Ilya Vladimirovich Prusikin - Russian video blogger, musician, founder of the musical group "Little Big".
Before career
Ilya Prusikin was born on April 8, 1985 in a small Russian village called Ust-Borzi, which is located in Transbaikalia. Ilya did not live long in his native village. After his birth, the family moved to St. Petersburg. Moving to the second capital of Russia in the future opened up great opportunities for Ilya.
Prusikin grew up a mischievous and mobile child. In his school years, he was very interested in sports, played baseball as an outfielder, played good football and studied airplane modeling at a special academy. Sports did not stop the future artist from getting involved in music. Parents send their son to a music school, to the piano class.
Despite his enormous range of interests, Prusikin still decides to get a higher education at the St. Petersburg State Institute of Culture, and precisely at the Faculty of Psychology and Education. For the future video blogger, it comes out; he graduates from university and receives an education. However, Ilya Prusikin did not want to work in his specialty. The future artist wished to connect his life with creativity.
"Thanks, Eva!"
In 2011, the artist began to collaborate with the label company "Thank you, Eve!". The project existed and continued its activities on the YouTube platform. On the official YouTube channel "Thank you, Eve!" Ilya's many projects came out. The most successful of these are the Guffy Gough Show and Great Rep Battle. The video blogger is gaining popularity in the vastness of the network and takes on the universal name "Ilyich." Together with him, the currently popular bloggers Danila Poperechny and Ruslan Usachev worked on the project.
The bulk of the videos ridiculed social stereotypes and had a satirical character. Due to its originality, the project was gaining popularity with huge strides and was liked so much by the audience.
It was soon proved that there was political propaganda in the videos of the project in the form of mentions of the names of political figures, regardless of the context of the video. Bloggers who previously knew nothing about it left the project. Later, in an interview, Danila Poperechny admitted that he and his colleagues, including Prusikin, really did not know anything about this and did not even guess.
Musician career
In 2012, the Klikklak project was created, created to release humorous videos on the YouTube channel. Ilya Prusikin takes part in many sections of this project, but the main activity for him is his own musical group "Little Big", created in 2010.
"Little Big" releases not only Russian-language compositions, but also English-language ones, which allows you to attract the attention of viewers from other continents. English songs are not the only feature of the group. Ilya Prusikin and his colleagues release video clips for the created songs with rather unusual content. In the clips, as a rule, there is a satire beloved by the audience.
On April 1, 2013, a comic clip with the song "Every Day I'm Drinking" was released, which caused a public outcry among users. Someone thought that the purpose of the video was to denigrate the country and its stereotypes. Someone simply laughed at an unusual satire.
Unusual presentation attracted more and more viewers. And the compositions "Big Dick" and "Give Me Your Money" completely blow up trends in video hosting. Satirical compositions are becoming popular among English-speaking and Russian-speaking audiences. At the moment, video clips have already gained more than 75 million views in total. Both videos won the Berlin Music Video Awards 2016.
Without the attention of the audience there was no creation of a group called "LollyBomb", with 41 million views. The clip mocked the totalitarian regime in North Korea and the political situations associated with this country
On October 5, 2018, a video was released for the song "SKIBIDI", which gained over 35 million views in two weeks. Many parodies of this funny clip have been released on YouTube. The host of the “Evening Urgant” show, Ivan Urgant, didn’t stand aside, releasing a video called “SKIBIDI CHALLENGE” on his YouTube channel.
