- Wait, he's still farting? Oh my gosh.
How does he do this?
- Oh, I hate that. There's just something
so terrifying about it.
- ♪ (dramatic intro) ♪
- Just drinking water.
- He's thirsty.
- What is this?
- I kinda hate this so far.
- Oh wow.
- Does he know that he's recording?
- What is this? - What's going on?
- Is this a form of ASMR?
- Oh, he drank the whole bottle. It's nice.
- Is that it? What?
- Oh, is this his thing?
- Is this the drinking water challenge?
- Is this a challenge? Is it a new challenge?
Is that what this is?
- What am I watching right now?
This is the weird part of YouTube when you
start going down a hole and end up in a weird spot.
- (bottle crumpling) - Um, all right.
That's a lot of water.
- I mean, it's impressive. He did that really fast.
- Is this one of those things where a guy filmed himself
drinking a bottle of water every day for ten years?
- Oh, this is the same guy the whole time?
- Oh, is this all he does on YouTube every day?
- Is it like a guy drinks a bottle of water every day?
- Whoa, whoa, whoa.
- Oh my gosh. He's drinking so many
bottles of water.
- Oh my God. This man's hydrated.
- 1,900-- 2,000 bottles of water.
- He filmed himself doing it every day?
That's art. That's art.
- Is there a message? Is there a moral?
You could probably spin one, but I think it's just
this guy just can't stop himself.
- (man) Hey everybody. Today, I'm gonna be comparing
Dasani bottled water and Aquafina bottled water.
- Is this a water review channel?
- (man) Here we go. - Look at all the bottles
of water in his room.
- Look at all the waters on the side.
- I mean, at least he's hydrated.
- (man) That's pretty good. - I mean, bro, it's water.
- I tell you, it makes me--
(smacks lips) It makes me wanna drink
some water.
- What's he gonna think of Dasani?
I'm not the biggest fan of Dasani.
- They do have different tastes. - Dasani does taste differently.
- (man) Okay. So what you're all waiting for.
- Yeah. - (man) Which one is the winner.
It's pretty close. - I really wanna hear
which one he liked better.
- (man) Dasani's a little bit better.
- I don't know if I agree with that.
- (man) Dasani's a little bit better.
- Duh, everyone-- if you don't know
Dasani's better, then you aren't drinking water.
- (man) I don't know. I don' t know how
to describe it. It just tasted better.
- Yeah, nah. I've never been a fan
of Aquafina. I'm a Smart Water guy.
- Is he making bank from these videos?
I'm gonna be so upset.
- (FBE) We have some more videos to show you
in a second. All those videos belong
to the channel Jon Drinks Water. - Jon Drinks--
I love this guy. You should have him on here.
- (FBE) He has been uploading these type of videos
to his channel for over seven years
with over 7000 uploads about water.
- What? - 7000 videos about water?
- It's not even a speed thing. It's not an ASMR thing.
It's literally just drinking water.
- (FBE) So, this channel joins several others
that are being labelled as pointless or useless
YouTube channels. - Useless channels.
I don't know. It has a use.
He just told us what was better between
Dasani or Aquafina.
- Is it really useless if it's entertaining?
- (FBE) So, this next channel is called Fart Master.
- Oh no.
- This better be exactly what I think it is.
- (FBE) And he seems to have been uploading these type
of videos for about over ten years.
- Ten years of the Fart Master channel.
- That's a lot of gas.
- He's covering his face. He does not want to be known.
- Thank God he's protecting his identity.
How do you get a job after this?
- There's a microphone.
- He's got a microphone right by his butthole.
No, now he's relaxing and he's getting all
the pockets of air to conjoin into the anal cavity
at the northern-- there it is.
- (farting noises) - He's got the timer.
- Ew, I hate this!
- Stop.
- (farting noises)
- Wait, he's still farting? Oh my gosh.
How does he do this?
- That's BS. Ta-da.
I'm surprised he's not on America's Got Talent yet.
- There's no way he did not just poop his pants
a little bit.
- Ah man. That was awesome.
Give me more.
- (single fart) - Mm, a short one.
- (fart noises)
- Don't poop your pants. He's in the tub.
I'm so nervous.
- (fart noises) - Stop.
- I mean, he seems to enjoy this.
- He could have very easily edited that in.
I'm not calling him a faker, I'm just saying.
- Farting around on YouTube for ten years
sounds like a good time.
- (FBE) This next channel comes from Benjamin Bennett,
who has been livestreaming his videos for over four years
and almost all of his videos seem to span four hours or more.
- Four hours?
- That's a long time.
- Benjamin Bennett, let's see what we do here.
- What does he do for four hours?
- He's sitting on a towel, pulling his legs up a little bit.
Getting into a nice cross-legged position.
- Okay, sitting. - What's he doing?
- I like sitting like that.
- Is he meditating?
- Is that just it? Does he just look at you
the whole time-- that was the whole thing?
- It's four hours of that? That's good.
- That was a little scary for me. You saw the way he
grinned there at the end. No sane person has those eyes.
- Ooh, this is a little unappealing.
- Oh, I hate that. There's just something
so terrifying about it.
- Does he smile the whole time?
- Yeah, I like this. More, more.
- That's creepy, but also, it's kind of--
it's kind of artistic in a way. You feel me?
On some existential [bleep].
- How does he sit there for that long?
For four hours?
- I wanna ask these people why.
- (FBE) So, the next clip also shows his dedication
to the pose and pay close attention to the floor
close to on the left side near his feet.
- Is there gonna be some conspiracy theory stuff?
- Oh my God, is he gonna pee his pants or something?
(gasps) No.
- What the [bleep] is that?
- Oh, he's peeing.
- There's liq-- oh no.
- There's liquid coming out of him!
- Well, the man's an artist. He's dedicated to his craft.
- Dude, I'm convinced. This is performance art.
- I peed my pants, not clickbait.
- You look at it and you're saying, "Oh he's dedicated."
It's freaking gross. Do what you love,
but don't piss your pants doing it.
- They're pointless YouTube channels,
but at the same time, you can say that
about any YouTube channel. If somebody gets some type
of entertainment out of it, then it's not pointless anymore.
- (FBE) So, as we mentioned before, some of these channels
do have surprising view counts, but compared to the top
YouTube creators, their reach in audience is a lot smaller,
so what do you think that drives these creators
to keep creating this type of content?
- I don't know. I don't like it.
I can't relate to the motivations
of the creators behind these videos
and when I can't relate to one's motivations,
I become quite terrified.
- I don't know. I can't even find
motivation to do my own stuff. It must just be something
about them as a person that just needs to do this.
- With some of these guys, they'll get to the point
where someone will recognize what they're doing
and go, "Oh my God, this is hilarious."
But it's like you have-- it's like an internship.
You gotta put in the time. You're not gonna see
the rewards for years.
- These guys probably aren't even trying to go viral.
They do something that they think is entertaining
and they want to make content, so why not?
- Success is on a scale. If somebody's watching,
you gotta make it for him. If it's four people,
if it's four million people, again, if you have an audience
that likes your stuff and you like creating,
that's gonna be enough.
- Theoretically that content will outlast them.
It will be there forever. It's like leaving footprints
on the moon. You don't know if anybody
ever is gonna be there to see those footprints
in a billion years, but they're there.
You existed.
- (FBE) Some consider these type of videos to be
purely humorous and just for fun,
while some might consider them to be an art form.
- It could be art. If you as the person
wants to view it that way.
- In the nicest way possible, I don't think there's anything
crazy creative about sitting there and smiling for four hours.
- I kinda just have to roll my eyes at people
who say that this is artistic because it doesn't seem
like you're challenging yourself.
It doesn't seem like you're bringing anything
interesting to the table. I'm gonna sound douchey,
it doesn't seem like you're putting effort into your art.
- (FBE) So, after watching some of these
and seeing the dedication that some of these creators do have,
where does this type of content lie for you?
- For me, this content lies a little bit humorous for me.
'Cause I don't see the art in it, but I do find it enjoyable to watch.
- It's objectively really funny, 'cause it's so stupid
and the fact that they've sunk so much
time into it makes it even more hilarious.
- What can seem pointless to someone could be
entertaining for someone else, so it's really fascinating
when it comes to entertainment because I think it's all subjective.
- I think it's absurdist. It's like Dada.
This even more basic commentary on the internet
as a whole and how you can literally do one thing
over and over and over and be famous for it
even if it's as stupid as sitting for four hours.
- When I watch a guy sitting there for four hours
smiling at the camera, I can't help but be like,
"Why is he doing this? How am I supposed
to feel about this?" I know nothing's gonna change,
but then it's like, it's just a guy sitting there
for four hours, so then it's like,
"[Bleep] man, this is art!" It made me think about life.
Man, I just wanna watch Fart Master.
- (FBE) So lastly, after learning more
about these type of channels, if you were to create
one of these channels, what would you want it
to revolve around? - Probably something
with my dog. Like my dog eating
every one of his meals or something stupid like that
because that's actually cute.
- I can eat an entire box of cereal in one sitting.
- Actually a few years ago before I was really doing stuff
on YouTube, I just made [bleep]-posty,
for lack of a better terms, videos.
I made a half hour Skittle review
where I had a family size bag of Skittles and I just
reviewed every single Skittle as I ate it.
- I've thought of creating a theatrical channel
where random objects are just gonna be like,
"Hey, I'm Mr. headphones." "I'm Mr. fist.
We're going to have a dialogue." "Wow, we have the same voice."
- I would be frowning at the happiest place on earth
on all the rides. I would be like,
having so much fun on this ride
and I would just be...
- I know how to crochet. I think I would just
continuously just do a strand.
- Me sleeping, 'cause it would--
me sleeping would give me an excuse to sleep all the time.
- Thanks so much for watching this pointless episode
of YouTubers React.
- Be sure to check out all the YouTubers
featured in this episode. Links are in the description.
- Bye, guys.
- Hi, Lauren here, associate producer at FBE.
We wanna thank all the YouTubers for coming in
to shoot this episode. If you wanna check them out,
make sure to subscribe. Their links are in
the description down below. Bye, guys.