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  • @PhilosophyTube
    @PhilosophyTube  Před 4 lety +14759

  • @samjohnson8353
    @samjohnson8353 Před 4 lety +14625

    I hope everyone realizes that if you’re debating your sexuality in an up-tempo musical number the straight side already lost.

  • @cringusbingus6147
    @cringusbingus6147 Před 4 lety +8346

    Every leftist video essay must have 7 costume changes and 4 musical sequences.

    • @arandomcomment1092
      @arandomcomment1092 Před 4 lety +204

      This comment is the closest written thing that I’ve seen to My Immortal. Like you and that are equally so bad, it’s good

    • @umangmalik
      @umangmalik Před 4 lety +143

      @@arandomcomment1092 don't you dare slight My Immortal like that

    • @storeboughtramonaflowers
      @storeboughtramonaflowers Před 4 lety +66

      @BLUE DOG I feel like this is a piece of art to regard with both horror and derision, the sort of thing I think of as an antiquated offering whose main purpose is to induce a cringe fantasy of an attempt at social commentary. Well done
      Fuck stick on CZcams

    • @keslauche1779
      @keslauche1779 Před 4 lety +6

      @@storeboughtramonaflowers what are you talking about you dont need all that complex language to say that leftist are clowns we understand

    • @storeboughtramonaflowers
      @storeboughtramonaflowers Před 4 lety +35

      @@keslauche1779 oof. Lmao

  • @bangersareforever480
    @bangersareforever480 Před 3 lety +6700

    this feels like when you’re reading a manga and there’s a big reveal that was hinted 200 chapters ago, this is the 200 chapters ago

    • @dancingdoughnut3275
      @dancingdoughnut3275 Před 3 lety +115

      Yes. Exactly

    • @PutinsMommyNeverHuggedHim
      @PutinsMommyNeverHuggedHim Před 2 lety +42

      YES

    • @bluehairedemon
      @bluehairedemon Před 2 lety +83

      Did abigail say when she knew she was trans?

    • @timekeeper9417
      @timekeeper9417 Před 2 lety +118

      @@bluehairedemon im pretty sure she said that she was on horomones for a while before she came out so i wouldnt be suprised if she knew here. Not sure though, just heard that from someone else.

    • @campbellrowland571
      @campbellrowland571 Před 2 lety +114

      @@timekeeper9417 on her coming out video she said herself that she was out to friends and family for at least a year before the video was made

  • @dolores111
    @dolores111 Před 2 lety +2785

    "if you take a set of identical twins and put one of them on a spaceship traveling at the speed of light, one of them might get older but neither of them end up trans!"
    - Said Abigail, the Cosmonaut who came back trans.

    • @hueynomure3272
      @hueynomure3272 Před 2 lety +95

      YES I was just looking for this comment. Such a serendipitous "joke" lol

    • @wokery
      @wokery Před 2 lety +16

      Omg.. 😭

    • @AlexDracoulis
      @AlexDracoulis Před 2 lety +17

      Best comment :)

    • @mpmartincity3
      @mpmartincity3 Před 2 měsíci

      I don't think she was traveling at the speed of light, nor if the speed of her traveling would affect the final results

  • @Starsim99
    @Starsim99 Před 4 lety +2323

    "None of these outfits are transcendentally bisexual"
    Just roll up the pants

    • @PlatyNews
      @PlatyNews Před 4 lety +160

      To be transcendentally I think the sleeve is also necesary

    • @cosmoringrose6578
      @cosmoringrose6578 Před 4 lety +113

      Tuck in the shirt for bonus points

    • @Zephyr_Zeitgeist
      @Zephyr_Zeitgeist Před 4 lety +36

      @@cosmoringrose6578 French tuck?

    • @Milhomens23
      @Milhomens23 Před 4 lety +28

      This person knows the truth, is the universal sign

    • @CoryMck
      @CoryMck Před 4 lety +22

      @@Zephyr_Zeitgeist full tuck

  • @Riley-nw6jv
    @Riley-nw6jv Před 4 lety +1616

    Broke:Are you bi/pan?
    Woke:"is he,,, you know,,,, ✨"

  • @OllieVSRamos
    @OllieVSRamos Před 3 lety +4655

    "I'm one of the lads"
    Oh love

    • @Annemoontje
      @Annemoontje Před 3 lety +125

      "love comes in disguises"

    • @TheHiroBlade
      @TheHiroBlade Před 3 lety +136

      That look she gave during the first song...with the wink? It was like a message for the future.

    • @makipri
      @makipri Před 3 lety +38

      @@TheHiroBlade Like a time bomb set for one year.

    • @theocean1973
      @theocean1973 Před 3 lety +10

      I’ve gan toon t cheeky nandos lads!

    • @PutoMedicoBrujo
      @PutoMedicoBrujo Před 2 lety +62

      TRANScendentally
      BISEXUAL™
      ... was that, foresahdowing....?????

  • @PokeStatsStudios
    @PokeStatsStudios Před 3 lety +4146

    Guys i think philosophy tube might be trans

    • @joebob3719
      @joebob3719 Před 3 lety +371

      The "steady as she goes" part totally has a different vibe now

    • @lemmonboy6459
      @lemmonboy6459 Před 3 lety +149

      Now hold on, we can’t be TOO sure...

    • @ashleymusicx
      @ashleymusicx Před 3 lety +49

      @@lemmonboy6459 I legit can't tell if your joking or not

    • @lemmonboy6459
      @lemmonboy6459 Před 3 lety +103

      @@ashleymusicx
      I am joking :)
      (Like I support Abby, I was just being jokingly ignorant)

    • @ashleymusicx
      @ashleymusicx Před 3 lety +9

      @@lemmonboy6459 ok cool

  • @lenaboyer6981
    @lenaboyer6981 Před 4 lety +5312

    I am FURIOUS that is is the first time I’ve ever heard of the *Lesbian* goddamn *Avengers*

    • @kaycashew
      @kaycashew Před 4 lety +141

      Lena Boyer that’s a movie I would be willing to see !

    • @Kennitto
      @Kennitto Před 4 lety +99

      i thought he was talking about valkyrie and the new thor until he became more specific

    • @waterskym
      @waterskym Před 4 lety +148

      Well you must be young then, like Ollie thinks his audience is :-) The Lesbian Avengers were very, and specifically, trans-inclusive, so are important historically, as well as just cool these days. You had to be lesbian though, to hang out socially with them.

    • @princesssookeh
      @princesssookeh Před 4 lety +183

      Same. I had to hear jokes about bra-burning for years when bitches were out here EATING ACTUAL FIRE???? It fills me with Bi Rage. I've no choice but to stan.

    • @morphineblushes1998
      @morphineblushes1998 Před 4 lety +104

      bi-furious

  • @Crippycooke
    @Crippycooke Před 4 lety +1192

    “Being cool and marketable isn’t the same as having rights”. Nail on the head.

    • @makerstudios5456
      @makerstudios5456 Před 4 lety

      Crippycooke This always blows my mind. What rights do the people you refer to lack?

    • @yazoshaughnessy7429
      @yazoshaughnessy7429 Před 4 lety +6

      @@makerstudios5456 huh?

    • @alitaniak7404
      @alitaniak7404 Před 4 lety +59

      @@makerstudios5456 just this week there were several teachers in Indiana and elsewhere that were fired specifically for being gay

    • @makerstudios5456
      @makerstudios5456 Před 4 lety +1

      Larry Soto Are those jobs or housing government institutions? If not, you have no right to work or live there. I think you are confusing rights with privileges.

    • @makerstudios5456
      @makerstudios5456 Před 4 lety

      Alitania K Really? Public or private schools?

  • @mixstardust429
    @mixstardust429 Před 3 lety +1597

    Abigail was playing 5d chess while we thought she was just playing 4d chess when steady as she goes starts playing

    • @liranpiade4499
      @liranpiade4499 Před 2 lety +22

      Well to be fair she also thought she was playing 4d chess (even though she was!)

    • @DeathnoteBB
      @DeathnoteBB Před rokem +26

      @@liranpiade4499 She was aware she was trans

  • @elizabethflowers749
    @elizabethflowers749 Před 2 lety +756

    this feels like rewatching an older episode of a show after a plot twist and you can clearly see hints about what's going to happen that just went way over your head.

    • @saurora5615
      @saurora5615 Před 2 lety +6

      ayyy a fellow pan!! pan prideee have a great day

    • @Solarn40
      @Solarn40 Před 2 lety +10

      That's... pretty much what it is, isn't it?

    • @DeathnoteBB
      @DeathnoteBB Před rokem +20

      It’s funny because before the reveal, the thumbnails (I admit I didn’t have the attention span to watch the videos) felt more… genderqueer maybe? I didn’t want to assume anything because after all, gnc cis men exist. But it’s kind of validating to know what I picked up on WAS there, and not just wishful thinking as a fellow trans person

  • @SaysThisCat
    @SaysThisCat Před 4 lety +4142

    The phrase “I always assumed I was straight,” always gets me rubbing my hands like a greedy little raccoon in anticipation.

  • @26Staples
    @26Staples Před 4 lety +421

    bi folks being aggressively and unapologetically bi is absolutely my favourite thing

    • @ynakoliai5146
      @ynakoliai5146 Před 4 lety +2

      Yep it really is super cool.

    • @ahouyearno
      @ahouyearno Před 4 lety +14

      It's necessary. Bi erasure lowers the stats and makes complicit bigots out of natural born allies.

    • @waytoobiased
      @waytoobiased Před 8 měsíci +1

      Nick Nelson moment?

  • @apoorvajain
    @apoorvajain Před 3 lety +2411

    Tfw you realise that yer dad is the crossdressed character and not yer mum.

    • @ruthtrentwood3374
      @ruthtrentwood3374 Před 3 lety +6

      that's transphobic, hun

    • @leon2727
      @leon2727 Před 3 lety +287

      @@ruthtrentwood3374 they’re referencing the ‘steady as she goes’ bit. The yer dad character is Abi crossdressing, but before she came out to us we thought that the yer mum was Abi crossdressing but we were wrong.

    • @TheYahmez
      @TheYahmez Před 3 lety +73

      @@ruthtrentwood3374 Not everybody AMAB who presents female is trans btw.
      The term "Crossdresser" isn't " Transcendentally transphobic™ ".
      Did you watch the video?
      "What _Action_ are you performing?"

    • @deepstariaenigmatica2601
      @deepstariaenigmatica2601 Před 3 lety +22

      @@ruthtrentwood3374 that's stupid, hun

    • @apoorvajain
      @apoorvajain Před 3 lety +11

      @@ruthtrentwood3374 how so? Can you please explain?

  • @timmcdraw7568
    @timmcdraw7568 Před 3 lety +918

    I was a Lesbian Avenger in 1994!! (My name is celeste, not Tim.) I was 14, and I saw a flyer for them on a telephone poll in New Paltz, New York that read "Lesbian Avengers, We Recruit!" with a picture of a secretarial woman holding a bomb. That flyer was almost glowing, pulling me towards it by my pupils, with entire choirs of holy angels singing from heaven! There was a telephone number printed a bunch of times on little slivers on the bottom and I took one. I can;'t believe I actually called it, but I did, and suddenly, I was IN! I was the most intimidated I have ever been, sooo starstruck by those people for every single second I spent in their company haha. They were so enigmatic and excited and hilarious - I think it was the first time I really saw rage and joy expressed simultaneously by a single person as power. I understood so very little of what anyone was talking about at the time that I couldn't tell you now at all, and I was excruciatingly shy, but they we're endlessly kind to me. My dad drove me to and fro the meetings haha. Even though my experience of and thinking around gender and sexuality has evolved seemingly endlessly since then, I think the Lesbian Avengers is partially why there'll always be a little militant lesbian inside me who will never die (not do I want er to, she's scrappy and punk rock) Anyway, its so wonderful to see the Lesbian Avengers being talked about so many years later, I feel like I never hear them mentioned, and you reminded me that we must not lose them! We have to keep the radical lesbians, the Lesbian Avengers and Fierce Pussy, etc, alive in our collective queer memories! Complicated aspects of them and all.

    • @user-jz7vp7kg1u
      @user-jz7vp7kg1u Před 2 lety +51

      wow, so cool to hear about this from someone who actually was there

    • @fjr4205
      @fjr4205 Před rokem +40

      Your dad drove you omg 😭 I loved reading this. Tysm for sharing!

    • @DystopianOverture
      @DystopianOverture Před rokem +12

      Nice listening to someone's first hand accounts. Thank you for sharing!

    • @lexismore
      @lexismore Před 11 měsíci +11

      That's awesome. I'm partway through here so I don't know if Abby talks directly here about how queer people often do become "elders" at a young age (though it seems very on topic - with talk of queer temporalities, how trans elders can even be biologically younger, and how queer people don't follow the same life trajectories as our cishet counterparts).
      In any case, we need stories like yours. Even if you think you're just on the fringes. Being a part of all that and remembering the energy of it all MATTERS.

    • @ThomasDaly1488
      @ThomasDaly1488 Před 4 měsíci

      Your name is Tim

  • @paradactyl3729
    @paradactyl3729 Před 4 lety +3309

    "Being cool and marketable is not the same as having rights."
    *laugh/cries in forties jazz*

    • @Robstafarian
      @Robstafarian Před 4 lety +7

      Forties? That is a bit late.

    • @reumarks
      @reumarks Před 4 lety +38

      @@Robstafarian That's why it didn't get rights :)

    • @paradactyl3729
      @paradactyl3729 Před 3 lety +85

      @@Robstafarian On second thought, I should have said
      *laugh/cries in black culture*

    • @thecleitom9497
      @thecleitom9497 Před 3 lety +20

      Shit, this marketisation of opressed groups really goes way back

    • @femmefuntime
      @femmefuntime Před 2 lety +5

      Laugh/cries in rainbow capitalism

  • @Draukagrissah
    @Draukagrissah Před 3 lety +4944

    "I'm one of the lads"
    *GIRL*

    • @anone.mousse674
      @anone.mousse674 Před 3 lety +130

      Oh, honey.

    • @chloe-fy4wc
      @chloe-fy4wc Před 3 lety +163

      But she probably already knew she was trans shooting this...

    • @user-ms8km7lh1l
      @user-ms8km7lh1l Před 3 lety +374

      watching this now it feels like the joking "ah yes, Me, a Man, A Lad, the thing that I definitely am, do not ask any more questions"

    • @bobbiemarkwick4417
      @bobbiemarkwick4417 Před 3 lety +216

      @@chloe-fy4wc she did say someone told her “be careful what you come out as”.. honestly this video is probably loaded with hints.

    • @chloe-fy4wc
      @chloe-fy4wc Před 3 lety +119

      @@bobbiemarkwick4417 Yeah, like the thumbnail. Also, a found that if you change “bisexual” to “trans” in some places it makes even more sense. And “The devil you know” feels absolutely different now

  • @NinjaThatLongboards
    @NinjaThatLongboards Před 3 lety +694

    "*transcendentally* bisexual" has a new meaning now

    • @snem9381
      @snem9381 Před 3 lety +13

      Was looking for the comment

    • @ilicythings
      @ilicythings Před 3 lety +1

      fjsjfjskcjdkd

    • @PutoMedicoBrujo
      @PutoMedicoBrujo Před 2 lety +13

      no no no you misspelled it, it's
      TRANScendentally
      BISEXUAL™
      or in lay terms _Foreshadowing_

    • @femmefuntime
      @femmefuntime Před 2 lety +10

      It’s written in trans colors too

  • @jimmykit-kat3424
    @jimmykit-kat3424 Před 2 lety +177

    For a solid minute I kept thinking, "Who is this man? I didn't know that Abigail shared this CZcams channel with someone else."
    And then I realized that the person on screen is not a man, but IS Abigail.
    Now I feel like I'm watching something I shouldn't be lmao
    Edit: Jesus Abigail you had the biggest glow-up known to humanity

    • @rescuerofdreams
      @rescuerofdreams Před 4 měsíci +3

      I’m feeling just like you two years ago. OMG.

  • @bluekittyyoyo6592
    @bluekittyyoyo6592 Před 4 lety +3665

    olly it literally doesn't matter what you wear your vibes are always immensely bisexual

    • @athomassen3980
      @athomassen3980 Před 4 lety +227

      Exactly what i was thinking when he modelled the outfits, he just... Looks bi.

    • @caosXIII
      @caosXIII Před 4 lety +32

      Yeah I mean is like a little bit ovvius

    • @marieg9267
      @marieg9267 Před 4 lety +89

      midnightMurderer meanwhile i was genuinely surprised when he came out*^^ I always got “confident straight” vibes from him lol

    • @onivlasbrony7432
      @onivlasbrony7432 Před 4 lety +69

      In this language game, I read "Bisexual" as "awsome".

    • @holo0667
      @holo0667 Před 4 lety +113

      Dude been tingling my gaydar for a while now

  • @t.r.babbitt8164
    @t.r.babbitt8164 Před 4 lety +2880

    I appreciated the nonchalant way you delivered “being cool and marketable isn’t the same thing as having rights.” This is not understood by straight people who tend to view rights as implicit to exchange value.

    • @emersonjakes8119
      @emersonjakes8119 Před 4 lety +130

      as an out enby that gets shown pictures of Sam Smith and articles Marriam-Webster's word of the year and gets told to stop complaining that trans rights are ignored, I agree a lot. Just because we're being talked about and sold doesn't mean the work is over. It's barely started.

    • @curry6330
      @curry6330 Před 4 lety +76

      It literally just means a lot of straight people think we should stop complaining about not being talked about enough, just because the media portrays us as cool and trendy and that's wrong

    • @curry6330
      @curry6330 Před 4 lety +29

      @@Young.Supernovas pretty sure this person meant it as a lot of Straight people think that non cishets can just have their rights be given away in exchange for being portrayed as cool and trendy, as if being portrayed like that can make up for a lack of rights

    • @t.r.babbitt8164
      @t.r.babbitt8164 Před 4 lety +22

      @@Young.Supernovas I had replied to you last week, but I do not see my reply here. I hope I can get out what I had written. My comment about "rights being implicit to exchange value" was to suggest that people who do not identify as queer, the non-queer, or cisgender have an almost automatic or even subconscious, one could say intrapersonal rhetorical, recognition that marketability and rights go hand in hand. One may sell their labor on a flat market when one has the rights to do so. If transgender or queer identities are present within the market, and the market is flat, evenly-distributed, then transgender and queer identities must have the same rights as cisgender or non-queer. The argument would be extrapolated to include all rights enjoyed by cisgender or non-queer. This is a neoliberal perspective. The idea beginning that if rights are extended, then that extension will offer more labor. However, I think Olly was pointing to the expropriation of fetishes within the economy. There is much more to this, but I hope I got my point across.

    • @TheDionysianFields
      @TheDionysianFields Před 4 lety

      What about someone's right to not bake a cake?

  • @TheOtherOne7isBlueMaid
    @TheOtherOne7isBlueMaid Před 3 lety +264

    The way she skillfully avoids talking about questioning gender

  • @dragos4439
    @dragos4439 Před rokem +210

    I love that a significant part of the "coming out" video egg Abi made is her talking abt how much she admires lesbians lmao

  • @Joker8pie
    @Joker8pie Před 4 lety +1419

    Me: "Hey everyone I'm bisexual"
    Abigail PhilosophyTube Thorn: *creates 36 minute-long video analyzing the word Queer which includes 2 musical numbers and gushes about the Lesbian Avengers*
    "Oh, yes, me also. I also am bisexual, by the way."

  • @melissamartin3881
    @melissamartin3881 Před 4 lety +914

    Describing your internal battle over your sexuality as a musical number in which you play all the parts is the most chaotic-bisexual thing I've ever seen.

    • @swanstarr1441
      @swanstarr1441 Před 4 lety +9

      Straight people don't do that??? You never cease to amaze me

  • @stevenf6940
    @stevenf6940 Před 3 lety +512

    "Be careful what you come out AS"
    Didn't really get this line until now. I'm glad you're happy, Abigail.

  • @Heleyrine
    @Heleyrine Před 3 lety +1112

    We once again gather under the same video 'stars', to celebrate a second coming out.
    Cheers to Abigail Thorne✨

    • @nemoy7267
      @nemoy7267 Před 3 lety +12

      That's a beautiful metaphor!

    • @kensyre
      @kensyre Před 3 lety +10

      I love this community.

    • @potmki6601
      @potmki6601 Před 2 lety +5

      no offence, but i believe you misspelled her last name

  • @avivyork3656
    @avivyork3656 Před 4 lety +884

    "Being cool and marketable isn't the same thing as having rights" SAY IT LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK

    • @xBINARYGODx
      @xBINARYGODx Před 4 lety +4

      I don't see any evidence that people think that, but instead think visibility is an important part of gaining (and keeping!!!) rights, and to some degree, basic respect.

    • @drasco61084
      @drasco61084 Před 4 lety +44

      @@xBINARYGODx people do think that. "Gays are on TV, we had a Black president, what more do you snowflakes want??! "

    • @lukericker8325
      @lukericker8325 Před 4 lety

      d610 They do have rights. The same as everyone.

    • @lukostello
      @lukostello Před 4 lety +7

      I think there is a case to make that being marketable is a foundation for distributing rights in a capitalist society.

    • @harrylane4
      @harrylane4 Před 4 lety +8

      @@xBINARYGODx the evidence that people think that is LITERALLY WHAT EVERY CORPORATION DOES ON PRIDE

  • @RodrigoCastroAngelo
    @RodrigoCastroAngelo Před 4 lety +1554

    Me: ah coming out isn't necessary. If straight people don't need to come out so don't I.
    Olly: makes 3 musical numbers

    • @CDexie
      @CDexie Před 4 lety +66

      If you do anything, do it with ✨

    • @patriciamercer7632
      @patriciamercer7632 Před 4 lety +37

      @@Allison_Hart The theory behind coming out is that it is easy for people to hate "the gays" in theory, but it is much harder when it is someone in your own family. It's harder to be an actual hateful bigot to someone you actually care about.
      That said, I don't feel that there should be an obligation to come out. By no means should you come out if you're not in a safe place to do so, if you don't have a contingency plan in case shit does go sideways. And I have no sympathy for those who would dare out anyone against their will.

    • @Darkerxz
      @Darkerxz Před 4 lety +1

      Allison Hart I love you it's the first time I see someone else write it down

    • @arthurribeiro8638
      @arthurribeiro8638 Před 4 lety

      Brasileiro. Crisps

    • @jamesgraham5692
      @jamesgraham5692 Před 4 lety

      Wasn't he implicitly bi at least, like, a while ago?

  • @Brooke-rw8rc
    @Brooke-rw8rc Před 3 lety +687

    "Steady as she goes!" *dad tapping watch on wrist used for clock joke*
    Subtle, Abby!

    • @garax1548
      @garax1548 Před 3 lety +6

      I don’t get how it’s a joke :( help pls

    • @nemoy7267
      @nemoy7267 Před 3 lety +85

      @@garax1548 I guess because "getting clocked" is a term for being revealed as queer.

    • @scouttyra
      @scouttyra Před 3 lety +41

      And the joke was used earlier in the video. Also, iirc getting clocked is used more for trans people, but that could be because I've only seen it in that context

    • @beaismyname5591
      @beaismyname5591 Před 3 lety +16

      @@garax1548 getting clocked it what you say when someone realizes youre trans.

    • @Hhhhhh-sz9ud
      @Hhhhhh-sz9ud Před 3 lety +1

      @@scouttyra well she’s out as trans now, but I don’t know if she was at the time.

  • @gummygrenade
    @gummygrenade Před rokem +163

    My god, Abigail really has been waiting for a very long time to come out as trans hasn’t she? I’m so sorry that we live in a world where we need to be afraid. I’m proud of you girl.

  • @lydiasteinebendiksen4269
    @lydiasteinebendiksen4269 Před 3 lety +10521

    The galaxy brain required to be a woman playing a man playing a woman, is like Abigail-level acting. Only on philosophy tube.

    • @manycinnamon4544
      @manycinnamon4544 Před 3 lety +251

      I know right, this is beyond amazing

    • @bobbiemarkwick4417
      @bobbiemarkwick4417 Před 3 lety +425

      I think only the best actors can pull that off.. reminds me of David Tennant playing English-accent Doctor pretending to use a Scottish accent

    • @metalicrobot66
      @metalicrobot66 Před 3 lety +101

      I don’t think she was out to herself as trans when she made this video. Abbi wrote the script less than a year ago so...

    • @m.mcg.1837
      @m.mcg.1837 Před 3 lety +37

      @@bobbiemarkwick4417 Or Jason Isaacs from the OA playing an American scientist who traveled dimensions, and the scientist is unsucessfully pretending to have an English accent like Jason Isaacs, but from another dimension.

    • @distortingjack
      @distortingjack Před 3 lety +231

      @@metalicrobot66 Just because she was writing the script (which is a big thing to do) doesn't mean she didn't know. And there are several hints in the video. "I'm starting a brand new bit of my life, and it's pretty scary"...

  • @nothanks4323
    @nothanks4323 Před 4 lety +533

    "the fish just looked unusual to him, not that it had a septum piercing and an undercut"
    S I R

    • @jeannareadsbooks8475
      @jeannareadsbooks8475 Před 4 lety +14

      I DIED AT THAT LINE

    • @leirezalakain2836
      @leirezalakain2836 Před 4 lety +18

      I have a septum piercing and an undercut and I feel incredibly called out

    • @user-ve5bm6hd3r
      @user-ve5bm6hd3r Před 4 lety +7

      "transcendentally bisexual"

    • @bettyand42
      @bettyand42 Před 2 měsíci +1

      a timeless stereotype, I'm watching this years later with a new septum piercing and both sides buzzed

  • @caterpillur5029
    @caterpillur5029 Před 3 lety +98

    That's woman saying "shameless lesbian propagandaaaa, right here, get your lessi propagandaaa" is my spirit animal

  • @disneybunny45
    @disneybunny45 Před 3 lety +268

    I've been watching some old videos with the Arsonist character, and I realized just how often Abby talked about transgender issues. I had always thought she was just a really good ally, but it seems she was thinking about it for a while. I am glad she realized the truth about herself and that she is much happier!

    • @peacefulleopard8016
      @peacefulleopard8016 Před 2 lety +7

      What videos have the Arsonist character? Just wondering. (also if you reply to this, you don’t need to tell me EVERY video with the Arsonist, just a couple)

    • @morgoth_bauglir
      @morgoth_bauglir Před rokem +6

      @@peacefulleopard8016 her videos on steve bannon (arsonist's dirst appearance) and climate grief come to mind

    • @DeathnoteBB
      @DeathnoteBB Před rokem +5

      She said in her coming out video she was transitioning well before telling us!

    • @DeathnoteBB
      @DeathnoteBB Před rokem +4

      @@peacefulleopard8016 The video about Jordan Peterson’s ideology is how I learned about the arsonist character

  • @mothmansboyfriend
    @mothmansboyfriend Před 4 lety +1251

    Olly the chad™️ flexing on us by talking about how much sex he’s had 😪🤧

    • @cf453
      @cf453 Před 4 lety +103

      I'm just a completionist when it comes to my STD collection.

    • @Darkerxz
      @Darkerxz Před 4 lety +31

      sex is illegal!

    • @tessc8523
      @tessc8523 Před 4 lety +14

      Mothman’s Boyfriend
      *giga bisexual chad

    • @ArtMares91
      @ArtMares91 Před 4 lety +5

      Containment Failure yooooooooooooooooooooo 💀💀💀💀💀 thats too much

    • @edge21str
      @edge21str Před 4 lety +51

      Sex doesn’t exist. Everybody who claims they had sex is just lying to look cool.

  • @k_a_y_l_e_e
    @k_a_y_l_e_e Před 4 lety +1809

    "being 'cool' and 'marketable' isn't the same thing as 'having rights.'"
    damn. that's a real truth.

    • @xyaeiounn
      @xyaeiounn Před 4 lety +31

      The 90s commodified a lot of 'lifestyles (remember heroin chic about the same time as lesbian chic?) in an effort by corporations to make people think of themselves as customers and customers as tyrants. The trick is that consumers have choice, but no rights, once you've reduced (there i said it) everyone to a customer you can control their choices, even narrow them down to none at all, by which time they might hopefully have forgotten about the idea of rights.
      We, all of us, really owe all these noisy weirdos agitating for rights.

  • @sharks2571
    @sharks2571 Před 2 lety +95

    Abigails pre-coming out videos are wild in how much foreshadowing they contain

  • @Trashley652
    @Trashley652 Před 3 lety +472

    It would be so cool if Abi did another cover of The devil you know, and just took the original video from this for the blue side, and re-did the pink side as Abi

    • @scouttyra
      @scouttyra Před 3 lety +4

      +

    • @michaelhird432
      @michaelhird432 Před 2 lety +4

      You'd end up with the blue side misgendering her though

    • @Trashley652
      @Trashley652 Před 2 lety +24

      @@michaelhird432 I mean, yes, it would be but I think that's something they'd do, but I can also see that being upsetting so perhaps not. But I also doubt she will, since her coming out video she just seems to avoid mentioning or showing any time before it. Which is very understandable

  • @Juxtaposedjoker
    @Juxtaposedjoker Před 4 lety +527

    Oliver: I'm bi.
    Everyone else: It is known

    • @MK.5198
      @MK.5198 Před 4 lety +52

      Literally! I could have sworn he had come out in an earlier youtube video!

    • @SAWNERDDDSE
      @SAWNERDDDSE Před 4 lety +76

      The bi energy just radiates from this man

    • @stephenmarco2927
      @stephenmarco2927 Před 4 lety +112

      Look you don’t film yourself in purple and blue light that often if you’re not trying to tell us something.

    • @merrittanimation7721
      @merrittanimation7721 Před 4 lety +21

      So I'm not as socially incompetent as I thought...

    • @elapembrook3866
      @elapembrook3866 Před 4 lety +29

      Pretty much EVERY CZcamsr I really like comes out as bi sooner or later, this was inevitable. We have our own special magnetic field, I swear.

  • @SarahDarkhand
    @SarahDarkhand Před 4 lety +681

    My gender is 20,000 lesbians eating fire

  • @BCKBCK
    @BCKBCK Před 3 lety +258

    A trans girl dressing like a guy dressing like a girl

    • @sarahgent2674
      @sarahgent2674 Před 3 lety +29

      Truly Shakespearean, which is appropriate

  • @mewnboy
    @mewnboy Před 3 lety +75

    Abi flirting with herself via musical number is peak bisexual. Her performance in “Steady As She Goes” really stuck with me the first time I saw this-makes more sense in hindsight. As an actor, sometimes you don’t realize why a character resonates with so much until the performance is finally over.

  • @c.smidgeon2847
    @c.smidgeon2847 Před 4 lety +807

    "Created bi Oliver Thorn"
    *you absolute lad*
    EDIT: Oh me oh my thanks for all the likes
    Now if only we could get Olly to put these covers on Spotify...

    • @MrSmeagolsGhost
      @MrSmeagolsGhost Před 4 lety +10

      Schmitty I missed that, it was well played.

    • @magpie405
      @magpie405 Před 4 lety +25

      such a fucking unit of a bisexual

    • @BothHands1
      @BothHands1 Před 4 lety +5

      i laughed so hard at that part omg olly is the best thing to happen to the internet since natalie. and together, they're just the best thing to ever happen to the internet

    • @tonycampbell1424
      @tonycampbell1424 Před 4 lety +1

      Absolute legend

  • @lavenderbearasmr3562
    @lavenderbearasmr3562 Před 4 lety +713

    *Walks out of changing room*
    "Does this outfit make me look gay?"
    "Don't worry, it doesn't."
    "DAMN IT. Time to try again."

  • @byrongsmith
    @byrongsmith Před 3 lety +94

    "Just because something's taught in university doesn't mean it's legit. Plenty of things have been taught in universities that are complete nonsense, like phrenology. Or business studies." 🔥

  • @PorterNetwork
    @PorterNetwork Před rokem +145

    Decades from now, philosophy professors in the most esteemed universities will lecture on Abigail Thorn's greatest contribution to the discipline: The Wittgensteinian Theory of Dick

  • @milkteamachine
    @milkteamachine Před 4 lety +453

    "It looked very unusual, rather than, it had a septum piercing and an undercut"
    As a queer with a septum piercing and an undercut, how DARE you come for me like this.

    • @xRockChickenx
      @xRockChickenx Před 4 lety +8

      I came here ready to be read, and yet that line threw me off my rhythm

  • @hanahyperfixates
    @hanahyperfixates Před 4 lety +263

    Olly, in his dreams: Yes I'm bisexual 👏 Yes I'm a pope 👏 We EXIST.

  • @ketrakrelek2347
    @ketrakrelek2347 Před 3 lety +113

    the thumbnail hits differently now

  • @sunioc
    @sunioc Před 3 lety +60

    Holy crap at 10:08 during the line "settle for a girl, neither up or down, sell it to the crowd that has gathered round" the male character looks at Abby, them looks directly into the camera and winks. Thats one hell of an Easter egg.

    • @jrevillug
      @jrevillug Před 8 měsíci +4

      And the smile on her face immediately after!

    • @NorthJackson
      @NorthJackson Před 11 dny

      @@jrevillug along with the line "sell it to the crowd" . Abigail you fucking genius.

  • @jakelynefinan8614
    @jakelynefinan8614 Před 4 lety +654

    Olly: "oh, how do I know if I'm really bisexual?"
    Also Olly: *wears leather jacket while saying it*

    • @callusklaus2413
      @callusklaus2413 Před 4 lety +32

      Leather jackets are bi gui culture don't fucking @ me

    • @grmpEqweer
      @grmpEqweer Před 4 lety +15

      @@callusklaus2413
      _Fucking @'s you_

    • @browncoat697
      @browncoat697 Před 4 lety +16

      Wait, leather jackets are bi now? Man, I learn more about the Ramones all the time

    • @callusklaus2413
      @callusklaus2413 Před 4 lety +4

      @@browncoat697 One of us, one of us!

    • @Shalott99
      @Shalott99 Před 4 lety +2

      @@browncoat697 & the Fonz

  • @jamiepach5845
    @jamiepach5845 Před 4 lety +2305

    My boyfriend recently introduced me to this channel, and I realized that Olly is the sole source of his entire personality

    • @sasharemington6025
      @sasharemington6025 Před 4 lety +384

      Keep him

    • @jamiepach5845
      @jamiepach5845 Před 4 lety +1024

      @@sasharemington6025 update: she is her now and we are still together

    • @sasharemington6025
      @sasharemington6025 Před 4 lety +543

      @@jamiepach5845 Now these are the updates I signed up for. That is the most valid shit I have heard in my life

    • @JaabaaYup
      @JaabaaYup Před 3 lety +116

      Oh wow, this made my day❤

    • @ZijnShayatanica
      @ZijnShayatanica Před 3 lety +103

      So Wholesome™ 💖

  • @rae9892
    @rae9892 Před 3 lety +172

    23:28 "And the advice from some of my queer friends was, 'Be careful what you come out as.'"
    Goddamn, there was lots of careful consideration in this whole arc in Abby's life. ❤

  • @Emptylord
    @Emptylord Před 3 lety +44

    I can't remember which CZcamsr it was that said this, or the exact quote, but something along the lines of "queer people are the only marginalised group who do not at least get to grow up among peers". This thought always comes to mind whenever confronted with shame or fear about coming out: the genuine belief that you're the only person going through what you're going through. And even knowing that you're probably not the only person doesn't help if you cannot find others, too.

  • @shm1wt
    @shm1wt Před 4 lety +2859

    Olly: *watching documentary on vogueing, furiously taking notes*
    Olly to Olly: This is what straight people do.

    • @maggi_knorr
      @maggi_knorr Před 4 lety +94

      That's how straight works

    • @miche8868
      @miche8868 Před 4 lety +13

      +++

    • @Tonyklick
      @Tonyklick Před 4 lety +4

      Hahahah!

    • @disastermidi1990
      @disastermidi1990 Před 3 lety

      Idk it’s not how trans ppl work that’s all I kno

    • @soorian6493
      @soorian6493 Před 3 lety +36

      Me, a straight: "ooh queer theory vid"
      *takes out notes*
      *Sees comment*
      *Crisis noise*
      "Shit"

  • @amandajoy3959
    @amandajoy3959 Před 4 lety +2729

    "I feel like an astronaut, alone in my little capsule, adrift through space."
    "I feel like a timelord. I can go anywhere and do anything."
    Is this character development but in real life?

  • @polarys79
    @polarys79 Před 3 lety +164

    That "Yer mum" character has layeeeeers!!! A woman dressed as a man dressed as a woman! Pointing out the foreshadowing in this year's vids is my new pasttime. Besos, Abigail.

    • @PutoMedicoBrujo
      @PutoMedicoBrujo Před 2 lety +7

      well, the phrase "TRANScendentally BISEXUAL" was foreshadowing enough
      ¿no te parece?
      (DISCLAIMER: this was a pun)

    • @bluehairedemon
      @bluehairedemon Před 2 lety +8

      btw, there is a show in my country that fetures a cis woman pretending to be a man, and in one episode she dresses up as a woman as a man and it gets brodcasted on television in the show, so you get to the situation of having a woman play a woman (because the actress plays her) play a man play a woman on tv on tv

  • @Zernium
    @Zernium Před 3 lety +50

    Man, "Steady as She Goes" really hits differently now.

  • @JordanSullivanadventures
    @JordanSullivanadventures Před 4 lety +1645

    I like to imagine that Abi's internal monologue is actually complex musical numbers.

    • @sarahkrzywicki1886
      @sarahkrzywicki1886 Před 4 lety +91

      Have we *really* seen any evidence to the contrary tho?

    • @TheMadwomen
      @TheMadwomen Před 4 lety +16

      I mean, it's what mine are like more often than not.

    • @alexiscervantes5774
      @alexiscervantes5774 Před 4 lety +31

      just like crazy ex-girlfriend

    • @KikomochiMendoza
      @KikomochiMendoza Před 4 lety +39

      >Olly comes across an ice cream stand
      >31 flavors to choose
      >*Bass drum and hi hat*

    • @sabrinalundquist5566
      @sabrinalundquist5566 Před 4 lety +5

      Jordan Sullivan whoa, the sequel to Crazy Ex Girlfriend!

  • @satansmascara9756
    @satansmascara9756 Před 4 lety +2716

    internalised homophobia as a disney villain song is the best thing ive seen all day ngl

    • @breadbread4226
      @breadbread4226 Před 3 lety +31

      Make that all week for me lol

    • @higanbana_red1772
      @higanbana_red1772 Před 3 lety +4

      Hachikuji best girl

    • @satansmascara9756
      @satansmascara9756 Před 3 lety +2

      @@higanbana_red1772 good taste pal

    • @higanbana_red1772
      @higanbana_red1772 Před 3 lety +12

      Himawari Person But Ougi best hypothetical girl. She may exist, she may not, he may be a dude, she may not be a dude, we never know. Schrodingers Girl.

    • @Danilaschannel
      @Danilaschannel Před 3 lety +4

      失礼、噛みました

  • @madisonthegreat44
    @madisonthegreat44 Před 3 lety +106

    Her videos hit different after she came out

  • @Channotek72
    @Channotek72 Před 3 lety +90

    She really went and said FUCK them business majors 😭😂😂

  • @miabobeea2644
    @miabobeea2644 Před 4 lety +2304

    I love how literally all his outfits, even the “straight” ones, give off Massive bi vibes

  • @MissIndipendant98
    @MissIndipendant98 Před 4 lety +2114

    Oli can't possibly be more attractive than he already is.
    *makes a video looking like a snack, vulnerably opening up about his sexuality and blasting queer rock ballads*
    Oh.
    My.

    • @badasunicorn6870
      @badasunicorn6870 Před 4 lety +62

      I know right! He totaly seduced me with that saxophone (not that I was in need of further seduction at that point)

    • @shantih19
      @shantih19 Před 3 lety +35

      Every time he licks his lips before the songs I die and resurrect hornier than before.

    • @filipepinheiro8250
      @filipepinheiro8250 Před 3 lety +12

      oh dear that close ups in his face when the devil you know was playing cause me smth

    • @GreatBooker
      @GreatBooker Před 3 lety +26

      And then Abi comes along, revealing Philosophy Tube is even hotter than we had previously believed

    • @doob195
      @doob195 Před 2 lety +10

      Oh, she's much more attractive now. Seriously, Abi is so fucking beautiful it's insane.

  • @umbraemilitos
    @umbraemilitos Před 3 lety +50

    Today is January 31, 2021, and I had to rewatch this video after today's wonderful news.

  • @colbyw3575
    @colbyw3575 Před 3 lety +120

    Knowing your real name now, im understanding your performances so much more. I cant wait to see where you steer your ship cosmonaut.

  • @brecky384
    @brecky384 Před 4 lety +1073

    The world definitely needs this expanded into a rock opera entitled “Transcendentally Bisexual.”

    • @merrittanimation7721
      @merrittanimation7721 Před 4 lety +14

      And it ends with the protagonist ascending into heavens out of sheer beautiful sexuality, glowing the whole time.

    • @goodsocksproductions9397
      @goodsocksproductions9397 Před 4 lety +3

      Someone get on this! I will pay good money for it

    • @anabeebop
      @anabeebop Před 4 lety +5

      I know this is going to sound weird but this video made me think that Olly should star in an edgy remake of “Paint Your Wagon”

    • @Michaela_ZC
      @Michaela_ZC Před 4 lety +5

      That will be the title of the 6 hour theatrical adaptation of all of theses essays.

    • @amphioxusanniversary
      @amphioxusanniversary Před 4 lety +1

      @@Michaela_ZC Not the weirdest source material for a musical (glances at "How to Succeed")

  • @stel5192
    @stel5192 Před 4 lety +2580

    6:51 queer time is the reason we walk faster than straight people

    • @glitch84-
      @glitch84- Před 3 lety +59

      Can i use this amazing sentence on my social media please??? My whatsapp status needs a good update like this

    • @stel5192
      @stel5192 Před 3 lety +33

      @@glitch84- i would be honored😌

    • @felipedaiber2991
      @felipedaiber2991 Před 3 lety +32

      Also that you have to be faster to go at the same speed but in zig zag

    • @bighams69
      @bighams69 Před 3 lety +15

      And talk faster

    • @spacegay9309
      @spacegay9309 Před 3 lety +4

      Google Maps already knows!

  • @elfodelputoinfierno
    @elfodelputoinfierno Před rokem +24

    Came from binging Philosophy Tube in 2022 and I was so confused, like "who tf is this sexy-vampire-looking person, where's Abigail??" until I read the comments lmao

  • @river9641
    @river9641 Před 3 lety +86

    I always thought Abigail was stunning in “Steady As She Goes”! Never even looked at the husband once lol

  • @BliffleSplick
    @BliffleSplick Před 4 lety +2222

    Het-lag: the delay in realising that you're not straight (and that's ok)

    • @bxvtriz
      @bxvtriz Před 4 lety +6

      Bliffle Splick 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

    • @atheistsgod
      @atheistsgod Před 4 lety +20

      I love this term and will be stealing it from now on. Thank you! XD

    • @TaylorjAdams
      @TaylorjAdams Před 4 lety +10

      I mean... I feel like het-lag should mean the delay in realizing that you are straight but I also feel like it would probably sound like a slur if you stuck more to the denotations so I guess... Wittgenstein was probably right about the game of words making context important?

    • @quilespiritu
      @quilespiritu Před 4 lety +5

      HET-LAG OMG I LOVE IT

    • @rusted_ursa
      @rusted_ursa Před 4 lety +1

      Yeah, that's showing up in my next novel. 😂😂😂

  • @pearlsthrowawaychannel
    @pearlsthrowawaychannel Před 4 lety +871

    I was in it the second he said “20,000 lesbians”

    • @thienthien444
      @thienthien444 Před 4 lety +35

      that's how to get me to watch a video........ wlw supporting fellow wlw

    • @spacegay9309
      @spacegay9309 Před 3 lety +21

      "20,000 lesbians" will always be an expression able to hook me up on anything

    • @turquoisesnowflake4613
      @turquoisesnowflake4613 Před 3 lety +8

      A wave of lesbians

  • @behindthemask2399
    @behindthemask2399 Před 3 lety +26

    Timestamps for the incredibly great musical numbers:
    7:47 (Steady as she goes)
    17:16 (The devil you know)
    32:57 (just my type(? What is it called?) )

  • @apersonwhomayormaynotexist9868

    How is she so good at acting that when I see steady as she goes I'm like "Why are they standing so close without masks"!?!? Also she's literally a woman playing a man playing a woman, like when I watch this I sometimes forget that the person from the beginning of identity and the end are the same person, THEY'RE STANDING IN THE SAME ROOM THEYRE DIFFERENT PEOPLE DAMN IT
    omg abby is so good

    • @apersonwhomayormaynotexist9868
      @apersonwhomayormaynotexist9868 Před 2 lety +1

      I have returned to this comment after realizing it isn't her in the beginning of identity but in my defense it's like the one of hers I havent ever rewatched until now

  • @ratthew8287
    @ratthew8287 Před 4 lety +1874

    daniel howell: *comes out with an artistic video essay*
    eugene lee yang: hold my beer *comes out with an artistic dance piece*
    olly: hold MY beer *comes out with an artistic video essay including 3 musical bits*

    • @TaylorjAdams
      @TaylorjAdams Před 4 lety +50

      Oh wow. Thank you for getting that eugene lee yang video to beneath the rock under which I live

    • @Flowtail
      @Flowtail Před 4 lety +67

      This is a slippery slope-what’s next, kids preparing huge ensemble musical numbers to come out to their families?!?

    • @Flowtail
      @Flowtail Před 4 lety +19

      Also, Kyle of Brows Held High came out by lighting

    • @ratthew8287
      @ratthew8287 Před 4 lety +37

      @@Flowtail dont tempt me or i might make a coming out christmas musical special

    • @swanstarr1441
      @swanstarr1441 Před 4 lety +3

      @@Flowtail I could probably write the music for those that wish it

  • @cookies4me449
    @cookies4me449 Před 3 lety +3657

    Pretty sure there’s a word for this... oh foreshadowing that’s the one

    • @marksanchez7323
      @marksanchez7323 Před 3 lety +4

      It's almost like every male person has the ability to identify as a transwoman.

    • @pranavflame
      @pranavflame Před 3 lety +113

      @@marksanchez7323 it's not an ability. Abilities are something you have the CHOICE to exercise.... And people don't "choose" their identities any more than basalt "chooses" to be an igneous rock

    • @marksanchez7323
      @marksanchez7323 Před 3 lety +2

      @@pranavflame So a female person could identify as a transwomen if that's really how she felt inside?

    • @FishMr3
      @FishMr3 Před 3 lety +84

      @@marksanchez7323 nobody identifies *as* a trans woman. People who were Assigned Male At Birth but then later realise that their gender identity is female identify as "women", just as cis-women identify as "women". "Trans women" is just a catch all term for "people born and told they were men who have realised that they are actually women"

    • @marksanchez7323
      @marksanchez7323 Před 3 lety +2

      @@FishMr3 But what about people who don't have a gender identity? your argument assumes that "man" and "woman" aren't simply referring to male and female people respectively. And yes, people do in fact identify as transwomen. There's a reason Caitlyn Jenner was able to win a men's gold medal at the olympics.

  • @madeline7272
    @madeline7272 Před 2 lety +10

    I'm come back here sometimes just to listen to the songs

  • @8Rincewind
    @8Rincewind Před 3 lety +20

    32:27 it's interesting hearing her say she feels like a Timelord. In Identity the way The Man Who Isn't There faded out mid-bow and Abigail confidently walked through the door reminded me a lot of regeneration in Doctor Who. (Not in modern Doctor Who but similar-ish to old regenerations).
    On an unrelated note, her entrance also for some reason gave me vibes of the TV Shows Life on Mars and Ashes to Ashes. Maybe it's the David Bowie connection.

  • @dotnet621
    @dotnet621 Před 4 lety +1236

    at this point Olly's turning into a full-on disney character that has a dramatic song for every occasion, and i absolutely love it

    • @MirdjanHyle
      @MirdjanHyle Před 4 lety +1

      Your comment made me happy

    • @EldritchMango
      @EldritchMango Před 4 lety +24

      Disney where is our philosophy prince movie?

    • @gateauxq4604
      @gateauxq4604 Před 4 lety +30

      Which means that Olly is Disney princess and is therefore legally required to have glitter in his videos from now on 🦄

    • @tacticalturret505
      @tacticalturret505 Před 2 lety +33

      @@gateauxq4604 This comment aged swimmingly.

  • @LampShadeAffair
    @LampShadeAffair Před 4 lety +1564

    you know that “transcendentally bisexual” clip is going to be a gif

    • @fritzehn8191
      @fritzehn8191 Před 4 lety +53

      I hope it does, i wanna use it to describe myself all the time

    • @endTHEhegemony_Today
      @endTHEhegemony_Today Před 4 lety +16

      Wish gifs had audio because that's what absolutely makes it!!

    • @Cy-V
      @Cy-V Před 4 lety +10

      Yep. Already done 😁

    • @maggiefelisberto5281
      @maggiefelisberto5281 Před 4 lety +2

      I screenshotted to make it my cover photo everywhere

    • @Cy-V
      @Cy-V Před 4 lety +2

      @@endTHEhegemony_Today It does on gfycat! already uploaded it there.

  • @trishasaoirse1511
    @trishasaoirse1511 Před 3 lety +35

    ah, and to think it was only a year ago that the thought "thorn cleans up really well".
    oh how times change. congratuations. steady as you go.

  • @IAmTheUltimateRuler
    @IAmTheUltimateRuler Před 3 lety +81

    "double check the double meanings"

    • @nemoy7267
      @nemoy7267 Před 3 lety +12

      Just like a stage magician, Abby pulls reveals layer upon layer of tricks

  • @TheTonzLDN
    @TheTonzLDN Před 4 lety +1073

    Yes, obviously we're all just here to learn like true scholarly gentlemen but, at the same time, songstamps are:
    7:47 - Steady as she goes (The Raconteurs)
    17:17 - The Devil You Know (Side Show)
    32:57 - My Type (Saint Motel)

    • @anselmschueler
      @anselmschueler Před 4 lety +16

      Are these songs covers of existing songs?

    • @TheTonzLDN
      @TheTonzLDN Před 4 lety +71

      @@anselmschueler Yes! The original artists are in brackets but some lyrics were changed in The Devil You Know to make it more relevant

    • @imanimr2098
      @imanimr2098 Před 4 lety +14

      Anthony Marsdon you are a hero 🙏👏

    • @MsAirnation
      @MsAirnation Před 4 lety +31

      I heard the opening beats to steady as she goes and honestly got so excited

    • @FlockOfHawks
      @FlockOfHawks Před 4 lety +2

      @@TheTonzLDN
      Thanx !

  • @Kristina-dl2jv
    @Kristina-dl2jv Před 4 lety +426

    olly turning on the madlad energy is so hilarious good god

  • @shilohstuart3841
    @shilohstuart3841 Před 3 lety +64

    Congrats Abigail, this is officially my favorite video on all of youtube.
    Back in 2016 I came out to my friends and family as bisexual. Privately, I was already beginning to understand that I'm actually trans non-binary, but I wasn't prepared for all the "what does that mean???" questions that would inevitably come with that conversation - even with my incredibly supportive and progressive family.
    A couple years later, I did eventually come out as non-binary as well, and when I first saw this video I was struck by how much it hit home as a trans person, even though you were only coming out as bi. I'll admit, I did wonder if you were going to come out as trans, and there was the slightest bit of disappointment that you didn't.
    But just like me, you needed time to come out on your own terms and I'm so proud of you for doing so. And I'm thankful for the glimpses into your experience that you did share. It hits even closer to home now.
    Sorry for the novel - just wanted to share how much this video means to me. Keep being the absolute legend that you are, Abigail 💜

  • @athomassen3980
    @athomassen3980 Před 3 lety +161

    Okay this hits different now... congrats, Abigail!

    • @jupacka
      @jupacka Před 3 lety

      Funny how that works huh?

    • @mme.veronica735
      @mme.veronica735 Před 3 lety +5

      @@jupacka Well she said she already handled all the transition stuff so a year ago she very much would have known then and been dealing with the legal transition likely

  • @angeleyes4720
    @angeleyes4720 Před 4 lety +675

    'being cool and marketable isn't the same thing as having rights' - this right here is just,, damn

  • @DarkSciencez
    @DarkSciencez Před 4 lety +1848

    Bi folks here celebrating Olly coming out as bi, and here I am just proud of him coming out as a fellow alto sax player.😊

    • @soupsoup4245
      @soupsoup4245 Před 4 lety +117

      I mean, bisexuality and playing the alto sax are very correlated

    • @bom.6658
      @bom.6658 Před 4 lety +36

      Soup Soup can confirm, played alto sax for years, turns out I’m Bi

    • @screamingweevil3410
      @screamingweevil3410 Před 4 lety +133

      I'm fine with sax players, so long as they do it in private and don't push their agenda on me. Not saxophobic; I just believe in traditional compositional values:/

    • @xylophone897
      @xylophone897 Před 4 lety +14

      I think enbies and trombones are the same way.

    • @destroma6067
      @destroma6067 Před 4 lety +3

      What about a BISEXUAL ALTO SAX PLAYER?

  • @astupidface1645
    @astupidface1645 Před 3 lety +70

    “I’m one of the lads” so that was a lie

  • @acehealer4212
    @acehealer4212 Před 3 lety +32

    Thorn 2019: I’m bi
    Thorn 2021: I’m trans and my name is Abi
    You love to see it ✨

  • @roxyndra
    @roxyndra Před 4 lety +484

    "Oh, how do I know if I'm really bisexual? Well nevermind that, how do I really know anything!?"
    Get out of my head.

  • @danielhowell
    @danielhowell Před 4 lety +7675

    **amorphous blobs rise up**
    if more ‘straight passing’ people in our often hateful society had the courage and honesty to not only reconsider their internal perspectives on sexuality/gender but then announce it proudly to the world it would quickly be a much better place for all of us
    thank you 🖤

    • @danielhowell
      @danielhowell Před 4 lety +1170

      28:04 finally a word to describe my sexuality that isn’t rigid or restrictive
      disaster

    • @laurenwilliams3329
      @laurenwilliams3329 Před 4 lety +250

      @@danielhowell thank u for being an amazing disaster, we support

    • @trini.v99
      @trini.v99 Před 4 lety +182

      Both our kings have risen and united. I am content.

    • @TheMadwomen
      @TheMadwomen Před 4 lety +37

      Wasn't expecting you here!

    • @artichoke333
      @artichoke333 Před 4 lety +22

      🖤

  • @MariOfTheMountains
    @MariOfTheMountains Před 3 lety +13

    "I'm one of the lads"
    _I see through the lies of the Jedi!_

  • @SynthieFlowers
    @SynthieFlowers Před 3 lety +59

    This video suddenly has a different meaning.
    So proud of you for coming out, Abby!

    • @RunningEagle2011
      @RunningEagle2011 Před 3 lety +4

      i had the same thought when she was explaining time relativity and transness

  • @katiegrams4775
    @katiegrams4775 Před 4 lety +1636

    I’m a high school teacher and this video reminded me of this one time a couple of students clocked me as bisexual because I did finger guns

    • @Minihood31770
      @Minihood31770 Před 4 lety +169

      Wait, finger guns are bi now?

    • @QuinnArgo
      @QuinnArgo Před 4 lety +131

      @@Minihood31770 for some weird reason yes

    • @MildlyUpsetMax
      @MildlyUpsetMax Před 4 lety +26

      Guess I'm bi then 🤷

    • @jdprettynails
      @jdprettynails Před 4 lety +38

      I've just found out about this too. I use finger guns all the time!

    • @datfisheboi6519
      @datfisheboi6519 Před 4 lety +79

      I've been doing finger guns before I even knew I was bi wtf

  • @syystomu
    @syystomu Před 4 lety +379

    "Imagine being a philosopher and questioning your sexuality. It's like, oh, how do I know if Im really bisexual? Well nevermind that, how do I really know anything?!"
    xD

  • @clavasconcellos1712
    @clavasconcellos1712 Před 3 lety +50

    How amazing is rewatching this video a year and something later and recontextualize and understand it in a whole new level? Thanks for that Abigail!