I’m going to real man I honestly thought I had sub to you a while ago but I never got a video form you so I kinda forgot about you but you had shown up on my feed luckily to say I’m now sub to you congratulations. 🎉🍾🎈🎊
The thing that pissed me off about "Tell Them You Love Me" is that they gave as much credence to the CRIMINAL as they did to the family. On episode one of the series I said out loud "Oh nahh this b!tch did somethin..." but the doc is so focused on portraying "both sides" that by the end they're trying to make you feel bad for HER because now she can't get a job. I had to google more about it to discover that Derek was in DIAPERS that she had to remove to assault him multiple times. Sister, eughhhhh. She a FAN who needa stay her ass inside (prison).
Not only that, but assisted communication in regards to holding someone's hand to guide them on a communication device is not something that pretty much any institution in the US allows nowadays. I work with disabled people (physical and intellectual of a wide variety and all ages) and that's something that you outright could be fired for if you did at any of the programs I worked with because it can be so exploitable. You can do hand over hand for activities (coloring or cooking or whatever) but NEVER core communication. There are other communication devices that could've worked for Derrick. I had a client at my previous day program who was also physically unsteady, so she had a device that scrolled through different words and said them quietly off of a speaker right next to her ear, and when she heard a word she wanted to use she hit a big red button and it would say the word louder for the people around her to hear. She had hundreds of words to express things and she only needed to hit a big red button with any part of her body to speak. This lady just has no clue what the resources actually are and yet she poses herself (and the documentary poses her) like she's an incredibly informed person and she just isn't.
Even though what she did was unfathomably vile (so vile I'm not sure I can make it through this review tbh) I kinda appreciate that they let her incriminate herself so much. Saying she and Derrick had these lavish and extensive conversations when he just didn't have those capabilities. They allowed her to out herself.
I had this exact same issue with it!! They gave the criminal too much of a voice to the point that she could try to gaslight people into thinking what she did was acceptable. I’ll never understand how the fuck she managed to be let off. The system fucking failed him so badly.
I am shaking with rage that this happened. She “fell in love” with an idealized version of HERSELF that she projected onto Derek after doing whatever she could to claw what existing identity he had away from him…that is in at least the top three most awful crimes that I have heard of this nature.
I have a sibling who is disabled and non-verbal and I cannot overstate how easy it can be to exploit parents who just want the best for their disabled children. My parents fell for the false hope peddled by quacks and snake oil salesmen more than once. The only good thing that came from it was that I grew up to be a total skeptic and have since helped others to see these predators for what they are.
I can't tell you how many parents I've seen via the clients at my programs for disabled individuals who are struggling so much harder than they have to be because some trash human sold them on the idea of an MLM (pyramid scheme) being the way they're going to be able to provide for their kid, or alternatively, suddenly have the products to "fix" them (Herbal Life and Doterra and other products that make illegal medical claims are so bad about this and it's so horrid because so many of the product cause outright harm, especially to individuals who are sensitive to so many of these things that you and I might brush off and be fine with).
Yeah this is going to sound sort of like less important because I don’t have any learning disabilities But I tried that TMS treatment for depression Where they attach electrodes to the outside of your head and it just does something every 60 seconds for an hour And you do like 24 sessions It’s NOT like electro shock therapy at all But basically at the end I was like “I feel no different” and they were like well it takes some belief that it worked And I was like okay someone needs to shut this down now That’s called a placebo effect Now apparently they have tons of data and tons of happy patients but I fear it’s just a lot of people who believed so hard that they were able to convince themselves, and therefore made the depression better Which is a placebo effect But I did very well in school I’m more intelligent than the average person And I’m very introspective So I think it was going to take actual changes to cure or help my depression And they told me it does not provide “actual changes” I was like how did you guys con the government or whatever to allow this. It does seem like it could work because it’s quite involved And when I heard that it would involve electrodes and I would actually feel small sensations during the session Of course I was like “hmm Maybe this can work” But no it’s just BS I mean if it worked we really wouldn’t need 300 different anti depressants 10% of people over 65 have Alzheimer’s and we dedicate so much money and time and research to making the 301st anti depressant It’s ridiculous They should be forced to come up with a good treatment for Alzheimer’s before continuing with anti depressant research. There are enough of them. Also the fact that they advertise pharmaceuticals on TV is a whole other issue. We, as consumers, can not purchase them. So they should be disallowed. Show the presentations to doctors but the fact that our TV is plastered with medications that a person cannot buy on their own should tell us how corrupt the pharmaceutical industry is right now. Only gonna get much worse in November when our new president hires his friend the con man (pick one) to head up the FDA
@@WdawgSmithI can agree with you on everything, but stopping any depression research in favor of really anything is not it. Neurological research can’t just be traded around. For simplicity’s sake; if there’s researchers versed in depression they’re not gonna do well researching Alzheimer’s, these people and tests cants just be swapped over to another brain issue. Also, I’m pretty sure the people that have depression make up more of the population than 10% of people over 65, which doesn’t denote importance but it DOES require urgency that stopping testing will not provide. Everything else you’ve said tho, again, I completely agree
@@WdawgSmith i understand why a placebo affect technique may seem like a scam but i disagree that it should be stopped. the brain is a really powerful thing and in a lot of cases placebo affects are prioritised as a treatment because they’re a version of treatment that has absolutely no side affects and so no one get hurt. i know it may feel more comfortable to have a purely medical treatment but messing with the body when there’s an option not to only ever leads to side affects that people don’t want or need. medicine can cause allergic reactions, emotional dysfunction, lack of proper hormone production, and worse case scenario the patient could die so from that perspective a treatment where the patient is tricked into essentially healing themselves is the best case. these treatments are also used more commonly than people think. examples of placebo effect treatment include pain medication which is often replace with sweets for children so that the brain will lessen the pain by itself (unless it’s something serious). i’ve even heard that certain types of depression medication were found to be useless as a hormone that had previously thought to be connected to depression was found to not have that connection, so the only resulting treatment was due to placebo. this is helpful because too much hormone medication can actually lead to that hormone no longer being naturally produced and so the person becomes reliant on treatment. placebo obviously doesn’t do this. fun fact: there’s a type of seizures that are essentially the result of the brain going into a highly stressful/traumatic mode and deciding to force the body into a seizure (these are often found with people who have seen epileptic seizures consistently in their life through a relative/friend with epilepsy). the only found treatment for this was hypnotism (i believe this was founded with freud) as it is a purely cognitive issue with no biological reasoning (while epilepsy has biological components and so can be controlled somewhat). unfortunately this practice was banned as doctors are not allowed to lie to their patients. so patients who experience this are essentially told that they have to go home and hope it doesn’t happen again (though i believe knowing that it’s all in your head does a lot to help stop it). idk if this has been changed in recent years as the book i first read about this in was from the 80’s (i think?) but it’s interesting nonetheless. i’ve only skimmed through your comment so excuse me if i misrepresent any anything. i’m sorry if i ranted lol. tl;dr : placebo treatments are actually quite affective and are often the best treatment possible. EDIT: i reread your comment and i just wanted to say a few more things (sorry). 1) neuroscience research into forgetting is REALLY complicated so it isn’t very easy to do research into cures. the main reason (at least from what i’ve read, i’m not an expert) is because we have very little knowledge into how memory works and which areas of the brain are involved. there are general ideas of how memory works (e.g. the working memory model) but attempting to link this to an area more specific than just the hippocampus for example (if you want more info look up “HM case study”) is hard to pinpoint. it’s even hard to try and “fix” them. depression is mainly a hormone based illness which is significantly easier to directly fix as it has less to do with brain areas and more about hormone deficiency which is easily changed through chemicals in drugs (like SSRIs that encourage reuptake of serotonin). 2) banning those type of ads is mainly an american issue from what i’ve seen of other countries. i know where i live (england) nobody tries to advertise drugs to people directly, most likely because we have free healthcare so we get free/cheap drugs most of the time anyway. sorry if this came off as preachy, i’m just very passionate about neuroscience as i want to do it for a degree :)))
Everyone hiking that trail has a STORY for sure, I ran into someone on the greyhound a few years ago that was making his way to the PCT trail after being released from jail and getting off of drugs. He said hiking that trail was the first thing he wanted to do after getting out besides seeing his son. I really hope he made it!!!
Mostly harmless is such a good example of how we somehow romanticize the life’s of the dead just because they had a tragic end. I knew a girl that spent her life lying, stealing, and cheating everyone she came across and suddenly when she died everyone’s tune changed about her
Also that people just like the ✨️Idea ✨️ of a person they made up in their heads . I bet if they met that man for more than 2 mintues they would tell he's probably mentally off
I feel like it is very likely that he might have gone on that trail as a way of bettering himself. He likely had a lot of regrets, and while that may not excuse his past behaviour, it is a bit tragic that we will never know if he was bettering himself. People run off to find themselves all the time, and not everyone makes it back.
Anna’s smile is terrifying, I knew nothing about this case and usually watch true crime docs, and I was scared the whole time watching just because of her face and terrified at the end. She’s a jumpscare
I found the Mostly Harmless documentary ending so funny when I watched it. This big mystery of "who is this guy?!", "how does someone just disappear like that and not have anyone look for them?", "is he a tech genius to be able to pull that off??". No... turns out he's just an a$$hole so no one cared enough to look for him, lol
you don’t happen to be the woman i know, who literally always has a squirrel 🐿️ with her? sometimes even on a leash if not that then tucked away in a purse/bag or hoodie pocket?
"Tell them you love Me" was crazy because at the very end, two of Anna's colleges colleagues were STILL saying that they believed Anna was innocent. And yes they were both white women.
I bet you the reason why they didn’t put her to jail is because she’s an attractive looking white woman and people still don’t believe that women can be abusers themselves.
If you wanna imply that all white people are weirdo vegetable abusers just say so. This weak ass "hiding behind phrasing" tactic you people pull is just fucking pathetic to everyone else around you.
6:45 I like to think he had rails on the ceiling of his crawl space that he suspended himself from like a mission impossible movie so he could be jorkin it without being detected.
As someone who teaches music to students with disabilities I'm beyond disgusted by "Tell Them You Love Me" and there's no way I could watch. How could anyone do such a horrible thing 😢
Hearing and seeing again when that lady claimed Derrick was the one who was saying all that stuff, especially something like "not for naught" is just mind blowing. Like it's so obvious she was the one typing the whole time. Or when she said how he was just her type (what a coincidence). That documentary was just so....difficult to watch.
She also only assaulted him when she had him alone at her office. It clearly was a crime of opportunity and I really have to wonder if he's the only one she's done it to.
@@jojocaitlin8508 That's not a crime of opportunity, she is actively creating the scenario in which the crime is being perpetrated. A crime of opportunity would be she found him in her office naked and she just said "when in Rome."
My ex-gf’s mom was in the Buddha Field cult and she grew up around a lot of those folks. So many of those old footage clips took place in the backyard of her childhood home.
I have a PhD in counseling and that assisted communication one had me equal parts infuriated and heartbroken. Just sickening abuse and breach of all ethical standards. Absolutely disgusting.
@PanicGiraffe can yall quit infantilizing her the woman became blind and deaf after an illness she knew how to speak just fine she just lost the ability to see. Deaf people can have trouble pronouncing things.
There's a Polish documentary that's a few years old by this point about the exploitation of children in the catholic church. It's called "Tylko nie mów nikomu" by the Siekielski brothers. It's on youtube with subtitles in most languages, obviously including English. It's a bit amator-ish... Since it was made by amators, but it's really heartbreaking, and they clearly put a lot of effort into it.
I feel like the “Mostly Harmless” people thought they were making the next Into the Wild but had no idea what makes a story like that so impactful compelling or divisive
In reference to the third doc, my son is highly impacted by autism and has an AAC. It’s an iPad (but any tablet can be used) that has a software (in our case proloquo2go) to help communicate. My son is partially verbally, but we still encourage him to use it when overwhelmed or has trouble finding the words to express himself. It’s a great tool for kids to have and the school I work at (which is focused on being inclusive towards neurodivergent kids) has MANY kids that use an AAC to communicate. I’ve never seen facilitated communication because much like the studies found, I feel like the person helping could heavily influence the person/child as to what to type. As far as my son and the kids I work with, I’ve seen their communication skills grow with using an AAC. I’ve even been surprised with the things my son has typed on his own and the way he finds similar words to get his needs met or to request things.
autism is very much a spectrum disorder so no one can 100% compare but as a part time nonverbal i am forced to spend a lot of time in my own head so reading and watching others to learn new things. there is the one third who develops a comorbid intellectual disability that i definitely cant speak for since i dont have one. and everyone develops differently with being autistic (its not all just savants or ..the slur. yknow.) but i can definitely believe he would learn ways kinda overcompensate the ability to communicate i was young before these accessibility systems were starting to grow so i mostly learned to really facial expression and use traditional writing.
The mostly harmless guy was something a couple of RUclipsrs covered literally years ago I noticed they keep taking things that RUclipsrs have done better along time ago and turn them into soulless docomumtries.
what drove me nuts about "Tell Them You Love Me" is that I don't think the doc drove it home hard enough on just how bullshit facilitated communication is and always has been. It's straight up banned now, but even back then, it was considered a total pseudo-science. I think they left it on a note of too much nuance where there really is none.
So weird seeing the Anna Stubblefield case as a documentary now. When I was a philosophy student, it was like disabilities studies' dirty little secret
The only disturbing documentaries I can't make it through is about Romanian Orphanages in the 80s. Those are rough. Then again, more so for me, since I lived through that for 3 years from 88 to 91. Good times with PTSD.
Hey I'll trade. I never make it through docs about Residential "schools" in Canada. I never experienced it, the last one closed the year I was born, but I had many family members that I knew and respected in them. Generational trauma is a ride. I hope you're doing better now. I know childhood ptsd is... rough to say the least, but I wish you peace.
@@mapledrivesthings I'm doing great now, thank you. Moved to Mississippi 6 years, got two dogs, bought way too much house for one person, live by the gulf coast, have guns, have fun and I'm retired, so no real stress in my life. Edit: Interesting, might have to look up those docs. Never heard of those, just did a cursory search on them. For those that don't know, the US equivalent would be "Conversion Camps" for those of not straight persuasion but with Indigenous Canadians and lasting for a lot longer than a summer. Ironically, they were a "CONVERSION CAMP" of sorts too, basically denounce your ancestry and be more why te.
@@tdata545just so you know, the united states also had very similar federal institutions. their goal was forced assimilation for indigenous ppl, which is why so many indigenous languages have been lost to time. indigenous children were kidnapped and brought to these schools where abuse ran rampant & they were beaten for speaking their native languages. they were only ever taught trades and manual labor at these schools bc white ppl believed that’s what they were “good at” so they left with limited opportunities.
Omg that doc had me soooo frustrated and crying and upset. The people that got away but their children still being there + the leader still running things from prison is just so irritating
Nobody is more deserving of 1 million. Been around since 200k. You’re hilarious dude. From your videos on movies to your FIRE sponsor segments. You’ve grown so much. From the bottom of my heart as a fan and fellow creator. Fuck yeah. Congrats. 🎉
You saying you would rather watch the documentaries if they were made by Nexpo, Nick Crowley, ReignBot etc. made me realize how tired I’ve grown of the “Netflix model.” Overly dramatized with a million interviews and a minimum of four one hour long episodes. Wendigoon would have banged that out in 45 minutes and been much more engaging
My aunt had severe Cerebral Palsy that over time took her ability to speak. The mere thought of someone doing to her what was done to Derek is distressing and terrifying!! I can’t imagine the pain he and his family went through and the fact the documentary gave that sick, twisted woman the time of day is insane!
Oh I watched a documentary about facilitated communication and it is so sad because these essentially snake oil salesmen, convinced families that they changeable to communicate with their loved one is so sick to me. There was even one point in the documentary where a girl accused her dad of M.ing her because the facilitated communicator said that was what the daughter was writing,the dad had to go to jail for a bit but it turned out it wasn't true. Sorry I work in the special education field and this stuff makes me mad
That's sick. Why would anyone want to do that? Like, did they just think, "Yeah, you look the part," and push for it, or did they think they were onto something?
It's like these people want a purpose so bad and so they create this narrative that makes them the hero. It's a strange savior complex. No need to apologize, it's infuriating.
For “tell them you love me”, I read a book called “ghost boy” by Martin Pistorius and he was also nonverbal and had to use the same device (at the start). It’s a great book to read. Because Derrick had not shown any signs of his poetic knowledge and full vocabulary to anyone else but her. The stories are similar but Martin Pistorius had a more joyful ending…
1. Congrats on 1 million subs! 2. This is probably my favourite series you do and, my excitement is through the roof lol. I get why you don't do it often but, I always appreciate it when you do.
HUGE CONGRATS ON HITTING 1 MILLION!! Those that havent subscribed to you are honestly missing out. You (and one other youtuber) are the only ones that make me smile like a doofus or straight up laugh out loud. On a sad note: I noticed you 2 years ago when i had horrible insomnia. I would be up 7 days and then sleep on the 8th day and it went on like that for a month a half before i was able to find a sleeping pill. I binge watched all your videos and I fell in love with your humor and authenticity in your work (+ point youre very good looking). Im health is only deteriorating and im "just" 30 years old. I have no cure for any of my many chronic illnesses (except insomnia but i really should get off the meds). Today i was diagnosed with a new illness CPTSD. Either way, i just saw you made my favorite video (when you talk about documentaries) and i know im going to have a good night because of this. Last but not leastly, is there anyway if you could do a video on "6 schizophrenic brothers", its honestly a pretty sad documentary and id love to watch it but its with some subscription that i dont have. You dont have to, its just a suggestion. Keep up the amazing work and thank you so much for keeping my crazy ass happy and sane with your videos !!!
Also very minute fun fact regarding the third doc, AACs are actually quite common in the severely autistic community now! I used to work with a lot of young ones that used what were essentially iPads with pictures on them to communicate. It's absolutely incredible. Edit: An AAC device isn't necessarily what was described in this video. Please see the replies to this comment for further info.
They are fantastic! When i lived in hawaii i volunteered to teach special needs children how to surf. They were extremely helpful in communication. It was amazing, i genuinely miss it.
My 7 year old nephew has autism and is nonverbal. His ipad has changed his (& our family's) entire life! It's incredible how much it helped him to open up ❤
that is so true, i use a small version of one for my autism that has basic phrases for if i have verbal shutdowns! however the technique used here is different, she would literally be holding and moving his arm. the idea being that she would respond to his movements but clearly she didn’t
@@onyxtelfer3070 Seconding (thirding?) this. The weird version, "facilitated communication" (that was most likely wishful thinking) had "facilitators" claiming that by holding a non-communicative person by the elbow they could suddenly type words out on a paper keyboard, but only when certain people with highly specialized training were the ones holding it for them. That doesn't have much in common with modern AAC (Augmentative and Alternative Communication) devices, where people who have difficulty communicating in verbal English but are actively trying to communicate can point to, touch, or hand over cards that contain clear symbols, and/or apps that allow the person to independently work out what they want to say ahead of time and then trigger it themselves at the appropriate moment. Those are undisputedly awesome, work incredibly well, and are good for everything from speech disorders to sign language beginners to language barriers to just being in a loud place and needing to communicate a simple idea. As someone with above-average verbal skills, I installed an AAC app on my phone solely to help a relative with stress-related mutism but since then I've discovered its been a great tool for me, too. You never know when being able to rapidly display the international symbol for "bathroom" next to a question mark without having to say a word is going to come in clutch! tl;dr - Modern AAC/Talking Boards aren't what was in that documentary. They're something different and much cooler, and you should consider getting a free one for your phone just in case.
CONGRATS ON THE 1 MILI! Been a sub since the 300k days, and there's no body that deserves it more than you considering the effort that goes into your videos!
Facilitated communication was featured in Angie Kim's novel, "Happiness Falls". It's a great book. There's a scene where the main character has flashbacks of this communication therapy her little brother -- who has Angelman Syndrome. After their dad tried to get the therapist to replicate these fantastic communication results without guidance, the therapist is outed as a fake and she's fired. The scene gives a lot of context surrounding the dynamics of the family, especially between the mom and the dad (which becomes relevant when the dad goes missing, yada yada). I recommend you read the book, it's very good.
Do you mean Angelman Syndrome? Engelmann Syndrome is listed as a bone disease when I looked it up, while Angelman Syndrome mentioned speech and development delays.
"Started out chirpin, now they raven" is an absolutely fire line! Sometimes I just about enjoy the sponsor segments more than the vids, man! And congats on the one mill!!!
Honestly i feel like most disturbing documentaries don't even care about the people there talking about and just go for shock value. Congratulations on 1 Mil GG
Seeing the 1M next to your channel name makes me so incredibly happy. I've been with this channel since before the Catch a Predator series, and seeing the growth and love put in every single video makes me so incredibly happy. Love you GG, please continue making content that you love.
Fun fact, EWU and Mr Ballen both did talk about the Mostly Harmless story. That’s actually how I heard of it. And yes, it is more interesting on their channels.
FINALLY WE GOT 1 MILLI!!! I’ve been with you since 100k when I randomly got recommended one of the eps from the TCAP chronicles! Been loving your stuff since that day and you 100% earned this!!! Love ya, GG! Big congrats!!!
LETS GOOOO 1MILLL. I knew this was gonna come when I first started watching you. I was shocked that you didn’t have more subs as your channel was different from most. Glad your getting the recognition you deserve.
Weird that your "secret obsession" video brought me to your channel a while ago and now you're at a million subs. Such a dumbass film brought me to one of my favorite (and one of the most talented) creators on the platform. You absolutely deserve it man, keep up the great work.
Regarding Derrick being nonverbal and the abuse of supposed language therapy, my younger brother had severe autism and was nonverbal and we tried for decades to find some means of communication but beyond some very simple commands he never spoke. Around the same time was the famous Koko the gorilla experiments and eventually we would find those experiments were also falsified and biased because Koko's main caretaker seemed to be the only one to illicit any statements from her (also, she also had a weird sexual thing claiming Koko wanted to see other women's breasts?). Other experiments like Nim Chimpsky debunked this idea of elevated speech in these animals: while they may give commands wanting something, these were purely utilitarian and never was there anything like expressing observations or empathizing with their handler, no one was having casual conversation and the only thing would be simple task-reward statements like saying "want orange" would result in getting food. Just like my brother. While he expressed things like happiness, frustration, and while he would say "I want soda" he would never just talk or even *say* what he was feeling (he would hollar when happy, scream when angry). These studies with animals discuss that non-utilitarian conversation really seems to be a unique trait of humans and our signature form of socialization. Others don't have that function and in people like my brother and possibly Derrick while they have still have that higher function of thinking they lack the ability to be advanced in their expression, a developmental disfunction. My brother may have had thoughts, he loved certain shows and food and places to visit, but he lacked any motivation to say anything other than "I want this". I think it's a fascinating explain of neuroscience and and speech therapy, but it also sickens me to see those who exploit these people just as they're were snake oil salesmen who offered false hope to my family. I wish only the best for this man and his family
Honestly I did almost turn Tell Them You Love Me off. But you were right, it just all came at you at once. It left me feeling so damn angry. Also CONGRATS ON A MILLION, GG!
I was just looking at your distrubing movies/documentaries series thinking it would be amazing to get another one and here we are. Also Congratulations on 1M man, if anyone on this platform deserves the love its you
Been going through and having a rough week. Rewatching a bunch of you videos has helped tremendously. And having a new one really helps too. Congrats on the 1 mil 😊
The Mostly Harmless doc reminds me of a story I read waaaay back in school about a town by the ocean where a dead body washes up one day and over the course of the day, the entire town becomes completely enamored with the fantasy of this dead stranger. They name him Esteban and mourn him, like he was a favorite town son, they have a funeral, I think they even marry a woman to him post-humusly so he'll have a widow. People are weird, man.
3:06 Never heard of this film but since I was a kid I'd have nightmares and be scared to look into vents to see eyes meeting my gaze same with dense tree lines then boom you see a person staring right at you. 😵💫😩😭
Congratulations on 1 MIL GG!! What makes it even more special is you got to this level by making videos you genuinely enjoy. Your hard work is very clear to see and I'm glad it paid off. Awesome job, GG!
congrats on 1mil mista gg. this series and your movie commentary is how i found you like idk a year ago. super happy to see this series brought back on 1mil. here's to getting bigger than mista beast :)
I’m a family support specialist and work with youth with a variety of disabilities. All of my clients are non-verbal and require assistance technology to communicate. I have seen firsthand how facilitated communication doesn’t work. I’m sure there are a handful of people it has worked for, but it’s junk science for the vast majority. There is almost always facilitator bias.
You ain’t had 1M subs??? Genuinely so shocked, been a fan for probably 3-4 years now and I love to see one of my favorite content creators reaching that elusive 1M, great job GG!
Congrats on 1 million!!!! You deserve it plus more. I’ve been a silent fan for a hot minute and can definitely say your content has gotten me through tough times. Keep up the great work!
GG I'm so hecking proud of you my boi!! I've been around since your first disturbing movie video and always tuned in to watch your vids since! Congrats on 1million subs!!
Congrats Mista GG!! Been watching for years and still watching the ‘Predator chronicles almost on the daily, and all your ‘film critic’ movies. You’re hilarious af!
It's 430am and the pic of John Quinones inside the vent just made me cackle, waking my husband 😂 first time stumbling upon this channel & instantly hooked!
Congratulations on 1M! Love seeing new videos up. I justed watched Tell Them You Love Me not knowing what the heck it was. I was shocked and curious if anyone else has heard of it.
Congratulations! Been a fan and watching for years, love all your videos they always genuinely interest me or make me laugh, appreciate your content, very well deserved
Congratulations on the Million followers! I’m so happy you were randomly suggested to me one day 🤗 I love the little dance breaks I can always take on your ad reads! Sometimes I even get them stuck in my head 🤩
Here’s an idea, how about, “I watched 4 movies that everyone loved, and I hated”. One movie I think you would hate that was recent, is furiosa, the action is good and story is excellent, but the last 20 ish minutes is filled with cuts of a great battle that you don’t see, a voice over, and unsatisfied ending
CONGRATS ON 1 MIL. Mama’s balloons were on point. If anyone is interested in the story of mostly harmless but doesn’t want to watch a doc full of people who were weirdly obsessed with this man, the RUclips channel Kyle hates hiking has a great video about it.
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Congratulations on the 1 million baby! ❤❤❤😂❤❤❤
I’m going to real man I honestly thought I had sub to you a while ago but I never got a video form you so I kinda forgot about you but you had shown up on my feed luckily to say I’m now sub to you congratulations. 🎉🍾🎈🎊
congrats on 1m man, well deserved!!
0:46 Yuh Yuh Yuh Yuh Yuh Yuh 😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎
i really enjoyed & agreed with your takes .
Those balloons from your mom have this vibe of "I don't get what the hell you do, but I'm proud of you" 🥺
I believe that vibe is called "pure, unconditional love of a parent". So wholesome and awesome.
Thought the same "all I know is my baby is happy" energy 😭
Most parents reaction to if their kids are successful online I'd imagine 😅
lol my thoughts exactly. Very cute parental behavior
"you're special" 😂
The thing that pissed me off about "Tell Them You Love Me" is that they gave as much credence to the CRIMINAL as they did to the family. On episode one of the series I said out loud "Oh nahh this b!tch did somethin..." but the doc is so focused on portraying "both sides" that by the end they're trying to make you feel bad for HER because now she can't get a job. I had to google more about it to discover that Derek was in DIAPERS that she had to remove to assault him multiple times. Sister, eughhhhh. She a FAN who needa stay her ass inside (prison).
1000% the fact that she only served 2 years makes me so sad and angry!
Not only that, but assisted communication in regards to holding someone's hand to guide them on a communication device is not something that pretty much any institution in the US allows nowadays. I work with disabled people (physical and intellectual of a wide variety and all ages) and that's something that you outright could be fired for if you did at any of the programs I worked with because it can be so exploitable. You can do hand over hand for activities (coloring or cooking or whatever) but NEVER core communication.
There are other communication devices that could've worked for Derrick. I had a client at my previous day program who was also physically unsteady, so she had a device that scrolled through different words and said them quietly off of a speaker right next to her ear, and when she heard a word she wanted to use she hit a big red button and it would say the word louder for the people around her to hear. She had hundreds of words to express things and she only needed to hit a big red button with any part of her body to speak. This lady just has no clue what the resources actually are and yet she poses herself (and the documentary poses her) like she's an incredibly informed person and she just isn't.
Even though what she did was unfathomably vile (so vile I'm not sure I can make it through this review tbh) I kinda appreciate that they let her incriminate herself so much. Saying she and Derrick had these lavish and extensive conversations when he just didn't have those capabilities. They allowed her to out herself.
I had this exact same issue with it!! They gave the criminal too much of a voice to the point that she could try to gaslight people into thinking what she did was acceptable. I’ll never understand how the fuck she managed to be let off. The system fucking failed him so badly.
I am shaking with rage that this happened. She “fell in love” with an idealized version of HERSELF that she projected onto Derek after doing whatever she could to claw what existing identity he had away from him…that is in at least the top three most awful crimes that I have heard of this nature.
I have a sibling who is disabled and non-verbal and I cannot overstate how easy it can be to exploit parents who just want the best for their disabled children. My parents fell for the false hope peddled by quacks and snake oil salesmen more than once. The only good thing that came from it was that I grew up to be a total skeptic and have since helped others to see these predators for what they are.
I can't tell you how many parents I've seen via the clients at my programs for disabled individuals who are struggling so much harder than they have to be because some trash human sold them on the idea of an MLM (pyramid scheme) being the way they're going to be able to provide for their kid, or alternatively, suddenly have the products to "fix" them (Herbal Life and Doterra and other products that make illegal medical claims are so bad about this and it's so horrid because so many of the product cause outright harm, especially to individuals who are sensitive to so many of these things that you and I might brush off and be fine with).
Yeah this is going to sound sort of like less important because I don’t have any learning disabilities But I tried that TMS treatment for depression Where they attach electrodes to the outside of your head and it just does something every 60 seconds for an hour And you do like 24 sessions It’s NOT like electro shock therapy at all But basically at the end I was like “I feel no different” and they were like well it takes some belief that it worked And I was like okay someone needs to shut this down now That’s called a placebo effect Now apparently they have tons of data and tons of happy patients but I fear it’s just a lot of people who believed so hard that they were able to convince themselves, and therefore made the depression better Which is a placebo effect But I did very well in school I’m more intelligent than the average person And I’m very introspective So I think it was going to take actual changes to cure or help my depression And they told me it does not provide “actual changes” I was like how did you guys con the government or whatever to allow this.
It does seem like it could work because it’s quite involved And when I heard that it would involve electrodes and I would actually feel small sensations during the session Of course I was like “hmm Maybe this can work”
But no it’s just BS I mean if it worked we really wouldn’t need 300 different anti depressants
10% of people over 65 have Alzheimer’s and we dedicate so much money and time and research to making the 301st anti depressant It’s ridiculous
They should be forced to come up with a good treatment for Alzheimer’s before continuing with anti depressant research. There are enough of them.
Also the fact that they advertise pharmaceuticals on TV is a whole other issue. We, as consumers, can not purchase them. So they should be disallowed. Show the presentations to doctors but the fact that our TV is plastered with medications that a person cannot buy on their own should tell us how corrupt the pharmaceutical industry is right now.
Only gonna get much worse in November when our new president hires his friend the con man (pick one) to head up the FDA
Me too!
@@WdawgSmithI can agree with you on everything, but stopping any depression research in favor of really anything is not it. Neurological research can’t just be traded around. For simplicity’s sake; if there’s researchers versed in depression they’re not gonna do well researching Alzheimer’s, these people and tests cants just be swapped over to another brain issue. Also, I’m pretty sure the people that have depression make up more of the population than 10% of people over 65, which doesn’t denote importance but it DOES require urgency that stopping testing will not provide. Everything else you’ve said tho, again, I completely agree
@@WdawgSmith
i understand why a placebo affect technique may seem like a scam but i disagree that it should be stopped.
the brain is a really powerful thing and in a lot of cases placebo affects are prioritised as a treatment because they’re a version of treatment that has absolutely no side affects and so no one get hurt. i know it may feel more comfortable to have a purely medical treatment but messing with the body when there’s an option not to only ever leads to side affects that people don’t want or need. medicine can cause allergic reactions, emotional dysfunction, lack of proper hormone production, and worse case scenario the patient could die so from that perspective a treatment where the patient is tricked into essentially healing themselves is the best case.
these treatments are also used more commonly than people think. examples of placebo effect treatment include pain medication which is often replace with sweets for children so that the brain will lessen the pain by itself (unless it’s something serious). i’ve even heard that certain types of depression medication were found to be useless as a hormone that had previously thought to be connected to depression was found to not have that connection, so the only resulting treatment was due to placebo. this is helpful because too much hormone medication can actually lead to that hormone no longer being naturally produced and so the person becomes reliant on treatment. placebo obviously doesn’t do this.
fun fact: there’s a type of seizures that are essentially the result of the brain going into a highly stressful/traumatic mode and deciding to force the body into a seizure (these are often found with people who have seen epileptic seizures consistently in their life through a relative/friend with epilepsy). the only found treatment for this was hypnotism (i believe this was founded with freud) as it is a purely cognitive issue with no biological reasoning (while epilepsy has biological components and so can be controlled somewhat). unfortunately this practice was banned as doctors are not allowed to lie to their patients. so patients who experience this are essentially told that they have to go home and hope it doesn’t happen again (though i believe knowing that it’s all in your head does a lot to help stop it). idk if this has been changed in recent years as the book i first read about this in was from the 80’s (i think?) but it’s interesting nonetheless.
i’ve only skimmed through your comment so excuse me if i misrepresent any anything. i’m sorry if i ranted lol.
tl;dr : placebo treatments are actually quite affective and are often the best treatment possible.
EDIT: i reread your comment and i just wanted to say a few more things (sorry).
1) neuroscience research into forgetting is REALLY complicated so it isn’t very easy to do research into cures. the main reason (at least from what i’ve read, i’m not an expert) is because we have very little knowledge into how memory works and which areas of the brain are involved. there are general ideas of how memory works (e.g. the working memory model) but attempting to link this to an area more specific than just the hippocampus for example (if you want more info look up “HM case study”) is hard to pinpoint. it’s even hard to try and “fix” them. depression is mainly a hormone based illness which is significantly easier to directly fix as it has less to do with brain areas and more about hormone deficiency which is easily changed through chemicals in drugs (like SSRIs that encourage reuptake of serotonin).
2) banning those type of ads is mainly an american issue from what i’ve seen of other countries. i know where i live (england) nobody tries to advertise drugs to people directly, most likely because we have free healthcare so we get free/cheap drugs most of the time anyway.
sorry if this came off as preachy, i’m just very passionate about neuroscience as i want to do it for a degree :)))
22:43 that’s like Humbert Humbert dubbing Dolores Haze as “Lolita.” Just truly shows the possessiveness
Yes, it really is.
It truly is!
ngl finding out you have cancer and then spending your last days hiking sounds like such a peaceful way to go
Everyone hiking that trail has a STORY for sure, I ran into someone on the greyhound a few years ago that was making his way to the PCT trail after being released from jail and getting off of drugs. He said hiking that trail was the first thing he wanted to do after getting out besides seeing his son. I really hope he made it!!!
Ya as well as becoming a meth king pin ( no but seriously I would do that so I can die peacefully in nature )
Mostly harmless is such a good example of how we somehow romanticize the life’s of the dead just because they had a tragic end. I knew a girl that spent her life lying, stealing, and cheating everyone she came across and suddenly when she died everyone’s tune changed about her
Kinda like the movie Heathers!
I heard that, crazy cat lady.x
Also that people just like the ✨️Idea ✨️ of a person they made up in their heads .
I bet if they met that man for more than 2 mintues they would tell he's probably mentally off
I feel like it is very likely that he might have gone on that trail as a way of bettering himself. He likely had a lot of regrets, and while that may not excuse his past behaviour, it is a bit tragic that we will never know if he was bettering himself. People run off to find themselves all the time, and not everyone makes it back.
He was a sad sad strange little man
Early congrats on 2 million too dude, couldn’t happen to a more deserving creator
omg ur hidden
Wendigooner identified
Hard agree
What can you say about your fellow gooner who was in voyeur?
Such an honor to see a wild Wendi. 😮
They can't keep hiding all that cheese from the Loveland Frog...
The "Congrats" and "I Love You" balloons from your mom made me weirdly emotional 😭 Congrats man!!!
They are so so sweet T_T
@@lainiwakura666 what is mixed about it lol T_T is a crying face
Simp
@@Ninathedogloverwith the T the vertical lines are the eyes and the horizontal lines are the eyebrows T_T
@@kingcuttyyou talking to me? Im a woman T_T
Anna’s smile is terrifying, I knew nothing about this case and usually watch true crime docs, and I was scared the whole time watching just because of her face and terrified at the end. She’s a jumpscare
I found the Mostly Harmless documentary ending so funny when I watched it. This big mystery of "who is this guy?!", "how does someone just disappear like that and not have anyone look for them?", "is he a tech genius to be able to pull that off??". No... turns out he's just an a$$hole so no one cared enough to look for him, lol
HITTING ONE MILLION, POSTING ONE OF MY FAVORITE SERIES, AND WHOLESOME BALLOONS FROM MAMA GG? LETS FUCKIN GO
Congrats on 1 million George Lopez.
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thank you
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@@MistaGG Congrats on the 1M subs! Enjoy that play button!
Also, what brand weight rack is that in the background??
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Make that and one. I thought I was already subbed! ❤
Is this funny or is this racist
I started laughing at measuring weight by squirrels like i get the set up but i heard "anything other than the metric system" in my head
Ah I found the person who shared my thoughts 😆
you don’t happen to be the woman i know, who literally always has a squirrel 🐿️ with her?
sometimes even on a leash if not that then tucked away in a purse/bag or hoodie pocket?
That Tell Them You Love Me one is genuinely horrifying. Like, that woman is just straight up evil.
"Tell them you love Me" was crazy because at the very end, two of Anna's colleges colleagues were STILL saying that they believed Anna was innocent. And yes they were both white women.
Are you trying to make a point by specifying race and gender?
Damn, feels like birds of a complex are flocking together
I bet you the reason why they didn’t put her to jail is because she’s an attractive looking white woman and people still don’t believe that women can be abusers themselves.
If you wanna imply that all white people are weirdo vegetable abusers just say so. This weak ass "hiding behind phrasing" tactic you people pull is just fucking pathetic to everyone else around you.
Guess the "Bros be4 H0es" toxic behavior is not exclusive to men, huh.
6:45 I like to think he had rails on the ceiling of his crawl space that he suspended himself from like a mission impossible movie so he could be jorkin it without being detected.
Damn, who did this guy think he was…John Wank?
@@hansmatheson5976Your post is simply marvelous darling! 😘
I remember watching this-thinking yeah thats what ppl do nowadays - or- do they- jeah no nothing weird ....its ok.
I was thinking more like Sam Fischer from Splinter Cell like hes in full stealth suit and night vision goggles.
And by jorkin it, you mean... let's just say... well, his peanuts
As someone who teaches music to students with disabilities I'm beyond disgusted by "Tell Them You Love Me" and there's no way I could watch. How could anyone do such a horrible thing 😢
Yeah it's definitely not an easy watch, but a story that should be told. ❤ What a beautiful profession
@bex6638 it's heartbreaking to know what happened but important for future generations watch for potential predatory activities and what to look for
I'm confused😂 I thought it was a love story about some slow dude and girl who lets them be heard and they got together😂
@@stayy_pretty 😑
@@stayy_pretty wow haha, you're so funny omg slay, slay slay, go slay more. omg slay funny.
Hearing and seeing again when that lady claimed Derrick was the one who was saying all that stuff, especially something like "not for naught" is just mind blowing. Like it's so obvious she was the one typing the whole time. Or when she said how he was just her type (what a coincidence). That documentary was just so....difficult to watch.
She also only assaulted him when she had him alone at her office. It clearly was a crime of opportunity and I really have to wonder if he's the only one she's done it to.
Typical democrat. Claim you care about black people and then whammy. Sexual assault.
she basically created a fictional character slightly based on him and believed it was real, she’s disgusting
@@jojocaitlin8508 That's not a crime of opportunity, she is actively creating the scenario in which the crime is being perpetrated. A crime of opportunity would be she found him in her office naked and she just said "when in Rome."
It’s fricking twisted and sick, someone ever did that to a disabled relative of mine I would loose my mind.
My ex-gf’s mom was in the Buddha Field cult and she grew up around a lot of those folks. So many of those old footage clips took place in the backyard of her childhood home.
I have a PhD in counseling and that assisted communication one had me equal parts infuriated and heartbroken. Just sickening abuse and breach of all ethical standards. Absolutely disgusting.
I work in ABA and we teach functional communication. Facilitated communication is like Ouija boards & a complete sham!
This is what happened with Helen Keller.
@PanicGiraffe can yall quit infantilizing her the woman became blind and deaf after an illness she knew how to speak just fine she just lost the ability to see. Deaf people can have trouble pronouncing things.
@@elizabethgeorge168translation: i work in medical torture.
GG's mom getting him balloons is the real OG move
There's a Polish documentary that's a few years old by this point about the exploitation of children in the catholic church. It's called "Tylko nie mów nikomu" by the Siekielski brothers. It's on youtube with subtitles in most languages, obviously including English. It's a bit amator-ish... Since it was made by amators, but it's really heartbreaking, and they clearly put a lot of effort into it.
The technique in Tell Them You Love Me just sounds like a ouija board.
I feel like the “Mostly Harmless” people thought they were making the next Into the Wild but had no idea what makes a story like that so impactful compelling or divisive
Remember when you had like 60K, you pivoted and shifted into your own guy. Much respect and love GG congrats on the milly
In reference to the third doc, my son is highly impacted by autism and has an AAC. It’s an iPad (but any tablet can be used) that has a software (in our case proloquo2go) to help communicate. My son is partially verbally, but we still encourage him to use it when overwhelmed or has trouble finding the words to express himself. It’s a great tool for kids to have and the school I work at (which is focused on being inclusive towards neurodivergent kids) has MANY kids that use an AAC to communicate. I’ve never seen facilitated communication because much like the studies found, I feel like the person helping could heavily influence the person/child as to what to type. As far as my son and the kids I work with, I’ve seen their communication skills grow with using an AAC. I’ve even been surprised with the things my son has typed on his own and the way he finds similar words to get his needs met or to request things.
autism is very much a spectrum disorder so no one can 100% compare but as a part time nonverbal i am forced to spend a lot of time in my own head so reading and watching others to learn new things. there is the one third who develops a comorbid intellectual disability that i definitely cant speak for since i dont have one. and everyone develops differently with being autistic (its not all just savants or ..the slur. yknow.) but i can definitely believe he would learn ways kinda overcompensate the ability to communicate i was young before these accessibility systems were starting to grow so i mostly learned to really facial expression and use traditional writing.
@@the_homun_system I concur
The mostly harmless guy was something a couple of RUclipsrs covered literally years ago I noticed they keep taking things that RUclipsrs have done better along time ago and turn them into soulless docomumtries.
HBO max is a useless doc machine at this point
yeah i remember i saw it on EWU if im not mistaken like 2 years ago
what drove me nuts about "Tell Them You Love Me" is that I don't think the doc drove it home hard enough on just how bullshit facilitated communication is and always has been. It's straight up banned now, but even back then, it was considered a total pseudo-science. I think they left it on a note of too much nuance where there really is none.
So weird seeing the Anna Stubblefield case as a documentary now. When I was a philosophy student, it was like disabilities studies' dirty little secret
The only disturbing documentaries I can't make it through is about Romanian Orphanages in the 80s. Those are rough. Then again, more so for me, since I lived through that for 3 years from 88 to 91. Good times with PTSD.
Hey I'll trade. I never make it through docs about Residential "schools" in Canada. I never experienced it, the last one closed the year I was born, but I had many family members that I knew and respected in them. Generational trauma is a ride.
I hope you're doing better now. I know childhood ptsd is... rough to say the least, but I wish you peace.
@@mapledrivesthings I'm doing great now, thank you. Moved to Mississippi 6 years, got two dogs, bought way too much house for one person, live by the gulf coast, have guns, have fun and I'm retired, so no real stress in my life.
Edit: Interesting, might have to look up those docs. Never heard of those, just did a cursory search on them. For those that don't know, the US equivalent would be "Conversion Camps" for those of not straight persuasion but with Indigenous Canadians and lasting for a lot longer than a summer. Ironically, they were a "CONVERSION CAMP" of sorts too, basically denounce your ancestry and be more why te.
Yeah adoption stuff is still a no go for me
Same.
@@tdata545just so you know, the united states also had very similar federal institutions. their goal was forced assimilation for indigenous ppl, which is why so many indigenous languages have been lost to time. indigenous children were kidnapped and brought to these schools where abuse ran rampant & they were beaten for speaking their native languages. they were only ever taught trades and manual labor at these schools bc white ppl believed that’s what they were “good at” so they left with limited opportunities.
Watched you since you were posting TCAP. Congrats on a million!
You are not wrong about Keep Sweet, Pray, and Obey. Absolute madness.
Omg that doc had me soooo frustrated and crying and upset. The people that got away but their children still being there + the leader still running things from prison is just so irritating
Nobody is more deserving of 1 million. Been around since 200k. You’re hilarious dude. From your videos on movies to your FIRE sponsor segments. You’ve grown so much. From the bottom of my heart as a fan and fellow creator. Fuck yeah. Congrats. 🎉
You saying you would rather watch the documentaries if they were made by Nexpo, Nick Crowley, ReignBot etc. made me realize how tired I’ve grown of the “Netflix model.” Overly dramatized with a million interviews and a minimum of four one hour long episodes. Wendigoon would have banged that out in 45 minutes and been much more engaging
My aunt had severe Cerebral Palsy that over time took her ability to speak. The mere thought of someone doing to her what was done to Derek is distressing and terrifying!! I can’t imagine the pain he and his family went through and the fact the documentary gave that sick, twisted woman the time of day is insane!
Oh I watched a documentary about facilitated communication and it is so sad because these essentially snake oil salesmen, convinced families that they changeable to communicate with their loved one is so sick to me. There was even one point in the documentary where a girl accused her dad of M.ing her because the facilitated communicator said that was what the daughter was writing,the dad had to go to jail for a bit but it turned out it wasn't true. Sorry I work in the special education field and this stuff makes me mad
That's sick. Why would anyone want to do that? Like, did they just think, "Yeah, you look the part," and push for it, or did they think they were onto something?
@@SaintShion I wondered the same thing when I saw it
It's like these people want a purpose so bad and so they create this narrative that makes them the hero. It's a strange savior complex.
No need to apologize, it's infuriating.
@@bex6638 Some people just want to watch lives burn down around them too.
For “tell them you love me”, I read a book called “ghost boy” by Martin Pistorius and he was also nonverbal and had to use the same device (at the start). It’s a great book to read. Because Derrick had not shown any signs of his poetic knowledge and full vocabulary to anyone else but her.
The stories are similar but Martin Pistorius had a more joyful ending…
Congrats on the milliion subs! You deserve every one of them. Thanks for all these 7-8 years uploading awesome content 💙
thank you for sticking around so long and all the support! appreciate it!
[21:00] Its not mentioned in this documentary, but she has to remove his diaper to proceed with the act. His diaper.
Knowing he’s a serial abuser, calling himself “mostly harmless” is very ominous
I bet you're legitimately one of the only content creators on YT whose brand deal skits people don't skip thru
No for real! I forgot it was an ad 😂
SAME!
i skipped cause they’re annoying
1st thing I did was skip
This guy and internet comment etiquette have the best ads for sure
"I didn't get picked! Did you? 😂😂😂
1. Congrats on 1 million subs!
2. This is probably my favourite series you do and, my excitement is through the roof lol. I get why you don't do it often but, I always appreciate it when you do.
I remember an old Law and Order episode from the 90s about a facilitated communication.
Congratulations 1M! It’s well deserved. 💖
HUGE CONGRATS ON HITTING 1 MILLION!! Those that havent subscribed to you are honestly missing out. You (and one other youtuber) are the only ones that make me smile like a doofus or straight up laugh out loud.
On a sad note: I noticed you 2 years ago when i had horrible insomnia. I would be up 7 days and then sleep on the 8th day and it went on like that for a month a half before i was able to find a sleeping pill. I binge watched all your videos and I fell in love with your humor and authenticity in your work (+ point youre very good looking).
Im health is only deteriorating and im "just" 30 years old. I have no cure for any of my many chronic illnesses (except insomnia but i really should get off the meds). Today i was diagnosed with a new illness CPTSD.
Either way, i just saw you made my favorite video (when you talk about documentaries) and i know im going to have a good night because of this.
Last but not leastly, is there anyway if you could do a video on "6 schizophrenic brothers", its honestly a pretty sad documentary and id love to watch it but its with some subscription that i dont have.
You dont have to, its just a suggestion.
Keep up the amazing work and thank you so much for keeping my crazy ass happy and sane with your videos !!!
Also very minute fun fact regarding the third doc, AACs are actually quite common in the severely autistic community now! I used to work with a lot of young ones that used what were essentially iPads with pictures on them to communicate. It's absolutely incredible.
Edit: An AAC device isn't necessarily what was described in this video. Please see the replies to this comment for further info.
They are fantastic! When i lived in hawaii i volunteered to teach special needs children how to surf. They were extremely helpful in communication. It was amazing, i genuinely miss it.
My 7 year old nephew has autism and is nonverbal. His ipad has changed his (& our family's) entire life! It's incredible how much it helped him to open up ❤
that is so true, i use a small version of one for my autism that has basic phrases for if i have verbal shutdowns! however the technique used here is different, she would literally be holding and moving his arm. the idea being that she would respond to his movements but clearly she didn’t
@@onyxtelfer3070 Seconding (thirding?) this. The weird version, "facilitated communication" (that was most likely wishful thinking) had "facilitators" claiming that by holding a non-communicative person by the elbow they could suddenly type words out on a paper keyboard, but only when certain people with highly specialized training were the ones holding it for them.
That doesn't have much in common with modern AAC (Augmentative and Alternative Communication) devices, where people who have difficulty communicating in verbal English but are actively trying to communicate can point to, touch, or hand over cards that contain clear symbols, and/or apps that allow the person to independently work out what they want to say ahead of time and then trigger it themselves at the appropriate moment.
Those are undisputedly awesome, work incredibly well, and are good for everything from speech disorders to sign language beginners to language barriers to just being in a loud place and needing to communicate a simple idea.
As someone with above-average verbal skills, I installed an AAC app on my phone solely to help a relative with stress-related mutism but since then I've discovered its been a great tool for me, too. You never know when being able to rapidly display the international symbol for "bathroom" next to a question mark without having to say a word is going to come in clutch!
tl;dr - Modern AAC/Talking Boards aren't what was in that documentary. They're something different and much cooler, and you should consider getting a free one for your phone just in case.
@@txvj exactly! this is such a great description of AAC and how helpful it is!
CONGRATS ON THE 1 MILI! Been a sub since the 300k days, and there's no body that deserves it more than you considering the effort that goes into your videos!
I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS LET'S FUCKING GO
Facilitated communication was featured in Angie Kim's novel, "Happiness Falls". It's a great book. There's a scene where the main character has flashbacks of this communication therapy her little brother -- who has Angelman Syndrome. After their dad tried to get the therapist to replicate these fantastic communication results without guidance, the therapist is outed as a fake and she's fired. The scene gives a lot of context surrounding the dynamics of the family, especially between the mom and the dad (which becomes relevant when the dad goes missing, yada yada). I recommend you read the book, it's very good.
Do you mean Angelman Syndrome? Engelmann Syndrome is listed as a bone disease when I looked it up, while Angelman Syndrome mentioned speech and development delays.
@@therealCrazyJake yes I did! Sorry about that, I'll correct it now
Its crazy I never realized you werent at 1 million. Should be way more man!
Also congrats! Haha
"Started out chirpin, now they raven" is an absolutely fire line! Sometimes I just about enjoy the sponsor segments more than the vids, man!
And congats on the one mill!!!
Honestly i feel like most disturbing documentaries don't even care about the people there talking about and just go for shock value.
Congratulations on 1 Mil GG
6:08 that is fade flashback is the face of man WHO HAS QUALITY TESTED THE MACHINE HE SHOWS OFF LIKE A FREAKING GAME SHOW HOST GIVING AWAY A NEW CAR
Proud of you, homie. Been here since TCAP and I’ve seen how you’ve evolved. A milli’s just the start, my dude. Keep at it. 💚
Seeing the 1M next to your channel name makes me so incredibly happy. I've been with this channel since before the Catch a Predator series, and seeing the growth and love put in every single video makes me so incredibly happy. Love you GG, please continue making content that you love.
Fun fact, EWU and Mr Ballen both did talk about the Mostly Harmless story. That’s actually how I heard of it.
And yes, it is more interesting on their channels.
FINALLY WE GOT 1 MILLI!!! I’ve been with you since 100k when I randomly got recommended one of the eps from the TCAP chronicles! Been loving your stuff since that day and you 100% earned this!!! Love ya, GG! Big congrats!!!
Watching GG talking and laughing is so funny and refreshing, like having a friend
LETS GOOOO 1MILLL. I knew this was gonna come when I first started watching you. I was shocked that you didn’t have more subs as your channel was different from most. Glad your getting the recognition you deserve.
Weird that your "secret obsession" video brought me to your channel a while ago and now you're at a million subs. Such a dumbass film brought me to one of my favorite (and one of the most talented) creators on the platform. You absolutely deserve it man, keep up the great work.
Regarding Derrick being nonverbal and the abuse of supposed language therapy, my younger brother had severe autism and was nonverbal and we tried for decades to find some means of communication but beyond some very simple commands he never spoke. Around the same time was the famous Koko the gorilla experiments and eventually we would find those experiments were also falsified and biased because Koko's main caretaker seemed to be the only one to illicit any statements from her (also, she also had a weird sexual thing claiming Koko wanted to see other women's breasts?). Other experiments like Nim Chimpsky debunked this idea of elevated speech in these animals: while they may give commands wanting something, these were purely utilitarian and never was there anything like expressing observations or empathizing with their handler, no one was having casual conversation and the only thing would be simple task-reward statements like saying "want orange" would result in getting food.
Just like my brother.
While he expressed things like happiness, frustration, and while he would say "I want soda" he would never just talk or even *say* what he was feeling (he would hollar when happy, scream when angry). These studies with animals discuss that non-utilitarian conversation really seems to be a unique trait of humans and our signature form of socialization. Others don't have that function and in people like my brother and possibly Derrick while they have still have that higher function of thinking they lack the ability to be advanced in their expression, a developmental disfunction. My brother may have had thoughts, he loved certain shows and food and places to visit, but he lacked any motivation to say anything other than "I want this".
I think it's a fascinating explain of neuroscience and and speech therapy, but it also sickens me to see those who exploit these people just as they're were snake oil salesmen who offered false hope to my family. I wish only the best for this man and his family
Honestly I did almost turn Tell Them You Love Me off. But you were right, it just all came at you at once. It left me feeling so damn angry. Also CONGRATS ON A MILLION, GG!
CONGRATS I've been watching you for years now! So happy to have been seeing your subscribers climb overtime, hopefully many more milestones to come!
How do I say this without being mean? The Facebook mods are exactly who you would expect them to be.
Congrats on a million!!!
Awww! The balloons from your mamma! 🥰 Congrats on 1mil, you deserve it!! Here’s to 2mil!! 🥂
I was just looking at your distrubing movies/documentaries series thinking it would be amazing to get another one and here we are. Also Congratulations on 1M man, if anyone on this platform deserves the love its you
Been going through and having a rough week. Rewatching a bunch of you videos has helped tremendously. And having a new one really helps too. Congrats on the 1 mil 😊
The Mostly Harmless doc reminds me of a story I read waaaay back in school about a town by the ocean where a dead body washes up one day and over the course of the day, the entire town becomes completely enamored with the fantasy of this dead stranger. They name him Esteban and mourn him, like he was a favorite town son, they have a funeral, I think they even marry a woman to him post-humusly so he'll have a widow. People are weird, man.
3:06 Never heard of this film but since I was a kid I'd have nightmares and be scared to look into vents to see eyes meeting my gaze same with dense tree lines then boom you see a person staring right at you. 😵💫😩😭
SAME but not with vents just the trees and open doors
Congratulations on 1 MIL GG!! What makes it even more special is you got to this level by making videos you genuinely enjoy. Your hard work is very clear to see and I'm glad it paid off. Awesome job, GG!
congrats on 1mil mista gg. this series and your movie commentary is how i found you like idk a year ago. super happy to see this series brought back on 1mil. here's to getting bigger than mista beast :)
I still have our emails from when u had around 3k subs.. I'm so proud of u man, keep it going ❤
I’m a family support specialist and work with youth with a variety of disabilities. All of my clients are non-verbal and require assistance technology to communicate. I have seen firsthand how facilitated communication doesn’t work. I’m sure there are a handful of people it has worked for, but it’s junk science for the vast majority. There is almost always facilitator bias.
You ain’t had 1M subs??? Genuinely so shocked, been a fan for probably 3-4 years now and I love to see one of my favorite content creators reaching that elusive 1M, great job GG!
omg congrats on 1mil!! definitely deserved
Congrats on 1 million!!!! You deserve it plus more. I’ve been a silent fan for a hot minute and can definitely say your content has gotten me through tough times. Keep up the great work!
9:30 bottle of lotion by his recliner
and fuckin toilet paper 🤢☠️
What Vouyer taught me - If you love what you do, you never work a day in your life.
Seriously, the sponsor songs you hit us with are just fire, I love them. Big grats on 1M subs too, well deserved! Mom’s balloon is adorable ❤
GG I'm so hecking proud of you my boi!! I've been around since your first disturbing movie video and always tuned in to watch your vids since! Congrats on 1million subs!!
Congrats Mista GG!! Been watching for years and still watching the ‘Predator chronicles almost on the daily, and all your ‘film critic’ movies. You’re hilarious af!
It's 430am and the pic of John Quinones inside the vent just made me cackle, waking my husband 😂 first time stumbling upon this channel & instantly hooked!
Well done on the 1m.... its always interesting to see 'smaller' channels growing, great content and well presented... keep on keeping on...!!!
Congratulations on 1M! Love seeing new videos up. I justed watched Tell Them You Love Me not knowing what the heck it was. I was shocked and curious if anyone else has heard of it.
So freaking proud of you! Congratulations!
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Congrats on 1 mil! You look incredible lately GG keep it up man. And your vocal mixing has improved alot.
congrats on 1mil papa, been watching for so long and you seem like such a genuine person who deserves all of this ❤
Happy million, I’m proud of you, I’ve been watching your videos when you started these watching disturbing films and I’m glad I found your channel
CONGRATSSS!!!!
Congratulations! Been a fan and watching for years, love all your videos they always genuinely interest me or make me laugh, appreciate your content, very well deserved
Thanks!
Congrats GG! Been watching for years now glad your channel is getting the traction it deserves!
3:10 had me cryin😭
Congratulations on the Million followers! I’m so happy you were randomly suggested to me one day 🤗
I love the little dance breaks I can always take on your ad reads! Sometimes I even get them stuck in my head 🤩
So Anna is pure evil. If that was my child, oh Anna.
If that was my child, Anna wouldve never made it to sentencing
2:29 not the CBAT song 💀
Your sponsor songs be hittin! Keep up the great work! Congratulations on a milli! Cheers to a million more!
Ayye congrats on the milli bro. Youre one of my favorite creators.
Here’s an idea, how about, “I watched 4 movies that everyone loved, and I hated”. One movie I think you would hate that was recent, is furiosa, the action is good and story is excellent, but the last 20 ish minutes is filled with cuts of a great battle that you don’t see, a voice over, and unsatisfied ending
I went to see Furiosa for my birthday. It was so awful. Just absolutely awful.
CONGRATS ON 1 MIL. Mama’s balloons were on point.
If anyone is interested in the story of mostly harmless but doesn’t want to watch a doc full of people who were weirdly obsessed with this man, the RUclips channel Kyle hates hiking has a great video about it.