DC ExtraTime: Someone You Should Know - The Bad Boys of TikTok

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Over the part of the ten years this DCBLOG site has been running, this ExtraTime series has afforded us the chance to introduce everyone to some amazing people who the stars of the MTV reality shows we cover here get to mingle with around this world of ours. And a frequent subject of this series has been of social media stars and influencers, including a pair of brothers who have been in the news quite a bit.

On several occasions on here we have focused our lens on the Paul brothers, who take on the status of being without any question the biggest and most scrutinized pair of siblings in all of YouTube. Logan got to take on Floyd Mayweather in the ring last year, and who recently admitted to having been forged out of $3.5 million for a shoebox which he thought were full of valuable Pokémon cards -- only to find that it was not the case. Not long ago, the older Paul brother was aboard the same L.A.-bound plane from London as the only one of The Challenge's British Invasion to take the crown back to the Isles when he shared that long flight to California with one-time exotic dancer Rogan O'Connor.

The younger half of this dynamic duo is Jake Paul, who a few years ago found himself on an MTV show -- but one that didn't air on the linear channel itself. In 2019, he had his big and much-publicized wedding night that crowned his now-infamous showmance with Tana Mongeau chronicled for the first generation of MTV's No Filter series on its YouTube channel. A year prior, Jake invited MTV king Cory Wharton's girlfriend -- Are You The One and Ex On The Beach alum Taylor Selfridge -- to play a viral YouTube challenge to be the last one standing in a frozen pool for $10,000, and she won. And shortly after, Jake scored his perfect match in another alum of an MTV reality dating show: Julia Rose of Season 4 during her battle for social media freedom from the World Series to the Hollywood sign.

Last month, the world of fight sports once again focused their eyes on the Paul brothers as the younger half took to the boxing ring for his latest battle as Julia watched from ringside. But as it turned out, the focus on that last December 18th night in Florida were on another pair of social media stars who found themselves center stage, and who are our focus of this latest installment of Someone You Should Know: The Bad Boys of TikTok.