Firearms are one of the most common weapons in the Filthy Frank Omniverse. They are known to be the weakest weapons in the Universe. However, it was. The end of Frank's video on bad Internet rappers, where Pink Guy comes out of nowhere to shoot Politikz after having appeared for 5 seconds earlier in the video. After all, he had threatened Frank with a gun and forcibly given him his mixtape. Frank's full name is Professor Dr. Filthy Frank, Ph.D. You want to know what that Ph.D is in?

1. Filthy Frank Real Name

Tier 0-True Gods-The level of power that the person who wins the 'race to be God' would reach.

Tier 1-'Gods'-Beings like Chin Chin, Prometheus, etc. Generally speaking, they are highly feared within the Frankuverse.

Tier 1.5: Characters who can either curb-stomp tier 2s or potentially hold their own against tier 1s (the gap between the tiers is unknown as of now)

Tier 2-3-Powerful beings-Strong enough to live on their own without protection. Guns are generally not able to stop them.

Tier 4-Mildly Superhuman-Clearly stronger/faster than the limit of human potential, but would still lose to guy with a gun.

Tier 5-Normal Human Level-Generally needs protection to survive.

Tier 6-Subhuman-It's a wonder they're still alive in the Frankuverse.

Tier 0: No one(so far)

Tier 1:

Bade

Dade

Prometheus

Roast Lord

Frank

Chin Chin

Tit Job Specialist

One Tap Brother

Tier 1.5:

Red Teletubby

Speed Lord

Drone

Tier 2:

Lil. B

Dr. Sack

The Shaman

Veggie Cunt

Lemon Man

Tier 3:

Mr. Negi Gen. 1

Mr. Magic Man

Brock Lee

Racist Santa

Pink Guy

Derek

Fake Frank

Zuckerbot9000

E.T.

Wheelz

One Direction

Nicolas Cage

Weeaboo Jones

Tier 4:

Pookie

Pornhub

Adam Sandler

Owen Wilson

Kevin James

Saint Nicolas

Green Cunt

Pink Guy(pre Bade arc)

Nazi Cunt

HowToBasic

14 Dollar Carrot

One Tap Brother(LRHC5)

Filthy Frank Real Name

Plastic Pinocchio

Tier 5:

Safari Man

Brown Lycra

Frank(pre-exile)

IDubbbz

MaxMoeFoe

Red Dick

Salamander Man

Anything4Views

Santa's Brother

Tier 6:

Chromosome Kid

MacBook

George Miller (born 18 September 1992^[1]), better known by his stage name Joji and formerly by his YouTube username Filthy Frank, is a Japanese singer, songwriter, rapper, record producer, and former Internet personality and comedian.

Miller's start as an entertainer began on his now defunct YouTube channels, DizastaMusic, TooDamnFilthy, and TVFilthyFrank,^[9] that consisted of rap songs, rants, extreme challenges, ukulele performances^[10] and a bizarre show titled The Filthy Frank Show, with most of the main characters played by Miller, including the titular character of Filthy Frank.^[11][12] To complement his TVFilthyFrank channel, Miller produced comedy hip hop music under the name Pink Guy, also a zentai-wearing recurring character on The Filthy Frank Show, with his songs featured on the show and his discography spanning two full-length projects and an extended play. Miller's videos had widespread impact, including starting a viral dance craze known as the Harlem Shake, which was directly responsible for the debut of Baauer's 'Harlem Shake' song atop the Billboard Hot 100.^[13][14] Many YouTube personalities have made major or cameo appearances on The Filthy Frank Show, including h3h3Productions, iDubbbz, JonTron, Michael Stevens, and PewDiePie.^[15][16][17]

In December 2017, Miller stated he had retired the channel to focus on his music career, under the name Joji, producing more nuanced and serious music, releasing the EP In Tongues, which peaked at number 58 on the Billboard 200, and his debut studio album Ballads 1, which reached number 1 on Billboard's top R&B and hip-hop chart in November 2018. With this, Miller became the first Asian-born artist to do so.^[18] Miller's music has been described as a mix between R&B, lo-fi and trip hop.

• 2Entertainment career
• 3Music career
  • 3.2Joji (2017–present)
• 5Discography

Early life[edit]

George Miller was born on 18 September 1992, in Osaka, Japan.^[2] He attended an international school, Canadian Academy, in Kobe, Japan, where he graduated in 2012.^[4] At age 18, he left Japan and travelled to the United States.^[19] He is half Japanese, half Australian.^[20]

Miller has made attempts to maintain his privacy, such as deleting the video 'Filthy Frank Exposes Himself?', where he reveals that he is a college student in Brooklyn, New York and that he does not want to reveal personal information for fear of not being able to get a job later on due to the nature of his show.^[20]

Entertainment career[edit]

The Filthy Frank Show (2009–2017)[edit]

Miller created the Filthy Frank character during his time on his DizastaMusic YouTube channel, on which he created sketch comedy-based content. The channel started gaining popularity once he conceptualised Filthy Frank, a character who is described as the anti-vlogger of YouTube, in August 2011.^[21] The first known video on this particular channel (before his creation of the Frank character) was uploaded on 19 June 2008, and was titled 'Lil Jon falls off a table'.^[22] The DizastaMusic channel has over 900,000 subscribers and is nearing 170 million views as of June 2019.^[23] On 15 August 2014, Miller uploaded a video to the DizastaMusic channel, announcing that he would not be posting any more video content onto the channel, under the risk of losing the channel due to the numerous copyright and community strikes it received.^[24]

On Miller's channel, TVFilthyFrank, he had many different series on his channel, such as 'Food' (和食ラップ), 'Japanese 101', 'Wild Games' and 'Loser Reads Hater Comments'. This channel currently has a total of 6.4 million subscribers and 904 million views as of June 2019.^[25][26] Miller opened a third channel, TooDamnFilthy, on 1 July 2014.^[27] On this channel he had two series, 'Japanese 101', which is also featured on his main channel, and 'Cringe of the Week', which is usually abbreviated to 'COTW'.^[28] As of June 2019, TooDamnFilthy has 2 million subscribers and 246 million views.^[27]

On 27 September 2017, Miller announced the release of his first and currently only book, titled Francis of the Filth.^[29]

On 29 December 2017, Miller released a statement on Twitter explaining that he had stopped producing comedy, including Filthy Frank, due to both 'serious health conditions' and his personal lack of interest in continuing the series.^[12][30] In September 2018, Miller stated in a BBC Radio 1 interview that he had no choice but to stop producing comedy due to his health condition.^[31]

Legacy[edit]

Miller's Filthy Frank show has had a profound impact on internet culture, responsible for creating many internet memes.^[32] Miller's show has been hailed as 'the epitome of odd'^[32] and the Frank character has been referred to as 'the father of alt-comedy'.^[33]

Miller's videos had widespread impact, which included starting a viral dance craze known as the Harlem Shake back in 2012, which was directly responsible for the debut of Baauer's 'Harlem Shake' song atop the Billboard Hot 100.^[13][14] Filthy Frank also inspired the online persona of PewDiePie.^[34] Fellow YouTuber and friend of Miller, Ethan Klein (also known under his alias of h3h3Productions) described Filthy Frank as the greatest YouTuber of all time in a 2017 interview with First We Feast.^[35]

Music career[edit]

Pink Guy (2014–2017)[edit]

Miller has a passion for music composition. He has expressed that even before his YouTube career, he always had an interest in creating music and created his YouTube channel as a means of promoting his music. In an interview with Pigeons and Planes, he said, 'I've always wanted to make normal music. I just started the YouTube channel to kind of bump my music. But then Filthy Frank and the Pink Guy stuff ended up getting way bigger than I thought so I had to kind of roll with it.'^[11]

Compared to Joji's more nuanced, serious, and traditional style of music, Miller's music under Pink Guy is often identical to the nature of his YouTube channel, usually being raps or hip hop songs. His debut album, Pink Season, debuted at number 70 on the Billboard 200.^[11][36] Under his comedy rap stage name, Pink Guy, Miller has produced one mixtape, one album, and one extended play, Pink Guy, Pink Season, and Pink Season: The Prophecy, respectively. On 16 March 2017, Miller performed for the first time as Pink Guy at SXSW.^[37] Future plans were stated to include a 'long overdue' tour, a third Pink Guy album and more progress on his personal music outside of the Pink Guy persona.^{[citation needed]}

However, as of 29 December 2017, Joji has ceased production of all Filthy Frank-related content, including Pink Guy music.^[11][12]

Joji (2017–present)[edit]

Aside from the comedic and often rap-based music he created under the Pink Guy alias, Miller also created more serious and traditional music under another stage name, Joji, which became his primary focus in late 2017. Speaking on his transition from his YouTube career to his music career as Joji, Miller said to Billboard 'now I get to do stuff that I want to hear.'^[38]

During his time growing up in Higashinada-ku, Kobe, Japan, Miller began to produce music and sing with friends as a side-hobby and a way to waste time. After relocating to Manhattan, New York, Miller expanded upon his music career by starting his Pink Guy persona, which paved the way for his Joji persona.^[3] Miller originally announced his Joji album on 3 May 2014 alongside the first Pink Guy album. However, Miller subtly cancelled the project until he began releasing music under the name PinkOmega.^[39] Miller released two songs as PinkOmega: 'Dumplings' on 4 June 2015^[40] and 'wefllagn.ii 5' on 28 August 2015,^[41] both of which were later released on the Pink Guy album Pink Season, the latter being re-titled 'We Fall Again'.

Miller intended to keep the music made under Joji a secret from his fanbase due to them mainly wanting his comedic music. In late 2015, two singles were released, titled 'Thom' and 'You Suck Charlie'; both were released under a false alias, but it was quickly leaked that the user behind the account was Miller,^[42] which prompted him in January 2016 to publicly announce on Instagram that he was releasing a full-length commercial project titled Chloe Burbank: Volume 1. In the same post, he linked his SoundCloud account.^[43]

In 2017, Joji released several songs via the YouTube channel of Asian music label 88Rising, the songs 'I Don't Wanna Waste My Time', released on 26 April 2017, 'Rain on Me', released on 19 July 2017,^[44][45][46] and 'Will He', released on 18 October 2017.^[47] Joji was featured in the song 'Nomadic' with the Chinese rap group Higher Brothers.^[48] Miller performed live as Joji for the first time on 18 May 2017 in Los Angeles. The event was streamed by the Boiler Room.^[49] On 17 October 2017, Miller released the debut single from his debut commercial project, In Tongues.^[50] The single, titled 'Will He', was released on platforms Spotify and iTunes.^[47]

Miller's debut project under the moniker Joji, an EP titled In Tongues, was released on 3 November 2017 by Empire Distribution.^[50] A deluxe version of the EP was released on 14 February 2018 with 8 remixes of songs from the EP along with the release of 'Plastic Taste' and 'I Don't Wanna Waste My Time' as part of the track listing.^[51] Joji released the song 'Yeah Right' in May 2018, becoming his first to chart on a Billboard chart, peaking at 23 on the Billboard R&B Songs chart.^[52]

Miller debuted Ballads 1 under the label 88rising on October 26, 2018, which quickly peaked the Billboard Top R&B/Hip Hop Albums Chart.^[53] Shortly after its release, Miller announced a North American tour, spanning 9 dates in early 2019.^[54] At that time, he was already on tour for Ballads 1 in Europe.

On June 4, 2019 Miller announced his new single titled Sanctuary through his Instagram page and released it on June 14. It was accompanied by music video which was uploaded to 88rising's official YouTube channel.^[55]

Musical style[edit]

Joji's music has been described as trip hop and lo-fi^[6] that blends elements of trap, folk, electronic, and R&B.^[56] His songs have been characterised as having 'down tempo, melancholic themes and soulful vocals'^[2] with 'minimalistic production'.^[57]

He has been compared to electronic artist James Blake,^[56] whom he also names as an influence alongside Radiohead, Shlohmo and Donald Glover.^[58] In an interview with Pigeons and Planes, Miller said that his music was inspired by his time growing up in Osaka and furthermore by boom bap instrumentals he listened to while attending Canadian Academy.^[3]

Personal life[edit]

Miller currently lives in Brooklyn, New York.^[59] Miller often flies to Los Angeles for work and has a residence there.^[60]

Miller has an undisclosed neurological disorder that causes stress-induced seizures. This is one of the reasons that led him to quit his YouTube career.^[61]

Discography[edit]

As Pink Guy[edit]

• Pink Guy (2014)
• Pink Season (2017)
• Pink Season: The Prophecy (2017)

As Joji[edit]

• In Tongues (EP) (2017)
• Ballads 1 (2018)

Videography[edit]

Notes[edit]

1. ^YouTube views should be rounded down to the nearest 0.1 million (hundred thousand) if under 10 million, down to the nearest 1 million if over 10 million, and down to the nearest 10 million if over 100 million. All YouTube information is to be taken from these references as appropriate: 'DizastaMusic'. YouTube.
2. ^YouTube views should be rounded down to the nearest 0.1 million (hundred thousand) if under 10 million, down to the nearest 1 million if over 10 million, and down to the nearest 10 million if over 100 million. All YouTube information is to be taken from these references as appropriate: 'TVFilthyFrank'. YouTube.
3. ^YouTube views should be rounded down to the nearest 0.1 million (hundred thousand) if under 10 million, and down to the nearest 1 million if over 10 million. All YouTube information is to be taken from these references as appropriate: 'TooDamnFilthy'. YouTube.
4. ^As of 31 March 2018, Dog Festival Directions has become privatised on YouTube^[65]

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65. ^Dog Fesitival Directions on YouTube

External links[edit]

• Official website
• Joji's channel on YouTube
• The Filthy Frank Show on IMDb