When CollegeHumor decided to create an original series for the paywall-protected YouTube Red subscription service, the popular site’s Head Of Video, Sam Reich, wanted to do something that was ambitious yet still true to CH’s slacker humor heritage. The result was Bad Internet, a 10-episode series inspired by Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror, the pessimistic and often devastating British anthology program that explores the ill effects that technology and media have on modern life. Bad Internet does the same basic thing, except in a much funnier vein and with a focus specifically on online content. Over at The Daily Dot, writer Rae Votta has the story of how the series came about and what its creators want to achieve with it. “We weren’t just telling jokes,” Reich explains. “We were telling story.”