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- There are a lot of instances here at BuzzFeed
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where I'm like wow, my job is really weird.
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(upbeat music)
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- I have one story in particular from when
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I was filming this series called (beep)
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and it was like a scripted show and I was one of
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the characters but I was producing one of the episodes.
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I had to cast someone to be this guy that I'm like
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making out with passionately and like he's throwing me
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on a bed and me start to like literally,
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well not literally, have sex.
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We didn't actually have sex.
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It was one of those scenes.
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It was just really awkward to have to be like,
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okay so I need to find someone that I feel
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comfortable making out with but who's also an actor.
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And I have to be like hello man who I don't know very well,
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I need to make out with you also I'm the one
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producing the video so I'm choosing you to make out with.
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I was super awkward on the day.
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I even had a beer cause I was like I have to calm down
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and then I was like oh my breath smells
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and I'm just like is it hot in here?
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Just like saying that a lot.
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It wasn't. I was just really, really hot.
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And of course you have to do take after take after take
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and I'm like here we go again and then
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like afterwards I just let go of him and I can't
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go near him anymore and it was, I don't know.
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It's just a very strange thing to have to deal with.
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- Four years ago when I first started, I was an intern
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and one of the things you would do as an intern
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was you would sign up to do prop runs.
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I volunteered to do a prop run to a sex shop.
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This particular shoot they needed a bunch of random (beep).
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So I went to this sex shop, was like filling up
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my little bag or whatever, with a lot of things.
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Lots of penis shaped things.
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Sex shops are awesome.
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They're not bad but I have to say
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like buying that much I was like, hm.
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When I was like gonna check out I was like
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should I say something like this is for work ha ha ha
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and then I decided nah I'm just not gonna say anything and
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they can like think whatever they want cause like (beep) it.
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But it was still like a moment where I was
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like wow, this is my job right now.
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- There was a video, I think it was about a year
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and a half ago where people tell their parents
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via Skype how they lost their virginity.
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And it was set up like it was supposed to be this game
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where the parents ask questions and you kind of lead to it.
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The tension builds and then finally surprise,
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you tell your parents and it's
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supposed to be this great idea.
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When this idea was being pitched I remember the only
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thought I had was this is gonna make such a good video.
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Like I was genuinely, there wasn't one thought in my mind
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that this was a bad idea or that this would be weird
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or what would the holidays be like.
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You know like I immediately was just like this is amazing.
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Call my parents up and they're
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sitting there and they have no idea.
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They have no idea what is going on.
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It was interesting how it still took like five minutes
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into it for me to realize that this was an awful idea
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because the story involved breaking and entering,
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it involved, my parents thought
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I lost my virginity when I was like 25.
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I was 16.
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No judgment, but 16.
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We like broke back into my parents' house, we like had sex
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like on my dad's like bed of tools, which is unsanitary,
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rude, and dangerous all in the same act.
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I guess I didn't really think about what it was gonna be
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once it was over because, you know, the video they say cut
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but you're still on Skype with your parents.
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So after I like told them this and they are mortified
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I'm just like chilling with my mom and my dad,
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realizing that within like a month or two
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I had to go home for the holidays.
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And of course, I mean you can imagine,
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it created an incredibly awkward thing.
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There was like a line from my dad which was
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I thought you were different, which was great.
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My mom said something at Thanksgiving was,
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no I'm not upset I was just, I was naive.
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Which is just like, she's just trying
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to like, they were playing hardball.
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No one pitied me cause all of my friends
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home were like why did you tell them?
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What was going through your mind
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when you thought this would be a good idea?
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And that's the reality is is that I don't think
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I actually thought about this game until they yelled cut.
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So maybe I'm just an amazing producer.
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An amazing producer and a dumb daughter.
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- Usually when BuzzFeed does videos,
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we usually send out a casting call.
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One of the videos that I saw in my email
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was titled "Casting: Build Your Own Vibrator".
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And I was like wow, that's really intriguing.
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First of all, I don't dabble in sexual things very often
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so it was foreign territory so that interested me.
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Second of all, I really like building
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things and very hands on things.
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A little while later I decided to reply.
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I answered them in full honesty
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because honesty is the best policy
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and also I felt like I knew this person well enough
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to share these details with them and they wouldn't care.
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The first question was how knowledgeable would you say
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you are about sexual health and sex toys?
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And I'm not very knowledgeable about either of those and
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then I also included a little tidbit fact about my sex toys.
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Second question was on a scale of one to 10,
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how handy or tech savvy would you say you are?
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And so I wrote I am very tech savvy.
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And then I hit reply.
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I reread what I wrote and I was very pleased with it.
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All of the sudden, something compelled me
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to check who I sent it to.
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It turns out that I had hit
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reply all instead of reply,
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sending it to the entire L.A. BuzzFeed office
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as well as the video department.
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That was how I ended up in that video.
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And I consider myself as a very tech savvy person but I
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countered that fact by sending it to the entire office.
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- You know, we do a lot of weird funny stuff at BuzzFeed.
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I hadn't even been working here that long
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but one day somebody brought in a sex toy to the office.
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And it wasn't just any sex toy.
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It was one of those giant butts that's like
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sculpted to look like a famous porn star
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and then you have sex with this like disembodied butt.
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Somebody wanted to make a video about that.
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I don't, I don't know what the video was.
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I don't even know if it ever got released.
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The person making the video decides to open it up
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right in the middle of the office floor.
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Just sort of like, oh here's this
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cardboard box and oh man, here's a butt.
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And everyone's like looking over from the balconies,
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people are crowding around it, and all of the sudden
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we realize it's not just a model of a butt, it moves.
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It's an electronic butt.
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It vibrates, it jiggles.
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Wah wah wah wah wah wah wah.
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Everyone's just mesmerized like wow,
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they can make this but they can't cure cancer?
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And you know, it was a nice looking butt.
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Probably pretty famous butt.
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I mean I've never heard of her, but.
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That was just Tuesday morning at 11 o'clock.
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Day in the life of a BuzzFeed employee.
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Really this was probably a pretty
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tame story all things considered.
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