A Time Capsule of 2008 Homophobia

[@STRANGEONS]

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[@chungusbooper]

Strange, it's sad that your video about TERFs and such had to be unlisted - presumably because some TERF linked it on their blog and caused it to get brigaded - but would you ever consider unlisting it?

[@fiona9891]

yeowch, missed an f slur in the answers at 5:35

[@deadasfak]

Helix is also the flagship modeling amp of line6

[@benfaunce7496]

@@fiona9891 Bones that push won't break your tush, but words will surely hurt you.

[@Jackkara]

I'm surprised/little disappointed you didn't say "lesiban" even once at 8:40 quiz

[@josieerin505]

the quotev ‘are you gay quiz’ to uquiz ‘pick medieval scribe drawings and i’ll assign your gender’ pipeline must be studied

[@annoyingkid48]

link to gender quiz??

[@Corpseflora]

I still think about that uquiz someone posted that assigned you a Nicean (I am probably spelling this wrong) church era christian heresy regularly

[@trollkienofficial1225]

They way this is real.

[@snr0n]

I couldn't find that one, but I did just take "which weird medieval drawing are you?" and received a diagnosis of "sad... guy", so at least I still got a gender in the end

[@josieerin505]

i made this specific uquiz up but if someone makes it let us know

[@wearyatlas]

“are you goth, scene, emo, poser, or just gay” is the new gay or european. truly iconic.

[@samdancer101]

But... are those all not the same thing? (Minus the gay- you can be gay AND goth/scene/emo/poser, they are not mutually exclusive

[@vanillaextract4135]

Ah yes, the five genders

[@benfaunce7496]

​@@samdancer101nah, all the same

[@BryanLu0]

​@@samdancer101Not quite, but they are adjacent. Scene is more colorful, while goth/emo is black.

[@blakelopez6309]

@ville__ No

[@WillowLavender]

Idk why but the "you‘re straight" juxtaposed with "you answered 0 questions correctly" fuckin ended me 😭

[@benfaunce7496]

Because that is where western society is headed

[@kawaiimunism]

​@@benfaunce7496we can only hope u.u

[@cai3886]

@@benfaunce7496How did you get here 😭

[@benfaunce7496]

@cai3886 I am not afraid of opposing viewpoints, and I enjoy her content. Blame the algorithm.

[@WillowLavender]

@@benfaunce7496 Pee your pants

[@spectscrawlz_]

Ermmm this is factually wrong? Homophobia was actually eliminated in 2008 after Neil Cicierega sang about wanting to marry Bill Watterson in his Lemon Demon song by the sane name in his 2008 album View Monster-

[@Kumaclaws]

Don’t forget Hilary Duff calling a homophone’s shirt ugly for saying “that’s so gay”

[@PinoccThePiccolo]

This is so funny I was actually listening to this song just the other day.XD

[@kaitlin9288]

He then went back and curbstomped homophobia's corpse when he released Two Trucks back in 2014

[@jinxmybeloved6930]

wasn't it eliminated by Two Trucks

[@Aburner1109]

ooooh, damn, Thatnks Niel Cicerga

[@Dylanquinn666]

It's so funny how a lot of these mention seeing someone at a bar when they were clearly written by a 14 year old.

[@darkstarr984]

Yeah. Most (but oddly, some can look like they’re 30) 14-year-olds aren’t getting into bars anywhere unless they have a relative who is watching them and stopping there to buy a six pack or to collect another relative.

[@Ceruleansquid-lo3iv]

I think it's one of those things where they've seen it on TV and think that it's a "grownup" thing to mention

[@SilentProti]

​@@darkstarr984I don't know if it's a thing in the US, but here they could go into a bar for a pizza or fries. Just happens we'd go to the same places for some beers when we got older.

[@shytendeakatamanoir9740]

​@@SilentProtiGaming bars too.

[@overgrownkudzu]

@@SilentProti as someone who was definitely both creating and and doing these quizzes (not those specific ones but generally) at 12, yeah it was definitely complete bs

[@anastasiatexley7361]

It's the fact that there are creatures among us that still are homophobic like that. I told a guy online that I wasn't interested in seeing anyone and he actually called me a lesbian as an insult. I'm married to a woman

[@atlascove1810]

amogus

[@anastasiatexley7361]

@@atlascove1810 Go to the time out corner.

[@Player_O1ne]

"Oh no! I'm a lesbian?! what would my wife think of this?"

[@alyssajakielek687]

Is it bad that I just find that hilarious? (Just like the sheer irony, not the dude being cringe)

[@anastasiatexley7361]

@@alyssajakielek687 I was laughing my ass off even in the moment. Even more so when I just responded with "Yeah, why do you think I'm telling you 'no'?" And I got blocked 😭

[@starrfishcrown]

homophobia can be quite funny when its not threatening my or others ability to exist comfortably

[@gamefan1353]

Especially unserious homophobia from queer people. (Not the surprising amount of actually queerphobic queer people, but the joke-y kind)

[@fruitpunchsamurai4837]

@@gamefan1353 Shit's hilarious, homophobic dog gets me every time

[@gamefan1353]

@@fruitpunchsamurai4837 Oh my god I temporarily forgot homophobic dog. Truly peak

[@joeyj6808]

I long ago decided to laugh, rather than cry. It's a choice. I also learned how to fight dirty, should the need arise. Just saying.

[@jsmith3798]

@ville__ Yeah, it’s really not. Here’s an idea, go serve the purpose of what seems to just be nothing more and nothing less than trying to irritate people for fun somewhere else..

[@pipisochkaaaa]

Father Strange redefined what it truly means to be a queer icon by coming out as both lesbian and bisexual in the same minute

[@ilexdiapason]

this was truly meaningful and gorgeous

[@benfaunce7496]

It's the same thing for women. Pretty obvious

[@AleksandarBell]

@@benfaunce7496hey bro, log off. You’re clearly unhealthily obsessed with Strange.

[@benfaunce7496]

@@AleksandarBell Nah

[@faxonii]

@@benfaunce7496why have you left 80 weird comments on this channel? do you have a job? any hobbies? is the only thing you do in your free time hate watching gay content creators?

[@Pluto58446]

"I want a goth girlfriend" *cue to the least goth person to ever exist*

[@bingusdingus7417]

you h 9:25 😅 9:25 ĥ 9:26 hung 9:28 NJ hj unjust GJ NJ 9:34 just in u unthinking

[@matildas3177]

right?! she didn't even match the answers about anything

[@joharakiri]

@@matildas3177I mean her being a minor was kind of the most intimidating trait she could have had

[@benfaunce7496]

"Maybe a goth girlfriend is just something you're supposed to lose"

[@gingermaniac5484]

maybe the real goth girlfriend was the friends we made along the way

[@ouijacorn]

"Let a professional tell you if you're gay or not". Where do I find a Gay Professional?

[@kailey7735]

It's me. I'm a Gay Professional. I diagnose you Gay.

[@Yellowballoondog]

Gay professional right here

[@mikey-wl2jt]

gotchu friend

[@atomiicos]

i’m a gay professional :3

[@throughcolouredglasses9300]

STEM people, probably. Also literature majors if they specify in horror (for some reason). I don't make the rules xD

[@alextouzet]

i took a gay quiz on quotev and it told me i was probably some kind of gay but that it was alright because i could always get therapy to treat it ❤️

[@SamaraVeler]

Omg, ouch

[@rx500android]

Oh my god💀

[@averyark]

Dont worry, you can always go to CONVERSION THERAPY 😟

[@TheModdedwarfare3]

​@@averyarkunless the radical woke left outlaws. /j

[@benfaunce7496]

Nice. Godspeed

[@mickyodell]

“It’s in my manpurse you fool!” And “”Don’t worry, you’re only bisexual.” are such iconic lines😂😂

[@Xx_Oleander_xX]

I'm adding “It’s in my manpurse you fool!” to my vocabulary

[@eddieravenwood]

as an aspiring "everything you will ever need is in my bag" guy, that's going into my lexicon immediately

[@littlemsterious991]

from title and thumbnail alone i thought this would be a research video about how homophobia affected early 2000s alternative subcultures. my shock at the immediate list of quotev quizzes is entirely on me but it was an amusing feeling

[@throughcolouredglasses9300]

SAME omg. I thought maybe the first quiz was a cold open and we would get into the research afterwards xD

[@Anindeterminateamountofbees]

Same lmao

[@brookethebookquintana]

I remember taking an are you gay quiz and the last question was “if you are taking this quiz, you’re probably at the very least not straight. But it’s going to be okay, okay?” I cried and felt scared but seen

[@sutpecna]

That's so cute and heartwarming. It will truly be okay, even if the world is scary as hell and definitely not made for us. Once you love and accept yourself the way you are, nothing and no one can take that away from you. Hope you're doing okay nowadays, fellow gay/queer fella.

[@jovindsouza3407]

The funniest thing about all of this is that the universe timed out perfectly for thjs video to be uploaded on Good Friday. Idk why that's so hilarious to me. A time capsule of homophobia being analysed on the anniversary of the death of someone who famously preached that you should love your fellow man regardless of their status or identity.

[@andrewzimmer9161]

Conservatives: "Jesus says gay is wrong." Jesus, jumping out from behind a tree: "Love. LOVE your fellow man. Did I fucking stutter?" Conservative: "Er..." Jesus: *flips table and storms off*

[@iciajay6891]

Imo Jebus was the OG lesbian

[@iciajay6891]

​@@andrewzimmer9161😂❤

[@benfaunce7496]

​@@andrewzimmer9161You can love someone who is wrong. Loving someone does not mean enabling them in being wrong.

[@benfaunce7496]

It's come as you are, not stay as you are. Love does not mean validating people harming themselves and others.

[@michelleb7399]

My son was gay (he’s deceased… but not the point) but even until he died (2016) he was in the closet with our extended family. Only his parents and his friends knew. I always wished he would feel comfortable being honest with who he was. As many attentive parents do, I was pretty sure he was gay but it took him a lot of time to admit it to even himself. The first time I got him to open up about it a little, he admitted to taking online quizzes to determine whether he was gay. He truly used these quizzes, probably in 2009 at age 14, to explore the possibility that he might be gay. So anyway, some kids really did use these stupid quizzes to figure this out because they didn’t feel safe exploring their feelings with friends. I’m glad things are changing now.

[@rainbowstarfall]

Sorry for your loss.

[@tastyhaze2058]

We're working hard to make the kind of world where your son could have been comfortable being himself. Sorry it couldn't get here sooner.

[@mikey-wl2jt]

​@ville__diaf

[@johnthedork723]

@ville__ What is wrong with you???

[@chilibeer3912]

@@johnthedork723bot

[@cryogenical_]

How can lesbian be spelled incorrectly so many different ways. It's actually impressive.

[@benfaunce7496]

Lezbein. Liz Being. Less bean. Lsbn. Lesbos. Lezbin. Lisbon. Lolthbaby. To name a few

[@somechannelidk-lg6dd]

It's the new "pregananant"

[@livchamps9573]

am i a lebanese

[@cottonsheep2367]

@@livchamps9573 I thought you were american

[@sutpecna]

​@@benfaunce7496My favorite misspelling of choice is "lesbiab"

[@BroadwayBee1998]

My favorite was the spelling of "Lesbiban"

[@marianafaguntes2762]

am I🤔🤔🤔 lesiban???😱🥺🥰🤪

[@VeebsRK]

how to tell lezbean ?

[@freddogrosso9835]

Lesiban peoms.

[@VeebsRK]

if i like girs am i lebanese

[@berserkerciaran]

Less beans

[@Trassel242]

Another funny (?) thing about these quizzes is that they remind me of the official medical questionnaires I had to fill out in order to get to transition medically. Imagine these kinds of questions, only with better spelling and no slurs explicitly written out in the text. Then imagine that some old man in a white coat is sitting in the same room as you and staring at you while you fill out these questions, and you know that if you laugh, you risk getting denied access to medical transition because “you’re not taking this as seriously as you should”.

[@annoyingkid48]

So glad I live in an informed consent state 😭

[@The_Rat_Dude]

Omg yes, the first question on my questionnaire was " do you like car magazines?" Like???? Why is this smth that will affect me transitioning

[@bloodieghostie]

​@SilverRatte if you like car magazines and start taking HRT you'll turn into Lightning McQueen

[@TheModdedwarfare3]

​@@bloodieghostiekerchooga

[@iciajay6891]

​@@bloodieghostie 😂😂

[@sofaoofa]

love the quote "love is a feeling not a gender" as if it's ok to be sexist but not homophobic

[@FFMgamingtv]

James Somerton

[@aquaabouttogetfunky]

@@FFMgamingtvyep. God forbid us (queers) women do anything do anything.

[@benfaunce7496]

It's ok to be both. Back then the mind virus had not grown to the popular levels it resides at today; where one can create a gender as one would a breakfast.

[@maddyocean5948]

literally how is that sexist 💀💀 it’s not. it’s just saying love isn’t defined by gender. cause it isn’t.

[@benfaunce7496]

@@maddyocean5948 woman and men generally have different kinds of love. Though anyone can love.

[@littlemsterious991]

i only ever took one 'are you gay' quiz, when I was probably 12-13 ish, and the only question I remember was if i preferred strawberries or bananas. i was a pretty sheltered kid so i was lowkey scandalised by the question and stopped taking the quiz. i guess I'll never know if I'm gay

[@benfaunce7496]

Your innocent child self held wisdom

[@maddyocean5948]

@@benfaunce7496ah yes because questioning ur sexuality as ur own sexuality is budding (literally puberty) is soooo stupid and wrong 😅😅 why are you here?? just to trigger yourself?

[@maddyocean5948]

@@benfaunce7496yes cause questioning who you are as a young adult is the opposite of wisdom…. lmao. are you just here to trigger yourself over teens questioning who they are? and literally anyone can be gay and still be innocent. little boys have crushes on little girls all the time. is that not innocent? or do you only sexualize gay kids?

[@maddyocean5948]

@@benfaunce7496wisdom and innocence?? or do you just hate gay ppl?

[@Snogard45]

"so my only choices are to be bisexual or be biphobic" my entire highschool experience summed up

[@iang1650]

Real ✊

[@benfaunce7496]

Bisexual is just the state of a woman uncleaved to a man and a man in a fallen state.

[@benfaunce7496]

Any woman's experience before finding a worthy man.

[@Snogard45]

@@benfaunce7496and leaving comments like these are any man's experience before he gets a life

[@benfaunce7496]

@@Snogard45 ooo, sick burn!🔥 Though does not refute my claim.

[@destructionandcreation]

Someone banished me from their wolf pack on Feralheart because I said I was a lesbian in 2012

[@VinOnline]

WTF

[@toshiamiyumi2604]

They said you can only be a furry or a gay not both that's too powerful edgy

[@thecatlurking]

None of these words are in the Bible

[@destructionandcreation]

@@thecatlurking Banished is probably in the Bible like a million times

[@definitelynotashark1799]

This is so wildly 2012 wtf 💀

[@AnthonyPanics]

These quizs give me a vibe that is an odd mix of "Regular Couple, Yaoi Couple, Yuri Couple, I see no difference, love is love!" and "Would you rather have unlimited bacon but no more games, or games (unlimited games) and no games?"

[@Xx_Oleander_xX]

I low key love the Edward Elrick "love is love post" whenever I see yaoi or yuri my mind defaults to it. along the same lines I also think of Sonic the hedghog anytime I or someone else comes out specifically "Whoa he's bisexual I didn't know that!" and "these bitches gay, Good for them, Good for them."

[@MarshallBradshaw]

Quotev was like a solid 20% of my childhood, I'd stay up at night taking "which fnaf animatronic were you" quizzes. I also read the fanfics when they eventually added that feature-- i still remember that account to this day. unfortunately.

[@noiwouldhatethat]

oh man, I remember being 13 and reading a lot reader x creepypasta fanfics on quotev and using my oc as a stand-in for y/n. That site was the reason why I stopped fearing creepypasta.

[@0rbeez]

Shoutout to my quotev account otakukitty555, 9 yr old me really was reading every kind of boyfriend scenario and oneshot fic out there, even though I wasn’t actually in like any fandoms lol

[@exist4046]

shoutout to my horribly cringe Quotev account that spearheaded a hentai fascination and trauma for me at the age of 11 but also got me to start making stories and shit.

[@noranizaazmi6523]

@@exist4046 holy shit the internet really has ruined us 💀

[@zbcrazy]

What’s hilarious in hindsight is how I took so many of these in my early teens trying to figure out what the hell I was. But I never got a conclusive answer - I wasn’t straight, I wasn’t gay, and I wasn’t bi. Asexual was never an answer back then 😂

[@Xx_Oleander_xX]

Quotev/Uquiz try not to forget Ace/Aro people exist challenge. Even nowadays they STILL forget and will add questions that assume the user actively pursues a relationship... its sad

[@christopherb501]

It's frankly amazing _bi_ was even an option.

[@zbcrazy]

@@christopherb501 bi was a pretty popular “edgy” concept in the mid-late 2000s

[@seeawn]

it upsets me how funny homophobia can be sometimes. like ok fine you get one freebee for calling me a fruitcake

[@Sapphykins]

my homophobic father once told me he was sure someone was gay because they were left handed, and at that point you just have to laugh

[@josephroorda4410]

All I could hear during the opening bit was Jonathan Frakes asking questions... "Ever gone mountain biking?" "What do you want to be when you grow up?" "How gay are you?"

[@TheModdedwarfare3]

We made it up

[@kaitlin9288]

I will be referring to my ever-increasing episodes of neuroses as "having an interesting time mentally" from now on. Thanks, Strange!

[@rachelppython]

So happy to finally have a label for my entire life!

[@djreems8813]

My exact same thought

[@Lanaestra]

I applaud your strength for not pronouncing 'lesiban' how it was spelled on the one quiz that spelled it that way every time

[@penina8438]

Me seeing the title: “oh great, I love 2008 homophobia!” 😂 (honestly like, as a queer person there’s almost a nostalgia to it).

[@christopherb501]

Not as nakedly aggressive as it is now...

[@brparis5964]

"This boy that goes by she/her pronouns" - An apt description of me when I'm around my conservative family.

[@linkwannabe]

Thats hilarious, my condolences king 💖💖💖

[@PumpkinDollie]

OH NO FOR THE SAKE OF LUCIFER IS THIS QUOTEV?????

[@Aleighn-12]

Quotev quizzes are what ai chat should be taught off. I have never done one that doesn’t sound like it was written by an alien or an in the closet scene kid.

[@jannecapelle_art]

QUIZ: ARE YOU LESBIAN? The very first question: "Do you, a girl, have a girlfriend, who is a girl?" these quizzes, they really do go deep into the psychology to determine things about us huh....

[@mr.broman3721]

I love that this is just a video that comes with no intro or explanation ur just thrown right into the am i gay quizzes. Absolute perfection

[@benfaunce7496]

I'm the enemy, and even I enjoy it.

[@__AlexTheGr8__]

"Here's my 'Are you gay?' quiz. Question 1 are you gay?" "Yes." "Okay. Calculating..." "..." "...You're bi"

[@benfaunce7496]

The last bastion of ecclesiastical rebuke

[@CancelledBeans]

4:08 -- "I'm only a... word we no longer say 'cause it's not 2009" Finally a normal person who acknowledges that only edgy 12-year-olds say the ableist R slur (or people who willingly never matured past 12).

[@lifaen]

As a bisexual, there is a big difference between wanting to date a he/him hot guy and she/her hot guy!

[@lachouette_et_le_phoque]

@ville__ it's okay... no need to scream. Take a deep breath and count to ten for me :)

[@benfaunce7496]

​@@lachouette_et_le_phoque-said the gay guy

[@lachouette_et_le_phoque]

​@@benfaunce7496which gay guy? What do you mean? I'm a straight woman, if that's what you mean.

[@benfaunce7496]

@lachouette_et_le_phoque the gay guy who's the pitcher

[@ScrawnyTreeDemon]

Hear, hear, OP! The vibes are so different. I know who I'd rather be dating (especially with the state of the replies... Lmao, yikes).

[@Cinnamonraisin_Bagel]

I love doing those stupid am i gay quizzes because i already know am i gay and i find them extremely funny especially when they ask stupid questions that have nothing to do with sexuality

[@Cinnamonraisin_Bagel]

Yes my taste in sandwich does actually make me straighter than a frat guy /j

[@Idkpleasejustletmechangeit]

Your favourite colour does indeed impact your gayness. /j

[@Cinnamonraisin_Bagel]

@@Idkpleasejustletmechangeit Yes indeed that's how i realised i was gay /j, this honestly sounds like the plot of a shitty hunger games clone

[@Idkpleasejustletmechangeit]

@@Cinnamonraisin_Bagel the hunger gaymes

[@Cinnamonraisin_Bagel]

@@Idkpleasejustletmechangeit I'd totally win the Hunger Gaymes

[@Nunurbusinessp]

This has me flashing back to feverishly deleting my browser history in 2008 of “KZbin emo boys kissing on KZbin anime”

[@miowowwowow3131]

lmao the vernacular gives me war flashbacks to when I was cyber bullied in 2007

[@miowowwowow3131]

in case anyone is interested we're talking piczo blogs, emails and msn chats. what a time

[@Crowbombs]

the start of this video is just my search history from 2015 lmao

[@Einswerz]

Ok but "love is a feeling not a gender" is surprisingly good

[@Cyadical]

Wasn’t expecting to distract myself with 2008 homophobia while I wait to see the new godzilla movie today, but here we are!

[@freerangerudy]

honestly maybe the quizzes knew you were the goth gf so they kept pairing you with the happy sunny girl for that contrasting couple trope

[@Mushbeary]

The intro is up there with pregannnant in my book

[@CagedWren]

No, because I did that exact are Emos gay quiz as a sneaky way to check if I was gay because I liked emo things and dressed emo - update, I was.

[@benfaunce7496]

Emo = gay

[@jacksonb6674]

The "Forcious" bit is killing so much that I'm crying in my living room and the neighbors can definitely hear

[@mudgeonbox]

thought this video was titled "A Time Capsule of 2023 Homophobia" and i was wondering if we're really that far into 2024 that we can call 2023 stuff time capsules

[@Trassel242]

Oh hell yeah, that’s what I had to deal with in that exact moment in time! I kept doing similar online quizzes and reading fanfiction to see if I was gay or this was just temporary and I’d grow out of it, just like my biology textbook in school reassured me that I’d do. As it turns out, I did not grow out of it, and now I’m engaged to a wonderful man to boot! This is oddly charming to me, I guess because I genuinely went on those kinds of websites and figured that surely these other 14-year-olds would be able to figure out what I myself couldn’t. It was extra weird because I’m a trans guy who’s gay, and it took a while for me to figure out that it was a possibility for me, that you can actually be a guy who’s into guys no matter what chromosomes you were born with.

[@darkstarr984]

This is an aside but I wonder what year your biology textbook was written in that it 1) addressed attraction to the same gender, and 2) said it’s a phase. I got a literal brand new biology textbook in 2009 and it said nothing except very excellent detailed chapters on human reproduction that I avidly avoided because I was desperately in denial about all of it.

[@Xx_Oleander_xX]

@@darkstarr984 oh god this comment reminded me that when I did bio in high school I would skip ahead in the textbook to read about radiation and space instead because I didn't know some/all? of my aversion to sex and nudety was because of dysphoria and thought "I'll never need this info, I could never enjoy that stuff"

[@MoonGalleon22]

@@darkstarr984This reminded me of how I would genuinely keep rereading a bit in my own biology textbook about intersex people, hoping that I could be like the woman in the textbook and discover as a teen/adult that I was always actually "male" in some biological way all along. Guess who's trans!

[@rojachan]

Congrats! Being a bisexual transmasc person has been a Journey for me, glad to hear a story like this, makes me hopeful that there's someone out there who will be into the person that I am (Still fairly early in transition, makes me kinda nervous to date for a bunch of reasons) On a related but different note: I taught college genetics for 7 ish years... I always tried to take a few minutes to tall about how sex =/= gender and how sex itself is not a strict binary either, but we were simplifying for the purposes of the course. I hope at least that it was affirming for any potentially non cis students and maybe helped other people better understand the non cis people in their lives. I tried. Biology is so often co-opted in horrible ways to alienate, hurt, silence, harm, and discredit queer people and I hate that, so I wanted to be sure that even in a very fast-paced class I spoke about these things and gave people a real tangible example of an obviously queer person in science. Fuck any textbook that says queer people will grow out of it or whatever.

[@lanog40]

Physics research

[@botanicalitus4194]

real

[@cluelesschicken8396]

How's it going?!

[@jackhanson1274]

The thesis never waits, it will knock down your door and demand to be written. Good luck!

[@jiffyalt4259]

​@ville__bro you have 2 videos

[@EJ_2091]

“You can sleep on this baby for 100 nights” gives me “you pay this woman to sit on babies” from the live action Cat in the Hat vibes and idk why

[@SlightlyUnSalted]

Lol

[@purplebunn]

10:28 this is funny to me that quotev user being like "i dont think i spelled that right" instead of looking it up bc it reminds me of when i was lik 9 or 10 making a quiz on quotev (then called quizazz) and one of the questions was who is beyonce married to but i didn't actually know jay z's name so i had his name as the answer "jay something"

[@BassicallyKiyash]

"Unexpectedly serious tangent, back to the quotev quiz."

[@puppykat006]

i used to read fanfic and do quizzes on quotev and still go on there occasionally for fanfic (usually if AO3 is down)... it's definitely A LOT better now (and was by the time i started going there too).

[@shutupbella4519]

I love that watching hotel hell while going through A Time is not just unique to me

[@eyeballjay]

I did that too and it made me never want to set foot in a hotel ever again lmao

[@raenobes]

0:13 the quiz titles are giving “do you wear wigs?” energy

[@starcrysis23]

Ven vill you vear vigs?

[@justabitofamug6989]

Im fucking playing scrabble with my parents but i will go to the bathroom to watch this rn

[@marl3ymarl3y86]

GET BACK IN THERE!!! THE WORD GAME NEEDS MORE SOLDIERS!!!

[@eddieravenwood]

were you in there for the full 24:33? were your parents concerned?

[@justabitofamug6989]

​@@marl3ymarl3y86my brother got a 7 letter word and is on double the points of everyone else

[@wHat-tHe...]

​@@justabitofamug6989 did he win???

[@yukismith4518]

The amount of quizzes we took of “are you gay?” “Yaoi top or bottom?” Gosh early 2000’s were wild. Goth for life who happens to be gay. No mom, it’s not a phase.

[@nosiidda501]

The things depicted in the video is the reason why I don’t look back/ feel so nostalgic towards years like 2008.

[@benfaunce7496]

I am fascinated. 2008 feels like a bigone era to me. Full of nostalgia. Not that I want to return but I do happily remember. What things keep you from remembering the era fondly?

[@nosiidda501]

@@benfaunce7496 I know it’s been a while, but the deal is not only some of the things depicted in the video but the fact I got bullied a lot… and my mom’s bf was abusive. The only years I truly am fond of is when is 2013, and 2015-2020.

[@benfaunce7496]

@@nosiidda501 things have definitely gone down hill since 2020. Sorry you had it rough.

[@_Somsnosa_]

​@@benfaunce7496Man up straight boy

[@Iachesism]

that girls only unless ur gay rule is real asf tbh

[@SonofSethoitae]

​@ville__You have no content, and you don't know what "logical fallacy" means. Quit spamming, get a life.

[@lachouette_et_le_phoque]

That ville guy is so strange, I could swear I have seen him spam comment sections of entirely unrelated videos and creators with comments that make no sense and are just vaguely/outright hostile garbled mess. The comment section of KZbin is truly a strange place sometimes.

[@cryptiddy]

@@lachouette_et_le_phoqueits a bot. Don't engage with it just report it and the vids on its channel for hate crimes and such and it will eventually get removed

[@TheModdedwarfare3]

​@@lachouette_et_le_phoquethere are thousands of accounts like that

[@Xx_Oleander_xX]

@@lachouette_et_le_phoque Its a spam bot, if you ever see accounts like that just report dont even bother trying to repy

[@haileymccurry3756]

i dont think enough is being said about the pictures accompanying that first quiz

[@redlunatic2224]

After watching this, all I can think of are the words of a very unwise man: "Why are you gay?"

[@hemingshark327]

the slurs really took me back, more than anything

[@benfaunce7496]

It's not usually slurring the gays do. That's called a lisp.

[@ScorpionClaws789]

​@@benfaunce7496Why are you here on the gay channel if you hate gay people.

[@_Somsnosa_]

​@@benfaunce7496What do you straights do? Rape and murder?

[@_doodles01]

I hate how much I've been attacked with all this quotev content, I was there since it was Quizazz and I fully participated in these are you gay quizzes specifically picking all the straightest answers to convince myself I was not bisexual

[@benfaunce7496]

You just needed a man. Keep up the good fight.

[@_doodles01]

@@benfaunce7496 I feel like you severely misinterpreted my comment lmao

[@benfaunce7496]

@@_doodles01 it was a tongue in cheek comment

[@erosefleeting]

"hellportal to middle school" you're so real for that strange

[@RCZeta919]

I love these videos, but I instantly crumble to dust when I'm reminded that Strange's middle school years were my first years in college 🥲

[@miiimuu622]

peoms, chocalte, florade.. my fav things

[@mygoldenwitch]

Your helix ads are so wholesome it hurts, always put a smile on my face

[@DUELISTKlNGDOM]

i appreciate you choosing to be bisexual instead of biphobic. and it probably says something about me that i was giggling the entire time

[@emmasalisbury7233]

Quotev was my stomping grounds as a kid and it was WILD. I gasped when this vid came out, anyone I've asked about it says they don't remember Quotev 😭

[@Laurabeck329]

ACcording to these quizzes men wearing bright red lipstick are totally straight, but if they dare put even a tiny bit of eyeliner they become HOMOSEXUAL? Man it was a weird era

[@sockgoblin2942]

This video has thrown me back in time. Suddenly it's 10 PM and I'm on my iPad mini in my bed when i should be asleep, spelunking through Quotev and wondering what these quizzes are but am too afraid to click on them.

[@apollofell3925]

Honestly I don't think anything has ever described my gender identity more than "male seeking male"

[@carwynscorner]

So disappointed that Strange didn't read "lesiban" the way it was spelled in that one quiz

[@izzymarie8987]

I’m obsessed with koshekhs singular slightly floppy ear

[@TobiasFangorIsntCis]

“Love is a feeling, not a gender” had me cackling

[@kyuubicrazy]

This takes me back to when everyone in class lied about their age online to get Facebook accounts just so we could take awful quizzes like this. It was a simpler time.

[@Julliachi]

What is the lore reason for me being incredibly trans and gay? Am I stupid?

[@chill_fridge]

Allow me to explain. Your transcendence to the human from the fabric of the void is the most stupid thing you could ever do. You would have been nothing with no problems no worries forever, but you got suckered into occupying a body. Ask anyone, and they'll tell you. That's hella gay.

[@Xx_Oleander_xX]

I know enough mythology to actually provide a lore reason if you want

[@Julliachi]

@@Xx_Oleander_xX Yeah sure! I'd love to know why Hephaestus or smth thinks I'm trans

[@benfaunce7496]

Not necessarily, just misguided/confused.

[@chill_fridge]

@@Julliachi Hephaestus, the forger of gods’ whims, might see your journey not as folly but as his own kind of craft-where forging one's identity is the ultimate act of craftsmanship. He'd argue that in the intricate dance of fire and anvil, what some deem 'trans' and 'gay', he sees as the raw materials for a masterpiece in progress. And as for 'stupid'? Well, only Hephaestus knows the number of times he's hammered his thumb and called it ‘learning’. So in his eyes, you're not stupid, you're just rehearsing for wisdom.

[@MoonGalleon22]

The line "No. All the people in my class are Mingers" just knocked me out cold, I've not heard someone call someone else a minger in years. All joking aside, by coincidence, I recently decided to rewatch all of Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series, including all the really homophobic/transphobic/racist early episodes that LK has since apologised for, and it really reminded me that like...I really grew up in a time when the whole LGBTQ+ community was lumped in together as just subtypes of Gay, and homophobia was THIS rife and normal? This was right after Section 28 was axed, too, so it was this weird sudden change from not being told anything about queer people even existing to discovering that queer people exist through yaoi fanfic and this exact flavour of homophobia being the norm among your peers. It's really been making me realise why I'm the kind of queer person I am now as a younger millennial when this was what my teen years looked like.

[@unknown_limes]

Lord this is so real. There was gay, straight ally, girl gay, weirdo who can't pick, crossdresser, and then the rest uhhhhh, don't exist, they break the boundaries of hetero society too much. As much as the early 10s MOGAI was... odd in certain ways, I'm really glad for how it broke down boundaries and treated most identities as perfectly normal, and those who acted homophobic were weird and stupid. That's the community I spent my teen years in as an older Gen Z, and it honestly explains so much.

[@Sapphykins]

It really is insane looking back at how people our age (S28 was repealed when I was in HS so I assume we're pretty close in age) grew up and wondering how the hell we all survived that. YTAS is such a great example as well, because LK's such a genuinely nice guy, and yet there's so many episodes early on in the show that I just entirely skip when I do a nostalgia rewatch because they'll just ruin my whole day. It was just so completely normalised that even someone who genuinely wasn't trying to be malicious unthinkingly regurgitated all these hateful stereotypes and 'jokes' (not to excuse LK, obviously, he should have known better, I just believe him that it was ignorance rather than malice)

[@MoonGalleon22]

@@SapphykinsYeah, I just turned 30 earlier this year, so I was a child/tween at the time (and even then, I already knew what a "lezzer" was - something you didn't want to be accused of being!). I think more people in the UK need to be on the ball about how current transphobic talking points are basically harkening back to S28, and we need to cut that shit out immediately. The bonkers part of it for me is that like...LK has been out as bisexual for about as long as he's been making YGOTAS. He's a queer man, but the atmosphere was so overwhelmingly homophobic and transphobic that he just went along with it - and I think queer people going along with homophobic "jokes" as a defence mechanism was (still is) really common. I think it's all worked out in the end - a weird side-effect of the homophobic humour is that it means pretty much everyone in YGOTAS is depicted as being gay or bi, so he's been able to lean into that while accepting that the earlier "jokes" were just offensive and wrong - but it doesn't change that early YGOTAS is, in and of itself, a time capsule of 2008 homophobia (and racism/antisemitism).

[@SamaraVeler]

At about 0:41 ("Should you be gay, bi, or straight?"), I checked the title and overall length of the video and sincerely began to believe that this whole thing would be a cheeky run-on list of cringey quiz names. I've never been so happy to hear a sponsor break.

[@andr0medaz]

losing my mind at the fact that the person who wrote the “[[for girls only]]” quiz managed to spell lesbian as ‘lesiban’ every single time, and strange managed to overlook this every single time

[@tinytigertamer]

The way I cackled at “My man bag you fool!”. Omg, I have not laughed that hard in a WHILE. Literally one of the best lines ever.

[@comalies]

choking with laughter at the word "peoms"

[@lucky_paopu]

I read so much hetalia fanfiction on quotev lmao. I can only think of hetalia when I think of quotev

[@eliworshington1132]

i know quotev when i see it. saw the thumbnail and couldn’t move faster to watch because wow. that site still haunts me

[@emofurryboyfriendasmr]

same 😞 i met my long term partner on there too

[@eliworshington1132]

@@emofurryboyfriendasmr LMAO real as hell

[@ameliarosesheppard9007]

"love is a feeling, not a gender" killed me

[@synthpunk]

there HAS to be a reason that every last one of these quizzes is littered with the most atrocious spelling... every quotev quiz for all of time has been like this. i need an explanation!

[@seekerstheshy3842]

Children

[@hopkills]

14 year old me, confused at the realization that I might be attracted to women, took a quiz like this and it told me I was homophobic lmfao

[@arachnidlupus7625]

Fellows, is it gay to be gay?

[@JKing666]

not if you say no homo

[@benfaunce7496]

Affirmative

[@CNYKnifeNut]

Only if you swallow. That's what I tell myself, anyway.

[@benfaunce7496]

@@CNYKnifeNut I thought it was only if you give a reach around.

[@magnolia7212]

3:49 its giving she her, they them, cool hat

[@DoxCube]

That was a very painful 24 minutes. Thank you for that

[@benfaunce7496]

-Said the gay dude

[@ScorpionClaws789]

​@@benfaunce7496This is the gay channel. We're all gay here. Why are you here if you have a problem with that

[@benfaunce7496]

@ScorpionClaws789 the algorithm brought me, and there arose an opportunity to make banger jokes like that one. I love you guys. And I genuinely want good things for you.

[@ScorpionClaws789]

@@benfaunce7496 Making petty jabs at people for being gay isn't "wanting good things".

[@benfaunce7496]

@weissair1601 😆 well, maybe not as many tears as you guys when you partake in your rectal explorations.

[@AragornElessar]

I was a bit late to the quotev "am I [variety of queer]?"-quiz because I was ten in 2008. But they're still kinda nostalgic tbh.

[@ThaetusZain]

Well I'm in my 40s and am glad internet wasn't as much of a thing when I was in middle school. Can you imagine 90s tumblr quizzes?

[@hatemteirelbar9510]

But what you don't know is that his real name is Strange Aeons....

[@JKing666]

:0

[@TobiasFangorIsntCis]

Lmao

[@ladyblackstar4260]

Part of what I hate about biphobia is that we get called slurs too like d*k* and queer and such but like due to the biphobia of the wider LGBTQ community we get criticized for reclaiming those words because our experience is somehow not “pure” enough? If that makes sense even though we literally still have the experiences of those words being used in a negative way towards us

[@nicolasnamed]

I feel this, I think it's because there's a perception of bi people by gay people as being able to more easily "pass" as straight or "choose" when to express as queer. Which might me true for some closeted people, but definitely isn't for those who are out as bisexual. I sometimes feel a little uncomfortable when my partner or our friend (who are both cis bi guys) say the f-slur, because I'm gay and I only ever encountered it as negative. But I'm also trans (ftm) and never really had it used against me specifically as I was growing up. But I know they always use it from the perspective of being queer, and defining thier own queer experience, so I do my best to have space for it for them even if I wouldn't say it. Personally it just still feels too derogatory for me, but that's about my relationship to the word not other people's

[@tallemajas]

i've never heard anyone say bi women can't say dyk3, and i'm a lesbian who has mostly lesbian friends. i'm not saying it's not a thing, but acting like it's overwhelmingly the main stance in queer circles isn't correct. maybe online it's more of a thing, but real life isn't online. personally as a lesbian i don't care if any queer people say it, including gay/bi men, as long as it's not being used as an insult, obviously 🤷‍♀

[@ladyblackstar4260]

@@tallemajas I am speaking of my experiences in real life as a bi woman. Just because you have not heard something like that as a lesbian doesn’t mean both experiences can’t be true and can’t exist in real life. I think part of the problem is people like yourself don’t believe in the problem while the other half of the community are the people who are non-accepting of us. It’s almost a lose lose

[@ladyblackstar4260]

@@nicolasnamed yeah I am cis and I don’t feel comfortable saying or reclaiming the f-slur at all because of the connotations. However I understand that other people may have different feelings about that word

[@rozaequartz4335]

I almost died laughing after "how do you feel about the f-slur" 😭

[@flamshiz]

you seemed so joyful in this video. love to see it