- Well, here I am.
I'm gonna just be like strut, live, work,
work the runway, eat the runway, serve the runway.
(video game chimes and beeps)
(upbeat music)
- What's up, y'all? It is Sean, and this week,
I'm throwing Pride in Animal Crossing: New Horizons.
Fun fact is, before BuzzFeed, I threw events for a living.
I worked for a company called Lights and Sounds.
(air whooshes) We threw events,
anything from small, (air whooshes)
couple hundred people (air whooshes)
for a party, (air whooshes)
to tens of thousands of people
at Anime Impulse, (air whooshes)
which I'm the director of.
(pops) Or Asian American Expo,
which has about 100,000 people come
within two days, a lot of people.
(air whooshes) It's high stress,
but I mean, I love it,
(air whooshes) it pushes me
and makes me work hard,
(air whooshes) and I've learned
to be super flexible.
Flexible.
(rubber stretches)
I think Pride is amazing to bring out
the LGBTQIA+ community and our allies.
It is a great way to have fun, but at the same time,
commemorate and celebrate acceptance, love, and equality.
What I'm gonna do now is I'm going to show y'all my island,
don't judge me that hard, (pops)
and then from there, we're gonna plan out
what's gonna happen, and then hopefully, starting tomorrow,
we can start putting everything together
so that finally, on the last day, we can throw Pride.
We can give it a (snaps for emphasis) great moment.
(clicks tongue)
Okay, so we are here at the island right now.
This is my avatar, yes, Power Ranger.
Although, if you haven't noticed,
I've already started kind of building things,
kind of asking friends.
So my friends have been helping me a little bit,
but here's just some things that they left for me.
Thank you so much.
I'm in the top left corner of section one of my island,
which is the bottom section.
Here is the bottom, there is the airport.
So I made this during Easter for Bunny's Day,
but low-key, it's kinda lit, it's a rainbow floor,
and I'm like, this is kind of perfect for Pride,
so we're just gonna keep it. You know, save time.
This is the plaza right over here.
I have a lot of land over here in the bottom right,
and then I have this whole area right over here,
which leads to the upper part,
or I call it the quadrant two, of the island.
So there are four quadrants on the island.
There's the bottom half,
(bell dings) which is quadrant one,
the top half,
which is quadrant two, (bell dings)
to the right, quadrant three, (bell dings)
and to the left,
quadrant four. (bell dings)
There's all of this to work with.
I have a lotta space, which I'm going to utilize.
Again, it's very bare. (laughs)
This is what I'm working with. It is not a lot.
It is what it is.
This is my island, or part of my island
that I'm gonna describe and tell you
where everything's gonna go.
So you have over here, which is the airplane,
you're gonna go through the entrance,
and then you're gonna go into the ticketing area.
This is not a free event, okay?
(cash register dings) I need to pay my bill.
So the first thing you're gonna see
is this beautiful flower garden.
It's gonna be aesthetic, it's gonna be cute, great for that
Instagram photo. (camera shutter clicks)
You'll have the kids be in the carnival-food area.
As you go up more over here, we have none other
than our fashion show.
The Glitter Room, right over here,
is gonna be where the makeup area is.
So next we have Pride merch over here.
Finally, this is my drag race.
It is literally an obstacle course
with a drag race aesthetic,
and I really mean drag race, I mean cars.
So now I'm gonna go into quadrant two.
Quadrant two is divided into two parts.
We have the dance floor.
It's gonna be giant.
I'm gonna have DJs, I'm gonna have lights,
we're gonna have boots and cats and boots and cats.
And over here, on the bottom half of quadrant two, though,
I want this to be more of a serious thing.
I want it to be more like a remembrance march.
Pride is about remembering the history,
the struggles that we faced, the discrimination
that we faced, and remembering the past,
the legends and the icons that paved our way
to be able to be who we are.
So I wanna do something to commemorate that.
I don't know exactly what that is gonna be yet.
I want to put more effort and time into it,
so we'll revisit that tomorrow.
(slide whistle descends)
This is very exciting, because now comes the fun part,
which is the actual event planning
in terms of decorations, which I love.
Is anybody here? Is that a thing?
Yes! It worked.
This is cute
I'll be using a lot of customizable paintings
because, I mean, it's Pride.
I wanna display the new Pride flag,
'cause there's a new one, y'all.
'Cause we're gonna be stacked, everybody, we love everybody.
Now, the next thing I'm gonna work on is the flower garden.
I already made my flower garden,
except for a couple of my flowers got destroyed.
So the next thing I want to do
is the whole kiddie fun playground area,
his whole sha-boom, sha-bang, sha-boom right over here.
(intense dance music)
Okay, so I'm finally done, y'all, building Kiddie Korner.
The next part I want to go to, this right-hand area
is gonna be where I'm gonna make all of my Pride merch.
This is where we're gonna have those stalls
to sell foods and sell alcohol.
To do events, you need those things to make revenue.
God, I'm so excited. It's starting to come together!
(energetic dance music)
I had to rearrange a couple of things.
Just hear me out right now.
First off, I made this area just merchandise,
I was gonna put the food area right here,
but I think it was gonna be blocking the plaza,
plus people wouldn't stand in line,
and that would create a huge crowd right over here.
We don't want that.
So I moved all the food to a new area right over here.
Ice cream, we have infused waters,
because, we know, we all like bougie stuff.
So now that we have this, the next thing I wanna do
is create this whole drag race phenomenon experience.
I want it to be this huge maze,
but actually, at the same time,
I don't think I have time for that.
(energetic dance music)
So this is going to be my cute little drag race experience,
if you wanna do the drag race.
Ta-da! Look at this.
Look at, this is kinda cute.
So the last thing on this side of quadrant one
that I need to work on is the whole fashion area.
I love fashion, and so I made myself
a mini runway right over here.
We're gonna speed this up a bit to save ourself some time.
(energetic dance music)
I'm proud of myself!
I made a one-star island as best as it could be.
Figure out the last things I need to do,
I'm gonna fine-tweak things, but once that's all done,
and once I invite all my friends, they'll be coming.
They are excited, I am excited.
I told them, "Bring your Pride merch.
We're gonna have a fun time.
I have some activities planned." So yeah.
(slide whistle descends)
(door creaks) (video game chimes)
What's up, and happy Pride, everybody.
Yes, it is now Pride day, it is Pride season.
I am wearing my rainbow cardigan.
We are here because, guess what?
It's Pride, it is the day of Pride,
it's the day of the event, so I'm very nervous.
It is my first event ever virtually.
I have to do a couple of last-minute things,
but overall, I am basically done.
And yeah, just ultimately have a good time.
I want people to have a good time.
And I'm gonna invite my friends over, so yeah!
(plane whooshes)
All my friends are here! Look how cool they are!
Oh my God!
They all look amazing!
Welcome, y'all, y'all look cute, y'all look adorable.
We stan, 10 out of 10 outfits.
I told them to bring Pride outfits. They look amazing!
So first off, y'all have to pay for the tickets
because I need coins, so it's just one smile. (laughs)
Okay, so everyone's gonna follow me.
First, I'm gonna go to the first location.
So the first location is none other than the flower garden.
Honestly, thank you to everyone who helped make the flowers,
because I stole a lot of flowers.
Flowers are part of experiences,
experiences are needed in events
to kinda create an event, to liven up events,
to get people to do stuff.
So now it's on to the next one.
(gasps) Okay, so now we're here
at the fashion show that I made.
Well, here I am.
I'm gonna just be like strut, live, work,
work the runway, eat the runway, serve the runway.
Aw, and they all changed and dressed up,
Oh my God, 10s out of 10.
You worked, you stayed, and we stan.
Good job, everybody, good job.
You're doing an amazing job so far.
So the next location is Kiddie Korner
Kiddie Korner is, again, an area that I did
to make just for kids.
It's a wonderful opportunity for kids
to learn about Pride and to learn about what is an ally
and what is LGBTQIA+ people.
Okay, so next is the merch area.
Okay, let's be honest, the merch area
can use a little sprucing up, yes,
but I think this was the best place
to create a little merch area right next to the entrance.
Where people come in and out
and there's not that much to see,
you want something that keeps people's eye.
There's also this whole food area.
I am very proud of the food area.
I'm a huge foodie, and I think food
really brings people together for an event.
So next is drag race.
The drag race is my fun little activity where it's 1 v 1.
It's gonna be a little run.
It's going to be a little, this is another experience.
It's super cute.
Ready, set, go!
(video game vehicle revs)
Yay, Tiff won! Good job, Tiff.
I think "Drag Race" has been a huge part
of the queer community.
That show gave a platform to queer people.
I think this is going fun so far.
Okay, so here's the photo shoot area.
Again, here, this is just another way
to create experiences for people.
Everyone loves photo areas.
In the age of social media, I think this
is a great way to kinda get free marketing,
especially for events that are multiple days long.
Now here is like my little solidarity allyship Pride area.
Though I love Pride as a huge, fun event,
and I think it's great that it's fun,
I also think there should be time to be an ally,
realize your queer history.
And now we're in the 18-and-over area.
So this is where y'all can drink.
If you're a minor, you're not allowed here.
Alcohol does very well at events,
but you have to do it safely.
So this is one of the two areas that I set up
to create kind of the stages.
I think multiple stages are necessary
to create as much fun as possible.
And so here's the lounge.
The lounge is where I have all the VIPs come,
influencers come, friends and family sometimes.
It creates an experience for the VIPs,
it makes them feel special.
And especially if they are paying
for a VIP package for a couple of my events,
you wanna make them feel as special as possible.
So finally, I was like, "You know what?
Let's take a group photo, y'all.
We're gonna take a cute photo
to kinda commemorate our experience."
Say cheese, everybody!
Wind, fan, pose! (camera clicks in game)
(game avatars applaud) Yay! And we are done
with my very first Pride.
Ultimately it went really, really well.
Everyone was messaging me, saying,
"Thank you so much."
"This was so much fun."
"I had a great time."
I thought it was such a unique, fun way
to experience Pride without actually going to Pride.
(energetic dance music)
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