nasubi's story is SO crazy... imagine being on the truman show, but being aware you're being recorded... and you're alone, naked, and starving. it's horrifying.
He wasn't aware, honestly ._. He was coerced into filming a reality show, and aware of the cameras in his dwellings, however he was not aware that these cameras were running 100% of the time and being livestreamed!!
The whole entire time of that I was comparing Nasubi to Truman and Toshiyo to "God" in the movie 😂 I feel like that had to be slightly intentional even if not so blatantly stated
Fun fact about Nasubi, during COVID his unique experience with isolation was able to help him empathize with people during lockdown and even help them! He is truly a phenomenal and caring person.
Bengali woman here! Wanted to add a bit of a horrific correction to the quote at 40:05; he does not only say “women wouldn’t be able to go out on the street without getting molested,” he says *good* women. Proper women. “Bhodro,” as in well mannered and respectable. He draws a clear distinction between the women who are sex workers, and the other, bhodro women in the district, the latter of whom he implies do not deserve to be molested.
The girl at 41:00, additionally, does not just say “who has the answer?” She asks, “who can I go to to find the answer?” Absolutely fucking devastating
Yep. Thank You for sharing the translation. It's like that in asian households.... from my experience. overwhelming blame the female BABY, TODDLER, child. For asking for... Evil. GROWN ADULT prepubescent - males. Oh, and grown FEMALES. It's just living a filthy dirty ad nauseous 🤢 daily insanity
Heartbreaking. I feel like people (at least in the West) don’t know the full extent of the lives of sex workers. They “fight” for their rights to do this line of work but don’t dig into the systemic problems that force them into it. I’m so tired of being called intolerant for being against the current state of the sex work industry. You can support women without supporting the people and circumstances that trap them.
GOSH Nasubi is genuinely I think... just an incredible person. To go through his hell, to be tortured for entertainment, and to have his faith in humanity (completely understandably) broken - and to just... to do good still. He deserves so much more than just crowdfunding. He can't get back the life he had before that show - but he's an incredible person. He'd be incredible without it too. I just think it really speaks to his who he is as a person. I hope the best for him.
Nasubi was great in 428 Shibuya Scramble. The things he said and the character he played in that game really hits harder when you find out he was The Contestant. Like he really played the downtrodden underdog thats hopeful and glad hes still surviving really well.
Didn't hear MistaGG mention it, but I'm pretty sure Nasubi actually ended up hitting his goal earlier than they wanted (not sure if it was the Japan or Korean one) but they never told him that he hit his goal and made him stay even longer. He was making too much money for them doing the show that when he eventually hit his goal they just straight up never told him and let him continue living like that for weeks.
@@TheAnthonyG. You left this comment multiple times, but couldn't double check? He spent a whole segment talking about it and how the guy didn't get to fly first class.
Something that wasn't added was, once quarantine hit and people started being affected mentally, he helped by teaching people coping mechanisms for isolation. Dude's a saint
So yeah, I lived in Bangladesh from 8-15 and the ENTIRE time, I was considered prime age by adult men. I would either crossdress as a boy or wear a burqa in public so as not to get groped because hey, I was a white girl with blonde hair and I stood out in a way you *do not* want to stand out. And then I remember reading in the Star (local paper) that a 4 year-old girl was raped by a man and she was blamed because she "seduced" him. Her family was driven from their village. There was a lot I loved about Bangladesh, but existing as a woman there wasn't part of it.
The seducing excuse of r*pe apologists always blows my mind, because in no way, shape or form does it make any sense. How can a child - who still stumbles while writing and reading - seduce a grown ass man and how can a man be so easily suaved by a literal child. The fact people can look at a grown man and be totally fine with him being sexually attracted to a child or look at a child and see some sort of seductive femme fatale is disgusting. It's unbelievable people are raised in such mindset (seeing children as sexually ready adults) and not see a problem with it. (It applies to the whole world, btw).
OMG, it's so sad what you wrote. I can't say nothing about it because I would be the r*cist one. The last documentary was the most horrifying because so many people (little girls, women) are involved and they can't do nothing, it's how things are going there, or this is the official version. I guess it's a German documentary because of the subtitles, and in Germany pr*stitution is legal, to have more safety, and rules, medical care, and so on, so maybe showing how it goes in other places is a point in favour to let the thing legal and controlled. It's far more difficult to abuse and kill a s*x worker if s/he's registered in a safe place and it's a work like another- still sad and extreme but at least more protected *EDIT: I can't say things like "in other cultures women are treated like they worth less" or similar things because it's a generalisation and to generalise is racist unless you are part of that same culture, like a comment below shows, so I avoided to bring personal experiences like it was a general assumption toward a country. I don't know why bring in races, or angry comments, about such a sad topic, do we all agree that women and girls should be never be victims of this system? Maybe because English is not my first language, I just meant that I can't bring my experiences because to generalise is always a cognitive bias, maybe I chose a triggering word
The girl talking around the 41 min mark just shattered my heart. I wish I could give her a hug. It's horrible that there is any place in the world where someone could feel that way, asking "if there's a path at all" and "why do women have to suffer this much?". It's a very candid reminder of how lucky some of us are. I desperately hope that she, and all others who feel the same way as she does, find happiness and freedom in life.
Almost cried im not even kidding. I’m a little dissapointed of how little people comment about this doc when it’s so dystopian. Compared to the amount of people talking about the other one i forgot the name yk it feels weird. Maybe people don’t have much to say about this. It’s really depressing
Me too!! After everything he went through he’s earned it! And for him to regain his faith in humanity enough to bring Fukushima with him through it all is just incredibly heartwarming!
That young girl who spoke last in the Bangladesh segment... Her words broke me. How can you not listen to that and want to immediately evacuate her and all those young girls?
George Harrison felt that way in the 1970s, after the Concert for Bangladesh he set up some homes for girls in India and Bangladesh because he felt for them
Didn't hear MistaGG mention it, but I'm pretty sure Nasubi actually ended up hitting his goal earlier than they wanted (not sure if it was the Japan or Korean one) but they never told him that he hit his goal and made him stay even longer. He was making too much money for them doing the show that when he eventually hit his goal they just straight up never told him and let him continue living like that for weeks.
@@TheAnthonyG. Yep, you're right. And they treated it like an eye wink to the audience. Like "hah, he's already won but let's keep him here." Seriously, the director saying if Nasubi wanted him to die he would seems almost unironically a fair trade. For him to go on, after he was literally suffering PTSD from what we can tell, and dedicate large portions of his time to helping people in need shows how good of a person he is.
@@schawangus The calling out the racists part was because a ton of racists think that all Asians can speak the same language or something, because they're too ignorant to be able to identify the differences in the languages. Anyway, yeah, Japan and South Korea have major issues with one another because of the past imperialism and colonisation. It is horrifying if you look into it, there were massive human rights violations
@@rayadawn3535 so not knowing which language is what is racist ? I don't think you know what you are talking about. It's probably more ignorant than racist.
Nasubi could have had a complete villain arc after the terrible things that happened to him, but he showed how genuine and kind his heart is and focused on helping others. Amazing.
The first story gets even crazier. As it turns out, there was a half-brother who was left out of the doc, that was actually the one who found the picture and gave it to marcus so he could find out the truth. I remember reading an interview with the NYT where he talked about how him and his half sister were also victims, yet the doc acts like they didn't exist as if he wasn't the reason the doc was even able to be made, and how the doc makes the twins seem like it was just them
I just read that the half brother Oliver that found the photo & showed the twins didn't know that they were also being abused like him. Maybe the twins didn't know either up until that point (surely Oliver told them he was abused as a child by their mother after finding the photo). Only one twin remembers what happened anyway so it's not like they were both writing him off & the one that did remember didn't want to talk about it. I'm sure Netflix thought it'd be a more impactful story to just focus on the twins as they shared the experience. If he's really upset that they're profiting off of their own trauma he can write a book as well.
@rayewonderland No so their father died when they were 3 days old & their mother later remarried & had 2 more kids. He was the only father they've ever known. Apparently she had a "sexual awakening" & went on a sex & drugs bender w/random dudes & left the twins in a "care home" for a while. When they returned back to her that's when the abuse started. Idk how credible this info is but I just read it in an article.
As a former underage sex-worker, 15-17 years old, the question of “is there another path” is gut wrenching. Because at the time it really did not seem like there was one. And people will say, “well she chose this” or “she could just leave” but they never truly see the reality of it. Can she just leave if the only other option is being raped by her dad at home? Did she choose this if she was assaulted as a kid and when she reached out for help she was told the SHE was the dirty one, that no one would love her? And what if she has no home? The streets are much harsher to women, and out there they won’t pay you to use you they just do it. It’s truly hell on earth for women in poverty.
I hope you find piece. You can lose years to depression and a situation you couldn’t get out of and still go on to have a beautiful life. If you’re not, get in therapy. You deserve healing.
@@theviewfromhere3152 hi! I’m doing a lot better today than I was back then. I work at a daycare and I’m studying pediatric neuropsychology, basically to help people like me who experienced intense trauma during yearly childhood, (when I started sex work I had already been assaulted several times). So yeah I would say I have a pretty beautiful life these days.
@@xxcallmeniaxx3272I'm honestly overjoyed that things are going so well for you now. You deserve all the happiness in the world and I'm very proud of you!
For a year I worked with teens who had been trafficked and/or were involved in sex work. I give you so much credit for what you have been through. I hope you are well- I see in another comment you’re studying neurology. That is so amazing! I wish you all the best
One interesting detail about "The Contestant" Doc is that before the avalanche Natsubi was talking about how the experience on the show didnt really teach him anything outside of how to win sweepstake prizes, he wasn't a good comedian, he couldn't hold an audience outside of what that show gave him. And then right after during the avalanche he immediately starts to look at supplies and plan out rations, which most likely wouldve been a skill he had gained during his time on the show. Which kinda shows that even though his life on the show was hell he did come out with at least something that he could use past his time on there.
I agree it seems almost as if the experience did bring him to "the next level" as a person. And he entered sweepstakes in a language he didn't speak. What a drive that would take. And to be beloved for it. Reminds me of Searching for Sugarman.
the thing with the bar boys in thailand is likely because it's hard to have a relationship outside of the sex work. the only gentle/affectionate male companionship and attention some of them can get ends up also being transactional.
@@sorguinazia That but also ... most men are weird when it comes to sex workers. Like a lot of men will say that boyfriends/husbands of porn actresses are cucks (which... OKAY DUDE, wrong terminology), or you have the ones talking badly about those who work for OF/Fansly/similar websites, when the ones on these sites are ranking in like thousands and millions of dollars. Like they just act super weird and 9/10 it's a "property" thing, seeing women as objects and stuff. Like... I don't know, if my partner was getting millions of dollars to post nudes, or do stuff on camera with other people that's cool as 'cause then I can buy video games not during a sale!
The last one really left me thinking. There are people right now that are living through those things. There's so many girls in this exact moment that are suffering and wondering if there's anything more to life. Life is very cruel.
@@uwu-fm2kj You can say that, but women can also be predatory. There are always people who believe that they are stronger, and thus are entitled to act however they so desire. You cannot 100% guarantee that, absent men, those women would not be preyed upon. The older women could see the younger as inferior and enslave them, or even vice versa. Without having seen the actual reality, speculation is subjective.
The problem with Marcus trying to rewrite Alex’s memory is the body keeps a toll on everything. Those traumatic experiences didn’t just leave memories, there are physical traces that can’t be erased
exactly. both physically and mentally. it’s similar to children who experience abuse and then block it out. your brain forces you to forget to protect itself, but then you’ll notice subtle oddities in your relationships, or maybe you can’t have kids, or you hurt your loved ones and don’t know why, or struggle with addictions, etc.
@@lilacheart_ Exactly this. I have anxiety and disabilities (a lot of neurological due to past seizures) and yet I am the only one in a house of adults and one of few in my friends groups who can drive, so I tell my anxiety and TBI to essentially shut up so I don't hear the voice in my head freaking out... it leads to lots of visual distortions and stuff because I ignored the voice.
There's an amazing PBS documentary called Ferrets : The Pursuit Of Excellence. It's about people who breed and show ferrets, and how absolutely insane they are. You can FEEL the camera crew and editors fighting the urge to insert haunting music and do creepy zoom-ins. It's one of the most harmless and bizzare things I've ever seen
ill never forget when i was in college and me and a classmate realized we both crochet. she was really cute i was pumped we had soemthing in common suddenly she starts taking handfuls of pink tubes out of her tote bag like dozens of them. i thought to myself, are those crocheted penises and started to laugh nervously. she then told me the tubes were ferret clothes and asked did i want to buy some. instead of saying i didn't have a ferret i said "i don't have a penis." she didn't like that the twist ending is that i do have a penis thanks for listening
"Tell Me Who I Am" it kills me cuz as an older brother I completely sympathize with wanting to make sure my siblings wouldn't know what horrendous shit we went through...but at the same time it would disguist/kill me to see them praising those i knew were monsters
So many top comments talking about the first 3 docs, but the last one just made my heart sink the deepest. Especially seeing the youngest looking girl talk. The first 2 docs had their subjects at least live out a happy ending. The 3rd was about their glory days until the bitter end. The 4th is just 😞, some of the girls' whole existence is haunted by their lives in the brothel.
Agreed, I also feel the doc about the twins is a close second. I can't imagine what goes on behind closed doors for many people and it's always baffling (and rage inducing) to me how easy it is for some to be able to put up this lie of a 'happy' life knowing full well the horrific things they do. Not trying to downplay his trauma, because it very much was a traumatic experience, and while I'm very glad Nasubi got to at least accomplish some things he wanted and live as best he could, he got out. Those women/girls have nothing. They don't have a future to look forward to and are literal slaves. Idc if it sounds corny, but my heart can't break enough for anyone (women, men, children) growing up in a world like that while the sickening cycle continues generation after generation. And the fact that whenever I see a doc like this knowing it happens just about everywhere, it's enough to make me question what humanity even is.
@@gauner1312 In wording out my comment, I just wanted to give some perspective on how in Whore's Glory some of the women's and young girl's stories and futures seemed more hopeless and uncertain relative to the stories shown in the documentaries discussed before it. The twins, despite the childhood they endured, were able to grow up into upstanding men and are able to spend their present with loving family which to me was a much deserved happy ending for them despite the odds. My comment was more of a gut reaction to not seeing many comments about the last documentary.
@@gauner1312I am a victim of repeated CSA, and I am personally tired of people saying we don't "get a happy ending" or it's not "realistic to have a happy ending". The trama abd memories NEVER go away. The pain always lingers. But I have come a long long way to be happy and live the best life I can. And to just look at all that hard work and reduce it back down to my trauma is belittling. Sorry if you didn't mean it in that way. But I am tired of the narrative that CSA victims can never be happy again. We can and we sure do deserve it.
Nasubi's story sounds like something straight out of a Black Mirror episode. But that goes to show that humans can be so horrible in so many ways and shows the darker voyeuristic side of humanity
I don’t know if you have already seen it but “Three Identical Strangers” is a really good documentary about adopted triplets who were separated at birth by their adoption agency and happen to find each other and discover they were unknowingly part of a secret experiment.
I watched “Whore’s Glory” shortly after it came out. I randomly came across it and decided to put it on. I was like 15. That doc has stuck with me ever since. My heart couldnt handle the Bangladesh scene. So many of the girls there looked so young…
@@JimmySlippit its normal in western countries as well just in the form of onlyfans and porn stars.. ways of trackiffing and dehumanisation that are apparently more moral
@@getyoteladz3536 The amount of girls I knew who were just 14-16 actively selling photos of themselves online was horrifying. Most girls get roped into it far underage, especially coming from poor families.
That's life bro, refreshing your youtube feed hoping it results in that small hit of dopamine to keep you occupied enough to drown out the screaming silence :')
So glad you gave Fenriz his flowers!! He's notoriously a pretty goofy and likeable guy, he became a councellor for his local council in 2016 and works part time in a post office so he can listen to music being sent in by up and coming bands of the scene. He's basically the keeper of the keys for the Norwegian black metal scene
I'm just happy GG went above and beyond for this Doc. He didn't need to go all in to discover Norwegian Black Metal and he did. He untangled all the webs of the story and even listened to some of the music. Thanks GG 🙏🤘
he reminded me of people i know who are way more into the scene than i am and it made me smile when clips of him were shown, because once you get past the black clothes with edgy graphics, you'll realize the average metalhead is actually a harmless dorkass who's just here to listen to loud music and have a good time
i personally love metal, but havent found many black metal bands that are um…normal adjacent, so to see a guy like fenriz does give me some joy. he just kinda looks like some guy (in the best way possible). just a dude chilling and making music which is how it should be and not be about posing your dead bandmates corpse to take photos of it for the purpose of using it as an album cover
@@dangerxbadger2300 For the most part. Sadly there are a lot of douche nuggets who gatekeep, make fun of people for their tastes, etc. The metal heads in my school were so rude to me and made my life hell for liking all genres and then trying to get into metal; they didn't care that I had no prior experience and was trying to get into music via peers due to only having grown up on pop/oldies/country.
I also want to point out our man's obvious growth here. The young Mista GG I first encountered on this site many years ago would not have handled these sensitive topics, (particularly the last doc), with the same maturity and compassion that he has now. Thank you for growing into a better version of yourself as you continue to entertain us.
i was literally just mentioning this to my sister!! there’s a sense of maturity that has come with his latest videos that has been visible , it’s honestly been great watching him grow as a creator !!
For over a year now I wanted to see GG’s thoughts on Whore’s Glory. The young girl in Bangladesh that spoke about the woman’s path has haunted me close to a decade now since my first watch. I remember crying for her
@@NekoszowaLegally, yes. Socially? Absolutely fucking not. There's a reason r*pe victims are hesitant about coming out with their stories, it's because of the "are you sure?", "but he's such a good guy!" "you must have wanted it". Please talk to ANY SINGLE WOMAN in your life and they will be able to tell you about a way that have been sexually harassed/abused.
@@Nekoszowa My comment was referring to that this statement can apply to women all around the world whether they face the most horrible form of misogyny or the more quiet form of it. It's still misogyny by the end of the day
While hard to watch, I think the last doc is important and it lends to why (honest) docs are important as a whole. We all get so wrapped up in our own world that we perceive based on our own experiences. I've been through hardship. Some of those hardships because of the type of men she deals with every day. But watching that young girl sit in her misery and question why women have to be treated this way and why there isn't anything better...it puts everything into perspective. It doesn't invalidate my struggles, but it reminds me how fortunate I still am and that I could be doing more to help others and combat the societal horrors that cause situations like that. Hopefully it motivates people to donate or volunteer for organizations that help women like her. People don't think enough and we're all so desensitized that we're hard to shock.
Everyone (understandably) is talking about Nasubi. But that little girl in Bangladesh broke my heart. "Isn't there another path for us? Is there a path at all?" She doesn’t know anything else. She can't even fathom it.
The story with the twins is so sad and unfortunately way more common than you would think. Often people do not have accidents and suffer brain trauma, but often people just literally push out and suppress memories from childhood until someone or something dregs it up in their mind.
@@donaldbermudez7771 many of us survivors don't do that on purpose. it is scientifically proven that much of it is either a) our nervous system doing that itself or b) a trauma response. it's really messed up to not know, even when you want to know.
@@gauner1312 Unfortunately, that is not what science says. According to research, the brain is more likely to fixate on emotionally charged and traumatic memories than emotionally neutral or uncharged memories. People who truly were/are traumatized cannot help but remember said events.
@@BH-2023 There is a limit. The brain fixates on bad things, more than good, yes. However, the nature of trauma is that you are experiencing some thing outside of the level of what you can handle. And when that happens, your psyche does whatever it can to protect itself, including burying those memories.
@@BH-2023as humans we’re predisposed to fixate on negative experiences, but when something so traumatic happens that’s outside of our ability to process and cope with, our brains will lock up those memories or stop “recording” during those events as a form of self protection. multiple licensed mental health professionals have told me this. that’s why some traumatic instances come back in short flashes or leave a weird feeling with no real recollection. this is most common in childhood trauma as children don’t have the ability to properly understand what’s happening or how to process it, so their brain literally just blocks it out. sometimes things later on in life will retrigger the repressed memories, but it doesn’t make the trauma any less valid or real.
iirc, the first clothing item he won was an idol’s undergarment (which in itself is worthy of another conversation) but instances like that could cause one to ponder whether his winnings were fixed for comedic reasons (obv against nasubi’s knowledge) & the rice bag being left behind only further strengthens this line of thinking
I think it's super important for such docs like the one about prostitution exists because this needs to be seen. The injustice and violence and suffering needs a voice. Also why were your subtitles for that one in German haha
@@gauner1312 Isn't it also generally 'safe' and the women have a lot more 'power' in their situation, though? Forgive me if I'm wrong, that's just the gist I got about German sex work.
@@Merble definitively more safe and regulated. it's also less shunned upon to do that kind of job, mainly because our country is less religious. I just think that the documentary was made by Germans due to our own culture and the subtitles.
@@gauner1312 i don’t think that has anything to do with being able to see the documentary. He probably just had to watch it wherever he could find it, and it just so happened to have german subtitles. It used to be on Netflix, but I guess not anymore.
I'm a CSA survivor and personally I would want to know. our bodies never forget what happened but our nervous system might. it is one of the biggest hurdles to our healing journey 😢
22:00 No he did not get to the keep the rice. Because it was stolen from him. They thought he was doing too well so they took some of his winnings from him and hid them so he'd struggle more. The bag of rice was one of the items they took while pretending they didn't take it. Makes me wonder if some of the stuff he thought he was 'seeing' was just the crew intentionally screwing with him.
As a twin myself I’m not sure what I would do in the first doc. I would do anything to shield my sis as much as possible, but would also want her to go through all the emotions that would lead to healing. It’s a horrible situation 😢
I'm a CSA survivor and can tell you that for many of us "not knowing" what happened is the most excruciating part. our nervous system blocked out so much and we just want to know what happened. we also want to trust our own memory again and work on the healing journey. without know what happened that can rarely start.
I'm also a twin and if my sister withheld that from me I don't think I could ever forgive her, like, we grew up with an abusive dad (nothing like what they went through but still sucked), and if she didn't tell me about the time my dad threatened to hit for not wearing a bra at like ten, or all the gross comments he made about my body, or when he told us our mom didn't love us. I would never never forgive her, I would never forgive her for letting me think I can trust that man. I would never forgive her for not telling me the truth. Like, I know that you want to protect them. But keeping things like abuse from them isn't protecting them.
i feel like the very obvious answer is do therapy together, tell them with the help of a therapist in a safe environment. but the reason marcus didn't do such a thing seems to be mainly because he was blocking it out/compartmentalizing it himself and i can understand that type of dissociation as well
To be fair, not all emotions will lead to "healing"...you need to first be in the correct mindset to accept the bad things that happened. In a lot of ways, the basic experiences will shape your mind and if your mind is "reset" it would be very hard to have that as the basic building blocks. I know some people "really need to know what happened"... but others don't. Not only that, just because his older self could handle it, doesn't mean his younger self could... there is a reason why a lot of those things get blocked to begin with.
Wow. These genuinely seem like the most disturbing docs covered on this channel, especially the last. I think all of them really showcase how little human life is valued in society and even within your own family.
Fenriz is a pretty great guy, he’s also the mayor of his town or something because nobody else wanted to do it. He posted a picture of him and his cat with the simple caption of “please don’t vote for me”
I've heard of Nasubi's story so many times on so many iceberg videos, but none of them have gone over the afterwards portion of his first live show. The moment he was exposed from the box in front of that crowd was the last thing I heard about him. This story that unraveled after was extremely touching, the way he was able to go from basically a man's human pet he could show off to everyone, to a man that saved so many people & climbed Mount Everest over 4 times is so unremarkable! This sure is an incredible story, thank you for telling it on full.
I think something thats really interesting about Nasubi's story is when he gets taken from Korea back to Japan and finds himself in that 4th Fake 'room', they never TELL him to strip, he's just so USED to the routine by now, that he himself says 'CAN I strip now? These are a real pain...' Imagine being so used to forced nudity that you feel physically UNCOMFORTABLE when just... Wearing Clothes. Absolutely Insane what they did to that man mentally
The quote the young women said about women and their life and just being a women really hit me. I’m privileged enough to have basically everything and I’m a women who is respected most of the time. I’m in a living relationship and have never had to go to these types of levels or anything. And I’m sitting here listening to this women who is most likely in my age range not knowing any other life. She is suffering while I’m not. It really hurts to see anyone go through this, man or woman or anyone else in between. My heart goes out to all of the people who have to live their lives like this.
Nobody thought anything was wrong with the Nasubi show in Japan, not even a "Hey, maybe we should stop", but at least the director felt remorse for literally torturing Nasubi for a year and 3 months
@rayewonderland At any point during that one I really was waiting for someone to be like "Hey, this is pretty fucked up, maybe we should stop" but it just never happened, pissed me off ngl
I guess alot of people thought this was horrible. But they still watched. That ethos encapsulates the internyet to a T. I've seen the documentary several times. Its great. What's even cooler is what Nasubi did after the contest. He helped during the Fukushima Reactor meltdown and tsunami. He climbed everest. The dude is a treasure.
Didn't hear MistaGG mention it, but I'm pretty sure Nasubi actually ended up hitting his goal earlier than they wanted (not sure if it was the Japan or Korean one) but they never told him that he hit his goal and made him stay even longer. He was making too much money for them doing the show that when he eventually hit his goal they just straight up never told him and let him continue living like that for weeks.
Hey! You should watch: -The Trials of Gabriel Fernandez (I was literally sobbing) -Kidnapped in plain sight -Our Father -Escaping Twin Flames -Betrayal the perfect husband ...I watch a lot of documentaries lol
@@Antagon1s well the original black metal wasn't really, like Venom, Bathory etcetera. But I get your point and also just say Black metal myself. Everyone knows what it means.
Nasubi being basically mentally forced to do the challenge again after getting freedom and food he'd been dreaming of, is some form of a horror film scenerio. Like the scenario he was in is like oldboy but make it reality tv instead of revenge. And they they trick him again for a surprise... how did so many people get behind it. Sure he could leave, but its like an abusive relationship where your brain has tricked itself that it has to stay or else you truly have nothing. Nasubi seems much stronger than most people could be for those shows and the earthquake situation in Japan and Nepal.
I dunno if you’ve seen it but I highly recommend “When the Levies Broke”-it’s about hurricane Katrina and how it affected the lower-class citizens of New Orleans, as well as how poorly it was handled by the government. There’s no narrator, the story is told exclusively by the people who experienced it. However it’s *extremely* graphic; there are dead bodies shown and detailed retellings of people’s suffering, but again it shows how poorly it was handled. A harrowing but eye-opening story, and it’s one of my favorite documentaries.
I'd heard the story of The Contestant before, and it just...it blows my mind that this was LEGAL. Toshio has absolutely no sense of empathy or respect, and he deserves to rot in jail for the rest of his life. Instead he is a successful television producer who has made millions upon millions of yen.
I agree, but we should not forget that Toshio eventually gained some perspective on his own actions and admitted what he put Nasubi through was too much. He said that if Nasubi wanted him to die then he would die for him (and you could see he was quite serious when he talked about this, Japan has a long history with honoring your promises & dying if you fail to do so or if you do something you perceive as very wrong. Attempting to rectify a wrongdoing by paying your own life is a thing and I have no doubts he would have actually done it). Nasubi wasn't interested in a pointless death, so he instead told Toshio to raise money for him to attempt Everest a 4th time, and Toshio went and did exactly that. So while he might not have had any respect or empathy during the show's span, he did when Nasubi wanted to go back to Everest again. Idk how long after the show that was, probably several years, but becoming a better human takes years. tl;dr Toshio's growth as a person should not be forgotten. He was an asshole for sure, but he isn't anymore.
The interview from the girl in the last doc genuinely made me tear up. What do women have to do to not be seen as items? What do we have to do to not be bought and sold even by our own volition? Why is it that even when we’re young we’re sexualized? A man will never truly be sorry unless he’s experienced what we’ve been through. GG I love you and I thank you for reviewing this doc. I’m sorry I went on a rant but I’m genuinely so happy you hit 1 million!!!Congratulations :]
And yet women from the west feel like they're being treated like trash because sometimes, a man says 'hello' to them, and will completely dismiss the pain of women actually going through horrible things.
I think the men who genuinly think about this are fathers with daughters. They'll never fully understood since they can only often imagine but good fathers try to protect their daughters from that type of fate
I had to watch Whore's Glory in a history class during my undergrad and it's still one of the most well done, impactful documentaries I've ever watched, while also being the most disturbing.
40:00 This scene with the barber saying what he said followed up immediately with that young woman giving her testimony struck a chord with me so hard. I don't like having the disdain for men that I do because I know that not all men are bad. But hearing the pain in her voice rings with me personally and things that I've gone through. If not the entire documentary I feel like that one part is crucial for people to see..... Because she would not be there if it wasn't for the patriarchy that she lives in. My heart hurts for all of those women.
For me it was the quote "scr*w educated men, educated and uneducated men behave the same way in the brothel." And "they are disgusted by us on the street, but here they love us and our bodies". The fact some people would hear it and STILL blame it on women is heart breaking❤
You hear his statement said so casually that you can tell it's just a common sentiment, and the women obviously know that. So their "choice" if they don't get married off is either getting raped in the street or at least being able to get paid for it. Imagine looking at a four year old little girl in that city and telling her that that's the only paths for her life. And even worlds away, there are no shortage of Western men who still think women and girls only exist for their sexual exploitation. It's so fucking disgusting and soul-sucking.
The problem is that so many, even relatively “good guys” tend to be complacent in misogyny. They always have that one or multiple friend who make weird jokes or comments but because they’re “just comments” and those creepy guys are relatively normal to them they never put two and two together. Nearly every woman I know has a story about one or multiple men who assaulted or harassed them yet for /some/ reason no guy I know ever knows a dude who did that 🤷♂️
Watching The Contestant made my blood boil. Hearing people laugh at his torturous expense and the producer talk with his stupid smug face made my piss boil. Un-fucking-believable.
natsubi story is so sad and shocking, but the ending is so hopeful and beautiful, its amazing how human beings can be through the most absurd things and still keep going
im not even in the metal scene and ive heard of it lol, i remember seeing it talked abt in some random discussion in a book club server im in, what an insane situation.
Nasubi's story is so awful. I dont think i could have even watched it knowing what that man was going through and knowing his suffering was put on display like the truman show is just traumatizing. I really hope hes had a lot of support and love to help him heal from all of that cuz that sh*t rewires your brain being in that kind of stressful situation for so long, over and over again. He truly seems like such a great guy and to treat him like that was vile.
The worst part is that he went along with all of it believing it would be his foot in the door to get into the entertainment industry, but as soon as it was over they just kinda threw him to the side because nobody really cared about him except as the Nasubi guy.
@rayewonderland I've heard it so many times too and every time I wonder how a show like this was kept on for so long with no public outcry. How did the audience not see how wrong this was? The creators better be feeling real lucky that Nasubi was such a strong and kind individual cuz this scenario could have played out way differently with someone else. I'm just happy he took back his life afterwards and accomplished so much.
Didn't hear MistaGG mention it, but I'm pretty sure Nasubi actually ended up hitting his goal earlier than they wanted (not sure if it was the Japan or Korean one) but they never told him that he hit his goal and made him stay even longer. He was making too much money for them doing the show that when he eventually hit his goal they just straight up never told him and let him continue living like that for months.
@@TheAnthonyG. If I remember correctly, they also just straight up lied about what he won. They'd only send him things they thought would make good entertainment, in place of things he actually won, or just tell him he didn't win something at all.
I first read about Nasubi in "Uncle John's Unstoppable Bathroom Reader" a book full of random trivia my parents received as a white elephant gift in 2012. I read the book when I was 10 years old and even then, when my skull hadn't fully fused, I knew that shit was an act of despicable psychological torture and exploitation. His story is endlessly disturbing and genuinely horrific, UJUBR stated Nasubi's measly compensation and even at age 10 I knew he deserved more money than that.
As a fellow male - it kills me seeing real life examples of what women around the world face.... thanks GG for not holding back on that last doc -- we all need to do better for our fellow humans...
@thaoster209 You're still in the same headspace as the men in the video. They think the women there have it better than others and take it for granted too.
I cant imagine the suffering of Alex, Marcus, Natsubi and all of those poor women who had to go through utter hell just to make ends meet. We all think our lives are terrible in our low points. However, in reality we are so so very fortunate to have the lives the majority of us lead.
I always go back to a quote I cant remember who said it, but it goes like: "Heroes and Villains are born from the same trauma. Heroes make sure no one experiences that same trauma. While Villains strive to ensure everyone feels what they have felt" Nasubi chose to be a hero. He stated himself: he lost his faith in humanity. But boy did that man take on the mantle and restore it himself. What a fvkcin giga chad.
You should watch this brilliant documentary called Brazilian Holocaust, it tells the story of a psych hospital that was open from 1900 to 1980 in Brazil, and in which people were treated horribly, with the staff doing atrocious "treatments", patients dying and the whole thing being a place to lock social outcasts away from society. It's extremely disturbing, but so good!
I’d honestly recommend ‘Montage of Heck’ It’s about Kurt Cobain, and normally I don’t really enjoy watching docs that take fascinating people and boil their lives down to their deaths and the speculations about it, but this one doesn’t do that. I’ve never had a doc make me feel like I’m fully in the mind of the person it’s about until finding this one. And Kurt had a very chaotic and morbid way of viewing the world (both because of his upbringing and heavy drug use), which he channeled through his music and sketches/paintings which surprisingly not many people know about. But yeah definitely check that one out, to me it’s pretty disturbing.
Every autistics radar goes off with Kurt but yall don't want to hear it. Because it takes out the mystery. Kurt was over stimulated. He was hyper sensitive. He used drugs simultaneously to produce dopamine when he had to be oresent, and to numb out the stimuli whe he didn't have to be present. He had intrusive thoughts of sewer slide. And they were eventually followed by an impulsive action.
These disturbing movie / docu videos are like candid therapy sessions. It feels bad that Mista GG had to suffer, but it makes for fantastic content for us.
20:58 He said in an interview this year he was paid 10 million yen which was ~€78k ($85k) in 1988 and ~€61k (~$66k) in 2024. I didn’t looked into what the show and his diaries made (I already have clinical depression best leave it be) but I would bet 10million yen it was ten times more >:(
im actually shaking because the first doc is smthn i just talked about with my gf?? i’ve experienced extreme trauma for my entire childhood until i was 15 yrs old(similar to the doc), and i was telling my gf that if something happened to me and i lost every memory, would i even want to know? i mean, if i had an accident and experienced extreme head trauma, woke up, forgetting everything, would anyone tell me? would everyone lie to protect my own happiness, giving me a chance to live delusional due to my own faulty memory and me having to blindly trust what everyone is telling me? would you gaslight me? would you tell me? would i even want to know? surely i’d want to know. so ironic, i want to forget so bad but i know if i did i’d want someone to tell me the truth.
I went through something similar to you and personally I would need to know. the body keeps the score and not knowing was one of the biggest hurdles to my healing journey. I'm sorry it happened to you and I wish you nothing but great strength for the future 🩷
@@gauner1312 The mind is tricky. It always reminds me of the story of a guy who became extremely depressed and had night terrors after a surgery which ended in him taking his own life. It was found out that they forgot to put him to sleep and just paralysed him so he felt everything but was given a drug that makes him forget. He did. His body and subconscious didn't.
I think about this sort of thing a lot. I repressed the memory of SA until I was far away from the man who did it, my body and brain blocked it out until I was safe to process it. During the year I didn’t remember, it wreaked havoc on my mental and physical health. My weight changed drastically, my appetite, my libido, constant panic attacks, breakouts, rashes, chronic fatigue, stomach issues, getting sick frequently. I had all the symptoms of PTSD without knowing why. The body does truly keep the score, even if your brain tries to protect you. It wasn’t until I was able to remember and feel the pain it caused, that I could actually begin processing and healing with therapy. As hard as it is, I think I would need to know, though I wouldn’t want to by any means.
Having been trafficked and used as a prop for fetish films from birth to 15, and being permanently disabled and unable to do even basic ADLs now as a result, I’ve already been told that there’s far more than I remember (I have daily prolonged amnesic blackouts that I was’t aware Ive been having my entire life until I was told a few years ago) - I can’t be told and I refuse to talk to anybody on my medical or housing teams to protect myself from them telling me. I relive everything I do remember every goddamn second of the day. I already have constant stress related seizures and can’t control my actions and cause danger to myself and others every fucking day. Nothing can change that in any way but worse, I’m not considered to have any treatment potential at all anymore and I’m not a candidate to keep trying. I wouldn’t survive that knowledge, and I have no use for it either way. I’d be floored to think anyone would tbh.
"Tell Me Who I Am" really conflicts with me since I understand both brothers. I have been sexually abused as a young child but due to the trauma I don't remember what happened. My parents chose to hide that information to spare me from the horrifics, so I only found out much later when going through my medical files at 18 (since the medical professionals involved wanted me to be informed of my past due to the consequences of ptsd). I can completely understand the want to protect a loved one from such horrors but also the need to know of your past. (English isn't my 1st language so sorry for any mistakes)
As someone thats decently big on the black metal scene and especially was heavily invested in the Mayhem story for a while and all that came with it, its so, so odd and interesting hearing someone talk about that story without knowing all the details, stories, accounts and renditions of those accounts, because sometimes the more you go through the story the more you might forget the insanity of it and the lives loss, and how those were really just young guys who had issues who ended up doing some bad things and thats their lasting legacy, not the music, which is very good and ahead of it time, but everything outside of it, I really liked that segment GG, thank you
"Is there no other path for us?" Shit that hurts 😭. I never really watch documentaries like these cause it hurts my heart a lot so thank you for covering these. I always feel bad when people demean prostitutes as if they would choose that path if they had a better choice or weren't groomed or sold or even trafficked to it. The world is such a cruel place. I really truly pray for all my fellow females out there and after watching this I will pray harder. May they find peace and a better path. It is true that men think in that way, that its either rape or prostitution, sometimes I wish we made medicine or a vaccine we could give these men to kill such "horniness", maybe just maybe we all would be safe.
The pain in that young girls voice made my soul ache that's truly what I would call a terrible existence in which she explained as everyday life my heart goes out to these unfortunate girls and women
Tell Me Who I Am was so heartbreaking. The horrifying truth that people do those things not just to kids, but their OWN kids... It's one of those documentaries that really stayed with me ever since I watched it. Same with The Contestant honestly, just in a totally different way. I heard his story a bunch of times through RU-vid videos, but the documentary still managed to make me feel a new punch in the gut every time something ELSE awful happened to Nasubi. I'm really glad he ended up with something of a happy ending. That last one... I never heard of it, never watched it, but just from the clips you showed, particularly when the young girl was talking about the struggles of being a woman and if another path in life even exists, and then your reaction to it all, it really struck a chord in me. Thank you for treating the topic, and by extension these women, with so much respect and empathy. PS - On a much lighter note, your hair is looking especially lovely in this one!
I am so sorry to those girls and women. They’re the most deserving of a different path. Being a human should not be painful. My heart genuinely hurts for them, I’m glad they made that heartbreaking documentary.
I'm glad to hear how the Nasubi story wraps up. I was in a YT rabbit hole and watched a YT video essay about Nassubi, but it just covered the reality TV.
Seeing those little girls in the last doc was such a gut punch. That baby face talking about how being a woman means suffering, and she's maybe 12 years old? I don't have the words.
I ran to watch the first two of these docs before I even finished the entire video. But that last one??!! I couldn't. Just hearing you talk about it for 10 minutes was enough to break me. I could even see a complete change in your eyes and expression between talking about the others and the last one. When you said it depressed you, you can really see that in your face. Disturbing doesn't even cut it 💔Hats off to you for being able to sit through that for us guys!
Nasubi's story always made me sad, mad..... want to cry. I knew about what they did to him. Tricking him to redo the show in Korea, humiliating him in front of a live studio. They literally had him live in solitary confinement which ruined his dreams of being a comedian. But I never knew about the Mt. Everest part and him wanting to show strength and courage for the people. Him jumping in to help in the midst of an earthquake and finally making it to the top of the mountain. That made me tear up and I'm happy he was able to find meaning in his life.
I cannot stomach watching these but when you go over them and add just that dmall amount of humor (when ok) but you also take such care amazes me. Ive always enjoyed you videos but thank you for these ones
I've just watched Tell me who I Am and I just felt every piece of the anger you described but, after watching it, Netflix recommended another doc called "Three identical strangers" and it's not at disturbing as any of the stories of this lineup, but it's pretty disturbing when you start thinking about what really it's described and it ends up being just... sad
I love watching these but I feel bad for you because of what most of these docs cover and some look super brutal so I appreciate the fact that you keep doing this.
Mista GG after hours is a real thing now. I cannot go to bed at a reasonable time every couple weeks because of this man!!! Also thank you GG, only way I’m able to watch scary things like this. You are a trooper and I’m glad I am able to have horror flicks/disturbing documentaries broken down with some comedic genius.
I LOVE Nasubi! He's such a nice guy. I feel so bad for him going through so much for the sake of entertainment. He's active on social media if anyone wants to see what he's up to.
40:30 this is the scene that made me cry out of this entire video. She looks so young and you can hear the hurt in her voice, it's just flat out heart-breaking
How did I not even consider that Nasubi didn't know Korean!? I feel like such a silly goose, lmao. That one tiny detail of him having to teach himself their alphabet JUST to be able to fill out the forms hit me like a ton of bricks. Wow. That poor guy. I would have been stuck there forever 🤭
Given that you're not familiar with the concept of host/hostess clubs, then perhaps add The Great Happiness Space: Tale of an Osaka Love Thief to your list of disturbing docs to watch next time. I think you'll "enjoy" it, it's pretty interesting.
Wh**es Glory was uncensored on Netflix in like 2011-2013, and I would watch it all the time. I had never watched such a raw documentary, and I still think it’s one of the best films I’ve ever seen. It shows vastly women across different cultures while still in the same line of work.
