- Well because I don't live with my parents
and I don't live in Malaysia, right?
So I get added in a lot of like WhatsApp groups-
- Yeah - with my relatives back home.
You have a WhatsApp group is a family probably, right?
Just your family?
- Yeah, well with my family and my uncle's family,
so it's like eight people or something.
- Eight people!
Okay, wow... - Yeah.
- Both my parents come from like really big families.
So, I got added in this WhatsApp group with 101 members-
- Are you serious?!
- and just relatives on my dad's side.
Only my dad's side!
And I scrolled through it,
I don't recognize like 80% of the people
and I'm pretty sure
there are a few dead people in there too.
- No way! - I have a few relatives
that passed away this year
and I'm pretty sure their numbers are still in there
and you can still text them, you know?
- Nigel, that's so funny.
Why are there so many? - I'm sure if you scroll back,
if you get a scroll back far enough
you can see their last message to the world.
Can you imagine? (Nigel laughing)
- That's so sad! - Can you imagine,
can you imagine if your last message to the world was a GIF!
- That's so sad! (both laughing)
- What was John's last words?
It's a dog on a skateboard! (both laughing)
- And then immediately after, he had a heart attack.
- Yeah. (both laughing)
- That's so sad! - And the sad thing is,
because I'm a GIF now...
If you go to on WhatsApp and search through GIFs
Nigel Ng, Uncle Roger you can see tons of things!
- Oh my God! Oh my God.
- So, I will be some people's last words you know?
Just me saying, "Hiyaa."
- That's so funny Nigel!
I'm gonna search now.
- Yeah, search it! I got tons of GIFs!
- But then, why are you guys so many?
How did this get out of hand?
- It's a big family! My dad has 12 siblings!
- Oh, wow.
- And then like, they all have like four or five kids each.
You can see how it grows!
Some people I meet and I'm like,
"Have I, have we met before?"
And nobody knows because we probably met before one time
ages ago at a big dinner
and then we just lost touch for like 10 years.
And then anywhere I live, every time I move,
I moved to Chicago and my dad would be like
"Oh yeah, my, my brother's second uncle's son lives there."
- Yeah, yeah, yeah. - And if that moved again,
"Oh yeah, yeah, yeah!
My nephew's a second cousin lives there,
you should get in touch!" No!
I have nothing in common with you fucks!
Okay?
- Well, that's really Asian, that's really Asian,
and also like, I remember when I was moving to London
my mom was like, "Yeah, call your dad's cousin!"
I'm like, "Why?"
She's like, "She's lived in London,
so you guys could talk about it!"
I'm like, "I really, I don't need to...
What are we going to talk about?"
- Yeah.
- Like, what are we going to talk about?
- "Hey, so you lived in London before?"
Uh, yeah...
"So, my mom said we should get in touch!"
- Yeah, exactly! (both laughing)
That's so Asian! (both laughing)
It's like as if they think that somehow they can help
or something, I don't know what it is.
- Yeah....
I have tried to leave my 101 person "WhatsApp" group.
I keep getting added back in
because they will send something about Uncle Roger
and they'll be like, "Oh, uncle Roger's been deleted!
Is he in the group? Is he in the group?
Is he in the group? Oh no, he's not!
Let somebody add him! Somebody add him."
And then I just get pulled back in.
So now just have the group notification on mute for a year.
WhatsApp, you can mute for eight hours,
one day or a year, right? - Yeah, or a year.
- So, I muted it for a year. - That's so funny.
But it's so...
- It's too much! It's too much.
Sometimes they can get in to arguments, you know?
Some people will be arguing about Hong Kong, and democracy,
and police brutality and stuff.
I'm like, "Holy shit, I don't need this."
And sometimes it's memes, sometimes it's memes.
- Sometimes it's memes. I mean honestly,
like in my family WhatsApp group it's only memes,
and I think I'm so lucky
because my mom has eight siblings as well
but they don't get along.
So, that's why we don't have a WhatsApp group!
- That's great. I wish, I wish I had that.
- Oh, it's so funny.
- They're all over the world too so it's 24/7,
an onslaught of messages.
Some Australians wake up,
then the Americans wake up and then yeah...
- They must be really excited about Uncle Roger, right?
Yeah, I keep getting people asking me for shit.
You know, "Oh, so we're at a hospital
and we're doing this thing.
Can you send a voice message in?
Can you sent a message in
saying hi to the hospital children?"
No, no, buy it! I have "Cameo", buy it!
- It's your family!
- It's 101 people! (Evelyn laughing)
I will not have time for anything!
- That's so funny!
Yeah. Possibly out of 101 people,
a few of them aren't your relatives at all.
- I think they probably added a few random,
like wrong numbers.
- Yeah, yeah. - And their like,
"Are they my relatives? I guess they are,
we're all Asian, I guess so."
- And then their like,
"Oh my God, I'm in a WhatsApp group with Uncle Roger!
Let's ask him for stuff!"
That's so funny!
- I'm sure there are also like wives who have been divorced
who are still in that group!
- Yes, they're still in there!