(Hannah sighs)
Ah, it's good to be back
Welcome to another episode of Squirmy and Grubs
After our last video, I think we're developing a bit of a series here
Are we?
And the series is, really big things that happened in our life
That we didn't tell you about at the time
H: Oh
But now that time has passed, we feel comfortable telling you
That's true, we started going back through things being like
"What else haven't we talked about that are important to us?"
S: This one, this is a juicy boy H: It is
So you might want some napkins because things are gonna get messy
Ew
That is the grossest way of saying it
(Hannah laughs)
When I said that I imagined you just chomping into something juicy
Yeah
Like a big mango
Mmm, I just had mango for breakfast
Let me see if I can make anyone watching sweat
H: Sweat?
"Hannah bites into a giant juicy... giant juicy mango"
It's dripping down my forearms (laughs)
Down her face, down... this has nothing to do with the video for today
No, it really doesn't
Can you talk a little bit more about the mango?
No, we're gonna move on from the mango now
We're going to talk about something that happened less than a year ago
Yes, almost a year ago
Almost a year ago now
And it involves trolls
Doesn't everything?
In our life, everything seems to involve trolls
Yeah, this is about when we almost quit our Youtube channel
And of course it involves trolls
Yes, I don't even like giving them that name, though
H: I hate that S: We've said that before
Let's just call them mean people
Yeah
Mean people with nothing to do
I've always said that, trolls is a word that we should not be using, sad people
Before we explain what happened, I think we should do a little disclaimer
About why we're making this video
Yeah
Because whenever we make a video about trolls or mean people
That mentions any of that, yeah
Mean people being mean, we get tonnes of love and support from most of you
But we also get lots and lots of comments that are like "stop giving them the attention"
"Don't worry about them"
That is my least favorite comment, I think
Well, other than the troll comments
Well, no, it's close, it's close
But we don't make these videos to glorify being mean to people online
We're not doing this because we want the trolls to know that they affected us
Yeah, and people saying "just ignore them", that's not helpful, that just feels rude
That feels like we could be ignoring them but we're unable to so therefore we're failing
Like it is really really hard to have hundreds of terrible things said to you every day
And just ignore it, and those flippant comments are so not helpful
So I think that's what we're talking about, is people that are like "don't talk about it"
"Don't think about it", like it's a pretty huge aspect of our lives
And the purpose of our channel is to show you what our life and our relationship is like
Yeah
And a big part of that, because we're Youtubers
Is that we face thousands of mean people that love to be mean to us
Yeah
Simply because I'm disabled, Hannah is not
And they think that we are lying about our relationship
H: Yes S: So
So we can't talk about our trip to LA and then not talk about this
All of this is really important in our lives, so we're gonna talk about this
Educational, and I think today's video's gonna be fun
Oh yeah
Even though we're talking about a moment that really really upset us
And made us almost quit Youtube
Yeah, you almost lost us there
I think enough time has gone by that we're... we can joke about it now
Yeah
And it's not a big deal
Yeah... well
Well, it was a big deal (Both laugh)
(intro song) Hello, hello, welcome to the show, welcome to the show
Welcome to the show, it's time to talk about our lives (Chloe bark)
Alright, so if you've been following us for at least a year
You will know that last Spring we moved from our first house together
To our new house and my parents also moved into this house
We bought a house together with them
Yeah, my parents sold their house, we sold our house
And we moved in together
Yes
So we had had our house before, the house that we lived in before
And we had some experiences with people sending us messages, texts, whatever
With our address
And sending my parents address to us as well
Just people being creepy and saying like "I'm coming to your house, I know where you live"
"I'm gonna exploit you and prove to the world that you're fake", like... okay
And then, in addition to that, we've had a few experiences over the years
Where nice people have come to where we live, they find our address online
And they stop by to be friendly, but it's really actually just creepy
Like showing up unannounced at someone's house that you don't know
Yeah, and it makes us just feel very vulnerable because even though they're friendly
There's a lot of people who really really hate us
So it's nerve-wracking to be like oh, it was that easy to find?
I know, yeah, so that was very top of mind as we were buying this house
Especially because we were buying it with my parents
And we were like, we do not want to put them in harm's way
Them in a position where they feel unsafe
We didn't want them to experience that at all
Yeah, and it was such a big deal that the four of us met with a lawyer
And talked about these fears and these worries that we had
And said hey, what can we do to buy this new house privately?
Like celebrities... not that we're celebrities
Yeah, yeah
But celebrities have ways of buying houses and keeping their address private
Yeah, or at least try to
As everyone should be able to, you know?
I know
And so we asked the lawyer about how we might be able to keep our address private
Oh
H: No S: Oh no
It almost just sent that to a girl I used to lifeguard with
"How do we keep our address private?" (Both laugh)
You should say that on camera
I just did
Siri just activated because of something Shane said
And it was sending a text to someone that I haven't spoken to in years
That just said "how do we keep our address private?"
I would love to see their reaction opening that from you, uhhh
She'd be like "...What?!"
Okay, whoops
Okay, I'm gonna put that back over there
Anyway, we met with a lawyer
Yeah, so the lawyer told us how to do this
There was really only one way we could do it
And we with my parents formed an LLC
And that is what we bought the house through
It was obviously very complicated and there are multiple channels, whatever
But essentially we bought the house with an LLC
That was owned by us and my parents
Yes, after working with a lawyer for quite some time
Finally finding a solution that allows to have a private address and all this
We were so happy
Yeah
We felt safe and comfortable and successful in that
So we moved, we bought the house, and we were so happy
And it was really complicated, it was a lot of work to get this right
It was a lot of work for even just a realtor and a closing company
Because it wasn't a normal thing for them what we were doing
And especially with it being like two different households coming together
It was just a tonne of work, so many people worked on this
And put energy into it, and we were all so happy at the end, it worked out
So we are Youtubers and moving to a new house is part of our life
And we have to share that with all of you
And I will say, we didn't say that we were moving until after we'd moved
For various reasons, safety was one of them
But it was hard for us to keep that secret for months leading up to this date
So when we finally moved, it was private, it was done
We were so excited to share with you guys
Yeah, so we were cautious about how we handled it
We were like alright, we're not gonna show all of the house
Yeah, we won't show the front
Yeah, we'll just show the areas that we want to, let you know that we moved
Not say where, stuff like that
Yeah
But we did all this stuff with the lawyer so we're safe
Yep
So we make the first video about moving to a new house, and we let you guys know
I think we showed, we sat here ish and then we showed the kitchen
Yeah, I don't remember... yeah, that is right
And to my horror, maybe...
H: Three minutes in S: Three minutes in
Into the video being live, we published the video
Right, right, yeah
I begin seeing comments from mean people, trolls, whatever you want to call them
Sharing the address of our house
Yeah
My stomach sank through my butt, through my wheelchair
All the way down through the base of my wheelchair, through the floor
Into the basement
Yeah, yep
I could not believe it
It was not a fun day at this house, we were so happy too
It was such a let down
Not only were they sharing the address
But they were sharing very rude judgments of the house
And the fact that we are successful and make money
They didn't yet know that we bought the house with Hannah's parents
And they were saying all kinds of untrue things
And they had our address, could not believe it
Yep, and our address, we can delete those comments
But people started making videos about us with the address in it
There were forums all over the internet that had our address in it talking about our house
Things that we can't control, we can't report it, nothing can be done, it's just there
And then there were some people who saw these comments
And messaged us in a nice way, letting us know
That they had very easily found our address themselves by going into 'recently sold'
On various apps like Zillow
Which is something that we never fathomed, I didn't know that was a feature on Zillow
I didn't either, and I certainly didn't think that anyone would use their time
To go into house selling apps, look at recently sold
And then try to figure out what kitchen belonged to the house
Yeah, like comparing photos from the listing to glimpses of the house
That we had shared in the video, it was just so disheartening
After all the work that we put into it for privacy and safety
To then immediately have all these mean people just finding it anyway
Yeah, and having to tell my parents
And using it maliciously, yeah
Oh, we were mad
Yep
And we were done
And we were done, I was like you know what?
Not worth it
Maybe we just need to not be Youtubers
Yeah
Like if sharing our life online is going to result in people being malicious towards us
Yeah, what's the point?
Because they don't like the fact that I'm disabled and Hannah is not
Yeah
Why do it, you know? And we took over a week off at that point
And we were like we're not doing it anymore
Yeah
We obviously came back
Once we cooled off we came back
I will never forget the dread I had about telling Hannah that it had happened
Yeah
Like when I read the comments I was like (groans) like sick to my stomach
Yeah, I don't think we can emphasize how much effort had been put into
Concealing the location of our home
And so for it to immediately be such a thing was just like..
Yeah, like our stomach sinking through the floor
So then we moved eight more times, with eight different LLCs
To obscure the address even more
Yeah
We're now somewhere in Alaska and I'm telling you that because we're not
We're actually in New Mexico
(Hannah sighs) Oh, god
But yeah, that's what happened, and that's how we almost quit Youtube
We almost did, that was almost the final straw
I don't know what brought us back, I think we were just like, okay
I think we didn't want to let them win, you know?
We were like this is just more proof that the work that we're doing needs to be done
We need to make ignorant people not ignorant
And it's kinda fun to be on people's nerves this much just for being ourselves, you know?
It really is just absolutely... like our families can't believe how upset some people get
That we exist
It's a fun topic of conversation
There's humor to it
When we're not mad
Yeah, exactly
So that's what happened, let's end it with a reminder to be decent to other people
Yeah, go get a hobby
(Both laugh) That came out rude and it was supposed to
Be decent, go get a hobby
Alright everyone, enjoy your hobbies, thank you
Bye