What Is Going On With the Try Guys?

Update This afternoon, the Try Guys released a statement stating that Ned Fulmer would not be working with them. “As a result of a thorough internal review, we do not see a path forward together,” the statement read.

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BuzzFeed content from 2016 will likely be familiar to you. They’re guys who try things on camera, ranging from everything on the Taco Bell menu to everything on the Pizza Hut menu. Four years ago they left Jonah Peretti’s shingle, where they had become bona fide internet stars, and struck out on their own; since then, they have amassed almost 8 million subscribers on YouTube, created an extended universe of sorts, and presumably made more money than you or I will ever see in our lives. All has been well for them until last night, when rumors that Try Guy Ned Fulmer cheated on his Try Wife, Ariel Fulmer, with Alex Herring, host of the Try Guys series “Food Babies.”

That is basically the gist of it, but I’m sure you have more questions. Namely, who? And, what? Don't worry, I'm here to help.

Well, there are four Try Guys: Keith Habersberger (the tall one), Eugene Lee Yang (the hot one), Zach Kornfeld (I don’t know what his deal is), and Ned Fulmer (the allegedly cheating one). Fulmer will be our main focus. The other two people you need to remember are Ariel Fulmer, Ned’s wife who occasionally appears on their channel, and Alex Herring, an associate producer at Try Guys HQ and, as previously mentioned, host of a video series called “Food Babies” wherein she eats things.

One Reddit user combined all the suspect behavior of the past week in a post that was deleted. The Try Guys advertised their new line tracksuits in an ad. However, it only featured three men who were not Ned. The regular intro to their videos was changed to only include the other three and Ned hadn't appeared on the latest episodes. Ariel, the wife hosts a TryPod and has not appeared on the last two episodes. Weird, right? It gets even weirder.

A different Reddit user claimed that Ned was cheating on Ariel. When asked to show it, they shared Instagram DMs with an unknown source who said that someone they both knew (the name was blurred out, but it was apparently a “she” wearing a red dress) had been making out with Ned at a bar in New York City — the East Village mainstay Niagara, for those wondering.

Nobody knows. What people do know is that Alex’s fiancé Will removed all photos of her from his Instagram account, unfollowed her, and then went private. People believe this is related to the alleged cheating.

This is the best part. Eagle-eyed fans noted that it appears that Ned had been fully edited out of two recent videos, “Try Guys Ruin Chocolate Eclairs” and “Try Guys Try Stand Up Comedy.”

In the first image in the above tweet, you’ll see a comparison of what that lilac-colored set usually looks like, versus what it looked like in the “Eclairs” video. The second image appears as though the entire set has been compressed. Fans believe Ned is supposed be sitting in the middle of the video. However, he has been removed completely from the video. In the other images, you can see that Ned owns a certain shirt, and someone wearing a similar shirt is seen in the background of the “Stand Up” video.

I suppose? But these people have entwined their personal lives and their professional lives to such a degree — with Ned’s professional image being that of the ultimate Wife Guy, even roping his spouse into content creation — that if something like this were to happen, it was bound to cause a fan freakout. This is less John Mulaney cheating with Anna Marie Tendler, and more like Kourtney Kardashian cheating on Travis Barker. I am sorry if that sentence is confusing.

The Try Guys now have to address what’s going on, so I bet that will happen in the next few days. They are running a multi-million-dollar operation, which I imagine is bad for their bottom line. The real question is: Who’s out? Is Ned going away? Is Alex going to leave? Is Alex still with Ned? Will some other Guy — or maybe even a Gal, in the name of gender parity — replace Ned if he does get the boot? I have probably 12 years of concern about this alleged scandal in me. I hope they will tell us soon.