- (FBE) Ligma balls!
- OHHH!
I was getting all upset,
because there's a young guy
and I think he died...
and you're talking
about licking balls!
- We've had better memes.
How can we go
from Patrick meme to this?
♪ (industrial intro) ♪
- (FBE) Today, we're actually...
It's a sad day.
- (concerned) Why?
- (FBE) We're gonna be talking
about a massive outbreak
that has taken the internet by storm.
- Okay...
That sounds scary. (chuckles)
- Sad news. "Memorial wall
for this legend?
Popular Fortnite streaming,
Ninja, reportedly passed away."
(gasps) What?!
"...from a rare disease
known as ligma."
That's so sad.
- Ninja actually passed away?
What?! Stop.
- What's ligma?
- (FBE) I was gonna say,
you work in the medical profession--
- I've never heard of it.
- (FBE) Never heard of it?
- I've never heard of ligma.
It sounds made up.
- That's some kind of play
on something, I already know.
- Okay, so I'm assuming
ligma's something?
Is it, like,
sucking at video games?
- I saw a blurb about this,
but I thought it was fake,
so I just dismissed it.
- Oh, ligma? (laughs)
You're an ass.
That was messed up, man.
- "The streamer
was hospitalized Sunday night
and passed away this morning
due to a new and rare disease
known as ligma."
LIGMA NUTS! HA, HA!
I've seen it, obviously,
on meme pages.
I've seen it on Twitter.
I've seen it everywhere.
- (FBE) So first, this is of one
of the most popular Twitch streamers,
Ninja.
- I'm not familiar with him,
but I know Fortnite.
- Who doesn't know who Ninja is?
- (FBE) And as you can see,
it appears that he passed away
to a rare disease called ligma.
- Oh my gosh.
I wonder if he even know
that he had that... disease.
I have no idea
what ligma is?
- Ligma what?
- (FBE) Ligma balls!
- OHHH!
I was getting all upset,
because there's a young guy
and I think he died...
and you're talking
about licking balls!
- (FBE) Ligma balls!
- (laughs) What the heck!?
I was literally about to break down!
I was like, "Ninja!"
- (FBE) It's ligma balls!
- (scoffs)
Wait, what?!
Is he not dead? Is this fake?
You went there right now?
You're faking death?!
- I heard about it actually recently
when I did a Twitch stream
and someone came in
and said, "Ligma."
So, I was like what's that word?
- (FBE) So, good news,
Ninja did not actually die
because of this fake disease.
He is alive and well.
- Oh, I was so worried. (chuckles)
- (FBE) This joke seems
to have been started
from an Instagram user
who posted the following image
encouraging other people
to also play along with this.
- "ninja_hater."
Oh, [bleep].
- "Spread this.
Let's make fake news."
- Fake news
just pisses me off!
There's a joke to me,
versus fake news,
where it goes on
and people really take it to heart.
- I feel a type of way about this.
You got some of my favorites in there.
Like, what the hell
are you talking about?
What you doing?
It's not in good taste.
Don't do it again.
- (FBE) Users online saw this
and quickly reposted the image.
Then it seems like it may have
been made by this user,
who sneakily tacked on
the fake disease
as you'll see in the next image.
- "Everyone repost, tag,
and comment, 'Ninja,
I can't believe you died
from ligma.'"
I like the idea
of tagging a dead person.
- People just believe
anything they read
and hear nowadays,
and I'm guilty of it.
I just believed it.
- What is there to think?
It's just another meme
making its roundabouts.
This is stupid [bleep] humor.
- It's stupid.
It's not a funny meme.
I don't find this meme funny.
- (FBE) This ligma disease and joke
quickly caught on with users
and Ninja's Twitch
and YouTube accounts
were suddenly flooded with comments
about ligma balls, and ligma nuts,
which is also said as well.
And these are just some
of the comments found
on Ninja's YouTube videos.
- Everybody's so invested
in ligma.
- Poor Ninja.
Guys, he's just trying
to play some Fortnite!
Let him play some Fortnite, okay?!
- I would be
that first guy right there.
"What's ligma?"
- "So sad ligma got him."
(laughs) Is that person serious?
- "Ligma balls!"
"Thought he died from ligma?"
You can't tell which ones
are legitimately real
and which ones
are just [bleep] kids
who are in on the joke.
- He was probably so confused
when he woke up that morning.
Imagine if you were his friend!
People die all the time
from random stuff.
- He made it known
that he doesn't like it.
And then as soon
as you don't like something,
that's when all the trolls come.
- I think the fact
that he didn't like it
makes them antagonize him even more.
You think about in school,
if a bully figured out
that you didn't like something,
they were definitely
gonna pounce on that
and do that even more.
- (FBE) So up next,
we're gonna show you
some memes and reactions
that came out of this
and see what you think.
- Okay.
- No. They even made
an Urban Dictionary definition?
- "Ligma, noun." (laughs)
- "A rare disease that usually
Fortnite streamers carry." (chuckles)
- This is kinda like
a weak meme.
It's gonna die after a while.
It's like third grade humor.
It's like the "deez nuts."
- CNN. (laughs)
"Ligma outbreak leaves 853 dead
in Florida."
They lick a lot of balls
in Florida, I guess!
- If I saw that,
to be honest,
I'd be like, "Huh.
That's probably real," (laughs)
'cause I've heard
crazier stuff.
- People who aren't up
on [bleep] these type of jokes,
of course, are gonna
fall for this [bleep].
- You have so many people
that are not schooled
in researching that this
could cause a frenzy
and really freak people out.
- "Press F to cure ligma.
Raise awareness.
Race towards a cure."
It's terrible!
- Even MatPat is in on it.
Okay, look at that.
And there's PewDiePie.
- We've had better memes.
How can we go
from Patrick meme to this?
♪ (melancholy music) ♪
- (laughs)
- "Just wanted to say...
rest in peace, Ninja.
Gone way too soon, man."
- "Why did ligma have
to take him so young?
- I love that the location
is "a better place."
- He's married?
I didn't even know that.
- You guys are
gonna make me cry.
("cries") Fortnite just
got popular, and then he died.
- Oh my god.
This is so funny.
- There's only so much
you can laugh at something. (laughs)
- I just don't understand.
How is this so funny?
- "Ligma's no joke."
- (doctor) I'm gonna run this
to the lab. I'll be back
in a few minutes, okay?
- Is that, like,
that TV doctor?
- That's Dr. Miami!!
I love him!
- Guy looks like he's already dead
from ligma.
- Grey's Anatomy
looks different.
- (doctor) The test results came back.
- Oh, no. He's already dead.
- (doctor) It's not good.
- Oh my god.
I wonder what he has.
- (doctor) You have ligma.
- Oh my gosh.
- (patient) What's ligma?
- (doctor) Ligma balls.
- (laughs)
He's so serious about it.
- Oh, no!
- (doctor) Ligma balls.
- I work in an emergency room.
I'm gonna go to the ER doctor,
and I'm gonna be like,
"You know what?
I think that patient
in bed 12 has ligma."
He's gonna be like, "What's ligma?"
LIGMA BALLS!
- (FBE) So finally,
the next two clips
show Ninja's reaction
to this whole thing
as you'll see in the first--
- Yeah, okay.
That's what I wanna see.
What did Ninja think
of this whole thing?
- (FBE) The first one
is gonna be his initial reaction.
And then a couple days later,
you'll see he kind of
changed his tone a little bit.
- Poor Ninja.
- (Ninja) Yo, mods,
let's start banning
all the ligma stuff, please.
- (chuckles) He's pissed.
- (Ninja) Start with a 24-hour ban,
and then just go straight to bans.
- Wow.
- (Ninja) Videos will still
come out, man.
Every day for you guys.
- Sense of humor just kinda
went right out the window there, huh?
- That dude streams sometimes
for, like, 12 hours.
He's probably exhausted
and frustrated.
- (Ninja) It's a [bleep] joke, dude,
and it's getting old.
- Yeah. I agree, Ninja.
- It's a ball joke first off,
so you're wrong.
If he just went along with it
from the start,
I feel like it would've blew over.
- From the beginning,
it kind of makes sense,
'cause if you're not up
on the meme yourself,
you're just kinda like,
"What the [bleep] is ligma?"
You're just getting spam.
Hopefully, after seeing the meme
and saw how it goes,
he's got a better attitude.
- (Ninja) I mean, guys,
let's just be honest.
This isn't even
the real Ninja, all right?
I died of ligma
a couple days ago.
- (laughs)
- (Ninja) Everyone knows about it.
Twitch knows about it.
Instagram knows about it.
I found a doppelganger.
- (claps) Good boy.
- (Ninja) Ligma balls, dude.
- You gotta play along.
- (Ninja) It's a terrible disease
plaguing the internet world.
- (laughs)
- So, that's how
you break down the haters.
You stop caring. You go with it.
- I mean, what else is he gonna do?
Is he gonna get mad
and get angry
or is he gonna go with it
so that it dies out
and it's over?
The more mad he gets,
the more people are gonna jump on it.
- (FBE) First thing's first,
do you think that this is funny
or not really?
- This was flippin' hilarious.
- I thought it was extremely funny.
I really liked that.
- It's funny,
'cause it's stupid.
It's like the millennial version
of up dog.
- (FBE) And what is up dog?
- Not much. What's up with you?
♪ (sad trombone) ♪
- It's funny,
but it's gonna blow over
in a couple days.
It's more like a pity laugh
type of deal,
where you're like,
(unenthusiastic) "Ha.
Oh, okay. Oh, you got 'em!"
- Not really.
It's not the best meme I've seen.
- It's dumb, but it is funny
at the beginning.
There's only so much laughter
that you can laugh at ligma.
- It's a combo of funny and dumb.
The first time I saw it,
I did think, "What's ligma?"
I'm not in school right now,
so I'm out of the loop
on stupid jokes
with students.
- (FBE) So, hoaxes around the deaths
of celebrities happen fairly often.
Celebs like Eddie Murphy,
Johnny Depp, Eminem,
and Adam Sandler
have all fallen victim
to these hoaxes.
- Yeah. I mean,
I know pretty much
every celebrity ever
has had at least one death hoax.
And every time
they're asked in interviews,
"What's the weirdest thing
you've heard about me?"
They're all like,
"Oh, well, I'm dead."
- I think I was even hesitant
the day that I heard
that Michael Jackson
had passed.
And I'm like, "Wait, let's see."
- (FBE) Do you think it's okay
to be making these types
of jokes or is it wrong
to joke about death?
- Yeah, of course it's wrong.
I don't understand this whole thing.
I hate when people say that,
"Oh, they're a celebrity,
so they've gotta be used to it."
No!
They don't have to be
used to getting hate.
They don't have to
be used to anything.
They are human beings.
- It's wrong to joke
about death in any circumstances,
but especially now today,
because we're dealing
with so much fake news.
- You know what sucks
is when they actually
end up passing away
a little bit after.
Then that's just bad timing.
But I don't know, man.
Sometimes, when the jokes are made
and then sometimes
when the artists get into it,
it's funny.
- Many, many, many years ago,
there was a death hoax,
and I remember people
getting all bent out of shape.
"Oh my god!
You can't joke around like that!"
But now, it's just
become so commonplace
that it's not a big deal.
- (FBE) So like you saw earlier,
Ninja's initial reaction
was... you know, it seemed
like he wasn't a fan of this.
And then he eventually
gave in to the joke, as you saw.
Do you think that now
that he's on board with the joke
that this thing is now dead?
- I don't think the joke is dead.
I think the joke is kind of lionized.
It'll probably never reach
the same peak popularity
that it did when everybody
first discovered it.
- Yeah, it makes the joke over.
He's playing along with it.
He's going with it.
What else can you do with it?
- If he tries to fight it,
it just will not look good for him.
And that will be the next thing.
You know, people will be like,
"Oh, look at Ninja.
He's being a real bitch baby
about the whole thing.
Let's make fun of that."
- Because he's on board
with the joke,
it makes it funnier.
Everyone's laughing about it,
even him, so now it's okay.
- (FBE) So finally... ligma?
- Ligma. (chuckles)
Ligma balls.
- Ligma balls!
Yeah, that's pretty funny.
- Balls... (laughs)
- Please. No.
- Ligma balls. (laughs)
I feel so weird saying that.
- Lick my balls! (laughs)
- Ligma balls!
Ahh, whazzup?! Ligma balls!
- Thank you so much
for watching this episode
of Adults React.
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Let us know in the comments.
- Thanks for watching
and stay healthy.
Don't catch ligma.
- Hi, guys. JC here.
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(coughs) Sorry, guys.
I think I've caught some ligma.
Bye, guys!
