![]() But he is the steward of an uncertain future, in a marketplace that rewards a handful of gigantic digital platforms while pinching the rest, and he can only pay a skeleton staff to revive a company whittled into a decimated relic of itself. ![]() Reich is beloved within the CollegeHumor community-WIRED spoke with more than a dozen former employees, and the praise was unanimously effusive, rare for someone who just laid a bunch of people off. CollegeHumor isn’t dead: IAC is selling the brand to Reich, who will continue running Dropout with an aim to resurrect the larger brand later on. ![]() Now the company has abruptly folded inward, turning back into a bare-bones media startup after decades of growth. In 2016 it launched its own streaming service, Dropout. It branched into novelty clothing (BustedTees), cable television ( The CollegeHumor Show, Adam Ruins Everything), and nerd culture spinoffs (Dorkly). CollegeHumor shape-shifted frequently during its 20-year run, but the evolutions were expansions: bicoastal offices, more staffers, higher production values.
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