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- Oh my gosh. Are those people?
- Oh god. (sighs deeply)
- Is this the mannequin thing? It's the mannequin thing.
- Oh, the mannequin challenge.
- I am obsessed with this right now.
- I saw your guys's on Instagram. It's so good.
- I love this one. I really do.
- Living statues. Wow.
- Oh, she held that one pretty good.
- (astonished) No! And she held it!
- That was impressive. (chuckles)
She stayed completely still.
- Is that it?
That's really creepy.
♪ (Rae Sremmurd, "Black Beatles") ♪
- Oh, is this like the new planking?
- Oh my god, this is like a thing.
- They just did this at my school yesterday.
- Fairly simple Mannequin Challenge.
What is he doing up there?
- I stare really hard to see who flinches.
- This is what we're doing with our class time.
I hope they're on break.
- They were really holding still. That was pretty impressive.
- (chuckling) This is so weird.
- Oh man. How did these challenges start?
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- It's a whole stadium. Like, I can't.
- I mean, that's a lot of people. That's kind of impressive.
- Catching her in the cheer lift. (slight applause)
- I don't understand it. I think it's dumb.
It's not entertaining, at least to me.
♪ (Rae Sremmurd, "Black Beatles") ♪
- (man, echoing) Rae Sremmurd.
- This is an actual show?
- No, they got the audience to do it?
No. Okay, no. People are moving.
- That's awesome.
- ♪ ...is a real crowd pleaser ♪
♪ Small world, all her friends know of me ♪
- I'd love to be there.
- ♪ Young bull living like... ♪ - Is that who sings the song?
- How many people are involved in this now?
It's like the new flash mob.
- Out of control, you guys. This is insane.
- Okay, I think I've seen this one.
- Whoa. If you can hold that...
- Oh. He's got good abs right there.
- They're not even shaking. Is that Kevin Hart?
- Is that Kevin Hart?
- Was that Kevin Hart? Guy's in everything.
- Yay! I love him.
- Kevin Hart's got some really tight quads. I'd be shaking.
- What? On a plane too? For real?
- Well, that guy moved.
- I saw somebody move. That automatically makes me not like it.
- Who is this? Is this the Bucks?
- Oh, it's the basketball-- it's the Milwaukee Bucks.
♪ (Rae Sremmurd, "Black Beatles") ♪
- Why do they always put it to hip-hop music?
- This IS the flash mob of 2016.
- I like his manicure.
- See, the way you move the camera
really depends on how it turns out.
I've seen some where it's, like...
You know? Like, come on, man.
This isn't the Earthquake Mannequin Challenge.
- (anchor) I feel like we're gonna be seeing a lot of these
in the days ahead. Social media...
- Oh, everyone is getting in on this.
- (laughs) That's awesome!
- Wow.
- (anchor) No one onstage is moving.
- (amused) All right, this one's pretty good.
- Oh my goodness.
- I always like when you can see behind the scenes too.
- I thought this was just like, the kids are doing this. No.
- (anchor) Oh look, Fantasy and Friends.
That's awkward. They've been off the air for about an hour.
- (chuckles)
- (anchor) So they've been frozen for a really long time.
- Oh, that guy smiled. I saw it.
- (anchor) And what about the control room?
- No way. Everybody's in on it.
- Oh, his arm's wavering a little bit. That iPhone's heavy.
- (stammers) So dumb.
- I really want to do the Mannequin Challenge with my friends.
I haven't been able to do it yet. I gotta do it though.
- I really, really want to be a part of one so bad.
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- (FBE) So this was called the Mannequin Challenge.
- Ah. One of those challenges.
- (FBE) And clearly the challenge here
is to act like a mannequin in a flash mob,
but called a freeze mob.
- I was just trying to do it right now. (laughs)
- (intrigued) Oh, a freeze mob. All right, I didn't know that.
- (FBE) We've been covering a lot of challenge trends lately
as the audience has requested it.
But they also are annoyed at things being called a challenge
when it isn't really a challenge. - Yeah. I could see that.
- (FBE) Why do you think these challenges, while so popular,
also irritate people a lot? - I don't know.
I feel like, if it irritates you,
maybe you should just lighten up.
- Can we just have fun?
Everyone's clearly just doing this for fun.
It would be challenging for me to hold a pose like that,
so I don't know what they're talking about.
- I'm like, okay, call it something else.
How challenging is it really
to put 100 layers of makeup on your face?
- Because they're also everywhere.
I mean, you know, it's in your news feed constantly.
- It's just so saturated now, and it's so quick.
You just see so many of these over and over and over,
back to back, get sick of it quicker.
- (FBE) So what do you think? Do you like this challenge?
- I think it's awesome.
There's so many millions of combinations to be creative.
- I absolutely enjoy this challenge.
- I think it's a cool challenge,
one of the cooler challenges for sure.
- I am obsessed.
I've literally been looking through the hashtags on Instagram
so I can see more.
- No, I think it's stupid
and a waste of time.
- Some of them were kinda entertaining,
some more so than others.
You see maybe two or three of 'em,
and then it's like, "All right, I think I got it."
- It's entertaining for about a minute and a half,
and now I'm pretty much over it.
I want to know where it comes from though.
- (FBE) This trend seems to have started with high schoolers,
which is often the case with trends.
Why is a high school so conducive to these types of things?
- They have nothing else to do.
- Isn't that where "Damn Daniel" started?
When you're an adult, you don't have time to do that stuff.
- More so than ever, kids now are concerned
with their social online image or getting stuff to go viral.
- If it starts at one high school, I feel like initially,
another high school will automatically
want to try to one-up them.
And that will make something like this spread very quickly.
- You have a lot of willing participants, you know?
You have a lot of kids that are aware of social media.
They'll want to get in on something
if they think it's gonna be big.
Like our school.
At 11:11, the Mannequin Challenge was gonna happen,
like, district-wide.
And sure enough, later on that evening,
teachers posted videos of it in the classrooms.
And it was all over the place.
- (FBE) This challenge, as you saw,
is not just being done by high schoolers
but also by many other people, like professional athletes
and TV talent and movie stars.
Why do you think people in the public eye
jump on trends like this? And why did this one cross over?
- Well, I think they are now taking their cue from
what the kids are doing.
- Everyone's just trying to be young and cool,
and they're also trying to get the attention of high schoolers.
- It's just to have fun
with something that people are already doing.
You shouldn't, just because of the fact
that you're in the limelight already,
not be able to do something fun for that reason.
- It's just being valid on social media.
And it kind of makes you part of a bigger community.
It's like YouTube. I mean, you're just part of a bigger community
and something bigger than yourself.
And it's so cool to be connected to so many people.
- (FBE) Do you think this challenge is gonna blow up
to be as big as something like the Harlem Shake
and just be everywhere? - Maybe.
I feel like the Harlem Shake came and went
the same way as this is happening.
- Judging by how it's already on the news and the media,
I think it will probably be the next Harlem Shake.
- I don't know if it'll get Harlem Shake big.
The Harlem Shake was real big.
- No, because I don't think it's as fun to watch.
Like, I think watching anybody dance is very fun.
- It's just gonna die down.
Back then, there just weren't so many things.
Like, if it was one kind of original thing
and then now there's just so much
and you see so many things every day,
it's hard to pick one out and keep rolling with it.
- (FBE) Finally, you're gonna put together
your own Mannequin Challenge. - WHAT?! Okay.
- By myself? That's not fair.
- (FBE) But we're gonna have some FBE staff help you guys out.
- Oh, cool.
I'm down. Let's do it.
- Okay, let's go. Let's do it.
- ♪ Black Beatles in the city ♪
♪ Be back immediately ♪
♪ To confiscate the moneys ♪
♪ That girl is a real crowd pleaser ♪
♪ Small world, all her friends know of me ♪
♪ Young bull living like an old geezer ♪
♪ Quick-release the catch, watch it fall slowly ♪
♪ Frat girls still tryna get even ♪
♪ Haters mad for whatever reason ♪
♪ Smoke in the air, binge drinking ♪
- Thanks for watching this episode of Adults React.
- Let us know in the comments
what viral trend we should react to next.
- (stiffly) Hey, guys. Thanks so much for watching.
We appreciate the support.
- Hey guys, it's Kyle, associate producer here at FBE.
There are so many challenges out there.
We want to know which ones you guys like,
so we can get our reactors to react to them.
Let us know in the comments.
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