Joji

George Kusunoki Miller (ジョージ・楠木・ミラー), known professionally as Joji and formerly for playing the characters Filthy Frank and Pink Guy, is a Japanese singer-songwriter, rapper, internet personality, and record producer.

Miller's music has been described as a mix between R&B, lo-fi, and trip hop.

The first known video on this particular channel (before his creation of the Frank character) was uploaded on 19 June 2008, and was titled "Lil Jon falls off a table".

The DizastaMusic channel has over 1 million subscribers and 177 million views.

Miller created The Filthy Frank Show on YouTube in 2011 shortly after moving to the United States, gaining recognition for playing oddball characters on the comedy channels TVFilthyFrank, TooDamnFilthy, and DizastaMusic.

The channels, which featured comedy hip hop, rants, extreme challenges, and ukulele and dance performances, are noted for their shock humor and prolific virality.

Miller's videos helped popularize the Harlem Shake, which contributed to the commercial success of Baauer's song of the same name which led to the production of memes and collaborations with YouTubers.

He attended Canadian Academy, an international school in Kobe, Japan, where he graduated in 2012.

At age 18, he left Japan and travelled to the United States.

Miller created the "Filthy Frank" character during his time on his DizastaMusic YouTube channel, on which he created sketch comedy-based content.

The channel started gaining popularity after his 2012 conceptualization of Filthy Frank, a character who was described as the anti-vlogger of YouTube by Miller.

As Pink Guy, Miller released two comedy studio albums, "Pink Season" and "Pink Season: The Prophecy" as well as an extended play between 2014 and 2017.

On 15 August 2014, Miller uploaded a video to the DizastaMusic channel announcing that he would not be posting any more video content onto the channel due to the risk of losing the channel due to the numerous copyright and community strikes it received.

He also announced that future "Filthy Frank" content would be uploaded to a new channel he had created called TVFilthyFrank.

Miller's channel TVFilthyFrank had many different series, such as "Food" (和食ラップ), "Japanese 101", "Wild Games" and "Loser Reads Hater Comments".

This channel currently has a total of 7.88 million subscribers and over one billion views.

Miller created a third channel, TooDamnFilthy, on 1 July 2014.

On this channel he had two series, "Japanese 101", which was also featured on his main channel, and "Cringe of the Week", which was usually abbreviated to "COTW".

, TooDamnFilthy has 2.33 million subscribers and 332 million views.

In late 2017, Miller ended The Filthy Frank Show to pursue a music career under the name Joji.

On 27 September 2017, Miller announced the release of his first book, titled Francis of the Filth, which addresses things uncovered in The Filthy Frank Show and serves as a culmination of the series.

On 29 December 2017, Miller released a statement on Twitter explaining that he had stopped producing Filthy Frank content due to both "serious health conditions" and his lack of interest in continuing the show.

On 16 March 2017, Miller performed for the first time as Pink Guy at SXSW.

Future plans were stated to include a "long overdue" tour, a third Pink Guy album and more progress on his personal music outside of the Pink Guy character.

However, as of 29 December 2017, Joji has ceased production of all Filthy Frank-related content, including Pink Guy music.

Aside from the comedic and often rap-based music he created under the Pink Guy alias, Miller also created more serious and traditional music under another stage name, Joji, which became his primary focus in late 2017.

Speaking on his transition from his YouTube career to his music career as Joji, Miller said to Billboard "now I get to do stuff that I want to hear."

In the article by Billboard, he specified that 'Joji' isn't a character like Filthy Frank and Pink Guy.

His debut album, Ballads 1, was released in 2018 and featured the single "Slow Dancing in the Dark".

In September 2018, Miller stated in a BBC Radio 1 interview that he had no choice but to stop producing comedy due to his health condition.

Miller always had a passion for music composition.

He has expressed that even before his YouTube career, he had an interest in creating music and created his YouTube channel as a means of promoting it.

In an interview with Pigeons and Planes, he said, "I've always wanted to make normal music. I just started the YouTube channel to kind of bump my music. But then Filthy Frank and the Pink Guy stuff ended up getting way bigger than I thought so I had to kind of roll with it."

Miller's music under Pink Guy is often comical, staying true to the nature of his YouTube channel.

His second album, Pink Season, debuted at number 70 on the Billboard 200.

Under his comedy rap stage name, Pink Guy, Miller has produced two albums, and one extended play, Pink Guy, Pink Season, and Pink Season: The Prophecy, respectively.

His second album, Nectar (2020), contained the singles "Sanctuary" and "Run".

In 2022, he released the US Billboard Hot 100 top-ten single "Glimpse of Us", his highest-charting song, which was later featured on his third album, Smithereens (2022).

George Kusunoki Miller was born in Osaka, Japan.

He is half Australian and half Japanese.