Meet the Janoskians.
If you haven’t heard of them yet, you probably will soon. They’ve notched up more than 10 million views on YouTube recently – filming themselves playing practical jokes on strangers.
This is the most popular of the videos. It’s called Awkward Train Situations.
The 5 teenagers from Melbourne – brothers Jai, Luke and Beau, and friends James and Danie – describe themselves as “boy band One Direction without the singing”.
They’re not quite there, but they’re certainly on their way. Their Facebook page has almost 100,000 likes. And at a meet and greet in Melbourne last week, the group was mobbed by so many screaming teenage girls, the police had to step in.
They’ve been compared to Justin Beiber (it’s the hair) and recently their antics caught the eye of Beiber’s manager, who tweeted a link to Ellen DeGeneres.
Here they are completing Ellen’s Dance Dare – a segment of the Ellen DeGeneres show where she asks people to send though videos of themselves dancing behind people who don’t know they’re there.
What do you think of the Janoskians?
Top Comments
To be honest I do not like the Janoskians. Only because they are the most terrible role models. If they want to be famous they need to stop making jokes that are disgusting. There fan base is like young 10-13 year olds and recently they got everyone retweeting "Rapedbyaslothanditwasamazing".This went world wide and the Janoskians thought it was funny. Rape? really ? the Janoskians are suppose to be what? in there 20's, and they are making immature jokes about rape that all there young fans retweeted thinking it was cool. That is truly sick! The janoskians need to man up and be professional
If you ask a teenage girl why she likes them she'll say its because they are hilarious. Then you watch their vids and they are well, a bit amusing but hardly ROFL, more like kids mugging for the camera. But they are cute and i guess they kind of appeal to the teenage idea that you can be famous without needing much/any talent on the back of social media.