Try not to cringe 😬 (teenage diary edition)

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So I was a pretty vocal child and erm... here's the proof: reading these diaries always makes me need a gin.
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@jennieguinevere 2 года назад

This made me HOWL and also affirmed that the criticism of John Green being “teens don’t talk like that” is incorrect because I and also seemingly you and many Gumptioners talked like precocious little adults 😂💖

@KingaZajacNNR 2 года назад

I thought about John Green too!

@leenanorms 2 года назад

haha PINNING this comment because I always think the exact same when people say that about certain YA. Also see Caitlin Moran's fiction writing about her teenage years. The bad reviews I've seen are like 'the character was too unrealistic, young people aren't like that' and I'm like: 'Sir, if you had been in Coventry in the 2000s you would see how wrong you are.' Also wild to make a judgement call about a whole generation of separate humans and how they would 'sound'.

@rrileu9148 2 года назад

YES! Listening to her read I was like "hm... this sounds familiar" 😂 my diaries sound exactly the same!

@EarlGreyCrochet 2 года назад

Yep, I almost stopped watching because it was a little too familiar 😅

@5minutesofyourtime 2 года назад

When I read John Green's books, in particular TFIOS, I remember thinking how wonderful it was to read a book that didn't limit the intelligent language use of it's teenagers; dumbing down language is a disservice to it's young adult readers.

@frill.dweller 2 года назад

"get a job. or think about it." that's honestly so funny 😭 just stick "or think about it" after all your goals and never fail

@leenanorms 2 года назад

#lifehack.

@emmeline-tyler 2 года назад

Hahahaha!!

@doctorwholover1012 2 года назад

All the world's a stage, and every 14 year old is belting out the most embarrassingly precocious thoughts at all times, thinking they are the modern day Shakespeare 🤣

@slockwo111 2 года назад

"Do I not sound like someone who would be very susceptible to a pyramid scheme" KILLED me hahaha

@stargazer209 2 года назад

That was the most mentally healthy way I’ve heard someone think about rejection

@JustMargaret 2 года назад

“Kill me! Revive me! Kill me again!” 🤭 Thanks for sharing this, Lena! Endlessly entertaining, as is reading my own teenage diaries. 😂

@TheChristianna321 2 года назад

When people say Hazel didn't talk like a real teenager in The Fault in our Stars, I'm going to send them this video ❤️

@koplomps 2 года назад

"grow into an amazing Jesus freak" made me let out a laugh that sounded like a horse.. Your diary videos are absolutely hilarious but also remind me of how I wrote my diary. Why were we like that as teenagers oh my goodness

@samd77666 2 года назад

I'm obsessed with this! Young Leena sounds exactly like the quirky protagonist of a novel tailored towards 10-13 year old girls (this is a compliment lmao). Also reminded me a lot of my own diary entries as a young teen. I definitely wrote to an unnamed yet captive audience

@FridaCrescencia 2 года назад

There used to be a „poetry slam“ here in austria where people read their favorite old diary entries and the one voted the most hilarious would win. A few sessions were also televised. It was such a great concept, and i feel your entries would have done quite well there. It is a wonderful video, exactly what i needed after an exhausting rainy day.

@shore871 2 года назад

There's a a documentary film and TV series about an event like this called Mortified Nation!

@gixnla 2 года назад

this sounds fantastic!

@lunalovebuzz 2 года назад

Omg there's also a Dutch version of the Moth (an evening & podcast called Echt Gebeurd) except once every few episodes, somebody reads from their old teen diary. It's my favorite thing in the WORLD! Sometimes it's sweet and touching, most of the time it's completely un-self-aware and absolutely hilarious.

@kerosenequeen1076 2 года назад

Bin auch aus Österreich. 😇 Und erinner mich an diese Tagebuch-Show.

@imogenna_ 2 года назад

I nearly spat out my coffee at the MSN noise, that was time travel in action

@albaKonst 2 года назад

I truly had a bodily reaction to that noise, what a time it was

@girl_getahobby 2 года назад

Please name your next poetry collection “Unbearable State of Consciousness” hahaha

@raccoonsnacks 2 года назад

This is one of the most entertaining things I've ever seen online. I was very similar at 13/14 and this absolutely cracked me up! Rich text for an analyses of teenage girlhood honestly

@lalaillustrator6295 2 года назад

Haha yes it genuinely is!! Maybe one day it will be studied in English lit 😉

@clairejones7929 2 года назад

“Kill me! Revive me! Kill me again!” Is iconic

@connorc.9898 2 года назад

ok woah, I had to actually pause the video for a few secs after hearing the MSN tone around 3:13 because it triggered a PHYSICAL reaction. 😂 10/10 vid, there's something incredibly healing in knowing that the inner workings of other young teens were just as pretentious and overdramatic. I feel VINDICATED!

@AnnaTalks-videos 2 года назад

I would be SO up for more of these videos! I painfully relate to the entire precocious tone of the writing because that is EXACTLY how I wrote and what my internal monologue sounded like at that age too! 😅🙈

@booksvsmovies 2 года назад

Your diaries read like a more religious Georgia Nicolson. I love it

@willbesprog 2 года назад

Oh man now I’m disappointed that I donated the entire collection a few years ago because I could demolish that series again now!

@teresawalentich3675 2 года назад

In Austria we have something called "Tagebuch slam" which means Diary Slam. It's like a poetry Slam but with old Diaries. I've been to these events several times and I always loved it. It's such a pleasure hearing about how weird we all are if we feel safe. I think yours would be the perfect fit for something like that :D ! I can't imagine you don't have something like that over there. Maybe you could join? And if not ... why don't you host one yourself ;) ?

@soziomulan7830 2 года назад

ich bin gar nicht sicher, ob poetry slam im englischssprachigen bereich so populär ist wie in den deutschssprachigen ländern... wenn ich so darüber nachdenk', hab' ich noch nie einen slam auf englisch gesehen oder wahrgenommen, aber halt schon unzählige auf deutsch haha

@teresawalentich3675 2 года назад

@@soziomulan7830 die deutschsprachige Szene ist die größte allerdings kommt das ganze aus den USA und ich kenn einige Menschen aus GB die sehr wohl mit dem Konzept vertraut sind. Bzw. schon selbst Hosts waren

@tolmeia 2 года назад

had to actually take a moment to pause when i heard the MSN noise - sent a very strange feeling around my entire body

@moonymilquetoast 2 года назад

omfg SAME

@jffpviana 2 года назад

I'd watch the Netflix dramatisation of this.

@moonymilquetoast 2 года назад

oh the precocious, witty tween girl diary comedy style 😂 i remember her well... would we all even have written like that if every diary keeping female lead in books of the early 2000's weren't imbuing us with the message that that is how & what women/girls wrote about? i honestly can't say!

@theonlyenekoeneko 2 года назад

Can confirm at least neonatal noses are usually formed in such a way that they shouldn’t suffocate while breast/chest feeding

@leenanorms 2 года назад

hahah THE GUESS WORK SCIENCE was actually right for once in my life. Score.

@ZaydaFleming 2 года назад

I also wrote in journals and addressed the contents to god. I ritually burned them all a few years ago after being mentally scarred after learning that after the death of someone who attended the same college as me, the deceased’s mother read that person’s prayer journals and posted excerpts online. Horrifying. I don’t remember much of what I wrote in mine, but I do remember and feel comfortable sharing that at one point I asked every single day “please help me to be a better person” for over a year…. 🥴

@annj6616 2 года назад

Ahhhj oh my god why would you do that, I would die all over again

@ZaydaFleming Год назад

@@annj6616 It was pretty mortifying to see as an outside observer.

@sophiaisabelle01 2 года назад

Teenagers can be weird, and that simply goes to say that they’re still in the midst of growing and maturing and learning from mistakes that they wish they could undo. It’s fun walking through memory lane. There’s always bound to be past experiences that we have the tendency to regret ever uncovering in the first place.

@proudveggie 2 года назад

I am obsessed with how much your teenage voice combined with your adult delivery is massive Caitlin Moran vibes. This is so much fun.

@JessicaMiller-sd2uf 2 года назад

Ah yes, the body parts that normally affect body confidence: fingernails and elbows.

@fish-fingers_and_custard7685 2 года назад

When I saw the Lucy and Yak dungarees being released in leopard print, the literal first thing I thought of was you. They're iconic!!! Also, I was also a bit of a overdramatic prat as a young teen so there's that's hahaha It's hilarious to look back on though

@horribleshed 2 года назад

That MSN messenger sound was TRIGGERING af!!!

@Rodja. 2 года назад

I was about to say that ahahah

@TeganxxxBobbyDazzler 2 года назад

Anyone else notice that the quote 'from Moulin Rouge' is actually from The Show Must Go On by Queen? I'm guessing its covered in Moulin Rouge?

@bethany9477 2 года назад

Leena you are so brave! My introverted soul could never have the guts spill my flimsy paddocked diary 😄😄 This reminded me of a girl version of Sue Townsend''s "Adrian Mole" series.

@emily-janejackson3714 2 года назад

My biggest regret is that I systematically ripped up all of my childhood / teen diaries two years after I’d written each one bc I got such bad embarrassment and then stopped writing them bc I was afraid of humiliating my future self again 😭😭

@leahjespersen1698 2 года назад

This was freakin HYSTERICAL!!!! 😂 Your Bridget Jones comparison gave me intense PTSD flashbacks to when I'd just read Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging and decided to write all my diary entries Georgia Groome style - angsty, cheeky and above all, timestamped.

2 года назад

That MSN sound TRIGGERED something deep inside my soul. Riveting read, I was laughing to tears.

@carolinarangel6322 2 года назад

This reminded me of how dramatic I used to be as a teenager. I used to think I could write poetry. Showed it to a lot of people; very embarrassing hahaha

@puffmaggie 2 года назад

I feel like this is definitely the type of writing I would find on my teenage books that I read hahah it must be so interesting to have all these diaries to go through! I'm always amazed at how dedicated to religion you were to now being atheist. the thought of some higher being judging me at all times wouldve destroyed me as a teen hahah

@leenanorms 2 года назад

haha I think because a LOT of the messaging I had around it (from within my home) was that God is a presence to watch over you and always listen to you and steer your life, rather than someone in the room with a clipboard - it was way less intense than that. In some ways I think I've changed a lot since being a Christian, and in other ways I often feel (beliefs aside) I could stroll right back in to a Church today and slot right back in.

@Em.111. 2 года назад

My absolute favourite content. Would literally watch every single second of you reading out bits from your diaries, forever. For today it was the perfect hangover cure!

@theonlyenekoeneko 2 года назад

I dare not reread my teen diaries 😅😅😅 Leena you are brave!

@CharlottesInspired 2 года назад

I automatically made a loud "eugh!" noise hearing the MSN notification sound 🤣 so thanks for that little touch

@chiaralinnea4335 2 года назад

this is giving such fleabag vibes and i am here for it

@crystalblack6240 2 года назад

No, it was not only you who talked like that as a young teen… Sure, it’s very cringy to think about how ridiculous 13 year old me must have sounded, but I’m actually so proud of her. Looking back (now in my 20’s) she was so enthusiastic, and curious, and she had fun! From the ages of 14-18/19 I had seriously unstable mental health. We’re talking lost my whole personality, hospitalisations, did not feel like a human and was not treated like one for most of my life after the age of 13. When things started to stabilise, I had no idea who I was, what I liked or enjoyed- I hadn’t enjoyed anything for years. To get me going, I looked back at 13 year old me, and tried out the things she liked. At that age, things were already not great, but I still had interests, so it was a good place to start. Turns out - she had pretty good taste! Many of the hobbies I had then still bring me joy today. Obviously this is not a foolproof method, but for anyone out there who is coming out of a hard time, unsure of who you are, try out the things you liked as a kid. Did you like reading? I loved it but I can’t concentrate on books anymore - so I tried audiobooks and they work well for me! What sport where you excited about? Did you want to be a ballerina at 3? Dancing in the kitchen could scratch that itch! There are of course many more examples, but it’s important to remember that you don’t have to jump into the most high effort version to try it out. TL;DR: if you’ve had a rough time and don’t know who you are any more, try going back to cringy-younger-you and see how their hobbies and interests feel. Can be a good way to start clawing back a sense of identity

@theangrymob8231 2 года назад

Is it bad that the first thing I thought was 'of course Leena has a pair of leopard print L&Y dungarees' 😂

@cherry97girl 2 года назад

This was actually iconic. It’s like you were writing for it to be in a biopic or excerpts to be used in a book

@leenanorms 2 года назад

I genuinely think I subconsciously thought that. The EGO on my teenage self lol.

@fortheloveofLDS 2 года назад

NOT the Casting Crowns lyrics right off the top 💀 my past self relates so hard lol.

@Olivia-lj7qn 2 года назад

omg that msn soundbite brought back so many memories!

@kasia8306 2 года назад

Oh my these are EXACTLY like my middle school diaries?? Like, even the God parts are so similar 😂 This video has made me feel so much better about my teenage self ahhaha

@FranMinney Год назад

I read mine recently and honestly the cringe was far stronger 😂 I had a passion for making up words and reading it back is PAINFUL. Just horrific. Thank you for sharing this!!

@JoyandSerenity. 2 года назад

I read a lovely quote once, can't remember who it was if I'm honest but it goes something like this. "there are currently as many as 5000 Gods currently being worshiped by humans and as many as 18,000 throughout our human history. So realistically, Christian type people who believe there is only one God, don't believe in 4999 Gods, whereas I just don't believe in one more God than them" and I love it.

@indigo990 2 года назад

"Kill me! Revive me! .... Kill me again! 😂

@shantim7740 Год назад

omg this made me want to dig out my old diaries but I am so here for precocious diary content. A literary festival I went to a few years ago they had a 'bad diaries salon' with writiers reading old diaries and it's maybe the funniest event I've ever been to

@lauraireson6358 2 года назад

I loved this. My favourite part was the time updates illustrating the frustration of not being able to get to sleep. I’d love to hear more in the future.

@marialutz120 2 года назад

incredible, please keep them coming!😂I journaled a good bit in middle and high school myself but I’ve never been as entertained looking back on them as with these. I would love to babysit little Lena😇

@xeniasarantaena3266 2 года назад

I usually like to watch YT in 1.25 This is the FIRST ever video I had to go 0.75!! That's definitely a new achievement for beloved Leena!! Well done! 💗

@toedlicherlusthase 2 года назад

Oh my god *pun intended*, I love this video, pleeeeaaaase feel free to post similar ones in the future. Although I like all your videos thus far. You are such a fun person!!

@FeelKarmatic 2 года назад

I relate to this SO MUCH, but you were wayyy funnier than me in my diaries ahah!

@ampersignia 2 года назад

This reminded me of the Mortified podcasts. I love hearing what people were like when they were young. You were overall such a wholesome kid. I just wrote gossip about my classmates, crushes, and a bit about anime I watched.

@ojiverdeconfleco 2 года назад

Okay fun times, but that little MSN sound completely threw me a decade and a half back in time and I feel personally attacked right now 😂

@ilovebillyjoel 2 года назад

This is fantastic. I’ve got diaries from this period of my life with life goals. It’s so funny reading them back.great idea for a video 😂😂

@RosalindPeters 2 года назад

Holy moley that MSN sound powered up my personal Tardis, my GOODNESS

@Jadesmorot 2 года назад

I absolutely adore these videos, I always wanted to write diary as a kid but I always got the urge to draw instead 😅 you’re living my fantasy of reading my old texts

@MOONBATHING98 2 года назад

Nothing is more validating than hearing someone else's teen diaries because boy do I have a lot of skeletons in my closet (the skeletons are notebooks)

@anawsomehuman3064 2 года назад

These diary videos just get better and better 😂

@lalaillustrator6295 2 года назад

This made me genuinely laugh at loud!!!!! Yes oh my god make a podcast of it, it would be awesome!!!!

@daizchalkx8490 2 года назад

The nose bit had me laughing out loud 😂😂

@loz_nz 2 года назад

I don't want to look at my teenage diaries...but if I did I imagine they would be equally dramatic

@guardiantwotw1 2 года назад

May I just say... Thank you. Thank you so much. That list of things to do... Living!!!

@lina5699 2 года назад

You can definitely share some more diary entries. It is so interesting to hear someone else's inner monologue. I was literally like numb when j was 14.

@gia.r03 2 года назад

More pleaseee omg, my old diaries are so similar (but a lot more repetitive I think) and its so funny to hear them read out like this. it was exactly like the screenplay for a voiceover for a badly made teen movie, merged with a spoof of shakespeare or something and I am Here For It

@blueberrysk1es 2 года назад

would LOVE a podcast series of these oh my god

@graceleathers5970 2 года назад

Loved this! Always keen for more teenage Leena drama. I’m really wanting to know what happened with Stephen!

@leenanorms 2 года назад

He's now one of my best friends in the world and very happy with his boyfriend! 😂

@willbesprog 2 года назад

I decided at 15 to log my whole life, with the thought that it would be cool to pass the diaries down to my future daughter, even leaving a blank page at the start to write a letter to her personally. Problem is, now it’s 13 years later and I’m now expecting aforementioned daughter and I simply do not think I can bare the cringe and squirming of even reading those 5 full journals (I only stuck at it for 2.5 years…) let alone handing them down to her!!

@felicityhemming9987 2 года назад

Omg this is toooooo familiar! And hilarious - My 14 yr old self and your 14 yr old self would defo have gotten on!

@olivialuvzpurplecows 2 года назад

as an ex christian i already know this is going to be an emotional rollercoaster for me

@smeebythesea 2 года назад

This video reminded me that I used to address my diaries to people on tv that I liked. I haven't read any of them back yet but I don't know if I could take the second-hand (?) embarrassment, esp for the ones from when I was 10/11/12

@ContemporaryMeepsie 2 года назад

Oh my god yes, please make a podcast. I can't afford patreon but I would try for this.

@MissFiono 2 года назад

Oh casting crowns, that’s a throwback. They’re still touring apparently!

@SamWest96 2 года назад

Omg this was incredible. I was so much like this and relate embarrassingly heavily.

@indiabilly 2 года назад

I am fairly sure my teenage diary was unbelievably cringe in a similar way but I admire teenage leena for telling herself she was great even if she didn’t believe it, she is correct she is one in a million xx

@caitefaith 2 года назад

oh you were /absolutely/ not the only 15 year old who talked/wrote like that, I also definitely wrote a melodramatic poem about not being able to fall asleep 😅

@charlottea.m.9211 2 года назад

This was phenomenal. Thanks for this.

@SallyPlayedGuitar 2 года назад

That MSN sound fully triggered me

@emmaletham6514 2 года назад

This sounds like the monologues from Gilber and Sullivan plays and I am here for it 😀

@KingaZajacNNR 2 года назад

That was so funny xD Your younger self was something for sure.

@silliepixie 2 года назад

Thank you for sharing these diary entries. What an interesting glimpse into your teenage mind.

@lauraabernethy7580 2 года назад

I am so glad you got the Lucy & Yak leopard print dungarees because I saw them and thought of you!

@ComeUndun. 2 года назад

You could definitely write a book in a similar vein to the Georgia Nicolson series with this gold 🤣

@valeniricibar6644 2 года назад

I wasn’t a disciplined diarist but wrote almost exactly the same way - a nightmarish mix of Little Lord Fauntleroy and early 2000s culture. And hormones. I think the precocious tone also comes from reading loads, reflecting that literature In how you portrayed your life on paper. I squirmed at how much this sounds like 12-13 y/o me 😅

@Zedstergal 2 года назад

This absolutely made my day Leena, HARD RELATE 😂

@AlexaLoyDent 2 года назад

Absolutely ruddy brilliant. :)

@heyhaileyjoy 2 года назад

I adore 14-year-old Leena. My journals from that age are similarly flowery, if not quite as precocious and not nearly as funny and snarky! I was incredibly earnest and extremely prone to purple prose. I literally started my first ever journal by musing about how I should address my diary and landing on, "my dream confidant." (On a related note, I didn't really understand why adults laughed when we watched Anne of Green Gables until the second half of my teens.)

@xeniaso1731 2 года назад

This was so funny and cute! I think going through your teenage diaries and commenting on them would make a great podcast!

@RosalindPeters 2 года назад

Leena, can I please recommend you read an essay by Tony Kushner (who wrote ‘Angels in America,’ the iconic play that was televised by HBO starring Meryl Streep and Emma Thompson) called ‘On Pretentiousness’ (1995). It’s an incredible piece of writing about the unreasonable futility yet joy and power of art. To whet your appetite: ‘I have even in the best of times only the shakiest faith in art, in the political power of the written word, and in times of political extremity writing seems to me a luxury. It is only because I am in utter helpless thrall to luxury that I continue writing, and reading.’

@maleahlock 2 года назад

Thank you for the video, Leena 💚 I would find it interesting, if it was something that would be healthy/safe for you, to know how you wrote about your physical body throughout the years and how you think society/media/books shaped those perceptions. I recently did a bullet point of mine (nothing too specific) and I found it so eye opening and, unexpectedly, comforting.

@marektoth338 2 года назад

this gave me flashbacks to my own teenage christian years. ugh. no. nope. thanks. lol

@WinnieFinesse 2 года назад

Woahhh you were an intensly thoughtful 14 year old hehehe.... I can't go back and read mine, SOOOOO cringe. I possible also had a god phase though not as deeply as yours. Ahhhh so funny. thank you so much for reading this out!!!

@Fenyally 2 года назад

i absolutely love this, would love to see more readings of your old diaries!!!

@vickyh677 2 года назад

god, this is brilliant

@lenazwarg4437 2 года назад

Lol, love this. thanks. Also, my journal entries (if I ever write them) are definitely directed at God, and I'm in my thirties :)

@essendossev362 2 года назад

Yeah I don't think I was so eloquent with my words at the age of 15, so good on you. Funny, you may not have had an audience at the time of writing, but who woulda thunk you'd end up with a rapt audience so many years later?

@alrockon 2 года назад

Try not to cringe 😬 (teenage diary edition)

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