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Nikki: eh, let’s just say there’s a big difference between ‘de wereld draait door’ (the Dutch Talkshow she’s on) and Ellen. And I’m saying that in favour of you. Host: why’s that? Nikki: period. Host: No, now I want to know more! Nikki: well, there are certain, eh, look, for example it’s very nice that you come and say h before the show starts. At least with Ellen, from what I’ve experienced here and in other countries is that it’s just a completely different world. It’s different. Host: more distant? More aloof? Nikki: just a little. That I got to walk onto that stage, of course that was a huge honour, let me just say that. But it’s just a different world.

In that horrible Mariah interview, take away the audience, take away the laughter and the applause and it’s straight up peer pressure and I’d go as far to say an abuse of trust.

HOT TAKE: Don't idolize celebrities. Just enjoy their work and leave it there.

There's a reason pregnant women don't announce it right away, and that's because of how common complications are in the first half of the pregnancy. What Ellen did to Mariah and then what happened afterwards is the very reason she was keeping it secret.

I remember seeing her as a kid and thinking "she seems so mean, why does everyone like her?" I thought my thinking was wrong because everyone said otherwise. Lesson: never ignore YOUR gut instincts.

That stunt she pulled on Mariah Carey is DISGUSTING WTF

She always has that “I’m bothered by your presence” look on her face...

What annoys me about this is how we as a society are attacking Ellen, but no one seems to have the same energy for Dr. Phil. Who seems to be much worse, and has done much worse than she has that I know of. Amazing video , thank u it was so well explained

As someone who works with LA Regional Food Bank, it makes me really happy that we were the chosen charity for the donation coming from these stories.

Ellen could’ve hid her past if only she had used NordVPN.

Shane and Ellen taught me one thing, if you have to keep telling people you're nice, you're not nice.

Kind people don't have to constantly convince the world how kind they are.

" Being kind is a virtue, not a brand" Commentator spoke a word right there..

Celebrities aren’t the right people to say that Ellen is nice.

The Mariah bit always upsets me, such a cruel thing to do

I remember when the allegations came out, a LGBT community group on FB I’m in was defending Ellen’s actions because: “She’s human! We all do shitty things!” And I’m like what?! And when I called out this, I got insulted because I told them: “Just because someone is in a disadvantage group, doesn’t mean they can’t be a bad person.” Like, if Ellen was a straight women I bet they would not like this at all.

I feel like Ellen's joke of "now that I'm the 'Be Kind' lady I can't do anything rude ever!" would have been hilarious if she weren't accused of being rude and having a toxic workplace environment.

I didn't expect The Right Opinion to try to sell me sex toys today, but here we fucking are! What a time to be alive!

Normal youtubers: how do i stretch this video to 10 minutes The Right Opinion : how do i make this video under 10 hours

I remember hearing a story from my grandma I'd need to ask her about for clarity on some details. But, I remember her saying that she and my aunt were both trying to get in to see the Ellen show live, and the process they described to do it (which they gave up on) to my recollection sounded like, the producers just sort of corralled everyone who wanted tickets into an empty warehouse or office building and started barking out rules like, how loud and enthusiastic to act when she came out on stage, all this stuff I don't exactly remember but it was enough both of them just left. Having a bad day or even several frequent bad days is one thing, but if it's true, and she had her staff enforcing weird draconian rules, that's something different.

There’s a trinity of wholesome people. Bob Ross, steve Irwin and mr rogers. I really don’t think anyone else will ever come close to hitting that bar again

I never looked at Ellen as nice. she’s always been sarcastic and passive aggressive

She’s outta touch, she’s outta time and she’s outta good jokes when the writers aren’t around

Wow! Respect for the huge amount of work you put into this. Every ( eloquent, I may add) word seems to be carefully considered or written down beforehand, which makes this documentary even more impressive. I also appreciate that you not only portray one side or opinion on the subject, which is sadly done by many others. This is the base of good journalistic craft. Keep up the great work! *subscribed*

The whole “Ellen Jail” thing is what pushed me over the edge. Just so strange. Very horrible.

Ellen has been real silent since this dropped an hour ago. Edit: it’s been several hours now Ellen, I know you’re reading this.

Remember when Shane said he was the ellen of youtube? man that aged well lmao Edit: When you come back to your comment a year later and realize 90% of the replies are about James Charles. Ah RU-vid, never change. ❤️😂

Damn these videos are perfect to have on in the background while working on other things and occasionally tune back into. Keep up the great work!

I’ve said this before, but I’ve never really fallen for the Ellen “charm.” My roommates in college absolutely adored her, but I just didn’t and when they asked me why I didn’t, I wasn’t sure. Something just seemed wrong. They then accused me of being homophobic. Needless to say, finding out that there was something going on behind the scenes, I felt vindicated.

The Mariah thing pisses me off so much. She didn’t need to egg her on about her pregnancy for views or make her drink champagne when she obviously didn’t want to.

Forcing Mariah Carey to tell everyone she was pregnant is so awful..... anything can happen in the beginning of the pregnancy, that's why so many people wait to tell loved ones, much less random strangers.

A man's character is seen thru the people who have nothing and still get respected. If a person only treats others right coz they are famous and have money. Then you know who they are.

I first noticed her sadistic streak on her game show thing. There was some sort of evil gleam in her eye when she would execute penalties that shone through, very clearly.

The Mariah Carey situation is what did it for me. To out someone’s pregnancy without their consent is just gross. And she clearly has every right to announce it on her own terms and had a reason for not doing so. It’s even sadder seeing how that situation turned out.

When I first heard of Ellen as a non-American I had no clue that her slogan is 'Be Kind'. I would have never thought of that, as all the clips I've seen of her is her being obnoxious, belittling younger people or celebrities. IDK what's supposed to be kind about that.

Studying kindness sort of implies it is an alien concept she doesn't understand. And after 17 years, she still hasn't figured it out.

i googled the twitch dude and just saw he passed away, hell naw :( he actually seemed like such a cool dude! rest in peace

Mr Rogers was the only person who sold himself on a wholesome "Be a good person" image and actually lived up to it.

When rich people like her talk about kindness they’re talking about kindness towards people in the same class as them, even if they’re war criminals, not people with less income.

I have been in work situations with celebrities where you are briefed ahead of time to not make eye contact with the celebrity -- do not look the star in the eye. This really happens. This actually stems historically from royalty. In ages past you could not look the monarch in the eye. Some celebrities have adopted this protocol and enforce it. It is clearly a statement of status -- being elite. It makes for a very uncomfortable work place. I now decline any work offer with this brief attached no matter how much it pays. It is just too degrading.

honestly, ellen’s apology would’ve went a lot better if she addressed specific things. it would’ve shown her mindset behind it, and what she’s doing to change. that’s the issue with many apologizes, they’re too general, they don’t focus on the individual acts

A lot of those celebrity tweets defending her along the lines of "she's done so much for equality" pretty much sounds like "she's our token successful gay if we keep her we can pretend everything is fine" to me. Someone doing 'so much for equality' has literally nothing to do with them treating others poorly.

pressuring Mariah to drink the champagne to reveal her pregnancy is a breach of privacy, trust...

Deny eye contact. The ultimate "you're not worthy," statement. Very telling Ellen.

I actually thought that ring of fire was on her set at first. First video of yours I’ve seen and I love the level of editing and the pacing of the dialog. Good shit keep it up. The level of research far surpasses a lot of video essay Chanel’s I know of. Gives me serious game theory vibes.

if she hadn't built up this RIDICULOUSLY perfect sunshiny persona, i dont think backlash would have been this severe

I don't understand how Ellen can be absolved of employee mistreatment because "It's not her, it's the show" but then is allowed to take credit for the show's charitable work.

This seemed balanced and thoughtful, thank you.

I feel so bad for Mariah when Ellen pressured her into drinking champagne when she very clearly didn’t want to. She looked so uncomfortable and probably felt betrayed by Ellen for doing that to her. Such a traumatising thing to do to someone

"good people don't brag about how good they are" - jacksfilms

You know its gonna be good when there's an Adam and Eve promotion.

You should never trust anyone that HAS to tell you how nice they are and how much they do for others.

I always thought that soooo funny prank on her show, where they scare the crap out of someone was mean at best. I've got a CNS disorder that means the adrenaline rush from being scared like that is excruciating. Knowing she'd scare me anyway and then everyone would laugh while I was in so much pain I couldn't see straight, well. None for me, thanks. I'm glad she finally got called out.

Something about Ellen always rubbed me the wrong way. I started feeling this way when I noticed her whole show was just her giving stuff away and being praised like it didn’t feel genuine

I never understood, that everyone thought she's this great people person. In the interviews she always looks like she doesn't wanna be there.

Love your content! You are so intelligent. Subbed

This is the best complete explanation I’ve seen about this situation. Well Done!

as much as we don’t like ellen she’s sadly not going anywhere she made her money and the old folks like her

Um, no. When I think of Ellen I think of her passive aggressively laughing at guests she brings onstage.

I love how you refrain from bias in your videos. It is something that is near impossible to achieve and doesn’t exist on RU-vid and I really really appreciate how you take time to show all angles of the story before jumping to a conclusion and then picking the sources that support your conclusion. Keep up the good work!

Excellent reporting

"Kindness is a virtue, not a brand." Add this to a list of my favorite quotes.

My blood boiled when Ellen forced a girl who didn't want to admit she was pregnant to drink wine

what a well thought out vid

I’m a nice guy, respectful. But I don’t boast about being nice. That’s self serving . Be wary of someone that talks about how nice they are day after day.

To quote Drew Gooden, "if I had a nickel for everything a rich Hollywood celebrity turned out to be a bad person, I'D have enough money to be a rich Hollywood celebrity."

one set of videos of ellen that doesn’t sit right with me are the segments with sofia vergara and “teaching her words in english” and you can see how uncomfortable vergara is because she KNOWS english, she just has a heavy accent. that was never funny to me. it was insensitive.

I’m still shocked no one walked of Ellen’s show when she began her aggressive questioning and most even returned.

Keep the videos coming . 👍👍

Also what she’s preaching isn’t kindness, it’s politeness. Politeness is surface level niceness you can be polite to anybody that’s easy. But being kind and compassionate means standing up against people who are hateful to others, esp vulnerable groups, (think standing up to someone who’s calling another person slurs). And not everyone can be kind.

Ellen: *shames a 16 year old girl on national television for not knowing how to fold a map or use a rotary phone* Also Ellen: *Calls Steve Jobs because she doesn't realize she can change the font size on her phone*

My sister lived in Ojai across the road from where ellen owned property many years ago when Ellen was with Anne Heche. My sister and her gf literally ran into her at a pet store, and Ellen fell to the floor. My sister apologized to her and they both laughed it off , but when Ellen turned around my sister's gf said Ellen rolled her eyes and whispered coo coo while twirling her finger around her ear not knowing that my sister's gf even knew my sister. To this day my sister idolizes Ellen but her gf can't stand Ellen.

i am DYING from the edit at 28:17

Anyone remembers how Ellen kept asking Taylor Swift about who she was dating, until the poor girl literally broke down and yelled "STOP!" ? Whether you're a fan of Taylor or no, she didn't deserve to been questioned in a manner more befitting of an Inquistion.

The crew must have cringed every time she talked about kindness on air.

Extremely good ❣

I remember, when people started saying that Ellen was abusing and harassing her talk show staff, my reaction was, "Well, yeah, of course she is. That's half the show." It was full of pranks, embarrassment, objectification, and bullying, on camera. The only surprising part was her tone-deaf apology, when she tried the pathetic excuse that she hadn't done enough to stop the toxic behaviour creeping in. No, Ellen, you brought the toxic behaviour, you orchestrated it, you initiated it, you normalised it. She's a sadist masquerading as a fun little comedienne.

I always thought it was weird she wanted to be invited to Dakota Johnson's birthday, like they weren't even friends. I would never dream of berating someone for not inviting me to a party. Dakota Johnson is also like "Hollywood Royalty" , daughter of two famous actors, granddaughter of a famous actress, and it made me think that if Ellen could be so rude to her, then she probably is ruder to non-famous people.

31:30 The reason Mariah Carey didn’t wanna tell the public she was pregnant because miscarriages are common before the 3 month mark so many women choose not the make the announcement until they have reached that mark, making it so much worse that Ellen outed her

Im a bit late on this one, but as a fluent dutch speaker I want to add that while the translation is not %100 word for word, it did capture the essence of what was said

Imagine on live television outing someone that is pregnant that is obviously not ready to tell the public. She was pressuring her to either drink alcohol and affect her baby or tell the whole world she was pregnant. That just really annoys me.

Can't stress this enough- DO NOT TRUST people who proclaim to be nice all the time. It should be a rule at this point.

We live in a universe where the voice actor for a blue fish with short term memory loss is a bad person

Ellen made taylor swift cry because ellen kept saying “ tell us who your dating!” And taylor kept saying shes not, ellen went on and on and got super frustrated and shed a tear

"Ellen ended racism." lmaoooooooooo I am going to bed now. 😂

I never cared for Ellen. Her show was beyond corny and most of her guests looked uncomfortable. People can be deceived very easily it's astounding.

When Ellen said she had been studying kindness, that sounded like the equivalent of saying “I have studied art for 17 years but I have never actually painted or drawn anything”

She has never touched me. She has shown her true colours many a times

How can your show’s entire brand be “be kind to one another” but then you literally pick an auidence member and humiliate them live just for picking an extra merch item? 🤔

"I only like to be sponsored by things I really like"

I can't get passed the thumbnail! 😂

I think Elen Degeneres is a narcissist and actually believes she's a nice person and just being entertaining. If you've ever known a narcissist you'd know that they don't ever see themselves as the person in the wrong, even when it's blindingly obvious to everyone else. They also don't care about making people uncomfortable or hurting their feelings because they lack empathy for people and can't relate to other people's feelings, all that matters is them and whether or not they're happy with something. The whole "be nice to everybody" thing is just her own delusion, she doesn't see herself like the rest of us do. That's what I think anyway.

Observe her white clothing when she “apologizes”. The innocent, angelic, kind Ellen has entered the stage. She NEVER wears all white shirt and jacket otherwise.

"Let's toast to you not being pregnant". Wow, that didn't age well at all...

43:10 best way to respond ever!!!!! Also 47:49 epic way of showing it always creative this channel.

Love Ellen and always will.

Can we just appreciate for a minute how genius that minecraft transition was.

She seems "nice" in the same way that Shane Dawson is an "empath" 😒

And this is what happens when people treat celebrities as if they are perfect and can't do no wrong. Instead of treating them as non perfect humans.

Thanks!