The episodes in a series like 16 & Pregnant are not voiced or performed. They make television, in everything but name. They get married, he gets abusive, she finds solace in a perfect Gerard Way doppelganger.) What about Avril Lavigne's "Sk8ter Boi?" The pubescent, Hot Topic revenge tale is best served by mohawked avatars.īut the Omorogbes have elevated that initial framework to the stratosphere. Was there any other way to be introduced to My Chemical Romance's "Helena" than by consuming Jaydee227's ultra-dark lover's odyssey? (A raven-haired girl is seduced by an asshole jock. In fact, early YouTube was dominated by Sims 2 reinterpretations of emo-pop classics.
As far back as the halcyon Windows 2000 days, I can remember superfans penning maudlin short stories starring their surrogate selves, and the neighborly treachery they'd encounter in leafy cul-de-sacs. Sims machinima is as old as The Sims itself. The love interests, being able to survive the changes, and a cliffhanger at the end of every episode." That's why people are attached to our characters. "If you watch our videos, that's what we create. We were just all overdramatic," says Temi. We were so attached to all the twists and turns. It'd be on in the background when our mom was watching it. "When we were kids, we were watching soap operas like crazy. "Fun and unpredictable."Īccording to the Omorogbes, this is the stuff they grew up on. "Maybe that's who I want to be," the daughter says. Later, the teen daughter of the former teen mom spends some pool time with a Bieber duplicate, foreshadowing, in big gloppy spoonfuls, a future where she herself ends up 16 and pregnant. "Last thing I'm going to do is work with a guy who has no understanding of the bro code!" In a recent episode, a handsome new hire is brought into the company, which causes her business partner to storm out of an all-hands meeting in a cuckold rage after discovering that he is dating his most recent ex. The former teen mom and the teacher are no longer dating she's all grown up now, and working at a Silicon Valley tech startup.
Every season is full of abductions, affairs, love triangles, and deceit. You know how Vanderpump Rules was supposed to focus on the daily routines of a restaurant staff, but now resembles something closer to a Dateline investigation? Yeah, the 2019 incarnation of 16 & Pregnant is the same way. The episodes have lengthened to about 20 minutes each, their subscriber count has ticked up past the 200,000 mark, and the content has ripened and mutated into its very own delectable, dramatic mess. Right now, the sisters are working on season four of 16 & Pregnant. Later, the couple kiss and make-up, and things are good and stable until the teacher is arrested for the murder of his wife. "What are we going to do? I'm going to lose my job! Go to jail!" he screams, as the teenager gestures towards him with a positive pregnancy test in her hand. It began, in 2016, with a three-minute clip documenting a torrid love affair between a plucky teen and her hunky high school teacher, who somehow lives in a glamorous mid-century apartment far beyond any public employee's means. Tani and Temi Omorogbe have authored a number of Sims machinima serials during their time on YouTube, but nothing will ever top 16 & Pregnant.