'AFTER' is a Fanfiction Disaster and the Movie is Worse | Explained
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#After #50shades #annatodd
Don't let your dreams, be dreams. Your high school self insert fanfictions could be making you MILLIONS
Hahahahaha well that is something I don't want to ever see the sun
This is the best motivation I've ever read
Love your videos as always, Amanda! Who knew that there's always big budget companies willing to fork out buckets of money to produce your mediocre Twilight/One Direction fanfiction! 🙄😉
I’ve read all the books and seen both movies I was pissing myself laughing the whole way through.. I loved watching this
Is this twilight?
Cheating, abuse, and stalkers, the Holy Trinity of bad romance.
Don’t bring Lady Gaga into this piece of trash
Saminul Haque _yeah,leave The Mother monster outta this,bub!_
@@456MrPeople You and me could write a bad, cringey, god awful romance~ 🎶
@@sharonspears-mandeville2369 The only Mother Monster to me is Mothra.
Leave Mothra out of this.
Unholy Trinity
Romanticising Abuse: The Movie.
Can't wait for Romanticising Abuse: The Musical and it's eventual tv spin off
@@glitterberserker1029 and the visual novel or the fanfic of after in a vampire Au that will be called "zenith" and will be published as a book and later as a movie
and what is it with these movies, it's one after another like a conveyor abuse=love, wth?!
Dei Because in the sad, sad reality we live in abusive bad boys sell apparently. You can thank the 13 year old fangirls who call them their “soft smol edge bois UwU”
I felt physically sick just writing that.
@@Cheetahgirl_Studios :D yeah, I felt the cringe giving be chills better than any scary movie. man, it's just sad to think how messed up that is and how some of those 13 year old girls might end up in the abusive relationships because of how movies romanticize crap like this or at least skew their view on reality of such behaviour. thanks for the laugh, tho, didin't think that "UwU" part would be only a cherry on this mountain of ice cream sentence
Yeah, this is why toxic relationships shouldn't be romanticized.
Yes, thank you for addressing this issue. I don't understand WHY when a guy is blatantly abusive jerk, the narrative expects our lead to fall for him?! I think NOT! 🙄
@@trinaq Propapply all my female friends LOVE these movies and i was in both of them and OMG how can you Root for them beeing together they have zero chemistry AND they are both really not good for each other
@@trinaq They think THIS is the type of bad boy that's irresistible.
Sadly money won out.
*T H A N K Y O U*
"It's only creepy if he's ugly." -lesson of every awful 50 shades of lame formulated fan fic trope
THIS
Everyone having the hots for 365 days just because Massimo is hot creeped me out, like the actor is hot yes. But if appearance is the only reason you will validate abuse and stuff like that... you are a very unhealthily toxic person. Maybe even the type to say "I would mind if they raped/kidnapped/abused me" just because the character is portrayed as a hot person. I am so sorry for your love life
@@headintheclouds7905 If it's a fantasy, it's fine, because no one is getting hurt. I doubt there are women who are so clueless that they'd not hear how stupid they sound if they were unironically saying "I'd only want to be raped if he was hot". And before you say "Oh well fantasies can be taken too far", any fantasy can be taken too far. This is a shitty story that shouldn't be aimed at the demographic that it is, but it's the job of the people around these impressionable girls to teach them why it's bad. Bad art should be called out for what it is, but you can't censor shitty art, otherwise my self-indulgent smut fic would be on the chopping block.
@@talynhastime9343 fair enough.
But this is how lot of women feel tho
could u not say l*me its a slur
Why is it always the worst fanfic with all the wrong kinds of representation that gets all this love from the mainstream? Published books and movies. I can think of way better and well deserving fics that deserve it.
Same here most of them aren't creepy like this abomination
I mean its true for anything. Look at the music scene
Ikr. Like as a Wattpad reader I don't read this stuff it's just toxic and weird. I can think of a bunch more fanfics that are way more deserving to be a movie than after.
Most good fanfiction actually works within the fandom it was written for, so attempting to make it into an actual book means making a lot of copyright holders okay with a lot of things very quickly.
What we have here is a fanfiction so far removed from it’s initial story that all you need is a name swap and no one is the wiser. I will admit I’m also just not a fan of any Modern AU fanfics anyways so this take is a little biased.
@@PineappleLiar I agree, some of the best fanfics I've read have been deeply rooted in the work. It's also worth considering that, by their nature, most fanfictions, even modern AUs, assume you have some knowledge of the characters, their relationships, and their pasts beforehand, so there might be difficulty getting people not in the fandom to relate the character(s), even if names are changed and stuff
Every generic YA movie is just "Boring teenage girl gets into an extremely unhealthy relationship with an emotionally stunted man"
Then there is the grown adult version of that concept that basically is like Fifty Shades of Grey.
@offended YA stands for young adult. It is usually refers to the genre of fiction that is usually read by preteens and teenagers.
Usually foreign...
My mom once complained I didn’t read enough “girl books” (it’s been a decade since she said this and I STILL DONT UNDERSTAND WHAT THAT MEANS). Anyway, I said pretty much what you said. And added “extra points if the love interest is some sort of paranormal creature”.
Hey that’s my life currently
"I'm not British, I can't do it". Hardin IS British and can't do it, it's fine Amanda lol.
Honestly can't listen ( I thought it was annoying)
I think they forced him to adjust his regular English accent to the one in the movie ,I've heard him speak and the difference can be heard
@@mbasakosani8386 It's a stupid choice lol
@@mbasakosani8386 yeah, like im an american but i absolutely can't do other accents from my own country. if i try to do a texan accent, for example, i sound like an absolute idiot. so i feel like they assumed he didn't need accent training because he's british disregarding the fact that not everyone from a single country knows how to do all the accents from their country??
@@anniedangerface It's a bad choice on the director/producers side, but his performance is bad either way.
Don't * write * fanfiction * about * real * people *
Almost all celebrities hate it and it sets up for some very concerning behaviour in some people.
I didn't even know that there was fanfiction of real people. That seems a little weird.
Well there are so many fan fiction on BTS too... some are nice and many are messed up worse than this...
I once saw a post where someone actually tried to defend their collection of explicit real people fanfic and it was all so disturbing I just couldn't even bring myself to reply, because there is no helping those people.
Don't read it either, even to make fun of it. You're giving exposure to these sickos, & they don't need it
@@invisibleink1145 Even when the real people call out the crazy RP shipping the shippers throw tantrums and say that the people being uncomfortable is "ruining their fun."
Two things:
1. I truly do NOT understand why "the-worth-of-a-woman-is-only-defined-by-her-virginal-purity-but-also-let's-fetishize-her-first-time-being-with-a-domestic-abuser-who-manipulates-and-gaslights-his-way-into-her-heart-also-her-innocence-changes-him-from-regular-stalker-to-ultimate-stalker-but-it's-because-his-love-is-so-strong-so-clearly-this-is-peak-romance" is a genre of fiction. Like. WHY. I don't. I. What.
2. I am so surprised you did not sample Jo Jo's immaculate classic "Leave (GET OUT)" at 18:10.
Straight couples amirite
Lol I have to pitch my senior project in a few months and I’m highkey doing it on your first point
@@peonylarkspur645 Please do! Good luck!
@@piagebot2943 SO right!
@@EmmaCreatively thank you! I'll do my best haha
My first boyfriend was super jealous and had a temper like this (fortunately he never directed it at me). Literally every time I met someone from his life they told me “he’s so much better since he met you. You’re so good for him.” I was only 19, but smart enough to recognize that as a red flag. I told him “you need to be better for yourself, not me. Someday the infatuation with me will wear off and I won’t be a good enough reason anymore. I refuse to be responsible for your character.” I thought he took it well until I heard that he had a mental breakdown and tried to BURN DOWN HIS DORM BUILDING. He was tried for arson but the court declared him mentally incompetent and ordered him to be hospitalized instead. I’m so glad I listened to my gut and got out of that relationship when I did. He was a ticking time bomb...
Damn, I'm proud of you! Finally an actual sane, mentally strong and smart person. This is rare! Bravo, it's really sad that most people don't even know this thing is problematic and even more sad that they never follow their gut feeling! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
You’re so strong, I feel so proud right now🥺
Good for you sweetie. Always listen to your gut. And warning signs
You did the right thing for yourself! I'm really happy for you. If it was in a book, you would have been so happy and proud to hear you were starting to "fix him"...
Jesus fucking christ that guy sounds like a lot. I'm glad you got out of that situation before it got dangerous for you.
After I Threw Up
👌🏻feel the same way
After I Bleached My Brain Of This Absolute Car Wreck Of A “Romance” Book That Perpetuates the Ever Cursed Notion That Abusive Relationships Are Sexy And Cool When In Reality These Kinds Of Fanfics Make Me Want To Puke My Guts Out And Delete Wattpad From Existence.
@@Cheetahgirl_Studios you ok there bud?.....
Ooohhh same
That reference is from a youtuber called Alex Meyers when he reviewed that shitty film 😂
It seems like poor Noah did nothing wrong. Yeah, in the movie he gets angry for her for going to a party and drinking, but that’s hardly red flag behavior. Underage drinking, especially as a college freshman at a party with older students, is arguably pretty irresponsible behavior. At worst he’s a bit overprotective, which isn’t surprising for a high school kid. Certainly not comparable to Hardin’s behavior.
Noah deserves better
Yeah shes just treating him like shit and we're supposed to root for her for no real reason
I felt so bad for him really 😭. In most of these movies the good guy is portrayed as boring/plain and gets treated badly then dumped for no reason, smh
Yeah Noah really did not deserve all the shit she put him through
@@strawberryfox8819 yeah like all he did was get mad at her once
To be fair, Hentai is more straightforward than real people fan fiction.
lol true, at least hentai eventually gets to it after only a few minutes of "plot"
And somehow less cringy
Nah. There's actually good fanfic out there that go into breaking fictional characters down to their bare bones. In the author's perspective, of course. Fanfic isn't all sexual and written by teens. You get mystery and adventure ones, too.
It's really diverse, and even fully fledged writers partake; it's a fun exercise. However, I don't know about real people fanfics. They kinda seem too cringy to try. That, and I can't imagine how they'd feel about it.🙈
@@hp4843
Most H is also absolutely unremarkable, somewhere between "Cute date with crush gone sexual" and "Bored housewife and the landlord".
If H and fanfiction have one thing in common than it's the fact that the weird and disturbing stuff just gets far more attention.
@Alias Anybody Sadly, you're right. But it's only because, generally, people would rather focus on the bad parts of an entity than the good. It's more entertaining to watch someone pick apart a god awful piece of teenage... uh... literature?😂 I love Amanda, but I kinda wish one day maybe she'd enlighten her viewers on the good parts of fan creations instead of the bad. I feel really bad for writers who put their heart and soul into something they loved and have it mocked because of a stereotype. There's countless stories of relationships dealing with abuse -- parental abuse and neglect -- and characters finding themselves after the whole process, and honestly, when i was a teenager, it made me feel less alone. People only write to propagate a message or escape their reality. I would rather focus on why girls this young are romantising such abusive relationships, instead of mocking them. Speaks volumes of how their actual lives must be. 😕
Never mind that, I only wish one day, people would focus on some good aspects of how broad the fanfiction world is. Of really, any piece of media. Just like there's good and bad to be found in every corner of the internet.
It's absolutely insane that Hardin's actor is actually British. It sounds like an American kid faking a British accent in their high school play
He's probably still faking an accent - England has a lot of accents just like any other country (more than most actually) and the director probably just assumed he'd be fine because, y'know, he's British and can do a "British" (vaguely cockney) accent.
🚗🍦.
People say he was doing a american accent but no it was british
Yeahh its the fakest real accent I ever heard. He's from the London area so his accent should sound a lot like that. Can't believe he's actually Ralf Finnes nephew (why he got to play young voldermort)
@@randomwerewolf1099 yeah, his accent his more road because he grew up in estates but America only requires one British accent - a rendition of our queen Elizabeth
My sister somehow thinks After, 50 shades and 365 days are "amazing and realistic and beautifully written love stories" and calls me sick for using valid arguments to explain to her why these relationships are toxic af... for her good health (and mine) i hope she never gets a partner...
Awww, she's gonna have a bad time
If she likes them as fiction, it's probably just what gets her going. If she likes that kinda thing seriously in real life, that's not good.
@@c.c.l.9139 I hope she means as fiction. But when she says things like: "i am looking for a guy just like Christian Grey", i get a lil concerned
Ask her if she'd still think it's cute if the love interests looked like Danny Devito.
@@c.c.l.9139 Yeah. When teens can read and watch this kind of stuff and understand that it's not healthy, I'm fine. But when I hear, "I want someone like that," or, "He's so good to her!" or, "Love is love (even with an abusive jerk)," or, "She's fixing him, that's so cute!" it worries me. Unfortunately, some teens don't seem to have yet made that distinction.
If I were Harry Styles, I would consider this lady an anti-fan. How can you claim to be someone's fan and imagine them being such a horrible person?
I feel like there’s a lot of internalized misogyny in this author. Clearly she thinks that this kind of toxic relationship is the peak of romance, that’s why she inserts herself into it. I don’t even think she realizes how bad this kind of portrayal is. I hope she understand people’s criticism and has some introspection.
@@supercalime I doubt it. If she was allegedly 24 when she wrote this, there might not be any hope, especially now that it's a movie and book series.
@@supercalime I think that's a problem for quite a lot of female authors. Even in MM/BL fiction, the amount of female authors who write 99% of their few female characters as horrible stereotypes is huge. What I worry about is the fact that this kind of writing is mostly rewarded by the industry: Grey, 365 days, the kissing booth, this trash. It feels like every "novel adaptation" is pushing the same problematic examples.
harry styles apparently blocked anna todd on twitter
@@whatthehellisthis 👏AS👏HE👏SHOULD👏
Why is being nice boring????! This is why girls end up in toxic relationship
THIS! 👏🏽
Exactly, which is just sad honestly
!!!!!
That sentence is a big freakin red flag!!
Because People like fantasies. Just like men "want" sex all the time but don't want "whores".
Sometimes girls want to have fun and actually go places the only thing her know what ever did was hang out at her house and watch movies all the time that's the one thing they did all thrilled a relationship and it could get boring
There's so many toxic relationships in these teen romances, and people love them. I'm don't understand why they like it so much
Because most of the fans of this type of stuff are either teen girls who haven't been in relationships or middle aged women who've been in really bad relationships and think this is how they normally go because of that.
Because dating the mysterious dark troubled guy and bringing him on the good side and showing him what real love is, is like the ultimate teen fantasy x) I can't blame them, I've been there too...
And because this people have no idea that healthy relationships can be interesting too
@@misscrackwood The ones who keep it as a fantasy are OK. But the ones who get with awful real life guys and trying to change them sometimes get themselves killed.
@@Xehanort10 I know and it's terrible, and movies and books like this certainly doesn't help T__T as a parent of two daughters I hope I can teach them to see the difference between a healthy relationship and a bad one, and that fantasy and fiction are what they are.
last time i was this early wattpad was something everyone made fun of and not a template for hollywood movies
The Hollywooddudes Heard- us when we asked for bookbased movies. They chose the wrong books though
So many good books yet that is what they chose😔
@@Ashley-Lopez it sells, just look at twilight or the other stupid endless YA romance novels
I post copypastas on it
Why can't they just go on A03 and pluck litterally any story from there? Most I've read are better than anything on Wattpad.
Can someone PLEASE explain to romance writers that there is a difference between “bad boy” and “abusive dickhead”
Bad boy doesn't play by society's rules but usually means well and doesn't have to be a dick. Abusive dickhead deserves to rot in hell.
I'm so over doormat female "protagonists"
Can we agree to just speak plainly and call it what it is, namely a blatant self-insert to serve as a vessel for poorly understood and/or sexually repressed feelings?
I can understand that these stories resonate with teens (god I feel old writing that) to a certain extent, but they deserve better stories with characters that aren't flat as a board and revolving around a single trope. To each their own I guess, but writing is a craft and when the author's skill is lacking, it shows.
Same. People have unique personalities (or at least, most people do)! As a writer, it's criminal to omit that from your characters.
@@47ratsinahoodie
I know! As a writer, people are so interesting. Some of my favorite characters were characters inspired by the people I’ve met.
@@thomaskole9881
Yes absolutely. I’m tired of people writing from trope and stereotypes when perfectly interesting people and with character quirks are RIGHT THERE.
Legit I hate it!
I feel BLESSED that I didn’t know that this fanfiction existed until UA-camrs started talking about this movie.
"She has dyed hair and VAPES. It's the end of the World." I can't 😂
8:38 This guy clearly doesn't know anything about Mr. Darcy and his personality. Looks like he didn't even read the book, because P&P it's not about "Falling in love for an asshole".
[SPOILER ALERT FROM P&P]
Darcy is a good man, he makes mistakes, but he learns from it and overcomes his pride. He NEVER manipulated Lizzy or forced her into doing something she didn't wanted to do. Actually, he helps her A LOT.
Elizabeth is smart and she's a decent woman. But she has her prejudices towards Darcy. She doesn't want to marry for convenience, she wants to marry for love, a healthy and beautiful love.
Pride and Prejudice is a story about love, human behaviour and personal growth. Both Elizabeth and Darcy are not perfect, but they overcome their prejudices and pride and they showed how decent and good persons they are. It's a great story wich, I think, has a beautiful idea of love, not like After wich portrays a terrible and toxic idea of it.
(Sorry if there's a mistake. English is not my first language)
Thank you for saying this when Lizzie rejected mr Darcy he went back no persuasion no stalking no death threat no threatening her about money when he proposed the second he clearly says he expects nothing one word for her will shut this forever no pressure no nothing he just asked her about her feelings and that's why we adore mr Darcy I'm surprised by this absolute gal of that rotten man child talking about him bitch you wish you're half the man mr Darcy had been
Just saying, your English is spectacular
Also came here to say your English is excellent - I wouldn't have known you weren't a native speaker without you saying so, I just assumed any errors were typos.
My favorite part of this movie was AFTER the credits rolled....
I’ll show myself out.
Underrated comment! Bloody brilliant 👏 😄
No!! Come back!!
Take me with you!
HA!
No, wait, don't go..
RPS should be illegal. People, you do realize that it’s basically character assassination and the people involved can sue for misrepresentation, right?
Rps?
@@allisonavery7273 Real Person Slash- basically fanfics about shipping real people. And I say, do whatever you want with fictional characters, but as soon as you start doing that to real people, it becomes creepy and invasive.
@@Dreigonix yeah, I can see it
It's RPF: Real Person Fiction. Slash doesn't mean shipping, it specifically means *gay* shipping. & RPF isn't about gay couples only, unfortunately
My take is a bit more friendly - that it's fine to write RPF if everyone being written about consents to the fic type that is being written. If everyone is into it, then hey - power to them and hope they have fun. And in fact, I did talk to someone who wrote for a very niche fandom where a group of people actually did give permission for wholesome smut fics (they did not consent to abusive trash, naturally, and wanted to read stuff before it went out). Didn't think it'd actually happen, but cool for them. But that's like crazy rare - almost always, it's done without permission or consent of any kind, and that's where the creepy line is crossed and I feel bad for the people involved.
I'll be honest here and say I write fanfiction. The difference between me and the writer of After is I stick to fictional characters. I find writing fanfiction about real people creepy, even if the person in question never finds out about the story.
I’m a fic writer too and I 100% agree with you. Fanfic about real people is just creepy.
same. i wrote supernatural fanfic as a teenager and it creeped me out when people would write jared/jensen or misha/jensen fics. like... they are real people, and it's creepy to write them into situations they would never want to be involved in. if you're really a "fan" of theirs, you wouldn't do that. stick to the fictional characters...
Ditto. I’ve always found RPF to be so... _gross?_ I mean, if you’re into that kind of thing, then more power to you. But that’s why I hated Septiplier and every other Real Person x Real Person ship. It kinda feels like you’re dehumanising the people in the ship and twisting their real life personalities to what YOU want it to be. I’m not directly addressing you btw: whenever I use the term “you” I’m referring to the people who ship real people. I’ve always found it shady on a moral level. It’s just never sat right with me.
I wrote a fanfic about meeting a content creator. We started talking because a pigeon shat on their hat. We had a good conversation and i gave them some wet wipes. Then we walked away and never spoke or thought about each other again. It obviously wasn't a great fanfic, but sometimes the desire for a conversation with another human in these trying times gets a bit strong.
Also I like to point out how fucked up that shit is. Like when they have that groping, choking and sexual shit RIGHT after they just meet these people like he creepy shit. I get that it's books but I can't help but think "this shit wouldn't be cute irl"
The second movie just came out with the added news that there will be three more sequels to it, and I WANT TO DIE. These books romanticize ABUSE and toxicity. Young teenagers idolize this and grow up to expect this kind of behavior to represent love? I don't think so.
(Also, Anna Todd never explicitly put herself in the fanfiction- the main character's name was always "Tessa", but Tessa was short, curvier, and had blonde hair like the author.)
My sister was watching The Kissing Booth (After and TKB are basically carbon copies of one another) and she was ENJOYING IT and said she didn't understand why people had issues with the relationship like WHAT THE ACTUAL HELL. WATTPAD IS POISONING TEENS WITH THIS BULLSHIT CONTENT.
After we collided was just unnecessary
not only that, but it is about a REAL PERSON and portrays him in that way. Very gross.
You know what really pissed me off?
“He’s nice to me.”
“So you’re saying he’s boring.”
No. Just no.
This reminds me of my mother. She used to tell me that moms who were nice to their kids and treated them like human beings with emotions and value were bad moms and weren’t raising their kids right. Like no.
@@cordeliajackson8615 That line pissed me off, too.
What ultimately annoys me most about After, 365, 50 Shades, etc is THERE IS BETTER FAN FICTION THAT ACTUALLY DESERVES TO BE PUBLISHED.
*COUGH* *COUGH* golden crowns stained with ink *COUGH* *COUGH*
SOMETHING TELLING BETWEEN THEN AND NOW TOO
Voldemort's nephew is the worst actor to ever be on camera in a studio film. 13 Reason Why's sister is pretty good. After and After We Collided are awful, awful films. Also, the sequels are called After We Fell and... After Ever Happy...which doesn't make any sense.
That's young Voldy actually lol
.....After Ever happy... eye 👁👄👁
they managed to get dylan sprouse to be in the sequel💀
@@lisasowa1195 It might be the worst title for a movie ever lol
Hahahah xd after ever happy? Are you serious? Lmao what kind of grammar is that 😂
It's fics like these that motivate me enough to want to write something to sort of say "Yeah these types of stories aren't okay because they're glorifying abuse", and is why I have decided to finally start writing one.
Wait... So it's a fanfic about being in an abusive relationship with a member of One Direction?
Yes. Yes,it is. *_And they said that Styles' a cinnamon roll (as the youngin's say it,right?),as so I've heard-I've heard,right?_*
I’m from the area where the book was set. The author blocked my friends and I for saying Grandview doesn’t have a hospital. It doesn’t.
Also the Tri City area has its own college, they really didn’t need to set it in Pullman
That is so petty
“And they start playing truth or dare”
Of course they do...
You can tell that the person who wrote "After" wasn't college-age and they probably didn't know anyone who went to college. Because no one in college cares about whose a virgin or not. We care about passing and will curse people out who like as dumbasses and waste your time and money.
Edit: Looked up information and saw Anna Todd was 24 when she wrote this. College pairs freshmen with freshman roommates. Also, maybe I'm just being judgy but considering that she's been married since age 18, (thanks Wiki), I'm gonna say that her lack of experience reminds me of E.L James with the whole fantasy but not actually doing the research. Will that last comment come back to bite me since I'm writing some stories? YUP!
2nd edit: When I say people who act like dumbasses, I'm meaning the idiots who interrupt your class by being loud, rude and cursing out the professor and they don't want to be there. I'm not talking about people who are freshmen and finding themselves, I don't fucking care what you do. As long as you don't harm another person. In this case, the dude did the old "make a bet" and "virgin bet" tropes and I hated it.
I heard she was 24...
Anna was 24 writing a fan fiction about a 19 yr, kinda weird if you ask me.
Not always, I have freshman friends who had a sophomore roommate. It’s pretty uncommon tho
Freshman don't ways necessarily have freshman roommates. When I was a freshman my roommate was a sophomore
That's definitely not something that can be generalized. Maybe in your college everyone was level-headed, and that's great, but the majority of college kids I know only cared about passing during finals month. The majority of the semester, partying, romance and expanding your horizon with all sorts of new experiences was the focus.
Which...honestly, I see no problem with? It's your first time away from home, where you get to make your own life decisions, where you get to try "adult" stuff like drinking and whatnot. Get it out of your system, get to know yourself and your preferences and limits. That's also part of growing up, and it's in a place that is still a kind of protected environment compared to being a full-time working adult where any mistake can ruin your entire existence.
With how focused they were on the condom thing I thought the twist was gonna be HIV/AIDS! Wow was I wrong.
That would have honestly been one million times more interesting than the whole entire movie.
off topic but here's a fun fact: the longest piece of english literature is a Loud House fanfiction currently standing at over 7 million words, the second longest piece is a Smash Bros fanfiction at over 4 million words :)
u gotta be pulling my leg
Wait, isn't smash bros UA-camrs? Or a game?
Wait, the Smash fanfiction has been surpassed already? That shit was started in the Brawl days!
Well, that sounds fun to read.
I gotta know what it's called.
Can we give Selma Blair a round of applause for filming this with an aggressive form of MS. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 She also looks amazing as a blond.
If this book has a prequel, and it isn't called "Before" don't tell me. I don't want to know. I need to keep living in my happy place. K, thanks.
A bit late but the prequel is called “Before” 😂
It's not a prequel 😂 before movies are amazing
@@chinmayeejoshi2692 The After prequel book is called 'Before'
Oh sorry I did not know that😅
Emotional Dead Weight the Movie
" And he does end up giving her some mouse click action to give her first OH" My god, this made me laugh longer than it should have
It's actually only based on his appearance she said I took Harry styles and created a whole new character so unlike him that's why it's called fanfiction
Commercial break right after Amanda says, “by this point she has already gone down on...”. Commercial: clean your mouth with Crest gum detoxify!” You couldn’t have planned that better!
i got an ad for niall horans concert... thought it was hilarious
I got an ad for pandora with the slogan “we live in a dream”
"She pokes his pwee pwee with her finger"....possibly my favorite sentence of the year so far! OMG I have tears!!!!
😭😭 it took me off guard 😂
No because I cackled
Fun fact: the actor who plays Hardin in this movie is the one who played the young Tom Riddle in Harry Potter.
Oh poor boy what happened to him!!!
@@oddode7796 nothing. He got his money. Good for him.
@@ussinussinongawd516 well that fu**ed him up bad, maybe they should take it away.
Of course he is, just as evil
@@oddode7796 Nothing happens to him hes a good actor who's playing a part in the movie there's nothing wrong with that hes a great actor in a great person
Fun fact, Harry Styles is actually a cupcake. The one time he talked about the movie he said "I hope he (Hardin) is getting it more than me" (implying he doesn't get it? If Harry Styles isn't getting laid then the rest of us are doomed). I don't think he read it because as far as I remember Hardin doesn't sleep with anyone other than Tessa the whole series, or if he does it's at one point when they break up and it's very brief and not really the point of the books. I skimmed read it to know what everyone was talking about, the original version is a grammar disaster.
The original version is just...bad. like so so bad. Like this is bad but the original version...oh man. Its so infuriating that there are good writers out there who put effort and creativity into their work and get zero recognition but a horribly written creepy self insert harry styles fanfiction gets a movie deal.
@@bluehydrangea5506 I still don't understand HOW After got a movie deal? Like, which agent saw it and thought "yeah, this is great"?
Isn't the professor giving Tessa Hardin's essay against FERPA laws? This is set in the USA, right?
I still remember the first ever fanfiction I read was a harry styles lemon. I still cringe to this day 😓
Me: Literature.
Amanda, an intellectual: Lihtchurchur.
I’m ready to destroy my brain cells, let’s go >:)
You are first
Yes, I'm right here with you to watch Amanda tear this monstority to shreds! 👏🏾🎉💕
You could have chosen to drink alcohol, yet you ultimately picked the more self-destructive option.
I read the first two books on wattpad when I was young and BOY did i have s warped sense of how relationships should be. Glad i got out of that frame of mind quickly
I definitely read this fan fic as it was coming out. I remember waiting excitedly for chapters to be released. I thought it was so thrilling at the time and loved the "bad boyness" of the story and tessa changing him. I went to go back and re read it before this first movie came out and noticed all the things you talked about. I couldn't believe that I didn't see this all when I read it the first time but I was young. I'm so happy that I have grown and can now see how toxic a lot of the traits in this book are. Thankfully I didn't go through my time growing up idolizing a relationship like this that I remember a lot of people doing as I read the comments on Wattpad when I first read it
"Giving her some mouseclick Action" is now permanently Part of my vocabulary
Oh god please no 🤦♀️😂😂
Mine is "biblically accurate tomato"
I don't know why anyone would find these toxic relationships attractive or...not toxic. Disgusting.
You know, we always go over these fanfics and works individually. But has anyone gone over why dysfunctional and abusive relationships are what we raise so high in literature? And it's starts young, you see all these poorly written fics by 13 year old girls. And it dates back in time. Phantom of the Opera, a beloved classic, is just Stockholm syndrome. So why is this a thing? Sure the patriarchy. But why specifically is women's media, starting at a young age, obsessed with abusive relationships?
I can agree with you on some extents, but the Phantom of the Opera is not an example of Stockholm syndrome. If it was, Christine wouldn't have left him to die and hooked up with her true, healthy love Raoul! The book at least condemned the Phantom for being someone who had a hard past and should be pitied, yes, but he was also an old, ugly, murderer who shouldn't be romanticized. You could blame the musical for making him "prettier" with only half of the messed up face, but the story didn't romanticize him: the fangirls did. And how is this the fault of the patriarchy when the biggest examples of modern media that feature abusive romantic relationships (Twilight, 50 Shades, Hush Hush, After) are women? What's the conspiracy that men are trying to brainwash young girls into being subservient through the media they consume?
@@aetheriansunrise5433 I probably should have phrased it better; the patriarchy I've heard been used to explain this problem in passing conversation. I'm saying I want to know more than that. What is the connecting thread that ties of these together? Why do people focus on this? Why is this idealized? Everyone talks about the individual problems of these films and books, but I've yet to see a video do a deep dive into the heart of the matter and I'm genuinely curious why this is a repeated theme throughout history. Perhaps The Shiek would be a better example for Stockholm Syndrome in the truest sense, though I still argue Phantom of the Opera is Stockholm light lol.
Seriously though, is no one else curious about this?
@@JustYourAverageGirl2002 You're right, the issue deserves far more insight than a hand wave and the blaming of "the patriarchy." Personally, I think its just a fantasy gone too far. Having a rich, hot boyfriend is a very common fantasy. Having a man who cares only for you and nothing except you can be appealing as a concept, but its usually taken to an extreme that is a very unhealthy examples as to what a proper relationship should be. But the threat of physical abuse, the dubious lack of consent, the constant victim blaming and gaslighting? Maybe kinks, maybe inexperience. I don't like to believe they were written with ill intent, set to poison the minds of our youth. What I wonder is why the target audience responds so positively to these works, because that's what feeding the feedback loop: Author writes romance with hot, abusive romantic lead, audience laps it up, others see the demand in the marker, more hot, abusive, male leads appear. It's a seemingly endless cycle.
I don’t know, but you can probably blame Beauty and the Beast in some way.
This is just a joke, please don’t @ me.
@@vladimirlestrad3120 @ing you anyways. Hi!
If I were Harry Styles I SUE. How is this FanFiction? It’s more like hate fiction. You wanna make 50shadesJR that’s cool just don’t drag REAL PEOPLE into it
Sounds like a rehashing of an old French novel, that's already been adapted into films multiple times. Mostly named Dangerous Liasons like the novel. Though one was called Cruel Intentions.
The male seducer is challenged in some capacity, to make the pure girl fall for them. And show evidence
This has often come down to the stained sheets. Though I think it started off as just written proof. The seducer always falls for the seducee and is eventually forgiven regardless of being a horrible person before hand.
I was thinking exactly the same. Valmont and Cécile dynamics.
I've seen like four other reviews of this but am I going to see you talk about it too?
Absolutely
You should totally make a series: "Explaining BLANK to my Mom". LOL
Yo, can I just say... As lifelong Washingtonian and Seattle resident... Please keep your self-insert fanfiction out of our damn city. Please and thank you 🙏
6:26 "We've got Jace who's clearly like 35" the way I laughed at this😂😂 Thank you!❤️
Wait, an 17-year-old boyfriend is upset his 18-year-old girlfriend is drinking at a college party?!? That's probably the most reasonable concern he could have had. Drinking underage at a college party without buddies to watch out for you is dangerous. Shit, I wouldn't do that and I'm a dude.
Also, a mom trying to stop a daughter from being in a relationship with a walking red flag isn't controlling. But the heartbreak isn't the worst thing that could happen with a guy like this...dude is a future star of a true crime playlist on UA-cam.
Me: I need to get my writing quota in for today
Amanda uploading : Nope.
There's a sequel. After we collided
"People go through shit. That's how you learn!" Making it my living motto
How did we end up like that? I remember when Nicholas Sparks books and movies adaptations of them were portrayals of "the perfect romance " (well except the beginning of the Notebook, when Noah manipulates Allie into going out with him, that was sick). I want more movies like "A Walk to Remember", where the bad boy actually changes for themselves and stay good even without their partner. Why no one makes movies/books like that anymore?
Exactly…I agree with you that’s why I love A Walk to remember when Landon finally understood that his action were bad and hurting other people he apologised and became a better person when Jamie came into his life like in the end after Jamie died he became a doctor which made me love his character even more
I’ve actually never read Wuthering Heights. I would be really interested in this style review of classics like that.
I hated the first movie so much, that I've just been watching UA-camrs watch the sequel and laugh at their expense.
Poor Dylan Sprouse for thinking this was gonna be good content.
Storytime: my best friend was roomed freshman year with a 25-year-old non-trad who stole all his stuff, ate all his food & once performed a bloody tooth extraction on his own rotten tooth and left the place looking like a murder scene.
So, yes, freshmen do get paired up with older students sometimes 😂
was your best friends roommate me?? 😂 lmfao
I feel bad for Harry Styles :///
Too:(
eh, i dont
I like how you caption the part with “what a topic flip” and AS THAT HAPPENED, I GOT AN AD FOR SPORTSBALL
It really sucks that these are the types of books to be adapted into a movie. Like everything about this is awful. I'm a frequent Wattpad reader and there are some genuinely great and unique books on there with so much diversity that it hurts to see that this is the thing they take from there. Not only is it very toxic, it was originally a fanfic about a real person being super awful. literally wtf.
I’ve learned from movies never threaten to tell someone’s secret. That’s how you find yourself murdered
i saw the second movie and it’s rated R lol. it was even worse than the first one
"I can feel my eyes widen and hear my own gasp as Hardin's Hardon comes into view"
Why do these stupid books/romanticize abusive relationships?
Yeah. It’s so hot to want someone who wants nothing to do with you.
"He's super concerned about her talking to his friends." 😖🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩
Also, I feel for Noah. I've been that person. It sucks.
Anna Todd: *thinks the whole 1D fanbase will worship her after the book is made*
The 1D fanbase: *MA'AM?!*
The final Aging Punk Rocker Summary:
Every single one of these people should be locked inside burning Port-O-Pottys. They aren't even useful as fertilizer.
>he does end up giving her some mouse click action to give her her first ohhh
This sentence will be forever locked in my brain now. thanks Amanda
But did you knooooow-
That during the promotion for the movie "Pride, Prejudice and Zombies" they partnered up with Wattpad and authors of the most popular fanfictions at the time wrote their own "my story but with zombies"? There is literally a whole chapter where Tessa and Harry fight eachother and kiss over killing zombies. And they still managed to make it boring
Why do all the bad stories take place in Washington? They are giving my home a bad name!
Yiiikes. I feel like between all the Twilight and the 50 Shades and the After, if someone made a broad-release movie that actually focused on a heterosexual couple in a healthy, respectful, open and communicative relationship that was built more on intellectual and emotional bonding rather than boning.... people would be like "what madness is this?" Like I know drama comes from some kind of conflict, but the conflict doesn't HAVE to come from within the relationship itself lol
me hearing that username almost 10 years later: 👁👄👁
Despite my better judgement I went to see this in theatre because my cousin needed cheering up from a breakup and she wanted to go, this whole film was one big cringe fest that had me squirming in my chair with discomfort. I was ticking the boxes off a mental list of bad fanfic tropes and they just kept going. 0/10 bad watch, would only watch again if I could make a drinking game out of taking a shot each time there's a bad trope
Bonus round for every time Tessa should have broken up with Harden but didn't
Every time Amanda starts reading one of the more raunchy scenes I am thrown into a serious fit of laughter
I mean i kinda understood Christian Grey's "charm". I think I get "365" dude's deal. But What the f..k is this dude agitated about? And when did being a Man-child became sexy?
365 LITERALLY KIDNAPS A WOMAN AND WONT LET HER LEAVE UNTIL SHE "Falls in love with him"
There's not a shrink alive that's qualified to handle that hot mess.
Patriarchal propaganda ya know
@@ShadowKamehameha32 And it all starts because he became obsessed with the last woman he saw before he passed out after being shot.
Amanda, while we're on the topic of horrible Wattpad stories turned into published book, please can you review the Bullied series by Vera Hollins? I remember reading it while it was trending on Wattpad, and, oh my God... The things the main love interest and his mates do to the main character and their own love interests is so horrible to read about. And they try to excuse his actions with his BPD. Ugh. I actually tried reporting the series because it was so horrible.
Honestly, I was so invested in the story but the third book broke it for me when they get a happy ending. It was the deal breaker for me.
Whoa what is this? I've never heard of this book.
@@LxstinNeverland Dude, I wish I could be you. It's so horrible.
Hi older woman here lol this toxic, manipulative, dangerous bad boy trope has gone on since before I was in puberty but back then Hollywood had the decency to leave these movies to Lifetime 🤦♀️ they were just as cringe with smaller budgets ; the lasting negative effect of them lasts much longer then the afternoon time slot they were pushed in to. I grew up thinking the bad boy thing was hot, that the manipulative and abusive jerk was just misunderstood and incredibly sexy. Let me tell you kids, it took YEARS and lots of assholes to make me realize that these type of men aren’t men. Now that I have a daughter I’m horrified we’re still living in a world where this shit is hyped up and consent is still a grey area and abuse is only abuse if it leaves marks. Time to start boycotting this stuff. The fact this movie made 70mill is disappointing
"Oh no not ruining Avril."
"When you're covering Complicated by Avril Lavigne you can go heavier. You can't make it more pop"
THANK YOU!
'she changed that for him'
me, a trauma survivor: BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA WHAT A LOAD OF SHIT THAT IS SO ABUSIVE.
"Wattpad sensation"
.....Truly, the highest of honors. Brandon Sanderson is weeping right now at the fact he'll never achieve such heights.
En quote, "In a new interview with StyleCaster, Hero opened up about bumping into Harry at the 2019 Met Gala, which the singer attended as one of the night’s co-chairs with Gucci’s Alessandro Michele. Hero briefly met Harry on the campy red carpet, and he now says the star gave him a “knowing look." En quote.
So Harry knows and either he finds it amusing, or he doesn't really care for it and makes him uncomfortable. Kinda going for the last on this one.
I read this series on Wattpad as a sophomore at an all-girls private catholic high school and ATE IT UP! I went to college, grew up a lot forgot ALL about it. When the movies came out I watched them purely out of nostalgia and to mock this HORRIBLE RELATIONSHIP. If anything, this series shows teenagers what NOT to look for in a partner.
"Are they in Alabama?!" Cracked me up 🤣
All my str8 friends are obsessed with After. This video pretty much sums up my feelings about it. They don't realise it but they only like it because Hardin is attractive💔💔
He ain't even that attractive tbh. He is just a bit over average XD
Haha read it in my high school days! But I remember there was a Harry fanfic more popular than “After”, it was called “Dark”…and boy was it DARK.
Did anyone else also read it?
After still haunts me. I wish Harry could sue her, but he can't, alas we will have to suffer knowing this exists. If I ever meet the woman who did this, may god have mercy, because I certainly most definitely won't.
As an aromantic, I hate the, “I thought love was fake... until I met you”. It ruins the entire story for me.
Yeah, it's cheesy regardless but as a cliche it's even worse.
The fact that this person wrote a fanfic about meeting Harry styles hints that she's obsessed and has issues. I feel bad for Harry here since he has to deal with crazy fans.
Also, the only person responsible fixing your boyfriend/girlfriends issues is them. You can give them support but your not the one who has to fix it. Also if you have to work around someone's abusive behaviour then you should get out of the relationship and find a healthier relationship. That abusive person needs help
Also this film is creepy and give me 50 shades of grey vibes.