you kind of feel like a big sister who has had all these life experiences and is just there to tell me a story and make me forget about everything going on at that moment
this is so amazing. my parents kicked me out at 18 and I just recently got my own studio apartment and I live alone. I wish I could have an experience like this. I don't really have any close friends or family. but your experience made my heart happy.
can you make a video talking about getting kicked out? and explain it as much as you feel comfortable doing, i'm about to turn 19 and i can't even fathom being kicked out
Yeah I've only been subbed for about 6 months so have never heard about you being kicked out. What happened? Do you have a relationship with your parents now?
i got kicked out at 17 for sleeping with someone. my dad didn't like him because he was nerdy and had a speech problem. I'm still with him today and I am turning 20 soon. its hard i would not have anything if it wasn't for said boys family. but its my reality as is a ton of teen girls
Something about this video and the story of living in the punk house was so calming to me. It was also so inspiring and it's made me think of how much I'd love to move somewhere in the pnw and find a cool group of folks to live in, but I imagine it's a 1 in a million shot of having something as good and conducive as your experience was. This was a really cool video Amanda. Thanks! :)
seeing the passion in your eyes when you talk about your time in that house is so pure and true! not many people get chances in life that help them shape and find their true selfs, you are so lucky!
Such a good video. I got kicked out at 16, so I've been all over. But my favorite place was when I lived in cape cod MA, it was only a few months, but it was when I really found myself. Now I'm grown with kids and I still talk about that place all the time. Our experiences and the people we meet shape our lives and change us forever.
I'm moving into this house in my favorite little town with my two best friends in a few months and listening to you talk about your punk house and having to be thrifty and everything but still loving it has made me even more excited than I already was about it. I'm just so pumped to be so independent and accepted in a space that I love.
I never lived in a punk house, but this reminded me so much of living with four of my best friends a few years ago, when I was broke and working at McDonald's.
this is literally my fave video you've ever made, you sound so peaceful and full of wonder and it's so lovely to hear. That house sounds like my absolute dream too, you're so lucky to have found such an awesome community like that.
I wish the punk community in my town was more accepting. I've grown up loving the music and the style and the scene but am constantly scrutinized by the people because of how I am.
I'm living with my boyfriend at the moment I left my parents house Bc they are assholes and I'm also vegan and love to paint we turned the basement into an art studio/lounge place, our roommates just had a baby and we gave them our room so we now sleep on one of those couches that you unfold and turns into a bed ..but life is great I bus tables and it's my senior year of high school and my bf is also graduating and he works part time in a factory. Life is so good we also have people in and out of the house and everyone is family we really created such a big family with such diverse people and LIFE HAS NEVER BEEN BETTER!!! I connected so much with you in this video thank you so much for sharing this!!! Im currently going through this chapter that you have already passed and it's just fun and warms my heart up to hear similar experiences from someone else
I've been around on this channel for a while now, and this is one of my favorite videos of yours. the way you talk about the house and what it meant to you is so touching and sweet .
When you got to the point in the story where your roommate hugged you I literally started crying. I am so jealous of this living situation. I love your old roommate. She sounds like the perfect friend. She sounds like the best qualities of my best friends meshed into one beautiful being. I love this story. I hope to experience something like this one day.
I watched this video last year when it came out, and now I'm moving into a house with my band mates in a month. I'm praying that it will be our little punk house.
This is such a huge inspiration to me. I just graduated high school, so I'm in that awkward space where I don't have lots of money, but I want independence.... I'm so reassured and my heart feels full just knowing that such a pure experience can exist in this world. All I ever hear is horror stories about unknown roommates and travelers, but this is fantastic. I'm fascinated by your 1000 lives and absolutely love love love enjoying story time here and living vicariously. Thank you for making this video and for being awesome!
Punk Houses are so amazing. There's one close to my favourite bar in my city, and we will spend hours upon hours just playing guitar and singing and drinking beer and talking about the most amazing profound shit. The people in that household are hands down some of the most genuine people I've ever met in my life. There will always be a special place in my heart for Punk Houses.
Girl, I grew up in a Big Ten college town and when I was in my early twenties, almost all my furniture came from students moving out in May. We dumpster dove for everything. It was much like Christmas. Even 15 years later my coffee table is still a dumpster find from the early 2000s. I’ve never had another coffee table since. I swear that that time in my life has shaped how I feel about dumpster diving and living super frugally. Even if I ever become rich, I will still be a thrifter and live off less.
your story about the punk house sounds so wonderful and inspiring and i'm glad it was a loving, safe place for you to grow. you sound so happy when you talk about it.
Can u talk about the problems u had(or still having) with your parents. Ive always had issues with my mom especially and now that im older its just becoming a nuisance. Also if u have advice that wld be great too. Thanks! Love you❤️
Just keep in mind she is a real person! I'm sure her brother and her parents watch her videos. Maybe she isn't comfortable talking about her family? She hasn't talked too much about them in the past!
this sounds like a dream like a fiction book it sounds too perfect to be real. youve lived whats always been my wish to have and thats amazing. i wanna be just like your room mate someday
I almost cried at the end because this made me miss my old house 😢 It was a student house (still is) and I lived there with my 3 bestest friend for a couple of years and it was amazing. My current (still 'student-y') shared apartment is still cool and all and it's also more clean than the other one, which is nice, but idk the atmosphere is definitely different.
Yoooo! Its awesome to see a video that relates to my current place in life. It makes me feel less alien. I recently had to move out of a toxic household, (5 months ago) I could not take my mothers mental abuse anymore. I flew 1500 miles from New Mexico to Portland and had two suitcases of stuff... I went through 2 months of unemployment, though I would be homeless and die but found a craigslist add for the place i'm living in now. Its a 2 bedroom with a basement much like that house you lived in lol.. But there's 8ish of us... And its honestly the best thing ever. All of my housemates bring so many positive things to my life and it makes living in a big city so much easier.
Oh my god I squealed like a little girl when I saw the photo I took pop up on the screen at 0:52, This is so awesome to me, I'm honored that you put it in your video :D
Thank you from the bottom of my heart for sharing your life, stories and experiences with us. You are such a positive light, and watching your videos honestly brings me such joy. That's cheesy, but whatever, anyways thanks Qcknd!!!!!
Can you talk about foods you've accidentally eaten because you thought they were vegan? I know I'm not the only one that happened to. Love from Austria! xx
can you talk about how you transitioned into veganism food-wise? whether you went from vegetarian or from eating meat and if you slowly went into it or if you went cold turkey?
I live in Houston and I'm 20 and still live with my parents and have no source of income. My living situation is really toxic and I wish I could find something like this so I could at least get out of my house and be able to focus on bettering myself.
I love this video and you really inspire me to live life spontaneously, to be compassionate, and to never stop doing what you love. I really enjoy and appreciate what you're doing and i hope you do it for as long as you're heart is into it.💓
btw I worked at the philly zoo all summer and every day when i would drive down north 34th street to spring garden street and i always fucking loved the look of that neighborhood and the houses and just all of it for some reason? no idea if your house was near there but it is west philly so this story made me remember how much i fantasized every day about that neighborhood and everything
Your experience in the punk house sounds so dope, especially that so much art and culture was around you. I would definitely appreciate living in a similar situation. It would be cool to see some of your writings from those days! :)
I had my own version of this, but it was more like a scifi/fantasy nerd house lol. But it was really cool to live with other like-minded people and have this little haven from the outside world where we could be as weird as we wanted and we always accepted each other. But like yours, mine also went sour when we took someone in who brought a lot of negativity to the house, and we all no longer felt comfortable there so we disbanded. It was still worth it for all the great memories though!
Your story really inspired and uplifted me and I love how you formed yourself and who you want to be and I really appreciate that. I just moved to Brooklyn from a small town in North Carolina that I grew up in to go to school for writing and I'm currently in that state of establishing myself and who I want to be in life so this video really spoke to me. Also, you should totally share some of your writing about the house
How do you just up and move somewhere when you have no resources or hardly any money? I feel stuck where I am and I don't feel like I can be truly who I am here. I want to make the most out of life and meet tons of people and learn from them. I just don't know where to start
I really enjoyed hearing about your experience in that house! It's so nice to look back and see a wonderful time for what it was...like the magic of certain people coming together and it could never happen again? I don't know if that makes sense but be thankful it's clear it meant so much to you xxxx
I would love to see a video from you discussing your relationship with your parents, and your family's dynamic. That's an extremely personal subject, but I feel like I could definitely relate. I always felt like the only one with a weird family relationship, and messed up family issues, but now that I'm older I'm meeting more and more people who come from similar situations. I would love to hear different advice etc from you. Now that I'm older, I'm finding that I'm still having to deal with some of these issues, but just in different ways which creates a whole new set of obstacles.
I would love to see you do a video about your family relations. I know it's a very personal subject and you don't seem to have the best view on your parents but I'm kinda curious to see how you have contact with your family today if you have any. Anyway, I love your videos and I find you to be very insightful and relaxing to listen to
I loved listening to this story so much, thank you for sharing it ❤️ your genuine love for the punk house made me cry a little, I can imagine just how great it would have been to live there ❤️
I love this video, the stories you shared about that house and your life experiences, it hit me hard (: I want experiences like that, thank you for sharing and being so inspirational ❤
I feel like you could make another video all about moving out with no money! you did go into it here but I'm sure there are more details and tips you have. This story was honestly a delight to listen to, I loved all of the little details you put in about your roommates, they seem like amazing people. It honestly makes me a little sad though because I realize I still don't know who I am, and I've never really met any friends who are similar to me, helped me be me without any fear or have validated my existence.
Just wanted to share that I can totally understand you. Kicked out of the house, vegan, doing whatever jobs I could find, struggling with my emotional and mental health, doing tattoos because it is the only thing noone can ever take away from me and also living in a region of Athens Greece called Philadelphia. It is so relieving to know that you are out there making videos and fighting for your life. Keep going, love.
Your parents not eating the vegetable stir-fry makes no sense to me. Its stir-fry! It's usually 50-75% vegetables. What the pineapples man? I'm not a vegan but my sister is or was and when I visited her, she made me vegan pancakes. I didn't really like them but I sure did eat them, because she made them for me and she was vegan. That would have been beyond rude if I hadn't.
is there any way you'd be down to make a hair care video? your hair always looks so good, especially since you have colored hair and since you're a shampoo girl, i'd love some tips lol
What a beautiful experience you found and created for yourself! I hope to create a home like that someday, where people can come and go and it'll inspire creativity and acceptance. Good for you! Speaks well of your character you got on so well during a tough financial time. :)
This video helps a lot. I moved out of home onto a uni campus just recently. I had no idea how hard it was to not have my parents around haha. Money is a struggle but I learn what I can
Normally your videos almost put me to sleep with how relaxing and interesting they are to watch, I love them. But for whatever reason this episode it really stressed me out? I guess it was like the vibe of the music, but it made me really anxious for no reason. Just wanted to throw that note out there, but I loved the video!! I smiled along with you the whole time and really loved hearing about your experiences.
I hope you two talk from time to time. My parents are so kind to let me stay with them but I feel ostracized, my mom is so bothered by my aspirations. I hope I can find me an awesome punk house too! Hello from Texas
I had friends who were 'punk' in high school etc but they were jerks. Into drugs. Constantly judged me etc. I had to separate myself from my last remaining friend like that. My parents were assholes too but I had to pick the lesser of two evils. Til this day even hipsters annoy me because I knew so many "scene" kids. I hung out "downtown" but was never accepted. Even though I came from a shitty family lol. Not my crowd I guess. Im glad you had a good experience though. My situation has forced me to be a loner and I've embraced it. In some ways I don't think I'd be as happy as I am now had I not gone through all that rejection.
This was so fascinating to hear about. This experience is so amazing. I'd love to hear more tales about it someday. I hope you're still friends with your former roommate!
Hey Amanda, i believe? i just found your channel last night and only slept two hours last night lol I could NOT stop watching you talk. nutshell, i really love your aura/persona it puts me way back, reminds me of my old self soo000oo much i really wish in a universe we were friends. I made my friendships online (meez oh gosh) :p i only have one tattoo though lol okay but if youre still reading (EEPPPP) could you maybe make a video talking about your favorite writers & their work and possibly a total run down of your old music play lists? thank you!! have an amazing day 😊
Thank you so much for mentioning penn Christmas. I live near Philly and my bf is going to be moving to his own place in January and neither of us have much muns so we're definitely going to go take advantage hah
I'm not sure how apart of the UA-cam beauty community you are... but have you heard of piinksparkles? I think that's her channel name? Her real name is Samantha. Anyway- she did a pre-order type deal for her subs for this janky awful quality eyeshadow palette some Korean cosmetic company printed her name on. She told all her subs she actually helped design the palette, formula, package, etc. but in reality- she didn't pick anything or worked on anything officially at all!!! Not enough people were tricked into buying the crap cosmetic, so the company ended up not doing business with her and so no one got the eyeshadow and it's taking forever for them to get their money back. Also, some people's accounts were charged 100's of dollars!!! Lots of screwed over people. Her integrity was shot, her lies came out, and she lost a lot of subs who used to admire her. It's an awful mess. That experience has left me with a bad taste in my mouth regarding pre-order sales from youtubers... BUT! With you specifically and your channel, I have 100% confidence in what your doing. Which, I want you to know- means a lot to me. I can tell just from the likes and comments, you have an authentic sub group who love you and support you in the things you pursue. I'm actually EXCITED about this pre-order. I honestly hope that there's such an overwhelming demand that it blows your socks off and make you feel loved and appreciated for who you are and what your ethics stand for. I'd suggest... you buy more than you think you'll sell, because your channel is only going to grow and the demand is for sure going to be there. Which. I'm really excited about for you. For us as subs who get to buy this rad art/pin. ❤️ You're golden.
Pre ordering makes me a little anxious but like you said, I trust Amanda. If I was ever going to pre order from someone, it would be her. I can't believe people would give pinksparkles money up front. I'm not a viewer of hers but I have seen a couple of her videos and from the start she seemed so phoney. Hopefully those people get their money back. It's their hard earned money and she has no right to keep it. As a pin collector myself I think it would be so cool to have a qcknd pin on the canvas strap of my leather handbag, right along with my other ones. I'm so happy to see you doing well and being successful with your channel. I feel like a lot of the genuine UA-camrs get overshadowed by the ones who really only seem to care about the numbers in their bank accounts. I wish you all the success qcknd!
Lindsey Quinn I was a sub of hers for years. Too lazy to delete, I suppose? Lol. When she first mentioned the palette she said she was "working very hard" with the company to "completely design an eye shadow palette that was high quality and affordable, considering she LOOOOVES her subs." She was talking cosmetic formulas, losing sleep over shade choices, etc etc. When, in REAL LIFE... The dinky unknown foreign cosmetic company contacted her because she has tons of subs and asked to screen print her name on some generic cheaply poorly made palette and would give her a cut from the sales. They of course were not going to fund this for her, they essentially gave her the job of selling the palette to her subs, essentially like a sales gig. She was given a specific amount required to sell, I believe it was 2,500? Don't quote me there. Under 3k, for sure (she had a million subs). She pushed that cheap palette every moment she could, but made slip ups by saying things like "I used the palette/shadows for the first time this morning!" Which, if she helped formulate or even pick out the colors, they of course would have sent her swatches... at least. There are just holes and lies she constantly got stuck in. So many lies. Big lies. This is when the pre-order issue came in. She said she was doing her subs a "favor" by giving them a lower price if they pre-order! Really what was happening... she HAD TO get people to give her their money up front just to please the company enough to produce them. The price for the palette was outrageous, especially for the dollar store cosmetic quality that it was (not kidding.) The majority of her subs were very blunt about the quality being crap, but some people were stuck suckered in! Little girls who saved their allowance.... The people who pre-ordered gave the money and wanted months and months... nothing came. Sam was just making excuse after excuse. Then, people stared realizing that the company was charging them $hundreds of dollars! For no reason. Not only did they not receive anything- more money was stolen from them. Eventually, the people slowly started receiving their money back. The entire situation made me SICK.
you kind of feel like a big sister who has had all these life experiences and is just there to tell me a story and make me forget about everything going on at that moment
this is so amazing. my parents kicked me out at 18 and I just recently got my own studio apartment and I live alone. I wish I could have an experience like this. I don't really have any close friends or family. but your experience made my heart happy.
can you make a video talking about getting kicked out? and explain it as much as you feel comfortable doing, i'm about to turn 19 and i can't even fathom being kicked out
Yeah I've only been subbed for about 6 months so have never heard about you being kicked out. What happened? Do you have a relationship with your parents now?
Amy Deserto Me neither. It's such a scary thing ha ha.
i got kicked out at 17 for sleeping with someone. my dad didn't like him because he was nerdy and had a speech problem. I'm still with him today and I am turning 20 soon. its hard i would not have anything if it wasn't for said boys family. but its my reality as is a ton of teen girls
do any of you know if she ever made a vid about this? it's a topic close to the bone and i love her advice
damn this sounds so fuckin cool. I want a punk house zine with all those poems & short stories!!!
Something about this video and the story of living in the punk house was so calming to me. It was also so inspiring and it's made me think of how much I'd love to move somewhere in the pnw and find a cool group of folks to live in, but I imagine it's a 1 in a million shot of having something as good and conducive as your experience was. This was a really cool video Amanda. Thanks! :)
The way you say radiator is so funny haha
are you still friends with your old roommate?
I hope they are!
Me too!
I was having such a terrible week in general and I found myself re watching all of your older videos and this came out just in time for sleep
seeing the passion in your eyes when you talk about your time in that house is so pure and true! not many people get chances in life that help them shape and find their true selfs, you are so lucky!
Such a good video. I got kicked out at 16, so I've been all over. But my favorite place was when I lived in cape cod MA, it was only a few months, but it was when I really found myself. Now I'm grown with kids and I still talk about that place all the time. Our experiences and the people we meet shape our lives and change us forever.
I'm moving into this house in my favorite little town with my two best friends in a few months and listening to you talk about your punk house and having to be thrifty and everything but still loving it has made me even more excited than I already was about it. I'm just so pumped to be so independent and accepted in a space that I love.
do you still keep in touch with your roommate? your story is incredible
I never lived in a punk house, but this reminded me so much of living with four of my best friends a few years ago, when I was broke and working at McDonald's.
this is literally my fave video you've ever made, you sound so peaceful and full of wonder and it's so lovely to hear. That house sounds like my absolute dream too, you're so lucky to have found such an awesome community like that.
I wish the punk community in my town was more accepting. I've grown up loving the music and the style and the scene but am constantly scrutinized by the people because of how I am.
Hannah Sellers same. There are good people out there, though 💜
Remember: new wave is never having to say you're sorry for the stupid thinks your punk friends do!
I'm living with my boyfriend at the moment I left my parents house Bc they are assholes and I'm also vegan and love to paint we turned the basement into an art studio/lounge place, our roommates just had a baby and we gave them our room so we now sleep on one of those couches that you unfold and turns into a bed ..but life is great I bus tables and it's my senior year of high school and my bf is also graduating and he works part time in a factory. Life is so good we also have people in and out of the house and everyone is family we really created such a big family with such diverse people and LIFE HAS NEVER BEEN BETTER!!! I connected so much with you in this video thank you so much for sharing this!!! Im currently going through this chapter that you have already passed and it's just fun and warms my heart up to hear similar experiences from someone else
I've been around on this channel for a while now, and this is one of my favorite videos of yours. the way you talk about the house and what it meant to you is so touching and sweet .
the way that you talked about the house and your roommate actually gave me chills and i loved it
That house sounds absolutely incredible...obviously how you got there wasn't necessarily ideal, but I'm super jealous of you having that experience!
When you got to the point in the story where your roommate hugged you I literally started crying. I am so jealous of this living situation. I love your old roommate. She sounds like the perfect friend. She sounds like the best qualities of my best friends meshed into one beautiful being. I love this story. I hope to experience something like this one day.
I watched this video last year when it came out, and now I'm moving into a house with my band mates in a month. I'm praying that it will be our little punk house.
This is so cool. I've never heard of a Punk House till now! Love the stories and how much love you have for it. Wish there were more pictures though!
Loved this! Sounds like the punk house was such an awesome experience 😄 love hearing your stories! No matter how "long" they are.. I love stories lol
This is such a huge inspiration to me. I just graduated high school, so I'm in that awkward space where I don't have lots of money, but I want independence.... I'm so reassured and my heart feels full just knowing that such a pure experience can exist in this world. All I ever hear is horror stories about unknown roommates and travelers, but this is fantastic. I'm fascinated by your 1000 lives and absolutely love love love enjoying story time here and living vicariously. Thank you for making this video and for being awesome!
Punk Houses are so amazing. There's one close to my favourite bar in my city, and we will spend hours upon hours just playing guitar and singing and drinking beer and talking about the most amazing profound shit. The people in that household are hands down some of the most genuine people I've ever met in my life. There will always be a special place in my heart for Punk Houses.
I was having such bad afternoon and this just made my life thank you
Vanessa Cruz I was just about to comment this. Same girl, same.
SAME. Currently dealing with a change in my living situation and this made me feel so much better about it. Amanda gave me hope
Girl, I grew up in a Big Ten college town and when I was in my early twenties, almost all my furniture came from students moving out in May. We dumpster dove for everything. It was much like Christmas. Even 15 years later my coffee table is still a dumpster find from the early 2000s. I’ve never had another coffee table since. I swear that that time in my life has shaped how I feel about dumpster diving and living super frugally. Even if I ever become rich, I will still be a thrifter and live off less.
your story about the punk house sounds so wonderful and inspiring and i'm glad it was a loving, safe place for you to grow. you sound so happy when you talk about it.
Can u talk about the problems u had(or still having) with your parents. Ive always had issues with my mom especially and now that im older its just becoming a nuisance. Also if u have advice that wld be great too. Thanks! Love you❤️
LizzAngelus I'm the same way
Just keep in mind she is a real person! I'm sure her brother and her parents watch her videos. Maybe she isn't comfortable talking about her family? She hasn't talked too much about them in the past!
this sounds like a dream like a fiction book it sounds too perfect to be real. youve lived whats always been my wish to have and thats amazing. i wanna be just like your room mate someday
I almost cried at the end because this made me miss my old house 😢 It was a student house (still is) and I lived there with my 3 bestest friend for a couple of years and it was amazing. My current (still 'student-y') shared apartment is still cool and all and it's also more clean than the other one, which is nice, but idk the atmosphere is definitely different.
Yoooo! Its awesome to see a video that relates to my current place in life. It makes me feel less alien.
I recently had to move out of a toxic household, (5 months ago) I could not take my mothers mental abuse anymore. I flew 1500 miles from New Mexico to Portland and had two suitcases of stuff... I went through 2 months of unemployment, though I would be homeless and die but found a craigslist add for the place i'm living in now. Its a 2 bedroom with a basement much like that house you lived in lol.. But there's 8ish of us... And its honestly the best thing ever. All of my housemates bring so many positive things to my life and it makes living in a big city so much easier.
Thank you so much for this video, the part about your connection to your roommate and feeling at home made me cry. You're the best.
Oh my god I squealed like a little girl when I saw the photo I took pop up on the screen at 0:52, This is so awesome to me, I'm honored that you put it in your video :D
I think this is my favorite video that you've done
The shirt matching the blanket is tripping me out 😭
Thank you from the bottom of my heart for sharing your life, stories and experiences with us. You are such a positive light, and watching your videos honestly brings me such joy. That's cheesy, but whatever, anyways thanks Qcknd!!!!!
Can you talk about foods you've accidentally eaten because you thought they were vegan? I know I'm not the only one that happened to.
Love from Austria! xx
can you talk about how you transitioned into veganism food-wise? whether you went from vegetarian or from eating meat and if you slowly went into it or if you went cold turkey?
My parents are in the middle of a massive argument right now so I needed something to watch lol thank you
I live in Houston and I'm 20 and still live with my parents and have no source of income. My living situation is really toxic and I wish I could find something like this so I could at least get out of my house and be able to focus on bettering myself.
tasha b hope you got out that situation
you are so wonderful. the punk house sounds AMAZING!! I wish i could find somewhere like that thats so fullfilling
I love this video and you really inspire me to live life spontaneously, to be compassionate, and to never stop doing what you love. I really enjoy and appreciate what you're doing and i hope you do it for as long as you're heart is into it.💓
btw I worked at the philly zoo all summer and every day when i would drive down north 34th street to spring garden street and i always fucking loved the look of that neighborhood and the houses and just all of it for some reason? no idea if your house was near there but it is west philly so this story made me remember how much i fantasized every day about that neighborhood and everything
I think Mantua is the name of that neighborhood?? its ringing a bell in my head
I wanna live in a house like this. It sounds so positive and fun.
Your experience in the punk house sounds so dope, especially that so much art and culture was around you. I would definitely appreciate living in a similar situation. It would be cool to see some of your writings from those days! :)
I had my own version of this, but it was more like a scifi/fantasy nerd house lol.
But it was really cool to live with other like-minded people and have this little haven from the outside world where we could be as weird as we wanted and we always accepted each other. But like yours, mine also went sour when we took someone in who brought a lot of negativity to the house, and we all no longer felt comfortable there so we disbanded. It was still worth it for all the great memories though!
Your story really inspired and uplifted me and I love how you formed yourself and who you want to be and I really appreciate that. I just moved to Brooklyn from a small town in North Carolina that I grew up in to go to school for writing and I'm currently in that state of establishing myself and who I want to be in life so this video really spoke to me. Also, you should totally share some of your writing about the house
It's nice to hear a positive roommate story, makes me happy. So glad you got to experience it.
I love listening to your stories! Thanks for sharing them with us 😳
How do you just up and move somewhere when you have no resources or hardly any money? I feel stuck where I am and I don't feel like I can be truly who I am here. I want to make the most out of life and meet tons of people and learn from them. I just don't know where to start
SAME, life can be so crazy
Emily Osten same here exactly and it's such a struggle!
same! i feel like one day i'm just going to get up and leave and just make do
Where do you live? Tryna be roommates?
It would be rad if we all could make our own qcknd-esk punk house XD
I really enjoyed hearing about your experience in that house! It's so nice to look back and see a wonderful time for what it was...like the magic of certain people coming together and it could never happen again? I don't know if that makes sense but be thankful it's clear it meant so much to you xxxx
do you have a video about your situation with your parents?
i still come back and watch this video all the time, it's always in my watch later right at the top
I love watching your videos and hearing your life experiences! You're extremely inspirational❤️
WE HAVE THE SAME DUVET COVER WHY IS THIS SO MIND BLOWING TO ME WOAH IT'S ALMOST AS IF WE'RE IN THE SAME UNIVERSE
I would love to see a video from you discussing your relationship with your parents, and your family's dynamic. That's an extremely personal subject, but I feel like I could definitely relate. I always felt like the only one with a weird family relationship, and messed up family issues, but now that I'm older I'm meeting more and more people who come from similar situations. I would love to hear different advice etc from you. Now that I'm older, I'm finding that I'm still having to deal with some of these issues, but just in different ways which creates a whole new set of obstacles.
I would love to see you do a video about your family relations. I know it's a very personal subject and you don't seem to have the best view on your parents but I'm kinda curious to see how you have contact with your family today if you have any.
Anyway, I love your videos and I find you to be very insightful and relaxing to listen to
"Did you steal that from Harvard?" That literally killed me. XD
Why did u get kicked out of ur parents house??? :0
6 years later and I’m still obsessed with that twilight-esque tapestry
One of my absolute favorites videos of yours! So happy for you Amanda
the face the you made when you were talking about your mom is literally my mom everyday LOL
tbh i think this is my favorite video of yours, i love the concept of that kind of lifestyle as a whole
I loved listening to this story so much, thank you for sharing it ❤️ your genuine love for the punk house made me cry a little, I can imagine just how great it would have been to live there ❤️
this video made me a lot less nervous about moving to an apartment in west philly next year (I'm in university city next year) thanks!
Obviously that was super lucky, but it's nice to hear positive stories for once
I love this video, the stories you shared about that house and your life experiences, it hit me hard (: I want experiences like that, thank you for sharing and being so inspirational ❤
that place sounds pretty amazing. the Harvard waffle iron was hilarious!
I feel like you could make another video all about moving out with no money! you did go into it here but I'm sure there are more details and tips you have.
This story was honestly a delight to listen to, I loved all of the little details you put in about your roommates, they seem like amazing people. It honestly makes me a little sad though because I realize I still don't know who I am, and I've never really met any friends who are similar to me, helped me be me without any fear or have validated my existence.
This is such a cool story this feels like a john green book 😍
That was a beautiful part of your history. Thank you for sharing with us :)
Just wanted to share that I can totally understand you. Kicked out of the house, vegan, doing whatever jobs I could find, struggling with my emotional and mental health, doing tattoos because it is the only thing noone can ever take away from me and also living in a region of Athens Greece called Philadelphia. It is so relieving to know that you are out there making videos and fighting for your life. Keep going, love.
Now I just really want to live in a punk house!
So cool, so punk
Your parents not eating the vegetable stir-fry makes no sense to me. Its stir-fry! It's usually 50-75% vegetables. What the pineapples man? I'm not a vegan but my sister is or was and when I visited her, she made me vegan pancakes. I didn't really like them but I sure did eat them, because she made them for me and she was vegan. That would have been beyond rude if I hadn't.
is there any way you'd be down to make a hair care video? your hair always looks so good, especially since you have colored hair and since you're a shampoo girl, i'd love some tips lol
What a beautiful experience you found and created for yourself! I hope to create a home like that someday, where people can come and go and it'll inspire creativity and acceptance. Good for you! Speaks well of your character you got on so well during a tough financial time. :)
I don't know how I found your channel a few months ago but I'm so glad I did❤
Hav you done a vid on how you and Jon met?
I currently live in West Philly on the cusp of University City! So cool to hear about your experiences! I can totally relate to all of it
I'm a recent discoverer of your channel and I must say I find you so wonderful
This video helps a lot. I moved out of home onto a uni campus just recently. I had no idea how hard it was to not have my parents around haha. Money is a struggle but I learn what I can
I like it that when I don't feel like watching anything in my UA-cam feed, I just go back and watch your videos again, lol ;)
haha here in Madison we have what we call Hippie Christmas. Same concept. It's the most wonderful time of the year!
Normally your videos almost put me to sleep with how relaxing and interesting they are to watch, I love them. But for whatever reason this episode it really stressed me out? I guess it was like the vibe of the music, but it made me really anxious for no reason. Just wanted to throw that note out there, but I loved the video!! I smiled along with you the whole time and really loved hearing about your experiences.
the music and sounds you use! they are subtle, but amazing!
your videos bring sunshine to my life
I hope you two talk from time to time. My parents are so kind to let me stay with them but I feel ostracized, my mom is so bothered by my aspirations. I hope I can find me an awesome punk house too! Hello from Texas
Where did you get the background banner thing it's lovely
Alexis Castro you can get it on Amazon I think
she linked it in one of her recent videos, it's from amazon.
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after listening to this story I realized that whatever life throws at me, I will be OK, ...I will learn and grow and be OK. :) ...so nice
I just preordered a Qcknd pin! Im so excited! ❤️
I had friends who were 'punk' in high school etc but they were jerks. Into drugs. Constantly judged me etc. I had to separate myself from my last remaining friend like that. My parents were assholes too but I had to pick the lesser of two evils. Til this day even hipsters annoy me because I knew so many "scene" kids. I hung out "downtown" but was never accepted. Even though I came from a shitty family lol. Not my crowd I guess. Im glad you had a good experience though. My situation has forced me to be a loner and I've embraced it. In some ways I don't think I'd be as happy as I am now had I not gone through all that rejection.
This was so fascinating to hear about. This experience is so amazing. I'd love to hear more tales about it someday. I hope you're still friends with your former roommate!
I love this, thanks so much for sharing more about the house!! Never forget :)
Hey Amanda, i believe? i just found your channel last night and only slept two hours last night lol I could NOT stop watching you talk. nutshell, i really love your aura/persona it puts me way back, reminds me of my old self soo000oo much i really wish in a universe we were friends. I made my friendships online (meez oh gosh) :p i only have one tattoo though lol okay but if youre still reading (EEPPPP) could you maybe make a video talking about your favorite writers & their work and possibly a total run down of your old music play lists? thank you!! have an amazing day 😊
Thank you so much for mentioning penn Christmas. I live near Philly and my bf is going to be moving to his own place in January and neither of us have much muns so we're definitely going to go take advantage hah
I'm not sure how apart of the UA-cam beauty community you are... but have you heard of piinksparkles? I think that's her channel name? Her real name is Samantha. Anyway- she did a pre-order type deal for her subs for this janky awful quality eyeshadow palette some Korean cosmetic company printed her name on. She told all her subs she actually helped design the palette, formula, package, etc. but in reality- she didn't pick anything or worked on anything officially at all!!! Not enough people were tricked into buying the crap cosmetic, so the company ended up not doing business with her and so no one got the eyeshadow and it's taking forever for them to get their money back. Also, some people's accounts were charged 100's of dollars!!! Lots of screwed over people. Her integrity was shot, her lies came out, and she lost a lot of subs who used to admire her. It's an awful mess. That experience has left me with a bad taste in my mouth regarding pre-order sales from youtubers... BUT! With you specifically and your channel, I have 100% confidence in what your doing. Which, I want you to know- means a lot to me. I can tell just from the likes and comments, you have an authentic sub group who love you and support you in the things you pursue. I'm actually EXCITED about this pre-order. I honestly hope that there's such an overwhelming demand that it blows your socks off and make you feel loved and appreciated for who you are and what your ethics stand for. I'd suggest... you buy more than you think you'll sell, because your channel is only going to grow and the demand is for sure going to be there. Which. I'm really excited about for you. For us as subs who get to buy this rad art/pin. ❤️ You're golden.
Pre ordering makes me a little anxious but like you said, I trust Amanda. If I was ever going to pre order from someone, it would be her. I can't believe people would give pinksparkles money up front. I'm not a viewer of hers but I have seen a couple of her videos and from the start she seemed so phoney. Hopefully those people get their money back. It's their hard earned money and she has no right to keep it. As a pin collector myself I think it would be so cool to have a qcknd pin on the canvas strap of my leather handbag, right along with my other ones. I'm so happy to see you doing well and being successful with your channel. I feel like a lot of the genuine UA-camrs get overshadowed by the ones who really only seem to care about the numbers in their bank accounts. I wish you all the success qcknd!
Lindsey Quinn I was a sub of hers for years. Too lazy to delete, I suppose? Lol.
When she first mentioned the palette she said she was "working very hard" with the company to "completely design an eye shadow palette that was high quality and affordable, considering she LOOOOVES her subs." She was talking cosmetic formulas, losing sleep over shade choices, etc etc. When, in REAL LIFE... The dinky unknown foreign cosmetic company contacted her because she has tons of subs and asked to screen print her name on some generic cheaply poorly made palette and would give her a cut from the sales. They of course were not going to fund this for her, they essentially gave her the job of selling the palette to her subs, essentially like a sales gig. She was given a specific amount required to sell, I believe it was 2,500? Don't quote me there. Under 3k, for sure (she had a million subs). She pushed that cheap palette every moment she could, but made slip ups by saying things like "I used the palette/shadows for the first time this morning!" Which, if she helped formulate or even pick out the colors, they of course would have sent her swatches... at least. There are just holes and lies she constantly got stuck in. So many lies. Big lies.
This is when the pre-order issue came in. She said she was doing her subs a "favor" by giving them a lower price if they pre-order! Really what was happening... she HAD TO get people to give her their money up front just to please the company enough to produce them. The price for the palette was outrageous, especially for the dollar store cosmetic quality that it was (not kidding.) The majority of her subs were very blunt about the quality being crap, but some people were stuck suckered in! Little girls who saved their allowance....
The people who pre-ordered gave the money and wanted months and months... nothing came. Sam was just making excuse after excuse. Then, people stared realizing that the company was charging them $hundreds of dollars! For no reason. Not only did they not receive anything- more money was stolen from them. Eventually, the people slowly started receiving their money back. The entire situation made me SICK.
Lindsey Lujan piinksparkles is kinda shitty tbh. she doesn't seem to appreciate her fans or anything she has really... btw she's from my province lmao
I wanna live in a vegan punk house :0
This is one of my favorite videos of yours EVER!!!
aww this is honestly such a beautiful story. much love for you qcknd