How Joji Escaped from Filthy Frank

i'd like to share with you a little story a story a story [Music] this was the very first episode of the filthy frank story dr filthy francis was the literal embodiment of everything a person should not be yet somehow he's one of the most iconic and beloved youtubers to ever grace the platform unfortunately filthy frank is no longer with us r.i.p filthy frank you'll be missed goodbye filthy frank you've lived your life jojo will take your place poor guy wanting to make music but everyone cares about frank moore this comment couldn't be more wrong frank was abandoned so joji could shine as of today joji has sold 10 million records in the us alone making him the most successful musician who was previously a youtuber and i mean a real youtuber one who uploaded consistently identified with the platform and built a fan base not like justin bieber post malone or selena gomez posting a couple of videos 12 years ago george miller has shown us many different versions of himself over the years but it seems like joji is the version of himself he always wanted to be you may think this transition from super famous youtuber to super famous singer was easy i mean millions of people love you right wrong filthy frank's viewer base were millions of toxic unforgiving internet trolls the type that would bully guys like joji into submission he carefully crafted a master plan that he executed over three years to build up his music career through the beloved filthy frank character then killed him forever at the peak of his popularity make sure you're hydrated while watching this video disaster music was the name of the very first youtube channel created by george miller in 2011 who at the time was a 16 year old attending the canadian academy while living in japan he uploaded a few goofy skits of him and his friends but not for long he took a one-year hiatus after it wasn't working out during his hiatus he focused on his music only career signs in whichever the wind blow by day george miller was singing alongside his classmates in the school choir by night he was spitting bars in the japanese hip-hop group called beats miso [Music] his name m.c ruckus beats miso was a collective of creatives who rapped beat boxed and embraced hip-hop culture i don't know if he ever went by the name disaster music but it's safe to say his intentions were to promote his own music by making this channel george would return to youtube on august 5th 2011 with the most iconic and artistic intro of all time i'd like to share with you a little story ah yes it was quite the story from here filthy frank was the face of the disaster music channel he told us stories about his everyday life giving us a taste of his personality which consisted of mostly offensive and shocking humor over the past week people were going back and forth throwing racial slurs at each other and i loved it and it didn't even take long for him to bless us with his first song who's the sucker which was the beginning of george's meme rap career just a few months later we got the introduction of pink guy which would be the second character of the filthy frank universe part of pink guy's character was that he rapped most of the time you saw a pink guy video you were going to get a song with it it was a sneaky way for george to promote his future music career into the filthy frank lore along with pink guy there was red dick prometheus then the dark lord chinchin then salamander man lemon safari man fake frank there were so many characters that were involved in the filthy frank show because that's exactly what it was a show if you clicked on this video in 2012 called i hate fat people and you weren't familiar with filthy frank you might think this is just a rude teenager with a throat condition trying to be edgy and get a rise out of people but when you scrolled to the comments you saw a bunch of praise people who loved this questionable humor you had to pick a side you either think he's an [ __ ] or a relief from an overly pc society george didn't start every video with a disclaimer saying that frank is a character and he shouldn't be taken seriously he just kept creating and it was up to you to figure it out the filthy frank's story as well as the slew of side characters was extremely complex and lacking continuity sometimes he would upload videos for a full year without continuing the story if you think the story aspect was just an excuse for him to make edgy jokes and have a cop out to avoid being cancelled tell that to this 5 000 word timeline of the story including a table of contents and trivia questions along with a number of extensive breakdowns on youtube and of course millions of fans who are excited to see the plot evolve but the more confusing and twisted the plot became the crazier and crazier frank got the more fans wanted to dive deep into his channel go back and watch every single video obsess over him until they were all in on the joke youtube didn't like filthy frank even back in 2013 before everybody knew that youtube had a bias for family-friendly content creators who pushed the boundaries of the community guidelines were facing punishment he constantly was getting videos age restricted deleted copyright claimed and was on the brink of losing everything it was around this time mid-2014 where george actually attempted to quit the filthy frank character this was long before he peaked in popularity it was around 200 000 subscribers may 3rd 2014 he posted a video called filthy frank exposes himself i have not been well the last couple months long story short i was born with this but i was recently diagnosed with a brain condition that gives me seizures induced by stress which unfortunately uh comes from a lot of it comes from running this show it's tough so i just needed to come back and explain a few things to you guys so i hope you guys understand i'm terribly sorry you know this this sort of thing happens you know for the first time ever he addressed the camera as george miller in a very serious manner the remainder of this 12-minute video is george announcing multiple different projects he's been working on and what to expect moving forward including an animated series two pink guy albums merchandise and a vlog channel joji vlogs this was the first introduction of the alias joji this channel really has nothing to do with filthy frank or anything and i would like to keep it that way so really it's for myself so if it bores you i'm terribly sorry my life is pretty boring so the joji vlogs were supposed to be a detailed look inside of his everyday life no pranks no skits no filthy frank at all only the die hard of the die hard fans liked these vlogs they were shaky lacking structure lacking entertainment and kind of lacking purpose but most people's everyday lives are mundane that's why vloggers have to make up these ridiculous scenarios to be entertaining however there is one very important thing that these vlogs conveyed happiness george was very happy making these videos he was laughing hanging with his buds making music it was clear he loved joji vlogs which made me go back to this filthy frank exposed video and realized how much of a transitional moment this was for his career i left out one major detail about this video his fans hated it they hated the idea of him slowing down they hated all of the new ideas he had they were toxic aggressive rude and basically just thousands of edgy children who wanted more filth they did not care about his health his well-being him as a person and a lot of them thought that this was going to be his demise so going back to the video you can tell from his demeanor he's trying to be serious but almost afraid of what the response will be like he knows they're gonna hate it constantly reassuring them that the content isn't gonna change and everything is gonna be the same but if everything was gonna be the same then what's the point of putting out an update video i believe it was this video where george wanted to transition out of the frank character become a more true version of himself making music being chill some jokes and pranks here and there but calming down severely since he had a health condition he needed to handle he hoped that his fans would accept the transition since he had a cult-like following some of them did but most of them didn't forcing him to come to the realization that filthy frank could not die if he ever wanted to achieve his dreams of becoming a musician he needed to grow that fan base the transition wasn't just going to be hey i'm done with this come follow my other thing it needed to be smoother and slower george deleted the filthy frank exposed video acted like it never happened he sent all of his viewers to the new tv filthy frank youtube channel since disaster music was on the brink of being deleted from may 3rd 2014 and on through the next three years he would embark on his journey of growing his fan base through the filthy frank show with the ultimate goal of slowly transitioning into joji the content actually got filthier i don't know how much it impacted his health but there's no way that it helped he did things that were so disgusting i can't even display them in this video bathing in a bath of ramen making soup out of dead rats making a cake out of human hair and eating it making a cake out of vomit and eating it pink guy was making raps and messing with people in public he brought back the iconic filthy frank reacting to things on the internet series some of these videos doing tens of millions of views from 2014 to 2016 filthy frank exploded he was the counterculture he was anti-pop culture he was the furthest thing from political correctness which is why people loved him the content he made will never be made ever again youtube would strike someone down in an instant if they tried to do this type of stuff all the while he was building a fan base of millions i also believe that pink guy was actually more famous than filthy frank he had gone viral so many times in that suit including literally inventing the harlem shake and it was just so memorable but remember that he always released his music through pinkeye his fans loved it but it wasn't serious it was meme wrapped not well produced not well mixed just another attempt to get some laughs during the midst of his blow up in 2015 he released two songs tom and you suck charlie under the artist named joji these were the very first joji records the records consisted of somber and smooth lo-fi beats with joji softly rapping and singing obviously being totally opposite from his manic life as filthy frank these songs didn't perform that well he also had to disable the soundcloud comments because people were going there and bullying him only the obsessive fans liked it for the next year he quietly released tunes and didn't promote them that much about ninety percent of these early records were just instrumentals he maybe had four or eight bars of singing and the rest of the song was just instrumentation a lot of his vocals kind of even sounded like they were sampled like you couldn't even really tell if it was him the song world star money was one of the first joji records to get some attention from his fans this was a smart strategy for him instead of just throwing a ballad of him singing his heart out with a full-on music video he planted little seeds just a couple of singing lines or a couple of rapping lines not trying to overwhelm them just slowly gaining their interest and slowly gaining their trust throughout 2016 he was working on a pink guy album releasing music videos and snippets throughout the year the fans could not wait for pink season it's also worth mentioning that george was collaborating with a lot of other big creators as well as getting love from musicians he was a huge fan of the soundcloud scene on the edm side and on the rap side music people wanted to [ __ ] with him since he was a huge youtuber and he was lit but i'm sure behind the scenes when they hung out they realized he was just a really cool dude so he was making a lot of friends in the industry pink season released in january of 2017. it was a 33 song magnum opus of meme rap which was a massive hit with his fan base if there was a best meme rap album award this would win every year it should have won a grammy pink guy as an artist and an internet figure was peaking higher than ever but remember during the peak of all of this success he was still quietly in the background working on joji music planting those seeds a big part of his transition out of youtube into music was with his affiliation to ada rising 88 rising is a management record label video production and marketing company they gained popularity by working with asian artists who released their music in the states before joji some of the popular artists were rich brian keith ape and the higher brothers obviously joji would be the perfect fit for them in october of 2016 he got the first post on their page it was something of a pink guy music video but it wasn't him performing i think it was the label's way of using george's influence to market this other song that was playing in the background they would ultimately post his first song ever on their page tom over a year after it was originally released then they posted another and another giving us the obvious indication that 88 rising and joji are working together just assuming that he signed with them around this time this would bring us to april 2017 with i don't want to waste my time [Music] which was full-blown in-your-face singer-songwriter joji emotional ballad reverb vocals not trying to hide the fact that he is a performer most youtubers turned musician are complete and utter trash only in it for the money but joji is one of the few exceptions he has real talent it was after this song that the filthy frank fans realized how serious joji was and how much potential he had little did the fans know that because of all the success with pink guy's music and joji's seeds being planted filthy frank was coming to an end he uploaded just three videos in early 2017 that weren't music related and throughout the middle of 2017 the fans pretty much got nothing pink guy was more popular than ever linking up with soundcloud artists releasing an album full of remixes from some of the biggest edm producers at that time his career was moving in the direction that he always wanted he was going to be a full-time musician but now george was facing another problem pink guy versus joji pinkai was much bigger than joji his music career as pink guy was pretty much dependent on the filthy frank story so if he wanted to pursue this full time it just made more sense to do it as joji he was doing press interviews sometimes as joji and sometimes his pink guy he released the joji song in july and a pink guy song in august and said whichever one performs better is the career i'm going to pursue just kidding but imagine it was that simple he said in a 2017 interview on hot ones that he didn't want to be limited to just one type of art or media that he wanted to pursue both joji and pinkeye but he literally never made another pink guy song after this interview he could have been lying again just trying to soften the blow to filthy frank fans knowing that he won't ever come back i wish i had the confidence the self-confidence to to make to switch earlier because now it's it's working out pretty well or maybe his label said to him yo there's no way you can be taken seriously as a beautiful poetic songwriter when you release music talking about hot girls on nickelodeon using offensive language and rolling around in absolute filth i think his mind was made up he didn't want to be pink guy he was just avoiding the backlash that he knew was coming in tongues came out which featured huge tracks like will he and demons tracks that started to garner him a fan base of people who didn't even know who frank was by now he is officially signed to ada rising with distribution from empire giving him the backing of the multi-million dollar machine needed to navigate the music industry he released a book francis of the filth which basically summarized the entire lore of filthy frank along with that came the last video he would ever post basically killing frank and burying him in a hole it was poetic and artistic and it would be officially legitimized in december of 2017 via a tweet filthy frank officially retired to pursue his career as joji fans could not come to terms with the retirement even though he had been almost fully focused on music for a year at that point but to fans it kind of blindsided them they didn't realize this day would actually come in hindsight it seems like it was all planned for years he slowly implemented the music into the content until it became more music than comedy it was much better than him slowly falling from grace being censored being attacked by the cancel culture wave then trying to appeal to them to save his music career putting less effort in the videos maybe he was doing it for his health maybe he wasn't making any money but he quit before he could fall off and that's what certified him as a youtube legend just a few months after his first ep he's doing 1 000 plus person venues as joji you might be wondering if his fans hated the serious stuff so much then how did it work well he still had super die hard fans that loved his work i mean he had millions of followers even a small percentage supporting joji was thousands plus there's no denying that joji is extremely talented he had been working on music for over a decade at this point he was always a musician who decided to make some goofy comedy videos not the other way around plus it's not like his music only appealed to people who knew who he was on youtube people discover new artists all the time that they like and he was very talented ballads one would release november 2018 and joji becomes the first asian artist to top the billboard r b and hip-hop album chart see what he was able to accomplish after focusing one year on just one project with his full focus being on joji for the past four years he was able to land a couple of billboard hot 100 singles sold out shows all over the world and nine million record sales with almost no features nine times platinum he stamped himself as one of the greatest youtubers of all time one whose legacy could never be challenged or matched due to the ever-changing political climate and on top of that he's already had a more successful music career than most artists after just two albums george miller is like the childish gambino from youtube he's an extraordinary creative who can accomplish whatever he puts his mind to i'm sure right now he's quietly planning his next move we'll see about that in the next few years

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Length: 16min 59sec (1019 seconds)

Published: Thu Mar 24 2022