Having a brother is like seeing yourself in an NPC majority of the time you want to kill them but you can’t because they’re your brother JJ and deju latunji are arguably the most famous brothers in the social media World from humble beginnings they’ve carved themselves a
Path to riches and kicked down the doors of the mainstream they’ve both played an integral role in each other’s lives and careers but how long can the Bomb by blood loss before it gets diluted by betrayal this is the story of JJ and deji JJ and
Deji are the sons of joyd and yinka olotunji and they were born and raised in Watford London growing up both JJ and deji attended the private school birkhamsted school for boys during JJ’s time at school he would meet friend and longtime collaborator Simon Minter AKA
Mini Minter on the 24th of July 2009 JJ launched a YouTube channel titled KSI elojita BT where he would upload gaming commentary videos that would mostly center around FIFA all recorded from his bedroom at his parents house he would go on to drop out of sick form College once
He started earning a steady income in order to pursue YouTube full-time he decided to drop out after having a conversation with one of his teachers and finding out that he made more than them on a monthly basis through YouTube than they did through teaching his parents initially disapproved of him
Dropping out of college but later became incredibly supportive and even regularly featured in videos most notably the iconic q a videos on the 27th of August 2011 there she created his first channel titled the Angels kit uploading random content which would later become his second channel on the 1st of December of
The same year he then launched his main Channel comedy shorts gamer deji early on was inspired by his brother’s content creation and also uploaded FIFA gaming videos in 2012 JJ and deji started filming videos more regularly together on JJ’s Main and second Channel during this time spent with his brother deji
Discovered that YouTube is also what he wants to pursue dropping out of school to do YouTube full-time JJ incorporated deji into videos for someone to bounce off and acted as the comic relief for deji this time spent recording videos of his brother was a special and fun time
And making both of the money so what’s not to love if you weren’t around during this period it’s easy to underestimate how influential KSI and deji were during this period KSI was arguably the first person in the UK to have a genuine deep cultural influence on an entire
Demographic of young people you couldn’t go five seconds at school without hearing a reference to one of their videos during 2012 JJ started to switch up his content mixing in his gaming videos with his Vlog style content which resulted in him hitting a million subscribers between 2012 and 2014 the
Videos with deji would slowly become less and less frequent while deji was Finding success on his own platforms often recording videos of his parents and various girlfriends JJ’s career began to explode and provide him with new opportunities most notably forming the sidemen and eventually moving out of
His family home to the cybern house in 2014. on the 3rd of August 2017 KSI made a series of tweets announcing his disengagement with the sidemen and then three days later uploaded the video to his channel titled I’m leaving the sidemen stating that the reason for leaving the sidemen was mainly because
Of Ethan and Then followed by inserting clips of himself in the booth dissing The sidemen now this was a period in YouTube history that saw every Creator start to make diss tracks why is that you may ask well because it creates drama and drama creates views speaking
Of cloud show racing make sure to follow me on all of my socials at fatmema And subscribe for weekly videos they’re going to be coming in thick and fast this year so watch yourself over the next few months there’ll be an all-out war between this sidemen via the diss
Tracks but I’m not going to divulge into that too much because well it would just take too long and this is a video about KSI and deji however the diss tracks do play an important part to this story on the 5th of August 2017 two days after
KSI made his video about leaving the sidemen deji jokingly announced that he wanted to join the sidemen many men to call him out on Twitter stating that they don’t want him and that he should join team 10 instead the Twitter thread continued between them both mainly disputing about JJ and how the sidemen
Were on quote life support on the 11th of August 2017 deji uploaded a video titled sidemen diss track targeting all of the sidemen despite only having beef with Simon on Twitter the same day the remaining cyber members reacted to the video which then resulted in Simon uploading a diss track in response to
Deji the following day in a track titled ksi’s little brother deji diss track this then resulted in deji uploading a reaction video to the response a day later you can begin to see how this plays out rinse and repeat you say something they respond they say something I respond bloody blah blah we
Get it if only it was that easy to make money off of arguments in real life your girlfriend’s nagging you just make a diss track and watch the money rolling on the 20th of August deji upload the second diss track solely directed to miniminter titled ungrateful the track
Accused Simon of recreational drug use which he denied in his reaction video Simon claimed it to have false information and weak bars subsequently miniminter stated that he would no longer be responding to any more diss tracks in a video on the 3rd of September 2017 deji and KSI reacted to
The diss tracks in the video deji explained that ungrateful was actually targeted towards both Simon and Harry and that the series of drug accusations were directed to towards Harry not Simon on the 24th of August 2018 the second ever major YouTube boxing event took place in the Manchester arena with deji
Fighting Jake Paul and KSI fighting Logan Paul the fights resulted in deji losing to Jake and the majority draw between JJ and Logan on the lead up to the Jake Paul fight criticism was aimed at deji for not taking the fight seriously enough on the 18th of November 2018 Randolph a longtime collaborator
And friend of KSI was asked an assignment Sunday video which YouTube channel he thought was dead which he replied with deji deji responded to this joke by making a video roasting Randall for being a quote slave to KSI and doing everything for him as well as insulting
Randolph’s wife on the 24th of November 2018 Randolph released the diss track about deji titled man child in the video he stated that the reason for deji’s lost against Jake Paul was because he was taking Edibles before the fight and claiming that deji lives in ksi’s Shadow
On the 26th of November 2 two days after Randolph’s video deji released a diss track titled ran during the music video Desi showed a screenshot of ksi’s personal bank account to quote prove that KSI paid for Randolph’s wedding the following day JJ posted a reaction video expressing his disappointment in his mum
And dad for allowing deji access to the bank account no no no don’t get me involved with this [ __ ] fam I’m just watching that’s wait that’s on my parents man Mom Dad I’m disappointed I’m actually disappointed that you actually let him into my account and post it publicly like what the [ __ ] that’s
Actually that’s actually pissed me off why are you getting to me why are you getting me involved with this man I didn’t even pay for his wedding that was a gift I don’t pay for his own wedding don’t you [ __ ] dare put my information out on blast like that don’t
Don’t do that I keep that [ __ ] private Mom Dad I’m disappointed on the 1st of December 2018 deji tweeted family always has your back attached with screenshots of JJ blocking deji on both Twitter and Instagram during the next couple of days deji released a video ranting about his relationship with his brother you’d
Expect him to always be on your side in anything you do you expect family to always be you know your number one priority but with my brother that’s never ever been the case my brother puts friends first like and the thing is this this isn’t fake I’m actually being
Genuine with you he always puts friends first and then family and it’s it just doesn’t make any sense a lot of you guys you probably already see this that you know he always puts friends first over family and this has been going on for years so a lot of you guys have been
Mentioning oh because you saw this bank statement is pissed off no that’s minor that’s that’s minuscule let me give you an example okay he’s completely blocked me on social media and texts everything he’s blocked me out of everything over this whole beef on diss tracks because he
Doesn’t want to choose to support me he wants to choose to support someone else give them dirt on me and like that there was a time where he actually would support me but then all of something changed and he just didn’t want to support me anymore you
Down and figure out what the [ __ ] is wrong with yourself and then and then if you want to talk to me then cool but from here on me and you are brothers the next day JJ uploaded an apology video to his channel addressing the claims that deji made about him claiming that he
Never gave ammunition to Randolph for his diss track and stating that he’s always going to be there for deji I love you bro like no matter what we say or do I will always love you what was fight Brothers say things they don’t mean at the end of the day did I
Will Always Love You simple as I this is a family matter that has become public I’ve tried to keep it private I guess that’s just not possible now so um first of all I have never given Randolph any information whatsoever I have given him nothing on you I have
Tried to remain neutral between you and him I know I have been distant and that is my fault I’ve just had a lot on I’ve had to deal with a lot and I apologize you can always still message me you can always still call me I’m never too busy
To get a message or call from me as you say that I pick friends over family and that’s just not true okay to me a lot of my friends are like my family that’s why this is this is all just a really [ __ ] situation I’ll admit that
With certain things I need to back you up but then there’s also things that I just can’t back even if we’re family did if I took your side no matter what then that would just make me a delusion you mentioned that I was hiding my girlfriend and you said yes it’s
Actually true that I’m hiding my girlfriend that was number one You released my bank statement for the public to see which was also out of order did you come on okay and thirdly you said I got girls pregnant okay so this is all what you said publicly so you made my private
Information public ditch and I told you time and time again not to do so and you still did it I got angry and blocked you it’s as simple as that so don’t tweet out saying family always has your back when you don’t have my back on the 6th
Of December 2018 JJ tweeted hi deji I know you’re currently in La planning on doing a diss track on me and considering going on Logan Paul’s podcast bro I’m actually trying to sort our situation out this is our family not entertainment please can we just keep all of this
Private an hour later after the Tweet was posted deji released his diss track titled unforgivable JJ want to play games wanna snake me get your friends on a battle man battle me now they want to bet names how can a man choose friends with a family family JJ we ain’t the
Same but our stock walls it only brings casualty casualty it’s a boy stay in your lane imma drag you to the ground talk about me only negativity bringing up try and get rid of me how in hell have you not lost dignity like whoa whoa how could you block your bro
Now you may be wondering why I’ve just told you all this information about diss tracks well from the outside looking in it seems like deji burnt Bridges with everyone who is remotely connected to KSI and eventually his brother himself these two perspectives of the story would head for a collision course on the
25th of December 2018. on Christmas day of 2018 deji kicked KSI out of his house that he lives in with his parents the events were made public through a thread of tweets with deji claiming that JJ had come to fight and threatened to smash up his computer there she then allegedly
Locked himself in his office to hide from KSI and then gave him the ultimatum of leaving the house or calling the police unbeknownst to each other they were both recording the event on Twitter JJ tweeted kicked out the house bro says he owns the house said he’ll call the
Police if I stay my parents just look by and allow it LOL this [ __ ] is [ __ ] man after all these years of helping this boy just sad whatever you do you fam a voice recording between JJ and his parents was also leaked showing that his pair parents demanded him to take down
Randolphs and the Simon’s videos dissing his brother despite KSI stating that he can’t control other people need to be off delete that diss track that diss track doesn’t need to be up you don’t need to have a diss track oh dissing me yeah to take down all the videos and all the
Assignments what they’ve been saying about your brother and that includes the queen that she that’s got nothing to do with me why why why I know he’s all gravity why because explain why why yeah I’m sorry no so who’s in control of Randolph I don’t know
And that is why I tweeted that it’s always my fault on the 25th of May 2019 deji created a video titled by in the video deji makes serious claims that JJ had been abusive to him throughout their adolescence and during that period of filming videos together alongside this
Deji stated that he fell in love with a girl who he recorded videos with however JJ allegedly slept with her causing deji to spiral into a depression he went on to explain that he only made his diss track on his brother because he was annoyed that he wasn’t neutral in the
Situation between him and Randolph he also cleared the air stating that the allegations of him sleeping with underage girls was false deji also stated that throughout the whole series of events they had suicidal thoughts and he felt like no one was there to support him or help him when he was losing followers
I couldn’t explain because I have done nothing but support my brother in everything brother’s meant to stick by you no matter what have your back no matter what family sticks by you on the 3rd of June 2019 JJ uploaded an hour-long video to his channel titled ending it all in
Which KSI responds to deji’s buy video by analyzing every point an accusation deji made about JJ in regards to deji’s main claims he stated that he had no idea she even knew deji KSI then went on to say that deji would hit him just as much throughout their filming together
Days and that he was kicked out of the Simon house for not doing chores and taking care of the property upon me uploading my video as well my brother has started to distance himself from my parents to make them feel guilty for getting involved and preventing my brother destroying my livelihood and
Destroying my credibility I’m not gonna explain what he’s doing but that’s what that’s the level he’s going you’re exaggerating this so far beyond from what it actually is let me explain what I’m doing our parents currently deal with our finances even before this whole situation blew on I had started to feel
Like this wasn’t such a good idea anymore stuff like this where family always gets complicated and to be honest I just wanted my parents to be my parents again and not just accountants and then with the past few months it’s just highlighted that I definitely do
Not want my parents to be in charge of my finances I mean our mom went into my private accounts to give my brother false information to use in a diss track that was public I mean that alone is just it’s just crazy I mean I’m definitely not distancing myself in an
Attempt to make them feel guilty I mean why would you even suggest I mean come on this literally has nothing to do with you you’re literally trying to manipulate everyone in making me look like I’m going out of my way to hurt my parents when you know nothing about the
Situation all I’m doing is protecting myself and my finances from being burnt in the future I just want to remove any potential complications that come with it and just focus on being a family alongside addressing these points JJ went on to shed light on things that
Deji had done to him such as going on Logan Paul’s impulsive podcasts when they were enemies and on the build up to the second fight and discussing his alleged abortions after this deji released a couple more videos opening up about his mental health struggles and released a screenshot of ksi’s text with
The girl allegedly proving that he did in fact know that the girl knew deji with every upload he would subsequently lose subscribers on the 17th of December 2019 deji announced his dog tank was going to be put down for biting an elderly neighbor that took place in July
2018. this subsequently led to the police seizing tank however if you watch the CCTV footage you can see that the woman clearly enters deji’s property illegally hits the dog and then the dog defends the property after a two-year battle with the courts they rejected the appeal for tank to be spared there’s she
And his mother were ordered to pay fines kennel costs and compensation totaling more than eighteen thousand pounds having all of this additional drama sprinkled into an already fractured family Dynamic it couldn’t have made the situation any easier from 2019 to the present day it seems that the Brotherly
Love is healing and bridges are being built with both Brothers now operating in the professional boxing world and recording videos together once again deji’s obviously been inspired by his brother Barn like before where there’s maybe feelings of jealousy or betrayal they’ve stepped into a physical discipline where they can work together
And improve on all aspects of their life and relationship go back in come on foreign [Applause] comedy shorts gamer is now a winner what do you think of ksi’s two in one night performance I mean he’s the king and what can I really say he’s a king
Now this is his moment that I I don’t understand sorry no no no no no this is our moment bro this is our moment what are you on about your first win bro and I’m [ __ ] proud of you all right I’ve talked about I would say all the [ __ ]
Time you [ __ ] killed it you look sick that’s so sick as someone who’s watched this Brotherhood from afar for a number of years you can really tell how much deji looks up to his older brother but as well you can also notice that deji holds himself in a completely different matter
He’s his own man and he’s no longer just that guy in ksi’s Shadow for JJ you can see that he’s constantly trying to evolve himself and takes a tremendous amount of pride in being an older brother and a good friend it’s really not uncommon for siblings to have disagreement it’s also important to
Remember the family relationships are often complex and multifaceted however from my perspective when KSI went on to build a career with the sidemen outside of filming videos with deji I think deji felt a sense of Abandonment or left out of ksi’s YouTube journey and ultimately his brother’s life but the end of the
Day all of these feelings come from a place of love the dynamic of having a brother relationship is always complicated but having family struggles on a very public stage must be extremely difficult to navigate for all parties involved but to come out of the other side stronger is a testament to the love
That they share and as Don Toretto would say ain’t nothing stronger than family thank you so much for watching this video it genuinely does mean the world to me make sure to subscribe to my channel for weekly videos make sure to follow me on all my socials at fat Mima
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