♪ (punk rock music) ♪
- (Nigahiga) Are you tired of living the same old comfortable life?
Well, with EveRy Airlines, you'll never...
- This sounds like Nigahiga, maybe.
- Oh, is this, uh, Ryan Higa?
- (Nigahiga) Hi, I'm Ryan Higa.
- (laughing) My homie! I love you.
- My childhood.
- I watch all of his videos.
- Oh my god, it is him! (deep gasp)
(laughing)
My childhood is, like, watching.
I'm, like, actually crying!
I haven't watched him in so long.
- (Nigahiga) Here at EveRy Airlines, we've always believed
that your experience flying should not just be good,
not just great, not even just an all-around amazing experience.
So that's what we do.
- He's hilarious. I used to watch him religiously.
- (flight attendant) Even though you paid for this flight,
(laughing) we don't work for you.
We're going to be as rude and condescending as we want.
- (Nigahiga) EveRy Airlines wouldn't be what it is today
without the help of all of you.
- So they're just saying that every airline is just terrible?
- (Nigahiga) To the parents who ignore their screaming kids member,
to the arm rest hugger... - That's the worst.
- I'm the, um, arm rest hugger.
- (Nigahiga) The guy who sits window, but has to pee every 20 minutes.
Even the guy who's constantly farting,
thinking we don't know it's him.
Check out these satisfied customers showing us their thumbs!
- Okay.
♪ (inspirational music) ♪
- Oh my gosh.
That's the guy who used to be in all of his old videos.
- (Nigahiga) But like we always say here at EveRy Airlines:
- (all) What other choice do you have?
- Their production quality has gone up so much.
- (Nigahiga) EveRy Airlines: Just Stay Home.
Tee-hee! - That's pretty true.
There is no comfortable way to fly.
- I love him.
Everything he makes is just hilarious.
- Nigahiga used to be my life.
That's the first thing I ever watched on YouTube.
- Let's just jump into it!
"Dear Ryan, can you do a soccer trick shot?"
Dude, I actually like doing trick shots. - Aw, he's attractive.
- He's so cute. I cry.
- (Nigahiga) Some of us here play soccer
or football-- sorry, for the rest of the world.
But I guess we can't let our fans down, right?
- Oh!
- (laughing)
- Oh my gosh.
What?!
- (laughing)
- I wonder how many takes that took.
- Nice. NICE!
(ball bouncing)
- Dude, perfect, hello.
(farting) - (snickering)
- (Nigahiga) See, easy.
And we didn't even break anything this time.
(items clatter)
- (laughing) - (Nigahiga) Tee-hee!
- "Tee-hee!"
- He still does amazing trick shots and you're just like, "Whoa!"
but there's no music or anything, and he's just like...
it's-- it's just-- it's awesome.
- He really does take the time to think of new and original content,
and it's always funny when you watch it.
- Oh my gosh, oh my gosh, oh my gosh!
- Oh, I love this video.
- Oh, this is Dong Saya Dae.
- (Nigahiga) They're still watching K-pop. - (friend 1) This whole time.
- (Nigahiga) Why don't we make a K-pop band?
- Oh my god!
- (friend 1) We can't speak Korean.
- (Nigahiga) Wait, David's Korean.
- (friend 2) How do you say, "Girl, you got beautiful eyes"?
- ( David speaking Korean)
- (cracking up)
- (Nigahiga) How do you say, like, "Hey, girl. You the shit."
- (laughing)
- (David) Girl is yeoja. Shit is dong.
- Oh god.
- Oh, is this a K-pop song? Heck yeah.
- (Nigahiga) You already know.
Capital B with a lower case "g" with a big A.
Boys generally Asian! Where my BgA Army at though?
- (cracking up) So stupid.
♪ (singing in Korean) ♪
- "Please open the refrigerator."
- Is this actually, like, what they're saying? (laughing)
- ♪ We are Boys generally... ♪ - This isn't even satire.
This is actually what it is.
- ♪ We are Boys generally Asian ♪
- (laughing)
- ♪ (singing in Korean) ♪ - "We're sexy cold noodles."
- ♪ (singing Korean) ♪ - Yep, that's true.
That's also very true.
♪ (singing in Korean) ♪ - (cracking up)
- ♪ (rapping in Korean) ♪ - I love them.
I'm gonna buy all their albums.
- ♪ (rapping in Korean) ♪ - "Do you want to die?"
- (Nigahiga) Oh, you thought we couldn't dance?
- (laughing)
♪ (trap music) ♪
- Oh my god, I love it.
- Watch it not even be them.
- Yeah, I was going to say, watch it be different people in the masks.
- That's not even them. (laughing)
- (cracking up)
♪ (mellow piano ballad) ♪
- ♪ (singing softly in Korean) ♪ - Okay.
- I'm not gonna lie though.
I think Ryan-- he could be-- he could be in a K-pop band.
- (girl) Wait. - (Nigahiga) Wait-- what-- what's wrong?
- (girl) I kind of have to go poop. - (laughing) What the--?
- (Nigahiga) That is disgusting! And so immature.
- (laughing) - (Nigahiga) Tee-hee!
- That was so spot on. I loved it.
- That was one of our first reaction videos,
was to his-- was something with a big yoga ball.
- He's actually really funny though.
I'm gonna actually go watch him after this.
- How can you not love Ryan? He's just amazing.
- I love him so much. I'm so happy right now.
Yes!
♪ (punk rock music) ♪
- (FBE) All right, so, give us some thoughts
about Ryan Higa and his channel Nigahiga.
- He is a great YouTuber.
- He was-- for a long time, he was the most subscribed to.
- He hasn't changed at all and I love that.
Watching those just threw me back to elementary school
and middle school.
- When I was really little, I remember watching
How to Be a Ninja, How to Be a Gangster.
- It's kind of like the inspirational story
of being a YouTube celebrity per se, where he kind of went
from, you know, working out of his house
to now he's got a major community, a major mass following.
- He's one of those YouTubers who just have the quality content.
His personality is just so, like-- I'm drawn to it so easily.
I think I started watching him-- god, forever ago.
- (FBE) So we showed you some recent videos
from his YouTube channel, which has over 18 million subscribers.
- He deserves it.
- (FBE) What do you think it is that has made his channel
so popular and also stay so popular?
- Because it's always him.
No matter what he does, it's still always Ryan.
He's able to make everything funny because he just is who he is.
- He's funny, that's why.
His videos are pretty high production.
- He's just super creative.
Like, he's one of the most creative people.
He always has something that gets me to laugh.
- He seems like he's friendly and inviting,
and he's funny. - He seems really positive too.
- He really puts effort into his videos,
and every week it's like a new and creative topic or joke.
- He's just talented. He has a knack for it.
Sometimes you're just born with the intuition
and the talent to do that type of thing.
- Well, I like it so much is because you don't know
what you're gonna get every week.
It could be a question, it could be a parody,
a random sketch, it's just always-- who knows?
What does he want to do this week?
- He's kind of grown and continued that trend
of making really, really good quality comedy content
that not many people are still doing.
Even around YouTube, I can't think of many people
that are making comedy videos that come out as good as his,
and short skits like that that reach the same level that his do.
- (FBE) So Ryan has been around since 2006
with content like lip sync videos.
- Everyone started with lip syncing, didn't they?
I think Smosh started with lip syncing too.
- (FBE) They weren't really made with professional type equipment
like many on the internet at that time.
Can you talk about what you see is changing
for YouTubers over the past ten years?
- Oh, yeah, definitely.
YouTube used to just be a place where you put dumb videos out.
- It's a big platform and it's really cool to see
how YouTube has grown-- YouTubers have grown with it.
It's a really weird community, but I love it.
- Everyone wants to have high production, but no good ideas.
Like, it's always-- it's always another challenge of some sort.
- More teens are watching YouTube than they are cable television.
It gives the creators more money to invest
and really make it bigger and better than it was ten years ago.
- YouTube is definitely considered a big player in media,
so you can't really pass off on YouTube, you know,
taking out your webcam and lip syncing to a video
because the thing is you're competing now
with people who have production teams.
- I like the OG YouTube, where you were literally filming
on a webcam in a potato, and it wasn't about
your production value or how glitzy and glamorous.
It's just like, wow, who are you as a person?
Some people value production more than the actual content
that goes into the production, which kind of makes me sad.
- (FBE) Well, it's to the point now that, for a lot of YouTubers
and a lot of channels, even for us here, you know,
viewers will tell YouTubers that they grew up with their videos,
and that's a new thing.
You know, you are really the first generation
that's been able to grow up with YouTube.
How do you think it feels for a YouTuber like Ryan
when he's told that someone your age or older
grew up watching him? - Probably makes him feel old.
- That's gotta be a cool feeling.
- Knowing that you've had an impact on somebody's life,
and that you've kind of shaped their experience,
is definitely a really great thing.
- If I was a creator and seeing that, seeing somebody who was eight,
watching my videos, and then they're 16 now
and they're still watching my videos,
I feel like that would make me such a happy person.
Videos like-- like, it's what you like, you know?
It shapes you as a person and everything.
You know, like, me and my friend used to make Nice Guys Finish Last
our ringtone for each other, like, all this stuff,
and it's just really intense and, like, it just makes me so happy.
- (FBE) And, finally, after being around for so long now,
what do you think the future holds for Ryan?
- He's gonna grow. He's not gonna stop.
- Great things, I hope.
- He's so talented.
I'd love to see him flourish in the industry.
- I honestly just think he's gonna keep getting bigger,
and keep making great stuff
because that's what he's done for fricking forever.
- His comedy, like, appeals to so many different people.
As long as a YouTuber doesn't lose their personality,
which it's clear that Ryan hasn't, it's just good things,
you know what I mean?
- Thanks for watching this episode of Teens React.
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- Thanks for watching. Tee-hee!
- Thanks for watching me on Teens React.
It's been an awesome, awesome, awesome opportunity.
Like, I started off as a fan, and now I'm on the show,
but I'm looking forward to being on Adults React.
I'll see you guys over there. Bye.
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