Weird/funny(?) things that have happened to me in doing Heartstopper Deepdives

I've been doing this project for a while. Here's a few ~interesting~ things that have happened because of it.

• That time I snooped in the Instagram posts of one of the background actors (will not reveal who exactly) to collect all the behind the scene pics and I must have liked a few of them or something because then i get a notification that they followed my personal Instagram account (with ~300 followers, a real random Finnish nobody selfie account) and I was just shaking and confused and followed them back (because I WASN'T EVEN FOLLOWING THEM OMG) and they swiftly unfollowed me right after. So embarrassing. I'm sure the follow must have been a complete accident but they must have looked at my account to unfollow me and ughhhh I still cringe at that every time I see this person's face in the show or on my feed because OF COURSE I AM STILL FOLLOWING THEM NOW

• That time Alice almost showed the entire world my name and where I live because I participated in the fanbook project she shared in her Instagram story where we were asked to send in photos of ourselves with a local landmark. Thankfully my page wasn't visible in the story as Alice was skimming the pages. Not that people would really know that was me as Heartstopper Deepdives (other than you Patreon people who have seen my face) but I just don't really want to associate myself officially with the Deepdives Youtube channel, I like to keep my personal identity separate from it to a degree.

• That time I stumbled upon... well... the porn account of one of the background cast members (not the one who accidentally followed me, mind, a different one). I was just making sure I had the usernames and accounts correct and skimmed through their other links and didn't really register what the 18+ warning was actually for and... yep. I sure have now seen that person doing things you wouldn't see on Heartstopper 😃.

• That time I was seemingly the only person in the fandom who had the image file of Samuel Dore's Jonathan Bailey photo that was used as the thumbnail for the Jack Maddox casting announcement video because I may be the only person in the fandom who has googled how to download video thumbnails from social media posts

• That time I cracked the mystery of who the woman was in the background of the season 3 table read picture confirming it was Lucy Allen from the Daniel Edwards casting team, thus confirming the photo was indeed the season 3 table read and shooting was about to start... But I didn't have enough Twitter followers for more than a few people to notice and they kept wildly circulating a theory it was someone else 😃

• That time someone asked me in the comments of my Youtube Community post (on my Youtube channel called "Heartstopper Deepdives") whether I had read the Heartstopper comics.

• That time my editing software crashed and stopped saving my progress because I had too many temp files clogging up my computer's memory from all the previous times it had crashed and neglected to delete the temp files so I had to re-edit a third of season 2 episode 6 after I had already rendered the first version of the "finished" episode (just to clarify, it was at the stage where I trim the episode clips down and add music and effects, all the interview clips etc were already in there, that's what takes me months and months to do, the final go-over from start to finish usually takes about a week)

• That time I discovered there were 32 mentions of my channel on the Heartstopper Discord and an admin there referred to me as "that poor woman from Heartstopper Deepdives" (which made me laugh hysterically) as they were speculating whether I'd have any material to use for season 2 because of the strike (turns out I had even more stuff for season 2, who would have thought?!)

• That time I (and many, many others) paid money to attend The Guardian's Zoom interview event with Alice and Joe, only for them to upload it for free on Youtube later

• That time I attended intimacy coordinator David Thackeray's Zoom interview only to discover there were only like 13 or 17 people (something like that) attending so my full government name (an obviously foreign name at that) displayed on my zoom window was very visible and the event was meant for entertainment industry people from the UK, mainly people interested in getting into intimacy coordination. I felt like such an intruder and I was stressing when it seemed like people didn't have any questions (thankfully in the end they did and I didn't have to come up with something to fill an awkward silence)

• That time my IRL friend confessed to me that she'd still never watched Heartstopper but she watched and enjoyed all of my Youtube videos (?????)

• That time I looked at my Youtube video analytics and discovered that someone had ended up clicking on my videos from using the search terms "erotic movie" and "erotica movie"

• That time my Heartstopper Smooch Counter video got age restricted "due to content identified as not suitable for most advertisers" (It's still age restricted, LOL. Heartstopper is apparently too sexy for Youtube)

• That time I made a very stupid 14 second video about Joe accidentally saying "donut" in an interview and it got 2 likes on Twitter and 1,431 likes on Youtube

• That time someone who was following my Heartstopper Deepdives Twitter retweeted art from my art account under a different name (yet another secret alias for other projects, not even my actual name) and I felt like my secret identity had been found out

• That time my Heartstopper Deepdives Twitter account got followed by someone who actually knows Patrick Walters in real life and I felt a bit too close to being seen (I do NOT want anyone involved in the making of Heartstopper to know about me, that would be mortifying to me)

• That time I had a typo in the end text of all the videos for several episodes before I noticed and fixed it

• That time I accidentally automatically added the unfinished copyright detection test versions of an episode to the Deepdives playlist so some people watched an unlisted version of an episode with lots of typos and little editing errors and a missing part or two before I noticed anything amiss

• That time an episode kept getting copyright restrictions for different things each time I re-edited it until the 7th version was finally cleared to publish

• That time I got a comment that was 1,224 words long (on 7 paragraphs!) on my very first video. The comment was about the details of the timeline in season 1

• The time an older viewer thought I was the same person as thom_is_trans and asked me to update closed captions on Thom's videos after I finished doing them for my own (I stopped doing those after my first version of season 1 Deepdives because it was so much work and Youtube also just didn't let me edit them anymore when I tried for the newer videos. I do feel bad but it took me a full week to do the first season 1 episodes and I would have had to redo the same ones with minor differences...)

• The time I was zooming in 200% on all the kissing montage sections in season 2 episode 1 to count all the smooches and questioned my life choices

• The time when someone left a comment on my video saying they "read somewhere" about a piece of information that was only available in the most obscure, hard to find source I ever used for my videos, thus explaining a thing to me (badly and a bit misunderstood and in the wrong context) clearly using my own video as the source. (I highly doubt this person just found this same Heartstopper fan's tweet the info was from. It's not impossible but I am pretty sure this person just watched my video and then informed me about stuff they heard from my video and forgot where they heard it and put it in the wrong context to boot. My point is, I just thought it was very funny because I knew the only place they could have heard it from)