hey guy welcome back to the darkest room
in the world we did it
we made it to the end of the year baby
tomorrow is january 1st
2021 which means all of our problems
will go away and life will return to
normal needless to say this year has
been bad
uh i started it off by saying this 2020
is off to
a bit of an underwhelming start but that
means there's nowhere to go
but uh and i'll be the first to admit
that i was wrong but in the spirit of
the year coming to an end i wanted to
take a page out of nathan zed's playbook
and choose something to leave behind
as we head into 2021 and just when i had
that thought
youtube recommended to me the video i
lost my memory prank
on my mom i'm gonna be telling my mom i
lost my memory ah it's a prank
right away i was intrigued by this
because not only is the video designated
as being made for kids
which you can tell because the comments
are turned off but it's also
age restricted pretty rare combination
you don't usually see videos that are
made exclusively for children
over the age of 18. i also realize that
these are people i made a video about
like three years ago because of the
mom's instagram comedy and i'm glad to
see that they've evolved into a fully
fledged family vlogging channel with
11 million subscribers what's up
multifam
how are you doing hi why is there a
school bus right behind us
uh i don't know maybe because i picked
you up from school and we're at a school
yeah and schools usually have school
buses yeah
good start let me just roast my son on
camera because i asked him a stupid
question
if you have not hit the subscribe button
then what are you doing in your life
he's
right what am i doing in my life
that's better give this video a big what
uh big life for sure yeah i got you are
you guys ready
if so give this video a big thumbs up
okay well i already did
but i always do as i'm told before we
call her don't forget to subscribe and
hit the like button okay and now the
video is gonna start yeah guys guys give
this video a big thumbs up because we're
taking a big risk
all right hit that like button hit that
like button let's go well that was a lot
of work
to end up right back where i started
he's got to make it look believable that
he hurt himself so he's got to wrap
himself up maybe wear a sling on his arm
maybe some crutches
we'll make it work we'll make it work
we'll do whatever it takes to make
andrea believe that it's true
you hear that they're gonna do whatever
it takes no holding back
let's see what that entails
nice so they've got a neck brace that
isn't really bracing anything because it
goes up to his nose and i really like
the bandages wrapped around his forehead
that have no blood on them
must be a preventative measure you see
all these band-aids on my arm
i didn't actually cut myself i'm wearing
them just in case i start bleeding
you never be too careful do you remember
this dog what is this
it's a dog this gets so funny this is
what happens when parents come up with
an idea for a video that forces the
child to have to
at me who am i a person a person you are
a person
she's still pretty upset though which is
fair because her son
doesn't know who she is and they're
being super vague about the whole thing
you look like something bad happened but
then when they finally tell her at the
end that it was a prank
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you can see that she's been crying and
it just feels kind of weird gotti got it
luckily for her this is all part of a
prank war which means she gets an
opportunity to prank them back
what devious idea does she come up with
how about the same exact prank
one week later i don't know who you are
how hard did you fall
oh i was so hard brilliant
wake up wake up hey
me and more oh my god
she died i guess rip
oh with things my that there are certain
things that you shouldn't do i really
got scared for you
babe you can't joke about these kind of
things only i can do this prank last
week
you can't do this prank this week oh
that was uh that was a misunderstanding
i apologize
no we have no emergency call 9-1-1 and i
hung up
oh my god called me back so worried oh
good i'm glad they
actually called 9-1-1 and wasted their
time
now here's the thing i thought we had
kind of moved on from pranks i thought
after all the commentary videos about
pranksters and you know the algorithm
shift over time that these were all
a thing of the past but that is very
much not true 8 million views
10 million views 22 million views
on a memory loss prank well now i gotta
watch that one sure you can tell by the
thumbnail and the title i am doing
a prank and it's a very trendy prank i
lost my memory
why don't we live and do intros and then
that's the title
that's the frankenstein i know but i
just want to like introduce them
so we are at this medical supply store
to get a wheelchair to make this thing
more realistic for me this is probably
the worst part of these videos
is when they go to a medical supply
store to buy a wheelchair
and the employees are probably so
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confused
this girl was walking around just fine a
second ago
but then she asks you to hold the door
for her so she can film herself
getting pushed out in the wheelchair
which she then gets
out of so she can help put it in the car
they did a montage of her in
the wheelchair what do you think they do
with the wheelchair when they're done
they just keep it there's a chance that
maybe they donated it
or something but wheelchairs are
expensive so you know they win and ask
for their money back so you're returning
this
because i don't need it anymore
did your legs get better yes christmas
miracle wait aren't you the girl who was
doing jumping jacks outside yeah that
was me
that's the story that we're going for
frank tripped me while i was going down
the stairs and i fell
all the way down the stairs and i broke
also i feel kind of bad for the dog
because every time they film the mom is
just in the corner like
shaking him around making him talk he's
always like the villain too
he's pushing someone down the stairs or
hitting on people's mom
if you're watching this i'm gonna get
your mama's number
and uh father but your parents are
probably gonna get divorced well it's
time to call the friend and give her the
bad news
piper hit her head so hard that she
doesn't remember literally anything
okay so he's not making any sense right
now it's okay just talk to her it's okay
it's not your fault it's by your phone
we faked a brain injury and made a
little girl
then we made enough money off it to buy
a tesla this is all fake something
sophie you totally fell for i i would
have been if she did this to me i would
have been a little bit skeptical
i guess i'm like way smarter than you
yeah gullible i guess you just kind of
really young
and i'm a grown-up but the wheelchair
you really played with so we
rented it and like what is this don't
you have to go to the hospital for that
no
we also got at the store we got the
wheelchair dude so he's not making any
sense right now yeah sophie
ever heard of the wheelchair store what
are you a child it's time to prank the
boyfriend now
gavin it's not a prank it's a prank and
he is not happy about it remember like
oh my god remember my song
oh okay
they have a song i'm not going to google
it i don't
need to know what the song sounds like
piper do you remember this
[ __ ] i wrote that song for you you just
wasted about 12
13 14 15 minutes of your life you sneaky
dog the real prank was on the viewer
this whole time
it's crazy to me how many people make
the same video
with the same title and the same
thumbnail and they all get viewed do you
think they shoot these thumbnails before
the prank
or did they stop like halfway through to
do it oh it hurts oh my god
are you okay oh man
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my memory don't worry i'm gonna call the
doctors wait don't you mean
the doctor no the talk show they'll know
what to do
mondays on cbs i love the dobre brother
video
where one of them does the memory prank
on the other one and they find him in a
see-through
hospital gown just standing out in the
snow and he doesn't recognize his own
twin what's going on just come in the
car
who are you and why do you look just
like me
i think my brain injury has caused me to
forget the concept of twins
also i guess the hospital just let him
leave but they didn't give him his
clothes back
so that he humidity sure we'll let you
have that robe but we get to keep your
pants we're going to get you some
clothes in come on it's getting cold
it's in the winter you're cold marcus
come on where are we going we're going
home we're going to where you
live and where you're home at yeah i
think that's how you communicate with
someone who's lost their memory
you just kind of talk to them like a
caveman until they remember who they are
yeah what's going on
mom and they facetime their mom and she
tries to jog his memory you can tell
he's looking around
like not sure what he's supposed to say
i know that that is my mom but
i think i'm supposed to have amnesia
right now so maybe i pretend i
don't know her hey mom or not i don't
think you remember oh no he
he does he just said hi do you have
amnesia
i love the varying degrees to which
marcus committed to this role he's
all over the place first they tell him
to put on this hoodie and he just kind
of throws it over his shoulder
what is this thing then he doesn't
recognize their house but it's like whoa
cool
cars then he forgets his name again and
acts like he's never heard of youtube
what is all this
these are youtube flags we have we have
14 million subscribers on youtube what's
youtube youtube is
your passion it's what you do yeah it's
what we do
it's a job we like it it's our favorite
thing and a million subscribers from
here
what are subscribers basically people
subscribe to your channel and watch us
yeah so they view what you're you know
what we post
we get millions of views every day yeah
yeah a lot of people like to watch you
okay maybe tone it down a bit marcus
this isn't your first day on earth
go to the restaurant okay don't worry
how does he not remember how to use lip
oh come on he doesn't remember little
car youtube i
understand but this is his little car
where am i
dad yeah that's your dad that's your dad
my dad okay
no i don't recognize dad i only know my
mom
and how to go to the bathroom do you
remember me at all what we did when you
were a child
what places we went and what things i
bought for you
not really so i bought you all those
presents for nothing man i could have
saved so much money this is getting
really scary i hope his memory comes
back soon one of your
youtube videos let's put a youtube video
look that's you 15 million maybe let's
go
let's go that's what you do
it's you acting like yourself dad me
yeah buddy that that's you wow
yeah i did that yeah that's you that's
you
being yourself right there gross
i did that all the time i think you did
it a little too much
oh it's all coming back to me now i make
fart noise yeah you know you're doing it
yeah i love you and i stick
out tongue stick out tongue that's me
and guys i remember they're just doing
what you do
oh that's such a heartwarming tale and
also a huge missed opportunity that dude
forgot
everything he was a blank slate they
could have molded them into any person
they want they could have put on a video
of a firefighter or mr rogers
and instead they just turn them back
into marcus dobre
what a shame so one of the newest trends
right now
is i went missing pranks you know that
thing of like when a kid goes missing
and then the family never finds him
it's a horrible tragedy we did it as a
prank this first came to my attention
when i saw
this video was number one on trending
truly the most important video on
youtube basically she just like leaves
clues for her friends and they run
around in circles for a day they could
have just called it
24-hour scavenger hunt and it would have
been the same exact video but instead
they did this not too crazy about people
using trauma for clickbait but
glad to see youtube's promoting only the
best content
and of course where there's a trend
there's a dobre because yeah they did
this one too and they went
all out see marcus starts off like wait
a minute
where did your girlfriends go and
they're like
i don't know meanwhile the girlfriends
are hiding in their car
in the driveway so then everyone runs
around looking for them for like
10 minutes until they get bored and give
up there's no point bro
forget it like whatever who cares let's
just let them do their thing they're
probably like
i don't know maybe they're getting their
nails done or something yeah that's what
girls do right they got
like fingernails or whatever and then
they come back home
and their girlfriends are waiting for
them there
i'm just glad everyone's okay it's
pretty scary not to see your girlfriend
for
13 minutes but i guess i would prefer a
pointless video
over what all the other youtubers who
try this end up doing it just gets
really heated every time and they all
yell at each other
just shut up hey i did not talk to her
someone always cries and the
description's like man this is really
emotional
maybe i took it too far whoops i mean
they say they took it too far but that's
also what they used to get people to
click on the video
emotional reaction she cried you suck
i also love that clearly none of these
people have ever seen a missing person
poster before because all of these
pictures look like
mug shots missing prank on boyfriend he
went to jail
oh look who else did it it's jd vlogs my
favorite now this is a couple channel
which of course means they both did it
after all revenge is a dish
best served by doing the same thing
twice i feel bad
i feel like a bad boyfriend right now
i'm sorry i'm only a bad boyfriend
or a really good vlogger yep and that's
all that matters
emotional torment ah who cares cause we
got
merch maybe you guys remember maybe you
don't i made a video about these guys
like a year and a half ago
specifically about their joining the
army prank now one of the things i said
in this video was that prank channels
are kind of dying out and jd vlogs is a
perfect example
of why i was wrong i think they had like
500 000 subs at the time and now they're
close to 3 million i gotta say though
there are not many more things on this
world that make me more uncomfortable
than scrolling through their video tab
everything is either hypersexualized or
has these weird
abusive undertones being mean to her in
front of her family
get out of my way what are you doing
being mean to her and then giving her an
iphone
i know a lot of this is fake i know they
played up for the camera i'm sure their
relationship is fine
but still maybe don't turn this into
content you make it seem like it's okay
to treat your girlfriend badly as long
as you buy her a gift and make up for it
maybe don't
make abuse seem like a normal thing in
front of your very young audience
a ton of whom i imagine are 12 year old
boys who just can't resist clicking on
these
stupid stupid thumbnails you say i love
you you have to remove a layer i love
you
oh you said it you gotta take off your
top now babe stop oh you said it again
you guys show your boobs again babe look
at my boobs and touch my friend's butt
and now touch my butt and now i'm naked
again and now i'm naked again now i'm
naked again and now i'm naked again
and now i'm flashing his little brother
surprisingly enough these guys actually
just announced while i was writing this
video that they're going on a break they
talk about taking some time to reflect
uh it seems like the lines have started
to blur between like what's their real
relationship and what's just content so
a break from the channel only makes
sense and honestly
i can respect that i think that's a very
mature decision
and what's that they posted a prank the
very next day
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countdown of my top
five funniest pranks number three place
a call to the local pizza place
and insist on ordering for chinese food
when they say they don't serve the
cuisine
throw a tantrum and tell them why they
should cater to
customer needs number three call up a
random number and as soon as a person
picks up the phone ask him or her
where do babies come from this can be a
brilliant prank to play on someone if
you are aiming at
embarrassing them number one gold digger
prank part six be sure to annihilate
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