The Complete Downfall Of The Fine Bros AKA React!
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- Опубліковано 15 чер 2022
- The Fine Bros used to be the biggest reaction channel on youtube before the year 2020 when Benny fine would be exposed for wearing blackface in a Shane Dawson video. Then a couple weeks later Benny Fine and Rafi fine would both be exposed for partaking in a weird puppet show that was filled bad stuff, The fine bros fell to a point where they had to sell their channel to Electric Monster Media in 2021 that has been The Complete Downfall Of The Fine Bros AKA React!
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I think Calvin Garrah and Blair White are interesting cases to look into. They were my alt right pipeline
Hey
Congrats on 100k bro
@@DTMJR1987 thank you 🙏🏻
The fact that they tried to copyright a word and made a terrible apology already gave us a sign that they weren't gonna make it far
U got it lol
20 million subs is pretty far.
To be fair they made it far as hell lmao 20mil subs is a massive achievement. But I know what u meant, they gave us a sign they weren’t gonna last long
Trademark
Well, why don't you share their cipyright claim then, since you're so sure what exactly they tried to get? /s
The Finebros look like evil alternate versions of Rhett and Link.
Lmao
🤣🤣🤣 yo they do.
You could say they're Dark Rhett and Link, but that latter one would infringe on Nintendo's copyright.
Hahahaha they escaped from the mirror universe
Their from the darkest timeline
I feel bad for the participants in REACT who couldn't even speak their own opinions and were only allowed to say what the (Not so)Fine Bros wanted them to say.
Yeah I heard the office was pretty toxic
I’m kinda surprised. There were times the ppl said some insulting things and they didn’t censor them at all…
Unless those negative ideas WERE the things the fine bros wanted….which is pretty shitty
Yeah that bugs me so much, I used to watch those react videos when I was a kid/teen and the whole reason they were enjoyable to me was that they were real kids real opinions, its super shitty that it wasn't genuine
dont believe everything i think they say that cuz they no longer invited. and the stupid with the mic asking about the hot blonde talking about her when she under 15. what a creep
@@SuzER08 yeah :(
The fine bros trademark apology really was the og that set the bar for other youtube apologies
Ehh I wouldn't say so.
They're missing:
The Grey hoodie/ monotone drab looking home wear
Lots of sighing and jump cuts
Faking crying
"This is so hard for me/I made a lapse in my judgement"
Their apology just feels like I'm being told what to think
Oof
@@eminempreg I don't think I saw a pet in it either
@@eminempreg it just slowly evolved
For example, this seemed to teach youtubers to not yell at their audience like they're toddlers being sent to their room during their apology
I felt like they were yelling at me during that “apology”. Also, I get what they’re saying. Pretty much still trying to monopolize that format, which I feel like could get very tricky.
Right? Straight up.
I get it too, they wanted to protect their brand. But they really did it in the worst looking way possible lol
Lmao I felt that same way 🤣🤣 I was like why is he raising his voice
Right? I felt like I was in trouble or something!
@@legend7951 It must suck when your Brand is literally a function of the human mind. Reacting.
Damn. Even when I was younger I thought the whole copyrighting 'react' thing was dumb, but I just ended up watching less and less of their content untill I ended up damn near forgetting they even existed. Looking back at it now though, the way they handled it all was so goddamn scummy. Just look at that apology, it's a messed up mixture of trying to gaslight their mostly younger audience along with a healthy dose of "we're sorry you feel that way."
Yea that was me over time. The copyright over all react channels was a dumb move by them. But the older I got the less I watch them. I stopped watching them in general at this point. I forgot they existed until I came across
this video in my recommendation. I was like oh fine bros🤔
I literally wanna smack anyone that says "I'm sorry you feel that way" so hard
Fr even as a young adult i was at the time, they just seemed so off for me, so scummy.
I don’t know what ended up happening, but I’m pretty sure the only thing they trademarked was the word ’react’ in a company’s name. There are many different types of trademarks and while it was a very shitty apology video (it didn’t feel like an apology, it just felt like they called people stupid for being angry) I do think lots of people got it mixed up. I remember people titling their videos like ”r e a c t i n g to blank” for a while after the whole debacle because they thought having the word ”react” in a video title would get them copyright striked.
Right? When that came put I did not understand why it was so big and people were making a huge fuss about. All I thought they were making a new series which 12 yr old me was stoked, did not realize they wanted to copyright the whole react style.
I used to watch them like crazy and didn't know half of this. Holy shit. :o
Holy cow it's bee in the flesh
Most of these arent rlly a big deal for me, it just bécame boring so i stopped watching
@@emiliou6898 yeah, I used to watch React a lot then I just stopped bcuz I lost interest
I didn’t realize they did this stuff until I did the research they definitely buried it quick
Fr, and I'm still subscribed and I didn't even realize lol
I forgot how pissed off Benny looks in the 'apology'. It's clear that at least on his part, they believed they'd done nothing wrong.
They were just following their religion, no wonder they were confused
Both of them just sounded like anger was bubbling under the surface.
based
His visible eye-rolling always gets me. He’s not even trying to hide it.
Fun fact: React to That was cancelled by Nickelodeon after the Fine Brothers angered them by releasing new episodes of the show onto their channel 2 weeks before their actual television premiere. Whoops!
I don’t remember them posting episodes of React to That on their channel.
Lmaoo
Jesus! The Fail Bros never learn do they?
@@jakobwhite730 probably got taken down immediately once Nick caught wind of what happened. Heard the same thing awhile back
@@jakobwhite730 I was a subscriber to FBE at the time and i remember they showed a few clips before it got taken down. I could be misremembered. It's been so long.
I still cannot believe the Fine Bros honestly thought they had enough power and leverage to copyright a word, especially one as common as 'react'.
It’s not inherently absurd to trademark a “common” word if it’s a unique identity in your sphere. See Apple or Alphabet (google’s parent company).
But react was far too widespread a concept for them to try to claim it as their exclusively used trademark. Fine Bros React would have been fine.
Hugo Boss would like to know your location
@@JTGwozdz or just simply, “ReactWorld”, since their goal was to make a global version of their React series.
They were trying to prevent someone trademarking react and then claiming their channel. This is actually what people do. Look for successful startup companys and try to claim their names or whatever to takeover
@@JTGwozdz Sadly Feli from Germany who got her start on UA-cam as “German Girl in America” making videos of her experiences here in America, particularly here in Cincinnati, faced this exact thing. Some lady who has a online shop or something, ended up going after her and Feli weirdly got a C&D for the name. Felix tried to come to some sort of agreement, seeing as how the two concepts were different, but to no avail.
Man forgot all about that channel, watched them heavily in their early days. I feel like every UA-cam channel is bound to have some downward spiral tbh 😅
The case with Lia Marie Johnson is wild. She was the most popular on Kids and Teens React, has her own UA-cam Channel and the brothers dragged her down to be grommed by a 60 years old man then she was doing drugs even on Instagram Livestream. Thankfully, she went to rehab and has been recovered.
Edit: I made a mistake to say relapsed before and I already deleted it. English is not my first language. My bad.
That's gucked up man that shit gives me flash back of friend's and people I know ho did drug's back in high school also I'm afraid to know what you meant by groomed that word have two meaning these day's maybe three.
You don’t know what relapsed means
Relapsed? She went back to the drugs? 😅
@@CurlyFry. actually yes she did. The first time was for alcohol, the second time was for drugs, so she basically relapsed.
@@xobax I think they was referring to the third time. Which there wasn't one, because it didn't happen and they accidentally typed 'relapsed' when they obviously meant the opposite, then edited it very recently. 👍
Feels so weird seeing these kids grow up
I think that has more to do with it than anything. U start watching with a certain group and after a couple years I kinda age out of it so there’s a high turnover. U have your favorites but at a certain point u don’t care to know the newbies so you unsubscribe
Crazy to know all those kids are our age 🤯
some of the girls still look smocking hot. others, like Lia, went downhill after their teens. others looked trashy from the begining and still do. in my opinion, Becca Hochman was her best when her boobs were small.
@@elessal bruhg what-
Poor Leah, though. She had some addiction problems as a young adult.
It's sad that when I was a kid I wanted to be on this show so badly. Keep in mind I was like 10 and had no idea about all the racist and shitty things they've done. I also didn't know that most of the reactions were staged.
No you did know stop making excuses
Same
@@-Patali-
I don’t know if this is sarcasm or not but please tell me it is.
@@-Patali- I require this to be satire
@@AnimatedStoriesWorldwide wtf
I’m glad you’re covering them, they do WAYYYY toooo much to go unnoticed 😬
Yeah I feel like they aren’t covered as much
@@BillsYT Which is really weird considering how big their channel was. I was a long time subscriber and basically grew up with FBE and unsubbed after the BLM situation, I actually didn’t know of React world until I dug up all their baggage. After watching a lot of the reactors who left statements and videos (Like Kennedy) I noped outta there.
@@zaraemoji the BLM situation?
@@isaiahp.4609 Basically what Bills said in the video, they made a Black Lives Matter Video but after Shane Dawnson’s cancellation around the same time they found Benny and Rafi’s racist videos that their black reactors had no idea about. Coupled on the fact that they weren’t treated the greatest, and that some of the reactors on the BLM video were sent death threats and were denied protection, Kennedy left and released a video explaining why which started a chain of events of other reactors leaving
@@zaraemoji that's awful
The react apology feels like I’m being yelled at and gaslit
I remember back in 2016 during the copyright drama me and some old friends while in film class would watch a live stream of the Fine Bro's subscribers go down, we'd watch the stream while editing together our videos. It was insane, funny, and sad seeing them go from some 20M subscribers to like 10M in the course of a few weeks.
Sheeeeeshhhhh
That’s a lot
I love this energy.
They didn't even lose 1 mil back then, let alone 10 mil lol
That's not sad, that's amazing!
my problem with the entire thing for me was how high and mighty they usually felt to me even tho all they did was make other people react to stuff not even themselves which just rubbed me the wrong way.
I used to watch them all the time as a kid and looking back now I’m just disappointed
Fun fact: The oldest video from their channel was deleted and it is still there from other channels. It's basically about the Burger King mascot flipping off every other fast food and it was made around 2007.
I saw a portion of that video while it was still on their channel. I also remember another that's gone now about Charlie Brown going through puberty. I didn't watch it though, only saw the thumbnail, but I'm probably not missing much.
If you thought the Blackface video was old and racist look up GI Joe The Epic Saga
I remember when Tori and her boyfriend left FBE after the blackface scandal. They were super honest on Twitter about all the shit that went down internally at FBE that we fans never heard about
Did anything else happen that wasn’t in the video?
@@websta3924, not really. They basically said the same things as the two guys from the Tok Tok video and the girl that left because of the blackface. I think that they maybe gave some more examples of abuses inside of FBE without giving names
And yet they both worked for the company beyond just appearing in react videos.
@@luise.perezv.8702 It wasn't just the blackface. They also revealed that there racial and sexual discrimination going on behind the scenes .
I actually stopped watching the channel way back when they started doing the cring-inducing tactic of making reaction thumbnails when the faces are heavily distorted to “emphasize” the reaction. It was dumb, it looked dumb, and it just shows how much effort was put into the thumbnails.
Seriously, all you have to do is go into photoshop, take a screenshot of someone’s reaction and use the bulge tool to grow the person’s eyes and mouth to uncanny proportions. It’s such a lazy tactic.
I wouldn't call it lazy, dumb, or cringe considering a majority of all successful channels do it and don't hide it. Even if you don't think someone did it, enlarge the photo and it's obvious. There's a reason ppl do it and it works. Ppl in YT and YTers have said their research shows not doing it decreases views. Do some enlarge it too much sometimes? Sure. But it's not dumb.
@@Justus4Libertea It is dumb, successful, but still dumb.
Tik Tok is incredibly popular and successful, but it's the dumbest platform around
I hate those type of thumbnails. If I see a video what a thumbnail like those, I keep on scrolling.
That's what Matpat does with his Fnaf vids now
@@ralsei3157 Matpat has been cringe for years.
I feel like I'm being scolded and yelled at for being stupid instead of an apology lol
I used to watch them a lot, especially when they added the community team with Tom, Tori, Eric, etc doing lives. But after a while it got so confusing as well because they kept rebranding and making a million side channels and then rebranding those. And then when covid hit and they stopped doing the lives I just left off and started getting into streaming lol. I always got super weird vibes from the fine bros but I liked a lot of the other people working on the staff and stuff so I think that’s why I kept watching for so long
Kinda wish you also mentioned their horrible movie they made about high school, even they themselves were homeschooled lol. You should watch it on your second channel or something and post the highlights of your watching of it.
I could definitely do that!
@@BillsYT It's mega cringe lol. Also look at the bros talking about the movie before it released and stuff, some unintentionally funny stuff in those too, like how they said that every single person watching it will have at least one character to relate to. Also one of the dads of the students as well as one comment by the principal are kinda creepy lol.
It’s more than just cringe tbh. The statutory r*pe/pedophilia jokes were creepy and disgusting, and That whole speech the guy gives while mentioning school shooting felt so deluded and ignorant. Much like the whole film.
@@ma.2089 When even the actor who played the dad is like "I was like, you want me to say this?", they should've known to rewrite things. Poor guy, he was just doing it for the paycheck.
them being homeschooled makes so much sense
I just want to give props to the people who took over the channel and turned it into People Vs. Food. They did an excellent job of rebranding, many of the reactors have now returned since there's new management, and their numbers are steadily increasing again.
I'm happy for the good people that were able to keep it going without the trash at the top.
People vs Food is a separate channel, dumbass. They have many different channels.
Lmao the apology still cracks me up. "well we're sorry you guys are too stupid to understand what we were trying to do, God, ppl these days"
Yeah I immediately unsubscribed after the trademark/copyright scandal. To think they tried to copyright an entire format done by thousands of people. That would be like copyrighting Minecraft let’s plays or the entire genre of Action movies. And what’s worse is, they started copyright striking other channels before they even got the trademark!
Then I saw their “apology” video which is just them yelling at their viewers, and I never watched another reaction video again. I was just completely done with them
Funny you say that, Luke TheNotable, who pioneered the minecraft 100 days format, was trying to monopolize it all for himself.
@@PositivePasta14 HA
@@PositivePasta14 did he trademark it? No.
@@ahmadj7675 just giving a little history here. Never said he did, just tried. He came around, or his PR team did...
What is funny is that playstation tried to trademark "lets play" format too.
i used to watch millie when i was like 10 and now that i look back it im truly disgusted they thought it was okay for kids my age or even younger to watch
I just saw a comment that said Millie wasn’t aimed at kids when it clearly was with the bright colors and tone
@@BillsYT I would argue it still was aimed at adults or edgy teens as a parody, but in no way did they implement appropriate safeguards or warnings for the production. In a sense, that's even worse.
@@BillsYT i mean you could say that about a lot of adult cartoons and tv shows tho. Not all of them are dark and depressing but as someone else pointed out they just didn’t have the safeguards in place to keep a young impressionable audience from watching. Bojack Horseman, most adult swim shows, the midnight gospel, etc are all shows that are brightly colored or animal themed and look like they could be for kinds until you actually watch them. My name is Millie just spelled Mili and watching that as a kid put me in a weird place if that makes sense lol.
@@BillsYT Dude, that is a stupid metric to decide whether something was aimed at kids. Do you think stuff for adults has to be all somber and muted?
@@BillsYT Idk seems like you either genuinely don’t understand the humor and targeting or you just want to double down and use the show to reinforce your perspective that they were “not the people viewers thought” for doing it. Back then there were no safeguards for kids and content creators were practically kids themselves who made videos they thought were funny
Someone like Shane Dawson especially didn’t think too hard about who’d be watching his content either. Who and how his content might offend someone just wasn’t considered since the reach of youtube wasn’t nearly as big as it is today and I’m sure he thought as long as there’s no will to offend, there would be no harm done
Now that he’s older and knows his past videos had an impact on a bigger audience of people he now condemns a lot of what he’s done and see’s how his content may have been offensive to some and how today he might have the mind to never have made certain videos
I used to be addicted to this channel back in the day. I stopped watching a bit during the whole tradmark controversy and by the time i looked back in the channel i was overwhelmed by the surplus of content and havent really looked back. Hell i didnt even realize it was fully relabeled as react. Sucks to hear the react cast werent even allowed to really speak their mind
I use to love elders react because they had a few badass older people who's names I can't remember but Rock. I always wished they'd explain stuff more to the elders lol
RIP Rock
I think most of them are dead now, if they weren’t already fired
@@noahmezan2073 they have new elders react videos
@@noahmezan2073 A few of them are dead, but a lot of them are still around. Rock just died pretty recently.
@@LeanMrfuzzles just looked up who died and who was still alive. I’m surprised that after nearly ten years almost all of them except four or five are still alive
It kinda sad stuff from our 2010's are slowly dying.... vine and og youtubers
Good coverage bro yeah this one kinda blew me away. Looking into this I never expected it to get so dark or hear how bad they treated people.
Look what happened to lia
I just thought that their popularity faded. I mean it’s been a decade and a half!
hey
I loved the react videos. I loved the elders, the kids, the teens! It breaks my heart knowing they went through such bullshit. :( I hope every last one of them is doing well and find success in their own ways. Fuck the Fine Bros for turning a good thing bad.
Ikr!! I think you can still find the videos on Snapchat or maybe it’s a similar channel
This is all new to me. I unsubbed from Fine Bros after the whole ordeal of them trying to trademark "React," and never looked back afterwards. The fact that these reactors, well, reactions weren't genuine and all scripted in the Fine Bros favor just really dampers the whole idea of their series. And the blackface thing is news to me to. They really fell off hard to the point of no return
I love the apology video ! The look on their faces was priceless! "Why couldn't you just give us your money dammit? " lol 😆
I love listening to these while working! I remember when the whole thing went down. However, I wasn’t aware of the full story
I still don't understand why they didn't get as much flack as Shane Dawson for that disgusting "Hey, Millie!" show.
Exactly, they worked very closely with Shane back in the day
Ah yes Sid the Sloth and Great Value V sauce. My favorite dynamic duo.
🤣🤣🤣🤣 I’m dead
😂
I had honestly forgotten about React until I came across the tiktok of the boys. Can't say I'm surprised but I'm saddened for the kids/talent involved. I can only imagine the dark stories that some of them have to tell. Wherever there are kids, there'll always be some kind of exploitation.
Oh man, I use to love watching UA-camrs react back during the reign of the British UA-camrs in ~2014, but didn't realise just how bad they became after the copyright drama
Keep up the great work, Bills!
Thank you Dylan! I will
I've never heard such an angry apology 😂 the one with the glasses specifically omg lol
Could’ve used this video a couple of weeks back when I first tried to understand what the hell happened with these guys. When stumbling upon that video in the beginning.
I used to be one of their paid subscribers. It was one of my first online communities. Was such a hard fall. Might want to mention their non-reaction to one of the Reactors requesting assistance with death threats and a stalker finding that Reactor's home address. The black Reactors that participated along with Kennedy in that video were only given 2 or 3 days to get their videos in, and were only offered compensation for their stories after Kennedy outed everything. It was weird to see their blanket apologize over a text post on Twitter, their smallest platform. And when they hired consultants to help them address the work place issues they hired the company, one of the VPs was hired from.
I used to binge watch them every day and every night as a teen and remembering how amazing it was to actually watch the reactors grow up with me. Now, I would visit the channel once in a while but after knowing all of the issues, accusations, and whatnots, I never watch them anymore. Sometimes I try, but the new reactors are so loud and their reactions are so obviously fake.
Dang I vist them too
Bro this video showed up in my recommended and I was shocked after watching and saw you only had 100k. Great work man keep it up, with content like this you’re gonna keep growing 📈📈
Holy shit good job on 100k you deserve a million I been here since 20 k I swear I watched one your videos last week to a month ago and you were at 50 k atleast it felt like last week
Thank you fam 🙏🏻
One of things that weirded me out was the producer in his thirties that started dating Micala as soon as she became legal it seemed
Dude for real that never sit right with me either 😭
@@markeljfox6708 he'd known her throughout her entire time on teens react. It felt like he groomed her.
Eww.. that’s gross 🤢
wow i never knew that- that's crazy
Omg totally forgot about this
back in the day there was also a trend (that was briefly revived this year) of calling out reaction channels and reaction content. iDubbbz made a Content Cop on them, and while I don't think it was a direct major blow to the Fine Bros' reputation or something, it certainly helped to stoke the flames
You and Sunny making straight bangers!!
Would you mind telling me the name of the channel of this Sunny person? I would like to check them out if they make similar content to Bills
@@Honeydoomelon11 sunnyv2
Fr they're the best
Frrr
I literally just got done watching a sunny vid before this they’re bingable
One of the most satisfying downfalls.
I remember vaguely liking react videos until I realized how fake they were. I think I watched them for a week or two before unsubbing.
The only good thing about the Fine Bros is how we got to grow up alongside the reactors.
I’m surprised they didn’t get as much criticism with Hey It’s Millie or whatever it was called
Right I was thinking the same thing
I like how their apology was basically them saying how we were idiots for not understanding what they intended on doing with the trademark.
Because they tried to copyright ‘Reaction’ videos 😂
Finally I see someone talk about the first clip, we needed Bills to say something.
😎😎 I needed to make this video
This makes me really sad. I loved the whole react series back inthe day, especially Elders react. I loved hearing their stories, especially the ones where they realised that people actually liked watching their content and it made them cry. I realy hope all of the reactors are doing well now.
2019 was a rocky year for my mental health and watching FBE keep me entertained and smile at the time, it's a shame what they have become now.
2019 was a rocky year for me too
There are more content creators that are more entertaining than React
I think it goes beyond all of the controversy you mentioned. I feel a lot of people who watched it (myself included) grew up and just got bored of the content.
Yoo i just saw that clip at the beginning on Facebook then hopped on youtube and this the first video i see😭🔥
Woahhhh your phone FBI agent is going crazy 🤣
@@BillsYT i love your vids bro keep dropping bangers🔥
@@BayoOnUA-cam thank you 🙏🏻
I was there back in the day watching the very early videos from like 2011-2014, but I was one of the people who unsubscribed during the react world stuff and haven't watched any videos since. I did hear about some of the other stuff, but didn't know they had actually left the channel completely.
I remember back when they first launched kids and teens react. Sad to see how far they fell.
I remember that "copyright" disaster thing, a lot happened that week, they also tried to link themselves to other reaction channels and kinda offered this as some "job" for people who reacts, then they apologized again because everyone started hating em everywhere, then their numbers only went downwards... hope they stopped being such jerks and doing fine...
Thanks for this video. Realized I was still subscribed to "REACT" and haven't watched any vid since late 2018
Great vid, here's my like and subscribe and planning to go through your other previous coverage
Sorry, but those two boys talking like that about Lia ... that's kinda fucked up. She's pretty clearly going through some awful times and then they're just joking about her :( I don't know if it's just due to the editing on this video or the Tiktok video, but it doesn't really make those boys come off looking good
If youre into crack you dont deserve sympathy. You know what happens to crackheads, shits not a secret, if you want to go down that road then thats on you.
Yeah drug addiction is an awful thing to go through, sucks they talk about her like that. They also just don't seem like nice people in general
@@denisehagwood1077 dont try crack if you dont want to get addicted to crack then. Everyone is taught how shit crack is yet people feel the urge to try it. Some may get forced thats a bit different but the vast majority willingly tried it and so pay the consequences.
The way they talked abt it actually made me think it was a common thing for them. As if people they know having addictions was something rather common. Kinda sad
@@heyitsmira17 That's true. It's a sad thought :(
Thanks for the video but it was strange to have the same sepia tinted video footage of just that one interview with the kid from way long ago and your voice over layer on top of that for so many seconds especially towards the conclusion. You need to include a few more video clips or montages to keep it interesting
Bills is at 100k? Holy shit good job man!
Thank you fam I appreciate that a lot 🙏🏻
I'm glad that good majority of the cast and staff left. Maybe some viewers wouldn't have known but lots of them spoke up about it on twitter at the time. It was upsetting to see certain reactors defend the Fine Bros though
The early Fine Bros sketches "released under the RavenStake" banner were absolutely hilarious. It's a huge shame they can be no longer found online, but that only shows that with enough money, one can have quite a lot of agency in terms of removing stuff from the net. I always thought nothing got lost on the internet, but apparently stuff like "New Father's Day" or "New Year's Resolutions" (my favorite sketches by them) are lost now. I had them downloaded somewhere, but that was many years and PCs ago :(
Oh man... I remember watching their content from 2010 when I was 10 myself, to I think 2015 or 2016. I watched the react series vicariously and would post collages of their videos on Instagram and got to kinda interact with the kids and teens on the React videos themselves. I loved their content, but dropped off once the controversy came along with the REACT copyright stuff in 2016
Another channel I never heard of the fine Bros Learn something new every day Keep of the good work my friend
I stopped watching these guys nearly seven years ago now, and suffice to say I'm disappointed to find all this out. Not shocked, I already thought they were bad, garbage people, just disappointed.
Come to think of it, the best thing to ever come from the Fine Bros work was all the people who were inspired to make their own videos and series. Many (read: all) of them were/are better than the bland content made by React. For instance, the Brony React series: fun, in the same style, and better than the Fine Bros shows.
I would love to see a deep dive about Channel awesome and the nostalgia critic
I could definitely add him to the list
Now knowing this, I always thought that there were some unusual hard cuts when someone was answering a question in teens and kids React.
It’s such a crying shame watching this, literally almost the half the videos in my recommended on UA-cam from like 2011-2015 would be either a Teens, Kids, Elders or UA-camrs React video, so to hear all that shit was going on behind the scenes for most of that time is pretty heartbreaking ngl. Also what is the actual point in doing reaction videos in the first place if the reactions from the people involved aren’t even what they genuinely think and are slightly forced upon them??
It's a shame to find this stuff out about them recently since I used to watch them years ago, but stopped when I got out of high school or maybe a bit before. Also that apology video feels like they aren't sorry, they're just saying they're sorry because they got in trouble.
Thanks again for this video... I used to be a BIG FBE fan ... came back in 2021 and everything changed I knew it got rebranded and didn't know what happened
Yoo weren't these the guys that tried suing people for reaction content
And also trademarking "React", these guys think that reactions are their copyrighted thing
of course they did
Yup
yep. they sued anyone who had the word “react” in their videos, because they tried to trademark the word “react” and failed miserably.
Yeah 🤦🏻♂️
The moment they tried to trademark the word "React" and made a shitty apology, it was down hill from that then on.
I’m late asf BUT YOU HIT 100k gang!!💯I can say I was here when u had 1.5k 😭😭💀
Man, I loved these videos in high school. I always wished I could be an Teens React and then very briefly on Adults React. I think 2019 was the last year I really actively watched the channel. I was 20 that year. I'm glad I never was now, though. It was clearly hell.
It’s funny because the whole “Milly” saga was so much worse than even you made it out to be. I remember watching when I was younger because of how edgy it was, but looking back now I remember how gross that content was. They sexualized that puppet in every single video. The puppet was supposed to be an 8 year old girl talking to grown men.
I remember every now and then thinking back on those videos and wondering when they would resurface.
When it all came up again one of the staff members revealed there was still a framed photo of Milly in one of the main hallways, still pride of place sort of thing.
Not surprised the greasy Fine Brothers dabbled in noncery.
I’ve been waiting on this
Great video. Congrats on 100K!
Great vid my guy. Cant wait for the next one. Have a great day.
Reaction content is controversial, whether it be on UA-cam or Twitch needs to add substance and more information to the content reacting to. That's why professionals adding input and correcting or confirming is more effective. FBE react is just stealing content more than anything.
Exactly
@@BillsYT I couldn't think of the word for some reason but React channel and Twitch reaction channels like anything to be transformative with the content reacting to.
FBE was more advertising. Companies, etc would pay them to react to their products iirc
Only one min in and is sad. I used to love this channel (just outgrew it) all the faces they showed so far used to be my favorite kids. Kinda sucks to hear how they was treated. I’m not surprised tho.
Now let me continue
Wow, the only controversy I knew abt them was the copyright thing, and then the tiktok video with the 2 ex reactors. Crazy...
100k subs already damn you gunna hit 1m by the end of the year easy
I remember when they tried to copyright the “react format” they literally said in a video or in an article that any video with the word react in it would be partially owned by them or something stupid like that. That’s what greed does
They really tried to monopolize on trademarking a whole genre of UA-cam culture of react which would of destroyed every react chanel besides them which tells you who they are
Dang.. I remember BINGING their vids when I found them. I think they only had 20 vids at the time. And then I remember being so excited when they announced teens react especially bc lia Marie was my favorite. Crazy to see how much it’s all changed and how many things have gone wrong
I didn’t even know they sold their own channel. Great video
Yea that was me over time. The copyright over all react channels was a dumb move by them. But the older I got the less I watch them. I stopped watching them in general at this point. I forgot they existed until I came across
this video in my recommendation. I was like oh fine bros🤔
They were so big
i noticed the views on the channel have gone down and was curious and never looked into it and this video got recommended to me today and i had NO idea about these controversies
ANOTHER FIRE VIDEOOO AS USUAL🔥🔥🔥
I'm one of the people that stopped subscribing to them after the React World fiasco. I used to be a supporter of Benny and Rafi: their "All We Know" podcast, their rapid-fire "Spoiler" videos (even got featured on their second channel doing their blooper string and contributed elements to it), and their "Emo Dad" cartoon. The thing that left the bad taste in my mouth was Benny's portion of the apology video. He looked more like a spoiled child that was forced to apologize than an adult being sincere about his intentions. I was so incensed that I blocked their channels on UA-cam and all their social media accounts on the platforms I use. I was truly done.