- What?!
- (teen) Never judge a book by its cover.
You were right. - That's disgusting.
That goes on people's armpits.
♪ (playful theme music) ♪
- No, not these. Not these.
- (girl) Wait.
- Don't judge a book by its cover!
- (girl) Did you think I was really gonna cut my eyebrows?
Shave my eyebrows?
- Why are you gonna shave your eyebrows?
- (girl) Well, you were wrong.
Don't ever judge a book by its cover.
- What is going on? (laughing)
Is she trying to shave off her eyebrows?
- Wise lesson.
Like she said, never judge a book by its cover.
- This trend is so dumb.
- It's funny because I was binging on these episodes
a couple days ago.
- I see these all the time.
On YouTube, on Musical.ly, on Snapchat, on Instagram, everywhere.
- (girl) Oh, did you think I was gonna cut my hair?
- I saw this one.
- (girl) You're wrong.
Don't ever judge a book by its cover.
Or anyone.
- These are the very same thing.
- How is this teaching anyone not to judge a book by its cover?
- That's a good rule to live by, but when you're holding scissors
to your hair, that's just a different thing.
- (snickering)
- Okay, now that's just stupid.
- (girl) You really think I was about to flat on my tongue?
- No, I didn't.
- (Girl) Well, you are wrong. - (groaning)
- (girl) Never judge a book by its cover.
- That's just hilarious.
She's like...
- They're pretty funny.
- That would've hurt, but I'm glad she did not do it.
- That's just scary because what if you actually did that?
- (teen) Wait, you thought I was a girl.
Never judge a book by its cover. - (laughing)
- (teen) Wait, you thought I was a girl.
Never judge a book by its cover.
- (laughing) That one's awesome.
I actually like that one.
- (teen) Wait, you thought I was a girl.
Never judge a book by its cover.
- Okay, that one, I like.
They're not hurting themselves, it's funny.
- He wasn't doing anything-- like, he wasn't cutting his hair
or he wasn't burning his tongue or whatever.
He was just like, "You thought I was a girl."
That was funny.
- This is a moral lesson.
Just don't judge a book by its cover.
Never judge a book by its cover.
Hello?
- (boy) Oh, you thought I was gonna kiss you?
Never judge a book by its cover. - No!
You thought they were gonna kiss.
- (boy) What, you thought I was gonna kiss you?
Never judge a book by its cover.
- That one was sad.
- (boy) What, you thought I was gonna kiss you?
Never judge a book by its cover.
- That's sad.
That's just sad and cruel.
- That's just kind of harsh.
- Oh, that is just rude!
Don't do that to anybody.
- Ew, what's that? Is that a stapler?
- (man) What?
Did you really think I was gonna staple my hair?
Wrong.
Never judge a book by its cover.
- (laughing) That one was funny because it's like
he was making fun of everybody who was doing it.
- (man) Never judge a book by its cover.
- (giggling) He's like yoink!
I'm like...
- (man) Never judge a book by its cover.
- (chuckling)
It would've been fine if he stapled that hair anyways.
- (boy) Wait, did you really think I was going to cut my hair?
- No.
- (boy) Never judge a book by its cover.
Just kidding. (scissors snipping)
- What?!
- (boy) Just kidding. - (gasping)
Oh, he actually did it!
- (boy) Just kidding. (scissors snipping)
- (laughing) They say, "Don't judge a book by its cover,"
and then they didn't do it, but this one, snip.
- Why would you do that?
- Crazy kids.
- (gasping) - (girl) Wait.
Did you really think I was gonna flat iron my tongue?
Don't ever judge a-- I'm just kidding.
I'm gonna actually do it. - No, you're not.
She actually--?! Oh my god!
- (girl) I'm gonna actually do it. (flat iron hissing)
- (gasping) Okay, seriously, where were her parents?
- (girl) I'm actually gonna do it. (flat iron hissing)
- No! That's terrible!
- I heard the sizzle. (laughing)
- They are hurting theirselves.
Never hurt yourself.
You're just going down the wrong path.
Just try to go down the right path.
- Ew!
- (teen) Wait, did you think I was gonna eat this deodorant?
- He's gonna eat it!
- (teen) Never judge a book by its cover.
You were right. - UGH!
I can't look at that. Oh my god.
- (teen) You were right.
- That's disgusting! That goes on people's armpits.
- Don't eat deodorant, kids.
- Oh my god. He ate it!
- He ate it and his face was like...
(clicking tongue) ...like normal.
- (man) Oh, I bet you thought I was gonna eat this whole pie
all by myself. - "You were right."
- (man) Don't judge a book by its cover.
(fork clanking)
- (cracking up) - (older man groaning)
- (cracking up and slapping knee)
- (older man) Oh, I was hoping for dessert. Thank you.
Mmm, I bet you thought I was gonna get mad.
Don't judge a book by its cover.
- So it was two in one? Oh my god!
- What a nice guy.
Honestly, I wouldn't mind that.
That's just tasty.
- Those were so funny.
I want to do one.
- (FBE) So these videos are all from a recent challenge
called "Don't Judge a Book By Its Cover."
- Yes, I've seen it a lot.
Very trending.
- It's sort of like that ugly challenge or something like that,
whatever it was called, where they would make themselves
try to look ugly.
That one also sort of made fun of people,
but it got the message across out better
than whatever this is.
- (FBE) So as you saw, the trend is essentially videos
of people that look like they're about to do something crazy,
but then they stop and say, "Don't judge a book by its cover,"
and then they either do it or they don't.
- Yeah, that's funny.
- (FBE) So the trend is being done by people of all ages,
but it seems like a lot of the people who are doing it are kids.
As a kid yourself, is this something that you could see yourself doing?
- No.
- No way.
Not in a long time.
- No, not even close.
I don't get the point of this.
- Not really.
I don't want to do any of this stuff.
- I'm not gonna cut my hair, but I would try to fool people
and say, "Do not judge people by this cover."
- Yes, I'd probably pretend I was going to take a pencil
and stab my iPad.
- I've done it in person with my friends
and it was with shampoo.
I just kind of jumped on the bandwagon.
- (FBE) Well, something that seems to have been happening
recently is that some of the videos of kids doing this
have been placed into cringe compilations.
- That will make sense.
- (FBE) Sometimes it seems like when kids start to do trends
or challenges that might be geared towards older teens
or adults, people often make fun of them for it
and don't think they should be doing it.
Do you understand why people would feel this way?
- Sorta.
One, because us children should be safe and sound
in our adult's arms-- but, no, we have 10 children
at least who are being idiots!
- I bet you they don't even get the challenge,
but they just want to be famous.
- It's not filmed professionally.
It's just them with their phone upways,
which is the ultimate cringe.
- Teens should do what teens do, adults should do what adults do,
and kids should do what kids do.
I don't think you should do it if it's not for, you know, for you.
- I feel like older people expect more into entertainment,
so that could lead to just, "Oh, this kid doesn't have
a great camera-- she doesn't have a loud voice.
I will dislike this."
- (FBE) So as you saw, there's a few of these
that are kind of dangerous, and some of the ones
that we didn't show you are extremely dangerous.
- Ooh, I can't even imagine.
- (FBE) So what do you think your parents would say
if they saw you participating in this challenge,
doing something dangerous like this? - They would kill me.
They would punish me for my whole entire life
until I'm 50 years old.
- They'd probably just ask me why I was doing it
and if I told them why, they'd be like,
"Don't follow that trend!"
- Probably wouldn't let me because they want me to be safe
and they want me to go down the right path.
- If I was a parent, and I see my kid doing this,
I'm like, "What are you doing with your life,
making videos that doesn't even make sense?"
- (FBE) Finally, do you think that this trend
should continue or do you think it should stop right now?
- I think this trend should stop right now.
- I think it should go die in a hole.
There's cringy kids-- no point in doing it.
- It's kind of funny to watch them do it.
- Continue so I can laugh.
- I think it should kind of stop with the dangerous things,
but I'm okay with them pretending and not actually doing it.
- Oh, well, it should keep going because keeping it going
sounds like a great idea.
Stop it. Please. (buzzer)
- If people aren't trying to hurt theirselves
or do anything bad, it should keep on going.
- It should keep on going, but just not as dangerous
as eating deodorant.
- It might need to stop.
Feel free to do whatever you want, but you're gonna get a lot of hate
and if you're strong enough to deal with that hate,
and still produce your content, props to you.
- Thanks for watching Kids React.
Shout-out to London Oana for watching last week.
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