- (children) Kids React to YouTube stars!
This episode: HowToBasic!
- "How to cook an egg in Australia."
- Don't you just put in on a frying pan, and then you're done?
♪ (didgeridoo music) ♪
- Oh, are they frying an egg on the ground?
(eggs pelting in rapid succession)
- (giggles)
(man retches)
- Oh, this is HowToBasic, isn't it?
- Oh, this is HowToBasic.
(man snorts, grunts)
- Ew!
(man growls)
- People in Australia like Vegemite, so...
- Was that HowToBasic?
I don't really watch him, but I know who he is.
- I'm already beautiful. Why do I need this?
♪ (acoustic guitar music) ♪
- I love how it always starts out like it's an actual tutorial.
- I bet this is gonna be funny.
- Good job so far.
- Oh no.
(man growling)
- (giggles)
(splattering) - Oh my god.
- What are they doing to him?
(man gasping erratically) - I feel so bad for him.
- That is not how to be beautiful.
♪ (cheery pop music) ♪ - So beautiful.
- He's hideous.
That's not beautiful at all.
- That's just weird.
(high-pitched) Whaaat?
- What is that? Like, clam chowder?
- Okay. I haven't seen this one.
♪ (suspenseful music) ♪
- Ew. Ew.
(whoosh) - Whaat?
- Ooh.
- Cat wants to eat the fish.
- Oh. Oh no.
(glass shattering) - Oh god!
(violent whacking)
- That was, like, the best magic trick I've ever seen.
- Starts out good, but then it goes downhill.
- The eggs again.
- More eggs.
♪ (suspenseful music) ♪
- That is the way to how to rage-quit.
♪ (suspenseful music plays, stops) ♪ - (man) Eh!
- That's the magic I want to see. Mm.
- Why does he do this to his house?
- "How to do homework." Oh no.
(man gasping in agitation)
(man growls fiercely)
(engine starts, revs)
- I wish I could do that to my homework.
(man growling ferociously)
- The noises he makes are so... creepy.
- How I feel about homework and video.
- I'm pretty sure you're gonna get an A for that.
- Oh, you blend it.
(blender grinds) - I don't think that's gonna make
a very good smoothie, but you know.
- That looks kinda good.
- Scary thing is it doesn't even look that bad.
- Bon appetit.
- (loud whisper) Don't eat it.
(chewing followed by immediate retching)
(plate shatters)
(man growls) - (laughs)
♪ (Vangelis, "Chariots of Fire") ♪ - Creepy.
- Disturbing.
(smack)
- That was so weird.
- Are these videos all by the same person?
- (children) Question time!
- (Finebros) So would you say you liked the videos we showed you?
- I hated them.
- No.
They're weird.
- No!
But I couldn't take my eyes off it.
- Yes.
- Yeah, of course.
- Yes.
They're funny.
- Ding-ding-ding! Yep!
"How to be beautiful."
(yelling erratically, pretending to break stuff)
- I was trying to type in "How to make rainbow bracelets."
And then HowToBasic came up. And I was like, "What's that?"
I just pressed it, and then I started laughing.
I started cracking up.
- (Finebros) Well, these videos were all from a YouTube channel
out of Australia called HowToBasic
that makes how-to videos. - I didn't know he was in Australia.
- (Finebros) Is he really teaching you how to do things
in the videos? - No. Not at all.
- He's teaching people how to do the thing the wrong way.
- Yeah.
It is my book.
- Yes. If you're homework is to destroy your homework,
then you were doing it perfectly.
- At the beginning part.
And then it just turns.
- (Finebros) So before each video we showed you,
there was a picture and title,
which were the pictures and titles that the channel uses
when he uploads his videos to YouTube.
- That would be really frustrating, but it would be really funny.
- (Finebros) When you saw those pictures and titles,
what were you expecting the video to be like?
- Nice.
Not destroying things.
- They put a picture of something that they're not doing.
I thought he would actually bake an egg in Australia.
- I think they want to do that so it's even more funny
when you switch into crazy mode,
'cause it's just like normal then crazy.
- Well, I knew, because I knew it was HowToBasic.
But other people,
that's probably how most people come across him:
just looking for tutorials on everything.
"How to do homework." I'm sure that's clickbait.
- (Finebros) Do you think it's wrong
that they might be misleading people to click on their videos
by making titles and thumbnails
not what the video's actually about?
- Yeah, they should do how it's normally done.
- It's not wrong.
- No, I think it's fine.
- It's not something completely different. It's still funny.
And if you're studying for a test
and you need to know how to do homework or something like that,
this will just crack you up and make your day.
- If somebody's actually looking for a how-to video
and they come across this, they're gonna be like,
"Well, I wanted to see how to do it, not how to smash it."
- (Finebros) So as of now,
HowToBasic has over 7 and a half million subscribers.
- Some people like weird things.
I mean, I like weird things, but I'm not into that.
- (Finebros) It's Australia's most popular YouTube channel,
and it has over 1 billion views. - Oh my goodness.
- That's crazy.
It's the same thing over and over again.
- (Finebros) Why do you think a channel like this
would be so popular?
- Because a lot of people like it and think it's funny.
- People like
stuff that doesn't make sense.
- People like crazy things.
People like watching somebody do something unexpected.
- It's random and funny.
And of course you'd want to see eggs getting thrown at an oven.
There's no why. Just eggs.
- (Finebros) What would your parents say
if you made as big a mess like they make on this channel?
- I don't know. I would never do that in the first place.
- They'd be like, "You're grounded!"
- "Clean that up right now!"
- They'd be like, "What was the meaning of this?"
I'm like, "Just cooking eggs."
- I'm pretty sure all parents would be mad no matter what
if you destroy something that they bought with their kachang.
- They would kill me.
It would be the equivalent if I took everything in my fridge
and just completely destroyed it.
And that's what he does every single day for a living.
- (Finebros) Something in most of these videos
are the breaking of eggs, and the creator has said
that he loves eggs so much
that they are like the oxygen he breathes.
- I don't think it's safe to breathe in eggs.
- That's gross and disgusting.
I would not like to breathe yolk.
- (Finebros) Why do you think he's so obsessed with eggs?
- He breathes eggs. I mean, he's an egg man.
- Maybe he likes the sound of the eggs cracking,
and maybe it soothes him.
- If you throw it, then it just bursts.
- It makes a big mess. And for that channel, that's good.
- (Finebros) Finally, we did this with the elders
when we covered HowToBasic.
So it's only right that we do it with you guys as well.
- An egg!
- No! No! No, my beautiful hair!
- (Finebros) What do you want to do with that egg?
- I want to keep it
and call it my pet.
- Smash it.
- I want to throw it at something.
- I really want to throw it as hard as I can against the table.
- It's hard-boiled!
- Oh, it's hard-boiled.
I see what you did there.
- You're not gonna stop me, 'cause if I do it, I'm doing it.
I want to throw this at you guys right now!
- I saw the elders. It's hard-boiled.
I know! I saw the elders.
I'm still gonna smash it.
I hate eggs!
No offense, HowToBasic.
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- Thanks for watching. (grunts)
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