One reason for Millie talking over people is that she's deaf in one ear. I remember in an interview she said that sometimes she really didn't hear her co-stars. Knowing that, it's even more wild hating on her
Also, looking at the clips you jsut showed, reminded me that no one told the boys they were too loud or speaking over others. Millie was clearly the same as them, copying their behaviour and being "boyish" and loud as we all are as kids and especially when around a lot of boys. But SHE was the only one to receive backlash. It sounds to me like people were just annoyed seeing a young girl after that way, instead of being quiet and humble.
and she is Deaf in one ear, I know from personal experience that when you are hard of hearing sometimes you cant always hear others, or yourself. so that’s just another point.
Stranger things fandom is so wild but also unbelievably hilarious....I will never get over that one fangirl that got so obviously catfished by some rando posing as Dacre Montgomery and then went on news to complain
Steve being a mother to those kids will never not make me giggle I’ve seen so many edits to the song “a single mom who works two jobs” and it hits every single time
The best example of a show that focused entirely on creative efforts and refused to go longer is The Good Place. Was always pictured as a 4 season story, and it was done perfectly, then ended.
Drew actually included a bit of one of your videos in his video! He was quite positive abt it, even though most of the video was a critique of long videos. He implied that your videos are long because you and some anther specific creators are really passionate about what you make, not because of a quota. I think it was a compliment 😊
@@AmandaTodhunterOfficial Didn’t you say you didn’t even watch the video 😭 The commenter is right, he was talking about your videos in a positive light
i actually really dont like hopper and joyce together. their friendship was really nice and wholesome before, and i resent the notion that media puts out there that a man and a woman on screen together MUST be in a relationship. it’s stupid and getting more and more annoying as i see it happen in nearly every show
I agree with this. A few years ago I thought they were cute, but the more I thought about it I preferred them as friends. They don’t rlly have chemistry romantically I think? It just felt kinda forced in s4
@annabethchase Yeah I was on the fence about their relationship and then season 3 happened and Hopper was whining about how she wasn’t over her Bob, who died a year ago, and how she needs to move on. And only because he has feelings for her. Like sorry that her grief is not working on your preferred timeline Hopper. I thought that him having experienced a huge loss would make him more sympathetic to her grieving. Also he just does not seem to even consider that maybe it’s not just the grief but that she doesn’t feel the same way about him. And Hopper already had a great death at the end of the season and bringing him back was just bad writing.
I also feel like every season they reboot Hopper's character. He starts all tough and angry then by the end learns love is the true strength. But then next season he's back to angry Hopper and has to learn the same lesson again.
jancy really is the epitome of true love just based on the fact that the characters, charlie and natalia, their photodoubles, and their portuguese voice dub actors are all dating… like that’s insane. no other actors from that show have dated. only people who have played jancy. pretty big coincidence!
@@Miles-i1q and me and my sister have similarities but to meet my sister and then assume you know me would still be inaccurate because you don't yet KNOW that we're similar. An accurate belief with no basis is an inaccurate belief.
if you're asking if 5 seasons was in the cards from the VERY beginning - no. season one was supposed to be standalone, with the duffer brothers potentially interested in making more seasons as part of an anthology series (each season following new characters with a new story). however, after it was decided that they would be following the same characters, i think (?) the plan was either four or five seasons, meaning that season five being the final season is on track. though if you ask me i don't think they knew where they were going with those four or five seasons :-/. some elements to be sure but other things feel very "came up with in between seasons in response to fan reception". edit - i want to give my two cents on the ronance ship, as a lesbian: i don't like it :-(. not only do i simply not see it, personally, but also it feels very. uh. "this female character that 'gets in the way' of my gay ship is a lesbian", if you get me, as well as "pair the canonical lesbian with the first girl she interacts with regardless of chemistry".
i feel like i might be the only person who would have preferred this specific story ending on season 1. it would have been cool to make seasons about different characters in completely different stories but once again, i think i’m in the minority for that lol
@@mr.bingusthecat yea tbh. while i didn’t always think this way i think it would have been better to leave it at s1. or even s2. s1 was simply as close to perfect as a show could get.
imo if byler doesnt happen, the way mikes character & the mileven arc are written dont make sense😭 also when it comes to the dialogue, set design, lighting, every component in film production is 100% purposeful so all the little clues are NOT just coincidence 😋
i am sorry, but imo, i don't think byler will happen. and i am speaking as someone who doesn't care about mileven either😭 the writing has become worse already since season 1, and since the duffer brothers have been resurrecting controversial old sparks in the form of stancy (something most of the fandom doesn't want), i don't think we can bet high money that byler will happen
Regarding Toph; Just to clarify, I heard somewhere that they were trying to find blind Asian actresses but its a very small demographic of actresses that are in that category so they chose the next best thing
Not to mention how difficult it would be to direct an actual blind person who can't fight. Can you imagine if Daredevil was played by an actual blind person. I think casting a blind person in a role of someone who can't see is fine, but toph and Daredevil can see. The logistics of that would make it very difficult on the production
@@neb.9489 didn't say they couldn't, I said it'd be difficult. And a lot of productions would rather not deal with that. Also for such a physically demanding role as toph (Or Daredevil) it doesn't make sense to cast an actual blind person because the role would require them to actually see, given that they can both see. Just not with eyes. I can just imagine directing a stunt that requires the face to be visible.
11:20 Millie Bobby Brown recording herself pretending to put on her own skin care line & uploading that to promote it, makes her a certified camp queen to me ✨🤷♂️
Amanda... Do you not know that The NeverEnding Story is a 1984 film and the two of them were simply singing the main theme song to the movie? It's one of the most iconic pop culture movies of all time... My God I'm old. ⚰️
i’m not really “old” but my dad showed me that movie when i was young and it still one of my favorites and was actually top of my list for a long time but every time i told people my favorite movie they would have to search it up🥲
I know every OUNCE of every possible piece of lore in this show. I genuinely have an unhealthy obsession with this show. i've read so much fanfiction of it to that I consider things that aren't in it canon 😭
Isn’t he going to college? I wonder if he’ll pull a Harper from Wizards of Waverley place and just take his child star money and run. Especially since he’s not exactly loved by the general public
I don't know if you're on Tumblr much, but the byler fandom on there is INSANE (mostly in a positive way) The whole "when blue meets yellow in the west" thing took off like crazy And theres actually a PowerPoint of 'Byler evidence' that has like 400 slides
stop the way you switch from show to show in the middle of talking about stranger things is too funny like went from s.t to outer banks in like 2 seconds 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
you are such a refreshing youtuber and such a breath of fresh air because of how many overly critical youtubers i’ve seen, it’s so nice to see someone just enjoying things and not being so harsh lol, while also being very good at commenting on things! i lobe you!
stranger things was the very first fandom i joined so i appreciate this vid for reminding me of some things that i completely forgot happened🙏 thank you amanda we all say in unison!!!!
I believe Gravity Falls was always meant to end after S2, Alex said he didn't want it to overstay it's welcome. I would also love a deep dive on it from you!
last halloween i posted an eddie cosplay and most of the videos did okay but one fucking blew up and i still get comments calling me cringe which is insane 😭😂 banger video as always /gen
I remember the day before ST4 came out I was looking through twitter and I saw someone post a character poster of Eddie with the caption “you’re not ready for this character…”
I've never even watched the show and I've acknowledged how it's pretty much the SpongeBob or Teen Titans Go of Netflix. They're gonna milk this show for all its' worth, long after it's over and it IS almost over! And they have so many other shows they care less about than Stranger Things who have their storylines across multiple seasons planned out but they get cancelled anyway.
during bylers hype, it got really crazy. there was this whole controversy with s4 scripts bc the fandom rlly wanted to pick apart the subtext of byler’s interaction. so there was this one guy who would claim to have the scripts and charge for them to like “fundraise” to get access to them. but when it came to a particular script, it took a really long time to come out. like multiple times the release was pushed back. and then the fandom started to get rlly suspicious as to if he actually even had access to them or if he was writing them himself. and it turns out, he was. he was writing the scripts and posing as if they were official scripts. it literally took the official stranger things account to come out with the official scripts to reveal that the other guy was duping and fucking conning everyone. it was INSANE. the byler script controversy was a moment in time 😭. i remember being there for all of it. the hashtags were literally trending worldwide. byler was the last time i’ve had so much fun in a fandom just dissecting how byler interacted and how it could possibly be canon. (obvi i don’t really trust the duffle bags to give the fandom what they want but here’s to hoping bc i think it would make a lot of sense. regardless of if they don’t end up together, i hope mileven isn’t endgame bc eleven really needs to figure out who she is without mike.)
crazy how i never watched the show until i listened to ‘roddy’ by djo back when he released it and found out it was the ice cream dude from stranger things things
Hey Amanda! I haven’t seen Stranger Things but I love your channel, and I can answer your question about Mormons haha. I’m not Mormon/LDS, but I grew up in Utah, so I’ve picked some stuff up. There are so many Mormons in Utah for causation reasons - basically, when the religion was founded in the 1800s, they faced a lot of religious persecution (mainly because of their practice of polygamy and because so many of them would move to a town that the locals were afraid of them essentially taking over the government). The founder, Joseph Smith, was actually killed in prison before they got to Utah. The rest of the Mormons decided to settle near the Great Salt Lake, which I believe wasn’t part of the United States at the time. They named their territory Deseret, but when it was purchased by the US and made a state, the government shrank the size of the territory significantly and renamed it Utah after the Ute Tribe. Now something like 60% or more of Utah is Mormon, and Mormon culture has a huge influence on the state. Polygamy was obviously outlawed, but the tradition of having lots of kids is still very much a thing here, and there’s a huge emphasis on traditional family culture. Most Mormons aren’t as crazy as the people in TSLoMW though hahaha
As someone that studied religion, I was mentally preparing myself to answer this question but I think you’ve pretty much covered it! So co-signing this as a religious studies academic.😊
steddie has always baffled me since the reality is that steve and eddie's dynamic begins and ends at "friend-of-a-friend" 😬 buuuut tale as old as time, the second any fandom sees two attractive men in a scene together, they magically become free game to completely mischaracterize so they can ship them
That's not actually true. Alex Hirsch always planned for it be two seasons, but he started to get burned out while making season 1 and almost ended it there, but was convinced to keep going to finish out the story.
@@dimitree887 No. It's different. There was always meant to be two seasons. He signed on with Disney and started making the show with that intention. It wasn't that he started with one and other people convinced him to make a second one. He wanted to quit early and people convinced him to keep going. It's misleading to say those two things are the same.
@@raven_moonshine39 you said he was convinced to make a second one so therefore he never signed anything to make a second one. He was convinced into making a new one? By what? His contract?
@@dimitree887 I wasn't there. I don't know the details. All I know is he has said that he wrote it and was signed on to do two seasons, got burnt out while making seasons one, wanted to quit, and people convinced him to stay and finish.
why?? also i dont think she mentioned that because it came out in 2017 and st came out in 2016, and she was talking about his career before he was casted as mike. i dont see how that would even be a bad thing if she did mention him being in it lol
@@rainyday_7654 yeah thank you I just mean in the original introduction of the characters when she lists what they had done prior at the beginning of the vid
jacob sartorious liked my comment from like 3 months ago around the time i woke up yesterday, so i think this means i am one person away from millie now in a very roundabout way
57:27 I’m almost certain you didn’t mean this in a rude way, but saying for context that Noah is Jewish and therefore makes sense he’s a Zionist is harmful to say. There are non Jewish people who are Zionist, and there are Jewish people who aren’t. Judaism doesn’t equal Zionism, and we shouldn’t push that rhetoric, as it shines a negative light on all Jewish people.
Being apart of the fandom at its peak during season 1 and 2 was insane I’ve shipped everything at this point , got into many arguments defending characters/actors, and ofc made edits and had a fan acct on instagram there was alwayssss so much drama and anything the kids did people had something to say I can’t imagine being in their shoes
I have NEVER watched this show nonetheless even ever wanted to and I have 0 clue who any of the actors are at all... BUT I absolutely adore Amanda so it's a win ❤
i haven't really read a lot of steddie since fall of 2022 despite them being my hands down stanger things otp but when you said out of my gourd i had a physical reaction lol
i literally forgot how influential stranger things had been in my life like i literally became a fangirl and genuinely excited about a fandom for the first time and i learned english watching those interviews
13:02 a HUGE portion of utah is mormons because they had faced persecution from other states where polygamy was extremely looked down upon, or because there wasn't an already established group of colinizers. in the 1800s, the future president of the mormon church and governer of utah, moved a large community of mormons to what will become utah in the future, because of tensions from other illinois residents. they chose utah because there was a lower population than other states and territories nearby. (besides the indigenous tribes that had been there for THOUSANDS of years already)
the stranger things fandom lowkey the worst place on earth. the reddit is awful (and extremely homophobic) and st twitter is just constant fighting.. tumblr is the only decent place
omg this brought back crazy memories. i was 13 when the movie it came out and id already watched stranger things at that point. both fandoms were so closely linked during that time, it seemed like everyone watched both stranger things and it but of course after i watched them i had to be a weird little freak about it lol. the drew and enya mention actually scared me, it was like you crawled into my brain and pulled out my early teenage memories. drew’s no enya week video is still one of my favourite videos on this website
im not sure if anyone has said this or not yet but i believe the duffer bros intended for the show to be either a miniseries or anthology. there’s a really great video by friendly space ninja titled “The frustrating decline of stranger things” and they kind of analyze what was written at the time each season was in production. it’s all very interesting to think about, it’s hard to believe the series could have a satisfying end when the story being told has adapted so much. idk but here’s hoping 🤞
HEY!!! Did you know that the actor for Steve does music. He’s the one that made “end of beginning” song. The one that goes “cause when I’m back in Chicago I feel it”
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One reason for Millie talking over people is that she's deaf in one ear. I remember in an interview she said that sometimes she really didn't hear her co-stars. Knowing that, it's even more wild hating on her
The story about Caleb not getting as many visitors at Comic Con BROKE MY HEART
SO BADD
My hot take is he’s the best actor of the bunch. I really want to see his career take off. He just melts right into his roles.
Also, looking at the clips you jsut showed, reminded me that no one told the boys they were too loud or speaking over others. Millie was clearly the same as them, copying their behaviour and being "boyish" and loud as we all are as kids and especially when around a lot of boys. But SHE was the only one to receive backlash. It sounds to me like people were just annoyed seeing a young girl after that way, instead of being quiet and humble.
So true 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
and she is Deaf in one ear, I know from personal experience that when you are hard of hearing sometimes you cant always hear others, or yourself. so that’s just another point.
Stranger things fandom is so wild but also unbelievably hilarious....I will never get over that one fangirl that got so obviously catfished by some rando posing as Dacre Montgomery and then went on news to complain
This didn't actually happen!? Oh my gods...
@@Nunyah-Arbys I wish I was making this up but no it's real, just search "Dacre Montgomery catfish" and you'll get more than enough videos about it
@@Nunyah-Arbys Wish I was making it up but no it's 100% real just search "Dacre Montgomery catfish"
THAT WAS INSANE
Steve being a mother to those kids will never not make me giggle I’ve seen so many edits to the song “a single mom who works two jobs” and it hits every single time
The best example of a show that focused entirely on creative efforts and refused to go longer is The Good Place. Was always pictured as a 4 season story, and it was done perfectly, then ended.
That show is so incredible. One of the best tv shows ever. The twists and turns are great. And that final episode has me sobbing every time. 🥲
And thats why it had a great ending and never felt slow or rushed 🫶
Stranger things wasn’t too good after season 1
Drew actually included a bit of one of your videos in his video! He was quite positive abt it, even though most of the video was a critique of long videos. He implied that your videos are long because you and some anther specific creators are really passionate about what you make, not because of a quota. I think it was a compliment 😊
babe i don't think he did
I think you’re getting mixed up with Ashley Norton
I saw that! She slays and the vid was a good watch regardless, highly recommend 🕺
@@AmandaTodhunterOfficialshe does slay! Both of your commentary videos/video essays are my faves when I need to wind down :)
@@AmandaTodhunterOfficial Didn’t you say you didn’t even watch the video 😭 The commenter is right, he was talking about your videos in a positive light
i actually really dont like hopper and joyce together. their friendship was really nice and wholesome before, and i resent the notion that media puts out there that a man and a woman on screen together MUST be in a relationship. it’s stupid and getting more and more annoying as i see it happen in nearly every show
I agree with this. A few years ago I thought they were cute, but the more I thought about it I preferred them as friends. They don’t rlly have chemistry romantically I think? It just felt kinda forced in s4
@annabethchase Yeah I was on the fence about their relationship and then season 3 happened and Hopper was whining about how she wasn’t over her Bob, who died a year ago, and how she needs to move on. And only because he has feelings for her.
Like sorry that her grief is not working on your preferred timeline Hopper. I thought that him having experienced a huge loss would make him more sympathetic to her grieving.
Also he just does not seem to even consider that maybe it’s not just the grief but that she doesn’t feel the same way about him.
And Hopper already had a great death at the end of the season and bringing him back was just bad writing.
i also agree with this but mostly because Hopper should be with ME
I also feel like every season they reboot Hopper's character. He starts all tough and angry then by the end learns love is the true strength. But then next season he's back to angry Hopper and has to learn the same lesson again.
jancy really is the epitome of true love just based on the fact that the characters, charlie and natalia, their photodoubles, and their portuguese voice dub actors are all dating… like that’s insane. no other actors from that show have dated. only people who have played jancy. pretty big coincidence!
that's hilarious!
Wait lol actually 😂😂😂
“I’m not against lesbians… currently… would like to be…” What do you mean by that Amanda? 🤨💅
physically against?
can you PLEASEE do a gravity falls deepdive omg. like even if its a fandom centered vid or just the show i would love to see you make a vid abt it 😭😭
yes omg im so hyperfixated on gravity falls rn i would do anything for amanda to do a vid on it😭🙏
RIGHTTT
I was DEEP into the fandom from 2012-2016 on tumblr
Ive seen it all, i need a recap so i can live through it again lol
I’d sell my soul
yesss
10/10 yap i fear
enjoyed doing chores to this
"Caleb and Gaten slayed it" 😁
"Finn and Noah were...present" 😐
this is why i'm subscribed
12:30 it actually was confirmed by the duffer brothers (and noah and finn) that will is in love with mike, not rly surprising tho lol 😭😭😭😭
it was so obvious that Noah came out irl and everyone just went "yeah we know"
@@MarinaInChainsa character and actor are different
@@MarinaInChains ????
@@sagejennings4342on Noah’s coming out video he out in the caption “guess I’m more like will then I thought”
@@Miles-i1q and me and my sister have similarities but to meet my sister and then assume you know me would still be inaccurate because you don't yet KNOW that we're similar. An accurate belief with no basis is an inaccurate belief.
I can confirm, I want the longer videos.
I can’t be picking a new video every 10 minutes when I’m eating drawings for playing a game
if you're asking if 5 seasons was in the cards from the VERY beginning - no. season one was supposed to be standalone, with the duffer brothers potentially interested in making more seasons as part of an anthology series (each season following new characters with a new story). however, after it was decided that they would be following the same characters, i think (?) the plan was either four or five seasons, meaning that season five being the final season is on track. though if you ask me i don't think they knew where they were going with those four or five seasons :-/. some elements to be sure but other things feel very "came up with in between seasons in response to fan reception".
edit - i want to give my two cents on the ronance ship, as a lesbian: i don't like it :-(. not only do i simply not see it, personally, but also it feels very. uh. "this female character that 'gets in the way' of my gay ship is a lesbian", if you get me, as well as "pair the canonical lesbian with the first girl she interacts with regardless of chemistry".
i feel like i might be the only person who would have preferred this specific story ending on season 1. it would have been cool to make seasons about different characters in completely different stories but once again, i think i’m in the minority for that lol
@@mr.bingusthecat yea tbh. while i didn’t always think this way i think it would have been better to leave it at s1. or even s2. s1 was simply as close to perfect as a show could get.
as a lesbian who doesn't like the ronance ship either... this makes me feel so seen lol
Babe wake up, Amanda x stranger things lore just dropped
IM AWAKE AND IM READY
omg I was hoping you’d do this actually!! fandom culture is SO convoluted 😭
FRRR😭😭🧎♀️🎉
gaten dying at the "is joe keery pregnant" killed me
The Byler vs Mileven war will go on until S5, im proudly standing with Byler becoming canon
Byler honestly would be objectively a much more interesting arc for Mike's character too tho
@@bellarose4719yeah fr. eleven’s character dulls mike i think. he was wayyy more interesting in s1 and s2 imo because he wasnt with eleven
imo if byler doesnt happen, the way mikes character & the mileven arc are written dont make sense😭 also when it comes to the dialogue, set design, lighting, every component in film production is 100% purposeful so all the little clues are NOT just coincidence 😋
@@oreoluverr if byler doesnt happen then its just bad writing and mike is an a*shole
i am sorry, but imo, i don't think byler will happen. and i am speaking as someone who doesn't care about mileven either😭 the writing has become worse already since season 1, and since the duffer brothers have been resurrecting controversial old sparks in the form of stancy (something most of the fandom doesn't want), i don't think we can bet high money that byler will happen
Regarding Toph; Just to clarify, I heard somewhere that they were trying to find blind Asian actresses but its a very small demographic of actresses that are in that category so they chose the next best thing
Not to mention how difficult it would be to direct an actual blind person who can't fight. Can you imagine if Daredevil was played by an actual blind person. I think casting a blind person in a role of someone who can't see is fine, but toph and Daredevil can see. The logistics of that would make it very difficult on the production
@@misguidedrocket2193visually impaired ≠ blind
@@misguidedrocket2193With the right directors, it shouldn’t be too hard. Visually impaired people can still follow direction.
@@neb.9489 didn't say they couldn't, I said it'd be difficult. And a lot of productions would rather not deal with that. Also for such a physically demanding role as toph (Or Daredevil) it doesn't make sense to cast an actual blind person because the role would require them to actually see, given that they can both see. Just not with eyes. I can just imagine directing a stunt that requires the face to be visible.
Or hire someone who can see its even easier
Lol I love old RUclips compilations. I watched those “stranger things on crack” videos religiously
god same, the one here just made me so happy lol
11:20 Millie Bobby Brown recording herself pretending to put on her own skin care line & uploading that to promote it, makes her a certified camp queen to me ✨🤷♂️
Amanda... Do you not know that The NeverEnding Story is a 1984 film and the two of them were simply singing the main theme song to the movie? It's one of the most iconic pop culture movies of all time... My God I'm old. ⚰️
i’m not really “old” but my dad showed me that movie when i was young and it still one of my favorites and was actually top of my list for a long time but every time i told people my favorite movie they would have to search it up🥲
I didn't even know what that was all about 😅
Love that movie I thought that was obvious
She would if she actually did like,,, decent research for these videos instead of just pumping them out.
You are not old for knowing that movie! I am 20!!! I love that movie!!! People are just uneducated…
the compilation of clips made me so nostalgic you don’t understand 🥹 Also this video is so good!
I know every OUNCE of every possible piece of lore in this show. I genuinely have an unhealthy obsession with this show. i've read so much fanfiction of it to that I consider things that aren't in it canon 😭
when someone has teal walls in their room yk you can trust their fandom video 🙌🙌
LMAOO FRRR
I’m kinda interested to see Noah Schnapp's acting career or lack of acting career after Stranger Things.
him being a zionist should ruin his career
Isn’t he going to college? I wonder if he’ll pull a Harper from Wizards of Waverley place and just take his child star money and run. Especially since he’s not exactly loved by the general public
@@ElizabethEddelmanJennifer Stone (Harper) is a nurse now! She works in the ER (just wanted to share, idk if you already know)
@@GlitchyXion yes sorry that’s what I meant by that comment. She took her Disney money and used it to pay for college, or “run” away from the industry
Noah was already a millionaire before stranger Things and he studies at an ivy league university
the thing is gracie didnt even SAY "down bad." she said DOWN. meaning she was down to 😨 finn. crazy
LITERALLY, idk how ppl gloss over that
I don't know if you're on Tumblr much, but the byler fandom on there is INSANE (mostly in a positive way)
The whole "when blue meets yellow in the west" thing took off like crazy
And theres actually a PowerPoint of 'Byler evidence' that has like 400 slides
stop the way you switch from show to show in the middle of talking about stranger things is too funny like went from s.t to outer banks in like 2 seconds 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
Now this is the kind of content we need
The interview clips of the kids are so cute cuz they’re literally just little kids having fun together
i’ve watched stranger things like 1billion times but i still wanna watch this and act like i know nothing about the show bc why not
you are such a refreshing youtuber and such a breath of fresh air because of how many overly critical youtubers i’ve seen, it’s so nice to see someone just enjoying things and not being so harsh lol, while also being very good at commenting on things! i lobe you!
stranger things was the very first fandom i joined so i appreciate this vid for reminding me of some things that i completely forgot happened🙏 thank you amanda we all say in unison!!!!
I believe Gravity Falls was always meant to end after S2, Alex said he didn't want it to overstay it's welcome. I would also love a deep dive on it from you!
Chrissy wake up was my ex boyfriend’s alarm (it still might be)
you have no idea of the hidden memories you've awakened in me by showing the st cast RUclips compilation
i was playing this video in 1.5x which made the 6 minute compilation hilarious
Omg I remember watching ur video called “stranger things from Will Byers’ perspective” I knew I recognized u from somewhere ‼️ I love this video 10/10
“Not abbey lee millers dog” took me out 😂☠️ these videos are my fave!
Fun fact : Finn Wolfhard is in Smiling Friends. It's the first episode and he plays the guy behind the wall.
as someone who stopped watching after the first season bc the fandom was immediately overwhelming, this is perfect for me
last halloween i posted an eddie cosplay and most of the videos did okay but one fucking blew up and i still get comments calling me cringe which is insane 😭😂 banger video as always /gen
I remember the day before ST4 came out I was looking through twitter and I saw someone post a character poster of Eddie with the caption “you’re not ready for this character…”
Woah havent heard of stranger things in a long while
I was doing laundry as I listen to this. I enjoyed the video
MANUEL BOZA!!! HOW DID I FIND THIS!!
i'm so glad
@@AmandaTodhunterOfficial I luv your videos :D
I've never even watched the show and I've acknowledged how it's pretty much the SpongeBob or Teen Titans Go of Netflix. They're gonna milk this show for all its' worth, long after it's over and it IS almost over! And they have so many other shows they care less about than Stranger Things who have their storylines across multiple seasons planned out but they get cancelled anyway.
during bylers hype, it got really crazy. there was this whole controversy with s4 scripts bc the fandom rlly wanted to pick apart the subtext of byler’s interaction. so there was this one guy who would claim to have the scripts and charge for them to like “fundraise” to get access to them. but when it came to a particular script, it took a really long time to come out. like multiple times the release was pushed back. and then the fandom started to get rlly suspicious as to if he actually even had access to them or if he was writing them himself. and it turns out, he was. he was writing the scripts and posing as if they were official scripts. it literally took the official stranger things account to come out with the official scripts to reveal that the other guy was duping and fucking conning everyone. it was INSANE. the byler script controversy was a moment in time 😭. i remember being there for all of it. the hashtags were literally trending worldwide. byler was the last time i’ve had so much fun in a fandom just dissecting how byler interacted and how it could possibly be canon. (obvi i don’t really trust the duffle bags to give the fandom what they want but here’s to hoping bc i think it would make a lot of sense. regardless of if they don’t end up together, i hope mileven isn’t endgame bc eleven really needs to figure out who she is without mike.)
Wdym by she needs to “figure herself out” did she not already do this with max
I REMEMBER THIS AND BEING SO CRAZY ABT IT OH MY GODDD
I used to love Noah before he became zionist it was really sad
It wasss!! I absolutely loved Noah I never actually been so devastated 😭
am i delusional or did millie cook on the stranger things rap lol
crazy how i never watched the show until i listened to ‘roddy’ by djo back when he released it and found out it was the ice cream dude from stranger things things
I started listening to Djo this summer and am now realizing it’s Joe Kerry. 😅 Chateau was the song that hooked me into his music.
we are so back with this one
AMANDA AND STRANGER THINGS POST YEAHHHHH EVERYONE CHEERED
Hey Amanda! I haven’t seen Stranger Things but I love your channel, and I can answer your question about Mormons haha. I’m not Mormon/LDS, but I grew up in Utah, so I’ve picked some stuff up. There are so many Mormons in Utah for causation reasons - basically, when the religion was founded in the 1800s, they faced a lot of religious persecution (mainly because of their practice of polygamy and because so many of them would move to a town that the locals were afraid of them essentially taking over the government). The founder, Joseph Smith, was actually killed in prison before they got to Utah. The rest of the Mormons decided to settle near the Great Salt Lake, which I believe wasn’t part of the United States at the time. They named their territory Deseret, but when it was purchased by the US and made a state, the government shrank the size of the territory significantly and renamed it Utah after the Ute Tribe. Now something like 60% or more of Utah is Mormon, and Mormon culture has a huge influence on the state. Polygamy was obviously outlawed, but the tradition of having lots of kids is still very much a thing here, and there’s a huge emphasis on traditional family culture. Most Mormons aren’t as crazy as the people in TSLoMW though hahaha
As someone that studied religion, I was mentally preparing myself to answer this question but I think you’ve pretty much covered it! So co-signing this as a religious studies academic.😊
steddie has always baffled me since the reality is that steve and eddie's dynamic begins and ends at "friend-of-a-friend" 😬 buuuut tale as old as time, the second any fandom sees two attractive men in a scene together, they magically become free game to completely mischaracterize so they can ship them
Fun fact gravity falls was actually supposed to be only 1 season long but people wanted him to make a second one
That's not actually true. Alex Hirsch always planned for it be two seasons, but he started to get burned out while making season 1 and almost ended it there, but was convinced to keep going to finish out the story.
@@raven_moonshine39 so he didn’t want to make a 2nd season. That’s basically what I said
@@dimitree887 No. It's different. There was always meant to be two seasons. He signed on with Disney and started making the show with that intention. It wasn't that he started with one and other people convinced him to make a second one. He wanted to quit early and people convinced him to keep going. It's misleading to say those two things are the same.
@@raven_moonshine39 you said he was convinced to make a second one so therefore he never signed anything to make a second one. He was convinced into making a new one? By what? His contract?
@@dimitree887 I wasn't there. I don't know the details. All I know is he has said that he wrote it and was signed on to do two seasons, got burnt out while making seasons one, wanted to quit, and people convinced him to stay and finish.
I love that u don’t mention Finn is in IT when introducing him
why?? also i dont think she mentioned that because it came out in 2017 and st came out in 2016, and she was talking about his career before he was casted as mike. i dont see how that would even be a bad thing if she did mention him being in it lol
she mentions finn being in IT 43:26
@@rainyday_7654 yeah thank you I just mean in the original introduction of the characters when she lists what they had done prior at the beginning of the vid
@@kalkxx sorry I worded it weird I mean more of like I think it’s funny not that think it’s a good or bad thing
@@Mimik2203-s9z ohhh okay ur good i was just confused LOL
the IT and ST fandoms are VERY intertwined, especially on twitter lol
This might be my favorite video on RUclips
jacob sartorious liked my comment from like 3 months ago around the time i woke up yesterday, so i think this means i am one person away from millie now in a very roundabout way
YES AMANDA ANOTHER GREAT POST!!
1:00 he just meant when the information can be condensed into a shorter video. Your videos cannot be condensed. Dw queen he was not talking about you
55:28 SINJIN DROWNING JOSH OVALLE DREW ENYA MENTION
28:06 WHY DID HE HIT THAT 😭
57:27 I’m almost certain you didn’t mean this in a rude way, but saying for context that Noah is Jewish and therefore makes sense he’s a Zionist is harmful to say. There are non Jewish people who are Zionist, and there are Jewish people who aren’t. Judaism doesn’t equal Zionism, and we shouldn’t push that rhetoric, as it shines a negative light on all Jewish people.
I was about to bring up the same thing
I love the Long Vids. Keep it up Amanda👍🏾
awwww I preferred videos without rants but tbh you're entertaining so I will keep watching you
Agree, season 3 has been the best! That one I can rewatch and never get tired of it
37:03 not even gonna lie, i had the chrissy wake up song on my playlist for five months after it came out 💀💀
wake up babe, a new amanda todhunter video just dropped!!
Being apart of the fandom at its peak during season 1 and 2 was insane I’ve shipped everything at this point , got into many arguments defending characters/actors, and ofc made edits and had a fan acct on instagram there was alwayssss so much drama and anything the kids did people had something to say I can’t imagine being in their shoes
I have NEVER watched this show nonetheless even ever wanted to and I have 0 clue who any of the actors are at all...
BUT I absolutely adore Amanda so it's a win ❤
i haven't really read a lot of steddie since fall of 2022 despite them being my hands down stanger things otp but when you said out of my gourd i had a physical reaction lol
I love long videos, perfect for sleep lol. Helps the creator too cause I “watch” entire video
I do the same thing
dude why am i seeing sm stranger things content all of a sudden right when i started to think about the show🧐🧐🧐
Watch it
34:56 no cause i fear this is actually like one of my alarm sounds that I use...
i literally forgot how influential stranger things had been in my life like i literally became a fangirl and genuinely excited about a fandom for the first time and i learned english watching those interviews
I’ve watched this in parts on multiple days, and every time I was back, you were singing, somehow. It felt like an episode opening, 10/10 experience
when the “alexa close the blind” part of the video for the cast being chaotic came on, my actual alexa responded lol
Stop I was the same when I saw John b in uglies I actually screamed😭
literally nightmare fuel im sorry but WHY DID THEY MAKE HIM LOOK LIKE THAT
my favourite stranger things memes have to be "da strangest thing is that nobody asked" or the time finn wolfhard went on supermega
13:02 a HUGE portion of utah is mormons because they had faced persecution from other states where polygamy was extremely looked down upon, or because there wasn't an already established group of colinizers. in the 1800s, the future president of the mormon church and governer of utah, moved a large community of mormons to what will become utah in the future, because of tensions from other illinois residents. they chose utah because there was a lower population than other states and territories nearby. (besides the indigenous tribes that had been there for THOUSANDS of years already)
The “Chrissy wake up” song started out as a “Stranger Things the Musical” but part of it was later turned into an alarm
the stranger things fandom lowkey the worst place on earth. the reddit is awful (and extremely homophobic) and st twitter is just constant fighting.. tumblr is the only decent place
I miss when the fandom was really alive and so big, I wasn't there at the peak of the fandom but from the outside it looked fun
The stuff about Millie and that guy is so awful.. What the hell is wrong with that guy saying that stuff on live.. it's disgusting.. Poor Millie.
joseph quinn went to my school and we have a big picture of eddy doing the devil horns in our library now
omg this brought back crazy memories. i was 13 when the movie it came out and id already watched stranger things at that point. both fandoms were so closely linked during that time, it seemed like everyone watched both stranger things and it but of course after i watched them i had to be a weird little freak about it lol. the drew and enya mention actually scared me, it was like you crawled into my brain and pulled out my early teenage memories. drew’s no enya week video is still one of my favourite videos on this website
stoppp this dropped just after i just got back into stranger things 😎
CAN YOU PLEEEAASSSE DO THIS FOR THE PERCY JACKSON FAAANDOOM ❤️❤️❤️🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
amanda todhunter you will always be famous
im not sure if anyone has said this or not yet but i believe the duffer bros intended for the show to be either a miniseries or anthology. there’s a really great video by friendly space ninja titled “The frustrating decline of stranger things” and they kind of analyze what was written at the time each season was in production. it’s all very interesting to think about, it’s hard to believe the series could have a satisfying end when the story being told has adapted so much. idk but here’s hoping 🤞
okaay vocals! 13:30
how was this video an hour and eight minutes long??? It felt like it was only twenty minutes 😂
Loved it!
i really need amanda to watch It and do a deep vibe into reddie. it would really heal my inner pre teen self
amanda we LOVE your long videos :)
HEY!!! Did you know that the actor for Steve does music. He’s the one that made “end of beginning” song. The one that goes “cause when I’m back in Chicago I feel it”