As you may remember, Johnson posted on his Facebook page back in January announcing his plans to begin pitching one of his shows to a few cable networks. Looks like he was successful.

The script will be penned by writers Mike Gagerman and Andrew Waller, whom both have worked on the movie “American Pie Presents Beta House”. The executive producers of this project will be Dave Becky and Troy Zien of 3 Arts’ Entertainment, a television production company that works on shows and produces independent films.

The Hollywood Reporter also notes that this project comes in lieu of FX’s preparations for the September launch of their comedy brand channel, FXX.

Apart from all this, Johnson and his girlfriend Anna Akana also started Runaway Planet, a trans-media entertainment studio that launched late last year. Check out their latest clip below which documents their journey.

See also:

Ray William Johnson and Blip Partner To Continue Development Of Runaway Planet

Ray William Johnson to Maker Studios: ‘The Lawsuit Starts Now’

Ray William Johnson Announces Plans To Begin Pitching Cable TV Shows

[UPDATED] Ray William Johnson Launches His Own Production Studio [EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW]

It was initially spawned from a Flickr account pic a photographer uploaded of her dog looking out a car window. But now it has spread, chiefly through Reddit, to embody sarcasm in its most biting form. And now, by being coupled with a photo of a fat guy kicking a soccer ball, it has transcended all previous high points of its existence. And that’s kind of a shame.

You know who should be absolutely off limits for mockery? Fat people working out. Seriously, I think we can all agree that fat people are not a “good thing.” Healthy people are a good thing. So when a photo of a fat guy goes viral because people are making fun of his giant belly hanging out, it kind of sends a bad message to everyone.

Yes, he looks absolutely comical — fat people aren’t supposed to do stuff! But people, please, for the good of our health insurance premiums, give this guy a polite golf clap for not being photographed going through a Mcdonald’s drive-thru on his Rascal scooter.

The crazy of it all, is that as a football lineman for the NFL’s Jacksonville Jaguars, Jason Spitz, the fattie in question, is actually in ridiculously good shape and could not only chase you down, but bench press your broken, lifeless body … a lot.

Instead, might I offer you these images of a overreaching pug or an embarrassingly-coiffed stallion. That works, right?

The dynamic duo behind “The Brothers Riedell,” Chris and Nick Riedell, got their big YouTube break when they won season one of the YOMYOMF Network’s talent competition “Internet Icon.” Frustrated by the creative restraints of their jobs in the entertainment industry — Chris in acting and Nick in editing and camera work — the brothers began making comedy videos in their spare time, and before long, what started out as a weird experiment turned into a love affair. Since joining YouTube in 2011 (as instructed to by their good friend Chester See), the brothers have created weekly comedy videos that are a mixture of short music videos, skits and personal vlogs documenting the life of the brothers and their love affair with cheese.

Having already been crowned champions of the inaugural season, the Brothers Riedell return to host “Internet Icon,” a YouTube “Idol”-style talent competition that sets out to find the next big YouTuber. Chris and Nick will act as hosts and mentors for season two of the show, which premieres May 21 at 8 p.m. EST on the YOMYOMF Network. In between filming and traveling, the Riedell brothers shared with NMR the reasons they originally auditioned for “Internet Icon, “ why their comedy doesn’t fit the traditional mold of YouTube humor and their most awkward type of encounter with fans.

Follow the Brothers:

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/thebrothersriedell

Twitter: https://twitter.com/brothersriedell

Chris Twitter: https://twitter.com/chrisriedell

Nick Twitter: https://twitter.com/brothersriedell

Last night, at the the freshly minted Big Frame offices, YouTuber Kain Carter (HotDamnIRock) held a live streaming Q&A session for more than 30 of his fans. Surrounded by a mix of young and old, vloggers and non-vloggers, Carter took any and all questions regardless of their raunchiness, which there was much of.

Crammed together in a studio room, a fan asked Carter how someone becomes a YouTube celebrity, and much to the YouTuber’s credit, where a joke could have easily landed, Carter instead took a much more honest approach. “Just be yourself, be yourself, be yourself,” Carter explained to the gathered audience.

Being yourself, no matter how cliched or tired the ideal would seem to some, was the anchoring theme of the night. Under the scrutiny of dozens of cameras pointed in his face, Carter wasn’t putting on a show. It was the exact opposite actually: a totally honest, humble guy hanging out with his fans.

It was hard not to be charmed by Carter in that moment; here was someone who claimed to be all about his fans actually going to the trouble of flying from Baltimore to California just to meet followers face to face. Carter’s openness put into perspective just how important it is for YouTubers to maintain that personal connection originally built through daily vlogging.

It’s been said a thousand times and will be said a thousand times more, but YouTubers aren’t movie stars. And that’s what people love, this idea that you could grab a beer or play “Minecraft” with these vloggers and it would be like seeing an old friend. So why aren’t more YouTubers grabbing beers and playing games?

It seems, with YouTube’s top talent at least, that a barrier has been put in place putting space between their fans and themselves. Of course, watching Smosh being swarmed at VidCon last year reaffirmed that those barriers, physical in this case, are sometimes a good idea.

However, YouTube careers have been built on this idea of a personal connection between fans and vloggers. That connection shouldn’t end as soon as recording stops; it should reach beyond just cons and into more personal-feeling affairs like Carter’s Q&A at Big Frame.

Fan meetups and Q&A sessions benefit the YouTuber as well. In the case of the Carter event last night, nearly every fan in attendance was tweeting, posting and vlogging about it. These are fans with a devotion so fervent that it will spread to their followers and so on. The occasional tweet or Facebook post isn’t cutting it in the lightning-paced world of YouTube anymore.

YouTubers needs to stick together as a community, one that supports not only each other and their networks but also the fans who supported them and elevated them to digital stardom. So, let’s take a lesson from Carter and put the personal touch back into YouTube.

For more about Big Frame and other YouTube networks, check out:

“Big Frame Manifesto Distances Company From ‘Unethical’ YouTube Network Practices”

“Machinima Lays Off 10% Of Staff To Make Room For Sales, Marketing And Product”

“Fullscreen hires Former MTV Exec As VP Of Sales And Brand Strategy“

With music, snark and cute animals, you’d think police pursuit videos were trying to go “mainstream.”

For some reason, cop “chase” videos are becoming a more consistent “must watch” antic on YouTube. It’s as if the police are going to monetize these things and build Robocop. This new chase video, filmed, as they all are now, by the dashboard-mounted video camera, shows a speeder blasting by at well above the posted 35 mph sign. Suddenly, like an episode of “CHIPS,” the cool music starts in, the cop takes off in pursuit and a glib little message comes up to warn us that the video has been sped up to enhance the drama. It’s policing — TO THE EXTREME!

Wow, cops are badasses after all. Now lets all suck back some Sunny D and rollerblade down to the mall. YOLO!

Jesus, this video is so anti-climactic that it pains me to see it get the enhancements it has. I won’t spoil it for you; just know that when I said “cute animals” above, it was a big clue. Wake me when Michael Bay starts directing these things.

Check out other police chase videos here:

Helmet Cam Makes ‘First-Person’ Police Chase 10,000X More Awesome … Yup [VIDEO]

Must-Watch Video: TV Police Chase Becomes Crazy Interactive

Starcount wants you to know about the Social Star Awards in a bad way. Like, in a crazy, bring tons of awesome YouTubers together for a funny video, sort of bad way. But you know what? Because they’ve done just that, we all win.

Assembling some of the hottest names in YouTube including Jenna Marbles, Epic Meal Time, Ryan Higa, Destorm Power, FreddieW, Shane Dawson, Natalie Tran, Lindsey Stirling, D-Trix, Blogilates, David Choi, MysteryGuitarMan, Wong Fu Productions, Hikakin and Honey Singh, I shit you not, this is like some form of YouTube Justice League, recruited to teach one very nerdy young man how to be a YouTube star.

Of course, it also helps if your “nerd” has made out with Bar Refaeli and has some star power of his own. Jesse Heiman, star of the infamous GoDaddy Superbowl ad, needs to get some YouTube cred in order to have a chance at a Social Star Award — good thing this crack team of aces is on hand to whip him into top shape. Voice lessons, swagger lessons, food lessons, vlog training and fitness workouts — Jesse goes through the motions in order to be legit.

Make sure you tune in to watch the Social Star awards show live on YouTube on May 23rd, because if this ad for it is any indication, this show is going to be EPIC (meal time)!

With the premiere of VloggerFair, Seattle will soon be swarming with aspiring and established vloggers alike. The two-day event, taking place June 8-9, will feature a variety of panels aimed at vloggers looking to hone their skills. VloggerFair will also host guest vloggers the likes of Shaycarl, who will be filming for his documentary “I’m Vlogging Here,” and NMR pal Lamarr Wilson.

Now, we here at NMR know that you have only so much time on your hands. And with VloggerFair delivering boatloads of programming for both vloggers and viewers, you won’t be able to see it all. The panels below, based on what they seem to be offering, look promising for vloggers, fans or just folks looking to learn more about vlogging.

1:1 Meet & Greet With Celebrity Vloggers

Vlog University: How Can Video Platforms Improve My Vlogging

How to Engage Viewers in Brands on Vlogs

Data-Driven Content: How Analytics Shape Vlogs

Crossing the Bridge From Blogging to Vlogging

Vlogging TV Streaming:How to Publish & Find Great Content

Checklist: Become a Vlogging Star

What is Vloggertainment? What is it to branding?

Rethinking Ad Space: Vlog Edition

What Tools Buffer the Connectino to Vloggers?

VloggerFair will also feature a mix of celebrity vloggers who will be sharing their experiences and advice. Among the massive list of guest appearances, NMR recommends you find time to catch up with veteran vlogger Shaycarl, Corey Vidal of ApprenticeA Productions, past NMR guest Jon Rettinger, comedian Peter Chao, controversial vlogger Daniel Sulzbach, YouTube legend iJustine and tech vlogger Lamarr Wilson.

Indmusic, the largest music-specific multi-channel network on YouTube, has just strengthened their grasp by shoring up some clutch new partnerships with some of music’s most valuable record labels and management companies.

Adding serious strategic value to the already-hip label, the new partnership forges Indmusic’s ties with Tmwrk, Reach, Decon, Iamsound, Paper Garden, Top Shelf, Mixmash, Temporary Residence Limited and Lucky Me. This brings their channel partnership count up to 221, with over 1.4 billion total views.

Indmusic also now has access to an impressive bevvy of rosters, which includes talented artists and producers such as Diplo, Lecrae and Explosions in the Sky. Indmusic will also be handling monetization and rights for the new partners, so they will be sure to see an immediate push towards maximizing their artistic potential in that sense.

When NMR asked Indmusic CEO Brandon Martinez how the new partners could immediately benefit Indmusic, he pulled his best JFK impression with, “It’s about how INDMUSIC can immediately benefit the new Partners, whether implementing on-channel strategies or cleaning up rights issues on the back end.” Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.

NMR attempted to probe Martinez a little further seeing if we could get him to highlight who he thought was the next Baauer (already an established Indmusic partner) with a “Harlem Shake”-style viral phenomenon waiting in the wings, but he was too smart for that: “All of them! We have upcoming releases from Mr. MFN eXquire, Milkman, MisterWives, Alice & the Glass Lake, Troy Ave., Soul Khan, and many other talented artists we want to see break through.”

In the end, the bottom line is that “anybody willing to work hard” has a potential to be the next Baauer. ”‘Harlem Shake’ proved that a viral hit can happen in a flash and you need to be prepared.”

Yahoo is reported to be in talks with Tumblr to acquire the popular microblogging site in an estimated $1 billion deal. Details about the deal were leaked yesterday in an article published on All Things D, a publication that in the past has prided itself on its Yahoo sources.

News of the $1 billion deal comes just a few months after Tumblr CEO David Karp shared in an interview with Forbes magazine that he was cautious about selling to a major company like Yahoo because he didn’t want Tumblr to become “absorbed into a behemoth of another company and raided for talent and traffic.”

Should the deal go through, Yahoo will be positioned as a power player in the social media world alongside Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest. A major driving point pushing Yahoo in the deal is their desire to appeal to the 18-24-year old demographic that make up the majority of Tumblr’s audience. If successful in their acquisition bid, Yahoo would have access to Tumblr’s 107 million users, who currently generate up to 15 billion pageviews a month for the microblogging platform.

Tumblr has continued to grow in popularity as many social media users have shifted their focus from Facebook and Twitter to Tumblr and Instagram. 2013 has been a big year for Tumblr so far as the platform added prominent users like the White House, Beyonce and Alicia Keys, introduced ads on mobile, and developed an instant message feature for users’ dashboards.

Check Out Tumblr’s Major 2013 Moments:

Tumblr’s New Chat App ‘Babblr’ Allows Users To Instant Message Right From Their Dashboards

‘White Men Wearing Google Glass’ Tumblr Shows Ultimate White Boys Club

Tumblr Founder David Karp Talks ‘Building Tools For Creativity’ At SXSW

The cycle of cringe-worthy bad press for arguably the best/worst “Kitchen Nightmares” participants ever continues to roll along.

Days after the owners of Amy’s Baking Company had a total threat level-5 meltdown via Facebook, which included such hits as: “Come to here, I will fucking show you all,” recently fired server Katy Cipriano sounded off on Reddit sharing her insanity-fueled story.

The fateful episode, in which Cipriano was fired, was so explosive in fact, that host Gordon Ramsay, for the first time in the show’s history, decided to call it quits on Amy’s Baking Company.

Cipriano, after being fired on camera for allegedly talking back to head chef and co-owner Amy, took to Reddit to explain that although the events were condensed in editing, the firing wasn’t staged and was part of a larger series of events.

Cipriano wrote on Reddit:

“she had messed up a certain table’s appetizer dish 3 or 4 times IN A ROW. and it made me look like an idiot because i was their server and the table was getting increasingly agitated. so when she told me to deliver the appetizer yet again, i asked “are you sure?” – not meaning to sound bratty or mean or anything.”

The ex-server also verified that the entire experience was 100 percent genuine, something that the restaurant’s owners disputed in their several-day-long social media flipout. After being asked by one Redditor if this was the craziest thing she had ever seen the owners do, Cipriano responded by saying:

“by far yes! they cut it off short but the first night, after samy brutally yelled at and laid his hands on that one customer, the cops did end up being called and everyone had to leave the restaurant and the producers had to pay for everyone’s meals.”

The Reddit thread has since gained over 9,000 comments, further pushing Amy’s Baking Company into the worst possible kind of limelight.

There’s a happy ending for Cipriano however, as she explained in the post, “The restaurant i work at now feeds me daily and lets me try just about all of their dishes.”

For more memorable meltdown, check out these horror shows:

“One Fucking Minute: Analyzing The Green Day Meltdown Video”

“#BIEBER4JAIL: 4Chan’s Twitter Prank Reveals A Prime Example Of Weak Reporting”

“Justin Bieber Supermeltdown Continues – Threatens London Paparazzi”

 Via The Daily Dot/Mashable