- Damn, he got the trumpets?
- I just got second hand embarrassment from that.
Oh my God.
♪ (rock intro) ♪
- I don't know what's happening.
- This is the type of school I wanna go to.
- What?
- Oh.
- I'm con-- oh, it's a promposal.
Aw.
- Oh, it's promposals.
- That's pretty cute. Got the whole school.
- The MC has to come in.
- He got the microphone and everything.
- I don't know. These are cheesy.
These are extra.
- That's so cute.
- (girl) Yes.
- Oh my God.
- (man) She said yes! - She's cute, she's cute.
They're both cute. The whole thing's cute.
I love it.
- Damn. Everyone's just hyping it up.
- Aw, makes my heart a little happy.
- Oh wait, hold on.
- Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Chillax, chillax there, buddy.
- Is this a proposal, proposal?
- Girl, I hope that that is a promise ring.
- Oh. Oh, she's crying.
- Having friends to help and support you do all that
is just really nice.
- I'm so confused. I'm so--
what just happened? - (FBE) So, she did ask her
to prom and to be her valentine and to be
her girlfriend. - Oh, okay,
so it was a promise ring. Okay, I was like,
wait, is she proposing, proposing?
- Y'all are gonna make me feel single as [bleep].
My single ass went to prom alone.
I didn't go to prom alone, I went to prom with my friends.
- (FBE) There's nothing wrong with that, trust me.
- There's nothing wrong with that, yeah.
- Ooh.
- He set up set decor and everything.
- Oh my God. These people go out.
- Dang, Blake Shelton.
- People are so creative. It makes me so happy.
- (girl) Yeah! - See, that's so cute.
I like these intimate ones.
- The first one was more social and open
and this one's more intimate.
- These people are extra. I am loving it.
Keep it coming.
- Yeehaw promposals.
- We love a country boy.
♪ I wanna love you and hold you tight ♪
- Oh gosh, no.
♪ Bring you down on that dance floor ♪
- He's really serenading her. That's so cute.
- (man) Maya, I'm head over boots for you.
- Oh my God, "I'm head over boots."
- (man) I'm head over boots for you.
Will you party with me all night at prom?
- Aw. She just went "yeah."
- That's adorable.
- Oh my God. Oh my God, so [bleep] cheesy.
- Ugh, okay. I don't like country music,
country anything, so this is just so cringe for me.
- This is a more realistic promposal where it's just like,
"Hey, will you go to prom?" and she's like, "Yeah.
You already know."
- "My boyfriend and I accidentally asked each other
to prom at the same time."
- Okay, that's cute. That's really cute.
- Dude, their friends had to have known.
- It's like the Spider-Man meme where it's just like,
hey, hey.
- (girl) Get out of here.
- That's awesome.
- (crowd cheering) - That's how you know it's real.
You guys have the same instinct. You're at it like that.
- Great minds think alike, so that's what I get from that.
- You're doing-- but I'm doing--
we're both doing-- yes.
♪ (trumpets) ♪
- Damn, he got the trumpets?
- That is so extra, but I love it.
- Dang, she's walking down a red carpet.
- Aw.
- Is she crying? Aw, that's so sweet.
- This is a production.
- She's really put on the spotlight.
- Where is her date? There he is, oh.
- Oh my God. He's in the box?
- Ooh, I know that's gonna be a [bleep] to clean out of his hair.
I know that.
(crowd cheering) - Honestly, these are so cheesy,
but it's so good.
- This is love. This is people just
loving each other and just being happy about it.
- I would walk the other way. I'd just be like,
"Sorry, I can't do it. This is just too much pressure."
And what if I do wanna say no?
Then everyone's gonna hate me.
- "I'm gonna take you down to the old prom."
Oh my God. (groaning)
- ♪ I'm gonna take you down to the old prom road ♪
You know, the topical ones.
- That's a very this year thing.
- Oh, I saw this one my Pinterest account.
Oh, that's so good.
- Oh, [bleep]. Shoutout Blueface.
- (Blueface) Hey Tatiana, will you bust down
with my boy Adam to prom? - He just called his girl Tatiana?
Oh, her name is actually Tatiana, okay.
- That would be so funny if she said no.
Everybody'd be, "Oh my gosh,
you met Blueface. I'll go with you.
Can I meet Blueface too?"
- I like it. I think it's very clever,
but at the same time, part of you's like,
"Do I wanna be called a thot?"
- Aw. I love the LGBT representation
this year.
- "Who said there can't be two princesses
in a fairy tale prom?" Oh, that's really cute.
- This is awesome.
- I'm a supporter of that. I'm a little gay myself,
so I just like seeing my people, I guess.
- I'm so happy people feel just so welcomed
and accepted in their school in order to be doing this.
That means the school system isn't bashing them
for just being who they are and that means the school
is supporting them and I just love that.
- "Only I could mess up going to a girl's house
to ask her for prom." How does he do that?
- Oh, I think I saw this.
- (girl) Oh my God.
- (cameraman) Did we pull up to the wrong house?
- (girl) No. - Wait, what?
- (cameraman) Did we pull up to the wrong house?
- What? - (girl) No.
- Oh my God, that's so embarrassing.
- (girl) No. - She's like, "No."
She's like, "No, that's me."
- I just got second hand embarrassment from that.
Oh my God.
- (girl) It's okay. I really thought
you were someone else. - (cameraman) I apologize.
- (boy) Oh my gosh, I'm really sorry.
- (girl) It's okay. - (cameraman) No, that's my bad.
- Just go to prom. Just go to prom together.
- That's so embarrassing. What if like a dad--
what if my dad answered the door?
He's a big, scary person. He'd be like, "What's up?"
- Directions, man. Directions are hard sometimes.
You get caught up in the prom moment
and it's hard to find the right house.
- (FBE) So, before we talk more about all of this,
did you go to prom this year or are you
planning on going? - I didn't go to my school's prom,
but I'm going to my friend's school's prom
next Saturday.
- I'm planning on going to prom this year.
I'm going with my boyfriend, Richard and we're going
to his prom, so it'll be fun. He made a poster
and brought over a big teddy bear
and the poster said, "I couldn't bear to go
to prom without you." It was really cute.
- My prom is actually next week, so I'm excited.
I'm going with myself. Gotta keep it--
I gotta love myself.
- I went to prom. Prom was plbbttt.
Low key, only it was cool because all my friends were there.
- I went to prom last night. I went to prom
with my friend at her school. Her boyfriend is out of town
and I wanted to go to prom really bad, so I asked her
if I could go with her. I was like, "Hey, can you take me?"
- I did go. It was super fun.
I went with my significant other and it was really good.
We both looked pretty tight. I had a little poster
and I got little lights on it and it really wasn't
that impressive, but I worked real hard on it
and I think I wrote, "Light of my life,
care to shine bright at prom with me?"
- We had a junior, senior prom. I went both years
with my best friend, Nora. We didn't ask each other,
'cause we were both really busy, but we were the ones
who assisted all the other promposals.
We had two other friends that promposed during a class,
so we had to stage it. I had conversations
with the teachers, with her, we were stashing things in class
or behind desks before that morning.
- ♪ I'm sure you know, for her name ♪
- (girl) Oh my God. - ♪ I hope to take her to prom ♪
(class cheering)
- (FBE) So in recent years, promposals have become
very popular all over social media with people
seemingly going above and beyond more than ever before.
- Yeah, I think it's definitely one of those things
where it's like, it's no longer just the people
at your school who can bear witness to it.
The 100,000 people who like your tweet can bear witness to it,
so there is a little bit more incentive to get attention from it.
- (FBE) From your perspective, do you think that they're
doing this to actually try and get the other person to say yes
and make them feel special or is it really all around
social media and trying to get likes?
- I think it's social media and likes.
But they're cute and some of them are funny and clever
and just overall a fun time.
- I feel like they already know. They already know that they're
gonna get asked by them, 'cause if you have that
big poster out and they say no, it's really scary,
so I think it's more for social media and just showing
that you're going to prom with this person.
- I see sometimes now when schools get involved too
or how schools will be like, "If you have the most
amount of likes or if this page goes viral or what we think
is the best, you get free tickets." for example.
I really hope it's not all for likes, but I could definitely
see sometimes it is.
- I'm sure that there's definitely a social media aspect of this,
otherwise, why would people be filming it?
But also, as teenagers and growing up and about
to become adults and stuff, girls love that kind of stuff.
I think everybody kinda has a soft spot for that
fairy tale, cheesy stuff and just loves to have
that moment.
- (FBE) So finally, prom is often considered one of the most
significant events for many high schoolers, but now,
these promposals seem to be taking a lot of the attention
from actual prom. In your opinion,
which is a bigger deal, the promposal or actually
going to prom? - Actually going to prom.
It's like your last high school dance and get together.
I think it's an important moment in life because it's never
gonna happen again.
- It has to be going to prom. That's where the memories
are mostly from.
- There's definitely more hype around the promposals
than the actual dance, but to me personally,
I think the prom, the dance, is actually a bigger deal.
- Prom is a bigger deal. Can you imagine you go crazy
for a promposal and then you have a horrible time.
- I don't know. I think it's actually going.
If you ask someone for their hand in marriage
and then your marriage sucks, it doesn't matter
how you asked her, right?
- The promposal is now kinda a bigger deal than the actual prom.
When I went to my prom, it was kinda fun.
We hung out there for maybe an hour
and then we just went-- I just went lasertagging
in heels and my prom dress. I feel like it's more about
the promposal and the idea of it rather than
the actual dance.
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