Basically Nikki: My life SUCKS! Also nikkis life: popular, rich, smart, amazing family, amazing friends, beautiful, literal pop star, has a crush who actually likes her
this whole video is me in middle school (i also wrote my own stories in middle school and my mom even crocheted a book cover to keep my dork diaries protected)
I wrote my own book “inspired” by the books as well but in mine the protagonist and her family were aliens for some reason?? But it wasn’t actually important to the story at all and the only thing I remember writing in it that was impacted by that was her bully calling her “Space face” and “freaky alien” near the beginning, even though it was meant to be a secret and he would’ve had no way of figuring it out??? 😭😭
DUDE LITERALLY i has such an EXTREME hatred of nikki because she kept complaining about her life (which i was jealous of)… it was so bad i still don’t like her to this day 😭😭 dork diaries had an embarrassingly big impact on me
Your point at the end about them becoming unrealistic is SO TRUE. I remember as a kid becoming less and less interested in the series as Nikkie became more and more famous
I stopped reading after the ski trip one because I just couldn't fathom being that ungrateful while you were a literal pop star on a free trip with your friends and family and crush 😭
Thank god Im not the only one who would try to be like Nikki by writing in a diary and making it a carbon copy of Dork diaries. I remember where i would litreally lock myself in the bathroom to write and i think all the girls there probably thought i was suffering from some explosive diarea since i was there for so long.
Honestly, read these books in middle school and elementary school…all I have to say is, Nikki should’ve explored her options with André. Brandon’s been holding out too long for my tastes. Like he needs to make Nikki his girlfriend or let that girl explore other options
Girl, the biggest problem with this series is that BRANDON AND NIKKI NEVER GET TOGETHER. Like, I remember reading a part in 'Crush Catastrophe' (or puppy love) where Brandon tells Nikki, "Actually, Nikki, I REALLY LIKE YOU" and NOTHING HAPPENS. The pair act all lovey-dovey, yet NEVER get together. There's no relationship drama, nay, not even CONFESSION drama. We never find out why they don't become a thing. Not only that, but when Andre flirts with Nikki, BRANDON gets jealous?! But, like... Nikki never told Andre that she likes Brandon AND Brandon and Nikki aren't a thing. I mean, COME ON! *Flips invisible table* Anyway, I gave up on the series after 'Birthday Drama'. I just could NOT with the 'viral dances' page.
the STRESS i felt when i was nine reading book two and she was trying to wear all three costumes to please everyone, and mackenzie STOLE HER CLOTHES was unimaginable. i felt like mackenzie had personally attacked me
I cannot BELIEVE that you would leave out the fact that in the ice skating one Nikki's younger sister rushes the stage of a production of The Nutcracker and BITES PEOPLE BECAUSE SHE THINKS THEY'RE MADE OF CANDY 😭😭😭😭
As a kid I hated Niki because as a lil lesbian I was in LOVE with Mackenzie and wanted her to bully me instead 😭 I genuinely was obsessed with the book where Mackenzie stole Nikis diary cause she was better at drawing and had pretty hand-writing. little me was DOWN BAD
i was SO invested in Mackenzie's story it was crazy. i'm like 80% sure that when i was younger i was wishing so hard that Mackenzie and Nikki would get together. but i didn't know girls could actually do that so i think i wanted them to be like. really awesome greatest best friends forever and ever and ever.
you DID NOT JUST INSULT TALES OF A NOT SO HAPPILY EVER AFTER. that book was my favorite book EVER. in my school we had a reading time period which was 40 minutes and i was so invested in the book i was 20 minutes into the next period and it took them that long to realize i was still reading
these books hit different when you were in 4th grade and had friends named Chloe and Zoey. there was also this girl we hated for a stupid reason and we would constantly compare her to Mackenzie
The mental hoops that Nikki had to jump through to convince herself that Brandon didn’t like her were so goofy like mf literally kissed her and she was like “wait what if he only did it for CHARITY 😢😢”
Tales of a Not-So-Friendly Frienemy was the first book from this series I read in a while and I remember thinking and being excited about a possible status quo change with Nikki and Mackenzie at the end not exactly being friends but being on good enough terms that Nikki doesn't have to worry about being antagonized by Mackenzie anymore but of course, all of that was undone. That really disappointed me.
I also feel like they lost the plot a little bit, I would’ve loved to see Nikki’s relationship with Mackenzie and Brandon evolve through silly teenage arguments and adventures in their original school. for the first time I’m kinda mad they didn’t keep my media relatable oh how the tables turn😭😭
It’s insane how only when you begun to recap the books that I start to vividly remember what happens. I forgot about most of these thing but the second you started describing it-
i used to get these from my class library (out of order because we only had a few) and read them in secret because i was a "smart kid" and i would have gotten made fun of for reading things that were "below me". sometimes you just need a little bit of stupid lighthearted fun
I used to love any sort of book that was from the perspective of a kid writing in a diary. Dork Diaries, Diary of a wimpy kid, Dear Dumb Diary, Big Nate, the Popularity Papers, Middle School the worst years of my life, etc. As a kid who drew a lot and kept a lot of journals, I found it really relatable. Especially when the main character really liked art/drawing, because I wanted to make a career out of it when I was younger & found it very inspiring, and I was really shy lol
I vividly remember LOVING the third book. That whole plot lives rent free in my head, dork diaries was my shit. So, in elementary school for character day I dressed up as Nikki in the Actually, I’m Not Really Sure Yet outfit. Swaggiest day of my life
So does nobody remember the Dork Diaries website? It was surprisingly very active. I loved reading the Ask Nikki columns and the comments. Last I checked the website people were arguing and speculating about an upcoming movie casting 😭😭
I think Dork Diaries was always intended to be a bit of an escapist power fantasy for tween girls, and that was okay at first because even then the earlier books were fairly grounded and as a kid you could really see yourself in Nikki. From Book 7 onwards though it leaned HARD into the power fantasy, and while I only read the first 4 books I feel like the rest of them would've lost me even as a kid.
@@KH0LRA kinda. "Tales from a Not-So-Dorky Drama Queen" is a book where Mackenzie found Nikki's diary and for some reason decided to write and draw in it, but then Nikki got her diary back and we never had the chance to see the events from Mackenzie's point of view again
HELPPP the fact that when I was 9 i ALSO wrote a carbon copy of dork diaries on google slideshows- i got two pages in and quit bc i realzied how bad it was. props to u
I absolutely loved these books growing up, but after I reread them, I got so irritated at how dragged out it is. Idk how many books the author is planning on making, but I’m lowkey hoping it ends soon. I feel like the characters should’ve graduated high school by now. They’ve been in the eighth grade for fifteen years! Most of these books are just filler and the relationship between Nikki and Brandon is so annoying. Idk why they can’t just get together already!
i read all of these as a kid!!! one time my dad did construction on the author’s house and she signed my copies! i ended up donating them to my elementary school
@@iamcat1797 that's like every other book, they literally made Niki feel bad for not wanting to have a huge birthday. It was Chloe and Zoey's fault that the invitations went out and they basically made Niki come up with all the money for HER party that she didn't even want in the first place.
@@bonkershonkers7257 so true. Honestly I hear many people act like Niki is this annoying character but I think most of the conflict in the books could be solved if her “friends” shut their freaking mouths.
@@iamcat1797 YES!! Niki has literally done nothing wrong.. sure she's done stupid middle school stuff, but almost all of them were because of ZOEY and CHLOE!! and then they get mad at Niki when it's THEIR FAULT!!
It started becoming really weird and unrealistic after book 9.. she gets popular and all she does is complain about how her life sucks and that she’s a dork whatever. I just don’t understand what happened after
I only ever read the first two books, but I reread the first one so many times. I remember she stole her elderly neighbor’s hearing aid and tried to make it look like a Bluetooth ear piece to look cool which was so out of pocket.
4:00 because of this book i ACTUALLY did something like this as a kid, like, i was 9 and i was drawing fake tattoos for the kids in my class. they werent good but everyone really liked it, but after lunch everyone washed them out because a few of my bullies were going around saying it would give them cancer
Every time andre from victorious flashed on screen it absolutely took me out. Somthing about fading in and out and the fnaf sound has me giggling and kicking my feet
Every time a new book releases I pray the Mackenzie and Nikki will have an enemies to lovers arc and leave that basic flavorless bitch Brandon 😭 I might be delusional, but I felt like the Paris book, especially the scene when Nikki and Mackenzie got stuck in the catacombs, had some sapphic undertones. Nikki and Mackenzie really had more chemistry in that one scene than Nikki and Brandon had in the entire 15 books imo
does anyone remember the first book getting pulled and rereleased because the original had the r word in it? i remember having the original first book and being surprised when i read it but never seeing it in the library versions. that was crazy
I remember reading the books as a tween and as a 25 yr old I wanted to know if Brandon and Nikki were a couple yet and was debating on rereading and was disappointed to see they weren’t oof
I will say I'm pretty sure Tiffany called MacKenzie bug girl because she found the video of MacKenzie with the stinkbug in her hair. But I might be misremembering. It's been a while since I read the books, but I used to read them RELIGIOUSLY.
Y’all I got a crazy story ong. I remember when i was in 4th grade I loved reading DOAWK. Used to go to the school library all of the time so that I could check out the books. One day while i was checking out the 2nd one the librarian stopped me and said I should read dork diaries instead bc DOAWK is for boys and dork diaries is for girls. that’s how I came across dork diaries lmao
These books were literally my childhood, so thank you for the joy that is this video. I read these in middle school I remember even then I thought Nikki was a pretty annoying. She’s still my girl, but ooo she used to piss me off when I read these. I definitely agree about the trajectory of the series. It just got more ridiculous because a lot of the charm was everyday nature of Nikki’s life and circumstances.
Man I remember being way into Dork Diaries when I was like 10-13 years old (and back when I was an avid reader, I'm not anymore). I still have books 1-6 on my bookshelf collecting dust. Great video! Brought back memories.
nah bruh idc nikki is ICONIC!!!!!!! shes part of the reason why i love glitter and sparkles and drawing. her art is super cute and shes pretty hilarious at times
To be fair for books 7 and 14, those pop star events are based on the author's experiences, but I cannot justify the dog stunt that comes from a cheesy Disney channel original movie I feel like it would have made more sense if she got famous for her art
When I was a kid, I used to have most of the Dork Diaries books (I was missing a few but they do enough recap that you don't really have to have them all) and I remember only liking the first two because I thought the other ones were incredibly unrealistic
After reading dork diaries I definitely did ask for a diary and started doing the whole “Hi dairy its me again!” Whenever I’d randomly just find my old dairy years later I wear I could feel my insides crunching from how cringe it was 😅
32:04 Tiffany wrote bug girl on Mackenzie’s locker not bc of the big exterminator Nikki thing she wrote it because in the book where Mackenzie steals Nikki diary Mackenzie finds the video of her throwing up and uploads it on RUclips under Nikki’s name so it would seem like Nikki is bullying her. Tiffany finds this video of Mackenzie and figures out this is the reason why she left (bug girl= Mackenzie with the bug in her hair)
there was this one dork diaries book that i would read constantly as a kid because it was escapism but at the same time relatable to bullied "girl" me.
What a trip down memory lane. I honestly think the fourth book was the best and is still my favorite. I can't believe you made yourself read these in 5 days that must have been crazy. Also this is my first vid of yours.
The only thing I remember about dork dairies is LOVING the fantasy one and rereading it like everyday, so to say I'm deeply offended doesn't even cover it. JUSTICE! (I literally don't remember anything)
i also wrote my own carbon copy of dork diaries as a kid called “surviving just about everything” (the name was inspired by the game “surviving high school”) and i was so proud of it even though it is trash lmao
i remember as a 4th grader, I was a black dot as a kid (high five to anyone who knows what that is) and I was obsessed with this series. The librarian would often get mad at me for picking this series which was like four levels below my dot colour. I literally reread the series.
I didn’t use dots but we had this website and numbers and crap. My numbers were so high (7.3-12.0) I had to read Shakespeare and it was SO BORING I wished I could read Dork Diaries so bad 😭
@@Weird0_Werdo i also had a super high reading level and i still vividly remember reading a book called peak about a guy who vandalized a skyscraper and then. climbed mount everest? it was actually so fucking boring i wanted to cry
I’ve been reading these books since elementary and have the entire collection it’s a great part of my childhood but as I reread them especially now as an adult I came to the realization that yea they became totally unrealistic 💀 that’s why I think the peak are 1-6 the first book being my favorite because it really does seem the most realistic to me anyways still love the series!
Nah as an ADHDer I feel you at the having trouble focusing on reading those books-it’s not an issue for me when I really like the book, but when I’m not a huge fan it can be rough 😅
i get so sad when i see people saying they read percy jackson when they were kids and i read this when i was a kid😭 and read percy jackson in high school
I remember not liking these books but still reading them all because I had nothing else to do to distract me from quarantine when I was younger. I hated them all so much but I had already read all the wimpy kid books and desperately needed something new. I remember reading the Max Crumbly books after dork diaries and liking them a whole lot more. I remember those being way funnier and more entertaining.
I honestly always HATED Nikki and hated Brianna even more and Chloe and Zoey were just so forgettable too 😭 I loved Mackenzie and wished she was the main character 💀 And Brandon was literally a humanized graham cracker..
Freakin dork Diary’s reminds me of miraculous ladybug bug but those are different of course but I’d always tell my mom to buy me one of those books to read
i really loved this series as a child although i never finished it,only read the first 12 books since the rest three hadn’t been translated into my language at the time. i’m debating if i should just buy them or not😭
Idk and I’m IN the U.S. stuff doesn’t make sense ig bc like it’s probably destruction of property, but idk if you could get suspended for that, probably arrested tho,
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mackenzie may have been 15 but her diabolical plans always gave unemployed
No replies lemme fix that
Yep😊
She’s 13/14
@@Never_Ever0 how are these people 13?!
@@Ilovestockholmstyle I have no idea but in the beginning of the book series they are either 13/ 14 and in the end of the book series they are 14/ 15
Basically Nikki: My life SUCKS!
Also nikkis life: popular, rich, smart, amazing family, amazing friends, beautiful, literal pop star, has a crush who actually likes her
SO TRUE MAN SO TRUE
She was kinda unlikable bc of this😭🙏🏽
well not rich, but definitely not poor. Middle class. I still agree w you tho
Nahh she said her life sucks when bad things happen to her, there are many examples
wish she got some character development throughout the books where she matured and realized this 💀💀
this whole video is me in middle school (i also wrote my own stories in middle school and my mom even crocheted a book cover to keep my dork diaries protected)
Awww that’s so sweet 🥹❤️
@@TwixXtz i still have the book cover she made me :)
SAME
I wrote my own book “inspired” by the books as well but in mine the protagonist and her family were aliens for some reason?? But it wasn’t actually important to the story at all and the only thing I remember writing in it that was impacted by that was her bully calling her “Space face” and “freaky alien” near the beginning, even though it was meant to be a secret and he would’ve had no way of figuring it out??? 😭😭
@@WhatRemainsofNovaJames zombies 3?
I remember getting so mad reading this as a kid because Nikki always had such good luck/opportunities while acting like her life sucked
DUDE LITERALLY
i has such an EXTREME hatred of nikki because she kept complaining about her life (which i was jealous of)… it was so bad i still don’t like her to this day 😭😭 dork diaries had an embarrassingly big impact on me
@@swiftlyaswiftie Found The Owl House fan
We need to bring back these “cringe” pre teen oriented books. Glamorous
The fact that The Cute Cool and Populars has the same abbreviation as the Chinese Communist Party is so funny to me
Bro I knew it sounded familiar
The genshin pfp said a lot too about the recognition of the name lmao
Your point at the end about them becoming unrealistic is SO TRUE. I remember as a kid becoming less and less interested in the series as Nikkie became more and more famous
I stopped reading after the ski trip one because I just couldn't fathom being that ungrateful while you were a literal pop star on a free trip with your friends and family and crush 😭
Thank god Im not the only one who would try to be like Nikki by writing in a diary and making it a carbon copy of Dork diaries. I remember where i would litreally lock myself in the bathroom to write and i think all the girls there probably thought i was suffering from some explosive diarea since i was there for so long.
Honestly, read these books in middle school and elementary school…all I have to say is, Nikki should’ve explored her options with André. Brandon’s been holding out too long for my tastes. Like he needs to make Nikki his girlfriend or let that girl explore other options
Girl, the biggest problem with this series is that BRANDON AND NIKKI NEVER GET TOGETHER. Like, I remember reading a part in 'Crush Catastrophe' (or puppy love) where Brandon tells Nikki, "Actually, Nikki, I REALLY LIKE YOU" and NOTHING HAPPENS. The pair act all lovey-dovey, yet NEVER get together. There's no relationship drama, nay, not even CONFESSION drama. We never find out why they don't become a thing. Not only that, but when Andre flirts with Nikki, BRANDON gets jealous?! But, like... Nikki never told Andre that she likes Brandon AND Brandon and Nikki aren't a thing. I mean, COME ON! *Flips invisible table* Anyway, I gave up on the series after 'Birthday Drama'. I just could NOT with the 'viral dances' page.
@@kendallandbaxter8982 like it was 15 years and STILL not together 😭😭
the STRESS i felt when i was nine reading book two and she was trying to wear all three costumes to please everyone, and mackenzie STOLE HER CLOTHES was unimaginable. i felt like mackenzie had personally attacked me
I cannot BELIEVE that you would leave out the fact that in the ice skating one Nikki's younger sister rushes the stage of a production of The Nutcracker and BITES PEOPLE BECAUSE SHE THINKS THEY'RE MADE OF CANDY 😭😭😭😭
nah that scene had 8 year old me WEEZING 😭peak comedy i will die on this hill
Brandon walked so Adrien from Miraculous could run can’t tell me otherwise
@@riahsnowwy5010 a comment has never been more correct, this is making me realize why i love that show so much.
That's so true, omg
@@riahsnowwy5010 theyre competing for dumbest love interests that have a more interesting life than the main girl
As a kid I hated Niki because as a lil lesbian I was in LOVE with Mackenzie and wanted her to bully me instead 😭 I genuinely was obsessed with the book where Mackenzie stole Nikis diary cause she was better at drawing and had pretty hand-writing. little me was DOWN BAD
LMAOO???
WHAT
i was SO invested in Mackenzie's story it was crazy. i'm like 80% sure that when i was younger i was wishing so hard that Mackenzie and Nikki would get together. but i didn't know girls could actually do that so i think i wanted them to be like. really awesome greatest best friends forever and ever and ever.
You dont know how badly i shipped niki and mackenzie back then... before i even knew what shipping was
@@dinosaur_pajamas I was so ready for like an enemies to lovers or even friends tbh I just wanted them to make up 😭
Nikki really be in middle school simping over a kid who smells like laundry detergent
you DID NOT JUST INSULT TALES OF A NOT SO HAPPILY EVER AFTER. that book was my favorite book EVER. in my school we had a reading time period which was 40 minutes and i was so invested in the book i was 20 minutes into the next period and it took them that long to realize i was still reading
REALLL
IM SO SORRY IT WASNT MY FAVORITE💔💔💔
these books hit different when you were in 4th grade and had friends named Chloe and Zoey. there was also this girl we hated for a stupid reason and we would constantly compare her to Mackenzie
The mental hoops that Nikki had to jump through to convince herself that Brandon didn’t like her were so goofy like mf literally kissed her and she was like “wait what if he only did it for CHARITY 😢😢”
Or like “oh NO what if Brandon only KISSED me for a GIFT CARD”😢😢 like girl-
It’s giving Candace and Jeremy
the audacity to give Max his own spinoff series instead of Brandon and Nikki after appearing in two entries (the books are aight)
as a kid i genuinely wanted mackenzie arrested...book 4 was CRAZY LOCKING SOMEONE IN A FREEZER BASICALLY?
Tales of a Not-So-Friendly Frienemy was the first book from this series I read in a while and I remember thinking and being excited about a possible status quo change with Nikki and Mackenzie at the end not exactly being friends but being on good enough terms that Nikki doesn't have to worry about being antagonized by Mackenzie anymore but of course, all of that was undone. That really disappointed me.
I also feel like they lost the plot a little bit, I would’ve loved to see Nikki’s relationship with Mackenzie and Brandon evolve through silly teenage arguments and adventures in their original school. for the first time I’m kinda mad they didn’t keep my media relatable oh how the tables turn😭😭
It’s insane how only when you begun to recap the books that I start to vividly remember what happens. I forgot about most of these thing but the second you started describing it-
i used to get these from my class library (out of order because we only had a few) and read them in secret because i was a "smart kid" and i would have gotten made fun of for reading things that were "below me". sometimes you just need a little bit of stupid lighthearted fun
imma be real, i forgot who’s who 10min in but that vid was fire 🔥
Real
I used to love any sort of book that was from the perspective of a kid writing in a diary. Dork Diaries, Diary of a wimpy kid, Dear Dumb Diary, Big Nate, the Popularity Papers, Middle School the worst years of my life, etc. As a kid who drew a lot and kept a lot of journals, I found it really relatable. Especially when the main character really liked art/drawing, because I wanted to make a career out of it when I was younger & found it very inspiring, and I was really shy lol
I vividly remember LOVING the third book. That whole plot lives rent free in my head, dork diaries was my shit. So, in elementary school for character day I dressed up as Nikki in the Actually, I’m Not Really Sure Yet outfit. Swaggiest day of my life
Y’all had a character day??? I’d love if there was something like that growing up (it would give me the excuse to cosplay as my hyperfixations lmfao)
@@exoskelepathy YESS I WOULD GO CRAZY FOR THAT
ITS ALMOST LIKE A SECOND HALLOWEEN
@@CattySketch FRRR 🙏🙏🙏
So does nobody remember the Dork Diaries website? It was surprisingly very active. I loved reading the Ask Nikki columns and the comments. Last I checked the website people were arguing and speculating about an upcoming movie casting 😭😭
THANK U FOR BRINGING THIS UP. the websites dead and honestly I want a revival and i want it NOW
Yeah, I was wondering how that was doing.
YESSS I GOT ON THE FRONT OF THE ART COLUMN ONCE
Omg I loved that website, would literally spend multiple hours each day just scrolling through all the articles and stuff
I think Dork Diaries was always intended to be a bit of an escapist power fantasy for tween girls, and that was okay at first because even then the earlier books were fairly grounded and as a kid you could really see yourself in Nikki. From Book 7 onwards though it leaned HARD into the power fantasy, and while I only read the first 4 books I feel like the rest of them would've lost me even as a kid.
as a kid i liked Tales from a Not-So-Dorky Drama Queen because Mackenzie's art was lowkey better than Nikki's
that’s so valid
It was my favourite book as a kid, and I think it might be because I was into Makenzie.
no way, there was a Mackenzie spinoff?
@@KH0LRA kinda. "Tales from a Not-So-Dorky Drama Queen" is a book where Mackenzie found Nikki's diary and for some reason decided to write and draw in it, but then Nikki got her diary back and we never had the chance to see the events from Mackenzie's point of view again
Yea and her handwriting too
Your the perfect person to watch while drawing/eating
The amount or rage these books gave me was insane. Mackenzie, count your days.
HELPPP the fact that when I was 9 i ALSO wrote a carbon copy of dork diaries on google slideshows- i got two pages in and quit bc i realzied how bad it was. props to u
i literally learnt about american culture thru the dork diaries series and i think it damaged the country's reputation to me for life
I absolutely loved these books growing up, but after I reread them, I got so irritated at how dragged out it is. Idk how many books the author is planning on making, but I’m lowkey hoping it ends soon. I feel like the characters should’ve graduated high school by now. They’ve been in the eighth grade for fifteen years! Most of these books are just filler and the relationship between Nikki and Brandon is so annoying. Idk why they can’t just get together already!
Exactly. This is why I love when pieces of media aimed at young audiences grow up with them. An example of this is Adventure Time.
THE WAY IM BEING SO HONEST WHEN I FIRST SAW ANDRE IN CRUSH CATASTROPHE MY JAW DROPPED
i read all of these as a kid!!! one time my dad did construction on the author’s house and she signed my copies! i ended up donating them to my elementary school
THATS SO COOL WHAT
I'm gonna be honest, Chloe and Zoey were like, the WORST best friends...
Yeah I kind of felt bad for Niki. Remember the book where they peer pressure her into breaking the law?
@@iamcat1797 that's like every other book, they literally made Niki feel bad for not wanting to have a huge birthday. It was Chloe and Zoey's fault that the invitations went out and they basically made Niki come up with all the money for HER party that she didn't even want in the first place.
@@bonkershonkers7257 so true. Honestly I hear many people act like Niki is this annoying character but I think most of the conflict in the books could be solved if her “friends” shut their freaking mouths.
@@iamcat1797 YES!! Niki has literally done nothing wrong.. sure she's done stupid middle school stuff, but almost all of them were because of ZOEY and CHLOE!! and then they get mad at Niki when it's THEIR FAULT!!
It started becoming really weird and unrealistic after book 9.. she gets popular and all she does is complain about how her life sucks and that she’s a dork whatever. I just don’t understand what happened after
I only ever read the first two books, but I reread the first one so many times. I remember she stole her elderly neighbor’s hearing aid and tried to make it look like a Bluetooth ear piece to look cool which was so out of pocket.
BAHAHAHHA YES OMG THAT WAS GOLD, I REMEMBER BEING SO CONFUSED LIKE WHY TF IS SHE TRYING TO MAKE KNOCK OFF AIRPODS?
to this day i still unironically love dork diaries
No bc it’s not even funny how stressed out 9 year old me got over Nikki’s life going completely down the drain every book 😭
4:00 because of this book i ACTUALLY did something like this as a kid, like, i was 9 and i was drawing fake tattoos for the kids in my class. they werent good but everyone really liked it, but after lunch everyone washed them out because a few of my bullies were going around saying it would give them cancer
OH MY GOD??? 😭😭😭
@@yonksbass YEAH, THEY DID THAT! I was cool for like 3 hours 😭
The fact book 16 is coming out THIS OCTOBER is crazyyy
I still need book15
book WHAT
ARE YOU SERIOUS OMG?????
HASJSJSHSHDB WHAT
WHATTT IM 16 BUT I NEED THIS 💀💀
Every time andre from victorious flashed on screen it absolutely took me out. Somthing about fading in and out and the fnaf sound has me giggling and kicking my feet
Youd think based off what she said about Jamie Lynn Spears she'd be a lil more worried about getting a tv show or music career 😭
YOURE SO RIGHT😭😭
Fr☠️
the absolute GRIP Dork Diaries, Rainbow Magic, and the Warrior cats book series had on me as a kid 😭🙏
OH YOU JUST UNLOCKED THE NOSTALGIA OF RAINBOW MAGIC FOR ME I FORGOT ABT ITTT
3/3 on this frfr 😭😭😭
Every time a new book releases I pray the Mackenzie and Nikki will have an enemies to lovers arc and leave that basic flavorless bitch Brandon 😭 I might be delusional, but I felt like the Paris book, especially the scene when Nikki and Mackenzie got stuck in the catacombs, had some sapphic undertones. Nikki and Mackenzie really had more chemistry in that one scene than Nikki and Brandon had in the entire 15 books imo
girl youre so real for this thats why i read fanfics
I used to go on the Dork Diaries forums and debate over what Nikki should have done differently 😭
Boy this forums were... interesting to say the least
does anyone remember the first book getting pulled and rereleased because the original had the r word in it? i remember having the original first book and being surprised when i read it but never seeing it in the library versions. that was crazy
Yeah I think I actually have the original version
I remember reading that and not thinking anything of it ☠️
omg i believe i still have the original too 😭😭 at the time i was like “oh ok” but now it’s a big yikes from me
yeah i thought it was gonna be mentioned in the video lol
After the first 3 Dork Diaries books, I guess they became "And Everyone Clapped" the series I guess...
i loved the one were mackenzie stole her diary so much
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Mackenzie’s art is so good and her handwriting is also better than Nikki too 😅
I remember reading the books as a tween and as a 25 yr old I wanted to know if Brandon and Nikki were a couple yet and was debating on rereading and was disappointed to see they weren’t oof
Wait seriously? As of latest books they aren’t 😭 damn she’s really not shooting her shot
YOU SHOULD READ ALL THE DIARY OF A WIMPY KID BOOKS 😭 They get bad after the airplane one but its fine
wimpy kid was my childhood fr 😭😭..
I feel like everything looked, sounded, felt, smelled, and tasted different during the time I was reading these books
"'tiffany imma let you finish' she said like that famous rapper" we all say in unison
A lot of the books tropes reminds me of Miraculous ladybug and Victorious 💀😭
I will say I'm pretty sure Tiffany called MacKenzie bug girl because she found the video of MacKenzie with the stinkbug in her hair.
But I might be misremembering. It's been a while since I read the books, but I used to read them RELIGIOUSLY.
Y’all I got a crazy story ong. I remember when i was in 4th grade I loved reading DOAWK. Used to go to the school library all of the time so that I could check out the books. One day while i was checking out the 2nd one the librarian stopped me and said I should read dork diaries instead bc DOAWK is for boys and dork diaries is for girls. that’s how I came across dork diaries lmao
STOP I LOVED DORK DIARIES TOO AND I TRIED TO MAKE A BOOK FROM “NIKKIS FUTURE DAUGHTER” AND HOW NIKKI MADE HER GET A DIARY 😭
realllll
They were so cringe and I think even 4th grade me knew this, but I still consumed them like crack.
These books were literally my childhood, so thank you for the joy that is this video. I read these in middle school I remember even then I thought Nikki was a pretty annoying. She’s still my girl, but ooo she used to piss me off when I read these. I definitely agree about the trajectory of the series. It just got more ridiculous because a lot of the charm was everyday nature of Nikki’s life and circumstances.
I always wanted to color them in🥲
Man I remember being way into Dork Diaries when I was like 10-13 years old (and back when I was an avid reader, I'm not anymore). I still have books 1-6 on my bookshelf collecting dust. Great video! Brought back memories.
nah bruh idc nikki is ICONIC!!!!!!! shes part of the reason why i love glitter and sparkles and drawing. her art is super cute and shes pretty hilarious at times
To be fair for books 7 and 14, those pop star events are based on the author's experiences, but I cannot justify the dog stunt that comes from a cheesy Disney channel original movie
I feel like it would have made more sense if she got famous for her art
When I was a kid, I used to have most of the Dork Diaries books (I was missing a few but they do enough recap that you don't really have to have them all) and I remember only liking the first two because I thought the other ones were incredibly unrealistic
the first one was the GOAT 🗣🗣🔥❗ it's on a completely other tier from the rest
@@gwomenazai4486 Fr, she was like an actual middle schooler in that one
@@patrickbatemansflipflop there's just a charm to it that makes it so re-read worthy 🥹 (to be fair the Mackenzie one was pretty sick too)
i also love the artstyle in the first few! its more scribbly/stickmany but i love it
After reading dork diaries I definitely did ask for a diary and started doing the whole “Hi dairy its me again!” Whenever I’d randomly just find my old dairy years later I wear I could feel my insides crunching from how cringe it was 😅
ME FR LMAO 😭
32:04 Tiffany wrote bug girl on Mackenzie’s locker not bc of the big exterminator Nikki thing she wrote it because in the book where Mackenzie steals Nikki diary Mackenzie finds the video of her throwing up and uploads it on RUclips under Nikki’s name so it would seem like Nikki is bullying her. Tiffany finds this video of Mackenzie and figures out this is the reason why she left (bug girl= Mackenzie with the bug in her hair)
you’re so right. my brain was fully rotting by that point so it completely slipped my mind
I remember not liking these books but still buying and reading them all the time just to end up cringing at the characters over and over
YES i hated them but kept buying them
Especially the newest books bc wtf
there was this one dork diaries book that i would read constantly as a kid because it was escapism but at the same time relatable to bullied "girl" me.
I was OBSESSED with dork diaries. I remember I had a little diary that was made as "merch" for the series.
When I was 9-10 I was writing Nikki × Mackenzie fanfics... I still have it in my phone
What a trip down memory lane. I honestly think the fourth book was the best and is still my favorite. I can't believe you made yourself read these in 5 days that must have been crazy. Also this is my first vid of yours.
The only thing I remember about dork dairies is LOVING the fantasy one and rereading it like everyday, so to say I'm deeply offended doesn't even cover it. JUSTICE! (I literally don't remember anything)
i also wrote my own carbon copy of dork diaries as a kid called “surviving just about everything” (the name was inspired by the game “surviving high school”) and i was so proud of it even though it is trash lmao
Title reminds me of Ned's declassified survival guide
your way of telling the stories is so fun and interesting omg 🙏🙏 i was laughing sm and my brother even started listening and getting invested
omgg i never realized dork diaries was set in westchester. imagine a dork dairies crossover with the clique 🫢
I remember in like 5th grade Dork diaries was basically Diary of a wimpy kid for girls
i read both
Tbh wimpy kid is way better
😭 I have literally all the DD and the WP books expect for the brand new ones. They’re going to be gifts to my nieces and nephews in the far future
i remember as a 4th grader, I was a black dot as a kid (high five to anyone who knows what that is) and I was obsessed with this series. The librarian would often get mad at me for picking this series which was like four levels below my dot colour. I literally reread the series.
I also wrote fanfic of it 😭
I didn’t use dots but we had this website and numbers and crap. My numbers were so high (7.3-12.0) I had to read Shakespeare and it was SO BORING I wished I could read Dork Diaries so bad 😭
@@Weird0_Werdo i also had a super high reading level and i still vividly remember reading a book called peak about a guy who vandalized a skyscraper and then. climbed mount everest? it was actually so fucking boring i wanted to cry
@@nightrose6116 justice for high level readers 😔💔
I read at college level when I was 7 and everyone wouldn’t believe my mom because I only read like, Warriors
I’ve been reading these books since elementary and have the entire collection it’s a great part of my childhood but as I reread them especially now as an adult I came to the realization that yea they became totally unrealistic 💀 that’s why I think the peak are 1-6 the first book being my favorite because it really does seem the most realistic to me anyways still love the series!
Why did I ALSO make a dork diaries rip off as a kid 😭
ME TOOOO LMAO
I can never have an original experience in life
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Nah as an ADHDer I feel you at the having trouble focusing on reading those books-it’s not an issue for me when I really like the book, but when I’m not a huge fan it can be rough 😅
Right!!! That’s exactly how it is!!
i get so sad when i see people saying they read percy jackson when they were kids and i read this when i was a kid😭 and read percy jackson in high school
BYE 😭 your "School Days" copy literally has the same font as Dork Diaries LOLLLL
i forgot how much this series shaped my perspective as a child. this video has been a deconstruction for me wow
THE JAMIE LYNN SPEARS LINE WAS SO UNCALLED FOR
I did not realize just how many of these books I read omfg
SAME
@@That1Nonbinary_Gal14 Me too!
I think I read all of them except for the Paris one cuz when I started it I thought is was boring
@@PinkyPopPlayzOfficalYT im pretty sure I read all of them 😭
I remember reading these books and questioning the hands like I was one to judge but I still drooled over them daily after school
By them I mean the Valentines dance one bc that was my favorite of the three I had
0:54 ccp can also stand for chinese communist party 😭
OH! 😟
I WAS LOOKING FOR THIS COMMENT
When I read a small snippet and saw that that's the first thing I thought
“My favorite book next to DOAWK” crying. Same
I remember not liking these books but still reading them all because I had nothing else to do to distract me from quarantine when I was younger. I hated them all so much but I had already read all the wimpy kid books and desperately needed something new. I remember reading the Max Crumbly books after dork diaries and liking them a whole lot more. I remember those being way funnier and more entertaining.
I honestly always HATED Nikki and hated Brianna even more and Chloe and Zoey were just so forgettable too 😭
I loved Mackenzie and wished she was the main character 💀
And Brandon was literally a humanized graham cracker..
Also my problem with this series is how slowwwww its moves, like this all takes place in like a year ?
These books hold a special place in my heart these are the books that got me into reading
Omggg same
Freakin dork Diary’s reminds me of miraculous ladybug bug but those are different of course but I’d always tell my mom to buy me one of those books to read
1:55 wait, the original book mentioned Jamie Lynn? In my language's translation it was changed to Lindsay Lohan
I remember reading these as a little kid and not knowing who Jamie Lynn spears was 😭
i really loved this series as a child although i never finished it,only read the first 12 books since the rest three hadn’t been translated into my language at the time. i’m debating if i should just buy them or not😭
Only three of them were Ever translated to my language so I missed quite a lot
15:40 I don't live in the U.S. but I still don't understand how tf can you suspend someone for something they did outside of school
Idk and I’m IN the U.S. stuff doesn’t make sense ig bc like it’s probably destruction of property, but idk if you could get suspended for that, probably arrested tho,
@@Ilovemydogs21934 thank you