Filthy Frank fans made us do this

Editorial Analysis

Filthy Frank is a star. But is he an artist or an asshole?\n\nSubscribe to our channel! http://goo.gl/0bsAjO\n\nWhether you call him George Miller, Joji, Pink Guy, Filthy Frank (or Salamander Man, Safari Man, Chin-Chin, Santa's Brother, etc), one thing is clear — Filthy Frank has dominated the internet, from memes like the Harlem Shake to rants that have consistently earned millions of views. His fans even mobilized to direct our crowdsourced video to be about Frank's lore.\n\nThat lore includes characters like Filthy Frank himself, fake Frank, Pink Guy, Chin-Chin, Prometheus, Red Dick, and many others. It's been chronicled in a book about Francis of the Filth, recapped on Filthy Frank Wikias, and shown up in other YouTube videos.\n\nThe lore of Filthy Frank proves to be a complicated topic. More than listing off mythology about chromosomes and realms of the omniverse, it's a starting off point for a debate about whether Filthy Frank, and by extension George Miller, is an artist or just an offensive shock-comedian. The answer says a lot for the future of shock comedy on YouTube.\n\nVox.com is a news website that helps you cut through the noise and understand what's really driving the events in the headlines. Check out http://www.vox.com to get up to speed on everything from Kurdistan to the Kim Kardashian app. \n\nCheck out our full video catalog: http://goo.gl/IZONyE\nFollow Vox on Twitter: http://goo.gl/XFrZ5H\nOr on Facebook: http://goo.gl/U2g06o