- No! I'm emotionally invested now.
- If I had three wishes, I would wish for more moth memes.
♪ (industrial intro) ♪
- (FBE) Today, you're gonna be reacting to this!
- What is that? Oh my gosh.
Wait, what? I'm so confused. (laughs)
- "These moth lamp memes are my favorite thing
that has happened on the internet in a long time."
- "I'd like to solve the puzzle." Don't get it. Mm-mm.
I've never heard of these lamp memes.
- I didn't like 'em at first. But I have this newfound...
appreciation for them. And they're actually very fun.
- OHHH, these are the-- (laughs) the moth memes.
I feel like I have a strange sense of humor, but I feel like
this is definitely stranger than a lot of the memes I've seen recently.
- "Are you sure you wanna enter the Pleasure room?"
"Yes, Brother." - [Bleep] yes, Brøther.
That's how the moth speaks. [Bleep] yes, Brøther.
And then, (laughs) into the room of lamps.
- Ah, its lips! Ah, I don't understand,
but I love it so much. - What the heck?
Okay, is this a new meme that's going around?
Because I've never seen this before. This is so weird.
- It's obviously the moth loves the lamp type of thing,
and they're just going off of that. Okay, cool.
- Like, a moth to a flame. (chuckles) Got it.
- If I were a moth, that would be my jam right there.
- It's a moth and a lamp. That's it!
And then the in between is what you make up and make creative.
- "Take me to the the nearest lamp." (chuckles) Why is this a thing?
- Why is this a thing?! - They're silly, but it's, like,
you know, your undeniable passion, the thing you cannot stay away from,
like a moth to the flame as it were.
- I love that this one moth is getting credit,
just that one moth pic is all over the place right now.
- "I made ultimate moth meme. Moth meme, me." (chuckles)
Okay, that's too meta. - That's next level.
- Memes are getting meta, and I don't understand what's happening.
- That one wasn't good. - Eh, it's all right.
- See, moth to moth meme. Wow, that's genius.
- I'm so old. Whenever I see these trends
and I have no idea what they are, it's just a reality check
of how old I am. (chuckles)
Might as well be on Elders React. I mean, come on.
(badum-tish!) (canned laughter)
- "Captain, we're heading towards the lighthouse."
"I know, Brother." (chuckles) Okay. That was a good one.
- It's got layers. I also like that the moth calls everyone brother.
- That's hilarious. I love that there's umlauts.
- After I get past the stupidity of it all,
I find humor and the creativity.
- Anybody outside of my generation, I feel, does not understand this.
- "Fly into something even if it keeps burning you.
Just kill yourself on a lamp." I love that. That's dark.
- I don't know. (laughs) I don't know.
It's like, if I saw that, I'd just keep scrolling.
- So inspirational, Mr. Moth, so inspirational. Like Kaepernick.
- It'd be better if it was, like-- 'cause Nike is "Just do it,"
if it was shorter. Just lamp it. I don't know! (laughs)
This is why I don't make moth memes.
- "Moths only one thing, and it's disgusting." (chuckles)
"Lamp." That's so stupid!
228,000 people liked her DMing the word "lamp."
- I got the joke now, but it's just, like,
I'm confused as to why are you finding it funny.
- At first, I was just a little bit confused,
but once I started to see what people were doing,
it's actually pretty funny.
- Poor moths. They're so marginalized.
I bet their internal world is way more than just a lamp.
- A lot of these are old memes, too, because that one was before
with the boyfriend thing, "They only want one thing."
So, it's almost like you could take these old memes
and then mix it with these new ones, and it makes it even more absurd.
- "Help me up." "Throw me the lamp." (laughs)
That's a good one from "Aladdin."
- That's funny, 'cause it has-- it's a play on words.
- If I had three wishes, I would wish for more moth memes.
- Oh? Ohh, a video! (objects clattering)
Bitch!
(objects clattering) - Oh my god! (chuckles)
- (snorts) I like that one. That one was funny.
- I wanna know if somebody found stock footage of a guy
running into a lamp, or if somebody filmed themselves
running into a lamp with the purpose of putting a moth
over their face. (chuckles) Either way, it's funny.
- "Thomas Edison invents light bulb. Moths in 1879." (laughs)
- (laughs)
Wait! That-- that is really good.
- I bet that is exactly what happened.
The moths in 1879 went berserk.
- See, once you dive deep, then there's no limit.
- ♪ You're such a [bleep]-- ♪ - (computer) Lamp.
- ♪ I love it ♪ - I love this song.
- Oh my god. - ♪ I love it ♪
- ♪ Such a [bleep]-- ♪ - (computer) Lamp.
- (inhales sharply) Why do I feel like this is still something
Kanye would do, though? - ♪ ...such a [bleep]-- ♪
- (computer) Lamp. - (laughs)
These little gangster moths right there, oh my gosh.
- Ahh, that's so funny and just so dumb!
It's so dumb!! - (Brick) I love lamp.
- (chuckles) - (Ron) Do you really love the lamp,
or are you just saying it because you saw it?
- Nice. That's from "Anchorman." - (Brick) I love lamp.
- I love lamp, too. - (Brick) I love lamp.
- (laughs) - (Brick) I love lamp.
- That is so-- How do people think of that?!
- The "Anchorman" moth, come Anchormoth?
- He loves lamp. I assume if a moth could talk,
they would say the same thing.
- (FBE) And finally, here's a meme from creator Grandayy,
who we featured a few times before, but kills it every time.
- Okay. I'm excited.
(moth buzzing)
- (Møth) Lamp.
I want you, Lämp. - (Lämp) Møth, we cannot be together.
- Ohh, shoot. Okay, actually, this is kinda dramatic.
- Why does this remind me of a weird version of "Shrek is Love,
Shrek is Life"? - (Møth) Then what is it?
- (Lämp) The power is going out. - (Møth) No, Lämp.
- (Lämp) I am dying, Møth. - No, no!
- (Lämp) You have to let me go, Møth. - Oh my god. It's so tragic.
- No! I'm emotionally invested now. - (Møth) Do not give up on me, Lämp.
- (Lämp) You have to le-- - (Møth) Lämp.
- (softly) Wow. That was touching.
- (Møth) Lämp. - Uh, I'm gonna cry.
- (Møth) Lämp. - (FBE) Brandon, are you...
are you okay?
- It's just the greatest love story of our generation.
- (laughs) It was kind of touching. I also like that there wasn't
a single joke in it. It's so deadpan.
- (FBE) So, that was a compilation of the newest meme, Moth Lamp.
- (chuckles) It's just funny! It's just so weird.
- (FBE) So, the original photo that is believed to have sparked
this meme becoming a trend was posted to Reddit
with no context or even really text at all.
And it became a meme from there. - Okay. What's the picture?
- "Close up of moth outside my window."
I think I've seen this before, actually, before it was a meme.
- Oh. It looks super cute. - Ugh. It is-- it's just weird.
I don't like insects. I don't like bugs.
- Little did you know that you would inspire millions of memes.
- Everything starts from Reddit.
Reddit is the birthplace of everything. (chuckles)
This moth is famous. What do you think he's doing now?
He got a new house for his kids and family?
He's gotta have done somethin'. - Overall, I like them.
Out of all the [bleep] that's on the internet,
this is something that will make me chuckle.
- Moth and lamp memes is that stupid millennial humor
that we've created. And if our parents look at this,
they're like, "No. That's it. We failed as parents.
Our kids are stupid. What did we do wrong?"
But it's just us. And it's a new style of comedy.
- (FBE) So, as we mentioned, this meme really had little
to go off of to start a whole trend. It was really just as a simple
as a moth who loved lamps. - (chuckles) That's very true.
- (FBE) What do you think it is about this whole meme
that made it BLOW up? - I think things that go viral
are either super, incredibly complicated,
and everyone's like, "Whoa! Look at this thing! How'd they do it?"
Or they're so [bleep] easy that anyone can add their two cents.
- It's something that is just so simple
that anybody who has some sort of humor or anything,
they can just make a meme out of it.
- That's a huge-ass moth that they showed.
Maybe they realized how big that moth is.
They're like, "Oh, you know, that's kind of funny
what that person said. Maybe I can make it even better."
"This person's getting a lot of likes. Maybe I could get a lot of likes."
- It could just go so many different directions.
They're making memes from "Anchorman" and "Aladdin,"
which are not similar at all, but they just have a moth and a lamp.
- It's versatile in its usage. You can pair it with anything,
anything that, you know, where somebody wants something
or is attracted to something.
- It kind of hit that perfect balance of an insane picture,
but then everyone's just taking it, running with it, and moth to a flame.
It's hilarious. You can't-- You know what?
Maybe we're like the moths to the flame of that meme.
- (FBE) Well, this meme, like many others,
has developed several different angles as the meme evolves,
such as the inclusion of the phrase "brother"
into many of these as well as using German umlauts
and other European dictation. And it has even sparked separate memes
about beavers and bats. - I noticed that!
- (FBE) From your perspective,
how would you describe the life cycle of a meme?
- No one knows about it. A few people know about it.
Twitter knows about it. Dead.
- It's like a wave, right? It comes up, it crests,
and then it's everywhere. Of course, the idea
that I haven't seen this, I guess, that's the point.
It's like, older people-- It's like a dog whistle,
we can't really hear it until it really--
once I catch onto it, (laughs) once it's Disneyfied,
or I'm onto it, it's done.
- Somebody sees a photo or a video or something,
they come up with a BRILLIANT thing that is so funny, everyone dies.
Then it goes on to kind of start spreading its little wings.
Moth puns. All these other people
jump on board I think that are not funny
and don't understand how to make a meme
or what's funny or comedy. And then everyone gets sick of it.
And then everyone's like, "Ugh, moth memes."
And they forget how funny it was in the first place.
- We're all [bleep] hipsters when it comes to memes,
because we wanna be on it first. And then as soon
as everybody knows about it, then we're interested anymore.
But then it does end up kind of going into that archive of memes.
It's funny to reference again years from now
when it's way not even funny anymore.
- (FBE) Finally, given that this meme is simply about moths who love lamps,
what is something that you love as much as a moth loves a lamp?
- I mean, it's gonna be a cliche, but it's sort of
like a Trudy to a chocolate bar. Dark chocolate only.
- My beanie, dude! Brøther, stay on me head!
- TV. That's the number one thing that I love.
- Doughnuts. I literally can eat a dozen Krispy Kreme doughnuts
at any point in the day.
- I love Brockhampton about as much as moths like lamps. (chuckles)
- (Brock) Me llamo Roberto. - (gasps) Wait! Wait! (laughs)
- I love Heelys as much as moths love lamps.
- (Eric) I got [bleep] Heelys. Let's go!
- I just-- I wanna go fast.
- My mom. I don't care if I'm a mama's boy.
I've-- I love my mom more than anything in this world.
- My dog probably, for sure. Maddie loves Taffy.
- Carbs. Yeah, probably pizza, pasta. I just have to have it.
Cheese fries. Ugh, don't even get me started.
- Thanks for watching this lamp-tastic episode
of Adults React. And shoutout to Easton Anderson
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Let us know in the comments. - I love lamp! Bye.
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