We chat OG YouTuber Tay Zonday, best known for his viral song “Chocolate Rain”. Tay would follow up his biggest hit with commercial spins on it, new original music, and covers of everything from Christmas classics to Carly Rae Jepsen.

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00:00:00 Introduction

00:03:21 Our history with Tay Zonday

00:06:58 Tay’s pre-virality videos

00:11:20 Chocolate Rain

00:28:52 Chocolate Rain spon-con

00:41:03 Musical videos following Chocolate Rain

00:46:45 Mama Economy The Economy Explained

00:54:37 Later direction of Tay’s channel

01:08:28 1 million subscribers

01:15:30 Tay Zonday’s Cameo

01:20:42 Legacy of Tay Zonday

01:24:45 What we’re subscribing to

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We yap about VenetianPrincess, the late 2000s parody music queen.

Neither of us was familiar with VP before this episode, so listen to us track her content journey from the early Disclosure series, to her breakthrough with a Hillary Clinton friendship song, to her highly popular parodies of pop songs.

VP would become ‘The most subscribed female on YouTube’, and her videos featured cameos from some of YouTube’s top creators. But it was not to last, and an algorithm change led to declining view counts and eventually, VP stepped away from YouTube.

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00:00:00 Introduction

00:03:04 Our history with Venetian Princess

00:06:14 Disclosed and The Princess Chronicles series

00:16:20 Cirque de Mystère

00:20:28 Hillary Be My Best Friend

00:26:34 ‘The most subscribed female on YouTube’

00:28:30 7 Things parody and Miley Cyrus content

00:42:00 Channel focus on parody songs

00:44:58 100,000k sub acknowledgment

00:49:06 Continued parodies + videos

00:55:23 Transformers 2 parody w/ Shane Dawson

59:55 You Belong With Me parody w/ Ryan Higa

01:02:31 Sponsored content

01:08:49 More original and parody music

01:14:54 Videos missing the sub box

01:17:59 We Found Love parody + kardashian boycott

01:21:57 Sleep naked campaign

01:27:45 VP’s Draw my life

01:32:20 Late videos

01:41:30 VenetianPrincess’s sudden retirement

01:45:15 Venetian Princess’s legacy

01:51:45 What we’re subscribing to

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This week we chat Fred, the high-pitched, hyperactive, and arguably highly annoying character created by Lucas Cruikshank.

We touch on how the channel became incredibly popular on early YouTube, how Lucas used his online popularity to launch a mainstream acting career on Nickelodeon, and the eventual spoiler peaceful retirement of the Fred character.

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00:00:00 Introduction

00:02:02: Our history with Fred

00:09:53 Early Fred videos

00:23:41 Fred’s popularity

00:27:19: The Nickelodeon era

00:38:41 New Fred content

00:45:32 Lucas comes out

00:49:08 The controversial ‘New Fred’ series

00:57:07 The final era of the Fred channel

01:03:35 Lucas’ current content

01:07:43 Fred’s legacy

01:15:04 What we’re subscribing to

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