YouTube sensations The Try Guys to tour Australia
The Try Guys have found fortune, fame and millions of online followers by filming themselves doing a mix of wild and banal activities and posting it on YouTube — racking up tens of millions of views. And now they’re coming to Australia.
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US YouTube sensations The Try Guys are coming to Australia on their first international tour.
Keith Habersberger, Ned Fulmer, Zach Kornfeld and Eugene Lee Yang have found fortune, fame and millions of online followers simply by filming themselves doing a mix of wild and banal activities and posting it on YouTube.
Their videos, which rack up tens of millions of views, range from the guys trying knitting, to baking a pie with no recipe or eating $180 worth of fast food.
In one of their more serious experiments, the quartet drove a car while either drunk, high, tired or texting to see the various effects on driving ability.
“We wanted to do a really big education theory around the dangers of various substances and driving,” Habersberger told The Daily Telegraph.
“We got drunk, high, texted while driving and drove tired — on a closed course — to compare how these things affect your ability to operate a vehicle.
“We analysed it scientifically and now it’s used in a lot of high schools and colleges as an educational tool.”
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Yang added: “It was a goofy few days — waking up early in the morning, getting high while a crew of camera people watched us. I can’t say it’s memorable because I don’t remember most of it but it was for science.”
The Try Guys are part of the YouTube famous category, the “celebrities” who make millions from ad revenue, have diehard fans and sell out real life tours.
YouTube’s biggest celebrity, PewDiePie, built his 96 million subscriber empire making videos of himself playing video games. It is estimated he makes $1 million a month from ad revenue alone.
The Try Guys — aged in their late 20s and early 30s who all met when working together at Buzzfeed — are currently sitting close to six million subscribers after 11 months.
While they were coy on just how much money they make, they said that making videos is now their whole job and they have a staff of 10 people.
“We’ve been fortunate enough to have a massive YouTube brand and we have actually grown a company over the past year-and- a-half,” Fulmer said.
“We have a staff of 10 who help make videos, we have a podcast, we’re going on tour, we have a book coming out soon called The Hidden Power of F***ing Up.
“The ad revenue from YouTube is a big part of that.”
The Try Guys will be at VidCon Australia in Melbourne in September, but will also travel around to check out the nation’s greatest sights.
“I do a series where I eat the entire menu of fast food chains so I’ll do an Australian McDonald’s or KFC and see how it’s different to the States,” Habersberger said.
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