Rileah Vanderbilt is largely given credit to bringing the four women of Team Unicorn together. She and Clare Grant became friends in 2005 and began producing geek videos together, even winning two awards at the 2009 Star Wars Fan Film Awards for their short "Saber". Vanderbilt became friends with Milynn Sarley in 2009, and Michele Boyd was introduced in January 2010. The four women cosplayed together as Sailor Moon characters at Comic-Con 2010. Afterwards, Sarley came up with the idea for "G33k and G4M3R Girls", and together they wrote the original lyrics, bringing Vanderbilt and Grant on board to finish the lyrics and produce the video. After the overwhelming response to the first video, more ideas quickly came and "Team Unicorn" was officially born. In 2011, the women became friends with Alison Haislip, who would later replace Boyd as the Blue Unicorn in 2014.