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The Ghost of Teenaged Future

2013-07-16 · Sabrina Cruz · watch on YouTube · Everyday life · comedy performance

Guest host Sabrina (NerdyandQuirky), the other Nerd Factor winner, comically warns Hank what his niece and nephew will do as teenagers, then calls the list medicine warnings: aging matures us with side effects.

What is said

00:00:00 — Guest host Sabrina introduces herself as the other Nerd Factor winner, not John, a 15-year-old

  • ★★★ Sabrina introduces herself as the other Nerd Factor winner, known as NerdyandQuirky, and says that, following the pattern of previous videos, she is not John. — 00:00:03 · John Green
  • ★★ She says she is a fifteen-year-old experiencing teenage life and noticing the unfortunate things she and her peers do. — 00:00:13

00:00:19 — Like a Dickens ghost, a list of what Hank's niece and nephew will do as teens: social life, diets, fangirling, YOLO, slurred speech, bad vision, trouble breathing

  • ★★★ Like a ghost in a Dickens novel, she warns Hank about the annoying things his niece and nephew might do as teenagers, at least according to stereotypes. (playful) — 00:00:19 · Hank Green
  • ★★ She says friends and social life will become more important than anything else, including online interaction, since real life would involve going outside. (playful) — 00:00:27
  • ★★ She says teen diets range from no food all day to all the food in the world: left alone she forgets to eat, then binges on snacks and sweets. (playful) — 00:00:44
  • ★★ She says teenagers of all genders will fangirl, sometimes over people older than them, which is weird but nothing to worry about. (playful) — 00:01:07
  • ★★ She says meme quoting such as YOLO goes from unironic to ironic use and back to unironic again. (playful) — 00:01:21

00:01:58 — The list sounds like medicine warnings: aging matures us with side effects; 'who do you think I am? John Green?'; sign-off

  • ★★★ She notes her list (slurred speech, bad vision, trouble breathing) sounds like medicine warnings: aging, like medicine, makes us more mature and intelligent with possible negative side effects. (playful) — 00:01:58

Humor (dominant)

  • Called to dinner by her 'mom', teenage Sabrina hisses that she is busy online with a friend. — 00:00:40 > «Not now. Alex and I are rewriting the Book of Mormon.»
  • Illustrating unironic meme quoting, she does something reckless and cites the meme. — 00:01:23 > «I'm staring straight into the Sun because YOLO.»
  • Proud of pulling a metaphor out of a list of teen habits, she is told it was a stretch. — 00:02:15 > «Excuse you, who do you think I am? John Green?»

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