Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Joey Graceffa Scandal….

Honestly, I don’t even understand why this is becoming such a big thing.

For those of you who don’t know, Joey Graceffa is a YouTuber with about 2,000,000 subscribers. Now, I am one of them, and I have been watching Joey for a looong time, but in no way will that make this post biased.

Recently a man by the name of Nate Clark who is a Radio host for KCRW, posted a video telling his side to what happened when Joey Graceffa’s car was towed a couple of days back. 



The video has amassed over 1,000,000 views as of this post and is growing. In response people are OUTRAGED, feeling so betrayed that Joey could “lie” and be so “one-sided”. My response to that is... who cares?

I don’t think anyone has EVER completely told a story in which they were the culprits 100%. I know I haven’t. And it’s a shame that Joey had to get called out on it specifically when it’s something many people do everyday, especially if you aren’t in a good mood – I know I wouldn’t be if MY car got towed.

If something like this were to happen to me - or anyone else I’m sure - even if I was in the wrong, I would not be thinking, oh this was a perfectly logical reason for this occurring… I am so in the wrong. I would be thinking “HOLY CRAP MY CAR JUST GOT TOWED” It would not be in my interest to have people add to my already distressed state of mind, so I wouldn’t go around feeling like I should atone for a sin or something. Jeez.

If people are going to spend time going back to Joey’s video to bash it and whatnot, then they themselves are calling out and blaming Joey… for just being a human being. He never named the guy who towed his car * cough * Nate Clark * cough * specifically. It was just a normal rant. That’s what we do when we are upset. We rant.

All in all, I hope this blows over, and people can just go back to watching and enjoying Joey’s videos because first and foremost he IS an entertainer, sure he may have been in the wrong, but are you telling me in the same situation you wouldn’t feel as distressed and say the same thing.

I for one do not dislike Joey any less, in fact it made me like him more because it shows me he IS a human being, and when people spend so much time watching YouTube videos for the personalities and personas, they tend to forget that.

Let me know what you guys think about this whole situation below; do you think it’s unimportant and should blow over? Or are you genuinely offended by either Joey OR Nate?

Take home message for today: People are human beings. Human Beings make mistakes. Therefore; people make mistakes. Learn from them, move on.

Links to all of the mentioned people and videos:
Joey Vlogging about his car being towed: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ybb8o5oqzDk
Nate responding to Joey’s video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHZRot-EK8Y

Take care,
SiSi


1 comment:

  1. YOU ARE A GENIUS. I'm on Joey's side because Nate released PRIVATE information about Joey in his video.

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