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- For YouTube channel based on the Amazon live-action series, The Boys, see Vought International.
| “ | Saturdays are for the boys!!!!! | ” |
―The Boys | ||
The Boys are a collaborative group who often make videos together either playing games, doing reactions on their secondary channel The Boys React (most notably TikToks and other creators' videos), or engaging in some fantastical IRL event. These are including, but not limited to, investigating haunted houses or malls, destroying stuff, trying out food, getting roasted, or something way more extraordinary. While all maintain their own separate channels, they upload frequently to their joint channel to faciliate larger scale content.
Based in Australia (Josh, Mully) and the United States (Eddie, Narrator, Juicy), their videos involve skits and scenarios, and much of their comedy comes from the Boys' improvised interactions with each other.
Members[]
The five members who collaborate the most frequently together are:
- JoshDub, the shortest member, and the first of the group to have started a YouTube channel. He is the most popular member of the boys, with a subscriber count over 10 million as of June 2024.
- EddieVR, often referred to as "Galactic Eddie, Minority Man, the Mexorcist" and originally known as SauceEddie, he is the second most popular member of the group, with his channel having over 7 million subscribers as of June 2024.
- Mully, often referred to as the largest Boy, and treated semi-frequently as the group's punching bag. Known for making "offensive" remarks, he has around 5.75 million subscribers.
- JuicyFruitSnacks, the youngest member of the group, often seen as the most chaotic. He has the second lowest amount of subscribers, coming in at just under 3 million subscribers.
- Your Narrator, an army veteran and voice actor. He is considered to be the most wholesome member of the group. He is the least followed of The Boys, still however pulling in around 2.75 million subscribers.
While in most videos the five Boys are together, sometimes they will upload videos independently, usually with each country's half doing videos independent of the other.
Other collaborators[]
While the five main members most frequently collaborate together, there are other YouTubers who collaborate with them and are considered by some to be honorary members of The Boys.
- Dose (the group's editor and camera operator, notable for his cake)
- Kevin (mainly with the US Boys, (former) camera operator for the US videos, menace to society)
- GabbyVR (semi-frequently with the Boys, married to Eddie, really good chef)
- LivBev (semi-frequently with the Boys, Juicy's girlfriend)
- Alana (Josh's sister, regular camera operator)
- Smashing (former collaborator, mainly with AU Boys, has since informally split with the others following disputes about membership)
- Kristy (Josh's former girlfriend, appeared in several Boys videos)
Along with their main group of collaborators, The Boys have featured many other Youtubers on their channel as guest stars.
- Maxmoefoe (Max) and Anything4Views (Chad) have appeared in a few Boys videos each, with The Boys appearing in a video on the Cold Ones channel. Chad's driving resulted in an accident where Mully broke his collarbone and Josh's sister Alana broke her knee.
- Lazarbeam (Lannan) has starred in a few Boys videos, most notably being one of two drivers (along with Anything4Views) of a truck that Josh and Mully were to dine inside.
- penguinz0 (Charlie) starred in a video where he and The Boys try water.
- Toasted Shoes (Joe) has been in some Australian videos, Most notable being a video where Josh, Mully, Toasted Shoes, and a local person named Brad went to an abandoned resort.
- Mikey and Aaron of InternetCity fame have starred in a handful of Boys videos, being friends with Narrator.
- Hasbulla has starred in a video where the Australian boys (Josh and Mully) had an interview.
- Palladin Amber (Amber) has been in a few boys videos, all of which were starring all of The Girls.
Additionally, while not a Youtuber, The Boys collaborated with bbno$ to produce and record their single Sick in 2023.
History[]
The Boys' first channel was created on April 9th of 2020 and their first video was the music video for their song "Green Gang". The way the group came together revolved around a lot of fateful coincidences and luck.
Juicy was the first to make a YouTube channel in 2010, as he wanted to make Super Mario 64 speedruns. He would later delve into SFM animations before meeting ToastedShoes, who he would become close friends with. Josh and Mully (going by Mullen at the time) collaborated for a VR video in 2016, and the two realized the chemistry they had, and continued to make videos. Exact dates are hard to pinpoint, as Josh and Mully have purged dozens of videos from their channels. At the time, Josh was milking cows and Mully was intially working as a professional chef, but later did editing work for Kwebbelkop and LazarBeam. After their channels took off, both of them would quit their jobs. Juicy would later meet Mully when he started editing for Lazarbeam's sister, Tannar, where Mully would supervise him. Eddie started his first YouTube channel in 2016 (Sauceddie, later rebranded to special ed), and he would upload for several years before starting EddieVR due to a dropoff on his (at the time) main channel. As Josh would later put summarize for Eddie, "YouTube ruined my life, so I doubled fucking down".
Both Josh and Mully would later come to meet Eddie through commenting on his videos. The two would later establish communication with him and start a friendship. Narrator would serve in the army abroad in Europe as part of a NATO unit for four years, eventually returning home to get his Bachelor's Degree in filmmaking and practice his voice work, although he would later abandon his Bachelor's due to COVID-19. In 2019, Josh and Mully met Narrator through a VRchat lobby where he was doing voice work. Eddie would later meet and become friends with Narrator, eventually meeting each other in real life. All five Boys met at PAX in 2019, solidifying their friendship and bonds in real life, prior to the COVID shutdown in 2020. [1]
When border restrictions loosened in mid 2020, Mully and his friend Smashing would surprise Josh at a shopping centre. The following year, Juicy would get into Australia after a very convoluted process involving "calling Australia", and he would film IRL content with Josh, Mully and Smashing.[2] In early 2022, when international borders opened, Mully, Josh, and his (Josh's) ex-girlfriend Kristy, decided to fly to the US and hang with the American Boys. [3] Here on, they established the process of flying to America for videos, filming content, returning to Australia and filming solo channel content while group channel work is edited and uploaded.
Content[]
The Boys' content can be classified into a few different categories, as they post on three different channels.
- The main channel, simply called The Boys, was initially a variety content channel, before shifting to primarily IRL content with all five of the Boys. Notable videos include The Boys answering spicy questions and eating hot sauce and Juicy being turned into a human piece of fairy bread (not a birthday cake as the video's title would lead you to believe).
- The second channel, The Boys React (formerly The Boys Extra), is where the group reacts to YouTube Shorts, TikToks and just other miscellaneous memes.
- The third channel, The Boys Gaming, is a return to the Boys initial content of playing multiplayer games together. They've expressed openness about viewer submissions, and have even gone so far as to play Conker's Bad Fur Day for the Nintendo 64.
Trivia[]
- For a few months, The Boys had a sister channel called The Girls. However, they have since stopped uploading in 2023.
- At one point, Smashing (a former collaborator of The Boys) wanted to join the group. In a 2022 video on his second channel, Josh said that he feels that some people don't understand the logistical effort it takes to run The Boys. After some back and forth, he mentions that the group and Smashing parted ways after some disagreements. [4]