Ned Fulmer’s Try Guys cheating scandal, explained

The Try Guy was started by former BuzzFeed employees Fulmer, Eugene Lee Yang, Keith Habersberger

and Zach Kornfeld during their time at the company. They made their first video trying Ladies' underwear for the first time in 2014

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Their videos amassed about 100 million views on the BuzzFeed Youtube Channel

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The quartet left the outlet in 2018 to start their own production company and channel.

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Their independent channel has almost 2.2 billion views and 7.8 million subscribers.

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Ariel Fulmer appeared alongside her husband in several videos doing DIYs, and as a part of the group's "Try Wives" series

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Buzzfeed was kind of leading the way on different formats of what become popluar and

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and a lot of it was done through experimentation," she said. "And The Try Guys..... was really on the cutting edge of a lot of that.

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