The Try Guys Drama Explained: Who is Ned Fulmer and What Did He Do?

If you spend time on social media, you’ve no doubt seen tweets and posts about drama surrounding YouTube group The Try Guys and Ned Fulmer. The group has nearly 8 million subscribers on YouTube, but you may be hazy about what they do and who Ned Fulmer is. 

Let’s start at the beginning. 

Who are The Try Guys?

The Try Guys, a group consisting of Keith Habersberger, Eugene Lee Yang, Zach Kornfeld and (until recently) Ned Fulmer, are YouTubers who essentially “try” things. Strange things from eating weird food to attempting to simulate labor pain.

Some of their most popular videos focus on topics like trying out nail extensions, eating every item of food at Taco Bell or wearing a corset for 72 hours.

The Try Guys was initially a Buzzfeed series when it launched in 2014, but the group ultimately went independent. A YouTube channel created in 2018 has become wildly popular, currently sitting at 7.8 million subscribers. 

Who is Ned Fulmer?

Fulmer was a member of The Try Guys, well known for being a “wife guy” in that he regularly spoke about his wife, Ariel Fulmer, in videos and other Try Guys media. He and his wife co-authored a cookbook, and both regularly appeared on the podcast You Can Sit With Us. This matters for what comes next.

So what happened?

In short, Fulmer was caught online cheating on his wife. He is no longer a member of The Try Guys. 

After some old-fashioned online Reddit sleuthing, a now-deleted video of Fulmer cheating on his wife was posted online. This very in-depth Twitter thread does a great job of explaining the details if you want to get into it. Essentially, fans of the group noticed Fulmer was absent from recent Try Guys content and began digging deep into the ramifications. The result, a video of Fulmer kissing another woman, was found and shared all over the internet.

Why is this important? It comes in the wake of multiple public cheating incidents surfacing online and going viral, most recently involving singer Adam Levine. In this case, the schadenfreude of a “wife guy” — an online term for a person who constantly, publicly talks about how much they love their wife — being caught cheating has caught fire online.

In the midst of the drama, The Try Guys put out an official statement saying they had parted ways with Fulmer.

“Ned Fulmer is no longer…