- Here's the thing, if I get drunk and there's a microphone
I'm making an announcement.
I don't know what the announcement's gonna be,
but I'll say something.
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So we're telling stories about how we first met each other.
- Yeah.
- Or what we remember of it.
- Which I don't remember anything.
I don't remember when I first met you.
I remember seeing you just kind of walking around
and I didn't know you.
I don't know.
Do you remember?
- Mm-hmm. - You remember?
Like it was a specific time?
- Very specific.
I mean like, it's interesting when you work at BuzzFeed
because we see each other in videos a lot
before we meet each other.
Especially if like, you're new here.
You acquaint yourself with the ecosystem,
you watch BuzzFeed videos.
I'd known of you and I'd seen you in videos
but I hadn't like, met you.
My, when I first came to BuzzFeed you were a manager.
- Yeah.
- And didn't really talk a lot to the interns
as you were managing a team.
We didn't like collaborate with you because you weren't
making as many videos.
But I just remember you were always very concentrated,
walking around BuzzFeed, and also too,
this is like right before I did my resting bitch face video.
You had your resting bitch face out.
- Yeah, that's my face.
- And I thought that you just like, didn't like me.
Which is probably, you had your defenses up
because you were like who is this crazy person they hired?
This is the first time I met Chantel,
and I doubt you're gonna remember this.
- Maybe not, I don't know, we'll see.
- Okay the first time I met Chantel,
it was on a Eugene set actually.
Southeast Asian wedding dresses, I think that was it.
It was a beautiful shoot, like he got all these designers,
was a huge day.
We went late, so I know we got dinner at one point
and it was around like 6:30, seven o'clock at night
and we had this huge tray of tortilla chips.
I remember because I was just an intern back then,
you know I had the rolling sound or like
fixing lights or something, so I was like you know what,
I need more nutrition so I march over
to where the tortilla chips are
and there's this little bean.
(laughing)
Just helping herself to some tortilla chips
and you and I shared that trough of tortilla chips
for a while.
- I love chips and salsa, was there salsa?
- There definitely was salsa.
- Yeah, if there's chips and salsa I'm there.
- It was dinner that they bought for our set
and you just came in and started eating this dinner.
- That sounds fine.
Sounds like me.
- No you were like, ooh I love Mexican food.
And just came in, not your set.
- So that's when you were like, oh okay.
- I was like, this bitch can hang.
(laughing)
She likes tortilla chips.
But it was funny because we didn't talk for a minute.
We were like just eating quietly
out of this huge tray of chips and salsa.
And I remember being like, hi I'm Devin.
You're like, hi I'm Chantel.
(laughing)
Well here's the thing I think people deserve to know.
If there were any reservations about meeting me
or like getting to know me,
I did something very dumb my first month of BuzzFeed.
When I first came here.
- Oh wait!
This was my first impression of you.
Wait, I completely forget about this.
You did a lot of legwork to kind of reverse that.
- Well to be fair, it wasn't my fault.
My first day at BuzzFeed was October 15th.
Two weeks later, I was like,
doing my job and everything.
We had our Halloween celebration on the roof.
But prior to me going up to this rooftop like soiree,
I was in a shoot where I had to taste
all this different flavored vodka.
It was a taste test.
And this was like, someone had made different flavors
of vodka they wanted us to taste it.
And I didn't drain them all,
but I took a sip so I could taste it.
And then towards the end of it, everything starts
like when you drink a bunch of alcohol,
everything starts tasting the same.
So by the time I got to this rooftop soiree
I was pretty drunk.
I don't know if you know about this internet,
but alcohol takes some time to hit your system.
So I get to this soiree and things are happening.
Let her just pick it up from here, because it's humiliating.
- So we're having a dance party on the rooftop
but it's like very casual.
Like it's not like this fancy thing,
like I don't think, like alcohol was not being served,
like people were just like kind of dancing while
a guy from IT was playing stuff off of his Spotify.
- It's like a Halloween themed meeting,
that's what it was.
That I just crashed into.
This was my second week of work you guys.
- It was her second week of working here,
I don't know her, most people don't know her.
So there's a microphone, she runs up to it,
hijacks the song and is just like,
"Hey everybody, I'm Devin!"
and I was like, okay now I know
that this girl's name is Devin.
So she goes, "Let's get this dance party started.
So everyone grab an intern and dance with them."
and then she like queued a song and like
pointed to our DJ who was a guy from IT.
And it was like, go for it!
There are about 87 violations within that one sentence.
Also, I didn't know that she had had anything to drink.
Like I remember looking at a bunch of my friends
and we were just like, who's this girl?
And then Devin went on her merry way.
I literally was so drunk I left that rooftop
and in my mind I thought, that went well.
I remember leaving the party being like,
call me a (beep)ing Uber because I'm a star.
And the next morning I woke up
and I was like kind of just like sitting in bed
and I was like
(dramatic piano) wait a second.
Wait a second.
If I could go back and hit an undo moment
there is not many of those moments I would have done
in my life because I just kind of believe
what happens happens for a reason,
but that is one moment in my life, that whole microphone
Halloween debacle 2015 I really wish I could undo.
- No.
Now that I know you, it's so different.
But can you imagine.
- Who is this bitch?
(laughing)
But then, so that when you met me met me
you were like oh she's not crazy.
- Yeah I was like oh she's not crazy,
she has super good ideas, wants to help
evolve how we create content for women.
I think I just kind of like, snagged you
and kept you on my team ever since then.
- You sure did.
Yeah I like that your impression of me changed
when I like showed you that I could be professional
and get shit done.
And my impression of you changed when I was like,
she can eat tortilla chips with me.
God we unpacked a lot today.
- We did unpack a lot.
So many memories that I kind of--
- Repressed. - Just thrown away.
Now we paint with our period blood together.
- Yeah and room together in Kenya.
- In Kenya.
- Now I know your poop schedule like the back of my hand.
- Twice a day, morning and night.
Gotta stay regular, you know?
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