First Drafts Series
Jacksfilms Thrives On Small Budgets And Big Ideas
Before he was collaborating with the Fine Brothers, Smosh, and Shane Dawson, and starring in MyMusicShow, a series funded by YouTube’s...
Alphacat Goes From Waiter To YouTube’s Version Of Barack Obama
Before he was getting featured on television talk shows, starring in a new movie, and rubbing elbows in Washington, D.C. with the Vice...
How YAKfilms First Busted A Move Into Internet Stardom
For the longest time, we’ve been super fans of Yoram Savion and Kash Gaines (aka YAKfilms), a web team who met while Kash was a...
GloZell Uses Age, Experience, and #Green To Ascend YouTube
It’s easy being #green when you’re Glozell Green (aka glozell1), the fabulous-at-50 Queen of YouTube who went mega after Elijah...
How 5secondfilms Turned Tiny Videos Into Triumphs
Before they were racking up 140,000,000+ video views, getting featured on G4’s Attack of the Show!, Last Call with Carson Daly, Spin...
How Shane Dawson Used YouTube To Jumpstart His Acting Career
While the average income actors earn is less than $5,000 a year -- which is plenty if you live in Guatemala but not so much in America...
What Freddie Wong Was Like Before The VFX Got Special
Special effects wiz Freddie Wong and amateur pyrotechnician Brandon Laatsch (a.k.a. the YouTube channel known as Freddiew) have the...
Revisiting Epic Meal Time Before They Had YouTube Money
Many Hollywood stars are so thin they’ve gone two-dimensional, but not the trio behind one of YouTube’s latest breakout sensations,...
When Justin Bieber Was Kidrauhl: A Look at the Bieb’s First Video
Before true-Beliebers were caught on camera acting like hyper-caffeinated caged animals during feeding time, before a gazillion YouTube...
A Look Back At Daneboe’s First Special Effects Construction
Before their Annoying Orange smash hit eviscerated fruit and scored a TV deal with Cartoon Network (not to mention licensing deals...
