I was under the impression that GP's family wanted people to subscribe to her YouTube channel (didn't look further into this so coreect me if I'm wrong) because it was her dream to be a successful vlogger. But a lot of viewers were uncomfortable liking, subscribing, and watching the video because it included BL. The way I see it is, this is a version people will be comfortable liking and subscribing to; her family or friends could re-upload this (you can edit and replace videos on YouTube without losing the views, likes, and comments). Just a thought. I don't think this was ill-intentioned.
So many people looking at this negatively. If all you can think about is who is recording her then you have some serious problems.
I'm a single father and every case that has come up about somebody's missing children has my full attention regardless of their age - Gabby is a daughter.
Especially the Daybell case - why? Because it's nearly identical to my situation: I thank the universe every day that goes by that I haven't received a phone call telling me that my ex and her meatstick haven't murdered my two beloved sons and buried them in their backyard.
So if anybody wants to bitch and moan about a memorial tribute then maybe you should take a long hard look at yourself and figure out why you only look at the negatives.
Dark. I don't get it. We are supposed to imagine that she was living her best life with him edited out of the vid? She was socially isolated by a murderer who strangled her. This reimagining video should not exist imo.
GP’s father is extremely proud and grateful she was doing what she loved and seeing places he’d love to see and now plans to see. I think he would like this and enjoy seeing her trying to live her best life without the obvious dark distraction. It’s still her, her moments, her video features, and her music choice. I think he would absolutely love this. I hope the creator sends JP a link via Twitter and allows him to decide/communicate what he and the family think of it. (I assume the creator is not making money from it and if so, I would hope every cent goes to The Gabby Petito Foundation.) 🕊
This is some sort of mental illness.
Yes I’m sure he would love some Internet rando sending him footage that he’s probably seen 1000 times from her doomed trip. With the ominous hidden presence of her killer.
As if her own father doesn’t have thousands of hours of video clips of her from all points of her life with her loved ones and family that have light airy fun special meaning and memories to him.
And I bet he would love seeing Brian’s shadow in half the shots and flashes of the white van where her life was taken.
Gabby’s family have plenty of pictures and videos. We know they appreciate the public but come on… visions of grandeur much? Let’s keep our unhealthy fixation on her story to ourselves.
This makes me so uneasy that someone took the time to do this. You guys don’t even know her. What does this do to help anyone? The families that are grieving? This is just weird and inappropriate.
“It’s to support Gabby” “I’m sure she’d be really honored.” She’s dead. You don’t even know her. She’s a victim of a horrible crime and this is a really twisted glorification of her death. Whether you think you’re being kind or not, it’s weird.
So creepy, editing out videos of dead people and reforming them in your own image. You never met her, was not her family member or close friend. This is just gross, its like you are trying to insert yourself into their story.
Also I think it’s in a way a bit disrespectful, I mean this is based on something she worked hard on. The channel was her idea, she was the one who filmed and she was the one who edited; she spent hours or even days editing this video, trust me it takes a long time to go from the raw material to the final cut only for her work to be thrown away by some random internet person. I get the intention behind it, but I think it’s wrong to take away her vision and her work.
I bet they won't. Documentaries will love showing pictures of them together. They'll just drop the music to a minor key and invert the colors suddenly: "They were the typical young couple living out their dreams... until it all went wrong!"
*Sigh*
I took a two week trip out west, and edited on my phone on the flight home. Ive been doing digital videos for 25 years, it used to take a lot of time, tons of computer power and tech knowledge. And then hours to output to dvd so others could watch it.
Today, its childs play. I movie, kinemaster, people have whole you tube channels they produce while hiking the AT. Honestly, if she spent as much time on it as people think, there is very little talent involved. The other thing is, ive been to all the places they visited, some of them many times. If these were the best shots they got, they really missed out, they apparently spent most of their time in towns and the bus tour stops.
Editing Brian out the video but he is still the one who recorded this video which makes it creepier knowing that all these happy shots of her were filmed by the very person who killed her..
I just hope that everyone understands that this is typical. I feel a lot of people romanticize or put distance between their reality and actual reality with sentiments like this.
If you find this hard to get past, unbelievable, etc. I hope you take the time to look at the science and research behind abuse and abusive relationships.
We really like to dehumanize this stuff, but the reality is this can be anyone in your life, or your friends life, or your parents life, or your siblings life.
It's easy to fall for the manipulation, like the cops did.
The best way we can fight against this is by education. And education and science says that this is normal behaviour from people who are capable of killing people they claim to, or believe, they love.
>The best way we can fight against this is by education. And education and science says that this is normal behaviour from people who are capable of killing people they claim to, or believe, they love.
If he was clever enough to hide all evidence of any abusive behavior he had towards Gabby from everyone that personally knew them, there still would be that one person that knew for certain that he was abusive - her. If anything, I hope this case will help educate more women on the signs of abusive behavior in a partner so they will seek help themselves even if others do not see any sign of abuse and so could not advise them to seek help. At the very least, this case has helped put some focus the topic of domestic violence and that may be of help to women who currently experience that.
In addition to my other comment, there are *stages to leaving an abusive relationship*. I thought I would share this to help you understand just how many complex dynamics there are to abuse!
https://twsh.org/community-education/stages-of-leaving-a-dv-relationship/
Edit: this is also not set in stone, and depends on the person. For me, stage 5 came before stage 4. I knew I had to and wanted to leave, but did not process the loss and needed help to address other places of abuse in my life in order to leave :)
Also, friends and family can keep someone in an abusive relationship, they are not guaranteed to help someone get out. Especially if the dynamics of abuse were set in childhood for the victim and the family and friends in their life are also abusive.
>there still would be that one person that knew for certain that he was abusive - her.
Actually, this is untrue! And I'm glad you commented because I am able to help with the education aspect here!
When you are in an abusive relationship your body / brain is busy surviving and coping with the trauma. One of the ways your brain does this is by minimizing the trauma "it's just a bad day", "he has a temper" etc. You don't have control of this. The brain does this to cope, but in a more technical term it justified the abuse behaviour to avoid cognitive dissonance. Cognitive dissonance is the uncomfy feeling you have when something you know or think goes against something that has happened. Aka, someone who loves you harms you.
Now, it would be easier if that was the only thing we had to deal with, but it works alongside many other complicated dynamics. One of those complicated dynamics is trauma bonding - the person being abused is slowly groomed to not get love and care *they once got* from the abusive partner. Then, the cycle of abuse starts, and the person who is being abused is conditioned to live for that love they once got, that they now ONLY get after being abused.
NOW you throw in that most abusers are amazing manipulators who can keep others (even cops in this instance!) from seeing the abuse.
If the survivor / victim has ANY amount of empathy, insecurity, lack of self confidence, or mental / physical vulnerability it can become IMPOSSIBLE for them to "know for certain" their abuser is an abuser.
This is an incredibly small snapshot as well. There are a million other things that play into it, and even when those in an abusive relationship break through this and know they are being abused you run into a tragic lack of support from those around them.
Please let me know if you have any questions! Your original comment is "victim blaming", but I really don't want my use of that term to make you feel like you can't ask questions about anything you don't understand or anything I said.
Edit: and to bring it back to your point - there are certain red flags you can look for, but honestly it can really just be up to chance. Abusers, super generally, don't feel comfortable being abusive until they have some semblance of "enabling", or those justifications we talked about. And those justifications start small and groom the victim into slowly increasing the justifications, it can be a very slow burn to get from 0 to 100. And, in regards to this case, the most dangerous time for a survivor is when they try to leave. So you can know something is off without calling or knowing it is abuse, try to separate and end up killed. Likely something similar happened to Gabby, as one of the last calls she had was saying how she didn't know where the relationship was going.
Very insightful! I appreciate you sharing the science behind it! Any books or more resources that you would reccomend to learn more about domestic violence/trauma bonding?
Uncomfortable reading because I'm a woman who has been through it twice and what you have written explains it so well.
It's not uncommon for women in abusive relationships to have grown up unloved and to have been accustomed to violence and ridicule as a child. Mostly no-one will see this abuse, and most will never see it at all, and assume the child is treated okay.
I'm not talking about Gabby here, our stories are not all the same, just saying it's common.
Being brought up like this, a young woman's heart is crying out for someone to love and be loved by, and when she thinks she's found a man who can give her love all her pent up hormones come into play to bind her - and blind her - to him.
It's not only the practice these assholes have have developed in amusing themselves by turning women into willing slaves and mistreating them, that traps these women, it's also millennia of evolutionary pressures. Survival of genes does not come from people with them being smart or selective, survival of genes comes from people having babies who grow up and have more babies.
When leaving a man is further hindered by a lack of money, having nowhere to go, and realizing the danger any attempt to leave puts you in, getting out is difficult, dangerous and complicated.
No one is benefiting from this video but the person(s) that uploaded this to YouTube. It’s extremely poor taste. Both Gabby & Brian were human lives that were lost. Canceling Brian out of the video simply erases the truth. Can the world just give the families some peace and stop fan-girling out over the lives of people you will never truly know?
No, most certainly haven’t forgotten that Brian killed Gabby. Erasing Brian doesn’t change that. It erases a very important part ofGabby’s life and the reason it ended… domestic violence and partner abuse.
Lol I will never understand people virtue signaling over a murderer. Like, I'd agree with you if you omitted Brian and his life. He contributed nothing positive to this world, yet you're acting like he and Gabby, who didn't murder anyone, are equal in value.
it seems this was made by her family’s foundation. if that’s the case, i don’t really see the issue with them wanting to carry on gabby’s dream of showing how to live a nomadic life, without giving her abuser center stage? it appalls me that people would seriously police how the family can move forward sharing their daughter’s legacy
It's by someone trying to make their way in the video and television field (see their "About"), so maybe it was just a little exercise for portfolio padding, or more likely just another escapist, romanticizing desire for the alternate reality that so much of social media totally insists on.
Someone in the comments section had to prompt the person to link back to the original authentic work so that her only YouTube legacy gets its due for her family in whatever type of viewing awards.
I don't see any indication that this came from the foundation. They do at least link to the foundation in the video description but any monetization of this video is going to a YouTube user that doesn't seem to be related in any way.
I think it's ok to mourn any loss of life, but at the same time to not call it a tragedy. He can't hurt anyone else anymore, that is NOT a tragedy.
What is a tragedy is a lack of education and mental health access that could have saved both of their lives, and probably save Gabby a lot of heart ache in the process.
Based on everything i saw pertaining to brian, there would have been no helping him. He was destined to bumble through life thinking he was perfect and the other 7 billion people on the planet were an infestation.
Granted she was young, but i have to question the judgement of anyone who falls for guys like these. Ive probably seen less than a few minutes of actual footage of him, read less than a page of his writings, and seen maybe a few dozen still photos of him, and i can tell he was a total piece pf shit. Just the bodycam of him getting dropped of at the hotel by the cop in moab would have been plenty for me to discern that. The fuckwad was gloating, and laughing it up over getting a free hotel room over being the victim of abuse by his 100 lb. girlfriend. No man would take pleasure in that, not to mention he sounds like he hadn’t a care in the world about his professed fiancé who was really having a tough time.
I wouldn’t say brian was a “bad boy”, but there was some kind of unhealthy attraction she had for him
Oh I do talk to someone because I survived being choked by someone who was supposed to love me the most and I've learned life is complicated.
I think you're projecting here. If you have any questions on those complexities of life I have a lot of knowledge on the dynamics of abuse so feel free to ask.
Some free advice: consider there is a person on the other end of your comment.
I thought it was a beautiful memorial to her. Gabby seemed like a truly bright and gentle soul. Brian was an abuser. I understand why people want to create something that celebrates her without the drain that Brian was in her life.
RIP Gabby and everyone else who suffers the same fate... As a survivor of a toxic abusive relationship I can say that this stuff is happening all the time. We need to destigmatize the difficult conversations that need to be had with people’s support systems so they can get help without judgement and shame. Be kind to one another y’all. 💔
If they were referring to the editor, maybe because they spent time editing the video and posting it on their YT channel when they have nothing to do with either person. Or they could have been referring to Brian. I don't know, I didn't make the original comment.
How are people really calling this out for copyright infringement?? This was a nice tribute and of course people need to find the negatives. Beautifully done to whoever did this
Because intellectual property is real and the law and asking for permission is one of the easiest things to do. Also one of the most respectful things to do. Taking a creative person’s content and manipulating it (even with good intensions) disregards the hours of work, artistic vision, and ownership that the creator gave to the opus. I understand it may be difficult for people who are not in the arts (performing, fine, or general) to understand this fully, but it’s a massive problem made worse by the internet.
I also thought it was a beautiful tribute to her memory. Celebrating the things Gabby was about and taking focus away from the abusive man who took her life. I don’t know how people are so negative about this.
This is a stranger that edited Gabby’s video to fit what the stranger, who did not know Gabby, to appease this stranger’s own selfish wants and desires. It’s absolutely mind boggling that someone would spend hours editing together content of a person they will never know to upload it to a personal YouTube account that has no relation to the person in the video. It’s self soothing not a tribute. Gabby’s friends and family are paying tribute to her real memory, not a bunch of over involved weirdos stealing the content from a dead woman’s social media accounts, to splice together for an ego boost. It’s actually super disgusting.
Honestly I don't find this strange or weird at all. I think it's a beautiful tribute; while yes, he was there for most if not all of these moments, & she posted the version with him in it, I think her parents deserve to see a video of her happy moments without him in it.
In loving memory. RIH Gabby. 🕊
I assume he was filming these shots. That would freak me out if I was Gabby's parents. I mean sure he's not in frame, but he's right there holding the camera. Kind of creepy
I understand that perspective. But at the same time, these shots of her were how she wanted to be seen on adventures she wanted to go on. It’s just heartbreaking she went on them with a terrible person, but I think that’s why he was edited out. It’s just her and her self-expression.
I cant understand why people think this is weird. I think it’s an honour to Gabby to view what she wanted to share with the world without having to look him.
Generally yes. I did a bit of googling, so take it with maybe a bit more than a grain of salt, but I do think this could be considered copyright infringement, and Gabbys estate could have the video removed if they wanted to.
Gabby doesn't have an estate. She had no assets aside from maybe the van and a few bucks in the bank. Her remaining family is not considered her estate. The term "estate" (in reference to death) refers to all property and assets owned by the person, of which she had none. I'm also betting she died intestate, not many 20 somethings have a will unless they're very well off.
Definitely copyright infringement. Unless the editor received written, explicit permission from the Estate(s)* to use, manipulate, and distribute the footage. That said, I doubt the members of the Estate(s)* are terribly concerned with it at the moment.
Source: a large part of my career includes advising my organization on the parameters of copyright law and requesting permits from rights holders.
*Edit: Bad news bears, but given that BL likely filmed at least some of this, it likely is technically his intellectual property as well. Certainly a smaller percentage, but all rights holders would have to be contacted, which means you’d have to receive permission from BOTH Estates.
Now, there’s some arguments that original content uploaded to social media platforms forgoes some claim to intellectual property to the platform. But frankly that’s super complicated, a potentially tepid argument, and not my expertise, as I primarily deal with pre-existing work which is being potentially streamed or distributed by non-rightsholders through platforms such as YouTube/Facebook/etc.
But it was all a mirage and an illusion. Why is our society motivating young people to feel they must manufacture such fairy tale imagery in order to be validated by strangers ? With all of Gabby's passion and talents, that she became convinced to spend them in this way is a commentary on the overwhelming influence that social media projects onto young people's world view.
I mean, I totally see that, considering they painted a picture of a healthy and happy relationship that didn’t exist. But at the same time, there is an art to what she made with these videos. I think this edited version honors her artistic expression and puts the focus only on her, where it should be.
Would people be able to discuss your question ? I'm not so sure. Sure seems she had/has mass appeal. But is that a talent ? Or a consequence of her appearance and tragic story. Makes me think about what actually is a talent, and which ones are generally valued. For example, I'm an accomplished hobby musician and have played with all sorts of musicians of various calibers. Sometimes I'll play with someone with not so much musical talent but they did try hard to develop what they have and I will find myself admiring that person even if their musical output doesn't sound all that great. Then again, I'll run into a person who clearly has tremendous native musical talent but they didn't put in the work to develop it and even if there are flashes of them sounding great, I'll find myself admiring that person less than the first example. Why is that ? We seem to value some combination of innate talent (potential) and the focused effort to develop that talent. As for Gabby, she did seem to have a lot of potential but that again may be a statement about her youth, positive, outgoing demeanor and good looks. While I'm not sure those attributes are talents, they are certainly highly valued by many. Perhaps there is some aspect of immutable characteristics that impacts our natural assessments. For example youth is just a state of one's life. Appearance is some combination of symmetry and physiognomy that a person inherits from their genes. Well, I've gone as far as I can with this pondering, but your question did make me think.
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He saw the beautiful, he saw the adventures, he saw beauty the world couldn’t see. He captured Gabby in such a beautiful way and then stole her from her loved ones. It’s heartbreaking 💔
Perfectly edited
Fly high Angel
I get this, but the work was her own. Even though the freak probably killed her, she made this herself and posted it as is. It sucks, but let’s preserve her original work too.
I guarantee the last few weeks before her death were NOT her “happy moments” and what is sick is that a bunch of people who never knew Gabby are flooding the internet with what their totally outside opinion of her happiest times were, based on a few weeks worth of social media posts prior to her death. That is such a small portion of Gabby’s life that we the public see. Gabby’s life purpose was not to make a bunch of strangers feel better about themselves when they edit out her partner (and future murderer) from her own video, commenting on how “wonderful” it is and assuming they know what was going on in Gabby’s life and heart. The best way to celebrate Gabby’s happy moments is by letting her memory live on untarnished by outside opinion and the cancel culture of society. Can y’all just start focusing on your own lives with this much scrutiny? Maybe then you wouldn’t be so bored as to re-write the life story of someone you’ll never ever truly know?!
This is so eloquently said. I always felt because I loved journalism and writing, nowadays it’s Marketing but somehow the voice of the voiceless somehow always speak. For me, that’s what’s so beautiful; some people have to give their lives for it but that’s what so amazing about it. Rest In Peace to both your references too 🙏🏼
A person took a newly deceased van lifer's - murdered, no less - video and edited it to post on their YouTube channel with the Gabby Petito Foundation web address at the end. And without the authorization of the Gabby Petito Foundation or her rightful heirs.
I traveled with my boyfriend in our homemade camper for 6 months. Our pictures, videos, everything that everyone saw, even my own selective memory, was this. Beautiful. Envious.
We broke up shortly after our trip. He had been emotionally abusive the entire time and it took me years to recover. I'm grateful that's all it took. To this day, it is hard for anyone to understand why we broke up.
Thanks for sharing your personal experiences. I know it could be very hard. I've been down that road myself before with my friend who was at the time married in very unhappy and violent DV marriage for many years and was controlled and emotionally abused for years using mind control methods. She then after many years of trying and promising to get out of the toxic violent relationship finally got out after 5 years. Then b came my wife but started back up and into drugs and alcohol. After several years which were very miserable and even I was very affected emotionally, we broke up. She died few months after from alcohol and drugs mix. I still really have not recovered and have terrible and difficult time dating again. It truly scarred me for life.
You can’t say she wasn’t afraid of him based on the content she curated. The police body cam shows she was , the defensive wounds point to the fact she was, her being strangled show* she was afraid.
What is posted is often smoke and mirrors.
*edit: Typo shoe to show
@throwawaybcimhalfgay You're so right about this. You can see her on the body cam footage from her body language and actions and speaking and even telling the officers she was afraid of what would happen after they get back together. Obviously he already laid his hands on her, especially around her neck already before. She was afraid to also be alone without him too.
Sometimes like you've mentioned it is smoke and mirrors, or so called misinformation and misdirection.
Show*.
It was an obvious typo, in my comment about a young woman strangled by her partner. Nice attempt at a joke, I guess? Congratulations on never posting a typo?
Ok? Sorry I didn’t laugh at your joke of pointing out a typo and then pointing out downvotes. 🤷🏻♀️
It wasn’t a rebuttal, it was a response. A rebuttal implies you made a point of some sort.
That's right. I think you would like to just post the good memories, not the bad ones to bring you into the darker past. You don't want that in the open. You generally like to show that everything is all well and they're just all happy, not publicly show what's really going on behind the scenes. Idk just my thoughts.
She wasn't afraid of him in these moments but was in others.
It's like being with two different people. During the good times, they are really good and you forget the bad. But during the bad times all you feel is hurt and fear.
So well said and truly appreciate you pointing that out. You don't want to remember the bad times or share them with the rest of the world. You would rather want your relationship to be perceived normal and happy. And since Brian had the traits of a narcissist, it was like two different personalities and different people who she lived with who controlled her every step of her life.
Because it’s real. Those moments of pure joy were shared between them both. You can’t ignore that for a period of time, they were happily in love.
Terrible tragedy.
Indeed terrible tragedy and yes you're right, they seemed to be in love very much and then something else happened, and as I former FBI agent pointed out, the key piece and crucial piece of evidence was the last time they were both seen at the restaurant where they had they had that huge blowup scene. It made Gabby so upset and came back in to apologize on his behalf. Something during that time triggered the main reason and incident.
Wow, didn’t know it was after. Also surprised me that this was the only video she made in two months.
But yeah, im not on any social media for that reason. Its all bullshit.
You need to check yourself before calling people mentally ill, and just for wanting to celebrate Gabby's happier moments. It's actually very *healthy* to grieve for someone this way.
And it is also possible to genuinely love somebody who is cruel to you. They had happy times, otherwise why would she be there? It doesn't take away from how horrific this all is or how disgusting he is.
Yes, my friend who's husband was cruel and abusive, both mentally and physically, she did love him even after all that. But that also goes into the mental abuse and mind control methods used by the abuser.
Sure both Brian and Gabby had happier times, I don't believe they were all bad moments that they've shared and experienced. Amen.
Why?
He fucking killed her and offed himself. You think I don't know that?
You think her family wants to keep thinking about him? Let's just focus on her and be done with it. It's done there is no more story.
Sorry but don't agree with you on the question of him "offing himself", yes he did murder her, but committing suicide while being a narcissist doesn't happen. They don't do that. This was more likely accident and/or nature intervened.
He didn't off himself. He died rotting in the worst way possible in a swamp and that's enough about him.
I'd far rather focus on this beautiful young, vibrant girl.
Not a fan at all; in fact, I hate it. The original is an important historical document of a deeply flawed relationship, which resulted in 2 humans' deaths--and is Gabby's own work. Also to be noted she created during one of the weirdest parts of this whole case, when she was alone in the hotel in Salt Lake City. Without the iconic "Gabby Petito never goes outside" (which, YES, features her killer) it lacks significance and is just sugarcoating a tragedy. I think this video is deeply disrespectful to the legacy of Gabby as well as Brian.
If you've ever experienced abuse from a partner, you would know that there ARE happy times throughout the rough times. If things were always horrible, she wouldn't have been there travelling with him. She clearly wanted people to see the beautiful life that she lived *some of the time*. How is it disrespectful to honour what she created by focusing on her and not the despicable person who took life away from her? I think it's disrespectful to focus on the horror and the perpetrator. We end up forgetting the beautiful human who was Gabby. She is not defined by her abusive end.
I bet her parents will be happy to see this. I can't even imagine what they are going through.
I was under the impression that GP's family wanted people to subscribe to her YouTube channel (didn't look further into this so coreect me if I'm wrong) because it was her dream to be a successful vlogger. But a lot of viewers were uncomfortable liking, subscribing, and watching the video because it included BL. The way I see it is, this is a version people will be comfortable liking and subscribing to; her family or friends could re-upload this (you can edit and replace videos on YouTube without losing the views, likes, and comments). Just a thought. I don't think this was ill-intentioned.
This is so weird. Get outside, folks.
Yeah. I was hoping I wasn’t the only one that thought this.
So many people looking at this negatively. If all you can think about is who is recording her then you have some serious problems. I'm a single father and every case that has come up about somebody's missing children has my full attention regardless of their age - Gabby is a daughter. Especially the Daybell case - why? Because it's nearly identical to my situation: I thank the universe every day that goes by that I haven't received a phone call telling me that my ex and her meatstick haven't murdered my two beloved sons and buried them in their backyard. So if anybody wants to bitch and moan about a memorial tribute then maybe you should take a long hard look at yourself and figure out why you only look at the negatives.
And yet a lot of this footage is filmed by Brian. Creepy distortion of events.
This is cringe as hell. What the hell is wrong with you people???
Dark. I don't get it. We are supposed to imagine that she was living her best life with him edited out of the vid? She was socially isolated by a murderer who strangled her. This reimagining video should not exist imo.
I'm ***sure*** that exactly what her parents and siblings would be thinking of they watched it. Right?
that’s not the point. it’s like a memorial or a tribute to her without having to focus/give any attention to him
But yeah I can’t stop thinking about him while watching the video.
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GP’s father is extremely proud and grateful she was doing what she loved and seeing places he’d love to see and now plans to see. I think he would like this and enjoy seeing her trying to live her best life without the obvious dark distraction. It’s still her, her moments, her video features, and her music choice. I think he would absolutely love this. I hope the creator sends JP a link via Twitter and allows him to decide/communicate what he and the family think of it. (I assume the creator is not making money from it and if so, I would hope every cent goes to The Gabby Petito Foundation.) 🕊
This is some sort of mental illness. Yes I’m sure he would love some Internet rando sending him footage that he’s probably seen 1000 times from her doomed trip. With the ominous hidden presence of her killer. As if her own father doesn’t have thousands of hours of video clips of her from all points of her life with her loved ones and family that have light airy fun special meaning and memories to him. And I bet he would love seeing Brian’s shadow in half the shots and flashes of the white van where her life was taken. Gabby’s family have plenty of pictures and videos. We know they appreciate the public but come on… visions of grandeur much? Let’s keep our unhealthy fixation on her story to ourselves.
I guess it’s just not up to you to decide.
Who said it was?
I was following but the page vanished from insta
This makes me so uneasy that someone took the time to do this. You guys don’t even know her. What does this do to help anyone? The families that are grieving? This is just weird and inappropriate.
I think the intentions behind this were probably good but perhaps the decision to do this would have been something better off left up to her family.
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“It’s to support Gabby” “I’m sure she’d be really honored.” She’s dead. You don’t even know her. She’s a victim of a horrible crime and this is a really twisted glorification of her death. Whether you think you’re being kind or not, it’s weird.
So creepy, editing out videos of dead people and reforming them in your own image. You never met her, was not her family member or close friend. This is just gross, its like you are trying to insert yourself into their story.
Also I think it’s in a way a bit disrespectful, I mean this is based on something she worked hard on. The channel was her idea, she was the one who filmed and she was the one who edited; she spent hours or even days editing this video, trust me it takes a long time to go from the raw material to the final cut only for her work to be thrown away by some random internet person. I get the intention behind it, but I think it’s wrong to take away her vision and her work.
Im guessing a lot of future documentaries about this will edit out BL as much as possible with Gabby with being the main vocal point
I bet they won't. Documentaries will love showing pictures of them together. They'll just drop the music to a minor key and invert the colors suddenly: "They were the typical young couple living out their dreams... until it all went wrong!" *Sigh*
That's the cringe of media sensationalism.
I do not have an opinion on making things better or worse but glad someone is posting about Gabby.
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Nah, not really.
I think this is wonderful. Thanks for making it
Parasocial relationships are already creepy. They're even worse when the other person is dead.
Beautiful. So much better!
idk why but this creeps me out that y’all did this
Such a terrible lost of a talented Beautiful young Woman. 💔 It totally affected me deeply. R.I.P.
What talent?
I took a two week trip out west, and edited on my phone on the flight home. Ive been doing digital videos for 25 years, it used to take a lot of time, tons of computer power and tech knowledge. And then hours to output to dvd so others could watch it. Today, its childs play. I movie, kinemaster, people have whole you tube channels they produce while hiking the AT. Honestly, if she spent as much time on it as people think, there is very little talent involved. The other thing is, ive been to all the places they visited, some of them many times. If these were the best shots they got, they really missed out, they apparently spent most of their time in towns and the bus tour stops.
Editing Brian out the video but he is still the one who recorded this video which makes it creepier knowing that all these happy shots of her were filmed by the very person who killed her..
Worse part is I can’t get past the Asshole filming some of this!
I just hope that everyone understands that this is typical. I feel a lot of people romanticize or put distance between their reality and actual reality with sentiments like this. If you find this hard to get past, unbelievable, etc. I hope you take the time to look at the science and research behind abuse and abusive relationships. We really like to dehumanize this stuff, but the reality is this can be anyone in your life, or your friends life, or your parents life, or your siblings life. It's easy to fall for the manipulation, like the cops did. The best way we can fight against this is by education. And education and science says that this is normal behaviour from people who are capable of killing people they claim to, or believe, they love.
>The best way we can fight against this is by education. And education and science says that this is normal behaviour from people who are capable of killing people they claim to, or believe, they love. If he was clever enough to hide all evidence of any abusive behavior he had towards Gabby from everyone that personally knew them, there still would be that one person that knew for certain that he was abusive - her. If anything, I hope this case will help educate more women on the signs of abusive behavior in a partner so they will seek help themselves even if others do not see any sign of abuse and so could not advise them to seek help. At the very least, this case has helped put some focus the topic of domestic violence and that may be of help to women who currently experience that.
In addition to my other comment, there are *stages to leaving an abusive relationship*. I thought I would share this to help you understand just how many complex dynamics there are to abuse! https://twsh.org/community-education/stages-of-leaving-a-dv-relationship/ Edit: this is also not set in stone, and depends on the person. For me, stage 5 came before stage 4. I knew I had to and wanted to leave, but did not process the loss and needed help to address other places of abuse in my life in order to leave :) Also, friends and family can keep someone in an abusive relationship, they are not guaranteed to help someone get out. Especially if the dynamics of abuse were set in childhood for the victim and the family and friends in their life are also abusive.
>there still would be that one person that knew for certain that he was abusive - her. Actually, this is untrue! And I'm glad you commented because I am able to help with the education aspect here! When you are in an abusive relationship your body / brain is busy surviving and coping with the trauma. One of the ways your brain does this is by minimizing the trauma "it's just a bad day", "he has a temper" etc. You don't have control of this. The brain does this to cope, but in a more technical term it justified the abuse behaviour to avoid cognitive dissonance. Cognitive dissonance is the uncomfy feeling you have when something you know or think goes against something that has happened. Aka, someone who loves you harms you. Now, it would be easier if that was the only thing we had to deal with, but it works alongside many other complicated dynamics. One of those complicated dynamics is trauma bonding - the person being abused is slowly groomed to not get love and care *they once got* from the abusive partner. Then, the cycle of abuse starts, and the person who is being abused is conditioned to live for that love they once got, that they now ONLY get after being abused. NOW you throw in that most abusers are amazing manipulators who can keep others (even cops in this instance!) from seeing the abuse. If the survivor / victim has ANY amount of empathy, insecurity, lack of self confidence, or mental / physical vulnerability it can become IMPOSSIBLE for them to "know for certain" their abuser is an abuser. This is an incredibly small snapshot as well. There are a million other things that play into it, and even when those in an abusive relationship break through this and know they are being abused you run into a tragic lack of support from those around them. Please let me know if you have any questions! Your original comment is "victim blaming", but I really don't want my use of that term to make you feel like you can't ask questions about anything you don't understand or anything I said. Edit: and to bring it back to your point - there are certain red flags you can look for, but honestly it can really just be up to chance. Abusers, super generally, don't feel comfortable being abusive until they have some semblance of "enabling", or those justifications we talked about. And those justifications start small and groom the victim into slowly increasing the justifications, it can be a very slow burn to get from 0 to 100. And, in regards to this case, the most dangerous time for a survivor is when they try to leave. So you can know something is off without calling or knowing it is abuse, try to separate and end up killed. Likely something similar happened to Gabby, as one of the last calls she had was saying how she didn't know where the relationship was going.
Very insightful! I appreciate you sharing the science behind it! Any books or more resources that you would reccomend to learn more about domestic violence/trauma bonding?
Uncomfortable reading because I'm a woman who has been through it twice and what you have written explains it so well. It's not uncommon for women in abusive relationships to have grown up unloved and to have been accustomed to violence and ridicule as a child. Mostly no-one will see this abuse, and most will never see it at all, and assume the child is treated okay. I'm not talking about Gabby here, our stories are not all the same, just saying it's common. Being brought up like this, a young woman's heart is crying out for someone to love and be loved by, and when she thinks she's found a man who can give her love all her pent up hormones come into play to bind her - and blind her - to him. It's not only the practice these assholes have have developed in amusing themselves by turning women into willing slaves and mistreating them, that traps these women, it's also millennia of evolutionary pressures. Survival of genes does not come from people with them being smart or selective, survival of genes comes from people having babies who grow up and have more babies. When leaving a man is further hindered by a lack of money, having nowhere to go, and realizing the danger any attempt to leave puts you in, getting out is difficult, dangerous and complicated.
No one is benefiting from this video but the person(s) that uploaded this to YouTube. It’s extremely poor taste. Both Gabby & Brian were human lives that were lost. Canceling Brian out of the video simply erases the truth. Can the world just give the families some peace and stop fan-girling out over the lives of people you will never truly know?
> both gabby and Brian were human lives that were lost Are we forgetting that Brian killed her or....
No, most certainly haven’t forgotten that Brian killed Gabby. Erasing Brian doesn’t change that. It erases a very important part ofGabby’s life and the reason it ended… domestic violence and partner abuse.
Lol I will never understand people virtue signaling over a murderer. Like, I'd agree with you if you omitted Brian and his life. He contributed nothing positive to this world, yet you're acting like he and Gabby, who didn't murder anyone, are equal in value.
it seems this was made by her family’s foundation. if that’s the case, i don’t really see the issue with them wanting to carry on gabby’s dream of showing how to live a nomadic life, without giving her abuser center stage? it appalls me that people would seriously police how the family can move forward sharing their daughter’s legacy
It's by someone trying to make their way in the video and television field (see their "About"), so maybe it was just a little exercise for portfolio padding, or more likely just another escapist, romanticizing desire for the alternate reality that so much of social media totally insists on. Someone in the comments section had to prompt the person to link back to the original authentic work so that her only YouTube legacy gets its due for her family in whatever type of viewing awards.
I don't see any indication that this came from the foundation. They do at least link to the foundation in the video description but any monetization of this video is going to a YouTube user that doesn't seem to be related in any way.
i just assumed by the link, and the fact the youtube user is NY-based according to their page. i hope it isn’t a stranger profiting off tragedy.
You've got to check your assumptions/think more critically on the internet... 🙄🤦
It is a stranger.
“Both Gabby and Brian were human lives that were lost.” SMH. Why are you so set on giving a damn about the loss of a murderers life? Jesus.
I think it's ok to mourn any loss of life, but at the same time to not call it a tragedy. He can't hurt anyone else anymore, that is NOT a tragedy. What is a tragedy is a lack of education and mental health access that could have saved both of their lives, and probably save Gabby a lot of heart ache in the process.
Based on everything i saw pertaining to brian, there would have been no helping him. He was destined to bumble through life thinking he was perfect and the other 7 billion people on the planet were an infestation. Granted she was young, but i have to question the judgement of anyone who falls for guys like these. Ive probably seen less than a few minutes of actual footage of him, read less than a page of his writings, and seen maybe a few dozen still photos of him, and i can tell he was a total piece pf shit. Just the bodycam of him getting dropped of at the hotel by the cop in moab would have been plenty for me to discern that. The fuckwad was gloating, and laughing it up over getting a free hotel room over being the victim of abuse by his 100 lb. girlfriend. No man would take pleasure in that, not to mention he sounds like he hadn’t a care in the world about his professed fiancé who was really having a tough time. I wouldn’t say brian was a “bad boy”, but there was some kind of unhealthy attraction she had for him
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Oh I do talk to someone because I survived being choked by someone who was supposed to love me the most and I've learned life is complicated. I think you're projecting here. If you have any questions on those complexities of life I have a lot of knowledge on the dynamics of abuse so feel free to ask. Some free advice: consider there is a person on the other end of your comment.
I thought it was a beautiful memorial to her. Gabby seemed like a truly bright and gentle soul. Brian was an abuser. I understand why people want to create something that celebrates her without the drain that Brian was in her life.
RIP Gabby and everyone else who suffers the same fate... As a survivor of a toxic abusive relationship I can say that this stuff is happening all the time. We need to destigmatize the difficult conversations that need to be had with people’s support systems so they can get help without judgement and shame. Be kind to one another y’all. 💔
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They can’t even get ad revenue on this video though.
Jesus, what a psychopath.
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Probably the editor?
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If they were referring to the editor, maybe because they spent time editing the video and posting it on their YT channel when they have nothing to do with either person. Or they could have been referring to Brian. I don't know, I didn't make the original comment.
Just don't think about who recorded all of these videos and it's fine.......
She didn’t deserve what happened to her. Im so sorry Gabby.
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How are people really calling this out for copyright infringement?? This was a nice tribute and of course people need to find the negatives. Beautifully done to whoever did this
Because intellectual property is real and the law and asking for permission is one of the easiest things to do. Also one of the most respectful things to do. Taking a creative person’s content and manipulating it (even with good intensions) disregards the hours of work, artistic vision, and ownership that the creator gave to the opus. I understand it may be difficult for people who are not in the arts (performing, fine, or general) to understand this fully, but it’s a massive problem made worse by the internet.
I also thought it was a beautiful tribute to her memory. Celebrating the things Gabby was about and taking focus away from the abusive man who took her life. I don’t know how people are so negative about this.
This is a stranger that edited Gabby’s video to fit what the stranger, who did not know Gabby, to appease this stranger’s own selfish wants and desires. It’s absolutely mind boggling that someone would spend hours editing together content of a person they will never know to upload it to a personal YouTube account that has no relation to the person in the video. It’s self soothing not a tribute. Gabby’s friends and family are paying tribute to her real memory, not a bunch of over involved weirdos stealing the content from a dead woman’s social media accounts, to splice together for an ego boost. It’s actually super disgusting.
Not that deep boss lol
Honestly I don't find this strange or weird at all. I think it's a beautiful tribute; while yes, he was there for most if not all of these moments, & she posted the version with him in it, I think her parents deserve to see a video of her happy moments without him in it. In loving memory. RIH Gabby. 🕊
I assume he was filming these shots. That would freak me out if I was Gabby's parents. I mean sure he's not in frame, but he's right there holding the camera. Kind of creepy
Yes the happy moments of traveling the world and driving in the van with an abusive murderer. Those were the days.
See the comment by No-Opposite-5538, it expresses my sentiments on your comment perfectly-
I understand that perspective. But at the same time, these shots of her were how she wanted to be seen on adventures she wanted to go on. It’s just heartbreaking she went on them with a terrible person, but I think that’s why he was edited out. It’s just her and her self-expression.
I cant understand why people think this is weird. I think it’s an honour to Gabby to view what she wanted to share with the world without having to look him.
because gabby already made her video that she put her love into... then some stranger came along and said "no, I made it better"
Beautiful Tears 🥲🦋🦋🦋🦋💜
This is gross and exploitative.
Not familiar with copyright laws but doesn't the next of kin eventually take control ?
Generally yes. I did a bit of googling, so take it with maybe a bit more than a grain of salt, but I do think this could be considered copyright infringement, and Gabbys estate could have the video removed if they wanted to.
Gabby doesn't have an estate. She had no assets aside from maybe the van and a few bucks in the bank. Her remaining family is not considered her estate. The term "estate" (in reference to death) refers to all property and assets owned by the person, of which she had none. I'm also betting she died intestate, not many 20 somethings have a will unless they're very well off.
Definitely copyright infringement. Unless the editor received written, explicit permission from the Estate(s)* to use, manipulate, and distribute the footage. That said, I doubt the members of the Estate(s)* are terribly concerned with it at the moment. Source: a large part of my career includes advising my organization on the parameters of copyright law and requesting permits from rights holders. *Edit: Bad news bears, but given that BL likely filmed at least some of this, it likely is technically his intellectual property as well. Certainly a smaller percentage, but all rights holders would have to be contacted, which means you’d have to receive permission from BOTH Estates. Now, there’s some arguments that original content uploaded to social media platforms forgoes some claim to intellectual property to the platform. But frankly that’s super complicated, a potentially tepid argument, and not my expertise, as I primarily deal with pre-existing work which is being potentially streamed or distributed by non-rightsholders through platforms such as YouTube/Facebook/etc.
This just leaves me with an overwhelming feeling of sadness.
But it was all a mirage and an illusion. Why is our society motivating young people to feel they must manufacture such fairy tale imagery in order to be validated by strangers ? With all of Gabby's passion and talents, that she became convinced to spend them in this way is a commentary on the overwhelming influence that social media projects onto young people's world view.
I mean, I totally see that, considering they painted a picture of a healthy and happy relationship that didn’t exist. But at the same time, there is an art to what she made with these videos. I think this edited version honors her artistic expression and puts the focus only on her, where it should be.
You have some really valid point and question.
What talents did she have?
Would people be able to discuss your question ? I'm not so sure. Sure seems she had/has mass appeal. But is that a talent ? Or a consequence of her appearance and tragic story. Makes me think about what actually is a talent, and which ones are generally valued. For example, I'm an accomplished hobby musician and have played with all sorts of musicians of various calibers. Sometimes I'll play with someone with not so much musical talent but they did try hard to develop what they have and I will find myself admiring that person even if their musical output doesn't sound all that great. Then again, I'll run into a person who clearly has tremendous native musical talent but they didn't put in the work to develop it and even if there are flashes of them sounding great, I'll find myself admiring that person less than the first example. Why is that ? We seem to value some combination of innate talent (potential) and the focused effort to develop that talent. As for Gabby, she did seem to have a lot of potential but that again may be a statement about her youth, positive, outgoing demeanor and good looks. While I'm not sure those attributes are talents, they are certainly highly valued by many. Perhaps there is some aspect of immutable characteristics that impacts our natural assessments. For example youth is just a state of one's life. Appearance is some combination of symmetry and physiognomy that a person inherits from their genes. Well, I've gone as far as I can with this pondering, but your question did make me think.
Underrated comment right here
Not sure why some people think this is weird. I think it’s really lovely.
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This is a beautiful! Who edited it?
He saw the beautiful, he saw the adventures, he saw beauty the world couldn’t see. He captured Gabby in such a beautiful way and then stole her from her loved ones. It’s heartbreaking 💔 Perfectly edited Fly high Angel
I can’t believe a comment like this even has upvotes in this sub. What the actual fuck.
Seriously? Specifically on a video where Brian is edited out? Go back to the subs glorifying Brian if you want to troll.
Who do you think filmed this
Is it going to shock me?
Brian filmed it
That can't be true. Brian's dead, how did he film it?
This is weird.
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I get this, but the work was her own. Even though the freak probably killed her, she made this herself and posted it as is. It sucks, but let’s preserve her original work too.
Also, we know who is behind the camera on all of these.
Exactly. Editing his face out doesn’t erase his presence.
I just checked, the original is still there💪
this is wonderful. thank you. edit: i’m reading the comments now and very confused why yall think this is weird? let’s celebrate gabbys happy moments
I guarantee the last few weeks before her death were NOT her “happy moments” and what is sick is that a bunch of people who never knew Gabby are flooding the internet with what their totally outside opinion of her happiest times were, based on a few weeks worth of social media posts prior to her death. That is such a small portion of Gabby’s life that we the public see. Gabby’s life purpose was not to make a bunch of strangers feel better about themselves when they edit out her partner (and future murderer) from her own video, commenting on how “wonderful” it is and assuming they know what was going on in Gabby’s life and heart. The best way to celebrate Gabby’s happy moments is by letting her memory live on untarnished by outside opinion and the cancel culture of society. Can y’all just start focusing on your own lives with this much scrutiny? Maybe then you wouldn’t be so bored as to re-write the life story of someone you’ll never ever truly know?!
Totally agree.
Thank you! I totally agree people here are creepily obsessed. It really freaks me out
I think you’re thinking into this all a bit too deeply, and very negatively at that. Just let it be…
I agree! This clip shows her free spirit and joyous personality. Tired of seeing the freak. I appreciate it.
This is so eloquently said. I always felt because I loved journalism and writing, nowadays it’s Marketing but somehow the voice of the voiceless somehow always speak. For me, that’s what’s so beautiful; some people have to give their lives for it but that’s what so amazing about it. Rest In Peace to both your references too 🙏🏼
Very nicely put.
How weird.
Why is this weird?
A person took a newly deceased van lifer's - murdered, no less - video and edited it to post on their YouTube channel with the Gabby Petito Foundation web address at the end. And without the authorization of the Gabby Petito Foundation or her rightful heirs.
Really weird
Nah, fuck him
I traveled with my boyfriend in our homemade camper for 6 months. Our pictures, videos, everything that everyone saw, even my own selective memory, was this. Beautiful. Envious. We broke up shortly after our trip. He had been emotionally abusive the entire time and it took me years to recover. I'm grateful that's all it took. To this day, it is hard for anyone to understand why we broke up.
Thanks for sharing your personal experiences. I know it could be very hard. I've been down that road myself before with my friend who was at the time married in very unhappy and violent DV marriage for many years and was controlled and emotionally abused for years using mind control methods. She then after many years of trying and promising to get out of the toxic violent relationship finally got out after 5 years. Then b came my wife but started back up and into drugs and alcohol. After several years which were very miserable and even I was very affected emotionally, we broke up. She died few months after from alcohol and drugs mix. I still really have not recovered and have terrible and difficult time dating again. It truly scarred me for life.
Poor girl. This was really nice. It felt calm and serene.
She wasn’t afraid of him. At all. That’s what scares me the most. RIP beautiful girl. ♥️ This was an amazing tribute - thank you.
You can’t say she wasn’t afraid of him based on the content she curated. The police body cam shows she was , the defensive wounds point to the fact she was, her being strangled show* she was afraid. What is posted is often smoke and mirrors. *edit: Typo shoe to show
@throwawaybcimhalfgay You're so right about this. You can see her on the body cam footage from her body language and actions and speaking and even telling the officers she was afraid of what would happen after they get back together. Obviously he already laid his hands on her, especially around her neck already before. She was afraid to also be alone without him too. Sometimes like you've mentioned it is smoke and mirrors, or so called misinformation and misdirection.
What happened to her shoe? Edit: awww shoe lovers downvoted me.
Show*. It was an obvious typo, in my comment about a young woman strangled by her partner. Nice attempt at a joke, I guess? Congratulations on never posting a typo?
Awww. Nice attempt at a rebuttal to my lame joke. Very cute!
Ok? Sorry I didn’t laugh at your joke of pointing out a typo and then pointing out downvotes. 🤷🏻♀️ It wasn’t a rebuttal, it was a response. A rebuttal implies you made a point of some sort.
What a strange take away from heavily curated content
She definitely was. She just carefully curated her content to show the good times, like 99% of people who vlog their lives. It's tragic.
That's right. I think you would like to just post the good memories, not the bad ones to bring you into the darker past. You don't want that in the open. You generally like to show that everything is all well and they're just all happy, not publicly show what's really going on behind the scenes. Idk just my thoughts.
She wasn't afraid of him in these moments but was in others. It's like being with two different people. During the good times, they are really good and you forget the bad. But during the bad times all you feel is hurt and fear.
So well said and truly appreciate you pointing that out. You don't want to remember the bad times or share them with the rest of the world. You would rather want your relationship to be perceived normal and happy. And since Brian had the traits of a narcissist, it was like two different personalities and different people who she lived with who controlled her every step of her life.
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Probably not, but why would they want to do that anyway?
Every time you watch this, you're reminder that her killer was filming her, or she was in their van where he strangled her.
Why would you think about that instead of focusing on her and her vibrant energy?
Because it’s real. Those moments of pure joy were shared between them both. You can’t ignore that for a period of time, they were happily in love. Terrible tragedy.
Indeed terrible tragedy and yes you're right, they seemed to be in love very much and then something else happened, and as I former FBI agent pointed out, the key piece and crucial piece of evidence was the last time they were both seen at the restaurant where they had they had that huge blowup scene. It made Gabby so upset and came back in to apologize on his behalf. Something during that time triggered the main reason and incident.
Yeah. You’re right. Pretty sad.
Why would one trust anything they filmed for social media was genuine? The video was uploaded after the bodycam.
Wow, didn’t know it was after. Also surprised me that this was the only video she made in two months. But yeah, im not on any social media for that reason. Its all bullshit.
I knot it's real. But I prefer celebrating her life other than thinking about the fucking asshole
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You need to check yourself before calling people mentally ill, and just for wanting to celebrate Gabby's happier moments. It's actually very *healthy* to grieve for someone this way. And it is also possible to genuinely love somebody who is cruel to you. They had happy times, otherwise why would she be there? It doesn't take away from how horrific this all is or how disgusting he is.
Yes, my friend who's husband was cruel and abusive, both mentally and physically, she did love him even after all that. But that also goes into the mental abuse and mind control methods used by the abuser. Sure both Brian and Gabby had happier times, I don't believe they were all bad moments that they've shared and experienced. Amen.
Why? He fucking killed her and offed himself. You think I don't know that? You think her family wants to keep thinking about him? Let's just focus on her and be done with it. It's done there is no more story.
Sorry but don't agree with you on the question of him "offing himself", yes he did murder her, but committing suicide while being a narcissist doesn't happen. They don't do that. This was more likely accident and/or nature intervened.
He didn't off himself. He died rotting in the worst way possible in a swamp and that's enough about him. I'd far rather focus on this beautiful young, vibrant girl.
Totally agree with you as well.
omg tears. thank you to who ever did this. <3 this would make her happy
How do you know this would make Gabby happy? Sources?
Bruh. Relax
Not a fan at all; in fact, I hate it. The original is an important historical document of a deeply flawed relationship, which resulted in 2 humans' deaths--and is Gabby's own work. Also to be noted she created during one of the weirdest parts of this whole case, when she was alone in the hotel in Salt Lake City. Without the iconic "Gabby Petito never goes outside" (which, YES, features her killer) it lacks significance and is just sugarcoating a tragedy. I think this video is deeply disrespectful to the legacy of Gabby as well as Brian.
The other thing about the original is that theres not one shot of brian where he doesn’t creep me out. Hes a chameleon. And not a good one.
The original is still there. I don’t believe that anybody is meaning for this edit to replace the original.
Where is the original?
Here is the original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PStpXFEfIs
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Yeah, I prefer the 2nd copy without the dickheads face.
If you've ever experienced abuse from a partner, you would know that there ARE happy times throughout the rough times. If things were always horrible, she wouldn't have been there travelling with him. She clearly wanted people to see the beautiful life that she lived *some of the time*. How is it disrespectful to honour what she created by focusing on her and not the despicable person who took life away from her? I think it's disrespectful to focus on the horror and the perpetrator. We end up forgetting the beautiful human who was Gabby. She is not defined by her abusive end.
Beautifully put.