The Internets TERRIBLE Idea of Introverts

Added: 2026-05-26

[00:00:00]The internet's idea of introverts video by Caitlyn. I see she comes from the animated commentary / animated story side of YouTube from what I see. And I can relate cuz that's where I come from.

[00:00:11]So this will be an interesting video.

[00:00:13]Over on my main channel I feel bad for all my shorts only people that watch me because they just don't understand that I didn't blow up from shorts first. I came from the animated storytime community. I blew up off of animated stories first. For all my people that was there before the Thanos snap shoutout to you. I clicked on this video specifically cuz one, she looks like Ruby. And two, contrary to popular belief, I'm an introvert.

[00:00:35]Sometimes I get confused for an extrovert. I am not. I'm going to tell you right now, the more you get to know me, I am not an extrovert at all.

[00:00:44]Perfect.

[00:00:47]People don't know what being introverted really means. The most common criticism I hear about YouTube animators is how they all seem to have these copy-paste personality traits of being shy, anxious, and kind of socially awkward, which does not equate to being an introvert. It drives me a little nuts because it's such a popular yet frequently misused term. Where you land on the spectrum does not depend on your level of shyness. There are loud and energetic introverts the same way there are quiet and shy extroverts. It all comes down to your social battery type.

[00:01:25]>> My social battery died quick, boy.

[00:01:27]>> [snorts] >> It depends on the person, but my social battery in most cases just dies quick.

[00:01:32]These days I've been teaching myself how to be how to tolerate more people so my social battery doesn't die so fast, but boy, it's a struggle, boy.

[00:01:41]Introverts [snorts] get drained from talking to people while extroverts actually rely on people to feel energized. The reason why >> And I for damn sure ain't no extrovert cuz I get drained all the time by talking to certain people. It make me want to crawl up and go in my little cave and be alone. And to add to that point, a lot of introverts with me, it's like half and a half for me. Half of the time I'm loudish. But then there's them times I'm quiet as hell and it confuses people cuz they think I'm loud all THE TIME. I'M NOT. They expect me to be this turd like, "Oh my god, she's always like no, NO, BRO. SOMETIMES I SHUT UP FOR A couple hours." Why most YouTube animators are introverted is simply that you cannot have this job if you are not comfortable with being alone. I love being alone. Peace and quiet. You ain't got to manage nobody's emotions. You don't got to show out for nobody.

[00:02:31]There's no chaos around you. But then there's them times where I do feel like being around people. Then when I go hang out with people, my energy gets drained and I want to go back to being alone.

[00:02:42]Unless you have a team in order to maintain a good upload schedule, you need to spend 10 hours a day working in front of a screen. That's facts. Me, Yo Yo, and Stanley used to always spend hours and hours and hours and hours and hours working constantly on a weekly upload schedule uploading animated stories. 8 plus minutes by the way. What a time, boy. So I think it's only natural that introverted people are drawn to a job that requires so much solitude. Introverts don't hate being around other people. It's just that we prefer to spend most of our time alone.

[00:03:19]Even the most introverted of introverts still crave human connection. Like I'm always at home in front of my screen working or gaming and trust me, I'm very content with that. But Same. Same, same, same. I'm very content with that.

[00:03:31]>> After a few months I'll start feeling lonely and look for people to hang out with.

[00:03:35]>> What I just say? Sometimes I love being alone. But then there's them times where I want to I want to feel something from other people. So I go out and socialize.

[00:03:44]Because most of the time I'm I'm in front of the screen either alone or alone while on VC talking to people. And for me it don't really take much.

[00:03:50]Sometimes it just takes like more weeks now cuz I'm trying to enjoy like going out and doing stuff more. I don't really go out much, except for like the gym, store, bike riding, etc. Like I'm trying to get out more of the house more. And it's kind of difficult to find someone willing to do that after ignoring their messages for so long. I don't even know if this is an introvert thing or just me being stupid. I swear I don't do it on purpose. When I get a text, I'm usually not in a replying mood. So, instead, I'll leave it and start fabricating a response in my head, but I end up thinking about it so much that I trick myself into believing that I actually replied. That mixed with my very forgetful nature is the reason why I avoid serious friendships. Gosh, I am the worst candidate to make a video about this. I'm trying to explain that not all introverts are the same while being the most stereotypical introvert you've ever seen. Personality traits can change as you go through different periods of your life, sometimes by choice, but usually it kind of just happens. For me, I'm definitely an introvert at heart. Like even during very early childhood, I was quite the loner. So much so that my family got in trouble for it, but we don't we don't talk about that. Bro, sometimes I be in social events where I'm lit for like an hour. After that hour is up, I'm the quietest person on the planet, bro. I don't want to talk to nobody. I'm ready to go home. I'm ready to pack it up, bro. Crawl into my bed with my jammies on, secluded from the entire planet.

[00:05:19]>> [laughter] >> However, when we moved, like when we moved countries, I actually became an ambivert for a while. An ambivert is the mixture between the two. This was mainly because I attracted so much attention by being the girl who came from the other side of the planet. Also, I socialize a lot when I'm out, because I know I have to. If I don't speak, I'm not going to get really any interactions, for real.

[00:05:43]And that's just an experience I've had mostly in my life. So, like nowadays, I'm not really like a person that's not willing to speak even though my battery is low. I'll speak regardless if my battery is low or not, but my energy depends on where I'm at.

[00:05:54]>> My first day of school, I got flocked by dozens of people asking me if I lived in an igloo and if I ever met Justin Bieber. People were very interested in me, so I kind of just went along with it. During that specific period, I was very outgoing and was friends with practically everyone, but I still felt the need to withdraw from social spaces because my brain needed to calm down.

[00:06:17]>> That's her forcing herself to socialize because of internal conflict. Trust me, I've been there. Sometimes, I just be in them social events where I got to keep going and put my put my brain on autopilot, but deep down inside, I want to go to my room and crawl in my bed with my jammies on, secluded from the earth.

[00:06:34]Sometimes. Actually, thinking back, I'm not fully sure if I was an actual ambivert or just an introvert placed in a very specific set of circumstances.

[00:06:44]>> See, autopilot brain. I'm telling you, bro, it's it's it sucks for us introverts that have to go through that sometimes, but it happens, so But that doesn't matter because I eventually slid back into my old ways during my high school years, which is not a bad thing.

[00:06:57]There's also this weird misconception that being introverted is some kind of flaw that needs to be corrected.

[00:07:05]Uh it's not. I agree, it's not. It's just most extroverts want you to be what they want you to be. If you're not litty or turnt or high energy all the time, then it's a problem to them. They think something wrong with you when that's not the case. It's just you having a lack of emotional intelligence.

[00:07:23]If you understood me and my introvertness and how it works, we would probably connect, but you don't. Being happy with being by yourself is not a mental illness, no matter how much your boomer family members try to convince you otherwise. Ooh, the boomers, they worse. They'll criticize the hell out you. They'll crucify you for that YOU DON'T TALK? They'll look at you crazy. I'm telling boy It's not a secret that I'm anxious and shy. I've mentioned it before and you'll often see it in my body language.

[00:07:52]>> Most of my life I was shy, but I've become more confident over the years.

[00:07:56]Like way more confident. Way more confrontive about problems that piss me off or situations that need to be handled. My social anxiety has like gone down tremendously because I I you know I I constantly work on myself. Like I could go keep going down the list of things that I've overcame and triumphed over internally, but just know like I constantly work on myself every single day and I'm not perfect bro. Like I constantly let people know whether it's this channel or over on my main channel that bro, I'm subject to being wrong.

[00:08:25]I'm subject to making mistakes. I'm subject to things like that bro. I don't do everything right. I've made a lot of mistakes bro. I built my whole career in the beginning off of my mistakes and L's.

[00:08:35]>> [laughter] >> Like so yeah man, it's it's a lot.

[00:08:37]>> I usually animate myself having one or both arms crossed to kind of hug myself while I'm talking.

[00:08:43]>> Damn. But that has nothing to do with me being introverted. It has come to my attention that some people are under the assumption that I'm faking my personality to come across as being more relatable and that I don't sound introverted enough. Guys, I'm not giving a live TED Talk. I record my voice in a dark closet. Those two are not the same.

[00:09:07]>> I remember the dark closet days. I used to record in a dark closet at my mom and dad's house upstairs. I didn't have a phone booth to knock out the sounds the excess sounds. So what I did was I took a cardboard box. I got a sheet a blanket, put the blanket inside the cardboard box and I put another blanket on top of the cardboard box just so it could act as memory foam to block out excess sounds. And the cardboard box was big so I could put my my mic in there.

[00:09:31]So whenever I talk, I put my laptop on the right side and on the left side I'd be recording. I stick my head in there and start recording. And then I'm in a closet filled with clothes and the closet wasn't big at all. So like it made it more compact and easier to get out even more x x sounds to make the audio quality a lot better than what usually is the thing going on. Man, those were the days. I had a picture on Instagram that I archived and it showed the exact setup I'm talking about. I might just unarchive it. Y'all let me know if y'all want me to archive unarchive it so I can show y'all. Matter of fact, let me let me do it right now.

[00:10:05]Hold up. Yeah, I I unarchived it right there. I'mma keep it up for about a day.

[00:10:11]>> [snorts] >> Maybe, I don't know. But yeah, that was my it wasn't my first setup, but it was my first setup for my animations. Also, I used to do animations off of my phone.

[00:10:21]So you know I was in the trenches for real. Before I had that setup, that's how I did it, through my phone. How did you do it do your phone, Devante? I had an Adobe drawing app on my phone and I had this editor on my phone called PowerDirector back then. So I'd draw on that Adobe app, transfer the files over to the PowerDirector, slap them on the timeline and get to editing. So yeah, that's how I did some of my very first animations. That's how I did some of my very first animated thumbnails, etc. Before animation, I did reactions, music videos, skits, etc. I might react to my old old old old old videos. Not my old old old animated ones, but my old old old before animated ones. I might just do it at like 500k. I I don't know.

[00:11:00]Maybe a million on this second channel.

[00:11:02]I mean, we approaching three three million subscribers on my main channel.

[00:11:05]So I I might just do it. I I don't know.

[00:11:07]It It depends how I'm feeling, honestly.

[00:11:08]Feel free to talk about what category you think you fit into. I know that most of my audience composes of introverts because YouTubers tend to attract audiences that mirror themselves. Yeah, we cut from the same cloth.

[00:11:21]>> really cool if I could see some different experiences in the comment section as well.

[00:11:27]Uh thanks for listening. See you in 3 months. Just so y'all can understand one more time. Being alone, introverts get their battery recharged. Being around people, extroverts get their battery recharged. Very simple. I'm not one of those extroverts. I'm very introverted. And I used to think that I was an ambivert, too. Like an extrovert and an introvert. But realistically, if we dumb it down to the definitions I just gave y'all, I'm not an extrovert in any way, shape, or form. I'm what they call a selective introvert. Cuz even when I'm around that one person or one group of people that make me a crackhead, I still have a social battery. It's just the social battery for those people or that one person that I really like being around, it's a lot bigger than being around strangers I don't give a damn about off rip. They get this battery. If I start liking you, the battery goes up.

[00:12:12]>> [laughter] >> But even then, there ain't nobody on this planet I like being around more than myself.

[00:12:18]I also feel you on that texting stuff, bro.

[00:12:21]I ain't that bad of a texter, but sometimes it just is what it is, man. So yeah, let me know what y'all think about this video in the comment section. And shout out to old girl, Caitlyn. Y'all go check out her channel. Leave a like on this video and go over to her original video. Leave a like over there. And subscribe to her if you feel like it. I was on her channel, I seen she only got like a couple of videos. But I'm pretty sure y'all will like them in some way, shape, or form. So yeah, go check them out. I really want to know all y'all's opinions down in the comment section. I think I have majority introverts in my fan base. I think I wouldn't even say I got majority that. I don't think I have a majority of one. I think I have a good balance of both. Whenever I run into supporters on the street, sometimes I run into an extrovert, sometimes I run into an introvert, but it's never like a majority of one of the two. So yeah, man, introvertness doesn't mean you're shy or anxious. That's just an internal quality that most people possess.

[00:13:07]Because I know some people that are extroverts that are like that. Y'all go check out Caitlyn. And follow my Instagram. And I'll see y'all in the next video, MAN. SHALOM.

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