i got my first period seeing twilight in theaters

Can confirm Sanne and Lex hold up after 10+ years

My favourite part in the twiligt series is when they're sitting in the cantine and Bella is staring at Edward and so enamoured by his beauty that she LITERALLY FORGETS TO BREATHE

One of my favorite twilight moments is when bella walks downstairs in a floor length jean skirt and edward says shes beautiful and she stares at his eyes so hard SHE FAINTS down the last few steps and he has to catch her and yell at her for being clumsy and she can hardly breathe cause he called her beautiful

Omfg I love this video. I was classic Twilight trash at 13, had a Twilight tshirt that I actively worn in public and always said I was Team Switzerland because "how could I ever choose between these two perfect men". Lord.

I relate SO HARD to this entire video hahahaha! Re-read the series about two years ago and felt like I was reading an entirely different story. I read it during my first teen relationship and I remember suddenly figuring that my ex (who was super controlling like Edward, and jealous and would threaten suicide like Jacob, and ahh) was actually just 'so in love with me' because I could see parallels! Everyone saw Twilight as Peak Romance. But yeah...even still, I don't hate it. I just can't! It's tied to so many memories!

"I can't tell you, but hmmmmm, blood's delicious." this cracked me uuuup hahah. I feel like there should be a new Twilight-channel, except now it's adult women talking about it. (like this video, but like weekly content) I would be down for that, and I would definitely audition! hahaah

Truly living for this Twilight discourse.

This is 100% my kind of content. Love this so much.

I remember I used to ship Bella with Jasper so bad. In hindsight, I realised it's because of that scene in the first book when they're all running around figuring out what to do about James wanting to kill her and he tells her she is worth it because he knows she's feeling crap about herself. On one hand there was Edward, who was all about making decisions for her and who cares what she feels about it and then on the other you have this guy who barely knows her but still cares about her emotional well being more than her boyfriend does. He did it in Eclipse too, he sensed she was worried about Alice and took the time to reassure her. If Edward had Jasper's power, he'd likely just force her to stop feeling that way but Jasper used his words instead and I liked that.

On hindsight I just think it's so ridiculous (obviously I was totally in awe back then), that in Breaking Dawn literally EVERY vampire has a magical power. Make up your mind! Either you're a wizard or a vampire - You can't have all the things!!

I've been indulging more and more in the Twilight Renaissance, if that's what we're calling it, and it's been so interesting trying to figure out my relationship to this series. I read the books at 15, right before Breaking Dawn came out, and I was totally that girl who wanted an Edward of her very own. And then I jumped on the hate bandwagon after having a less-than-stellar experience with Breaking Dawn... and then many years and several real-life and educational crash-courses in feminism/women's issues later, I started to slowly realize that most of those people on that bandwagon were just venting their misogyny, and I fell for it because it sounded logical and sometimes it's satisfying to talk about why you hate things -- but I also realized that these relationships were extremely unhealthy, and the people talking about those issues had a genuine point. Now, I want to embark on a proper reread to see what the balance is, basically -- how much of it was targeted out of pure misogyny and how much really did need to be looked at with a more critical lens.

oh also my favourite interview joke is robert pattinson responding to the name rpattz and saying he'd much rather be called spunk ransom

Hold on tight, spider monkeys, this vid will be gold... 😉 (Also, you better believe I learnt Bella's Lullaby on the piano in middle school!)

Honestly I would read an entire series of books just about the backstory of the Cullen’s and NO Bella/Edward story

The book series you mentioned reading for Twilight sounds like the Night World series by L. J. Smith

Meyers wrote really interesting supporting characters. Like I couldn't care less about Bella but the Cullens were really interesting.

I love every part of this. If you do reread the entire series I would love to see videos of your thoughts!

Me and one of my best friends downloaded the twilight audiobooks for a road trip and it was like the listening to the best comedy album ever. I think the thing that is so special about Twilight is was just this communal thing that we all came to the realization together really was subjectively not good on so many levels, and yet at one point so many people loved it. It gives us a chance to laugh at our past selves, while also realizing those false undertones of what we contextualized as a good relationship as a tween/teen.

THOROUGHLY ENJOYED THIS I was complete twihard trash at 11/12 and this has sent me back SO HARD

we love twilight discourse in the year 2019

Michael Sheen’s laugh at the end of Breaking Dawn. Incredible..

I'm just so glad that menstrual cups weren't popular during the twilight years

I was a die hard twilighter. Me and my friends would spend days on end talking about the books and movies and have some great memories related to it but the funniest memory i have with the whole franchise is when I first got introduced to it. One of my friends in 8th grade (13) invited me to her birthday party, her mom was going to take her and all her friends to see the first movie. I hadn't even read the books or knew what it was so she let me borrow her copy to read. I wasn't much of a reader back than but I didn't want to be left out so I read it and finished it in two days. I asked another friend for New Moon and went and saw the movie with the whole group of them. About three weeks later my mom was going to take me and another friend to see it again and I invited the same friend who got me into the series and she called me a loser for liking such stuff. Needless to say I ended that friendship and went two years being obsessed with the series. Loved the video, can't wait to see what things come to the for front while rereading the books.

I was in my first year at secondary school and I had a girl next to me that made me call her renesmae. That's how I was introduced to the books, and the film was out that year 2008 the last film came out the year I left school. I was 11, now I'm 23 with a beard. Thank you for an amazing experience and being a part of my life cast and author and characters alike.

I was obsessed with twilight when I was 14. I got tickets to the midnight premiere of new moon for my 15th birthday and that night was like someone dunked a bucket of ice over my head and I woke up from this weird dream. I went to the premiere with two of my friends and when Jacob takes off his t-shirt in the film, everyone in the room started squealing and clapping hysterically. My friends and I looked at each other in shock and that's when we all realised how ridiculous we'd been for the past year of our lives.

I adore this video!! Also I kinda hate that I know this, but I'm pretty sure the reason they go to high school is so they can stay in one place for as long as possible. Like, I think they do also go to college but they try and start out as 16-17 year olds and then graduate high school, go to college and so on until it becomes obvious that they aren't ageing, and then they start back from highschool again in a new place. I mean.. that is not a great reason. But I remember this being talked about (or maybe just heavily implied?) at one point.

Ok we can trash twilight all we like but that baseball scene was I C O N I C Honestly loved this video! The franchise really was a defining moment of our generation it seems 😂

Please so a video about your pet peeves of the harry potter films, we all have them

i think they're in high school because whenever they move to a new place they start off being as young as they can in order to stay in a place without suspicion for as long as they can. I think that is the in-world reason that myer gives. I say 'i think' because i haven't read this book in over ten years but if memory serves thats the reason..... :P

I had a pink Sony Ericsson phone with a slide out keyboard and my text message alert was Bella asking “how long have you been 17?” and Edward replying “... a while”. Kids nowadays will never know such joy.

The first film as a standalone indie vamp flick is actually kind of awesome imo The blockbustery sequels just sort of took themselves too seriously I think?

recently rewatched all twilight films while i was having a bad day. they are an immensely enjoyable tragedy and jessica, rosalie and charlie are now the best characters!

Yes. Please make this a series to revisit old books/movies!

Someone might have said this but was the book series you couldn't remember the name of Night World by LJ Smith? There were 9 and they all had supernatural beings falling in love with (mostly) humans so it fits. She still hasn't released book 10 which was supposed to tie it all together...

I was exactly the same when I reread it, mortified I was so in love with him. 😂 However, when I was 14 I very much remember there being a group of “Twilight mums”, so I’d love to know why those 40 year olds didn’t see how obsessive and creepy he was!

This was so entertaining. Twilight was such a guilty pleasure of mine.

it's always a pleasure to watch these kinds of videos on your channel, you're so analytical when it comes to these things!

So I bought the book in a tiny bookstore in a tiny town on the Californian coast on vacation. It was 15 years ago, and I now live in that town and the bookstore is still here! I can't read any of the books without cringing hard, though.

This is the content I didn’t know I needed. Loved the video! 🍎😏

-I always thought they started in highschool so that they could stay in one place for a longer amount of time. -In middle school me and my best friend would read the books over the phone alternating pages - I went to a midnight dvd release of Twilight and got to skip to the front of the line because I won a trivia contest -When Eclipse came out on dvd the first thing I did was fing the exact frame where Bella’s fist connects with Jacob’s cheek Looking back the books were wild but like it was a good few years.!

Oh man I just rewatched the movies and boy were they interesting. I get what you said about being sucked into the world again because I was a little bit and kind of enjoyed watching them to an extent!! But it is so hard to look past the major problems of the "romance" depicted in them and the books. I don't think I can bring myself to reread the books, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't be able to get through them. Great video--its fun to reminisce about past obsessions :)

Omg. So I'm 27 right now and I believe I'm the same age as Lex? Anyway, I can relate SO MUCH with her experience with the books. I remember reading the first one at the beach the year before starting high school (so I would have been 14 at the time). I was leaning into the emo phase already, not really showing it in my clothing but definitely looking for "forbidden" love stories with death as an undertone. So when I read the book my mind was blown. I fell in love with Edward IMMEDIATELY and made all my friends reading it and we discussed and we cried and we wrote fan fictions. It was glorious. Around the third one we were not so sure anymore and the obsession slowly faded out (as obsessions tend to do). They're all so ashamed of ever liking it but I look back at those times and it's bittersweet. I'm not able to throw myself into a fandom like that anymore and even though I know it's a part of growing up, I miss it sometimes. Thank you for reminding me of that

every second of this is absolute pure gold

This was so great. I read this series in Elementary School. Which is soooo bad. It was the later half so maybe 10 years old, but I really liked it. It was good timing as a fandom to get into after Harry Potter. It was not good in retrospect, but I cant deny the effect it had on me.

Is the book series you're talking about the Night World series by L J Smith (author of the Vampire Diaries books)?!

I read twilight when I was 12. That was my first YA novel and I was enamoured. But right after that, I started reading Jeaniene Frost's Night Huntress series. It quickly changed my mind on what a good relationship is. NH still remains one of my favorites. So I was always Team Charlie on this.

This video SPEAKS TO ME. Me and my friend have a podcast about film and we covered Twilight and essentially its just an audio version of this video. Thank you for being so relatable.

My favorite Twilight things: 1) The deleted dream sequence from New Moon, where Bella wakes up screaming because there's centipedes on her computer and Edward has her face. 2) The demon puppet baby from Breaking Dawn.

Enjoyed this lots! You've made me in the mood to revisit the series now too. Although only yesterday I was drafting a blog post about "things that were actually good about twilight" (I've only got a couple things so far) so maybe the desire was already brewing...

This is giving me life. Thank you for this video. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

I loved this video! I feel like I found Sanne through Twilight content, if I'm remembering correctly. I was so into Twilight, and I think I'm at the age where I don't cringe looking back on it and instead look back with fondness and nostalgia. My husband and I recently rewatched the movies all in the span of two days, and they were rough, but I did remember why I had so much fun with the series back then. I first read them before the series got very popular. I remember being 13 when I first read them, and I'm 26 now. Crazy!

My Twilight experience. 1) Read Twilight; 2) Watched the first movie; 3) Thought I was watching Perks of being a Wallflower but being horrified when the movie starts and its the very last Twilight movie (friend accidentally bought the wrong tickets). I cringed the whole time.

I am the same age as you, and have also recently revisted twilight! My partner had never watched the films and our combined favourite moment is when her knees, and spine, and everything else all snap right as her water breaks. The entire birth scene is what picks me up on a bad day because it is so funny! As for the books I am shamefully enjoying them just as much as when I was young, but I have to work much much harder to ignore the abusive behaviours of Edward!

robert pattinson’s interviews were my fav parts of twilight movies coming out 😀 haven’t watched the last like three movies but i always knew when they were coming out cause tumblr supplied me with a steady stream of new RPattz interview gifs 😂

The video we didn't we wanted and probably didn't deserve either but oh my god this was so enjoyable !! Thank you

wow i didnt know how badly I needed this video :') I would be very down for an update as you read or when youre done reading the books. I just recently re"discovered" twilight too. First 10 minutes of movies one, i was like "...maybe this doesnt suck so much!!" but then edward becomes a character and it's a hard yeet.

This is the stuff I’m here for. Your experiences are so familiar to me!

I was laughing so hard :D Lex you're literally me! Twilight made my early teens, it was basically my introduction to fandom and internet stuff and I was on sooo many forums....

I like that it was such a simple language with the same words used a lot because they were the first 4 books I read in English. I also respect that Stephanie Meyer has let herself fade into the background years later instead of like JK who keeps coming up with new HP content and additions to cannon.

I haven't even read Twilight but listening to you was hilarious!

this is so bloody good great points love it !!

THANK YOU for making this video..... what a GIFT.... a walk down MEMORY LANE.....

So glad you mentioned eclipse! It was my fave book when I was a twilight fan girl and I tried to reread it last year and it was sooo bad. Edward was so controlling and I couldn’t even finish it!

Few things take me back to feeling 14 as much as listening to the soundtrack of the first movie (which was quite good in retrospect, unlike the movie itself, even if it would take me another year or two to realize that back then)

Love this video!! I used to be such a twi-hard...Remnant of my twilight days: me being able to play part of Alexandre Desplat's "New Moon (The Meadow)" theme on piano - it's still beautiful!

I have a group of about 8 friends in a facebook message we've had going since...2008? We met in a Twilight fb group. I've met most of them at this point, even though we live in England, France, Canada and the US. I'm literally sharing this with them INSTANTLY

I'm reading twilight right now, so this is perfect! It's so interesting to look at it in a post-fifty shades world where the controversy surrounding it comparatively is so... nonexistent.

Yes for nuanced Twilight content! I love your book and movie reviews, and I would totally watch video game reviews too if that's something you were ever interested in making

I remember reading Midnight Sun with my friends in our IT class in high school 😅

I came back to watch this gem after hearing that "Midnight Sun" is being released in year of our lord 2020

Literally love this! Now want to go reread twilight so badly

New Moan, best thing to come from Twilight was that parody book 😂

I remember in the 7th grade all of my friends were reading Twilight obsessively, and there was the longest waiting list at the school library for it. I refused to read it at first because I was ~ too cool ~ to read the same thing as ~ everyone else~. BUT my mom read them and wanted to see the film, but refused to go by herself so she wouldn't seem like one of those weird Twilight Mom fans, and that's when I read them all and was obsessed for a bit. Then I started reading other books about vampires/supernatural/magic whatever, and I realized how bad they were by comparison to the other stuff I had found as a result. Thank you, Twilight?

Oh wow this gave me some serious flashbacks! I was so hyped by Twilight at the age of 14. How times have changed!

Oh no, I think I have to reread twilight now 😂😂😂

My absolute favourite Twilight memory is reading the books, age 14, and gushing to another girl in school about ~*hOw MuCh I related to Bella*~ (lmao) and her response was: “Isn’t she supposed to be really weird?” Which shut me right up. 😂

This is the video I never knew I needed 😂 I think I was around 17 or 18 when I first read the series. I convinced myself I liked the first book because I felt like all my friends did, so I “should”...but somewhere in the second book I decided it wasn’t worth faking anymore lol. I read the rest out of curiosity, then wrote a feminist analysis on it in university 😜

I'm going to send my mother this video because I accidentally turned her on to twilight when I was 13, and she is still on the twilight train 13 years later.

They do actually explain why they start in high school in each place they move - so that they could stay longer in each place, whenever they move :D see, there was an attempt at least to make it look more logical

Loved it !!

Never got into twilight, my friends loved them but I was put off by the vampires being called vegetarian. The original book series you mentioned might be night world. I was obsessed with that series and would get ridiculously sad whenever I reached the end of one, I could not get enough of the destined, forbidden love .

my fav part of my short-lived twilight obsession was all the smutty fanfic lol

Was the book series you mentioned Night World? That was a big thing for a preteen me. The final book is still not out... It's been 22 years.

God I loved this. Thank you.

thank you for this blessed content also did anyone read Growing Up Cullen? I had so many flashbacks to it while watching

Laughing so hard. Thank you for this

Omg twilight is also how I really got into youtube. The glorious days of twilight collab channels.

I never really perceived it like he thought she was stupid! I always assumed he was used to “”regular”” teenage minds (and by regular I mean stereotypically written lmao) so he was surprised that she wasn’t like... too vapid and self-absorbed to be perceptive. And one thing I hated about the books vs the movies (and a lot of what made it seem more “abusive” like behaviors is that the movies sucked out almost all of their banter and humor together. I cried at your commentary on how he wanted her to know but wouldn’t tell her and all I could think is how in grade school kids used to be all 🎶 “I know something you don’t know!” 🎶 lmaooo

This is my favourite video ever.

this was so enjoyable to watch

NIGHT WORLD SERIES by LJ Smith! All the books have different characters falling for humans and having the forbidden love factor. LJ Smith wrote the original Vampire Diaries before it was given to another author to fit the plot of the show.

I CAN'T TELL YOU BUT BLOOD'S DELICIOUS

y'all should check out this podcast called American Vampire. it dives sooo deep into all of this stuff you two started to hit on

I loved twilight as a teen, such a sucker for a romance film/book.

I'm coming at this as someone who has barely touched twilight, I almost read it in highschool. So is now suddenly the time when all the people who read twilight when they were younger just decide to up and have a bit of a nostalgia burst and look back at the series

i was like...elbow deep in the twilight youtube crack video community, there are so many jokes and phrases that i have embedded in my brain that none of my friends today understand. (Ex, save a volvo ride a vampire, the parody songs and videos by lolliliciouslolly, the volturi wives, nomoremarbles, etc). its so funny the things that stick with you.

😂😂😂😂 Very funny I felt the exact same thing when I tried to reread twilight again after a few years. I've been about 18 when I first read the books, and I really loved them. And when I read the first book again I couldn't understand why I loved them in the first place 😂😂😂😂 You made me laugh soooo hard here 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

My favorite Twilight memory is when I was watching Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire with my mom and sister. My mom looked at Cedric Diggory and said, "He's really attractive. They should have gotten him to play Edward Cullen." My sister and I laughed for about five minutes straight, unable to explain to my mom why that was so funny.

i clicked on your twilight fanfiction to read it for shits and giggles and old times sakes but just seeing the fanfiction.net website and the character names gave me such voilent flashbacks from my twilight days that i couldnt. other than that i really enjoyed this discussion and i have enjoyed looking at it with a 10 years later perspective too. i'm curious if it would have gotten this big if it was released today. i feel like teens these days are much more aware than i was at 15