The creators of the recent viral LeBron James parody video are a part of a well-oiled content-creating machine that has stuck together for close to a decade. It was a sweltering summer day in Waco, Texas, when Mark Phillips first decided to pick up the camera. Phillips, his cousin Affiong Harris and several other childhood friends turned on their pawn shop Nikon and recorded what would later be known as “Hilarious Home Video,” the first YouTube upload for their channel, RDCWorld1 . Eight years and seven months after the group made their internet debut, much has changed in the lives of Phillips and his cohort. For one, the channel has garnered a good 4.5 million more subscribers, and Phillips ( @SupremeDreams_1 ) has 880,000 more followers on Twitter. A video he posted on Twitter several weeks ago that was quote-tweeted by LeBron James (more on that later) has reached more than 17.4 million views. But with everything in the lives of the RDCworld1 crew that has changed since that su...
