YouTube career
In 2013, the Philippou brothers began creating "fake fail" videos for Facebook and started the YouTube channel RackaRacka, where they upload sketch comedy horror action videos with special effects, stunts and parodies of popular culture, such as their videos depicting McDonald's mascot Ronald McDonald (played by Michael) as a psychopathic evil clown. The channel was initially not monetised, with Danny financing the videos by volunteering for paid medical trials.
The channel's first huge success was Harry Potter VS Star Wars, which attracted 7 million views in a week, and won them a trip to the U.S. In 2014, Michael and Danny both crewed on the Australian horror film, The Babadook. The production company responsible for The Babadook, Triptych Pictures, has also produced videos for RackaRacka, including Versus, a series of three short films; RackaRacka Live (Stunt Gone Wrong); and Extreme Handball. Written and directed by the Philippou Brothers, the videos were shown on the Foxtel pay channel.
On 10 July 2017, Danny and Michael Philippou announced that they moved into a mansion with their close friends, marking the beginning of a series of videos for the channel titled House of Racka, which combined their real-life adventures and special effects skills altogether into a vlog-like series. The House of Racka series became the majority of the channel's uploads for around a year. On 2 April 2018, among complaints of YouTube demonetising the channel, the brothers announced that they were being evicted from their mansion. Many fans thought this meant the channel would be shut down, as the video contained an emotional tribute to the experiences the twins had in the mansion, in a more sombre mood than they usually projected. However, this was later proven to be false as the two immediately revealed that the House of Racka series was the only cancellation to their YouTube careers.
On 25 August 2018, Michael fought American YouTuber Scarce in an amateur boxing match on the undercard of KSI vs Logan Paul at Manchester Arena in Manchester, England, winning via technical knockout in the 3rd round.
