I don't want to watch this video again.
I really don't want to watch it
I don't want to do it
Hello friends, welcome to my react series where I react to documentaries made about
J fashion, Lolita fashion, alternative fashion because I myself wear those fashions
and I have been in documentaries and I've helped work on documentaries. This is my third episode
so if you want more background go watch the other two.
his is mysecond review of a Barcroft
documentary
My first one was he hooked on the look goth and "lolita" girl
I called her the kawaii girl
this
documentary is interesting because it was originally posted as a gory lolita doll and then the title change to
pastel goth and a lot of people were speculating that like lolita doll wasn't really accurate to describe this person. Barcroft must have
Wanted to make it more accurate, which I don't know is necessarily true in my opinion
I think that pastel goth is probably more searchable
It's also relates to my previous video the goth who lives with a Lolita doll
A lot of the comments were regarding the fact that Rosie isn't truly
Well leader isn't Lolita anymore from a YouTube standpoint
It makes sense to me that they would lump her in the category of Lolita because it is more searchable
YouTube is a video sharing platform, but at its core it's also search engine and so even though Rosie's style is unique to her
There's nothing really that you can call it for looking it up
Barcroft probably use lolita doll because the whole living doll craze is more popular amongst
People that don't know about Lolita like it's more well known and more
Searched and more recognized by the general public which sucks, but I wanted to explain that
people in these documentaries don't have a lot of say of what it's titled.
In my previous videos I've asked for you to suggest doctors that you want me to react to and this one was hugely
requested
*groans*
I wanted to talk about this documentary because from a film making and from a storytelling perspective
It doesn't really have any direction and it doesn't really make sense
A lot of people had backlash to this documentary because the subject of it Jessica
she's
Interesting
Jessica is
kind of racist
Like she's racist in a different kind of way in an unconventional
Racist way I want to look at this from the documentary perspective and not really get into her as a person
I just want to kind of address what is here in this doc?
but if you want to know more backstory about her I highly recommend that you watch
Tyler Willis's video covering it because it shows all the receipts
Everything that you need to know all in one place
I know a lot of my viewers don't like Tyler Willis's videos because she has insult humor
But I feel like in this video she doesn't use a lot of it
There are a few comments that she makes specifically about Jessica's nose ring. But other than that
She's not too bad. She's kind of like been tamer and this video is more about just the
receipts. the facts, i guess
You should definitely watch it because I might be referencing Tyler's video while I watched this talk but to summarize a little bit
Jessica had made a post and someone replied to it basically saying that they wanted to see more
Dark-skinned Lolita's they wanted to see more people of color wearing. Kawaii fashion
the aesthetic is seen and shared a lot with people that are pale and there's a
history street of pale blogs that only really promote pale people
and
Jessica was kind of like no that's not true. And you're basically
discrediting the experience of someone who's gone through this like Jessica would not have experienced this and
She started to sort of listen to the commenter, but then just double down and kind of tried to discredit
everything she defended all lives matter before asserting that the exclusion of black representation in all fashion isn't real said the concept of
pseudo-intellectual accused a black woman who wanted to see more dark skin tones
represented of being a racist and
summed it up with the declaration that even mentioning race strips people of their identity and apparently creates an otamatone unit who will
robotically carry out the interest of the group in the most in vasilich non onion article s
Statement the world has ever seen because the floodgates are open now and what was basic bitch?
Racism ala belligerent ignorance has morphed into something
I don't even recognize on the plain of coherent thought and I'd just like to take a moment to examine it
She says the quote would have had more impact sixty years ago
and then as far as I'm
Concerned people of all skin colors are and have been free and protected by law in this country since July of 1965 following
Lyndon, b johnson signing of the Civil Rights Act. I'm just going to let that one sit for a bit
And
Jessica wants to live in a world where everyone is equal and nobody sees color
Which is like fine and dandy and a really lovely sentiment but that's not the world that we live in
Especially when people of color are telling you and giving you experiences and having evidence that that's not the world that we live in
When it comes to this documentary the one sort of storyline that I could pick up from this is that Jessica wants to inspire people
But I don't understand how you can inspire people
when you don't believe in people's experiences when they're telling them to you and
When you say that, you don't care about other people's experiences. Like she literally said she doesn't care
No one cares about your struggles
I want people to know that there are people out there who?
understand and
Who will help you?
No one cares about your struggles.
Is that what you stand for helping people having them hear you out?
Listening to their stories and their experiences and not discrediting them -
You're not as crazy as you think you are by expressing yourself through Toshi's I mean through art through your own life
Shout out to anybody who lives in Rhode Island. I really want to know if any of you watching live in Rhode Island
I've never met anyone from Rhode Island.
...I like to incorporate tattoos, piercings into
more cutesy things
Why is she holding Chucky like there's not enough explain here. I want her to address why she's holding Chucky
Why's Chucky like important to her has that influenced her style? She just says
She's influenced by a fashion. But like what J fashion?
*gimmie more - britney spears*
Kind of add more of like a gory or more of a
Harsher look.
what are the examples though? What?
Oh
Look at that busted makeup palette
so like the way that documentary is like these work is they generally have an idea of what they want to express and
Then they'll film the person being interviewed. You have to remember when you're seeing these shots of her looking at you
This isn't like a YouTube video where she's just talking unprompted
You can tell that there's a producer or an intern or somebody on the other side
who's asking your questions and then she's answering them and then they basically will follow the person throughout their day and get
b-roll shots of them to put in
To the interview to kind of mix it up and have different things for you to look at
Feeling that day and when I'm feeling inspired by doing this is like very relaxing
It's kind of like I'm taking time out of my day for myself. Oh, can we get more b-roll of that?
Busted makeup palette that's really important to you. Get in there except that people
Don't necessarily
Understand and I'm not expecting everyone to understand.
it's really hard people are gonna understand
Because you're not really getting just this point you're just on the surface of like this is the way that I dressed. But what is
Inspired by where is it coming from?
Where did it evolve from and you're thinking maybe we're gonna get more into that in this
Documentary like maybe this is just an intro and I'm overreacting too soon, but no, we don't really get into
I don't know if this is the person who's questioning her if they're just not you know
They could ask they could have asked her one of these things and then branched on into it deeper and asked more questions
And I'm not sure if they just didn't choose to or if she didn't give them deep enough answers.
I want to believe that
Just for the sake of being nice. I want to believe that maybe she said a lot more and maybe she
Talked about her references and the things that inspired her more and they just cut it out
but
*sighs*
From her behavior online it would seem that that's not true.
yeah
*sips tea*
Always knew that I wanted to like push social boundaries
I wanted to do something different and I knew that the way that people express themselves
Through like what they saw in the media was just not for me.
Okay
I did some research online and found
communities of wonderful people who are into Japanese fashion.
what communities? But also, I can tell that there was an edit there because
she said communities of then it cuts to an overlay of pictures of her from the past and
They input Japanese fashion
So like what did -
communities of what??
I can hardly do that
Jess and I met at the mall and then we met on the internet first and decided to meet in person
they're very taken aback because
Evidently anybody who sees Jess for the first times going around like wow
Wow, like whether or not -...
Her boyfriend looks like Titanic Sinclair and he acts like Titanic Sinclair and he kinda sounds like Titanic Sinclair
so happy the other people I could see in the comments of this video were mentioning that cuz that's immediately what I thought which
which concerns me
Okay, so up until this point
It's very much. The storyline has been about her fashion, her style, her makeup
She likes to do her makeup this way
What way?
We haven't really defined that.
But now I don't know where the documentary is gonna go from here
Why do you do what you do? Why are you doing? Why are you doing this? What is your purpose?
I was like I just like makeup, man
Why are you doing this? What is your purpose? She just likes makeup. Ok, cool, like
But what kind of makeup how do you inspire others to do this makeup?
What have you learned from it about yourself how like just
*gimmie more - britney spears*
Essentially it's just makeup.
Then they just repeat again. "Essentially. It's just makeup." So it shouldn't this documentary be like about
Makeup? Like where is the maybe even talk about?
Makeup different makeup that she's planning to do show different makeup that she's done in the past
Talk about her references, what has inspired, her the history of her makeup ...
Now for some reason we're gonna step away from talking about Jess' fashion
And we're just gonna hear her boyfriend play some music for a while by a river
Why? I'm not sure. Maybe this was a documentary about like
Eccentric couples and things that they do and like maybe talk about the reactions that you get from people
But now this is supposed to be a documentary of like a pastel goth person of their fashion of their makeup
So, why are we now?
subjected
To that kid in high school who always brought his acoustic guitar to school and would play it at lunch and you couldn't escape it
Why why why... Why are we subjected to this? I'm gonna just mute this because I might get in trouble
I feel like he might try to sue me and
suddenly always near
It's video for me I can play guitar listen to my soundcloud
Do you wanna do wanna know react to the rest of this video and speak for me because that's what he does
Alright, I think I now need to react because I think the world needs to know my opinion
It just and I walk around the street
Generally people don't say many things to us
and if there are calm when Justin I walk around three people and then they cut the footage of them and clearly a
convention, really
Look at they're out of convention. Look at their aim, like a convention hole. You wouldn't see Mortal Kombat
I mean, I wish I would see Mortal Kombat characters like just walk around in the street. Just normal
But nother clearly at a convention. So why are you talking about?
Oh we go to conventions to find people like us to like experience things together
To inspire people, isn't this more on the people?
Yes, and no. The reason that I want to address it is so that people making documentaries will try and do better
But I also wonder because the surface is there
I'm kind of curious if the documentary
filmmakers were trying to get more information from them and they didn't
give their information or they tried to then twist it because clearly they're trying to twist it by having him be this involved
It is very much on the creators. The overall story is their responsibility
I'm still really positive. People will say like oh my god. I love your makeup. This is amazing you do this every day
Why is he saying this?
That's what I wanna know!
Why is he answering questions about her makeup?
I feel like it would have been better if they may be interviewed them separately because like it is important to have to show your
Significant other as to back up your character to show part of your life
but I feel like
He's definitely taking away from her answering stuff and if they've had him separately
don't you think this is such a great contribution to the video
If they'd interviewed him separately, they would have just asked him directly
Like what does your experience like when you're with Jess how, how did you meet her?
Like what what some things you'd like to do together?
It would have kind of controlled his direction more
Then he talks about her getting negative comments when he's not around like that's the perfect point for him to stop talking
and for her to be like ...
these are the things that I have been told or like this is how I've overcome it like have
Some form of direction even that Lazy Oaf bunny is like side-eyeing him right now
The shade.
People will ask me like
Where do you see yourself in 30 years or where do you see yourself when you're 40? I?
Can't answer that question because I don't know what the future holds if you asked me that
Last year if I was gonna be who I am today.
I would not know
Well, okay then who were you last year?
How have you evolved and changed? How do you want to see yourself
evolve and change.
Just besides this all this stuff surrounding who they are as people this document is very like
boring.
It doesn't go anywhere.
It doesn't have a story arc it doesn't go anywhere there's no purpose
the only thing that I can get from it is like be inspired and this is what I look like but how and why and
I'm not learning anything like people that are new that have never seen
As a person dressed like this doing makeup like this like they didn't really learn anything from this. Yeah. So this is like the wrap-up
This is the finale. This is final thoughts.
I feel like every day I do my makeup. I'm just closer to my purpose and I feel like I'm closer to
To being able to express myself
honestly to my fullest extent
What does that mean?
If she's saying at the end of this doc she's saying that
She's reaching being able to express herself. Honestly then like what's
prohibiting her?
Why today does she not feel like this is 100% me. This is who I am. I'm proud
Why does she say like we didn't even?
What have we learned from this?
I haven't played guitar in a while so my fingers hurt.
I've talked before about how documentaries aren't just like the truth and how they need to have some form of direction
And this is a perfect example of why because you want people to see a documentary
Reflecting the J-fashion community that actually teaches them something or inspires them. I don't feel inspired
Even before I knew anything about her past about who she is. I watched this and I didn't feel inspired
This is mostly on the creators, I feel. But, I also feel that
She too should have had more that she wanted to express
Yeah, she should have had more that she wanted to talk about and maybe it was all edited out
I don't know but it doesn't make sense to me from a storytelling standpoint that they would edit out those kind of things
Do better make better ...
documentaries.
if you're being interviewed make sure that you have kind of an overall story that you want to tell.
And consider all of these things.
if you're gonna make documentaries about some someone make sure that you're giving the right person a platform
For f**k sake like... has Barcroft made a fashion documentary featuring someone who's a person of color?
I don't think so, or if they have there's a lot more pale people
So maybe that should be their direction.
Anyways, stay lovely.
Dolls
"Inspired" by
You know, she can't tell who she's gonna be in the future because she doesn't know
Like what makeup artist she's gonna see on Instagram and want to copy
How could she predict that?
Only the Instagram algorithm can predict that?