Whos Behind The Dude Perfect Panda Mask

Who’s Behind The Dude Perfect Panda Mask?

YouTube success story Dude Perfect wouldn’t be where they are today without their faithful mascot, but who is inside the Panda costume?

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Whos Behind The Dude Perfect Panda Mask

Alongside Cicada 3301 and who really owns Bitcoin, the identity of Dude Perfect’s mascot is one of the internet’s greatest mysteries – let’s take a look at who could be behind the Panda mask. YouTubers Dude Perfect are a quintet of college friends – Garrett Hilbert, Cody Jones, Tyler Toney and twin brothers Cory and Coby Cotton – who went viral in 2009 with a video of basketball trick shots filmed in their backyard. Slightly over a decade later, Dude Perfect’s flagship YouTube channel is the site’s ninth most subscribed and the group’s trick shots have gotten more epic, elaborate and hilarious, breaking several Guinness World Records along the way.

One constant in the sports-comedy group’s content is their mascot Panda, who is basically a dude in a Panda costume that made his YouTube debut in 2010 and has since featured in many of their videos. Not only is Panda the Dude Perfect mascot, he’s also gained his own cult following over the years. The funny thing about Panda is that a decade after his debut, his identity is still mystery. So, who is inside the Panda costume?

Truth be told, nobody knows for sure who Panda is but there are a few suspects. One theory was that the man behind the Panda mask was the group’s former cameraman Sean Townsend, but this was dispelled by Dude Perfect in a Reddit AMA in 2016, who confirmed Townsend had left the crew to go to med school and was now a qualified doctor. Some speculated Panda could be Dorian Marie, a French student on an internship in New York who made the news in 2014 when he started sauntering around the city in a panda costume for a lark. One hole in that theory is that Marie was in New York (and only temporarily it seems) while Dude Perfect’s headquarters are in Texas. Not to mention that Panda from Dude Perfect has been doing his thing a lot longer than Marie or that the theory seems based on the fact Marie also happens to own a panda costume.

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A more likely suspect comes is Jeff Toney, Tyler’s dad and Dude Perfect’s business manager. It makes sense since he’s involved in the day-to-day running of Dude Perfect and could easily slip on a panda costume as and when needed for videos. However, the “Tyler’s dad is Panda” theory is tenuous too. It emerged when eagle-eyed YouTube subscribers noticed Jeff Toney’s name on an office door in a video shot at Dude Perfect’s headquarters and assumed he must be Panda and that was his panda cave/dressing room. As the group’s business manager, it makes sense Jeff would have an office at the Dude Perfect HQ so it not’s necessarily evidence of him being Panda.

For the time being the true identity of Panda remains a mystery. However, Dude Perfect did promise to unmask their mascot in a January 2019 video if they ever tie with big-time YouTuber PewDiePie in terms of subscribers. Considering PewDiePie currently has 102 million subscribers to Dude Perfect’s 48.5 million, it looks like it could be a while before Panda’s great unveiling.

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