Can't think of a bigger bag fumble than showing your crush the rejection hotline as a meme.

I remember giving the rejection hotline number to someone and they immediately said NO that is not your number give me YOUR number. How many times he must’ve gotten that number to know it off hand 😂

Imagine: it’s early 2008. I’m at a pool party for my elementary school graduation. One of my friends runs up to me, excited, and shows me this hilarious phone number they found called the Rejection Hotline. They play it over their flip phone; the audio has never been crunchier. I think it’s the funniest shit ever, and start showing it to other people with great fervor throughout the summer. My cousins love it so much that we try to make our own version that is now lost to time. This ridiculous thing will forever be linked to one of my last true summer vacations (the kind that are 104 days, if you know what I mean.) Thank you SO much for sharing the history of it with the Internet at large!! This was such an amazing throwback to see in my notifications.

My main takeway from this video is that there is zero differences between Chelsea Peretti and her character in Brooklyn 99

Was not expecting Chelsea Peretti of all people to show up in this video. I LOVE her, she's so funny!

i got so thrown off by billiam mentioning TCC right as i was driving past the entrance for it that i almost forgot about the time a kid specifically put the rejection hotline down as the RSVP number in the bday invites that he gave to me and my two friends in 2008

The rejection hotline was a bit of a weird concept, but its what finally got a creep to leave me alone so I'll always have fond memories of it. XD

In middle school, there was this girl who was a one upper, and her dad was dating my mom, which met I was forced to be around her despite her being a huge ass to me. Well, we were invited to a sleepover at a mutual friend's house, and my friend's older brother was flirting with me, and because the girl was a one upper, she just HAD to get his number and rub it in my face. So the next night, she kept making fun of me about it and decided to call the boy in front of me and put it on speaker. It was the rejection hotline, and I LOST IT. It was the best karma and the look on her face was priceless.

As someone whos around the same age as you I can relate to how we're in this weird middle ground where we don't fully relate or feel like we count for either side of Millennial or Zoomer. First phone was a flip phone too but we obviously also fully understand smart phones. We remember using VHS, I even remember using floppy discs, yet all the newer technology also came around while I was young enough that it also feels natural to me. I fully understand and remember older stuff and new stuff but in such a way and at a specific age that I do consider the older stuff old, and not just something I use to use and consider the newer stuff new and not just natural modern tech. It's kinda hard to describe cause older people understand the old and new too, but they don't think about them in the same way.

These numbers were huge in my elementary school when only a handful of us had phones and they were super novel. These numbers were passed around on sticky notes or by word of mouth and we'd all crowd around and listen during recess. I never thought I'd hear them again. Holy cow.

Im realing at how casually you drop the bomb that Buzzfeed is officially not doing news anymore and that Chelsea Perretti is married to jordan fucking peele

I "broke up" with a guy when I was 11 and like a week later he called and told me he had a new phone number and to call him back to make sure I had it right. Rejection hotline. It's so funny to me and even then I was like ? Uh?

I don't remember these hotlines but God is this humor so in line with that raunchy "not PC" era of comedy. It's like the vocal version of those t shirts you'd see at mall kiosks that'd say things like "I Support Single Moms" and underneath would be a silhouette of a woman pole dancing

OH MAN I had totally forgotten the time my friend showed me the Harry Potter one! It was a lady with a fake British accent saying something like "We're sorry, Hogwarts is not accepting new enrollments at this time and you're probably a muggle anyway." I thought it was so funny when I was 13, but I always wondered who set it up? So thanks for answering that question I forgot I had!

I always describe myself as having grown up as a millennial then found myself closer to gen Z as an adult. It's left me in that strange space where I had an SNES and a PS1 as a kid but now exist in the same online spaces as gen Z

I remember getting rick rolled by the phone in middle school. A friend told me she got a new phone number and gave me the rick roll line instead. My introduction to the meme lmfao.

Oh my God, I remember being shown this back in the early 2000's by my best friend. Thanks for helping me recall a hidden gem of a memory 👍🏼

I fondly remember both versions of the rejection hotline but I hate to admit this, the thought of playing leapfrog with a unicorn always made me laugh.

Holy shit. This unlocked some deep memories I had forgotten. I was able to quote 80% of that message even though it’s been over a decade since I last heard it. 🤯

This unlocked a core memory. Turns out I still have the hotline saved in my phone, thankfully I've never had to use it.

Man rejection hotline takes me back. I remember being shown this and it was a Riot amongst my friends and classmates. It's wild to find out Chelsea Peretti is married to Jordan Peel! Amazing! Edit: I meant "hotline" not "holiness" darn you autocorrect

As someone who also grew up being a part of Gen Z and Millennials, this hits me right in my soul.

This was a fascinating deep dive, and I did not expect Chelsea Peretti’s brother to have invented reblogging!

I love hyper specific niche 30min or more videos like this. Fun watch.

Amazing story! I cant believe you’re the first person to cover this scandal. Do more videos like this!!!

Holy shit, I remember the rejection hotline! I wasn't even dating at the time but I had the number saved (in my Motorola RAZR) because I thought for SURE I would need it. I never did. I also had something they provided where you could have your own number where the caller could leave a message so you could decide if you want to call them back or not. I don't know if this was before Google Voice, or if I just didn't know Google Voice existed.

Me too Billie. 96-2000 babies stuck in the middl3

The way Billiam said "accusations of plagiarism and theft" and immediately cut to the Connor and Chris Wacky Weekend Theme was crazy to me

Jeff Goldblatt was ahead of his time in the amount of cringe he produced.

I'm gonna have to watch this one a couple times before I get my Jeffs, Jonahs and Johns straight

Talking about the Donald piss tapes like they're an ancient mystery is wild. The last like, eight years are all blurring together for me.

New Billiam video, One Piece Chapter, & Not My Party episode in one morning. Its like someone is coordinating the internet around my specific tastes.

"Facsimile" is what "fax" is short for (in terms of a fax machine, it makes a copy)

"How did you get to be so cool?" "By stealing, mostly" I died

I never at any point could anticipate where this story was gonna go good LORD

I met a girl during my first week of college, and we became fast friends. One day, while eating lunch at the cafeteria with our friend group, she asked all of a sudden if I would like her phone number. I said, "Sure." She had me call the number in front of her so see could watch my face as I called the rejection hotline. We're still friends to this day.

Just....imagine me standing up, solemnly nodding my head and applauding. Because there are no words.

The rejection hotline was a memory deep in my brain that you just brought to the surface

Petition for Billiam to make the Piss Hotline his voicemail

I heard about this number back in middle school from a friend at church. It was a bunch of us girls hanging out after youth group and one girl started talking about it and we actually called the number. Unfortunately, we weren’t prepared for the advent of texting to spoil our use of the number when we started needing it.

Your videos are the only thing getting me through college man 😂

I am college student in Tallahassee Florida who has written multiple college papers on the show Lost. You’re channel makes me feel seen.

i’ve been watching all your vids for the last week and can safely say you’re my new fav channel and was so excited when this vid appeared in my subscription feed. i made my mum sit through both of your LOST videos and she was exhausted by the end of it :)

The tragedy of being born in 99 right on the cusp of both Millenial and Gen Z

Unrelated, but I will never stop loving your usage of the Tropico 4 and Tropico 5 music in these videos. Always takes me back.

Billiam needs more views. Such a good channel.

I cannot believe this insane video has only 80k views. Hope it hets an algorithm uplift bro because it's amazing

That rejection hotline misunderstanding is perfect romcom material.

love the niche story and hope we get more, but I need an even longer Lost video

That’s the best part about pre-viral internet, the trends and stories either amount to legends and lore, or are lost to the ages, and it’s always fascinating when old lore pops up over twenty years later.

this was so good . like it took me a while to watch this one but it was like i never knew where the story was going

I haven’t seen you around on my dashboard/home screen in a few months & I’m a pretty regular viewer of your content. Looks like KZfaq is hiding your stuff in its greedy little pockets :( Very glad to have caught this one! Time to binge :)

This was pretty interesting. Thanks for sharing this thing I never knew about till now.

Fantastic video as always. Thank you

This is such an odd Billiam video, but it was very entertaining, informative, and enjoyable!

I haven't gotten any notifs or anything that you've posted in months and now you have long luxurious locks, what did I miss 😭

loved the video Billiam. What an interesting topic good stuff

Love the video and keep up the great work

Another great billiam video I’m glad I got to grow up during the early 2000’s it was a crazy time that laugh is amazing

This was so good!

Great vid!!! Prerecorded phone hotlines are such a fascinating relic. Just a creative way to get random junk out into the universe with the technology available. Some of it funny, most of it not. Reminds me of TMBG's old Dial-A-Song hotline, kinda!!!

Fun fact, facsimile is also where the name 'fax machine' comes from, they produce 'facsimiles' of the input message, shortened to 'fax'

That laugh at the end of the phone messages reminds me of Papi from The Proud Family

i had you playing in the background when this episode started and i heard the theme for a second i thought i was watching "abroad in japans" wacky weekend

17:34 they have basically the entire song which is not what I was expecting, thought they'd only have like a couple seconds or so

Holy crap this gave me such a nostalgic jolt

Holy crap I remember those hotlines lol. Fun video man and Facsimile is what fax is short for.

I appreciate you bringing the Rick roll hotline to my attention, I live near that area code and can actually use it at the bar lmao

the editing in this episode goes crazy

Plz do!!! Great topic!!!!! Love to see more!!:)

This was a great vid I had forgotten about these 😂

I don't remember if it was this one but I remember some kind of hotline having a phone version of chatroullete that teenagers most definitely should not have been on but somehow had my 13 year old self obsessed

Man, this is a very intriguing rabbit hole.

Yeah you got me with that rickroll on the other week

Good video dude keep them coming 👍

this video deserves a million views

Rejection hotline being brought up in the year of our lord 2023 was like getting hit over the head with a baseball bat

5 minutes in and I'm already dizzy. Good rabbit hole!

i remember these. i called a bunch of them on my motorola razr back in the day, but then mom saw a bunch of random numbers on the phone bill and was NOT happy. no more rejection hotline after that…

Hahahahha I love you! You are freaking hilarious 😂

This unlocked memories of watching Family Guy back around 2007, and not understanding John Lott jokes, since I never knew who he was 😅

Nice Video again. ❤ Thank you

“These existed in the time of the pre-Internet before everything was recorded.” I don’t think Billiam knows what phone RECORDINGS are.

Idk if you take suggestions but a video on season 1 and 2 of The Colony from discovery would be a cool thing to see from you.

i was literally jus thinking man i feel like watching Billiam… hell yeah 😁

yes!! another billliam vid

The dumb laugh needs to become a post-ironic gen z meme sound effect

Maybe you can make a video about the history behind websites like “the useless web”, as always love these videos 👍

People talk about how useful this was in the dating scene but real ones just called the hotline themselves repeatedly, giggling at the concept of such a hotline even existing while sitting alone in their bedroom on a Friday night

This was very interesting. I'm from Germany and I had no idea about any of this. I only knew who Chelsea Peretti is.

Hey! That's an LG Rumor! Nice!

Wow this really took me back 🤣 🤣 🤣 I used to a use tf out of the rejection lines. Both sites. I grew up in NYC and let me tell you, back in the early 00s, I was in JHS and we used to gather around at lunch and swap stories about creepos we had to use it on. Whew. The good old days. The big difference was Jeff's site had multiple numbers by state that you could alternate with. One day I'd use a 718 and by the next week, I'm giving out 631 or 212 🤣 🤣 the city was wild af during those days.

great job thank you 🤗 Silesia Poland support you 😚❤️

I'll be waiting for that wii remote speaker podcast

that jermaphobe joke got me good

At 17:36 Billiam said "Are you angry about the taste of preteen girls in 2008?" 😂😂😂 Billiam is the Tallahassee Cannibal🎉🎉

Hey Billiam! Any updates on the next Lost video? I love your videos and can't wait to see what you have to say next! 😄

I have not gotten a billiam recommendation in my fyp I’m so long

Wow.. you really ARE the man from Tallahassee!!

Hey Billiam, I just wanted to let you know I named an NPC in my DND campaign after you. He's a famous enchated item merchant and smith, who opened up an enchanted homewares store in a capital city. His best seller is a magic trash can that teleports any trash thrown in it to the nearest non magical trash can.