I’ve been watching lots of videos on the Dude Perfect Youtube channel (a very big channel about sports trick shots, competitions, and comedy). They’re huge, with ~300 videos and ~58 million subs.
Culture shock: Apparently the five members are all deeply religious and yet there’s not a single indication in their videos (or at least in those I’ve watched so far). I only learned about this when I browsed their website and stumbled on one single sentence on the About page of their website, namely “We’re about giving back, spreading joy, and glorifying Jesus Christ.” They’re fine to believe in whatever they want; I was just surprised that they managed to keep their faith private when they apparently consider it to be so important.
Really dumb failure to notice confusion: Every one of the five members has a nickname, and two of the members are nicknamed “twins” and look so similar that I constantly mix them up. Turns out they’re actual twins ffs...
Ooh, I found the first video where I maybe could have noticed that they’re religious (though not that their belief is particularly important to them: In every video of their Stereotypes series, Tyler plays the Rage Monster stereotype where he gets angry and wrecks stuff. But in their Christmas Stereotypes video, Tyler temporarily stops this performance before he’d wreck a nativity set, with these words: “That would be a little bit too far. By the way, if you’ve got your nativity set up like this, technically it’s not biblically correct. The wise men weren’t actually here yet. They were still travelling. Anyways, <turns around and resumes Rage Monster shtick>”.
EDIT: Found another, rather subtle one, from their Skiing Stereotypes: Part of a trash talk is this exchange:
A: “You ever missed a church Sunday service?”
B: “Have you ever been to church?”
...
A: “By the way, I go to church every Easter!”
B: “Sure you do.”
EDIT2: Found a non-subtle one, namely this huge “Holy Spirit” wall poster thing in the background of this Game Night Stereotypes video. Or from the same video, a scary chainsaw scene which is randomly cross-shaped and is followed up by an “Easter” equip.
Other than that, I’ve learned that they play Christian songs over some of their videos, but I never pay attention to the lyrics, so I never noticed any of that.
I’ve been watching lots of videos on the Dude Perfect Youtube channel (a very big channel about sports trick shots, competitions, and comedy). They’re huge, with ~300 videos and ~58 million subs.
Culture shock: Apparently the five members are all deeply religious and yet there’s not a single indication in their videos (or at least in those I’ve watched so far). I only learned about this when I browsed their website and stumbled on one single sentence on the About page of their website, namely “We’re about giving back, spreading joy, and glorifying Jesus Christ.” They’re fine to believe in whatever they want; I was just surprised that they managed to keep their faith private when they apparently consider it to be so important.
Really dumb failure to notice confusion: Every one of the five members has a nickname, and two of the members are nicknamed “twins” and look so similar that I constantly mix them up. Turns out they’re actual twins ffs...
Ooh, I found the first video where I maybe could have noticed that they’re religious (though not that their belief is particularly important to them: In every video of their Stereotypes series, Tyler plays the Rage Monster stereotype where he gets angry and wrecks stuff. But in their Christmas Stereotypes video, Tyler temporarily stops this performance before he’d wreck a nativity set, with these words: “That would be a little bit too far. By the way, if you’ve got your nativity set up like this, technically it’s not biblically correct. The wise men weren’t actually here yet. They were still travelling. Anyways, <turns around and resumes Rage Monster shtick>”.
EDIT: Found another, rather subtle one, from their Skiing Stereotypes: Part of a trash talk is this exchange:
A: “You ever missed a church Sunday service?”
B: “Have you ever been to church?”
...
A: “By the way, I go to church every Easter!”
B: “Sure you do.”
EDIT2: Found a non-subtle one, namely this huge “Holy Spirit” wall poster thing in the background of this Game Night Stereotypes video. Or from the same video, a scary chainsaw scene which is randomly cross-shaped and is followed up by an “Easter” equip.
Other than that, I’ve learned that they play Christian songs over some of their videos, but I never pay attention to the lyrics, so I never noticed any of that.