hello I was tagged to draw my year by my
lovely friend Evan, this is apparently
Evan, so you the lucky viewer at home get
to see what I've been up to for the last
year of my life through these terrible
drawings that I'm about to do. This video
will probably also be nice for me when I
am an ancient wrinkly old prune and no
longer remember anything about my life.
hello future Luke we did stuff with our
life that you can't remember so these
are those things ... anyway yes let's let's
begin. 2016 has pretty much been the
biggest year of my life literally look
at how big that year is. except for maybe
the year i was born which was also a
major achievement for me, well done fetus.
2016 was the first year where I felt
like I became an actual proper
independent human. To quote my own film
that I'm making, which I'll talk about
later, 'it's like I was born years ago but
the umbilical cord was just cut and now
I am free' to prance into the world
that bit wasn't in the, in the film
this year started off as most years do with
january, i spent my new year on the beach
in brighton setting off fireworks with
some amazing people: Felix, Marzia, Emma, PJ
and Sophie. And this was the first time
in my life where I felt like I was in
some kind of teenage coming-of-age film
like the fault in our stars, like there
should have been indie pop music going
on in the background whilst we run
around in slow motion and fireworks
explode. January was also the month when
I got my first office, like a real adult
human, with all the people who worked on
my film. It wasn't giant, but it was the
shape of an L which made it extra
special because it's L for Lukey, that's my
name. Hello I'm Lukey. Mr. Lukey to you,
excuse me and here's my producer Josh
looking very happy at the fact that we
suddenly have to find all the money to
pay rent for an office. In February the
BBC for some reason let Emma and I do a
live show on the biggest radio station
in the country, actual live. I was doing
all the buttons. And at one point I
managed to press the wrong button by
missing the play button and one of the
songs we were doing, just didn't play so
we all just sat there in silence for a few
seconds. Literally millions of people
around the country sat in silence
because i pressed the wrong button, but
other than that i was a pretty rockin DJ
and fully expect to have my own TV show
maybe even TV station pretty soon.
In February I also started making my own film,
like what the heck! If you don't know
what this is, basically i did a kickstarter
and some of the amazing people watching
my youtube videos helped fund a whole
actual film that actually happened this
year. Anyway this has basically been my
dream for literally my entire life and
now it's actually come true I'm like a
real-life Disney Princess except I'm a
ginger and I'm a man which I believe is
the future of Disney Princesses,
personally. We stayed in a converted barn
with our 18 crew members, filmed in an
abandoned swimming pool with four
hundred thousand liters of water and I
even got to direct a mysterious
celebrity who's in the film. An actual
celebrity guy, looked at my script and was
like 'yeah that's not awful!' and now he's
in my film. My life is so weird... The film is
almost done and will be ready this year
and we kind of have a trailer but I'm not
allowed to show anybody yet, so stop
looking! Stop it! No! Stop it, you're not allowed to... stop looking at the film!
Then we come to March and after three
years of an actual adult relationship
for the first time in my life, sadly me
and Emma decided that we should break up
and it took us a while to eventually
tell you guys partly because I was
literally terrified of how everyone will
react. Sometimes I make jokes so maybe I
shouldn't do that but i think it's
important that you guys know that we
still care about each other very much
and we really just want each other to be
happy. So that's a really good thing.
In march I also got my first house, which is
genuinely terrifying, a house all for me
just me, on my own, oh my god I'm an adult,
I'm an adult, I'm getting older. I'll keep
getting older and one day I'm going to
just die. Anyway yeah I rented a house it
was like my little castle for when I
want to be a Disney Princess ,which is
always just always. Soon after this my
little baby puppy who was actually
nearly like 10 but we still call him a
puppy died. Big sad face, bigger sad face
even bigger sad face. He had cancer in
like five hundred places in his body so
eventually he had to be put down to stop
him suffering. We had him since I was
literally like 12 years old so he was
like a brother to me, so it really was, it
was horrible. He was like a really hairy
brother who licked me and poo'd
garden. It was like having a really weird
brother. In April I turned 22 which is
yet another reminder to get off my ass
and start doing exciting stuff with my
life because despite what Taylor Swift
says 22 is not an interesting age! I
don't know about you but im feeling 22
everything is gonna be alright if you do
something with your life. Get off your
ass and do something! Go and save the
world! Stop climate change! Solve poverty!
do something! In May pretty much every
one of my family's life was turned
upside down when my mum had a heart
attack. If you ever had somebody close
to you nearly died or even die you can
never understand the terrifying and
weird set of emotions that run through
your brain when that happens. Luckily
everything worked out fine this time and
I'm thankful she was at work when it
happened because if she'd been alone we
might not have been so lucky and our
lives could be entirely different. Make
sure you give the people you love a hug in
2017 no matter how annoying they can
sometimes be. It's not worth regretting.
Speaking of things turning upside down
while in May, my family's life was turned
upside down, in June the entire country
was turned upside down or split in two
or destroyed completely, who knows. Whilst
I was away in sunny La meeting some of
you guys at VidCon, I heard the news that
despite all of the polls saying
otherwise my country was Brexit-ing
the heck out of Europe. Now look, whilst I
want to stay in the EU I'm not somebody
who just looks at half of my entire
country and goes "bloody racists". I get it
I get why people voted that way, that
feeling that the world isn't fair and
the rich and powerful people rule over
your life. I feel that, I feel it too I
just don't agree this is the solution
but I don't blame anyone for the way
they voted. In July I became an
international pop star when I released
my song 'all my friends are vegans take
it slow' to parody Twenty One Pilots. Now obviously
I'm joking about the international pop
star bit. Although my parents' Chinese
exchange student heard the original song
heathens in a restaurant one time but
thought it was my song vegans and is
still convinced to this day that I am a
member of a worldwide critically
acclaimed electro pop band singing about
veganism. So that's fun. I also spent July
and pretty much the entire rest of the
year and probably the rest of my life
editing my film, like I'm so excited to be
doing this, but oh my heck it is a lot of
work! The film has over 3,000 edit points
in it. Just imagine doing 3,000 of
anything and you'll know how my brain
feels right now. Thank you all so much.
It''s gonna be so, so good. No, stop
watching! Stop watching it! You're not allowed to watch it. In august I went to
summer in the city once more to meet
loads and loads and loads of you lovely
people and also screen my trailer. Stop, stop watching it!
over the course of the weekend I met over
two thousand of you lovely people. One of
you, by the way, gave me a horrible flu so
thanks for that. But it's always worth it,
meeting you guys is one of the
highlights of my year and also my life.
So please always come and say hi, if you
spot me wandering around shopping or
eating something or I don't know playing
sports. What? I can play a sport! Who am I
kidding, new year same me, am I right? Even
say hi to me if you spot me peeing in a
urinal as literally, actually happened to
me this year. Thanks for that dude
whoever the heck you are, don't actually
do that to me never that's not okay that
boundaries! boundaries! Straight after summer
in the city, I moved to London der der
der der
with my friends Evan, Connie and Ellen
into a flat called the meme mansion. Living
in London has been a goal of mine for
years and i have now finally done it. Who
cares that the air pollution is awful,
everybody there is stressed and unhappy,
the crime rates are higher, everything's
more expensive and there's an increased
terror risk! I live in London, the capital
city of England where all of my dreams
will come true. Me, Evan and Connie took
an adorable trip to Disney to celebrate
that we now live four feet away from
each other because London flats are tiny.
What a time to be alive! London
I mean I am enjoying it though, it's great.
In October my family got a new baby
puppy, now replacing pets is always a
horrible thing to do and nothing could
ever replace my tiny baby Harry but we
still got this tiny bread thing called
Isla. She literally looks like a loaf of
bread. She's adorable but she's also
incredibly annoying. Isla go away!
In November somebody from the princess diana award
asked me to teach a bunch of kids how to
make youtube videos while also teaching
them ways to combat bullying. This was
such an amazing experience for me
watching people literally learn things
from me, from little me, I don't, I'm not, yeah.
It was nice. A little bit later I did
what everybody in society currently
wishes they could do, I disappeared into
the countryside into a little log cabin
and said goodbye to society for a few
days. I know this might sound like
literally the most grumpy old man flumpy
pumpy pump thing to say but
sometimes it's amazing to leave your
phone behind and vanish from social
media for a bit. 2016 was the year I
realized how addicted I am to my phone
and how miserable that can sometimes
make me even though I think it makes me
happy. Social media is such a powerful
tool to change the world, but it's also a
powerful tool at running your life for
you. Again I know I sound like a whiny
grumpy old man but I think we
established in April when i turn 22 that
i'm basically ready to retire anyways. So
it's time for me to start moaning about
things i guess? December started with a
bang!
Literally because my flatmate Connie got
hit by a car. oh poor Connie! This is the
most embarrassing moment of my recent
life as these two panicking schoolgirls
turned up at our front door and said
"does Connie live here?" and we thought
they were trying to stalk her from
YouTube so we were like "ah no no Connie
lives here, I don't know who that is, who
is that? I don't know no Connie" and then
the paramedic called us and said
Connie's been hit by a car and we were
like LOL shit. And I spent the final weeks
of 2016 surrounded by the people I love,
visiting friends and family from back
home, who I just don't see enough. Thank
you all for an awesome 2016. I hope you
had a great 2016, despite all of the you,
know horrific-ness of everything and I
cannot wait for next year. Stick around
for some pretty sick banter. Lukey out! By
the way I tag you to make this video,
you sitting at home, you make it. If
you're not a youtuber, make a youtube
channel and make it or post it on
facebook video or vine or something.
oh no vines dead! So you can't do that
anyway this is my last video, Please
watch it now. And subscribe to my channel if
you're new, just watch the thing, watch
it, why aren't you watching it ? Watch it now
I'll be really sad if you don't. Bye