1. Ten Steps To Surviving Adult Parties (1/1)
theteeb posted a new video: ten steps to surivivng 'adult' parties
"hey guys and welcome back to my channel! so if you watch my vlogs, you'll know i recently had the… privilege of going to one of my dads' big work functions. now this was one of my very first 'grown up' parties, so i thought i'd share with you ten steps to survive an adult party – just in case there are any other aspiring adults out there who, like myself, have no idea what to expect at these sorts of events."
"number one. if you're like me and prone to the occasional anxiety/panic attack – work out an easily accessible exit route. even if you don't have an attack, having an exit strategy is very useful."
"number two, and this is possibly more important than number one. make sure you know someone who you can stand awkwardly with for the whole night. unless the only person you know if your father, and alexander hamilton is at this party – then stay as far away as possible. i learned from a very early age that alcohol and politicians do not mix well."
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theodosia burr first started her youtube channel, theteebe when she was 17, with the purpose of recording covers and sharing them with friends. it wasn't meant to become a big thing. it wasn't until someone shared her cover of beyoncé's halo and it got over 10,000 views, and she went from 14 subscribers to 4000+ practically overnight that she realised there might actually be something here.
the media loved it. senator aaron burrs' only child who he'd kept away from the reporters for so long, was now willingly putting herself out there on one of the most public and exposing forums available. some gossip magazines claimed the new-found fame would go to her head, others claimed the fame was what she wanted all along and that she was just another spoiled cele
ity's kid. others, the ones that theo bought and kept in a box under her bed, praised her for being
ave enough to put those videos up on a public forum, shared how excited they were to see what she'd do next, and generally wished her well for wherever she decided to take her channel.
it turned out theo wasn't cut out for the music-cover-singer life, and as her videos turned from covers to more lifestyle, advice, chatty videos, her subscriber count grew, quickly passing the 100,000 mark, and then soon surpassed (with the help of the occasional article putting her channel back in the spotlight) both the 1 million, and 2 million subscriber counts. by 19 years old, theo had over two and a half million subscribers, was a regular guest at conventions around america, and was a sophomore at kings college studying business management.
despite what the tabloids seemed to think (they'd had a field day when she'd announced she was going to kings college over princeton), aaron burr always had unwavering support for his daughter. she'd told him about the videos the day she uploaded her first cover, and theo was forever grateful for that, because it meant if the shit ever hit the proverbial fan, her father would always be there to help her pick things up and keep going. always the first to defend her if necessary, his daughter was the only thing aaron burrs' rule of "talk less, smile more" didn't seem to apply. he could never run out of words when discussing theo and her success on the internet, or just in real life. he'd kept her out of the public eye for so long, mainly because he wasn't sure she was comfortable there, refrained from talking about her in interviews or to anyone outside of their family and friends, so when she made the step to put herself in the public eye, it gave burr the chance to finally show his daughter off to the world.
it was this reasoning that found theodosia standing awkwardly in the corner of her very first white house gala ball, in a knee-length, demure cream cocktail dress, holding a glass of what was probably very expensive champagne, praying to god someone else would show up that she knew. her dad was off somewhere else, probably trying to talk one alexander hamilton down from having a drunken
awl with one thomas jefferson, but so far there had been no familiar faces.
bored, theo fiddled with the little camera hanging from her wrist. she'd filmed something for a vlog only fifteen minutes ago when she'd first gotten bored, and not enough had happened since that was worth filming. tapping her fingernails on the dark screen, she gazed around the room, not really looking at anything in particular. she wasn't quite sure what had drawn her eyes over to a group of young men – men much too young to actually work at the white house, men theos' age – stood not far from her corner-of-awkwardness. maybe it was the mass of dark curly hair, maybe it was the insane, uncountable amount of freckles that spread out like constellations across dark skin down past the collar of the rumple shirt, maybe it was the smile that seemed to light up the face that made the freckles look like the constellations they resembled. whatever it was, it held theos' gaze for a few more moments, wondering why this face was so familiar until it clicked.
philip hamilton.
an: no real philip yet, but we get to meet him next chapter. so what do you think? how big d'you reckon philips social media footprint would be?