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- (FBE) Okay. So we're gonna show you videos from two channels
all doing a popular online trend of the last few months,
where they get a big box, hide in it,
and then send themselves somewhere through the mail.
- Really? People really do that?
- What happens if you get mis-shipped and sent to Iceland?
- (FBE) There's also a lot of debate
as to whether these are real and fake,
but let's see what you think. You ready? - Ready.
- My pre-vote is fake.
I'm going in as a skeptic.
- Okay, I'm just walking around,
trying to think of a challenge idea.
And I've thought of the perfect one.
I'm gonna post myself.
I'm gonna post myself to my own house.
- Oh no!
- (man snickering) This is gonna be awesome.
Here it is. - This box isn't sturdy enough for him.
- (man) Got my food.
Off to the post office we go.
- That box... not gonna hold him. Might hold his food.
- Some final words. What shall I say? Uh...
Hasta la vista.
- How can he breathe inside that box?
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- (man whispering) Okay, so it's been about an hour.
- Looks real to me.
- I'm still in the post office.
- Oh, well, he does look like actually scared
that something's gonna happen.
- (man) So for now, I need to save as much battery in my phone
and my camera. - You need to save battery? You need air!
- (man) I'll keep you updated.
We're actually in transit right now.
- This would be a good experiment
to see how they handle my package.
- He's in transit right now. Oh, it looks so real.
- (man) It seems as though I'm in the warehouse.
I need to take a piss. - Oh. That's so fake.
- (man) I need to take a piss. - Oh my god. Are you kidding me?
- You're in trouble. You're gonna get wet.
(tinkling) - (laughing)
- (yells, laughs)
(dramatic chord) - Next day?
(dramatic chord) - It's time to be delivered.
(microphone scraping, man sighs)
- It's dark.
- Oh my gosh.
- Oh, he's sweating.
- He made it. He made it home.
(man sighs)
- No.
(man grunting) No, I ain't buying it.
(chuckling)
- (man) Can't believe I did it! It worked!
- Oh my god. It looks real.
If I were younger, I would do it.
But they might say, "Who's this old lady coming out of the box?"
- It looked pretty real to me.
- I don't believe he could possibly be
sent any place in that box.
- I just think it was totally fabricated.
- He's got no air holes in the box.
Good try, kid. But nah.
- Did you see that flimsy box?
And it was all taped up. There were no air holes.
And then he had to-- then he had to urinate.
Yeah right. Oh please.
But it was amusing.
- Today we're doing the Mailing Yourself in a Box Challenge.
I know a lot of these bigger YouTubers, they faked it, guys.
- I'm still not gonna believe this.
- (JayStation) I'm gonna build a special box for you guys,
one that has a little sliding window in it.
So that way you can see that I'm actually
in the post office, guys.
This one's gonna be legit. - No. I don't believe it for a minute.
- (man) All right, see you, Jay. - (Jay) See you, bro.
(microphone and box scraping)
- Oh, I don't think anybody can really survive 24 hours
in that kind of condition.
- That box would never hold him. That's ridiculous.
- (man) All right, so Jay's in the...
- The excitement is building.
- (man) ...give it to him and tell him to do overnight shipping,
express shipping, or whatever the hell it's called.
- (laughs heartily) $700!
- It's cheaper to get an airline ticket.
- (Jay whispering) I've been in here for a couple hours.
It is so hot.
And I've drank all my water already.
- So now, if you drank all your water,
you know what happens next.
(rattling) - This looks a little more real
than the other guy. (chuckles)
Lousy video quality makes sense in a box.
- (Jay) I think I'm on the actual mail truck now.
I hear them talking outside still.
And I really gotta piss, like, really bad.
- How come nobody thinks of this peeing before they get in a box?
- Is this part of the challenge,
that they have to urinate while they're in the box?
- This is driving me crazy, because it's so out of reality.
- (Jay) Here we go, guys.
And I'm gonna poke through this window.
(deep sigh) See what the [bleep] I can see.
Let's see what we can see here.
- (laughs) I think this is real.
- It's like the wilderness challenges,
only urban wilderness, the inside of a box.
- (Jay) The truck's started moving.
I had to put my jacket on, because it was way too cold.
But I guess I just fell asleep.
And I got to piss like an animal, and it's full.
- Oh, here you go again. You're going to pee again.
- (Jay) I'm gonna have to drink a bit
to make enough room to piss in here, guys.
- He actually put it on camera! Oh my god! (laughs)
- (Jay) It's not as bad as people think it is.
- Gross.
- (Jay) I think they're bringing me to the house now.
- And now he's home.
(indistinct conversation)
- Where's your sliding window, sir?
(indistinct conversation)
- (Jay) I'm at the wrong house, guys.
- They sent him to the wrong place?
- How could he have been delivered to the wrong place?
- Must have been UPS.
- (Jay) Dude. - (man) What the?
Yo, what-- - (Jay) Dude.
- (man) Oh, yo, what the [bleep], bro?
- "I'm at the wrong house." (laughs)
- (man) Yo, what the [bleep], man?
- (laughs)
I think this is real.
- (Jay) I'm gonna Uber home right now.
I'm just gonna call an Uber.
I'm getting the [bleep] out of here, guys.
- (chuckles) He's lucky that he's alive, you know?
The guy didn't beat him up.
- This one looks real,
because he put a window where he could see and breathe.
- I think it's very unreal. But I felt it.
You know, I felt the tension.
- I think it was staged.
Somebody had to know what the hell was going on.
- That one was pretty real till the end.
(chuckles) But that's okay.
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- (FBE) Okay. So what do you think after watching this?
Do you think these people really did this?
- The second one is more convincing. The first one didn't.
- It's hard to say if it's staged or not.
I mean, it's just your mind goes back and forth.
- I think it was staged and it was very amusing.
It's illogical. It makes no sense. Why would you do it?
It-- (scoffs) I mean, if you want to go somewhere,
walk over there. Drive over there. Get on a bus and get there.
- I don't think those two guys did.
It's a pretty dangerous thing to do
in just a regular, flimsy cardboard box. I'm not buying it.
- He said he was gonna put a window on the box
so he could verify he was in the post office.
It was like a door. You could put a German Shepherd through it.
And of course they wouldn't notice that in the post office.
- They got into a box. There's no question about that.
There wasn't enough evidence to show
that the thing was being moved or lifted.
- (FBE) So these were just some people
doing the Human Mail Challenge.
But there are so many channels on YouTube
doing this style of video to millions of views.
- Really? Has anyone successfully done it?
Not in those cardboard boxes, they couldn't.
- (FBE) So what do you think about this trend?
- I wonder what's the purpose of it.
I don't see it as fun. I think it's very dangerous in a way.
- It's really silly.
- They just have nothing else to do.
I mean, that-- (snickers) get a life.
- It's so dangerous, though.
I mean, it seems like they would have bumps and bruises
from being on conveyor belts and thumped around.
- I think it's funny.
You take a trip out of reality, and it's cute.
- Think it's pretty fun that everybody
is kind of getting a piece of the action
and trying to show different ways of making this look real.
- (FBE) So these videos get tons of views,
and some people fully think this is real. - No way.
- (FBE) So you think these are fake.
But in most cases, the uploader presents
these to their audience as real.
So what do you think about people that,
according to you, are fooling their audience like this?
- Oh, that's fine. I mean, to me, it's a joke.
- We live in a place where we basically have the right
to do whatever we want, as long as it doesn't hurt someone else.
This isn't hurting anybody.
- There may be a reason for that.
There may be a market that they know of,
or they're trying to create something different,
because you gotta be creative to succeed.
- If you get a little tiny guy
that decides he's gonna try this,
then you might run into somebody suffocating in a box.
- (FBE) So, many agree with you
that some of these videos are real.
But they get a lot of hate as people nitpick individual elements
to try to prove that some of these are fake.
Why would people get mad at someone
for thinking something is real? - I don't know.
Safety, I think, is something that they probably come up with.
- They're just negative. They just think everything is not true.
Maybe they think that the person that thinks it's real,
it could be they're stupid.
- Rather than writing something nasty,
they should be putting out videos
that dissect why it's not the case.
- (FBE) On the other hand,
there are others who think these are fake but enjoy it,
as they look at them more like skits,
and they even admire how much detail the creators put in
to make the videos look as real as possible.
- Sure, it's a skit.
It's like anything pretty much else in entertainment.
- (FBE) Why do you think videos that,
even if you know they are fake, would still be so popular?
- I just think it's just silly.
People like watching people do silly things.
It's like a more advanced version of slipping on a banana peel.
- We know that everything's fake that's on TV and on movies,
and we still enjoy all of it.
- When you're watching a sitcom,
don't you know that those people are acting?
You don't believe that's somebody's house, do you?
Some of those court shows, those aren't the real litigants.
They bring in people to play those roles.
- We watch a lot of fiction programs, you know,
and we know that they're really not detectives or aliens
or whatever, and we just like to see.
- (FBE) And finally, we have something for you.
- Not a box, I hope.
- Oh my. Where am I going?
- You want me to crawl in and mail myself?
- (FBE) Do you want to try the Human Mail Challenge?
- No, not at all.
- No.
Because I get claustrophobic.
- That's a little bit small. Um, have you got a kid I can mail?
- Yeah, I guess so.
- I'll get in it for you.
- I could try it. I suppose.
I can't believe I'm-- okay.
- I'll do it.
Bring my own cup?
- Okay, here goes.
- (grunts)
- Oh. Goodness. Okay.
See how this box is not big enough?
- I don't fit. Oh well.
- I think I need a roll of tape and some bungee cord.
- Now I know I need to do yoga.
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- Bye-bye.
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