transcript: (mouse clicks) ♪ (dramatic chord) ♪ ♪ (dramatic chord) ♪ ♪ (dramatic chord) ♪ What if I told you that inside
that house live two boys who star in one of the most
popular videos on the internet ever? - What?
- (Boleto) And they're only 9 and 11 years old. - Can you recognize these two?
- (gasps) Oh my god. "Charlie Bit My Finger"! Oh my god!
Oh my god, they're old. (in video) Charlie bit me. It's the "Charlie bit me" kids. Yo, it's taking me back. - (in video) Charlie bit me.
- They are cute, man. - They are pretty cute.
- (Boleto) This short clip - featuring one-year-old Charlie...
- Wow. (Boleto) ...and his older brother, Harry, has had millions of views online. More than 815 million people have seen... It didn't realize it had that many views. (Boleto) ...eight years ago
by the boys' dad. Obligatory "I feel old." (Boleto) Howard only ever shared his video because the file was too big
to send to friends over email. (laughs) Oh my gosh, times have changed. (Boleto) ...not taking
music videos into account, Charlie's cheeky moment is
the biggest viral hit on YouTube. What do you mean,
not including music videos? Vevo is extremely important. (Boleto) The boys have
even appeared in adverts. Since that video landed online, Charlie and Harry both
have two younger brothers to share their success with. Wait, are they still making videos? (Boleto) ...this 57-second video
will most likely be viewed one billion times. - That's crazy.
- A billion. Oh my god. Wow. That's crazy. They're old men now. ♪ (dramatic chord) ♪ (Finebros) So how does
seeing those boys today all these years later make you feel? I feel, like, old as dust. Wow, I'm [bleep] old. That tripped me out a little bit. It's so weird, 'cause you're just
seeing them as that one thing, and then they're real people
with real lives. (Finebros) So the boys say
they like the video, but they find it odd that
so many people have watched them. Do you think, as they keep getting older, their thoughts about this is gonna change? No, I think they're always
gonna think it's a bit weird. As they get older, they're just
gonna find it more hilarious that people actually
watched that so many times. It's not like it's a
super-embarrassing video. It's not like the kid [bleep]
his pants or something and the other brother started eating it. You know, it's just biting on a finger. I'm sure it's a little surreal,
'cause they're thinking, "That's us. Why do these guys
want to see us so many times?" Down the road, they're gonna realize
it's this precious moment. (Finebros) Do you remember
the first time you watched - "Charlie Bit My Finger"?
- I do. It was like one of those first
YouTube videos you got on MySpace. I've watched that video a million times, just like everyone else did. Everyone was quoting it
and showing each other. I remember seeing it
and people being like, "This video is crazy! It's gotten
a hundred bajillion views!" And watching it, you'd be like, "Really?" Somebody's like, "You haven't
seen 'Charlie Bit My Finger'?" And I was like, "That sounds
so weird. What is it?" I saw it when it was already old news and people were dropping
it in cultural references. And I'd be like, "Yeah, I know, right? (under breath) What the hell is that?" (Finebros) What was YouTube like
eight years ago compared to now? Man... it was a whole
different world, bro. It definitely used to be
a little bit more of a house party. And now it's turned into
a big industrialized nightclub. I just remember thinking it was
where you go to see weird videos. People weren't making
businesses on YouTube. I remember when I first
started doing YouTube, the most subscribed person was Brookers. And she had 20,000 subscribers and I thought it was
the biggest deal ever. I don't believe there was
a partner program back then. I'd say the number-one thing
that's changed on YouTube is the fact that now
all the videos look so good. It's very hard to compete with. (Finebros) So YouTube is celebrating - its tenth anniversary this year.
- That is crazy! (Finebros) What were you
doing ten years ago? Ten years ago, I think
I was just joining MySpace. I was in third grade. I was 11, so I wasn't on YouTube. But I still was making videos
ten years ago. I'll tell you what I was doing. I was not getting kissed
in high school, that's for sure. I was uploading songs on MySpace,
trying to be a famous rapper. I was graduated from college and scared [bleep]less about
the next year of my life. (dreamily) I was a freshman in college. I wanted to be a singer, and now I'm the worst kind of singer. I was moving from Chicago to Los Angeles to be an actor and to study comedy. I was playing music and playing shows. I had a couple of videos up
on YouTube at the time, but I didn't understand the power of them. (Finebros) And what was
the moment that you decided, "Oh, I'm gonna start using YouTube"? YouTube, for me, somebody was like,
oh, there's a girl in the UK. Her name was Lauren Luke, Panacea81. And she was selling makeup online, but she would do tutorials
to show you how to use the makeup. And I was like, "I'm gonna be
the US version of her." It started off as like,
I just need a platform. I wanted to make little
sketches and parodies and skits with my family and friends. I sent videos of me
performing to my parents. And then I saw videos of other people singing the same songs as me
but in their bedroom, and I thought that was freaking weird. And so then I uploaded
Miranda videos as a joke. My friends and I at the time,
we were amateur filmmakers. We ran out of bandwidth on our website. So I was like, "Yo bro,
you can put our movies on this YouTube website and then we don't have
to worry about the bandwidth." I first got into YouTube because my best friend,
Grace Helbig, was doing it. I didn't know there was
a business aspect of it at all. (Finebros) Was there a moment
that you remember of when YouTube changed for you from just being something
you were doing as a hobby to realizing this could
be something bigger? Um... I think I realized YouTube
was bigger than I thought it was when I uploaded a video
of me and my cousins dancing to Hannah Montana. I just thought it was crazy
that that many people found my Hannah Montana dancing video. The first time I saw "Lazy Sunday." And I think that's when I realized, holy moly, videos can
spread like wildfire. Miranda had existed online
for a year and a half before a video went "viral." And back then, that meant,
like, 70,000 views. And I think it was probably
a year or more after that when I finally realized like,
oh, people do this. Like, people upload videos and it's a job. The first video that ever,
I guess, went "viral" for me was this Michael Jackson medley. And if you could get people to follow you, then you could find some way of turning that into
a living for yourself. I got an email from him about you guys. I had made a YouTube video
called "A Picture Song." And you guys were like, "This is great!" That's how I got into YouTube. I still have that email, by the way. I still have that email too. (Finebros) And could you ever
have imagined that YouTube - would grow into what it is today?
- Um, yeah. I can imagine it. The world was kind of waiting
for something like that. I figured it would be something huge. I just didn't think it would
be something huge for me. I knew what I wanted to do, you know? I had no idea YouTube
was gonna be the tool that helped me gain my audience. Absolutely not. I never in a million years thought it could be a sustainable career. Absolutely not. This is crazy. And it's still crazy to me that
not everyone knows what it is. When I uploaded my first
Miranda video, if someone said, "Hey, six, seven years from now, you're gonna be making money doing this and you're gonna love it
and it's gonna be your full-time job," I would laugh in their face. I've made Miranda videos
making fun of people who thought that. (Finebros) Do you still feel, though, that there is some stigmas and stereotypes about content on YouTube,
despite how big it's gotten? Absolutely. Absolutely. And it's gonna take
a heck of a lot of time for those stereotypes to go away. My friends will be like, "Oh, are you still uploading
your little videos to YouTube?" And I'm like, "My little videos?
This is my life." I think most people think of YouTube as a place to watch viral videos of cats and kids biting their brother. I don't think most people think
YouTube can be a career still. I think the stereotype about, "Oh, everything on YouTube
sucks" goes for TV too. I think for every Catfish,
which is a great show, you have 500 million
terribly [bleep] shows. YouTube veers a little younger, and I think everyone's catching up. There's people making books
and people making whole businesses, like you guys and Michelle Phan. Definitely one thing in people's mind now, which I think wasn't
in their mind five years ago, is that this is a person
who actually has real fans online because of their YouTube videos. But also because Vine's all new,
the YouTubers are like, (pompous tone)
"Pfft! What is this Vine thing? Like, what are you guys?
Only six-second videos? Pfft! Is that it?"
You know what I'm saying? Where it's almost like we've taken on the role of the traditional media, and we're like, "Pfft! What is this [bleep]?" (Finebros) So back to the video, this channel has continued
to upload over the years, but it hasn't really worked. Why do you think people
that get accidental viral fame have mostly struggled to maintain
an audience on YouTube? Because nothing's gonna
top the first time. It's lightning in a bottle.
You can't recreate that. You have this video that propels you in front of everybody,
in front of the world. But at the same time, that's the only thing
they want to know you for. When you have something
that explodes like that, like a song or a one-hit wonder,
it gets a lot of attention. But then they kind of forget. Whereas if people build a following, they're building a loyal group of friends. One video can't really do that. (Finebros) So finally,
YouTube's hit this milestone-- ten years of this website. Can you talk about what
YouTube means to you - and what it's done for your life?
- Yeah. I've been doing YouTube since I was 12, so it's definitely shaped my life. I feel like YouTube was
a dream I never dreamed that came true for me. YouTube for me has been
the key in unlocking the doors that I wouldn't be able to open
for the life of me. Completely would be how
I would describe it's changed my life. Music was always something
that I had a passion for, but I didn't think I would
be able to make a living off of it. Oh my god, you're gonna
get me all emotional. Growing up, I always wanted
to make a change in kids' lives. And now I get to make a change
in kids' lives every single day just by uploading videos
and making them laugh. YouTube has created a life for me. Without YouTube, I'd probably
be an elementary school teacher. And that is terrifying. So... thank you, YouTube. Thanks so much for watching
this episode of YouTubers React. Make sure you help support
the show and everybody below by subscribing to everybody. There's more fun waiting
for you all below here. Bye, guys. Bye! Bring on the next ten years. Woo! ♪ (end music) ♪
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