(mouse clicks)
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(silence)
- Hey, what's that button do?
- (Buzz Lightyear) I'll show you. (time bomb beeps)
- (Woody) WHAT THE FU--?!
(boom!) (laughing)
- (Rex) Hey, what's that button do? - Toy Story!
(time bomb beeps)
- (Woody) WHAT THE FU--?! (boom!)
- Oh shoot!
- Ah! You had it comin'.
- (Woody) WHAT THE FU--?! (boom!)
- (laughing) All right.
- (Wood) WHAT THE FU--?! (boom!)
(laughing)
- I love the Internet.
- That's it? What was that?
- I don't yet have any idea what the context is, but I'm intrigued.
- Okay, Willy Wonka.
(time bomb beeps) - (Charlie) Mr. Wonka?
- (Mr. Wonka) WHAT THE FU--?! (boom!)
(laughing)
(sniggering)
(time bomb beeps) - (Charlie) Mr. Wonka?
- (Mr. Wonka) WHAT THE FU--?!
(laughing)
- Oh man, I've never seen these. - I never-- yeah.
- Is there going to be an explosion in this one too?
(chuckling)
- (laughing breathlessly) It's good every time.
- (Mr. Wonka) WHAT THE FU--?! (boom!)
- Oh, I get it. I've never seen this.
- Oh god. How many are there?
- (Finebros) A bunch. - (giggling) Oh god.
- (tough guy clears throat)
WHAT THE FU--?! (boom!)
- (chuckling) It's so silly.
- (tough guy) WHAT THE FU--?! (boom!)
- (laughing) Oh, this is just comedic timing now.
- Why am I laughing?
It's the same thing looping over and over again.
- What is it from? - This is funny.
- I don't know this meme. I'm confused. It must be new.
- I hope that's not footage of something actually blowing up
with people dying because I'm going to feel really bad afterwards.
- Oh no. (in video: time running down)
Is he going to be okay?
- See, now I'm waiting for it.
- (boy) Negus. - Oh!
- That's funny without the explosion.
- (boy) N-E-G-U-S, negus.
(time bomb beeps)
- (aggressive voice) WHAT THE FU--?! (boom!)
(both laugh)
- That's pretty good. - His reaction.
- (aggressive voice) WHAT THE FU--?! - BOOM! (laughing)
- That's what you get for being a racist.
- (sighing) It's great.
- This is so strange.
- It kind of reminds me of Vine.
- Spongebob!
- (Mrs. Puff) What's the first thing you do?
♪ foreboding music) ♪ - (Spongebob) I...
- (Mrs. Puff) Start the boat.
- (Spongebob stammers)
- (Mrs. Puff) WHAT THE FU--?!
(laughing) - Oh my god.
- (Mrs. Puff) WHAT THE FU--?! (boom!)
(snickering)
- That's creative. They even had it in the ocean.
- (Mrs. Puff) WHAT THE FU--?! (both crack up)
- That was a funny one.
- I feel like I could watch this for ten hours and still be amused.
- I'm at the point where I don't think I'll laugh at any more of them.
I've got it all out of my system.
♪ (cheerful music) ♪
(squirrel chitters)
- Get your nut.
- Now it's just the anticipation.
(car engine revs) - Oh no!
- (squirrel) WHAT THE FU--?! (boom!)
- (sadly) Oh no!
(laughing)
- Well, they shouldn't have built that squirrel out of plutonium.
- (laughing) These are funny.
- That evil laugh is terrible.
- I can't take it any more. I just know it's coming now.
- I sort of have a prediction for what's about to happen.
- (man) Yo. - (man 2) WHASSUP?!
- I remember this commercial. It's so annoying.
- "Whassup?"
- (slurring) "Whassup?"
- See, this is funny on its own.
(man 2 laughs) - Where is it?
- (man 2) Hold on. - Someone blow up.
(time bomb beeping) - (man 2) Hello?
- Uh-oh. Don't-- not the intercom!
- (man 2) Hello? - (aggressive voice) WHAT THE FU--?!
(laughing)
- No! Just stop it.
- This is getting ridiculous, but you have me,
so it's going to work every time.
- I want to make these with Superfruit videos.
- We totally could.
- (Finebros) Okay, now it's over. - Okay. I can relax.
No more explosions.
- There was one where I was like, "That's not funny."
(laughing) And then they got funnier again.
- Where do you find this stuff? (laughing) Where?
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- (Finebros) So were you familiar with this meme before today?
- (both) No.
- No.
- No, I'd never seen that.
- No, not specifically. - I have no clue.
- I have never seen this meme in my life.
- I have never seen it. Is that bad on my part?
- Obviously, these were riffs on some original source of material
that I am unfamiliar with.
- I'm familiar with memes like it.
I haven't seen any of these specifically.
- I've heard the "What the fuck" thing,
but I don't remember too much anything about it.
- (Finebros) Did you like it or not? - I hated it.
- It was quite random, but it's hilarious.
- That was art. I thoroughly enjoyed that.
- It's like stupid humor, but you love it
'cause regardless it's entertainment.
- I did. YouTubers React is like that party you go to
where people just show you viral videos and you're like,
"Yeah, this was fun. It was fun.
Thanks for the drinks and the viral videos."
- I enjoyed it, but it was one of those things
that does not get better with age, like a wine.
- After the first two videos, once you get the theme of what's going on,
it is the anticipation of when that is gonna come.
It's funny in and of itself,
even if you don't know originally what it's from.
- It was "the bomb".
(corny laugh)
- (Finebros) If you had to guess, where do you think this meme
became popular and is being shared the most?
- I have no idea.
- Bulletin boards? I'm from the '90s.
- On the Internet?
That narrows it down, like, this much.
- Reddit?
Isn't that like the birth insemination place of memes?
- It's very eBaumsWorld to me.
- Vine?
- It's probably on Vine.
- Probably Vine.
- I feel like Vine has that kind of short jokes,
get to the point right away type format.
- (Finebros) This actually pre-dates Vine. - Does it really?
- What?
- (Finebros) This was a popular trend in 2008.
- What?
- Oh my god! - Oh wow.
- Where was I?
- That's old-school.
- Yo, that's a long time ago.
- That explains it. Those were some really old clips.
- Damn, how come I've never seen this before?
I thought I knew of all the old shit you guys showed me.
- That's not that old. (Finebros chuckles)
I was making YouTube videos back then!
- I know the clips before it were all older,
but I thought they were just putting those together now.
(tsks) See, it's always a cycle.
Kids at home, thinking you guys are creating stuff.
- (Finebros) So what's interesting is that trends similar to this
have started happening all the time on Vine,
but here is this trend called "WTF boom"-- - Oh, go figure.
- (Finebros) And others like it were huge in the early days of web video also.
Does it surprise you that this is not as new as people think it is?
- No-- I mean, no.
Not at all. - No.
- Nah, that's what the Internet's been good for.
- It doesn't surprise me 'cause if it works, it works.
- Nothing is new.
Um, I'm sure that there was a basically WTF boom
back in the days of Euclid and Homer.
- They're like, "Oh my god! I just created this new trend.
Oh my god, I'm soooo smart." Little do they know.
- I'm a little shocked.
The vines I've been in recently, I thought I was in something new and shiny.
Turns out I'm just in a bunch of remakes!
- I guess vines have just been stealing all these jokes for all these years.
- That kind of takes away a lot of credit
from me and all my friends and what we do
because I thought we created this kind of stuff.
- I did not think that would've been old footage.
I thought that was something current
that I just didn't know the trend for yet.
- I think of this exact kind of taking something,
sort of re-purposing it, using it, mashing it up with other pop culture stuff
in these short bursts, that I would have imagined to be
a very contemporary thing.
Nowadays, Vine, everything's been shortened to six seconds,
but apparently we've been doing that all along
and I just didn't know it.
- (Finebros) What's interesting is Vine has become so popular,
but a lot of people say they don't get it due to how short the content is,
yet there's been memes and super short viral videos
since the early days of the internet.
Why do you think that is?
- Because they're probably old people.
- Generations just find other generations weird.
- There's a difficulty for old people in accepting anything.
We've had enough. We're good.
Give me my old Nirvana album, thank you.
- It's no different than when YouTube started becoming a thing
and people, you know, who were used to mainstream television
were like, "Well, that's only a three minute video.
There's nothing impressive about that."
- Hearing the concept, "it's a six second video" is a turn off,
but when people think of Vine they're like,
"This is instant gratification, so I'm over it."
- We always have a tendency to be like, "Oh, this new fangled stuff
that's coming out. Back in the day, it was so different."
Where, usually, it's actually always been the same.
So if we find this kind of stuff funny now, yeah,
I guess that makes sense that we found it funny back then.
- (Finebros) So back to WTF boom, compared to the similar viral trends
of today, do you think that this entertainment holds up
and this could make comeback on Vine? - Yeah, of course.
- Yeah. Those are vines waiting to happen.
- Definitely. I feel like I've seen it on Vine before.
- I would not be surprised to see it on Vine today.
- I thought it was a Vine trend that I missed.
- I think this totally could become a thing on Vine.
To me, I thought it was!
- The stupidity and quickness of that, it's just entertaining.
- I think so. I think this is definitely up there with "WHAT ARE THOSE?!"
and things like that.
I laughed just as much.
- This YouTubers React could bring back vines like that.
- Thanks so much for watching another episode of YouTubers React.
- Make sure you check out all the faces down below and go subscribe!
- Let us know in the comments what video we should react to next.
- Goodbye, everyone!
(time bomb beeps) - (aggressive voice) WHAT THE FU--?!
(boom!)
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