196: YouTube is a PLAYGROUND!

[ImWellFunny]

2012

[Sam4God]

i love this video of yours johnny :) very interesting metaphor and just a fun video ... i miss your videos!

[hotstuff7137]

I loved your metaphor, Johnny! I really wish that you could be a little kid at the play ground in real life without looking like a creeper!

[CherryValincourt25]

I miss the days of playground friendships.

[cookiemonstermystery]

(Having a fiveawsomeguys marathon, thats why i'm commenting.. 1,5 year after "the making")

If you would walk up to me from out of nowhere and asked if we could be friend, I would definitely say "yes please!"

..and If I had the balls I would walk up to you and ask you to be my friend but unfortunately im a girl.. ;)

[ChateauOfADoubt]

This makes me want to make friends with Johnny.

I wonder how many friends he has made from this? :)

[datWilddRedhead]

YouTube is better than real life, how sad is that?

[Heim05]

I still ask people to be my friends if we're both in the hall or in the library or something. They always laugh and agree. I have like six or seven really good friends because of that :)

[link13r22]

i got friends but i cant find out how to find them

[Wiimble]

Haha, I'd like to talk to you on msn Johnny! (:

[micky1445]

lol cool!

[liquidtopazfire]

I completely agree with you on that. My problem is that there aren't very many people my age (13) on youtube who I watch, so I always end up watching people who are late teens, early 20's mostly, and it would be weird, but I wish I could just talk.

Do you want to be my friend?

[DannAlmighty]

johnny rap lolage

[8416287]

your cool.. wanna be my friend

[yes2birthdays]

Yeah 2day is my 1 year anniversary of having a you tube account!!!! :) I even consider you tube 2 be my space yeah I'm that weird an unique.

[GeertWildersISaHero]

:)!

[MrsGrrrg]

will you be my friend :)

hehe.

even though im a little late finding this video ;)

:D

[heyitsthat1guyblake]

yes youtube is like a playground. the kids are messing about in it, the parents are supervising and there is always a pedophile near by.

[meghanfish]

bahahahahha

this made me laugh.

now i'm going to bed.

[the5regularguys]

I like your metaphor. It works very well for YouTube.

Also, I have to agree about how easy it is to fall out of touch with online friends, either because you stop chatting or you lose the internet for any given period.

[blondepreppygirl]

i agree lol

[AllieIsBored]

I agree with your metaphor. We are all just little kids running around a playground XD

[lyla951217]

hi would you be my youtube buddy?

[marionhoney]

Favorite YouTube analogy yet :D

[Paxadzor]

Boycott youtube on december 19th for free speech! Or else it will not longer be a playground!

Freedom for ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[magzterr]

hi, i've watched some of your videos.

i think you're pretty awesome.

would you like to chat on skype sometime?

[EarliglowStrawberry]

ur a cool kid... haha

[masoooomaaa]

i actually met my best friend like that. in second grade, i was sitting alone on a bench and she walked up to me and said, "hi, do you want to be my friend?" and of course, i accepted and the rest is history! =D

[chucksterkid]

be my friendy :)

xx

[teresaguz7]

but really, I am moving to England...i hope i meet you

[Falko67]

Hi, im gay WILL YOU BE MY FRIEND!!!

[RukkelIRL]

lol

that was pretty amazing

:D

[teresaguz7]

Hi, would you like to be my friend?

[Chibi12345678]

...Ok, dude. You've inspired me

[emozacluvsemoamy]

He wears an ollie sykes t-shirt which is for animal rights XD

[Silver1226]

I wish I had the courage to do that. But maybe it would be easier if I had more videos... I feel like if I imed some of the people I think are awesome on YouTube, they would kind of just go what the hell.

[ivanxcrunner0022]

would you like to be my friend Johnny? :P

[Jovifan239]

lol i think he made a intresting point there

[SimplyJalyn]

:) Johnny you're so silly and sweet. You make me smile :) You were over at Tom's last weekend!

You said "Hi Jalyn Peng! To me on skype haha ;)"

[UncoProductions]

thats a really cool way of looking at youtube

[mundanelifeof]

haha... the rap bit was hilarious.

[tashianah]

johnny is no longer allowed to listen to bow wow

[TRDPaul]

sure you can get to know somone before you meet them irl, it's called stalking

[Tetsuya793]

i kinda already feel like i'm friends with most of the people i watch on here as i know so much about them and there personalities, even tho none of them actually have a clue who i am

[SarahahaProduction]

@Tetsuya793 I get exactly what you mean. But that's the difficult part. Cuz we're just one of the 25,510 viewers. Even though you think someone is pretty awesome on youtube, I think there's a tiny chance you really get friends. Cuz that person would probably not notice you.

[dibdib9]

Ask if he wants to hang out or go for a pint...

[nallizectacious]

I've watched your videos for so long, and I'd really like to know...

Would you be my friend?

I like my life would drastically improve if we were friends. :)

[Applecrisp88]

Would you like to be my friend?

I miss the simpler time when you could talk to anyone and they wouldn't start judging until they actually spent time with you

You videos are always a nice way to start my Friday. :)

[nooutwhere]

Awesome video!

You seem more hyper in this video, not sure if it's my imagination or what.

[sihamlovesyou2]

i think the opposite has been true for me, that the older we get the easier it is to become friends. i was a really shy kid, and now i just walk up to random people and crack jokes and eventually they become my friend. Btw your rapping is really cool . . . or completely horrible idk

[Emazing521]

Johnny, what does your nose look like?

[irszgatti]

I do drop people a message about what I see, but I dont ask anything of them. It seems that the respondee should initiate. That would be proper and avoid all creepiness. Wanna hang out at my house and bang my sisters fat friends mom with me?

[hinkypunk666]

your eyes look amazing in this video

[cutekat0012345]

naw ur so cute johnny XD

[FImMbO]

xD that was an amazing metaphor.

i wanna play!!

[zzhpgurl7]

haha, oh yes, like kindergarted when you can be on the swings or on the slide and you say hi and they you become BFF's with the other kids.

fun times..

-zz-

[Director705]

Hello. Would you like to be my friend?

Oh, and more to your metaphor, the things they add are like new parts of a playground.

Like, widescreen is like adding rocks to a playground that just had dirt before, it's nice I guess, but you get rocks in your shoe after playing. But you get used to it.

[vazqal10]

johnny u rock

=)

[mystimayhem]

hahaha omg I remember that is exactly how I used to make friends on the playground... good times.

This is the first vlog I have seen of yours.

[zeroGspider]

Yeah, you have a point. It sad but true and it only gets harder to make friends as you get older because everyone starts to view you with suspicion wondering what you want to get from them.

[CavriCaprice]

You total sweetheart!

[oliveyarn]

This made me smile so big, as you always do!

Hi, would you like to be my friend?

:D

[emperessemma]

Haha; sweet video.

Am loving the metaphor.

And i hope maybe next week you do that montage thingy that was suggusted. x

[ilove2singnplay]

" HI JOHNNY, You're awesome want to be my friend?" XD lol Aw I can just picture someone doing that and the akward silence that would follow. I have done a few things like that though, just randomly walked up to someone, said hello and ended up being their best friend. Maybe you should try sometime because the possibilities of a great friendship would overpower the few seconds of akwardness... But that is just my RANDOM opinion.

[Fingal89]

The whole internet is a playground.

[ViruneeV]

what a great metaphor!

[yeyaboi]

so true. haha

[LittleBeth658]

nice rap..

haha

[wallyloiterer]

At first I thought you were insulting YouTube, but now I understand and I totally agree. There's actually this girl that goes to my school who still asks people "Do you want to be my friend?" Ahahah...

btw -- cutest video in a long time! :]

[kstar12441]

will you be my friend???

[megnut12]

It'd be sweet if in real life, you could walk up to someone, touch their nose and then their chest would open up to a screen and you could watch videos of them talking like on youtube. Then you could get to know them before talking to them. Hahaha, I need help :P

[dontyourememberme]

LOL that's so cute and odd. Let's be friends! XD

[megnut12]

OKAY! : ) *grins*

[PineappleOxide]

HANDS!

[Chelsea031]

wtf

[KTownEgghead]

Johnny...

...will you be my friend?

[Umbramancer]

Haha, I'm curious as to how many messages you recieved, after making this video, asking to be your friend XD

[Wileman2007]

Yeah but if you send one of the "fiveawsomeguys" a message they never reply so you have just contadicted yourself.

[darkroxy1]

tehee i remember that i use to do that when i was little aww i miss those times now it hard to make friend lol love this video total awsome! xD love all ur vidz : BTW would u be my friend :]

[TwilightAngelftw]

I agree with what you said about friends in the real world and online.

[forestofaddendums]

aww I miss being a kid so much

[xseraheyelinerx]

hai, be ma frend. i fink u iz awsum. dun. <3

[Eccebio]

Translation:

Hello, would you like to be my friend? I think you are awesome. Done. Love you!

xD

[xseraheyelinerx]

i like how you added the love you. nice touch. :P

[Eccebio]

haha thanks xD

[platinumfighter]

will u be myfriend...0.o..... just kidding in not isane

[xsweetestthingx]

:)

ur cutee

[nunutrain]

i remembered someone else said the same thing in this video, similar not 100% the same.

[Daniefab]

dont think its that we're 'kids'

just when we get older we would be embarrassed to ask someone to be our friend, where as before we're oblivious to it :P

[Seamalicous]

i wonder why more people don't do what he said, with the skyping and msning and all that i'm cool :(

[johker2]

Johnny, you're amazing :)

Loved your mini-rap XD

What was that??

[thenetwork00]

i remember one time in pre k this one kid and i played saber tooth tigers all day then he asked me to be his wife

[WraithSinger]

I Just cried laughing at your comment XD

[nixionsurfer]

ok is any1 else sorta gettin the weird idea this guy is a child preditor(i know he is a kid but)

[nerdra]

You are hilarious.

Also, I loved the random games people came up with as children. I remember one time my friends and I were somehow inspired by a very snowy, fluorescent-pink-snowsuit sort of day to play a group of baby panthers. Why? Who knows. But clearly memorable fun. :)

[LiLolME]

That would work for you but that wont work for the small people on youtube. you are lucky

[BreanaMurphy]

Friendship has NEVER been that easy. Ever. Your childhood sounds nice.

[thatkinggirl]

lets be friends ;D

[Michelsea13]

profound.

[ro0o0fl]

or not. this is the fucking internet, and "youtube is a playground" is a shitty, unmeaningful analogy.

[Spalove]

mean people suck

[sheldon80]

Johnny that is so true, when one is very young, it's easy to approach others, and make friends. As we get older, it's sad, but some of us drift apart from old friends, as we mature and change, and the ability to make new friends is far more complicated.

Personally I've found this to be sad, but there's nothing to be done about it.

I agree, YouTube is wonderful to connect with others, with whom one would never otherwise meet, or talk to, and then become friends. Good Video :)

<3

[lilysfairy]

i agree. way easier to be friends online...

[CanadianSliwka]

The thing about youtube is that you can also just comment and not worry about someone looking at you funny or thinking you are weird. You don't have to be shy because probably the worst thing that will happen is that they don't respond. Great video Johnny! =)

[nerseyprewww]

i hope that before fiveawesomeguys ends there is at least one video where we get to see what your face really looks like.

[90JCR]

500th rate :)

[lorenzocinema]

youtube/ the net is really good for that. and therefore, take a gander at my videos! haha. you owe me a viewing! they aren't anything special, I try...

keep going, good job...

[MrHob0]

why is this in the comedy section...............

[danielclark79]

Because you touch yourself at night

[GordonMacNaughton]

1.14 "You can just drop them a little message"

Yeh the youtubers that actully response are cool.

Hey i think johnnydurham19 is completely awesome lets drop him a comment/message. Oh what a surprise he doesnt reply.

[gollyck]

wow that metaphor was on key :)

[ciaramcdona]

loved the lil rap there(:

should be a task for the rest of the 5AG's ;)

[meandog34]

so johnny x]

you are a genius

[LalalalalaLauren75]

haha i love the random noises

[x0xhannax3]

oliver sykes has the same shirt as you :)

[BottledMoonDust]

He seems so upbeat in this video (:

Its lovely.

[avidhpfan]

I love the playground analogy!

[jetaime263]

we're all youtube kids in a youtube world hehee

[zigZAGGEDzebra]

True./

[honeydukes623]

i love the thought of YouTube being a playground. this video was pure awesome

[retrojunkiee]

hahahaha.

i love your video and the tags.

"johnnydurham19 sings lil bow wow songs because he is  amazingly cool like that xD "

[freakngeeklove]

johnny you are truly a genius

[MachoBlisen]

yaaay, Johnny has subject!

[unasman]

I can't agree more

[vladseesyou]

let's be friends ^^,

[shutdown321]

ur not in black and white!!! xD

(still very bright but... yay!) lol

[roughwithahufflepuff]

Was that a meat sucks t-shirt?

Very true stuff

[toonadict]

Yeah, Johnny thinks meat is murder. Thats also why he wont play Poke`mon with me. :(

[Zyztematic]

i wanna chat with you :)

[missjo5ie]

You were pretty gangsta in this video.

[xKayKx]

lol i remember last nite in charlies blogtv you were like ...oh gosh its friday erm.. maybe i should go do my video.

that was at like 8 o clock haha

[H4NN4H17]

I hope you don't mind if I go up to you and ask you to be my friend on the 13th :)

[slyonetgh]

Hi Johnny, would you like to be my friend?

[emmaluhhdat]

I'll be your friend!

[adilofcoppice786]

LoL

I REMEMBER

i have lost of friends now lol

[Lotusisgreat]

lol, very mature vid :D <3

[1judoononthemoon]

Johnny, I could listen to you talk all day :D

[CGmovieproductions]

:O

Wait.

I'M NOT SUPPOSED TO GO UP TO RANDOM PEOPLE ON THE STREET AND ASK THEM TO BE MY FRIEND????

Thanks for telling me now, Johnny. :P

[toastburntbread]

hey johnny! do u know that you have your own genre of music? it's all the awesome music you play on your channels, me and my friend call it "johnnydurham" music. for it's an excellent genre. you're pretty neat, want to talk an msn sometime?

[DariushLOL]

ok, so

Hi I think your videos are really cool, would you like to chat on MSN sometime? XD

[KatzayKat]

The song... "I'm the flyest thing walking trough junior highschool" Bow Wow, right? xD

lol.

Awesome vid, I never really thought about it, but yup... It's totally true :]

[banjovlogs]

thats an intriguing interpretation jonathan.

:]

[lizziethecreepy]

hi, I think you're pretty awesome and your videos are cool. Would you like to chat on msn sometime?

[shax777]

lovin the bit at the end lol

[lovestruckfool]

which shop????

I live in Sheffield as well

[bella91xox]

lol johnny rapped :D this made my day :P

[Turkisstory]

So true.

[magzterr]

idk, it's not entirely true.

i've tried being friends with johnny twice, but he never wrote back.

:(

i would love to be friends with him though.

[CBGFilms]

LMAO!

[ZoeMoi]

aww I'm way to shy to do that, even on YouTube :P

[SwingingStaircaseSis]

lol yay for this amazing playground!

[sazattack]

Ha ha...

Johnny is quoting High School Musical. ish.

xxx

[123MangoTango123]

:(

Johnny. I will miss these videos so much. You're just so cute. *tears*

[LauraPeddle]

I quite enjoy the hat that you are wearing in the 'Hands' video.

This video is sweet :), I wish I could just ask people to be my friend, it would make it so much simpler :P

[Naboo94]

your mad Johnny XD

you make me laugh <3

[Hobgoblins]

One of the most insightful vids I've seen.

Want to be my friend? :P

[andrewpoopoo]

ur always so happy :)

[hellolover99]

I love Johnny. He is awesome. The playground metaphor just made my day.

[YayItsDanny]

hehe the guy from the shop might watch this video and get really creped out.

[HarryFerguson1989]

I'm liking the metaphore!! It works brilliantly well, thanks for voiceing this!!

[finchiphile]

WHAT?! What's w/ all this MSN business. AIM is where it's at.

[hellolover99]

AIM is American. MSN is worldly.

[finchiphile]

Wow. Last night I learned Canada was all about AIM, and today I found out it's the whole world.

Aim still owns simply because you can use it for iChat video chatting, whereas MSN is denied.

[AlanaBanana26]

i loved it.

but i dnt like speaking to people on this because i am not confident enough to make any videos and they might think i'm a pedobear D:

anyways (:

[jeno07]

i totally get this online friends thing like it can be both good and bad

1. good making friends all over the world

2. but bad cause if you and up fighting and they just delete you from their lifes you may not get the chance to say your sorry and they will end up hating you forever hmm until you run into them one day and you canrt just go offline yeah think about it ....

[Elrich89]

Hm, yes, you can start chatting to YouTubers you like, but only if you have over 2,000 subscribers.

[TheHillsHaveEyeBrows]

playgrounds were the shit, it was so fun ^_^

[honeyjv]

hehehehehe cheerful Johnny :)

So true about the online friendship thing!

[lazylad69]

The playground metaphor is absolutly briliant XD

[FunnyBlueBox]

will u be my friend ? :P

will u all be my friend ? :P

i love 5ag (i spelt it fag and iv only just notist :P never saw that)

i love Youtube :D