Horrible Mom's Abusive Meltdown Accidentally Saved This Teen's Life

This 18 year old streamer's mom attacked him on camera and it may have actually been one of the best things that ever happened to him. Twitch sneakily began harvesting creators content to train Amazon's AI products and now they're getting taken to court. We dive into why Canada's Prime Minister says it's now at war with the United States. Paramount situation just got even messier and how this Trump data center scandal might screw Republicans going into the midterms. We're talking about all of that and even more on today's brand new Philip DeFranco show you daily dive into the news, but first. I've just had to say, "Oh my God, thank you and also if you haven't gotten in on this yet, do." Just this last weekend, we kicked off our crashing out live podcast tour in Seattle and Portland and it was so amazing. Every single show is different as of Portland, about a third of it has audience interaction. And the best thing is we've got 10 more shows to go starting with this next weekend. On Friday, we're going to be in Boston at the Wilbur and on Saturday, we're going to be in Philadelphia at the Fillmore. So if you're anywhere near, get some tickets. I want to see your beautiful faces. Then after that, we'll be in San Francisco, Phoenix, Denver, Atlanta, Chicago, St. Paul, Washington DC, and Pittsburgh. And you can get your tickets right now at crashingouttour.com, I get a link in the description in the top comment. But with all that said, we have a lot to talk about today starting with this. You've got Doja Cat in the Twitch community rallying around this 18-year-old streamer of the name of Nitro Camden after his mom made this unhinged decision to attack and threaten him on camera. Out on my room, my house, everything, this is all mine. Get out. It should have dated hours ago. You've been at home all day. So to play video games, like a 40-year-old virgin in his mom's basement. Right, so with a lot of people coming into this situation blind, here's the context. Just a few days ago, Camden was this regular teenager from St. Louis, who has streamed up maybe a couple of people from his bedroom, far from being some Twitch celebrity. But then, like every small creator dreams of, he gets this lucky moment when all of a sudden a massive streamer by the name of St. Paul Ronaldo raided his channel with 15,000 viewers. Right and raiding, if you're not familiar, it's a very streaming specific thing. It's when a streamer sends their current viewers to another creator's channel when their own broadcast ends. And so Camden gets so excited about all these new viewers that he starts celebrating on the stream. But that's also when his mom gets into the room and plugs his equipment and starts verbally and physically abusing him, saying that he was too loud. But they're then going on about how he adds no value to the household, even though she is the parent and he is the kid. And you then ever attacking your son for staying up past his bedtime while also yelling about how he's a legal adult and comparing him to a 40-year-old virgin. And then, this is an 18-year-old trying to do something an online entertainment. But then actually, from there, it looks like Camden's mom actually did call the cops on him and kicked him out of the house. "They're telling me she's trying to follow the restraining order on me, so I said, yeah, that's what she said, bro. I'm the one that did this, this my fault, and some other shit." "I'm not gonna just go, bro. I'm not gonna get up out of here." And so then with all this, you have lots of people who look stressed and concerned about the situation, send it in support. And actually, after the initial clip started circulating online, St. Paul Ronaldo, right, the streamer who raided Camden, you wait in. Reposting the footage and tweeting, "What the fuck is wrong with people? Try to help out a small streamer and his mom does this?" And so this whole situation starts spreading. I mean, it reaches people like DojaCat who then add words of encouragement for Camden tweeting, "Shout out to NitroCandon, you deserve those supporters and more angel. Don't ever give up on what you're doing, make this shit your life." The Camden then seeing that saying, "Thank you so much, you don't understand how much I appreciate this." With this then reaching other major streamers in the space like Sina. "Message me privately and I want to figure out some stuff with your money situations so I can make sure I can try to send you the money on cash app or something so you can get a hotel or whatever." But then also with this, you had people sharing their opinions about this, adding to the discourse. Right in the original clip, you had people commenting things like, "She said he's like a 40-year-old virgin living in his mom's basement. He's a teenage kid. What a stupid comparison." And another adding, "Nah, the mother about to learn the hard way about how social media can change lives." Some people are even saying the mom should be arrested. And after the clip of his mom just doing all that went viral, people were wondering, "Where is Camden now?" And what appears, he's now relocated to a friend's house, at least temporarily. Right, you see a new clip to him, smiling, dancing and enjoying his newfound social media fame. "Tell me that turn off, bro. We had too much Saturday, bro." And so hopefully, you know, this is a story about some good coming out of what seems to be a very toxic, unhealthy mess. Because Camden, at least as in recording, he now has over 270,000 followers on Twitch with that number likely to grow as the story gets more attention. He knows what Camden does with this opportunity, how things proceed forward. One, I think it's an unfortunate reminder that sometimes the people that are supposed to love us the most are big as haters. Two, everything starts from zero, so you gotta believe in yourself before anyone else does. Until you get to that level of success where everyone says that they supported you from the beginning. And three, this is really a message for everyone not just creators, especially if you have a not-so-great-home situation. You have found family out there. You have community out there that you just haven't met yet. And then actually, I'll say, the controversy's known in there regarding Twitch. Because you also have this news about a massive lawsuit from streamers and responds to Twitch's shady and underhanded AI training schemes. Or because this actually stems from a few weeks ago. Or because Twitch very quietly changed their terms of service to include information about a feature that allows content on the platform to be used for training Amazon's generated AI. And of course, Amazon is Twitch's parent company. And there was no formal announcement for this feature and more importantly, no expressed choice to participate. It was automatically turned on. But then you saw as streamers and viewers caught wind of all this, Twitch did post an announcement that there was a way to opt out, buried in the bowels of your account settings. But also one of the things is even if you do opt out, anything you say in the chat of a streamer who hasn't, can be used to train AI. And any of your clips featured in someone else's stream, it can also be used as well. You know, just a fun little loophole. And so as you might imagine, a lot of people were pissed off going, "Have you ever heard about a thing called fucking consent?" And just days before this thing made headlines, there was a poll with more than 15,000 votes on Twitch's official page, ask for user input saying that all AI features should be optioned. Suggesting, "Hey, Twitch should give creators a choice to turn that on." And then, yeah, they let their content be used for AI purposes. But by default, it should be turned on. But here's a key thing. When he was asked why that wasn't how this particular feature was handled, Chief Product Officer Mike Mitten seemed to just say the quiet part out loud. Now, why is it not opt in? That's what everybody is. You're spamming in chat. I get it. Let me opt in versus making me opt out. Well, there's an honest answer. And I think most of you probably can appreciate this. Like, if it was opt in, nobody would opt in. That's honestly the answer. To comment that clip, it turned the whole thing up to 11. People across the board started pushing back. Unless you opt out, you will be fed to the AI overlords. They will train off of you. They will wear your flesh. Clearly, they don't respect your choices. I knew another saying, so they know no one wants it. But instead of not pushing the thing, they'd rather force it on all of us and hope that some people forget to opt out just to feed on our data regardless. Discussing. With all of that, then bringing us to the big news, which is creators have filed a lawsuit. Specifically, streamer Warren Panacea from Connecticut, he sued both Twitch and Amazon, saying that they unlawfully copied millions of videos to develop Amazon's AI, violating creators implied contracts with Twitch. Because you have this situation where when a user signs up, they enter into a partnership with Twitch where copying content for undisclosed commercial use is prohibit. And the suit claims that this is exactly what Amazon and Twitch are doing here. They're stealing content to train AI because AI models and products can make them money. And actually not only that, the suit claims that they have been doing this for years. Are you of it pointing to 2024 comments from Mike Minton, who was at the time the chief monetization officer, seemingly saying that Twitch content was already being used to develop Amazon's AI, quote, "in a prototyping, not in any kind of production scale capacity." But then remember, the change to the terms of service and the opt out toggle didn't exist until a couple of weeks ago. And you've got Panacea accusing both of the companies of completely betraying the creators that make their platform work to line their own pockets. With the lawsuit specifically reading, defendants actions were not only unlawful, but an unconscionable attack on the community of content creators whose content is used to fuel the multi-trillion dollar generative AI industry without any compensation. But then I think it's also very important to know that this is far from the first time that we are seeing shady content harvesting for AI. Right, both TikTok and Meta, for example, they tried something similar to this recently and earlier this year, three YouTubers filed a class action lawsuit against Apple with accusations that it scraped copyrighted content to train their AI. And then as far as Twitch, well, yes, there's this lawsuit. It really seems like this is a moment where people are rallying together. Or you've got a tag saying that the creators opted out of the AI training feature popping up on accounts and streams, as well as tutorials going up about how to opt out on your own account. And then there's also some folks out there saying, "Hey, there is a silver lining to the situation saying, "Hey, look at the reaction. There's a sign of hope here." Saying things like, "This is proof that Gen AI is not inevitable." If it was, they wouldn't have to spend billions of dollars forcing it down your throat. Saying they wouldn't have to force everything to be opt-in by default. They wouldn't have to build data centers and poor neighborhoods where people can't fight back, deny them. And then actually regarding data centers, there's some huge news we've got to talk about there, but first two things. One, I'm still riding the hive from this weekend, seeing all your beautiful bastards in Portland and Seattle, and I thought, "Hey, as a way to celebrate for the next 24 hours, you can get 50% off right now at beautifulbastard.com." So snag yourself and emotionally exhausted, which is on our original core 1.0 tees, and/or clean us out of our core 2.0 tees, so we tested this summer. So yeah, beautifulbastard.com, just use code. Thank you, and get 50% off for the next 24 hours. I'm even wearing the tea right now. Especially because that was a test run, and we're going back to the core 1.0's next drop. And then two, I'll be back after a quick word from our sponsor. 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Hopefully yesterday, which even that is like a, that's a video in its own right. He said, communities, frankly, communities that don't take a data set that they're making a mistake because there's plenty of communities that want them because it means jobs and it means tremendous tax revenue coming into the towns and cities that take them. So, you know, it's like the smart ones are saying, I want them so badly. But here's the thing, you're seeing key voices in his own party moving in the opposite direction right now. And that's very likely because the American public is increasingly turning against data centers with, I mean, Gallup recently finding that seven in 10 Americans oppose local construction of these facilities. And while you're seeing Democrats and Independents more likely to oppose the construction, at least as far as the voting base, the majority of Republicans are against it as well. And so with the midterms really just around 10 weeks away, you have conservatives thinking they need to get in line with some voters. And so in recent days and weeks, you've seen some Republicans specifically ones running for election or reelection who previously supported data centers doing a complete 180. And actually, one of the biggest is Texas governor Greg Abbott. I mean, just last year, he and Google announced a $40 billion infrastructure investment into the state with Abbott calling Texas the epicenter of AI development. That has been deeply unpopular and you've placed it like the Washington Post even speaking to Republicans who planned a vote for his Democratic opponents all because of data centers. With one saying, nothing has been done by our party to help and adding any Republican who has been in office since we started this fight, I'm not going to vote for them. I mean, right now, you have a poll from Fox News putting Democratic candidate Gina Inohosa within a point of Abbott, who is an incumbent in a red state. And she very notably has been running on data centers, recently airing an ad saying, "Why is my electric bill going up?" "Absolutely, happy to help." Data center production and energy use in Texas is skyrocketing to meet AI's needs for your future. What? Who authorized that? Greg Abbott. This Abbott now appears panicked and he's paused in construction on these projects until regulators can conduct audits on them, delaying them for at least months. Right, which interestingly sounds like, you know, past the midterms. And you also them claiming that they'll add new guardrails for their operation. Number one, they must identify what water usage they're demanding and make clear they are not taking water from communities that need it. Number two, they must not take power from the Texas power grid this needed. Number three, they must actually lower the cost of electricity for consumers, the data centers. They didn't do their job to get the support of people in local communities. They had not been working in collaboration with the state, they'd not been working in collaboration with local governments. And so they basically dug their own grave for the problem that's been caused for them and that's why they got the backlash they deserve. Right, and it's not alone in this big about face. Just last week, you're the National Republican Senatorial Committee, issuing a memo warning that data centers were hurting the party in the Ohio Senate race. And in that race, you have Senator John Houston fighting to keep his seat against Democrat Sherrod Brown. And again, we've seen Brown airing ads calling out his Republican opponent for data center support. Why are there 226 data centers in Ohio? 5th most of any state. John Houston, that's why he forcefed the massive energy sucking facilities on the state. Giving corporations over $2.5 billion in out of control tax breaks and causing electric bills to spike by thousands of dollars. And according to this memo, Brown is using this strategy because it works. More than any other thing in this race, data centers are the anchor hanging around Houston's neck. Saying, if he loses in data centers, get the blame, politicians across the country will take notice and they will not go near the next one. And so now, it's a correct course, at least, to the public, Houston's introducing a bill to "protect Americans from putting the bill for new data centers." And that's happening as over in Michigan. You have Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers coming out in support of a one-year moratorium on data center construction. And you have Politico saying there that possibly puts Rogers on par with his progressive Democratic opponent Abdul El Sayed. And you have them claiming that data centers are at an "oh shit moment." And I'll say it is worth noting that it's not just Republicans that are changing their tune. In the Pennsylvania Governor's race, you've seen the Republican candidate airing ads calling out incumbent Democrat Josh Shapiro for supporting data centers. Shapiro pocketed over $5 million in political contributions. From out-of-state data center developers, Shapiro sold us out. And so now Shapiro, who notably might have eyes on a White House run, he just announced new restrictions on development. But its impact on Republicans specifically is very interesting for a few reasons. Referring to saying things like, according to analysis from the Washington Post, the right's been up a little slower to join the hate train compared to the Democrats, who largely started switching to negative messaging about data centers months earlier. And two, Trump himself is very likely not moving away from his pro-data center position. And in fact, he's already called out Texas and Greg Abbott, calling it a mistake. And he has repeatedly said things like, "If I ran a computer if I was a mayor or if I was a governor in a state, I would want to have the data centers because they bring tremendous income." "You have to convince your community how great these things. You can't fight it. You have to go with it." And so it seems like he is undermining his own party's candidates who are trying to change tune to survive. Especially since the midterms, they're going to be here tomorrow, right? They're closer and closer. Oh wow, just this morning, you had the New York Times running a piece saying, Democrats have opened up more than one path to winning control of the Senate. Which I mean, just a year ago, felt impossible. And right now, three key races are bleeding blue, and even more, they're toss-ups. And then importantly, this situation, it's going to stay on the ballot even after November, with, for example, an unnamed rep from a major AI company telling Politico, AI is going to be a massive issue for the presidential election in a way that technology has never been an issue. Saying, "Nobody wants to lose their job, and they're already feeling squeezed while these very, very rich people who are richer than anything we have ever seen in the history of Earth are making more." I think people are sick and tired of that. And with all this, I will say, and this is very anecdotal. For my experience with everyone that I've been talking to and what I've been seeing, the best things for Democrats right now is to hit hard on data centers and these flock cameras. Not only are a lot of Republican politicians late to the game on this and kind of doing something last minute, so it feels inauthentic and fake. I've seen more independence and none indoctrinated Republicans going, "I don't know what the fuck our elected politicians are doing." And they're talking about their Republican politicians. And so my recommendation would be, hit these topics hard. Also, if you do get elected, actually fuck and follow through on it. And I mean that both for the national and especially the local races. Then also, as you're seeing all these wars playing out regarding data centers and flock cameras, we then have to talk about how apparently Canada is now at war with the United States. Because that's literally what Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said over the weekend after trading negotiations between the two nations collapse. You've had to go share his working for weeks after Trump announced new 50% tariffs on $20 billion worth of Canadian goods last month. With that, including alcohol, dairy products, furniture, athletic equipment, toys, clothes, and more. Very notably here, those duties were announced today after Trump threatened to impose new tariffs over smoke that had drifted to the US from the Ontario fires. But of course, the White House claim that the new duties had nothing to do with the wildfires, instead accusing Canada of retaliating against the US over Trump's 2025 tariffs. At the time, Trump gave negotiators a 30-day grace period to try and hash out a deal, but because they failed to reach a deal before the deadline, the tariffs officially took effect on Saturday. And then not long after that, you had carried delivering a speech where you just absolutely tore into the US government. Because we're attacked, like you're aware when you get attacked, we got attacked. We've been under no illusions. We recognized from the start that America has changed. Our government understood before many that America would transform all of its commercial relationships, that it would put a series of tariffs on its closest allies and use economic integration as a weapon. We recognized that sometimes its signature was written in pencil. You also had a party going on to blame the US for the breakdown and negotiations, claiming that they derailed the talks with last-minute proposals that would be harmful to Canada. In recent days, the United States proposed new terms that run economic, unfair, and undermine the net benefits for Canada and called into question the reliability of any deal. Right into his last point there, one thing that is super important to understand is that economists say that the new tariffs are actually pretty minor in terms of economic impact. You're looking at about 5% of the $382 billion in Canadian goods at the US imported last year. But the reason these tariffs are so significant is that they could undermine US Canada relations and inviting retaliation and potentially even sparking an all-out trade war. In fact, we're already seeing that happen. I mean, in his speech on Saturday, Karney vowed that he would respond by imposing retaliatory tariffs on American goods. Canada will match Washington's new tariffs dollar for dollar in order to protect Canadian workers, farmers, families, and businesses. Our response will be concentrated in sectors such as steel, dairy, appliances, agricultural equipment, pulp and paper, and electronics. You then also had Ontario Premier Doug Ford who leads Canada's most populous province, taking it even further, with him telling reporters everything on the table of the trade dispute worsens, including cutting off electricity flows to the US and restricting the export of critical minerals. Now that's said, as recording Canada has not released any specific details about their intended tariffs and what specific goods that they're going to target. But already, you've got Trump escalating the standoff. Just this morning, Trump made a classic rambling post on truth social, where he accused Canada of "ripping off the United States of America for years through tariffs on farmers and farm products." I would then go on to announce that starting January 1st, he'll be imposing a 50% tariff on all cars, trucks, as well as automotive parts and steel and data. Build in the US, and there are zero tariffs. Canada will be treated like a state no longer. So it appears that you have Trump already escalating a trade war with Canada before Canada has even officially said what tariffs it will impose on the US. And then this also feels extra crazy, because literally just moments before Trump made that announcement, US trade representative James and Greer was trying to downplay the impact of the tariffs that went into effect on Saturday, telling reporters, "I think the markets understand that this affects a very small amount of trade, and adding that he wouldn't use the term trade war to define Saturday's tariffs." So again, it ends up seeming like the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing. The Trump is just on a whim deciding to do something on his own, or at least without consulting key people in his administration. So definitely none of this is surprising in a certain way. I mean, from the get-go, Trump's tariffs have kind of felt totally haphazard and willy-nilly. But even the fact that he is setting a January 1st deadline for the new auto and steel tariffs, it feels like another place where he's just going to chicken out and claim some sort of victory. Right, Manny is skeptical, speculating that there's such a big race period because he wants to restart negotiations, but then at the same time, like it also doesn't seem like Trump even knows what he's doing. I mean, for one thing, the U.S. literally already has a 50% tariff on steel imported from Canada, so it's unclear if Trump meant that the tariff would rise to 100%. But then even if Trump chickens out on those particular tariffs, X would say that he's igniting a trade war that could inflict serious harm on the U.S. economy, creating major economic shocks and passing the cost hikes onto American businesses and consumers who are already facing high prices because of Trump's pointless war in a run. A war that by the way, despite Trump saying that we've, I don't know, won like 17,000 times, but then somehow it's continued and that makes sense to a chunk of his base has now dragged on for nearly six months, despite Trump's promises that would be over in like a matter of weeks. And actually very notably here, we've even seen some Republicans hitting back at the new tariffs, arguing that Trump, he's just hurting Americans already grappling with an affordability crisis. For example, Susan Collins, who's running for re-election in one of the most high stakes races this year, arguing that the policy is going to be especially harmful to the state of Maine, which is a lot of commerce across the border. I still think imposing new tariffs on Canada is a mistake. We produce a lot of Maine, our blueberries, our potatoes, our lobster, our lumber, that is processed across the border. If it comes back with accused tariff on it, perhaps as much as 50%, bad increases the cost of eating, building homes, and merchants saying our best-known products. If you've got a lot of strategists wondering why the hell not only what he'd do this, but he would do this so close to the midter, especially at a time when his approval ratings hitting record lows and his polling on the economy just continues to tank. And I mean across the board, we're seeing crazy stuff. You've got ranchers who've had terms back for God knows how long, saying that what he's doing right now regarding beef tariffs, that there's a betrayal. At a rally over the weekend, he ended up having to kick out a guy in a kill your local petafile shirt, with all the hardcore mega there, yelling at him, flipping him off. And well, hey, no poll matters if it's not then followed up by actual votes. He does appear to be fully intent on putting Republicans in a very hard spot right now. But then from that, finally today, let's end with a quickie, but actually an important quickie. And that's because we have some big paramount drama updates. Because you had paramount, such have a meeting with California AG Rob Bonta today, which could have gotten them closer to settling their legal issues. Because there, you've had California officials leading the legal charge against their Warner Brothers acquisition. And that whole process has been a mess in an outsider court, with for example, people like Mark Ruffalo speaking out against the merger, calling Larry Ellison a classic oligarch, connecting it all to issues with Ellison's company Oracle and the genocide and Gaza. Right, and with all this, paramounts already threatened to leave California if they can't come to an agreement. So it was believed that there was a chance to make some good headway in this meeting. But then after some information about the talks they had last Friday leaked, Bonta canceled on them, claiming that they were moving in bad faith, saying not only did they leak the alleged substance of settlement discussions, but they misrepresented them. Though paramount has denied being the source of any of the leaks, even saying that they were still ready to move forward with their discussions. And that also might be because there is a lot at stake. And in fact, the stakes are rising. Because on one hand, paramount could be paying the cost for all these delays. Because they actually have to start paying hundreds of millions of dollars in fees to Warner Brothers shareholders if they don't seal the deal by October. But on the other hand, if they actually start to look to move and they move, you're talking about 4,500 California jobs and like $1.26 billion in wages, gone, just like that. And while you have people like California Governor Gavin Newsom saying that he's concerned about all this and just wants to see Hollywood thrive, you have Bonta saying, "As soon as paramount stops playing games and engages sincerely, my office is happy to meet again." For now, we'll have to wait to see what happens here, and honestly with a lot of what we talked about today. But then my friend, beautiful bastard is the end of your Monday show. Thank you for watching. Also, reminder, take advantage of that beautiful bastard sale while you can, and also get some crashing out towards tickets at crashingouttour.com. I'm excited to see Boston. I'm excited to see you Philly. I'm excited to see you rest of the country. Yeah, I love you faces, and I'll see you right back here tomorrow.