♪ (punk rock music) ♪
- Put that candy back. I'm not buying you--
- I've seen this.
(whump) - (man) Oh! Try me, bitch.
- Try me, bitch.
(whump) - (man) Oh! Try me, bitch.
(shocked laugh)
- Uh, what?
- I've seen this before, yeah. It was on Vine.
- Another Vine trend? I don't care!
- (man in plaid) Here you go. - (offscreen) All right, baby!
(whump) - (giggles)
- (man) Try me, bitch. (bursts into laughter)
- I don't know why this is so funny.
♪ (Spider-Man soundtrack) ♪
(whump) - (man) Oh! Try me, bitch.
- (laughing) I love that guy.
- (crook) Heads up!
(whump) - (man) Oh! Try me, bitch.
- He's got Home Alone.
- ♪ I'm in the back of the club, blowin' trees ♪
♪ Hands up, head bobbin' like... ♪ - All right, here we go.
- ♪ Try me, bitch ♪ (giggles)
- I can't get behind it, guys.
- This never gets old.
- ♪ Ayo, stop ♪ - Girls Generation.
- ♪ Let me put it down another way ♪
(whump) - (man) Oh! Try me, bitch.
- Well played.
- This is why I love the internet, I swear.
- Hey, Tarah, you want some?
(indistinct conversation) (Tarah screeches)
- (snickers) - (whump)
- (man) Try me, bitch. - (imitates screech)
- But there was nothing clever about that.
She just threw something.
(whump) - Oh jeez.
- (man) Try me, bitch!
- Why haven't I seen any of these? (laughs)
(dog yelps) (squeals)
- Oooooh no! - (man) Try me, bitch.
- (mom) You ready? - (child) Yeah.
- Oh no.
(whump) - (man) Oh!
- (chuckles) It's just the bad graphics of the thing.
(laughing)
- Oh my god.
(spring boings)
(whump) - (man) Oh! Try me, bitch.
- (laughing) I like that one.
- Oh no. (loud blast)
(whump) - (man) Oh! Try me, bitch.
- (laughing) W-What?
- There's never more than five original jokes
and then 5,000 copies.
- I want to know if this guy's an actor
or if that was his reaction to someone throwing that at him.
- I need to save those and show them to my friends now.
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- (Finebros) So what did we show you here overall?
- Pure internet videos.
- Vines of just a guy saying, "Try me, bitch."
- "Try me, bitch."
- "Try me, bitch!"
- "Try me, bitch."
- I don't know his name. I don't know what they call him.
We'll call him the "try me bitch guy".
- (Finebros) And had you ever seen the meme before?
- No!
- I was not aware of that meme.
- Nope. It's stupid, just like all the other memes.
- No, actually, I'm surprised I haven't.
- Yeah, I didn't realize there were so many.
- Yeah, he's going around on Vine right now.
- It's the exact same thing as every other Vine trend
where they find one little tiny meme that is mildly funny
and then they beat the crap out of it.
- (Finebros) Do you like trends like this, where people will find
clever ways to use the same footage?
- It was funny at first, but now I'm just sort of annoyed with it.
- Yeah, until they're played out.
- I like certain ones when it's very self-referential and meta.
- It's hard to keep my attention for very long.
I have a short attention span.
It just brings me a lot of joy and happiness.
- You see the original Vine and you're like, "Okay.
This is kind of funny."
Then you see all the edits and re-dos and you're just like,
"This is a great thing."
- I like it because it's one of the least gatekept things
that we have in our society.
Just the idea that we can make something go viral
and it's just someone in their bedroom
making a clip of something they find funny.
- It kind of weirds me out because I know it's in middle school
and elementary school as well, so it's really weird
to be laughing at the same thing that a sixth grader is laughing at.
My friends are into the same exact things
and I'd like to think that we're above these children
but really we're at the same level.
- (Finebros) So, for teenagers, would you say Vine trends
is something that is frequently talked about?
- I mean, yeah.
- It's kind of all we do. Just memes all day.
- At my school, everyone's thinking of new ideas
that they could do.
- It's everywhere, on every social media platform.
My Spanish teacher goes, "¿Que son esos?" or "What are those?"
- Rather than someone having a full-on conversation
about the "try me bitch guy," you'll just hear someone
in the back of the class like, "Try me, bitch."
- (Finebros) So at this point you could say this is a new genre
of entertainment because there's so many of these
where you binge-watch these types of trends.
- That's so weird.
I didn't think of it like that. Whoa!
- It's kind of weird to think that it's a new thing,
but it is!
- If there was just a TV show of a 30 minute segment
of just all these Vines of the same exact thing,
would it be popular, do you think?
- (Finebros) So what is it that is so entertaining about seeing
the same thing presented in different ways?
- Repetition is interesting, and if it's funny it gets funnier.
- They don't wanna have to think too hard a lot of the time
and that's what Vine is, is not thinking too hard.
If you're already in on a joke, you can watch it over and over again
and be like, "Oh! It's this again. I understand this. I love it."
- (Finebros) What's interesting with a lot of these Vine trends
is they take on such a life of their own and there are so many made
that it's very difficult to ever track where it actually started.
- Yeah, no, that definitely happens.
- Not only does that happen, but people steal things too.
Someone will post it, and then you will see
common girl post, white girl post--
they always just steal each other's posts
and then add their watermark to it.
It's like, "Who's is this?"
- (Finebros) So did you have any idea who made this trend?
- I have no idea who started this.
- I have no idea.
- (Finebros) Well, his name is Brandon Rogers,
who has a YouTube channel that has a little over 100,000 subscribers
and this clip comes from a longer sketch
he made on his channel eight months ago. - Oh.
- It's so interesting how long it takes for people to find things.
- (Finebros) Somebody else took the clip and posted it on Vine
and that started the trend. - Wow... for stealing credit.
- Well, that's the internet for you.
- (Finebros) So his channel's gotten more popular,
but it didn't initially see a huge increase in viewership
despite how big the trend got. - People making fame
through other people's fame-- sometimes it's just not fair.
- It's not fair but you can't stop it.
- It's unfortunate but life's a bitch.
(laughs) I don't know what to tell him.
- If you want to take parts of videos
and turn them into whatever, that's cool.
You have to give them credit though.
You have to be like, "Original video by blah, blah, blah."
- That's mean. Don't do that.
Don't steal people's stuff and not credit them.
If I can't do it on my essays, you shouldn't be able to do it online.
(clang!) - (Finebros) Truth!
So for the end of the episode,
do you want to check out the original video from Brandon?
- Yes, please.
- Yes, I do! Because he needs some credit. (laughs)
- I bet you it's gonna be not as funny. Oh no!
- (Finebros) So this sketch is called "Grandpa Hates Valentines."
- (chuckles) Okay.
(stirring in sleep)
- (man) What the [bleep] is all of this?!
- Oh, I thought this was a real-life video.
I didn't realize it was actually pulled straight from a sketch.
- (man) Ah, ah, ah, goddamn it boy!
Why you gotta play with the dog's [bleep]? You got an iPhone.
Keep playin' with that dog's [bleep]. - What?
(pills rattle)
- Okay, that's my grandparents.
- (man) Last week, I got mugged by a goddamn ballerina.
She tried to make me pass away. - What?
- (man) Then the bitch spun away. - (cracking up)
- (man) Look at that. That logo is what?
An [bleep].
- I'm never looking at Walmart the same.
- (man) Oh, this might be supreme on a tortilla.
Pull up your pants-- - I don't know what's happening,
but I like it. (laughs)
- (man) I don't want this anymore. (loud clatter)
(gasps and laughs)
- (man) Put that candy back. I'm not buying you all that mess.
(whump) - There it is.
- (man) Try me, bitch. - There we go.
- It's funnier in that context.
- (man) I need a pharmacist! (snickers)
- (man) I lost my heart many Valentines ago.
- He's in the desert?
- (man) Stop trying to give me damn flowers.
You know I'm allergic! You want me to see Jesus?
I just loaded my pamper.
These damn flowers.
You can stick these flowers you-know-where: [bleep].
(snickers)
(thud) (cracking up)
(birds chirp) - Oh... okay.
- Oh, that was so funny! I liked that.
- Well, he definitely deserves more than one Vine.
- I want to subscribe to him now.
- Why is he not getting credit for this?!
(giggling) This is funny!
I'm actually crying a little bit 'cause I was laughing so hard.
- Thanks for watching this episode of Teens React.
(whump) - (man) Oh! Try me, bitch.
- Be sure to subscribe 'cause we have new videos every single week.
- Good bye, everybody.
(whump) - (man) Oh! Try me, bitch.
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