EXTRA REACTIONS - YouTubers React to Song Lyric Text Prank Compilation (Extras #98)

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- ♪ Lie to me, lie with me ♪

♪ Get your [bleep] fix ♪

- (Mike) "Michael, I'm sorry, okay?"

- Oh, and she's fully going with it.

- ♪ You don't give a damn about... ♪

- He's really putting
this girl through something.

- ♪ The temperature's rising in here ♪

♪ Is this gonna happen ♪

- (lady) Bro, it's winter and it's freezing.

- Oh my god.
She got "duded" and "bro"--

And what was there? A "bra"?

- And dude-- yeah, and bra.
- Oh-- oh my god.

- ♪ So baby, come light me... ♪

- God, I don't even know
any of these songs.

I feel so old!

- ♪ It feels like the only times
you'll see me ♪

♪ Is when you turn your head to the side ♪

- Oh, this is mean.

- What if she texted it as slow
as the song was going,

so it was like one word at a time.

- (Cass) "Cass,
what are you trying to say?"

- (laughing) Every time, everyone's like,
"WTF is going on right now?!"

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- (FBE) So this prank
has been around for a while,

but a lot of people attribute
the recent rise in people making it

to the first video we showed,
which was from a YouTuber named Mike Fox.

- Oh yeah?

- And then everyone jumped
on it and it went massive.

- (FBE) What is it about this that,
if you're a YouTuber and you see it,

you're like, "Oh, I gotta
make a video like this!"

- Well, it gets a lot of laughs.

- If you see someone doing something
so easy and it's doing so well,

you're like, "Ooh, well maybe
I should try that out myself."

- It feels like something easy to do,
that's a lot of fun also.

Not just for people watching,

but YouTubers always look for
something that is fun to do.

- It also gives you a good excuse
to start texting your ex again.

- Yeah.

- If you ever wanted to.
- I mean, he was in.

- (FBE) In recent years,
a new type of challenge or trend video

will spring up from someone
and then it seems like

a lot of different channels on YouTube
will then make a similar video.

Does it bother you when you see
people doing the same kind of thing,

or do you not really care,
considering the people

really seem to enjoy it.
- It's a light irking.

It's a very light irking
just because everyone has to do

the 100 Layers Challenge,
everyone has to do the Cinnamon Challenge.

- It's like a weird phase.
It didn't use to be like this.

- It kills me.

- But then there's still people
like Ryan Higa, who are killing it

and they do such original, cool stuff.

- I like seeing people's interpretations
of those sorts of trends, right?

You're able to see pranks like this,
or challenges like the Condom Challenge,

through different creators' eyes,
and so you're able to see

kind of their personality infused

into these otherwise kind
of YouTube wide trends.

It really makes YouTube
feel like a community,

but still different enough
that I'm able to appreciate

the videos separately.

- (FBE) This prank has been
accused of being fake.

What do you think?
- I don't think so.

I mean, it's not that harmless,
where I think that people

would have to fake it.

- I don't know.

There's a lot of fake stuff
on the internet.

The internet is known
for being full of hoaxes.

- Some people are so desperate
to have a viral video

or a break or whatever, that it's like,
"Hey, mom, can you text me this back

when I say this?"

- It's really easy.

I could say that I'm pranking
an ex-boyfriend

and I could be just texting him.

- Yeah, she could tag me
as psycho-ex in her phone.

- If he turns it around and suddenly
I'm surprised and it's like,

"Lyric Prank Gone Wrong,"
and I put that in the title,

everyone's gonna click on it.
It's gonna get tons of views.

It's just too convenient.

- (FBE) If this prank is done
for real on somebody,

is this going to far
with people's emotions,

or is it harmless?
- No, it's harmless.

It's all just a goof.

'Cause, you know,
it's somebody that you know.

- I grew up with a ton of siblings
and we pranked each other all the time

and if, I don't know,
if you can't take a joke

then I don't know-- maybe it wasn't
that solid of a relationship

to begin with.

- This one's harmless enough
that it's not a big deal.

It's not like-- they're song lyrics
at the end of the day.

There's a little bit of confusion,
but ultimately, I think--

- You're not throwing milk
in someone's aisle in their supermarket.

You know? It's nothing so crass--
- I like that that's the one you went to!

- The biggest challenge
on YouTube, in general,

is a lot of people using relationships,
and exploiting their relationships

with other people to get views.

Um, and I think, you know,
"Oh, we're gonna break up.

Oh, I'm gonna, you know,
prank this other person

and we're gonna have
this prank battle or whatever,"

I think that falls into
a weird line in a lot of cases.

Where I would have a hard time
forgiving someone

is if it's, "Hey, you did this to me,
and now you're posting it online

and you're expecting to get
millions of views off of our relationship."

Suddenly, you have
commoditized what we have

for shameless, you know, view-bating
and monetization on YouTube

and I think that's where
a lot of those sorts of things

start to fall into a weird,
grey territory for me.

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