- I was mad when I tweeted that and I'm just as mad as I am now.
- Ah. - Come on.
♪ (dramatic intro) ♪
- (FBE) So, we are here at VidCon, one of the happiest
places on Earth for a YouTuber.
- Yes, we are.
- (FBE) But this challenge might make you a little unhappy.
- Aw.
- What are you gonna do to me?
Am I gonna have to drink all the juice from inside
of a Gusher?
- (FBE) This is a Try Not to Get Mad Challenge.
- Okay, I actually have a problem with getting mad.
I'm not very good at getting mad,
so I might be good at this.
- I have anger issues. - I was like,
it depends on what is being shown
that's gonna send me off.
- Perfect for this. - I have a very bad temper.
- We freak out. I already lost my voice
from screaming at a fast food worker.
- Is this good to break or would I own the computer?
- It's breakable.
- I'm excited. Are you just gonna show me
a picture of the algorithm? Argh, I'm mad.
- Okay, we're uploading a video, guys.
It's 93%, 94.
- Oh no, and it's stuck at 95 forever.
- Oh, is it just gonna load the whole time?
- Nope, never seen this before and it doesn't make me mad.
- Look, we're laughing. - We're totally laughing.
- We're not angry.
- It's just processing at this point,
so it's not really even uploading anymore,
but I don't know-- so I never know if I can
just save changes and exit out or if that will ruin it.
- What are you doing? The last 5%?
Is that the last ten seconds of the video?
Do you have this problem with outros?
What is the problem? (buzzer)
- It's literally YouTubers React to Try Not to Get Mad Challenge.
It's this video. How are you doing this
in the future?
- This is all of our nightmares. We all hate this.
- Yep, this is around the time when I'd be trying to psychically--
- It give you time to fill out this description.
- Yep.
- I don't like this. - No, I don't think--
who would? - It's every day, though.
This is life. - It feels like we're
at work right now. (buzzer)
- I don't think I'm gonna get mad about this.
- Yeah, no, 'cause this isn't my video.
It suck for them.
- At this point, you just turn-- you go into sleep mode
and you're like, you know what I'm gonna do
is anything but watch this happen.
(buzzer)
- I mean, I want to get mad at this.
I'm not gonna let it happen. I wanna be in,
so I'm not mad.
- Oh, yes. - Oh.
- The comments that are people just spamming.
- Oh. - Oh God.
- Sub for sub, really? Is that still happening?
- That is very annoying. - Yeah.
- Spam YouTube comments drive me crazy.
(buzzer)
- To be honest, I don't get this anymore.
I've just filtered every single one of these comments.
- "Like if you love your mom and don't want her to die."
I've seen that a few times.
- As a real human being, you can comment
whatever you want. You can advertise your website,
your gift card giveaway. I think this is fine.
- This does annoy me. I am mad.
I'm mad, 'cause my fans are young and I feel like
they fall for it and then I get all these tweets
being like, "Why didn't you give me an iPhone?"
And I'm like, "It's not me." (buzzer)
- The one that gets me really upset is when people
look like they're my verified account
and it's not. It's not.
But YouTube comments as a rule,
it's just not a happy place. (buzzer)
- When you're first starting out, they're really annoying,
but by the time you do this for a second,
it's really not. It's just like,
ah yeah, that's a thing. Bye.
- Does this happen? - Oh yeah.
- Spam comments like that? - Yeah, for sure.
- I do feel bad for people trying to have a conversation
with their viewers on YouTube.
- It seems like in the year of our Lord 2019
with the smartest computer programs in the world,
Google should be able to know about the fake stuff.
- I mean, they know where I am all the time,
they know what I'm interested in.
They know when I most recently ate Doritos.
How come they can't get rid of sub for sub?
- Okay. - Oh.
Can we curse? [Bleep] this.
(buzzer)
- That is the demonetization icon-- it's not technically demonetization.
It is limited or no ads. Not suitable for all
advertisers symbol. The illusive and mysterious symbol.
Nobody understand why it appears or when it appears.
I am angry thinking about how confusing this system is.
(buzzer)
- I don't even know what that is, so I'm not mad.
- This happens so often. - That we're used to it.
- Eh. Who needs money?
- I don't know what that is. - Yeah, John doesn't even
know what it is. We make educational content.
- Yeah, the great-- they don't really demonetize
educational videos that often.
- I don't cuss in my videos and not even one percent
of my videos has this beautiful yellow--
golden button, right? Nope, yeah, I'm fine.
- That yellow icon doesn't just mean that you're bad,
it doesn't mean that your video's just gonna get
shared in the algorithm, but it means whether or not
I'm gonna be able to pay rent next month.
Could you imagine if you went to work
at a normal job and then just instead
of getting your paycheck, you just got a yellow money sign
letting you know this week you're not getting paid
because you sweared once at work.
(buzzer)
- There's nothing worse than this
and you're like, "But the video is fine."
and then they review it and they're like,
"Yeah, it was fine." and I'm like,
"So then why did you yellow button it?"
(buzzer)
- A year ago, this made us very, very angry,
but now I feel like we figured out,
okay, we can't use the term "weapons" in our titles anymore.
We used to do ninja weapons and stuff.
Okay, now they're "ninja gadgets."
You slowly figure out what you can do
and what you can't do.
- If I got mad about every little YouTube thing ever,
my life would be so miserable and I would have given up
a very long time ago, so I see things like this
and I'm just like, "Oh okay, yeah.
This thing that we deal with." And I guess I've trained
myself not to get angry.
- I got 600 videos that have this,
so I'm very familiar. - You counted?
- Yes. - I just was too lazy
to check anything at all, so yeah, that's one of the worst
parts about YouTube. - This is the face you see
before you die.
- (FBE) Many creators on YouTube are familiar
with this icon. So if that alone
didn't get you mad, here are some posts
from YouTube creators with issues they've had
with the website. - All right.
- Craig Thompson saying he's tried to change
how his videos are to not swear and then
him not swearing has triggered YouTube to think he's swearing more
and he doesn't know what to do anymore.
That's so upsetting. I know that so much
of the queer community on YouTube also suffers
because of this based off of videos
that are just trying to help educate and making people
feel welcome. - I can't pretend to not
be upset about it just because I feel like
that would mean me pretending to adopt
that attitude that I hate, the sort of,
"That's the nature of the beast" sort of thing.
It's like, no. - There's something
that can be done. (buzzer)
- "Excited to partner with UMG to remaster some
of the most iconic music videos of all time."
Yeah, you get partnered with UMG.
Meanwhile, MrBeast responds and says, "They literally could
just use the hundreds of thousands of dollars
they profited off just my videos to do this."
Which, he's referring to all the copyright claims
that he got for humming one of their songs
or maybe in the background a trucker drove by
and he was listening to one of their songs.
- Last year, I got 17 emails from YouTube saying
"This video has been claimed. This video has been claimed.
This video has been claimed." It was all of them at once
and I had never experienced issues like that before.
It must have been the day that UMG--
that branch of UMG went live.
They just went to town on all of my videos.
- I am mad. That email thread down there,
that is literally what our YouTube email looks like.
Every video gets-- I get 400 of those a day.
(buzzer)
- So MrBeast is showing all of his copyright claims.
I feel you there. We have--
we used to get a lot of those.
We used to do a lot of parodies.
- If you're literally getting wrongfully dinged,
that's really frustrating. Yes, absolutely,
and I do get mad on behalf of other creators.
There's a difference between things that are frustrating
and things that are unfair and that's--
I'll get mad at something that genuinely has
some kind of injustice associated to it.
(buzzer)
- A lot of people live off of YouTube
and you spend money to make a video,
a lot of people have editors, they have teams,
they have production and to put a video up
that you've spent all this time and money making
and then not make money back from it,
it's like a stab in the stomach. People when they go to work,
they get paid, but when you're a YouTuber,
it's not guaranteed.
- "Only two of the top ten most subscribed to YouTube channels
are not mainstream celebrities or big corporations."
- YouTube used to be about people.
- Yeah. - Now it's like--
I think we're in a time now where you can't make it
on YouTube unless you're a corporation.
- T-Series number one. First of all,
that pisses me off. Corporations, they're gonna win.
They're gonna take over the world, okay?
Our kids are gonna have Gucci on their foreheads
and stuff. This gets me mad.
(buzzer)
- We knew that old school Hollywood would try
to meet the digital world, it's just we thought
they'd have to build their own platform.
We didn't know that YouTube was just going to hand them ours.
It's not even that I'm mad, I'm just depressed.
- What's incredibly discouraging about it are the people
that are starting and feel like there's no way
to compete. - I've been angry about it
for so long. It didn't make me more angry
just now because I've known and I've been upset
about it all this time. - Right, it was more
of just like a, (sighs)
(buzzer)
- It's just become so corporate. Who are these TV people?
You guys have your own network.
TV network. - I do miss the old days
of YouTube. I remember looking at
the top ten and it was Ray William Johnson.
- Shane Dawson. - Nigahiga, Shane Dawson.
- All the people that we're familiar with,
that we can identify with.
- This doesn't necessarily make me too upset.
I think they have the resources to be up there.
- If I was a bigger creator, maybe I'd be more annoyed.
It's not surprising to me that large corporations
have taken advantage of it and they're using it to its max.
- They have a whole team putting all that together.
- So they should be at the top. - Yeah.
- That's just how it works. - The production,
the turnaround time, all that makes sense.
- Subscribers isn't an important-- it stopped being an important
metric to me a long time ago.
- Hm, what's happening? "YouTube is acting up so bad.
No one's getting notifications." That is a very real problem.
- Oh, notifications. - Dude.
Boogie. - Boogie's on there.
- I get notifications from T-Series.
I'm not subscribed to them. - Wait, seriously?
- I don't even know what they upload.
I've cried over this. (buzzer)
- What is up with that? I don't get it.
That is frustrating and I know that it's
frustrating not only for us, but also the people
who want to watch our videos. (buzzer)
- It's even me, yay! I'm in there.
I was mad when I tweeted that and I'm just as mad as I am now.
In YouTube's defense, at the end of the day,
they are showing you the tip of the tip
of the tip of the iceberg. If you reload the front page
you might be able to see 40 thumbnails
when there's 400 hours worth of video uploaded
every minute. I understand that
and I get that, but if they click that
subscription button, they will see that subscription
and then of course, don't forget the notification bell
because the four million people that signed up
to my channel before the notification bell ever existed,
they don't have notifications turned on for my channel.
How could they? It didn't exist
and they didn't grandfather them in,
so that's what we needed was a second subscription button.
Thanks, YouTube. (buzzer)
- YouTube used to have the subscription box
front and center. It actually used to be
when you went to YouTube.com it would show your subscriptions
immediately on the front page and now you have make
extra clicks to get to your subscription feed.
Almost nobody clicks there.
- It used to be you could subscribe and that was enough
and now you have to also click the bell
and then for a while, that seemed to be enough
and now it's just like-- they just kinda do
whatever they want. Doesn't mat--
you can beg and plead to see a video,
but if they don't wanna show it to you,
they're not gonna show it to you.
- It is weird that when you click on the notification bell,
it asks you "Do you want notifications
all the time or just sometimes?"
And sometimes people don't even realize that
and so they click on sometimes 'cause they're just like, "Okay,
I don't know what this means." and then they're like,
"Wait, why aren't I getting notifications for your video?"
and it's 'cause you're letting the algorithm decide.
- You wanna be able to reach your audience
and ultimately, not being in control of that
is really frustrating. This is as mad as I get.
I don't have a-- I try not go to that next level
because then I scare myself. (buzzer)
- I'm not mad. Sub box has always worked.
99.9% of the time, they work,
but what people are referring to here
and that's a lack of knowledge often is that your video
isn't getting views because it doesn't depend
on your sub box, it's your video isn't
getting views because it's not shown on the home page.
Doesn't piss me off at all. It's more of a--
if my video doesn't do well the first hour,
I sit down and I say, "Guys, we gotta make
a better video next time."
- (FBE) So, we got one last video for you guys.
- Saved the best for last. - (FBE) Any idea what
this could be? - Okay, let's think.
I think it's Rick Astley. - That's messed up.
If it's Will Smith, I'm gonna be like, "Ay."
- Come on. ♪ Never gonna give you up ♪
- You clearly have been Rickrolled too many times.
- Too many times, dude. - You know.
- I'm not mad at this. You didn't dupe me.
- Oh, see now I'm just nostalgic.
- Did you see me bracing myself for that?
- No. (buzzer)
- Okay. You got me.
I'm a little bit angry. I was expecting something else.
(buzzer)
- Thank you. I needed that right now.
- I'm easy to Rickroll, too. I'm gullible, so I get this a lot.
I'm used to it.
- Ah. - Come on.
(buzzer)
- Oh, you remember that back in the day?
- This was a joke back in the day or something.
- I always thought it was funny.
- Did we just get Rickrolled, Vy?
- Yes. - How can you get mad
about getting Rickrolled? - Yeah.
- I love that song. That's a classic.
- I haven't been successfully Rickrolled in many years.
- Oh, I have. - I gotta take off my headphones.
- (FBE) Well, I think you just won this challenge.
- And all I had to do was lie. I mean, tell the truth.
I tried to hold it together because I wanted to win.
- We face those problems, but I don't have enough
energy to get angry at it, 'cause there's nothing
I can do about it.
- There's different phases of anger where--
well, now we're past the anger phase
and now we've just accepted it.
That's just part of being on YouTube.
- Yeah.
- I lost hard there, didn't I?
After being on the platform now for 13 years
and managing to stay relevant for the last 13,
I got a feeling this is probably my final throw
because I just can't deal with it anymore.
- (FBE) So finally, what is one thing about YouTube
that makes you the complete opposite of mad,
something that you love about YouTube?
- What do I love about YouTube?
Being able to express my creativity
and mainly do what I love.
- I love the platform that it gives to regular people.
I think-- I mean, I owe my career to it.
I owe so much to it. I met so many friends from it.
- I love the fans. That's why I do everything I do.
I just wanna make people's days better
and I hope that that's what my content does for people.
- Obviously the fans, the viewers.
It's the best thing in the world. The whole point of coming
to VidCon, to me, as much as it is fun
to do these interviews and do these collaborations
and hang out with other creators,
the best part is meeting the fans and hanging out
with the fans. The fact that I know
I'm entertaining you and keeping you guys happy,
I love you guys.
- Thanks for watching this episode of YouTubers React.
- Make sure you check out all of the creators
featured in this episode. The links are down below.
- If this episode made you mad, let me know in the comments.
- Goodbye, y'all.
- Hey, it's Sierra, producer here at FBE.
Thank you so much to all the YouTubers who came out
to shoot with us here at VidCon. Make sure you subscribe
to their channels. All the links will be
down in the description below. Bye, guys.