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My Sultry Voice Gives You an Update is a Firebug Chats video created by Rebecca Parham.
Synopsis[]
Rebecca gives an update about herself and her upcoming video with a sultry voice.
Plot[]
Story of the upcoming video[]
At the very beginning of the video shows middle school Rebecca Parham, who was in a preparatory school and was shown to be constantly disliked and bullied by the other kids in the school. Only a few seconds of the story have been shown because this is a preview for the upcoming animated video.
While Rebecca was walking down the hallway, she saw an opened closet and an unknown bully pushed her to the closet. Many of the kids at her school bullied her occasionally, while some did so regularly.
Chat[]
Most of this video revolved around a single setting, where Rebecca was constantly sitting on a sofa chair next to a fireplace, where she was closing her eyes most of the time. During that time, she was talking about updates regarding herself and the video.
She wants to inform her fans that ever since her last video, she had been consistently working on her next video, despite not talking about it much, especially outside of her Twitter page. The process of this animation was accompanied by many problems and delays, including the infamous COVID-19 pandemic, which is why she said that this video was like a chore to finish.
Her assistant animators had problems and emergencies behind the scenes, which happened during the process of this animation. Moreover, she went to VidCon London for a week in February to see her fans and she became sick at the time she arrived home (this was just a regular sickness, not the COVID-19) and her recovery was also another delay. During her recovery, the COVID-19 pandemic was getting more intense all over the world.
Dane Boe told Rebecca that he had to stay at home in San Francisco at all costs, except for essential travel like groceries and hospitalization. That would mean that Los Angeles might be a potential city with the pandemic, ruining Rebecca's future plans to going there. She advised her fans to stay home and she didn't like that supermarket aisles were getting empty, which was surreal.
She said that even YouTube isn't a very safe job either. It's not unsafe for YouTubers, but rather unsafe for the people who run the website, so they have to do remote work (work at home) and rely on automated systems more. Moreover, Adam, from SomethingElseYT, said that 70% of his viewers cannot see his most recent video on their subscription pages. His channel was not coming up when his name was searched. So, she sort of made this video just to test if the same could happen to her or not, even though it's on her second channel. She wants her fans to comment if this video did show up on their subscription pages.
She has new merchandise coming up soon (witch of the woods hoodie, print, and pins) that is delayed because of the problem with Chinese factories and she is planning to re-release the geek is strong with this one shirt. She is hoping that she can leave a link to sell the new merchandise in her upcoming video.
Finally, she tells her fans to stay safe and plans to put a song or two on this channel.
Outro singing[]
At the end of the video, she sang a song by Ruth Etting. This song is called "Button up Your Overcoat" and sang the following lyrics:
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Button up your overcoat |
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―Extarct of "Button up Your Overcoat" by Ruth Etting |
Characters[]
- Rebecca Parham
- Unknown bully at the beginning (possibly)
- Rachel (pictures)
- Dane Boe (mentioned)
- SomeThingElseYT (mentioned)
Reception[]
This video has been liked a lot by the fans. Some people how Rebecca casually talked in this video.
Easter eggs[]
- The big picture above the fireplace might represent Rebecca Parham being the witch of the woods.
- In the beginning, there is a reference of Sandy the Sandworm from Beetlejuice.
Advertisement[]
At the end of the video, she mentioned that "The Geek is Strong with this One" shirt has returned to her merchandise website.
Trivia[]
- On the calendar, "bullyuary" is certainly a play of words of the month "January". This month indicates that she was constantly getting bullied every day of the month.
- This is the first update video where Rebecca Parham is talking, but her character isn't shown talking.
- This is the second upload from her second channel so far.
- It's possible that videos like these might become a potential series on her second channel. The series would be called "Firebug chats", where Rebecca Parham would show a single animated setting with not much happening in the animation, but instead, she would just be talking directly to her fans about her updates.
- It became a series ever since the upload of What It Was Like Having The Virus.
- This is the first video of 2020, but the second video of that year for people living in Eastern Asia and Oceania.
- She uploaded this video on Saint Patrick's Day.
- The reason why her thumbnail shows her with a microphone might be because of the fact that she was singing at the end of the video.
- The reason why she never mentioned COVID-19 (or the coronavirus) by its name was due to the fact that YouTubers would get demonetized even if they mentioned this virus for educational and announcement purposes.
Animated stories
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Animations
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Music videos
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Drawing videos
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Firebug Chats
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Selected Outtakes
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Announcements
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Behind the Scenes
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Advertisements
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Rebecca Explains
Rebecca Explains 1 • Rebecca Explains 2 • Rebecca Explains 3
Animatics
Down With the SICK
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Animatics (rare)
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