- Hi everyone, my name is Tyler Oakley
and I am here today to tell you all about my firsts.
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First person you came out to.
Ooh, I think the first person I came out to--
I'm not gonna name her because she was terrible
and she outed me to other people.
But you know what you did, you know who you are,
(bleep).
Will you bleep her name?
God bless.
First YouTube video of yours that you'd want to scrub
from the internet?
Well my very first video is privated because
I did not know about privacy.
And in my first video, I talked all about like,
"Here's my address, here's where you can find me,
"here's my phone number,"
all of these things and I'm like,
"The internet doesn't need to know about that."
So probably my very first video.
First time you were recognized in public.
I...
So I started making YouTube videos when I was
still in the dorms when I was going to Michigan State
and I remember there was
like, a squad of little girls--
not little girls, like college students--
girls going through my hallway and they like,
came by my room when my door was open and I'm like,
just hanging out in my dorm room.
And I can hear them coming and like, giggling and something.
And then they all peeked in and then from that point on,
I knew I had to keep my door closed.
First date.
Mmmm.
Which, well?
Like, with a guy or with a girl?
With a girl,
I think we went like, ice skating.
She came out as a lesbian by now,
I came out as a gay by now.
Jules,
God bless ya.
Look at us now, queer, out, proud.
First date with a guy, it was like a secret because
people couldn't know.
We went to go see Stepford Wives, I think.
(laughs)
In theaters.
And when he dropped me back off at home,
my parents--
I didn't want my parents to know.
So he dropped me off down the street and then I like,
scurried home, and I got home,
and we only had our one computer with our dial-up
and so I was like, waiting to get online
to talk to all my friends and tell them,
"Oh my God, I just got home from the date,
"and we kissed, blah blah blah blah blah,"
but I had to wait because we had dial-up
and my brother was on the phone.
And so there I was just like,
ugh, I need to tell the gays about what I'm up to.
Times have not changed.
First Gay Pride.
I came to L.A. in 2010
for a summer internship for The Trevor Project.
And while I was here for the summer, I really just
was feeling my gay oats.
It was like, the first time I saw gays out in public
doing their thing.
And so the first Gay Pride I went to was L.A. Pride
and I feel like I dove right into the deep end and
I had fun.
(laughs)
First job.
My first job was at Arby's and
I hated it.
But I will say,
whew, girl, to this day, there is nothing
as good as a curly fry.
My first job that I loved was McDonald's and
all my friends worked there, we all had the same shift
everyday.
It was great.
I had so much free food.
That's all--
that's my barometer for a good job.
I worked at a coffee shop.
All I did at the coffee shop was chug Frappuccinos
all day long.
At Arby's, all I did was chug JaMocha shakes all day long.
Anywhere where I got free food, that was a good job.
So YouTube is not, it's not all it's cracked up to be.
No free food.
First impression of your Amazing Race partner, Korey Kuhl.
So, Korey and I met back in the dorms.
He was an R.A. and I was a freshman.
And I saw his picture on like, the board
of like, all the R.A.s in the building.
And I could tell--
'cause you know how gays know--
I was like,
"That's a gay.'
As a gay does, I did my stalking,
and I found him on Facebook, and then I saw on his interests
he liked Big Brother and Julie Chen.
And so I reached out and I said,
"Hi, I too, like Big Brother and Julie Chen.
"We should like, hang out sometime."
(laughs)
The rest is history.
Thank you, Julie Chen.
First incorrect rumor you've read about yourself.
Everything I've ever read is true.
Everything.
There was a moment--
I do remember--
there was a moment where there was a conspiracy that
YouTubers that were gay were doing it
as like, a lie.
And I got dragged into that and I wanted to be like,
"Honey, not only have I never had like,
"a big, big reveal of like,
"I'm gay and like doing it for views or anything like that,
"I've always like talked about being gay,"
so like, that was flabbergasting to me.
I'm like,
I don't have the energy.
First kiss.
It was in a van.
(laughs)
It was after my first date with a boy.
But like, that's like first real kiss.
Like, I think Spin the Bottle doesn't count,
though I was always very like, yeah, we should play
Spin the Bottle, of course.
It was a good kiss.
(laughs)
We're still friends.
First YouTube video.
First YouTube video that I ever made,
it was called An Introduction to my Video Blog.
SEO ready.
It was like...
It was me just showing people around my dorm room
in college and I showed people like,
here's my bunk bed, here's my condoms
that my R.A. gave me, here's my whatever.
I'm like, eh, as if anybody cared.
Here's my Hebrew book for Hebrew class.
Like, nobody cared.
- No.
I don't go back and watch this week's video.
Like, as soon as I'm done filming it, like I don't wanna
see it, I don't wanna think about it.
It is bizarre, though, because I've made a video
every week for
almost 11 years now, almost 12 years now.
And to be able to go back and see what I cared about
any week in the past more than a decade is
nobody needs that type of access to your brain.
First car.
Now, this is a good story.
I saved up all of my Arby's money and
I knew that I needed a vehicle so I went in the newspaper--
people don't even do this anymore!
Oh my God, I'm like aging myself.
I went in the newspaper, I circled the ones
that I was interested in, I was going to go
check out this car
with my dad and
the night before, I got into high school shenanigans
so I was not feeling my best the next morning,
the morning I was supposed to check out the car.
And I'm like, in the car with my dad,
on my way to go check out the car that I circled
and I'm like,
"Oooh, she's feeling queasy, she's feeling like--"
I'm like, not--
this is...
It's all gonna come up, last night's gonna
regurgitate.
And so we get to the house and I
go around the back to the side of the house
and I'm like,
"Dad, I have to go puke, I am so hungover."
And I go and puke and I look up after I just like,
vomited all of last night,
and I see the woman who is selling the car
through her window, we make eye contact,
and I was like,
"Yep, this is what my life is."
And then she came out of the house, and I said,
"Hello,"
and we had a moment and I ended up buying her car.
Her car was a something, Oldsmobile.
It was completely blue with one red door.
It was all I could afford with my Arby's money.
First YouTuber friend.
Korey, my Amazing Race partner.
We met the day I made my YouTube account
and we both made YouTube accounts and
we would like, make our own little collabs
and do our own little challenges and this is before like,
before VidCon existed, before anything and
he's still my first YouTube friend.
First celebrity crush.
(sighs)
Chris O'Donnell in Batman and Robin
as Robin.
The close-up zoom of his first reveal of his outfit
where they like, showed his pecks and like
somehow, his metal armor had nipples protruding
and little old me in the basement of my home
would remind it but watch it on the like,
the lowest volume possible.
And I would rewind it and watch, rewind it and watch,
and rewind it and watch it and I was like,
"Ugh,"
to this day, he's
a man.
If y'all had him behind the door, I would,
I would have to leave.
Because of the restraining order.
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