#buzzfeed steven

april:

april 1st: steven films for worth it lifestyle with zach

april 6th: andrew and adam are in LA

april 13th: steven visited florida state university

mid april: filming for eating your feed

april 20th: ben and steven filming for lifestyle

april 21st: steven’s interview with rowena tsai (pt. 2) is posted. in the video, the question “dream city to live in?” comes up (09:27). rowena asks steven “new york?” and he nods fervently. she says “new york’s calling his name. so, new yorkers, if you’re watching, we might recruit a new one very soon.” steven nods again.

april 25-30: steven’s still in LA, the gang hangs out

may:

may 1-3: steven is in LA with the gang 

may 4th: steven is in NYC at the director’s guild of america

also may 4th: friend of steven’s posts a goodbye post & wishes him luck in nyc

may 6th: steven is on a plane, either to or from chicago, IL

may 7th: steven is in a room that looks a lot like the one he is in in his story from may 12th, when he is in nyc. he is most likely in nyc.

may 10th: the worth it filming wrap party. steven cannot be seen in any of the footage of the party. (1) (2) (3) (4) (5)

also may 10th: steven goes on instagram to advertise his livestream for after the next episode.

may 11th: steven got cakes from lady m cake boutique, which is in NYC

may 12th: posts about going live tomorrow; announces the time in EST.

may 13th: steven does a livestream on the official ig. he mentions being in NYC during the stream, but says “we’re all based in LA.”

may 14th: steven and ben are in the airport (assumedly in NYC) going to europe to do filming for lifestyle

also may 14th: both steven and niki post pictures from their filming of the worth it lifestyle pet episode, but it is obvious that they took the pictures on an earlier date, because the pet episode came out the day before (may 13th). there are no other posts with steven in them by the rest of the group (annie, andrew, adam, niki, rie) after may 3rd, and they are (save for steven) in LA the whole time.

may 15th: steven and ben land in the uk to begin their train trip

may 18: steven’s friend (maybe roommate?) posts a goodbye post & says steven will go “onto bigger & better things in new york”

may 24th: steven tweets “last day in europe,” and a list of flag emojis from the countries he’s visited. italy’s flag is last, implying that it’s the last leg of the trip.

may 25th: steven posts about being in italy. one could assume he took the picture the day before or earlier in the morning. the second picture looks like he is on some sort of transportation, either plane or train.

may 29th: steven is back in the states, in NYC. he advertises his mukbang with apop and then goes live on apop’s facebook later that day.

may 30th: steven tweets about needing a good hairstylist in NYC.

june:

june 3rd: steven posts an instagram story. the background is different; it seems as if he’s in his new apartment, but in a different room than before.

june 7th: steven is on 5th ave in NYC. he hints at a cookie episode for s5.

june 8th: fans meet steven at buzzfeed new york

june 11th: steven posts some of his eats since being in NYC, and about a church service he went to.

june 12th: steven with a buzzfeed new york employee at the tasty office

analysis time!

because of the timeline established above, it is is my belief that steven has definitely been thinking about this for a while. because of worth it, he’s had a lot of time to visit NYC and try food (which we all know is very important to him) and probably explore a decent amount. he always looks excited to visit, and has a sort of wonder about him when they film there. he likes new york, that much is clear.

i think that he probably started scoping out apartments a while ago, maybe even in 2017 when they filmed in nyc for the bagel episode. he had a good time there in early march when they filmed at jeepney for the filipino pork ep. they were in NYC from march 1st to 3rd at least, and there was no filming on the 2nd from what we know, so maybe he went to look at some places then. the team returns to LA for the rest of the month and do some filming for various tasty shows.

april is full of filming too, and steven visits florida state. part two of an interview he did with his friend rowena tsai for her yt channel is posted. it was filmed sometime before february 15th, which is when part one was posted (all of the interview was filmed in the same day). in part two of the interview steven admits that NYC has been “calling his name” and that it is his dream city to live in. rowena says “new yorkers, if you’re watching, we might recruit a new one very soon,” and steven nods. this proves that long before march, when he can be physically placed in NYC, he has been thinking heavily about moving to NYC.

other than this revelation, april is relatively uneventful from our side of things, mostly a lot of filming for worth it lifestyle. my thinking is that this is when steven has secured an apartment, and maybe completed the paperwork online, and is working on getting all the filming done for lifestyle season 3 so he can move permanently.

may is when it gets interesting. there’s a lot here, so bear with me. from may 1st to may 3rd, steven is in LA. the post from may 3rd was probably a goodbye dinner. on may 4th he posts about being at the director’s guild of america, which is in NYC. may 4th is also when one of steven’s friends posts a goodbye/good luck post on instagram about him moving. she confirms in the comments to someone they both know that he is moving to NYC.

on may 6th, steven posts an instagram story of him being on a plane. he then posts two pictures, one of him holding a hot dog that he and jen ate in chicago for worth it cities, and one where he tags chicago as his location. it is unclear why he’s in chicago, but we know he is traveling. the next day he posts an ig story in which he is in a room that looks extremely similar to the one he is in when he’s in NYC on may 12th; the ceiling has the same molding. i will elaborate on how i know he’s in NYC on that date later. however, from this, we can infer that he’s in new york at the time of the wrap party.

may 10th is the worth it s4 wrap party. multiple instagram stories of the cutting of the pie cake are posted. steven is not visible in any of them, and they are all taken from different angles. it seems nearly impossible for him to be at the party based on this. in addition, on the same day steven takes to instagram to advertise a livestream he will do on sunday (5/13). what this says to me is that steven is awake, out in the world, and posting on social media, but is not at the wrap party. this is probably because he’s in NYC.

the following is proof of him being in NYC in the following days:

5/11: buying cakes from a NYC cake shop

5/12: posting about going live the next day and stating the liveshow time in eastern standard time (EST) first, which he wouldn’t do if he wasn’t on the east coast.

5/13: saying that he’s in NYC on the livestream.

however, during this livestream steven says that while he was currently in NYC, he, andrew, and adam are “based in LA.” i believe he said this to keep up the illusion that he hadn’t moved, but i think that by this point he had either 1) already moved or 2) planned to move immediately after coming back from europe.

by may 14th, steven has not been in an instagram story by any of the worth it/tasty crew since may 3rd. he and niki post pictures of them together on this day to promote the first episode of worth it lifestyle s3, but these pictures are obviously not recent (at least part of the pet episode was filmed as far back as march 25th). on the 15th steven and ben and the crew fly to the UK to begin their train journey. they return somewhere around may 24th/25th. it is around this time that the fandom begins to speculate that steven is moving to new york city.

[side note: on may 18th steven’s friend (someone said it’s his roommate?) posts a goodbye/appreciation post for steven about moving “onto bigger and better things in new york.” this, again, confirms it.]

on may 29th steven goes live with buzzfeed APOP in NYC to do a mukbang. on may 30th, steven tweets about needing a good hairstylist in NYC that can do cut and color. i am positive that by this point he has moved to new york city.

so far, june is just more confirmation of what we already know. he posted an ig story on the 3rd in which he has a completely new background than anything of his i’ve seen before. he has posted instagram stories in which he is on 5th avenue in NYC. fans have met him at buzzfeed NYC offices. he has posted multiple stories of food in NYC that he’s enjoyed so far. he has gone to a church service. most of all, another buzzfeed employee met him in the tasty department at buzzfeed NYC offices. he mostly likely works for buzzfeed tasty NYC now. he has moved.

but when?! you ask.

well, my best guess is that he moved gradually, mailing some of his stuff at a time over a period of time because the distance is so great. however, if i was to choose a date, i would choose somewhere between may 4th and may 10th. looking back, his impromptu trip to chicago may have been because of a layover or he might’ve had his car sent to chicago and maybe he drove the rest of the way. we’ll probably never know, but at least you now have this extremely long post for reference.