- Millennials were young,
but then being in 2090
and being like, "Okay,
shut up, millennial."
- (Kyle) So, these were
the good old days?
- "The good old days."
- (Kyle) What you all did
in 2019?
- When you're just throwing ass.
♪ (rock intro) ♪
- (FBE) Did you notice
what wall you're on today?
- Yeah. I didn't realize
that we were lowering the bar
for elders, because I was born in '98.
- I love Elders React.
I'm obsessed,
so this is pretty cool.
I'm just wondering
what's happening here.
- (FBE) Well, this is not a mistake.
Recently, a three-part series
called When Our Generation
Gets Old and Hears a Throwback Song
has become quite popular on YouTube.
- Oh! I haven't experienced this yet.
- (FBE) So, we're gonna be taking
a look at these videos,
then we'll see what your thoughts are
and if they make you feel worthy
of this elders wall.
- Okay. Probably not. (laughs)
But we're gonna reach
that status one day.
- Oh, god. I can't wait to see this.
- (Kyle) This is when our generation
gets old and hears a throwback song.
I don't know, bro.
It's 2090. You sure McDonald's
is still cool for a first date?
- (friend) Of course, bro. Trust me.
- I like McDonald's for a first date.
I've gone on a couple
of McDonald's first dates.
- (Kyle) Grandpa? Grandpa!
- (grandpa) Someone say something?
- I've never seen this before.
- (grandpa) Huh? Oh, yeah.
My bad, Kyle. I just had
my AirPods in. What's up?
- I like that Back the Future 2
is like, "The future's gonna be
incredible with hover boards
and movies!"
And this is like, "Eh,
in 2090, we'll have mustaches."
- (Kyle) My phone died
and my charger broke,
can you AirDrop me, like,
50% battery?
- Oh, wow! AirDrop battery.
That'd be cool.
- Is that a thing?
- (grandpa) I don't see why not.
- I guess it will be a thing.
- (chuckles) I love the visual
of this "older" person
wearing AirPods.
- (grandpa) Yeah, why?
- (Kyle) Grandpa!
The iPhone Z is out now.
That's like 70 years old.
- (grandpa) What? It works just fine!
- I have the iPhone X.
I just got it.
- (grandpa) This is why things
were better back in my day.
Good ol' 2019.
- Oh, there you go.
- (grandpa) Oh, no. We're doing this.
Y'all think you're so cool
with your self-driving hover cars
and your worldwide free wifi.
- No, you know what?
They said that that's gonna happen
in 2015 back in like 1985,
so I'm just starting to believe
that it'll never happen.
- (grandpa) Y'all don't
understand real struggles.
- (Kyle) Like what?
- (grandpa) Like when we had
our headphones plugged
into the computer
and then walked away,
forgetting we had them plugged in.
- Ugh!
- (grandpa) Yeah, we had it hard.
- True story.
- (grandpa) Matter of fact,
let me show you some
of that real music
from back in my day.
- Oh, god. I wanna hear
what they select as bangers.
We've had so many.
- (Kyle) Grandpa,
please don't. I'm good.
- (grandpa) Nonsense, boy.
You gotta know this.
This is a classic.
♪ ("Act Up", City Girls) ♪
- Oh my god!
- ♪ Real [bleep] [bleep] ♪
- I love Megan!
- (grandpa) Ooh, I bet your grandma...
- This has got me thinking,
like, is this what I'm gonna
be showing my kids and grandkids?
- Oh my god. I cannot imagine
this actually happening,
but it honestly could,
'cause these are
such popular songs today.
- (grandpa) I'ma need my cane
for this one.
- "I need my cane."
Oh, no. He's gonna do it.
Bust it down, baby.
- (grandpa) I wanna see you bust down!
- Ay. (chuckles)
- Bust down! (laughs)
Aww, it's like current old people
have really cute dances,
like ballroom dance,
and we're gonna have all kinds
of bouncing and grinding. I love it.
- Our 20s is very different
than the last 20s.
Imagine Thotiana
at one of Gatsby's parties,
just busting down!
That's our 2020.
- (Kyle) So, these were
the good old days?
- The good old days,
when you're just throwing ass.
(laughs)
- Wow. If anything,
I'm thinking about now
how people love to talk
about like, "Oh, you don't listen
to Led Zeppelin?
You don't listen to the Beatles?"
We're gonna be like,
"You didn't listen
to Meg Thee Stallion?"
- (Kyle) What else was popular
in 2019, huh?
- (grandpa) Well, there was ASMR.
- (laughs)
- (Kyle) AS-- what is that?
- (grandpa) Well, you know,
it was this real popular thing
where people would eat cucumbers
and cereal real close
to their microphone
and post it online.
- Okay, but that's not just weird
to describe to something
that happened in the past.
That's weird right now.
- I don't think this is
what's gonna happen.
I think what's gonna happen
is we're gonna remember
the really, really good songs,
like the poppin' Ariana Grande songs.
If you go to, like, the '70s
or the '80s,
especially the '80s,
there was so much bad music
and so much bad culture,
but we just threw all that away.
And we were just like, "Okay,
we're-- Bon Jovi.
We're just gonna remember Bon Jovi.
That's it."
- (grandpa) You kids are always
coming up with some--
- (Kyle) Hold up.
Is that an iPhone 11 Pro?
- Literally me to my dad,
because he still has a 5.
- (Kyle) You gotta upgrade
at least a little.
The iPhone 80's out.
- Whoa! So many cameras.
- Oh my god. They just keep
adding cameras.
- (grandpa) At least back in 2019,
we'd do it for the culture.
- (Kyle) Okay, millennial.
- (chuckles) Oh. Wow. That's weird.
Millennials are young,
but then being in 2090
and being like, "Okay,
shut up, millennial."
- (Kyle) Okay, millennial.
- Oh my god.
That's what my parents say.
- (grandpa) You're right, Kyle.
You're a 2070s baby.
I can't expect you
to understand my generation.
- (Kyle) Thank you.
- (grandpa) So, I guess
I'ma have to show you.
- (Kyle) No, Grandpa, not again!
- (laughs) This keeps happening.
- (radio host) This is for all
our '90s and 2000s babies out there.
We're gonna take it way back
with a little throwback song.
- (grandpa) Ooh!
Now this is a classic.
- ♪ Hah ♪
♪ Pack in the mail ♪
- (raps along) ♪ It's gone ♪
♪ Like-- ♪
I love DaBaby.
His voice is so beautiful.
(music stops)
- (grandpa) Ay! Why'd you pause it?
The best part was coming up.
- This is so funny.
- (Kyle) So, this is good ol' 2019?
- (grandpa) I mean, yeah.
Of course, we had
more bops than that, though.
- I don't think rap music
is gonna die by 2090, though.
I think it's probably gonna get worse
and more mumbly, but it's still
gonna be like this.
- (Kyle) I'm done
with your songs, Grandpa.
- (grandpa) Don't worry.
This is different. I promise.
- I wanna hear one of his songs.
♪ (soft piano music) ♪
- (Kyle) You know, this is kinda nice.
♪ (piano music intensifies) ♪
- ♪ They're tryna be cray ♪
- Oh my gosh.
- Oh my god. Wow!
Now I'm even just thinking
of just when you go
to fancy restaurants and stuff,
and they have a piano in the corner,
it's gonna be this song.
- (Kyle) Nah, nah.
- (grandpa) Ay, ay!
- He was vibin'!
He was vibin',
and his grandson just ruined his vibe.
- (grandpa) ...Playboi Carti.
I mean, the album still
hasn't dropped yet,
but it's supposed to be
dropping in 2090.
- The album hasn't dr--
(chuckles) That's a good joke.
- (Kyle) A bo-- Grandpa,
that was trash.
- (grandpa) Tr-- boy,
your hairline gonna recede
with all that cap.
Watch your mouth.
- Cap is like the weirdest slang
that came. Like,
how did that come to be?
- (grandpa) Cappin'
means you're lying.
- (Kyle) So, you're telling me
in 2019, you and your friends
used bottle caps
as a measure of honesty?
- (grandpa) Yes.
- (laughs) Good one.
- (grandpa) You learned about
the War of Area 51
in your history class, right?
- War of Area 51!
- That's a thing that we're
gonna wipe out of our history.
Never talking about that again.
- (Kyle) Area 5-- what is that?
- (grandpa) See, what had happened
was two million people signed up
to save the alien ladies
from the government.
- (Kyle) I beg your pardon?
- Dude, I forgo-- oh my god.
This is just bringing back memories.
I forgot about the raid on Area 51.
This guy knows his stuff.
- We are such a weird generation,
like watching this video and thinking
that these are going to be the things
that I tell my children
and grandkids about.
- But I love our generation.
We're just out here vibing.
We're just here to laugh
and bop to songs and... throw ass.
- ♪ I'm with this thing
like I'm Dennis ♪
♪ I started this-- school,
I'ma finish ♪
You home early, Kyle?
- This is all the same guy?
- (Kyle) There's no class,
'cause it's Vine Remembrance Day.
- Ugh.
- (Kyle) What are you doing?
- Some people need
to let Vine die, honestly.
- (grandpa) Just playing
some music from my childhood.
There really are nothing
like the classics.
- (Kyle) You want a sip
of my Apple Water?
- Apple Water?
$100 for a bottle of water?
- (grandpa) You know what?
I'm gonna play my PS4.
Get my mind off this nonsense.
- (Kyle) Grandpa, it's 2090.
No one uses the PS4 anymore.
The PS20's out now.
- (snickers) That is
a stacked PlayStation.
- (Kyle) The main thing in GTA
is just being careful
when he gets close to you.
- (grandpa) Wait, what do you mean...
- What?
- (Kyle) Oh, here we go.
(whirring)
(ding)
- (grandpa) What?!
W-who was that?!
- (laughs)
- What?!
- (Kyle) ...augmented reality version.
R2 is punch.
- (grandpa) Ah!
- Oh, wow. I hate that. (laughs)
- (grandpa) Ooh! Listen, buddy,
I've been through World War 3.
You don't want this elderly smoke.
- (chuckles) World War 3.
- (Kyle) But I really gotta learn
this song for my recital
with the school band.
- (grandpa) Oh, really?
What are you all playing?
- (Kyle) Just some old
classical song. "The Box?"
- Oh, god. Oh, no.
- (grandpa) That reminds me
of the bop right there.
- (Kyle) The bed squeaking
reminded you of the song?
- Oh my god.
- (Kyle) Alexa, play the song
that goes (squeaking)
- (squeaks along)
- (Kyle) And then
♪ Had to put a stick in the box ♪
♪ Hm, pour up the whole dang seal ♪
♪ I'ma get lazy ♪
- ♪ I'ma get crazy ♪
- (grandpa) It's how the song goes.
It'll make sense in a sec. Just wait.
- ♪ (squeaking) ♪
- I hate this song!
- ♪ ...the coupe at the lot ♪
- (grandpa) Ooh! Your grandma
used to throw it back out there
to this one before she got old.
- Yikes. (laughs)
The "your grandma used to
throw it back" part.
Like, no, thank you.
Didn't need to hear that.
- (Kyle) So, this is what I've been
missing out on from 2020, huh?
- (grandpa) See?
Now you're getting it.
- Aww. I also just think it's cute,
'cause I never think about
the elder information
that I'm gonna get to pass on
to my grandchildren,
so this just kinda
gets you thinkin'.
- I'm vibin', and he's like,
"Yeah, your grandma throwin' it back,"
and I'm just like, [bleep]!
What if I'm someone's grandma one day,
and they're just seeing
these videos?
- It reminds me of the good ol' days
of YouTube with all these
fresh new ideas,
where people kinda just
were really fresh and original.
But now it's like,
we're doing it in 2020.
- (FBE) So, like we said,
these videos are all part
of a series called When Our Generation
Gets Old and Hears a Throwback Song.
And as you may have gathered,
these videos poke fun
at how our generation will be
once we get older
and how some of the things
that we do now may sound crazy
to our grandkids.
So, how accurate do you think
his portrayals and his kind of
social commentary is gonna end up
actually being someday?
- I don't think
it's necessarily supposed
to be an accurate representation.
It's more kind of parodying
how we kind of talk to our parents
and their parents talk
to their parents.
But I think now that we have
the internet, there's gonna be
less of a disconnect
between generations moving forward.
- You know how older generations now,
where it's like, you know,
"Get off my lawn" type of things
or "Kids have it easier these days."
I feel like that happens
in every single generation.
- Oh my god. Imagine just being
80 years old,
and you're sagging,
and then you're just like,
"Come on, child. Come here.
Oh, I found my old iPhone X.
Look at these TikToks!"
- I feel like it's so accurate.
I mean, it's basically what I've heard
and what our generation
has heard from our parents
and our grandparents
just with, you know, music
way back in the day.
But to think that right now
is going to be considered
"back in the day" at one point
in my lifetime is just wild.
- (FBE) The videos you saw today
are all from YouTuber Kyle Exum,
who, as of filming this episode,
has over three million subscribers
and has posted three videos
of this When Our Generation
Gets Old series.
He also makes scripted comedy sketches
and parodies famous rap songs.
So, Kyle is around your age.
So, we wanna know, in your opinion,
what do you think it is
about these videos
that's so enticing
for people your age to watch?
- I think we're all getting
a little older, and we're all
freaking out about it.
It's a very shareable video,
or, like, "Oh, can you believe
what it's gonna be like?"
- The big thing is we love
self-deprecating humor.
This is all just poking fun
at how crazy and wild
our generation is.
- He's kind of making us feel
nostalgic for things
that are currently being released
and we're currently talking about.
We're gonna look back
at all the stuff that we're doing
in 2019 and being like, "Wow,
those really were the good old days,"
but we're thinking that currently.
- (FBE) So, you may have also
seen Kyle on TikTok.
We actually recently featured
a challenge that was started by Kyle
called I've Been TikTokkin'
in a recent episode.
- Ohh.
- (raps along) ♪ TikTok-- ♪
Ayy! I like that one a lot actually.
I love it when the creators,
especially singers,
they make their own moves
or their own song.
- (FBE) With the ever-changing
landscape of social media
and all of these platforms,
what do you think it really takes
to be a successful
and original creator nowadays?
- Oh, god. That's such
a complicated question,
'cause it's the internet now.
It's not a specific subsect
of people.
There is an audience for everything.
You could get a million subscribers
just giving golfing advice,
'cause there's an audience for it now.
It's find your niche,
find something you're good at
and passionate about,
and then find a way
to market it.
- I mean, it's just
like Ru Paul's Drag Race.
Charisma, uniqueness,
nerve, and talent.
That's what I wanna see here!
- Sometimes, you have to put
a lot of work in it and thought
and try to make it as funny,
but I also feel like it's also
based off of luck and who finds you,
'cause some aren't as creative,
yet they end up gaining so many views,
so I don't know what sort of algorithm
these social medias use to get famous.
So, I don't know.
- I think it's all about perspective,
but also tapping into
the collective consciousness,
because if you can tap into an idea
that everybody's thinking
but hasn't been created yet,
I think that's always--
that's the formula.
- (FBE) All right, so finally,
what's something that you love
and you think will still be "lit"
when you find yourself
actually on this elders wall someday
and explaining it to your grandkids?
- (laughs) Oh my god.
I don't know.
I feel like The Office.
I feel like I'll definitely
wanna show my kids Office episodes
and be like, "This is comedy.
This is actual comedy."
- I am a Potterhead,
and a really big one.
If I ever get old and have grandkids,
and I tell them about my youth,
it's probably gonna be
about Harry Potter.
And I don't wanna ruin Harry Potter
for them, but I'll probably
ruin Harry Potter for them.
- I hope the MCU still exists
80 years from now.
I hope we're on Iron Man 67.
I'm gonna be honest, Riri Williams
is gonna kill it as an adult.
- It makes it even more surreal,
I think being on this wall
and thinking about it.
It's gonna be a lot me showing
my kids Kill Bill
and Pride and Prejudice,
'cause those are my two sides of it.
Kill Bill. Pride and Prejudice.
Both female-led. One with the sword,
and one with her heart.
- (raspy) Thanks for watching
this here episode of Elders--
(clears throat) I mean,
College Kids React.
- What do you think
you're gonna be listening to
when you're old?
Let us know in the comments.
- Make sure you subscribe,
so you never miss an episode.
- Hey, everyone. Lauren,
producer here at FBE.
Thank you so much
for watching this episode.
Are there any other YouTube creators
that you want us to react to next?
If so, let us know
down in the comments. Bye!
