- What do you, like, do in your free time?
- I like to dance
and I enjoy acting.
- Who are your idols?
Like, who do you look up to?
- Music-wise, I look up to Kendrick Lamar
'cause his message really speaks to me
'cause I understand that he comes
from a low class neighborhood
and that's where I basically am from
so his music helps me understand
that everything is okay at the end
and success always comes even though you have bad times.
- [Elizabeth] What about you?
What do you like to do?
- I skate a lot.
And I play a lot of video games
and I just make up algorithms most of the time.
- Do you consider yourself popular in school?
- Nope.
- [Xitlaly] Why not?
- Well, I talk to a lot of kids at school
but no one really, like,
I guess, cares that much?
What about you?
Are you popular at school?
- Um, maybe I might seem like that
to other people but I feel like I'm just a social person.
I have acquaintances but I don't really
have real, real friends.
Like, how I said.
I only have a good six real friends.
- I go to a weird art school.
There's no actual sports teams
so it's kind of weird.
From my school, my old school in PA,
all the sports kids, which I was friends with,
and like the football kids, the b-ball kids,
they're all...
I wouldn't say popular,
but people definitely knew who they were
and if they had a party, people knew about it.
You know?
And if the game club kids and the Rubiks Cube club kids,
which I was also friends with,
'cause I was president of both,
I was president of Smash Bros club
and president of Rubiks Cube club and stuff,
and if they had a party, nobody really know
about the club people.
- Well, I feel like I don't really care
about being popular because at the end of the day,
I feel like being yourself is the only option.
Well, not the only option,
but it's an option to stay happy
and I feel like not being yourself
and trying to be popular in school
makes you put yourself down
because you're trying to have high expectations
of something else that you probably don't have.
But I say just always be yourself
because that can really help out through school.
- I go to a public high school.
To be honest, the cliques aren't really about clubs,
I would say.
It's more just about types of people, you know?
You have the shy people stay with the shy people.
The outgoing people go with the outgoing.
- Yeah.
- But to be honest, the whole school is pretty...
We all live cohesively, you know?
No one is really bullied.
- Have you ever been bullied?
- Yeah, it's been pretty difficult.
In the seventh/eighth grade,
I had this kid who would bully me.
And even before that, sixth grade
and down to elementary,
there was a specific kid who would really bully me.
And it really just brought me down.
Anybody could even ask my best friend
and it really got to the point
where I was super suicidal
and I felt like being sad was the only option
and I also felt like there was no purpose in life.
But she always helped me keep a smile on my face
but yeah, I just don't let it define me anymore.
It's something that's in my past
and it's only made me stronger.
- I think you are about 17 years old.
African American.
I feel like you're probably wearing Vans
because that skate life never stops.
- I think that you're 17 years old.
Race, maybe Hispanic or Latino.
I feel like you're wearing Vans or something.
- I think you're 17, 18, just about.
You are Spanish and white.
I feel like you're dressed like a volleyball girl.
Either sweats and that's it
or something, like, sick.
- I think you're 16, 17, or maybe even 18.
Ethnicity, I think you're Asian or white.
I feel like you're wearing cargo pants, shorts.
- I was right about the style, the vans.
- Yeah, you were right about pretty much everything
but I'm almost 17, so it's kinda funny.
My birthday's literally in nine days.
- I'm 15.
- Hispanic people, they don't all have brown eyes.
- [Elizabeth] Facts.
- Fact.
- [Timmy] Are those Vans?
- [Xitlaly] Those are Vans.
- Yes, I've been stuck
on the Vans.
- Age?
- I am 17.
- You're 17. - Yeah.
- Okay, Hispanic.
- Mm-hmm.
- I said you had cargo pants.
Those are no where near...
Well, those are nowhere near cargo pants.
- I said these were kinda like cargo pants.
- Well, yeah, we'll just say that is.
- You got the Asian
or white part. - Yeah, I got that right.
Oh, how old are you?
- [Timmy] Oh yeah, I'm 16 actually.
I just turned 16. - Okay, yeah.
- You got that right.
- Got that, definitely right.
- Okay, it was nice seeing you though.
It was, like, kinda surprising.
Like, very surprising.
- Well, it was really good meeting you.
Well, I hope everything goes good in life for you
and I hope everything really just works out in the end
and everything works out for you.
- Until next time.
- [Elizabeth] Until next set.
- [Xitlaly] I'll give you a hug.
Nice meeting you.
♪ SoulPancake ♪