so I thought I might as well just start
off this Q&A with the biggest question I
know it's the one that all of you guys
have been waiting for and I'm kind of
nervous to answer because I feel like
it's gonna be so controversial and it's
a really big thing in my life and that
is do you like pineapple on your pizza
and the answer is yes it's [ __ ]
delicious please don't unsubscribe all
jokes aside I asked you guys for some
questions on my Instagram and you guys
actually sent me really good ones so
let's just jump in my first question is
can you enlighten us with your most
embarrassing stories I was thinking
about this question and I think my brain
has done me a favor and just selectively
deleted all of my embarrassing memories
from high school and middle school
because trust me there were a lot but I
will tell you one embarrassing story
that happened to me quite recently
literally like three days ago and that
was this long story but I was in Seattle
and I was meeting up with a friend of my
friend who just moved there and we hit
it off he's the type of person that I
would start a podcast with which is
coincidentally also my main criteria for
a boyfriend the next morning I
immediately texted my friend Victor to
gossip about it you know as one does I
was like in all caps
I met the coolest [ __ ] guy last night
his personality is literally an 11 and I
look down at my phone and I realized
that I've sent all of those texts to the
guy that I got drinks with talking about
him um yeah I wish I was making that up
because it sounds so cheesy and so
absurd like of all the contacts in my
phone I had to text the guy I was
talking about I could just like feel my
entire soul just crumpling into a ball
and slowly moonwalking away from my body
luckily he was actually pretty nice
about it and he was like oh make sure
victor gets this message and also I
think your personality isn't 11 so that
was very sweet but also I don't live in
Seattle I think I have this problem
where I always date people who are in
the wrong City or about to move to the
wrong city or I'm about to move to the
wrong city so it never really works out
but that's the T on my latest romantic
endeavors okay and a related question
that I got a couple times was do you
have a boyfriend which evidently I'm not
trust me if I did my Instagram feed
would be about a thousand times better
because I'd make him take like 700
pictures of me per day but yeah I am
within that single life right now
yeah actually for a while I was pretty
angsty about it especially when I first
gone to college because I feel like the
expectation that the adults in my life
and like my parents had set out for me
is that you meet a lot of important
people or like the guy you're gonna
marry in college literally at like 18 as
a college freshman I was like oh I'm not
gonna find my soul mate here but you
know it's not a [ __ ] big deal my eggs
aren't dying anytime soon and even if
they go I'm not sure I want kids anyway
so like suck that who is your celebrity
crush
growing up my first ever celebrity crush
was Joseph gordon-levitt in Inception
have seen him in that soup in that hotel
running around like a spinning hallway
that is my new fetish no I'm just
kidding come party he is very handsome
but tragically married and with a kid
now so if you get divorced Joseph
gordon-levitt you know who's coming for
you how many relationships have you been
in I have been in two the first guy I
dated was actually the first guy I ever
met off of tinder and the first guy I
really ever talked to on tinder that was
at the end of my freshman year in
college so around two years ago now
there's something about falling in love
for the first time and there's also
something about falling in love for the
first time in a new city that's like so
magical after we broke up I was so salty
and like so heartbroken this is dramatic
but I was so heartbroken that like my
body physically hurt I don't know if you
guys have ever experienced that and I
hope that you never have but like [ __ ]
that was rough I spent an entire summer
being so brokenhearted over this guy in
retrospect both of us thought we knew
what we were doing relationship and sex
wise and we super didn't so it was a
learning experience for both of us I
figured out what I want in a
relationship
I lost my v card so like that was fun
and then my second boyfriend ever was
actually earlier this year he was going
to dentally also the first guy who ever
asked me on a tape in 10th grade and we
were both so incredibly awkward then
that we like it didn't work out at all
we've actually gone to school together
since elementary school so I've known
him for ages and we tried to do
long-distance but it didn't work out
long-distance
props to any of you guys who could do it
but it is so [ __ ] hard like my
parents did long-distance for three
years from California to England which
is insane and then they got married at
the end of it and they're still happily
together and I wish I could be like that
it's just so hard for me I think
especially when I'm so busy when I'm in
college I don't have a lot of money to
pay for flights across the country every
couple weeks and I wish that
could be some type of like virtuous and
lofty human being who like oh I only
need great conversation to sustain a
relationship but I really need the
physical aspect too and that doesn't
just mean sex that also means just being
able to like hold hands with somebody or
cuddle with somebody or like experience
your life together and that is so hard
to get in a long-distance relationship
so it wasn't for me but also a great guy
um I feel like I'm giving like Yelp
reviews of these relationships
would you rather sweat mayo or poop
basketballs girl for the sake of my
[ __ ]
which I would like to keep intact I
would say sweat Mayo for sure if so
excited to make a movie based on your
life who would you want to play you
hands down
Jesse Eisenberg I just want Jesse
Eisenberg in like a wavy wig as you guys
comment all the time I talked super
[ __ ] fast and I think he's the only
actor who could actually depicts that at
film school he actually has an
unfortunate reputation of loving Jesse
Eisenberg like way too much which is a
weirdly specific reputation to have but
I think he's a brilliant actor I [ __ ]
love like all of his quirks I just find
hilarious
sometimes at night I just watched Jesse
Eisenberg interviews to like comfort me
that's somebody with the same level of
social anxiety and peace of speaking is
like popular in the world my next
question is any tips for going on dates
in or using apps like tinder I used to
be a lot more uncomfortable and a lot
more nervous on dates and I would always
worried whether I looked perfect and
whether the guy would like me but I
think it's important to remember that an
equally important component of the date
is whether you like the guy and just
whether you buy like you're interviewing
him as much as he's interviewing you
obviously on dates everybody is
presenting the best version of
themselves but I think as long as for
the most part you're being super honest
about who you are and what you're like
then there's no reason to be nervous
because if they don't like you for the
way that you are normally and the way
that you're acting on the date then it's
just like oh it didn't work similarly
with dating profiles I think it's really
helpful to like actually express who you
are in the description like I think a
lot of people try to stay in mysterious
or just seem like they aren't trying by
putting the weakest bio ever like
Maryland to LA what how do I tell a
whole personality from yeah if you have
like a weird sense of humor and stuff
like put that [ __ ] in your bio because
they're just gonna filter out anybody
who doesn't buy with it what is your
worst or weirdest tinder date oh boy the
time that I went over
a guy's place for drinks and I witnessed
two of his roommates get into a physical
fistfight over the last roll of toilet
paper one of them called the cops on the
other one and then I had to leave
because I was about five shots of vodka
into the night and I was born in 1998 so
you do the math where are you planning
on living after graduation would you
ever live in New York or do you see
yourself settling down in California
this is a question that I asked myself
pretty much every day and I don't
[ __ ] know obviously there are things
that I hate about LA but also especially
as somebody who's like a little bit
introverted and socially awkward it's
hard and it takes several years for me
to actually feel like I have a group of
people that I like in a city and that
was something that was really hard to do
in LA but I feel like I finally have
people that I can hang out with and so
I'm kind of scared to move to another
city and try to do that all over again
but I also always wanted to live in a
bunch of different places I talked about
in New York all the [ __ ] time
obviously also that ties in with my
career decisions as well if I want to
keep doing youtube I can do that
anywhere even though LA is kind of the
hub for it but if I want to work in
traditional film and TV then that is
something that I basically have to do in
LA so yeah I probably shouldn't be
taking life advice from internet
strangers but also let me know what you
guys think below I've always felt deep
down like I'm a New York person and
that's always been like my dream of
adult Ashley is like she's thriving in
her Soho apartment also I just find New
York guys like incredibly attractive New
York accent [ __ ] me up any day so
there's that as well a less important
factor but still one nonetheless our
next question is what's the tea the tea
I'm drinking today is a stash premium of
green tea that I may or may not have
stolen from my hotel in Seattle because
I wanted some freaky packets and this
tea tastes good okay okay we're back on
to our questions apparently this one is
what's your tinder bio I have had the
same tinder bio since I first downloaded
tinder like two years ago and that is
skills baking pretending like I know
what I'm doing with my life
weaknesses free food samples
capitalization and coming up with lists
of more than three items what's a word
that bothers you the word bucolic what
why does it sound like such a harsh and
disgusting word it sounds like a disease
but it means relating to the pleasant
aspects of the countryside and country
life why English why did you do that
weirdest sexual acts
your hands this one guy tried to
convince me to have tantric sex with him
but he was like one of those white guys
who was like spiritual but not religious
and had also made a solo trip to
Thailand to find himself you know he was
like oh you gotta breathe with me
but like the breathing pattern was wrong
or I was supposed to like breathe in
well his dick was going into me it was
just it wasn't working for anyone
milk first or cereal first now this is a
question that really sticks with me
because one time when I was a kid I
genuinely couldn't remember which one
was supposed to go first so by putting
the milk first and then poured the
cereal on top and my family saw and like
all made fun of me they were like ha ha
ha actually what a [ __ ] idiot she's
putting her milk first and that
traumatic childhood experience still
stays with me to this day and I will
forever remember that I should put
cereal in first and then the meal
because that's how my parents raised me
favorite brands to hit up when you're
not thrifty urban outfitters is the only
store that consistently does it for me
other places that I shop are a sauce
Topshop Zara those are all usually kind
of hit or miss for me but I can find a
couple good pieces that I like per
season I thought this was an interesting
question which is what do you lack I
think the biggest thing that I lack in
my life right now is an actual like
healthy living schedule I just kind of
wake up and like smash through as many
activities as possible until it's like
3:00 a.m. and then I have to go to sleep
again which is not healthy for anyone
probably also just like self-care I've
never been good at that so that's also
something that I left that I will
probably continue to lack until I have a
mental breakdown and then I'll figure it
out then any tips for people with major
insecurities about their bodies around
two years ago when I was a college
freshman I was the most insecure about
my body that I had ever been it was just
like something that was always on my
mind and it was so dumb because it was
taking up so much brain space you know I
would say first of all if you do have
social media unfollow people that are
making you feel insecure about your
bodies or who are putting out
unrealistic expectations think of these
people as people who you surround
yourself with every day even if it's
just online and you should be selective
about that like you are with your
friends especially now there's so many
different types of social media accounts
and so many really stylish really
confident really beautiful girls of all
different shapes and sizes and there's
somebody who's gonna look like you who
even look at and be like yes she is
beautiful and I am beautiful too I would
also say when I was most insecure about
my body I think it was also when I was
most insecure about my life and my
career and my social life and
personality
in general and I think everything ties
hand-in-hand so if there's something
that you can do to that makes you just
feel like a kick-ass boss moment whether
that's like studying really hard
learning to cook really well doing
something that you've been putting off I
think that confidence can also translate
into confidence about your body who
should pay for the first date this is a
controversial one that I have had many a
debate with my friends about if I'm
going up to somebody and asking him out
I think I should be the one to pay for
the first date if he asked me up he
should pay for the first date I think
generally it's just sweet and
considerate if both people offer I do
kind of like it though if the guy like
insists and takes the check and then I
think whoever did it pay for the first
stage should pay for the second date so
it all kind of evens out but you're
still like paying your check together
because somehow that feels better I
don't know that's just my opinion
what is your favorite TV show of all
time artistically and narratively
Breaking Bad is stunning but right now
Bojack horseman just hits me like right
in the soul I never thought I could
relate to a depressed alcoholic animated
horse man so deeply but man that show
really does it for me I got a couple
questions about what's your type /
what's the type of person you would
prefer to spend your life with I think
my ideal guy is still shifting as I go
through relationships and like learn
what works and what does it but I think
I would want somebody who is equally
ambitious and hardworking as me but in a
different way I feel like it would drive
me crazy to be with another film person
and God forbid another YouTube person
but more importantly I think I just want
somebody who can this is so cheesy but
like could be my best friend now we're
getting into some [ __ ] that parents ask
you during Christmas time which is what
are your career goals and plans after
college well mom but right now my plan
is to continue doing youtube for a long
time I had some type of guilt about
YouTube not being a legitimate enough
job or being kind of an embarrassing job
which I still feel to a certain extent
because a lot of people just think you
make don't-ask videos on the internet
and I do make dumbass videos on the
internet but I put a lot of work into it
and I also think it'll be great as a
young person straight out of college if
I do want to move like I mentioned I
want to move to New York I want to live
in London someday this job actually
allows me the flexibility to do that
which is absolutely amazing okay thank
you so much for letting me have this job
that being said I know that nobody stays
cool on YouTube forever I hope that you
guys will stick around for as long as
possible but I'm also obviously thinking
long term about my career goals so I
also want to transition it into some
type of other business or production
company or skillset that I can
elsewhere when people don't think I'm
cool anymore I've been falling really
behind on my thrift thing and reselling
and I would love to actually turn it
into a business and hire people and
eventually have my own clothing line on
the video production side of things I
already also freelance edit and shoot
videos for some other clients all the
traditional film side of things I also
genuinely think that YouTube is a great
way to break into that industry I know
the traditional route is to work out as
a PA or a writers assistant and work
your way up through the room but I think
now increasingly it's about showing
people that you already have an audience
and you already have people that relate
to you and hopefully like find you funny
so I think eventually that would be a
good way to transition into being a
showrunner or a director or stand-up
comedian I don't know so sorry I just
through words that you've like five
minutes rate but basically I have a lot
of ideas about how I want to advance my
career and my business so that's all
turned into my head but in the meantime
I'm gonna be doing some YouTube stuff
what's your go-to catchphrase I don't
know this is a catchphrase but I love
the phrase Ito cheeto I don't know yeet
is a little low effort so I like to
throw in the you know cheeto to express
some extra enthusiasm what's the best
smell in the world I love this question
because I have a very specific answer
for those of you who don't know my dad
side of the family is from London and
when I was a kid we'd go to visit my
grandparents in London they had the most
adorable but super tiny town house and
they didn't have a dryer for the clothes
and we would spend so much time hanging
up laundry on little clips in their
little backyard every so often somebody
in my apartment building will use the
same laundry detergent that they use and
it wafts through the windows of my
bedroom and it's the most delightful
[ __ ] thing I think I'm getting sweaty
welcome to Ashley's life so Dee asks
have you considered being a lawyer you
seem to know your stuff well honey I may
know my stuff about YouTube videos but I
know nothing about the law throughout
middle school and high school I wanted
to be so many different things like a
graphic designer
an engineer a youtuber was actually on
my list so I guess that worked out for
me an architect an interior designer a
Supreme Court justice and lawyer was
also on the list funnily enough that was
actually what I wanted to be up until I
was applying to colleges and ultimately
when I decided to come to film school my
mom was actually relieved because she
was straight up like Ashley I genuinely
think you would make a bad lawyer but I
think you'd make a pretty good filmmaker
so at least you have a shot what song
would you use to Sarah
someone to ask them out I would use
Lavie on roads I pronounced that so
wrong the French are screaming
Lavie roads that's also not right you
know that song though and it is
delightful it's so sweet I would play
that like from a boom box like outside
somebody's apartment if I was really
trying to win them back I would slow
dance to that [ __ ] and my wedding great
song
what's your favorite Wes Anderson movie
and why hands down fantastic mr. Fox I
know it is not his most popular or most
well respected movie but that [ __ ] hit
me in the fields so hard I cried so much
for some reason relating heavily to
animated middle-aged male animals is a
theme in my life this one was a hot
topic that a lot of you guys asked me
about and that is do you tell people
about your YouTube like your friends
family and tinder dates this is
something that is new to me because for
the longest time I didn't tell anybody
about my youtube channel I was really
embarrassed of it and afraid people
would judge me
especially because I grew up in a high
school where obviously nobody did
YouTube that was [ __ ] weird nobody
was in the film industry
nobody did social media either so I was
very diligent about hiding it from
people for a long time once I finally
hit a hundred thousand I told some of my
best friends but then I found out that
they already [ __ ] knew because the
film freshman at UCLA had somehow
googled me and found my youtube channel
even though they must have been doing
some like Sherlock level snooping
because I don't have my real name
attached to my channel but they all
found out and then they told everybody
else in the film school so I think most
of my class knows my family I am not
told yet because they are all science
PhDs and would think this is absurd my
mom actually makes comments a lot of the
time that's like oh do you have an
Instagram Ashley that's so dumb that
people are posting pictures of
themselves or like wow people who make
vlogs of themselves are so
self-indulgent I'm like well [ __ ] you
know one day you're gonna find out about
this and it's not gonna be pretty
I think or at least I hope that like one
day they'll see that my videos are like
pretty good and it's something that I
genuinely enjoy and hopefully not
something that I just do to like jerk
off to my own image on screen you know
but part of me also is scared that
they're genuinely think that I'm a
shitty person for doing this or a
selfish person when obviously you know
there are bigger problems in the world
that I could be working on admittedly
like people are suffering
climate is changing people are dying
everywhere and I'm not fixing any of
that so I really hope that they aren't
disappointed that I'm not tackling that
but I am doing some things that I love
and hopefully you guys enjoy too and I
hope that for now that's enough so yeah
I have to tell them at some point
probably after I graduate to explain why
I don't have a normal job oh and then
tinder dates it's not on my profile
because I feel like I don't want people
like stalking through my entire YouTube
before they meet me I feel like there's
a whole set of preconceptions and
stigmas around being a YouTube person
previously when it was more of a hobby
and not you know my main gig I didn't
tell my boyfriends about it but now if
it comes up I'll just say what it is
because ultimately I should be following
my own advice about dating and if they
don't like that I do YouTube then I
probably should not continue dating them
so they should just know that up front I
am getting so sweaty now 20 is my main
personality traits would you rather have
pubic hair for teeth or teeth for pubic
hair [ __ ] my gut reaction would be
Keith for pubic hair because then at
least if you have normal teeth you can
interact with people in everyday life
but I feel like you wouldn't be able to
pull out the teeth from your vagina like
you would pubic hair you know you can't
just shave that [ __ ] off and
unfortunately I don't think anybody's
fetish is just their penis getting torn
up by a bunch of teeth on your vagina so
I would have to say pubic hair for teeth
I think I would just like shave them
once a week and then we're dentures so I
could interact with normal people um
well I'm glad we have that issue settles
okay I have been talking forth out like
two hours now so I'm gonna wrap it up
with my last and probably most asked
question which is advice for starting a
YouTube channel slash Instagram slash
the whole social media shebang my best
advice is to just start youtube today
it's something that you can do even if
you don't have good equipment just do it
on your phone
edit it on free software on your
computer and just upload it it doesn't
have to be good almost guaranteed it's
gonna be a pile of [ __ ] like my first
videos were nobody's gonna watch it
maybe like a hundred views at best but
learning how to be good at YouTube is
just like anything else in that it takes
time and it takes practice and if you
start doing that today
then you're just gonna like keep getting
better as you go you know everything
from like not being super stiff and
awkward on camera to getting the right
poses for Instagram the cinematography
editing upload schedule all of that is
just stuff that you learn over time I
honestly think the reason that most
people don't succeed on YouTube is just
because they stop and for me I started
my channel back in 2015 it was about a
year and a half before I even got 10,000
subscribers so just keep that in your
mind you know I'm gonna do this for a
year or two years and nobody is gonna
give a [ __ ] about me but one day like
two years from now I'm gonna make some
kickass videos it's gonna be some
quality ass content then the subscribers
will come related to that some people
also asked about being afraid of being
made fun of we're trying to keep it a
secret even though I wouldn't encourage
like hiding an aspect of yourself to
anyone obviously I did it I hid my
youtube channel for about like two and a
half years and even though it was
stressful and kind of shitty to have to
hide it from people I'm also glad that I
did for me that allowed YouTube to be
like an escape from the rest of my life
when I uploaded a video I was never
afraid that I was gonna go into high
school the next day and people were
gonna judge me about it or make fun of
me because first of all nobody was
[ __ ] watching those videos but second
of all if they were it was because they
loved fashion like me and they
understood YouTube and they weren't
gonna like mock me for it it also just
allowed me to like fail miserably at the
beginning I can make some dumb ass
videos I could really be myself on
camera and nobody was gonna judge me so
that was really nice and kind of
therapeutic and if that is something
that you would prefer to do as well
honestly it's not hard just don't put
your full name as your username just
make it something else be careful on
Instagram though because if you do
create another account that's on the
same phone it'll pop up and your friends
recommend it accounts so they might be
able to see you especially if the
profile picture is of your face so that
happened to me a little bit in the
beginning with my best dressed Instagram
so I just had the icon for a while as my
logo instead of my face which helped
people not look at it and just use a
different email or log out of your
personal account completely before
logging into your YouTube / Instagram
the Instagram account okay I am so
sweaty and I also need to pee
ferociously I hope that this was the key
that you guys clicked for I hope that
all of you guys who are new to my
channel got to know me a little bit
better thank you so much for watching as
Louise and I will see you guys next week
bye
Oh God time to turn on the sand
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