Bad Internet is a YouTube Red original sketch comedy web series. It was created by CollegeHumor and premiered on May 25, 2016. It is produced by CollegeHumor's Los Angeles-based production studio Big Breakfast. There are ten sketches in the series, but only the first--"Which of the Friends are You?"—can be viewed without a YouTube Red subscription. The series was inspired by Charlie Brooker's technology-centered anthology TV show Black Mirror. Sam Reich, CollegeHumor's head of video, said that in creating the series, he wanted to do a project that was both ambitious and true to CollegeHumor's slacker humor heritage. Reich also told Mashable that Bad Internet was "a series built for the Internet."
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Cast
Guests on the show will include YouTube celebrities including iJustine, Rosanna Pansino, and Smosh.
Reception
Marissa Martinelli of Slate described the series as "very funny stuff", noting the clear parallels it contained to Black Mirror and Divergent.