Their videos, captured on a low quality web cam in their college dorm room, have been viewed by Internet users within China and around the world.
[3] In February 2006, a few months before they graduated, the Back Dorm Boys signed a five-year contract with Taihe Rye Music, a talent management company in Beijing, to continue making lip-sync videos as well as to appear in commercials for major brands such as Pepsi.
This single was accompanied by both a professional music video and a lip sync version showing the Back Dorm Boys giving their own song their usual treatment.
[citation needed] The group has known to have made use of their art school education to help them prepare the composition, visual effects, and lighting in their videos.
[7] The Back Dorm Boys phenomenon has resulted in an Internet meme and spawned a variety of parodies and imitations, including attempts by non-speakers to lip-sync to Chinese lyrics of songs used in their videos.
The Back Dorm Boys received mainstream media attention in the United States through The Ellen DeGeneres Show.
Since then, Huang has continued his solo career and eventually making a comeback on Your Face Sounds Familiar and has been a successful actor, director and singer.
Wei experienced ups and downs as an actor and before finding success as an arts studio owner with acting as a secondary job.