Tyra Banks wrote a book and it's SO BAD (a MODELLAND deep dive)
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- čas přidán 25. 08. 2024
- this is quite possibly the worst book I've ever read so I hope you enjoy my descent into madness
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You just unlocked a 6th grade memory for me. I used to think you had to finish every book you started, and then this book changed that for me.
that's so real
Err... it did some good then...?😂
I got about halfway and tapped out
"As hot as - you guessed it -"
Me: Hell
"A Scotch bonnet."
Huh
tyra likes to keep us on our toes 🥰
@@ainsleesbookclub she's just so quirky like that
@@ainsleesbookclubhaha I got you to 69 likes on this
Ok this book is objectively bad but I actually know what she meant here lol, scotch bonnets are a type of pepper, we use them in a lot of Caribbean food. It makes naming the town "peppertown" feel so much more contrived tho 😭
Thank you! Saved me a Google search. @@Iratepandabear
“They’re running the taps because they want to get a smize” is such a deranged sentence
1:29 I wasnt looking at the screen so I heard "Metopia" as "Miitopia" so now I'm imagining all of these characters as Miis
Girl me too!!!!
SAME- the only difference is that Miitopia is a peak game 😭
Tbh, that would have salvaged the book.
That makes this book so much better
I was playing miitopia while watching this and hearing that was crazy
I don't believe in psychoanalyzing authors based on reading their books.... BUT this book makes me wonder so many things about the author's mind
you def can it did come from their brain afterall
@@Viteaification it's more in a sense that we hold a person's work too much over their own head. like a horro author writing about a murder, doesnt mean they secretly fantasize about doing that. like maybe they just find the concept scary just like you and happen to write about it. literally so what. like what characteristic from the author could you possibly get from that.
this book tho, it takes a genius to write like you're tring so hard to sound human while being one
I've read it halfway through and so many times I was thinking dang Tyra you okay? There's soooooo much self hatred and body dysmorphia steeped into this book
This gives such visceral "we asked ChatGPT to write a book for us and this is what it came up with" vibes that it circled back around to being a little impressive???? How did she write a random prompt generated book in 2011?
if we found out years from now that Tyra Banks is a time traveller who came to 2024 to have AI write what ever this is and travelled back to publish it i wouldn't even flinch
literally the way I went between “this is the stupidest thing ever written” and “Tyra banks is actually a genius and none of us get it” throughout the WHOLE BOOK
Omggggg you're backkkkkkk I'm so happy that you're aliveeeeee I love your videos ❤❤❤❤
"Intoxibella" sounds like an evil spinoff of the Bratzillas
she got briefly possessed by the old Jellicle Cats spirit. many such cases
I didn't understand what this comment meant when I first read it. Then I reached that part of the video 😂
“Many such cases” is absolutely sending me
The thing that makes me clutch my nonexistent pearls is that this went through an editor…like this is the FINAL DRAFT
I just CANNOT with you pronouncing all these insane names totally straight faced
"The secret zip zap"
"Desperada"
"The Ooh Aah"
I love it
This sounds like a dream someone is trying to describe before they forget it all.
I thought that after Lilly Blossom Bloom, no book name could surprise me... I was wrong
The theme of homelessness is WILD considering that episode of the Tyra Banks Show where she pretended to pretend to be homeless and was like wow I get it, I am the queen of empathy.
Tyra made a THEME SONG for Modelland and I deeply encourage everyone to listen to a few seconds of it. No matter how bad you’re imagining it to be, it’s worse 😂
I Did not believe you at first … but wow just wow
I doubted you…. But what the FUCK did I just listen to 😭
I listened to it and I don't think I'll be able to sleep tonight 💀
see i was expecting the worst and yet i was still somehow blown away
i want that played at my funerap
literally wtf was that
My abs hurt from laughing! You are so real for "it feels like a satire but I don't know what it's a satire of" LIKE SERIOUSLY
I'm a lil sus about the main character's favorite food too being a defining character thing. For those that suffer with eating disorders, whipped cream (especially low fat) is pretty low in calories, and some folks eat it as a special treat to replace ice cream when they're counting calories. Not that everyone else can't enjoy whipped cream, but given who the book is written by and the self harm in this book... I don't know, just seems sus xD
While this is entirely valid, the reason her favourite food is whipped cream is so much more self indulgent than that:
It's Tyra Banks favourite food. Tookie is an admitted self insert.
@@LordHattieif it’s a self insert that probably lays more claim to the eating disorder theory considering she was a model. Not to speculate on her relationship with food (I myself prefer cool whip to ice cream), but most likely it was a “hack” she picked up in her modeling days from either somebody pushing an eating disorder onto her or another model who happened to have one.
I also perked up when she mentions them stopping menstruation from now on
THE QUEEN POSTED I repeat THE QUEEN POSTED 🗣️🗣️🗣️
PEASANTS ASSEMBLE /j
Why did I click on the bell if it doesn't notify me???😢
the names in this book remind me of ANY TIME i read something about the argonauts in greek stories/plays - we got Atalanta, Meleager, Orpheus, Medea (sometimes), and then their leader is named JASON. JASON WHAT R U DOING HERE
I mean it is said as Jahson not Jayson. It's just one of the names that is able to be translated and still used to this day that's why it seems more out of place than it really is but yeah I get you.
Omg I had the same thought😂
wow, English is kinda weird (it sounds more normal in my language, something like Yasón)
My favourite review of this book (Other than this one of course): ...although Modelland "promotes self-esteem and confidence in girls, it is less than empowering since it is all to a depressing consumerist end", calling it "a nonsensical, nightmarish, acid trip that seemed like it would never end" with "more made-up words and terms than a Klingon translation of a Dr. Seuss book", and emphasising that it "stops being funny when you realise just how long it is".
Do you have a link?
A good editor would've made this a third of the length or less and it would kill as social commentary (if Tyra was actually able to do that).
@@roibenra good editor wouldve told her no _until_ she could do it, prolly /agreeing with you
@@luna_nova_09 I found it on Goodreads I think
Little correction as a french-speaking person, excité does mean excited too! It *is* also slang for horny, but the translation to excited is definitely not wrong!
i always learned that in france excité means excited, but in north america it definitely means horny
Some of these names give me a "I need a name so I'll look around the room for inspiration" vibe
"Mic stand. Mike. Stand. Ley. Mike Standley. The third."
(commenting this at the very beginning) i think this is my third(?) youtube video about model land and i still know nothing about the plot,, it’s THAT incomprehensible lmao
also CONGRATS ON GRADUATING!!!
You know all nuance has been burnt to ashes when the protagonist has a surname translating as “of the cream.” Her mother literally called “Creamy of the Cream.”
hey you might be getting a call from whoever has to execute on my life insurance policy because the words "lip virginity" did shoot through my speakers and into my temple and killed me dead forever
This naming system hurt my brain so much. I can't imagine reading this. You are so brave.
I really appreciate your commitment to calling it a Zip Zap every single time
C-CAN YOU SURVIVE M-M-MODELLAND 🗣🗣🔥🔥 (Congrats on graduating!)
I have tried to wrap my head around modelland for literal years and I still cannot fully comprehend it
i love how this book is on my feed every month from a different youtuber and i never don’t click on the thumbnail
I really thought all that stuff about the belladonna or whatever's baby was gonna lead up to the reveal that tookie was her baby and creamy's punishment or whatever was to have to raise her or something
because there was that whole thing about her father not thinking shes his
and i dont know if that wouldve been worse or better but thats definitely where i thought it was going
This hardcore reminds me of The Selection in a weird way.
oh no there's been a horrible head-on train crash between the uglies and the post hunger games YA competition-world genre. There's random plot snippets and unexamined themes everywhere, the front row is splattered with clinically unique YA protag names. shield the children's eyes so they don't have to watch as the hyper-shallow moral drags itself towards the agonizing, sequel bait conclusion. there's a seventh grade reading level premise impaled on gritty YA plot devices. oh the humanity.
I think we should get a special discount at bookstores for honestly living through the lit phase where everyone wanted to chomp hunger games bit and ended up writing these ultra lame protags living in the melodramatic YA equivalent of whoville. the models up in modelland loved modelling a lot, but the protagonist, with an embarrassingly under researched and strictly convenient plot-relevant mental health crisis, did NOT.
My local librarian recommended the forest of hands and teeth to me instead of the hunger games. I had nightmares. It was a 600+zombie thriller. And it was awful
this whole video felt like a fever dream lmao (also congrats on graduating! i also just did-go class of 2024!)
Omg congrats to you too!
I have watched America’s Next Top Model. A smeyes/smize/smise is smiling with your eyes not your mouth when you are being photographed. What does that physically look like in the terms of this book. No clue.
so, normally id say its the eye squint thingy that ppl did a lot more during the pandemic bc masks
but idk if that translates over into this book, it seems too normal
@@nikitabee9908oh in the book it's the ridiculous gold thing on the cover
Same, and I couldn't stop picturing the smize as making the girls eyes bleed like when Raja portrayed Tyra on snatch game on season 3 of drag race lmaoooo
Babe this entire video felt like a stroke. Idk how you survived but I’m so proud of you
You questioning what Uniqua is reminded me of that Tumblr post of someone who Google searched "is uniqua from backyardigans a woman of color"
Such a wild name choices 😭
Omg when you talked about the uncozy self harm I wasn’t surprised and thought, “Yeah I smelled the ableism in the opening that you read us.”
Omg the Backyardagins…
I was expecting Tookie to be the daughter of the Belladonna because there was that part at the beginning where her dad doubted his parentage. Was that meant to be a twist? Why give the interesting plot reveal to the side character? It also makes sense why Creamy didn't like Tookie because of all that resentment. Maybe it would've been explained if subsequent books happened. Maybe it's also not that serious.
Please read either the divergent series or the matched series because I was obsessed with them as a teenager and they are ✨Bad✨
Also you can be a headband girlie I believe in you (Bobby pins are the secret)
Oh, I loved Matched when I was a teen, too!
Oh my god Modelland was ghost written? I was fully convinced it was the only celebrity book that wasn't specifically because of how batshit insane the writing style is (in addition to, you know, the plot). I wonder if Tyra was just so controlling that she didn't let the ghost writer ghost write? All I know is that I have read that book cover-to-cover and it is one of the most bizarre reading experiences of my life. Truly a fascinating work of literature that no one should ever read.
Just started, can't wait, the fact that this isn't a Bimboland fanfiction and in fact is written by toxic queen Tyra is WILD
omg Bimboland mention
"bimboland fanfiction" is definitely a combination of words
immediately the pronunciation of theophilus is killing me
second deep dive video i see about this book and i think this time around i somewhat understood the storyline but also i absolutely will not remember any of this by tomorrow morning
lovee when you introduced the secret zip zap initially as if we should all have been super aware of what those words mean put together
this book is so funny to me because it is just… so tyra coded? like obviously, but i can literally imagine her reading all of it.
I just watched this whole video, and I'm still not convinced I know what this book is about. 😂
halfway through i no longer knew who anyone was, every dystopian name sounds the same to me😭😭 (except tookie lol)
Have I read this book? No. Have I already seen 3 other CZcamsr reviews of this book I've never even read? Yes. What did I do when I saw SBC was doing a review of this book? I ran here to watch
I honestly thought it wasn't a real book, just some cooked up fever dream that Tyra had for the an ANTM challenge.
18:29 its like when ppl say “embarazada” for “embarrassed” but they just said they’re pregnant
When my boyfriend was a teacher, he witnessed another teacher tell a parent that she was "pregunta" when she eas trying to say she was pregnant. So she said she was "question" 😂
Is it 11:25pm? Yes
Should I go to sleep? Yes
Did the queen post a new video and I‘m watching it now? Also yes
congratulations on graduating!!! i also just graduated so i totally get the whole being bored thing. another great video abt a truly bizarre book!!
Umm you’re my icon….. reading this book is the 7th ring of hell🤩😵💫
Surprised there wasn’t any mention of the Dancing Hand Monster with Hand Teeth that straight up dismembered two of the people Myrracle and Cremie were Pilgriming up to Modelland with.
I'm 8 minutes in and I'm .. .what? What? WHAT IS HAPPENING how is this so fantasy yet so mundane and so, so, WHAT IS HAPPENING I
What is it with YA dystopians and absolutely god awful names 💀. Next thing you know you’re gonna get the weird millennial baby names. Brynnleigh and osten would like to have a word…
Mickeighluh and Jaaxon are weaving through traffic at full speed to provide backup
Who thinks to name a main character that 🤨
Been watching since the beginning and fsr never commented but I love this channel sm and am grateful for your in-depth and funny reviews. Keep it up bestie 🙏 Also congrats on graduating
aw thank you!! im so glad you like my silly little videos 🫡🫡
I love the way you explain this as if anything you're saying makes sense
I still remember the online marketing campaign. I read a lot of book blogs back in day
this is just kung fu panda
Kung Fu Panda on Crack.
I read Modelland last August/September. I remember all the things you’re saying. Even with that, I’m 5 mins into this video and my brain is trying to shut down going “what is this converties fever dream?!” And…it only got more confusing as time went on! Even crazier, this was supposed to be the start of a series!?!!!! Part of me say, “no, that’s the most insane thing I’ve ever heard!” But the rest of me says, “I do sort of want to know where it could have possibly gone…”
I can't believe that right when I had ran out of your videos to watch, you drop another one. I don't even know what Modelland is.
honestly i love how silly literally all the names are in this book. its a bold choice. in amongst a sea of books that seek realism in their worlds, this one seeks deranged satire. i can only respect it.
And I love making the main character have a name like dookie😂😂
This book sounds like THE WORSE EPISODES OF AMERICA NEXT TOP MODEL 😬 and the names my god ! My eyes 👀 and hearing it is so cringe lol😂
I genuinly cannot keep up with this story, between the crazy names and the constant introduction of new places and people.....my gods Tyra what did you create
and is that a knitted sock I spy?? love it
My sister made it isn’t it cool!!
Congrats on graduating!!! I’m still about two years away from finishing but I’m excited to do so!
i get so excited every time you upload 💪 this might be my favorite channel
I remember seeing this book at my local library when it first came out, picked it up, read the first page, and immediately put it back down. Now my teenage self feels vindicated lol
Just wanted to say as a french person technically excité can be used as excited, the connotation is just heavier on the "sex" thing.
Like how "arousal" can technically refer to any state of intense emotion but is heavily associated with hornyness?
@@annajensen7360 well I've never heard arousal used for anything else than horny but that's the same spirit yes! Thanks for teaching me smth
Omg you should read The New Girl by Jesse Q sutavanto! It’s actually insanely convoluted and horrific😭😭😭
fun fact the smize is literally the thing on the cover its like a masqarade mask LOL
im being so fr and i wish i wasnt
I was listening to this while falling asleep yesterday so im rewatching tonight to see what was real and what was oart of my dream SANSCOLOR WAS REAL?! Also my brain replaced john Ramsey with gordon ramsey so i was dreaming of him being really short it was funny
THE SPLEEN EATING WAS ALSO REAL ?!
Ur videos are sooooo simple, yet so complex... It's like me and a bff talking. It's pure gold.
Tyra read Uglies and went, yes that and didn't elaborate
‘girl will lash in, boy will lash out’ is such an iconic yet funny line and I will be thinking about it from now on 😂
i was just watching a bunch of your videos over again. congratulations on graduating!!!
I needed this for my mental health today
nice sock blocker btw!!!! looks great
my sister made it!!
@@ainsleesbookclub tell her good job!! also i'm 100% with you on the phonetically written accent thing. hate it
I’m afraid I might be Tookie 😭😭
Okay, I'm like half-convinced this book was ghostwritten by a six year old
Modelland is one of my favourite books of all time. It’s also terrible, and I hate it. It’s so funny to me in every way.
IVE BEEN WAITING FOR YOU ‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️
Congrats on graduating 🎉
thanks bestieeeeeee 🫶🫶
you have no idea how excited I am that you posted
You should have included a Cats (2019) trigger warning.
...i dont know how people dont see how tyra came up with the things in the book. After watching so much ANTM as a kid. It really feels like her book. Like it makes sense that it came from her.
I hope Tyra’s ghost writer got paid millions for this…
this has to be from a very strange trip that tyra just wrote down and went yeah
TASHA WAS ALSO MY FAVORITE BACKYARDIGAN TASHA GIRLIES REPRESENT‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️
One of my favorite channels!
TASHA IS QUEEN YES!!!
this video could not have prepared me for the INSANITY of the book😭 i’m 12 chapters in and there’s so many absurd details???? like how the french dude has a hand for a face💀
'one of these things is not like the others' yeah, as a Lizzie, that't the story of my life😂
First video I've seen of yours, and I almost couldn't focus because I was too busy admiring your granny square blanket. Gorgeous!
im listening to this in the background while i do other things and i genuinely thought that my adhd was fucking me over (with the auditory processing side). i've read better fanfics from ESL (english second language) people than whatever this was! (i am 2 minutes in while typing this help)
finished the vid, can confirm this was a fever dream
This is the third video about this book I have seen and tbh I still have no fricking clue what the heck is going on 😅 This book is just a real nightmare
2:19 THAT LITERALLY SAYS GOUR CENTIMETRES!!!
im gonna have to take responsibility for that one ✋😬🤚 that’s not Tyra’s fault
@@ainsleesbookclubwe can pretend she did it shhhh
I can't help but feel like this book is somewhat sexist😭 (towards women)