Rickey Thompson: Hello I'm Rickey Thompson.
Denzel Dion: And I'm Denzel Dion and we're going to see which one of these viral videos
gets our cosign.
Rickey Thompson: Yup.
Denzel Dion: I started making videos in 2014 just to see
if I was going to be funny online, because I know I'm funny in person.
I just wanted to see how it translated online.
Rickey Thompson: I've been doing videos since 2013.
I was just really bored in high school.
I had nothing else to do and I really wanted to showcase my talent to the world.
I mean I just knew since that day I was like, "Okay.
I'm about to be a star."
So I just knew.
Denzel Dion: See, yeah.
But I always knew before social media I'm going to be a star.
Period.
Point blank period.
Rickey Thompson: But this gave you a little bit of hype.
Denzel Dion: It gave me a boost.
Yeah I wasn't born to be regular.
I wasn't born into regular.
Rickey Thompson: I came out shining.
Denzel Dion: Shining star.
Rickey Thompson: What makes a viral video is visuals, I feel like.
People are so obsessed with visuals.
Denzel Dion: People are obsessed with visuals.
Rickey Thompson: So obsessed.
That's like the first thing that you watch a music video, you think what?
The visuals.
Denzel Dion: Okay.
Okay.
It matches the beat.
Rickey Thompson: Oh.
Denzel Dion: Okay.
Okay.
Rickey Thompson: Oh my gosh.
Denzel Dion: Do you still like it? Rickey Thompson: No.
Denzel Dion: I don't like it.
Rickey Thompson: Animal abuse.
Oh.
Denzel Dion: Oh my God.
You see this is ... You see.
Rickey Thompson: Oh my God.
Oh my gosh.
Denzel Dion: No I'm not into this at all.
Rickey Thompson: No I don't like it.
Denzel Dion: Oh my God.
Rickey Thompson: Who is this?
Denzel Dion: Who's grandmother?
Rickey Thompson: See I love this though.
This is nice.
Denzel Dion: Something's about to happen.
Something's...
Rickey Thompson: Watch him turn into the bird.
Oh.
Rickey Thompson: Swedish.
Denzel Dion: Of course.
Now this makes sense.
Rickey Thompson: Now this makes sense.
So Swedish.
Rickey Thompson: It's like ...
Denzel Dion: It's too much.
Rickey Thompson: The animals-
Denzel Dion: The animals.
Rickey Thompson: ... is what messed me up at first.
Denzel Dion: Hitting people's heads is just ... It's too gory for me.
It's too gory.
Rickey Thompson: You know what?
Denzel Dion: I don't like it.
Rickey Thompson: I don't like it.
It's the kids.
Denzel Dion: I don't like it.
Rickey Thompson: Because Ariana Grande you think sexy, and then you see the children.
Denzel Dion: Yeah.
Denzel Dion: They're talented.
Rickey Thompson: They are talented.
It's just not ...
Denzel Dion: No.
Denzel Dion: I would never.
Denzel Dion: I mean the video and everything is fine, just not them singing the song.
But it's cute though.
For kids.
Rickey Thompson: It's cute.
Denzel Dion: It's Kidz Bop.
Rickey Thompson: It's cute.
Yeah.
It's for Kidz Bop.
Denzel Dion: Very, very Nickelodeon.
It's not like Ariana Grande's video, but they did the best they could.
Denzel Dion: They tried.
Rickey Thompson: I heard about him.
Denzel Dion: What's his name?
Rickey Thompson: Oliver something.
Rickey Thompson: I like it.
I like it.
Denzel Dion: I need to hear.
Rickey Thompson: I like it.
I like it.
Denzel Dion: I need to hear it.
Damn.
Rickey Thompson: If you heard this at a festival, you would go off.
I would go off.
Denzel Dion: I mean I would go off because just, we’re in a festival, but would I download
this and play this while I'm driving my car, no.
Rickey Thompson: I would.
Denzel Dion: Would you really?
Rickey Thompson: I honestly like it.
Denzel Dion: I don't hate it.
But it's not something I play on daily.
Rickey Thompson: I love it.
I love the awe, destruction.
You know if you're really going through a rough day you just can play this and just can...
Denzel Dion: No day can get rough for me to be doing this.
Rickey Thompson: You know I've had days I'm like ... I want to go off.
Denzel Dion: My days are perfectly fine.
Rickey Thompson: I feel like the reason why I like this is because before people were
afraid to act like this and now people just want to act up and I like this.
Denzel Dion: People have always been acting up.
Rickey Thompson: Not crazy, crazy like this.
Denzel Dion: Yes like this.
Rickey Thompson: Like he is crazy and I like it.
Rickey Thompson: I love Childish Gambino.
Denzel Dion: I do too.
He was so good at Coachella.
Denzel Dion: I love their chemistry.
I love their chemistry.
I love the way ...
Rickey Thompson: It wasn't like very forced chemistry.
Denzel Dion: Forced.
It was very natural.
Rickey Thompson: Very natural.
Denzel Dion: Very second nature.
Rickey Thompson: Maybe she's like, "Oh my God he's so goofy."
Denzel Dion: I like the way he moves.
I like his mannerisms and stuff.
Rickey Thompson: Look.
She's like, "Whatever."
Denzel Dion: Like, "Boy bye."
Rickey Thompson: So cute.
Denzel Dion: We need to watch this.
Rickey Thompson: We need to.
Denzel Dion: I love the way he walks.
I love everything about him.
Rickey Thompson: I love that he's so goofy.
I love that.
Denzel Dion: This is very childish.
But then I get they don't want to make it very serious, because no one's going to listen
to something that looks very serious.
Rickey Thompson: But I mean back in the day, We Are The World.
Denzel Dion: But that's icons.
Those are the legends.
Rickey Thompson: These are all people in the music industry that are big.
Ariana Grande, Justin Beiber.
Denzel Dion: But then you had Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie.
Rickey Thompson: Okay.
But at that time, and now we have this time.
Rickey Thompson: We could have a modern-day We Are The World and this is what they wanted.
Like this ... I don't want this.
Denzel Dion: I know.
Denzel Dion: But this is good though.
This is good.
Rickey Thompson: It's good that it's talking about the ... yeah.
Denzel Dion: Yeah for the new generation.
This is good.
Rickey Thompson: I keep forgetting the generation below us.
Denzel Dion: The new generation below us.
No it's not for us.
Rickey Thompson: You're right.
Denzel Dion: So I'm fine with it.
Rickey Thompson: I just feel like with a song like this, if you're trying to let people
know we need to change the world, you need to make it-
Denzel Dion: I feel like it should be way more serious.
Rickey Thompson: That's what I'm saying.
Denzel Dion: But not too serious, but to a point-
Rickey Thompson: I feel like it shouldn't be animated.
I think it should be more serious.
Denzel Dion: because you see, this video would have been wild to me if I saw everybody together.
I would be like, "What are all y'all doing together?
I want to see what you guys are doing."
But since it's like this ... I did see, like I always check on the trending topics on Twitter.
I did see this happen.
But then I saw the cartoon and swiped right back.
I said, “okay.”
Rickey Thompson: Yeah.
See?
Denzel Dion: Overall?
Rickey Thompson: Everybody gave something different.
Denzel Dion: Everybody gave something way different.
Everything was very different.
There was some pops and some flops.
Denzel Dion: The first video is really still ...
Rickey Thompson: Yeah I keep thinking about that.
Denzel Dion: I'm going to think about that all day.
Rickey Thompson: I’m just thinking about all ... yeah.
Denzel Dion: Every time I see a horse-
Denzel Dion: ... or a Panda I'm going to be like "Oh my God."
Rickey Thompson: Or a lion.
I think of a woman hitting it.
It was ... yeah.
Denzel Dion: After watching all these videos, the artist that gets our cosign is Donald
Glover and Rihanna.
Rickey Thompson: There you go.
Denzel Dion: Guava Island.
She did it.
Rickey Thompson: Mm-hmm.
Rickey Thompson: We love it
Denzel Dion: It was a no brainer.
Rickey Thompson: Very simple.
Denzel Dion: Very simple, very cute.
Very nice.
And it showed that you don't have to do anything too crazy to get a good response.
Rickey Thompson: Right.
The song was good.
Denzel Dion: Yeah.
Everything was good.
Rickey Thompson: After watching the video it made me feel good too.
Rickey Thompson: I love a music video that makes you feel good.
Denzel Dion: When it first started we were like...
Rickey Thompson: “Oh they’re cute."
Yeah.
Denzel Dion: It was very nice.
Rickey Thompson: Yes.
You know?
You get real angry, you just want to ...
Denzel Dion: I have never been that angry in my life to do such things.
Rickey Thompson: Really?
You never ... okay.
You coming back from school and somebody did you dirty one day and you're like ... You
get angry.
Denzel Dion: Sweetie, you know me.
If somebody ...
Rickey Thompson: Well you ... You would throw them hands.
Denzel Dion: I don't have time to go home to hit things.