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Alright, bye. [DOOR CLOSES]
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Hello.
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So, Buffer Festival is officially over which
is kind of sad.
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It was my first Buffer Festival.
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And I kind of invited myself.
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Or I tried to invite myself and then I got
the invite.
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My friends Laur, from LaurDIY, and, well my
boyfriend, Devon, told me that I should e-mail
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them and see if I could possibly become a
featured creator at Buffer and at first -
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At first, I didn’t want to.
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I was too nervous about it.
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I was like, “No, they’re not gonna want
me to come over ‘cos I’m practically nobody
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on YouTube, but, uhm…
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Yeah, they wanted me out there because -
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I’m one of the more “unique” and “interesting”
YouTubers, if you will.
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So, I did end up on two screenings: one of
them being the -
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One of them being the Science and Education
and the other being Women of YouTube.
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On Science and Education, I was with Matthew
Santoro, Jake from Vsauce3, Hannah Witton.
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Sabrina Cruz, who is already a friend of mine.
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A couple other people who I wasn’t very
familiar with.
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And then on Women of YouTube, I was with Hannah
again, my friend, Meghan Tonjes.
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Uhm, Estee was on there and a couple other
people that I wasn’t familiar with.
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I think that’s what makes me so nervous
about being on events like these, like with
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VidCon or Buffer Festival.
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I don’t watch YouTube much anymore and if
I do, it’s always a select number of people,
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probably people that wouldn’t make it to
these things.
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So before we get into the actual screenings,
we can backtrack a little bit and talk about
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the events that happened before the actual
screenings.
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I did get to stay at a hotel and it was a
pretty nifty hotel.
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There were hospitality suites and you could
get free snacks and pizza and stuff.
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We actually did eat out a lot.
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When you have so many YouTubers in one tiny
room, sometimes, it’s just better to eat
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out than to try to fight people for food because
the “real food” came when everyone would
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go up there and then they would stay there
and it was just so crowded.
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So the first day of the event was the Gala,
the Red Carpet, and we did dress up pretty nifty.
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I actually got to borrow my dress from Laur
so, thank you, Laur, for lending me the dress.
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Food was good and we had to wait for our limo
to come pick us up.
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And that was one of the things that kind of
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That actually bummed me out -
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Was I was the last featured creator, I believe,
to actually get a limo, so by the time that
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we went to the Red Carpet, pretty much nobody
was there.
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Like, all the interview people and everything.
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Nobody was really there so it just wasn’t
as fun.
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The Red Carpet was something that I was really
looking forward to and that just was a bummer, but oh well.
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If there’s one thing that I’ve learned
about this stuff, is that next time, if there
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is a Buffer,
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I am wearing a pantsuit because it’s warmer.
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October is just way too cold of a month to
do red carpet events. I - no.
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And then moving on to the actual screenings
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Like I said, I was on two screenings.
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And there were actually meet ups.
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For them, but I did not go to any of them.
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One, because I did not think it was really
necessary for me to go because I didn’t
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think there would be anybody there.
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I only knew one person for sure was going
and we ended up meeting somewhere else.
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But, actually, what was kind of funny about
it was that - I - I don’t know why this
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happened, but Buffer staff - I believe it
was Buffer staff - called my hotel room with
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a voice phone.
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I’m not the one you call using a voice phone
to.
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But, yeah, they called and they told me that
the meetups were actually mandatory, but then
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we were like -
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But then they said that because the meetups
were not captioned - they did not have a captioner
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for me - I was the exception and I didn’t
have to go.
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Buffer did provide me with a live captioner
so I had a computer in front of me or an iPad
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in front of me.
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I had different live captioners on both days
so the way that we went about it was a little
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bit different.
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For Science and Education, it was a little
bit more private for us and everybody went
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up on stage one at a time and then we all
went together.
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And so we were in the back during the actual
video previews so I was, you know, reading
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all the captions, like, in my own little corner.
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Whereas with Women of YouTube, we were all
on stage together sitting down so I had the
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computer to my left and while everyone’s
kind of looking this way or this way, I’m
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that person mostly looking this way as I’ll
show you a picture over here where you’ll
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be able to see that.
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I was very, very nervous about the screenings
because one, I’ve never done this before.
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Two, I wasn’t by myself.
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And you would think that if you had other
people with you, it would take the nerves
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away a little bit, which it kind of does,
but if you’re like me and you can’t understand
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the majority of the people there, it’s kind
of like you have to constantly ask questions
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over and over and make sure you have all the
information so you don’t screw up.
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Because if something happens, it’s probably
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Gonna be because of me.
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And I don’t want that, but it all went really
well.
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I think most people premiered the same video
if they had multiple screenings.
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I, however, did a different video for both
screenings.
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For Science and Education, I did another closed
captioning video, basically.
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I just did a brand new one and I made it shorter,
more to the point for the people on the screening
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with me and for the people in the audience.
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It’s pretty much the same thing as the other
you-need-to-closed-caption-this-is-how-you-do-it
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videos on my channel, so I’m not going to
put that video on my channel like other people
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will with their videos.
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Like, it’s just the same thing.
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But what was really awesome is -
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When we all had our Q&A, the very first thing
that was mentioned was from Jake from Vsauce3
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and he talked about how he already captioned
all his videos and I knew that because when
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VidCon was coming, I had tweeted him thanking
him to - or for - captioning his channel and
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he talked about how important it was and that
made me feel really good.
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Like, the first thing that gets talked about
is a subject that a very small YouTuber brings
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up.
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A YouTuber that nobody really knows.
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So that made me pretty happy and I think I
might’ve cried on stage just a little bit.
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And then Matthew Santoro who was also on the
screening also mentioned how he was looking
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into it and that he was going to start doing
it.
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And what was really awesome is, today, he
left me a -
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Post on my Facebook telling me that he had
already got in 225 caption files from Rev
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and put ‘em all on his videos so his entire
channel is captioned now which is totally
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freakin’ awesome because I think the only
person to do something like that with that
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many videos was Tyler Oakley back in January.
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So, thank you, Matthew, for captioning your
entire channel so quickly and inviting me
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to that party on Saturday.
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That was pretty awesome. Thank you.
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So not only did Jake talk about it and then
Matt started captioning, uhm, Leah Rifkin,
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I believe is her name, she was on the screening
as well and Out of Frame TV, I believe is
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what it’s called, is being captioned.
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And then we move on to the Women of YouTube
screening which was just… wow.
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There were so many people on Women of YouTube.
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And I did a more general video, like, being
a deaf woman on YouTube, blah blah blah.
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More misogyny, more - different kinds of misogyny.
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And, uhm, that’s not going to be premiered
on here either.
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I don’t have the file, but I might redo
it because both videos were kind of last minute
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and I would rather redo it and make it better
to put on my channel.
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But that went really well, uhm…
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Leigh…
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I’ll put her name here.
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She, uh, premiered a video there and it’s
captioned on her channel now so I will link
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that down below because it was pretty awesome.
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And Estee is looking into it as well so I
have to e-mail her at some point so we can
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get that going.
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I’m not sure what the rest of the YouTubers
are going to do, unfortunately.
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But, hopefully, they will get on the captioning train as well.
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That would be pretty awesome.
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And Estee and I got a selfie together which
was pretty awesome.
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Well, the good thing with Estee was we both
relate.
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We wanted to step out of the beauty world
because we kind of felt trapped in that little
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beauty bubble because -
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It - It - It’s a thing.
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A lot of, you know, women on YouTube, when
they’re just starting on YouTube, they don’t
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They think that you should probably just stick
to being a makeup person on YouTube because
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they tend to be more successful.
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And not only that, if you stick to the beauty
bubble thing, you kind of hide away from -
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The comments that you would get if you were
more of an outspoken kind of person.
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If you talked about social issues, feminism
or whatever.
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It was - It was pretty awesome to see that
another person on the panel felt the same
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way as me and wanted to, uhm, you know, move
out of that and work on to something else
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regardless of the fact that other people have
kind of made comments about how you shouldn’t
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do this or do this, do that, so -
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Or should do that. Yeah.
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Other than that, Buffer was pretty fun.
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The parties were so-so, but parties, you know,
me, we don’t really mesh very well.
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I met a lot of awesome people that became
friends, became acquaintances and, you know,
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people that asked me about captioning outside
of panels and -
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I would definitely want to do this again.
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So, thank you, Corey and Sam and everybody
else from Buffer Festival for doing this thing
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and, you know, for inviting me to come over
and -
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And fingers crossed that we will have another
Buffer Festival next year because it was really fun.
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It was really awesome.
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It’s a great way to find out about people
and I would definitely want to go.
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I will see you later. Bye.