24/7 tired but still alive
Tabbes
is a YouTube Storytime Animator, much like TheOdd1sOut and JaidenAnimations. The topics of her videos range from stories about playing at the park as a kid, strange students in her art classes, and finding a backpack containing drugs on a hike around a lake.
She was inactive from 2020 to January 2023 due to her channel being hacked, according to her Discord server. She used to have a Twitter and Instagram account, but they have been deactivated due to the hack during the early 2020s.
Tabbes provides examples of:
- Abusive Dad: Her father used to inflict very severe punishments on Tabbes and her brother when they were kids, some of them bordering on abuse. However, in her video about said punishments, Tabbes notes that her dad has gotten better as he's gotten older, but she still doesn't condone his actions.
- Annoying Younger Sibling: She considers her younger brother to be this. She still loves him, though.
- April Fools' Day: She has done a couple April Fools collaboration videos. The first one she did with Laddi, who voiced her fake "real" voice. The second one was with Wolfychu, where they did a "Freaky Friday" Flip.
- Artifact Name: A retrospective example. In "Locked in a Cellar", she refers to a friend of hers as "Afro", since he had an afro at the time. She continues calling him that in "Sneaking into the Theaters and Regretting it" even though he'd changed his hair.
- Attempted Rape: In "Meeting an Asylum Escapee", she recounts how the escapee tried to sexually assault her when they were on a subway in the wee hours of the morning.
- Bait-and-Switch: Near the beginning of "Dealing with Kids", she tosses a baby in the air a few times. After a while, the baby doesn't come back up, and we hear a "thud" noise while Tabbes says "oops"... cut to her with the baby still in her arms, noticing her phone fell out of her pocket.
- Batter Up!: She's brandished a baseball bat on numerous occasions.
- Bookworm: During the pandemic, she challenged herself to read 1000 books in a month. This required reading about 30 books per day, though as a loophole she counts listening to audiobooks, and included shorter books meant for children.
- Brutal Honesty: Tabbes tends to just say things as they are and isn't afraid to point out someone or something being stupid if she has to.
- The Comically Serious: Tabbes' character, identifiable by its crown and baseball bat, adds a touch of seriousness to her videos despite the blunt and edgy humor she employs.
- Cool Crown: Wears a small crown on her head. She has specified however that it's just a paper crown.
- The Cynic: Tabbes' videos often touch upon real-life experiences and her thoughts on certain things or people, indicating her tendency to view the world through a skeptical lens.
- Dark and Troubled Past: To paraphrase the woman herself, her dad had a backstory worthy of an anime villain. Just for starters, after being orphaned at a young age, he was raised by his alcoholic, mentally disturbed uncle who did things like chase after him with an axe.
- Darker and Edgier: At least compared to many of the other "animate my life" YouTubers. While others are generally willing to tackle dark, heavy subject matter, it's a more frequent topic for her.
- Deadpan Snarker:
- One of her defining traits. Her videos are unusually blunt and edgy, often featuring strong language, indicating her sarcastic and dry sense of humor.
- When she was in college, one of her roommates, whom she nicknamed "Megatron", is described as even more sarcastic than Tabbes herself.
- Determinator: As shown in her "The Strange Lake" videos, Tabbes refuses to turn around and head back, despite the multiple obstacles she encounters (i.e. the marsh, the creepy doll, rock climbing to cross a stream, etc.). She wanted to circle the entire lake, so she was going to circle the entire lake!
- Edible Theme Naming: Everyone in "Joining a Military Program" is (re)named after a seasoning.
- Everyone Has Standards: As overly strict and sometimes downright cruel as her father was, he punished Tabbes for killing fireflies because he believed they were harmless and did nothing to deserve death.
- Exhausted Eyebags: Her avatar seems to have perpetual bags under its eyes, presumably because she's "tired 24/7 but still alive."
- Freudian Excuse: Her father lost both his parents when he was 10 and he was raised by an alcoholic, abusive uncle who frequently chased him with an ax as punishment until he died in a boat accident, leaving her dad an orphan the remainder of his life. It's implied by his comment about fireflies and by Tabbes's comments that he was, at least, trying to be better than this uncle by restricting his abuse and he did eventually mellow out and atone.
- Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: While she acknowledges that her father's disturbed youth no doubt left its scars, she says it doesn't justify his abuse of her and her brother.
- Hidden Depths: Tabbes' revelation of her father's difficult upbringing as an orphan and her own South Korean descent adds depth to her personal narrative and influences her content.
- Hurricane of Puns: Makes a bunch of clown-related puns in her video on the creepy clown craze.
- Hypocritical Heartwarming: Tabbes has said that no one is allowed to pick on her brother. Only she's allowed to do that.
- Hypocritical Humor: Tabbes makes her dislike of dramatic people clear... by climbing to the summit of a snowy mountain and screaming it to the heavens. Immediatly lampshaded.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Despite her edgy and blunt approach, Tabbes may occasionally reveal a softer side or show acts of kindness, providing glimpses of her compassionate nature.
- The Lad-ette: She's very tomboyish and enjoys aggressive sports.
- Lady Swears-a-Lot: Good lord of mercy, is this girl foul-mouthed. Seriously do not make a drinking game out of how many times she swears. You'll die of alcohol poisoning within ten minutes.
- Let Us Never Speak of This Again: When she was 13, she sneaked into another screening while at the cinema with some friends. The movie they saw was The Change-Up and they were horrified by the sex scene and were freaking out the entire time. They didn't feel like tough adults and they all agreed to keep it a secret so they wouldn't get in any trouble.
- Maternally Challenged: By her own admission, she's no good at caring for kids.
- Military Academy: She was part of a JROTC program in high school and made a video detailing some of her experiences in it.
- Morality Pet: Tabbes's mother was this to her husband and Tabbes's father as she was the only one who could reprimand him for taking his punishments too far. When the dad threatened and almost cut off his son's hand for spoiling a pot of food, she told him in no uncertain terms that she would call the police and divorce him if he tried that again.
- Mugging the Monster: The asylum escapee who tried to rape her on a subway probably assumed she was an easy target. She proved him wrong when she refused to just let him assault her and won the ensuing fight by literally throwing him off the train.
- The Nicknamer: Most of the other people in her videos are given nicknames by her.
- No Sense of Personal Space: "Touchy", a girl Tabbes knew in art class. This girl would inappropriately touch other girls around her during class. She would grope them, grab their asses, and purposely fondle them.
- Pint-Sized Powerhouse: She looks like an easy target, but she’s more than capable of kicking ass, such as when she beats a deranged asylum escapee, and even successfully fights off an entire bus full of scammers trying to rob her.
- The Prankster: Tabbes' participation in April Fools' collaboration videos with other YouTubers demonstrates her willingness to engage in playful and comedic pranks for entertainment purposes.
- Sadist Teacher: Had one of these in an afterschool she attended. One kid got a few questions wrong, so the teacher put him in the invisible chair position for twenty five minutes. And when Tabbes tried to stick up for him and asked for him to be let go? The teacher put the entire class in the same position.
- Seen It All: And boy has she. Starting from a young age up until adulthood she has had a lot of encounters with a lot of things a person her age shouldn't have seen.
- Slasher Smile: Will sometimes sport one if she's in one of her more mischievous moods, sometimes while brandishing her bat.
- The Speechless: "Being Mute for 3 Years" is all about Tabbes' experience literally never talking throughout the entirety of middle school.
- Splash of Color: Most things she draws are black, white, or gray. But some things are depicted with more color, most notably her yellow crown (though it was white before April 2018).
- Stern Teacher: In middle school, one of her teachers was known for being quite strict, but she had her students' best interests at heart. She tried to twist Tabbes' arm to make her start speaking.
- That Came Out Wrong: Tabbes says she can't be relied upon to take care of kids in "Dealing with Kids", telling people they shouldn't leave her alone with their children... then worries that the way she phrased it makes her sound like a pedo.
- Throw the Book at Them: In "Reading 1000 Books in a Month", after completing her challenge, she has smacked two of her critics in the face with a book, quipping "Facebook!"
- Tomboyish Voice: She has a rather gruff, boyish voice. While some people have claimed she's faking it in an attempt to be "edgy", it's almost certainly her real voice.
- Took a Level in Kindness: Over the years, her dad, while remaining fairly strict, dropped the worst elements of his parenting style.
- Vomit Indiscretion Shot: Near the beginning of "Dealing with Kids", a baby pukes all over her head.
