Hollywood Undead is a band that originated in 2005 from a song titled "The Kids" that Deuce and J-Dog posted on MySpace to positive reviews and which led them to form the group Hollywood Undead with their friends Johnny 3 Tears, Charlie Scene, Funny Man, Da Kurlzz, and Shady Jeff. Shady Jeff later quit, leaving the band with only 6 members. In their first nine weeks on MySpace they had almost a million plays and by 2006 they were said to be leading MySpace's top unsigned artists list with over 8 million plays. By 2008 the band had over 40 million plays and over 400,000 friends on MySpace.