The Impact of Diary of a Wimpy Kid
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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
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
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 "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)
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
"...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
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 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 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..
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
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.
I don't get the whole "Greg is a sociopath thing" Sure, he might have sociopathic traits, but he's 13. To me he just seems like a misguided middle schooler more than anything.
Now, the movies are a different story (Greg isn't a static character in them, but goes through change). Throughout most of the first movie Greg is almost a spitting image of his book-self. He is a terrible friend to Rowley. But in the movie universe these actions actually have consequences, and Rowley eventually figures out Greg's true nature and starts hanging out with another kid. Greg realizes what a good friend Rowley was, and how stupid it is to try to impress others or trying to become popular, and instead realizes that what really matters is a good friend. These actions actually carry onto the next two films where Greg is noticeabley a way better friend to Rowley than his original movie-self/book-self. The same applies with the other two movie story arcs with Greg and Roderick and Greg and Frank.
Yup your right kids are always selfish that's how it is and even the adults are selfish we are all humans who have this trait but that doesn't mean we can't change like how Greg finally realize how important your friends are then being popular is a perfect example to us that if we work hard we can achieve anything and most of all this book is realistic thats what i like about this adults think we don't understand anything but actually we can see more then they thought thats why i really liked this dairy of wimpy kid
@Yasmina varre ,I don't know how you were as a kid but I wasn't selfish as a kid... I obviously had my moments but I mostly put others before myself even back then. And "always selfish" is a huge exaggeration.
@@CriticalClone no
@@Triskelion345 nice argument, I can see a lot of thought and depth were put into your captivating words.
@@CriticalClone my b
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
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🤣
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
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.
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
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
i also loved how the font really mimicked a kids' writing. Its all these small things that makes it the best book ever
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…
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?
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 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
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.
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?
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?
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
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
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
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😭
Face it. No matter what wholesome shows you show your kids, they somehow know more swears than you do
Makes sense.
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
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
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_ )
You not only brought a ton of nostalgia for my childhood but also unlocked a memory of how I used to doodle on my school library books and my own notebooks pretty much all of elementary and some of middle school lol
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...
“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
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
At first I thought Greg was your average, shy, socially awkward, a bit nerdy student, the kind every bully would definitely like to pick on, hence his nickname "Wimpy Kid", but now that I've learned he's actually a VILLIAN of the story, that really hits the fan! 😨
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…
“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
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.
yeah
Exactly.
Exactly
Exactly
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
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
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...
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
Diary of a Wimpy Kid was written for kids who got bullied in middle school and wished they were the bully.
Incels
Agree.
I wasn't ready to hear that, but thanks I guess
bruh why this so accurate
Is this a personal attack or something?😂
I think they should make a Diary of a wimpy ADULT now, seeing as the original audience of the books have all grown up
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 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.
Fr
@@yeemawheaver1387 *r a w l y*
@@yeemawheaver1387 R A W L Y
*rawly????*
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
I remember every single year waiting patiently for the new diary of a wimpy kid book to come out then reading it all in 2 hours then being depressed for another year just to do the exact same thing
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.
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.
“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"
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'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 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
Let's be real though, looking back at the books, Greg was a *jerk*
Greg wasn't a Psychopath, he was just a pre-teens written by a man who didn't like to Mince words.
rodrick was the real main character
no he was just smart
I mean that's why it was funny,, if it was some good perfect guy , would have been boring
“Besides, even if I did have money, I wouldn’t go wasting it all on Rowley”
I really enjoy your personal doodles on the books. It gives it character
I found Greg to be pretty relatable at times throughout middle school. Even though you could say he's overly narcissistic, it's a trait the most middle schoolers have to some degree.
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
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
When I was a kid, I was actually rooting for Greg and hoping him having better luck. This is basically the proof, that not every bad person must be a badly written character (and sadly vice versa)
I think it's funny how Solar depicts his mom as a fancy looking high quality image of an old timey hourglass at 19:05
It’s so fucking cute lml
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 😂😂😂
@@CYBER_N0T no
"Greg, its Rodrick, Our father died in a car crash"
"Z O O W E M A M A"
I hate to be that person, but it’s zoo wee mama!
"Engineer gaming"
"Z O O W E E M A M A"
@@icecreamsundd Z O O W E M A M A
@@mariocart2wrholder Z O O W E M A M A
*_Z O O W E E M A M A_*
this series was the pinnacle of "at least they're reading"
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
they: Coronavirus
Me, an intellectual: Cheese touch 2
Or maybe Bat touch
Jen ahh a fellow intellect
We’re so close to getting a vaccine for the cheese touch 2
FoolsGold22 yes
Lmao😐
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 appreciate the author for also creating poptropica. Both poptropica and Diary of a wimpy kid books helped me become the person I am today.
Excellent video. Grew up reading about Greg Heffleys adventures and misadventures and experiences and now that I’m much older in college it’s nice to revisit the books. Something about the witty, slightly cynical, narcissistic, nihilistic and ironic outlook of life that Greg gives is extremely refreshing.
It’s also great that jeff kinney is still writing these books.
I am now in college, too! I used to love reading these as well, when I was only in elementary school.
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
@@notactiveanymoreasof2024 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
The real wimpy kids were the friends we made along the way
:)
@@bubblegumbitch2191 you are replying to something so wholesome yet your name is bubblegum bitch
Zade Ismaeil game
@@zadeypops7172 I honestly thought this comment was a joke.
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Up until 5th grade I was a little egotistical jerk, which is why i loved these books so much. I could relate to what Greg was talking about lol
The way people still mention the “cheese touch” today just shows how impactful the series is 😭
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
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.
This is genuinely one of my favorite RUclips videos of all time
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
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.
"14 books" Jesus how long has Greg been in middle School
Yeah
I asked that at reading too
I think some books could be prequels like hard luck and the third wheel
Probably about as long as Ash Ketchum has been 10 years old.
He could be lying to make himself more intresting and appealing to more audieneces but that's just my head canon
@@DoubleTime53 Wait what
3:45 i love the example you chose here because i remember reading this as a kid and being like "what the FUDGE did i just witness?????????????????????????????????????????????????"
this is going to be so long 😭 but the impact of the diary of a wimpy kid had on me was huge, and shaped pretty much most of my childhood. i was in primary school when i heard my classmates talking about it and my dad bought it for me. i was a nerd, my dad introduced me to journaling (which i still do) when i was in 4th grade and when this series came along, it influenced my writing forever. i loved the cult like fanbase which encouraged so many children in my school to gather and orchestrate a literal event of the cheese touch. i loved how i felt after i read this book in one day.
during free breaks in the class, us girls and guys would gather and unite to discuss about the books and there was a particular guy in our class who could draw immaculate comics and he had this notebook where we once wrote an entire new wimpy kid novel with a whole ass new plot woth contributions chipped in from every other classmates it was called the "Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Ice Cream Machine" where it included greg wanting to make money during the summer holidays so he made homemade ice cream to sell in his neighbourhood, the book also included a personalized ice cream recipe by the cartoonist himself and it became a huge hit. each of us in the class would borrow his finished product and took several days to copy it down on our own notebooks and would return it to him, and he'd hand his book to the next person in line. i remember i would secretly stay up past my bedtime and writing it down in an empty notebook in the dim light. back then staying up late for several days doing this without my parents knowing felt like such an accomplishment. we'd also give him our wimpy kids books so he'd annotate it with little doodles and at the back of the book, there would be a surprize game like a maze that he'd draw for the each of us. dude was such a blast, he wrote other books with new plots about a totaly different version of the twisted wizard and a version of the book series but from rodricks pov. it was such a fun time. i'm in college now and i still read the collection that i own when i feel down or miss home. moreso i even keep in touch with the new releases amid my plato's and dostoyevsky's and helps hugely when i'm in a book slump :))
How am I the only one who didn't realise Greg was a bad kid
you’re a sociopath
As a kid I knew his actions were bad but I find it so interesting and funny I excused it lol but yes, I didn't think he was entirely "bad" Because I felt it was so realistic (especially as a kid) now that I think of it, he's really bad but it's nothing to get riled up over
Yo I had litteraly no moral compass when reading these books I just thought it was hilarious.
@@ultimadum7785 same here
that’s the point
I went to school with the author’s nephew. He was a nice kid.
Captain Obvious Was he a Wimpy kid?
Account Nah. A little skinny maybe. I wouldn’t say wimpy.
Captain Obvious legend
Thanks Captain Obvious
Fake and gay
I remember reading both Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Big Nate and liking them both but over time, Big Nate became my favorite. The stories were very wholesome and taught good lessons. And the author decided to end the series, unlike Jeff Kinney where it seems he's just writing the books for a paycheck.
He still does the comics
It makes a lot of sense even without the context because it’s so accurate. Middle school teachers notoriously lack empathy or even basic respect towards their students send turn a blind eye to mistreatment and bullying. Some might just say it’s a funny book series but it’s truly indicative of how school is, particularly in America
"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 👁👄👁
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
This is probably one of those books that looking back had a negative impact on my personality. It go me reading a lot when I was young though so I guess that’s a benefit
The getaway, although diminished in art style, is till my favourite story out of the bunch
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)
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'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.
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.
I read the first 3 of these books without buying any of them. They were just so ubiquitous in my middle school that someone left a copy of each lying around after they came out and I picked them up and claimed them.
to be honest i’ve always loved greg’s character because he wasn’t a goody two shoes and i related to him more than any other child character in a book series
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
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 genuinely felt less alone reading Diary of a Wimpy Kid as a child. I generally thought life was kind of crappy back then. (I didn't realize how good I had it.) Every time Greg, Rowley, or any of the characters did something unfair, stupid, or straight up idiotic, I felt a sense of relatability with them. But as I got older, I started to see just how messed up Greg was, and how I went along with him the majority of the time.
Didn't read it but from the description it kinda reminded me of a book series "Little Nicolas" by René Goscinny. Don't know how well known this series is in the rest of the world since it's a french book but it was really popular among kids here in Poland.
It followed a group of students going to a boys only school who were kinda mean to each other most of the time. They didn't actively hate each other and they did stuff together all the time but most of the stories involved somebody beating somebody up. I think that was kinda the reason why these short stories resonated with so many kids. It managed to capture how classmates often act with each other. They were not evil characters. They were just kid characters that actually have the morality of a kid
I love Little Nicolas!! he's a menace but he's so funny