A few things I want to comment before anyone watches: 1.) I picked the WORST quality photos for each of my episode examples. OMG, but I'm not changing it lol. 2.) I didn't quite finish my hollywood Forever story, I got back in contact with the guy...right after the screening...you'll get it when you watch. 3.) I have PCOS... and when I recorded this I was in between waxes. Do with that info what you will lol. Thank you for watching :)
There is absolutely nobody on these apps that I relate to more than you Steph! Your content is so real and raw I feel so seen when I hear your commentary. Growing up to be a quirky black girl I feel like I’ve learned to feel so small but listening to you is just a breath of fresh air.
I haven’t even got 10 minutes into the video but I just want you to know Steph you have a way with words and relatability that I just can’t get enough of! You’re literally amazing at conceptualizing things and bringing such nuanced information and topics to reality. I hope I’m making sense ❤ all in all, I LOVE YOU PARASOCIALLY (but not in a weird way lol) and I wish you the absolute best holiday and new year! ❤ Okay let me continue the video 😂❤
You look beautiful Steph, I always feel like I’m on FaceTime when you tell us these stories, I love how you paralleled the scenarios in the show to your real life.
Omg. Insecure is a classic. I’m happy you had the opportunity to go back and watch it. I can completely understand being triggered by it because I also agree when I watched it the first time while it was airing, I found myself feeling like someone was writing a story on my life because of a lot of the overlap And things I could relate to whether it was in Issa’s life or the other characters’.
As far as this ghosting goes it's very disturbing to me that folks don't know how to break up anymore. Hate that it happened to you, happened to me as well. It's like as soon as my heart began to swell with anticipation "BOOM" this character decides to just be nonexistent.
I come from a town/ culture where no man ever breaks up with you. You find the house empty except for the divorce papers on the kitchen counter. You come back home from work & find his things gone. You think the 5 months is going well them find out you got blocked from all their social & their friends/ families socials. The best you can hope for is if his new gf answers his call & tell you not to bother him anymore. 😂😭 So if he tells you to your face he doesn't want you, you know he is just playing!
Thank you so much for this Christmas present!! 😊 I’ve only been a bridesmaid once, at my sister’s wedding, and I loved it because all my siblings were involved. But it was also expensive (dress, shoes, hair!) and exhausting with all the meetings and dance rehearsals. After that, I knew that I’ll never put myself forward for that role again, unless asked. Years later, when a close friend of mine got married, I had mixed emotions. She and I had shared so much during university, and I treasured our friendship. When she told me she could only have five bridesmaids and asked if I could be a guest, I was secretly relieved. But when I found out who she chose, it stung. Two of the bridesmaids were women she had clashed with multiple times, but still kept in her circle because of their shared Course at University, so they had the same friends in that cycle. I couldn’t understand why she picked them over me, especially after everything we’d been through together, and the passive-aggressive dynamic she had with them. She does not know about my stance about being in weddings - no one does, and I prefer it that way. I would have said yes if she had asked. Gladly. It’s funny how those old feelings resurface - the baby shower reminded me of THAT time, and I realised the wound still isn’t fully healed. I will always support my friends and family if they ask me to be a part of their special day, regardless of the role I'm asked to perform. But knowing who I was overlooked for really stung.
Merry Christmas Steph! You are looking simply gorgeous! 😍 Thank you once again for sharing, I am sure all of us can relate to at least some elements of each story 😅
I don’t know what it is about friendships that we don’t just vocalize ourselves the way we do in romantic relationships. I had a close friendship fall out over similar dynamics to your baby shower story. Why is it so hard to say, “I wasn’t sure you had the capacity to be there for me” and “I really want to be a part of this and help to make your day special.” And life transitions like weddings and babies seem to bring out a lot of unstated tensions. No one can roast you like a little kid. One of the reasons I teach college and not K12. Volunteering at my son’s school recently reminded me that I have some trauma to heal around being bullied as a child. It kind of drives me nuts when I see people talking Insecure’s LA as mythical because to me Issas Black LA is actually real. My husbands parents know Issas dad and I know where she grew up and frequent most of the places and businesses we see on the show. Black LA is in Inglewood/Crenshaw/View Park/Leimert areas, not Hollywood. I find that a lot of black transplants to LA come for entertainment industry so they move out to certain areas and never find us. Dating as a Black woman is always struggle but at least in the early 2000s and 2010s me and most of my unambiguously Black female friends in LA eventually married imperfect but handsome, good, professional Black men. Maybe it is worse now, though.
💙🩷GIRRRRRRRRLLLLLLLLLLL I LOVE UR CONTENT. I KNOW U AT TIMES WAS A LITTLE HARD ON URSELF, BUT BEST BELIEVE YOU HAVE A GROUP OF US WHO LOVE WHAT YOU WANT TO PUT OUT. LET ME LIKE THIS VIDEO. ANYYYYYYYYWHO, HAVE A SAFE HOLIDAY TO YOU AND UR FAMILY. FROM ONE OF UR MANY NUMBER 1 SUBSCRIBERS. I BEEN HERE FOR SOME YEARS WATCHING AND LOVING UR PERSPECTIVE ON THINGS. WE LOVE ITTTTTT. KEEP UP THE WORK!!!!!!🩷💙
Had the opposite happen. I had a friend that made me plan and host her baby shower. But when the baby was born, I found out on facebook like everyone else 😭
Steph, hv you considered being a screen writer for shows like Insecure and Harlem? You have good storytelling abilities... u need to make big coin from this skill. Merry Christmas and a love filled new year🎉
32 48....... I didn't get to see it until it popped up on Netflix. I had seen Lovebirds first, then a couple years later, HBO stuff started coming on Netflix, so I had to watch it.
one time I smoked a joint which I now think was laced with something... I was so high I don't remember a portion of the night. Nothing helped but a deep sleep and then my mind cleared. I so relate to your story, especially trying to convince my body to move, or trying to navigate driving when I can't see straight or think linearly. Oof, memories
This is a tangent on the topic of controlling party planners (I don't have a point just yapping for engagement pls feel free to ignore LMAO) so I was DEFINITELY that person earlier this year for my 25th birthday party. It was Spongebob 24/25 themed and I made a bunch of decorations in the weeks leading up to sprinkle around the house as well as make each room a different part of Bikini Bottom. Did I mention I decided to have this party after an epiphany that I need to cleebrate my life only like 2 or 3 weeks before my birthday? Lmaooooo I definitely bit off more than I could chew. And, realistically, I could have asked for help from two, if not three or four people during the decoration making process and at least one or two people during the actual decorating of the house, but I had such a specific idea of how I wanted things that I would physically wince/cringe at the idea of accepting help. It was a really cute party. I caved and got help for parts I was too short to reach lol I feel like my happiest moment was after everythng was decorated but before everyone got there 💀 like I definitely over extended myself and there was an unexpected tragedy the night before that really had me wanting to cancel everything, so it's like I'm glad I didn’t, but I also wasn't in the mood to take nearly as many photos of everyone dressed up. Like I said I didn't really have a point, these videos are just so relatable I can't not leave a comment omg
Girl no. When a man ghosts , It doesn’t matter when he comes back. He ghosted and what’s done is done . No way a man who ghosts you and comes back when he feels like it just to see you’re still single and happy to see him is going to respect you lol
I thought I listen to this before on Paetron lol I'm like omg not another writers strike!!!! Your Nathan was lame AF, I thought the point of ghosting was to disappear, but homeboy said, naw, I'm just going to haunt her with my thirst for attention and validation lol Sometimes these men makes me ashamed to be of the same gender..... at BIRTHHH, Maybe transman are better idk, Great old School video.
A few things I want to comment before anyone watches: 1.) I picked the WORST quality photos for each of my episode examples. OMG, but I'm not changing it lol. 2.) I didn't quite finish my hollywood Forever story, I got back in contact with the guy...right after the screening...you'll get it when you watch. 3.) I have PCOS... and when I recorded this I was in between waxes. Do with that info what you will lol. Thank you for watching :)
Sorry to hear about your pcos :/ so common nowadays
What is pcos?
@@Vev02.So true, seems like more & more ladies are developing this.
@@michaelmitchell5098hormone imbalance in women causes a lot of issues like facial hair infertility etc
@@michaelmitchell5098polycystic ovarian syndrome.
On everything.... you are so relatable on levels we girls just don't talk about enough or at all. Love you Steph, please keep popping up on my TL.❤❤
❤❤❤ agree❤
Couldn’t agree more!
Steph please stay on RUclips ❤ your stories and the way you tell a story is admirable and commendable
My dream for you is that you link with issa and make your own insecure bc you tell the best stories
Ooh, that green top looks lovely on you.
I agree.
You are just naturally funny. I'll watch a Netflix special!
Thats my Dad’s dream lol. He said I should go to Vegas 😂
Your relatability as a black woman is impeccable. You know how to express yourself so well. Thank you for your transparency.
There is absolutely nobody on these apps that I relate to more than you Steph! Your content is so real and raw I feel so seen when I hear your commentary. Growing up to be a quirky black girl I feel like I’ve learned to feel so small but listening to you is just a breath of fresh air.
Ughhh your videos are TOO GOOD!! I’m soooo excited to watch!!
I haven’t even got 10 minutes into the video but I just want you to know Steph you have a way with words and relatability that I just can’t get enough of! You’re literally amazing at conceptualizing things and bringing such nuanced information and topics to reality. I hope I’m making sense ❤ all in all, I LOVE YOU PARASOCIALLY (but not in a weird way lol) and I wish you the absolute best holiday and new year! ❤
Okay let me continue the video 😂❤
Ummm...Steph....you look fabulous!! Love your hair!
I guess I don't need to say that Oh! Stephco is a great story teller but..........OH! STEPHCO IS A GREAT STORY TELLER!😇🥰❤😄💯
The dreadlocks😂😂😂😂😂 you are THE BEST storyteller. I’m crying
You look beautiful Steph, I always feel like I’m on FaceTime when you tell us these stories, I love how you paralleled the scenarios in the show to your real life.
Omg. Insecure is a classic. I’m happy you had the opportunity to go back and watch it. I can completely understand being triggered by it because I also agree when I watched it the first time while it was airing, I found myself feeling like someone was writing a story on my life because of a lot of the overlap And things I could relate to whether it was in Issa’s life or the other characters’.
As far as this ghosting goes it's very disturbing to me that folks don't know how to break up anymore. Hate that it happened to you, happened to me as well. It's like as soon as my heart began to swell with anticipation "BOOM" this character decides to just be nonexistent.
I come from a town/ culture where no man ever breaks up with you. You find the house empty except for the divorce papers on the kitchen counter. You come back home from work & find his things gone. You think the 5 months is going well them find out you got blocked from all their social & their friends/ families socials. The best you can hope for is if his new gf answers his call & tell you not to bother him anymore. 😂😭
So if he tells you to your face he doesn't want you, you know he is just playing!
@@beewest5704this is wild!
I love you Steph! Your ability to story tell and conversate with black women is amazing. Please never stop!❤
Thank you so much for this Christmas present!! 😊
I’ve only been a bridesmaid once, at my sister’s wedding, and I loved it because all my siblings were involved. But it was also expensive (dress, shoes, hair!) and exhausting with all the meetings and dance rehearsals. After that, I knew that I’ll never put myself forward for that role again, unless asked. Years later, when a close friend of mine got married, I had mixed emotions. She and I had shared so much during university, and I treasured our friendship. When she told me she could only have five bridesmaids and asked if I could be a guest, I was secretly relieved. But when I found out who she chose, it stung. Two of the bridesmaids were women she had clashed with multiple times, but still kept in her circle because of their shared Course at University, so they had the same friends in that cycle. I couldn’t understand why she picked them over me, especially after everything we’d been through together, and the passive-aggressive dynamic she had with them. She does not know about my stance about being in weddings - no one does, and I prefer it that way. I would have said yes if she had asked. Gladly. It’s funny how those old feelings resurface - the baby shower reminded me of THAT time, and I realised the wound still isn’t fully healed. I will always support my friends and family if they ask me to be a part of their special day, regardless of the role I'm asked to perform. But knowing who I was overlooked for really stung.
Merry Christmas Steph! You are looking simply gorgeous! 😍 Thank you once again for sharing, I am sure all of us can relate to at least some elements of each story 😅
Steph ily sis! You’re such a fantastic storyteller!! Keep telling yours🤎
I don’t know what it is about friendships that we don’t just vocalize ourselves the way we do in romantic relationships. I had a close friendship fall out over similar dynamics to your baby shower story. Why is it so hard to say, “I wasn’t sure you had the capacity to be there for me” and “I really want to be a part of this and help to make your day special.” And life transitions like weddings and babies seem to bring out a lot of unstated tensions.
No one can roast you like a little kid. One of the reasons I teach college and not K12. Volunteering at my son’s school recently reminded me that I have some trauma to heal around being bullied as a child.
It kind of drives me nuts when I see people talking Insecure’s LA as mythical because to me Issas Black LA is actually real. My husbands parents know Issas dad and I know where she grew up and frequent most of the places and businesses we see on the show. Black LA is in Inglewood/Crenshaw/View Park/Leimert areas, not Hollywood. I find that a lot of black transplants to LA come for entertainment industry so they move out to certain areas and never find us.
Dating as a Black woman is always struggle but at least in the early 2000s and 2010s me and most of my unambiguously Black female friends in LA eventually married imperfect but handsome, good, professional Black men. Maybe it is worse now, though.
Storyteller Steph! We love it 💞
Love story time with Steph!!
Merry Christmas ladybug 🎄💝
I loveee insecure!! Im rewatching it rn! There are so many relatable moments when it comes to relationships, friendships, careers, conflict, etc.
That green looks beautiful on you. I love how you re-tell your tales of life. That third story was so funny and so not funny at the same time.
The GHB part took me out 😂😂
GIRL. I was like…isn’t that being roofied??? lol. I meant THC!
@hellostephco84 it was too funny 😂 🥰
I love love love your stories 💞🎉. Merry Christmas 🎁⛄
PLEASE tell the other stories, yes we want to hear them!!
I love all your content but I absolutely love whenever you tell stories!
Love you, thank you for the stories.
You are one of the most engaging story tellers on RUclips
been a fan for 2, 3 years? still love your insights and reflections
Merry Chrimmas!!!
You sure can tell a story 😂😂😂
You are hilarious 😂😂😂
I’m loving this era on you 🥹
MISSED THIS SERIESSS
we’re loving the consistency Steph!❤
Steph you look beautiful. 🤩
Thank you for sharing your stories 😊
An oldie but a goodie!
I loved insecure and could relate to multiple scenes …I loved the ending it seemed realistic I love how she was secure in the end
Ooh gurl, you're looking goodt! Merry Christmas 🎁
Another excellent video. Insecure was relateable in so many ways.I got hooked on awkward black girl. So happy for issa.
I love all your stories Steph. Happy holidays!!!!
I loooove Insecure. Easily one of my top 3 favorite shows ever. Unfortunately I can relate way too much lol
I can see you working with Issa Rae in the future!
You are very talented Stephanie!
Literally my favorite show. I relate to so many of the episodes.
Same.
Oh she heard us yalllll STORYTIMEEEEEEE❤❤❤❤
I loved insecure...I love your stories too
This came just in time because I too, just finished Insecure for the FIRST time!!
💙🩷GIRRRRRRRRLLLLLLLLLLL I LOVE UR CONTENT. I KNOW U AT TIMES WAS A LITTLE HARD ON URSELF, BUT BEST BELIEVE YOU HAVE A GROUP OF US WHO LOVE WHAT YOU WANT TO PUT OUT. LET ME LIKE THIS VIDEO. ANYYYYYYYYWHO, HAVE A SAFE HOLIDAY TO YOU AND UR FAMILY. FROM ONE OF UR MANY NUMBER 1 SUBSCRIBERS. I BEEN HERE FOR SOME YEARS WATCHING AND LOVING UR PERSPECTIVE ON THINGS. WE LOVE ITTTTTT. KEEP UP THE WORK!!!!!!🩷💙
IM WAS LIKE NUMBER 87 LOL😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊
🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂 Feeling spoiled. Happy holidays.
The way I would've had a full panic attack in that cemetery 😭
My husband was born and raised in La Marque. I’ve heard the stories about those roastings in school 😭
Yeaaaah Steph 🎉
Oof definitely been ghosted after thinking me and this guy had vibes. P.s loved insecure!
Story #4 was my favorite…lmao
You are soooo relatable ❤
10mins in and I’ve been through something similar and learned some valuable lessons. Now I typically show up exactly how I want wherever I am.
1 11...... Did SagAftra go on strike again? In Dec 2024, or did they not stop?
Lol I just commented the same thing. This must be an old video she never released, because the strike did stop.
O Steph!! I love The Big Lebowski!
Chillllllleeeee i drank that thc drink NEVA again i got stuck thank God i was with my bestie and she literally had to walk me to bed 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Well told ❤
Hey Stephanie hope all is well
Audibly gasped when you talked about a drink with GHB 😭 thankfully you meant THC lolll
You look soo pretty❤
Had the opposite happen.
I had a friend that made me plan and host her baby shower. But when the baby was born, I found out on facebook like everyone else 😭
I love insecure ❤❤❤❤ loved this video thanks for sharing your amazing stories
Steph, hv you considered being a screen writer for shows like Insecure and Harlem? You have good storytelling abilities... u need to make big coin from this skill. Merry Christmas and a love filled new year🎉
32 48....... I didn't get to see it until it popped up on Netflix. I had seen Lovebirds first, then a couple years later, HBO stuff started coming on Netflix, so I had to watch it.
one time I smoked a joint which I now think was laced with something... I was so high I don't remember a portion of the night. Nothing helped but a deep sleep and then my mind cleared. I so relate to your story, especially trying to convince my body to move, or trying to navigate driving when I can't see straight or think linearly. Oof, memories
I’m stuck on you just watched all the seasons! Great show to binge. QQ: Do your friends or family watch your content?
I'm supposed to be bingeing it over my holday break. Only seen the first 4 episodes
C’mon hair!🔥🔥🔥🔥
Gorgeous!!!❤
Is this old, or is there another SAG/AFTRA strike???
It's old/previously recorded. She didn't make it clear, but mentioned that 2017 was "6 years ago."
This is a tangent on the topic of controlling party planners (I don't have a point just yapping for engagement pls feel free to ignore LMAO) so I was DEFINITELY that person earlier this year for my 25th birthday party. It was Spongebob 24/25 themed and I made a bunch of decorations in the weeks leading up to sprinkle around the house as well as make each room a different part of Bikini Bottom. Did I mention I decided to have this party after an epiphany that I need to cleebrate my life only like 2 or 3 weeks before my birthday? Lmaooooo I definitely bit off more than I could chew. And, realistically, I could have asked for help from two, if not three or four people during the decoration making process and at least one or two people during the actual decorating of the house, but I had such a specific idea of how I wanted things that I would physically wince/cringe at the idea of accepting help. It was a really cute party. I caved and got help for parts I was too short to reach lol I feel like my happiest moment was after everythng was decorated but before everyone got there 💀 like I definitely over extended myself and there was an unexpected tragedy the night before that really had me wanting to cancel everything, so it's like I'm glad I didn’t, but I also wasn't in the mood to take nearly as many photos of everyone dressed up. Like I said I didn't really have a point, these videos are just so relatable I can't not leave a comment omg
Hi ms mamas! 👋🏽
You look stunning in green 💗
yayy new stefa
2:09 No Steph, we have seen the show lol!!!
And you mean Tiffany Dubois's crazy crew.
Yes. When I recorded this there was like a witch hunt for creators that were talking about TV during the strike.
Guys, this have over 2k views... Lets hit that like button.. come on!!!
Everyone is on strike! I had no clue there was another writers strike.
There isn’t. This must have been recorded a while back
Does anyone know where to watch insecure in the UK please.
Lawrence was a bum, that's the problem
How old is this video? I thought the strike was over a while ago.
21 47...... It was a screening of The Last Dragon.
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Girl no. When a man ghosts , It doesn’t matter when he comes back. He ghosted and what’s done is done . No way a man who ghosts you and comes back when he feels like it just to see you’re still single and happy to see him is going to respect you lol
I thought I listen to this before on Paetron lol I'm like omg not another writers strike!!!! Your Nathan was lame AF, I thought the point of ghosting was to disappear, but homeboy said, naw, I'm just going to haunt her with my thirst for attention and validation lol Sometimes these men makes me ashamed to be of the same gender..... at BIRTHHH, Maybe transman are better idk, Great old School video.
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CBD 😂
You lost weight, lookin great
You mean THC, GHB is a date grape drug
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First 🎉
Early.