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[@monaelisa8713]

It is disturbing that so many of these are related to abusing children

[@JohannaInTheCorner]

Because they can’t defend themselves in an adult world... especially compounded as the problem often stems from adults associated with them. It’s a horrible world for many😔

[@nat2057]

I remember something about two strange men attempting to cook it in an... Ahem, 'unorthodox' way... Let's just say they were not able to slap a chicken so many times they cooked it

[@monaelisa8713]

@@nat2057 I see we share the same strange memory. Might you also remember said men cooking an egg on a stone heated in... a pretty unorthodox way as well? They did cook breakfast a lot of I recall correctly.

[@nat2057]

@@monaelisa8713 hmmm yes... These men had...strange utensils to cook their breakfast Also iM SUCH A DUMBASS I THOUGHT THIS SAID ABUSING CHICKEN AND I WAS LIKE ALRIGHT VEGANS MIGHT HAVE A POINT I DIDN'T EVEN WATCH THE VIDEO AKSJSJXKAOZKSJOA

[@nat2057]

@@monaelisa8713 the more I read my comment, the more it sounds like Ethan and Mark are cannibals

[@trickthefox6950]

I went to one of those “therapeutic boarding schools” for almost 2 years when I was 13-15, and the abuse I experienced was extreme. I have friends who here kidnapped, and the trauma is life long and terrible. Thank you, thank you from the bottom of my heart for talking about it. I’ve been publicly fighting against the whole industry (the troubled teen industry it’s called) for the past year and anybody talking about it, especially someone with a platform like yours helps our cause to stop these places and companies from running. I’m getting a bit emotional, because it’s seems like nobody cares about us survivors or talks about it. Thank you Evan. Thank you for even mentioning it

[@connorward2400]

Untill now I didn't know this was a thing, so much for home of the free. Is there anything that can be done to help combat this horrific practice?

[@trickthefox6950]

@@connorward2400 for now, just listen to survivors stories and share them and help spread awareness. Not many people are aware of what goes on or that this even happens or that these places even exist. I personally did an interview for the podcast cult vault and she did an entire month in December talking about the industry, which is a good place to start education wise. There are some legal things in the works against the specific company that runs the place I was in but I can’t speak for other programs

[@fionafiona1146]

@@connorward2400 The people subject to that can't even be emancipated of the parents confining them there until age 16...some of those places get shut down for health issues or once peoples testamonials get web traffic occasionally (to be restarted but remain hard to track).

[@W1llRoss]

Is they’re anything I can do to help (for free)

[@benparsons4979]

@@W1llRoss spread the word

[@Muckowitch]

I got another one: Production costs of insulin: roughly 3$ for human insulin and roughly 4.5$ for analog insulin. The inventor of insulin sold the patent for 1$, so that everyone could afford it. Average price per unit in USA: roughly 300$. That should be illegal. I get that they are companies trying to make money, but a price of 30$ per unit would be enough, considering that's still 7-10 times the production cost.

[@katscott6335]

And they would sell more in the long run, because less people would die from having to ration their insulin because they couldn’t afford it.

[@Muckowitch]

And here's another one. It's been a while(2018 IIRC), so I might remember some things not quite correctly, but still: The day after newspaper wrote an article that studies show that the amount of victims of drug overdoses has been at an all-time high. The next day you could read in the same newspaper that the cost for a certain medication was raised by more than 600%. So, what medication was that? Well, I can't remember the name, but the medication reduces the symptoms of drugs and can potentially prevent the death from an overdose, and even if the overdose was so much that the medication can't save them anymore, it still grants them a clear mind to say their final goodbyes. That is not something that should ever raise in price by more than 600%, but especially not after a newspaper article reveals that the demand is at an all-time high.

[@vincentguttmann2231]

It's even worse. Estimates by the WHO say that the cost is around 3 cents per milliliter.

[@khatharrmalkavian3306]

That information is out of date. The previous administration made several orders about drug pricing practices, accompanied by threats toward the bad actors. Presently you can buy 100 units of humulin online for $80.

[@Muckowitch]

@@khatharrmalkavian3306 I admit that I don't know too much about the prices in the USA, but I just googled it and it says it costs roughly 16$ per unit. So apparently the prices were made more reasonable, but as I said, I am not the most knowledgeable about this topic.

[@adamcappella8088]

A friend of mine was a huge trouble maker. He was threatened with boarding school. POLICE recommended that service to get their son. At first they thought it would help wipe him into shape but they didnt realize the full scope of everything. Not only was he taken, his parents couldn't get him out of it for about 2 years. They fought it in the courts trying to say they were tricked about what the program was. They got him out, he was better behaved after that. But he was totally changed, very cold, and went from being a pretty chatty person to barely speaking. Still was a good friend. I dont think his parents ever forgave themselves. Funny enough, even though his demeanor was more cold than he used to be, he developed a soft spot for people with mental disabilities.

[@Red-Tower]

Your friend probably has some major PTSD after that that's probably still affecting him to this day. He's lucky his parents weren't total shit and fought to get him out, but 2 years in that system is still brutal. Consider trying to be more emotionally available to your friend, and educating yourself on the stories of other survivors from these programs, and perhaps give him an opportunity to share what he's comfortable sharing with you about his experience.

[@kaiyamazaki1684]

Ahh, nearly had this happen to me. Only reason I didn't get taken away is because I caught wind of it before hand and was able to steal my Dad's gun the night before, so I was able to convince them to leave when they busted in. I wasn't crazy or anything, my dad was just so afraid I'd turn out like my mom (who is absolutely crazy) because he saw a bit of her in me and overreacted. Of course, the second I turned 18 I moved in with a friend and finished out high-school with them but it took a long time for me to forgive him for that, I can only imagine what it was like for your friend.

[@rosiegreen813]

Turning a gun on unarmed people?

[@HelloOnepiece]

@@rosiegreen813 If they break into your home it seems reasonable by US laws.

[@tymondabrowski12]

@@rosiegreen813 unarmed people who broke in and are trying to kidnap you? sounds pretty reasonable. Also how could he know they were unarmed, and more importantly, how do you know that?

[@daemon.mythos]

They call it Lobbying...anywhere else, it's called bribery.

[@Notfallkaramell]

Nah, also a thing with german politicians.

[@MetalBow]

The problem is, generally Lobbyism is a good thing... Basically it gives every citizen the right to give their opinion to a politician via email, telephone etc. But the problem is the exchange of goods, money or jobs which leads to corruption... I just wish there was a law against this exchange but that keeps the general idea of lobbyism

[@Handlelesswithme]

@@MetalBow yea, I will just politely ask the most corrupt pieces of sludge alive to let us take away their greatest source of funds

[@Ghorda9]

@@MetalBow the problem is that any message exchange can also include promises and deals that would create bias.

[@claytonwatson7307]

Wait bribery is illegal? I thought that was just campaign donations nowadays

[@Likeicare96]

The teen kidnapping thing sounds like something that some religious parents would use to send their kids to gay conversion camps which makes it double-ly awful

[@Mireaze]

Im surprised it isnt called "compassionate kidnapping"

[@tolkiendil4806]

This is actually terrifying and should be seriously punished by law, people cannot change who they are and trying to force it leads to terrible trauma

[@NicholasJH96]

A certain you tube family took there son to a wildness camp left him with nothing he got given pillows & tent to sleep in. It was ment for people who have serious crime issues, his parents then got rid of all his clothes except ones he was wearing. He came back & they literally took bed away, apparently a therapist told his parents to do it. Bed shouldn’t be taking away from child or teenager as that considered child abuse. They also let there 6 years old go hungry when she forget to pack her own food. They are religions aswell Mormons they claimed they are. People found out because it got mentioned video now taking down. I won’t mention name of channel tho as that would give them free publicity. As for alphabet company that owns you tube & Google & so on should be ashamed for allowing that channel to continue. I no longer watch that channel & they lost few thousand subscribers. People did report parents but they got away with it. They have threading to sue other you tubers, calling them out on it. Yet they got away with it. If there was another video site like you tube I would of told people to move over there. Unfortunately there isn’t one tho.

[@jlyons423]

@@NicholasJH96 I heard about this family but according to their videos he chose to go and he said it himself . But yh something seems a bit wrong there

[@NicholasJH96]

@@jlyons423 yes he did want to go because of his parents but they sent him there for leaving his brother hanging from a basketball hoop & saying to his younger brother they were going to Disneyland and woke him up early for it, when they weren’t. What they should of done is just ground him for a week. All kids 3 older ones claimed they had no friends on video vlog. They don’t have any because of there parents. There problems tho isn’t there religion tho, it’s the mother mainly & there father being abused to there kids. They already brainwashed there oldest child who defended her mother actions. Apparently they almost lost channel on you tube I’m assuming you tube might have a three strike policy for you tube influences. It’s absolutely disgraceful tho in my view they allowed on here still. If that was any other western country the parents wouldn’t making videos anymore. USA needs serious reform in certain areas. Apparently according to comments on Instagram post they were spreading covid as youngerst daughter was in library. I stopped watching any of there videos after that came out tho.

[@trastolillo4219]

I'm guessing a lot of LGBT+ already knew about “the trouble teen industry" because is closely related with conversion therapy.

[@MysticFoxyWolf]

My mom nearly sent me there but i had to get my school teachers from my current school to explain what it was, I am a Non-Binary Bi/Ace

[@Qyver]

@@MysticFoxyWolf Ooh, not a good combination to be understood by society atm

[@MysticFoxyWolf]

@@Qyver Yes, Yes, Yes and Yes. The amount of times i have had to explain every part of me gets to my nerves. Society is crappy.

[@diablo.the.cheater]

@@MysticFoxyWolf Please may you explain my uneducated brain what does Bi/Ace means? and what is the correct pronoun?

[@MysticFoxyWolf]

@@diablo.the.cheater Also it is fine being uneducated. It is good you asked, It means you respect us by wanting to learn more. Thank You for asking!

[@loesvanheuvel910]

“Unskippable double ads” Me: *gets an unskippable double ad* Evan: “did that work? Honestly, I hope not, haha” Me: “lies.”

[@ShirinRose]

I only got a single 5-second unskippable ad

[@asterwashere]

i just got a pop up ad-

[@AthynVixen]

@@ShirinRose same here just one for Asana

[@suitedjames]

I got no ads because I used KZbin Vanced.

[@caoilfhionncommins3055]

My iPad glitches so even when the ad is ‘unskippable’ I can just fast-forward through it

[@AnasatisTiMiniatis]

The kidnapped to abuse school thing happened to one of my friends. Treatment included: being stripped naked in front of their peers against their will. Being forced to sleep on nothing but a bare mattress. Not being allowed outside for months or even years at a time. Forcing students to bully their peers to win points so they didn't have to be stripped naked or be allowed a pillow. etc.

[@cablejimmy]

What the absolute fuck

[@Xicor111]

I wonder what's the suicide rate in those "schools"

[@sammymarrco2]

WHERE THE FUCK IS THE GOVERNMENT ON THIS

[@haroldvonschwartzenstien3581]

@@sammymarrco2 making money from it I expect.

[@harker-san6903]

actually they subsidise a solid portion or all of it

[@rachelf6745]

im kind of glad that "teen escort" doesn't mean what i thought it did, but holy fuck thats still terrifying

[@ihatetacocasa]

ok i'm not the only one w/ a broken world view

[@Avellania]

I think the real meaning was somehow worse.

[@kodabuck225]

@@Avellania ehhhhhhhhh depends on how ya look at it, and how much you know about the horrifying seedy underbelly of that industry when it gets it's hold on kids

[@iamnotmadi]

i wouldn’t be surprised if that was part of the ‘behaviour treatments’

[@MagiciteHeart]

Hate to be a pessimist, but I'm sure it's really not much different at the end of the day. And knowing what I know of the world, all the stuff you were worried about probably is just a part of the whole thing. This is a nightmare and I can't believe I'm 40 years old and I've never heard of this.

[@kankrivantas5536]

Commercials can't be louder than the loudest part of the show they're interrupting. That gunshot in that one action scene? The car crash? That counts.

[@keenankersh7944]

This is why I don't watch TV

[@royalheadquarters8449]

😐

[@cactusxd]

Radio ads... "-SCREECH AND explosion- AH F---! WHAT THE HELL LEARN HOW TO DRIVE A------!" You swerve out of the way and next thing you know, youre at the bottom of the bay.

[@aech9407]

I think it’s the same for twitch, some commercials are deafening

[@Jonowl]

The law uses the average loudness of the show. So commercials can still get away with being extremely loud so long as other parts of the commercial are extremely quiet. They have devised commercials now to start quiet and gradually get louder. The original lawmaker is still working to remove these loopholes.

[@tolkiendil4806]

That teen kidnapping thing terrifies me, especially because it is used to force people who are not heterosexual to "turn straight"

[@lauramarschmallow2922]

I learned of those companies by the Paris Hilton Documentary.

[@insecureintellectual4783]

yeah that was my very first thought

[@iamahacker8324]

THATS FUCKED UP SHIT

[@echiko4932]

Medical treatment huh... The states have no standards do they

[@nikonicolasnitolass9762]

@@lauramarschmallow2922 that was not for turning people straight

[@sheccabaw]

KZbinrs who change clothes or backgrounds for the ad reads are the real MVPs

[@evan]

I either change angle or wear a hat ;)

[@Ikajo]

You would love Ryan George 😆

[@Some_Guy_On_The_Interweb]

Hello I'm the Ads-tronaut

[@fudgerounds91]

Or when they put a bar on the bottom of the screen so toi know how long it will be.

[@BlueSodaPop_]

Or put a bar at the bottom indicating how long the ad still lasts. One of my fav content creators does that and he's kinda my hero for it xD

[@JimiGosu]

Regarding Calling in Sick: at my last job, every one-to-three months I had to call in sick because my epilepsy is drug resistant. I'd have a seizure and literally be unable to walk because the muscles in my legs (sometimes my entire body) were too worn to move and support my body's weight. But what did my supervisor say? "We'll have to hold that against you." "One more time and we'll have to fire you." This was Meijers (the supermarket chain) by the way, in case you wanna raise hell about it or tie up their customer service centers with complaints about how heartless they are.

[@2wen98]

That's messed up

[@JimiGosu]

Indeed. To think they market themselves as family friendly. >_>

[@scoopitywoop]

1-3 months is an average of 6 sick days a year from this - that's not very much to be upset about, idk how they could think they were being reasonable

[@OhSoUnicornly]

SERIOUSLY how is that not against the ADA?! I live in the UK but I thought the ADA covered that?

[@wonky_shoebox7514]

I know the pain well, I've the exact type of epilepsy, had seizures twice a week

[@arenomusic]

10:20. Been here. It's called getting "gooned". Most of the time the boarding school is in another state so you're either driven for hours in a van or taken through airport security by strangers who are legally allowed to physically restrain you if you try to run or get help. The school I ended up at looked great on the surface, but it was incredibly corrupt (anyone that lived in the neighborhood around the school would get a nice little cash reward for returning students that tried to run), staff would routinely lie to parents to keep them from knowing about what was going on (and we'd get in trouble for sharing too much during our single, weekly, 30-minute family call), and there were multiple staff members would routinely abuse their power and/or leverage their relationships (usually openly intimate) with other staff members to physically injure students they didn't like and get away with it. On one of my last days there, a full-fledged riot broke when the power went out that evening. Students were fighting in the milleu but there weren't enough staff on campus to restrain everyone. One kid flipped a table and broke the support beam underneath, then pulled off half of it with the nails still in one end and just walked around with it. Ended the night with multiple concussions, a couple broken bones, and at least one arrest AFAIK, there were probably a lot more minor things I didn't hear about. I was playing a few games of magic the gathering off to the side with a friend. Not the worst possible outcome compared to a prison riot, but this place cost $15,000/month. Average stay was a year. I actually started working in this industry after graduating from another, MUCH better program. There's a ton of potential for places like this to provide so much help to teens who are seriously struggling, but they're often so mismanaged that the focus becomes money for the shareholders and power for the staff instead of healing for the kids.

[@jb.9526]

Apart from the riot thing it sounds pretty much like a regular Catholic boarding school in Belgium in the 1960s. Kids would see their parents a few hours once or twice a month. Very strict discipline. Getting up every day at 6:00 a.m. for mass. Corporal punishment. No talking at all at lunch and dinner. Lots of psychological abuse...

[@TychoCelchu]

There was a documentary several years ago about the kids being kidnapped at the request of the parents. In the example in the documentary, the kids were taken overseas, and their passports were taken from them. The kids were then stuck thousands of miles from home, until they conformed to what their parents wanted. It was incredibly disturbing

[@Pinakamataas]

Oh your comment made me think of the movie Paradise Hills.

[@zachoman420]

I need the name of this documentary

[@musetangolazorus1875]

What’s the documentary name

[@cl1cka]

And those teens didnt beat their parents with shovels, while sleeping, once they got back?

[@alzhanvoid]

@@cl1cka I wouldnt be surprised if they were a few murder cases from "reformed" (pretending) teens.

[@hannahgregory6207]

Paris Hilton went to one of those “troubled teen schools” - She filmed a documentary about it last year on KZbin! Absolutely horrific!

[@wolfie1234100]

Good documentary to, I have so mich respect for Paris Hilton now.

[@JackieWarner13]

I was shocked when I watched that doco. So crazy. Glad she's talking about it.

[@zeina8631]

Shocking, and she wasn’t even a ‘troubled’ teen, just going through a rebellious phase most teens go through

[@tomasl231]

what is it called?

[@melissamargolese8782]

@@tomasl231 "This is Paris"

[@longliveplanetawesome3223]

Some other legal things in the US that should be illegal: - the bail system (which basically locks away innocent people unless they have enough money to pay for their freedom) - the fact that people with a criminal record cannot vote (which is suppression of their first amendment rights). - the death penalty (it's a bit overkill, don't you think? And the fact that you can watch someone get executed is disgusting on so many levels.) - segregation/unequal funding in the education system (it's more segregated now that it was in the 70s.) I really thought this video would include a lot of things about the US Justice system because that's just a whole mess, but some of these legal things, especially the stuff having to do with children, are just so disturbing!

[@Moonlitconversations1717]

@boy lasagna Op said funding for the education system, not funding in general

[@rachaelevans8351]

@boy lasagna OP is referring to educational funding which is propped up by the US equivalent of council taxes (eg which community people live in) - when southern school segregation was abolished, the north states found a way that if you collect students and money from housing districts and keep those intentional racist (through redlining and explicit “whites only policies”) then you still have school segregation but it’s not technically illegal

[@Psyk60]

The bail system seems like a necessary evil though. There needs to be some way for people to be held before their trial, otherwise the guilty ones will run away. You could make the system "fairer" by not giving the option of paying bail, but that means locking up even more potentially innocent people. Maybe some countries manage without it though? I only really know about the US and England which both have it.

[@aurorawaxwing5866]

@boy lasagna this may not be my place but why should the military get for funding?

[@suokkos]

@@Psyk60 , Most of EU countries aren't using bail system. Instead court decides if person is flight risk or not based prosecutors recommendation and arguments from both sides.

[@ITpanda]

Retirement homes taking everything (houses, cars, money) someone owns when they go into their care regardless of how much it is.

[@malakai_adam]

This

[@gabrilapin]

Wait what ?!

[@ITpanda]

@@gabrilapin In the two states I have lived in retirement homes take everything (houses, and everything in the bank) when a resident moved in. I believe they get to keep their jewelry and one vehicle if they are still able to drive. In the state I currently live in they also get to go back into their finances 3 years to check for discrepancies. Doesn't matter how much they have. It's pretty much everything.

[@henrykramer365]

@@ITpanda I'm still confused. Is it because the retirement homes cost more money than the person can afford? Does this mean that person's estate never gets passed on to loved ones? Or is it that the retirement home gets guardianship of these assets but don't actually KEEP them forever?

[@ITpanda]

@@henrykramer365 they get everything up front. Not sure on if their are regulations on how long they have to keep them. I know they use part of the estate to pay someone to go back three years on the person's finances, they look for discrepancies in case family members poached things. Look it up for a few states I'm sure you'll find this practice. I'd tell you which to look at but privacy , I'm sure you understand.

[@Zephyeran]

Oh yeah, "teen escourt services" were a fear of mine when it came to coming out. They're semi common, especially in religious areas, like, I dunno, my whole state that was founded by mormon pioneers? Which means both sets of grandparents are mormon, and the one was horribly verbally abrasive, though I slightly am unsure if it was intentionally abusive. She thinks it's for the greater good, so I go to heaven with her. But when I came out to her, I was terrified that because she had legal guardianship over me while I visited, that she might try to pull that sort of thing and send me to a conversion camp that would 1. Make me stop liking girls 2. Make me not asexual 3. Fail at both and basically resort to shocking me everytime a photo of a pretty girl was put up to try and force me to associate girls with pain and therefore stop being attracted in any sense. Yes, they actually do this to guys in conversion camps. Nasty thing. I'd heard the horrors, and I was so scared that this huge 55ish year old woman who already cornered me to verbally berate me for even cutting my hair short because it looked gay because a woman on the Ellen show had short hair like mine and was gay, (this was before I even came out), would also be the type to either drive me there or have me kidnapped for it @.@

[@malakai_adam]

This fear or some variation is far too common in our community, wtf is wrong with people? Can't we just be gay in peace?

[@apolloandwarrior_3229]

I'm pretty fortunate that my parents would never think of sending me away because if I lived with any of those parents I'd be sent off. Kids in the United States don't have a lot of rights and the fact they can be forced into marriage at 14 is so wrong. Some people see minors as cattle and that's a huge problem, especially when lawmakers and government agencies condone blatant pedophilia and child abuse.

[@OhSoUnicornly]

Horrifying that this is a thing, I'm so sorry you experienced that fear of worrying it could happen to you :( Lots of love from a fellow asexual

[@CeruleanStar]

LDS asexual woman here. I lived in Utah for four months. I will never do so again. It wasn't even about my sexuality, which to be fair, I never disclosed. People in Utah seem to be judgmental and prejudiced by culture. I spent a good amount of my time there apologizing to people for things I have never even considered doing. Seriously, it was all so bad that I had to regularly apologize on behalf of people who would never make the apology themselves, despite their actions being so blatantly wrong. It became normal part of introductions for me to explain that I wouldn't judge people for their life choices, and that no, my religion doesn't actually teach such a horrible thing, the Utah culture does. It still baffles and upsets me that such a discussion was needed. I grew up in the pacific northwest, so I admit I grew up in a rather laid-back and accepting culture, but still, the culture shock was severe. Even if it weren't my religion, seeing anyone claim their religion while acting so blatantly against its teaching is just so odd. The religion I grew up learning taught people to be understanding, empathetic, and not to judge. We were taught that every religion, or lack thereof, had value and that every person should be respected for their beliefs and choices so long as those beliefs aren't harming anyone. They have their right to worship and/or believe as they please, just as we have ours. But Utah as a culture seems to hold to no such beliefs. It's a well enough known problem that people where I grew up openly dismissed the Utah Culture. It was commonly discussed as to why such beliefs and behaviors were problematic. Many times the practices in Utah are what the LDS religion specifically teaches people not to do. Those misguided and problematic beliefs and actions make their way into Utah churches, which is awful. When I came out to my family back home in the PNW, everyone was very understanding. Turns out, my mom, two of my sisters, and my brother all also fall into the ace spectrum. I also suspect some other women from my church were also ace, judging by their stories and experiences. They were elderly women, so I doubt they had a word for it. There were also quite a few people in my YSA ward (aka church congregation for those in my age group) that were openly gay/bi/etc. They were included in all of the activities, respected, and treated just as kindly as anyone else, as they should be. Everybody was just there to make friends, which was great for me. This all would have gone very differently in Utah. I am so sorry for the emotional pain growing up in Utah must have caused you. I can imagine the fear you must have felt, given some of the stories I heard while I was there. You never should have had to live through that fear. No one should. Are you alright? I hope you found people who love and accept you, whether they are in your family or not. As a side note, as a woman with a pixie cut, I think short hair looks great women. I bet you rock it :)

[@stargazer5829]

It's so disgusting to think that anyone could think so cruelly. I mean, I'm not a part of the LGBT community myself, but I have so many friends who are and it sickens me to think that any one of them may face prejudice like this. It should be illegal - no need for anymore evidence other than this. People should just let others live how they want to and let them be themselves. That is a basic human right.

[@jayc9345]

Paris HIlton recently put out a documentary here on YT about her experience with a teen escort company and in "behavioral correction schools" as a teenager and everything she's STILL going through because of it. It's a horrifying watch, but worth it if only for the info

[@bigidiot7346]

It sounded familiar, i remembered the video, its so fucked up that this is legal like wtf

[@AnjaFi]

I saw her documentary that shit is terrible!! Now wonder she is the way she is 🤐

[@andrewberrie5328]

I was literally coming to the comments to write the same thing - it sounded absolutely terrifying.

[@Aniselfairy]

@@andrewberrie5328 me too

[@wolfie1234100]

I was actually crying during that documentary. Never expected for Paris Hilton to make me cry.

[@jaguario5967]

Hello and welcome to Evan Edinger the channel that shocks and appauls Europeans with things they never knew existed in America.

[@calliopeblue2303]

Yup, I mean just reading these comments makes me sad

[@ninao8460]

Sadly I watch a tedtalk yesterday about child marriage in the UK :( and I guess there are countries on mainland europe that allow it aswell

[@sharks2571]

Yep. This is the chanel😂

[@grahamsmith9541]

@@ninao8460 Child marriage is not legal in the UK.

[@wolfzmusic9706]

@@ninao8460 Child marriage is illegal in the UK, although it still goes on.

[@brianorozco1074]

The teen transport thing literally sounds like something from a horror movie, well at least in my opinion

[@yasmin-m-07]

it sounds like some dystopian society shit

[@brianorozco1074]

@@yasmin-m-07 Fr

[@Britni4795]

@@yasmin-m-07 Unfortunately current society can be pretty dystopian

[@hippywill]

sad but real

[@brianorozco1074]

@@Britni4795 Agreed

[@friendssquad5135]

Nobody: Me: " in Western Australia it is illegal to own more than 10kg of potatoes"

[@2wen98]

Srs?

[@mr.google1437]

An old ration law from WW2

[@elisabethandersen1102]

I don't think you can count those. I used to live in a county where it was illegal to ride an ugly horse into town. I don't think anyone's honestly getting investigated for these things

[@mafiacat88]

@@elisabethandersen1102 Man I love those. Like there's a US state where it's illegal to walk down the street with an ice cream cone in your back pocket. Wild.

[@elisabethandersen1102]

@@mafiacat88 That just seems like a good tip more than a law haha

[@sean_is_geynt9131]

I've never before thought about commiting arson on a business, but one that kidnaps children is absolutely on my list should I ever be stupid enough to go the non legal route

[@stuartcombs6412]

"too american to be British, and too British to be American" .... So like Canadian? Jk jk

[@dramaticdaydreamer033]

I thought that too! 😂

[@stephanieseahorse7931]

I thought the exact same thing.

[@maurice8180]

No australian

[@sanukatharul1497]

@@maurice8180 Nah, definetely not australian

[@amazingtoad7244]

@@dramaticdaydreamer033 no need to say jk as a Canadian that’s very true

[@kelseycouch7945]

Evan confirming that he uses his "ad voice" so that we can skip it is just *chef's kiss*

[@evan]

Have you ever noticed when I wear a hat? ;)

[@big_banana7194]

@@evan :0

[@IEJ932]

That you can be trusted to drive at 15 in America and own a gun at 18 (I believe?) but can’t be trusted with a kinder surprise egg 😭😭

[@Marcos-wz6vz]

fr tho

[@nadiar.4638]

But you could kill someone with a kinder surprise egg, ofcourse they should be illegal 😯

[@theizzyrobbo]

why are kinder eggs bad?

[@ava_lavender]

"in 13 different states where gun laws are more lenient than federal restrictions, there is no minimum age for possession or purchase of a long gun or handgun. In 30 states, it is legal for a child to possess a rifle or shotgun." That's rather terrifying, is it not?

[@theizzyrobbo]

Kinder surprise eggs have toys not guns in them

[@jordanr.2120]

When I read Bleak Creek, I thought the dudes snatching Alicia from her bedroom in the middle of the night to bring her to the reform school was a crazy borderline-dystopian concept they made up for the book, but... turns out we really are living the worst possible timeline.

[@lavdoria510]

paris hilton’s parents did the kidnapping thing to her and she talks about it in a book also a documentary, i thought it was banned already by now

[@shumshai]

Paris Hilton did a documentary about the troubled teen industry. I grew up in Utah where most wilderness therapy programs and therapeutic boarding schools are. I dated a guy in high school that went through it. His parents are really wealthy and he started partying a lot at his fancy private boarding schools in Mass. so they literally had him kidnapped, flown to Utah, and then he was in 'Wilderness Therapy' for 8 weeks, an RTC for a few months until he could graduate to a group home/sober living place so he could finish high school. He was a great kid and the only reason that he ever got into partying is because his parents didn't care about him, they threw him and his siblings to the nannies and then to boarding school at the age of 6. When he was 17, I taught him how to ride a razor scooter and a bike. His mom realized she fucked up and when she visited once she wanted to take my whole family and him to dinner. It threw us off when she pulled out the black AMEX and then offered for my mom, me, and her to have a huge spa day the next day and she also flew me and my boyfriend to Maui for a weekend with her. She tried to win back love from her son buy spending thousands and thousands on him every month. He's ok now after all the years of good therapy but it's so fucked up.

[@RobMedellin]

"At the age of 16, he was 17"? Ps. Asking to understand what you meant there, doesn't mean I didn't care about everything else, actually means I want to know everything you tried to share.

[@EvilDragon666]

@@RobMedellin I think it reads like "when I was 16, he was 17, and I taught him how to ride a razor scooter and a bike".

[@RobMedellin]

@@EvilDragon666 aaah makes sense, thanks.

[@shumshai]

​@@RobMedellin it was supposed to be " they threw him and his siblings to the nannies and then to boarding school at the age of 6. When he was 17, I taught him how to ride a razor scooter and a bike."

[@toroallin5734]

As for the teen transport company things, it’s finally being talked about. Survivors of these schools are finally speaking out about the things that went on including the pamphlets telling parents “do not believe your child about the things she will undoubtably tell you are happening” like wtf! Lots of documentaries coming out as well as people on social media speaking out. But yes, completely legal... somehow...

[@JustAnotherPerson4U]

I... I can't seem to pick up my jaw from the floor... Like, the idea that these... abusers can be against kidnapping and murder and every other sort of crime in general society and run an... operation like this on legal grounds! I don't think this is a thing in the UK. Cos if it was... being an formerly undiagnosed autistic teen with fairly frequent meltdowns. I wouldn't be surprised if my parents saw something like this and thought it would help me. Just... this... I can't believe...

[@adiuntesserande6893]

@@JustAnotherPerson4U As an autistic teen, my parents frequently threatened me with precisely this. I dreaded going to sleep every night, because I didn't know whether this was going to be the night that they broke in and took me.

[@davedixon2167]

Somebody needs to intercept these guys with zero prejudice and plenty of firepower. This is insanity.

[@SteppingStonevlogs]

@@adiuntesserande6893 I wish I could have a long chat with your parents and put some sense into their brains. Wow. That is so messed up to tell your child that.

[@LRM12o8]

Yeah, the fact that parents can consent to strangers taking their child away from hone against the child's will and that makes it legal is WILD! This is not a nurse picking up a toddler who's throwing a tantrum cause they don't like the daycare (which also should make the parents question if there's a better way for the child), this is fully-fledged, years long abduction!

[@comb-t]

Evan's Culture is Partially American and Partially British, therefore its the Middle of the Atlantic Ocean, or where Atlantis would be, therefore Evan is Atlantean.

[@ilikeyourname4807]

But he doesn't speak the (artificial) trans-atlantic accent

[@WooShell]

Atlantis is in the Mediterranean Sea.. you have to correct for Plato's tenfold error..

[@darkfire1408]

Having worked for a survey company, there is a national do not call registry. This applies to telemarketers, but not surveyors. It also means literally nothing to scammers, because they are already breaking the law. So the only thing that does, is prevent legitimate telemarketers from calling, leaving only the scam artists able to call.

[@AustinSnider]

Yeah, it's also a matter of jurisdiction too. The laws that protect US consumers from telemarketers often don't apply in other jurisdictions and, even if they do, a almost impossible to enforce.

[@ahobbit1273]

“Too American to be British, and too British to be American.” As a Canadian, I feel that.

[@sarowie]

I am disturbed that when I saw the thumbnail I taught that "teen escort company" sounded awful as is "adult escort services but with teens", but when I see what it actually is even more disturbing.

[@LRM12o8]

@sarowie I wouldn't call it even more disturbing. SA and forced s*x work are two of the worst non-lethal things you can do to another person. And while there probably is plenty of CSA going in these facilities, at least it's not a given, since it's not the goal of these operations.

[@leiakasta7602]

I was really confused that a video that looks so interesting had only 4 likes until I saw that it had just come out 22 seconds ago lol

[@fabiansaerve]

Just write first ffs

[@youneverseeanoldmaneatinga7416]

'First'

[@strych9ines]

Just say first man, no need to brag

[@JLDREAMS]

Hagaahaha

[@Fyreshield]

I’ve done that on occasion, so weird when that happens

[@yoinksscoob4889]

I haven't watched the vid yet but I'd say that 'trans panic' defence thing in the US where you can use being scared as an excuse to get away with hurting a trans person is one of the worst legal things, at least in the Western world

[@ninawth]

Excuse me, what the actual fuck

[@gregorarmstrong01]

And I have lost any faith in humanity that I had left.

[@violetskies14]

Wait that's a real thing? Holy shit.

[@kilianangelo5959]

Not just hurting but killing too

[@yoinksscoob4889]

@@kilianangelo5959 Yes, it's very disturbing isn't it

[@Mr_T_Hief]

"selling textbooks in rediculous prices". Me: laughs in free education

[@muffinmendy7327]

Me too, education should be free for everyone!

[@AlexandriaTheGreat]

Ridiculous is the spelling I believe you were looking for with your free education. Me: shakes head in concern for the future of humanity.

[@benr8118]

@@muffinmendy7327 free doesn't exist

[@arjix8738]

@@benr8118 well, it does exist. In the form of tax.

[@TiPitSgtBuddy]

Yeah. I have free éducation and healthcare. I just have a 15% tax and average of 38% on income...

[@MiyaAhmed]

02:04 lets just take a moment to appreciate the compression joke that probably most people won't have noticed, where it sounded like Evan compressed the *SHIT* out of his audio when he was talking about how production crews make the audio in an advert punchy to make it feel louder lol

[@caseyhollingworth8224]

the fact that those “teen escort” services sound an awful lot like what Dr Phil used to send kids away is um...unsettling

[@hazelangus]

I was thinking that. He also has children sent to programs etc., but they will be the best available. But yes, it's a whole industry. You hear them refer to themselves as transporters on the footage. They are part of the same industry. Because of the near-complete lack of regulation, sure you'll get good ones, but so many of them are bad. I'm not sure that what we see on Dr Phil is typical.

[@ashl8446]

It’s exactly what he uses

[@nopenope1]

those "boot camps"... I'm remembering those US series about it, translated back then on some tv stations here. I've always wondered, the 'troubled' kids where so thankfull afterwards etc., in some cases it maybe so, but on the other side I always thought if I was put in this situation, I might have some bad anger issues afterwards, directed to whom ever put me there... how could you ever forgive the 'parents' for such a torture...

[@intruiged_lizard5126]

The teen escort company reminds me of a TV Show from Germany that I watched as a kid called "the strictest parents in the World" where "difficult" kids/teens were told they would go on vacation but were actually send to another country and had to live under shitty conditions with another family. Really fucked up

[@Widdekuu91]

A guy in my classroom had severe mental problems (stalked me and tried to stab me) and his parents wanted him to graduate from school before going into a clinic. They kept trying to keep him in school, no matter what he did and one day he graduated and they told him they'd celebrate and go on holiday together. They then packed his bags..together with his brother and themselves and on their way to the "holiday" they brought him to the clinic. He screamed and cried and they injected him with stuff and put him in isolation. He then had to take pills until 2 years later, when they found him to be stable and sane. ...he wasn't, because he immediately started stalking me again, including writing this story to me. I definitely believe it though. But I also reported him to the police, because he was looking up my information again and kept replying to Marketplace-advertisements about skirts that I was selling.

[@86upsmaya]

I have episodes of that show. At least there, the kids arent kidnapped. They are mostly given an ultimatum by parents, go to this or be kicked out, so the kids go there and live with a family for 2 or 3 weeks, under the same rules that family's kids live. And why do you call them "shitty" countries just because they arent YOUR country?

[@littlewingedshiba5779]

@@86upsmaya they didn't say that the countries themselves where "shitty", they said that the living conditions were shitty. Which is definitely not the same.

[@RemoveChink]

I watched that show, those kids needed that kind of treatment.

[@Widdekuu91]

@@RemoveChink Ooohhh look a troll!

[@maggieturansky7650]

Thank you for mentioning the Troubled Teen Industry, it's important that more people are aware of what is happening. I am a survivor of the industry myself, having been sent to a wilderness "therapy" program in Utah for 12 weeks and then moving directly to a "therapeutic" boarding school for a further 14 months from the ages of 16-18. These programs have very little oversight and there isn't a lot of knowledge about them. The level of brainwashing that happens is horrible (on both the teen's and the parent's end) and the amount of money that is involved is absolutely insane. It's been 10 years since I've been through these programs and I am still very much dealing with the trauma related to my experience. I really appreciate you bringing this to a broader audience because the more people know about it, the more that can be done to shut them down - hopefully.

[@mon_yuki]

I want to add this about textbooks: I had multiple classes where they bundled a code to get into a website to take quizzes which took up 10% of your mark. Which means if you didn't spend $300 on that textbook you lose 10%. It's the scummiest thing ever.

[@sunnydeechi]

My mom many years ago, worked at one of those troubled youth homes, and one of the kids family said they were going to Disneyland - it breaks my heart

[@AntoniaMorris]

The teen escort thing reminds me of the Paris Hilton documentary -- she speaks about the trauma she was subjected to after being sent to one of those boarding schools and she was also kidnapped at night :(

[@TheCrazyFreak]

Oh wow, I never knew she went through that. I might take a look at that documentary.

[@AntoniaMorris]

@@TheCrazyFreak It's here on KZbin, and I really recommend it! I was surprised by how the story developed, wasn't what I was expecting at all

[@phyllispawa5793]

Some alumni from my college started one of those ‘therapeutic/wilderness programs’ which means we have a decent number of students who recently graduated from them. Their stories are horrifying, they are often not recovered, and yes they were abducted from their homes and usually forced to hike in the woods without speaking for weeks until they show compliance.

[@BirdMorphingOne]

Here’s a tip for college students, don’t buy the text book until you’re a week in. By then you’ll know if you’ll actually use it

[@weareallbornmad410]

It always blows my mind that in US and UK (I think?) students still buy textbooks by college. I spent a decade in university classes, went through three undergraduate degrees, two graduate degrees, and one PhD and was never once required to buy a textbook. In fact, I remember being told in no uncertain terms that I need to pay attention during lectures, because the knowledge I am given "is not contained in any textbook". If you can learn your class from one textbook, you're wasting your time in that class. And probably money, seeing as English speaking countries make you pay.

[@romainsavioz5466]

@@weareallbornmad410 depending on where you are once you aren't in the obligatory school years you need to pay Don't know about the other cursus in Switzerland but for apprentiship classes I needed to pay for the books

[@123marksalot]

Or sometimes the university library has the textbook that you can rent out for the entire semester

[@racheljones1634]

I always emailed my professors as soon as I got my schedule to ask if there was any required texts and if older editions would work. That way I spent the couple of months prior to the semester looking for the cheapest option I could find. Saved me hundreds.

[@pendlera2959]

In my college (a community college! that's supposed to be less expensive!) our online class forced us to buy a book to get a code to use for the class. You had to use the code to login and take an attendance verification quiz by the end of the first week or you got dropped from the class.

[@michaeldavis9807]

I was "kidnapped" by one of those escort services when I was 16. My parents found out I was smoking weed, and suicidal dealing with trauma so they decided to give me more trauma by sending me to treatment that way. The kids at the treatment center called it "getting gooned" and yeah, I still have a ton of anxiety about it at night sometimes 7 years later.

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

While I see that troublesome kids sometimes might need a slap on the wrist, sending them into what is basically a cult brainwashing center or concentration camp sounds awfully harsh. The worst that would happen here would be the scary policemen that tells them if they don't stop (stealing/violence/drungs/etc) they end up in jail. More often than not these young people need help. And I mean help as in assistance. Psychological and social assistance, not a torture camp.

[@dasik84]

I must ask - are you in any contact with your parents now? Because if they did something like that to me, they wouldn't see me again.

[@Britni4795]

I love how most of these can just be summarized as "capitalism."

[@DwAboutItManFr]

Capitalism is great, so having low expectations for this video.

[@0.001mm_tolerancy]

I love how your comment can be summarized as "I don't understand what capitalism is"

[@Sammysapphira]

Cringe

[@khatharrmalkavian3306]

Kidnapping people and sending them to reeducation camps sounds like capitalism to you? It's actually is illegal in the capitalist US, though it still happens occasionally. There are some other systems where it's just sort of built in to the structure of society tho. Enjoy your 50 cents, asshole.

[@stevenrickett4333]

Soviet gulag enters the chat.

[@crystalcrider3716]

I've heard parents threaten kids in going to boarding school mostly in movies or tv, but didn't know the kidnapping thing was a thing to get them there. YIKES!!!

[@rayaqueen9657]

Boarding school is just school but you live there. (Like Hogwarts.. except more boring) Not at all the same thing.

[@LRM12o8]

@rayaqueen9657 which is still TERRIFYING! Imagine being the punching bag in your class and having to LIVE with your bullies all day long instead of being able to go home and ignore them for the rest of the day once school's out! 😱🤮 I was the teacher's punching bag in elementary school and the class' punching bag in every school after that and boarding school was the scariest thing imaginable to me. Like, I could not imagine how I would've survived that! 🥶

[@alliel454]

How are these legal. How can a teen be kidnapped legally. It’s going to cause Trauma with a capital T.

[@whoknowswhat186]

reeeeeally random and I doubt you care but I have your pfp on a shirt

[@alliel454]

@@whoknowswhat186 😂

[@Zraknul]

Trauma in the name of religion has been permitted in all kinds of different ways.

[@Parker8752]

Turns out, you can do damn near anything to kids if their parents permit it.

[@TastyYazz]

Evan: says "buy for life" My brain: bi for life

[@CursedSFMS]

That’s me

[@cmlemmus494]

Several of the things on this list are actually illegal, but they still go on. The "therapeutic teen" industry is a good example. The whole reason parents pay someone to kidnap their own kids is BECAUSE they can't legally take them to these "re-education centres". No aspect of this is legal. Of course, that's reddit for you. If someone can do something, it must be legal.

[@hippywill]

the re-education centers are usually legal in some way and transporting the kid is usually said to be done with permitting parents so its a grey area they get away with.

[@unmeinks5907]

well, if no one does anything about it, it doesnt matter if its illegal or not

[@eragon78]

@@unmeinks5907 Well, it does still matter because if its illegal, then there are at least SOME protections in place where a person could potentially find a way out. For example, if a child who got kidnapped managed to call the police, or maybe Child protective services, then they would have a legal case to be protected where as if this WAS legal, there would be nothing these agencies could do to help the child. Obviously its still a problem that these laws arent enforced better, but at least them being illegal provides SOME ability to try and tear this down.

[@malakai_adam]

Sounds pretty legal then

[@clsisman]

Er…they’re completely legal in the US. Dr Phil is always sending kids to them.

[@mnstrmisha]

i knew a girl that was in the wilderness program. they were starved, denied any care, most of the teens were injured or sick, they were not allowed to contact their parents, and the leaders of the program had full control over them. if you behaved badly you had to stay in the program longer as a punishment, but they would never tell them how much longer exactly. some kids have been away from their homes living in the woods and hiking every single day for years. hearing about it was so insane, it's been years since i last talked to her but i still think about it a lot.

[@AnagramGinger]

This explains so much of what I see on American tv shows. Father tells you to join the army, you join the army. Mother wants you on Dr. Phil, you get kidnapped at 4am. Dr. Phil tells you to go to the ranch, you go to the ranch.

[@kazeboiii]

Timing on that “Unskippable double ads,” “Like this one!” bit was too good, Evan. FIRED! Legit, ads started immediately after Evan said that. Thankfully they were skippable, so maybe I’ll forgive him. Maybe others weren’t so lucky tho lol

[@kribusjoe]

I wasn't as fortunate.. I got the unskipable double-ad 😅

[@deadmanomegagaming4061]

I only got a single unskippable as after he said that that.

[@MrDannyDetail]

@@BooksRebound I didn't get any adverts at that specific point in the video, although I saw them elsewhere in the video, so I'm not convinced that Evan chose where to place the ads for this specific video. I think he was just being silly when he said 'like this one".

[@SeaKnight_Rory]

@@MrDannyDetail you don't always get an ad for every place where someone puts an ad. So.... He probably put the little yellow square there to have an ad - you just got lucky and didn't have to deal with it!

[@kazeboiii]

@@BooksRebound I’d always just assumed their placement was auto-generated based on the length of your video because of how awful the timing typically is. I have an auditory processing disorder, so I often have to rewind fifteen/thirty seconds back after an ad whenever it crops up mid-sentence (and it almost always does). I would think, if you had control where in your vid to put an ad, you’d be more careful as to where than to do that...It’s a minor frustration, but a frustration all the same.

[@calebkreunenen5789]

The whole thing about them forcing you in the middle of the night to go to a facility- thats actually one of my biggest fears. That and conversion therapy.

[@ominoarya28]

The problem with caller ID spoofing is when YOUR number is spoofed so you start getting calls and texts aimed for the one spoofing your number

[@tyjuarez]

there's a broadcast industry standard, ITU R.128, that exists to enforce loudness normalization between ads and content. It's also helping with the loudness war in the music industry.

[@Rayfire_456]

I think that the child marriage one is one of the worst because a 14 year old could be married off to a 40 year old and not be able to do anything about it for 4 years

[@LRM12o8]

Yeah, especially the fact that the child apparently gets no agency to deny the marriage, what the hell, that's absolutely SICK! The person who is immediately affected should always get a say, otherwise the decision shall not be possible to be made! If they're not considered old enough to express consent or non-consent to getting married, then they shouldn't be considered old enough to get married either! Like I get why the law allows two 17 year olds to marry with parental consent. In this case the parents basically just confirm that they (as someone who knows the situation well) have no good reason to be AGAINST their teenager's wish, but it should NEVER go the other way! The parents should NEVER overrule the child's will or be the ones who actually want the child to marry, with the child just confirming they aren't strongly opposed to it! 🤮

[@EddieHart]

I was incredibly surprised you did not transition to a NordVPN ad after the cookies rant

[@grahamparks1645]

I know he doesn’t want them to drop him

[@TatAlbring]

I've never heard the phrase 'call out' we always 'call in sick'

[@wolfzmusic9706]

yes that confused me

[@PersonInPurple]

11:18 I feel like this is for religious parents that can’t accept their children for being not straight (anything lgbtq+) and I don’t think I’m going to come out to my parents until I move out because of this.

[@malakai_adam]

This hurts to read😔

[@dapper_dandelions1691]

Also not to make the wilderness therapy troubled teen industry one much worse, but look into the amount of deaths caused by the troubled teen industry. The list is so incredibly long and its truly heartbreaking and unfathomable.

[@RomySews]

I read a story in the Guardian a while back from a person who was ‘treated’ using a teen escort company and I honestly couldn’t fathom that being real. They were dragged out of their bed in the middle of the night by men in balaclavas and taken to a camp in the desert to learn survival with a group of other troubled kids. It was supposed to make them feel more grateful for the life they had and stop them acting out. Aka child abuse 😳

[@kaikailer]

A family friend of mine was sent off to a “wilderness rehabilitation program” through the teen escort company and he’s been there since before covid. He’s only 17, and he’s not been allowed to leave for almost a year.

[@coolerbean8341]

That's awful

[@Bucherviews]

Yeah, people can spend years trapped there, because it requires parental permission for them to leave, up until they're 18. Hopefully that means your friend can get out soon, that's absolutely horrible x

[@violetskies14]

His parents are shit I hope he's ok.

[@bookswithike3256]

Please go to your friend's parents and tell them they deserve to die for what they're doing to their kid. I don't even care anymore, no one involved in these disgusting industries should be allowed to exist.

[@SteppingStonevlogs]

God, help him. 😟

[@jaimewilliams5609]

10:30 I'd highly suggest watching Paris Hilton's documentary!! (It's on KZbin) She was put into one of these, the documentary is mostly focused on that experience, it's honestly a very good doc 10/10

[@NithinJune]

12:35 Not to mention Queer Conversation Camps. Still legal in many states

[@unconventionalideas5683]

9:42 It is funny you should mention this. They have really struggled in recent years and are struggling to survive. In fact, beauty pageants as a whole have been struggling.

[@thomasfoersterling7109]

Got a single unskippable ad right when he made the joke about the double one

[@TheAnalyticalEngine]

Hello, and welcome to a show where literally everyone should be horrified to find out that teens can arranged to be kidnapped by their parents/guardians, and sent to horribly abusive camps, which are themselves also legal At least I only got one of those little banner ads, instead of an unskippable double-add (I see this on Twitch too)

[@merrping7777]

The whole commercial thing happened in Canada too! I remember as a kid when the law got passed and how much better it was! I live in the UK and I swear the adverts are louder, it is a distinguishable difference to adverts in Canada!

[@anne8663]

Aah yes, my ears are so thankful for this! I don’t know if this law apply to spotify canada, but the walmart add is giving me a mini heart attack, so loud 😅

[@Varksterable]

The KZbin adverts are _definitely_ louder than content. But this may just be because the adverts are professionally recorded and sound levels optimized to be as loud as possible without distorting. A fair amount of content I watch isn't, and so the sound level difference is often very noticable and jarring. Especially as these "new" ads (which I'm sure are sometimes put there just to promote their premium account) can cut in unexpectedly at any point. Sometimes mid-sentence or mid-word. Could this be the case for ads on other media too? (At least you are usually given some warning about them.)

[@Zraknul]

Yes KZbin advertising is guilty of doing this. I don't care about their excuses, it should be solved.

[@WeeScottishLass]

I was always told that in Britain the adverts were louder so they could SHOUT AT YOU AS YOU WALKED INTO THE KITCHEN TO MAKE A CUP OF TEA DURING THE BREAK!!!! Very British...

[@EternalTriadthePaladin]

Dude, if I (and most teens I know) were in a situation where a bunch of people came into our room to kidnap us- especially with our parents saying nothing about it prior- we would fight until serious injury or death occurred on one or both party’s sides. There HAS to have been deaths or serious injuries caused by that that were either covered up or just not mentioned- and if they WEREN’T covered up... what the hell. Government regulation or not, parents indirectly but intentionally harming their children has to be ground for removal of that child from their custody

[@starwarsman70]

RE: the calling in sick thing- I once got shamed by a family member for having a massive anxiety attack around insomnia, exhaustion and worrying about other family members. The UK hospitality industry has it too

[@littlewyzard]

I definitely thought “teen escort service” meant something else but the actual thing is just as bad 😧

[@gregorarmstrong01]

If not worse

[@cristiane5859]

Top tip one person buys the text book and have 3-4 friends go in on it . When you have homework person scan the pages on the printer at school and send to all of your friends for free. Another tip depending on your college rent the book out at the library then send scan to self and your friends. In my college we were allowed to check out these textbooks for 2hr within the library that act saved me hundreds of dollars.

[@potatogaming3474]

imagine a team escort company comes to take (lets call the teen tom) tom away but tom was up late playing games and found his dads "fully semi automatic" ar15 bang bang bang tom just stopped people in self defense

[@LRM12o8]

I'm afraid courts may argue that the parent consented, so it wasn't _"technically"_ a kidnapping, therefore Tom wasn't in any danger. 🥶 Of course, a good lawyer would point out that Tom didn't know these strangers were authorized by their parents to act this way and therefore was well within reason to assume he is in great danger and acts in self defense, but I don't trust a reasonable assumption defense will work in a jurisdiction, where parents are legally able to consent to abduction of a teenager by strangers in the middle of the night without the teenager's prior knowledge and against his will, which is incredibly unreasonable in the first place! 😰

[@nuzhatrahman7349]

10:32 I actually met someone whose parents did this. They tried taking legal help since it was basically a nightmare, escaped from the place twice and did not return home but somehow the parents found them and managed to force them back into the place. The worst part about the entire thing, we felt so bad and even tried helping but there was literally nothing we could do either the provide shelter and food when they escaped. It affected them A LOT mentally. I find that so disturbing.

[@AnagramGinger]

Me when looking at the title: that looks like fun Me after watching the video: that looks like child abuse

[@frog_inabog_]

i always love these kind of videos, all of your recent content really, i feel like i learn so much in such a short amount of time, and the way you present information is very easy to understand and, tbh, nicer than most of my teachers at school

[@evan]

Thank you! 😭

[@whatwhatinthewhat4400]

7:06 people who shame you for being sick I 100% guarantee these are people who call Jin sick and then go to the beach or a concert. They are shaming you because they think you are doing the same.

[@eragon78]

Well that, and also companies genuinely do not give a shit about your wellbeing. If you're sick, youre not making them money, and these days companies expect you to give everything 110% effort while they pay you a wage you cant survive on.

[@Spiffier]

There’s a Paris Hilton documentary on that Teen Kidnap Service, I highly recommend you watch/react

[@thesisypheanjournal1271]

Politicians should be required to wear jumpsuits showing their sponsors, sort of like NASCAR drivers do.

[@NatoOoLee]

Top Textbook tip for me don't even buy it until you need it. I've avoided buying multiple books that way. Especially if you can rent the textbook via download.

[@komi-sanmustbeprotected5665]

(Live in the UK) Not a law per say but a I regularly get ID checked as a 19 year old for energy drinks and paracetamol but power tools or kitchen knives? Not even a second glance, so do I look under 16 or over 25?!

[@janani1826]

They should be checking for knives, there is a girl in my year group who works for the standards checky people and she has to go in to shops to try and buy knives to check they are checking people's ID

[@gaildahlas]

Yeah, that might be more to do with staff being lax than the actual law (I think). I had to get my parents to come with me so I could buy kitchen knives for uni because of the no-under-18 knife laws

[@OneEyeShadow]

Why would they check your ID for energy drinks?

[@janani1826]

@@OneEyeShadow new rules cos of the crazy caffeine content- some supermarkets won't let children buy them.

[@Damo2690]

Yeah same, i get IDd for redbull but not alchohol

[@conni5179]

I hate the whole child marriage situation in the us especially since in some states those kids can't get help when they are abused child service is not responsible to care for them because they are already married and with that fall out of the system and most facilities for abuse are only for adults. And the police only can bring them to their parents or spouses and those kids are stuck.

[@BoltGamr]

I keep seeing comments about a "teen escort service" and got scared it was teenage prostitution, until I found out it meant a troubled teen home.

[@slice6298]

Didn't think I'd ever say something like that, but teenage prostitution would be better

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

To be fair, that kind of escort also exists, but is usually not initiated by the parents.

[@LRM12o8]

@HappyBeezerStudios yeah, usually. There's plenty of sick people (including parents) out there! 🤢 The difference is, that one is illegal as it should be, while the other one also should be illegal, but disturbingly isn't.

[@LRM12o8]

Well, it's also very abusive and traumatic and SA is probably not uncommon there either, but at least it's not the focus of the operation, so... yay? 🤕😬👍

[@catkook543]

2:38 For lobbying it's really easy to point the finger at corporations, but I think politicians are to blame Basically at first a business is successful and isn't lobbying Then politicians sue that business until they start lobbying them

[@natjohns8015]

Oh my god. Evan: 'Unskippable double ads' KZbin: here you go a double unskippable Evan: 'Did that work?' Me: absolutely 🤣 my god

[@sharks2571]

I got only 1 unskippable ad. I weirdly feel cheated

[@zkw100]

I got an unskippable ad before the comment about it. And then a skippable ad with that comment. I feel so cheated. 😂

[@squwuis]

I feel like one of those teens had a gun and when they woke up to 3 men Standing by the door and then you just heard News : teen shoots kidnappers hired by parents due to his troubled past

[@itsjustbree9267]

These days, some teachers will require you to get the newest edition of a textbook because it comes with an access code for some online thing that's required for the course. So you can't really get an older edition because it wouldn't have the right code.

[@santosic]

Though often times, at least where I go to college, you can buy the access code on the publisher website of said online course thing. Buying the book secondhand or better yet renting it and then buying the code separately is often still much cheaper than buying the book brand new.

[@eragon78]

My physics and math classes all did that. It was awful. I paid 200$+ for each class for a book I never used just so I could do the homework. And even worse, the STEM classes are the ones that always pull that shit, while also having the most expensive text books.

[@emrys4386]

My aunt attempted to do that to me- conversion therapy- but thought telling my parents would mean they wouldn’t let this happen- 300% correct- so I got hear my mom absolutely TEAR into the person on the phone, who was apparently confirming my pick up in a couple days and then her hang up the phone and scream at my aunt for HOURS.

[@mechalith2791]

I actually had a friend in my teens who got abducted off to a 're-education' facility, and the process (and end result) is just as horrifying as you would think.

[@LRM12o8]

Crazy that parental consent makes it legal to take a teenager against their will! Teenagers deserve the agency to say no, they're far beyond reasonable enough to decide who do not want to go/stay with!

[@DrLongWang]

I remember my mom got a book she used for one semester to finish her associates degree. It was $700 and was not hardback, not paperback, it was literally like 700 unbound unlaminated pieces of paper.

[@shaunaisaJellyBean]

Never buy the book for college, you’ll always be able to pirate it

[@shumshai]

But your professor will make you buy an access code that costs like $100 to do homework.

[@shaunaisaJellyBean]

@@shumshai damn that’s rough! I’m in my masters degree now and I never had to buy a book or any codes like that at all. They just gave us their own assignments they wanted us to do and gave us good notes that the exam would be based on.

[@Zraknul]

Yes the textbook industry is full of scum, designing ways to exploit students and extract money, in the name of modest at best benefit.

[@bwiebertram]

Same for anything you can get online

[@TheBorzoi]

The loud advert thing was actually detrimental to advertisers, at least in my family because until the law was passed in the UK, we just muted the TV during the ads so we didn't have to mess with the volume.

[@reasonpeason847]

Songs with traffic noises is one thing because they're not all gonna be made with radio play in mind, but radio ADS with traffic, sirens, honking, etc noises always get me.