- The Naruto run.
- Ooh, okay it's a new part. Wait, this is Mason Ramsey?
- He doesn't need any weapons. He is the weapon.
♪ (industrial intro) ♪
- "Storm Area 51. They Can't Stop All of Us."
- Yes, they can. They absolutely can.
They have lots of guns and if they have alien technology,
they can use it against you.
- Wow, 1.3 million are going and 1.1 million are interested.
That's a lot of people.
- 1.3 million going. Oh my gosh.
One of them is me. No.
- "Details: We all meet up at the Area 51 Alien Center
tourist attraction and coordinate our entry."
- "If we Naruto run, we can move faster
than their bullets. Let's see them aliens."
That's been flooding my Instagram feed
this past week.
- I've heard of this. This is basically a plan
for everyone-- anyone and everyone
to go to Area 51 and find their alien.
This is literally my favorite meme.
- Oh my goodness. - Oh dear Lord.
- This was definitely somebody trying to mess with people
and then they were like, "Oh no, 1.3 million people
are gonna go. Let's do this."
- I've been there a long time ago.
It's just a big, empty space. You aren't gonna see anything.
You aren't gonna storm the center.
- (FBE) So on June 27th, 2019, a couple of Facebook users
created this event and it went viral.
- So silly. I just saw this
a couple of days ago, I think, and I was just like, "What is this?
What are they doing?"
- (FBE) The event page is filled with satirical posts and memes
theorizing the best way to conquer the base,
so we have some of those to show you now.
- Oh dear Lord. Don't you people have
anything better to do with your lives?
- "I didn't think I'd take any stance on this whole
Storm Area 51, Area 51 debacle, but I found this map
of the plan of attack and it just might work."
- These are the different people that are gonna attack,
so you have the Kyles, the Anti-vax kids,
people armed to the teeth.
- Crackheads. Right, the crackheads are gonna go.
Of course I go to the crackheads. That's the one I read out loud.
- I think the Karens are really gonna help.
I think they could use their haircut as a weapon.
Like, whoo.
- I think it's serious as hell. Orson Welles ran a spotlight--
radio spot, no less, and I mean, the whole world reacted
and he said, "Well, I was only fooling."
Some joke, Orson.
♪ (dramatic music) ♪
- Okay.
- Oh, it's the furries.
- "Top secret."
- They're preparing for Area 51.
Aren't we all right now?
- A plunger?
- They're ready.
- Send in some mascots, sure.
- Keanu Reeves.
- The Chads, the Kyles. Oh my God.
Oh, this is great. I love this so much.
- They planned ahead. They know we're coming.
- This is the best thing I've seen all week.
This is so funny.
- (FBE) So, as the Facebook event grew more popular on social media,
users started to create what is now being called
#Area51Memes or #StormArea51,
so here are some examples of those.
- "Me pulling up to Area 51 so I can get myself
and alien boyfriend."
- Yes, Hello Kitty, let's go.
- Bro, me.
- Yes, yes, 'cause humans don't want me,
so I guess I gotta go find an alien.
- It better be a cute alien. That's all I have to say.
- "There's no way they're actually gonna storm Area 51.
It's totally a joke." "Us on September 20th."
Let's go.
- The Naruto run.
- I can't.
♪ (Japanese singing) ♪
- Yeah, good luck with that. I don't think that's gonna
quite do it.
- They run into the wall like that, that wall's going down.
- "When you storm Area 51 and find all the missing socks."
Oh my gosh.
- I like that. Now that, I like.
- Okay, I'm going for that reason. Oh my gosh,
I always lose socks.
- Oh, hi.
- "Aliens walking out of--" Oh.
Of course. We're doing a throwback
on a meme with another meme.
- I love that guy.
- First of all, you can never go wrong with aliens.
The fact that we're matching this all up together like this
is so fun.
- "He's training to free the aliens at Area 51."
- Good for him.
- He's getting trained to save all the aliens.
- Oh no.
- What? That's the best one.
They might know that we're thinking about it.
Maybe they put this in our heads
to come and help them-- to come and save them.
- It's gonna be dead by the time September 20th
comes around. No one's gonna show up.
- "The aliens on their first day of school after we
help them escape Area 51."
- His face.
♪ (electronic music) ♪
- That's terrible. I'm laughing at
the little girl screaming.
- I've seen some pretty ridiculous trends,
but this one, I gotta hand it to people.
They're good.
- (FBE) All right, so some popular brands and celebrities
have also caught on to the trend.
- Okay.
- Chipotle. "Yes, we deliver to Area 51."
Well, I'm going. Once I find this out, I'm there.
- Do I like it? Yeah, I think it's fun.
- Good job, Chipotle. Getting on the trends now.
- When the aliens find out what guac is.
- (FBE laughs)
- DiGiorno, oh my God. "Fun fact, no pizza place delivers
to Area 51 and aliens obviously eat pizza, so they obviously
eat DiGiorno." It's not delivery, it's DiGiorno.
- They need to experience pizza.
- That's such a good opportunity for marketing, though.
- A lot of brand names are doing stuff like this,
which I love, 'cause it brings the people in.
- "Me and Selena Gomez on our way to Area 51."
Aw, that is kinda cute.
- Is that Miley Cyrus? If there was aliens,
they'd get along with Miley Cyrus.
- Yes. - They really would.
- That was my favorite episode of Hannah Montana.
- I thought it was fun, smart, why not?
Nice little throwback.
- That's when people start doing it more,
'cause they're like, "If celebrities do it,
then we can do it, too."
- Danny Trejo has a light machete?
Yeah, nice. I love it.
- Danny Trejo, oh my God. "After leaving Area 51."
I would go if he goes.
- If he's the leader, if he's charging us,
I will be right behind Danny Trejo.
- He doesn't need any weapons. He is the weapon.
The sexy, older guy weapon. Great tacos.
- Mason Ramsey, love this kid.
"This alien facetimed me at 6 AM and told me
to come get him out of Area 51.
What should I do?" You should go, obviously.
- "What should I do?" Go back to sleep.
It's a nightmare. You're having a nightmare.
- You should go get him. You should go yodel
and the doors will open and all the aliens
will just come to you.
- (FBE) So this week, Lil Nas X also released
his very own remix of the smash hit song
Old Town Road, with the video all taking place at Area 51.
- Great.
- Ah, please let it be good. Please let it be good.
♪ Yeah I'm gonna take my horse to the old town road ♪
- I love this song.
- He's playing Minecraft. Oh my gosh.
- ♪ Can't no more ♪
♪ Take my horse to the old town road ♪
- Lil Nas. "We coming for you, bruh."
♪ 'Til I can't no more I got the horses in the back ♪
- Oh, oh no.
- Bruh moment.
♪ Can't nobody tell me nothing ♪
- Area 51.
- I love this. Oh my gosh.
Why do I love this?
♪ You can't tell me nothing ♪
- Okay.
- Is that Keanu Reeves?
- Ah, it's Keanu Reeves!
- Keanu!
♪ You can't tell me nothing ♪ - Yeah, I'd be sweating, too.
- Ooh, okay. It's a new part.
Wait, this is Mason Ramsey.
- Mason Ramsey, how cute. - Oh my gosh.
- Aw, the cowboys.
♪ Ain't nobody tell me nothing ♪ - I'd ride that.
- Mason.
- Ah, nice. Aliens can be rich, too.
- What is 2019? This is so [bleep] weird.
- This is the way to get your views up
and get everyone's attention, so good for him.
- It's kind of horrible when celebrities jump in
on memes, but I think Lil Nas is the only exception
we can make, 'cause he's one of us.
- (FBE) So, the reaction was so massive that the Air Force
spokeswoman Laura McAndrews released the following statement
to the Washington Post. - Oh my gosh.
"Area 51 is an open training range for the U.S. Air Force
and we would discourage anyone from trying to come into the area
where we train American armed forces."
- "The U.S. Air Force always stands ready to protect
America and its assets." "We're hiding aliens"
is what I read in between the lines.
- I'm kind of surprised because, I mean,
it's the Air Force telling you not to go.
You should maybe kinda listen to them.
- It's federal land. You will be arrested.
If you think that's fun, go for it.
- Are you kidding me? "We're protecting America
from the Naruto runners." It's a joke.
A hundred people max are gonna show up.
- (FBE) So, now that you've seen both the original
Facebook event that started all this and the memes
that followed, do you think that this event is actually real?
- I don't-- - Oh gosh.
- I think Kelli said earlier, I think it started off as a joke.
It just reached out to millions of people.
I don't think it'll happen. - Maybe the people
that created it were like, "No, I'm serious, we gotta go."
- No.
- I'm going to say no.
- I would be very surprised if it was for real.
- A few people are gonna show up and do this
if they know the location, which is kinda public knowledge,
so I think it's real enough.
- People my age especially are bored and curious
and have nothing better to do, so I think people will go.
- I heard the message turned out to be a fake,
but there will be people who won't get that part
and will show up anyway.
- (FBE) So, reports have revealed that the creators behind
the Facebook event page have said that this is
all completely a joke and not an actual event
that is occurring on September 20th. - Did you hear that, spokeswoman
McAndrews? Did you hear that?
It's not real.
- (FBE) But since we're talking about Area 51,
we have to ask. Do you think aliens are real?
- Sure, I believe that alien life forms can exist,
maybe just not the way they're depicted
in pop culture.
- Yes. Even another plant
from a different galaxy can be considered an alien.
- I can't believe that we're in this planet--
on this planet alone.
- In this entire universe, galaxy, whatever,
we can't be the only life.
- I think there's life in space
and on other planets, but I don't think it's
what everybody thinks it to be. - Yeah.
- There can't be all those planets--
stars, planets, universe, galaxies out there
and there's not some life. They may not look like us,
but there has to be.
- (FBE) So, do you think the internet has taken
this too far and made this a reality or is it still a joke
and in good fun? - I think it's all still
in good fun. Who's to say that a bunch
of people wouldn't show up in RVs and tailgate the event?
- It's a joke and of course, this never could have happened
when I was a kid.
- I think more people are thinking about
what if we actually did it. That'd be low key fun.
- Going back again to the 39's and 40's,
a guy did it with just radio and people believed it.
When a real warning comes out, you do wonder
if people are gonna pay attention to it.
- The government-- they said the US Air Force,
is that what it was? They had to have a comment
back from a Facebook event. It shows how much power
the people and the internet and Facebook and social media,
everything has.
- There will be people at Area 51 on September 20th,
so the government better just move all the aliens
while they can. I hope it's as big
as a Met Gala. Everyone's talking about it,
there's hashtags, it's on the news.
There should be a red carpet and then the aliens--
the celebrity aliens from their own planet,
they can come out, introduce themselves.
- (FBE) So finally, now that we've talked
about these Area 51 memes, do you hope that this
actually lasts all year or do you hope
that it goes away? - I think it goes away eventually.
- It's not going to last forever.
- I hope it all continues.
- I hope it all continues. - Yeah, I hope it all goes
to the very end. I wanna see what people do.
- I hope it will last all year, 'cause they're funny.
- It's probably not gonna go away any time soon,
especially because the event hasn't even happened yet.
- I want all these things to happen.
I just don't want to personally do anything.
- I don't have to want it to, it just will.
- It's not that I hope they go away, they just will.
It's just a fad. We're gonna be onto
the next thing.
- Nothing lasts forever and I think there'll be
another special event that somebody thinks up.
- I wanna see what happens at the event
and after that, if something else happens to it, cool.
I also kinda want the memes to keep going big
until then because I want them to keep shaking
in their boots and I also want more people to be motivated to go.
Again, I'm not going. I'm not doing this,
but I think it's really fun.
- Thanks to all you aliens for watching this episode
of Generations React.
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- Good luck in Area 51. Bye, guys.
- Hi guys, I'm JC, producer here at FBE.
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