What’s up, y’all? It’s your homeboy and I got receipts. And this time around it’s on a much lighter topic, you know?
I’ve been working on some pretty serious videos and even right now I’m editing one that’s kind of stressful so I just wanted to take a– take a moment of my time to talk about my personal life and kind of, like– [laughs] It makes me laugh because this came out of nowhere, it’s so, like, non serious so I wanna, like, poke at it and show you guys how ridiculous Twitter is. [laughs] Now, as a lot of you guys know, I’m in a long-distance relationship with the beautiful Mina and we have a little tradition in which, before bed, I wake herup and I prepare my nighttime meal and she prepares her breakfast then we watch something on Netflix or something and then I go to sleep and she starts her day. You gotta have little cute traditions if you’re gonna be in an LDR. For those of you asking for tips for their own long-distance relationships, I highly encourage traditions like that and we go on FaceTime audio so, you know, you’re both on wi-fi, it’s completely free to do, and one of you has an Android…
I’m so sorry. I’m just kidding, I’m kidding. No– you can use Whatsapp and that also works just as well as long as you’re both on wi-fi, there’s no extra charges.
And when we pick a show or movie on Netflix, we go “1, 2, play.” [laughs] Anyways, back to the story – so last night, I was making some tacos, you know, I like to eat tacos, it’s kind of my tradition. I make bean tacos with avocado and some hot sauce, yummy– with some chocolate milk and I’m on the phone with Mina and we’re talking about the very prevalent, “-Corona.” you know, locking everybody down when, all of a sudden, you know, I finish making my taco and I’m about to go upstairs to my room and all of a sudden, she– she says– [laughs] She says something that really threw me off. “Mina: Oh my god, Edwin.https://www.datingscout.com/hinge/review I’ve just been feeling so HONEY recently.
I was feeling honey before, but ever since Corona hit, I’ve been feeling honey-er than ever!” So I said, “hold on a second, I want to tweet that” because it was so random, it was just out of nowhere. [laughs] So I read her what I thought of tweeting and I said, “you think this is funny? should I do it?” and she’s like, “yeah, yeah, do it!” I said, “So I just finished making my delicious bean taco and I’m on the phone with my girlfriend having a casual conversation (about you know what) when, all of a sudden, she tells me she’s feeling really honey. Something has infected her but it’s not the Corona!” For the sake of not offending anyone, I’m gonna say “honey” instead of the actual H word. I tweeted that around 4 A.M. so it didn’t really catch any traction, you know?
Not many people replied straight away and I didn’t think much of it. So after I had my meal and Mina and I finished watching the movie “The Gift” “-You think you’re done with the past but the past is not done with you.” Pretty good, pretty creepy, pretty intense. I went to bed then I woke up and boy, I did not expect to wake up to all these replies. “Well, you do have a nice voice that can be very seductive when it wants to be.” When it wants to be. “Oohh, exposed!” “Go give her some vitamin D. Winky face.” It’s actually looking like Mina’s vitamin appointments gonna have to be postponed because we had plans to meet up in April and now, with all that’s going on, that’s– that’s the one bummer, the true bummer of this video.
Sucks. “Quarantine got all the ladies acting up dis week.” Oh, so it ain’t just Mina . “HAHAHHA Glove up!” Hold up, just so it’s clear: I wasn’t saying that a transmitted disease infected Mina, I was– I don’t know, it was just a joke and, in my head, I thought like, “hey, like, a honey virus infected her,” you know? But not the… Rona virus. Maybe my joke didn’t land but at least that’s the part that emphasizes that it’s a joke, right? “How many babies are gonna be born because of quarantine?” and Frank says, “There were baby boomers now there will be carona babies.” And that’s when Kelsey slid in with her 3,000 like tweet saying “2033: quaranteens.” Clever, clever. “It’s happening to women all across the U.S.
I’ve noticed a huge surge in honey tweets from ladies and I’m a lady and can confirm.” [laughs] “My boyfriend and I were watching Dragon Ball Z in a Discord call and I said the same thing.” She gets me! Well, not– not me, she gets Mina. She gets Mina and no shame about it, you know? So, you know, it’s nice to see that people get me, you know? That people don’t forget where my sense of humor lies but there are quite a few people that actually– it surprised me how many people don’t get me. “Yep, I really didn’t need to know this.” “What a weird thing to share.” “def overshare” “No respect, just filth” “You’re really announcing this to the world??
Are you for real? Like Dude, come on. Posting this just screams insecurity and inexperience. Kinda embarassed for you.” So I said to this person, “Don’t project your insecurities onto us.
We’re perfectly fine.” “Project my insecurities? Try again.” I mean, yeah, what’s me bringing up how Mina randomly said she was honey have anything to do with me being inexperienced with her? What? I mean, you ain’t even got a picture on your own profile. [laughs] I just love when people on Twitter think they’re really onto something, right?
But they can’t even share their own face, they don’t share anything about themselves online so they feel so powerful being anonymous internet warriors. [laughs] “Why do you feel the need to broadcast the fact that your girlfriend’s honey?” Now, that wasn’t the entire tweet. But it’s just a lot about you how that’s the only thing you read out of the entire thing because, look, it’s a joke: it either landed or it didn’t. It’s not that deep though. All right, let’s move on to the next one. “We get it, you have a girlfriend.” That’s not the point of the tweet but okay… “You’re over sharing bro.” This person doesn’t even follow me. Imagine going to someone’s Twitter that you don’t even care that much to follow and saying, “hey, I don’t like what you’re sharing, man.
I need my safe space and your tweeting something that doesn’t– doesn’t go with it, okay?” Like, is this what we’re turning into? Come on, guys. Come on. Then Kirsten later replied to her saying, “Seriously, as the girlfriend I’d be PISSED if this was put online.
Not to mention the fact that this was ‘tweet-worthy’ is just cringe.” Again, this person does not follow me so I don’t even understand how they’re finding my tweet, looking through the replies and then, like, “you know what? I relate with this person!” and– and just– what? Not only does this Kirsten gal not follow me but she ain’t my girlfriend. Obviously, like, she’d be pissed because I don’t– I don’t want you, girl.
I got my own girlfriend and she happy with me. [laughs] It’s funny, man. Like, I just don’t understand how people, like, on Twitter just go into other people’s profiles and just, like, get angry about… I don’t know, man. Maybe I’m in a different Twitter universe but, uhm– when I go on Twitter, I see– I see people going all out, like, with their, you know, being honey and stuff and then I say the most tame joke, I thought it was pretty vanilla my joke and apparently everyone’s got their panties in a bunch.
And I did quote tweet that person later on because they had made that tweet much later on but I just wanted to read it right away because they were the second person that is, like, getting worked up over someone that they don’t even follow. So, anyways, after processing this mixed bag of replies, I made another tweet and said, “Woke up to a bunch of replies to my tweet saying things like ‘disrespectful!’ and ‘why are u sharing?’ Hey, my girlfriend–” oof, I forgot to put that “my” in there. “Hey, my girlfriend feeling extremely honey after we have been away from each other for months is valid and we can share what we want. Keep your insecurities to yourself.” Hmh.
And, honestly, I do think it’s a little odd that people are so adamant, you know? So passionate about shaming such a normal human emotion. I mean, the tweet itself– I thought the tweet itself was pretty harmless, like– like, a bad joke at worse but it really that explicit, I didn’t detail anything because literally that’s all she said.
We didn’t do anything dirty on the FaceTime so anybody thinking anything further, that’s on you because we literally just ate, watched the movie and I went to sleep. And if you’ve been following me for longer than a few years, you know that I’m serious when I say that expressing yourself and being open about s-xuality shouldn’t be a big deal, I mean, for one, also, my username on Twitter used to be… S-xyEdwin. And the videos that I used to make before I did commentary were something else. “-The first time that this girl asked me to choke her, I was like, ‘…okay’ so I kinda choked her and she was like, ‘harder.’ I was like, ‘wait, but when do I know?” you know? [laughs] Yeah, it happened in that couch. -No, it did not.” And the reason why a lot of my older content was based on s-xuality was because, you know, for me, growing up, it was something that was shamed, you know? This is a weird story but literally, I, one time, when I was, like, 12-years-old, I went to the priest and I confessed– it was my first and only ever confession I think but I confessed that I played with myself, you know?
And it was just something that I was always shamed with me growing up so, as I grew older and was making YouTube videos, I kind of did it towards my younger self, you know? I wanted to express and normalize and make jokes, make light out of things that were shamed or, like, not talked about, you know, stigmatized essentially which is weird to say because now most people, I thought, shouldn’t really care to be open and s-x positive, you know? It’s weird that I have to have this conversation because I thought that we were kind of over that. But, you know, so I moved on from that content and now I’m making content that once again I wish my former self would have at points, you know?
Or that I could kind of give as advice to other people from what I’ve learned in my own life. But, anyways, back to Twitter because the outrage did not end there. I did get some replies to my new tweet from homies that do get me. Fellow YouTuber Vilonious says, “Why is it a crime for Mina to be honey? Why is it a crime for you to tweet about it?
I’m pretty sure every single one of the people talking poopy has been honey in their lives” [laughs] “and if that’s something they kept to themselves, then I think we know why they’re mad.” Ooh, clever. Then I obnoxiously replied “I WOULD ALSO PUT SOME GOOD MONEY ON EVERYONE REPLYING HAS FELT THE HONEY SENSATION. Oops, TMI.” “Wouldn’t be at all surprised that lots of people are feeling honey-er than usual.
One thing that really gets the reproductive juices flowing is fear and a real perceived threat to life.” This is true. I remember learning about this in Psychology class, you know? That’s why when you go see a horror movie, you know, you kind of hold hands and you’re, like, you– you cuddle together because it naturally makes you want to be with someone and then, before you know it, things escalate but that’s– “I thought it was funny because A) Mina is funny and B) that’s a fudging hilarious time to say that” Yes! “and C) I’m shy so I would never say it to anyone so the whole scenario amuses me. People are annoying.” “At first I thought it was weird but to be fair you’re both adults and it’s pretty funny.” Hey, you know what?
I’ll take it. “I didn’t think you’d post something like that without her permission. I found it pretty funny, maybe some of your followers are a little young.” That’s the thing – my followers are not young and, I mean, I say this is a generalization obviously because, even if you want to argue that YouTube’s analytics are inaccurate and every single young person, for some reason, lies about their age when signing up for YouTube account, I connect with my fans a lot, you know? I do a lot of live streams and I talk to them, message them, I tweet back and stuff and I am aware that most of– most of them are adults. Oh my god, this chick again. “Your response doesn’t even make any sense. It’s not because of people’s insecurities that they’re calling you out, it’s people’s cringe meter going off.
Sorry if people don’t want to think about you losing your virginity.” Like, that one cracked me up. You think I’m a 30-year-old virgin?! [laughs] I don’t know what to think about that, I just– all I could think was say “LOL” I mean, what the– what? That’s just funny, you know? ♫Don’t stop believin’♫ That’s what I mean, you know?
It sounds, like, a lot of projection. I don’t know this person but hey, you know, you keep hiding behind your little Internet, like, [laughs] That’s the thing, I share so much about myself, like, I literally— you could learn so much about me by just watching me on YouTube. Not to mention, what is me pointing out that Mina said she’s honey on the phone have anything to do with me losing my virginity?
See, that’s what I mean, this person is doing the most by imagining me losing my virginity for some reason even though I lost that many years ago, like– like, what? If somebody thought about that from my original tweet, you need to get yourself checked out, girl. “You would think you posted pictures of her hoo-ha… like it wasn’t super fond of the tweet but whatever. I didn’t tweet at you to tell you I disapprove.
Like, I’m married, I have 4 kids. I don’t care what a boyfriend/girlfriend talk about.” And I said, “Amen! I totally respect that.
Plenty of people I support tweet things I don’t always agree with or might even make me feel uncomfortable and when that happens, I keep scrolling.” Because it really isn’t that hard to just keep on scrolling. “tell them to stay faaaar away from gay Twitter them lmao.” But that’s the thing, I thought part of signing up for Twitter was that you’re gonna be guaranteed to see something that you don’t agree with, you know? I mean, seriously, you could be on the bus and somebody retweets something really grotesque or something really… honey. In my example, I don’t think that was that bad. Hey, crucify me.
Then again, signing up for Twitter also includes strangers occasionally getting upset at you over minuscule things. “Keep your private lives to yourselves. Just TMI has nothing to do with insecurities, some of us don’t need to know your fwohf life.” Excuse me? Yo, I swear, these people that don’t show pictures of their own face on Twitter are really imaginative, I mean, from my tweet, you’re imagining my– my– me and Mina doing things? All she said was she was being honey! It’s a normal human emotion, I mean, look at your own profile picture, you got trees doing the dirty!
Girl, jesus christ… “It was funny but this is over sharing and private I think Edwin, I’m open but don’t know if it’s a good thing with that much audience, it’s ‘funny’ for certain people but what’s the point?” Holy run-on sentence, Batman. “You should understand that people in your community are not your friends, keep it private.” Now, here’s the thing about this tweet – I know I joked about the run-on sentence but I don’t mind the tweet. I understand the sentiment, I think they’re looking out, they’re saying, “yo, you know, of course you’re gonna get criticism, you know? Some people don’t want to hear about your private life” but, at the same time, it’s, like, I’ve been sharing about my private life on Twitter for– for years. I don’t really agree with the expectation of having to cater to strangers when they don’t like what I’m saying because I didn’t get to where I am by catering to strangers, you know? I got to where I am by being passionate and loving what I do, like, really grinding hard and working hard.
And that’s not to say that I’m even anywhere far, like– like, when people say “with my audience” like, it’s still weird to me. I mean, I guess my audience has grown and I’m– I’m really grateful and I do think it’s a valid criticism because, you know, they have a point – my followers are not my friends. At the end of the day, I feel like a lot of people that follow my channel are probably willing to turn on me if they don’t like something I say and here’s a valid example, you know? And it’s kind of a bummer but it’s a large reason why I have been tweeting a lot less than I used to, you know? If you’ve been following for a while, you probably noticed that; especially personal tweets because, to an extent, it almost feels like I’m setting myself up to just be scrutinized and– and what’s the fun in that?
It really isn’t. Like, sometimes– sometimes I’ll have fun, like, this is kind of, like, silly ridiculous, I’m like, “really, y’all?” but then it gets to a point where some people become obsessed, dare I say? And I’ll show an example but, for this kind of situation, it’s not that big of a deal but other times, like, for my “Edwin and Mina” vlogs, I begin feeling overwhelmed from having to put together a bunch of clips into a vlog and make it entertaining, you know, because sometimes we didn’t vlog in a sequential manner so I have to kind of… make it work, you know? And, on top of that, having the comments kind of scrutinizing and judge our relationship was just unnecessary because you gotta remember, I’m also working on the Edwin’s Generation videos that are a lot more stressful as well and, like, I invest a lot of time and a lot of myself into so, overall, I just was, like, “I can’t– I can’t” and I told Mina if she wants to keep it going she can and she’s been getting very good at editing so you guys can expect a new vlog on the “Edwin and Mina” channel. “M: -So, before this video starts, I thought I could give you guys a little look at my journey to Puerto Vallarta.” So that takes a little weight off of me because, obviously, I also don’t want the “Edwin and Mina” channel to d-e.
But, yeah, I have always been a very open and expressive person, you know? And this is why I like to do live streams and– and connect with my audience, you know? I love communicating. Alright, let’s keep the train moving here.
Someone says, “disgust at over sharing is not an insecurity lmao” Are you sure? Because all I said was that Mina was honey and, if that’s disgusting to you, then you definitely sound a little insecure, honey. Check yourself. So, like I said, eventually I quote tweeted that one person that doesn’t even follow me and said that they’d be pissed if they were my girlfriend and I tweeted what I tweeted because my tweet was very cringe worthy. “Mina is comfortable sharing NORMAL feelings and I thought it was hilarious that she said it so randomly after I made my taco. it ain’t as cringe as y’all’s reactions, lol.” I mean, seriously, at this point, everyone that’s going, “ew, ew,” that’s getting kind of, like, “ew at you girl.
Go in your corner and– and keep cringing at– at honey.” “Love people totally speaking on Mina’s behalf here as if she isn’t comfortable at all. To be honest, I’d be more pissed off with someone taking offence on my behalf instead of respecting the dynamic of the relationship.” Amen, sis. Oh, and this person’s back again which, by the way, they don’t even follow me so some people literally just come to my profile to be salty. They said, “I love how hard you cry when people have a different view, you seem so incapable of accepting that to some people something is X, and to others it is Y.” Oof, try-hard much? [laughs] Oh, I’m sorry, am I having trouble accepting that you’re Y and I’m X for calling you a try-hard? [laughs] What?! Bro, what?!
I just told this person, “and I love how seriously you take my tweets” because it’s actually comedic to me, you know? Because I get what the little anime icon is trying to say, you know, they’re trying to say that, “oh, I have a problem with someone having a different perspective than me.” And you know what? I’m not perfect, you could probably argue that there’s been times in one of my videos or maybe in a live stream or something I said in which I give off that vibe, however, in this one?
What’s up, y’all? It’s your homeboy and I got receipts. And this time around it’s on a much lighter topic, you know?
I’ve been working on some pretty serious videos and even right now I’m editing one that’s kind of stressful so I just wanted to take a– take a moment of my time to talk about my personal life and kind of, like– [laughs] It makes me laugh because this came out of nowhere, it’s so, like, non serious so I wanna, like, poke at it and show you guys how ridiculous Twitter is. [laughs] Now, as a lot of you guys know, I’m in a long-distance relationship with the beautiful Mina and we have a little tradition in which, before bed, I wake herup and I prepare my nighttime meal and she prepares her breakfast then we watch something on Netflix or something and then I go to sleep and she starts her day. You gotta have little cute traditions if you’re gonna be in an LDR. For those of you asking for tips for their own long-distance relationships, I highly encourage traditions like that and we go on FaceTime audio so, you know, you’re both on wi-fi, it’s completely free to do, and one of you has an Android…
I’m so sorry. I’m just kidding, I’m kidding. No– you can use Whatsapp and that also works just as well as long as you’re both on wi-fi, there’s no extra charges.
And when we pick a show or movie on Netflix, we go “1, 2, play.” [laughs] Anyways, back to the story – so last night, I was making some tacos, you know, I like to eat tacos, it’s kind of my tradition. I make bean tacos with avocado and some hot sauce, yummy– with some chocolate milk and I’m on the phone with Mina and we’re talking about the very prevalent, “-Corona.” you know, locking everybody down when, all of a sudden, you know, I finish making my taco and I’m about to go upstairs to my room and all of a sudden, she– she says– [laughs] She says something that really threw me off. “Mina: Oh my god, Edwin. I’ve just been feeling so HONEY recently.
I was feeling honey before, but ever since Corona hit, I’ve been feeling honey-er than ever!” So I said, “hold on a second, I want to tweet that” because it was so random, it was just out of nowhere. [laughs] So I read her what I thought of tweeting and I said, “you think this is funny? should I do it?” and she’s like, “yeah, yeah, do it!” I said, “So I just finished making my delicious bean taco and I’m on the phone with my girlfriend having a casual conversation (about you know what) when, all of a sudden, she tells me she’s feeling really honey. Something has infected her but it’s not the Corona!” For the sake of not offending anyone, I’m gonna say “honey” instead of the actual H word. I tweeted that around 4 A.M. so it didn’t really catch any traction, you know?
Not many people replied straight away and I didn’t think much of it. So after I had my meal and Mina and I finished watching the movie “The Gift” “-You think you’re done with the past but the past is not done with you.” Pretty good, pretty creepy, pretty intense. I went to bed then I woke up and boy, I did not expect to wake up to all these replies. “Well, you do have a nice voice that can be very seductive when it wants to be.” When it wants to be. “Oohh, exposed!” “Go give her some vitamin D. Winky face.” It’s actually looking like Mina’s vitamin appointments gonna have to be postponed because we had plans to meet up in April and now, with all that’s going on, that’s– that’s the one bummer, the true bummer of this video.
Sucks. “Quarantine got all the ladies acting up dis week.” Oh, so it ain’t just Mina . “HAHAHHA Glove up!” Hold up, just so it’s clear: I wasn’t saying that a transmitted disease infected Mina, I was– I don’t know, it was just a joke and, in my head, I thought like, “hey, like, a honey virus infected her,” you know? But not the… Rona virus. Maybe my joke didn’t land but at least that’s the part that emphasizes that it’s a joke, right? “How many babies are gonna be born because of quarantine?” and Frank says, “There were baby boomers now there will be carona babies.” And that’s when Kelsey slid in with her 3,000 like tweet saying “2033: quaranteens.” Clever, clever. “It’s happening to women all across the U.S.
I’ve noticed a huge surge in honey tweets from ladies and I’m a lady and can confirm.” [laughs] “My boyfriend and I were watching Dragon Ball Z in a Discord call and I said the same thing.” She gets me! Well, not– not me, she gets Mina. She gets Mina and no shame about it, you know? So, you know, it’s nice to see that people get me, you know? That people don’t forget where my sense of humor lies but there are quite a few people that actually– it surprised me how many people don’t get me. “Yep, I really didn’t need to know this.” “What a weird thing to share.” “def overshare” “No respect, just filth” “You’re really announcing this to the world??
Are you for real? Like Dude, come on. Posting this just screams insecurity and inexperience. Kinda embarassed for you.” So I said to this person, “Don’t project your insecurities onto us.
We’re perfectly fine.” “Project my insecurities? Try again.” I mean, yeah, what’s me bringing up how Mina randomly said she was honey have anything to do with me being inexperienced with her? What? I mean, you ain’t even got a picture on your own profile. [laughs] I just love when people on Twitter think they’re really onto something, right?
But they can’t even share their own face, they don’t share anything about themselves online so they feel so powerful being anonymous internet warriors. [laughs] “Why do you feel the need to broadcast the fact that your girlfriend’s honey?” Now, that wasn’t the entire tweet. But it’s just a lot about you how that’s the only thing you read out of the entire thing because, look, it’s a joke: it either landed or it didn’t. It’s not that deep though. All right, let’s move on to the next one. “We get it, you have a girlfriend.” That’s not the point of the tweet but okay… “You’re over sharing bro.” This person doesn’t even follow me. Imagine going to someone’s Twitter that you don’t even care that much to follow and saying, “hey, I don’t like what you’re sharing, man.
I need my safe space and your tweeting something that doesn’t– doesn’t go with it, okay?” Like, is this what we’re turning into? Come on, guys. Come on. Then Kirsten later replied to her saying, “Seriously, as the girlfriend I’d be PISSED if this was put online.
Not to mention the fact that this was ‘tweet-worthy’ is just cringe.” Again, this person does not follow me so I don’t even understand how they’re finding my tweet, looking through the replies and then, like, “you know what? I relate with this person!” and– and just– what? Not only does this Kirsten gal not follow me but she ain’t my girlfriend. Obviously, like, she’d be pissed because I don’t– I don’t want you, girl.
I got my own girlfriend and she happy with me. [laughs] It’s funny, man. Like, I just don’t understand how people, like, on Twitter just go into other people‘s profiles and just, like, get angry about… I don’t know, man. Maybe I’m in a different Twitter universe but, uhm– when I go on Twitter, I see– I see people going all out, like, with their, you know, being honey and stuff and then I say the most tame joke, I thought it was pretty vanilla my joke and apparently everyone‘s got their panties in a bunch.
And I did quote tweet that person later on because they had made that tweet much later on but I just wanted to read it right away because they were the second person that is, like, getting worked up over someone that they don’t even follow. So, anyways, after processing this mixed bag of replies, I made another tweet and said, “Woke up to a bunch of replies to my tweet saying things like ‘disrespectful!’ and ‘why are u sharing?’ Hey, my girlfriend–” oof, I forgot to put that “my” in there. “Hey, my girlfriend feeling extremely honey after we have been away from each other for months is valid and we can share what we want. Keep your insecurities to yourself.” Hmh.
And, honestly, I do think it’s a little odd that people are so adamant, you know? So passionate about shaming such a normal human emotion. I mean, the tweet itself– I thought the tweet itself was pretty harmless, like– like, a bad joke at worse but it really that explicit, I didn’t detail anything because literally that’s all she said.
We didn’t do anything dirty on the FaceTime so anybody thinking anything further, that’s on you because we literally just ate, watched the movie and I went to sleep. And if you’ve been following me for longer than a few years, you know that I’m serious when I say that expressing yourself and being open about s-xuality shouldn’t be a big deal, I mean, for one, also, my username on Twitter used to be… S-xyEdwin. And the videos that I used to make before I did commentary were something else. “-The first time that this girl asked me to choke her, I was like, ‘…okay’ so I kinda choked her and she was like, ‘harder.’ I was like, ‘wait, but when do I know?” you know? [laughs] Yeah, it happened in that couch. -No, it did not.” And the reason why a lot of my older content was based on s-xuality was because, you know, for me, growing up, it was something that was shamed, you know? This is a weird story but literally, I, one time, when I was, like, 12-years-old, I went to the priest and I confessed– it was my first and only ever confession I think but I confessed that I played with myself, you know?
And it was just something that I was always shamed with me growing up so, as I grew older and was making YouTube videos, I kind of did it towards my younger self, you know? I wanted to express and normalize and make jokes, make light out of things that were shamed or, like, not talked about, you know, stigmatized essentially which is weird to say because now most people, I thought, shouldn’t really care to be open and s-x positive, you know? It’s weird that I have to have this conversation because I thought that we were kind of over that. But, you know, so I moved on from that content and now I’m making content that once again I wish my former self would have at points, you know?
Or that I could kind of give as advice to other people from what I’ve learned in my own life. But, anyways, back to Twitter because the outrage did not end there. I did get some replies to my new tweet from homies that do get me. Fellow YouTuber Vilonious says, “Why is it a crime for Mina to be honey? Why is it a crime for you to tweet about it?
I’m pretty sure every single one of the people talking poopy has been honey in their lives” [laughs] “and if that’s something they kept to themselves, then I think we know why they’re mad.” Ooh, clever. Then I obnoxiously replied “I WOULD ALSO PUT SOME GOOD MONEY ON EVERYONE REPLYING HAS FELT THE HONEY SENSATION. Oops, TMI.” “Wouldn’t be at all surprised that lots of people are feeling honey-er than usual.
One thing that really gets the reproductive juices flowing is fear and a real perceived threat to life.” This is true. I remember learning about this in Psychology class, you know? That’s why when you go see a horror movie, you know, you kind of hold hands and you’re, like, you– you cuddle together because it naturally makes you want to be with someone and then, before you know it, things escalate but that’s– “I thought it was funny because A) Mina is funny and B) that’s a fudging hilarious time to say that” Yes! “and C) I’m shy so I would never say it to anyone so the whole scenario amuses me. People are annoying.” “At first I thought it was weird but to be fair you’re both adults and it’s pretty funny.” Hey, you know what?
I’ll take it. “I didn’t think you’d post something like that without her permission. I found it pretty funny, maybe some of your followers are a little young.” That’s the thing – my followers are not young and, I mean, I say this is a generalization obviously because, even if you want to argue that YouTube’s analytics are inaccurate and every single young person, for some reason, lies about their age when signing up for YouTube account, I connect with my fans a lot, you know? I do a lot of live streams and I talk to them, message them, I tweet back and stuff and I am aware that most of– most of them are adults. Oh my god, this chick again. “Your response doesn’t even make any sense. It’s not because of people’s insecurities that they’re calling you out, it’s people’s cringe meter going off.
Sorry if people don’t want to think about you losing your virginity.” Like, that one cracked me up. You think I’m a 30-year-old virgin?! [laughs] I don’t know what to think about that, I just– all I could think was say “LOL” I mean, what the– what? That’s just funny, you know? ♫Don’t stop believin’♫ That’s what I mean, you know?
It sounds, like, a lot of projection. I don’t know this person but hey, you know, you keep hiding behind your little Internet, like, [laughs] That’s the thing, I share so much about myself, like, I literally– you could learn so much about me by just watching me on YouTube. Not to mention, what is me pointing out that Mina said she’s honey on the phone have anything to do with me losing my virginity?
See, that’s what I mean, this person is doing the most by imagining me losing my virginity for some reason even though I lost that many years ago, like– like, what? If somebody thought about that from my original tweet, you need to get yourself checked out, girl. “You would think you posted pictures of her hoo-ha… like it wasn’t super fond of the tweet but whatever. I didn’t tweet at you to tell you I disapprove.
Like, I’m married, I have 4 kids. I don’t care what a boyfriend/girlfriend talk about.” And I said, “Amen! I totally respect that.
Plenty of people I support tweet things I don’t always agree with or might even make me feel uncomfortable and when that happens, I keep scrolling.” Because it really isn’t that hard to just keep on scrolling. “tell them to stay faaaar away from gay Twitter them lmao.” But that’s the thing, I thought part of signing up for Twitter was that you’re gonna be guaranteed to see something that you don’t agree with, you know? I mean, seriously, you could be on the bus and somebody retweets something really grotesque or something really… honey. In my example, I don’t think that was that bad. Hey, crucify me.
Then again, signing up for Twitter also includes strangers occasionally getting upset at you over minuscule things. “Keep your private lives to yourselves. Just TMI has nothing to do with insecurities, some of us don’t need to know your fwohf life.” Excuse me? Yo, I swear, these people that don’t show pictures of their own face on Twitter are really imaginative, I mean, from my tweet, you’re imagining my– my– me and Mina doing things? All she said was she was being honey! It’s a normal human emotion, I mean, look at your own profile picture, you got trees doing the dirty!
Girl, jesus christ… “It was funny but this is over sharing and private I think Edwin, I’m open but don’t know if it’s a good thing with that much audience, it’s ‘funny’ for certain people but what’s the point?” Holy run-on sentence, Batman. “You should understand that people in your community are not your friends, keep it private.” Now, here’s the thing about this tweet – I know I joked about the run-on sentence but I don’t mind the tweet. I understand the sentiment, I think they’re looking out, they’re saying, “yo, you know, of course you’re gonna get criticism, you know? Some people don’t want to hear about your private life” but, at the same time, it’s, like, I’ve been sharing about my private life on Twitter for– for years. I don’t really agree with the expectation of having to cater to strangers when they don’t like what I’m saying because I didn’t get to where I am by catering to strangers, you know? I got to where I am by being passionate and loving what I do, like, really grinding hard and working hard.
And that’s not to say that I’m even anywhere far, like– like, when people say “with my audience” like, it’s still weird to me. I mean, I guess my audience has grown and I’m– I’m really grateful and I do think it’s a valid criticism because, you know, they have a point – my followers are not my friends. At the end of the day, I feel like a lot of people that follow my channel are probably willing to turn on me if they don’t like something I say and here’s a valid example, you know? And it’s kind of a bummer but it’s a large reason why I have been tweeting a lot less than I used to, you know? If you’ve been following for a while, you probably noticed that; especially personal tweets because, to an extent, it almost feels like I’m setting myself up to just be scrutinized and– and what’s the fun in that?
It really isn’t. Like, sometimes– sometimes I’ll have fun, like, this is kind of, like, silly ridiculous, I’m like, “really, y’all?” but then it gets to a point where some people become obsessed, dare I say? And I’ll show an example but, for this kind of situation, it’s not that big of a deal but other times, like, for my “Edwin and Mina” vlogs, I begin feeling overwhelmed from having to put together a bunch of clips into a vlog and make it entertaining, you know, because sometimes we didn’t vlog in a sequential manner so I have to kind of… make it work, you know? And, on top of that, having the comments kind of scrutinizing and judge our relationship was just unnecessary because you gotta remember, I’m also working on the Edwin’s Generation videos that are a lot more stressful as well and, like, I invest a lot of time and a lot of myself into so, overall, I just was, like, “I can’t– I can’t” and I told Mina if she wants to keep it going she can and she’s been getting very good at editing so you guys can expect a new vlog on the “Edwin and Mina” channel. “M: -So, before this video starts, I thought I could give you guys a little look at my journey to Puerto Vallarta.” So that takes a little weight off of me because, obviously, I also don’t want the “Edwin and Mina” channel to d-e.
But, yeah, I have always been a very open and expressive person, you know? And this is why I like to do live streams and– and connect with my audience, you know? I love communicating. Alright, let’s keep the train moving here.
Someone says, “disgust at over sharing is not an insecurity lmao” Are you sure? Because all I said was that Mina was honey and, if that’s disgusting to you, then you definitely sound a little insecure, honey. Check yourself. So, like I said, eventually I quote tweeted that one person that doesn’t even follow me and said that they’d be pissed if they were my girlfriend and I tweeted what I tweeted because my tweet was very cringe worthy. “Mina is comfortable sharing NORMAL feelings and I thought it was hilarious that she said it so randomly after I made my taco. it ain’t as cringe as y’all’s reactions, lol.” I mean, seriously, at this point, everyone that’s going, “ew, ew,” that’s getting kind of, like, “ew at you girl.
Go in your corner and– and keep cringing at– at honey.” “Love people totally speaking on Mina’s behalf here as if she isn’t comfortable at all. To be honest, I’d be more pissed off with someone taking offence on my behalf instead of respecting the dynamic of the relationship.” Amen, sis. Oh, and this person’s back again which, by the way, they don’t even follow me so some people literally just come to my profile to be salty. They said, “I love how hard you cry when people have a different view, you seem so incapable of accepting that to some people something is X, and to others it is Y.” Oof, try-hard much? [laughs] Oh, I’m sorry, am I having trouble accepting that you’re Y and I’m X for calling you a try-hard? [laughs] What?! Bro, what?!
I just told this person, “and I love how seriously you take my tweets” because it’s actually comedic to me, you know? Because I get what the little anime icon is trying to say, you know, they’re trying to say that, “oh, I have a problem with someone having a different perspective than me.” And you know what? I’m not perfect, you could probably argue that there’s been times in one of my videos or maybe in a live stream or something I said in which I give off that vibe, however, in this one?
In this tweet, really? Homie…? Nah, nah, nah, girl, sit yo -ss down, what the f-ck? [laughs] None of these tweets represent me being “incapable of accepting” that to some people something is X and to others it is Y. God, that sounds so pretentious and just bleugh.
If you want to say I made a bad joke, just say I made a bad joke but to ironically complain to me as I’m telling people that I will tweet what I want just makes you look like a dumb idiot. Oh, that feels good. Take that X and shove it up your Y. This girl says, “bro please just stop honey posting about your girlfriend. that’s not why we’re following you” to which I said, “Bro please stop whining about my tweets and just keep scrolling. You don’t even follow me lmao” and, by the way, someone @ replied the girl that I quote tweeted saying, “Must suck to have no sense of humor” and she said, “HAHAHA OMG you’re right, I’ll lighten up” and I can’t tell she’s being sarcastic but she stopped tweeting.
She’s cool, she’s cool my book, geez. Okay, now last but not least, the person that seemingly got a little bit obsessed as they were tweeting to me and to my followers and about me all day long, it was… a little weird. So I’m just gonna read a few, some that stand out.
This one says, “THIS. this is why the anti Onisions are effing up the movement. One opinion different from one of their ‘leaders’/’truthers’ and F all else…” and, you know, they got Keemstar and Shiloh tagged but what? What it– what does that– what is my tweet have to do–?!
Then she started arguing with a lot of my followers, sending stuff, like , “Unless you’re a 27-year-old dating/objectifying a 20-year-old whose frontal lobes are not yet developed enough to protect themselves… Then, it’s questionable.” People kept correcting her about the ages too; someone said, “Mina is 23” and then the woman says “Holy crap… She’s 22.” [laughs] Can she not read?! “Thank you for bringing that to my attention.
Ahooh.” Then she goes, “Okay, let’s shame the 27-year-old man for objectifying his 20-year-old girlfriend.” and, once again, she’s reminded about how Mina is 23 and she goes, “She’s 21 and he is 31…” Dang, our ages just keeps sliding, huh? She also made this tweet to Keemstar saying, “so, are we not gonna talk about how Edwin and his girlfriend’s age difference is not that different than that of Onision and Kai?” This is all because of my original tweet, y’all. You can’t make this up. After over 20 tweets to or about me, I gave in and I was like, “you know what?
Let’s see what she’s all about” so I– I tweeted her, I said, “I’m 30 and Mina is 23. It’s an easy Google search but seriously what are you doing? Did my original tweet upset you so much that you want to cancel me by comparing me to Onision…? Like seriously what is your goal here?
You’ve been replying with this narrative all day” to which she said, “I mean, if the shoe fits…” So you are trying to cancel me because you think I am like Onision. She replied again to the same tweet saying, “if you’re being cancelled, that you’re doing. I’m just floored that someone, that’s gone so hard d after Onision, is really not that different, dot, dot, dot, dot.” And I’m just floored at how stupid you are. And she once again tweeted at Keemstar, “Why are we ignoring Edwin being no different than Onision???” “why won’t any one point out Edwin exploits his girlfriend, who is 10 years his junior.” Wow, Mina just keeps getting younger and younger. Are you guys seeing this pattern of people that disagree with me, you know, some a little bit nastier than others, they always seem to play out these scenarios that aren’t real, you know?
They, like, find excuses to amplify a wrongdoing that never was, you know? “oh, Edwin said honey” and then “oh, Edwin objectifies and exploits,” “oh, Edwin– I don’t wanna picture him losing his virginity.” I only tweeted at this woman one single time and that was the tweet that I read to you guys and she tweeted over 50 times easily, you know, and that was just in one day. So why did I make this video? Well, I started it two nights ago and, you know, I got a lot of it done but then I got tired and usually when I do videos that take longer than a day, I’ll wear the same shirt or clothes, you know, for continuity purposes but let’s forget about that. The reason why I did this video, well, I mean, for multiple reasons – one of them is so you guys can get to know me, you know?
I made this channel so I can be more personable because, as I said in the first video on this channel, I felt like Edwin’s Generation channel just became more, I don’t know, I guess “professional”? People started putting me on this pedestal and seeing this really high standard of me and, like, at first, it was a bit overwhelming, I didn’t know how to handle it but, like, I want to keep my standard of work, you know? Like, I– I was happy that people were seeing my work improve but, at the same time, I also felt like I couldn’t express a certain side of me all of a sudden so I was just like, “alright, let’s just do this channel,” you know?
So I want to remind you guys of who I am, you know, so I think it’s important to do these kinds of videos and, you know, I know it’s easy to say, “Edwin, don’t worry about those haters on Twitter,” yeah, but, like, I want you guys to see how I handle it, you know? And I also don’t want you guys to think that I shut down, you know, because some people were perceiving me as shutting down those who disagree with me. And those who follow me closely know that that’s not the case, I mean, I do live streams in which I talk to people with opposing views and, the day after all that went on, I tweeted, “Oops, there I go over sharing on my own Twitter again!” and I posted some risque photos of me and Mina and someone replied, “my issue with this, my only issue, is that this is not what I followed u for, and I feel I’m being forced to read/see tweets I’m uncomfortable with, and it’s not like this is normal posting so it wasn’t clear before I followed. I consented to YouTube drama you report on, not this” and I responded, “I assume the posts made you unfollow and that is totally valid.
If anything, I appreciate tweeting your issue in a respectful way. I am happy designating my Edwin’s Generation channel to that content but also want my Twitter to remain personal for my thoughts and personality. Thanks for the support.” Do you see how easy it can be to respectfully express distaste for something?
It doesn’t all have to be intense, you know, and coming for someone’s neck. Although it is a bit curious that they find my tweets uncomfortable when their pinned tweet is this. Hey, we’re just having fun here and we gotta be able to have fun, we gotta able to poke fun at ourselves, you know?
Especially as someone who makes a lot of critical videos, I don’t want you guys to be outraged all the time, you know, I want you guys to think critically and that includes not jumping at people. I don’t– I don’t want to encourage that kind of behavior and it feels like, I don’t know– I don’t know if, like, as the years progress, 2020 is becoming more like that, like, ready to jump on peoples neck or also I kind ofthink that the quarantine might also be a factor, you know? I feel like that’s also escalating everything because it’s so stressful for everybody, like, we’re all going through stress. For example, we just posted a vlog on the “Edwin and Mina” channel and, if you watch it, it’s quite clear that it’s from our trip back in December when we went to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. Yet someone posted a comment and said, “y’all should have been made to stay there since you’re cool with ignoring the rules and endangering people.
Who effing cares what you did in Mexico.” Within the first 20 seconds, Mina says that we’re not together and then, at the second minute mark, she acknowledges that it’s the same trip from December. [laughs] So, you know, I was a little, like, peeved and I said, “I bet you felt real smart typing this, huh? Looking forward to seeing how you feel after actually watching. Anyway, stay safe!” There’s a little sass but it’s, like, why– why is she like this?
Then she responded saying, “smart? Nah, I felt pretty horrified though. Then again, I’m taking care of a kid with lung cancer so I don’t expect you spring break selfish people to care about the risks you’re putting others in. I guarantee you felt real smart though.” And I responded saying, “I was only suggesting that you watch the video so you could understand the context being that this is not “spring break” footage and realize that your judgment is misplaced.
This is a stressful time on everyone but there’s absolutely no need for this hostility. I’m sorry to hear about your son and wish you the best.” I really feel like this quarantine is making people react in quite intensive ways at the wrong things at times. So if there’s one thing that you guys can take away from this video is to take a step back when you see something that makes you feel some sort of outrage inside of you, you know, when you see something online, just take a step back, you know, maybe you saw a tweet or maybe that comment that you want to be like, “woah, I want to go find it and hunt it,” no, do not.
Please, do not, you know? Like, I blocked out some of the names just in case because I don’t– I don’t condone that, you know? I feel like, “yo, this is supposed to be an escape, not a place to– to put your outrage somewhere else,” you know?
Yes, we’re all under a lot of stress, like, trust me and it’s not a competition, like, I get it, we will have our own reasons. Let’s just try to use YouTube and other things to have our little escapes, you know, because d-mn… just d-mn. [laughs] If you got this far in to the video, give it a thumbs up and let’s see– let’s talk about the videos that I wanna make, right? The Aaron Carter– I feel like the Aaron Carter video is gonna become like a meme where I never end up making it, I just mention it.
I’m also doing one right now that I’m gonna upload soon, the Encina interview. I kinda want to do one on Joe Biden because he’s kind of creepy. So what I covered in this video happened about two weeks ago and, as you can see, you know, my attitude’s pretty laid-back because people are freaking out over nothing but people kept doing this to me over other tweets or things that happen in some of my live streams and it just became too much so I actually took a Twitter break. Obviously that’s not covered in this video.
I hope I don’t have to freaking make a video about that stuff but, anyways, I hope you guys are staying safe. Alright, peace out.