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- A baby.
- Are we watching kids content?
(doll wailing) - He's got chicken pox?
(doll wailing, screaming) - I'm already creeped out.
- I'm already scared where this is going.
- Oh, what is this?
- The [bleep] am I watching?
(doll crying)
- Aww.
♪ (dramatic music) ♪ - What?
- Oh no, where is that going?
- In the-- it's in the butt.
- No! No! No, no, no.
- What?! No, no, no, no. Don't-- bad.
Why?! (laughing)
- I don't know what this is.
(doll crying) - What? What?
- Oh, this is triggering my PTSD.
- Oh, that's so much liquid! Where is it going?
- Let me guess, this has 22 million views.
(doll wailing) - Ew, ah!
Baby ass blood.
- Who made that?
- That was super weird!
- Is this what people watch nowadays?
I'm making the wrong content. Goddamn.
- At least it's not, like, pregnant Elsa chased by Joker.
- I hope YouTube really promoted that one way up.
All right! Hand me another, fellas.
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- Whoa, its mouth moves! Oh, I hate that.
- Oh no. Baby's sick.
- Is this a trend?
- If it's gonna be the same goddamn thing, I'm gonna flip this table.
- What's going on with these videos?
- This is like Creepypasta meets toy unboxing.
- What? She gets a blue one?
That's, like, blue raspberry flavor.
Oh, oh, that's weird.
- Good, we don't want any air bubbles when we're injecting the doll.
(doll wailing)
- Baby got a strong booty.
- That's gonna break the needle, buddy.
- I feel wrong watching this!
Ahhhhh! I hate needles.
- Is this like this guy's fetish?
- Is this what kids are doing with their dolls?
- What does this accomplish?
Is this like a how-to guide?
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- What?! What?!
- I don't understand!
- Is it practice for, like, doctoring?
- The internet is so weird! It's insane.
- I'm 100% sure that has 100 million views.
- Yeah.
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- Hi.
- Let me guess-- that baby is gonna get sick.
- Probably chicken pox, right? Oh no.
No, we're just gonna get right to it.
- Baby clean.
But you still gonna get a needle, huh?
- This is really a trend, sticking needles in doll asses?
- This one's not as good at the other ones.
This is like some cheap knock-off!
- I don't-- I don't want to see another shot in a baby doll butt.
- There's no needle there.
- (snickering) What?!
- He's not even trying.
(chuckling) This guy doesn't know how vaccinations work.
- Okay, that was a fail.
This is also a fail.
- No, it doesn't work.
It doesn't work. You don't have a needle.
- Okay, this guy just didn't want to spend the money on a real syringe.
- What are you doing? What are you doing? What's this?
- What the F was that?!
- What the [bleep] is this?!
- I came into this recording session-- you know what?
Life is great. No, no, no.
- The internet is a great thing because it reminds you
that you're quite sane.
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- (FBE) Had you ever seen anything like this before on YouTube?
- No. No, I haven't.
- No, and I wish I hadn't.
- No, I've never really seen anything like that before.
I thought this was a toy review channel or something like that.
- As someone who studies YouTube trends, why things get popular,
things like that, I have watched more than my fair share
of these sorts of videos--
pregnant Elsa running around with Joker baby.
- I'm well aware that this is a very dark niche in YouTube.
- (FBE) Well, it might surprise you that these videos
have some of the highest views on YouTube recently.
- What?
- No. No.
- (FBE) With some reaching tens of millions of views,
and while we showed you shortened clips, the videos are much longer.
- Come on, world!
- I give up. I'm done.
Why do I bother?
- I have got to go buy some plastic doll babies after this.
- (FBE) Do you have any idea why? - No comprendo.
- It's the [bleep] Spider-Man/Elsa.
It's just another iteration.
- I mean, YouTube is a weird place.
I never put anything past YouTube for being a thing, yeah.
- It's better not to ask questions. Just go with it.
- Kids are not stupid.
Something like this is not going to go popular for no reason alone.
I'm sure that there's something in embedded in the video
that I'm overlooking.
- I can't tell if it's people watching it multiple times
and they're so creepy that they're not commenting
because they're watching a creepy video,
or if it's like a warehouse filled with people
who are just getting the views up.
- These videos tend to be super long.
Videos that get people to watch longer get just served up more frequently
in suggested video.
These, being so long and being for babies/toddlers/tykes,
they're not changing the video, and so a parent just puts them on
and they just accumulate watch minutes, which then gets them
in suggested video feeds and gets them to accumulate more watch minutes.
And on and on and on until they get 22 million views
and you're like, what the heck am I watching?
- (FBE) What we're gonna do right now is we're gonna show you
some videos as they are on YouTube, so we can discuss it further.
- Yeah, let's get to the bottom of this.
- I feel like I've been called in by the CIA to decode something,
but this isn't that cool.
- Here is the first one. - Oh, the titles.
Oh, what have they put in the titles?
- "Doll is sick after eat Nutella and candy hospital doctor."
- That is the longest title I've ever seen in my life.
- 25 comments. - Wait! Wait, that's weird.
- Likes and dislikes disabled.
- Clearly, they're hiding just gross dislike ratios.
- There's a lot on the side too of a lot of other videos just like this.
- What the [bleep] is that thumbnail?
No parent wants their little three-year-old to watch that.
- (FBE) And here is another one.
- Why does it have so many views?!
- I understand algorithm changes, but this is next level.
- Comments are disabled, no likes.
They only have 100,000 subscribers.
- But then they have 16 million views.
- That's bigger than literally any video on my channel.
- Ah! I don't know how-- you don't get millions of views
and 25 comments.
It just doesn't-- it doesn't happen.
There are some very, very strange things that don't add up.
- (FBE) And here's the third video.
- Wait, there are only 700 comments?
Gibberish/single letters. What?!
- Look at that. 7,000 likes, 4,000 dislikes.
No. Those should be-- those should start at five figures each.
I'm gonna wager paid views or somehow botted views.
- It's actually something I've been wondering
is whether YouTube, like a lot of other websites out there,
you know, just let these sorts of things slide under the radar
in order to boost up overall viewership numbers.
- (FBE) And now take a moment to memorize the views,
the likes, the dislikes, and the comments.
- Oh, okay. - Okay, okay, okay.
- Seven and a half, seven-four-seven. Okay.
- (FBE) So here's the same channel, but a month later.
Notice the numbers on this one? - It's, like, exactly the same.
Some real weird stuff going on.
- Almost exact same.
Something's going on here.
- This is some black market YouTube going on right here.
- Nao Disney toys exposed! You're a fraud.
- Damn near identical.
That is further evidence, further proof, that something is doctored.
If you have access to artificial views and whatever,
why would you choose this genre?
- (FBE) So if something is being done like that,
do you think YouTube should be doing something about this?
- Well, I guess... who's it hurting, and who's it helping
I think is the more important thing because if it's hurting nobody,
I really don't care.
- It's not doing any harm to anybody-- they're just doing them.
- YouTube should definitely look into it.
- Yeah, definitely. - They have to--
there's something going on that's weird. - There's something crazy.
- It's really bizarre to me.
700 comments on a 7 million view video is insane,
and most of the comments are just (gibberish).
Bleh. Egh. (gurgling)
- Something is not right. It's not organic, so...
yeah, there comes a point where YouTube, the higher ups,
should step in and intervene.
You don't get seven and a half million views,
and then 700 comments.
That's not possible.
- My ratio of likes to views on videos--
if I had 16 million views on something,
it would have somewhere in the ballpark
of probably a couple hundred thousand likes on it,
somewhere in that range, so it's a little... it's a little odd.
- They always, every month, list what are the top channels.
Usually, it's like PewDiePie, Markiplier, Jacksepticeye, gamers.
Over the last couple of months, it's these channels!
And you wonder why people are complaining about the system.
You wonder why, you know, traditional media
looks at YouTube like, oh, is this a legitimate platform?
- (FBE) Finally, to end the episode, we have something very special for you.
- Don't.
- No! No! No, no, no, no.
- I'm not doing it. (laughing)
I felt wrong just watching.
Is there a real nee-- (gasping) Mmmmm!
- I feel creepy just doing this.
I feel so wrong doing this.
Aah, I gotta, like, undress the baby and stuff.
Apologies.
- If this is what it takes to be popular on YouTube now,
then so be it.
Let's flip this baby and get right into-- get right into it, shall we?
- Can I put it in? - No, I want to put it in!
- I want to put it! - No.
Rock, paper, scissors, shoot!
- YES! - Oh no!
- Yes! - Okay, go.
- I hope you're all enjoying watching this great, great content right now.
- (laughing) That was awesome! I always wanted to do that.
- This is probably healthy fruit juice, so...
there you go.
- I can't even... (needle tapping plastic)
I can't-- can't!
I'm gonna break your needle.
- She's a tough girl.
(needle tapping plastic)
- Ooh, don't break the needle. - This is harder than it looks.
Ooh god, oh god. - (gasping)
- You gotta hold-- oh no.
- All right. We are not-- that's why we're YouTubers
and not doctors. - We're not doctors.
- It's okay. There-- oh god, it's coming out her mouth.
Okay.
- There you go! There you go!
And all better. Yay!
20 million views later! I'm YouTube rich.
- I never thought I'd see the day when this is what it took.
Thanks, algorithm. (snickering)
- Thanks for watching another episode of YouTubers React.
- If you could subscribe to all these fellas down here,
that'd be fantastic.
- Little brown girl and little plastic white girl is out!
- Hey, everybody, Benny here, producer of YouTubers React.
This is a very interesting topic.
We want the conversation to continue in the comments below.
Let us know what you think.
Is this suspicious? Is this not?
And big thanks for watching all the FBE content in 2016.
Happy New Year and we'll see you next year.
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