Frank Gioia (born: November 30, 1993), better known online as CrankThatFrank, is an American YouTuber known for his reaction and music videos.
Personal Life[]
Before Frank started YouTube he was in a metal band but wasn't that well known at the time for it until he hit the internet. He was born in Brooklyn and later moved to New Jersey. While in Jersey, he met his ex-wife Eva Demuro. He loves to make people smile and his goal is to send positive vibes and messages through everything that he does.
YouTube[]
CrankThatFrank tends to make his videos on a bi-daily basis. He has started a series of Try Not To Cringe Emo Musical.ly's (now Tik Tok), a Reacting To Emo Bands On Crack series, Reading Fucked Up Tweets series, a Reading Fucked Up Fanfiction series, and even have made Minecraft videos.
He has made a couple of videos where he did things that not many other YouTubers have done before and, early into his channel's history, did an "Animonday" series too. He does make vlogs from time to time and things outside of his realm too. He has made a couple of Q&A videos before too. He continues to make videos relating to challenges and reacting the most whatever.
Most viewed[]
On April 19, 2019, Frank made a video called "I TRIED TO WRITE A HIT SONG IN 24 HOURS!", after a few months the song was released with Tyler Young from the band Makeout doing all the instrumentals. The song has nearly 500,000 streams on Spotify.
Hiatus and VataVoid[]
On May 26, 2020, Frank announced his hiatus, and was planning to come back June 5, 2020. However, this was when the death of George Floyd was, and Frank didn't feel comfortable coming back. But on June 26, a video titled "Welcome To The Void" was going to premiere. Not long before, an Instagram and Twitter account that went by the @ of @VantaVoidBand tagged Frank and Tyler Young from Makeout, (who also Helped Frank with his 2019 metal song Drowning) and the band was officially announced not too long after. The bands debut single, Outcast is out now, the lyric video is coming out tonight.