My Problem with Aba & Preach

Hi, a few months ago a YouTube channel

called Abba and Preach made a video about

me, and I haven't actually made an

official reaction to this video about me

because I wasn't really gonna make a fuss

about it up until now. At first I didn't

really feel like responding to it because

they were reacting to one of my videos

from 4 years ago, so it's quite a long

time. I don't really care about what I

said in a video 4 years ago, and in

general most of the video was fine, but

there were just a few points they kept

making that really rubbed me the wrong

way, and I would like to address in this

video. Now, first of all, I completely

understand that the reaction was kind of

like, why is this guy saying such weird

things about his girlfriend? What if she

finds out? Why is he saying these weird

things? Because that's usually the

reaction I get from most people when they

find my channel. And Abba and Preach kept

saying, why is he saying all of these

private personal things on YouTube? Why

doesn't he write it in his journal? Why

doesn't he write it in a diary? And Abba

and Preach aren't the first YouTubers,

they aren't the first channel that has

said this. Elvis Adian also made some

videos about me, and the first thing Elvis

Adian said was also that there are things

called a diary, and why don't I write in a

diary? Okay, so let me explain to you why

I don't write these things in a diary.

It's because I'm making videos to get

views. I want people to see the video

because I get money from the views.

Exactly the same reason why everyone else

does YouTube. For example, why doesn't

Abunpreach write in their diary? Why did

they make a video reacting to my video?

Why didn't they just write in the diary,

oh my god, this Daniel guy's so weird.

Why doesn't he be nice to his girlfriend?

Why is he saying horrible things about his

girlfriend? Why doesn't he write in his

diary? Why don't they write it in their

diary? Why are they making a video

blasting me to their 1.2 million

subscriber audience? Why is Elvis the

Alien making a video about me, about how

weird I am? Why doesn't Elvis the Alien

write it in his diary, in his journal?

It's because they want to get views just

like I want to get views, because we're

trying to make money at the end of the

day. And don't get me wrong, I'm very

grateful that Aburn Preach and Elvis Alien

made videos about me because that gave me

a lot of exposure. I got a lot of extra

views, and I did make— I made quite a lot

of money, extra money, thanks to their

exposure and their shoutouts. But I just

still, I really get annoyed when people

keep saying, why doesn't he write it in

his diary? Number one, I don't have a

diary. I have a notepad and I have a red

pen. And when I feel very emotional and

very upset, yeah, I do write stuff down in

the notepad that I would never want any of

you to see because some of the things I've

written would probably get me arrested. I

started making videos on YouTube because I

was lonely. I wanted to share my life, my

life experiences, my stories. I wanted to

share my experiences and stories with as

many people as I possibly could. And that

involves uploading a video to YouTube,

making it public, and hopefully Um, it

gets recommended to people and lots of

people see it. Now, some people might not

like what I have to say in the videos.

That's fair enough. Everyone can have

their own opinions. But at the end of the

day, my goal of uploading videos to

YouTube is because I want people to see

it. If I wrote it in a diary, then no

one's going to see it unless I take a

picture and then upload it to some picture

website. So my next problem was that they

seemed to be criticizing me because I was

saying mean things about my ex-girlfriend.

Then uploading it onto YouTube, and this

might hurt her feelings if she ever found

out. Okay, so number one, she never found

out. Number 2, she doesn't even speak

English, and she wouldn't even understand

what I was saying even if she did find it.

I'm pretty sure a 40-year-old Japanese

woman doesn't waste her time on YouTube

watching random reaction channel videos or

videos about Japan, so it's very unlikely

that she's just browsing on YouTube and

accidentally finds my channel all the way

back in 2017 when I only had about 4,000

subs, which was around the time I uploaded

it. And yeah, I guess it's true. I don't

disagree that if she found the video and

she understood what I was saying, then

yeah, her feelings would have been hurt.

But I took the chance of making the video

because number one, I didn't expect the

video to go viral and get nearly how many

views? A quarter of a million views. I

wasn't expecting that. I find it a little

bit hypocritical and judgmental of Abone

Preach to criticize me for potentially

risking hurting someone's feelings to get

views when Aren't they doing the exact

same thing? They are risking potentially

hurting my feelings so they can get views.

Do you think they care about my feelings

or whether the things they say about me

hurt my feelings? No, they didn't care at

all. They didn't even ask for my

permission to use my video footage in

their video, which they just took and

used. I don't mind, it's fine. I'm not

going to copyright strike them, but I'm

just saying they didn't have any

consideration or thought about my feelings

and they just put me on blast to their 1.2

million subscriber channel, half a million

people saw it. And do you think they feel

bad about it? Do you think they feel bad

about hurting my feelings for criticizing

me and making me look bad in front of

their entire audience? No, they don't give

a crap because they're just doing it for

views. I don't want to be judged and

lectured that I might be hurting my

ex-girlfriend's feelings by making the

video when the people doing the judging

are also hurting my feelings by making a

video. They're doing the exact same thing

as I'm doing, so really they're not any

better. Also, another thing I found kind

of weird was they kept saying, if she

found the video, if she found out about

what I said. You do realize that by making

a video reacting to it and highlighting

the things I said about her, you're just

increasing the chances of her finding the

video. If you've got a 1.2 million channel

subscriber channel and you put the video

onto that channel, a lot of people are

gonna see it. More people have now seen

that video where I've bashed my

ex-girlfriend. An extra half a million

people have now seen it, and they wouldn't

have seen it if you didn't make the video

about it. So you've just kind of

contributed towards increasing the chances

of my ex-girlfriend finding out about that

video and having her feelings hurt. So

don't start acting all high and mighty as

if you care so much about my

ex-girlfriend's feelings. Oh, poor

ex-girlfriend's feelings. What if she

finds out? She's going to be so sad,

Daniel. Yeah, don't pretend you actually

care about her ex, about her feelings,

because if you did care about her

feelings, then you wouldn't have made a

video reacting to my video and possibly

increasing the chances of her finding out

about it. So yeah, you can complain and

criticize me all you want because I

profited and made fun of people in my life

for my own personal benefit. And that's

true. I don't disagree with that. I can't

really argue. Because it's true. But Abba

and Preach, they aren't really any better.

Their entire channel is dedicated to

making fun of and ridiculing other people

for their own benefit, so they get some ad

revenue and they get views and they make

money and they can make a living off of

it. Do you think Abba and Preach care or

give a damn about the people they're

making fun of? No, they don't care because

they're getting hundreds of thousands,

millions of views, and they're making good

money by doing this. They couldn't give

And crap about the people they're making

fun of. And to be honest, half the

channels on YouTube are mostly reaction

commentary channels where they're making

fun of other people for the things they

say. And I don't really feel like it's

fair that I get criticized and judged so

much for making fun of people in my life

when half of YouTube are doing this as

well. They're just making fun of strangers

on the internet or on TV. But these people

they're making fun of, they're still

people at the end of the day. They still

have feelings, and most of them are

probably upset or maybe a bit disappointed

with the criticisms they received as well.

So, so yeah, that's what I had to say.

And me and that ex-girlfriend broke up

ages ago. We— I think we broke up pretty

much 2 weeks or a few weeks after I

released that video. So it's not like I

really, really cared about the

relationship anyway. I wasn't worried and

waking up in the middle of the night

worrying that she might find the video and

she might be upset. I was probably already

broken up with her by the second week That

video was uploaded. That's all I had to