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In under a year, they received a buyout offer from an Internet company called eFront for $9 million, most of which would have been financed with stock shares.

Within three months the site was receiving over 600,000 visitors per month and $8,000 in monthly revenue. They began by posting silly photos of themselves as well as jokes, links, and other amusing material they collected from emails circulating among college students. Abramson and Van Veen were high school friends from Baltimore, Maryland Abramson was at the University of Richmond and Van Veen was at Wake Forest. The CollegeHumor website was created in December 1999 by Josh Abramson and Ricky Van Veen when they were both freshmen in college. History Founding of CollegeHumor (1999–2006) CollegeHumor logo Following its acquisition by Reich, the company primarily focused on production for Dropout until the rebrand in 2023.

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The streaming service includes original series along with the CollegeHumor back catalog of over 1,500 videos. IAC launched CH Media's streaming service Dropout in 2018. Drawfee is also now an independent creator-owned company. Dorkly is now owned by CH Media's longtime partner for animated content, Lowbrow Studios. Like CollegeHumor, despite the website shutting down, Dorkly continued to release new original content on YouTube. 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.

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. Īfter it was acquired by IAC, CollegeHumor Media became CH Media which consisted of three main brands:, and. In September 2023, the company formally dropped the CollegeHumor branding in favor of its Dropout branding, which originated with its streaming service. 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. It was originally founded as the CollegeHumor website, created by Josh Abramson and Ricky Van Veen in 1999, and was owned by InterActiveCorp ( IAC) from 2006 until January 2020, when IAC withdrew funding and the website shut down. CH Media, doing business as Dropout, is an Internet comedy company based in Los Angeles which produces content for release on its streaming service, Dropout, and on YouTube.

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