- That is disgusting!
- He's so adorable.
- Those ones were cute,
but the other ones are gross.
♪ (playful intro) ♪
- (FBE) So today, we are going to be showing you
a few videos about spiders. - Oh, no!
Why?
- Oh, great.
Now I get to have my arachnophobia kick in.
- Ew!
If you put a spider on this table, I will walk out.
- I'm not a fan of spiders.
They're also creepy.
- I don't hate spiders.
I don't have a phobia of them, but I don't like them.
- I don't like spiders.
Something with that many legs just could be evil.
- Oh my!
- Is that sand?
- Okay, what is it doing?
- Ew!
- Ew! Oh my goodness.
- Why is it covering itself with sand?
- Is it burying itself?
- Oh, look, it's just burrowing itself.
- It's sort of funny.
This isn't a black widow, so I'm fine.
- So gross. That's disgusting.
- I'm gonna stand back for the rest of the video,
just in case any of them jump to the camera.
- Oh mylanta! That is disgusting.
- It's hitting the camera. Oh my god.
- That is a little creepy.
- That's creepy.
- That one's a little bit more creepy
because it's close-up and I can see it.
- Ew! That's so gross.
- That is disgusting.
- That was nasty. (gagging)
Anything with eight legs is... ugh!
(spider tapping glass) - Oh goodness! No!
- (gasping) Oh, I got scared.
- What is it doing?
- Okay, it's trying to bite the camera.
- I think it wants to get out.
- It's trying to break free.
- Oh my gosh.
- This is creepy.
Is it gonna jump out?
- I don't like this. I don't like that at all.
- Oh my god!
- (gasping) Oh my gosh! This is Lucas the Spider.
- (gasping) Oh! It's Lucas the Spider.
- (Lucas) My name's Lucas. - (gasping)
- (Lucas) I have too many eyeballs. - What?
- (Lucas) I look around with all my eyeballs.
- His voice is cute, but it still looks gross.
- (Lucas) Okay, bye. - Aww.
That one was cute.
- I've seen that one. It's Lucas the Spider or something?
- It was cute.
I still have arachnophobia, but I'd say Lucas the Spider
is a spider that I won't pass, screaming my eyeballs off.
He's just a tiny little small ball.
He's adorable.
- (Lucas) I've been captured! - Aww.
- (Lucas) I was playing hide and seek and I ran up to him.
I was like,"Tag, you're it!" And-- (gasping) there he is.
(approaching footsteps) - (Lucas) He's looking at me.
- (gasping)
- (Lucas) Hi! - I love this.
He's so adorable.
- (Lucas) Now's my chance to escape!
- Oh jeez! That's funny.
- That one was really cute.
- I liked the voice of that.
I don't like these eyes or this stuff here.
- You just see a spider, you want to kill it,
but in cartoon, it looks cute.
- It's different because people are really afraid of spiders,
but then this one's just so cute and loveable.
- (Lucas) Oh, I found him. - (gasping) I love this one.
- (Lucas) He showed up about a week ago.
I don't know what he is, but I think it's a polar bear.
- Jeez!
- (Lucas) I'm gonna go boop him on the nose!
- Aww!
- Oh, no! He's gonna boop him.
- (Lucas) Boop! - Aww. My gosh.
- (Lucas) Aah, don't eat meeee!
- Oh my goodness. That's great.
- And that was the last we heard of that spider.
- That was adorable!
It's nice to see that.
- I think it's not so scary because I know it's not real
and it's just animated.
- But real spiders, they didn't irritate me,
but they weren't funny, and then the fake spider
was funny, but didn't irritate me at all.
- Those ones were cute, but the other ones were gross.
- (FBE) So those last three videos came
from the YouTube channel Lucas the Spider.
- Oh, that sounds like such a cute name!
- I think I've heard of that.
- Yeah, I've heard of it.
I've only watched about one video of it.
- (FBE) So spiders are scary to a lot of people.
A recent study shows that 30% of the U.S. population
has what is called arachnophobia.
- Yeah, the fear of spiders.
- (FBE) So several people online have actually been praising
Lucas the Spider, claiming that he's helped them
get over their fear of spiders.
Why do you think that people who are actually scared of spiders
might not be afraid of Lucas the Spider?
- Because it's animated, I guess.
- Who doesn't like a talking animal?
- Because it's animated, and animation, it's not as scary
as real life.
- Maybe because it's animated and most people with arachnophobia
can deal with that better than they could deal with
seeing a real spider.
- Since it's CGI animation, you can play with
the expressions and stuff.
And making the head unrealistically big,
which kind of give off that "Aww, it's so cute."
- In actual world, spiders are not cute.
They're ugly little creatures.
But Lucas the Spider is cute.
- He's just so adorable and I feel like all the things that make
spiders scary, like their long legs, he doesn't really have that.
It's like he has them, but they don't make it
a big part of him.
- (FBE) So the channel Lucas the Spider
only started uploading videos in November of 2017,
however, the channel's longest running video is 33 seconds,
and the channel has already reached 1 million subscribers
and has over 59 million combined views. - That's a lot.
- That is awesome!
- That's really good, especially if you're starting last year.
- (FBE) So why do you think the channel's gotten
so popular so quickly?
- Well, he's so adorable.
All people would love watching him.
- Everybody's scared of spiders, so if you see a cute spider,
then you want to keep on watching.
- A lot of people like animations.
It's adorable.
How could you possibly hate it?
- You can tell it isn't just for kids.
It's kind of like a Pixar thing, like it's intended--
it's mostly directed towards kids, but that doesn't mean
nobody else could watch it.
- It's not about how many videos or long they are.
I think it's what's in the videos.
It helps some people.
Some people think it's funny. Some people think it's cute.
And it's just fun to enjoy and watch.
- (FBE) So Lucas the Spider was created by
animator Joshua Slice after he saw a photo
of a small spider online that he thought was cute.
And so he started thinking about ways to make a spider cute enough
that even people who are scared of spiders
would say "Aww."
- It didn't let me say "Aww." It just made me creeped out.
- (FBE) Do you think that an animation like this
could actually make an impact on the way people
view spiders in the future? - No.
It wouldn't really change how I think of spiders,
but maybe other people, since it's not as scary,
and it's more cute.
- No!
Real spiders in real life are these ugly dead-eyed creatures.
- I think it would because his animated spider is very cute.
- Yeah, probably.
Most things that are intimidating, adding a personality into it,
it doesn't make it as intimidating.
- It has to do with him being a personality,
and even him just giving him a voice.
It helps people relate to the spider like it has a mind of its own,
why should I be afraid of it?
- (FBE) So finally, if you found Lucas the Spider
hanging around in your bedroom, what would you do?
- I would squish it.
- I would actually kill it. I don't like spiders.
I'd be like, "I don't care if you're cute.
You don't deserve to be here!"
- At first, I would say, "Who the heck are you?!"
And after that, I'd probably be okay with it.
- I'd probably pick him up and get him a cage
and make him my pet.
- Pick him up and kind of let him perch on my finger,
but if he crawls on me, I will take him off
and I will just kind of put him in a jar,
and I just want to see him just making his escape.
- I would be welcoming.
He's just so adorable, and I just love him.
- Thanks for watching this episode of Kids React.
- Shout-out to Party Sword for commenting last week.
- Make sure to subscribe and shout-out to Lisa Kazmier.
- Thanks for watching, bye.
- Hey, guys, Ethan here from FBE.
Thank you so much for watching this episode of Kids React.
If you want to check out more from Lucas the Spider's channel,
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Bye, guys.