Adam Ruins Everything Summary

For my artifact, I have chosen “Adam Ruins Everything - Why You Don’t Need 8 Glasses of Water A Day.” This video explores many different types of elements of persuasion that we have discussed during the duration of the course. Nearly anybody who has grown up in the United States, it has been an essential part of living that you are told you must be drinking at least 8 glasses of water per day, in order to be deemed as “healthy.” Adam somehow takes something you have been taught your whole life and flips it completely on it’s head. He specifically shows you the myth of drinking 8 glasses of water per day, debunks it, and invites you to understand why his research and way of thinking is correct, regardless of everything you’ve learned.

Theoretical

Though Adam touched based on all of these elements of proof, he specifically has a strong suit in logos. His target audience is the consumer, which is anyone who has ever felt cheated by a business trying to manipulate them to get their money. Pathos - Pathos is not Adam’s strong suit. Adam doesn’t necessarily show a strong sense of pathos, because he isn 't outwardly looking to appeal to emotion. He does not appeal to pathos, because he doesn’t show a link to emotion; everything that he states as fact, derives from notable research. He does not show a bias, and he has no emotional affiliation with anything pertaining to his research. He gives you a strong sense of trust, so you can confide in him. He brings a comedic element to his videos while flooding you with information, essentially giving you a sense of

However, I feel that Adam did use invitational rhetoric. By delivering the information in a comedic manner, he emulates situations to make you understand the information he 's giving you, essentially role playing. Adam comes off as intimidating, but that is our natural response while listening to someone who sounds incredibly knowledgable. Some classmates felt judged by the way he was delivering this information, but I feel that if it wasn’t invitational rhetoric, then he wouldn 't have a following. No one wants to feel stupid or humiliated by not knowing information, and he is often used as an educational platform. Adam is not forcing you to retain this information, and he is not outwardly calling you stupid for not realizing these things. There is a woman who follows Adam around who treats her opinion as fact, denying everything Adam and a knowledgeable professor from Oakland University is saying. She referred to a highly educated woman as “crazy”, when in contrast, I feel this woman didn’t evoke invitational rhetoric and Adam did. Adam acts as if he is one of us, that he is one with the audience and is equally victimized from these corporations, he does this to welcome the audience into this information. Along side of Adam’s use of invitational rhetoric, his main tactic of persuasion derives from the use of logos. Adam’s use of logos is concrete