Adults React To Yes Theory: Fooled The Internet w/ Fake Justin Bieber Burrito Photo Prank

– ♪ I'm sorry ♪♪ I don't how to eat burritos ♪ – Mm.

Yeah, baby.

♪ (industrial intro) ♪ – (FBE) So today, we are goingto show you a photo of a celebrity that has gone crazy viral.

– Of a celebrity? – There's so much every other daythat comes out about somebody.

I honestly wouldn't even know.

– Oh, yeah.

Justin Bieberbeing a monster, eating a burritolike a devil.

– “Justin Bieber eatinga burrito sideways.

” Wow.

I didn't even– (chuckles)I had no clue.

– Who the [bleep]eats a burrito sideways?! – He's just so freaking famousthat a picture of him eating a burrito sidewaysliterally will go viral.

What's going on with the world?- I've done that before.

It's when, like, too bigto do the other way.

And so, you justgotta munch at it.

Is that even Justin Bieber?Yeah, it is, 'cause he's got a mustache.

Gonna say yeah, it's definitely him.

– Okay.

I heard about thisa little bit, but I didn't actually see the photo.

I know it's fake, though.

So, that has alreadybeen ruined for me.

– (FBE) So, we have moreto show you on this in a second, but that was a photo of Justin Biebereating a burrito in what many believe to be a strange manner.

– It is an odd way of eating, but hey, whatever.

– (FBE) After this photo was released, it was posted to Reddit, where it started to take off.

People started creating crazy memes and questioning Bieber'seating habits.

– People are just so bored.

– Let him eat the burritohowever he wants to eat it.

I mean, it's a free country.

Who cares? – (FBE) There are even news reportscovering the story, so we have some memesand news reports to show you now.

– Okay.

Well, the newsis a little ridiculous.

– Breaking news: Justin Bieber eatsa burrito like an idiot.

(snickers) – “Justin Bieber thinks burritosare harmonicas.

” (laughs) – That's crazy, man.

Stuff justtakes off.

Psh-zoom! (chuckles) – Justin Bieber has beenthe butt of the jokes since the start of his career, so this is just another one to add on there.

And this is hilarious.

– “Does Justin Bieber not knowhow burritos work?” Ooh, apparently not.

– No, I don't think he does.

He was never schooledin the art of burrito eating.

– I have no idea why thisis going so viral.

It's so dumb.

– I don't really see the harm in it.

I think it's regular.

– Just so crazy that people are justreally giving him [bleep] for this.

– “I always ask peoplewhat they would do if their date opened a burritoand went at it from the middle, and everyone says that there's no wayanyone would do that.

” (chuckles) I don't think I would necessarilywalk away from the date.

I would definitely havea bad first impression.

But if they were cuteI'd stay.

– He could eat the wayhe wants to eat it.

I mean, he obviously got a riseand a reaction out of half of America.

– If I had gone to have burritoswith my wife as our first date and she ate that, there would nothave been a second date.

– (FBE) So now, we're gonna show yousome clips of the news coverage of the story.

– This might piss me off, because this reallyshouldn't be on the news.

– (anchor 1) Starting withJustin Bieber.

– ABC News?(whispers) Holy [bleep].

– (anchor 1) .

igniting yetanother firestorm of controversy.

– This is so stupid.

– (anchor 2) So, how do you eat a burrito?- (anchor 1) Not like this.

– They're roasting that manwith his music playing in the background.

– ♪ I'm sorry ♪ ♪ I don't knowhow to eat burritos ♪ – (anchor 2) And this is a photoof what appears to be JB chowing down on a burritolike it's a corn cob on Memorial Day.

– (anchor 1) And if you'renot offended, you're not American.

– (anchor 2) Yeah.

He's not.

– I mean, yes, that's correct.

He's not American.

He's Canadian.

– The more I hear themtalk about it, the more ridiculousthe entire situation becomes.

– (FBE) So, after all the commotionaround this image, there was a video that was released.

– I hope this is a joke.

I hope this is alljust a big joke.

– (Thomas) So, then you.

– (man off-screen) Maybe from under.

Yeah, like, cradle it.

– (Thomas) Exactly.

– WHAT?!?!- Ha! What?! What?! (camera shutter clicking) – (Thomas) Ahh.

gotcha.

– Wow.

(chuckles) – (narrator) Yup, that photoof Justin Bieber eating a burrito sideways.

– Oh, whoa.

– (narrator) .

was completely staged.

– It wasn't Justin Bieber.

– (narrator) We arethe ones that did it.

– I've seen these guys before.

They do the videos where they put a point on a map, and then they go here.

– The Yes Theory people!They're great.

– (narrator) We stumbledupon Brad Sousa's Instagram, the uncanny Justin Bieber lookalike.

– His twin! His doppelganger! – He's not really Justin Bieber?! – (narrator) We wantedto prove a point, that staging a story, as goofy as it was, can be done much more easily than most people can imagine.

– And it worked.

– (narrator) So, our plan was simple.

Fly Brad out all the way from Canada to LA to pose as Justin Bieberdoing unusual things.

– No [bleep] way! – So, they orchestratedthe whole thing just to show peoplethat you're stupid.

Yup, I love this so much.

– (Thomas) All right, we've been brainstorming ideas.

– It's a whole meeting!- (Thomas) What if he's caught doing really weird stuff?Like eating a burrito sideways.

– Hilarious.

– (narrator) We only had Brad in LA for two days.

So, the first day was dedicated to making him lookas close to Justin Bieber as we possibly could.

– Woww.

– (Thomas) We're gonnaneed long sleeve.

We're gonna need pants, right? 'Cause JB has got, like, leg tattoos.

– (laughs) This makes so much more sense now.

– (woman) Okay.

See? Exactly.

I told you.

– That's a wig?That's not his real hair?! – BRUH!- (Thomas) You're trying to think of something that would offend.

– (gasps) – That's Justin Bieber! (laughs) – (Thomas) Yeah, exactly.

Hold it like.

so that you– – (man off-screen) Yeah, cradle it.

– And it's not even him.

– The whole thing was staged, bro.

– (narrator) Our viral strategywas simple: Send out the video and photo to as many vlogsand newspapers as we could find.

– (Thomas) I think we haveeither two objectives: either getting a bunch of viewson one of these links or just getting it publishedin one of these gossip websites.

– (Matt) I think we should find outsome Justin Bieber fan pages.

– Oh, that's a good point!The fan pages! – (Matt) We justchecked the subreddit, and it is number one! It is number one!- I hate that this worked.

– (man) On mildlyinfuriating.

(laughs) – (amused) Mildly infuriating.

Those are perfect words.

– (man off-screen) What?- (Matt) This is the text I got from Darren this morning.

“You're on Paper Mag.

” – Paper Mag?!- (Matt) Okay, [bleep] just went down.

E! News posted on.

– Oh my god.

– (laughs) – (Thomas) It's gettingout of control.

– (Matt) It's everywhere.

Taylor's sending me all these links.

– Whoa, this got big and serious.

– (Thomas) Just becomea Twitter moment, which means it's at the top of the.

– Oh my god.

– Why is it going so crazy? This just shows youhow much we care about celebrities.

– (Conor) They're calling.

(big exhale) Hey!Hey, Erica! It's Conor.

– (Erica) Start from the beginning.

What day did you take the photo? – Is he talking to Access Hollywood?- Nooo! (laughs) – (Conor) Last week.

I think it was last Friday.

It was last week.

I think it was last Friday.

I was just hanging outin West Hollywood Park.

– I feel cheated.

– (Erica) What do you say to everyone trying to prove it's not Bieber?- Nobody thought to call up Justin Bieber's publicist?- (Erica) They said this is a setup.

What do you say to that?- (Conor) That would be crazy.

I don't– (laughs)I don't even know why people would think that.

– (laughs) This is funny as hell, man.

– He's a good liar.

Eating a burrito sideways! – (Conor) And a lot of peopleare questioning whether it was Justin Bieber.

It was definitely– it definitely was him.

I think the internet has spoken on that.

Cheers.

Thanks.

– That's a genius argument!It's like, yeah, Access Hollywood, who would waste their timestaging a fake photo of Justin Bieber? They'd be such losers!And then they did it.

– I wanna hear what Justin Bieberhas to say.

He's like, “Whatever.

You're just making me more famous.

I don't give a [bleep].

“- The world is so deceiving, and it scares me.

– (FBE) We're gonna show youa video of Justin Bieber's manager, Scooter Braun's responseto all this.

– Oh, Scooter! I saw himfrom the Never Say Never documentary.

– (Ammar) We've got somethingsuper quick to tell you.

– (laughs)- (Scooter) First of all, I know what he looks like.

– (man laughs) – (Matt) We figured.

We figured.

– (Ammar) Fair.

– (Scooter) Okay.

Number two, I found it very amusing, because I had so many peoplehitting me, saying, “Why is your boyeating a burrito like this?” – Oh, good.

I'm so gladhe responded this way.

– (Scooter) The best partis how I figured out it was you guys.

I decided to put it upon my Instagram for one minute and one minute onlywith a little caption pretending likeI thought it was him.

For one minute!- Whaat?! – (Scooter) Within 30 secondsof posting it and taking it down, your manager hits me!- (gasps) Ha-ha! – (Scooter) You can'tprank a prankster, but I'm gonna play along.

I'm not gonna say anything, because it's really funny.

– (Yes Theory) Amazing.

– (laughs) I love that.

Everything's just in good fun.

– That's nice that they played along.

– It was a rollercoaster.

It's got an arc.

It's got a three-act structure.

It's a lot.

(chuckles)I'm emotionally wrecked.

– (FBE) Now, we can't let you go.

– Okay.

– (FBE) .

before.

– I eat a burrito? (gasps) Seriously?! – (FBE) .

before we have youbite into a burrito sideways! – This is sacred.

First of all, I've known how to eat a burrito.

Okay, I'm Mexicano, we learn how to eat burritos out of the womb.

– That is so funny.

What kind of burrito is it? – I don't feel differentor weird.

– I feel like I'm doingsomething I shouldn't.

– This is blasphemy.

I could cry.

– If you have a burrito, you can hold this way.

You can hold it this way.

It doesn't matter.

You can be on the go.

You need two hands for this.

(laughs) – Mm.

Yeah, baby.

Mm.

Right there.

Burrito it out.

– (FBE) So apparently, this wasall a prank orchestrated in order to to prove a pointby YouTube channel Yes Theory.

– Yeah, I had seen them before.

They're doing a lot of really fun stuffon their YouTube channel.

– (FBE) Yes Theory, who have over two million subscribers, wanted to stage a storyin order to prove how easy it is to spread fake news.

– Ohh, interesting.

They had a point to it.

Okay! – (FBE) Typically, Yes Theory's channel focuses on videos showcasing the teamdoing outrageous stunts and pushing themselvesto break boundaries.

They even challenged Will Smithto bungee jump out of helicopter, which Will Smith accepted.

– Oh, that was them? That's cool.

That's really cool.

– (FBE) What do you thinkabout the fact that they were able to pull it off this wayand confuse the entire internet? – That's insane.

I mean, already things on the internet can go viral like wildfire, you know?But a lot of times, it's difficult when you're planningto try to make it viral.

– What they're doing is not anythingthat we haven't seen before.

You can do just about anything stupidon the internet and, you know, it's popular for the week.

– Their point is important, but I do feel like–at least, me personally, I'm very criticalof everything I hear.

This was just innocuousthat it was like, why would I be critical of it? – They already havea really big network as is, and they have managers, and they have PR people.

So, I think it's easier for peoplelike them to spread something.

– (FBE) Well, Philip DeFrancoalso covered this story on his YouTube channel, where he brought up an interesting point, that as fun as this prank was, it shows just how easilyfake news can spread.

– Yup.

Absolutely.

– If Philip DeFranco was a fan of it, then I'm a fan of it, because it's true.

Fake news is a serious problem.

– (FBE) And oftentimes, many people read headlines and assume they're truewithout fact checking or following up on the whole story.

As an adult in 2018, do you honestly ever find yourselfjust repeating something you read without knowingthe full story first? – Yeah, absolutely.

All the time.

I feel like if you see it in headlines, you're like, “Oh, yeah.

I heard about that.

” So, it must be true.

– Yes.

I have.

I absolutely have repeated somethingthat was just a headline that I didn't go into.

And I realize how stupid that is, but I think a lot of us do.

– I'm always super conscious of– I'll see a ridiculous headline, but then I'll click on it to see one, where the website came from, who the author was, but then also where they're gettingtheir sources, because then otherwise, you're gonna get fooled.

– I make a really conscious effortto not do that, honestly partially'cause of Philip DeFranco.

I watch him a lot, and you just try to get the full storyand both sides before you start speakingon it to other people.

– (FBE) Finally, with everything saidand done, was all this commotion really worth it over a burrito?- Yes, absolutely, because you justdon't eat burritos that way.

And if we let that go, then what other kind of CHAOS will we createin this world? – It was a good prankto prove a point about how fanaticalthis society is and how, you know, lazy-minded we can be.

– I'm glad that they weretrying to promote the idea that fake news is a real problem, and people can just believe something.

So, kudos for doing the right thing.

Although, I still feel like an idiot.

So, [bleep] them.

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