Watching Skins for the first time: Effy is one of the most enchanting, mysterious characters you can’t help to fall in love with. Now as an adult: a very sad child that didn’t get proper treatment, and would probably be very difficult to be around.
@Gabriel T I wouldn't call her selfish, but she was definitely oblivious. And everything else you said was 100% on point. The whole cast of characters in S1 - S4 were absolute train wrecks, and that's putting it lightly. But damn, was Gen 1 a complete mess of characters surrounded by a deeper mess of characters.
Both Effy and Tony are perfect examples of kids where the cool image they've drawn up is just a cover-up for a lot of insecurities and detachment within the family. Especially with Effy, there was an incapability of handling love because everyone loved her for all the wrong reasons, and not the person she truly was, except for Tony. She was enigmatic, but very troubled, but everyone was so enthralled by her image that it became toxic for her and the ones that loved her. To me, this show is one of the few shows to have realistic teenage characters with a lot of layers in the storylines, the third generation excluded (when the show sort of became a caricature of itself).
Just wanted to tell you your comment just made me click on another piece of media I read surrounding a character that also shares traits and dynamics as Effy, brilliant way of wording it! You're great.
She suffered from selective mutism as a child (she stopped talking when she was 6 and this is mentioned in a deleted scene) and in her early teens, probably due to her family situation. Indeed, his parents were rather bigoted, superficial and careless. No one paid attention to her or cared about her except Tony, so she attracted attention like that.
In season 2 when she was being super posh its because she was putting the accent on to seem like she had everything together (because everything eas falling apart: tonys brain damage, parents marriage etc)
It's common for people who have had selective mutism to emulate the voices around them when they do speak. It's also a common symptom of a few mental health disorders including BPD which she very much shows symptoms of throughout the show. Her voice reflects those around her, it's another way to try and protect herself, likely without her even noticing.
I had to look selective mutism and it explains a lot about her, and myself.. I read that the reason is most often comes from anxiety and stress ( which she experienced a lot at home).
she is the ultimate manic pixie dream girl, mutism with autistic behaviors while being wildly misread constantly and being neglected from everyone but tony. they see her as needing fixed
she had more traits of emotionally unstable personality disorder than autism but I can understand why you'd confuse it to autism because they're very similar. also mutism isn't exclusive to autism either want to make this clear. EUPD also can have selective mutism because of trauma. I'm Autistic and ADHD and I don't see traits to ADHD or autism here, but emotionally unstable personality disorder which is formally known as Borderline personality disorder.
@@SolC1989 I am seeking diagnosis for EUPD. my mum has it. I grew up around it. I'm 26 next month. I've been diagnosed with ADHD since I was 6, I wasn't able to get a dual diagnosis of autism because they didn't do that 20 years ago, especially not for women or girls. autism was recognised by a therapist when I was 18 and was able to receive a proper diagnosis for it at 21. this is EUPD. not autism.100%
@@MonstehDinosawr i see your second comment and I'm the same age as you. But honestly I related the most to effy out of everyone even though most people don't realise every character on this show has issues and trauma. Effy is for sure autistic. She doesn't follow rules, she's blatantly honest, doesn't understand social matters. And uses trauma and emotions control her. She could be both but she I resemble even to her body language language.
It is sad, just when Tony was ready to change, he lost it all. If he hadn't been put in a coma, I imagine he also would've helped Effy and they both could've had better lives.
@@shanouboubou i can’t remember what happened to him specifically but I remember the deaths of the girl and the parents of the girl he was kinda dating bc he messed with the wrong people… are you referring to that? That traumatized the hell out of me **Nvm that was mother fuckin cook lol
@sigridfelholt998 he got killed with a bat I believe it was, it was horrible because you just saw the way it happened behind a blurred door and he seemed pretty helpless. There was a bigger storyline but I can’t remember it was back in like 2012 or so
@sigridfelholt998 good for you for listening to yourself, it really was a heavy show… I could only really handle that before I real life kicked in for me at like 23/24 lol no way I’m watching it now
i watched skins in 2020-2021 and planned to be exactly like her for entering high school 😭😭 yeaah it was something, all i am in high school now is just a loser that doesn’t talk not because i’m mysterious but because of my crippling anxiety and everything else wrong with me
@@lanakat thats me except i graduated in 2020 lmaoo. if i made it through, then youll do too! i even had a few mates i would talk to when we had class together but nothing too deep unfortunately. most of the time i was the weird (,not sexy) quiet girl
@@lanakat didnt know there were so many people like me😭 i did this too and now i have no friends and no social life at all... heard girls from my school talking about me and they compared me to special kid, the only thing that was good about me was my apperance and thats all
Fun fact kaya scodelario was on,y 14 when she got the roll of effy and she lied about her age to get it because they only wanted 16+ for the roll because of all the stuff they have to do
I don’t know but I get the impression that people liked Effys aesthetic more than her as a person? Edit: Thanks for the 2k likes! Take care of your well-being and mental health❤️
A lot of people were too young to dig deeper in her character. They just saw the beautiful, cool girl everyone wanted. But Effy is such a fascinating character if you analyze her.
Effy was such an alluring character, I always wanted a whole series of her. I'm so glad we got to see her branch out into the world with 'Skins: Fire'.
I was 19 when Skins first came out and EVERYONE watched it. The music, the fashion and the promiscuity that was the fabric of the show was lived by so many of us at that time. When I take a trip down memory lane with videos like this, I can't help but think, wow, it really was shite wasn't it?!
The first generation was definitely not shite, I thought it had great characters and writing. The second generation has aged horribly and is a fucking mess. The third one… that was already awful when it came out 😂
@@jamescarr1265 Yeah, probably a fair assessment. It's just not one of those shows that I can go back and watch with fondness and nostalgia, unlike many other great British shows from my youth. Maybe I've just become the cranky older man getting annoyed at these cocky mischievous kids.
Weirdly enough mine and my siblings accents changed in a similar way - when we were kids we all sounded very 'south london' / more working class, much like my Dads accent (Peckham born & bred). Once we got to our teens and spent more times with friends our accents became much more 'middle class' (we lived in quite an affluent area in the home counties)
The UK is an amazing place in terms of accents. London itself has so many nuances, so it is natural this happens. I am Brazilian and have lived here for 20 years - it took me a while to notice these differences, but now it is so clear and absolutely fascinating.
ive never watched this show but always see stuff about it and i didnt know until now that one of the characters has selective mutism! i had it since I was a kid and now i talk to mostly anybody but my voice does change a lot depending on who im talking to and how nervous im feeling
She suffered from selective mutism as a child (she stopped talking when she was 6 and this is mentioned in a deleted scene) and in her early teens, probably due to her family situation. Indeed, his parents were rather bigoted, superficial and careless. No one paid attention to her or cared about her except Tony, so she attracted attention like that.
@@adreena456 I think at least for me it has more to do with the fact that she didn’t really talk that much in season one so I pretty much didn’t notice her accent switch once she started talking a lot.
I suffered from selective mutism when I was a child. I only talked with my mother and a few relatives, but not every relative. I dont know why it started, but I was always afraid of people. Even when I started talking I didnt talk at all, still kinda mute. This was pure suffering to me, and still is. Effy wasnt afraid of no one, she looked just depressed to put any effort on talking.
i first watched skins as a non english speaker with spanish subs, and rewatching it now with a *really* slight knowledge on british accents makes their interactions completely different (from the pun around that girl from the girls school saying "frands" to effy's london accent in her spin off episode). i had a vastly different accent to kids i was born in because of my parents coming from the opposite side of the country and learned to talk like local kids to look cool and the way i was raised to look more natural around older people, but i'd have never imagined accents varying according to people's class in the uk and them changing it depending who they're talking to
It amazes me how up to this day, the UK despite of its size, categorises people based on social status. I know people, English in particular; who change their accents at their workplace in order to be accepted and not being segregated by the community. It's like a caste system. Besides that, _Skins_ played a major role in my life, and my friends at the time.
Do they not? The US does also and so do people toward any different nationality when they are in another country theyre perceived in a certain manner because stereotypes@@sbo3
@@Jkens well, people always talk about how the US doesn't have a class based system, or vice versa they talk about how much class changes our lives in the UK. I mean it is literally built into our society from a historical point of view. You don't often find people who are descendant from literal aristocrats in the US eh?
I was 13 when I first saw that smoking scene and when I was 19 I smoked for the first time without coughing cause Effy taught me how to smoke 🤣🤣🤣 I never forgot that scene. They always told me I smoke in a weird way but I didn't care cause Effy's advice was spot on.
@@Kay-wl9vr when she shows one of the Fitch twins how to smoke, she says inhale and then breathe in again until you feel it in your chest. The second breath is a great tip.
the day i started to smoke was when i watched this scene, i was maybe 14, i didn't cough like the time i tried before because of effy's explanations, i still smoke to this day, sometimes i just think about her, how everything started
I loved her when i was in my 20's and i love her more now that i'm 39. Freddy was one of my fav too and his death still a traumatize for me, the way that was not showed was horrific to me and i'm not a fragile kind, i watched a lot of horror movies very trash and bloody, but freddy😮 same for chris, different death but since i leave in the fear that happen to me.
@@cheycheyfriend247 that’s what I think it’s from too. The anger of being neglected and ignored and all in all her home life angered her a lot, and when I’m angry or sad, I’m quiet too, I don’t want to talk, so it could be that she was just filled with anger all the time
@@Someone-mi4vt agree. just from this video- she changes her voice based on the situation which is masking. changing accents/having an unplaceable or different accent to those around you is common trait of autism. plus the mutism.
Kaya is half brazilian and I very much think she always speaks with a brazilian accent. Perhaps she chances accents because of that, we often do that in our second language
BPD isn't caused by PTSD...PTSD results in low mood, Borderlines stalk, harass and are dangerous. It is a personality disorder just like NPD but Borderlines try to use the excuse that they were "traumatised". Psychiatrists hate Borderlines. If you have it I dare you to look through your notes.
Its almost like they thought after going to a posh school for 6 months she would have a posher accent but it would only be believable if it were a put-on around people at the school to fit in.
I tried to be her so bad! I would go to bed planning to be mute from now on, but my adhd ass couldn’t even stand breakfast without a 10 minute monologue 😔✌️
@@Jackeeypoos It was, I remember my friend's dad calling me all the names under the sun when he caught us watching the bath and toe scene. I never knew how narrow-minded he was until that day. I think he thought we were doing the same thing.
Effy is one of the characthers that till this day haunt me. She suffered so much, and had so many bad choices... its like they didnt do her justice(I stopped watching when the cast changed on the last seasons)
not really. the panda birthday, she didnt drug the brownies. the freddie/cook thing, it was freddie idolizing her, she didn't show interest outside of sex. the jj party thing, it wasn't her job to watch him. the camping thing, she was attacked first (or at least felt attacked in a very real way from the drugs clashing with her bpd). every character in the show knew she was pretty and fun, everyone who hates her only hates her because she knows it too. people always wanna blame her for things that aren't only her fault, and sometimes aren't her fault at all.
Imho the main reason she's an involving character is that she has a pretty face. People get easily "hooked on" pretty faces and they tend to see them as more likable or more interesting. If her character was played by the same actress (meaning the acting would be the same), but with the face of someone less attractive (for example of someone like Pandora) she would receive much less positive reaction from the audience. In fact it would be hard to do it, as one of the key features of Effy is that she is pretty and she knows it well as it enables her to manipulate everyone around her, because people find it hard to resist her. I mean just look at what kind of actresses are usually shown in youtube shorts or those self-made music videos (Idk how it's called, but it's done by pretty much anonymous creators who take a song, for example Lana del Rey's song and play it to a video that consits of video footages coming from different movies). It's never actresses like Judy Dench, Meryl Streep, Maggie Smith etc., it's always pretty, rather young (in their 20s-30s) and very feminine women with either very sensual or inncocent and girly faces such as Brigitte Bardot, Marliyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn, Monica Belucci, young Brooke Shields, Winona Ryder etc. And as much it is not fair to favorise people for their looks, we can't help it, that's just how our brain works. I know that some people will say that beauty might be sometimes a curse, but pretty people are on average treated better, they can get away with worse things and we have more empathy for them- they even get shorter sentences (again, on average) in courts! We are able to forgive pretty Effy more than we would forgive someone who is less cute.
@@nepeta_cataria_007 this is true, we're largely a beauty-obsessed society. Attractiveness can give you a significant leg up in life. there are some rare downsides. but she was so sultry and enigmatic on the surface that it made her a magnet for fans to make all these gifs and edits and romanticize her as a broken beautiful girl
@@nepeta_cataria_007that’s an interesting take. I think the character is meant to be pretty as you said. But i think about pretty ppl having it easy that’s especially true of pretty and rich ppl. Certain women can be really mean and passive aggressive to pretty and poor women
@@savspicious She knowingly made two best friends contest over her just for the sake of it. You say that she showed no interest but that just isn't true as she knowingly led them both on and would flip flop between them.
@@katiemp670 she says about 3 words until season 2. I'm sure if you clipped her saying "wanker" in the car and played it beside her saying it any time after that when she supposedly sounds different, it would sound the same.
HAHAHAHAHA she's 100% council estate in the 2:20 clip and she doesn't sound anything like that in any clip before or after. The Unseen Skins is the development of making her ever-so-slightly more well spoken. And then from then on it's all middle class closer to SP. It's very easy to hear a difference
@@slushpuppie19 how can someone be "100% council estate" (not a dialect or accent btw, there are council estates all over the country, some in very well to do areas) when saying literally one word? I'm Northern but I say "wanker" like a Cockney because I think it's hilarious. I also say some swear words with a very posh accent because they sound more effective when properly enunciated. I'm not Cockney or posh, even if they weren't polar opposites to begin with, and yet.
@@mydogeatspuke Well she says more than one word. She also says it in a completely different accent to the rest of the video. Don't really know why people can't hear that. Must be a lot more obvious if you're southern I guess.
@@ci8552 she had started talking again before that though, you can clearly hear her making words with her mouth hole before that happened right here in this video.
@jacktechindonesia no.... effy explains it in one of the "ad" videos why she stopped speaking. It was to be like an actress or character (can't remember which) that she admired (Edited my spelling errors)
i dont wish anyone bpd or adhd or all these mental disorders. dont wish it to yourself, just be happy you dont have it.. some ppl really need to stop faking
@@jenjones90 People with mental disorders are also neurodivergent. Neurodivergence incudes anyone’s whose brain does not function “typically”. So BPD, Bipolar disorder, anxiety, depression, OCD, etc. all make a person neurodivergent. So actually, using YOUR logic, in that respect they are in the same category as ADHD. The difference, aside from the actual symptoms, is that BPD develops due to trauma, whereas ADHD is typically something people are born with.
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Watching Skins for the first time: Effy is one of the most enchanting, mysterious characters you can’t help to fall in love with.
Now as an adult: a very sad child that didn’t get proper treatment, and would probably be very difficult to be around.
True
Omg we r adults now 😢
yeah looking back she’s a total loser lmao
@Gabriel T I wouldn't call her selfish, but she was definitely oblivious.
And everything else you said was 100% on point.
The whole cast of characters in S1 - S4 were absolute train wrecks, and that's putting it lightly.
But damn, was Gen 1 a complete mess of characters surrounded by a deeper mess of characters.
Wow
Both Effy and Tony are perfect examples of kids where the cool image they've drawn up is just a cover-up for a lot of insecurities and detachment within the family. Especially with Effy, there was an incapability of handling love because everyone loved her for all the wrong reasons, and not the person she truly was, except for Tony. She was enigmatic, but very troubled, but everyone was so enthralled by her image that it became toxic for her and the ones that loved her.
To me, this show is one of the few shows to have realistic teenage characters with a lot of layers in the storylines, the third generation excluded (when the show sort of became a caricature of itself).
Just wanted to tell you your comment just made me click on another piece of media I read surrounding a character that also shares traits and dynamics as Effy, brilliant way of wording it! You're great.
@@NerdyDumbProductions hi, what character you talking about, who is a similar character to effy?
@@marcovittorino8996 sid
She changes her voice according to what's around her.
So me
She suffered from selective mutism as a child (she stopped talking when she was 6 and this is mentioned in a deleted scene) and in her early teens, probably due to her family situation. Indeed, his parents were rather bigoted, superficial and careless. No one paid attention to her or cared about her except Tony, so she attracted attention like that.
Which deleted scene
@@hannah-wo7hg Season 4, Ep.7
If the scene was deleted then it isn’t canon to the story.
@@jamescarr1265🤓🤓🤓🤓
In season 2 when she was being super posh its because she was putting the accent on to seem like she had everything together (because everything eas falling apart: tonys brain damage, parents marriage etc)
she did go to a posh school as well
It's common for people who have had selective mutism to emulate the voices around them when they do speak. It's also a common symptom of a few mental health disorders including BPD which she very much shows symptoms of throughout the show. Her voice reflects those around her, it's another way to try and protect herself, likely without her even noticing.
I had to look selective mutism and it explains a lot about her, and myself.. I read that the reason is most often comes from anxiety and stress ( which she experienced a lot at home).
Realistically it's not that deep. Probably just slightly inconsistent acting ngl
she is the ultimate manic pixie dream girl, mutism with autistic behaviors while being wildly misread constantly and being neglected from everyone but tony. they see her as needing fixed
she had more traits of emotionally unstable personality disorder than autism but I can understand why you'd confuse it to autism because they're very similar.
also mutism isn't exclusive to autism either want to make this clear.
EUPD also can have selective mutism because of trauma.
I'm Autistic and ADHD and I don't see traits to ADHD or autism here, but emotionally unstable personality disorder which is formally known as Borderline personality disorder.
@@MonstehDinosawr I'm all three. Adhd, autistic and bpd and see more bpd traits in her than the other two
@@SolC1989 I am seeking diagnosis for EUPD. my mum has it. I grew up around it. I'm 26 next month.
I've been diagnosed with ADHD since I was 6,
I wasn't able to get a dual diagnosis of autism because they didn't do that 20 years ago, especially not for women or girls.
autism was recognised by a therapist when I was 18 and was able to receive a proper diagnosis for it at 21.
this is EUPD. not autism.100%
@@MonstehDinosawr you'll be surprised how many of us Audhd afabs were manic dream pixie girls that were diagnosed with EUPD and BPD.
@@MonstehDinosawr i see your second comment and I'm the same age as you. But honestly I related the most to effy out of everyone even though most people don't realise every character on this show has issues and trauma. Effy is for sure autistic. She doesn't follow rules, she's blatantly honest, doesn't understand social matters. And uses trauma and emotions control her. She could be both but she I resemble even to her body language language.
It is sad, just when Tony was ready to change, he lost it all. If he hadn't been put in a coma, I imagine he also would've helped Effy and they both could've had better lives.
Still traumatized by what happens to Freddy
I think about it sometimes so horrible
My Skins trauma is still Chris. I was shocked for DAYS after that.
@@shanouboubou i can’t remember what happened to him specifically but I remember the deaths of the girl and the parents of the girl he was kinda dating bc he messed with the wrong people… are you referring to that? That traumatized the hell out of me
**Nvm that was mother fuckin cook lol
@sigridfelholt998 he got killed with a bat I believe it was, it was horrible because you just saw the way it happened behind a blurred door and he seemed pretty helpless. There was a bigger storyline but I can’t remember it was back in like 2012 or so
@sigridfelholt998 good for you for listening to yourself, it really was a heavy show… I could only really handle that before I real life kicked in for me at like 23/24 lol no way I’m watching it now
the way i tried to emulate her because i had a massive crush ..puberty was really something
i watched skins in 2020-2021 and planned to be exactly like her for entering high school 😭😭 yeaah it was something, all i am in high school now is just a loser that doesn’t talk not because i’m mysterious but because of my crippling anxiety and everything else wrong with me
@@lanakat thats me except i graduated in 2020 lmaoo. if i made it through, then youll do too!
i even had a few mates i would talk to when we had class together but nothing too deep unfortunately. most of the time i was the weird (,not sexy) quiet girl
@@lanakat didnt know there were so many people like me😭 i did this too and now i have no friends and no social life at all... heard girls from my school talking about me and they compared me to special kid, the only thing that was good about me was my apperance and thats all
LMAO
@@szydlov "the special kid"
yikes on bikes with that use of language.
the moment effy stops being mute: *TONY GETS HIT BY A BUS*
I will never forget the day I watched it for the first time 😭
Fun fact kaya scodelario was on,y 14 when she got the roll of effy and she lied about her age to get it because they only wanted 16+ for the roll because of all the stuff they have to do
That's crazy
I couldn't imagine anyone else as Effy. Kaya was perfect for the role.
Role* and yea, kaya said it was it was kinda traumatizing
@@xsomili5501poor girl😢
That's honestly an effy thing to do I think
I don’t know but I get the impression that people liked Effys aesthetic more than her as a person?
Edit: Thanks for the 2k likes!
Take care of your well-being and mental health❤️
A lot of people were too young to dig deeper in her character. They just saw the beautiful, cool girl everyone wanted. But Effy is such a fascinating character if you analyze her.
That’s the point, everyone loves to look at her but deep down she isn’t the best person.
Effy was such an alluring character, I always wanted a whole series of her. I'm so glad we got to see her branch out into the world with 'Skins: Fire'.
Well she was a bit of a mess and she was a bitch most of the time haha
Exactly and the more you look into her she’s so so alike tony
I was 19 when Skins first came out and EVERYONE watched it. The music, the fashion and the promiscuity that was the fabric of the show was lived by so many of us at that time. When I take a trip down memory lane with videos like this, I can't help but think, wow, it really was shite wasn't it?!
Hahahh I know exactly what you mean 😂
The first generation was definitely not shite, I thought it had great characters and writing. The second generation has aged horribly and is a fucking mess. The third one… that was already awful when it came out 😂
@@jamescarr1265 Yeah, probably a fair assessment. It's just not one of those shows that I can go back and watch with fondness and nostalgia, unlike many other great British shows from my youth. Maybe I've just become the cranky older man getting annoyed at these cocky mischievous kids.
@@kind-hearted-thievesjoe1512 that’s fair enough, I’m sorry if I seemed rude. You’re entitled to your opinion.
@@jamescarr1265 You didn't seem rude at all, don't worry. This is UA-cam, you're one of the polite ones 😄
Writing her is crazy because not only people in show idolise but people in real life also
It’s cause she’s beautiful, people love beautiful girls, it’s a plus if they’re sad with ruff edges as well, it makes them more engaging.
Weirdly enough mine and my siblings accents changed in a similar way - when we were kids we all sounded very 'south london' / more working class, much like my Dads accent (Peckham born & bred). Once we got to our teens and spent more times with friends our accents became much more 'middle class' (we lived in quite an affluent area in the home counties)
I think it’s common for a lot of people
The UK is an amazing place in terms of accents. London itself has so many nuances, so it is natural this happens. I am Brazilian and have lived here for 20 years - it took me a while to notice these differences, but now it is so clear and absolutely fascinating.
Loved skins and effy, I watched it at 14 and I liked her complicated personality and everything about this show and the characters
🙏🏼
Same 💕✨
This is such a great and insightful video to make, thank you! Really makes me see her character so much differently than how I saw her as a teenager
ive never watched this show but always see stuff about it and i didnt know until now that one of the characters has selective mutism! i had it since I was a kid and now i talk to mostly anybody but my voice does change a lot depending on who im talking to and how nervous im feeling
Raj Koothrappali from the Big Bang theory it’s also a nice example of selective mutism.
I hope you’re doing ok ❤❤
thanks for the vid, gives a little different of a perspective on the development of Effys character
I never even realised she doesn't talk in S1 :'D
She suffered from selective mutism as a child (she stopped talking when she was 6 and this is mentioned in a deleted scene) and in her early teens, probably due to her family situation. Indeed, his parents were rather bigoted, superficial and careless. No one paid attention to her or cared about her except Tony, so she attracted attention like that.
effy struggling with selective mutism is so real
What do you mean?
@@bluesquirrel2472 it just makes sense and as an autistic person it's great to have selective mutism portrayal in such a popular show
@@acidben33 she has borderline personality disorder, not autism.
@@jenjones90well not rlly…
wow thank you. one of the more interesting skins videos ive seen !
Thank you so much!
This is very interesting, thank you
I don't hear the difference between the accents 😂😅 it's amazing how British people can hear it
Thats what i was thinking HAHAH
Effy saved a generation (most of one) from incorrectly smoking and wasting good green.
Thanks Eff.
Im seeing so much skins lately. I really miss this show
First season was magical, brilliant cast, wonder year to be alive (2007) no TikTok, no smartphones, great combination for an awful tragedy
time to watch skins again
Wow I didn’t even notice her accent changed
As a British person, I can differentiate between loads of American accents, don’t people have ears??
@@adreena456 I think at least for me it has more to do with the fact that she didn’t really talk that much in season one so I pretty much didn’t notice her accent switch once she started talking a lot.
I suffered from selective mutism when I was a child. I only talked with my mother and a few relatives, but not every relative. I dont know why it started, but I was always afraid of people. Even when I started talking I didnt talk at all, still kinda mute. This was pure suffering to me, and still is.
Effy wasnt afraid of no one, she looked just depressed to put any effort on talking.
I watched this show and wanted to be like them and then became them and it wasn’t this romantic or glam in reality :,)
Panda still makes me burst out laughing
one the best things mtv ever aired in my country, effy always got me mesmerized as a kid
I was 16/17 when skins came out and it shaped us. Especially after cook came in season 3
So funny looking back how it all happened
love her
i first watched skins as a non english speaker with spanish subs, and rewatching it now with a *really* slight knowledge on british accents makes their interactions completely different (from the pun around that girl from the girls school saying "frands" to effy's london accent in her spin off episode). i had a vastly different accent to kids i was born in because of my parents coming from the opposite side of the country and learned to talk like local kids to look cool and the way i was raised to look more natural around older people, but i'd have never imagined accents varying according to people's class in the uk and them changing it depending who they're talking to
As an American this all sounds the same to me LMFAO
You rxtxrd
Of course it does
As a Dutch person, same.
As a Russian, same
I will never understand why people didn’t like Freddie! C'mon he was 𝙝𝙖𝙬𝙩 and nice‼️💔
People liked him. They just liked Cook more.
@@mydogeatspuke true lol
@@mydogeatspuke Cook is a complete douche. I hated him from first introduction.
His character was kind of boring
@@Hazeydaze92 his whole existence was to want to screw Effy, but Effy clearly wanted Cook way more. Poor bloke.
It amazes me how up to this day, the UK despite of its size, categorises people based on social status.
I know people, English in particular; who change their accents at their workplace in order to be accepted and not being segregated by the community.
It's like a caste system.
Besides that, _Skins_ played a major role in my life, and my friends at the time.
I think because I am English, I never knew that it was unusual. I thought every country had heavy class based systemß
Do they not? The US does also and so do people toward any different nationality when they are in another country theyre perceived in a certain manner because stereotypes@@sbo3
@@Jkens well, people always talk about how the US doesn't have a class based system, or vice versa they talk about how much class changes our lives in the UK. I mean it is literally built into our society from a historical point of view. You don't often find people who are descendant from literal aristocrats in the US eh?
@@sbo3 yeah true but class can be based on celebrity these days just be lucky enough to be born rich or famous or in royalty in our case
I was 13 when I first saw that smoking scene and when I was 19 I smoked for the first time without coughing cause Effy taught me how to smoke 🤣🤣🤣 I never forgot that scene. They always told me I smoke in a weird way but I didn't care cause Effy's advice was spot on.
Thiiiiiiisssss!!!! Although the first time smoking weed is hard cause it burns and it dries out your throat in an instant lmao
Wait how does she teach u lol
@@Kay-wl9vr when she shows one of the Fitch twins how to smoke, she says inhale and then breathe in again until you feel it in your chest. The second breath is a great tip.
the day i started to smoke was when i watched this scene, i was maybe 14, i didn't cough like the time i tried before because of effy's explanations, i still smoke to this day, sometimes i just think about her, how everything started
Honestly, same. I've never coughed because of that 😂
Fine, I’ll rewatch Skins for the 30th time 🙄
I loved her when i was in my 20's and i love her more now that i'm 39.
Freddy was one of my fav too and his death still a traumatize for me, the way that was not showed was horrific to me and i'm not a fragile kind, i watched a lot of horror movies very trash and bloody, but freddy😮 same for chris, different death but since i leave in the fear that happen to me.
I definitely don't identify with Effy as someone who dealt with selective mutism. I don't think she was mute stemming from anxiety.
i think her mutism was from anger maybe?
@@cheycheyfriend247 that’s what I think it’s from too. The anger of being neglected and ignored and all in all her home life angered her a lot, and when I’m angry or sad, I’m quiet too, I don’t want to talk, so it could be that she was just filled with anger all the time
I definitely think that she is autistic, (coming from an autistic girl who really relates to all of the stuff she struggles with.)
@@Someone-mi4vt agree. just from this video- she changes her voice based on the situation which is masking. changing accents/having an unplaceable or different accent to those around you is common trait of autism. plus the mutism.
Kaya is half brazilian and I very much think she always speaks with a brazilian accent. Perhaps she chances accents because of that, we often do that in our second language
Effy is a Classic example of BPD, caused by CPTSD and PTSD…
BPD isn't caused by PTSD...PTSD results in low mood, Borderlines stalk, harass and are dangerous. It is a personality disorder just like NPD but Borderlines try to use the excuse that they were "traumatised". Psychiatrists hate Borderlines. If you have it I dare you to look through your notes.
I will never understand why she had that fake accent in season 1
She didn't speak for years so she was getting used to her own voice, imitating accents she heard
Its almost like they thought after going to a posh school for 6 months she would have a posher accent but it would only be believable if it were a put-on around people at the school to fit in.
This is awesome! Thanks! 👍🏽
Skins was something special ❤
the actress was a child!
14 in the first season
Ohhh Kaya. Beautiful Beautiful Kaya 🌹🌹🌹
I tried to be her so bad! I would go to bed planning to be mute from now on, but my adhd ass couldn’t even stand breakfast without a 10 minute monologue 😔✌️
Why am I watching this
I still smoke the way Effy taught us
Pandora was hands down my favourite character
I found her like a cartoon
my American ass can't tell the difference between these T.T
Skins and sugar rush were so underrated.
Sugar rush was the dogs bollocks they only cancelled s3 due to not having slots to show case it what a waste
@@Jackeeypoos It was, I remember my friend's dad calling me all the names under the sun when he caught us watching the bath and toe scene. I never knew how narrow-minded he was until that day. I think he thought we were doing the same thing.
There's an australian show called Slide thats got a similar thing to skins going on and I think that was super underrated 👌
Sugar rush promoted p/dophilia and d@te r@pe I am not a fan!
OMG! Sugar Rush!! I was crushing on Andrew Garfield before even knowing what was his name back then 😳❤️
Geez that's all over the place.
thank you
Kaya's so damn pretty!
Whats the vocal difference between london/working class and southern middle class
Gosh, love her but she went down the road massively
God damn I miss Skins seasons 1-4. Is it possible to get series (or skins) like that any more I wonder D:
euphoria
I love her
Effy is one of the characthers that till this day haunt me. She suffered so much, and had so many bad choices... its like they didnt do her justice(I stopped watching when the cast changed on the last seasons)
Pandora jump scare
I love Effy cause she's always zero effort. :D
I still quote "wanka" to this day lol
Her voice before smoking 🥰
I hated her so much I couldn’t stand her brooo
😍
So, this is like, live action Daria or something
What dies it mean when they say they are useless
One of the most narcissistic charaters I have seen ...
not really. the panda birthday, she didnt drug the brownies. the freddie/cook thing, it was freddie idolizing her, she didn't show interest outside of sex. the jj party thing, it wasn't her job to watch him. the camping thing, she was attacked first (or at least felt attacked in a very real way from the drugs clashing with her bpd). every character in the show knew she was pretty and fun, everyone who hates her only hates her because she knows it too. people always wanna blame her for things that aren't only her fault, and sometimes aren't her fault at all.
Imho the main reason she's an involving character is that she has a pretty face. People get easily "hooked on" pretty faces and they tend to see them as more likable or more interesting. If her character was played by the same actress (meaning the acting would be the same), but with the face of someone less attractive (for example of someone like Pandora) she would receive much less positive reaction from the audience. In fact it would be hard to do it, as one of the key features of Effy is that she is pretty and she knows it well as it enables her to manipulate everyone around her, because people find it hard to resist her.
I mean just look at what kind of actresses are usually shown in youtube shorts or those self-made music videos (Idk how it's called, but it's done by pretty much anonymous creators who take a song, for example Lana del Rey's song and play it to a video that consits of video footages coming from different movies). It's never actresses like Judy Dench, Meryl Streep, Maggie Smith etc., it's always pretty, rather young (in their 20s-30s) and very feminine women with either very sensual or inncocent and girly faces such as Brigitte Bardot, Marliyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn, Monica Belucci, young Brooke Shields, Winona Ryder etc. And as much it is not fair to favorise people for their looks, we can't help it, that's just how our brain works. I know that some people will say that beauty might be sometimes a curse, but pretty people are on average treated better, they can get away with worse things and we have more empathy for them- they even get shorter sentences (again, on average) in courts! We are able to forgive pretty Effy more than we would forgive someone who is less cute.
@@nepeta_cataria_007 this is true, we're largely a beauty-obsessed society. Attractiveness can give you a significant leg up in life. there are some rare downsides. but she was so sultry and enigmatic on the surface that it made her a magnet for fans to make all these gifs and edits and romanticize her as a broken beautiful girl
@@nepeta_cataria_007that’s an interesting take. I think the character is meant to be pretty as you said. But i think about pretty ppl having it easy that’s especially true of pretty and rich ppl. Certain women can be really mean and passive aggressive to pretty and poor women
@@savspicious She knowingly made two best friends contest over her just for the sake of it. You say that she showed no interest but that just isn't true as she knowingly led them both on and would flip flop between them.
Her early accent isn’t ‘working class’ it just isn’t rp
Regional accent doesn’t = working class
Overthinking this. Aside from the being born backwards speech, her voice is always the same
nah she defo has a more working class accent till season 2
@@katiemp670 she says about 3 words until season 2. I'm sure if you clipped her saying "wanker" in the car and played it beside her saying it any time after that when she supposedly sounds different, it would sound the same.
HAHAHAHAHA she's 100% council estate in the 2:20 clip and she doesn't sound anything like that in any clip before or after. The Unseen Skins is the development of making her ever-so-slightly more well spoken. And then from then on it's all middle class closer to SP. It's very easy to hear a difference
@@slushpuppie19 how can someone be "100% council estate" (not a dialect or accent btw, there are council estates all over the country, some in very well to do areas) when saying literally one word? I'm Northern but I say "wanker" like a Cockney because I think it's hilarious. I also say some swear words with a very posh accent because they sound more effective when properly enunciated. I'm not Cockney or posh, even if they weren't polar opposites to begin with, and yet.
@@mydogeatspuke Well she says more than one word. She also says it in a completely different accent to the rest of the video. Don't really know why people can't hear that. Must be a lot more obvious if you're southern I guess.
Trauma
ooohh laaa laa
Randomly found this video, at the time the show was on I would think that Katie and Effie were together, I guess I just love that difference.
Katie was homophobic so wtf?
Maybe they confused Katie with emily
im sorry, season 7?? how many skins seasons are there??
Seven :---)
Yh just 7 seasons
Gen 1 : Season 1 & 2
Gen 2 : Season 3 & 4
Gen 3 : Season 5 & 6
Skins Fire, Pure, Rise : Season 7
Watched this for the 5 second clip of Tom Payne 😂
When???
@@fiammamarasco8059 1:04 baby Tom Payne
@@littlestleggies omg he was so young
damn they really had 14/15 year old kaya kissing 25 year old tom 😭 crazy
@@VannahCakesYo 😂 same with Waterloo road, his baby face is a curse fr
Her voice likely changed with going to the all girls school
They should’ve stuck with her selective mutism during her series
She was really quiet still
Why did she decide to finally start talking. Never was addressed
trauma from watching her brother get hit by a bus
@@ci8552 she had started talking again before that though, you can clearly hear her making words with her mouth hole before that happened right here in this video.
she didn't decide to be mute. She wants to talk, but simply can NOT. She suffer for less known anxiety disorder called "Selective Mutism".
@jacktechindonesia no.... effy explains it in one of the "ad" videos why she stopped speaking. It was to be like an actress or character (can't remember which) that she admired
(Edited my spelling errors)
ah okay. Sorry I was too quick to jump into conclusion :(@@jilysmiles3320
Interesting
3:00 is it just me or does she sound kinda like Millie Bobby Brown here
Aww 💜
What show is this? I have never seen any of it or even know who these people are
Skins UK
it’s not a london/working class accent
you think your going mad so you come to see me to see what a mad person looks like😐
No!.....No......n-no......yes😞
as an american they all sound the same
As a fact you are wrong
TERESA MAZE RUNNER GAL U POP OFF LOVE ❤
She was kind of a non character at the begggining
Pandora was the best character!
i dont wish anyone bpd or adhd or all these mental disorders. dont wish it to yourself, just be happy you dont have it.. some ppl really need to stop faking
ADHD isn't a mental disorder, it's a form of neurodivergence. Please don't put ADHD in the same category as BPD. Borderlines need to be locked up.
@@jenjones90BRO what is it with you and folks with BPD
@@jenjones90 People with mental disorders are also neurodivergent. Neurodivergence incudes anyone’s whose brain does not function “typically”. So BPD, Bipolar disorder, anxiety, depression, OCD, etc. all make a person neurodivergent. So actually, using YOUR logic, in that respect they are in the same category as ADHD.
The difference, aside from the actual symptoms, is that BPD develops due to trauma, whereas ADHD is typically something people are born with.
"i dont smoke"
"wot r u scared of"
"uhhh canca???" XD
WANGKAH
6:09
Hahahaha she sounds the same some one has to much time on there hands
The one with too much time on their hands is the one who typed this
Oh i didnt know freddy was david kostyk from shadow and bone!