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- (Ekow) Ready for this journey, Elizabeth?
- (chuckling) Oh my god. I know this.
- (Ekow) Are you ready for this journey, Elizabeth?
- Oh, this guy. "Damn it, Elizabeth!"
- (Ekow) Let's go, Elizabeth!
Do you want lose these pounds or no?!
- (laughing)
- (Ekow) Get up those stairs NOW!!!
Move those little legs!
- Elizabeth doesn't look like she has to lose weight.
- (Ekow) How in the world am I in front of you?
Goddamn it, Elizabeth!
Let's go, Elizabeth! - The "Goddamn it Elizabeth."
That seems to be the thing he says.
- (Ekow) Let's go, Elizabeth! FASTER!
- Oh, that's not fair. He's in a car. (laughing)
- (Ekow) Those pizza pockets ain't gonna go away itself!
Move it!
- God, that's such a jackass.
- He looks like he was filmed through a Snapchat.
- I've seen this before, but I have no idea what it is.
I just know he's-- they're a couple, right?
- (Ekow) Listen. To start off this diet, okay, you're gonna need some nuts first.
Grab those almonds.
A handful of apples.
Elizabeth. (groans) Oh my gosh.
Last but not least-- Elizabeth, leave the salad dressing alone!
- There's too much fat in that salad dressing.
- (Ekow) Elizabeth? Are you ready?
- Like, how does she not just punch him in the face?
- "That's a hungry hippo"? Rude.
- (Ekow) Elizabeth!
Oh, no you don't, you sick freak!
Damn it, Elizabeth!
You started your diet 19 minutes ago!
- She's going through a drive-thru.
- (Ekow) Just thinking about McDonald's is 500 calories, Elizabeth!
You pick up your sandals and you move those little Oompa Loompa feet!
- Oompa Loompa?! She's fricking skinny!!!
- Why isn't he doing anything?
She was pumping gas while he was filming.
- (Ekow) Elizabeth, if you want me to train you,
then get rid of your box of donuts. - (Elizabeth) No, but I love them!
- (Ekow) Elizabeth, you've got to imagine every yellow line
is a pit of lava.
Okay? Go!
There you go. Work those legs. - Work it, Elizabeth. Work it.
- (Ekow) You want that Kim K? You gotta work overtime!
Do you want your reward or no?!
Elizabeth-- - (cracking up)
That's what I would do.
- (Ekow) Goddamn it, Elizabeth. Like, for REAL?!
I'm giving you 30 seconds... - Where is she?
(Ekow) ...to get out of your dumb little hide-and-go-seek spot.
- He's mean. He's mean.
- (Ekow) Come here!
Stop running! WHO THE HECK ARE YOU?!
- (girl) Some girl told me to put on her clothes--
- (Ekow) What?! - (cracking up)
- (Ekow) ELIZABETH!!!
Elizabeth.
- (cracking up) That was the best.
- (Ekow) You hired a stunt double so you could eat Timbits?
Let's go! - Oh-ho, man. Timbets.
- (Ekow) On your marks, get set, GO!!!
RUN, ELIZABETH!
MOVE IT!
DON'T LOSE TO THE ELIZABETH DOUBLE!
COME ON!!! - (chuckling)
- (Ekow) MOVE IT-- hey, my man, don't be looking at my Elizabeth, okay?
You'd better be looking at number two.
ELIZABETH, GOOOOO!
- The poor guy caught in the crossfire was like,
"What am I doing here?"
- (Ekow) Goddamn it, Elizabeth. Hurry up!
- (Elizabeth) I'm trying! It won't fit!
- (Ekow) On the count of three, you're gonna jump and suck.
One, two... - (laughing) I've had to do this
for my waist before.
- (Ekow) Give me the chips. You're not gonna put it up there.
Elizabeth, give me the-- - Yep, there's no other place
to put it in that dress.
- (Ekow) I told you. - (employee) I'm sorry, it's just policy.
- (Ekow) My bad. I told you, Elizabeth!
My bad, my bad.
Elizabeth, stop! Elizabeth...
- "Damn it, Elizabeth!"
(crowd chatters) - (Ekow) Elizabeth!
Get down here. - Oh, hey now.
- (Ekow) This isn't Coyote Ugly! Let's go.
- (laughing)
- (Ekow) Elizabeth! What are you doing?!
- (Elizabeth) I broke my nail.
- (Ekow) You're in the guy's bathroom! Let's go!
Don't do it. ELIZABETH!!! Oh my go-- Elizabeth!
Elizabeth, you're not on the Yellow Brick Road.
Like, what are you gonna do? Walk all the way to McDonald's?
- (Elizabeth) I need food!
- (Ekow, laughing) Elizabeth, what the heck are you doing?
- McDonald's seems to come up a lot in these videos too.
- (Ekow) ♪ It's a hard knock life ♪ - She broke down
and had to go for McDonald's.
Go get those Chicken Nuggets.
Poor Elizabeth.
I think I've seen most of those.
- It's so dumb but I'm laughing, so it's clearly working.
- I just saw the one with the Krispy Kreme donuts,
but I didn't know they had a million of these.
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- (FBE) So what did you just watch? - A guy yelling at his girlfriend.
- A series of videos of a boyfriend torturing his girlfriend.
- Somebody's Snapchat story.
- The Snapchats of a gentleman trying to help his girlfriend
achieve her fitness goals.
- "Hot Damn it, Elizabeth."
I'm just gonna say that's the title.
- We watched the Elizabeth videos.
I gotta hope that it's fake, right?
- (FBE) This is a series of Snapchat stories
titled "Cot Dammit Elizabeth." - Oh.
"Cot Dammit Elizabeth"?
- "Goddamn it, Elizabeth!" (laughing)
- (FBE) So the videos feature Elizabeth and her boyfriend,
who's trying to help Elizabeth get fit by diet and exercise.
Would you say you enjoyed watching it?
- No.
There's this underlying controlling bullshit.
- It was definitely entertaining, but who dates somebody like that?
- It was creative, it was a good initiative.
Like, it was fun.
- Yes, that's actually-- all boyfriends need to do that.
- Knowing how fake that is, it was awesome.
- You have to look at it and realize that it's a joke, right,
so it's funny.
If it was real, that guy'd be an asshole
and he'd need to get his ass kicked.
- (FBE) The videos are presented as if they are in reality
and unscripted, but there's a lot people that feel it's obvious
that the videos are staged. What do you think?
- I don't think they're staged.
I mean, they just go out there and have fun.
- I never really thought that they were real.
They're still hilarious and they're still entertaining.
- It's entertaining to me.
Do I really care that it's kind of pre-planned? Not really.
- I'm a huge professional wrestling fan. That's the same to me.
It's stuff that's fake,
that's supposed to look like it's real.
And so you get to lose yourself in it more.
It's like you're living in a show.
- (FBE) So these videos started on Snapchat
but they started uploading them to YouTube as well,
and as of now, the most popular video has almost two million views on YouTube.
- Oh my god.
- Oh my goodness.
I feel like maybe Snapchat is taking over the whole vlogging thing.
- (FBE) What do you think it is about these videos
that people are gravitating to? - I don't know, man.
I think it's just his narration.
- It's relatable, it's funny, and the catchphrase is pretty memorable.
- It's all about media.
I mean, social media.
And if you're up to what is new on social media, you're in.
- I don't know why people would want to keep seeing that
'cause it's the same thing over and over again, it seems like.
What you saw? I'm good.
I'm full.
- (FBE) So when you think about Snapchat,
do you think about narrative content presented like this?
- No.
- No, not at all.
And, for the record, I don't get Snapchat.
- I don't (chuckling)-- my Snapchats are all over the place.
- Yes, it's definitely telling a story and people follow up with it.
- I'm not really big on Snapchat, but from what I know,
what I've seen in my limited use of Snapchat,
it's not really this-- this stuff more lives on Vine.
- Yeah, of course.
It's crazy because you start living vicariously
through other people's lives.
- I'm sure other creators are gonna start seeing Snapchat
and gravitating towards, "Oh, maybe this is an interesting way
of reaching new audience and creating more quality content."
- (FBE) The boyfriend in these videos appears to be looking out
for Elizabeth's best interest by wanting her to be healthier,
but there are some who would consider what he's doing to be body shaming.
Do you see that? - Oh, yeah. 100%.
Hopefully, guys don't see that and go, "Man, that's a good way
to get my girl to diet."
- Absolutely.
Maybe the person could approach it with some positive reinforcement
instead of negative reinforcement.
- The language can be a little harsh and, you know, him saying,
"Goddamn it, Elizabeth," but it doesn't strike me as malicious
or mean-spirited.
- No, not at all!
I mean, that's her boyfriend and he's just being supportive.
Just like any trainer would!
- I mean, yes, if I really do have to sit down here
and have a serious conversation about it, then yeah.
But I feel that we need to be able to understand
when a joke is a joke and when it's not.
- (FBE) Finally, if Elizabeth happened to be watching this,
can you give some words of encouragement to her
as she continues her fitness journey?
- Elizabeth, be proud of yourself. Keep working hard, okay?
- I hope I can see your face.
That's the only thing I could really say.
- Goddamn it, stay away from McDonald's.
- If you want to lose weight, lose it for yourself.
Don't lose it for your bully boyfriend.
He's a jackass.
Dump his ass.
- You don't really need this guy to motivate you in that way.
Just do it yourself.
Get out there, work hard, and you can be whatever you wanna be.
And just stay away from McDonald's.
That's not so good.
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- Thanks for watching. Goodbye, everyone.
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