famous vloggers, basically, which is not what happened, everyone I know messages me. You're on David Dobrik's vlog, that's cool or oh my god, I watched the vlog.

It's hard to describe how it feels to know that millions of strangers have watched a video of me on one night that affected and traumatized me in almost incomprehensible ways, not knowing that something was wrong, imagine receiving praise from all these fans, ah, you're. You're lucky that what you did was great, but you know the truth of what happened that night. That dynamic should make you start to question your own reality, as I said near the beginning of this video. We cannot classify the vlogging crew as a cult because we do not have access to all the information, what I am sure of is how the drive for fame on social media can create an environment for a cult to thrive.

The vlogging team certainly has several of those characteristics as more groups like this rise due to the lucrative nature of social media and the zeitgeist of the 2000s spawning a different set of social concerns, it is imperative to take notes. about the patterns of what constitutes a cult, just as the 1970s and 1980s saw a rise in new age spiritual cults that took advantage of those who were against war, the 2000s also bring out the light new vulnerabilities that cults can exploit, as millennials and Gen Z are the poorest of their generational counterparts. It is likely that cults are taking the form of groups that promise professional success and wealth of which we already see suspicion.

What is happening in those industries that people have called Wework is very cult-like, there are mlm groups that have similar accusations and certain self-help gurus face the same criticism with the internet as an added factor, we can be part of that sect without even knowing it. At this point, it shouldn't surprise you that Hollywood also has a cult life and it's most likely due to the nature and environment of this entire industry, since all the things we've talked about influence all of that as well, that's the end. from the video I will see you next time, stay mentally focused