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I love both Sophie and Michelle, and have been following them online for years - it should be needless to say, but this episode was PERFECT for me! Insightful, funny, and resembling a much needed warm hug during the cold season. Can’t wait to see where this already fantastic podcast is going next! Also, thanks for reminding me to pre-order Michelle’s new book - for those of you that read this and haven’t checked Michelle Elman’s work out yet, RUN, don’t walk to your nearest bookseller’s. 🫶🏻

great first ep! congrats on this new journey sophie, i've been following you on ig for a while and it's great to see you doing your own podcast, it suits you so well!! just to let you know, the audio sometimes isn't in sync with the video. looking forward to the next ep! :) <3

Loved this thank you looking forward to the next one 🥰

I do not know why but I put my sound on max and it is still quiet. I had to stop listening. It is just too quiet...

Great episode! Just to let you know the audio was super quiet and there were times where the audio and video weren’t in sync so the lips and words weren’t matching, but despite that it was still really enjoyable 😊

Loved this, you and Michelle vibe so well together!

Omg my 2 faves! I would say just because I know this is the first episode and you're just finding your feet, the audio was super quiet (had to turn it up to full volume on my earphones to hear on public transport which is not an issue I usually have). So excited to see more episodes and who the future guests are!

wasnt there a saying that goes somewhat like... "every decade history repeats itself"? welp... 2014... 2024... Already feeling sorry for these kids, esp because the algortíthms got more addictive and the kids more screentime than ever

This once again makes clear to me that it wasn't normal for a child/teen to be talked into an eating disorder by saying mentioned stuff (you'll never get a bf, you're ugly etc.) When I opened up about my ED and said that I needed help (which really wasnt easy for me but teachers started calling), my mom just responded "well, at least it kinda worked, cant be so bad then" So glad to be out of this household, ngl 💀💀💀

2014 tumblr in a world of zepbound and wegovy…. This is gonna be a WILD ride

I want to see all of the sketch designs for Beys outfits on this tour. ✨✨✨✨

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That last one was soooooo clean, so delightful and well crafted. I think it was historic to me!

I was always a fan of Otis but this season he really annoyed me 🙈 that being said - for me that did make him a more relatable and 'life-like" character which makes me love the show even more 🩷. Thanks for this video it felt like a show debrief with a mate ☺️ xx

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All of this was so beautifully said!!

I can agree so much this with this. I feel personally that the two sort of overlapped in this season the whole premise of a society which chooses to focus on the positives and overlook the negatives and the conversation about disability and accessibility. There are MANY things in society like this that people dont wanna make a fuss about or dont think its a big deal when in all actuality speaking up about it would benefit SO many people. Honestly seeing the protest scene was beautiful because it was about having each others backs most importantly, and finally looking at the problems people keep overlooking out of pure ingorance or laziness.

I loved this season I loved everything you did and especially the disability representation xxx

The fact that both of the hair suited her so well😭💗

If you chopped off that much hair, sometimes it’s better to donate it as a wig to people with cancer or something. It’s what my friend does!

Slay that look queen 👸💐🫶🏻

Absolutely love. You should be so proud of yourself for chopping all that beautiful hair, I know it so easily becomes a safety blanket ❤

Slayyyyyy!

What an incredible speech, those graduands were lucky to have you speaking at their graduation! Can't imagine how nerve-wracking that must be, but you smashed it 💪

I'm so proud of you ❤️ honestly this hit my heart so deeply particularly on the importance of small achievements- having had a major surgery this year I have been so hard on myself for suddenly not being able to do the things I used to do and suddenly small things like standing up and taking just one step took so much energy. so thank you for this and once again I'm so proud of you ❤️

You're such a great speaker! Your speech was amazing and you looked beautiful ❤

I remember being on tumblr but also pinterest and weheartit at the time and looking at all these romanticized photos of young, thin girls smoking or holding a cigarette in an underlit bathroom/gas station with smudged makeup and thinking to myself 'wow I also want to look like that'. I was 13/14 at the time (!) only years later I realized that it was all so messed up

I heard tumbler had ceased to exist so I stopped using it. This video made me want to go back and see if my account is still alive! I was 41 in 2014 and used Tumblr to support my Etsy shop so my feed is probably utterly dull to anyone in their 20's now. 😂 The Pro-ana thing never affected me, but I did dabble with 'fitspo' Tumblr and that woke up my internalised ableism and in turn gave me an unhealthy relationship with exercise. I LOVED the mid 90's. I was a full on metal head studying Music Technology. 😊 I think now the 2014 Tumblr people are that bit older and lived through the pitfalls, then we could also take the opportunity to have a presence there to monitor for the resurgence of the bad stuff.

Being a similar age to you I completely agree with everything you say in this vid. Such a mix of nostalgic but uncomfortable feelings

It's genuinely shocking to me looking back at photos of myself from when I was DEEP in this era (15-17). I wasn't tiny but not the large size I am now, but at the time I saw myself as 'massive' and did horrible things to myself that I found on tumblr. I really convinced myself that I was such an outcast because of my size/looks, but when I see those photos, I just look like an average teenager, and really similar to the people around me! Ties really well with your post about looking back on old photos as punishment - when your body image isn't at it's best, you simply cannot percieve what you actually look like. Edited to add: I suspect the 2014-ish era will morph into an aesthetic preference like the 50's. The actual era was NOT GOOD overall, but people can pull the good out of it?

Hey Sophie, really enjoyed the vid, interesting discussion about bringing back the aesthetics of mid 00's grunge. I think that if we brought back the aesthetic with a modern twist it would be ok, and I think that for those younger growing up in it, they would bring that modernity because it's what they know rather than us folk who are older reliving it, if you get me. However ED related content just shifted it never disappeared so I don't know if you could fully eradicate it from any "trend". Like I was a kid in the 90s and that was focused heavily on late 60s and 70s aesthetics and although we didn't have the twiggy era, we did of course have heroin chic so it existed but in a different way. Part of the problem is always going to be how these things are marketed, as you said it is not being grown at grass roots level, in the way that for me in my teens, emo's goths and Ned culture grew up from the streets, so that is different, but it also means it's less likely to have staying power, so the trend will shift again, hopefully not allowing time for the toxicity to really take hold. I could go on for hours, this is a novel, I apologise but I enjoyed this discussion. Thanks for the work you put in, super appreciate the vid.

Saw your ig story and clicked so fast Editing to say that I often wonder about what I’d have been like if I hadn’t come across pro ED tumblr. I probably would have got ill anyway but I latched onto it so deeply and it only hits me a decade later how young I actually was. (Am doing okay now, thankfully!)

you make me laugh so much 😂 this is exactly what I needed to watch after a long day at work 😂❤ keep making this new style of videos!!

'You ruined my misogynistic bop!' 😂. I felt like that when I found out Paramour were no longer performing 'Misery Business'. Let me have my brief moments of uncharacteristic pettiness, damn it! 😂

If I could give a standing ovation I would - peak humour

And just to point out at least 3 of the band members (if not more) are actually OG band members (I can pin point to 2 Amos the bass player and Paul the Lead electric guitar player) as for the rest of the members including the backup singers (most of them... There are 4 backup singers and 3 of them I think if not all 4) have been with her since the Red tour... The only new member per Taylor's own introduction of her is the keyboard player who started on THIS tour.

What the fuck is this shit😭pathetic

what a sad little life feminism 😭 this was so entertaining

Love hearing people making history digestible! You really started off with a BANg. pls do more history content

Hey soph, I didn't follow you on youtube when u first started but I'm so glad you're here now. LOVE watching vu-ideo essays as well. looking forward to watching yours :)

As a history graduate who has also recently been diagnosed with an eating disorder, this video was right up my street! Like you I used to be deep in the fitness world but since starting to escape I have been looking more at what history can show us about seemingly modern day phenomenon's. For example in many societies if a woman was fatter than her husband this was frowned upon because it was assumed women were stealing their husbands food and not caring for him correctly.

Where are your eyebrows!?

For your first video back, this is a corker. Making such a hefty topic fun an digestible isn't easy, so well done! 👏 I'd definitely advise you to invest in a clip-on mic to maximise the audio quality. Also, speaking at slower pace really lends itself to the TH-cam format, especially when the subject matter is so interesting! ( I did notice you slow down when you got more comfortable and hit your stride 😊). I look forward to the next video. 😊

Oooh I am loving this content!! Thanks for the the insightful video Soph :)

Great to see you back on TH-cam 💙

this is fantastic

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Happy and excited to see what you bring to TH-cam 😊