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- Two years ago, I was in a relationship with this girl--
not gonna say her name-- for just over a year.
The relationship ended because I found out
that she was cheating on me. - Ooh.
- (Mike Fox) So I thought this would be
the perfect time... - What is this?
- (Mike) ...for me... - To try and kill her!
- (Mike) ...try and prank her with a lyric video.
- ♪ Feeling used ♪ - Oh, I've totally seen--
I've seen these all over YouTube pop up on my feed.
- I've seen so many of these. (laughing)
- ♪ But I'm still missing you ♪
- (Mike) "Michael, we broke up nearly two years ago. Let it go."
- Oh, is that the text coming back? Wow.
- This is an interesting concept.
- ♪ It hurts me every time I see you ♪
♪ Realized how much I need you ♪
- (Mike) "Look, you can do so much better than me.
I treated you like shit, and you didn't deserve it.
I regret that so much." - Oh no!
- ♪ I hate you ♪
- (Mike) "You just said you needed me." (laughter)
- ♪ I love you ♪ - (Mike) "Michael, I'm so confused."
- Yes, this song is confusing.
- ♪ I hate that I love you ♪ - (laughing)
- She's gonna be so pissed
when she finds out that they're lyrics.
- ♪ I miss you in my front seat ♪
♪ Still got sand in my sweaters from nights we don't remember ♪
- Okay, there's no way that you would get that text
and not be like, "That's from the song."
- (Mike) Double question mark.
"Are you sure you meant to message me?" - (guffawing)
- God. - ♪ You don't give a damn about me ♪
- (Mike) "I do though, Michael.
I'm sorry." - Ha-ha!
- (Mike) "Maybe we can catch up over a coffee sometime."
- No way. She's trying to fix it.
She's being so nice about it too.
- (Mike) "Have you seen my lyric prank videos?"
"Yeah. Why?" - Ha!
- (Mike) "Gnash, 'I Hate U, I Love U.'"
"Oh my [bleep] god, you [bleep] little [bleep]."
- (snickering) - (Mike) "I swear to God,
if I ever see you, I'm going to get my [bleep] boyfriend..."
- Oh my god, she's just raging.
- (Mike) "...you sly little prick." - (laughs)
- Oh my god.
- This is been a roller coaster. (laughs)
- My first thought: "Is it real?"
'Cause goddamn, you can fake that like that.
- So I pranked my crush.
And... (cracking up) - (cracking up)
- (Kyutie) I'm just gonna show you guys what happened.
- ♪ I'm so into you, I can barely breathe ♪
- (Kyutie) "What?"
"Dude."
- Oh, she got duded. That's like a friendzone move.
- (Kyutie) Did he just dudezoned me? - Oh, dang.
(Kyutie laughs) - I dudezone everyone.
- ♪ And all I wanna do is to fall in deep ♪
- (Kyutie) "Bruh, what are you trying to say?"
(laughter) - "Bruh."
- She got the "dude" and the "bruh."
- (Kyutie) "Are you okay?" - (giggles)
- ♪ The temperature's rising in here ♪ - Oh my god.
- ♪ Is this gonna happen? ♪
- (Kyutie) "Bro, it's winter and it's freezing."
- (laughs loudly)
- Yeah, it's fake.
Any other guy would be like, "Oh, that's a song lyric."
- (Kyutie) Dot dot dot. "Hey."
"I'm into you."
"What?"
"I like you."
And guys, I'm not gonna let you guys see
the end of that conversation. - No?!
- Yeah, 'cause it's fake. That's why.
- That ended great. Oh, he found out.
- Oh, he found it. - Oh.
- Oh, okay, okay, okay. Yeah, that's what I thought happened.
- (FBE) So basically, this last screen
show that he figured it out,
and he calls her "Ms. Ariana Grande."
- Oh, that's fantastic. That's very funny.
- I thought it was working! I was like...
"She did it! She got out of the friend zone!"
- Today I'm gonna be pranking my (singsongy) boyfriend!
'Cause he always pranks me, so it's my turn to get him back.
- Oh, so this isn't an ex. This is actual boyfriend still.
- ♪ I don't know how to talk to you ♪
- (Cassidy) He just said, "What do you mean?"
- It's just a whole subculture I never knew existed.
This is blowing my mind.
- ♪ I don't know how to ask you if you're okay ♪
- (Cassidy) "That doesn't even make sense."
"I'm okay." "Are you?" - (chuckling)
- ♪ It feels like the only time you see me ♪
- Okay, there's no way that someone would read that and not know.
- Yeah.
- I can't believe how well this works every time.
Unless it's fake.
- ♪ I'm way too good for you ♪
- (Cassidy) "Cass, what are you trying to say?"
"I thought everything was okay. This is so sudden."
- ♪ I just don't understand it ♪
- Oh my god, he just said, "Do you still like me?"
- ♪ No, I'm too good to you ♪ - (chuckling)
- ♪ No, I'm too good to you ♪ - Oh, that's so mean.
- (Cassidy) "We are never ever getting back together."
- Yeah, he's gonna flip it on her!
- (Cassidy) "We are never ever getting back together."
- Oh, he just lyriced her right back!
- (Cassidy) "I promise it was a prank."
- ♪ I used to think ♪ - (both) Oh!
- Whoa, he got her. - Nice.
Good. Good job. Well done. - Well done.
- Well done.
- ♪ ...never say never ♪ - That's awesome.
It's great to see that people figure it out.
- (Cassidy) Hello? - (boyfriend) Hello?
- (Cassidy) I thought that you got it. It was a joke.
- Oh wait, she didn't get it?
- (boyfriend) ♪ 'Cause we... ♪ - (laughing)
- (laughing) - She was so serious,
her hand was shaking. - She got pranked so hard!
- (Cassidy) I'm not joking! I was actually shaking so much!
- I mean, that's what you get, man.
- That's pretty funny. (laughs)
He knew right when it was too. That's very good.
- Oh, that was pretty funny.
That's like another thing that's trending
that all YouTubers are doing. I might do that to my parents.
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- (FBE) All right. So had you ever seen this prank trend before?
- I had not seen this before.
- Not at all, but it's amazing.
- No, I'd never heard of this prank before.
It's pretty funny though.
- Actually just was watching pranks like this before I came.
- Yes.
I know, like, every YouTuber is doing them right now.
- (FBE) So what do you think about this prank?
- I think it's mean.
Luzu would kill me if I did something like that.
- As far as pranks go,
I feel like it's kind of like in a low rung.
- It was clever the first time.
And then you seen one, you seen them all.
- I thought it was funny.
I feel like I would find out.
Like, if someone was doing that, I would know immediately.
- Already in my head, I was thinking of three different ways
to do this video for myself. - Oh my god, I know.
I was like, "This is gonna happen over the next week. I know it."
- Yeah, it's gonna happen. - It's gonna be in the vlog.
- I really enjoyed it. This is really fun.
Although fair warning to those people:
watch out for the copyright strikes.
- (FBE) In recent years, a new type of challenge or trend
will spring up from someone.
And then it seems like so many people on YouTube
will then make that type of a video. - Yeah.
- Hundred layers. - Of course.
Everybody. - (laughs)
- A hundred layers.
I've done like five of them already. - I did one.
- (FBE) Does it bother you when you see so many people
doing the same kind of thing?
Or do you not really care,
considering that people really seem to enjoy it?
- It's a light irking.
And I get it. It's the nature of the beast.
It's topical. It's trendy.
- If the challenge or whatever
that's the trend that's going around is fun, then it's fine.
But it does get a little bit repetitive after a while.
- I understand sometimes it's hard
to come up with constant ideas. I know it's hard to be original.
The thing, if you're gonna make a trend video,
you should be somewhat original with it.
- It's a good way for YouTubers to complement each other
and create a playlist of viewable things
that we all are enjoying watching.
So you just go down the rabbit hole
of watching a bunch of them in a row.
It's kind of like promoting each other in a way.
- As a creator, you definitely have that feeling of,
"If I don't do it in the next week,
I'm just gonna be another of the 5 million people
that are gonna do this," which is fine too,
because people want to see their creator doing it.
- I think it's cool to have your own spin.
I mean, we do a video game channel.
And there's not too many different ways
you can play a video game. - Mm-hmm.
- So I think, as someone that does videos
that are very similar to a lot of videos out there,
I think it's completely fine to hop on a trend and put--
as long as you try to put your own spin on it.
- Everybody's doing the same things.
There's no more talent. There's no more creativity.
And I was like, "Ah, but they're getting the views."
And I've been doing YouTube for 10 years,
and the way you stay relevant is just to adapt.
Once I started doing them, they're not bad.
And if you make it your own, it's your version of it.
But it kills me.
- (FBE) So there's a lot of people
that say that these videos are fake. - Yeah.
- Most of them are.
- Welcome to entertainment.
- (FBE) So what about these videos make you think,
maybe they are fake?
- No, I thought it was pretty straight ahead.
It'd be really easy to fake this,
but I felt like they were all pretty genuine.
- I would definitely call it out if someone was typing lyrics.
Maybe I just know too many-- I listen to too much music.
- The very last one where they're both prankers,
they're both infamous for pranking each other, get real.
Like, that wasn't coordinated from the very first? Come on.
- It's very easy too.
But at the end of the day, did you enjoy the video?
And really, I think that's what matters,
whether it's fake or not.
- So much of YouTube is about
that authentic and organic experience.
But at the end of the day, at this point,
YouTube is an entertainment platform, right?
And so pranksters on YouTube are, yes,
maybe manufacturing a lot of these things to get easy views.
But at the end of the day, if the video was entertaining
and made you smile and made you laugh,
did it not achieve what you wanted it to do in the first place?
- (FBE) So if you were to do this prank,
who would you want to do it to? - (gurgles)
I don't know if I have the balls to be able to do it with anyone.
- I would do it to my husband if I thought it would work.
- Okay, so I said before that Luzu would kill me if I did it.
But I'd probably do it to him.
- I'd probably do it to one of my sisters for a goof.
I'd do it to my little sister.
- It would be amazing to do it to my mom, for example,
because she's probably not gonna get it.
- My mom would be so funny.
Like, she would not get-- if I did any song,
she would not know I was pranking her.
- You guys kind of ruined it for us, so I can't prank her now.
- Honestly, I'm so gullible, it'd probably still work.
If you waited a few weeks, it'd probably still work.
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