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Hey guys! Sorry I look like a mess, didn't really expect to be filming, but
This is too good not to film, so.
this is a response to at sxephil's, or Phillip Defranco's
uh...
news video for today, which is March 13th, 2013
I'm going to be saying this in second person (point-of-view), assuming that
Phil is watching, which I'm probably wrong, but...
I'm going to be saying "you" from now on, meaning Phil, so...
just so that's clear.
so just to start,
I was watching your videos when I was younger
like, right after you started them
pretty much
and I had been watching them and I had been a loyal follower,
and then...
My life kind of went downhill and I stopped watching them...
basically, I was in an abusive relationship for two years. I was being
beaten on a daily basis. I was molested on a daily basis...
just, everything that could possibly be wrong, was wrong, and I was ***...
and then... after that
I went to court for it
and was basically told that I was lying and that none of it had happened
because I didn't have any proof which was
obviously...
I'm not going to say it was my "fault", but i was
at risk of being killed if I had told
any sooner than I did, so...
I do take responsibility for that; I didn't have proof, but...
More or less...
i started watching your videos again
a week ago, or so, because
i had kind of just...
forgotten
that you existed, to be honest...
that sounds weird, but I switched YouTube channels, didn't end up
remembering that your videos existed and I started watching them again
I've been really enjoying everything that you're saying
in the past week
at least, but it
made me really appreciate
You, and how dedicated you are, and how big of a following you have, because
you spread a message that
not a lot of people with your (amount of) following do you have, and...
uh...
Sorry, I'm tearing up a little bit....
I am someone that faces ***-shaming and victim blaming on a daily basis in my
school (I am seventeen so I'm still in high school), I'm bullied, and...
told that I was lying about what happened to me and that I only wanted
Attention
I face things like this on a daily basis, so...
for the fact that
a large portion of today's show was
all about this story
and how you really
talk about how victim blaming is wrong and ***-shaming is wrong, I just have to say
thank you for that.
Because I feel that you are educating people
in a way that is really hard to do
Personally, I mean, I talk to people about it a lot, I write
articles about it and...
I talk about it all the time because I
Hear *** jokes all the time, and that's wrong too, so I, you know, talk about
and
I just feel like, even though there's so many...
people who do what I do, it's not enough to get the message across, that this is
Wrong, and I'm just glad that there's somebody with your...
stature and with the respect that you have
saying that.
I don't know if it will change anything
obviously, immediately, but I feel like in the long run, it'll help.
because i know a lot of people
at my school, even some of the people who bully me
for my past
watch your videos. And they'll probably just brush it off but [at first]
I feel like it's one of those things that will stay in their heads for a really
long time
and I'm glad that...
i'm glad that you have
the opinions that you do, and I'm glad that
you are so willing to talk about them, and
The whole time when
you were speaking, all i could think was...
this is perfection. is the exactly...
this is exactly it. This is exactly
what I think is right; what I think is true, so...
I'm just glad that you talked about it. So that was my response
pretty much, to this video, is that
i'm glad that you
are taking a stand, or you took a stand against victim blaming because
It's really,
really hurtful.
And that's, I mean...
that's a different story, for me, but...
Let's just leave it at that: it's hurtful. It's...
It is bullying and it's
not
it's not okay. For me personally, it was kind of like
I've already been through all this s**t, I have post-traumatic stress disorder, I have depression...
I already deal with
all this stuff from my past and now I have to do with being bullied on daily
basis because of it, and...
That's just kind of really hard, and I think that that's really stupid and
really messed up
I don't think that should happen. I don't think that should
be "a thing" in this world.
I think that when I tell people
my story, the first response shouldn't be "you're lying."
That's sick.
I'm glad that
it seems that you feel the same way.
So, thank you for that. Bye.