Viral TikTok creator RANTS about LGBT | Alexis Blake Reacts

[00:00:00]To me now, I'm trying to be really sensitive to someone who isn't being sensitive about people like me. Let me just take this filter off for a minute.

[00:00:06]First of all, >> [music] >> welcome back to the channel. My name is Alexis Blake. I am a trans woman and I share my life stories and opinions on social media. Today's video, what are we talking about? I've never seen this creator before. She used to make food-related content. Now she's pivoted towards religious-related content. I wouldn't usually cover this sort of thing in my video, but she did mention LGBT people. Being a trans woman, I have some stuff to say on it. Let's react. We will start with one of the old-style contents to give you an idea of where she came from.

[00:00:39]>> Hi, my name is Ashley and I brought the chicken and the cinnamon roll banana bread.

[00:00:44]>> Walk the plank. Next.

[00:00:46]>> My name is Riley and I brought the green beans.

[00:00:49]>> The wreck. Next.

[00:00:51]>> My name is Riley and I brought the mac and cheese.

[00:00:55]>> The keys to the city, darling, for your prosecutor and the officer who charged you.

[00:01:01]>> This is the style of content I think people were used to seeing before. She amassed over a million followers alone on Instagram doing this style of content, reacting to food. And I think that's interesting. It's funny. It's light-hearted. Everyone loved it. And then all of a sudden, there was a shift.

[00:01:15]>> to come on here and be honest with you lot, man.

[00:01:17]>> This was the video where she explained the change that was coming.

[00:01:22]>> Cuz I know you guys noticed I have not been on social media and I just not been saying anything. But I'm going to say it now. Now I've been walking with the Lord correctly since last year, July. When I was in a tough place and when the world turned its back on me, it was God who held me by the hand and picked me up.

[00:01:35]So, I just started taking the Lord very seriously in my walk with God very seriously.

[00:01:40]And, you know, I stay in the word, 12 chapters a day, just reading, reading sermons, you know? And the more I'm reading, the more encounters I'm getting, the more visions, the more dreams.

[00:01:51]>> We all have our own religious freedom and liberty to believe in or not believe in what we all feel is right for us. I totally believe that. The only problem I have with religion is when it encroaches on people's human rights. Basic human rights. When it encourages violence, hatred, and misinformation about groups of people. Basic things I think that what most people would agree on. That's all I want to say right there on that, but let's get back to the content.

[00:02:14]>> And the closer I'm getting to Christ, I'm finding that certain things that I used to enjoy like being on social media, I don't. Like I used to be able to sit on my phone and scroll for hours.

[00:02:24]I don't do that. I don't even feel the need to pick up my phone anymore. But the one thing I do know is that through God I do have influence on this platform, and I feel like I should be using this platform for something productive and something that represent God in the correct way.

[00:02:37]>> It's a very dramatic shift of content, and I as a content creator myself, I have noticed that if my content has ever pivoted or changed or the way that I portray myself or the things I'm talking about, if I shift that ever so slightly, you lose followers because people sign up to a version of you, and if that's not the version they're now getting, they might change. They might not want to see that version anymore, which is totally fine and valid. I think what I'm seeing here is she started to get a loss of followers. I mean, she still has over a million, but I think people were shocked and surprised, and that wasn't what they had signed up for, which is why they were pulling back and not engaging with her content as much as they used to.

[00:03:14]>> And not just to do food reviews, you know, because at the end of the day this is not even my platform. This is God's platform. He was the one who made you know, this platform have over a million followers in 3 months.

[00:03:24]>> From that part, we're just going to agree to disagree, and we're going to move on to the more LGBT content that she's been making recently.

[00:03:31]>> If you are a part of the LGBTQ+ community, >> LGBTQ+, but go on.

[00:03:37]>> cuz there are some members of that community that I know they have this yearning or this longing or this curiosity about Jesus, but every time they probably try or think about it, it's like they stray away because there are some false prophets in the church or people in general that will make them feel like they're not worthy to seek Jesus because of their sexuality.

[00:03:57]I'm here to tell you to seek Jesus.

[00:04:01]If you want to walk into a church, a random church, and if the word speaks to you, step forward. Open the Bible and see what God says to you. Sit in a quiet space and say, "Lord, I accept you in my life. I don't know why I've been yearning for you, but I accept you cuz I'm trying to find out." The thing is, if you go to Jesus as a gay person, as a bi person, as a trans person, whatever you are, Jesus will accept you the way you are. He just will not allow you to remain the way you are because >> That makes no sense. I'm sorry. This is where I'm going to start to disagree.

[00:04:32]Jesus will accept you the way you are, but he will not allow you to remain the way you are. What happened to God loves all his children? We could go back and forth with a religious disagreement here, and that's not going to be productive to this video, to your time, to my time, but I think that's a very conflicting saying right there. If you're going to say that God will accept you as a gay person, but ask you to change. I'm confused by that personally.

[00:04:57]The content does progressively get worse, which we will have a look at now.

[00:05:01]>> going on record and saying homosexuality is not a sin.

[00:05:06]>> Leviticus 18:22, "Do not practice homosexuality, having sex with another man as with a woman. It is a detestable sin."

[00:05:14]>> To me now, I'm trying to be really sensitive to someone who isn't being sensitive about people like me. Let me just take this filter off for a minute.

[00:05:21]First of all, the homosexuality, that word wasn't introduced into the Bible until 1946 into the newer version of the Bible.

[00:05:28]Kind of questionable if that was rewritten by a man. I don't know. We're not going to dig too much deep into that. But that to me is now spreading hate speech, and you can believe in what you want to believe in. I'm not saying that there's anything wrong with that, but when it infringes on people's rights, when it spreads misinformation and hatred about a group of people, that's where I'm going to draw the line.

[00:05:48]This entire video goes on to list the different quotes from the Bible about LGBT gay men being a sin and it's infuriating as a trans person. Also, someone who lived as a gay man for quite a long time before transition.

[00:06:01]>> Leviticus 20:13, if a man practices homosexuality, having sex with another man as with a woman, both men have committed a detestable act. They both must be put to death for they are guilty of a capital offense.

[00:06:16]>> There's a lot of things in the different variations of the Bible that are a sin, and I think most people, if not all people, are sinners in some way. But to me, spreading this information in this way is a sin itself because it's spreading hatred towards another group of people. You aren't the judger, God is the judger on judgement day. God will decide. This high moral compass that she has, or some religious people have who have these views, that's fine to live that way for yourself. This is where the the line in the sand is drawn for me with religion a little bit because if you're expressing you have to live this really high moral life to get into the pearly gates of heaven, to spread hatred about a group of people, I don't think the Lord would see that as a good thing.

[00:07:00]There is more though, and we are going to look at how the internet reacted to this content. Someone commented on one of the videos, "Jesus died for our sins, so don't pick and choose which sins he died for. You are a sinner just as much as we are. Spreading hate is a sin, and that's exactly what you're doing. You're a disgrace to God. You'd be nothing without the gays and the trans community. Go fix your lace, babe, and get a job."

[00:07:23]After that video went out where she was quoting different texts from the Bible, another video was released cuz I think a lot of her followers before, with the food content, I think that a lot of the followers were LGBT people. I think a lot of it was gay men. So, of course people are going to be in somewhat of an uproar when the person that they really enjoyed watching, found funny and relatable was seemingly disagreeing with their entire existence and using the Bible in some ways against them. So, then we got another video where she doubled down.

[00:07:52]>> Just come on here and make this very clear to the LGBT Q plus nonsense. Stop making videos trying to appeal to me. I don't care cuz this is the bottom line.

[00:07:58]I'm not going to support your cause.

[00:08:00]I used to when I was in the world before I came into the truth cuz I didn't know no better. But now, let me tell you something. I don't approve of nothing Jesus ain't signed off. I am not going to support your cause. I am not going to use a platform to go and tell children that it's okay, little boys that it's okay to sleep with little boys, and little girls that it's okay to sleep with little girls.

[00:08:16]>> Right.

[00:08:17]>> [sighs] >> Pausing it there with his mob. And this is where I'm getting a little bit angry.

[00:08:21]LGBT people do not say it is okay for little boys to sleep with little boys and little girls sleep with little girls. That is factually untrue. And it really frustrates me when people use this argument of LGBT people indoctrinating children because it's the oldest, most boring argument in the book, and it's an easy way to get people to side with you and think the way that you think. LGBT people aren't asking for little kids to go and do awful things like that with each other. What we do want to try and do is allow people to understand growing up that there are different ways to live. There are different types of lives to have if you are a gay teen boy, if you are a lesbian teen girl, if you are a trans individual, there's nothing wrong with that. And exploring your own identity at the right age when you are old enough is fair, valid, and it's going to let you lead a happy, fulfilling, safe, positive life. This is what I find really frustrating is when they turn it to the argument of indoctrinating children.

[00:09:20]It's incredibly frustrating because LGBT people aren't doing that. All we are asking for is for education, for people to understand there are many different ways to live, and being LGBT is not a wrong way to live. Also, she keeps saying I I care. She's getting progressively angrier through this video. I'm assuming the unfollowers start to happen. By this point, she was getting a lot of backlash by her opinions and her hate speech, which it is in my opinion. And she's getting angry. So, to say I'm not angry, I think you are a little bit in my opinion.

[00:09:53]>> girls and till my children or any other children it's okay to cut off your genital parts and cosplay another gender. I'm not going to do it.

[00:10:00]>> Who is telling kids to do that? As a trans woman growing up in the 90s as a boy, I don't remember learning about trans people in school. Maybe a little bit on TV and film, very little, but it was very bad representation that we had at the time. I didn't understand what it was to be fully trans. I oppressed it so much. I got bullied so much for my femininity as a male back then that I didn't transition until 27. It didn't change me. You can't change people who they are on the inside deep down. It just made it a harder decision to get to to transition. It just took me longer to get there and I fought it as much as I could, but we don't just turn out this way because someone told us about it. I think having information about any situation in life is super important to know as much information as possible before making a well-informed decision.

[00:10:49]>> And if you don't like it, you don't like it. But it is the truth and just like the Bible says there ain't nothing you can do against the truth apart apart from come online and cry. I don't care if this platform go down to zero. You can unfollow if you want. I've been telling you from the jump because guess what? I do not care.

[00:11:03]I don't care.

[00:11:04]>> There's a lot of anger there for someone who doesn't care and I think she does care. I think she's losing followers because not everyone wants to listen to her religious beliefs. Every episode is a different religious quiz or test or quotes about LGBT people being wrong and sinners. People don't want to listen to that and that's fair and valid. People have the right to unfollow you if if they don't subscribe to your style of content anymore, but you can't be mad about it cuz in my opinion in this clip, you are a little bit frustrated and mad about it. Let's look at how someone else reacted to her content online.

[00:11:31]>> Most of you would hardly be considered a follower of the Lord if one did exist and saw how you treated others and behaved. I say from no place of judgment, I'd likely be taking the elevator down. But what delusion has made you believe that anyone is doing anything for your approval? The problem isn't that you don't approve of what strangers are doing. The problem is that you see yourselves as so important and of authority that you believe your opinion of what strangers are doing matters.

[00:11:52]>> This woman is so articulate in what she's saying and the thoughts she has and her opinions on it, but it's I just I agree with this so much. That's why I chose to share this. Some people might say in the comments, "Well, Alexis, you try and find a gray area in everything and look at both sides." And I did try and do that. The first video I saw of hers, I'm trying to think, "Oh, well, she's found this religion. She's coming from this new place. She's found something to believe in and it's given her purpose." I understand all of that.

[00:12:16]I'm not disagreeing with any of that.

[00:12:18]I'm not disagreeing with her finding religion, following God, following God's teachings. That's I have no issue with that whatsoever. We all have the right to live our lives the way that we best see fit. But the way that I don't have this gray area for the situation with this content creator is she isn't understanding that LGBT people can live our lives the way we best see fit. She thinks her own moral high ground, as this other creator said, is the only way forward. And that's not factually true.

[00:12:43]Both can happen simultaneously. It's leaning towards hate speech and that's why there's no gray area for this one for me. You might disagree in the comments, I understand that, but it's just my opinion. Let's keep watching her though because she's so articulate and I absolutely love that.

[00:12:56]>> You believe that your perspective of how the world should function matters. You believe not in freedom, which I'll give you a pass on because you don't sound American and the freedom concept is more of our thing, but in a sick, binding, enforced conformity that is antithetical to the individual conscious human experience and also has been used throughout history to keep your people, our people, in chains. And then you espouse foul and dangerous rhetoric that leads to laws that get people killed and behaviors that get people killed based not in science, not critical thinking, but a book about a fantasy. The ask of the LGBTQ+ community is not that you personally approve of them. Again, such a bizarre sentence. The ask of the LGBTQ+ community and everybody else sane is that you mind your own business and stop using the law and social punishment against human beings living their own lives as they should be free to do, not hurting anyone.

[00:13:43]>> Totally agree. I totally agree in the sense that I don't think we want approval from everyone. I think we just want to be left to live our lives and to be safe and I think that's what most human beings want. We just want to live our lives the way we best see fit and to be safe, happy, and healthy and hopefully not hurt anyone.

[00:14:02]And that's where this particular creator for me, where I have a problem. I wasn't going to make this video cuz I don't really like talking about religion in videos. I know it can really divide people. We all have our own opinions on that and I don't want to come across like I'm on people who have religious beliefs at all whatsoever. If like if you find something in God or your own religion that gives you peace and comfort and safety and a sense of self and being, I love that for you and I would never tell anyone that they're wrong for doing that. I don't personally choose that that life. I don't personally believe that that but that's my choice and that's my life and it's having that mutual respect for each other to be able to have those decisions. If you believe that when we get up there and we're going to get judged and I'm going to be judged in a bad way maybe because I'm trans or maybe cuz I didn't believe my whole life, then I'm going to go down in the elevator and then that's fine as long as you've made decisions for your life. But when those beliefs start to become preachy in real life or on social media, which actively influence other people, which influences laws, which influences crimes against LGBT people, that's where I have a problem because it's putting other people's lives at safety. You don't have to go to a pride and wave a flag and join our parades but just having a basic human respect for one another, that's what I find incredibly frustrating. This video was a very deep one. I just really felt a lot about this. Now, for me it was important to talk about. If it was hard to digest, I'm very sorry. Liam always tells me off that I apologize too much. But, I know that a religious style content can be quite heavy and it's it's a very debatable topic. I do understand that. As always, leave your comments in the What what's it called? Oh my god, my brain. Let me know your thoughts in the comment section below. I love to read it and maybe I'll learn something new today that I didn't know before. If you did enjoy this style of content, please like, subscribe, hit the notification bell. I post one to two videos every week. And me and my husband are redoing our podcast. It used to be called the Blake Debate, but now it's just the Blake's Podcast from meeting marriage and beyond where we are doing a 10-part series about our relationship from meeting as two gay men to where we are right now. If you want to go and have a little listen to that or watch of that, please check out my channel. Thank you so much for being here. Spread love and kindness. I hope you all have a lovely day and I'll see you guys in the next one.

[00:16:24]Goodbye. Goodbye.