YouTube Sensations The Try Guys, Are There Some Things They Shouldn’t Try?

Are you familiar with The Try Guys? They are four affable guys in their 20s, putting videos together for Buzzfeed where they give a variety of experiences a try, which are often pushing the boundaries of gender, sexuality, and ethnicity. The videos, found on YouTube, are often funny, stylized, occasionally cringe-worthy, and definitely lean towards over-sharing. Each Try Guy has a distinct personality and strength/weakness.

Highlander News says that the Try Guys are four hilarious men who will throw themselves into any scenario. The Try Guys are Eugene Lee Yang, Ned Fulmer, Keith Habersberger, and Zach Kornfeld, and together they provide entertainment and some education, too. These guys have gotten so popular that there are passes, fans lined up for hours, and fan boys and fan girls waiting to meet their favorite Try Guy.

My girlfriend sent me this extreme foods video: https://t.co/2bU7LaISt4 – and told me she wanted to go on a date to one of them. Nice.

— Cat Cai (@catherinetcai) March 29, 2016

The Try Guys have posters and other giveaways, and consider themselves filmmakers, actors, comedians, and directors. Zach Kornfeld encourages their fans to go out and do their own thing creatively.

“Go live life and be unafraid, try a bunch of stuff. Just do it so you can make stories that you would want to tell for the rest of your lives; go have some fun!”

It’s hard not to feel like you know the Try Guys. They are not unlike guys you knew growing up, or who lived in your freshman year dorm, or who gave your kid guitar lessons. They are not rough-and-tumble athletes, but a few are a bit more like mathletes. Girls love them, and don’t find the Try Guys threatening.

Hahaha. Ned is the prettiest, but Eugene (as always) is the hottest. | The Try Guys Try Drag For The First Time https://t.co/X1MmCbmeNa

— colin (@kenexander) March 27, 2016

But these Try Guys are not like a boy band, as they came together organically. They were all interns for Buzzfeed, and though they had different backgrounds and different interests, they started making videos with friends for fun. Kornfeld said the first idea came down to who was willing to take risks.

“It really came down to who was willing to show show their butts.”

And the Try Guys are not all pretty boys with silky waxed chests — quite the opposite — and if you check out the Try Guys videos, you have seen more of them then you see of guys in the movies. One of the most comical Try Guys videos is where each guy was adopted by a drag queen and transformed into ladies named Ginger Vitis, Champagne Canne, Kornucopia, and Cheyenne Pepper. It’s one of those things you have to see to really grasp.

But Vanity Fair said that the Try Guys should realize that they don’t have to try everything and anything. The four-part series getting inside the mind of a pregnant woman was particularly interesting, suiting the Try Guys up with pregnancy suits filled up with warm water that put pressure on all the bits and pieces, putting them in heels, and following them around while doing yoga and playing basketball.

Then there was the simulated labor, which seemed like torture for the Try Guys, but will cause full belly laughter in any woman who has been there and done that. But the Try Guys had a safe word, “epidural, which, unfortunately, doesn’t work with women actually undergoing real labor.

Vanity Fair finds some of the Try Guys stunts (yes, they used the word stunts) pandering to a teen audience, when the Try Guys have the ability to reach an actual adult audience. The Try Guys are pushing 30, and maybe they are trying a bit too hard?

Instinct Magazine covered the latest in the Buzzfeed Try Guys video, which was the underwear strip challenge, and it was a contest of sorts. Let’s just say if you have watched any of the Try Guys videos, you can probably guess who wins, but you can check it out yourself.

Have you watched the Try Guys videos? Which one is your favorite?

[Photo by YouTube/Buzzfeed]