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Hey Everyone! Welcome back to my channel I hope you're all well. I apologize in
advance if I do sound nasally at all throughout this video but I'm getting
over a little bit of a cold and I've still got a bit of congestion left over
from it so if I do sound nasally then that's why but today I wanted to make a
video discussing something that I have seen a lot of people in the visually
impaired community talk about recently and I really wanted to discuss it as
well and it's my thoughts on the Bird Box challenge now I have seen a lot of
youtubers and bloggers make some really fantastic content and really add some
really insightful views into the conversation about the Bird Box
challenge so I might be repeating some of what they have said but I really
wanted to discuss this with my audience and share my thoughts on this challenge
and also on the film itself in December of 2018
Netflix released a film called Bird Box starring Sandra Bullock as Malorie Hayes
the film is a post-apocalyptic film set in America about a world where these
paranormal entities have taken over the world and when people see these entities
they are either driven to take their own life or to force other people to look at
these entities spoiler alert and the way that these characters were driven to
survive in this film was to ensure they never looked at these entities so of
course when they were in the house that would include making sure that all the
blinds were down and that none of the outside world was visible to them from
their house and then later on they were driven to wearing blindfolds so that
they lived in total darkness so that they never had to look at these entities
unless of course someone forced them to remove the blindfold and see these
entities by force but they were driven to survival by essentially simulating
blindness interestingly throughout the entire film when these characters had to
negotiate the world wearing blindfolds I was just sat there saying "If this
happened in real life people with vision impairments would be
employed so quickly to teach these sighted people how to live in
a non sighted world so they could survive so literally I was thinking to myself visually impaired
people would be the most strongest people to survive in this world because
they would be the least vulnerable and the least susceptible and it turns out
my premise was right spoiler alert because by the end of the
film Malorie Hayes and her two children end up at this mystery location that
they have been trying to get to throughout the film when we see these
flashbacks until it arrives at the present day and this mystery location
turns out to be a school for visually impaired people now this school has
become a safe haven and a stronghold for people who are seeking refuge from these
entities to find safety I thought that was fantastic because it was where the
script writers had enabled the visually impaired characters to become the
stronger characters in the film in a plausible and believable way something
that happened very soon after the film was aired was that people developed a
challenge on YouTube for it challenges known as the bird box challenge and
essentially involves people blind folding themselves and filming themselves doing
daily tasks wearing a blindfold and making it into the bird box challenge
and of course there are other challenges that are in a sense a sensory
deprivation experience for example you've got things like the mirrorless
makeup challenge you've got the what's in my mouth
challenge and they involve doing things without looking and it involves people
having to use their other senses charities themselves will do experiences
at events like fundraisers where they will offer sensory depravation
experiences to people who want to experience what it's like to have sight
loss for example Guide Dogs at their events will do things like a sensory
deprivation tunnel where you have to walk down a darkened tunnel to see what it's
like to live with a visual impairment or event the RNIB will have an experience
where you can use different glasses which will simulate what it's like to
live with different eye conditions like macular degeneration or diabetic
retinopathy of course it's an interesting thing to think about what
it's like to live with a sensory disability or to think about how you
would live in a situation where you are deprived of one of your dominant senses
so I understand why people would find this challenge interesting
but people are taking it too far now this challenge worries me and the reason
it worries me is because of the things I have already seen people doing for the
bird box challenge here on YouTube for example there was one extreme case where
someone drove a car blindfolded and they crashed their car and they crashed into
another car in the process I've seen people walking up moving escalators I've
seen people crossing the road I've seen people doing all sorts of different
things for the bird box challenge and that that's the worrying thing about it
is that youtubers are putting themselves into risky dangerous situations it's got
so bad in fact that YouTube themselves are even contemplating banning this
challenge because of the extremities that people are going to to create
content and Netflix themselves have even released the statement asking their
viewers not to try and simulate any of the things that they did in the film for
the bird box challenge we are now living in an age of click bait here on YouTube
where youtubers are resorting to click bait to try and beat the algorithm and
to gain more views and to be higher on the watch page and what might happen is
that a youtuber might see one person make a video for the challenge that
involves them doing one thing and then they might try to outdo them the thing
that you have to remember is that this film has a strong theme of sight loss so
you cannot exclude the voices of visually impaired people from this
discussion one big thing that a lot of people with vision impairments have said
and I will repeat now is that having a visual impairment means that you have to
often work a lot harder to do daily tasks than other people you have to learn
how to do a lot of things that people with full-sight would be able to do a lot
more easier so for example being able to cross the road or being able to use
stairs or escalators or be able to use public transport or to be able to use a
phone is a lot more of a lengthy process because you have to learn how to use
certain techniques like for example when you use a phone might have to learn how
to use VoiceOver when you cross the road you have to really learn how to just by
hearing alone know if there's traffic coming
or if you're using stairs or escalators you have to learn techniques
of being able to use them safely without risking your own safety or the
safety of somebody else you might be using them as well so the fact is is
that visual impairment not an easy thing it's not something where you can just
instantly be at one with the world without sight and feel comfortable
navigating it independently it's a very lengthy process and there are actually
people who are qualified and whose job it is to try and help people with visual
impairments to orientate successfully and they will either be called
orientation workers or habilitation workers so the fact is is that
it's a very lengthy process and it takes people a long time to get to grips with
that whether you lose a sight or whether you've been born with a visual
impairment and in conjunction with that a lot of us will use visual aids and
equipment to help us to be able to do things successfully and independently
some of us might use long canes or symbol canes or guide dog phones with
access features on it you know actual specific technology it's been developed
for people with visual impairments to be able to go out independently and do
things so it is also a case of the fact that we actually use technology to be
able to do things independently and there are also things that we have to
have alongside the training so that we're actually able to do things
independently as well a lot of people with visual impairments cannot drive and
of course people who have very severe visual impairments cannot drive either
and the only time we can drive is when we go on a specific experience called
the blind drive which is where you drive a car in a safe secure location with an
instructor who's been taught how to enable you to be able to have an experience
of driving a car if you don't have sight you have to remember that these people
in this film were doing it because they were in a post-apocalyptic world where
they had to try and fight for survival they didn't really have much choice
people who are sighted are putting themselves into the polar opposite of
what they're used to they are taking every single bit of their vision away
and trying to negotiate the world without vision and doing very dangerous
tasks that a lot of us with visual impairments take years to learn there's
another problem with a bird box challenge and that's the way that it will portray
the sight loss community and the way that it makes
others perceive people with visual impairments and it can have quite a
derogatory effect on the sight loss community there are two problems with
this the first problem is that the bird box challenge can inadvertently make
people with visual impairments seem comical and useless and the reason for
this is because when you stimulate the visual impairment with a blindfold and
you are fully sighted youtuber and you go into a situation and you
simulate a visual impairment and you try and do everyday tasks without any sight
whatsoever you're going to appear funny when you can't do these tasks and people
who watch these videos and see this and it's not done in a sensitive way will
find it funny and they might therefore draw comparisons between yourself and a
person with no sight but then there's also another problem and the problem is
that the challenge can also make people with visual impairments looks like
they're lying and that's because when you see someone who doesn't do a task
as well and they can't perform a daily task as they usually would with sight
because they are in a different situation without any sight when a
viewer might see a person with a visual impairment
for example cross the road or walk upstairs and they do it more
successfully that person will think maybe that person is lying because I saw
this video and that person wasn't able to do it as well as the person with a
visual impairment can and that's a problem because it makes the visual
impairment community look as if we are lying when we were able to do a task
well because of the fact that we've done it for so long and we've developed
skills to be able to do these tasks they might assume that we're lying because of
the fact that we live with sight loss well and that we are good at living with
sight loss which is a problem which is a big problem because the fact is that a
lot of us always face assumptions as people visual impairments that we are
lying when we live independently and when we live successfully with a vision
impairment to add to this when people think we're lying the bird box challenge is
not entirely representative of people who live with visual impairments and the
way that we see 93 percent of people who have visual impairments have
some degree of vision left so it's actually a really small percentage of
people who have visual impairments who have no sight whatsoever so therefore
you have to remember that the bird box challenge does not represent us as a
whole and the way that we see the world there are so many other things that you
could do the challenge for one example you could have a list of items that you had to try and
find in your home without looking and see if you can find them just by touch
alone and I think that would be an interesting video to watch and I think
it would allow you to have an insightful and interesting perception into what it
might be like to live without sight youtubers who might do this particular
challenge need to really listen to the collective opinions of the sight loss
community who have all spoke up in response to this challenge and really
need to listen to what we are saying as a collective and unified voice and what
we have said and I think they also need to remember the amount of influence and
responsibility they have as a content creator and as a youtuber who has an
audience of people who might be influenced by what they are seeing I
think that youtubers who might go about doing this challenge really need to be
responsible for themselves and their safety for the safety of other people to
be responsible for their own audience and also to be sensitive to the visually
impaired community so that concludes my video today I really hope you found it
interesting do let me know in the comments what your
thoughts on the Bird Box challenge are or your thoughts on the film you would like
to know and I really hope you enjoyed it do have a lovely day be sure to LIKE
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see you guys in the next one bye
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