Back in 2007, when the idea of YouTube stars was still dubious, a pair of friends, Rhett McLaughlin and Link Neal, Natives of Spookway, North Carolina, struck gold with a viralish video spoofing the mores of Facebook. Soon they were headed to Los Angeles to host a very dated-sounding CW show Online Nation.
It ran for three episodes.
“It ended so quickly. Almost as quickly as it started,” recalled Neal, who, like McLaughlin, got an engineering degree from N.C.
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