http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WebVideo/FilthyFrank

Welcome to the rice fields, motherfucker.

— The outro to many of Frank's videos. "♪ It's Filthy Frank, muthafucka, it's Filthy Frank, bitch! ♪"

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Hey ese, describe Filthy Frank here!

Created by Japanese-Australian George "Joji" Miller, Filthy Frank (also called The Filthy Frank Show) is a series of comedic videos/"vlogs" depicting the life and surreal adventures of a man by the name of Filthy Frank, who finds pleasure in stabbing baby animals and finds the sight of a dead cat to be sexually arousing. He also describes himself as "the Ed Wood of YouTube", if that gives you any insight into the show's nature.

Frank possesses a "Ph.D in Internet retardation", which shows as he is known to satirize, deconstruct, and examine every prominent and topical stereotype and trend under the sun. Subsequently, he's extremely knowledgeable when it comes to memes, and has done a great deal to support the Fountain of Memes that the series produced.

The show takes place in the Frank-Verse, composed of a variety of different realms that the characters go through frequently. The main hub realm is the Nairobi Desert, where Frank has an apartment that he makes his videos in. While Frank and co. go on many a misadventure in the episodes, the ever-looming threat of an entity known as the Dark Lord Chin Chin always stalks the Frank-Verse, bringing destruction and terror everywhere it goes.

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The show is a surreal Widget Series that frequently indulges in Stylistic Suck and Random Events Plots. It was also rife with every form of vulgar and crass comedy you could conceivably think of, considering Frank sees himself as an Equal-Opportunity Offender (what with his whole "prejudice equality" mindset) and has probably made a joke attacking or lampooning every group of people under the sun. As a result, the show falls through the floorboards of "offensive" as well as several more floors beneath that.

Once the show started getting into its lore, however, it was a different (and far deeper) story.

After seven years of being active, the show went strangely quiet after the release of the Francis of the Filth book, which addressed the show's lore in its entirety. Three months after the book's release, Miller finally broke the silence to officially announce that the Filthy Frank show was coming to an end, citing his lack of interest in the show (specifically that making the videos was, in his own words, "no longer fun") and the unfortunate effects the show had on his health (including throat tissue damage, presumably from years of doing the Frank voice).

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As abhorrent as the show's premise sounds, it carved out an impressively large niche on the Internet, and has one of the most dedicated followings a YouTube series has seen (for better and for worse), even in the years following its ending. Because of the nature of this show, it's a given to say it is INCREDIBLY NSFW.

Though the series is retired, a more low-key and story-focused spinoff and/or Spiritual Successor can be found in bald internet man, starring Lake Markham (the man who played Dade).

There has also been a fan-made reboot started as of 2019 , which has recieved mixed but mostly positive reception. With the new creator being able to replicate Frank's humor and even the classic vocal-cord damaging voice rather well, but critics of it saying that it doesn't have the same feel as the original.

Frank was also part of a group called "The Shrimpson Boys" or "The Cancer Crew", that engaged in wild, vulgar, extremely homoerotic, and often dangerous Witty Banter-filled antics that even the Jackass guys would shake their heads at on each others' channels. The other members of the group were HowToBasic, Maxmoefoe , iDubbbzTV, and Dolan Dark . Another person they worked with frequently is Anything4Views .

The Filthy Frank character sheet can be found here, with the creator of the show having several different hubs:

Pink Guy also has a music career. He released a self-titled album in May 2014, and he released a second album named PINK SEASON on January 4, 2017.

He also started the Harlem Shake craze, and he claims to be the cousin of actor Ezra Miller. note Ezra has denied the latter point.

Welcome to the trope fields, muthafucka!

Vulgar Humor: Frank gets a lot of mileage out of sex and bodily functions.

Xtreme Kool Letterz: The Internet rapper that we see quarantined in "BAD INTERNET RAPPERS" named Politikz. Frank even makes note of it. Frank: His name is PolitikZ...with a Z. I don't know why, they like to spell it like that, they're just fucking weird.

Music related to the show includes examples of the following tropes: