- No. No. (laughs and claps)
- Ah, why are we doing this? Why is this the new Twitter thing?
♪ (punk rock intro) ♪
- (Neptune) My hair is thinning a bit.
- (SpongeBob) Oh, Your Highness... - Oh, wave check.
- Wave check! Wave check! Oh, I love this meme!
- Yeah, I've seen this. It's hilarious.
- (SpongeBob) I'm sure it's not that noticeable--
ahhh! - Ohhh. I love these.
- ♪ The dash, it's digital ♪ - (laughs)
- ♪ Schedule busy, my head... ♪ - I haven't seen this meme.
- I don't know what this is. What is this? (chuckles)
What the hell is wave check? - All right.
Casual Twitter meme. All right, got it.
- I love this meme with the AirPods and the waves, bro.
- I've been seeing this everywhere. People do this at my school.
They do wave checks. It's the most funniest thing ever.
- I've only seen a couple of these on Twitter.
Is this a trend-trend? That makes me laugh.
Okay. I'm ready for this. (laughs)
- (chuckles) Oh my god. - Ha. Yeah, have to get
the supreme headband, the earrings.
- Ahh, not Saitama. He's supposed to be bald.
- They put the band in, too? How did this start?
- I don't really like the ones where they have anime.
- Oh my god. Ah, why are we doing this?
Why is this the new Twitter thing? - This is a really weird thing
to be trending. That seems so random.
The internet chooses really weird things to hype up,
and I don't know why. - "All that for a drop of sauce."
Bro, Thanos with the du-rag and Iron Man with the wave.
- Oh my god! (laughs) They put a du-rag on Thanos.
- Oh my gosh. Thanos has a du-rag on, too.
Bro, that's so funny. - Just don't understand this!
I'm laughing at this, but I don't get it.
- These are really getting out of hand.
Oh my gosh. How many ways can you spin this?
- "Wave check." (chuckles)
I like that spin. - Oh, wait.
How did he do that? That's crazy.
- That's actually a really cool picture by itself.
By itself, you have to give this man respect.
- That [bleep] either went everywhere or not one piece got out.
That's a wave check for real. - "Since hair can't be recovered
from fossils, nobody"-- (laughs) "Nobody can tell me that dinosaurs
didn't look like this." Wow.
- Honestly, that is so true. - That's facts, though.
That's so true. (laughs) Well, you never know.
- Dude, they're right. Dinosaurs definitely had waves.
- (FBE) So, we have more to show you in a second,
but those were all memes that are being referred to
as wave check memes. - I've been seeing this
all over Instagram on my Explore page.
- (FBE) So, wave check refers to the reveal of waves hairstyle
that is sometimes considered a flex.
- You're-- oh, I know exactly what you're talking about,
'cause people on Instagram take their du-rags off,
and then they just flex.
- (FBE) So next, we have a different set of memes to show you.
- Cool. Okay.
- " Me flexing my AirPo"-- ohhh. We're doing the AirPods game now.
Okay. - (laughs) The AirPods.
"Me flexing my AirPods with 6.95 in my bank account."
"Complains in rich." - Oh my gosh. Why is that me?
Yeah, I have AirPods. (laughs) I mean, they're so convenient.
- This is bigger than the wave check, let me tell ya.
I can't even tell you how much AirPod content I've consumed
and witnessed in the last three weeks.
- (chuckles) "I know these dogs have AirPods."
- "I know these dogs have AirPods." And Apple watches,
probably one for each wrist. - Those dogs are rich.
I don't care what anybody says. Those dogs are rich.
- Those suits. I feel poor looking at them.
I love that. - "How people with AirPods
walk into the room." (chuckles)
- (snickers) Accurate.
- ♪ A millionaire ♪ ♪ I'm a young money millionaire ♪
- I love this. - (laughs)
- I like how the old dude in the back that got his head touched
is so excited. He was like, "Yes!"
- Low-key me, though. (laughs) And I have to double tap 'em,
like, "Oh." Like, "Hold on. Did you say something to me?"
- I've literally seen this happen too at school.
Kids walk into class, and they're just like (clicks tongue)
with their AirPods in. And they get to their seat,
and they're like... and take it out.
- Honestly, the AirPods memes have really made me laugh,
because it is just like the subtle flex of an AirPod
being like stupidly expensive.
- "In the first page of AirPod instructions,
it says you're allowed to spit on anyone who doesn't have AirPods."
- That's true. I did check the terms of services or whatever
of AirPods. - Aww, that's just wrong.
But that's funny. - I guess I've been doing it
all wrong then. I finally have something to relate to.
- "Everyone who gets AirPods this year for Christmas."
- Yeah, everyone came back from Christmas break with AirPods.
- (chuckles) Gotta show 'em off.
- (laughs) He's flex. Big flex.
- (Chris) What was that? Sorry, I got my Air--
I got my AirPods in. - (laughs)
- (Chris) Sorry, I got my Air-- I got my AirPods in.
- That's so true. Even when I get a new set
of regular headphones, I'm like, "What? Sorry, I couldn't hear you."
- I was FaceTiming my girlfriend, right?
And I was just tryna fix my hair like this.
And then she was like, "Stop flexing your AirPods,"
'cause I had 'em in at the same time.
I was like, "I'm not trying to do that!"
- I was actually thinking about getting myself AirPods
for Christmas or asking my mom to buy them for me,
but then this meme started blowing up
a little bit right around that time, and I was like, "Dude, I feel
like I can't even wear AirPods now without someone making a joke."
- (FBE) So, those were all what's being called AirPod memes.
- Yeah, I've seen those. - I love it.
That one thoroughly gets a good chuckle out of me every time.
- (FBE) They revolve around the Apple AirPods and tease
at the idea that those who own them automatically have a sense
of superiority to others. - (chuckles) I mean,
it's true, though. If you have wires,
I'm sorry, step aside. Let the AirPods people come through.
- This is so bad, but ever since everyone started getting them,
I was like, dang, I feel like I should get AirPods.
- I'm not against AirPods, but I feel like at this point,
it's just like, it's become a meme. I don't wanna be a meme.
- (FBE) So, now that you've seen both of those memes,
we're gonna show you how the two memes
have kind of mixed together to form new memes
that combine both the wave check and the AirPods.
- Waves and AirPods? - Oh my god.
Twitter, what are you doing? - (chuckles)
ObamaPods, TM. - ObamaPods. Oh my gosh!
- Not Barack Obama! Noo!
But low-key, though, he looks fresh. I ain't gonna lie.
- That edit is way too clean. Wow.
- People on the internet really are talented.
And they don't even realize that they're talented
I feel like, you know? - "I'm sick of the internet."
The scene from Harry Potter. Oh my gosh!
- Oh, okay, okay! I love this one. This was hilarious.
- He has the AirPods on. (laughs) - Who is taking the time to edit--
No. No!
♪ (dramatic music) ♪ (claps)
- (gasps) Ahh! Noo! - Wave check! (chuckles)
Dude, that is so amazing. I love the internet for that.
- That one had great editing. I love that one.
- We've gone too far. (laughs) We've really gone too far.
- Wave check! "Bruh, they got wave waves and AirPods."
Yeah, that's amazing. - At first, I didn't even notice
the waves in the wave, so, like, okay, that's really good. (laughs)
- This is very creative. - Twitter's getting really meta.
Like... ugh. It's on a whole new level.
- You can't beat this. The only thing that would be better
is an AirPod with waves.
♪ ("Friends" theme) ♪ - Okay, the guy from "Friends."
- Oh, god. I'm afraid.
Stop!
- (chuckles)
- (laughs) - ♪ So no one told you... ♪
- (laughs) Whoa! They had the whole squad.
The whole squad was on point. - It'd be a much better show
if everyone just had waves. - This is the big meme
of 2019 right now, the first big one.
And I'm personally not disappointed at all.
- I've seen all the AirPod memes on Twitter and on Instagram
on my Explore page and all that stuff.
I've seen the wave check happen in person.
I've seen all of that. But putting them together,
that's just... crazy. (chuckles) - They're really creative.
The people that take the time to edit these together, props. (claps)
- (FBE) So, outside of these memes, wave checking is a thing in real life.
Wave check ceremonies occur at the center of chanting crowds,
where students remove their du-rags to flex their waves.
- Yeah, I've seen this at school.
- I've seen that before this meme started.
- (FBE) So, the wave check meme seems to have particularly caught fire
among Twitter's anime and manga fans, who Photoshop
their favorite anime characters to include the wave hairstyle.
- Yeah, I've seen, like, Saitama ones from "One Punch," and I've seen
a couple Naruto and Sasuke memes. - It's funny, because you would
never expect those two groups of people to come together.
- (FBE) So, considering that anime is Japanese and the wave hairstyle
is common amongst African-American culture,
what do you think of the fact that they're two different
cultural aspects able to come together for a meme like this?
- I'm gonna be honest, I don't think it goes that deep.
I think it's just, people do it for humor.
- That immediately makes me think of the power of the internet
and social media. - It's kinda cool,
because they're not really technically related,
but for some reason, they found a common audience
with this one joke. For some reason,
everyone kinda got it, and it was good.
- It's bringing a lot of representation
towards both communities in a way, because I know a lot
of African-American people that watch anime.
- Our society today is so intermingled.
There's a lot of cultural mixing going on, and everyone is just
supporting other cultures at this point.
And so, if you can successfully combine cultures in a comedic way,
you're gonna appeal to a really wide audience.
- (FBE) So finally, we wanted to ask, if you could pick
one person or character that you think would look good
with some waves and AirPods, who would it be?
- Oh, that'd be funny. I don't know, like Dr. Phil
with waves. That'd be pretty funny.
- Shaggy from Scooby Doo. What a vibe.
- Oh my god, Caillou.
Caillou. I was like, "Bald head, bald head, bald"--
Caillou. I hate that show, but yeah, Caillou.
- Oh my god. Do Mikaela. (laughs)
Do Mikaela! - I would love to see something
like Will Ferrell as Buddy the Elf but with waves and AirPods.
- Jaden Smith's character from Neo Yokio.
In the show, he's really high and fancy, so it's like,
might as well put it on him - I'm gonna say Krillin
for all my Krillin fans out there, because I feel like
he's just getting played out there. And he's already bald, so it's easy.
- I would wanna see Sasuke from Naruto have AirPods.
He already has hella cool hair. Just imagine him with a [bleep] wave.
- We have one AirPod. That AirPod has waves
and then the waves have AirPods in the waves,
like, you know, merged in it.
But then those AirPods in the waves have waves themselves.
And the AirPod-- the original AirPod is wearing AirPods.
Sorry to the person editing that photo later.
- Thanks for watching this episode of Teens React,
and shoutout to Ashley Griffin and Jose Diaz.
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- Goodbye, peasants. - (nasally) Hey, guys.
Ethan here, the most superior producer here at FBE.
Be sure to follow us on Twitter if you wanna find out
what else is going on at this company.
(posh laughter) Buh-bye.