Tim and Fred, 22-year-old twins from Gary, Indiana, have been uploading reaction videos for about a year. At first, they stuck to a lot of rap music, they said, but then someone requested Frank Sinatra's "I've Got You Under My Skin." The video was uploaded in September 2019, Tim says he'd never heard of Sinatra. "That song GOES," he says now, remembering the video. It's what got them doing more older music, he said, typically whatever people requested. The channel has been on the up for a while. In January, it already had 20,000 subscribers. By the end of June, they hit 100,000. Now, they're closing in on 250,000. Among their fans is none other than Dolly Parton, who tweeted out their reaction to Jolene, now viewed more than 2 million times.
"No point in begging," she wrote. "Jolene already stole these two."