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[English]

- Hi everyone, my name is Tyler,

and it's been a while since I've made a video,

so I am just gonna dive right in

because I'm really nervous to be making this

because I haven't made one in forever,

and I was just like, you know what?

They all hate me now, so if you don't hate me,

push the like button below so I know

that you don't hate me, it'll be the only way.

So a few weeks ago, I was invited to come speak

for Spirit Day in Charleston, South Carolina

for a rally, and it was so much fun.

I got to meet so many of you guys,

and here are some pictures of the meetup

that I had while I was there, it was just a lot of fun.

I put up all the pictures that you guys sent me

from the event on my Facebook,

so you can find them all there.

Then I took an overnight flight to New York,

and if you follow me on Instagram,

you know that my week in New York

was absolutely insane.

I got to go to a Women of YouTube comedy show,

which was absolutely hilarious

and featured some of my favorite ladies on YouTube,

including Hannah Hart and Mamrie Hart

and Dailygrace and Francesca Ramsey,

and it was so fun and funny,

I absolutely loved it.

I got to be on a special Halloween episode

of My Damn Channel Live with Hannah Hart

and Dailygrace, and we all dressed up as

Internet memes of 2012,

I was obviously ridiculously photogenic guy, because duh.

You can find the link to that video below.

And then one of the absolute craziest and amazing things

that happened to me in New York

was kind of a continuation of something

that happened to me in a previous video --

And then the day before, Ricky Martin tweeted at me

on National Coming Out Day, which is insane,

which, I mean, that doesn't happen to me, or people!

And basically, what happened was, Ricky Martin

invited me to come see him in his Broadway revival

of Evita and it was amazing and he was phenomenal

and then I got to meet him backstage

and we chatted for like, 30 minutes,

and he signed my book, can you see?

It says, to my friend Tyler, thank you for everything

you're the best, it was like, a crazy thing

that I just don't, I cannot fathom that it happened

because it was so cool and he's just so amazing,

so Ricky, thank you for that.

Then I announced that I was having an impromptu

New York City meetup in Central Park,

and it was gonna be three hours,

and I was like, oh my god, nobody's gonna come,

and then all of you came and it was over 500 people

and it was six and a half hours long

of nonstop posing and pictures and fun

and hugging and embracing and funness

and amazingness and it was just absolutely insane,

so thank you guys for coming.

I am putting all the pictures you guys sent

of us together at the meetup on Facebook,

so you can find your picture there.

I then visited my friends at dosomething.org,

which is an amazing organization

that encourages youth to get involved

in activism in tons of different ways,

and we came up with a campaign together

because I always get you guys asking me

for birthday shoutouts, so if you want me to call you

or your friend or anybody you know in your life

for their birthday and wish them a happy birthday,

all you have to do is click the link below,

and you can sign up anybody and I will call them

on their birthday, it's that simple.

Go sign up all of your friends, it was really cool to do.

And this whole time in New York,

I was staying with my good friend Alex,

we were like, we should have a Twitcam kiki,

we should talk about all the stuff we did at the meetup

we should talk about our week, because it was a crazy week,

then we saw, of all people, Lindsay Lohan tweet

about the hurricane, and we were like,

oh my god, Lindsay's online, let's all tweet at her

and tell her to come to this Twitcam,

and she did.

And so we are basically best friends

with Lindsay Lohan now, she spent two hours

in our Twitcam, she literally yelled at me

because I was drinking and she said,

have you learned nothing from my past,

literally, I just, I lost my ability to even.

And then of course, Hurricane Sassy hit,

and I was a little bit distraught,

because I was supposed to go home,

back to San Francisco for Halloween,

I had all these plans, so I felt kind of stuck,

but everything worked out for the best

because I spent Halloween with my good friends

Christian and Brad and we had

a little Halloween get-together,

and then that night,

of all things that could possibly happen,

Andy Cohen invited me to guest bartend their special

Halloween episode of Watch What Happens Live,

and I got to hug and embrace Andy Cohen

and Denise Richards and I was just literally dying,

and just when I thought that night couldn't get any better,

we left Watch What Happens Live and headed over

to meet up with some friends at karaoke,

and it was literally like a dream

because I am just sitting here, in a karaoke room,

sipping my drink, watching Amber Riley

perform How Will I Know by Whitney Houston

with Christian Siriano on backup,

and I was just like, what is going on?

It will go down as one of the absolute coolest moments

of my life, so I can't complain that my flight was delayed

because that happened.

So then, after spending two weeks in New York,

I flew back to San Francisco to do a day of laundry

and then flew to LA for the week.

So then, for the whole week in LA,

I cohosted What's Trending Live with Shira Lazar

and we did a whole bunch of videos together

but a couple of my favorites, the links will be below,

we did an interview with Kingsley,

we did an interview with the cast of

Lizzie Bennet Diaries, we did an interview with

Michelle Branch, we made a salad

with Michelle Branch, we had like, a cooking show.

I played the Newlyweds game to see how much

I knew Kingsley and how much he knew me,

so the links to all of those will be below,

they're hilarious, they're amazing, you need to watch them.

That Sunday, I went and got drinks

with somebody you may recall from a previous Glingo video,

his name is Jake, he's Australian,

he's just the best.

On election night, I got to be a part of

Larry King's Live election coverage

where I talked about social media

and the election online and on Tumblr

and Twitter and how it kind of changed the game

this election season,

and it was just really surreal

to watch election coverage with Larry King

sitting to my right and Dionne from Clueless

sitting to my left, I just felt like,

what is going on in my life?

I went and got drinks with Abraham and Eileen

from The Glee Project, I got to get drinks

with one of my absolute favorite Twitter friends,

Jamba Jim, who ships Klaine just as much as I do,

basically I got a lot of drinks that week.

And then finally, on that Wednesday,

I was invited to be a guest on the live pre-show

for the X Factor in the US, which was absolutely insane,

because if you know me, I love reality TV,

and so to go on the show and talk about what I love

and talk about what contestants I love,

it was so fun, so if you watched that,

thank you for watching.

Finally, I am back in San Francisco,

and you have no clue how excited I am to be here.

I have been gone and out and about for weeks

and weeks and weeks, and so to sleep in my own bed

feels so good, you have no fucking clue.

Thank you to Alex and Sarah who let me stay

at their places in LA and New York,

but to be in my own bed in San Francisco,

you have no idea.

So yes, I know that was the longest update of my life,

but thank you for grinning and bearing with it.

The links to all the videos I'm talking about

and all the campaigns that I talked about

are gonna be below.

A couple announcements that I feel like I should tell you,

number one, you can get a birthday call from me,

the link will be below,

and finally, please vote for me for the Queerty awards,

I am nominated for two categories,

link to both of those are below,

but yes, I feel like I just talked your ear off!

So what is going on in your life?

I'm going to be reading your guys' comments

to tell me what's been going on in your life!

I want to hear the amazing things that are happening to you,

so yeah, comment below, I hope you're having a good life.

I'm sorry that this video was a million years long,

but I just felt like I should update you on my life,

that is all, okay, it's been real.

Okay, bye.

Oh my god.

Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
nervous /ˈnɜːrvəs/ B1	adjective - easily agitated or alarmed
invited /ɪnˈvaɪtɪd/ A2	verb - asked someone to go somewhere or do something
insane /ɪnˈseɪn/ B2	adjective - extremely foolish or unreasonable
hilarious /hɪˈlɛəriəs/ B2	adjective - extremely amusing
featured /ˈfiːtʃəd/ B1	verb - to have as a prominent part
ridiculously /rɪˈdɪkjuːləsli/ B2	adverb - in a very silly or unreasonable way
photogenic /ˌfoʊtəˈdʒɛnɪk/ B2	adjective - looking attractive in photographs
amazing /əˈmeɪzɪŋ/ B1	adjective - causing great surprise or wonder
phenomenal /fəˈnɑːmɪnəl/ C1	adjective - extraordinarily good
fathom /ˈfæθəm/ C1	verb - understand (a difficult problem or an enigmatic person) after much thought
impromptu /ɪmˈprɑːm(p)tuː/ B2	adjective - done or said without planning or forethought
activism /ˈæktɪvɪzəm/ B2	noun - the policy or action of using vigorous campaigning to bring about political or social change
shoutouts /ˈʃaʊtˌaʊts/ A2	noun - a public acknowledgement or greeting
kiki /ˈkiːkiː/ B1	noun - a lively party or gathering
hurricane /ˈhɜːrɪkeɪn/ B1	noun - a violent, tropical, cyclonic storm
distraught /dɪˈstrɔːt/ B2	adjective - deeply upset and agitated
delay /dɪˈleɪ/ A2	verb - to postpone or put off

Key Grammar Structures

• So a few weeks ago, I was invited to come speak for Spirit Day in Charleston, South Carolina

  ➔ Past Continuous/Past Simple combination

  ➔ The phrase uses the past simple ("was invited") to describe a completed action and implies a broader timeframe with the introductory phrase "a few weeks ago". The use of 'to come speak' is an infinitive of purpose.

• I got to meet so many of you guys, and here are some pictures of the meetup that I had while I was there.

  ➔ Relative Clauses (defining and non-defining)

  ➔ "that I had" is a defining relative clause, essential to identifying *which* meetup. "while I was there" is an adverbial clause of time, modifying the verb 'had'.

• I got to be on a special Halloween episode of My Damn Channel Live with Hannah Hart and Dailygrace, and we all dressed up as Internet memes of 2012.

  ➔ Prepositional Phrases & Coordination

  ➔ The sentence uses multiple prepositional phrases ("of My Damn Channel Live", "as Internet memes of 2012") to add detail. The coordinating conjunction 'and' connects two independent clauses.

• And then one of the absolute craziest and amazing things that happened to me in New York was kind of a continuation of something that happened to me in a previous video --

  ➔ Complex Sentence Structure with Embedded Clauses

  ➔ This is a very long and complex sentence. The core idea is a simple statement, but it's heavily modified by relative clauses ("that happened to me in New York", "that happened to me in a previous video"). The phrase "kind of" acts as a hedge, softening the statement.

• I was like, oh my god, nobody's gonna come, and then all of you came and it was over 500 people

  ➔ Discourse Markers & Exclamations

  ➔ "I was like" is a discourse marker, indicating reported thought. "Oh my god" is an exclamation expressing surprise. The sentence demonstrates a shift in expectation.