It was a sweltering summer day in Waco, Texas, when Mark Phillips first decided to pick up the camera.
Phillips, his cousin Affiong Harris and several other childhood friends turned on their pawn shop Nikon and recorded what would later be known as “Hilarious Home Video,” the first YouTube upload for their channel, RDCWorld1.
Eight years and seven months after the group made their internet debut, much has changed in the lives of Phillips and his cohort. For one, the channel has garnered a good 4.5 million more subscribers, and Phillips (@SupremeDreams_1) has 880,000 more followers on Twitter.