1 00:00:00,440 --> 00:00:02,160 Today we have a story time of the Gen. 2 00:00:02,160 --> 00:00:05,880 Z kid who fakes being disabled for attention and clout. 3 00:00:06,040 --> 00:00:09,440 This kid literally pretends to be completely disabled from the 4 00:00:09,440 --> 00:00:13,560 waist down, but he gets exposed in a really funny and just 5 00:00:13,560 --> 00:00:15,560 awkward manner that I know you'll enjoy. 6 00:00:15,680 --> 00:00:18,480 So sit back, relax, subscribe. If you're new, leave a like on 7 00:00:18,480 --> 00:00:20,960 the video to claim your free nothing and let's jump right 8 00:00:20,960 --> 00:00:23,240 into the story. So we're going to call the 9 00:00:23,240 --> 00:00:26,080 subscriber who submitted today's story Gerald. 10 00:00:26,080 --> 00:00:29,800 So anyways, Gerald was starting the 8th grade and every single 11 00:00:29,800 --> 00:00:33,160 year in his school there were new kids that would come in and 12 00:00:33,280 --> 00:00:35,720 you know you are we supposed to give special attention and make 13 00:00:35,720 --> 00:00:38,040 sure that the new kids felt good at the new school? 14 00:00:38,200 --> 00:00:40,880 As I'm sure a lot of you guys know, if you started a new 15 00:00:40,880 --> 00:00:43,800 school, especially not with a bunch of other people, you're 1 16 00:00:43,800 --> 00:00:46,360 the few new kids. It's very difficult as a lot of 17 00:00:46,360 --> 00:00:49,720 kids have already kind of formed groups and cliques or whatever. 18 00:00:49,720 --> 00:00:52,480 So it becomes difficult to get friends right. 19 00:00:52,480 --> 00:00:55,080 So this new kid, right, who we're going to call the Gen. 20 00:00:55,080 --> 00:00:57,840 Z kid, was not like most kids who showed up. 21 00:00:58,080 --> 00:01:00,480 So this kid showed up in a wheelchair, right. 22 00:01:00,480 --> 00:01:03,200 So the very first day, it was very apparent that there's a new 23 00:01:03,200 --> 00:01:05,960 kid there because he didn't look like any of the other kids 24 00:01:05,960 --> 00:01:08,000 there. And everyone was really good 25 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:10,560 about giving this guy extra special attention to make sure 26 00:01:10,560 --> 00:01:13,840 that he was, you know, doing all right, extra special attention. 27 00:01:13,840 --> 00:01:16,160 I don't mean, like staring and pointing attention. 28 00:01:16,160 --> 00:01:19,640 I mean asking, you know, if he needed, you know, needed help, 29 00:01:19,640 --> 00:01:22,320 bring stuff, you know, from a book bag, like his book bags 30 00:01:22,320 --> 00:01:26,920 around, needed help, you know, guides to class, stuff like 31 00:01:26,920 --> 00:01:29,360 that, right. And on the very first day, this 32 00:01:29,360 --> 00:01:31,880 kid actually, you know, a lot of people were giving him a lot of 33 00:01:32,160 --> 00:01:35,680 positive support, right? So Gerald was one of those kids. 34 00:01:35,760 --> 00:01:38,880 No, no one at this moment, literally no one at this moment 35 00:01:39,080 --> 00:01:42,360 believed for a second that this kid was faking, being in a 36 00:01:42,360 --> 00:01:44,600 wheelchair for attention. Nobody. 37 00:01:44,600 --> 00:01:48,080 Yet Gerald would be one of the first ones to, you know, find 38 00:01:48,080 --> 00:01:49,480 some evidence that was suspicious. 39 00:01:49,480 --> 00:01:53,400 And then Gerald would be, you know, basically lambasted and 40 00:01:53,400 --> 00:01:56,200 made a pariah because everyone was thinking, wow, how could you 41 00:01:56,200 --> 00:01:59,200 accuse, you know, this kid of something with such baseless 42 00:01:59,200 --> 00:02:01,080 accusations? You're a heartless man, But 43 00:02:01,240 --> 00:02:04,120 Gerald turns out to be correct. But anyways, right? 44 00:02:04,120 --> 00:02:06,880 So a couple weeks in the school, what happens is the Gen. 45 00:02:06,880 --> 00:02:10,000 Z kid, since he got so much attention off the bat, for one, 46 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:13,200 being a new kid but also being in a wheelchair, that it almost, 47 00:02:13,440 --> 00:02:16,520 he almost like immediately climbed up the social ladder to 48 00:02:16,520 --> 00:02:19,520 like the most popular guy. Because basically the Gen. 49 00:02:19,520 --> 00:02:21,720 Z kid, you know, he got a lot of attention from being the 50 00:02:21,720 --> 00:02:23,440 wheelchair and he definitely abused it. 51 00:02:23,440 --> 00:02:26,200 And let me just say that a lot of times kids in school with 52 00:02:26,200 --> 00:02:28,840 disabilities, you know, they get picked on a lot and it's really, 53 00:02:28,840 --> 00:02:30,960 really unfortunate and you really do hate to see it. 54 00:02:31,240 --> 00:02:33,920 But the Gen. Z kid was almost like a master 55 00:02:33,920 --> 00:02:36,880 manipulator in a sense. And so he kind of used, first of 56 00:02:36,880 --> 00:02:39,400 all, this is not a real, he's not actually in a wheelchair, 57 00:02:39,400 --> 00:02:42,400 but he kind of used his, like, positioning of getting a lot of 58 00:02:42,400 --> 00:02:45,320 tension in the very beginning and then used that to form, 59 00:02:45,320 --> 00:02:47,960 like, you know, friendships and relationships with people that 60 00:02:47,960 --> 00:02:50,320 were kind of already known as the top dog or whatever. 61 00:02:50,600 --> 00:02:52,000 And then the wheel. And then the Gen. 62 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:55,640 Z kid almost immediately became like the number one alpha 63 00:02:55,640 --> 00:02:56,960 whatever. And here's the thing. 64 00:02:56,960 --> 00:02:59,280 The Gen. Z kid was one of the most 65 00:02:59,280 --> 00:03:03,000 brutal, meanest people there. However, here's the thing, 66 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:04,360 right? He's already in. 67 00:03:04,360 --> 00:03:07,720 Like he's friends with everyone at the top or the top of the 68 00:03:07,720 --> 00:03:10,840 high school social ladder. Which I mean, high school social 69 00:03:10,840 --> 00:03:12,920 ladder. It's kind of irrelevant or 70 00:03:12,920 --> 00:03:14,720 whatever. But The thing is, he was already 71 00:03:14,720 --> 00:03:17,760 friends with a lot of people. And the other thing is like, if 72 00:03:17,760 --> 00:03:21,280 you were a mean back to them, you would just be immediately 73 00:03:21,280 --> 00:03:24,280 accosted by everyone around you. Because bro, you're being mean 74 00:03:24,280 --> 00:03:26,880 to the person who has to, like, you know, who's going around in 75 00:03:26,880 --> 00:03:29,120 a wheelchair, Like you're actually an A hole, bro. 76 00:03:29,320 --> 00:03:31,120 Like, that's how people would perceive it. 77 00:03:31,480 --> 00:03:33,800 So the Gen. Z kid was like actually a secret 78 00:03:33,800 --> 00:03:37,000 evil genius or whatever, or a super villain, basically. 79 00:03:37,240 --> 00:03:39,840 And Gerald didn't really think about, like, didn't really think 80 00:03:39,840 --> 00:03:43,120 that much. But one day, about a month into 81 00:03:43,120 --> 00:03:45,680 school, he was having a sleepover with another friend. 82 00:03:45,680 --> 00:03:47,080 We're going to call this friend Ben. 83 00:03:47,320 --> 00:03:49,960 So Gerald and Ben went to the same school, and they both knew 84 00:03:49,960 --> 00:03:51,160 about the Gen. Z kid. 85 00:03:51,480 --> 00:03:54,280 And Gerald, you know, I don't know if you guys experienced 86 00:03:54,280 --> 00:03:57,440 this, but when I have sleepovers with the boys at a certain time, 87 00:03:57,440 --> 00:03:59,760 like, it's just like late enough at night. 88 00:03:59,760 --> 00:04:02,360 Once you stop playing, I don't know, video games or going out 89 00:04:02,360 --> 00:04:04,480 and doing something, you're just kind of chilling. 90 00:04:04,600 --> 00:04:07,240 You guys have those deep talks, if you guys know what I mean. 91 00:04:07,560 --> 00:04:12,520 So Gerald didn't want to be the guy who was like, I don't know, 92 00:04:13,600 --> 00:04:16,279 Duncan on the on the on the kid in the wheelchair, bro. 93 00:04:16,279 --> 00:04:18,000 He didn't want to be that guy, right. 94 00:04:18,279 --> 00:04:21,880 So Gerald very sheepishly is like, oh, what do you think of 95 00:04:21,959 --> 00:04:23,160 the Gen. Z kid? 96 00:04:23,160 --> 00:04:24,320 Right. And I say Gen. 97 00:04:24,320 --> 00:04:26,520 Z kid not because like literally in the Gen. 98 00:04:26,520 --> 00:04:29,760 Z generation, I just mean Gen. Z in the fact that like wants 99 00:04:29,760 --> 00:04:33,880 extreme amounts of attention and will basically use other 100 00:04:33,880 --> 00:04:37,600 people's life situations to to try and get more attention and 101 00:04:37,600 --> 00:04:39,960 for their own gain. That's what some people are 102 00:04:39,960 --> 00:04:41,440 confused. They're like, Oh well, are you 103 00:04:41,440 --> 00:04:43,200 all in Gen. Z's in a whole generation. 104 00:04:43,200 --> 00:04:45,400 That's what I mean. It's colloquial, not actually 105 00:04:45,400 --> 00:04:49,360 the the direct exact term. But yeah, so Gerald kind of like 106 00:04:49,360 --> 00:04:52,440 turns his from Benny's like yay. So you know the Gen. 107 00:04:52,440 --> 00:04:54,680 Z kid, he's he's pretty popular now. 108 00:04:54,680 --> 00:04:57,520 I mean, it's been a while since like a new student kind of rose 109 00:04:57,520 --> 00:05:01,800 the ranks that quickly. And Ben's like, yeah, he's cool. 110 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:05,880 And Gerald's like, yeah, they were both very obviously trying 111 00:05:05,880 --> 00:05:08,640 to like skirt around the fact that they did not like this kid 112 00:05:08,640 --> 00:05:10,720 at all, remember? Not because of his any of his 113 00:05:10,720 --> 00:05:13,800 disabilities or anything or quote UN quote, huge quotations 114 00:05:13,840 --> 00:05:16,400 disabilities. This kid was actually taken away 115 00:05:16,400 --> 00:05:18,920 from people who really have those disabilities and have to 116 00:05:18,920 --> 00:05:21,520 live their life with it without a choice, right. 117 00:05:21,520 --> 00:05:23,400 But at this point, everyone believed it was real. 118 00:05:23,400 --> 00:05:25,080 So let's speak as if it was real. 119 00:05:25,400 --> 00:05:29,160 But then Gerald was like, you know, I thought for a kid who's 120 00:05:29,160 --> 00:05:32,120 been through so much hardship that he would, that he would 121 00:05:32,120 --> 00:05:33,720 maybe be a little nicer to other people. 122 00:05:33,720 --> 00:05:36,640 And Ben's like, you know, I kind of agree, You know, when you 123 00:05:36,640 --> 00:05:39,440 like you and your friend have this like slightly controversial 124 00:05:39,440 --> 00:05:42,200 opinion, maybe it's not even that slightly controversial, but 125 00:05:42,200 --> 00:05:44,360 you, you don't know if they share the same opinion. 126 00:05:44,360 --> 00:05:46,680 And you know, if they, if they disagree with you, they're going 127 00:05:46,680 --> 00:05:50,520 to be really mad. So you slightly slowly, kind of 128 00:05:50,520 --> 00:05:53,440 like kind of like ease towards that opinion, right? 129 00:05:53,440 --> 00:05:55,880 And then they slightly ease towards that opinion. 130 00:05:56,040 --> 00:05:57,920 It's almost like you're going in for a kiss, bro. 131 00:05:57,920 --> 00:05:59,960 Oh wait, Kiss the homies. Wait a minute. 132 00:05:59,960 --> 00:06:01,480 Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. 133 00:06:01,840 --> 00:06:03,720 Yeah. But anyways, eventually, Gerald 134 00:06:03,720 --> 00:06:06,320 and Ben, they're talking and they just get straight to it. 135 00:06:06,320 --> 00:06:08,440 And they're like, I can't believe this kid's such a jerk 136 00:06:08,440 --> 00:06:10,200 to everyone. I mean, the Gen. 137 00:06:10,200 --> 00:06:13,120 Z kid would literally start like, being like like, just 138 00:06:13,120 --> 00:06:14,840 calling people out for no good reason. 139 00:06:14,840 --> 00:06:17,840 He'd be like, you know, rolling with this, like, group of other 140 00:06:17,840 --> 00:06:20,440 popular people. And it would be like, I don't 141 00:06:20,440 --> 00:06:22,280 know, man. It would be like, he'd be 142 00:06:22,280 --> 00:06:24,040 rolling by with, like, the other people. 143 00:06:24,040 --> 00:06:27,040 And they'd pass by some kid who was like, I don't know, a little 144 00:06:27,040 --> 00:06:28,640 scruffy looking the Gen. Z kids. 145 00:06:28,640 --> 00:06:31,480 Like, when's the last time you took a shower and would, like, 146 00:06:31,480 --> 00:06:33,880 point at some kid and all the kids rolling with him would be 147 00:06:33,880 --> 00:06:36,760 like, laughing or whatever. And dude, if this kid was trying 148 00:06:36,760 --> 00:06:39,560 to clap back, you know, they'd all be like, wait a minute, man, 149 00:06:39,560 --> 00:06:42,160 this guy's in a wheelchair. You can't come for him. 150 00:06:42,480 --> 00:06:44,440 And that's the most messed up thing. 151 00:06:44,440 --> 00:06:47,080 The Gen. Z kid was literally using other 152 00:06:47,080 --> 00:06:51,160 people's life struggles, other people's serious issues as a 153 00:06:51,160 --> 00:06:55,320 kind of shield to defend against him being a bad person and him 154 00:06:55,320 --> 00:06:58,040 being able to do what he wants. Which is, you know, absolutely 155 00:06:58,040 --> 00:07:01,120 ridiculous, right? So at this point, Ben and Gerald 156 00:07:01,120 --> 00:07:04,680 have been talking for like an hour about how, like, insane it 157 00:07:04,680 --> 00:07:07,680 is that everyone just kind of let's this behavior go, that no 158 00:07:07,680 --> 00:07:10,520 one has an issue with this on and on and on. 159 00:07:10,960 --> 00:07:13,880 But other than that little conversation that Gerald and Ben 160 00:07:13,880 --> 00:07:15,800 have, it's not as if they do that much. 161 00:07:15,840 --> 00:07:18,120 It's also not as if they're going to share that opinion, 162 00:07:18,280 --> 00:07:20,640 because The thing is, people will kind of look at them the 163 00:07:20,640 --> 00:07:22,760 wrong way. Yeah, this kid was a jerk, but 164 00:07:22,760 --> 00:07:25,360 he was also fairly popular. And also, you know, the very, 165 00:07:25,480 --> 00:07:27,520 you know, the elephant in the room is people going to be like, 166 00:07:27,520 --> 00:07:29,920 man, like relax, like he has a tough life. 167 00:07:29,920 --> 00:07:31,680 Like, maybe he's just taking it out on people. 168 00:07:31,920 --> 00:07:34,560 So Gerald and Ben, while they have this opinion, and they do 169 00:07:34,560 --> 00:07:37,000 share it together and it was almost like it was almost like a 170 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:39,120 relief that he was able to share that opinion. 171 00:07:39,120 --> 00:07:41,240 I don't know if you guys have ever, like, felt like I can't 172 00:07:41,240 --> 00:07:43,520 say what I'm thinking. And then you're able to like 173 00:07:43,760 --> 00:07:46,720 express that opinion with your best friend or with a friend. 174 00:07:46,720 --> 00:07:50,120 It's just such a relief, right? But anyways, so they get back to 175 00:07:50,120 --> 00:07:54,240 school and for the next like couple weeks it is just on and 176 00:07:54,240 --> 00:07:57,240 on and on of just like the kids getting worse. 177 00:07:57,480 --> 00:08:00,120 Like I like everyone's thinking like how could this kid possibly 178 00:08:00,120 --> 00:08:01,280 get worse? The the Gen. 179 00:08:01,280 --> 00:08:05,280 Z kid continues on his rampage. It's like he just refuses to 180 00:08:05,280 --> 00:08:07,600 stop. He just continues to be a big 181 00:08:07,600 --> 00:08:11,560 jerk and he just it's like he's refusing to stop being a massive 182 00:08:11,560 --> 00:08:14,080 jerk to everyone and it's kind of ridiculous. 183 00:08:14,280 --> 00:08:17,240 He's getting worse and worse and there's a little bit of growing 184 00:08:17,240 --> 00:08:19,360 sentiment against the Gen. Z kid right? 185 00:08:19,520 --> 00:08:23,240 But everyone is way too scared to like form any opinion. 186 00:08:23,400 --> 00:08:25,720 Look this is only eighth grade. Or to share an opinion. 187 00:08:25,720 --> 00:08:27,640 Look, this is only eighth grade, right? 188 00:08:27,640 --> 00:08:30,320 This is only 8th graders. But this kid might actually be 189 00:08:30,320 --> 00:08:33,840 like, AI don't know, a a a a Marvel super villain. 190 00:08:33,960 --> 00:08:35,840 He's got that crazy planning bro. 191 00:08:35,840 --> 00:08:38,559 Like, I I don't know, man. Like he's somehow been able to 192 00:08:38,559 --> 00:08:42,600 orchestrate like a kind of a social defense system where he 193 00:08:42,600 --> 00:08:45,880 can be the worst kid ever and actually be a massive jerk, but 194 00:08:45,880 --> 00:08:49,240 no one can oppose him without being weird so any or being 195 00:08:49,240 --> 00:08:53,680 ostracized by their community. Anyways, here's the thing. 196 00:08:54,600 --> 00:08:57,640 So this the the downfall of the Gen. 197 00:08:57,640 --> 00:09:03,680 Z kid all started one day. So Gerald was walking alone in 198 00:09:03,680 --> 00:09:05,800 the hallways. It was kind of close to after 199 00:09:05,800 --> 00:09:08,480 school. And he walks around and he turns 200 00:09:08,480 --> 00:09:10,920 a corner and he sees the Gen. Z kid. 201 00:09:11,280 --> 00:09:14,800 And for a split second he thinks to himself, wait a minute, 202 00:09:14,800 --> 00:09:17,800 because he looks at the Gen. Z kid and it looks like he sat 203 00:09:17,800 --> 00:09:19,600 down. It looks like the Gen. 204 00:09:19,600 --> 00:09:22,760 Z kid just sat down into his wheelchair, which doesn't make 205 00:09:22,760 --> 00:09:24,800 sense. The lower half of his body 206 00:09:25,040 --> 00:09:28,080 doesn't move, but he was certain what he saw. 207 00:09:28,440 --> 00:09:31,280 But he also, while he was certain what he saw, he was 208 00:09:31,280 --> 00:09:34,160 thinking, well, maybe it was just some kind of an illusion. 209 00:09:34,160 --> 00:09:36,200 Maybe I just wasn't seeing things right. 210 00:09:36,400 --> 00:09:37,880 There was a lot of possibilities. 211 00:09:38,800 --> 00:09:41,600 And eventually, you know, Gerald does turn the corner and he's in 212 00:09:41,600 --> 00:09:43,160 the same hallway as the Gen. Z kid. 213 00:09:43,160 --> 00:09:46,440 And Gerald is like, so distracted and thought that he 214 00:09:46,440 --> 00:09:48,920 kind of like trips over his own feet a little bit. 215 00:09:49,080 --> 00:09:50,440 He doesn't trip and fall on the ground. 216 00:09:50,440 --> 00:09:52,400 But I don't know if you guys have ever experienced this. 217 00:09:52,400 --> 00:09:54,600 I definitely have. Where you're walking, but you're 218 00:09:54,600 --> 00:09:57,080 just not paying attention and you just kind of like trip over 219 00:09:57,080 --> 00:09:59,160 your own feet but catch yourself pretty quickly. 220 00:09:59,440 --> 00:10:02,360 And as he's walking by the Gen. Z kids like, oh oh man, watch 221 00:10:02,360 --> 00:10:05,120 out, your feet are there kind of as like a joke of like, you just 222 00:10:05,120 --> 00:10:08,120 tripped over nothing, bro. How do you trip over nothing? 223 00:10:08,600 --> 00:10:10,160 Like, seriously, how do you trip over nothing? 224 00:10:10,160 --> 00:10:12,640 Kind of like a joke like that. And you know, I don't know, 225 00:10:12,640 --> 00:10:14,440 Gerald just kind of looking at him like, all right, man. 226 00:10:14,760 --> 00:10:17,680 And Gerald just keeps walking and he just can't get over the 227 00:10:17,680 --> 00:10:21,360 fact that he knew what he saw. He was like, no, this, this 228 00:10:21,360 --> 00:10:24,120 can't be right, 'cause like, while he had said, while he was 229 00:10:24,120 --> 00:10:26,280 thinking that the Gen. Z kid was a, you know, a pretty 230 00:10:26,280 --> 00:10:28,560 big jerk, and there was no question about that. 231 00:10:28,880 --> 00:10:32,400 At the same time, Gerald did not for a single second until this 232 00:10:32,600 --> 00:10:34,480 or before this, ever thought that the Gen. 233 00:10:34,480 --> 00:10:36,600 Z kid was faking, you know, being in a wheelchair. 234 00:10:36,840 --> 00:10:37,760 He just thought that. Wow. 235 00:10:37,760 --> 00:10:41,640 Like this kid is like a jerk and also happens to be in a 236 00:10:41,640 --> 00:10:43,320 wheelchair. Like you can be both of those at 237 00:10:43,320 --> 00:10:44,600 the same time, you know what I mean? 238 00:10:44,960 --> 00:10:47,760 So a journalist can't get this out of his mind. 239 00:10:47,760 --> 00:10:51,360 He just is like he he just keeps walking, keeps thinking about it 240 00:10:51,360 --> 00:10:54,680 and for the rest of the like the day he can't focus in class. 241 00:10:54,680 --> 00:10:56,840 Actually, no not focus in class because it was towards the end 242 00:10:56,840 --> 00:10:59,280 of the day for the rest of the time at home, trying to do 243 00:10:59,280 --> 00:11:01,080 homework, he was like struggling bro. 244 00:11:01,240 --> 00:11:03,600 He was struggling to pay attention because he was like, I 245 00:11:03,600 --> 00:11:06,520 know what I saw. I I know what I saw. 246 00:11:07,560 --> 00:11:10,040 Yeah. So he gets back home and this is 247 00:11:10,040 --> 00:11:12,560 where he does a little investigating. 248 00:11:12,560 --> 00:11:15,560 So basically the Gen. Z kid told everyone a very 249 00:11:15,560 --> 00:11:18,840 specific story about what happened in his life and how we 250 00:11:18,840 --> 00:11:20,480 got there. Basically, the Gen. 251 00:11:20,480 --> 00:11:23,680 Z kid said he got in a really bad car crash when he was four 252 00:11:23,680 --> 00:11:26,840 years old. And that, you know, I, I don't 253 00:11:26,840 --> 00:11:29,040 know, like after that point, he had to be in a wheelchair in the 254 00:11:29,040 --> 00:11:32,560 bottom like his. His like, like his bottom half 255 00:11:32,560 --> 00:11:35,320 didn't work right. Or it was like paralyzed or 256 00:11:35,320 --> 00:11:37,200 whatever. So that was the story that he 257 00:11:37,200 --> 00:11:40,320 told everybody. And Gerald was just like he's 258 00:11:40,320 --> 00:11:44,120 like I I I'm just so like he goes on this kids Instagram and 259 00:11:44,120 --> 00:11:46,760 sure enough this kid has like one post and it's him like 260 00:11:46,760 --> 00:11:49,080 holding a fish or whatever and he's in the wheelchair. 261 00:11:49,600 --> 00:11:51,800 And it was, it was very recent, right. 262 00:11:51,800 --> 00:11:55,800 It was a post made like while this kid was at school and he 263 00:11:55,800 --> 00:11:58,920 had no other posts. So what Gerald does is he goes 264 00:11:58,920 --> 00:12:02,200 to this kids tagged post. So on Instagram by the way, 265 00:12:02,200 --> 00:12:04,920 follow me on Instagram at Connor Pugs You can submit your stories 266 00:12:04,920 --> 00:12:07,960 there and also you can watch my shorts on there or reels or 267 00:12:08,120 --> 00:12:11,080 whatever it's called, right? I do a little short stories on 268 00:12:11,080 --> 00:12:13,640 there anyways, right? So he goes in the kids tag 269 00:12:13,640 --> 00:12:15,440 photos. He's looking through the tag 270 00:12:15,440 --> 00:12:19,320 photos and he's just, you know, finding like, I don't know, he's 271 00:12:19,320 --> 00:12:22,320 not finding that much and he's finding like a lot of like, 272 00:12:22,320 --> 00:12:25,400 memes or whatever that his friends posted on their 273 00:12:25,400 --> 00:12:27,320 Instagram and like tagged him in or whatever. 274 00:12:27,560 --> 00:12:29,240 I don't know. But like back when I was in 8th 275 00:12:29,240 --> 00:12:31,720 grade, I would just, like, screenshot funny memes and post 276 00:12:31,720 --> 00:12:34,560 them on my main Instagram. Like now I just don't post 277 00:12:34,560 --> 00:12:36,240 anything bro. I'm just like, Nah, I'm not 278 00:12:36,240 --> 00:12:37,800 posting anything. But that's how I'd use it back 279 00:12:37,800 --> 00:12:40,040 in the day. But he just kept scrolling and 280 00:12:40,040 --> 00:12:43,080 he found the photo at the very bottom of the tag. 281 00:12:43,360 --> 00:12:47,960 It was from five years ago, so quite a while ago, but the Gen. 282 00:12:47,960 --> 00:12:52,560 Z kid was definitely older than four at this point, so it was a 283 00:12:52,560 --> 00:12:56,600 photo of a bunch of kids all standing up together. 284 00:12:56,600 --> 00:12:58,640 First of all, I think you guys caught it. 285 00:12:58,640 --> 00:13:01,200 They're all standing up together, but it must have been 286 00:13:01,200 --> 00:13:05,480 either a camp or at a school they used to go to or some kind 287 00:13:05,480 --> 00:13:07,480 of after school program or something. 288 00:13:08,040 --> 00:13:11,680 And since they were in 8th grade, it was like 4-5 years ago 289 00:13:11,680 --> 00:13:13,280 or whatever. You know, the Gen. 290 00:13:13,280 --> 00:13:15,520 Z kid was probably like 3rd or 4th grade. 291 00:13:15,680 --> 00:13:18,600 When you're in 4th grade, you are significantly older than 292 00:13:18,600 --> 00:13:21,560 four, unless you're Baby Einstein or whatever, but he was 293 00:13:21,560 --> 00:13:25,520 obviously much older than four. And Gerald is staring at this 294 00:13:25,520 --> 00:13:29,320 photo, and he can't stop staring at the photo because he's 295 00:13:29,320 --> 00:13:32,880 looking at the photo and every kid is standing upright. 296 00:13:33,320 --> 00:13:35,160 And there's a kid who looks like the Gen. 297 00:13:35,160 --> 00:13:37,360 Z kid. When he was like 3 or 4 years 298 00:13:37,360 --> 00:13:39,840 younger, probably this kid was standing up. 299 00:13:40,320 --> 00:13:45,760 This kid was 100% standing up. No questions, no wheelchair 300 00:13:45,760 --> 00:13:49,600 insight, no nothing. And Gerald is just like, Oh my 301 00:13:49,600 --> 00:13:52,320 God, like this kid cleaned up his profile. 302 00:13:52,320 --> 00:13:55,440 Like he must have like he probably had photos from back in 303 00:13:55,440 --> 00:13:58,600 the day that he scrubbed and all this kind of stuff, right? 304 00:13:58,880 --> 00:14:01,440 And maybe if any of his older friends who still follow him 305 00:14:01,440 --> 00:14:04,280 commented on the post saying, wait, you're in a wheelchair 306 00:14:04,280 --> 00:14:06,040 now, deleted those comments, right? 307 00:14:06,240 --> 00:14:11,160 He did a good job scrubbing his profile, except for one photo. 308 00:14:11,880 --> 00:14:14,760 Here's the thing though, Gerald made a bit of a mistake. 309 00:14:15,160 --> 00:14:19,080 Instead of screenshotting the photo, he just assumed, Oh well, 310 00:14:19,080 --> 00:14:22,080 you know, this isn't the tag, so I can just tell people to go 311 00:14:22,080 --> 00:14:24,280 check out the Gen. Z Kids tag photos. 312 00:14:24,480 --> 00:14:27,720 So anyways, the next day in school, Gerald immediately is 313 00:14:27,720 --> 00:14:30,000 like, all right, well, I got to spread the truth. 314 00:14:30,280 --> 00:14:32,640 Because, you know, even though I do have an agenda against this 315 00:14:32,640 --> 00:14:35,760 kid, I don't really like him. I, I, I it's better that people 316 00:14:35,760 --> 00:14:37,680 know the truth. And that's the most important 317 00:14:37,680 --> 00:14:41,240 thing anyways though. So right, Gerald now has 318 00:14:41,240 --> 00:14:44,240 information. Gerald now has proof that the 319 00:14:44,240 --> 00:14:46,640 whole time the Gen. Z kid has been faking it. 320 00:14:46,880 --> 00:14:49,640 Gerald doesn't totally understand why Gerald doesn't 321 00:14:49,640 --> 00:14:53,720 understand how Gerald doesn't understand a lot of details. 322 00:14:53,720 --> 00:14:57,520 However, what Gerald does know is that there is a photo on this 323 00:14:57,520 --> 00:15:02,200 kids Instagram page that shows him very clearly standing up 324 00:15:02,200 --> 00:15:06,240 when you know he can't stand up. This kid cannot stand up bro. 325 00:15:06,240 --> 00:15:08,920 At least from what he's been told or what he's told everyone 326 00:15:08,920 --> 00:15:11,600 else. So Gerald knows this and he 327 00:15:11,600 --> 00:15:13,600 knows he's, you know this is what he's going to spread. 328 00:15:14,320 --> 00:15:17,360 So there was a very strict no phones policy at school. 329 00:15:17,720 --> 00:15:20,320 Everyone's phones had to be in their backpacks and like 330 00:15:20,320 --> 00:15:23,200 teachers would legitimately like take someone's phone for an 331 00:15:23,200 --> 00:15:27,480 entire week if they saw it. So the problem was, was that for 332 00:15:27,480 --> 00:15:31,600 the longest time, not not, not the longest time, but for the 333 00:15:31,600 --> 00:15:34,400 duration of the day, you couldn't be on your phone. 334 00:15:34,440 --> 00:15:37,280 A few kids would occasionally like, sneak them around. 335 00:15:37,280 --> 00:15:40,360 But just just the whole risk of having your phone taken away for 336 00:15:40,360 --> 00:15:43,080 an entire week, you weren't even allowed to get it at the end of 337 00:15:43,080 --> 00:15:46,160 the day, you had to wait till the end of the week to get it, 338 00:15:46,160 --> 00:15:47,960 man. So a lot of kids were just like, 339 00:15:47,960 --> 00:15:50,240 all right, fine, whatever, we just won't go on our phones. 340 00:15:50,520 --> 00:15:54,040 So here's the problem, right? Gerald immediately starts 341 00:15:54,040 --> 00:15:57,840 telling everyone in person about what's happened. 342 00:15:57,840 --> 00:16:01,440 So instead of sending them the Instagram post over Instagram 343 00:16:01,440 --> 00:16:04,760 DMS the night before, or waiting till he got back to send 344 00:16:04,760 --> 00:16:06,480 Instagram like the Instagram post to people. 345 00:16:06,480 --> 00:16:08,760 What Gerald does, and he admits this was a mistake in 346 00:16:08,760 --> 00:16:13,000 retrospect, was he just simply tells people if you go on this 347 00:16:13,000 --> 00:16:15,600 on the Gen. Z Kids Instagram tonight and you 348 00:16:15,600 --> 00:16:18,600 go to his tag section, you scroll all the way down, you'll 349 00:16:18,600 --> 00:16:22,320 find a photo from three to four years ago in which the Gen. 350 00:16:22,320 --> 00:16:25,000 Z kid is very clearly standing up. 351 00:16:25,400 --> 00:16:28,560 And if you remember his story well, he was like paralyzed in a 352 00:16:28,560 --> 00:16:33,360 car crash at the age of three or four, not like 12 or 13. 353 00:16:33,640 --> 00:16:37,560 Huge discrepancy right there. So word spread extremely 354 00:16:37,560 --> 00:16:39,320 quickly. This is a relatively small 355 00:16:39,320 --> 00:16:42,920 school, so word tends to spread kind of quickly, but especially 356 00:16:42,920 --> 00:16:45,200 some allegation of this like magnitude. 357 00:16:45,600 --> 00:16:47,960 The other thing that happened was that Gerald's name was 358 00:16:47,960 --> 00:16:51,080 attached to this allegation. Basically he said this and 359 00:16:51,080 --> 00:16:53,480 everyone went around saying Gerald is saying that the Gen. 360 00:16:53,480 --> 00:16:55,400 Z kid is faking it and he is proof. 361 00:16:56,480 --> 00:16:58,320 Real quick you've made it this far into the video. 362 00:16:58,320 --> 00:17:01,280 Comment proof down below. That'll be the secret word of 363 00:17:01,280 --> 00:17:03,040 the day. And while you're in the comment 364 00:17:03,040 --> 00:17:05,200 section, check out the pin comment on the video. 365 00:17:05,359 --> 00:17:08,079 That's a link to the Spotify page in which I in which I 366 00:17:08,079 --> 00:17:11,480 upload all these story times as podcasts on there and also a 367 00:17:11,480 --> 00:17:14,240 link to three other channels I run and post daily on. 368 00:17:14,240 --> 00:17:17,400 So please subscribe to all three of those to help me out And 369 00:17:17,400 --> 00:17:18,839 yeah, let's get right back to it. 370 00:17:19,200 --> 00:17:22,520 So anyways, right? Word spread extremely quickly 371 00:17:22,520 --> 00:17:25,240 that Gerald was claiming that the Gen. 372 00:17:25,240 --> 00:17:28,160 Z kid faked everything. So pretty big. 373 00:17:28,160 --> 00:17:31,200 Accusations, allegations, whatever, right? 374 00:17:31,560 --> 00:17:36,360 And here's the thing. So Gerald was, you know, he told 375 00:17:36,360 --> 00:17:38,600 everyone. People were talking about it and 376 00:17:38,600 --> 00:17:40,200 no one really had access to their phones. 377 00:17:40,200 --> 00:17:43,480 A lot of people wanted to, but we what ended up happening was 378 00:17:43,480 --> 00:17:46,520 the school day eventually ended and like every this was like 379 00:17:46,600 --> 00:17:49,440 everybody was talking about it. And what I mean, everybody. 380 00:17:49,440 --> 00:17:52,200 I mean everybody was talking about this bro. 381 00:17:52,200 --> 00:17:54,080 Like everyone was talking about it. 382 00:17:54,480 --> 00:17:58,960 So yeah, Gerald, you know he got back home or he's getting in the 383 00:17:58,960 --> 00:18:01,880 car with his mom and he goes into his backpack and he pulls 384 00:18:01,880 --> 00:18:04,840 out his phone. After about like 5 minutes, he 385 00:18:04,840 --> 00:18:07,640 receives a text notification from someone in his class. 386 00:18:07,880 --> 00:18:10,200 Not that he's like super close friends with, but I think they 387 00:18:10,200 --> 00:18:14,560 must have had like a either a grade large group chat or maybe 388 00:18:14,560 --> 00:18:17,760 he needed to exchange numbers for a project they didn't class 389 00:18:17,960 --> 00:18:21,560 but for some reason, right, he had Gerald's personal number. 390 00:18:22,200 --> 00:18:25,160 And so Gerald receives a text from some guy he's kind of 391 00:18:25,160 --> 00:18:28,800 friends with being like and it says something along the lines 392 00:18:28,800 --> 00:18:31,760 of bro, why did you make up that stuff about the Gen. 393 00:18:31,760 --> 00:18:34,760 Z kid? So Gerald is like super confused 394 00:18:34,760 --> 00:18:37,960 at this point and he responds to the text what do you mean? 395 00:18:38,560 --> 00:18:40,600 And the kid says, I went to the Gen. 396 00:18:40,600 --> 00:18:43,000 Z kids page and I can't find the post. 397 00:18:43,000 --> 00:18:45,640 Like, there's no post at all. And you know, Gerald's like, 398 00:18:45,640 --> 00:18:47,600 what? So Gerald opens up his Instagram 399 00:18:47,600 --> 00:18:49,320 and he goes to the post, or he goes to the Gen. 400 00:18:49,320 --> 00:18:53,360 Z kids account and he goes to the tag section and he scrolls 401 00:18:53,360 --> 00:18:55,840 all the way down. And he keeps looking. 402 00:18:55,840 --> 00:18:58,160 He looks all for it like he's like, oh, maybe it's not the 403 00:18:58,160 --> 00:19:00,040 very last one. And I remembered it wrong. 404 00:19:00,240 --> 00:19:03,880 Maybe it's like a couple posts down, but not the very last. 405 00:19:03,880 --> 00:19:07,480 Gerald looks through every single tag post and it's gone. 406 00:19:08,080 --> 00:19:09,800 The basically the proof of the Gen. 407 00:19:09,800 --> 00:19:14,360 Z Kid faking it is gone and that's when Gerald realizes that 408 00:19:14,360 --> 00:19:18,040 what must have happened was it because word spread so quickly 409 00:19:18,200 --> 00:19:22,360 and the Gerald didn't attach any actual proof with his with his 410 00:19:22,360 --> 00:19:24,440 accusations. He told people to go look for 411 00:19:24,440 --> 00:19:26,000 it. Word must have got back to the 412 00:19:26,000 --> 00:19:26,800 Gen. Z kid. 413 00:19:26,800 --> 00:19:29,080 The Gen. Z kid brushed it off like Oh no 414 00:19:29,080 --> 00:19:30,040 no no. Then the Gen. 415 00:19:30,040 --> 00:19:32,600 Z kid must have immediately taken the risk and gone on his 416 00:19:32,600 --> 00:19:35,240 phone and removed himself from the tagged post, right? 417 00:19:35,600 --> 00:19:38,120 'cause you can go to Instagram and you can remove yourself if 418 00:19:38,120 --> 00:19:41,240 you're tagged in a post. And The thing is, Gerald, I said 419 00:19:41,240 --> 00:19:44,520 this earlier, never got a screenshot, bro. 420 00:19:44,680 --> 00:19:46,640 He never got a screenshot. He never. 421 00:19:46,680 --> 00:19:49,680 He could not for the life of him remember the name of the account 422 00:19:49,880 --> 00:19:53,200 that like tagged him, 'cause it was like, it was like, I don't 423 00:19:53,200 --> 00:19:58,960 know, Megatron 48768 Pi Square. It's like some crazy username 424 00:19:58,960 --> 00:20:01,920 that you just won't remember. So this point Gerald's like, Oh 425 00:20:01,960 --> 00:20:04,440 no. So yeah, within the next 30 426 00:20:04,440 --> 00:20:07,520 minutes, Gerald probably receives 25 different messages 427 00:20:07,800 --> 00:20:11,120 either on Snapchat, Instagram, DMS, text message. 428 00:20:11,400 --> 00:20:13,760 Probably got a few faxes coming in too. 429 00:20:13,760 --> 00:20:16,400 Basically being like, dude, that's crazy for you to like. 430 00:20:16,640 --> 00:20:19,680 It was either along the lines of that's messed up for you to make 431 00:20:19,680 --> 00:20:23,160 that stuff up about the Gen. Z Kid or something like dude, 432 00:20:23,160 --> 00:20:25,200 can you send me the post? I can't find it. 433 00:20:25,400 --> 00:20:28,520 Or just like, wait, Are you sure that you saw what you saw, like 434 00:20:28,520 --> 00:20:29,960 around? It was basically a bunch of 435 00:20:29,960 --> 00:20:35,560 variations of those 3 messages. Yeah, so Gerald was like, oh 436 00:20:36,240 --> 00:20:41,360 crap bro, there's no way. Yeah, Gerald got bamboozled the 437 00:20:41,360 --> 00:20:42,280 Gen. Z kid. 438 00:20:42,440 --> 00:20:45,280 He should have realized he got You got to get screenshots, You 439 00:20:45,280 --> 00:20:48,600 got to get the receipts, man. Especially on something where 440 00:20:48,600 --> 00:20:50,280 the guy can get rid of the receipts. 441 00:20:50,520 --> 00:20:53,560 And The thing is, too, if the school didn't have such strict 442 00:20:53,560 --> 00:20:56,760 rules about having no phones or whatever, kid probably would 443 00:20:56,760 --> 00:20:58,880 have just pulled out his phone, checked and been like, Yep, 444 00:20:58,920 --> 00:21:01,320 here's proof, right? But no, people just waited till 445 00:21:01,320 --> 00:21:03,120 they got back. But I guess the Gen. 446 00:21:03,120 --> 00:21:05,520 Z kid realized that he needed to take the risk and go on his 447 00:21:05,520 --> 00:21:07,960 phone. And honestly, like Gerald didn't 448 00:21:07,960 --> 00:21:10,360 even see this coming. I think he totally forgot about 449 00:21:10,360 --> 00:21:13,800 the fact that you can remove yourself from an Instagram post. 450 00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:18,040 So yeah, Gerald got completely freaking bamboozled here, bro. 451 00:21:18,040 --> 00:21:20,480 He got absolutely owned. And let me just say that 452 00:21:20,480 --> 00:21:25,360 socially he got really owned. So yeah, he received a ton of 453 00:21:25,360 --> 00:21:28,120 text messages that night along, You know, I already told you the 454 00:21:28,120 --> 00:21:32,200 three basically the either being like how dare you do this or the 455 00:21:32,240 --> 00:21:35,920 I can't find the post or Are you sure you saw it correct bro. 456 00:21:36,400 --> 00:21:39,560 And yeah. So Gerald, so like Gerald wasn't 457 00:21:39,560 --> 00:21:43,400 like I don't know the popular kid that you know. 458 00:21:43,400 --> 00:21:46,480 Oh no, his reputations ruined. The only thing he has going for 459 00:21:46,480 --> 00:21:49,200 him is the fact that he's quote UN quote popular in high school 460 00:21:49,200 --> 00:21:51,760 which Oh yeah, that means so much, bro. 461 00:21:51,760 --> 00:21:54,920 Of course, yeah. But at the same time, like, 462 00:21:54,920 --> 00:21:58,120 Gerald, like would have kind of like friends, people, I don't 463 00:21:58,120 --> 00:22:00,640 know if you guys had this, but like more casual friends in 464 00:22:00,640 --> 00:22:03,520 class people, he would be. There are some people Gerald was 465 00:22:03,520 --> 00:22:05,680 really close with, but there's also a lot of people that he was 466 00:22:05,680 --> 00:22:08,640 as kind of friends with and like, people he'd sit with, 467 00:22:08,680 --> 00:22:11,120 people he'd get lunch with, people he'd walk with. 468 00:22:11,400 --> 00:22:14,600 Like, you know, he was a, he wasn't necessarily a popular guy 469 00:22:14,600 --> 00:22:16,920 in the sense he was like, I don't know, on the hockey team 470 00:22:16,920 --> 00:22:19,160 or had some kind of, like social clout like that. 471 00:22:19,160 --> 00:22:22,120 But he was a very kind of like because they're a talkative 472 00:22:22,120 --> 00:22:24,880 person and he spoke to a lot of people and for that reason he 473 00:22:24,880 --> 00:22:27,120 was always like he had a lot of people that he was kind of 474 00:22:27,120 --> 00:22:29,640 casually friends with and not like 2 very close friends and 475 00:22:29,640 --> 00:22:32,400 that's it. So yeah, for the next week, 476 00:22:32,400 --> 00:22:36,080 Gerald has like one of the worst social experiences of his life. 477 00:22:36,320 --> 00:22:39,560 He's completely ostracized as everyone thinks that he made 478 00:22:39,560 --> 00:22:43,000 this up about the Gen. Z kid just to make him look bad, 479 00:22:43,000 --> 00:22:46,320 which not only are you making some kid look bad based off, you 480 00:22:46,320 --> 00:22:50,200 know, factless or just like not true accusations, you're also 481 00:22:50,200 --> 00:22:52,920 trying to like tear down the kid that like already has a 482 00:22:52,920 --> 00:22:55,600 difficult life because he's disabled and in a wheelchair. 483 00:22:55,800 --> 00:22:59,560 It's a terrible, terrible, terrible look for Gerald. 484 00:23:00,200 --> 00:23:01,560 Yeah. So this is probably one of the 485 00:23:01,560 --> 00:23:04,400 hardest weeks because a lot, some people still hang out with 486 00:23:04,400 --> 00:23:05,680 him. Some people don't really care. 487 00:23:05,680 --> 00:23:08,400 Like obviously or not. I shouldn't say obviously, but 488 00:23:08,960 --> 00:23:11,000 his closest friends are still friends with them. 489 00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:12,920 That didn't change, which is pretty cool. 490 00:23:13,080 --> 00:23:15,560 I shouldn't say obviously, because I don't know, sometimes 491 00:23:15,560 --> 00:23:17,800 close friends aren't actually as close as you think. 492 00:23:18,040 --> 00:23:19,800 And even some of his casual friends don't care. 493 00:23:19,800 --> 00:23:21,120 And they're like, all right, bro, whatever. 494 00:23:21,320 --> 00:23:24,000 But a lot of his kind of like casual friends, while they 495 00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:27,160 weren't like, you can't sit with us, a lot of them would like, I 496 00:23:27,160 --> 00:23:30,000 don't know, there's a lot of, like things people can do to 497 00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:33,960 kind of, you know, imply that they don't want to hang out with 498 00:23:33,960 --> 00:23:36,520 you. Such as you sit down somewhere 499 00:23:36,520 --> 00:23:38,840 in your unassigned, assigned seats and then they decide to 500 00:23:38,840 --> 00:23:41,480 sit somewhere different, even though they've sat in the exact 501 00:23:41,480 --> 00:23:44,920 same spot for half a year. I don't know if you normally 502 00:23:44,920 --> 00:23:48,080 walk with someone, they quickly walk to their next class instead 503 00:23:48,080 --> 00:23:50,000 of waiting for you or they stay behind. 504 00:23:50,160 --> 00:23:53,600 Just a lot of like things that Gerald was noticing that people 505 00:23:53,600 --> 00:23:56,640 were definitely avoiding him, which partly he couldn't blame 506 00:23:56,640 --> 00:23:59,400 because he's like, Dang, I don't know if I'd want to hang out 507 00:23:59,400 --> 00:24:02,880 with me too if like I believe the rumor going or I believed 508 00:24:02,880 --> 00:24:05,840 what people believed. And Gerald also didn't blame 509 00:24:05,840 --> 00:24:07,840 people for believing what they believed. 510 00:24:08,080 --> 00:24:10,640 I mean, people went to the Instagram page and nothing was 511 00:24:10,640 --> 00:24:12,480 there. Why would they believe him? 512 00:24:12,960 --> 00:24:15,800 Of course, all this did end up changing when the Gen. 513 00:24:15,800 --> 00:24:21,520 Z kid exposes himself as a fraud in front of basically everyone 514 00:24:21,520 --> 00:24:25,800 at the school and Gerald gets instant redemption when that 515 00:24:25,800 --> 00:24:29,000 happens. So let me just kind of jump to 516 00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:31,960 that situation. So it's about two weeks. 517 00:24:31,960 --> 00:24:36,280 And after Jared, like 2 weeks of like turmoil for Gerald where no 518 00:24:36,280 --> 00:24:39,240 one wants to hang out with them, people are always like, a lot of 519 00:24:39,240 --> 00:24:42,280 people are talking about him, about he kind of he got exposed. 520 00:24:42,280 --> 00:24:44,240 Oh my God. Gerald seems like such a nice 521 00:24:44,240 --> 00:24:45,600 guy, but he's making fun of the Gen. 522 00:24:45,600 --> 00:24:48,680 Z kid, making up rumors about him like, wow, Gerald's actually 523 00:24:48,680 --> 00:24:50,360 a snake with all this kind of stuff, right? 524 00:24:50,680 --> 00:24:53,000 And so it's a really tough week for Gerald, or two weeks or 525 00:24:53,000 --> 00:24:55,520 whatever. And this school doesn't have any 526 00:24:55,520 --> 00:24:57,120 fire drills. I think they have, like, the 527 00:24:57,120 --> 00:25:00,640 most lame excuse for a fire drill you've ever seen. 528 00:25:00,640 --> 00:25:02,840 Like, I think the school, what they'll do is they'll like, I 529 00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:04,760 don't know, I think they'll put on like, they'll be like, all 530 00:25:04,760 --> 00:25:06,400 right guys, if there's a fire, what do you do? 531 00:25:06,400 --> 00:25:09,600 And they say, oh, walk out or like, I don't know, walk outside 532 00:25:09,600 --> 00:25:11,920 and the teacher's like, good, OK, let's get back to class. 533 00:25:12,160 --> 00:25:14,760 So they never, never really had an actual fire drill. 534 00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:18,800 So when the fire alarm went off during the school meeting when 535 00:25:18,800 --> 00:25:21,600 everyone was there, it was almost a bit of chaos that 536 00:25:21,600 --> 00:25:24,280 ensued. Yeah, so they were in just a 537 00:25:24,280 --> 00:25:26,080 meeting. And since they never had the 538 00:25:26,080 --> 00:25:29,080 fire alarm ever go off, 'cause they never had a real fire 539 00:25:29,080 --> 00:25:31,120 drill. As I was just explaining, when 540 00:25:31,120 --> 00:25:34,320 the fire alarm goes off, everyone freaks out and panics. 541 00:25:34,320 --> 00:25:35,640 This is why you have fire drills. 542 00:25:35,640 --> 00:25:37,960 So when it actually goes off, and by the way, there was no 543 00:25:37,960 --> 00:25:40,760 fire, it was like, I don't know, some kind of bug got into the 544 00:25:40,760 --> 00:25:43,440 system, like an actual physical bug, climbed in there and set it 545 00:25:43,440 --> 00:25:45,800 off or something. But yeah, when there's, that's 546 00:25:45,800 --> 00:25:48,000 why you do drills. So when it actually happens, you 547 00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:51,320 don't panic, freak out all this kind of stuff, right? 548 00:25:51,840 --> 00:25:54,760 So anyways, right, everyone freaks out and everyone's 549 00:25:54,760 --> 00:25:57,800 sitting in the auditorium so immediately the teacher runs up 550 00:25:57,800 --> 00:26:01,280 to the speakers like everyone get up, file single file out of 551 00:26:01,280 --> 00:26:04,360 here, go immediately to the front lawn and people were 552 00:26:04,360 --> 00:26:07,520 cramming the door. It was an absolute disaster bro. 553 00:26:07,720 --> 00:26:10,600 It was a blank show. It was not good right now. 554 00:26:10,800 --> 00:26:13,360 And I think afterwards they started implementing actual fire 555 00:26:13,360 --> 00:26:15,920 drill just because of how bad this was, even though it wasn't 556 00:26:15,920 --> 00:26:18,360 an actual fire. But anyways, everyone 557 00:26:18,360 --> 00:26:20,840 immediately gets them up and starts running towards the door. 558 00:26:21,720 --> 00:26:26,000 Listen to my sentence, the words I just said very closely because 559 00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:30,840 I did not misspeak. Everyone gets up and starts 560 00:26:30,840 --> 00:26:34,920 running towards the door. Everyone you know who's in that 561 00:26:34,920 --> 00:26:35,920 meeting? The Gen. 562 00:26:35,920 --> 00:26:38,600 Z kid. So everyone at the moment no one 563 00:26:38,600 --> 00:26:40,600 really notices. Maybe a few people are like wait 564 00:26:40,600 --> 00:26:41,840 what? I'm hallucinating bro. 565 00:26:42,040 --> 00:26:44,720 But no one really notices as everyone is running very quickly 566 00:26:44,720 --> 00:26:48,240 to try and get out the door. And so they all get outside and 567 00:26:48,240 --> 00:26:50,920 they all kind of like form a big clump or whatever. 568 00:26:50,920 --> 00:26:53,680 And the grass, the fields outside and the teachers are 569 00:26:53,680 --> 00:26:57,960 like, all right, let go by your everyone find your fifth period 570 00:26:57,960 --> 00:27:01,080 class, like find your teacher for your fifth period class. 571 00:27:01,080 --> 00:27:02,920 They're going to take your attendance, make sure you're all 572 00:27:02,920 --> 00:27:04,720 here. Fifth period was going to be 573 00:27:04,720 --> 00:27:07,560 right after school meeting anyways, So everyone gets in 574 00:27:07,560 --> 00:27:11,080 those lines right? And Gerald is like kind of all 575 00:27:11,080 --> 00:27:13,760 frazzled or whatever as the energy was insane. 576 00:27:13,760 --> 00:27:15,880 And he's like Oh my God, like everyone's going crazy. 577 00:27:16,400 --> 00:27:18,440 But he looks over, he's just kind of like casually looking 578 00:27:18,440 --> 00:27:24,480 around and he looks at the Gen. Z kid who is standing in line 579 00:27:24,680 --> 00:27:27,200 standing and the people in the Gen. 580 00:27:27,200 --> 00:27:29,720 Z's like kids is like class or whatever. 581 00:27:29,880 --> 00:27:32,680 The fifth period class are kind of looking at him, looking at 582 00:27:32,680 --> 00:27:35,400 him with this weird look. And Gerald taps like the 583 00:27:35,400 --> 00:27:37,960 shoulder of his friend Ben, who happens to be in the 5th grade 584 00:27:37,960 --> 00:27:40,880 class, The one. Remember way back when he had a 585 00:27:40,920 --> 00:27:43,160 like a sleepover and him and Ben were like, oh that kids the 586 00:27:43,160 --> 00:27:45,760 worst taps his shoulder, points at the Gen. 587 00:27:45,760 --> 00:27:48,760 Z kid and he's standing. He's standing there. 588 00:27:48,920 --> 00:27:51,680 So slowly everyone starts staring at the Gen. 589 00:27:51,680 --> 00:27:55,000 Z kid and the Gen. Z kid doesn't even realize what 590 00:27:55,000 --> 00:27:59,400 just happened. And so, yeah, everyone starts to 591 00:27:59,400 --> 00:28:02,600 realize that the Gen. Z kid is standing there, and 592 00:28:02,600 --> 00:28:06,760 eventually the Gen. Z kid realizes what's up, and he 593 00:28:06,760 --> 00:28:10,240 like, he just he freezes like he was kind of, like casually, 594 00:28:10,240 --> 00:28:12,120 like, standing there. But you could just tell that, 595 00:28:12,360 --> 00:28:14,360 Like, Gerald could tell the moment that the Gen. 596 00:28:14,360 --> 00:28:16,760 Z kid realized that he messed up because the Gen. 597 00:28:16,760 --> 00:28:20,760 Z kid was just standing there stiff as a freaking broomstick, 598 00:28:20,880 --> 00:28:24,040 frozen with fear because he doesn't know how to get out of 599 00:28:24,040 --> 00:28:26,320 this situation. He's probably going through like 600 00:28:26,320 --> 00:28:29,000 a billion calculations in his head of oh, what's the most 601 00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:30,760 optimal thing I can do to save myself? 602 00:28:31,280 --> 00:28:33,920 But he went through all of them and none of them worked. 603 00:28:33,920 --> 00:28:36,080 Zero. There's no way to explain this. 604 00:28:36,320 --> 00:28:38,480 He starts, like, turning to his classmates and be like, Oh my 605 00:28:38,480 --> 00:28:42,000 God, guys, I don't know how this happened, but I must. 606 00:28:42,040 --> 00:28:45,040 I must have been cured. Like, I'm feeling so much better 607 00:28:45,040 --> 00:28:47,960 and they're all just looking at them, cuz they knew the rumors 608 00:28:47,960 --> 00:28:50,480 that he was faking it. And then they all were like, 609 00:28:50,480 --> 00:28:53,200 wow, he got accused of faking it, and it's false. 610 00:28:53,600 --> 00:28:56,880 So everyone in the back of their mind was now kind of, like, open 611 00:28:56,880 --> 00:28:59,480 to the idea that he might be faking it because a rumor spread 612 00:28:59,480 --> 00:29:02,040 about that, even though that rumor was proven to be false. 613 00:29:02,360 --> 00:29:06,600 So now that there was proof that all of them could see the Gen. 614 00:29:06,600 --> 00:29:09,400 Z kid was faking it, now there was nothing the Gen. 615 00:29:09,400 --> 00:29:11,600 Z kid would do From that day on, the Gen. 616 00:29:11,600 --> 00:29:13,760 Z kid did not come in with a wheelchair because he's not 617 00:29:13,760 --> 00:29:15,080 actually disabled, right? He's in. 618 00:29:15,920 --> 00:29:19,840 Even walks normally immediately to the very bottom of the social 619 00:29:19,840 --> 00:29:21,200 structure. No one wanted to hang out with 620 00:29:21,200 --> 00:29:23,200 them. Even the kids that nobody liked 621 00:29:23,200 --> 00:29:24,120 didn't want to hang out with them. 622 00:29:24,120 --> 00:29:25,520 No one wanted to hang out with them. 623 00:29:25,840 --> 00:29:29,160 And Gerald immediately kind of got the whole, like, no one 624 00:29:29,160 --> 00:29:31,080 apologized to Gerald, which is pretty funny. 625 00:29:31,080 --> 00:29:33,240 But, like, you know how I was telling you earlier that some 626 00:29:33,240 --> 00:29:36,440 people who, like, stopped, like, would like kind of, like walk 627 00:29:36,440 --> 00:29:39,200 faster than him or wouldn't wait for him or would sit at 628 00:29:39,200 --> 00:29:41,240 different tables. All those people just started 629 00:29:41,320 --> 00:29:43,960 hanging out with Gerald again like nothing just happened. 630 00:29:44,520 --> 00:29:47,280 One thing I will say is Gerald will always remember the people 631 00:29:47,280 --> 00:29:49,000 that stuck with him through thick and thin. 632 00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:52,480 The people that either believed him or not but knew his 633 00:29:52,480 --> 00:29:55,880 character so decided to kind of like make a bet on him, make a 634 00:29:55,880 --> 00:30:00,000 bet on him actually being a good person and not doing what people 635 00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:02,320 said that he did. Gerald will never forget those 636 00:30:02,320 --> 00:30:04,480 people and still to this day the Gen. 637 00:30:04,480 --> 00:30:08,160 Z kid is super ostracized. And Gerald said that actually by 638 00:30:08,160 --> 00:30:11,000 the end of that year the Gen. Z kid had moved schools and was 639 00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:14,080 going to another school. So by the time 9th grade rolls 640 00:30:14,080 --> 00:30:17,640 around, he will no longer be in the school with Jared if you 641 00:30:17,640 --> 00:30:17,800 want.