Though we all know that the internet is quite full of drama with its trolls and influencers, are some people taking it too far and ruining the lives of many in internet communities?

A well-known Youtuber who was formerly part of one of the most subscribed channels on Youtube, Anthony Padilla, posted a video in early March on his popular “I Spent a Day With” series where he interviews different people about their occupations, hobbies, mental illnesses, etc. On March 4th, he uploaded an informative video with people who had multiple personalities or what is more formally known as DID (Dissociative Identity Disorder) in an attempt to clear all the stigma around multiple personality disorder. In the well organized and professional video, he asked people with the disorder questions about how the disorder worked and how it was like to live with it. The video was very successful, gaining millions of views and many positive and appreciative comments praising its accuracy and sincerity.

But, like many other viral videos, it turned into a “trend” and left attention-hungry people a new idea for a video. This was true for YouTuber Blndsundoll4mj, who’s real name is Trisha Paytas. Trisha is known to be a problematic Youtuber who, over the past few years, has been the center of many controversies, such as her “coming out as transgender” video where she claimed to be transitioning from female to male. She received major backlash from the transgender community, who refuted her claims by saying that she experiences gender dysphoria but refuses to transition. She never gave a proper response to the upset comments she received and still claims to be transgender.

After Anthony’s video blew up, Trisha made a new video claiming to have dissociative identity disorder, a disorder that had become more relevant in the community at the time. Since mental health awareness and education has become less stigmatized recently, people on social media are starting to be more open and vulnerable with their struggles while facing their hardships. Trisha, however, took advantage of this and uploaded a YouTube video introducing her alters, titled “Meet My Alters”. This video shocked many viewers as this was the first time they had ever heard of Trisha having this disorder. After her video received around a million views, many viewers who saw Anthony’s video believed she was disingenuously trying to copy the mannerisms and behaviors of the interviewees in Anthony’s video. The viewers noticed that Trisha’s video was messy, lacked proper education on the disorder, and that Trisha had basically just thrown a sensitive term around and used it as if it was a personality trait. There had already been cases of Trisha falsely identifying with mental disorders, so people already assumed that this was another one of her trolling videos. In response to her video, people began pointing out the problems in Trisha’s video and comparing them to the videos of another YouTuber who actually suffered from DID, DissociaDID or Nin, who was featured in Anthony’s video.

As Trisha’s video gained more attention, her video began appearing in many viewers’ video recommendations. One of these viewers was Nin. She decided to create a video in which she reacted to Trisha’s “Meet my Alters” video. In the video, Nin criticized what Trisha said in her video, calling out the material present in her video that wasn’t accurate to what DID actually is. Her video served to reeducate the public from Trisha’s video’s misinformation. Nin’s video begins by immediately debunking Trisha’s claims that an alter is a person who has multiple personalities. Nin explains that alters are actually a person’s alternate states of consciousness or in basic terms, their own identities. In the video, Trisha claims that she self-diagnosed herself with DID, which Nin then comments on, saying that DID is the result of a traumatic experience from childhood when your brain is trying to cope with the trauma, and that most people, including herself, are professionally diagnosed. Nin then continues to point out several other false statements of Trisha’s. Nin then resumes watching the video, politely making criticisms, until she reaches the end of the video, where Trisha states that Nin is crazy. Nin then takes the next 20 minutes to express that calling someone with a mental illness “crazy” is disrespectful because it dehumanizes a person. She then expresses her hurt feelings from Trisha’s comment, ending the video soon after.

A while after the drama blew up with the public, Nin announced that she was taking a break from all social media. Trisha, however, continued to upload videos about her DID and even uploaded a video titled “dissociaDID please stop bullying us” where she was crying and spreading false rumors about Nin. This caused Nin to reach her breaking point and extend her hiatus to take care of her mental health.
Because of all the misinformation and false rumors spread about the very topic she tried her hardest to help educate people on, Nin was severely mentally scarred and even attempted suicide. As of now, Trisha continues to create her normal content without further mention of her DID, and Nin continues to mentally destress over her break; however, the quarantine is making her feel very isolated. Overall, this situation brought awareness to another mental illness and highlighted how brave and vulnerable the mental health community is. It will be remembered that they are very strong to be able to show a very private part of themselves on the internet, so we should all remember to be kind.

Though we all know that the internet is quite full of drama with its trolls and influencers, are some people taking it too far and ruining the lives of many in internet communities?
A well-known Youtuber who was formerly part of one of the most subscribed channels on Youtube, Anthony Padilla, posted a video in early March on his popular “I Spent a Day With” series where he interviews different people about their occupations, hobbies, mental illnesses, etc. On March 4th, he uploaded an informative video with people who had multiple personalities or what is more formally known as DID (Dissociative Identity Disorder) in an attempt to clear all the stigma around multiple personality disorder. In the well organized and professional video, he asked people with the disorder questions about how the disorder worked and how it was like to live with it. The video was very successful, gaining millions of views and many positive and appreciative comments praising its accuracy and sincerity.

But, like many other viral videos, it turned into a “trend” and left attention-hungry people a new idea for a video. This was true for YouTuber Blndsundoll4mj, who’s real name is Trisha Paytas. Trisha is known to be a problematic Youtuber who, over the past few years, has been the center of many controversies, such as her “coming out as transgender” video where she claimed to be transitioning from female to male. She received major backlash from the transgender community, who refuted her claims by saying that she experiences gender dysphoria but refuses to transition. She never gave a proper response to the upset comments she received and still claims to be transgender.

After Anthony’s video blew up, Trisha made a new video claiming to have dissociative identity disorder, a disorder that had become more relevant in the community at the time. Since mental health awareness and education has become less stigmatized recently, people on social media are starting to be more open and vulnerable with their struggles while facing their hardships. Trisha, however, took advantage of this and uploaded a YouTube video introducing her alters, titled “Meet My Alters”. This video shocked many viewers as this was the first time they had ever heard of Trisha having this disorder. After her video received around a million views, many viewers who saw Anthony’s video believed she was disingenuously trying to copy the mannerisms and behaviors of the interviewees in Anthony’s video. The viewers noticed that Trisha’s video was messy, lacked proper education on the disorder, and that Trisha had basically just thrown a sensitive term around and used it as if it was a personality trait. There had already been cases of Trisha falsely identifying with mental disorders, so people already assumed that this was another one of her trolling videos. In response to her video, people began pointing out the problems in Trisha’s video and comparing them to the videos of another YouTuber who actually suffered from DID, DissociaDID or Nin, who was featured in Anthony’s video.

As Trisha’s video gained more attention, her video began appearing in many viewers’ video recommendations. One of these viewers was Nin. She decided to create a video in which she reacted to Trisha’s “Meet my Alters” video. In the video, Nin criticized what Trisha said in her video, calling out the material present in her video that wasn’t accurate to what DID actually is. Her video served to reeducate the public from Trisha’s video’s misinformation. Nin’s video begins by immediately debunking Trisha’s claims that an alter is a person who has multiple personalities. Nin explains that alters are actually a person’s alternate states of consciousness or in basic terms, their own identities. In the video, Trisha claims that she self-diagnosed herself with DID, which Nin then comments on, saying that DID is the result of a traumatic experience from childhood when your brain is trying to cope with the trauma, and that most people, including herself, are professionally diagnosed. Nin then continues to point out several other false statements of Trisha’s. Nin then resumes watching the video, politely making criticisms, until she reaches the end of the video, where Trisha states that Nin is crazy. Nin then takes the next 20 minutes to express that calling someone with a mental illness “crazy” is disrespectful because it dehumanizes a person. She then expresses her hurt feelings from Trisha’s comment, ending the video soon after.

A while after the drama blew up with the public, Nin announced that she was taking a break from all social media. Trisha, however, continued to upload videos about her DID and even uploaded a video titled “dissociaDID please stop bullying us” where she was crying and spreading false rumors about Nin. This caused Nin to reach her breaking point and extend her hiatus to take care of her mental health.
Because of all the misinformation and false rumors spread about the very topic she tried her hardest to help educate people on, Nin was severely mentally scarred and even attempted suicide. As of now, Trisha continues to create her normal content without further mention of her DID, and Nin continues to mentally destress over her break; however, the quarantine is making her feel very isolated. Overall, this situation brought awareness to another mental illness and highlighted how brave and vulnerable the mental health community is. It will be remembered that they are very strong to be able to show a very private part of themselves on the internet, so we should all remember to be kind.