10 Vin Diesel impersonators, all in costume as Dom Toretto of the Fast and Furious franchise, united on the Donut Media YouTube channel for a bizarre video tribute to the character's love of "Family."
The tribute, which came at the end of a two-hour YouTube livestream, consists of the Diesel impersonators all standing in formation, crossing their arms and chanting "Family" in unison over and over again. Each Diesel is dressed as the Fast franchise's Dom Toretto, their uniforms consisting of black undershirts, tinted sunglasses and crosses dangling from their necks. The impersonators chant the word exactly 100 times -- amounting to 1,000 total "Families" -- in an homage to the character's meme-worthy degree of love for his heisting crew.
The livestream was hosted by Donut Media, a channel best known for producing content about automobiles. While the majority of the livestream focused primarily on cars, the Diesel impersonators contributed where they could, joining forces to recite additional lines from the Fast and Furious saga. The Diesels even assembled for a Vin Diesel fashion show, in which each Diesel took a run down the catwalk for an audience of their fellow Diesels.
Dominic Toretto's dedication to family has inspired a wealth of Furious memes over the years, with fans typically poking fun at how often Diesel's character belabors the concept. Dom's love of family even crossed franchise lines, such as when a video game modder made Diesel a Sith Lord in Star Wars: Battlefront II, or when Diesel punched The Lizard in the recent trailer for Spider-Man: No Way Home.
Diesel made headlines earlier this year when he made an impassioned social media plea to Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, asking him to rejoin the Fast cast for Fast and Furious 10. Following a very public feud with Diesel during the production of 2017's The Fate of the Furious, Johnson parted ways with the mainline Fast ensemble, favoring instead to headline the 2019 spinoff Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw. In an Instagram post, Diesel expressed a desire to put aside his feud with Johnson for the movie, writing "Hobbs can't be played by no other. I hope that you rise to the occasion and fulfill your destiny."
A sequel to this year's F9, Fast and Furious 10 is planned to be the first of a two-part franchise finale. While Deisel expects the finale will conclude the mainline story, he stated he hopes the Furious world "will continue for generations to come" in the form of spinoff movies, including an all-female Fast spinoff which is actively in development.
Directed by Justin Lin, Fast & Furious 10 arrives in theaters April 7, 2023.
Source: YouTube