@@analjuice3675 this whole show is logic fucked, most of the scenes don't make any sense at all. But it was a solid trash show to watch just for the sake of watching. There's room for shows like that too. No brain required, just wasting time by watching it.
@@marple4830 yeah and chuck Sa’d three of our main girls including Blair slept then actually slept with a minor and also tried selling her for a hotel so yeah all her boyfriends sucked
@@shaylevene6754 Since, the people she "dislikes" usually happen to hold less sociological power than her, that makes her a bully (and therefore a villain) in my book. She does a lot of talking down in the series, if I remember it correctly.
Yes! I’m so glad people are finally starting to see that. I remember hating Chuck since the pilot because he tried to assault TWO people in one day and then everyone forgot. I felt like I was being gaslit whenever I said he was the worst person out of the main characters and didn’t deserve Blair or anyone for that matter
i know blair and chuck work best together but the fact he tries to sexually assault her best friend on multiple occasions (and other women) and she says NOTHING about it always threw me all the way off. She always comes for everyone but rarely chuck and it just icks me
Blair clearly has a lot of internalised misogyny. She knows how Chuck is from the get to, she tells Jenny that Chuck brags about his conquests not his victims. She knows, she just doesn't care.
@@thankunext5602 Yeah Ive always seen it this way too. I mean he's still a horrible person but I feel like in canon the first episode doesn't count cause it was inspired more by the books and there was no thought of putting Blair and Chuck together or even of chuck becoming such a main character, he was more of Nates awful friend at that point. A Few episodes into season one they seem to decide what to do with him and change his persona from the book one
@@thankunext5602 there was an episode in season 2 or 3 where jenny confronted chuck about trying to sexually assault her and the matter is addressed for one or two episodes so what he did to jenny still did happen
Tbh I have a theory that Dan and Blair were supposed to end up together but because people shipped Chuck & Blair so much it ruined it. Like in season 1 when Eleanor replaced Blair with Serena for the photo shoot and Dan was the one to comfort her, I knew it was gonna happen. They kept emphasising that they hate each other and never be together. Y’all don’t forget Chuck wasn’t supposed to make it passed season 1.
I think so too, there was a cut scene they didn't use where Dan came to Blair's writing contest or something like that but not even her mom did I can't remember.. back when they "hated" each other. They addressed it in a throwaway line in season 5. The problem is the fact that they focused too much on the sleazy thing with her and Chuck for the first seasons because sex sells, instead of putting a bit more hints of Dan and Blair in the beginning. Then they again sold out to impressionable, loud teenagers in s6 and turned the whole story around just throwing away all build up and growth in previous seasons. And made Dan of all people Gossip Girl because... uh... he's a writer? He has to look worse than Chuck? Not for any logical reason at least. And I don't really get why because they knew this was the last season and didn't have to do well, but they just got lazy and threw together some s1 fanfiction.
@@Dash120z Well, funny thing is people caught on Chuck and Blair's chemistry and got on their wagon. The same thing didn't happen with Dan and Blair even though their comforting scene happened even before the limousine one. Go figure, in all honesty, Dan and Blair belong to two different worlds. Dan could never stop judging Serena and her world, why should he have fitted in that same world with a girl like Blair?
In defence of Dair, 😆 Serena lied to Dan that blair had already picked chuck and then got him super drunk before he slept with her so I really blame this on her - especially since her actions had malicious intent (Blair needs to DROP Serena, she's so fucking toxic I can't) but he still shouldn't have slept with her 🥲 also serena f*cked dan in the same place where she slept with nate just to hurt blair which is honestly insane. I just ignore season 6 and dan being gossip girl coz it literally makes zero sense and honestly drives me insane lol Also I didn't like that nate pretended to still be into Blaire in season 1 because his dad wanted them to get married so he could strike a deal with Elanor, both nate and chuck treated blair as a comodity to be traded for money but nate was decent enough to feel guilty about it and come clean
The only reason why i can forgive Nate for what he did to Blair on season 1 is the fact that he was being forced by his parents to do that. Imagine, as a teenager, being told (by your parents) that you need to date someone to “save the family”. And when he tried to tell his parents that he didn’t want to do that, they would label him as rebelious and literally blame their problems on him. I honestly felt bad for him. His family was terrible.
@@Lv-sg4zp That's true. the actors look much older so sometimes I forget that they're only supposed to be 16-17 at this point 😭 It is implied though that Nate liked serena for a long time before they hooked up (thanksgiving flashback episode in season 1 I think) so I just cant forgive him for that but I honestly love Nate and Blair as friends ❤
@@shivanijoshi9252 maybe you don’t remember, but nothing really happened between Serena and Nate during that thanksgiving flashback. He just helped her sober up. Plus cheating on Blair was bad, but everyone else in the show has done the same to someone eventually (at least the main cast), so it became unreasonable for me to hold it against him. But i definetly won’t forget how he tried to confess his feelings for Serena before breaking up with Blair, that didn’t make any sense.
I liked Dan and Blair together a lot, and I wish it had changed that Chuck and Blair went on to just be great friends and STOP GETTING TOGETHER, but the reveal of Dan as Gossip Girl was insane. It literally makes Dan a psycho, manipulating everything and all the girls he dated into dating him as a result of him being there to “comfort” and “support” them when it suited him and angry and “hurt” by them at other times. Him being gg made the entirety of him and Blair seem even more cruel of him. He ruined her life on the regular and then dated her? I wish anyone else had been gg, cause him and Blair were genuinely so cute and challenged each other while bringing out the best till you find out the truth about Dan.
maybe the writer want us to see some ppl do "ruined her life on the regular and then dated her", some men like that, they love powerful strong women but they cant help but trying to change them to be not too powerful not too strong to meet their ego.
i refuse to watch gossip girl after seeing him trying to r word someone and witnessing people saying, that he's an "interesting character, and they root for him". Disgusting, but sadly, people treat irl rapist this way, too. People can say that they wouldn't, but I've seen the biggest feminists supporting rpists bc he was their friend or sth
@@shadowprincess7954hey playing devil’s advocate, but if I see someone try to better themselves and really apologise for what was done I will let them live their life. People do change in my core opinion but only when they realise they messed up etc. That’s how I forgive the man who abused me. So in that sense we see chuck take his responsibility and at soooome point work on himself. To me, especially since it’s fiction, I was gave him the benefit of the doubt.
Hiii, I love this take on Dan however I'd also mention that Serena also got Dan drunk and lied to him before having s3x with him so consent was rlly dubious.
same, like i came across this video on my homepage and i spent the first five minutes of the video wondering how HER FACE LOOKED SO PERFECT LIKE??? HOW ARE U REAL
I always felt like Louis did nothing wrong I mean was he unhinged? Yes. But would I also be unhinged if my fiancee kept running around and cheating on me with another man and DECLARING HER LOVE for that other man ON OUR WEDDING DAY?? Also yes!! I mean he should have probably just ended things but I feel like Blair was in the wrong there. And for what? Chuck? Please yuck
The marriage between Loui and Blair wasn’t even real _real_ . Loui, himself, told Blair that they’re only married on paper and for appearance sake. And the way the contract was written literally made Blair a prisoner.
He was fine till wedding, he became vindictive after since it was such a an ego-bruising event. It was definitely humiliating, but he took it as an excuse to act like a total asshole. I do think if he'd have somehow been able to swallow his pride and distrust in Blair and just been the "perfect prince" during their honeymoon period and beyond (basically focusing on what they did/do have), they would've been fine and ended up together (like, outside of gg, ofc the show had Blair/Chuck as endgame)
did nothing wrong? when he actively tried to isolate blair from her loved ones and paid off chuck’s therapist to sabotage him in therapy? i don’t like chuck either but louie is not a good man who’s never done anything wrong
So idky people don’t know this but the first and second season have different writers. That’s why chuck is so evil. The new writers lost the plot that the show is meant to be a commentary on and mockery of the rich
it’s kinda like The Office (and probably a bunch of other shows i can’t think of rn) where a show is a semi-realistic satire of the real thing in s1 but around s2 starts to drop the critical aspects because it needs you to like and sympathize with the characters, so by the end they’ve made this really fucked up setting seem all warm and fuzzy. way easier to get 6+ seasons on network tv with satisfying character arcs than realism and a critical perspective
He was the only boyfriend that made her a princess, and people cast him aside...and I just *know* that if he'd proposed, he would've gotten her a Tiffany ring, because girl is Audrey and he would've seen that.
It’s frustrating how Dan receives the least respect and a lot of hate even though others have done far worse than him. Sure, he ran the Gossip Girl site, but he never posted false information or shared his own opinions. He just posted the tips that were sent in, and let’s not forget Blair submitted most of those tips. That says a lot about how similar and compatible Dair were. Meanwhile, Chuck literally sold Blair to his uncle and then “bought” her back from Louis. Blair was a spoiled brat who bullied others, and Serena? She’s a mess, always jumping to conclusions that benefit her, like when she blindly trusted her dad and almost ruined Lily and Rufus’s relationship. Not to mention, she was Gossip Girl herself for a brief time! Nate spent his time either dating older women or minors. Yes, Dan has his flaws, but the others are just as bad, if not worse.
This show did a lot of diabolical things, but the most diabolical is how they have me rooting for Chuck at every rewatch! How do they do that!!!!! Ugh!!!!
12:18 Chuck and Blair were not supposed to be endgame. It happened organically because of the actors' chemistry. Screenwriter Josh Schwartz said, "None of that was expected. Chuck came into the show as the villain."
Ok a few details were off but overall great video 1. Chuck didn’t tell Blair about the deal he made with Jack until after he thought they slept together 2. He payed her dowry without her knowledge and didn’t want her to know 3. Blair wasn’t at NYU when she was interning at W she was at Columbia 4. That women is actually chucks mother she just told him she wasn’t so he’d get over her 5. Chuck wasn’t in a coma he had just lost a lot of blood Also Nate was so wrong for acting like him cheating on Blair is equal to Blair sleeping with Chuck after they broke up and also in season 6 when he was dating a 17 year old 😭
We love Chuck because Ed Westwick played the hell out of his role and had sizzling on-screen chemistry with Leighton Meester. I am convinced that practically no other actor could have made us believe there was a redemption arc. (Additionally, I'm convinced the writers just went bipolar on him and Chuck is two different characters packed into one because some of his actions made zero sense).
After rewtaching Gossip girl so many times, everytime i ship dan and blair more, considering the depiction of their relationship it feels so aprupt that Blair suddenly loses all feelings for him.
I’m so thankful that there are others who realise Serena wasn’t the only damaged person on Gossip Girl. Blair was extremely insecure, parental trauma on both sides and very misogynistic. The way she forgave chuck after all the evil he’s done she would constantly scold serena and treat her like trash. I love her but she’s too much.
I can never forgive-and-forget Chuck for attempting to sa Jenny (I feel the same way about The Deep in The Boys) AND for that ugly 1st-seasons haircut!
I feel like The Boys is different though. The Boys is a satire that comments on modern America. Often actual assaulters get away with it with just a slap on the wrist. That’s what happened with The Deep. It’s upsetting but realistic. They still portray his character as the pathetic idiot loser he is. Gossip Girl however, tries to keep Chuck as a protagonist. It’s so weird. I don’t like how Gossip Girl did it. The Boys however did it pretty okay imo. This is just my interpretation though! I could be wrong!
@@pauli7051 I disagree. To me it feels like they included the scene for shock value and then refused to follow up with the consequences in the rest of the season, they didnt want to give it the care, attention and meaning it deserves and just dropped it/pretended it didnt happen. Which is why The Deep's episode feels like it's on a totally different season than the pilot, imo. And yes, I think it's partly due to sexism as other characters' trauma and/or abusive behaviours are handled better.
@@pauli7051if I remember correctly, gossip girl was meant to be a commentary on the rich but they then switched writers after season 1 or season 2. These writers didn’t understand what the show was meant to be and decided to glorify the rich.
Honestly, this alone makes me love Blair even more, like she couldn’t catch a break as someone was always plotting on her. I have never liked Serena, even in the books she’s awful and annoying. I wish Blair and Jenny would have stayed good friends, I think they balanced each other out a lot better than Blair and Serena.
99% of the bad things that happened to Blair were her own fault because she’s an awful unlikeable person. Not saying Serena was a saint but 99% of the time when something happened to Blair she either deserved it or had it coming. It’s not like she was an innocent person who minded her own business and did no wrong
as a dair shipper, i'd personally put dan at a higher place in this list though - at least 3rd most evil because of all all all the crimes this man committed as gg
You tick all the boxes on the Toastmasters presentation checklist for an excellent presentation: content, graphics, deep research knowledge on subject matter, flow, appearance, voice modulation, and keeping the audience connected. Great job!
I said “it better be Dan” for #4 and sure enough there his evil face was 😂🤣 Great video!! I love GG and can’t get enough of people talking about anything to do with it 💖
38:20 technically the marriage thing only works for things *spouses* tell each other. So if it was said/done during marriage you can’t force anyone to testify but if you’re not then you can be forced to testify. So this marriage would be useless.
You said word for word what I was saying about Serena and Blair for years. I’ve seen GG for the first time as an adult so I have no idea how I would see them as a teenager. But Serena is so bad, just pretending to be a good person and Blair is bad but she owns it 🤌 Blair is actually very relatable to me, being so angry at Serena and the attention she gets, because she truly knows her and a lot of people around them buys the good girl act Serena has. I would hate to have someone like that around me …
When I was younger I loved Chuck and Blair. But watching GG as an adult I prefer Dan and Blair. I realize how bad Chuck is and how Dan and Blair make more sense. I also love the build-up of their relationship from hating each other to friends to lovers.
What I hate about chuck and Blair aren’t just for the obvious reasons: toxicity, ultimatums, conditional love, abuse, terrible communication, etc. I hated the fact that in the later seasons when chuck got therapy and started becoming somewhat of a better person, that they were so stubborn to get back together. “We can’t be together bc I need to protect you. I’ll always love you, but it’s for the best” PROTECT WHAT? The amount of times chuck let Blair go and then out of nowhere ruining her relationships is just so stupid and a waste of time. Same with Blair just always being in denial and then always going back to chuck but them never actually getting back together over more stubbornness. It just made me wanna say ugh I REALLY don’t want yall together cause you’re just annoying and indecisive 😂
I'm sorry but I hated Dan and Blair together. Their friendship was so refreshing and honest, they challenged each other and realized they were more alike than they thought. They were both studious and ambitious, they loved the arts and would do anything to secure their future. I loved the buildup to their romance, but the relationship itself was handled poorly. It was like they had to constantly be in agreement with each other for things to work, which fizzled out their chemistry. The whole reason they worked so well is that fire they had, easily matching and outsmarting each other.. Dan seeing through her icy exterior and Blair being able to let down her guard around him.
Also with Chuck the best things he did for Blair’s were often an apology for the worst. The only reason they had to pay the dowry was because he sent the pic that broke the contract. Plus something that is almost never discussed but is even more serious than selling her for the hotel is the fact that he tried to punch her in the face close fisted. It happened quick and she dodged but this man really tried it
girl!! you are GLOWING, honestly you are so beautiful! can't wait to watch :3 you are easily becoming one of my favourite youtubers. i love the way you structure your videos ❤
i haven’t watched GG for a couple of years and have been a chuck and blair apologist for a while but watching this i was like the brittany broski meme bc yeah no he was so terrible to her throughout the seasons up until the last season basically 😭😭. the BIGGEST thing to consider though is that while he spent a majority of the show being super toxic for her, Blair would never be able to settle down with anyone else due to her carnal (?idk if that’s the right word lol) nature and how much it aligns with his. I think that Dan had a chance if not for the reveal that he is GG (bullshit/lazy storytelling) and was inadvertently the reason for her miscarriage (it was needed bc imagine the horror of her having a baby with that dude, but like it was still a super traumatic thing) because he’s the only other person that challenges her in the way she needs. overall though yeah I agree with this take and I wish they had given her ONE MAN who was good for her in every aspect and didn’t abuse her verbally and emotionally 😭😭😭😭
i love Blair and Dan together personally. setting aside the good Chuck/bad Chuck question and their OTP relationship, i feel like Dan and Blair really challenge each other in ways that are narratively satisfying for their characters. Blair fulfills Dan’s UES fantasy in a way that Serena never could because dating Blair means he’s really in it, and Dan is the only person Blair loves who doesn’t share her social class and status and challenges her notions of, like, rigid hereditary bourgeois social hierarchy. very narratively satisfying in the world of the show
This is hardly my entire takeaway from the video but there's something very pleasant about the way you speak. Your voice is very clear and crisp and there's something nice about your mouth when you talk. Idk what it is exactly but you're definitely in the right career path. Edit: sorry if that's a weird thing to notice, it just occured to me it might be. I just don't watch peoples' eyes when speaking, even in video.
nate is probably the most unproblematic person from the main cast and i feel like the writers did him so dirty in the last seasons bc why did he never have an actual relationship i feel like he should have ended up with blair or serena just anyone that he had an normal relationship with (not rlly sith blair bc he cheated on her) but why did they alwyas let him go for younger/older people ( Jenny, Diana, Marcus’s Mom) 😭😭 Also dan and blair is probably my favourite relationship from blair if only the writers didnt make him gossip girl 😭😭😭 but him cheating on blair was also more Serenas doing bc she had lied to him saying Chuck and Blair were together
personally i think that chuck was the absolute worst bf ever. he stood her up in s1 finale and then in s3 made her lure girls just so he could feel the validation that women still wanted him 🙄 and of course let’s not forget when he tried to r word jenny and serena (plus calling serena a slut.) nothing could make him redeemable in my eyes. the emotional damage he cause Blair is off the charts. together they just brought the worst in each other.
@@dblizz12 true but I think it’s more than that. At the end of the series they had a young son I wonder how he turned out it looks like it’s a loving family dynamic from what we saw
blair and chuck will never ever be happy. they can not calm down untill they manipulate everyone around them like chess figures, but then something happens and...if they had found another partner, he or her would become very depressive, but by having each other, they can go on planning things for other people that (lets be honest) wont work, but it scares me that they have a child😳
im still totally a dair shipper tbh. if dan hadn't cheated with serena tho. but he was honestly the best out of all her options. im a sucker for enemies to lovers, not to mention their intellectual connection was so so good.
love this video so much but I would def switch Dan and Marcus. Like the only evil thing Marcus really did was cheat on her (which is evil but the bar is on the ground in this show) where as Dan did actual sabotage, evil, ruin her life things like playing the video, especially when you take into account EVERYTHING that GG did to Blair throughout the show
40:38 a duke/duchess comes right after the royal family in the ranking of british aristocracy, so its kind of a very big deal (i only know this because of bridgerton)
The writers made Chuck too toxic. If 2/3 of Chuck’s toxic actions were instead given to Nate and Dan, it would’ve been much more complicated. If Chuck never traded Blair for the hotel, physically attacked her or slept with Jenny, he would’ve been more redeemable. Georgina should’ve been Gossip Girl, not Dan. Also, imo, Dan aka GG passes the mantle to Charlotte on PLL as A. Allison would’ve made much more sense as A, or even Mona.
Hey this isn't relevant to the video topic but when u said that Vanessa was the only black girl, I wanted to remind you of Raina Thorpe! She was around in season 4 (?) I believe. Obviously tho Vanessa was the only recurring poc in the show
Let’s not forget Chuck only waited TWO minutes for Blair at the Empire State Building 💀
This is sending me
THIS lmao
Also she couldnt send a text like «gonna b l8, my maid/mom is giving birth rn»
@@analjuice3675 this whole show is logic fucked, most of the scenes don't make any sense at all. But it was a solid trash show to watch just for the sake of watching. There's room for shows like that too. No brain required, just wasting time by watching it.
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Her least evil boyfriend having cheated on her with her best friend... she really been through it
Cheating is evil in itself so in reality, Nate is no better
@@softcoreluvrthey could be talking about Dan 2
And harassed her over years then manipulated her into a relationship
@@marple4830 yeah and chuck Sa’d three of our main girls including Blair slept then actually slept with a minor and also tried selling her for a hotel so yeah all her boyfriends sucked
@@marple4830who?
if chuck bass has no haters i’m DEAD
True😂
Fr
LITERALLY PEOPLE KEEP TALKING ABT HIS REDEMPTION IDGAFFF HES WEIRD!!!
how is louis more evil/ worse than muffuggin chuck????? w h a t
that one scene where he tries to force himself on her is EXTREMELY disturbing
When you list off all the things Chuck has done, just one after the other, it makes you realize how much of a villain this man was wow
he is literally evil!!!
Tbf, Blair is a villain as well.
@@moustik31 She is but to people she's not a fan of or genuinely dislikes or she feels slighted by, not to her significant others
@@shaylevene6754 Since, the people she "dislikes" usually happen to hold less sociological power than her, that makes her a bully (and therefore a villain) in my book. She does a lot of talking down in the series, if I remember it correctly.
Yes! I’m so glad people are finally starting to see that. I remember hating Chuck since the pilot because he tried to assault TWO people in one day and then everyone forgot. I felt like I was being gaslit whenever I said he was the worst person out of the main characters and didn’t deserve Blair or anyone for that matter
i know blair and chuck work best together but the fact he tries to sexually assault her best friend on multiple occasions (and other women) and she says NOTHING about it always threw me all the way off. She always comes for everyone but rarely chuck and it just icks me
Blair clearly has a lot of internalised misogyny. She knows how Chuck is from the get to, she tells Jenny that Chuck brags about his conquests not his victims. She knows, she just doesn't care.
blair is NOT a girls girl
@@thankunext5602 Yeah Ive always seen it this way too. I mean he's still a horrible person but I feel like in canon the first episode doesn't count cause it was inspired more by the books and there was no thought of putting Blair and Chuck together or even of chuck becoming such a main character, he was more of Nates awful friend at that point. A Few episodes into season one they seem to decide what to do with him and change his persona from the book one
That’s how rich people are
@@thankunext5602 there was an episode in season 2 or 3 where jenny confronted chuck about trying to sexually assault her and the matter is addressed for one or two episodes so what he did to jenny still did happen
leighton meester made blair waldorf so multifaceted, i love to hate her
As a child watching GG. I hated Chuck. As an adult, I still hate Chuck, but I know how to fight now so if he was real it would be on sight
Same
I mean his actor is also a bad person so like?
Oh fr? I had no idea. Ok then he can get hit too!!!
I also hate Chuck he's so obnoxious and entitled and thinks that just because he's sad he's able to emotionally abuse his girlfriend
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Girlie has such a bad romantic life that her least offensive boyfriend cheated on her with her best friend in high school....that's CRAZY
Tbh I have a theory that Dan and Blair were supposed to end up together but because people shipped Chuck & Blair so much it ruined it. Like in season 1 when Eleanor replaced Blair with Serena for the photo shoot and Dan was the one to comfort her, I knew it was gonna happen. They kept emphasising that they hate each other and never be together. Y’all don’t forget Chuck wasn’t supposed to make it passed season 1.
Wait chuck was supposed to die??
@@Veronika-vy5ouno he was simply a side character but got too popular so the writers decided to pair him up with Blair
I think so too, there was a cut scene they didn't use where Dan came to Blair's writing contest or something like that but not even her mom did I can't remember.. back when they "hated" each other. They addressed it in a throwaway line in season 5. The problem is the fact that they focused too much on the sleazy thing with her and Chuck for the first seasons because sex sells, instead of putting a bit more hints of Dan and Blair in the beginning. Then they again sold out to impressionable, loud teenagers in s6 and turned the whole story around just throwing away all build up and growth in previous seasons. And made Dan of all people Gossip Girl because... uh... he's a writer? He has to look worse than Chuck? Not for any logical reason at least. And I don't really get why because they knew this was the last season and didn't have to do well, but they just got lazy and threw together some s1 fanfiction.
@@Dash120z Well, funny thing is people caught on Chuck and Blair's chemistry and got on their wagon. The same thing didn't happen with Dan and Blair even though their comforting scene happened even before the limousine one. Go figure, in all honesty, Dan and Blair belong to two different worlds. Dan could never stop judging Serena and her world, why should he have fitted in that same world with a girl like Blair?
as much as I loved dan and serena I really loved dan and blair, their chemistry was so fun to watch
Dorota should be the photo front and center for the Waldorf clan, we all know who was really running that fam 😎
ugh you’re so right
Can we also add Cyrus to the mix? He was so good to Eleanor & Blair
In defence of Dair, 😆 Serena lied to Dan that blair had already picked chuck and then got him super drunk before he slept with her so I really blame this on her - especially since her actions had malicious intent (Blair needs to DROP Serena, she's so fucking toxic I can't) but he still shouldn't have slept with her 🥲 also serena f*cked dan in the same place where she slept with nate just to hurt blair which is honestly insane. I just ignore season 6 and dan being gossip girl coz it literally makes zero sense and honestly drives me insane lol
Also I didn't like that nate pretended to still be into Blaire in season 1 because his dad wanted them to get married so he could strike a deal with Elanor, both nate and chuck treated blair as a comodity to be traded for money but nate was decent enough to feel guilty about it and come clean
YES. TO ALL OF THIS.
The only reason why i can forgive Nate for what he did to Blair on season 1 is the fact that he was being forced by his parents to do that. Imagine, as a teenager, being told (by your parents) that you need to date someone to “save the family”. And when he tried to tell his parents that he didn’t want to do that, they would label him as rebelious and literally blame their problems on him. I honestly felt bad for him. His family was terrible.
@@Lv-sg4zp That's true. the actors look much older so sometimes I forget that they're only supposed to be 16-17 at this point 😭 It is implied though that Nate liked serena for a long time before they hooked up (thanksgiving flashback episode in season 1 I think) so I just cant forgive him for that but I honestly love Nate and Blair as friends ❤
Plus didn't Serene record Dan without since consent too?
@@shivanijoshi9252 maybe you don’t remember, but nothing really happened between Serena and Nate during that thanksgiving flashback. He just helped her sober up. Plus cheating on Blair was bad, but everyone else in the show has done the same to someone eventually (at least the main cast), so it became unreasonable for me to hold it against him. But i definetly won’t forget how he tried to confess his feelings for Serena before breaking up with Blair, that didn’t make any sense.
I liked Dan and Blair together a lot, and I wish it had changed that Chuck and Blair went on to just be great friends and STOP GETTING TOGETHER, but the reveal of Dan as Gossip Girl was insane. It literally makes Dan a psycho, manipulating everything and all the girls he dated into dating him as a result of him being there to “comfort” and “support” them when it suited him and angry and “hurt” by them at other times. Him being gg made the entirety of him and Blair seem even more cruel of him. He ruined her life on the regular and then dated her? I wish anyone else had been gg, cause him and Blair were genuinely so cute and challenged each other while bringing out the best till you find out the truth about Dan.
GG was supposed to be Eric
maybe the writer want us to see some ppl do "ruined her life on the regular and then dated her", some men like that, they love powerful strong women but they cant help but trying to change them to be not too powerful not too strong to meet their ego.
girl how chuck is not the worst???? it's a wild how bad this man is
i refuse to watch gossip girl after seeing him trying to r word someone and witnessing people saying, that he's an "interesting character, and they root for him". Disgusting, but sadly, people treat irl rapist this way, too. People can say that they wouldn't, but I've seen the biggest feminists supporting rpists bc he was their friend or sth
dude I love her vids but that is… wild. upchuck is literally the worst? he needs to be on a list??? louis was crazy but chuck is a CRIMINAL
legit sold her for a hotel he SOLD his gf to his UNCLE
@@shadowprincess7954hey playing devil’s advocate, but if I see someone try to better themselves and really apologise for what was done I will let them live their life. People do change in my core opinion but only when they realise they messed up etc. That’s how I forgive the man who abused me. So in that sense we see chuck take his responsibility and at soooome point work on himself. To me, especially since it’s fiction, I was gave him the benefit of the doubt.
@@Mel-jl8dt girl,no
Hiii, I love this take on Dan however I'd also mention that Serena also got Dan drunk and lied to him before having s3x with him so consent was rlly dubious.
true YIKES she’s SO WEIRD
And then also recorded him without his consent and then leaked it.
Why is your face always serving like damn
y’all make me blush stop it!! 💞💞💞
same, like i came across this video on my homepage and i spent the first five minutes of the video wondering how HER FACE LOOKED SO PERFECT LIKE??? HOW ARE U REAL
No cuz fr she was speaking and I was like , but the face card?
gorgeous gorgeous girl fr
@@shayayyyou’re glowing queen !
I always felt like Louis did nothing wrong I mean was he unhinged? Yes. But would I also be unhinged if my fiancee kept running around and cheating on me with another man and DECLARING HER LOVE for that other man ON OUR WEDDING DAY?? Also yes!! I mean he should have probably just ended things but I feel like Blair was in the wrong there. And for what? Chuck? Please yuck
real.
I thought I was the only one who felt that. To make Chuck a hero, they had to make Prince Louis evil
The marriage between Loui and Blair wasn’t even real _real_ . Loui, himself, told Blair that they’re only married on paper and for appearance sake. And the way the contract was written literally made Blair a prisoner.
He was fine till wedding, he became vindictive after since it was such a an ego-bruising event. It was definitely humiliating, but he took it as an excuse to act like a total asshole. I do think if he'd have somehow been able to swallow his pride and distrust in Blair and just been the "perfect prince" during their honeymoon period and beyond (basically focusing on what they did/do have), they would've been fine and ended up together (like, outside of gg, ofc the show had Blair/Chuck as endgame)
did nothing wrong? when he actively tried to isolate blair from her loved ones and paid off chuck’s therapist to sabotage him in therapy? i don’t like chuck either but louie is not a good man who’s never done anything wrong
So idky people don’t know this but the first and second season have different writers. That’s why chuck is so evil. The new writers lost the plot that the show is meant to be a commentary on and mockery of the rich
I never knew the it makes sense why the first 2 seasons where so different
Explains why I love the first two more 😂
Yes I also noticed that after season 2 the show got more comedic and the story lines were more ridiculously dramatic.
it’s kinda like The Office (and probably a bunch of other shows i can’t think of rn) where a show is a semi-realistic satire of the real thing in s1 but around s2 starts to drop the critical aspects because it needs you to like and sympathize with the characters, so by the end they’ve made this really fucked up setting seem all warm and fuzzy. way easier to get 6+ seasons on network tv with satisfying character arcs than realism and a critical perspective
the way her finsta would go crazy 🤭 my all time fav nepo baby Blair Cornelia Waldorf Duchess of RANGE 👑
I need Dans Relationships next! His dating life is a freaking roller-coaster 😅
A DAIR SHIPPER?!!! subscribed
Literally same lol
Dair shippers have taste✨🤌🏻
Adulting is becoming a Dair shipper
He was the only boyfriend that made her a princess, and people cast him aside...and I just *know* that if he'd proposed, he would've gotten her a Tiffany ring, because girl is Audrey and he would've seen that.
I don't get how a guy who harassed Blair for years is better 😂 but then again I don't care much either it's a toxic show about terrible ppl
her least shitty relationship is still a man that cheated on her with her best friend. like hello???? the showrunners truly had it out for blair
technically chucks fake British accent is a real accent, as he is actually British
It’s frustrating how Dan receives the least respect and a lot of hate even though others have done far worse than him. Sure, he ran the Gossip Girl site, but he never posted false information or shared his own opinions. He just posted the tips that were sent in, and let’s not forget Blair submitted most of those tips. That says a lot about how similar and compatible Dair were.
Meanwhile, Chuck literally sold Blair to his uncle and then “bought” her back from Louis. Blair was a spoiled brat who bullied others, and Serena? She’s a mess, always jumping to conclusions that benefit her, like when she blindly trusted her dad and almost ruined Lily and Rufus’s relationship. Not to mention, she was Gossip Girl herself for a brief time! Nate spent his time either dating older women or minors. Yes, Dan has his flaws, but the others are just as bad, if not worse.
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Dan and Blair is a top 10 tv romance fumble idc idc !!!! They understood each other more than anybody in their lives even when they hated each other
Tell them!!
(Hides behind you while cheering)
Gurl just constantly dropping the most iconic videos of all time?
omg 😳 thank you babe 💖
This show did a lot of diabolical things, but the most diabolical is how they have me rooting for Chuck at every rewatch! How do they do that!!!!! Ugh!!!!
He’s a terrible person but he’s such a compelling and interesting character. I love his character but I can also admit he was a MENACE😭😭😂
He was evil. Way more evil than the show allowed us to fully understand.
I wish he had gotten a fully character redemption as in him acknowledging all his wrong doings he did in his past and him becoming a better person
im ngl that sounds like a you problem
@@nehemyahevans6404 Blair is also a compelling character as well. Which is why people like her.
12:18 Chuck and Blair were not supposed to be endgame. It happened organically because of the actors' chemistry. Screenwriter Josh Schwartz said, "None of that was expected. Chuck came into the show as the villain."
"From princes to wards to billionaries...and Dan Humphrey." HAHAHAH
The fact that chucks whole story took more than half of the video
Cause he’s a main character and their relationship started at the beginning of the show…..
Ok a few details were off but overall great video
1. Chuck didn’t tell Blair about the deal he made with Jack until after he thought they slept together
2. He payed her dowry without her knowledge and didn’t want her to know
3. Blair wasn’t at NYU when she was interning at W she was at Columbia
4. That women is actually chucks mother she just told him she wasn’t so he’d get over her
5. Chuck wasn’t in a coma he had just lost a lot of blood
Also Nate was so wrong for acting like him cheating on Blair is equal to Blair sleeping with Chuck after they broke up and also in season 6 when he was dating a 17 year old 😭
I always loved Blair even when I was supposed to hate her according to everyone else. I liked Dair, ik a lot of people didn’t but I liked them. 😭
We love Chuck because Ed Westwick played the hell out of his role and had sizzling on-screen chemistry with Leighton Meester. I am convinced that practically no other actor could have made us believe there was a redemption arc.
(Additionally, I'm convinced the writers just went bipolar on him and Chuck is two different characters packed into one because some of his actions made zero sense).
After rewtaching Gossip girl so many times, everytime i ship dan and blair more, considering the depiction of their relationship it feels so aprupt that Blair suddenly loses all feelings for him.
I’m so thankful that there are others who realise Serena wasn’t the only damaged person on Gossip Girl. Blair was extremely insecure, parental trauma on both sides and very misogynistic. The way she forgave chuck after all the evil he’s done she would constantly scold serena and treat her like trash. I love her but she’s too much.
Yeah! Blair really doesn't like women lol.
“for a billion dollars call me a stupid call me a bitch call me a whore” 😂😂😂 girl u had me cracking up
I can never forgive-and-forget Chuck for attempting to sa Jenny (I feel the same way about The Deep in The Boys) AND for that ugly 1st-seasons haircut!
Some people don’t forgive Chuck simply because irl the actor has either SA or SH allegations on them😭
I feel like The Boys is different though. The Boys is a satire that comments on modern America. Often actual assaulters get away with it with just a slap on the wrist. That’s what happened with The Deep. It’s upsetting but realistic.
They still portray his character as the pathetic idiot loser he is. Gossip Girl however, tries to keep Chuck as a protagonist. It’s so weird. I don’t like how Gossip Girl did it. The Boys however did it pretty okay imo.
This is just my interpretation though! I could be wrong!
@@pauli7051 I disagree. To me it feels like they included the scene for shock value and then refused to follow up with the consequences in the rest of the season, they didnt want to give it the care, attention and meaning it deserves and just dropped it/pretended it didnt happen. Which is why The Deep's episode feels like it's on a totally different season than the pilot, imo. And yes, I think it's partly due to sexism as other characters' trauma and/or abusive behaviours are handled better.
@@pauli7051if I remember correctly, gossip girl was meant to be a commentary on the rich but they then switched writers after season 1 or season 2. These writers didn’t understand what the show was meant to be and decided to glorify the rich.
Also he tried to r🍇 Serena in the first scene we saw him in at the bar
Honestly, this alone makes me love Blair even more, like she couldn’t catch a break as someone was always plotting on her. I have never liked Serena, even in the books she’s awful and annoying. I wish Blair and Jenny would have stayed good friends, I think they balanced each other out a lot better than Blair and Serena.
99% of the bad things that happened to Blair were her own fault because she’s an awful unlikeable person. Not saying Serena was a saint but 99% of the time when something happened to Blair she either deserved it or had it coming. It’s not like she was an innocent person who minded her own business and did no wrong
Lol..she hates poor people and act in disgust when people like dan show interest in her and extremely selfish
as a dair shipper, i'd personally put dan at a higher place in this list though - at least 3rd most evil because of all all all the crimes this man committed as gg
That’s very fair 😭😭
Chuck is rapist and killed his father💁🏾♀️
I think most people choose to ignore the fact that dan is gg because it doesn’t make sense
@@ela7354 And Chuck always be a rapist!
You tick all the boxes on the Toastmasters presentation checklist for an excellent presentation: content, graphics, deep research knowledge on subject matter, flow, appearance, voice modulation, and keeping the audience connected. Great job!
Ur hair is killing it in this video
I said “it better be Dan” for #4 and sure enough there his evil face was 😂🤣 Great video!! I love GG and can’t get enough of people talking about anything to do with it 💖
first time watcher here, YOURE STUNNING
literally!!
38:20 technically the marriage thing only works for things *spouses* tell each other. So if it was said/done during marriage you can’t force anyone to testify but if you’re not then you can be forced to testify. So this marriage would be useless.
You said word for word what I was saying about Serena and Blair for years. I’ve seen GG for the first time as an adult so I have no idea how I would see them as a teenager. But Serena is so bad, just pretending to be a good person and Blair is bad but she owns it 🤌 Blair is actually very relatable to me, being so angry at Serena and the attention she gets, because she truly knows her and a lot of people around them buys the good girl act Serena has. I would hate to have someone like that around me …
Anyone still mad they seemed to retroactively made Dan Gossip Girl? It makes no sense honestly.
You're correct. He tried to R word Jenny and Serena in the first episode.
Blair and Chuck were always so toxic but I loved them anyway.
obsessed with the powerpoint style, i feel like im in that one elective i actually wanted to take. subscribed immediately bc of the vibe alone
It rlly hits when you're re watching gg as an adult how messed up these characters are, never like chuck tbh he always irks me
even if i don't agree with you its a "whatever you say gorgeous, you couldn't be wrong" situation
hahahahah 💞💞
When I was younger I loved Chuck and Blair. But watching GG as an adult I prefer Dan and Blair. I realize how bad Chuck is and how Dan and Blair make more sense. I also love the build-up of their relationship from hating each other to friends to lovers.
You love blair but hate chuck..but both treat people badly and toxic...she deserves nothing
What I hate about chuck and Blair aren’t just for the obvious reasons: toxicity, ultimatums, conditional love, abuse, terrible communication, etc. I hated the fact that in the later seasons when chuck got therapy and started becoming somewhat of a better person, that they were so stubborn to get back together. “We can’t be together bc I need to protect you. I’ll always love you, but it’s for the best” PROTECT WHAT? The amount of times chuck let Blair go and then out of nowhere ruining her relationships is just so stupid and a waste of time. Same with Blair just always being in denial and then always going back to chuck but them never actually getting back together over more stubbornness. It just made me wanna say ugh I REALLY don’t want yall together cause you’re just annoying and indecisive 😂
I’m a Dair shipper as well idk their chemistry is great and he’s one of the less terrible men in the series.
I'm sorry but I hated Dan and Blair together. Their friendship was so refreshing and honest, they challenged each other and realized they were more alike than they thought. They were both studious and ambitious, they loved the arts and would do anything to secure their future. I loved the buildup to their romance, but the relationship itself was handled poorly. It was like they had to constantly be in agreement with each other for things to work, which fizzled out their chemistry. The whole reason they worked so well is that fire they had, easily matching and outsmarting each other.. Dan seeing through her icy exterior and Blair being able to let down her guard around him.
Also with Chuck the best things he did for Blair’s were often an apology for the worst. The only reason they had to pay the dowry was because he sent the pic that broke the contract. Plus something that is almost never discussed but is even more serious than selling her for the hotel is the fact that he tried to punch her in the face close fisted. It happened quick and she dodged but this man really tried it
girl!! you are GLOWING, honestly you are so beautiful! can't wait to watch :3 you are easily becoming one of my favourite youtubers. i love the way you structure your videos ❤
Blair and Louis' wedding was lowkey giving Princess Diana ???
The audacity of chuck to say hes gon ruin blairs life after she ruined his relationship w eva as if he didnt ruin her life twice.
this entire video is so incredible!!
forever a Dan and Blair shipper
i haven’t watched GG for a couple of years and have been a chuck and blair apologist for a while but watching this i was like the brittany broski meme bc yeah no he was so terrible to her throughout the seasons up until the last season basically 😭😭. the BIGGEST thing to consider though is that while he spent a majority of the show being super toxic for her, Blair would never be able to settle down with anyone else due to her carnal (?idk if that’s the right word lol) nature and how much it aligns with his. I think that Dan had a chance if not for the reveal that he is GG (bullshit/lazy storytelling) and was inadvertently the reason for her miscarriage (it was needed bc imagine the horror of her having a baby with that dude, but like it was still a super traumatic thing) because he’s the only other person that challenges her in the way she needs.
overall though yeah I agree with this take and I wish they had given her ONE MAN who was good for her in every aspect and didn’t abuse her verbally and emotionally 😭😭😭😭
Exactly! Blair should have had one guy who was actually good to her
i love Blair and Dan together personally. setting aside the good Chuck/bad Chuck question and their OTP relationship, i feel like Dan and Blair really challenge each other in ways that are narratively satisfying for their characters. Blair fulfills Dan’s UES fantasy in a way that Serena never could because dating Blair means he’s really in it, and Dan is the only person Blair loves who doesn’t share her social class and status and challenges her notions of, like, rigid hereditary bourgeois social hierarchy. very narratively satisfying in the world of the show
i’d switch chuck and louis he “sold/traded” her for his hotel but other than that yes
I feel like if we're just looking at the tally, if we're letting the statistics stat, Chuck has to be more evil than Louis. He's been doing it longer
This is hardly my entire takeaway from the video but there's something very pleasant about the way you speak. Your voice is very clear and crisp and there's something nice about your mouth when you talk. Idk what it is exactly but you're definitely in the right career path.
Edit: sorry if that's a weird thing to notice, it just occured to me it might be. I just don't watch peoples' eyes when speaking, even in video.
She tends to go for extremely powerful, wealthy men, from princes to lords to billionaires... and Dan Humphrey 🙄
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Blair's least toxic boyfriend is someone who cheated on her with her best friend...our IT girl was seriously cooked in that show😥
i've been listening to this gold like a podcast
nate is probably the most unproblematic person from the main cast and i feel like the writers did him so dirty in the last seasons bc why did he never have an actual relationship i feel like he should have ended up with blair or serena just anyone that he had an normal relationship with (not rlly sith blair bc he cheated on her) but why did they alwyas let him go for younger/older people ( Jenny, Diana, Marcus’s Mom) 😭😭
Also dan and blair is probably my favourite relationship from blair if only the writers didnt make him gossip girl 😭😭😭 but him cheating on blair was also more Serenas doing bc she had lied to him saying Chuck and Blair were together
all of Nate's girlfriends had more storyline and significance than Nate himself, in the entire series
personally i think that chuck was the absolute worst bf ever. he stood her up in s1 finale and then in s3 made her lure girls just so he could feel the validation that women still wanted him 🙄 and of course let’s not forget when he tried to r word jenny and serena (plus calling serena a slut.) nothing could make him redeemable in my eyes. the emotional damage he cause Blair is off the charts. together they just brought the worst in each other.
Chuck and Blair worked so well together as they both were evil and scheming they also grew up in the same world
imagine that being the only reason u work well with someone bc ur “evil”… that is not normal 😭😭
@@dblizz12 true but I think it’s more than that. At the end of the series they had a young son I wonder how he turned out it looks like it’s a loving family dynamic from what we saw
@@dblizz12it’s a showwww and they weren’t actually evil
blair and chuck will never ever be happy. they can not calm down untill they manipulate everyone around them like chess figures, but then something happens and...if they had found another partner, he or her would become very depressive, but by having each other, they can go on planning things for other people that (lets be honest) wont work, but it scares me that they have a child😳
i have never ever hated Blair Waldorf. I was an I'm still crazy over her. She's an icon.
im still totally a dair shipper tbh. if dan hadn't cheated with serena tho. but he was honestly the best out of all her options. im a sucker for enemies to lovers, not to mention their intellectual connection was so so good.
Maturing is realising Blair deserves the world, yes she has her flaws but she's been through SO much traumatic shit.
love this video so much but I would def switch Dan and Marcus. Like the only evil thing Marcus really did was cheat on her (which is evil but the bar is on the ground in this show) where as Dan did actual sabotage, evil, ruin her life things like playing the video, especially when you take into account EVERYTHING that GG did to Blair throughout the show
Dan and Blair always ❤
my favorite show and new favorite youtuber im too tuned in
From Princes to Billionares and.....Dan Humphrey 😭😭
Because Chuck wasn’t actually supposed to be a main character.
"chuck puts on a fake british accent" GIRL HE IS BRITISH
The actor not the character
Unpopular opinion Can we talk about how blair and dan had more chemistry than dan snd serena i just wish they explored it more
Dan would have more chemistry with a fence post than with Serena.
You are STUNNING chica!!! Keep these girlie diva vids coming 💕
Dair was the intellectual ship 😌
maturing is realising chuck bass is toxic, not Blair's starcrossed-lovers soulmate that we were taught to believe.
what's the likelihood of you recapping the new version of Gossip Girl? I love your tv show breakdowns/analysis!
Love the commentary & you are so GORG ❤
Im so happy I found ur channel. Bout to binge
40:38 a duke/duchess comes right after the royal family in the ranking of british aristocracy, so its kind of a very big deal (i only know this because of bridgerton)
Tbh her best match was Dan but aint ready for it ...
OHMYGOD I love you for this
I LIVE in the ao3 tag for dan/blair. i love them together, they had so much potential and the show fumbled the bag!!!!
I loved the breakdown!! Also ur so pretty and elegant
NO THANK YOU FOR SAYING WHAT YOU SAID ABOUT VANESSA I HAVE THOUGHT THAT FOR YEARS!!!
dair is literally one of the best teen drama ships
I've never watched this show but this was a fun video
51:17 Blair only loved Chuck. Despite all the shitty things he did to her, he is the only one she couldn't let go.
The writers made Chuck too toxic. If 2/3 of Chuck’s toxic actions were instead given to Nate and Dan, it would’ve been much more complicated. If Chuck never traded Blair for the hotel, physically attacked her or slept with Jenny, he would’ve been more redeemable. Georgina should’ve been Gossip Girl, not Dan. Also, imo, Dan aka GG passes the mantle to Charlotte on PLL as A. Allison would’ve made much more sense as A, or even Mona.
It’s embarrassing to be an ex Chair fan like I really got groomed into romanticising abuse 😅😭
Hey this isn't relevant to the video topic but when u said that Vanessa was the only black girl, I wanted to remind you of Raina Thorpe! She was around in season 4 (?) I believe. Obviously tho Vanessa was the only recurring poc in the show
she still wasn't in the main cast as much as Vanessa tho