- (gasps) What?! Oh, that's so fake.
- So, wait. That's fake?
What?! (laughs)
♪ (rock intro) ♪
- "Deadline today! It can be used in court cases,
in litigation against you. Everything you've ever posted
becomes public from today, even messages that have been deleted
or the photos not allowed. It costs nothing
for a simple copy and paste." - Every time I see this,
I'm like, "You guys are smarter this. Please. Come on."
- I'm kind of confused. Did someone make
a fake profile for him? - I've seen these!
I feel like every-- not trying to be mean,
but older person respost this, 'cause they think it's real.
- I saw so many people posting about this.
He even bolded the P after Instagram.
This person's obviously just trying to get some clout.
I feel like they just put a bunch of legal jargon in here,
and it made people get scared. - That's never true,
because I worked in cybersecurity for a long time. (laughs)
I know a good amount about what's not true,
which is most of the stuff on the internet.
- (FBE) We have more to show you in a second, but this was actually
a viral Instagram hoax from last year,
which duped celebrities from Rob Lowe to Tom Holland into believing
that Instagram was changing its policies to let anyone's post
or messages be public and used by Instagram.
- Oh! What?! - It just looks fake,
so it doesn't look official. It's bad. It's littered with mistakes.
- (FBE) In this episode, we're actually gonna be taking
a look at 10 viral posts from last year,
which all turned out to be fake, and we're gonna see
if you feel for any of these viral videos or stories in 2019.
- Dang. Oh, this is gonna be embarrassing.
It's so sad to be duped by fake stuff like that.
- Knowing me, I probably did. I probably fell for all of them.
♪ (light upbeat music) ♪ - What?!
- "It's difficult to melt." "Natural."
- Oh, the fake cheese! 'Cause it has plastic or whatever?
Oh yeah, it melts different. - Wait. Didn't you guys
do an episode on this? - (FBE) We did.
- Can you believe this?! - (FBE) Does it seem more natural?
- Yes. - I thought that was real.
Even watching the episode, I think I remember it being real.
- Have they never had a processed American cheese
grilled cheese? That stuff melts great.
- There's a weird thing, where we automatically assume
"processed" with bad, but what does that even mean?
- (FBE) So, this was actually a fake post that went around
the internet, which was showing how you could tell if your food
was unhealthy or fake, but the majority of the claims
that were in this video actually turned out to be false.
- Oh. - (FBE) So, for example,
the more processed cheese doesn't melt as quickly,
because there's actually less fat, not because it's processed.
- Ohhh, shoot. And this video's making it look
like it's made of plastic or something like that.
Oh my gosh! That's crazy. - Please just do your research
and not watch these videos and assume everything from one clip.
- (host) Now, to that influencer couple's engagement.
It's going viral on Instagram. Now, the elaborate proposal...
- I did hear about this, but I didn't follow along.
But I heard about the drama that it might've been fake.
- (host) ...has many people wondering if the surprise
was really just a stunt. - Most things on the internet
are stunts. - (host 2) The popular fashion
influencer took her nearly 200,000 followers along...
- I wanna throw up right now. - (host 2) 72-hour engagement...
- 72-hour engagement? - Oh, she has an ugly
Kim Kardashian cry. (laughs) - (host 2) ...as the hunt
for love unfolded, so did the shoutouts
to numerous brands. Many wonder... - Interesting.
- (host) ...if the whole thing was just staged.
- Wow! What the heck is wrong with people?!
- If they're using brands, someone had to coordinate it.
I've done many brand deals, and you know how many emails
it takes to lock down a brand deal? It's like 80 emails.
- (FBE) Earlier this year, an Instagram influencer
took her followers on an engagement scavenger hunt
through her Instagram Stories. She made it seem as though
her boyfriend planned this cross-country adventure,
which eventually flew her to Europe with her knowing
nothing of where she was off to next.
- Okay. - (FBE) But later, it was revealed
that she most likely made an itinerary of the adventure
and hoped to get brand deals along the way.
- That's so smart, though. It's just-- it looked too
high quality production, I guess. - It is what it is.
It's just good that they get called out.
- People are legit planning out their life now
for a brand deal. There's no legitimacy or realness.
Like... no, dude. Ugh. That's just gross to me.
♪ (upbeat music) ♪ - Oh my gosh!
"Starbucks for your best fur friend. Pupbucks."
(gasps) - (woman) Pupbucks is a new
concept store we're launching exclusively for dogs.
- (laughs) - (woman) We see how much
our customers love dogs. - That's the best thing in the world.
- (woman) We wanted to offer a Starbucks experience just for them.
- This already sounds like a joke. (laughs)
- (woman) The clientele is... a bit more unpredictable.
- Awww! Puppies and Starbucks. - (woman) Oh, but they do always come
when their name is called. - This is fake? (laughs)
- What date was this?
April 1st! (chuckles) - Come on! You can't believe anything
on April 1st. - Uh-huh, uh-huh.
4,000 retweets, 20,000 likes.
Nobody looked at the date that was posted. (laughs)
- I would totally believe this one. I mean, we do weird [bleep].
We do, like, goat yoga. - (FBE) So, this was actually
a viral April Fools' day post, as you have noticed,
from Starbucks last year. But, of course, with some people
kind of forgetting the day and seeing this video,
thinking they really want it to happen...
- And they got excited. - (FBE) ...they got all excited
until they saw their calendars. - (laughs) Yeah.
- I love how companies are utilizing social media
to just play jokes on people, to just have this fun beef
with other companies. It gives every company
more of a personality, really getting the internet heated up.
I love it. - "Where are the major
news outlets?" - I thought this was real!
- So, that was faked? - (FBE) So, the event is real.
- I was gonna say. I was like, "I'm pretty sure
I donated to that." - They look like stock photography.
- (FBE) So, the Amazon Rainforest fire was completely real.
But with lots of people trying to spread awareness
about the Amazon fires, there was a lot of misspread information.
So, this tweet actually has no accurate pictures
of the 2019 Amazon fire, and it was actually a bunch
of misspread images on the topic from different fires,
some reportedly even from California fires.
- Oh! I get that the event was real, but that's so weird
to just use photos that aren't even related to it.
- That's the thing. When research is not done
the correct way, you're discrediting things
with good causes.
- What is that? Like, some kind of ride?
- Oh, is this the thing where people drop
and then they, like, turn? - What is this horrible thing?
- What?! That's scary!
- They would've hit each other. - Whoa. That's pretty cool.
- (gasps) What?! Oh. That's so fake.
It looks like the roller coaster scene from Spy Kids 2, when they're, like,
juggling the kids. - It looks dope, though.
- You know roller coaster developers are like, "Hmm."
- Theme parks are already scared of getting sued.
You think they're just gonna let people drop and then spin 'em?!
- (FBE) This video went viral on Twitter, saying it was
a new roller coaster in China, but people were quick to point out
that this was a fake rendering of a coaster, which many would
have noted it'd be nearly impossible to
actually create due to its safety concerns.
- That's why-- I'm like, people are randomly falling
in different positions and locations. It doesn't make sense that they're not
hitting each other. - You have to the think
of the velocity of the wind and stuff too.
That's totally unsafe. (chuckles) I'll stick to the Disney version.
- (man) Back up! - ("Keanu") Chill.
- Oh, Keanu Reeves. - (man) Keanu Reeves?
- People thought that was real? - Wait, that's really him, though?
(chuckles) - ("Keanu") It looks like
you're struggling. - Look at this quality.
- (man) Come on! Hurry up! - This is obviously so fake.
- It's fake. (chuckles) It feels like a movie.
- ("Keanu") Whatever's in the register, I'll triple.
And then I'll match that to a charity of your choice.
- (laughs) - ("Keanu") ...I'll match that
to a charity of your choice. - Oh my god.
- Money! - (man 2) He's so nice.
- "He's so nice." - (laughs)
- Oh, god. The acting is just so bad.
No offense to Keanu, but totally not believable at all.
(laughs) - That's believable,
because people see him out all the damn time.
He's totally regular. He had to come closer
for me to tell that was not his body, but that was funny.
- (FBE) Well, this video was actually created
from the popular YouTube channel Corridor Digital.
- Oh! Yeah! I love them. - (FBE) And they created
a very realistic video of Keanu using deepfake technology.
But to many who stumbled upon the video, it seemed too crazy
to be true, which it was. - Yeah, yeah.
Deepfakes are a thing right now! You can literally render
anyone's voice, anyone's face even.
- That's so crazy. - I literally thought, okay,
it's like a joke. Okay, it's Keanu.
They're just doing a skit or something.
But it's not even him. (chuckles) That's so scary!
- What? - (people cheer)
- Ah! (laughs)
- (woman farts) - Oh my god.
- (woman 2) A boy! - Why? Why?!
(chuckles) I don't even wanna know if that's fake. That's just gross.
- Most of me believes it's fake, but in the world we're in, dude,
this could be legit. This could really be legit.
- It's the best gender reveal still of all time, and that's a fact.
(chuckles) That's not faked. - (FBE) So, you may have seen
this viral gender reveal from the end of 2019,
which was shared around social media like crazy, but it turns out
that the girl doing the reveal in the video is actually
a social media prankster. - That's so funny.
I think it's a really good parody of gender reveals, though,
because it's not something that I would put past people to do.
- Why would you even think to do that? That's so weird.
People all weird. - ♪ For all future... ♪
- Oh! Jake Paul wedding? - The biggest social media wedding.
- Uh-uh. Hard pass. - This was all a publicity stunt.
- Duh! Of course it was fake, you idiots!
- Oh, Jesus Christ. (headphones clatter)
- ♪ And I will be ♪ - I love how everyone's
just so into it, like, "Oh, this is so real." (chuckles)
- (fake cries) It's so magical! Ah!
I love a Hypebeast wedding.
- I remember seeing his Instagram post,
and he was like, "This caption's probably gonna be longer
than our marriage." And I was like, "What?"
- I, at first, thought it was real. Then I started realizing,
"Oh, maybe this is not real." And then, I'm like,
"Oh, that's on brand for them." - (FBE) So, the YouTubers Jake Paul
and Tana Mongeau got married last year,
but many believe it to be fake
as there was no real marriage license between the two, and the couple
has since split a few months after the wedding.
- Yeah. I mean, it was a cool collab basically.
- There is an integrity issue that I kind of have the problem with.
If they're gonna do it, they call themselves out
at the end of the video or, you know, not carry it on for so long.
- It's so easy to act on the internet.
It's just so sad, because their audience is so young,
so they think, like, "Oh!" They stan this couple,
this YouTube couple, but then it's not real at all.
I just don't get it, but whatever, if that's how you make your money.
- (laughs) "Big pimpin', Frederick Trump."
- "Donald Trump's grandfather was a German immigrant to the USA.
He was a pimp and a drug dealer, making a fortune running brothels
and opium dens." - "When police cracked down
on his criminal rackets, he escaped to Germany
only to be deported as a draft dodger and tax fraud."
- "This is the origin of the Trump fortune."
I don't believe that at all. - So ridiculous.
The story's just too much. At least come up with a better story.
But, of course, people thought it was real, right?
- (FBE) So, this was actually the most viewed piece
of fake news from 2019 on Facebook... - Wow, really?
- (FBE) ...with over 29 million views. - Ugh. Oh my god. Come on!
- (FBE) So, snopes.com has labeled this as mostly false,
stating that while there is anecdotal evidence that Trump
dabbled in prostitution, there's no proof that this has
made up the bulk sum of his fortune.
- Yeah. Especially with Trump, anything that has to do with him
I feel goes viral. - Anyone can create
a fake origin story about anyone.
Without real evidence, you just know it's not real.
- I don't see why making up fake news stories about his origin
has anything to do with him. Why would it matter
what his grandfather did? I'm pretty sure my great grandfather
was in the mafia. (chuckles) Like, I'm not in the mafia.
♪ (ominous music) ♪
- (FBE) After looking through all of these viral posts
which turned out to be fake, what advice would you give
to not fall for the fake posts or news stories coming up
in 2020 and beyond? - Look in the comments.
That's all you have to do. (chuckles) - Check your facts.
Google is your best friend. - Verify, verify, verify,
and then verify again. And don't give anybody
your social security number or your money.
- Don't worry about the messenger. Worry about the actual message.
A lot of times, if it's your favorite artist
or you stan them, they could say any random thing,
and you're like, "Oh, it has to be true,
'cause I like them, so..." You gotta be honest with yourself.
- Take a moment before you just believe it
and go into a spiral of just believing the lies,
because it's sad, but so much on social media is fake,
so you really just have to be cautious.
- Thanks for watching this episode of Adults React.
Shoutout to Emilee Brewer. - Did you fall for any
of these viral hoaxes? Let us know in the comments.
- Bye, everybody! - Hey, everybody.
Lauren, producer here at FBE. Thank you so much for watching
this episode. Make sure you follow us
on Twitter, @fbe, where you can come and talk to us,
let us know what you think about this video,
and so much more. Bye, everyone!