Love him or hate him, ex-Disney Channel mainstay and current YouTuber/worst neighbor on the
planet, Jake Paul, is sorta of killing it right now.
He's broken all sorts of records for adding subscribers on
YouTube (eight million plus in the first 6 months since he migrated from Vine? Wowzers)
for his channel and also runs an entire brand/company.
That shows that while he does play stupid, A LOT, he is actually at least knowledgeable
about business and especially about marketing. Part of that is
reading what is popular and taking advantage of it and because a
lot of what is popular on YouTube is either pranking people (real or fake) and talking
about Donald Trump (and really, Jake Paul).
Because of that it made sense to jump on that band-wagon and combine two of the largest
trending topics on social media in the past month, Trump and
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loving S^&# out of someone, including the President himself!
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15. By now, everyone, has either heard about or
just plain heard the song "It's Everyday Bro" by Jake Paul and
his Team 10 crew. Reaction to the track has been quick and harsh, with multiple parodies
and videos made about the song pretty much as soon as it hit
the ... fiber optic waves (?). Response ranged from negative to negative
with critics saying it as the "Whitest song of all time" and
actually physically painful to listen to. However, despite the backlash, Jake had the
last laugh. The video for the song has had just under 100 million
views (as of the writing of this article) and it reached the top
spot on the Billboard Hot 100 (for one day). It created multiple catchphrases (like "Who
the hell are flipping you?", "England is my City", etc.) and was
popular enough that Paul was asked to perform it at the Teen Choice Awards last weekend,
where he ended up bringing home two surfboards.
14. The most recent entry on this list, Fake
Parrot Maverick Death Prank on My Brother, was part of an
ongoing prank war between the brothers Logan and Jake Paul. For those of you who aren't
aware (or are over the age of 15), Jake actually does have
an older brother who is actually more famous/followed than he
is. Logan Paul, whom some find less obnoxious,
clearly has taught his little brother a ton. The way that they
make videos is extremely similar — they do collaborate fairly often. This prank war
sort of cooled off after Jake "apologized" to his brother
for putting up a billboard of him in Jake Paulers "Merch", but started back
up again once the brothers realized how many views it got them.
A major part of the prank war has involved Logan's pets — a puppy named Kong and
a parrot named Maverick (which by the way is also the name
of Logan's brand, favorite word and creed by which he
lives/justifies his personality). Logan loves his bird and it stars in many of his videos,
where it responds to
him and even sounds like it's talking from time to time. So, when he approached
Maverick's cage and the bird wasn't moving or responding to its
name, a look of fear seized his face for a split second. '
He really thought that his friend was a goner. However, because the toy they used to replace
Maverick was shoddy at best, the prank almost ended before
it began. It all worked out in the end though and Maverick
returned to his life as the most pampered bird in the Western hemisphere.
13.
Whoever decided that giving a self-driving car to one of the Paul brothers was a good
idea should probably lose their job at Tesla. As a sign of his
immense popularity and the wealth that comes with it, Paul recently
purchased a Tesla, a car that can easily end up costing somewhere in the six-figure range.
The cars are extremely popular and the waiting list to get one is so long that when the company
recently had to refund tens of thousands of customers,
they didn't feel like the lost money was actually a loss, more
of a gain as they simply cannot build enough cars to sate the public's thirst for these
space-age automobiles. It's not hard to see why. When Paul took
it out for a spin, the car literally drove itself around town. It all
culminated in the car driving itself through the drive-through McDonald's.
Paul and his friend ordered and then got out of the car as it drove through the drive-thru.
It's not new technology or anything but it's still
amazing to see and sort of hilarious too. They tried it multiple times at
different restaurants and got yelled at multiple times — one restaurant even threatened to
call the police.
12. Jake Paul lives in what is called the Team
10 House, a huge house full of other content creators who
together comprise the "Team 10 Crew". Team 10 is a hodge-podge of Paul's friends
from Ohio and other content creators who have signed over their
lives and channels to Paul and his parent company. In
exchange for the millions of views that living in the house brings, each reportedly gives
about 20% of their revenue to Paul and his company for the first
five years. While that, combined with the fact they all
live together, sounds like a recipe for disaster, so far it's mostly
been smooth sailing — probably because they're all young and making more money than they
ever thought possible. While things have been running smooth
from a business perspective, not everything is easy about
living in the Team 10 house. As you can probably guess, there is a lot
of tomfoolery going on. One time, Paul coated the floor with
vegetable oil and then challenged different Team 10'ers to a foot race through the
house. After betting his best friend $100 and even giving him a head
start, he totally wiped out — that one really never gets old.
Sadly, he also lost the race, which is probably the most painful part of all. Unlike a lot
of things on YouTube, this appeared to be genuine and that's
part of what makes it even funnier.
11. Few YouTube pranks actually evoke the memory
of the MTV shows Jackass — because you couldn't fake
Jackass. The set up for this one was pretty cut and dry. Paul is "married" — but
not really, long story — to a girl named Erika who also lives in the house.
She is the brunt of more than one or two trollings as does
her friend and "wife" of Paul's best friend, Tessa Brooks.
One great example was when Jake put over 10,000 thumb tacks on the floor outside of the bathroom
door whilst Tessa was taking a shower. Stranded
and thinking about jumping over the pile, Erica luckily came to
her rescue. Because that didn't really hit Jake's high standards, they ended
up using the tacks in a ton of different ways, including attaching them to
the end of Nerf darts and shooting them at one another and even
jumping on a trampoline covered in tacks. You have to give credit where credit is due
and because they actually hurt themselves with this one, here's
one credit.
10. Like the thumb tack and oil showed, normal
contents of one's pantry or junk drawer are just tools in Jake
Paul's prank arsenal. So, you knew it was only a matter of time before they went
after one of the oldest pranks in the book... The old Saran Wrap on
the toilet prank. What's great about a lot of these pranks
is that they're actually genuine and the Saran Wrap prank was one
of the real ones. When a Team 10'er attempted to use the toilet, of course urine got everywhere
and because as Dumb and Dumber proved ("I can't
stop once I've started, It stings!") he ended up jumping into the
shower to finish. After that, Paul got impatient and decided
to up the ante. He stretched wrap between two of the pillars on
the first floor of his house in the hopes that someone would run into it face first
and bite it. After that, one of the Spanish Twins slapped the other in
the hopes he would chase after him. He did and the resulting
action is one of the more genuinely funny things I've seen in a long, long time.
9. Part (and arguably the best) of the prank-wars
between brothers Jake and Logan Paul involved something
that took YouTube by storm earlier this year: green slime. Once people realized that you
could order packets of the ingredients needed to make
the stuff it was only a matter of time before the competitive
nature of YouTube took hold. People started filling everything with it.
From bathtubs to entire pools, no body of water was safe from the
dark, gooey mixture. Jake should've probably known his brother slimed his pool (which is
why the pool is empty (which ended up being a huge deal as
the Team 10'ers filled it with old furniture and started a
gigantic fire that made the news)) so he couldn't have really been that surprised when his brother
stopped over to show him what looked like the origin
story for Swamp Thing. Sure, this list is about Jake Paul trolling
people but it really felt like since we're about halfway through this
list that we had to give Jake a taste of his own medicine by showing Logan (along with
a lot of Team 10, (perhaps not) surprisingly). Considering the
pool is still empty, they probably did irreparable damage to the
filtration system and considering they're renting the Team 10 house, it makes sense
why they're currently looking for a new place to live.
Jake's reaction seemed genuine — he didn't even trust his brother enough to
even turn his back to him. His reaction was one of shock; he said he was
going to get evicted. That isn't a stretch considering Logan has
recently been thrown out of his own place.
8. If there's one thing that Paul's "wife"
Erica is afraid of, it's snakes (and sharks, which was another one of his
pranks)... That and ending up like Alissa Violet. Paul is a master at getting people
to watch his entire videos and he does that by creating interesting titles
and thumbnails to match. But he also finds new and inventive
ways to get genuine responses from the Team 10'ers. By now, they are so used it that
they'll eventually need some sort of therapy.
Because he is in a real relationship with Erika, he knows some of her deepest darkest
secrets and fears. So of course, he's going to use that against
her at some point (because, clicks, bro). Her fear of snakes
prompted Jake to bring in a reptile expert. Together, they dropped a real, live yellow
python on Erica as she relaxed in bed with her headphones on. She
was upset to say the least.
7. Jake Paul is one of the better vloggers out
there today not just in terms of the amount of people that watch
his stuff but in how he does... everything. From the way he films himself (by constantly
moving the camera so your eye stays interested), to the quick
cuts he does in editing, everything has tons of actual thought (and
even psychological research) behind it. So, when Paul vlogs, he always has some sort
of prank at the end of that forces people to sit (or skip)
through the majority of the content to get to what the title/thumb nail suggest. Because
YouTube favors videos that are over a certain time, Paul
has taken advantage of this by bringing daily content that mostly
focuses on teasing or pranking his roommates and friends.
Because of that, though, the people he pranks are used to it and so their BS-meter is always
on, especially since the camera is always recording. So,
it's great to see a genuine reaction within that context. The table
scare prank was a good one. By hiding the camera along with the rest of his body, Paul
got some of the more genuine reactions from his roommates
and they're spectacular.
6. The Team 10 house is a disaster. You have
to wonder how someone is still RENTING that home to a group
of twentysomethings, who spend every waking moment scheming on ways to prank one another.
On top of that, because Jake has made his address public, his fans (the aptly named
"Jake Paul-ers") are always standing outside in the street waiting
to catch a glimpse of their hero (so most of the pranks take
place either inside of the house or in the backyard).
Case in point, the prank that was most likely thought up after Paul watched Step-Brothers.
Because the house is filled to the brim with content creators,
they have to get a bit creative with their space. One of
those ways is to stick two grown men in the same room together.
Despite their age, bunk beds actually make a lot of sense. They help save the space needed
to leech off Paul's shining star. It's made even
less weird by the fact that the room is shared by the "Spanish Twins"
(also known as the Martinez Twins), and while the prank wasn't actually pulled on them
it was still pretty funny (thankfully it was only the mattress
and not the box spring).
5. Outside of his brother, Logan, there is perhaps
no one that Paul likes pranking more than his "wife" Erika.
They've been together pretty much since Paul's ex-Alissa Violet was kicked out
of the house. Violet has a channel of her own and has gone on record
about the terrible situation she endured while living at the Team
10 house and dating Paul. Alissa states that while they were together
and sleeping in the same bed every night, Paul wouldn't make it
official and would even ask her to leave the house sometimes so he could hook up with other
girls that he flew out from his home state of Ohio.
So, considering the fact that Jake spends a ton of time on YouTube, you know he and
Erika watched the video Violet released detailing her ordeal
(especially since he's responded to it). So, when Paul decided to
prank Erika by hiding cameras and laying in bed with another (male) Team 10'er (wearing
a wig), you know her response was genuine because she
sort of half expected such shenanigans.
4. At one point Jake had a full (non-legal) marriage
in Las Vegas with his girlfriend Erika. Since then, he's
sort of confused everyone by continuing to refer to her as his wife, despite the fact
that they're not legally married.
They do live together and sleep in the same bed every night though. So when Jake went
around the house showing everyone a positive pregnancy test,
team members weren't too surprised by it. Still, this was fun to
watch. People attempted to suck up to Jake and Erika while hiding their shock/disdain.
While Paul has shown he's willing to do almost anything
for views — like he says in the video — don't think he's really at
the point where he's actually going to impregnate a Team 10'er for his audience.
3.
Now, if there is one thing on YouTube people don't like, it's videos of cats being
euthanized and pranks involving death. Just ask (former) YouTube
personality Sam Pepper, who filmed himself being "murdered"
in front of his best friend in a video that was roundly hated by almost anybody who watched
it. That, on top of some other really sleazy "pranks"
— and some awful accusations outside of YouTube —
pretty much ended Pepper's career as a content creator and also gave YouTube pranks
a bad name ("It's just a prank, bro!"). Jake Paul got away with
it though. Perhaps the difference is that the "dead" body isn't
someone the team knows too well. In it, the guy playing the corpse is covered
in blood, has makeup on that makes him look dead — even his
eyes look dead. While you'd think Team 10 house would be used to pranks by now, their
reactions are pretty genuine (especially Nick "England
is my City" Crompton and his shaking hands).
2.
Logan Paul, who has more subscribers and a more refined sense of humor than his brother,
worked with Jake back when they two were making Vines.
When the app shut down, they both ended up both moving to
YouTube. They also moved from Ohio to Los Angeles.
Their growth has been intertwined with one another, so you knew it was only a matter
of time before they got into a fight — the only thing YouTube
users love more than cats is intra-YouTube drama. There are
entire channels dedicated to the drama that comes from making tens of thousands of dollars
making videos. And if anyone has mastered that idea it's
the Paul brothers. It all started when Jake posted a pretty gnarly
picture of his older brother on the busiest street in L.A. The
billboard bragged that Jake had more subscribers with Logan wearing his "merch."
For some reason that "enraged" Logan and an "epic"
prank war was launched. It ended with both putting out diss tracks
on one another. One video had Jake's ex-girlfriend, Alissa Violet
kissing Logan at the end of the video. Later, the brothers squashed their beef. It only
added about 300 million clicks to their videos in the process.
Talk about sacrifice.
1. If Jake Paul has any talent, it's being
able to take what is popular on YouTube, recreate it and somehow
make it his own in the process. A perfect example is when he pretends to sell the home
of a famous person. Typically, Jake Paul doesn't put a whole
lot of forethought, care or concern into his pranks but he did start
this video by disclaiming that he was a bit worried. He admitted being on a Secret Service
watch list for the "24 hour challenge" he attempted
while Barack Obama was still in office. So by messing with the private residence of
the current president, he could've attracted even more scrutiny
from the Secret Service. In the video, Paul and company went to Home Depot to buy a small
"For Sale" sign. Then they wrote "Donald Trump"
on the sign and had one of the Spanish Twins from Team 10 plant it
near Trump's driveway. Take that, Trump.
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