an UNHINGED recap of Dear Dumb Diary

[@JimBentoncartoons]

Jim Benton here. what a terrific video you made!

[@lulaloopsey]

THEE Jim Benton?? In my comments?? (i can’t tell if i’m being duped or i should have my fangirl moment) such a huge fan of your work thank you for tuning in🫶

[@vineqar333]

Hey Jim, thanks for the works

[@michaelaheasley9807]

thanks for making reading silly and fun for me as a kid, you’re wonderful!

[@generalginx]

Can’t explain to you how much the Dear Dumb Diary books meant to me in my childhood :,) They also inspired me to draw all the time, and I still do!! You’re the best, Jim!💞

[@BugjoeCEO]

WHAT

[@Bolero451]

Isabella is low-key Greg Heffley coded

[@gregjayonnaise8314]

If they were in a fight Isabella would kill him and eat his heart

[@Tw0Dots]

Greg would be wanted for tax evasion Isabella is wanted for owning weapons of mass destruction

[@persephone6457]

I know that this video is gonna be good if that’s the first comment I see

[@lpsotakutrash]

Both are probably sociopaths LOL.

[@tanasiascott]

omg!

[@eggyleggy]

this is sapphic literature

[@carissaclanton4150]

The gayest straight book I read as a kid

[@chloetee98]

The scene where she’s talking about the shampoo method that allows her to whip different smells in different directions when she moves her head has been engrained in my brain for almost 20 years

[@Thesoggymeatball]

SAME!!!!!!

[@giboi03]

I was thinking about this the other week while staring at my 2 scented Loreal Kids shampoo bottles, and couldn't recall exactly which middle-school girl diary series it was from. I almost mistakenly attributed it to Dork Diaries and then this video came through my recommended a short while later. And the results are...nothing. It doesn't work, girls. Jamie was just high and in denial on that Angelina 3-in-1 shampoo.

[@gwendolynrobinson3900]

I think about it nearly every time I take a shower 😂

[@kailey_marler]

roman empire asf

[@anacarolinamenezes8912]

Same and to this day I want to be that person with such a good smelling hair that i leave a breeze of delicious aromas as a pass by

[@veronicawilson7594]

Hear me out. As a bisexual 12 year old I instinctually knew that Jamie was in love with Angeline and hated her for it.

[@justyoureverydaycasualship146]

That’s literally what I was thinking.

[@kpwoody220]

LITERALLY

[@GlitteringChesh]

Exactly what I was thinking

[@gunkwizardry]

ME TOO!! to me Jamie is experiencing comphet but is so obsessed with Angeline

[@skyr5247]

Literally she was me and I was her

[@noname-mi2we]

the rivalry in dear dumb diary always kinda felt like those baby lgbt crushes to me.. what do you mean you hate her because shes so pretty. years later jamie discovers she likes girls i bet

[@lulaloopsey]

originally my script for this video had a segment all about this because i 100% agree! but because they might be related & the video was already so long i scrapped it.. in the jim benton interview i referenced he actually talks about it (time stamp around 27:40?) but the way she talks about angeline at times comes off that way too like she’d read the diary years later & realize 😭

[@gregjayonnaise8314]

NO BUT FORREAL. Jamie goes on and on about how much she “hates” Angeline because she’s blond and pretty and has lovely eyes and a cute smile, and when Angeline is nice to her she seems unable to reconcile her irrational “hatred” with how Angeline is as a person. It’s giving “I have a crush on another girl but my brain can’t process it because same-sex attraction is never legitimatized by those around me so I’m going to assume what I’m feeling is actually dislike”. Keep in mind that Jamie never shows the same intensity she feels for Angeline for boys she SUPPOSEDLY has crushes on; she keeps every guy on a list of whose socially acceptable for her to like, calculating her chances with Hudson, the “eight cutest boy”. She never seems to ACTUALLY like these boys, only bothering because it’s what she thinks she’s supposed to do. What I’m saying is, for supposedly having a crush on him, Hudson never occupies Jamie’s thoughts like Angeline does.

[@ranchustars3050]

no way i thought i was the only one! this was exactly what i thought when i read the books when i was like 11

[@noname-mi2we]

@@lulaloopsey 🤯🤯🤯🤯

[@noname-mi2we]

@@gregjayonnaise8314 🫢 eighth cutest boy hudson but indisputably prettiest girl angeline i see how it is 🏳️‍🌈

[@Kumaclaws]

Something I loved about Dear Dumb Diary is just how funny they were. I’ll still catch myself randomly remembering random jokes like “I think librarians wear that strap on their eyeglasses because they get in fist fights over book returns”

[@fatcat1414]

I always loved this series for being the one female-oriented diary series on the shelf that was unapologetically Weird. Dork Diaries tried, but it was held back by having a 'not like other girls' disdain for femininity played straight while simultaneously indulging in feminine tropes, and it just seemed more hypocritical than anything. Like the message was that you can be QuirkyTM so long as it is still vaguely squeaky clean and aesthetically feminine. Jamie on the other hand, was amazing weird girl rep written by a self-aware author.

[@sunettas9738]

Very true

[@gregjayonnaise8314]

I mentioned this in another comment, BUT FORREAL, Jamie gives baby gay vibes. Jamie goes on and on about how much she “hates” Angeline because she’s blond and pretty and has lovely eyes and a cute smile, and when Angeline is nice to her she seems unable to reconcile her irrational “hatred” with how Angeline is as a person. It’s giving “I have a crush on another girl but my brain can’t process it because same-sex attraction is never legitimatized by those around me so I’m going to assume what I’m feeling is actually dislike”. She kept a LOCK of her hair. If Jamie were a boy, that’d be a dead giveaway of a middle school crush. Keep in mind that Jamie never shows the same intensity she feels for Angeline for boys she SUPPOSEDLY has crushes on; she keeps every guy on a list of whose socially acceptable for her to like, calculating her chances with Hudson, the “eight cutest boy”. She never seems to ACTUALLY like these boys, only bothering because it’s what she thinks she’s supposed to do. What I’m saying is, for supposedly having a crush on him, Hudson never occupies Jamie’s thoughts like Angeline does.

[@caitlynr7295]

YES I completely agree! It especially stands out to me because it mirrors almost exactly (besides the keeping a lock of hair lol) how I acted about a girl I "hated" - and later figured out I actually liked - when I was Jamie's age. I said I couldn't stand this girl but could never actually give a reason why - she was pretty and popular but always nice to me, and despite "hating" her I'd basically melt into a puddle whenever I talked to her, and I was way more focused on her than I really had any need to be, all of which remind me of Jamie's interactions with Angeline. I had a "crush" on one of the most popular guys in school because he was a safe, common option, and a lot of my friends also liked him so I guess he just made sense as crush? Also because I felt really jealous of him and the girl I liked whenever they were together, I just thought I was jealous of her, not of him lol, even though I almost never thought or cared about him outside of when he was with this girl - it reminds me of how jealous Jamie gets when Angeline is with Hudson; I don't think it's about Hudson. It was actually a shock how much of myself I saw in these books once I looked back on them and had the perspective to notice it. Jamie talking about Angeline could easily have been ripped from my middle school journals about the girl I liked. And this seems to be a common experience among WLW. So yeah I'm definitely on team "Jamie was gay and in love with Angeline".

[@phantomboba]

I’m straight and even I see it

[@hopefullyhelping6664]

As a kid (8-10 years old or so) I read the Dear Dumb Diary series and ABSOLUTELY BELIEVED THIS WHOLEHEARTEDLY. This was even before I really had an understanding of romantic attraction (I’m AroAce and nonamorous), much less same-gender romantic attraction, but I STILL NOTICED IT. I distinctly remember reading and thinking: “…Does she _like_ her?… OH YES SHE DOES!”

[@eatatjoes6751]

@@hopefullyhelping6664 Oh my God, yes. No one goes *on and on* about hating someone this much.

[@grem4102]

i related a lot to this book as a trans guy too lol i definitely see it

[@beajaelol7402]

Jamie had social anxiety and masked it with being “mean”

[@SophiiLuca]

I loved these books and how mean and weird the characters were. I was a kid that did everything right, was too adultish for my age (caused by trauma) and in general had a big sense of what was right and wrong. So reading these books, I could emotionally put myself in shoes where I could just be a proper shitty child, have no real intelligence and just be a kid. I found it so funny how absurd the main character was and acted. I always liked these kind of characters. Shaggy from scooby doo, the Mad Hatter from Alice in wonderland and gumball and co.

[@waffleauflauf4213]

Same here! It was so freeing.

[@anacarolinamenezes8912]

Omg same!!

[@CosmicCake07]

As Kerri colby said "Another one thank yew" (same here)

[@draculena]

i COMPLETELY forgot about this series, but i did not forget about angeline's iconic shampooing technique.

[@gremmie8843]

i remember as a kid i related to jamie so much. That’s really why i prefer this book to dork diaries, cuz i felt like jamie, while unhinged, was a much more realistic main character. 😭 also nikki lowkey got on my nerves.

[@jellynut5903]

SAME I always related to Jamie more tbh Nikki felt more like a pick me trying to be weird

[@tarotsushima3332]

As much as Mackenzie often got painted as a stereotypical mean girl, Nikki had a chronic case of hating from outside the club. Not to mention being her own worst enemy esp when it came to her friends or Brandon.

[@rosied7082]

Something i really like about this series, is that over the couse of the books, yoi can see Jamie's art improve. Her lines are less shaky, her proportions are done better and just generally look a lot better

[@ZantePrayer]

Oh my goodness, thank you for making a video on this childhood classic. No joke, the whole 'zone shampooing' thing has lived rent-free in my head for like 15 years, like sometimes when I wash my hair I'm like 'man, imagine doing that'.

[@jaxsjpg3225]

Book 9 is so gay coded. Jamie isn’t upset she’s lost Isabella she’s upset she hasn’t got the attention of Angeline herself…

[@Chu2chompsankles]

As someone who grew up on dork diaries (while hating Nikki) I'm starting to regret not being a dear dumb diary kid because i've never gotten so invested in a series and its humour like I did with this video 😭

[@astralloser1177]

the “small wet thing” in my school was wet paper towel. that’s it. get some paper towel, run it under the tap. we also had ice packs that were “crack activated”, like those hand warmers, but the opposite. tell you what though, they did nothing, when compared to the supernatural efficacy of the Wet Paper Towel ™️

[@riotghoul4237]

one thing i always liked about the books when i was younger was how you could sort of see how jamie's art style developed and improved over time, i don't know if this was intentional or just a result of jim benton's art style subtly changing as the series progressed but i always loved how there was such a clear difference in the quality of the art in book one vs book six or seven. it's like you get to grow up with jamie in a way

[@zoelouise140]

omg "am i the princess or the frog" was the one book of these i actually read and im pretty sure i never returned it to my school's library so i might actually have a copy of that lying around somewhere

[@Gluestickthealien]

BROOO THESE BOOKS WERE MY ENTIRE FLIPPIN CHILDHOOD QND I DIDNT EVEN KNOW THERE WAS A MOVIE!!!OMG THESE BOOKS WERE MY FAVE

[@Intoxicatingaxe]

angeline and jamie becoming rlly close was my fav part

[@kumaxhime]

I looooved these books as a kid. One of the volumes came with a big sticker of Jamie dancing that said, "It's true, my grooves are righteous," and it's still on my old bedroom door at my mom's house...even though I'm 26 now and the room was turned into an office 😂

[@Bolero451]

I was OBSESSED with this movie as a kid and I have no idea why

[@cidneyc7243]

THANK YOU I HAVE NOT SEEN A SINGLE SOUL TALK ABOUT DDD IN A WHILEE

[@allisonmoon2536]

had an intrusive thought the other day "that damn Angeline..." out of absolutely no where. thank you for making this!!!!!

[@imwastingmytimeonthis677]

what u were born in 05 crazy it’s weird to see another 05 baby as a adult funny to think we’re adults now 😭

[@romiiau]

you just made me remember a BIG part of my childhood. i love your channel

[@lulaloopsey]

💕💕

[@thehyperobsesr]

So glad someone is talking abt this weird movie I had a weird obsession with for like a month😂

[@thomasmannia]

You, too? 😂

[@padisleiero]

dear dumb diary fr shaped my art style forever i used to copy the drawings allll the time AND EVERYTIME I BRING IT UP NOBODY KNOWS ABOUT IT WHERE HAVE YALL BEEN

[@kristy3017]

when i tell u my jaw DROPPED that this video didn't have more recognition. this is the best video essay I've seen in awhile and brought back so many childhood memories tysm

[@shnowyfox5851]

I never read the books growing up.. but, when the movie came out on Netflix I took it as gospel. Thing is though.. maybe having Jamie Kellie as a role model wasn't the best. Especially with my at the time completely undiagnosed mental issues. I did pick up some healthy things from her, like being more true to myself, but goodness that did not outweigh the horrible habits I picked up. I was also discovering my sexuality at the time and my autistic ass tried to do the "boy-ology" thing from the movie, and decide which amab peer of mine would be best for romancing. My mom either saw this or I explained my "genuis" to her proudly (probably the latter), and she explained to me how objectifying and shitty it was. I was embarassed and ended up crying and asked her to not tell any of the men in the household. Next has to be the "all pretty people are evil" thing.. instead of finding a healthy way to explore and cope with feelings of envy and jealousy, I decided they were all evil, just like how Jamie and Isabella thought about Angeline. And.. well I think most people are pretty, I didn't really judge based on appearance before watching this and deciding Jamie was who I wanted to be. The one girl I chose though was plastered in acne, had almost brown blonde hair (possibly dyed, some kids were doing thst at the time I never noticed or cared though), and teeth just a bit straighter than my own. I don't know why I chose her to be my angeline but it was weird. I wasn't like.. actually mean or weird to her for the most part. I just was aware that I was "lower in the heirarchy" compared to her (which also wasn't true.. it was such a small town there wasn't any hierarchy, popularity was really just being extroverted and including others tbh). I also shared a bus with her. One day, me and my brother were singing on the bus together and just before her usual stop I was like "okay the popular girl is about to get on. She's super pretty and super cool so let's stop singing so we don't annoy her." And when I noticed she didn't get on I looked around confused and then I made eye contact with her in the seat directly next to ours. We said nothing to each other. The movie also weirdly convinced me I hated meatloaf even though my mom makes probably the best meatloaf I've ever had.. Again, I doubt many other people picked up her bad behaviors to my extent, but for me it was pretty substantial.. and at the time, I was also watching things like LPS popular too and that one yumsoda/sodapets mlp one. My mother also gave me puberty books from her and my sister's generations which skewed my view of what middle school was even more with how outdated they were. Was embarrassing to say the least, but God were those songs poppin.

[@one-onessadhalf3393]

Same, this series almost certainly made my main character syndrome worse lol

[@IsaacFlores-ou2rc]

i NEED a part two, I'm too invested now

[@bellaangel728]

These books were integral to the development of my sense of humor. I’m just now realizing as a 20 year old just how much my sarcasm and snark stems from these.

[@MintyFreshCupcakes]

These books were genuinely so funny. Me and my sister used to read them together. I wish theu existed in one big book so i could read them again without filling my bookshelf lol

[@labaker4285]

A cousin once removed is the child of your cousin, so if my cousin A has a baby B, baby B is my cousin once removed. If B has a kid later, little C, that's my cousin twice removed

[@swordofseals33]

SO THIS IS WHERE ZONE SHAMPOOING COMES FROM!! So happy to remember this series I used to love. Thanks for posting!

[@SwaggyG_2102]

I read these "Dear Dumb Diary" books a lot as a kid. Although I wasn't a girl, there was something so intriguing to me about DOAWK-esque books that were told through the perspective of a teen girl.

[@purpley869]

As a bisexual, now just realizing that Jamie is very very gay I’m glad I love the books growing up with these amazing books

[@therearenocowshere]

I genuinely loved these as a kid (despite being a huge literature snob back then so I would have never admitted it) -- thank you for doing this lol it absolutely made my week. Also I remember Isabella being kind of the worst and a questionable friend but looking back she's straight up a villain 💀 had me dead

[@lurking__lurker]

Omg my elementary school had those sponges too! I thought they were the pinnacle of modern medicine when I was little lol

[@Valentineatelier]

Jamie is like the prime example of how a pick me girl develops and she’s in the first stage. She envies Angeline because she’s traditionally pretty (by tween standards at least) and more importantly she’s not ashamed of herself. She’s not insecure and has the courage to be nice to Jaime even when she feels like she doesn’t deserve that kindness from Angeline.

[@sadienw127]

i'm pretty sure my brain blended this series and dork diaries together because this video is how i found out that they were not the same series! i only read one or two books from each series, so it kind of makes sense that it happened. simultaneously remembering some of the details from the first dear dumb diary book SO clearly while also being confused because i was sure the main character had a different last name because of a whole plotline about her father running a bug extermination company with the family last name on it and the popular girl making fun of her for it gave me some serious whiplash though lol

[@wenchology]

Oh my GOSH it’s insane that I read every single one of these yet it had disappeared from my memory until now

[@burrit01]

my mom never let me read dear dumb diary, but i remember in kindergarten and first grade my book buddy would let me read some of hers.

[@koolkel00]

THIS THUMBNAIL JUST GAVE ME AN INVERSE THAT'S SO RAVEN MOMENT TO MY CHILDHOOD AND ALL THE ILLUSTRATIONS!!

[@christinar.7955]

As a 25 year old who also read DDD as a kid, I'm so glad that people your age were also reading it as kids lol.

[@splicerbabe]

I was recently wondering where I read in a book about a character that kept ditching their kittens because they weren’t as cute like a few days ago and chalked it up to be Diary of a Wimpy Kid. I totally forgot these books existed! Thanks for answering my brain question.

[@gloomiiii]

I shipped Jamie and Angeline before knowing what shipping was.

[@errorcode2k]

its been over a decade and i still descibe my hair color as Groundhog brown because of this book series lol

[@beaaajpg]

ok but i LOVE how you talk its so clear and keeps me listening! also, i usually need subtitles to understand but i realised at the end that i didn't even put close caption on

[@MarbleSodaPop]

Finally, I see someone talking about this series! I was obsessed with the books and movie, I even had the movie soundtrack on CD and I would play it constantly lol

[@fiskmode3666]

This series really captured how feral girlhood is lmao

[@PrincessMysterion]

1:08:26 the second i saw the drawing of the bald guy looking over a wall it was the #1 thing i doodled on everythjng. To this day i still doodle it whenever im doodling.

[@tabbiexcat]

Another great video from you! I grew up reading the Dear Dumb Diary books and watched the movie a few times when it was on Netflix years ago. This gave me so many flashbacks, some I wish I could forget like that talking meatloaf. I’d love if you’d make a video on the Year Two series eventually.

[@superblooming]

im convinced anyone whos favorite tween diary series was dear dumb diary is gay now

[@avabackupaccount]

true

[@one-onessadhalf3393]

That’s true, from personal experience

[@emmylemons3846]

I’ve been listening to this video off and on all day and I really love how you tell the story!

[@pluutonius]

I'm so glad everyone in the comments agrees that she has baby gay vibes.

[@ToyCircle]

I used to be obsessed with how Jamie decorated her diary with lots and lots of sparkly stuff.

[@mynameisreallycool1]

I've been waiting for someone to make a video about Dear Dumb Diary tbh

[@verybestandmilkyestcow4623]

Saw your video paused it and immediately went to go rewatch the movie as I realized I hadn't seen it in years. Like you I'm also 18 so I personally didn't the books and at one point didnt even know DDD was based off of anything simply because it came out and gained a reader base before i could even walk. Plus in middle school i was more a dork diaries gal, anyway. But it was just so cool to not only see how well the DDD musical held up over the years being extraordinarily funny and having GREAT songs but how it also used so much of the source material. Going through the video it was so crazy to hear the exact quotes and references over the span of the first 10 books that made it to the movie in a way that felt completly organic truly a love letter to books and its fanbase. Props to Big Jim that guy really is amazing.

[@townfool4682]

This was a fantastic video, thank you for bringing this back:) I had no idea how many of these books I remembered until we were still cruisin about halfway through the video

[@mychemicaldante]

i was OBSESSED with these books in middle school and it was so fun revisiting it in this video :)

[@alexfrog546]

I was so upset when I search up dear dumb diary and there was only like 2 videos, and now ur telling me there's a 2 hour video analysis?!??!? God bless u honestly I needed this

[@vampireinsomniac2251]

My elementary school's "small cold thing for your head" was a leaky Ziploc bag of ice wrapped in a paper towel. It didn't work very well.

[@Loverera2023]

Thanks for putting in the time to make this video. I’ve never heard about this series until now, seems like I missed a real good one. ❤

[@tinyteacupzz]

I totally forgot about this series, and it used to be one of my favorites growing up, thank you!

[@JaniceMarieAudio]

Nah but Meatloaf Mystery didn’t have the right to go THAT HARD

[@ajotinha1655]

OMG FINALLY SOMEONE TALKING ABOUT THIS BOOK !! this was like, my whole childhood, damn, thanks for that (btw, I didnt see the video yet, but I hope u mention how fruity this books are

[@livelaughninjaturtles]

Judy Moody and the not so summer bummer or whatever it's called

[@cilginogrenci]

I used to love book 6. The plot twists absloutely blew my mind as a kid. The spaghetti story at the beginning was like baby's first Chekhov's gun. Also, I never realized this but 1:08:23 that's Kilroy!

[@stickittotheman3296]

Aaaghhhh this video brings back so many memories!! As an elementary and middle schooler I related to these books SO HARD, I still own almost all of them and I used to read them allllll the time. I'm pretty sure I got my entire personality from these books, lmao. They definitely really influenced my art back then, too. Even today I will never project on another character as hard as I did on Jamie Kelly

[@kailavazquez6213]

I would never have expected to see a video on a book i enjoyed at such a young age this is awesome

[@littlekandiraver1799]

I can't believe I've found a channel that talks about everything from my childhood let alone you're the same age demographic as me. love the videos you should def make a video about the Thea stilton and Geronimo stilton books at least those were some of my favorites.

[@moronic_mouse]

I was halfway through this when I realized it wasnt about the Dork Diaries, and that the bits I remembered were from the movie, which I also watched as a kid thinking it was going to be about the dork diaries lol

[@pebblegrindelwald6593]

Isabella was a fucking menace😭

[@sqscarlett]

I'm so glad other comments are pointing how queer this book series is, since it wasn't mentioned in the video (unless I missed it) and I thought I was going crazy because I thought it was mad obvious. There's actually an indie author's book called "The Girls of Fall" that literally seems like a more late-teen-oriented version of the "basic art kid winds up bi and dating her bff who winds up being a lesbian was weird around main girl the whole time bc she was crushing hard and they'd known each other forever" trope. MC goes on and on throughout the book about how gorgeous she is in a "platonic" way before realizing she had the feels for conventionally beautiful/girly BFF. It's wild to me how similar the vibes are between the stories, even if it's not exactly the same. Highly recommend the read to anyone watching this video.

[@polygawn]

This series feels like a direct response to/criticism of dork diaries, and I love it for that tbh…it’s funny how a MAN managed to make a funnier, more likable tween girl protagonist than an actual female writer (sorry but Nikki was so unlikeable to me) Edit: nevermind this actually predates dork diaries by like 5 years what!!!!!!!! DDD still on top though ‼️‼️

[@Ghostingjasmine]

I just started this video and it’s great! I was obsessed with dear dumb diary as a kid. I read all the books in my elementary school library

[@eryn2883]

2:20:00 i actually liked how awkward they were around her, i would've been the same way if a pretty girl was nice to me

[@westvirginiascoolestcanadian]

everyone says that dork diaries was the girl version of diary of a wimpy kid, but no. this was. also i was born in 04. there is literally no way you are younger than me.

[@Foxy-ve1oh]

I was scared if this video for like a month because its like 2 and a half hours but that time passed very quickly this video is great,its very engaging and entertaining

[@gunkwizardry]

thank you for making this video!!! i had totally forgotten what these books were called and they were instrumental in me realizing that i liked and obsessed over girls like jamie did for angeline which is almost certainly not in a straight way

[@ariivuitton]

Finally somebody is talking about this iconic movie , after I watched this movies in sixth grade I started journaling full time 🥺🫶🏽

[@anacarolinamenezes8912]

I’m Brazilian and I read all of these books in Brazilian Portuguese and was obsessed with them hahah It’s interesting that many of the names and nicknames were translated and as you mentioned certain parts I had a flashback of how it got translated in Portuguese. That was fun. Also, Isabella is a psycho. She gives me pinky and the brain vibes (she obviously being the brain)

[@Whos_duxell]

I watched this film the other day and the memories were real 🔥🔥

[@ms.voicecrackm]

As you were talking about the books i thought the movie had was Moody Judy instead but ad you were describing it I realized I actually HAD aeen it and remembered how much I loved it!

[@skylargrace6542]

I loved the books as a kid. And I feel like the movie did such a good job of including so many critical plot points in it!

[@SillyGoofyBitch111]

this series is the reason why when i was little i wrote Property Of: [my full legal name] and a vague threat on any notebook and diary i owned

[@codiisbizzareexperience]

Jamie was so gay for Angeline omg…

[@tanasiascott]

this movie is genuinely perfect nostalgia

[@thatsickmao]

im glad to see this series be covered tbh

[@babygaines5]

I loved the movie! I was obsessed with it! Made all my friends watch it and now i feel like i need to rewatch it

[@cloudiibunny2208]

This was absolutely amazing in the biggest fan of these books pleaseeeeee do the 2 series ❤

[@sketchyskies8531]

My niece watched the movie over and over again for months to the point that I could and probably still can quote it. Drove me insane

[@Freshmarketflesh]

Omg I used to love these books!! I had forgotten them until I saw this just now. I loved dear dumb diary.

[@charlienavidad]

1:08:24 omg my long nights of reading wikipedia aren’t for nothing, it’s “Kilroy was here”! a popular graffiti phrase and image (that depending on where you are in the world the name may change) that largely started circulating worldwide around ww2, the guy who started it worked at a shipyard and would sign it on boats and shipping containers which spread it to a variety of people internationally; largely soldiers, they thought it was really funny and started writing it on everything, it kinda was like a ww2-era meme and Allegedly even ended up baiting hitler and stalin who thought kilroy was a superspy or special secret operative because it showed up literally Everywhere. originally the image was named Chad and used with the phrase “wot no sugar?” by the british as a sort of comedical cliticization (also a historic meme ?) of government tax. anyway it’s so silly how humans always repeat ourselves, we’ve always drawn and shared little cartoons because we think it’s funny, future generations will need to look at shit like rageface and pepe and historically dissect it for research, i can actually see it already: it will be like an uncropped grainy low-effort 2012 kermit sipping tea meme with a caption about obamacare in a textbook kids will need to learn about

[@jamijam18]

I went to Montessori school too, but we got little bags of ice, a frozen sponge is crazy😭

[@aquaruisangel]

This was my favorite thing to read in secret as too me being “emo” and “not into girly things” lol 😂❤ so fun to revist 🥰🥰🥰

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I literally used the term “Sicknasty” (not sure if it’s mentioned in the video but iykyk) so often at one job people started to call me that