What are we about to do right now? I'm going to look at the documentary that
the Discovery Channel tried to get me to promote before it came out. Usually I watch things beforehand. Because it's on Discovery, I feel like there's
no way it can have things that shouldn't it be shown on the internet. Before we do that, our comment shout out comes
from John Dominic. Actually really like this comment right here. D'Angelo seems like that chill guy who everyone's
friends with in high school. Absolutely true. Also I was homeschooled. Apparently the Discovery Channel, they have
a streaming service called D+. And one of their, I guess, go-to's to get
people to sign up for D+ is they made a documentary about Onision, in conjunction with Chris Hansen. But where it gets annoying is they emailed
every single YouTuber who has any sort of connection to Onision, and said, can you please
hype up our documentary before it comes out? I have never even made an Onision video, but
I guess, because I'm a commentary channel, they emailed me. Hi, D'Angelo. I'm on the team at D+, which you might've
heard is a streaming service that will air the Onision documentary. Since this story started on YouTube and was
researched by YouTube, I want the YouTube community to see it first. I hope you'll consider making a commentary
video about the story. What I got from that was, we acknowledged
that you YouTubers have done literally all the work going into the story, but we also
want you to promote it for us now that we are also profiting off of it. I wanted to make the context very clear. I'm watching this because I'm interested. If I choose to put something on the stream
or on my channel, it's probably not because I enjoy it. There it is, trending under true crime, Onision
in Real Life. I feel like there's no way this really wouldn't
be triggering. So please get yourself into the proper head
space. The young women that he's victimized and manipulated
and really abused emotionally, he doesn't see them as victims. I genuinely don't know why YouTube still allows
him on the platform. True. It makes it almost a thriller to find out
whether or not he's going to ever be held accountable. I'm getting mixed feelings about this. This is very, very dramatic. I started my career when I was about 13 years
old. I opened for Lady Gaga. I remember Justin Bieber opened for me. Onision ruined her life. She absolutely could have been somebody that
we still talk about today. We're starting off well by actually talking
to a victim. I think that's a good thing. I saw his I am a banana video. I'm a banana. I'm a banana. Oh, god. Why? I understand this was peak 2009, but this
should have been all the warning that we needed, that we let this man get popular by dancing
around in a banana costume. I remember I reached out to him quite quickly. He always put his information under every
video. He got back to me right away within 24 hours. His email said, there's 7 billion people in
the world. You never know how you're going to love somebody
in the future. Imagine being a fully grown man and sending
that to a 16 year old. That we were trying to figure out how to meet. And his main concern was that we weren't going
to be able to have sex in the state I was in. So he checked the laws. The man is a groomer. I don't know how to feel about the documentary
yet, but I'm glad that it's highlighting how bad people use parasocial relationships. I had no idea what loving someone was truly
about. She's 17 though. I was a baby. I was a kid. I was naive. I had no idea what I was getting into. As a 22 year old, I'm so far removed from
where I was when I was 17. If an adult is telling you all these things,
you're not processing it the right way. That's something I didn't understand at the
time I get asked to be interviewed all the time. In this specific case, parasite is a popular
thing to call a reporter. I have an ego, but that's just next level. He becomes one of the top 100 most subscribed
to channels on YouTube. When he joined YouTube in 2006, people were
overwhelmingly supportive of him being on the platform. Were they though? It wasn't until these women wanted to talk
that the overall dialogue started to change. I don't think that's what happened. Oh, yeah. Onision was super popular, but then women
came forward, and now he's not. They literally just condensed 10 years of
lore into one sentence. They skipped the whole decline of Onision. They went as far back as 2018. Before that he was just purposely on a tour
to piss off literally all communities of people. He was attacking black women and their hair. They didn't even talk about the forum he had
either, where he was rating the girls. And to just say, oh yeah, he was super popular,
and everyone loved him, but then he got in trouble for grooming, is a complete misunderstanding. I had been doing some YouTube shows and people
kept saying, you need to look into Onision. Chris Hansen. Who's a YouTube streamer who has been accused
of- A YouTube streamer. The way he just took a wrecking ball to the
whole Onision operation hurts my soul. Very easy for people to become victims through
social media, and sometimes not even know it, because they're just too young and vulnerable. You know what would make it a little harder
for kids to become victims of groomers? Deplatforming them. I am absolutely okay with calling for the
deplatforming of anybody who has demonstrably used their platform to groom children. To know that this little boy that was so sweet,
innocent, and just a great kid would be at this point in his life, someone who doesn't
care who he hurts. Greg was four and a half when I first met
him in 1990. He was the cutest little boy. Yeah. After divorce, their personalities all changed,
and they all became very uncertain and insecure and emotional. Maybe I'm a bit extreme, but I'm very wary
of any sort of explanation for why he does what he does. I would much rather this be focused on calling
him out than, oh, he was a sweet kid. Oh gosh. They brought Shiloh back? I was 17 by the time he said that he loved
me, and he was getting a divorce. This video just went in a loop. At the very first few minutes, it was like,
my name is Shiloh. This is my story. And then they abruptly ended that, switched
it to Greg had a rough childhood, and it was pretty bad because his dad was awful, and
so was he. And then they switched back to Shiloh. And now they're doing the whole, she was young
and at the height of her popularity thing again. We finished part one of the Onision documentary. It was literally so poorly done. What is the point of watching episodes two
and three if it's this much of a waste of time? I think this is unironically too poorly done
for me to justify spending two more hours of my life on. I just want to see what Eugenia is doing here. Is Eugenia Cooney in this thumbnail just for
views? It's just this like steady string of toxic
behavior. This is so dramatic. Onision first made a video that was kind of
like in support of me. Then super soon after, he made one-
Oh my gosh. ... towards me that wasn't exactly very nice. Of course, Eugenia Cooney would pop up. Someone did Photoshop on her and how good
she would look if she actually had some pounds on her. That chick needs eat more food. She kind of was-
This kind of commentary is what drives people further into their eating disorders. The algorithm is the one in charge of what
videos are done or what videos get seen. Be honest. We're great together. This video I made about you got 1.9 million
views. This video I made about you only a month ago,
got 1 million views. Another million. Another million. These 2.5 million. He was just getting millions of views antagonizing
an anorexia girl on the internet. At this point, YouTube is also beyond complicit,
much like Shane Dawson. YouTube, the company, is absolutely at fault
here as well. Let's go down a little list of how bad that
was. Editing, 0 out of 10. It was almost impossible to follow. Score, 0 out of 10. The music was just overwhelmingly disrespectful. They're literally just going down a list to
any kind of epidemic sound type beat. This is what they're doing. They don't care about the situation. Structure, 0 out of 10. If I wasn't already familiar with the story
of Onision, I would not know what it was supposed to be about. How did they handle this documentary? Out of respect for Shiloh, I'm going to make
that a -20 out of 10. The little bit of a platform that they gave
Shiloh, they were mixing it up with his dad. That's so weird. So poorly handled that, to the point where
it was like, how did this get greenlit? D+, is this what you wanted? Be careful. Watching the old videos and documentaries
would be more useful than this trash timeline. For example, two different Onision videos
right here, both of which are fantastic. So well done. He makes absolutely no mockery of anything
that occurs. The Demented World of Onision by J. Aubrey. Very well done video. Absolutely has the right approach. Repzion is very concerned and has been for
the longest time. That's somebody who I would trust way more
to watch than the Discovery Channel and Chris Hansen. It was so clearly not done to bring any sort
of attention to what's going on. Poll. Thoughts. We are at a 99%, this is so embarrassing. Discovery Channel, if you're watching this,
I know you are, this is a 99% dislike ratio with over a thousand participants. This is now going to wind up being the highest
number of votes I've ever gotten on a single poll option for saying that your documentary,
that you tried to get me to promote, was bad. The moral of the story here is clear. If you're doing a documentary where neither
the subject of the documentary, nor any of the victims of that subject, besides one person,
show up, it was probably not going to turn out that well in the first place. Anyway, I'll be here all week, folks, at 2:00
PM central time. If it's Monday, Wednesday, Friday, that means
I'm uploading a new video here. If it's Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, that
means I'm going live over on Twitch. Basically, what I'm saying is I'll see you
tomorrow. Unless, of course, tomorrow is Sunday, in
which case, just watch this video again. Okay. Bye.
Meh. The purpose is to alert the public at large as to what goes on online, with their kids, etc. I don't know it has much impetus past that. Many of us have been aware for a long time, and the miniseries is limited on time to really go too in depth.
People who haven't been following this for a while and are in the know people just don't like the doc because of the lack of info/ breach of terms etc, the exact people the documentary is aimed at, will see all these titles of YT videos or articles and without being previously invested in the subject probably automatically jump to the conclusion they're 'trash' as in full of false information and that the subject matter is just bs gossip. Coz that's how that looks at a glance.
I get D’Angelo is not obligated to please everyone, and I understand he can have his opinion. That said, if he only watched the first episode and stops at the first episode, I’m not very impressed. When it comes to this subject of internet predators and grooming coupled with the extensive lore of Onision that’s beyond the likes of Shane Dawson, or perhaps even Jeffree Star, I find his reaction and the kind of message he’s sending to his followers disappointing.
Was just about to post this video here haha!
Mission accomplished. It's delightful :)
Hey All, new here, the only reason I even HEARD of Onion on the first place, was because of this video by D'Angelo. I really like D'Angelo so I went down a rabbit hole of watching his videos, then I watched a minute of this and wondered who the heck Onision was. Well, I am now aware of this scumbag. I am just glad I am aware, and if I have kids I will have the educate myself on internet safety because of abusers like him.
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