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Published Jun 16, 2026 Transcribed Jul 14, 2026 A Ali Abdaal
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The Birthday Wish is a SCAM

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Relatable and humorous take on an awkward social ritual that everyone experiences, sparking engagement and shares.

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So, it's going to pick me a topic, right? And then, I'm going to speak for a minute [music] as a way of like practicing my public speaking. Let's go. Spin. The birthday wish. Ah, the birthday wish is [music] one of those things that trips everyone up. Like, this is one of the reasons why it's a total freaking nightmare having a birthday party. Firstly, it's all about you, which is just not fun. Like, I don't think anyone

particularly enjoys it. B, there's a freaking birthday cake involved. And then, when you've gone through the ordeal of singing happy of being sung happy birthday [music] to, plus or minus the really awkward thing where is someone going to do the hip hip hooray hip hip hooray? And then, the even more awkward ordeal of some is of is someone going to do the one for luck hip hip hooray and all that kind of stuff. Then, everyone's going

to be like, "Okay, make a wish." And then, you get your germs all over the candle, which then everyone is going to be like, >> [music] >> you know, is is going to be affected by. And then, on top of that, you're going to get everyone asking you either speech speech speech or they're going to ask you to make a freaking wish. And making a freaking wish is like your deepest desperate most desire of your heart

like deeper desire of your heart is not the sort of thing that you should [music] really be telling and sharing with these random strangers at your birthday party. And that is why I think the birthday wish is a scam.

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