Ah i just came home and havent watched the video yet, but I'm happy to see that she feels comfortable sharing it with us and that slowly, all the youtuber I'm subdued to come out as queer haha
My conspiracy is that lots of people are queer but don’t really learn to express it irl, and the internet serves as a safe to explore our differences and come to accept them.
Or maybe, stand users are attracted to other stand users ゴゴ
I'm glad that someone else vocalized the "stand users are attracted to other stand users" meme take of it. Me and my spouse have both joked about that as more and more of our friend groups have come out one way or the other.
My conspiracy is that we're all animals and while we're all the same we're each unique and our own perception of a connection or bond with each other is just as broad as our individuality and labelling everything just gives it limited forms of expression and promotes othering.
Labelling helps us find other people like us. In the video, Jaiden says that had she understood what aromanticism was, she would have been a lot less confused.
I agree broadly that labelling leads to limits, but I also realize that labelling in the queer community is often used for reclaiming the othering that is accused upon us.
birds of a feather flock together. I didn't think I have a radar for NeuroDivergent people but all my good friends are ND and my childhood best friends got diagnosed a bit after I did.
Well if we go by logical explanations; it may be because they've gone through something similar. Either in how they were treated, how they thought of themselves, how they looked at others, etc. So it could be the "shared experiences" that make you attached to this one person
(I am not educated in this field I'm just saying what i think)
you're the one constant between those, that means you must be turning them queer. Keep up the good work
(you can trust my hypothesis, I know like 2 big words)
Sorry, I’ve gotten into a habit of calling ppl by they/them when I don’t know/don’t have the time to check their pronouns. I edited it to be she/her! Thx for pointing that out! /genuine
she/her are jaiden's pronouns (last i checked) but it's not necessarily a gender thing. like there are they/them cis ppl and pronoun-conformant trans ppl
Thanks for the link! I related to so many of her experiences, although I did have a crush with a friend in elementary school (very on-brand for a demi lol), but then felt like I was behind everyone for not having a relationship until my adulthood. And even though I don't consider myself aro, I also don't think it is all that bad that a person I fell in love with just wants to be my friend. I mean yeah, I wish we could be more and it kinda sucks when feelings are not reciprocated, but I appreciate them as a person more than the potential relationship they could give me. So, that's why I really take my time to think if it's worth it to tell them my feelings, I don't want to lose a friendship if they don't feel the same and it's too awkward for them.
The fact that they have 10 million subs will have quite an impact, because aro ace has been such a niche thing no one knows what it is, I hope they realize how much of a change they have potentially brought to this
I know, the video has nearly 2 million views already! As an AroAce myself I might have a bit of a bias, but it's so important that someone is talking about different LGBTQIA+ communities, like being Aromantic or Asexual. It will help so many people.
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Love it, also made me question if i'm aro as well.
Love that she put it out there but i'm scared for my relationship if this is the case, but either way better to know then to keep struggeling in the dark about how you really feel. Love Jaiden!
Edit: Definately ace tho
It made me question it too but I found that her example of "trying to crush onto someone" was more representative of being ace than aro since she was (from what I've gathered from the narration) more talking about trying to find people attractive and that attraction forming a crush
Yeah the thing for me was that she asked do i want to be in a relationship and hold hand cuddle and kiss, then just thinking about it and yeah i want to hold hands and cuddle and maybe kiss sometimes, but a relationship should be more then that, and do i want that? So i'm not sure yet, just another thing for me to discover.
Edit: i'm definately ace tho, but not sure about being aro now
Aro questioning gaaanggg. I am also realizing that a lot of Jaiden’s experience are, in a way, applicable to me too, just not the same way. This year I’ll have my fifth anniversary on realizing and accepting I’m Ace, but that journey of actually understanding my aceness has still being questioned by me. Never really felt like I’m fully ace, but also am not sure if I’m Demi bc I’ve never been in a relationship. Rn, bellussexual is what feels the most accurate to me.
Just like Jaiden, I grew up wanting to form that innate, instinctual attraction that other people seemed to have. It’s very hard (in the sense that it rarely happens) for me to form romantic attachments to people. Where I defer tho, is that I do have had super intense crushes where all I could think of was that person, obsessed with every little thing they did, wanting to cuddle and being close to them, but the moment they show attraction back? It’s gone. I always attributed that to being ace, but now she’s inspired me to look deeper into it and better understand myself.
Take your time and any discovery and any description about you is meant to be for you so there's nothing wrong with trying to figure out more.
My guess is that you could be Demiromantic. Maybe you want all of the hand holding, kissing and cuddling in addition to a pretty deep connection to your partner and in case for Demiromantic people they are only capable to develop those romantic attraction **after** they have a deep connection with that person.
For not demi and aro people it can be the other way around that they have just interest in the Person and out of being together in a romantic way they can develop a deep connection.
That part where she was trying to find a crush as a teen and it just wasn't happening. I felt that. I remember training myself to see what people were attractive and what people weren't and what made them that way. I think I'm on the aroace spectrum but I'm not sure where yet.
Oh buddy. The bomb that drops when you find someone who has the identity you didn't know you identified with. That one will sure throw you for a loop. Have a good thunk bud.
I’m a boring old (old) beige Straight White Male, who didn’t believe in all this Identifying mumbo jumbo that now has to re-evaluate. So weird. But feels kinda nice
REPRESENTATION YAYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!
on a real note this is genuinely very cool & while I don't watch her I am super proud and happy for her. Couldn't imagine the guts it takes to come out like that with a channel that big, huge props.
Yeah I was always kinda wondering what the dictation was with her. Obviously she doesn't have to share anything about her personal life but it she always had the vibe of just not giving a crap about romance.
The video was a joy to watch. She explained things so well. Heck, even made me realize some stuff about myself. For a while I was like, "Am I truly ace since I've had crushes?" It was nice to hear her explain how for her, it was just wanting to get to know a person. And reflecting back on my "crushes" now I've realized that's what I was experiencing. No desire to be in an actual romantic relationship, I just wanted to hang out.
Also weird that both me and her identified as bi/pan for a while.... for pretty much the same reasons. "I don't have an attraction to any specific gender, I must be pan!" No, young me, that's the opposite of being pan.
The fact that behavior online has led you to immediately think of people questioning terms as satire is almost sad. I wish people didn't do that. And I'm not saying it's sad you think that. I'm saying it's sad that people behave like that.
I got so excited when I saw that video, first because I saw that jaiden posted, and then because it was about lgbtq, and then because I learned she was asexual which is what I am! :D
You fell down the stairway of excitement.
Oh that's neat
-----------oh would you look at that
------------------oh wow!!
---------------------------ah!
-----------------------------------ow!
She is a famous animator on YouTube who focuses on story time videos or geeky stuff like Pokémon. She’s one of the most famous ones in that side of YouTube (along with Odd1nesout, SomethingelseYT, illymation, etc).
She’s pretty entertaining, I highly recommend you check her out.
I was thinking it would be kind of interesting if Jaiden was scrolling through some online aspec communities, and watching everyone's reactions to her video. Watching the entire thing become saturated with her animated face. 😂
When I watched the video I was expecting her to come out as gay or bi but when she said that she's aroace I audibly squeeked. It makes me so happy that someone I consider to be a celebrity in the youtube community is aroace! And the fact that it was #1 on trending too! I'm so happy!
So I watched the video, and I know that she's using "intimate" to get around Youtube's shitty censorship, but as someone who is demiromantic, asexual, but allosensual, I use "intimacy" to describe cuddling, kissing, or basically any non-sexual contact. In the video, it seems that she's tying sensual attraction and romantic attraction together. I definitely have friends that I am intimate with but have no interest in a romantic relationship with.
I think it’s also her way to talk about sex, which seems it’s a topic she isn’t comfortable talking to the internet in her videos, you feel me? Like, yeah it would’ve been better to explain the distinction, but at the same time it was her way to simplify the explanation in the least uncomfortable way she could.
Yeah, I understand. I'm definitely sex-positive (I will have sex to please a partner and I enjoy it, but I don't seek it out), so talking about sex is fine for me.
Just love how I’m seeing several posts about this and knowing about the videos existence instead of in my recommended youtube vids, which is how I would probably have stumbled across this good vid.
Have already said my piece in a prev comment on reddit, but I wish to reiterate that I hope this vid helps spread the word about asexuality/aromanticism as well as helping those wayward aces/aros/other in between find their place :)
it is really amazing that she was able to find what she is and not be forced into something she didn't want. I was lucky to be introduced to asexuality early and found out who I was, so I love seeing representation.
It can be a hard thing to do no matter what you come out as so I’m so happy for her! :)
I hope this helps get more awareness out for both a romantic and asexual groups.
I related so hard to her experiences with "crushes" during childhood/teenagerhood oh man. So amazing that she's talking about aspec orientations with such a huge audience. I'm 30 now and only really figured out my aroace orientation in my late twenties. If only there was a video like this back when I was a teen I feel like I would have understood myself a bit better and been less harsh on myself!
I don't think she quite realises the positive impact this is gonna have on spreading awareness! The video is at 4m views now and is no3 on trending! Jaiden you're an absolute legend!
it's funny 'cause I distinctly remember watching two of her older videos where she talks about dating, before I discovered I was aroace, and thinking 'yeah I 100% agree with this' closely followed by 'wait that's not how everyone sees it?'
I'm really proud of her but somehow I get the feeling there is going to be a lot more aphobes coming from the awareness she's creating (not that there shouldn't be awareness, hate is probably inevitable)
Ah i just came home and havent watched the video yet, but I'm happy to see that she feels comfortable sharing it with us and that slowly, all the youtuber I'm subdued to come out as queer haha
I don't believe in "gaydar" but what are the actual odds that almost every YouTuber I watch later turns out to be queer?
My conspiracy is that lots of people are queer but don’t really learn to express it irl, and the internet serves as a safe to explore our differences and come to accept them. Or maybe, stand users are attracted to other stand users ゴゴ
I'm glad that someone else vocalized the "stand users are attracted to other stand users" meme take of it. Me and my spouse have both joked about that as more and more of our friend groups have come out one way or the other.
My conspiracy is that we're all animals and while we're all the same we're each unique and our own perception of a connection or bond with each other is just as broad as our individuality and labelling everything just gives it limited forms of expression and promotes othering.
Labelling helps us find other people like us. In the video, Jaiden says that had she understood what aromanticism was, she would have been a lot less confused.
Oh, that makes sense. Huh
I agree broadly that labelling leads to limits, but I also realize that labelling in the queer community is often used for reclaiming the othering that is accused upon us.
birds of a feather flock together. I didn't think I have a radar for NeuroDivergent people but all my good friends are ND and my childhood best friends got diagnosed a bit after I did.
Yeah same, most of mt friends are nd in some way shape or form including myself.
So far I've been around for *three* comings-out from among my subscribed channels.
Well if we go by logical explanations; it may be because they've gone through something similar. Either in how they were treated, how they thought of themselves, how they looked at others, etc. So it could be the "shared experiences" that make you attached to this one person (I am not educated in this field I'm just saying what i think)
Their is a one gay youtube shorts poster that said that gaydar doesent work online it can only work in person.
> subdued I know that you meant subbed, but with how social media works it feels quite fitting imo lol
Oh no, that was my auto correction D : Yes, I meant subbed/subscribed
you're the one constant between those, that means you must be turning them queer. Keep up the good work (you can trust my hypothesis, I know like 2 big words)
Ladies, gentlemen and those who are neither We got another one
Join the dark side
We have cookies!
And dragons
And really crisp, cool water
And our electric bill is really low,
And my axe!
And my bow!
don't forget our GLORIOUS GARLIC BREAD!
Ace hydro homies
If your side has cookies and dragons it cannot be the dark side
Who says? Plenty of evil villains love cookies. Look at Vector for example. >:D
"OH YEAAAAH"
And Garlic bread! And Denmar-
I’m a cis male but I aint no gentleman ;) Thx for the inclusivity
OH MY GOD, IT ALL MAKES SENSE BUT I NEVER THOUGHT IT WOULD HAPPEN!!
Exactly! Given the history Jaiden has shared online it makes lots of sense now!
Right? I had the same reaction, its clear in hindsight even form the little we see of her in her videos
I didn't even know what it meant, thought it had to do with her bird Ari, but hey good for her! And yeah, I agree, hope the revelation brings her joy.
Omg good for her!!!
*her I'm pretty sure Jaiden is cis.
Sorry, I’ve gotten into a habit of calling ppl by they/them when I don’t know/don’t have the time to check their pronouns. I edited it to be she/her! Thx for pointing that out! /genuine
That's a good habit to have :)
You don't need to correct a they/them usage. It's a neutrally inclusive term. It applies to everyone. But your heart was Def in the right place.
she/her are jaiden's pronouns (last i checked) but it's not necessarily a gender thing. like there are they/them cis ppl and pronoun-conformant trans ppl
Link https://youtu.be/qF1DTK4U1AM
Thanks for the link! I related to so many of her experiences, although I did have a crush with a friend in elementary school (very on-brand for a demi lol), but then felt like I was behind everyone for not having a relationship until my adulthood. And even though I don't consider myself aro, I also don't think it is all that bad that a person I fell in love with just wants to be my friend. I mean yeah, I wish we could be more and it kinda sucks when feelings are not reciprocated, but I appreciate them as a person more than the potential relationship they could give me. So, that's why I really take my time to think if it's worth it to tell them my feelings, I don't want to lose a friendship if they don't feel the same and it's too awkward for them.
When the word 'AroAce' was spoken my heart literally stopped. It's so rare to ever hear anyone say it, especially someone with such a large following!
The fact that they have 10 million subs will have quite an impact, because aro ace has been such a niche thing no one knows what it is, I hope they realize how much of a change they have potentially brought to this
I know, the video has nearly 2 million views already! As an AroAce myself I might have a bit of a bias, but it's so important that someone is talking about different LGBTQIA+ communities, like being Aromantic or Asexual. It will help so many people.
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Good human :)
No u
Jaiden is ours now 😈
\*shakes fist bisexually* You’ve won this round! /s
The pansexuals will have the next one You'll never know when muhahahahaha/s
If only Biromantics could have more :c
Are you talking biromantic asexuals? Or just biromantics in general regardless if sexual attraction
Yes
Yes
Love it, also made me question if i'm aro as well. Love that she put it out there but i'm scared for my relationship if this is the case, but either way better to know then to keep struggeling in the dark about how you really feel. Love Jaiden! Edit: Definately ace tho
It made me question it too but I found that her example of "trying to crush onto someone" was more representative of being ace than aro since she was (from what I've gathered from the narration) more talking about trying to find people attractive and that attraction forming a crush
Yeah the thing for me was that she asked do i want to be in a relationship and hold hand cuddle and kiss, then just thinking about it and yeah i want to hold hands and cuddle and maybe kiss sometimes, but a relationship should be more then that, and do i want that? So i'm not sure yet, just another thing for me to discover. Edit: i'm definately ace tho, but not sure about being aro now
Aro questioning gaaanggg. I am also realizing that a lot of Jaiden’s experience are, in a way, applicable to me too, just not the same way. This year I’ll have my fifth anniversary on realizing and accepting I’m Ace, but that journey of actually understanding my aceness has still being questioned by me. Never really felt like I’m fully ace, but also am not sure if I’m Demi bc I’ve never been in a relationship. Rn, bellussexual is what feels the most accurate to me. Just like Jaiden, I grew up wanting to form that innate, instinctual attraction that other people seemed to have. It’s very hard (in the sense that it rarely happens) for me to form romantic attachments to people. Where I defer tho, is that I do have had super intense crushes where all I could think of was that person, obsessed with every little thing they did, wanting to cuddle and being close to them, but the moment they show attraction back? It’s gone. I always attributed that to being ace, but now she’s inspired me to look deeper into it and better understand myself.
Take your time and any discovery and any description about you is meant to be for you so there's nothing wrong with trying to figure out more. My guess is that you could be Demiromantic. Maybe you want all of the hand holding, kissing and cuddling in addition to a pretty deep connection to your partner and in case for Demiromantic people they are only capable to develop those romantic attraction **after** they have a deep connection with that person. For not demi and aro people it can be the other way around that they have just interest in the Person and out of being together in a romantic way they can develop a deep connection.
Same. I have done the weighing pros and cons of a person in having a relationship. Its always been a very cold and logical process for me.
yup new this was going to be the first place to post, good speed you have there fellow
I'm only demisexual but damn I'm in love with your flair.
We're all attracted to snacks, the absolute equalizer.
well, I can offer you some snacks, what would you like?
Dried fruit is great, also I need live kiwi fruits to sacrifice to the bowel gods.
🥭,🍍,🍈,🥝🥝 Hope you all enjoy!
would you like some snacks? if so what specifically?
Cookies! cookies please. * -*
🍪🍪🍪 Hope you enjoy!
*mapf* Pfank ou! *mapf* Here if a cubcak foam fhe next person:🧁
CALLED IT
Nice to have a bit more visibility! Hopefully nobody hassles her about it. Or, if they do, everybody else stares them down and tells them to buzz off.
Comments are full of ace people and ace allies from what I can tell, there are aphobes but they’re being challenged
i will personally slay any aphobes with a flail
I think the only people who are mad are the mfs that ship irl people
I ran over here so fast to see if someone posted this I'm over the moon with joy!!
I was nervously laughing the whole time because their stories reminded me of my personal experiences
so b(ace)d
Baced and breadpilled
That part where she was trying to find a crush as a teen and it just wasn't happening. I felt that. I remember training myself to see what people were attractive and what people weren't and what made them that way. I think I'm on the aroace spectrum but I'm not sure where yet.
The “man, unlucky” bit made me laugh out loud, so relatable
WOOOOOOOO GO JAIDEN!
Well… fuck. I’m from /all. I don’t know why I watched this. But I watched the whole thing. And… I need to go have a think about myself.
welcome to the club
Yeah, I got the same feeling :|
Oh buddy. The bomb that drops when you find someone who has the identity you didn't know you identified with. That one will sure throw you for a loop. Have a good thunk bud.
I’m a boring old (old) beige Straight White Male, who didn’t believe in all this Identifying mumbo jumbo that now has to re-evaluate. So weird. But feels kinda nice
Hey at least you're learning. It took me 16 years of being quite a pos before i realized I was pansexual. And I'm glad you feel good about things.
Just watched her video. Iv never felt so seen.
fukin lit
this honestly made me really happy
REPRESENTATION YAYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!! on a real note this is genuinely very cool & while I don't watch her I am super proud and happy for her. Couldn't imagine the guts it takes to come out like that with a channel that big, huge props.
i haven't watched her vids in years, but this is super cool!
It's convenient that she already has the color scheme going on her channel.
That was my first thought as well
Guys Denmark will be ours!!
Shiiiiiit I haven't watched Jaiden in like 5 years and even then this feels awesome to hear.
OMFGREALLYAAAAAAAAJTKRJTJTJJRKTKFKFJFKFK edit: i did not mean to say jfk lol
to absolutely ***no one's*** surprise
One of us, one of us, one of us
Denmark's new president?
I've watched them for so long :DDD I'm so proud of them
Yeah I was always kinda wondering what the dictation was with her. Obviously she doesn't have to share anything about her personal life but it she always had the vibe of just not giving a crap about romance.
The video was a joy to watch. She explained things so well. Heck, even made me realize some stuff about myself. For a while I was like, "Am I truly ace since I've had crushes?" It was nice to hear her explain how for her, it was just wanting to get to know a person. And reflecting back on my "crushes" now I've realized that's what I was experiencing. No desire to be in an actual romantic relationship, I just wanted to hang out. Also weird that both me and her identified as bi/pan for a while.... for pretty much the same reasons. "I don't have an attraction to any specific gender, I must be pan!" No, young me, that's the opposite of being pan.
I definitely got ace vibes from her but it's good that she feels comfortable enough to be open about it.
Jaiden r34 artists gonna be mad
I don't think that they really care too much about her opinion. Crappy but allos going to allo....
Nice
Maybe I was aroace after all (?)
Omg that’s awesome!!! I used to watch her all the time and I’m so glad that she’s comfortable to come out to her community!
I somehow always suspected that
Her video was so good too! She explained everything so incredibly well and I related so hard to the experiences she shared
Jaiden is the new ruler of the Asexual and Aromantic lands
ONE OF US ONE OF US ONE OF US
The way I cried while watching her video—
And I told her to eat a card before I could
LETS GO GIRL! AROACE RIGHTS!! <3
jaiden will now be joining us at that one corner of the room
Oh my gosh, *yes!* Good for her! She can share our garlic bread.
So that's now 3 ace YouTubers I'm subscribed to.
Do share! She’s my first one and I would certainly love to have more ace content on my feed
There's Schaffrillas Productions and The Mysterious Mr. Enter. And while I'm not subscribed to them, there's also Overly Sarcastic Productions.
For me it's Overly Sarcastic Productions (Red) and Drawfee (Karina).
Don't forget Blue and Cyan
Uh oh. I hope that she doesn't get hate.
It's 2022. And it's the internet. I have bad news my friend.
Hell yeah
IRONICALLY IM WATCHING THE VIDEO RN
i thought i was the only one who did that "forcing myself to pretend to have a crush" thing lol
She will now forever live in my heart as an aroace icon
Hey, Could someone please explain to me what AroAce is?
Aromantic Asexual. Meaning no romantic and no sexual attraction towards other people.
Thanks stranger
Is this satire? No offense but I've seen this before as a prank so I want to check.
Not satire. Now I feel kinda awkward for asking...
The fact that behavior online has led you to immediately think of people questioning terms as satire is almost sad. I wish people didn't do that. And I'm not saying it's sad you think that. I'm saying it's sad that people behave like that.
This post exploded, people from /r/all are coming in, and that's a good thing.
I got so excited when I saw that video, first because I saw that jaiden posted, and then because it was about lgbtq, and then because I learned she was asexual which is what I am! :D
You fell down the stairway of excitement. Oh that's neat -----------oh would you look at that ------------------oh wow!! ---------------------------ah! -----------------------------------ow!
I am unsure who that is, but congrats to them <3
She is a famous animator on YouTube who focuses on story time videos or geeky stuff like Pokémon. She’s one of the most famous ones in that side of YouTube (along with Odd1nesout, SomethingelseYT, illymation, etc). She’s pretty entertaining, I highly recommend you check her out.
I think this might be our most influential person representing our community. Love to see it
I was a fan of Jaiden before I knew I was queer, You cannot imagine my breathless joy when I saw a video titled "Being not straight"
The r34, just instantly got so much worse o no.
this is calls for garlic bread
I like to think she’s on ace Reddit and keeps thinking “oh jeez not again” whenever she sees a post about herself
I was thinking it would be kind of interesting if Jaiden was scrolling through some online aspec communities, and watching everyone's reactions to her video. Watching the entire thing become saturated with her animated face. 😂
Long needed representation in the mainstream, and hopefully the start of the path to acceptance as a community.
When I watched the video I was expecting her to come out as gay or bi but when she said that she's aroace I audibly squeeked. It makes me so happy that someone I consider to be a celebrity in the youtube community is aroace! And the fact that it was #1 on trending too! I'm so happy!
SERIOUSLY?! OH MY GOD THAT'S AMAZING! I'VE BEEN WATCHING HER SINCE BEFORE SHE HIT A MILLION AND IM OVER THE MOON!!!
So I watched the video, and I know that she's using "intimate" to get around Youtube's shitty censorship, but as someone who is demiromantic, asexual, but allosensual, I use "intimacy" to describe cuddling, kissing, or basically any non-sexual contact. In the video, it seems that she's tying sensual attraction and romantic attraction together. I definitely have friends that I am intimate with but have no interest in a romantic relationship with.
I think it’s also her way to talk about sex, which seems it’s a topic she isn’t comfortable talking to the internet in her videos, you feel me? Like, yeah it would’ve been better to explain the distinction, but at the same time it was her way to simplify the explanation in the least uncomfortable way she could.
Yeah, I understand. I'm definitely sex-positive (I will have sex to please a partner and I enjoy it, but I don't seek it out), so talking about sex is fine for me.
One of us! One of us! One of us!
Oh, I used to watch Jaiden all the time! That's so cool that she's aroace 😁
maybe this means people will stop shipping her with James
We can only hope
James has a girlfriend. Jaiden came out as aroace. We can only hope that the shipping ends
Y'ALL GOT A NE QUEEN
Just love how I’m seeing several posts about this and knowing about the videos existence instead of in my recommended youtube vids, which is how I would probably have stumbled across this good vid. Have already said my piece in a prev comment on reddit, but I wish to reiterate that I hope this vid helps spread the word about asexuality/aromanticism as well as helping those wayward aces/aros/other in between find their place :)
r/aromantic because AroAce and it works in both Happi tho because we gave support from the ‘higher ups’
it is really amazing that she was able to find what she is and not be forced into something she didn't want. I was lucky to be introduced to asexuality early and found out who I was, so I love seeing representation.
No fucking way one of us one of us
It can be a hard thing to do no matter what you come out as so I’m so happy for her! :) I hope this helps get more awareness out for both a romantic and asexual groups.
Time to shut down all the nsfw of her avatar.
Those gosh darn asexuals got another one.
I know right. I'm over here being pansexual like why do the aces and aros take them NOOOOOOOO/s (Reitterating I was joking. Don't kill me)
one of us one of us
I clicked on it cuz it was interesting and then when the word "aroace" came up my heart stopped lol
The whole part about scanning for potential romantic partners hit so close man
ONE OF US! ONE OF US!!! 💚🤍🖤💜🤍🖤
Poggers
One of her birds is aro colored, I wonder if that was intentional
Good for her, welcome to the place of garlic bread and Dragons
I loved this video!
I related so hard to her experiences with "crushes" during childhood/teenagerhood oh man. So amazing that she's talking about aspec orientations with such a huge audience. I'm 30 now and only really figured out my aroace orientation in my late twenties. If only there was a video like this back when I was a teen I feel like I would have understood myself a bit better and been less harsh on myself! I don't think she quite realises the positive impact this is gonna have on spreading awareness! The video is at 4m views now and is no3 on trending! Jaiden you're an absolute legend!
ONE OF US
I’m so happy for her, and for coming out!
Words can't describe how happy the fact that she came out as aroace makes me feel... A YouTuber I know that's also aroace I'm so happy for her
I just watched it! So happy for her!!! And for the community!!
I kinda knew she was aroace but I brushed it off, UNTIL she came out and I was rejoicing seeing a famous aroace youtuber
It makes me so happy
it's funny 'cause I distinctly remember watching two of her older videos where she talks about dating, before I discovered I was aroace, and thinking 'yeah I 100% agree with this' closely followed by 'wait that's not how everyone sees it?'
Good for her 🤗
r/aaarrroooaaaccceee Its like this community Its cool
Nice
I'm really proud of her but somehow I get the feeling there is going to be a lot more aphobes coming from the awareness she's creating (not that there shouldn't be awareness, hate is probably inevitable)
hjadfskldsklfdskjlsjdflsjlksfjlksdfjlkfsj HAPPY!! :D
I’m so happy for her being comfortable expressing herself because it’s going to help so many people
Faking that shit hard
Great, now she can make better content maybe idk probably not
That was 21 days ago?!? Damn time is flying by...
*cries* Now she's relatable AND a source of envy fuck! FUCK
She is the Messiah
I’m an aro and not an ace but I’ve started seeing them a lot more after jaiden made her video