The Fine Brothers
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Rafi (left) and Benny Fine (right) at VidCon 2014
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Benny Fine March 19, 1981 Rafi Fine June 9, 1983 Brooklyn, New York, U.S. |
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| Occupation | Entertainers, writers, directors | ||||||||||
| Website | www |
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| Pseudonym | Fine Brothers, Fine Bros, TheFineBros | ||||||||||
| Channel | TheFineBros | ||||||||||
| Years active | 2007–present | ||||||||||
| Genre | Entertainment | ||||||||||
| Subscribers | 15 million+ | ||||||||||
| Total views | 5 billion+ | ||||||||||
| Network | Fullscreen | ||||||||||
| Associated acts | Markiplier, Shane Dawson, CaptainSparklez, DanTDM | ||||||||||
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Benny Fine (born March 19, 1981) and Rafi Fine (born June 9, 1983), known together as the Fine Brothers, are online producers, writers, and directors, who are best known for their React video series, their several timed-spoiler series, narrative web series, as well as creating a "transmedia" sitcom on YouTube, MyMusic. The Fine Brothers have been creating content online since 2004. They are behind their company, Fine Brothers Entertainment, a full service production company of digital series, television shows, and feature films.
The Fine Brothers channel has over 5 billion views and over 15 million subscribers. Due to a controversy over an attempt to license and trademark the term "React", as well as the names of their series, the Fine Brothers' channels lost hundreds of thousands of subscribers in early 2016. However, the Fine Brothers' channel regained their former subscriber numbers by May 2016.
The brothers grew up in the 1990s in an Orthodox Jewish family in Brooklyn. The Fine Brothers stated that they have been making videos almost their entire life; Benny, being the elder brother, would "rope [Rafi] into making all kinds of weird stuff."New York detailed the two "started recording comedy sketches as adolescents, when they got their first video camera." They spent most of their teen years in Sullivan County, New York. Benny started college at age 15, while Rafi attended Dickinson College for two years before transferring to Hunter College, where he got a degree in film studies. The two began entertaining their friends with short sketches and full length comedies shot with action figures.
The brothers stated that they created a live action feature in 2000 that made its way into comedy film festivals, and that they were planning to create a feature each year, hoping that one feature would soon help the brothers break into Hollywood. Despite winning young filmmaker awards, they soon came to the conclusion that this method would not be the best path, and decided their future would be on the internet, which they viewed at the time as the new film festival. The brothers created their first website in 2003, and uploaded their first web video in 2004. They broke their features into 10-to-15-minute chunks to showcase the feature to an audience. The brothers used their website and early online works as a discoverability tool that would launch them into traditional film. In 2004, the brothers created a feature-length live-action comedy, titled G.I. Joe: The Epic Saga, before beginning to upload more sketch and comedy content onto websites such as MySpace. The duo then moved from Orlando, Florida to Los Angeles, where they continued to upload more videos on their YouTube channel, which was created on June 4, 2007.New York wrote that the two entered the YouTube community as "low-paid video producers for other companies, but kept making their own videos on the side." Their earlier videos contain mature social satire humor.
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