My Parents Made Me Think I Was Ugly (The Animated Story)

[@JuneLotte]

This girl's parents are intense, but Takis?! Are SERIOUSLY intense.

[@hideakisorachi3953]

hello fellow drew Gooden fan!

[@greygust3936]

@@hideakisorachi3953 I think you mean Kurtis Conner fan

[@JuneLotte]

@@greygust3936 Danny Gonzalez

[@hideakisorachi3953]

@@greygust3936 I'm sorry my bad, I always get them mixed up smh 😔

[@SND08]

@@JuneLotte you mean Amanda gooden

[@BM-vz6kk]

Ok, but why is nobody addressing the fact that the school is literally called "Fancy Academy"?

[@crazyjedi5994]

Joined did.

[@basicallybecca_3567]

Ah, yes, Joined

[@crazyjedi5994]

@@basicallybecca_3567 oof

[@ejohnston2543]

Well theres an Umbarella Academy.Y cant there be a fancy academy too 🤷‍♀️

[@peytongolding7544]

They didn't have the time to make up a better name

[@altsadhara]

Fun fact: this story is set in the year 2030, at the earliest. The seventh Harry Potter book came out in 2007, when Elza was four. She graduated two years early at sixteen (2019), before attending at least four years of college (2023). She began dating Leonard during her last year in college (still 2023, assuming she stopped at a bachelors). They dated for two years (2025), and they had a daughter one year later (2026). Finally, Anna is four during the scene where Elza makes up with her father (2030). If she instead got her Ph.D. in physics, her final year of university would likely be closer to 2026, pushing the final scene to 2033.

[@arandomxinyanmain4837]

LOL I WISH I WOULD HAVE THOUGHT ABOUT THIS

[@theywalkinguptoyouand4060]

Omg that's so interesting! Great for pointing that out. So clear the story was fake.

[@tatsgato]

17:35 for the timeline: she said it was her last year at university when he asked her out

[@altsadhara]

@@tatsgato Thank you, updated the original post to correct the timeline since I missed this line.

[@getthehellouttaher3]

Wow j think you deserve a degree

[@MoodlyDoodly]

Sounds like something that first gets posted on r/InsaneParents and then gets crossposted on r/ThatHappend

[@m_b_a9567]

N u d e l s u p p e, weird name you got.

[@MoodlyDoodly]

Thats what we call the german language. Prepare to be taken over by the BRD lol

[@theywalkinguptoyouand4060]

TOTALLY r/thathappened

[@TBG1]

@@MoodlyDoodly oh no

[@peytongolding7544]

And r/iamverysmart

[@Tinkerelly]

I don’t like this story at all! Abusing your child for their entire life and them forgiving you for it immediately with no lasting damage is unrealistic and shouldn’t be expected. Not even in a fake ass story like this

[@Botsy]

Unfortunately, though, it /is/ realistic. Things like that happen all the time because "but it's my blood"...there's so many toxic parents out there, and the moment they say sorry, we forgive them. My adoptive dad didn't talk to me for 14 years - starting when I was 13. I talk to him now. My adoptive Mom is the absolute worst- yet if she actually said "I'm sorry" and owned up to the things she's done, I'd probably unfortunately have her back in my life. Same with all of my adoptive family and my biological family. I see stories on my TL so often of people complaining how terrible their families are to them, they're so heartbroken, but still seek their approval. My best friend's Mom is just awful to him, yet I know if she apologized and starting acting right, he'd value the relationship, even after every mean thing she's done. Sadly, it literally happens all the time.

[@cursedpyrogaming5176]

you know its fake

[@InWinds]

@@cursedpyrogaming5176 they said it was fake in their comment, so yes, they know

[@morninggloom8391]

And also encouraging people to forgive abusive parents is really horrible and a harmful lesson, not everybody deserves or should be forgiven and children’s shows and media should start teaching that lesson as well because it’s actually VERY important

[@heiltotheking]

@@Botsy honestly i don't understand that whole blood bond shit. Forgiving your parents for years of abuse because they suddenly started being nice to you changes nothing. I told my mother directly that if she hadn't buried my dad with my brother, i'd have SPAT on my dads grave for the years of abuse i had to endure. I never forgave him, not even on his death bed, he didn't deserve it.

[@marlettpines6899]

"I'm not paying a penny for your college!" .... ummm.... she doesn't need you to... she has a full ride scholarship... Also, I am REALLY confused about something. How can the dad be so sure one of his kids will take over the company, when he isn't the owner? When she goes to the bring your kid to work day, his boss is in the room? It isn't his company to hand over ownership to? Ah yes, I, a barista at BuckStars, will one day hand over ownership of this company to my children. *edited to replace 'CEO' with 'owner')

[@loriblackangelsnow]

It was mentioned Multiple times that the dad is the owner of the company but it was also mentioned multiple times that he had a boss...

[@inesxxx4835]

@@loriblackangelsnow maybe the company is still owned by the dad's dad and for now he's just working there for until his dad decides that he's qualified to be the ceo then the kid will take over it yk?

[@barney1684]

I noticed this too!

[@loriblackangelsnow]

@@inesxxx4835 but if that's the case why do they call the grandpa "boss" instead of grandpa? It's so weirdly written lol.

[@barney1684]

@@inesxxx4835 but wouldn’t they just mention him as a “granpa” instead of “boss”? Because the dialogues don’t seem to match the logic that he’s the dad’s dad. Especially at 13:22 Elsa said “how do you feel if your boss stopped you from being more successful?”

[@slucarios]

The dad literally admitted to favoring one child over the other because the favorite is stupid 😆😭 That’s double bad parenting!

[@fujiii9970]

Hi uhmm. .. so sorry but what is the pride flag in the background of your pfp?

[@slucarios]

@@fujiii9970 Agender!

[@Nice_tits]

@@slucarios what dose that mean

[@slucarios]

@@Nice_tits I don’t have a gender

[@Nice_tits]

@@slucarios oh thanks for telling me

[@emilylike-the-soup2502]

Can I just point out how crazy the timeline is in this story? Elsa says she read the seventh harry potter book, which came out in 2007, when she was four years old. That would make her 18 (or maybe younger) now in 2021. That means she started dating Leonard when she was 15, got married at 17, and gave birth at 18! And that’s not even factoring in all the stuff at the end about the stroke and taking over the company, which presumably took several months. Either that, or the narrator is telling this story from the future.

[@theywalkinguptoyouand4060]

Correct. Someone pointed it out also

[@totallynottodoroki9638]

damn-

[@therandomguy1701]

@not relevant what?

[@ivanrcosta13]

Witch makes no sense since she finished highschool only 2years early and she met the husband in her last year of college 🤷🏻‍♀️

[@Name-jm9jh]

@@therandomguy1701 It's not relevant

[@aitanacruz9882]

Am I the only one that thought the mom had cheated on the dad and that Elsa was an illegitimate child, and that her parents decided to stay together anyway and to not say anything for her sake, but her dad was still resentful? I realize this makes no sense because they are twins, but at least it would have made a decent explaination.

[@callistaw1757]

I was thinking that was how it was gonna end too!! Maybe it is??

[@callistaw1757]

“Twins” or was the dad cheatin around the same time 🤔🤔

[@aitanacruz9882]

​@@callistaw1757 Actually, I thought the mom was the one who cheated. It wouldn't make sense for the dad to hate one of his daughters if they were both his. If the father was the one who had cheated, then the mom would be the one who hated her. The mother being the one who cheated isn't impossible either, as fraternal twins can have two different fathers! It would also explain why they look so different to each other...

[@callistaw1757]

Ohhhh yeah you’re right that pretty much disproves it. So he was just being a d*ck to her just cause then.

[@aitanacruz9882]

@@callistaw1757 Well, fraternal twins can have different fathers. If the mother was cheating on him around the time she got pregnant it's not impossible that one of the twins isn't his child.

[@CanonSkyrissian]

so that was anticlimactic. if my dad treated me like that, no way would I forgive him

[@nasd1995]

Wait wait wait. How did she say that her dad used to take them with him to his place of work because they will run the business after him when he was just an employee at a company?!

[@m_b_a9567]

Yeah and also the college was at scholarship so why does anyone need to pay for it?

[@nasd1995]

@@m_b_a9567 i know! This story has more holes than a Swiss cheese 🧀

[@lemon4087]

Shareholder!?🤷‍♀️

[@GivenFailure]

@@m_b_a9567 Well, tbf you'll still have to pay for supplies, books, travel, housing, ect. Most of the time a "full scholarship" only includes tuition, unlike a "full-ride" which includes other expenses which are much much rarer.

[@GivenFailure]

@@lemon4087 Shareholders don't have bosses. They could've meant CEO, but then why did Elza need to run the company after the dad became ill? It doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me, from the perspective of someone involved in a family company.

[@angiewinchester3384]

Parents don't get to emotionally abuse you and neglect you for years and then choose to make up with you when they need your help.

[@smolson8471]

I thought the reason he treated Martha better was going to be because Elsa was from a different dad or something. Which would explain why the mom didn’t say anything earlier (possible guilt) and why the parents had that weird argument.

[@littledouhie]

Oh wow that would've been intresting, I never thought of that. For me personally i had guessed the reason as I've had a similar experience in my own life.

[@-hellokitty_]

But they're twins sooo...

[@hello-ie8so]

@@-hellokitty_ fraternal twins can have 2 fathers

[@annadarko6056]

For an animated story that was surprisingly well written (I know the bar is very low). I just didn't like the ending. It makes no sense to me to just give up everything you've worked for just because your father who has abused you for years had a heart attack. It also doesn't make sense to me to just forgive and forget everything because he gave you a (imo very bad) reason for his abuse. "I didn't think you needed me to love you". And for that bullshit excuse he rather cut ties with one of his daughters than admitting that his pitty for his other daughter is going too far. I'm thinking way too much about this.

[@claro_ve6760]

I agree...I didn't like the ending too: it's simplistic and what really hit me was that Martha "needed" him and that fulfilled him (probably because he was needy too of that confirmation) but Elza didn't so she was "garbage" to his eyes

[@randomstf3935]

This story is like a 3rd rate manhua with a dumb father an sister that can't recognise the worth of the protagonist, who secretly is a one in a generation genius trained by the spirit of Albert Eistein himself. But then instead of killing them after some face slapping or exile them like in every manhua she just throw everything in the garbage an go back to her abusive family. Even trash manhua have more satisfying endings.

[@PatLund]

The sad thing is that the ending is actually really realistic.

[@annadarko6056]

@@PatLund not really The forgiveness part maybe if she was still hung up on her father's validation which the story doesn't tell us much about. But no super important huge high tech company would be taken over by a scientist. Her father couldn't have just made her CEO or whatever. There are more people in a company who have say in it. It's been a while since I've watched the video, but if I recall correctly she wasn't even really in the right field to be CEO of a company like that. Not to mention that CEOs are business studies people most of the time anyway. But even the forgiveness part isn't all that realistic. Maybe she would have forgiven him, but the fact there is no lasting damage AND that she takes over her father's company happily and everyone loves happily ever after is unrealistic.

[@StormgemThunder]

Also, as she studied quantum physics, wouldn't that get her a high paying job? Science field jobs are often well paid so she wouldn't have to take over the company to support her family?

[@anniecahill5214]

What concerns me is the mother just watched and let all this happen to one of her kids. I wouldn't have forgive the dad or done anything for him.

[@tobeseve4020]

"Let's make a fun quirky story about emotional abuse and make the moral you should drop everything in your life to help your abuser! :D"

[@outovaeltaja]

The seventh Harry Potter book came out in 2007, if she read all of them when she was four years old the oldest she can be is 18.

[@sajeucettefoistunevaspasme]

She's 48

[@mimialreadyexists8903]

It’s only been 10 seconds and I’m already having a stroke- Edit: this comment didn’t age well

[@hailey_the_ace_of_hearts4127]

The edit is KILLING me 😂💀

[@CLAIRE-_-.]

This is the best edit of a comment on this entire platform!! 😂😂

[@AuntLoopy123]

I wish I knew how to edit my comments.

[@RedK5]

Lol

[@CLAIRE-_-.]

@@AuntLoopy123I'm not sure if you are joking or not but... Press the three vertical dots at the side of your comment and the edit option pops up.

[@adaratharp]

Hey Dhar Man fans, I hope you enjoys this video. I guess we learned that not every marvel intro leads to a great video. "not every marvel intro leads to a great video"

[@lemonweirdo]

I heard that sentence in his voice

[@Roozyj]

Hey Dhar Man fam! I hope you loved that message about how not every Marvel intro leads to a great video!

[@claro_ve6760]

@@lemonweirdo same! I did that in my head Lol

[@Car_das_Auto]

@@lemonweirdo same

[@Car_das_Auto]

Hey Dhar Man fans, as you can see not everything is like a marvel movie it's more about the little things.

[@Jay_one]

Such a dumb story. 🤣🤣 the dad was almost abusive to her and then it’s like “nah, I knew you could take it! And your sister who ran away with a loser, I did it for her!”

[@angiewinchester3384]

It isn't 'almost' abusive. It is abusive.

[@YashaHika]

No no I died right at the end when joinen does the teardrop thing, someone in the chat said "poison his oats" and I needed that mentioned because I still can't breathe XDXDXD

[@attilatiti9542]

This is totally just Matilda with different names

[@katty4682]

This experience sounds exaggerated but realistic. I've seen (and somewhat experienced) that the child who often gets the most love and attention, isn't the more gifted or better behaved child, but the one with more problems.

[@HyLion]

With some tweaking and basic changes, this could actually be a semi-believable story. That's a first

[@RedK5]

I heard a story like this on Reddit

[@woahthisisinteresting4369]

@@RedK5 i've read at least 57 of the same plot progression on reddit

[@RedK5]

@@woahthisisinteresting4369 wow

[@nicogsly]

ah yes some few words fixed years of emotional abuse like it was nothing and everyone had a happy life (except for the sister that ran away forgot her name)

[@rebeccabriggs9452]

I want to say.... Tabitha? I think that was the sisters name?

[@personperson6750]

@@rebeccabriggs9452 it was martha its not important anyway

[@katiem656]

This is just Matilda + sibling

[@eichelhaher7186]

That movie just went through my head too as I was scrolling through the comments here lol

[@benjisaac]

her brother really does absolutely nothing in that story, kind of missed opportunity. He isn’t overly praised he’s just there with them watching tv lol

[@katiem656]

@@benjisaac oh yeah! I just remembered that she did actually have a sibling

[@benjisaac]

@@katiem656 I def would’ve forgotten him but I listen to the musical all the time and her moms like “but I’ve GOT a baby! I don’t want *another one* !!!!”

[@katiem656]

@@benjisaac same!

[@plum810]

She left her dream job for that excuse of a dad?! Lol

[@zoazede2098]

Man, it's literally ILLEGAL to refuse to support your own child when doing college if you are financially able to do it, you'll be sued for abandoning your offspring. And yeah, totally true love, all the emotional abuse she had to endure while growing up? Totally justified and not damaging at all, also, yeah, surely now you show her your "love and comprehension" put of pure heart, and not because you financially depend now on her and you risk to loose your company (which was never his)

[@erinlefevers7302]

Pretty sure it's not illegal to not pay your kids way through college.

[@zoazede2098]

@@erinlefevers7302 at least it is here in Argentina, the parents have to support their children if they're still studying when they end school, here's some public colleges, so the costs aren't as much as in the USA, (where appearently you could get on debts by everything, medical care, education, etc)

[@personperson6750]

@@erinlefevers7302 it was a fully paid scholarship

[@zoroden67]

Elsa: "i got accepted into M.I.T. on full scholarship" dad being an idiot: "I'm not paying a penny for your college"

[@BlackCroft666]

He is working or leading a tech company but complains that his daughter get a full scholarship for MIT which includes technology and IT? He doesn't seem to be smart himself.

[@tinymittensdesign]

how this should have ended: Mom: Elza! your father had a stroke! Elza: hahah damn that sucks, good luck though. *click*

[@CloutmasterPhluphyy]

Mom: your dad had a stroke Elza: i went to sleep to dream about the person who asked

[@ely_wannadie]

Oh come on even physics teachers dont “Love” quantum physics 😂

[@decouvrir-la-musique]

I was looking for this comment! And certainly no one would answer "yeah sure I understand all the concepts from this quantum physics book"

[@user-yh5cv1vu9m]

With the book thing, ofcourse you can't read Harry Potter to a 4 year old. You have to keep both of your children in mind. And one of them was already so far that she could read by herself so the other child needed to get help reading. And less smart child also wouldn't understand anything about the Harry Potter book while the smarter child would understand the fairytale book. The trophy thing was bad tho. I feel like the company thing would just be adults being nice to kids, because she is a kid.

[@daliam8715]

Yeah but while we're talking about a company, aren't we all just glossing over the fact that her dad has a boss, yet owns a company, or am I just dumb?

[@RescueGoat]

HP 7 is also really age-inappropriate for a 4-year old.

[@AuntLoopy123]

Wait, wait, wait. "I own a tech company," but what about his boss? If he left the company where he worked and bought/founded his own tech company, shouldn't Elsa have said so? Confusing.

[@cyeayttheratking9501]

the marvel intro always catches me off guard

[@daftoptimist]

The worst part of this story is not just that it’s stupid and unrealistic, but it’s also engaging. It’s like a trashy soap; I KNOW it’s trash but I’m still interested in what happens next.

[@CLAIRE-_-.]

This is the same with all these animated stories!! I never thought I'd be a fan of trash tv but this... I keep watching Joinin reacts...

[@daftoptimist]

@@CLAIRE-_-. Oh, for sure. I like supporting Joinen, and I refuse to give the actual animated story channels any ad revenue or watch time.

[@CLAIRE-_-.]

@@daftoptimist Exactly!! 😅

[@shinoataya]

I love how at the end it's like their animation budget just increased

[@pretzel9093]

Joinen crying after that last line... if it counts, as an audience member I'm proud of you and the progress you've made in your content.

[@TheSlappy101]

Can I just say? Your editor is a God of comedic timing! The "doood" slipping out of your lips was PERFECT! Love all your content Joinen! Keep having fun guys!

[@JaredJonesAZ]

I question the competency of an IT firm run by someone who doesn't know the value of an MIT degree

[@kerkerzwerg]

"Lol child abuse" -summary of this video

[@nemothesquid9782]

As someone with parents who actually play favourites, this story is very frustrating with how fake it is

[@cayenigma]

We are not talking about how the father said in the end "I am so proud of you MARTHA"?

[@KeinAbendessen]

okay but question: in that story line, she has to be around my age at the point she tells the story, so she is about 27 or 26, that means, that there is no chance ever, that she read all the harry potter books at age 4, since they haven't been finished at this point! an yes! This is what bothers me about this story!

[@loustone3505]

Harry Potter 7 was released in 2007, which would mean Elsa would be born in 2003-ish, but is 25+ at the end of the story, when she'd be only 18 in 2021, if not younger.

[@Thirdlittlemariobrother]

how to torture my story animated or any fake story telling channel: make them create a story with loving and fair parents and a very polite sibling

[@Ducker625]

man i cant belive elsa had so much of a story before being cursed with ice by trolls

[@lemon4087]

Finally something I can relate to 😊. Except my sister isn't bad, apart from that everything is ditto. I stopped wanting that affection n since my childhood I only wished to be invisible whenever he's near. To people, know that your parents are temporary. Someday you'll be free of them physically, financially, socially, emotionally, psychologically.. prolly in this order 🤷‍♀️. But someday it happens ❤️

[@tami7992]

I really hate this story. The dad has done NOTHING to deserve forgiveness like Abuela in Encanto... it's so toxic and considering Elsa doesn't have lasting damage the situation is very unrealistic.

[@strawbs8025]

i can't get over how she got a full scholarship and hes like "I'm not paying for anything for your college"

[@HarpsiFizz]

Elza was way too full of herself and desperate for attention and validation. She couldn't be happy being the smartest; she also had to put down her sister for being slow and have everyone praising her at all times. No wonder the other kids didn't like her.

[@deoyx]

Whenever I see videos like this it just reminds me that some parents have "favorites" because they're grooming them

[@ZPiano2010]

The concept that light is a physical thing and it has weight is the best thing about quantum physics.

[@dominatorplays2577]

Martha: *commits genocide and laughs about it* The dad: "Wow, she's so athletic and crafty to have committed all those murders!"

[@TheBluestflamingos]

Worth pointing out that it's also f*cked up that Martha is villanized in the story to the point that she doesn't even get the redemption that the girls' parents do, for daring to be born the favorite. Yeah, she didn't do much to help, but a coddled child isn't likely to understand the complexities of their broken family dynamics. Her parents are responsible for setting a bad example. The whole point is that the love one shows to their kids shouldn't be conditional OR arbitrary withheld. Both kids matter, and deserve parents who care about their interests and wants what's best for them.

[@skyetan86]

Me reading twitch chat: Poison his oats?? CALM DOWN, SATAN For real, tho... Narcissistic parents almost never change like this, but it's still a nice thought.

[@a1yssum]

"You're a weirdo" *image of the monkey from The Lion King pops up*

[@kerridwynntheacegoblin6465]

Why is Dad married to Ritsuko? She's gonna choke out Martha if he doesn't look out. XD

[@NopurposeRai]

I only just noticed the likeness

[@ILoveYou-bv7mf]

Man, ofc her dad and sister wouldn't come see her in her wedding lmfao!

[@MelinEvie]

Soooo does anybody else feel like good ol Daddy being neglective and emotionally abusive to Elza while love bombing pretty blonde Martha is kind of pedophilic? Like... Elza sure grew up with Daddy issues and trauma from neglect but I don't even wanna know what happened to Martha that made her turn towards partys, presumably drugs and men praising her for her beauty and then run off from the family and not even come see her Dad when he was seriously ill... like holy shit first of all Elzas trauma isn't a funny lil story and secondly Martha isn't to blame for her father's actions... poor girl obviously suffered too

[@pickleridge5656]

3:40 the fact that Martha has the self awareness to realise she is a baby and know her own limitations makes her far smarter than Elsa could ever be

[@stephaniecronin3999]

19:09 there is a football trophy top left

[@ple8379]

When your channel are animated in 2d stories, but you cannot even draw very well by yourself, so you're just drawing over other artists work and changing the color of eyes, hair and clothing XD. Yes, yes, that's really decent ;D. Design of Elsa when she was 4y/o is just a colored over 8y/o Nami from One Piece lmao.

[@gracesullivan7705]

So I didn't read harry potter but I did read the newspaper then when later I started made my kindergarten teacher quite confused and the same for my parents who decided to encourage me by giving me maths books (which I must admit I enjoyed)

[@laviniasnow4494]

I got at 8:30 and at this point I'm assuming the father figure is behaving like a total 🤬 because Elsa isn't his biological daughter.

[@_LunarDragon]

This is actually a pretty believable story. I could actually believe this story happened if it didn’t come from this channel. (Also if the Harry Potter book didn’t throw off the timeline)

[@booperdooper9762]

This hits too close to home. For most of my childhood and teen hood, my mother parented me and my brother in a similar way to this story. Except instead of her denying me chances at education, she denied me chances for emotional growth and my psychological well-being. She was mostly negligent towards me and my brother, always favoring the accomplishments of my other brother in preference to her beliefs and controlling ways. She's always loved the boys of the family more than the girls. Even then, her parenting wasn't that great nor healthy. She's a single mom so I understood why she would snap sometimes to some extent, at least I chose to just to keep my sanity at bay. She's a close-minded Christian, one of the bad ones. I think the abuse from my dad then the heartbreak from her second marriage mixed in with her poor and tough upbringing really affected her mental state over the years. In a way, she's pitiful. But I still can't forgive the way she would let me get physically abused in our own home. I was so young too. I wound up either hating most of my family or being detached from them; except for my little sister. Something that I will never forget is the night I was bursting in angry tears, arguing with her about the usual, her not protecting me, why the one's hurting me couldn't act mature and snapped at anything I said if they slightly disagreed with It. Things like that. When I started going on an emotional rant about how she doesn't treat me with the same affection, she interrupted and said "I gave him more love because he needed it, you guys are so strong and I just had to be more close with him." That's the gist of it. The reason she made us feel like we were never loved, the only times she would interject in our life just to force her beliefs on us, and hating what we liked in the most annoying way was because she thought we were strong? Her parenting style has caused so many psychological problems with each and every one of her kids, and that was her excuse? The only time she would praise us or give us love was to manipulate us into loving her or doing what she wanted. She never exploited us for financial or social gain, but it was still so cruel. I can't tell if it's because she's learned, if she's finally realized that she'll lose us if she keeps acting this way, or if it's because most of her kids are off being independent; but she's settled down for the most part. I'm not completely comfortable with how she suddenly started texting me positive messages, saying she loves me, and actually focusing on me. But maybe it's a step for the better. I'm still guarded but I can't deny the times she was actually a good parent. Hopefully things go well from now on. Sorry for dumping my life story all of a sudden.

[@linde4649]

This is just pure emotional abuse + joinen

[@Crowtenzz]

Joinen's animated avatar is adorable

[@InWinds]

I hate how the main character shamed her fellow sister instead of.. y'know, blaming the father?

[@artsyrache]

13:26 “I’d be happy is my boss held me back from a promotion” SCAB SPOTTED

[@lucy_sl]

Wait isn't her father an employee? How is she supposed to take over the company? Plot holes?

[@anne-zh2kd]

I could read when I was 4... Turns out it's part of my autism. I have a lot of disabilities. Be proud of your kids, no matter what they read or how they eat. Just because you are " smarter" than someone, does not mean you deserve more praise. That is sick

[@NopurposeRai]

I taught myself to read by 5 just because no one would read to me when I asked them to

[@Vahvl]

this feels like a genuine true story

[@byTrafiken]

The first good story the My Animated Story channel has ever done.

[@fae206]

Even if they were a child prodigy I would still be wary if a four year old read six Harry Potter books as they are pretty dark and even the second one deals with brainwashing, addiction, murder, and slavery. Concepts my own mother was a little wary about when I was seven and eight…not four (she let me read them but would ask me if I’d read certain chapters yet and asked me to tell her what I read and what I understood. It was pretty cool parenting IMO)

[@claro_ve6760]

Everyone has different level of maturity...imo we all have to be seen individually and not just in a specific restricted category of individuals

[@eichelhaher7186]

My parents were of the opinion we could handle "darker" things. We also really liked all those dark fairy tales our father read to us and he read to us The Hobbit etc etc. I also read Harry Potter pretty early. Sure, maybe not with four, but pretty early nonetheless. The only time my mom took away a book from me was when I stole a Stephen King book and tried to read it in secrecy. I would like to say a few more things, but I feel like that would sound like I'm praising myself even though I always wait to have the confirmation of another person before saying something good about me, but well uh, I too think kids can handle darker aspects in contrast to popular belief that they are incapable

[@elsiejones6034]

Not the person in chat saying „k1ss k1ss k1ss k1ss“ on the last scene😭😂

[@finyellow5656]

My father was like that with my younger bro. He for some reason wanted my younger bro to be far more successful than me. I haven't spoken to either of them ever since I moved out. I don't need an apology, everyone going their own way and out of the way is a good enough apology :) Younger bro never graduated HS and works at my father's job as a construction worker. He had an accident baby and his gf left him because he wasn't being a father. He never washes after work, showers every 3 days or until his smell becomes unbearable for him. I can't believe he still behaves like a child, he's 20 and refuses to brush his teeth and that's what my dad is proud of? I finished HS, could of been a full honors student but I had a father who refused to take me to the library and no internet made it hard for me to succeed. That's okay because I am still in college, married and looking forward to my own family.

[@IcynezYuki]

And after those words Elsa (Or I guess Elza) wanted to hear her dad passed away and Martha was found dead on a bathtub full of icecubes

[@renniho]

joinen: where the part where their parents make her think she ugly for 12 years? me: (・O・) i completely forgot abt that

[@bumblebee560]

Leonard's name was probably snatched from Big Bang Theory.

[@monkeygirl1894]

So Elsa and Martha were in 8th grade. Principal wanted to bump her up a few grades. Elsa got bumped up to 9th grade and graduated 2 years earlier? Either they didn't bother mentioning the second move up or the math doesn't add up for someone who is apparently so smart lol

[@allbimyself801]

that dad doesn't deserve any pitty

[@Darksin757Production]

I appreciate your videos you've finally won me over XD

[@kyoarano]

Love the small samurai shodown tv in animated joinens room ♡

[@Suzy24]

The title is soo dumb the story wasn’t even about her looks it was all about her being intelligent and her dad not liking her 🙄

[@scaramouchesbf]

she threw away her entire dream work and dream life for an ABUSER????????????????????

[@kimichibreathandstinkyswea1940]

I love animated joinen

[@tothestarsandthemoon]

Loving the editing of these videos lately!

[@jakethedragonymaster1235]

Always a shame these kind of videos never evolve into supervillain backstories...itd be a nice mix up from "true" stories that didn't happen

[@notme8232]

3:54 I would have, but my parents wouldn't let me go past book 3 until I was 12. Those got DARK, man.

[@DeadFam2]

Being ugly or beautiful is subjective, the only opinion that matters is yours. I believe that everyone is beautiful

[@UnkownWonders]

The intro from the story was a big mood

[@lillian2342]

This story reminds me of that one Shakespeare play where the old king has each of his daughters tell him how much they love him, and when the youngest daughter tells him how her love for him is indescribable, she's exiled from the kingdom. Like, this is just 100% fake. Edit: it's called the Tragedy of King Lear.

[@rebeccabriggs9452]

If I recall right... isn't the youngest daughters words something along the line of "I love you like bread" which was meant to mean she loved him like she loved the things that are necessary to keep her alive and healthy and happy, and something that everyone needs. Whereas the older daugthers were all "I love you like Emeralds/diamonds/finest silk" and dad thought that meant that youngest daughter only thought of him as being common. I don't think it's a shakespeare play though? I seem to remember it being one of the Aesop's fables (A greek author who used to write stories with a moral or meaning at the end), the meaning of this story showing through at the end that jewellry and fine things are to be enjoyed while one can but the love of one who is needed to survive is far greater.. or something along those lines

[@lillian2342]

@@rebeccabriggs9452 I haven't heard that story, but I assume this is just a pretty common plotline :)

[@rebeccabriggs9452]

@@lillian2342 XD! To be fair, it doesn't surprise me any about it being a common plotline. Goes to show though, you absolutely learn something new every day. King Lear huh? I was never a huge shakespeare fan, but I'm going to have to look up the scene in question now to see if it's anything like the fable I remember as well!

[@rachelmoldavsky4264]

Why the hell is the mother staying with him ?? He is a terrible husband and father😤

[@ilariacatania4443]

Joiden became 🥺 emoji real quick in the end.

[@ultimatehuman419]

Ngl this story was so sad

[@TheRealSigyn]

Hey Joinen! How are you today?

[@claro_ve6760]

In his video yesterday he looked a bit tired on the ending...I was thinking to ask that too

[@absolutelyridiculous6743]

I cannot...lol... this is so bad 😆😅🤣 You're a trooper for sticking though til the end.

[@sh00kspeared73]

My story animated sucks at redemption arcs lol

[@erinw1256]

Ok, let's pretend like that's a good excuse for giving more attention to Martha. Even so, that's no excuse for how bad he treated Elza. Also, even though I don't have a twin, I do have siblings. And if my parents wanted to tell me or do something for me without my brothers knowing, they'd do it when it was just us and then explicitly tell me not to tell my brothers. So for example, he could've just praised Elza for how well she did at his work but then told her not to tell Martha that because he doesn't want Martha to feel bad. That way both daughters would've been happy but no one got hurt. .