George Kusunoki Miller (born September 18, 1992 [age 30]), better known by his stage name Joji and formerly known by the online aliases Filthy Frank and Pink Guy, is an Australian Japanese singer-songwriter and rapper, and former comedy YouTuber. Since 2017, Joji has pursued a music career fulltime. From 2011 to 2017, Joji uploaded videos to YouTube primarily in the Filthy Frank and Pink Guy characters. His videos were known to be deliberately edgy, offensive, unsavory and disgusting and pushed the boundaries of YouTube - he is known as the godfather of edgy content on YouTube. His channel description reads "Filthy Frank is the embodiment of everything a person should not be. He is anti-PC, anti-social, and anti-couth. He behaves and reacts excessively to everything expressly to highlight the ridiculousness of racism, misogyny, legalism, injustice, ignorance and other social blights. He also sets an example to show how easy it is on social media for any zany material to gain traction/followings by simply sharing unsavory opinions and joking about topics many find offensive. There is no denying that the show is terribly offensive, but this terrible offensiveness is a deliberate and unapologetic parody of the whole social media machine and a reflection of the human microcosm that that social media is. OR MAYBE IM JUST FUCKING RETARDED."
Many believe content like his will never be sustainable on YouTube ever again: the things he did included making a soup out of dead rats, making a cake out of vomit and eating it, making a cake out of hair and eating it and eating ravioli off of a pavement, much of which has since been taken down from YouTube. He also made satirical commentary videos as the Filthy Frank character, such as WEEABOOS and I HATE VEGANS. He released comedy songs under the Pink Guy moniker, including two albums called Pink Guy and Pink Season. Joji was heavily influential in increasing the popularity of edgy content, which was widespread in the Edgy Era. During his peak from 2015 to 2016, he regularly collaborated with fellow YouTubers Maxmoefoe, iDubbbz, HowToBasic, h3h3 and Anything4Views. Due to the nature of his content, Joji had a rather toxic fanbase. Filthy Frank has been described by many, such as his friend and fellow YouTuber Ethan Klein of h3h3, as the best YouTuber of all time. On September 27, 2017, Joji uploaded his final video on the TVFilthyFrank channel and on December 29 of the same year he officially announced the retirement of the Filthy Frank and Pink Guy characters due to both "serious health conditions" and his lack of interest in continuing the series, as well as to pursue a music career fulltime under the stage name Joji, which so far has been very successful.
Joji has over 30 million monthly listeners on Spotify. When he quit Filthy Frank and Pink Guy, he had reached almost 5 million subscribers on the TVFilthyFrank YouTube channel - it now has almost 8 million after five years of not uploading. Filthy Frank was one of the most popular and influential YouTubers in the Edgy Era; known as the godfather of edgy content, he is credited with having caused a ripple effect of edgy content on YouTube in 2015 and 2016. George created his first YouTube channel called DizastaMusic on June 15, 2008 when he was 16. He uploaded a few comedy sketches of him and his friends which didn't go anywhere, and he didn't upload to the channel for a year in order to focus on music. On August 5, 2011, George uploaded his first video in the Filthy Frank character, thus beginning what would become the Filthy Frank Show. Soon after, the Pink Guy character was introduced, as well as Red Dick, Prometheus, Chin-Chin, Salamander Man and many more. Some of these characters were played by George's friends, but most were played by himself. The Filthy Frank Show was not just quintessentially edgy, offensive, shocking, politically incorrect and countercultural, but it also had its own complex storyline.
On February 2, 2013, George uploaded the video which began the Harlem Shake craze. On May 3, 2014, George uploaded a video called FILTHY FRANK EXPOSES HIMSELF in which he broke the fourth wall to reveal that he was undergoing a lot of stress due to health issues and college work, and to announce future projects. The response to this video from his fanbase, who were very toxic and edgy, was generally negative and so he took down the video. Later in 2014, George's main channel became TVFilthyFrank. From there he continued to grow and from 2015 to 2016, Filthy Frank exploded in popularity and was heavily influential in bringing about the Drama Age. George uploaded a lot less frequently in 2017 and on December 29 he officially announced the retirement of the Filthy Frank and Pink Guy characters in order to pursue a music career under the stage name Joji with 88rising. On October 26, 2018 his first album named Ballads 1 was released. On September 25, 2020 his second album named Nectar was released. On November 4, 2022 his third album named Smithereens was released.
Early life[]
Joji was born to an Australian father and a Japanese mother in Osaka, Japan on September 18, 1992.
Career[]
Birth of the "Filthy Frank" character on DizastaMusic[]
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Starting the Harlem Shake[]
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Move to TVFilthyFrank[]
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The Golden Age of the Filthy Frank Show[]
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88rising and the transition to Joji[]
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YouTube Content[]
Sketch Comedy[]
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Satirical Commentary[]
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Comedy Hip hop[]
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Personal life[]
Gender, sexuality and relationships[]
Joji identifies and presents as a man and is presumed to be cisgender. He is also presumed to be straight.
Political beliefs[]
Despite Joji's deliberately politically incorrect stances as Filthy Frank, such as hating vegans, Joji himself has referred to the character as a "racist bigot" and his channel description states that the purpose of the character is to "highlight the ridiculousness of racism, misogyny, legalism, injustice, ignorance and other social blights." This indicates that Joji's real political beliefs are in fact left-leaning, though this has not been confirmed. Joji observed that his more right-wing fans would be offended by Filthy Frank's jokes made at the expense of in-groups, such as white people or men, which he justified by saying that he stood by "prejudice equality".
Views on superstition and religion[]
It is unknown as to whether Joji adheres to any religion, but he is most likely irreligious.
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