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I watched a video of Cody Ko and Noel Miller called “Steamy Tweets”. The video was filled with raunchy humor and face reactions which I think made the video so much better. Summing it up, the video was about the two going through a NSFW(Not Safe For Work) Twitter account and basically calling out regular people who commented under the tweets and poked fun at them. They also played along the lines of the Superiority Theory because they kept stating that people who commented were weird and that they would never do that. I found it interesting because they were punching down on a Twitter account while both of them were successful YouTubers and comedians, just recently they visited The Granada for their comedy show. While they read the response tweets they would block out the profile pictures until the very end and it seemed to work out in their favor. Usually the people who commented were typically older and probably unaware of the fact that a large audience would see their very explicit tweets. There was a particular person who responded to one of the “steamy” tweets and not only were they a very old man, but their @ was also cornman78 which I am inclined to believe that they live somewhere close to Kansas. Their humor is very in the moment so if someone were to walk past them as they made a funny commentary on a joke, they’d be entirely too confused. Later on in the video, a fan commented on raunchy tweets and said she was “only on this account because of Cody and Noel” to which both replied very dryly. All in all, this video shows Superiority Theory very prominently as well as shows very raunchy, juvenile humor, and blue humor. Their videos tend to show a lot of blue humor mixed in with dark and dry humor.

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I was watching a comedy special with my brother over the weekend on Netflix. It was a Gabriel Iglesias special and it was funny for a bit, but as the special went on, I began to lose interest and it started getting boring. I particularly found it odd because I used to find his specials extremely entertaining. However, after studying a bit upon comedy, I realized that halfway through the special my brother got up and left and I wasn’t necessarily paying attention to the special anymore. I started paying attention to my phone and not really finding the stand up comedian as funny as I did when my brother was there. I correlated that to the brief slide that was mentioned in class. It talked about the fact that people don’t typically watch comedies by themselves because laughing for their own benefit doesn’t necessarily do as much as when you’re laughing in a crowd and feeling the laughter of everyone around you. So when my brother left to go to his room midway through the special, I no longer found the special as enjoyable because I was no longer laughing to fit in with the surrounding laughter. I was just sitting there watching a man spew jokes and having them go over my head while I listened to other people on TV laugh.

After the special was over, my brother came back and we watched another comedy special and it was actually very enjoyable. We laughed a lot and my brother even spit out his drink from laughing so hard. Though, the peculiar thing about the special is that it was also a Gabriel Iglesias special, and we had watched that special many times before. So my question remained “Why did I find that special funny when I’ve seen it plenty of times before?” I began to think that maybe it was because I correlated it to reminiscence and therefore, considered the idea of it hilarious. I think the fact that since the experience of a stand up comedy show is shared ritual, it is necessary for the people watching at home watch it with people surrounding them so you feel the same welcomed atmosphere. So it feels like you belong. Whereas if you watch it alone it feels like you’re almost there, but just barely missing it.

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Blog Post #?

The other day my best friend and I were watching a Kurtis Conner video called “The Internet’s Cringiest Dating Show”. It basically was about a younger sister(age 15) choosing the perfect guy for her older sister(age 17). It’s a very bizarre show because there’s guys from the ages of 15-24. Throughout the show, the older sister is turned away from the guys and can’t say anything. The younger sister is asking very bland boring questions to the guys and it’s just a very uncomfortable show. Conner breaks the tension by adding some very snarky, dry humor. As well, he also ties in the Superiority Theory. He begins by judging every guy in the show because it’s just so absurd than anyone over the age of 18 would be on it. Later, he goes on to judge the 15 year old sister because she’s just asking the blandest questions known to mankind and it’s incredibly torturous to watch. The humor in the entire situation is that a 15 year old is choosing her sister’s boyfriend and Conner makes sure to bring it up. The other funny thing is that alongside the video, Conner has some playful banter with his best friend as he’s making some humorous jokes. He plays along the Superior Theory because he makes himself and his audience seem better than the people who are on this show essentially making a fool of themselves. However, Conner always resorts back to putting himself on a similar level as the people he’s making fun of so it’s at equal playing ground. The show ends with the sister choosing the blandest, most average, white bread type of guy from the entire selection of about seven guys. Both Conner and his best friend were entirely confused and so were my best friend and I. The moment the older sister turned around you could feel the disapproval in her movements and Conner decided to end the video by quoting his favorite guy from the selection.

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I was watching a comedy special with my brother over the weekend on Netflix. It was a Gabriel Iglesias special and it was funny for a bit, but as the special went on, I began to lose interest and it started getting boring. I particularly found it odd because I used to find his specials extremely entertaining. However, after studying a bit upon comedy, I realized that halfway through the special my brother got up and left and I wasn’t necessarily paying attention to the special anymore. I started paying attention to my phone and not really finding the stand up comedian as funny as I did when my brother was there. I correlated that to the brief slide that was mentioned in class. It talked about the fact that people don’t typically watch comedies by themselves because laughing for their own benefit doesn’t necessarily do as much as when you’re laughing in a crowd and feeling the laughter of everyone around you. So when my brother left to go to his room midway through the special, I no longer found the special as enjoyable because I was no longer laughing to fit in with the surrounding laughter. I was just sitting there watching a man spew jokes and having them go over my head while I listened to other people on TV laugh.

After the special was over, my brother came back and we watched another comedy special and it was actually very enjoyable. We laughed a lot and my brother even spit out his drink from laughing so hard. Though, the peculiar thing about the special is that it was also a Gabriel Iglesias special, and we had watched that special many times before. So my question remained “Why did I find that special funny when I’ve seen it plenty of times before?” I began to think that maybe it was because I correlated it to reminiscence and therefore, considered the idea of it hilarious. I think the fact that since the experience of a stand up comedy show is shared ritual, it is necessary for the people watching at home watch it with people surrounding them so you feel the same welcomed atmosphere. So it feels like you belong. Whereas if you watch it alone it feels like you’re almost there, but just barely missing it.

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Blog Post #i forgot, I think 6.

This weekend the only funny thing I remember watching was a very awkward video that Cody Ko and Noel Miller uploaded on their channel. Now, in my defense of watching it, I did not expect it to be that awkward when I sat down with my laptop and was trying to eat a snack before the video started. The video was a reaction video to another set of YouTubers. They people they were reacting to were two Christian girls saying that it was basically bad to be in love with a boy and that you should save your first kiss for marriage. Clearly, that was funny because Cody Ko reacted it in a way that he said “Imagine your grandma leaning in for a kiss. ‘No, grandma! That’s for my husband only.’” Their humor on their reacting videos is typically very sarcastic and hints at finding the logic in situations. I’m beginning to see a trend within the comedy I tend to enjoy. All the comedians I favor tend to be very sarcastic as well as pick at the logic in situations.

The video goes on and somewhat mocks the girls because they do a recreation of the video, but the video is about two Christian boys. One of the jokes is “We’re saving this seat for Jesus obviously.” while Noel is standing very awkwardly as ‘Jesus’ is sitting in his seat. In a way, they were also making fun of religion, however, they made fun of how these girls were excessive about it and basically shoving their beliefs down everyone’s throat. It was clever the way they approached it, as well, they knew their audience fairly well so they didn’t do anything that was seen as insensitive to the Christian religion. They just added some logic to the YouTubers commentary because they were basically making younger girls feel bad for experiencing regular feelings.

All in all, the video was fairly interesting because they pointed out aspects of the YouTubers commentary in a funny way that wasn’t insensitive to anyone’s religion.

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I was watching a comedy special with my brother over the weekend on Netflix. It was a Gabriel Iglesias special and it was funny for a bit, but as the special went on, I began to lose interest and it started getting boring. I particularly found it odd because I used to find his specials extremely entertaining. However, after studying a bit upon comedy, I realized that halfway through the special my brother got up and left and I wasn’t necessarily paying attention to the special anymore. I started paying attention to my phone and not really finding the stand up comedian as funny as I did when my brother was there. I correlated that to the brief slide that was mentioned in class. It talked about the fact that people don’t typically watch comedies by themselves because laughing for their own benefit doesn’t necessarily do as much as when you’re laughing in a crowd and feeling the laughter of everyone around you. So when my brother left to go to his room midway through the special, I no longer found the special as enjoyable because I was no longer laughing to fit in with the surrounding laughter. I was just sitting there watching a man spew jokes and having them go over my head while I listened to other people on TV laugh.

After the special was over, my brother came back and we watched another comedy special and it was actually very enjoyable. We laughed a lot and my brother even spit out his drink from laughing so hard. Though, the peculiar thing about the special is that it was also a Gabriel Iglesias special, and we had watched that special many times before. So my question remained “Why did I find that special funny when I’ve seen it plenty of times before?” I began to think that maybe it was because I correlated it to reminiscence and therefore, considered the idea of it hilarious. I think the fact that since the experience of a stand up comedy show is shared ritual, it is necessary for the people watching at home watch it with people surrounding them so you feel the same welcomed atmosphere. So it feels like you belong. Whereas if you watch it alone it feels like you’re almost there, but just barely missing it.

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Blog #5 ? I think.

I was watching Kevin Hart’s “Let Me Explain” special earlier today. One particular bit in the special that made me laugh was when he tried to explain why he massively respects people who take responsibility for being late to work because he could never do it. He goes on this rampage of the reason as to why he wouldn’t be able to take responsibility because he would need to have a drastic excuse. And it reminded me of storytelling humor, the same way that John Mulaney does. Of course, it’s a bit more over exaggerated because it’s Kevin Hart, but it’s a similar tactic.

He continues to go on in the bit and says, “The reason I was five minutes late is because there was a baby running on the highway.” This particular part really puts emphasis in the drastic excuse he would need to have in order to be validly late to work. However, it doesn’t stop there. It continues with “I started to chase the baby, but I didn’t know what to do because I can’t f*** around and kidnap the baby because then I’ll go to jail, so I decided to adopt him by downloading an app on my phone.” If it’s not evident enough, this clearly didn’t happen, especially in the way he tells the story so outrageously. The story further deepens “After I grabbed the baby, I start driving and I see a half deer half zebra and think ‘Oh, sh*t, it’s a deebra.’ So I call the zoo and tell them I found a wild deebra.” To which the employee at the zoo responded with “Did you just make that up?” and Hart responded with “Sh*t, maybe.” The story continues as him taking the deebra to the zoo and then returning back to his car and seeing that the baby he had rescued had developed some Benjamin Button disease as well as asked about his deebra to which Hart responded cockily, “I knew that was a deebra.” The absurdly wild story finally ends with “And that’s why I was five minutes late to work.”

It is very evident that this story is extremely farfetch, however, it’s so entertaining and full of odd and peculiar details that it just fills the reader with laughter. The full story is so over explained that it builds a complete plot. I find it extremely interesting and insanely humorous just because the audience knows well that none of this ever occurred, but everyone can relate to telling a little lie as to why they were late to work.

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I was watching a comedy special with my brother over the weekend on Netflix. It was a Gabriel Iglesias special and it was funny for a bit, but as the special went on, I began to lose interest and it started getting boring. I particularly found it odd because I used to find his specials extremely entertaining. However, after studying a bit upon comedy, I realized that halfway through the special my brother got up and left and I wasn’t necessarily paying attention to the special anymore. I started paying attention to my phone and not really finding the stand up comedian as funny as I did when my brother was there. I correlated that to the brief slide that was mentioned in class. It talked about the fact that people don’t typically watch comedies by themselves because laughing for their own benefit doesn’t necessarily do as much as when you’re laughing in a crowd and feeling the laughter of everyone around you. So when my brother left to go to his room midway through the special, I no longer found the special as enjoyable because I was no longer laughing to fit in with the surrounding laughter. I was just sitting there watching a man spew jokes and having them go over my head while I listened to other people on TV laugh.

After the special was over, my brother came back and we watched another comedy special and it was actually very enjoyable. We laughed a lot and my brother even spit out his drink from laughing so hard. Though, the peculiar thing about the special is that it was also a Gabriel Iglesias special, and we had watched that special many times before. So my question remained “Why did I find that special funny when I’ve seen it plenty of times before?” I began to think that maybe it was because I correlated it to reminiscence and therefore, considered the idea of it hilarious. I think the fact that since the experience of a stand up comedy show is shared ritual, it is necessary for the people watching at home watch it with people surrounding them so you feel the same welcomed atmosphere. So it feels like you belong. Whereas if you watch it alone it feels like you’re almost there, but just barely missing it.

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reading in head: i'm practically a master of linguistics my pronunciations are perfect beyond compare

reading aloud: *chokes on spit*

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blog # 4

I was watching an episode of Friends, which is arguably one of my favorite sitcoms from the 90’s. Anyways, I was watching the New Year’s Resolution episode with my best friend and the show immediately started off to a great start. Throughout the show, my best friend started comparing me Chandler because just like him, it would be a miracle if I held back all my snarky commentary. Chandler is filled with sarcastic, dry, and pun filled humor which is why I really favor him as a character. He’s one of my favorite characters from the show. He tends to use his humor as a defense mechanism and it’s hilarious. However, throughout the show I noticed this show uses a lot of situational irony.

In one scene of the show Ross is focused on wearing these leather jeans and he walks into Monica’s apartment and he asks how he looks and everyone overly compliments him while Chandler is driving himself mad trying not to make any snarky commentary so he doesn't lose a bet. However, as soon as he leaves the apartment everyone tells Ross how awful his pants really look and then walks over whining. Rachel’s NY’s Resolution is to stop gossiping and obviously that does not go over well because she found out hot gossip and bends over backwards trying not to break her resolution.

Later in the show, there is a scene where Joey wants to learn how to play the guitar, so Phoebe offers to teach him, but refuses to let him use an actual guitar. He ends up picking up a guitar and taking actual lessons and Phoebe finds out when she’s testing him on his skills and Monica slides in to take a picture of them to try and preserve some memories of the year.

All in all, the episode is full of chaos which is very funny and random and extremely situational. All the commentary and funny bits wouldn’t have been as funny if they occurred at any other time.

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I was watching a comedy special with my brother over the weekend on Netflix. It was a Gabriel Iglesias special and it was funny for a bit, but as the special went on, I began to lose interest and it started getting boring. I particularly found it odd because I used to find his specials extremely entertaining. However, after studying a bit upon comedy, I realized that halfway through the special my brother got up and left and I wasn’t necessarily paying attention to the special anymore. I started paying attention to my phone and not really finding the stand up comedian as funny as I did when my brother was there. I correlated that to the brief slide that was mentioned in class. It talked about the fact that people don’t typically watch comedies by themselves because laughing for their own benefit doesn’t necessarily do as much as when you’re laughing in a crowd and feeling the laughter of everyone around you. So when my brother left to go to his room midway through the special, I no longer found the special as enjoyable because I was no longer laughing to fit in with the surrounding laughter. I was just sitting there watching a man spew jokes and having them go over my head while I listened to other people on TV laugh.

After the special was over, my brother came back and we watched another comedy special and it was actually very enjoyable. We laughed a lot and my brother even spit out his drink from laughing so hard. Though, the peculiar thing about the special is that it was also a Gabriel Iglesias special, and we had watched that special many times before. So my question remained “Why did I find that special funny when I’ve seen it plenty of times before?” I began to think that maybe it was because I correlated it to reminiscence and therefore, considered the idea of it hilarious. I think the fact that since the experience of a stand up comedy show is shared ritual, it is necessary for the people watching at home watch it with people surrounding them so you feel the same welcomed atmosphere. So it feels like you belong. Whereas if you watch it alone it feels like you’re almost there, but just barely missing it.

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I began to watch the film Deadpool 2. I hadn’t watched it even though I had it on blu-ray for about half a year, er, well, my brother had it. I thought it was extremely funny when the starting credits starting rolling in and all the credits weren’t given any names rather smart allec comments that were absolutely funny. There was a particular one that punched down towards Ryan Reynolds and I was laughing so much. In that part of the film the Superior Theory was extremely evident. The directors and writers were all making fun of Ryan Reynolds and having him be the punchline of all jokes. I think the way that they make the starting credits cleverly worded is actually hilarious because few people read those or when they do they breeze over it like nothing had occurred. Further throughout the film, the humor was very risqué, mordant, satirical, slapstick, juvenile, and situational. It starts off with very raunchy comedy which I don’t favor all the time, but for some reason Deadpool does an amazing job of making it seem worthwhile and tolerable. Usually, along with every risqué humor he carries it off with a sly sarcastic comment or satirical—especially when it’s about one of the enemies he’s fighting. His humor also tends to have a childlike way to it. Typically, when he’s being his most annoying, he throws tantrums and always has little bits of boy locker room humor. Later on in the film, one of the characters, Negasonic Teenage Warhead, or “Moody Teenager” as Deadpool refers to, is in a relationship with a girl. Judging by the way that Deadpool seems to be, since he’s romantic with both men and women(typically women, he’s just a flirt), it would seem as if he’s going to be perfectly okay with Negasonic and her girlfriend. However, it’s funny because she thinks Deadpool is going to make a rude comment about her being in a gay relationship, but he makes a joke about how he thought it was crazy anyone wanted to be in a relationship with her in the first place. Throughout the entire film, there’s basic slapstick humor about pain and injury, but there’s other types of humor as well so it’s not just an empty, boring film with repeated humor. It’s humor that most people can enjoy and that’s what makes it a really special comedy film.

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I was watching a comedy special with my brother over the weekend on Netflix. It was a Gabriel Iglesias special and it was funny for a bit, but as the special went on, I began to lose interest and it started getting boring. I particularly found it odd because I used to find his specials extremely entertaining. However, after studying a bit upon comedy, I realized that halfway through the special my brother got up and left and I wasn’t necessarily paying attention to the special anymore. I started paying attention to my phone and not really finding the stand up comedian as funny as I did when my brother was there. I correlated that to the brief slide that was mentioned in class. It talked about the fact that people don’t typically watch comedies by themselves because laughing for their own benefit doesn’t necessarily do as much as when you’re laughing in a crowd and feeling the laughter of everyone around you. So when my brother left to go to his room midway through the special, I no longer found the special as enjoyable because I was no longer laughing to fit in with the surrounding laughter. I was just sitting there watching a man spew jokes and having them go over my head while I listened to other people on TV laugh.

After the special was over, my brother came back and we watched another comedy special and it was actually very enjoyable. We laughed a lot and my brother even spit out his drink from laughing so hard. Though, the peculiar thing about the special is that it was also a Gabriel Iglesias special, and we had watched that special many times before. So my question remained “Why did I find that special funny when I’ve seen it plenty of times before?” I began to think that maybe it was because I correlated it to reminiscence and therefore, considered the idea of it hilarious. I think the fact that since the experience of a stand up comedy show is shared ritual, it is necessary for the people watching at home watch it with people surrounding them so you feel the same welcomed atmosphere. So it feels like you belong. Whereas if you watch it alone it feels like you’re almost there, but just barely missing it.

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I was recently watching a show called One Day at a Time, it’s a sitcom and it’s a very interesting show that, although very funny, it talks about things that are relevant in this society. The show is basically a depiction of a typical Cuban family that’s just trying to live their life in America. However, the interesting thing about this show is that it features an LGBTQ+ character who is a strong teenage feminist, a single mom who’s not struggling financially, and two male cast members who are not the center of attention. The show doesn’t even focus their humor on the feminist character or racial slurs. In the show I found a particular scene absolutely hilarious, I even went as far as choking on the water I was drinking because it made me laugh so much. It was funny because it made a joke about VapoRub and how it basically solves anyone’s health by just rubbing it on your chest. It was particularly funny to me because my mom used to pull that on me. It’s funny because it’s a shared, and common joke between the Spanish community. It falls within the realm of Differentiation Humor since it tends to divide people because it doesn’t necessarily seem like other cultures value VapoRub as much as the Spanish ones. It was especially hilarious because the grandmother said to her daughter “Let’s cure this once and for all” and pulled out the VapoRub. Afterwards, the daughter said “This can’t be cured by VapoRub,” to which the grandmother responded with “Everything can be cured with VapoRub”. It also seems to fall within the realm of Subversion Theory because the grandma seems as if she’s going to pull out her daughter’s antidepressants and obviously that was not the case. It also seems like it could fall within the realm of ironic humor because it did seem ironic that the grandmother would pull out the VapoRub and state that it cures everything when a few episodes earlier, the daughter’s child got sick and she put VapoRub on them to cure them.

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I was watching a comedy special with my brother over the weekend on Netflix. It was a Gabriel Iglesias special and it was funny for a bit, but as the special went on, I began to lose interest and it started getting boring. I particularly found it odd because I used to find his specials extremely entertaining. However, after studying a bit upon comedy, I realized that halfway through the special my brother got up and left and I wasn’t necessarily paying attention to the special anymore. I started paying attention to my phone and not really finding the stand up comedian as funny as I did when my brother was there. I correlated that to the brief slide that was mentioned in class. It talked about the fact that people don’t typically watch comedies by themselves because laughing for their own benefit doesn’t necessarily do as much as when you’re laughing in a crowd and feeling the laughter of everyone around you. So when my brother left to go to his room midway through the special, I no longer found the special as enjoyable because I was no longer laughing to fit in with the surrounding laughter. I was just sitting there watching a man spew jokes and having them go over my head while I listened to other people on TV laugh.

After the special was over, my brother came back and we watched another comedy special and it was actually very enjoyable. We laughed a lot and my brother even spit out his drink from laughing so hard. Though, the peculiar thing about the special is that it was also a Gabriel Iglesias special, and we had watched that special many times before. So my question remained “Why did I find that special funny when I’ve seen it plenty of times before?” I began to think that maybe it was because I correlated it to reminiscence and therefore, considered the idea of it hilarious. I think the fact that since the experience of a stand up comedy show is shared ritual, it is necessary for the people watching at home watch it with people surrounding them so you feel the same welcomed atmosphere. So it feels like you belong. Whereas if you watch it alone it feels like you’re almost there, but just barely missing it.

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I was watching a comedy special with my brother over the weekend on Netflix. It was a Gabriel Iglesias special and it was funny for a bit, but as the special went on, I began to lose interest and it started getting boring. I particularly found it odd because I used to find his specials extremely entertaining. However, after studying a bit upon comedy, I realized that halfway through the special my brother got up and left and I wasn’t necessarily paying attention to the special anymore. I started paying attention to my phone and not really finding the stand up comedian as funny as I did when my brother was there. I correlated that to the brief slide that was mentioned in class. It talked about the fact that people don’t typically watch comedies by themselves because laughing for their own benefit doesn’t necessarily do as much as when you’re laughing in a crowd and feeling the laughter of everyone around you. So when my brother left to go to his room midway through the special, I no longer found the special as enjoyable because I was no longer laughing to fit in with the surrounding laughter. I was just sitting there watching a man spew jokes and having them go over my head while I listened to other people on TV laugh.

After the special was over, my brother came back and we watched another comedy special and it was actually very enjoyable. We laughed a lot and my brother even spit out his drink from laughing so hard. Though, the peculiar thing about the special is that it was also a Gabriel Iglesias special, and we had watched that special many times before. So my question remained “Why did I find that special funny when I’ve seen it plenty of times before?” I began to think that maybe it was because I correlated it to reminiscence and therefore, considered the idea of it hilarious. I think the fact that since the experience of a stand up comedy show is shared ritual, it is necessary for the people watching at home watch it with people surrounding them so you feel the same welcomed atmosphere. So it feels like you belong. Whereas if you watch it alone it feels like you’re almost there, but just barely missing it.

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When your life is so pathetic that you.. #lonely #loner #foreveralone