#and that one video with the ukulele

[thistaleisabloodyone]

Let's be real, fighting with the Exile Tribe mobile website to get a subscription is 100% worth it for the videos of Riku playing the piano and singing

[reincc]

THE TOXIC GOSSIP TRAIN~

[mitsukiixx]

I don't understand, why is there a mini pride flag in the corner of the pride flag. Is it pride^2?

[standingonabeachatsunset]

Still not over how an impressive show like Arcane has a theme song by such a boring band like Imagine Dragons, of all artists.

[elytrafemme]

all the shit about content creators being outed as groomers is so fucking exhausting b/c i think a lot of people fail to understand the effects grooming has on people and what it looks like. because you’ll see victims defending themselves trying to explain that yes this counted as grooming to an audience composed of this ignorant mass of people that do not care, and it’s hard to see that and then look at your own experience and ask yourself. do i have to fight to defend this, too? it didn’t look like these other people’s experiences. because my groomer wasn’t a celebrity, he was just a person, and these people have to fight so hard to show that there’s a power difference with these abusive streamers and youtubers, but what if my groomer didn’t have that? like it’s just very distressing and i am attracted to it like a moth to a flame for any semblance of solidarity but every piece of it just reminds me. if tens of people have to step up to call this person shitty, with receipts and everything. then what do i have to do. you know? 

[frescacactuscooler]

Trying to reclaim life after letting it fall apart for years and years is hard. But hey, making steps to truly have hobbies. Starting a music class in January and very excited about it!

[alchemylive]

i heard that the next trendy animal is going to be the BROOK TROUT i hope everyone is prepared to hear from their favorite pouty alt tiktok she/they about how much they love BROOK TROUT

[fingertipsmp3]

Like I hate to be one of Those People and I would never say “I told you so” but I was always creeped out by Miranda Sings tbh. I remember I watched like a minute of one of her videos back in the day and was like “how does anyone like this?”

[beefcake007]

I’m still mad about something that happened on tiktok last week and I want to do a post about it and explain an aspect of transphobia I’ve observed.

A cis user made a video asking that trans people share more banger music that they make, but clarified saying “by trans people, I mean trans women” because trans men only make that “sad ukulele” music. There was much discourse, he doubled down and said trans men couldn’t take a joke, other trans people threw the offended transmascs under the bus, or insisted that they can also make club music, yada yada.

I want to know if the queers who haven’t been queer as long as I have know that this exact drama was had with gays and lesbians. Do you know that some transphobia is repackaged homophobia and lesbophobia? I feel like that’s something we should be allowed to say and examine without someone shutting you down and insisting you’re conflating the gays and transes.

But yeah, for decades the joke has been that gay men are the fun flamboyant ones that make good art and dance music, and that lesbians are angry and dress ugly and make sad folk music. It’s pretty much an identical bias and resulting disrespectful jokes.

And it’s shit! I’m not going to let anyone, let alone a cis person, get away with transphobia just because it’s directed at trans men. It’s rude and harmful to devalue our art, and our art doesn’t need to be easily consumable to you. We’re allowed to be pissed and offended when you write us off, minimize the harm you’ve done, and exclude us from the conversation. It’s obvious when you only tolerate the queers who can serve you, and that you don’t actually care to listen or learn about our lives, struggles, and art.

[castletemprwine]

singing along to videos i took of myself singing years ago as a pre t egg is at once so emotionally healing and also so profoundly sad

[victory-cookies]

I’ve picked up instrument hoarding tendencies from my family which is fucked bc I refuse to actually get good at any of them so they just. sit there. but then I buy a new one anyway

[some-pers0n]

Will Wood archive channels are wild cause one video will be like a 9 second recording of a concert from 2016 showing this man wearing like seven layers of eyeliner and mascara, no shirt, and has bleached his hair an unnatural blonde banging on his keyboard while screaming about drugs, skeletons, and suicide and then the next video will be this guy who looks like he majors in philosophy and computer science with an oversized ukulele telling people that he is doing well in therapy

[s0me-rand0m-d0rk]

Ok. So, you know that TV show Ghost Adventures? Let's make it Danny phantom.

Danny, Sam, and Tucker are college age. Danny's studying astrophysics and astronomy. Tucker's studying engineering. And Sam's double majoring in occult studies and parapsychology. They're not in Amity Park, I don't know where they'd be but it would probably be a really haunted city/town. They need some extra money so they start a paranormal investigation group kinda like what Ghost Adventures is, but local. They post their findings on YouTube. They basically blow up overnight and get monetized after they get a few videos out there.

Danny is the "medium". (He's not a medium. He just has ghost powers.)

Tucker's the tech specialist.

Sam's the occult specialist.

But instead of provoking the ghosts and being rowdy and screaming all the time (don't get me wrong, the show is funny and I do enjoy watching it, but we all know they're not always respectful of the spirits.), they're actually trying to solve the problem the ghost is posing. They try to compromise with them and help them pass on.

Sam sends Danny into creepy basements by himself just like Zak does with Aaron. She also pulls the most obscure and random occult facts out of her ass. One time, she told the audience that it was possible to exorcise ghosts using music. She proceeded to play Riptide on a ukulele for the spirit of a pre-teen girl and it worked. After the episode is over, people go to look it up, and low and behold, there it is.

Tucker makes progressively more insane and less believable gadgets to contact and interact with ghosts. Their audience tunes in every week wonder what he'll have next. The last episode, it was some sort of ghostly etch-a-sketch. AND THE GHOSTS ACTUALLY USED IT. Did one of them draw a dick on it like a smart ass? Probably.

Sometimes Danny has full on conversations with no one on camera. He waves when there's no one else in the room. He scolded a poltergeist that tried to push him down the stairs. He consistently says that most ghosts just need a hug. Dark spirit? Hug it. Violent poltergeist? They need a hug. Ghostly child? HUG. The audience notices his eyes glowing in the dark. Is it special effects? No one knows.

No one can tell if they're serious or not. They had a literal gun that shoots ghosts. They play music for ghosts. They have ghostly etch-a-sketches. Unless you're from Amity Park, there's no way you're believing that.

But, people who have their properties investigated often say that the activity stops or de-intensifies or changes all together. People may have to change things, like hanging up a photo of the deceased, holding a memorial service, or stopping/changing renovations. But they make the ghost happy or even pass on. That way they stop throwing the good china out of the cabinets.

[ghosts-and-glory]

okay i saw your cult of youtube au and I had an idea for kallamar

What if he plagiarized shit. idk it just feels like a kallamar thing.

and when the lamb calls him out he pulls out the ukulele apology video and starts crying

I CANNOT GET THE THOUGHT OF KALLAMAR GETTING THE UKULELE OUT OUT OF MY HEAD.

This is it, this is the worst fake thumbnail I’ve made so far. Genuinely, drawing Kallamar over Colleen Ballinger, had me repetitively getting up and walking around my room thinking about how I got here in my life.

I’m still dying on my “Kallamar having one of those shitty doctor YouTube channels” hill, but he definitely takes mad shortcuts and steals shit from others.

[ladyshinga]

Me: "I want to be a better and kinder person, and one of the ways I wanna do this is to stop cringing so much" A youtuber: *is accused of grooming a 13 yr old fan and was told by her legal team and friends NOT to release a statement so instead she... released her apology video in song form ("but I can sing it instead" kind of logic), complete with the ukulele* Me: ".... I will fall short of my goals sometimes"

[zedif-y]

does anyone else get a surge of fondness for their friends over the little things? the things that, technically, don't matter all too much, the things you could forget eventually.

like the fact that they do their wordle everyday, without fail. like the fact that they've worn the same ring everyday since middle school.

this isn't meant to be poetry, but it also kind of is. when i talk about my friends it feels like poetry— like i'm trying to capture a sunset in a bottle, capture laughter in a little box.

i think i'll always cherish the way that they are, wholly and unfiltered. down to the missed messages and late replies. i'll cherish the unprompted ukulele sessions, the nicknames that never fully went away. i'll wrap up our memories and store them at my desk, where i can always look back, even if it hurts. even when it doesn't.

there was a point to this and now it's gone. the point was somewhere between the days i last saw them all and is buried wedged inside a couch, the same one we nearly lost a phone to back in high school. the point is i love my friends for all their imperfections and i love them for all the times that i've cried.

there's a thank you on my tongue for everything, the big and the small.

thank you for editing my birthday video. thank you for seeing me after class. thank you for eating with me at lunch. thank you for holding me when i cried. thank you for staying over. thank you for giving me rice. thank you for smiling at me. thank you thank you thank you.

maybe these are all things i'll forget eventually. maybe we're all dust specks in this corner of the universe and maybe in a few years i'll look back and i won't remember the way you hated mangos on desserts at all.

that's okay. that's okay.

did you finish your daily wordle?