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Hello.
So, Buffer Festival is officially over which is kind of sad.
It was my first Buffer Festival.
And I kind of invited myself.
Or I tried to invite myself and then I got the invite.
My friends Laur, from LaurDIY, and, well my boyfriend, Devon, told me that I should e-mail
them and see if I could possibly become a featured creator at Buffer and at first -
At first, I didn’t want to.
I was too nervous about it.
I was like, “No, they’re not gonna want me to come over ‘cos I’m practically nobody
on YouTube, but, uhm…
Yeah, they wanted me out there because -
I’m one of the more “unique” and “interesting” YouTubers, if you will.
So, I did end up on two screenings: one of them being the -
One of them being the Science and Education and the other being Women of YouTube.
On Science and Education, I was with Matthew Santoro, Jake from Vsauce3, Hannah Witton.
Sabrina Cruz, who is already a friend of mine.
A couple other people who I wasn’t very familiar with.
And then on Women of YouTube, I was with Hannah again, my friend, Meghan Tonjes.
Uhm, Estee was on there and a couple other people that I wasn’t familiar with.
I think that’s what makes me so nervous about being on events like these, like with
VidCon or Buffer Festival.
I don’t watch YouTube much anymore and if I do, it’s always a select number of people,
probably people that wouldn’t make it to these things.
So before we get into the actual screenings, we can backtrack a little bit and talk about
the events that happened before the actual screenings.
I did get to stay at a hotel and it was a pretty nifty hotel.
There were hospitality suites and you could get free snacks and pizza and stuff.
We actually did eat out a lot.
When you have so many YouTubers in one tiny room, sometimes, it’s just better to eat
out than to try to fight people for food because the “real food” came when everyone would
go up there and then they would stay there and it was just so crowded.
So the first day of the event was the Gala, the Red Carpet, and we did dress up pretty nifty.
I actually got to borrow my dress from Laur so, thank you, Laur, for lending me the dress.
Food was good and we had to wait for our limo to come pick us up.
And that was one of the things that kind of -
That actually bummed me out -
Was I was the last featured creator, I believe, to actually get a limo, so by the time that
we went to the Red Carpet, pretty much nobody was there.
Like, all the interview people and everything.
Nobody was really there so it just wasn’t as fun.
The Red Carpet was something that I was really looking forward to and that just was a bummer, but oh well.
If there’s one thing that I’ve learned about this stuff, is that next time, if there
is a Buffer,
I am wearing a pantsuit because it’s warmer.
October is just way too cold of a month to do red carpet events. I - no.
And then moving on to the actual screenings -
Like I said, I was on two screenings.
And there were actually meet ups.
For them, but I did not go to any of them.
One, because I did not think it was really necessary for me to go because I didn’t
think there would be anybody there.
I only knew one person for sure was going and we ended up meeting somewhere else.
But, actually, what was kind of funny about it was that - I - I don’t know why this
happened, but Buffer staff - I believe it was Buffer staff - called my hotel room with
a voice phone.
I’m not the one you call using a voice phone to.
But, yeah, they called and they told me that the meetups were actually mandatory, but then
we were like -
But then they said that because the meetups were not captioned - they did not have a captioner
for me - I was the exception and I didn’t have to go.
Buffer did provide me with a live captioner so I had a computer in front of me or an iPad
in front of me.
I had different live captioners on both days so the way that we went about it was a little
bit different.
For Science and Education, it was a little bit more private for us and everybody went
up on stage one at a time and then we all went together.
And so we were in the back during the actual video previews so I was, you know, reading
all the captions, like, in my own little corner.
Whereas with Women of YouTube, we were all on stage together sitting down so I had the
computer to my left and while everyone’s kind of looking this way or this way, I’m
that person mostly looking this way as I’ll show you a picture over here where you’ll
be able to see that.
I was very, very nervous about the screenings because one, I’ve never done this before.
Two, I wasn’t by myself.
And you would think that if you had other people with you, it would take the nerves
away a little bit, which it kind of does, but if you’re like me and you can’t understand
the majority of the people there, it’s kind of like you have to constantly ask questions
over and over and make sure you have all the information so you don’t screw up.
Because if something happens, it’s probably -
Gonna be because of me.
And I don’t want that, but it all went really well.
I think most people premiered the same video if they had multiple screenings.
I, however, did a different video for both screenings.
For Science and Education, I did another closed captioning video, basically.
I just did a brand new one and I made it shorter, more to the point for the people on the screening
with me and for the people in the audience.
It’s pretty much the same thing as the other you-need-to-closed-caption-this-is-how-you-do-it
videos on my channel, so I’m not going to put that video on my channel like other people
will with their videos.
Like, it’s just the same thing.
But what was really awesome is -
When we all had our Q&A, the very first thing that was mentioned was from Jake from Vsauce3
and he talked about how he already captioned all his videos and I knew that because when
VidCon was coming, I had tweeted him thanking him to - or for - captioning his channel and
he talked about how important it was and that made me feel really good.
Like, the first thing that gets talked about is a subject that a very small YouTuber brings
up.
A YouTuber that nobody really knows.
So that made me pretty happy and I think I might’ve cried on stage just a little bit.
And then Matthew Santoro who was also on the screening also mentioned how he was looking
into it and that he was going to start doing it.
And what was really awesome is, today, he left me a -
Post on my Facebook telling me that he had already got in 225 caption files from Rev
and put ‘em all on his videos so his entire channel is captioned now which is totally
freakin’ awesome because I think the only person to do something like that with that
many videos was Tyler Oakley back in January.
So, thank you, Matthew, for captioning your entire channel so quickly and inviting me
to that party on Saturday.
That was pretty awesome. Thank you.
So not only did Jake talk about it and then Matt started captioning, uhm, Leah Rifkin,
I believe is her name, she was on the screening as well and Out of Frame TV, I believe is
what it’s called, is being captioned.
And then we move on to the Women of YouTube screening which was just… wow.
There were so many people on Women of YouTube.
And I did a more general video, like, being a deaf woman on YouTube, blah blah blah.
More misogyny, more - different kinds of misogyny.
And, uhm, that’s not going to be premiered on here either.
I don’t have the file, but I might redo it because both videos were kind of last minute
and I would rather redo it and make it better to put on my channel.
But that went really well, uhm…
Leigh…
I’ll put her name here.
She, uh, premiered a video there and it’s captioned on her channel now so I will link
that down below because it was pretty awesome.
And Estee is looking into it as well so I have to e-mail her at some point so we can
get that going.
I’m not sure what the rest of the YouTubers are going to do, unfortunately.
But, hopefully, they will get on the captioning train as well.
That would be pretty awesome.
And Estee and I got a selfie together which was pretty awesome.
Well, the good thing with Estee was we both relate.
We wanted to step out of the beauty world because we kind of felt trapped in that little
beauty bubble because -
It - It - It’s a thing.
A lot of, you know, women on YouTube, when they’re just starting on YouTube, they don’t
-
They think that you should probably just stick to being a makeup person on YouTube because
they tend to be more successful.
And not only that, if you stick to the beauty bubble thing, you kind of hide away from -
The comments that you would get if you were more of an outspoken kind of person.
If you talked about social issues, feminism or whatever.
It was - It was pretty awesome to see that another person on the panel felt the same
way as me and wanted to, uhm, you know, move out of that and work on to something else
regardless of the fact that other people have kind of made comments about how you shouldn’t
do this or do this, do that, so -
Or should do that. Yeah.
Other than that, Buffer was pretty fun.
The parties were so-so, but parties, you know, me, we don’t really mesh very well.
I met a lot of awesome people that became friends, became acquaintances and, you know,
people that asked me about captioning outside of panels and -
I would definitely want to do this again.
So, thank you, Corey and Sam and everybody else from Buffer Festival for doing this thing
and, you know, for inviting me to come over and -
And fingers crossed that we will have another Buffer Festival next year because it was really fun.
It was really awesome.
It’s a great way to find out about people and I would definitely want to go.
I will see you later. Bye.
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