RHETT McLaughlin and Link Neal, creators of the popular YouTube channel Good Mythical Morning, went from being college drop-outs to multimillionaires.
The Mythical Crew consists of 24 members who all help to create and run their popular YouTube channel.
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Good Mythical Crew have a large membership and even bigger fan base of over 18 million subscribers on YouTube.
In 2017, the two best friends founded Mythical Entertainment, a company that oversees their various ventures, including video production, podcasts, live shows, merchandise, and digital content.
With the expansion of their business, they began to hire a team of creatives and production experts to help build the Mythical brand.
Rhett
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Rhett McLaughlin is the co-founder and co-host of Good Mythical Morning.
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Born October 11, 1977, Rhett attended Buies Creek Elementary school in Harnett County, North Carolina.
In first grade Rhett met his bestfriend Link Neal, who would go on to be the co-founder and duet of their hit YouTube channel.
The popular host is also a country singer and guitarist.
In July 2022, he released a single titled "Believe Me" under the name "James and the Shame," and the full album was released two months later.
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When asked by Apple Music to describe one of his earliest memories he replied: "In eighth grade I found an odd tape in my dad's shoe box: Marlboro country.
Good Mythical Morning duo Rhett and Link's rise from classmates to multimillionaire Youtube dream team
"This cigarette-company-sponsored compilation featured two songs from Merle Haggard.
"I popped it in, listened and suddenly understood what country music could be."
Link
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Charles Lincoln Neal, better known as Link is the co-founder and co-host of Good Mythical Morning.
Born June 1, 1978, the internet personality grew up in North Carolina.
Most people don’t even keep in touch with their best friend from first grade, much less have the privilege of working with them and pursing a shared dream.
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In 2001, he graduated in Engineering from North Carolina University with his room mate, and first grade best friend, Rhett.
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Speaking about Link, Rhett shared a heartfelt caption on Instagram that read: "When we met exactly forty years ago on September 4th, 1984, we had no way of knowing the adventures that awaited us.
"Most people don’t even keep in touch with their best friend from first grade, much less have the privilege of working with them and pursing a shared dream.
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"Here’s to forty years of best friendship, and forty more to come."
Both Link and Rhett quit their engineering jobs soon after they graduated and threw themselves into making comedic videos for a Christian organisation named CRU.
Stevie
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Stevie Wynne Levine is an executive producer of the show and the chief creative officer of Mythical Entertainment.
Born November 4, 1987, Stevie has been a part of the popular YouTube series since 2013.
Stevie is the narrator of the Good Mythical Morning episodes and also hosted a weekly recap show called, Let's Talk About It.
In her own time Stevie hosts a podcast called, Bestfriends Back, Alright!
Chase Hilt
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Chase is a producer and internet personality known for being a long-standing member of the Mythical crew.
Born April 20, 1992 Chase is a film fanatic.
In 2014, he graduated from Denison University in Granville, Ohio with a Bachelor of Arts degree in cinema.
He began his work with Mythical Entertainment as an intern before working his way up to a role as their supervising producer.
Emily Fleming
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Emily is an actress, comedian and writer.
As well as being a firm member of the Mythical crew, Emily is a staff writer on Comedy Central's @Midnight.
Originally from Nashville, Tennessee, Emily now lives in Los Angeles.
She is currently a producer and on-camera regular for YouTube’s Good Mythical Morning and and a culinary spin-off called Mythical Kitchen.
Mythical Kitchen regularly features celebrity guests including Gordon Ramsey, and Terry Crews who come on the show to eat what would be their last meal of choice.
What was the first YouTube video?
Here's what you need to know...
- YOUTUBE'S first-ever video was uploaded 15 years ago – on April 23, 2005.
- It was a clip posted by YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim, marking the beginning of the website's rapid and unstoppable rise to internet dominance.
- The video is titled "Me at the zoo", and is geo-tagged to San Diego.
- In the clip, Karim gives a short speech to camera in very low video quality by today's standards.
- He's standing in a zoo talking about elephants, who can be seen in the background.
- YouTube's inaugural video has now been viewed more than 303million times.
- It's received nearly 15million likes and has racked up more around 10million comments.
- Karim met fellow YouTube co-founders Steven Chen and Chad Hurley while working at PayPal.
- The trio went on to create YouTube, although Karim was officially an adviser to the site – rather than being an employee.
- He remained relatively unknown until Google purchased YouTube in 2006.
- Karim received 137,443 shares of stock, which was worth roughly $64million at the time.
- Watch the clip here.
