- Oh my goodness!
Hi babes!
I’m sorry that I’ve been gone for so long.
I feel like a terrible person.
I just wanted to post a little update for you
since I’ve been so MIA, not just from my channel,
which I’ve been gone for like a month;
I don’t know if anyone’s noticed, but I’ve also been gone
from my Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, which I’m usually
very active on, so you should totally add me there
if you haven’t already.
Obviously like the biggest thing has been me
visiting about 30 of your schools.
This was the most schools that I’ve ever visited
in such a short period of time.
It was quite the undertaking for me, because
I really am an introvert, like, I really do need
to be alone in my bedroom for a little while
to recharge and to do my best, so I was really
pushing myself here, and I’m glad I did, because
it ended up being amazing.
The biggest takeaway for me beside really seeing
changes happening on your campuses around
the issue of sexual assault was feeling so connected to you.
A lot of YouTubing, there’s this camera,
you’re watching me on a screen,
it was nice to meet you!
Like, to know who you are.
Like who are you actually,
and your stories and where you’re from,
and the stories of your communities
and the types of projects you’re working on
and all of the amazing things that you’re all doing.
Thank you for inviting me to your towns,
for showing me around, for being such
lovely, welcoming people.
After I went out on tour I came for
a couple of days, and I found a giant package
on my doorstep.
It was so heavy.
It took literally two or three people
to carry it into my apartment.
And I wasn’t expecting a package, so I was freaking out.
I’m like, “What? Is it a bomb? Okay.”
Turns out, it wasn’t a bomb.
Here I am, I’m alive.
It was our million subscriber plaque,
which yeah that happened six months ago
but like, it got here finally!
Let me show it to ya!
Here it is, oh my goodness.
So basically each of you own one 1 millionth of this.
Also found out around the same time that my show
with MTV, Braless, won a Webby!
Which is also amazing, and you are all to thank
for all of that.
In the major good news bucket that you all should be
so, so proud of is the Leelah’s Law petition that we were
working on with that transgender conversion therapy
video that I posted, yeah, that got enough signatures
to go to the White House and the Obama administration
responded supportively!
What?
The next time someone tries to tell you that
internet activism doesn’t do anything, just let ‘em know
“Yeah, but no.”
This past week I was not at schools,
I actually headed out to New York City
to go to YouTube’s Creator Summit,
which was you know, they invite 100 YouTubers
out and it was to talk about industry stuff,
and they had a lot of performers,
and it was a great time!
It was a pretty intense contrast
from how I had just spent the last six weeks.
Feels very Hollywood, you know?
YouTube is starting to feel pretty Hollywood to me,
so I don’t know how I feel about that, but I definitely
love the people, you know?
There was, I met a lot of great people,
and we connected with a lot of other YouTubers
who I love so, so much, and YouTubers
that I’ve been watching on YouTube forever who I’ve
somehow just not run into yet.
It was a good time, a tiring time, I am now home
and ready to sleep for about 30 hours.
If not more.
But now that I’m home I’ve got my video schedule
for Sex+ all planned out.
I have tons of stuff that’s gonna be coming up
for you guys.
Keep an eye out for it.
The next video’s gonna be a topic that I’ve never
talked about on this show before,
which could be very good or very bad,
so we’ll see how that goes.
Also, for all my UK babes, I’m gonna be at
Summer in the City, yay!
I’m coming to the UK!
I’ll be doing a meet-up, and a talk,
and other stuff, so I’ll put a link down below.
I’ll also be at VidCon for all y’all Americans.
Oh, and also I’m gonna be at Burning Man.
I’ll post details about this later on my Facebook,
but I’m gonna be there; I’ll be doing a talk at my camp,
and I want to meet you guys and hang out with you
and go look at cool shit, so hit me up!
Alright, that is all from me for now.
I have some pending big news.
I’m really excited to share that with you all,
but I can’t quite yet.
I love you all so, so, so much.
This is gonna be a fun summer,
so hopefully I’ll get to see some of you
at those conferences, or I will be online.
I’m here, I’m back to locking myself in my bedroom
for many days at a time.
I will see you next week with a new video.
(smooches)
(soft music)