- Babe, please help me!
My arm is literally stuck.
I was trying to grab something in the bottom.
- Why'd you even--
- Babe, just pull it out! Please, help!
- Okay, slowly-- - But gently!
Gently! - Babe, slowly, slowly--
- Oh, here. Just use the soap.
Just use the soap.
Grab! Help!
Can you please pull it out?
- Wait, did you-- - No, I didn't.
- Why don't you just pull it out?
- Ow! Ow. (Aileen whimpering)
- Wait, are you serious?
- No. (both laughing)
(Deven stammering)
- What?
- Hi, guys! I'm Aileen.
- I'm Deven.
- And this is how going viral change our lives.
(upbeat dance music)
- We're viral?
(both laughing)
(upbeat techno music)
(hearts whoosh)
My first viral video was kind of
like a spur-of-the-moment kind of thing.
I think it was like 3:00 AM that I posted that.
I didn't really think anything of it.
There was a trend in the beginning of quarantine
where girls were recording themselves dancing,
but it would actually be recording the other person,
like their dad, their boyfriend, or stuff like that.
And I was like, "Oh, you know what?
I'll try it with Deven."
So I tried it and I was like,
"Okay, I'll post it."
And then, I woke up in the morning
and my phone was blowing up.
I was so shocked.
I woke up Deven.
It had like 100k views.
I was like, "Oh, my god, babe!"
Like, what?!
Like, "My video just went viral!"
And he was like half-asleep, so.
(Aileen laughs) (Deven mumbles)
He probably though he was dreaming.
He was like, "Nice!"
(Deven mumbles)
- I wish they saw your dance moves, though,
because you were killing it.
- Oh my God. I'm such a bad dancer. I'm--
- No, no, she killed it. - Not a good TikTok dancer.
(Aileen laughs)
- Hm, why did you do so well?
- I don't-- I think I did so well
because he's really supportive
and I think--
- No, I'm not.
(both laughing)
- What were you doing before TikTok?
- I was working at a cell phone company.
I was standing up for a long time.
I think I would have had some back problems
(both chuckle)
- TikTok saved your body?
- TikTok saved my body. Thank you!
- I was working at Aritzia.
At the time, I was working pretty much full-time,
all the time.
- We actually worked together for two days-
- Yeah!
- at Aritzia.
And I hated it.
- Yeah, he's not a retail--
- Oh, what--
She was bossing me around, too.
(Aileen laughs)
She's like, "Why you going so slow?"
I was like, "Come on, man!
It's my first day!" (chuckles)
- Not a good employee. (laughs)
- Wow.
- I'm just kidding. - And now we work together.
(hearts whoosh)
- By the way, Devin does have his own TikTok account now.
So do you want to share - What?
- one of your favorite videos? - Are you plugging me
right now? - I'm plugging you!
(Aileen laughs)
- Maybe the ones that you're in? I don't know.
Just the ones we make together.
- I really like the one where you're like, oh,
"Reasons why my girlfriend was mad at me."
- [Deven] Oh, favorite video? Oh yeah.
- [Aileen] That one's really funny.
- Yeah, you want to check that out.
That has some truth to it. (Aileen laughs)
That one came from the heart. - No, It didn't!
- I'm sure a lot of you can relate.
- Nope, no. Shut up. (both laughing)
Bretman Rock. He would absolutely be our dream collab.
- Yeah, me too. - Yeah. Yeah.
We love him. He's hilarious.
I love how he's himself,
and he doesn't care about anyone else's opinion,
which I definitely need to work on.
But that is my dream collab.
Bretman, if you watching this,
(deeply inhales)
I love you. (Deven laughs)
(hearts whoosh)
I just went on the brand
for my very first brand trip
I cried so much,
I couldn't believe it was my real life.
But I went on a brand trip,
and I just had the best time meeting everyone,
oh my god.
I met so many cool people
and we just had such nice conversations--
And also, speaking of Bretman Rock,
he also comments on videos sometimes,
so that's always really cool
because I love him.
(both laughing)
(hearts whoosh)
- I saw her. I was like,
(snaps fingers twice)
"Damn!"
I knew when I saw her, I was like,
"She's hella,
hella,
short."
(both laughing)
But she pretty!
But I was like, "yo, I like, I like her."
And then we started hanging out more,
through weird circumstances.
I didn't even initiate it.
We just started hanging out more through
mutual friends and stuff. - Yeah.
- And something was pulling us together, right?
- Mhm.
- Her cousin had a cotillion.
So Filipinos, you know what this is.
It's a dance - Debut.
- Yeah, when they turn 18, and they do a dance number,
a partner dance.
They asked me last minute because someone backed out.
But we talked a lot during that practice and stuff,
and she was always like--
(humming) - Okay, okay!
(Aileen laughs) - She was always like,
"Aw, Deven, you're so cute! Aah!"
- Stop, stop! (both laughing)
- But she did it as a joke,
but it made my heart pound all the time.
You're starting a little something-something.
From there, we started talking more,
and then I had a thing with another girl.
And then she was like,
"Oh, maybe I should stop doing those jokes,
you know, telling you you're cute."
I'm like,
(inhales sharply) "No, don't do that."
(Aileen laughs) - I just don't wanna--
- "Why would you do that?"
- I still want you to tell me I'm cute.
(Aileen laughs)
- And then, lo and behold--
- Here we are nine years later!
- [Deven] Here we are nine years later.
- That was when we were 16 year olds.
Look at us now.
So in love!
(both laughing)
I think the most memorable time is we went
to this little kind of, like fair thing
that was happening.
- [Deven] Oh yeah. - Yeah, in our city.
And we were just getting recognized and recognized,
photos after photos.
And it was such like,
it's so crazy because I think that people are scared
to come up to us because they think
that we don't enjoy talking to people,
but we absolutely loved it.
It was so fun meeting everyone who supports us.
And it's so crazy to put faces
behind all the people that support us.
So it was really memorable.
- You guys are dope.
Just come up to us, say hi.
We're probably more shier than you.
- Uh-huh, yeah.
(Aileen laughs)
Special projects coming up?
- Yes. I would actually like to take this opportunity
to plug my Twitch.
(Deven laughs)
twitch.tv/devinchris
I will start streaming and we are
doing a collab streaming, as well.
twitch.tv/AileenandDeven
- [Aileen] Yep.
- And we're going to be doing a lot of events
on there for charity.
But, that would be very fun and exciting to do because
- [Aileen] Yeah! - we get to do what we love
and give back.
- Yes, we're all about giving back.
(hearts whoosh)
We have goals, but we just don't have set--
- how to reach them.
- Yeah.
- We just, we will.
- Yeah, we definitely want to travel more.
I think that's like a huge goal of ours.
- Yeah, we will.
- Oh yeah, we will - There we go.
- We will travel more.
See the world, meet new friends,
like expand our social media presence, you know?
- Okay.
- Yeah, we have some goals.
- We've got some goals.
- We just don't know how we're going to go about them.
(Aileen laughs)
- Yeah, we got goals.
(both laughing)
- Okay, well, we had so much fun.
Thank you for asking us these questions.
We absolutely love you guys.
Don't forget to check out our social media,
@aileenchristineee and
- @devenchris.
- Amazing. And our YouTube channel
- @AileenandDeven
- Bye, we love it guys! - Bye!
- Oh, yeah, don't forget to check out our merch.
- It's our merch.
(both laughing)
- Mwah!
- Peace.
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