Land Of The Snakes

    For this post, I wanted to discuss a group of content creators I used to watch before they sold out and ruined friendships for business purposes. The youtube group is known as 2hype. The current members consist of Jesser (Jesse), Jiedel (James), LSK (Kris), ZachTTG (Zach), CashNasty (Cash), and Moochie (Mitchell). Now the reason I stopped watching this group was when they kicked out fellow creator Mopi (Tyler). Tyler had been with 2hype since the creation of the group and had been a lifetime friend of Jesse’s. 

    

    While Tyler didn’t post as much and didn’t have as great a following, he was usually the comedic presence in 2hype videos, commonly making hilarious mistakes and being the target of many friendly insults. Sadly last year Tyler was dealing with a drug addiction and later stated that no one in 2hype except for Mitchell and Cash cared for his well-being. During the height of this 2hype sold out to the group 100 Thieves and in a surprise move, Tyler didn’t join them. Then on a post of 2hype’s celebrating an award, he tweeted “Lhype”, basically stating that he was leaving the group. This seemingly came out of nowhere and many fans were confused about what was happening internally in 2hype. 

    After numerous exposure tweets and videos from Tyler and past members who were kicked out before the group officially formed, it became clear that 2hype had sold out and were no longer a group of friends having fun on youtube. Tyler made an exposure video explaining how no one except for Cash and Mitchell tried to help him with his drug addiction, Members would refuse or dislike being in Tylers videos but always needed Tyler for their videos, and that they had kicked out people before the group formed so they didn’t have to share as much equity in the group. He also disliked the treatment of his lifelong friend Mitchell, who actually joined 2hype later on but received a very small percent equity in the company since other members didn’t want to give up their percentages.

    While there has been debate on both sides, it has become obvious to me and past fans that 2hype chose money over friendship. Since Tyler’s departure and the exposure videos, 2hype is unable to reach a million views unless they have a feature with another creator or famous figure. Again Tyler was the main comedic relief so now their comedy appears very forced or honestly isn’t funny. Cash and Mitchell are still very genuine but Jesse, James, Kris, and Zach appear to be money-hungry YouTubers, mainly focused on paying off their cars and mansions/houses. Sadly Tyler hasn’t had much success on his own but he continues to persevere and conquer his marijuana addiction.