Hi we're Joel & Lia and today we're reacting to Homecoming Mums. Yeah which we thought
were parents until now. Someone was like you guys need to react to this and I was like
"Joel let's google homecoming mums, I think it's about pushy parents, I think it's like
people who push their kids into being in pagents and stuff". And I thought that as well when
you said homecoming mum I was like oh this is going to be hilarious, these mums... turns
out the mum isn't a mum. Yeah so the mum is a piece of fluff that you attach to your body
to celebrate coming home. Coming back home. So let's watch it. Yeah our British minds
are a bit baffled but hey we're representing America ... represent! Repping America...American
Freshman. What are they wearing? Why have they got bows on their head? On your toot?
What's toot? On your bum. What's a senior? The bear! But you're like 16 year old you're
not 2. I've got two, you've got one, but I've got two. Oh my gosh so it's her and her date
who's probably gunna break up with her. Okay, okay, pause. So the dates make it for the
other dates... well that's what Madeline Hicks is saying. So she's saying that my date has
added stuff to my mum. Why is called a mum? I'm really confused. They need to just call
it a big fluff ball, a craft. I've been doing some arts and crafts and this is the thing
I've made that represents who I am, also how old are seniors? They must be old coz they're
called 'senior'. In the UK if you're a senior you're a senior citizen, you're over 60. But
I'm just like why are you in your teenage years, and you're making crafts, like that's
what 6 year olds do. Like why are you being told to make these crafts? I don't get it
Joel, I just don't get it. But also, that must cost a load of money. What a waste! When
you could spend it on something else. Right come one Madeline, what you sayin? Senior
class VP, what's that? Vice President? And Homecoming Queen! Congrats Madeline! What?
Oh my gosh, coz she's theatrical! It's all her personality. Who's seeing this? No one
sees it, when you walk past Madeline, you're not seeing this. Okay, are people watching
this on YouTube for inspiration for their own mum? I can't say the word mum without
thinking of our mums, coz that's how we spell mum. So do you, when you say 'Homecoming Mum',
do you think of this as being something completely different, because it's spelled m-u-m and
not m-o-m. But to us, that's like homecoming MUM. Why do they wear- let's google why...
oh here we go '12 things non-Texans need to know about Homecoming Mums!' Yes! If you're
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videos thrice weekly. And the poll for today is: have you ever created your own Texas mum?
Homecoming Mum. Not a Texas mum! That too! Right so, that was an experience, I'm baffled!
I still don't get it, I've got the same questions as you, why do we wear them? Well this article
says that Homecoming mums is something that is very specific to Texas, so maybe there'll
be lots of you out there that are just as baffled as we are but then our second biggest
audience are people from Texas. So, you've got a lot of explaining to do! So like these
girls are just wearing their mums. I'm gunna insert this picture from this website which
is 'Yes to Texas dot com' so you just walk around school with bears... there's fluffly
bears, a feather boa which is cut in two, and they cover up this area. Maybe it's for
modesty, they're like "I don't want you looking at my daughter coz she's hit puberty now"
so they cover them with this trash! It's got all her achievements instead like the theatre
and the megaphone, yeah maybe. Because why aren't boys wearing them? SO I'm guessing
it's a girl thing. But the girls on there are representing their boys as well, coz they're
like this is the soccer ball. But what if you're a lesbian, then who makes it for you?
You can answer that! Mums started as a simple flower, so this is what the world has done,
they used to wear like a little flower, a chrysanthemum gift from a boy to a girl and
now it's turn into this "I'm just gunna be a flower", just classic America isn't it,
like starting with a flower and then it's like BA-BOOM like massive things, it's amazing!
That's hilarious, oh my gosh it's so funny. Yeah of course it was born out of something
simple and something beautiful and now look at it. It's so tacky. It's very tacky I don't
know .... I still don't understand why grown teenagers/young women and young men are making
these for each other and exchanging them it's like why don't you just buy her a tequila
shot and just get wasted? No I'm kidding! Girls also give guys one called a garter.
Oh so they wear it on their arm! See that's a bit more passable, yeah they're trying to
make it look more macho but you're still wearing a flower on your arm! You're still wearing
like an arm band, like a big blowy up armband. Wow!!!! What?! So it says being able to make
mums can make you rich! What?! SO not everyone is crafty enough to make their own, oh come
on it's not hard is it? But people can be dropping between $60 and $300 for one. Shut
up! This is ridiculous. What is the most anyone has spent on one of these, where you live?
If you've got them there. So people are making careers out of this, do you think they're
like "hey I'm a mum creator!" and you're like what does that mean? And they're like "I put
together tacky things for you" yeah but Joel we can't say anything because we make YouTube
videos and some people still don't believe that's a job. It's true. So they make flowers
that go on your body, but at least ours is a bit easier to explain, yeah and I feel like
what we do, not everyone finds the value in it, but hopefully everyone that's subscribed
is like "Oh it's entertainment or educational" whereas this, what does it do? This mum thing
like, it seems like it's just for five minutes, wear it and then it just lives in the loft.
Yeah or you just chuck it in the bin. But these videos aren't going anywhere. Oh so
some people electrify their mums. Wow! And it ain't cheap to electrify... they put LED
lights in them. See this is the other thing, yeah America, with the British school system,
how we have to wear uniforms, it was always told to us when we would always complain like
"In America they get to wear whatever they want" and our teachers would be like "yeah
but this way you don't have to worry about what you wear to school everyday" we're like
not giving children this competition of going "I need to wear cool clothes" surely this
is exacerbating it where some of these girls will be like "look I'm really rich and cool
because I've got an LED mum" whereas the poorer kids would be like "I can't afford that" and
then they're seen as not cool. yeah it's really difficult I actually really do love that we
all wear school uniforms in British schools. There's no classism, we all look the same.
We all wear the same. You don't have to make a decision in the morning. Do you know how
long it takes me to decide what to wear? Because you know when we went to college, and as soon
as we got to college which is about 16-18, we're allowed to wear whatever we want, it
was awful, and that was a nightmare because I would wear one set of clothes, one outfit
per day because if you go in the next day in the same clothes people would go "why are
you wearing the same clothes" how ridiculous is that?! But that's what it would be like
at school. Exactly, exactly. I can't believe this, this is funny. You can actually get
injured wearing these coz they can be quite heavy. They can be heavy around the neck and
you need to have a back-support going on. You need back support to support this thing.
They need to call it fluffy overalls. Not a mum! It's just very weird. "Mums are an
expression of our personality" I'm sure they are, but are they necessary? Yeah exactly
and why aren't the other states doing it if it was that necessary why aren't all the other
50-something states doing it? 49 states? I dunno. I should know this by now. It's 49
Joel. I thought it was 52 states but that's 52 weeks in a year. Is it 50 states? yeah
it's 50. Okay 49 other states. 50 stars isn't it, on the flag? I have no idea I've never
counted them. I'm sure it's 50, yeah anyway, why aren't all the other states doing it,
was Joel's point. And also, just a disclaimer, this isn't supposed to be offensive, we're
just literally kind of in awe, kind of baffled, just trying to get our British heads around
it. Mostly just intrigue. Like someone said go and research this so we have. If you've
got any other weird stuff you want us to look at, send it our way. We'd like to start doing
some more of these reacting to (classic American things) videos. So whether we're reacting
to NASCAR crashes or reacting to, I dunno anything that's like .... beauty pagents with
like 3 year olds... what are they called, there's a programme called that.... oh I love
it.... with Honey Boo Boo.... Dance Moms but yeah I know what you mean. Those sorts of
things, oh my gosh, because honestly America is such an amazing, weird and wonderful country
like it's so funny! And you're all so diverse, like Texas is like the only state that does
this. I mean let's give it a new name, okay we'll call it "Giant Fluffball with a Teddy
on it" So thanks for watching this. So thanks for watching Brits Reacting to Giant Fluffballs
with a Teddy on it" we'll be back next time, please subscribe to our channel if you're
not triggered and click the notification bell to be notified when we upload videos, yeah
coz we post thrice weekly, yeah and come back soon! We'll see you later, bye! Do you think
we lost a lot of subscribers doing that? Probably. We've probably offended all our Texas audience
and they're my favourite audience. Yeah you love all them! I love Texans, do you know
what, let me try and think of one positive for the mum.... it's creative. Creativity.
Creative juices. And a workout from wearing the mum. "I think I lost 4lbs wearing it"