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| Reckless Tortuga | |
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| Genre | Comedy |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
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| Network | YouTube |
| Release | May 30, 2008 – present |
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Reckless Tortuga is a YouTube web-based comedy channel consisting of several major web series and other side projects. The channel first attracted popularity in early 2010 when they first aired The Online Gamer, however; they were also known for the series Psycho Girlfriend before its introduction.
Reckless Tortuga was one of the larger comedy groups on YouTube and its members participated in events such as VidCon and San Diego Comic-Con International.[1][2] By 2014, the Reckless Tortuga YouTube Channel was listed on New Media Rockstars Top 100 Channels, ranked at #28.[3] By October 2015, the channel had over 235 million video views and over 1,000,000 subscribers.[4][5][6]
Aside from their main sketches, Reckless Tortuga were also working on projects such as Racism in America, Park It Up, The Sketch Lab, and Extra Butter, Please. Reckless Tortuga was formed by Lindsey Reckis, Jason Schnell, Eric Pumphrey.
Citing ever-changing YouTube terms of service leading to the removal of popular past videos and impacting the viability of continued use of the platform, Reckless Tortuga sold their subscriber base to an unrelated comedy troupe and exited YouTube in early 2019. Reckless Tortuga returned on March 3, 2020, by re-uploading episodes of The cLAN spin-off of the Online Gamer which was previously housed on the now defunct Machinima Prime channel. The group is now back to making videos again. Reckless Tortuga have continued to produce videos during the COVID-19 lockdown and have full control of the YouTube channels.
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- ^ Hernandez, Esteban (July 13, 2012). "Comic-Con 2012: Reckless Tortuga On Reaching 200 Million Views". Archived from the original on May 20, 2013. Retrieved March 3, 2013.
- ^ "The NMR Top 100 YouTube Channels: 50-26!". New Media Rockstars. Retrieved 6 January 2015.
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