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Kevin Tran, Henry Tran
Personal information
NationalityFrench
YouTube information
Channel
Years active2012-present
Genrehumour
Subscribers4.3 million[1]
(14 May 2018)
Total views645 million[1]
(14 May 2018)

Le Rire Jaune is a duo of French YouTube vloggers, composed of two brothers, Kevin and Henry Tran.[2]

Biography[edit]

The duo is composed of Kevin and his brother Henry. Kevin went to school at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand, then at the Lycée Saint-Louis, he obtained an engineering degree from Télécom SudParis in 2016.[3] Henry entered ESSEC in July 2017 after studying in preparatory classes at Intégrale.[4]

They are of Chinese and Vietnamese descent on their father's side, and Chinese and Belgian on their mother's.

Initially, only Kevin, the elder brother, made sketches on YouTube under the slogan Because an Asian without an accent can still make you laugh. Henry started to help him with the writing and the filming, then began to appear in some videos, until February 2014, when he posted his first solo video Avoir 18 ans.[5]

At the Web Comedy Awards in 2014, Le Rire Jaune won the Révélation Orangina prize.[6]

The channel had more than 4 million subscribers in November 2017,[7] making it the 8th largest French YouTube channel in terms of subscribers.[8]

In 2015, Kevin opened a second YouTube channel called Le Show Jaune where he posts reviews of viral videos.[9]

The duo is mentioned in Elle magazine's list of the most influential members of generation Z.[10]

In 2015 their video Les Grandes Écoles (prestigious French universities) was the ninth most watched French non-music video on YouTube.[11][12][13]

In 2016, Kevin played the character of Zed in the film adaptation Ratchet & Clank.[14]

Kevin was interviewed in the show Good Morning Cefran on Le Mouv',[15] and invited on the programme Guillaume Radio 2.0 on NRJ.

The first Rire Jaune video was released on YouTube on November 26, 2012.

In 2016 Kevin Tran also published a manga entitled Ki et Hi, narrating the life of two brothers, inspired by his relationship with Henry. The drawings were made by a subscriber to his channel. This manga achieved great success in bookstores.[16]

Bibliography[edit]

  • Kevin Tran (2016). Ki et Hi: Les deux frères (in French). Vol. 1. Illustrated by Fanny Antigny. Michel Lafon. ISBN 9782749929545.
  • Kevin Tran (2017). Ki et Hi: Une famille de fou (in French). Vol. 2. Illustrated by Fanny Antigny. Michel Lafon. ISBN 2749932718.

Notes and references[edit]

  1. ^ a b "About YouTube channel". YouTube.
  2. ^ "Le Rire jaune : Kevin Tran, l'ingénieur star de YouTube". L'Obs. 31 December 2016..
  3. ^ Clémence Boyer (31 Aug 2017). "Prépa, médecine, droit… Ces youtubeurs parlent de leurs études". start.lesechos.fr (in French). Retrieved 2018-02-10.
  4. ^ Marine Dessaux (19 Jul 2017). "Henry Tran, alias «Le Rire Jaune», intègre l'Essec". Le Figaro Etudiant (in French). Retrieved 2018-02-10.
  5. ^ "LE RIRE JAUNE : "Avoir 18 ans"". YouTube. 28 February 2014. Retrieved 14 May 2016.
  6. ^ "Web Comedy Awards : Le Rire jaune, élu révélation de l'année !". meltybuzz.fr. 22 March 2014. Retrieved 30 March 2016.
  7. ^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KByj5l6GrHQ
  8. ^ "Top 100 YouTubers in France, French Republic by Subscribed". socialblade.com. Retrieved 30 March 2016.
  9. ^ "Le Rire Jaune : Sa deuxième chaîne "Le Show Jaune" cartonne, bientôt un nouveau trophée YouTube ?". meltybuzz.fr. 21 September 2015. Retrieved 30 March 2016.
  10. ^ "Génération Z : les 50 jeunes qui font bouger la France". Elle. 26 February 2015. Retrieved 22 April 2016.
  11. ^ "YouTube dévoile son classement des vidéos les plus vues en France en 2015". Glamour. 9 December 2015. Retrieved 19 April 2016.
  12. ^ "Le Palmarès 2015 des vidéos les plus vues sur Youtube". Sud Ouest. 9 December 2015.
  13. ^ "Cyprien, Norman et... Tchoupi en tête des vidéos les plus regardées sur YouTube en France". France_Télévisions. 9 December 2015.
  14. ^ "Ratchet et Clank : le doublage français qui fait polémique". Télé Star. 13 April 2016. Retrieved 22 April 2016.
  15. ^ "LE RIRE JAUNE : "J'ai fait ma première vidéo après avoir échappé à la mort"". Le Mouv'. 12 February 2016. Retrieved 22 April 2016.
  16. ^ Qui est Kevin Tran, le youtubeur "Le rire jaune", auteur de mangas?, BFM TV, 28 octobre 2016

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