The group was founded by former SourceFed hosts Joe Bereta, Elliott Morgan, Lee Newton, and Steve Zaragoza.
[7] On July 9, 2018, the group announced that they were participating in NBC's comedy competition show Bring the Funny,[8] appearing as part of the Sketch Act Division.
[13] In the semifinals, the group performed a sketch that parodied a superhero academy that involved a flurry of feathers being dumped on the audience.
In addition to the prize money and Just for Laughs invite, the group's national television exposure has resulted in an estimated 10,000 new YouTube subscribers by the day after the show's finale.
[5] On October 11, 2018, h3h3Productions made a video roasting Valleyfolk member Elliott Morgan's previous work on a pilot of a TLC Network show titled I Catfished My Kid.
Fifteen minutes later, Newton posted her own video from her channel explaining that her last official date with the group was September 23, 2019 and that it was not her decision to leave the team.