https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vum5Dex9esA definitely not the first video i ever watched on YouTube, but it's one of the first ones i can remember. my friends and i were obsessed with singing this in the back of their mom's van during elementary school, and i found a paper in one of my old school folders where i had written out the lyrics so we could remember them. to this day, i am still chasing the feeling that the friends making this video must have had. CORE MEMORY !!
This Youtube channel is a collection of VHS and digital camcorder footage from years past- a lot of walking/driving videos and tours of shopping malls and movie theaters as little time capsules of the era. They're fun if you're feeling nostalgic or are just interested in seeing how things were way back when. I linked 'Christmas Shopping at a Mall in 1993' above but there are many choices like "Vegas in the 60s", "Mcdonald's dining room in 1987" and "Going to the movies in 2004" to choose from.
when anxiety doesn’t let me move forward, so it goes. let go of the things i cannot change, so it goes. it’s not even remotely the point of slaughterhouse five but it does help.
he also got me to say “maximum effort” when he was like 13 and i was 8 and now i sound like a deadpool glazer every time i try to be brave
it’s technically a novella (short!) and you probably had to read it in seventh grade and you probably hated it then but i do not care. i love a big fish and a struggle with nature as god.
replacing scrolling social media with the direct feed of creatives i actually like and want to keep up with — even the ones i just have free subs to — was genuinely so much healthier for me. you can also change the icon for patreon which is so adorable and i wish every app did it
