- (gasps) Oh! So Gross!
- (both) When a twin gives you
an opinion you don't agree with.
♪ (industrial intro) ♪
- (FBE) So today, we're going
to show you a meme that started
to blow up recently.
- Oh gosh. Okay.
- (FBE) And a fair warning,
this meme does have
some explicit elements to it.
- Uh-oh.
- (FBE) So, we'll blur
what needs to be blurred
when we actually
release this episode,
but in terms of actually
reading the captions,
read to your comfort level.
- (laughs)
- (laughs) I've seen this.
- Of course.
The mannequin head thing.
- These mannequin heads kill me.
- "When you try to feel
on her booty,
but she's not
having that." (chuckles)
- (chuckles)
- This is what you meant
by explicit. That's funny. (laughs)
- He's like, "Excuse me?
What's going on?"
- That's dumb.
- I saw this on Instagram,
and I was like,
"What they doing?"
But that looks creepy as hell.
- "When you're trying to sleep,
but whatever on TV
sounds like it's getting good."
(chuckles) That's true.
- Okay, I do that.
- I mean, everyone's done that, too.
- So true, though!
That's me at night.
I'm like, ah, fall asleep.
But wait! It's getting good.
- I can relate to that
a little more.
- "Double checking if the pile
of clothing is hu"--
- (both laugh)
- "Double checking if that pile
of clothing is a human or not."
Yeah, that's scary.
- Same. It's like,
"Did that move?!"
- One time, I woke up
in the middle of the night,
I thought I was looking
at the ring monster.
It was just my hamper
with the black towel over it.
- Sometimes I think I'm the only one
that thinks about that stuff.
But no, I overthink everything,
and so does the rest of the world.
- "When your girl farted around you
for the first time." (laughs)
- (laughs)
- Oh no!
- They got another one involved.
- I mean, you gotta really
know somebody to let it go.
- That's not quite love,
but it means you're comfortable
with somebody.
- "When you hear somebody
mumble under their breath
after an"--
- (both laugh)
- It slowly goes out.
- So true.
It's like, (clicks tongue)
"I heard that."
- Bish, what you say?
- Oh my gosh, I totally do that,
except for my wig don't fall off.
- They're talking some real stuff,
you know? (laughs)
- "When you're alone in the house
taking a shower
and you hear a thump."
For real.
- That's a [bleep] up
mannequin face.
- That's so scary.
- Why is that one so dirty?
- That one's been through some stuff.
- It needs to take a shower.
- It's so funny that people
just have those.
- Yeah.
- When you hear
your neighbors arguing.
- I have never cared
if my neighbors were arguing.
- I do this every time.
I'm like, "What is going on?"
- I am so nosy. I be all
sitting there in the cut,
got my little popcorn.
- You could literally have
so many memes
and so many sayings
to put to these things.
It's just endless.
- It's funny to me,
I guess probably
because it's new to me.
- It's not funny.
It's an observance.
- It's gonna be one of those means
that's popular for like a week,
and then it's just gonna blow over.
- "When you don't own
a mannequin"-- Ha!
- "When you don't"-- (laughs)
"When you don't own
a mannequin head."
- (claps)
- (chuckles) She wins.
- That's some DIY [bleep].
- That one was kind of funny.
- "When you're trying to be slick
and film her giving you head,
but you forgot the flash was on."
Oh my god!
- Oh my goodness. (chuckles)
- Ah, that's what you get. Nasty.
- That's not right.
See, then they get nasty.
See, then it's not fun no more.
- This is so messed up
on so many levels,
because it's funny,
because I feel like it knows
that it's messed up.
- That's so bad.
That was lowkey my favorite one.
- "When you pull out
and she wonder why
you ran to the side
of the bed so quick."
- (gasps) No!
- (groans) Gross.
- That's disgusting!
That is so nasty!
- (gasps) Oh, so gross!
One person makes it dirty,
and now everybody's
gonna make it even dirtier.
- It went from zero
to 100 real quick.
- "When you're about
to watch a meme,
but it's just another video
of a mannequin head
for the thousandth time
that day."
- Aw. I like 'em.
- Yeah, that looks like something
my son would send to me.
- A mannequin head meme
dissing the mannequin head meme.
- That's funny,
'cause that's a meta meme.
And that's making fun
of a meme using that same meme.
- I like prop comedy.
(chuckles) I like when people
have fun and just kind of
crack each other up.
It'll get old quick
if it hasn't already.
- It was fun. I think
it's a good little meme.
People have been
using mannequin heads
for a while. I know
when it was big on Vine
with the people wearing
the sweatshirts,
and they'd go like that.
- (FBE) So those videos
you just watched are being called
the Mannequin Head Turn Meme.
- Yes, I've seen those.
- I saw them all over Twitter.
- (FBE) So obviously, some of these
are more relatable than others,
but some are saying the reason
this meme got so popular
is due to the relatable nature
found in some of the captions.
- Yeah.
There was one I already forgot.
See, I already forgot.
It can't be that great
if I already forgot.
- I related to a lot of them.
Some of them were kind of extreme,
but they're so funny.
- But the one where they're sleeping
and something is on TV or something,
that's me every single time.
- (both) Every day.
- Every day of my life.
I'm like "I need to sleep, but..."
- Kids' Baking Championship?
- Yeah.
- What?
- It's a funny meme, and I think
it's real stuff that we go through.
For instance, if you're
in the shower, you hear that thump,
and you like, "Ooh, let me
get something.
I'll get the shampoo
and squirt him in the eye."
- That whole turning head,
I've done that multiple,
multiple times. So it's one
of those things where it's like
super relatable, so people
are just gonna retweet it.
- (FBE) So the meme started
taking off fairly recently,
but it seems like within a few days,
it has already started
to die off a little bit.
- Yeah.
- (FBE) So what do you think
it takes these days for a meme
or a trend or a challenge
to actually really take off
and have legs and not just come up
and then die on Twitter
two days later.
- Yeah, I think that it just needs
to be something simple and funny.
- Once people start to turn it
mean or nasty,
I think it dies down pretty quick.
- It's really hard for it
to sustain a long time
unless it finds new ways
and new uses.
- A meme lasts longer
when you can take it
and use it in a variety
of different situations.
And when a meme
is more one-dimensional,
you know, where everybody--
it gets played out very quickly.
- (FBE) So it seems like a lot
of the time when memes
like this pop up,
people often turn them
into something more vulgar
than they were when they started.
- Oh yeah.
- It's like, "Oh, you thought
that was dirty?
Watch what I'm gonna do."
- (FBE) With so much
of the younger generation
now living online
and on social media platforms,
do you think that people need
to think twice when posting
such explicit versions of memes
or is it more up to parents
to make sure that their kids
aren't able to access
this type of content?
- Real talk. I mean,
we could say it's up to the parents,
but honestly, these kids
are gonna watch it anyway.
So we could block it,
we could do whatever,
but they still have access
to their phone, they're still
gonna watch it.
- The people that are releasing
the memes, they're not reaching out
for kids, you know?
They're just trying to release it
onto the internet.
So I think parents
should be the more responsible ones.
- If kids see it, a lot of 'em
probably won't even know
what this stuff means, you know?
They'll just be like, "Oh,
I don't get it,"
and then just move on.
- Man, it's hard as a parent
to police that.
I wish that there was more
that could be done,
but then it gets
into censorship.
And you know, it's harder
for people...
When you think something's funny
to know if it's gonna go
to the appropriate audience or not.
- (FBE) Well, it seems like some
were wondering where these people
were getting all these
mannequin heads in the first place.
Do you think we're
at the point now
where people are actually going out
and buying props
in order to participate
in these trends?
- I 100% believe that people go out
and purchase things, you know?
You've gotta commit.
- People have used props
for tons of things.
And why not use 'em for memes?
- I know so many YouTubers
that hopped on that train
just like that. Oh, as soon
as they see a meme taking off,
everyone wants to be on that meme.
They'll go buy whatever it takes.
- You walk into Office Depot now
and there's a whole thing
for slime now. You're gonna walk in
to Sally's and be like,
"Wanna make a meme?"
- Yeah. (laughs)
- "Here's a mannequin head."
- "Here's the mannequin."
- (FBE) So speaking of going out
and purchasing mannequin heads,
we actually did go out
and purchase some mannequin heads.
- (chuckles) Oh no.
- (FBE) And so, we are going
to have you recreate
one of these memes.
- Great. Oh my god. (chuckles)
- (Madison) When you realize
your burp smells. (chuckles)
- (Faith) When you tell 'em
to go to their room
and they give you sass. Shade.
- (Tom) When your girl
misquotes a Vine reference.
- (Chad) When you're sitting
in the classroom,
checking to see if the teacher
sees you on your phone.
- (Lene) When you're on your phone
during work, and then you hear
your manager's voice.
- (Jamayla) When you give
an opinion that everybody hates
on Adults React.
- (both) When a twin gives you
an opinion you don't agree with.
- (Jonathan) When somebody says
this meme is actually funny.
- (Brandon) When you show up
to a React shoot,
and they tell you
you gonna be doin'
some weird foot [bleep].
(mannequin clatters)
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- Hey, guys. Ethan here
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