Lucas and Marcus Dobre-Mofid (born January 28, 1999), collectively known as the Dobre Twins, are an American dancing duo and

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who rose to prominence on the now-defunct video application

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. They are part of the Dobre Brothers, where they are joined by their older brothers, Cyrus and Darius. The Dobre Brothers produce video content. Their content includes challenge videos, experiments, vlogs, dance videos, pranks and lots of other content. The twins run their eponymous YouTube channel Lucas and Marcus while the brothers feature collectively on "Dobre Brothers" and "Dobre Cars".

Personal life

The twins were born in

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to retired Olympic gymnast

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and Boz Mofid, the owners of Dobre Gymnastics Academy in

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. They have two older brothers, Cyrus Dobre (born 1993) and Darius Dobre (born 1995).

Career

Lucas and Marcus were known as "TwinBotz", they first gained fame on the six-second video application

, where they had more than 1.8 million followers before it shut down. The twins used the app to showcase their talent, including

breakdancing Breakdancing, also called breaking or b-boying/b-girling, is an athletic style of street dance originating from the African American and Puerto Rican communities in the United States. While diverse in the amount of variation available in ...

and

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stunts, such as

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. Their popularity helped them earn a spot at AT&T's Later Haters expo. In March 2018, it was announced that the Dobre Brothers have signed a joint venture deal with

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(CAA). In August of 2022, a Youtube short video on their channel titled "Revenge" in which Marcus pranks Lucas and his girlfriend Ivanita Lormeli by cutting a hole in an air mattress in a pool that they were sleeping in surpassed YouTube Rewind 2018: Everyone Controls Rewind as the most-disliked YouTube video, at 51 million dislikes.

Controversy

In January 2022, The Dobre Brothers were criticized by viewers and the suicide prevention charity Suicide Awareness voices of Education after uploading a video titled "MY TWIN BROTHER IS DEAD?!" in which Marcus faked a death by suicide as a prank. The Dobre Brothers have not responded to the controversy and the video remains up on their YouTube channel as of January 2023.

Awards and nominations

References

External links

Lucas and Marcus's channel
on

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Dobre Brothers channel
on

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