What YouTuber would you cast? - The movie that never was.

[Waifu Days]

The date was August 12, 2013. Movie producer John J. Strauss called into The Howard Stern Show to play part in a bit about casting wack packers for an upcoming film.

Here's the clip:

The general idea of this canceled film was to capitalize of the then new phenomenon of YouTube fame. Two main characters become viral hits and move out to L.A., meet many "famous" "influncers", and learn many important lessons along the way.

Not much is known about its cancelation or what YouTuber were attached to the project. SMOSH, Shane Dawson, and What the Buck were speculated at the time. Another rumor, no banks or investors could be sold on a movie about YouTubers.

The actual question, Strauss gets the project up and running again. He asked you what YouTuber he should approach to hire. Who's your picks? What stupid shit would they do? Rewrite the premise to better inline your Internet Famous hires to true comedy.

Sorry, this was a long build up to a question.

 

[Pee Cola]

Why not just cast some of the wack packers that make complete asses of themselves on YouTube? Stuttering John and Shuli Egar are two that spring instantly to mind.

 

[Jason Wynn]

DSP can be Gary the Retard
Chris can be Siobhan the Transsexual
Spoony can be Yaqi the Tickler

Agreed that it would be better just casting the Wack Pack as themselves though

 

[Nguyen Van Phuoc]

I would not hire any YouTubers as most of popular ones are dull wet blankets who cry all day over mean words or whatever "change" to the algorithm is causing them to make 2 less cents a month (no, it is not that their content is getting boring, stop being a bigot). On the other hand, more obscure YouTubers won't have the star power to pull such a movie.
Personally, I'd just make up some characters and hire actual actors to play them. If any of these past YouTube movie projects can prove, it's that YouTubers can't act for shit, so you might as well get some actors with actual charisma. The only YouTuber I'd hire is IShowSpeed, and that's more of a maybe.