Bassmaster began posting videos in 2006, and gained wide attention in 2015 with his and fellow YouTuber
Jesse Wellens's faux surveillance video purporting to show the destruction of the Canadian hitchhiking robot
hitchBOT, whose real-life destruction was not filmed. Some news organizations were fooled by the video. In January 2015,
CMT's
The Ed Bassmaster Show launched as a
reality-TV series where his characters prank people as on YouTube. It premiered on April 14, 2016. ==Personal life==