The episode is particularly relevant given recent comments from YouTube personalities like Emily Graslie and Boogie2988 about the damaging effect of verbally abusive commenters, a dynamic that inspired Cleveland
The episode, which came from a Twitter pitch by Cleveland and was shot with a tiny, intimate crew in the Joshua Tree desert, is an effort to capture what it’s like to not be a YouTube success story, and instead be one of the creators struggling to make it on a daily basis with only a few thousand subscribers.
If I had a nickel for every time Hank Green, Miley Cyrus and I appeared in the same video, I would have exactly one nickel.
