Background
The HouseholdHacker YouTube channel is dedicated to making "videos about everything geek". The videos, which are cross-posted at householdhacker.com, are the work of two anonymous editors known as "Traveler and Frosty Brain" or "Spencer and Dylan" who reside in San Jose, California and Peachtree City, Georgia. Each video features a simple hack, or "a quick and/or clever creation for a method of solving of a problem." HouseholdHacker makes money by offering subscription downloads and T-shirts, but the duo told the LATimes that they do not make enough money to "live off comfortably at this point."
HouseholdHacker was launched in November 2007 and quickly attracted interest, becoming YouTube's most subscribed channel for the month of December 2007. By January 2009, HouseholdHacker was the 22nd most subscribed YouTube channel. The channel's popularity began to wane and by July they had fallen to 27th place overall. As of July 2009, HouseholdHacker is the third most subscribed "guru" channel on YouTube.
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