[sudden ominous music]
Um...
[slapping sound]
Ha ha ha ha!
VIDEO: Ever been hit before?
VIDEO: Couple of times.
[laughs] "Couple times."
[slap and scream on video]
[laughs]
They went for that.
I can't believe how hard they're hitting each other.
[laughs]
Jeez!
I loved all of that!
[sudden ominous music]
MAN: Guys were even slapping the girls.
Yes!
If they gave their consent, then it's up to them.
I think if a girl can slap a guy, then a guy can slap a girl.
I hate the idea of guys hitting girls.
I don't think it was, like, in bad taste.
MAN: Would you slap a girl in this setting?
I would not hit a girl.
There's guys slapping girls on video
and I just couldn't do that, you know. I was taught not to hit girls.
I think I would slap a girl the same way that big man slapped that tiny little guy.
Not that I don't think girls can take being slapped, but I just don't wanna slap a girl hard.
>> So you would slap...? >> But if she said yes,
she was like, "do it" and she, like, called me a [bleep] or something, like, "do it!"
"[bleep]" I'm like, "Alright, she just asked me."
I'd slap a girl in that setting, if it was for the video and she was slapping me
and I was supposed to slap her, then...
It's like the one situation where it's okay to hit a girl, I guess.
MAN: So, the creator of the video said if you take the destructive component out of violence
it ends up being kind of cute and intimate.
[laughs skeptically] Yeah.
It was sort of like camaraderie, like, "Let's get this over with, we're gonna be best friends."
They slap each other and then they make out a little bit.
That's how all my Friday nights go.
Sure, why not? No one's gonna hold me to this, sure. [laughs]
I've had this competition with my friend where we did Slapsgiving, and we were slapping for charity.
And every 50 dollars we would slap each other in the face.
And that really hurt, but it's like, I don't take offense to it because I'm letting him do it.
MAN: He went on to say that a slap mitigated by permission is essentially a hug.
Do you agree or disagree?
No, I don't-I don't see a h-ha ha ha ha!
Slap hurts.
A hug doesn't hurt. A slap hurts.
That's not true, though. I've had hugs that have broken my bones.
But for the most part, hugs don't hurt.
In high school and junior high you read books.
Your teacher's always like, "There's such and such deeper meaning behind everything."
And sometimes you just want to read a book,
and just appreciate the book and not have to think about deeper meanings and stuff.
And I think I just wanna enjoy a slap.
MAN: So, I know we aren't strangers--
>> Oh, God, no! >> so, you want to slap each other?
[laughs]
Yeah, alright! Go for it.
[laughs] Go again.
>> Ready? >> Yeah.
It's cause you've got a beard softening the blow, it's unfair. I wish I was manly.
I have to take my ring off, just because I-I
>> Okay, thank you. >> I appreciate your face.
Thank you.
>> Can I do it again? >> Yes. [laughs]
>> Go! >> Okay, ready?
>> Go. >> Uh...
[laughs]
Ahh, that wasn't bad!
I'd hit you so much harder.
Alright. You're a nice guy. [everyone laughs]
What a nice guy.
Do you wanna play? [laughs]
Go.
>> Let's play. >> Seriously?
[yells] That was so--
What the hell?
That was so weak, I barely touched you.
Alright, well, sorry, go.
And you screamed. Alright.
And you missed, and you have rings on. That hurt.
Alright, alright, I'll take them off.
[both laugh]
[ ♪ scars to my heart, cause all I hear... ♪]
[shrieks] No--oh!
Alright.
>> No. >> Because I will let you slap me right now.
No.
I'll come over there and you can slap me.
>> No, I wouldn't do that to you. >> I've been slapped about 8 times today.
That's horrible that 8 of you have taken that up.
That is terr-- No, I would never slap you.
You should come to Australia. We wouldn't do that to you in Australia.
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