Dude Perfect
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| Years active | 2008–present | ||||||||||
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| Subscribers | 15.4 million (January 29, 2017) |
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| Total views | 2.6 billion (January 29, 2017) |
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Dude Perfect is an American sports entertainment group based on YouTube, and consists of twins Coby and Cory Cotton, Garrett Hilbert, Cody Jones, and Tyler Toney; all former high school basketball players and college roommates at Texas A&M University.
They are widely known for their extreme sports methods, including stunt-based trick shots, and are also involved in comedy with their "Stereotypes" series, in which they poke fun at common stereotypes, mostly in the sports world. Occasionally, the group also does non-profitable and charitable actions, once collaborating with Make-A-Wish.
The group commented that their shots typically relied more on American football skills than basketball. They have broken several Guinness World Records themselves, and have over 2.6 billion total views and over 15.4 million subscribers as of January 2017, making them the 24th most subscribed channel on YouTube.
They originally had Tyler as the main person while Garrett, Coby, and Cory were along in the group. Then the twins asked Cody if he wanted to be in. The group was betting on sandwiches via basketball shots in their backyard, which were eventually recorded on camera, and a video of trick shots at Toney's ranch was eventually released on YouTube. Within a week, the video received 100,000 views. When asked about the name, Toney stated,
Our camera guy, Sean (inspired by Kawdel Ainsworth), set the camera down on a ledge. When he turned on the camera, Tyler was already in the frame and he just said "dude, perfect" and said that he barely had to move the camera. When we went back to edit the video, we heard that the twins (Coby and Cory) had the mindset to brand this and called it Dude Perfect.
Afterwards, a trick shot video from the Christian summer camp Sky Ranch was released, which, as of December 2016, has over 18 million views. For every 100,000 views the video received, Dude Perfect pledged to sponsor a child from Compassion International. Afterwards, ESPN's E:60 contacted the group for a segment, and on the third floor of Texas A&M's Kyle Field, Toney converted a shot, which traveled 3.9 seconds, which was a world record at the time. The shot prompted television appearances on ESPN's First Take, Pardon the Interruption, Around the Horn and SportsNation.
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