React Media, LLC explained

React Media, LLC
Former Name:
  • Fine Brothers Productions, Inc. (20112014)
  • Fine Brothers Entertainment, Inc. (20142017)
  • FBE, Inc. (20172019)
  • FBE, LLC (20192021)
Industry:Video production
Genre:Entertainment
Founded: in California, U.S.

React Media, LLC (also known as React; formerly as Fine Brothers Productions, Inc.,[1] Fine Brothers Entertainment, Inc.,[2] FBE, Inc.,[3] and FBE, LLC[4]) is an American reacting, digital media and entertainment company founded by brothers Benny Fine (born March 19, 1981) and Rafi Fine (born June 9, 1983), creators and media entrepreneurs. React Media produces the React video series, their several timed-spoiler series, narrative web series, and created a "transmedia" sitcom on YouTube, MyMusic.

The Fines began creating content in 2003. React Media's YouTube channels include REACT, FBE Official, and People vs Food. The company also produces channels on Facebook (FBE, FBE Shows, Do They Know It, What Would My Kid Do, and Reverse Ratings), Snapchat (Try Not To and React) and Instagram's IGTV. React has produced multiple shows (React to That, Celebs React, Six Degrees of Everything, Emo Dad, and Sing It!), and released F the Prom, their sole feature film, in 2017.

FBE has over eight billion views and over 32 million subscribers. Because of the controversy over an attempt to license and trademark the term "React", as well as the names of their series, React Media's channels lost hundreds of thousands of subscribers in early 2016.[5] In 2020, the company became embroiled in allegations by both current and former employees of systemic and casual racism in the workplace, as well as the way in which they presented their content.

Creators

The brothers grew up in the 1990s in an Orthodox Jewish family in Brooklyn. The Fine Brothers stated they had been making videos almost their entire life; Benny, being the elder brother, would "rope [Rafi] into making all kinds of weird stuff". New York magazine detailed the two "started recording comedy sketches as adolescents, when they got their first video camera". They spent most of their teen years in Sullivan County, New York. Benny started college at age 15, while Rafi attended Dickinson College for two years before transferring to Hunter College, where he got a degree in film studies. The two began entertaining their friends with short sketches and full-length comedies shot with action figures.

The brothers said they created a live action feature in 2000 that made its way into comedy film festivals, and that they were planning to create a feature each year, hoping one would soon help them break into Hollywood. Despite winning young filmmaker awards, they soon concluded this method would not be the best path and decided their future was on the internet, which they viewed at the time as the new film festival. The brothers created their first website in 2003 and uploaded their first web video in 2004.

History

The Fine brothers made YouTube their full time jobs in July 2010.[6] They incorporated the video production company as "Fine Brothers Productions, Inc." on December 13, 2011.

FBE found success on YouTube where their main channel, TheFineBros (later renamed Fine Brothers Entertainment, and currently FBE), had more than 19 million subscribers and 7.8 billion video views as of May 2019. FBE has a secondary channel called FBE2, launched on May 14, 2009. A third channel was launched on July 22, 2014, called React, to expand their React content.

FBE soon joined the Maker Studios venture and said after speaking with Shane Dawson about a plan for the project, "We were the head of production and head of creative." The duo ran Maker Studios throughout 2009 and were responsible for the early success and planning for what became known as multi-channel networks (MCNs).

On their main channel, FBE upload a multitude of series, creating some of the most popular scripted, narrative, and unscripted series including their reaction series. They released behind-the-scenes content, as well as clips from their news podcast All We Know on the secondary channel. On October 16, 2010, they uploaded the first episode of Kids React. This was the first series in what would later become their React franchise on YouTube.

Aside from the series that the brothers directed, produced, and uploaded, the duo has uploaded popular interactive YouTube videos. The company's channels are under the YouTube partner program, allowing them to earn money from ad revenues on their videos. Ford and Comedy Central have sponsored them.

FBE has collaborated with other popular YouTubers Shane Dawson, ShayCarl, and KassemG. They collaborated on their YouTubers React show and with YouTube channels Smosh and PewDiePie.

The Fine Brothers were guest judges on the second season of the web series Internet Icon in 2013. In December 2013, the duo left Revision3 to sign with Fullscreen though remained vocal about YouTube multi-channel networks, devoting a segment in their update vlog series, Fine Time, discussing how to navigate them.

On April 30, 2014, it was announced that a spin-off of FBE's React series called React to That was going to be aired on Nickelodeon. FBE said in an episode of Fine Time, however, that they planned on continuing to upload YouTube videos consistently. Nickelodeon aired 12 episodes of the show. The brothers also created and hosted the TV series Six Degrees of Everything that aired on TruTV in 2015. In early 2016, New York detailed that their company employed around 50 people.

Websites of The Wall Street Journal, Time magazine,[7] Variety,[8] and MSNBC have featured FBE works.[9] [10]

Marc Hustvedt joined FBE as CEO in July 2018, coming from the New York-based digital brand Above Average. Prior to Above Average, Hustvedt was co-founder and CEO of Supergravity Pictures, a digital-first entertainment studio and distributor that was later acquired by Gunpowder & Sky. Hustvedt also is a co-founder of trade publication Tubefilter and the Streamy Awards.[11] [12]

At the start of 2019, FBE acquired Officially Pinned, an upstart that creates collectible pins in collaboration with content creators. Officially Pinned gets certified approval from creators and rights-holding partners to vend the pins and works directly with the parties involved to collaborate on the designs—hence the "official" part of the name. Disney pin-trading culture inspired Officially Pinned.[13] [14]

FBE partnered with the interactive video company Eko in July 2019 to produce 12-plus interactive TV pilots that consist of scripted and unscripted formats and game shows and socially driven experiences.[15] Eko and FBE teamed up on the production of Epic Night, a four-episode branching-narrative series about a college-party adventure. For the Eko partnership, FBE established an Interactive Content Lab to expand the studio's interactive storytelling capabilities by developing, funding and shopping new formats.[16] [17]

In summer 2020, a video resurfaced which showed Benny Fine in blackface portraying a character in a Degrassi TV show parody by Shane Dawson.[18]

In September 2020, the company announced the rebranding of their channels FBE, FBE2 and REACT as REACT, FBE, and REPLAY, respectively.[19] FBE began restructuring, which led to the layoffs of 17 employees in December 2020.[20]

In November 2021, React Media, LLC was acquired by Electric Monster Media,[21] run by CEO Matt Gielen. Benny and Rafi Fine did not join Electric Monster, and are no longer associated with React Media.[22]

YouTube series

REACT
Years Active:2007present
Silver Button:yes
Silver Year:,[23],[24] [25]
Gold Button:yes
Gold Year:,[26] [27]
Diamond Button:yes
Diamond Year:,[28] [29]
Stats Update:June 14, 2023

React series on FBE Channel and React Channel

See main article: React (media franchise). FBE launched a series titled Kids React on October 16, 2010, the first video being Kids React to Viral Videos #1 (Double Rainbow, Obama Fail, Twin Rabbits and Snickers Halloween). The Kids React series features The Fine Brothers, off-camera, showing kids several viral videos or popular YouTubers and having the kids react to them.

The series led to spin-offs uploaded on the company's channel, featuring kids, teens, elders, staff, adults (including sub-branches of college kids, parents, etc.) and YouTubers. Because of the increasing success of the React franchise, FBE, in collaboration with Nick Cannon, later developed a television series for Nickelodeon, titled React to That. Later, FBE launched a separate "React" YouTube channel, with additional reaction-related videos, including remixes of past reaction footage and cast members reacting to video games, among other content.

MyMusic

See main article: MyMusic. FBE is the creator of MyMusic, a sitcom show funded by YouTube's $100 million original channel initiative. MyMusic features a main ensemble cast of Adam Busch, Chris Clowers, Jack Douglass, Tania Gunadi, Grace Helbig, Lainey Lipson (who later appears in Adults React), Jarrett Sleeper and Mychal Thompson and has featured many guest stars, with members of both Kids React and Teens React also appearing. The series has an interactive transmedia aspect, which FBE has spoken on, saying, "To us, new media should be 'new' – and just not just a passive experience. The ability to create new storytelling elements and new ways to entertain audiences is what is so motivating about being a creator at this time." The show revolves around MyMusic, a company led by CEO Indie (portrayed by Adam Busch) who is portrayed as a stereotypical modern-day hipster. Another character on the show, Metal (portrayed by Jarrett Sleeper), is based on the brothers' teenage years. Fine said, "The Metal character comes directly from us when we were teenagers. We were metalheads, full-on." MyMusic has a separate channel on YouTube from the main FBE channel (MyMusicShow), which had over 381,000 subscribers and 28.9 million video views as of July 7, 2013. MyMusic was nominated for nine Streamy Awards in the 3rd installment of the event, with three of the nominations going to the Fine Brothers. The second season premiered on August 20, 2013.

Sing It!

See main article: Sing It!. Sing It! is a musical situation comedy streaming television series created by the Fine Brothers. It is executive produced by Benny Fine, Rafi Fine, Max Benator, Todd Lieberman, David Hoberman, Laurie Zaks, Barry Safchik, and Michael Platt, and produced by Mandeville Films, Potvin Sucks Productions, and Fine Brothers Entertainment.[30] The pilot premiered on April 21, 2016, during the Tribeca Film Festival.[31] The show premiered on May 25, 2016, on YouTube Red, a paid service of streaming original series and films.[30] It stars Mircea Monroe, Mark Sullivan, Debby Ryan, Preston Jones, Alex Désert, Todrick Hall, Missi Pyle and Ace Young.[32] On December 3, 2017, creator Benny Fine confirmed on his Twitter account the series would not return for a second season.[33]

Other YouTube series

Spoilers

FBE had a popular series where they spoil a variety of topics ranging from books to films to video games. The first episode of their Spoiler series, 100 Movie Spoilers in 5 Minutes – (Movie Endings Ruined) was uploaded on YouTube on November 11, 2008. FBE also uploaded a video containing spoilers of the first seven Harry Potter films in roughly seven minutes on July 13, 2011. In six minutes, FBE spoiled 47 years of the popular series, Doctor Who, and released subsequent sequels to prepare for the premieres of series eight and nine. Other TV shows that have had spoiler videos made about them include Game of Thrones, Breaking Bad, The Walking Dead and Orange Is the New Black. FBE put up a video each month spoiling 50 viral videos that had circulated on YouTube and other sources during the previous month.

Lost: What Will Happen Next?

FBE created a show titled Lost: What Will Happen Next?, a parody show based on the TV series Lost. The show premiered on January 24, 2008, and was the first long-running series on the Fine Brothers channel. The show lasted 19 episodes and ended on November 1, 2010. The show features several characters from other fictional universes such as the Avatar and the Star Wars universe. FBE collaborated with Rhett and Link to create a parody song of Lost.

Controversies

Trademark attempt and React World

On January 26, 2016, FBE announced they would license and trademark their existing React series and let creators create their own "React" content.[34] In particular, FBE applied to trademark, among other terms, the word "react",[35] which is used in the title of many other YouTube videos unrelated to FBE's YouTube channel.[36] The announcement was met with a backlash from some of their viewers and fellow YouTube content creators, many of whom believed FBE was attempting to prohibit the creation of reaction videos by people unaffiliated with their channel.[5] [37] [38] In response, the company promised they would "not be trying to take revenue from other types of reaction videos, and will not be copyright-striking".[37] [38] However, other YouTubers reported copyright-related takedowns of videos containing FBE footage.[39] [40] There were also reports that another YouTube channel had produced Seniors React videos just prior to FBE's Elders React series.[41] The backlash led to a dramatic drop in subscribers,[42] with upwards of 675,000 accounts collectively unsubscribing from the React and FBE channels in protest as of February 22, 2016.[43] [44] [45]

On February 1, 2016, FBE stated they had rescinded all React trademarks and trademark applications, discontinued the React World program, and released all previous Content ID claims.[46] [47] FBE removed their original React World announcement video, and their update video, which addressed the initial backlash.[47]

Allegations of racial discrimination

In June 2020, former employees spoke out about their experiences working at FBE, which included allegations of racism and sexism by the company. In January 2021, Insider published a report, which contained allegations the company cultivated casual racism. One employee claimed she was told at times to have a reactor with lighter skin on the left of video thumbnails. Insider said that in 434 thumbnails that included one person of color and one white person, 238 of them (55%), had the white person on the left side. People interviewed for the article alleged white people were favored to appear in React videos.[48]

Filmography

Web! Year! Title
2008–2010Lost: What Will Happen Next?
2008–2017Spoiler Alert!
2009The Overthinker
20093-Way
2010–2017Last Moments of Relationships
2010–presentKids React
2010–2011Harry Potter Deleted Scenes
2010–2011Lindsay Lohan Needs Real Friends
2011–presentTeens React
2012–2014MyMusic
2012–presentElders React
2012–2020YouTubers React
2013, 2016–2017Emo Dad
2013–2016, 2018Fine Time (originally Update Vlog)
2014–2020, 2022React: Gaming
2014–presentPeople vs. Food
2014–2016React: Advice
2014–2019React: Lyric Breakdown
2014–2015React: Opinions
2014–2015React Remix
2014–2016Inappropriate Parents
2014Underwater Movie Scenes
2014, 2016–presentCelebrities React
2015–presentReact: Do They Know It?
2015–presentAdults React
2015–2018Reverse Ratings
2016–2020Staff React
2016, 2018–presentTry Not To
2016, 2018–presentGenerations React
2016Sing It!
2016Sample School
2016Quizzicle
2017–2019Challenge Chalice
2017–presentGuess That
2017–2020The 10s
Television! Year! Title
2014–2015React to That
2015Six Degrees of Everything
Film! Year! Title
2017F the Prom

Accolades

This is a list of awards, nominations, recognition and achievements received by the Fine Brothers during their career.

Year Nominated work Category Award-giving body Result Ref.
2012Kids ReactBest Viral Video Series39th Daytime Emmy Awards[49]
Best Variety Web SeriesInaugural IAWTV Awards[50]
2013Kids ReactBest Variety Series2013 IAWTV Awards[51]
MyMusicBest Interactive/Social Media Experience
Best Supplemental Content
Kids ReactBest Non-Fiction or Reality Series3rd Streamy Awards[52]
ThemselvesAudience Choice for Personality of the Year[53]
MyMusicAudience Choice for Series of the Year
Best Direction
Best Comedy Series
Best Writing: Comedy
Best Editing
2014Kids ReactBest Directing (Non-Fiction)2014 IAWTV Awards[54]
Best Variety Web Series
MyMusicBest Supplemental Content
2015Teens ReactShow of the Year2015 Streamy Awards[55]
Kids ReactNon-Fiction
Kids and Family
2016Elders GamingOnline Film and Video – Gaming (Channel)2016 Webby Awards[56]
Kids ReactOnline Film and Video – Reality[57]
Fine Brothers EntertainmentOnline Film and Video – Entertainment (Channel)[58]
Do They Know It?Non-Fiction2016 Streamy Awards[59]
Kids React (Daniel Seibert, Jordan Towles, Alyssa Salter, Cara Bomar, Luke Braun, Benny Fine, Rafi Fine)Editing
Emo DadAnimated
2017REACTShow of the Year2017 Streamy Awards [60]
Non-Fiction Series
Last Moments of RelationshipsImmersive
REACTOnline Film and Video2017 Webby Awards2017 Webby Awards
2018REACTShow of the Year2018 Streamy Awards[61]
Do They Know It?Pop Culture
2019FBEDigital Studio of the Year2019 Digiday Video Awards2019 Digiday Video Awards[62]
Teens React to Texting and Driving (Distracted Driving) in collab with AT&T It Can WaitBranded Award for Social Good Campaign2019 Streamy Brand Awards2019 Streamy Brand Awards[63]

References

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  23. react . 7456188455 . 2010-01-06 . We made it guys! We specifically set out to reach 100,037 subscribers and we made it! No one else subscribe! :) Thanks for all the support! . 2022-09-01.
  24. react . 101117430780264448 . Our 2nd channel just passed 100,000 subscribers, amazing. Thanks for your support, subscribe if you haven't! https://www.youtube.com/thefinebros2#p/u/0/faL4VIxYagk . 2022-09-01.
  25. react . 1220818556398403584 . Have you heard?! We JUST hit 100k subscribers on our new Try Not To Channel! We cannot thank you enough! If you haven't seen our new channel yet, check it out and SUBSCRIBE! http://youtube.com/trynotto . 2022-09-01.
  26. react . 104222771789303808 . Thanks for all the tweets about us passing a million subscribers, and thanks to all of you for the support. What a 7 year ride it's been! . 2022-09-01.
  27. react . 493597843425198081 . ONE MILLION SUBSCRIBERS IN ONLY 5 DAYS! Wow!!! We are continually amazed by your support. Thank you Fine Family! https://www.instagram.com/p/q-rwA2ut3t/?modal=true . 2022-09-01.
  28. react . 510457770215108608 . 10 Million Subscribers. We've been making content for 15 years, never could have imagined this. Thank you Fine Family & thank you YouTubers. . 2022-09-01.
  29. react . 1053013850281381889 . Last night, React became our second channel to hit 10,000,000 subscribers. We are so thankful for the support we've received from every single one of you, and for our amazing team that's been working so hard these last 4+ years to help us get here. . 2022-09-01.
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