- This is so good and mean, and I love it.
- She's losing her [bleep], dude!
♪ (industrial intro) ♪
- (Justin) If the tiniest bit of evidence will make us
believe the unbelievable, what would I have to show someone?
- Oh, is this the magic thing? - Oh my god. Is this the magic show?
- (Justin) What would I have to show someone to make them
believe the impossible? To find out, I set up an experiment.
- This is like these weird social experiments.
- (Justin) You guys are gonna help me convince a dude that he's invisible.
- I love magic! - Is this the fake disappearing trick?
Ah! - There's this trend going around
of the invisible prank. - Everyone's been doing it now
to [bleep] with their siblings. - (Justin) Mike, you're gonna
do something really important. No matter what the person does,
this audience is gonna pretend they cannot see them.
- I saw this online. This guy was losing it.
- (Justin) And it wasn't long before we had a taker.
- Ah, so they're pranking him. Okay.
- See, this is the best kind of prank, because it doesn't hurt anyone
or do anything. It's just silly.
- (Justin) Let's make him invisible on the count of three. One...
- (Justin and audience) Two, three! - (audience gasps and cheers)
- I wanna actually know how they did that.
- (audience gasps and cheers)
- (laughs) Same. - (Justin) And Johnathan
is now a believer. You ready?
- I would be, too! - (Johnathan) No.
- Oh, I see what they're doing.
- Wait, where's he gonna go?
- (Justin) Invisible on the count of three.
One... - (Justin and audience) Two, three!
- (audience exclaims) - (laughs) This is so awesome.
- This is so good and mean, and I love it.
- (Justin) They did not vanish. You cannot see them or hear them.
- Oh, they're selling it. - (Justin) And now for the fun part.
(phone ringing) Shoot. I'm sorry.
This will just take one minute.
- His reaction is also the best, 'cause he's so genuinely startled.
- (woman 1) Are you ready? - (woman 2) Yeah. (laughs)
- (woman 1) One, two, three. (camera shutter clicks)
- Wow. They planned the photo! - He's tripping out!
I mean, honestly, this prank's in good fun.
- (man) I'm saying there's some kind of gate.
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(laughs) That's immediately what I would do, though.
- If I turned invisible, the first thing I would do is steal.
- (woman 1) Whoa. - I'm upset with how much
I'm enjoying this. - (Justin) One, two, three!
Yeah! - (audience cheering)
- Oh my god. (chuckles) Oh my god.
- (chuckles) He's like, "I'm back, bitches."
- (Justin) That was wild!
- (chuckles) That was so funny. That was so pure.
I love just pure, funny content.
- How much of an idiot did this guy feel like afterwards, though?
Because I'd feel like a buffoon.
- (FBE) So, that was a scene from the Netflix show,
"Magic for Humans." - Okay. This has actually
kind of piqued my interest. - (FBE) The clip of that magic trick
by Justin Willman went viral and spawned a challenge
where people are convincing others that they're invisible.
- I've seen people do it with their little brothers and stuff.
- (FBE) We have a few of those to show you now starting with someone
you may recognize. - I love this.
- (David) Today, I'm gonna be posting the full version
of making Vardan invisible. All right, here we go.
- Hey, David! - I just watched
this David Dobrik one. - (man) Okay, hold on one second.
You ready? Shi-mi-kom-ah-taj ee-ra...
- I love how the parents are in on it.
- (David) Noo! - (woman) Oh my god!
Oh my god, stop! David!
- It's a little bit mean, but I love it.
- Oh my gosh. - I wanna do this with my friends now
and my family. - (Vardan, emotional) David, I'm here.
- (David) Vardan, take a picture. Vardan, take a picture!
- (Vardan cries)
- (snickers) He's freaking out.
- This is so traumatizing for this little boy.
- Either the kid's in on it and this is a great joke,
or he's not and they're just dicks
at this point. - (David) Oh my gosh!
- (Vardan, panicked) David! David! - (David) Oh my god!
- I love that they're setting up the photo.
That is so brilliant.
- (chuckles) Oh no! - This is so funny, it's sad.
- Why are you sad that you're invisible?!
That's a superpower, bro! You're an X-Man now!
- (man) Bra-ka-taj-fee-ma! - (laughs)
Wow, I really love this. - (David) Vardan, Vardan.
Can I tell you something? We saw you the entire time.
- (all laugh) - He's such a good sport.
- (David) How was that? - (Vardan) I feel amazing.
- (David) Yeah? - (Vardan) But at the same time,
I was so scared, 'cause no one could hear me.
- (David) Yeah, except we could all hear you, Vardan.
- It's like, "I don't know where I was,
but I couldn't see myself!" - I love that he still doesn't get it.
That's the best part. - That touched my heart.
It made me laugh. It made me cry.
It made me feel really bad. But it was all in good fun.
- I saw this one, too. I've just been going through
threads and threads of these.
- (woman squealing) He's not there. - He doesn't care.
- He's like, what do you mean?
- (woman speaking Spanish)
- They're going straight for the photo.
I love that the photo is part of the bit.
- (laughs) You can't do that as a kid, so now it's like,
"Oh, they can't see me?" - (woman) Oh my gosh!
- (laughs) His eyes. Do you see his eyes get all wide?
- (laughs) - (boy screams)
(boy screams) - (laughs)
- (woman) Do you hear anything? No, huh?
- Why is everyone's initial reaction negative?
I'd be like, "My sister's a [bleep] wizard!"
- I guess kids don't like being invisible.
That's so funny, because when I was a kid,
I always wished I was invisible. - (Makayla) One...
two... three! (gasps) - (man) Oh!
- (woman laughs) - (man) Holy crap.
- I like how these kids don't believe it at first.
At that age, I would've been losing it.
- (mom) Are you in here?! - (Ava) Mom! Mom!
- (mom) Oh my god! - The mom is selling it.
- I am surprised at how many people are just amazing actors.
- (Makayla) Come sit down. - Ohh.
- (woman) Oh my god! - (Makayla and Ava scream)
- She's losing her [bleep], dude! - She's freaking out. Noo.
- They're so hysterical. Jesus Christ!
- (man) Tell her. Tell her. - That one didn't go as planned.
They couldn't follow that one through.
- See, this one hurts, 'cause she was genuinely so scared,
but it's still funny. - Is this bad that this is so funny?
I feel a little guilty.
- I don't know why they're taking it so seriously.
It's just so obviously not real.
- (woman) Shannelle, Typhell, Shandra. - (laughs) They just said
a bunch of names. - (woman laughs and squeals)
- (boy) What?
What?
- (snickers and laughs)
- He's just starting at them, like, "What's going on?" (chuckles)
- (woman) Take a picture! David, sit down next to me.
- He still think it's funny. He doesn't realize he's invisible yet.
- He's... oh and then the tears. They always happen every time.
No one's ever happy about being invisible.
- (David) Oh, what the heck!? What... - See? Ahh.
It's, like, I don't know how far is too far at this point.
- Now, that girl, though, started making eye contact directly
with the boy, so that would've given it away.
- They didn't even do it well, and he still fell for it.
That's just... just a gullible child.
- I think it's almost concerning that they think it's so real.
- (men speaking foreign language)
- Ah, are they gonna do it to the grandpa now, too?
- Memes are international!
- (men exclaiming) (speaking in foreign language)
- I hope he believes it.
- They're gonna give him a damn heart attack.
- (men speaking in foreign language)
- That's a good picture.
- (laughs)
- (men speaking in foreign language)
- (laughs) - Like, "Oh, you don't see me?
Let's see if you feel me." (laughs)
- (giggling) Don't [bleep] with Pops, dude!
- Oh, god. This is tearing families apart, man.
- I can't tell if that's an, "I'm invisible,
so I'm gonna do whatever I want" or a "I know you're [bleep] with me
so I'm gonna do whatever I want."
- It's amazing how this has just spread
to so many different kinds of cultures and people
that all think this is so funny.
- (FBE) So, this prank is being referred to
as the Invisible Prank Challenge. And as you saw,
these videos are all making attempts to family members and others
to convince people that they're invisible.
- It's so simple. It's perfect.
- (FBE) Some of these videos have hundreds of thousands
if not millions of views. - Really? It's already popping off.
- (FBE) What do you think it is about this challenge that's made
everybody, all these YouTubers and stuff, wanna get involved?
- I think one is just that it's hilarious.
I think secretly everybody loves magic,
and this is something that you can easily do.
- 'Cause it's fun to see how gullible people you know are,
especially kids. - It's more of a challenge
for yourself to see if you're able--
if you and your family or your friends are able to pull it off
and make that person who's clearly there
think that they're not there.
- (FBE) So, many people have been attempting this,
and as you saw, some of the kids are not having fun.
- Ah, they're not having fun THEN, but I'm sure when they show them
the video, I'm sure they laugh at themselves.
- The more distance I have from it, the more I think, wow,
that's really messed up actually.
- (FBE) Some have even mentioned that this might not be the best thing
for the kids themselves and could be, you know,
potentially give them an existential crisis.
- Oh my gosh. I bet.
- (FBE) Do you think it's okay to try this with the kids?
- (sighs) Look, I'm not a parent. I wouldn't do it if I had a kid,
because I wouldn't want them to hate me for some reason
that comes out later once they're in college.
- It's okay to do it as long as you're there
and supportive afterwards. - This isn't that big of a deal.
There are other things kids that kids experience
that are much worse and more traumatizing
than this challenge. - No kid is sheltered that much
that they're gonna be this perfect specimen
when they come out into adulthood. This is so innocent and fun
that I don't think this is detrimental.
- (FBE) When kids are asked about superpowers,
many say that the one that they want the most
is the power of invisibility. So, why is it that when kids
do become invisible, most of them are not happy about it?
- 'Cause they're not ready for it. They're wishing for something
that they're not entirely sure about how it would work.
- I think partially because they can't control the power.
If you had to go through the rest of your life being invisible,
that [bleep] would get annoying. - Everybody wants to be loved
and respected. And you can't get love or respect
without being in someone's life.
And for them to just be erased like that, that's terrifying.
- (FBE) Well, finally, you know, you saw a little bit of the challenge
and you know where it originated, how it works.
- Mm-hmm. - (FBE) Do you think that you
will try to pull this prank on your friends or family members?
- No, 'cause they would kill me. - If I made any
of my family invisible, they wouldn't care.
They'd just be like, "You're in the way of the TV."
- (laughs) I'm gonna try this on my little brother when I get home.
- If I had a little sister or something,
I would totally go for it.
- I would hope that I would try to do it
and my family wouldn't be gullible enough to fall for it.
But I'm gonna try it and if they do fall for it
and if they are gullible,
I'm gonna hold it over their head forever.
- Thanks for watching this episode of College Kids React.
Shoutout to doge boyy and Lay K.
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