 We're watching TikToks again. We're gonna watch TikToks again. We're gonna do it. Oh my God. Okay, it's happening. Everybody, say come. What's the procedure, everyone? What's the procedure? Say come. A while ago, I did a video where I reacted to book talks and like, here's the thing. I don't watch TikTok. Not because I don't like it, but because I don't want to like it. This is the key, you know, difference here. I have never wanted to let myself get into TikTok or book talk because I know once I start, my phone's screen time is about to go woo. It's like Nutella. For years and years, I didn't let myself eat Nutella because I knew I knew I'd love it too much. And even now I try to forget about how good it is because otherwise we'd have a problem on our hands. We'd have a real problem. I would just be eating it left, right and center. So it's the same thing. TikTok and Nutella, same thing. But today, instead of scrolling through the hashtag book talk because I feel like that is an unsafe zone. You do not know what you're going to come up against. Instead, I'm going to watch some YouTube compilations. I feel like that's safer. I feel like the creme de la crème will have been selected. And also, because I'm really hoping they're not going to have any of those fucking like dramatized fantasy ones where they pretend to be a character from a fantasy book and they're like dressed up in a crown and they'll be like, the girl I was was easy to kill. I'm like, guess how sword is like. Because I can't. I am screaming and crying, throwing up. I can't, I can't. Listen, I know some people love that shit. You guys, I can't. It's not for main park. I feel terribly ill all of a sudden. Some people love it, good for them. Nothing makes me cringe more. Nothing makes me cringe more. I don't want any of that. I don't want any of that guy. You know the guy with the blue eyes? I don't want any of him. I don't want him. I don't want to see it because nothing makes me more upset. Like I feel physically ill. And listen, it's great for some people. Just not for me. But before we get into it, I want to thank our sponsor for today's video, which is Skillshare. Don't click off. I see you. Don't fast forward. Don't fast forward until you think this sponsorship is done because Skillshare is one of my favorite things. I was the first sponsorship I ever accepted and it's one that I love to keep doing because I have used Skillshare literally from when I was about 13. So it's been, it's like coming up like eight years. Eight years I've been using Skillshare on and off at four. It has taught me so many skills in photography, video making, graphic design, general creativity, writing. There's literally something for everyone. The illustration classes as well. Cake making, like baking classes. There's everything you could want. 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A whole month for you to develop new skills, try new things. You have nothing to lose. I would just really recommend it. Listen, I don't know how to recommend it this hard, but I don't know if you're watching this. Go try it. Okay, it's time to put the headphones on. I don't know what we're gonna get. This is what I'm talking about. That's cringe to me. That's my opinion! Listen, when I'm saying this, this isn't offensive to any of those creators cause I'm cringe, right? I'm embarrassing. I'm, listen, I'm annoying. When I say that's cringe to me, it's more, I'm more talking about the trend of doing stuff like that on TikTok rather than that individual creator. I'm not saying anything about that individual creator, all the power to them. I'm sure they're amazing. That's what I'm saying. I'm more talking about TikTok as a whole. Like, why, why, why? That doesn't have to be a thing. Like, I feel like TikTok sometimes often says things just to be like... Irrelatable, irrelatable. But like, but like, you, ah! People actually desire their other half to be like really into books. Do people desire that? Cause I don't. Like, you don't have to be into the same thing as your significant other. Do you think Tom reads? Dum dum! No, he does actually read audiobooks now but that man will never pick up a fiction book in his life. He will never pick up a fiction book in his life. And you know what? That's okay. Like, we can, I don't play FIFA. We can all like different things. I just feel like with just saying things to be relatable. Do you remember like on Tumblr in like 2012, there was like just girly things and there was like those sayings that would have like a colorful background and then like a statement that's supposed to be relatable for everyone in the center? Like, this is what I feel like we're dealing with in 2021. Feel the fact you're strong Feel the fact you're strong I've got faith in you and I Cause it's a feeling of playing FIFA You're staying, you're staying, you're gone. Sorry. Hang on. We're going too fast. I'm old actually. I actually am old. We, we, we type too fast. At least love it. You're staying, you're staying, you're gone. Sorry. I wasn't sure about you. But I'm gonna tip towards gone. So, gone. One of you two has been rejected. Who do you think it is? Wrong. It's you. You're in, you're rejected. Sorry. Okay, I actually like that. That was funny. That was fucking funny, but we moved a little bit fast to my old eyes at the beginning. Here's the thing. Also, TikTok is very into romance and I'm not a romance gal. I mean, I know. I know I helped in pioneering the love hypothesis. No, I'm joking. But like I loved the love hypothesis but like I'm not a romance gal and I feel like TikTok, book talk is very romance-centric. Romance and fantasy, but the fantasy features just wanna dress up like queens. It's very into romance. It's all it recommends is Colleen Hoover. Time for another book challenge. Go to your bookshelf and pick a book, any book. It doesn't matter which one. And then open the book up to page 74. The first thing a character says on that page is what your soulmate will say when you first meet them. That's tragic. I feel like that was planned. This is another thing. I feel like that's planned because you're gonna get good content but that's planned. Let's see what my soulmate... Acting man at all. My, my mind is no ma'am. I'm all set. Or just no ma'am, no ma'am, no ma'am, no ma'am. What did Tom say? He probably said something like I probably asked him a question he didn't know the answer to when we first met. So probably similar, similar. At least this one's respectful. Actually, but maybe it's not planned. Okay, well, he gave her a crooked grin. No, books are fucking stupid, aren't they? Books, okay, listen. Books are fucking stupid. Can we all just agree? Like I love books, I love writing but you are, like it's stupid. We are into something that's stupid. Like the fact that one day I'm gonna be like out here writing like romance, like two fictional characters I've jumped off in my head. Romance kind of, kind of, kind of makes me wanna fight for my life. Like screaming, crying, throwing up. You know what? I'm just gonna leave. We imagine while I was in our head write them and then we give them to other people to read. Like it's just, huh. Much to think about. Okay, next one. Well, I love you. No, you don't. Don't talk her. You love the idea of me. No. You love being seen with me but you don't love me. That's true. When I went, I had to read some of the Love, Her, Policies in public and I was like, taking the dust jacket off. I have them to see me reading Adam Driver fan fiction. Who got me smiling like that? So true. You can't hear the music because I don't think I can let you hear it. We're just gonna vibe. Okay. Yes, tell me. Fuck, so true. What has it ever written about? Yes. Okay, if anyone has a fancy book where there's actually half of these, please let me know. Because suddenly, periods are just, they just don't exist. They don't exist. Fancy is like, sorry, I don't know her. Yeah. What do you people eat? Like just the logistics of fantasy we just ignore. We just ignore. Actually, you know what? I'm gonna write about a period one day. I've just decided it. I've just decided it. Okay. Me after I start getting smart from my actual books instead of... Okay, true. True. But I haven't fully gotten into romance but I feel like it's strange because when I was younger, I read a lot of... Well, I didn't read what part of AOT. I read Tumblr fan fiction which was a whole other beast. That was, we were in the trenches. We were in the trenches. Me whenever someone tries to bring up Tumblr fan fiction. Please do not. This is an intense request from my heart. I am not meaning to shame you but I am tapped out. Done. Goodbye. Some other stuff on there. Oh my God. Oh my God. And it was One Direction. You just need to know that right now. One Direction fan fiction. Harry Styles. I have a vivid... No, I can't say that. But I have, I can't. I can't because people, my family watched this video. But I have a vivid memory of one particular Harry Styles fan fiction that I read back in 2014. I can still picture it now. Let's just say you're under the stage. Show's about to start. Anyway, would you catch me doing that now? No, well, actually, I just read Kylo Ren fan fiction and gave it five stars. So like, harmless book things that still annoy me. People on covers, oh yeah, fuck that. Faces get out. Yes, it should all be the same size. Oh my God, yeah, what? No. Oh my God, fuck off. Fuck off. Fuck. That's so annoying. That one, every single thing on that list is something I have moaned to my family about probably in the last week. I'm talking about a lot about the love hypothesis in the studio but it is a popular TikTok book so we can do that. But I was talking to my mum about the as seen on book talk, TikTok sticker that's on them that you can't take off and it's ugly, it's ugly. Why would you subject us to that? Why would you make us do that? Can't relate. I don't think I fall for toxic men. Well, can I? I'm picking up little sketch verbs. Okay, can't relate. I like to fall for nice men. I don't really fall in love. I just can't relate. Oh, Darlington, Darlington from 9,000 could get it but I don't really fall for fictional characters in this way or at least in books because I think a lot of what I vibe with with men is not looks, not personality, it's mannerisms. And you can't really write that in a book. I like this little mannerisms. I can't explain it. Just little mannerisms, little things that people do is what makes me fancy a person. Not looks, not personality. Well, that's a lie but I'm talking about like fictional people or like people I don't know. Anyway, no, okay, she's saying get it. I don't do this and I've never done this. It's a stressful undertaking. I mean, can you understand? I mean, I'm waiting to film it. I'm gonna film a bookshelf reorganization like next week in a couple of days but it's a stressful undertaking. I don't, I don't, and I'm not the kind of person who's always trying to like finally get it right. I'm the kind of person who's like, listen, if I just don't try really hard, it won't be embarrassing that it's not good. I feel the same. That's why I don't have a bullet journal. I could not have a bullet journal because I will cry myself to sleep every night and the fact that your bitch's one is better than mine and it's so much prettier. So I just don't do it because I don't wanna not be as good as everyone else. It'd be a perfect thing. I can't, I can't. I've tried it and I failed. Why does everyone expect it then? The kish things I love. Then I'm bestie. I'll do the music for you. Spray ledges, I agree. Steady and your bestie, sit down. Oh, I fucking love family trees. Get out. A family tree in a map at the start, you got. It's a map. It's a map. It's a map. I just predicted it. Short chapters. K and Krim. What would you say? I don't, I actually don't love floppy things. I don't, they're fine. I love family trees and a map. I love, I think I love family trees more than a map because they're rarer. That feels a little bit like, a little bit of the rare shit. You know what I mean? Things are bit quite misty, part one. What? Planet TBR, not for the book. Oh yeah, okay, well, actually I do, but. Am I better than everyone? Really loving a book. Oh, I can relate. Oh, I can relate. Do you guys know that sometimes, sometimes I have to sit here for like, for quite a while. For quite a while before I can like, I just sit here in silence sometimes, in the middle of filming, like. Die, die, die. Whilst I try to think of something to say. Sometimes I'm really struggling for words. So there we have it guys, that is my reaction to book talk again. I very much enjoyed it. I feel like watching a compilation was the better thing because a lot of people who watch book talk, the algorithm will kind of like have picked what kind of book talks you like, but as I don't, the algorithm doesn't know what I like and so it's gonna be recommending me the things that have me screaming, crying, throwing up. But thank you guys so much for watching. If you got to the end, comment the musical note emoji. R.I.P. musically, oh my God. And I will see you very soon in another video. Bye.