the twilight remake that almost broke stephanie meyer | niche twilight drama 

Lmaoo @ Stephanie Meyer saying “I don’t read romance, it’s too smutty” like girlie didn’t you write about Bella crying out for dick for 3 books straight?????

niche twilight drama stimulates something in my brain that can only be explained by neuroscientists of the highest caliber

I can’t believe 14-year-old me risked going to hell to secretly read these books because my mom thought they were demonic 💀

stephanie meyer being mormon should put a lot of the christian girl autumn vibes in context

My favorite part of Midnight Sun was that he kept referring to his inner monster… sorta like how Anastasia from 50 Shades has an inner goddess. So… Stephanie Meyer ripped off the person who ripped her off, which is a pettiness I support

The fact that Stephenie Meyer's husband is named Christian is also funny. E L James has no shame.

I need twilight from the perspective of Charlie Swan. Really curious about what he was thinking the whole time.

You absolutely cannot separate Twilight’s inherent weirdness from Meyer’s whack ass Mormonism. Which makes her books so much fun to analyze through that context.

If twilight had taken place in the Victorian era, this is the point where Edward would have told Bella to cover her fucking ankles

the twilight cast looked camp right in the eye for sure and I love them for it

Stephanie Meyer being Mormon is why I read the books as a 10 year old because another girl in my church told me I had to read it because the author is one of us. I read it without knowing what it was about back in 2006 and omg I ate that up in 3 days and I was hooked

The only thing about the “Twilight” series that REALLY grinds my gears is Jacob Black’s character. He was genuinely a good guy that turned really creepy. And then having him imprint on their daughter?! Come on now! Without the Cullens I think Bella would’ve had a happy life with Jacob and it’s sad. 😂😭

Girl honestly its insane that all of the stuff that you upload literally align with my interest (or we all were just collectively too active on tumblr back then)

I remember reading that leaked messy PDF and it was basically half the book. I was ok that Meyer said “you’re never getting the rest!” because it went all the way to the meadow scene and that’s all I really needed

midnight sun is amazing because even edward is weirded out by his own actions, calls himself an obsessed vampire stalker and judges his own thoughts for freaking out over the possibility of a tsunami ripping through forks and killing bella

i can’t believe you didn’t mention that because gerard way had ptsd from 9/11 he created my chemical romance, who stephanie said she often listened to while writing the book and was inspired by … so 9/11 basically caused fifty shades

I used to live near a paper mill and the paper mill was really struggling financially and was about to close down UNTIL 50 shades of grey came out. the paper mill was tasked with making paper for those books and the books were so popular the paper mill was saved! she is still thriving to this day

i forgot how earth shattering bella’s floor length khaki skirt is

Carley, Midnight Sun is a crack fic. You have to give it a whirl at least once. Highlights below: "One tear still glistened in the corner of her left eye, shining in the brightness of the room. A tiny, clear piece of her, an ephemeral diamond. Acting on some strange instinct, I reached out to catch it with my fingertip. Round on my skin, it sparkled as my hand moved. I swiftly touched my finger to my tongue, tasting her tear, absorbing this minute particle of her. She stared at me curiously, but I had no sane way to explain." "Like a stalker. An obsessed stalker. An obsessed vampire stalker." The most wild part of it is that the cultural zeitgeist has changed so much since she wrote Twilight. She had every opportunity to reframe what happened in the original books to meet the criticisms people have had for YEARS about the books and Edward as a romantic lead. Instead, she doubled down and made Edward EVEN MORE PROBLEMATIC. Truly, a feat.

Watching this reminded me of when midnight sun came out and I was too embarrassed to buy a copy so I listened to an illegal audio book on a website that gave my phone a virus

My other favorite part of Midnight Sun was that while she was half dead in the hospital he's already planning to leave her for dead in the woods in a few months. He had a LOT of time to think about his breakup plan, and that was still the one he went for, and I absolutely love that. Why would I stick around and make the person I supposedly love into a vampire and be with them forever when I could leave them, established to be clumsy and not a woodsy person who was likely to know their way around in there, to die in the woods? And then put them in a position where they're forced to save MY life a book later because I couldn't take two seconds to make sure it was their funeral? Idk the logic just logics doesn't it

Carly continuing to put herself on the frontlines for our entertainment. I hope you get the support you need in these trying times

“how to wear jeans in a god-honoring way” is so peak girldefined/twilight i actually screamed

There is an element of Stephanie Meyer and her writing that is interesting and strange because she is Mormon. There is so much to unpack there - sincerely an ex-Mormon 😂

I stopped finding the age gap creepy because reading Midnight Sun makes it really clear that Edward truly is 17 and has been seventeen for a while. As in, he has the brain of a teenager, his frontal lobe is not fully developed. He will never grow up and I guess neither will Bella

The funny thing Is I am from czech republic, there is only 10 mil people speaking czech language. And the leak still got translated. I didn't grasp then how absurd the drama was but once i started understand english it hit me like a speeding train. I even remember talking about it with my Elementary school teacher. She understood english so she read the og leak few weeks earlier than me. I still laugh at the thought of some 20ish obsessed girl translating the leak in just a few weeks😂 Anyways thanks for uploading this masterpiece. You're one of the best people on RU-vid, i love your humor!

I remember reading the leaked chapters way back when and thinking "huh, probs for the best you didn't put this one out Stephanie". Well wasn't I boo boo the fool......

My mom had LITERALLY found that leaked manuscript, printed it out for both of us and lemme tell you, we were fed. Thanks mom for supporting my twilight obsession since the beginning

i read life and death recently, and i pictured it as edward is a human and bella is a vampire just for my visual imagination, but it’s literally gender bent like bella is beau and edward is edythe. I think it would’ve been more interesting to swap who does what instead of literally just swapping the genders, because like tell me twilight wouldn’t be better with kristen stewart as edward like they would’ve played the heck out of that. And rpat as bella, he can se do fragile human. Oh well

I can’t believe you forgot to mention the 9/11 to fifty shades pipeline 😂 9/11 inspired Gerard way to start my chemical romance. Stephanie Meyer has said she was partially inspired by mcr to write twilight. Fifty shades is twilight fanfiction. It’s crazy

Dude you’ve truly been a gamechanger since I found your channel a few months ago. I’ve been having an absolute trench of a depressive episode and I’d just like to thank you for being out there. I really don’t know how to word it lol.. I genuinely believe that you getting me invested in some pointless bullshit that I probably wouldn’t care about on my own time for ≈20-40 minutes at a time has made a difference in me still being here. Thank you Carley. All my love from Finland🇫🇮❤️

I had a dream yesterday about donating my Twilight saga books, this is the sign I needed. Thank you Carly

I was raised Mormon, and the weird parallels that Stephanie Meyer wrote with her religion are so funny I wanna write an essay about it

re: twilight girls being "stupid" the valedictorian of my high school class literally made one of the first twilight fan websites and went to the movie premieres and stuff so for me the thought of someone being stupid for liking twilight was preposterous because obviously being the valedictorian she was smarter than me...

I can't wait for your videos reviewing the Twilight books once your start reading them (I'm manifesting)

my only claim to fame is that my friend goes to church with stephanie meyer and though I am an ex-mormon who hasn't gone to church in 3 years, you best believe I took that opportunity to go and meet her

This vid was healing to all the fucked up toxic romance and mysogyny I absorbed from these books. Side note my brain exploded earlier this year when I found out SM was mormon and realized the whole series' concept is a pretty neat metaphor for virginity in a culture where a girl's virginity is equated to her entire value, purpose, being: essentially her life. Annnnnnyway

My professor from film class referred to the Twilight movies as things you shouldn't do if you become a filmmaker and it was literally my favourite class watching my professor struggle to not diss Twilight because he knew how all the girlies in class related to it so much in their teen years and he didn't want to hurt our feelings 😂

It made me mad that the gender bended Twilight book was actually kind of good. Like why does male Bella suddenly have sense and dimension???

I VIVIDLY remember my college aged babysitter at the time (I was like 8) RUNNING into my house after picking me up from school in order to get to the family computer to read the leaked midnight sun chapters. Like she spent hours reading on the desktop at my house. I had no idea what she was reading until years later 😅

I love how some parts of Midnight Sun leaked and Stephanie Meyer was like “oh really bitch? Okay no one gets ANYTHING!” Love the vid as always bestie🫶🏽

My favorite thing about Twilight will always be Robert Pattinson saying that he thinks Edward is a psychopath and that he played him as such

I was a HARDCOREEEEEE twihard as a tween. I remember reading the midnight Sun leak so many times, especially once Stephenie Meyer finally published it on her blog and said she’d never ever ever ever finish it because her trust was betrayed. I’m so glad she needed a paycheck and finished it because I loved Midnight Sun and it resparked my twilight obsession as an adult lol. I honestly feel like Midnight Sun did a great job at modernizing some of the issues of Twilight and making them more… not feminist cause she’s definitely still Mormon, but less toxic. Or at least more understandable, lol. Like Edwards actions are weird af in Twilight and their romance is a whirlwind, but MS does a better job at slowing the romance down to a more palatable pace and making his seemingly toxic misogynistic behaviors make more sense.

it would be an absolute crime not to make a "i read midnight sun so you don't have to" video carley. i need this. we need this

for chemistry, i had to write/draw a fun fact. i DREW edward cullen fully as a joke and my chem teacher gave me the STINKIEST side eye. he just doesn’t get it 😭

your videos truly never disappoint.

WHAT HAPPENED TO THE C*LLEEN HVVR VIDEO I WAS SAVING IT TO WATCH WHILE PAINTING MY NAILS 💔

deeply love the energy in this video. have to comment and say "flip the table moment" is not a weird phrasing of the "how the tables have turned" thing... she's saying she's so mad, she would literally upend a table. like where you stand up and push the table over bc you're pissed - it's a cliche

Knowing how ingrained I was into the Twilight books and films then crossed over into the Fifty Shades of Grey films but being completely unaware of this deep seeded underbelly of drama 😭 I need to aim to be this unaware of drama in pop culture for the foreseeable future

Stephanie Meyer is WAY better a person than I am cuz I would have gone after Ms James with all the fire I had in me ESPECIALLY since she stole her characters and put them in a genre she was against wholeheartedly. I personally LOVE fan fiction (and look forward to folk doing fan fiction on my stuff) BUT ACTUALLY PUBLISHING it for profit? No *&^%$#@! No. James would go down... and NOT in the way she TRIES to write about!

I was in deep for Twilight in '07-08, I checked Stephenie Meyer's website all the time for news about casting for the movie and she had like reference photos for all the Cullens' cars and stuff on there, it was superb. I read the leaked chapters of Midnight Sun at the time and even changed my email profile pic to a fanmade cover of the book, and _to this day_ it shows as my profile pic (on my end only somehow, thank god) when I send emails even though in my google account I have no photo set and have no idea how it's still linked. An unsolved mystery reminding me of my middle school Twilight obsession for eternity, apparently

What a glorious Sunday to serve Queen Carley by giving her what's left in my brain in the form of attention and a like 🛐

This reminded me of being deep into the twilight fandom in middle school and scrolling through a twilight news blog and seeing a fan made craft which was Bella’s womb and fetus made of felt and it haunts me to this day

I love how I know about Twilight exclusively from RU-vid, what a great day to continue that education 😂

Did y’all know that Stephanie imagined Gerard Way as Edward when she was writing Twilight 😃

Not me reading fifty shades when it was still a fic, I did it cause every one was talking about it and I was curious, it was very boring. Maybe it took so long to finish midnight sun exactly because Edward has those insane thoughts about insects and Stephanie needed to find all that fun facts. Twilight never gonna stop being iconic

I've literally binged all your videos recently I'm so excited

In high school during peak Twilight mania, I was too cheap to buy the New Moon book, so my friend sent me the book on Microsoft word format. And I read the entire book.. in Word

I love this - the jokes hit, the commentary hits, the details hit - thank u girlie pop u made my day

Okay genuine question, why cant i access the last two videos? Is this how they are posted now or were they taken down for some other reason?

Never got into Twilight, but being served some niche Twilight drama on a warm afternoon is something I can't turn down lol

I truly believe that the Twilight books could've been way better if she had just taken the time to write them. Also, in like 3rd or 4th grade i started reading the twilight series abd my bus driver noticed this and decided that she should show me her werewolf romance novels. Such a powerful series

you are my niche interest twin thank u for existing

They did actually cast a real baby and several real kids and an older actress to play the different versions of Renesmee during the film, they just CGI’d Mackenzie Foy’s face over all of them until the point where it was supposed to be Mackenzie playing child Renesmee. Still rightfully unsettling, of course.

carley consistently serving the content i never knew i needed. currently trying to break my friend into agreeing to a twilight movie marathon (they have never experienced the beauty of the saga). so far i have negotiated doing it over two days and a sleepover so we can watch breaking dawn first thing after we wake up.

The way this intro put comedy on the “not like other girls” brainwashing that got some of us in the 00s/2010s was ARTFUL lololol

your explanation of your internalized misogyny when young was SPOT ON omg thank you for putting that shared experience into words and helping me laugh at it 😅

Hey bestie why are your new videos private :/

Just to be on the same page. Anastasia was not Greys intern . He gave her the opportunity, just so ha can be close to her, but she didn‘t took it. Ive read both series and listend to the audiobooks multiple times, so i just wanted to make this clear 😂😂

I was so young when this happened but I was part of the problem...I downloaded and read that shit SO MANY TIMES. I was heartbroken when she said she wasn't going to finish it and literally judged that woman SO HARD.

This is the best tea I have ever heard in my life like I needed to hear this thank you queen

“The body keeps the score” I literally screamed

Honestly, I read Midnight Sun and enjoyed it. The Remember Twilight podcast is great when it comes to criticising the books and giving credit where credit is due. And to be fair, I read everything in my late 20s. I read it for entertainment not to dissect the book nor to take dating advice (as some seem to do... 😔).

I am so obsessed with this channel, you literally talk about every niche interest and reference I find funny and make it 10x funnier hahahaha

Carley, I LOVE your deep dives and your unhinged summaries, analyses, highlights etc so much, they give me life, they keep me entertained, i watch the whole thing,I don’t have to set the playback speed to 1.5x, I even enjoy your videos on topics I know nothing about. Thank you, sincerely.

I finished reading Midnight Sun the other day 😂 in her ending notes she mentions how many times she almost quit and i was thinking "huh i wonder what happened there" 😂😂😂😂

CARLEY girl WHY are you deleting/privating ur videos???

I remember reading the leaked Midnight Sun chapters secretly, because there was this thing where everyone thought it wouldn't be published if the leak got too big so loads of people abstained to make Stephanie happy lol

been loving this coverage of the fanfic to published book pipeline that you’ve displayed on your channel recently

Carley’s done it again! Thank you for your service queen 🫡✨

Your video is so timely as today I started getting out my fall decor weeks in advance (it’s 90 degrees out and I am delulu) and was just about to start my yearly Twilight binge as we entered the spooky season. Thank you for bringing us the knowledge and content we crave

stephanie meyer being mormon just makes all of the weird "innocence" stuff make more sense

I’ve been through a journey with this series. I was completely obsessed when it came out. Then I think the misogyny got to my head and I was hate-obsessed, now I love it again for the camp that it is. The only thing I really cannot forgive is Stephenie using an actual tribe of people, bastardized their origin stories to hell, profited off it, and never thanked them, gave back to their community or encourage her fans to, or even bother apologizing. She used them as a prop in her storyline without a second thought or any remorse. The Quileute Tribe still lives out there and have been fighting to move to higher grounds because they are currently at risk from tsunamis. They’ve been working on this before Twilight became a hit and people can donate to the cause on their website.

this is exactly the content I need, thank you for your service Carley

Some buzzfeed type social media company once asked on Facebook who everyone’s least favourite actor was. I scrolled the comments and quite literally 1 in 3 said Jane Fonda and I was so confused so I googled it. It was literally the most boomer energy I have ever encountered, and reminded me why I only interact with my craft groups on fb😳

"fifty shades of grey was a smash, smash, hit." yes, i think that summarizes the plot pretty well. 😅

I am so happy I found your channel. I needed this

where's the collen hoover video? i was watching and it dissapeared :(

Congrats on 300k carley!! Your vids are amazing and so entertaining 🤍🎀

Why do you always upload videos that speak to me a true queen

To be a fly on the wall when S.M. found out about the 50 shades books. I'm sure she almost had a aneurysm. 😂😅

Honestly, I would love a series of just Carley explaining everyday modern things to a Victorian child. Imagine trying to explain fanfic, Wattpad, 1D, and After.

shes back and more insane than ever

The way I actually gasped when I saw that you had posted a new video. ❤❤❤❤

i love u carley thank u for posting i almost did my homework.

1 minute in and I realized I didn't even see the title of the video, I just saw my favorite comedian and clicked

constantly producing bangers

every video you make makes my life better.

literally so glad someone’s talking abt this

your red white royal blue video is gone :(