- At this point, I don't even question who gets famous on TikTok.
- I feel so old! - I just care if she's hot or not.
I mean-- - Stop! Objectifying! Women!
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- ♪ To the B ♪ ♪ It's M to the B ♪
♪ It's M-M-M-M-M to the B ♪ - I've seen her.
- ♪ It's M to the B ♪ ♪ Bop ♪
♪ (percussive music) ♪
- Dude, this has been on my TikTok SO many times. You have no idea.
- And it's worth it. She's hot. - Oh my god.
- Oh my god! - Oh my god, Jaxon.
- I think her thing, what got her popular
was doing the head bops and just...
- On the face zoom. Yeah, I don't know how she popped off
like that, but, I mean, TikTok, we've seen everybody pop off.
(laughs) - (FBE) This is by the creator
Bella Poarch. And this just became
the most liked TikTok video of all time,
having over 34 million likes. - No!
- Why? (chuckles) - (FBE) Bella is a Filipino-American
who served in the US Navy, and she has been blowing up
on TikTok this last year. So, let's take a look at some
of her videos and see what makes her so popular.
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♪ (moves into bluegrass-EDM music) ♪ - Wha?! (laughs)
- She's a vibe. That's what she is. You just wanna go with her. (chuckles)
- See, with that one, I've definitely seen memes around it,
where they get different characters from shows or video games or whatever
and put their faces over it. And it's just a giant collage
of the same movement. It's really funny.
- I don't understand why this is big. (laughs)
- All these people started doing that trend too
and obviously tagged her as the trend creator or whatever,
so then all these creators started tagging her,
so she got all these followers. And then, I guess the more
interactions that she got, the more she got pushed
onto the For You page.
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- Yeah, overall, I don't know why it gets popular, but I just--
I guess it does. - Yeah.
- I've stopped questioning it. At this point, I don't even
question who gets famous on TikTok.
- I feel so old! - I wanna see something that's gonna
help me for my day-to-day life or, I don't know, just someone
getting hurt, 'cause that's funny.
Sorry! - Oh my god.
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- She's cute.
- I feel like that was more interesting than the other two.
She did something. (laughs) - (Jayka and Jaxon laugh)
- Yeah, I'm like, "Oh, okay. I get someone would watch this."
- ♪ Chicken wing, chicken wing ♪ ♪ Hot dog and bologna ♪
♪ Chicken and macaroni ♪ ♪ Chilling with my homies ♪
- Period. All Filipinos can sing. - That's what I was about to say.
- (Kenneth and Jayka laugh) - That's what I was about to say.
- (FBE) As of filming this episode, she has over 23 million
followers on the app... - Jesus Christ.
- (FBE) ...with many of her videos getting over 40 million views
on average. - She has that aesthetic to her face,
I guess, like that cottage core. Jayka, take it away.
(squeals softly) - I'm just glad that she's
not a white girl, 'cause there's too many
frickin' white girls that keep getting all these huge platforms
on TikTok when more minorities should be getting it.
- Honestly, I don't care whether a skin tone or anything.
I just care if she's hot or not.
I mean-- - Stop! Objectifying! Women!
- (FBE) What do you think her average fan base is?
Who do you think they are? - Definitely guys, I will say,
because of Jaxon. - What if she was a guy
and she was hot? Look at the Sway House!
Look at the Sway House! All of those are hot men!
Everyone's following them! - Whoever you are,
as long as you're hot, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok,
you're gonna get some sort of following.
Now, I have no clue what the Dolan Twins do,
but I just know they're big, and I just know they're hot.
- (Jayka and Kenneth chuckle) - (FBE) At first, when she blew up
on the app, she got a lot of hate for the style of her videos.
But more recently, she's come under fire
for a tattoo, which resembles the rising sun flag of Japan,
which can be seen as offensive to many Koreans who regard it
as a symbol of Japanese militarism and colonial rule.
Bella has also released an apology on Twitter,
saying that she didn't know the meaning of what it stood for
and that she's planning to either have the tattoo removed or covered up.
- It's not our apology to accept, I guess,
but I don't think she meant any-- at the end of the day,
I really don't think she knew what it meant.
She wasn't educated enough to not get it.
Otherwise, I feel like she'd be smart enough to not get the tattoo.
- (FBE) Part of her fandom has accepted these apologies,
yet she still has gotten a bunch of hate and death threats
from many people online. So, what do you think it must be like
to gain such a huge following so fast, getting all this attention
and adoration, but also along with all of this hate and harassment
from thousands of people online? - She doesn't deserve all this hate.
She's literally just doing the same thing that everyone else
is doing on TikTok. - A lot of Gen Z-ers don't look at--
they're so quick to judge people. We say that we're all accepting,
you know, but if they see one person do something wrong, they automatically
think that they're a really bad person.
We went from saying "OK, boomer" to pointing death threats
for no reason. (chuckles) - Yeah. It's so dumb.
- Just [censored] relax, okay? - Yeah.
- Nothing's that big a deal. It's not your life.
- Why do adults think they're entitled to putting
their comments in young people's lives?
Like, get-- ahhh! - That's right.
- It makes me so mad. I'm sorry. - That's why haters
don't make sense to me. It's not your freakin' life.
Why do you care so much? With a big platform like that,
you can't escape it, you know? You can't satisfy everybody.
- (FBE) Finally, we've seen other people gain huge followings
on TikTok overnight, like Charli D'Amelio,
Will Wonky, Moop, Sienna Mae, and more, so what kind of advice
or would you maybe want to see from the next person that happens
to blow up on TikTok? - Keep your personal life personal
and keep your social life social, because you don't wanna
get those mixed up, because once you do,
you will start spiraling out of control,
and that's what a lot of TikTokers and YouTubers-- that's how they all
end up crashing and burning. - Sometimes it works,
like David Dobrik. His social life is YouTube,
like involving everything. - Yeah.
- Either it works amazingly or it crashes and burns.
- I feel like you need to be a certain type of person.
Like, David Dobrik is a specific type of person
who can pull that off. - He's very charismatic.
- Also, don't drop out of frickin' school.
I've seen all these creators just aren't at school.
And this is why we have creators that aren't educated
and they don't know what they're doing,
because they drop out of school as early as not even
graduating high school. - I'm looking at you, Addison Rae.
- (all but Jaxon laugh) - Oh! Honestly, the first year
of college, I didn't really do much. If I wanted to, I could've probably
made a ton of TikToks. You're gonna have time.
You're always gonna find time for it. - Do not move to LA.
- Listen! Literally! Right? - LA sucks, okay?
It's a [censored]. - Yeah!
- It's a [censored] that's hot, okay? Nobody wants to be here!
Or I-- well-- - You're making it so expensive!
- (both laugh)
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- Bye, everybody! - Hey, everyone. Lauren,
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