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No! I'm not dating Mavericks!
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And that just scared me.
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Hey guys! What's up?
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It's Rebecca.
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And this week, I've got
a bit of a different video for you guys.
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If you've been watching this channel
for the past few weeks
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you've known that
I've been loving to do
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really sarcastic, comedic kinds of videos
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to the point where I know
some of you guys have been like,
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"Come on, Rebecca! Are you ever
going to take anything seriously?"
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Well!
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Here I am, with a more
serious kind of video this week
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So, now, I think this video is
pretty long overdue
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if I may say so myself
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I've been wanting to do
something like this since...
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Okay
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I've been wanting to do
something like this honestly
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ever since the whole
'Friday' thing happened.
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But I didn't really know how to put it
or how to go about it.
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So I think the best way to go about it
would be to sit in front of the camera
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and just, kind of, go with it.
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I don't really have anything
written down at all
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but I'll be raw, I guess.
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So, we'll see how this goes.
I don't know.
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Now, if you don't know who I am,
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My name is Rebecca. Rebecca Renee Black.
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And a video of mine that was uploaded
in February of 2011
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went decently viral
in March of that year.
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And my life, kind of,
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twisted upside down and sideways
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and then, did another flip
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and back around again.
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So, it's been quite
the whirlwind ever since.
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That's not what this
video is about though, honestly.
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But, anyways, my point.
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As a lot of you probably know
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That video had a bit of a backlash
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if I may say so myself.
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And ever since then, especially,
in more recent times
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I've gotten a lot of questions
from people my age
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or even younger or older
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asking for advice on
how I dealt with all of it
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being that I was only
thirteen at the time.
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If you want a much more detailed
story of what happened back then
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and, not only that, but what happened
in my whole life before that
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in my whopping sixteen years of existence,
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you can click right around here.
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And you'll see the draw of
my life that I put out
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in June of this year where
I hit pretty deep into my life.
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So, yeah.
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As I was saying,
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A lot of people have asked
how I stay positive
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How I stay myself
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How I've learnt to not let,
what people say, bother me
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or make me stop from doing what I love.
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So I'm here to give you
a little bit of advice
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and just kind of talk to you
one on one
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because I haven't done that yet.
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Where I've just sat in front of a camera
and talked and shared personal experiences
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and help you guys too.
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So I'm really going to
start with the basics here
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on how to stay positive.
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Because I think that's the
main way to accomplish
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not only to accomplish,
a lot of other things that
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I'm going to be addressing.
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To be honest, the way I look at it is,
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I don't want to look back in
a year or five years or ten, fifteen
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how ever many
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and see myself being miserable
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in a time where I'm
supposed to be finding myself
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and figuring out who I am
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and why I'm here
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and what I'm going to do in the future.
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So I learned to not let things or people
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that are going to try to
bring me down
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when they don't even know me
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affect me.
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Whatever
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Whatever you could think of,
I've heard.
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And I just don't care.
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There's a decently thick line in between
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constructive criticism and
hating on someone.
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I love constructive criticism and
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even on videos that I make weekly
or anything I do,
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what I wear, how I act.
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I take it. Happily.
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But, if you're just going to tell me
that I'm fat and annoying
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just because I have a
different opinion than you do
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then that's where
I learn to just ignore it.
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That's just, kind of, how
I've learnt to go through life,
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especially since then.
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There's a reason why
there's an 'exit app' button
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and this is my channel
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and there are just times when
I'm going to do with it what I please.
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And I love being able to
entertain you guys
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and everyone, honestly,
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I love being able to not only
make myself happy with
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the content I've put out
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but also make you guys happy.
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So, I try to have a balance.
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It doesn't always work but
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you don't have to watch
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just like you don't have to watch
any of my other videos.
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That's just how it is.
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Now as far as being yourself,
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that's a major part of it
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I think you just kind of have to learn to
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love yourself and to love
everyone around you.
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You learn to love yourself
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and you learn to
love other people
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when you realize their flaws
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and you learn to accept them
for who they are
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because no one is perfect.
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Because trying to force or
trying to make anyone perfect
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especially yourself,
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is only going to make you
miserable in life.
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To be honest, people love
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those little flaws that you have
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because it makes you, you.
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So maybe you have
a little thicker eyebrows than normal.
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That's your thing.
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Or you've got a widow's peak
like me, you know.
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I hated it.
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There was one point I tried
pulling all of my hair out of this.
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And when I did that, which was
in middle school, by the way,
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in case you're wondering,
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People came up to me and asked,
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"Oh, what happened to
your widow's peak? I loved that!"
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when I hated it.
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And I thought everyone else hated it too.
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Then I would just think that
just because something is
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the way society perceives is beautiful
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means that that's what beautiful is.
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I know that's really, really corny,
really cheesy, but,
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it's true! It's so true!
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And that's my way of just being happy.
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And of course, I've gone through
so many times where
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I can't even listen to my own advice
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and I feel horrible about myself.
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And everyone has those days where
they don't feel their best
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and that's okay.
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It's okay to not be perfect.
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And, yeah. I hope I didn't
get too corny in this video.
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I honestly have been wanting
to do something like this
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and I just thought it was the right time.
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And I just want to thank everyone so much
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who's helped shape me
into who I am today,
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which is, a lot of you guys,
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and I couldn't have dealt with
a lot of things that I did
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without the support of everyone,
on here, Youtube, or on Tumblr
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or on Twitter or Facebook
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or friends that I've known for forever.
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And all I can do is thank you guys.
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Yeah. I guess that's it.
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I love you guys.
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There'll be a new cover
out next week, hopefully.
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Maybe the week after, I don't know.
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And, this is where that loud outro music
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starts to get really loud and
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your booty starts to pop! You know.
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Alright, I'm going to go.
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I love you guys.
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Bye!