I grew up on this era of youtube. ethan bradberry, soflo, prankinvasion, bfvsgf, my 11 year old brain was so convinced these guys were the real deal lmao

@zSion

2 жыл бұрын

Who asked

@rayzilla1234

2 жыл бұрын

@@zSion I asked

@Mr_Blazeking

2 жыл бұрын

@@zSion edgy anime pfp = no opinion

@eastportal9508

2 жыл бұрын

@@zSion I asked

@xXxUrbanNinjaxXx

2 жыл бұрын

@@zSion ?????

“Stop hitting my child with a lead pipe!” 🤓 “It’s just a prank bro” GIGACHAD

@2alsen

2 жыл бұрын

''Bro stop throwing your feces at me!''

@easystreet7713

2 жыл бұрын

*JIGACHAD

The KZread era of making fun of prank KZreadrs was something else

I love how he pauses the video every 5 seconds to give a take thats actually just what the video got done explaining 5 minutes earlier lol

@grandvalentine6942

2 жыл бұрын

Shush mr cow

RossCreations does pretty cool prank stuff and it's all completely legit and even if it was fake then they have some A list tier acting at that point. Plus half of it isn't even pranks, it's just cool shit.

@ol3tty

2 жыл бұрын

I’ve always been a big fan of Ross he really is the most underrated and legit prankster

@BucBoy63

2 жыл бұрын

I’ve been trying to reach you about your cars extended warranty

@bmac6651

2 жыл бұрын

I don’t think Ross fakes any of his pranks he’s too genuine he’s like a PG Steve O

@aquawrld

2 жыл бұрын

I still watch Ross & baylen they’re great 🤙🏽

@passwordprotectedd

2 жыл бұрын

@@ceberios bruh

BigDaws, Steven Shapiro, and HumorBagel are still going strong...and the legend Ed Bassmaster pops in and out periodically and is still funny.

@Play4Everz

2 жыл бұрын

ThatWasEpic too

@unrealisticgoals

2 жыл бұрын

I feel like thatwasepic and shapiro are still good

@basketballcinemas

2 жыл бұрын

Ross creations?

@operationskuld3277

2 жыл бұрын

I like Steven

@stebogaming8813

2 жыл бұрын

They’ve started doing a lot of giveaway stuff too which I feel like is probably helping more than the prank stuff

Ross, Bigdaws, and thatwasepic is probably the only few pranksters that actually had good content. Unlike NELK, joeysalads, Soflo, and Vitaly, these people's pranks were pretty much borderline illegal.

@jotakuplays1536

2 жыл бұрын

NELK got pretty big though. Now they don’t do as much pranks. They’re like a fraternity partying and podcasts. They’ve done some meetups with some pretty famous people too. And of course, they made their own hard seltzer.

I used to love watching PrankInvasion back then. His video were so funny and entertaining and that was totally the only reason I watched him😅

@LizziesLukas

2 жыл бұрын

You must be kidding, bro... No one thinks Prank Invasion is funny or entertaining...

@Foos3yOW

2 жыл бұрын

@@LizziesLukas R/Woosh

@prizzesh_bs2004

2 жыл бұрын

@@LizziesLukas whoooooooooossshheeeddd

@Inplideline74

2 жыл бұрын

🤨

@Datapitstopyaps

2 жыл бұрын

@SAOisgarbage Batchest I use Batchest

8:43 That might be the most unfortunate logo design I’ve seen in a long time (bottom right)

@liar-888

2 жыл бұрын

*匚ock TV*

düd, the adpocalypse was the worst thing that ever happenned to KZread. It made the site a family friendly nightmare : brain numbing videos for toddlers getting billions of views while any content with swear words is made nearly impossible to monetize, slowly pushing legendary creators like Filthy Frank to an early retirement, and forcing others to make their stuff "advertiser friendly" in the process. Not only that, it was also at that time that the algorythm was changed so that channels that post garbage content twenty times a day get more trafic that quality stuff that needs lots of work and time in making and editing (not pointing fingers at anyone, here). They also greatly increased the numbers of adds by minutes watched and greatly lowered the add revenue for creators, forcing them to find their own sponsors (good luck with that if you're a small channel, or just starting, btw). Not what I call a win/win situation for anyone, viewers or creators. I guess Susan and her shareholders took the W on that one.

@matissgrotups2820

2 жыл бұрын

Filthy frank was getting demonetized well before the adpocalypse tho

@trihard2191

2 жыл бұрын

Vanoss and the crew changed heavily cuz of this

@slips.

2 жыл бұрын

filthyfrank always wanted to be a musician, he would've left the scene regardless

@redjakOfficial

2 жыл бұрын

@@slips. I know, but he intended to do both at first. The Pink Guy album was directly linked with his vids. And his vids just were too hard to monetize past 2016... And he wasn't the kind of guy that would sell out for a Raid sponsor.

@pinkpenzu

2 жыл бұрын

Nah joji would have killed filthyfrank regardless.

Real prank videos are great. When Vlog Creations says they fill their car with beans and call a locksmith, we’re talking 200 gallons of beans.

I cared a whole lot less about click bait when there was a dislike button. Now it seems youtube just wants to waste my time and they can easily do so due to their effective monopoly

There’s some pranksters that got really good content like Ross, that was epic, and romanatwood lol

My favorite xqc title has been "TRIAL WATCHING ANDY". I had a big laugh when that notification popped up.

X’s face at 13:25 was absolutely priceless

on every prank video, the camera man is invisible, impressive

With all due respect remi gallard's kangaroo, tetris, mario, pac man and sonic are hilarious

@charlesm.2604

2 жыл бұрын

Hell yeah this guy is a legend in France !

@zkart8038

2 жыл бұрын

He also made efforts and the costumes were actually funny. His jokes were also obviously jokes seeing a huge bat upside down in an elevator. And he never harmed anybody. Not like these idiots who tried pushing and scaring people randomly. That's how they'd get assaulted.

18:10 I understand his take, but getting outside sponsors for videos and not relying on KZread's ADs was a luxury only top creators had. Obviously since they had a bigger platform. But the millions of smaller creators got effectively abandoned by the algorithm due to demonetisation which ended up killing alot of the channels on KZread back in the day. Many people who made informative, high production videos on controversial topics saw very little ROI from their yt videos which caused mass hiatus for many creators and slower uploads overall. As even outside sponsors during the early days of demonetisation also stayed away from problematic content. Let's not forget how finicky the demonetisation algorithm was. People were flagged left and right without any clue, even when they've complied with KZread's TOS. False flagging was incredibly common.

@dimitrijekrstic7567

2 жыл бұрын

He isn't the most intelligent dude out there, so yeah. He just can't cope with people not agreeing with his take

@omniman332

2 жыл бұрын

@@dimitrijekrstic7567 hes more intelligent than 90% of his chT

am i the only one who remembers joey salad sausage in a bun

Ngl I used to watch these at night on my iPod touch, good days.

ThatWasEpic is the only one I still watch, wholesome shit.

Man I really miss old H3H3

@LilSnuggs

2 жыл бұрын

Hes more into drama now but his humor is till the same, ill watch some of the podcasts and he still says the wildest things

@gh-ev9vi

2 жыл бұрын

@@LilSnuggs nah he is so ass now it’s astonishing that people stilm watch him

12:10 Old Ethan that wasn’t Antifa .. good old times

Interesting. I like this look into old KZread. It's sorta like when you hear a banger on the radio from 2007 and you think about all of the awesome things that happened back in the day when you listened to that song.

I can't blieve the prank videos that I watched when I was younger, specifically the ones where they would "prank women" with trying to kiss them or harassing them to get their number, was cool. Even just when they were harassing anyone in general.

@XanderFenikkusu

2 жыл бұрын

Calm down dude. Asking a girl for her phone number is not harassment, as an example. And the actually crazy ones (like JoeyDiaz or whomever, kissing girls) were fake.

@dominiqueburgette1783

2 жыл бұрын

@@XanderFenikkusu Maybe you should reread what I said. I said harassing them TO get their number, not just asking...

@Dan_Kanerva

2 жыл бұрын

@@dominiqueburgette1783 Maybe you should reread what "harassement" really means... unless America has changed the definition of a word for the million time in the span of 5 years again , and now harassement means "mildest annoyance".

@babypotato

2 жыл бұрын

@@Dan_Kanerva pretty sure it means any behavior that makes anyone uncomfortable and/or distressed. seems like you’re okay with this behavior then?

@Dan_Kanerva

2 жыл бұрын

@@babypotato your _comment makes me feel uncomfortable and distressed , because it tries to be sly and imply that i am a bad person... that is harassment by your own definition and i inquire you to_ stop. See the problem now ? You don't understand because you are not from America , but here people L O V E to take concepts to the extreme... especially when it comes to feel offended

I literally watched Joey Salads in health class

the reason i hated youtube when i was a kid was cuz i didn't understand how ppl couldn't realize that its not a prank if YOU ACTUALLY DO IT??? "smashing my gf phone prank" = "i didn't prentend to, i actually did it and bought a new one and im mad that shes mad at me, it was just a joke" and that dude that just went around kissing girls all the time....wtf was that?

It's just a prank bro!

This content has just moved to TikTok now. So much of TiKTok content screams this style of video, just complete fake stuff that people are still buying into thinking it's real. I wonder if we'll ever get to this point with those videos as well.

seeing all the juicers that were 7 in 2014 posting about why their favorite prankster is somehow ok in these comments is sending me

@Moon-ty2hn

2 жыл бұрын

7 in 2014 is incredibly generous

@burgersquinn

2 жыл бұрын

@@Moon-ty2hn LMAO

I love when X grills chat

fake pranks on youtube simultaneously made everyone skeptical of literally everything which is kinda the coolest ongoing prank… crazy.

Everybody just forget about the "Killer clown pranks"

Ed bassmaster is the OG prankster, and the GOAT.

Sorry but xqc's take about the adpocalypse is -somewhat wrong-. (Edit: it's not wrong but here is a *way too indept real and probably really accurate* take on why pranksters died on KZread AND *why chat was spamming "???"* imo): The adpocalypse made it even harder for small creators to make money from ads and they needed to get sponsors to survive. So they had to stand out even more to get the chance to make enough money for themselves with KZread only. Now sure, adpocalypse kinda meant fake content got more clowned on but it still made it harder for smaller creators with potential and snaller following and potential to even make it out alive. *ALTHOUGH*, when do you think KZread started its infamous and mysterious recommended algorithm (that is scary good), you know around the time people switched from subscription tab to home page (recommended). 2016, when the adpocalypse started and when KZread started using machine learning (AI) recommended. So, I guess X is wrong in a way (imo) but another factor was the AI recommended. THEN AGAIN, I love machine learning and would like to land a job within that scene and I can kind of see how the AI is better for the consumer in general because it picks up better what we like to watch (genuine content not fake pranks) but I do think the swift change to that AI algorithm did hurt the potential big creators during that change. Those changes also kinda had to be made just because of how much more people started to know about KZread and we couldn't really have everyone trying to fight with clickbait fake controversial content on KZread trying to make a career out of it like these guys were doing. So I guess I kinda just explained better why pranksters died on KZread lol.

@imBigo

2 жыл бұрын

Dude I just took way too much time writing this at 4:00 am on my phone lmao

@imBigo

2 жыл бұрын

Also, xqc's take on this at the end gets better but the problem is, he has a big enough audience so that clickbait titles won't really matter because people watch him for his content more than newcomers. Also, he only uses ironic non-controversial clickbait titles. Issue with controversial clickbait titles is if you're trying too hard and that's the only thing making you special (which on KZread shouldn't) then you shouldn't make it big.

@bradlasalle2888

2 жыл бұрын

Your explanation is harder to understand than x's but good job patting yourself on the back like 3 times talking about how much better you did lol

@imBigo

2 жыл бұрын

@@bradlasalle2888 LMAO im drunk and took too much of my adhd meds so understandable

@imBigo

2 жыл бұрын

@@bradlasalle2888 I kind of wrote too much but I mostly wanted to explain the reason why people sent question marks *(or rather, the reason why I would have question marked)*

I am not directly correlated to these TV counterparts

Julius Dein then: street magic, giving money to homeless people Julius Dein now: Aware

Remi Gaillard is the true prank KING!!

A few pranksters survived.

from fake prank meta into reaction meta

@HDGaminTutorials

2 жыл бұрын

Atleast prank meta required effort now everybody just makes money of reacting to other peoples work insane.

Sometimes our memories fail us boys..... I remember I laughed at every Prank video, every Roman Attwood video and I remembered it fondly up until 5 min ago when watching this, now the cringe hurts so much, htf did I used to watch these guys everyday dude..

Prank channels flew too close to the Sun and they got burnt

Oddly pleasant throwback. I grew up on like 9 of the prank channels mentioned here. And aside the dilemma of "real or fake?" that came to me in my little shit period as I was still watching these dudes--I gotta admit, I still enjoyed them; especially MagicOfRahat, ThatWasEpic, (RossCreations), BigDaws, the legend Remi G., hell even fousey, Roman, and PrankInvasions. But, I'm not even mad at all. Just reminiscing.

bfvgf and angry grandpa were elite

Seeing "flacid vitaly" in chat made me laugh

Dont drink amongus potion at 3am

I remember when Joey salad was actually just a funny viner then he went weird

jidion still doing great prank content

@XanderFenikkusu

2 жыл бұрын

"great prank content" is an oxymoron

@name028hfjsiwh2

2 жыл бұрын

@@XanderFenikkusu cope

Congrats on 2mil xQc!

I think pranking took off on KZread cause of jackass. I was surprised he never mentioned it in the video

I CAN'T BELIEVE FLITHY FRANK WASN'T MENTIONED

FINALLY STOPPED LAUGHING PogU

Holy shit this man is gonna watch they entire channal in about a week

RossCreations and JiDion send their regards

Damn this video was xqc asking a question and then talking over the answer when the video talked about it LuL

I still watch RossCreation, the pranks is harmless and actually good

when its 2069 if im still here i will have rare deep thoughts of joey salads

That's why Street pranks like Bush man and samurai prank Japan Street are more legit.

Thatwasepic still going strong, I love his vids

@LM-rn6ph

2 жыл бұрын

He’s one of the best KZread’s right now. Very underrated.

I think it’s safe to say JiDion rules this realm now

@unrealisticgoals

2 жыл бұрын

W H OMEGALUL

@Zzzzzz-eo5id

2 жыл бұрын

I loooooove pranks

@Saifei757

2 жыл бұрын

ya mama do

@Saifei757

2 жыл бұрын

@Madara is OP sad twerking 😭

why is chat omegalulling the shitty pranks TrollDespair

Bigdawstv is the only genuine prank channel rn

we all knew the premisse cause we all grew up watching pranking shows on TV but youtube pranking was always scuffed.

I remember when my friend was in someone's prank vid where they hid in as a bush plant at like disney and jumpscared him and my friend who is a male and like 5'4 on a good day with a duck tail haircut got a lil startled and he immediately posted up and boy looking through the comments they were on my mans head the entire time lul

Chat pepepaining old h3... Sadge

prank video cameramen have invisibility potions

no mention of overboard humor? dudes a fucking legend

people not understanding when X said adpocalypse was good in long run. pretty easy to understand, think of it like a mass purge. those who did not have the drive to continue content creation, finding sponsors and surviving no youtube ads, not doing that got rid of alot of shit creators who put in low effort. and now the people who survived, those who really wanted to continue and made sure they survived the adpocalypse, now have youtube ads back in force, and also still have sponsor segments, so they are doing better then ever now! its a good thing to do a purge every now and then :P

Actually ThatWasEpic and BigDawsTV still have a large and stable audience tho and ThatWasEpic content I still enjoy it until now from last year

3:15 Pvp gang for life 😭

Thank you Prank Invasion for providing the “sauce” when I was 12/13 you will be forever remembered 🥲

I was so gullible when I was a kid. I honestly didn’t think any of the pranks were fake.

farming 360s before T1kT00k that guy knows whaddup

Can we get a petition to have xqc watch balls of steel videos 😂 ?

@Nexilix

2 жыл бұрын

what is that?

@leonas9843

2 жыл бұрын

A card that gives you 2 soul hearts

@10chavarria10

2 жыл бұрын

@@Nexilix prank video channel very old

how many ads in a less than 30 min video actually more than 7 like geez

vlog creations never fakes, he is a genius

sunnyv2 is probably loving that xQc is reacting to so many of his videos, he's in my recommended all the time now

Pretty sure "just a prank bro" will be used for many, many years to come.

"xQc reacts" *is gone for the first two minutes*

Surprised Sam Pepper wasnt mentioned in this video

Meanwhile reaction meta still immortal

Imagine PepePains at these fcking gods of youtube

X said i was part of the problem we all laughed you know it lol

You would rarely find good comedy nowadays unless you intentionally look for it, The commonly found """"Pranksters"""" on KZread Shorts or Facebook has the most clickbait fucking shit you would ever find. With the prank videos on Facebook being an hour long despite the fact that it can be done in just a couple of minutes. I would rather watch the doomsday clock hit the midnight rather than watching a single nanosecond of a video prank that is filled with laugh fucking goddamn tracks

ITS JUST A PRANK BRO!!

Damn they really didn’t talk about the big one: Sam Pepper

Man I honestly gotta admit, xQc has grown on me, I used to be a hater because I thought he was cringe and wondered why so many people watch him. I've been binge watching his Vods for a week and I definitely thoroughly enjoy them a lot. I guess I'm a juicer too now? XqcL (sorry I'm not extremely familiar with twitch chat format)

The most GOAT prankster till this day is RossCreations

This video was SLAAAAAAAAAAAMIN

We can say pranks are coming back

I'm shocked sam pepper wasn't brought up at all

It showed a brief video of “Jack Vale’s” and I really don’t think he ever did fake pranks. Him and EdBassMaster were great back in the day and you could just tell it was real

trollstation art heist...

RossCreations, BigDaws, and ThatWasEpic rank supreme in the prank genre.

Xqc is actually Dr disrespect. His whole channel isn't actually him watching other people's videos it's him watching other people's videos watching you watching him watch you. To make more money he used his alter ego Dr disrespect which if you put a wig and a mustache on him in paint you will see what I mean fo real. Is Felix actually making content or is content making Felix. That's exactly why they both sang the same song too give me your love tonight. Same person. So it's not just pranksters that fake videos. In conclusion you all have learned nothing and gained nothing by reading this long ass message for no reason and is this a troll message maybe maybe not the choice is yours or is it it could be someone else's depends on what media you watch that's a story for another time.

Man facebook basically killed itself with that lowering of clickbait titles algorithm. I wanna say I kinda agree with xqc with the adpocolypse thing. Like it really made creators work at getting individual sponsors, rather than just ads that youtube would give you. Which means you dont have to worry about being against KZread's policy as much because even of your demonotized you earn from that sponsor you negotiated for the video. But I think it also sucked because it meant alot of creators would become verryyyy child friendly or idk just self suppressing. Like now most creators I watch are scared of saying the slightest thing without getting demonized. Which makes them constantly need to look for other sponsors, which is nice because that means they'll make money and continue making content. But the issue is those companies they are getting sponsors from have policies too, that's why conservative shows really enjoy they're conservative sponsors. Like if you have a company as a sponsor and they dont like something you said in the video, whether its virgle language, some opinion of yours they dont want to be associated with. There can still be problems, so it's nice like I said but if creators are having to self suppress whether they have youtube monetization or a sponsor then it's not good. Or if they have both, they're just profiting from a sponsor and youtube monetization, and also just suppress everything they say and have to be as child friendly as possible. Well I guess that's what it is now, but what sucks about it is your taking creators who've been making content with adult or virgle language, or idk just things that aren't considered child friendly but they've been getting monetized off of it for almost a decade, and saying okay I know you're like 30 now and have kids and probably care even less about making "child friendly" content, but you wont be able to support your family now unless you do exactly that. Or spend months trying to find sponsors that will let will kinda let you say whatever you want, without also being like black rifle and pulling out as soon as some new personality doesnt agree with your view.

Chat cringes whenever someone doesn't speak slang wtf

16:00 What. I never watched the prank H3H3 videos. Vitaly went crazy and ran out of ideas that’s why pranks died

very important Video

Man rip PrankVsPrank though for real. Early day pioneers of prank channels, especially with a significant other. Now the two are still going: ones in Abu Dhabi, and the other made a music video?