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I shed a tear. That “I am Groot?” really shook me. As if Groot is now unsure if he really IS Groot. Is Groot Groot? I will never know. Thank you Coley for blessing us with 8 minutes of this truly groundbreaking and masterfully written fanfic.
Groot sounds like he is going through something serious then reflects on his past... he's clearly have meltdowns in the fanfic. Poor baby. Somebody hug him
I am literally in tears, whoever wrote this may just be the best author known to man, I've never seen anything quite like it, truly unique. (in all seriousness, "I," "am", and "groot" no longer sound like words & Groot was never even a word to begin with💀)
I definitely laughed when I saw what was being read out. My sister asked if I was okay and I had to explain. I don't even know how to explain this thing.
It's.. it literally left me sobbing. Literally none other fanfiction was capable of making ME cry hysterically but this? This one deserves an award. The writing style, the fonts the AGHHH it's so good?? Literally i want their skills so bad
Me: confused how she is going to read a whole story in less than 15 minutes Coly: I am groot. I am groot….. Me:….. oh. I see. Me: I really should have seen this coming.
this is a true masterpiece, a heart-throbbing yet spicy tearjerker. i will be showing this to all of my children and their children. this piece deserves to be worshipped by all of mankind. the plot and storyline is immaculate, the relationships between the relatable and lovable characters are deep and complex. definitely an 11/10 would recommend
When you read this fanfic, the raw emotion with which you read it, it nearly brings me to tears. Thoughtful of you to warn us of the NSFW part. Still one of the best works to date.
It feels like there's an actual story behind this, but it was just replaced with these three words, repeated to the point where it becomes mere noise. And what she said about the difficulty in getting your stuff out there... I've posted six stories so far. Five of them each have less than 50 hits, and less than 10 kudos, apiece. Then there's the one Owl House thing I wrote, which over 400 people have seen, and the kudos count is definitely over 70. The imbalance is ridiculous, and I'm proud of it.
There will always be an imbalance. Wattpad is always talked about like it only has trash fanfics, but it's not true. I've found masterpieces in some of my favorite fandoms and even a couple incredible wips that are originals! Though, I admit that I have a strong bias since I actually write on Wattpad (it's a journal rather than an actual fic and I'm always a little disappointed that no one reads it) and have had an account there for 3+ years
@@emilyrattini8462 My 3000+ is a wip. To Ride a Stygian Tiger. MDZS fandom. 21 chapters and not sure when it’ll end XD. The other is When the Spider Meets the panthers. ATom Holland Spider-Man one shot with the tag “Peter Parker is a BTS fan….” I don’t know why I decided to go with that….
When looking for fanfic I find if you’re just browsing fewer tags are better. Select fandom, filter for 1 ship (maybe 2 if you’re picky and it’s a big fandom) and 1-3 tags including filtering in/out AU, exclude crossovers or filter out any fandoms you don’t want crossovers for, sort by kudos and go to page 3/4. That is where you will find the best fic.
@@shriya9925 because the first couple of pages are usually good, but pretty bland in comparison. You start to get the more interesting premises on page 3/4, and because they’re usually not the sort of thing that would appeal to everyone, because they’re a little less basic concepts, they don’t have quite as many kudos. You can absolutely start from 1, they’ll usually still be excellent fics, but if you want something that will absolutely blow your mind I tend to find you need to go a few pages deep.
@@shriya9925 also maybe because the first few pages are the more recent ones so they might be incompleted I feel but I agree that most of the good ones are the ones after the first few pages
@@shriya9925 I find that usually the first couple pages are the ones with all the one shots or crossover fics- neither of which I’m looking for - so I’ll usually skip the first couple pages too after a quick skim through lol
Ok, so i didn't really believe you about looking in the 3/4 page, and I just went back to search the tag I was on (ranked by bookmark, filtered by pining) and OMG I'm so glad I kept searching until that fourth page, I just found some gold in there 👌🏽 so thanks!!
Similar video idea: scrolling through the most popular fanfics on the site. Maybe the first 4-5 pages? It's interesting to see which fandoms are the most popular
i recently did something like this, but with the top 1000 fics; the most commom fandoms were harry potter, marvel, teen wolf and my hero academia (if i remember correctly)
Your rendition of “I am Groot” really brought me to tears. That “I am Groot.” Where groot finally found himself and was able to accept “I am Groot” completely, even if it didn’t last. Honestly a magnificent way to spend 8 minutes, this fic always brings me to tears.
I showed this to a friend of mine who just got into fanfic. She was very confused. So yeah, this was Amazing! But it would be wonderful if you made that Merlin video you mentioned 👉👈🥺
Ao3 is it’s own planet, and I adore it. I used to be a Quotev main, but have slowly moved over to Ao3… Needless to say, I am so happy to now be part of the lovely community that made this absolutely AMAZING reading experience possible. Truly magnificent work on the author’s part 😌 I’m surprised you were able to put the magnitude of this fic into a video.
I am literally in tears, I Am Groot is the most emotional thing I have ever read. I read it first when I was 12 years old, and it really inspired me to take up writing. Whenever I'm feeling sad, all I need to do is re-read it just to feel better. New York bestseller could never. 11/10 😩
“Popularity doesn’t mean quality” Yeah *flashbacks to my immortal, agony in pink, DGTTB* Edit: for your sanity, don’t cover the latter two. You’ve already done the former
@@Berries20 agony in pink is the first super infamous fanfiction. It’s a power rangers torture fic. Dipper goes to Taco Bell is a infamous gravity falls fic
just listening this is making me cry. i don’t cry often, especially not for fanfics so this seriously meant a lot and just the raw emotion in here is quite beautiful.
the amount of shots you would have to take for every time coley read “i am groot” (in the fic) would be 436, so you would have alcohol poisoning 21 times over
I should tell my friend that we're going to listen to someone read a really popular fanfic and ever time she says I am Groot we have too take a shot I can't just imagine the look he'd give me
All joking aside a piece of work like this really shows how art in general works. Because it conveys a meaning (be it vague and up to interpretation) even though the words themselves have little to no meaning on their own. There is clearly something happening in that fic even thought we as readers are left to wonder what that something is. And on a fundamental level, this fic shows how we consume books because we are able to recognize an internal struggle when it is presented in the story (by bolder words and the crossed out words) or see when a character is making a mental list of facts and observations. TLDR: even though the words themselves have no meaning the structure of the text itself hints at a storyline and I think that is absolutely genius!
The first minute hit me like a train because “Maybe a fanfic got blown up on social media” forced me to remember “The Albedo x Reader” fanfic era of Genshin tiktok. In which, I read it. Thanks for making me remember a dark time for a whole fandom.
I swear, I was just reading a fic on ao3 and the EXACT moment I clicked on the next chapter, I got the notification Coley uploaded. It was like I pressed the automatic "BamThereGoesAnotherAo3ColeyVideo" button.
I first discovered this fanfic searching for some guardians of the galaxy stuff when I stumble upon it. I thought it would be a funny little fic but I wasn’t prepared for the sheer magnificent of this fic. Like the author I had to take a break half way through from the sheer amount of emotion I felt. Groot going through so much yet staying so happy and finally learning who he is in the most magnificent way, accepting and being proud and it was just- **chef’s kiss**
The storytelling and how you brought the story to life through your voice was so powerful! I've never heard a more moving story in all my life. I usually don't enjoy listening to audio recordings of stories, but you really sold this! The writing is a masterpiece and read out loud, it becomes even more beautiful. I was sobbing by the time the story ended. Never have a fanfic moved me in such a way. Masterful! Deserves to be put on the curriculum for all higher education schools around the world! I could definitely spend hours analyzing the story and find meaning behind each "I am Groot" 100/10.
Honestly when looking for the "best" fic of a fandom, go by bookmarks (especially for multiple chapters, anyway). Because: 1) Hits isn't reliable because, if it's multi-chapters, a lot of those hits are from people re-reading/reading multiple chapters. Or checking on the fic. (And no, hits don't count the author's views. I think it's because of how the draft system works. Like, whenever I'm doing something in a draft chapter rather than what's published, I can imagine it would confuse the fck out of AO3 if it tried counting that. Lol. Ergo, it's easier to just exclude the author's views on a fic entirely.) 2) Kudos tends to be a thumbs-up, but a lot of people may give a fic kudos from the first chapter, but not end up following the fic all the way through with updates, so the quality may have dropped. 3) Comments are a mixed bag. They indicate passion, but that doesn't mean good passion all the time. A fic with low stats but a high number of comments may have people arguing about the fic. Lol. That, and, AO3 counts each comment in a thread, so if there's 30-comment long discussion, that's not going to be as "popular" as a fic with 30 individual comments. Bookmarks are reliable because that is a) someone is bookmarking to read later, and b) the bookmark number isn't even accurate. The number you see on a fic isn't the total bookmarks, it's the total *public* bookmarks. (I know this, since I write lol, and when I'm looking at the stats page, the number of bookmarks is different because the stats page also count private bookmarks. The public bookmarks tend to be ~1/4 or 1/2 of the total. Also applies to comments; the stats count comment *threads* not total comments.) Anyway. What this means is that the fics that people have bookmarked on their profile that is there to promote it, in a sense. So another good way to find good fics is actually through other people's profiles and going through their bookmarks, especially if they tag and/or add a comment within them. And bookmarks tend to be things that people will re-read as well. Obviously, this doesn't mean that the other stats aren't important. Because of course they are. Any stat above 1,000 (except for hits; I'd go more 10,000 with that) is a "popular" fic. But, of course, it also depends on the fandom (so, like, some fandoms will consider 1,000 hits a lot, and others won't consider 10,000 to be a lot), how old the fic is, etc. But that's my piece of advice. Bookmarks are more reliable because, frankly, not everyone bookmarks everything they read, and if they do, it's not common for people to make every bookmark public.
@@ardentsamael1011 Yup yup. That’s kinda what I meant by discussion, but I’ve also seen fics where most of it isn’t the author. Lol. bUT yeah. Not every author answers, and some answer a lot.
@@mackennnna1234 But here's the thing: people with accounts can add kudos by either switching if they have multiple accounts, or just signing off. So even then it's not reliable. That, and there's that kudos is one of those things you can't undo, so if you give kudos at the beginning, but then a fic takes a turn you don't like, like quality or subject matter, that kudos doesn't go, but bookmarks can be undone. Hence another reason why I like bookmarks. Now, kudos is not a bad way to do it. I think it's good, especially for one-shots or otherwise shorter stories.
Just about without fail, unless I am looking for a specific tag, like, really specific, I find an author I like, go through their bookmarks, and go from there. I almost never use the actual search feature unless I have something specific to look for.
I have over 200 book marks, but only 30 subscriptions. For some reason I feel the need to sace every fic I read and I use to do that by bookmarking. I've gotten over it now though. Also its all private bookmarks, but still. Some people do bookmark everything.
this fic was literally so emotionally impactful that i had to pause the video and get tissues bc i couldn’t see through the tears any longer. by the end of it my chest hurt so bad because of the amount of sympathy i had over this character. when they said “I am Groot” i felt that, i took that personally, it truly changed my mindset on life because at the end of the day…i AM Groot.
Coley I feel you are factually and contractually obligated to do the pod fic for this fic, your narration just adds so much raw, real ness to the already amazingly emotional and turmotiolous story. Truly I can’t imagine any other voice for the characters, you are truly amazing at this
The way this story just ascend beyond everything is amazing. Each word that Coley says is like listening to the holy word. The emotion in her voice is phenomenal
Honestly I was like one paragraph in when I finally realized what I was hearing. I thought that was the emotional starting of an actual sad story, I. Thought. This. Was. Real.
Ok I think we all know this fic is a masterpiece, but the reading of it was absolutely stunning. I shed tears, which wouldn't have happened without Coleys absolutely stunning voice
Wow. I’d just like to say thank you - I’ve come back to this fic countless times but the sheer passion and emotion you read it with gave it a new lease of life. I didn’t think I could cry anymore, but here I am (two words which no longer make any sense)
Phenomenal. Astounding. Tear-jerking. This reading has changed me the amount of emotional impact and amazing message and time the author put in such a revolutionary story. It shall forever remain in my mind a as a story that has changed millions of lives.
This fanfic left me crying and screaming. The way that Groot’s existential crisis is delivered is so heartbreaking and beautiful. He’s having such a hard time and no one else notices! This just brings tears to my eyes. It’s a heart wrenching, yet spicy, incredulous horrifying tearjerker. No other fox ever could compare! Whoever wrote this was a genius I swear. GET THEM A BOOK DEAL RIGHT NOW. Thank you Coley for showing this masterpiece to the world.
i don't think i'll be able to emotionally recover from such a sophisticated and heart wrenching piece of literature. the development, introspection, and understanding Groot exhibits throughout this moving story is awe inspiring, and it leaves us with a bittersweet taste in our mouths. i'll be thinking about this magnificent, museum worthy tale for weeks
A legendary fic I'd only ever heard of in passing. Thank you, Coley, for blessing my ears. I can't believe I waited so long to find this one, but I'm so grateful for your beautiful and heartwrenching reading of it. Truly a masterpiece of literature that may someday grow to be mentioned in the same sentence as classics such ad The Illiad and Les Miserables.
This was beautiful. The raw emotion visible while you were reading this eye catching masterpiece was phenomenal. It showed us how one can be so sure of something and when they truly think it over and go through all the opinions they've heard that their mind may change and that's okay. I am grateful I was able to listen to this piece of art. Shakespeare would be proud.
In sobbing. This fic is so wonderful and does absolutely not disappoint. The plot is so compelling and fulfilling. It deserves being put on display in a glass case in heaven because thats just how good it is. Im in complete and utter awe at this work at art. I Am Groot is just so wonderful. It has it all. Angst, becoming courage and determination. The ending is perfect as well. It doesnt leave us confused or upset or disappointed. A masterpiece. I could write an essay just on how wonderful this is. Truly amazing.
I don't really check Ao3 stats until recently but...i was pretty sure that by the time this video released, All The Young Dudes surpassed this fic. Still, the "I am Groot, I am Groot, I am Groot." Touched my soul
This is gorgeous. You can hear the question in his voice despite the fact that he is continuing to reaffirm himself of his identity . This is gorgeous and for anyone who has ever felt unsure of themselves. I love this so much. "I am Groot" YES YOU ARE GROOT!!!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH COLEY I LOVE YOUR VIDEOS
The part where she said "I am Groot?" at the end was such an emotional plot twist I was legit crying 😭Seriously the most touching fanfic I've ever seen 😢💕 Coley thank you so much for showing us this amazing fic 😊
I'll never not love this fic. It got so popular so fast that I commented on it the day after it was posted and my comment doesn't appear until page six. And your reading is EXQUISITE.
thank you coley for this stellar interpretation, i didn't think anyone could do this fic justice but you did! i was hooked from the beginning right until the end
@Lace S. Two, fandoms. A crossover. Two works of Studio trigger, a certain, really horni japanese anime studio, that also somehow makes the best shit on the market. I love them, because they don't shy away from sexual themes, in fact they do the opposite throwing them at you like some baseball game. This is demonstrated perfectly in their two magnum opus. Kill la kill and darling in the franxx, the fandoms I'm writing for. They are two similar series, one day I stumbled upon a really bad, but at the same a fic which was the catalyst to me making the crossover. It was between the same fandoms, but didn't do anything. It was good, but increadibly superficial, pretty much no charecter development, besides rehashes of the plot line of one of the series. It's honestly about everything. From ideology, to beliefs, relationships and why they are important, masseges crancked up to the question of should you you keep going up and up and up, even if it makes the lives of your collegues a living hell. Hidden under layers upon layers of anime ecchi irony. Narritive elemts, involving charecters pusihng up to psycological horror level. PTSD. Dosisiative identity dissorder. Every fear under the book. Making fun of every single anime shounen under the sun, including itself. Having so many, yet so few, tropes, that in itself, it makes fun off, and also emeraces. But I'm bad at describing how charecters look. Sad.
@@emmae2520 Just an year. It's only a mil words, with my buffer chapters, which in themselves. Are 300k words. I'm saving them in case I break my chin or somthin and I can't update for a long, long time.
I was shaking halfway through the story please this must be the most amazing thing I have ever heard bless you Coley for sharing this groundbreaking story with us all
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We Are Groot
I am groot
I AM GROOT
How did you get a sponsor for this shitpost of a vid
I swear AO3 is a coal mine you might find a diamond or you might find a piece of very weird coal
truer words have never been said
I think this is just weird coal.
And that weird chunk of coal is the one you always keep in your pocket because you love it
@@hotcocoandart omg yess
The weird coal part reminds me of that one time I read a smut fic of a character x corndog (a corndog that can TALK and has THOUGHTS)
The existential crisis from “I am Groot?” Was absolutely beautiful 🥹
Still no comments? Ill change that.
I shed a tear. That “I am Groot?” really shook me. As if Groot is now unsure if he really IS Groot. Is Groot Groot? I will never know. Thank you Coley for blessing us with 8 minutes of this truly groundbreaking and masterfully written fanfic.
I like your machi pfp
😭
Is this Satire? I’m autistic and it’s a bit hard for me to get jokes sometimes
@@Taylors_version_from_the_vault it is :’) ,sorry for the confusion!
@@Taylors_version_from_the_vault Yes, its satire :D
Groot sounds like he is going through something serious then reflects on his past... he's clearly have meltdowns in the fanfic. Poor baby. Somebody hug him
You can really feel his pain as he goes through this identity crisis.
I just wish Rocket would listen to him and console him
When they said "I am groot" I freaking cried.
They went too far
fr, groot deserved better 😔
@@suraya_ it kinda ruined me for a while, i just couldn't stop thinking about how moving it was
HELP THIS MADE ME GIGGLE
Do you think Coley ever lost track on which “I am Groot” she was at?
Definitely.
totally
Absogrootly.
@Lou Lou he
@@teamilkandhoneys groont do that ever again
the sheer commitment from Coley to read through all the words of this masterpiece is pure dedication to the arts!
I know, I would just scroll all the way to the bottom cuz I wouldn't have the patience to read the same 3 words over and over again.
as she should because that's what the fic deserves 😭
not allll of them...
@@e_intelligence2487 wdym??? this is a masterpiece with so many plot teists
What masterpiece? I am not criticising. It's just I am groot written everywhere! What's with this popularity and appraisal? Please explain.
I am literally in tears, whoever wrote this may just be the best author known to man, I've never seen anything quite like it, truly unique. (in all seriousness, "I," "am", and "groot" no longer sound like words & Groot was never even a word to begin with💀)
Ja mais vu (it's basically the reverse of deja vu)
Same.
i am groot doesnt sound like i am groot anymore 😭
I definitely laughed when I saw what was being read out. My sister asked if I was okay and I had to explain. I don't even know how to explain this thing.
@@crow3467 it's when something similar seems strangely new
Take a shot of water everytime she says I am Groot(we don’t want you dying of alcohol poisoning)
I would die of over-hydration if I were to do this
we'd die from water poisoning instead
@@miniewa4855 I mean the op said that they don't want us to die from alcohol poisoning and not water poisoning.... So *sips water aggressively*
Then just take a drop of water
@@ZaxorVonSkyler I injected water into my blood like anesthetic. I'm not okay. Call 911
"Popularity doesn't mean quality"
**slowly looks toward the "After" series**
Yeah , we don't talk about those
*immediately looks away in disgust*
I can't belive 14 year old me actually bought those because a former friend recommended them 😭😭🤚
@@user-uw1do5yr4n oh honey, I’m so sorry-
Should I even ask what is the "After" series?xD
AO3 houses both gems and fake bits of plastic that have been run through the microwave before being covered in flourescent sticky nail polish
and both are great
And which do you consider this fic to be?
@@tabbybarrington5352 the best gem of all bro
@@tabbybarrington5352 the diamond to precede all diamonds
@@cheorrei exactly
did i just use 14 minutes of my life listening to someone read the sentence “I am Groot” repeatedly? yes, yes i did
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🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
It's.. it literally left me sobbing. Literally none other fanfiction was capable of making ME cry hysterically but this? This one deserves an award. The writing style, the fonts the AGHHH it's so good?? Literally i want their skills so bad
Me: confused how she is going to read a whole story in less than 15 minutes
Coly: I am groot. I am groot…..
Me:….. oh. I see.
Me: I really should have seen this coming.
I knew which fic was the most kudos so my thought was mostly "you're going to spend 14 minutes on *this*?
Good job coley.
is that a marvel reference?
... i understood that reference
im gonna go now, byeeee
this is a true masterpiece, a heart-throbbing yet spicy tearjerker. i will be showing this to all of my children and their children. this piece deserves to be worshipped by all of mankind. the plot and storyline is immaculate, the relationships between the relatable and lovable characters are deep and complex. definitely an 11/10 would recommend
BYE IM CRYING TEARJERKER
how tf did i get 300 likes in 7 hours im dead
Well said buddy.
@@M1mithesilly thank you
When you read this fanfic, the raw emotion with which you read it, it nearly brings me to tears. Thoughtful of you to warn us of the NSFW part. Still one of the best works to date.
I hope one day to have a fic so notable it ends up here
@beyond your imagination i enjoyed ur mom 😩
Saaaaaame
I would feel so honored if my fic reached that level of infamy
It feels like there's an actual story behind this, but it was just replaced with these three words, repeated to the point where it becomes mere noise.
And what she said about the difficulty in getting your stuff out there... I've posted six stories so far. Five of them each have less than 50 hits, and less than 10 kudos, apiece. Then there's the one Owl House thing I wrote, which over 400 people have seen, and the kudos count is definitely over 70.
The imbalance is ridiculous, and I'm proud of it.
I have 18 stories and one blew up to 3000+ kudos the next one is 400+
@@yellowsoy2475 holy shit, congrats! What are the titles?
There will always be an imbalance. Wattpad is always talked about like it only has trash fanfics, but it's not true. I've found masterpieces in some of my favorite fandoms and even a couple incredible wips that are originals!
Though, I admit that I have a strong bias since I actually write on Wattpad (it's a journal rather than an actual fic and I'm always a little disappointed that no one reads it) and have had an account there for 3+ years
@@princessravendiamond4288 I have read some really nice stories on Wattpad but I find navigating it confusing.
@@emilyrattini8462 My 3000+ is a wip. To Ride a Stygian Tiger. MDZS fandom. 21 chapters and not sure when it’ll end XD. The other is When the Spider Meets the panthers. ATom Holland Spider-Man one shot with the tag “Peter Parker is a BTS fan….” I don’t know why I decided to go with that….
When looking for fanfic I find if you’re just browsing fewer tags are better. Select fandom, filter for 1 ship (maybe 2 if you’re picky and it’s a big fandom) and 1-3 tags including filtering in/out AU, exclude crossovers or filter out any fandoms you don’t want crossovers for, sort by kudos and go to page 3/4. That is where you will find the best fic.
k wait i’m curious why page 3/4 and not just start from 1
@@shriya9925 because the first couple of pages are usually good, but pretty bland in comparison. You start to get the more interesting premises on page 3/4, and because they’re usually not the sort of thing that would appeal to everyone, because they’re a little less basic concepts, they don’t have quite as many kudos. You can absolutely start from 1, they’ll usually still be excellent fics, but if you want something that will absolutely blow your mind I tend to find you need to go a few pages deep.
@@shriya9925 also maybe because the first few pages are the more recent ones so they might be incompleted I feel but I agree that most of the good ones are the ones after the first few pages
@@shriya9925 I find that usually the first couple pages are the ones with all the one shots or crossover fics- neither of which I’m looking for - so I’ll usually skip the first couple pages too after a quick skim through lol
Ok, so i didn't really believe you about looking in the 3/4 page, and I just went back to search the tag I was on (ranked by bookmark, filtered by pining) and OMG I'm so glad I kept searching until that fourth page, I just found some gold in there 👌🏽 so thanks!!
Similar video idea: scrolling through the most popular fanfics on the site.
Maybe the first 4-5 pages? It's interesting to see which fandoms are the most popular
i recently did something like this, but with the top 1000 fics; the most commom fandoms were harry potter, marvel, teen wolf and my hero academia (if i remember correctly)
@@teddylover878 definitely Harry Potter, if I remember. It’s been a while since I did that
Inverse of this:
Take recommendations for underrated/small fandoms, and look through the least popular fics.
Your rendition of “I am Groot” really brought me to tears. That “I am Groot.” Where groot finally found himself and was able to accept “I am Groot” completely, even if it didn’t last. Honestly a magnificent way to spend 8 minutes, this fic always brings me to tears.
was not expecting you to read the whole piece, but it is what it deserves
I showed this to a friend of mine who just got into fanfic. She was very confused.
So yeah, this was Amazing! But it would be wonderful if you made that Merlin video you mentioned 👉👈🥺
I SECOND THIS,,, merlin fandom holds a special place in my heart and their fanfics never dissapointed
MERLIN HELL YEAH
I'm about to do that too.
Wish me luck!
MERLIN
omg if coley made a merlin video i would be so happy!
@@misguided_ghost same T.T
Coley's parents outside: We have created a genius
WHAT AN AMAZING FIC. 10/10 ABSOLUTE TEAR JERKER 🤧
Was Groot having an identity crisis in this book?
They seemed so unsure at some points
I thought it was like a smut fic based on the NSFW tag lol
it's smut, apparently.
Ao3 is it’s own planet, and I adore it.
I used to be a Quotev main, but have slowly moved over to Ao3…
Needless to say, I am so happy to now be part of the lovely community that made this absolutely AMAZING reading experience possible. Truly magnificent work on the author’s part 😌 I’m surprised you were able to put the magnitude of this fic into a video.
wait there's ffs on quotev ???
Ayyye, a Quotev user! I haven’t used mine much, but it still holds a special place in my heart.
ah. quotev. i love that site. it is my only form of social media.
Ah, yes Quotev. I live there.
@@SunnflowerCanon haha omg me too
Sees title: [𝙥𝙧𝙚𝙩𝙚𝙣𝙙𝙨 𝙩𝙤 𝙗𝙚 𝙨𝙝𝙤𝙘𝙠𝙚𝙙]
oh, Ao3 users, please never change! 🥺🤭
I am literally in tears, I Am Groot is the most emotional thing I have ever read. I read it first when I was 12 years old, and it really inspired me to take up writing. Whenever I'm feeling sad, all I need to do is re-read it just to feel better. New York bestseller could never. 11/10 😩
“Popularity doesn’t mean quality”
Yeah *flashbacks to my immortal, agony in pink, DGTTB*
Edit: for your sanity, don’t cover the latter two. You’ve already done the former
every time i go on this channel's comment section y learn a new horror from the fanfic community
@@Justk1Drauhl which one did you learn of today?
Did i get too old or am I too young? I don't know know the last two
@@Berries20 agony in pink is the first super infamous fanfiction. It’s a power rangers torture fic. Dipper goes to Taco Bell is a infamous gravity falls fic
@@arrow_of_ravenclaw5155 dgttb, and found it first translated into spanish to make it worse
you will never be able to hear the phrase "I am groot" the same ever again.
This is PEAK COMEDY.
same hahahahah but its strangely good?
just listening this is making me cry. i don’t cry often, especially not for fanfics so this seriously meant a lot and just the raw emotion in here is quite beautiful.
the amount of shots you would have to take for every time coley read “i am groot” (in the fic) would be 436, so you would have alcohol poisoning 21 times over
@Marlowe Mauer are you alive
@@toasterstripes oh god they haven’t replied.
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I should tell my friend that we're going to listen to someone read a really popular fanfic and ever time she says I am Groot we have too take a shot I can't just imagine the look he'd give me
All joking aside a piece of work like this really shows how art in general works. Because it conveys a meaning (be it vague and up to interpretation) even though the words themselves have little to no meaning on their own. There is clearly something happening in that fic even thought we as readers are left to wonder what that something is. And on a fundamental level, this fic shows how we consume books because we are able to recognize an internal struggle when it is presented in the story (by bolder words and the crossed out words) or see when a character is making a mental list of facts and observations.
TLDR: even though the words themselves have no meaning the structure of the text itself hints at a storyline and I think that is absolutely genius!
Who knew "I am Groot" can carry so many emotions and meanings in this fanfiction?
The first minute hit me like a train because “Maybe a fanfic got blown up on social media” forced me to remember “The Albedo x Reader” fanfic era of Genshin tiktok. In which, I read it. Thanks for making me remember a dark time for a whole fandom.
name pls :D
I don’t even like x reader fics but I’m kinda curious now
I don't know if I should be intrigued or scared
THAT SCARRED ME OMG
@@neferpitou2687 can you tell me the name I’m really curious
huge thanks to coley for taking the time and effort to go through this heartbreaking masterpiece truly a soldier
The beautiful and lively feeling writing and your reading is just *chefs kiss*
I swear, I was just reading a fic on ao3 and the EXACT moment I clicked on the next chapter, I got the notification Coley uploaded. It was like I pressed the automatic "BamThereGoesAnotherAo3ColeyVideo" button.
I first discovered this fanfic searching for some guardians of the galaxy stuff when I stumble upon it. I thought it would be a funny little fic but I wasn’t prepared for the sheer magnificent of this fic. Like the author I had to take a break half way through from the sheer amount of emotion I felt.
Groot going through so much yet staying so happy and finally learning who he is in the most magnificent way, accepting and being proud and it was just- **chef’s kiss**
The storytelling and how you brought the story to life through your voice was so powerful! I've never heard a more moving story in all my life. I usually don't enjoy listening to audio recordings of stories, but you really sold this! The writing is a masterpiece and read out loud, it becomes even more beautiful. I was sobbing by the time the story ended. Never have a fanfic moved me in such a way. Masterful! Deserves to be put on the curriculum for all higher education schools around the world! I could definitely spend hours analyzing the story and find meaning behind each "I am Groot" 100/10.
I can't think of a single fanfic more deserving of a dramatic recitation than this one. Sheer art. 😂
Honestly when looking for the "best" fic of a fandom, go by bookmarks (especially for multiple chapters, anyway). Because:
1) Hits isn't reliable because, if it's multi-chapters, a lot of those hits are from people re-reading/reading multiple chapters. Or checking on the fic. (And no, hits don't count the author's views. I think it's because of how the draft system works. Like, whenever I'm doing something in a draft chapter rather than what's published, I can imagine it would confuse the fck out of AO3 if it tried counting that. Lol. Ergo, it's easier to just exclude the author's views on a fic entirely.)
2) Kudos tends to be a thumbs-up, but a lot of people may give a fic kudos from the first chapter, but not end up following the fic all the way through with updates, so the quality may have dropped.
3) Comments are a mixed bag. They indicate passion, but that doesn't mean good passion all the time. A fic with low stats but a high number of comments may have people arguing about the fic. Lol. That, and, AO3 counts each comment in a thread, so if there's 30-comment long discussion, that's not going to be as "popular" as a fic with 30 individual comments.
Bookmarks are reliable because that is a) someone is bookmarking to read later, and b) the bookmark number isn't even accurate. The number you see on a fic isn't the total bookmarks, it's the total *public* bookmarks. (I know this, since I write lol, and when I'm looking at the stats page, the number of bookmarks is different because the stats page also count private bookmarks. The public bookmarks tend to be ~1/4 or 1/2 of the total. Also applies to comments; the stats count comment *threads* not total comments.) Anyway. What this means is that the fics that people have bookmarked on their profile that is there to promote it, in a sense. So another good way to find good fics is actually through other people's profiles and going through their bookmarks, especially if they tag and/or add a comment within them. And bookmarks tend to be things that people will re-read as well.
Obviously, this doesn't mean that the other stats aren't important. Because of course they are. Any stat above 1,000 (except for hits; I'd go more 10,000 with that) is a "popular" fic. But, of course, it also depends on the fandom (so, like, some fandoms will consider 1,000 hits a lot, and others won't consider 10,000 to be a lot), how old the fic is, etc. But that's my piece of advice. Bookmarks are more reliable because, frankly, not everyone bookmarks everything they read, and if they do, it's not common for people to make every bookmark public.
Also, comments can be unreliable if the author answers them, as it counts in the total number of comments
@@ardentsamael1011 Yup yup. That’s kinda what I meant by discussion, but I’ve also seen fics where most of it isn’t the author. Lol. bUT yeah. Not every author answers, and some answer a lot.
@@mackennnna1234 But here's the thing: people with accounts can add kudos by either switching if they have multiple accounts, or just signing off. So even then it's not reliable. That, and there's that kudos is one of those things you can't undo, so if you give kudos at the beginning, but then a fic takes a turn you don't like, like quality or subject matter, that kudos doesn't go, but bookmarks can be undone. Hence another reason why I like bookmarks.
Now, kudos is not a bad way to do it. I think it's good, especially for one-shots or otherwise shorter stories.
Just about without fail, unless I am looking for a specific tag, like, really specific, I find an author I like, go through their bookmarks, and go from there. I almost never use the actual search feature unless I have something specific to look for.
I have over 200 book marks, but only 30 subscriptions. For some reason I feel the need to sace every fic I read and I use to do that by bookmarking. I've gotten over it now though. Also its all private bookmarks, but still. Some people do bookmark everything.
"I am Groot" no longer sounds like words to me
This fanfic made me cry so hard, props to the person that made this.
I bet I am Groot is the world’s most spicy smut. It’s just written in Groot’s language
this fic was literally so emotionally impactful that i had to pause the video and get tissues bc i couldn’t see through the tears any longer. by the end of it my chest hurt so bad because of the amount of sympathy i had over this character. when they said “I am Groot” i felt that, i took that personally, it truly changed my mindset on life because at the end of the day…i AM Groot.
Coley I feel you are factually and contractually obligated to do the pod fic for this fic, your narration just adds so much raw, real ness to the already amazingly emotional and turmotiolous story. Truly I can’t imagine any other voice for the characters, you are truly amazing at this
The way this story just ascend beyond everything is amazing. Each word that Coley says is like listening to the holy word. The emotion in her voice is phenomenal
Wonderful. Amazing. Transcendent. Show-stopping. Fantastic. Truly the best thing to grace this universe.
I'm literally crying 😭😭😭 the raw emotion in this fic is immeasurable... I. Am. Groot.
We All Are Groot
@@DLCS-2 and so no one is Groot.
Honestly I was like one paragraph in when I finally realized what I was hearing. I thought that was the emotional starting of an actual sad story, I. Thought. This. Was. Real.
A literary masterpiece read with such emotion. Amazing, I kudos this video
That fic was such a masterpiece tho I gotta say my favorite part was "I am Groot"
Ok I think we all know this fic is a masterpiece, but the reading of it was absolutely stunning. I shed tears, which wouldn't have happened without Coleys absolutely stunning voice
This was so poetic, inspiring, and it had just enough angst to make the perfect story :’) it made me cry at one point.
I can't stop the tears
that one part ("I am Groot") really captivated me, the author must be going through something serious rn
Coley is my comfort RUclipsr, she makes me feel inexpalainably safe
Absolutely hysterical. Already knowing the punchline made it even better somehow 😂
Wow. I’d just like to say thank you - I’ve come back to this fic countless times but the sheer passion and emotion you read it with gave it a new lease of life. I didn’t think I could cry anymore, but here I am (two words which no longer make any sense)
i like the part where groot said "its grootin' time" and grooted all over the place, definitely one of the fanfictions of all time
Phenomenal. Astounding. Tear-jerking.
This reading has changed me the amount of emotional impact and amazing message and time the author put in such a revolutionary story.
It shall forever remain in my mind a as a story that has changed millions of lives.
This fanfic left me crying and screaming. The way that Groot’s existential crisis is delivered is so heartbreaking and beautiful. He’s having such a hard time and no one else notices! This just brings tears to my eyes. It’s a heart wrenching, yet spicy, incredulous horrifying tearjerker. No other fox ever could compare!
Whoever wrote this was a genius I swear. GET THEM A BOOK DEAL RIGHT NOW. Thank you Coley for showing this masterpiece to the world.
Still makes me cry after all these years. So glad for your dramatic reading bringing this masterpiece to the wider world 🫡
When the fic went 'I am Groot' I felt that.
i don't think i'll be able to emotionally recover from such a sophisticated and heart wrenching piece of literature. the development, introspection, and understanding Groot exhibits throughout this moving story is awe inspiring, and it leaves us with a bittersweet taste in our mouths. i'll be thinking about this magnificent, museum worthy tale for weeks
I may have already read this fic and left kudos but hearing it spoken out loud just magnifies the sheer emotion that it evokes :')
SOBBING THIS FIC IS A MASTERPIECE!!11!! 😭
i thought this was about all the young dudes and got really excited for a second lslalaskskkskskska
ha same
A legendary fic I'd only ever heard of in passing. Thank you, Coley, for blessing my ears. I can't believe I waited so long to find this one, but I'm so grateful for your beautiful and heartwrenching reading of it. Truly a masterpiece of literature that may someday grow to be mentioned in the same sentence as classics such ad The Illiad and Les Miserables.
When she read the part where he said, "I am groot," I started sobbing. My heart hurts so much. Such a bittersweet ending 😢
This was beautiful. The raw emotion visible while you were reading this eye catching masterpiece was phenomenal. It showed us how one can be so sure of something and when they truly think it over and go through all the opinions they've heard that their mind may change and that's okay. I am grateful I was able to listen to this piece of art. Shakespeare would be proud.
Okay this was beautiful!~
In sobbing. This fic is so wonderful and does absolutely not disappoint. The plot is so compelling and fulfilling. It deserves being put on display in a glass case in heaven because thats just how good it is. Im in complete and utter awe at this work at art. I Am Groot is just so wonderful. It has it all. Angst, becoming courage and determination. The ending is perfect as well. It doesnt leave us confused or upset or disappointed. A masterpiece. I could write an essay just on how wonderful this is. Truly amazing.
the reading drove me to tears. thank you for this masterpiece.
I don't really check Ao3 stats until recently but...i was pretty sure that by the time this video released, All The Young Dudes surpassed this fic. Still, the "I am Groot, I am Groot, I am Groot." Touched my soul
THEY DID NOT. How could someone write this masterpiece? I want to be this good someday. I'm not crying, nah.
Wonderfull, this is beyond my high expectation. The part where groot say "I am groot" really hits me
Yknow, as someone who has never read this, you actually fooled me with saying this was a literary masterpiece 😂
It is a masterpiece though, the raw emotion and detail in the fic is amazing.
Same lol
This is gorgeous. You can hear the question in his voice despite the fact that he is continuing to reaffirm himself of his identity . This is gorgeous and for anyone who has ever felt unsure of themselves. I love this so much. "I am Groot" YES YOU ARE GROOT!!!!!
THANK YOU SO MUCH COLEY I LOVE YOUR VIDEOS
Ooohh let’s see which fanfic it is
Edit 6 months later: I have no memory of this comment or this video.
I am Groot. I knew which it was when the title was shown. And my god I love your dedication in reading it from start to finish, depravity and all.
I love this fic so much
“I am Groot” is the equivalent to Poppy and General Aladeen changing 300 Wadiyan and Earthling words to *”I am Aladeen” and “I am Poppy!“*
I cannot believe you actually read this whole thing lmaooo it's a masterpiece
The part where she said "I am Groot?" at the end was such an emotional plot twist I was legit crying 😭Seriously the most touching fanfic I've ever seen 😢💕 Coley thank you so much for showing us this amazing fic 😊
I'll never not love this fic. It got so popular so fast that I commented on it the day after it was posted and my comment doesn't appear until page six. And your reading is EXQUISITE.
thank you coley for this stellar interpretation, i didn't think anyone could do this fic justice but you did! i was hooked from the beginning right until the end
I'm writing a fic that is 1 mil words.
Very good.
For real?
@@emmae2520 yes
How long have you been updating it?
@Lace S. Two, fandoms. A crossover.
Two works of Studio trigger, a certain, really horni japanese anime studio, that also somehow makes the best shit on the market.
I love them, because they don't shy away from sexual themes, in fact they do the opposite throwing them at you like some baseball game.
This is demonstrated perfectly in their two magnum opus. Kill la kill and darling in the franxx, the fandoms I'm writing for.
They are two similar series, one day I stumbled upon a really bad, but at the same a fic which was the catalyst to me making the crossover. It was between the same fandoms, but didn't do anything. It was good, but increadibly superficial, pretty much no charecter development, besides rehashes of the plot line of one of the series.
It's honestly about everything.
From ideology, to beliefs, relationships and why they are important, masseges crancked up to the question of should you you keep going up and up and up, even if it makes the lives of your collegues a living hell. Hidden under layers upon layers of anime ecchi irony.
Narritive elemts, involving charecters pusihng up to psycological horror level. PTSD. Dosisiative identity dissorder. Every fear under the book.
Making fun of every single anime shounen under the sun, including itself.
Having so many, yet so few, tropes, that in itself, it makes fun off, and also emeraces.
But I'm bad at describing how charecters look.
Sad.
@@emmae2520 Just an year. It's only a mil words, with my buffer chapters, which in themselves. Are 300k words. I'm saving them in case I break my chin or somthin and I can't update for a long, long time.
This fanfic is so beautiful, it made me cry.
This is the best fanfic ever to be written. All the emotion you put into reading was amazing.
This fic brings tears to my eyes every single time 😢
the fact she managed to read this entire fic without bursting into tears even once.. her power
thank you, coley! i was waiting for the audiobook 🥹
COLEY!!! My gods the sheer _dedication_ reading this entire masterpiece aloud for us?!? Your powers are unsurpassed, we will never deserve you
I was shaking halfway through the story please this must be the most amazing thing I have ever heard bless you Coley for sharing this groundbreaking story with us all
I...honestly don't know what else I was expecting.
I am sobBING this fic tore me apart piece by piece