- Ooh, I like this one. - This one's great.
- I'm all about a good, solid, wholesome meme.
What the hell is this?
- ♪ (dramatic intro) ♪
- I love these. - Sugar, salt, beans.
- Oh my gosh, it's food.
- This is what happens in my brain half the time.
- I love stuff like this. That's me!
- Is this Johny Johny?
- Oh, it's that Johny Johny bull [bleep].
- Is that Johny Johny? Oh, it is Johny Johny, isn't it?
- (man) Johny Johny? - Walking out.
- Ew.
- (man) Johny Johny? - Papa.
- (man) Eating sugar? - No papa.
I know this.
- We know this meme. - I don't know this.
- (man) Johny Johny. - Yes papa.
- (man) Eating sugar? - No papa.
- (man) Telling lies? - (kid) No papa.
- (man) Open your mouth.
- This is-- what is happening?
- (laughing)
- That's it? What was that?
- These are Yes Papa, No Papa, Telling Lies memes.
That's what we're doing today.
- I'm all about a good, solid, wholesome meme.
What the hell is this?
- Oh no.
- I just saw this one. This is great.
This guy just did a remix of the Game Theory theme.
- (deep voice) Eating sugar? - (kid) No papa.
- What?
- (deep voice) Telling lies? - Why does he keep
changing outfits?
- (deep voice) Open your mouth. - Don't open your mouth, Johny.
Don't do it.
- No, no, no, no. Not the eyes.
Oh, and the mouth and the teeth.
Oh wow.
- This is weird, man. This is quality kids' content
on YouTube. We clean out the Spider-Man
and Elsa videos, here's Johny Johny.
- (robotic voice) Johny Johny.
- That's me. - He looking like this.
- (kid) Yes Papa? - Yes Papa?
- You like this, don't you? You like this one.
- (robotic voice) Eating sugar?
- It's just so stupid.
- (kid) No, Papa. - No, clearly he's
- (kid) Doing my homework. - He is.
- Oh, it's different.
- (kid) Come have a look.
- I like that he doesn't walk, he just floats there.
- Ew, ew. I'm gonna have nightmares.
- (cracking) - Gotta massage out
the crick in the neck, buddy.
- "One sugar plus one sugar equals two sugars."
Correct.
- That is 100% how math works.
- (cracking) - I like the cracking
whenever they move. That's really cool.
- (robotic voice) I'm so proud of you, son.
You will grow up to be a great man.
- Aw, this is the best timeline.
- (kid) I love you too, Dad. - Aw, very cute.
- This is such a good plot twist.
- (kid) Moral of the story, always do your homework.
Sugar is literally bad for you.
- That little boy has some girthy arms.
Oh my day, he dabbed. Damn it.
- He dabbed and then he lost me.
- This realm of the internet, I just--
I will never, never ever understand.
- This is the kids content that they need to be
exposed to, right here. Do your homework.
Sugar is bad. Dab at the end.
I'm going home right now to show it to Olive.
This will be his bedtime routine.
- (FBE) So, we do have more to show you in a second,
but those were all memes that are being referred to
as Johny Johny Yes Papa. - What?
- Wow, they're called Johny Johny Yes Papa?
- Who started that?
- I've seen the original and I love it
and I laughed very hard, 'cause I love horr-
unintentionally horrifying things.
- I saw the original. I memed the original last night
with a tweet. - I had no idea
what she was talking about. - And then I found their
YouTube channel and I've seen too much.
- (FBE) So, it seems that this might have started off
as a children's video on YouTube in 2009.
- Wait, this has been around since 2009?
- (FBE) And since then, there have been several
non-meme iterations of the nursery rhyme
aimed at children, all with millions of views.
- Wow. I guess I didn't realize
how deeply the origins of this went.
- (FBE) So, now we have that 2009 video to show you.
- (both) Okay.
- I am ready for this original. I have been curious this whole time.
- Oh, what? This is not what I was expecting.
- ♪ Johny Johny Yes Papa? ♪
- (singing along) ♪ Eating sugar? No Papa ♪
- This line. Yes.
God, lying again.
- ♪ Open your mouth ♪
- Ha ha ha. Loved it.
How could I hate on the original.
- Well, if that's the original Johny Johny,
yeah, someone needs to get fired because
they created a nightmare.
- This is to Twinkle Twinkle Little Star.
- That is what that is. Wow.
- The words are a little bizarre, but I guess most
nursery rhymes kind of are if you think about them.
- (FBE) So, the nursery rhyme went viral this year
when it appears that a Twitter user reuploaded
this next video that comes from another
children's YouTube channel. This new iteration comes
from the nursery rhyme with another viral kids song
called Baby Shark. - Oh, I know all about Baby Shark.
- (both) Baby Shark! ♪ Do do do do baby shark ♪
- Grandpa shark. Okay.
- (FBE) The original tweet has been taken down
for copyright infringement as well as most
of the reuploads of the video as well as fan edits.
- Why? - Oh my gosh, how salty.
- Don't [bleep] with Johny Johny.
- (FBE) So, we will have to blur the video out
for the viewers at home, but here's the viral tweet
as well as some memes that followed.
- But I get to experience it in its full glory?
You guys always going above and beyond.
Appreciate it.
- So, for those of you who can't see it,
this baby is much creepier than many of the babies
we've been watching so far.
- Is he Gangnam Styling on the side there?
- Okay, they are breaking it down.
- Yeah, this is really good.
- It's high quality.
- ♪ Do do do do do ♪ - How do you know this?
- I can't even be mad.
- There's a dance.
- ♪ Papa papa papa no no papa papa papa no papa ♪
♪ Telling la la la la ♪ - La la la lies.
Telling la la la lies.
- ♪ La la la la la lies Telling lies ♪
♪ No no papa papa papa ♪ - Does it end?
Okay, great. They took that down?
- Yeah. - Why?
What's the big deal? - I know.
- Thanos.
- Ha ha ha ha. "Half the universe."
- Oh my gosh. - Oh no.
- Now it has nothing to do with Johny Johny.
- Stop.
- ♪ Telling la la la la la lies ♪ - God.
- Sorry, it's hard to talk with the insanity happening.
- ♪ I don't fe fe fe fe fe feel ♪ - (both) No!
- I'm trying to snap it out of existence,
but it won't go. I don't have enough
infinity stones. Why won't you die!?
- This is-- I just wanna--
that's it.
- Who did that? - Why would you do that?
Mean. - (both) Poor Spider-Man.
- Thanos in Fortnite grooving to this nursery rhyme,
it just-- I love the internet.
- Infinity War, greatest crossover of all time?
No, that video right there, Johny, Thanos, Fortnite, Spider-Man.
Internet gold.
- He's texting his baby?
- God damn it.
- ♪ La la la la la Telling lies ♪
♪ No no papa papa papa ♪ - Oh, wow.
- People are so creative. I love the internet.
- (singing along) ♪ Da da da da da da da ♪
- ♪ Ha ha ha ha ha ha ♪ - That made me really happy.
I don't know why that made me really happy.
- I just wish I got it. I mean, normally memes,
I'm like, "Oh, I get it because of this thing."
This is just wild and stupid.
- Trap remix. - Ooh, ooh.
- It's just got a panda dabbing?
- ♪ Oh, Johny Johny ♪ - Okay, all right, I get this.
- Ooh, I like this one. - This one's great.
- I woke up at 8 AM to come here to watch this.
- ♪ Johny Johny Open your mouth ♪
- Great, fantastic.
- I like that remix. That was good.
- There was this beautiful quote from this philosopher
named Alan Watts that says, "Once you receive the message,
hang up the phone." With this meme,
this is one of those that I go, "We saw it.
We get it, we lived it, we loved it."
All right? Go to bed.
- (FBE) So, since the meme went viral, there have been
massive amounts of content created across all
social media platforms with various characters,
remixes, and edits all joining in on the meme fun.
- Oh my God. That is an understatement.
It's ridiculous. It's like a virus.
- (FBE) With so many memes coming and going every day,
what do you think it is about this particular meme
that has made it go so big? - Because we all watched
that stuff and people like things that make zero sense
and people also like things that try too hard.
- You kinda feel uncomfortable watching it
and when you feel really uncomfortable
watching something, you kinda wanna share that.
- We don't have commercial jingles anymore.
We need these little catchy pops of nonsense
to keep us amused. Memes are like
the creative jingles of today. It's a wonderful thing,
but it's dumb as [bleep].
- (FBE) So as you've seen, the Johny Johny Yes Papa meme
has gone viral through various changes throughout
its history. - Right.
- Yes, very many changes.
- (FBE) This speak to the evolution of content online,
how content can start off as one thing,
like a nursery rhyme, but can turn into
something completely different like a meme.
So as a creator, how do you feel
if something you created was turned into something
completely different than what was intended?
- I would love it.
- Oh my gosh, I would be ecstatic.
- Yeah. - That would be
the ultimate honor.
- Ooh, it depends on what if would be
created into. If it was making fun of us...
- Then I would be hurt. - I'd be hurt, I'd be sad.
- I love when people make fun of me for different things.
I don't care, but it would kinda suck if you tried
to make something memey and it turns out
completely the opposite and it ends up being
more cringey.
- I've been memed a few times
and it's been in Spanish too, and I'm like, "Yo,
this is not like what we originally wanted for it,
but the fact that my face is gonna be around
kinda makes me feel good."
- As a creator, if this was spawning these sorts
of memes, then yeah, absolutely that's great.
That's the best, because then, all of a sudden
it just spreads awareness of what you did
and maybe they come back.
- One of the biggest series on my channel
is people making memes about me and me reacting to it,
so I mean, feel free. Make all the memes
out of me if you want.
- (FBE) And finally, after seeing the various versions
of the Johny Papa memes, do you think you'll be
making any content around the meme,
or do you think the meme will die off soon?
- That's a good question. I don't think I'll be
making any content about the meme.
I will just probably be enjoying it.
- I kinda want to now. Yeah.
- Knowing that the meme is being copyrighted
and taken down, probably won't make
anything about it, 'cause I don't want
anything taken down.
- I think I might throw in a joke or two,
although people have been wanting me to do
a Johny Johny theory, 'cause it's surprisingly dark.
- I can safely say that I, Garrett Watts,
will never, ever, ever be remixing or recreating
any form of Johny Johny memes and that I do think
that we will soon put it in its grave.
- I want it to die, but to stay relevant,
regardless of what YouTuber you are, where you are,
you need to keep up with trends.
- I wouldn't do a full video edit on it,
but I think it's fun to be involved
in funny trends like that. It kinda shows
your audience that you enjoy joking about
the same stuff that they enjoy joking about.
- Yeah, I guess you can also bond with people
that actually know the meme. - It's a connection.
- A connection. I feel more connected to you.
- Aw. - (audience) Aw.
- (kid) Cute.
- Thank you everyone for watching this episode
of YouTubers React.
- Be sure to Subscribe to all the creators
in this episode. - Links are in the description.
- Johny Johny. Yes, Papa?
Bye.
- Hey guys, Vartuhi here, producer at FBE.
Thank you so much for watching this episode
of YouTubers React. A huge thank you
to all the YouTubers that came out to shoot with us.
Make sure to check them out. Links in the description below.
Bye, guys.