♪ (industrial music) ♪
- Okay, I've seen a meme of this.
- Is this the meme that the guy with the sprink--
okay, I think I've seen this.
- It's a man cutting meat.
- (whispering) Don't cut your hand.
- I was just watching this guy yesterday.
- That looks so good.
(onlookers chattering)
- Is that glitter?
- Oh, this is where the salt meme comes from.
- I, today, saw a meme with him,
and I had no idea what it was from, but now I know.
- He's like brand-new.
I think he's called Salt Babe or something like that.
- Oh wow, okay, he has a whole series.
- Does anybody know if spanking the meat is at all necessary?
- It actually gets a little bit looser when you hit it.
♪ (classical music playing) ♪
- Ooh, this one has fancy music.
♪ (classical music playing) ♪
- (giggling) Massage.
♪ (classical music playing) ♪
- This feels a little dirty.
- Wow, so that's his thing, okay.
So he does a little sprinkle at the end.
- It's his signature move.
- You're mystery man! Is that hay?
- This guy kills it.
Like, the finesse with the preparation.
- I want to cook right now.
- Cooking with style. Nice.
(meat sizzling)
- Yo, this is making me hungry.
- The way he was touching the meat is really uncomfortable for me.
I don't think I like this one.
- Is his name Sergio because I feel like he's sort of my spirit animal.
(smacking table with knife)
- Who is this man?
- I like how he's rocking the man bun and the glasses.
- Wow.
- I'm so intrigued. It's oddly satisfying.
Whoa! That was so sick!
- The cobra.
- The salt, once again.
- I gotta practice that.
- I'm hungry.
- No, she's not.
- So this is how he gets girls? Okay.
I get it now.
- I feel like the porn music is gonna start at any moment. No.
(laughing)
- Where does he work? I must go there.
- I don't know how I feel about it.
Some parts are cool, some parts are gross,
and some parts are a little creepy.
- He just lets his cooking do the talking.
He doesn't talk at all, finesses with the salt.
He's just got that, like, that swag about him.
- (FBE) So the first video we showed you... - Okay.
- (FBE) ...went viral. - Oh, yeah, it did.
- (FBE) Getting millions of views on Instagram.
- Instagram, okay.
- (FBE) And people started calling him Salt Bae.
- "Salt Bae"?
Oh, like "bae"-- hey, bae.
- He uses salt and he's like this suave, attractive man cooking,
so that's bae.
- (FBE) So shortly after these videos became popular,
this trend spread in other ways and we're going to show you
some of that now. - Really?
That's interesting. I want to see that.
- I've seen some weird memes. Inappropiate memes.
- "When old bae sees you flourishing through life with new bae."
(laughing) With Salt Bae.
- I love it.
Success is the best revenge.
- Oh, nice. It's so dumb.
- (laughing) "When you occasionally contribute
in the group chat with a single word to stay social."
Me.
- See, I've seen stuff like this.
I didn't know where this guy was, and it looks like
that's water and splashing up.
I thought he was playing beer pong.
- I'm not laughing my ass off, but it is a good one.
- "When bae tweets #saltbae."
(laughing)
- That's funny.
- I like the little hearts though.
It's adorable.
- It's so stupid, it's funny. That's a good one though.
- This is good.
Can I have a copy of these?
- Is that a salt truck? Yes! East coast!
That's Salt Bae, so you can go out and drive the next day.
- So now photoshop's gotten involved.
People's trying to get a little bit more creative with it.
- This is art.
It's like photoshopped and it's done very poorly,
which makes it better.
- Wow, The Last Supper.
- Spreading some salt on your last supper, bitch?
(laughing)
- This guy is really a miracle. Like, he makes magic happen with the meme.
Um, he blesses the food.
- I could see where some people might be offended by it,
but it's kind of funny.
- "They changed the sign again."
(laughing)
I'm glad people have photoshop skills to make this actually become a thing.
- The Hollyweed incident not too long ago.
- That's my favorite one.
- "These vegan girls must be feeling proper left out
after all this salt babe stuff."
- (laughing)
I got to send this to my girl.
My girl is "vegan."
- That's really very smart, this one.
- A giant carrot.
If that's not sensual, I don't know what is.
I love when memes take on a new life of their own.
- This guy is so interesting.
I wonder what's his name, and he doesn't say anything, right,
so there's a lot of body language.
He's very mysterious, he's quiet,
so people are gonna want to watch more and more.
♪ (industrial music) ♪
- (FBE) So this is a man from Turkey named Nusret Gokce.
- That's a lot of name.
- I don't even think I could pronounce it myself.
- I'm going to call him Salt Bae.
(laughing) Sorry.
- (FBE) Who owns a high-end steakhouse franchise.
- Oh, so he's real?
- No wonder he's very skillful.
- (FBE) And what do you think it is about him and his videos
that have made him become such a trend?
- I don't know, man.
- I don't even know how to answer that question.
It's so weird.
- As soon as you characterize someone as Salt Bae,
it's bound to go viral.
Like, anything with a bae-- Harambe, Salt Bae.
- When he does that salt thing, he's also flexing,
so that couldn't hurt it.
- He's so charismatic while doing it
that I think that alone will draw people.
- (FBE) So Salt Bae has now gotten to a point
where people are researching everything they can find about this guy
and making him a larger-than-life figure.
Why does the internet collectively become obsessed like this?
- I don't know. Because we can?
It's so easy to find info on people now.
- If there's any kind of mystery, people want to dig.
- We want to know what he's like under those glasses,
and what he's like when he's not ridiculously flipping salt
off onto meat.
Humans only need two things: that's food and sex.
And he's got both of those.
- That's just the power of social media and the internet nowadays,
where it's like you find something that's interesting
and unique and people just, like, fall in love with it
and just make their own versions of it.
- Everyone on the internet's usually famous for no reason.
The internet gravitates towards a person or an idea,
and then they blow it out of proportion.
- (FBE) So, finally, we have something for you.
- Is it salt? I hope it's salt.
- Hit it. Hit me with it.
- It's salt!
I'm okay with salt.
- (laughing)
Oh, this is great.
- Fact: I love salt.
And I'm Brazilian, so I put salt on meat, a lot of it.
- So Salt Bae... this is for you.
(sprinkling salt)
- Are you sure I can do this?
So I think this is what he did.
He just went... (sprinkling salt)
- Swan, wait...
That is so dumb.
- I wish I had my sunglasses.
(sprinkling salt)
I could do this all day, man.
I could do this all day.
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- Thanks for watching. Bye, everyone.
- Hey, what's up, everybody?
It's Dallen here from FBE.
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Bye!
(sprinkling salt)