Herrington's videos spawned an extensive collection of MAD remixes numbering in tens of thousands on Nico Nico Douga. Titled 'Professional Pants-Wrestling' (本格的 ガチムチパンツレスリング), the video gained more than 5.5 million views in less than five years.īilly Herrington's homoerotic wrestling clips soon emerged as a popular source for bait & switch trolling on 2channel in similar vein to Rickrolling that became widespread through the English imageboard site 4chan. However, his internet fame began many years later on September 30th, 2007 with the upload of a video clip from Herrington's 'Workout Muscular Men 3' via video-sharing community Nico Nico Douga (NND). In the following years, Herrington modeled for French nude calendars and starred in a number of hardcore adult films that made him one of the best known same-sex adult films stars of the late 1990s. Born and raised in Long Island, New York, Herrington began pursuing his acting career after his high school graduation in 1996 when one of his nude submissions won him Playgirl magazine's 'Real Men of the Month' contest.
