 Hello there my beautiful lovely talented internet friends welcome back to my channel Thank you so much for joining me here today for a video that I'm actually really excited to film I'm excited to look through this myself I've seen this trend going around on YouTube to sort of review or take a look at tiktoks of communities that you are also in like You know beauty gurus reacting to beauty tiktoks and if you don't know I am not ironically a huge fan of tiktok Like I'd like to I'd like to diss it in public and try to be one of the cool kids and be like Yeah tiktoks so dumb But I actually love it my largest audience is on there which I'm incredibly grateful for and it's just it's fun I feel like it puts a lot of the fun back into content creation for me It could go away tomorrow who knows but right now I'm enjoying it So what we are going to do today is react to tiktoks of people who are also amputees and people with disabilities I'm really I'm really looking forward to this I follow quite a few other amputees on tiktok But I looked I took a quick look at like the top videos of the hashtag amputee Hashtag and I actually hadn't seen a lot of the people so I saved my reaction if we're going through this with you guys Right here at first. If you don't know me. My name is Joe I am missing a meat foot a human foot It's replaced by a nice plastic one filled with carbon fiber and here in footless Joe I like to make videos about my life and the aftermath of becoming an amputee Dealing with loss and larger subjects that I like to talk about so let's have a little bit of fun today And go through amputee tiktok. I do want to say for some of these tiktoks I'm going to have to blur out or replace the sound because of copyright issues here on YouTube But if I have to do that you'll get the general idea regardless So I know how hard social distancing has been on you. So I haven't made you something. I like to call the six-feet cheat You're the sixth foot Yeah, okay, so if you don't know Rebecca McGregory, she is absolutely delightful. I adore her content She's a fantastic human being. She's a survivor of the Boston Marathon bombing lost her leg and makes really Ridiculous and silly sort of like dad joke type tiktoks Rebecca I hope you don't mind if I say that but your jokes are just so perfect. I absolutely adore them And frankly I may have to build myself this handy-dandy six-foot cheat, but I only actually have two of these so I wouldn't get too far with it Okay, so I didn't I actually didn't see that coming I didn't realize what was on his residual limbs That is so badass and super cool Like I definitely could not walk on just my residual limb like he is that is so cool All right, this is the absolute top tiktok under the hashtag amputee Okay, so there's this trend going around with this audio that's like who put the muffins in the freezer This one's much better with who put the legs in the freezer by the way I know that Alyssa the creator of this video has a YouTube channel, which I will link down below go check it out She's pretty cool. Do you remember years ago when the sign videos were everywhere in social media? I really like those I think it's a great way of saying something and using your voice whether or not you want to use your actual voice This is this is really awesome I think that whole concept of feel sorry for people with disabilities or feel sorry for people who are amputees is very alive and well And here's the thing. I think feeling sorry for someone is kind of natural. It's a it's a human reaction, right? But it's also not a particularly helpful one if we examine it a little bit deeper instead of feeling sorry for someone I think getting curious about their life asking if you can ask questions engaging with them as a person is so much more Meaningful and builds connection instead of just building a wall of oh poor you let me pity you. Hi everyone My name is Michelle. I'm an upper extended blow the elbow amputee And I'm gonna show you guys how I put my hair up with one hand one of my good friends Alexis who came to stay with me We did that visiting Ikea and trying to assemble a desk with three hands and three feet total video check it out If you haven't seen it already, but she showed me how she does this with one hand and it's actually pretty cool So let's see how Michelle don't start by taking your invisible bubble and put on your arm flipping your hair over Getting all the bumps out Going on a run. So I'm not really worried about it being too neat or too cute Also why I'm in my running outfit Just want to make sure it's tight enough so it's not flapping around Give a little poof. There she goes perfectly executed Michelle that ponytail looks better than most of mine Okay, so I've chatted some with the one-legged mama on tiktok. She's absolutely delightful Hi, by the way, if you're watching this video, please go check out her tiktok page Her tiktoks are absolutely delightful I believe what she has is called hip disarticulation meaning she's missing all of one of her legs and also Meaning she is the best balance of any human I've ever seen you can do anything you want when you're not disabled Hi, I'm Matt and I went into the hospital thinking I had a sprained ankle and I ended up with this All right, so the main question I've been getting is a lot of people have been asking doesn't hurt when I walk You know with with my legs off or whatever because in the video it does look kind of effortless But I mean that's because it doesn't really hurt that much I Can feel that when I watch that I can feel it like what it would feel like for me and it does not feel comfortable But obviously he's got it down. That's really funny That's the same stuff that they use to make this part right here on my leg That is so gorgeous What a good idea for colors the caption says that this is a water leg. That's pretty badass That's adorable, yes, okay, let's talk about these guys It's made by didgeridoo medical and it's called the X finger. It was custom made for me. Oh my gosh, and it is all metal It's very light so Compassion on things fingers are plastic so that's why that one's broken But otherwise it's really durable and they even did it pink for me, which is cool Um So it's all mechanical. So there's no wires to it and everything operates from Input from my finger. This is so cool. Oh as I raise and lower my finger it moves these rollers which return Moves the finger individually. So all I have to do is slip it on strap it up and I full independent control of This is so cool the coolest thing you've seen today Then you're lying. I'll be honest. It is the coolest thing I've seen today. So yeah That's how I presently play drums. I'm really bad at music just at music in general no skills the perks of having a fake leg part two Oh Almost have a break Okay, that's so that's so legit too I'm not gonna lie that is a serious perk of having one foot that you cannot feel Walking on hot pavement or cement or walking over rocks I had to do that the other day and I was able to do it mostly with with the the foot that doesn't field rocks. I Can't imagine someone hiding my leg I probably shouldn't say that on film because my husband's gonna see this and he's gonna do it and think he's funny But don't tell him quick question if someone stabs me in my prosthetic limb Does that count legally as? bodily harm or Destruction of property which one is it okay? But that is a really good question if someone steals my leg What does that account to legally like like what does that add up to because that seems a little more serious than Then like stealing a book or even a car considering this costs more than most cars This prosthetic has got me into some awkward situations How this works is there's a little metal ring right here and if I twist it all the way to the right It allows me to swivel my hand around if it's in the middle that it's locked But if it's all the way to the left then I could pull this hand out So I go shopping and I'm wearing a long-sleeve shirt like this So it covers up my prosthetic and this looks kind of real well It did until my dog got a hold of it and chewed the fingertips off talk about biting the hand You and me both man. I dog-tuned my prosthetic foot So there's no way it looks real anymore or just had some like cool scars, you know Am I right so I go through the checkout put the bag in my prosthetic And I bring my hand down and I didn't realize that my wrist socket was turned all the way to the left and the weight of The groceries popped my hand out of its socket and it was just dangling there now I would have thought nothing of it except I hear this screen So I turn around and I see this poor little girl hugging her mom and she says So I'm over here just trying to shove my hand back in as fast as I can and I'm like, I'm so sorry I just wanted to get some groceries not send a little girl to counseling. Oh my gosh That's absolutely amazing. It happens though stuff like that happens, right? It's kind of unavoidable The closest I've ever got to that nothing fell off But I was at a grocery store one time with my eye walk So I wasn't wearing a prosthetic leg So you could very clearly see that something was missing and this little girl came up behind me and was like Daddy her leg fell off and it was I just thought it was so cute. It was so cute and so sweet Hopefully it wasn't actually scarring to her though There is that so the amputee community on tiktok is actually pretty awesome I really appreciate my fellow amputee buddies there on tiktok also here on youtube obviously by the way If you are on tiktok and you haven't already, I would love it if you would check me out there Like I said, I really enjoy that platform. Hopefully it'll stick around the u.s Might ban it, you know, like I said tomorrow. Maybe it's already gone by the time I finish this video I don't know but all I can tell you is I really really appreciate the community there I don't know you just I just make stupid funny videos there that are very cringe worthy But I love making them so go check me out there a huge thank you to all my patrons over on patreon Thank you for supporting this video. Thank you for sponsoring this video Thank you for making all of these videos on my channel possible I really appreciate each one of you more than I can ever tell you if you're interested in joining this patreon community that we have Check out the link here on screen or down the description down below for some of the perks that you might receive For being a footless show patreon community member to you watching this video Thank you so much for spending a few minutes out of your day here with me today I truly appreciate it. You could be anywhere in the world doing anything Hopefully socially distance and you chose to spend a few months with me and I really appreciate that I love you guys. I'm thinking about you and I'll see you in the next video