Facing Hate

Memoir of a Social Smear

De: Chris Jeub

Narrado por: Chris Jeub

How I recovered relationships and rebuilt my reputation in today's cancel-culture world.

I’m Chris Jeub. It took years for me to build my reputation online as a businessman, educator and father of a large and loving family. I was even a featured “star” of a reality TV program. But it all collapsed overnight when national tabloids and global social media “exposed” me for being a fake, a fraud and a serial abuser.

Fun photos and my family’s mission to spread “love in the house” - our own and others’ too - instantly looked like sinister lies to the online world, a supposed coverup of the darkest kind.

My response? I held my tongue, I went silent, took my family website down and helplessly watched the online “mob” spread its narrative of me across the internet. I thought I had to. Because those awful lies started inside my own family, you see. In 2014 I was an early example of a social smear, a pandemic of the social media world today. None of the smear was true. This book is the real story. The truth.

This is the story of the Jeub family. It’s told through my own eyes, a father’s eyes. It’s a rebuttal of sorts, a debate. The truth isn’t important to the online court of social media and the modern cancel culture. But after reading my story of my social smear, I promise that you will not only know the love that fills my heart, but you’ll also come away with a much better understanding of the brutal online world that all too often assembles as a mob of hate.

I’m just one man with one story. But if you ever have the unfortunate experience of your own social smear - something that’s becoming more and more likely - this book will help prepare you to successfully face the hate.

©2021 Chris Jeub (P)2021 Chris Jeub

More than a memoir

If you’re on social media, you should hear this story. The subtitled “memoir” is misleading; there are actually two books woven into one. One is something like a memoir, expertly narrated by the author as he reads to his family (you feel like you’re there at his kitchen table and the background noises unobtrusively seem like a coffee shop study soundtrack you’d have running on YouTube while you do your homework). The other side of this book is a practical, how-to guide for how to survive when - not if - you find yourself embroiled in a social media controversy. Disclaimer: I didn’t start out as a Jeub Family Fan when I downloaded this book, I found myself unable to stop listening after the first chapter. My opinion is now (1) I needed a reminder that there are two sides to every story, and (2) I underestimated the permanent damage that can be suffered by anyone at the hands (fingertips) of an angry, social media mob. Chris Jeub survived and came out on the other side better for his experience, and his story IS one that should be heard. I recommend this book to any parent, estranged adult child or social media “activist”.