The reason those books are so popular is because Jeff Kinney doesn’t underestimate kids. He knows that we can handle a book that doesn’t have a happy ending and we like that it stands out from all these other books that follow the same format of boring beginning, exciting climax and happy resolution. We actually have brains that can process comedy and he - unlike most authors- understands that.
You also forget there’s things such as promotion and marketing. I remember when it was being released on fun brain and from the begging they hyped up a future release of a book, that might not mean a lot at first glance but fun brain was being used in school to teach on in a lot of elementary schools nation wide, meaning a large factor was the young demographic being targeted to begin with in its initial release
The saddest part is how much he bullies Rowley as soon as he has any happiness. Although Rowley is what we deem as a loser, he is the most confident person. He has Josie pink bike, dances at parties with his mother and generally isn't trying to be popular but Greg will do anything to strip Rowley of everything that makes him who he is and yet still hates him. Edit: Damn yall really hate greg #gregisoverparty
Niko Bellic yeah but i think he was really cool for that. it’s not like he was overly dependent on her like most mama boys, he just genuinely really loved his mom & wasn’t embarrassed to have a fun time w her in front of people without caring what other people thought
the "you pissed me off" line from the regular show had me convinced as a kid that it was a show for like. teens or adults. it only blew my mind years later lmao
I also like the fact that when Greg did something bad he wasn’t immediately caught and you think oh he got away with it but then 20 pages later he gets caught and that’s so realistic.
I do think that he's an add, but it's just too realistic for Me to hate him. Then again I could never get into the books, but that scenario where Rawly gave Greg his jacket and he chased kids with worms. I wouldn't have fessed up either because I would have felt too bad, and I wouldn't have told Rawly it was me.
for me, i just loved the humor of the book as a kid. i didn’t idolize greg or use him as a role model, i just thought the situations and characters were absolutely hilarious.
I remember this book was so popular that one year, my teacher wouldn’t allow anyone to do a book report on it. I think if she did, she’d be stuck reading 26 reports on the same chapter.
i read this entire series and dork diaries through and through- i feel like the thing about these books is that although they’re physically larger books compared to others for children, they seemed easier to read and i finished these “big” books so fast LMAOO it made me feel so good about myself
Also, note how everyone in Greg’s family is drawn normally whilst Manny is drawn just as grotesquely as the other characters, with a triangle head, protruding teeth and exaggerated nose. Greg HATES Manny and views him as the antagonist in his own home, so it makes sense that Manny is drawn so differently from the rest of the Heffleys. Note: even though Greg and Roderick have their differences, Greg still very much admires his older brother for his smoothness and easy charm, hence why he doesn’t draw Roderick ugly like Manny.
it’s probably laziness, so this is a big reach, but i like to think as greg grows up, his “need” for other people gets smaller and smaller and he stops even regarding that they’re people. everyone slowly turns into a silhouette including his family and friends just because he doesn’t bother to care about them anymore.
I'd argue in the new books he is less of a jerk. Or at least there is less emphasis on his sociopathic behavior. Idk, at least what I read in old school
@Emontre waters The books and movies do show it, however they are shown from the perspective of Greg, who we know is not a reliable source. What we see is just how he perceived what happened or what he decided to tell or show us.
I'm a 2004 kid. This honestly explains so much. I grew up on diary of a wimpy kid, Calvin and Hobbes, the misadventure of flapjack, courage the cowardly dog, chowder, regular show, adventure time, and so on. It's kinda insane looking back and realizing that my generation _actually_ has an explanation for our broken humor lol
How come I never knew that until 12 seconds ago... Anyways I do still think about how I never finished the Carrot Island or the Spy Island were plus how fun the Super Hero one was back in elementary school, good times.
It's so strange to me how hundreds of millions of people seem to have known these books throughout their whole childhood but I have never heard of them before this video I've heard the name poptropica, but just because some youtube person mentioned it
In the “Do it yourself” whimpy kid book, on the page that said “predictions for the future”, my little sister put “dead greg heffly” as one of her predictions so that should tell you something about how greg is seen by kids
As a school librarian, circa 2008-2012 I had to keep our copies of these books behind the circulation desk and only check them out upon request. They were constantly being “jacked” as the kids would say back then. There was one 4th grade teacher about 8-10 years ago who banned her students from checked them out because they kept bullying one girl with “cheese touch.” It really was a cultural phenomenon for a little while. DoaWK is still popular but graphic novels, like Dog Man, are higher on the radar these days.
Oh wow! I didn't know that this had happened to someone else! I was also bullied by the "cheese touch" as a child (except they replaced "cheese" with my name), and to this day these books leave a terrible taste in my mouth.
Honestly I think Rodrick was the only normal one in that family. He was your standard grouchy teenager, while everyone else was either a narcissist or just plain cruel.
@dollbunny Tbh,The Mom is the worst.Her intentions might be good but she is terrible.She babys manny and always takes his side. and forces the family to do bonding,especially Greg
@@fortnitemamba1912 She always forces greg to do things he doesn't want to do. While some of it is good (like doing laundry) a lot of it is just forceful and its just plainly her just trying to force he views on Greg (forcing to him read books/ etc.) Both of the parents aren't good, but i give the Dad a pass 'cause he is friendly and funny.
@@ahorribleterribleperson Exactly.The dad is friendly and especially in the Long Haul,I pity the dad because he was trying to answer his work calls and the mom just don’t let him. I mean he needs to answer them otherwise he might get in trouble.
@@fortnitemamba1912 l I should explain what i meant by friendly. I meant friendly NOT because he is actually extremely nice to greg or that he treats greg like a friend (Cause he really doesn't). The dad puts his views on Greg all the time, just like the mom, but I think the dad is better in this aspect than the mom, because he isn't as forceful. YES, there is a book where he was gonna send greg to military school, but remember that he was willing to change his mind when Greg tried to play sports or join boys scouts *and he didn't send greg to military school just because he thought Greg did him a small favor.* Even he when force his views on greg like the mom the dad seems to be actually concerned with how lazy and wimpy his son is, unlike the mom who is like *"greg you have no friends for 5 seconds????? let's set you up with fregly for the 7th time, even though you made it absolutely clear that you dont want to spend time with him, he seems sad you should FeEl bAD GrEg"* . again the dad isn't always forceful, the only time the dad was forceful on greg was the 3rd book with the military school, the rest of the time he would mind Greg's personal space and leave his personal life alone. Thats what i meant by he is friendly. Tbh it seems the books are trying to make the dad somewhat strict and mean, but he is actually chill, whereas the Mom is written to be nice, but is just forceful and selfish and is just fake tbh.
I felt like the books actually did have an underlying message: not growing up too fast, or taking yourself too seriously. Greg's fatal flaw is in taking the weight of his actions too seriously, always trying to contextualize it in the frame of a successful grownup's formative years. To this end, that being becomming the person writing his imagined memoir, any action in service of that becomes justifiable, and the people around him are then simply stepping stones on that path. For the longest time I've had a certain amount of inexplicable internalized responsibility in terms of helping people around me, and now I wonder if reading DoWK as a kid informed that: seeing how unchecked narcissism and selfishness can turn you into a social island.
Exactly, that's why almost no kid reading DoaWK grows up to be as bad as Greg. As kids his age, we actually all still had that childish innocence and either didn't try to or couldn't contextualize our actions in the frame of a grownup's. And then as we grow up, we realize what a dick Greg is.
Yeah... Almost all of us had some unconscious fragile ego when being kids. Reminds me toilet bound hanako kun, where the girl gets faked proposed by a guy whom she has no interest on and would reject him, but when he said it was a prank, she started crying as if they already were a couple and he dumped her (as a girl myself I can confirm yea we girls over-expect to be adored by anyone, whether we like them back or not)
Also, amazing comment. I know for a fact some people my age (I'm in my 20s) are still like this, always trying to get ahead and thinking of nothing but what move would let them succeed. Even as an adult, its a lonely way to live.
I find it amusing how you drew in your books, because I actually drew inside of my Diary Of A Wimpy Kid books when I was growing up myself. But I was obsessed with giving all the characters super powers. I drew Greg to have flame powers, I drew Rodrick covered in spikes, I gave the dad stone skin, Manny had weird energy and laser eye powers, and the mom, for some reason lost to my child mind, had rope nose hairs.
Oh my god. I did the same thing when I was little, except with the Rainbow Magic and Judy Moody books (didn’t do it for DoaWK though cuz they were hardcover). I would add characters, and make existing ones turn into mermaids and go underwater for whatever reason…
How about Manny? He is seen as an antagonist in Greg's home. His head is also literally in the shape of a triangle. That might have been a more truthful example of shape theory. Great video though!
I was not the target audience for these books, my brothers owned them. But even though I was a girl and too old, I still found them entertaining. It was relieving to see a protagonist do and say what every kid is thinking.
Now days any book with a normal school setting is completely bombarded with either boring characters or protagonists who think they are good doers who could not any wrong
I remember when I was like 10, I wrote to Jeff Kinney telling him how much I loved Diary of a Wimpy Kid, and when I was 13 I got a letter back, which was the highlight of my year.
@@idrk1507 he pretty much apologized for not getting back to me sooner, and said that he was so grateful and happy I liked his books. He also took the time to write my actual name instead of "dear treasured fan" or something, so that was nice
@@arngren47 No I think in the book, all he got was a letter saying that he couldn't write to him personally, and just told Greg to "be on the look out" for their new book
That's what I love about hard cover books. Sure, they are more expensive than paperback, but you get a much better quality feel since the book doesn't flop around when I'm holding it, and the cover protects the inside from rain and dirt much better then paperback covers.
Personally I was very fond of these books as a child. Growing up with dyslexia graphic novels and books with smaller blocks of text were so much more accessible to me.
I’ll always have a special connection to diary of a wimpy kid. I was friends with a kid in third grade. In fact he was one of the few people I could consider a friend. Unfortunately he developed leukemia and was epileptic. Despite the fact he looked half dead most of the time, he was always optimistic about everything. He was a huge fan of wimpy kid. In fact he introduced me to the series. He actually got to meet Jeff Kinney in person on live tv. Kinney even visited our school to talk about his books and let some kids ask questions. Sadly my friend died that year. But I’ll always remember him thanks to those books
I too have a very special connection with this book, it's what got me into reading and learning english, i remember being 10 and picking up this book and opening it up and reading something along the line "read this in mary had a little lamb tune" and for some reason for 10 year old me that was so interesting that next time we visited that store I had to have that book because it got stuck in my head, I bought, it was amazing, I loved reading them, and everytime my dad would go to that country where I got the book (since we don't have any in where I live in english) i told him to buy this book, It improved my English amazingly, I learned so much and it just has a very special place in my heart
my school was so obsessed with this series that we made the "cheese touch" an actual thing. like _everybody_ knew who had it at any given time, and when out at recess/in the halls everyone had their fingers crossed, no exceptions.
At my school some kid came to the playground sometime after school hours and purposefully placed a slice of cheese on the ground. It's hilarious the lengths that kids will go in order to make things real
I feel like most schools did that, mine certainly did, and if I remember correctly we also did it on the bus, which had kids from multiple schools on it so yeah, I don't think it was a rare thing.
I hate Greg because he constantly played the victim but damn i despised both Manny and the parents. Manny was a whiney brat that constantly got his way, the mum was so unfair and projected all of her love onto Manny, letting him get away with everything even if it had negative impacts on the entire family and the dad was just a rubbish parent.
Greg is maybe a jerk but I do feel sorry for him, even he kinda deserves the karma in each chapter. Well, everyone in the book are morally gray which added to the realism despite being a children's book. Greg is pretty much like Eddy from _Ed, Edd, n Eddy_ of children's literature but more downplayed and his punishment wasn't exaggerated yet he deserved it whether or not. At the end, he got a happy ending at the end of the book. At least in the Diary of the Wimpy Kid film trilogy, Greg is pretty much of a better character than his book counterpart which added to the layers. Other characters in the book also made me wanted to understand, especially for Rodrick. Rodrick really did cared about his brother despite being a bully but I can do understand. About Frank Heffley? Frank is pretty much of a stickler about his children and he wanted Greg to toughen up and improve of becoming a better person. He isn't really a bad father but he's flawed when it comes to Greg being a lazy bone and committed a series of antics that made him annoyed so often to the point of forcing to go to Spag Union. In the book, Frank changed his mind about the military after Greg saved him from the embarrassment at the kids party. The movie (Dog Days) made it even better when I watched the motel scene with Frank and Greg after the camp incident and honestly, it touched my heart so much.
i remember wanting to get these books so badly as a child and not being able to bc we couldn’t afford it or my mother didn’t wanna give me money for it i’m unsure however, now w/ my own money i have bought and read almost the entire collection. it’s funny this vid popped up in my recommended today as i literally just bought another one of the books today.
I remember when i first discovered the books, i was almost in 1st grade. My cousin used to own the first couple books in Dutch (i live in the Netherlands). I just liked the illustrations and i could read a little so i tried to almost every time we were at his house. Later on, my dad got Rodrick Rules (Vette Pech in NL), a book from Big Nate (Nick de Groot) and a book from Dork Dairies (Dagboek van een Muts). Ever since then i read Dairy of a Wimpy Kid and Dork Dairies over and over again and bought the newer ones and read the ones in the school library multiple times. It has been a while since last read them, but I’m thinking of buying them the next time i see the books! :D
That relamtabel moment when you are getting the eggs everywhere 😍😍😍😍😍😐😐😐😡😡😡😅🙋♂️🙋♂️🕺🕺👎👎🐀 EDIT: I was scrolling through my comment history at 3 am as one does and this one caught me off guard. I not only lost my vision, but I lost my dignity from reading this comment
I remember back in like 4th and 5th grade my class took the “cheese touch” to a whole new level and would chase eachother around on the playground, make rules as to where you can or can’t go and how passing the touch works (no pass backs). We played this game all the time. It’s kinda weird how a simple little book serious influenced us in at least that very noticeable way, without Diary of a wimpy kid, we never would’ve played that game. Who really knows how else the book influenced us.
i honestly used to think he wa in theright. I used the series as a moral compass unti laround 6th grade. By that time i moved to a new and much morally better district, and i stopped being able to use that mindset. Im in 10th grade this fall and i am glad i dont have his perverted world view
Zenith of Tempest perverted ain’t his only issue. The kid is a horrible friend and is too entitled to realize he’s a lame kid like fregley(not as weird but the committee wouldn’t know that). I still like doawk though
Mudkip8330 I recently found the Hard Luck book in a childhood box (I am 21) and I read through it in one night. I don’t know if I ever thought Greg was a bad person. I think I actually felt bad for him a lot, especially when he had to go out in his underwear. Reading the book after so many years really brought back the nostalgia and reminded me of why I was such a huge fan.
I feel like in the book Greg seems like a bad guy but I feel like the movies made him feel more heroic. I’m not complaining to either, I like the contrast
Definitely. And, of course, the way to defend yourself from the cheese touch was to cross your fingers, toes, legs, or whatever. Elementary school was wild.
The Wimpy kid series reminds me of Catcher in the Rye in that it doesn't sugar-coat/romanticize adolescence. Both writers portray teenagers as they really tend to be: insecure and self-centered. This is why both books are so relatable.
In elementary school, lots of kids chose a Diary of a Wimpy Kid book when asked to write a summary of a book as homework. This was so common, the teachers had to ban them.
In 7th grade I remember pointing out to my friends how in the book’s artstyle Greg draws almost all guys except himself as ugly and all the girls as “normal” or good looking as a way of showing he’s self centred and hates most other guys. Didn’t expect a middle school theory I had to be validated years later on a RUclips commentary video lmao
I honestly love the art style especially when certain illustrations show more detail. The crispness of the ink looks so good especially in a brand new book
Diary of a wimpy kid, while not being 100% accurate, was the most realistic representation of middle school that there was. It’s like every other author or director for a show/book in middle school never went to middle school and just came out of the womb as a 40 year old man
This story isn't really related to anything but as a kid, one of my fondest childhood memories was finding Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days at a furniture store 2 days before it was supposed to come out. I guess they just set it out early, but for those 2 days, I was the chad at school because I knew all the new diary of a wimpy kid stuff before anyone else.
That note about the book fairs hit in the feels. Like you sort of got into, a lot of us from the late 90s and early 2000s shared a similar childhood with similar memes and similar media and entertainment. I still have some of those Guiness world record books from those book fairs. Man I miss those days…
funny story abt this, i used to read the author's name weirdly and thought the author was John F Kennedy instead of Jeff Kinney. Ah, Those were the days man 😌, when presidents wrote best-selling books for children
When I was reading the books I couldn’t help but get really annoyed with Rowley. I thought he was a soft, stupid, doofus and I was pretty much rooting for Greg. But once I read Diary of an awesome friendly kid (the book with Rowley’s perspective) I soon realized that Greg was not a good person. He is a manipulative jerk and a major sociopath. I’ve stopped reading the series ever since. Not because I think the books themselves are bad, I did it because I now can’t stand Greg as a character.
Greg really is a douche bag, but Rowley annoyed me too. But that’s my fault; not Rowley’s fault as a character. Rowley was a good kid, but I felt bad for Greg when all he wanted was to be popular, and ended up with a friend that was, essentially, a loser. But I’m a bit of a bitch in that way, and especially was sympathetic to Greg as a kid who wanted more than anything to fit in. I recognised, even as a child, that Greg was straight up an arse, but didn’t realise just how intolerable he is. I agree with everything you’ve said, but I will say that I can still read the books. Greg is still a fun character, just flawed.
sami yami i always understood rowley because I used to be a rowley to my ex best friends. It wasn’t until my real best friend came into my life that I decided to leave my toxic friends behind
The cheese touch gag has got to be the most messed up thing i've ever read and saw. Imagine being screamed at and being avoided from everyone at this school? I would be tramatized...
On the topic of Girls: For the movie, Kinney said that the girls all look the same because Greg is a pre-pubescent boy, and so only rarely recognizes what girls look like other than having differing hairstyles, and so doesn't bother making them different. They have 'his' face because it's one he draws hundreds of times per book so he's familiar with it. The movie obviously couldn't do this, so Kinney had to apologize that this detail was disingenuous to the books.
I’m a guy and I struggle with drawing either girls with short hair or guys with long hair-I always have to emphasize things like body shape and gender-specific traits in order to make it obvious that the character is a girl with short hair and not a guy wearing heels.
@@leroyvisiongames2294 i can relate but its more vice-versa, every dude i used to draw ended up a femboy, i mean i still draw 'em like that, but now its more on purpose.
When I was a kid I had a spelling test with the word “acquaintance” and I remembered a portion of this book where Greg was telling a kid he didn’t think the word had a “c” in it. I believed Greg. I got that question wrong. I have since realized Greg is not a role model
Straight facts Greg was and is a horrible friend to Rowley Is a selfish Narcissistic Jerk A dick to his family And can and will use anyone to get what he wants regardless of the consequences
It really is one of the most memorable books I can remember, with one of the most charming film adaptations on top of that. It's plot, art style, characters, and general tone really embodied a sense of life that was pretty crummy. Kind of like seeing a family home on the inside with all the flaws and ugliness that doesn't get seen. People are selfish for vapid popularity and make very poor choices. People are insecure, flawed, and generally don't match the ideals of other children's stories. There are weirdos all around, including the adults, that to the eyes of kids can be seen as monsters, clowns, or role models. Yet, it also shows that despite all of that "roughness" in that period of life, we can grow. We can be better people, yet still be flawed. It also made all those cringe-like experiences appear as humorous misadventures with its writing, many of which kids at that age found engaging, or even relatable.
I read my old diary of a wimpy kid do it yourself book and i found the "future predictions" page, one of the sentences was "_______ will no longer exist" Seven year old me wrote grandma.
remember when you were young; either you've read the book or seen the movies, you always cheer for greg, then you realized when you're older, you understand rodrick and how relatable he was...
I honestly have to admit that as a kid I saw nothing wrong with 90% of what Greg did. Like as a kid I also thought I was better than everyone else and could do no wrong, like most kids I think, and so these books kinda just confirmed what I felt. For that reason I think Diary of a Wimpy Kid might have been a bad influence on me overall - I just wasn't mature enough to get the point.
I was ready to make a really similar comment. As a kid, the books taught me that popularity was actually a really big thing that you SHOULD try to get as popular as possible. I cut off friends that I thought would make me “unpopular” and it’s something I still regret.
i remember when my school banned this book. it was 8 years ago, iirc. i can still remember that day, the despair that my classmates felt at this new development, my disappointment because the very next day i found a funny scene in one of my books but i couldnt show my friends
i rewatch those movies at least once a week as an 18 yr old and you do t even understand how much of the humor, ideas, and overall vibe is so deeply ingrained into my life and friends. it’s honestly freaking insane.
at this point, i dont even buy the books because 'i like them' anymore. its to feed the need to have the complete series, because i feel like i owe it to my childhood to atleast do so. when i go into a bookstore and see a new version of wimpy kid out, i immediately buy it, regardless of whether i even had the intention to buy anything. ive grown so attached to the series itself, not its content, that its just basically a reflex now.
Yes! I have this collection of books from 2 writers from my country. I loved them! I ate them like 3 course meals every day. Now I'm over it but I keep buying them because the collection needs to be complete!
I just wanted to share this : our family wasn’t really that financially stable . When I was young , whenever I had a really good grade , We would go to the public library and spend time there just reading. One of the books I always read was this series .
First of all , let me get something straight : this is a JOURNAL , not a diary . I know what it says on the cover , but when Mom went out to buy this thing I SPECFICALLY told her to get one that didn't say "diary" on it. Great. All I need is for sone jerk to catch me carrying this book around and get the wrong idea.The other thing I want to clear up right away is that this is MOM's idea, not mine . But if she thinks I'm going to write down my "feelings" in here or whatever, she`s crazy. So just don`t expect me to be all "Dear Diary" this and "Dear Diary" that . The only reason I agreed to do this at all is because I figure later on when I'm rich and famous, I have better things to do than answer people's stupid questions all day long. ( Everybody please , if you get the reference , cool , you don't need to comment about it , my notifactions are just this which is kinda of annoying .)
This book series actually inspired me to be a novelist at some point and I've written maybe almost 1000 pages similar in the style of Wimpy Kid books because I was so invested in it. I still have it saved on my computer but probably will never be released
Anyone wanna talk about how Rodrick always has his eyebrows in the same position and the one time they actually moved in the 9th book it looked weird as hell
16:06 or maybe jeff kinney has been blacking out more people because its a metaphor of how greg sees the world in each book, maybe its symbolizing greg viewing the world as a dark and terrible place
I remember trying to pull Greg’s infamous “mean note on a valentine” thing in sixth grade for a person I didn’t like. I learned my lesson very quickly, and got sent to the principals office for the first time. I’ve never done anything like that again, I learned my lesson, and funny thing is, the person I gave that mean valentine to, she and I are friends now.
@@Mazamansir I DID DO THAT!! I HAD MY SISTER WRITE IT SO NO ONE WOULD RECOGNIZE THE WRITING, THEN I GAVE MYSELF A MEAN VALENTINE TOO!!! The only problem is, I the valentine was the same one that I gave to everyone else, and that was the dead giveaway. I should’ve written it on a piece of paper
greg just seemed like a pretty unlikeable guy in general. if you look at him through the lens of a classmate or something, and not the main character, he does stupid stuff and doesn't think about what might happen. i know that was kinda a main point of the series, how stuff goes wrong and ends up funny, but it just grated on my nerves cause i never felt like i could really empathize with him lol. it was mostly how he treated rowley and rowley's family that made me feel pretty eh on him
i remember when third wheel first came out. i was in 3rd grade and my whole class had like a “library meeting” i don’t remember why but i remember her talking ab books that were gonna be new in the library and i remember her giving us this excited look and she finally pulled out third wheel and every one started cheering so happily. i miss childhood ngl
The fact that Greg doesn’t even complete a character arch by becoming a person is a bold move for a children’s book.
"Becoming a person"?
Not just a bold move.... a power move
@Izuku Midoriya That is ironically dehumanizing.
Diary Of A Wimpy Kid is middle-school Seinfeld.
And yet we all root for him and want him to succeed lmao I love him
The reason those books are so popular is because Jeff Kinney doesn’t underestimate kids. He knows that we can handle a book that doesn’t have a happy ending and we like that it stands out from all these other books that follow the same format of boring beginning, exciting climax and happy resolution. We actually have brains that can process comedy and he - unlike most authors- understands that.
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You also forget there’s things such as promotion and marketing. I remember when it was being released on fun brain and from the begging they hyped up a future release of a book, that might not mean a lot at first glance but fun brain was being used in school to teach on in a lot of elementary schools nation wide, meaning a large factor was the young demographic being targeted to begin with in its initial release
The saddest part is how much he bullies Rowley as soon as he has any happiness. Although Rowley is what we deem as a loser, he is the most confident person. He has Josie pink bike, dances at parties with his mother and generally isn't trying to be popular but Greg will do anything to strip Rowley of everything that makes him who he is and yet still hates him.
Edit: Damn yall really hate greg #gregisoverparty
Greg is that toxic friend we don't need and should be dropped.
Yep
And everything turned around when Rowley was not single anymore
I think "Hard Luck" would have been a great movie, with the original cast haha
But ngl rowley was kinda a momma’s boy
Niko Bellic yeah but i think he was really cool for that. it’s not like he was overly dependent on her like most mama boys, he just genuinely really loved his mom & wasn’t embarrassed to have a fun time w her in front of people without caring what other people thought
@@muerte673 That's how I still am with my mom 😂
the "you pissed me off" line from the regular show had me convinced as a kid that it was a show for like. teens or adults. it only blew my mind years later lmao
jotaro?
@lobstotsbol no way (bruh I'm literally on part 4 the show be epic)
6:04
You're a terrible human being. I can't believe you spoiled the show for people like me. I haven't gotten to that point. What a rude spoiler
I also like the fact that when Greg did something bad he wasn’t immediately caught and you think oh he got away with it but then 20 pages later he gets caught and that’s so realistic.
I do think that he's an add, but it's just too realistic for Me to hate him. Then again I could never get into the books, but that scenario where Rawly gave Greg his jacket and he chased kids with worms. I wouldn't have fessed up either because I would have felt too bad, and I wouldn't have told Rawly it was me.
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@@yeemawheaver1387 *r a w l y*
*rawly????*
Jesus Christ, we get it, they spelled the name wrong. You aren’t funny or original by feigning outrage over such a trivial detail.
for me, i just loved the humor of the book as a kid. i didn’t idolize greg or use him as a role model, i just thought the situations and characters were absolutely hilarious.
You are truly greg
Everything about your pfp and your username is wonderful
@@lpawowp yes, he truly is...Greg🙂
Hello fellow Greg
oh same. also hello greg
I remember this book was so popular that one year, my teacher wouldn’t allow anyone to do a book report on it. I think if she did, she’d be stuck reading 26 reports on the same chapter.
My school did the same with diary of a wimpy kid and junie b jones
....𝙏𝙃𝙀 𝙐𝙉𝘿𝙀𝙍𝙋𝘼𝙉𝙏𝙎 𝘽𝘼𝙉𝘿𝙄𝙏𝙎
Diary of a Wimpy Kid doesn’t really have chapter though, does it?
Omg sameee, I still did it thought and got in trouble 😂😂😂
@@blushchuu no
i read this entire series and dork diaries through and through- i feel like the thing about these books is that although they’re physically larger books compared to others for children, they seemed easier to read and i finished these “big” books so fast LMAOO it made me feel so good about myself
Same! I loved graphic novels as a kid so those two series had me on a chokehold in elementary and a year of middle school
Lmao true
I got in trouble so many times for reading them past my bedtime lol
Also, note how everyone in Greg’s family is drawn normally whilst Manny is drawn just as grotesquely as the other characters, with a triangle head, protruding teeth and exaggerated nose. Greg HATES Manny and views him as the antagonist in his own home, so it makes sense that Manny is drawn so differently from the rest of the Heffleys.
Note: even though Greg and Roderick have their differences, Greg still very much admires his older brother for his smoothness and easy charm, hence why he doesn’t draw Roderick ugly like Manny.
r/fuckmanny
We all gotta love Roderick
Ok English teacher 😂😂😂
Omg i noticed this too! So genius, right?
how could he not love the _sexiest man on earth_ ( _but waluigi and wario are too_ )
it’s probably laziness, so this is a big reach, but i like to think as greg grows up, his “need” for other people gets smaller and smaller and he stops even regarding that they’re people. everyone slowly turns into a silhouette including his family and friends just because he doesn’t bother to care about them anymore.
i kinda like that theory
I see what you’re saying, but greg himself becomes a silhouette. Though I guess you can say that he is distancing away from himself.
Maybe he really was becoming a sociopath? I'm sure there was a reason behind it.
I'd argue in the new books he is less of a jerk. Or at least there is less emphasis on his sociopathic behavior. Idk, at least what I read in old school
this is what makes art good. You can interpret it in any way you want. Thats a really cool interpretation and lines up with everything else.
now I wonder if fregley was actually disgusting or greg just made us think that and fregley was just a lonely kid that greg bullied
for all we know fregley was actually the chad jock
@Emontre waters The books and movies do show it, however they are shown from the perspective of Greg, who we know is not a reliable source. What we see is just how he perceived what happened or what he decided to tell or show us.
@@GEROLDization1 well i always found fregley the most relatable character (and i mean the way greg wrote him)
@Emontre waters yeah but we're still seeing fregley thru greg's eyes
Even Susan knew he was just lonely
I'm a 2004 kid. This honestly explains so much. I grew up on diary of a wimpy kid, Calvin and Hobbes, the misadventure of flapjack, courage the cowardly dog, chowder, regular show, adventure time, and so on. It's kinda insane looking back and realizing that my generation _actually_ has an explanation for our broken humor lol
Omg calving and Hobbes yessss
And at times psychotic humor
@@sukottotsukeshi. If we have a Psychotic humour, does it mean generations following us will be psychopaths?
@@JSSMVCJR2.1 probably
And it made you gay too.
I literally just learned that the same man who wrote Diary of A Wimpy kid also created Poptropica. Amazing. My whole childhood off one man's creations
WHAT
oh well that explains why there was a diary of a wimpy kid island lol
How come I never knew that until 12 seconds ago...
Anyways I do still think about how I never finished the Carrot Island or the Spy Island were plus how fun the Super Hero one was back in elementary school, good times.
It's so strange to me how hundreds of millions of people seem to have known these books throughout their whole childhood but I have never heard of them before this video
I've heard the name poptropica, but just because some youtube person mentioned it
That makes a whole lot of sense
Growing up is when Greg was older than you when you started reading and now he is younger than you
Yeahhh
How old is he?
@@2bad4hard48 I just looked it up, he is like 14-16 according to wiki
@@2bad4hard48
He's 13
@Anna Dayton Idk, I wiki can be wrong sometimes
In the “Do it yourself” whimpy kid book, on the page that said “predictions for the future”, my little sister put “dead greg heffly” as one of her predictions so that should tell you something about how greg is seen by kids
huh
I think she went too far in the future
your sister is *_evil_*
Lmao
Oh gosh
As a school librarian, circa 2008-2012 I had to keep our copies of these books behind the circulation desk and only check them out upon request. They were constantly being “jacked” as the kids would say back then. There was one 4th grade teacher about 8-10 years ago who banned her students from checked them out because they kept bullying one girl with “cheese touch.” It really was a cultural phenomenon for a little while. DoaWK is still popular but graphic novels, like Dog Man, are higher on the radar these days.
Oh wow! I didn't know that this had happened to someone else! I was also bullied by the "cheese touch" as a child (except they replaced "cheese" with my name), and to this day these books leave a terrible taste in my mouth.
Lol finding these books at my elementary library was a pain from time to time especially when I was in the junior librarians club
My younger brother is really into Dog Man now. This post checks out!
Dog Man is created by the same guy who made Captain Underpants right?
@@JarrekAsF Correct. Dog Man is actually like a spin-off of Captain Underpants.
Honestly I think Rodrick was the only normal one in that family. He was your standard grouchy teenager, while everyone else was either a narcissist or just plain cruel.
@dollbunny Tbh,The Mom is the worst.Her intentions might be good but she is terrible.She babys manny and always takes his side. and forces the family to do bonding,especially Greg
@@fortnitemamba1912 She always forces greg to do things he doesn't want to do. While some of it is good (like doing laundry) a lot of it is just forceful and its just plainly her just trying to force he views on Greg (forcing to him read books/ etc.) Both of the parents aren't good, but i give the Dad a pass 'cause he is friendly and funny.
@@ahorribleterribleperson Exactly.The dad is friendly and especially in the Long Haul,I pity the dad because he was trying to answer his work calls and the mom just don’t let him. I mean he needs to answer them otherwise he might get in trouble.
@@fortnitemamba1912 l I should explain what i meant by friendly. I meant friendly NOT because he is actually extremely nice to greg or that he treats greg like a friend (Cause he really doesn't). The dad puts his views on Greg all the time, just like the mom, but I think the dad is better in this aspect than the mom, because he isn't as forceful. YES, there is a book where he was gonna send greg to military school, but remember that he was willing to change his mind when Greg tried to play sports or join boys scouts *and he didn't send greg to military school just because he thought Greg did him a small favor.* Even he when force his views on greg like the mom the dad seems to be actually concerned with how lazy and wimpy his son is, unlike the mom who is like *"greg you have no friends for 5 seconds????? let's set you up with fregly for the 7th time, even though you made it absolutely clear that you dont want to spend time with him, he seems sad you should FeEl bAD GrEg"* . again the dad isn't always forceful, the only time the dad was forceful on greg was the 3rd book with the military school, the rest of the time he would mind Greg's personal space and leave his personal life alone. Thats what i meant by he is friendly. Tbh it seems the books are trying to make the dad somewhat strict and mean, but he is actually chill, whereas the Mom is written to be nice, but is just forceful and selfish and is just fake tbh.
@@ahorribleterribleperson Tru
I felt like the books actually did have an underlying message: not growing up too fast, or taking yourself too seriously. Greg's fatal flaw is in taking the weight of his actions too seriously, always trying to contextualize it in the frame of a successful grownup's formative years. To this end, that being becomming the person writing his imagined memoir, any action in service of that becomes justifiable, and the people around him are then simply stepping stones on that path. For the longest time I've had a certain amount of inexplicable internalized responsibility in terms of helping people around me, and now I wonder if reading DoWK as a kid informed that: seeing how unchecked narcissism and selfishness can turn you into a social island.
Exactly, that's why almost no kid reading DoaWK grows up to be as bad as Greg. As kids his age, we actually all still had that childish innocence and either didn't try to or couldn't contextualize our actions in the frame of a grownup's. And then as we grow up, we realize what a dick Greg is.
Yeah... Almost all of us had some unconscious fragile ego when being kids. Reminds me toilet bound hanako kun, where the girl gets faked proposed by a guy whom she has no interest on and would reject him, but when he said it was a prank, she started crying as if they already were a couple and he dumped her (as a girl myself I can confirm yea we girls over-expect to be adored by anyone, whether we like them back or not)
@@nuzhatmaliat9258
'Scuze me, but you can't speak for everyone.
@@lexilala1968 I don't know if you're one of those "im not like other girls" type of person, but I'm sure she didn't mean to overgeneralise.
Also, amazing comment. I know for a fact some people my age (I'm in my 20s) are still like this, always trying to get ahead and thinking of nothing but what move would let them succeed. Even as an adult, its a lonely way to live.
As a kid, I used to draw lines to “finish” the character’s faces because the little gap used to bother me
Yeah I never read them but I would definitely do the same thing lmao
Omg, I thought I was the only one who hates the gap!
Saaaaame!!!! XD
*OCD intensified*
Imagine how many characters wouldnt have eyes anymore
i also loved how the font really mimicked a kids' writing. Its all these small things that makes it the best book ever
That "the girls he finds attractive have his face" thing blew my MIND I never noticed it!
dd
sauro cantho pp
@Naruto Uzumaki hey can you go find sasuke? Sakura is getting annoying now dude
I agree with you, my mind was *s h o o k*
same it astonished me honestly
I literally had no idea, that in english the book is called "Diary of a wimpy kid". In german, it's just called "Gregs diary".
In greek its "the diary of a nerd"
In Italian it's: "Diary of a loser/pushover"
(there isn't a straight translation)
i don't know if im translating this right,but it's just wimp/wimpy kid in turkish.
lol thats boring as hell innit
@Gabriel Meireles not "dumb", more like "loser", or "wimpy" really..
I feel like the bigger the nose, the more Greg hates the person
And Rowley doesn't hate anyone. That's why he doesn't draw noses.
Greg is anti-semitic confirmed
yea he adolf hitler
Yusuf Gazi lmao
Greg gives his bullies noses to rival anime tiddies
I find it amusing how you drew in your books, because I actually drew inside of my Diary Of A Wimpy Kid books when I was growing up myself. But I was obsessed with giving all the characters super powers.
I drew Greg to have flame powers, I drew Rodrick covered in spikes, I gave the dad stone skin, Manny had weird energy and laser eye powers, and the mom, for some reason lost to my child mind, had rope nose hairs.
Oh my god. I did the same thing when I was little, except with the Rainbow Magic and Judy Moody books (didn’t do it for DoaWK though cuz they were hardcover). I would add characters, and make existing ones turn into mermaids and go underwater for whatever reason…
I found my old “Diary of a Wimpy kid do it yourself” book and on the first page I spelled my name wrong
Reminds me of the "destroy this journal"
I looked into mine after all these years thinking I'd find some pretty nostalgic pages........ I was a deeply disturbed kid
lmao
@@ScoutTrooperTK oh yeah, I remember writing about how I want to evade my family and kick them in the knees instead (mind you I was 6-8)
Gecko Geico Dude Diary
I really only liked the books because it felt like I was reading someone’s diary and I’m nosy like that.
Makes sense as to why you have Jinyoung in your profile pic
Celestial Subliminals why’s that
Ellie Nicole I just know he’d read my diary
Celestial Subliminals right.
That’s literally why i read princess diaries lmao
Diary of a Wimpy Kid - the book series that people who hate reading, actually read
Sounds legit.
Aka. something my braindead lil bro loves
Ah, it's you again
I'm a bit of a fan of Diary of the Wimpy Kid. I used to borrow some of those books from my classmates. Man! What a blast from the past!
Jeff Kinney and Dav Pilkey are the greatest authors of all time.
this series was the pinnacle of "at least they're reading"
It was that book that's always occupied during school Library.
Still always is at my school -_-
True they only had the spanish version that wasnt the taken but still I've already read it anyway
Fax
For me it was goosebumps
nah they were always taken😭
Everyone either hated Rodrick, wanted to be him, or had a crush on him and I stand by that
Bruh stop outing us (cough cough me cough) like that!
what about all of the above
EverydayFiction Same sis
I was both...
I think Rodrick is funny and none of those apply to me. Every series needs some sort of antagonist character and he did his job.
How about Manny? He is seen as an antagonist in Greg's home. His head is also literally in the shape of a triangle. That might have been a more truthful example of shape theory. Great video though!
Heck has to meat flaps
@@manpera13 dear god not again
Manny is Phineas confirmed
I wanna punch manny in the balls
Manny is the baby, right? In his defense, my baby brother is the villain in my home too
I was not the target audience for these books, my brothers owned them. But even though I was a girl and too old, I still found them entertaining. It was relieving to see a protagonist do and say what every kid is thinking.
Now days any book with a normal school setting is completely bombarded with either boring characters or protagonists who think they are good doers who could not any wrong
Agreed. I also enjoyed how everyone was a jerk and it’s entertaining to see everyone being ridiculous
I remember when I was like 10, I wrote to Jeff Kinney telling him how much I loved Diary of a Wimpy Kid, and when I was 13 I got a letter back, which was the highlight of my year.
what did he say? and you seem humble, my kid self would've been like 'kiss my feet, peasants'
@@idrk1507 he pretty much apologized for not getting back to me sooner, and said that he was so grateful and happy I liked his books. He also took the time to write my actual name instead of "dear treasured fan" or something, so that was nice
Didnt this exact scenario happen in the books
@@arngren47 not exactly dumbass. he just said it was a full fledged letter from Jeff Kinney.
@@arngren47 No I think in the book, all he got was a letter saying that he couldn't write to him personally, and just told Greg to "be on the look out" for their new book
How does solar make literally any topic engaging? Like- in normal circumstances I wouldn't watch a video on this, but its Solar Sands so here I am.
I agree with you 100%
I know right!
Thats tru tho lol
solar sans is senpai
@@femalefawning y e s.
I always appreciated how the book covers were textured to feel like tape and a layer of paper.
I once tried to peel the fake tape off because it felt too real
@@9_1.1 Even though I know it‘s not real I still do it all the time lol
SIR I NEED TO GIVE MY APPRECIATION FOR YOUR CHICKEN WINGS!!!!NVHVH OHMAGAA KFC CHEIF IS HERE
@@10nsayantibiswas60 Those ain't chicken wings man. Those are CHILDREN wings.
That's what I love about hard cover books. Sure, they are more expensive than paperback, but you get a much better quality feel since the book doesn't flop around when I'm holding it, and the cover protects the inside from rain and dirt much better then paperback covers.
Personally I was very fond of these books as a child. Growing up with dyslexia graphic novels and books with smaller blocks of text were so much more accessible to me.
I’ll always have a special connection to diary of a wimpy kid. I was friends with a kid in third grade. In fact he was one of the few people I could consider a friend. Unfortunately he developed leukemia and was epileptic. Despite the fact he looked half dead most of the time, he was always optimistic about everything. He was a huge fan of wimpy kid. In fact he introduced me to the series. He actually got to meet Jeff Kinney in person on live tv. Kinney even visited our school to talk about his books and let some kids ask questions. Sadly my friend died that year. But I’ll always remember him thanks to those books
Respect
@@rattingcheese687 your profile picture fits so well
@@neeharika422 👌
I too have a very special connection with this book, it's what got me into reading and learning english, i remember being 10 and picking up this book and opening it up and reading something along the line "read this in mary had a little lamb tune" and for some reason for 10 year old me that was so interesting that next time we visited that store I had to have that book because it got stuck in my head, I bought, it was amazing, I loved reading them, and everytime my dad would go to that country where I got the book (since we don't have any in where I live in english) i told him to buy this book, It improved my English amazingly, I learned so much and it just has a very special place in my heart
@@anaygarodia7771 stay strong lad you'll pull through
my school was so obsessed with this series that we made the "cheese touch" an actual thing. like _everybody_ knew who had it at any given time, and when out at recess/in the halls everyone had their fingers crossed, no exceptions.
At my school some kid came to the playground sometime after school hours and purposefully placed a slice of cheese on the ground. It's hilarious the lengths that kids will go in order to make things real
That... was that... not at everyone's school???
Happened at my school too.
kids made it a thing at my school except instead of cheese it was my name and you got it by touching me.
I feel like most schools did that, mine certainly did, and if I remember correctly we also did it on the bus, which had kids from multiple schools on it so yeah, I don't think it was a rare thing.
I hate Greg because he constantly played the victim but damn i despised both Manny and the parents. Manny was a whiney brat that constantly got his way, the mum was so unfair and projected all of her love onto Manny, letting him get away with everything even if it had negative impacts on the entire family and the dad was just a rubbish parent.
I remember that I related so much to this books because manny was a literal representation of my little brother :/
@Just Today babies suck
@Just Today not manny though
jk
Greg is maybe a jerk but I do feel sorry for him, even he kinda deserves the karma in each chapter. Well, everyone in the book are morally gray which added to the realism despite being a children's book. Greg is pretty much like Eddy from _Ed, Edd, n Eddy_ of children's literature but more downplayed and his punishment wasn't exaggerated yet he deserved it whether or not. At the end, he got a happy ending at the end of the book.
At least in the Diary of the Wimpy Kid film trilogy, Greg is pretty much of a better character than his book counterpart which added to the layers. Other characters in the book also made me wanted to understand, especially for Rodrick.
Rodrick really did cared about his brother despite being a bully but I can do understand.
About Frank Heffley? Frank is pretty much of a stickler about his children and he wanted Greg to toughen up and improve of becoming a better person. He isn't really a bad father but he's flawed when it comes to Greg being a lazy bone and committed a series of antics that made him annoyed so often to the point of forcing to go to Spag Union. In the book, Frank changed his mind about the military after Greg saved him from the embarrassment at the kids party. The movie (Dog Days) made it even better when I watched the motel scene with Frank and Greg after the camp incident and honestly, it touched my heart so much.
Same. The mom is a hypocrite
i remember wanting to get these books so badly as a child and not being able to bc we couldn’t afford it or my mother didn’t wanna give me money for it i’m unsure however, now w/ my own money i have bought and read almost the entire collection. it’s funny this vid popped up in my recommended today as i literally just bought another one of the books today.
Hot take: Fregley's just a time-traveling Manny
It’s true
But that's just a theory, a comment theory! Thanks for reading.
Explain?
Just think about it, what would elementary school have been without the “Cheese Touch”
You almost got the cheese touch.
Jim Duncan Halpert, nice username
Has anyone ever said you look just like Richard Nixon?
My school banned it
Jonathan Ruiz your school fucking banned the cheese touch? Lmao
Fun fact: the Swedish title of the book is even more narcissistic, it’s just called: Diary for all my fans
Hahaha but that fits pretty well. In German it's "Gregs Diary". Not that creative XD
@@human9460 r u German?
Lol
Wtf here is called "banana's diary", "diário de um banana" in portuguese. Wanna know why?
@@t.k3650, yes
Not only did I like the illustrations, but those were the books i could read in one day and get a 100% on the test in elementary school😭
Greg does this
@@chizzysuccess4941LMFAO
I remember when i first discovered the books, i was almost in 1st grade. My cousin used to own the first couple books in Dutch (i live in the Netherlands). I just liked the illustrations and i could read a little so i tried to almost every time we were at his house. Later on, my dad got Rodrick Rules (Vette Pech in NL), a book from Big Nate (Nick de Groot) and a book from Dork Dairies (Dagboek van een Muts). Ever since then i read Dairy of a Wimpy Kid and Dork Dairies over and over again and bought the newer ones and read the ones in the school library multiple times. It has been a while since last read them, but I’m thinking of buying them the next time i see the books! :D
“He’s stupid, he’s a liar, and worst of all he’s a simp”
That caught me so off guard now I have eggs everywhere
god i hate it when i get eggs everywhere
That relamtabel moment when you are getting the eggs everywhere 😍😍😍😍😍😐😐😐😡😡😡😅🙋♂️🙋♂️🕺🕺👎👎🐀
EDIT: I was scrolling through my comment history at 3 am as one does and this one caught me off guard. I not only lost my vision, but I lost my dignity from reading this comment
Slurp em up I guess 😔
😂😂😭😭
consume eggh
Can we take a momment to appreciate Greg’s art? That kid draws almost perfect circles like it’s nothing
Considering they're all the same size, I'm betting he's using the cap of a marker.
@@charliekahn4205 Some of the heads are bigger than others
Do it again show your process!
@@starting7725 He has multiple markers
@Charlie Kahn @Starting It's called digital art AKA the art form where you can just use a circular ruler to make a Perfect Circle
If it wasn't for Diary of a Wimpy Kid, then the literacy rate would've been low.
True Clay
True
Thank you clay
omg gym leader clay!! i respect you king😌👑
Ive never read diary of a wimpy kid. Should i read it?
I remember back in like 4th and 5th grade my class took the “cheese touch” to a whole new level and would chase eachother around on the playground, make rules as to where you can or can’t go and how passing the touch works (no pass backs). We played this game all the time. It’s kinda weird how a simple little book serious influenced us in at least that very noticeable way, without Diary of a wimpy kid, we never would’ve played that game. Who really knows how else the book influenced us.
When I was in 4-5 grade we played it too XD
@@S3L0Licantsame I remember my teacher had to ban it 😂it was fun tho
Don't forget the fact that Diary of a Wimpy Kid has two whole islands dedicated to it in Poptropica. Big Nate only has one.
Alexander Chippel big Nate is so underrated tho.
Big Nate was the shit. I still find it funny
That's because Poptropica was made by Jeff Kinney, the author of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid books.
Diary of a Wimpy Kid has two whole islands.
Big Nate has one.
Well, i'll be damned...
Well, i'll be damned...
I read a whole big Nate book. I’m glad but I won’t read another one
the worst part is that i would read it and be like “yeah sounds about right” when he would make like the worst choices ever
It genuinely took me like 5 books to realise hmmm maybe Greg isnt that nice
i honestly used to think he wa in theright. I used the series as a moral compass unti laround 6th grade. By that time i moved to a new and much morally better district, and i stopped being able to use that mindset. Im in 10th grade this fall and i am glad i dont have his perverted world view
Zenith of Tempest perverted ain’t his only issue. The kid is a horrible friend and is too entitled to realize he’s a lame kid like fregley(not as weird but the committee wouldn’t know that). I still like doawk though
Mudkip8330 I recently found the Hard Luck book in a childhood box (I am 21) and I read through it in one night. I don’t know if I ever thought Greg was a bad person. I think I actually felt bad for him a lot, especially when he had to go out in his underwear. Reading the book after so many years really brought back the nostalgia and reminded me of why I was such a huge fan.
I feel like in the book Greg seems like a bad guy but I feel like the movies made him feel more heroic. I’m not complaining to either, I like the contrast
The cheese touch was so powerfully influential that it made it's way into my school and we didn't even have the cheese
same
Same 😭
Same here, but since I didn't read the books until I was in, like, grade 7, I never actually understood what the fuss was and got so confused-
Definitely. And, of course, the way to defend yourself from the cheese touch was to cross your fingers, toes, legs, or whatever. Elementary school was wild.
fr
The Wimpy kid series reminds me of Catcher in the Rye in that it doesn't sugar-coat/romanticize adolescence. Both writers portray teenagers as they really tend to be: insecure and self-centered. This is why both books are so relatable.
Makes sense. And your not the only one who compared itb
catcher in the rye romanticizes adolescence more than any other book i've read, it just doesn't do it with teenagers.
In elementary school, lots of kids chose a Diary of a Wimpy Kid book when asked to write a summary of a book as homework. This was so common, the teachers had to ban them.
didn't something like this happen in the actual books
@@chappelled yes omg i remember
the underpants bandits from the long haul omg !!!
@@ridhimapandey8613 yess
That happened in the books too the underpants bandits
In 7th grade I remember pointing out to my friends how in the book’s artstyle Greg draws almost all guys except himself as ugly and all the girls as “normal” or good looking as a way of showing he’s self centred and hates most other guys. Didn’t expect a middle school theory I had to be validated years later on a RUclips commentary video lmao
“Anyone can draw Greg”
The most untrue statement I have ever heard.
In my school Greg was drawn just as much as the Iconic S, so I got the hang of drawing from memory by practicing Greg lmao
@@nickirmen6671 the street sign S
bro that was the thing back in the day
@⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻ No, it wasn’t.
god damn it your right, so simple yet so complicated
classic misinterpretation,
"Not anyone can be a great artist, but a great artist can come from anywhere"
I honestly love the art style especially when certain illustrations show more detail. The crispness of the ink looks so good especially in a brand new book
Diary of a wimpy kid, while not being 100% accurate, was the most realistic representation of middle school that there was. It’s like every other author or director for a show/book in middle school never went to middle school and just came out of the womb as a 40 year old man
It was more so elementary for me. In middle school it was like a watered down high school without the drug use and way more bullying.
@@thatoneperson6594tbh middle school was worse socially than high school lmao
agree and oh my god what's the profile pic from?? it's adorable???
Never had a social life so I wouldn't know
If you think 21st scentury schooling was bad you should've seen 18/19th century England schools. Those were even worse.
"The triangle is often associated with wickedness and danger. Who do we know has a triangle head? FREGLEY."
I lost it here
Lol. The most wicked thing Fregley ever did was get Greg to touch his booger.
Tristan Causer plz don’t I don’t want to remember
And Phineas
@@rosebud6116 that was the first thing I thought and was quite confused until the reveal
Phineas like 👁👄👁
This story isn't really related to anything but as a kid, one of my fondest childhood memories was finding Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days at a furniture store 2 days before it was supposed to come out. I guess they just set it out early, but for those 2 days, I was the chad at school because I knew all the new diary of a wimpy kid stuff before anyone else.
This is the type of hilarious shit that makes me nostalgic for my childhood
*and then I remember everything else*
"The chad" 😂😂🤣 😏 awesome
@@samuelwithers2221
What are you talking about? Child hood is the best ti-
*Oh wait*
Aw same but I never got my hands on DoaWK #4 until 2 years later
That note about the book fairs hit in the feels. Like you sort of got into, a lot of us from the late 90s and early 2000s shared a similar childhood with similar memes and similar media and entertainment. I still have some of those Guiness world record books from those book fairs. Man I miss those days…
I love how this channel went from art critiquing deviantart to in depth analyses of not just art, but books and music too. I love it.
gotta adapt, improvise, overcome
And hopefully,not annoying as Parker(people also started recommending Solar Sands to everyone who watches Parker after the drama)
@@lillyuna4985 drama?
@@Parker_Lot do you Know pkrussl?
ikrrr
I was shocked to my very 10 year old core when I found out the author of the book was not even named Greg
laugh my ass offffffffffffffffffffffffff
i was as well, truly a shocking moment
funny story abt this, i used to read the author's name weirdly and thought the author was John F Kennedy instead of Jeff Kinney. Ah, Those were the days man 😌, when presidents wrote best-selling books for children
I met him a couple of years ago, really nice guy
LOL
When I was reading the books I couldn’t help but get really annoyed with Rowley. I thought he was a soft, stupid, doofus and I was pretty much rooting for Greg. But once I read Diary of an awesome friendly kid (the book with Rowley’s perspective) I soon realized that Greg was not a good person. He is a manipulative jerk and a major sociopath. I’ve stopped reading the series ever since. Not because I think the books themselves are bad, I did it because I now can’t stand Greg as a character.
Greg really is a douche bag, but Rowley annoyed me too. But that’s my fault; not Rowley’s fault as a character. Rowley was a good kid, but I felt bad for Greg when all he wanted was to be popular, and ended up with a friend that was, essentially, a loser. But I’m a bit of a bitch in that way, and especially was sympathetic to Greg as a kid who wanted more than anything to fit in. I recognised, even as a child, that Greg was straight up an arse, but didn’t realise just how intolerable he is. I agree with everything you’ve said, but I will say that I can still read the books. Greg is still a fun character, just flawed.
I never liked him from the start because he was an asshole
sami yami i always understood rowley because I used to be a rowley to my ex best friends. It wasn’t until my real best friend came into my life that I decided to leave my toxic friends behind
Nah team Greg forever
its a book for kids, its not that deep...
The cheese touch gag has got to be the most messed up thing i've ever read and saw. Imagine being screamed at and being avoided from everyone at this school? I would be tramatized...
Yeah...
That person was me.
And I was.
Am.
On the topic of Girls: For the movie, Kinney said that the girls all look the same because Greg is a pre-pubescent boy, and so only rarely recognizes what girls look like other than having differing hairstyles, and so doesn't bother making them different. They have 'his' face because it's one he draws hundreds of times per book so he's familiar with it. The movie obviously couldn't do this, so Kinney had to apologize that this detail was disingenuous to the books.
As a girl who can't draw boys, that is VERY accurate lol
@@amethyst4578 I find it hard to draw boys as well lol
Draw me
I’m a guy and I struggle with drawing either girls with short hair or guys with long hair-I always have to emphasize things like body shape and gender-specific traits in order to make it obvious that the character is a girl with short hair and not a guy wearing heels.
@@leroyvisiongames2294 i can relate but its more vice-versa, every dude i used to draw ended up a femboy, i mean i still draw 'em like that, but now its more on purpose.
When I was a kid I had a spelling test with the word “acquaintance” and I remembered a portion of this book where Greg was telling a kid he didn’t think the word had a “c” in it.
I believed Greg.
I got that question wrong.
I have since realized Greg is not a role model
🤣🤣🤣
Omg wow.
poptart cat is
i’m so sorry 🙏😔
Damn, Greg
The reason Diary Of a Wimpy Kid is so popular is because unlike most children’s books it’s actually realistic
@NotHaru! greg is dead. Chocked him to dewth
As a kid I can confirm
@@Ausles I was about to say that killed off the entire series for me
I just can't read it anymore. When I was younger I loved the books, but now I just find them kind of cringe.
@@ThatTurboProbe R E A D T H E F A N F I C S
5:54 this was hilarious for me and even saddened me since on HBO Max, they replaced it with "ticked me off" 😭😭
I've met Jeff Kinney. Worked a show at his bookstore. He's pretty dope.
Met him and got a book signed, super nice and genuine guy
I've met him at a signing too, he's a cool guy
@@aryuh7653 same with me :D
Solar Sands: Greg is seen as a villain in some cases.
8 year old Me: This is all normal
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The true ending of Diary of a Wimpy Kid is when you realize the “relatable” character you had been agreeing with was an asshole all along.
Straight facts
Greg was and is a horrible friend to Rowley
Is a selfish Narcissistic Jerk
A dick to his family
And can and will use anyone to get what he wants regardless of the consequences
Sounds like an ending of a Yoko Taro game
the series cant end until Greg realizes what an asshole he is. that would be a good message and a good conclusion
@@thebigquack6945 lmao same
he is a jerk oml why did i relate to this?
Is it me or is Greg been in middle school for like 5 years.
Try 14 years lil boy
He was 11 on the first, he is 13 on the 15.
He’s the Ash Ketchum of the book universe
FR THO
I guess they live in a floating timeline like the cartoons🤣
It really is one of the most memorable books I can remember, with one of the most charming film adaptations on top of that.
It's plot, art style, characters, and general tone really embodied a sense of life that was pretty crummy. Kind of like seeing a family home on the inside with all the flaws and ugliness that doesn't get seen. People are selfish for vapid popularity and make very poor choices. People are insecure, flawed, and generally don't match the ideals of other children's stories. There are weirdos all around, including the adults, that to the eyes of kids can be seen as monsters, clowns, or role models. Yet, it also shows that despite all of that "roughness" in that period of life, we can grow. We can be better people, yet still be flawed. It also made all those cringe-like experiences appear as humorous misadventures with its writing, many of which kids at that age found engaging, or even relatable.
"...and worst of all, he's a SIMP."
Comedy gold
We've done it bois, we've hit the magic number
Edit: God damn it you guys ruined it
Jesus Villarreal r
But thats just facts not comedy.
Diary of a simpy kid
Squirrels In My Pants
Did you even go to school if yours didn’t have to “ban the cheese touch”
omg
oh americans...
jk I had a similar experience tho
Did you even get bullied if you didn't have your own personal cheese touch named after you
Basically any fad that lasted more than 2 weeks was "banned"
We had a cheese touch but it was the weird kid instead of cheese.
I read my old diary of a wimpy kid do it yourself book and i found the "future predictions" page, one of the sentences was "_______ will no longer exist"
Seven year old me wrote grandma.
Is it a bad thing I laughed at this?
F
Was it wrong?
my grandma is okay if u guys are wondering!
@@aboutit530 ok thank goodness :)
remember when you were young; either you've read the book or seen the movies, you always cheer for greg, then you realized when you're older, you understand rodrick and how relatable he was...
greg has proclaimed himself to be on "sicko mode" after snorting 88 grams of fentanyl and slamming manny's head against the drywall
i-
grrrrrrrrrrrrreat
i hate how i can see that
I saw this tweet before
manny is a bitch
his character is just.. realistic I guess. Too many kids are identical to Greg lmao
There’s definitely a piece of Greg in all of us
Couldn't agree more, Greg was literally a projection of most middle school kids all along.
@@FirenTGX really? American kids are scary then....culture difference than I guess.
@@FirenTGX really? American kids are scary then....culture difference than I guess.
@@berilsevvalbekret772 nah Most American kids aren’t liek that most are just selfish and short sided but who isn’t at that age
I just remember Rodrick: “Are you sad you pooped your diaper today? Yes or No”
That was the most conflicting question of my life at the time.
ozioma god i still remember that
I just drew a reverse card there
Rodrick’s a jerk LOL!
I said yes
KMKKKK
I honestly have to admit that as a kid I saw nothing wrong with 90% of what Greg did. Like as a kid I also thought I was better than everyone else and could do no wrong, like most kids I think, and so these books kinda just confirmed what I felt. For that reason I think Diary of a Wimpy Kid might have been a bad influence on me overall - I just wasn't mature enough to get the point.
same here i was not the most self aware child
OMG same, but don't worry, none of us kids realized how mentally fucked up Greg actually was until we grew up a little
I was ready to make a really similar comment. As a kid, the books taught me that popularity was actually a really big thing that you SHOULD try to get as popular as possible. I cut off friends that I thought would make me “unpopular” and it’s something I still regret.
Ok can we all agree that Jeff Kinney looks like a bargain brand Nicolas cage.
holy shit you're right
Sebby Bouchard omg can’t unsee xd
great value nic cage
He looks more like the subway guy
If Beto O’Rourke and nick had a baby
A school doesn't qualify to be a school without this book.
Preach
I promise you it does.
i remember when my school banned this book. it was 8 years ago, iirc. i can still remember that day, the despair that my classmates felt at this new development, my disappointment because the very next day i found a funny scene in one of my books but i couldnt show my friends
Doubt.
Trueeeeeeeee
the most heart breaking time for a 10 year old me was when i realized that Greg and that handwriting were not real. fun days
lmao my mom told me that greg was a real person and that it was an autobiography when i got my first book when i was 8 years old
I've seen a person with similar handwriting.
People actually believed he was real?
@@highdefinition450 people just believed their mums.
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I think it’s talking about thinking the font was someone’s real handwriting written over and over instead of typed.
i rewatch those movies at least once a week as an 18 yr old and you do t even understand how much of the humor, ideas, and overall vibe is so deeply ingrained into my life and friends. it’s honestly freaking insane.
I like your pfp and username!!
at this point, i dont even buy the books because 'i like them' anymore. its to feed the need to have the complete series, because i feel like i owe it to my childhood to atleast do so. when i go into a bookstore and see a new version of wimpy kid out, i immediately buy it, regardless of whether i even had the intention to buy anything. ive grown so attached to the series itself, not its content, that its just basically a reflex now.
Yes! I have this collection of books from 2 writers from my country. I loved them! I ate them like 3 course meals every day. Now I'm over it but I keep buying them because the collection needs to be complete!
Maob08 omg yes!!!
same here lol, I don't even read them anymore... i feel kinda bad but they aren't as good now..
This is how I consume RUclips videos
@@prathamyadav2508 Painfully Relatable
“And worst of all, he’s a simp”
Diary of the Simpy Kid
lol
underrated
Diary of a wimpy simp
I'LL TAKE EM' ALL
don’t worry, he realised his wrongdoings in Hard Luck
"He's stupid
He's a liar
And worst of all...
*HE'S A SIMP* "
-Solar Sands
2020
I've never really thought of the morality of Greg's actions. I just enjoy reading about the ridiculous and funny situations he gets himself into 😁
I just wanted to share this : our family wasn’t really that financially stable . When I was young , whenever I had a really good grade , We would go to the public library and spend time there just reading. One of the books I always read was this series .
Aww that's so nice hope ur doing well now✌
I hope you're doing alright now! :D
You have great taste in literature my friend
Surprisingly, for a guy who loves LEGO’s, he hasn’t talk about LEGO shows yet...
korillaa same, but wait until he finds out what Chima is....
@korillaa the nostalgia of the first 4 seasons.... But the others are too strange. I like what it tried but the show has gone for a bit too long.
Someone yeah, 8-10 were pretty great seasons in my opinion, but I think the design changes bugged a lot of people.
Bionicle is the best anime
Ratbat 1986 all LEGO shows are just anime’s that are trapped in toys, change my mind.
First of all , let me get something straight : this is a JOURNAL , not a diary . I know what it says on the cover , but when Mom went out to buy this thing I SPECFICALLY told her to get one that didn't say "diary" on it. Great. All I need is for sone jerk to catch me carrying this book around and get the wrong idea.The other thing I want to clear up right away is that this is MOM's idea, not mine . But if she thinks I'm going to write down my "feelings" in here or whatever, she`s crazy. So just don`t expect me to be all "Dear Diary" this and "Dear Diary" that . The only reason I agreed to do this at all is because I figure later on when I'm rich and famous, I have better things to do than answer people's stupid questions all day long. ( Everybody please , if you get the reference , cool , you don't need to comment about it , my notifactions are just this which is kinda of annoying .)
That was good
I read the books so many times I recognized this lol
I see what you did there.
*S I S S Y*
Now I know I read this book way too many times 🤣
This book series actually inspired me to be a novelist at some point and I've written maybe almost 1000 pages similar in the style of Wimpy Kid books because I was so invested in it. I still have it saved on my computer but probably will never be released
Anyone wanna talk about how Rodrick always has his eyebrows in the same position and the one time they actually moved in the 9th book it looked weird as hell
remember the part where greg gets pregnant with a watermelon?
oh-
Why did you have to remind me...
the dva main it’s gregnant
Good times
Mgreg
Diary of a wimpy kid is basically the account of every sad middle school weird kid.
yes
me, being one of those dumb kids can confirm
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Greg as a character is an asshole
So everyone but 1 kid
16:06 or maybe jeff kinney has been blacking out more people because its a metaphor of how greg sees the world in each book, maybe its symbolizing greg viewing the world as a dark and terrible place
I remember trying to pull Greg’s infamous “mean note on a valentine” thing in sixth grade for a person I didn’t like. I learned my lesson very quickly, and got sent to the principals office for the first time. I’ve never done anything like that again, I learned my lesson, and funny thing is, the person I gave that mean valentine to, she and I are friends now.
Wdym mean note on a valentine?
@@ureehueurv I don’t want to get into it :/
YOUR SUPPOSED TO GIVE EM' TO EVERYONE AND NOT SIGN THEM,AND MAKE FOR YOURSLEFFFFFFFFFFF AHHHHHHH
@@Mazamansir I DID DO THAT!! I HAD MY SISTER WRITE IT SO NO ONE WOULD RECOGNIZE THE WRITING, THEN I GAVE MYSELF A MEAN VALENTINE TOO!!! The only problem is, I the valentine was the same one that I gave to everyone else, and that was the dead giveaway. I should’ve written it on a piece of paper
Wholesome
ok but can we all just agree that Greg was a toxic friend to Rowley
"He's full of imperfections"
i mean rowley always kind of annoyed me for some reason but even i, a self-proclaimed anti-rowley can agree
@@EnderPanReigns true
It was the reason I dropped the series on book 4.
greg just seemed like a pretty unlikeable guy in general. if you look at him through the lens of a classmate or something, and not the main character, he does stupid stuff and doesn't think about what might happen. i know that was kinda a main point of the series, how stuff goes wrong and ends up funny, but it just grated on my nerves cause i never felt like i could really empathize with him lol. it was mostly how he treated rowley and rowley's family that made me feel pretty eh on him
Rethinking these books while taking into consideration that greg is probably an unreliable narrator, makes them even better
I wonder how much nicer the other characters are than Greg lets us know. Rowley's book gives us little insight
Omg I read your comment at the exact moment when this person was talking about Greg being an unreliable narrator lol 😂
@Mister Funk people do this all the time with books, any type. It's just interesting to analyze and speculate about, its just entertaining lol
We discussed this in adult honors ela lmao
@Mister Funk It's just analysis. Who decides when it gets 'too deep'?
i remember when third wheel first came out. i was in 3rd grade and my whole class had like a “library meeting” i don’t remember why but i remember her talking ab books that were gonna be new in the library and i remember her giving us this excited look and she finally pulled out third wheel and every one started cheering so happily. i miss childhood ngl