FREAKBAiT

FREAKBAiT is an Americanhttps://freakbait.com/ About Section "FREAKBAiT is a California-based multimedia creator that emerged circa 2016" YouTuber, animator, musician, author, comedian, and voice actor.
==Content==
FREAKBAiT is best known for his viral TODAY'S MISSIONhttps://knowyourmeme.com/memes/freakbaits-todays-mission series consisting of hundreds of short calls to action for absurd pranks, social engineering, and culture jamming. The videos encompass VHS-style animations featuring glitchy, colorful characters performing the calls to action in the video, oftentimes with ludicrous or incongruous visuals.
==History==
FREAKBAiT created his channel on November 21, 2016, but didn't begin consistently uploading videos until mid 2021. Before then, he uploaded one music video on April 2, 2018 for a song titled Crime Passionnel and then went into hiatus until August 23, 2021. Since then he has posted over 230 episodes of the TODAY'S MISSION series, over 100 comedy shorts, over a dozen episodes of FREAKBAiT NEWS, and several episodes of BUTTCRACK MIRROR.https://www.youtube.com/@FREAKBAiT/videos 
Albeit much more popular on Instagram (1.8M followers) and Tiktok (2.6M followers), he has found moderate success on the Youtube platform with 815k subscribers to date. His most popular video is currently a compilation of the first thirty missions of the TODAY'S MISSION serieshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fe0vuKjRzOo. His most popular short is currently TODAY'S MISSION: Teleportation Cornerhttps://www.youtube.com/shorts/3rAklNLQxfQ with over 8.6M views as of August 2024.
During late 2023, FREAKBAiT held an unsuccessful Voidman plushie campaign with Makeshiphttps://www.makeship.com/products/voidman-plush in which only one plushie was created. 
In August 2024, FREAKBAiT held a successful crowdfunding campaignhttps://www.diggersfactory.com/vinyl/320100/mookielaka-no-room-left for a limited 7" vinyl pressing of the Mookielaka single "No Room Left" which has become the impromptu theme song of the TODAY'S MISSION series. Three hundred individually numbered records were produced in total. 
In October 2023, an articlehttps://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/article/2023/10/02/sur-tiktok-le-profil-mission-du-jour-et-ses-videos-virales-accuses-de-plagiat_6192049_4408996.html was published in French-language international news site Le Monde about a viral series of videos that plagiarized FREAKBAiT's TODAY'S MISSION series without credit. FREAKBAiT created a series of videoshttps://www.youtube.com/shorts/e2_0JU7B0vEhttps://www.instagram.com/p/Cwus9XgO_4C/https://www.instagram.com/p/Cwv5RshvkyL/ alluding to this situation and directly referencing the plagiarists, even going so far as to create a French translation of the serieshttps://www.instagram.com/officialFRENCHBAiT/.
Throughout his animation and music career, he has also collaborated with bands and brands such as Meow Wolfhttps://www.instagram.com/p/CjlZX3PJs3U, Meta/Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/p/CsETz3fglNy/, Brick + Mortarhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUVIq8FoLDU, and Flagman. He has collaborated with other Youtubers like Dego Boophttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnmdufDgF0s, Kiid Katzehttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyGw1woNkG2aipDAXW4IOkg, and Scumbag Dadhttps://www.youtube.com/shorts/fP41aSFsbK4. FREAKBAiT has lent his voice for video games such as Fear The Voidhttps://store.steampowered.com/app/2606820/Fear_The_Void/ and films such as Silico Solutionshttps://twitter.com/PvdHorror/status/1722739205053288924as "Radio Announcer". FREAKBAiT has been featured in as diverse publications such as internet-meme aggregator Know Your Meme, Slovakian news site Brainee.skhttps://brainee.hnonline.sk/notsorry/news/spolocnost/slovensko/96076387-v-kosiciach-sa-objavili-plagaty-slubujuce-vykup-ludskej-koze-za-peniaze-zistovali-sme-kto-stoji-za-bizarnou-reklamou, Montreal film festival Cabane à Sanghttps://www.cabaneasang.com/en/directors/289/freak-bait, French newspaper Le Monde, as well as on the walls of countless bathroom stalls across the world.
==Trivia==
*FREAKBAiT is also behind the viral meme poster WE BUY SKIN, which has been posted all around the worldhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGQgi3oUyzchttps://www.instagram.com/stories/highlights/17993695879939448/https://www.instagram.com/stories/highlights/17953795145532815/https://www.instagram.com/stories/highlights/17989358305787218/https://www.instagram.com/stories/highlights/17952085097352535/ and been featured on international news sites, investigatory videoshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgsTF1lQvvs and horror iceberg videos.
*FREAKBAiT makes all of the music in his videos and releases it under the name Mookielaka. The "theme" to the TODAY'S MISSION series is the Mookielaka song No Room Lefthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XhA9k7x2TM.
*FREAKBAiT released his first bookhttps://freakbait.myshopify.com/products/freakbait-the-bookhttps://www.amazon.com/FREAKBAiT-Book/dp/B0CLK65532 in late 2023 containing over 260 pages of original writing, art, and creative detritus.
*FREAKBAiT released his second bookhttps://freakbait.myshopify.com/products/todays-mission-the-bookhttps://www.amazon.com/TODAYS-MISSION-Book-FREAKBAiT/dp/B0CRGYD6CJ in early 2024 containing 366+ missions from his TODAY'S MISSION video series.
*FREAKBAiT released his third book in April 2024https://freakbait.myshopify.com/products/eating-people-a-cannibals-guide-to-fine-dining a cannibal cookbook written under a pen name.
==References==
Category:Animation YouTubers
Category:Art YouTubers
Category:Comedy YouTubers
Category:American YouTubers
Category:Users who joined in 2016
Category:Verified YouTubers