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♪ (techno music) ♪

I have not seen this.

Oh my god.

Oh, I remember her.

I like this already.

♪ Moccasin breath ♪

This isn't real, is it?

Jesus Christ.

♪ I want to own them ♪

♪ But can you even dance in those pants? ♪

- (in video) Watch me, woman! - What is that?

I don't know.

- ♪ ...like a vessel of shimmy ♪ - What?

- ♪ All sweet and tender ♪ - This is too much for me to process.

♪ I need to get some ♪

♪ Put my body in them ♪

♪ Then I will rule the land! ♪

- ♪ Is that an Angel Baby? ♪ - Oh, girl, please do not.

♪ Watch my lady honey grooves ♪

♪ Feed me lots of Jamba Juice ♪

♪ Call me lady tiger, but I never eat my young ♪

♪ No, no, no ♪

♪ My legs in those pants, a dream ♪

♪ When I would move, I'd scream ♪

♪ Watch out for my body rolls ♪

♪ Watch out for my body rolls ♪

- [bleep] A. - ♪ High kicks, high kicks ♪

♪ This is how we do it ♪

♪ When I place my legs in a cage of spandex ♪

- That's too aggressive. - ♪ I dance like hell ♪

- ♪ To release the madness ♪ - Yes!

Oh my god. (laughing) That is like a lot coming at me.

Why is it close? Why did it get close?

- ♪ Watch out for my body rolls ♪ - I love this.

(singing along) ♪ Watch out for my body rolls ♪

(singing along) ♪ High kicks, high kicks ♪

♪ This is how we do it ♪

- Wow! (laughs) - ♪ 'Twas the last stitch ♪

This is a big production for just a... great result.

♪ ...looked at my legs and said, "Never" ♪

(singing along) ♪ I was already wearing tight pants ♪

♪ I just did not activate them ♪

(laughs)

Can't she stop body-rolling? Oh my god, I can't.

♪ This is how we do it ♪

Girl...

All that bass, no treble.

What is happening?

I like how you can see the green screen glow around them.

♪ Watch out for my body rolls ♪

- ♪ Watch out for my body rolls ♪ - (laughs)

♪ High kicks, high kicks ♪

- ♪ This is how we do it ♪ - It's kind of a hot song.

- ♪ Watch out for my body rolls ♪ - ♪ (singing along) ♪

♪ Watch out for my body rolls ♪

This is proof that we're done.

- The internet's done. - ♪ This is how we do it ♪

Oh, thank god it's over. Thank god!

Now, what was the name? Leslie Hall?

That was amazing.

(laughing) What is that video?

Is that real? Is that supposed to be real? I don't know.

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(Finebros) How does it make you feel when you watched the video?

It made me feel alive.

So uncomfortable.

My eyes just got violated.

I felt things that I've never felt before.

At least not publicly around other men.

It makes me want to do that every time I wear spandex now.

It makes me feel like I took too much ambien

and I'm having horrific visions.

- (Finebros) Did you like it? - I don't know.

I don't know. I have to sleep on it.

I like it.

Yes.

Yeah. Totally, yes.

I liked it.

I don't know if "like" would be a word I'd use.

I was fascinated by it.

I very much enjoyed that song.

That's my heart there.

That's the YouTube I love.

I'm down with internet like [bleep].

And that was, like-- it was too much.

(Finebros) So what parts of the video were weird though?

Which part?

What do you mean, which part? All of it!

The belt and her vag.

- The gnome. - The gnome.

The bald gnome with the beard.

- I know, I didn't like him. - Nightmares.

(Finebros) When you see a video like this from the United States,

how does it make you feel about the country?

(Finebros) Was there a message here?

What was the creator going for by making this?

I don't know. To make people throw up, probably.

"We're gonna make everything intentionally bad."

To tell the world, "You know what?

This is me. Watch out."

I think it's just "be comfortable with who you are"

and "troll people."

It's either anti-drugs or very pro-drugs is their message.

I can't tell.

(Finebros) And why would this go viral?

It went viral?!

I mean, I guess if we're here talking about it, it went viral.

People like weird [bleep].

It was definitely [bleep] weird.

It has a catchy tune

and it's really bad quality, and that just makes it awesome.

Why do horrific things go viral?

'Cause people can't peel their eyes away.

And you want to show other people.

I kind of feel like it was a Tim & Eric video.

Like, everything about it is just so off that it's perfect.

Because Leslie is being who people actually want to be

but they aren't able to admit it to themselves.

(Finebros) Have you ever heard of a woman named Leslie Hall?

- No. - No.

No.

- No. - No.

I have not.

- No. - That's her. Is that her?

(Finebros) Everyone we talked to today

- had never heard of Leslie Hall. - Okay. Oh, wow.

I think Leslie Hall is just a part of history.

Certainly the part of history of everyone else

who's been in this video.

(Finebros) Her story is, in the year 2000, she started a website

- called gemsweater.com... - Okay.

Oh, damn. She OG doe.

(Finebros) ...where she would take pictures of herself

in her huge collection of sweaters.

And she was known online as the "Gem Sweater Lady."

I love sweaters,

so I'm kind of surprised that I don't know about this.

(pondering) Yes.

I know this.

(laughing) I don't know why I said it so ominously.

But I know this.

(Finebros) Well, I have some images from that website.

I'm getting to see the origin story. This is like Batman.

(titters)

Okay, see? I can handle this, because there's less vag.

I can wrap my head around this, you know?

At least they're sweaters.

I like the Child's Dreams sweater.

I would wear that.

Art River Sqwa is really good.

I just don't know if this is a joke or not.

(Finebros) Since she was one of these early internet celebrities,

she started doing things.

Like she was on TRL on MTV way back when.

She sang with Yo Gabba Gabba! once.

(Tyler) Amazing.

- Really? - Wow.

No way. Wow.

(Finebros) She started a band,

and she made satirical rap music videos like this.

Oh my-- I say-- I don't know--

I feel like I should know who she is now.

(Finebros) And so she was doing these kinds of things

long before a lot of people online were doing them.

She was one of the first ones.

Yet you don't even know who she is.

I know, and I live on the internet.

(Finebros) So what does that make you think,

that here is someone this famous online,

and now we don't even know her?

What are you trying to say about me? What do you mean?

(sadly) Seems like I have a really bright future ahead of me.

I've been making videos for a while, and I've seen people come

and I've seen people go and I've seen people come back.

If you're doing what you love and you do it for you,

who cares if everybody remembers, because it's gonna stick

to the people who do remember and matter.

(Finebros) We did our research and we found out

that you and Leslie did a commercial together.

(chuckling) Oh, the "Firefox Users Against Boredom" commercial.

They were trying to recreate "We Are the World"

with internet personalities at the end of 2007.

Leslie and I were the leads.

She's a great human being.

Being popular online was smaller at that time than it is now.

You could have global success,

and it was still a small, constrained thing.

(Finebros) Finally, after hearing her story,

do you think she should make a return to YouTube?

Now that I know everything else about her,

I think she should just remain as legend.

Never stop YouTube.

Do not stop. Always push forward.

Please. I want to see more videos.

Absolutely. Yes.

You want to collaborate? I'm in.

- 100%. - I would love that.

She can be on Superfruit anytime.

- We should collab. - Leslie Hall, if you're watching,

- be on our show. - Here we are.

We sit on a platform that is for everybody.

Why shouldn't she?

I will tweet out #sweaterladycomeback.

Leslie, come back to YouTube.

Come join the YouTube family. Rejoin.

You'll be welcomed with open arms.

Thanks so much for watching another episode of YouTubers React.

You see all these people down here?

You should go check them out and subscribe to them,

'cause they were great.

Not as great as me, but they were pretty good.

♪ Boo-bye-bye-boo ♪

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♪ Thank you ♪

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