INTRO: (Dramatic music with voiceover and text popping up saying ‘Zodiac Signs? Racists? Racism? Discrimination?’; images of zodiac signs, birthday party stock images, girls sitting with crystals/images of crystals)
VO: “Zodiac signs? More like birthday racism. (mimic commercial speaking) Have you or a loved one been in the crossfire of a zodiac believer’s insults? Well, so have I!”
ON SCREEN: “Hi. I’m Tanaya and if you couldn’t tell by the intro, I’m gonna be talking about the blatant discrimination against birthdays.”
PART 1: General Statements
[low background music]
“Now, I will agree that there are personality traits that align with a person’s zodiac sign, but it’s not like it’s foolproof. It’s not completely accurate as the breakdown of the signs are meant to be general descriptions of people that were born between a certain time frame. Overall, just something that categorizes people for the sake of wanting to belong.”
FADE TO: caveman stock image/art
VO: (Airy tone) “Something people have naturally desired since the beginning of time.”
PART 2: Complete and Utter Confusion
(image of a silhouette of wolf sitting on ledge at night, moon in background; add howling)
CUT:
“What the hell is a rising moon? Why are there so many possibilities of having eight different zodiac signs? Doesn’t that just defeat the purpose of declaring yourself a zodiac sign.”
“Don’t get me wrong, I like zodiac signs on the surface. I like having an assigned creature to the day I was born. It’s cool.”
(Insert image of Cerberus because why not)
“But what I don’t understand is why it’s become such a big deal.”
(Slow fade in transforming me into a judge; adding white wig, judge robe, and gavel. Lasts until end of next sentence)
“Some people outright judge you simply because of the day you were born. I don’t get to choose what day to be born on. And I like my birthday. Don’t be mad because you don’t like it. I don’t even know you so why do you care?”
“There’s some people that are really chill about zodiac signs. Those people I can understand. But the others? Well let me tell you about a specific moment I think of every time zodiac signs are mentioned.”
CUT TO: Story Time title screen w/title screen music
PART 3: STORYTIME
[back to original low background music]
“It was the day of my friend’s 16th birthday.”
(start stock image/illustration birthday sequence during VO: show road leading to house with person moving to it, cut to interior of house with people sitting at a table)
VO: “I was at her house with some of her other friends and we were sitting at the table. Everything was chill, we were just relaxing and talking to each other, when all of a sudden, the question of “what’s your sign?” came up.”
(make a person’s mouth move like a puppet to say “what’s your sign?”)
“I thought, “Oh god. Here we go.” So I listened to everyone list off their signs. But not only did they list their zodiac signs, they started talking about their rising signs and moons and such. Of course, me being me, I sat there in confusion as they talked about the different variations of signs they supposedly had.”
(insert confusion gif or meme; lasts until “…engaged in the conversation.”)
“I took note that nobody mentioned they were my sign, so I wondered what they’d have to say about mine. Especially since I didn’t know much about it. Not that I cared to know, but I was trying to be engaged in the conversation.”
“Finally, it gets to my turn to say my sign. I’m the last person to go so all eyes are on me. I say what my sign is, and you wanna know what I hear?
[stop music]
CUT TO: Black screen
VO: ‘Oh…’ I hear an ‘oh’ and then complete silence.”
ON SCREEN: “Can somebody tell me what in the world am I supposed to do besides get up and leave? Like, what in the world was that? I literally didn’t do anything wrong, and yet, I got such a visceral reaction from everyone besides my friend.”
[low background music comes back]
“Thankfully, she came back shortly after and we moved on from that, but it shouldn’t have gotten to that in the first place. Instead of assuming our personalities are just “incompatible,” how about you attempt to have a conversation with me before assuming you know me because an app told you about the alignment of the stars and planets?”
WIPE TRANSITION:
PART 4: I’m Done
“Anyways. At the end of the day, I’m not going to bash people for believing in horoscopes and living their lives based on it. You do you, it has nothing to do with me. However, let’s stop the birthday racism. I’m over it. I’ve had enough, and if anything, it’s a step backwards so keep your beliefs to yourself and stop judging people based on a spiritual belief. Judge them based on their character. Or maybe just don’t talk to people. I don’t know. I don’t control your life.”
CUT:
“You know what? Why don’t you guys take a guess at my sign? Go ahead and use whatever system, app, or whatever it is, and take a guess and explain why in the comments down below. And since you’re already down there, why don’t you like and subscribe. Please.”
OUTRO: “And with that, I’ll see you guys next time. Goodbye.”
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