| “ | I'm not fat, I'm thicc! | ” |
―Justin's catchphrase | ||
LankyBox is an American YouTube channel created by the comedy duo, Justin "Justie" Kroma (born: January 11, 1995) and Adam James McArthur (born: April 27, 1996), known for their variety gameplays and notably, their zero budget remakes of well-known music videos and clips from various shows and movies.
Content
Zero-Budget Parodies
One of their most well-known videos are their zero-budget parodies. They used to re-create music videos by using zero-budget props, such as using chip bags as hair, and construction paper as backgrounds. They have since stopped making zero-budget parodies of music videos because of YouTube’s Copyright Laws, and have since started to make these parodies on movies. Justin also makes many puns in these videos.
Guess The Price
LankyBox created a show where Justin or Adam test different products and try to guess the price of those products. Whoever wins gets to play the mystery game on the wheel. The games on the wheel are decided by the fans of LankyBox. They also bring their friends to the mix, which include Cooky (a pink rabbit plushie from BT21, a project created by BTS for LINE), Chimmy (a dog plushie wearing a yellow hoodie, also from BT21), Boxy (a cardboard box plushie from Lankybox) and Dumbo from Disney.
LankyBox Animated Stories
LankyBox has made animated stories about their pasts. One of the episodes revealed that Justin had tried to sneak into an R-rated horror movie with his friend in middle school, and refused to get in up until the people started checking tickets, and other episodes revealed that Adam dated his best friend's sister, and also got caught cheating with his crush in middle school.
Noob VS Pro VS Hacker
The Noob VS Pro Vs Hacker was a series that LankyBox used to do a lot in 2021. The series is about where LankyBox plays a game, and they start as a Noob. Then they start to become a pro. Then they become a "Hacker". Now in 2022, They don't do this a lot anymore.
Riddle Videos
LankyBox used to react to riddle videos back in 2019. The series was simple. They look at riddles on YouTube and try to guess them. They started to do this type of content again on 2021. Now they make these kinds of videos very frequently. The riddle videos in 2021 and 2022 had Video Game characters and movie characters in there, but it was mostly full of stuff like, Sonic EXE, Five Nights at Freddy's, Encanto, Turning Red, etc.
Compilation Videos
These are just videos that have their videos they made in the past such as Adopt Me! videos, Guess The Price videos, etc. Now they usually have thumbnails with Rainbow Friends in them or Poppy Playtime, but they are similar to the streams they used to make.
Characters
- Boxy - A yellow and white cardboard box. He is loving and sometimes awkward. He runs the Lankybox World channel along with Foxy. Rocky, Sticky, Canny, Ghosty, and Thicc Shark,
- Foxy - A purple, dark purple, and white fox with a cardboard box on her head, loves food and makes puns like Justin. She along with Boxy, Rocky, Sticky, Canny, Ghosty, and Thicc Shark, run the LankyBox World channel. She is also Justin's spirit animal.
- Rocky - A dark grey and light grey rock with black eyes and a black mouth. He is Justin's pet rock. He went missing for a while before being found and becoming a plushie. His catchphrase is "It's time to rock and roll!". He runs the LankyBox World channel with Foxy, Boxy, Sticky, Canny, Ghosty, and Thicc Shark,
- Sticky - He is said to be a brown stick or a small tree and used to be missing before being found.
- The Mini Foxy & Boxy Plushies - There are 6 Mini-Plushies that make appearances a few times on the show. These plushies consists of Superhero Foxy, Sleepy Boxy, Pizza Foxy, Birthday Boxy, Donut Foxy, and Heart Boxy. They can be bought in the LankyBox Mystery Eggs. They are now no longer able to be purchased.
- Canny - A soup can who is friends with Sticky and Rocky.
- Ghosty - A white ghost who is bad at scaring people because she's scared of everything.
- Thicc Shark - A Blue and white shark who appeared a few times on the Guess The Price and riddles series before being turned into a plushie.
Personalities
Adam
Adam portrays himself as sane, getting annoyed by Justin's actions, and being less quirky compared to Justin. Whenever Justin shows Adam his alter-egos or tells him a joke or a pun, Adam either gets annoyed by them or laughs at them, and whenever Justin eats food that is supposed to be used for their videos, Adam usually tells Justin that the food is for the videos.
Justin
Justin portrays himself as "thicc", quirky, and is known for his puns and alter-egos along with being a food lover as he is seen many times eating food that is supposed to be used for the videos and not for eating. He is also known for usually mishearing what Adam says and making them puns.
Games
LankyBox Simulator
LankyBox Simulator is their official Roblox game. They hired 4 Roblox developers to work on the game's development and the game has gained over 11 million visits as of April 2022.
Controversies
Breaking TOS
On January 3, 2022, LankyBox was called out by NightFoxx for breaking TOS. He stated that the duo were breaking TOS due to them making a livestream full of their videos and live streaming it on their channels.[1] After NightFoxx called them out, many YouTubers like KreekCraft, GizzyGazza and Chizeled also called them out.[2][3][4]
LankyBox never responded to the situation and continued with their activities.
Criticism
LankyBox was criticized by many people and YouTubers because of the cringe and brainrot content LankyBox has made.[5][6][7][8] LankyBox was even called out by many YouTubers and content creators because LankyBox seems to just copy thumbnails from other YouTubers and content creators.[9][10][11] Also, a small youtuber known as NerdZ has even made a video about LankyBox copying Rabbert.
Merchandise
- Boxy Plush
- Foxy Plush
- Rocky Plush
- Sticky + Canny Plush
- Thicc Shark Plush
- Ghosty Plush
- Lankybox Mystery Eggs (No longer available)
- Lankybox "I'm Not Fat I'm Thicc'" Hoodies (No longer available)
- Foxy Magic Mug & Boxy Magic Mug
- Boxy Face Mask
- Lankybox Box 1 and 2 (includes Foxy Figurine, Boxy Magic Mug, Foxy and Boxy Reversible Mouse Pad, Foxy and Boxy USB Huggers)
- Cozy Collection (includes Foxy & Boxy pillow cases, onesies, and blankets)
- Back to School Bundle (Back to School Box, Lankybox backpack & lunchbox)
- Foxy & Boxy hoodie and T-shirt
- Lankybox Color Changing T-Shirt
- Foxy Backpack
- Boxy Backpack
- Rocky Lunchbox
LankyBox Kitchen
Starting in November 2022, LankyBox started a food delivery service called "LankyBox Kitchen". The locations are based out of Chuck E. Cheese (United States Family Entertainment Center chain) kitchens, and only deliver with 5-10 miles of the location the customer is ordering from. Currently, LankyBox Kitchen sells personal pan pizzas, macaroni and cheese, chicken wings, salads, french fries, desserts, and beverages.[12]
Quotes
- "I'm not fat, I'm thicc!" - Justin
- "A donut a day keeps the thicc-ness to stay!" - Justin
- "RM? More like TV!" - Adam
- "Well that was one of the most uncomfortable things I have ever seen, moving on, Justin..." - Adam
- "ROCKY!!!!" - Justin
- "STICKY!!!" - Justin
- "Alright guys I guess we're staying here!" - Justin
- "Adam you cannot put food in front of me and expect me not to eat it, this is too hard, you play Justin!" - Justin
- "Huh girls? Adam I don't know any girls, and your mom was busy!" - Justin
- "Now I don't know if you went and bought me a new trading card deck, or if you went to the Blackpink bank and opened about 600 new lines of credit cards. Is that what you did???" - Justin
- "Read the future....yup, I got the future. The future says, WE'RE BROKE. Brokepink is the revolution! Forever young, forever broke!" - Justin
- "Is that a fryable rama???" - Adam
- "Oh Adem...." - Foxy
- "You got it Foxy!" - Boxy
- "We're coming for the money Adam!" - Justin
- "Adam that looked good right the abs look real?" - Justin
- "That was so bad!" - Adam
- "You look like a dollar store V." - Adam
- "We're not supposed to show this!" - Justin
- "Are you out'cha mind?!" - Justin
- "They're not random objects... they're my friends!!!" - Justin
- Don't worry Adam I called my dance team they all got they're red outfits on like her in the video, its gonna look sick!" - Justin
- "He said will you hug me, I tell him only partly, I only love my rock and my Foxy I'm sorry." - Justin
- "I'm blinded by myself!" - Justin
- "Did you just slap Chimmy???" - Justin
- "Your gonna tell us the code to get out of this room." - Cooky
- "Dude...is this what we've come to? Two guys playing a love simulator game and doing this? *points to Adam doing his cringe dance*" - Justin
- "OOOHHHHHH!!! I thought you said, thick lip ring with seafood bread! *laughs* - Justin
- Bruises on both my knees? I thought you said juices on both my bees! *laughs* - Justin
- "Don't worry Adem, I'll fix this." - Superhero Foxy
- "This is my first date, ever, and you are ruining it!" - Justin
- "I'm gonna get oofed" - Boxy
- "I would like to be, very far away from here!" - Justin
- "Don't even say the pun dude I already know you're gonna say Justin BEE-ber!" - Adam
- Huh?! Beauty and a Beat? I'm trying to eat some food-y and sleep!" - Justin
- "No Adam I was gonna eat this its so ripe!" - Justin
- "I gotta go actually take a shower, FROM HOW CRINGE THAT WAS!" - Justin
- "Justin where did the rest of the letters go man?" - Adam
- " This looks terrible dude." - Adam
- "Oh sorry I got distracted I wanted pie." - Justin
- "Everybody fails again, I QUIT AGAIN!" - Justin
- "Hey Adam, BTS Idol, more like BTS Pie-dol!" - Justin
- "Did you see that?! He tried to kill me!!!" - Justin
- "Did we just spend 700 dollars in Adopt Me?????" - Adam & Justin
- "It's time to rock and roll!" - Rocky
- "I'm skippin' to the chicken." - Justin and Foxy
- "If you really, really love me, don't spend my moneyyy!" - Justin
- "HE NEEDS SOME MILK" - Justin
- " Justin what you up to man? " - Adam
- " I guess you can say.. this is a.. DAWN MENDES " - Justin
- " What is up guys, welcome to this episode of LankyBox! " - Adam
- " JUSTINNNNNNN " - Adam
Channel milestones
Note: The following dates are according to Social Blade. Dates may vary by one or two days due to differences in time zones.
Subscriber milestones
- 100,000 subscribers: February 18, 2018
- 200,000 subscribers: June 5, 2018
- 300,000 subscribers: June 26, 2018
- 400,000 subscribers: July 24, 2018
- 500,000 subscribers: August 28, 2018
- 600,000 subscribers: September 14, 2018
- 700,000 subscribers: November 8, 2018
- 800,000 subscribers: December 18, 2018
- 900,000 subscribers: January 26, 2019
- 1 million subscribers: February 21, 2019
- 2 million subscribers: July 21, 2019
- 3 million subscribers: January 18, 2020
- 4 million subscribers: June 13, 2020
- 5 million subscribers: September 26, 2020
- 6 million subscribers: January 9, 2021
- 7 million subscribers: April 20, 2021
- 8 million subscribers: June 21, 2021
- 9 million subscribers: July 10, 2021
- 10 million subscribers: July 25, 2021
- 11 million subscribers: August 31, 2021
- 12 million subscribers: September 29, 2021
- 13 million subscribers: November 3, 2021
- 14 million subscribers: December 9, 2021
- 15 million subscribers: January 17, 2022
- 16 million subscribers: March 4, 2022
- 17 million subscribers: April 20, 2022
- 18 million subscribers: May 30, 2022
- 19 million subscribers: July 12, 2022
- 20 million subscribers: September 7, 2022
- 21 million subscribers: October 24, 2022
- 22 million subscribers: December 17, 2022
- 23 million subscribers: February 6, 2023
- 24 million subscribers: April 6, 2023
- 25 million subscribers: June 11, 2023
- 26 million subscribers: August 2, 2023
- 27 million subscribers: August 21, 2023
- 28 million subscribers: September 17, 2023
- 29 million subscribers: November 26, 2023
- 30 million subscribers: December 23, 2023
- 31 million subscribers: January 1, 2024
- 32 million subscribers: January 14, 2024
- 33 million subscribers: January 27, 2024
- 34 million subscribers: February 12, 2024
- 35 million subscribers: March 7, 2024
- 36 million subscribers: April 7, 2024
- 37 million subscribers: May 17, 2024
- 38 million subscribers: June 10, 2024
- 39 million subscribers: August 5, 2024
- 40 million subscribers: October 4, 2024
Video view milestones
- 1 billion views: April 25, 2020
- 2 billion views: September 5, 2020
- 3 billion views: December 10, 2020
- 4 billion views: March 6, 2021
- 5 billion views: May 14, 2021
- 6 billion views: June 24, 2021
- 7 billion views: July 8, 2021
- 8 billion views: July 18, 2021
- 9 billion views: July 29, 2021
- 10 billion views: August 18, 2021
- 11 billion views: September 5, 2021
- 12 billion views: September 19, 2021
- 13 billion views: October 7, 2021
- 14 billion views: October 24, 2021
- 15 billion views: November 14, 2021
- 16 billion views: December 5, 2021
- 17 billion views: December 28, 2021
- 18 billion views: January 18, 2022
- 19 billion views: February 12, 2022
- 20 billion views: March 10, 2022
- 21 billion views: April 5, 2022
- 22 billion views: April 30, 2022
- 23 billion views: May 24, 2022
- 24 billion views: June 17, 2022
- 25 billion views: July 16, 2022
- 26 billion views: August 16, 2022
- 27 billion views: September 23, 2022
- 28 billion views: October 19, 2022
- 29 billion views: November 27, 2022
- 30 billion views: January 3, 2023
- 31 billion views: February 18, 2023
- 32 billion views: April 1, 2023
- 33 billion views: May 15, 2023
- 34 billion views: July 2, 2023
- 35 billion views: August 2, 2023
- 36 billion views: August 29, 2023
- 37 billion views: September 28, 2023
- 38 billion views: November 17, 2023
- 39 billion views: January 3, 2024
- 40 billion views: February 3, 2024
- 41 billion views: March 14, 2024
- 42 billion views: May 1, 2024
- 43 billion views: June 10, 2024
- 44 billion views: July 20, 2024
- 45 billion views: September 6, 2024
Trivia
- Whenever Adam calls Justin fat, Justin usually tells him that he is "thicc", not fat.
- Justin has made many alter-egos in many of the zero budget videos and Guess The Price videos, such as Roller Justie, Mega Justie, Stunt Double Justie, etc.
- Justin and Adam are also known as "The Zero Budget Guys" due to it being a very popular series on their channel.
- Adam is 6'5" tall, while Justin is 6'0" tall.
- In 2020, LankyBox was owned by Pocket.Watch and is now streaming on the Roku Channel.
Gallery
References
- ↑ https://twitter.com/MrNightfoxx/status/1477708139759910913
- ↑ https://twitter.com/GizzyGazza/status/1477750241839308801
- ↑ https://twitter.com/KreekCraft/status/1477713717202673669
- ↑ https://youtu.be/ubqYslsHgr4
- ↑ https://youtu.be/FTzJXSPwjkI?feature=shared
- ↑ https://youtu.be/GEptycxygoE?feature=shared
- ↑ https://youtu.be/uxJ6FTLFRWA?feature=shared
- ↑ https://youtu.be/hb7u8-o2Dt4?feature=shared
- ↑ https://youtu.be/-jB9tBdHEpw?feature=shared
- ↑ https://youtu.be/xZyczeF1sjo?feature=shared
- ↑ https://youtu.be/IbzZIDJfi_4?feature=shared
- ↑ https://lankyboxkitchen.com/