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time crystals exist theoretically in a sense. if i understood it correctly its a state of matter that changes periodically over time (time is the 4th dimension) in a way that makes the change in matter look very similar to the 3d crystaline structure. Simply put a crystal has symetry and a time crystal changes in way that if we look at it it to is "symetrical". The "in a sense" means that time crystals dont exist but dicrete time crystals (a very similar phenomenon) do. these are if again understood correctly not entirely "symetrical" but very close. its very complicated as expected of *QUANTUM PHYSICS* .
Side note about the sunglasses: I have a sensory processin disorder and part of that is light sensitivity, to the pt where even in a normally lit room; i almost always need sunglasses prty much... And it makes me feel much better about that to see you indoors wearin sunglasses like its nbd bcuz your lights are too bright. Sure, your lights are probs wayyyyy brighter bcuz recordin video and all; but it still shows that its okay to wear them, even indoors, if one has a need to wear them For some reason, sunglasses indoors is a common thing that gets mocked; probs bcuz of the idea that the only reason ppl do it is to look cool... Which makes no sense given how so many ppl hate on ppl for doin it
When I found out I was bi and came out to my mom over text, her 10/10 parental response was essentially “cool”. And we carried on our previous conversation.
Sounds a lot like my mum when I came out to her as (mostly) lesbian, back when I still thought I was cis. I was very nervous, and she just started laughing and hugged me, then said, "Oh honey, I'm your mom! I've known for ages! Did you think I hadn't seen your haircut?" 🤣 My mum rocks.
I never really came out but always dropped lil hints my mom most likely got, then one day just sat her down and was like "mom, I got a girlfriend I hope you're cool with it" and she was so, cool
When I told my mom about my genderfluidity, she just said in the most happy voice I've ever heard, like a little child, "Oh nice I always wanted a son AND a daughter" And without asking her even once she bought me makeup and my first skirt in less than a week, I love my mom 😊
@Random_Rosy_Gacha Oh gosh I’m so sorry she said that to you. You deserve so much better. I hope you can at least find other people who accept you and love you for who you are. Hugs
OT, I think you're actually a really good example of healthy masculinity for trans men to look to. It can be very easy for trans guys to actually lean into really toxic traits in attempt to get as far away from any sort of feminity as they can. In doing so it's easy to lose comfort with acting silly or delighted, because it doesn't feel "masculine" enough. Your unrestrained delight and comfort in your own skin, it's a wonderful reminder that one can present very masculine and not lose one's joy. Thank you.
Much agreed. My fiance is very masculine, tall, bearded, super serious. But the moment he cracks an ornery smile or something gets him to laugh, it's the most adorable thing ever. I definitely don't think of him as any less of a man. In fact, I'd say the opposite- I much prefer men who can have emotions and talk about the past without feeling like they've lost their balls or something in the process.
As a trans guy, I definitely used to fall into that toxicity as my only real male role model was my dad. I wasn't critical of any femininity except for my own silly traits that my father would deem feminine. I gave up a lot of my hobbies (piano, singing, making crafts, knitting) and tried to make myself just a copy of my ex-military father. Thankfully, I'm not like this anymore and it's people like One Topic and Kurtis Conner that have helped me with realizing that I'm allowed to let myself experience happiness.
When I came out to my mum, she was in the kitchen making lunch. Her response was simply "okay honey. Do you want cranberry sauce on your turkey sandwich?" At first I was a bit annoyed that this momentous moment was a little anticlimactic, but then I realised that as far as she was concerned, it wasn't that momentous. I was still me, nothing changed. That kind of acceptance, unconditional, is the most important love a parent can give. When I later asked if she was really okay with it she said "babe, I don't care if you marry a bloke, a woman or a talking horse, so long as you're happy. And they're not an Arsenal supporter" 😂
@@bejibenyt9934she definitely did 🤣. I miss her greatly. If there is one thing she taught me, it was to love and be kind to myself, so that I could love and be kind to others. OT reminds me a lot of her, maybe that's why I love him so much. We need more people like them in the world.
When I came out to my grandma as pan her response was 10/10 "I think you forget that my sister is lesbian. This does not phase me. But I'm honored that you chose to tell me first." 😂😂
My grandma always said to me that "you can’t say you don’t like it if you haven’t tried it…" Guess she meant it only for green vegetables and not queer stuff or sex 😂😅
"they will identify your skeleton as male/female!" Well actually archeologists have trouble doing it very accurately so they often use contextual clues to help.
Considering the Viking skeletons that were initially identified as males because of the warrior items in the burial plot but were analyzed and discovered to be women. Guess archeologists need more anatomy lessions.
Now I just want someone to make sure I’m doing the gayest pose possible at my funeral. It would be so funny. They dig up my skeleton and I’m just there like. 💅
@@SeventhGod77 Damn right, I wanna be able to utilize my genderfluid identity and become a human-robot hybrid Why can't I be that? Normalize robot humans! XD
@@Archiver_Studio yeah like why can’t I attach a device that overclocks my nervous system and muscles to the point where I can move so fast that everything around me is at 10% their original speed to my spine. Why can’t I be robot man?
Fun fact! Weird last names like "sidebottom" may have come from the survivors of Black Plague traveling outside their hometowns for work and needing to pick a surname to distinguish themselves. The survivors probably thought surnames would disappear in a generation or two, so they took some creative liberties and accidentally doomed their descendants to living with great-great-great Grandpa's gamer tag 😂
Fun fact: the reason for the fennec fox has such big ears and tail is so they can release enough heat from those larger areas and prevent overheating. It's the exact opposite with polar foxes, who need to keep as much heat as possible, so they have really tiny ears. Both are adorable, though 😊
I just found out about the new anti-trans bills in some states of the U.S., and when I saw how they increased so much in 2023 I almost cried. We should be making progress, not regress. And they say hrt is dangerous and banned it for trans kids under 18, but you can still perform it to intersex kids?? Thanks for making these videos, I clicked as fast as I could when I got the notification, they always manage to cheer us up.💜
I blame Covid. There was a big spike in religious extremism in the wake of the Black Death, so I assume something similar is occuring now, and is responsible for the sudden wave of conservative law making
I know there's a lot of scarry stuff right now but there's also good reasons for hope. Republican leadership are all for genocide, but they are himraging voters. 2/3rds of Republicans oppose restricting children's access to puberty blockers. CPAC was a ghost town. Almost none of the anti trans bills have made it to becoming law. The transphobes are outnumbered and becoming more so as time goes on. We can get through this!
I am proud to live in the outlier state. Here in New Mexico, we just passed a law making it illegal for local governments to limit either abortion rights or gender-affirming healthcare. I really worry for the rest of the country, though.
It's my theory that he's an undercover bi guy posing as an ally to show all the other cishets how it's done. Or maybe he really IS that wholesome and straight.
How the heck am I this early? Or, better question, how's RUclips this drunk? It says no likes, no views, and no comments lol. There's NO way at 15 minutes lol Edit: Just saw all the replies, and IDK how that even happened! I just went into one of his playlists, saw "ooh new video!" And clicked on it y'all. This is the WEIRDEST thing I've ever had happen to me lmao
I still find it hilarious that Vanessa left her fiance over a bee that'll only last her up to 2 months and her ex-fiance is literally the only sane person in the movie. lol
I sorta came out to my mom a while back and she basically said "Oh I always suspected it, I've seen how you talk about Link" and I was like "ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh"
When my cousins son came out as trans, my dad started making comments that he was going to dead name the boy constantly the next time he saw him. I spent nearly an hour trying to get him to understand that, even if he doesn't approve of trans-ness, it's still a dick move to go out of he way to be mean. He always used to tell me growing up that, as long as someone isn't being an ass, he won't have any issue with them so seeing him clearly go against his own personal code by taking pride in wanting to intentionally hurt some kid who's just trying to be themselves really made me angry. I am not proud of this but I did start yelling and at one point just kept repeating "You are being mean" on loop because he was just being mean for no good reason. I have autism which has a lot of ties with the LGBT community due to how often we all get hated for simply being born different. I've seen people wish the same kind of horrible things on people like me that the gay and trans community has also gotten so I take this kind of thing very personally (I'm also pan but I'm not brave enough to be open about it like my gay brother is). I made no progress in getting through to my dad at all. I thought I might have at least made him reflect on the issue since I was clearly in a rare state of anger but I heard him joking with my straight brother later that night about the whole thing and went so far as to replace all my actual dialogue with buzz words in a dumb liberal voice his favorite talk show hosts like to use (replace "You are being mean" with "Why are you being so hateful?" in the most condescending tone imaginable). Hearing him compare me to people he has no respect for just broke me a little inside. I can count on one hand the number of times I've actually gotten so emotional that I started screaming at someone so this was already a very bad moment for me so hearing it be boiled down to a political joke made an already bad feeling so much worse. When I called him out on it later he tried to justify it by saying "That's not how I intended to make you feel." I have not forgiven him for this and it's up for debate if he even knows this still upsets me. He's not the type to dwell on old issues so he might have actually forgotten. Which I don't know if that makes it worse or not. If my sister, my grandpa, and my great grandma hadn't already set the bar on how bad you need to be to be irredeemable, I don't think I'd still be is in contact with him. Though I might if the rift between him and my gay brother continues. Seriously, how has he not realized that maybe the son he knows is gay and likes men might be avoiding him because he still thinks it's "just a phase"? Sir, how little do you actually know your son?
Don't let the rest of your family set the bar for what you're willing to put up with. You deserve better than that. They aren't worth your time, you can find better
I‘m sorry you had to get through this. This sounds like a dick move from your dad. But you are actually a hero to stand up to him, defend your cousins son and confront your dad with his own hypocricy. Thank you for that 💪 a lot of people would have shrugged it away
I felt this; I'm in the closet rn and I hear my dad go off about "the gay agenda" and whatnot and it hits something deep inside me. I've heard my family aggressively misgender my mom's coworkers, too, and it's honestly so hard to put up with. I try to step in as an "ally" and they treat me like I've been brainwashed or something.
I'm so sorry this happened to you. My father would've loved LOVED to see one of his daughters come home with a girl. Whenever someone asked if we had boyfriends yet, he (and my mom) always added OR a girlfriend. I am now doing the same to whoever I meet and want to know if they are in a relationship. It's such a bummer when people don't want to understand, especially when it's family. Please know that you deserve better! ❤
I'm so sorry. My best friends are diagnosed autistic (I might be but undiagnosed) and that definitely participates in making them the best humans I've ever known. I'm adamant about autists/pan folks being the next level humanity ;)
i've said it before and i'll say it again: OT's slow realizations as to what the punchline of some of these posts means is infinitely hilarious to me. that moment where it just clicks is so entertaining and i love it edit: those bits where OT sees himself in the posts (literally) are also really entertaining. it's fun seeing him go ":O THAT'S MEEEEE"
Fun Fact: in archaeology it can be a lot more difficult to tell if a skeleton is physically male or female than a lot of people believe. For the most part, the only way you can really tell most of the time without DNA testing (a lot of the times, digs may not have the budget to test the DNA) is by the pelvis and only 70ish% of skeletons in cases that CAN be sexed, are sexed correctly. And that percentage may be lower depending how long ago the digs were conducted. It's actually very fascinating since digs used to mostly gender skeletons by the goods and items buried with them (mostly because if the gender did not fit the stereotype or then gender associated with those goods, it would be changed due to the western view on sex and gender, and as we know, many cultures have a much wider view of gender than most western cultures do.)but later when tested with newer technology, proved that that skeleton was possibly transgender in life or just practiced actions not usually carried out by that gender.
I took forensic science last year and for one of the units, we had to learn how to identify males vs. females based on skull or pelvis structure, and let me tell you, it was hard. Through the whole unit, I think I could get, at best, 60% of the bones right. I think bone structure is much more nuanced than people think
@@jupitermoon2775 The human genome is weird and the sheer variety of phenotypic expression it can create is staggering. It isn't surprising that it is difficult to determine biological sex from a skeleton when you can have dramatically different hip and pelvis shapes within a single family tree. The idealized examples used in educational material are really misleading. I'm a man with wide hips who would probably give archaeologists a headache if my skull were separated from the rest of my bones.
Reminder that all of y'all are valid and deserve to be happy. Stay safe, eat food, destroy gender norms (or don't if you like fittin them, or do if you don't like the pressure but still enjoy them), take a break, drink water and get sleep.
For many years, i had this channel as a safe space when i thought i had almost no one to rely on. So many videos when i was feeling depressed and rejected, in hopes of finding any kind of acceptance. Today, i live with accepting parents and am starting my hrt treatment. And this channel (and OT, of course) helped me reach this point in my life. Thank you.
Hi. I really love your channel and your great attitude. I'm a beardo AND a wierdo and proud of it. There is, though, one thing that makes me uncomfortable. I was born in 1954, and although I know people don't use the word "Boomer" to mean all baby boomers, it still makes me feel left out. I'm a proud, elderly, gay, affirming guy and a good number of my friends are also like that. Baby boomers were responsible for lots of great things, think of Woodstock, protesting Vietnam, Stonewall, and much of the Civil Rights movement. I'd love to hear you comment on that word and acknowledge those of us Boomers who are "woke" and LGBTQ+.
I know this was a while ago but, I feel you so much on this. I find it strange,that boomer has become a stand in for the word bigot. It definitely rubs the wrong way and I'm not even a boomer. I get where the anger comes from but, so many boomers are progressive. The reason it bugs me so much,even though I'm 28, is because my LT BF is a boomer. He has always been nothing but supportive of me being queer and has been extremely supportive of the 2/5 of his children,who are also queer. He doesn't have a cruel bone in his body; is always willing and actively tries to learn. We actually just had a conversation the other day, about how it confuses him so much, that people can be so venomously homo/transphobic. He always say how,he is so confused how people could care. He said " It's the same as somebody being black or having red hair, it should be a non issue and just a trait someone has. He then went on to say how he thinks that it must be some sort of internalized homo/transphobia (at least for some of these people), especially since he's cishet he said "I don't understand why somebody who claims to be straight thinks so much about queer s3x.... I just don't get why they care. I don't want to see gay (mlm) s3x. So I just don't watch that type of p0rn, it's simple. Anything else is exactly the same thing that we do" I genuinely just think a lot of the anger comes from the fact that some of the most vicious homophobia, comes from older people. I think the biggest source of the anger comes from the fact that a lot of the people who are making the laws ,that actively hurt us, are older and most are boomers. But honestly, generalizations like that,don't work, as no group of humans monolithic and therefore shouldn't be generalized.( there is a exceptions to this like,hate groups) I think it's best to critique the actions of an individual or few people vs shi*ting on massive group,like a generation. As all that does is cause more division and could push away potential allies and our queer elders. 😢 I agree with you,that it is a sucky thing too do.
@@xdani_thethinkingnekofor both you and OP, if the term “boomer” doesn’t fit you then there is absolutely no reason for it to bother you. You said yourself that many of the most hateful, homophobic people are “boomers” from the baby boomer generation and that many of those that have taken rights away from us, and actively still are trying to take rights away from us, are from that generation. Boomer, much like Karen and other slang terms, no longer means just the original group and instead encapsulates an attitude, way of acting, way of speaking, etc. You can have a 20 year old acting like a boomer, or a guy acting like a Karen. A boomer has less to do with being someone from the baby boomer generation and more about how a person treats others, how they speak and how they think.
So what happened? How did the same generation that protested Vietnam, participated in Stonewall and other civil rights movements turn into the group mainly responsible for taking away others rights and who are still trying to take even more rights away? How did the baby boomer generation become some of the most hateful, racist, misogynistic, and homophobic people who are actively working to pass laws restricting or outright taking away rights from women, minorities and the LGBTQIA community? As I said in my comment to the other person from this thread “boomer” is less about being an actual baby boomer and more about an attitude, way of thinking, how you treat people, etc If it doesn’t fit you there’s no reason to take offense. I’m a Christian. I know there are a lot of people that claim to be Christians that are loudly racist, misogynistic, homophobic and just horrible people. I understand that when people talk disparagingly about Christians or say things like “There’s no hate like Christian love” that those are the people they mean and I don’t take offense because that’s not how I act/think/behave. I also know that as a Christian I must push back against those claiming to be Christians that do act like that, while being an example of actual Christian love and acceptance. Be an example of a “woke” baby boomer, while also calling out those in your generation for acting poorly.
I was just crying for about an hour, and I was seriously wondering if everyone would feel better if I were dead. I decided to watch this, and I instantly felt better. Thank you for all that you do. I truly don't know where I would be without you.
Every day you wake up, You spite the people who are making you feel like this. Keep spiting them And know that I, your Internet Uncle-Gay, am rooting for you.
I, among many others, know how you feel. Trust me: it’s a process, but life gets so much better. We’re so happy you’re here, and if you have the means to, consider getting help. Consider a suicide hotline (988 is America’s national suicide hotline) or the Trevor Project (LGBTQIA+-specific counseling). Much love, and remember that we’re all here for you❤️
Here is a different acronym you can use for your mom: "Feminism-Appropriating Radical Transphobes", or FART. Also, it annoys me to no end that TERFs _are helping people WHO OPPOSE EQUAL RIGHTS for women!_
I love hearing people say they learned new things but it reminds me of a misunderstanding I had as a kid. As a kid I thought grownups had to go back to school to get updated on all the new things, turns out my parents were just perpetually curious but a public school type continuing update for grownups sounds like an amazing idea to me
The first top surgery meme reminded me of an instagram reel. The person was making a ball jointed doll and was showing their process on making the torso bendable. Part of it was drilling under the chest and after watching, I open the comments to see people going, "New top surgery dropped", and other stuff. I found it utterly adorable and funny.
@@JhericFury But yeah my mum and sister will say I went too far if I make a sex joke. Maybe because I don't actually imagine anything when I/other people make sex jokes?
Two days ago I was gendered as a boy while in public for the first time. It was so amazing, especially considering I've only really been surrounded by people I know and not strangers. I know that you're probably never gonna see this OT, but thank you for being a positive model for me, teaching me to show myself.
I know that feeling, it's always amazing when people see you as you want to be seen (from a fellow transmasc); it's like a lightbulb going off that shines _really_ bright and lasts ages (does that make sense, or am I just going bonky? Lmao). Hope more people see you as you by now, even if it hasn't been that long, and hope you're doing good, king.
As a bisexual gender fluid person, when I came out to my online friends, they accepted me better than my irl fam. Also, loved this vid! I loved laughing over this!
So just a little happy moment from this week, I haven’t seen my sister in a while and this is the first time I’ve seen her face-to-face since I came out as agendered. I gave her a hug and the first thing she asked was “How is my favorite sib?” and just to confirm her best sister status she corrected one of her friends when they called me by the wrong pronouns, love you sis! Just a happy story I wanted to share.
I learned something new today. I thought bear just referred to a very masculine presenting gay man, but it turns out it also represents masculine presenting bisexual men as well. Thanks OT lol
@@Arosukir6 Yes! It's a specific kind of masculinity, as opposed to a hunk, who is usually a jacked hairless bodybuilder. A bear is like a dadbod taken to extreme canadian lumberjack levels.
@@shadowking278 There is one Master of every faction of the LGBTQ+ whom holds the responsibility of said faction. This means maintaining, instructing and representing that faction as well as connecting and uniting with other factions and their respective Masters.
I love that in the middle of this already wonderful video, OT takes an intermission to gush about fennec foxes, thus raising the wonderfulness levels to previously unthinkable heights
I would love to see some ace or non-binary memes again :) This channel has helped me with those topics a lot, realising that's what i have been all my life but didn't have the words to explain it and now i do!
Hi OT, I just wanted to say thank you, today was one of the worst days I've had, fighting with my mother over being gay and what my late Dad would have thought about it. On top of that I fell and am going into a fibromyalgia flareup so I'm just in more and more pain as time goes on. Seeing this video has made all of that so much easier to bear. I love you, my dude, you are so much fun and my favourite youtuber. Also I would pay cash money to watch you do book/tv/movie reviews. Also reviews of cute animal videos :)
She can't know what he'd have thought. I told my mum I was bi at 19, she told me "please don't tell your dad he won't understand". So I didn't, I figured since she barely understood then he wouldn't either. He figured it out when I was 27... he was amazing! So damn supportive it made me so sad I missed out on years of of supportive parent because my mum basically buried the knowledg eHe's passed now too, and the times I wish he were still here so I had someone I could talk to about both my sexuality & gender. Your mother doesn't get to decide how he would have been. If you were close to your dad then he chances are he would have loved you unconditionally. I'm sorry you have to deal with that negativity though. Fibro is a bitch when it gets in a flare spiral. Try to get some rest and relaxation, de-stress.
Hi OT, I just want to say thank you for being a place of comfort for me. Your videos are a highlight of my day, and you're the reason i discovered that I was trans. You helped me through some really tough times, and I cant say thank you enough. Thank you for everything you do OT ❤ Sorry if this came across as a bit akward. I dont normally write comments
15:48 OMG THIS IS SO REAL (except I'm not trans but whenever my dad is being homophobic and I get pissed trying to defend myself. you see, I'm in that age group where adults think I'm too young to know my sexuality which is unbelievably frustrating. My dad is one of those people. He always says "YoU'rE toO yOUng to kNow YoUR SeXUlatiTY" Did you not know you were straight when YOU were my age??? HMMMMM So why's it any different?????? 😑😑🤨🤨🤨
My heart goes out to folks living in places that are banning HRT. I'm trying to do my part to fight for y'all the best I can how I can. Stay strong brother/sister/sibling it can get better.
OneTopic, I can assure you, from working with a fennec fox for a animal rescue, they are coked up little demons. They are absolutely adorable but they can claw. Hard.
This was one of my favorite videos in a while, so I made a list of some of my fav moments! 1:54 - OT with a Scottish accent 2:38 - A brief pause while OT processes the joke 3:59 - OT with a southern accent 4:22 - Angry OT 7:31 - “SKELETUSSY??” 9:38 - Obligatory “Have you been outside” 9:59 - OT seeing himself in the subreddit and seeing all the nice comments about himself
OT, I just wanted to say that your videos have helped me while beginning my transition, I have transphobic parents and it’s been really mentally straining and your videos have helped me realize that I’m valid as a person, that there’s a place for people like me and that I matter, and I just wanted to say thank you. From the bottom of my heart, I hope that you can do the same you did to me for others who are struggling with their identities. Thank you OT.
I'm in a similar boat. I'm trans, but still very much in the closet and I don't know if my parents will take it well. And OT has been a huge help to me too. I'm glad you found him and the rest of the community, and that we both can find people willing to support us, even if the people in our lives may not. Let keep watching and I hope we both feel valid while we do.
@Natasha the Cracking Egg. I feel the same. Except I know that it won’t go well if I come out publicly. I have a twitter account that they don’t know about where I go by she/her. But if they found out. They would not be happy. They grew up in the 50s. So they are against the LGBT community. So I can’t trust them. But most of my siblings know that I’m gay. But I just figured out that I’m a trans woman a couple weeks ago.
I would gladly watch a 15 min video of OT reacting to Fennec Foxes, I love them so much I actually audibly squealed when it came on screen. Also, Keep up the great work OT, love ur videos, and hope everyone who reads this comment has a very nice life!
if this was a petition, I'd sign it. I would like a whole new category of video from OT, maybe streams... dedecated to cute/clever/brilliant animals. just watching videos of them together and having OT reading out fun facts about them. and just facts.
Honestly, transformers justifies hitting back against the "attack helicopter" nonsense. "I identify as an attack helicopter! Hurr hurr." "Cool. Do me a favour and roll out?"
14:58 I got a youtube add right here. it was about how trans women don't deserve to be treated like real women, and I'm like 'youtube who do you think I am? I AM trans.'
@@John_Weissthere is at least on mine. Attached to the bottom of video that you watch there should be a sort of banner that shows what ads are playing and there are three dots on the right side of it that you can click or tap on and it pulls up ad customization so you can choose what type of ads you want to see and block ads you don’t want. For now it just blocks the specific ad that is showing but hopefully in the future they’ll let us block ads from the advertisers that show such types of ads all the time that we don’t like. I’d like to block all ads coming from PragerU and hateful organizations like them because they keep showing even when I’m watching a RUclipsr who doesn’t approve of hateful stuff like that.
6:20 OT, it's saying that you can't take the square root of a negative number. The next panel is a thing you learn in pre-calculus where the square root of -1 = i, which is an imaginary number.
your videos have helped me both literally and figuratively break out of my shell, and even though I've only seen your videos for a few months, your videos have helped me accept who I am. So thank you
Just have to say that I saw you respond to that guy on twitter and immediately made sure that it made the rounds; you make me so happy OT, in a time where it's extremely scary to finally be living as myself. I always kind of knew growing up that there were things I just.. couldn't be or say, and I internalized that for so long that I didn't feel safe enough to crack that egg until my late twenties, and then openly come out now in my thirties. It's a scary place to be in knowing that I have to be strong because I will not give back the life that I've gained or silence who I am again. Seeing you and so many others stand up and continuously point at the ridiculousness of these people truly helps give me some hope that enough people care to address this ruse they're trying to pull.
17:51 I recently found out about myself being trans (also thanks to this channel) and only have told a few carefully chosen friends so far. Some time after that, I've sat in a discord call with three amab friends, two of which are fully cis and the third being one of the chosen ones. One of the clueless guys then by some brain twists just started with "well as we're just us rn, more specifically just us men here ..." and I just texted the chosen one "👀" and felt like we were the imposter duo about to strike
6:56 99% unrelated to the video but for a few years now I have been trying to remember a certain word I learned in a chemistry class. Colloids. You wouldn't believe how much of my daily life a word can take up.
omg I forgot about nathan for you, and the asexual computer repair ( 4:53 ) reminded me of it, it was advertising that the owner was asexual so they wouldn’t be snooping through your laptop for “stuff”. it’s a very funny show, i highly recommend it!
Happiness struck me when I remebered the cover of this video from a web comic called, "Hi, I'm gay!" (If I remeber correctly the creator is from Spain and is infact gay. Can't remeber)
I’ve seen an absolute ton of people in the comments talking about their experiences coming out to unsupportive parents and their experiences with difficult self acceptance. I want to share something that my mom told me once that I remind myself of frequently and try to focus on when I’m struggling. In order to do that I’m going to share some things about me and it might be a bit long, sorry about that, I don’t expect a bunch of people to read it but I hope it speaks to those that do. So, I always thought that after graduating high school I would go to college, get a job, get an apartment/house, marry a man or woman and have kids and so on and so forth. That’s not how things worked out. I did go to college for a few years but I dropped out. I have BPD, OCD, hypersomnia and extreme anxiety which all led/contributed to quite a number of problems including addiction disorder. So instead of all the things I wanted and thought I’d have, I’m 34 and still trying to find myself, I’m on SSI because I can’t work, (I want to make it clear that it’s now not ‘I don’t want to work’ but ‘I cannot work’ leaving the house can be incredibly difficult, I went to three different high schools because I got kicked out for missing too many days), I’m working my ass off in therapy to make my life better and to work again some day though. Thankfully, my (then) boyfriend (now fiancé) helped me get into a methadone maintenance program and I’ve been in active recovery for six years. Thankfully I have him and an amazing family (and therapist and psychiatrist), I know how lucky I am there and I wish everyone else was. I say all of this to get to what my mom told me one day when I was talking about how sad I am that my life didn’t go down that path. She told me that I should of course grieve for that path I thought I was on and that person I thought I would be but that I should remember that I was never on that path, I was never going to be that person. That really hit me and I realized that I was beating myself over not becoming someone who I was never going to be, I was treating myself badly for not following a path through life that was never my path, instead being proud that I am who I am now and proud of the things I learned along the path I was actually on. Even though things were insanely difficult I feel that I have a level of compassion, empathy and understanding that other people don’t necessarily have. I have found that people who deal with depression, anxiety, dysmorphia, and all the many, many, many other things I could list here, frequently have a greater sense of themselves and of the people around them. They’re quicker to help, to love, to listen. I’m proud to have gone through my path and it was a relief to stop concerning myself with someone who I never was or was going to be. I’ve always been the person I am now, whether I knew it or not, and now it’s my job to keep becoming better and healthier versions of myself, to love this person I’ve always been and to seek my happiness and truth always. (I apologize for the rambliness of this comment, I’m sure there’s grammatical errors and spelling mistakes, there may be some parts that don’t make sense to anyone but me and I could go back through and try to change things but everything I wrote came from a place of deep emotion and I want to keep it like that.) I hope this resonates with even one person, I hope everyone knows that they are the person they were always meant to be and that might mean doing a lot of work to make the outside of you reflect who you are inside or working to accept yourself but you were never meant to be anyone else and you were never meant to go down another path. You can always keep working on being better versions of you but the core of you is just perfect.
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time crystals exist theoretically in a sense. if i understood it correctly its a state of matter that changes periodically over time (time is the 4th dimension) in a way that makes the change in matter look very similar to the 3d crystaline structure. Simply put a crystal has symetry and a time crystal changes in way that if we look at it it to is "symetrical". The "in a sense" means that time crystals dont exist but dicrete time crystals (a very similar phenomenon) do. these are if again understood correctly not entirely "symetrical" but very close. its very complicated as expected of *QUANTUM PHYSICS* .
Side note about the sunglasses: I have a sensory processin disorder and part of that is light sensitivity, to the pt where even in a normally lit room; i almost always need sunglasses prty much...
And it makes me feel much better about that to see you indoors wearin sunglasses like its nbd bcuz your lights are too bright. Sure, your lights are probs wayyyyy brighter bcuz recordin video and all; but it still shows that its okay to wear them, even indoors, if one has a need to wear them
For some reason, sunglasses indoors is a common thing that gets mocked; probs bcuz of the idea that the only reason ppl do it is to look cool... Which makes no sense given how so many ppl hate on ppl for doin it
Do you wear them to save money on eye make up?
T R E E
It has always been hard for me. As a (closeted) trans girl with ADHD I can only ever focus on one topic at a time.
ahhh I see what you did there
That's clever. I like this
*ba dum tss*
thank you for this
Nice
When I found out I was bi and came out to my mom over text, her 10/10 parental response was essentially “cool”. And we carried on our previous conversation.
Sounds a lot like my mum when I came out to her as (mostly) lesbian, back when I still thought I was cis. I was very nervous, and she just started laughing and hugged me, then said, "Oh honey, I'm your mom! I've known for ages! Did you think I hadn't seen your haircut?" 🤣
My mum rocks.
I never really came out but always dropped lil hints my mom most likely got, then one day just sat her down and was like "mom, I got a girlfriend I hope you're cool with it" and she was so, cool
I can only imagine her saying "when did I ask" and carrying on now
After I got my haircut my mom wanted to post it to facebook and then just went up to me and asked “hey what are your pronouns” so that was fun
I am so jeleous.....
When I told my mom about my genderfluidity, she just said in the most happy voice I've ever heard, like a little child, "Oh nice I always wanted a son AND a daughter"
And without asking her even once she bought me makeup and my first skirt in less than a week, I love my mom 😊
I would like to say your mom sounds like an amazing mom :)
💃
Bro I would literally be sobbing, I told my mum I was genderfluid and she told me "Can I really not just have a normal daugher? Christ.."
@Random_Rosy_Gacha
Oh gosh I’m so sorry she said that to you. You deserve so much better. I hope you can at least find other people who accept you and love you for who you are. Hugs
Omg that’s so amazing, i’m happy she lets you explore your own sexuality and supports you!
OT, I think you're actually a really good example of healthy masculinity for trans men to look to. It can be very easy for trans guys to actually lean into really toxic traits in attempt to get as far away from any sort of feminity as they can. In doing so it's easy to lose comfort with acting silly or delighted, because it doesn't feel "masculine" enough. Your unrestrained delight and comfort in your own skin, it's a wonderful reminder that one can present very masculine and not lose one's joy. Thank you.
Much agreed. My fiance is very masculine, tall, bearded, super serious. But the moment he cracks an ornery smile or something gets him to laugh, it's the most adorable thing ever. I definitely don't think of him as any less of a man. In fact, I'd say the opposite- I much prefer men who can have emotions and talk about the past without feeling like they've lost their balls or something in the process.
That's so true it made me think about some of my struggles as masc nb. Seriously, thanks
Yeah, can definetly confirm this!
As a trans guy, I definitely used to fall into that toxicity as my only real male role model was my dad. I wasn't critical of any femininity except for my own silly traits that my father would deem feminine. I gave up a lot of my hobbies (piano, singing, making crafts, knitting) and tried to make myself just a copy of my ex-military father. Thankfully, I'm not like this anymore and it's people like One Topic and Kurtis Conner that have helped me with realizing that I'm allowed to let myself experience happiness.
Wait so was he a woman to a man or man to a woman? I just wanna make sure i know before saying anything (not rude of corse)
When I came out to my mum, she was in the kitchen making lunch. Her response was simply "okay honey. Do you want cranberry sauce on your turkey sandwich?" At first I was a bit annoyed that this momentous moment was a little anticlimactic, but then I realised that as far as she was concerned, it wasn't that momentous. I was still me, nothing changed. That kind of acceptance, unconditional, is the most important love a parent can give.
When I later asked if she was really okay with it she said "babe, I don't care if you marry a bloke, a woman or a talking horse, so long as you're happy. And they're not an Arsenal supporter" 😂
"not an arsenal supporter"
😂
She’s got her priorities with the “not an arsenal supporter” 🤣
@@bejibenyt9934she definitely did 🤣. I miss her greatly. If there is one thing she taught me, it was to love and be kind to myself, so that I could love and be kind to others. OT reminds me a lot of her, maybe that's why I love him so much. We need more people like them in the world.
@@aaronadams5885 definitely
Not the arsenal supporter my mum was similar when i came out as trans except it was don't support man city and you're good. lmao
When I came out to my grandma as pan her response was 10/10 "I think you forget that my sister is lesbian. This does not phase me. But I'm honored that you chose to tell me first." 😂😂
Awesome! I’m glad you have a supporting grandma!
We stan wholesome grandparents.
My grandma always said to me that "you can’t say you don’t like it if you haven’t tried it…"
Guess she meant it only for green vegetables and not queer stuff or sex 😂😅
Eh. You never know. She could have seen some signs.
well, if you haven't tried it, you can't like it either lol, you just can't dislike it either
My mom and dad said that to me when I came out as bisexual. The funny thing is, I have no experience with women but I had 3 boyfriend's before.
"they will identify your skeleton as male/female!" Well actually archeologists have trouble doing it very accurately so they often use contextual clues to help.
Considering the Viking skeletons that were initially identified as males because of the warrior items in the burial plot but were analyzed and discovered to be women. Guess archeologists need more anatomy lessions.
and get it wrong...
“It appears … to be … a skeleton! Case closed! Let’s get drunk!”
@@Lestaticate Dont be silly. Of course it's a male skeleton, see all the fight stabby stuff?
Now I just want someone to make sure I’m doing the gayest pose possible at my funeral. It would be so funny. They dig up my skeleton and I’m just there like. 💅
"cant have normal women anymore" sir that is a robot that turns into an automobile holding a laser gun
A very normal woman imo
@@maisie28_ -Most normal woman you'll ever see-
@@Archiver_Studioexactly, normalize robot women that can turn into cars and hold laser guns.
@@SeventhGod77 Damn right, I wanna be able to utilize my genderfluid identity and become a human-robot hybrid
Why can't I be that?
Normalize robot humans! XD
@@Archiver_Studio yeah like why can’t I attach a device that overclocks my nervous system and muscles to the point where I can move so fast that everything around me is at 10% their original speed to my spine. Why can’t I be robot man?
I honestly laughed harder at OT saying "skeletussy?!" than I have at anything for like, a month.
Timestamp if anyone wants it 7:18
Ty for the above timestamp for the full joke. 💙 "Skeletussy" is at exactly 7:31
Cheers, frens! ᓚᘏᗢ⚟
I'm actually dead bruh
Fun fact! Weird last names like "sidebottom" may have come from the survivors of Black Plague traveling outside their hometowns for work and needing to pick a surname to distinguish themselves. The survivors probably thought surnames would disappear in a generation or two, so they took some creative liberties and accidentally doomed their descendants to living with great-great-great Grandpa's gamer tag 😂
Oh god imagine if last names were invented today
Like
20 generations later you just have River Loserbot
I had a neighbor whose name was “Butt”. Felt so bad for those kids
Jeez, it's a good thing they didn't have the internet back then. Every other person would be John Ligma and Matthew Porkhunt
@@Genderanarchyit's a fairly common name for I think Pakistanis? I've heard it around a few times
@@denkisupremacy was tbe last name Topp or Bottom? Cause that makes all the difference
"they're like pokemon in real life"
My brother in christ, that is called an animal.
Fun fact: the reason for the fennec fox has such big ears and tail is so they can release enough heat from those larger areas and prevent overheating. It's the exact opposite with polar foxes, who need to keep as much heat as possible, so they have really tiny ears. Both are adorable, though 😊
I genuinely thought that fennec was the Pokemon and was just based on a myth 😂
I just found out about the new anti-trans bills in some states of the U.S., and when I saw how they increased so much in 2023 I almost cried. We should be making progress, not regress. And they say hrt is dangerous and banned it for trans kids under 18, but you can still perform it to intersex kids??
Thanks for making these videos, I clicked as fast as I could when I got the notification, they always manage to cheer us up.💜
I blame Covid. There was a big spike in religious extremism in the wake of the Black Death, so I assume something similar is occuring now, and is responsible for the sudden wave of conservative law making
I know there's a lot of scarry stuff right now but there's also good reasons for hope. Republican leadership are all for genocide, but they are himraging voters.
2/3rds of Republicans oppose restricting children's access to puberty blockers. CPAC was a ghost town. Almost none of the anti trans bills have made it to becoming law.
The transphobes are outnumbered and becoming more so as time goes on. We can get through this!
nice profile pic
I am proud to live in the outlier state. Here in New Mexico, we just passed a law making it illegal for local governments to limit either abortion rights or gender-affirming healthcare. I really worry for the rest of the country, though.
Wdym? The bill in these states are good! Also I don't care about what you will respond to this comment with
Hearing a guy on the other side of the world say "you are ok the way you are" actually brought tears to my eyes. I love your videos ty OT.
I’m proud of you random person on the internet!
I think OT explicitly stated before that he was straight, he isn't bisexual or pansexual but god damm does he really give off those vibes
It's my theory that he's an undercover bi guy posing as an ally to show all the other cishets how it's done. Or maybe he really IS that wholesome and straight.
he good ally. we have accepted him. the vibes you are feeling are second hand. lol
Also ace vibes sometimes because he doesn't get the dirty jokes. 😂
he does, but he is cishet
Mad asexual biromantic vibes but yeah he is cishet 😅
How the heck am I this early? Or, better question, how's RUclips this drunk? It says no likes, no views, and no comments lol. There's NO way at 15 minutes lol
Edit: Just saw all the replies, and IDK how that even happened! I just went into one of his playlists, saw "ooh new video!" And clicked on it y'all. This is the WEIRDEST thing I've ever had happen to me lmao
Frfr
Wait it says 23 seconds
It's only been out for me for 43 seconds
Yes. I've had that happen too. It's weird. Or it'll say there are comments when there aren't
Yeah, this video was posted under a minute ago, how did you comment to is before the video was posted?
I still find it hilarious that Vanessa left her fiance over a bee that'll only last her up to 2 months and her ex-fiance is literally the only sane person in the movie. lol
OT’s reaction to “Skeletussy” was so genuine and visceral I actually laughed out loud in my school library.
Same story when he realized exactly how terrible the phrasing was here 2:27
I actually almost choked on an apple slice at "skeletussy" 😂😂😂
I just love the laugh of this guy, its so charismatic.
Plankton?
Plankton?
@Peter Ledergerber. So……wholesome good guy plankton? 🤔
As an ace, my sexuality is indeed "let's get burger today"
as an aroace i want apple juice with that burger + some cake
As an agender, my gender is also "let's get burger today"
@@tristantheoofer2 remeber the garlic bread! I will take some
@@KAW-69 hell yeah you cant forget the garlic bread
BORGAR
I sorta came out to my mom a while back and she basically said "Oh I always suspected it, I've seen how you talk about Link" and I was like "ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh"
Lmfao about link?
That's fair honestly 😂
As in the character.
Can confirm, obsessive Link speech is indeed a symptom of gay
I get it. He was one of my biggest fictional crushes when I found out I was gay.
When my cousins son came out as trans, my dad started making comments that he was going to dead name the boy constantly the next time he saw him. I spent nearly an hour trying to get him to understand that, even if he doesn't approve of trans-ness, it's still a dick move to go out of he way to be mean. He always used to tell me growing up that, as long as someone isn't being an ass, he won't have any issue with them so seeing him clearly go against his own personal code by taking pride in wanting to intentionally hurt some kid who's just trying to be themselves really made me angry. I am not proud of this but I did start yelling and at one point just kept repeating "You are being mean" on loop because he was just being mean for no good reason. I have autism which has a lot of ties with the LGBT community due to how often we all get hated for simply being born different. I've seen people wish the same kind of horrible things on people like me that the gay and trans community has also gotten so I take this kind of thing very personally (I'm also pan but I'm not brave enough to be open about it like my gay brother is). I made no progress in getting through to my dad at all. I thought I might have at least made him reflect on the issue since I was clearly in a rare state of anger but I heard him joking with my straight brother later that night about the whole thing and went so far as to replace all my actual dialogue with buzz words in a dumb liberal voice his favorite talk show hosts like to use (replace "You are being mean" with "Why are you being so hateful?" in the most condescending tone imaginable). Hearing him compare me to people he has no respect for just broke me a little inside. I can count on one hand the number of times I've actually gotten so emotional that I started screaming at someone so this was already a very bad moment for me so hearing it be boiled down to a political joke made an already bad feeling so much worse. When I called him out on it later he tried to justify it by saying "That's not how I intended to make you feel." I have not forgiven him for this and it's up for debate if he even knows this still upsets me. He's not the type to dwell on old issues so he might have actually forgotten. Which I don't know if that makes it worse or not. If my sister, my grandpa, and my great grandma hadn't already set the bar on how bad you need to be to be irredeemable, I don't think I'd still be is in contact with him. Though I might if the rift between him and my gay brother continues. Seriously, how has he not realized that maybe the son he knows is gay and likes men might be avoiding him because he still thinks it's "just a phase"? Sir, how little do you actually know your son?
Don't let the rest of your family set the bar for what you're willing to put up with. You deserve better than that. They aren't worth your time, you can find better
I‘m sorry you had to get through this. This sounds like a dick move from your dad.
But you are actually a hero to stand up to him, defend your cousins son and confront your dad with his own hypocricy. Thank you for that 💪 a lot of people would have shrugged it away
I felt this; I'm in the closet rn and I hear my dad go off about "the gay agenda" and whatnot and it hits something deep inside me. I've heard my family aggressively misgender my mom's coworkers, too, and it's honestly so hard to put up with. I try to step in as an "ally" and they treat me like I've been brainwashed or something.
I'm so sorry this happened to you. My father would've loved LOVED to see one of his daughters come home with a girl. Whenever someone asked if we had boyfriends yet, he (and my mom) always added OR a girlfriend. I am now doing the same to whoever I meet and want to know if they are in a relationship.
It's such a bummer when people don't want to understand, especially when it's family. Please know that you deserve better! ❤
I'm so sorry. My best friends are diagnosed autistic (I might be but undiagnosed) and that definitely participates in making them the best humans I've ever known. I'm adamant about autists/pan folks being the next level humanity ;)
As an asexual lesbian demigirl you and Jamie have really helped me confirm and love who I am. Thank you OT (and Jamie.)
I have to ask what is a demi girl/boy?
@@Crimson_fire_663 I'd say you should google it to get the best answer.
@@TheOrangePick ha! Im 2/3 of those things! I especially love finding other demi girls to relate to
OMG YOUR ME
help it is so freaking validating to find someone exactly like me 😭😭
I used to be an asexual lesbian demigirl!!!
i've said it before and i'll say it again: OT's slow realizations as to what the punchline of some of these posts means is infinitely hilarious to me. that moment where it just clicks is so entertaining and i love it
edit: those bits where OT sees himself in the posts (literally) are also really entertaining. it's fun seeing him go ":O THAT'S MEEEEE"
Fun Fact: in archaeology it can be a lot more difficult to tell if a skeleton is physically male or female than a lot of people believe. For the most part, the only way you can really tell most of the time without DNA testing (a lot of the times, digs may not have the budget to test the DNA) is by the pelvis and only 70ish% of skeletons in cases that CAN be sexed, are sexed correctly. And that percentage may be lower depending how long ago the digs were conducted. It's actually very fascinating since digs used to mostly gender skeletons by the goods and items buried with them (mostly because if the gender did not fit the stereotype or then gender associated with those goods, it would be changed due to the western view on sex and gender, and as we know, many cultures have a much wider view of gender than most western cultures do.)but later when tested with newer technology, proved that that skeleton was possibly transgender in life or just practiced actions not usually carried out by that gender.
I think of the viking warrior that was suddenly not a warrior the moment archaeologists realized "he" was a woman.
I took forensic science last year and for one of the units, we had to learn how to identify males vs. females based on skull or pelvis structure, and let me tell you, it was hard. Through the whole unit, I think I could get, at best, 60% of the bones right. I think bone structure is much more nuanced than people think
So the lesson for trans people is simply to be buried with the goods of the gender/s you want to be associated with.
I'm pretty sure if I were to die, my bones would be classed as masculine despite the fact that I am afab
(Pronouns: void/it/he)
@@jupitermoon2775 The human genome is weird and the sheer variety of phenotypic expression it can create is staggering. It isn't surprising that it is difficult to determine biological sex from a skeleton when you can have dramatically different hip and pelvis shapes within a single family tree. The idealized examples used in educational material are really misleading. I'm a man with wide hips who would probably give archaeologists a headache if my skull were separated from the rest of my bones.
I can't get it out of my head, OT has "that supportive uncle" vibes and I'm here for it! We love you OT!
“Hey kid, this homophobic place sucks so I brought you popcorn and lots of love, enjoy!”
What I would give-
Reminder that all of y'all are valid and deserve to be happy.
Stay safe, eat food, destroy gender norms (or don't if you like fittin them, or do if you don't like the pressure but still enjoy them), take a break, drink water and get sleep.
I CANT FALL ASLEEP😭😭😭😭
For many years, i had this channel as a safe space when i thought i had almost no one to rely on. So many videos when i was feeling depressed and rejected, in hopes of finding any kind of acceptance. Today, i live with accepting parents and am starting my hrt treatment. And this channel (and OT, of course) helped me reach this point in my life. Thank you.
Same!
So happy for both of you! 🌈
Hope it's going good for you!
I know it’s been a few months since this comment was posted but I hope your transition is going well :D
Hi. I really love your channel and your great attitude. I'm a beardo AND a wierdo and proud of it. There is, though, one thing that makes me uncomfortable. I was born in 1954, and although I know people don't use the word "Boomer" to mean all baby boomers, it still makes me feel left out. I'm a proud, elderly, gay, affirming guy and a good number of my friends are also like that. Baby boomers were responsible for lots of great things, think of Woodstock, protesting Vietnam, Stonewall, and much of the Civil Rights movement. I'd love to hear you comment on that word and acknowledge those of us Boomers who are "woke" and LGBTQ+.
I know this was a while ago but, I feel you so much on this. I find it strange,that boomer has become a stand in for the word bigot. It definitely rubs the wrong way and I'm not even a boomer.
I get where the anger comes from but, so many boomers are progressive.
The reason it bugs me so much,even though I'm 28, is because my LT BF is a boomer. He has always been nothing but supportive of me being queer and has been extremely supportive of the 2/5 of his children,who are also queer.
He doesn't have a cruel bone in his body; is always willing and actively tries to learn.
We actually just had a conversation the other day, about how it confuses him so much, that people can be so venomously homo/transphobic. He always say how,he is so confused how people could care. He said " It's the same as somebody being black or having red hair, it should be a non issue and just a trait someone has. He then went on to say how he thinks that it must be some sort of internalized homo/transphobia (at least for some of these people), especially since he's cishet he said "I don't understand why somebody who claims to be straight thinks so much about queer s3x.... I just don't get why they care. I don't want to see gay (mlm) s3x. So I just don't watch that type of p0rn, it's simple. Anything else is exactly the same thing that we do"
I genuinely just think a lot of the anger comes from the fact that some of the most vicious homophobia, comes from older people. I think the biggest source of the anger comes from the fact that a lot of the people who are making the laws ,that actively hurt us, are older and most are boomers.
But honestly, generalizations like that,don't work, as no group of humans monolithic and therefore shouldn't be generalized.( there is a exceptions to this like,hate groups)
I think it's best to critique the actions of an individual or few people vs shi*ting on massive group,like a generation. As all that does is cause more division and could push away potential allies and our queer elders. 😢
I agree with you,that it is a sucky thing too do.
@@xdani_thethinkingnekofor both you and OP, if the term “boomer” doesn’t fit you then there is absolutely no reason for it to bother you. You said yourself that many of the most hateful, homophobic people are “boomers” from the baby boomer generation and that many of those that have taken rights away from us, and actively still are trying to take rights away from us, are from that generation. Boomer, much like Karen and other slang terms, no longer means just the original group and instead encapsulates an attitude, way of acting, way of speaking, etc. You can have a 20 year old acting like a boomer, or a guy acting like a Karen. A boomer has less to do with being someone from the baby boomer generation and more about how a person treats others, how they speak and how they think.
So what happened? How did the same generation that protested Vietnam, participated in Stonewall and other civil rights movements turn into the group mainly responsible for taking away others rights and who are still trying to take even more rights away? How did the baby boomer generation become some of the most hateful, racist, misogynistic, and homophobic people who are actively working to pass laws restricting or outright taking away rights from women, minorities and the LGBTQIA community?
As I said in my comment to the other person from this thread “boomer” is less about being an actual baby boomer and more about an attitude, way of thinking, how you treat people, etc If it doesn’t fit you there’s no reason to take offense. I’m a Christian. I know there are a lot of people that claim to be Christians that are loudly racist, misogynistic, homophobic and just horrible people. I understand that when people talk disparagingly about Christians or say things like “There’s no hate like Christian love” that those are the people they mean and I don’t take offense because that’s not how I act/think/behave. I also know that as a Christian I must push back against those claiming to be Christians that do act like that, while being an example of actual Christian love and acceptance. Be an example of a “woke” baby boomer, while also calling out those in your generation for acting poorly.
I was just crying for about an hour, and I was seriously wondering if everyone would feel better if I were dead. I decided to watch this, and I instantly felt better. Thank you for all that you do. I truly don't know where I would be without you.
Dear soul, I just want you to know we are better for having you with us. Please keep finding reasons to smile.
Im happy you’re still here. Stay strong, it will get better. ❤️
Every day you wake up,
You spite the people who are making you feel like this.
Keep spiting them
And know that I, your Internet Uncle-Gay, am rooting for you.
You are valid and loved
I, among many others, know how you feel. Trust me: it’s a process, but life gets so much better. We’re so happy you’re here, and if you have the means to, consider getting help. Consider a suicide hotline (988 is America’s national suicide hotline) or the Trevor Project (LGBTQIA+-specific counseling). Much love, and remember that we’re all here for you❤️
it wasn’t COVID! 😡
you spat in my meowth ✌️😡
@@OneTopic or was it!
@@OneTopic The disrespect 😂
@@OneTopic SHE DID WHAT?!?!?!?!?………… Nice 👍
@@OneTopic eww
13:28 *insert the "hmmmmm yes, the floor here is made out of floor" meme*
I also get so much joy out of the reactions I get when I tell people I like men. I literally am a secret gaygent, and it blows people's minds!
"gaygent" is now a part of my vocab tysm
I'm bi, but same. It's so fun.
@Spacehootle *. So you’re a bi in disguise?
@@shadowking278 lmao.
OT, you came up at the right time. I'm a closeted enby. Just found out my mother is a fucking TERF. So i really needed this today.
sorry to hear that bro (gender neutral)
this enby supports you
Im sorry for you :( i hope things get better
Oh jeez, I'm so sorry, stay safe fam
Here is a different acronym you can use for your mom: "Feminism-Appropriating Radical Transphobes", or FART.
Also, it annoys me to no end that TERFs _are helping people WHO OPPOSE EQUAL RIGHTS for women!_
Much love to you. I hope she gets over the illness soon. Stay strong, it will get better. ❤️
14:11 as someone that’s left handed, this caught me off guard when listening to it in the background
I love hearing people say they learned new things but it reminds me of a misunderstanding I had as a kid. As a kid I thought grownups had to go back to school to get updated on all the new things, turns out my parents were just perpetually curious but a public school type continuing update for grownups sounds like an amazing idea to me
Well, I kinda feel like the internet has sort of filled that need in a way thanks to all the educational content out there.
The first top surgery meme reminded me of an instagram reel. The person was making a ball jointed doll and was showing their process on making the torso bendable. Part of it was drilling under the chest and after watching, I open the comments to see people going, "New top surgery dropped", and other stuff. I found it utterly adorable and funny.
I came out to my mom and her reaction was literally "me too sis"
I feel vindicated by the fact that I am ace and I still get the sex jokes faster than OT. Sometimes not by much but I am faster 😜
Same!
same
My and the other ace friend I have tell the dirtiest jokes. I'm sure there's a psych reason somewhere
@@JhericFury I'm normally really bad at working out if it's a sex joke unless I've heard something similar before
@@JhericFury But yeah my mum and sister will say I went too far if I make a sex joke. Maybe because I don't actually imagine anything when I/other people make sex jokes?
Thank you, OT. As a struggling trans girl in the US, I really needed some cheering up today.
Update: I'M ON DAY ONE OF HRT NOW LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Hang in there sister!
Hope you’re feeling better! ❤
Same
Hang in there girlie ^^
YAY! Let’s celebrate. 🥳🥳🥳
Go live your life. But remember. We are here. And we support you. You’ve got an army backing you up. 🥰
Two days ago I was gendered as a boy while in public for the first time. It was so amazing, especially considering I've only really been surrounded by people I know and not strangers. I know that you're probably never gonna see this OT, but thank you for being a positive model for me, teaching me to show myself.
I know that feeling, it's always amazing when people see you as you want to be seen (from a fellow transmasc); it's like a lightbulb going off that shines _really_ bright and lasts ages (does that make sense, or am I just going bonky? Lmao). Hope more people see you as you by now, even if it hasn't been that long, and hope you're doing good, king.
Given how many sunglasses OT owns, he should probably check his supply post-dog sickness.
I’ve watched several trillion One Topic videos and every single time I incorrectly expect him to say “play nice” instead of “be nice”
As a bisexual gender fluid person, when I came out to my online friends, they accepted me better than my irl fam. Also, loved this vid! I loved laughing over this!
18:40 More fox facts: A female fox is called a Vixen. Do you know what a male fox is called?
*Tod*
So just a little happy moment from this week, I haven’t seen my sister in a while and this is the first time I’ve seen her face-to-face since I came out as agendered. I gave her a hug and the first thing she asked was “How is my favorite sib?” and just to confirm her best sister status she corrected one of her friends when they called me by the wrong pronouns, love you sis! Just a happy story I wanted to share.
Omg, I stared at "sib" in confusion for so long before I realised it's short for sibling. 🤣
Best sister, you’re awesome random person!
That sounds amazing. So happy to hear stories like this!
Don’t forget Megatron in the original show transforms into a gun that can fit in Starscream’s hand!
I learned something new today. I thought bear just referred to a very masculine presenting gay man, but it turns out it also represents masculine presenting bisexual men as well. Thanks OT lol
Iirc, bears also tend to be very hairy, both in beard and overall body.
@@Arosukir6 Yes! It's a specific kind of masculinity, as opposed to a hunk, who is usually a jacked hairless bodybuilder. A bear is like a dadbod taken to extreme canadian lumberjack levels.
It always tastes good. So it’s ALWAYS gay 😏 LETSGOOO
rey. omg.
@@OneTopichi
Since I'm pangender...I think that means it's always gay 😉
Does this apply to garlic bread…asking for a friend…
@@devinn5603 omg it does
Arcee learning about gender: This is some serious gourmet shit.
I like the concept that you can eat gender
@@justaghostinthesea Why have a gender when you can use it to satisfy your hunger?
@@Juzokinnie That's what I'm saying gabagoo 🤌
@@justaghostinthesea Ah, gotta love when you eat the entirety of the male gender, just another Friday dinner.
@@RunOut25 Why, I did it just today!
As a member of the lgbtq+ community, I can confirm this is me irl
You are a reddit post too?
Omg same!!!
Why did i think you said master instead of member. You are a master of the LGBTQ+ arts
@@shadowking278 There is one Master of every faction of the LGBTQ+ whom holds the responsibility of said faction. This means maintaining, instructing and representing that faction as well as connecting and uniting with other factions and their respective Masters.
I love that in the middle of this already wonderful video, OT takes an intermission to gush about fennec foxes, thus raising the wonderfulness levels to previously unthinkable heights
I would love to see some ace or non-binary memes again :) This channel has helped me with those topics a lot, realising that's what i have been all my life but didn't have the words to explain it and now i do!
Agreed! It's also International Asexuality Day on the 6th of April, so an ace video would be very fitting :)
Hi OT, I just wanted to say thank you, today was one of the worst days I've had, fighting with my mother over being gay and what my late Dad would have thought about it. On top of that I fell and am going into a fibromyalgia flareup so I'm just in more and more pain as time goes on. Seeing this video has made all of that so much easier to bear. I love you, my dude, you are so much fun and my favourite youtuber. Also I would pay cash money to watch you do book/tv/movie reviews. Also reviews of cute animal videos :)
I hope you feel better and also, you are valid
@@Enbyfriendtoall thanks friend 💙💕🤍
Only you get to decide who your attracted to
So hope you have a great day
Aww, hope you feel better soon.
She can't know what he'd have thought. I told my mum I was bi at 19, she told me "please don't tell your dad he won't understand". So I didn't, I figured since she barely understood then he wouldn't either. He figured it out when I was 27... he was amazing! So damn supportive it made me so sad I missed out on years of of supportive parent because my mum basically buried the knowledg eHe's passed now too, and the times I wish he were still here so I had someone I could talk to about both my sexuality & gender.
Your mother doesn't get to decide how he would have been. If you were close to your dad then he chances are he would have loved you unconditionally.
I'm sorry you have to deal with that negativity though. Fibro is a bitch when it gets in a flare spiral. Try to get some rest and relaxation, de-stress.
...........not me being distracted the entire video though because "Is that batman and another dude kissing on your shirt?" 😂
20:37 THEY FORGOT THE LAST SET!!!?!?
Lgbt=luigi got big tittys
Hi OT, I just want to say thank you for being a place of comfort for me. Your videos are a highlight of my day, and you're the reason i discovered that I was trans. You helped me through some really tough times, and I cant say thank you enough. Thank you for everything you do OT ❤
Sorry if this came across as a bit akward. I dont normally write comments
Don't worry about coming across as awkward, I can't help but think that you made OT's day with your comment
15:48 OMG THIS IS SO REAL (except I'm not trans but whenever my dad is being homophobic and I get pissed trying to defend myself. you see, I'm in that age group where adults think I'm too young to know my sexuality which is unbelievably frustrating. My dad is one of those people. He always says "YoU'rE toO yOUng to kNow YoUR SeXUlatiTY" Did you not know you were straight when YOU were my age??? HMMMMM So why's it any different?????? 😑😑🤨🤨🤨
My heart goes out to folks living in places that are banning HRT. I'm trying to do my part to fight for y'all the best I can how I can. Stay strong brother/sister/sibling it can get better.
OneTopic, I can assure you, from working with a fennec fox for a animal rescue, they are coked up little demons. They are absolutely adorable but they can claw. Hard.
Scottish Twitter is pure chaotic perfection. French and Finnish Twitter is pure neutral chaos and I love it.
This was one of my favorite videos in a while, so I made a list of some of my fav moments!
1:54 - OT with a Scottish accent
2:38 - A brief pause while OT processes the joke
3:59 - OT with a southern accent
4:22 - Angry OT
7:31 - “SKELETUSSY??”
9:38 - Obligatory “Have you been outside”
9:59 - OT seeing himself in the subreddit and seeing all the nice comments about himself
OT, I just wanted to say that your videos have helped me while beginning my transition, I have transphobic parents and it’s been really mentally straining and your videos have helped me realize that I’m valid as a person, that there’s a place for people like me and that I matter, and I just wanted to say thank you. From the bottom of my heart, I hope that you can do the same you did to me for others who are struggling with their identities. Thank you OT.
I'm really sorry that you have transphobic parents, stay strong my friend.
@@northwind808 Thank you, you don’t know how much this means to me
I'm in a similar boat. I'm trans, but still very much in the closet and I don't know if my parents will take it well. And OT has been a huge help to me too. I'm glad you found him and the rest of the community, and that we both can find people willing to support us, even if the people in our lives may not. Let keep watching and I hope we both feel valid while we do.
@Natasha the Cracking Egg. I feel the same. Except I know that it won’t go well if I come out publicly. I have a twitter account that they don’t know about where I go by she/her. But if they found out. They would not be happy. They grew up in the 50s. So they are against the LGBT community. So I can’t trust them. But most of my siblings know that I’m gay. But I just figured out that I’m a trans woman a couple weeks ago.
My straight friend thought I was straight for over a year, I WAS A GAYGENT!!! 😁
I can one up _that…_
I’m a _transgent_
(Doesn’t work as well though, does it?) (;
I would gladly watch a 15 min video of OT reacting to Fennec Foxes, I love them so much I actually audibly squealed when it came on screen. Also, Keep up the great work OT, love ur videos, and hope everyone who reads this comment has a very nice life!
if this was a petition, I'd sign it. I would like a whole new category of video from OT, maybe streams... dedecated to cute/clever/brilliant animals. just watching videos of them together and having OT reading out fun facts about them. and just facts.
the "uwu" at 5:04 made me lose it. lmfao
7:45. That sound is going to become my notification sound. 🤣
14:34 the way OT reacted to the bee movie is just on point
11:50 that commenter definitely wants to kiss you
yes
Honestly, transformers justifies hitting back against the "attack helicopter" nonsense.
"I identify as an attack helicopter! Hurr hurr."
"Cool. Do me a favour and roll out?"
14:58 I got a youtube add right here. it was about how trans women don't deserve to be treated like real women, and I'm like 'youtube who do you think I am? I AM trans.'
That's bullsh1t. I wish there were some way for you to report ads like that as harassing you.
@@John_Weiss yeah.
@@John_Weissthere is at least on mine. Attached to the bottom of video that you watch there should be a sort of banner that shows what ads are playing and there are three dots on the right side of it that you can click or tap on and it pulls up ad customization so you can choose what type of ads you want to see and block ads you don’t want. For now it just blocks the specific ad that is showing but hopefully in the future they’ll let us block ads from the advertisers that show such types of ads all the time that we don’t like. I’d like to block all ads coming from PragerU and hateful organizations like them because they keep showing even when I’m watching a RUclipsr who doesn’t approve of hateful stuff like that.
@@John_Weissthat feature was removed like a year ago
@@jamasa007 Boooo! [not you, OP]
Meanwhile, RUclips has _no problem_ keeping up videos that show infant macaques being tormented.
So excited to see this episode!! Hope you're doing good, OT! :D
I think my favorite misinterpretation of LGBT I've seen is "Lure, Gaff, Bait and Tackle" 😂
Hey OT, I just wanna tell you that you've really helped me out during my toughest days with your videos! Stay safe out there.
Me: * getting ready to get to bed *
OT: * posts video *
Me: Eh, what's another 23 minutes?
I refuse to get my computer fixed by STRAIGHT PEOPLE only aces
We Scottish folk love you too OT! and if anyone starts on you or Human1 we will not stand for such bawbaggery. Many respects always.
💜my people
fuelled by Irn Bru and accompanied by herds of wild Haggis.
He really should revisit the subreddit.
6:20 OT, it's saying that you can't take the square root of a negative number. The next panel is a thing you learn in pre-calculus where the square root of -1 = i, which is an imaginary number.
I now want to see the Click give OT a math lesson.
My bottom dysphoria:I don't want to play with you anymore,but I can't stop,and I hate it so much.
your videos have helped me both literally and figuratively break out of my shell, and even though I've only seen your videos for a few months, your videos have helped me accept who I am. So thank you
Just have to say that I saw you respond to that guy on twitter and immediately made sure that it made the rounds; you make me so happy OT, in a time where it's extremely scary to finally be living as myself. I always kind of knew growing up that there were things I just.. couldn't be or say, and I internalized that for so long that I didn't feel safe enough to crack that egg until my late twenties, and then openly come out now in my thirties. It's a scary place to be in knowing that I have to be strong because I will not give back the life that I've gained or silence who I am again. Seeing you and so many others stand up and continuously point at the ridiculousness of these people truly helps give me some hope that enough people care to address this ruse they're trying to pull.
16:39 MY PARENTS GOT ME THESE FOR MY BIRTHDAY. THEY DONT EVEN KNOW IM GAY THEY JUST KNOW I LIKE DND
14:28 then we have The Owl House completely throwing shit out the window
16:53 it is such a struggle knowing that people don’t don’t support me for identifying as an unexpected item in bagging area.
5:37 gay-me over… i’ll see myself out
17:51 I recently found out about myself being trans (also thanks to this channel) and only have told a few carefully chosen friends so far.
Some time after that, I've sat in a discord call with three amab friends, two of which are fully cis and the third being one of the chosen ones. One of the clueless guys then by some brain twists just started with "well as we're just us rn, more specifically just us men here ..." and I just texted the chosen one "👀" and felt like we were the imposter duo about to strike
8:43 She's bi, though. She has two boyfriends in the cartoon. She's bisexual and polyamorous.
Also the boyfriends are gay for each other, that's the ot3 hill I will die on. Arcee, Springer, and Roddy are a throuple.
6:56 99% unrelated to the video but for a few years now I have been trying to remember a certain word I learned in a chemistry class. Colloids. You wouldn't believe how much of my daily life a word can take up.
Jello is a colloid, if I remember correctly.
I live for the secret boops and OT's laugh. This is the serotonin that gets me through the day.
20:28 "mom, dad, I'm a gun 😔"
mom, dad, I'm a Black Lives Matter 😔
omg I forgot about nathan for you, and the asexual computer repair ( 4:53 ) reminded me of it, it was advertising that the owner was asexual so they wouldn’t be snooping through your laptop for “stuff”. it’s a very funny show, i highly recommend it!
12:20 as a bi person I can confirm, I have a vast collection of sunglasses
SAMEEEE
18:26 ok that's freakin adorable though
6:59 guys/gals/non-binary pals!
WE FOUND THE TIME CRYSTAL!
NOW WE CAN USE IT TO INVADE DENMARK!
Time to make a gate of time.
Happiness struck me when I remebered the cover of this video from a web comic called, "Hi, I'm gay!" (If I remeber correctly the creator is from Spain and is infact gay. Can't remeber)
After watching I realize two memes were from the web comic! I'm ecstatic (was that spelt right-)
19:29 i LOVE the quick time event thing, amazing reference, and that's a freaking WONDERFUL editor you got lol
I’ve seen an absolute ton of people in the comments talking about their experiences coming out to unsupportive parents and their experiences with difficult self acceptance. I want to share something that my mom told me once that I remind myself of frequently and try to focus on when I’m struggling. In order to do that I’m going to share some things about me and it might be a bit long, sorry about that, I don’t expect a bunch of people to read it but I hope it speaks to those that do.
So, I always thought that after graduating high school I would go to college, get a job, get an apartment/house, marry a man or woman and have kids and so on and so forth. That’s not how things worked out. I did go to college for a few years but I dropped out. I have BPD, OCD, hypersomnia and extreme anxiety which all led/contributed to quite a number of problems including addiction disorder. So instead of all the things I wanted and thought I’d have, I’m 34 and still trying to find myself, I’m on SSI because I can’t work, (I want to make it clear that it’s now not ‘I don’t want to work’ but ‘I cannot work’ leaving the house can be incredibly difficult, I went to three different high schools because I got kicked out for missing too many days), I’m working my ass off in therapy to make my life better and to work again some day though. Thankfully, my (then) boyfriend (now fiancé) helped me get into a methadone maintenance program and I’ve been in active recovery for six years. Thankfully I have him and an amazing family (and therapist and psychiatrist), I know how lucky I am there and I wish everyone else was. I say all of this to get to what my mom told me one day when I was talking about how sad I am that my life didn’t go down that path. She told me that I should of course grieve for that path I thought I was on and that person I thought I would be but that I should remember that I was never on that path, I was never going to be that person. That really hit me and I realized that I was beating myself over not becoming someone who I was never going to be, I was treating myself badly for not following a path through life that was never my path, instead being proud that I am who I am now and proud of the things I learned along the path I was actually on. Even though things were insanely difficult I feel that I have a level of compassion, empathy and understanding that other people don’t necessarily have. I have found that people who deal with depression, anxiety, dysmorphia, and all the many, many, many other things I could list here, frequently have a greater sense of themselves and of the people around them. They’re quicker to help, to love, to listen. I’m proud to have gone through my path and it was a relief to stop concerning myself with someone who I never was or was going to be. I’ve always been the person I am now, whether I knew it or not, and now it’s my job to keep becoming better and healthier versions of myself, to love this person I’ve always been and to seek my happiness and truth always. (I apologize for the rambliness of this comment, I’m sure there’s grammatical errors and spelling mistakes, there may be some parts that don’t make sense to anyone but me and I could go back through and try to change things but everything I wrote came from a place of deep emotion and I want to keep it like that.)
I hope this resonates with even one person, I hope everyone knows that they are the person they were always meant to be and that might mean doing a lot of work to make the outside of you reflect who you are inside or working to accept yourself but you were never meant to be anyone else and you were never meant to go down another path. You can always keep working on being better versions of you but the core of you is just perfect.
As an avid watcher of danny, kurtis, and drew, i was very pleasantly surprised to see them mentioned in this video lol
Well yeah! I sure hope it does!