Tbf a cop staying in the force and not losing any social status after being exposed for beating a woman is probably the only realistic thing Colleen Hoover has ever written
100% this. I still remember a true crime case about a Cop who provably railroaded number of people and got them sent to jail on trumped up charges and ruined over a dozen lives. He was dismissed! He promptly sued the state and got his job back along with a six-figure settlement. It's amazing to be a cop in america, you can ruin a dozen lives and your reward is a windfall and a year or two of paid vacation.
Caleb repeating a clip of a guy pretty clearly saying “can you mail this to my girlfriend?” over and over while being super confused about what he’s saying is so funny to me
@Lytarium My 10th grade Civics teacher loves Colleen Hoover and our senior year we found out she cheated on her husband with our Civil Law Studies teacher. So you can definitely tell she did not have a Wattpad phase 😂
@@Lytarium to be fair.. her fanbase is children who dont understand that these relationships are completely disturbing on every level. and apparently, children today dont use wattpad (which is sad) so yeah. i guess they never had a wattpad phase lol
… isn’t this story basically just Reminders of Him in a different font? I mean a lady finds out she’s pregnant with her dead boyfriend’s child, ends up incarcerated, the kid gets given to the boyfriend’s mum, and she tries to get the kid back while falling in love with an awful guy. She’s literally done that plot before Colleen seriously has like three stories and I hate the fact that I know any of them
Thank you for saying this, I’ve only read one CH book and I thought this plot sounded familiar but I didn’t remember the “confess” stuff and I was so confused 😂
Didn't he just say "Can you mail this to my girlfriend"? Also, I hope the kid is okay. Having a parent who has sex instead of dealing with her important and pressing problems, and another who is just chill about never standing for himself and getting thrown in prison every saturdays might make his childhood rough.
That's what I hear too. Though I really don't get why the artist dude would have to "mail" it to her when she's right there. Or he could just leave it for her in the boyfriend's room. Mailing seems unnecessarily complicated.😂
Colleen’s complete obsession with abusive relationships is so disgusting. Every book is filled with sexual assault, abusive relationships and nothing ever happens from the wrong doings. It’s just…accepted
It's honestly terrifying how many people purchase Collen Hoover's books and support her as she glorifies trauma in a multitude of ways. Never in my life have I seen someone write so many damn books romanticizing stalking and using sexual assault as a plot device. The people who allow her to publish her books for all the world to read (the majority of her audience being teenage girls) need to do better.
The problem isn't even people buying her books, it's the fact that most aren't even adults. Her books are marketed towards teens, which is so bloody dangerous with what she writes. And there's not a single trigger warning on any of them.
i think the reason the main female character is so cringey is cos 2017 was the era of all the quirky female protagonists who didn’t take themselves too seriously yet still managed to bag the hot bland guy lol
I just thought for sure that since it started with dying boyfriend saying "thanks for letting me be your first," and she looked awkward, then she's walking and seeing the word "CONFESS" over and over, that it was going to turn out that he wasn't actually her first (and maybe wasn't the baby's father). When that didn't happen I couldn't process anything else lol.
What's up with this trope of "I was so drunk and everything seems like I was r worded by the male love interest but it turns out he didn't 🥰🥰🥰"??? Its almost a cliche how often that stuff happens in movies and books and they always portray it as romantic like "aw so romantic how he didn't r word me when he could easily do it 🥰🥰🥰"???? Why????
Yeah, I feel like it was very common in the 90’s and the early 2000’s. It’s also always played for laughs, with like silly music and crazy faces. Are we supposed to go “oh, ahahahah! She thought she got r*ped but she didn’t! Silly woman! 😂”? Like what? It makes me always super uncomfortable.
Plot writing with Colleen Hoover: 1. Have MC get ambushed at home 2. MC gets slapped by cop who doesn't understand modern technology 3. Have cop force himself on MC 4. Go to boyfriend and sleep with him instead because reasons!
I can't believe they got my queen Sherilyn Fenn for this. Imagine playing one of the most iconic characters in Twin Peaks and you get given a script for "evil grandma". This was the same year "The Return" came out honestly the disrespect...
I’ve had imposter syndrome as a writer so long but every time I’m reminded of the “success” Colleen Hoover has achieved I’m motivated to keep pushing on lmao. Great video as always! I actually thought of you specifically this morning when I got to work and realized today was November 9 😂
This is the first book i read by Colleen Hoover and unfortunately not the last. I read all her books 2 years ago, for a research project talking about cultural trends and problematic content. Basically, to really understand if Colleen Hoover was actually a good overall author or if it were just certain books and how she romanticizes problematic stuff. Obviously, the results showed me that while she might have very good storytellinv abilities the content of the books are actually whack. All of them are a form of trauma porn and she loves to include psuedo-incestous relationships in nearly everybook. It has me convinved that she has a fetish for it as she romanticzes these red flag relationships most of the time. This book was one of her worst ones in my opinion, and yet it somehow won romance of the year when it came out. People are clearly brainwashed. Also sidenote according to the book's acknowledgements, Colleen and her publisher hired a real artist to do art for the book and they included like 3 pieces of art in the book, which matches the art shown in the show so im assuming its the same artist.
The sheep effect is so real. You just need 1 slightly influential person with a decent amount of followers to say the book is good and the masses just follow so easily. Especially when your audience is vulnerable and susceptible, like teen girls often are.
Swear down the only plots CoHo knows how to write are: Woman has a kid with a dead guy and wants the kid back years later (the kid doesn’t actually matter much and she just falls in love with an awful man) - Confess and Reminders of Him Woman falls in love with an awful man but plot twist!! He’s even more awful than we thought!! Typically involves an affair and/or incest - November 9, Ugly Love, Verity, It Ends With Us, Maybe Someday, Slammed, Without Merit And man is the POV and he’s overtly abusive to his girlfriend but it’s okay
Literally soo many. Also It Ends With Us was supposed to show readers how abusive relationships can work and how you can’t always trust people then every other book has a similar main love interest and we’re supposed to just accept it
@@heatherofhyrule9050And sadly and shockingly Ryle reads as more harmless than a lot of CoHo boyfriends that are supposed to be husband material it says a lot about CoHo as a writer
The concept of an artist taking all these anonymous confessions and using them as art inspiration could be really really cool but alas, it was not meant to be
no seriously im home alone rn and i genuinely had to stop watching this because of how disturbed and uncomfortable the men in this movie are making me feel rn lmao
i put this video on the background while i was working and the level of cringe i experienced whenever any dialogue went through my eardrums is unprecedented
k not gonna lie I've had the most traumatic experiences of my life this year with men and despite the fact that what one of them did to me made the judge cry when I testified, I'm realizing that it's also the same way so many of Colleen Hoover's 'love interests' treat her female protagonists. How anyone can come out the other side of any of her stories and say "yeah that was romantic" is disgusting. Thanks for consistently calling her out.
manifesting a better year for you stranger❤ the world will one day learn these behaviors are not acceptable, and they’ll stop defending/glamorizing monsters
Sadly, there absolutely will be more women who end up in situations like yours because they’re being conditioned to ignore the red flags, and it’s sad. I hope you’re in a sale place now.
Rewatched the clip about what the dead BF was humbling about, I think he asked the artist to mail the piece of artwork to his girlfriend. "Can you mail this to my girlfriend?" Thats what I think was said- though the idea of him mumbling and saying gibberish is funny lol
to me it sounded like "can you wriggle this to my girlfriend" and i was dying laughing for ages . i can't believe they couldn't do a better take of that
The only redeemable moment from this show is the little cheek kiss Owen gives Auburn at her doorstep when he can tell she's upset, and I stand by that lmao
I mean...at least the artist guy seems like the least toxic of the Colleen Hoover love interests I've heard about. Not a bar high to clear but...a somewhat positive, I guess?
I work in a bookstore, and my least favorite part about it is watching people buy Colleen Hoover books 😣 especially when young people pick them up knowing the themes are so problematic 😬
I once stopped tweens like 11-13 buying CoHo they had The Cruel Prince and November 9 and couldn't decide so I told them in November 9 he cheats on her with his dead brothers wife and that it's awful so they chose The Cruel Prince lol. I didn't even work in that bookstore I am just a rabid CoHo hater.
How many books has this woman written? I feel like everytime her name shows up on my screen it’s in combination with a new book title that’s apparently best selling that I’ve never heard of. It reminds me of my moms bookshelf with dozens of those horrible Nora Roberts books that all have way to similar covers and names and you can tell it’s the same chewed-through romance everytime.
I have read teenage mutant ninja turtles fan fiction better than her books. And they weren't toxic and were properly tagged, unlike Hoover who markets books towards teens that are not meant for teens. Or romance when it is not romance, there is not one relationship she presents as endgame that a therapist wouldn't scream at you to run from.
25:11 (Re: the boyfriend's line): Personally, I hear "Can you mail this to my girlfriend?", which in ways makes sense as an ask, I guess :D Haven't read the book to say if it's accurate.
I don’t know how I jumped to this conclusion but when the first scene was her saying goodbye to her boyfriend in the hospital, I thought it was going to be like the movie Return to Me and she was going to start dating a guy who she doesn’t know has the transplanted heart of her dead boyfriend. Honestly despite the wild premise, Return to Me is actually a surprisingly sweet and touching romance. If Colleen Hoover did her own version of it, she would make it awful.
Honestly this is a good example of why piracy is crucial for archiving media in an age where you're nog allowed to own anything and streaming services can just pull anything they have whenever they want
FYI: the actress for the MC is the same woman who plays Daphne in Switched at birth, and she has hearing loss in real life, so I think her exaggerated expression is likened to that.
I work in audio transcription for a living and I'm PRETTY sure the line is "can you mail this to my girlfriend.' but the fact that I'm not 100% certain says a lot about this show's quality.
The book ending has this regarding his last sentence in the movie: "Do me a favor,” he says as I take both of them out of his hands. “Will you mail this to her? From me?” He points to the slip of paper in my hands. “Her address is at the top and the return address is at the bottom."
This kind of always happens with the "parent needs custody of her child" trope, and like 9 times out of 10 she is broke, her parents are dead, she has no other family to speak of, and probably hasn't even been in the presence of a parenting book. I honestly don't blame the grandmother for not letting Aubrey have full custody, nor the law or whatever. Because in comparison to Aubrey, granny over here has had two children, she seems quite comfortable, I literally saw one shot of her house but whatever, and she was able to house the kid for 8 years, plus her full grown son (why tf are you living with her get your own place). And maybe there's more to the story, but I don't see anything about her being a bad guardian, she's just evil because she won't let Aubrey have the kid even though the granny is the better choice. Aubrey should've waited to get in a better situation to start fighting for custody, because it's clear who the judges are siding with.
I agree. It would actually be irresponsible and damaging to the child, who’d be 9, to take him from the only home he’s ever known and from the only person who has raised him to give him to someone whose life has never been stable, and when it comes to young children and babies, there will reach a point where placement becomes permanent adoption since children have a right to stability and living an entire childhood from birth to 18 years never knowing if you could be taken from a stable home and given to someone else would be even more traumatic. A similar situation happened in my own family, where my cousin, who was 16, was so unstable that she lost custody and our grandparents got it. The initial hope was my cousin could get stable, and our grandparents pushed her to, but when the child was 3, the adoption was finalized. When that happens, the biological parents don’t even have the right to contest it anymore since they had their chance, didn’t do what they needed to do, and the child deserves stability now. Auburn may love her son, but she’s not stable, even in this series. The child is in a safe home and is bonded there and has a life where he is.
Yeah, I'm probably a snob when it comes to books, but these Colleen Hoover books and their popularity really make me sad. Yes, it is great that more young adults are reading bc of her...but I just hope that loving of reading propels them to reading better things, bc there is nothing to be gained from them. Great fiction is so powerful, gives the reader an experience that nothing else can, and often helps us feel less alone in our existence, helps us better understand our humanity. I don't think Colleen Hoover's books do that. Some books that have for me are "White Teeth" by Zadie Smith, I just finished reading "A Gentleman in Moscow" by Amor Towles which was beautiful, "Native Speaker" by Chang-Rae Lee, "Killing Commendatore" by Haruki Murakami, "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay" by Michael Chabon, "Moon Palace" by Paul Auster. These books aren't as bingeable as Colleen Hoover, but the time spent gives so much more in return.
I think it would be better for a lot of those young readers to not be reading at all than to be reading shit like this and thinking that the behavior by these assholes is good. It’s dangerous.
@@NoelleTakestheSky Yeah, I honestly feel the same. If reading them ignites a love a reading that leads to great fiction then that is a positive but you are right that the damage done by Colleen Hoover's romanticization of abuse outweighs any positive.
@@alexkasper5029 The problem is that reading great stuff later doesn’t undo the damage that’s caused by them absorbing the message that abusive men are ideal. They’re not just reading these books-oh, no. Their friends are reading them, and they’re reinforcing to each other how much they want guys like these. I’ve been there-I was that teen who read abuse-as-romance, overlooked the red flags, ended up hospitalized, and was fucking raped by my abuser when I was in there, and would really rather not have these kids reading than to have them learn to ignore red flags and end up like I did, and like so many other women do. Contrary to what many want to think, reading isn’t worth it at all costs. If you think so, as yourself if you would prefer a teen boy to read red pill incel websites, knowing he’s absorbing the messages, or to not read at all. Reading is wonderful, but not when it conditions girls and young women to overlook red flags and then they all reinforce it to each other. Reading is powerful, and when it’s causing harm, it’s not good. People like Colleen Hoover make reading dangerous. It’s much better for teens to read Marvin the Martin X Reader fics on Wattpad like my daughter does than to read stuff training them them to accept abuse and to even see it as a sign of love.
@@NoelleTakestheSky I'm so sorry you went through something so awful and your experience makes it so clear how dangerous these books are. There is nothing that can undo the damage caused by these books, especially when young people read them. I'm lucky that I never was exposed to these kinds of books and I haven't had to deal with the aftermath of their influence. When I was a teen the popular books were the Gossip Girl series and Princess Diaries, stuff that was mostly shallow but harmless. Again I'm so sorry that these kind of books made you unaware of the red flags and you suffered such incredible trauma as a result. Thank you for sharing your story and I will be more vocal about the danger of Colleen Hoover's books now. Nothing is worth the irreversible harm caused by real life abusers who are like the men her books idolize. It is sickening. My desire to expose young people to good literature ignores the harm that these books causes. I totally agree that teens should just read fanfiction istead. Most fics are better than her books and don't carry such a dangerous message. I mean there are problematic ones for sure, but Colleen Hoover's mainstream success gives her influence more weight. Like you said, teens obsess over them with their friends and there isn't anyone telling them that those kinds of relationships are abusive and can lead to violence, rape, the worst things imaginable.
I think it would’ve been way cooler if Adam had been confessing something important to Owen, like wanting to get it out before he died-and then all Owen’s art from then on was based on confessions, due to Adam being his first inspiration. I think that would’ve been like a cool thing to tie the story together, without the stalker implications, and without the general confusingness!
This is genuinely one of the funniest videos you’ve ever done I’m crying and I love that you mock bad writing on touchy subjects without being offensive
this is literally the only colleen hoover book i read. i never knew that that they made a show.... I wanted to give her a chance back in 2019 and picked this one cause i never heard of it and i HATED it. so i'm not a fan of colleen hoover. the book made me go into a reading slump that i'm still fighting....
I love that we as a collective are so obsessed with calebs coleen hoover videos that immediately after he uploads the view count is crazy high as if we're all just luring in the shadows to wait till he drops something.
Tbf a cop staying in the force and not losing any social status after being exposed for beating a woman is probably the only realistic thing Colleen Hoover has ever written
bruh 💀
100% this. I still remember a true crime case about a Cop who provably railroaded number of people and got them sent to jail on trumped up charges and ruined over a dozen lives. He was dismissed! He promptly sued the state and got his job back along with a six-figure settlement. It's amazing to be a cop in america, you can ruin a dozen lives and your reward is a windfall and a year or two of paid vacation.
real💀💀
@@OmnicromI think you're talking about "the boys on the track" in Arkansas. Wendigoon has a great video about it.
You're right, and you should say it. Statistics are available publicly.
HE'S BACK...to roast Colleen Hoover.
YAYYY
The best way to come back honestly-
I’m forced to come back for it. Sliving
It will never end
😂😂😂
Caleb repeating a clip of a guy pretty clearly saying “can you mail this to my girlfriend?” over and over while being super confused about what he’s saying is so funny to me
Same, I understand because I sometimes can't understand what people are saying but watching Caleb lose his mind over the word "mail" is so funny
same 😂
Ohhh, okay. I genuinely couldn’t make out what he was saying either, but now that you said it, it’s stupidly clear lmao
I was bawling!!! Cause I understood it the first time! 🤣😭
I was hearing “Can you make a list to my girlfriend” lol
so we're just not gonna talk about how she wrote a redhead & named her auburn. okay.
lily bloom blossom (owner of a plant shop, can’t you tell?) tease 🙈 love how creative cohoot is with her main characters names 😫😫
Totally gives me Ebony Darkness Dementia way
@@Ashbrash1998you mean Ebony Dark'ness Dementia Raven Way lol
Surprised she wasnt named ginger
@@ijustlikebeesHAHAHHA
The way Colleen Hoover trivializes assault and just uses it as a cheap plot device in every book of hers is honestly horrifying
Especially when you consider her social work background. There's something about that that has my teeth on edge.
she used death as a meet cute in one of her books
@@laiya2904verity, right?
and also similarly to that book where the girls on a roof top from a funeral or sumn@@iwkdoy
That would be "It Ends with Us"@@sheixoe4258
I love how much you dislike Colleen tbh. I can't believe she’s so popular. It really blows my mind
i mean, do her fans never had a wattpad era? her writting is pure bad fanfiction trope.
I aspire to have as much passion for something in my sad old life as this kid has for bashing Colleen Hoover.
@Lytarium My 10th grade Civics teacher loves Colleen Hoover and our senior year we found out she cheated on her husband with our Civil Law Studies teacher. So you can definitely tell she did not have a Wattpad phase 😂
@@Lytarium most of her fans have either never had a wattpad phase or they are still in their wattpad phase
@@Lytarium to be fair.. her fanbase is children who dont understand that these relationships are completely disturbing on every level. and apparently, children today dont use wattpad (which is sad) so yeah. i guess they never had a wattpad phase lol
I'm just saying, it's November 9th and I almost got hit by a car today. And I'm not saying it's Colleen's fault, but...
Love it!
I cracked a joke yesterday to my partner about it being "November 9th, just like our favorite Colleen Hoover book". They were not amused lmfao
hitoshi-san pfp w
LMAOO
@@Zulf85I joked about it to my cousin too and she didn't get it 💀 I'm proud of her!
caleb can't be pregnant, but after 9 months, he always deliver
LMFAOOOOO THIS MADE ME CACKLE
BRUH 10/10
Nice.
her name is Auburn and she has red hair 😭😭😭 lily blossom bloom core
… isn’t this story basically just Reminders of Him in a different font? I mean a lady finds out she’s pregnant with her dead boyfriend’s child, ends up incarcerated, the kid gets given to the boyfriend’s mum, and she tries to get the kid back while falling in love with an awful guy. She’s literally done that plot before
Colleen seriously has like three stories and I hate the fact that I know any of them
that is exactly what i thought when reminders of him came out… colleen babe you’ve already done that one
A lot of her stuff is similar or is the same
I thought I recognized the plot from somewhere else!
i was thinking the same as soon as it was like "she tries to get her baby back" girlie cant even write an original plot
Thank you for saying this, I’ve only read one CH book and I thought this plot sounded familiar but I didn’t remember the “confess” stuff and I was so confused 😂
Not you making a comeback on November 9th ?!?!? reclaim the date king
Switched at Birth girl deserved better from her career than Colleen Hoover. She’s not the best actress, but she’s better than this
omg nooo I knew that I knew her from somewhere
Is she? I couldn’t stand her character/acting on that show either
@@parkerisles7256I'd like to assume it was just bad writing. She seemed fine when she played a deaf girl in The Big Bang Theory
Oh wow 😭😭 I knew I recognized her too. Like being in random commercials would be better than this
Oh nooooo daphne
Didn't he just say "Can you mail this to my girlfriend"?
Also, I hope the kid is okay. Having a parent who has sex instead of dealing with her important and pressing problems, and another who is just chill about never standing for himself and getting thrown in prison every saturdays might make his childhood rough.
I heard that too
And his only extended family members are a violent cop uncle and a grandmother who is superimposing his dead dad onto him. 😬
That's what I hear too. Though I really don't get why the artist dude would have to "mail" it to her when she's right there. Or he could just leave it for her in the boyfriend's room. Mailing seems unnecessarily complicated.😂
@@lokischreibt3326Not to mention how it's a drawing of a ...glass? Unless Caleb cut something important (which i doubt)
The kids in CoHo's books are always the victims
Colleen’s complete obsession with abusive relationships is so disgusting. Every book is filled with sexual assault, abusive relationships and nothing ever happens from the wrong doings. It’s just…accepted
Adam's dying words were definitely "Can you wiggle this to my girlfriend?"
It's honestly terrifying how many people purchase Collen Hoover's books and support her as she glorifies trauma in a multitude of ways. Never in my life have I seen someone write so many damn books romanticizing stalking and using sexual assault as a plot device. The people who allow her to publish her books for all the world to read (the majority of her audience being teenage girls) need to do better.
They are the daughters of the Fifty Shades moms.
More like, the people who allow her to publish her books neED TO BE SUED!!
The problem isn't even people buying her books, it's the fact that most aren't even adults. Her books are marketed towards teens, which is so bloody dangerous with what she writes. And there's not a single trigger warning on any of them.
The fact that she has a literary agent is so depressing
Yeah😭😭fr
i think the reason the main female character is so cringey is cos 2017 was the era of all the quirky female protagonists who didn’t take themselves too seriously yet still managed to bag the hot bland guy lol
hot BLAND guy😂😭😂😭😂
I just thought for sure that since it started with dying boyfriend saying "thanks for letting me be your first," and she looked awkward, then she's walking and seeing the word "CONFESS" over and over, that it was going to turn out that he wasn't actually her first (and maybe wasn't the baby's father). When that didn't happen I couldn't process anything else lol.
Yeah for a book titled confess no one actually confesses anything
SAME
SAME. It was right there and she didn't do anything with it
There was so much potential 😭😭
How the hell did he even die?💀
I feel sorry for Sherilyn Fenn, who portrayed the dead baby dady's mother who had custody. She actually is a good actress but doesn't get enough work.
I’m happy I saw someone mention this!! I love her sm
I loved her in twin peaks so much
I couldn't believe it was her! Whyyy is she here
Audrey!
WHOO LET HER HAVE A TV SHOW?? WHY?
im so glad it flopped.
Another of her books is getting a MOVIE 😭It Ends With Us, starring Blake Lively orz
@@ladyofthepeach962are you serious? Is Blake running out of money omg
The fact it was on a service most people have never even heard of 😭😭
@@youyeedyourlasthaw BLAKE LIVELY??? NOOOOOO
Colleen Hoover really is just out here making us live her 24/7 fever dreams.
Colleen’s obsession with car crashes is so fucking weird lmao
the parasocial relationship i have to this man is unhinged
Real
No bcs real
He's my grandson and I love him.
I think it's "can you mail this to my girlfriend?" like referring to the artwork? Confusing nonetheless. Great vid Caleb, happy to have you back!
I heard the same thing.
I heard "Can you enlist my girlfriend?" lmaooo
What's up with this trope of "I was so drunk and everything seems like I was r worded by the male love interest but it turns out he didn't 🥰🥰🥰"??? Its almost a cliche how often that stuff happens in movies and books and they always portray it as romantic like "aw so romantic how he didn't r word me when he could easily do it 🥰🥰🥰"???? Why????
Yeah, I feel like it was very common in the 90’s and the early 2000’s. It’s also always played for laughs, with like silly music and crazy faces. Are we supposed to go “oh, ahahahah! She thought she got r*ped but she didn’t! Silly woman! 😂”? Like what? It makes me always super uncomfortable.
Working Girl!
Colleen Hoover's obsession with female virginity is concerning, LOL
And having children in high-school.
If I walked past the confession wall I would make up an absurd lie. I think MOST people would make up absurd lies.
'happy november 9' SHUT UPPPPPPP LMFAOOO
Happy November 9! I've associated this day with Caleb for years now... He deserves better
November 9 is such a masterpiece in storytelling that I don’t think any rational people could comprehend
@@nont18411masterpiece at being awful…
I JUST realized what date it is!!!!! life imitating art; well you know what I mean
@@nont18411😂 some people don't get the sarcasm but I do
@@yuno784 a masterp1ss
Plot writing with Colleen Hoover:
1. Have MC get ambushed at home
2. MC gets slapped by cop who doesn't understand modern technology
3. Have cop force himself on MC
4. Go to boyfriend and sleep with him instead because reasons!
When ppl say the book is better than the show, they aren’t talking about Colleen Hoover
I don’t know why laughed so hard on this 😭😭
Best part about this show is, that Caleb can make a review about it.
I can't believe they got my queen Sherilyn Fenn for this. Imagine playing one of the most iconic characters in Twin Peaks and you get given a script for "evil grandma". This was the same year "The Return" came out honestly the disrespect...
I’ve had imposter syndrome as a writer so long but every time I’m reminded of the “success” Colleen Hoover has achieved I’m motivated to keep pushing on lmao. Great video as always! I actually thought of you specifically this morning when I got to work and realized today was November 9 😂
It makes me lose more hope since I’ve been writing and trying for years, but refuse to write the abuse-as-romance that has been consistently popular.
Real though 😂
Looks like Colleen isn’t going to be the only one confessing tonight.. it’s Caleb’s turn to spill
I don't know why but this is giving Gossip Girl so much I'm shocked you didn't include it
This is so gossip girl coded
Even though you allegedly did not pay twenty dollars to watch this, I wish I could venmo you twenty five dollars for having to watch this.
This is the first book i read by Colleen Hoover and unfortunately not the last. I read all her books 2 years ago, for a research project talking about cultural trends and problematic content. Basically, to really understand if Colleen Hoover was actually a good overall author or if it were just certain books and how she romanticizes problematic stuff. Obviously, the results showed me that while she might have very good storytellinv abilities the content of the books are actually whack. All of them are a form of trauma porn and she loves to include psuedo-incestous relationships in nearly everybook. It has me convinved that she has a fetish for it as she romanticzes these red flag relationships most of the time. This book was one of her worst ones in my opinion, and yet it somehow won romance of the year when it came out. People are clearly brainwashed. Also sidenote according to the book's acknowledgements, Colleen and her publisher hired a real artist to do art for the book and they included like 3 pieces of art in the book, which matches the art shown in the show so im assuming its the same artist.
The sheep effect is so real. You just need 1 slightly influential person with a decent amount of followers to say the book is good and the masses just follow so easily. Especially when your audience is vulnerable and susceptible, like teen girls often are.
Swear down the only plots CoHo knows how to write are:
Woman has a kid with a dead guy and wants the kid back years later (the kid doesn’t actually matter much and she just falls in love with an awful man) - Confess and Reminders of Him
Woman falls in love with an awful man but plot twist!! He’s even more awful than we thought!! Typically involves an affair and/or incest - November 9, Ugly Love, Verity, It Ends With Us, Maybe Someday, Slammed, Without Merit
And man is the POV and he’s overtly abusive to his girlfriend but it’s okay
Literally soo many. Also It Ends With Us was supposed to show readers how abusive relationships can work and how you can’t always trust people then every other book has a similar main love interest and we’re supposed to just accept it
@@heatherofhyrule9050And sadly and shockingly Ryle reads as more harmless than a lot of CoHo boyfriends that are supposed to be husband material it says a lot about CoHo as a writer
I love how you paraphrase. “I swear he says ‘I’m evil’ or whatever the frick” “they’re fighting like 👊🤜🤛👊🥊”
Isn't it "can you mail this to my girlfriend"? I thought it was so clear and I love that Caleb listened to it so many times lol
You really came back to us on November 9 🥺 I literally said this morning "Today's is Caleb's day"
The concept of an artist taking all these anonymous confessions and using them as art inspiration could be really really cool but alas, it was not meant to be
and once people needed him the most ... the king returned with a new video 👑
I'm not even 2 minutes into the video and the dying dude talking about his gf's virginity made me pass away
Colleen Hoover should be remembered as one of, if not, the best psychological horror writers of all time.
Wait, she didn’t write horror books?
Wait, she wrote books? I thought it was just Drabbles?
Hold up.
She could write?
Wait a minute...those are actual words on a page? That got made into a movie?
The horror community doesn’t claim her lol
no seriously im home alone rn and i genuinely had to stop watching this because of how disturbed and uncomfortable the men in this movie are making me feel rn lmao
i put this video on the background while i was working and the level of cringe i experienced whenever any dialogue went through my eardrums is unprecedented
I legit thought to myself this morning, "Wouldn't it be nice is Caleb Joseph uploaded a new video" AND NOW HE HAS 😱
Exactly my thoughts at work when I had to write down the date
k not gonna lie I've had the most traumatic experiences of my life this year with men and despite the fact that what one of them did to me made the judge cry when I testified, I'm realizing that it's also the same way so many of Colleen Hoover's 'love interests' treat her female protagonists. How anyone can come out the other side of any of her stories and say "yeah that was romantic" is disgusting. Thanks for consistently calling her out.
I'm so sorry for what you went through, hope you're in a better place now dear
manifesting a better year for you stranger❤ the world will one day learn these behaviors are not acceptable, and they’ll stop defending/glamorizing monsters
Sadly, there absolutely will be more women who end up in situations like yours because they’re being conditioned to ignore the red flags, and it’s sad. I hope you’re in a sale place now.
I'm so sorry for what you wen through, praying for you ❤
Rewatched the clip about what the dead BF was humbling about, I think he asked the artist to mail the piece of artwork to his girlfriend.
"Can you mail this to my girlfriend?"
Thats what I think was said- though the idea of him mumbling and saying gibberish is funny lol
to me it sounded like "can you wriggle this to my girlfriend" and i was dying laughing for ages . i can't believe they couldn't do a better take of that
The only redeemable moment from this show is the little cheek kiss Owen gives Auburn at her doorstep when he can tell she's upset, and I stand by that lmao
The dedication to dragging Hoover has me dead 💀
You love to see it
I mean...at least the artist guy seems like the least toxic of the Colleen Hoover love interests I've heard about. Not a bar high to clear but...a somewhat positive, I guess?
I work in a bookstore, and my least favorite part about it is watching people buy Colleen Hoover books 😣 especially when young people pick them up knowing the themes are so problematic 😬
I remember last year I saw yt shorts of little girls showing colleen hoover books they got as CHRISTMAS GIFTS 😓
@@junohawthorne7658naurrrrr😭what happened to wattpad- it’s free !!
I once stopped tweens like 11-13 buying CoHo they had The Cruel Prince and November 9 and couldn't decide so I told them in November 9 he cheats on her with his dead brothers wife and that it's awful so they chose The Cruel Prince lol. I didn't even work in that bookstore I am just a rabid CoHo hater.
How many books has this woman written? I feel like everytime her name shows up on my screen it’s in combination with a new book title that’s apparently best selling that I’ve never heard of. It reminds me of my moms bookshelf with dozens of those horrible Nora Roberts books that all have way to similar covers and names and you can tell it’s the same chewed-through romance everytime.
I have read teenage mutant ninja turtles fan fiction better than her books. And they weren't toxic and were properly tagged, unlike Hoover who markets books towards teens that are not meant for teens. Or romance when it is not romance, there is not one relationship she presents as endgame that a therapist wouldn't scream at you to run from.
Waited three months for Caleb to upload a video of him yet again roasting Colleen Hoover.... and I am so fucking here for it.
25:11 (Re: the boyfriend's line): Personally, I hear "Can you mail this to my girlfriend?", which in ways makes sense as an ask, I guess :D Haven't read the book to say if it's accurate.
I actually really liked the concept of the confession wall and the artist who paints those confessions, and then everything else went downhill...
“The baby’s like 8” 😂
24:29 he said "can you mail this to my girlfriend?"
I don’t know how I jumped to this conclusion but when the first scene was her saying goodbye to her boyfriend in the hospital, I thought it was going to be like the movie Return to Me and she was going to start dating a guy who she doesn’t know has the transplanted heart of her dead boyfriend.
Honestly despite the wild premise, Return to Me is actually a surprisingly sweet and touching romance. If Colleen Hoover did her own version of it, she would make it awful.
I’m sorry but the scene where the older brother freaks out over the phone ringing is hilarious 💀 (timestamp if any one wants it 18:46)
Gurl. How can you not make out “Can you MAIL this to my girlfriend?” 😭
Honestly this is a good example of why piracy is crucial for archiving media in an age where you're nog allowed to own anything and streaming services can just pull anything they have whenever they want
I think he was saying "Can you mail this to my girlfriend?" at the end
When he said “the biggest frickin jumpscare of my life” it switched to one of those Amazon ads that makes working in a warehouse sound like heaven
lukas gage really went from dead baby daddy in a collen hoover tv show to euphoria and white lotus good for him
Wait, what? Someone adapted a Colleen Hoover book? Why???
They're adapting another one... into a movie 😭😭
unfortunately, they threatened to release a film adaptation of “it ends with us”…😔
FYI: the actress for the MC is the same woman who plays Daphne in Switched at birth, and she has hearing loss in real life, so I think her exaggerated expression is likened to that.
Anytime ive seen someone say they like Colleen's books...i question their reading comprehension
I work in audio transcription for a living and I'm PRETTY sure the line is "can you mail this to my girlfriend.' but the fact that I'm not 100% certain says a lot about this show's quality.
The scene of him dancing with the old lady while explaining to Auburn that the narcotics he was arrested for weren’t his is just masterful
I think at the end the boyfriend said “can you mail this to my girlfriend?” but like that still barely makes sense 😭😭
18:45 that stock horror ambiance sound effect that plays each time she gets a text💀
Not you announcing the biggest jumpscare of your life, me being so ready for it, and youtube jumpscaring me with the loudest ad ever...
It sounds like the dead boyfriend said 'can you mail this to my girlfriend?'
Also great vid
Every time you post i feel like an old friend just hit me up for no other reason but to rant passionately and then dip 😂
9:11 I LOVE that the other girls glass catches on the middle girls cocktail umbrella and just RIPS it out of her drink and NOBODY says anything
The book ending has this regarding his last sentence in the movie: "Do me a favor,” he says as I take both of them out of his hands. “Will you mail this to her? From me?” He points to the slip of paper in my hands. “Her address is at the top and the return address is at the bottom."
Not only is it Caleb but it's Caleb on about Colleen ❤ my favorite rivalry
I love how this was basically just the Whisper App: The Book: The Series
This kind of always happens with the "parent needs custody of her child" trope, and like 9 times out of 10 she is broke, her parents are dead, she has no other family to speak of, and probably hasn't even been in the presence of a parenting book. I honestly don't blame the grandmother for not letting Aubrey have full custody, nor the law or whatever. Because in comparison to Aubrey, granny over here has had two children, she seems quite comfortable, I literally saw one shot of her house but whatever, and she was able to house the kid for 8 years, plus her full grown son (why tf are you living with her get your own place). And maybe there's more to the story, but I don't see anything about her being a bad guardian, she's just evil because she won't let Aubrey have the kid even though the granny is the better choice. Aubrey should've waited to get in a better situation to start fighting for custody, because it's clear who the judges are siding with.
I agree. It would actually be irresponsible and damaging to the child, who’d be 9, to take him from the only home he’s ever known and from the only person who has raised him to give him to someone whose life has never been stable, and when it comes to young children and babies, there will reach a point where placement becomes permanent adoption since children have a right to stability and living an entire childhood from birth to 18 years never knowing if you could be taken from a stable home and given to someone else would be even more traumatic. A similar situation happened in my own family, where my cousin, who was 16, was so unstable that she lost custody and our grandparents got it. The initial hope was my cousin could get stable, and our grandparents pushed her to, but when the child was 3, the adoption was finalized. When that happens, the biological parents don’t even have the right to contest it anymore since they had their chance, didn’t do what they needed to do, and the child deserves stability now.
Auburn may love her son, but she’s not stable, even in this series. The child is in a safe home and is bonded there and has a life where he is.
Yeah, I'm probably a snob when it comes to books, but these Colleen Hoover books and their popularity really make me sad. Yes, it is great that more young adults are reading bc of her...but I just hope that loving of reading propels them to reading better things, bc there is nothing to be gained from them. Great fiction is so powerful, gives the reader an experience that nothing else can, and often helps us feel less alone in our existence, helps us better understand our humanity. I don't think Colleen Hoover's books do that. Some books that have for me are "White Teeth" by Zadie Smith, I just finished reading "A Gentleman in Moscow" by Amor Towles which was beautiful, "Native Speaker" by Chang-Rae Lee, "Killing Commendatore" by Haruki Murakami, "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay" by Michael Chabon, "Moon Palace" by Paul Auster. These books aren't as bingeable as Colleen Hoover, but the time spent gives so much more in return.
I think it would be better for a lot of those young readers to not be reading at all than to be reading shit like this and thinking that the behavior by these assholes is good. It’s dangerous.
@@NoelleTakestheSky Yeah, I honestly feel the same. If reading them ignites a love a reading that leads to great fiction then that is a positive but you are right that the damage done by Colleen Hoover's romanticization of abuse outweighs any positive.
@@alexkasper5029 The problem is that reading great stuff later doesn’t undo the damage that’s caused by them absorbing the message that abusive men are ideal. They’re not just reading these books-oh, no. Their friends are reading them, and they’re reinforcing to each other how much they want guys like these. I’ve been there-I was that teen who read abuse-as-romance, overlooked the red flags, ended up hospitalized, and was fucking raped by my abuser when I was in there, and would really rather not have these kids reading than to have them learn to ignore red flags and end up like I did, and like so many other women do.
Contrary to what many want to think, reading isn’t worth it at all costs. If you think so, as yourself if you would prefer a teen boy to read red pill incel websites, knowing he’s absorbing the messages, or to not read at all.
Reading is wonderful, but not when it conditions girls and young women to overlook red flags and then they all reinforce it to each other. Reading is powerful, and when it’s causing harm, it’s not good.
People like Colleen Hoover make reading dangerous. It’s much better for teens to read Marvin the Martin X Reader fics on Wattpad like my daughter does than to read stuff training them them to accept abuse and to even see it as a sign of love.
@@NoelleTakestheSky I'm so sorry you went through something so awful and your experience makes it so clear how dangerous these books are. There is nothing that can undo the damage caused by these books, especially when young people read them. I'm lucky that I never was exposed to these kinds of books and I haven't had to deal with the aftermath of their influence. When I was a teen the popular books were the Gossip Girl series and Princess Diaries, stuff that was mostly shallow but harmless. Again I'm so sorry that these kind of books made you unaware of the red flags and you suffered such incredible trauma as a result. Thank you for sharing your story and I will be more vocal about the danger of Colleen Hoover's books now. Nothing is worth the irreversible harm caused by real life abusers who are like the men her books idolize. It is sickening. My desire to expose young people to good literature ignores the harm that these books causes.
I totally agree that teens should just read fanfiction istead. Most fics are better than her books and don't carry such a dangerous message. I mean there are problematic ones for sure, but Colleen Hoover's mainstream success gives her influence more weight. Like you said, teens obsess over them with their friends and there isn't anyone telling them that those kinds of relationships are abusive and can lead to violence, rape, the worst things imaginable.
you can’t take her anywhere. she’s so crazy 😅
Every time I think I've seen everything Colleen Hoover has written there's always something else 😭😭
Casting iconic American actress Sherilyn Fenn (who played Audrey Horne on Twin Peaks) in this is a CRIME!!!
Lmao it shouldn’t be funny but the cop character getting pissed because he doesn’t know how texts and notifications work is kinda insane
I am so glad you came back. Single-handedly curing my cancer
I think it would’ve been way cooler if Adam had been confessing something important to Owen, like wanting to get it out before he died-and then all Owen’s art from then on was based on confessions, due to Adam being his first inspiration. I think that would’ve been like a cool thing to tie the story together, without the stalker implications, and without the general confusingness!
This is genuinely one of the funniest videos you’ve ever done I’m crying and I love that you mock bad writing on touchy subjects without being offensive
them laughimg at nothing in that montage is killing me and what was he saying can you hesuushsha to ny girlfriend LMAOO
this is literally the only colleen hoover book i read. i never knew that that they made a show.... I wanted to give her a chance back in 2019 and picked this one cause i never heard of it and i HATED it. so i'm not a fan of colleen hoover. the book made me go into a reading slump that i'm still fighting....
I was legit watching your videos yesterday and thinking “it’s been a while since Caleb posted, wonder what he’s up to” you read minds dude!
im so happy that you made this, i always go back to see your 'history with colleen hoover' video, it's so funny.
I hope you know how incredibly funny you are. I sometimes have to pause your videos to laugh out loud for a bit. Your deliveries are just perfect 😂👌
OMG I WAS BINGING YOUR VIDEOS THE PAST FEW DAYS YOU'RE BACK KING
I love that we as a collective are so obsessed with calebs coleen hoover videos that immediately after he uploads the view count is crazy high as if we're all just luring in the shadows to wait till he drops something.
Caleb!!
So happy to see ya!
the final words are: can you mail this to my girlfriend?"