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Oh, is this the dad taping the daughter in the background?
What is she doing?
Is she just filming herself?
I'm assuming she's taking selfies.
(laughing) Me. She's like me.
I do this. I'll be in my room.
And I make Snapchats to music. I make faces.
(giggles)
(laughing)
She's silly.
Is she gonna realize that he's filming her?
Oh, wait, she just looked at the phone.
(laughing) Oh, and she made eye contact with what's going on.
She keeps going. She doesn't give a [bleep].
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She JUST took a picture? That was just practice?
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Oh my god. Why is she taking so many?
This is going on longer than I expected it to.
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That's all? That's the video?
Dude.
So anti-climatic, brah.
Usually when you take selfies-- at least for me--
I'm always looking around just to see, like,
no one's gonna watch me do this, and then I'm like...
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(Finebros) So what was happening in this video?
I'm assuming she was taking pictures for Snapchat,
'cause that's what I do a lot.
I'll make really ugly faces and send it to my friends.
She was taking funny selfies.
It's not weird. I mean, everyone does that, right?
A girl was making stupid faces and taking selfies.
Or maybe she was Snapchatting.
And her dad saw it in the rear view and decided to record it.
There's a saying on the internet:
"If I look good in my Snapchat to you,
that means that you're not my best friend.
But if I'm pulling the ugliest face of all time,
that means we are close.
And I think she was Snapchatting her best friend.
(Finebros) What do you think about this dad filming this
- and then putting it online? - Awesome. (chuckles)
I think it's pretty funny.
It's kind of messed up. I would hate my dad for that.
I hope my dad would never do something like that.
But that guy is a stud. Like, thank you, Dad.
My dad doesn't even know how to text me.
This guy has his front camera and he's filming secretly?
And he uploaded it? Dude, advanced.
I'm sure the dad was like,
"This will give her a taste of her own medicine."
But the girl probably loves it.
I'm sure she's taking a million more selfies, and guess what.
A lot more people are probably looking at them.
(Finebros) How would you have felt, though, as a teenager
if a parent did this to you, and then it got millions of views?
I would feel so embarrassed.
I would not be able to show my face at school.
I would kill my mother.
I would probably feel like my parents
are the worst people in the world.
I don't think I'd get embarrassed by that too easily.
I would probably think it was funny.
I would probably embrace it and just be like, "Whatever, yeah.
He did that on purpose, 'cause I told him too.
I wanted it to go online, boy that I have a crush on.
Yeah. No big deal."
(Finebros) Selfies are now this huge part of our society.
- It's even in the dictionary. - As it should be.
Oh, no way. I didn't know that.
(Finebros) How many selfies do you take every week?
In a week? I probably take one a day.
Maybe, like, ten.
It sounds like the most vain, self-absorbed
thing in the whole world. And I'm not saying it isn't.
But... I still probably take a dozen selfies a week.
At least... 45?
If I take one, it's not just one selfie.
Like, the one you see on the internet--
it was probably 50 I took to decide on the one I--
I know. I'm the worst.
I try not to back-to-back selfies, just because as a man,
you're only allowed about one selfie a week.
You girls can take selfies and it's all good.
But as soon as the guys start doing it, there's so much chatter.
Like, "Look at this guy." I see my girlfriend's like,
"Look at this guy. Who does he think he is taking a selfie?"
Selfie equality. That's all I want, is selfie equality.
If I colored my hair, then hundreds.
'Cause you gotta get the-- listen. The judgment!
You gotta get the good angle.
(Finebros) So you say hundreds. How many actually get posted?
Like, two.
(Finebros) What is your process, though?
- Do you just snap it and post it? - It's a very long process.
First, I take all my selfies,
and I hate every single one of them.
So you pick the one that you want,
and then you go and you edit it.
I make sure that my lighting is on point.
I take a handful, and then I adjust the contrast.
If you don't look on point in your selfie,
then it's like, they will go in on you.
Listen. Perfection is not easy, okay?
(chuckling) I have to work to get there.
(Finebros) Why are selfies such an important part of your life
- as a YouTube celebrity? - 'Cause people want to see you.
I do selfies because
that's what gets a lot of likes on Instagram.
And I want to get likes on those
so that people look at my other stuff,
which is, like, promotional stuff for my movie.
It's just a way of connecting to your audience and the world.
When I'll actually Snapchat someone back,
like one of my Snapchat followers, dude, they go crazy, you know?
And it just feels so personal that someone's like--
when they're looking into the camera,
it's like they're looking into your heart.
With Twitter, you got one-on-one access to a celebrity.
I think selfies are the photograph version of that,
where it's like, I am giving you this image of myself.
No filter through the media.
It's just me to you.
Except when you edit it to hell and back.
(Finebros) And why do you think this has become a normal thing,
not just for celebrities and public figures,
but everyone is posting pictures of themselves?
I think everybody's doing selfies
because, number one, everybody's self-obsessed.
And they want people to be like,
"Oh my god, you look so good today,"
or, "Oh my god, your makeup is on point, bitch."
We're in a very "me" generation right now.
"I need to put something out there about me."
Twitter, Facebook, all these things
are very generated toward you.
Everybody's obsessed with themselves.
Like, there's nothing wrong with that. In fact, I approve.
I want more people to be obsessed with themselves.
It can be excessive, which I'm sure I'm like that.
Just feel good about yourself and post it. I think it's fine.
I never really thought of it that way. (giggles)
It's kind of like self-centered, really.
Now I feel bad for taking selfies.
I guess to show your face and how you've changed,
and to make a new profile picture.
(Finebros) But why do you need to do any of these things?
I don't know. You guys have had the same Twitter
and Instagram picture for, like, I don't know, seven years.
- (giggles) - (Finebros) Right. What's the problem?
- It's not-- - (Finebros) We're doing fine.
You got to switch it up a bit, you know?
(Finebros) So back to the video, in an interview
with Good Morning America after this went viral,
the girl said that she does find it pretty funny,
but she feels like she looks like a goofball.
What do you think about how she's handling it?
I think she's handling it pretty well.
I'm glad. You know what? Good for her.
That's the best way to handle it, 'cause if you're like,
(prissy voice) "Oh my god, Dad, I hate you. Dadadadada..."
that's probably not the best way to go about it.
She lives in a generation where it's okay to go vi--
She went viral. You know how many people want to go viral?
Of course she finds it funny. I mean, I'm sure she--
She loves it. Are you kidding me?
Like, she's on Good Morning America for taking selfies.
She's probably happy that she has so many views.
Any kid nowaday would, like,
you know, just when they get a few hundred likes on Instagram,
they're like, "Brah, I'm Insta-famous."
It's not even 15 minutes of fame anymore.
It's six seconds of fame, you know what I'm saying?
'Cause that's all they need, and it's all they want.
(Finebros) A lot of people, of course, are questioning
- if this is real or not. - Oh.
(Finebros) What elements, when you watch this,
would you watch and think maybe it is fake?
Because it went on for so long, and she never noticed.
How long she was doing it. She did look at the camera.
Well, she did glance over at the dad's phone that one time.
And I thought, like, how did she not realize?
She looked at her dad to see, maybe is he still filming?
That could be it.
And as somebody who's a conspiracy theorist
about every viral video, I kinda want to believe it's real,
'cause it was so perfect.
(Finebros) What do you think? Is this real or fake?
Fake.
Real.
Now that you mentioned all that, I can see it being fake,
only because it went on for so long.
I think that one's real.
I think it's real.
Just based off of how long she was doing it,
the faces she was making, I think it's fake.
I'm not be a hater. No haters here.
Real. (bangs table)
It's not easy to sneak-- do this if someone looks right at it,
you know what I'm sayin'?
Um, yeah. I'm gonna go with fake.
I think it's real.
I mean, I think it's fake, but I want it to be real.
I don't know. But don't make me decide.
Only time will tell.
Thanks for watching this episode of YouTubers React.
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You should click on them and go subscribe to them.
Okay, so I gotta go.
I have to filter these, and then, like, reedit them,
and then edit them again and then find a filter.
So have a good life. Bye. Later.
Ooh! I look so good on the new iPhone 6.
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