Welcome to a new episode of English Vocabulary Booster.
My name is Lara and I'm a SALSA-certified English teacher.
Learning new vocabulary usually takes a long time, but we'll do it in a way that's easy, quick and efficient.
In every episode, we'll learn how to use five new English words or expressions, so that you too can start speaking like a native.
So let's get learning.
You guys, how are you?
I hope you're doing well today.
It's just me.
I don't know if you listened to last week's episode but um, we had a guest and i you know what.
Do you guys think of those kinds of episodes?
Do you like it when i have a guest?
Because i want to try and do more collabs um, but i also want to make sure that i do you know stuff that you like.
So let me know.
Do you like it?
Or do you prefer it to just be you and me, something a little more intimate?
Um, let me know, because i'm curious.
Anyway, today we're going to talk about social media.
Hello buzzers and welcome to my YouTube channel.
My name is Alicia and I post new videos three times a week.
In case you don't know, in every video we spell the T on what's going on in the YouTube world.
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Let's get right into it.
This week French YouTuber Melanie Dubois finally admitted to how she and her boyfriend met.
Apparently, her boyfriend used to be a huge fan of hers, and one day he finally found the courage to slide into Melanie's DMs, and the two have been inseparable ever since.
Let's move on to Craig Mustard, or as you may know him, Big Mustard.
The star's latest video was taken down last week after people accused him of making insensitive comments towards women.
Now even his biggest fans are saying he deserves to get cancelled.
What do you think?
Let me know in the comments below.
It's time to talk about the video that has turned the internet upside down.
16-year-old TikToker Marcus Cubs shared a video of his cat barking.
That's right, barking.
The video went viral on Monday and it has now reached over 13 million views.
If you haven't watched it yet, don't worry.
I'll link it in the description so you can go watch it right away.
That's it for today.
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Hopefully you stayed for this part of the episode.
Let's begin with expression number one.
Spill the tea.
In every video, we spill the tea on what's going on in the YouTube world.
If you spill the tea, do you talk about other people's private lives?
Or do you share something about your private life?
Well, usually if you spill the tea, you are talking about other people's private lives.
So what's the synonym for spilling the tea?
Gossiping, talking, or judging.
It's gossiping.
So saying something, maybe addressing a rumor, talking about something that not a lot of people are talking about, it doesn't necessarily have to be true.
It just needs to be, like I said, something that is not known publicly maybe.
Yeah, and so that's what gossiping is and that... is what spilling the tea means.
It's like the cool term for gossiping nowadays.
If you spill the tea, does that mean you'll share juicy information or not?
Juicy information, that alone should have been one of the terms for today's episode.
Anyway, when you are talking about juicy information, you really mean interesting information.
It's like a slang term for, yeah, interesting information.
So yes, definitely.
If you spill the tea, you are sharing juicy information.
You're sharing something like a very dark secret about someone.
You know, it's not just like, oh, like they got a dog.
It's more like, oh, she has an affair.
They've been seeing each other for two years.
That's when you're really spilling the tea.
So I'm not really into YouTube drama.
But yeah, every now and then I clicked on a video that promised to spill the tea.
And it's something that a lot of YouTubers do these days.
They title their videos spilling the tea on.
You know whatever topic they're going to talk about.
So yeah, every now and then, yes, I got curious and clicked on them.
Expression number two, slide into someone's DMs.
You finally found the courage to slide into Melanie's DMs.
If you slide into someone's DMs, do you send a DM or do you receive it?
If you slide into someone's DMs, you receive. send a DM to another person.
Who can slide into your DMs?
Someone you know or someone you've never spoken to before?
So if you say that someone slid into your DMs, what you're really saying is that you either didn't know this person very well you definitely were not friends with them or maybe you didn't know them at all.
I think that happens a lot to celebrities where a lot of people slide into their DMs.
Obviously, they don't know them personally, but they try to um get in touch with them, and so they will slide into their dms.
But hold on, because that's not it.
That's not the only thing that we mean when we say that someone slid into your dms.
What is usually the purpose of sliding into someone's dms?
Well, here's the thing.
When you use the expression to slide into someone's DMs, you're usually implying that they have some sort of romantic purpose.
So they are into you.
They like you.
And even though they don't know you very well, they want to talk to you.
And that's why they send you a DM.
Or in this case, they slide into your DMs.
Has someone ever slid into your DMs?
I don't think so.
I mean, I've had lots of you reach out to me on Instagram, but I wouldn't call that sliding into my DMs.
So no, I don't think anybody has ever slid into my DMs.
Expression number three, take down a video or a post.
The star's latest video was taken down last week.
If a video gets taken down, what happens to it?
Does it get shared or does it get deleted?
If you say that a video or a post gets taken down, it means that it gets deleted from social media.
And what would a video be taken down?
Well, I think there's really two possibilities.
Either you can take down your own video or your own post.
Say that you posted something that you are not very proud of, or you realize that you know you could see something that you didn't want people to see, whatever.
You can decide to take it down.
Or even a platform can decide to take, down a video or a post.
Say that you maybe posted a video on YouTube and YouTube thought that It was not appropriate, or maybe you were using music that you didn't own the rights to.
So what YouTube can do in that case is they can take down your video.
So they can delete it from their platform.
Has a video or post that you made ever been taken down?
Um, no.
Um, I mean, usually it happens when, especially on Instagram, when you violate their policy.
If you post stuff that's inappropriate, but my content is all PG-13.
And, um, so yeah, I don't think I've ever violated any, any rules.
And so no, no posts of mine have been taken down so far.
Expression number four, get canceled.
Now, even his biggest fans are saying he deserves to get cancelled.
Who can get cancelled?
Someone who's famous or someone who isn't?
Only people that are famous or at least somewhat famous can get cancelled.
And why do people get cancelled?
So there's something called the cancel culture movement.
It's a really big topic so i and i can't explain it to you in detail but um, going go ahead and google it because it's really interesting um, i'm gonna try and explain it to you as best as i can.
Um Basically, what's been happening is that if a celebrity or someone, like I said, somewhat famous, does something bad and I'm talking things like you know people find out that they've been hurting other people, that they've been sexually harassing other people, that they've made racist comments, the Even their own fans or just the public in general, can decide to cancel them.
What they're trying to do is really they're trying to punish famous people for really bad behavior.
So what will happen to you if you get canceled?
If you are a celebrity and you get canceled, what that means is that people are going to stop watching your videos or just interacting with your content.
They're going to try and convince other people to stop supporting you, to stop following you.
If you are getting canceled, you might lose a lot of followers.
And yeah, it's seen as a form of punishment for bad behavior.
You're a celebrity, you did something awful.
I'm going to take that fame away from you and I'm gonna punish you for it.
Can you think of someone famous who got canceled recently?
If you like.
I said, if you Google it, you're going to see a ton of celebrities that have been canceled recently.
One that comes to mind is Ellen DeGeneres.
She is an American comedian and everybody loved her.
Everybody was obsessed with her.
Everybody thought she was super funny.
And then some of her employees started to complain saying that she was mistreating them at work.
She was being really mean, really rude.
And it's like people, the public saw her from this other perspective and they decided to cancel her.
But she's just one of the many examples of people that got canceled.
Expression number five, go viral.
The video went viral on Monday and it has now reached over 13 million views.
What happens to a video or a post if it goes viral?
Is it seen a lot or not?
Yes, if a video goes viral, it is seen a lot of times.
But now, if something goes viral, is it seen a lot over a short period of time or over a long period of time?
That would be over a short period of time.
If I post something today and within a few hours it gets 1 million views, then that video has definitely gone viral.
But if I post it today and it gets 1 million views over say, 10 years, then no, I mean, it's still probably a good video, because 1 million views is not bad, but I can't say that it went viral.
And what makes a video go viral?
Oh, I wish I knew.
If I knew, I would make every one of my videos go viral.
But I don't really know.
I think it's really easy for videos that feature cats or dogs or animals in general to go viral.
Maybe I should just include a couple hamsters in every video I make and see if that helps.
Did a video or a photo that you posted ever go viral?
No, not yet.
There was this one time when I posted something on TikTok and it quickly went from like zero likes to what was it like?
Almost 300.
And it was like, this is it.
This is going to be the one.
And that is just like flatlined.
Nothing happened.
So I was like, all right, yeah, whatever.
But you know, 300 likes, that's not bad.
But no, I haven't made one single viral video yet.
But who knows, hopefully in the near future.
And that is it for today.
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