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Baul : My pronunciation of “Paul” was already unnecessarily obnoxious to begin with. You have to inhale, moisten your lips, hold a pocket of air in your mouth, purse your lips, then release the P with maximum force almost like firing a bullet, accompanied by a small gust of air and a faint trace of bad breath before rolling your lips into the rest of the word.

“Baul,” however, requires a little more finesse. Shape your lips as if you’re trying to make that little bloop water-drop sound with your mouth, then roll them inward to produce the ethereal aul.

Jahn : Start by vibrating the J into a prolonged “jjjjeeeeeee......~”, then gradually release an “ah” while expelling as much air from your throat as human anatomy will physically allow. It should be high-frequency and highly directional, like water being blasted through a misting nozzle. Finish it with an n so faint it practically doesn’t exist, just barely sealing off the continuous stream of raspy air.

Geege : Vibrate the G somewhat like you would with Jahn, except heavier, lower, and more solid. Imagine a small child trying very, very hard to pronounce “G Goat” from an ABC phonics book.

Then drag that shit out for an obscenely long time.

GGGGGEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE/

The sound should travel forward in a perfectly straight line like an object rolling uncontrollably across the floor until it finally hits a wall with a dull THUD.

Rigno : Curl your tongue as tightly as possible for the R. The “ig” should come out almost like a hiccup. For the “no,” make the n sharp and high-pitched, then somehow fuse the vowels A–U–O together into one unified sound, with the pitch rising toward the end.

At this point I don't think I'm pronouncing their names anymore. I'm operating four different pieces of machinery with my mouth.

basically i was watching some minecraft video with these two guys who were brothers, and they were doing some dumb joke vote in the comments like “pick me or pick my brother” or whatever. one of them was way more popular / better known, so basically everyone was voting for him, while the guy i picked had like 5 fucking people on his side lmao

at some point the guy i was rooting for joked something like, “what, did you guys delete all your comments voting for me and switch to my brother?” what he obviously meant was that people had changed their votes. but apparently my child brain heard the word deleted and immediately went WAIT WHAT THE FUCK, YOU CAN DELETE COMMENTS???

and somehow i did not stop for even one second to think about how fucking insane that would be. like why would youtube let some random 8 year old who doesn’t own the channel just go around deleting everybody else’s comments? this genuinely did not occur to me. i was just like holy shit okay how do i do it

so i started clicking random shit on the comments, and i SWEAR there was some option somewhere that made a comment disappear from the page. i have absolutely no idea what it was called. maybe hide, maybe dismiss, maybe don’t show this, maybe some little X button, idfk. this was ages ago

but somehow i figured out that if i did something to a comment, it would vanish

so naturally, because i was apparently joseph stalin of a fucking minecraft comment section, i proceeded to sit there and do it to basically every single comment supporting the other brother

and i mean basically EVERY ONE

like 90% of the comments were for him, and i genuinely remember spending time clicking them away one by one until the only shit left on my screen was like the 5–10 people who had voted for the guy i liked 😭

and the worst part is i remember being genuinely fucking smug about it too. i was probably sitting there thinking some shit like “HAHAHA I DELETED ALL OF YOU NOW IT’S ONLY US” like i had just successfully rigged an election or overthrown a government, when in reality i was a small child sitting in front of a minecraft video

but then here’s the part that fucked me up

i used to rewatch the same videos over and over again as a kid, so at some point i left the video and came back to it later and suddenly

THEY WERE ALL FUCKING BACK

every single comment i had spent forever “deleting” was just there again like nothing had happened

and i remember being so fucking confused because in my head i had literally deleted these people from existence. like what do you mean you’re back. i killed you. why are you here

and for whatever reason i don’t think i ever figured it out at the time. i just accepted that youtube was doing some weird bullshit and moved on with my life

then YEARS later i randomly remembered this whole thing and it finally hit me like wait a fucking second. obviously i could not actually delete comments written by random people on somebody else’s video lmao

so now i’m wondering what the hell i was actually clicking

did youtube ever have some old feature where a normal viewer could hide or dismiss an individual comment just for themselves? like it would disappear from the page for you, but it wasn’t actually deleted, and then maybe it would come back if you refreshed the page or reopened the video?

because i am weirdly confident about the part where i was clicking something and comments were disappearing one at a time. but i have absolutely no idea what the button was called or even what year this happened, because again, i was probably like 7–9 years old and clearly not an especially reliable witness

does anyone else remember youtube having anything like this, or did my child brain somehow fabricate an entire comment moderation system because i desperately wanted my guy to win a fake minecraft election