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On his Scam School YouTube channel, Brian Brushwood has spent the past six years teaching his viewers simple magic tricks and easy-to-win bar bets. Now, on a new channel called Modern Rogue, Brushwood has a new goal: He’s looking to bring the gadgets, cocktails, and overall swagger of fictional heroes like James Bond to life.

Modern Rogue is a collaboration between Brushwood and his friend Jason Murphy. The channel’s title refers to a crop of classic leading men who Brushwood and Murphy define as “paragons of absolute badass-ness.” As some examples, they name Bond, The A-Team, and multiple Harrison Ford roles. With their videos, they hope to ascend to that ultimate level of cool while instructing viewers how they too can live like action heroes.

Becoming a Modern Rogue requires excellence in multiple categories. Just a week after launching their channel, Brushwood and Murphy have already launched more than 30 videos,...

The Internet’s answer to Dancing with the Stars has returned for its latest rendition, but you’ll need to be a Vessel subscribers if you want to be one of the first people to see it. Dance Showdown, which pairs digital media stars with professional dancers and pits those pairings against one another in a series of challenges, has launched its fourth season.

The contestants who are taking part in season four of Dance Showdown are a varied bunch, ranging from magician Brian Brushwood to Viner Gabbie Hanna. Dominic “D-Trix” Sandoval, who has led the show since its inception, returns as host, and brands like Toyota, Coca-Cola, and Samsung have come on board by sponsoring challenges within the new season.

The first episode of season four is available on DanceOn’s Vessel channel, where potential viewers must own a $2.99-per-month subscription if they want to watch.

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Looking to drink on the cheap? Brian Brushwood has you covered. Five years ago, Brushwood and Revision3 launched Scam School, a channel that offers magic tricks and easy-to-execute bar tricks for its viewers. Now, Scam School lives underneath Discovery's TestTube banner and Brushwood has cut his once-spiky hair, but he is still cranking out new bar bets for his fans every week. Scam School has crossed one million subscribers, so we spoke to Brushwood about his personal brush with online video notability.

Tubefilter: How does it feel to reach one million subscribers? What do you have to say to your fans?

Brian Brushwood: It feels like this.

To the fans, I want to apologize for ever having crazy spiked-out hair. More importantly, I want to apologize for selling out and getting rid of my crazy spiked-out hair.

To everyone not yet a fan, please stop yelling at videos from half a decade ago.