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Believe it or not, I was raised really sheltered, and I know a lot of other Christian kids who also grew up sheltered.

I want to make this video not to justify what I said and what I did,

but to clarify why I did and why I now know that it was very wrong.

Also, a lot of people are saying that I'm a bop.

I had to look the term up, but apparently it's a slang term for a young woman perceived as promiscuous, getting around, or shares revealing content.

Can someone help me understand why I get

so much hate? like 99 of my comments are just hate

and it sucks okay so

when exactly did being a christian turn into a content strategy

like genuinely at what point did i love jesus stop being a thing you believe

and start being a thing you put on your bio for rich for clicks

because right now there are two girls on the internet getting

absolutely dragged not for doing anything criminal not for scamming anybody they're getting dragged for being too nice too positive too Christian.

So today we're getting into it because I have thoughts

and a lot of them and some of them might rub people off the wrong way but let's get right into it.

So Jenny Hoyos and Just Juice, two of the biggest creators on the platform right now.

Both of them are publicly Christian

and both of them are doing extremely well for themselves

and both of them are currently under fire on the internet for different reasons.

We're going to talk about all of that and together we'll see

if these reasons are actually warranted or

if the internet is simply just being the internet once again

now the accusation is basically the same for both of them

that the entire awesome thing is an act

that the faith is a marketing angle that they figured out being sweet

and god -fearing gets you a very loyal audience

and they've been milking it ever since

and this isn't even about these two girls okay

there's a whole conversation online right

now about performative christians fox literally did a segment on it in april this year asking

if influencers are using faith as a marketing tool

so this is bigger than just these two girls

but these two are the ones currently catching the smoke right now

so let's start with who they actually are

so jenny oyos born may 2005

so she's 21 she's miami based comes from a columbian family

she started her youtube channel back in 2021 i want to say she was 16 at the time

and her very first short was about bitcoin of all things by april 2023

she hit 1 million subscribers by june this year like two months ago she crossed 12 million.

Now her whole lane is mostly shorts.

99 % of her views come from shorts and they're that Mr. Beast style of shorts.

Big premise, fast hook, engineered for clicks.

I'm building a secret room with zero dollars.

What happens if you trap smoke in an oven?

What are you doing?

Giving $10 ,000 to the last person to leave the circle.

What they don't know is it's in another currency.

I'll buy anything you can carry.

I'm gonna spend at least $100.

People literally call her the Mr. Beast of shorts

this girl can make anything go viral i can figure out how to make it viral

if i really want

and recently she's been shifting now she's doing a lot more day in my life stuff

you know gym food travel videos with her friends brand trips

and she graduated university with a business degree

while all of this was happening in the background one more thing about jenny

that becomes very important later on she has said herself publicly in an interview

that most of her audience are kids

so kids in elementary school teenagers in high school now hold on to that thought

because it will become important later

now let's talk about just jews her real name is juliette coley she was born august 2009

so she's 16

so this girl is homeschooled she's oldest of five children her

dad's a pilot her mom's a model her family travels constantly

so she started her youtube channel in april of 2025 doing gymnastic videos

then in december 2023 a taylor swift edit of ours went viral

and she just never stopped posting then she hit 100 000 subscribers by january 2024

and then she got to 1 million subscribers not long after

and now two years in she's at over 5 million subscribers of 2 300 plus videos

so what does this girl post on youtube it's daily vlogs family challenges all get ready with me's

but her tick tock is where the fate stuff really lives god's love for you isn't theoretical

or emotional it's historical

and sacrificial today i got the rest of the day from the haven app

and it was in romans chapter 5 verse 8 we sin every single day

and what's crazy about sin is

that god sees every sin equal the man who just committed

murder is seen equal in god's eyes as a man who just lied

so yes she posts normal 16 year old content

but she also very clearly does not hide

that she's a christian she's very proud about it

and that's the part people have decided to make her entire personality

so now back to jenny jenny's problem started way before

this whole christian thing jenny's problem started with her face i'm sorry but that's just the truth.

When she was blowing up, the comments under her videos were brutal.

People had things to say about how she looked, how she danced, how she smiled, what she wore.

It was just relentless.

Get ready with me while I talk about my biggest insecurities.

The fifth spot goes to my hair.

I have to put in at least two hours for it to look somewhat decent

and then even so i saw someone comment that it looks like lasagna

and now i cannot unsee it the fourth spot goes to my overall face

and how masculine it looks from the size of my nose

my face shape my eyebrows all of it is like giving man well

i'm not gonna lie i didn't really see a lot of my insecurities until you guys started commenting it

and created these insecurities for me so now i cannot see it

so she did what any 20 year old girl on the internet would do she changed she glue up is

that even a real word now the internet calls this her glow up era i think

that they hate

that people have been sending to jenny in her comment section literally needs to stop

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i literally saw somebody in her comment section literally tell her

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to get lip fillers like freaking surgery down on their face

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like literally telling them to put fillers on their face like you guys cannot be real

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you guys are literally not real i'm sorry

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but there's a difference between telling somebody to put their hair

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down than telling somebody to literally put plastic on their face i'm sorry that's really inappropriate

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and i think that's that is

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so messed up you guys are literally like brainwashing everybody with

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that jenny hoyos is not chopped she just has curly hair

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so there's this whole debate about jenny hoyos and whether

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or not she's attractive and look i think she is objectively attractive the only reason

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that y 'all aren't seeing it because she doesn't have this perfectly straight hair

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that y 'all are used to prime example of this is on the princess diaries remember

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when they give her the makeover all they do is straighten her hair

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and take off her glasses jenny had

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that same treatment done to her y 'all would all switch up

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and start simping over her i swear to you

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and here's the funny part she literally took the audience's suggestions

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and applied them they told her what they wanted

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and she did exactly that and what happened they started saying her content is cringe

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that she's calculated now that she has no soul

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that she's just chasing the algorithm can someone help me understand why i get

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so much hate like 99 of my comments are just hate

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and it sucks because it's one thing to be playing a role

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and like for people to not like your your role

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that you're playing but it's another to be authentically yourself

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and show who you are what you like and your humor

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and for everyone to just tear you down like it makes me it genuinely makes me feel bad

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because it's like i'm being myself

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and everyone hates me like i don't know is there something

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wrong with me do i need to change am i like doing something like i try to be myself

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but i don't and i don't do anything bad

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or mean to people like i feel like i try to be like nice

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and i feel like i'm not hurting anyone but i get

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so much hate

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and i guess i'm just curious what i need to do what i need to change for

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that to improve now this is the thing with the internet

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it is always a trap first they drag you for how you look

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and then when you fix that they say you're fake

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that you're desperate these are the same people

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that told her to change herself they were dissecting her face dissecting her smile said

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she dressed weird honestly the internet is never satisfied

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that is why just be yourself just be yourself

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then about three weeks ago right in the middle of the world cup season

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she made the video okay this video got her under a lot of fire people came for her

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so what did she do in this video that was

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so bad this girl basically posted a short explaining soccer positions using makeup

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and she basically did this

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so the girlies can finally understand soccer explaining soccer to the girlies

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so you can finally watch it a soccer team has 11 players on the pitch

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but if you're new to soccer then looking at it like this might be a little confusing

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so it might be easier

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if you look at it like a full face makeup first up is the goalkeeper whose main job is

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and yeah the internet ate this girl alive they were like women watch soccer too women play soccer too

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so people took that as her basically saying that women are dumb

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that we can't grasp the entire concept of football

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that we need her to like dumb it down for us now the comments got

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so bad that she turned them off completely which every creator watching this knows

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Turning off comments is like pouring petrol on the entire thing

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It just made it worse

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People just moved to our older videos instead

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That's how bad this thing got

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Then she posted an apology about three minutes long

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She said yes, obviously, women play and understand football I never wanted to make an apology video

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But I think it's important to take accountability for your mistakes

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And I am 100 % in the wrong

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I want to make this video not to justify what I said

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and what I did but to clarify why I did and why I now know that it was very wrong.

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So just for context two months ago I was invited to the FIFA World Cup and I went to 10 matches.

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Going into it I knew nothing about soccer

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or football whatever you want to call it and something that helped me understand it better was putting it in makeup terms.

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As funny as it sounds I didn't even know

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there were positions in soccer i didn't know what a penalty kick was like i didn't know anything

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but that's just like

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that's just me not knowing anything about sports

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but another thing she did on that apology video

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that kind of robbed people the wrong way was

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that she brought up her recent breakup yeah i mean at the time

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when i went i was going through a really bad breakup

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and it was really hard for me i don't use this as an excuse

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but going to these matches helped distract me a bit and you know have like that cloud above my head

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be a little lifted and see more sunshine

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and people were not having it

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because it just felt like she was explaining away a bad take by bringing in something personal

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now i don't think she meant this maliciously was it condescending yes

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it might have i understand how a lot of women would take it especially

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if you know a lot about football or you watch football

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or you even play football if you're a big fan of football

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but was it malicious was this something

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that she should gotten this dragged for no now other people agreed

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that this is not her trying to be sexist

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they kind of understood why she made the video yo makeup is not being sexist

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she was using it as correlation to soccer i mean personally

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it did help me as someone who's more interested in makeup than soccer am i the only one who finds

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this helpful now should she have maybe not generalized it yes

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she should have framed

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it as this is a video for my girlies who do not understand soccer

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i think people would not have called her out

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and then there's more

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because once the internet decides you're the villain this week

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they just keep digging

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there was the am i wife material video from about three

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months back the thumbnail had her cleaning cooking doing laundry people called it sexist

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and said she was pushing

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this whole trad wife thing the actual video was a normal daily vlog

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she went to the gym she cooked for a friend

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but nobody watched it they just saw the thumbnail and decided

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and then there's the older stuff people dragged back up those big food challenges jenny used to post

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she used to make video involving huge amounts of food

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and she does this mostly just for clicks if we're being honest

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and people were just calling it straight up waste food

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and they're saying that the whole format is built to hook children into the algorithm

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which remember what she said about her audience being primarily children in high school

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or in middle school yeah that's why

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that one stuck okay now let's talk about jewels for a moment

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because this is one that actually has a lot of people arguing the accusations against jewels isn't

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that she's mean it's quite the opposite it's

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that she's too sweet like suspiciously sweet like nobody should be this sweet

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so a comment section is full of people saying the innocent thing is an act

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that nobody's actually like that in real life

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that the giggling the bible studies the whole thing is a character

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she puts on for the camera

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there's this clip of her from me doing a video about

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the words she's not allowed to use as a christian words

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i wasn't allowed to say growing up obviously the main bad words

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you know like the f word the s word the b word all those bad words for like regular words

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i would say shoot i used to say that a lot

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and my parents were like ah yeah let's not say

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that this d word i'm not allowed to say that

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but i do say dang it i think

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that's probably my favorite curse word there's also the word frick that's a mild word

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but we still don't say that another word

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that a lot of people use

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that isn't technically considered a bad word is this one oh you're not allowed

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that one now i just don't see the point of bad word

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and people were like girl come on but trying to act innocent believe it

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or not i was raised really sheltered

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and i know a lot of other christian kids who also grew up sheltered

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and we're a little bit different we don't know a ton of pop culture

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but that's definitely something that i'm working on right now

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and finally only released to the public a couple years back barely knowing anybody

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i don't necessarily know what this means

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but i think it means like i only got social media three years ago

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which is when i started my youtube channel

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but yeah that's basically what happened social media isn't necessarily good for you it can be good for you

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but there's also a lot of cons

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and understandably my parents didn't want me to be exposed to the world of the internet at a young age

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i'm sorry

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but why the f are we focusing on the smallest things

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of people's lives what innocent act not all people have to

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use swear words she's not on the internet a lot also

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when you are too kind you get hated on

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when you mean you hated on what do people want exactly now

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when you put those things together the fact that she was homeschooled

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and the fact

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that she was brought up in a very religious christian home

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you get a 16 year old who doesn't know pop culture references

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and who doesn't curse

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and i feel like people cannot just grasp the concept of a 16 year old in this day

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and age that doesn't curse and that doesn't know things

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that they deem as cool we need to understand

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that people are raised differently

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and i do want to say one thing going through her content seeing the comments

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that people were leaving under them where she's basically proudly showing the fact

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that she's christian and

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that she's trying to practice being a christian people were leaving comments like this is

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so cringe so i want to ask is religion now cringe the fact

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that someone is being loud

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and proud about their religion about being a christian are we now finding

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that cringe on the internet like when did it become embarrassing to be loud

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and proud about one's religion people will post about their zodiac sign,

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about their manifestation routine, about the fact that they are gay and not one person would think that is cringe.

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But a 16 year old girl posting about being a Christian is seen as cringe.

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The dedication she puts in to follow God is amazing.

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Can we respect each other's religion bro?

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Now another controversy that people were really upset about is the book.

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So last year Jules wrote and published a book called Where Are My YouTubers.

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It's on Amazon right now

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and it's basically a guide on how to grow a youtube channel

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and go viral and people seem to have a problem with it

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because amazon found it on their children's reference books

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and the internet took that

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and ran saying she's selling fame to little children what do you do for a living

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i'm a youtuber what's your youtube just chose

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and how big is your youtube i'm almost at 5 million subscribers

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and how many views 5 billion

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and what would be your advice for somebody just starting out on youtube just keep going

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and never give up should people try and go viral

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when they're youtube creators yes definitely what if your content sucks

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and you're not getting views then try a different type of content

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when you're first starting out what's more important going viral

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or consistency i think consistency because then you go viral and

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when should you turn content creation into an actual business

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when you start making money

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if you're gonna tell a new creator what type of content to create

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because they're starting right now what type of content would

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that be i think lifestyle or something interesting

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that people really like right now also i forgot to ask how old are you 16

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when did you first start creating content two years ago where

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do you want to end up in 10 years from now i want to be in the aviation industry

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so i want to be an airline pilot and create content around that

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or just fly planes i want to create content as well

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i want to have over 10 million subscribers where can people

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buy your book amazon yeah a lot of children out there people are aged

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or even younger who wants to start a youtube channel

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and for them seeing this book written by someone closer to their age

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that is amazing because then they feel like

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if someone that's closer to my age can do this then i can do it too

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and she's actually sharing you the manual on how she did this on a platter

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i do not see the problem with this i feel like

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at this point the internet is trying to find everything to cancel

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this girl now there are other stuff as well where you know jules has been called out for

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and honestly i don't even want to go into the nitty -gritty of these things

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because some of these things just don't make sense

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so earlier this year she had a very public falling out with somebody

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she was talking to now this thing played out online for weeks as most of you guys have heard dylan

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and i are no longer talking last week on the 17th i found out

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that he got with another girl

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so naturally i broke things up i'm gonna make one video about this

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and that's it

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because i can't deal with all this hate first i did not cheat how do you cheat

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if you're not even like dating the person

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and we practically ended it a few days before

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but i'm not even going into the details of that one

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and i'll tell you exactly why this girl is just 16 years old we're not going to sit here

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and start dissecting a 16 year old love life for entertainment.

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we're not doing that now why are these two always mentioned in the same breath?

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and that's because they're friends they've been collabing since around the time jules crossed a million hair swaps, tiktok trends,

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the old trio thing with angelo the comments under their videos

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full of people calling them sisters jules has publicly defended jenny

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when people were coming for her i don't like to get into drama

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but the amount of hate that you guys are sending jenny is beyond unacceptable

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that sexist video

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that she posted she never meant for it to be sexist she just used an analogy

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which was makeup to explain the game to you guys

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because it helped her understand it herself

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and you know what jenny is probably one of the least sexist people

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you will ever meet in your entire life especially towards girls considering she got a bachelor's degree in business administration

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and finance at the age of 19 that girl knows well

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that women can do just as much as men

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and maybe even more could she have used another analogy sure

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could she have done the wording a little bit better sure

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but she can't turn back time and not post that video

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but the reality is you guys are still hating on the way

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that she looks the way that she dances the way

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that she lives the way that she drinks the way

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that she eats the way that she breathes and i hope

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that you guys are ashamed of yourselves

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because you guys are doing the devil's work so

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when one of them catches heat the other one catches it by association

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and people have started treating them like a package deal like a john ray you know the christian girls okay

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so here's where i come in everybody keeps saying it's performative

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and my answer to that is

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so obviously it's performative everything is performative the second

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you turn on a camera you're performing i am performing right now

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but that doesn't mean i'm being fake no it doesn't mean

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that it doesn't mean i'm lying to you it doesn't mean

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that i'm putting on a facade that's not me now the other thing

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that people are actually saying that being christian is just an easy shortcut to followers

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that people will mindlessly follow you if you say jesus

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and okay i'll give them that

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because we have seen this there are creators out there who make being christian their entire personality

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but i went through both of these girls pages properly went through them

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and there's nothing on there

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that says being christian is their whole identity nothing now people are allowed to have beliefs

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and the fact that that belief is so dear to them

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that they speak about it here and there or

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that they have it on their bio doesn't mean

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it's their entire personality now these girls did not gain millions of subscribers

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or followers because they are christians or

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because they talk about god on their channel no they did this through hard work

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and posting consistently and the fact that people are trying to take

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that away from them is actually really sad

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but anyways those are my thoughts tell me if I'm wrong because I know some of you will.

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Are they performative or are they just people with camera?

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Drop it in the comments.

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I read all of them and if you made it this far, thank you so much for watching.

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Subscribe, like this video and I'll talk to you guys in my next one.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This speaking lesson is built on the video “The Internet Thinks These Influencers Are Fake for Being “Too Nice””. This video has 377 sentences and 4313 words to shadow. The speech runs for 19:23. The speaker talks fast, about 222 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. 86% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start.

Key vocabulary in this video

15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
soccer noun	/ˈsɑk.ɚ/	Association football.
jenny noun	/ˈd͡ʒɛni/	A device for spinning thread from fiber onto multiple spindles (also called spinning jenny).
viral adjective	/ˈvaɪɹəl/	Of or relating to a biological virus.
subscriber noun	/səbˈskɹaɪbɚ/	A person who subscribes to a publication or a service.
sexist adjective	/ˈsɛksɪst/	Unfairly discriminatory against one sex in favour of the other.
creator noun	/kɹiːˈeɪ̯təː/	Something or someone which creates or makes something.
drag verb	/dɹæɡ/	To pull along a surface or through a medium, sometimes with difficulty.
shelter noun	/ˈʃɛltə/	A place where a person or animal may find protection from the elements (especially rain, storms, or cold) sometimes as a place to sleep (such as a cave).
innocent adjective	/ˈɪnəsənt/	Free from guilt, sin, or immorality.
suck verb	/sʌk/	To use the mouth and lips to pull in (a liquid, especially milk from the breast).
publicly adverb	/ˈpʌb.lɪ.kli/	In public, openly, in an open and public manner.
curse noun	/kɝs/	A supernatural detriment or hindrance; a bane.
apology noun	/əˈpɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/	An expression of remorse or regret for having said or done something that harmed another: an instance of apologizing (saying that one is sorry).
insecurity noun		A lack of security; uncertainty.
necessarily adverb	/ˌnɛs.əˈsɛɹ.ə.li/	Inevitably; of necessity.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Meaning
go through verb	To travel from one end of something to the other.
grow up verb	To mature and become an adult.
figure out verb	To come to understand; to discover or find a solution; to deduce.
blow up verb	To explode or be destroyed by explosion.
bring up verb	To mention.
find out verb	To discover, as by asking or investigating.
get around verb	To move to the other side of (something, such as an obstruction) by deviating from a direct course or following a curved path.
give up verb	To surrender (someone or something); to inform on (someone).

Sentences worth repeating

Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:

I'm building a secret room with zero dollars.
What happens if you trap smoke in an oven?
What are you doing?
I'll buy anything you can carry.
Can we respect each other's religion bro?

Grammar in this video

The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:

Structure	In the video
Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — an action that started earlier and is still going on	they've been milking · she's been shifting · have been sending
“Used to” used to + verb — a past habit or state that is no longer true	used to make · used to say
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it	was raised · are actually warranted · was born
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now	has said · have decided · has been called

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 94 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, don't, you're. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “th” sounds: algorithm /ˈælɡəɹɪðm̩/, breathe /bɹiːð/, theoretical /ˌθi.əˈɹɛt.ɪ.kəl/, thumbnail /ˈθʌm.neɪl/
The “sh” and “zh” sounds: shelter /ˈʃɛltə/, accusation /ˌæk.jʊˈzeɪ.ʃ(ə)n/, suggestion /səˈd͡ʒɛst.ʃən/, aviation /ˌeɪ̯.viːˈeɪ̯.ʃən/, sunshine /ˈsʌnʃaɪn/
Long words — get the stress right: apology /əˈpɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/, necessarily /ˌnɛs.əˈsɛɹ.ə.li/, genuinely /ˈd͡ʒɛn.ju.ɪn.li/, consistency /kənˈsɪs.tən.si/, analogy /əˈnæləd͡ʒi/

How to practise with this video

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Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like soccer, jenny, viral.

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