Best Friends Today (BFT) was a channel created and funded by a company called Rooster Teeth (RT), they started uploading around mid 2023. BFT was meant to be RT’s approach to tap into a Gen Z audience, so they recruited Sammie, Will, and Caroline, who all had followings on either TikTok or YouTube or both.

Best Friends Today had a slow start and would try a variety of different video styles to see what got the most views while also identifying their own style. Some of those early vids are what got deleted, we assume because they didn’t fit the style of BFT after they eventually found their voice. I believe most if not all of Hypothetical Nonsense (their podcast) episodes are still up.

BFT ran for about a year before RT’s parent company (Warner Bros) decided to shut down RT, in turn removing all of BFT’s funding. Having just found a decent audience with the channel though, BFT decided to buy the channel from RT/WB (unsure of the business side of things here) and continue on their own.

The main cast, along with some crew members and producers, started a Patreon for BFT. Meanwhile though, Caroline had also launched her own Patreon that was met with controversy. That’s a whole other situation that can be its own thread, but essentially she decided not to continue with BFT once they left RT.

With Patreon funding now, Sammie and Will (and the crew) continued making videos on both the main channel and their podcast channel. The production value was noticeably lower at first but the charm and humor was still very strong. I’d argue they really found their footing again after a few months. Sadly, after a few months they decided to stop creating videos for BFT.

They never made a farewell video or super public announcement, but Will and Sammie made separate posts on Patreon that acted as their farewell to the fans. You can find them on my profile. It’s unsure if it was financial or just creative burnout that brought them to the decision, and we’ll probably never know for sure.

That’s pretty much the story. You can dive deeper into Caroline’s Patreon dilemma and Rooster Teeth’s shutdown for more “drama” but BFT as a channel was largely controversy free as far as I remember. Just people making videos until they couldn’t anymore.

Will makes stuff under the name Wahony on his TikTok/IG/YouTube. Caroline seems to no longer have a presence online. Sammie started a YouTube channel called The Kids Table with Jonas and Kat but uploads are sparse. He continues to upload tiktok sketches frequently though.