Draft:Beta Squad

The Beta Squad is a group of five English YouTubers; Niko Omilana, Chunkz, Aj Shabeel, Sharky and KingKennyTv. They created the Beta Squad on February 14, 2019. It was announced that they were starting the group and were moving into a mansion together on February 22, 2019 on their social media. Chunkz, AJ, and Sharky are of Somali descent while Kenny and Niko are of Nigerian descent.

Beta Squad is an English YouTube group consisting of internet personalities Niko Omilana, Aj Shabeel, Chunkz, Sharky, and KingKennyTV. The group was formed on February 14th, 2019, and is known for its entertaining content of challenges and pranks, with some of the challenges forcing the members to travel to different countries. . As of December 2023, the channel has approximately 8.11 million subscribers.

Members
The group has the following members:


 * Amin Mohamed - Known online as Chunkz
 * Nikolas Omilana - Known online as Niko Omilana


 * Ayaanle Shabeel - Known online as Aj Shabeel
 * Sharmarke Mohamud - Known online as Sharky
 * Kenny Oghenovo Ojuederie - Known online as KingKennyTV

History
In 2015, Chunkz and Sharky were making videos together alongside Chunkz’s cousin Darkest Man. Aj Shabeel was working as Chunkz’s cameraman, and eventually started appearing in videos. At the time, Niko Omilana and Kenny were friends, but were making content on their own channels, but, in 2016, Niko met Chunkz and they began to make content together. That same year, each member would meet each other and make plans to create a YouTube group and move in together.

In February 14, 2019, the Beta Squad YouTube channel was created.

Beta Squad House
In 2020, the members of Beta Squad moved into a new mansion, in association with Studo 71, as part of a new-reality content. The intention was for BETA SQUAD to tap into an important shared discourse and audience pool, representing young BAME personalities from the UK – voices that have historically been overlooked by traditional media. . In April 2022, Beta Squad uploaded a video titled "Beta Squad Mukbang", where they announced they were no longer living together because of a situation revolving around the landlord

Controversy
On February 12, 2022, Beta Squad uploaded a video titled “We Pretended To Work At The Grocery Store (Fake Employee Prank)”. The store was being managed by a Sikh man who introduced himself as ‘Milan’ during the video, and when instructed by Niko, Sharky approached him and said “I think it’s Sikh that you are Sick”.

After the video’s release, Beta Squad faced backlash from the community on social media. However, they were quick to respond, posting an apology on Twitter, saying “In our most recent video, we said some things that have upset the Sikh community, we just want to say sorry to anyone this may have offended, some things seem like a good idea at the time, now looking back we realize how poor that was”.

Notable Series

 * Blind Dating
 * 6 vs 1
 * Find The Gold Digger
 * Come Dine With Me
 * False Identity
 * Mafia
 * Picking a Date Based on Their Cooking