Dude Perfect
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| Years active | 03/2009–present | ||||||||||||
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| Subscribers | 45.54 million[1] | ||||||||||||
| Total views | 8.78 billion[1] | ||||||||||||
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Last updated: September 5, 2019[2] | |||||||||||||
Dude Perfect is an American sports entertainment group from Frisco, Texas which routinely uploads videos to YouTube. The group consists of twins Coby and Cory Cotton, Garrett Hilbert, Cody Jones, and Tyler Toney, all of whom are former high school basketball players and college roommates at Texas A&M University. The members of the group hold many Guinness World Records. Their YouTube videos have garnered over 8 billion total views and their flagship channel, "Dude Perfect," has over 45 million subscribers as of August 27, 2019[update].[3] The channel is the 2nd most subscribed sports channel on YouTube and the 9th most subscribed channel overall.
The most popular content created by Dude Perfect consists primarily of videos depicting various trick shots and stunts cut together with upbeat music mixed in. The group also regularly uploads videos of "battles," where the individual members of Dude Perfect compete against one another in a good-natured game or contest usually featuring elements and creative spins on different sports and a unique set of rules. A series of short comedy / satire videos called "Stereotypes," depicts Toney, Jones, Hilbert, the Cotton twins and others acting out humorous scenarios intended to ring true of common experiences and situations. On January 8, 2018, Dude Perfect launched a series called "Overtime," which mixes the lighthearted aspects of their other videos in a talk show parody format.
History
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Misfortunes
On February 24, 2019, Cody Jones' grandfather, AKA "The Old Guy" in the stereotype videos, died at the age of 84.[4]
Legitimacy
Despite their success, questions arose over the legitimacy of the group's tricks; Good Morning America hosted a segment about the tricks and whether they were real,[5] though experts contacted by GMA stated they were unable to find evidence of the tricks being fake. Regarding the doubts, Cody Jones said, "We love it when people claim it's fake because it makes the shots seem even more ridiculously impossible; and we get more publicity and hits on YouTube so we love the mystery of knowing whether it's real or fake."[6] Tyler Toney and the Cotton twins have explained that it takes multiple attempts when filming before successfully converting the final shots.[7]
The Panda
In a video the members of Dude Perfect announced they would reveal the identity of someone who has been anonymous for 10 years, the Dude Perfect Panda. They said if they are able to tie PewDiePie for subscribers even for a second and they will reveal the identity of the panda. They created the hashtag #TieThePie which went trending on Twitter.
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- ^ a b "About Dude Perfect". YouTube.
- ^ "Dude Perfect - YouTube". YouTube. Retrieved September 5, 2019.
- ^ "Dude Perfect Live Subscriber Count and Stats". SubscriberCount.live. Retrieved May 26, 2017.
- ^ Dude Perfect. "A week ago today we lost a legend... Cody's grandpa who played "The Old Guy!"". Instagram. Retrieved March 5, 2019.
- ^ Chivers, Tom (September 23, 2009). "YouTube sensation Dude Perfect's 'world's longest basketball shot' - real or fake?". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved January 11, 2014.
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TAMUwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ "Trick B-Ball Shots Turn YouTube Sensation". CBS News. September 28, 2009. Retrieved January 11, 2014.