- Ohh!
What a little savage. - (FBE) Pause.
- Oh... (laughs) Nooo!
♪ (industrial intro) ♪
- (Woody) Pause. - (Kleiny) No! No!
- Oh, god. What? - Oh, I've seen these!
- Oh, is this the Pause Challenge? - (Woody laughs)
- That's messed up. - Why do people love
making messes on the internet? - I love these guys.
- (Woody) Unpause, unpause.
- (Kleiny) I can't believe ya. - Woody and Kleiny
or something like that? - So much orange juice wasted,
but I also think it's kind of funny. - This is just Click, the movie.
(chuckles) Just low budget Click. - (boy) Daddy.
- (dad) Yeah? - (boy) Pause.
- Oh, never give children power! - Ohh, okay.
I get it. It's like a remote control thing.
- Ohh! What a little savage.
- I would get away with murder with this.
- (boy) Unpause! - You're grounded! (laughs)
- It's so wholesome and so sweet. Yet, at the same time,
you could do so much evil with this challenge. I love it.
- I literally have "Commit to the bit" tattooed on my foot,
so I have a huge appreciation for everyone that's participating
in this. It's the letters CB. It's not "commit to the bit."
CB! - (off-screen man) Pause.
- Oh, they're doing it even in Bolivia.
- Oh, no! On the escalator. - I know where this is headed.
- Oh, no. - Oh, okay! He fell.
Womp, womp, womp. So, you just pause people,
and then you torture 'em.
That's so fun! I love friendship.
- It's kind of like the Floor is Lava Challenge,
where people got really into it. But if I'm gonna hurt myself,
I'm not playing this stupid game. - (Kat) Pause.
- Oh, it's a Tik Tok. - (Evie) Mama.
- (Kat chuckles)
- (Evie) Mommy! Mommy! - Aww.
They can't come in. - (girl off-screen) Evie, come on.
- I'd be the [bleep] up friend that'd just say pause
and then just never unpause the person.
- Let her in! - (Kat laughs)
- That one was cute. That one was harmless.
- I like all of the businesses that have to deal with this [bleep].
They're just like, "COME IN!"
- What? At airport security? - (woman off-screen) Pause.
- Not at TSA. - If you commit to that,
that's just jail. - Okay, how do you not get thrown out
of the airport at that point? - (woman off-screen) Unpause.
- That's awful! (laughs) - If I'm the person behind you
in line just trying to get through check-in so I can get
on my flight and go where I need to,
and you pause somebody, I'm fighting you.
♪ ("Moonlight Sonata") ♪ - (man off-screen) Pause!
- No way! - (man-off-screen) Pause!
- (man off-screen) Pause! - (chuckles)
They're doing so good! - 'Cause it's a pu--
he can pause with the little paws!
- (man off-screen) Pause. - So cute!
- ♪ Who let the dogs out? ♪ - (man off-screen) Unpause!
- Can I watch this on a loop for 10 days? Awww!
- (man off-screen) Unpause. - (man off-screen) Unpause!
- Aww. I wanna teach my dog that now.
- It sucks that a dog is better trained than I am.
If someone did that, I'd be like, "What?
Wait. What do we do? What? Wha-- oh, sorry."
- (gasps) Oh, puppy! - (man in gray) Pause.
- Oh, that's the worst. His arms must be dying right now.
- (man in gray) Guppy, you want one? (laughs)
- That's messed up. - But then they're teasing
the dog, 'cause then she can't get out.
- Poor puppy, though. Just give him the treat!
- That was Aaron Wassabi, right? Yeah! See, I know.
His dog's cute! The cutest!
- (girl off-screen) Mom. Mom.
Pause. - (snickers)
- (girl off-screen) Pause. - (laughs)
Literally, I think my mom would do that, though.
- The fact that people are actually bringing remote controls with them
out in public is so funny to me.
- (FBE) We have more to show you in a second, but that was
a new trend called the Pause Challenge.
Unpause. - Oh. Sorry.
- (FBE) When diving into the research for this challenge,
we found that there were other pause challenges
going back on Instagram and Tik Tok, some from a while back
and some from more recently. So, we have some more of those
to show you now. - Oh, okay.
- ♪ Smile for the camera ♪ (camera shutter clicking)
♪ Next! ♪ - Oh, it's a dumb song challenge?
- Yeah, this is completely different. - I don't get it.
That was nothing like the other pause challenges.
- That's awful. That's a way worse pause challenge.
- ♪ Smile for the camera ♪ - Oh, this is so cringy.
- (snickers)
- (laughs) - Oh, that Thrasher tee, though.
Oh! I'm being mean to kids. I shouldn't.
- Who told him that was okay? - There was more creativity
in the other ones. I don't like these.
- ♪ Goin' on you with the pick and roll ♪
- He's staying so still. - (snickers)
- Love it. Love it. Love it.
Nice. That's what we like to see. - That was actually pretty good.
That's how you could do it. You gotta be creative.
- ♪ Yo, goin' on you with the pick and roll ♪
♪ Young La Flame, he in sicko mode ♪
- Okay. - Sailor Moon.
- Oh, heck yeah. - (laughs)
That's so good. - That was kinda wei--
that took a turn. That was weird.
- Aww, I thought he was gonna do the full Sailor Moon intro,
where you spin around and you do your thing.
- ♪ Hey, hey, hey, oh! ♪ ♪ Stop! ♪
- Wait a minute. - You're gonna have to wait
a full minute. - All right, that one is more
like the other pause challenges that you first showed me.
- That was clever. That was creative.
- As much as I don't really like Tik Tok,
I do kind of like that people are taking their different turns
and sort of originality on it. - ♪ Hey, hey, hey oh! ♪
♪ Stop! ♪
- Oh! Oh, what's he doing?
- Oh, d-- oh, it's crazy! They have no idea what's going on!
- ♪ Wait a minute ♪ - (chuckles)
Now they're married. - Imagine [bleep] proposing
to your girlfriend for a [bleep] Tik Tok.
[Bleep] outta here. - ♪ Hey, hey, hey, oh! ♪
♪ Stop! ♪ - He's gonna push him
into the water. - Oh!
Oh, no. - Okay, this is a full commit.
- No! - ♪ Wait a minute ♪
- Nooo! Oh, he didn't even fall in.
That was the punchline. - They're wholesome. They're funny.
It shows how creative people can be with these things.
And it shows that people know how to stand still
a lot longer than I can,
so I'm very impressed by all of these. (chuckles)
- (FBE) So, as you saw earlier, there were different pause challenges
popping up across several social media platforms.
Which variation was your favorite? - My favorite-- I think I really like
the last ones when they were taking songs, especially that says
pause or just stop the music and what they can do from that.
- Definitely the remote control one. - The one with the remotes,
'cause that's more for me. It's not a children's app.
- Ahh! I honestly-- I think I liked the Travis Scott one a lot.
That one's fun, because I think you can
do different kind of surreal things
in between all those pauses.
- (FBE) So, we've seen similar challenges like this before,
where the premise has to do with suddenly freezing.
The most famous is probably the 2016 Mannequin Challenge...
- Mm-- oh, that's right. I forgot about that.
- ...in which people remained frozen like mannequins
while Rae Sremmurd's "Black Beatles" track
was playing in the background. So, what is it about these types
of freezing challenges that people seem to like
to take part in? - I guess people just like
to turn into statues for a little bit.
Oh, you're with these group of people that you know and love
and you wanna take part in something fun.
And yeah, there's nothing wrong with that.
- I think it's how simple it is, but how creative you can get with it.
- I personally, myself, would love to have control of time,
so to do this is probably the closest that humans are ever gonna get.
- I think a lot of these come from things that we used
to do as kids, 'cause even as the-- like, the Floor is Lava Challenge,
that one came as a game they used to play as a kid.
And so, even with this pause challenge, freeze tag and any variation
of freeze dance and stuff like that totally originates from our childhoods.
- (FBE) So, a lot of these videos that we showed you earlier
seem to have come from foreign countries.
So, what do you think makes a trend kind of universal versus one
that can only really take off in the US?
- I mean, I feel like a lot of the times,
the trends that go international or universal are the ones
that are non-verbal. They're the ones
that incorporate maybe even a song that everybody knows,
because it just transcends country and culture.
- Everybody has a remote control around their house.
So, you just pick that up. It's just it's so easy to do
that I think that's what makes it universal.
- This trend is centered around people and the relationship between them,
so everyone can get it. It's not like a language thing.
Most people have a remote, and everyone has a friend
that they could torture.
- (FBE) So finally now you have your chance to test this out.
- Which version, though? - Is it a messy one?
'Cause I'm scared. (chuckles)
- That sound is just beautiful.
- (FBE) Pause. - Ohhh. (laughs)
Nooo! NOOO!
- (FBE) Unpause. - Oh my god. My arm hurts. (laughs)
- (FBE) Pause.
Unpause. - Om nom nom.
I love me some breakfast time. And okay.
- (FBE) Pause.
Unpause. - All right.
Someone went a little ham with the Corn Flakes.
- (FBE) Well, you can't have Corn Flakes without a little...
- Corn Flakes.
Milk! Okay. - (FBE) Pause.
Pause.
- (whispers) You're an [bleep].
This is so much milk. (milk dribbling on the floor)
- (FBE) Unpause. - I peed my pants!
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