He Started With A Crazy Youtube Character, Now He's A Successful Musician

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Joji, aka George Miller, started his career portraying insane characters on the internet - now he's a super successful artist.   Watch the full video here: https://youtu.be/0B3neXPx6XQ  Check out our new MEME STORE: https://thememestore.com/  Subscribe to our channel to learn more about trending memes, hear interviews from meme personalities and more! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbrPqq29C9Q_TQP7OFFRzcw?sub_confirmation=1

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00:00Have you ever heard of Joji, the multi-talented artist from Osaka, Japan, who has been cooking

00:04up nice beats and all sorts of cool art since 2014? Before Joji, George Miller was not only

00:09known for music, but known for his character that he played on the internet called Filthy Frank,

00:14and it was a digital persona that shaped much of what would come after it in this sphere online.

00:18It was a vile personification of the internet, something that many took huge inspiration from,

00:23even myself. He'd get onto the camera and parody the internet's trenches with this

00:27deep raspy voice and insane antics. But Miller wasn't always Filthy Frank either,

00:31this was just one side quest he went on, because even in 2006, Joji was himself posting break

00:36dancing videos as a young middle schooler to YouTube on his account, toocool4u92,

00:42talk about a legend. When he started going to college in the United States in 2011,

00:45he would begin posting as the Filthy Frank character. The character was mesmerizing and

00:49captivating, in a vile way. Like 4chan personified, it was this nerd yelling obscenities into the

00:54camera. He would describe it as the embodiment of everything a person should not be, to highlight

00:58the ridiculousness of racism, misogyny, legalism, injustices, and ignorance and other social blights.

01:04It's an interesting concept. He would post filthy videos, from acting like a freaky Guy Fieri,

01:08to satirical rap videos, to ramen filled inside of a bathtub, it was pure insanity in an age of

01:13the internet where most people were still just posting like rageface, like simple memes. The

01:17Filthy Frank character wasn't the only character in the universe though, there was of course Pink

01:21Guy, who was also a way to channel musical elements into the show. In fact, Pink Guy is the

01:25whole reason Harlem Shake was even a meme. Yeah, Pink Guy did that, Joji did that. Before long

01:30though, Joji would grow to pursue music instead of Filthy Frank, and separate it from the Filthy

01:35Frank character. Putting out a final video in 2017, alongside a book called Francis of the Filth,

01:40a book all about the lore of the many characters in the universe. In 2018, hundreds of millions

01:44of views would hit music videos like Slow Dancing, which is a banger. He's released three albums,

01:48Ballads 1 in 2018, Nectar in 2020, and Smithereens in 2022. The dude's cracked, and the music's pretty good.

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