The Try Guys turn “Tri”

Hello, my fellow creeps and peeps! I hope your summer break was refreshing and fulfilling, and to our newcomers I want to say, welcome to MHCC!

Halloween season is upon us, and it seems to bring its own drama. I’m talking about The Try Guys, a small group of guys (Keith Habersberger, Eugene Lee Yang, Zach Kornfeld and former Try Guy Ned Fulmer) who will try pretty much anything for the audience’s entertainment. They have a worldwide fan base via YouTube and are a pretty well-liked group of dudes.

The drama took place when the news came out that Fulmer, whose brand in the group was being a well-known family man and loving his wife, had cheated on her. While that in itself doesn’t seem like it would be cause for news, what made it worse was that he cheated with an employee of his own company, someone who works under him.

Fulmer didn’t report his relationship to the company, which is a no-no. Then it was the group’s fans that got ahold of tangible evidence that he was having an affair and thus the waiting game began with all wondering what the Try team would do about this situation.

On Sept. 27 the Try Guys released a statement announcing Fulmer would no longer be a member of the group and soon after released a video explaining the situation a bit more within their limits, legally. Meantime Fulmer issued a statement claiming that he “lost focus and had a consensual workplace relationship.”

While the matter is being handled, it has definitely left a bad taste in my mouth. As a Try Guys fan, because of the deceitful way Fulmer went about it and as someone who has seen what cheating does to a person, I have no respect for a person who is willing to go behind their partner’s back and do something like this. And I’m not the only fan who thinks so.

According to a piece in The Oakland Post, student newspaper for Oakland University in suburban Detroit, Michighan, “When Oakland University freshman Zena Kissinger found out that

Fulmer cheated on his wife, it hit close to home. Coming from a divorced family, Kissinger believes she knows how Fulmer’s wife, Ariel, feels.”

Kissinger told the Post, “I just know how uncomfortable Ariel and her kids must feel right now.

As each “Try Guy” molded his own image, Fulmer was known as the “Wife Guy” of the group, which is why it came as a shock to OU freshman and fan Amber Cicilian that he had been cheating on his wife.

“He just seems so deceitful in my eyes now,” said Cicilian in the Post story. “I think so many people liked him because he was so wholesome, but now he’s just completely destroyed his reputation.”

It has definitely been a huge-eye opener for me, but I also know how tragic this must be for the families and friends involved in this matter and I do hope their privacy is respected and the families involved are doing okay in all of this. “SNL” did a sketch on the scandal that might have made a few people laugh but definitely was in poor taste and should not have been shown, or at least not so soon. It just felt like SNL was downplaying the matter and making it about something that it was not, and that’s not okay.

The Try Guys have explained they are not going to replace Fulmer with fan favorite Kwesi James but instead will make the best of a bad situation and potentially feature guest appearances going forward.

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