That's the stupidest argument for anything I've ever heard. There are few foods I would actually enjoy walking through. On a side note, walking through oobleck sounds fun.
The fact that these people are addiction experts, or at least claim to be, is despicable. You NEVER offer someone who is 4 days into recovery their addiction. I have a family member who is 3 months sober from alcohol and we still have dry parties whenever we get together. She needs love, support, and help, not to be offered a glass of wine and say no.
You’re completely right. Absolutely absurd that they offered her icecream less than a week into recovery. Happy to hear your family is supportive of your loved one. I’ve been sober for 9 years and my family still has dry parties and dinners. My parents don’t drink at all (even when I’m not around) - to show support and solidarity . It’s been nearly a decade into solid recovery and they are still mindful and careful of my feelings- even though it is no longer necessary.
Yeah, i have an uncle who has tried to quit alcohol several times for the sake of his wife and kids but unfortunately he always gets reintroduced within a month. It's sad who does legitimately want a better life but can't get rid of it. Im glad you're family is extremely supportive because I've lost several close family members or friends to addiction
Ikr. It's like sending someone to a rehab facility for drug addiction and then a few days later offering them crack. Like how is that a good idea??? Mind you, drugs have withdrawal symptoms that ice cream likely doesn't, but still.
I hear the point but never heard of ice cream withdrawal nor is it strongly psychoactive. How she's doing now after the cameras are gone is another question.
Yeah. There are much more efficient ways to treat addictions like that and even though they did it for entertainment and pointless tension it's still kinda unpleasant to watch
I've been sober for 5 years and I truly cannot imagine what it would be like if like one day into my recovery someone intentionally "tested" me by offering me alcohol. That doesn't do anything positive or prove anything, it's just mean and very weird.
@@SeraphsWitness haha thank you. I do know how TLC works though. I was talking about the concept of presenting this an effective way to help someone overcome an addiction.
hope you are still doing fine! Just being sober does not mean that life is fine I learned that. I hope you have good social connections and a living family
for me it just sounds weird. Like think how easy it would be to get over an addiction if it were like, “here have some drugs” “no thanks” “you’re cured 😊👌✨”
As if it wasn't already obviously staged, they also have her putting *plain, empty cardboard boxes* in her cart (presumably to not be seen as endorsing a specific brand)
That guy talking about Kimberly smashing the ice sounds like that one English teacher trying to make the most basic of stories sound like the most symbolic thing ever
“The closed curtains are blue” They’re blue because it symbolizes depression and loneliness and the reason why they’re closed is because the main character feels like they’re trapped in depression. ...wasn’t this character literally portrayed as the literal embodiment of happiness whose favourite colour is blue? STOP TALKING BACK TO ME! DETENTION!
TheDisguisedCreeper That’s literally it. An ELA teacher once had us analyze why in the title “My Life With the Chimpanzees” the word “With” was capitalized. She made us say that it was symbolic of feeling and connecting with the chimps like ???
@@lee2791 I've always sucked at understanding symbolicism. Like, *sometimes* it even sort of makes sense, but I'd never EVER get it unless you told me. I had that issue when trying to analyze political cartoons, too. It's like, here's this grandma telling the US to not go outside it's own borders, clearly the person thinks that Grandmas are lame and that isolationists are being overprotective and America should help out with Europe. Nope! It's actually the complete opposite and the author is an isolationist. Why was it a grandma????
"She sat against the blue wall" Teacher (Janet): "Now can anyone tell me why the wall was blue? Brandon" Brandon: "I don't know maybe because it was the only colour there when they were at Woody's?" Teacher (Janet): This is not funny Brandon, in fact, the walls were painted blue because of the author's long battle with depression" Brandon: NO JANET. THE WALLS WERE PAINTED BLUE BECAUSE THE AUTHOR WANTED TO MAKE THE WALLS BLUE THERE'S NO PHILOSOPHY BEHIND IT" I thought it was relevant 😐
@@sonicdml4175 It's not uncommon for alcoholics to resort to drinking mouthwash when they run dry. It causes repairable damage if only done a time or so, but there's been documented cases of alcoholics constantly drinking it and causing permanent damage to their internal organs, much faster than if they had just kept drinking regular alcohol.
I'm just buying my unbranded popsicle boxes with the camera in my face and another one facing the other end of the isle, but what's that? 2 people are walking towards me from where cameraman 2 was facing? Who could've seen this coming
re: the fries/carrot girl's reaction--that gives me serious ARFID energy [in non-US places it's often selective eating disorder/SED]. it's an eating disorder that I have, which is especially common in Autistics and people with ADHD, where one's diet is extremely limited and it's violently distressing to eat outside of safe foods. And the opposite of what you do to treat it is forcing someone to eat an unsafe food, right now, on camera, while multiple people watch them!!
Bro i was literally thinking the same thing. I'm like,,, hey that's an autism thing (I'm autistic) and like no "normal" or neurotypical person acts like that just cuz they don't wanna eat veggies. That girl most likely has something more serious going on and needs a more patient and caring approach, not TLC trying to force her to eat carrots for views
yeah, i think they mentioned arfid in that episode as well i wish more people understood it, or even thought it existed, so many people have heard about it but they think it's just some made up disease to excuse being spoiled and it sucks. i'm autistic and have it and it's really embarrassing for me but people think you're just being willfully picky or say shit like "if my kid had that i'd tell them they eat what i give them or starve!" as if that helps at all, it's frustrating and even if this show is scripted it doesn't help with that situation lmao
This is random af but my landlords last name is Virgin and I made the joke writing the first check that the mother of his kids is a virgin and he said, "Yup born a virgin and gonna die a Virgin." Pretty wholesome for someone who takes the majority of my money every month haha
I just can’t stop imagining you doing this to confront Danny’s La Croix addiction. Lining up the cans and the boxes. Making him dump out the soda. Hilarious
@@ArmanBaig "Addiction is a treatable, chronic medical disease involving complex interactions among brain circuits, genetics, the environment, and an individual’s life experiences. People with addiction use substances or engage in behaviors that become compulsive and often continue despite harmful consequences." It doesn't matter if you're addicted to something as innocuous as going fishing, by definition if you're addicted, it is inhibiting your ability to be a functioning human being, and damaging you in some way.
Even funnier: The people at TLC have a bunch of clips of the person feeding their addiction, which like, _isn't helping._ Holy shit, just imagine being on the show and them just being like: "Okay, we're going to help you get over this addiction, but first we need like 20 minutes of you eating raw meat while a disembodied voice tells the viewers how disgusting you are."
the funniest/saddest part of drew's mouthwash addict is that that's literally a thing that very severe alcoholics will do - drink mouthwash because of the alcohol content. drew accidentally made an alcoholic 💀💀💀
Imagine people treating someone with an alcohol addiction this way. It's literally considered horribly rude to offer someone you know is an addict a drink. Throwing those in her face at her reception, where she was supposed to be celebrating herself and be proud of her progress, is genuinely emotionally abusive.
If somebody did that to my dad (recovering alcoholic) I would be offended. It's such a rude and horrible thing, its tempting the person. But having no remorse is worse.
hey! we take people with debilitating addictions and then use a bunch of empty packages and wasteful methods to emphasize just how much they use said addicting item, and then shove it back in their faces when they make progress! some of them even get makeovers cause lets be honest, they look like shit. haha :) would you like to be on our show? oh also i forgot, jj virgin’s the name, curing addictions is my game💪🏽
It feels super weird that they're playing with addiction like this. Imagine if it was like a drug addiction and they try and fix it by lining a pavement with needles or something. It's just weird.
There was a show that tried to “help” with people’s drug issues. It was called “Celebrity Rehab” and luckily the show no longer exists. But sadly people like Mike Starr overdosed after being on the show. It was terrible.
the thing about the shock therapy that gets me is like, how does that icecream pile compare to the pile of all the other food the lady eats? like people need to eat, and if you piled up a year's worth of food it would look like a huge amount
Yeah, it being 4 days is the part that sucks. After a year it's much easier to decline it, 4 days is basically nothing. But on these shows it's always a speedrun
One thing that really bugs me about the "let's show them all the shit they ate" part is that even if you're eating a normal amount of something you like, if someone gathered up all the trash from it for like a full year, isn't it always gonna look like a lot? I can't even imagine how many eggs I've eaten in the past 365 days lol
As someone with dietary restrictions due to a mental disability, something like this happening to me would probably stop me from ever going back to therapy. It’s really disgusting to make already weak communities feel ashamed of themselves about something that they are relying on YOU for assistance with. Shows that depict mentally ill/ mentally disabled people in this way really harm us even more.
I know he’s been doing this for a while, but every time Drew says “Hey Guy” without the plural I get a weird feeling similar to picking up an empty can I thought was full. Just... _unexpected voidness._
This is one of the first of a few videos I've watched on this channel, and every time I hear it I feel a little more hollow. How long has he been doing this now?
i know someone named Guy... imagine knowing you're having a kid. You're like "omg yay" and you figure out its a boy and you're like "yay i guess boys are gross-" and you name it *Guy*.. Like his name... is Guy...
what's even worse, more than the fact that they were offering her something that she was TRYING to get over, but the fact that she developed the addiction due to emotional distress, and instead of getting her genuine help and therapy, they just basically insulted her for an entire video
Also she can eat ice cream, the point is she’s eating ice cream way too much and it isn’t good for her what’s good for her is eating ice cream when she should be not stopping her from eating it forever 😭
@@Name-tn1zg Exactly. So many people think that getting over an addiction means you can NEVER have it again, which simply is not the case. You can have it every now and then just as long as you ain't overdosing on it. Don't know why so many people disregard that completely.
@@Sawlky The problem is often that there is no such thing as "having just a little" for an addict. Yes, you can physically have a little and not get hurt, but often that slowly spirals out of control really fast. Cause if you can have a little and it's okay, you can have a little more. But addiction can have different effects on different people. (if you ask me the biggest difference in general is between people using substances to fill a certain emptiness or people being addicted to a certain substance)
Yeah like wtf When they were like "we have one last challenge" I thought they would walk up to her and be like "You did amazing, and you're still doing amazing. We are proud of you and are here to support you through your journey, and know that we believe in you, and you should believe in yourself too. You can do this, you're awesome." But no They just fucking gave her ice cream Like wtf
@@pornohcreep oh my god that is the perfect analogy, i understood that handing her icecream was very dumb but i didnt understand why until i read your comment. Thank you!
Honestly it’s kinda degrading and rude how they pop up in their life and expect them to be willing to go along with what they say. The most heart breaking one has to be Martin. Like he obviously was caught off guard.
The girl that only eats fries has ARFID, Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder. I also gag and even sometimes throw up when trying other foods (I'm also a fry addict I just don't ONLY eat fries, just my go-to when eating out). Our bodies just won't keep it down. She's not making it up, nor is she dramatizing it, it is just actually that bad for us.
@@POTATO-fu2hu i would absolutely do that as a kid. nowadays i just, like, spit it out and grimace and sadly skip the rest of the meal lol (onions in my bean and cheese taco bell burrito was like piss in cornflakes lmaaoo)
What I’m really wondering about is how did they lay that many popsicle sticks down without anyone coming along and accidentally or purposely messing it up
YES!! This made me so mad! That was sickening. People had to work to get that maple syrup and that was a huge cost to send to a dump! Edit: I've now read in the comments that it is fake, so that's good LOL
When you realize that "guy" and "Greg" are both used in the sentence "Hey guys it's Greg!" And some men in the world are named Greg so every Greg must be a guy and every guy is subbed to Drew and every Greg is subbed to Danny so there's a 100% overlap in their fanbase and they look the same 🧐. Drew Gonzalez cannot hide behind these lies any longer!
"Oh, this camera right here must be the grocery store cameraman. That is a thing the store has always had." "Excuse me. Do you eat too much ice cream? I'm a doctor." "Whaaaa?! I didn't expect to be on a TV show!"
I mean, in all seriousness, is this not normal for things in the ice cream section? I'm pretty sure I've seen unmarked boxes of ice cream 'bars' in the frozen isle before.
Seriously I don't see a single label on those boxes not even nutritional or content info which I'm pretty sure is legally required All the packages in the background are normal. I bet they didn't want to offend whatever company it was and catch a lawsuit.
The way they exploit these people when they're so clearly mentally ill actually pisses me off Confronting a woman with severe depression and compulsive eating with ice cream at the party wasn't done to genuinely test her will and self control, it was done for the entertainment of the audience The show as well may bring psychologists on board or claim to, but the therapy if there is any, is absolutely staged and I've no doubt that zero progress is ever actually made In the precursor show, my strange addiction, the formular was extremely obvious. Person comes on admitting to be addicted and have it terrible, indulges in addiction before the cameras, has family express concern, they force them to see a doctor on camera and the doctor delivers the scary news of just repeating what everyone has already been saying And only then suddenly are they like "wow I had no idea , this is awful. I didn't know I was doing so much damage to my body" But like, you came on the show because you knew??? Only NOW after a doctor repeats what you already know, does it sink in?? And this happens nearly every episode
That poor lady with the ice cream why would you push it so much by making her celebrate that she's improved her diet and offer her some ice cream. Also; that's like offering an ex-alcholic alcohol or offering a person who's quitting smoking a cigarette.
That, and they never offer her a better coping mechanism. She's straight-up telling them that she knows she's eating too much ice cream -- she just doesn't know how else to deal with what she's feeling. Get her a hobby, get her hiking or biking or swimming -- something she enjoys sticking with -- and her addiction might fall away without a fight.
That made me mad. You don't offer someone something they're fighting an addiction to as a test, especially not with everyone staring at her. If her addiction was genuine, I hope she's gotten real help for it
rat bastian exactly! When you quit drinking, you get rid of all of the alcohol. And if you were throwing yourself a party to celebrate how good you were doing being sober, you wouldn’t serve alcohol at the party (and everyone would be supportive of that)
I like how ice cream lady is pulling pure white unmarked corrugated cardboard boxes out of the freezer as if anyone has ever bought popsicles like that.
unmarked generic brand are cheaper and better to buy in larger amounts, that's exactly where an addict would go to not break the bank on their addiction lol
@@crustysSecondChannelEven the cheap store brand ones have a graphic and a logo on them here. I've never seen a box like that before. Does your store get dropshipped ice cream from AliExpress or something lmao
@@SK8TERPRO241 celebrities aren't the same, you're saying this to a random person that you do not know, not thinking about their thoughts and/or feelings you should at least consider... you know, NOT giving someone a compliment.
A waiter comes up to them like "Would you like to do shock therapy on someone" And also they have to walk a mile of photos of all the people they did this to and it leads to a whole crowd of people they tortured
high pitched *NYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEOW* and it was right after one of those inserted interview snippets from all those shows, where the person talking to the camera is reacting emotionally to something that would have happened hours or days ago based on how these shows are produced.
It’s used by drawing a violin bow across a cymbal. It originated on Survivor for tense moments. There’s a podcast, Every Little Thing, and the guy who started putting the sound in shows, Rick Livingston’s discussed it. 😅 What unholy monstrosity has he unleashed upon the world!? We can never go back to Before. 😭
@@miink1861 I mean 40 bucks for 1 gallon is not that bad. it should last you ...maybe .. a few mon.. hum.. one whole week! I don't have a problem i'm canadian also yeah it probably is fake but also you can make any thickness of maple syrup that you want from pure maple water to a solid sugar brick
I'm autistic and have an eating disorder associated with autism called ARFID. Avoidant restrictive food intake disorder. Freaky eaters just makes me feel worse for them because I can relate in a way and I can't help that. It's not as easy as just eating something new. Subconsciously your body just regects the food and views it as non edible.
@@Simon-eo4df its caused me to become anorexic at times because it's easier for me to just not think about eating to avoid the stress of it. I wouldn't take breastmilk or baby food when I was younger even. Doctors told my mom I wouldnt let myself starve but they were wrong and my mom realize quickly I actually would have let myself starve rather than eat something I didn't like. And by let myself I mean my body would throw up anything i tried to eat that i found repulsive.
@@Simon-eo4df anorexia is when you purposely don't eat food. Usually in order to maintain or lose weight. I simply found it too stressful to eat even the food I did enjoy, so I would skip meals even if I was hungry.
"I realize my addiction is hurting me, now I need help." "Okay but first we need you to realize how much your addiction is hurting you. And we'll do so via shame!" "What?"
As a student minoring in addiction studies: This show is the worst at helping people get past their addictions. You might be able to sue these people for acting like they know what they're doing.
@@PissyLissy was gonna say this too, they definitely sign a contract and I'm pretty sure the get paid a good amount of money to participate. Not that it makes it okay, but they made that decision themselves
Man, I feel so bad for the ice cream lady. Not just cause of what led her to the addiction, but also how poorly they handled it. It's not super comparable, but I had a self harm addiction and it was hell. Had quite a few relapses even after years of being clean. It's not as common as running into a trigger for a food addiction, but there was so much work and emotional health problems that I had to deal with for that. Addictions are rough no matter what it is and most addicts know well enough what it's like and how bad it is. Like most of the time, addicts don't need to be made aware of how much they intake or how bad it is or that they "treat their body like trash." Even she said she wanted to get better. It's one thing to just stop, but you not only have to find other and healthier coping mechanisms, but also you have to get to the root. That's why drug addicts and alcoholics often relapse. It's very situational things that lead to those and most of the help doesn't really work for long term things because they may not be getting the help they need. Such as poverty and low income being a big factor that contributes to addiction, as well as the addictive elements like nicotine. Actual addictions require more. A real world test for her would have been grocery shopping since it's a regular activity. Just a reminder for anyone struggling, addictions are tough especially if not provided adequate solutions to the problems that lead to addiction and not given proper help/treatment. If you do relapse, that happens and it can be hard to cope with the feelings, but you can do it again and you aren't lesser or broken or defeated for it. I believe in you all ^v^ For those that have broken addictions and are clean, I am SO PROUD OF YOU!!! And same to those that are working hard!!! I'm proud of anyone no matter where they are with their addiction!!! You are worthy of love and treatment and care!!! 💜💜💜 Edit: My addiction isn't one naturally run into, but even I get tempted when it comes to alcohol. Thanks to trauma, personality disorders, all that stuff, I am at risk of addiction and I know it cause I've had a craving for it in my reckless episodes before, I just don't physically have access to it and I'm incompetent with how to get it. Just seeing people enjoy alcohol can make me extremely anxious and uncomfortable because I know how dangerous it can be for someone like me. I have to be careful. But to have someone that is recovering already from having an addiction and to offer them the addiction is GROSS GROSS GROSS!!!!! I get uncomfortable just being around people drinking cause of pressure and cravings and urges thanks to impulsive/reckless behaviour and self-destructive tendencies where I find a strong urge/desire to ruin myself in response to trauma and such. Let alone if I was actually addicted to it and trying to recover and being offered it. Like I still have to manage my self harm addiction even though I am clean for years now and don't rely on it. Because triggering imagery or mentions of certain words (like the word c*t, censored for my benefit, can be enough to trigger me even if it's about vegetables and not self harm) can have me feeling incredibly anxious and having to distract myself to resist it. It's so messed up to offer her it as a "real world" test. Exposure to things in a therapy sense does NOT work like that either! Edit 2: I'm autistic and have AFRID (selective eating disorder) and uh, yeah, I have almost thrown up from things too. I struggle with foods that have strong tastes too. Even if I liked grilled cheese, I've almost gotten sick eating it. I've expanded my list of safe foods thankfully so I'm having actual meals (especially since I was neglected and my parents couldn't handle an autistic kid with needs), but it can take a while. I have struggled through foods just for the sake of other people. It's really hard to live with especially since I've had anorexia before and a lot of insecurities around food and eating too thanks to abuse and neglect and weight issues. Especially getting labelled as a "picky eater" when really it was a legitimate eating disorder that is common with autistic and adhd folks. I've mostly expandes my safe foods because a lot of previous safe foods (unhealthy ones) would trigger my IBS and gastrointestinal issues and out of sake for not suffering, I had to do something plus the toll it took on my self esteem as I gained weight (unrelated, still not fully understood, probably related to my PCOS.) So I get it. A carrot for her could be extremely repulsive. Even though I "like" broccoli or can tolerate it, I literally ate it tonight in tiny nibbles because I can't handle actual bites of strong foods. It's a real thing and it can majorly suck when it comes to health issues. Like, again, the only reason I expanded it was for self esteem and not having to suffer through stomach problems that genuinely had me crying and contemplating suicide bc im a highly unstable invidivual. It was literally out of one thing being worse than the other. But that's basically my rant. A lot of my expanded safe foods is also thanks to my friend's family cooking good food. My parents don't really do that outside of dishes they like (which don't interest me or make me sick) and then they just go "oh well" to me. So. Thank you friend's family. But this is basically just an autistic ramble that yeah, that kind of thing is real and it can be different for everyone. I'm happy with my diet today, but still feel insecurities about not "eating normal" like other people do.
hi! Ik this is prob incredibly cringe to hear, but this comment helped me learn i have AFRID and better understand myself because i have a very similar experience to you, I just wanted to say hi and thank you for... existing, I guess.
I find it hilarious that they're like "you passed the real life test." Like no, she didn't. Recovering from addiction isn't "you got over it, you're cured now." It's a process that doesn't ever really end, and putting it in front of her like they did is not only hurtful, but also not a good way to show that she's made a full recovery. The real "real life test" would be to check on her in 6 months or something and see how she's doing on her journey to recovery.
Imagine the same story structure as in the segment with the ice cream lady, but instead of ice cream it was heroin. Hosts came to her with a spoon and the syringe and like «how 'bout a shot?»
The lady who only ate french fries and nearly threw up from the carrot probably has Avoidant Restristive Food Intake Disorder which often results in a limited diet of mostly proccessed carbs. Adding other foods into the diet is part of treatment but you don't go stright from only french fries to a food that has a completely different taste and texture that the person finds repulsive. Of course she was going to throw up. It's likely most of the people in the show had some form of eating disorder, whether it be binge eating disorder, arfid, or pica.
I have ARFID and 'outgrew' (read: was viciously bullied out of) PICA and I very much felt the same. Like, I've reacted like that to unsafe foods--it was constant before starting recovery, and it was even for things I wasn't eating, so no wonder she reacted that way. And I also compulsively ate vaseline and chapstick, not because I wasnt aware that was not good, but because I didn't have coping skills. This show is the entirely wrong way to treat anyone with an addiction (or eating disorder, which function like and can be considered addictions). It's hard to even watch clips and commentary on it.
i hate when people don't understand it and they think it's just "being picky" and they're like "back in my day we'd just force those spoiled kids to eat or they wouldn't eat anything!" like back in your day kids were terrified of their parents so they just did as they were told out of fear craig, shut up
low key seeing that guy dump out all that maple syrup made me mad. that stuff takes FOREVER to collect. why couldn’t they have donated it or something. i hope it was fake
as someone who's been addicted to an unhealthy coping mechanism, if only the first few days after staying clean, someone offered me my tools?? I'd think they were making fun of me, I'd probably have a breakdown. you can't just treat addictions like that, this would be inexcusable with any other.
I like to imagine this woman was addicted to cocaine, she's trying to be clean then someone comes up with a plate filled with big lines on a mirror.
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if she was doing cocaine it would definitely stop her ice cream bar addiction
*Waiter brings plate of cocaine*
Lady: No, thank you! I’m sorry! That just, doesn’t look very good to me right now
“I cut loose the husband in my life” is the strangest way I’ve ever heard someone say they got divorced
SAME LMAO
Right it’s like “I’ve freed him from the pain that is being frozen” someone needs to show her frozen..
My parents divorced and the way my dad explained it to a distant relative was “she flew the coop”.That might just be southern talk though.
Maybe she kept him tied on a rope to her bed?
at that point it just sounds like their advertising divorce attorneys to old people.
My favorite one is where she’s addicted to eating cornstarch and they make her walk through oobleck, and say *thats inside of you*
I ate oobleck before and it’s delicious, honestly.
That's the stupidest argument for anything I've ever heard. There are few foods I would actually enjoy walking through.
On a side note, walking through oobleck sounds fun.
Soyeye what is oobleck?
Now walking through mash potatoes, that sounds like a good time
@@Thecatsworlds oobleck is what you get when you mix cornstarch and water
The fact that these people are addiction experts, or at least claim to be, is despicable. You NEVER offer someone who is 4 days into recovery their addiction. I have a family member who is 3 months sober from alcohol and we still have dry parties whenever we get together. She needs love, support, and help, not to be offered a glass of wine and say no.
such supportive family💕
You’re completely right. Absolutely absurd that they offered her icecream less than a week into recovery. Happy to hear your family is supportive of your loved one.
I’ve been sober for 9 years and my family still has dry parties and dinners. My parents don’t drink at all (even when I’m not around) - to show support and solidarity . It’s been nearly a decade into solid recovery and they are still mindful and careful of my feelings- even though it is no longer necessary.
Yeah, i have an uncle who has tried to quit alcohol several times for the sake of his wife and kids but unfortunately he always gets reintroduced within a month. It's sad who does legitimately want a better life but can't get rid of it. Im glad you're family is extremely supportive because I've lost several close family members or friends to addiction
Ikr. It's like sending someone to a rehab facility for drug addiction and then a few days later offering them crack. Like how is that a good idea???
Mind you, drugs have withdrawal symptoms that ice cream likely doesn't, but still.
I hear the point but never heard of ice cream withdrawal nor is it strongly psychoactive. How she's doing now after the cameras are gone is another question.
The maple syrup parts pisses ME off tbh. Maple syrup is expensive, that’s a huge waste
Besides it was completely useless, they could've put in a container and donated it, but nope they had to throw it in the fcking garbage.
I dont think that was even maple syrup, it looked more like tea
@@Apollo_G maybe they diluted it
Yeah. There are much more efficient ways to treat addictions like that and even though they did it for entertainment and pointless tension it's still kinda unpleasant to watch
IKR I was annoyed
They’re literally just emotionally abusing the ice cream woman.
Imagine going to a fucking AA meeting and they go “lol u want some whiskey?”
8:33 it's like... offering alcohol to a former alcoholic knowing that he was an alcoholic just to see his reaction... That's awful....
If that was me I would have been like. Moderation bitchesssss And its technical not a ice cream bar sooo...
I was thinking the same thing. She's only 4 days sober! you wouldn't do that to an alcoholic or drug addict
@@nemi7578 same lol
It's cruel and heartless
Agreed. That's so needlessly taunting. She already knew she needed to stop, so all that was, was salt in the wound.
I've been sober for 5 years and I truly cannot imagine what it would be like if like one day into my recovery someone intentionally "tested" me by offering me alcohol. That doesn't do anything positive or prove anything, it's just mean and very weird.
It's staged.
@@SeraphsWitness haha thank you. I do know how TLC works though. I was talking about the concept of presenting this an effective way to help someone overcome an addiction.
@@non_brewed_condiment well sure, it's obviously psychotic if you don't warn the person. Lol
hope you are still doing fine! Just being sober does not mean that life is fine I learned that. I hope you have good social connections and a living family
I hope you're doing good, & stay safe plz!
The way they offered her ice cream was just rude that’s not how you treat an addiction
It’s like offering a recovering meth attic meth
Or a recovering hentai addict the at&t lady
What do you mean, this is how they do it in rehab. 😂 super professional
for me it just sounds weird. Like think how easy it would be to get over an addiction if it were like, “here have some drugs” “no thanks” “you’re cured 😊👌✨”
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JJ Virgin is seconds from waterboarding someone with chocolate milk to cure their addiction
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I turned it into 667 from 666... I’m so sorry 😞
@@nataliebilal8133 bruh moment
Kellee Nordstrom thought it said *Waterbending* lol
“But I’m supposed to believe they are different?!?”
*hmmm sounds familiar*
good name you have there 😌😌🤟
Subliminal message that they’re the same person
Lol
"I am Drew"
"I am Danny"
"AND WE ARE NOT THE SAME PERSON"
As if it wasn't already obviously staged, they also have her putting *plain, empty cardboard boxes* in her cart (presumably to not be seen as endorsing a specific brand)
Imagine going to an AA meeting and they serve alcohol.... that’s what they did with the ice cream
Laurel Shokes exactly
What us an aa meeting
Layth it’s where alcoholics go to help fight their addiction to alcohol
@@hhoneyglasss oh ok thanks
I think it’s more akin to getting someone through the whole process of AA then going hey have some alcohol
That guy talking about Kimberly smashing the ice sounds like that one English teacher trying to make the most basic of stories sound like the most symbolic thing ever
“The closed curtains are blue”
They’re blue because it symbolizes depression and loneliness and the reason why they’re closed is because the main character feels like they’re trapped in depression.
...wasn’t this character literally portrayed as the literal embodiment of happiness whose favourite colour is blue?
STOP TALKING BACK TO ME! DETENTION!
@@phet1211 xD this comment is so underrated
TheDisguisedCreeper That’s literally it. An ELA teacher once had us analyze why in the title “My Life With the Chimpanzees” the word “With” was capitalized. She made us say that it was symbolic of feeling and connecting with the chimps like ???
@@lee2791 I've always sucked at understanding symbolicism. Like, *sometimes* it even sort of makes sense, but I'd never EVER get it unless you told me. I had that issue when trying to analyze political cartoons, too. It's like, here's this grandma telling the US to not go outside it's own borders, clearly the person thinks that Grandmas are lame and that isolationists are being overprotective and America should help out with Europe. Nope! It's actually the complete opposite and the author is an isolationist. Why was it a grandma????
"She sat against the blue wall"
Teacher (Janet): "Now can anyone tell me why the wall was blue?
Brandon"
Brandon: "I don't know maybe because it was the only colour there when they were at Woody's?"
Teacher (Janet): This is not funny Brandon, in fact, the walls were painted blue because of the author's long battle with depression"
Brandon: NO JANET. THE WALLS WERE PAINTED BLUE BECAUSE THE AUTHOR WANTED TO MAKE THE WALLS BLUE THERE'S NO PHILOSOPHY BEHIND IT"
I thought it was relevant 😐
That syrup was 100% fake but, as someone who makes maple syrup, it still hurt me to even think of that much being wasted
Thanks for making my pancakes taste better
Oh thank god
How’d you know it was fake
TinnierSpark326 Idk maybe they can tell the texture, look, etc is different from the kind they make? It did look kinda watery lol.
@@Otaniii it looks like when you leave cola out for a while and all the carbonation fades
I know it's just blue gatorade, but I like, physically cringed when I saw drew drinking that 'mouthwash'
Lol mouthwash really isn't too bad tbh
@@lucilleballs2291
Yeah, but it's really dangerous if consumed in large quantities (like 1 cup could probably cause issues)
@@sonicdml4175 I drank about two bottles worth before I quit.
@@lucilleballs2291
Did you drink two bottles at once?
Im guessing no, since you wouldn't be so casual about it if you did.
@@sonicdml4175 It's not uncommon for alcoholics to resort to drinking mouthwash when they run dry. It causes repairable damage if only done a time or so, but there's been documented cases of alcoholics constantly drinking it and causing permanent damage to their internal organs, much faster than if they had just kept drinking regular alcohol.
Ahhh, just buying all my unmarked, unbranded ice cream bars, the ones I really like, and - AH A TV CREW!
its even funnier bc the tv crew was already there filming her and she still had to act surprised when she saw JJ and the dude lmfao
Retweet
*immediately screenshots*
Yep and just driving an ice cream with all the brands blocked out with white tape
I'm just buying my unbranded popsicle boxes with the camera in my face and another one facing the other end of the isle, but what's that? 2 people are walking towards me from where cameraman 2 was facing? Who could've seen this coming
"That's how many sticks you eat"
"I dont eat the sticks ._."
*bruh moment*
ah ha ha
JJ Virgin sounds like a name that you would hear in a Austin Powers movie.
HAHAHAHHA TRUE
420 nice
Omw that's actually so accurate
An*
NAKDOXKAKOS
re: the fries/carrot girl's reaction--that gives me serious ARFID energy [in non-US places it's often selective eating disorder/SED]. it's an eating disorder that I have, which is especially common in Autistics and people with ADHD, where one's diet is extremely limited and it's violently distressing to eat outside of safe foods.
And the opposite of what you do to treat it is forcing someone to eat an unsafe food, right now, on camera, while multiple people watch them!!
Bro i was literally thinking the same thing. I'm like,,, hey that's an autism thing (I'm autistic) and like no "normal" or neurotypical person acts like that just cuz they don't wanna eat veggies. That girl most likely has something more serious going on and needs a more patient and caring approach, not TLC trying to force her to eat carrots for views
yeah, i think they mentioned arfid in that episode as well
i wish more people understood it, or even thought it existed, so many people have heard about it but they think it's just some made up disease to excuse being spoiled and it sucks.
i'm autistic and have it and it's really embarrassing for me but people think you're just being willfully picky or say shit like "if my kid had that i'd tell them they eat what i give them or starve!" as if that helps at all, it's frustrating and even if this show is scripted it doesn't help with that situation lmao
In the show they actually ramped up to the carrot, they didn't just give it to her.
I think I might have arfid
@@SeraphsWitness doesnt help very much. you have to very very slowly escalate to certain foods, sometimes that doesnt even work.
imagine being pregnant for 9 months, having to go through the pain of having the child, and naming it JJ Virgin.
This is random af but my landlords last name is Virgin and I made the joke writing the first check that the mother of his kids is a virgin and he said, "Yup born a virgin and gonna die a Virgin." Pretty wholesome for someone who takes the majority of my money every month haha
Bet his middle name is "Dá"
Yeah but imagine it being “VJJ Virgin.”
So much worse
Wait a Seungminute
And then the kid had an oopsie at a club
IMAGINE
"I'm addicted to ice cream"
"Here have some ice cream"
"No thank you"
"YOu PaSsEd ThE tEsT 🤪"
It’s so stupid, I’ve seen crack addicts turn down hoots before... didn’t realize they’re not really addicts 🤷♂️
Yoooooooooo
I got it to 999 and then it got to 1k right after
Like if she accepted it i would imagine there would be loud edited in gasps and a zoom in of her eating icecream
The show feels like if someone had a successful intervention, and to celebrate, everyone took some shots
“WePutSomePopsiceSticksOnTheGound.”
“What?”
“We Put Popsicle Sticks *ontheground* “
Louis Knudsen That’s not an r/iamverysmart tho
666th like
"popcise" lmah
Gound
Gound and popsice
I just can’t stop imagining you doing this to confront Danny’s La Croix addiction. Lining up the cans and the boxes. Making him dump out the soda. Hilarious
If she really is addicted to ice cream, offering it to her is like offering shots to an alcoholic. Not cool.
@Miasma
I know but that's kinda... Idk... Off
It's also just awkward
Julia Katariina yeah it’s a shit move
@@ArmanBaig Can't reverse diabetes or heart disease.
YungKidneyBean The point was the addiction, not what the addiction is to.
@@ArmanBaig "Addiction is a treatable, chronic medical disease involving complex interactions among brain circuits, genetics, the environment, and an individual’s life experiences. People with addiction use substances or engage in behaviors that become compulsive and often continue despite harmful consequences."
It doesn't matter if you're addicted to something as innocuous as going fishing, by definition if you're addicted, it is inhibiting your ability to be a functioning human being, and damaging you in some way.
With the ice cream woman, when they said "We have one last surprise for you" why did I literally go "Omg it's the ex husband" 💀💀💀
Would've taken a turn
@@hartley9003 it would’ve been 100x better if the ex husband came in and just completely roasted her
It would be better that way
I feel bad for the woman though
Wait- was it not her ex husband? Who was it then 💀
Even funnier: The people at TLC have a bunch of clips of the person feeding their addiction, which like, _isn't helping._ Holy shit, just imagine being on the show and them just being like: "Okay, we're going to help you get over this addiction, but first we need like 20 minutes of you eating raw meat while a disembodied voice tells the viewers how disgusting you are."
Oh god, I didn't even think about that. Ew.
@@ratosphere Yup, it's pretty shady if it isn't all fake
It’s like “you’re addicted to alcohol? Let’s film you drinking and berate you on national television”
@@marshall9003 Yup, it's suuuper upsetting when you think about it.
Never realised, so true
the funniest/saddest part of drew's mouthwash addict is that that's literally a thing that very severe alcoholics will do - drink mouthwash because of the alcohol content. drew accidentally made an alcoholic 💀💀💀
Glad I’m not the only one who noticed. They’ve had episodes of Intervention where alcoholics were drinking mouthwash
My great grandpa was a severe alcoholic and he would drink perfume, mouth wash, rubbing alcohol… I have no idea how he made it to almost 80.
Imagine people treating someone with an alcohol addiction this way. It's literally considered horribly rude to offer someone you know is an addict a drink.
Throwing those in her face at her reception, where she was supposed to be celebrating herself and be proud of her progress, is genuinely emotionally abusive.
It's disgusting behavior. They're ADULTS, they should know better.
Sugar Leaf no sorry that doesn’t look very good to me right now
I'M SORRY
Michael Mell I'd normally go for it but RIGHT NOW I just don't feel like it
If somebody did that to my dad (recovering alcoholic) I would be offended. It's such a rude and horrible thing, its tempting the person. But having no remorse is worse.
hey! we take people with debilitating addictions and then use a bunch of empty packages and wasteful methods to emphasize just how much they use said addicting item, and then shove it back in their faces when they make progress! some of them even get makeovers cause lets be honest, they look like shit. haha :) would you like to be on our show? oh also i forgot, jj virgin’s the name, curing addictions is my game💪🏽
Simone Millsap I’m crying right now 💀💀💀
I have an addict to sucking my fingers as a comping mechanicism
MoonArtz you’re joking right
@@snoop2.055 its like biting your nails
Fuck I thought this was real-
It feels super weird that they're playing with addiction like this.
Imagine if it was like a drug addiction and they try and fix it by lining a pavement with needles or something. It's just weird.
that's just a jigsaw trap
There was a show that tried to “help” with people’s drug issues. It was called “Celebrity Rehab” and luckily the show no longer exists. But sadly people like Mike Starr overdosed after being on the show. It was terrible.
At the party due being sober the waiter just brings out that type of drug
@@ProjectLethargic could I interest you in some heroine?
@@ryanfeller5765 no sorry that’s just not looking very good to me right now
the thing about the shock therapy that gets me is like, how does that icecream pile compare to the pile of all the other food the lady eats? like people need to eat, and if you piled up a year's worth of food it would look like a huge amount
I just realized they meant THAT kind of shock. Straight up thought they were shocking her brain.
Imagine being at someone’s 1 year sobriety party and then a waiter starts walking round passing out shots and offers one to the alcoholic
Well tbh, it happens with that one.
It wasn't even one year, it was FOUR DAYS
Yeah, it being 4 days is the part that sucks. After a year it's much easier to decline it, 4 days is basically nothing.
But on these shows it's always a speedrun
@@loli_cvnt5622 For real, like if someone offered me a cigarette four days after I quit I would've absolutely taken it.
I mean, it's just the boss level.
*WE HAD KIMBERLY CLIMB MOUNT EVEREST WHERE WE MADE A ZIPLINE OUT OF ICE CREAM STICKS THAT SHE HAD TO RIDE BACK DOWN TO HER HOUSE*
LMAO
Lol! 🤣
She'd never have to worry about addiction for the rest of her life, on more than one level.
It sounds fun but very unstable
Underrated comment 😂
JJ Virgin was Drew’s nickname in high school
You mean Danny?
That will always be my nickname 😔
Oh so you mean last week?
Young Pastrami “was” yea sure ok
you mean my name?
One thing that really bugs me about the "let's show them all the shit they ate" part is that even if you're eating a normal amount of something you like, if someone gathered up all the trash from it for like a full year, isn't it always gonna look like a lot?
I can't even imagine how many eggs I've eaten in the past 365 days lol
show me all the weed i've smoked this year so far and i'll show you how much weed i'm about to smoke
@@colorblockpoprocks6973 LMFAO
if someone showed me a giant pile of all the mac and cheese ive eaten in a year i think i’d have a heart attack
Thats like "congrats on completing the 12 steps to AA, free shots for everyone!"
she'd been 4-days clean of ice cream, so it's more like after completing the first step.
i went for a jog, time for an ice cream bar
@@LezbeOswald still seems like a bad idea.
Help them to party a little bit dude.
I like how when they “surprise” her at the grocery store she just happens to be buying unlabeled boxes of ice cream bars
While being filmed
as people do
just a normal day at tlc
Grocery store crammed 14 of the same unlabeled brand ice cream sandwich boxes in one section.
As you do.
lacy jeanne 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
>title references “my strange addiction” and “my crazy obsession”
>mostly talks about “freaky eaters”
CSG they’re pretty much the same show lmao
@@unfabulouslyfabulous nah freaky eaters has hosts
Right? 😂
As someone with dietary restrictions due to a mental disability, something like this happening to me would probably stop me from ever going back to therapy. It’s really disgusting to make already weak communities feel ashamed of themselves about something that they are relying on YOU for assistance with. Shows that depict mentally ill/ mentally disabled people in this way really harm us even more.
“I’m JJ. Virgin”
“Okaaaay?”
this made me laugh way harder than it should have 😭
3:47
@HappyAndSadBoi I see sorry for misunderstanding
“Is that a confession?”
"I'm jj virgin"...
okaayyyy... I'm DD. sex addict
I know he’s been doing this for a while, but every time Drew says “Hey Guy” without the plural I get a weird feeling similar to picking up an empty can I thought was full. Just... _unexpected voidness._
1000th like 😎
this is weirdly understandable
This is one of the first of a few videos I've watched on this channel, and every time I hear it I feel a little more hollow. How long has he been doing this now?
i know someone named Guy... imagine knowing you're having a kid. You're like "omg yay" and you figure out its a boy and you're like "yay i guess boys are gross-" and you name it *Guy*.. Like his name... is Guy...
When you said shock therapy I thought you meant actual electric shock therapy for a minute and I was.. concerned
so did i omg
c-c-conversion therapy??!?!
Food conversion therapy
+Kay Schwab same though
Well, electric shock therapy is, in fact, sometimes used to treat severe obsessive-compulsive disorder
The look on Kimberly's face as they tried to serve her ice cream just screamed "these assholes are STILL at it?"
what's even worse, more than the fact that they were offering her something that she was TRYING to get over, but the fact that she developed the addiction due to emotional distress, and instead of getting her genuine help and therapy, they just basically insulted her for an entire video
youd be surprised to know how many ppl think thats how to get over addictions and dont get they'll relapse
Also she can eat ice cream, the point is she’s eating ice cream way too much and it isn’t good for her what’s good for her is eating ice cream when she should be not stopping her from eating it forever 😭
yeah, it sucks, I'm rly sorry for her
@@Name-tn1zg Exactly. So many people think that getting over an addiction means you can NEVER have it again, which simply is not the case. You can have it every now and then just as long as you ain't overdosing on it. Don't know why so many people disregard that completely.
@@Sawlky The problem is often that there is no such thing as "having just a little" for an addict. Yes, you can physically have a little and not get hurt, but often that slowly spirals out of control really fast. Cause if you can have a little and it's okay, you can have a little more. But addiction can have different effects on different people. (if you ask me the biggest difference in general is between people using substances to fill a certain emptiness or people being addicted to a certain substance)
TLC: Hey can I copy your homework?
TLC looking in the mirror: Sure just don’t make it too obvious
Aww dont sorry I'll change a couple answers around.
That’s not my job it’s thesaurus’ job.
offering a thing someone’s addicted to 4 days after they’re clean is something you SHOULD NEVER do to someone with an addiction
Yeah like wtf
When they were like "we have one last challenge"
I thought they would walk up to her and be like
"You did amazing, and you're still doing amazing. We are proud of you and are here to support you through your journey, and know that we believe in you, and you should believe in yourself too. You can do this, you're awesome."
But no
They just fucking gave her ice cream
Like wtf
Its like telling someone with an ed hey just eat when they are recovering
⚠️TW SELF HARM⚠️
Its like offering someone with a cutting addiction a razor and time alone.
@@pornohcreep oh my god that is the perfect analogy, i understood that handing her icecream was very dumb but i didnt understand why until i read your comment. Thank you!
"Hey I saw you were 4 days clean of heroin, would you like this syringe full of it?" That's basically what it sounded like
8:15 I notice this type of editing on TV sometimes too and I refuse to believe it's anything other than a bored editor seeing what he can slip by
LMAO THATS SUCK A FUNNY IDEA
When you dont want to buy more than 2 bottles of publix mouthwash as props
I thought the same thing lol
they’re EXPENSIVE
Also 5 packets of coolade to replace the mouthwash
Twisty Noodle It was Gatorade. It’s in the description.
colgate plax is better lol
*puts tray of rocks out*
rock eater guy:im sorry thats not looking very good to me right now
Good one
rock collection
There actually is an episode about a lady who eats bricks.
*they take him to a mountain*
Rock eater guy: well fuck
Honestly it’s kinda degrading and rude how they pop up in their life and expect them to be willing to go along with what they say. The most heart breaking one has to be Martin. Like he obviously was caught off guard.
I read this before finishing the video and skipped around for the Martin segment and was upset I couldn’t find it until I watched the whole thing haha
yeah ;(
If it weren't utterly scripted, I would wholeheartedly agree.
Can someone explain? I don’t watch it?
@@onyourleft9273 at the end Drew did a skit about a guy named Martin who was addicted to drinking mouthwash lol
The girl that only eats fries has ARFID, Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder. I also gag and even sometimes throw up when trying other foods (I'm also a fry addict I just don't ONLY eat fries, just my go-to when eating out). Our bodies just won't keep it down. She's not making it up, nor is she dramatizing it, it is just actually that bad for us.
Oh that sounds horrible, would you gag if there was something unexpected in a meal, like something crunchy in steak?
(I'm just curious)
My little cousin has, ARFID, it’s heartbreaking.
@@POTATO-fu2hu i would absolutely do that as a kid. nowadays i just, like, spit it out and grimace and sadly skip the rest of the meal lol (onions in my bean and cheese taco bell burrito was like piss in cornflakes lmaaoo)
i- how did they lay popsicles sticks down for hours and still think it was a good idea
They probably just got an intern to do it. No one cares about wasting the intern's time
What I’m really wondering about is how did they lay that many popsicle sticks down without anyone coming along and accidentally or purposely messing it up
@@riverdaisy4215 yeah, you KNOW some tiny children or teens would walk over just to kick it
Drew: makes title and thumbnail inspired in my crazy obsession/strange addiction
Drew: spends the whole video talking about freaky eaters
Stonks
Drew: spends a quarter of the video chugging mouthwash
Ok but what’s the difference
Esther Is greg damn fam lmaooo
Tbh the maple syrup one pissed me the hell off too. Good maple syrup is not cheap. They didn’t have to waste it like that
YES!! This made me so mad! That was sickening. People had to work to get that maple syrup and that was a huge cost to send to a dump!
Edit: I've now read in the comments that it is fake, so that's good LOL
maple syrup is made with tree sap too. it not only wasted money but wasted a lot of sap that is hard to harvest
I doubt it was real maple syrup
I've found the Canadians
It was probably the stuff that’s made of high fructose corn syrup
14:10
Drew: That's just some ****ing kid.
Subtitles: That's just ****ing some kid.
“I got divorced” 🚫
-
“I cut loose the husband in my life” ✅
Broke and woke
Getting divorced felt as good as.... 4.2 ice cream bars.
Crafty Lad awkiwisf
*the husband*
🗿
That moment you realize Danny and Drew are just synonyms of each other and are thus the same show on 2 different channels.
Anthony Lugo this comment is underrated 🤣
oh my god...
I am a fan of Drew Gonzales and Danny Gooden
When you realize that "guy" and "Greg" are both used in the sentence "Hey guys it's Greg!" And some men in the world are named Greg so every Greg must be a guy and every guy is subbed to Drew and every Greg is subbed to Danny so there's a 100% overlap in their fanbase and they look the same 🧐. Drew Gonzalez cannot hide behind these lies any longer!
The only difference is Danny makes music parodies
I also like how the "totally not staged meet up in the grocery store" features her grabbing stacks of completely unmarked boxes...
true
"Oh, this camera right here must be the grocery store cameraman. That is a thing the store has always had."
"Excuse me. Do you eat too much ice cream? I'm a doctor."
"Whaaaa?! I didn't expect to be on a TV show!"
I mean, in all seriousness, is this not normal for things in the ice cream section? I'm pretty sure I've seen unmarked boxes of ice cream 'bars' in the frozen isle before.
W
Seriously I don't see a single label on those boxes not even nutritional or content info which I'm pretty sure is legally required
All the packages in the background are normal. I bet they didn't want to offend whatever company it was and catch a lawsuit.
The look on his face when the maple syrup guy says “I’m gunna eat a lot of maple syrup” is so confident it’s priceless
The way they exploit these people when they're so clearly mentally ill actually pisses me off
Confronting a woman with severe depression and compulsive eating with ice cream at the party wasn't done to genuinely test her will and self control, it was done for the entertainment of the audience
The show as well may bring psychologists on board or claim to, but the therapy if there is any, is absolutely staged and I've no doubt that zero progress is ever actually made
In the precursor show, my strange addiction, the formular was extremely obvious. Person comes on admitting to be addicted and have it terrible, indulges in addiction before the cameras, has family express concern, they force them to see a doctor on camera and the doctor delivers the scary news of just repeating what everyone has already been saying
And only then suddenly are they like "wow I had no idea , this is awful. I didn't know I was doing so much damage to my body"
But like, you came on the show because you knew??? Only NOW after a doctor repeats what you already know, does it sink in??
And this happens nearly every episode
It's really disgusting.
That's a lot
I’m not reading this someone can sum it up in 4 lines?
@@thisisme5911 *Clears trough*
This is bad. mental illness is real. Bla bla bla. He's exploiting mental people.
nerdyravenclaw thanks😎
"this is the amount of mouthwash you drink, after drinking one bottle of mouthwash, twice."
Lold at that part 😂😂
🤯
i laughed so hard i snorted
Stop quoting
That’s some logic right there
The fact that drew just laughed at the thought of the crew laying down popsicle sticks then goes and does it himself is just so hilarious I love him
@@grrrlknight
It's a bot
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@@dankdatsouljaboi your username describe my personality
12:37 I literally really did spit out my mouthwash. Chef's kiss for that doctor's name.
*Man buys all blue Gatorade in Walmart and pours it all in mouthwash containers*
It's the new ice cream lick challenge-
True I was thinking either that or Mountain Dew Baja Blast
14:53 he has a Gatorade shirt on💀
@@snows7316 im pretty sure he did that on purpose to hint at the fact that its gatorade
really thought he was sponsored by gatorade this episode
"ever had a day in your life without maple s--"
" *_no_* "
10:59
lmaoooooo
Internal monologue: “bitch step the fuck back off of my maple syrup I like it and fuck you”
I’m born with maple syrup in my mouth!!
Lmao I didnt notice that
He said that before she finished saying maple.
That poor lady with the ice cream why would you push it so much by making her celebrate that she's improved her diet and offer her some ice cream.
Also; that's like offering an ex-alcholic alcohol or offering a person who's quitting smoking a cigarette.
That, and they never offer her a better coping mechanism. She's straight-up telling them that she knows she's eating too much ice cream -- she just doesn't know how else to deal with what she's feeling.
Get her a hobby, get her hiking or biking or swimming -- something she enjoys sticking with -- and her addiction might fall away without a fight.
That made me mad. You don't offer someone something they're fighting an addiction to as a test, especially not with everyone staring at her. If her addiction was genuine, I hope she's gotten real help for it
rat bastian exactly! When you quit drinking, you get rid of all of the alcohol. And if you were throwing yourself a party to celebrate how good you were doing being sober, you wouldn’t serve alcohol at the party (and everyone would be supportive of that)
I like how ice cream lady is pulling pure white unmarked corrugated cardboard boxes out of the freezer as if anyone has ever bought popsicles like that.
*laughs in growing up in a trailer park with multiple other children*
unmarked generic brand are cheaper and better to buy in larger amounts, that's exactly where an addict would go to not break the bank on their addiction lol
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that's often how they look where I live. what do they look like normally for you?
@@crustysSecondChannelEven the cheap store brand ones have a graphic and a logo on them here. I've never seen a box like that before. Does your store get dropshipped ice cream from AliExpress or something lmao
Strange addiction: Drew Gooden
Crazy addiction: Danny Gonzalez
good one, same
Holy shit, I just realized their initials are the same
do... do you mean crazy obsession
The fact that you didn't write " Crazy *Obsession* " hurts me
Freaky eaters: Cody Ko
ok the ice cream lady didn’t deserve all that
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Creepy..
Bruh what the fuck why would you look at a lady with a eating disorder and be like HEEYYYY ITS A F R E A K Y EATER
@@SK8TERPRO241 celebrities aren't the same, you're saying this to a random person that you do not know, not thinking about their thoughts and/or feelings
you should at least consider... you know, NOT giving someone a compliment.
When he originally said shock therapy I thought he meant shocking as in like ELECTRICITY
Aaron Fry SAMEEEE
Lmao right I was like um hi that's a very serious medical procedure and also not a treatment for addiction 😂😂😂
I agree and I feel like the show misusing terms like that is irresponsible. With that said the whole show is exploitive so not suprising 🤷♂️
Mike Pence style
@@NoBaloneyHomosapiens Shock therapy is used for that type of process. It's not wrong.
7:30 that’s also just a huge waste of syrup
We need to confront the hosts' addiction to shock therapy.
*hosts walking up to their person* Well well, Look who we found!
*hosts sneaking up behind the hosts and whispering*
*Not this time buddy*
MORE POPSICLE STICK CHAIRS I WANT TO SEE HER SHOCKED AND CONFUSED FACE
Imagine a time loop of the hosts busting the hosts when they are confronting an addict.
A waiter comes up to them like "Would you like to do shock therapy on someone"
And also they have to walk a mile of photos of all the people they did this to and it leads to a whole crowd of people they tortured
@@TH-camaccoubr wow that would be terrifying
You and danny have spent so much time together your upload cycles have matched up. You go girl
toxicolocat lmao true
@@cattailsss Oh dude you're right he should've made a joke about that
@@cattailsss r/wooosh
Lolol
@@cattailsss That was probably the joke.
13:21 dying at the overly obnoxious squeaky door sound effect that is in every type of show like this
high pitched *NYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEOW* and it was right after one of those inserted interview snippets from all those shows, where the person talking to the camera is reacting emotionally to something that would have happened hours or days ago based on how these shows are produced.
Commonly known as the “Gordon Ramsay Siren”
yo i got a micro dick SO FUCKIN TRUE LMAO
@@BK-ku1zt HAHAHEIOENSGSODNGWUWOWIENR8WHB2 NYEOOOOOOWWWWEWW
It’s used by drawing a violin bow across a cymbal. It originated on Survivor for tense moments. There’s a podcast, Every Little Thing, and the guy who started putting the sound in shows, Rick Livingston’s discussed it. 😅 What unholy monstrosity has he unleashed upon the world!? We can never go back to Before. 😭
Presenting a recovering “addict” with the thing they’re addicted to, especially during a celebration of their improvement, is like so terrible.
Why didn't he talk about the fact that that's clearly not maple syrup? They clearly just dyed bunch of water Brown, it's way too liquidy.
Janie Hendrix Not to mention real maple syrup Is ridiculously expensive, like 40 bucks a gallon
Janie Hendrix unless he doesn’t eat real maple syrup ? Idk tbh but what a mess
is he even an addict, or just canadian
Some brands of pure maple syrup actually are that watery.
@@miink1861 I mean 40 bucks for 1 gallon is not that bad. it should last you ...maybe .. a few mon.. hum.. one whole week!
I don't have a problem i'm canadian
also yeah it probably is fake but also you can make any thickness of maple syrup that you want from pure maple water to a solid sugar brick
i love how drew has to clarify that ppl who share his first name aren’t related to him
idky but the minute he mentioned the maple syrup guy i thought of danny haha
WHAT???
But they are…
He is in denial
"My strange addiction" and "my crazy obsession" is the same as Danny and drew
How does one get so many likes with no replies?
@@pinkpantheressfanboy Top 10 Questions Science Can't Answer
Genuis
My strange addiction : my crazy obsession :: Danny : Drew
Drew’s better hehe
11:37 glad to see the sonic adventure two battle sound mixers still got work
When he first said shock therapy I thought they were gonna taze her😂
I thought he meant electroshock therapy and i was like woah now
@@lilissupafly 😂
Asprin same. 😂😂😂
Ikrr😂😂😂
* vomits a whole ice cream bar *
I'm autistic and have an eating disorder associated with autism called ARFID. Avoidant restrictive food intake disorder.
Freaky eaters just makes me feel worse for them because I can relate in a way and I can't help that. It's not as easy as just eating something new. Subconsciously your body just regects the food and views it as non edible.
^^^Yeah, same here
Dude I’m so sorry that must be really tough man
@@Simon-eo4df its caused me to become anorexic at times because it's easier for me to just not think about eating to avoid the stress of it. I wouldn't take breastmilk or baby food when I was younger even. Doctors told my mom I wouldnt let myself starve but they were wrong and my mom realize quickly I actually would have let myself starve rather than eat something I didn't like. And by let myself I mean my body would throw up anything i tried to eat that i found repulsive.
Oli Zembry Dude that sucks. What does anorexic mean?
@@Simon-eo4df anorexia is when you purposely don't eat food. Usually in order to maintain or lose weight. I simply found it too stressful to eat even the food I did enjoy, so I would skip meals even if I was hungry.
"I realize my addiction is hurting me, now I need help."
"Okay but first we need you to realize how much your addiction is hurting you. And we'll do so via shame!"
"What?"
Right?
Its the only way to really bring in the views while intentionally shaming you on live TV at fhe same time. Its for your own good.
Yeah I didn’t encounter any of these techniques when I was in eating disorder treatment 😂
@@ksandesch i have a feeling a lot of these people relapse cause of this shit.
ksandesch p
7:20 That pissed ME the hell off! Maple syrup is expensive AND delicious! For my own sanity, im going to assume it was fake syrup.
"A wise guy once said to myself"-Danny Gonzalez 2019
Oh, I get it. She's addicted to ice cream bars, because she is afraid of having another meltdown.
Badumschhhhh
Please don’t
this was an unappreciated joke and i really like it 😘💖💝
Duh
Omg lmao this deserves so much more likes
“And I don’t live inside a cake”
Don’t you ever disrespect me or my cake boss EVER again.
I’m warning you Danny
lmaoooooo
cake boss is the only show on TLC that's worth watching.
SharkAttack 654 ikr
DeVito or Phantom?
@@polo619652 your reply made me realize that it said Danny and not drew, im so desensitized to the fandoms nonsense
I actually had an alcoholic neighbor when I was a kid who drank mouthwash. It was lowkey horrifying, but no one ever acknowledged it.
yeah, apparently some alcoholics drink mouthwash for the alcohol content. :(
As a student minoring in addiction studies: This show is the worst at helping people get past their addictions. You might be able to sue these people for acting like they know what they're doing.
Joseph looks cool
Addiction studies is a minor??
@@idontneedaname318 At WMU. Not sure where else.
Even if there's some kind of contract that the subject of the show signed to consent to them doing this?
@@PissyLissy was gonna say this too, they definitely sign a contract and I'm pretty sure the get paid a good amount of money to participate. Not that it makes it okay, but they made that decision themselves
“This is the amount of mouthwash you have after one bottle of mouthwash, TWICE”
akaila yasss I fell out of my chair laughing at that part
"and thats befor you had 4 bottles!"
TFW you don't want to spend the money on 100 bottles of moutwash
“a wise man once said to myself” is such an underrated line
fs
Man, I feel so bad for the ice cream lady. Not just cause of what led her to the addiction, but also how poorly they handled it. It's not super comparable, but I had a self harm addiction and it was hell. Had quite a few relapses even after years of being clean. It's not as common as running into a trigger for a food addiction, but there was so much work and emotional health problems that I had to deal with for that. Addictions are rough no matter what it is and most addicts know well enough what it's like and how bad it is. Like most of the time, addicts don't need to be made aware of how much they intake or how bad it is or that they "treat their body like trash." Even she said she wanted to get better. It's one thing to just stop, but you not only have to find other and healthier coping mechanisms, but also you have to get to the root. That's why drug addicts and alcoholics often relapse. It's very situational things that lead to those and most of the help doesn't really work for long term things because they may not be getting the help they need. Such as poverty and low income being a big factor that contributes to addiction, as well as the addictive elements like nicotine. Actual addictions require more. A real world test for her would have been grocery shopping since it's a regular activity.
Just a reminder for anyone struggling, addictions are tough especially if not provided adequate solutions to the problems that lead to addiction and not given proper help/treatment. If you do relapse, that happens and it can be hard to cope with the feelings, but you can do it again and you aren't lesser or broken or defeated for it. I believe in you all ^v^
For those that have broken addictions and are clean, I am SO PROUD OF YOU!!! And same to those that are working hard!!! I'm proud of anyone no matter where they are with their addiction!!! You are worthy of love and treatment and care!!! 💜💜💜
Edit: My addiction isn't one naturally run into, but even I get tempted when it comes to alcohol. Thanks to trauma, personality disorders, all that stuff, I am at risk of addiction and I know it cause I've had a craving for it in my reckless episodes before, I just don't physically have access to it and I'm incompetent with how to get it. Just seeing people enjoy alcohol can make me extremely anxious and uncomfortable because I know how dangerous it can be for someone like me. I have to be careful. But to have someone that is recovering already from having an addiction and to offer them the addiction is GROSS GROSS GROSS!!!!! I get uncomfortable just being around people drinking cause of pressure and cravings and urges thanks to impulsive/reckless behaviour and self-destructive tendencies where I find a strong urge/desire to ruin myself in response to trauma and such. Let alone if I was actually addicted to it and trying to recover and being offered it.
Like I still have to manage my self harm addiction even though I am clean for years now and don't rely on it. Because triggering imagery or mentions of certain words (like the word c*t, censored for my benefit, can be enough to trigger me even if it's about vegetables and not self harm) can have me feeling incredibly anxious and having to distract myself to resist it. It's so messed up to offer her it as a "real world" test. Exposure to things in a therapy sense does NOT work like that either!
Edit 2: I'm autistic and have AFRID (selective eating disorder) and uh, yeah, I have almost thrown up from things too. I struggle with foods that have strong tastes too. Even if I liked grilled cheese, I've almost gotten sick eating it. I've expanded my list of safe foods thankfully so I'm having actual meals (especially since I was neglected and my parents couldn't handle an autistic kid with needs), but it can take a while. I have struggled through foods just for the sake of other people. It's really hard to live with especially since I've had anorexia before and a lot of insecurities around food and eating too thanks to abuse and neglect and weight issues. Especially getting labelled as a "picky eater" when really it was a legitimate eating disorder that is common with autistic and adhd folks. I've mostly expandes my safe foods because a lot of previous safe foods (unhealthy ones) would trigger my IBS and gastrointestinal issues and out of sake for not suffering, I had to do something plus the toll it took on my self esteem as I gained weight (unrelated, still not fully understood, probably related to my PCOS.)
So I get it. A carrot for her could be extremely repulsive. Even though I "like" broccoli or can tolerate it, I literally ate it tonight in tiny nibbles because I can't handle actual bites of strong foods. It's a real thing and it can majorly suck when it comes to health issues. Like, again, the only reason I expanded it was for self esteem and not having to suffer through stomach problems that genuinely had me crying and contemplating suicide bc im a highly unstable invidivual. It was literally out of one thing being worse than the other.
But that's basically my rant. A lot of my expanded safe foods is also thanks to my friend's family cooking good food. My parents don't really do that outside of dishes they like (which don't interest me or make me sick) and then they just go "oh well" to me. So. Thank you friend's family. But this is basically just an autistic ramble that yeah, that kind of thing is real and it can be different for everyone. I'm happy with my diet today, but still feel insecurities about not "eating normal" like other people do.
hi! Ik this is prob incredibly cringe to hear, but this comment helped me learn i have AFRID and better understand myself because i have a very similar experience to you, I just wanted to say hi and thank you for... existing, I guess.
thank you for this and I hope ur doing well!!!
For a split second, when I looked at the thumbnail, I thought the woman was addicted to eating blocks of cheese lol.
Omg same. 😂😂
I thought she had soap on a stick
Same
Macy Cole me too
I went back, and it surprisingly looks like she's chewing a triangular slice of cheese on a stick.
I find it hilarious that they're like "you passed the real life test." Like no, she didn't. Recovering from addiction isn't "you got over it, you're cured now." It's a process that doesn't ever really end, and putting it in front of her like they did is not only hurtful, but also not a good way to show that she's made a full recovery. The real "real life test" would be to check on her in 6 months or something and see how she's doing on her journey to recovery.
I don’t think they said all that but yea it’s a journey
i still it would he hysterical if she decided to take the ice cream instead lmao
Yeah. A real life test would be randomly checking what she buys from the grocery store in a few months. It's easy to say no with a crowd
_"I'm coming back and _*_slurping up_*_ that whole garbage can."_ Drew Gooden (2019)
*Danny Gonzalez
@@mediocre_skewber shit ur right, damn u autocorrect
@@kamisntreal no it's jarvis johnson
KKKKK
Imagine the same story structure as in the segment with the ice cream lady, but instead of ice cream it was heroin. Hosts came to her with a spoon and the syringe and like «how 'bout a shot?»
The lady who only ate french fries and nearly threw up from the carrot probably has Avoidant Restristive Food Intake Disorder which often results in a limited diet of mostly proccessed carbs. Adding other foods into the diet is part of treatment but you don't go stright from only french fries to a food that has a completely different taste and texture that the person finds repulsive. Of course she was going to throw up.
It's likely most of the people in the show had some form of eating disorder, whether it be binge eating disorder, arfid, or pica.
I have ARFID and 'outgrew' (read: was viciously bullied out of) PICA and I very much felt the same. Like, I've reacted like that to unsafe foods--it was constant before starting recovery, and it was even for things I wasn't eating, so no wonder she reacted that way. And I also compulsively ate vaseline and chapstick, not because I wasnt aware that was not good, but because I didn't have coping skills.
This show is the entirely wrong way to treat anyone with an addiction (or eating disorder, which function like and can be considered addictions). It's hard to even watch clips and commentary on it.
Not only most likely. That's absolute the case.
I was thinking that. They should’ve given her sweet potato fries or mashed potatoes
i have arfid and pica and you are absolutely correct
i hate when people don't understand it and they think it's just "being picky" and they're like "back in my day we'd just force those spoiled kids to eat or they wouldn't eat anything!" like back in your day kids were terrified of their parents so they just did as they were told out of fear craig, shut up
low key seeing that guy dump out all that maple syrup made me mad. that stuff takes FOREVER to collect. why couldn’t they have donated it or something. i hope it was fake
they waste so much food on this show every time they do their little “shock therapy” sessions
RIGHT that was so disgusting. like what the fuck?????
@@LifeAsMegan it's fucked how damaging their little shaming sessions are
Totally agree! Also maple syrup is so expensive thats a waist in every way!
Judging from the rest of the episode quality, they don’t have the budget for that much real syrup
as someone who's been addicted to an unhealthy coping mechanism, if only the first few days after staying clean, someone offered me my tools?? I'd think they were making fun of me, I'd probably have a breakdown. you can't just treat addictions like that, this would be inexcusable with any other.
Hope ur ok
@@bracketsurp6977 I'm much better now, 2 years clean!
@@nina.robbs565 that’s good
@@nina.robbs565 congrats!!
@@andre.534 thank you!