Rhett and Link joined YouTube after fans reuploaded their videos
Rhett McLaughlin · Mythical: Rhett and Link · Apr 8, 2024 · at 23:57
Rhett McLaughlin (co-founder of Mythical Entertainment) discusses why he and Link Neal originally transitioned from hosting videos exclusively on their own site to publishing directly on YouTube around 2006.
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“We only did it because people started taking our videos from our website and uploading them to YouTube, and they were getting thousands of views versus hundreds of views, and we were like, oh, we should do this on purpose.”
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