♪ (punk rock intro) ♪
- I can't believe people even asked them to react to me.
That's very nice. - (Tori) Oh my god!
I love Troye Sivan!
- (Will) Never heard this song in my life.
- Fair enough. - (Nora) I've seen this 800 times.
- Aww. - (Sergio) I first watched him
on YouTube, and... - (touched) Sergio.
- (Sergio) So weird seeing how he got much bigger.
- Aww. - He has, like...
- She knows the words. - (Anna) ♪ This blue neighborhood ♪
- Sing it, girl. - (Anna) ♪ Never knew loving
could hurt this good ♪ - (Sergio) It makes me feel so bad.
- Aww. I don't know why my heart breaks for Sergio.
Watching him get sad about this makes me get sad about it.
Oh, this is gonna be like-- - (Tori) Oh, they kissed!
They kissed! (laughs) - Yup.
I remember when I filmed the trilogy. The make out scene was really intense.
I just hadn't done anything quite like that before.
- (Alberto) See, dude, now his dad's yelling at him for being gay.
- I feel like Alberto is the type of boy that I would've been scared of
at school, 'cause he just looks really cool and just a boy,
you know what I mean? So, I'm really intrigued
watching him watch this. - (Tori) He just wants to be
with his boyfriend. - ♪ Only fools do what I do ♪
♪ Only fools... ♪ - (Alberto) Damn, that sucks.
- See? He's into it. He's feeling for the characters.
- (Tori) He loves you! - (Sergio) Aww.
The concept's getting me so mad, especially with the one character.
And it's, like, he's feeling so upset and horrible.
It's like, ahh. - Aww.
- ♪ I wanna sleep next to you ♪ - (Will) Okay, this got dark.
- It does get pretty dark. - (Alberto) Did his dad die?
- (Leah) Did his dad die?! (gasps) - It's so funny watching this,
'cause you hope that the plot has these points
where it, you know, takes a twist or it shocks people or whatever.
But you never actually know if it's gonna work,
'cause you lose all perspective when you work on something.
And I'm seeing all of the moments connect for them,
and it's actually kind of fun.
- ♪ And that's all... ♪ - (Leah) Oh, now he's leaving?
- (Sergio sighs sadly) - (Nora sighs) How can he do that?
- It's nice to watch it back like this.
I feel kind of bad for making it as sad as I did.
- (Leah) What are you gonna do? What-- don't jump!
- (Sergio) I hate this so much, but then I love the music.
- (Tori) So sad!
- There's something really real about watching real people experience it.
And especially the fact that they don't know that I'm watching,
you know, it's like a real reaction, and it feels equal parts terrifying
to watch, but also really, really gratifying.
- (FBE) Okay, so do you have any idea what we just showed you?
- (Geneva) Nope. - (Leah) Troye Sivan!
- Yes. - (Anna) Troye Sivan.
- (Nora) I love this album so much.
Everything about it is just so beautiful.
- I'm so happy everyone knows what it is even.
- (Nora) I've done mashups of them on piano and guitar.
I am obsessed with this album. This is one of my top five albums
of probably my entire life. - I hope that girl uploaded
the mashups to YouTube. I wanna watch her--
I wanna react to her mashups.
- (FBE) His album, "Blue Neighborhood," debuted
at number seven on the Billboard 200 charts
back in December. And he's being touted
as one of the next rising stars in music.
Why do you think he's been so successful?
- (Alberto) Because he's-- that music, so many people can relate to.
- Wow. I feel bad for saying that I would've been scared of him.
I just grew up with a lot of scary masculine boys
who would just give me [bleep] about stuff, you know what I mean?
He seems really, really lovely and nice.
- (FBE) So, this was a music video trilogy made up
of three songs with three separate videos
that all follow a continuous narrative.
What do you think about this as a concept for a group of videos?
- (Will) I actually kind of like that.
- When I came up with the idea to do three videos,
I was absolutely convinced that no one was gonna let me do it.
But I brought it up anyway.
And then my record label was like, "Yeah, sweet."
So, we shot three videos in three days. It was pretty nuts.
- (FBE) Finally, do you think that Troye should keep
making music videos like this with such deep messages
and storytelling? - (Anna) Yes.
- (Geneva) Of course he should. - (Leah) Yeah. I really liked it.
- (Daniel) Yeah, absolutely. - (Tori) Definitely.
- (Sergio) This isn't just a video. This happens to a lot of people,
where they're not supported or they're criticized or abused
for who they are.
And this is basically just showing people,
this is what could happen. This is something that does happen.
I'm so grateful that I had such a supportive family,
at least my mom's side.
And it sucks that all these people don't have that.
(choked up) So, you don't know me, but if you feel like
you don't have anybody there to support you,
just know that I will be there.
- [Bleep] Sergio. (sighs)
People like him-- I mean, people like all of these kids,
but that's the exact reason why I made these videos
in the first place, you know? And... I don't know,
for me growing up, I didn't have--
I didn't know any LGBT people at all. And so, I only had the internet.
You know, I only had videos like this or, you know,
people like-- voices like Sergio's, you know what I mean, to look to
and to have what felt like conversations,
even though it was only me and my laptop or whatever, you know?
It's, like, that's a real person making a real connection
through a screen. And for him to open himself up
like that on camera is-- that is so, so, so cool.
We had a really talented crew of people working on this trilogy
and had a very specific goal of what we wanted to achieve.
And I just feel really grateful watching this,
'cause I feel like we did it. You know, this is the exact reaction
that I would've hoped for. Gives me a lot of hope as well,
'cause everyone is really, really cool and nice and, you know, just sweet.
- (FBE) Your Blue Neighborhood trilogy that we covered in this video
clearly had a significant impact on a lot of our teens.
So, what was it like to see teens react to you today?
- It's crazy, 'cause, first of all, it's revisiting something
that I haven't watched in a really long time.
But it just refires me up. You know, it's like seeing people
that don't know that I'm watching them have real honest reactions to stuff,
to something that I've made and something that I care about
so much, is really, really crazy.
- (FBE) So, you watched that originally when it came out?
- Yeah. Makes me so emo. Like, it made me wanna cry so bad.
I think I did cry the first time I watched it.
I have seen lots of Kids React, Teens React, Elders React.
I also remember-- like, you have to remember,
I'm an OG YouTuber.
So, I remember when the Fine Brothers invented the series.
- (FBE) So, at one point, you may have even been considered
to be a YouTuber. - Right.
- (FBE) Fast forward to today, and you are a hugely successful
music artist and continue to act as right now you have a new film,
"Boy Erased," with Russell Crowe and Nicole Kidman.
Did you ever expect this coming from YouTube?
- For me, the transition from YouTube to "mainstream"
or "traditional" artist or whatever has been a really smooth one.
And I think the gap is just gonna get smaller
and smaller and smaller. That is 100% the--
not only the future, but the present, you know what I mean?
So yeah, I'm so down with my YouTube roots.
- (FBE) Well, Blue Neighborhood deals with a love story between you
and a childhood friend and the struggles
that same-sex relationships can sometimes face.
Now, you're in a new film, "Boy Erased," where you're dealing
with similar topics, since the film revolves
around a conversion therapy program. How important is it
that these types of topics are spoken about in film and music to you?
- The reason why I was so attracted to this movie is because,
number one, we had-- you know, obviously,
we wanted to make a good movie. And I love the script,
and the cast is incredible. But the thing that was really exciting
to me was there is a tangible goal here,
which is to prevent conversion therapy,
to prevent any young person from going through conversion therapy
across the United States. And so, I'm hoping that this movie
is gonna kind of be an education tool for parents
and for religious groups and whoever kind of happens to stumble upon it.
I hope that they learn that...
just how damaging the practice can actually be of conversion therapy.
You know, I'm wearing this little pin, and it's 50 bills in 50 states
to prevent conversion therapy from-- you know, prevent any sort
of young person from going through conversion therapy all across America,
and then hopefully across the rest of the world as well.
- (FBE) So finally, this is always something special we do
when we have people react back to their episodes,
and it means a lot to the reactors. Is there anything you'd like to say
back to the teens who reacted to you?
- Alberto, I'm sorry I ever talked trash about you,
and I hope that we can be friends.
Sergio, my man, my boy, anything you ever want
that I can help out with in some way, just hit me up.
If you wanna come to a show or something like that,
please, please do. I would love to meet you.
Guys, thank you so much for taking the time to watch the trilogy.
And thank you for saying all of those kind things.
This video, when I saw it a few years ago
was such a nice kind of, like, pat on the back.
And you guys are kind of tangible examples
of exactly what I hoped would happen when people watch this series.
And you made me really, really proud.
Thank you so much for having me, and thanks for watching this video.
"Boy Erased" is out in theaters now. Go see it.
Go take your mum and your grandma, please,
and your grandpa as well. And I'm probably coming
to a city near you on my Bloom tour,
so check that out as well. Thanks for watching.