CollegeHumor

CH Media
Trade name	Dropout
Formerly	CollegeHumor; CollegeHumor Media;
Industry	Television and web series production; Streaming service; Entertainment websites;
Founded	December 7, 1999
Founders	Josh Abramson and Ricky Van Veen
Headquarters	Los Angeles, California, United States
Products	Dropout.tv
Brands	Dropout (formerly CollegeHumor); Dorkly (sold); Drawfee (sold); Lowbrow Studios (sold); Machinima, Inc. (sold; 2011–2013); Rooster Teeth (sold; 2019);
Owner	Sam Reich (majority); IAC (minority);
Number of employees	20 (2024)
Website	www.chmedia.com

CH Media, doing business as Dropout,^[1] is an Internet comedy company based in Los Angeles which produces content for release on its streaming service, Dropout, and on YouTube. It was originally founded as the CollegeHumor website, created by Josh Abramson and Ricky Van Veen in 1999,^[2] and was owned by InterActiveCorp (IAC) from 2006 until January 2020, when IAC withdrew funding and the website shut down.^[3] The current CEO of CH Media is Sam Reich, a veteran performer and former Chief Creative Officer of CollegeHumor, who purchased the company in 2020 from IAC.^[4]^[5] In September 2023, the company formally dropped the CollegeHumor branding in favor of its Dropout branding, which originated with its streaming service.^[1]

After it was acquired by IAC, CollegeHumor Media became CH Media which consisted of three main brands: CollegeHumor.com, Drawfee.com and Dorkly.com.^[5] The former CollegeHumor site featured daily original humor videos and articles created by its in-house writing and production team, in addition to user-submitted videos, pictures, articles and links. Many of its staff also operated the sister website Dorkly, centering on fandoms and video game parodies in the vein of CollegeHumor before the site ceased publication of new articles in January 2019.^[6]^[7] Like CollegeHumor, despite the website shutting down, Dorkly continued to release new original content on YouTube. Dorkly is now owned by CH Media's longtime partner for animated content, Lowbrow Studios.^[8] Drawfee is also now an independent creator-owned company.^[9]

IAC launched CH Media's streaming service Dropout in 2018.^[10] The streaming service includes original series along with the CollegeHumor back catalog of over 1,500 videos.^[11] Following its acquisition by Reich, the company primarily focused on production for Dropout until the rebrand in 2023.^[1]

^ ^a ^b ^c Spangler, Todd (September 26, 2023). "CollegeHumor Changes Name to Dropout, as Digital Comedy Player Rebrands for Streaming". Variety. Archived from the original on September 26, 2023. Retrieved September 26, 2023.
^ "How A Couple Of Freshmen Built CollegeHumor Into A Profitable Cultural Phenomenon - with Josh Abramson - Mixergy". Mixergy. Archived from the original on April 24, 2018. Retrieved April 23, 2018.
^ "CollegeHumor Helped Shape Online Comedy. What Went Wrong?". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Archived from the original on November 30, 2020. Retrieved October 21, 2020.
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^ "CollegeHumor Media Launches Videogame Humor Site Dorkly.com". TechCrunch. June 16, 2010. Retrieved September 27, 2023.
^ "A Note From the Staff". Dorkly. January 23, 2019. Archived from the original on December 19, 2019. Retrieved September 27, 2023.
^ Dorkly [@dorkly] (May 18, 2023). "Hey friends! We've got some exciting news… LOWBROW HAS OFFICIALLY ACQUIRED DORKLY!! "Huh, Neat! But what does this mean?" This means new Dorkly Bits every week! New Shorts! Sequels to classic series! And eventually, new comics, podcasts, and a whole bunch of stuff! STUFF!" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
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[:1-1] Spangler, Todd (September 26, 2023). "CollegeHumor Changes Name to Dropout, as Digital Comedy Player Rebrands for Streaming". Variety. Archived from the original on September 26, 2023. Retrieved September 26, 2023.

[2] "How A Couple Of Freshmen Built CollegeHumor Into A Profitable Cultural Phenomenon - with Josh Abramson - Mixergy". Mixergy. Archived from the original on April 24, 2018. Retrieved April 23, 2018.

[:13-3] "CollegeHumor Helped Shape Online Comedy. What Went Wrong?". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Archived from the original on November 30, 2020. Retrieved October 21, 2020.

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[:11-6] "CollegeHumor Media Launches Videogame Humor Site Dorkly.com". TechCrunch. June 16, 2010. Retrieved September 27, 2023.

[:12-7] "A Note From the Staff". Dorkly. January 23, 2019. Archived from the original on December 19, 2019. Retrieved September 27, 2023.

[twitter.com-8] Dorkly [@dorkly] (May 18, 2023). "Hey friends! We've got some exciting news… LOWBROW HAS OFFICIALLY ACQUIRED DORKLY!! "Huh, Neat! But what does this mean?" This means new Dorkly Bits every week! New Shorts! Sequels to classic series! And eventually, new comics, podcasts, and a whole bunch of stuff! STUFF!" (Tweet) – via Twitter.

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