0:00 [Music] welcome to another episode of careful boys where we give a little bit of advice on a very specific Niche situation that maybe most of you haven't even experienced but what do you say if you have a friend who is constantly and um progressively copying you wow that's I would love that that would be hilarious and that's like do random stuff to see if they're actually copying me or not yeah it's confirmed like say They're copying the way you look the kind of the things you say the the addiction in your voice like the hobbies that you pick up they just are kind of they copy the way I look that's great so now we can go out in public I don't have to be worried yeah and this is like a
0:51 non-mutual thing it's not like hey we should do this together it's just you do it and then they just started that you would want to copy you it's like they don't really they're not pulling it off what if they do a really bad version of what they think you are and it's just really embarrassing to it honestly that's what happens yeah those words yeah they're not doing a good job what I did hate was when I was a maybe like 10 or 11 MH I would go visit my cousin or my family in Taiwan and my cousin was like 5 years younger than me and he would copy everything I i' do and I ████ hated it like I play with one toy right and he wants to play with it and then so like your parents are like oh just be the bigger brother whatever and so I'm like all right fine you can go play with it I go play with this thing same thing then I'm like oh you know I'm just going to go outside I want to go outside I'm like ████ I'm like and then you try to trick him I'm going to
1:42 take a nap and he was like I'm going to take a nap too I'm like what the ████ God damn there's nothing I could do this what this reminds me of though for sure it's so he like looked up to you so hard and just like get off so cool you're his American cousin so cool all the time he takes American naps dude your sleep cycle all the time for sure I would do that to my brother my old brother you have older brother damn imagine his joke imagine his J how many years apart are you guys he's two years older was he by you doing that for sure yeah really what kind of stuff did you copy I just wanted to do everything he did I wanted to hang out with him all the time and dude probably do all the sports and ████ he did yeah and he didn't like you you it didn't integrate well that you were hanging out
2:32 with him and his friends that was yeah yeah he didn't like it he didn't like it but I don't know yeah I think that's just how it is Willer Brothers yeah that's Brothers right yeah all siblings in gender where your parents like just go hang out with your brothers yeah not him yeah yeah yeah what about if you had a friend that's like uh let's say they're a different culture but then they start to say the things that you say and copy how you say them yo you know okay you know what's funny not black at all or Japanese but they're just like okay I think that's the cool way to speak yeah that would be crazy if like one of my non-black friends just started calling me the N word like like no no no yeah she says cool Gucci says cool I mean I I don't know I just I think like you kind of start to mirror your friends in some ways like naturally like it just kind of happens
3:22 over time but like not consciously not like taking over their identity that I haven't experienced and that would be ████ weird that is weird yeah no matter how you spin that be like oh that's I got to move around like you start seeing their name after yours in the comedy like at the uh comedy club they're going after you that would be insane that would be insan and taking your material though that I would know that's fting fighting Japanese B oh my God that would be crazy but like what's a way that you would let's say that that like in a nightmare world let's say that's happening how do you speak to that friend and they're a friend you care about so you know got a punch on the back of the head probably is it is it just physical is it purely physical no no I wouldn't throw that's crazy I don't know how to approach that situation be like well first of if you're taking my jokes being broke
4:13 that's my ████ joke are you serious I don't know I don't know how I would handle that conversation what if she not not that she's taking your jokes but she's there when you're formulating them so she catches where your mind's going and just makes the same concept I mean cuz I've also been in a situation where like um I I've like asked for referrals for comics and then I got one from a a friend of mine they were like oh she's like but she's like Asian and black kind of like you and I was like I don't care we have similar experiences that actually makes it a lot easier for me she'll do all the explaining first and then I can just do the joke later yeah so I don't know like I don't know that I'd be bothered but I'm I'm going to do it better so oh maybe they'll just wear off maybe they'll just like get tired of copying could be that yeah it could be that but dang I'm kind of offended this never happened to me no one ever copied me yeah it's kind of flattering when
5:03 somebody does you also it's also kind of hard to notice unless it's someone you're seeing all the time like you'd have to be going to school or something you know what I mean otherwise you don't know they're coping you Steve told me that um you know how I um break into accents a lot so I I would say things so repeatedly that people would start just it's like in their brain so they would copy me and he goes man I had to catch myself the other day cuz I kept going oh I'm so hungry it seems like oh ████ I'm in public big white guys saying that oh I'm so hungry I could second to that cuz now I catch myself doing so many Japanese accents cuz of this dude vietamese stuff yeah because of Anthony doing Vietnamese stuff or this guy doing Vietnamese stuff it's hard you got to catch yourself cuz I'm hanging on this guy I'm always looking up Vegas ████ properties hey that's good for
5:53 you dude I'm never going to go there okay well you got to pass though cuz people won't know yeah right it's dangerous for Steve yeah that's dangerous well they might think he was born and raised in China but no one's going to give him that pass you know yeah yeah I guess there's very I guess yeah there's very few reasons why it would bother you unless you had to see it all the time a person copying you right yeah and I feel like you'd have to be like and when you're secure in yourself you don't really give a ████ I don't know like I'm sure if it's like high school though that probably happens to everybody whoever's popular everybody starts coping them and then it just gets kind I know I know someone that copies b a lot it's so they copy Bart now yeah what's her name so like it's like when Bart when Bart does something for his Vlogs right uhhuh just out of nowhere this person does something very similar and then buy
6:45 something right what when bar buy something all of a sudden this person buys the same thing and then you just see a pattern and you're just like is someone being inspired or is this like it just seems like straight up copying the fans will call that out too that's the funny part is it another YouTuber or something yeah yeah another you the fans started calling it out it was funny it is it's so funny cuz I'm like how does it make you feel yeah how do you feel it it doesn't really affect me because I know this person and I'm like this person would do that he probably just goes oh that's a good idea and sees it as inspiration right one that uh caught me off guard the most I was like what the ████ was uh
7:35 I in my stories I post like most of my workouts are my stories and there's this one I just thought it was funny like I'm in the middle of workout and I really had to take a ████ so I was like oh three sets of 10 of this and then two sets of 10 of this and then the other one was me entering into the bathroom for like one like one set of taking a ████ and I came back out so I just went into the bathroom only one set huh just one set I went in I I came out and then I finish the rest of my workout that's so funny this person does zero Fitness content zero and then one day in their stories was he was like lifting in his garage and he was like one set I have to go in the bathroom the one set comes back out and and I saw that I was like wait a minute I was like I'm sitting right next to you dude just call me out right just zero Fitness content zero I was like that's the new wave you're starting bro that's weird all of a sudden your wife is in his vogs and he's just taking over your
8:26 your ████ life get the same haircut yeah I don't I don't know how it is in you guys's Niche but in our kind of self-development Niche kind of the unwritten rule is if you make a video that pops the ████ off it's okay for other people to copy you as long as it's not going to like pop off harder than yours really so everybody's just copying each other so no one's mad unless it surpasses their is it a but doesn't that create like a trend though and it kind of like works this ecosystem out for you guys or is it like line forline copying like yeah what's a what's a good example of that yeah yeah yeah I mean mostly it's just the the idea you know the general oh okay so it's kind of just a premise if there everyone's making jaob videos then that's the everyone's because really there's no new premises
9:16 Under the Sun really there isn't anything new that you can come up with frust up stolen titles pretty much I love it being black in America he's how am I going to do this this is tough I to pull it off though their thumbnail exactly the same and it's him in this drawline yeah but in the description I'm just like yo shout out so so thanks for Theo that's that's cool that's cool at least that yeah that's nice to do yeah cuz I do feel like it's in the self-development world like the concepts are all similar and it's just people say it in their own words or whatever to make it more relatable so I feel like that makes sense but I mean like I'm talking about straight up word for word there was remember when David was calling out all those YouTubers that were that were literally line for line
10:06 stealing jokes you remember that right people were taking old like Richard prior ████ and they were making Tik toks and they were just like that's how Amy Schumer's whole career started hers is crazy and her writers careers yeah side by sides for wild yeah word for word now that stuff is crazy or SNL when they started ripping like small creators making whole sketches dude they stole some of our sketches yeah ████ straight up like the ultra v-neck sketch we created they old school yeah yeah de yeah really de you know when you guys made the transition to news I don't know if how if you ever noticed how many other YouTubers started making news yeah even batch fousey the funny thing is they even told us straight up like oh how do you do that and then we'll just be like yeah this is the format this is how we run it this is how we shoot it then they do it and we're like I don't really take offense to it yeah yeah you
10:58 shouldn't cuz what you bring is unique ultimately I think same thing it's like if we're if I'm on the lineup with another comedian who has a similar experience to me you know it would be crazy for me to be like don't talk about your Asian and black stuff that's your what like what are you talking about that's my whole ████ like right before they're said hey do your a favor just can you avoid yeah cuz I'm going to do all of my stuff no like I'm not going to do that cuz that's your experience it's going to be it's going to it's going to be your take on that experience like like do we have the same mom like imagine us calling our friends like hey don't be sitting in a group with your friends and talking don't film it either dude at least it's not like when Fine Brothers tried to trademark react remember that oh yeah that was brutal
11:49 they they were but not socially so they pulled it back because everyone hated them they actually everyone reacts ████ invited us over afterwards and then we we had a good chat about it because uh we did a funny JK news video about that everyone was covering it they were so caught off guard with the reaction of the react ownership so they really didn't see that coming they didn't no good Lord I think for them it's like the format is theirs the the specific format but clearly nobody can actually copyright the word react it's not possible so they didn't think people would take it as like they're going to come after everybody who's using the word react yeah or like even reacting to videos for them it was they're trying to protect their own format that they
12:39 created okay yeah and then they wanted to I don't know but I get it though cuz the guys are like you know how sometimes when people are like super techy you know like they looking at the language and the mhm they don't get like how people might take it and like right right right right right and when I met them we did so many collabs together I was like okay what's cool is the way that they just reached out to everybody and they're like hey can you tell us like what's going on like and how we might have ████ up and then I think they reached out to all the YouTubers that uh made videos about it and criticized them wow and then they invited us to kind of like come in and we started doing React videos at their Channel all that stuff and yeah H yeah that's pretty crazy that was still like I still see videos about that being one of the top historically bad decisions
13:29 yeah yeah for sure I I think they just didn't know how to communicate that in layman's terms cuz they did it in legal terms and nobody likes that ████ right yeah of course not yeah that's so interesting yeah I think people get up in a up in a pickle about it yeah I guess if it feels like now you can't do something like or else you're copying them and it was such a simple thing of like just reacting to stuff man no everyone has react you know like the like on Tik Tok like they're screen here and then the one's above or it's behind them whatever like that's everyone does that yeah yeah that's true yeah but what what people were thinking is that they want to monopolize that format and then like control it all you know and it's like come on dude these guys aren't you know big tycoons that are exploiting the
14:19 Creator like they just wanted it yeah I'm just surprised they didn't have anyone on their team that had enough of a voice to be like hey guys I think they're going to take this badly I think when they explained to us in person it made total sense yeah but the way that the video was created I think there was a lot of um yeah yeah people were pretty pissed Yeah Yeah well yeah stuff like that I think I don't know um maybe they thought that people would give them the benefit of the doubt and not that's a bad read on internet Society though yeah oh you got to cover all all ground a doubt from like all of the internet you know because of you and internet and canceling though I think people started to preface everything of like I'm not a misogynist and this and that and this and this and this and I have to explain
15:10 my joke and then I'm going to execute my joke before people used to just do their they just used to communicate you know you feel like that does doesn't that backfire a little bit though when people try to pre preface it with like I'm not racist but here's my you know it destroys satire well like you know what it you what what it is is like when people have to they have to go like um what do yeah so they they have to explain what it's not before it is instead of like oh I'm not racist but it's more like um like I'm not talking about these people or these people and they have to point out the obvious and then they have to do their joke I think that ruins it like crazy especially yeah if it's a joke like clearly you're not but then there are idiots out there yeah but that's what they're worried about yeah cuz I'm like okay so you have to and then once the idiots run mck it's hard to stop the momentum and they're
16:02 like oh good good yeah we wasn't talking about that one all right cool cool cool yeah but I don't know honestly let the idiots be idiots good for engagement that's right I learned I learned this trick from some girl on the internet but she pins the worst comment so that everybody goes to that comment and just continues to interact yeah whether it's like in defense of or in agreeance of they go there that's a very smart thing to do cuz I mean that's going to help your algo more than anything is just people fighting back and forth returning to the post yep that is true it's going to push you up I've done I've been guilty of doing that just saying some dumb ████ in the comments and just letting people ████ fight amongst themselves how could you say something like that and they're just running paragraphs that I'm never going to read rage baiting is so fun so fun so fun wrong so people are like why ohe
16:54 you just seen that how people purposely will miss pronounce or say the wrong thing on vide so that gram Stefan does it all the time yeah is that crazy realize gram Stefan he always does he'll be like what's be guys or whatever or he'll be like um like he'll switch words on purpose and he does beta testing and then because he switches up the words the the comment section goes crazy yeah there's a dude who blew up on like shorts for doing like video game content and you know like in Zelda games the main characters link so it's like a big mistake that sometimes people would call that person Zelda and this guy does it every video he goes and then you're going to want to get Zelda to go over here and then the comments are full of it like you idiot you fake gamer you don't even know and he's been doing it for a year straight you f yeah and it never ends like this guy cracked the code wow yeah you should rage bait more
17:46 huh I feel like we do it anyway but unintentionally well I think we rage bait so hard that they just don't want to follow us anymore it might be real rage yeah
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