Troom Troom is a multinational Ukrainian YouTube channel that uploads videos of easy DIY tutorials, life hacks, crafts, and pranks, often criticized by many users to be quite "unsettling" and scary. They're infamous for videos such as how to sneak food into school, how to make your lips look like the inside of an orange, and numerous teacher/partner prank videos.
It has been under debate if Troom Troom is an honest attempt at a craft channel by foreigners, an abstract work of Surreal Humor parodying many popular prank/life hack videos, or something more sinister.
The channel's videos are dubbed over the given language, such as English on Troom Troom, French on Troom Troom FR, and so on, with the scripts noticeably originally written in Ukraine and given to the English-speaking narrator who seems to either be not allowed or not willing to modify the odd phrasing.
History[]
Troom Troom joined YouTube on September 12th, 2015. The channel debuted on October 2015 as a seemingly normal place to find videos on how to do crafts.
On April 19, 2015, they created a secondary channel called Troom Troom SELECT, a French-speaking channel named Troom Troom FR, a German one called Troom Troom DE, a Japanese channel called Troom Troom JP, and a Portuguese channel named Troom Troom PT. Every channel posts a variation of the first Troom Troom video on the day of their creation.
Troom Troom kept this fun craft model for the next year or so, until sometime in early 2017, when more actresses began being featured on the channel and it morphed into a bizarre combination of prank videos, strange D.I.Y's, crafts, and life hacks.
On February 5, 2016, they created a Spanish channel named Troom Troom ES.
On February 24, 2022, during the Russian Invasion of Ukraine, Troom Troom, Troom Troom Trick, etc. changed their profile pictures that resembles the Ukrainian Flag. However, despite this, Troom Troom continues to post content that were recorded before the invasion.
Controversies[]
Exposed[]
Recently a YouTube user named "garbage bish" made two videos[1][2], which have since been taken down by Studio71, exposing Troom Troom's background.
Quotes[]
- "It's not a problem anymore!" (18 Nail Hacks! Nail Art Hack Compilation and others)
- "You might turn fat... and ugly" (15 Funny Couple Pranks / Prank Wars 2018)
- "There's a strange ball in my stocking" (12 Christmas Pranks! Prank Wars! 2017)
Trivia[]
- The stock brother character, "Mickey" (really just one of the actresses in men's clothes), is usually the target of the more extreme pranks by his sister, "Betsy".
- Every prank Redhead attempts to pull on her friend ends up affecting her instead.
- Apart from the Stevie Gonzalez character, men generally never appear to show up in the videos. Whenever a male character is called for, one of the actresses puts on men's clothing and paints a fake beard on their face.
- Stevie Gonzalez is thought to be a direct reference to YouTuber Danny Gonzalez as a response to his videos about them. Stevie appears to have the same hairstyle, and is seen as ill-mannered and fame-hungry, often checking his "Instagram likes", implying Stevie could be an internet influencer.
- Christie and Ben are also thought to be a direct reference to YouTuber Simply Nailogical (Cristine Rotenberg) and her boyfriend Ben. Cristine makes videos of herself making fun of Troom Troom and trying out their dumb hacks. Christie and Ben are always pranking each other and they appear to be dating like Cristine and Ben are.
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[]
- 1 million subscribers: August 12, 2017
- 2 million subscribers: October 30, 2017
- 3 million subscribers: December 30, 2017
- 4 million subscribers: February 24, 2018
- 5 million subscribers: April 13, 2018
- 6 million subscribers: May 24, 2018
- 7 million subscribers: June 28, 2018
- 8 million subscribers: August 2, 2018
- 9 million subscribers: September 21, 2018
- 10 million subscribers: November 19, 2018
- 11 million subscribers: January 11, 2019
- 12 million subscribers: February 28, 2019
- 13 million subscribers: April 30, 2019
- 14 million subscribers: July 8, 2019
- 15 million subscribers: September 4, 2019
- 16 million subscribers: November 22, 2019
- 17 million subscribers: March 4, 2020
- 18 million subscribers: May 5, 2020
- 19 million subscribers: June 22, 2020
- 20 million subscribers: August 16, 2020
- 21 million subscribers: October 15, 2020
- 22 million subscribers: March 3, 2021
- 23 million subscribers: February 18, 2022
- 24 million subscribers: August 20, 2024
Video view milestones[]
- 1 billion views: January 15, 2018
- 2 billion views: June 19, 2018
- 3 billion views: November 15, 2018
- 4 billion views: May 3, 2019
- 5 billion views: September 23, 2019
- 6 billion views: March 2, 2020
- 7 billion views: July 17, 2020
- 8 billion views: October 19, 2020
- 9 billion views: May 21, 2021
- 10 billion views: January 21, 2023