Hight of Popularity

Friday Night Cranks officially ended in July 2016, marking 9 years of the show being on the internet. While the YouTube channel boasts well over 300,000 subscribers, it definitely has not always been as popular. Popularity for the show really took off between 2008 and 2009, with almost every single video on the channel that has reached or passed 1,000,000 views being between those years, except for one, the "Prank Call Made A Girl Cry" video, being from 2007. Also, over 50% of the channels total views come from the channels 30 most viewed videos. This means that over half the views of the channel are pulled in by roughly 10% of the videos on the channel. All of these videos are from about 2007-2011, except the "Prank Calling Bryan Silva..Gratata" prank call, which is from 2014. It's safe to say Friday Night Cranks definitely had its high point in the late 2000's. Most recent uploads (as of December 2016) rarely hit 100,000, or even 50,000. Events such as Kristin leaving, as well as the hosts moving about, are likely factors to the to downfall, and the overall ending of the show. Another definite factor would be the crew straying from the calls that they were most known for, including the series of Walmart prank calls, hotel prank calls, and prank call requests made by fans. The FNC YouTube has since been inactive for over a year, with the last upload being Jared's interview on his book, Prankaholic. In the interview, he claims to be starting a new show, "the world's first live late night show," which has come to be as "The Late Night Webshow," which is seeing decent success. Hopefully, this era of FNC could be brought back to life one day.
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