“We aren’t anxious to do it unless it’s right,” Brett says, citing instances where networks have asked to have the children swear or otherwise compromise the Bored Shorts TV standards. But so far, they haven’t felt good about moving in that direction. These Mormon YouTubers, along with their close friend Richard Sharrah, have definitely found a winning formula-to the point that they have been approached by several TV networks about creating a show. We have a strong LDS following, and we have many fans who are not LDS, so we have the best of both worlds.” “We try to make our videos funny for everyone. “We’re glad there is still an audience for family-friendly content,” Dave says. After four years, their YouTube channel, Bored Shorts TV, has garnered more than 453,000 subscribers and 110 million total views. Their love of filming together has carried over to adulthood in the form of their wildly popular Kid History and Kid Snippets videos, which feature the voices of kids telling stories while adults act them out. He even paid a girl who hit his car to thank her for her honesty in admitting it was her fault.Īs he said in one video, “The main reason I do it is to hopefully inspire others to go out and do the same thing.” He secretly films himself doing magic tricks to give money to the homeless or giving $100 tips to pizza delivery men women of all ages glow with joy as they are handed flowers for Mother’s Day, and single girls blush as they are serenaded by Edge and his friends on Valentine’s Day.
In addition to humorous kissing videos, Edge films his interactions with others as he seeks to live his faith by serving everyone and anyone.
Since then he’s done other kissing pranks, including a kissing prank for breast cancer awareness, a second and third mistletoe prank, and even a Spider-Man kissing prank.īut there’s one thing that sets Edge’s channel apart: service. That video spurred his YouTube success and now has over 27 million views.
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His first viral video pranked strangers to kiss under a sprig of portable mistletoe just before Christmas 2012. I live worthy of a temple recommend, and I strive to keep the gospel as a foundation for my life.” “I strive to go to church even when I am on the road or on tour. “I try to keep the commandments,” she says.
But she doesn’t regret any of those tough decisions, because she knows that they have kept her closer to the Lord when it would have been easier to stray. “I’ve had to say no to several collaboration opportunities with ‘big name’ artists because their songs or their videos were too vulgar,” says Stirling. It’s definitely a challenge.”Īnd modesty hasn’t been the only challenge this Mormon YouTuber has faced as her popularity has grown. Whenever I attend special events, I have to find modest dresses or have modest costumes designed for me. There’s a lot of pressure to look ‘hip’ and ‘new.’ And most of the people in the style and design industry don’t understand my standards, so I have to be very specific. And their popular YouTube channel was picked to release a recent Christmas video of the world’s largest live Nativity-a collaborative effort with other Mormon YouTube stars like Devin Supertramp, Shay Carl, and Alex Boyé.īut staying close to the gospel-and her standards-as an international music star has not been easy. They have also teamed up with other Mormon YouTubers like Alex Boyé and Lindsey Stirling. “The most rewarding thing is the fact that The Piano Guys are my brothers in the gospel.” Schmidt adds, “We are united in a desire to be what the Lord wants us to be.”īut The Piano Guys aren’t just united with one another. When the team has miraculous experiences like these, it makes their hard work all worth it-hard work like keeping up with worldwide tour schedules and creating stunning new videos for their ever-growing YouTube fan base. “We feel a strong responsibility to keep ourselves worthy so the Lord can continue to use us as literal instruments in his hands.” “We feel so blessed to be used by the Lord and to be a part of the hastening of His work,” says Anderson. He contacted the missionaries soon after, was baptized, and is now serving a mission himself. Through their website, he found out that they were Latter-day Saints. He told them he had stumbled across one of their videos while browsing YouTube and had felt a peace and love in his heart unlike anything he had experienced before-something he wanted to keep. After the meeting, a once-atheist young man approached them. One particularly memorable missionary experience, they recall, came from attending church in Berlin, Germany.