- The individual that would work well for me
would definitely be rambunctious, would be sporadic.
I'm queer, so I'm definitely all about every person.
I'm an equal opportunity dater.
- I'm attracted to funny people,
like I'm attracted to genuine people, smarty pantses,
and I like to read books.
That's my shit, like I love that.
- Your name is Debbie, and this is your story.
You are 25 years old.
For work, you are a fashion industry professional.
You grew up in Atlanta.
Your cultural or ethnicity background is black.
Don't know exactly where to pin that down to.
- My name is Danielle, and I am 28 years old.
For work, I'm a flight attendant.
I grew up in Mount Vernon, New York
and in Huntersville, North Carolina,
and my cultural/ethnic background is black, from Jamaica.
- Okay.
- Your name is Jay, and this is your story.
You are 26 years old.
For work, you are a programmer.
You grew up in Virginia,
and your cultural or ethnic background is black,
perhaps with some Creole sprinkled in there.
- All right, so I'm actually 25.
I'm a graphic designer and social media manager.
I actually grew up in South Jersey.
Yeah kind of like 20 minutes out of Atlantic City.
- Cool, okay.
- Yeah, I'm actually black.
And yeah, I'm actually black.
- What?
- You'd be shocked to believe that!
But actually I'm Jamaican and Creole.
- Oh dope, okay. - Yeah.
So that's what's going, 'sup fam?
- What's your name?
- My name is Oli.
- Oli.
- Or Oliver.
- Oliver, okay.
Very cool.
Debbie?
- I didn't...
It's the bangs, huh?
- I didn't...
I mean, like a person who's like Deborah,
and I was like, oh that's too, Debbie kinda seemed like a...
- Like a safe?
- Like a safe, yeah.
- In my profession, like the first time
I meet the captain and the crew, they're always like,
"Okay, well let me break this down for you."
You know, so it's a lot of assumption
that I don't know what I'm doing.
People sometimes assume that I'm really spacey
and I think it's because I look really like, young.
- The crazy thing about social media,
is that it's such a new age method of marketing.
When a young person with Ray-Bans walks in a room and says,
"I'm gonna manage your Facebook."
They're just like, "Are you sure?"
And you kind of have to prove it and be like,
"No, it's actually a viable use of marketing.
"Please trust me, I have results."
Your favorite emoji is a laughing with tears emoji,
and your favorite book of all time is something poetic.
Best thing about social media is friendship.
- My favorite emoji is the drooly face.
'Cause I'm always hungry.
My favorite book of all time is 100 Years of Solitude,
which is poetic.
Are you a Marquez fan?
Do you know?
Oh, right.
Okay, for me the best thing about social media
is following my favorite artists.
You,
your favorite emoji is the flames emoji.
- Fuego emoji.
- Fuego!
Your favorite book of all time
is Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison.
For you, the best thing about social media is instant news.
- My favorite emoji's actually the star emoji.
But fuego is hot, so like.
My favorite book of all time,
I'm not a huge reader.
So I was just racking my brain,
like man I just seem completely ignorant.
- Oh, man.
- The best thing about social media
is keeping up with my friends.
'Cause I moved over here about a year ago,
so it's not as easy for me
to keep up with friends any more.
- Do you get to see them ever, like?
- I used to work in within the music community,
so there would be a lot of shows going on.
- Oh, sick. - But I still try to make it
a point to go out to some of their shows
when I get a chance, and stuff like that.
- [Danielle] Okay, dope.
- For you, it seems like family
is kind of like a big thing to you.
Like I know you said you have your mom on social media,
but you also kind of like
keep up with your grandparents as well?
- I'd venture to say,
like they're like my best friends in a lot of ways.
They have so much wisdom, and they're just funny.
They don't care what anybody thinks,
and I just want to be that right now,
and it took them living their lives to
be like, whatever.
I don't care.
- Yeah.
- You know, they're just good people.
- That's awesome.
- Yeah, and they cook for me so it's good.
- Yo, food's always good though.
- Beans, greens, potatoes, tomatoes.
That's my favorite.
My mother remarried when I was about five or six,
and they have a lot of fun.
Like they still chase each other around the house
and when it comes down to it,
if they need somebody to lift them up, that person is there.
I've always wanted that in my relationships,
'cause it seems to me like they're each others'
like, escape from the bullshit of the world.
- The individuals that I look to are definitely my parents.
They actually met in New York City.
One day my dad had walked up to my mom with kind of
like a Will Smith charm and was like,
"So, you want to go on a date?"
And my mother was like, "Ha ha, no."
But it ended up really growing
into a beautiful relationship,
and it's kind of something that I would love to emulate
in a relationship going forward.
- When you die you believe that you will die
with no afterlife.
At your funeral you would want everybody to sing,
like a big choir.
And of all the people you know that have died,
the one's whose death was hardest for you
was your grandfather, perhaps.
- You're right about when I die I believe that I will die,
just like, cut it.
At my funeral, I just put just throw me in the earth.
But the choir, I'm like that's instantly changed!
I want like, sparklers going off, full choir.
Oh, absolutely.
And of all the people who I know that have died,
the one that was the hardest for me
was my grandfather, actually.
- You guys were pretty close?
- Well, they lived on Long Island, and I lived in Jersey
and we would talk on the phone with them,
"Hey, how's it going?
"Are you behaving, are you doing well?
"That's great, I love you.
"All right, here's your grandmother."
It's his stoicness that I kind of was able to develop
my own kind of like, you know stoic,
strong kind of mentality.
So when he did pass away, I was like, yeah so.
- That's hard.
- It's good too, you look after you.
- Okay.
- When you die, you believe
that you will become a free spirit.
You want to be cremated.
I didn't think of any other,
and of all the people who you have known that have died,
the one that was hardest for you was also a family member.
I didn't know exactly who to pick from,
but I figured that like since family was potentially
a big thing for you,
I figured that any one of them passing away
would definitely be a heavy blow too.
- When I die, I actually believe in reincarnation.
I definitely want to come back as like,
an albatross or something you know, like huge.
And then at my funeral, I would want a huge choir to sing.
I don't know if I want to be cremated though.
Of all the people who I know that have died,
the one whose death was hardest for me
was my paternal grandfather.
Before he passed away, like I went and visited him
in the hospital and he opened up
and was telling me all about his life
as a kid and like, growing up.
Like you were talking about
how your grandfather would be like,
"Are you doing well in school? Are you okay?"
It was that kind of relationship,
so to hear him talk about himself.
- Was just wild?
- It was like, crazy.
And then he passed, and I was like, "No!"
- [Oli] Yeah.
- Come back.
- Yeah.
- Oli, so when I first saw you
I decided that I would date you,
and through our conversations I decided
that I would still date you.
- Yes!
- Okay, so.
When we first spoke, I decided I would date you.
And then through all the conversation in which he had,
I decided that I would still date you.
So you get a date!
- Yay!
- We get a date.
- [Both] Everybody gets a date!
- I hope so. - Do you like gelato?
- I don't think I've had gelato in like, awhile.
- I know a place.
- You've got a guy for gelato?
- I got a guy for gelato!
I know my gelato dealer.
He like shows up with a knapsack.
- Knapsack, not even a suitcase.
- Nutella, I got.
- Let's go get some gelato, absolutely.
- Let's do it.
- Let's do it!
Sweets and stuff.
- [Danielle] Sweets.