The Try Guys American Girl Doll Video - DOLL COLLECTOR REACTS

[@karacoconutag]

The way that Hopescope actually scoured the secondhand market to find pretty much every American Girl doll ever for her similar video AND DONATED THEM ALL AFTERWARDS (why tf didn't the try guys try to donate them after like come on guys 😆)

[@art-eroflore]

I don't even follow Hopescope closely but i did see that video and she DID do so much research to buy ALL of the dolls and talk about them!!

[@karacoconutag]

@@art-erofloreSame! I had never seen one of her videos and I've honestly never seen another one since, but I was really impressed with it, she put in the work and closed it out right! ​

[@restlessellis]

They absolutely just went to a store and got what was in stock, and their information came from a very cursory online search and one conversation with the manager of that store. The reason they thought certain dolls were hard or expensive to get is cause they wanted an excuse for not getting something they couldn't return. It ignores that sales people in stores want to sell you things. Of course they're not going to say 'oh you can get caroline's full doll on ebay' they're going to say 'we have the mini doll!'

[@zazzycatlady]

why tf does it matter if they had a doll in person or not?

[@nightengalenorth6881]

@@zazzycatlady Sales people aren't really allowed to tell people where else that they can get the things that the sales person is supposed to be selling. They risk getting reprimanded at best and fired at worst. That is why it matters if the sales people had the doll in person or not. As for the Try Guys not mentioning them...they clearly did only bare minimum of research. They likely only went to the store, got one of each of what they could get there, then looked up the first paragraph of the wiki article for each and called it good. TBH the one girl in their video did actually seem to know a few, and she was pretty much the only reason there was any real value to their video

[@restlessellis]

@@zazzycatlady If you mean if the store had them, then that's already answered. If you mean if the Try Guys had them, i don't think it would've mattered personally. I think they could've just been upfront about buying only what was currently in production and available new in store at the start and not gone 'its really hard and expensive to get' about stuff that's blatantly not true, but also i don't personally care that much about this one aspect of it. It was just interesting/funny to me that what they claimed wasn't accessible due to cost always aligned with what was available in store new, not at all surprising, but something to note. If they'd been upfront about it, they might also have been able to include information on dolls they couldn't get. Like Cecile and Marie-Grace.

[@melonsodaproductions2838]

18:11 Swede here: Just wanna say, yes that's how we did the surnaming in the past, but we don't do that anymore. The only ones still doing the "son/daughter" thing is Iceland

[@SAVYWRITESBOOKS]

yes!! true!!! i see it all the time with icelandic weightlifters lol. i should've specified that i meant sweden did names that way in kirsten's time (1854)

[@larissabrglum3856]

​@@SAVYWRITESBOOKS Yup, I'm of Danish ancestry and my family tree is full of -sens and -datters up until sometime in the 1800s.

[@Mandarinen]

Swede here too. I was just going to point that out. It's still common in families from the old nobility over here, but not otherwise. Also I think her Swedish original name was supposed to be Kerstin. The pronounciation can be found here (It's Astrid Lindgren, the author of Pippi Longstocking reading another of her books where a baby is named Kerstin. I tried to get the link at the moment she says the name, but it didn't work exactly.) kzbin.info/www/bejne/p37VqodjaLinj5I&si=oquxWIV50GSVbcIT

[@briannawalker4793]

I am a die-hard Try Guys stan, but that video put me off watching them for like two weeks 😭😭😭 it was giving the same level of disrespect as when Cinema Therapy reviewed Labyrinth - straight guys gotta learn that there are some things you leave to the girls, gays, and theys!

[@SAVYWRITESBOOKS]

yes!! tbh i would LOVE to see more straight men getting into AG dolls! i already know plenty of straight guys who collect toys. but they gotta show the dolls some respect!

[@tobiasmohr3991]

OMG, disrespect puts it so well. Like I'm glad I'm not the only one feeling this way, cuz I felt like I was being too critical. I dont collect AG dolls, but Barbie and Monster High, however I really enjoy watching other collectors talk about their favorite doll lines and learning about them. And the Try Guys video just felt a bit like they just needed content? Like I felt like they only showed little interest in the doll, which is fine, but then why make a video about them? The woman talking about bonding with her Josefina doll was by far my favorite part, cuz it showed genuine passion and emotion and not just a surface level acknowledge of the dolls.

[@Alexardelean89]

Thank you.

[@Alexardelean89]

@@tobiasmohr3991my exact feelings. I just made a comment about that.

[@Никодим-м9ъ]

Thank you for preaching and for spilling

[@JustinWO-31]

Their reaction to Samantha was gross. That actually made me mad. And it was just downhill from there. Part of the appeal of these is the educational aspect with the books. And they just gloss over it. But I guess that's what happens when you're just trying to pump out content

[@larissabrglum3856]

Lately I've been thinking about how the "spoiled rich girl" trope is often misogyny with a veneer of class consciousness

[@thistley_42]

Tangentially related but I think you might love J Draper’s video where she makes her own ‘London Girl’ doll with handmade, historically accurate outfits and accompanying story using the American Girl format but based on a girl living in Shakespearean era London. She seems to really love and engage with the American girl concept and the play aspect and merges it with her passion for London history.

[@SAVYWRITESBOOKS]

thank you for the recommendation!! i'll check that out

[@mittenista]

Oooh Savvy and JDraper would be a dream collab!

[@maddiedoesntkno]

Oh heck yeah! Two faves there

[@petrichorbones]

im so glad you acknowledge the way the internet treats Samantha they all act like she's mean and rude to people in the book and im like is it just bc she stands up to her neighbor bully??? the boy who bullies her ?????????? because she gets into women's suffrage !!??? i dont get why all the memes are about how awful of a person she apparently is it makes no sense. i can't really engage with american girl doll content online bc i always feel like im missing something and it just makes me feel like im being shamed for liking the dolls lol

[@gabrielleduplessis7388]

Samantha is my first doll my parents gave me and my favorite American Girl doll. I don’t get the hate. It is clearly said by people who don’t read the books or watched her movie. She is very kind and compassionate. Yes, she was privileged, but she listened to people and tried to help. The hate makes no sense. They just see another rich person they want to hate.

[@zazzycatlady]

she’s a fictional doll

[@lazyperfectionist3978]

​@@zazzycatlady so? These dolls have sentimental value to the people who owned and grew up with them, just because you didn't grow up with any toys in your house doesn't mean you get to be annoyed at those that did, especially ones that were meant to be educational

[@larissabrglum3856]

​@@zazzycatlady You could just as easily say to a person who's moved to tears by a movie, "Get over yourself, it's not real." Caring about stories is very human.

[@marlyd]

As a European I don't personally care about AG at all but there's nothing more satisfying than hearing someone talk about something they care about deeply and know everything about. Like YES PASSION WE LOVE TO SEE IT 👏

[@zeynelse4213]

I feel like this is the *epitome* of what it means to not play nice with your toys, like it's not as extremely destructive as for example some young kids with their barbies, but they're trying SO hard to be funny that they come across as callous, ignorant, and mean, they aren't playing nice!

[@larissabrglum3856]

Exactly!

[@mypov4592]

So mean to Kirsten for what? :(

[@charlottehollingsworth9125]

I thought of you the whole time I was watching the Try Guys video and I was SCREAMING pretty much everything you said and also THEY RETURNED ALL THE DOLLS THATS WHY THEY DIDN'T PLAY WITH THEM

[@ofthewilderwoods]

Damn they could have given them away or something. I know they are expensive but would be good gifts!

[@SAVYWRITESBOOKS]

returning them is horrific behavior. wtf

[@TiBunCosplay]

And there goes my hope that they donated the dolls to children's hospitals or toys for tots or something. It would have been so nice if they all went to kids who normally wouldn't be able to get American Girl dolls.

[@zoeyc5851]

​@@SAVYWRITESBOOKS its because they were on loan from the store I think

[@gabrielleduplessis7388]

@@TiBunCosplayhope scope did that. I loved how she tried finding every doll that she could and I forget if she kept a few, but she donated many of them to a children’s hospital. That was so generous of her.

[@blue_brie]

It’s needlessly cruel to ruin and destroy something so meaningful to others. This video stinks of privilege and dare I say misogyny. It is ironic how dehumanising this video is to something that just resembles a girl, given the doll’s purpose. These dolls are not only expensive, but they can be everything to a young girl, an entire person. To watch something you loved as a child be brutalised is a visceral image. I can’t see the Try Guys the same after this.

[@larissabrglum3856]

Honestly, same?

[@chaihuahua]

not that like, anyone asked, but when i was a kid i went to a homeschool co-op thing that my mom would teach at and there was one year where she taught an elementary grade history class with american girl. they would read the books in order of the time period, along with more educational books/resources about said time period, and we'd also do a project or craft related to the american girl character. i just still think that was a super fun and creative approach to teaching a history class for kids :>

[@Maiko_Official]

Not the disrespect to my girl Kirsten 😭 As someone who got into AG recently, and hearing about people talk about how hard and expensive to get some dolls are, the manhandling of some dolls made me gasp

[@SAVYWRITESBOOKS]

same!!! how could you treat kirsten that way?!?!?!

[@larissabrglum3856]

I was always a child who was gentle with my toys, so I feel the same

[@gabrielleduplessis7388]

I hated how they handled the dolls. So disrespectful. The way they played with Claudie made me sick.

[@firkle]

thank u so much for doing a video on this, we needed a doll collector’s view especially one who knows american girl, i couldn’t even watch the vid myself !!

[@SAVYWRITESBOOKS]

thank you!! it was tough to watch especially the treatment they gave kirsten

[@Enjemnsnens]

I love when Americans don’t know about 1812 😭 bro we burnt down the White House 😭

[@queenoffabulous2156]

I'm not even American and I know about the fire

[@arbyswitch5580]

Also on this side of the pond...it's when the national anthem got written But yeah the war of 1812 is not well known outside of the states where it was fought (the fort where the guy wrote the star spangled banner is literally in my hometown)

[@Enjemnsnens]

@@queenoffabulous2156 no it’s the Americans who don’t know about it. And if they know about it at all, they think the US won. It’s in their history textbooks that they won but Britain actually won and gained territory that is still Canada to this day

[@Caroline_the_cartoon_enjoyer]

Try Guys: I don't really like how Kit looks Me who looks very much like Kit:

[@SAVYWRITESBOOKS]

@@Caroline_the_cartoon_enjoyer right?? Also "it feels like they just gave her freckles to fit in" when she's the first doll they ever made with freckles??

[@Caroline_the_cartoon_enjoyer]

@@SAVYWRITESBOOKS Literally!! And they were like “the freckles don’t look real” like ok maybe because she’s a doll??? 😭

[@robinmitchells]

@@Caroline_the_cartoon_enjoyer and idk about the rerelease but the freckles on my Kit that I got ~2008 look pretty good! Definitely better than most dolls!

[@Caroline_the_cartoon_enjoyer]

@@robinmitchells Same I don’t see the problem! I have a Beforever Kit and while I have many qualms with the Beforever dolls, Kit’s freckles look super cute

[@robinmitchells]

@@Caroline_the_cartoon_enjoyer yeah it’s not like AG took a sharpie and put dots all over her cheeks, they took the time to make the freckles look realistic! Hell some of my childhood friends probably had freckles just like that at some point

[@bjam89]

my guess is you had the name right, they love changing their titles and thumbnails and clickbait so i would not be shocked if they did have that name at the start

[@luminolmortis5927]

about kit's freckles "they look like they're painted on" i got some news for you buddy also - the try guys vid is just unfunny dude people have done this concept and done it well, this just feels like a low effort cash grab idk why they did it. it was uncomfortable at points for me tbh as a doll collector, like idk why some people feel the need to throw dolls around like that and constantly make fun. and then after they did all that apparently they returned the dolls instead of donating them or something?

[@mistakenlymidwest2460]

As a Kit girlie… I am incensed. How dare they do my girls hair like that. Thank you, Savvy for sticking up for my journalist hero

[@gabbyjohnson]

i’m a kit girlie too!! i even cut my hair when i got her in 1st grade so we would match 🥲 the try guys video was hard to watch

[@karoliinalehtinen6701]

Young girls did in fact wear dresses that were pretty much like flapper dresses in 1920s! In fact the drop waist style was a specifically youthful style, which came to adult fashion from children's fashion. Young girls in late 1800s used short drop waisted styles! I think her dress is actually pretty accurate dress for a child in 1920s.

[@maliaprescott]

Pretty sure they were keeping the hairnets on so that they could return the dolls they bought new (hopefully not the ones they got messy..). They’ve been known to return items they use in their other videos. Edit: just saw that a commenter mentioned this in your video! Thanks for reviewing this, I didn’t watch it when they originally posted it because I knew they wouldn’t treat the dolls and their context with the respect I think they deserve.

[@larissabrglum3856]

It feels a bit... sexist? I'm remembering when boys teased me about my "girly" toys and would play rough with them. The little girl in me wants to shout, "Give those back!"

[@tobiasmohr3991]

I'm not an American Girl collector, but a doll collector non the less (Barbie and Monster High) and tbh, I find the try guys video kinda weird. Like, I agree with a lot of your criticism. I watched your American Girl video a while ago and it was exactly what I wanted out of an American Girl video. The Try Guys one feels so shallow and tbh, like they dont even try. Which is ironic considering their name. My favorite part of the Try Guys video was when the woman talked about how she bonded with her doll. Most of the rest, especially the guys, just seem to randomly say stuff. Idk if I'm being overly critical, but I really dont get the point of of their video. That said, watching you watch it and add context was very entertaining. Why would I choose to watch the Try Guys ramble without saying much if anstatt I can watch you talk about AG dolls and actually learn about the characters as well as the company? Like you obviously have a big passion for AG dolls and I love watching people talk about stuff they are passionate about. Idk I really feel like I'm being mean critizising the Try Guys like that, especially since I dont usually watch them anyways, so amyne their style of content just isn't something hhat appeals to me. But hey, I got another video of Savy talking about dolls out of it, so I'm happy 😊 Okay, so edit, after reading some more comments, Im glad to see I'm not the only one thinking this way, and someone else also mentioned how roughly they handled the dolls and OMG that's so true. Since I dont own any AG dolls, I dont know how careful you should be with them, but at times I was thinking that if someone treated my dolls like that, I'd be dying inside. Edit 2: The more I watch, the more this feels like when I try to explain my passions to someone who utterly doest care and only makes jokes about it, while I get more and more irritated. Only at least the Try Guys don't act like this towards Savy directly, since she's just reacting, but the vibes are so that, it's uncanny. Like the Try Guys video almost feels like a mockery at times. I kinda feel like this is really disrespectful towards fans of AG as well as the brand and characters. Edit 3: Idk if I'm just completely off base now, but I cant imagine being the AG store manager, loaning the Try Guys my personal doll to help them film a video about something I have a big passion for, only for them ho make this video. I'd be so disappointed. Edit 4: Okay no, I'm done, them slamming Kirsten into the cupcake is the breaking point for me. Also just how they were like "which one can we get dirty", idk I just feel like that shows an utter disrespect for the dolls and shows that they don't value them. There are a lot of people who would be incredibly happy to own these dolls. I really hope this isn't where they actually end up. They deserve to be with people that appreciate them and who gain joy from owning them and not being almost treated like trash. The thought that these dolls could have gone to people that appreciate them, but didn't is so horrible to me. I'm sorry if I'm overreacting, but I feel like this is so utterly and unnecessarily disrespectful (to the dolls, to the fans, to all the people who have an emotional attachment to the characters). This makes me really mad, not gonna lie.

[@stephanieok5365]

We do not abide Samantha slander in this house. We simp our child labor activist dollie. 🎉

[@robinmitchells]

As a hardcore Cècile fan, HOW DARE THEY SKIP MY GIRL?!? I can understand not having a doll for her because even the mini doll on the resale market is on the expensive side (let alone the full sized 😩) but not even a mention?!

[@soapygirl83]

Anytime people talk about Felicity being the most chaotic, I think they have obviously not read or not. Remembered reading changes for Kirsten because that has got to be the most chaotic book of all time. Girlfriend decides to adopt a pet raccoon and it promptly burns down her house. Everyone's mad at her because they're now broke and homeless so she's out in the woods with her brothers hermit fur trapper's hovel. He's dead so she and her brothers decide to steal all of his furs and just basically go finders keepers losers weepers so that they can have enough money to buy a new house. That book is WILD

[@citrinedragonfly]

They did not just do my girl Samantha dirty like that. I fell in love with Samantha when I first checked her book out of the public library not long after the line debuted, and from book one, I *needed* a Samantha doll. Four-five years of asking at every birthday and Christmas, trying to save up money to give my mom, and I finally got her when I was in middle school - either my birthday or Christmas in 6th grade, because my parents thought I was finally old enough "not to ruin her". I am still annoyed at myself for not getting the Nellie doll when she was out and I had disposable income of my own. Samantha taught about facing fears and helping people whom society tried not to care about. Like, read the basic synopsis on wikipedia, dudes!

[@AGTV4Life]

I honestly could not watch that video without you and your commentary. Even then it was very difficult watching these guys simulate whatever their definition of “try” is. Thank you for your video. You always crack me up and I love your perspective and I don’t think I will never watch a try guys video again.

[@astridmyst]

I honestly couldn't even watch the whole Try Guys video. Thank you for suffering through to react to it, seriously.

[@art-eroflore]

"i dont usually watch the try guys but they aren't that funny" i was astounded by how unfunny that whole video looked from the clips. And just people who do not know how to play with dolls at all smashing them. Kinda felt like they didn't know what to say for the two black characters- not that those aren't heavy subjects, but my understanding is that a lot of black girls connect to the trauma AND the joy of the characters, so you're kind of reducing AG as a whole by being like "the white girls have happy stories and the black girls have TRAUMA". Addy had like a team of African-American teachers and consultants to discuss what her story would be about. Like you talked about in the Xtian AG knockoff video Savy, she was religious and had other components to her life. Felt like they brought in a token WOC who liked AG so they could avoid criticism. But it didn't really help how *they* talked about the dolls, the woman seems perfectly nice and liked their stories but the men were just rude.

[@aliciacarr9014]

I think they were the wrong people to look at the American Girl Dolls.

[@faithelizabethz]

I got 3 dolls in and stopped watching when I watched the original video when it came out, I could tell it was a disaster. And I love Try Guys. Sorry Zach.

[@SAVYWRITESBOOKS]

yeah lol. seems like they didn't know how passionate this fandom gets

[@lantastic1147]

JUSTICE FOR SAMANTHA the Samantha hate makes me so sad I always loved her and her friendship with Nellie and the book where she revisited her parent’s boating accident was always one of my favorites

[@SoapyFae]

"Having vision imparemejt gets you square pegged ss the smart one" can confirm I have glasses and im dumb as shit. Like sure i read a lot, but its all fantasy novels, im not a stem girly

[@arariddley3314]

Saaammee. I read romance novels and the stories on the Episode App, but don't ask me to do long division because I might cry.

[@robinmitchells]

@@SoapyFae I have glasses I need to wear for distance vision and I’m out here reading the fantasy and cozy mysteries and poetry, if you ask me to do a math problem more complicated than addition or subtraction I’m screwed

[@larissabrglum3856]

Reminds me of that dating profile that says "Don't think I'm some smart nerd because of my glasses, I'm just a sl*t who can't see"

[@QueestaLoo]

I'm so glad you reacted to this. You were the main creator I wanted to hear from about their general lack of research and care. They could have easily brought on an AG expert who could teach them about the girls' stories.

[@rb6435]

Watching an Autistic person react to a video mocking their special interest is normally something I would immediately turn off because it would be painful to watch but I really enjoyed this because of all the lore you were sharing about the dolls you love. I had a Samantha doll when I was a kid and I LOVED the books and your AG content has reignited that passion. I have no idea what happened to my doll 😭 (I probably got rid of it while in my “not like other girls” teenage years, before I embraced feminism.) If I had the money I would totally get one today, but for now I will collect the books, both Samantha’s and many of the other girls’. I like to think that Samantha’s story is the beginning of my anticapitalist beliefs.

[@seeking_saturn]

I didn't know the video was made by a fellow autistic person (it's my first video from this channel) but it makes sense now that I know

[@pssurvivor]

why is it that these large channels with all teh staff cannot be bothered to do a little bit of research?? this try guys video was so cringe!

[@Nerd_with_internet_access]

Oh my gosh, there were literally points where I screamed (I apologize to my neighbors) but oh my god, idk if it was just a middle class family thing, but it we treated these like they were gold. I JOKED about putting lipgloss on my doll as an eight year old, and I got chewed out over it. (Maybe chewed out isn’t the best word, my mom stopped me and asked me if that was really a good choice, and we had to have a while talk about how the doll was expensive and that would hurt it) seeing them get food NEAR Kirstin I killing me, let alone just smashing her face in it. (Hello, ahve they never head of EYE RUST!?!?) I had felicity and Elizabeth growing up, and they are still in amazing condition, mostly because I didn’t make marks on them (my off brand American girl horses are another story) and around the time I stopped playing with them I got their hair braided at the store and kept it like that so the hair is preserved. Look, I know they’re a huge company and spending this much probably isn’t a huge deal, but like, it is physically causing by me stress, This whole thing seems so rushed, like it was just a video idea. Like they didn’t even care. I get they are busy guys, but have two pa’s or something split the books, it didn’t even need to be all of them, maybe just two for each girl, and then read her wiki page, idk. Then they can stand off screen and feed them what happens. But like, they didn’t even try, wich is wild because they spent at least $1,000 on this video, undoubtedly more. Idk, I’m glad I got to watch the video which someone who at least cares. If I had watched shut that video raw, I would have lost it .

[@28pinkdancer]

as a 30 year old lady who collects stuffed animals and brings them around everywhere (at the very least in the car) I feel so safe here

[@Solsiva]

As a Samantha friend, this made me so mad. Thank you for your reaction.

[@larissabrglum3856]

I was a moderate Samantha enjoyer back in the day and I'm glad someone stood up for her

[@olwen4743]

Wait, they borrowed the Manager's personal Molly doll and still returned all of the dolls. That's like an extremely shitty thing to do, what?!

[@petrichorbones]

i really wouldnt be able to watch this video without Savvy defending the dolls lol

[@averyeml]

I scrolled for a long time to see if anyone mentioned this and didn’t see it (apologies if KZbin just didn’t show it) but this video was already starting off concerning and awful to me when it first popped up on my feed right as it uploaded and they USED A TERRIBLE AI TUMBNAIL!!!! It was Zach’s face surrounded by dozens of what AI thought an American Girl doll looked like. They had wonky eyes and looked more like a generic porcelain doll than a real AG. They were also all in a bland pink blob of an outfit and I think mostly or entirely had blonde hair, because AI doesn’t know the difference between Barbie and AG dolls. It took an hour or two of people in the comments and on Twitter complaining about the toxic-ass vibes of having all the dolls they did bother to get literally laying in a pile on the floor and not being able to take some photos (or rip them off the internet) before they bothered to go steal some clip art and make it better.

[@Jess_talks_book]

That Try Guys video was infuriating to watch

[@SAVYWRITESBOOKS]

it was a wild ride

[@arbyswitch5580]

Yeah I used to be a big try guys fan, it made me realize that while I have grown and changed a great deal in the last ten years, they haven't much And I think the purpose they served for me has expired

[@iceblaster1252]

Seeing these guys just skip over the ones you mentioned(note, I’ve never collected these I only know them through you) and just not learn anything makes it seem like they didn’t want to actually even touch on anything controversial or potentially actually sad.

[@larissabrglum3856]

Yeah, I sensed a refusal to take the stories seriously at all

[@iceblaster1252]

@@larissabrglum3856 yeah, like. Even if you think ‘oh they’re just dolls’, if you’re engaging with something it just feels weird to not properly engage. Even if they didn’t read the accompanying books, they could’ve at least read synopses that aren’t the back of the book blurbs, or even talk to people who had.

[@olwen4743]

I have to say, having never watched the Try Guys before, this video really put me off on ever supporting them. It comes off like they're just trying to bully kids for having "girly" interests like dolls. Even with the woman there it still comes off as a very sexist "everything girls like is shallow and dumb" take you'd expect from a 14 year old. They didn't realize the stories have depth and they ignored the creativity aspect of people coming up with their own stories for their dolls as well. I remember never inviting my friends over and hiding things I liked growing up cause I didn't want people to mock me for enjoying dolls, and this kind of video was what caused me to have those fears. Also, the returning them thing is just gross. They could've donated them and made some kid's Christmas. Instead they returned them, meaning the store took a loss which sucks cause there are already so few AG stores left. Plus, from what people have been saying, Mattel doesn't just put the dolls back on the shelf if you return them, they destroy those dolls. So it's even more of a waste.

[@rosetroya9366]

this video has too much the vibe that the mean older brother got a hold of his sisters dolls and are just mocking and abusing them.

[@TotoroK9]

I'm not even an AG fan or a doll collector but the video was also making me angry... Like, why bring up the story for some but completely ignore it for others? Also, if they seriously return(ed) them.... As a former retail worker, i can feel rage inside me already. Also, AG girls are expensive, so donating them would be SO kind, especially since their conclusion was partly about how important dolls are to the kids who grow up with them. I hope they listened to their audience.

[@Alexardelean89]

I don’t know anything about American girl dolls. I am a doll collector but I’m not into them. I am into watching doll videos of all kinds because I’m curious. I’m very impressed with your knowledge on this line and it really pissed me off how he was so dismissive and disrespectful to the stories of these dolls and just makes light of them. Don’t throw them and make jokes. I really didn’t like this. I don’t watch the try guys. I never have. I find them annoying. I’m just glad you’re here to inform us. You’ve gained a subscriber.

[@larissabrglum3856]

The Try Guys video gave me that "boys being dicks to me about my girly toys" feeling

[@americangirlfilms]

Thank you for watching this brainrot for me 🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@SAVYWRITESBOOKS]

you're welcome

[@cladthecrab]

I never had an American Girl doll, but I love watching your videos on them! Your enthusiasm for them always draws me in. I was cringing in the video when the guys were so rough with the dolls, and were so clearly uncurious about them - why even make a video about something if you're not open to taking it seriously at least long enough to learn about it?

[@realMacMadame]

The Try Guys never try "everything", btw, no matter what the vid title says. I appreciated that they had an AG lover in the video though.

[@Enjemnsnens]

They’re really low-info and it feels like they’re still clinging onto a 2010s style of content. Like just brushing over things superficially with little effort (because algo says videos should 19 mins max!! [says the social media consultant with stats from 10 years ago])

[@tobiasmohr3991]

Yeah, like when she talked about her relationship with her Josefina doll, that was my favorite part of the entire video. The rest felt very surface level and really gave me the impression they just needed an idea for content. I didn't feel like they had much interest in the dolls, which would be fine, but then why make a video about them? I mean I know why, money duh, but you get what I mean.

[@arbyswitch5580]

​@@Enjemnsnens they got their start on BuzzFeed and I wonder if there's still some stuff that they were effectively trained to do while at BuzzFeed that they haven't quite gotten out of their systems yet

[@adeer87]

Idk, Ive seen plenty of their older videos where they genuinely did try stuff in depth.

[@PossumTheSilly]

One thing that they I noticed they got wrong and you didn’t correct was the pronunciation of Nanea’s name (which is Na-nay-a, not Nanny-a).

[@MadeleinePetti]

Idk about anyone else but like these books and dolls were peak girlhood for me and for some reason I kinda sense sexist undertones from the try guys video because you just know if this was about Spider-Man or Batman lore it’d be a way different situation…if he wants to be a “great girl dad” he needs to learn what it’s like to be a girl and what it’s been like to be a girl throughout history UGH my blood is boiling…

[@larissabrglum3856]

I get the same feeling

[@art-eroflore]

If someones making a video about superheroes the superhero bros will rise up and criticize them so I think thats why they actually care, they figure that girls toys don't get as much attention so they don't have to worry about people actually criticizing them.

[@clarinetpride55]

Samantha was always my favorite! The Samantha slander is just infuriating!

[@Jess-mk3vs]

My take on this video is these are just the dolls that are currently available at American Girl. Caroline is available as a mini doll (the only glimmer of hope that she returns someday), but Cecile and Marie Grace have no dolls available. I feel like Mattel gave them dolls "on loan" to film the video as a promotional (weird promotional, but a promotional) and Mattel just wrote the dolls off as a loss. 🤷🏼‍♀️

[@bulbasaurevolved]

I’m not a doll collector like you, but my sister and I did have a few American Girl dolls as kids. I can’t remember who they were - I think Kit and Samantha? When I was playing with them I would pretend they were hobbits in the Shire. Lol. I still use Samantha’s little “pencil box” accessory to hold my sewing needles 😊 Anyways, all your information was a fun blast from the past. It’s always fun to listen to someone talk about their hobbies that they love.

[@rosenfields]

watching this while doing doll mods is the correct way to watch (not american girl dolls, but i love when you talk about them! also i get inspired when you talk about doll stuff)

[@cookiemocher388]

It's not kinda implied that Felicity's gramfather owns slaves, it's confirmed that he does in the book "Felicity saves the day"

[@Oonagh72]

…Pleasant T. Rowland, yes that’s her real name.” Ok. He can eff off with that. Aren’t we past that yet? He is a grown and “worldly” man, but he can’t believe someone is named Pleasant. Hopefully he will become enlightened. I say this a someone who thought adults “playing with dolls” was silly. I now see it as the wonderful creative outlet that it is. Thanks you for the story about your dad. It was beautiful.

[@sankurusteph]

In an effort to make fun of how the dolls ignored the ugly parts of history, they ignored all the ways the dolls never ignored the ugly parts of history. Justice for my girlies Kirsten and Samantha smh.

[@plumsparkles945]

Justice for Samantha

[@jackketchem6210]

Lotta casual misogyny going on in a video reviewing traumatized little girls 👀🤨

[@janetestherina7169]

imagine not knowing any american girl lore, smh

[@Jamie-is5rm]

Okay so this I have a little confession to make... before I got back into collecting AG dolls, I forget that Cecile and Marie-Grace even existed. I've gotten a lot better at that now that I'm a little more involved in the collecting community, but because they were only available for a short period of time when I was younger, I kind of forgot about them for a while - which was so weird because I remember when I was younger thinking it was so cool that they were both equal to eachother and it isn't a "one compliments the other" like the Best Friend line. That's not to say I don't think their stories are important! In fact I'm kicking myself for not getting either of those dolls when I was younger. I just think if you don't know much about American Girl and it's history, those two can be very easy to forget, which is really sad. I think this was a complete accident on the Try Guys part, but its very sad that those two girlies were forgotten.

[@Guin_the_frog]

I wish I could see a video of you unboxing and having all of these dolls so it can be like an exciting video that actually gives respect to the dolls.

[@mypov4592]

As a Lousiana creole, the Cecile and Marie Grace erasure that persists tires me

[@Jacob-Sophia]

Feeling vindicated in having never watched the Try Guys before this. I don't think i could've finished this without your commentary.

[@aimeedinov7029]

I just know of the Try Guys, this is the most of one of their videos I’ve ever seen and if this is indicative of the usual humor, it is not for me. I am also not having the Samantha slander!

[@marinaa9557]

The try guys easily could've had NOT put the qualifier that they bought ALL of the dolls, could've even swapped that with a qualifier of all they could find! Disappointed in them for that, as another commenter said Hopescope tried her best to get all she COULD get! Also, yes, Samantha is pretty much the only doll I could recall! I will admit I knew nothing about any of the dolls, but they just weren't my cup of tea as a kid. I am disappointed that the Try Guys gave sooo little attention to any of the dolls and were just riffing off of the superficial looks and basic wiki info in the first paragraph. Guess they needed an expert to guide them since they were unable to do that themselves.

[@astridmyst]

Yesss I've been waiting for you to react to this! I love the Try Guys but honestly this video was just so.. it missed the mark entirely. I'm so excited to see your reaction!

[@philurbaniak1811]

👍👍 nice one, Savy! I've never watched these dudes before and now I know I don't want to 😄! Lots of love to all the doll folk and doll parents out there 💛👍!

[@olivethunderbird]

On the one hand this video is making me miss my dolls and sad I let my mom give them away, but also I’m glad I got to share the joy with another little girl ❤

[@gabrielleduplessis7388]

You may live babbity Kate’s videos on American Girl, especially Samantha. They are long, but she tries trying everything related to her like the books, the cookbook, arts and crafts, etc. And she raves over these dolls while also critiquing some aspects of the stories. It is a nice balanced approach.

[@SAVYWRITESBOOKS]

@@gabrielleduplessis7388 I loved her Kirsten video, and her Samantha video is currently on my list to watch

[@alexandracalvert5681]

I would watch the hell out of a deep dive into all of the historical dolls, honestly even the girl of the tear dolls too

[@MandVersusNature]

Thank you for doing this video because I couldn’t get past their video when they slandered Samantha.

[@DeemoandPuff]

5:26 bro stop this story is gonna make me cry this us such a sweet memory

[@daisysorbet]

tbh i don't know anything about american girl dolls (always wanted one as a kid, but didn't have the money) but i'm seated. i'm fully invested. i love the passion

[@Miserycordya]

Josefina was the shit! she was the *new* doll when I was into them. we used to get the books from the library, and i remember the first books I read were the Samantha books, around christmas. their video is surfacey content for the sake of content .. not mad about it though..

[@SAVYWRITESBOOKS]

yes!!! i think i was 5 when josefina came out, so i wasn't into the AG dolls yet, because back in the 90s they were definitely targeted more at the 8-12 year old demographic. i think kirsten's books were my favorite as a kid. i also loved molly's because she was so funny.

[@larissabrglum3856]

Josefina was my doll of choice because I thought she was the prettiest. Anyway I grew up to be bi

[@MadeleinePetti]

Fun fact I learned from my Swedish neighbor: Kirsten is pronounced “Sheer-sten” in Swedish!!!

[@katiebailey3439]

I think my first American girl doll was Kirsten cause my great great grandparents were also Swedish immigrants in middle America so it was kind of cool reading about her

[@scarletsavenger1367]

I was upset after watching this video because I can’t imagine treating any of my dolls like that 😭

[@6a6ylam6]

I didn't know about Swedish naming convention being that way! I had heard that was how many last names came to be in general and always wondered how if varied culturally. In Russia we still use patronyms too (father's first name with gendered suffix) but we have last names, and no middle names . Also when we address someone formally instead of [title. lastname] like Ms. Doe or Mr. Doe you would say [first name, patronym] so Jane Johnovna or James Johnovich every time or with honorific "you". If you ever wonder about honorifics in Russian, it changes only thing about your grammar, speak as if you are talking to more than one person.. like a fancy "y'all" but for 1 person.

[@meowzerzzz]

I only had Samantha. Yeah, they need to stop dragging her name.

[@AveryCrane]

I’m lowkey waiting to see if they mention this video on their podcast 😂

[@eisforenkai]

Former Hawai’i resident here (military family, so that extra Pearl Harbor tie-in. Yes, I’m haole A.F.). I haven’t read Nanea’s book to know the details, but Nanea being half Hawaiian, half Scottish isn’t that surprising. Throughout the 1800s, a huge flux of Europeans came to Hawai’i, whether for economic (whaling, sugar) or religious (missionary) reasons, and immigrants from Asia came initially largely to work said plantations. Nanea was born over 30 years the capitalist coup and got McKinley to annex Hawai’i. Nanea’s dad going to Hawai’i for whatever reason and marrying a Hawaiian woman isn’t a stretch. Intermarriage was well-established. My question is does Nanea have any friends that got sent to an Internment camp? That seems like a pretty big thing that they would hopefully address.

[@mittenista]

They didn't try, but they were very trying.

[@Jess-mk3vs]

I will say there was a period where American Girl had Molly sold out so they could put the new foot stamp on the new dolls.

[@SAVYWRITESBOOKS]

i'm grateful that out of my 32 american girl dolls, zero have that ugly ass foot stamp

[@Jess-mk3vs]

@SAVYWRITESBOOKS Me too! That foot stamp is so ugly. 😩

[@lisabal6431]

It did start out as the pleasant company. Just had to say it cause my dolls were pleasant company dolls 😊

[@SAVYWRITESBOOKS]

@@lisabal6431 yes, I loved original pleasant company stuff.

[@infiniteaugends]

I was in love with Julie! She was my childhood doll and her original outfit was so cute! Now I grew up to be both queer and politically active. Julie radicalized me 😂

[@infiniteaugends]

Being first generation immigrants is so American! Immigration is one of the first traits I think about when thinking about American Girl Dolls

[@restlessellis]

the TONE of the 'that's the point' at around 39 minutes from Savy was so fucking good. So disappointed, so done. (I'm a 'fan' of the try guys in the casual subbed and will watch when it looks interesting sense, did not watch this one. Gave that thumbnail a long stare and decided it wasn't worth it. Glad to see I was right to make that assumption xD)

[@rhavymoon]

Def that Kirsten is newer right? Bc I saw someone on Ag Reddit that also got a new Kirsten and her nose and eyes were the same? Almost like the mold was damaged and they sent her out anyways….

[@forty_two42]

I'm glad to hear people are getting high with their dolls. I hunted down the Silver Surfer Action Figure I had as a kid and I get stoned with him sometimes and I'll talk at him or I'll take him off the shelf and he'll fly around my house (in my hand)

[@arbyswitch5580]

Finally its here thank you so much for this savy

[@shouldbewritig]

I’m a Try Guys fan but the AG video wasn’t it. A lot of their “menu” one’s just aren’t my favorite. Samantha and Molly were my favorites as a kid so I was also salty seeing how they reacted with Samantha.

[@dramonmaster222]

Oh! This is going to be a Trip!

[@SAVYWRITESBOOKS]

it was

[@RogueRebel16]

The amount of disrespect for the historical girls...oh, my gosh and poor Kirsten.

[@ToCoziesAndBeyond]

I really like watching you react to this video and teaching me more about the American Girls dolls.

[@kristinaland]

I’ve never seen a Try Guys video and I never will now 😅 Glad you made this more palatable! 😂

[@lunalluna9401]

I'm not from the usa so I've never had or even heard of these dolls but the stories you were telling were so interesting I wanted to know more! Their video just shows the little to no effort they put into them. They got the dolls and just did a few "jokes" in the moment, nothing more, no substance. I would've been embarrassed to post such useless content 40:59 I honestly burst out laughing here, like she's a doll ! What does he expect lol