@@paigemosher8697 Yes, we did and HE did. -Rodrick Rules: Greg agrees to help Rodrick with his science fair project, stating that "Even though Rodrick can be a huge jerk sometimes, he IS my brother." -The Ugly Truth: Greg goes out of his way to make up with Rowley, stating that he can't even remember what their fight was about. Dog Days: Greg and his dad bond over their shared hatred of Lil' Cutie. -Cabin Fever: Greg decides to clean the posters off of the school without Rowley, not wanting him to get in trouble for something he was dragged into. Plus, he also treks out into the snow to turn in a present for the police station toy drive, stating that he knew he'd let some kid down if he didn't. -Hard Luck: When Greg finds Meemaw's diamond ring, he hides it away to keep his family from falling apart. Now, I will admit that Greg is a lot more likable in the movies than in the books, but I still stand by my statement that he wasn't 100% bad.
Holy crap. I remember cringing at myself for liking a series where the protagonist unironically wrote "SQUEEE" in her diary, but I didn't remember her being THIS bad...
Nikki might have been an ungrateful kid, but y’all can’t say that Mackenzie is any better. Girl wanted to close down an animal shelter and let dogs and cats roam the streets because Brandon didn’t like her
Literally. And when she locked them in a storage closet? Constantly bullied them? Tripped Nicki at lunch? She was so horrible and classist for no reason.
this was 100% me as a 12 year old, i remember reading that line nikki "wrote" about "girls whose moms make them shop at jc penney" and for pretty much the rest of middle school i would subconsciously look down upon the girls who bought their clothes from "cheap" stores like that
Kinda want a diary on a character who starts like Nikki but WAS a popular girl and terrible person at her old school and she's trying desperatly to be popular again only to realize she's happier being herself and making true friends or whatever and realizing SHE WAS terrible and should work on herself That'd be cute
I read a book kinda like that once called "Glasses, Braces and Rock and Roll" by Meg Haston. The main character starts out a total bitch, your typical high school mean girl, the queen bee popular bitch, but one day she gets glasses and braces, as you could surmise from the title, and gets humbled hard when her friends start treating her basically the way she's been treating everyone else. She learns her lesson, becomes a better person, starts making better decisions and makes new friends, it's a good read all around, really. Edit: I have been informed by a very nice person who replied that it's actually called "How to Rock Glasses and Braces", so if you wanna read it, look for that, not what I said lmao
@@heartshine7 No this is very valid. When I first started reading it I had to search up online to make sure it was an actual book and that my mom didn’t just steal some random girls diary💀 The fact that in the beginning it says “if found, please return to me for reward, no snooping allowed” made me hella concerned 😭
i used to get so mad at nikki because she would always say that she hated her family and was "disadvantaged" when she litterally got to spend holidys with her family and have her own bedroom and have a nice friend group and she litterally won everything NO WONDER MAKENZIE WAS JEALOUS OF HER
@@NathasyaStellaHermanusok but Mackenzie just choosing to make Nickis life miserable all the time was so weird, it’s like she was obsessed with Nicki. Nicki just hated her because of the bullying
not to mention the fact that nikki stopped her dad from getting the bag when she was intercepting calls and shit bc she was embarrassed by his profession
@@cassiedion4144people often do that when they are jealous of someone and or have been through trauma. It’s not justified but that’s definitely a reason why most people bully people.
@@bituinl that doesn’t matter, I’m sorry but it doesn’t. I’ve been through complete bs throughout my life and I never thought of bullying anyone. Locking Nicki and her friends in a dark closet where they wouldn’t be found is psychotic and her classism destroys any likability she could’ve had(which she honestly had none of)
I know Nikki seems very problematic now but we need to remember that these books were released in a different time where the 'not like othe girls' or 'unpopular misunderstood artsy' girl was considered relatable. Yes it may have aged somewhat badly but for the time, these books were everything. Maybe I'm biased by my own nostalgia but this series remains iconic in my opinion.
Also, there were a lot of people in the 2000's who genuinely thought that being a nerd or introvert was, like, an unforgivable sin (especially if you were a girl) so that definitely contributed to the NLOG trend.
In my story, I'm actually making the NLOG character the antagonist. Like... my protagonist is the kind you'd *think* would brag about how "unlike" other girls she is, being an introverted nerdy type who just does her own thing, but honestly she's too preoccupied with doing her own thing to even really care what the other girls are like, and she gets on *fine* with most of the other girls, really only taking issue with their $€x!$t attitudes towards boys. But there's one girl at her school she can't stand, and that's the "cool" girl, who thinks she's better than all the other girls at school because she's popular with all the boys. She's basically sort of a deconstruction of the "girl next door" archetype, and how damaging that can potentially be when applied to girls in real life (at least in the idealised "cute innocent" way that's often portrayed in fiction).
I remember the books not making much sense to me as I got older in elementary school, like when Nikki goes on tour and all of the band members of that one boy band fall for her along with Brandon and that one other guy. I was really confused because she had this dream life while she was supposed to be this quirky relatable girl that always has the worst luck. Plus she’s 14.
What?? I never finished the series because the books were all taken in my library. Return your books in a month, people! Anyways, I got to the point where she started dating the guy, maybe a little bit past it? I remember they went on a date, ice skating maybe? But whatt? I only remember her being in a movie or sth
fr #rElaTaBLe im famous, tour w a boy band as the lead singer and one of them is crushing on me, got the guy, have 2 perfect besties... wHy iS mY LiFe a gIaNt bUcKeT oF pUkE!?
Dork diaries hold a special place in my heart. They helped me get through bullying in elementary and even now that i am older i still love those books. Its been three years since the last one but my love for them hasnt died even when i am almost an actual adult in a few years.
I feel the same way I went to barns & noble’s recently and saw the books for the first time in forever and it brought me back to when I was elementary school checking all the books out from the library 😭💕
In my school district, we have a book fair that ranged from K-8 for me, and I remember every year in elementary school buying 1-2 Dork Diaries books and I ended up having 12 books in 6th grade 😩
same here! i read dork diaries all the time back in elementary n it helped me get through bullying. it was a terrible time but reading the series always made me feel better
Growing up is realising the main character was extremely ungrateful, She has great friends, a boyfriend, shes literally famous?! Yet shes always upset because 1 girl doesnt like her
Except that girl was literally a bully that was constantly after her and harassing her and Nikki's fame got in the way of her friendships and relationships and brought a bunch of unnecessary stress to her life. Some adults can barely handle fame, and y'all expect a like 14ish girl to be perfect and just being to flawlessly handle everything in her life? The book series is literally a diary, it's her venting her feelings obviously she's gonna focus on the negatives and stuff lol
Nikki is really unlikeable tbh and it gets kind of annoying that by like the 12th book Brandon and Nikki have STILL not “officially” gotten together, like even after kissing many times and him literally TELLING her he likes her she’s like “Omg.. Idk if he likes me.. I think he might like me!🤯”
This entire book series’ dynamic is just: “Cutesy, quirky girl who has a crush on a dreamy hot guy and also is enemies with a mean, dramatic mean girl”
Yes like they’d TRY to find a way to make it go wrong, like they’d go on tour or they’d have a plan but then at the last moment Mackenzie somehow identity thefts the whole band, and sabotages the entire show
Realizing they couldn’t do the talent show and then them naming the band “actually I’m not really sure yet” was the most stressful 20 pages in my eight year old life
These books were essentially my life back in fourth grade. I didn't have many friends, so I checked out the second book in the library because the original cover was really funny. And I never looked back! Until a couple years ago, when I wanted to take a walk down memory lane to reread the books. And you hit it right on the mark: Nikki does not deserve Chloe, Zoey, and Brandon, or her family! And I never realized just how weird certain sentences sounded.
Nikki should actually get the rope, she's SO ungrateful. Sorry if this sounds a little too harsh. Since I'm older now, I realized Rachel's writing style is actually to blame here.
Seeing Nikki's insecurity as toxic is really eye-opening. I used to idolize characters like Nikki as someone who also had social insecurities, and books about "mean girls vs outsider" only drive in the trope that "You can't trust anyone who's popular, more attractive, etc." even though the solution could literally be go. Get. To know them! Instead of making assumptions about a popularity hierarchical structure that you made up in your head. I'm trying to grow out of this mentality too, so thank you for telling it how it is Amanda TvT (And yeah, making these assumptions based on what I read harmed my critical thinking skills, so that's why you don't believe everything you read kids!)
Yessss! There was a popular girl at my old school who dressed very sexy and got a lot of attention from guys. Even though I was a wallflower, we got along fairly well and she was always nice to teachers and unpopular kids. This definitely changed my perspective about judging based on character rather than sexual behavior or any of that crap
I was an unpopular girl in high school. Popular girls were actually pretty polite to me. Never close, obviously, but it was really the other unpopular kids who gave me any grief at school. That said, I don't think populars or unpopulars are necessarily better or worse than the other. They're just children, at the end of the day.
I am friends with a popular girl at my school, & she is the kindest & most understanding person I’ve ever met there. She’s also patient with me & never gets irritated at anything I do since I am on the spectrum. People like Nikki really need to step up & actually know how people are instead of labeling them as what the stereotypes say.
Bruh even the main character is also a horrible person. The only difference is that she's portrayed as a normal teenager, while the audience knows that Greg's actions are wrong.
Nikki was the original delusional girl bc they whole series she would periodically write out scenarios with her and Brandon and then act them out alone in her room 😭😭
Nikki:almost drowned, was cyberbullied, had the sweater which she saved to buy for two months ruined, got anxiety about a fake tuition bill, got a concussion, etc People: She is so ungrateful
abt the whole ppl dont like nikki thing, i actually grew up with my favorite book being number 9, the one where Nikki is almost never narrating, and instead, Mackenzie finds Nikkis diary and disguises it in leopard print fabric, hence the cover of the book being leopard print. The art style changes for the better and its 10 times more entertaining because Nikki isn’t groaning about *her* life all the time, and instead, Mackenzie is doing the same thing Nikki usually does, but it gives a different perspective on things and it even goes through the events of the book series up to that point and how Mackenzie saw it through her own eyes. 10/10 book would recommend.
mackenzie has always been my favourite character. i wanted to be her even though she was terrible sometimes. plus her hair is soooooo cute Edit: i didnt want to be a bully i wanted to be pretty and popular and not to defend any of her actions but Nikki hated her always demonized her
I need to see a book series from Chloe or Zoe's perspective. Also, realistically, Nikki would've been like... HELLA popular? Like if you're in 8th grade and are literally famous in some school with rich private school kids roaming everywhere? Also stan Brianna.
Thanks to Brianna, it made me realize how annoying I was to my older sister and stopped. It was such an eye-opener, a personality awareness, because I really hated Brianna and was devastated to know I acted just like her. Nowadays my sister and I are very close. Thanks Dork Diaries, I learned to stop being a little shit :)
i always thought it was funny how the series was called dork diaries when nikki never really acts dorky, at most she's just kind of awkward sometimes, but she doesn't really have any "dorky" interests, she's not particularly smart or nerdy (one of her friends liked books a lot,i think it was zoey but am unsure, but she had no interest in reading iirc) she acts pretty much exactly how a typical teen girl in these kinds of stories would act, and if anything i think she'd be a popular girl like mackenzie irl also when i was younger and into this series i remember thinking it was basically if diary of a wimpy kid was written for a female audience, and that if greg and nikki existed in the same universe they'd probably get along, and tbh i still stand by that, although it would be chaotic and awful for everyone involved
My favorite book in the series was not about Nikki at all, but Mackenzie. I always loved the 9th book where Mackenzie steals her diary and starts writing in it. I always found it so fascinating.
I remember having a huge crush on Brandon after reading the book where Mackenzie steals Nikki’s diary because I thought he looked so adorable in her art style lmao
@@stuffwithsoph8264 yet she feels like a real human being. Nikki likes to say that she is nice but all she does is get upset and complain about MacKenzie, complain about her little sister(valid and normal), has good friend and family while being selfish and not realizing how much better she has it than MacKenzie
@@theoutsiderjess1869 i dont see how complaining makes you a bad or unrealistic person. she's supposed to be like 13-14? thats all i did at her age. youre reaching.
@@stuffwithsoph8264 there is complaining and then there is being pissed and obsessed because this one girl won't like you. Nikki genuinely doesn't even appreciate the friends she has and yet somehow they still like her alongside her crush/boyfriend by the time I reached her age was the time I stopped reading these books because Nikki is basically a selfish Mary Sue
I learned a few years ago that the Japanese word for diary is "nikki." I have no idea if that was intentional on the author's part, but my mind was BLOWN when I made the connection
@@alyssapinon9670 “O.M.G! Today I was heading home when some pink haired girl totally chased me into the mall! I tried asking her name but she just keeps saying “you know.” Maybe she’s in my math class? Anyways she keeps talking about my diary and some weird game she’s in, but, like, that’s just not funny! Invading my privacy is no joke!” “Update: and now there’s a totally weird guy coming after us on the stairs! With a KNIFE! OMG! I like hanging out at the mall, but this is just too much!”
Man. I forgot just how ungrateful Nikki was. Her parents were quirky and embarrassing, but at least they love her. (Her sister… yeah, she’s still annoying.)
OMG, I loved theses books. But they lost me after book 9 where MacKenzie stole the diary. Because that was the first time I noticed that nikki was just a bad as her sometimes and because it turned her into my faveourite Character. Edit: Also MacKenzie is a way better Artist then Nikki
i looked up the books and apparently the series is still ongoing?! i don't remember what book i stopped reading at years ago but one of the descriptions of the books describes mackenzie as nikki's "frenemy". and all i'm hearing is frenemies to lovers
I was the older brother who used to stealthily "borrow" these from my sister cause I thought they were really entertaining lol Edit: Almost a year later, am no longer brother, am now sister. The prophecy is true lmao
I feel like you’re analyzing Nikki’s character from a very adult perspective and making it seem like certain things she’d just be able to know. Middle school was rough okay 😭
Everyone has their own perspectives. There's no one correct perspective on this book. I had a similar perspective when I first started reading dork diaries back in middle school, despite me not being an adult yet.
I remember reading this series, being in a phase of my life where I hated anything “girly,” but being so invested because of the absolute chaos. I’m so glad I’m not the only one who remembers how unhinged m this was 😭
I remember how much it annoyed me in the later books when her life was going like perfectly fine, she wore amazing outfits, had friends, cool stuff happening to her all the time, she was famous too but she still was like ahh Im suck a dork 🤪 I'm such a freak lol 😝 like girl shut up you really aren't
She may have still..felt like a dork on the inside? It's sometimes hard with to see yourself as anything more due to low self-esteem. Which can be caused by bullying.
I wish the author could've kept her "unpopular" instead of creating her into the popular famous singer girl who has the perfect life. It makes the book so unrealistic
Yeah I always liked the oldest books a lot more than the new ones because now I feel like the whole Nikki’s a celebrity and has 2 boys after her and everyone loves her yet she still thinks she’s a dork was never really my cup of tea when it came to writing. Like she literally got her own reality tv show at one point. Like how does Rachel still think she can continue the Nikki is unpopular storyline when she pretty much gives her opportunities that would make her rich and famous as hell in the real world. I seriously miss when Nikki was just an average middle-schooler who hung out with her friends and got bullied. I miss when I actually related to her on a person level. But hey, I suppose it’s too late to turn back, the damage has already been done. Anyway sorry if I sound overly angry or dramatic, I’m just stating my opinion. Anyway thanks for coming to my ted talk, have a nice day.
Alright I’m gonna say this: as someone who’s been bullied by a MacKenzie type and a Nikki type, the latter hurt way more. I knew Mac was a bitch, the whole school knew she was. But Nikki was sneaky and always hid behind her “not like other girls” persona to weasel out of trouble and painted me as a shallow girly girl
@@caitlingill not quite that awful, but more of a “I’m so quirky, there’s no way I can be the bad guy.” Even though there was a lot of internalized misogyny on her end. To make it clear: MacKenzie was the aggressor but Nikki seemed like the type to adopt her bully’s toxic traits without being aware of it because she sees herself as 100% a victim. You can be a victim of bullying and still be held accountable for doing shitty things.
i refuse to believe that a teen girl in the early 2010s would have gushed over kanye west... this was peak "imma let you finish" and there is no way a 14 year old girl in a private school in 2009 wouldn't have been a huge taylor swift fan
HOLY SHIT DORK DAIRES i think my favourite on was the one were like shes transports to like an alternate universe where everyone is like fairy tale characters???? I have no idea what its called or if I still have it lol
Idk, Chloe and Zoey I think are as bad as Nikki at the start for starters while yes they ARE good friends, they did get a little carried away and starters prioritizing popularity over Nikki, during the tattoo part, we don’t see her family enough but it does seem half decent, I do got to agree Nikki’s hatred towards Mackenzie is pretty unwarranted in book 1, we have seen Nikki go through hoops just to make her friends and crush happy, such as multi-tasking 3 different costumes because she didn’t want to let everyone down, again bc at this time their friendship was newly repaired and not as strong as later books, so it’s a bit understandable that Nikki would think that Chloe and zoey would leave more easily, then in book 6 she did infact plan to get Chloe and Zoey tickets but were sold out, didn’t know how to tell the truth, plus we have seen Nikki genuinely care a lot about her BFFS such as in book 13 while she did want the party for popularity she was also doing it for her friends too, I don’t think Nikki Chloe or Zoey are bad friends just people with flaws
@@rawcookiedough7518 yeah as someone who’ve read the books like a bajillion times, I can say that while Chloe and Zoey ARE good BFFs, they got their fair share of flaws just like Nikki
yeah, people are also quick to judge them as adults which is a bit crazy because they are literal children. Nikki is flawed but she is a young girl...who isn't especially at that age? she still consistently chooses to be kind and values her friends and family, people are overhating i dont get it
@@stuffwithsoph8264 Then people go on to say Mackenzie, the canonically a pathological liar and person who has sabotaging Nikki's life as a hobby, is iconic 😐. Ig it's just popular nowadays to prefer villains and say "actually, they were so much better than the heroes" and rag on the main characters as simply "annoying" and bratty without acknowledging the fact that people are all shades of gray. You just gotta skim over that, there's too many people who hop on this without really considering that people can be both bad and good
These books comforted me so much. The main message I got from them was that even bad people with nothing going for them have good things happen to them for no reason. Like despite how TERRIBLE most of Nikki's plans were everything turned out fine and she got the guy she liked. Bruh I hated myself so much to identify so closely with this girl lmao
When I was 8, I was staying at my grandparents house and there was a library. I begged my grandpa to drive me and get at least half of the Dork Diaries series. I remember only getting through the first two books and going to my grandpa and saying, “Can we return these? I don’t like them” my grandpa drove me back and I haven’t touched a Dork Diaries book every since.
I blame Dork Diaries for making me a cringe not like other girls pick me when I was a kid. But hey, Nikki was someone I could relate to, and reading Dork Diaries as a kid, (despite my whole pick me personality forming because of it) I felt like hey, even though this character is fictional, this is someone I can relate to.
I remember dork diaries. I think at first, it was a cute story. There was a book where she becomes a figure skater or enters a figure skating competition. The details of it are fuzzy, but I remember she did things that made me think "Wow, she's not much better than Mackenzie".
Bro the amount of time I read these books on REPEAT is ridiculous. And when I tell you I physically cringed when you recreated that conversation- Man these books 😂
Growing up, I thought these books represented how teenagers actually act. Hell, I was like 7 years old when the first book got published in my country, and I begged my mom to buy me the whole series. She told me that when I grow up, I'll find Dork Diaries cringe. Guess she weren't wrong 😂😂
@@Roseofthevines Maybe for some teenagers Nikki may be relatable but in my case, I was the exact opposite of Nikki and Mackenzie. No boyfriend, no besties. Basically the school weirdo XD
As a kid I always thought of these books as "girl diary of a wimpy kid", and looking back, that was probably mostly because Nikki comes off like a sociopath almost as much as Greg Heffley.
Little story: So, I clicked on this video because I knew that this was the favorite series of my best friend from middle school. And the parallels between her and Nicky are honestly MAJOR, they sum up her personality perfectly. She had always been obsessed with popularity and never really appreciated me, she also had a major crush on this guy at school, who was basically the sweetest, shyest, and weirdest guy in our neighborhood. She always made excuses to hang out with this guy (instead of me). But whenever she ditched me, and found someone else to hang out with, she would act JEALOUS and make mean comments at my other friends. Anyways, I eventually stopped talking to her and now have much better friends. But I still have trust issues because of her. (Fun fact: Her crush she kept annoying? He is now my childhood best friend.)
I read a few of these when I was younger because my sisters owned them. Even when I was younger I noticed how Nikki's drawings go from stick figures with mildly detailed heads and water balloon hands to overall mildly detailed.
Know what Nikki is off the hook about the invitation. MacKenzie didn't ask her to pass it back to Jessica she just fucking handed the girl an envelope. What was she supposed to do, read her damn mind? Not to mention MacKenzie could hand it to Jessica after class instead of disturbing Nikki. If your gonna play notepasser don't include other uninvolved parties
I adored that series too! Only thing I disliked about it was the love interest; Hudson literally had the personality of a wet piece of cardboard. Plus I don’t even think Jamie’s crush on him progressed throughout the series whatsoever which sucked.
You’d be surprised how long the “not like other girls” mindset has been around. There was a comic opera called _Patience_ that premiered in 1881, and the main character has a song number bragging about how she’s not interested in love or romance (what we’d now call asexual/aromantic) while all the other village maidens constantly sob and sigh over the local pretty boy.
when I was a kid, I wrote a letter to this author and got a response! I don't remember what she said to me, but she was super nice and I got a drawing and a bookmark from her. about two years later, I stopped reading the books and forgot about them until literally right now
This series was literally my childhood. I remember fighting with this girl named Maddie in the library about who could get the last Dork Diaries book, and then like a year later getting back into it and getting the one where Nikki and Mackenzie become friends and reading it over and over again. Good times (Even if Nikki is literally a terrible person 😀)
I was obsessed with dork diaries and dear dumb diary and my 9-10 year old diary entries are so embarrassing and meanspirited and definitely read similarly 😅
What I liked about dork diaries in the beginning was it was accurate and relatable for your average teenager, we saw ourselves in Nikki at times and that’s why we continued reading because it reflected what we experienced but as the books progressed it just became so unrealistic and un-relatable like how many 14 year olds get to have record deals, go to Paris, attend fancy rich schools? Yea some but not many cause a lot of readers came from middle class backgrounds so reading this just made it less connecting and it just drew away interest
My younger teen self has surprised me when it came to Dork diaries. I had a strong dislike since the beginning and I couldn't get through more than two books. I told myself maybe I'm just going through my "not like other girls" phase but that probably wasn't it. Nikki lacked everything I wanted to see in myself, starting from confidence and fulfillment in life. I wanted a role model ig. I didn't like how she panics every five minutes and all she cares about is fitting in a certain standard. I just didn't see the lesson/objective. I'm so glad you reviewed this one!
Even when younger I realized that Nikki was too focused on popularity. Though I credit that to watching lots of media that warned against seeking popularity over everything else.
Oh my god, "Actually I'm not really sure yet" and Dorkalicious just opened a floodgate of childhood memories, I think I still remember the lyrics to the song they wrote. These books are so nostalgic for me but wow I forgot how unhinged they are. Nikki wanting to have a deep emo convo with her crush about dust mites is 100% valid tho, and I will stand by that.
Dude I remember the dork diaries website had an advice section where you could write about a problem you had and if you were lucky your problem would be featured in a post where "Nikki" would give you advice, and I waited so patiently for my entry to be featured and it never happened
That one was my absolute favorite! I actually owned two copies of it because I got one myself and then my best friend in middle school gave me her battered copy (she came from a very low income family) because she had two and she knew I loved the book. I don’t have either copy anymore but I will always have the memories.
lmaooo this book made me believe that #@@#@$@# was supposed to be a bad word and i had such a hard time wrapping my head around how you'd say that iykyk 🙈
I swear the obsession with popularity is a relic from last century that ppl from our generation only cared about because this was the type of media we had to consume
When I tell you I was obsessed with this series, 4th grade me loved it sm,,, I even have autographed copies of book 1 & 4,,, book 3 1/2 was a complete trip, I’m legit scared of what my answers are
Me: ugh I hate Nikki. She's so selfish at times Also me: *remembers I was the shy art kid who always wanted to be popular but was always treated like crap* no wonder I struggle with self esteem issues
I agree with you. The way chole and Zoe stick with her all the time. Nikki doesn't even appreciate that much like she should. Like, they are supporting her no matter what she is doing. And she ended up hurting them in a very wrong way.
I'm embarrassed I never noticed how problematic these books could be. On the other hand though I still love them. My favorite one is probably the one where she went into a fairytale, it's actually the only book from the series I own. But if you do this again, you should review the one where Makenzie gets her diary and the one where Nikki and Makenzie almost become friends. I think that would be interesting. I also think it's that you said this was like miraculous, because in my mind I always miraculous is like this. Probably because I read dork diaries first. 😅
As a tween girl I was obsessed with these books and thought I wanted to be the main character but I’m literally a man now so I guess it didn’t work out
I remembered this book series and came back to reminisce. And now I literally feel like a kid watching their parents swear. I didn't realize Nikki was THIS MUCH of a menace 💀💀💀
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@@_X1M_ are you high omg
Amanda todd? A teen that took her life a decade ago.
Dang I remember I was nine when I read these books made friends with pop girls and they treated me like tra a ash.
@@_X1M_dude do you need someone to call the hospital or smth
being Taiwanese, the popular girls being called CCP was unintentionally hilarious, because it also stands for Chinese Communist Party
in spanish they were called GPS (which i think means the same everywhere) which isn't as hilarious but it was funny as well lmao
i think they were called scp in swedish which is so funny to look back on 😭
Mackenzie is a communist, very real and confirmed
@SoullessAries Ah yes, my favorite popular girl, the infinite IKEA.
@@TheREALCarmenR 😂😂😂
Gotta reread these I didn’t realize Nikki was just as much a menace to society as Greg Heffley
i’m only just realised how unhinged she was 😭😭😭
NAH NAH NAH LETS NOT COMPARE HER TO GREG HEFFLEY
@@inkubator320 Yeah, at least Greg had some moments of genuine nice-ness and humanity.
@Noah Darden Did we... read the same series growing up? Because he really didn't.
@@paigemosher8697 Yes, we did and HE did.
-Rodrick Rules: Greg agrees to help Rodrick with his science fair project, stating that "Even though Rodrick can be a huge jerk sometimes, he IS my brother."
-The Ugly Truth: Greg goes out of his way to make up with Rowley, stating that he can't even remember what their fight was about.
Dog Days: Greg and his dad bond over their shared hatred of Lil' Cutie.
-Cabin Fever: Greg decides to clean the posters off of the school without Rowley, not wanting him to get in trouble for something he was dragged into. Plus, he also treks out into the snow to turn in a present for the police station toy drive, stating that he knew he'd let some kid down if he didn't.
-Hard Luck: When Greg finds Meemaw's diamond ring, he hides it away to keep his family from falling apart.
Now, I will admit that Greg is a lot more likable in the movies than in the books, but I still stand by my statement that he wasn't 100% bad.
Holy crap. I remember cringing at myself for liking a series where the protagonist unironically wrote "SQUEEE" in her diary, but I didn't remember her being THIS bad...
@@ammiebobabb I reread it and it was pretty bad lol
I remember the Snoopy Dance more....😂
@@ammiebobabb doesn't change the fact that it's really as bad as they describe d
I remember writing “SQUEEE” in my diary because of Dork Diaries 💀
Nah the plot is alright it's just the characters are super cringe, plus it's a book for kids
explaining what the ccp was in dork diaries to my chinese mother when i was in third grade was wild 💀
LMFAOOOSDFOKSDFJOSKDF
It sure was!
Cough *ChineseComunistParty* cough
"N-no mom its ok! The CCP are just the popular and cool kids in scho-"
"The CCP are popular and cool in that book? _belt slap_ "
What does ccp mean? Is it a slur?
@@SheDrawsSometimes the chinese communist party. They've basically genocided all the freedom in China. They're nazis to the chinese, basically.
Nikki might have been an ungrateful kid, but y’all can’t say that Mackenzie is any better. Girl wanted to close down an animal shelter and let dogs and cats roam the streets because Brandon didn’t like her
They’re both horrible people lmao
Love your pfp! Wonyoung is so beautiful
@@delorita394 thank u!
Literally. And when she locked them in a storage closet? Constantly bullied them? Tripped Nicki at lunch? She was so horrible and classist for no reason.
At least Mackenzie is more reasonable. She's a rich kid who's neglected by her parents who most likely has mental problems
Me: wow why was past me so insensitive and close minded?
The books I read as a tween literally targeted at my demographic:
me reading my diary from when i was younger, i was a piece of gargabe lol but at least you learn a lot from those phases(?
this was 100% me as a 12 year old, i remember reading that line nikki "wrote" about "girls whose moms make them shop at jc penney" and for pretty much the rest of middle school i would subconsciously look down upon the girls who bought their clothes from "cheap" stores like that
I'd like to thank the author for showing me how embarrassing and gross it apparently was to have leg hair. Thank god I never really liked these books
@@fernthaisetthawatkul5569but I always got the vibe Nikki did shop there and she doesn’t make those comments in later books.
I literally wanted to be Nikki as a child
Kinda want a diary on a character who starts like Nikki but WAS a popular girl and terrible person at her old school and she's trying desperatly to be popular again only to realize she's happier being herself and making true friends or whatever and realizing SHE WAS terrible and should work on herself
That'd be cute
I watched a C-drama similar to this
@@tomokochan9128could you tell me the name of the C-Drama? i’d like to watch it!
That's legit Veronica Lodge's arch in Riverdale except she never becomes a good person
I read a book kinda like that once called "Glasses, Braces and Rock and Roll" by Meg Haston. The main character starts out a total bitch, your typical high school mean girl, the queen bee popular bitch, but one day she gets glasses and braces, as you could surmise from the title, and gets humbled hard when her friends start treating her basically the way she's been treating everyone else. She learns her lesson, becomes a better person, starts making better decisions and makes new friends, it's a good read all around, really.
Edit: I have been informed by a very nice person who replied that it's actually called "How to Rock Glasses and Braces", so if you wanna read it, look for that, not what I said lmao
Permission to write something like that ?
The way I gobbled up each new book and upset my African parents by "reading other people's diaries" ✋🏾😭
That’s so wholesome 😂❤️
African parents always wanna be mad at somthing 😂
I'm so stupid when I was 8 I thought Nikki J. Maxwell was a REAL person and she just got her parents to publish her diary.
@@heartshine7 my bestie convinced me that the books were actually the life of the author's daughter 💀
@@heartshine7 No this is very valid. When I first started reading it I had to search up online to make sure it was an actual book and that my mom didn’t just steal some random girls diary💀 The fact that in the beginning it says “if found, please return to me for reward, no snooping allowed” made me hella concerned 😭
i used to get so mad at nikki because she would always say that she hated her family and was "disadvantaged" when she litterally got to spend holidys with her family and have her own bedroom and have a nice friend group and she litterally won everything NO WONDER MAKENZIE WAS JEALOUS OF HER
Especially when you realize Mackenzie's parents were never really there for her...
@@NathasyaStellaHermanusok but Mackenzie just choosing to make Nickis life miserable all the time was so weird, it’s like she was obsessed with Nicki. Nicki just hated her because of the bullying
not to mention the fact that nikki stopped her dad from getting the bag when she was intercepting calls and shit bc she was embarrassed by his profession
@@cassiedion4144people often do that when they are jealous of someone and or have been through trauma. It’s not justified but that’s definitely a reason why most people bully people.
@@bituinl that doesn’t matter, I’m sorry but it doesn’t. I’ve been through complete bs throughout my life and I never thought of bullying anyone. Locking Nicki and her friends in a dark closet where they wouldn’t be found is psychotic and her classism destroys any likability she could’ve had(which she honestly had none of)
I know Nikki seems very problematic now but we need to remember that these books were released in a different time where the 'not like othe girls' or 'unpopular misunderstood artsy' girl was considered relatable. Yes it may have aged somewhat badly but for the time, these books were everything. Maybe I'm biased by my own nostalgia but this series remains iconic in my opinion.
I agree so hard! I will have a soft spot for this series even acknowledging how poorly it aged
agreed, and as someone with BPD she was still relatable lol because i loved being the center of attention
Also, there were a lot of people in the 2000's who genuinely thought that being a nerd or introvert was, like, an unforgivable sin (especially if you were a girl) so that definitely contributed to the NLOG trend.
In my story, I'm actually making the NLOG character the antagonist. Like... my protagonist is the kind you'd *think* would brag about how "unlike" other girls she is, being an introverted nerdy type who just does her own thing, but honestly she's too preoccupied with doing her own thing to even really care what the other girls are like, and she gets on *fine* with most of the other girls, really only taking issue with their $€x!$t attitudes towards boys. But there's one girl at her school she can't stand, and that's the "cool" girl, who thinks she's better than all the other girls at school because she's popular with all the boys. She's basically sort of a deconstruction of the "girl next door" archetype, and how damaging that can potentially be when applied to girls in real life (at least in the idealised "cute innocent" way that's often portrayed in fiction).
i agree very much
Say problematic all you want, but damn these books are entertaining af
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fr fr i loved those back in the days
@@maevelovesjack lol same
You’re not wrong
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I remember the books not making much sense to me as I got older in elementary school, like when Nikki goes on tour and all of the band members of that one boy band fall for her along with Brandon and that one other guy. I was really confused because she had this dream life while she was supposed to be this quirky relatable girl that always has the worst luck. Plus she’s 14.
She truly is a Mary Sue.
How is she still considered unpopular????????? She literally had a reality tv show made about her
What?? I never finished the series because the books were all taken in my library. Return your books in a month, people! Anyways, I got to the point where she started dating the guy, maybe a little bit past it? I remember they went on a date, ice skating maybe? But whatt? I only remember her being in a movie or sth
@@silvia6790 I’m pretty sure there was no movie. And Brandon and Nikki have no romantic development.
fr #rElaTaBLe im famous, tour w a boy band as the lead singer and one of them is crushing on me, got the guy, have 2 perfect besties...
wHy iS mY LiFe a gIaNt bUcKeT oF pUkE!?
Dork diaries hold a special place in my heart. They helped me get through bullying in elementary and even now that i am older i still love those books. Its been three years since the last one but my love for them hasnt died even when i am almost an actual adult in a few years.
I feel the same way I went to barns & noble’s recently and saw the books for the first time in forever and it brought me back to when I was elementary school checking all the books out from the library 😭💕
In my school district, we have a book fair that ranged from K-8 for me, and I remember every year in elementary school buying 1-2 Dork Diaries books and I ended up having 12 books in 6th grade 😩
same here! i read dork diaries all the time back in elementary n it helped me get through bullying. it was a terrible time but reading the series always made me feel better
Same!!!
me too but i was such a loner. this book raised me lol
I'm 99% sure Brandon was high for like the first half of the series. Man was on that zaza fr.
My guy the CEO of the Blunt Rotation Express.
bro Brandon was high AND zesty.
@@DW_onlineLMAO
this makes so much sense omg ☠️
It's not canon but now I'm convinced he was supposed to be an okay looking Stoner kid
as a kid i always imagined her as like a sophomore/junior in high school, what middle schooler goes through this like… bruh she went on a world tour 💀
kpop idols
that would honestly make a lot more sense
@@m0nbebe so hyein of them
I think she was 9th grade which makes her technically a high schooler
@@pixelmagicbeat8131she was in 8th but at the end of the 13th book she turned 15 which means she’s going to be in 9th grade in the 16th book
Growing up is realising the main character was extremely ungrateful,
She has great friends, a boyfriend, shes literally famous?!
Yet shes always upset because 1 girl doesnt like her
which is kinda gay ngl-
She was upset because Mackenzie was always doing everything in her power to ruin her day or make her look bad
mackenzie was a bully be serious
I mean i feel like diary of a wimpy kid was the male equivalent of this and i always realized greg was a narcissist loser
Except that girl was literally a bully that was constantly after her and harassing her and Nikki's fame got in the way of her friendships and relationships and brought a bunch of unnecessary stress to her life. Some adults can barely handle fame, and y'all expect a like 14ish girl to be perfect and just being to flawlessly handle everything in her life? The book series is literally a diary, it's her venting her feelings obviously she's gonna focus on the negatives and stuff lol
Nikki is really unlikeable tbh and it gets kind of annoying that by like the 12th book Brandon and Nikki have STILL not “officially” gotten together, like even after kissing many times and him literally TELLING her he likes her she’s like “Omg.. Idk if he likes me.. I think he might like me!🤯”
@@ammiebobabb okay yeah, I just meant that it still took such a long time
Lmaooo that’s so true 😹😹😭
Ikr.. even on all the books, he shows such clear signs yet.. she's as blind as Adrain to actually see them
EXACTLY IT MADE ME SO MAD OMG he even admitted it and every time he looked at another girl she's like "omg he likes her he hates me😢😢"
I think that also makes it realistic tbh. At that age that how girls tend to think.
This entire book series’ dynamic is just:
“Cutesy, quirky girl who has a crush on a dreamy hot guy and also is enemies with a mean, dramatic mean girl”
So it’s basically _Miraculous Ladybug_ minus the superhero stuff.
@@ARCtheCartoonMaster not really
@@Leyltheartist yes really
For some reason, I see that trope in SO MANY BOOKS OMG!!!
These books gave me anxiety because nothing ever went right. Everything she did was always going wrong and it was STRESSFUL
literally
This is the most relatable thing I've ever read
they gave me secondhand embarrassment but I LIVED for it
YES SO TRUE
Yes like they’d TRY to find a way to make it go wrong, like they’d go on tour or they’d have a plan but then at the last moment Mackenzie somehow identity thefts the whole band, and sabotages the entire show
Realizing they couldn’t do the talent show and then them naming the band “actually I’m not really sure yet” was the most stressful 20 pages in my eight year old life
It’s a way cooler name than Dorkalicious though
same, i was seriously FREAKING out
@@caitlingill honestly it sounds like a cool indie band name compared to "Dorkalicious"
@@Cinnabun9yup, I was thinking that! Or even a poppunk band
@@Cinnabun9 YEAH THAT’S WHAT I THOUGHT IT SORTA REMINDS ME OF TALLYHALL (which is my fav band!!)
These books were essentially my life back in fourth grade. I didn't have many friends, so I checked out the second book in the library because the original cover was really funny. And I never looked back! Until a couple years ago, when I wanted to take a walk down memory lane to reread the books. And you hit it right on the mark: Nikki does not deserve Chloe, Zoey, and Brandon, or her family! And I never realized just how weird certain sentences sounded.
Nikki should actually get the rope, she's SO ungrateful. Sorry if this sounds a little too harsh. Since I'm older now, I realized Rachel's writing style is actually to blame here.
Seeing Nikki's insecurity as toxic is really eye-opening. I used to idolize characters like Nikki as someone who also had social insecurities, and books about "mean girls vs outsider" only drive in the trope that "You can't trust anyone who's popular, more attractive, etc." even though the solution could literally be go. Get. To know them! Instead of making assumptions about a popularity hierarchical structure that you made up in your head. I'm trying to grow out of this mentality too, so thank you for telling it how it is Amanda TvT
(And yeah, making these assumptions based on what I read harmed my critical thinking skills, so that's why you don't believe everything you read kids!)
Yessss! There was a popular girl at my old school who dressed very sexy and got a lot of attention from guys. Even though I was a wallflower, we got along fairly well and she was always nice to teachers and unpopular kids. This definitely changed my perspective about judging based on character rather than sexual behavior or any of that crap
True, but in this specific instance Mackenzie was constantly bullying Nikki, so maybe Nikki’s assumptions were correct?
When I was in middle school I attempted this and found out they were just as shallow as they seemed and thought I was a weirdo
I was an unpopular girl in high school. Popular girls were actually pretty polite to me. Never close, obviously, but it was really the other unpopular kids who gave me any grief at school. That said, I don't think populars or unpopulars are necessarily better or worse than the other. They're just children, at the end of the day.
I am friends with a popular girl at my school, & she is the kindest & most understanding person I’ve ever met there. She’s also patient with me & never gets irritated at anything I do since I am on the spectrum. People like Nikki really need to step up & actually know how people are instead of labeling them as what the stereotypes say.
the entire time i am watching this video i am slowly doing the math and my brain just went "oh so it's diary of a wimpy kid but for girls"
No but that was literally my thought process when I saw it at the store - I was going to buy wimpy kid but just got this instead, because for girls
Thinking about how the story plays out, I was also making comparisons to diary of a wimpy kid.
Bruh even the main character is also a horrible person. The only difference is that she's portrayed as a normal teenager, while the audience knows that Greg's actions are wrong.
It literally is lmao
Lmao that was literally the way my mom described the series to me to get me to read it
Nikki was the original delusional girl bc they whole series she would periodically write out scenarios with her and Brandon and then act them out alone in her room 😭😭
Nah that's just average INFP behavior
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It was SO annoying how Nikki always said how bad her life was when she went on tour with a freaking band
I am like nikki - My life isnt good but isnt bad - My bully is terrible and lmost crosses out anything good about my lifw
Nikki:almost drowned, was cyberbullied, had the sweater which she saved to buy for two months ruined, got anxiety about a fake tuition bill, got a concussion, etc
People: She is so ungrateful
@@kolapooluseye6639 FR and ppl are still like : She gets everything,
abt the whole ppl dont like nikki thing, i actually grew up with my favorite book being number 9, the one where Nikki is almost never narrating, and instead, Mackenzie finds Nikkis diary and disguises it in leopard print fabric, hence the cover of the book being leopard print. The art style changes for the better and its 10 times more entertaining because Nikki isn’t groaning about *her* life all the time, and instead, Mackenzie is doing the same thing Nikki usually does, but it gives a different perspective on things and it even goes through the events of the book series up to that point and how Mackenzie saw it through her own eyes. 10/10 book would recommend.
I remember that one!! I thought it was the coolest thing
the mackenzie diary was easily the series' best installment with zero competition
When I saw what Mackenzie's art thing for for avante grande event was, my jaw DROPPED. SHE LOST TO NIKKI?? Get yo ass outta here fr
yes yes yes!! this one was always my favorite and the most memorable to me out of the whole series
Yeah even though Mackenzie is a bully she is less whiny and has a reason to bully and has a sad life unlike Nikki who is straight up annoying.
mackenzie has always been my favourite character. i wanted to be her even though she was terrible sometimes. plus her hair is soooooo cute
Edit: i didnt want to be a bully i wanted to be pretty and popular and not to defend any of her actions but Nikki hated her always demonized her
Wait... you wanna be a bully? But only sometimes? OOOOKAYYY.. not weird... not weird at all...
definitely not sometimes lmao she's a freaking bully who is also this pretty expensive fashion rich girl
@@lennygriffin2761 it’s not that deep lol it’s a kids book
@@katam7299 about someone bullying
So you wanted to be a bully....
I need to see a book series from Chloe or Zoe's perspective.
Also, realistically, Nikki would've been like... HELLA popular? Like if you're in 8th grade and are literally famous in some school with rich private school kids roaming everywhere?
Also stan Brianna.
Stan Brianna fr
@@ytsumiiytsumii666 frfr
Who’s brianna 😭😭 is it nikki’s sister? Idk I read Skating sensation yesterday and I can’t remember her name
@@Gibmeprimogemss Yh she’s Nikki’s sister
Stan Brianna ✨✨💅🏻💅🏻
Thanks to Brianna, it made me realize how annoying I was to my older sister and stopped. It was such an eye-opener, a personality awareness, because I really hated Brianna and was devastated to know I acted just like her. Nowadays my sister and I are very close. Thanks Dork Diaries, I learned to stop being a little shit :)
Nice that you matured from reading these books!
I love that so much for you! And I'm glad you too are closer now :)
Thank god, Nikki’s parents need to do better parenting
i always thought it was funny how the series was called dork diaries when nikki never really acts dorky, at most she's just kind of awkward sometimes, but she doesn't really have any "dorky" interests, she's not particularly smart or nerdy (one of her friends liked books a lot,i think it was zoey but am unsure, but she had no interest in reading iirc) she acts pretty much exactly how a typical teen girl in these kinds of stories would act, and if anything i think she'd be a popular girl like mackenzie irl
also when i was younger and into this series i remember thinking it was basically if diary of a wimpy kid was written for a female audience, and that if greg and nikki existed in the same universe they'd probably get along, and tbh i still stand by that, although it would be chaotic and awful for everyone involved
My favorite book in the series was not about Nikki at all, but Mackenzie. I always loved the 9th book where Mackenzie steals her diary and starts writing in it. I always found it so fascinating.
I would love a spin off of diaries that belong to Mackenzie
I liked that one too. I felt bad for Mackenzie because it seemed like she was acting how she was because her parents were never there for her
@@1EmuFan
I think Mackenize had a therapist, correct?
@@DrawciaGleam02 yh
@@DrawciaGleam02 she had a therapist?! oh BOY i did not remember that one
growing up is realising mackenzie was an iconic queen
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These books were my literal childhood, they were pure chaos and I loved every second of it.
I remember having a huge crush on Brandon after reading the book where Mackenzie steals Nikki’s diary because I thought he looked so adorable in her art style lmao
MacKenzie and Nikki are both awful yet somehow MacKenzie comes off as a more normal person
Like Janice Ian said: “I know I’m a b*tch”
naw wtf, MacKenzie is lashing out and constantly picking the fights
@@stuffwithsoph8264 yet she feels like a real human being. Nikki likes to say that she is nice but all she does is get upset and complain about MacKenzie, complain about her little sister(valid and normal), has good friend and family while being selfish and not realizing how much better she has it than MacKenzie
@@theoutsiderjess1869 i dont see how complaining makes you a bad or unrealistic person. she's supposed to be like 13-14? thats all i did at her age. youre reaching.
@@stuffwithsoph8264 there is complaining and then there is being pissed and obsessed because this one girl won't like you. Nikki genuinely doesn't even appreciate the friends she has and yet somehow they still like her alongside her crush/boyfriend by the time I reached her age was the time I stopped reading these books because Nikki is basically a selfish Mary Sue
I learned a few years ago that the Japanese word for diary is "nikki." I have no idea if that was intentional on the author's part, but my mind was BLOWN when I made the connection
OMG MY DAD IS JAPANESE HE TOLD ME THIS
Just so you know it’s a coincidence, the author’s daughter’s name is Nikki
Mirai Nikki 🤯
maybe her daughter irl is named Nikki
@@alyssapinon9670 “O.M.G! Today I was heading home when some pink haired girl totally chased me into the mall! I tried asking her name but she just keeps saying “you know.” Maybe she’s in my math class? Anyways she keeps talking about my diary and some weird game she’s in, but, like, that’s just not funny! Invading my privacy is no joke!”
“Update: and now there’s a totally weird guy coming after us on the stairs! With a KNIFE! OMG! I like hanging out at the mall, but this is just too much!”
I literally have no memory of anything that happened in Dork Diaries but I collected almost every book that existed of it. 💀
SAME 😭😭😭
I remember that the cleanup crew had to save a school dance in one of the books....
@@DrawciaGleam02 yeah I remember that! Tanks for reminding me!
@@Meowmeowimthebiggestcat yes!!! Lol that one was certainly unrealistic…. But all the books were kinda unrealistic
SAME I got the whole set forreal
Fun fact: In the “Super squee edition” of the first book, she stays home because of a pimple not an ear rash.
I feel like that's the version I remembered! I was like...I don't remember this part lol
Yh and that she returns the hearing aid pretty quickly
there was a super squee edition?! what were the differences? or, how different was it?
@@ValerieSparrowW It was pretty much the same. I think some of the scenes are a lil different plus the cover is sparkly.
Yup! I own that one
Man. I forgot just how ungrateful Nikki was. Her parents were quirky and embarrassing, but at least they love her. (Her sister… yeah, she’s still annoying.)
I actually want to see the ENTIRE series in Mackenzie’s pov because I really loved that one book
I want the series from Chloe or Zoe's perspective
OMG, I loved theses books.
But they lost me after book 9 where MacKenzie stole the diary. Because that was the first time I noticed that nikki was just a bad as her sometimes and because it turned her into my faveourite Character.
Edit: Also MacKenzie is a way better Artist then Nikki
They lost me after book nine also😭
same, drama queen is my favourite book for this reason😭
I had to stop after book 7. Middle school children doing a kissing booth type thing gave me the ick.
Lmaoo I forgot she did that 😭
I didn’t know they made any more books after nine lmao
i looked up the books and apparently the series is still ongoing?! i don't remember what book i stopped reading at years ago but one of the descriptions of the books describes mackenzie as nikki's "frenemy". and all i'm hearing is frenemies to lovers
I think it's the "tales of a not so friendly frienemy" book 11 where Nikki went to north hampton hills international academy as an exchange student
dude i shipped nikki and mackenzie and was obsessed with the thought of them being frenemies to lovers when i was like 9 😭
aaaaaa me too i wanted them to get along so badly
Ive heard they are making a high school book soon and i think the book before is frienemy
omg the slowburn romance we needed
I was the older brother who used to stealthily "borrow" these from my sister cause I thought they were really entertaining lol
Edit: Almost a year later, am no longer brother, am now sister. The prophecy is true lmao
Me too!
Yeah I eventually caved in myself
I just outright bought them they were interesting lmao
@@Quid0pher Power move
Honestly part of me wants to read them again lol, for the nostalgia
I (a teenage boy) really do like this series
I feel like you’re analyzing Nikki’s character from a very adult perspective and making it seem like certain things she’d just be able to know. Middle school was rough okay 😭
Everyone has their own perspectives. There's no one correct perspective on this book. I had a similar perspective when I first started reading dork diaries back in middle school, despite me not being an adult yet.
I remember reading this series, being in a phase of my life where I hated anything “girly,” but being so invested because of the absolute chaos.
I’m so glad I’m not the only one who remembers how unhinged m this was 😭
Literally the other day I was saying dork diaries and miraculous is the same story lines in different fonts
or Dork Diaries and Mean Girls, lol
😂 mean girls honestly better in my opinion
Miraculous is just Dork Diaries on steroids
@@gloriauwu5984 Mean Girls is one of the most iconic pieces of cinema ever let's be real
Star dollz who am I kidding you're right lolol
I remember how much it annoyed me in the later books when her life was going like perfectly fine, she wore amazing outfits, had friends, cool stuff happening to her all the time, she was famous too but she still was like ahh Im suck a dork 🤪 I'm such a freak lol 😝 like girl shut up you really aren't
She may have still..felt like a dork on the inside?
It's sometimes hard with to see yourself as anything more due to low self-esteem.
Which can be caused by bullying.
imposter syndrome bro
Fr it pissed me off and niki became so ungrateful then
I wish the author could've kept her "unpopular" instead of creating her into the popular famous singer girl who has the perfect life. It makes the book so unrealistic
Yeah I always liked the oldest books a lot more than the new ones because now I feel like the whole Nikki’s a celebrity and has 2 boys after her and everyone loves her yet she still thinks she’s a dork was never really my cup of tea when it came to writing. Like she literally got her own reality tv show at one point. Like how does Rachel still think she can continue the Nikki is unpopular storyline when she pretty much gives her opportunities that would make her rich and famous as hell in the real world. I seriously miss when Nikki was just an average middle-schooler who hung out with her friends and got bullied. I miss when I actually related to her on a person level. But hey, I suppose it’s too late to turn back, the damage has already been done. Anyway sorry if I sound overly angry or dramatic, I’m just stating my opinion. Anyway thanks for coming to my ted talk, have a nice day.
Omg I didn't know she was as bad as Greg heffley book mc’s we're unhinged in the early 2000’s 😭
Excuse me?
@@gregheffley715 nah Greg you good
@@gregheffley715 tell your brother he’s got.
Rod not manny
@@gregheffley715 greg ur not nice 😡👹
@@Gibmeprimogemss Ok bye.
Alright I’m gonna say this: as someone who’s been bullied by a MacKenzie type and a Nikki type, the latter hurt way more. I knew Mac was a bitch, the whole school knew she was. But Nikki was sneaky and always hid behind her “not like other girls” persona to weasel out of trouble and painted me as a shallow girly girl
Man, so sorry for how you were treated, Alyssa. If it helps, I'm making an NLOG girl the antagonist in my _Adele_ stories.
@@ARCtheCartoonMaster that sounds awesome! drop the link!
Did the latter act like Janis from Mean Girls?
@@caitlingill not quite that awful, but more of a “I’m so quirky, there’s no way I can be the bad guy.” Even though there was a lot of internalized misogyny on her end. To make it clear: MacKenzie was the aggressor but Nikki seemed like the type to adopt her bully’s toxic traits without being aware of it because she sees herself as 100% a victim. You can be a victim of bullying and still be held accountable for doing shitty things.
i refuse to believe that a teen girl in the early 2010s would have gushed over kanye west... this was peak "imma let you finish" and there is no way a 14 year old girl in a private school in 2009 wouldn't have been a huge taylor swift fan
HOLY SHIT DORK DAIRES i think my favourite on was the one were like shes transports to like an alternate universe where everyone is like fairy tale characters???? I have no idea what its called or if I still have it lol
Tales from a Not-So Happily Ever After! Loved that one :)
@@ad_mirarithank you so much!!
once upon a dork i think
Oh my God I remember that holy shittt
I have that book I remember I stole it from my school’s library lol 😭
Idk, Chloe and Zoey I think are as bad as Nikki at the start for starters while yes they ARE good friends, they did get a little carried away and starters prioritizing popularity over Nikki, during the tattoo part, we don’t see her family enough but it does seem half decent, I do got to agree Nikki’s hatred towards Mackenzie is pretty unwarranted in book 1, we have seen Nikki go through hoops just to make her friends and crush happy, such as multi-tasking 3 different costumes because she didn’t want to let everyone down, again bc at this time their friendship was newly repaired and not as strong as later books, so it’s a bit understandable that Nikki would think that Chloe and zoey would leave more easily, then in book 6 she did infact plan to get Chloe and Zoey tickets but were sold out, didn’t know how to tell the truth, plus we have seen Nikki genuinely care a lot about her BFFS such as in book 13 while she did want the party for popularity she was also doing it for her friends too, I don’t think Nikki Chloe or Zoey are bad friends just people with flaws
finally, someone with working brain cells in this comment section
@@rawcookiedough7518 yeah as someone who’ve read the books like a bajillion times, I can say that while Chloe and Zoey ARE good BFFs, they got their fair share of flaws just like Nikki
yeah, people are also quick to judge them as adults which is a bit crazy because they are literal children. Nikki is flawed but she is a young girl...who isn't especially at that age? she still consistently chooses to be kind and values her friends and family, people are overhating i dont get it
@@stuffwithsoph8264 Then people go on to say Mackenzie, the canonically a pathological liar and person who has sabotaging Nikki's life as a hobby, is iconic 😐. Ig it's just popular nowadays to prefer villains and say "actually, they were so much better than the heroes" and rag on the main characters as simply "annoying" and bratty without acknowledging the fact that people are all shades of gray. You just gotta skim over that, there's too many people who hop on this without really considering that people can be both bad and good
@@stuffwithsoph8264 yeah, people gave way more leverage to a grown adult over a kid who’s 14/15 💀
THE WAY I SCREAMED WHEN I SAW YOU DECIDED TO COVER DORK DIARIES AH MY CHILDHOOD!! u make me feel so seen amanda
These books comforted me so much. The main message I got from them was that even bad people with nothing going for them have good things happen to them for no reason. Like despite how TERRIBLE most of Nikki's plans were everything turned out fine and she got the guy she liked. Bruh I hated myself so much to identify so closely with this girl lmao
When I was 8, I was staying at my grandparents house and there was a library. I begged my grandpa to drive me and get at least half of the Dork Diaries series. I remember only getting through the first two books and going to my grandpa and saying, “Can we return these? I don’t like them” my grandpa drove me back and I haven’t touched a Dork Diaries book every since.
An absolute classic from my childhood
I haven't reread it but I don't think it holds up watching this
I blame Dork Diaries for making me a cringe not like other girls pick me when I was a kid. But hey, Nikki was someone I could relate to, and reading Dork Diaries as a kid, (despite my whole pick me personality forming because of it) I felt like hey, even though this character is fictional, this is someone I can relate to.
"Actually I'm not really sure yet" has the same energy as "I don't know how but they found me"
YOO I USED TO LOVE THAT BAND!!!
idkhow reference spotted 🙀😳⁉️🗣️
RUN FOR IT, MARTY!
It’s so embarrassing whenever people ask me “what inspired you to get into art?” Bc I know damn well it was all these books fault
Me but with writing lol
sameeeeeee
I remember dork diaries. I think at first, it was a cute story. There was a book where she becomes a figure skater or enters a figure skating competition. The details of it are fuzzy, but I remember she did things that made me think "Wow, she's not much better than Mackenzie".
Bro the amount of time I read these books on REPEAT is ridiculous. And when I tell you I physically cringed when you recreated that conversation- Man these books 😂
Growing up, I thought these books represented how teenagers actually act. Hell, I was like 7 years old when the first book got published in my country, and I begged my mom to buy me the whole series. She told me that when I grow up, I'll find Dork Diaries cringe. Guess she weren't wrong 😂😂
BRO SAME the series made me think that this is what teenagers are like when I was 6-7
@@Roseofthevines Maybe for some teenagers Nikki may be relatable but in my case, I was the exact opposite of Nikki and Mackenzie. No boyfriend, no besties. Basically the school weirdo XD
@@berryXjerry216that's most people
Your mom saw into the future 😂
i've always had this idea that if most people in school are 'weird' then the 'not so weird' ones would be the weird ones right??
I loved this book series as a preteen, thank you for this recap I didn't realise that I needed until now, Amanda! ❤️😍
BRO I ALWAYS SEE UR COMMENTS LITERALLY EVERYWHERE i swear we gotta have the exact same taste in youtube videos lmao
Omg Trina, you're here
@@1970Camaro Same this person is literally everywhere!!
No same dude I swear I see Trina like every time I watch a UA-cam video-
As a kid I always thought of these books as "girl diary of a wimpy kid", and looking back, that was probably mostly because Nikki comes off like a sociopath almost as much as Greg Heffley.
No matter how the books really were, it inspired me to write my own diary and that changed the trajectory of my life
SAMMEEE!! I started writing in mine in 6th grade and i’m still writing in it almost 5 years later 💪🥶
Same here! I had written in my own diaries on and off before I found a style that suited me.
i have the entire series on my shelves. I kinda used them as my colouring book
I did the same thing!
what in earth is that emoji
what the
@@jellyshart first time I’ve seen it
@@cinnamon5675 it’s a UA-cam emoji, sometimes you can use them on livestreams, not sure how they got it here tho.
Dork Diaires will forever go down in history as iconic. Sorry not sorry. An absolute flagship book series from a whole generation's childhood.
Little story:
So, I clicked on this video because I knew that this was the favorite series of my best friend from middle school. And the parallels between her and Nicky are honestly MAJOR, they sum up her personality perfectly. She had always been obsessed with popularity and never really appreciated me, she also had a major crush on this guy at school, who was basically the sweetest, shyest, and weirdest guy in our neighborhood. She always made excuses to hang out with this guy (instead of me). But whenever she ditched me, and found someone else to hang out with, she would act JEALOUS and make mean comments at my other friends.
Anyways, I eventually stopped talking to her and now have much better friends. But I still have trust issues because of her.
(Fun fact: Her crush she kept annoying? He is now my childhood best friend.)
I read a few of these when I was younger because my sisters owned them. Even when I was younger I noticed how Nikki's drawings go from stick figures with mildly detailed heads and water balloon hands to overall mildly detailed.
overall mildly detailed to overall mildly detailed
Know what Nikki is off the hook about the invitation. MacKenzie didn't ask her to pass it back to Jessica she just fucking handed the girl an envelope. What was she supposed to do, read her damn mind? Not to mention MacKenzie could hand it to Jessica after class instead of disturbing Nikki. If your gonna play notepasser don't include other uninvolved parties
the way you inexplicably fulfill all of my deepest and most forgotten niches feeds my empty heart so much joy
I would LOVE to see a Dear Dumb Diary recap! Both of these books had a chokehold on me
isabelle was an icon, a legend and the moment. feral chaotic neutral incarnate
Dear Dumb Diary was the best
Remember when they made a Dear Dumb Diary movie and it was a musical?
YES
I adored that series too! Only thing I disliked about it was the love interest; Hudson literally had the personality of a wet piece of cardboard. Plus I don’t even think Jamie’s crush on him progressed throughout the series whatsoever which sucked.
just realized that these books might have been a formative part of my internal misogyny growing up
Frrr
YEAH ITS ALWAYS GIRLS VS GIRLS IN THESE BOOKS!!! Same with dear dumb diary too!!!!
Makes me glad I never read these books because I was enough of an NLOG as is growing up
I realized that these books probably made me have a not like other girls phase a couple years ago 😭
You’d be surprised how long the “not like other girls” mindset has been around. There was a comic opera called _Patience_ that premiered in 1881, and the main character has a song number bragging about how she’s not interested in love or romance (what we’d now call asexual/aromantic) while all the other village maidens constantly sob and sigh over the local pretty boy.
I’m a librarian in a kids library and was always wondering about these books, so thank you for the recap.
when I was a kid, I wrote a letter to this author and got a response! I don't remember what she said to me, but she was super nice and I got a drawing and a bookmark from her. about two years later, I stopped reading the books and forgot about them until literally right now
As a person who never heard from either Barnes & Noble or the Dork-Series, I can confirm that this video vividly represented my Childhood
This series was literally my childhood. I remember fighting with this girl named Maddie in the library about who could get the last Dork Diaries book, and then like a year later getting back into it and getting the one where Nikki and Mackenzie become friends and reading it over and over again. Good times (Even if Nikki is literally a terrible person 😀)
I was obsessed with dork diaries and dear dumb diary and my 9-10 year old diary entries are so embarrassing and meanspirited and definitely read similarly 😅
Dear dumb diary was the best thing to me during my middle school years
What I liked about dork diaries in the beginning was it was accurate and relatable for your average teenager, we saw ourselves in Nikki at times and that’s why we continued reading because it reflected what we experienced but as the books progressed it just became so unrealistic and un-relatable like how many 14 year olds get to have record deals, go to Paris, attend fancy rich schools? Yea some but not many cause a lot of readers came from middle class backgrounds so reading this just made it less connecting and it just drew away interest
WHEN I FOUND OUT NIKKI WAS BLACK MY WHOLE WORLD CHANGED like no wonder i was so attached to her 😩
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What omg I ain’t know that?!🤣😭😭
i thought she was black the entire time i read it but recently looked it up and turns out shes white 😭 and her friends are black and latina
Shes not, but Zoey is black and Chloe Garcia is Latina, hence the surname
@@moonstonewolfgaming525 I knew I wasn’t tripping 😭🤣 thought she was always white 🤣🤷🏽♀️
My younger teen self has surprised me when it came to Dork diaries. I had a strong dislike since the beginning and I couldn't get through more than two books. I told myself maybe I'm just going through my "not like other girls" phase but that probably wasn't it. Nikki lacked everything I wanted to see in myself, starting from confidence and fulfillment in life. I wanted a role model ig. I didn't like how she panics every five minutes and all she cares about is fitting in a certain standard. I just didn't see the lesson/objective. I'm so glad you reviewed this one!
This was my favorite series when I was younger omfg. Going back I realize that Niki was focused on the wrong things lmao
Even when younger I realized that Nikki was too focused on popularity.
Though I credit that to watching lots of media that warned against seeking popularity over everything else.
Oh my god, "Actually I'm not really sure yet" and Dorkalicious just opened a floodgate of childhood memories, I think I still remember the lyrics to the song they wrote. These books are so nostalgic for me but wow I forgot how unhinged they are. Nikki wanting to have a deep emo convo with her crush about dust mites is 100% valid tho, and I will stand by that.
As problematic as Nikki is, Dork diaries will always have a place in my part as my first book series I was obsessed with😂
Dude I remember the dork diaries website had an advice section where you could write about a problem you had and if you were lucky your problem would be featured in a post where "Nikki" would give you advice, and I waited so patiently for my entry to be featured and it never happened
I hope you can reveiw the fairytale one, i loved that one so much!
That one was my absolute favorite! I actually owned two copies of it because I got one myself and then my best friend in middle school gave me her battered copy (she came from a very low income family) because she had two and she knew I loved the book. I don’t have either copy anymore but I will always have the memories.
@@theroseofversailles theres something about a whole fairytale AU that’s technically cannon to the series thats just 🧑🍳💋*chefs kiss* perfect!
THAT WAS THE FIRST BOOK IN THE SERIES I READ STILL MY FAVE TO THIS DATE
As a kid I got so excited bc I thought the series had borrowed the isekai trope 😭
lmaooo this book made me believe that #@@#@$@# was supposed to be a bad word and i had such a hard time wrapping my head around how you'd say that iykyk 🙈
watching this video years since reading dork diaries in 5th grade realizing how much this series impacted my frontal lobe development 💀🥺
I swear the obsession with popularity is a relic from last century that ppl from our generation only cared about because this was the type of media we had to consume
omgg literally my childhood. literally the artstyle of this book was EVERYTHING!!!
don't get me started on books +6 where nikki out of nowhere becomes famous 💀💀 like what the heck
And still is ungrateful 💀
Yeah, it was a tv star where she became famous, the same as spectacular superstar. I colored the books in with pencils, and the 9th book was okay
When I tell you I was obsessed with this series, 4th grade me loved it sm,,, I even have autographed copies of book 1 & 4,,, book 3 1/2 was a complete trip, I’m legit scared of what my answers are
Me: ugh I hate Nikki. She's so selfish at times
Also me: *remembers I was the shy art kid who always wanted to be popular but was always treated like crap* no wonder I struggle with self esteem issues
I agree with you. The way chole and Zoe stick with her all the time. Nikki doesn't even appreciate that much like she should.
Like, they are supporting her no matter what she is doing. And she ended up hurting them in a very wrong way.
This was the first step toward my book obsession
OK, I LOVED THESE BOOKS. MACKENZIE CARRIED THE WHOLE BOOK SERIES.
I'm embarrassed I never noticed how problematic these books could be. On the other hand though I still love them. My favorite one is probably the one where she went into a fairytale, it's actually the only book from the series I own. But if you do this again, you should review the one where Makenzie gets her diary and the one where Nikki and Makenzie almost become friends. I think that would be interesting. I also think it's that you said this was like miraculous, because in my mind I always miraculous is like this. Probably because I read dork diaries first. 😅
As a tween girl I was obsessed with these books and thought I wanted to be the main character but I’m literally a man now so I guess it didn’t work out
That makes two of us 💀💀
3 of us now 💀
4 of us 💀
😭
@@auvelvaxoxo3382 you ruined it
I remembered this book series and came back to reminisce. And now I literally feel like a kid watching their parents swear. I didn't realize Nikki was THIS MUCH of a menace 💀💀💀