No! I'm not dating Mavericks!

And that just scared me.

Hey guys! What's up?

It's Rebecca.

And this week, I've got
a bit of a different video for you guys.

If you've been watching this channel
for the past few weeks

you've known that 
I've been loving to do

really sarcastic, comedic kinds of videos

to the point where I know
some of you guys have been like,

"Come on, Rebecca! Are you ever
going to take anything seriously?"

Well!

Here I am, with a more 
serious kind of video this week

So, now, I think this video is
pretty long overdue

if I may say so myself

I've been wanting to do 
something like this since...

Okay

I've been wanting to do 
something like this honestly

ever since the whole 
'Friday' thing happened.

But I didn't really know how to put it
or how to go about it.

So I think the best way to go about it 
would be to sit in front of the camera

and just, kind of, go with it.

I don't really have anything
written down at all

but I'll be raw, I guess.

So, we'll see how this goes.
I don't know.

Now, if you don't know who I am,

My name is Rebecca. Rebecca Renee Black.

And a video of mine that was uploaded
in February of 2011

went decently viral 
in March of that year.

And my life, kind of,

twisted upside down and sideways

and then, did another flip

and back around again.

So, it's been quite 
the whirlwind ever since.

That's not what this 
video is about though, honestly.

But, anyways, my point.

As a lot of you probably know

That video had a bit of a backlash

if I may say so myself.

And ever since then, especially,
in more recent times

I've gotten a lot of questions
from people my age

or even younger or older

asking for advice on 
how I dealt with all of it

being that I was only
thirteen at the time.

If you want a much more detailed
story of what happened back then

and, not only that, but what happened
in my whole life before that

in my whopping sixteen years of existence,

you can click right around here.

And you'll see the draw of 
my life that I put out

in June of this year where
I hit pretty deep into my life.

So, yeah.

As I was saying,

A lot of people have asked
how I stay positive

How I stay myself

How I've learnt to not let,
what people say, bother me

or make me stop from doing what I love.

So I'm here to give you
a little bit of advice

and just kind of talk to you
one on one

because I haven't done that yet.

Where I've just sat in front of a camera
and talked and shared personal experiences

and help you guys too.

So I'm really going to 
start with the basics here

on how to stay positive.

Because I think that's the
main way to accomplish

not only to accomplish,
a lot of other things that

I'm going to be addressing.

To be honest, the way I look at it is,

I don't want to look back in
a year or five years or ten, fifteen

how ever many

and see myself being miserable

in a time where I'm 
supposed to be finding myself

and figuring out who I am

and why I'm here

and what I'm going to do in the future.

So I learned to not let things or people

that are going to try to 
bring me down

when they don't even know me

affect me.

Whatever

Whatever you could think of,
I've heard.

And I just don't care.

There's a decently thick line in between

constructive criticism and
hating on someone.

I love constructive criticism and

even on videos that I make weekly 
or anything I do,

what I wear, how I act.

I take it. Happily.

But, if you're just going to tell me
that I'm fat and annoying

just because I have a 
different opinion than you do

then that's where 
I learn to just ignore it.

That's just, kind of, how
I've learnt to go through life,

especially since then.

There's a reason why 
there's an 'exit app' button

and this is my channel

and there are just times when 
I'm going to do with it what I please.

And I love being able to
entertain you guys

and everyone, honestly,

I love being able to not only
make myself happy with

the content I've put out

but also make you guys happy.

So, I try to have a balance.

It doesn't always work but

you don't have to watch

just like you don't have to watch
any of my other videos.

That's just how it is.

Now as far as being yourself,

that's a major part of it

I think you just kind of have to learn to

love yourself and to love 
everyone around you.

You learn to love yourself

and you learn to
love other people

when you realize their flaws

and you learn to accept them
for who they are

because no one is perfect.

Because trying to force or 
trying to make anyone perfect

especially yourself,

is only going to make you
miserable in life.

To be honest, people love

those little flaws that you have

because it makes you, you.

So maybe you have
a little thicker eyebrows than normal.

That's your thing.

Or you've got a widow's peak
like me, you know.

I hated it.

There was one point I tried
pulling all of my hair out of this.

And when I did that, which was 
in middle school, by the way,

in case you're wondering,

People came up to me and asked,

"Oh, what happened to
your widow's peak? I loved that!"

when I hated it.

And I thought everyone else hated it too.

Then I would just think that
just because something is

the way society perceives is beautiful

means that that's what beautiful is.

I know that's really, really corny,
really cheesy, but,

it's true! It's so true!

And that's my way of just being happy.

And of course, I've gone through
so many times where

I can't even listen to my own advice

and I feel horrible about myself.

And everyone has those days where
they don't feel their best

and that's okay.

It's okay to not be perfect.

And, yeah. I hope I didn't 
get too corny in this video.

I honestly have been wanting
to do something like this

and I just thought it was the right time.

And I just want to thank everyone so much

who's helped shape me
into who I am today,

which is, a lot of you guys,

and I couldn't have dealt with
a lot of things that I did

without the support of everyone,
on here, Youtube, or on Tumblr

or on Twitter or Facebook

or friends that I've known for forever.

And all I can do is thank you guys.

Yeah. I guess that's it.

I love you guys.

There'll be a new cover
out next week, hopefully.

Maybe the week after, I don't know.

And, this is where that loud outro music

starts to get really loud and

your booty starts to pop! You know.

Alright, I'm going to go.

I love you guys.

Bye!