Tyra Banks wrote a book and it's SO BAD (a MODELLAND deep dive)
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- Опубліковано 8 тра 2024
- this is quite possibly the worst book I've ever read so I hope you enjoy my descent into madness
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You just unlocked a 6th grade memory for me. I used to think you had to finish every book you started, and then this book changed that for me.
that's so real
Err... it did some good then...?😂
1:29 I wasnt looking at the screen so I heard "Metopia" as "Miitopia" so now I'm imagining all of these characters as Miis
Girl me too!!!!
SAME- the only difference is that Miitopia is a peak game 😭
Tbh, that would have salvaged the book.
That makes this book so much better
I was playing miitopia while watching this and hearing that was crazy
"As hot as - you guessed it -"
Me: Hell
"A Scotch bonnet."
Huh
tyra likes to keep us on our toes 🥰
@@ainsleesbookclub she's just so quirky like that
@@ainsleesbookclubhaha I got you to 69 likes on this
“They’re running the taps because they want to get a smize” is such a deranged sentence
This gives such visceral "we asked ChatGPT to write a book for us and this is what it came up with" vibes that it circled back around to being a little impressive???? How did she write a random prompt generated book in 2011?
if we found out years from now that Tyra Banks is a time traveller who came to 2024 to have AI write what ever this is and travelled back to publish it i wouldn't even flinch
literally the way I went between “this is the stupidest thing ever written” and “Tyra banks is actually a genius and none of us get it” throughout the WHOLE BOOK
Omggggg you're backkkkkkk I'm so happy that you're aliveeeeee I love your videos ❤❤❤❤
The thing that makes me clutch my nonexistent pearls is that this went through an editor…like this is the FINAL DRAFT
the names in this book remind me of ANY TIME i read something about the argonauts in greek stories/plays - we got Atalanta, Meleager, Orpheus, Medea (sometimes), and then their leader is named JASON. JASON WHAT R U DOING HERE
I mean it is said as Jahson not Jayson. It's just one of the names that is able to be translated and still used to this day that's why it seems more out of place than it really is but yeah I get you.
Omg I had the same thought😂
I thought that after Lilly Blossom Bloom, no book name could surprise me... I was wrong
The theme of homelessness is WILD considering that episode of the Tyra Banks Show where she pretended to pretend to be homeless and was like wow I get it, I am the queen of empathy.
"Intoxibella" sounds like an evil spinoff of the Bratzillas
My abs hurt from laughing! You are so real for "it feels like a satire but I don't know what it's a satire of" LIKE SERIOUSLY
I just CANNOT with you pronouncing all these insane names totally straight faced
"The secret zip zap"
"Desperada"
"The Ooh Aah"
I love it
I don't believe in psychoanalyzing authors based on reading their books.... BUT this book makes me wonder so many things about the author's mind
you def can it did come from their brain afterall
@@Viteaification it's more in a sense that we hold a person's work too much over their own head. like a horro author writing about a murder, doesnt mean they secretly fantasize about doing that. like maybe they just find the concept scary just like you and happen to write about it. literally so what. like what characteristic from the author could you possibly get from that.
this book tho, it takes a genius to write like you're tring so hard to sound human while being one
she got briefly possessed by the old Jellicle Cats spirit. many such cases
I didn't understand what this comment meant when I first read it. Then I reached that part of the video 😂
THE QUEEN POSTED I repeat THE QUEEN POSTED 🗣️🗣️🗣️
PEASANTS ASSEMBLE /j
Why did I click on the bell if it doesn't notify me???😢
I'm a lil sus about the main character's favorite food too being a defining character thing. For those that suffer with eating disorders, whipped cream (especially low fat) is pretty low in calories, and some folks eat it as a special treat to replace ice cream when they're counting calories. Not that everyone else can't enjoy whipped cream, but given who the book is written by and the self harm in this book... I don't know, just seems sus xD
While this is entirely valid, the reason her favourite food is whipped cream is so much more self indulgent than that:
It's Tyra Banks favourite food. Tookie is an admitted self insert.
@@LordHattieif it’s a self insert that probably lays more claim to the eating disorder theory considering she was a model. Not to speculate on her relationship with food (I myself prefer cool whip to ice cream), but most likely it was a “hack” she picked up in her modeling days from either somebody pushing an eating disorder onto her or another model who happened to have one.
Some of these names give me a "I need a name so I'll look around the room for inspiration" vibe
"Mic stand. Mike. Stand. Ley. Mike Standley. The third."
Tyra made a THEME SONG for Modelland and I deeply encourage everyone to listen to a few seconds of it. No matter how bad you’re imagining it to be, it’s worse 😂
I Did not believe you at first … but wow just wow
Little correction as a french-speaking person, excité does mean excited too! It *is* also slang for horny, but the translation to excited is definitely not wrong!
(commenting this at the very beginning) i think this is my third(?) youtube video about model land and i still know nothing about the plot,, it’s THAT incomprehensible lmao
also CONGRATS ON GRADUATING!!!
My favourite review of this book (Other than this one of course): ...although Modelland "promotes self-esteem and confidence in girls, it is less than empowering since it is all to a depressing consumerist end", calling it "a nonsensical, nightmarish, acid trip that seemed like it would never end" with "more made-up words and terms than a Klingon translation of a Dr. Seuss book", and emphasising that it "stops being funny when you realise just how long it is".
Do you have a link?
A good editor would've made this a third of the length or less and it would kill as social commentary (if Tyra was actually able to do that).
@@roibenra good editor wouldve told her no _until_ she could do it, prolly /agreeing with you
@@luna_nova_09 I found it on Goodreads I think
This naming system hurt my brain so much. I can't imagine reading this. You are so brave.
I really thought all that stuff about the belladonna or whatever's baby was gonna lead up to the reveal that tookie was her baby and creamy's punishment or whatever was to have to raise her or something
because there was that whole thing about her father not thinking shes his
and i dont know if that wouldve been worse or better but thats definitely where i thought it was going
I really appreciate your commitment to calling it a Zip Zap every single time
I have watched America’s Next Top Model. A smeyes/smize/smise is smiling with your eyes not your mouth when you are being photographed. What does that physically look like in the terms of this book. No clue.
so, normally id say its the eye squint thingy that ppl did a lot more during the pandemic bc masks
but idk if that translates over into this book, it seems too normal
@@nikitabee9908oh in the book it's the ridiculous gold thing on the cover
Same, and I couldn't stop picturing the smize as making the girls eyes bleed like when Raja portrayed Tyra on snatch game on season 3 of drag race lmaoooo
This hardcore reminds me of The Selection in a weird way.
oh no there's been a horrible head-on train crash between the uglies and the post hunger games YA competition-world genre. There's random plot snippets and unexamined themes everywhere, the front row is splattered with clinically unique YA protag names. shield the children's eyes so they don't have to watch as the hyper-shallow moral drags itself towards the agonizing, sequel bait conclusion. there's a seventh grade reading level premise impaled on gritty YA plot devices. oh the humanity.
I think we should get a special discount at bookstores for honestly living through the lit phase where everyone wanted to chomp hunger games bit and ended up writing these ultra lame protags living in the melodramatic YA equivalent of whoville. the models up in modelland loved modelling a lot, but the protagonist, with an embarrassingly under researched and strictly convenient plot-relevant mental health crisis, did NOT.
hey you might be getting a call from whoever has to execute on my life insurance policy because the words "lip virginity" did shoot through my speakers and into my temple and killed me dead forever
I have tried to wrap my head around modelland for literal years and I still cannot fully comprehend it
C-CAN YOU SURVIVE M-M-MODELLAND 🗣🗣🔥🔥 (Congrats on graduating!)
i love how this book is on my feed every month from a different youtuber and i never don’t click on the thumbnail
Omg when you talked about the uncozy self harm I wasn’t surprised and thought, “Yeah I smelled the ableism in the opening that you read us.”
Omg the Backyardagins…
Such a wild name choices 😭
this whole video felt like a fever dream lmao (also congrats on graduating! i also just did-go class of 2024!)
Omg congrats to you too!
immediately the pronunciation of theophilus is killing me
second deep dive video i see about this book and i think this time around i somewhat understood the storyline but also i absolutely will not remember any of this by tomorrow morning
Please read either the divergent series or the matched series because I was obsessed with them as a teenager and they are ✨Bad✨
Also you can be a headband girlie I believe in you (Bobby pins are the secret)
Oh, I loved Matched when I was a teen, too!
You questioning what Uniqua is reminded me of that Tumblr post of someone who Google searched "is uniqua from backyardigans a woman of color"
Just started, can't wait, the fact that this isn't a Bimboland fanfiction and in fact is written by toxic queen Tyra is WILD
omg Bimboland mention
"bimboland fanfiction" is definitely a combination of words
I'm 8 minutes in and I'm .. .what? What? WHAT IS HAPPENING how is this so fantasy yet so mundane and so, so, WHAT IS HAPPENING I
halfway through i no longer knew who anyone was, every dystopian name sounds the same to me😭😭 (except tookie lol)
Umm you’re my icon….. reading this book is the 7th ring of hell🤩😵💫
This book sounds like THE WORSE EPISODES OF AMERICA NEXT TOP MODEL 😬 and the names my god ! My eyes 👀 and hearing it is so cringe lol😂
congratulations on graduating!!! i also just graduated so i totally get the whole being bored thing. another great video abt a truly bizarre book!!
Is it 11:25pm? Yes
Should I go to sleep? Yes
Did the queen post a new video and I‘m watching it now? Also yes
lovee when you introduced the secret zip zap initially as if we should all have been super aware of what those words mean put together
Oh my god Modelland was ghost written? I was fully convinced it was the only celebrity book that wasn't specifically because of how batshit insane the writing style is (in addition to, you know, the plot). I wonder if Tyra was just so controlling that she didn't let the ghost writer ghost write? All I know is that I have read that book cover-to-cover and it is one of the most bizarre reading experiences of my life. Truly a fascinating work of literature that no one should ever read.
I honestly thought it wasn't a real book, just some cooked up fever dream that Tyra had for the an ANTM challenge.
this is just kung fu panda
What is it with YA dystopians and absolutely god awful names 💀. Next thing you know you’re gonna get the weird millennial baby names. Brynnleigh and osten would like to have a word…
Mickeighluh and Jaaxon are weaving through traffic at full speed to provide backup
I still remember the online marketing campaign. I read a lot of book blogs back in day
Have I read this book? No. Have I already seen 3 other UA-camr reviews of this book I've never even read? Yes. What did I do when I saw SBC was doing a review of this book? I ran here to watch
Who thinks to name a main character that 🤨
18:29 its like when ppl say “embarazada” for “embarrassed” but they just said they’re pregnant
When my boyfriend was a teacher, he witnessed another teacher tell a parent that she was "pregunta" when she eas trying to say she was pregnant. So she said she was "question" 😂
Babe this entire video felt like a stroke. Idk how you survived but I’m so proud of you
Been watching since the beginning and fsr never commented but I love this channel sm and am grateful for your in-depth and funny reviews. Keep it up bestie 🙏 Also congrats on graduating
aw thank you!! im so glad you like my silly little videos 🫡🫡
I’m afraid I might be Tookie 😭😭
I hope Tyra’s ghost writer got paid millions for this…
I love the way you explain this as if anything you're saying makes sense
I can't believe that right when I had ran out of your videos to watch, you drop another one. I don't even know what Modelland is.
Something about "That is so boy, that is not girl." Is absolutely cracking me up 😂
Ur videos are sooooo simple, yet so complex... It's like me and a bff talking. It's pure gold.
i get so excited every time you upload 💪 this might be my favorite channel
You should have included a Cats (2019) trigger warning.
Congrats on graduating!!! I’m still about two years away from finishing but I’m excited to do so!
Modelland is one of my favourite books of all time. It’s also terrible, and I hate it. It’s so funny to me in every way.
this has to be from a very strange trip that tyra just wrote down and went yeah
I remember seeing this book at my local library when it first came out, picked it up, read the first page, and immediately put it back down. Now my teenage self feels vindicated lol
I needed this for my mental health today
Okay, I'm like half-convinced this book was ghostwritten by a six year old
this book is so funny to me because it is just… so tyra coded? like obviously, but i can literally imagine her reading all of it.
I just watched this whole video, and I'm still not convinced I know what this book is about. 😂
and is that a knitted sock I spy?? love it
My sister made it isn’t it cool!!
Surprised there wasn’t any mention of the Dancing Hand Monster with Hand Teeth that straight up dismembered two of the people Myrracle and Cremie were Pilgriming up to Modelland with.
i was just watching a bunch of your videos over again. congratulations on graduating!!!
IVE BEEN WAITING FOR YOU ‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️
this video could not have prepared me for the INSANITY of the book😭 i’m 12 chapters in and there’s so many absurd details???? like how the french dude has a hand for a face💀
I´VE BEEN WAITING FOREVER, LOVE U!!!!!
Congrats on graduating 🎉
thanks bestieeeeeee 🫶🫶
Omg you should read The New Girl by Jesse Q sutavanto! It’s actually insanely convoluted and horrific😭😭😭
TASHA WAS ALSO MY FAVORITE BACKYARDIGAN TASHA GIRLIES REPRESENT‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️
13:42 a smize is a “smile with your eyes in a sexy and playful way” it’s some bs Tyra came up with when she judged ANTM in the early 00s
'one of these things is not like the others' yeah, as a Lizzie, that't the story of my life😂
I can't help but feel like this book is somewhat sexist😭 (towards women)
I love ur videos so much and am so excited to see someone talk about this absolute fever dream of a book!
Btw would love if you made a Storygraph account! It’s similar to goodreads but independently owned, has way cooler features, better recommendations, and lets you give quarter or half stars! It also makes it super easy to import your Goodreads library and gives you step by step instructions.
I was listening to this while falling asleep yesterday so im rewatching tonight to see what was real and what was oart of my dream SANSCOLOR WAS REAL?! Also my brain replaced john Ramsey with gordon ramsey so i was dreaming of him being really short it was funny
THE SPLEEN EATING WAS ALSO REAL ?!
This feels like if you asked a mediocre AI to write the worst book on earth and it tried its best
you have no idea how excited I am that you posted
First video I've seen of yours, and I almost couldn't focus because I was too busy admiring your granny square blanket. Gorgeous!
I MISSED YOU LOVED THIS VIDEO ❤
uniqua is a frog imo at least that’s what i believed my whole childhood
I was so unprepared for who the celebrity that showed up in your "4'7" celebrity" google search was and CANNOT stop wheezing
These character names are so wild
Will the real Amelia please stand up?! 😵
Girl, none of the sentences you said made any sense, if you listen to them of context it just sounds like the most bonkers shit you've ever heard and I LOVE IT 😍😂 Thank you for taking one for the team and reading this book so I don't have to
I love the episode of ANTM where they’re filming the trailer for it
SO happy you’re posting more!! easily my fav channel these days :) would love to hear your thoughts on 2ha, i think it’s the kind of insane you would be entertained by lol. /nf
I was expecting Tookie to be the daughter of the Belladonna because there was that part at the beginning where her dad doubted his parentage. Was that meant to be a twist? Why give the interesting plot reveal to the side character? It also makes sense why Creamy didn't like Tookie because of all that resentment. Maybe it would've been explained if subsequent books happened. Maybe it's also not that serious.
One of my favorite channels!
TASHA IS QUEEN YES!!!
I would love this for it’s ridiculousness if it wasn’t for the random serious elements thrown in and horribly mistreated