Hi, it's Divya G. What does the G stand for? The G stands for...
Gulab jamun. Shout out to my Asian viewers though, if you know you knooow
Divya...
Why are you filming this using an actual
Calculator? I had my camera on my tripod, and I went ahead and dropped the tripod didn't I
And the lens broke and so did the tripod, and I saw it fall down
And...[music starts and rapper sings:] The ting goes skrrrrra pa pa ka ka ka
Ski bi ki pa pa and the put put purrrru boom!
Skeeeyah
Do do ku ku pun pum
Pum Pum
Absolutely...
Smashing, isn't it?
So I guess it's back to the old school
PowerPoint presentation time
So the other day, I was just thinking to myself: Do you ever look at really ugly art you don't understand
and you go: What is this? Shortest "nah boy" boy ever, like for real?
I could do that. So that's exactly what I'm going to do. I'm out here-
Doing that. It's the type of people who go "graphic design is my passion"
Mmmmm
You do you boo if it makes you happy, go ahead, who am I to stop you?
Honestly, some of these book covers are so basic that they give alkaline a run for their money
*forced laughter*
Pulling out receipts here, but honestly you look at some of these covers, and it's like you're experiencing constant déjà vu
Do I need to go to Specsavers? Why do they all look the same? Y'all heard about cloning?
It's real, and it's here in the form of young adult book covers
Maybe all of these books are just copies of each other. Maybe nothing is original
In this world
and maybe you've already read this book before and I tell it as a
CONSPIRACY THEORY
These covers need...
to be stopped.
Anyway, today's edition is fantasy/dystopian/sci-fi/romance
It's basically just how to design a tacky YA cover. Let's start with the background
I'm thinking black to reflect the dark, mysterious, edgy, dilapidated world- Foreboding atmosphere!
Also to reflect the empty and meaningless contents of the book inside hmm
It ain't a proper fantasy without trees, a forest, the girl connecting back to her-
roots.
Rekindling...
Her nature. These books have so much fog on the cover like okay, we get it: You vape.
You know what: Since we're out here doing the most, let's just add some thorns. Let's just add some vines
Let's just add a bloody cityscape whilst we're at it. Okay?
And we have to have some symbolism because- what's common? A bird or a feather, or both
Love metaphors - symbolize freedom and escape from the chains of it a totalitarian government
*I Want to Break Free by Queen plays*
Want to be an authentic young adult novel you cannot forget the white girl in a flowy dress as she turns away from the camera
Turning away from society, hair flowing in the wind. So yeah that pretty much forms the basis of your cover,
and you just have to be really extra now and add loads of heavy filters like it's Instagram
2012. And all the filters in the world, and it still can't filter out the crap.
And last but not least: The title. With dystopian novels
they love to use pretentious words that you've never heard of before.
And they probably found it using thesaurus-dot-com, or they just flicked open a dictionary and thought "hmm this sounds pretentious,
let's just use this" or they love using single past verbs and you have to add a really ugly font.
Uuh what should we call this one? Let's call it: The seat of fire and paaain.
That moment after you order the extra hot Nandos with extra hot sauce though am I right, hahaha
And you have to add a little slogan just to get a bit of narrative hook
You know: Drag your readers in. Let's say... The seat of fire and pain, will she make it out alive?
...of the toilet
Somehow all of these books are the number one New York Times bestseller and
That's it. There you have a tacky young adult cover.
So the next time you go "What is this ugly? Uhm, I could do that"
Well, you probably can and you can probably make it better. So I hope you enjoyed this video, like, comment, subscribe
Uhm. Yeah, anyway next week
I'm gonna probably upload the answers to my one question that I got for my Q&A
lol