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&TEAM brings wolf howls and Taki's first Takis to the hotline

BuzzFeed Celeb's fan-call show turns the group's werewolf concept into games, with toy flip phones and dream collaborations along the way.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 189,311 views a day, 15 times a normal first day on this channel (12,504).

&TEAM Answers Your Calls | Rizz Battle, Werewolf Dynamics, TAKI Tries Takis | Phone A Fangirl

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7:29The members assign themselves werewolf pack roles, including Alpha, Beta and Omega.
10:11Toy flip phones open the hotline before callers ask about swapping lives with another member.
15:43A fan's request prompts each member to demonstrate a personal wolf howl.
21:30Jo, Maki and Nicholas try pickup lines on each other in the rizz battle.
30:02Nicholas and Maki take a caller's dance-off challenge onto the carpet.
37:30Joyce brings out Takis for Taki's first taste test.

The hotline was swamped. Joyce and Lindsay introduce &TEAM's visit to Phone A Fangirl by discussing the flood of fan calls, and the finished episode has drawn an estimated 190,000 views in its first day, about fifteen times BuzzFeed Celeb's usual start.

The group's werewolf concept gives the hosts plenty to work with. Members assign themselves pack roles, with K announcing, "I'm Alpha." Later, a caller asks everyone to demonstrate their personal wolf howl. It is an interview where answering the question sometimes means abandoning words altogether.

Even the equipment becomes part of the conversation. The hosts distribute toy flip phones to open the hotline, prompting Maki to say, "Oh my god, this is old." Other calls bring out dream collaborations: Fuma picks SHINee's Taemin, while Maki chooses Justin Bieber. Then come pickup lines, alternate careers and a dance-off between Nicholas and Maki.

The first-day comment section was more than twenty-five times as busy as usual. Viewers pick up on Harua using Maki as his English interpreter, the dance-off and the Taki-Takis wordplay. One caller also recognizes their own wolf-howl question in the episode, a small reminder that these games started with people on the other end of the line.

The snack promised in the title arrives near the end, when Joyce presents Taki with a bag of Takis for his first taste. His response to the name is immediate: "It's me!"

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What viewers say

Harua getting Maki to be his irl English dub lol
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''taki tries takis'' is sending me
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NO WAY MY WOLF HOWL QUESTION GOT IN
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Lunés breaking the hotline is so funny 😭
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I love phone a fan girl 'cause i know Lindsay and Joyce always make them laugh and comfortable
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OMGGGG FINALLYYY!!!!!!!!!! i've been refreshing my youtube feed since AUGUST for this
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joyce ended up being harua bias is SO FUNNY AND CUTE 😭
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