"We're not just telling stories, we're recreating real-life events."

Dhar Mann doesn't seem to recognize the difference between slapping a person for saying mean things and defending yourself from a larger assailant who made a confrontation physical and threatening. Telling kids that they shouldn't protect themselves when people attack them is incredibly harmful.

the message of this one really resonates me /s "it's okay to be physically abusive to your smaller classmates if your dad abandons you, but it's not okay to defend yourself when you're being assaulted" , they're not just telling stories, they're changing lives!

the kid's slap was literally self-defense like?? the bully laid hands on him first lmao

Glad to see the bully got rewarded for bullying because *checks notes* violence is not the answer.

So the lesson is....if you're being bullied, don't defend yourself, buy the bully nice things instead. This is the closest I've ever gotten to being actually angry at a Dhar Mann video. How does he mangle every single moral he tries to teach?

Dhar Mann lines Hall of Fame: -“At least my glasses are Ray Bans” -“Because I’m Jason” -“Big hiphopconcert” -“Fake! Knife! Prank!” Edit: I just remembered “There goes Muh-REE”

Violence was the answer, though. He tried using words with the bully and nothing changed. But then the bully's whole personality was different and he was suddenly listening after the kid he bullied straight up humbled him publicly with that slap. Wesley slapped the attitude out of that boy.

I asked my 12-year-old what school was like after the Slap, and he said some kids were saying stuff like “oh, if that was me, I’d punch him like this” and dramatically punch the air like we live in an anime. But for the most part it was a few boys giving out teasing insults to their friends and the friends saying “hey, don’t make me go Will Smith on you” and they crack up laughing. My kid said it lasted a couple days, a week at the most, then everyone forgot about it. Basically, 12-year-olds (and younger) have short memories and this news is not just old, but ancient to them. In fact, when I asked my kid if he knew what “the Slap” is, he said “yeah, I remember that meme.” It’s not even real life to him. It’s just another meme in the cycle. He’s barely aware of who Will Smith is (other than some old actor) so why would he look up to him?

I'm only seven minutes in but I just gotta say it's hilarious how the mom pulls the kid aside, telling him "violence isn't the way" when Jaden Smith after The Slap simply tweeted "And thats how we do it!"

This is honestly way too much. This is genuinely disgusting, like, this is almost gaslighting. We saw what happened, we know the story, and this is clearly THAT event, but it's like a fanfiction retelling of it that doesn't even come close to staying accurate? Using the kid in the story, idk, this is just mind boggling. Edit: also chat has no idea what a continuity error is

“At least my glasses are ray-bans” is the weakest flex I’ve ever heard

Not finished with the video yet, but I had to stop and say: I really really really appreciate Jarvis stopping and explaining why he doesn't watch Darh Mann videos that deal with heavier topics. The line "I don't want to play with people's real trauma for the clicks" really hit. As someone who suffers from PTSD, I can't tell you how much I appreciate the consideration for what real people deal with and how videos, even in good faith, can effect the audience. Thank you Jarvis!

What gets me is Will Smith was remorseful. He apologized for his reaction literally in his acceptance speech, and multiple times after that. He definitely wasn’t celebrating his actions and saying “I should have hit him harder” and Dhar Mann just decided to make him a villain for…..for what?

remember kids, don’t use violence when people say mean things or when they physically assault you. these things are completely the same because violence is never the answer

You know how people say "the writers for 2022 are crazy", "the writers for 2020 really forgot that plot line with the murder hornets"? this is the tv show they're talking about.

Not Dhar Mann assembling every person of color he knows to act in this video

This is like revisionist history / plus fanfic / and a touch of gaslighting with the whole kid being surrounded by useless bystanders and one giant kid physically harassing him

"Violence isn't the solution" is such a fairy tale idea. Like, actually, no, violence is sometimes the anwser. Especially if you're being physically assaulted by someone.

That slap was one of the most genuine pieces of acting I’ve seen in Dhar Mann’s content

So the lessons of the video, excluding the whole Will Smith plot, were that it is not okay to defend yourself against a bully as they have a sob story (that justifies their bullying?), and everything is solved with money/expensive gifts. I'm glad I don't give Dhar Mann any watch time on his channel.

What pisses me off is the principal literally must have heard them chanting and bullying him as she walked in when that happened. Like you can see her in the background ?? But girl only stopped it when he slapped him I'm so

As someone who was bullied from Kindergarten to college, I firmly believe in violence as the answer because bullies don’t listen to words and administrators don’t care until someone is physically hurt or unsliced themselves🤷🏽‍♀️ Whoever made this script obviously wasn’t bullied to the point of not wanting to be here. Words hurt more than physical pain. That’s all.

The idea of Will Smith getting giddy over being called iconic on Twitter

He was literally being bullied with hands on him. Absolutely bullshit he shouldn’t get in trouble for defending himself ???

What made me come to the conclusion violence isn't the answer, but talking is you ask? Well, you see, my son was physically assaulted after trying to use his words to resolve the situation, and after his words repeatedly didn't resolve said situation, he slapped somebody in self defence, which was clearly wrong and he should have let the bully have his own way.

There was a lot more to the slap than just not knowing how to respond to a mean joke properly. It had clearly been building up for a while and Will clearly just kinda snapped and reached a breaking point. Dhar Mann could have done some discussion and awareness raising about mental health, but nah.... gotta make the Will Smith stand-in just a one-note sexist "protect my wahmen" cartoon villain and preach about violence bad and say nothing we haven't heard a million times already.

I was bullied throughout my whole elementary school year and I’ve never used violence once because my mom told me not to ever put my hands on anyone. But the one time I had put my hands on someone, it was when she was choking me out, I had hit her so I don’t get hurt even worse. I told the principal and he saw that she had put her hands on me but since I’m black and she looks white he let her off. The principal is very clearly racist she was there when the chanting was happening and she had done nothing but once he defends himself he’s one to blame? And yes I get that the bully was going through traumatic things I went through the same thing but I’ve never once in my life bullied or put my hands on my bullies until the time where I had to defend myself. Dhar mann is not telling kids the right thing, they should be taught that they should use violence only when people hurt and or threat them!

The bully was a bit odd. He seemed to really want Wesly to slap him and then got all weird when he did. "You aren't like your cool dad who slaps people." "I bet you don't have the guts to slap me." "What are you going to do, slap me?" "You would be so much cooler if you slapped people." "Come on bro, slap me." *slap* 🥺 "Why would you do this? So mean."

Why would Dhar Man choose this situation to parody, what about it relates to a nice moral lesson for kids 😭😭 Next he’s going to be making parodies of the Amber Heard trials

I wish the lesson should have been “keep people’s wife’s names out your flipping mouth”

Your trauma isn't an excuse to bully others dhar man tf

i love bingo, but dhar mann always pisses me off to a point that i often cannot finish the whole vod because of how uncomfortable i am. i hope jarvis could make a new bingo series so i can still have the fun while not having to endure dhar mann anymore. no pressure tho jarvis did a good job

The moment Jarvis said “Schrodinger’s shoes” HAD ME ON THE FLOOR-

Even stranger is that Will Smith was laughing at the joke at first, and when his wife looked at him practically glaring that's only when he felt like it was time to stand up for his wife. So his wife wanted him to do something

Wesley was setting a boundary and that kid was ignoring him and physically threatening him. The school failed both of those boys... in this fake story that I'm way too heated about

The way the kid looks at his hand after slapping the bully is like he just killed a man and is horrified by the blood on his hands. Props to the kid for that wonderful bit of acting.

so what I got from this is that i should bully rich children til they slap me to get cool sneakers

Having the Jada Plinkett Smith stand in say it was just a joke when the real life Jada was obviously hurt by the comments and Will was acting in response to her being upset, not from toxic masculinity making him upset people were laughing at his wife, is so gross. Edit: it's also gross that they changed the joke to be about weight instead of disability, particularly since the actress is thin.

this is so weird the kid situation was never different to the dads one like that bully was literally pushing him around and didn’t even have to apologise 😭. dharman videos are so surface level lmao

"Alliterative nickname " should be on the bingo

can i just point out how gross it is that hes using jada's stand in character to say things that (afaik) she hasnt said on something thats (again afaik if im wrong please feel free to correct me) she hasnt even spoken about yet? like we dont know how she felt about the slap and id imagine that having someone joke about your hair loss caused by something like alopecia in front of the whole world basically could be really humiliating so for all we know she could have felt like she was actually being stood up for when the slap happened (she could also believe what her stand in said in this video to be fair the point is we dont know) and regardless idk its just feels so gross that dhar mann is kinda using her as a mouthpiece for *his* personal opinion (also!! im only part was through the video so if jarvis also makes this point than sorry for repeating it)

“Dear will, I wrote you but you still ain’t callin” 😭

honestly the way the principal handled the bully was so accurate. like, this was a few years ago, but i was being physically and verbally hatecrimed and bullied on the daily for like four years when i moved schools, and it got to a point in middle school where i just stopped going to school for a month and didn't tell my mom why i refused to go until the end of that month. which lead to her taking me to talk to the principal. straight up went into that office with my mother and this grown woman listened to me explain the violence i'd experienced at the hands of two major aggressors and she really looked at us and said 'well, these girls have problems too. so my hands are tied. but i will tell the teachers to look out for you.' in our 'no bullying tolerated' school. and then one of the teachers went and gossiped with my bullies about why i wasn't at school and my mom pulled me out of school lol. but like. straight up WHY ARE ? PRINCIPALS LIKE THAT ??? AND HOW DOES DHAR MANN KNOW ??

This was REALLY strange and promotes a really bad moral code. -The response to the slap was unanimously positive from the public. Near opposite of the actual reaction to Will's slap. But if we go along with the near-unanimous public support angle, he would probably get a lot of backlash for the apology. "The public" in this one didn't make sense. -Even for Dhar Man, the "standing up for yourself makes YOU the bad guy" lesson equating Will/the dad's slap over a comedy sketch to standing up for yourself against a probable threat... That was AWFUL. And he didn't just extend it to the slap. He made that point down to shaming the "Ray Bans" kid at the end by acting like his shoe comment is what was REALLY bad about the cafeteria situation and not the fact that he was being harassed by that kid for no reason. -I've never heard the term "toxic empathy", but I guess I've seen it. Experiencing trauma doesn't make someone a good person nor should someone's trauma be used by them or others as an excuse to treat others badly. The bully backstory was unnecessary in such a short video, but even with a tragic backstory, that doesn't make him righteous. The principal, the boy's parents, and even the bully himself at the end ALL acted like doing ANYTHING to upset him was morally wrong, regardless of what his own actions were. He instigated every bad thing that happened to him. He got physical with the other kid first. He was in the wrong, and that doesn't change just because of his home situation. Having empathy for a person, a group/type of person, or situation should not cloud people's judgment of right and wrong.

I literally can't sleep, it's 1:35am and i'm watching these videos to try to make myself sleep. Thanks Jarvis for this amazing series!

Also like... he was PINNED against the locker, that was the definition of self defense. Let's not excuse the bullies actions then psychoanalyze the other family and not acknowledge it. Dharr Mann rubs me the wrong way to say the least

I think dhar mann holds the world record for the will smith slap any percent speed run category

when he gave his BULLY new shoes i legit just kept saying “why???” Like who gives their bully gifts

How did the teacher not hear them all chanting "Weasley the wimp" she was around the corner

once the Depp v Heard trial is over there's definitely gonna be a "Woman RUINS Man's Life With False Accusations and Instantly Regrets It" video

Why did they take an incredibly particular situation replicate it almost 1:1 but give Knock Off Will Smith a school-aged child? All of Wheel Smith's kids are young adults; I don't think any of them are going to internalize "the slap" as part of their core values. Like they're still relatively young, but old enough to be fairly independent of their parents. Also... Dhar Mann using Not-Jada as his mouthpiece in this one felt really bad to me, especially with how dismissive the end was of the pretty things Fake-Chris was saying? The whole story hinges on these misogynistic comments made against her, and she's not even allowed the dignity of voicing her feelings about them? She just has to shift back and forth between "mother mode" and "wife mode"... which is actually an improvement because unlike some other Dhar Mann characters she's the voice of reason and not a stock b* character... It just feels really bad watching this knowing there's a real woman out there who kind of inspired the story and I'm pretty sure Dhar Mann views women as one dimensional wives/mothers at their very best. It wasn't so bad with the other characters imo because Not-Will was sooo unrealistic, the kid doesn't have a real world counterpart, and Not-Chris wasn't there for more than a single scene, but it felt extra exploitative of Jada.

bruhh i feel like DM could get in trouble for this no?? like he recreated the thing everyone saw and then made up the events afterward and changed how Will responded to the situation, like would DM’s viewers realize that Will’s response to this was different?

It’s even more upsetting because the kid slapping the other kid is nothing like the will smith slap because he was being physically bullied

This actor does a really great job of sounding like Will Smith. I can see why they cast him!

Thank you Jarvis for releasing so many of these! I use these videos to calm myself down lol it feels like chilling with friends

I really can’t get over the idea of a celebrity child being in public school 💀

I can’t say I’m surprised that Dhar Mann did this… I can say that I’m surprised at how he did it.

Dude look if a kid is physically holding my child and yelling names at them then they have full permission to slap a face!

"You're in the middle of a doorway, Darren. Move!" 😂😂😂

"It was a Fairy Godmother joke"

Dude, the principal walked into frame *hearing* the chant "Wesley's a wimp", sees Wesley slap in retaliation, then only calls Wesley into her office. You *see* her walk through the frame just before the slap

I'm glad a lot of the commentators under the video realized what absolute bullsh*t it was. Usually they completely eat it up but this one was so bad even some of them knew

If y'all buy one more bully a gift 😭 Why in the world does society so strongly back bullies? Teachers and parents ignore it as kids suffer through it. I wish I had the courage to slap me a bully back in the day 😂. Will Smith was just wrong, but that school scenario was something different altogether. His son didn't start off laughing and then get mad. He warned the bully several times. He didn't stop, so down went Fraiser 🤷🏽

I've been avoiding the Oscar slap like the plague.

I feel like this is the one Dhar Mann video I've seen that handles every possible sensitive subject you could possibly handle with the utmost disrespect and harm. We've got telling kids that they shouldn't stand up and defend themselves from attackers; the further portrayal and stereotyping of the 'violent black men'; the obviously handling a real life event with utter disrespect. I can't with this video.

there is something about dhar mann adding the fact that will was laughing at first and then was like *ight ima slap him*

“If our child ever witnesses somebody hitting somebody else he will immediately become a WWE fighter!”

This Dharr Man video is completely insulting to the situation, WIll Smith, and his family

ok but the thing is, the kid is WAY more justified in hitting the other kid than the dad was in hitting the comedian

Dhar Mann seems to only want to have clear cut villains as opposed to flawed people who make mistakes, and this is why we have so many crossing over in cartoon supervillain. And then they do these sudden 180s cause they can't be people who have to learn and grow. Or they get their terrible ending cause evil never wins. And you know, the good guy is always this near flawless saint that's just filled with wisdom. It's why most of his videos covering heavier topics end up being awful. He either doesn't know how to write real humans, or he knows if he does, it'll screw up his ending "lessons" that are supposed to change lives as he says.

To be fair, I was always taught that if someone else hit me, I was allowed to hit back if it ended the confrontation. I was taught to give the aggressor 3 spoken warnings, and if they kept bothering me, respond in kind. The bully was physically attacking him!! Asking him to stop wasn't working. The kid was an entirely different situation than the father, who responded to solely words with violence. This is just teaching kids to not protect themselves against bullies :/

I was bullied in school. It's too bad, but I think the faculty sided more with the bullies than with the victims. At best, problematic student relationships were perceived as inconveniences. At the worst, some teachers seemed to have a pecking party mentality that led to their believing the targets deserved it. I don't remember bullies being called to account much, but I was often called out for "reacting wrong." I was told to "laugh it off" and not let being called fat and ugly upset me. As a kid, laughing along with bullies who were verbally abusing me was a kind of self-treason that I just couldn't manage to do.

As someone who wears glasses: the cheaper they are the bigger the flex.

Jarvis' Dhar Mann impression gets me every time 😂

So I guess it's perfectly fine to body shame in Dhar Mann's universe. Nice.

I was bullied really severely by a girl who supposedly was being abused at home (I only say supposedly because I don't know much about the situation). She beat me unconscious at one point and I was told to forgive and forget because her home life was bad. It's not just about the bully not being punished, it's about leaving kids in harmful situations. I eventually had to fight back physically, because with how badly she was hurting me I think she could have klled me. You can't leave kids in harms way because a bully is having a hard time. And honestly CPS should have been contacted for the girl who was attacking me

This has to be one of Dhar's most tone deaf videos that I've personally encountered. Absolutely insane. Not to mention the way this video analogizes the actual event is verrry problematic.

Elijah: “What’s gotten into you?” Wife: One of my long time friends and one day I will learn to forgive you

Violence is not the answer… Jordans are

I almost fell over after visualizing Weel Smith😂

The moral of the day is "Physically bullying children smaller than you is completely okay if you secretly have a sad backstory"

As someone who has experienced certain severe traumas in life, I just wanted to say thank you for the immense respect you showed for others' experiences, triggers and traumas. I really appreciate it.

What a treat that we get delivered Dharr Man's stance on the Will vs Chris controversy through cinematic art

this is the most meta thing ive ever seen in my life

why did they turn will smith into a tiktok kid or family vlogger dad lmao

Bro wtf is happening. I think our culture is often weirdly sensitive about art sharing relative to collective events, see the original Titanic movie, but this is far too hackneyed and simplistic to even begin to say anything remotely compassionate. It's just mean and spiteful. I knew Dhar Mann was willing to go f'd up places for views but outright patently cruel isn't one I really expected.

dahr man’s video is kinda dumb. wesley was clearly in a position where violence was actually the answer because the bully kid was clearly holding him to the locker. he literally had no other way to get out lmao.

this is such a weird “inspired by true events-“ every change that they made to the irl situation completely changes the impact

1:22 AS SOON AS HE SAID THIS, I GOT A NOOM AD FOR WEIGHT LOSS LMAO

this is so much funnier knowing jada said “that slap saved our marriage”

School bully had it coming tbh

Omg 2 videos in the same 15 minutes?? Just made my day 3x better!

12:22 If it makes you feel better, in Theatre II, a friend and I were practising stage combat in scenes. We went through Captain America: the Winter Soldier, Euphoria, and this exact slap. (Granted, it was theatre class, so instead of Will Smith and Chris Rock, it was Alexander Hamilton and General Lee. It’s theatre, what do you expect lol.)

I’m a Wheelsmith and I don’t approve of being likened to someone who does not Smith Wheels.

33:00 Wesley: "Also, I got you something!" pulls out a new dad for the bully kid

It's weird because the bad jokes are better than the one told at the Oscar and way more slap worthy

Lessons from this episode: - violence isn’t the answer - verbal defense is also bullying. “at least my glasses are raybands, it looks like you got your shoes from the dump” (kid says after bully randomly comes up and starts picking on him) - you shouldn’t use any sort of violence, even if you’re being physically assaulted and verbally berated by a mob. - you should buy your bully a gift, based on what another kid said to them. (A kid who themselves where getting bullied) - you can bully other kids as long as you’re family situation isn’t great. Thanks Darr Mann. After reviewing my notes I’ve decided to start bullying other kids so I can get some Jordans. You really aren’t just telling stories, but changing lives.

The most shameful part of this fake recreation is how they painted Jada as a reasonable person 😂

Almost wish there was a slap epidemic so I could start saying I'm on slap watch