This TikTok Girl Band Ruined My Life
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- Опубликовано: 17 окт 2022
- Welcome to the loony bin, everyone.
In today's video, I take you down the rabbit hole of Taylor Red, a group of triplet sisters that play country music, but also make extremely strange TikTok videos and RUclips shorts. Who are they? How do they work? Are they actually the biggest country band in the world? That's what I've been trying to figure out.
Here's their RUclips channel: / @taylorred
Find Grady:
Website: gradywsmith.com
Patreon: / gradywsmith
Subreddit: / countrymusicstuff
TikTok: / gradywsmith
Instagram: / gradywsmith
Facebook: / gradysmithwriter
Spotify: open.spotify.com/playlist/5SB... 
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This video is deranged. Enjoy. I've also spent like a year on it. So now that it's out of my system, maybe I can get to some of the other music. But I promise you, I had to get this out of my system.
Please tell me there are a dozen of these groups that exist so I can watch more of this conspiracy content. I am here for it!
This is almost like yhe van life girl. This video should get alot of attention because it exposes alot of stuff that has been exposed by other youtubers. You did a great job also that company has been linked to doing stuff like this for safe marketing influencers to sell and advertise for companies. Good job man been watching for so long i cant remember.
totally was sucked into this video. love it!
This may be best video you've ever done. I'm grateful you've exposed this. I haven't yet put my finger on it, but this is some evil and sinister stuff.
This type of investigative video is so fascinating to me, and doubly so when it’s this subject. If you haven’t seen it already I’d recommend watching “The nightmare videos of children’s youtube” Ted Talk, it’s by a guy named James Bridle. It explores what I’m pretty sure is happening here, what with the content farming and the millions of bots and the gibberish comments that are likely toddlers being left with an iPad unattended. Truthfully the answer is probably nothing more than “it’s for money”, and that’s obviously fine! Let them make money! But I think people, myself included, find that the soulless nature of it all is pretty sinister lol. Great video Grady!! I hope you feel better having passed on your personal Ringu curse lmao
Why on earth did I just spend 30 minutes of the only life I've got, watching a guy who I've never seen another video of, talking about a TikTok girl band I've never heard of, who sing in a genre of music I'd never listen to? The fact that I actually finished this video is as much a mystery to me as Taylor Red is to you.
My thoughts exactly, it makes me feel like there's going to be an iceberg video about all of this in the distant future 😆
Same
Because they want our lives! Wasting our time brings them money... Interesting, huh? Never heard of this guy, nor the girls.
Same!
Why did I watch this entire video. Fuck sake
The fact that this video got pushed to so many non country fans just hilariously adds to the whole weirdness of it all 😂
No kidding, not that i don't like CM, but it's far and few.
I’m in that boat too. I actually never listen to country music but I watched this whole video 😅🤷
Yeah I’m like “wait…how did I get here…” but also I can’t stop watching
I dislike country music so much (& my Mother is from Saskatchewan!) that if I go into a store that is playing loud country, I have to take a deep breath and power shop so I can get in and out as quickly as possible before my soul starts going down a sadness spiral... and I was recommended this video and watched it until the last second
yup , weird indeed 🎉
They did a small church concert in my town in about 2013. They were called The Red Roots. They were a Christian band, and the vibes I got was that their family was very controlling and maybe was forcing them to sing and perform.
That's what worried me the moment he mentioned their dad being their manager and them missing out on college. He's been making this a career for them since they were kids and if he's the one whose still controlling everything and he's realized the cash he can make off this weird baby content, everything makes way more sense to me.
I hope the girls are at least able to enjoy their "success" at least...
@@okayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy reminds me of the Shaggs. which honestly is the better band
Was gonna comment that they also performed in my town for our church’s youth group. So weird to see this video 10+ years later
I watching this video right after watching the Duggar family Duggar documentary on Prime where Jill talks about how she received 0 money from the shows and it went all to the dad. These twins seem robotic. I think you might be right.
Thanks for your "vibes" about what "maybe" was happening in 2013 lol
I love this kind of video, where someone I’ve never heard makes a well-produced deep dive into a subject that they are compelled by. A fascinating glimpse into an obscure phenomenon and someone else’s brain. Great job!
I‘m thinking this exactly while watching this video!
WELL, I'm about to drag you back to it. This is called "fetishist farming". Most of their videos cater to niche fetishes like balloon popping, food fights, sensory play, triplets, redheads etc. It's genius, really because they can totally claim they had no idea....but it's the ENTIRE point. There are MANY accounts like theirs.
Boosting because you're exactly right. I just watched another TikTok creator do a video explaining so much weird content as being fetish-specific. It would be so interesting to know how those sisters came to understand that market, and how they decided to get involved in it. Maybe a savvy manager got ahold of them and explained all the money they could be making. What a departure from their Baptist Country roots.
My brain 🧠 just exploded....because this all makes sense!
Ohhh and I was thinking they bought followers or something. But this makes a lot of sense.
@darukineo i think it's a mixture of both!!! fetish farming and bought followers.
YES YES YES to this..... exactly!!!!
Taylor Red: “Please consider adding our NEW single to your Spotify playlist”
Grady: “Best I can do is spend a year making a 30 minute exposé”
This is fucking gold. lol
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
YESSSS 😂
Ha! Yes!
💀
In a alternate universe Grady added them to his Spotify playlist, and they became a legit country band instead of making fetish videos.
our man basically sold them into modern slavery not adding them to his play list XD
This group has been showing up on TikTok for me FOREVER and the vibes have been bugging me this entire time, it’s been YEARS at this point and I’m so glad someone picked up the same energy I did. Thank you so much for taking a look into this!
Same girl
Same here, I dunno how I feel. It's annoying
It's so comforting to watch someone else going down an absolutely pointless rabbit hole that will never have a satisfying conclusion. I'm also invested now lol
Same! 😂
Imr!!????
-“ thank God it ain’t fucking me this time!!”
-what you and I are thinking!! 😂😂😂😂
We are infected lol
He's a good promoter
Reminiscent of Milli Vanilli
My boyfriend and I have a running theory about this type of robot like content. It feels VERY heavily geared towards children. Bright colors, easy to understand even if there are no words spoken, high energy that is not normal in day to day life. Kids eat it up. This is where the views come into play because kids are the ones sitting scrolling for hours on end, but not old enough to fully engage in the content with comments or to seek them out on other platforms like twitter (which kids typically don’t have). Kids content is also really marketable and brand partnership worthy. It just helps to answer the question of why the engagement never matches the view counts. This is true on a lot of channels and accounts that make this child like content. Kids watch but don’t engage as often
Then why wouldn't American kids watch it? It's mostly Indonesian, Pilipino, Brazilian viewers
If this is being targeted at them, which it can perfectly well be the case, there's something very, very wrong with these girls.
@@donnawinters3587 Those demographics can't go to Twitter easily and cancel RUclips by tomorrow. I also doubt their parents would understand that this is creepy fetish material and would find no reason to.
This type of thing was exposed nearly a decade ago, it definitely seems it's finding a resurgence.
Totally! When he showed the top RUclips creators they were among the ones watched by kids.
Gross cause some of the content is giving me fetish vibes like 5 minute crafts and kids are watching this.
this also explains why younger non english viewers would watch them too. less language, more visual. i would imagine more visual content could translate to more viewers worldwide, without a language barrier to separate them.
and obvs the fetishy aspect probs plays into to their viewership too. but sadly fetish/kids content have had a disgusting blend as of lately.
as a twin, them making identical triplets their whole personality makes me want to dip my face in piranha solution
ur racist
as an identical twin, no, i can promise you that the harmony does not come naturally
I assumed as much tbh 😂😂😂😂
as a Brazilian who's utterly uninsterested in American country music I'm completely clueless as to why youtube's algorithm would recommend this vid to me. but I'm so glad it did! I was hooked the entire time. looking forward to part 2 if there's one!
Caraca, pior que esse vídeo foi recomendado hoje também do nada, mas acabei me intrigando com a história kkkkk
Foi recomendado pra mim também hahahaha, assisti tudo e AMEI
Eita!!
If you watch commentary, thats probably why it got recommended to you. Thats how it got recommended to me.
@@3v068 Yep. Seems to be the case.
With regards
0 interest in music related content here and especially country lol, from Sweden
this is the exact reason why i'll never give my baby an ipad because then they'll end up watching creepy triplets make borderline fetish content
I feel like “Borderline” is VERY generous of you to say. lol
I thought the same thing but then i remembered being a kid in a strict house and it did nothing for me, and i was a kid/teen before the internet
I still saw porn from the kid that had the hidden magazine in the woods, still heard and saw shit that my parents didn't want me to, and when my very strict father died when i was 11 i quickly went down hill and by 18 i would consider myself a drunk and budding drug addict, which became a full blown drug addict by 21/22 and was hooked on pain pills for 15+ years. Not telling anyone how to parent but with my daughter i told her anything she wanted to know and didn't make it scary, didn't try to make her think what i wanted (my parents always told me that drugs and alcohol will kill you or at least put me in jail without telling me why people would even think about doing them, so when i tried them i knew they just lied to me and treated me like a dumb kid) i told my daughter the truth as best i could and explained things through my experiences, shes only 13 but so far, so good. Shes funny, caring, stands up for others, hasn't touched drugs or alcohol, tells me when her friends do, and the most important thing to me that she does, that i was too afraid to do as a kid is, she comes to at least one of us to talk about important things in her life, if not both of us, and thats all i really want from her is to feel comfortable enough to talk to us if she needs help. And im not some hippy dippy, free range, blah blah blah, im old school in a way, i have anger issues due to my past that she helps keep in check, ive punished/yelled at her but ive always taught her if she feels im in the wrong then challenge me and state your case, if im wrong and she makes a good argument then i go over it with her and apologize, also that i have very little control over her now and in a few years ill have absolutely no control of what she does or who she becomes so its my job to make sure at 18 she can leave if she wants to and she'll be prepared for the world ahead of her, which includes me talking to her at 4yrs old about kid nappings and sexual creeps, explaining as best i could why these people do these things, what to look out for, as a women she has a way higher chance of being attcked, etc. Never held anything back but when i told her about something new it wasnt a 5 minute convo, it was 30/60 mins right then and there, and also reminders and new information i might have forgotten or described wrong. Shes only 13 and it could go to shit next week but im proud of the young lady she is, and positive about the amazing woman she'll become. Sorry this was long but i gush over my daughter when children are brought up because i can't believe a loser like me that fucked up 2/3rds of his life by the time she was born could be 33.3% involved in helping a beautiful soul like hers flourish (her mother 33.3%, me 33.3% and my daughter herself is the other 33.3% because kids are sponges but not all of them learn the same, like me who was a total fuck up for 30 years)
If you dont want to read that whole comment i guess the bottom line of it was kids outside of your home will show/teach/say/do/etc your kid things they don't have access to or knowledge of so the way i looked at it was, I'd rather teach her how to use these things that are everywhere and not going anywhere, including teaching her about all the bad so that when she is shown things by others she knows how to handle herself. Basically i love that little shit and im proud of who she is right now. If you dont teach them, someone else will.
@@thegreendank1 that’s you. Not everyone’s journey will be the same
@@thegreendank1 paragraphs are your friend, friend.
Balloon popping is the first BIG red flag. For some reason, this is a very popular fetish, and is something many sex content creators use to draw attention to their pages because it is guaranteed to pass content restriction checks- nothing graphic or overtly sexual about balloon popping, so it’s a great way to get around those pesky community guidelines, and reach your target audience for your _other_ content.
Twins and triplets is also another fetish thing. And redheads. And food stuff. And also the gasping/shocked stuff. Really hitting all the usual marks. 😬
And I thought I knew about kinks.. balloon popping is a new one to me. Wild
They're fans are on FetLife!!😂😂😂😂
Watching their videos feels like the perfect manifestation of the empty internet theory. If they actually are just three sisters that have found a market for their fetishy, cringe shorts, more power to them I guess. You're not wrong though, the whole thing just feels off.
They also named their band in a perfect way to be *impossible* to search for anyone posting raw concert footage because the same tags and keywords that someone may use to post would be completely swamped with Taylor Swift, Red content.
I was thinking this. They took an already famous person/bands name. It’s completely possible some of their sponsors thought it was Taylor Swift.
@@simplesimply3753 lol I highly doubt the sponsors thought they were Taylor Swift haha, that would be a big brand deal there’s no way they could overlook that.
I thought that straight away but for the opposite reason. If people type in Taylor Red, looking for Taylor Swift's album Red, they could come across their channel and subscribe. Especially since they're a country band, they might have been hoping on some of Taylor's fans who love her old country style. They will have been disappointed but I know I've subbed to channels before based on one video then never watched anything else of theirs again but just never bothered to unsub. It'd explain their high number of followers to low numbers of views ratio, to some degree anyway.
especially with the "TV" after their username... after the release of Red (TV)
@@ravencce Good catch! I don't know how I didn't notice that myself.
Hey Grady, I actually worked at one of their concerts as a video switcher. We weren't allowed to record so my job was mainly for the in house screens. As you said in the video, Taylor Red was playing for an entirely elderly crowd. It was interesting too as they were introduced as social media famous, for a not social media savvy group. If you were wondering, they only played covers of country songs
post the video to your youtube i’d love to see it
@@flobz7465 He said they weren't allowed to record.
@@belajadevotchka2 oh i read it wrong oops
The balloon popping screams some type of fetishized thing to me
what ...? not allowed to record.... ??? who ever does that...???
The main mystery to me is the Susan tweet, based on your assertion that she rarely tweets (so I'm assuming she doesn't congratulate every channel passing milestones).
The rest seems like J-idols with seedy management, exploiting teenagers' dreams of the stage.
Thank you for this random deep dive! I'm always fascinated by cases like this. As a professional Social Media manager, I can pretty much guarantee that the majority of views and followers on their accounts are fakes/bots, probably bought with the same money that pays for their well produced recordings and music videos. For influencers of their type, we usually say that an average of about 5-10% of engagement (of the total number of views) is normal. They seem to be ions away from that and their Twitter following is another indication that their legitimate followers are probably in the low 4 figures. This might seem innocent enough, but if they're using these fake numbers to score sponsors and partnerships with major brands, then that's actually a form of fraud. Let's hope that companies do their due diligence and have capable managers that can spot this before losing them a lot of money.
Grady, you're not crazy. Their DAD is behind all of this. Find the dad and you will know how he orchestrated all of this since the beginning. He's also behind the LIVE ONSTAGE business.
Clearly, a sort of Jamie Spears situation going on here.
@@marcelaleiva1043 yep thats what i think
Too bad "wear yellow if you need help" won't work since they've probably done any absurdity possible. Plus they don't engage with comments so probably not allowed onto social media. Shit, this could be real bad. And how many more other cases of this kind of slavery that we haven't heard about..
My mom used to buy Insta comments/likes/followers from a weird website called Fiver (she wasn't even trying to be an influencer, she just liked the validation even though it was fake... I also think she was trying to get attention from a celeb she had a crush on, LONG STORY). But yeah the comments and engagement of these videos looks a LOT like that. Same weird spammy comments, and inflated fake engagement. They probably intended to do a 'fake it until you make it' thing, but kinda like Grady said, ended up realizing the algorithm responded to fake viewership and actually dragged some real viewership in, which generated real money... Something they weren't really making before. Being real "artist" like Travis Scott did that, and actually found real success from it. I feel indifferent as its probably more bands/singers than any of us would think got their start doing crap like this. That being said, I don't like the slightly fetlshy vibe being mixed with something clearly made for children. That... Is actually off-putting.
Of course. Anytime you see a very young family "band" on the pop "music" scene, it's always as a result of the parents. See: the jackson 5, billie eilish, Taylor swift, all the rest...
This scared the crap out of me because it gave me the same exact disturbed feeling I get when I see the weird "kids content" my little nephew watches. There is a lot of content out there that's different than what I watched as a kid... something's off about it... you're onto something for sure.
It's 'subliminally fetish-y'
Kids content and fetish content overlap immensely, especially on tiktok. Often on purpose to maximize amount of viewers. Very disturbing imo
The very visual/non-verbal focus also opens up the markets they can reach: literally anyone who has eyes, no need to speak the same language or any yet for that matter:)
this, so true.. I really wonder whatever happened? Or why did companies even bother back then to produce e.g. cartoons with a proper story? I already felt that same weird way when the switch to 3d-animated cartoons happened. Most of all I wonder whose parents would ever allow their kid to watch this kinda tiktok brain-melting, cringy garbage? It physically pains me.
It’s fetish stuff. The food and drinks exploding on them, balloons popping, triplets…. And countless more weird shit.
So my best guess: they started out in music, but started doing the videos. The audience for their videos is vastly different than the potential audience for their music. The videos have quirky international silliness appeal (similar to the others you showed) and that audience wouldn't be interested in country music (other than some small percentage that gives them a try). So they are really leading two different lives - one in which they do videos for the sexy/silly/fetish appeal, and then are doing their tours and music in the other life. We normally think of these things having synergy and working together, but maybe they figured they need to keep them relatively separate so that the video part can be more successful.
Agreed
This was a fascinating deep dive and I really admire your commitment to unearthing the truth to this story!!
Also thank you for highlighting the rise in weird videos that are flooding these social media platforms - whether it’s fetishist, or creators throwing everything at the wall and hoping something breaks through the algorithm, it’s weird and unnerving
After watching this great story be told and now reading the comments, I find it weird how many people (like myself) said this video was recommended to them apparently by the YT algorithm. We are not country music lovers, do not regularly search for country music artist and had never seen one of Grady’s videos before, but YT kept pushing this video to us. That just strikes me as kind of suspicious given the nature of this video topic.
Well, I for one watch exposes a lot abs tons of music videos so it’s not outlandish that a music channel that does exposes would be recommended to me despite the genre. It’s not that deep. I hate country music, but finding out another industry Plant group exists. It’s fascinating to me.
Well I personally have been watching lots of TikTok expose/analysis videos lately, so for me this recommendation makes sense 😄
Yes, RUclips kept pushing this to me, too!
RUclips is an 80% male audience discussing conspiracies and corruption.
Same for me. This was recommended to me, so I thought “Why not?”, but I watch zero music contents on RUclips. Literally zero. This is kind of weird.
As someone who doesn't follow country music and has never seen a Grady Smith video in my life, I followed the drama surrounding a tumblr girl band that was called the Tramp Stamps quite passionately, and assumed this video would be about another funny industry plant. What a weird rabbit hole: I loved it.
I miss the tramp stamp drama , that’s also why I am watching this video 😂
SAME
Now what I found odd is that I hadn't heard about the Tramps stamps at all, yet found three channels i regularly follow who had talked about the tramp stamps and I just missed happened to not see their videos. I think when it comes to the algorithm stuff, all of it makes sense if we had more of an honest explanation of how it chooses what it thinks we want to watch.
Same!!
Yeah, I was waiting for the photos of Taylor Red at Stonewall.
What a weird and interesting deep dive into a thing I knew nothing about and wasn't really interested in, and came through to the other side completely nonplussed. The sort of weird mystery, sinister vibe really hooked me in! Love these kinds of videos.
From country farmers to content farmers, how poetic.
I'm honestly really scared for kids growing up on this kind of stuff, it feels really off. Thanks for bringing attention to this
It feels like grooming content for some reason. That or the kind of child-adjacent fetishey content that weird adults would consume. Both? Idk it creeps me out
ITS ACTUALLY A FETISH THING...
@@alexia3552 Likely the latter, but it immediately reminded me of those baking videos that have creepy voiceovers of awful stories that groom kids.
Don’t have any kids. If I ever do I’m gonna do my darnedest to keep them from screens until adulthood. Might as well give them hard drugs as let them have a cmeraphone
Y’all must have never had any fun. I assume y’all also never watched three stooges or icarly. I have 2 kids and they like this type of content it’s honestly mind numbing but so was high school musical for the 15th time my parents had to watch it. Children don’t have refined tastes that doesn’t mean they never will
I think the thing that feels weird is exactly why tiktok in general can be super weird. It's weird kid-targeted brain poison that is also mildly suggestive. It is so so weird.
China Inc. sowing confusion and discord in the US.
Seems like TikTok is functioning as the ultimate infant babysitter these days
TikTok is CCP cyber weapon designed to destroy the minds of American youth.
Their content is def fetish content, not actually intended for kids. The balloons were the dead giveaway.
And also owned by the Chinese government and operated as a way to build databases on people. The app takes all your videos pics locations texts etc.
Holy shit. I've seen these weird videos and it never clicked with me. I moved to Hurley, MS like fourteen years ago and it's right next to Wade. These girls were all the rage in our little Pentecostal Movement when they started out. I'm pretty sure I actually have one of their CDs somewhere that I got when I went to hear them sing. I'm so glad I stuck this one out. I about damn keeled over when you revealed that part.
Let me add a whole new level of weirdness to this whole situation.
I came across your video as a result of somebody posting the link as a reply to a tweet by a parody account named "Christian Nightmares" in which they posted one of their short videos doing the whole rice thing.
I initially didn't watch your video but read the comments and found the one where someone mentioned something about "fetish farming", did I screencap and posted it as a reply.
Then sometime over night I noticed somebody replied to my reply by posting a link to this video.... Which I thought it was weird because that's where the comment came from.
This morning I watched your video, which is absolutely fascinating and I'm glad I did, and I realized this reminded me of something else that I had run into a few times, a channel named Ratata and about which I had tweeted in the past for similar reasons as you. I found my original tweet and I went to post it in the tweet by Christian Nightmares as an example of something similar.
But as I scrolled down older replies I noticed that the person who posted a link to this video on my reply had actually gone down almost all the replies and reposted the same link... No text, no comment, just the link to this video.... Even on replies that had a link to this video already... Almost as if someone had gone and automatically replied blindly.
And then I saw it. I didn't noticed it at first but there it was....
The person posting the links to this video is named...
Ben Taylor.
I’m in marketing and I think you nailed it when you said they’re getting attention from sponsors because they have a huge following. If I had to guess, I’d say the weird content is a means to make money. The money helps them buy fake followers (which is cheap and easy to do.) They probably paid that promotion company to make them look legitimate. It’s all a well orchestrated hustle, most likely from some girls who tried to make it as musicians and failed. They figured out how to game the system.
I'd bet you're probably pretty close to the truth here.
It would seem so incredibly shallow to me if I was one of the sisters. The three of them have to be completely on the same page with this bizarre and lukewarm content. How long can they pursue making these soulless videos? Perhaps after Grady's expose we'll get some honesty.
This is 100% it.
considering where their views and comments are from i think this is 1000% what is happening
@@OlYables as long as it makes bank
This video was about so much more than Tayler Red. It's kind of a huge relief to know that there are so many other people that are creeped out by the weirdness of those tiktoks. Thank you.
I am weirded out by why people watch them. I keep getting crap like that in my tiktok feed and can only stop it by blocking the channel. Which takes longer than it does to skip to the next.
I am genuinely not understanding the appeal in the short looping videos in general. I think its my brain though. I have tried to engage with it and i find it just shows me crap videos and the ones i like are not worth seeing 100's of crap. I had the same feeling with vine. I just dont get it.
@@brettmastema7056 its kids that don't really make choses
@@nate567987 well, that's why there are parents, and if the parents are not doing their job. Then it's not society's job to be obligated to safeguard the world for them. If the parent is harming the kid remove the kid and put them in foster care.
now I can’t stop thinking about this sister group this is so weird, I’ve went to their channel and it is pretty weird, I’ve also tried to find other videos of RUclipsrs talking about Taylor red and this is the only video …. So thank you Grady smith you have passed the infection on to me as well now I won’t be able to get any sleep until I find out more about them and why they are so popular yet so unknown 😂😂😂
Thanks for clearing this up (or at least attempting to.) I’ve seen their cringy videos on Facebook and they drive me crazy. At least you provided something on them.
Met these girls in 2016. They were absolutely normal and quite talented. I'm so confused right now with their content. I have a picture with them as well. This is just weird.
Did they sing live?
My only theory is they have a manager who's focusing on tiktok but is too old to know how to actually engage with it, so they use bots and algorithmic content instead of actually promoting music. Haven't finished the video yet so I'll see if I'm right
@halohanni1073 did they sing or just meet and greet?
They sang and they were very talented
@@amberwingtundrawing776 i think the same, they signed to bad company or just that company actually want more viral/view so the band more known worldwide before doing the actual thing. Lol
The short answer: They make way more money playing the algorithm than they ever would as a z-tier music act. Maybe if they can ever get away from the weirdos they're contracted to they'll change, but let's all be honest here: If we could make 4-5 figures a month popping balloons we'd do the exact same thing.
Lol half the reason I watched the whole video was to see if Grady would somehow inadvertently spill the beans so I could also stop my 9-5 grind and pop balloons, making hundreds of thousands of dollars each month
100%
I think in spite of how mysterious it might look, it's just this simple. A buck's a buck, you know.
I will totally pop the shit out of some balloons for that kind of income. You can always create the art you love when you have the capital from doing the crap that is just for the money.
They are triplets. That's their cash in. Everyone would find it amusing 3 identical young atractive red hair girls doing inuendo things. Dressing in bright colors, having their hair done in three diferent ways, talking at the same time. Its true: is all obtain trough fetishist fishing. They can loose youth, become to old to do this things but... they would still be tripplets. So.. cashing!
This video somehow made it to my timeline but wow what a rabbit hole you dug in to. It definitely feels like all this content and such is forced onto these girls and that's unfortunate if true. Missing out on college and such when it might not be your choice to do so is rough. Especially when doing content like this, the social skillset and such you develop can be underhanded imo. Either way, incredible video, great work on the research and splicing it all all together for us!
I wish I could subscribe for other bizarre deep dives, but I’m not into country. But FWIW, this is one of the most bizarre and enjoyable videos recommended to me by the algorithm. If you ever do more weird updates or different deep dives, I hope it gets recommended to me
The fact that this video hit outside of Grady's audience in the algorithm is a funny wrinkle to the story
Yes I've never heard of Grady Smith or these sisters but this randomly pop up and I just watched the whole video!
for real, i've listened to one (1) the white buffalo song and nothing else that's semi country, why am i here?
It’s funny cuz I’ve been terrorized by these triplets, they always show up in my recommended everywhere. RUclips, instagram, Snapchat, etc and I always wondered the same exact things he did 😂 so seeing this pop up in my recommended was so perfect.
@@ruthhemmings5318 me too
This showed up on my feed and I'm not halfway through yet, but it feels like some sort of rabbit hole that would be covered by Nexpo, Night Mind or Nick Crowley. Maybe not an ARG but just one of those creepy tales of girls that are forced to make videos by some creep and you don't know what's going on behind the scenes.
I’m so glad you posted this. My husband is a Nashville producer and was contacted by Taylor Red to write a year ago or so. They ended up bailing, but my husband and I were both so weirded out by their content that I’m kind of glad it didn’t work out.
THIS COMMENT RIGHT HERE! this is crazy dude what?!
@@briannasusz Need-more-info
@@XavierAlfeiranSainz good luck with your hunt man 🤞🏻 i know you’re scouring these comments rn 😂
@@briannasusz just think, it's an AI. "I'm totally a normal person and I've seen them in real life." Meanwhile, any real people out there ever see them? 😆 All deepfakes 😅😆
My braaaaaaiiinnnn!!!! Why have I spent time looking this up, too?! I had to watch your video for my writing class and now I'm just as baffled as you! lol!
Here i was thinking i found another normal video commentator talking about a random weird thing on the internet. Nope, he actually specifically talks about the genre of music i listen to the least😂 this was a cool video, if i find anything else im interested in on your channel ill definitely watch
They’re 100% named Taylor Red because of Taylor Swift’s album Red. They added the TV because of “Taylor’s Version” and it works because red was a country album!
That way, people search Taylor red (meaning Taylor swift red) and find these girls instead. They can write TV for Taylor’s version or write country and keep finding these three.
That actually makes so much sense🤯
@@straww_berryyy that's smart
I've thought the same.
edit: i was thinking of Taylor's song "...Ready for it" and confused the titles whoops. thanks @fullsunenthiast for pointing that out!
original comment: And "wait for it..." is the name of another Taylor Swift song that people are on the lookout for, since it hasn't been re-released as a "Taylor's Version" yet.
So any Taylor Swift fan seeing the name Taylor + "Wait for it..." is definitely going to click, or at least be confused for a minute.
Absolutely. Everything about them seems like they have a parent or manager that is pushing them. Like, cramming them down in people's throats until you have no choice but to choke them down.
My brother dated the one with short hair, Natalie, twice. It never worked out. They’re basically not allowed to date. I’ve heard them sing live in a church when they were still red roots. I had one of their CDs and my daughter loved it. I have pictures of them with my kids. In my opinion, they are 100% being controlled. And their voices are actually not good at all. That’s why there is no live footage
I disagree and think their live voices sound great, but I do agree that they're being controlled and that that probably has a lot to do with the way they're perceived by people who actually know them off the internet.
@@torontoluck I agree, they sound fine live, and it is very likely they are being controlled.
@@torontoluck when have you seen them live?
Is it their father that’s controlling or is it a situation where an agent/agency or producer exploits them and they think it’s the only way to make money?
I got the feeling of control, too. Their reactions and expressions all seem... curated, if that makes sense. Like they're redheaded barbie dolls.
I just watched this whole thing and now they got free rent in my brain. As someone who doesn’t even like country music and tends to feel uncomfortable around it, I must say that you seem to be a very chill dude who makes good content and this video certainly kept me interested the whole way through. Good job!
Dude this is nuts, I was halfway through your video when I realized I have seen these girls live. My daughter even has a poster somewhere. I can confirm they’re actually decent live and they do have a good production. I saw them while visiting my grandfather in Texas. They played at a Dell Webb community center for a bunch of retiree’s.
These videos have a very strong content farm vibe.
There are companies out there, mostly in Eastern Europe or Central Asia, that hire hundreds of people to stand around in a warehouse around dozens of sets and just produce content all day long. It's where you get all the 5-minute Craft clones from, for example. But you also get things like this, that is seemingly jibberish with no apparent value.
They do that kind of content because it is quick and easy to make, requires minimal editing and you can make 20 of them in a day, so spending a month can fill a channel with content for over a year of several daily uploads. These companies sometimes run up to 200 channels and some of them have diamond play buttons numbering in double digits.
The more you upload, the more views you get. The more views you get, the more money you get.
Taylor Red is the first I've seen that definitely isn't a warehouse in Central Asia though, so I doubt they are part of a content farm network. They seem to be the rare case of someone copying the content farm formula and succeeding with it.
finally.. i thought i was the only one who thought it had 5 minute craft vibes..
Yes! Another person who got it! Ahhgg I feel like someone else needs to do a real expose because I immediately put all the pieces together and you're covering two of them. Taylor Red is indeed a machine but it's powered by people. It's also just as much a front. What I will give them is its an insane blend of luck, aesthetic, a little bit of talent, the hard work of millions of people working in spam/content farms and a few powerful names to pull the strings, and dedication to working that damn algorithm. The luck is what really makes the algorithm work because all it takes is some tweaking to make big money wheh the starting product is three attractive red headed female triplets. That is a rare and powerful money making combination and they figured it out and made it work. And no Grady, they don't give a damn about being professional musicians anymore.
I find the entire process from content creation to how it is viewed to be completely odd and very sad. It's turning kids into zombies, which I'm sure is entirely the point.
I have job at place.
im an eastern european and travelled literally the whole europe... I've never seen a content farm... Only in China and similar asian countries. Stop belittling usm
I am not on TikTok or Facebook and somehow knew about these girls and felt the same way. Disturbing "child friendly" fetish content that capitalizes on trends. I honestly had the thought they were computer generated at one point because of how odd their movements and behaviors were. Thank you for talking about this!
Those fist pumps are super strange
@@smarti1144 They give me the heebie jeebies, lol
So help me but was only listening and not watching but when he described balloon popping, eating in weird ways my immediate thought was that these videos were for the creepers. Yes possibly also for the illiterate babies 😄 but largely for the weirdos
They are evangelical triplets who have never been allowed to be children or have a life so…… makes sense.
@@mamacito1795 Yeah it's absolutely tailored for both demographics. They are getting the creepers as well as the young kids whose brains are still pudding.
Hi Grady,
I don't listen to country music (my dad did listen to german country in my youth days like "Truck Stop" and "Tom Astor") but i really liked this video.
Thank you for making it and putting in the work. :)
Greetings from Germany,
Alex
I interned for a country radio station in college. That’s the extent of my familiarity with country music.
I have no idea how the algorithm got this video to my feed. That said, bravo. This was a deep friggin’ dive, and I applaud it.
These chicks scare the shit out of me. Not because they are scary, but to me it looks like they are… being held hostage? Super weird vibes. Something’s off, here.
Their name seems like some kind of SEO-based thing. Doesn’t Taylor Swift have a song called “Red”? Maybe they changed their name to get people to accidentally find that when searching?
The Taylor Swift thing makes a ton of sense. It's similar to how the Beach Boys likely became famous because when shopping for records they were almost always right next to the Beatles in alphabetical order. Of course the beach Boys didn't immediately come off as weird, creepy, and fake like these sisters did.
There's something that's so disingenuous and weird about them that beckons me to learn who the hell is really behind this, and what they must be like in everyday life. I think some people truly are NPCs.
I don't know how RUclips decided to show this to me but this was so compelling. One of the weirdest parts is that they haven't gotten any kind of legal action from Taylor Swift considering she has an album called Red.
I was thinking the same, not legal action just if that was the reason for their name. Another comment mentioned they changed name about the same time as Taylor guitar sponsored them (I have no clue, never heard of them, I'll keep listening to that red album by the other taylor though :)
Same but then I figured since RUclips is promoting them that's why this was promoted to us and newer content be RUclips doesn't really know what the content is just as long as it's got the names they want. It was a great video and I couldn't stop watching.
While it may seem that when they changed their name to Taylor Red the triplets were intentionally hitching their wagon to the star of Taylor Swift's "Red" album, their name WAS actually Taylor and their hair was already red. The synergy is almost absurd, but there you have it. It's like when Mattel sued the Barbi twins for trademark infringement. It was "obvious" that they were profiting off their synergy with the Barbie doll, but their name WAS actually Barbi and they actually were buxom blondes. Mattel lost that lawsuit.
Pretty sure that's not how copyrights work. You can't copyright or trademark a commonly used word like red, and Taylor is a name so again, can't be copyrighted. If they had called themselves Taylor Swift-Red, then the other singer would have a case.
@@aislingoharrigan7543 I'm sure you're right, it wouldn't hold up in court. But sometimes lawyers will threaten legal action in hopes the recipient wants to not go to court at all. Mostly joking though. Sorry :)
The response he received from them perfectly brought this whole weird experience full circle.
No it made me question everything again 😭
That response seemed like a computer generated generic response sent to any one who responds to them. I bet if I sent them something I would probably get the same response,
@@troypatterson6013 try it and let us know !!!! I’m so curious.
@@ThatGirlKia13 gonna do it, I'll be back
@@spaceedementia whatd they say?
This was a seriously interesting video for me to watch. Bravo to the creator. I rarely listen to country music. If I do listen or follow a country musician it's old school. Not sure why this video popped up on my RUclips recommendations but I'm glad it did.
This was actually pretty interesting. I had never heard of this band before or even this TikTok channel to be honest. The videos they create are very odd, yet take a lot of editing and attention to detail. I don't on't even understand how someone could create A
And put out that many videos per day.... it just does not seem realistic.
It also seems so weird there is no video footage or photos from people going to their concerts like you had mentioned. Have you tried to find people who went to the concerts or put out a casting call of any one who has ever been to A concert to see if anyone has footage or anything helpful?
I'm sorry they broke your brain but I appreciate this interesting deep dive 🎉
I think they strategically chose Taylor red as their name because Taylor Swift has her album called Red and Taylor was once a country artist too. Like, Taylor is one of the biggest female artists in the game and Red was a huge success, that would mean people looking for Swift, would probably come across them. I think if they ever wanted to get rid of this it would be really easy to hide it under all of Taylor Swifts stuff.
Came here to say this. I think they chose that name so people who were looking for that album or that music, they’d get lost and find them accidentally.
Taylor is there last name and they have red hair
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@alyssa2796 curious what exactly you mean "easy to hide it under Taylor Swift"?
@@AdamCasada its like the thought that disnyey made frozen/called it frozen so people wouldnt google results about walt disneys head being frozen
Honestly, I think you got it pretty spot-on - they wanted to market their music through social media initially, but then they just kinda fell into the weirdly profitable kid's content limbo and tought "well, fuck it, might as well"
I think they also paid for a lot of their views, followers and commentators on other platforms before randomly making it lucky on the RUclips short algorithm.
I don't know if that explains all of it. I dont know we have an clear idea of the mindset or motivations of the girls or their managers or handlers (or even if that is part of it) or if they are knowing what about their content is consciously being done to manipulate the algorithm. I think this one is engaging people because you can't easily say "I see what is happening". I am going to try and see if i can ask a friend who used to work for a company that did that and see if she either can more confidently get what the deal is. Likely its the most boring answer though, Yet my brain still wants it answered.
A lot of people want to believe jibberish comments in other languages are just kids, but it's view bots and comment bots. They leave comments in tons of different languages often that font make sense. I think they bougtt almost all of their 10mil followers personally
Wow such video! Very beautiful! 😍 I comment always TaylorRed always!
Lol for real tho bro this is tight! I expected to just watch like a minute to get the gist and I stayed to the end. I like the summary of it from a few phrases you used - it's like "Going full Charlie Kelley... on a group of adult Teletubbies"
i feel like at this point you need to go to one of their live shows just for this all to come full circle.
My thought this whole video
I don’t think they’re playin anymore bc they are such big influencers now
You can't be somewhere that doesn't exists...
I was expecting that to happen at some point in the video
Fr i want them to come to my small town just so I can get live footage for this poor man
I think you hit the nail on the head- this shit is so lucrative. And yeah a lot of it is fetish content- the balloons, the messy food, the weird food combinations, the really specific hand gesturing- it’s fetish content.
I'm wondering, if these girls actually know what they're doing. Like.. They are always on camera all 3 of them, and their dad is their manager and behind the live production company selling their shows. Just a thought:
The dad has been surfing on some unsavoury sites encountering this fetish material, noticing how popular it is. "Hey, I have three pretty young daughters, and a big part of this fetish stuff is youtube friendly if you exclude nudity from it. You can make money there.... hmmm... I could probably get my girls to step on some balloons and mess around with food on camera... GIRLS!! GIRLS COME IN HERE, I HAVE AN IDEA!..."
Fetish content yep but I don't think they are the ones coming up with the ideas and I wonder if they realize the content is fetish related.
@@NobodysbbyYeah, the post claiming they may be controlled by their dad has me really creeped out. They seemed genuine and nice when I saw them perform live many years back. But they were teens.
What if they want to be musicians and someone is making them do this fetish stuff to make money off them and the three girls think it’s a career move to get their band going?
They had real musical talent (particularly one of them who played violin).
@@Andreamom001 I mean I see what your saying maybe it is the dad but we all thought the psychic twins were good people until slowly people realized they were con artists. I don't know but these girls just look dead in the eyes and their actions are very robotic. They don't look like they are ever actually having any fun. And he said they post 30-40 videos a day? I mean that's just weird no matter who or what is managing them. Whoever they are has a sinister side to them and in sure the girls are not aware if they are then I won't what other fetish related content they make that we are not aware of perhaps on other sites .
Oh my god not the fetish hand movements they make me so uncomfy
Great deep dive into an exhibit of our strange online landscape. Not a huge country guy but I hope this video exposed some who are to the channel. Seems like you make great stuff.
This kind of content that they produce is EXACTLY the kind of thing my five-year-old nephew would watch on RUclips, just endlessly jumping from one video to the next. I think you're onto the right idea with it being for kids who are just looking for something bright and distracting. Honestly it's such a weird, dark corner of the internet that gives me the creeps. Love seeing such a unique, different video approach from you. Really cool vid, great work!
It's like lofi kids show from before the internet. Idk why something simple bright and colorful can seem empty and depressing.
@@johnindigo5477 excellent way of putting it. It is very reminiscent of those low-budget public access tv shows for kids, except with even less substance and theme. It's like those spider man Elsa videos, and the people who make them are weird as hell including these girls. They don't care about or even like kids, they have zero passion for it, they just happened to stumble into this gold mine of low effort kiddie content.
That was my take, it's no different then all those creepy videos of people playing with dolls, low quality content for four year olds. These girls don't even have that great of a hustle, they could be putting in a lot less work for the same result.
Betcha Taylor Red gets bigger than shit when your five year old nephew's a teenager.
Elsagate
I'm not from the US, I've never watched a country music related video before or listened to the music volutarily but now Taylor Red lives rentfree in my head too. Thank you.
same
Damn. That's sad. You're so boring. LOL
Same
same
This video got recommended to me by the RUclips algorithm (or whatever metric they use when deciding which content I might want to watch next). The name of the group does ring a bell, although like you, I've never actually seen them perform live anywhere. Everything about them is beyond my understanding (okay, I can see why people might want to watch three attractive redheads), and now your video about them has 2.3m views, further adding to the TR legend. Yes, I'm baffled.
Being a native Spanish speaker and knowing what international audiences like, I think that their content isn't targeted towards Americans at all. Many videos on Spanish RUclips for instance, is flooded with cringey and juvenile content. For some reason, these videos always have millions of views with little explanation. It seems that Taylor Red just figured out that making cringey content for international audiences makes a lot more money than what one might think.
It seems to tap into the same algorithm of those strange, and inexplicably popular "baby" videos of poorly-animated Disney and Marvel characters interacting and dancing to strange music and sounds. It's the "baby with an iPad" syndrome: flooding the platform with pablum like this is purely view-mining from these naive and (likely foreign, as you point out) markets.
I saw a video about Asian RUclipsrs doing the same thing. When he pointed out the weird costumes that reminded me of view miners.
Very astute
It makes way more sense in that light. I guess part of the uncanny aspect might be the same cultural barrier that makes Japanese game shows and commercials seem so bizarre to the rest of the world
Yup, I do think the content Taylor Red is doing is something that work yhe best for the non english audiences. All it requires is for you understand what is happening visually, so it removes a lot of barriers.
I've also seen kids who don't yet know how to speak binging similar content. It's colorful, it's silly, it's strange. It's like dangling a set of shiny keys in the front of their eyes, with the difference they can quickly jump from one set of keys to other.
Taylor Red, or who ever is behind them, is playing the algorithm game and is doing so very well. They've take the pages from the same play book as those Indian and Chinese RUclips content farms, which push out similar content day after day.
This whole thing is an enitrely self made problem for the social media platforms. In their quest of fast revolving contnent that creates endless revenue streams of advertisement money, they've created an eco system of this kind of mindless fluff.
This was fascinating to me. My vote is that they’re hired to be a social experiment for testing ideas and seeing what sells or attracts. Kinda conspiracy-ish, I know.
Oooo i like it
It’s kinda like Elsa gate
Not really that conspiracy-ish tbh. I do get major Slurms MacKenzie vibes from them though.
@@billhawkins5633 whimmy wam wam wazzle!!
@@seraphim7512 true that
I love that one of the major takeaways of this video is Grady reconciling himself with the unbridled strangeness of yt shorts.
If I have to live in this insane digital entertainment dystopia, at least I'm in it with people like you. Great video.
I cannot stop laughing. This entire video and situation is as hysterical as it is unnerving and confusing. It's like if the concept of 'uncanny valley' had a physical embodiment. The entire situation, from the fact that they are so pervasive in areas of the internet while simultaneously seeming like there is no evidence that they even exist, to the outlandishness of their content, the internet scrubbing... what the hell. I'm obsessed.
Either a legal situation (signed a contract/under threat), and/or some kind of artistic stunt - e.g. the little poppy videos.
There are other strange internet phenomenon, this is probably the least of them.
Another possibility is a weird kind of scam, a sort of catfishing where the original artists aren't aware they are being ripped off. That's unlikely but not impossible, and might partially explain the aversion to live music.
OFC best way to know would be an actual interview. I'm not even sure if this video isn't some sort of publicity stunt.
Anyways, weird stuff. 🤪
I feel like it mostly gets explained in the video - initially unpopular country band - follower inflation through bots - bizarre videos made for kids - getting views from said videos - artificially pumping out more of this brainless subhuman content.
What I'm wondering about is why in the world did RUclips themselves publicise them? That's what I find strangest of all.
Taylor Red used to be my favorite band back when they were the Red Roots. I saw them live in a concert and bought all three of their albums. I still have all those tracks digitally even when they've all disappeared from the Internet. I've always been confused by their rebranding and their tick-tock stuff, and why they've never addressed why they deleted all their red roots music and content. Thank you for making this video and trying to answer some of these questions for them.
God I can only imagine how weird this is to witness as a fan
Trolls gonna troll.
You mean the red sisters are trolls?
@@smsmsmsmsmsm It was! At first, when they rebranded as Taylor Red, I followed their music and Facebook page and it was fairly okay. But not too long after I remember the tic-toc algorithm putting them on my for-you page. I was like, what the heck?
@@lordfahren they literally sold their soul._.
They had a song titled Red Roots years ago that was regularly played on Gods Country ( Maine southern gospel christian country radio station) and all of a sudden it wasnt on anymore and i havent found it on youtube or anywhere yet. I really liked that song
Grady. This was insightful, interesting and well done. I love going down weird rabbit holes like this
*My Theory:*
They were hired by a content-farm-style company in maybe India or Indonesia, and that company is who is actually running the channel, while the girls just produce the videos at the company's direction. The reason they have so many followers with such little engagement is because their videos are designed to appeal to kids, so they're being watched on RUclips Kids _where comments are automatically disabled._
That's my guess. Every time I see a channel with a ridiculous number of views or subscribers and almost no comments, it's always a channel that makes those exact kinds of videos aimed at kids, and every time I see a channel reuse and repost content, it's a content farm. Hiring a triplet country band would be a unique angle though. Never seen that before.
And now I'm dying to know if I'm right!
I am from Indonesia, not into country music, but their shorts, well its like pushed into our (me and my kids) endless scrolls of yt shorts. Best I can do to particular types of short videos (many worse) that are --I think-- 'not of our cup of tea', is just tap that "Don't recommend channel" button.
Yea idk about that
Sounds like they saw what gets trendy
Copied it
Got a bunch of money
And never stopped
I think they wanted to start as a legit band but since that brought nothing to the table they probably had their label or whoever in charge of their social media
Start having them post to tiktok with those brain dead viral videos🎃
What I don't get, is why these "content farms" choose such an uber cringe worthy style for videos? And more baffling is why this uber cringe stuff gets views at all?
@@nancyneyedly4587 little kids
Bright meaningless content that can stare at and drool over with no real thought
Little kids are basically born with an iPad in their hand so ofc they’ll do the quick scroll content without thinking
They just see “omg Elsa” “Omg bright colors” “woAh balloons” and keep watching
I think you are 100% correct on the RUclips Kids thing.
I'll tell you why.
I come from a family who currently consists of many kids in the "mom can I watch RUclips on your phone/ipad?"- age/phase.
I'm the type of person who usually go hang out with the kids at family gatherings, when I feel like the adults become too loud or political (usually followed by comments like "Are you sure you wanna watch the kids while we sit here drinking and talking elections/jobs/tell the same story 16 times? You dont have to if you don't want to/but please do it so we can gossip without having to worry if our kids are clogging the toilet with towels, like last time" and "Aww, look at her, she is amazing with kids.. Anyway, so this bitch Patricia from work is totally BJ'ing the boss").
The kids often sit with each of their parents phones, and kind of "doom scroll" through "kid friendly" RUclips shorts (Im rarely able to convince them to do anything else).
The videos are often the exact same format: Bright pastel colors, 1.5 speed, no sound other than uptempo background music, "pranks", "challenges", foods and liquids, and unboxing toys. And sometimes have the weird fetish-element, too subtle for kids to notice.
And these 3 redheads have popped up NUMEROUS times, and across all the "kids with devices" I've encountered the past year.
When I ask any of the kids who the people in the shorts are, they have no idea/just kinda shrug. Unless its someone dressed as a Disney character.
Who else now wants Grady to make more videos uncovering weird things like this in country music?
Right! It was like telling a story or a deep journalist dive on the subject.
Hopefully a deep dive on Orville Peck ending with an interview where we find out his spot on his research was
Oh, definitely!
I agree! I was very captivated by this video for some reason. Lol
The Amazing Mysteries of Country Music, hosted by Grady Smith
Hey Grady, I am not much of a country music kind of guy and not certain why RUclips recommend your video but I did find it entertaining. Quite an interesting topic this one. Thanks for racking your brain over this so we don't have to. As AI advances though I suspect we will start to see more of this kind of thing: AI generated content tuned by the algorithm for most views. Hopefully it won't turn all our brains to mush... keep up the good work man!
Thank you for making this- I saw this a year ago, and guess who just popped up in the marketing material for a national brand (LoveSac)? I wonder if they know someone in the marketing department or if the brand say their follower numbers and just rubber stamped it. Crazy!
OK, I can confirm the Red Roots history. I live in South Mississippi where the girls are from. They used to perform at local churches and events here. We had them at a fall festival at the church I used to attend and I even recorded that show on video and audio. I'm almost positive I don't have that recording anymore though. I will have to dig through some old hard drives and see. All 3 girls can actually play multiple instruments and sing. They're decently talented so it's weird that there's no live footage. The whole transformation seems incredibly weird. I do remember them being a bit awkward on stage back then but they were preteen or early teens back then though so they didn't have much experience with crowds. If by some snowball's chance I still have the recordings I will definitely share.
I have no doubt they started genuine, but now it's clear subscribers and views were bought, the amount though, is huuuuge.. very expensive! Also seems to be some bots employed, for comments ..what I don't understand, how? If they really did all those concerts as Taylor red, how did NOBODY take any recordings of them!? Not one? And also, the fact that they just make shorts now, up to 30 a day!? That's insane!? So much, they don't even bother to name them different.. it would take atleast an hour to set up sone of those shorts, then you gotta edit, produce, and upload , how do they have so much time!? Such a strange phenomenon, I really hope they are o.k. , and that we get to the truth some day.. for their sake, aswell as our burning curiosity!
@@darianstarfrog I think this is common in a lot of social media sectors. People start out with one thing in mind, but ultimately find their “grift” in a niche…and sometimes have to change that again in a few years in case the channel goes dead. I think that’s reasonable…life is hard and sometimes plans don’t work out. Might as well make that easy money to support you and yours if you’ve lost the original passion.
So far neither Grady nor any comments I've read is addressing the elephant in the room, though -- that they probably didn't start "genuine," they clearly started because their family gassed them up to be a music trio. Which makes sense; one doesn't USUALLY learn multiple instruments by adolescence without coming from a musical family. A lot of teen musicians are legitimately talented, but very few are initially doing it for themselves so much as for their parents. (Not even getting into the niche aspect of Christian music industry.) Even outside of the music industry and parental approval, how many of us are still super focused on whatever our dreams and passions were at 14?
If they've figured out "influencer" content (which isn't so unusual if you've spent time around small kids lately -- weird and robotic, sure, but yeah that's normal now; Troom Troom style) so they can fund their own lifestyle? It might not be selling out so much as simply pursuing their own careers. We don't all grow up to be astronaut ballerinas, or even still actually care about the things we did as kids. Even if that's still being managed, I just hope they get enough of the proceeds from it to enjoy themselves.
@@darianstarfrog You think maybe their views are through some kind of ai /computer programming ? Maybe some of their videos are ai deep fakes too?
@@darianstarfrog It's more likely that some footage was taken of them performing, the footage was posted on RUclips and the people managing this, LiveOnStage, immediately send out a copyright strike and youtube removes the video. They may even send out cease and desists for good measure. It's possible that this company is also running their social media and may be the ones making most of the money, so they would have a vested interest in keeping them small. After all, when a band starts getting traction they are very likely to replace the small company, that got them there, for a larger one that, can take them farther.
Oh my gosh, I totally remember seeing them at an event at my grandparents’ church when I was like 12 (so like 2013/2014) and I got a picture with one of them that I still have. We bought their Red Roots CD and my mom would play it fairly often in our car. I totally thought I hallucinated it all though once I found the Taylor Red page so I’m glad I’m not actually crazy
Do you still have the CD?!?!?!?!?!
@@matthewstevenlinder Not sure. If we do, it’s buried in storage. But my family also moves a lot so purging is very normal for us and is more likely what happened to it. I remember liking the songs enough, though I’ve never been big into country music, that’s more my mom’s thing which is why she bought the CD in the first place. I even did fanart for them which they responded to on their Facebook (they were very small at the time, definitely didn’t have the huge TikTok following that they have now)
@@rellimeelrahc oh too bad. Would have been cool to hear what their music sounded like! But that's super cool either way.
@@matthewstevenlinder I still have the one we bought back then! My wife saw them as contestants on The Great Bible Challenge (hosted by Jeff Foxworthy) where they did, in fact, sing live during it and she bought their Red Roots CD (which was pretty good) and she or my son still play it from time to time.
But do you remember a cornucopia on the fruit of the loom label?
Omg, fell down this rabbit hole, over a year ago. Saw their music video first pushed on RUclips...Subscribed and it was just those same repeated videos 24/7 and I lost interest.
Still Subscribed to their channels except TikTok, because I will never lose my mind enough for that nonsense.
Only thing I found "normal" since then was a random video of one sister saying she had a serious illness...THEN BACK TO THE BALLOON STOMPING, POPPING, JUNK EATING WEIRDNESS!!!
I found this video because I watched your The Band Perry video and...Wow kind of weirdness goes with the territory the past several years.
I mean like you I believe they have potential as singers, just fell into the blackhole of bad contracts and they have had no momentum.
I mean they came along a year after Lindsey Stirling and she was rejected on America's Got Talent, and she now has a huge following on RUclips and not BOTS and bizarre foreign commemters. I was at one of Lindsey's concerts in 2021, and they would have been a great opening act and or co-headliners...If they had more than a weird huge non-following fanbase.
I might be able to help with the "weird gibberish type of comments" and a few other things... So I've never seen videos from your channel before but for some reason this video popped up in my suggestions so i started watching, my 7 year old sat next to me the whole time not paying attention to what i was watching, jump to the part where you mention turning on incognito to see what type of shorts pop up, and all of a sudden my son's attention is on you and your video, he sees whatever short you put up as an example.. My son says "hey! I've seen that one before! I've watched that short! Why are you watching shorts mom?". I say "I'm not, it's a regular video that's talking about shorts yada yada". Right after that, he goes back to what he was doing. Also, i will say that there's been a few times where he's left comments on a short he really liked or thought was funny.. But he's 7, so lots of emojis and lots of "i really like your:..." in his comment. He will also subscribe to a ton of channels because that's what it says in the description or what the content creator says they would like you to do. So i have to go back periodically and unsubscribe and remind him that he doesn't have to do that just because the video said to. Plus explain why people say "like, subscribe, click that bell". He's also said that sometimes the same short will pop up several times when he's watching it that he's "seen that one" so many times and that they person "is always posting that same video style". He only uses RUclips though and not tiktok.
It may be something similar to what's going with them, their views, their follower counts, their lack of any real back and forth connection with viewership in the real world. It could just be that they're stuck in the kid content vortex on tiktok.
Being an identical twin myself…
This behavior is super creepy and I’m really glad our parents never did any of this “matching” crap to us.
The college I went to had a pair of twins that went out of their way to be exactly the same. They dressed the same, walked in sync, and tried their damndest to speak in unison and finish each others sentences. I think a lot of it was that we went to a small school so if you had a recognizable “thing” you’d be like a campus celebrity and they probably just enjoyed the idea of the attention but… for 4 years? 😬
Hahah I've always wondered if twins actually like the matching thing.
My younger brothers are twins and they have different personalities but very identical faces. Our Mom did the matching outfit thing and luckily in opposite colors coz it helped us identify one from the other when they were little. My Mom got really cute childhood photos and I dont understand why my brothers cringes when Mom posts them online. They hate wearing identical things and they're adults now so Mom cant make them do anything. As an elder sister who really loved having a pair of cute brothers I can dress up anyway I want, I wish they didnt grew taller than me.
that’s the thing i was always concerned about with twins )):
Honestly what's weird to me is these girls are 31 years old and they're making tiktok videos like they're teens. Not saying they're too old for tiktok but the content of their videos are what young teens do. It's like they started out as a serious act and when that didn't work out, they're trying to regress into a much younger audience, but now it's just comes off as weird.
This was a great piece of investigative journalism. I wish mainstream journalism worked this hard and was this honest. It kept this 72 yr old non country fan engaged.
You should look up Friendly Jordies. Australian investigative journalist. Specifically his Bruz series. Fascinating stuff. Think you'd like it.
Man I feel you with this video. I think many of us do. Sometimes we get caught down a rabbit hole and none of it makes sense but we keep pushing for those answers
this is almost exactly how a few of the small kpop group/female personality channels ive seen on YT run. Part of this on their end is where theyre aiming the video. Theyre bands while being influencers but the mausical side of things never seem to draw much attention but the other job of videos props that dream up. Its not secret apps like tiktok prop up and boost people that fit their box of what their intention is, which I believe is to literally rot peoples brains from the looks of it and its working. I also suspect bots from whatever management team they have subscribing tons of bots. They have an awful sub to view ratio across the board.
I am so glad to see that other people are seeing how creepy their stuff is. This isn't the content people want, it is the content the platforms push at ALL of us no matter what our actually viewing habits may be.
But it's not creepy, it's just silly and stupid, the algorithm doesn't make people want, it feeds the want.
@@dionysusnowIt is fetish content.
Kids, their target demographic, do not see this as "fetish" content, you do.
they push it to all of us but mostly young kids,
@@ToryIsCooliest "Fetish content" ?!?!??!
Bro... what?
I think that they realised it is hard to make it in music so they shifted to social media in order to capitalise on their unique selling point of being attractive triplets.
Attractive, shallow, triplets, they certainly exceeded their potential.
I believe you’re dead on
This! I think it's obvious
Most of their followers being from Indonesia/India is a huge flag for bots
@@highbread817 INDIA!?No,no,no,no we only listen to our own music
i usually dont comment on videos but i just have to say that i really enjoyed listening to you and that id love to see more of you in the future. keep it up!
Late to the party and don’t see it in the comments but don’t forget Taylor Swift has a very popular album called Red, plus at 24:25 in this video middle triplet is wearing an outfit that has the same color pairing as a very distinctive Taylor Swift red carpet outfit. Wonder if there’s some search manip going on
This reeks of all the weird children's video stuff that got banned a few years back, but they've somehow managed to circumvent the restrictions. I would say your speculation that some creepy manager is controlling them to make all this content is incredibly likely. If we're to believe they are real individual humans with their own minds, maybe one of them will desert the others and come clean some day... Incredible rabbit hole reporting! Hope you make more like this
what your saying reminds me of another case of a "chiristan" tiktoker i think that may be likely many people out there are trying to use chiristany or many other religions to excuse terrible behavior but even if its not that this case is still strange
It’s honestly so bizarre. They’re all so similar; someone must be directing this strange approach to entertainment production
i thinks it's absolutely kids watching this weird type of short. That stuff was banned because it hid lots of horrible things in it. These videos are weird but innocent.
There content is mostly fine and they're doing whatever gets them views. Just pumping out same silly content
@@Xander1Sheridan Exactly. These videos are completely innocent, but they just FEEL so insidious because they use a lot of the same tactics and content style as those horrible videos.
Grady, I've never heard of you or Taylor Red but I just watched this entire half hour. You did an excellent job! The format and editing was intriguing and now I'm going to tell this story to my friends. What a strange rabbit hole you took me down, I love RUclips!
Same. Lol
Same.
Yup that'll be me too
nice that there's a space for us folks
Same! He's very good at setting up the mystery and keeping us intrigued
Omg I’ve had these girls’ sort of strange weirdly kid friendly videos pushed to me in YT shorts and on TikTok SO MUCH and had zero idea they were a band lmao. It feels like they’re weirdly connected (or their parents are?) to be able to push these videos so hard. It’s bizarre. Gives me vibes of the whole Elsagate thing
I've never heard of you before, and I've never heard of these girls before...
I am totally unimpressed with these girls, and never need to hear about them again.
You, on the other hand, did an excellent job presenting this story and provided some solid entertainment that I'll never need to revisit lol.
Well he still got you to engage, so that was a win to the algorithm.
The biggest takeaway for me is that too many parents are letting their toddlers stare at an iPad for hours watching only God knows what
It's the entire reason for the absurd amount of views on this type of trash content, and is very similar to the Elsa Gate phenomenon.
Yes exactly
Correct.
I went to the same school as these three, my brother played various peewee sports with there brother growing up. I can remember sitting next to my Mother playing Tetris on my Gameboy while my mother chatted with there Mom while she was pregnant with her. I saw that, to express my gratitude for this video. I check on the growth out of curiosity and it just never made sense to me. So to see this deep dive is a bit comforting, because there growth, views, plays etc etc just never made sense to me and I couldn't wrap my head around it. Thank you for the deep dive and the information. I will now commence into spreading rumors that they were never real and an early verion of AI/robot. /s
Man i remember getting a photo with these girls at a Michael w smith concert. Had no idea who they were but they sang pretty well back when they were red roots. That’s wild where they ended up I completely forgot about them
I'm not a subscriber and I don't listen to country music very often but this is a fantastic video that contributes to show how the byline of music, artistry, media corporation influence, and just consumerism in general all go hand in hand so well. It was mad entertaining and love the way you introduce the topic and the mystery surrounding these women, their rise, and their influence.
@notfiveo I have an album by the archies
Wow really well stated
Completely agree
exactly, took the words out of my mouth
It is essentially what radio did to us for years. Lol brainwashing. Implied consent. Lol 😅
Thank you for making this haha. I needed to know that there’s a community of people who are also freaked out by their fetishy content. They’re like weird fetish robots and their controlled mannerisms are so uncomfortable and cringy.
Agreed! I don't listen to country music at all and had no idea that they actually made music but I get their content pushed to me on RUclips and Instagram.
I agree... they give me mind controlled vibs
I'm with you 100% When I went down the Tramp Stamps rabbit hole, it creeped me wayyy out and borderline scared me. But after learning about Taylor Red from Grady, the Tramp Stamps seem as authentic as Sturgill Simpson. And this video absolutely made me feel more than lightweight terrified.
Imagining little kids essentially working as like-subscribe-comment slaves in some 3rd world clickbait sweat shop is a dystopian nightmare. But ironically, it almost feels more sinister to imagine children are voluntarily consuming this content out of their own free will (because even slaves have more agency than zombies). I also thought of Black Mirror, as Grady proposed.
Taylor Red is a microcosm of an insipid virus in the greater social media landscape, and it fills me with revulsion. Somehow, I still feel like I need to go deeper down this demented rabbit hole.
I just considered that in the near future, a video like this might be auto-generated by AI just for me, based on my internet footprint. Which would mean that Grady himself is an AI robot. Or maybe that isn't the future...it's actually what I just watched. Hahaha, sweet dear lord baby Jesus help me! Time to go for a walk.
I'm intrigued and I'll keep watching til the end, but I will say, what a thing to spend so much time on.. I mean I think half an hour is the limit haha. But tbf in this day and age that's decent going to get attention for on RUclips