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37-672: The first season of Internet Icon debuted on the YOMYOMF YouTube channel on June 12, 2012. It was hosted by Chester See , and judged by YouTube personality Ryan Higa and television star Christine Lakin . To audition, contestants who lived in America had to send videos in to the YOMYOMF crew, who then narrowed them down to the top 100. At the Los Angeles Center Studios , Higa and Lakin then eliminated many of those contestants to get

74-472: A K-pop band with David Choi , Philip Wang , Jun Sung Ahn and Justin Chon . It was called BgA, standing for Boys Generally Asian, deliberately inspired by the all-female band Girls Generation . Their first song was called "Dong Saya Dae", which currently has over 16 million views on YouTube. The song was conceived as a general parody of all K-pop songs and featured joke lyrics, but unexpectedly peaked at no. 2 on

111-483: A few days later, along with How to be Ninja and How to be Nerd . In Spring 2010, How to be Ninja , How to be Gangster and How to be Emo were made public once more. Ninja Melk , a 26-minute short film about ninjas, was released in August 2009. The plot revolves around a ninja master named Master Ching Ching sending his student Lapchung (played by Bryson Murata) to find a replacement, finding Higa and Fujiyoshi to catch

148-407: A high school student to protect Taylor ( Arden Cho ) from the S.I.N.S. ( S ociety I nvolving N ot-So-Good S tuff). It included guest appearances from Ian and Anthony of Smosh , D-Trix , KassemG and Hiimrawn. When Higa moved to Las Vegas to attend college, most of the nigahiga videos were solo efforts, usually featuring collaborations with other YouTube users. Since 2012, Higa has put together

185-478: A memoir Ryan Higa's How to Write Good and appeared in feature films Tell Me How I Die (2016) and Finding 'Ohana (2021). Ryan Higa was born in Hilo, Hawaii , on June 6, 1990. He is of Okinawan descent , and has an older brother named Kyle. In his youth, Higa competed in judo and holds a black belt . He wrestled at Waiakea High School , from which he graduated in 2008. Higa studied nuclear medicine at

222-634: A podcast in 2018 called Off the Pill , which has featured YouTubers and celebrities such as KevJumba , Andrew Yang , and Jeremy Lin . In 2020, Higa started streaming on Twitch , where he reacts to his past videos and broadcasts video game content, most notably in Valorant . Higa has won a Shorty Award , has been named Forbes Top 30 Under 30 , and has been nominated for three more Shorty Awards, six Streamy Awards , and five Teen Choice Awards . Outside of his content on YouTube and Twitch, he has also published

259-452: A production company, Ryan Higa Production Company (RHPC), which included Sean Fujiyoshi, that works together to make content for the nigahiga channel. In 2015, Higa's production company was based in a studio in Henderson, Nevada . In 2016, Higa and other YouTubers and friends created the parody K-pop group Boys Generally Asian . In mid-2018, Fujiyoshi left the group as he was moving out of

296-706: A scripted comedy that deals with acting instruction given to other performers. The series stars Sung Kang , famous for his role in The Fast and the Furious franchise , and his partner, Antonio Alvarez. Sung gives other famous performers tips on how to improve their acting. His students must pay $ 1000 to receive his knowledge, however, they soon come to regret their actions when they realize what he teaches has no relation to what they expected to learn. So far, Ryan Higa , Chester See , Clara Chung , KevJumba and Bart Kwan & Joe Jo of Just Kidding Films have guest starred as students on

333-419: A top ten. Those ten contestants were then due to make a new specific type of video every day until there was only two contestants left. Throughout the judging in the competition, there were various guest judges, many of which were popular YouTube personalities, including Andrew Garcia , Dominic Sandoval , Joe Penna , Dave Days , Kassem G , Jenna Marbles , Brice Beckham and David Fickas. The final showdown

370-648: The Hawaii International Film Festival and the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival . BFFs is a show that's currently taken over the slot previously filled by KevJumba Takes All . Created by Chester See and directed by the Brothers Riedell, Always You is a series which debuted August 28, 2012. It stars Ki Hong Lee and Internet Icon finalist Lana McKissack. The story is one relationship told through songs from

407-637: The University of Nevada, Las Vegas , but later dropped out to create online videos. Higa and Sean Fujiyoshi began posting YouTube videos of themselves lip syncing to songs in mid-2006 while attending Waiakea High School . They quickly expanded beyond songs, with a variety of other comedic pieces. Occasional guest appearances were made by Tim Enos, Ryan Villaruel, Kyle Chun, and Tarynn Nago. On Christmas Eve of 2008, Higa and Fujiyoshi's two most popular videos, How To Be Gangster and How To Be Emo , were removed due to copyright violations. On January 21, 2009,

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444-621: The 2021 Netflix film Finding 'Ohana . Victorious Inc. released the "TeeHee" app in April 2015. It was a community hub for fans of Ryan Higa and was monetized through "pre-roll ads, branded content, e-commerce, and in-app purchases." The service was shut down in April 2017. Higa published his memoir, Ryan Higa's How to Write Good , in 2017. Higa co-founded Ninja Melk, LLC in 2016 with Kathleen Hahn and Kyle Schroeder. Their titular energy drink launched in May 2019. The drink took three years to develop and

481-408: The area, specifically to Sacramento, California to live with his current girlfriend and to pursue his degree in engineering . The nigahiga YouTube channel was created on July 20, 2006, by Higa, Fujiyoshi, Enos, and Nago (known collectively as "The Yabo Crew"). By December 21, 2010, it had reached 3 million subscribers, the first channel to do so. Higa had claimed in the past that his channel name

518-617: The channel gained 100,000 subscribers in a day. The channel is based on the Asian American pop culture blog, You Offend Me You Offend My Family. Founding Partners are Philip W. Chung, Baron Davis, Salvador Gatdula, Ryan Higa, Abdul Khan, Justin Lin, Chester See, Cash Warren and Kevin Wu. The YOMYOMF YouTube channel was one of the first channels to be funded by YouTube . YOMYOMF was given expectations of being successful by New Media Rockstars , following

555-427: The channel's introduction video. The channel is intended to showcase quality programming, regardless of the race of the contributors. It offers regularly scheduled programming. Internet Icon is a competition between comedy teams to produce videos in a 24-hour timespan. Chris Riedell hosts the show while YouTube sensation Ryan Higa , American actress Christine Lakin , and YouTube star Timothy DeLaGhetto judge

592-729: The channel. Justin Lin directs the channel. The channel posted its first video, "Interpretations Trailer," on April 30, 2010. This was followed by eighteen other videos, posted through February 2012. These videos were posted prior to the channel's official unveiling in June 2012 which is related to the current channel. YouTube picked up the concept and funded it as one of their funded channel. The new channel debuted in 2012 June 4 with an introductory video entitled "It Has Begun: Bananapocalypse." The video featured celebrities including Jessica Alba , Gillian Jacobs , Wayne Brady , and Masi Oka . It received more than one million views within two weeks, and

629-400: The contestants. The episodes of the first season aired on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 8 pm EST. The judges first watch a huge number of videos, and limit the audience down to a top 10. They then compete in a series of challenges, until the top 2 remain. The top 2 are voted on for which one will be the next Internet icon. The Internet icon will redeem several grand prizes. Acting for Action is

666-410: The evil Bokchoy (Tim Enos) and his henchwoman, Gina (Tarynn Nago). An independent 35-minute film he created with Wong Fu Productions called Agents of Secret Stuff was uploaded on the nigahiga channel on November 24, 2010. It features some other popular YouTube users as well as actors such as Aki Aleong . The film follows a teenage A.S.S. ( A gent of S ecret S tuff) (Higa) who goes undercover as

703-420: The first season with his brother Nick Riedell, who returned as mentor to the contestants. The judging panel saw the return of Higa and Lakin, with the addition of Timothy DeLaGhetto . For the second season, contestants from America and Canada sent their videos into the YOMYOMF crew, who again narrowed it down to the top 100. However, unlike the first season, the contestants had to show an original video in front of

740-505: The future. That future... is Now!" Episodes air Tuesday at 8 pm (EST). Nigahiga Ryan Higa (born June 6, 1990), also known as nigahiga ( / ˈ n iː ɡ ə h iː ɡ ə / NEE -ɡə- HEE -ɡə ), is an American internet personality. Best known for his comedy videos on YouTube , Higa began making YouTube videos in 2006 and was one of the most popular creators on the platform in its early years. His main YouTube channel, nigahiga,

777-442: The higher score, Harry Shum, Jr. to a pole dancing contest to see who could earn the most money, Justin Chon to an eating competition, and Jay Park to a zombie-killing contest. The series usually airs on Wednesdays at 8 pm EST, however, the show is currently taking a break to make time for the newest series, BFFs , to air. The Short List aggregates short films. It is curated by Anderson Le, who serves as artistic director for

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814-503: The implication that it was ever meant to encourage usage of the term nigga . In 2011, he created a second channel, under the name HigaTV, where he posts video blogs and behind the scenes videos. In 2012, Higa helped form the YOMYOMF Network , which hosts the online video-making talent competition, Internet Icon , of which he served alongside Christine Lakin and Timothy DeLaGhetto as main judges. In 2016, Ryan Higa created

851-453: The judges with their humorous videos, Bad Weather Films, who had impressed the judges with their use of characters in their videos, and Matthias, who had also previously impressed the judges with his musical talent. The winner was ultimately revealed in a live finale as Matthias. GigaOM called Matthias' video " MTV -worthy." In the second season, Truth Orange held a competition in which viewers could vote for their favourite contestant from

888-485: The judges, who then immediately determined whether they would continue in the competition or would be eliminated. It was noted, that during this preliminary round of 100 contestants, the judges' comments were mostly positive, with inter-judge occurring infrequently. After many eliminations, the judges finally narrowed the contestants down to the top 10. Like the first season, these ten contestants then went on to create different types of videos until they were narrowed down to

925-472: The nigahiga account was temporarily suspended and was required to remove more copyrighted videos. Because of this, nigahiga's lip syncing videos were all removed (with the exception of You're Beautiful , which was audio swapped), along with most of his other videos that included copyrighted music. Since then, Higa started composing the music himself. How to be Gangster and How to be Emo were put back on nigahiga's channel in late August 2009, only to be removed

962-490: The official iTunes K-pop charts. In 2017, BgA released their second song "Who's It Gonna Be", a more serious song than the first, though with the same basis of being a parody. This song went one better than the first, reaching no. 1 on the K-pop charts. In 2008, Los Angeles based producer Richard Van Vleet offered to help them create their first feature-length film. The resulting film, Ryan and Sean's Not So Excellent Adventure ,

999-426: The popularity of their YouTube videos. He invites them to Hollywood to make a movie. They accept the offer, and run into some amusing situations on the way. Higa has also guest-starred on an episode of Supah Ninjas , playing DJ Elephant Head, a master plotter who uses his hypnotizing electronic music to make people fall asleep to commit robberies. He appeared in the 2016 horror film Tell Me How I Die and in

1036-526: The series. Episodes air on Wednesdays at 8 pm EST. DR0NE is a sci-fi/action web series about a humanoid war drone that goes on the run in the wake of a mysterious incident. The series features cutting edge special effects and action that spans near-future warzones and urban environments. The series was created and directed by Robert Glickert and stars Lance Reddick ( Fringe ) and Kenneth Choi ( Captain America: The First Avenger ). The show

1073-559: The third season was cancelled, due to lack of funding. YOMYOMF YOMYOMF, whose name is an acronym for "You Offend ME, You Offend My FAMILY," is a YouTube channel aggregating talent from various performers. Even though the YOMYOMF Network is an Asian American pop culture channel, the channel is intended to showcase quality programming, regardless of the race of the contributors. YouTube stars Ryan Higa ( Nigahiga ), Kevin Wu ( KevJumba ), and Chester See feature prominently on

1110-522: The top YouTube artists – Tiffany Alvord , DeStorm Power , David Choi , Kina Grannis and Tyler Ward . Created by Gregory Bonsignore, Squad 85 is the critically acclaimed New 80s Cop Comedy – starring Parvesh Cheena as the Arch-Villain to a Squad of cops who time traveled from 1985 to the present, per the premise, "In 1985 The Los Angeles Police Department experimented with a secret Time-Travel Division, catapulting for of LA's finest 25 years into

1147-477: The top ten (excluding the top three contestants), who would be guaranteed a place in the third season of Internet Icon . In the live finale, the fan favourite was revealed to be Will Pacarro, who placed fourth in the second season. Season three was originally planned for 2014, with season two contestant Will Pacarro due to return with a guaranteed position within the top ten. However, in March 2014, Pacarro confirmed that

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1184-535: The top three. Like the first season, there were many guest judges throughout the competition, including Wong Fu Productions , Philip DeFranco , Kassem G , the Fine Brothers , Shane Dawson , Justine Ezarik , Smosh , Jenna Marbles and PewDiePie . Justin Lin and Kevin Wu also appeared as guest mentors to the contestants. The final showdown of the second season was between the Kloons, who had consistently impressed

1221-486: Was between Lana McKissack, a solo female contestant, and the Brothers Riedell, consisting of Chris and Nick Riedell, who had consistently been a favourite contestant with the judges. The Brothers Riedell ultimately won the competition, becoming the first "Internet icon". The second season of Internet Icon debuted on the YOMYOMF YouTube channel on May 21, 2013. Chester See was replaced as host by Chris Riedell, winner of

1258-456: Was derived from a combination of "Niga" ( にが ) , which he had claimed means "rant" in Japanese, and his Okinawan last name, " Higa ". However, he later revealed that his channel name was actually derived from a desire to encourage people to pronounce his surname correctly. He expressed regret that this may have backfired somewhat, but has refused to change the channel name over the years to avoid

1295-531: Was directed by Richard Van Vleet and released on November 14, 2008. It was shown in sold out theaters in Hawaii and California . The DVD was released on July 14, 2009, in the United States. The film is about a down-on-his-luck movie producer, played by Michael Buckley , who is seeking out famous celebrities in order to make a hit movie in 30 days or risk being fired. He chooses Higa and Fujiyoshi after discovering

1332-474: Was recently nominated for Streamy Awards for Best Action or Sci-Fi Series, Best Cinematography – Sean Stiegemeier, and Best Visual Effects – Origami Digital. A number of series are planned for the channel. Kevin Wu hosts KevJumba Takes All which is a "reality competition show" where he challenges other performers to complete random tasks. So far, Wu has challenged Felicia Day to take the SATs to see who will get

1369-456: Was the most subscribed channel on YouTube over two periods, a very brief 9 day period in September and October 2008, and a 675 consecutive day period from 2009 to 2011, a period of time as the most-subscribed channel that has only been surpassed by PewDiePie and T-Series since. Higa was the first person to reach the milestones of 2 million and 3 million subscribers on YouTube. Higa launched

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