Reading Your Assumptions About Me! (while recreating this instagram filter) 

I thought the same thing when she said that! I don't know how many time people said that to me & I am still glad I never listened! Parenting is a 27/7, full time job you need to feel prepared to take on.

Amen. It's your business, no one else's.

I really don't understand people's obsession about whether or not someone wants kids. Then again, I also just really don't care if someone wants kids or not. As in, honestly don't care either way - you do you...

In my case, I very very much want kids. But at 36 and 2+ years of trying... I'm starting to wonder if it's ever going to happen and that we waited to long.

@@CrownedLily you are so strong for keeping trying! I hope you have the means to get testing etc done and fully explore the biology side. The only thing I can say is that there are no guarantees in life. But there are many ways to contribute to a child's life, does not matter if you birthed it. Sounds easy I know... I will hope with you for your own little miracle ❤️

THIS ⬆️

Girl. Yessss.

She is a human rainbow 🌈

Legit she makes me so happy that I can’t watch her videos too late in the evening or I can’t sleep due to too much serotonin

Yesss!!

Expect me to send you clips of when I finally watch this dvd 😂😂😂 MY BODY IS READY

I love it.

lmao

Rachel is Troy, no question.

You should just show up to your old high school and scare all the children 🤣

You’ve been given an incredible gift which I envy

Whoa, not many people can enjoy their own ghost story while they're alive. What a fun halloween would it be to drive out there and just... "haunt" them?

“Died for real this time”

That is cool 😎

your mom is 17?

@@JoseRamos-hp2vg no, I am 35 and my daughter is 17.

Your hair does sound cool!! I’m 19, I’ve always preferred a side part (and it’s faded pink) and my older sister has always preferred a middle part, I don’t think it matters much but I like your comment. Also I like baggy jeans (and long skirts) and she likes skinny jeans. It’s fun to compare but it is silly that people (ie buzzfeed I guess) act like there are actual rules in fashion and style now that everyone is mostly wearing whatever they want (or at least I think they are? maybe I’m just focused more on media where that’s a thing??) anyway this is a long comment now but basically everyone is cool

I'm 2 years younger than your daughter lol. Baggy jeans are soooo comfortable and though I don't part my hair down the middle (often just off-center a bit) they look sick on others

@@oliveu535 Hell yea, and thank you! Last year I wore sweat pants all year. Pandemic, the fashion equalizer.

Same my birthday is between Christmas and NYE

same, I'm from a lower income(?) religious family so less money for birthdays as well as having my birthday always fall on holy week so I rarely celebrate.

I hate my birthday just because of that

Happy late or early birthday to all of you depending on what time of year you see this⭐🌟✨

@@LudoLmao thank you

I actually prefer a "Rachel Hangout." I'm not a crafty person, don't sew, and am not truly a fashion historian, but I enjoy Rachel and find her fun!

Agreed! Love these 🤗

Heck yeah! Especially in lockdown where I've not been able to hang out with any friends in person. It kind of feels a bit like we're all skyping with Rachel!

Me too. I always watch her. She is genuine, fun, and funny also.

That he printed an edgy cover for hahaha

🤣

Happens to me every time.

I thought that too! 😅

Here I was knowing she meant that spelling but confusing it for the greek goddess of night..

Yes! Everyone deserves to be celebrated when they do something great, including yourself.

I did something really cool in 6th grade and i was telling my friends about it (i think because i got into 6th grade honors band) and of of the girls called me a braggart and told me to be quiet 🙄

@@kittymowmow12 what an ass! she could have just said "nice!!" and moved on, like what's so hard with being happy for someone lol

@@angelikabatwoman she was jealous and wanted to feel better about herself by putting her friends (mostly me) down. We didn't stay friends for long once we got to 7th grade

I personally feel like a balance has got to be there though. Be proud of your accomplishments but also keep in mind there could be others that have done it better and you can always learn something new from them. To be humble is to stay teachable, to be a braggard is to think you’ve learned everything.

Yeah I second this. I don’t have any chronic illnesses that I know of, but I basically destroyed my mental health and lost, like, three years to a series of horrible mental illnesses episodes during which I just physically couldn’t get out of bed most days. This was purely because of a period of just working myself into the ground for a couple years.

I was also very go, go, go. I never felt comfortable relaxing. Then my body said, oh, okay, watch this. I stroked out at 37 yrs of age. I was having bell's palsies for 10yrs before that. I just didn't listen to my body. Now I HAVE TO stay as "stress free" as possible. So please, anyone reading this, do NOT feel bad about taking time for yourself. It actually IS vital to your health.

I actually needed to be reminded of this today, so thank you. (all of you.)

Yesssss Hannah, this was my response to the "not being able to relax" also, because I relate to that feeling very strongly. I also burned out and got CFS/ME, for the past 3 years so debilitating I was unable to work and mostly housebound. (I'm currently healing through the Gupta Program, btw, and learning to be gentle with myself and love myself) Just be careful, fellow people who push themselves constantly... Try guided meditations to calm everything down even for 10-20 mins a day, and give your brain a rest. ❤️

I pushed myself constantly too and now have an auto immune disease where I HAVE to rest frequently and can't go go go anymore. I was told constant stress/pushing yourself makes it more likely your predisposed-through-genetics negative health markers will emerge. Looks different for everybody but if you don't rest, your body will force you to one way or another eventually.

I love that!!

That's what I thought Rachel said until she said souffle at the end 😅

Same, but I love Rachel even more for missing the obvious pun.

I was expecting that too!

Yes.

trueeee but we also look what our older siblings do and kind of follow their lead xD

GenX is laying about binge watching Rachel Maksy on RU-vid between feeding chickens and tending garden.

@@ayistromia word

Same...I put a moratorium on buying new sweaters...but I just finished crocheting one... >.>

And spending as much or more money on piles of fabric and notions...

Haha I’m that way with cooking!! I really want a pizza, to order one will require me to talk to people and go to town (which is 30 minutes one way to the closest pizza place) so... I just make one ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Same with cookies, cake, bread, literally anything that you’re technically “not supposed to be eating” 😔

The whole time I was watching this, I was mending a big pile of sweaters... BUT... I have a *ridiculous* amount of sweater yarn & 1 UFO sweater in my knitting bag... 😂 I also have a *ridiculous* fabric stash & I've been eyeing it, planning a bunch of dresses, all the while lamenting that I have to clean out my closet... 🤣

I just got 12 pieces at an estate sale for $6 *sigh* So cheap Vintage Can't stop

Its a bird, its a plane, no, its Rachel!!! Still a superhero....

I am millenial and I absolutely love Gen Z, you guys are the best 😀

@@Coffeegirl739 See? We can get along. This silly feud is overrated

Im a fellow gen z and I stan millennials B)

I feel like I am neither and both at the same time, guess that's just an end of 90s baby thing 🙃

Millennial here. When I was a teen a guy in my class ate dog flea tablets. So yeah, stupid has no generation.

Seriously. I had a 'lackluster' week in my life this week due to life/work/anxiety/etc and had to remind myself that it was ok to not be in top form all the time. And I like the GRWM vibe of this video.

In my experience they're also the kinda friends you'd be closer with if your life was a bit diferent. But distance and lifestyle and hobbies and things like that add an extra degree of separation, so it stays at two coffee dates a year

I honestly think insects actively dislike humans and try to mess with us whenever they can.

lol

last summer at grandmas the door had been open for a while and i woke up in the middle of the night to a bee walking across my face 😀😀 ofc didnt wanna wake grandma up doe

As someone who also lives in an apartment, this is very relatable :/

Screams in entomophobia

Yaaasssss

I thought the same thing. Romantic Russian vibes. So good.

Yes!!!

Does anyone know what type of shirt it is ? I def want one similar bc i have an affinity with buttons on things

That's a nice outlook!

That is so sweet of you. You know I hate when people hate an entire generation because of a few bad people.

THIS

I friggin adore Gen Z. Probably because we (millennials) have more in common with them than either of us do with boomers. But why does everyone forget Gen X?

Aslo the memes I see about Millenials and GenZ are more about GenZ being the wonderfully treasured activists and Millenials cheering them along. I am team wholesome memes!

I am so glad I never actually got s job at a craft store, I would have blown my whole paycheck on fabric and yarn

Amber Adams you learn after a little while that your eyes are bigger than your storage space 😂 I managed to stop myself from buying things until it was the end of the roll, at which point I knew whether my heart would break without it or not!

literally the same here, also notice that only millennials seem to be very upset about this... like gen z DOES NOT care at all what jeans you wear.... skinnys are not out but there are other options now.

Millenial here. I did the middle part thing until high-school but I've always loathed skinny jeans. I just think it's funny that people care so much. It's not like any one has any choice in when they are born.

@@lainie193 Late Gen X here. I've always hated skinny jeans, too. I'm so glad there are finally other options that aren't obscenely expensive. I think a lot of people don't care until they're told they ought to.

tbh I'm just a gen z kid who still doesn't understand the thing about side parts and skinny jeans, I mean... is it really a big deal? I'm just an oblivious emo/alt teen who thrives off of miniskirts, skinny ripped jeans, band shirts, and brightly coloured hair with deep side parts, is it supposed to be bad?

@@worstusernameintheworld9871 I think people should wear what they want, and ignore anyone who doesn't like it. The idea that there are somehow fashion "rules" for different ages got left behind in the 1950s, and it needs to stay there. This is 2021, ffs. We ought to be more evolved than that, and I think most people are -- it's just stupid "articles" that tell us we shouldn't be.

Ah I had those as a kid! I adored them, they're so beautiful. When my youngest brother was born I was so excited to fish them out an watch them together! That and the 80's Anne of Green Gables/ Road to Avonlea mini series was all I watched as a kid😂

I loved that series so much! I've got the theme song on rotation at the moment

I request Rachel make a Victorian or Edwardian hedgehog outfit! ;)

Omg I completely forgot that was a thing and I LOVED those when I was little....

I was obsessed with the Tailor of Gloucester one...

This is canon now!

Mind blown by how much sense this makes.

Yup exactly what I thought.

She has turned herself into the mother of dragons, next could be the dragon

....or a magpie.....or a raccoon...

I used an MP3 player 😂

I wore a crossbody walkman with giant over the head headphones, I was very embaresed because there were modern walkmans with a plastic clip for your waistband and inear- headphones you couldn't see. My walkman was so painfully not hip. 35 years in 2021 I would have been sooo cool 😅

History story from someone born in the 80s: it was an unusual thing to be the 13yearold on the bus with a walkman and whatnot.. The technology was a pain in the butt and constantly malfunctioned, and you had to hold it perfectly upright (heaven help us if the bus hit a pothole) - and it was a pretty unusual and anti-social move at the time to put on headphones around other people. We were basically putting up a flag that said "I'm an alienated weirdo/punk/wallflower" (other option being carrying a boombox, which said "I'm extroverted to my core. I AM the party, and the party is EVERYWHERE!" hehe.) Now, you're a creep-o goon if you look up and around on the bus and try to talk to ppl. That's some suspicious behavior. (Now that's not to say you that this same 13 year old wouldn't be listening to her iPhone now - just that it was pretty different back in ye olde yestertimes, at least where I lived.)

@@brooke9297 90s here. Similar experience. Wearing headphones would get you some strange looks (mostly from older folk), and they were pretty garbage so you'd need the music on quiet for other folk not to hear you. Earbuds were the fashion, but they always fell out and got stood on and the wires were all stupidly long and they'd get tangled in stuff. (I still hate them). Over head ones were better, but if you wore them everybody, young and old alike would give you odd looks. Nowadays no one cares. Most people didn't have smartphones or phones. People had MP3 players that could house probably ten songs. Granted, still plenty of folk who didn't have headphones at all and you'd hear complaints from people about "that guy" on the bus who had his music on full. No one had internet, so they weren't watching youtube or anything. I remember a verison of the mps player that didn't have a headphone jack and people ridiculed it at the time becayuse bluetooth devices back then were expensive and they were shite. I remember when bluetooth became a thing, at first it was awful, really unreliable, would constantly disconnect or refuse to connect at all. Plus, at first it felt kind of gimicky, and kind of useless. Who when the first bluetooth headphones came out they were expensive garbage.

@@Stettafire Hah yes! I remember I briefly had a pair of magnetic ear buds that were theoretically magnetized to keep them from getting tangled or something and to clip them to their case, but I learned quickly that all they did was attract paper clips and get stuck to my binder rings. Oooooh how far technology has come.

Absolutely. Each and every week.

I'm a zillennial too (born in 96)!! and I definitely feel the same way - I truly just want ppl to be comfortable and happy. and I think I've been able to keep up with the current memes and trends bc I'm on TikTok lmaooo it keeps me ✨young✨

As a ‘98 myself, I recently had this, especially with games/gaming humour and vintage aesthetics. Getting into vintage again has honestly just made it so much more apparent, especially when I come across those younger than me who either assume I am an “old ass millennial” (actual thing said to me) that are the typical childhood know-it-all or have legit more knowledge and in-hand experience. I would never have thought I would be intimidated by a child's knowledge of vintage & antiques, but here I am. Though I will admit, as much as I dislike kids, I love watching them discover new shit, make more crusty-busted ass memes, and the openness & dark humour that's come with mental health talks.

Or else, the comments are wicked condescending. It used to really make me mad, but I no longer care.

My response was always a) revulsion b) I already have a dog c) A baby would just take time away from my dog d) gross e) what if it was allergic to my dog and I had to give the baby away? People are really against that. People just stopped asking.

As a happy stay-at-home mom, NOBODY should ask when you want kids. Especially randos on the internet. It can be a really painful question for people that want kids, have been trying, and still can't have them. And it is absolutely valid to not want them at all or "someday, but not yet!" And it's no one's business what category anyone else falls in. I wish people would stop.

It doesn’t stop even when/if you do have kids. As a married woman who had one child for 5 years, I was constantly harassed about when we’d give him a sibling. Now we’re asked when we’re going to try for a girl (because apparently it’s not possible to be happy with two children of the same sex). Stupidity in its finest.

@@TheDecoCottage ugh!! I’m so sorry! It’s really inappropriate and I wish people would realize how rude it is to bug people about!

1996 is the edge of gen z, you are smack dab gen z! Lol what job market? And student loans will kill you if you live in the usa.

@@violetverdict3760 No, Millenials go up to 1999 (hence why it's called "millennial"). Gen z starts at 2000. Not that it matters. UK here, so yeah, job market, what job market? Student loans aren't an issue though for me. I have my degree now and it only takes out £2 from my paycheck each month, so not an issue. I'm kinda lucky I went into the right industry, so neither Brexit nor the pandemic has really affected me that much. But I know a LOT of people were are struggling right now.

Agreed! It's amazing how after being off social media for six months I had no idea this division had been created by media until this week. And I just feel... Who cares what emojis people use or how they part their hair? It's just problems made up, entirely fiction, to make division, drama, and headlines.

@@clarionclear5771 yup! I wanna work to do things like dismantling systematic racism and stopping the climate crisis. Let's make sure we don't let sensations media pull our generations apart. I know we can do so much more working together

All I'm saying is that if we're bringing back middle parts, let's go all the way and bring back Victorian buns. 🤷🏼‍♀️

@@Emma-sj6wp we should all have fun with our appearances! So have fun rock those Victorian hair styles

Oooooooh 1880's hair, here I come!!!

I always forget about when Rachel uploads so it's a fun surprise to get the notification. Max Miller, though... I'm always ready for him. My boyfriend knows damn well that around 10 am on Tuesdays I will be watching the new Tasting History. He enjoys it more than he admits, but it's obvious when he has to go to the bathroom and wants me to pause it.

@@arieldanielle23 I have no idea who that is, but that is hilarious, thank you for sharing 😂

So sweet

Kinda think a boomer just wanted to start shit?

@@charlieaddams5331 tbh boomers aren’t writing those articles def not it’s either gen x or millennials

Yes! I literally use the laughing cry face emoji all the time and I'm a gen z. I don't wear baggy pants either, I think it's just up to personal preference. I genuinely dont care what other people wear, it's up to them.

@@seemsfishy23 sounden a lil sus my guy you a bommer? OR genx.... It all makes sense if its them...

FYI those are still technically zoos. As are sanctuaries. It is an umbrella term for any facility where animals are kept in human care and able to be seen by the public for educational or recreational purposes.

I've always wanted to go to a wildlife park. The nearest one is about a 6 hour drive away though so it's not really feasible at the moment.

#truth

Omg totally

When I was young we used to have butterfly chair clips that were on springs so they'd wave around as you walked. As a kid I used to think they were so pretty but I couldn't wear them because my hair was too wild.

Me, too. Any time I see one, I give them a wide berth. It goes beyond uncomfortable to near panic attack.

The one that terrifies me the most is the Burger King with the huge plastic head! The stuff nightmares are made of!!

Mascot is another word for Pet in my mother language and for a second there I was wondering how one gets a phobia to dogs and cats.

Underrated comment idea

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Wow, that would hell! I used to work at an archive and could make myself sick using the microfilm machine! 🤢

Aww, good for you for taking that leap! I've been sewing for - 26 years? - and my advice is to clean and oil your machine regularly, use a thimble, and don't be afraid to use the pretty stuff! Happy sewing!

Congrats! 🎉 you got this!

That’s adorable.

Going back a ways, I remember OwO becoming "uncool". And :) becoming "uncool". Frankly, I don't care, it's silly.

I am sorry for your lost.

I'm so sorry for your loss. Sending you light and blessings.

@@DirectionerColdplayr thank you so much that means a lot. Truly

@@oceane.r thank you so much.

Hey, so sorry for your loss. It sucks. Just IGNORE THOSE PEOPLE. You are 18, that spells ADULT ! You WILL make mistakes, you're young, that happens! But, it means you're trying new things !!! To quote Star Trek (I'm 58 !) just "Boldly GO!!!!" Another oldie, this time a song, "You can't please everyone, so you've got to please yourself!" P.S. sending a big old cyber hug. Your dealing with a tremendous loss right now AND a freaking Global pandemic !!! . Give yourself time & permission to just grieve. Maybe do some Journaling?! Try "talking" to your mom, some folks believe our loved ones hang around us & can hear us from "beyond". I wish you well. You're going to be amazing. Just be excellent to yourself, your mom would want that.