a chaotic deep dive into the rise and fall of boy band IM5 

I thoroughly enjoyed this video haha! IM5 was a blast for me 💥❤ 5ers still the best fandom

Dalton walked so Zayn could run (away)

An IM5 video in 2023... *WE DID IT JOE, WE DID IT*

i think if im5 were properly PROPERLY managed and given a real budget they really couldve gotten big

it’s crazy how’s there’s so much lore behind this band, i only knew about their existence through todrick hall and i was OBSESSED with band camp

IM5secondsawayfromlosingit I've never felt so seen

the lore goes deeper than I thought damn 😭

This is niche bc no one I know knows IM5 but the It's gonna be me cover had me in a chokehold

i actually got into im5 the month after disney dudez was released. i think i was just weirdly obsessed with disney related stuff at that time so it popped up on my youtube & i instantly fell in love. the fact that it's not on spotify makes me so upset omgg my fave members were dalton bc he was into doctor who, dana, & will jay.

The IM5 Jumpscare... when i tell you my friends and i were STANS... lol we knew the band personally we were so deep but a fun time plus i made lifelong friends

“i learned about nsync from IM5” is so real because same 😂

dana has also danced backup for many artists like the weekend, during the superbowl, cardi b and offset, during the bet awards, and most recently sabrina carpenter, at the new years rocking eve.

I found Will jay's music in 2017 and had ZERO idea that he was in a boy band????? His song By Now is heartbreaking and now I understand the context of it

As someone who has followed pretty much every boy band, I’m amazed that I never heard of these guys. It was to the point that I thought you meant R5 but no apparently, there’s this band 😅

omg i became so obssessed with these guys a couple years back and even watched that series they did with Todrick. Was so into them. Insane times

Ugh I swear no one remembers them 😭❤️ it’s nice to see people who do!!

oh my god i was OBSESSEDDDDD with IM5, ngl they still eat... anyywaayy lmao, ive seen an old interview of them like a year before dalton left where david was their interviewer, i always thought it was super oddddd

I remember being obsessed with IM5 in my early teen/tween years >w

My boy band recommendation: CNCO (who have a Disney+ Show in Spanish) and PrettyMuch

BAND CAMP WAS SO GOOD!!!!

Not the 5ers coming out for this 😂😂

nooo ur so fucking real. i was literally watching a video where someone mentioned lost media & my mind immediately went to im5 bc they were once my favorite group, but basically all of their stuff is deleted so you can’t watch see it. thank u so much for making this video

Every X many months, I get re-obsessed with the three "Disney Dudez" vids they did

DUDE i was JUST thinking about IM5 2 minutes before switching my computer on and BOOM. the algorithm be reading minds out here

OMG I feel so seen!! I have never neverrrr seen any IM5 related content ever! I was a 5er for real and I still unironically listen to their music when I am feeling nostagic.

Honestly part of what I love about your channel is I can never read your next move. All I am certain of is chaos

btw there's also a band named US5, my childhood friend was obsessed with them

i ran an instagram fanpage about them in middle school and garnered a couple hundrered followers and some interactions from each member, truly my claim to fame

finally fuego wasn’t actually officially released. from what i remember, it got leaked on soundcloud. YOU JUST HAD TO BE THERE LMAO. also, we still have a twitter group chat with Will and we got him to watch this too haha

Perez Hilton and Disney? Cognitive dissonance Max Pro

pretty sure this super niche video was made for me. honestly tho thank you for this!! I loved im5 when I was a teen (i think i got into them when they only had covers up on youtube?? definitely before everything about u was released). it was a shame the group didn't truly get the proper management and resources they deserved - if not they would have been successful. they are all very talented with so much potential, i was so happy when dalton competed in american idol!! 😭 always check up on them every now and again to see if any of them have released new music

THE WAY I SCREAMED WHEN I SAW THIS TITLE OMG!! literally ive never met anyone irl that knew them and it always made me go insane cuz i used to loveee them 😭😭 i am one of those ppl who discovered them from disney dudez and band camp and really liked their music and personalities! i used to rewatch the episodes all the time. i didn’t keep up with them much after that but i did always wonder what happened to them. i remember looking them up a few years ago and found out they disbanded and was so sad :(( they had so much potential and it sucks that they had to end. i didn’t even know any of this drama happened 😭😭 but im glad they’re all doing well now! also heartless is my favorite song by them

The Bandcamp episodes are my favorites! That’s how I discovered them.

we love a chaotic deep dive

bro i thought i was the only one who remembered them😭. my crush on cole was something else 😂😊

i love deep dives about things i know nothing about lmao, i was so into boybands when i was little so idk how ive never heard of them??

omg i was also going down a nostalgia deep dive + rediscovered my im5 fan girl days + found this video :’) it’s funny how you mention in the end that them having differing styles + having to align them while following this pop boyband image was what they believed made them unique + was a reason for people to like the group anyway i appreciate the video! thank you for it!

you forgot Dalton was in another band "Fly away Hero", I still sing "Gasoline". Their song "Madison favorite toys" was written by Dalton to Madison McLaughlin (girl who played Evelyn in Arrow), who with he was in a relationship but didn't end well. Madison favorite toys is basically a F*ck you song

when she paused after saying "I learned bout N'SYNC from IM5" I hit the like button.

Also will wrote songs for high school musical the musical the series from season two on! In a heartbeat (s2), right place (s3), and maybe this time (s4)!

I can’t believe anyone else remembers this group I was so into them back in middle school

Oh gosh. I was a fan from the day they released the gonna be me cover, I was HOOKED. This brought me back. There’s a couple things I think you MAY have missed regarding the beef, but I think it also might be my memory serving me incorrectly. Regardless, this video made me float out of my own skin. Thank you, i enjoyed this.

I recently remembered Disney Dudes and started reliving my middle school IM5 days, this is perfect thank you!!!

IM5 is my Roman Empire

oh my god this is so niche FINALLY SOMEONE POSTS AB IM5

One of my favorite talking to fans on a live chat moments was when they randomly synced up performing Gangnam style at random and I randomly think about it after I get on my 2000’s -2010’s music kicks

unrelated but i have to say cole is an absolute sweetheart and i’ve talked to him on multiple occasions to this day on instagram!!!

I vividly remember im5 from when my school made the whole of year 5 do their holiday mashup for a Christmas concert

you don't understand how much i appreciated this

thank you so much for this oh my golly gosh I have been WAITING for this moment oh my god

Omggg ive been a fiver 😂😂😂😂 cant believe a youtuber was there and can share this, looove this!

That day you had rediscovering IM5 was today for me! Thank you for posting this!

im5 was my actual jam i feel like i was a ripe 5 years old watching #bandcamp

Thanks for this! There was so much information that I never knew that happened to them.

THEY HAVE NO MORE OFFICIAL CONTENT SO FOR THE LONGEST TIME I JUST THOUGHT IT WAS A GROUP HALLUCINATION

ugh! still love them

this is so niche yet so perfect im so glad i got recommended this vide

something in my brain decided to remind me of disney dudez and my 3am spiral led me here LOL great video!

this scratched the boyband itch in my brain, thank you! :)

Me suscribí sólo por ésto. Me siento tan feliz de ver que no soy la única que aún tiene en mente a éstos talentosos chicos, yo todavía guardo con mucho amor capturas de todas las veces que los chicos interactuaron con mis comentarios y dibujos. IM5 es para siempre ❤❤

This video is how I found out that Cole went to high school with my first cousin, and my aunt was a teacher there at the time. ALSO my cabinmate at jesus camp, in middle school (2013/14sh), is Dalton's first cousin.

Now i need you to do prettymuch 😭

ily 💓

I was going on a nostalgia kick and was looking up songs from all the old boy bands I used to love and I came across this video. I love this video. You did a great job and props to you for all the research you did just to make this video. One thing that surprised me when I was doing my own research... I remember distinctly that during their time together with all the og members that Gabe had gotten a girlfriend and for some reason that is one of the few things I remember about them. So I was wondering if they were still together and they are. That's who he married. I thought it was so sweet and amazing that they've been together that long. Especially when I think about all of the potential backlash some boy/girl group members can face from not just their fans but management, too. And then the fact that they were so young. Anyone who doubted them or gave them grief about their relationship has egg on their face because they are 14 years strong and I love that for them 🥹🫶🏽

Omg throwback of the century 🥲 I remember the first time I went on tumblr was specifically to scour dalton’s blog right after will left because he was dropping SO MUCH tea and answering questions because he said he no longer had a friend in the band so he didn’t feel bad talking bad about them anymore 😂 I’m still obsessed with Dalton’s and Will’s music, and I can’t believe I saw this right after seeing pictures of Will and Cole at Gabe’s baby shower

omh so much fun

favourite youtuber ever 💯

I laughed so hard at the Nsync bit my husband came from the other side of the house thinking I was pain screaming

i just wanted to say that i remember when all the videos were taken down, at the time i still had the link to the channel in my history and when i clicked on it it took my to a youtube page called badpink where it had a song from cole and later on it had something from gabe idk what it was all about but i just thought that was interesting maybe they tried branching off on their own like music journey

FINALLY RECOGNITION FOR 5ERS

A thing that shocked me was watching Teen Wolf, around season 5 maybe 6. The kid from Liam's old school Danbury prep, Brett Talbot, I found him familiar. I deep dived into his instagram and he had a picture with Gabe from IM5 from JUST LAST YEAR. I had already liked the photo (that's why I remembered) and then after rewatching the Todrick Hall band camp videos, realized that the kid playing Brett (Cody Saintgnue) was a singer in the other boy band The Troubletones. *mic drop*

Finally!! Someone who knows who they're. They used to be my favorite boy and back in the day and when people would tell me that some of their songs were covers I wouldn't believe them. I used to think Payphone was written by them and Rihanna songs and Adele songs. My young brain used to think they stole songs from IM5

Homie I have been waiting for someone to talk about this

Wow this was made for me i was literally deep in the im5 trenches back in the day.... and what if i made a video essay analyzing their lyrics ❤

Today I learned that combining names like this is “shipping.” I had never heard that before.

Never clicked on a video faster

other lore that was not mentioned david released a song wrote by will called xmen in 2015 i think- absolute banger but sadly lost media

As a 5er, why am I seeing this just now 😩

I knew 1 person obsessed with them that I would see once in a while so that's why I know a little bit about them

I literally thought I made them up for a while, I've never seen anyone else talk about them 😭

OMG OMG OMG! I FELT SEEN. The way I suffer with ALL the leave's out! I cried with Dalton, cried with David, cried with Will... My JAM was Bandcamp with Todrick

can’t stay away was ABSOLUTELY a bop

I was so shook when I saw Dana on NHIE

I’n still watching but idk if you hears the song Heartless. GIRL. IMO THEIR BEST SONG. I think will wrote it??

dalton literally sent me into my emo phase

i looked at daltons socials and he lowkey unnerves me

i have never heard about this band, but i'm ready for some messy 2010s lore

unrelated, but now that the strike is over, i'd love to hear your thoughts on wish. I know every content creator is making videos on it but I genuinely trust you the most ajaskslskiksi you have immaculate taste

I was obsessed with IM5 lol

I loved them so bad 😭😭

YESSSIRRR I HAVEENT HEARD SHIT ABOUT THEM IN YEARS!

Fever dream woah

OH MY GOD YES FINALLY!!! SOMEBODY FINALLY ANSWERED MY PRAYERS TO FOR A RETROSPECTIVE ON THEM!! 4:30 ME TOO! I was in 6th grade and watching RU-vid around the time I discovered K-pop personally, that’s when I found them through their *NSYNC cover, their own songs, then later through Todrick Hall after summer camp

This is literally my niche

I’m too old to have been in this sphere but im5 seconds away from listening to those songs on Spotify for science. Also please forgive if this is intrusive but can we see ur Spotify wrapped lol

I used to write IM5 fanfic lol

NO WAY A IM5 VIDEO IM WINNING

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@kingdanashine please do the boyband WOW!

Dalton was my fave ❤❤❤