The
Janoskians (
Just
Another
Name
Of
Silly
Kids
In
Another
Nation
Skip)
are a
YouTube comedy group, pranksters, singers, entertainers and
stunt performers, based in
Melbourne, Australia.
[2] The group of home-grown Melbourne
stuntmen began posting
comedy videos on
YouTube
in September 2011. While describing themselves as "just a group of
hopeless kids with no future taking on the streets of Melbourne", the
boys have already caught attention from
Justin Bieber,
One Direction's Liam Payne and
Ellen DeGeneres.
Their channel was created on 7 July 2011. Their videos mainly consist of the five doing
pranks on the unsuspecting public (i.e. simulating
sexual acts,
sleeping,
screaming,
farting and being
crude), dares which are
disgusting,
painful and
self-harm in nature (i.e. eating
raw animal body parts, placing body part in
mouse trap,
overeating food until sick),
mockumentaries (i.e.
Man vs Wild parody) and
skits. In totality, their videos have have over 45 million views worldwide and over 2 million hits on both the
awkward train situations videos.
The Janoskians have achieved teenage pop fandom with several
social networking services, such as their
Facebook and
Twitter pages, and even
fanfiction. As of November 2nd 2012, the group's YouTube channel reached over 400,000 subscribers.
THE MEMBERS
- Beau Brooks (born 31 July 1993) has an interest in drama, with his hobbies being soccer and hitting the gym
- Jai Brooks (born 3 May 1995) does media studies in school and his hobbies include drawing and playing tennis.
- Luke Brooks (born 3 May 1995) who also does media studies, and his hobbies include hip hop dancing and playing tennis.
- Daniel Sahyounie or Skip (born 31 October 1994) has an interest in sports and his hobbies include playing soccer and filming.
- James Yammouni (born 27 February 1996), with religion being in his prime interest, his other hobbies include playing/watching AFL.
SOME FACT
They are currently teamed up with
MTV Australia and have a show of theirs called
The Janoskians: MTV Sessions.
In 2012, the Janoskians signed a lucrative deal with
Sony Music Australia and soon after announced the release of their debut single.
The resulting single, "Set This World on Fire", was released in
September 2012 on the Janoskians' official YouTube channel, first as an
audio file, and later with an "unofficial" video.
The Janoskians also encouraged their fans to create their own videos set to the song. They later received their own
VEVO channel on
YouTube, where an official video was posted for their song on October 9.
CRITICISM UGH
The Janoskians have been criticised for their reckless, dangerous and juvenile behaviour, and pushing their boundaries too far.
Media commentator
Prue MacSween stated that, "Their act - if you can call it that - is so
juvenile, and I think really irresponsible. It's astounding the power
of the internet now. It just tells you that this global audience can be
viral and suddenly nobodies with very little talent can suddenly be
known by the world."
The boys deny that they're being bad role models, arguing everyone
realises it's all an act, and in defence of the criticisms they said:
"It’s what we want to do. We want to push the boundaries, we just
want the reactions out of people. Each single person that we do it to,
we go and say ‘sorry this is what we're doing it for, this is the
purpose’ and they're cool with it. If they're not we don’t put it up. We
are normal children. The clips are just an act at the end of the day,
just entertainment."
Well like it or not,i still love them.The guys,the video,dares,mockumentary,everything.You can give any criticism,everyone deserves some right?So i don't really care.Just FYI.
