- How could you do that? That's so rude.
- Wait, don't tell me Oprah claps back.
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- (FBE) So, we have done this once in the past
with our YouTubers, so today, you'll be reacting
to some of the most vicious celebrity clapbacks
on social media. - I love this.
I am a big fan of clapbacks.
- I do like a good clapback when the original person's
just a real dip [bleep].
- (FBE) And what is a clapback?
- I would say when someone comes for you
and you put them back in their place.
- (FBE) Are you ready to do this?
- Hit me.
- (FBE) So, we're doing this on the heels of a recent
series of viral clapbacks that were kicked off
by comments from ABC morning talk show host
Kelly Ripa, who shared her opinion on the popular
reality show franchise, the Bachelor and Bachelorette.
- Okay. - (FBE) So here is a clip of that.
- I was watching the Bachelorette literally last night.
- (Kelly) I thought that one got married to the guy
that was here. The guy, the guy--
- (man) Colton was here last-- that was the Bachelor,
but they didn't get married. - (Kelly) So she becomes
the bachelorette. - (man) No, it's a different woman.
- (Kelly) You know how I feel about the show.
It disgusts me. - Oh, she's freaking out.
- (Kelly) That I was disgusted because I couldn't stand
the idea of 25 exceptional women fighting over
one ordinary fellow, in my opinion.
- She's not wrong.
- I feel like "disgusting" is a very strong word.
I'm kind of on her side, but I feel like she was really mean.
- I love Kelly Ripa. I respect that a lot.
She's speaking her truth.
- (FBE) So, the host of the show, Chris Harrison, and the creator
of the franchise, Mike Fleiss, replied with the following tweets.
- "Look out #BachelorNation. Kelly Ripa is coming after you
and your disgusting Monday night habit."
- Nah, that's not a clapback. It's like he was trying
to hype up his fans to go and attack her
is what this was.
- Kelly, you done messed up. Don't attack a cult following
like the Bachelor has.
- "Easy, Kelly Ripa. The Bachelor franchise
pays your salary." Whoa.
- If she's a news host, how does that make--
oh, they're on the same network. Okay.
- Why he trying to stir the pot?
He's trying to cut-- I mean, anything for views
at this point, right?
- (FBE) So then, Ellen Pompeo, star of Grey's Anatomy,
also on ABC. - Network feud, I live for it.
- (FBE) Went to defend Ripa with this tweet.
- "Okay @fleissmeister, that's some handle, bro."
Throw that aside in there.
- "Also, we don't attack successful women on
our network and men certainly cannot take credit
for their success."
- "Don't get me started on your show,
'cause I'm a savage... Bachelor sooo white."
Wow, okay see? This is a real, actual clapback
and the likes don't lie.
- She got Kelly's back. I'm always gonna like--
don't take women's success, but at the same time,
if you're working with that company,
maybe take it easy a little.
- I don't think Kelly Ripa owes the Bachelor directly anything
and yeah, I'm down with not attacking successful women.
- (FBE) Here's the next one, which comes from Halsey.
- I love Halsey.
- "So, is Halsey pregnant or not?"
"I mean you're about to be if you keep riding my [bleep]
like this."
- The disrespect, guys. What's going on?
Can't we all be friends?
- I think it's very Halsey. I love her.
She's a sweetheart.
- Ah! In my mind, I envision it
like a game of tennis. Someone hits it to you
or volleyball, right-- they spike it to you
and then you, eh.
- Short and sweet to the point. Yes, not a big paragraph
where you have to read too much.
I think it's cool where she's just like, it was a quick,
witty comeback. He probably didn't respond.
He's probably too scared to respond to that.
- There's people on the internet that say trolly
and just plain old mean things that don't need to be said,
but then by responding to them, you show the trolls
that their message got to you. You give them the attention
that they so clearly want. I would either block,
delete the comment, or ignore it.
- "All that money and a baby shower look like
a bucket of corn." Why you gotta go there?
- And then Cardi B gave Mr. Flexer
a bunch more attention by replying and saying,
"It was beautiful and we was happy."
- "Your mom waited a whole nine months for you
to be ugly and a bucket of disappointment."
- This is what I'm talking about, bitch.
This is a real [bleep] clapback.
- Mr. Flexer get [bleep], I guess.
It's not your baby shower.
- How can you get mad at that?
They look so cute. Bucket of corn?
[Bleep] off.
- (FBE) This next one is Chance the Rapper
who took the time to roast Parks and Recreation
star Chris Pratt and Rob Lowe.
- "This looks like the first pics on everyone's Instas from 2012.
#filter."
- These do low key-- who remembers valencia?
Who remembers arden?
- Did Chris Pratt paint this himself?
That'd be an incredible feat.
- Rob Lowe looks like he has bronzer on, like a lot.
Not that I'm against that. I mean, obviously,
but it's just like you need to blend.
- What did Chris Pratt and Rob Lowe do to you, Chance?
What, not listen to your music? What, they didn't buy
your album? Dang.
- This is very accurate, but I hope that Mr's Pratt
and Lowe are having a nice time while
they visit the set of the Lion King.
- Wait, don't tell me Oprah claps back.
Don't tell me [bleep] Oprah claps back, bitch.
- "I don't know who this guy is but he sure is happy
to graduate. I shook hands with all
571 members of Colorado's college class of 2019
and gave them a copy of the Path Made Clear."
Humble brag.
- "Should have paid off their student debt, Oprah, lol."
Not a bad idea.
- Okay, do you guys have popcorn? I wanna get some snacks
before I read her response.
- She said, "Already paid 13 million in scholarships.
Have put over 400 men through."
That's everything. Just coming back with facts.
- Wow, Oprah really just is that bitch.
You do not come for Oprah.
- She's just like, these are the facts.
She doesn't even need to. She's Oprah.
Her existence is a clapback on its own.
Just don't try.
- Oprah doesn't have to be cutthroat.
She can be like, "Hey, I paid 15 million
for orphans and shut the [bleep] up, so..."
and you can't-- you're like, "Yeah,
that's about right, Oprah."
- She's had no tolerance for any BS,
so she has the power and the courage and confidence
to just do it and I think in this day and age,
she's not letting anyone step on her.
- Charlie Simpson said in response to the Rock's post,
"Oh dear, I wonder if it'll be the second worst film ever made?"
I'm assuming that the implication here is that the first
Jumanji sequel was the worst film ever made.
I would disagree with that.
- "Haha I have a fun idea. How about you watch it
with us and tell us your thoughts. Then we listen to your music
and we'll tell you ours."
- "You know , face to face like real men do
instead of yapping on Twitter." Bitch, he's telling him to pull up.
- You know, I know I just said that responding to troll comments
is not good, but this was pretty good.
- Jumanji's kind of dope. Charlie was talking [bleep],
so I like how he clapped back at him.
- A lot of people on Twitter or YouTube or anything
talk a big talk but if you actually sat down with them,
they'd be like, "Oh actually." Especially if you're
the [bleep] Rock.
- I grew up watching the Rock in WWF/WWE.
This is weak, Rock. Where's the candy ass?
Where's the jabroni? I'm not seeing anything
of merit here, Rock. Get it together, man.
- (FBE) This is from Meghan McCain, who is one of
the hosts of the ABC talk show the View
and her reply actually went viral to become
a little bit of a popular phrase to use on Twitter.
- Okay, okay. Denise McAllister,
"Can someone explain to me the purpose of the View?
It seems to me to be a round table of
delusional mental midgets." Can't say that.
- "Ricocheting ignorance and lack of emotional regulation."
Whole bunch of words in there.
- "You were at my wedding, Denise." How could you do that?
That's so rude. I mean, love her clapback,
but that's just savage.
- It's very white lady, "I deserve some respect here.
You were at my wedding, Denise."
- This person comes off as a huge douche just like,
"What's the point of the show? It's not even intellectual
or stimulates the brain. It's so stupid."
And it's like, just let people enjoy things, Denise.
- (FBE) One last tweet from Chrissy Teigen.
- Chrissy is so fierce. Okay.
- Oh, Chrissy Teigan's the queen of clapbacks.
- "I'm asking this with the utmost respectful,
but is @chrissyteigan pregnant again?"
- Chrissy Teigan said, "I just had a baby
but thank you for being sooo respectful."
- Maybe Lars Alexanderson was trying to be respectful,
but also just mind your own [bleep] business.
- It's stupid. It's just like,
"Not to be racist, but" and then you say something racist.
That doesn't make it okay.
- When people are like, "No offence, but"
and then they criticize you, that still--
offence still taken. Go her.
I love that.
- This is one of her milder clapbacks.
She's drinking her coffee and then she's just scrolling
through and she's like, hm.
- It's nice to see people who we think of as celebrities
and live in this heightened reality sometimes fall
victim to their emotions and say things on Twitter
that you might expect them to be above,
but nobody's above it. We all feel the need
to defend ourselves and do clapbacks, as it were,
whenever necessary.
- (FBE) So, it is widely known that putting your life
on social media lends itself to being subjected
to the opinions of others, good or bad.
So knowing this, do you think it still makes it okay
for others to criticize online simply because they can?
- It's a free country so people, you can do
what you want, but we want everybody
to try to be respectful. We're all on the same team here.
The human race team. That's deep.
- Yeah, so everyone's entitled to their own opinion.
I feel like some people kind of take that
to the next level and they kind of
take advantage of that. Everyone can take
a little bit of criticism, but if it's hate,
it's just unnecessary.
- I think critique can be respectful.
It just depends on how you say it,
but I think most people don't care about being
respectful, they just wanna throw an opinion
or an insult at someone just to get a reaction out of them.
- Our job is based off of the opinions of others
as influencers and for me, we depend on each other.
I need their opinions so I can make myself better
and create content for them. Also, if they wanna follow me,
then I have to have something to say.
Constructive criticism is always welcome, but I don't think
that just gives you the right to just be mean.
- I do think people have always had unpleasant
things to say about others and that now they have
the tools with which to broadcast those opinions
to the world at large, but I also think there is
this positive feedback loop where others see people
doing it and then they're like, well now the thing to do
is to post it, so they do that
and then it just-- it's cyclical.
- It reflects the person that they are
and their values and I think it's really sad
and sharing your story is something that should be powerful
and inspirational and motivational to change
people's lives, but if you're tearing somebody down
for sharing their story, then you need to [bleep] off.
- (FBE) So, we asked this question last time
we covered this topic and I'm curious to know
what type of comments have you received from
people online and have you ever clapped back?
- You know what? Most of the days--
most of the time nowadays, it's positive.
Fortunately enough, it's all positive.
Everybody's super nice and then when there is
a negative person in the comments which is rare,
everybody else takes 'em out.
- My most iconic clapback was when I had posted
my before and after of my ID or something
of when I was a little boy and then now my new ID
as being a beautiful woman and someone quote tweeted it
being like, "Ew, everyone needs to watch out.
Have the girl show them your IDs, 'cause you never know.
It could be a man or something." And I quote tweeted it
being like, "Bitch, who says that you could ever
take me on a date, first of all?"
- There's this kid back in 2016,
he threatened to dox me and then in 2018,
he made this video saying TheOdd1sOut is the worst
leader on YouTube and then in the comments
I said, "Hey, I really like the part where you
threatened to dox me." And so then I made him
lose all credibility. That was the one time
I clapped back, but it was because this
freaking kid was being an a-hole.
- I actually proposed to the founders of Instagram,
I think three years ago at VidCon and I said,
"You know what? On YouTube, we're able
to filter words because it's a space for me
and on mine, there's [bleep] gay, fat, stupid,
kill yourself." As a person in the
beauty community, do I really want someone
that's ten, eleven, twelve years old on the
bound of their teenage years to see that the hate
that I'm receiving is something that they could experience to.
And Instagram changed that and then the next month
added that feature onto Instagram.
- (FBE) So finally, as a content creator,
what is one piece of advice you can share that you
learned about online negativity and hate?
- Honestly, whenever you receive online negativity or hate,
take it with a grain of salt because you never know
what the person is going through. They could just be projecting,
they could be jealous, they could be angry,
they could be just an awful person.
- Ignore the hate as much as you can.
You're gonna get it constantly. If you're doing something you love,
there's always gonna be someone on the opposite side
saying it's stupid and it's not worth your time,
but if you genuinely enjoy doing it and you love doing it,
keep doing it.
- Try to respond, if you're going to respond to them,
in a mature and level headed way. Don't just jump on there
and type out in all caps your first emotional reaction,
'cause that's just gonna escalate the situation.
You're gonna have some third party observers
think less of you, perhaps.
- The best thing to do is just realize that
if someone is taking the time to write you a really
hateful comment or whatever, this person is not worth
your time at all. Clapbacks are usually me
showing my wife. Like, "Hey, look at this dumbass."
or sending it to a group chat of my friends
and that way, it's kind of like we can all roast them privately.
- It's just part of the job and it's really just people
so mad at their own selves or something.
Clearly, they're going through their own struggles.
Clearly they're bothered by my success.
Clearly they're bothered by my thick brow, my thick lashes,
my thick ass, my thick bank account
and are really wanting to try to bring me down
to their really sad poor, unfortunate level
and baby girl, it's just not gonna happen.
- Everyone is going to have something to say
and it's up to you to decide how you're gonna make
yourself feel about it. You don't need that
negativity in your life. They'll just bring you down,
so I just ignore it.
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