Name: I Accidentally Became The First Internet Karen
Uploaded: 2026-01-17T17:42:24.000Z
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Adverbs of manner

I accidentally became a meme and this is that story.

Modal verbs - B1

My name is Angela and you may know me from the Bath and Body Works rant Alive person.

I made my first YouTube video back in 2008 and I believe it was titled like Robo hamsters or something like that.

And then I slowly progressed into guinea pig videos because.

Because I specialized in pregnant guinea pigs.

Well, I could say I've had my eye on this candle, but

I feel like I was always into candles and it slowly just like progressed into making videos on YouTube showing my candle hauls.

So the candle community was pretty big on YouTube at this point.

Point there were these candles coming out at Bath and Body Works for Christmas time.

The winter candy apple and iced gingerbread.

So Bath and Body Works had this guarantee where if you were to go in the store and if you had a candle and you wanted to return it, you could always exchange it for a different, you know, size candle.

So I on this specific day had a peach Bellini three wick candle.

And I was searching high and low for the winter candy apple and spiced or Iced Gingerbread 3 Wick candle.

So I just remember my mom and I going to Oshkosh.

I have been calling my store in Appleton, Appleton, Wisconsin.

I want everybody to know this happened in Appleton.

They told me that they were going to call me, that they were going to check and see if they had any of the fragrances in.

And then they were going to call me and let me know.

We finished shopping at the outlet store and I get to the car and I get a call from manager Jen.

So manager Jen calls me and says, angela, we have your three wick winter candy apple and iced gingerbread in the three wick candles.

And they needed to be specifically the three wick candles because for YouTube reviews and hauls and things, it was the three wick candles.

You didn't want to show, you know, like a little candle.

I made the decision to go to Appleton with my mother to get these mother effing candles.

And if you watched the video, you'll know what went down.

So I'm waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting.

Manager Jen comes out and says, we only have the small 4 ounces in.

And I said very calmly, you're kidding me, right?

Mind you, there was a lot of stuff going on at that time.

And I just remember like, I should be home, I should be home with him.

I shouldn't be like worrying about these candles.

I should have been at home with my dad cooking the meal and getting things done.

So I thought, you know what, I'm gonna go home and I am going to flip on my little camera on my phone and I am going to record a comical but still upset rant.

If you don't like swearing or angry people from Wisconsin, then turn your mother effing camera off now.

I sat down, I turned the camera on and I literally just let loose.

It was something that I was feeling at the time.

I just kind of blurted it out in the video.

You can hear my daughter laughing because she was listening to me record it and she started laughing in the video.

So there's like a slight little moment in there when you can hear a little bit of laughter and that's her.

Then I went ahead and I uploaded it to YouTube traffic wise and things.

It was a really busy day because the packers were playing.

This is the only good thing that happened.

I've been busy taking care of bitches all day.

I uploaded my video back in November of 2020 12.

I only had 600 subscribers at that time and it was basically just the candle community.

My video didn't go viral until October of 20 when Tyler Oakley found my video.

I woke up one day when I woke up, I had more than 8, 000 notifications on my phone.

I was, you know, just trying to like scroll through and look and see like what was going on.

Why am I getting all these notifications?

And as I am scrolling and going through all these notifications, I couldn't like my phone was just literally blowing up.

My employees were already talking about it.

I believe the local post CRESC posted it on their Facebook page.

There were, you know, countless articles in the newspaper about me and things like that.

Obviously buzzfeed picked it up in a panic that day I made my video private.

That was a huge mistake that I look back on.

If I could have changed anything about it.

I would have never made the video private.

I started getting people stating that, you know, they were like recording, saying, we're on our way to Appleton to find Angela.

And along with the death threats that came with that, I started getting scared also at that point.

I worked with kids and it was very scary because people were coming into our establishment and they were trying to get pictures of me.

So it was very, very scary for a while there.

A lot of people did not watch the full video.

They saw me, probably not in the comical way that I intended it to be.

And in the moment, yeah, I was mad, I was upset.

But of course I was playing it up for the camera.

Somebody wronged me and I just wanted the Candle community to know that Angela was wronged and this happened in Appleton and my intentions were not ill will towards Jen whatsoever.

Finally, I will say I feel like this year has been the year where people have just literally embraced it.

I also had several people on Tick Tock recreate the video or they would do like little parodies.

I had a huge, huge following of drag queens, which I absolutely love.

And they would do like the whole skit on stage.

But again, with the TikTok videos, people can recite the whole 12 minute video.

But not only recite the video, they actually mentally become me.

I have to mention Scream Queens in the show Scream Queens.