♪ (ragtime music) ♪
- (man) This kid's definitely on crack right now.
- (boy) Hyah! Hyaaah!
- (man) This kid's definitely on crack right now.
- He's on crack right now?
- (boy) Hyaaah!
- (man) This kid's definitely on crack right now.
- (boy) Yah! Yaaah!
- He must have a lard head.
- (man) ...crack right now.
- Why does somebody keep repeating that?
- (boy) Yaaah! - Are these all different takes?
- Oh, I'm gonna be like I'm on crack if I see this one more time.
- (boy) Yaaah! - Peat and repeat.
- (man) This kid's definitely on crack right now.
- (chuckles)
Now, you don't really think that that kid is on crack.
- (man) This kid's definitely on crack right now.
- This kid is not very well cared for.
- He's got brain damage.
- (man) This kid's definitely on crack right now.
- Oh, what are you doing to me, you guys?
- Okay. Enough.
- This is how serial killers get started.
- Okay, are they torturing you
until you tell them to knock it off?
(snickers) Seriously?
- Why did you repeat that so many times?
(Finebros snicker) Why did you do that?
- Really kinda dumber than what you've shown me before. (laughs)
(movie reel clicks)
- (Finebros) Okay, so what did we just have you watch?
- An endless loop of a really not particularly great video.
- A little boy with a lard head.
- The basketball kept hitting his head,
and somebody kept accusing him of being on crack.
- Now you're gonna tell me that
that is the new thing with young people--
they like repetition and kids getting hit in the head.
- (Finebros) Well, obviously, this has to be popular,
otherwise we wouldn't be showing it to you.
- They're popular? There's people who are watching this?
- In my day, it was the Our Gang kids, you know,
with the dog and tying each other's shoelaces together.
And people thought that was funny.
- (Finebros) Why would a video of a kid
getting hit by a basketball and squealing be popular?
- Because we like to see people in pain that aren't us.
- Other kids think, "Wow, I wish I had a head like that."
- It's funny. It was clever.
- People are really obsessed with that kind of thing
that runs over and over and over again.
- 'Cause there's too many freaking stupid people out there
with too much time on their hands. Get off the computer, people!
- They don't look below the surface and see,
why would a child be that desperate for attention
that he would celebrate, I think, being harmed?
- You know what? I can usually get the kernel of what it is.
I have no clue.
- (Finebros) So this kid has a nickname online.
They call him the Crack Head Kid. - Crack Head.
Well, that's the way crack affects you, is in the head.
- I think it's suitable for him.
- Oh, that's lovely. That's just lovely.
- I wouldn't want to be stuck with that one.
(chuckling) That's a tough name.
- (Finebros) So this has become so popular
that people are remaking it and using the footage in new ways.
So we have a selection of videos to show you
of what people have been doing with the Crack Head Kid.
- (girl) Yaaah! Heh.
Yaaah! Heh.
- (man) Hey, you want to play some soccer?
- (boy) Yaaah!
- (laughs) - (man) Sorry, let's try again.
- (boy) Yaaah! - (laughs)
- (pirate) Are ya ready, kids?
- (boy) Yah!
- (pirate) I can't hear you!
- (boy) Yaaah! - Okay, that's...
- (pirate) Oh...
- ♪ Everybody say, "Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah" ♪
- (boy) Yaaah! - Oh boy.
- (sighs deeply)
- I still think the original was probably the funniest.
- (Finebros) So what are your thoughts that people
are spending their time to remake this in various ways?
- What are my thoughts? Is that they don't have a thought.
- Do I really have to answer that? You all know my answer.
Dumb! Stupid!
- We're all copycats, you know?
We see something we like and say, "Hey, we can do it better."
- It's funny to do a spoof of things,
and the spoofs that they do are hilarious.
- The remakes were more creative than the original,
so I don't have a problem with that.
- (Finebros) So this whole thing
has happened on the social network Vine,
which we've talked about before.
It's that social network where there's only six seconds of video.
Why do you think that format continues to yield popular videos,
when it's only six seconds at a time?
- I think most of the population can't think beyond six seconds.
- Well, it takes the same amount of time as sex. (laughs)
- I think six seconds is probably long enough
to get an idea or a message across.
- Any great song had a hook.
And in the song, you kept repeating the hook.
And that's what this is, I guess.
- I think having to present a story
or present something complete and understandable in six seconds
is amazing. That's great.
But couldn't you do something a little smarter?
- When I was a kid, I did stupid things, like kids do.
My daddy was a great filmmaker as a hobby.
And he put a 35 mm-- or in those days, it was 16--
in front of me, and I did the old crazy stuff.
So maybe our senses of humor from young to old
are perceived, what we see, a little differently.
- (Finebros) So one of the things that people enjoy about Vine
is that the six-second video, when you watch it,
it automatically is playing on a loop.
And that's why we showed you the first one
over and over and over again, because if you were watching Vine,
it would be looping, and people find that funny and enjoyable.
Do you agree? - No.
- They've got nothing else to do?
God, why don't they get drunk?
- The more times the kid got pounded with the ball,
the funnier it became.
- If it were something that cracked me up, it would kill me.
I'd probably do the same thing.
There's nothing like laughing until you're crying.
That's funny. You see something over and over.
- I suppose it's like a drug.
So it's doing something to their brain
so that they think it's better and better and better.
And like drugs, it's not.
- (Finebros) So back to the Crack Head Kid.
- Oh my god. Is he still with us?
- (Finebros) Do you think he's really on crack, or is this fake?
- Fake.
- Oh no, I don't think he was.
- No! (chuckles) Of course not.
- (Finebros) Well, do you think this kid has any real issues,
even if it's not drugs, and that maybe he's being exploited?
- It's possible.
- No.
- I don't think that six seconds
is gonna get you much exploitation.
- He's being exploited by whoever's throwing the ball.
- You don't get any clarity out of this six seconds.
So there's no way of knowing if he has an issue.
- Someone needs to hug that kid. And someone needs to tell him,
"You're special and you're loved, and you don't need to do
these kind of bizarre things to get attention."
- (Finebros) Do you think it is good that this kid at his age
is now becoming famous as the Crack Head Kid?
- No, I don't. I think that's really sad.
- It's unfortunate, but it'll pass.
- I think he's gonna regret it in years to come.
You can just see him writing that down on a résumé--
"I was the Crack Head Kid."
- (Finebros) Well, finally, we want you to impersonate
the Crack Head Kid's noise. - Oh please!
- (Finebros) This kid's definitely on crack right now.
- Yeah!
Yeaaaah!
- Yeah!
Yeah, yeah.
- Yah!
Yeah!
- Ya-ah!
Yaaaaah!
- Yeah!
Ye-a-a-a-ah!
- Yeaah!
Yeaaaah!
- Yah!
Yaaaaah!
- Yeahhh!
Yeahhhhh!
- Yah!
Yaaah!
- Yah!
Yaaaah!
- Goodbye. Thank god that's over.
- Let us know what videos we should react to next.
- We will see you next time. Bye!
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