Marty and Michael are an Australian comedy duo who have built a massive audience on social media for their outrageous pranks and social experiments. Among their most popular videos are ‘How to Ruin a Day at the Beach’, ‘How to Stop Your Friend Smoking’, and ‘How to Embarrass Your Mate’. All the videos follow a familiar pattern of one of the friends relentlessly pranking and humiliating the other in increasingly imaginative ways. In fact, their pranks have lately become so extreme that they’ve found their content getting banned from mainstream platforms and so they’ve set up the University of Marcheal, a subscription service that allows their fans to access no-holds-barred content.

Despite their content being removed, Marty and Michael are still incredibly popular on social media. They have over 878,000 YouTube subscribers, and their content has been viewed on the platform an incredible 237 million times. They also have 1.1 million Instagram followers, 3.2 million TikTok followers, and 4.2 million Facebook fans who lap up the new content that the duo releases every week. Recent pranks have included Michael ending up with his face covered in black henna ink the day before he was due to meet his girlfriend’s parents for the first time.

Pranking is one of the major phenomenons of the social media age, making stars out of friends who do terrible things to each other. Marty and Michael are two of the most successful and their desire to ruin each others’ lives for a laugh shows no sign of abating, nor does the viewing public’s desire to watch it.