Comments on: What just happened? That's not a teenager!

What just happened? That's not a teenager!

Apropos of Something — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 20:30:39 -0800

Benny and Rafi Fine are video producers filming how kids react to Rebecca Black, Charlie Sheen, Numa Numa Kid, Keyboard Cat, Nyan Cat, and other viral videos.

By: Stonestock Relentless

Stonestock Relentless — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 20:40:02 -0800

Somebody needs to pay a whole lot less attention to that horrid brat in the green shirt that hates everything.

By: Joakim Ziegler

Joakim Ziegler — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 20:40:19 -0800

...2 girls 1 cup?

By: erstwhile

erstwhile — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 20:42:05 -0800

I was going to note how douchebaggy the green t-shirt kid is, but it was already the first response. I think these videos would be much more effective without him, because he just comes off as disingenuous, trying too hard.

By: Joakim Ziegler

Joakim Ziegler — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 20:46:43 -0800

The actual kids' reactions are good, the horrible chalk-on-blackboard intertitles and music and whatnot, not so much.

By: ZenMasterThis

ZenMasterThis — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 20:47:39 -0800

Meta-Metafilter?

By: Inspector.Gadget

Inspector.Gadget — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 20:49:38 -0800

"Ma'am, your son William - yes, he was wearing his green shirt that day, very observant of you - is already doucheing at a 10th grade level. We believe he would be a good candidate for social promotion."

By: ThePinkSuperhero

ThePinkSuperhero — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 20:51:03 -0800

FYI, William is the Mefite.

By: ThePinkSuperhero

ThePinkSuperhero — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 20:51:30 -0800

Me personally, I could do with a little less Lia.

By: ThePinkSuperhero

ThePinkSuperhero — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 20:52:47 -0800

Also, 7-year old Sammie looks so much like my little sister looked at that age. It's uncanny! Can you tell I've been watching these obsessively for days? I have.

By: basicchannel

basicchannel — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 20:56:56 -0800

A ten year-old is trying too hard? He's a fucking ten year-old. Yay for being catty about children I guess?

By: aerotive

aerotive — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 21:02:35 -0800

Re Bin Laden: "He's a camper like on Black Ops." That's gold.

By: weapons-grade pandemonium

weapons-grade pandemonium — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 21:03:04 -0800

So this is where we react to Benny and Rafi Fine's videos of kids reacting to Rebecca Black Charlie Sheen? OK. I am against this.

By: erstwhile

erstwhile — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 21:03:08 -0800

A ten year-old is trying too hard? He's a fucking ten year-old. Yay for being catty about children I guess? Welcome to the internet. How do you like it?

By: JHarris

JHarris — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 21:04:44 -0800

Huh, that's weird. At least in the Keyboard Cat video, at least 90% of the time, they filmed boys in a blue room, and girls in a pink room.

By: Zemoth

Zemoth — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 21:12:32 -0800

That green shirted dude really needs to hook up with the hipster girl and complain about EVERYTHING. It would be adorable, in other news, I have grated my ears off.

By: sweetkid

sweetkid — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 21:14:05 -0800

I'm a big fan of these. I watched a ton one night. Morgan is pretty hilarious, too. William's great! They're all child actors, btw. Explains why they're so precocious.

By: hincandenza

hincandenza — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 21:15:21 -0800

Metafilter: gets drunk half the time like Lindsey Lohan... pwn3ed!

By: telegraph

telegraph — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 21:21:27 -0800

But that kid IS trying way too hard! One thing I will say is that it is pretty clear that the children know what the producers want them to feel about things and are playing up that opinion. Did he really say something about Gaddafi?!?

By: benito.strauss

benito.strauss — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 21:27:04 -0800

Kids that young say "pwned"? Recent changes in the English language are not coming from where I would have predicted.

By: phaedon

phaedon — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 21:28:34 -0800

GO MORGAN!!

By: erstwhile

erstwhile — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 21:30:29 -0800

But that kid IS trying way too hard! One thing I will say is that it is pretty clear that the children know what the producers want them to feel about things and are playing up that opinion. I didn't know the kids were actors; it certainly explains a lot, especially in William's case. He is totally hamming it up. I love the little girl with the bangs -- mostly because she really acts like a child. Do you like that little flip that she did? Cute, not pretentious.

By: sweetkid

sweetkid — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 21:40:28 -0800

One of my favorite Morgan moments is in the Rebecca Black "Friday" video. When the rapper comes in she goes, "Does his mom know he's doing that?"

By: Chipmazing

Chipmazing — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 21:51:23 -0800

If someone just edited together all of the clips of the hilarious 6 year old girl, I'd be beyond happy. She is amazing.

By: sweetkid

sweetkid — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 21:54:20 -0800

They have some Morgan extra reels, as they do for other characters. And that's the last I'll say about Morgan, because now I'm feeling creepy.

By: Bwithh

Bwithh — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 22:01:34 -0800

OK, the KIDS REACT to Osama bin Laden's Death video is waaaaay too intense for me

By: charlie don't surf

charlie don't surf — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 22:03:15 -0800

From the Lady Gaga video: Adult: Why does she wear all that crazy makeup and costumes all the time? Kid: Cause she wants to show her true self. ROFL.

By: Chipmazing

Chipmazing — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 22:06:02 -0800

Bwithh - I thought a lot of their responses were way more mature and thoughtful than most *adults* I talked to. And William, for all his hammy dickishness in other videos, had pretty cogent and articulate opinions. I'd watch him on CNN. if I was forced to watch CNN

By: Bwithh

Bwithh — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 22:10:20 -0800

KIDS REACT team kid Lia Marie Johnson also sings and plays her own song videos. In this truly classic clip for the ages, Lia who is ***clearly*** not a nerd, dresses up and pretends to be a nerd in order to sing and play a song in character about "how nerds rule!"

By: charlie don't surf

charlie don't surf — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 22:26:26 -0800

Nyan Cat bonus vid. Adult: How long would you watch this video? Morgan: Until I die! ROFL.

By: katillathehun

katillathehun — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 22:35:57 -0800

"SHE DOESN'T UNDERSTAND ANYTHING ABOUT THE WORLD!" - a ten-year-old.

By: kro

kro — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 22:38:22 -0800

I think these videos are hilarious (mostly because of the Nyan Cat video and the Rebecca Black video, which were the first ones I saw). I didn't know they were actors but I figured that they had to be, especially because a bunch of them have their own youtube channels.

By: The Gooch

The Gooch — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 23:02:32 -0800

Jake gives the kid in the green shirt a decent run for his money in the youth obnoxious blowhard category. And am I just a creeper or was it kind of weird seeing Lia with a video of Charlie Sheen playing behind her since she kind of resembles a 14-year-old Denise Richards?

By: Sys Rq

Sys Rq — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 23:14:44 -0800

WHAT IS THIS

By: Sailormom

Sailormom — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 23:29:31 -0800

From the Lady Gaga video: She dresses so old!

By: delmoi

delmoi — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 23:33:10 -0800

They may be actors, but I don't know that they are 'acting' in these videos, I assumed they were legit. Also, the hate in some of the comments in this thread are ridiculous. I've seen these videos before and thought they were cute and interesting, yet in this thread seems like half the posters are bitching about it for no reason. Is it some bizarre form of un-ironic internet 'get off my lawnism' or something?

By: delmoi

delmoi — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 23:40:12 -0800

That little girls reaction Nyan cat was adorable.

By: subdee

subdee — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 23:42:11 -0800

The eagerness to please just drips off of these kids. Also, I think a lot of them are already familiar with the videos in question. So it's more a set of videos about kids trying to figure out how they're supposed to react than kids genuinely reacting.

By: nicolin

nicolin — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 01:50:20 -0800

ZenMasterThis: "Meta-Metafilter" actually, that's more or less what happens in a metafilter thread : watching grown-ups react to a post. Thanks for this, that's first-rate material. I'm looking forward to watching kids reacting to these.

By: maryr

maryr — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 07:32:34 -0800

It was really neat to see them reacting to Keyboard Cat.

By: bibliowench

bibliowench — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 08:06:06 -0800

Love it. Would love it more if Bill Cosby was doing the interviewing.

By: soma lkzx

soma lkzx — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 11:14:49 -0800

The eagerness to please just drips off of these kids Yeah, Metafilter is predictable like that.

By: Katjusa Roquette

Katjusa Roquette — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 11:54:10 -0800

MetaFilter: Dresses way too old.

By: Sys Rq

Sys Rq — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 12:11:05 -0800

It's actually an excellent condensation of internet comment culture, except that even the four-year-old is significantly more insightful than most comments under any given news article or youtube video. So, yeah, it's a lot like MetaFilter, really. (And, to be perfectly honest, that dickish rapscallion reminds me a lot of myself at his age. Such a fine example of the common curmudgeon's larval stage is a rare sight for the Grown-Up, for whom the misanthropic maggot will usually put on airs of courteous caterpillarity. Gripe on, young man! Gripe on! Just please realize before it's too late that being a cynical prick won't win you friends or get you laid.)

By: endless_forms

endless_forms — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 14:34:53 -0800

I'm not sure why people are picking on William -- several of the kids are hammishly negative. It was pretty interesting to watch -- seeing such negativity-as-performance gives me a new lens on aspects of my own childhood. William's just not as good at it as some of the others, so it's more noticeable, maybe.

By: femmme

femmme — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 18:45:32 -0800

completely hilarious

By: Mael Oui

Mael Oui — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 20:24:19 -0800

Wow. I went to college with Rafi Fine! Neat-o. Too bad they don't have their video of him playing RiffRaff in our production of Rocky Horror! Incidentally, I still have photos *working on blackmailing scheme* .. kidding. WTG, Rafi!

By: mike3k

mike3k — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 20:33:19 -0800

They really need to do this one.

By: rebel_rebel

rebel_rebel — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 09:19:05 -0800

mike3k, they already did.