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The Stokes Twins visit WIRED to answer their most searched questions on Google. Can the Stokes Twins speak Chinese? Do the Stokes Twins have any world records? Are the Stokes Twins on Netflix? Answers to these questions and many more await on the Stokes Twins’ WIRED Autocomplete Interview.
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00:00I'm Alex. I'm Alan. We're the Stokes Twins. And this is a Wired Autocomplete interview.
00:08We read every comment. We have all your usernames written down because nobody hurts my little
00:13brother's feelings. Can the Stokes Twins speak Chinese? Okay. No, we can't. No, we can't. No,
00:23we can't. This is just a made up. Yeah, he can speak Chinese. I can't. It's because he
00:28was born in China and I was born in the U.S., so I never got to speak Chinese.
00:33We're totally joking. No, we can both speak Chinese. His Chinese is better than mine. No,
00:36we speak Chinese all the time, but we try not to. For example, look at this.
00:48It's funny because like when he's not paying attention, anytime I speak to him in Chinese,
00:52he always looks up and we start paying attention to each other when we speak Chinese,
00:56because it just kind of breaks us out of that autopilot because like throughout the day when
01:00we're sluggish, switching to another language really, really helps. Can the Stokes Twins draw?
01:06Oh my gosh. We can do a lot of things, but drawing is not one of them. Can I prove
01:11that I'm bad at
01:11drawing? I'll draw each other. Okay, here we go. I'm not even going to look because I know what he's
01:15going to do. I feel like I could draw better when I was six years old. Like literally in kindergarten,
01:19I have pictures of me in our class that I've hung up and I'm like, I do not know how
01:23I did that.
01:23Ready for the reveal? I knew it. And you know what he's going to say? That's him. That's me.
01:28That's what he's going to say. You can draw. That's not bad. Wait, is this good guys? I can draw?
01:34I legitimately genuinely thought this was good. That's how you know I'm a bad drawer,
01:38because I thought this was good. Stokes Twins, all members names. We have quite a big cast now.
01:45It's Alan, Alex, and obviously our best friend, Sean. Then there's Cat. There's Tanner. There's
01:53Zach. There's Bach. And the most important one, my dog Atlas. He always sneaks his dog into the
02:00videos. And he gets mad. I'll literally pick up my dog in like an intro to something. And it's like,
02:05wait, why did you just do that? Are Stokes Twins on Netflix? Yes. We have all your favorite videos on
02:12a
02:12Netflix catalog. And we have a Netflix original coming out early 2027 as well. So we're super,
02:19super excited about that. It's going to blow your guys's mind. Oh, you know what? I want to keep
02:23this. I don't think we should talk. I'm just going to put this in my pocket. Yeah. We'll gently put
02:28this
02:28down. Do the Stokes Twins have any world records? Yeah. So we had the world's farthest basketball shot
02:38and the world's highest basketball shot, which were then later on broken by some other people.
02:43But for a little bit, we did hold some records. We have to run it back. We have to. We're
02:46going to
02:46have to run it back. How do Stokes Twins come up with videos? We're always thinking of videos. Like
02:52it's more of like a brainstorming session that we kind of have 24 seven. Any spare moment we have,
02:57we're just talking videos and just, Hey, what do you think about this? Now, what about this? And we just
03:00keep adding multiple layers until it actually becomes a fully fleshed out video. Are most of the ideas mine or
03:06yours?
03:06I feel like it's 50 50. No, it's mine. No, well, let's recently. They've been my ideas, right? No,
03:13all the ideas are mine. I'm more of the idea machine, the world records. I just came up with
03:16that. So I'm one up on you. Huh? What video do Stokes twins want to do? I feel like we
03:23have a few
03:24cooking. We definitely have a few cooking. I wouldn't necessarily classify them as videos,
03:28but more so like projects outside of YouTube. We have always wanted to tell like a longer story
03:34in a different format. Okay. Try to break it in half. All right. We're done answering these.
03:38What? I thought it was snap clean off. Okay. Here we go. Okay. Nevermind. This is,
03:42this is like titanium.
03:46What was the Stokes twins first video? I feel like this is a full 360 moment.
03:53Our first video was actually us answering questions and look at us now, 10 years later,
03:58sitting in a chair, answering questions. Honestly, back then we were just making videos for fun,
04:02trying to make each video better, listening to the fans. And it's kind of insane. Thinking back to our
04:09first video, how the only thing that hasn't changed is we're still together. Yeah. And that'll never
04:14change. When did the Stokes twins hit 100 million subscribers? Wasn't it like a day before our
04:22birthday? We wanted the time it went to hit on our birthday, but it was November 22nd, 2024.
04:31Yeah. It was the greatest day of our lives. We are super, super grateful for all of you out there.
04:37So it was definitely like an amazing milestone. How did the Stokes twins get so many subscribers?
04:44You know, I'm wondering the same thing. For us, since we were kids, we just made content for fun,
04:49right? We made it to make ourselves laugh, make our friends laugh or family laugh. Initially, we were just
04:53making them privated videos and we would be sending links just to get like two or three reactions,
04:58just to get them to laugh, right? So we've kind of just kept that same energy throughout our
05:02evolution of content, right? We want to be having fun because it really shows on camera.
05:05Why are the Stokes twins growing so fast? We are so obsessive and passionate about making videos.
05:11Every video has to be better. And eventually when you're enjoying what you're doing,
05:14you're good at it, like there's going to be growth.
05:16What days do you think you'll hit 200?
05:18Well, I mean, that's kind of up to you guys. If everyone watching subscribes right now,
05:22I think we can hit 200 mil when this video drops.
05:27That was lame, dude. Oh, so you want me to break it again?
05:31Okay. The Stokes twins hide and seek. I feel like we're definitely like the ultimate hide and
05:36seekers. Like we always come up with the best spots whenever you watch one of these videos. So
05:40I think we're the hide and seek champions on YouTube.
05:43Is there a hide you're being proud of?
05:44Yes. And that person is still hiding.
05:48It's our triplet. Sometimes we sub each other out.
05:51Wait, imagine that was true.
05:52Imagine that was true.
05:53He's the triplet. I'm the triplet.
05:55The old Stokes twin was 2019, Alex.
05:58The one who's still in shape is hiding.
06:00The Stokes twins busting a hundred myths.
06:04That was literally one of our favorite videos we've ever filmed.
06:08We were thinking like, okay, how do we do our version of like modern day, like, you know,
06:12myth busters? And we're testing like the most bizarre things. That moment of works feels like
06:17magic to me. And I'm like, oh my God, like, there's no way this works.
06:20The Stokes twins conjuring house. If you watch any horror movies,
06:25you know what the conjuring house is. So when we went there, I went into it blind confidence.
06:30Nothing is real. None of this stuff is real. It's a hundred percent. It's just in your mind.
06:34We were hearing and seeing things that were just completely unexplainable, right?
06:39Like we were hearing knocking noises throughout the house that was able to communicate with us.
06:43We would ask questions like, Hey, are, is someone here? And we would hear like, if we were outside,
06:48we would hear a person walking on the grass. If we were inside on the wood, we would hear wood
06:54creaking, wood creaking. If we were, we, I woke up to a chair, rocking Stokes twins band products.
07:01I bought myself a realistic muscle suits and I bought two different colors. One that was a little
07:11look like my body. And what I did there was I kind of just went through and I pranked a
07:15lot of my
07:15friends that, Hey, like you haven't seen me in two months, new body transformation reveal.
07:21It's funny. Cause they were saying like, Oh, like that's gotta be illegal. You can't do it. You're
07:25not allowed to do that. So it's just like the framing of it was, Oh, this is a banned product.
07:29Even a lot of our viewers were, I feel like tricked by it.
07:34Stokes twins secret rooms. Our house is like an empty canvas. It's literally just a content house.
07:40And we didn't even realize when we first moved in, we were like, there's actually a lot of secret
07:44rooms here, pantries, under the stairs, movie rooms. And we were like, okay, if we were to do
07:50a secret room video, like we got to just go all out and just build the best ones. And it
07:56just blew
07:57up. And even to this day, when we meet fans or parents, they always say, Hey, my kids will walk
08:05around with like knocking on walls, trying to find hollow walls to build secret rooms.
08:10They buy hammers and they're like hitting walls and stuff, trying to build their own rooms.
08:14And I'm like, I don't know. Stokes twins, strictest school.
08:20After watching 21 Jump Street, we got heavily inspired by a lot of like the comedy there
08:26and strictest school really. Okay. What is the world's strictest school? Almost like a level
08:30impossible that like no one really wants to go to. And that was a lot of the fan favorites,
08:36honestly. Stokes twins life hacks. So this was like around the same time we were doing like busting
08:43a hundred minutes. So we felt like something natural was testing life hacks and it was like
08:46a natural crossover. This is so ridiculous, but we had a crane drop me down in a car underwater.
08:53And I wanted to see like if I could escape a car that's filling up with water. I think it
08:59was one
08:59of the craziest moments I ever put myself through. I was like, you know what? I can hold my breath
09:03for
09:03like three minutes. And the second and a half when I'm like, Oh God, I was able to break out
09:08the car
09:09window. And in that moment when people are like, you know, in a state of panic, they're not really
09:14thinking. So in that video, I was just really trying to break down the strategy of like, okay, first instinct
09:19is open a window. And if you can't find something to break the windows with and go for like the
09:23corners, cause that's the weakest. So I was just showing that before I went down. And when I actually
09:28went down, I was showing like, Hey, look, I can't even open the door. I can't even lower the window,
09:32you know, just showing real time, like how to actually like break the window with like tools.
09:37Legitimately in the moment, it was a lot of adrenaline and a lot scarier. I thought I could hold my
09:41breath for two minutes, but I did it in like 20 seconds. Cause I just couldn't hold my breath for
09:46much
09:46longer, but it was, uh, one of the coolest, but scariest moments of my life. There we go.
09:52Well, hopefully that we answer some of those questions for you guys and you guys can be
09:56searching up other questions now. Like how did Alex get in shape? You guys should make that the
10:00most searched. Yeah. How did Alex Stokes get in such great shape? Make that the number one most searched.
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