Oh me? I'm kinda plain. What the hell does that mean you ask? People come in all different shapes and sizes? Oh it means I'm thin, have dark hair, shy. It'll be expressly stated that I'm not conventionally attractive like Titssica, but every hunky guy and my childhood best friend will have a thing for me. Who do I choose??
@@tatehildyard5332 sure but it’s still funny that characters who are described as plain are played by literal models who are conventionally attractive in every way
He forgot to mention: The Town he lives in used to be a coal mining town before the mines shut down when they opened up the tooth processing facilities, so the town is called Coal Gate.
@@ninyaninjabrifsanovichthes45 He got them from the fiendish mutant witch. Her mutation caused her to grow her eyes out of her toes, so they call her "Floor Eyed".
those movies didn't have enough public executions. At least Hunger Games had some balls to make their cookie cutter authoritarian goverment seem ruthless.
"I got a job grinding poor people teeth at the tooth mill" in other languages 歯医者で貧乏人の歯を削る仕事に就いた J'ai trouvé un travail en broyant les dents des pauvres au moulin à dents. Я работаю на зубной мельнице, перемалываю зубы бедняков. 我在磨牙厂找到一份给穷人磨牙的工作 Sain töitä köyhien hampaiden hionnassa hammasmyllyssä -
"He's gonna be that shy, beefy boy I over-described on page 5." I once deduced who the villain was in a mystery story solely by the length of his introductory paragraph.
Me: Reads a book Character: Dies Another character: It must have been a traitor! *Get introduced to dead character's grieving girlfriend the next chapter* Me: Geeze, who could it be? One of the characters we've know forever... or this new addition who is directly connected to the smuck who blew up last chapter?
To this day, the only YA novel I remember was one where it started off cliche as hell, but then the protagonist rebel girl realized that overthrowing the government meant she was now in control, and the rest of the book is just her hunting down her rebel friends and realize that being a tyrannical dictator is awesome
"kid who grew up loyal to the government and would never dream of betraying them, but falls in love with a rebel/rebellion leader and the government is evil now" has also been done to death
@@josephdavis9234 Legend is more about changing the gov for the better and how everyone is in a grey area rather than classic YA protagonists overthrowing the government. Young Elites does a corruption arc with the main character turning from a rebel to a warmongering tyrant once she's in power
Read this wrong and I thought you meant the rebel and government leader being the same person (like they claim to be a rebel but ultimately end up being revealed to be a government leader) just disguised enough to look like two different people and the protag thought both of them was hot
@@endTHEhegemony_Today “Grrrr I hate the government because it was founded on racist imperialism and is run by fascist white supremacist capitalist pigs!! … So anyway, here’s my 500 page twitlonger on why everything should be controlled and regulated by the government!”
@@ThatRipOff The person you're replying to straight up said that thinking you can change the government isn't reasonable, where on earth did you get the "government should control everything!!!"
Where's the love triangle?? It can't be a real YA dystopia without a pointless love triangle between the boy/girl you liked before and the girl/boy/bird you just met who has... *dramatic pause* a mysterious backstory that will be explained after the cliffhanger in the first book.
One love interest is from the law enforcement/government and the other is a rebel. To save the mc from being a two-timer, one of them will die sacrificing themself for the mc to help make the decision for them.
It's missing the generic love triangle where clearly the asshole guy is the one she likes, but the nice guy is there too to create generic drama of which will be solved in two pages after being hinted at for the entire book.
That's literally that one book where food is illegal and a poor boy from the slums and a rich girl who's parents work in the government discover they both can experience hunger so they run away together and like a 1000 things happen in the span of two days.
That's exactly what I thought of too. Except in that book, she switches things around by making the main character rich and privileged, so she slowly finds out (in 2 days) how the world REALLY is.
@@Grace-hw7zt It's called Hungry by author H.A. Swain. Alizee (youtuber) did a good review, you could watch that if you want to understand what the book is basically about and hear some quotes. I wouldn't recommend reading it unless you are really into bad YA books. Some parts are definitely "so bad it's good" but there's not a lot of them tbh and it gets pretty boring at some parts. It's like 400 pages and it's too long and too rushed at the same time lol... There's a lot of things that get brought up and are very detailed just to never appear again or to get killed off later with just a few sentences. You think "oh, this is probably going to come up again and there is going to be a major plot twist" but there never is lmao The reviews about the book are usually better written and more entertaining than the book itself lol
@@thatcatholicgirl5675 Glad you asked. A big company provides nutrition pills which fill all their caloric needs and also suppresses hunger. Idk if it even even says how it works or what it's made out of since most of the plants are destroyed?
They never have abbreviations for organizations, either, unless it's some kind of pun. It's always either something like "the Society," "the Alliance," or "T.E.E.T.H." or "G.U.M.S." Real life has stuff like the IRA, PLO, or the KKK. If an organization isn't abbreviated, it has a name that explains ideology/makes it clear whose side they're on/isn't some generic noun. Groups such as the French Resistance, the Central Powers, Spanish Republicans, Westboro Baptist Church, and so on. Very few organizations have on-the-nose branding. DARE, PETA, and MADD are some examples of organizations abbreviated to be related to what they represent, but it's not on-the-nose like it is in fiction.
The funny thing is, when the dude made the joke about the rebel group name being a pun, my mind actually didn't go to any modern YA dystopian novels - it went to Les Miserables. In the book the revolutionary group is called Les Amis de L'ABC. Because they're almost all students. But it's also a pun because in French, the language the novel was originally written in, "l'abaisse " meaning "the abased" aka "the poor and suffering", is pronounced the same way.
Imagine 1984, but it's dumbed down like a YA Dystopian book. Nothing would change with the thought police, but there would totally be a love triangle between Julia, Winston, and O'Brien haha. Winston's parents are probably still alive somewhere and it would end on a cliffhanger with Big Brother being his actual long-lost brother.
And in the end of the trilogy it is revealed that the Big Brother is actually the misunderstood villain, Winston overthrows the Party, escapes with Julia and they live with eternal love and bliss in the woods 😃😂
it's like, "oh wow here's my bestfriend who i've known all my life. he's smart, handsome, funny, attractive, and kind but then there's this other guy i know nothing about. he's mysterious, a douche, or both, but he has a troubled past and i'm sure he's gonna get a single page worth of character arc so he's still in the running!"
@@whoop6047 plz omg I’m always like literally don’t choose any of them you have better things to focus on, and if you absolutely have to have a romantic interest make it the actually decent person that shows care for you
@@rubyy.7374 Dentists aren’t free in the UK once you’re an adult. Procedures and other things like braces can get pretty expensive. Not that you asked lol.
@@mnbvcx66 That and overall people in the UK tend to have slightly better teeth than in the US, it's just that people in the US are more likely to get cosmetic dental procedures, so the rich Americans you see generally have better-looking teeth.
Nah Nah Nah, this is a Ya novel. Every name has to be spelled weird as shit so: Kryst Edit: as soon as I posted this I realized the name was a play on the toothpaste. Fuck I'm dumb.
I just started The Maze Runner series and the slang is painfully accurate. I swear they’ve thrown like 15 different random words that are given no meaning in the first 20 pages alone.
Public masturbation I don't get it, what's the kick? Why don't you just do it at home like the rest of us? Big flatscreen TV, 50 channels of pay-per-view... In a Starbucks, that's nice.
@@jackiebrubaker1156 Y/N breaks into the mega jail (and we have no clue on why y/n's in the mega jail but we find out near the end of the book) Y/N and Crest run into each other and he tells Y/N that he's trying to break his dad out of mega jail. Y/N decides to help Crest we they form a bond. How Y/N meets government and beefy shy boy leader is something I don't know yet but I really wanna hear some more ideas for this. I thought way to much on this.
maye thats the next big Scary Movie type idea. those movies made a lot of money, whatever you think of them, and they exist by just.... taking what was already there...
This 4 minute skit unironically has better worldbuilding than the entire “Divergent” series, sorry not sorry Edit: mom look at me i’m famous :3 Also, I meant for this comment to be just a joke, I personally don’t like Divergent but I understand if you’re a fan of Divergent, like, I get the appeal and I’m not judging your taste 🤍 Just don’t get in fights on the comment section please :,)
I went to the cinema in 2015 and saw back-to-back trailers for the latest Hunger Games, Divergent and Maze Runner films. The only way I was able to tell them apart was that I knew Hunger Games had Jennifer Lawrence in it.
Why can't there ever be a YA Novel where the villains actually have a plan that makes sense. Or even better, where the villain has an actual point. All I want is a well written novel dammit.
“I hate the government… but I also have a crush on it” me knowing capitalism has a lot wrong with it but knowing I’d literally die if society collapsed.
@@jaustin97601 its more that such an abrupt change in society would probably lead to inter country conflict and collapse. Idk what’ll happen if the western world becomes less capitalist over time but it happening super suddenly would probably be no bueno.
@@EllieC130 That's why infrastructure is so important, and why it kinda always has to be the basis of any change. Building a strong foundation should always be a first step for anything, uwu
@@scienceandponies Like, no? You can‘t even consider it recent since it‘s just the concept of people being entitled to their capital, which you could trace back all the way to the first caveman. And if you‘re gonna argue „money“, people have been using salt as a currency all the way back 6000 years before Christ. And yes, giant corporations are shit, I get it, but have you considered the damage that the few socialist, or generally non-capitalist countries have managed to cause? At some point you have to consider that we‘re in the billions already, despite animals that are also in the billions are usually fucking tiny and that by the way physiological potencies work we will always have a moderate amount of suffering. Capitalism is just the best choice, even if it sucks. And it did cause the colllapse, but so did socialism, and so did every other form of government, because our rapid reproduction has already pushed us far beyond the limitations of our environment and just now came to realise our effect on the planet.
Omfg, I remember reading this book, with a kid, in basically the slums, in a world where books were illegal and there was distinct rich and poor separation via force field. Fits this video perfect
what about the one trope where the MC bands together with other people like them, such as: - the overly-angsty one who has an overly-angsty backstory - the oddly positive one who actually is either working with the antagonist(s), has an overdramatic death after a few chapters, or is just REALLY depressed and is trying to hide it until that one minor thing that makes them have a mental breakdown - the rowdy, violent one who wants to fight everything but is actually really nice - fanservice character who might be part of a love triangle/square basically the harem trope in every other fantasy anime. another trope could be that the entire story was just a dream and the reader just got trolled big time, or it could be the most basic isekai you could think of.
You forgot to include the very weird romance plot that occurs when the two free spirited Male and Female decide to start dating and destroy the totalitarian government.
Currently reading Ready Player One at the age of 19 and it's pretty obvious that this was made for people 5 years younger. The plot radiates "Teens will find this deep" energy thoughout and it hurts my soul. Wade is also just a total fucking incel too. Makes me nervous to go back to the Gone series. Loved those books when I was 13 and I always tell people that they are the exception when it comes to YA books but now I'm really questioning that.
I actually had an idea for a reverse dystopian novel a bit ago, told from the perspective of the people starting the perfect society, and their thought process and stuff
This has such a quiet humor to it. Eric will just wait on a joke for a bit, you're not laughing yet, and then you can't hold it off anymore and the joke kills you.
It's sad that the toothbrushes being illegal thing isn't even as absurd as it gets. There's one where food doesn't exist anymore, and the main character is special because she still gets hungry and her stomach growls. I mean, it _could_ work, but not the way it was approached/presented. And some parts came off as fetish-y, at least to me.
I remember reading Farenheit51 for school and we had to write a story about a dystopian world and I ended up writing a shitty Detroit Become Human fanfiction that just ripped the plot points from the book
The Unwanteds was good. Just pretend the sequel series never happened, because it was so bad it lowered my opinion of the original series by association
The sad thing is, Suzanne Collins had a much stronger, more imaginative series of books called The Underland Chronicles before she wrote Hunger Games, and unfortunately Hunger Games is what she got famous for.
Damn... How does she feel about this? Is she like the guy who wrote I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream and was upset that something he didn't work that hard on is his most famous work, or is she like "Meh, I got famous, and I'm happy for that¯\_(ツ)_/¯"?
The pain of lots of creators. Take the mathematician John Conway for example. Everyone only knows him for the game of life. Even i forgot what he actually did, but it wasn't insignificant.
the main problem for me is all the potty humor in the first couple books. it goes away eventually but I remember trying to re-read those books and just not being able to get past it. Makes the series hard to recommend too.
The best part is the uncomfortably long pauses. You can just imagine the author patting herself on the back for that joke and expecting it to get applause.
I once read a YA dystopian novel called Unwind about a future US where pro-choice and pro-life people fought a civil war over abortion and compromised on allowing parents to have their kid's organs harvested at like 15.
The most accurate part about this would be that the person the MC's talking to is a hot person who just so happens to be on the opposing side, but don't worry, they turn out to be completely swayed by the MC despite spending their whole life being propagandized to and following every awful order until this point.
I think the most shocking thing about the Hunger Games is (spoiler alert even though the movie series is nearly 10 years old and the book series even older)... That the mom never dies and they(they being Suzanne Colllins)killoff the fucking little sister instead. You know, the same sister Katniss spent the ENTIRE FIRST BOOK NEARLY DYING 100 DIFFERENT TIMES TO PROTECT??? 😑
