James May reacts to viral Top Gear TikToks!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ก.ย. 2021
- Believe it or not, James May is actually a massive fan of social media, especially Twitter and TH-cam (and DriveTribe of course). But a place that he has never really ventured to before is TikTok, so we showed him some true video gems surrounding himself and his fellow Grand Tour chums. Some of them he found genuinely clever and inspired, but others seemed to leave him a bit cold...
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James May’s absolute disgust at the low effort TikTok memes makes me happy.
Low effort is the bane of anyone who has a brain. Of course May would dislike it.
Samee
Reminds me why he's my favorite of the trio. TikTok is lowest common denominator, Marvel-tier trash, but I don't mind watching James May show complete and utter indifference to it.
@@BurtSampson yh some people are saying how funny it was that they were all terrible: mate all tiktoks are terrible it’s not exactly a surprise.
@@1bigboi_629 you have no choice to like TikTok you doughnut 🍩
I love the fact James doesn't pretend to be someone he's not, he refuses to fake happiness.
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I think not only he's not pretending to be happy, he's actually holding himself back from how disappointed and displeased he was.
Except for 9:55
Fake happiness seems to be an American thing.
but he fakes disappointment, for comedic purpose or not....
@@TheKenjoje I am 25 and disappointed by the internet so called humor
It makes me happy that James says "It's us on the Toyboata" , as if the three of them were a unit.
They are! 💚💚
When you realize they were in the Nissan:
And he says it so fondly.
they were and still are a unit
It was either him or Hammond that said after they left TG that they come as a package.
I'm glad hes still so brutally honest. Tiktok humour is so horrible 90% of the time.
9:12 was funnier then all of the tiktoks combined.
While YT shorts is genuinely terrible, Instagram at least has an algorithm that'll show you more things you found funny the more you like or interact with said genre of memes. I believe TikTok has something similar.
9:12 will probably be a thing on tiktok lol
Than
@@j63636 sorry to inform but YT Shorts is better
@@j63636 how about watching longer length videos that help you develop a real world skill instead of frying your attention span
“At this point James goes on for 10 minutes about cheese” Is the most James may thing ever.
And if you read the line before you watched the video you 100% heard it in Jeremy Clarkson's voice.
@@360FireFallen CHEEEEEEEEESE!
“I have isopropyl alcohol”
The “some people don’t get older” really hit hard though. Remembered some of my high school classmates that never got old enough to graduate. I haven’t kept up with all my old classmates in the years since and statistically some of them are probably younger then me now and i don’t even know.
Maybe “Mayish” is better 😂😂
It's a shame they cut it. Seemed like a legit interesting conversation 👀
“Mind you, $10,000,000 is a lot, takes me nearly a month to make that” 🤣🤣🤣🤣
came down looking for the comment as soon as he said it , GOLDEN XD
The sheer and unbridled swag in that.
@@BayKaru_ loooool no way 😭
@@siysamuel he definitely said he's rich
@the bunniboi no he can probably buy all the Ferrari's he wants
1:56 a quote to live by, "I do like TikTok, I think it's fascinating. I don't have it, because I daren't have it. I spent long enough on TH-cam, if I had TikTok I would vegetate horribly"
Jeremy screaming "James!!!!" Had me laughing.
He's screaming at himself anyway
It makes me happy that James is TRYING to understand memes.
TikTok is not memes. It's Vine for gen z 🤷♂️
Wow I didn't expect to see you here Masako
love your vids btw
@@_Professor_Oak I remember Vine. I miss Vine. But at least Gen Z can sample something similar to what we had.
I was just watching TFS funny seeing you here.
MASAKO YOU'RE HERE?!!
The only next logical step is having him react to Bottom Gear, that would be incredible
He's already watched it.
@@lawofsirfignewton7881 where
@@kginkling in his house
@@kginkling he did an interview with a guy at his pub where he said he watched bottom gear
@Jason Smith th-cam.com/video/YHPduyXoXKM/w-d-xo.html
“All I have to do is say hello to bus drivers and get out of cars” 😂 my sentiments exactly! 😂
i actually find it really cool that James tries to make an effort to be with the modern times, like being engaged in social media, tech etc etc
You make it sound like older people have to try extra to understand tech...guess you don't know where the tech came from in the first place.
he tries, gets disappointed in humanity, and we cannot blame him for that .
@@mozxz I mean thats a natural part of using the internet
@@psxcsomething6114 Pretty much , yea.
Just meeting people in general will make one lose faith in humanity, and everybody is their worst on the Interweb...
@@TheEudaemonicPlaguethey often do? This is why technical literacy classes and IT support is so common that entire scams are based around fooling old people into thinking the have viruses, and to hand over all information to fix it lol
“Some people I knew didn’t get old.”
Well, that was a little more real than I expected.
I loved that line. A very poetic way to describe mortality.
Yeah richard hammond is just italian now
Honestly I was just thinking he meant they aged well
@@aaronflynndevereux1832 knowing of May's love for being subtle, he meant death or being childish.
@@vinito19 Possibly, or he's talking about Hammond and his hair dye
5:32 “takes me nearly a month to earn that” 🤣
I like ur memes
Edit : We’ll MemerMan’s comment blew up that fast
That was sigma AF
i heard "takes me million months to earn that" .
Flexing.
poggers
I like how he has to mention Einstein and Planck in order to specify that time doesn't technically go at the same rate for everyone but it's practically the same for all of us. Classic James and this is why he is such a legend.
His genuine smile when he sees the Toyboata just makes me chuckle a little 😂
The best part of this nonsense is when James dropped the earbud, and promptly explained how he would make it right with isopropyl.
@@girlsdrinkfeck They’re Lucy’s.
@@jmsunemploymenttube9191 so ?
@@girlsdrinkfeck I love how you just ignored James May using his own personal account to say 'So what'😂😂😂
Am excellent example of a comment thread aging terribly, immediately
That's just proper sense.
From the world's most sensible TH-camr, captain slow
Lucy didn't do this for James' entertainment, she did it for ours as we watch his responses. She succeeded.
He's also completely right, TikTok is a load of bollox.
@Orion Both are correct, the difference is mine avoids TH-cam's, sometimes draconian censorship algorithms. :-)
Lucy needs to be more creative, everything they do is boring AF
@@Elwaves2925 While understandable regarding draconian TOS regulation - bollocks is the only correct one of the two.
@@Elwaves2925 linking urban dictionary does not mean a miss-spelling that people frequently use is at all correct.. it just shows how many fall for the misconception. I could link a bunch of nonsensical words that have entries on urban dictionary that is no more a testament to their validity than you doing so here. "Bollocks", as is the correct terminology, dates back to as early as the 13th century, originating from the Germanic word for ball. "Bollox" is a miss-spelling of the word used by, primarily American, individuals on the internet who don't know any better. It is an American bastardisation of British slang.
@@Elwaves2925 wow, urban dictionary as your source, completely unironically hahaha
The most James May's moment:
"Cheese doesn't necessarily get better with age, though, does it?"
4:49 **loses faith in humanity**
James trying to understand 21st century internet culture is too wholesome.
I'm sry, I am just over 20, and I cannot sort these weird Tiktok Culture out either
@@ryomaprime3130 bOoMeR - some brain dead tiktoker
@@ryomaprime3130 Theres some funny stuff on TikTok, but theres a lot of stuff that's made by and for actual children
They are just cringe
@@ryomaprime3130 same. This random=funny shtick gets old real fast.
I feel the pain in his eyes as he watches these, realising that people are now entertained by something with little to no production value or effort gone in to it. All the things he’s done over the years just to see the world become this, he must feel like this place is almost alien
You just descriped youtube a decade ago lol
Indeed it's just dumb humor that's become mainstream and like James said people are posting what they saw on TV as content for others.
"It's someone watching another person watch something they saw on television"
Tragic really.
@@larsen1298 TH-cam vloggers were bad enough but TikTok takes it way further. It's total mindnumbing garbage.
@@David-ud9ju No they didn´t. it´s still people experimenting with making videos you are watching
That's deep bro
the one with richard at 1:27 had me in tears
We need that video of James talking about cheese, like, seriously.
Does he ever talk about cheese trivially? (sorry - like, trivially)
"OH SHUT UP!"
-Clarkson
Can he please compare 5 types of pre-sliced supermarket cheese??
agreed
Yes! Definitely.
“I’m rather disturbed by this. Let’s make some sandwiches” is going to be a meme
I hope it will be
i cackled too much at this statement. LOL
YES!!!
A perfect meme.
It’s the meme that expresses living your life amidst the horrors of whatever.
James May is such a mellow individual. I wish the Trio the best health and continue to do what they love.
James May is such a grounded person. I really enjoy his content!
The fact that these TikToks were awful made James' perpetual confusion throughout this video so much funnier XD
I hAv@ aN ER@cTi0n
Wdym all tiktoks are awful
Yeah, these are all terrible.
@@nuclearduck1011 I want to agree, but I actually disagree. although I still dont go to tiktok
@@nuclearduck1011 honestly there is still go stuff on TikTok but there is still sadly more of content like this
And yet James being annoyed at tiktok is, infact, amusing.
Tiktok is bad unless you follow the right people
Even if it was amusing I don't think it he actually understand the memes and the video
@@samuelpinder1215 that’s applicable for literally everything 💀
I mean Tik Tok annoys me, and I'm under 30. I sympathize with him
I somehow said the comment in Jeremy's accent😂
This video is a direct representation of how broken my humor is. James has made me realize how unfunny some things are lol
Hey if it made you laugh, your brain found it funny. That’s it, nothing else, the brain chemicals were simply released🙂
4:02 I like how James recognizes "The Interceptors" as a unique property that he was in, even though it wasn't a real show
The best thing about this video is James pointing out how truly pointless and unfunny tic tok is.
It's always funniest when based on the truth.
so true
I'd say maybe 3% of tik tok is funny and or makes sense
I love James but even he was struggling to save these absolutely terrible and unfunny clips
Its unfunny and also just blatant copyright infringement left right and center
@@andrewvaillant6365 *0.3%
This just confirms for me that James was 100% himself on Topgear... epic trio! Arguably the best-assembled in history.
Valid.
True
Was best team
Tsjernobyl , today?
@@gabrielv.4358 Tsjernobyl today?
11:44 you've created yet another potential meme, James.
James may being 58 is the best news I have heard at all this year, and I know that its probably off because of 2022 but James is a absolute legend, spent most of my youth watching Top Gear and then moved onto Grand Tour!
Being confused about Tik Tok is the most relatable thing James has ever did.
Now I want to see the full cut of him talking about cheese
Alternate Title: 'James May scientifically proves that Tik Tok is not funny'
Also Tik Tokers do not know how to use punctuation.
@@girlsdrinkfeck Most of them are kids so of course they don't
@@yankis. I mean... they're taught punctuation and grammar at a young age (before teens), unless it goes straight through and out the other ear, they should know it.
@@yankis. 9 years olds in my brother's school already knows punctuation. No excuses for teenagers to not know how to use it.
@@yankis. there's no way
I always imagine clarkson standing at his side and yelling at him "JAAAAMMMEESSS STOP TALKING AND WATCH THE NEXT VIDEO!!!!" everytime he talks too much about something. 😂
If someone said a person was watching tiktok while reciting the tiktok's URL, I could've told you it was James May. There is no other human on the planet that does that
What a treasure
"Some people I know didn't get old, remember that" some wise words within a funny video.
A very veiled threat. I love him.
more like the line before that
I got ya 666, lad. Better get some more likes quick else you aint gettin old either~
"Mind you $10,000,000 is s a lot, takes me nearly a month to make that"
Flexing level: James May
milbiltrilquadquintsextseptoctnondecillionaire mindset
James May's sigma grindset.
This the comment I was looking for lol
Seems to have been removed from the video, I never heard that
It is pretty cool to see James transform from and old man, to an old man, in 25 years.
Over 25 years he went from old lady to old man and all it took was a beard.
Just loving your self depreciation and dry humour. It really cheers me up 👍
I'm really interested in the 10 minutes of James talking about cheese. Could you please put it up
I clicked on an video of James which means I want every ting he had to say.
Agreed! James' ramblings are unique and always funnier than he realizes
Yes I want a Amazon to make documentary about cheese to be narrated by James May
Can't be worse than those tiktoks
Why did they cut it out smh
"10 million dollars is a lot, takes me nearly a month to earn that"
I make that much but then the tax man comes and takes it all
Doubtful he makes 120 mil/yr. Sure it was just a joke.
@@K_ingh16 and rest you give to James and other youtubers through time. You give them your time, they earn money.
@@gbpg2016 I'm beginning to seriously doubt it
5:51
This was brilliant, please make another one.
The way he reads out the links😂😂
Not Gonna Lie, James saying “Hello” to me would likely be fatal, lol
Ultimate Leg spreader
Just wait till he does a hand break turn! 😜🤣
Same here
@@nayeemhaque1064 What was it that he and Jeremy said? "If you do a handbrake turn your girlfriend's clothes will fall off". LOL, seriously I fall asleep to him reading things all the time, his voice is so soothing. But that photoshoot of him with the Machete...... yum!!
@@theninethrees8044 Amen
James should start a podcast, release a single 4 hour long episode talking exclusively about cheese, then never do another one.
C H E E S E
7:16 The Lego one i remember going with my friend
and yes he dared me to add one peace of the wrong color in one of the Big Lego bricks.
it was super fun that day and really grate seeing everyone playing with lego too.
after i got home i decided to create my own lego brick & took it to school for a day
Only James May could go on a 10+ minute lecture about cheese after watching a 5 second meme.. 😂
"I'm rather disturbed by this; Should we make some sandwiches?" Is a great James May quote
Arthur Dent was based on a real person...
@@grijsje Towel us about it...
"I'm rather disturbed by this, shall we make some sandwiches". Everything that this man says is pure gold.
If it makes James feel any better, I loved Man Lab, and I wish he could make another season. But even if he were so inclined I suspect the BBC still owns the licensing rights.
I love how James often ask in the shows he's in, Who's watching this ?
as he does not find it entertaining, so neither should we, is an amazing way of conduct for one who has spent the past 20 years or so in front of a camera.
The fact he just said “takes me nearly a month to earn that” was the biggest subtle flex on earth
that's of course a lie tho
i cannot find that part, can you timestamp it??
@@Sleeper47 They removed it
What was the comment in response to?
@@harrier331 "1 million, thats quite a lot of money, takes me a whole month to get that"
something around that line
8:19 - I'm upset James didn't flag that "friendly" was misspelt.
I love him pointing out the grammar mistakes; it’s so refreshing to see some people still value punctuation and grammar
The fact that James missed the Cheese joke and then dives into a cheese based rant is perfect.
There was no cheese joke
"james slams a block of cheese on the table" @Emenesu:🤔
It's exactly what we expect from may
@@benediktpagitz3379 how is that the joke?
@@pacmanpakkas gen z considers this a joke
I do enjoy his class, and how open minded he is. He is genuinely giving these videos the best chance he can give them, even if they turn out rather profoundly disappointing for the most part.
That's the spirit!
The keyword there, is profound. 😂
man lab was one of my favourite shows as a kid, and it actually taught me a lot of things i still use to this day, so thanks may!
I stayed for the very well placed utter contempt. Bravo.
James is, as always, just himself and just absolutely the voice of pure common sense.
common sense is an OXYMORON because the French Banned OUR ENGLISH common sense 4 decades ago. Now we ENGLISH have Uncommon sense because it NOT common to be sensible any more.
@@N1gel ?
@@_recipeh please don't listen to a Cockburn
5:07 *Clarkson dancing*
"Thats disgusting" 🤣
James looked happy when he saw the other 2 and him on the toybota 😂💙💙
i need an hour long episode of james may talking about cheese
I like the fact that nowdays James May is considered "swag" while, let's say, 15 years ago one of his main characteristic was his absolute lack of style
I agree, but there is a thick layer of irony
The difference is thay 15 years ago swag was someone with a confident, arrogant and in your face aggressive attitude, while now is someone who doesn't care about the opinion of others and does their own thing.
James was never the former, but has always been the latter.
It's not James that's changed, it's the rest of us.
@@Anankin12 the rise of the sigma men...
I want the full video of James talking about cheese for 10 minutes
i 2nd that
🧀🧀🧀
Hasn't he got a food channel somewhere on you tube.
You might have your wish ;)
Yes.
@@itisjustacomment FoodTribe.
LOL --- he even asked "is this going on tik tok ..!!! " ---- great video .!!
"you might get old"
James May threatens child, 2023 - colorized
James reacting to Tiktoks in such a dry way is proof that Tiktok is an unfunny cesspool.
Exactly, he's right there mostly garbage lol. James is so down to earth, gotta love him.
It says more about if you think “tiktok is an unfunny cesspool”. It’s an incredible algorithm that gets scarily accurate to your interests and feeling.
@@cyd2416 yeah it's shockingly terrible in the best way. It's dangerous cause you'll forget time exists and the sun will come up when you went to look at it for 5 mins.
If you watch tiktok, I pity your bloodline.
@@cyd2416 if you're feeling cringy yes its the right place
Please leave in the tangents James goes on, those are the most interesting parts, but for some reason everyone seems to cut them, i would have liked to hear the rest of his thoughts on cheese.
I agree. Maybe Lucy should add those minutes to the actual video.
Clarkson fans 🙄
Yes .. this is not TV. This is TH-cam.
Honestly.
nah i respect the editors decision here
Need more of these three! My husband and I were saddened when they left top gear! It was the last show left that I watched on BBC (I'm an American).
Would've kept going if Jeremy didn't assault a guy
Really fun seeing May react to his videos, especially the one with the Lego house.
This video is priceless to me simply because James isn't not understanding young people humor, he's simply using common sense.
Those are meant to be funny??
Young people humor? Most of them aren't funny though xD
I love this because I find some of these pretty funny, but I feel bad for James because he just doesn't get it
How old is considered young?
As a young(tm) person, I would like to distance the humour of my generation as far as possible from tiktok.
Yeah, it can be strange and all, but man tiktok is a terrible example. Please don't take Tiktok as the standard of modern humour.
‘some people didn’t get old’ wow that hit hard
Is that new news for you?
why would it hit hard?
@@darrengooding8785 just leant people die at all ages maybe? :)
@@itisjustacomment awwwwwww is that what it is
HAAAAAAAAAAAMMOOOOOOOOOND!!!!!!!
To my surprise, I wandered into my sons room earlier on today as I heard a Jeremy Clarkson clip playing over and over again. I noticed he was playing Roblox, but his avatar/character has a Jeremy Clarkson head with the sports lorry. 😂
Legitimately one of the funniest, and most cursed things I’ve ever seen. 😂
9:23 In 2015, James made the exact same rant against the '😂' emoji on Twitter. I was 16 and replied with twenty of them.
An hour later James had replied with a photo of his hand making the V sign (not the one for peace).
It was very funny.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🤣😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I would actually have loved watching James go on about cheese for ten minutes, because the man often managed to make some topics innately ... entertaining I guess is the best word to use. It's one of those things that he just manages because he finds it in himself to waffle on about for a bit.
Next: James May reacts to The Grand Trip
That would be amazing
disclaimer: this video can only be seen in the amazon rainforest.
The grand what?
@@MrDoYouKnowMe2211 The Grand Stuff
@@MrDoYouKnowMe2211 the continuation of the ‘Bottom Gear’ series originally created by Jixaw.
One of James May's greatest qualities, which has only sweetened with age, is his mastery of keeping calm and carrying on.
Hè is always Cool and patiënt
@iKandy "you muppet!"
3:48 such a great answer, he left me speechless…
James not being able to keep ear pods in so relatable 😭
"Some people your age don't get old"
Don't let May's sarcasm distract you from the fact that he's staggeringly wise
well compared to someone with that profile picture
@@samwansitdabet6630 🙃
May is the oldest young man in existence
I'm saying mature not old .
And the wiser, of course.
He features in caves in the Pyrenees... 🤣
Yeah fr. Airpods and using tiktok, he's younger than me and I'm 21
That aging compilation was like him becoming younger
"It's us!"
I felt that, I'm glad they're still relatively close.
The toyboata gets me 😂
1:25 the fact that this had me drooling with laughter and James was dumbfounded at the stupidity of the it all really highlights the difference of humor throughout the ages
it's rather a matter of intelligence than age. Unless you are under 12 years old, then indeed it is your age.
Wait what?
@@kirihara147 Ugh just stop talking
@@kirihara147 nah it's an age thing
@@kirihara147 Kind of embarrassing that you clicked onto a video about tiktok memes then isn't it?
I love how James reads the name of the files he's about to watch
If it is makes you feel better, I’d gladly take 5 minutes of Man Lab over the entirety of TikTok.
Also, I love how he recalls where everything is from.
Why did they cut him talking about cheese for ten minutes? He is fun to listen to.
2:46 Wow, is this an English defect or is May just the king of underplaying everything with a dash of sarcasm? 🤣
James, you and the rest of top gear are a pivotal point of my childhood, and when I was going through bullying, certain days I turned on top gear again and it got me through, despite you not really noticing people are inspired by you, and seeing you age along with Clarkson and Hammond, makes us sad, we hope to see you for many years more, and I wish you the best of health!
I second that although I am somewhat older than that. I am just 52 and have yet to find a compelling reason to buy my 1st car, or indeed to get a license to drive a car. Publi transport is fine for me and definately cost me less than having a car. I always watched TopGear as a any other entertainment show on tv, just with a car theme. Like Keeping Up Appearances where the theme is trying to appear different than you really are no matter how difficult it becomes - which is not of my mothers favourite shows.
@@mikkelbreiler8916 look into the government paying for owning electric vehicles or hybrids some cars cost less than the reimbursement the government will give you
They've aged beautifully, so much so it actually makes me happy. I've got so much to look forward to and so do they
The TOY-BOAT-A really got me! Most British thing ever
"Is anybody watching this?"
2 million and counting, James!
I'd rather James not like the current day memes. Honestly, the mainstream ones lack a lot of creativity and is mostly copy-paste in nature.
However, I really do appreciate James for trying to understand memes, albeit the lower-tier.
James' dry humour actually appeals to gen z quite a bit
8:31 The fact that James actually liked the high effort ones fills my heart with joy
its probably made with a free deepfaking app for mobile
Yeah that's not really high effort, probably took like five minutes running it through the app, have I had it I could've done it, I woudotn have thought of it I guess.
You could argue about it being high effort, but atleast it required someone to come up with the idea. Most content on TikTok is just stolen or copied and usually worse than the original.
Define high effort
@@mathisholler5504 understandable
James is like a wonderful uncle I never had, keep up the humor and being inspiring. Cheese 🧀
Honestly the best one was the Dunkirk one and also the timeline one of James aging
Some nice editing there on both of them
James comparing the 😂 emoji to announcing “it’s going to be very funny” equates to “it’s not very funny” reminds me that he always says something is “very interesting” and it’s not.
"Like and hit the plus for part two" 😤
based
"That's just bollocks" - TikTok summed up.