Texts From Last Night

     Last Friday I went to see the Texts From Last Night creators’ Ben Bator and Lauren Leto. I often visit the website and get a good laugh out of it most of the time, so I was actually quite excited to hear what the two of them had to say. I expected some elaborate, entertaining story to go along with the formation of the site, but I was less than satisfied with their narrative and delivery. It seemed as if they didn’t even know why they were up on stage speaking to all of us. It was almost disappointing to hear that their success was complete luck and that they put almost no effort into making the site so popular. Their intentions were to just keep it between them and their group of friends and now it has turned into a highly visited website, book, and television series.

     Ben did most of the talking and Lauren jumped in whenever she could. Neither of them were particularly funny, and even when Lauren was reading some of the texts out loud, she did it with a very lack-luster attitude, which took away from the hilarity of it all.  When it came to the question and answer portion, they were very rarely able to give up any information and when people asked personal questions, such as reading their own embarrassing texts, they didn’t have much to offer. We were all given a raffle ticket for which a few of the TFLN books would be auctioned off. That was pretty exciting, until I realized that they gave my boyfriend and I the exact same ticket and we had no chance of winning. Oh well, guess I’ll just have to continue using the website instead. Thanks for visiting Ben and Lauren!