- Ned Fulmer is no longer
working with the Try Guys. By now, we're assuming you've
seen the Reddit threads, and TikToks, and tweets,
and news articles. We want to give you a
timeline of what's transpired and some transparency
into our decision making. Throughout this video, there will be things that we
want to say or go into further, but as I'm sure you're aware,
there are some legal issues we have to consider as
we go through everything. - On Labor Day weekend,
multiple fans alerted us that they had seen Ned and an employee engaging in public romantic behavior. We reached out to check on that employee. Ned confirmed the reports
and since confirmed that this had been going on for some time, which was obviously very shocking to us. And we just want you to know that we had no idea this was going on. All of that information
was just as shocking to us as all of this has been for you this week. - And thus began a three
week process of engaging with employment lawyers, corporate
lawyers, HR, PR, and more in order to make sure we were
taking all necessary steps. From the jump, we were acutely aware of just how contrary this was to the values of the company we've built and those of everyone who works here. This is something we took very seriously. We refused to sweep things under the rug. That is not who we are and
is not what we stand for. - We immediately removed
Ned from work activities and engaged an HR professional to conduct a thorough review of the facts. We also opted to remove
Ned from our releases pending the results of that review. Over a few weeks, that's
included removing his section from videos, digitally
removing him from others, and choosing not to feature
him in our merch throws. Honestly, I want to give major
props to our editing staff for how deftly they've handled that. There are several videos that we've deemed as fully unreleasable. You will never see them and
that is due to his involvement. And that's a decision that
has cost us lots of money. We will not be able to recoup that money, but it's a decision we stand by proudly. - Now, we can't talk about
the details of the review, but suffice to say we found
that Ned had engaged in contact, well, conduct unbecoming of our team and we knew that we could
not move forward with him. So on Friday, September 16th, the three of us signed written consent of the members of Second Try LLC approving the removal of Ned
as a manager and an employee. We chose not to rush into the announcement for a few reasons. Namely, there are real people
who have been affected. And while we consider
this a company matter, there's just also a family
at the center of this. - Now we were always planning
on a public statement and we're working towards
that with our team. But in light of rapidly
accelerating speculation, we knew we couldn't wait any longer. We were obviously incredibly shocked and deeply hurt by all of this. This is someone who we'd built a brand and a company with for eight years. We feel saddened, not just personally, but on behalf of our staff and
our fans who believed in us. - I don't know that we'll
ever be able to fully articulate the pain we
feel at this moment. It's hard to rewatch old videos that we love and are proud of. We're losing a friend, we're losing someone we
we built a company with, we have countless memories with. We just made a TV show together. I'm sure many of you feel the same way. It's weird. We're sorry that this ever happened and we don't know what more to say. - This is also our staff of 20 strong who, they just don't deserve
the negative attention our brand is now getting
'cause they didn't do anything. But they're our family and
they're some of the most talented creative minds in the world and our primary focus
right now is making sure they feel comfortable
and proud coming to work. The work they do never
ceases to astound us and frankly, there's just no world in which we could have navigated
all of this without them. Now, there are videos that were shot ahead of all this, right? We're gonna be editing Ned out like the new season of "Without A Recipe" and we're working with our editors in finding creative
solutions to the footage. And we also have some branded videos that we've already committed to. So when you see a video that's sponsored in a few
weeks and you're like, oh, that's kind of weird, well,
yeah, it is kind of weird. It's just how things are and that's why. - Look, I get that when
stuff like this happens, there's going to be speculation and gossip and we ask that you respect the privacy of the family members and employees who may be caught up in this. We also wanna remind you that the internet has a tendency to be a lot
harsher towards women than men. So please, we ask that
you exercise kindness. - Things will change here. What we hope is that within this, there's also the opportunity
for positive growth and better videos ahead,
but it's gonna be hard. This whole thing is gonna
be really fuckin' hard. - And we imagine you
have lots of questions, lot more questions right now and we're gonna have more
to say in the future, just right now we're focused on bringing the best content possible between now and the end of
the year and then figuring out what the future of this
channel looks like from there. - That's it for now. Again, more to come. Some things may change. We are just sort of figuring
it out all one day at a time. - Thank you for your support. We appreciate you and we look forward to introducing you to the next
era of the Try Guys ahead.
