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The Ghost of Teenaged Future

2013-07-16 · list · Sabrina Cruz · 2:25 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Everyday life (also: Nerdfighteria) · mode: Comedy & performance · tags: guest or collab, song or 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

The parts of the video and what is said in each (★ — how much it matters to the video).

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

  • ★★★ Sabrina Cruz: 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
  • ★★ Sabrina Cruz: 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

  • ★★★ Sabrina Cruz: 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, Henry Green, Alice Green
  • ★★ Sabrina Cruz: 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
  • ★★ Sabrina Cruz: 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
  • ★★ Sabrina Cruz: 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
  • ★★ Sabrina Cruz: She says meme quoting such as YOLO goes from unironic to ironic use and back to unironic again. (playful) — 00:01:21 · YOLO

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

  • ★★★ Sabrina Cruz: 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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Mentioned

Central: Sabrina Cruz

Also: People: Alice Green · Charles Dickens · Henry Green · Oprah Winfrey

Projects: Nerd Factor

Organizations: YouTube

Concepts: adolescence · stereotype

Memes: YOLO

Only in the description or credits: A Christmas Carol

Also centred on Sabrina Cruz: NERD FACTOR! (...And Why I Fear for Tumblr) · Stress and Joy

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