Trivia / Filthy Frank

• Acting for Two: It'd be quicker to list the characters who AREN'T played by Frank's actor.^note Chromosome Kid, Jamal, Jingle Balls, Mr. Negi, Prometheus, Red Dick, Trash and the other two guys from the Tempura Boys
• Artist Disillusionment: Overlapping a bit with Creator Backlash.
  • George desperately wanted his lives as himself and Frank to stay separate. At the time, he hated the side of the fandom that wanted Joji back, whether on the show or the music sense. He did cool down after 2016 with the revelation of Chloe Burbank.
  • This reached its logical conclusion when he decided to officially announce the show's end, with one of the main reasons being that he doesn't enjoy producing that content anymore.
• Bilingual Bonus: In the "WEEABOOS" video, the Japanese he speaks roughly translates to "There are two Jewish people in my closet, they're both dead."
• Corpsing: Considering the nature of the show, it's a miracle Joji manages to get through filming the videos without completely breaking down in laughter.
  • The episodes the Shrimpson Boys appear in frequently have to cut the footage because they end up breaking into laughter over what they're doing.
  • There are noticeable cuts whenever Frank starts to laugh in some videos.
• Creator Backlash:
  • George resented the Harlem Shake fad after it blew up. It probably had something to do with how it became so inexplicably massive, which resulted in it getting tired and unfunny extremely quickly. He's become less bitter about it, but still doesn't understand why it took off.
    • George really just wanted to be left alone outside of the context of the show. He blocked anybody who referenced the show on his personal accounts and regularly begged his fans not to mention Frank on his personal social media, although this dwindled following his retirement from Filthy Frank.
• Development Hell: The Joji album announced alongside the Pink Guy album, which was intended to release in summer 2014 only to get pushed back to fall, and ultimately never come out.
  • Some fans assumed that with Joji's "return" as PinkOmega, the songs from the Joji album could have been retooled into that project, although he eventually rebranded PinkOmega as Joji once again.
  • Rough explanation, as the album was infamous for this: after the original aforementioned delays, Joji wound up cancelling the album altogether due to disillusionment with his fandom. PinkOmega was him trying to reinvent a persona for his more "serious" music, but like with the Joji album, nothing happened. It wasn't until around 2016 that he started working on Joji music again, with the album now called Chloe Burbank, Volume 1, from which two new singles were released. Due to his projects and school, the album languished before getting a little bit of help from the 88Rising label he eventually signed to, with the label's channel releasing his famous "Medicine" song, and "WORLD$TAR MONEY" being released on Joji's debut EP In Tongues.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes:
  • The "jojivlogs" were taken down but have since been reuploaded.
  • The "CAKE" trilogy ("VOMIT CAKE", "HAIR CAKE", "HUMAN CAKE") got deleted, but reuploads can also be found.^note This really shouldn't be surprising, however. Maxmoefoe pointed out on his podcast that Joji pulled out of YouTube at the right time, so it's only natural that some of his older content would get deleted for violating the new terms of service.
• The Merch: He used a Spreadshirt shop in the earlier years of the show's run before upgrading to a more official merch site called FilthyTokyo. While the latter has been discontinued, the former is strangely still running; Joji's involvement in its operation is dubious.
• Missing Episode: As pointed out by the Lost Media Wiki and this YouTube video, several early Filthy Frank videos (and especially the Joji videos) have been deleted or made private for reasons unknown, and while some have been reuploaded by fans and otherwise recovered, many others remain lost. In fact, some remain so lost, it's not even possible to prove they ever existed.
• Reclusive Artist: While he's shown to be sociable enough, very little is known about Joji's personal life such as his family, where he goes to college, etc., a feeling which is further emphasized by his tendency to be a Lying Creator regarding these types of questions (he once replied that he goes to college at Harvard, despite living in New York City and Harvard being in Massachusetts). This also seems to stem to why Joji attempted to detach himself from the fandom and was somewhat confirmed as well when he announced he would be rebooting his music career, out of fear of losing his privacy and image.
  • He revealed a bit more of his life after the release of his In Tongues EP in a Vine interview: he was obviously born in Japan (and even revealed that the "rice fields" references are actually a personal part of his life) but moved to America to go to college there. Also, despite being from Japan, he is ethnically half-Australian, though it was unknown through which parent until he revealed his father was the Caucasian one. He also talked about the condition he mentioned in the infamous "FILTHY FRANK EXPOSES HIMSELF" video, which he still takes medication for, and has shown some of his hobbies such as fishing and having a Zen garden.
• Shrug of God: Joji does this a lot when it comes to why he removed his Jojivlog videos/himself as a character from the show. First it was because the fandom got out of hand following his introduction to the show, and then it was said that he left on his own according, hence why he also cancelled the Joji album. Of course, this may also be a cause of the Streisand Effect as Joji has tried his best to remove the videos/hide the fact he was ever on the show and actively calls out the fan base for this, pushing the effect into dire territory.
  • Judging from his rebranding of PinkOmega as "Joji" once again and admitting he was at fault for the slew of Streisand Effect over the music (as for the vlogs, it's unknown), Joji seems to have taken account what he's done and decided to screw everything and release his music again.
• Streisand Effect: Joji's attempts to take down his more serious and personal videos caused this a lot.
  • Joji invoked this when he first started detaching himself from the fanbase, which only went From Bad to Worse as time passed on.
• What Could Have Been: There was a lot of things Joji had planned, such as an animation, a planned Grand Finale, a Pink Guy tour, a third Pink Guy album, and especially the infamous Joji album.

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