How did you come up with your characters?

[thenine101]

@ufoolz56 hahahahahahahaha that is so true. I hate Shane Dawson. He's such a tool

[GelatoTacos]

My name is Callie. I'm blonde... but I'm nowhere near being a valley girl lol. This made my day! :P

[zabby97]

you literally CHANGE when you characterize yourself. it's crazy. you're like a different person. that's a real actor. keep it up bro. plus, you're hot;)

[ufoolz56]

You're way better then shawn-mc douche bag.

[DiNgFrIeSaReDoNe43]

you remind me of the alien from American Dad with multiple personality disorder or some shit.

[ProtoOfSnagem]

OH MY GOD LAS MOHITAJS IS FAKE?

[xXpandalovex]

hahah me and my friends do ghetto girl accents all the time xD

[makeupobsessed0001]

I used to do larry. oh wait i should refraise...

HAHHAHHHAHAHAHH! xD

[PuppyDogGalore]

also i was pressing subscribe on this channel but, it wouldnt let me until i pressed email me for each new upload

[PuppyDogGalore]

Lol, i was watching C. Maddox and my sis said whos that? so i replied.. Its C.maddox.... BITCH!

[RaincloudPlay]

You make me want to create my own characters. IT seems fun.

[mollygrace]

I have absolutely no idea who Shane Dawson is. I've just read a bunch of comments from people saying you're copying him. Ok, not know him or anything about his characters, except for the fact that one of them is named Shanaynay, I can CALL BULLSHIT on that. "Shanaynay" was a character Martin Lawrence did. She was a super ghetto neighbor chick from down the hall. So no one can say anyone is copying this Dawson dude's "Shanaynay."

[imnotlovinitforonce]

lol you have 666 likes :)

[twinstalkballet93]

you are way better than shane dawson btw

[BigWiwii]

long is better ;)

[Eyes4Wonderland]

The source sells a device that turns VHS into computer files so that you can A) upload them to youtube or B) burn them to a DVD so your home videos are never lost

[HeidiSusanna76]

This was so much fun - thank you!!

[vnllawytchkltblndie]

I absolutely love K8 / 7up. I think she needs a brother, or a transgendered sister, lol. His name should be Tre4 (Trevor).

yes, yes?

[kassi90]

BRING DOROTHY!

[MrThatOneGuy97]

Keisha♥

[Eminemgirl31691]

You are so talented, I love all your characters! :)

[BLOOD1MONEY]

you mean shanaynay from martin? isnt she from detroit>? lol

[soboycrazy247]

yay!!! just what we needed lol (Im really random0

[xoRayKayxo]

i. love. your. brain.

[silkshines00]

"I'm gonna try to keep this concise" 13 minutes later....

[tlt2372]

Maria is my absolute favorite character - I mean, after you, of course....

[MorikoKitsune]

Rita kind of reminds me of the owner of the local yarn shop here(in MN). I love being friends with her.

[wentzxxpete]

Please bring in Dorothy for a video with Harriet and Larry!

[bonjourelisa]

i feel like if we went to the same school then wed probably end up being best friends.

[gemineyesmeow]

I ENJOYED EVERY DAMN MINUTE OF THIS VIDEO!!! ;)

[MakeUpJunkie00]

i miss k8!!!

[ennovystarsspell]

Oh my gawd! I haven't watched your vids for awhile. This was so interesting and fucken hilarious. It's so funny to see you do your characters voices without the whole getup. Dang I was laughing so hard.

[MsBean02]

Martha and Betty?!

my friend and I were always Betty and Olga :)

[AEPinks]

omggg Nick you look so nice, I MISS YOUR FACE !

[EstherPandele]

Wow, I just wrote "You're eyes are really pretty" when it should be 'your'.... fail.

[EstherPandele]

You're eyes are really pretty. =)

[mistral789]

I had those caramels a lot for lunch :P quite british for me...

[chjoed]

I'd take you, Nicola over Shane Dawson any day!

[ChaoticShelly]

"Not in (a) Vagina...(long pause)... costume" :D

[strengthofwill]

I didn't even know that people compared you to Shane Dawson...I'd actually like to see a collab...Shenaynay vs. K8 xD

but from what everyone's slandering about Shane Dawson now on this video...I don't see it happening.

[psstkirsten]

I love you for everything you said about Shenaynay and Kate. It needed to be said.

[bktrinigurl]

Caramel! From Trinidad!!!!

[OjosDeAmor18]

frankie's make up tutorial is what made me fall in love with him lol

[XxWeccaxX]

:O My friend Alisha likes to call me Betty.

It was a joke against a guy who didn't know my name. (to this day he still thinks its Betty. XD)

[EskimosAreEverywhere]

Oh my god. I'm eating chili. Right now.

When you said that, it came out my nose O:

[Agent1After909]

CARAMEL!? Where did you get that? I used to eat those all the time in Trinidad and I haven't been able to find it since. Whhhaaattt?

[stillsoundlyawake]

@Agent1After909 a british restaurant!

[MizzLexiiRene]

@Agent1After909 trinidad represent. LMAO

[dylanpwnzyou]

@Agent1After909 OMG Trinidad?!!?? I live in Trinidad O_O

[Shea354]

Why are so many of your characters female

[stillsoundlyawake]

@Shea354 7 female, 7 male, one MTF transgendered person

[maybeitsmimi]

@stillsoundlyawake Who's that?

[sweetfuckingchrist]

I have one thing to say to you Nic. It annoys the shit out of my how you do not pronounce the letter ' t ' in any word you say. For example, "The chili has been ea-en." Please pronounce your " t 's "

[yupitsjessbbyx3]

I've actually met several Middle Eastern girls named Keisha, soooo I didn't realize there was that much background story lol

[reesespeices100]

LAS MONJITAS IS REAL. BEST GROUP EVER.

[mollz531]

You should write an epic drama/tragedy (like Oedipus...but without the incest, and eye gouging...but still dramatic...) and incorporate all your characters

[LoLoGirl404]

خاليدة ... That's how Kesha's real name looks like in Arabic =]

Love ya <3

[Hrovitnir]

Nick. If Kate is MTF then she is a trans WOMAN. I'm aware she's your character but if she presents as female she is a woman. If you're going to present a trans character, even as (or even particularly so) comedy, you could please try and be respectful of trans people.

I'm sure I'll get lots of bitchy comments so I may as well note I really enjoy your videos. But your description of K8 makes me very uncomfortable.

[sasugakirin]

@Hrovitnir I felt the same way. I really love Nick's videos but K8's background was a little discomfiting.

[Hrovitnir]

@sasugakirin Precisely.

[stillsoundlyawake]

@Hrovitnir I added an annotation--but I simply meant she was born a he. I figured transgendered male meant changed FROM male. Not sure how that's disrespectful, but I apologize if you thought it to be.

[Hrovitnir]

@stillsoundlyawake Thanks. If you Googled how trans people prefer to be referred to it'd be easy to find. It's obviously disrespectful for someone who has to fight for the right to be recognised as their gender to be mis-gendered.

[stillsoundlyawake]

@Hrovitnir I never thought to Google it because I didn't think it was wrong. Thanks for clarifying (undermining, yet clarifying nonetheless.)

[sasugakirin]

@stillsoundlyawake Generally it's just considered bad form to call attention to a trans person's birth sex because it makes their physical sex seem more important than their internal gender. Generally just trans man (for FtM) and trans woman (for MtF) are preferred. Thanks for adding the annotation. :)

[KiwisHouseOfRock]

I see a great future for you, nicky!

You are awesome! Thanks for this bit of history ^_^

[Justified248]

You're amazing. That's all.

[RainbowPanda17]

I love both you and Shane Dawson... and I literally never saw any similarities between his and your characters. Maybe I'm just not the kind of person who enjoys telling people their ideas aren't genuine.

[sunnysunfun]

Your friends call you fake names too?! HA! Me and my friends have guy names,fruit names,storm names and a silly names.

Real name:Sunem

Guy name:Nigel

Fruit name:Salty Apricot(after my initials)

Storm name:Tsunami

Silly name:Sunemenem

[mexicanmissie]

Frankie is my favorite :)

[mexicanmissie]

Dude, Shane Dawson sucks. I tried watching one video and I couldn't get through it.

[maalliepink]

Now she's got *hand motion* one of those going on.

[thebeatles7890]

i absolutely love you and all your characters. but i love Nick/soundlyawake/stillsoundly­awake just a little more <3

[dariadammit]

Crystal, person, things= New Age people

;)

[llmmtt90]

I LOVEE MARIA <3

[TmakesV]

i love all your characters there jokes

[oreocookietastic]

I prefer Sheneneh over Shanaynay.

[skybreaker09]

why are you not on TV?

[olive119900]

HAHAHAH love youu <333

[BeyondBracelets]

Shane Dawson is really fake. Hate how that happens...

I used to think he was funny and semi-interesting but it just sort of got to be too much. You know- like he's just making videos to keep up the fame.

It's sort of like the inspiration he had to make videos drained and now he just posts bullshit to appease the fangirls. Dawson's posts lately are just mindless sub-par bullshit with no real appeal. It's a shame.

Youtube ruins people.

Don't get ruined, stillsoundlyawake.

Don't get ruined.

[grouchybetsy91]

@BeyondBracelets why not post this to shane? and here just say hey stay real....

[BeyondBracelets]

@grouchybetsy91 Firstly- I refuse to give that guy any advice and/or views.

Secondly- I'm pretty sure Shane is already painfully aware of how fake and desperate both he and his videos have become.

Thirdly- The only reason I even mentioned Dawson (and my opinion on him) was because in the video stillsoundlyawake addressed the "character similarity" accusations sent in from Dawson fangirls.

Anyway, I could have just simply said "Stay real." but that wouldn't have been very verbose, would it?

[Melianimal]

@BeyondBracelets Bullshit.

[BeyondBracelets]

@Melianimal Opinions are just that- Opinions.

Take them for what they are- OPINIONS.

[Melianimal]

@BeyondBracelets And my opinion is that's BULLSHIT.

[BeyondBracelets]

@Melianimal Glad to hear it, my opinion still stands.

Feel free to reply with,"As does mine."

I agree that we should both disagree.

[Melianimal]

@BeyondBracelets Yeah. Take it in. Suck it all uuuup. Mmm ya like it? FEELS GOOD.

[BeyondBracelets]

@Melianimal ...will do, crazy lady.

[Melianimal]

@BeyondBracelets How do you know I'm a lady? What if I'm not? 'Cause I ain't.

[BeyondBracelets]

@Melianimal Herp Derp derp herp aint herp derp lol'd

[MediocreBlogTV]

@BeyondBracelets So true, so very very true

[heavenisforme]

@BeyondBracelets yea...you suck

[BeyondBracelets]

@heavenisforme That's what he said.

[SumGCFan41]

Haha "1.5 million years ago"

[tennischick983]

You looked oddly 3d in this video...

[kittenwithagun]

Until this video, I never realized there was a difference between an east coast ghetto girl accent and a west coast ghetto girl accent. Thanks for the learning.

[stillsoundlyawake]

@kittenwithagun there's southern too!

[Dreaontv]

"andrea was a slut, then she was kicked out" <--aww man! lol never thought I'd hear that today!

[stillsoundlyawake]

@Dreaontv LMAOOO

[heyummrandommuch]

I did the same thing with my friend Cayli's Kate Gosselin wig and wore it like that all around her house being a character called BillyBob. She then responded with a character called R-eona. We spent the whole sleepover like that, creeping out the other guests and her parents. Good times.

[clarinetplayer20]

Oh My God I Love Tina , Keisha, and Maria <3! ^^

[OddinaryOne]

Shane Dawson sucks, he's not even funny. Also, my favourite characters are Larry and Harriet. :D And Sam Starr!

[sweetcharade518]

I love how it's always "click the derp." I think that should be a thing.

[traveler1938]

8:09

I wish I could do Larry too!

[Anonyfication]

you look like the ginger jew from spy kids.

[SuperTakashii]

@Anonyfication He's not ginger... or jewish... o.o

[Anonyfication]

@SuperTakashii "look like" lol xD

[SuperTakashii]

@Anonyfication How do you 'look' ginger without being ginger? O_O

[Anonyfication]

@SuperTakashii I never said he looked like a ginger. I said he looked like the ginger jewish kid from Spy Kids. Simply meaning that he has features that resemble that guy.

[JStamCasual]

Your eyes are sf big.

[19Evelien90]

This is what I call an interesting history lesson ;)

[TheForestInYou]

I now want to go to charlieissocoollike's channel and tell him that he is copying Harry Potter :'D

[Aveirah]

YOU are way better then Shane Dawson!

[OhHiNebulae]

"Stirring a pot in her kitchen insisting she was making toast"

I don't know why, but that made me laugh so hard >.<

[azriel]

vitameatavegemin was my favorite episode. I love you infinitely more for referencing it!

[xPyTTiPaNNax]

this is like watching Inside the Actors studio :D

[britsluver]

Can we see the mockumentary? Would love to c it. get an EZcap ...... Easy xx OMG, how many characters Lovesit. Thanks for this. How was the chilli. Kate Gosselin. I'm happy to herar you talk. hehehe x

[MarmiteHatingLass]

i feel like i understand so much more thanks to this video :D thanks

[mosdefsheep]

i laaaaaaaaaa youuuu nicolaaaa

[Ch3micalboy]

The mere mention of Las Mojitas had me singing "Milk and cookies"... It's been stuck in my head for the past hour. Today is going to be a great day.

... "Yeah he's fat, but i like that..."

Damn you Nicky.

[simpliste90]

I fully appreciate all the work and creativity that goes into your videos. When I was in first year uni, I showed spelling nazi to a friend, and she was hooked, now is some weird way, your videos are as exciting to talk about as new episodes of glee. :-)

[creoledreamer]

Being new to your channel, I find this a good guide, thank you! I watched all the video links, now I am a fan. Keep up the great work!

[namemenatalie]

i dont see why people have to compare other people together. they both are different and both bring something different with each of their videos to me. i love shane just as much as i love soundlyawake!

and i agree with all of these people commenting about your voice. its amazing. :P

and i never thought people put this much thought into their characters so i think thats pretty awesome! im glad you made a video like this.

:]

[RODalicious]

I don't like Shane Dawson at all tbh. You're much more awesome ^^

Best wishes from Spain

Rubén

[TehMeaningOfLife]

pause at 0:12.

looking goodd.

[TzernohSyeme]

There were youtubers before Shane Dawson, there are far more interesting youtubers than Shane Dawson, and they will keep coming. some people have difficulty grasping that tastes differ or that Soundlyawake rules.

[wicketyboo]

Your voice is soothing... I love it!

[captainchaela]

Your eyes are gorgeous.

[mes5961]

I loved this video,wasn't too long IMO! I agree with QueenofBlendingMUA!

[thelifeofmel]

you're creepy face is sooo cute!

[19myself91]

could someone please explain to a confused German kid what a exactly a valley girl is? :)

[ThePaviElle]

I love your new camera, I can see your purdy face better...oh ya :D

[kittykatykat]

no need to apologise for the long video love! tres awesome!

[annanaz91]

I love Darlene<3 more Darlene please :)

[brit7588]

Your are freaking awesome!

[oLyriiczo]

who is shane dawson?????

[TheBanana8151]

THATS SO WEIRD THEY ALL LIVE IN NJ, WOAH!

[bubbles02010]

there should be a wikipedia entry about you

[RoosterOwl]

How do you know which of the character is really you? Are you sure you aren't just acting that you are Nicky/soundlyawake. Are you sure you live in this planet?

WHO ARE YOU???

[evilkidds00]

@RoosterOwl You remind me of my Theory Of Knowledge class. lol /-.-

[Daikamaitachi]

I hope Larry didn't text message breakup.

[meaphe]

I want to see all these old videos.

[o0yari0o]

kyle wins on creepin ppl out wit faces.. ahhhhh

[ThatsHellaTooMuch]

I LOVE YOU.

[iseececi]

Martin Crosby is my favorite character. 

[CyraUK]

No Mbasa? I am disappoint.

[soundlyawake]

@CyraUK you know, i think it's time for mbasa to make a resurgence 

[CyraUK]

@soundlyawake I don't know if you remember, but it was my boyfriend who posted on your Facebook asking about "Ask Mbasa". He really does need a resurgence.

[iwantsifegold]

ok is he gay?

[natandhermusic]

Your friends sound awesome.

[juanpablofx]

I love you AND shane dawson. Can't we all love eachother?!

[CarnivoraDoll]

Sho's Shane Dawson?

[CarnivoraDoll]

@CarnivoraDoll err Who's* even

[00RaraAvis00]

Las Monjitas is fake?! I don't know what's real any more...

[jessicawonderswhy]

I can't believe how much thought you put into your characters. Brava!

[katiebrookeee]

you need a country character

[Chrisi313]

Thumbs up soundlyawake in a nice shirt and tie

[zanara3]

Your nothing like shane dawson  (^_^) <3

[PaulLeary]

I love all of "you's"

[MizzLexiiRene]

do.. you hate shane dawson? =[

[soundlyawake]

@MizzLexiiRene who said I hated him? lol

[MizzLexiiRene]

@soundlyawake the comments below gave me the idea :Pi was about to be sad too.

[expojah]

soundlyawake gets me up in the morning

[cindycs88]

omg those caramel chocolate bars are my favouriteeeeeeeeeeee!!! i thought only west indian people ate that lol

[ohBAMitsLINDSEY]

ew, who is the one person that thumbed down this video? boo you whore!

nic, you're fabulous btw.

[squareturtle]

i thought new jersey was like narnia and we just got the portal to stay open. i never new it existed prior to jersey shore, gosh!

[MissTaegirl]

love this video, and k8 is one of my favorite characters, but you said she's a transgendered male, but use female pronouns in reference to her. I just wanted to clarify that if she identifies as a woman the correct way to refer to her would be 'transgender woman' because she is a woman, who was born male. could you make that clear in a video? there's lots of misconceptions about trans people. I know you're not one to ignore that sort of thing. it'd mean a lot if you cleared it up!

[soundlyawake]

@MissTaegirl yes, i meant K8 was born Keith who identifies as female

[natesvlogs]

FUCK SHANE DAWSON! Long live SoundlyAwake!

[KimikoMatsuri]

@natesvlogs Aww. They are both awesome!!! and so are you!!!!

[srchicksr]

wow thats a lot of characters... how do u keep track of them?

[raw00L]

5:53 "My chili has been eaten"

O RLY? o.0

[xouranimegirl247]

lol i knew you had a lot of characters but i didn't relize how many you actualy had untill this video lol i love these q&a's

[amibbdos]

this made you so much cooler than i already knew you were

[nojkjkjkjklololol]

When you said, "Sam Starr was born!" I imagined him actually being birthed and being all excited to get fit in the real world.