I've been a creator for years, making sketches, podcasts, short films, webseries, memes, products and more, and releasing them via my own personal socials or through brands I created. For most of 2025, though, I was in-house social media manager and content creator for eBaum's World, for whom I made and managed daily photo and video content across Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and X. This page features an array of things I'm proud of, and capable of, from all of that.
VERTICAL SKETCHES
I've been making video comedy sketches since before I can remember, but for whatever reason I just got into the veritcal game. (For YouTube sketches, scroll down a bit to the videos from my old sketch group, WOMEN.) It's my new favorite thing to make and you'll be seeing a lot more of it. Follow me on Instagram or TikTok for more.
TOPICAL PRODUCTS & MEMES
Following internet trends and the news are so important for getting engagement online, and luckily for me I have a lot of fun satirizing the zeitgeist in meme form. I've been making graphics like this for my personal accounts for years now, and they're a big part of why I have the followers I have. You can find more examples on the Websites & Graphics page of my portfolio, and there's even more of it to see on my Instagram.
IG likes: 17.9K.
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Sadly this post is gone because I got rid of my twitter, but it went SO viral. I made this campaign sign then posted a photo on twitter and it got so popular that Urban Outfitters ended up licensing the brand from me and selling it in their stores. Read more about it on my Products page.
HISTORY/EXPLAINER VIDEOS
I loved making these. It's a format we tried out for eBaum's World and moved away from pretty quickly, but I really like how they came out and I'd love to make more.
EBAUM'S WORLD
For most of 2025, I was in-house social media manager at eBaum's World. I built a plan that centered around updating the brand visually and satirizing current events (to be more exciting to the modern user), while also using old meme formats, nostalgic subject matter and eBaum's famous nihilistic comedic voice to maintain our identity as old internet royalty.
REELS AT SCALE
My approach to getting engagement with reels was volume. I wanted to post so many videos a day that even incremental engagement would add up. I did this with three formats: ViralHog-based reels, A.I. songs set to graphics, and TV/movie memes. The first two videos below are ViralHogs -- videos licensed from ViralHog that I sourced and captioned -- that got heavy engagement. The third video is one of the many A.I. songs I made -- I wrote the lyrics, edited them and played with genre prompts until Suno made the song I wanted, then captioned it and set it to a collection of royalty-free videos and images in Premiere. The fourth video is a meme I wrote and edited in Premiere using footage from a popular movie. I got to a point where I was so fast with all three of these formats that even though I was a one-man team I was scheduling three videos a day (including weekends), and some days even four, five or six. Our TikTok follower count grew by 100k in six months, our Instagram follower count grew by 50k in six months, and we consistently hit our Facebook bonus.
BRANDING & NOSTALGIA
This last part of the strategy was less about engagement and more about optics. We wanted our pages to look good, and look like us, and look consistent, and showcase our sense of humor. I think we did that very well.
BILLIONAIRES ARE GOOD
Billionaires Are Good is my podcast, and though it's on pause right now, for a good while I was not only co-host but producer of every episode and manager of the brand. I filmed each episode then made three captioned clips for social media, which grew us from zero to 1000 weekly listeners in the first six months alone. And because podcast listeners don't tend to engage with you on social media much, I designed two meme formats in the voice of the show, and wrote/created 4+ images a week to keep our X followers around. We amassed 13K followers or so, which is pretty amazing to me considering we're a faceless entity on there.
PODCAST CLIPS
We shot some of our episodes in person but many of them were remote, and I personally don't love the way zoom/streamyard video looks in clip form, so I desaturated the color on those clips a bit and added some film grain to give it a bit of an interesting look and mask that shot-on-a-webcam feel.
A MOCK MANOSPHERE
I wrote/photoshopped hundreds of these. You can find some more on the Websites & Graphics section of my portfolio, and every single one is on our X profile.
FAKE BILLIONAIRE NEWS
On a personal note, I think these clickbaity news graphics that blast a headline into your eyes with no other context offered are particularly bad for society. (lolololololol.) I made the template for these in Canva, which I don't normally do, but I wanted to crank out a bunch when I was bored on the train. And I did! There are so many. You can see them all on X.
WOMEN
WOMEN was my sketch group. We had a blast. It was a long time ago now but the sketches are still on YouTube and it's still some of my proudest work. We were pretty big on Twitter too, reaching over 10k followers as a brand that tweeted jokes with no human face in its avatar. We were strange at times, and dumb and dark always, and we ended up making sketches for both Comedy Central and IFC. You can see them all on our YouTube channel.
SHORTS
GARBAGE PARTY
I wanted to make an insane sketch show, and here we are. All of the graphics and transition animations were made by me, every sketch stars either my voice or me and every element was written/shot/edited by me (except the Jackass sketch which was shot/edited by Thomas R. Wood). I dug through the internet for public domain footage to chop and screw, recorded a bunch of new voiceover and turned one piece of video into a techno song. It's unbelievable that it's three minutes long.
NUMBER 5
This is one of my favorite things I've ever written. It's the beautiful and heartwarming story of a very nice serial killer. I co-wrote it with Pat Bishop, he directed it and I starred in it. I also produced it, cast it, found all the props and costuming, scheduled the shoots, managed the money and designed the flyers we use in it. It bopped around the internet a little bit and then got picked up by JASH.
BROTHERLY
I co-wrote and co-starred in this webseries with Chris Charpentier and it's a blast. It ended up getting shot by the Nix Brothers and produced by Big Top, which really made it come to life in a big way. We spent a weekend in Vegas at a little house shooting day and night and it's some of the most fun I've ever had shooting something. Watch all the episodes here, or check out the trailer:
WHAT DAY IS IT
I built up a pretty good amount of followers on twitter -- like 17,000 or so -- which felt good, but in 2017 the app went from making me happy to making me despondently sad every single time I read even a micron of an interaction on it. I wanted to say "FUCK YOU" to it while still letting the world know I had over 15,000 followers, which was an ego thing for sure, and I have no defense for that. In 2019 I deleted all of my tweets and began tweeting "What day is it" every single day. I did this for years. After awhile I programmed an app to do it for me, and so my @davetotheross twitter account tweeted "What day is it" at 12:15pm PST on-the-dot every single day until somewhere in 2024 when that app started demanding I pay for a subscription. (Normally I'd pay in a heart beat, but as a broke comedian I could not find any justification for spending money on a useless bit like this.)
I still think it's so funny. It infuriated a good amount of my followers and caused a few comedians to literally yell at me to my face, which I will never understand. Apparently I needed to "stop fucking with" them. How you could take my nonsense twitter bit so personally is completely beyond me but it does make me even more proud of this needlessly long, dumbass bit.
I have barely any proof that I did this, too. I posted about it a bunch of times but all the posts are gone now, I took screenshots but I can't find them, and I turned the account into the twitter for my podcast. I could've sworn I took a screen video of me scrolling through the account numerous times, but alas, those are gone, too. I found but one archived instagram post of a single screenshot and it's the only evidence I have of my favorite thing I've ever done.