KaraDawlish

italktosnakes:

This silly costume site had a big $10 sale a few weeks ago, and I think my roommates and I got a little out of hand with our excitement. Here’s a video of the hilarity that ensued.

Laaaaame that I missed that.

Everytime I’m with these kids it’s tooooo good.

The first half of high school was wonderful.

Luuuuuuuuuuukkkkkeeeeee

setsailforpluto:

WHOA HEY OK YOU MAY THINK THIS IS FUNNY OR CLEVER BUT NO THIS IS FUCKED UP I WOULD PROBABLY CRY IF A RANDOM GUY STARTED MASSAGING MY SHOULDERS AND DEMANDED MY PHONE NUMBER THESE GIRLS MAY BE LAUGHING BUT YOU CAN TELL THEY ARE NERVOUS AND FREAKED OUT WHAT THE FUCK FUCK THESE GUYS GET THIS CHANNEL DOWN

This is so so so so infinitely uncomfortable to watch.

(Source: tuverrastuverras)

realhayleyghoover:

Such a great video from booshoe37 about coming out. I maybe cried.

melissaanelli:

leah617:

edwardspoonhands:

THIS. IS. INFURIATING.

I know that Good Morning America isn’t news, I know that they don’t matter, and I know that it doesn’t matter what they think about online video. But after watching this puffy hatchet job, I could not not post about it. Let’s just go through this point by point.

1. Jenna Marbles is the “Queen of Clicks.” This is a seemingly innocuous phrase, but it’s indicative of the attitude here, making Jenna’s success not about the significance of what she does, but about a meaningless activity that other people do “clicking.” It removes all significance from the interaction people have with Jenna. This is what we call a backhanded compliment. 
2. “So Many teens and tweens hanging on her every word.” This is GMA’s attempt at attempting to make this story relevant to the people (moms) who watch their show. Except they miss the point that MOST OF THOSE MOMS WATCH JENNA MARBLES! They have no idea…NOT IDEA of Jenna’s reach because (apparently) they have NEVER USED AN INTERNET.
3. Which is pretty insane considering that apparently she has “over a billion followers” on YouTube. This is a fact that can be checked and found wanting with a very limited understanding of reality (never mind the internet) since only 750 million people in the world SPEAK ENGLISH.
4. “She may just be the most famous person you’ve never heard of.” Another backhanded compliment. 
5. Next we compare her facebook to JLaw and her instagram to Oprah…more attempts to connect with the issues moms in America really care about.
6. “And all for making videos about, well, nothing.” REALLY?! DID YOU WATCH ANY OF THE VIDEOS?! First, comedy doesn’t have to be about something. But more importantly, Jenna’s videos aren’t about nothing, they’re about culture and sexism and growing up. Hiding in amongst all that “nothing” are often poignant insights.

And now we arrive at the interview portion, which is the most frustrating for me, and has to be much worse for Jenna. They intersperse Jenna’s comments with the most inane and out of context clips they can find, and then ask Jenna a total of TWO QUESTIONS.

1. What does it feel like to get a bunch of views? Which is innocuous.

…and the kicker…

2. Do you think you deserve to have as many fans as you do?

Which is just…makes me…on fire…flames!

The only way to ask that question is if you, as an interviewer, have made your mind up that the person does NOT deserve their success. And in the end, that’s how the entire segment feels to me, a bunch of people making fun of a creator who they are threatened by and who they do not understand. And of course they’re threatened by it, Jenna Marbles (on her own, with a cheap camera) can make a video that gets more viewed by more people than an episode of Good Morning America. 

Instead of talking about anything interesting or criticizing Jenna for legitimate reasons (which they could have done) GMA spent five minutes making fun of one of the most influential creators that exists in the world right now. But what’s worse is they didn’t criticize her for legitimate reasons, they made fun of her for NOT MATTERING…for not being important…for being a meaningless cultural blip that they’re certain will just disappear. You wanna talk about something ridiculous…it’s you GMA, not Jenna.

Again, I don’t care that GMA doesn’t care about online video. I’m happy flying under the cultural radar for another few years, doing interesting things without legacy media paying attention (or, even with them actively attempting to marginalize us.) But I couldn’t watch this load of BS without commenting on it. 

So Jenna, while I don’t agree with everything you’ve ever said, you absolutely deserve your success. You are innovative, intelligent, and hilarious. GMA is acting like you’re the new girl in school that all the cute boys like better than them and, guess what, you are.

Hank is eloquent even when he’s angry and he expresses everything perfectly.

You know, when I was a daily reporter for a New York newspaper, I would have some pretty bad interviews. I would interview people and they would say the same word over and over (“like” is a big one) or they would be ineloquent or say something that makes them sound uniformed etc.

The thing is, it isn’t a journalist’s job to poke at imperfection. If Jenn saying ‘ridiculous’ 17 times had something to do with the story - like if they were doing a story on language skills of vloggers, for instance - then it might be fair game (if still very mean). But when doing a story about how popular someone is and picking out all their verbal tics and imperfections, and using the time they get on your air to do everything you do to make them look as stupid as you possibly can:

It is inexcusable. It is MIND blowing that it came through the reporter, her editors or whatever it is at GMA (producers, I guess). These people should be reviewed, and most if not all of them fired. I mean it. This is a reprehensible way to treat a human, never mind someone who enters into your work space in a vulnerable position - as subject to whatever editing you wish.

Maybe I’m being a bit hair-trigger about this but I also think it’s amazingly sexist. Hands up if you can imagine this happening to any man, ever. No.

It’s really gross. Really, really gross. 

botheringtrees:

I made a video last night on pride and liking yourself. Here. Watch.

karadawlish:

Appreciate ur hot bod/

Feeling like you don’t matter is the worst. Whether it’s the lost amongst a big crowd of people thing, and nobody cares, or to one person you’re focusing all of your energy on specifically.