Croes Brothers

About

The Croes Brothers are Aruban TikTok and YouTube comedians Gilhmer and Jayden Croes who first gained notoriety on TikTok in 2015 for their absurd facial expression and lip-sync videos. The brothers are also best known for their 2018 video "I Baked You a Pie," in which they perform a lip dub of the "Muffin Song."

Online History

On November 9th, 2015, Gilhmer Croes uploaded his first TikTok in which he lip sings to "Hotline Bling" (shown below, left). The video gained over 9,100 likes in five years. On April 26th, 2016, younger brother @jaydencroes uploaded his first TikTok video which has garnered over 23,600 likes in four years (shown below, right).

On July 28th, 2016, The Croes Brothers started the YouTube Channel CroesBros. On August 11th, 2017, CroesBros uploaded their most popular video "OUR VERY FIRST SLIME!! | CROESBROS Ft. REBECCA ZAMOLO" which accumulated over 8.9 million views in three years (shown below, left). They also uploaded videos in which they danced and lip sing similarly to how they would in a TikTok video (shown below, right).

In 2020 Jayden and Gilhmer continued to upload TikTok videos which would consistently gain over 2 million likes in a week (shown, below). Most of the videos uploaded to their separate accounts feature both brothers dancing or singing with absurd facial expressions and movements.

Reputation

As of April 2020, The CroesBros YouTube^[8] account has over 1.06 million subscribers. Gilhmer Croes has over 1.1 million followers on Instagram^[9] followers while Jayden has over 967,000 followers on Instagram.^[10] The brothers became known for being TikTok cringe content and their posts are often ironically reposted. On April 13th, 2020, Twitter user @helen reposted one of their TikTok videos with the caption, "u ever watch something so many times u begin to love it…" which received over 3,500 likes and 270 retweets in a day (shown below).

Related Memes

I Baked You a Pie

In November 2018, TikTok user Jayden Croes @jaydencroes^[3] posted a now-deleted sketch in which he and his brother @gilmhercroes sang lines from another asdfmovie video over The Muffin Song melody. Following a wave of negative feedback, Croes deleted the video after 16 hours of it being posted. On November 22rd, 2018, YouTube user unfunny reuploaded the video.

Similar to its predecessor, the song became a popular choice for ironic duets.

I Baked You a Pie Remake

On March 12th, 2020, TikTok^[4] user Jayden Croes (@jaydencroes) uploaded the remake of his November 2018 video. The video received over 26 million views and 3.8 million likes in five days (shown below, left). On March 15th, 2020, @jaydencroes^[5] made a post explaining his and his brother's motivation behind the remake, with the post gaining over 8.6 million views and 1.1 million likes in two days (shown below, right).

In the following days, the remake was widely circulated online with reuploads on YouTube,^[6] iFunny^[7] and other platforms.

Personal Life

Gilhmer and Croes was born on July 7th, 1993 and his younger brother on November 11th, 1998 in Oranjestad, the capital city of Aruba.^[1][2][3] On July 26th, 2019, Famous Birthdays uploaded a Croes Brothers personality quiz to YouTube (shown below). The video received over 53,900 views in a year.

Search Interest

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