Web Animation / Let Me Explain Studios

"Hello, my geeks and peeps; my explainers and entertainers; my little oodle lallies, Rebecca Parham here."

— Introductory catchphrase

Rebecca Parham, also known as Let Me Explain Studios, born December 4, 1987, is an Storytime Animator, voice actor, and singer. She is among the most well-known and successful YouTube animators on the website, up there with TheOdd1sOut and JaidenAnimations.

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Let Me Explain Studios provides examples of:

• Accidental Dance Craze: Played with. While at the circus when she was 3, the sound of the clown car's exhaust pipe backfiring triggered Rebecca's irrational fear of loud noises, causing her to stand up, cover her ears, and start screaming. Rachel saw this, figured it was some sort of trend that's done at a circus, and proceeded to do the same thing.
• Alcohol-Induced Idiocy: Medusa eventually ended up getting fired after she drunkenly locked herself in the boys' hotel room while on an overnight competition trip with some students.
• All Crimes Are Equal: The principal from "Bitten While Defending A Friend" believes this. Rebecca got into a fight with a bully who snatched a friend's journal and was reading it out loud, and the bully went so far as to bite her. The Principal would give them both five demerits, but the only reason why the bully got ten instead is because this was a repeat offense.
• All of the Other Reindeer: Rebecca was effectively an outcast during her middle school years due to her interests, her weight, and being viewed as a "weirdo".
• …And That Little Girl Was Me: Although never explicitly stated, the video "Selling Your Soul for Fame" drops several hints that Rebecca (or at least, toon Rebecca) is the musician's daughter from the titular ghost story.
• Arboreal Abode: Starting with "Disney Street Performers Pick On Me AGAIN!", Rebecca has moved into a treehouse inside of a forest, fulfilling her childhood dream from "Backyard Stories".
• Bait-and-Switch:
  • "BLOOD ON MY WINDSHIELD" seems to indicate that Rebecca hit something or someone with her car. The video initially backs up this initial impression by making it seem like the car ran into a buzzard, but as it turns out, the blood was from some carrion the buzzard hastily dropped to gain altitude and avoid them.
  • The start of "Running Away From Home" has Rebecca in the woods carrying a Bindle Stick, making it seem like she's running away from something. Turns out, she's not, and the bindle is just for setting up a picnic with all of the refreshments inside of it.
• Batman Gambit: When Rebecca and Rachel try to prank their mom by pretending to run away from home and leaving a letter, their mom reads the letter, and then proceeds to act like nothing is different, forcing the two to come out of hiding in confusion and blowing their cover.
• Better to Die than Be Killed: "My Teacher Murdered Someone" mentions that E ended up killing himself in a police standoff, suggesting that he decided dying on his own terms was preferable to capture.
• Big Beautiful Woman: She sure is.
• Big Eater: In "Running Away From Home", Rebecca somehow placed an order for 426 pumpkins and paid in advance.
• Blatant Lies: Medusa once claimed she didn't cast Rebecca as Dotty in a production of the play Noises Off because she needed an actress who was shorter than Dotty's love interest... even though the boy she cast to play him was taller than Rebecca. Sure enough, a group of tech kids learned that she was shafted because she wasn't popular.
• Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick:
  • Becca likes fire because "it's warm, pretty, and gets rid of evidence."
  • Recalling her visit to the circus as a three-years-old, the three rings include clowns, the flying trapeze, tightrope walkers... and the ringmaster shooing away an elephant in light of modern circus controversies. Coupled with her going, "Uuuhhhhh..."
• Brick Joke: In "I Got Stuck on a Roof", after Becca not-so-subtly implies that her friend Kay's parents have been burying bodies, they wonder why she always brings home the weird ones. At the end of the video, an adult Kay is shown watching it on YouTube and wondering why she always made friends with the weird ones.
• Broken Glass Penalty: Rebecca's sister Rachel once broke a window in the Parham house when playing baseball with some friends in the backyard. Her mom tried to make her pay for it, but her dad was willing to let it slide, saying "every kid gets to break one window with a baseball".
• Bully Hunter: At daycare, her sister, Rachel, was known to pick fights with kids who were bullying others, leading to her being nicknamed "Rocky".
• Butt-Monkey: Apparently, Rebecca has been accident prone, as revealed in "My Terrible Mouth Accident".
  Rebecca: My dad accidentally pulled my arm out of my socket when I was six, I got hit in the face with a softball when I was in middle school and had a shiner for a week, I slipped in water in high school and tore a cartilage in my knee, a girl in theatre dropped a heavy set piece on my foot and I had to do the rest of the shows with one shoe on, I broke my toe banging it on a platform trying to get off stage... (beat) Y'know, maybe I'm more accident prone than I thought. I wonder how much football helmets cost.
• Card-Carrying Villain: Medusa was given her nickname by students of hers who thought she was wicked and unreasonable, and she took to adopting that nickname out of sheer, spiteful pride.
• Censored for Comedy: A variant. While the words that get censored are normally done correctly, Rebecca still goes through the trouble of putting a censor bar over the swearer's mouth... despite her characters not having mouths.
• Character Catchphrase:
  • "Hello, my geeks and peeps; my explainers and entertainers; my little oodle lallies, Rebecca Parham here."
  • "Thank you so much for tuning in, but now, I gotta tune out. Bye!"
• The Cobbler's Children Have No Shoes: E was Rebecca's communications professor... who couldn't communicate with his students to save his life.
• Creepy Stalker Van: Discussed in "Daycare Stories". Rebecca mentions that, in retrospect, being driven around in a white van sounds "rather nefarious".
• Cute Witch: Although Rebecca as a kid wanted to be a Wicked Witch who was feared by others, her current self still takes on the image of a witch, but with a more adorable and amicable demeanor.
• Dark and Troubled Past: The challenging experiences Rebecca faced during her childhood, including bullying and the loss of her father, have shaped her perspective and resilience.
• A Day in the Limelight: "Crotchety Storage Lady" is told from the POV of Rebecca's mother (although Rebecca is still the one narrating). Justified, as Mama Parham specifically commissioned Rebecca to animate this story, which is apparently one she frequently tells at presentations.
• Deadpan Snarker: She often uses dry humor and sarcastic remarks in her animated videos.
• Deal with the Devil: The subject of Rebecca's ghost story in "Selling Your Soul for Fame" was a musician who made one such deal to gain fame and fortune. However, when he realizes that the praise is going towards his young daughter instead of him, he attempts to back out of the deal. The devil agrees in exchange for the daughter's death, which the musician accepts... only for the daughter to catch wind of the deal and escape, causing the musician to spend eternity trying to hunt her down, even after death.
• Dean Bitterman:
  • The high school vice principal from "My School Dress Codes" is an Obnoxious Entitled Housewife who stops at absolutely nothing to enforce the dress code, only letting Rebecca slip by because she was considered the "good kid".
    Vice Principal: HEY! That shirt is prohibited; go to the office! YOU! Take out that nose ring; you know they're not allowed! Oh, hello, Rebecca, you have a good day, sweetheart. HEY! I see that logo on your pants, mister!
  • The middle school principal from "Bitten While Defending A Friend" is a firm believer of All Crimes Are Equal, willing to give Rebecca the exact same amount of demerits as Milly, who bit Rebecca on the arm and nearly broke her skin, just because she roughhoused Milly in trying to get Greg's stolen journal back, and only gives Milly more demerits just because it was her second time seeing him.
• Death Glare:
  • Her friend Mary gave one to E as she observed him posing threateningly to Rebecca.
  • Rebecca's mom gave two to Rebecca in "Stole Mom's Credit Card to Buy N64" when she revealed that she purchased Pokémon Snap and later finding out she ordered it overnighted. Lampshaded by Rebecca herself.
  • Rebecca's mom did another one to the principal of Rebecca's school when Rebecca revealed that Milly bit her arm.
  • In "I Got Stuck On A Roof", Rebecca's father gives her one when Kay shouted out that they did something they didn't want her parents to know (getting stuck on the roof).
• Determinator: She is very perseverant and resilient in pursuing her passion for animation despite setbacks, personal losses, and anxiety about her future.
• Devilish Hair Horns: Because she was a troublemaker as a little kid, her Girlish Pigtails from her elementary school days are often tilted upwards to look like devil horns.
• Dirty Old Man: In an Alice in Wonderland play involving a wardrobe mishap, an old man in the audience mentions that his favorite part of the play was when "we got to see the girl's heinie".
• Driven by Envy: In "WORST PRANK Ever Played On Me!!", Rebecca ended up getting a lead role in The Pirates of Penzance in high school, with Medusa's favorite students being so green with envy over being reduced to techies that they decided to pull some not-so-harmless pranks that nearly sabotaged the show, including mooning the lead actor and taping a crude drawing of a penis to the inside of a scroll.
• Drives Like Crazy: One day, some moron in a Mustang almost ran Rebecca over in a parking lot as she was passing by, and then rudely "apologized" by claiming he didn't see her as if to blame her for nearly being killed as a result of his incompetent-at-best driving. Rebecca later saw him pulled over for speeding.
• Early-Installment Weirdness: In "The Sochi Hotel Games" video, Rebecca uses mouths in her character style.
• Earn Your Happy Ending: After constant abuse from her high school theatre teacher Medusa, Rebecca stood up for herself and dropped out of Medusa's classes. Following this, Rebecca was much happier and more confident, to the point where her choir teacher even noticed and gave her the award for "Most Improved Senior". Rebecca did not even have to drop out of doing theatre since she joined a community theatre who actually cast her in a leading role of a musical, which won her the best actress award for the show season at said theatre.
• Enfant Terrible: In "Daycare Stories 2", Rebecca says that she was a Card-Carrying Villain when she was only 18 months old, as she would push over other babies who were first toddling, followed by laughing maniacally.
• Entitled Bastard: During a visit to Medieval Times in college, Rebecca was anticipating receiving flowers from the Red and Yellow Knight of Perelada, but after three instances of being ignored, she screamed at the top of her lungs, "You suck!" Karma came back to bite her when it turned out that she was selected to be crowned the Queen of Love and Beauty, much to her embarrassment.
  Rebecca: Sorry!
• Evil Is Petty: Becca clearly displayed skill and talent when she auditioned for the part of Dottie in Noises Off. Yet, Medusa didn't even give Becca a part on the petty excuse that she's "not one of the group". This comes back to bite her when some tech theatre girls pass on her words to Becca, who works up the courage to leave Medusa's classes and move on to better things.
• Evil Teacher: E, Rebecca's communications professor in college, eventually went on to murder somebody.
• Excellent Judge of Character: In "My Teacher Murdered Someone", Rebecca mentions that all her life, she's had deadly-accurate intuition when it comes to bad people.
• Eyelid Pull Taunt: Milly does this to Rebecca in class... except for the fact that, like everyone else in Rebecca's videos, she has No Mouth, meaning no tongue.
• Fridge Horror: In-Universe in "My Teacher Murdered Someone". After reading a disturbing news article about how E killed somebody, Rebecca realized that she was essentially poking a would-be murder with a stick back during an argument over a grade in college and worried about how he might have reacted there wasn't a witness present.
• The Friendly Texan: Rebecca is an absolute sweetheart, and was born and raised in San Antonio, Texas.
• Genki Girl: Rebecca can act upbeat in most videos.
• Girly Girl with a Tomboy Streak: On the surface level, Rebecca is traditionally feminine, with her dressing mostly in skirts and comfort clothes, having a mildly bubbly demeanor, and enjoying a more folksy aesthetic, but deeper down, most of her interests, including cartoons and video games, are traditionally masculine, on top of being somewhat of a Nightmare Fetishist.
• Good Feels Good: The general message of "Bitten While Defending A Friend". Doing good being its own reward.
• Good Parents: Every time they are mentioned, Rebecca has nothing but good things to say about her parents. Her mom is described as a Mama Bear (also paid Rebecca to animate a story she tells at her presentations at her workplace) and Rebecca has described her late father as wanting his kids to have fulfilling childhoods.
• Gorn: While giving a graphic content warning in "My Terrible Mouth Accident", Rebecca proceeds to show her love for bloody content by pulling a rope, causing a gallon of blood to come pouring down on top of her.
• Gosh Dang It to Heck!: She prefers to avoid dropping expletives online. She's not above using the word hell though, as it hardly counts. She's also said that she does cuss in real life.
• Grief Song: Rebecca's cover of the song "Bei Mir Du Schoen" was done as a tribute to reaching one million subscribers and her father's passing.
• Hard Truth Aesop:
  • "Bitten While Defending A Friend": Sometimes doing the right thing gets you in trouble. Rebecca is bitten while trying to get a friend's journal back form a bully, and both of them are punished by the principal for "horse-playing in the bathroom". While Becca's mom defends her and calls out the principal, the demerits stick.
  • "My Crazy Theatre Teacher": "Don't work somewhere that makes you miserable and there are more factors to success than just working hard", Rebbecca did have talent in Theatre but her teacher, Medusa, kept sabotaging her theatre prospects for petty reasons and Rebbecca only succeeded in Theatre by leaving Medusa's classes and working somewhere that actually recognized and appreciated her talents.
• Hard Work Fallacy: In school, Rebecca worked her hardest in theatre and genuinely had a passion for it, only for her teacher to send mixed messages and eventually reveal that she had been sabotaging her theatre prospects because she was unpopular with the other students. Finally accepting that her teacher was never going to help her, Rebecca left all her classes and joined other theatre groups where her talents were actually recognized and she even got awards for theatre acting.
• Hard Work Hardly Works: Deconstructed, Rebecca reveals that her theatre teacher, Medusa, often played favorites with her students and always sabotaged Rebecca's theatre prospects out of spite and pettiness. However, this caused problems for the students later on because they were only successful in theatre because Medusa was the one in charge. In "WORST PRANK Ever Played On Me!!", Rebecca reveals that when a different teacher was leading the play, Rebecca got a starring role because she was the only one in Medusa's class who knew how to sing, and Medusa's favorites were forced to work backstage, which was something they didn't normally do and were promptly underskilled at.
• Heel–Face Turn: Rebecca had a bit of an evil streak since she was a baby, but by middle school, she abandoned that lifestyle for being a good person.
  Rebecca: Listen, I got my deviltry out early; you best be thankful that I'm a Good Witch of the Woods now!
• Hypocritical Humor: In "Daycare Stories", Rebecca refers to herself as a "pinnacle of refinement and maturity"... while propping up her unshaven legs on the table she's sitting at.
• Impact Silhouette: Leaves one in the ground in "My Childhood Fears" when Laddi kicks her down from her swing elevator.
• Insane Troll Logic:
  • When Rebecca stole her mom's credit card to purchase Pokémon Snap, she did it under the excuse that "it's not stealing if she was buying it anyway". The fact that she had it overnighted for an additional fee didn't help.
  • Her Sadist Teacher in college also seemed to follow under similar logic when it came to his grading system (he gave Rebecca a poor grade because of a font she used and marked down a paper that had fewer mistakes on it than when it was previous graded!)
• Insult Backfire: Delivers one to a woman who made fun of her legs in "My School Dress Codes".
  Woman: I wouldn't be wearing shorts if I had your legs, sweetie.
  Rebecca: Oh, yeah? Well, your judgment of others is a manifestation of your crippling disappointment with how your life is turning out, "sweetie".
  Woman: (Beat; starts crying)
• Interactive Narrator: When telling her stories, Rebecca has a tendency to freeze her footage and physically commentate over or interact with it, in a manner not too dissimilar to another well-known egotist, Kuzco from The Emperor's New Groove.
• Irony: In "My Crazy Theatre Teacher", the show which led to Rebecca to stand up for herself against the backstage hostility she got from Medusa was Noises Off, a show which is actually about a Show Within a Show and the cast's backstage hostilities!
• It's All About Me: Rebecca loves to stroke her ego for laughs, which is reflective of her being a show-off while on stage.
  Rebecca: Well, what did you expect?! You all kept calling me "Queen" on my social media! It was only a matter of time before my ego became overblown, and I tried on the crown for size! You only have yourselves to blame, darlings.
• Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: Rebecca's High School Drama Teacher Medusa was ultimately this. She had a tight grip on the theatre department and was prone to mood swings, either being decent & friendly or irritable & verbally abusive. And she frequently had favorite students while treating everyone else (Becca included) poorly. But she always gave her A's for being a good student, and even gave her a hug after a great performance, which made Rebecca believe that one day she'd get her approval if she stuck it out. However, during senior year when Rebecca was auditioning for the lead role in a play that she was the most qualified for in the entire class ^note  Specifically, it was for female lead-character "Dotty" from Noises Off. Rebecca was the oldest in the class, had senior-student casting priority, had the right physique for the role, and could even do the necessary accent perfectly , Medusa still did not cast her for ANY role for the play out of sheer contempt for her, even telling other students such. Unsurprisingly, this was the final straw for Rebecca, who quit her class then & there.
• Knows a Guy Who Knows a Guy: In "My Childhood Fears", Rebecca calls TomSka to help her down from her swing elevator, but instead gets help from Laddi.
  Laddi: Well, you see, Tom realized he's... y'know, in London, so, he called Jaiden to ask her to do it. But she was busy, so she called James, who called Emirichu, who called CypherDen, but she couldn't make it 'cause she's in New York. So, Den called Tabbes, who called illymation, who called RushLight Invader, and, I just happen to be in the area, so, he called me, and here I am!
• Large Ham: Rebecca is a shamelessly loud and dramatic presence who loves being the center of attention. She even came out of her mother's womb screaming.
• Laser-Guided Karma:
  • Medusa was an extremely abusive and vindictive teacher with a totalitarian grip on the theatre department of the high school Rebecca went to. She treated almost all of her students like trash except for a select few students that were her personal favorites and prioritized above school rules. However, her behavior caught up to her when she got smashed on an overnight competition with students and ended up locking the boys out of their dormitory overnight. She was promptly fired.
  • As mentioned in "Drives Like Crazy", a man driving a Mustang almost ran Rebecca over while pulling out of a parking lot. Rebecca later saw him be pulled over by the cops.
  • Milly, The Bully, while only getting ten demerits for biting Rebecca's arm, never bothered her again afterwards after Rebecca stood up to her for a friend.
• Laughing Mad: Rebecca's reaction to hearing why Medusa didn't cast her, on top of lying to her.
  Rebecca: She didn't... cast me... because... I wasn't... popular. (chuckles under her breath before increasing her laughing pitch, going cross-eyed, and cackling while silhouetted in the background)
• Loophole Abuse:
  • During a strict dress code enforcement period, Rebecca managed to sneak a Grumpy t-shirt due to the shirt legitimately looking like a college debate team shirt. Also counts as Refuge in Audacity.
  • In "Daycare Stories", when she was in daycare during her younger years, she was told not to draw on the board without adult supervision. So instead, she took the marker and drew all over her face. She got time out anyway.
  • In "TRICKED My Teacher into Giving Me EASIEST Project Ever", during a project where kids had to do reports on the biographies of U.S. presidents while acting out as them, Rebecca managed to get away with picking William Henry Harrison, acted out as him on his deathbed, and got an A+ for her presentation.
• Made of Iron: Rebecca's childhood friend Jaco once fell dozens of feet from a tree and landed on a wet bar hard enough to completely destroy it. Somehow, he got away with just a broken arm.
• Major Injury Underreaction: Double subverted in "My Terrible Mouth Accident". She talks about how when she was a toddler, she fell face first on hardwood floors when playing on a porch swing. She screamed loudly, alerting her father and taking her to the hospital because her mouth was bleeding. But then during the car ride, little Becca started gleefully singing "Old MacDonald Had a Farm". But Rebecca's father wasn't in the mood for a musical number.
• Mama Bear: In "Bitten While Defending A Friend", after being shown a bite-mark, Rebecca's mom chewed out the principal for punishing Rebecca for fighting a bully in the name of a friend. It didn't make the demerits go away, though.
  Rebecca: Look what Milly did to me.
  Rebecca's Mom: Oh, hell no!
  (cut to the Principal's office; there's a rumbling sound, followed by the sound of fast foosteps getting louder and louder; door is kicked open, revealing Rebecca's mother with a red-eyed Death Glare)
  Rebecca's Mom: EXPLAIN YOURSELF, KNAVE!
• The Matchmaker: An unintentional and even possibly supernatural case. Rebecca's noted that she's had terrible luck maintaining a relationship and for some reason, all of her former partners went on to have more stable and lasting relationships after dating her. This eventually ballooned when random people she interacts with, be it in Real Life or online, told her they've somehow managed to score after talking to her. Once someone half-jokingly referred to her as "The Girlfriend Fairy", Rebecca fully embraced the role and has since become less concerned about her chances of success in romance.
• Mid-Life Crisis Car: "Almost Run Over By A Car" details Rebecca's experience with almost getting hit by an intimidating red-and-black Mustang driven by an older gentleman. The license plate says "CMPNSATING" just to drive the point home.
• Mistaken for Gay: Due to a bit of ambiguous wording she used in "Crazy Wrong Number Caller", she had to clarify in a later video that "Sorry ladies, I'm straight".
• Mood-Swinger: One thing that made Medusa such a nightmare to deal with was her emotional volatility. Sometimes she was perfectly nice and helpful, but other times she was borderline monstrous.
• Never My Fault: When an older man almost ran over Rebecca with his car, he gives an "apology" implying that she was the one at fault.
• Nice Girl: Rebecca is sweet, good-hearted, and is incredibly patient with her viewers. At the end of her story of Medusa, Rebecca simply offers hope to her former teacher that she is in a better mental and emotional state of mind. She means it.
• Nightmare Fetishist: She's never been adverse to a little bit of blood... Or a gallon or two.
• No Mouth: How she traditionally animates her characters in most of her videos. Discussed in "NO MOUTHS?", where she explains that she took inspiration from Marvin the Martian, Gromit, and Bill Cipher to draw characters that rely solely on the eyes for emotional expression. She has enough practice with this that she was able to draw her mom with a recognizable Grinch smile even though she didn't have a mouth. In scenarios where she needs to show a mouth (such as in "My Terrible Mouth Accident"), they're represented with post-it notes. However, in other videos not animated in her traditional style (such as "BeeFwee! (A Pokemon Parody)" and "Bottled Opera," her senior student film), or when she draws other animated YouTubers in their styles, characters do have mouths.
• The Noseless: Rebecca's characters generally aren't drawn with noses. Similarly to the above, when she needed to depict a nose in "Daycare Stories 2", she drew it on a post-it note.
• Not Evil, Just Misunderstood: Despite him being physically violent to everyone, Rebecca realizes that Greg is only the way he is because he's a social outcast like she is, and through showing kindness to him, she ends up being Greg's only genuine friend.
• "Not Making This Up" Disclaimer:
  • In "I Got Stuck On A Roof", Rebecca says this about using a leaf pile to write out an SOS on the roof of the house.
  • In "Running Away From Home", Rebecca describes her mother giving her father the prank goodbye note^note A prank intended for her mom, who didn't fall for it, but immediately suggested they prank their dad instead. And even decided to play along to make it convincing. and her dad immediately asking, "What did you do?! Did you say something to her?" She then pauses the animation to laugh, "No, really, he actually said that, he blamed my mom immediately."
• Not So Above It All: While Rebecca's mother generally comes off as a stern, no-nonsense woman, she does have a mischievous side, as shown when she comes up with an idea to prank her husband in "Running Away From Home".
• Nude-Colored Clothes: Rebecca appeared in an Alice in Wonderland high school play as both Tweedle Dum and the Old Griffin, and the latter's costume included a pair of peach-colored pants. But on the fourth night of the play, during Rebecca's Tweedle Dum performance, her hula hoop pants fell down, and since she was wearing the Griffin pants underneath, at least some people in the audience thought she was bottomless.
• Out of the Frying Pan: Had Rebecca just ordered Pokémon Snap using her mom's credit card, she would've just been in trouble, but because she also went the extra step to have it overnighted, this caused the game to be confiscated from her for 2 weeks.
• Pink Is Erotic: In "WORST PRANK Ever Played On Me!!", Rebecca tells a story of how a group of disgruntled teenage theatre kids decided to play a prank on her during a theatre production of The Pirates of Penzance. During the play, one of the pranksters, Robbie, suddenly grows a conscience and vaguely warns Rebecca that Ben's pants will fall when he stands up. Unfortunately, Ben wasn't warned in time and his pants dropped, seemingly exposing everything to the audience. Later on, Rebecca discovers the next part of the prank, that the scroll would reveal a biologically accurate penis that only the actors and actresses could see but the actor was able to keep a straight face. Although nothing is shown to the audience, Rebecca is shown with pink cheeks as she's immediately embarrassed and flustered when Ben's pants drop off-screen and Ben's cheeks are also blushing pink but not as intensely as Rebecca's are. Rebecca is shown blushing pink again when she finds out about the crude drawing of a penis on the scroll, as well as the amateur theatre kid who was standing in front of a bush with pink flowers in it.
• Poorly Timed Confession: A variant. in the video titled appropriately, "I Got Stuck On A Roof", Rebecca and her friend were having a sleepover, and while her friend's parents away, they decided to play on the roof, but got locked out of the house. They stayed on the roof for 2 hours before her friend's parents come home. Rebecca is picked up by her father, and while she thinks she's going to get away with it, this happens.
  Kay: Aaaand remember! Don't tell him anything!
  Rebecca: (Oh, Crap! face)
  Rebecca's Father: (Death Glare combined with Tranquil Fury voice) Don't tell me what, dearest daughter of mine?
• Posthumous Character: Rebecca's father is one in every story talking about him, as he sadly passed away in late 2014 due to a heart attack that was so powerful, it couldn't be treated.
• Punctuated Pounding: In "Backyard Stories", when Rebecca describes how Jaco tried to swing from a tree "like he was freakin' Tarzan", she can be heard clapping between words.
• Pyrrhic Victory: Medusa abusing Rebecca and other students for not being popular. She may have been able to cast her favorites and get enjoyment out of tormenting the other students in the short term, but in the long term this damaged her reputation with students being less willing to stay in her department, and ultimately resulted in her being fired. And of course, there's the fact that Rebecca herself sees a lot of success in acting and animation today, so it's easy to see how the power table has turned.
• Rage Breaking Point: Learning from her experience with Medusa, Rebecca knew to not take E's shenanigans sitting down. For the entire semester, she would take the proper measures to counteract everything bad he did, but on the last day of class, when her corrected assignment ended up having a lower grade than the initial assignment, Rebecca stood up, told E to meet her in the hallway, and proceeded to argue with him for 15 minutes.
• Reactive Continuous Scream: During her prank of running away from home, Rebecca's dad accidentally finds her behind the frosted shower door, causing the two to scream at each other.
• Rhymes on a Dime: How she made her last VidCon Recap video.
• Sadist Teacher: Her high school theatre teacher Medusa and her college communication professor E (who Rebecca comments made Medusa look like a saint in comparison, since at least Medusa never killed anybody).
• Saw It in a Movie Once: In "Backyard Stories", Rebecca recalled an incident where one of her friends tried to retrieve a lost ball by climbing a tree and using a branch to swing into the neighbor's garden, à la Tarzan. Unsurprisingly, the branch couldn't hold his weight and he fell on a wet bar, where he was lucky enough to just have his arm broken. Rebecca also uses this trope against him, saying that Wile E. Coyote shorts should've told him that it was a bad idea.
  Rebecca: Who says cartoons rot your brain?invoked
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: In "My Crazy Theatre Teacher", the titular teacher didn't cast Rebecca in a play, even though she'd fit in a role perfectly, simply because Rebecca wasn't pretty or popular. This motivates Rebecca to do what she should have done years ago: grow a backbone and walk away from a manipulative bitch.
• Secret Diary: Greg in "Bitten While Defending A Friend" kept a personal journal where he wrote all his Dark Secrets pertaining to his bad home life and constant bullying, which Milly snatches for the purpose of gossiping about in the girls' locker room in front of Greg. Rebecca's determined to get it back for Greg because of how personal and depressing the contents of the journal must be, and having it read aloud would probably drive him off the deep end.
• Seen It All: Kay's parents in "I Got Stuck On A Roof" barely react to Kay and Rebecca getting, well, stuck on a roof, the implication being that this is a regular occurrence in their house. They don't even threaten to tell Rebecca's parents about the incident, and they only find out due to a Poorly Timed Confession on Kay's part.
• Shout-Out: When Rebecca is mining through the beach in "Daycare Stories 2", Cynthia is seen half-buried in the sand.
• Shrinking Violet: Rebecca was a very shy girl during her prep school days due to the ostracism she suffered.
• Skewed Priorities: When Rebecca shows TomSka her PewdSka ship art, Tom's only concern is, "Why am I on the bottom?"
• Strong Family Resemblance: Rebecca and her dad avert this, only having the same hair color and nothing else, but Rebecca's mom looks exactly like Rachel; only older.
• Symbolic Blood: Milly's Establishing Character Moment has her highlighting a Beetlejuice calendar with a red marker, putting the cap back on, and promptly snapping the marker in half, causing the ink to come squirting out all over her face as if she were bloodstained.
• Teasing Parent: After Rebecca's running away from home prank on her mom fell flat because her mom acted coy about it, causing her and Rachel to come out of hiding, her mom suddenly got the idea to do the prank again, but this time, on Rebecca's dad. Lo and behold, the prank was a rousing success due to her mom putting on her most convincing acting performance.
• Technology Marches On: invokedTech advances are brought up in "I Got Stuck On A Roof". While kids of later years could easily have called for help or at least distracted themselves with their smartphones, the incident happened at a time when cell phones were far less ubiquitous and far more primitive, so even if one or both of them had a phone on them at the time, it's questionable whether they would've been able to do anything with it.
• Tempting Fate: How Kay gets her and Rebecca stuck on the roof.
  Kay: See? It's all fine! (places hand on window pane) Just as long as we don't close the- (window shuts on its own) ...window.
• The Tooth Hurts: "My Terrible Mouth Accident" is about how Rebecca suffered a mouth injury when she was very young after falling off a porch swing, one that pushed three of her front teeth back and up into her head.
• Toxic Friend Influence: For the most part, Kay was a decent friend to Rebecca, but her convincing her to go out onto the roof was set up to be devious rulebreaking on her part.
• Tranquil Fury: Rebecca's mom slipped into this after Rebecca told her she used her credit cart to pay for a Nintendo 64 without permission.
• Troubled, but Cute: Despite her artistic talents and creative pursuits, Rebecca has had some introverted and socially challenging experiences throughout her life.
• Unlimited Wardrobe: Rebecca's avatar wears something different in every video. Lampshaded in "My School Dress Codes" when talking about school uniforms.
  Rebecca: I can't even decide on one outfit to stick my animated self with. (turns to face a closet containing outfits from past videos) Just look at this cartoon wardrobe! Eat'cha heart out, Minnie Mouse.
• Verbal Backspace: In "Almost Run Over By A Car", Rebecca describes herself as "very creepy" due to her habit of people-watching before hastily amending it to "very observant".
• Vile Vulture: Discussed in "Blood on my Windshield", Texans are taught to avoid buzzards because they have difficulty taking off. While Rebecca and her mom were out, the pair nearly drove into a buzzard but the bird was able to get out of the way and survive. Unfortunately, the carrion from the buzzard's beak slipped out and splattered over the windshield and they had to get the car washed before they went any further.
• Wardrobe Malfunction: Happened during a high school play Rebecca took part in. Specifically, her Tweedle Dum pants broke and fell down, much to the audience's amusement.
• Weight Woe: While she was in prep school, Rebecca was ostracized partly because she was plus-sized, and felt very insecure about her body as a result.
• What You Are in the Dark: According to Rebecca's mom, Medusa was no different behind closed doors than she was while teaching, as when she went to confront her about Rebecca's bully, Medusa admitted right in front of her mom that she was more worried about the bully getting in trouble and losing his role in future plays than any bullying Rebecca was having to put up with. Although the confrontation didn't go much further, Rebecca's mom was not pleased with what Medusa had to say.
• Wolverine Publicity: The thumbnail for the first part of her Vidcon 2018 recap has JaidenAnimations in the back of the crowd, despite not actually showing up in the video. She does appear in the second part though.

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