you guys are all so sweet 😭 i was not expecting this video to get that much attention. I promise I’ve been working on part 2 nonstop but I’m currently moving into a new apartment! I’m almost done and I’ll hopefully have it done some time this week. You guys brought up a lot of good points in the comments and i promise i address a lot of them in part 2 and 3 ;)

Minecraft diaries was the first time I can remember shedding actual tears over a piece of media. 10 year old me thought it was the peak of storytelling 😭

I head cannon that the lore getting progressively more convoluted is due to the characters all getting brain damage from being knocked out so many times

the canon event of every girl's love hate relationship with aphmau

The character assassination of Garroth honestly devastated child me, he was so chivalrous, respectful, and devoted 🥲. He was just used as recyclable plot progression fodder by the end of season 1 and continues to be. Don't even get me started with what they did to him in the Phoenix Drop and MyStreet seriesss ugh himbo Garroth haunts me

For me Aph was that youtuber i loved as a kid who didnt grow up with me, infact she felt like she got more imature when i did the opposite

The compliment counter is so necessary because it’s a constant thing in ALL of her series that every character is in love with her and will confess/call her attractive constantly. It gets so annoying

the aphmau cinematic universe might be the first piece of media that doesn’t pass the reverse bechdel test and there’s something sort of beautiful about that

Microdosing this trilogy bc seeing kawaii chan now that I'm 10 years older is bad for my mental health 😭😭😭😭😭😭

Will forever be pissed the Garroth plotline was dropped just so she could have her husbands self insert be her fictional cat girl self’s baby daddy

Huge fan of the “aphmau glazing” counter, hilarious

1:14:59 imagine the scene, you are a ten year old girl with your first tablet catching up on diaries in 2015, garroth visits aphmau in her dreams and they kiss about it, you are brought to tears by this incredible moment, your mom walks in and looks at the scene and declares youre watching soap operas and tells you to stop staying up so late doing that.
A chain of events occurs, you stay up til two every night watching diaries, youre tired for fifth grade math in the morning, the school determines you are bored because youre too smart for it and puts you in the high capacity learning program for the next four years??? idk man life was weird then

There’s a fanfiction on AO3 that rewrites MCD and expands on Garroth and Laurence and their relationship A LOT (the fic also expands on Aphmau as a character too). It’s called Loverman by honeyyhop. It feels like a love letter to MCD while also bringing it to its fuller potential.

im 22 and i still screamed hearing garroth and laurence's voice LMAO

As an ex-Aphmau fanartist, this woke up some memories like a sleeping agent...

I was also a Katelyn lesbian truther

Not to be dramatic, but it legitimately heals something in the long buried cringy prepubescent me to know Aaron is nearly universally hated by nostalgia watchers. I would get into so many internet arguments about how the character “ruined” Aphmau’s channel 😭

this is exactly the kind of niche i was looking for thank u for ur hard work soldier

I never watched minecraft diaries but it's nice to know Garroth and Laurence are soulmates in every universe

as a 22 year old guy, i needed this 😂 i remember being 12 at school excited to watch the new minecraft diaries episode when i got home lmao. also that talk about openly being cringe at a young age was peak