- (FBE) Does Will Smith actually age?
To find out, we scrambled 25 years of Big Willy photos
and challenged our competitors to put them in order.
This is 25 years of Will Smith.
Here are 25 years of Will Smith.
We're gonna do five at a time, so please lay out your guess of photos
in order for 1996 through 2000.
- You are kidding me.
Okay, okay, I mean, the genie, the genie is later on, okay?
That I know.
- (laughs) So many movies I haven't seen!
- So I'm guessing Fresh Prince Will has to be 90?
Like, do I see anything younger?
- Perfect, okay so Fresh Prince, I feel like that's safe.
Wow, he does not age, okay.
- Probably the only one I'll get right.
- I feel like that's not even 1996.
I kinda wanna put that under maybe like 1997 maybe?
- He's young here. Let's bring this guy.
I just gotta find the youngest versions of him.
What movie was this?
It looks like Spike Lee if he was in 1850.
- I think I'm gonna go with this one.
We gotta know the year and everything, huh?
- This kinda just looks like a drunk paparazzi photo
of like a young Will Smith, maybe coming out of the club,
because the image quality is so bad, I'm gonna put that as 1996.
- Can't tell, this, okay, I'll put you at '98.
I am so just like guessing.
- I thought I was gonna do better, but I already feel like I'm guessing.
(laughs)
Alright, '99.
- I remember Wild Wild West came out when I was a little girl,
so I wanna put that maybe 1999?
- Right here, yep.
- I'm just picking out the youngest five that I see.
That's gotta be '96.
Or maybe '97, but he looks young there.
- I would have like no memory of Will Smith during this time
'cause I wasn't born until '98,
so like even in the year 2000, I'd be like two years old.
I didn't care about any celebrities yet.
- I don't feel confident enough to switch any of 'em.
- Let's go with it.
I don't feel great about it, but we're gonna go with it.
- Why couldn't this be like a Lindsay Lohan progression challenge?
(laughs)
I'm kidding, no shade to Lindsay.
- (FBE) Please order Will Smith 2001 through 2005.
- Wow man, this is, this guy looks the same.
- This looks like a sophisticated adult photo,
paparazzi, hello, my name is Will Smith.
- Let's go with this one. I felt this one before.
And then this one, this style looks pretty old.
Like, I don't know if this was for a role or something,
but I think this is 2002.
- He looks pretty young over here. He's really young in this one.
- This is 2004, that looks like 2004.
This is 2005, he was partying here.
Over here, he just got a movie deal.
- This one also, he has like a full beard,
but I don't recognize this movie which makes me think
that this is an older one. Maybe, let's throw it in.
Let's throw it in, I don't know what this is,
and I feel like maybe it's an older movie.
- See, this is giving me younger...
I feel like it's a win for me if I get it,
if I get one, within the five years.
- I'm just trying to go with like my gut instinct,
and not try to scan too much, 'cause I know, like,
the ones that look younger.
- I'm trying to figure out Will Smith's life going on.
This has gotta be 2002. He looks young here.
This is 2001, this is the millennium just started.
I'm switching this, this is 2004.
That's an early 2000s hat.
- I also haven't touched this cowboy photo,
and I think that was an older one that he did.
Never mind, I'm gonna put this one in 2005.
I think I [censored] up a lot.
- Those 10 years are a blur for him.
Those are all the same!
- I'm confident that I'm, that I probably have
some of the photos in the right era,
but that order is probably not right.
- (FBE) Moving on to 2006 through 2010.
- This is gonna be a really blurry area.
I feel like I've seen these characters from him, that some of them are in,
but I'm like what movie was that from?
- This looks like, what was that movie?
Was it Wild Wild West or something?
That may have come out in 2010.
- I'm gonna put the white beret in 2006, because fashion-wise,
like that's just so outdated.
- I Am Legend, I know came out, I thought between like 2006-2008.
So I'm just gonna put it like no, I'm gonna put it,
middle ground!
- It's been so many years, it's just like wow.
You don't really remember every individual year.
- I'm gonna put this picture of him as Common in 2008.
- He looks young here, but not as young as he looks here.
- This cowboy photo's throwing me off.
'Cause I don't know which role this is.
- I cannot tell how old he is at all here.
So for that reason, I wanna put that at 2010.
- He maybe put on like five pounds, 10 pounds, not much.
But a little bit, just a little bit, just enough,
and then he slimmed down again for 2008.
- This one looks similar to 2009, so let's just,
let's go with that.
I definitely feel like what I have left over
are older Will Smith photos,
it's all the young ones that I'm having a hard time with.
- I'm guessing, I don't know.
Maybe, I don't know, it's just wow,
you gotta get the perfect year and everything, it's crazy.
- His beard is showing a little bit of salt and pepper over the years.
Other than that, no sign of aging at all.
We all decay, that's just natural,
but not Will Smith.
- (FBE) Please order 2011 through 2015 Will Smiths.
- Okay, who's this guy in the bottom right
that just snuck up on me, 'cause he is not from 2011.
That's 2006.
- Let's say 2011 here,
just 'cause this looks the youngest out of all of them.
- Oh man, I think I messed up.
This photo right here, which looks like a total,
like early 2000 paparazzi photo,
I think I should have placed that a little earlier.
- Lets say this is 2012.
This looks like his newer Gemini movie.
This looks like something he would put on his Instagram.
- Put this one over here.
- I'm gonna go with this order, 'cause he has like
the same exact facial hair, and kind of look
in these four photos up here.
- Goodness gracious.
Oh my gosh, what are you?
I feel like I, you are young, why didn't I see you?
- When did Ali come out though?
I feel like that came out a while ago,
even though he looks older.
Maybe 'cause he's in movie makeup. I'm gonna move it up like this.
This is what I'm gonna do.
I'm gonna move everything here.
I have no idea when Ali came out.
- This looks like a photo taken at some red carpet ages ago.
- He just grew the beard, I don't see no grays or nothing,
but you know what though?
Hold on, let me bring that back.
Yeah, think I wanna do that one.
- Wow, my confidence level, this could've also been 2010.
- I'm happy with my final five.
That's something I'm happy about.
- (FBE) Down to the final five!
- Alright!
So what year did Aladdin come out? (laughs)
You ain't gonna tell me?
- I wanna say Suicide Squad was 2016.
- This one looks like his Netflix movie
that came out, I'm gonna say 2019.
This looks like the newest. This looks like 2020.
- This one's 2020, just 'cause I know
how active he's been on social media,
that maybe, maybe this was like his quarantine look.
- Ooh, this is hard.
- This looks like his even newer movie.
I'm putting this down. I think this is 2018.
This is 2019.
- When was Aladdin?
Was that the end of 2018, or was that 2019?
Aladdin was not 2020, was it?
Shh, oh my God!
So that's what I'm thinking. Maybe this one is 2020.
So I will put, Aladdin has to be 2019.
- Ugh, eh! Did it come out last year?
No, I feel like it came out in 2018, I'm gonna keep it.
No, I'm gonna move it.
- I'm switching this.
I'm switching this, I'm thinking about this way too hard,
and I'm totally messing it up. I'm good with this.
- It's too late to change anything right now.
It's not like I have any other options,
so I'm locking it in. (laughs)
- Yes!
I am the champ, I'm the champ!
- (FBE) Let's go year by year and see what you got right.
- Okay. (laughs) I'm ready to get zero.
- (FBE) So you definitely got Fresh Prince Will correct.
- Mm-hmm.
- (FBE) You also got 1997 Will correct.
- Yes!
- (FBE) And you also got 1999 Will correct.
- Nice!
- (FBE) So you're already at a three. - Yes!
- (FBE) This slide, you got one point.
- That means the rest of the slides are jacked up, oh no!
- You know what, it's fine. I'll take it, I got Fresh Prince.
- I was expecting zero percent, I feel good about having one at least.
- Yes!
That's like probably the peak of Will Smith's career,
and I remember that, I remember how old I was,
and just like, 'cause I remember going to school
and doing a talent show, and I sang the song.
- (FBE) You got 2004 correct. But that's it.
- Oh, okay, okay.
- (FBE) But that's already four points!
- Yes!
- (FBE) You got 2003 Will Smith correct.
- Okay. - (FBE) But that's it.
- Okay.
- (FBE) Nothing on this one. (laughs)
- Swapped, okay, well, you know what?
For myself I feel good that I got some in the right bubble.
- Oh!
- Is this what virtual classrooms are like for everyone right now?
- This one, I was a mess with.
I don't think any of these are correct.
- (FBE) None of them are correct. - Yeah.
- I got the I Am Legend right.
I said that was my favorite Will Smith movie,
and I got it right. - (FBE) None of those. (laughs)
- Mmm! (Emily laughs)
- None of them? Ugh.
I figured, I was like, I thought 2011 maybe.
- (FBE) You got 2015 Will Smith.
- Okay, alright, I got it this last page.
I gotta pull something out.
- (FBE) You got 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019 all correct.
- Damn!
I know what I'm talking about! A little bit, not really.
I still don't know what I'm talking about.
I know a little bit what I'm talking about.
- Was I shooting for 100%? Sure!
But I'll take three.
- Ah yes, I did it!
- The last ones, I knew, I was like okay, this is ballpark.
I knew, but, you know, actually the 2020 one,
that was the picture I was like I have no idea where that one goes.
- Like Benjamin Button, this guy literally ages backwards.
He looks better in 2020 than he did in the early 2000s.
- Dude, tell me your secrets.
I wanna look as vibrant as you look at 50,
when I'm 50.
- Thanks for watching 25 Years of Will Smith
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