I Went to the Beach

Is sunburn not a big deal for black people? I guess I understand the logic of it, but one time when I was little my grandma told me a story about a black woman she knew who got sunburned and was in really intense pain, and she explained that black people don't get sunburned as easily as white people because of the extra melanin, but there's a tradeoff that when black people do get sunburned it hurts them a lot more than white people because the amount of solar damage it takes to get through all that melanin is just such a huge amount that it's really awful when black people get sunburned, and it was one of those things I heard as a little kid and unquestioningly took as gospel, although looking back it seems dubious if for no other reason than that you should generally take anything a super-conservative white woman who was born in the 1920s says about black people with a grain of salt.

i just want it on record that dark-skinned people need to be just as worried about the damaging effects of the sun as light-skinned people. it has nothing to do with the color of your skin — white, black, indian, asian, w/e, we are all at risk. please, guy, use sunscreen.

Poor fishies. 🙁

You know even if you don't get sunburnt you can still get cancer from exposure without sunscreen.

Thats a very racist beach!

Hi! I am a high school teacher in Brazil. My students are trying to make a video about "prejudice". Do you think they can have a smalltalk with you on the subject? Abraço!

Would just like to point out that black people can still get skin cancer and that is a type of very aggressive cancer, so please make sure you do put on sun screen, even if you have dark skin

Yes, some of my most painful experiences have been sunburns! Thanks for your sympathy. 

4 hours? weird. here, where we have about 180k lakes, i have like 3 lakes within 10 minutes of biking.

Thanks for sharing man 🙂 It's great to hear you staying positive. It gives me inspiration to be a beast.

Why did you start making videos? As in what was it that made you decide to share your thoughts with us viewers? Not in a bad way, love the videos your awesome.

I think it would be great if you could do a video about yourself so we as viewers can get a better idea of who you are as a person 🙂 I like this type of video and all of your other ones so keep up the good work!

If you go deep sea fishing again, don't take the sea sick pill, it makes you pass out. Try using the patch, it works really well!

I liked your video about the beach. I like the beach.

My older brother shared this video to me, because I never go outside. Ironically I just started going outside like two days ago, and so far for those two days I've been outside hanging out with my little brother's friends. My brothers really help me out a lot, because they know I freak out when I go outside and only stay inside 24/7 V_V/ I'm going to the mall tomorrow and I'm freaking out 🙂

the beach is 1 hour from my home.

I went three times and i hated each one of them 😀

I spend most of my life in my 1 room + bathroom appart. But strangely, most people with "boring" lifes are the ones who usually have the most thaughful stuff to say (except me, 1st reason: english is my second laguage). But even if I have a boring life a think I have a good story on white people and the sun. The 1st and last time I went in a tanning salon (yeah, If you want to be tanned in Montreal in january that's what you do), had the guy there lookin' at me (I have a "red head and frekles" kind of skin) and got me what, I guessed suited me. Sun stroke dude!!! I'm telling ya! For 3 days shaking, having what felt like small heart attacks, feeling cold even if it's 104° outside, etc. Not talking about the nice bubbles I had on my back. Please, let me look like a cake with 60 sunblock cream when I go to the beach! 😉

Even though I like your normal videos, I thought this was a nice change of pace. I would be excited to see more videos like this. I feel like I can connect with them. 

hi t1j, great video! I really like your usual vlogs, but it'd be awesome if you had more of this personal stuff. Rock on!

These type videos about your life are cool man. I'd like to see more of them.

"The beach is only four or five hours from where I live now"

I live in Australia and 500m away from the ocean, how do (most of the) US people live without beaches?

This was actually pretty cool. Put my vote into the "more life vlogs" box

If there's an idea, make it a thing! Doesn't matter what/how, each thing you make is its own thing. Just keep doing your thing, you don't need my say.

Awesome hair

I saw the nice guy video floating around on my side of tumblr and everybody was like freaking out bc they loved it so yeah