Lucas and Marcus Dobre-Mofid (born January 28, 1999), collectively known as the Dobre Twins, are an American dancing duo and YouTube personalities who rose to prominence on the now-defunct video application Vine.[3] They are part of the Dobre Brothers, where they are joined by their older brothers, Cyrus and Darius.
The Dobre Brothers produce video content. Their content includes challenge videos, experiments, vlogs, dance videos, pranks and lots of other content.
The twins run their eponymous YouTube channel Lucas and Marcus while the brothers feature collectively on "Dobre Brothers" and "Dobre Cars". Their goals of subscribers on the channel Dobre Cars was 250M subscribers and 50M total views.
The twins were born in Maryland to retired Olympic gymnast Aurelia Dobre and Boz Mofid, the owners of Dobre Gymnastics Academy in Gaithersburg, Maryland. They have two older brothers, Cyrus Dobre (born 1993) and Darius Dobre (born 1995).[4]
Lucas and Marcus were known as "TwinBotz", they first gained fame on the six-second video application Vine, where they had more than 1.8 million followers before it shut down. The twins used the app to showcase their talent, including breakdancing and gymnastics stunts, such as backflips.[5] Their popularity helped them earn a spot at AT&T's Later Haters expo.[6]
In January 2022, Lucas and Marcus were criticized by viewers and the suicide prevention charity Suicide Awareness Voices of Education after uploading a video titled "MY TWIN BROTHER IS DEAD?!" in which Marcus faked a death by suicide as a prank. They have not responded to the controversy and the video remains up on their YouTube channel as of March 2024.[8]
