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- (Ekow) How in the world
am I in front of you?
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- (sighs) My wife would shoot me.
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She'd pull off my toenails
with some pliers.
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- Elizabeth doesn't look
like she has to lose weight.
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- (Ekow) How in the world
am I in front of you?!
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Let's go, Elizabeth! Faster!
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- Am I watching the deconstruction
of a relationship?
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- (Ekow) Pick up your sandals and you move
those little Oompa Loompa feet.
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- This is so dumb.
I don't know why I'm laughing.
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- (Ekow, laughing) Elizabeth,
what the heck are you doing?
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Are you kidding me?
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- (snickering)
- (Ekow) ♪ It's a hard knock life ♪
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- Oh, that's the definition
of rock bottom,
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when you're hammered without your shoes
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and you're crawled into a ball,
eating McDonald's.
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- (FBE) So what did you just watch here?
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- I saw Elizabeth run all over the city,
trying to lose weight.
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- An amazing boyfriend
be super motivational
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and supportive about his girlfriend
not liking to work out.
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I hate working out personally,
and I feel like Elizabeth is so relatable
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because that's just what you need.
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My boyfriend needs to start doing that.
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So if you're watching,
we need to start this.
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- (FBE) Have you ever come across
these videos before?
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- Never. It's the first time.
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- I have never seen
this video before. Never.
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- No, I haven't.
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I've seen things like that,
but I haven't seen that before, no.
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- Yeah, I've seen them
floating around on Facebook
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in compilation videos.
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- (FBE) They've recently even started
selling their own merchandise.
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- Shut up.
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- I saw, I think,
in one of the little videos,
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she was wearing a shirt.
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It said "Cot Dammit," right?
I would so wear that.
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- (FBE) The videos are made
to look like they're in reality
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and unscripted, but some people
feel that these videos are staged.
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What do you think?
- Yeah, definitely.
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I mean, she's wearing
a "Cot Dammit" shirt at one point.
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- The guy definitely seemed
like he was a little over-the-top,
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but, I mean, I don't know.
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If he's talking to his girlfriend
like that... (sighs).
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She's gotta dump that guy.
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- Insider tip here:
all the prank videos, they're all fake.
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I know firsthand.
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As my job as a police officer,
I have witnessed them.
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I've gone to radio calls of these,
and they're all fake.
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- (FBE) So this series
is all separate Snapchat stories,
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and if you are familiar,
stories on Snapchat are videos
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viewed in chronological order
that will then disappear after 24 hours.
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What do you think it is
about this particular function
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that makes it so fun to use?
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- Well, I guess you don't
have to elaborate on one idea
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and you can mash a whole bunch together.
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- Well, I think it's the fact
that you can do short little clips
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so you can quickly jump
from scene to scene to scene.
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- I get the whole it's really easy editing
and it's streamlined,
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and you can kind of make
your own little quick story.
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That's cool. I get that.
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- I think it's great.
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See, this is what's happening
now with social media.
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You can do anything.
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There's no limit.
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If you have a good imagination,
you can conquer the world.
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- (FBE) The boyfriend in these videos
appears to be looking out
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for Elizabeth's best interests
by wanting her to be healthier,
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but there's some who would consider
what he's doing to be body shaming.
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Do you see that?
- Well, I was thinking that.
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And I'm like, "What girl in her right mind
will deal with that?"
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- I didn't see it come off as body shaming
or mean or whatever.
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I thought it was more like
"I'm doing this to be funny.
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And if it helps you in the end,
achieve your goal, then it's a win-win."
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It's coming from her boyfriend
and it's, I think,
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kind of in a playful way,
it's supposed to be funny.
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Obviously, she agrees
to be a part of it and do it
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and have it filmed
and now make merchandise off of it,
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so it can't be upsetting her that much.
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