00:10hello everybody I hope you're all well
00:12just last month Miley Cyrus won her
00:16first ever Grammy and she performed her
00:18now Grammy winning song flowers and let
00:21me tell you guys I have watched this
00:22performance along with Dua Hui new
00:24performance so many times her energy is
00:27so contagious but a very large talking
00:32point of her performance was her body
00:36and her muscle definition it quickly
00:38began trending on social media and this
00:41I believe she's a Pilates instructor or
00:43she owns a pilates studio one of the two
00:45jumped on Tik Tok and said that Miley
00:48Cyrus's body looks like this because she
00:50does Pilates and her arms have such
00:53strong muscular definition because of
00:56Pilates and after this Pilates arms
00:58began trending on Tik Tok and this Tik
01:01Tok amassed millions of views I think
01:03currently it's sitting at over half a
01:05million likes and this Tik Tok not only
01:08coined the term Pal's arms but I'm sure
01:11encouraged many young women and girls
01:14across the globe to book their first
01:16ever pilates class and the reason why
01:18I'm talking about this today is because
01:20I'm not going to sit here and tell you
01:22guys whether Pilates is going to make
01:24you look like Miley Cyrus or not there's
01:26already a few video essays on here
01:27discussing sort of the truth behind p
01:29arties my friend Madison made a really
01:31good one so I'll leave both of those
01:33link down below but today rather I'm
01:35going to talk about how this current
01:37cultural obsession with Pilates
01:39alongside wellness and that girl and
01:42clean girl and pilates princess is
01:45actually just concealed and rebranded
01:48diet culture Wellness is just diet
01:50culture in a different font and not only
01:53do I want to discuss that with you guys
01:55today but I also want to talk about why
01:57on Earth diet culture is so evasive and
02:01incessant why does it keep on coming
02:03back in different forms each
02:06unrecognizable from the other and
02:08obviously we all know me here I fell
02:10down a wormhole I fell down a wormhole I
02:12also wanted to discuss the shortcomings
02:15of the wellness industry and the fact
02:16that it functions within a capitalist
02:19system and also how people who are
02:21really really into Wellness can actually
02:23be more susceptible to right-wing
02:25radicalization and believing in
02:27conspiracy theories we're getting into
02:29into it and just before we get into it I
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04:16it as I mentioned in the introduction to
04:19this video after Miley Cyrus's
04:21performance at the Grammys Patti's arms
04:23began trending on Tik Tok because of
04:25this Tik Tok user who credited Miley's
04:28muscular definition to Pates and look I
04:30don't think that this comes from nowhere
04:33Miley has been reported to be doing
04:35Pilates for well over a decade
04:37apparently she has a pilates studio in
04:39her home but and I'm sure we're all
04:42thinking the same thing here isn't it
04:44crazy that after Miley Cyrus won her
04:47first ever Grammy the talking point
04:49which was at the Forefront was how her
04:51body looked rather than her actually
04:54winning a Grammy and this isn't me
04:57trying to say that you shouldn't be able
04:59to complement the way that people look
05:01but rather as human beings specifically
05:04human beings who spend a lot of their
05:05time on Tik Tok is they can never just
05:08compliment someone and move on instead
05:10they have to figure out how they look
05:12like that why they look like that and
05:15then implement it into their own lives
05:17and not only that but also tell other
05:19women how they can implement it into
05:21their lives as well and I'm not going to
05:23sit here and say whether Pilates can
05:25make you look snatched or not because I
05:29am not an expert in this I literally
05:31have no idea what I'm talking about when
05:33it comes to Pilates but one thing I will
05:36say is that I don't think it's a
05:37particularly good idea to post a video
05:41on a website which is inundated with
05:43young women and girls and credit a
05:46specific exercise to a person's exact
05:50body type firstly I think this is
05:53obvious but it causes far more harm than
05:55good but secondly outside factors like
06:00genetics race class sex can contribute
06:04to the way that your body responds to
06:06exercise I feel like I struggle to talk
06:09about subjects like this because to the
06:11non-analytical ear it just sounds like
06:13I'm telling people to not
06:15exercise which I is not true it's not
06:18true okay I am a firm believer that
06:21exercising is just good getting up and
06:25about getting the endorphins pump in is
06:27always going to be good for not only
06:28your physical health but also your
06:30mental health I run and I swim okay I
06:33love the endorphins pumping through my
06:35body after I could swim getting your
06:37body moving getting the endorphins pump
06:38in it's just objectively good for you
06:41any form of exercise is good for you
06:43even if you just go out for a walk once
06:44a day for half an hour but there is no
06:46doubting that within the last couple of
06:48years there seems to be an increased
06:50cultural awareness of Pates specifically
06:53reformer pilates which is the Pilates
06:56with the big it's with the big machine
06:58Pilates as an exerise has existed for
07:01well over 100 years I think the reason
07:04why it's become so popular so recently
07:07is not only through increased Awareness
07:09on social media but also similarly to
07:12yoga Pilates is an exercise which
07:15encourages engaging with the body and
07:18the mind Pilates as an exercise puts a
07:20lot of emphasis on breathing work and
07:23the popularity of palates and yoga has
07:26obviously coincided with the rise of the
07:29Wellness industry which we will talk
07:31about in just a moment now the next
07:32thing I'm going to say it's not it's not
07:35rooted in any facts it's not rooted in
07:38any fact this is purely anecdotal from
07:41my POV my POV is that reforma Pilates is
07:45just the it girl exercise of the moment
07:48I feel like on Instagram and on Tik Tok
07:51I see it absolutely everywhere I've seen
07:53brands have started doing Pilates
07:56classes as part of their events I've
07:58seen influencers post on their stories
08:00with their cute little Pilates outfit on
08:02and their like fancy pilates studio also
08:05it seems to me that Pilates is actually
08:07quite an aspirational exercise Pilates I
08:10think it costs about like20 per class
08:12and if you wanted to get a gym
08:14subscription to a place that has Pilates
08:16classes I think it will probably set you
08:18back between like 100 to2 200 which to a
08:21lot of people is worth the investment
08:23but obviously it's pretty different to
08:26a30 gym subscription and if we just
08:28circle back to the dressing cute for
08:32Pilates I do actually think Pilates is
08:35in tune with current fashion trends
08:38Pilates reminds me a lot of ballet core
08:41and current trends of athesia whereare
08:44Frankie's Bikinis actually released an
08:47inspired Pilates collection and look I
08:50love it all I love it all and I think
08:52the next thing which is always
08:54depressing to talk about like I
08:55literally just want to be like all right
08:57thanks for watching bye guys because I
08:58literally hate talking about this this
08:59so much because it is so darn depressing
09:02but we all know this by now that body
09:05types especially women's body types are
09:09Trends Boo Boo and exercises Peak and
09:15dip in turn with what body type is on
09:19Trend at that time so if you think about
09:21back to about 10 years ago we're having
09:23a small waist and a big but was like the
09:26it was the body type that everyone
09:28wanted the most popular exercises of
09:30that time were squats weight training
09:33which engaged the glutes and also using
09:35waist trainers I just cannot get over
09:37the fact that I used to do the 30-day
09:39squat challenge religiously when I was a
09:42teenager bear in mind I was literally a
09:44child so nothing was going to help my
09:46butt like nothing was going to engage
09:48those bones that were rattling back
09:49there but these exercises were
09:51incredibly popular because they were
09:52associated with the most sort after body
09:56type of that time and now that that
09:58trend has changed you know the way that
10:00people talk about Pilates on social
10:02media people are beginning to associate
10:04Pilates with this very slim and toned
10:07body type and I also think Pilates has
10:09had such a large boom in the last 5
10:12years because of its association with
10:15wellness and its emphasis on connecting
10:17the mind and the body now all exercises
10:21technically fall under the umbrella R
10:23sorry guys this shirt is so slay but
10:26these sleeves I'm going to have to start
10:27Ariana grounding it now all exercise
10:30obviously fall under the umbrella of
10:33Wellness but when we're talking about
10:35very modernday Western Wellness there is
10:37often a lot of emphasis on mental
10:41well-being and mental Clarity hence why
10:44Pilates is seen as more of an exercise
10:46which is associated with Wellness
10:48despite the fact that both Pilates and
10:52weight training have I'm assuming
10:55similar if not the same benefits for the
10:58mind and body I made a video a couple of
11:00years ago discussing the wellness
11:01industry so I'm not going to get all
11:03into when the wellness industry was
11:05founded how it started Etc but the
11:08wellness industry is now worth over1
11:11trillion dollar I do partly think this
11:14is because so many things fall under the
11:16wellness umbrella but also I'm of the
11:19belief that nothing or very few things
11:22are an accident I think that things are
11:25rarely a mistake or a coincidence and I
11:27think there is absolutely a reason why
11:29the wellness industry has had such a
11:31large boom in The Last 5 Years firstly
11:33as time goes on and the general Public's
11:36opinions begin to sway more liberally
11:39and they begin to become more empathetic
11:42'90s and 2000s diet culture has simply
11:44fallen out of favor with today's
11:47generation you know the '90s and 2000s
11:49diet culture of nothing tastes as good
11:51as skinny feels smoking cigarettes as an
11:53appetite suppressor finding out that
11:55Victoria Secret models wouldn't eat
11:57solid food for Days running up to show
11:59this rhetoric has really fallen out of
12:02favor with today's generations because
12:05we have seen the detrimental impact that
12:08this can have on not only someone's
12:09physical health but someone's mental
12:11health as well and not just your own but
12:13the people around you your children I
12:15think nearly everyone I know was raised
12:18by a mom who was constantly on a diet
12:20you know the society is a pendulum and
12:23we swung in the '90s and 2000s really
12:26the other way and now we're swinging
12:27more towards wellness and Health but
12:30also along with the internet comes an
12:33unprecedented access to information not
12:36only can you yourself go out and access
12:38information about your health about
12:40illnesses I think we've all been there
12:43when we have an ache or a twin in our
12:45body and then we Google it and we find
12:47out that we are going to die in 2 weeks
12:49time but not only can you access this
12:50information yourself but now because of
12:53algorithms that information is now being
12:56served to you without you even needing
12:59to look for it and I know you guys
13:01already know what I'm going to say I
13:03don't think that this is very good and
13:05of course the pandemic which led even
13:07more people to become more conscious
13:15health the message that I really want to
13:17get across in today's video is that I
13:19don't think that Paces or any form of
13:22exercise is inherently linked with diet
13:25culture but rather the modernday
13:29specifically social media perception of
13:32Pilates is just diet culture in a
13:34different font and let me explain why if
13:36you don't know what diet culture is it's
13:38essentially the superiority of thinness
13:41I've spoken a lot about fat phobia on my
13:43channel in these two videos specifically
13:45if you do want to check them out but at
13:46the moment I think we're in a really
13:48difficult time when it comes to diet
13:50culture because we can extend body
13:52positivity to other people but we cannot
13:54extend it to ourselves because this thin
13:57is better messaging has been hammered
13:59into our brains literally since when we
14:02became conscious so trying to unlearn it
14:05is really really difficult I think
14:07something which is really important to
14:09note when we discuss social media's
14:11perception of Pilates is the language
14:14being used when we talk about Pilates
14:18when people on social media on Tik Tok
14:20are discussing Pilates they are very
14:23often referring to thin women they are
14:26saying that Pilates is an exercise that
14:27doesn't make you too B key the only
14:30reason why we aren't calling this or
14:33perceiving this as diet culture is
14:35because we're being told oh this isn't
14:37about losing weight this is about being
14:39healthy oh this isn't about your
14:41physical appearance this is about your
14:44lifestyle and I don't think a brand
14:46better displays that modern day Wellness
14:50is just repackaged diet culture than
14:52aloe yoga and I just want to make this
14:54clear that this is all my own opinion
14:57this is all my own opinion op this is
14:59all alleged my own opinion this is all
15:01my opinion not a lot of this is based in
15:04fact so yeah take with this what you
15:06will Alo is an American athesia brand
15:09which was founded back in 2007 they
15:11obviously produce AIA along with having
15:13a chain of gyms yogur and exercise apps
15:15and already aloe are a pretty
15:19controversial brand they landed
15:21themselves in some hot water back in
15:232017 after yoga instructor and body
15:26positive Advocate and she was a former
15:28co- instructor Dana Fetti was served
15:32legal papers by Cody which had just been
15:34acquired by Aloe because after the
15:36acquisition Dana Fetti posted on her
15:38Instagram story that aloe perpetuates
15:40body shame and that an aloe executive
15:42faced sexual harassment assault
15:44allegations I became aware of aloe only
15:47recently because I was looking for some
15:50new workout gear new workout gear catch
15:52to 5K Etc the 130 prize tag for leggings
15:57did put me off especially when is good
15:59on you rating is very poor and these
16:02over 100b leggings are made of mostly
16:05polyester woo but there was one thing
16:08that I noticed whilst looking through
16:10the aloe website and looking on their
16:13Instagram is that nearly everyone that I
16:16was seeing was beautiful and skinny it
16:20seems clear to me that perhaps aloe are
16:23trying to sort of intentionally curate
16:26this look for their brand and they're
16:28trying trying to appeal to a specific
16:30market and weirdly on the aloe website
16:34when I was scrolling through and I only
16:35scrolled through a few pages so
16:36obviously take this with a pinch of salt
16:38when I was scrolling through a few pages
16:40most of the women that I was seeing were
16:43a size small or a size extra small and I
16:47was like hm weird do they not do any
16:49size large or extra large the only way
16:52that you can see pictures as far as I'm
16:54aware as far as I'm aware the only way
16:56that I could view what the leggings
16:58would look like on a large or an extra
16:59large was if I clicked on the product
17:02and then I would have to click on a
17:03little Tab and click on show on large
17:06from what I saw on those few pages not a
17:08single person who was a size large or
17:10extra large was the first image of the
17:12product and I find it really interesting
17:15how aloe has seemingly slipped through
17:17the cracks when we have conversations
17:19around diet culture and body positivity
17:23the most common culprits that we discuss
17:25are Victoria Secret and Brandy Melville
17:28and to me the only difference between
17:31aloe and Victoria's Secret is that one
17:34is perceived as healthy and the other is
17:37not the only difference between these
17:39two things is that one is covered in
17:41spandex or polyester rather and the
17:44other one isn't and Alo as a business
17:46are continuing to thrive to quote am
17:48Odell's substack Alo yoga became a
17:50behemoth by claiming to be something
17:51it's not in early 2020 Harris told
17:54Forbes that Revenue was around $200
17:55million with the brand bringing in
17:58around 4 Mill million between Black
17:59Friday and Cyber Monday in 2019 alone in
18:02March of 2021 far company reported that
18:05Al's Revenue grew by 150% in 2020 which
18:08would put it at $500 million the driver
18:11of that growth was the pandemic a period
18:13of illness instead of Wellness when
18:15consumers doubled down on at home
18:17fitness and loungewear all things aloe
18:19had been doing for a while and I think
18:20the reason why Brands like Alo can slip
18:24under the radar when it comes to
18:25conversations about diet culture is that
18:27they are r using language which is
18:30associated with diet culture in fact
18:32they're doing the complete opposite
18:34they're pedestal health and wellness
18:37which is why this kind of diet culture
18:39can be really difficult to spot diet
18:41culture has simply rebranded itself as
18:45wellness and the reason for this as I
18:47mentioned earlier is that diet culture
18:49has massively fallen out of favor with
18:51younger Generations not only do we see
18:53the physical and mental impact that diet
18:56culture can have on people but also we
18:59are now all aware that diets very rarely
19:02work in fact 95% of diets don't work as
19:06the decades have passed we have become
19:08more aware of what yo-yo dieting is
19:11celebrities who used to tout Fitness
19:13plans and DVDs and diet plans have now
19:16come out and spoken about how miserable
19:18they were when they were on these diets
19:21these same diets that they were selling
19:22to people we have seen contestants of
19:25The Biggest Loser speak out about how
19:28their metabolis isms are irreversibly
19:30damaged because of the Extreme Fitness
19:34and diet plans that they were subjected
19:36to to quote Lucy Morgan for Glamour
19:38magazine what's really behind the
19:39obsession with Miley Cyrus and her
19:41Pilates arms in 2024 diet culture is
19:43harder to pin down celebrities are still
19:45thin but they're also well we don't just
19:48want their bodies we want their apparent
19:50Health as a child I remember reading a
19:52woman's magazine feature about what
19:54famous women ate for breakfast one woman
19:56answered something along the lines of
19:57lukewarm water her as it made her feel
20:00Fuller for longer could she have given
20:01this answer in today's body positive
20:03climate in this era celebrities are
20:05mostly still thin but we're encouraged
20:07to practice neutrality or even love when
20:10it comes to our own lumpier frames it
20:12feels particularly disingenuous given
20:14the increased accessibility to weight
20:16loss drugs like OIC which has surely
20:18contributed to the rise in celebrities
20:20dropping yet even more weight under the
20:22guise of a balanced diet exercise and
20:24Above All Wellness and this Rebrand from
20:28fting to Wellness can be felt everywhere
20:31Weight Watchers has recently rebranded
20:33to ww and now stress that they put more
20:36importance on health over weight loss
20:39and of course I cannot believe I have to
20:41say this but some people are really dumb
20:43I am not saying that we should not
20:45exercise or eat healthily I do these
20:48exact things I think not only is it
20:50incredibly important to recognize diet
20:53culture in its current newest form and
20:56recognize diet culture sneaking its way
20:58back into the mainstream but also
21:00recognize that the wellness industry is
21:02worth over $1 trillion and it functions
21:06on the basis that we need what they sell
21:14well and I think this is where the real
21:17problems of the wellness industry come
21:19in because the wellness industry is
21:21functioning in a late stage capitalist
21:24system the profits begin to take
21:26priority and this is with any industry
21:28not just Wellness but Wellness can take
21:31a steeper turn for the worst because we
21:34are handling People's Health we are
21:37handling their lives their bodies the
21:40stakes are so incredibly high and this
21:43is why you know some people who are
21:45really really into their Wellness tend
21:48to be a little bit defensive because if
21:50you disagree with them you're not just
21:52disagreeing with a fleeing opinion of
21:55theirs you are disagreeing with how they
21:57live their life often in this segment of
22:01this video when I'm discussing Wellness
22:03I'm referring to modernday Wellness
22:07Giants right like gwenith potro's goop
22:10or the wonderlust conference which I
22:13read articles about both and the
22:15cognitive dissonance between spreading
22:17messages of wellness and spirituality
22:20compared with the sheer consumerism at
22:23these events because without profit
22:25these events would not be able to run
22:27you should find happiness within
22:28yourself but what will help with that
22:30happiness is this crystal necklace which
22:33you can buy right here we would be at
22:34our healthiest if we ate the we we used
22:36to when we were cavemen but also don't
22:38forget to buy your green powder and also
22:40to drink this flavored water which is
22:42Pack full of sweetness and I think that
22:43Jen Z myself included tend to think of
22:47themselves as slightly separate from
22:49Wellness right when I think of Wellness
22:50I often think of goop but jenzy are
22:53beginning to get entrenched in Wellness
22:56via Tik Tok Aesthetics and I know that
22:58this sounds Dar but hear me out I think
23:01that jenz and I'm talking about myself
23:03here I'm on the older end of Jen Z I
23:05think we are a pretty shallow generation
23:07and I don't even think it's of any fault
23:09of our own I would say 80% of the things
23:11that we have perceived in our lives has
23:14been through a screen it's been in 2D so
23:17it's no wonder that we tend to Value
23:20people's exteriors over their Interiors
23:22but I do believe that jenzy are
23:24beginning to get entrenched in Wellness
23:25culture via these you know sort of
23:27fleeting T Tok Aesthetics like that girl
23:30clean girl Pilates princess because not
23:32only are these Tik Tok Aesthetics but
23:34they are also Lifestyles they're very
23:37aesthetically pleasing beautiful
23:39Lifestyles to look at if people are
23:42making good content about it and this
23:44similar cognitive dissonance takes place
23:47to be that girl you should drink water
23:49but make sure it's out of a $50 Stanley
23:51Cup or to be Pilates princess you should
23:53start taking Pilates classes but it does
23:56help if you're wearing a cute Pilates
23:57outfit worth over $100 look we may think
23:59that the group ladies who carry Jade
24:01eggs in their vagina are a little bit
24:03crazy but Jen Z are very easily
24:06influenced and I don't think we're a far
24:09cry from that I do not think that girl
24:11is a far cry from carrying a jade egg in
24:13your vagina one thing I will say is I
24:15don't think that gen Z are as deeply
24:17entrenched in Wellness culture as
24:19Millennials and Gen X because I think
24:22being more and more into Wellness comes
24:25with age the closer you get to
24:27physically age the closer you get to
24:30death the more likely you're going to
24:33turn to Wellness and alternative
24:35medicines I read this absolutely
24:37fascinating article which was my
24:39favorite I've read for the research of
24:41this video on the Atlantic it's titled
24:43eating towards immortality by Michelle
24:44Allison and it discusses the
24:46pervasiveness of diet culture and how a
24:48lot of diet culture is actually rooted
24:50in human beings fear of death this is
24:52how the omnivores Paradox breeds diet
24:54culture overwhelmed by choice by the dim
24:57threat of mortality LS beneath any wrong
24:59choice people crave rules from outside
25:02themselves and successful Heroes to
25:04guide them to safety people willingly
25:06happily hand over their freedom in
25:08exchange for the bondage of a diet that
25:10forbids their most cherished foods that
25:12forces them to rely on the unfamiliar
25:14unpalatable or inaccessible all for the
25:17promise of relief from choice and the
25:19attendant responsibility if you are free
25:21to choose you can be blamed for anything
25:23that happens to you weight gain illness
25:25Aging in short your share in the The
25:28Human Condition including the random
25:30whims of luck and your own inescapable
25:32mortality and I think this is what
25:35really gets under my skin about the
25:37wellness industry is that the trillion
25:40dollar Wellness industry is really
25:42preying on people's deep anxieties it's
25:46absolutely no coincidence that the
25:47wellness industry is booming at a time
25:49of deep Financial insecurity where it's
25:52really difficult to access health care
25:54in the US Healthcare is not free in the
25:57UK Healthcare ISE but it's been
25:59chronically underfunded for over 10
26:00years so to even seek medical advice and
26:05help is actually quite difficult so it's
26:07no wonder that people are beginning to
26:09turn to alternative medicine and I also
26:12think that Wellness is booming at a time
26:15when people are really craving Community
26:18I think that capitalism breathes
26:20individualism I think we live in
26:23extremely individualistic times I highly
26:25recommend checking out Mina L's video
26:27about Stanley cart and the fact that we
26:28are in like a friendship epidemic so
26:31many people are struggling to make
26:32friends and Foster a community and that
26:34is because capitalism breeds
26:35individualism and I think that Wellness
26:38is seen as this alternative to make
26:41friends and to build a community which I
26:43think is so appealing to people who have
26:45been starved of community for the past
26:4720 years or so but this is where even
26:49more problems come in because modern-day
26:52Western Wellness is really difficult to
26:54separate from elitism and classism now
26:57this is a very big blanket statement and
26:59this is just from the research that I've
27:01done for this video but some of the most
27:02sought after Wellness conventions come
27:05with a hefty prize tag I am talking
27:08thousands of dollars just for a ticket
27:10and although some of these conventions
27:12like Wonder last do engage in
27:13conversations around whiteness and
27:16elitism and class one of the most
27:19notable behemoths of the wellness
27:20industry GOP is probably unsurprisingly
27:24very apolitical they hold a yearly
27:26Festival SL summer in California and a
27:29weekend ticket will set you back
27:31$4,000 I would actually love to go for a
27:35video but I cannot justify cuz it's not
27:38just the ticket I'd have to get
27:39accommodation I can't justify the cost
27:42right now but I would absolutely love to
27:44go one day and Lindy West attended the
27:46summit back in 2017 and she had a lot of
27:49interesting things to say about how
27:51apolitical the festival was however an
27:54event supposedly focused on being and
27:56achieving the optimal versions of our as
27:58patro put it during her welcome address
28:01cannot truly be depoliticized you can't
28:03honestly address Wellness the things
28:05people need to be well without
28:07addressing poverty and systemic racism
28:09disability access and Affordable Health
28:11Care paid family leave and food
28:13insecurity contraception and abortion
28:15sex work and the war against drugs and
28:17mass incarceration unless of course you
28:20are only talking about the wellness of
28:22people whose lives are Untouched by all
28:24those forces that is the wellness of
28:27people who are are disproportionately
28:29well already for her keynote to close
28:32the day palro purports to dissect the
28:34complexities and wo of being a working
28:36mother with a panel of famous gal Pals
28:39Cameron Diaz Tory Burch Nicole Richie
28:41and Miranda Kerr how do they do it how
28:43do they have it all the women deliver a
28:46bounty of platitudes about ambition
28:48female friendship self-care their
28:50mothers and sticking to one's practice
28:52they are charming and humble Richie as
28:54funny but at no point did any of them
28:57say the words I have lots and lots of
28:59money and staff in context of a
29:01conversation about the challenges facing
29:03working mothers the admission is frankly
29:05bizar it is a basic responsibility of
29:08the privilege to refrain from taking
29:09credit for our own Good Fortune they
29:12might as well have been reading from a
29:14vka Trump's book proposal as with all
29:16the other panels they do not take
29:17questions so not only did I want to talk
29:19about this problem of elitism and
29:22classism and the fact that modern day
29:24Western Wellness is very much been
29:26co-opted by the rich for the rich but I
29:28also wanted to talk about a very
29:30unfortunate Pipeline and that is the
29:32pipeline between Wellness spacers and
29:35right-wing radicalization and conspiracy
29:37theories in 2011 Charlotte Wells and
29:40David voas coined the term
29:42conspirituality for this new found
29:44phenomenon now I'm not going to get too
29:46into this today because I honestly think
29:48that this deserves a whole video of its
29:51own but the wellness industry's cruxes
29:55almost are questioning Authority
29:58distrust of Institutions and embracing
30:01alternative medicines and there is
30:03actually a lot of overlap between the
30:05wellness space and the conspiracy theory
30:08space and this would only be further
30:10escalated by the pandemic and the people
30:13who would engage with Wellness content
30:15on social media were beginning to be fed
30:18conspiracy theories via the algorithm
30:21I'm talking about conspiracy theories
30:23about covid 5G vaccines and even going
30:26as far as q and if you don't know what q
30:28and on is it's a conspiracy theory where
30:31they believe that the world is being ran
30:34by satanic pet and that Donald Trump is
30:38going to take them all down I read a
30:40video I read a video I read a book about
30:41it over the summer and it's crazy and
30:44the very unfortunate fact about
30:45conspiracy theories is that if you
30:46believe one you are far more likely to
30:48believe another and then another and
30:51then another and then another until you
30:53are completely isolated from the people
30:55around you the only thing that you are
30:58reading on that you are being fed online
31:01is about conspiracy theories the only
31:03people that you're talking to is other
31:04people who also believe in conspiracy
31:06theories conspiracy theories have the
31:08capability to destroy friendships to
31:10completely destroy families I have seen
31:13videos of people young people who say
31:15they don't even talk to their parents
31:16anymore because their parents have been
31:17completely sucked in by conspiracy
31:19theories people who have struggled with
31:21mental illness are far more susceptible
31:24to believing in conspiracy theories
31:27people who are already very mentally
31:28unwell have had very public complete
31:31mental breakdowns because of conspiracy
31:33theories you know this isn't something
31:35that should be taken lightly I think
31:37when we think of conspiracy theories we
31:38think of like YouTube videos about
31:39Chuck-E-Cheese pizza but this isn't a
31:42laughing matter it isn't a joke I think
31:44it should be taken extremely seriously
31:46and I think that honestly social media
31:49companies need to get their [Â __Â ]
31:50together when it comes to war algorithms
31:52of feeding people you know to wrap this
31:54video up I'm not trying to say that if
31:55you do Pilates you're going to end up
31:56believing in conspiracy theories but
31:58rather I want to emphasize the
32:01importance of recognizing modernday diet
32:04culture in its newest and changing forms
32:08and the importance of recognizing
32:10modern-day Wellness for what it is which
32:13is Diet culture and if we just set diet
32:15culture aside for a second the inherent
32:17problems that come with the wellness
32:19industry trying to function within a
32:21late stage capitalist system the
32:23problems with engaging with Wellness
32:25when Wellness has become a business
32:26model which is now going to prioritize
32:28profits over people and that the
32:30wellness space can become very quickly
32:33intoxicated when people can become more
32:35susceptible to believing in conspiracy
32:37theories and falling down complete
32:40rabbit holes and isolating themselves
32:42from the people who love and care about
32:44them the most but yes I hope you guys
32:45enjoyed this video it was really really
32:47interesting to make and of course let me
32:50know your thoughts in the comments you
32:51know me I'm always nosy I always want to
32:53read what you guys are thinking but yeah
32:55I'll see you guys soon for my next video
