Dropout has made a Spiritual Successor to Mythbusters called Nobody Asked

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jalahjava_@reddit

Fantastic. I hope it's great, like almost all Dropout products are.

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obiwankevobi@reddit

If people bothered to check and read they’d see that it’s on a streaming service called dropout, not on X. But y’all are too salty to even read.

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To be fair, I never heard of Dropout. I know some people go strictly with TicToc, X or whatever platform is choice. I don't use X so when I saw this post I made a bad assumption that it was hosted there. Please forgive my petulant and lazy attitude.

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rorschach_vest@reddit

How are you saying X and not Twitter but don’t know that it’s TikTok

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Foxy02016YT@reddit

And Brian David Gilbert is such a good host too. Unraveled was great but it really proves he has the mind of a Buster. He rushes head first into these completely fictional questions that well… Nobody Asked, and he solves them with math, and literature, and science, and just really goes brain first on them

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semaj009@reddit

Tbh I just hope he gives us new high motherfucker recipes, cos his healthy midnight gourmand dip actually slaps!

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WatercressUnited803@reddit

OP posted a link to X. Fuck X and anyone who links to it. Claro?

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dkichline@reddit

What is :DropOut? Is it on Twitter? If so, I'll wait to someone copies it to YouTube.

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Wolfebane86@reddit

It’s the new company that formed from the team that did College Humor. They’re self-owned and operated, and they have their own streaming service. A lot of their shows turn up on their YouTube channel as well, but if you like their style of humor, I strongly recommend subscribing to and supporting them!

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IdidntVerify@reddit

Having your own VOD streaming service seems like a ballsy move to make financially. Given the only YouTube channel that became more with their own streaming service I can think of was roosterteeth but still, it doesn’t seem super sustainable.

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thenerfviking@reddit

Dropout being so successful is basically WHY all these other channels tried to get into the game and failed. It works because they were one of the first through the door, have a very good deal with a video host and most importantly produce enough high quality content to make it worth the price.

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IdidntVerify@reddit

I’m talking about the company that pioneered the online VOD with their own streaming service that predates even college humor by several years and still went under after a couple decades. Now some of their old talent still pops up in dropout shows even. Dropout was definitely not one of the first in the door, they’re definitely the biggest most recent though.

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-Vin-@reddit

Dropout made enough money last year to all of their talent some bonus, so I would think they are rather comfortable with their finances.

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RobinHood3000@reddit

There are a lot of factors working in Dropout's favor on that front; consciously low overhead programming, a huge existing library of content to build off of, and a reliable stable of talent to pull from (and enough cachet to pull in the occasional big-name guest), among others.

They're growing pretty steadily, so much so that they even did a profit share at the end of 2023, and they're launching new shows all the time, like the one under discussion here.

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dkichline@reddit

Thanks. I want familiar with them. It does look like something I want to support.

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Reedstilt@reddit

Dropout is great. I subscribed a couple months ago. Just note that it's first and foremost focused on comedy. I'm curious to see how that aspect plays out with this new show. The Mythbusters were no strangers of cracking jokes so it could be a good fit.

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HallwayHomicide@reddit

If you've seen Gastronauts, my expectation is that what Gastronauts did to the cookign show formula, Nobody Asked will do something very similar to the Mythbusters formula.

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blackbelt23@reddit

They are best supported by subscribing to the service through a browser- try not to subscribe through YouTube or the App Store unless you have no other option. It’s also a pretty significant discount to do an annual sun if you can swing it.

I watch everything new from Dropout as it comes out, and chip away at the backlog when I have time. It will be the last media service I cut from my budget if there was ever a need.

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Nizuni@reddit

I finally subbed a couple months ago. Love it! Have you seen Gastronauts?? Hilarious take on food competitions.

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butterninja@reddit

Poor guy asked a genuine and valid question and get slammed with downvotes. Reddit, really???

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duschdecke@reddit

They could have done a 5-second research and find out themselves. They're also having an attitude without knowing shit and just assuming things to get angry about them. Fuck that!

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butterninja@reddit

Chill, dude. Not everyone is as good with research as you are. People like me are not as educated and knows stuff like you do. Sorry, some of us are dumb (I am not saying OP is, but at least I am). I am happy for you for knowing a lot and knowing how to do research. God bless your heart.

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duschdecke@reddit

So, you're telling me you're too dumb to use google?

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butterninja@reddit

Sorry to have wasted your time, sir/madam..

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dkichline@reddit

Eh, I didn't ask for internet points. Someone answered my question and let me know about the subscription.

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butterninja@reddit

Props to the person who answered your question. 👍👍👍

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ThunderBlunt777@reddit

Mythbusters ended because they ran out of myths to bust. I’m assuming they found more?

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alsoaVinn@reddit

The premise of this is basically "dumb mythbusters" so they have a whole realm of mythbusters never bothered with

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MedicatedGorilla@reddit

Yall know Dropout is College Humor from back in the day, right? They just re-branded

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canceroustattoo@reddit

It’s an insane rebranding too. It shouldn’t have worked as well as it has. Im unbelievably impressed.

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WatercressUnited803@reddit

Tell them to get the fuck off X.

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Ragemonster93@reddit

A lot of their talent are already migrating to Blue Sky, all going well the company will officially end up there too

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DaHick@reddit

Yeah, can we all agree just to drop X as a platform, please. Looking at you any news people scavenging Reddit for the newest things.

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ASIWYFA@reddit

It's going to take time. Still to many users on there to just abandon. However companies should start migrating and than hopefully drop once the user base at X dwindles far enough

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V2Blast@reddit

They're on every other social media platform too, I think. OP just happened to link to the Twitter post.

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NobodyAskedBut@reddit

I knew I should have trademarked.

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Foxy02016YT@reddit

They took away your fucking ass! They took your but!

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HallwayHomicide@reddit

I know I'm super late to this, and nobody will see this, not apparently Adam Savage is already aware of this.

Here's what one of the host of Nobody Asked said

RE: The Mythbusters/Nobody Asked comparisons, I was talking to Adam Savage about the show at SDCC and when I told him about one of the experiments we did he said “oh we thought about doing that on Mythbusters, but everyone said it was too dumb”.

Source

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MegaKetaWook@reddit

His quote makes sense. The comedy bits are what’s gonna carry the experiments. The experiments themselves are just a vehicle for putting improv comedians into different situations.

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superslomotion@reddit

I wish it was less over produced and more like Mythbusters season 1

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MegaKetaWook@reddit

Huh? It’s not even out yet.

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rat_haus@reddit

Seems almost closer to a spiritual successor to Rooster Teeth's Immersion, but both shows share DNA with Mythbusters, so maybe I'm just splitting hairs.

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HallwayHomicide@reddit

Yeah I'm excited for this, but I wouldn't really call this a spiritual successor. It's more of a cross between Mythbusters, Randall Munroe's "What-If", and improv comedy.

Honestly the best comparison IMO might actually be another Dropout show, Gastronauts. Which is a cooking competition show with the premise of comedians being the judges, and setting ridiculous challenges for the chefs.

With Gastronauts, they sort of injected their particular brand of comedy into the formula of a cooking competition show.

With this show, they're injecting their brand of comedy to into the Mythbusters formula.

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BSforgery@reddit

Nobody Asked but I approve - Me, a MythBuster

Love seeing anything that brings good science to people with enough entertainment value to not just keep their attention but make the science the interesting part.

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Bayonnaise07@reddit

Hyped.

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maboyles90@reddit

These people are fucking weird. Dropout is sick and they could definitely pull off something like this.