The Creepy End of the “Facebook Famous” Era..

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From Kane Larkin, to Jake McManus in the early 2010s a culture of "facebook famous" celebrities arose in the UK taking over our timelines. Much to the hatred of many people. Today we explore where this all came from, where it went and where are they now.
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[@briannewsome]

Make some more videos about parkour stuff

[@pinkimietz3243]

I'm not a boy.

[@jswets5007]

The UK is obsessed with royalty. These children were the new royals. Lorde wrote a song about it, and she's from New Zealand.

[@doormatt76]

Plz more rollerblade content, your one of the reasons I got in to it

[@Desmond17]

I literally didn't know a SINGLE one of those kids...

[@stormdodunski2386]

Not even nigahiga😢

[@felixjones9198]

Me neither.

[@tropixi5336]

kane larkin was everywhere... im surprised you dont know him

[@rickyrichreacts9667]

“They would even collab… on a dope pic” 😂😂

[@sadface]

I completely forgot about Facebook Famous people - this brought back sooo many weird memories haha

[@peeron6829]

oh for sure😂

[@Dynomite1125]

Rest in peace: Jimmy’s parkour videos

[@gagehamon9644]

Not disappointed by his new stuff tho it's good

[@medic132]

facts

[@Dynomite1125]

@@gagehamon9644 I agree, but I do miss the parkour.

[@gagehamon9644]

​@@Dynomite1125agreed

[@Jh9801]

It doesn't have to be parkour, I just much preferred the extreme sports stuff and don't care for the pop culture analysis.

[@AndyPepRock]

Isn't this just essentially what was happening on Myspace before everyone jumped ship to Facebook? Sonny Moore (Skrillex) was essentially the most famous kid on Myspace before he even got into Music.

[@ChrisQuitsReality]

that's an interesting little factoid I never knew! I miss myspace 😭

[@JimmyTheGiant]

*adds skrillex video to notes*

[@spookyt8692]

He was in a Emo band before he was rebranded himself. There was a fan base already baked in, I think the band was called from first to last

[@foy5051]

Skrillex is a guy...?

[@gazomusic]

@@JimmyTheGiant Yes! Please do a Skrillex Video

[@andremp03]

Holy shit, I wiped this era from my memory.

[@Midtable1881]

Great video Jimmy! Speaking of the early 2010s, how about a video on the rise and end of the ‘Big Fat Gypsy’ craze? It started with the weddings and ended with the dale farm incident from my memory.

[@zigmundo]

Great idea

[@SEB1991SEB]

Things like this are in danger of being lost and forgotten without videos like this, which would be a terrible shame, since this is history. It'd be a huge mistake to dismiss this as trivial and unworthy of serious historians' attention just because it isn't some major political stuff. Like it or not, this is a part of our cultural history. The exact same with things in the past that were dismissed as trivial or trashy but are now seen as having an impact on later things, like pulp magazines in the early 20th century, or early computer games a while later.

[@jonnymillard3085]

100% true. Not being sarcastic. The documentation of this type of history is particularly important when studying the early stages of the internet. Forms part of explaining instagram, KZbin and tiktok, influencers et al. It’s a shame when people don’t understand how or why we get to where we do in the present.

[@eleanorrichardson4837]

agree, I was chronically online as a teen and remember all of the big names from this video that were well known on twitter/tumblr circles as well. was so much nostalgia watching this video

[@carltonmarshall4508]

I remember this era so well. Attending 'Leeds meet' at Hyde Park in Leeds. Everyone dying over them. Kane Larkin sex tape getting posted. What a wild time!

[@georgitomov5405]

I have been on Facebook since 2009, but never heard of almost all of these people. Have I done everything right or wrong? No idea..

[@Draconic_thoughts]

I'm gonna touch you

[@joenicholls3131]

This is such a great video. It covers a time no one really (or wants) to go back to. But those of us who are like 23 to 26 or so now remember the Facebook famous era. Influencers before influencers if you will

[@bes03c]

I had no idea about these people but Mr. Giant knows how to tell fascinating stories.

[@jackprice7002]

I think it all comes back to anything you do doesn't really matter in the long run. The world keeps turning without you.

[@gh0stm0nst3r6]

Gigantic myspace-sized hole in the timeline. great video

[@morgan3993]

The severe hate that Kane Larkin got was actually insane, I remember him being harassed by people in the street😐 it was disgusting behaviour

[@Garblegox]

I disliked these kids for the same reasons I disliked Charlie Brown: They all hate each other including themselves. There wasn't money in it, so what was their payment? Narcissistic supply.

[@heart_of_a_daedra3649]

So glad you did this, no one seems to remember it!

[@Rleatfitness]

I remember this era of the internet. I knew people who were “Facebook famous”

[@thomasdalton7411]

Use to hang on marble arch with them on a Saturday

[@heart_of_a_daedra3649]

Walked past Mike Stroud like a year or so after he deleted everything, felt so odd

[@DannyWonder]

You’re so good at picking interesting topics to do videos about 🎉

[@DannyFox06]

There was one guy where I used to hang out in Manchester who was what you might call myspace famous, and he was very popular on the scene, but he was also buying underagers alcoholic beverages and taking advantage when naturally they got drunk. He blew about fifty grand of his dad's money to promote his facebook posts. Manchester homies know EXACTLY who I'm talking about.

[@JimmyTheGiant]

Whats his name, im curious

[@tomjohnson2865]

Was he hanging out on Urbis?

[@Draconic_thoughts]

Cap

[@liamburke8225]

i love your vids jimmy, always make me super nostalgic. keep em coming bro! 👏🏻

[@thatpeskyswan]

Another great vid, thanks Jimmy!

[@oswaldfigglebottom]

Jimmy alaways coming in clutch with the end of month contractual obligation videos

[@ytisfulloffreaks4189]

This is a brilliant Video, Love the British humour!!

[@bkkillafromda6170]

Why do all these Facebook influencers look like they got diagnosed with depression off a Buzzfeed quiz or something similar ?

[@samdibb7978]

I dated 2 Facebook famous girls and they were unhinged asf. Don't get me wrong though they weren't as famous as some of these lot. Interesting video though completely forgot this sub culture existed and definitely gave me some insight into it

[@stellviahohenheim]

Facebook has become such a lame brand that i cringed to the words "Facebook famous"

[@HarryTBeck]

Who did you date just out of curiosity? As I was either friends or mutual friends with almost all of the people mentioned in this vid at the time😅 And I almost dated a couple myself… Would be interesting to see who you were almost with?😅

[@madiskruusmann302]

I love these kinds of videos and I respect the grind and hard work, but will there be more parkour related content?

[@apulaz]

Jimmy i love your content. U send really great vibes no matter the topic. Thx for being awesome

[@neosu]

OMG!!! I had completely forgotten about this 😂😂😂 this was a wilddd time

[@TheAftersPodcast]

I am Kane Larkin

[@JimmyTheGiant]

RIP

[@TreyyDaMenaceFan]

I didn't remember that Frosties advert since it was showing on TV over 16 years ago until i saw this lol

[@Pacifica.Obscura]

Sooooo happy you branched out. Because I just like you. For YOU.

[@JustinCase807]

Do we need any more reasons to stay off of social media?!

[@scorelineupdate129]

Facebook is the biggest waste of space

[@strixcz]

@@scorelineupdate129 ROFL, as if other social media were _any_ better :D

[@scorelineupdate129]

@@strixcz never used any of other ones

[@chilli-iceolive-abode2447]

Come on, the video was pretty entertaining! I for one will keep using KZbin 😅

[@colinrussell2017]

Great video! Jimmy should be moe internet famous. Subbed!👍

[@KelleyjamesMua]

wow the amount of pictures of me here that i’d completely forgot about, was such a crazy time, love this video! It was a fun time, but a weird one 😅

[@rosss6108]

This made me nostalgic for an era of the intermet i forgot which influenced me through the way i dressed and styled my hair 😅

[@justamanchimp]

Omg I remember all this so well, I remember hating it too, ain’t thought about this era in a long time!

[@pinkmoondoll9shihtzu]

i dated one of these people, but he was tumblr famous not facebook. i met him at a tumblr meetup at hyde park in 2011 lol.. he was always namedropping jamjars because they hung out & took pics together like ONE time, that's how he got all his followers. definitely one of the most self obsessed people i've ever had the displeasure of knowing, he later went on to be instagram famous then got cancelled out the ass for sexual abuse & disappeared.

[@MyILoveMinecraft]

A nice story, but for the tumblr bit one should leave a few words on their relationship with 4chan, I feel like it affected the platform alot, and how it related to Facebook at the time. At least in the mlp community there was a weird playing together of the 3 communities

[@suckieduckie]

I feel like the Tumblr 4chan thing is just a clash between low functioning autists and high functioning autists. The internet historian has a great video about some 4chan Tumblr wars. good stuff.

[@MyILoveMinecraft]

@@suckieduckie yeah true but with the mlp community in specific there was also a bit of a difference, especially since well.. You had both communities at the same convenientions. You can imagine the shitstorms when people roll up to sell Aryanne Hoofler plushies

[@anon2427]

@@suckieduckiemore like autism vs BPD and possibly narcissism

[@SSJPENGUIN]

This unlocked so many memories😫

[@SummitSeekerLife]

Best video essay youtuber

[@tracyminajjjj]

kane larkin man.. what a time to be alive lmao

[@cuttinaboot]

My mate would take mirror selfies with a dlsr and had massive back combed emo air, he had thousands of likes. Definitely a minor Facebook famous moment, I remember a few other people from west of Scotland that were quasi Facebook celebs

[@denko1868]

Big fan bro keep it up!

[@Draconic_thoughts]

Rizz

[@HassanAButt]

That's all my teen life in a video! Glad to have been matured since the facebook famous age

[@thomasdalton7411]

I use to hang at marble arch with these e-celebs

[@jswets5007]

I think that the funnier part is that KZbin is fast becoming not profitable for content creators again.

[@Ithaca-vv5dy]

Is it?

[@jswets5007]

@@Ithaca-vv5dy Yes.

[@magnusbruce4051]

Maybe I'm just a bit too old or something, but I have absolutely zero recollection of this phenomenon or these people.

[@Ithaca-vv5dy]

Same

[@chilli-iceolive-abode2447]

Same I'm guessing most people over 30 will have missed this

[@rosss6108]

I am 35 and I remember it well, it all depends what part of the Internet you hung out on, if you weren't into fashion , tumblr, online drama , blogging then you would of missed it.

[@magnusbruce4051]

@@rosss6108 That may well explain it as I have very little interest in any of those things.

[@bicyclingbum1551]

Happened here in Australia, was 3 or 4 of them "gem gem" and "justin ryan" are two of them.

[@Youngmidorya]

Never knew there were Facebook famous people. Even though I was pretty young at the time I had a Facebook in 5th grade only had family and a couple school friends added, but I do remember my older cousins always sharing posts from tumblr of some of these people. Never understood their obsession with them back then haha

[@juliusnepos6013]

Yeah

[@michaelkjellander9370]

We didn't really have this kind of Facebook famous people in my country as far as I know, except for already established people having a Facebook page. Lots of bloggers though, followed by famous Instagramers, KZbinrs and Tiktokers.

[@alexhughes-db9bc]

This reminded me of a life I had forgotten … what happened to Emily Cann … can’t find her on any social media anymore

[@marko2724]

I forgot all this happened haha. I met Tomm Watton at parties, he is from the same town. He was just strange tbh. Got out of prison and moved to Manchester

[@djryanashton]

The way you cover these subjects is second to none but I do have one request: Being a 48 year old South African living in Hong Kong, could you cover more subjects with an international appeal? Thanks. 😅

[@ryanmerrill2273]

Hey Jimmy, how do you spell cheque?

[@Heckingfelix]

MySpace was a thing too, like a pretty big thing..

[@nicholasr39]

No you wasnt imagining it, the friend count obsession was a real thing and i remember how especially between 2007 and 2010 everyone used to keep an eye on friend numbers and would make a big deal if they a lost a friend or two regardless if they knew them well or not

[@pharaohbacksmokin4372]

Dope content as always..was wondering if you can make one about tattoo culture and how it’s changed form like sailors bikers and criminals!!! To becoming socially accepted even the face tattoos became massive in the late 2010s etc there a deep rabbit hole like how older heavily inked people don’t like the newer generation that put a bunch of tattoos on there face n arms but nothing else’s inked 🤣😂

[@jdblick1002]

I've truthfully never heard of any of these people, or knew that this was ever a thing, despite being a FB user back then (until 2011). Seriously, famous for Facebook? 🤣

[@lcarthel]

I was Tumblr famous for a beer review blog with photography and charts.

[@thelozza3397]

Dude I remember seeing Kane Larkin all over the place back during my GCSE season lmao

[@thelozza3397]

Also idk how true it was but there was the whole debacle of him allegedly telling someone to die of cancer?

[@FuneraryDirge]

I get flashbacks to this era all the time, what a fever dream

[@OpEditorial]

Literally had no idea who any of these people are, and honestly, once I finish watching this video I will quickly forget their names.

[@bbmcofsky1073]

So this was just a British phenomenon? I'm American and I don't remember this happening in the US at all

[@JimmyTheGiant]

It seems it, I'm not aware of an american version

[@shack12319]

Sounds kinda like MySpace back in the day here in america

[@adamprice3466]

In US they called themselves "scene kids" and they followed music acts like Blood on the Dance Floor and Jeffrey Star.

[@pavelmaldonado4248]

It happened in Mexico too. One of my cousins was one of them. I didn't like him at all lol.

[@jakesweet1000]

i never knew this was a thing and i was on fb all the time

[@sfooshy4517]

I was in a US tumblr famous group, and every few months someone would make a burnblog(like the burnbook from mean girls) and everyone would be able to Anonymously talk shit or spread noods. It was terrible.

[@nickf4324]

Completely forgot until now I subscribed to this dude because of his parkour content

[@StillAwesome21]

I remember that era for sure, just not UK facebool famous, but my country and most of them transitioned to KZbin, instagram comedy or death.

[@McCecilburger]

i remember this phenomenon

[@PostByJuice]

I used to be Facebook famous around 2011-2012 I was 10th grade. I remember, the freshman during first day of school would be like "omg you're the facebook famous guy" crazyy times, I indeed would get invited for collabs, or ranch parties from other facebook famous around the area, I always stick to myself and never got to attend that. I wasn't trying to be facebook famous, my post would just get lots of shares due to what I would post. Then the followers kept growing. Crazy time to live in, nowadays I feel like most kids are used to beeing instagram famous or tiktok famous as it's much easier to get followers now for the new gen and it's so normal. Back in 2011 it was so brand new to everyone and most people really would try to be your friend just to get a shouout

[@Philip_Taylor]

Can I have your autograph? [TYPE NAME HERE]

[@PrestigeRoadman]

Bro… I’ve seen these people you’ve mentioned in this vid looool

[@luisglpz8248]

Do a vid on edm boom from 2013 to 2015

[@Jesus420.69]

I forgot about Kane larkin and didn’t need remembering lol

[@longerused2023]

Kane larkin shit i remember him. That was a crazy time

[@gothnerd887]

5:07 they could also be gaining GP to evolve into goths

[@DanPantzig]

These people did not become famous on the American side of FB. Thanks for that, Zucc.

[@OnlyKronix]

God I remember all this

[@Dorian-lq3up]

This is super jarring for me. I knew one of the people you post on here personally, only a picture of them but wild. I also knew of these people and had friends that hung around with these people. Let me make it clear though, I was not Facebook famous. I was a queer "scene kid" that was known somewhat locally but earlier on than when all the Facebook fame stuff really took off. I still hung out with local friends, being in that similar sort of crowd, so I saw some of my friends (mainly the ones a few years younger than me) just blow up. I didn't really have the Facebook fame and certainly didn't talk to just about everyone you spoke about here honestly, though some of my friends did. Don't get me wrong on facebook atleast, I had more friends than I could ever know irl and many likes of posts for whatever reason. People who I didn't know knew about me because of my Facebook and would say it when I was hanging out. Wild to me now honestly. I got some of the weird stuff as well like the unpleasant Ask.fm questions and fake accounts made of me which was odd. Don't think I am bragging I actually find all of this a little cringe as you can imagine, not mad at myself though I was just a teenager, doing what teenagers do I suppose. Personally I actually deleted my Facebook account and made a new one with less than 100 friends because I don't have an interest in that sort of culture honestly. Just generally wanted to move on from all my teenage antics. But yeah glad I was just adjacent to it all and was a bit older than these people, it was pretty toxic. I had a friend he was a shy guy who just suddenly blew up. He was getting thousands of likes on his pics and went to hang out with these people at the meets but in the end he stopped going out as much because, not going to say the location or so on but people there decided to start making up these terrible rumours about him and it really hurt tbh. He just cut lots of people off, I remember at the time thinking how awful it was. Hes good now just gonna point that out. Similar sort of things happened to other friends, their personal lives being exposed to people who didn't need to know. Actually now I think about it that last part happened to me too. But to round it all off many of these people did just settle down as you can imagine, just working normal jobs. Some I will admit though didn't seem to get over it and took on some pretty narcissistic traits. Still atleast seemingly doing extreme things much like Caolan or however his name is spelt, for the attention. It sad really because they weren't always like that, just a little eccentric. What a weird time.. Thanks for reminding me of it. Done my best to forget about it and move on with my life 🤣

[@sebp400]

dude...

[@anon2427]

Dude definitely took on some narcissistic traits lmfao

[@chilli-iceolive-abode2447]

Omg is that Dorian the scene kid!?!!?

[@heart_of_a_daedra3649]

Everyone in that scene remembers danielle hunt😭

[@TshepoMavimbela]

In South Africa we called them Felebs or Falebs 😂😂 Dated 2 of them and they were not normal upstairs

[@96ace96]

To hate something just to hate something... I don't know of anything more pointlessly destructive. I think the only cultures/movements I hate are the ones that define themselves by their hate. Nazism, people that encourage passive nihilism and encourage others to kill themselves, movements like that... I hate those. But I hate those because of their philosphies and ideas, which stand in such stark opposition to everything I believe in. These things? Facebook famous people? Wierdos? Justin Bieber? Nickleback? Trans people? Homosexuals? Black people? Hating these things/people seems such a pointless and negative use of energy to me. It's hatred for the sake of hatred. It's awful.

[@mudsh4rk]

This is the same people who would latch on to and ruin local art/music/whatever scenes for as long as those existed, except this wave of them were empowered to ruin entire platforms instead of just annoying a few dozen older people in any given medium sized city who had done the same thing themselves a decade earlier. You can trace a pretty direct line back to at least the 1940s.

[@LukeJukeDuke]

i dunno why westerners keep saying old people only use facebook. here in asia, a lot of countries still use facebook as our main source of social media. tho, not this vibe of cringe back in the 2010s. there are the occasional cringe posts but nothing big. its a normal platform but with old people also using the platform to post their weird religious "amen!" comments and whatnot.

[@SpiceIntolerance]

It’s probably got something to do with us not wanting our extended family (especially nan!) to see the shit we post on social media and the drama caused by an ignored or denied friend request from a family member is not a pretty site, so a lot of younger people started branching out to instagram and twitter. And now those “amen”! People are invading twitter lol

[@LukeJukeDuke]

@@SpiceIntolerance oh yeah right. forgot about old people and "that". well a decent chunk of my relatives dont care much at all of the things i post, like anime or shows or some shit i dont show in person. usually the darker stuff is outside facebook. i still use facebook from time to time, i just ignore what my relatives post like those amen posts.

[@frankieinjapan]

Facebook fame is wild. I made one of those Nickelback "photograph" meme videos, where I added that viral photo of Miley Cyrus butt and a weird laugh, and it got a million views. I had random people messaging me saying I touched their lives and was an inspiration, etc. All I did was take 15 minutes to edit some dumb video to post for my friends. The internet is wild 🤣

[@sivuyilemagutywa5286]

In South Africa they where called Falebs,

[@BumWatcher]

2:09 You really gotta look at what really others are doing to see yourself IN their eyes.

[@ShaunPerrett]

Hahaha I remember this too well. Having over 100K myself on Facebook back in the day😅

[@thomasdalton7411]

Loool Alex Clarke also know as Oreo b4by... My guy

[@DannyWonder]

What happened to Alex Clark? Used to think she was so hot lol

[@PatchCornAdams723]

Remember all those weird meme groups in 2010? All the turban ones? "Hold my Turban bro"

[@thomasdalton7411]

Sorry to post my 3rd comment but bro I am in the same boat as too I remember the fb famous days and the pricks who were famous and this just brought me back

[@CallofFreaky]

how did people ever call others gay or slutty on facebook using their real names with their whole family seeing it, i can't imagine a time when there wasn't anything else but facebook really

[@sfooshy4517]

Was Jamjars facebook famous? Im pretty sure she was tumblr famous

[@blvcksuns137]

Ah man, I miss tumblr! It was just fucking feral, everyday was just a wild one and it was just a mad one. Even went to some meet-ups myself and it was, well interesting

[@scorelineupdate129]

and we all know that you would beat your meat on tumblr!

[@MarioGoatse]

9:19 Oh wow, I didn’t know Pyrocynical was Facebook Famous! Yass queen!

[@thomasdalton7411]

Bro did you go marble arch meet?? Ca the first 30 seconds of your vids I New every single one of those fb famous lot right from kaine larkin(who's now a rent boy) to will McManus and eden bro you just transported me back to my 17 year olds when all these people hated me with a vengeance because I claimed they ruined FB meet ups

[@thatsubthegoddessgirl]

Birmingham meetups oh my days I used to go to every weekend😭 what a weird, weird time

[@Tarnishedbby]

Never knew "Facebook celebs" was a thing

[@bigboy484]

In South Africa we had a term for them, " felebs ".

[@Philip_Taylor]

Yes, it's interesting to see this in recollection. The popular expression for pictures was a mix of ""depressed"" and cute-face, usually taken from above, a.k.a the "myspace angle". And it was cool to be skinny, look at how most of these lads were like skin and bone. This was youth culture before it was affected by, shall we say, urban trends -- unthreatened and oblivious whiteness in an era before endless immigration/diversity.

[@kacperkempisty4661]

Please consider making video about Vines. I think it is now in tik tok era wery interesting.

[@strixcz]

I appreciate this contribution to the "History of Mental Ilnesses" series. Thank you ;) _(Disclaimer: FB is the only social media I use, other than Reddit I mean.)_

[@beachedwhale757]

you're on youtube too tho?

[@strixcz]

@@wingdingdmetrius8025 Well, KZbin (to me) is a _video sharing_ website not a social media (the channels I'm subscribed to, it's because I enjoy the content, not because I worship the people behind it). Similar with Reddit - that's a discussion board (where you stay mostly anonymous), not a place where you build your fake "you" to impress your "friends". Might be my use case but I see a lot of difference between these and FB/IG/TT...