- Dude, that's so smooth!
- (FBE) We are going to give you three minutes to see how much
of a perfect ball you can make.
- Three, two, one, go!
♪ (punk rock intro) ♪
♪ (electronic music) ♪
- What is he doing?
- What is-- oh! Is this that foil ball thing?
- Oh! I did this yesterday. (chuckles)
- I was planning on doing this with a friend.
This seemed really cool.
- I saw a Buzzfeed video where they tried to do this.
- What's he gonna do? Is this some sort
of origami sort of thing?
- Oh! I think I saw that on Twitter.
- This has been on my radar to just try it myself
since I've been seeing it.
- Five hours? Oh my god.
- He just made a metal ball.
- He made a ball of foil.
- So is he sanding it down? - This is way too much work.
Maybe I won't do it.
- I don't know what he's doing it yet, but it looks so fun,
because I love doing stuff with my hands.
- What is he putting on it?
♪ (electronic music) ♪
- It seems really cool.
- One hour later.
What?!
- That's crazy.
- Oh my god, bro. I wish I could make that so bad.
- I don't know why this is a thing. I'm really confused. (chuckles)
- I've seen the finished product on Twitter,
but I haven't seen the process. That's a long process.
- I didn't know how they did that! I just saw pictures.
I was like, "Whoa! What?! That's gotta be fake!
That's not real." - That took seven hours to make that?
(snaps) I do not have that patience.
- Oh, it's-- again. - Has it become a trend?
- This is a thing! - That's a big ball.
It's like a tin foil pillow.
- Am I literally just watching a bunch of people make tin foil balls?
- This is so relaxing. This is serene as [bleep].
- That's so insane.
- I would not have the patience for this whatsoever.
- Oh my god, the hand.
(hard thudding) - (chuckles) Bah!
- That sounds really hard. - Oh my god.
They're going all out.
- It's crazy.
♪ (victorious music) ♪ - This music. (chuckles)
- Whoa, it's shiny. - That one's not as good
as the other guy's. The other guy used sandpaper
and stuff, and it was perfect.
- I've always wanted to do this.
When I saw the video on it, I wanted to do it so bad.
- All along, I thought you just threw it in a microwave,
and that's how you made it. Don't do it, kids.
- (man speaking Japanese)
- Wait. This guy's a famous YouTuber.
- I feel like I've seen him on YouTubers React before.
- Is this a Japanese thing?
- He is the real deal! He's got the gloves on.
- Oh my gosh, he's so happy! That was so cute.
♪ (whimsical music) ♪
- (chuckles) Why does he have so much toilet paper?
- (man snoring) (thudding)
- This guy's my favorite.
- Did he just say-- was that two days?
- See, that one's not as good as the first guy.
The first guy's is so goo-- Oh, he's still going.
He's still going. Okay.
- Safety first. (chuckles)
- He's using gloves so the residue doesn't get on his hand. (snaps)
- Ooh. He's using the sponge now.
- Hey! He did pretty good.
- Dude, that's so smooth!
- Oh, that's really shiny! - It looks like the bean in Chicago.
- What is the purpose of this? (chuckles)
- I wanna try that. But also, I don't wanna sit for seven hours.
- It's cool, but now I'm like, "What good is this doing?"
What are we doing when we're spending hours just doing this?
- I could've seen it once and been okay with it.
I don't think I would necessarily binge watch a bunch of people
making tin foil balls.
- (FBE) So that was a new trend that many people are calling
the Mirror-Polished Japanese Foil Ball Challenge.
- That's a long name. (chuckles)
- I feel like they need to shorten it down to foil ball,
because otherwise, it's not gonna have the same traction
as Mirror Japanese Ball Foil... See? It doesn't catch on.
- (FBE) The challenge seems to have started on Twitter.
It is now being done all over the place
and is one of the biggest trends on YouTube.
- Really? It started on Twitter.
- So it's a challenge. Is it who can get the shiniest,
coolest-looking tin foil ball?
- (FBE) With trends coming and going online as fast
as they do now, how would you say this trend compares
to other recent trends you've seen?
- I feel like none of them are really DIY projects.
This is something even I can do, 'cause everyone has tin foil.
- With most DIYs, it's just kind of like,
"This is how you do this cool thing," and it's usually useful stuff.
But this one's not really useful at all.
It's just a cool trick that tin foil can do.
- This one kind of goes into a completely different category,
'cause it's like you're not eating anything.
You're not dancing. You're not singing.
You're not really doing anything. You're turning foil into a ball.
That's cool. I would love to try that,
but I feel like I just would not have the patience for it.
- This isn't going to last very long.
It's 'cause it takes too long to make.
Slime, you use, like, three ingredients and you're good.
Hot knife? All you gotta do is put a knife over a stove,
and you're good. This one takes way too much time,
and I think even for the meme, people won't dedicate the time for it.
- (FBE) So recently, it seems like the trend is starting
to actually take a dangerous turn as people are trying
to create a shortcut for themselves
with putting the balls in the microwave.
- Oh, that's so stupid. Why would you do that?
You're gonna blow up your house!
- No, no, no, no, no, no, no. That's dumb!
- PSA right now, don't put foil in the microwave!
♪ (tranquil harp music) ♪
- (voice-over) A public service announcement from Teens React.
- (FBE) Why do you think that trends that are seemingly dangerous
like the Condom Challenge, Tide Pod Challenge,
and now something like this, which start off so innocent,
tend to be the more popular trends online?
- 'Cause people are stupid.
People definitely go too far for views.
- It's just more amusing when things go wrong to us,
'cause we're just messed up creatures.
Sticking aluminum in a microwave, that's pretty dumb.
Or eating Tide pods is also pretty dumb.
- For my generation, we don't think before we act.
It's that daring kind of aspect of it that makes people wanna do it,
which is so incredibly unsafe and just not a good idea.
- It's almost this culture of trying to one-up each other.
So it's like, how can I take this to the next level?
And then too I feel like there's this weird sense
of immortality on the internet too, where it's kind of like,
"Nothing can touch me! If this guy was able to do it safely,
then I can do it safely too." So it's just this constant cycle
until people get hurt, and then they're like, "Oh.
Maybe we should take a step back from this."
- (FBE) So finally, we don't have the necessary hours to have you
fully take on this challenge, but we do have the tools.
- Okay. Oh, I got this.
- (FBE) We are going to give you three minutes to see how much
of a perfect ball you can make. - Oh, heck yeah!
Okay, I'm super into this.
- I don't think I'm gonna be able to do this in three minutes,
but I... I can try.
- I have faith in myself.
- Oh my god, there's a hammer and everything.
- Ooh! (laughs) And sandpaper. Three, two, one, go!
Oh, crap.
- So I remember they folded it into a ball.
- Okay, okay. Oh my god.
- Question is how-- Oh, okay. Well, I guess this is
how big my ball is going to be.
- I wanna do this meme justice.
- It'll be small. Oh no. I don't wanna hurt myself.
- I don't have a very good feeling about this.
- This is the longest part.
- Okay, this is a pretty-- actually, I'll do a little more.
- Don't worry. I'm in wood shop. I've got this.
- I feel like this is gonna do nothing.
- Just skip the gym today, you know? This is arm day for me.
- Oh my gosh. This is a workout, my dude.
- It is kind of nice, though. It's kind of peaceful.
Just hammering this piece of tin foil.
- Does that look like a circle? (laughs)
- I'm just gonna make it like a-- I can't even make a sphere.
- Lord have mercy on my arm. Ow. Okay, that's good enough.
(sighs)
- Does not look like a circle at all.
- I'm just gonna go straight to sanding, okay.
- There's no way I can get to the part where I'm gonna use this, right?
'Cause that takes forever.
- Okay, I don't think this is doing anything.
We're gonna keep going, though.
- It's getting some sort of roundness.
- You can see it actually looking smoother
than what it was before. That's pretty cool.
- (FBE) You've got about a minute left.
- No! What?
I see why they need six hours. But also, I'm already losing patience.
- I'm tired. My arm hurts already. I've got noodle arms. I'm bored.
- It's really satisfying, though.
It's a really good way to take out your anger.
- This is not working. This is not as easy
as the internet makes it seem.
- I'm actually confused. How do people do this?
- Oh no! It's lifting up.
- There's literal sweat coming out. Oh no. This is actually getting hot.
- This looks the same, and now my hands are dirty.
- My arm is so tired.
- Oh my gosh.
- (FBE) And time. - (sighs)
- (FBE) Five seconds.
- This is really gonna save it. - (FBE) And time.
- This is sad.
- Okay, there we go. She's done. My hands are gray.
- (snickers) This looks nothing like it.
- This isn't bad for three minutes.
- I am proud of myself for the fact that I tried.
- I made a cylinder, 'cause I knew I couldn't make a ball.
It would take a long time to just pound out everything.
- It's pretty spherical.
I think I pulled that off.
- Tada. Wait. Let me pick a good side.
I don't have a good side.
- Just doing this for three minutes,
I realized how much I don't wanna finish this.
I don't wanna spend hours doing this. Three minutes was enough.
- Thanks for watching this episode of Teens React.
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And shoutout to Mr Jack and Dan.
- What trend should we react to next? Let us know in the comments.
- Bye, guys. - Hey, guys. Ethan here from FBE.
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