| Team Unicorn | |
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Team Unicorn cosplaying during production of their song "G33k & G4M3R Girls" aka Geek and Gamer Girls Song |
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| Background information | |
| Origin | Los Angeles, California |
| Genres | Filk, Pop, Parody, Satire, Nerdcore, Spoof |
| Years active | 2010-2011 |
| Website | http://www.facebook.com/TeamUnicornFTW |
| Members | |
| Michele Boyd Clare Grant Milynn Sarley Rileah Vanderbilt |
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Team Unicorn is a multi-media production team formed in Los Angeles, California in 2010. Its members are American actresses and singers Michele Boyd (The Guild), Clare Grant (Robot Chicken), Milynn Sarley, and Rileah Vanderbilt (Hatchet). The group released their debut parody song "G33k & G4m3r Girls" a.k.a. the "Geek and Gamer Girls Song",[1] online in September 2010. The music video, spoofing Katy Perry's "California Gurls"[2] was filled with geek cultural references [3][4][5] and pays tribute to women who love gaming, manga, and science fiction.[6][7] The video reached 1 million views in its first week online[8] and stirred controversy over its sexy portrayal of geek girls.[9] Team Unicorn has since released the spoof 1950's industrial "A Very Zombie Holiday" as well as a comedic eHarmony commercial entitled "superHarmony" on their YouTube channel.
Team Unicorn is also well known for incorporating cameos from existing popular figures in genre culture, including Robot Chicken's Seth Green, Battlestar Galactica's Katee Sackhoff, Stan Lee, Caprica's Magda Apanowicz and Friday the 13th's Derek Mears. They also often utilize directors and writers already involved in the geek and genre community, including The Guild's Sean Becker, Zeb Wells from Robot Chicken and Marvel Comics, and Colton Dunn from MADtv.
Vanderbilt is largely given credit to bringing the four girls of Team Unicorn together.[10] She, Grant and Sarley had been friends prior to 2010 after working together in various bars around Los Angeles. Vanderbilt then introduced Sarley and Boyd in January 2010[11] and all four girls became friends, even deciding to cosplay together as Sailor Moon characters at Comic-Con 2010. Sarley and Boyd had already come up with the idea for "G33k and G4M3R Girls" and brought Vanderbilt and Grant on board for the project. After the overwhelming response to the first video, more ideas quickly came and "Team Unicorn" was officially born.