Pitaia.

Hi, everyone, I'm Joanna.

And I'm Jenny.

And this is hyphenated, the podcast about living in the hyphen.

And Jenny and I, we were talking about what topic to talk about today.

And we sort of got pulled into a conversation via text about what topic to talk about today. And we sort of got pulled into a conversation

via text about what's going on sort of in like pop culture news. And our text thread became more

of a podcast episode than a text thread. And I'm also in need of, like, actual explanations of what the hell is going on.

So, Jenny, what is going on in, like, the BuzzFeed Twitterverse world?

Oh, boy. There's a lot going on. I didn't find out about this until, I mean, I still found out about a day of the day it started trending on Twitter, but it was through a fellow colleague who I also used to work with at BuzzFeed. And he's like, have you been on Twitter today? I'm like, why? And he said, well, the tri guys are trending and it's not for a good reason.

Now, before I went on Twitter to see what was going on and why the tri guys were trending,

I weirdly already had a bad feeling who it was about, but it was bizarre because I personally didn't

have a bad experience

with this person, which I'm just going to go ahead and say it, because obviously that's what

this whole episode is about. Ned Fulmer, he is one of the tri guys. If you don't know who the

try guys are, there are these four men, Keith, Eugene, Zach, and Ned, who became friends at BuzzFeed in around 2014, and they

started making these really fun videos where they try different things, hence the name Try Guys.

And they really blew up. They became a viral sensation. So by the time I started working there,

I already knew who they were. I was actually starstruck by them. And Ned Fullmer was the guy who interviewed me and essentially had a big part in hiring me. And he managed a lot of the interns. And that's what I was. Now, did I have a bad experience with Ned while I worked at the company? No. Why I had a bad feeling that it was about him before checking Twitter. I have no idea. Maybe it's just because he's a rich white kid who comes from fraternity life. I have, I don't know. I just had like this weird, bizarre feeling in my gut that it was him and I was right. So, Joanna, what do you think? Before I tell you what the scandal is and why Ned Fulmer has been trending, what

do you think it is that he did?

I mean, if he was, like, trending on Twitter and, like, it seems like there was a big

controversy.

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