We've set up the worst incentivisation system imaginable. Some of these people will probably never get the chance to have an authentic relationship with their own lives, let alone with others. Genuinely tragic.
Right. Its as if they had their critical personality development periods hijacked. Like, we all go through these phases of self discovery that mold our lives and are hard enough away from the public eye. Now imagine going through that while being inserted in a highly stressful and pressuring environment but also highly rewarding in terms of money and status? And in order to get higher rewards you have to sacrifice even more of your sanity, and your relationships and your self value? I dont know if you can get that critical time of self development back, you know. Like, once you are past a certain age, you either roll with it or fall back. But you probably never feel “normal”. Bc you never had a “normal” life to begin with
Fousey is kind of the textbook example of attaining those sky high levels of TH-cam fame and success once, and then spending the rest of your career trying to replicate that by whatever means necessary.
Fouseytube meant so much to me as a middle eastern kid back when he was starting out. His skits were the only representation we had. My sister and I even went to his live show in Canada ages ago. It's so, so sad seeing what he's become.
Didn’t the skits he do feel a little stereotypical? I’m not middle eastern by nationality, but I’ve lived here for a while. And the character he put on felt a bit insulting and degrading. I guess I get it, because sometimes it feels like bad representation is better than nothing. Not trying to be mean, I genuinely want to understand
@@galaxyghost1340back in 2011-2015 the stereotype humor game on social media was massively popular and helped create some of the most famous internet personalities at the time from their stereotype humor on facebook, vine, twitter, and other popular social medias at the times etc. Granted the majority of them have fallen off by now. Fousey, King Bach, Zane & Heath, Jason Nash, honestly The entire David Dobrik gang (when they were all individual creators from vine, before they were the David Dobrik gang lol) were all some of the most popular internet creators at the time that I can think of. All of them used very basic and very dramatized stereotype-based humor in their videos, and very often as it would get loads of likes at the time. It was biggest on vine tbh. Fousey made a lot of stereotypical content about Muslims and people of the Middle East, just like King Bach created a lot of stereotypical content about African Americans, often times going into stereotype humor bits about light skins vs. dark skins (vine is where the light skin memes boomed and really had their massive spawn), and even extremely cringe/basic dramatic stereotypic humor like one popular vine skit about Cops vs different races. 2010-2015 humor was just wild, the more outrageous, the more clicks. It was really the rise of shameless internet clout goblins running the internet. peace out bro
@@galaxyghost1340 it definitely was stereotypical, but it gave us a way to laugh at ourselves instead of the serious negative profiling we were dealt with. It felt ok because he was “one of us” and not someone else. When he was big, I was a preteen and I cringed even back then and didn’t watch his content, but other people found solace in it.
Woah! Good to see you! Been missing your videos man. My boyfriend works at Rumble, just throwing that out there if you’ve been avoiding TH-cam like so many of my favorite creators from the golden era.
For real though. Dealing with people who have mental issues is frustrating and exhausting sometimes. Trust me, I know. There are more than one case of severe mental health in my family (BPD, esquizofrenia, depression, the list goes on), and sometimes you just feel like giving up altogether, otherwise you might end up gettinng sick too. Its really REALLY hard. And you can do all you can and try to help them in every way, but at one point, they have to want that help. Now imagine a situation where the ill person is getting financial incentives to do self destructive things and get even sicker? And they are not financially dependent on anyone, can do what they want whenever they want and still get “praised” by those around who enable them? On that situation there is not much one can do but wait for the shoe to drop. I feel like fousey’s shoe might have dropped. And I hope he is getting helpe and LETTING others help him. Kanye is an example of someone on that situation whose shoe I dont think has dropped yet. He is powerful, famous and super rich. He is constantly told he is a genius. Who is he going to listen to when it comes to the things he probably doesn’t want to listen ?
Well said lalaim! I think another factor is that people actually take advantage of him and his situation to get views, money etc. How do you tell someone that they have fake friends around them? Fousey definitely needs help but he has to make that happen for hemself. I think his family and friends have done everything they can.
Great work! As a Bipolar person with some shared insecurities with Youssef, his platform amplifies his cycles. A quiet life would be best suited to him. I hope he's in good hands now, medicated and working on healing. That he stops looking externally for validation by realizing all he needs is within him already.
There’s something particularly insidious about bipolar mania. With most mental illnesses, the effects are distressing. Depression, paranoia, anxiety, dissociation, etc. these are all deeply unsettling and uncomfortable feelings to have. So when someone we care about has them, it’s often easier to convince our loved one to seek treatment, because they themselves feel that something is wrong. Mania is a different beast. You feel euphoric. You feel happy beyond measure. You feel motivated, energized, focused. You feel clarity. You feel purpose. You feel as though you’ve discovered some higher calling. You feel as if you were meant to save the world. How the hell do you convince someone that those feelings are actually a BAD thing? How do you convince someone that the best thing is to knock them off that high, to drag them back down to the place where the dark feelings live, even though that reality is ultimately healthier? How do you convince someone to willingly make themselves feel worse? That’s what makes mania so difficult to treat. First rule of psychology is that you cannot force people to get better. You can help them, but they have to decide they need help. And when your brain is telling you that God himself has given you a mission to spread love and joy to the world, you’ll never agree to seek help. You think you don’t need it. To you, everything feels right, even when everyone around you can see it’s wrong. That’s the tragedy of Yousef
You are so spot on. I have an uncle with schizophrenic bipolar and he’s going through an episode right now as we speak. It’s truly terrifying to witness, and there’s nothing we could do to help. He already spent every penny he had, put himself in more debt with promise that he would pay it back and he just… kept slipping. His thoughts became more diluted and his rational thinking became more blurred and skewed. I used to be able to have a straight conversation with him… but those beginning stages of mania have long since passed and it’s full blown psychosis now. He’s been up for days, muttering about money and how aliens are the cause for his mom wanting to leave my grandpa and Lincoln is the reason why our great grandmother didn’t fight in WWIII and how me and my siblings are the cause of some kind of gas leak. He walks up and down the hallway making gestures and not being able to control himself. He’s been talking so much that he runs out of breath but he’s so out of touch with himself he doesn’t even notice, he just keeps going until his body forcibly makes him take a breath. We don’t know what to do. There’s so much context behind all of this that would make this make more sense. I love my uncle and I do not want to see him keep falling down this hole I know for a fact he’ll never recover from this time, but I hate to say it, he chose this. He got off his meds and chose to not go back onto them. He knows he better on his meds vs when not, but he doesn’t care, anymore. He wants to be like this, and I can’t but think that Fousey is in the same exact mindset as my uncle; pure self destruction.
@@Ma.f7kx I’m sorry for what you’re going thru. It sounds awful. I don’t know if I’d necessarily say your uncle chose this, but there is definitely a social stigma at play when it comes to people not taking their meds. There is still this societal pressure to just muscle through mental illness on your own. It’s less overt than in times past, but there is still this perception that taking “crazy pills” is a sign of weakness. A sign that you’ve given up. And that’s just not true. You wouldn’t tell someone with cancer to quit chemo and just shoulder through it. You wouldn’t tell someone with a failing liver that a transplant is them giving up. But society has a nasty habit of treating mental illness like it’s “all in your head”.
@@nogi2167 I agree with you. There IS a societal aspect to it that affects thousands. The thing that makes it harder in my uncles case is he was on his meds and managed his illness very well for 12 or 13 years before one day he just… didn’t want to anymore. He said it was because of how they made him feel, but like I said… 12 years. He had a psychiatrist, therapist and everything. Guy changed his meds when he didn’t like them, but never stopped them. He just decided he didn’t want to be on his meds anymore, and is choosing to self destruct. When he’s level headed, he hates to admit it, tried to skirt around it, but he knows how he is when he’s off. He would talk about it, like Fousey, own up to *some* things, not others, but ultimately… he doesn’t care. That’s either from him, or his illness, or both. From my understanding, my uncle is *liking* this mania because of how often it’s happening and how extreme he’s letting it get. I’m getting the same impression on Fousey about his illness too; he doesn’t care, he likes his mania. But I won’t point fingers and act like I know how he thinks, because I don’t know the guy personally, I’m basing this purely on my experience with my own family. I can’t help to trace similarities between the two, though
Watching him spiral reminds me of so many of my own family members and how I am genetically prone to the same illnesses. It's scary to have people you care about lose touch with reality. I had things thrown at me, I've been screamed at, I've even been told that this person believed that they were trying to save me from satan and how they are a prophet of Judah. As much as you want to help and hope that they will bet better, sometimes they don't. The health care system fails these people constantly and with people like Fousey or Kanye, it's even harder to get them help because so many people feed their delusions. It's gross to see how apathetic people have become. I see so many people choosing to record rather than help someone who is clearly going through a mental health crisis. They see people as content rather than human beings. Medical holds are a hard subject that some people are against because it often involves force. I after seeing people in my own life fall into a severe case of self destruction, sometimes it is necessary to save someones life. Someone who is in a delusional state isn't able to make rational decisions and believes the whole world is against them when all you are trying to do is help them. When you've exhausted every other method, sometimes you have to risk them hating you forever to save them.
I wish a really talented filmmaker like yourself, Donna, would consider doing a documentary covering that era of rapid ascend of TH-cam content and what happened to the creators that were part of it. I would love to hear what some of them have to say abt that time now. It was so fun, but it was also brutal That whole era of youtube now just looks draining af to me. It felt like a fever dream where people doing anything, and i mean ANYTHING, for views and clout. Everyone just cared abt how many subscribers you had, not who you were as a person. Actually being a good person was just not incentivized much. It was all abt “being a savage” . And if felt like that for someone outside looking in like I was, I can only imagine what it was like to be a part of it. No wonder so many big TH-camrs from that time got completely buried by the algorithm after slowing down or simply decided to quit bc of burnout. I wanted to be one of them so bad but now Im actually thankful I never was. I dont think I would’ve kept my sanity.
What a lost and damaged soul, to be drunk in an airport, confess a great and dark secret to a random stranger who is livestreaming to thousands of people, to then be taken advantage of in a sexual manner, I will never feel bad for him. He is a disgusting human being. I know his circumstances weren't great but he's done so much harm.
Wanted to watch but just a few clips in and it’s too overwhelming, but thanks for putting it together, always like your input. This dude is draining AF. A good example of how even para social “relationships” can have an effect on others mental health.
That whole era of youtube now just looks exactly like that to me: draining af. It felt like a fever dream where people doing anything, and i mean ANYTHING, for views and clout. Everyone just cared abt how many subscribers you had, not who you were as a person. Actually being a good person was just incentivized much. It was all abt “being a savage” . And if felt like that for someone outside looking in like I was, I can only imagine what it was like to be a part of it. No wonder so many big TH-camrs from that time got completely buried by the algorithm after slowing down or simply decided to quit bc of burnout. I wanted to be one of them so bad but now Im actually thankful I never I was. I dont think I would’ve kept my sanity. I wish in the future someone is capable of doing a documentary covering that era of rapid ascend of TH-cam. It was so fun, but it was also brutal
So much more pressure, blame, attention needs to be directed at the people who exploit others mental illness' for their own benefit. Everyone who interviews and collaborates with people like Ye and Fousey every time they're in a manic episode. Its disgusting and it fuels the destructive behavior more than the people watching the content they create doing it. 🤷♂️
I agree with the sentiment, but how can we? At what point do we have the right to...basically punish ordinary people for not having enough insight or training to know who might be "putting on a show" from someone who is experiencing cognitive issues from someone who is potentially on substances? And I'm not trying to be snarky, I find it disgusting that content creators prey on people in vulnerable positions, but I do wonder what there is within the law that could be done while respecting people's rights. I just don't know the answer....obviously expecting people to just be "good" of their own volition is too much.
When fousey got interviewed by h3 i can tell he was one stream away from a manic episode he wasn't having one in that mkment but it was bound to happen
That might be beneficial for him to evolve as a person, but who should be forcing him to do this? His family? Friends? The _police?_ Are you saying that a grown man should have some of his rights taken away just because he's bipolar and chooses to act like a fool online...? Unless he's using the internet to commit crimes, it's not anybody's place to force him to refrain from using it... So while I do agree that he should do that for _himself,_ it's nobody's right to force him.
@DoobenKrieger You're right, it's quite the conundrum. A conservatorship would be one thing, organized by his family until he rehabilitates and loses his attention-addiction. He also needs a new social circle of regular people, not online influencers, because he feels the need to fit in and they enable him. Supervised medication would also be beneficial, given his history of quitting by encouragement from his audience. But all in all, it's up to him, but his desires lie elsewhere.
The staged prank videos that did the best were mostly misogynist ones. So did they do well because they were “edgy,” or because people didn’t know they were fake, or because they were selling anti-woman hate?
WOAH when i clicked this and saw 'donna' in my subs i was like Who Is This?!?!? and was pleasantly surprised to find its PsychIRL!🎉😂 Mustve missed the rebrand but i really love your editing style- its so intricate and you deserve more recognition for that!! i see you!!
Sorry Donna, maybe I should watch the video again later, but it felt like it ended abruptly? I never watched Fousey's content and haven't heard about him for many many years. So it was my first time learning about this guy. And at the end of the video, I expected some explanation of the initial footages. Did he get arrested? Swatted? What did he do to get banned? What happened to the subathon, etc. I'm a little confused :) But it could be just me. I wanted to comment regardless, for the algorithm boost :) I get the vicious cycle though. I hope that the never comes back to the internet, especially for his own well being.
I'm with you on this. I was really enjoying the video and then it just ended. I thought she was going to say part two will be out soon or some kind of round up but then she just plugged the paytreon and dipped.
Fousey is TRULY someone that can’t handle internet fame (or the pursuit of it) because he spirals EVERY time. Also I agree how the internet incentivizes people’s manic destruction. It’s crazy to me people are watching it like it’s some kind of entertainment and then we have streamers and TH-camrs covering it (FOR MONEY) and really trying to crucify him for his sins or find some kind of psychological inconsistency in him for content as if he isn’t having a mental breakdown. It’s so fucking disgusting. It’s a terrible feedback loop. Fousey needs help and people need to leave him alone.
As someone who's from another part of TH-cam and has not heard of this guy, this is absolutely wild. We truly need new analyses and guidelines for the new kind of life we have as children of the internet.
Great work. This is the first time I’ve heard of your channel and I like what I see. I’ll be watching more of your vids after this one. Just out of curiosity, what programs do you use to make these videos? Is there any advice you’d offer to an aspiring content creator?
I really feel for Fousey. I don't think it's helpful to try to put a label on him or his intentions but it's clear he's really stressed and is acting against his best interests. I wish him the best and hope he can get his mind right
At one point I had empathy for him, given the obvious mental health issues (what looked like mania etc), but he just did so many downright vile things that I struggle to maintain my empathy. I also question whether as viewers we should have much empathy for him, given what we've seen from him. He needs to go offline
I have watched many analyze Fousey but no one attempts to explain his behaviour better than you did. No one, especially, explains the relationship he has with his fans scientifically. This is truly amazing! Kudos.
32:03 it's CRAZY that a 31 year old man thought he could hold a free-entrance festival and have it rival Coachella, the amount of delusion you need to think a free event could be the same level as an event costing thousands of dollars per person is insanity lol.
I've always wondered why I have such a morbid fascination with Fousey, and that explanation of negative parasocial relationships fits perfectly. It's not that I love or hate him, and I'm careful not to directly encourage his unhealthy behaviors by watching or commenting on his own videos (just reactors/commentators). But he's fascinating, charismatic, aggravating, and tragic. I desperately hope one day he realizes that the ONLY way for him to be stable and healthy is to get off social media and stay off it. Forever.
Idk if it's a parasocial relationship but if it is it's kinda bizzare? Most people describe it as "you feel like you *are already* the friend. For me it feels like you *could* be their friend, *if you worked on it by taking the time and being decent with them.* But you *feel cautious and wary* as know that you know that at the end of the day *you know they're strangers. You don't know what they are actually like*
As always you produced a wonderful video. You portray Yousef as a flawed human being with struggles without of course excusing many of his actions. Well done.
This has helped me to decide to keep my personality and likeness removed from my 2 YT projects. They will either thrive or die by content quality alone. It's going to be a long, slow haul upward, but hopefully a steady one.
It’s stories like this that make me think that maybe the cons of the internet outweigh the pros. There are so many cases of vulnerable people being goaded (often intentionally) by online audiences into being the worst version of themselves. It just makes me so so sad.
Your point about expecting Logan Paul to be shitty but not Colline Ballinger isn't great. First, it seems like she's been doing gross stuff for a long while, but most adults haven't been paying attention. And more importantly, that's a VERY different kind of distigusting behavior. Disrespecting the dead, a culture, even people in general, is wildly different from being a predator.
No one should feel empathy or guilt for laughing at Fousey, he's meant to be laughed at, his life is a comedy show for everyone to enjoy, whether that be the never ending chaos or his mental breakdowns, laugh, there's no point in trying to help or feel guilty, it's been years of people trying to help and him and years of him "Helping" himself, he's done nothing to improve or fix his situation, there's a point or limit to how much people can help and he broke that after his "Rose" arc, now its just time to watch the shit show and hope for more drama and chaos because he himself has not tried to fix himself so we shouldn't be expected to feel anything for him, use him for entertainment. Just remember one thing, if a person especially someone with fouseys resources, has been insane for a decade plus and has failed to get help or accept help, you should just laugh and hope for more problems in his life because his purpose is comedy nothing more.
Everyone says the family needs to step in with these out of control relatives who believe what they’re saying. Someone needs to produce some sort of directory outlining who to call and what to do by state. (And when you go through hell and heartache, they’ll tell you, yes they need to be in long term but I’ve got 3 beds for 2,000 ppl waiting.
Ya nailed it! New viewer.🎉 25+ yrs in Corporate Communications, PR, ad agency (all in L.A.). I'm a native California Girl (😮 we DO exist). Those who can't bend with the trends and maintain that parasocial "feeling" as their audiences mature? Uh-Oh. Anyone see any maturity around here? Just .02😂 - just me in Palm Springs 🌴 great video
14:48 ColossalIsCrazy or TRO. Can't remember who used this as their title and opening sequence back when he did the Spread Love concert/bomb threat/sermon on the mount thing
I watch Fousey as a reminder to not be a whiney crybaby blaming my problems on things beyond my control. A lot of people want to be a victim these days and rather than take action to heal mental illness, they use it as another excuse to be a loser. Just remember the serenity prayer people. God, grant me the serenity to ACCEPT the things I cannot change, the COURAGE to change the things I can, and the WISDOM to know the difference.
This the best version of a rise and fall vid. An information dump with coinciding historical events in this person's life. You even drew parallels to actual scientific studies and looked at then objectively without a bias in order to accurately criticize this person. All of this without a single out of line opinionated statement. Perfection
This was an appropriate follow up to the Cult Of David Dobrik i felt. I know it is quite different but it includes an influencer. Really goes to highlight how toxic social media really is at both ends. It all still very new and the health repercussions are still not fully known and treating it is certainly in the early stages. If you look to Japan people hooked to video games get electroshock therapy. Sounds extreme but the patients were severely neglecting their health. The core reason he gets views is because he is doing something reckless and for some reason all humans are drawn to something negative over something positive. I have heard soon as Yusef is out he will be going straight back into 24hour streams. I just hope the time in the hospital has given him time to reflect and to realize that if he continues then he will keep going back into hospital and in America that itself is expensive. His last breakdown Jake Paul paid for all this medical bills and sorted him with the same therapist he used. I can recall Jake briefly talking about at some point all content creators will get this unnamed condition that is like a depression/rut but is not at the same time. Donna that might make an interesting video. Sorry i have been so Vague.
I’m still watching this but my opinion is that fousey had the paradoxical relationship with his audience not vice versa I never felt like his audience thought he was a friend, rather they were just watching the “train wreck” because it was entertaining but fousey started to NEED to feel like he was entertaining people
Donna!! This is brilliant as always! You are throwing me through so many loops with the name change though! xD Insightful and entertaining- monetizable mental illness is so concerning.
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We've set up the worst incentivisation system imaginable. Some of these people will probably never get the chance to have an authentic relationship with their own lives, let alone with others. Genuinely tragic.
Agreed people should not be paid to act like a fool, it teaches kids that you can get rich by acting like them.
It's by design
Right. Its as if they had their critical personality development periods hijacked. Like, we all go through these phases of self discovery that mold our lives and are hard enough away from the public eye. Now imagine going through that while being inserted in a highly stressful and pressuring environment but also highly rewarding in terms of money and status? And in order to get higher rewards you have to sacrifice even more of your sanity, and your relationships and your self value?
I dont know if you can get that critical time of self development back, you know. Like, once you are past a certain age, you either roll with it or fall back. But you probably never feel “normal”. Bc you never had a “normal” life to begin with
@@EternalGaze8 It's really all by design, like @iizben said
@@EternalGaze8 dillusional mate
Fousey is kind of the textbook example of attaining those sky high levels of TH-cam fame and success once, and then spending the rest of your career trying to replicate that by whatever means necessary.
Chasing the dragon in true addict fashion
Nah he actually became successful again. 70-100k viewers while streaming and a $70M deal.
@@ren.8137the deal was never real man
@@ren.8137lmao smooth brain the deal doesn’t exist
@@Steademans “smooth brain”. Found the redditor.
Fouseytube meant so much to me as a middle eastern kid back when he was starting out. His skits were the only representation we had. My sister and I even went to his live show in Canada ages ago. It's so, so sad seeing what he's become.
Didn’t the skits he do feel a little stereotypical? I’m not middle eastern by nationality, but I’ve lived here for a while. And the character he put on felt a bit insulting and degrading. I guess I get it, because sometimes it feels like bad representation is better than nothing. Not trying to be mean, I genuinely want to understand
@@galaxyghost1340back in 2011-2015 the stereotype humor game on social media was massively popular and helped create some of the most famous internet personalities at the time from their stereotype humor on facebook, vine, twitter, and other popular social medias at the times etc. Granted the majority of them have fallen off by now. Fousey, King Bach, Zane & Heath, Jason Nash, honestly The entire David Dobrik gang (when they were all individual creators from vine, before they were the David Dobrik gang lol) were all some of the most popular internet creators at the time that I can think of. All of them used very basic and very dramatized stereotype-based humor in their videos, and very often as it would get loads of likes at the time. It was biggest on vine tbh. Fousey made a lot of stereotypical content about Muslims and people of the Middle East, just like King Bach created a lot of stereotypical content about African Americans, often times going into stereotype humor bits about light skins vs. dark skins (vine is where the light skin memes boomed and really had their massive spawn), and even extremely cringe/basic dramatic stereotypic humor like one popular vine skit about Cops vs different races. 2010-2015 humor was just wild, the more outrageous, the more clicks. It was really the rise of shameless internet clout goblins running the internet. peace out bro
sad that he is the "only representation" you had
@@galaxyghost1340 it definitely was stereotypical, but it gave us a way to laugh at ourselves instead of the serious negative profiling we were dealt with. It felt ok because he was “one of us” and not someone else. When he was big, I was a preteen and I cringed even back then and didn’t watch his content, but other people found solace in it.
It's sad that you feel the need to be represented by a TH-camr
Colossal is Crazy coined the “Fousey Cycle”, his videos on Fouseytube are a must-watch
Woah! Good to see you! Been missing your videos man. My boyfriend works at Rumble, just throwing that out there if you’ve been avoiding TH-cam like so many of my favorite creators from the golden era.
Classic youtube vids 😂
For real though.
Dealing with people who have mental issues is frustrating and exhausting sometimes. Trust me, I know. There are more than one case of severe mental health in my family (BPD, esquizofrenia, depression, the list goes on), and sometimes you just feel like giving up altogether, otherwise you might end up gettinng sick too. Its really REALLY hard. And you can do all you can and try to help them in every way, but at one point, they have to want that help.
Now imagine a situation where the ill person is getting financial incentives to do self destructive things and get even sicker? And they are not financially dependent on anyone, can do what they want whenever they want and still get “praised” by those around who enable them? On that situation there is not much one can do but wait for the shoe to drop. I feel like fousey’s shoe might have dropped. And I hope he is getting helpe and LETTING others help him. Kanye is an example of someone on that situation whose shoe I dont think has dropped yet. He is powerful, famous and super rich. He is constantly told he is a genius. Who is he going to listen to when it comes to the things he probably doesn’t want to listen ?
Esquizofrenia? Is that schizophrenia in another language? I haven't heard that term before, so I'm curious!
@@Silnidin Spanish
@@Silnidschizophrénie in French
Well said lalaim! I think another factor is that people actually take advantage of him and his situation to get views, money etc. How do you tell someone that they have fake friends around them? Fousey definitely needs help but he has to make that happen for hemself. I think his family and friends have done everything they can.
most of all fousey is a shitty person... an after that he has mental struggles, but his main goal is fame and money but without any talent...
Great work! As a Bipolar person with some shared insecurities with Youssef, his platform amplifies his cycles. A quiet life would be best suited to him. I hope he's in good hands now, medicated and working on healing. That he stops looking externally for validation by realizing all he needs is within him already.
There’s something particularly insidious about bipolar mania. With most mental illnesses, the effects are distressing. Depression, paranoia, anxiety, dissociation, etc. these are all deeply unsettling and uncomfortable feelings to have. So when someone we care about has them, it’s often easier to convince our loved one to seek treatment, because they themselves feel that something is wrong.
Mania is a different beast. You feel euphoric. You feel happy beyond measure. You feel motivated, energized, focused. You feel clarity. You feel purpose. You feel as though you’ve discovered some higher calling. You feel as if you were meant to save the world.
How the hell do you convince someone that those feelings are actually a BAD thing? How do you convince someone that the best thing is to knock them off that high, to drag them back down to the place where the dark feelings live, even though that reality is ultimately healthier?
How do you convince someone to willingly make themselves feel worse?
That’s what makes mania so difficult to treat. First rule of psychology is that you cannot force people to get better. You can help them, but they have to decide they need help. And when your brain is telling you that God himself has given you a mission to spread love and joy to the world, you’ll never agree to seek help. You think you don’t need it. To you, everything feels right, even when everyone around you can see it’s wrong.
That’s the tragedy of Yousef
You are so spot on. I have an uncle with schizophrenic bipolar and he’s going through an episode right now as we speak. It’s truly terrifying to witness, and there’s nothing we could do to help. He already spent every penny he had, put himself in more debt with promise that he would pay it back and he just… kept slipping. His thoughts became more diluted and his rational thinking became more blurred and skewed. I used to be able to have a straight conversation with him… but those beginning stages of mania have long since passed and it’s full blown psychosis now. He’s been up for days, muttering about money and how aliens are the cause for his mom wanting to leave my grandpa and Lincoln is the reason why our great grandmother didn’t fight in WWIII and how me and my siblings are the cause of some kind of gas leak. He walks up and down the hallway making gestures and not being able to control himself. He’s been talking so much that he runs out of breath but he’s so out of touch with himself he doesn’t even notice, he just keeps going until his body forcibly makes him take a breath.
We don’t know what to do. There’s so much context behind all of this that would make this make more sense. I love my uncle and I do not want to see him keep falling down this hole I know for a fact he’ll never recover from this time, but I hate to say it, he chose this. He got off his meds and chose to not go back onto them. He knows he better on his meds vs when not, but he doesn’t care, anymore. He wants to be like this, and I can’t but think that Fousey is in the same exact mindset as my uncle; pure self destruction.
@@Ma.f7kx I’m sorry for what you’re going thru. It sounds awful. I don’t know if I’d necessarily say your uncle chose this, but there is definitely a social stigma at play when it comes to people not taking their meds.
There is still this societal pressure to just muscle through mental illness on your own. It’s less overt than in times past, but there is still this perception that taking “crazy pills” is a sign of weakness. A sign that you’ve given up.
And that’s just not true. You wouldn’t tell someone with cancer to quit chemo and just shoulder through it. You wouldn’t tell someone with a failing liver that a transplant is them giving up. But society has a nasty habit of treating mental illness like it’s “all in your head”.
@@nogi2167 I agree with you. There IS a societal aspect to it that affects thousands. The thing that makes it harder in my uncles case is he was on his meds and managed his illness very well for 12 or 13 years before one day he just… didn’t want to anymore. He said it was because of how they made him feel, but like I said… 12 years. He had a psychiatrist, therapist and everything. Guy changed his meds when he didn’t like them, but never stopped them. He just decided he didn’t want to be on his meds anymore, and is choosing to self destruct. When he’s level headed, he hates to admit it, tried to skirt around it, but he knows how he is when he’s off. He would talk about it, like Fousey, own up to *some* things, not others, but ultimately… he doesn’t care. That’s either from him, or his illness, or both. From my understanding, my uncle is *liking* this mania because of how often it’s happening and how extreme he’s letting it get. I’m getting the same impression on Fousey about his illness too; he doesn’t care, he likes his mania. But I won’t point fingers and act like I know how he thinks, because I don’t know the guy personally, I’m basing this purely on my experience with my own family. I can’t help to trace similarities between the two, though
Perfectly said. Yes.
Perfectly said
Watching him spiral reminds me of so many of my own family members and how I am genetically prone to the same illnesses. It's scary to have people you care about lose touch with reality. I had things thrown at me, I've been screamed at, I've even been told that this person believed that they were trying to save me from satan and how they are a prophet of Judah. As much as you want to help and hope that they will bet better, sometimes they don't.
The health care system fails these people constantly and with people like Fousey or Kanye, it's even harder to get them help because so many people feed their delusions. It's gross to see how apathetic people have become. I see so many people choosing to record rather than help someone who is clearly going through a mental health crisis. They see people as content rather than human beings.
Medical holds are a hard subject that some people are against because it often involves force. I after seeing people in my own life fall into a severe case of self destruction, sometimes it is necessary to save someones life. Someone who is in a delusional state isn't able to make rational decisions and believes the whole world is against them when all you are trying to do is help them. When you've exhausted every other method, sometimes you have to risk them hating you forever to save them.
I wish a really talented filmmaker like yourself, Donna, would consider doing a documentary covering that era of rapid ascend of TH-cam content and what happened to the creators that were part of it. I would love to hear what some of them have to say abt that time now. It was so fun, but it was also brutal
That whole era of youtube now just looks draining af to me.
It felt like a fever dream where people doing anything, and i mean ANYTHING, for views and clout. Everyone just cared abt how many subscribers you had, not who you were as a person. Actually being a good person was just not incentivized much. It was all abt “being a savage” . And if felt like that for someone outside looking in like I was, I can only imagine what it was like to be a part of it. No wonder so many big TH-camrs from that time got completely buried by the algorithm after slowing down or simply decided to quit bc of burnout. I wanted to be one of them so bad but now Im actually thankful I never was. I dont think I would’ve kept my sanity.
What a lost and damaged soul, to be drunk in an airport, confess a great and dark secret to a random stranger who is livestreaming to thousands of people, to then be taken advantage of in a sexual manner, I will never feel bad for him. He is a disgusting human being. I know his circumstances weren't great but he's done so much harm.
He cries then treats people like crap. I had a muslim friend like that. Mf was a weird af snake
cry about it 😂
Wanted to watch but just a few clips in and it’s too overwhelming, but thanks for putting it together, always like your input. This dude is draining AF. A good example of how even para social “relationships” can have an effect on others mental health.
That whole era of youtube now just looks exactly like that to me: draining af.
It felt like a fever dream where people doing anything, and i mean ANYTHING, for views and clout. Everyone just cared abt how many subscribers you had, not who you were as a person. Actually being a good person was just incentivized much. It was all abt “being a savage” . And if felt like that for someone outside looking in like I was, I can only imagine what it was like to be a part of it. No wonder so many big TH-camrs from that time got completely buried by the algorithm after slowing down or simply decided to quit bc of burnout. I wanted to be one of them so bad but now Im actually thankful I never I was. I dont think I would’ve kept my sanity.
I wish in the future someone is capable of doing a documentary covering that era of rapid ascend of TH-cam. It was so fun, but it was also brutal
So much more pressure, blame, attention needs to be directed at the people who exploit others mental illness' for their own benefit. Everyone who interviews and collaborates with people like Ye and Fousey every time they're in a manic episode. Its disgusting and it fuels the destructive behavior more than the people watching the content they create doing it. 🤷♂️
I agree with the sentiment, but how can we? At what point do we have the right to...basically punish ordinary people for not having enough insight or training to know who might be "putting on a show" from someone who is experiencing cognitive issues from someone who is potentially on substances? And I'm not trying to be snarky, I find it disgusting that content creators prey on people in vulnerable positions, but I do wonder what there is within the law that could be done while respecting people's rights. I just don't know the answer....obviously expecting people to just be "good" of their own volition is too much.
Anything for fame and clout. These people are sick.
@@III-mw6xz To play devil's advocate...how responsible would we all be for watching them exploiting him? Incentivizing views?
@@megboyd2609the audience is also responsible on a different scale. Both of you are right.
When fousey got interviewed by h3 i can tell he was one stream away from a manic episode he wasn't having one in that mkment but it was bound to happen
Fousey should be stripped of all electronic devices with online connection, cold turkey.
That might be beneficial for him to evolve as a person, but who should be forcing him to do this? His family? Friends? The _police?_
Are you saying that a grown man should have some of his rights taken away just because he's bipolar and chooses to act like a fool online...?
Unless he's using the internet to commit crimes, it's not anybody's place to force him to refrain from using it...
So while I do agree that he should do that for _himself,_ it's nobody's right to force him.
@DoobenKrieger You're right, it's quite the conundrum. A conservatorship would be one thing, organized by his family until he rehabilitates and loses his attention-addiction. He also needs a new social circle of regular people, not online influencers, because he feels the need to fit in and they enable him. Supervised medication would also be beneficial, given his history of quitting by encouragement from his audience. But all in all, it's up to him, but his desires lie elsewhere.
Didnt he already went through that before?
Always happy to see a new video by Donna on my timeline
I made the mistake of finding you at the 3 am. Now I cant sleep because I'm kind of getting addicted to your videos. Thanks, with much love.
The staged prank videos that did the best were mostly misogynist ones. So did they do well because they were “edgy,” or because people didn’t know they were fake, or because they were selling anti-woman hate?
It’s sad to say, but misogyny sells
Edginess was popular back then. Joji, leafy, idubbz, pewdiepie etc etc. It isnt about hating women.
@@ren.8137pewdiepie was barely edgy especially back in the days of fake pranks
Fousey has created a deeper hole for himself. I guess it's about time he lets go of his persona and be his authentic self.
I never heared of this guy until now. But it is an interesting story.
@@TravelFootagePorLaFamiliayou’ve never heard of fouseytube? Either you’re lying, been living under a rock, or born after 2011
@@Rizzy_K or they don't consume a lot of media.
Arguably, he has no “persona”. Everything we see from him is painfully real and that is part of the problem. He almost feels too vulnerable.
@@purplespray3768 * Consume different kind of media.
Donna you make such quality frickin content. Keep your heart in it! Your curiosity and intellect have a great gravity to them! 😊
WOAH when i clicked this and saw 'donna' in my subs i was like Who Is This?!?!? and was pleasantly surprised to find its PsychIRL!🎉😂 Mustve missed the rebrand but i really love your editing style- its so intricate and you deserve more recognition for that!! i see you!!
I had known close to nothing before I watched this video but I rooted for him so much during watching 😭 what a well told story and a great video!
Sorry Donna, maybe I should watch the video again later, but it felt like it ended abruptly? I never watched Fousey's content and haven't heard about him for many many years. So it was my first time learning about this guy. And at the end of the video, I expected some explanation of the initial footages. Did he get arrested? Swatted? What did he do to get banned? What happened to the subathon, etc. I'm a little confused :) But it could be just me. I wanted to comment regardless, for the algorithm boost :) I get the vicious cycle though. I hope that the never comes back to the internet, especially for his own well being.
I'm with you on this. I was really enjoying the video and then it just ended. I thought she was going to say part two will be out soon or some kind of round up but then she just plugged the paytreon and dipped.
@@Mrmatthew4338 Good to hear that I'm not alone 😊
Many months later, but glad to read this. This was my first video of hers. Very confused
Fousey is TRULY someone that can’t handle internet fame (or the pursuit of it) because he spirals EVERY time. Also I agree how the internet incentivizes people’s manic destruction. It’s crazy to me people are watching it like it’s some kind of entertainment and then we have streamers and TH-camrs covering it (FOR MONEY) and really trying to crucify him for his sins or find some kind of psychological inconsistency in him for content as if he isn’t having a mental breakdown. It’s so fucking disgusting. It’s a terrible feedback loop. Fousey needs help and people need to leave him alone.
As someone who's from another part of TH-cam and has not heard of this guy, this is absolutely wild. We truly need new analyses and guidelines for the new kind of life we have as children of the internet.
Not someone who I could empathize with or feel bad for.
That's fair. 🙏
Great work. This is the first time I’ve heard of your channel and I like what I see. I’ll be watching more of your vids after this one. Just out of curiosity, what programs do you use to make these videos? Is there any advice you’d offer to an aspiring content creator?
You're an excellent content creator. Well told... and I've never even seen a vid of this guy..
I really feel for Fousey. I don't think it's helpful to try to put a label on him or his intentions but it's clear he's really stressed and is acting against his best interests. I wish him the best and hope he can get his mind right
As an Arab I can't help but feel a never ending sympathy and compassion towards Fousey. I hope he becomes better.
Same. It feels like I'm witnessing my brother struggle but theres nothing I can do for him.
Yeah I just hope he gets the help that he needs now
At one point I had empathy for him, given the obvious mental health issues (what looked like mania etc), but he just did so many downright vile things that I struggle to maintain my empathy. I also question whether as viewers we should have much empathy for him, given what we've seen from him.
He needs to go offline
I have watched many analyze Fousey but no one attempts to explain his behaviour better than you did. No one, especially, explains the relationship he has with his fans scientifically.
This is truly amazing! Kudos.
32:03 it's CRAZY that a 31 year old man thought he could hold a free-entrance festival and have it rival Coachella, the amount of delusion you need to think a free event could be the same level as an event costing thousands of dollars per person is insanity lol.
there are a lot of great things abt this video, but i just cant get over how good your mic quality is
Hey!!! I freaking love what you do. Thank you for all the great videos
So weird to hear him talk so clearly and normal in the past.
I've always wondered why I have such a morbid fascination with Fousey, and that explanation of negative parasocial relationships fits perfectly. It's not that I love or hate him, and I'm careful not to directly encourage his unhealthy behaviors by watching or commenting on his own videos (just reactors/commentators). But he's fascinating, charismatic, aggravating, and tragic. I desperately hope one day he realizes that the ONLY way for him to be stable and healthy is to get off social media and stay off it. Forever.
Killed this Donna didn’t know how much I needed to hear this for real ❤
I was doing dishes and saw that you uploaded. I did a little happy dance 😂😂
Idk if it's a parasocial relationship but if it is it's kinda bizzare?
Most people describe it as "you feel like you *are already* the friend.
For me it feels like you *could* be their friend, *if you worked on it by taking the time and being decent with them.*
But you *feel cautious and wary* as know that you know that at the end of the day *you know they're strangers. You don't know what they are actually like*
genuinely such a well made video, got many perspectives about him i never thought i would, keep it up, love it
Was waiting for you to comment on this. Appreciate your perspective
The airport segment should be added to this story!! so insane
I wanted to add a bigger segment of it in the video, but a lot of the people who used the footage were sent a strike :/
@@DonnaIRL damn fair enough 😭
A reward for waiting patiently for this to be covered on your channel 😊
As always you produced a wonderful video. You portray Yousef as a flawed human being with struggles without of course excusing many of his actions. Well done.
This is exactly the message I wanted to portray
I am so impressed with your videos .
I miss the days of Fake pranks at least no one was actually getting hurt idk what we were so mad about
Top tier production, great piece of content ❤
Great video. I'm glad you made it for only your true friends on TH-cam.
This has helped me to decide to keep my personality and likeness removed from my 2 YT projects. They will either thrive or die by content quality alone. It's going to be a long, slow haul upward, but hopefully a steady one.
I just discovered this channel and I'm glad that I did, lots of interesting and well researched videos.
Ethan’s right he just can’t handle fame. Idk if he can truly live without the fame though, it fuels him.
Fousey was the scapegoat for everyone who faked pranks
It’s stories like this that make me think that maybe the cons of the internet outweigh the pros. There are so many cases of vulnerable people being goaded (often intentionally) by online audiences into being the worst version of themselves. It just makes me so so sad.
We are making history fr this was amazing! Another chef’s kiss😗👍🏽
you are my new favorite content creator.
22:55
It's a toupè? Always thought his hairline looked very off 😅
Also: why a toupee for the "shaved my head three days ago"-look?😂
i just want him to be okay.
This is mortifying
I didn’t know majority of this
Holy shit that preview that played before this video was sick. That show “Shogun” that’s coming up on February 😳
Annnnnd now he's back, out of the psych ward and Kick is dangling a contract over his head again. Who's betting history will repeat itself again?
Amazingly done video. Great work
He whacked out . He needs to be hospitalized
Thank god for this kind of content
Just came across your channel and i dig it
Loved this video! New sub! 😊👍🏻
Insanely well produced video. Wow didn’t real I have a parasocial relationship with Fousey..so weird
Your point about expecting Logan Paul to be shitty but not Colline Ballinger isn't great. First, it seems like she's been doing gross stuff for a long while, but most adults haven't been paying attention. And more importantly, that's a VERY different kind of distigusting behavior. Disrespecting the dead, a culture, even people in general, is wildly different from being a predator.
epic video. I hope Yousef is doing better these days. I feel for him.
good video, Donna. ✨
Some people don’t get on with alcohol just like how Fousey and TH-cam don’t get along.
Omg I just found this channel and I ❤it.
Awesome video!!!
No one should feel empathy or guilt for laughing at Fousey, he's meant to be laughed at, his life is a comedy show for everyone to enjoy, whether that be the never ending chaos or his mental breakdowns, laugh, there's no point in trying to help or feel guilty, it's been years of people trying to help and him and years of him "Helping" himself, he's done nothing to improve or fix his situation, there's a point or limit to how much people can help and he broke that after his "Rose" arc, now its just time to watch the shit show and hope for more drama and chaos because he himself has not tried to fix himself so we shouldn't be expected to feel anything for him, use him for entertainment. Just remember one thing, if a person especially someone with fouseys resources, has been insane for a decade plus and has failed to get help or accept help, you should just laugh and hope for more problems in his life because his purpose is comedy nothing more.
Excellent video
This will end terribly.
Everyone says the family needs to step in with these out of control relatives who believe what they’re saying. Someone needs to produce some sort of directory outlining who to call and what to do by state. (And when you go through hell and heartache, they’ll tell you, yes they need to be in long term but I’ve got 3 beds for 2,000 ppl waiting.
Ya nailed it! New viewer.🎉 25+ yrs in Corporate Communications, PR, ad agency (all in L.A.). I'm a native California Girl (😮 we DO exist). Those who can't bend with the trends and maintain that parasocial "feeling" as their audiences mature? Uh-Oh. Anyone see any maturity around here? Just .02😂 - just me in Palm Springs 🌴 great video
14:48 ColossalIsCrazy or TRO. Can't remember who used this as their title and opening sequence back when he did the Spread Love concert/bomb threat/sermon on the mount thing
The wolf picture over the bed ate.
Good tribute to fousey. Let's see how he goes after being released from mental. Good luck G7
thank you, this is amaziny
Great video 📸 😊👍
underrated channel
I watch Fousey as a reminder to not be a whiney crybaby blaming my problems on things beyond my control. A lot of people want to be a victim these days and rather than take action to heal mental illness, they use it as another excuse to be a loser. Just remember the serenity prayer people. God, grant me the serenity to ACCEPT the things I cannot change, the COURAGE to change the things I can, and the WISDOM to know the difference.
I remember when he was doing the fouseycon thing, I was hoping he’d get help. But he didn’t.
It's DAX 32:12 concert had some hope!
I like FOUSEY I’m not dissing him. But he does need to grow up a bit. No more emotional thinking. ☕️💯
"Calls a friend" calls 911
he's legit like a grown man child with his toddler like tantrums.
I loved his Middle-eastern content because it was relatable and hilarious, if you grew up Middle-eastern.
This the best version of a rise and fall vid. An information dump with coinciding historical events in this person's life. You even drew parallels to actual scientific studies and looked at then objectively without a bias in order to accurately criticize this person. All of this without a single out of line opinionated statement. Perfection
Gabby hannah and foosey have had a mental breakdown due to them falling off 😂
Some day something horrible will happen and you can't ever say noone ever tried to help he could have left this a long time ago
I don't watch streams or really interact on social media much. I just hope he gets better.
Did you have another name change? Anyway this is going to be a good one
Down bad for telling a random person in the shop he got a 1 mil subs, that’s crazy
2:45 Man do we really need those thing on those places to make the video safe for TH-cam now?
This was an appropriate follow up to the Cult Of David Dobrik i felt. I know it is quite different but it includes an influencer.
Really goes to highlight how toxic social media really is at both ends. It all still very new and the health repercussions are still not fully known and treating it is certainly in the early stages. If you look to Japan people hooked to video games get electroshock therapy. Sounds extreme but the patients were severely neglecting their health.
The core reason he gets views is because he is doing something reckless and for some reason all humans are drawn to something negative over something positive.
I have heard soon as Yusef is out he will be going straight back into 24hour streams. I just hope the time in the hospital has given him time to reflect and to realize that if he continues then he will keep going back into hospital and in America that itself is expensive. His last breakdown Jake Paul paid for all this medical bills and sorted him with the same therapist he used. I can recall Jake briefly talking about at some point all content creators will get this unnamed condition that is like a depression/rut but is not at the same time. Donna that might make an interesting video. Sorry i have been so Vague.
I’m still watching this but my opinion is that fousey had the paradoxical relationship with his audience not vice versa I never felt like his audience thought he was a friend, rather they were just watching the “train wreck” because it was entertaining but fousey started to NEED to feel like he was entertaining people
Donna!! This is brilliant as always! You are throwing me through so many loops with the name change though! xD
Insightful and entertaining- monetizable mental illness is so concerning.
This is the last name change. I swear
Before I watched this, I was like "Who is Fousey?"