YouTube group The Try Guys part with executive producer
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The YouTube group The Try Guys said Tuesday that co-creator and executive producer Ned Fulmer will no longer work with the group after an internal review.
“We do not see a path forward together,” the statement, posted to The Try Guys official Instagram with 1.5 million followers, said. “We thank you for your support as we navigate this change.”
The announcement comes as internet speculation has swirled around the group in recent days after fans of the group started to notice Fulmer’s absence in recent videos. Fulmer hadn’t appeared in the three most recent videos on the main YouTube channel, which has more than 7.8 million subscribers. He hadn’t been in recent podcasts or on The Try Guys’ Instagram account, either.
The Try Guys are a group of four men, Fulmer, Eugene Lee Yang, Keith Habersberger and Zach Kornfeld, who rose to popularity on YouTube for their vlog-style review videos where the four leads would try things like sampling entire menus at popular food chains or a machine that simulates the pain of giving birth. Their success has launched books, a Food Network TV series, merchandise and media ventures.
Fulmer and The Try Guys company did not respond to requests for comment.
On Reddit, where fans congregate into forums called subreddits, The Try Guys have a modest subreddit following of 20,000 people. At various points on Tuesday morning and early afternoon, upwards of 40,000 people were actively perusing the forum on Tuesday morning, as new posts and rumors flooded the page, according to the subreddit’s “about” section. Even model Chrissy Teigen, who has more than 13 million Twitter followers, asked for a synopsis of the drama. The Try Guys were a trending topic on Twitter on Tuesday.
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