- This is garbage. Next.
- What is this singing?! (speaks gibberish)
♪ (dramatic chord) ♪
- ♪ Mia Khalifa ♪
- ♪ Hit or miss ♪ - Oh, Tik Tok!
- Oh, this is Tik Tok? - This is Tik Tok.
- This is the new Tik Tok. - Oh, Tik Tok.
This is actually my first time ever seeing this.
- ♪ Hit or miss ♪ ♪ I guess they never miss, huh? ♪
- I saw this circulating Twitter. No clue what it is.
- ♪ You got a boyfriend ♪ ♪ I bet he doesn't kiss ya ♪
♪ Mwah ♪ ♪ He gon' find another girl,
and he won't miss ya ♪
- Miss ya! - (both laugh)
- ♪ Dab like Wiz Khalif-- ♪ - Okay, the beat's good.
- I like that. Is this Tik Tok?
- I know the song 'cause of the meme,
but I don't even know it outside of Tik Tok.
- Is there more? - (FBE) Ohh, yeah.
- (laughs) Of course there's more. (claps) Let's do it.
- ♪ Mia Khalifa ♪ - Oh, is all the same song?
- ♪ ...never miss, huh? ♪ - I don't get it.
- ♪ And I bet he doesn't kiss ya ♪ - Is this try not
to cringe challenge that I don't know about?
- ♪ He gon' skrrt and hit the dub like Wiz Khalif-- ♪
- Okay, I actually loved that one. Anything where people
are dead behind the eyes, but using insane zooms, I'm into it.
- Is there something with this song? I'm lacking the connection
between these two. - I think this is a challenge.
I've missed the train on this one.
- Uh-oh. All right, we got a guy. All right.
- ♪ Hit or miss ♪ ♪ I guess they never miss, huh? ♪
- Mm. - ♪ Hit or miss ♪
- Oh-- oh, my. - Oh, he's getting into it.
- NO! - ♪ You got a boyfriend ♪
♪ I bet he doesn't... ♪ - NOO!
- ♪ I bet he doesn't kiss ya ♪ - (laughs)
- ♪ Mwah ♪
- More of that, please. - If this is a challenge, he wins,
'cause that was pretty awesome. - That was my favorite one.
That was my favorite one. - ♪ Mia Khalifa ♪
- ♪ Hit or miss ♪ - Ayy, Marshmello!
- ♪ Hit or miss ♪ - Is this Marshmello?
- That's really Marshmello. - ♪ You got a boyfriend ♪
♪ I bet he doesn't kiss ya ♪
- I just don't get what the challenge is.
- I don't get the challenge. - Yeah.
- ♪ He gon' skrrt and hit the dub like Wiz Khalif-- ♪
- I'm not seeing the connection outside the song.
If this is a trend, I don't see why it is.
- I don't understand it.
The more and more I watch it, I feel like I'm getting
a clue to the puzzle. - What was that?
- But I don't understand it still.
- If your lips are not moving in time with the music,
you have no right to lip sync. You have no lips to sync!
- (clears throat) ♪ Hit or miss ♪
♪ I guess they never miss, huh? ♪ - What is happening?
- ♪ I bet he doesn't kiss ya ♪ ♪ Mwah ♪
- Oh, man that autotune, though.
- See, I like these. - ♪ Mwah ♪
- (laughs) - ♪ You got a boyfriend ♪
- This is garbage. Next.
- Dude, I hate how random every single one is.
There's no-- there's nothing that ties
all of them together except the song.
- ♪ And he gon' eat my ass like pizza ♪
- (laughs) Okay, that ending actually--
that ending got me.
If that's not in the real song, it should be.
- I like the ones that kinda go the extra effort
to recreate the audio terribly but on purpose.
That's-- (smooches) That's comedy.
- Okay, more Tik Toks, please.
- ♪ Mia Khalifa ♪ ♪ Hit or miss ♪
♪ I guess they never miss, huh? ♪ - What is this?
- (laughs) This is...
- Chug, chug, chug, chug, chug!
- I don't know what's happening, but I'm so intrigued.
- ♪ He's gon' skrrt and hit the dub like Whiz Khalif-- ♪
- (laughs) I like the difference in the creativity.
- What have we become as a society?
- That's art, as opposed to a lazy lip sync.
- This is when you're desperate for a trend.
It's been a dry spell with the trends and challenges.
And they're like, "You know what? We'll take what we can get!"
- I hate them. I think this is a really dumb trend
that I don't understand. And you know,
that could be because I'm too old,
but it could also be because they're dumb.
- (Joker) Hit or miss. - Oh my gosh.
It's just rumbling in my ear. - (Joker) I bet he doesn't miss, huh?
- (giggles) (loud audio static)
- Oh my god! - (Joker) I bet he doesn't kiss ya.
- (laughs) - (laughs)
Ah, I'm usually against ear rape, but for some reason, that...
(laughs) just paired with the Joker's face, it works!
- I'm a huge Dark Knight fan, so that was
my favorite version of that.
- (FBE) So, this is a recent trend from Tik Tok.
It is one of the many trends that seemed to sprout out
from the platform every week. But any idea where this song came from
that they're using? - No.
- No idea. I am not hip nor cool enough to know
where that song comes from. - No, and I know I've--
I think I've only heard it from Tik Tok memes.
- (FBE) The song is actually made up by a group called ​iLOVEFRiDAY
that was actually a diss track to ex-porn star, Mia Khalifa.
- Ahh. - That's what I wanna see.
I want to see that. - So, there is a diss track made...
against an ex-porn star that has now been segmented
and adopted by the Tik Tok...
once Musical.ly, lip sync crew
that has now elevated into meme status.
- (FBE) We have that music video to show you now.
- Oh, great! The original. Okay, great.
- "She's so disrespectful to all Muslim women
and gives us a bad image."
♪ (8-bit music) ♪ - Ah, I love that Sega sound.
- Interesting. - Oh, wow.
This is what they-- this is what they refer to as flexing.
- ♪ You were sucking [bleep] for a foreign car ♪
- Mm, gotta love that autotune.
- It's not terrible, actually. Ooh, love that sky effect.
- ♪ Girl, go do your job ♪ - What is this singing?!
(speaks gibberish) - ♪ Mia Khalifa ♪
- (chuckles) This is so bad.
- ♪ Hit or miss ♪ - Here it is.
- ♪ You got a boyfriend ♪ ♪ I bet he doesn't kiss ya ♪
♪ Mwah ♪ ♪ He gon' find another girl,
and he won't miss ya ♪
♪ He's gon' skrrt and... ♪ - I don't hate the song.
- Oh, I like it.
- (voice-over) You win.
- What? So, this is a diss track against an ex-porn star.
- I don't see how this turned into a trend.
I feel like people are just thirsty for anything.
- I think it's cool. I think it, you know,
it gets people up and dancing and having fun.
- Yeah, just having fun,
making whatever video they want with that.
It's fun to see what people come up with.
- (FBE) So, the Hit or Miss song was originally posted in March of 2018
as a diss track to Mia Khalifa in response to a fake tweet
where she made fun of the group. - Oh, there was
a fake tweet involved, too.
Great to make this even more needlessly complicated.
- (FBE) So, the song seems to have blown up on Tik Tok
after the user nyannyancosplay from the first video we showed you
posted her video. - So, she started that trend.
- Wow. - Whoa.
- Get down to the trendsetter. - Is the moment where I have
the self-realization of, like, "Man, Matt,
you are way too old for the internet"?
- (FBE) As a trend on Tik Tok, why do you think that this blew up?
- I don't know. Honestly, I don't see why it ever blew up.
Nothing's really that special about it.
- Anything that's designed to go viral can't go viral anymore.
And that-- it's kind of like a populist medium,
where people feel like they own it.
And this stuff is so bad that it starts trends.
- The song is catchy. And also, because that girl
was wearing cosplay. - Tik Tok is relatively getting big.
and the first video that she posted, the cosplayer,
I think probably drew a lot of people in,
'cause it's really cute!
- (FBE) So, more info about nyannyancosplay,
who inadvertently helped start this trend.
She gained a huge following following her Tik Tok post.
One of the popular duets with her original video
questioned her gender, which, in turn,
sent an influx of hate comments her way.
- Oh, wow, man. Social media, I tell ya.
- And it was questioning her gender? What?!
- People, just calm dow-- like, who cares? Get a life!
- (FBE) As someone with a large following,
what advice would you give to people who may get
sudden attention and all that comes with it?
- Concentrate on the good attention, 'cause if you give all that energy
to that bad attention, it's just gonna kill you inside.
- Remain grounded, okay? You know, don't get too high,
don't get too low. You gotta just be cool
and just take it in one step at a time,
because, you know, you don't want it to overwhelm you.
- Try not to check out every single comment,
'cause everybody will have an opinion. - Exactly.
- And some of them might be hurtful. - Enjoy what you have.
Don't let someone's negative comments put you down,
because everyone's gonna have an opinion
and you're never gonna please everyone.
- (FBE) So finally, let's talk about Tik Tok/Musical.ly.
It always seems to garner a lot of negativity from people online.
Some people and creators feel the huge success on the platform
is not real talent or is very cringy content
and maybe not as good as content compared to other platforms.
However, many people made those same claims
about people on Vine back in the day and even kind of say that thing
about YouTube. - (sarcastic) No.
Is that what they're saying? - The Vine stars that came
from Vine and started making YouTube make better YouTube than YouTubers.
Because of the nature of Vine, they had to be funny
and they had to come up with six-second jokes.
- I was definitely one of those people that looked down on Vine
when it first came out. I was like, "Ugh!
Six seconds? Anyone can make something in six seconds.
That's not taking actual time and creativity."
But I started using Vine, and I ended up really,
really enjoying it. If enough people start
doing creative things on Tik Tok, it could be a platform
that's looked at with the same amount of respect as YouTube.
- (FBE) In general, what have you thought about the Tik Tok platform
to this point? - I feel like it's a platform
for children, almost like a transitional from Musical.ly
or Tik Tok to YouTube. So, it kind of dips their toe
in the water a little bit to kind of, you know,
having fun and just being goofy. - It'll be the next wave
of the next generation of YouTubers.
- Yeah. - 'Cause everyone eventually
goes to YouTube. - I don't think it's ever gonna die,
but I don't think people are gonna be using it
for that much longer. I just feel like it's big right now,
because Musical.ly was really big.
- It's another tool people are suing to, you know, get followers,
get a following, an audience. And any way you can get
your creative side out there works for me.
- If you can rock that app, be my guest,
because not everyone can make a two-second video
and make it go viral. - Everyone's a creator, man.
When Viners came to YouTube, I praised that,
because they brought their following from one platform to another.
I think that's achievement.
- There's no reason to be, you know, spiteful to another platform
or other creators just because that's their main platform
or just because they're not in the same exact space you are.
You know, we're all working together
to basically show traditional celebrities,
the traditional executives and the industry, the movie industry,
to show them that, hey, we have an audience,
we all are family, and that, you know, we all have power.
- What these platforms are doing is teaching young people
who are creating these videos really cool editing tricks
like wipe transitions and blurring the camera,
so that way, now you're in a different area.
I think what I feel negativity towards is the culture that sometimes
perpetuates on these sorts of platforms.
I don't have problems with Viners,
but I have a problem with a lot of the culture that Vine created,
you know, of the need to be loud and fast and obnoxious
in order to get attention and use that to monetize your audience.
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