#no hate to the shane stans bc i DO get it
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tytopls · 12 hours ago
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super unpopular opinion but shane stardew valley deserves the option to just have the farmer as a friend tbh
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snaxle · 6 months ago
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they also suicide baited my cat which was so...
How do you even do that?
ok so as many people remember i use to be a big dream fan a few years ago. well at a Certain Point that shall not be explained, i decided hey i fucking hate this guy now and proceeded to unfollow people and etc. well, as you can imagine, many of my former mutuals and followers were Also dream fans who we're very unhappy with the fact that i was not supporting him anymore and publicly bashing him now.
around this time, both my cats were very sick and i often posted about how worried i was about their health. also, semi unrelated, but a few weeks before this my one cat escaped my house for a day and i was extremely scared she had been killed by some wild animals in my area, which i also posted about. i did wind up finding her completely fine soon.
well after this big fallout, i posted something about how dream looks like shane dawson or whatever a few months later all that happened and these people saw it and we're fucking PISSED. had people screenshotting all my posts, my url uncensored and everything, and absolutely twisted my words to make it seem like i was saying some pretty messed up shit. i didnt even know this was going on until i got an anonymous ask that told me dream fans we're beating my ass, and then people proceeded to send me what people were sending. it was whatever lol
but anyways, at one point, one of these people then proceeded to send me an ask after i once again posted about how i was really worried about my cats and they finally had a vet appointment coming up, and they told me they hoped my cat died. which is pretty fucked btw, but anyways i had to shut off my asks after that for a few days and kinda had a mild breakdown because of it but after awhile i just stopped acknowledging all them bc whatever.
well, maybe a week later i got another person sending me a screenshot of someone's post in which they said some shit like "remember when sn*xle got an ask telling them they hope their cat died and they freaked out about it? did they think their cat would see the ask and slit their kitty wrists lol" and then had other people also posted about how they hope my cat killed themself so I'd get upset
this then escalated to people posting about how they want me to kill myself, one of which was someone i was pretty close mutuals with who at one point literally comforted me as i had a panic attack over my cat being missing that one time LOL.
eventually im pretty sure they stopped after i went on a massive blocking spree and blocked like 4k people from the fandom, or at least people stopped reporting to me to tell me every little thing these people were saying about me, my cats went to the vet and got fixed up and i lived happily ever after 🙂 but anyways thats the story of how my cat and i were suicide baited by angry dream stans all because i decided i didnt wanna support an ugly shitty white guy anymore. theres actually more context to the story than all this but maybe thats a story for another day LOL
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angelhummel · 4 years ago
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I 100% agree with you on the whole cheating thing!! 'He thought there was no point in talking bc he thought his relationship was as good as over' I feel like this is so important, especially bc Blaine probably felt like he COULDN'T talk to Kurt? If he wasn't really listening to him before when it was just small talk, B probably felt like having such an important conversation about their relationship would be impossible at that point, especially with how K responded to those fears in the past.
Yes exactly. And then it seems like the person’s argument just comes down to “cheating is wrong” which, yeah. So why do you only hate Blaine for it?? If every person who cheated/helped someone cheat was irredeemable trash then who would be left to stan? Artie? You would literally just be stanning Artie lmao
It’s fine for Tina to hook up with Mike when she’s still technically with Artie bc he was ignoring her, and there’s no way she could've just broken up with him before getting with Mike
It’s fine for Santana to manipulate Brittany into cheating bc she really knows what’s best for Brittany and it’s fine for Brittany to cheat on Artie bc he’s just a dumb boy lol who cares
And it’s fine for Finn to cheat on Quinn bc she already cheated on him with Puck even tho Finn didn’t know it and it’s okay for him to get her to cheat on Sam bc he really cares about her and he’s the best guy so everything he does is good
And it’s fine for Rachel to cheat on Finn with Puck bc she was mad at him and it’s fine for Rachel to cheat on Brody with Finn bc again Finn is the best guy and everything he wants and does is fine :)
And it’s fine for Sam to pursue Mercedes when she’s in a relationship and it’s okay for them to kiss bc ?? who tf is Shane lol he’s not a real character and Samcedes is perfect so who cares!
And oh yeah IT’S FINE FOR KURT TO CHEAT ON ADAM bc again Adam isn’t a real character lol and who cares Klaine is endgame unless you’re the original blaine anti in which case idk
But Blaine literally being depressed and making an impulsive decision and immediately going to NY to confess and apologize?? That’s where we draw the line!!! 
Like context matters but in or out of context how is Blaine the worst? Or the only bad one? Make it make sense
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siancore · 4 years ago
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Hiiii beautiful :), I just would love your opinion on something. So recently I was looking at some old twd articles of Andy talking about s5 & s6 and I was very shocked finding out he said that jessie was the first woman rick had feelings for since lori...which is absolutely not true. He also stated in article talking about richonne finally getting together and again I was very shocked that he stated that without jessie richonne wouldn’t have gotten together bc he said jessie opened rick up to potentially loving & trusting someone again...which again is absolutely not true. So why would Andy say that??? It honestly makes me question if he truly even knows the character he’s portraying ( btw I’m not attacking him just questioning him) . Any true rick stan or twd stan would know during that whole entire jessie/rick storyline, rick was not himself at all. I love rick so much but during that whole entire storyline I didnt like him at all bc he wasn’t the rick I knew and loved so dearly. He acted out of character. I don’t give jessie credit for anything at all bc she did nothing except make rick act out character which was terrible for him as a character and for his fans to watch . I’ll forever dislike gimple for that storyline bc it was very unnecessary and made no sense at all. Ik this old but I just saw those articles and it’s really making me some type of way and Ik It shouldn’t bc richonne is canon and thriving and continues to win but it still bothers me that Andy would say that. I just wanted your opinion on this and maybe you could ease my mind about this. I wrote a lot sorry lol, but pls help. (you can look at the articles to see exactly what he said if you want, but it’s the exact same thing I said)
Hey! I will try to ease your mind. Also, loving the Rick Grimes Asks I’ve been getting lately :’)
So, there was a lot of contrived storytelling at that point and I feel like the articles that were coming out at the time were really pushing for Rick to have a love interest in Jessie. People really missed the point and couldn’t see how far gone Rick was at the time. AL was always asked about it, and including that arc was Gimple’s idea, so no one was really speaking out about SG’s shitty choices. 
Jessie and her family were there for two things:
1. Rick Grimes’ character development 
2. Shock value and gory shit
What they should have done was to articulate better that Rick was still having serious mental health problems. In the comic books, when Rick and co showed up at Alexandria, he was still having hallucinations of Lori. What SG tried to do was show Rick’s unravelling by using the Andersons. Jessie was an obvious Lori stand in (the style of clothing and the way in which she always needed taking care of). And Rick was pulling some Shane level stalker shit. 
SG tried to show that Rick was not healing very well and given a moment of peace and safety, was still acting like he was out on the road. He was regressing and giving Jessie some very dubious attention. He still spoke about the Alexandrians as ‘them’, and Team Family as ‘us’. He was a complete mess. He was utterly dangerous.
The character development came in the form of pushing Rick Grimes to yet another limit. Would he be able to kill an innocent person to save his family? The answer is yes. He cut Jessie’s arm off and kept it moving. There was some really weird catharsis there, I guess. But, again, it didn’t translate well to the screen.
Now, back to AL. He always lets things slip and was always giving away spoilers. I think he was probably feeling obligated to talk about Jessie and Rick in a positive light because it was actually really awful what happened to her and her family. Rick and Michonne killed all of them. I feel like he had to put a spin on it and that’s because he didn’t like the arc for Rick. There were panels where he would make faces whenever that relationship was brought up. AL one hundred percent knows his character. He portrayed Rick unravelling really, really well. What we all hated was how they were making him OOC but not focussing on why. There was a lot of criticism for the writing at that point, so I don’t know; maybe they were told to put a positive spin on it. I don’t think any of the cast members actually enjoyed that arc for Rick. Go back and watch the interviews whenever the Andersons were brought up. It’s painful lol 
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babypinoe · 5 years ago
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the l word gen q ep 8 review
first i would like to note my internet is so bad it took me three hours to watch that. two hours of buffering. i’d get to watch maybe 10 seconds, and then 30 seconds of buffering. so this episode felt like a lifetime. 
now:
OH MY FUCKING GOD
imma have to break this down SO
quiara: fuck u. “i’m not upset at all my baby died, it means nothing to me, i will get another baby immediately” [notices shane is relieved, expressing a reasonable emotion] “FUCK YOU MY BABY IS DEAD”
bro...girl...just because you didn’t listen does NOT mean she never said it. ur manipulative as fuck and always have been!
shane: of course that’s the car you drive. your feelings are reasonable. you deserve that dog
i’m glad you two finally screamed at each other bc talking was clearly not doin shit
bette: girl i’m sorry. shit like that happens when ur a fictional character on a drama. i forgot everything u did in this episode im sorry
angie: yay angie! does anyone remember how old she is? like is she my age? she seems my age (senior in high school)
micah (i think is his name): oof 
its ok micah none of us saw it coming. i mean except his husband
man. fuck jose.
alice: wow! ok! good for you! congrats on being the one person who came out of this a winner
rebecca: this is what we were hoping you would do in the first place!!! thank you!!! 
slight fuck you tho for making me remember i hate myself for being a lesbian i was supposed to leave these episodes feeling Healed
and now the main event for us finley stans
that ending was unfair
but really tho. was nat’s speech supposed to make us think she was going back to dani????
sophie: girl i kinda don’t like u now either be nice to finley
dani: i actually had sympathy for u this time. i guess the writers remembered you probably shouldn’t be written as a comic book villain because now i do feel genuinely bad that ur fiance is cheating on you with the idiot you allow to live in your home
i say idiot with love 
finley: i can’t believe how much finley has grown up holy shit. even before the moment with rebecca. like y’all! finley talked about emotions! finley confronted issues! finley had SOBER SEX! and was smiling and laughing and goofing around! and then had a serious conversation! and then returned the bike we all were pretending she didn’t steal from a one night stand! i was so happy for her until i learned she was going back to missouri
am i worried because i think it will go poorly for her or because it makes me feel like i will have to confront my family to ever feel unashamed of my orientation? the world may never know but i have officially flipped from being in love with finley to identifying strongly with her
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jmespottuh · 5 years ago
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❛  if there’s one thing the gods love, it’s tragedy. with wings that burn and boys who fall. ❜
* ╰   brandon arreaga  ;  17 ;  he/him  —— wow, james potter sure has changed. i guess he is feeling isolated from the other gryffindor members. guess you can’t really blame them. i still remember them being so charming & incisive now they just seem dependent & inexorable.  guess being a  pureblood isn’t helping matters much either.  i’m hopeful though. they’ll be just fine.
links: pinterest, stats character parallels: bellamy blake ( the 100 ), shane madej ( buzzfeed unsolved ), jake peralta ( brooklyn nine-nine ), stefan salvatore ( the vampire diaries ), scott mccall ( teen wolf ), steve harrington ( stranger things )
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james henry potter ( named for two his two grandfathers, maternal and paternal respectively ) was born on april 4th, 1960 to two of the most loving parents a child could have.
fleamont and euphemia had been trying for a child for years. they’d been together for basically all of time, having been that typical good-looking, well liked couple in hogwarts that everyone always just assumes will get married ( spoiler alert: they did ), however had had to postpone kids due to fleamont’s brief stint as a professional quidditch player for eight years following their graduation. after that, they would try every month for a child, and after many years of disappointment, eventually gave up. it was during this time that fleamont developed the sleekeazy hair potion which only added to their immense wealth. 
finally at age forty-one, they were surprised with the arrival of james. obviously, they saw him as their miracle child, and as such he was pampered and completely spoiled from the moment he was born.
i cannot stress enough how much this spoiled upbringing shaped james into the person he is today. if you’re wondering why he was ever an arrogant prick, it’s because he was always used to getting absolutely everything he ever wanted. he grew up with money, he grew up with fame and with every bit of attention he could garner, and so it was really no wonder he was a bit of an asshole by the time he started at hogwarts.
obviously, james had a pretty cushy childhood, and as such, shit didn’t start getting real until he started at hogwarts. 
it took all of three seconds for the hat to sort him into gryffindor, and i guess you could say he pretty much considered himself to be the gem of the house. he was the absolute epitome of a gryffindor, basically considered him the poster boy and all but expected everyone to love him.
really did not help his ego to know that everyone did.
in typical sterotype-gryffindor fashion, james hated slytherin. he had always been taught growing up that purists were basically the root of all evil, and his father had had no qualms in lumping all these people in with the house of the snakes. james and his friends took a particular disliking to severus snape almost immediately for the poncy way in which he seemed to believe he was superior to all for his intelligence and his house status, and this dislike only grew when lily evans was tossed into the mix, too.
for basically the first four or five years of hogwarts, james really was that stereotypical arrogant asshole that he’s often made out to be. he always got everything he asked for, he was incredibly popular and incredibly intelligent, he had the most amazing friends and his eyes on the most amazing girl. he was set!! shit was good!!
shit was not good, though. definitely was not.
despite having known of remus’ furry little problem since second year, things didn’t really start to settle in james how awful it was until third or fourth year. he hated seeing his friend in pain, he hated that he couldn’t help, and so he rallied the boys to put into action their worst plan yet!!!!
becoming animagi!!!!!!
it took fucking forever, obviously, but by the end of fourth year they did it!! we stan icons
except then in fifth year shit hit the fan again in just, like… so many ways
first, it was the whole severus ‘mudblood’ situation. honestly, james was absolutely furious. he’d always hated snape but this just made everything 1000 times worse. even if it had happened to anyone else, he would have been fuming. but for it to have happened to lily like… yikes. 
this was also a horrible time for james though because lily rejected him for the thousandth time. like, look, what a yikes thing to think when she was just called a mudblood, but frankly he was sick of being rejected and he was sick of being the asshole who kept pressuring her so that was the breaking point — he gave up on her. 
and tbh, he changed a lot from here on out. grew up!! became a better person bc he saw how horrible snap was and decided he was sick of horrible people!! saw, recognised and acknowledged that just bc he was hot and intelligent and rich he wasn’t always going to get everything he wanted ( see: miss evans ) and just generally learned that oh shit the world doesn’t revolve around him!!!
oh and then there was that whole thing with sirius and snape and remus the werewolf and ohhhh boyyyy…. that infuriated him. 
he loves his bros so much and y’all know he would die for them, but to see his friend abuse remus’ pain and suffering for his own gain was heart wrenching. it just pushed him further to pull him in line, to realise that not everything was about games, or petty rivalry, or ‘ getting the girl ’ — life was heartache and mistakes and it was never going to go the way he wanted it to.
now look, this isn’t all to say that james is now a super strict, super intense, brooding weirdo. he’s still a bit of a child, and he’s still a bit of an arrogant prick, but ultimately what wins out is his morals — every time. he wants to lead the world to a better place, without war and without hate, he wants everyone to have the same opportunities he had as a kid and he wants nothing more than for blood purity to be eradicated.
get that shit outta my house!!! gross!!!!!!
now in his final year, james is always flipping between taking his role as head boy deadly serious and turning it into one big game of mischief. he’s still a marauder at heart, after all, and has definitely abused his power sometimes for the benefit of fun and games, but when it comes down to it, he can be very strict and lowkey paternal. the leader really just…. popped right outta him, it came to play and it came hard, and really you’d think he’s minister for magic with how serious he treats it sometimes.
i hate him.
the disappearance of one of his best friends, one peter pettigrew, landed james to flop pretty fucking hard on the side of seriousness. once you spend months without knowing where your best friend is, thinking he’s dead, you’re bound to start to lose a bit of that which once made you smile. it was this piled on top of what james had already been feeling which led the head boy to start finding ways he could join the revolution within the walls of hogwarts --- it’s been bloody hard but james is determined to make a difference, to make sure no one else he loves suffers in a war that they never asked to fight in the first place.
anyway here’s some fun facts that didn’t fit up top
james is a lot less intense with his hatred for slytherin’s. he has come to recognise that not everyone from that lifestyle is going to be the same, not everyone who grew up a certain way or was sorted into a certain house is going to think with a deadly mind, and while he’s still a bit wary, he’s a lot more relaxed about it, especially as head boy ( gotta at least pretend shit’s fair !!! )
he’s very dependent as in like… boi cannot go a week without his friends. he is used to having people to bounce off, that’s always the type of leader he has been, and as much as he would probably be amazing at anything on his own, he’s never really tried. too scared!! i hate him!!!!!
super unforgiving. like, if you have gotten on his bad side…. i’m sorry. it is going to be very difficult to return from there. his moral compass is pretty black and white, you’re either good or your bad, and if you’ve done something he considers bad well sucks to be you, i guess. sorry not sorry.
takes his quidditch very seriously tbh. so many people have told him he needs to be a pro like his dad, but he’s like haha fuck you i know what i wanna do ( hint hint: he wants to rule that goddamn auror office, make that shit far more efficient then he thinks it is now ). but srsly, he’s so intense abt the game and it really like… idk gets him in the zone, keeps him level-headed in amongst all this chaos. 
he’s smart. i guess. straight a’s and shit idk. just very naturally intelligent, finds everything he does easy, like.. really is that asshole who is just good at everything he does.
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jasntodds · 6 years ago
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ur shane post made me want to say something that goes against the grain of most people’s opinions but here we go 😬😬 I love Shane’s docuseries they’re fantastic, they shed light on issues and people’s lives that nobody really knew about before. and cancel culture makes people so ready to attack, like god forbid I forgive Shane and jeffree for their pasts in which they’ve apologized for and have clearly grown up from. 1/2
and I was worried that I would like jake paul after this, which I’m not sure I will anyway but that’s a whole thing. but I was more worried about being attacked for forgiving jake in any means you know?? like I really do feel bad for jake in some way bc the things he’s gone through, I really have no clue -nobody does- about how it affected him. and I’m so sick of cancel culture trying to ruin this doc for me, like I’m just curious and I want to form my own opinion on the matter, is that wrong2/2
YES, Cancel culture is literally one of the most toxic things ever. If a celebrity does 1 (one) thing, they get canceled?????? Like ???? As if people, not celebs, don’t fuck up in the same way and broadcast it all over social media? (ex. Sebastian Stan’s now ex-assistant posting racist shit. Everyone was quick to cancel him and he didn’t he even know and he fired her when he found out ????). Like I full out agree with you because like, listen, I honestly think Nick is a genuine person and we saw that based on what he would and wouldn’t say and such so I believe what he says and if Jake were really this evil monster, I don’t think Nick would have stuck around. Just from what we saw so far, I legit think Jake’s behavior is environmental. I mean, his dad seems to be a key factor. I’m never gonna like him (ya know, lying about the assault, verbal bullying, shit he did to Alyssa assuming it’s true, stuff like that) BUT do I think he might actually just need to see a therapist to be able to deal with things and maybe he’ll actually be okay? Could that opinion change after part 5? Yeeeeep. But, everyone, even people like Jake Paul, deserve to have their story shared???? And at least given this idea that “Okay, so this is what you did wrong and this why people hate you. This is your chance to fix it.” Like people deserve an opportunity to FIX the shit they’ve done. Ex. Justin Bieber. 
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patheticfrogarchive · 6 years ago
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Hi hello I hope you're having a good day!!! I was curious if you knew about the whole... Jeffrey star, manny mua, Laura Lee, who the fuck ever YouTube drama??? I'm just finding out about this I am MASSIVELY confused and you mentioned liking YouTube drama before lmfao
hi!!!! thank u!!! and ive been kinda keeping up with it? like ive mostly seen stuff about laura lee, since her apology video blew up kinda. from what i can get a bunch of like, old racist tweets were dug up and i have some.... thoughts on stuff like that.
like im not a fan of people using stuff people said 5+ years ago against them, especially if they’ve obviously learned/changed since then. like if someone said something bad 5 years ago, but since then has very obviously stopped doing/saying said bad thing and realizes why it was bad... dont use that against them. everyone fucks up, hell ive said super shitty things before, within the past 5 years, but ive since learned and grown. it would be one thing if these racist/offensive tweets were from like... 4 months ago or if this had been an ongoing thing. i have no idea what laura lee is like as a person so maybe she has been consistently shitty but if not then ppl shouldnt use her past against her imo
i also dont know much abt jeffrey star, like ive heard shitty things abt him and the fact that hes been racist in the past but again, if hes since apologized and obviously changed, i dont see the real issue? like obviously dont give it a pass and hold him accountable but also i hate this whole “””cancel culture””” thats going around where its like “oh you did something bad before? you’re forever evil”. i know shane dawson did a docuseries on jeffrey but i havent found the time to sit down and watch it yet. im a fan of shane and i bet its great but just.... time lol
slightly related, i also hate stan culture so much, like its totally fine to love celebrities and look up to them and be a “die hard fan” or whatever but also  gotta realize that theyre people too and are gonna mess up at some point, and you can’t a) immediately “cancel” them the second they do something bad and/or b) excuse every single thing they do. like its 100% possible to be a fan of someone who is “””problematic””” without like, having an existential crisis or a twitter meltdown lol
back to laura lee tho, i do think her apology video was bullshit and a huge mistake, like it just seems fake and not genuine and its pretty much impossible to ever do a good youtube apology. like 99% of the time all apology videos come across as manipulative and fake and just end up backfiring. i dont doubt that she is sorry on some level, but posting some sobbing messy video was just not a good move and considering the fact that shes lost half a million subs at least, her fanbase agrees
when it comes to youtube drama i pay attention to makeup community drama the least bc i dont follow many people who keep up w that community but its still.... entertaining? like overall i think youtubers are just so immature and petty most of  the time and half of the drama that unfolds could probably be avoided if these ppl just like, logged out of twitter for a few days and talked to each other lol (but then also i wouldnt have stuff to follow so...)
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icecreamkink · 3 years ago
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so im watching ice princess bc. brain empty. it has been like legit 15 years since i watched it! this was the very first ice skating thing i have ever watched and i was OBSESSED with it when we rented it in vhs. i wouldnt get Actually Into figure skating until sochi but this movie was the reason i was gliding around in socks on the floor and started watching winter olympics as child
it starts w this song that sounds like a ripoff of this OTHER early 00's girl movie song that i cannot remember (or prob never learned lol) the lyrics to and its driving me crazyyy
the ptbr version is called 'sonhos no gelo' aka dreams on ice and i personally think its a better name than ice princess
then again dreams on ice is such a ice show name so maybe thats why they chose not to lol
the music that is playing when hayden panettiere (??) first talks to georgina from gg is. . . weirdly soft porn-y. harold-
OMG WHO IS THE GENERIC "HOT" JOCK. WHERE DO I KNOW HIM FROM
i feel like sasha cohen being who makes georgina go 'omg. moving on ice requires physics!!!and thus Plot' would generate Some Type of dumb discourse today. i cant explain it i just feel it
that tv is very very old .
im so happy that joan cusak is playing an annoying judgy feminist she looks like shes loving it as she should
color coded skaters!
kim cattrall as a scary retired Did She Break A Competitors Leg Did She Not Guess! coach mom named tina is also what she Should be doing
i remember she and joan cusak fight ?by the end? so we are looking forward to That
is this another 'give the girl that the mc has chemistry with a brother for no homo reasons' example; never rewatch your heroes
juniors faking landing quads in 2005? sounds kinda precocious but what do i know
movies abt artistic sports usually Highly overestimate how nice the training outifts are but caseys a woman of the people
georgina wearing kim cattralls old outfit and the yoiness of it all. idk how to feel abt that. blueprint
honestly if my mom hated fs costumes and made me wear That i would definetely rebel
ok listen. i dont Really Know, and i guess the point is that as a Physics Person with Talent she like breaks the barriers or something but . . 'tucking ur arms in' 'pushing with your toepick' are pretty standard things people are conscious of and i dont think theyd make a girl whos been training for a couple months land a double ? would she even have the muscles for that . i mean OK ITS A DISNEY MOVIE IK i Know IM JUST. ok ok
whys georginas token best friend so likeable. get it ann
teddy, the no homo zamboni driver
joan cusack and kim cattralls passive agressive interactions!!!!!!!! ty for my life
Unlikely Complex Computer Program Check
jen! im not dressed for a party! sigh. shake it. ??? eye roll your hair >>>>>
GENERIC HOT JOCK IS SHANE OMEN OMGGGG I KNEW I KNEW HIM
hey! you get paid to be a has been on ice ok. and its Awesome. and its probably more fun than competing all things considered lbr
no but like, its not like georgina couldnt go to college during or after a skating career..... plenty of athletes do that.....
considering she could retire circa 2015, she could even become a youtuber on TOP and capitalize on yuri on ice. joan cusack has no eye for the future smh
but making her mom not simply a controlling academic but instead a working professor regretting probable wasted potential was a smart choice
aw cds !!
'youllbe be worth even more when you win' damn dont hold back tiffanys dad
i feel seen with the way the parents are so obnoxious in this movie
i mean i feel seen bc i had to deal w ballet parents not that i am a obnoxious parent myself, i. i dont have kids
i wish i could say omg thats so dumb as if athletes are always at each others throats like that but uh. on junior level? it happens
hayden panehfd and georgina ending up together would have been so cute sigh
only the girls/women are important in this movie and im into this. rip teddy
zoey bloch sure can rock
i wish i knew how to hidroblade :( or. skate. at all; lmao
nikkis regionals costume was very cute , prize for the jumping bean!! . eh shrimp
so who choreographed georginas programs? tina? did she do it herself? is that why they look kinda meh. why didnt they show it
ok but like. needing to break in brand new shoes is . is it not . common knowledge. :for anything. ?
LIKE im not defending the sabotaging of a teenager but. as a Smart Person who Knows Physics and has been training in a high impact sport and STUDYING IT, did it rly not occur to her that like. competing in brand new, though skates might be a Bad Idea? she figured out how to land a triple in months but not that performing on brand new shoes sounds kinda stupid??
ooo~~ its just like sarajevo~~
JOAN CUSAK AND KIM CATTRALL THROWING IT DOWN YES
the dramatic fight makes it kinda inescapable that they act circles around the kids but oh well
why didnt kim cattrall push teddy to be a figure skater too. like double the odds of a success, seems kinda obvious
its noT MY DREAM MOM. ITS YOURS
*hayden panerimo, voice cracking* anD I WANT *kim cattrall*okay okay thats enough -
drama in the hallwayyy
georgina answering "why are u passionate about harvard" with essentially "im not" kinda iconic ngl
its noT MY DREAM MOM. ITS YOURS²
whys she not wearing the new skates. she already has them now, and for free too
i have never seen an actual frozen lake in my life but are those cracks supposed to be like that
yes it IS a beautiful sport casey tell em !!
kim cattrall was a such a big brain choice. who else would sell 'im not gonna apologize for sabotaging you and taking advantage of ur stupidity" to a 16 year old in a disney movie
"i dont have to like or trust my coach "kjasdkfn casey,,,,, sweetie. i mean eteris girls do win trophies back to back so I Guess In A Way but also.,,,,,, sweetie-
i know that she meant it in a general way, but the Possibility of kim cattrall and joan cusack going to high school together and somethin something Watching and Envying the pretty prom queen/world champion, something being tired of performing feminity something something short skirts something harsh realities of academia and pro sports careers / anywhere for women something. something something.
michelle kwan!! i did not remember her in this
forget georgina and hayden panettone, otp is hayden / ann . hann!! tutor trope!!!!
omg does joan cusack teach at a community college or a encceja type of thing . bitter moms plot thickens
zoey skated to toxic! queen.
i watched this movie so many times in the days i had it rented that i actually still remember a lot of the final programs choreos lmao
skate w the heart uwu
costume prettye
ah!! i used to try to copy the programsss thats why i know the moves LMAO the memories ,,, keep coming back to me
whats this gala lighting all of a sudden???
hann keeps on winning!! look at that hug!they left together! arms linked!!!!!!!
centering the mom daughter relationships is a :'''') for me
we stan nikki
dramedy centering on joan cusack and kim cattrall navigating georginas career
FEEL THE RAIN ON
YOUR
SKIN
NO ONE ELSE CAN FEEL IT FOR YOUU
this was nice :') its confirmed ive had good taste since toddler age 🤷
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cow3survivor · 4 years ago
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Ep. 14: “Cheers To Hopefully Winning” - Jones
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JENNET
idol used on me?? JUMP
JONES
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNYwAoPKvd0&feature=youtu.be also wanna talk ab how shane and lindsay both said to me "my life in the game is in your hands" over call after i literally blindsided them and have been on the opposite side of them all gameslkfjs
SHANE
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-5ZGznrUGez01WIV7mmhxIb42Fzb3Zrv Video is uploading!
JENNET
nobodys talking to me today except lindsay so im definitely like super nervous and stuff.... idk what to do we’ve been talking about what would happen longterm in the game and weighing out pros and cons and shes admitted that shes super close to shane so ive v nervous in this chiles tonight
(a little later)
holy shit that could have not went better than it did im-
(after washing their buff)
i think the fact that they think mikey and jake are weak is so naive and so annoying. i also hate how entitled jones, shane, and lindsay were. how is jake a snake for doing things yall both did? and when i call u on out on it as a rebuttal now its “*giggles* im such a hypocrite” like pls its so fucking cringe... i also like recognize that i made jones cry but am i responsible for making a somebody  feel bad about something that made me feel bad? dont tink so
(after taking the camera again)
just did the comp in 1 hour and 30 minutes or something pretty sure i flopped it but i enjoyed it lmaooooo hoping jake or mikey did even better than, i even want jones to win immunity, everybody but shane
(uhhh guys? we can’t find jennet)
jones apologized for targetting me all game/ letting me get targeted and tbf im not responding to that, wtf am i supposed to say?? im not going to accept an apology bc somebody feels bad. normalize not having to accept apologies
(seriously where are they)
mikey winning immunity is literally so perfect for me. jake is the target for them so if they win idols i wont get idolled out. tbf if jones won it wouldve been super spicy but honestly im fine either way tmr night is gonna be soooooo goood and jones comp flopping is great bc once shane is gone then we take jones to f4, she doesnt win final immunity and then she gets voted out 3-1
(jennet if you’re reading this bring the camera back please)
im trying not to be too excited about this bc every time i get confident and i can taste the win, i somehow fuck up but im literally jumping for joy pls....
SHANE
It’s uploading, but if this is my last confessional thank you for the opportunity to play, you all did an amazing job and I’m so thankful cuz this made the end of my year so much better <3 https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-6-R-iFj8hyzv3By1Huqw73Rs3eYjyZS
JAKE
https://youtu.be/3KQjjP4Dkl8
JONES
https://youtu.be/gDi04YN0MI0
JENNET
just realized that last vote the two women fought to keep the man and meanwhile two men fought to keep me... pls why does this always happen :cry: my first fast game (stan brother: new blood) the women had an alliance without me even tho i played the game not nomming any women help-
(a little later)
shane said im playing for 4th place but told mikey hes playing for 3rd.. whatever the f that means like pls i hope theyre lighting him up in jury right now bc thats so sick and not him leaving me out of his speech at the end like hello... wheres MYY attention
(jennet you always have my attention xoxo)
also pls these people are so condescending and entitled the way that they speak to mikey and jake is very weird to me and yeah idk everybody keeps saying they'll still be cool and besties at the end of this but my besties would never call me spineless and weak and say im a snake and yell at me all bc of a game i dont think i'll ever speak to oomfs again after this save for jake, mikey, ethan, madison, and sammy.........
(jennet please give the camera back!)
worst case scenario...
(after sitting pretty in jury)
im still a warrior tho, methinks i can beat jones and mikey...
JAKE
https://youtu.be/L-KiB9lE_8k WAHHHH
(a little later)
https://youtu.be/uj5H4YKP-Mk holy shit holy shit HOLY SHIT
(after staring into the sunset)
Idk why I’m doing this and I was debating on sharing it or not but I just need to put things out there idk so here’s this lmaooo https://youtu.be/fuc0RiSSY7Y
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moreracquetball · 7 years ago
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Youtuber AU Headcanons
(Lowkey inspired by a post by @whizzerbrowne who brought the idea to my attention and it has since dominated my brain). Let’s just get started:
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~ Three Youtubers: Jason, Cordelia, and Whizzer.
Jason
Type: He’s one of those younger, newer youtubers. He started when he was nine, and he talked frankly about stuff like divorce (bc his parents were going through a divorce at the time) and being an introvert and being autistic and being Jewish and dealing with a difficult relationship with his parents. He has trouble really talking to people so it was like really easy to just sit in front of a camera and start talking at them. Side note: this was totally Mendel’s idea as a therapy exercise that actually worked, okay? And (as we’ve seen in the musical), Jason has this raw honesty and wit to him that is very funny and real to watch. As he’s gotten older, he’s started talking about other things - like not such heavy topics. He talks about the things that he’s hyperfixated on (baseball, chess, the emoji movie, etc), and though his content is pretty erratic and all over the place, people just love his commentary and he’s amassed millions of followers in just a few years??
He also vlogs /a lot/, which is how his audience got to know Trina, Mendel, and Marvin.
Trina - Everyone literally adores her. She is v nervous and awkward in her cameos in Jason’s videos, but she is also very honest and vocal about her opinions and calls herself the Cool Mom even though Jason’s like “Mom, you don’t let me stay up past ten even when it’s not a school night” and Trina’s just “A Cool Mom can’t still care about your healthy and well-being??”
Mendel - As a one-off, Jason asked his followers to submit questions to Mendel the Psychiatrist for a collab idea with his stepdad, and his pieces of advice were kinda off the wall and funny and it quickly became a series and one of Jason’s most popular series ever. Some people are convinced Mendel is just playing a character so Jason has to be like “no he is actually like this. You have to believe me.” Also: Mendel gets a snapchat that everyone follows. He uploads grainy pictures of like trees and makes puns and constantly spams his story with pictures of Trina with captions like “look at how pretty she is” and “how did i get so lucky” and “rare photo of an actual goddess.” 
Marvin - Tbh, the audience’s reaction to Marvin is a little more mixed, esp at first. Jason had talked a lot about his difficult relationship with Marvin and his “Draw My Life” video did stir up some contempt for Marvin’s selfishness. But like, over the years and through small snippets of cameos, it is generally believed that Marvin has changed and grown up a lot and is like an amazing (but dorky) dad. His cameos in Jason’s videos are the best bc it shows how eerily alike those two are and at one point Marvin briefly talks about internalized homophobia and toxic masculinity and hints at the stuff that he is’t proud of, and everyone - no matter their outward opinion of him - has like a little crush on him. Also, the videos with Marvin and Mendel both?? Their petty arguing gets like millions of hits every time.
Jason also totally does all the trend/tag videos but also has like that sarcastic, almost ironic vibe at first but he ends up really sincerely liking it. 
Jason also does like monologues of his thoughts and opinions while also doing mini skits in between and he is iconic and a jack of all trades really.
He is very articulate and seems so mature but like any hate whatsoever does get to him a lot. He’s learned how to deal with his self-doubt and ignoring the trolls better than he had when he first started, but every once in awhile it still gets to him.
Also??? Remember that Roast Yourself Challenge trend??? Jason did that, and it was on the top page for like a solid week. He went too hard and too real.
Cordelia
Type: Totally like Hannah Hart’s Drunk Kitchen, are you even kidding me?? That it totally Cordelia. She drinks and talks about current events and makes really bad food puns and it is Everything. She also branches out after awhile and starts doing like satirical how-to videos. Lowkey once she tried to make a wry, parody version of a beauty vlogger how-to and she ended up having so much fun with it and her after make-up looked ballin, so she starts doing make-up tutorials, too.
She’s also very very proudly gay and out. Like, her username is literally lesbiancaterer. But she still gets like comments on her videos saying “are you straight?” or “her boyfriend must be a lucky guy” and it just makes her go “????? How could I ever make this clearer?” (once, in a collab with Marvin, one comment said “ahh, her and her bf are such #relationship goals” which then launched a very satirical, very deadpan boyfriend tag video with her and Marvin that made it abundantly clear just how fucking gay those two are).
Charotte first got introduced very very early in her videos bc once during a drunk kitchen, Cordelia cut her finger with a knife and called for her girlfriend and Charlotte went into complete Doctor Mode and started treating her immediately. Cordelia is a little tipsy at that point and starts blatantly flirting with her and calling her “my doctor” and that video’s comment section is just keysmashing and the phrase “my doctor.”
Cordelia does not try to hide her relationship in any way. She and Charlotte have done all those cute couples tags and Charlotte is the star of Cordelia’s social media and vlogs. Now they are #relationship goals.
Cordelia actually got into Youtube bc of Jason and everyone was like lowkey shocked when it turned out that these two popular but different youtubers knew each other and cameo in one another’s videos a lot and Cordelia is like “he is literally my godson, guys. Ofc I’m gonna be around him and support him.”
Whizzer
Type: Ohhh boy!! Whizzer is def the kind of youtuber that has been around on the platform since circa 2007 - are you even gonna try to fight me on that??? He is a fashion channel (also has like a series of the youtube version of fashion police) but also like a major storytime channel bc he’s been around and tells the craziest but realest stories of all time. He is also quickly considered The Gay Icon^tm of Youtube.
He is definitely one of the biggest youtubers on the platform but he also lowkey feels too old to still be on here and has that like Shane Dawson kinda feel of like keeping it real about youtube drama and rebranding himself and learning from stupid old videos when he was still like a shit 20-something that was lowkey problematic. 
He stans so hard for Britney Spears and Carly Rae Jepsen and he got Carly in one of his collabs and he could not stop smiling and fangirling and he is literally all of us.
He is very, very vocal and honest about his sexuality and sexual history. He has a lot of Body and Sex Positivity videos and speaks very bluntly about the importance of self-esteem and body image and safe sex.
(One of his most popular videos is the one with him candidly speaking about having HIV and he talks about his mistake with unsafe sex and all the terrible stigmas around the topic. He talks about how it’s both a physical and emotional struggle, and he also talks about treatment and awareness and prevention and seeking emotional help to combat depression).
He arranges a collab with Jason bc they are alike in that they always speak candidly about issues and struggles and have like the exact same sense of dry, almost scathing humor. Whizzer meets Marvin bc Marvin is like “Jason, there is no way you’re meeting a strange man who you met over the internet. I am definitely going to be the one that goes with you.”
(Awkward moment when Marvin and Jason get to Whizzer’s apartment, and Marvin and Whizzer’s profiles light up with one another from one of those websites like Grindr). Whizzer has like lowkey commented on Jason’s videos before with lewd comments about his hot dad, but like this is so not what Whizzer had been expecting?? Yeah, at the end of Whizzer and Jason’s collab video, Whizzer puts like a small blooper reel and it’s him continually flirting with Jason’s dad (who’s behind the camera) and the Internet suddenly has a new fave ship.
(Marvin and Whizzer totally messaged each other and hooked up like the next day).
But like, they keep the budding relationship very underwraps bc they both really don’t want it to affect Jason’s channel and neither really think at first that their whole arrangement will go anywhere close to serious because Whizzer has never been in love or had a steady boyfriend and Marvin cannot hold a relationship either even after his divorce.
But of course they fall in love, and of course the internet knows something’s up. Whizzer keeps vaguing on Twitter about the new man in his life with weird tweets like “I can’t believe I’m deliberately sleeping with a man who UNIRONICALLY knows every word to Allstar” and “get you a man who always sends that courtesy ‘thank you.’ text after you send him a dick pic.” And when Whizzer vlogs, he always makes sure to keep the camera trained on himself but you can see that his eyes are always looking away as he’s like smiling at someone who does not want to be on camera. Also, Jason’s weekend vlogs have cameos of Whizzer in them now.
They mess up when in one of aforementioned Jason’s vlogs, there’s a grainy clip of Marvin and Whizzer in the background and Marvin kisses Whizzer’s cheek. The internet loses their minds
(After nine/ten months of dating, Whizzer and Marvin abruptly break up and neither really acknowledges it. However, weeks after their break up, Whizzer decides to make a story-time video about this fucking asshole boyfriend that broke up with him over a chess game. He wanted it to be like both petty but also very funny because that is such a ridiculous story, but like when he’s editing it, he notices himself being like on the verge of tears in some parts and being overly bitter and tense, and he never uploads it and he realizes that he isn’t over Marvin like he had said he was).
(However, Whizzer does end up making a story-time video later about how Jason’s baseball game brought him and Marvin back together).
After they get back together, they’ve worked out their issues and are couples goals now and they do not hide their relationship and Marvin makes cameos in both Whizzer and Jason’s videos/younows and it is incredible.
Through Jason and Marvin, Whizzer and Cordelia meet and they become best friends. They collab all the time and they complain about queer struggles and they talk about their relationships and get drunk on camera and be weird, loud idiots and those videos get tons of views.
And Whizzer gets candid about how he’s always felt like alone in the world and hasn’t really had the opportunity to rely on anyone but himself but through Jason and Marvin, he meets Cordelia and Charlotte and Mendel and Trina, and even though they might not get along all the time and some people are closer to other people, they’re all his family and he never thought that he’d really have one that close before. It’s one of his most vulnerable videos.
The most successful videos on all three’s channels are the collabs of the three of them together: Jason and Cordelia and Whizzer. And they become like one of those Youtube cliques that collab all the time and tweet about each other’s videos constantly and always hang out with one another at all the events like Vidcon and Playlist Live. 
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Hi! If you’re still doing the ship thingies: I’m 5’8, which I guess is tall for a girl?? I have shoulder length dyed red hair that I literally hate bc my hairs naturally curly and so it’s terrible. I’m blind af but it’s fine...heh. I think I’m funny but I’m not so I laugh at myself a lot bc someone has to. I usually wear shorts and graphic tees bc I’m lazy and really old vans. I wear a shit ton of makeup bc it’s the only thing I’m good at. I also love grunge music and CONSPIRACY THEORIES OH FUCK
STAN, you two are so fucking cute together, you bond over hair curls ™ and cuddle while binging all of shane dawsons conspiracy theory videos. You two laugh at jokes and are pretty much inseparable and its so cute because you think of you own conspiracy theories and everybody gets annoyed at how many inside jokes you two have
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olivieraa · 6 years ago
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I actually feel really sad lol
like... listen, I literally responded to an anon the other day saying I don’t stan anyone. I can’t. I can’t put my trust in a celebrity/famous person, heck, even fictional characters. I have separate lists in my faves called “fave characters I trust” and “fave characters I’d never trust. trust being Joey and Rocchi and don’t trust being Hisoka and Sebastian
I’m too cautious about that, bc well, my trust issues are already fucked but besides that, the human race is a constant disappointment
so I just... I enjoy people, what I see, what they do, and if they fuck up I’m not like “oh noooooo, my heart is broken!!!!!”
like the Morgan Freeman one really fucked a lot of people up, feeling like someone they’ve praised for so long and NEVER thought would do anything bad... did, he did
I was just like “ah, another gross man what a surprise”
I... fucking love Jet Li. I consider him my hero. but I’ve always been prepared for him doing something wrong. I honestly don’t think he ever will. he’s a genuine, humble, incredible person. but I am prepared.
now... back to that anon. I mentioned youtubers in it and the one’s I occasionally watch cause they’re entertaining but I legit hate the youtube world. I hate that people are getting paid millions to sit there and react to a movie trailer or play a video game and put makeup on and look the same every time.
back in the day when youtube was less about money and more just about views, there were less people being content creators. now the site is overrun with people wanting to be... fake as FUCK and lazy as a job. and some of the WORST people are now millionaires cause of it.
I used to watch Shane, Kingsley, Jenna, Miles, etc and they were all legitimately funny and that’s a talent so to me they deserve their popularity and money
so this isn’t me stanning anyone, and if I’m defending a man you know I must be serious about this lol
Shane Dawson is one of the originals that I was subbed to back in 2010-2011 and he was all about skits but also about positivity
I moved away from watching youtube vids when I joined tumblr and eventually rp land and only then got back into it the past 3 years? just watching random shit. from original youtube content creators like Shane and Jenna, to talk show clips like Ellen and Fallon, to game shows like Family Fued, to 3 minute clips from shows I haven’t seen in years like SATC or Buffy, to Buzzfeed type vids, or react vids (from non-fake channels). I just.. get sucked in for a couple of weeks and then browse around, get sucked into something else and browse again, its a repeat cycle, like watching reruns of Friends on TV
my most recent binge has been Shane Dawson.
and here’s the thing. I kinda forgot he existed (cause I was avoiding original content creators), but I was sucked into Jeffrey Star for a bit and Shane was a guest. I was FILLED with nostalgia and I was like “wow he look so different!” which made me happy to see cause its like... while I grew, he grew lmao
he also collabed with a youtuber I actively watch (and not get randomly sucked into, like, I legit wait for her vids), and I was like “Shane is on a roll, man”
and here I am. since the whole Tanacon thing I’ve kinda been addicted to his channel (again, this wont last long, it happens all the time, but he’s the current one).
cause like, the past year he’s just been popping up a lot, watched one vid in full, and was hooked (him and his bf are so cute)
here’s where it gets serious
accusation posts about him
I KNOW how tumblr is, and I hate callout posts unless they’re legitimate OR if there’s no proof then the accusations came from the person who was wronged. so accusation posts by people not involved in whatever happened and who just wanted to create drama when they saw a lil scandal and tried to make it bigger without doing any research, is something I’m against
Shane has done some racist things IN THE PAST and he’s fully aware of it NOW, has deleted all his racist content and made a super sincere apology. and I could feel it bc I could see me as well when he spoke.
tumblr opened his eyes to racism as it did to mine. or not even that he was ON tumblr (idk if he was), but tumblr was at its biggest and most influential in 2013-2014, when we ALL started becoming more aware. 
he, like me, was completely unaware that blackface was a thing. I was unaware of MANY things considered as racist. I in no way noticed that there was PROBABLY just a token black guy in a movie with a 99% white cast, or they were never leads in films, but it wasn’t racism, as, even as a woman, I never noticed WE were fucked over too
Shane’s eyes were opened and he stopped then and there. 
there’s a radfem I follow who made a post not too long ago about how he’s a racist and I was like... no... he’s not. his apology was 4 years ago, meaning the last racist thing he did was then and he hasn’t done it since and that, again, was during a time most of us were becoming more aware and our eyes were opened, all the while we were still learning
but then another post went around and this is the one that upsets me
they called him a paedophile (legit dont know if its spelled with an a or not but wtv)
and what I do is I see a long post, know I wanna read it, and like it to read when I get the chance
I... forgot about the post and this was before I got back into Shane’s channel
and I, as of about 3 hours ago, just remembered it, looked at in my likes and... decided to not just go “oh fuck him, I’m out” cause the post had no proof. there was a video link to nothing
so I went searching and Shane has his racism apology video from 4 years ago, and a vid about the pedo thing from 5 months ago
so before I go into what he said in that, I wanna say why I care
I talked about youtubers I legitimately enjoy and am subbed to who I believe are “real” a few months ago. it included Safiya, simplynailogical, Stephanie Lange, thataylaa
and... Shane is the first MALE I would put into that category
he is so legitimate and you can see he’s always trying to just be normal (while also being naturally funny), just living like a normal person in his not that big of a house despite the fact that he could afford a huge mansion if he wanted, with his boyfriend, animals and future sister in law. he wears the same tshirt like every day, he’s just really... relatable lmao literally the worst thing about him is how gross he can get and I’m like, ok I live with brothers but EW
but he’s still entertaining as fuck and that’s obviously how he’s managed to stay relevant all this years and not be overshadowed by the newer guys
and he helps people. he’s so genuine about it. he puts himself down and raises other people up. 
he’s real as fuck
and he has also spoken out about things like paedophilia, racism, slutshaming, fatshaming, homophobia, sexism, etc
I couldn’t... imagine him being a paedophile
so he posted a video and he looked so upset bc this was a serious accusation going around and he knew it was untrue
what he did in the very beginning was show the audio used from a podcast he did 6-8 years ago where he made an unfunny crude pedo joke but quickly went “I’m kidding!” (even tho the accusers cut that out) and then he went on to explain that, back in the day when he didn’t know any better, that was his humour. and he said “I dont even find this joke funny, I hate it, that’s not who I am now” and he went really in depth about it, and it upset me a lot bc, people bringing back stuff from your past that is mild compared to REALLY bad things people are getting away with these days, isn’t... fun
I’ve never said the n word lol, but if I did, when I was 12, and it was caught on video and I was exposed 10 years later and was blasted all over the internet and called racist despite that being the ONE srsly bad thing I did but it was way before I learned about racism, it’d fuck me up
bc... that’s not me anymore. people change.
take pewdiepie. he continuously fucks up lmao he doesn’t learn, and is still going strong. that’s someone whose youtube career should die
not someone who made one or two jokes years ago, is a completely different person now and would never say those things again
he cares a lot about his fans, esp the younger one’s (srsly, look at the tanacon fiasco), so I actually feel... only in the past few weeks have these resurfaced again calling him a racist or a pedo for things he did when he was younger
I was still learning around the same time he was
tumblr really activitated the whole social justice movement making us aware of things we weren’t aware of before, and if someone becomes aware and stops doing the bad things they did previously when they were unaware, then leave them alone
blast the people who shrug it off and continue as they were
Shane STOPPED when he realised and he changed
like, I’m actually sad
but I’m happy knowing he still has a fuckload of fans and the comments on those posts are more in support for him than against him
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The art of the YouTube apology video
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When an actor messes up, they typically have a team of managers, agents, and crisis managers to back them up with handcrafted personal statements apologizing for their actions. 
When a beauty guru messes up, they set up their tripods, get the tears going, and hit record. 
SEE ALSO: YouTube breakup videos are basically a requirement now. Here's why.
Much like break up videos, apology videos are almost a rite of passage for YouTubers. Since their content is so personal, their apologies have to be, too. As content creators' offensive internet histories get exposed, apology videos are becoming more and more common. There's almost a formula to them: You sob, you apologize for whatever you did wrong, you sob some more, beg for forgiveness from your fans, and then wrap it up with a teary thank-you. 
The most recent example of this tearsfest is Laura Lee, a beauty vlogger who was once just shy of 5 million subscribers, but lost 200,000 once she was exposed for racist tweets this month. A video she posted, simply titled "My Apology," went viral for all the wrong reasons. 
Content creator Keem mocked Lee in a video that broke down the types of apology videos that YouTubers make, from gamers apologizing for a racist comment to vloggers apologizing for filming a dead body. 
In 2012 Lee tweeted, "tip for all black people if you pull ur pants up you can run from the police faster." 
When fans of another rival beauty guru dug up the vile tweet, Lee went silent. She deactivated her Twitter account, deleted her old tweets, and then came back to Twitter with a lengthy Notes app apology. In the statement, she blamed the fact that she grew up as a "small town girl from Alabama" who lacked the "cultural education" that she has now. 
Five days later, she followed up with this apology video. 
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"I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry to you guys," she whimpers, frequently stopping mid-sentence to sob into her hands. "It hurts me so bad to disappoint you all who have supported me for many years. I know that I'm better than that person." 
The four-minute video was dragged for being (for lack of a better word) total bullshit. One commenter called it "so funny to watch bc it’s so forced." Another joked that it was "proof that youtubers shouldn't be actors."
Someone wrote fake captions over her video, and people turned her into a meme on Twitter. It even inspired parodies. 
whoever wrote the caption for laura lee’s apology is my hero pic.twitter.com/S4406OSgmV
— 𝕙𝕒𝕓𝕚𝕓𝕒 (@denimIester) August 20, 2018
Laura Lee is part of a group of beauty gurus who all apologized for their problematic pasts, but hers is the one getting criticized the most. 
But is there a "right" way to apologize? Crisis manager Eden Gillott Bowe says there may not be a one size fits all way to say "I'm sorry," but there is a basic formula that best gets the point across. Like Olivia Pope in Scandal, Gillott Bowe fixes messy situations. 
"If you know you've done something wrong, you don't want to hide it because the truth always finds a way of coming out," Gillott Bowe said over the phone. "So you just want to deal with it quickly." 
Compare Lee's apology to that of another member of the beauty guru clique that broke apart over this past week, Gabriel Zamora. 
In contrast to Lee's tears, Zamora opens the video by explaining that the version he's posting is the third version he's recorded because he was more levelheaded than in the first two. 
"I'm like, you know what? This isn't just about my emotions," he admits in the video.
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Gillott Bowe recommends staying as calm as possible, like Zamora, while doing damage control. 
"Try not to be too reactionary and just take a moment to think about how it's going to be perceived," she said. "If I jump out and say this, how might it be taken the wrong way?"
With that in mind, here's the backstory on all the beauty guru drama.  
Fellow vlogger and Lee and Zomara's former friend Jeffree Star — who has his own history of being horrifically racist and according to the Washington Post, once joked about "throwing battery acid on a black girl's face to lighten her skin so that her foundation matches" — was the subject of a Shane Dawson documentary series on YouTube that examined Star's life and reputation.
The last installation of the five part series discusses the public feud Star had with his ex-friend group. Star says that "people still don't really know what went on" that broke down the group, and that "there's so many versions of things that never happened out there."
In response, Zamora posted a photo of himself, Laura Lee, Manny MUA, and Nikita Dragun captioned "Bitch is bitter because without him we're doing better," referring to Star. Zamora topped it off in a now-deleted tweet that said, "Imagine stanning a racist? I could never."
That kicked off a stan-led scrape through the four YouTubers' Twitter histories, which unearthed hateful tweets from years ago. Manny MUA, Laura Lee, and Gabriel Zamora all made separate videos apologizing for their actions; Nikita Dragun addressed it on Twitter. 
But why does Star get a pass on his past actions, while Lee's getting dropped from all of her brand partnerships? Fans agreed that their apology videos made all the difference. 
The difference is they both acknowledged their mistakes years ago and have actively worked to better themselves and let it show through their actions. Laura barely made an apology, cried fake tears, and tried to blame it on everything else, like "I was raised in a small town"
— Future 👩🏻‍⚕️ (@K_Wolstenholme) August 23, 2018
They felt the same way about Zamora's apology video. Stans thought that compared to Lee's apology, it was significantly more genuine because he walked through how he would improve. Commenters lauded Zamora's apology as "a great example" and "like sitting with a friend." 
if Gabriel Zamora gaining back all the subs he lost and then some isn’t proof that all we want as viewers are real people telling the truth...i don’t know what is pic.twitter.com/Im0NNfCUKr
— spektader (@spektader) August 22, 2018
Makeup fans haven't forgiven Star entirely, though. Some wish he'd face the same consequences as Lee. 
im glad this is happening but i wish the same energy would’ve been kept for Jeffree Star and James Charles https://t.co/8okPymP00H
— deja 🏳️‍🌈 (@dejaistired) August 23, 2018
Gillott Bowe recommends that when crafting an apology, whether to a friend in private or to an entire fanbase through a public statement, you don't want to keep repeating "I'm sorry." 
"You want to be sincere," she said. "You don't want to dwell on it. Once you say you're sorry you don't want to belabor it." 
In Zamora's video, he said, "I don't want to give excuses ... it was ignorant, it was stupid." Instead of jumping to begging his subscribers not to call him racist, he asked them to take time to process his apology. He also linked two videos about the history of the N word and a lecture from author Ta-Nehisi Coates about "words that don't belong to everyone." 
Then, in typical YouTuber fashion, he moved on and exposed Lee and Manny MUA for throwing him under the bus and refusing to take accountability when their tweets were exposed.
Fed up of going on YouTube and all the videos being titled ‘my truth’, ‘I’m sorry’ and ‘my apology’. I just want to watch a fucking makeup tutorial
— georgia (@georgievowles) August 23, 2018
Although that's exactly the kind of drama YouTube subscribers want to hear, Gillott Bowe probably wouldn't go for that cutthroat, spilling the tea approach. She'd rather her clients wrap up an apology by looking forward. 
"You talk about the future," she said. "The things you want to change to make sure it doesn't happen again, and then you stay positive." 
So for future YouTubers who need to make an apology — whether it's Tana Mongeau apologizing for calling her black friend a racial slur or Jenna Marbles apologizing for being an unprepared fish owner — here's the formula that Gillott Bowe endorses. 
1. Open with something positive.
Gillott Bowe recommends "easing into it" by thanking people for their support.
2. Say you're sorry and don't drag it on.
"Focus right on the apology," she said. Don't try to skirt responsibility or avoid taking accountability. It's better for all parties if you just own up to what you did wrong. 
3. End on a good note.
Gillott Bowe calls this a "compliment sandwich." You want to close the apology with something "nice and hopeful," like outlining the steps you'll take to improve.
4. Don't do it again.
She brings up a quote often misattributed to Albert Einstein: "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
"People have a tremendous capacity to forgive," Gillott Bowe explains, "But you don't want to keep apologizing if you're going to end up doing shitty things again anyway." 
Navigating the public sphere after a major scandal will probably be rocky for a while, but Gillott Bowe is sure that if an apology is genuine, the person at fault will be OK. 
"There are the kinds of people who are going to hate you no matter what you do," she said. "But if the people in the middle could be swayed either way, those are the people you're gearing toward."
Or, you know, you could also just try not to be racist. 
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suzannebyrne · 7 years ago
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Why Lorde apologized to outraged Whitney Houston fans over 'extremely poorly chosen' bathtub pic
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Who knew that taking a bath could get someone into so much trouble?
This is Lorde’s current plight. The New Zealand singer, 21, has been on tour (fittingly, the Melodrama World Tour) and took a random photo of a random moment of her day and now — bam! — it’s a controversy. Of course, there are a few other parts of the story: Her random photo was of a bathtub and the caption was “And iiii will always love you.”
Whitney Houston fans felt like the post was an attack against their queen, who slayed that song, a Dolly Parton original, in The Bodyguard, but went on to die the most tragic of deaths after drowning accidentally, in a drug haze, in a bathtub at the Beverly Hilton in 2012. (In the world’s worst coincidence, her only daughter, Bobbi Kristina Brown died in a tub three years later.) Fans expressed their anger against Lorde on social media over the diss, some of them using the #LordeIsOverParty, which seems extreme for a mistake that also seems inadvertent.
This is disgusting idk how people find it funny. Whitney was a legend. she was amazing. she was a queen. she was a strong black woman. I like lorde but this is truly disgusting pic.twitter.com/B5cR3tolaU
— black female (@privsari) April 6, 2018
lorde canceled don't come for Mariah or Whitney
— ugh. (@champagnegina) April 6, 2018
So Lorde, the human sloth, decided to speak ill of the dead, but not just the dead, a dead legend, Whitney Houston? pic.twitter.com/QXrmQ11tCB
— E. (@LIBGyal) April 6, 2018
Of all the songs by all the singers in the world, Lorde had to caption a picture of her bathtub with Whitney Houston lyrics. pic.twitter.com/u0uN3jgQms
— shane telford. (@MrShaneReaction) April 6, 2018
Lorde tried it. You don't disrespect Whitney. pic.twitter.com/9kwFrNHTou
— ✨ (@blvcksxlk) April 6, 2018
twitter to lorde after coming for whitney houston pic.twitter.com/QudA2vVnFs
— 1942bs (@REGGllE) April 6, 2018
lorde knows damn well what she was doing posting a picture of a bathtub and captioning it with whitney lyrics
— ً (@ButeraDemetria) April 6, 2018
Lorde had to have known that by drawing a bath full of water, taking a picture it, and then using one of Whitney's songs as a caption that people would get and suspect that she was being shady. It's quite obvious. Maybe she didn't mean it but still.
— (@MJFinesseLover) April 6, 2018
Nevertheless, Lorde found herself deleting the photo and apologizing to Whitney’s still-strong army after #LordeIsOverParty started to trend. She actually apologized more than once, and called herself an “idiot.” But she also made clear the point of her post in the first place wasn’t to rile up Nippy’s fans. The girl just was just excited to take a bath.
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(Image: Lorde via Instagram)
And if this photo is any indication, she’s been working it on stage. It’s not everyday that a singer’s shoes fly off during a show.
Degas in brooklyn last night. Kicked so fuckin hard my huarache flew off so i went with it lol. Thankyou for coming and for all the love. Just 7 shows to go on this tour and then i will dress similarly for bed
A post shared by Lorde (@lordemusic) on Apr 5, 2018 at 4:44pm PDT
Luckily, Lorde — who has since posted photos with the comments off because they’ve been so awful — has her own group of supporters who have her back. They took back the #LordeIsOverParty tag by posting positive Lorde comments.
We still stan #LordeIsOverParty pic.twitter.com/j7WyJW2cOt
— xecho.o (@IamXecho) April 6, 2018
To all the people saying Lorde is cancelled bc of insta pic of the bath and the Whitney lyrics caption… people do stuff like that ALL THE TIME it was obvs just a very bad coincidence and i genuinely don’t think Lorde would do that purposefully…
— Elliott (@ouhoooh) April 6, 2018
Lorde didn’t think her post through but I assure you the angel didn’t mean to offend Whitney, y’all better leave an unproblematic queen alone. pic.twitter.com/KYTolajWRB
— francisco (@mystifiedcisco) April 6, 2018
Y’all are so damn extra, Lorde clearly didn’t mean her post as Whitney shade. I hate stans.
— NIK (@NikitaRayy) April 6, 2018
Lorde is such a pure soul, It was clearly just not thinking. I mean I didn't know Whitney died in a bathtub, so it could have just slipped her mind. Plus why can her fans make jokes but Lorde is being crucified?
— Chey (@cheyenneb182) April 6, 2018
Despite the fan support, Lorde seemed shook by the drama, later posting that her whole day had gone to hell in a handbasket over her bath.
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(Image: Lorde via Instagram)
But let’s be real here. Lorde is used to dramz. Earlier this year there was a squabble over her not being asked to perform at the Grammys. And maybe it’s much ado about nothing, but she’s been linked, on and off, to Jack Antonoff, ex of her friend Lena Dunham. (He performed with her on a tour stop recently.) And basically everything she says about pal Taylor Swift is critiqued. So she can handle the bathtub.
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vocalisthaseul · 7 years ago
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My life in a nutshell:
Probably crying bout idk that cookie that fell on the floor during lunch period or crying about sk, maybe both.
Watching YouTube constantly or eating while watching a Disney original movie
Crying or just angry
Taco bell? Maybe McDonald's
Writing some English paper at 3am bc little lexu didn't do it
Hating high school art class
Walking the dog because doggies are good and great
Stray Kids debut is HAPPENING
Having a more successful Tumblr than twitter
Being blind 24/7
SUPERSTAR JYPNATION LIKE FRICK I PLAYED SO MUCH ONE TIME MY ARM STARTING HURTING
Probably gonna get R ranked cards for stray kids b4 2pm and miss A
Probably eating a burrito rn
스트레이키즈! 사랑해요!
Shane Dawson is me like, I cannot tell you if you meet me in real life majority of my humor came from his videos when I was a bit younger
Fangirls about McDonald's new d123 menu
I Stan fast food places
I have a habit of changing accent depending on situation
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