(clicks mouse)
♪ (dramatic chord) ♪
You're walking in the woods.
There's no one around, and your phone is dead.
Out of the corner of your eye, you spot him.
- (whispering) Shia LaBeouf. - (Adande laughs)
- He's following you... - Oh.
- ...about 30 feet back. - Wait, I haven't seen this.
I just know the song.
...and breaks into a sprint. He's gaining on you.
- Shia LaBeouf. - Get it, girl.
(whispering) Shia LaBeouf.
This one's my favorite thing on the internet.
- My god, there's blood everywhere. - What?
♪ Running for your life from Shia LaBeouf ♪
- (both laugh) - Oh my god.
- ♪ Shia LaBeouf ♪ - (laughing) What is this?
♪ Eating all the bodies ♪
It's actually a very great production.
- ♪ Actual Cannibal Shia LaBeouf ♪ - (laughs)
Now it's dark, and you seem to have lost it.
- But you're hopelessly lost yourself. - What? They got kids.
(in video) Stranded with a murderer.
In the distance, a small cottage with a light on it.
- (Jenna) Yes. - Hope!
You move stealthily toward it.
But your leg-- aah! It's caught in a bear trap!
- ♪ Gnawing off your leg ♪ - ♪ Quiet, quiet ♪
- ♪ Limping toward the cottage ♪ - ♪ Quiet, quiet ♪
- ♪ Sitting inside, Shia LaBeouf ♪ - Just literally stop.
- ♪ Sharpening an ax, Shia LaBeouf ♪ - This is amazing.
♪ But he doesn't hear you enter, Shia LaBeouf ♪
Jesus. There's, like, over 100 people here.
♪ Strangling superstar Shia LaBeouf ♪
- ♪ Stab it in his kidney ♪ - That's terrible.
- Are they wearing Shia LaBeouf hats? - Yeah.
You have beaten Shia LaBeouf.
- ♪ Wait, he isn't dead ♪ - What?
♪ There's a gun to your head and death in his eyes ♪
I wonder what Shia LaBeouf's reaction was to this.
I can't even imagine.
Oh, [bleep]. They got the curtain dancers?
People are, like, dropping down Cirque du Soleil style.
Has he seen this? Has Shia seen this?
This is what the internet was made for.
I want a video like this about me.
(in video) His head topples to the floor, expressionless.
- You are finally safe... - (laughs) We're safe.
- ...from Shia LaBeouf. - Thank god.
Thank god I'm safe from Shia LaBeouf.
(solo clapping)
Tell me that's Shia LaBeouf over there clapping.
Tell me it's him.
Oh my god.
Is that him? It's him!
Aah! (laughing) No!
I'm gonna clap too.
What a cool dude to be in on this whole thing.
Oh, that's awesome. Good for him.
Oh my god, that beard though.
Okay, just sit down. It's fine.
(whispering) Whoa. The internet is so weird.
That was amazing.
Powerful. Powerful stuff.
I need context.
I love not having context, but I need context.
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(Finebros) So first of all, did you like
this song and music video for Actual Cannibal Shia LaBeouf?
Yeah.
Yeah, I liked that.
It was catchy and weird
and obviously a lot of effort was put into it.
The arrangement was really cool.
- Yeah, it was. - It was epic.
I felt like I was watching Carmina Burana or something.
Yes.
And the fact that he's in on it just makes it all worth it.
I feel like Shia gets a lot of flack for being kind of crazy.
And I feel like that is just him totally owning up to it
and being like, "Yeah, okay, you know, I am."
(Finebros) As a creator, what are your thoughts
- on the production value of this video? - It was fantastic.
It was like every minute was like a new thing.
I was impressed the moment I saw the kids.
We had girls coming down with the drapes and the curtains,
and then you had the orchestra in the back.
There's a lot of people who worked on that--
a lot of rehearsal, a lot of working on the prop heads.
The production value was way too over the top.
I think that's what made it so good.
People have too much money and too much free time
and watch too much internet.
And altogether, happens like amazing things like this.
(Finebros) Do you know anything about the origin of this?
Nothing.
Zero. I'm so curious.
- Nothing. - No. I'm assuming it
came from all the press about him being scary and drunk.
I think I recognize the main singer.
Is that Rob Cantor?
I knew the song existed before this video existed.
It was like a SoundCloud post, like an audio post on Tumblr.
Somebody posted it and they were like,
"What is this? Where did this come from?"
And then it became like a meme within itself.
I love the thought that Shia came across it and was totally down
to just [bleep] around with the internet.
(Finebros) This actually starts back in 2012,
when Rob Cantor, who wrote and performed the song,
uploaded just the song onto SoundCloud,
which ended up organically going super-viral back then,
with GIFs and memes posted all across Tumblr and social media.
- Okay. - Oh my god, that's so Tumblr.
How did I miss this?
Tumblr is the place where the greatest
and the most horrible stuff happens.
(Finebros) We have a few of the memes that were made.
My body is ready.
- (both laughing) - "The Shianing."
"The Shianing."
Yes.
That is a baby-face Shia.
Every time that an actor becomes a meme for some reason,
that is ama-- like, that's so much fun.
- (Finebros) Here's another. - "Pumbaa! Hey, what's going on?"
"He's gonna eat me!"
(shrill voice) "He's gonna eat me!"
"Huh?" Shia LaBeouf.
(laughing) This is ridiculous.
He is like the new Jonathan Taylor Thomas.
Shout-out to J.T.T., wherever you are.
I feel like I've probably seen these places
and just not understood why they were happening.
(Finebros) And here was the Wikipedia page for cannibalism
- before somebody changed it back. - "Cannibalism."
"A person who practices cannibalism is also called Shia LaBeouf."
How long did that last before it was taken down?
Shia, we're onto you.
I love the internet.
Trolls, trolls, trolls, trolls, trolls.
(Finebros) So why do you think this took the internet by storm
when it was just a song?
It think it's so left field.
The song itself is pretty shareable to me.
The premise of the song is so crazy that it's
just random enough to catch on.
Shia LaBeouf is kind of a little bit crazy.
And also, the internet just likes to make [bleep]ery happen.
When I was seeing it reblogged
and it had tons and tons of comments and stuff,
everyone was like, confused, questioning,
and then making their own fan art.
This is the perfect prompt for the internet.
(Finebros) Why do you think someone
would even write this song in the first place, though?
'Cause he's a genius? (laughing) I don't know.
Is he ever drunk maybe?
That's when I get great ideas.
He was ahead of his time.
The songwriter knew how crazy Shia was gonna get.
- It's from the future. - Yeah.
He went in time and was like,
"I'm going to capitalize on how crazy Shia's gonna become."
We have the same when we're driving in our car.
We just start saying random celebrities' names
or, like, saying really weird things,
and then we think it's hilarious. I bet you it's exactly that.
And then, yeah, and then we make it into music numbers,
like, from Broadway musicals.
(Finebros) So Rob Cantor, who made the song,
said he came up with it, quote,
"by nothing but the sheer silliness of imagining Shia LaBeouf,
face and clothes smeared with half-dried blood,
terrorizing helpless victims in a dark wood."
I love it.
(laughs) Well, there you go.
Dude, it's always funny when somebody eats people.
It's like, Hannibal Lecter? Funny, that guy.
He then went on to say, "Really it was more that his name,
when whispered really intensely, just made me giggle."
- (both laugh) - Oh, okay. I get that.
(whispering) Shia LaBeouf.
(laughing) It does.
(whispering) Shia LaBeouf.
(laughs uncontrollably) Okay, I feel it.
You can't say that without kind of smiling.
(Finebros) And what do you think of Shia that,
when this happened, unlike a lot of celebrities
that sometimes try to stop these things,
he embraced it and even appeared in the video?
That's hilarious. I think that speaks for his character.
All celebrities should do this and have a little bit of humor.
It always feels better when the celebrity's involved.
I do pranks.
So if somebody's cool about it, it's like, awesome, good sport.
Even if he didn't like it,
it was the best move that he could have made
for everyone to have a positive image of him.
Shia's the man.
He gets so much [bleep] for being crazy and stuff.
But, like, you're awesome!
I love Shia. I think he's great.
I think he's artistic. I think he's creative.
I think he does things that a lot of celebrities
wouldn't allow themselves to do.
It's because so many celebrities will just have parodies deleted.
I've always liked him.
The more bizarre he is, the more I like him.
I think the fact that he was able to
take it, you know, in stride and even help out with it,
I think that's pretty cool.
(Finebros) So do you think that this was all just a joke?
Or do you think Shia LaBeouf is actually a cannibal?
It's got to be a joke, man.
I don't think he's a cannibal.
I think he's actually a cannibal.
Oh, it was so serious. It's not a joke.
I think that's the best cover, that he is actually a cannibal,
so he might as well embrace this song.
But, ha-ha, I'm gonna eat everyone.
I don't think he was,
but I think he might be now that the song came out.
I don't think Shia LaBeouf's a cannibal.
But even if I did think that, hypothetically,
I wouldn't say that, 'cause then I'd be his next victim.
What if that was just his weird way of telling the world?
Oh, that'd be brilliant.
- He's an artist. - (laughter)
(Finebros) And finally, if he was a cannibal,
- would you offer him flesh? - (laughs) No.
I guess for the greater good of all of us,
yes, I'll take one for the team.
I would offer him the most useless flesh, like the elbow skin.
I guess it would be like an honor to be like,
"Here, you can have part of my foot, buddy."
Who wouldn't want to say, "Yeah, I got eaten by Shia LaBeouf."
He just ate a little bit of my arm."
It would have to be just like a piece of skin
or something that wouldn't hurt to remove from the body,
then he'd have to eat it separately.
I wouldn't want him to eat it off of me. That sounds painful.
If I were to give Shia a bite of my arm,
that's a great line in my Wikipedia
and in his; win-win.
Thanks so much for watching another episode of YouTubers React.
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Shia? He's not here, is he?
♪ Goodbye! ♪