Shadowing Practice: Having a "Weird" Phase... - Learn English Speaking with Video

Having a weird phase.

I'm sure at some point in your life, or well, at least most of us, have had a weird phase.

It's like that one phase of your life you don't even want to look back on.

Whenever your brain decides to recall any moments from that phase, it's just...

It's the type of shit that will keep you up till like 5 in the morning.

And what's crazy is that I thought to myself that I was the coolest kid ever, okay?

I played Black Ops 3.

That's a rated M game.

I'm not a loser.

I'm cool, man.

Yeah, sure.

Whatever helps you sleep at night, buddy And just thinking back on corny things

that you used to do is just the worst feeling on planet earth Like one thing

that I recall that I did was I would scream I wouldn't scream but I would say memes in the hallway.

Why the hell would I do that?

I don't know but whatever the newest vine was sixth grade me was saying it at the time

And now this one still keeps me up at night to this day like genuinely.

I don't know why I did this Like, was I expecting people to laugh?

And I was just trying way too hard, okay?

At this point in my life, I really wanted to fit in.

I wanted to have friends.

But what I didn't realize is, yeah, that was not gonna get me any friends.

Like, I was one of those ass classmates talking about breakfast at 8 in the morning.

Like, are we dead ass, bro?

But yeah, if you can relate to this video in any capacity, you definitely have some moments that keep you lying awake at night.

But at the same time, I was in the sixth grade.

So obviously I was gonna do some stupid ass shit.

Now, of course your first impression of somebody is their appearance what they're wearing their haircut, etc So let's first just start with that and now during this phase of my life,

of course I was really out here experimenting with the outfits and my haircut and when I say experimenting Yeah, I mean it was absolutely terrible and genuinely no meme.

Yes, this was actually my haircut in the sixth grade I'm, not even joking.

Why did I think this haircut was tough?

Like I know I was going for the whole like part the front to the side or whatever, but it was so long.

It was covering one of my eyes.

Sometimes I'd go buds without getting a haircut, which is kind of crazy.

Like I was actually repping that Justin Bieber haircut.

No troll.

And I'm sure you guys heard me say this in previous videos, but majority of my outfits consisted of neon Nike and Under Armour clothing.

You know exactly what I'm talking about.

I had a few other shirts I would wear, but for the most part, it was just neon Under Armour shit.

Like I was deadass spamming the same outfit.

And my parents would roast me and say that apparently my shirts could just walk themselves to school.

That was how much I was wearing them.

I don't know, but for whatever reason, I didn't want to try wearing anything else.

I was just satisfied with Under Armour shorts and sweatpants.

I was that one kid that would wear shorts throughout the winter.

Like, I genuinely chose to freeze my ass off instead of wearing sweatpants in the winter.

Like, I actually dressed like a cartoon character, bro.

I would spawn in with the same outfit every day.

Well, not the same outfit, but the same type of outfit.

And now, as for my shoes, I wore the same beat-up neon Nike running shoes.

Every year I would go sneaker shopping and then

that was my pair of shoes for the whole year

And it's not like I couldn't get them I was just spending my money on like games

and shit like that But finally for my birthday, I asked for a new pair of shoes

and what shoes specifically you might be wondering the kevin durant

8s now for the kds Everybody thought they were tough at the time.

That was the shit everyone wanted them but looking back on it Yeah, they were definitely overhyped

and now a lot of the colorways Were terrible looking back

on it These were the shoes I wanted my parents to buy me.

Like, they just looked so goddamn goofy, bro.

But I guess, hey, it did match my outfit, though.

Okay, this one might just be a canon event for everybody.

But next we got when I first started using social media.

I really don't want to think about it, to be honest.

But hey, we're doing it for the video.

Before this era, my parents would not let me use social media.

But after all the trials and tribulations of trying to convince my parents, I was finally allowed to use social media and oh my fucking god,

dude Just thinking about the shit that I used to post.

Oh man, I just don't even want to think about it Now I used to flood the timeline with memes.

Okay, and it was just people at my school that followed me

And sometimes I just had to take some crazy ass flicks.

Okay, they were not crazy.

They were buds Now, I don't know what the memes were captioned as

but it was like bad luck brian doge Like it was like super old memes, but I still would also post recent shit too.

I think I would just look up memes, literally just memes on Google and just upload.

I don't remember what I captioned them.

And there was also a new app up and coming.

Okay.

Everybody was talking about it.

This app was groundbreaking.

News outlets were talking about it.

It was all over the place musically.

Okay.

Now this was definitely the cringiest moment of my existence.

I used to post musically videos.

I don't know why the hell i'm admitting that in front of like the thousands of people watching this video But yeah,

I did and I genuinely would post these and think they were so tough But when I became self-aware about it, I was like damn bro.

This is terrible This needs to get off my page asap

because at the time all these new songs with dances were coming out, like the whip, the Quan, whatever the hell.

For whatever reason, I thought I had to hit these.

And I would get like 12 likes on a video.

And years later, 2019, 2020, bro, I was getting cooked for it.

My friends were on my head, bro.

It was over.

And as they should have been, to be honest. Because, oof.

I don't even want to think about that shit.

But also not only was I an aspiring musically god sitting right in front of us I was also an aspiring youtuber.

I wanted to drop the best videos on the platform Okay, they did not drop and i'm glad I never posted these cringy ass videos

because if I did I would never have been able to sleep again in my life at the time.

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I watched a lot of youtube I literally could not get off my damn phone

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or my ipad whatever I chose to use I was heavily into FNAF and, uh, a shame to admit it, but I was into MLG videos.

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Yeah, I just don't get it either.

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Like, this shit has to be our skivvity toilet.

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Now, this whole 2016 era with, like, YouTube and all that, you know, a lot of it was peak.

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But yeah, stuff like MLG, Musical.ly, I'm gonna keep it a buck.

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Yeah, that shit was fucking buns.

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But I was one of those kids that just would not get off his damn phone or his iPad.

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But me, of course, inspired by many like for example jacksepticeye leafy markiplier sml just to name a few

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And I thought to myself I want to make videos just like them and I want to create Absolute heaters, okay, just peak content sitting right in front of us

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And I wanted to figure out how to screen record gameplay

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because at first I was recording my tv Like I think that's just a canon event for every youtuber

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and the mic quality was so garbage

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because keep in mind I was recording this shit on an iPhone 5

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and it's not like it had good commentary to go with it either And at the time I was like damn bro, these videos are so heat I need to post these and i'm sure some of you were like bro.

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I want to see the video Please tell me you have it.

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Unfortunately, I don't but I can give you the next best thing.

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I'm gonna recreate it But yeah,

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I gave up on my hopes and dreams of being an aspiring gaming YouTuber.

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But I had a new plan.

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I had a new vision.

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What I did was I created videos in the style of SML.

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And ooh, yeah, you can just imagine how terrible these videos were.

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Honestly, I'd argue that was even worse than the TV gaming videos.

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Now, I really don't know what's worse, that last phase that I just described where I was like discovering social media or this next phase.

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Now, this is around 2017, 2018.

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I think I was in like eighth grade or some shit.

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Now, the self-awareness of that last phase had just hit me.

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And I wanted to be cool so bad.

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So I was doing everything in my power to fit in.

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And now one of those things was my music taste.

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Now, at first, I never really saw myself as being a fan of rap.

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But I don't know.

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Eventually, I just really got into it.

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Before that, I would unironically bump, uh, this.

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This?

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So yeah, clearly my music taste needed some upgrading.

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So I tried listening to rap music because I thought it would make me cool.

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But turns out I ended up really liking it.

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Like I discovered the whole SoundCloud era.

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I specifically found these two artists, Juice WRLD and X.

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And obviously this goes without saying, they were both very goaded and talented artists.

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People used to make these Bart Simpson edits that would have X and Juice WRLD music in the background sometimes.

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I genuinely thought edits like the Bart Simpson one were so tough.

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Like, I'm gonna put a starter pack on the screen.

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Okay, I think you'll know what I'm talking about.

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Yeah, I thought shit like this actually went hard.

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I would see something like this.

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I'd be like, damn, bro, maybe I should make this my Xbox profile picture.

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Error.

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1%.

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Broken hearts.

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Oh my god, so sad.

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And I would have got fried 100% if I did.

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And in retrospect, I am very glad I chose not to make it my profile picture.

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My Instagram feed at the time was filled with stuff like this.

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I tell myself, I don't need anybody.

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But the truth is, nobody needs me.

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Girls, boys don't know true sadness.

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Boys, literally the whole video.

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Bro, what the f* is you even talking about, bro?

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Why did I used to consume and read media like this?

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I don't know.

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But since it had X and Juice WRLD music in the background, I guess that's just how I ended up finding it.

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Having that weird phase where you look back and you're like, okay, I was just really cringey back then.

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But, you know, It's just a part of growing up

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and even now to this day Sometimes I look back on something I did a month ago and i'm like, oh shit.

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That was kind of cringe It's just a part of life, bro And at this point I got like hour-long compilations of cringy moments But yeah,

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