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- (boy, silly voice) Damn, Daniel!

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- (laughing) Oh, yes!

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- God damn it. God [bleep] damn it.

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- No! No! I don't want this!

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- (boy) Damn, Daniel!

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(emotionally) Damn, Daniel!

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Back at it again with the white Vans!

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Back at it again with the white Vans!
- What?

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- (chuckling) "The va-ha-ans!"

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- (boy) Damn, Daniel!
- He's so cute.

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- (boy) Daaamn, Daniel!
- He sounds like he could be

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congratulating The Karate Kid.

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- (boy) Back at it again
with the white Vans!

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Stüssy, man!

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Damn, Daniel!

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- Oh... Daniel. Daniel, you lucky duck.

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- This is my favorite thing
on the internet right now.

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- It's not funny!

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There's nothing funny about it.

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- (Flint) Viola!
- Haven't seen this one.

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- (boy) Damn, Daniel.
- (laughing)

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Okay, that's-- that's good.

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- That was it?
(Finebros snickering)

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I think that's like every
30-year-old's reaction to Vine.

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It's like, that was it?

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(slap)
- Girl fight.

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- (man) Damn...
- (boy) Daniel!

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- (laughs) It's so stupid.

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(slap)
- Oh.

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- (man) Damn...

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- (boy) Daniel!
- "Daniel." (laughs)

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- (laughs) Oh, it's great.

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- That's-- that's a good meme.

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- ♪ I'm too hot, hot damn ♪
- (boy) Damn!

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- (snickering)
- ♪ Call the po-lice and the fireman ♪

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♪ I'm too hot, hot damn ♪
- (taking deep breath)

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- I'm in. I'm in on all these.

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- (boy) Damn, trashcan!

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Damn, trashcan!

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Daaamn, trashcan!

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- (laughing)
- (boy) Damn, trashcan!

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Back at it again with the black bag!

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- (inhales) I hate it.

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- I get it. I ain't
laughin', but I get it.

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- (Draco) Scared, Potter?
- (Harry) You wish.

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- (boy) Damn, Daniel!

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- (snickers quietly)

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- Radcliffe. (chuckles)

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- That's so good.

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- They tried too hard on that one.

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- (boy) Damn, Daniel!

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- Yeah! I'm a future teller!!

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- (boy) Damn, Daniel!
- (laughs)

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- (boy) Damn, Daniel!
- This one works!

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- That works for my generation.
I know that Daniel.

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(in video: arguing)

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- (boy) Back at it again
with the white van!

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- Nice. Nice.

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- "The white van."

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- (boy) Damn, Daniel!

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(overlapping "Damn Daniels")
- Damn-damn-damn-damn...

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(chuckles)

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- Oh, internet, how I love you.

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- I have no clue why this went viral.

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And then there's a part of me that's like,

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"I know exactly why that went viral."

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- (Finebros) Okay, so were you
familiar with this before today?

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- I was.
- I was not.

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- Yes, I was.

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- I was.

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The responses are mixed,
but I find it hilarious.

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- I thought it was amusing at first.

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And then of course, people, you know,

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drove it into the ground
like they so often do.

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- Twitter was so happy that a meme
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that they just pushed it onto
everybody who was using Twitter.

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- I came across "Damn Daniel"

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'cause I put up a video
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and I was very excited
to look at the comments.

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And every single comment
said, "Damn, Daniel."

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- (Finebros) What is it
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that you think made it
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- I think it's his voice.

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- His voice maybe, like
(imitating) "Damn, Daniel!"

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- The voice is one thing,
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- There's like this visceral feeling
when you hear the sound of,

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"Damn, Daniel!" Like, you're just--
You're like, "I like that."

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- (Finebros) A lot of people
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why "Damn Daniel" would go viral

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more so than some
of the other recent trends.

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Why do you think this one's
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than maybe another one?

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- Of all things, I think
the randomness of it.

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- You see, they ask why. I ask why not.

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- I don't know. I love it.

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I just think it's amazing,
and I'm a huge fan.

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- This one seems just
a little bit like... "Huh."

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- Watching the original really
didn't do anything with me.

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I was just like... "Meh, Daniel."

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- I think this is literally
just a product of everybody

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wanting to jump on a bandwagon

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and not really caring
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- With memes and things,

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there's usually something more than this.

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We can't explain it, but when
you hear that, you smile.

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- (Finebros) So there seems
to be an endless stream

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of these types of memes
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that people will take and then remix.

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Do you think that this concept
is new to the Vine generation,

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or has this type of thing
been around for a long time?

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- Oh, it's always been around.

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- It's evolving. There are
different forms, you know?

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There are different platforms,
like Snapchat obviously.

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Vine obviously.
But the idea is nothing new.

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- The very first
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were those G.I. Joe PSAs that got redone.

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Spinning videos into different things

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has been around for a while.
- As long as YouTube.

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- It happened with me.

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I was a Vine meme for--
I still am all the time.

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Which is why I find it funny

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that people are getting
so amazed by it now.

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I mean, it's been around for so long.

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- This is just a new version
of a viral video, you know?

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You used to have "Leave Britney Alone,"

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which was four minutes long,

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and it was crazy and funny and weird.

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Now people are so ADD.
They need a two-second joke.

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- Memes have been around
for a long time, the idea of a meme.

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Like taking something,
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and making a joke out of it.

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But that used to be way more underground.

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But now everyone does it.

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You see it all over Facebook,
all over Twitter, Instagram.

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- It's been around since
the advent of the inside joke,

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except now news outlets are
so desperate to seem cool and hip.

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They're like, "Look at the kids's
new inside joke! We get it!"

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- (Finebros) So since
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the two boys who made the video,
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have received an incredible
amount of notoriety in the media.

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But also, some negative things
have happened to them.

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- Like what?

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- Oh, of course.

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How can you gain any popularity
without a bunch of negativity?

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- (Finebros) Josh got swatted,
where they prank-call the police

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and the SWAT team shows up.
- Oh, yikes.

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- (Finebros) And they also
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and they removed the video for a while.

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And they posted all these KKK stuff

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all across his Twitter account.
- (incredulously) What?

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- What?

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(sighs) Poor baby.

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- These kids don't have any
prior concept of the viral world.

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They're new to this.

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So that must be pretty
terrifying, I imagine.

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- (Finebros) What do you
think about that aspect

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of what can happen
after virality hits people?

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- Comes with the fame, man.

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- That's really shitty.

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I mean, that's kind of the risk
you take when you go viral.

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- Once you jump in that pool,

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you're swimming with
a certain amount of sharks.

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I don't think it's their fault.
I think it's unfortunate.

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- It's an unfortunate consequence.

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They're really exploiting
these people who are just people

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and then taking them to a level of fame

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that not only did they not ask for

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but they're grossly unprepared for.

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- There's almost nothing
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'cause even with celebrityism,

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everybody that's normal
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And as soon as they're famous,
they want to be normal.

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And you can't say, "Here's my ceiling.

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I want to be this famous and then stop."

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No. Josh, bro, welcome to the party.

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- Such a great example of how
we're going in the wrong direction.

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Like, we're just so ready
to tear people down.

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It's a weird trend that's been growing.

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Why are we so quick--
so quick to just, like, (clicks tongue)

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"All right, I'm not for that.
I bring it down."

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- (Finebros) So we ask
this on the show a lot,

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but here's a couple of guys
that got viral fame.

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Do you think that these guys should
continue making these videos?

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- (promptly) No! No!

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What are they gonna do?
Go up to stuff and go, "Damn!"

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- I think that they're
children in high school,

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and they need to focus on their lives.

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Sorry. (chuckles) I was this not fun
when I was younger too.

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- It wouldn't hurt to try,
but you also look kind of foolish

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if you try and then
nothing happens with it.

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- There is a way to segue this
into some kind of a job.

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Look at Rebecca Black. She had "Friday."

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And then she turned into a YouTuber,

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and then she started
making content weekly.

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- They were both 14, and that's
when I started making videos.

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And I was like, "Aw man,
they don't even know

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what could happen in the next 10 years

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if they took advantage of this."
So you never know.

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- If you're enjoying what you do

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and there's an opportunity
to capitalize on it,

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I don't see why you would
ever say no to that opportunity.

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- (Finebros) So finally,
do you think this concept

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of the short video meme
is gonna be something

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that continues for a while?

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Or do you think it will run its course?
- Yeah, I think it will--

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- I think it'll continue.
- Continue.

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- I think the memes are
only gonna get shorter.

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- I'm sure the next evolution,
something will be different

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but probably not that much different.

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- It'll go on for a long time, man.

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They're too bite-sized
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to stop anytime soon.

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- I just see this type of stuff
being around for a long time

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but also not hindering other
types of content from being big.

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- I think it will always be popular.

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It's just instant gratification, you know?

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If it was around decades before,

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then it would've been popular then too.

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- It's going to last because
people like short declaratives.

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This expectation that everything
have a very quick setup,

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a clear delivery, a clear punchline

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is informing the way that we speak,

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the way that we expect eloquence
to manifest itself in 2016.

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- Thanks so much for watching
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