- (FBE) So we're going to show you a picture
from your very first episode of React.
- Ooh! Okay.
I remember my first episode. It was "Catching Fire."
- No! I hate you guys.
I'm gonna see myself with obscene hair.
- That was a "Turn Down For What" episode
and I was so nervous and I was such a little baby
and I thought I knew everything.
Oh my god!
You're really gonna make me watch this?
- (FBE) So we're gonna show you a picture
of what you looked like in your first episode.
- I already know.
It's with a [bleep] Zelda shirt and purple hair.
(sighing) Oh my god!
(laughing) No! Alix, what are you doing?
I got these weird piercings and--
wait, what the hell's going on with my hair?
I still look like I'm 16, but my style's changed.
And definitely that makeup, oh god, what are you doing, honey?
- Wow.
The biggest differences from then to now
is there's no way that would fit me.
I definitely feel like I look older now.
My face has aged.
You know, life just kind of... (laughing) beats you up.
I think I was in my senior year of high school
and now I'm finishing college.
People say time flies. I SO understand.
And the older you get, it speeds up.
- Oh my god!
My ombre hair, okay, how 2011 of you.
I remember working so hard on my makeup
and thinking it was so good.
I don't feel like I look that different,
but I've obviously changed so much.
Sitting here today, versus my nervous ass
in this seat in the first video, it's a world of difference.
- (FBE) So this is your first episode.
It is Teens React to Catching Fire. - Wow, "Teens."
I feel so old.
- (Snow) She just wants to save her skin.
It's simple as that. - Okay.
I killed it.
- (Katniss) Go ahead.
- (Shant) She has some balls to say that when
you have a gun right in your face.
- She does have balls to say that when there's a gun
right in your face. I remember that scene.
I feel like, also, the way I was communicating
in front of the camera and just doing certain things
has changed, which makes sense because that was my first time
compared to maybe, what, now, like, my 90th?
- Oh, hey, Rachel.
- (Shant) Maybe a nine.
- (FBE) What was something specific in the first movie
that you thought they didn't do well?
- (Shant) Honestly, I can't really think about it.
I was a sucker for it.
- Oh, "I was a sucker for it." Come on, Shant.
You can't even have a reason?
- (FBE) And why do you think The Hunger Games
resonates so much, specifically with teenagers?
- (Shant) Probably because it has the whole aspect
of lying, murder.
- Yeah, you know, what else do you do when you're a teen?
Lying, murder... (laughing)
And I remember when Benny and Rafi asked questions.
- (FBE) Finally, when do you plan on seeing it,
at the midnight screening, opening weekend,
sometime in the theater, not in the theater, or not at all?
- At midnight. - (scoffing)
I remember literally seeing it with a huge group of friends,
so, yeah, I read the future.
- Oh, my hair's not that bad.
I was different, for sure.
Everybody else looked the same, and I was like, "whassup"?
- (FBE) Have you read the books?
- (Alix) I kind of got bored in the middle, so I didn't finish it.
- I was so, like, (mumbling).
Like, that's all I said. I was super quick.
I was super nervous.
And it was in their apartment.
I knew the Fine brothers and it was cool
to be on a YouTube show, but I never expected it
to get so big.
It ended up being amazing.
I mean, here I am today, you know,
almost, what, seven years later?
- (FBE) If you had to compete in a fight to the death
with other teens, would you do it?
- (Alix) Yeah. 'Cause I'm a ninja.
- Oh my-- that-- so many people said [bleep] about that.
- (FBE) Are you going to see The Hunger Games?
- (Alix) No.
- That was a quick answer, jeez.
(brusquely) "No!"
- (FBE) Does it remind you of any other story
or movie that you've seen or heard about before?
- (Alix) I don't want to waste my time with it
because I don't agree with people.
Everyone liking it makes me repelled by it.
I mean, I guess it's just me. - I'm still the same.
It's so annoying to watch me.
My voice is annoying.
I'll probably say this in 10 years about this video.
Jesus! - (FBE) ...got bored in the books.
How would that make you feel? - (Alix) I'd be mad
and slap them with a book. - God, I'm so violent.
- (FBE) Do you actually fight to the death
or do you-- - Oh my god.
- (FBE) ...because you don't want to kill somebody?
- (Alix) I would be down for killing people.
- Oh my god! I'm so savage.
It was my main goal back then.
It was, like, be different.
Like, be super dark.
I'm super pink and frilly and the complete opposite
of what I was.
- (Morgan) That's an invincible crotch.
- Yeah, I literally remember saying stuff, but mumbling it
because I wasn't confident enough to be like,
"Damn, look at that steel [bleep]."
- (Morgan) Okay, see, if high school dances were like this,
I would want to go. - No, you wouldn't!
Bitch, you were lying on the couch,
reading Twilight for the 10th time that year!
You liar! Why are you lying?
- (FBE) What genre of music is this?
- Trap, maybe? House?
- (groaning)
The, like, "Trap, maybe? House? Like, I don't know."
Just say one or the other!
- (FBE) Can you name any other EDM artists?
- (Morgan) Zed?
- Why am I so unsure of everything?
Like, yes, Zed!
You know another EDM artist. His name is Zed!
- (FBE) The drug of choice at most of the events is Ecstasy
or something called Molly, and there's even--
- I'm gonna say some [bleep] about, like,
"Don't do drugs."
- (FBE) ...songs even encourage the consumption of Molly.
What are your thoughts about this dangerous drug
being such a part of EDM culture? - (Morgan) It's gonna happen.
Rave culture, there's gonna be a lot of stuff--
- Like you know about rave culture?
- (Morgan) Some people find it better, experience wise, to take it.
- "Some people."
"Some people think it's better.
Like, I don't really know. I don't do drugs.
I'm never around them."
- (FBE) What does the slang "turn up" mean?
- (Morgan) I associate it with alcohol.
Like, turn up, like-- "Let's turn up, yo!"
- Why are you doing this to me?
This feels mean!
- (FBE) So, finally, in your opinion,
is EDM real music? - (Morgan) Yeah.
- God. Is it over? Please tell me.
For the love of God!
I feel like my nerves show because I'm thinking
about my answers so much and all that,
and now I'm just, like, boom!
You get what you get and you don't throw a fit!
I remember a lot less staff members.
There were a lot less people around, and it's super cool
to have so many new people and new faces all the time
because it's literally just growing, and that's a really cool thing
to be a part of.
- (FBE) So how does it feel to watch yourself
having now grown from Teens React to now being in Adult,
and being able to continue watching yourself over the years?
- I think the best explanation I could have for it
is I always loved doing this.
I am able to kind of see almost a timeline of my life
because if I were to pull up an old video of mine,
say that one, just from watching it, I flash back to being in that seat.
I remember all the feelings that I had at that point in time.
- I absolutely love coming here.
It's the highlight of my week and, I don't know,
it's just a really special thing to be a part of a big family.
If YouTube is still a thing, I can show my kids, like,
"Look how cringe-worthy I was when I was 16.
That was your mom."
- It's cool to have this little internet time capsule
kind of thing where I watch myself.
I obviously didn't have all my head shaved.
I don't think I had any tattoos when I started,
so having all that be documented is really cool.
To just be able to have an open and honest opinion
has taught me a lot about myself, my views, my thoughts.
I feel like I learn a lot from myself when I come in here
and when I'm interacting with everyone around me,
so it's been very important for my growth and development
as a person.
I think it has really helped me stay on track to be the real me
instead of changing for other people.