WEBVTT 00:00:02.128 --> 00:00:03.055 (mouse clicks) 00:00:03.082 --> 00:00:04.398 ♪ (dramatic chord) ♪ 00:00:06.050 --> 00:00:07.649 ♪ (dramatic chord) ♪ 00:00:09.279 --> 00:00:10.388 ♪ (dramatic chord) ♪ 00:00:12.683 --> 00:00:14.220 (background conversations) 00:00:14.220 --> 00:00:15.461 - (boy, silly voice) Damn, Daniel! 00:00:15.461 --> 00:00:16.897 - (laughing) Oh, yes! 00:00:16.897 --> 00:00:19.242 - God damn it. God [bleep] damn it. 00:00:19.242 --> 00:00:22.603 - No! No! I don't want this! 00:00:22.603 --> 00:00:24.345 - (boy) Damn, Daniel! 00:00:24.345 --> 00:00:26.366 (emotionally) Damn, Daniel! 00:00:26.366 --> 00:00:29.804 Back at it again with the white Vans! 00:00:29.804 --> 00:00:32.664 Back at it again with the white Vans! - What? 00:00:32.664 --> 00:00:36.481 - (chuckling) "The va-ha-ans!" 00:00:36.481 --> 00:00:38.169 - (boy) Damn, Daniel! - He's so cute. 00:00:38.169 --> 00:00:40.438 - (boy) Daaamn, Daniel! - He sounds like he could be 00:00:40.438 --> 00:00:42.071 congratulating The Karate Kid. 00:00:42.071 --> 00:00:43.830 - (boy) Back at it again with the white Vans! 00:00:44.277 --> 00:00:45.797 Stüssy, man! 00:00:45.797 --> 00:00:47.462 Damn, Daniel! 00:00:47.462 --> 00:00:50.752 - Oh... Daniel. Daniel, you lucky duck. 00:00:50.752 --> 00:00:53.091 - This is my favorite thing on the internet right now. 00:00:53.091 --> 00:00:54.239 - It's not funny! 00:00:54.818 --> 00:00:57.313 There's nothing funny about it. 00:00:58.140 --> 00:01:00.567 - (Flint) Viola! - Haven't seen this one. 00:01:01.237 --> 00:01:03.830 - (boy) Damn, Daniel. - (laughing) 00:01:03.830 --> 00:01:06.212 Okay, that's-- that's good. 00:01:06.212 --> 00:01:08.151 - That was it? (Finebros snickering) 00:01:08.151 --> 00:01:11.589 I think that's like every 30-year-old's reaction to Vine. 00:01:11.589 --> 00:01:12.589 It's like, that was it? 00:01:12.589 --> 00:01:14.279 (slap) - Girl fight. 00:01:14.279 --> 00:01:16.121 - (man) Damn... - (boy) Daniel! 00:01:16.121 --> 00:01:17.654 - (laughs) It's so stupid. 00:01:17.654 --> 00:01:19.360 (slap) - Oh. 00:01:19.360 --> 00:01:20.424 - (man) Damn... 00:01:20.424 --> 00:01:22.048 - (boy) Daniel! - "Daniel." (laughs) 00:01:22.048 --> 00:01:24.120 - (laughs) Oh, it's great. 00:01:24.120 --> 00:01:26.185 - That's-- that's a good meme. 00:01:26.185 --> 00:01:28.450 - ♪ I'm too hot, hot damn ♪ - (boy) Damn! 00:01:28.450 --> 00:01:30.432 - (snickering) - ♪ Call the po-lice and the fireman ♪ 00:01:30.432 --> 00:01:32.651 ♪ I'm too hot, hot damn ♪ - (taking deep breath) 00:01:32.651 --> 00:01:33.904 - I'm in. I'm in on all these. 00:01:33.904 --> 00:01:35.904 - (boy) Damn, trashcan! 00:01:35.904 --> 00:01:38.089 Damn, trashcan! 00:01:38.089 --> 00:01:40.174 Daaamn, trashcan! 00:01:40.174 --> 00:01:42.023 - (laughing) - (boy) Damn, trashcan! 00:01:42.023 --> 00:01:44.243 Back at it again with the black bag! 00:01:44.243 --> 00:01:46.241 - (inhales) I hate it. 00:01:46.241 --> 00:01:49.589 - I get it. I ain't laughin', but I get it. 00:01:49.589 --> 00:01:53.267 - (Draco) Scared, Potter? - (Harry) You wish. 00:01:53.267 --> 00:01:55.245 - (boy) Damn, Daniel! 00:01:55.245 --> 00:01:56.489 - (snickers quietly) 00:01:56.489 --> 00:01:58.484 - Radcliffe. (chuckles) 00:01:58.484 --> 00:01:59.745 - That's so good. 00:01:59.745 --> 00:02:00.839 - They tried too hard on that one. 00:02:00.839 --> 00:02:03.194 - (boy) Damn, Daniel! 00:02:03.194 --> 00:02:05.329 - Yeah! I'm a future teller!! 00:02:05.959 --> 00:02:08.829 - (boy) Damn, Daniel! - (laughs) 00:02:08.829 --> 00:02:10.740 - (boy) Damn, Daniel! - This one works! 00:02:10.740 --> 00:02:13.374 - That works for my generation. I know that Daniel. 00:02:13.374 --> 00:02:14.527 (in video: arguing) 00:02:14.527 --> 00:02:16.341 - (boy) Back at it again with the white van! 00:02:16.341 --> 00:02:17.543 - Nice. Nice. 00:02:17.543 --> 00:02:18.790 - "The white van." 00:02:21.056 --> 00:02:22.468 - (boy) Damn, Daniel! 00:02:22.468 --> 00:02:25.185 (overlapping "Damn Daniels") - Damn-damn-damn-damn... 00:02:25.185 --> 00:02:26.142 (chuckles) 00:02:26.142 --> 00:02:27.772 - Oh, internet, how I love you. 00:02:27.772 --> 00:02:29.286 - I have no clue why this went viral. 00:02:29.286 --> 00:02:30.862 And then there's a part of me that's like, 00:02:30.862 --> 00:02:32.185 "I know exactly why that went viral." 00:02:32.185 --> 00:02:35.792 ♪ (dramatic chord) ♪ 00:02:35.792 --> 00:02:37.925 - (Finebros) Okay, so were you familiar with this before today? 00:02:37.925 --> 00:02:39.123 - I was. - I was not. 00:02:39.123 --> 00:02:39.924 - Yes, I was. 00:02:39.924 --> 00:02:40.747 - I was. 00:02:40.747 --> 00:02:42.960 The responses are mixed, but I find it hilarious. 00:02:42.960 --> 00:02:45.315 - I thought it was amusing at first. 00:02:45.315 --> 00:02:47.062 And then of course, people, you know, 00:02:47.062 --> 00:02:50.494 drove it into the ground like they so often do. 00:02:50.494 --> 00:02:53.490 - Twitter was so happy that a meme was making them relevant 00:02:53.490 --> 00:02:56.402 that they just pushed it onto everybody who was using Twitter. 00:02:56.402 --> 00:02:57.680 - I came across "Damn Daniel" 00:02:57.680 --> 00:02:59.405 'cause I put up a video I was very proud of, 00:02:59.405 --> 00:03:01.091 and I was very excited to look at the comments. 00:03:01.091 --> 00:03:04.288 And every single comment said, "Damn, Daniel." 00:03:04.288 --> 00:03:05.473 - (Finebros) What is it about "Damn Daniel" 00:03:05.473 --> 00:03:07.782 that you think made it become such a giant trend? 00:03:07.782 --> 00:03:08.724 - I think it's his voice. 00:03:08.724 --> 00:03:11.002 - His voice maybe, like (imitating) "Damn, Daniel!" 00:03:11.002 --> 00:03:14.317 - The voice is one thing, and then he's not a bad-looking kid. 00:03:14.317 --> 00:03:18.717 - There's like this visceral feeling when you hear the sound of, 00:03:18.717 --> 00:03:23.232 "Damn, Daniel!" Like, you're just-- You're like, "I like that." 00:03:23.232 --> 00:03:25.314 - (Finebros) A lot of people seem to not be sure 00:03:25.314 --> 00:03:26.772 why "Damn Daniel" would go viral 00:03:26.772 --> 00:03:28.869 more so than some of the other recent trends. 00:03:28.869 --> 00:03:30.650 Why do you think this one's harder to wrap your head around 00:03:30.650 --> 00:03:31.682 than maybe another one? 00:03:31.682 --> 00:03:33.211 - Of all things, I think the randomness of it. 00:03:33.211 --> 00:03:36.555 - You see, they ask why. I ask why not. 00:03:36.555 --> 00:03:37.471 - I don't know. I love it. 00:03:37.471 --> 00:03:39.399 I just think it's amazing, and I'm a huge fan. 00:03:39.399 --> 00:03:42.412 - This one seems just a little bit like... "Huh." 00:03:42.412 --> 00:03:44.252 - Watching the original really didn't do anything with me. 00:03:44.252 --> 00:03:46.910 I was just like... "Meh, Daniel." 00:03:46.910 --> 00:03:50.683 - I think this is literally just a product of everybody 00:03:50.683 --> 00:03:52.284 wanting to jump on a bandwagon 00:03:52.284 --> 00:03:54.369 and not really caring if that bandwagon sucks. 00:03:54.369 --> 00:03:55.556 - With memes and things, 00:03:55.556 --> 00:03:58.524 there's usually something more than this. 00:03:58.524 --> 00:04:03.402 We can't explain it, but when you hear that, you smile. 00:04:03.402 --> 00:04:05.525 - (Finebros) So there seems to be an endless stream 00:04:05.525 --> 00:04:07.533 of these types of memes that are now going viral 00:04:07.533 --> 00:04:09.163 that people will take and then remix. 00:04:09.163 --> 00:04:12.617 Do you think that this concept is new to the Vine generation, 00:04:12.617 --> 00:04:14.845 or has this type of thing been around for a long time? 00:04:14.845 --> 00:04:15.722 - Oh, it's always been around. 00:04:15.722 --> 00:04:18.087 - It's evolving. There are different forms, you know? 00:04:18.087 --> 00:04:20.440 There are different platforms, like Snapchat obviously. 00:04:20.440 --> 00:04:23.710 Vine obviously. But the idea is nothing new. 00:04:23.710 --> 00:04:26.223 - The very first internet videos I ever saw 00:04:26.223 --> 00:04:29.283 were those G.I. Joe PSAs that got redone. 00:04:29.283 --> 00:04:31.572 Spinning videos into different things 00:04:31.572 --> 00:04:33.683 has been around for a while. - As long as YouTube. 00:04:33.683 --> 00:04:34.716 - It happened with me. 00:04:34.716 --> 00:04:37.524 I was a Vine meme for-- I still am all the time. 00:04:37.524 --> 00:04:38.650 Which is why I find it funny 00:04:38.650 --> 00:04:41.151 that people are getting so amazed by it now. 00:04:41.151 --> 00:04:42.658 I mean, it's been around for so long. 00:04:42.658 --> 00:04:44.710 - This is just a new version of a viral video, you know? 00:04:44.710 --> 00:04:46.243 You used to have "Leave Britney Alone," 00:04:46.243 --> 00:04:47.595 which was four minutes long, 00:04:47.595 --> 00:04:49.024 and it was crazy and funny and weird. 00:04:49.024 --> 00:04:53.086 Now people are so ADD. They need a two-second joke. 00:04:53.086 --> 00:04:55.616 - Memes have been around for a long time, the idea of a meme. 00:04:55.616 --> 00:04:57.443 Like taking something, turning it into your own, 00:04:57.443 --> 00:04:58.524 and making a joke out of it. 00:04:58.524 --> 00:05:00.190 But that used to be way more underground. 00:05:00.190 --> 00:05:01.588 But now everyone does it. 00:05:01.588 --> 00:05:04.213 You see it all over Facebook, all over Twitter, Instagram. 00:05:04.213 --> 00:05:06.665 - It's been around since the advent of the inside joke, 00:05:06.665 --> 00:05:11.262 except now news outlets are so desperate to seem cool and hip. 00:05:11.262 --> 00:05:14.513 They're like, "Look at the kids's new inside joke! We get it!" 00:05:14.513 --> 00:05:16.152 - (Finebros) So since this has become popular, 00:05:16.152 --> 00:05:18.881 the two boys who made the video, Daniel and then Josh, 00:05:18.881 --> 00:05:21.473 have received an incredible amount of notoriety in the media. 00:05:21.473 --> 00:05:23.929 But also, some negative things have happened to them. 00:05:23.929 --> 00:05:24.711 - Like what? 00:05:24.711 --> 00:05:25.440 - Oh, of course. 00:05:25.440 --> 00:05:28.212 How can you gain any popularity without a bunch of negativity? 00:05:28.212 --> 00:05:30.753 - (Finebros) Josh got swatted, where they prank-call the police 00:05:30.753 --> 00:05:32.894 and the SWAT team shows up. - Oh, yikes. 00:05:32.894 --> 00:05:34.441 - (Finebros) And they also got his Twitter hacked, 00:05:34.441 --> 00:05:36.167 and they removed the video for a while. 00:05:36.167 --> 00:05:38.305 And they posted all these KKK stuff 00:05:38.305 --> 00:05:40.349 all across his Twitter account. - (incredulously) What? 00:05:40.349 --> 00:05:41.244 - What? 00:05:41.881 --> 00:05:43.455 (sighs) Poor baby. 00:05:43.455 --> 00:05:47.352 - These kids don't have any prior concept of the viral world. 00:05:47.352 --> 00:05:48.303 They're new to this. 00:05:48.303 --> 00:05:50.335 So that must be pretty terrifying, I imagine. 00:05:50.335 --> 00:05:51.723 - (Finebros) What do you think about that aspect 00:05:51.723 --> 00:05:54.158 of what can happen after virality hits people? 00:05:54.158 --> 00:05:55.549 - Comes with the fame, man. 00:05:55.549 --> 00:05:56.491 - That's really shitty. 00:05:56.491 --> 00:06:00.465 I mean, that's kind of the risk you take when you go viral. 00:06:00.465 --> 00:06:01.674 - Once you jump in that pool, 00:06:01.674 --> 00:06:04.094 you're swimming with a certain amount of sharks. 00:06:04.094 --> 00:06:06.205 I don't think it's their fault. I think it's unfortunate. 00:06:06.205 --> 00:06:08.090 - It's an unfortunate consequence. 00:06:08.090 --> 00:06:11.174 They're really exploiting these people who are just people 00:06:11.775 --> 00:06:13.497 and then taking them to a level of fame 00:06:13.497 --> 00:06:15.255 that not only did they not ask for 00:06:15.255 --> 00:06:17.308 but they're grossly unprepared for. 00:06:17.308 --> 00:06:19.035 - There's almost nothing you can do to prevent it, 00:06:19.035 --> 00:06:21.005 'cause even with celebrityism, 00:06:21.005 --> 00:06:23.163 everybody that's normal wants to be famous. 00:06:23.163 --> 00:06:24.654 And as soon as they're famous, they want to be normal. 00:06:24.654 --> 00:06:26.628 And you can't say, "Here's my ceiling. 00:06:26.628 --> 00:06:28.127 I want to be this famous and then stop." 00:06:28.127 --> 00:06:31.310 No. Josh, bro, welcome to the party. 00:06:31.310 --> 00:06:34.402 - Such a great example of how we're going in the wrong direction. 00:06:34.402 --> 00:06:36.566 Like, we're just so ready to tear people down. 00:06:36.566 --> 00:06:39.105 It's a weird trend that's been growing. 00:06:39.105 --> 00:06:42.963 Why are we so quick-- so quick to just, like, (clicks tongue) 00:06:42.963 --> 00:06:45.795 "All right, I'm not for that. I bring it down." 00:06:45.795 --> 00:06:47.129 - (Finebros) So we ask this on the show a lot, 00:06:47.129 --> 00:06:49.230 but here's a couple of guys that got viral fame. 00:06:49.230 --> 00:06:52.382 Do you think that these guys should continue making these videos? 00:06:52.382 --> 00:06:54.099 - (promptly) No! No! 00:06:54.099 --> 00:06:56.605 What are they gonna do? Go up to stuff and go, "Damn!" 00:06:56.605 --> 00:06:58.161 - I think that they're children in high school, 00:06:58.161 --> 00:06:59.629 and they need to focus on their lives. 00:06:59.629 --> 00:07:03.275 Sorry. (chuckles) I was this not fun when I was younger too. 00:07:03.275 --> 00:07:05.808 - It wouldn't hurt to try, but you also look kind of foolish 00:07:05.808 --> 00:07:07.566 if you try and then nothing happens with it. 00:07:07.566 --> 00:07:12.495 - There is a way to segue this into some kind of a job. 00:07:12.495 --> 00:07:14.382 Look at Rebecca Black. She had "Friday." 00:07:14.382 --> 00:07:15.696 And then she turned into a YouTuber, 00:07:15.696 --> 00:07:17.275 and then she started making content weekly. 00:07:17.275 --> 00:07:19.597 - They were both 14, and that's when I started making videos. 00:07:19.597 --> 00:07:21.221 And I was like, "Aw man, they don't even know 00:07:21.221 --> 00:07:22.629 what could happen in the next 10 years 00:07:22.629 --> 00:07:26.244 if they took advantage of this." So you never know. 00:07:26.244 --> 00:07:27.721 - If you're enjoying what you do 00:07:27.721 --> 00:07:29.815 and there's an opportunity to capitalize on it, 00:07:29.815 --> 00:07:34.812 I don't see why you would ever say no to that opportunity. 00:07:34.812 --> 00:07:36.724 - (Finebros) So finally, do you think this concept 00:07:36.724 --> 00:07:39.628 of the short video meme is gonna be something 00:07:39.628 --> 00:07:40.851 that continues for a while? 00:07:40.851 --> 00:07:43.096 Or do you think it will run its course? - Yeah, I think it will-- 00:07:43.096 --> 00:07:44.088 - I think it'll continue. - Continue. 00:07:44.088 --> 00:07:45.929 - I think the memes are only gonna get shorter. 00:07:45.929 --> 00:07:49.395 - I'm sure the next evolution, something will be different 00:07:49.395 --> 00:07:51.096 but probably not that much different. 00:07:51.096 --> 00:07:52.867 - It'll go on for a long time, man. 00:07:52.867 --> 00:07:55.439 They're too bite-sized and they're too funny 00:07:55.439 --> 00:07:56.949 to stop anytime soon. 00:07:56.949 --> 00:07:59.155 - I just see this type of stuff being around for a long time 00:07:59.155 --> 00:08:01.867 but also not hindering other types of content from being big. 00:08:01.867 --> 00:08:03.209 - I think it will always be popular. 00:08:03.209 --> 00:08:05.128 It's just instant gratification, you know? 00:08:05.128 --> 00:08:07.629 If it was around decades before, 00:08:07.629 --> 00:08:08.999 then it would've been popular then too. 00:08:08.999 --> 00:08:12.325 - It's going to last because people like short declaratives. 00:08:12.325 --> 00:08:16.307 This expectation that everything have a very quick setup, 00:08:16.307 --> 00:08:18.836 a clear delivery, a clear punchline 00:08:18.836 --> 00:08:21.675 is informing the way that we speak, 00:08:21.675 --> 00:08:26.971 the way that we expect eloquence to manifest itself in 2016. 00:08:27.527 --> 00:08:29.614 ♪ (guitar riff) ♪ 00:08:29.614 --> 00:08:32.344 - Thanks so much for watching another episode of YouTubers React. 00:08:32.344 --> 00:08:33.669 - What should we be reacting to next? 00:08:33.669 --> 00:08:35.312 Leave a comment below. 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