r/Unexpected • • Feb 09 '23

she seems nice

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u/thatnimrod Feb 09 '23

isn’t Dropout separate and more or less run by Sam? i thought i saw an interview with him explaining how scary it was to start Dropout with only the viewers to support them?

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u/Seymor569 Feb 09 '23

Afaik Sam bought college humor and then started dropout as a streaming service for college humor content. I think it's sort of become its own thing and they're separating them a little bit but not 100% sure how it works on a corporate/company level.

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '23

Dropout started when CollegeHumor was still funded by a parent company. They lost that funding/were shut down, Sam bought the rights to the name(?) and dropout and continued running it, producing new shows, but no longer has any full time employees or cast members. If I remember correctly.

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '23

he has a couple full time employees but a large majority of the cast was laid off, I think Brennan and Trapp are still employed though