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One of them came from absolutely miles away, and I turned to the side and it hit me directly in the earhole and put loads of pressure in my ear, and I couldn't hear for like, a week. 'That actually really hurt, I forgot that,' said Gruchy. It's not like anyone's had 1,500 water balloons thrown at them before. It got 15 million views, and ever since then.' The penalty was getting hit in the face with a football. It just so happened that Dan lost the first challenge. We'd have challenges, and stuff would happen to the loser.

'We did start off more even in the early videos. I try and it'll just be embedded in the ground next to it.

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'Yeah, you can put that in there,' Free said. 'Plus he's an absolute wuss,' said Gruchy. A lot of technical stuff is camera-specific – you need to know about the way light works and that sort of stuff.'

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'If you gave the Phantom camera to someone in the street they wouldn't be able to figure out how to use it. 'It started because I had high-speed camera skills,' said Free. I'd say I'm more like special effects, stunts. 'Mainly I'd say it's because Gav's the camera expert and the director of things. 'Yes, this is definitely true', said Gruchy. We knew what to expect because someone had tweeted us, but when I saw it in person, I was like, 'Oh, god' – I wanted to hide.' 'I'm only back for a few days, so we went down to the underground to look at the giant poster of us. 'It's so surreal at the moment,' said Free. YouTube is currently running a huge poster campaign featuring the pair, which they find simultaneously awesome and – being British – deeply embarrassing. 'You get a lot of older people saying, 'My son loves you, he'll be so jealous I've met you.'' Free said his dad recently had the police round after he'd been robbed, and the officers were stunned to see his picture sitting on the mantelpiece. 'We get stopped a lot in Thame,' Gruchy said. And of course, as I'm going through he says, 'Stop sir, you'll need to do that in slow motion.''Įveryone loves them. 'I was at the x-ray machines and the guy told me to take my belt off. 'I was at the airport today,' Gruchy said. When I met them at YouTube's offices in London, they certainly didn't act like celebrities, and seemed to find the whole thing almost as surprising as anyone else. It's a surreal thing to happen to two very normal guys from a small Oxfordshire town, Thame, who one day decided to film some silly stuff in slow motion and upload it to the internet.

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