How Fandoms Have Ruined It All

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Due to one of Anna's biggest pet peeves being millions of tabs open on phones and computers, she never had YouTube open except for when she knew she would need a specific video again soon. So naturally, having just finished her (underrated) Instagram selfie, there were no tabs on her phone for YouTube.

She typed https://www.youtube.com/ into the search engine (she could have just typed in youtube, but she loved the sound of her keyboard when she pressed the keys), and went through the recommended section of the YouTube home page. There were four videos she had already watched on her computer, one DIY baking video, two makeup videos from people she didn't know, one video from a guy called Daniel Howell and another from her favorite fashionable YouTuber who was predicting what fall fashions would look like that year, and a trailer for the Emoji Movie.

It was a no-brainer for Anna- the fashion one of course!- but as she tapped it, the page did that thing where it goes up or down just enough to make you accidentally tap something else.

That something else was the Daniel Howell video.

She groaned. Who would watch that? The two guys in it were makeup idiots, they looked like freaks! Why did YouTube do that?

She desperately tapped the back arrow, but the video autoplayed and refused to go back.

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no!

"Hello internet!" said a brown haired British guy who look to be in his twenties.

Dang, he's actually kind of cute.

"So this year, 2015, on Friday the 13th of March, it is Red Nose Day in the UK,"

Is he an ad dude or something?

"...which is a fundraising event held by Comic Relief to transform the lives of people living in the UK and Africa, and this year, the theme is "Make Your Face Funny for Money"."

Still think you're an ad dude.

"...and they are doing a little thing called the "selfie", where you make your face look ridiculous, donate a pound, and then share the picture with everybody, encouraging them to do the same thing."

Wow what a sad life for such a beautiful person.

"So, I thought this would be a pretty good opportunity to do something that I otherwise have no interest in doing on this YouTube channel."

Good he's no an ad guy.

"...cause why would I ever want a blindfolded makeup challenge."

Oh god. This will be interesting.

The rest of the video featured him and his equally dazzling friend, Phil, humiliating themselves by not knowing how to do anything makeup related. The result was pretty funny, but why would someone let people openly judge them, probably negatively, and then put it on YouTube because of a charity?

After the video ended, she found herself tapping on Get Ready With Dan, another of his stupid videos.

Its funny watching him humiliate
himself for entertainment. Besides, it's just one more video. It can't hurt.

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Omg guys I can't believe it. Twenty views aren't much, but I appreciate all of them so much! (Is this good for a first fic? Idk)

I know the chapters are short, but the plot's picking up so the chapters should start getting longer. Get ready to fangirl!

K I'll see y'all never cuz we're online and that's not how the internet works.

Ok I know I'm not funny. Bye!