The Insane "Kidnapped" YouTube Vlogger Saga Continues With A Bizarre Interview From Marina Joyce

Yesterday nosotros let you know nearly an insane conspiracy theory that was gripping the world of YouTube celebrities. Fans were worried that UK fashion vlogger Marina Joyce had been kidnapped, abused, or even worse, brainwashed by ISIS. Afterwards #savemarinajoyce trended globally on Twitter, British police intervened and tweeted that she was "well and condom." Instance airtight? Not quite. It's not ISIS — but it could be drugs.

Last night, fellow YouTube celebrity Philip DeFranco reached out to Joyce and posted an in-depth video interview with her. DeFranco runs a news and popular civilisation channel and had posted some other video that goes deep into how everything spiraled out of command. The interview, conducted over Skype, was meant to aid Joyce clear things up with fans. The trouble is…we're kind of more worried well-nigh her now than we were before.

It should exist said that DeFranco comes across like a poised interviewer throughout the prune. He's concerned for Joyce's mental state afterward the international flurry of attending, he's worried about rumors of drug corruption he's heard from people close to her, and he seems torn between trying to rattle the truth out of her and wanting to exist every bit empathetic every bit possible.

Joyce, on the other paw, seems bizarrely unable to grasp the gravity of the situation. Instead of beingness alarmed or fifty-fifty irked by the controversy, she'due south over the moon well-nigh her new fans and talks well-nigh seeing her manager. When DeFranco asks if she understands why people were concerned for her rubber, Joyce gives a flurry of strange responses. She attributed heavy bruising to "adventuring" in the park and said her personality changed considering she became a Christian and so a Buddhist. She too thought she made "mistakes" on her YouTube channel that confused viewers. Repeatedly, she told fans she loved them and that she was deplorable.

The most chilling part, though, might exist when DeFranco point blank asks her nigh rumors of drug corruption. He says that people close to her take specifically singled out acid and MDMA equally problems. She says she would never exercise drugs because information technology would hurt not herself, merely her fans.

DeFranco, similar a YouTube Barbara Walters, wouldn't permit her answers go: "You said in the vein of, 'I wouldn't do that to my viewers,' rather than, 'I wouldn't do that specifically simply because you think that information technology'southward bad.' I know that there tin can be a stigma nearly stuff like that. You might be worried about how an audience might answer to finding out something like that, but everyone goes through stuff. Everyone makes mistakes."

Joyce's response was, "I just wouldn't personally exercise drugs because I'm kind of scared of them…Because if you practise do drugs, you could pass away. And I wouldn't want to exercise that to my viewers." She so compared loosely compared the situation to that of Amy Winehouse.

The exchange, and the entire interview, is strange because it puts the authenticity of YouTube personalities at the forefront. At that place should be no doubt that the most pop YouTube channels are heavily curated productions, just their popularity often rests on the idea that hosts and characters are more approachable than Tv set or movie stars. This interview not only adds a new chapter to the Marina Joyce saga, merely you see DeFranco, actively championing honesty and earnestness on his side, coming up confronting Joyce, who seems solely interested in how her fans perceive her. For her, the concern her behavior generated isn't crusade for warning, but an achievement to be celebrated. Up top, she crowed nigh striking 1 million subscribers and later didn't understand DeFranco's concern that not all her new fans might not be their for the best reasons. Information technology'southward this disconnect that makes u.s.a. all the more worried for her.

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