The Filthy Frank Show Hair Cake (2011–2017) Online

Hair Cake is a modern masterpiece. Something so abhorrently disgusting to watch and ridiculous to even contemplate that, when it's executed as well as it is, simply leaves you amazed that something like this can even exist.

In a time when YouTube was (and still is) pushing harder and harder for safe, unchallenging content, Hair Cake stands as a bastion of originality and innovation. It pushes boundaries beyond the ridiculous and embraces its own stupidity for the sake of entertainment. It exists in a realm unique to itself; it has no contemporaries or rivals, and few other videos on the site come close to being considered comparable.

Hair Cake will not be remembered as a video that defined its genre or medium, but rather a video that stood outside of it. It's the spanner in the works for YouTube's dumbification direction; how do you deal with something this different? You could never put this on the 'Related Videos' tab of a ThatcherJoe video, let alone let it end up Trending.

And that's exactly what makes it so great. It's dark, underground, 'out- there', yet it harks back to the early days of YouTube, when the creator-driven nature of the site meant that many videos you'd encounter would simply be of people filming something stupid and putting it online for the hell of it.

It's warming to know that that spirit hasn't been crushed just yet. People are still willing to take the route of ridiculousness, regardless of the implications for how they're seen online. What's brilliant though is that Hair Cake has only heightened the reputation of its characters for managing to pull it off with such dexterity and brilliance. They have become cultural icons because of it, and turned Hair Cake almost into a cult film.

I stand by the claim that this is one of the best videos ever made and indeed the ultimate Anti-YouTube video, perhaps only bested by its sequel, Human Cake. Even then, Hair Cake's brilliance shines not because of what it actually shows, but what it stands for. Its the extremity for ridiculousness and disgust on the site - I dare someone to go one further than this - and at the same time the spearhead for great original content. I can't imagine anyone at YouTube would want this to have been made, making its success all the more satisfying. Embrace its stupidity and grossness, and realise that this is one of the best things the internet has ever produced.

One of the greatest crossovers ever. Frank's style, combined with Max, combined with HowToBasic, combined with Ian to create one of the nastiest, and one of the funniest videos out there. It pushed the boundaries on what could be put on the platform, as it's mostly vomit gross out humor, and even has jokes about cancer in it. So many quotable lines, so many memorable scenes, and an absolutely hilarious ride. I feel like it also introduced my generation to different ideas of comedy, and the mindset of anything being funny. Vomit, cancer, suicide, it can get a laugh out of you under the right circumstance, and I'm glad Frank and company were able to show that. Watch me get cancer in the future and die from laughing at this. Do I care? No.