- Hey, everybody. I'm Sierra. - I'm Lauren.
- And I'm Josh. And we are the producers
here on the FBE channel. - We are currently still coming out
with new videos for you guys during this time,
so we wanted to just take a second and thank everybody for watching
and supporting us right now. - (Josh) Today, we answer
some questions we're asked the most in our YouTube comments
and on Discord. Strap in, 'cause we're gonna spill the tea.
So first, we're gonna take a look at some comments
from our channel and answer some questions,
give you guys some feedback. Yeah, so here we go.
The first comment we have is from our Tiger King episode.
This one is about shooting from home. It comes from AngryBomby,
and he says, "I love that you guys are still doing this from home.
Good job. 10/10." I haven't really been
in these virtual rooms since the the quarantine.
I'm very curious as well as the fans. How has this been going for you?
How different is it from shooting in the office?
- It is honestly completely different than shooting in the studio.
We have a lot more control when we're in the studio
of having the shoots go faster and being able to have
certain kind of props and doing stuff like that.
So, we've really kind of had to limit that,
but doing that kind of limitation has expanded our creativity,
where we have to think of new ideas, so it's been kind of fun.
Definitely a lot of tech issues, though,
that I've had. - That's what I was gonna say.
It's super fun, and I'm really glad
that we still get a chance to hang out with our reactors,
but the tech issues, though. Oh, Mylanta.
- Other than that, I do like the pink.
Hey, no. No, no. Stop.
Anthony!
- Uh-oh. You're frozen. We love a frozen queen.
♪ Let it go, let it go ♪ (chuckles) We lost her. Okay. Well...
- So, we put out a casting call and got thousands of responses
from people all over the world. So, that's super cool.
And we actually have-- our next question comes from--
and I'm gonna butcher this, but it's on the screen.
Natibobati. Oh, no. Yeah, Natibobati C.
"I'm really upset I can't audition, because I live in a different state."
And then the first comment is "Too bad, I live
in a different country." But we've done it now.
And what was that experience like for you two?
- I will say that this is a comment that we see all the time,
and it's not just something just recently.
We constantly get asked, "How do I audition?
I wanna be on the show." And typically, when we're shooting
in our studio, that's really hard and almost impossible to do,
because you have to be in the LA area in order
to be part of the cast. This whole situation really presented
a cool opportunity, where we could shoot with people
who are not in this area, and we took advantage of it
and went out to the fans. And this has been--
that was one of my favorite days of shooting ever.
- It was crazy that some of you guys that we did our shoots with
recognized, A, our faces or voices, because we're obviously not the people
that are on camera most of the time for this channel, so it's just kind of
cool to be like, "Wow, you actually know who I am?
That's strange." But you watch our content,
you pay attention, you're dedicated. And it was just really awesome
to meet those people that we're making this content for.
- I don't want to say McDonald's connects us,
but kind of. They kind of do. McDonald's connects us all.
- This comes from Meredith Carlton from our promposals video.
And she says, "Please do more Elders React.
Those are my favorite, and you never do them anymore.
I'm sad" with a sad face. So, why aren't we doing
elders right now? - Currently, with us all being
in quarantine right now, obviously, senior citizens
are probably the most high at risk to catch COVID-19,
so we cannot shoot with them in person.
And a lot of them are also not the best on the technical side,
which we've struggled with with our college kids and adults,
who know how to use computers and stuff like that,
so we can only imagine how difficult it would be,
and we just wanna make sure that they really stay safe,
'cause we care about them so much. They are like our FBE family.
- And we miss them too. We miss our elders.
I love shooting with the elders. They are so funny.
They crack me up every time. The things that come out
of their mouth, it cracks me up.
Some of my favorite episodes I've ever done at FBE
were elders shoots, so we hear you.
We wish we could be doing more with them during this time.
But just given the technical difficulties
that we all have, it would be really tough
to do with our elders. - I think we better stop the train
and go back to the station.
- The last one-- and we've been getting this one
quite a bit too. This actually pertains
to the Try Not To format. "Why isn't this
on the Try Not To Channel?" And this comes from the Try Not
To Make A Sound video that we did about a month or so ago.
- In case you didn't know already, we have a new channel
in the FBE umbrella of channels called Try Not To Channel.
So, we've been slowly moving all of our Try Not To content
over to that channel. We've been doing a slow integration.
We didn't wanna just, bam, take try not to away from you,
because I know a lot of people on this channel still like it.
It also helps us promote the Try Not To Channel
if we can have some Try Not To episodes on our channel
that can push people to know, hey, there's another channel for this.
- I think everybody watching this right now
should go over to the Try Not To Channel,
go to the latest video, and in the comments write,
"Jack is a prettier Josh" and just hit send,
don't say a word, and let's see how many comments
we can get. And I want Jack to call it out.
I want him to text me and go, "You son of a bitch."
I want that so badly. Moving on to Discord.
You can come to the regular FBE Discord
and chat with anybody from the company that you want.
You can chat with other people who are fans or you can sign up
for FBE Super and get that additional layer.
We will take your comments and perhaps put them
in a video like this or give you some
behind-the-scenes stuff that we can chat with you about,
ask you about which thumbnails you like the best,
which titles you might like for videos,
and generally keep you up to date as to what is going on on FBE,
so check it out if you haven't already.
This comes from Undead Smarties,
and this is from the FBE Super Discord.
It says, if you could pick any one, which reactor would you choose
to be your isolation buddy? Aww.
- (laughs) I feel like this is a trick question.
This is basically like, "Who's your favorite reactor?"
- Yeah. - I'm gonna say Trudi.
I feel like she's a mom. She can make sure that I'm all good,
taken care of, help me with shoots if I need anything.
She got Chaz Michael Michaels, the dog.
And we could listen to My favorite Murder podcast,
'cause we both talk about that all the time,
so we'd have something to do together.
- He honestly can't stop. It's really a problem.
It's very upsetting. - That's good. That's so good.
My answer is also based primarily on dogs.
There's a reactor who got a puppy during this quarantine.
- Oh my god. I forgot. - Ohh.
- And it is Brittany. - Brittany?
- Yeah. - Yeah.
- It is so cute. - So, I would have to say Brittany,
so that I could hang out with the puppy.
And also, the first episode that Brittany and I ever shot together
was a Jonas Brothers episode when "Sucker" came out.
We are both huge Jonas Brothers fans,
so I feel like we'd have something to do.
We could just have dance parties to Jonas Brothers with her puppy.
- I know! I know!!
- This one comes from Nuggetkss237. This says, "How do you choose
which reactors are going to be in each episode?"
- When we're normally in the studio, we kind of have
an idea of which generation we're gonna work with,
like if it's gonna be teens, college kids, elders, kids.
And then, once we kind of know who we're shooting-- the generation,
we try and look for certain things that would do well.
So, say, teens know a lot about TikTok, so we could have
that kind of episode. Then if we chose a TikTok episode,
I'm gonna be thinking, like, "Okay, who knows it? Who doesn't?"
I want kind of a mixture of people who understand it,
but then also a mixture of people who don't,
because we want to get all kind of views in our episodes.
- And if you're curious how we know these things about our reactors,
it can either just be from being in the room with them,
hanging out with them, talking, but we also send out a poll
to our reactors each and every week. And then we try to also rotate
through our cast and not use the same people
every single time basically. We want to try to get as many points
of view as possible across our episodes.
Especially since we're filming at home, we can do that.
We've been trying to get to film with some people that we maybe
haven't gotten to shoot with in a while.
- This one comes from Crazycatlady. "How long does it take to produce
an episode from beginning to release?" - We have a few different style
of episodes based on how fast can we get them out.
So, the first one is what we call a lightning episode.
Lightning is usually something that's trending that we wanna
get out super quickly. And that, we can start prepping
that episode on a Monday. We'll shoot it on a Wednesday.
And that episode will come out on Friday.
And that's kind of the quickest we can put something together.
So, basically from the moment we pitch the episode
to the moment it comes out is what? Four or five days.
But that has changed a little bit since working from home
slows things down. So, I think the quickest
we can get one out now is about a week.
Start to finish, that's about how quickly we can do it.
It's just when we do it could change.
We don't always necessarily do it the week after we shoot it.
Sometimes it's a month even in advance.
- So, that is all the time we have for today.
Thank you guys so much for watching.
But before we go, Lauren, Sierra,
what are some things we filmed recently
that you really enjoyed? - I'm really excited to see
our episode that I'm shooting today actually,
which is Kids React to Lil Pump. I've only had a couple
of shoots so far. It's been a ride.
And I think you guys are gonna enjoy it.
It's just-- they're very shocked. They're just like, "Oh my god.
What is this? This is weird."
- Yesterday, I had a shoot with Rob Paulsen and Maurice LaMarche,
who are the voices of Pinky and the Brain.
And that was probably... Yeah, I think it was my favorite shoot
of all time. - If you enjoyed this update,
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- We really hope that you guys enjoyed this video.
We had a lot of fun filming this today.
So, we'll see you later. Bye, guys. - Bye!