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
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.
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.
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.
Interesting. I like this look into old TH-cam. 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.
düd, the adpocalypse was the worst thing that ever happenned to TH-cam. 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.
@@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.
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
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.
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.
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 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 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
18:10 I understand his take, but getting outside sponsors for videos and not relying on TH-cam'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 TH-cam 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 TH-cam's TOS. False flagging was incredibly common.
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.
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..
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
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?
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
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?
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
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.
I’m surprised the NELK boys were not mentioned in this video they probably had the greatest transition from prank channel to quality content and good products also the pranks were really good they still do some every now and then
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
Who asked
@@zSion I asked
@@zSion edgy anime pfp = no opinion
@@zSion I asked
@@zSion ?????
“Stop hitting my child with a lead pipe!” 🤓
“It’s just a prank bro” GIGACHAD
''Bro stop throwing your feces at me!''
*JIGACHAD
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
Shush mr cow
The TH-cam era of making fun of prank TH-camrs was something else
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.
I’ve always been a big fan of Ross he really is the most underrated and legit prankster
I’ve been trying to reach you about your cars extended warranty
I don’t think Ross fakes any of his pranks he’s too genuine he’s like a PG Steve O
I still watch Ross & baylen they’re great 🤙🏽
@@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.
ThatWasEpic too
I feel like thatwasepic and shapiro are still good
Ross creations?
I like Steven
They’ve started doing a lot of giveaway stuff too which I feel like is probably helping more than the prank stuff
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😅
You must be kidding, bro... No one thinks Prank Invasion is funny or entertaining...
@@LizziesLukas R/Woosh
@@LizziesLukas whoooooooooossshheeeddd
🤨
@SAOisgarbage Batchest I use Batchest
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.
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.
There’s some pranksters that got really good content like Ross, that was epic, and romanatwood lol
8:43 That might be the most unfortunate logo design I’ve seen in a long time (bottom right)
*匚ock TV*
Ngl I used to watch these at night on my iPod touch, good days.
Interesting. I like this look into old TH-cam. 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.
on every prank video, the camera man is invisible, impressive
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.
düd, the adpocalypse was the worst thing that ever happenned to TH-cam. 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.
Filthy frank was getting demonetized well before the adpocalypse tho
Vanoss and the crew changed heavily cuz of this
filthyfrank always wanted to be a musician, he would've left the scene regardless
@@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.
Nah joji would have killed filthyfrank regardless.
My favorite xqc title has been "TRIAL WATCHING ANDY". I had a big laugh when that notification popped up.
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
am i the only one who remembers joey salad sausage in a bun
With all due respect remi gallard's kangaroo, tetris, mario, pac man and sonic are hilarious
Hell yeah this guy is a legend in France !
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.
ThatWasEpic is the only one I still watch, wholesome shit.
X’s face at 13:25 was absolutely priceless
Ed bassmaster is the OG prankster, and the GOAT.
I am not directly correlated to these TV counterparts
fake pranks on youtube simultaneously made everyone skeptical of literally everything which is kinda the coolest ongoing prank… crazy.
I literally watched Joey Salads in health class
I love when X grills chat
Damn this video was xqc asking a question and then talking over the answer when the video talked about it LuL
Congrats on 2mil xQc!
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.
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.
@@XanderFenikkusu Maybe you should reread what I said. I said harassing them TO get their number, not just asking...
@@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".
@@Dan_Kanerva pretty sure it means any behavior that makes anyone uncomfortable and/or distressed. seems like you’re okay with this behavior then?
@@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
18:10 I understand his take, but getting outside sponsors for videos and not relying on TH-cam'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 TH-cam 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 TH-cam's TOS. False flagging was incredibly common.
He isn't the most intelligent dude out there, so yeah. He just can't cope with people not agreeing with his take
@@dimitrijekrstic7567 hes more intelligent than 90% of his chT
Holy shit this man is gonna watch they entire channal in about a week
A few pranksters survived.
bfvgf and angry grandpa were elite
Everybody just forget about the "Killer clown pranks"
we all knew the premisse cause we all grew up watching pranking shows on TV but youtube pranking was always scuffed.
vlog creations never fakes, he is a genius
when its 2069 if im still here i will have rare deep thoughts of joey salads
Dont drink amongus potion at 3am
Man I really miss old H3H3
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
@@LilSnuggs nah he is so ass now it’s astonishing that people stilm watch him
That's why Street pranks like Bush man and samurai prank Japan Street are more legit.
from fake prank meta into reaction meta
Atleast prank meta required effort now everybody just makes money of reacting to other peoples work insane.
seeing all the juicers that were 7 in 2014 posting about why their favorite prankster is somehow ok in these comments is sending me
7 in 2014 is incredibly generous
@@Moon-ty2hn LMAO
I miss this time of TH-cam
I'm shocked sam pepper wasn't brought up at all
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.
I was so gullible when I was a kid. I honestly didn’t think any of the pranks were fake.
Seeing "flacid vitaly" in chat made me laugh
It's just a prank bro!
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..
farming 360s before T1kT00k
that guy knows whaddup
no mention of overboard humor? dudes a fucking legend
how many ads in a less than 30 min video actually more than 7 like geez
Pretty sure "just a prank bro" will be used for many, many years to come.
RossCreations and JiDion send their regards
I remember when Joey salad was actually just a funny viner then he went weird
Bigdawstv is the only genuine prank channel rn
We can say pranks are coming back
Prank channels flew too close to the Sun and they got burnt
jidion still doing great prank content
"great prank content" is an oxymoron
@@XanderFenikkusu cope
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
Remi Gaillard is the true prank KING!!
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?
why is chat omegalulling the shitty pranks TrollDespair
Damn they really didn’t talk about the big one: Sam Pepper
I still watch RossCreation, the pranks is harmless and actually good
Julius Dein then: street magic, giving money to homeless people
Julius Dein now: Aware
I CAN'T BELIEVE FLITHY FRANK WASN'T MENTIONED
I think pranking took off on TH-cam cause of jackass. I was surprised he never mentioned it in the video
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
Going to school with ar 15 going wrong prank
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?
I think it’s safe to say JiDion rules this realm now
W H OMEGALUL
I loooooove pranks
ya mama do
@Madara is OP sad twerking 😭
prank video cameramen have invisibility potions
Actually ThatWasEpic and BigDawsTV still have a large and stable audience tho and ThatWasEpic content I still enjoy it until now from last year
I loved the prank era
I still watch Cassady Campbell, his still funny
FINALLY STOPPED LAUGHING PogU
SunnV2 has taken over JCS on xqc streams
Surprised Sam Pepper wasnt mentioned in this video
10:59 this scared the shit outta me X please chew
Holy fuck i forgot how different youtube was back in 2014 2015
Thatwasepic still going strong, I love his vids
He’s one of the best TH-cam’s right now. Very underrated.
X said i was part of the problem we all laughed you know it lol
trollstation art heist...
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
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.
X eating is probably the best content lmao
Thank you Prank Invasion for providing the “sauce” when I was 12/13 you will be forever remembered 🥲
Meanwhile reaction meta still immortal
One day, he will slam the desk. For one last time... Sadge
very important Video
That kinda started happening again with the whole nick briz thing in the basketball community but it's calmed down
Of adding in the hood shots fired that part
LAHWF is not in the same category as other pranksters.
Wow this chair knows how to react!
neck still makes good pranks and they not fake
12:10 Old Ethan that wasn’t Antifa .. good old times
I always wanted to see one of these guys get a haymaker thrown on them .
Sometimes they went way to far .
I'm kind of upset he didn't continue playing the Skywalker Saga, I was excited but every time I watch a stream he never continues
Every time? Lol
I’m surprised the NELK boys were not mentioned in this video they probably had the greatest transition from prank channel to quality content and good products also the pranks were really good they still do some every now and then
No
THEY WERE FARMING H3 THE WHOLE TIME HOLY SHIT