So I started watching this on a whim

Anonymous (User Deleted) · March 21, 2015, 09:45:53 PM

It meant a lot to people way back when. It was one of the first machinimas they'd seen, plus it was in one of their favorite games ever.

Naru · March 22, 2015, 01:36:42 AM

It was decent. It had its moments but the CGI killed it for me.

Batch · March 22, 2015, 05:08:39 AM

Quote from: Verbatim on March 21, 2015, 04:44:59 PM

Quote from: Nagato on March 21, 2015, 04:38:47 PM
It's appeal is something that obviously isn't aimed at you.
i like a lot of things that aren't "aimed" at me

Hopefully you aim something at yourself soon

*sips tea*

Verbatim · March 22, 2015, 08:41:15 AM

Quote from: Batch on March 22, 2015, 05:08:39 AM

Hopefully you aim something at yourself soon

*sips cum*

this would be a pretty sick burn if it was at all necessary or warranted

DAS B00T x2 · March 22, 2015, 09:43:05 AM

Quote from: Luciana on March 21, 2015, 08:28:03 PM

Quote from: Verbatim on March 21, 2015, 08:09:18 PM
Quote from: Luciana on March 21, 2015, 07:59:36 PM
It's 2015

how the hell do you not know what Red vs Blue is?
i never said i didn't know what it was
i've just never seen it before

hence "i started... on a whim"
Oh

well reading all the comments, I'll throw in my onions.

Decent comedy show that shoulda ended at season 10. Had its moments

Vastly overrated.

I'd say season five...

But yeah, it was a new thing, being on the very early wave of machinima, and it was Halo, so it had those going for it at the time, in addition to the occasional stroke of comedic... silver.

Deleted · March 22, 2015, 11:12:21 AM

>See's verbatim thread
>enters thread
>verbatim being a piss baby

Nothing new to see here, Move along....

Word Wizard · March 22, 2015, 11:40:36 AM

I really don't see what people liked in it either.

Verbatim · March 22, 2015, 11:45:11 AM

Quote from: Sly Instinct on March 22, 2015, 11:40:36 AM

I really don't see what people liked in it either.

wow you're such a piss baby

March 22, 2015, 12:22:01 PM

Quote from: Verbatim on March 21, 2015, 04:36:54 PM

2008 is also pretty early for machinima i guess

That video was created in 2003 the youtube date is not telling you anything

March 22, 2015, 12:22:51 PM

So bear in mind people who enjoyed this were 10+ years younger

CK97 · March 22, 2015, 12:22:58 PM

I actually liked the CGI...

Verbatim · March 22, 2015, 12:26:05 PM

Quote from: Baha on March 22, 2015, 12:22:01 PM

Quote from: Verbatim on March 21, 2015, 04:36:54 PM
2008 is also pretty early for machinima i guess
That video was created in 2003 the youtube date is not telling you anything

youtube also did not exist until 2005, so

March 22, 2015, 12:26:41 PM

Quote from: Verbatim on March 22, 2015, 12:26:05 PM

Quote from: Baha on March 22, 2015, 12:22:01 PM
Quote from: Verbatim on March 21, 2015, 04:36:54 PM
2008 is also pretty early for machinima i guess
That video was created in 2003 the youtube date is not telling you anything
youtube also did not exist until 2005, so

Videos on the internet existed before youtube though

Verbatim · March 22, 2015, 12:27:08 PM

machinima was popularized on youtube

this isn't difficult

March 22, 2015, 12:27:58 PM

Quote from: Verbatim on March 22, 2015, 12:27:08 PM

it was popularized on youtube

this isn't difficult

um
no

Verbatim · March 22, 2015, 12:28:13 PM

yes

millions of people watched the show in 2003 when youtube didn't exist? millions? in 2003?

yeah sure buddy

March 22, 2015, 12:31:55 PM

Bear in mind the video you posted was uploaded in 2008
A year after voiced dialog from red vs blue characters was already in Halo 3
So even with no further knowledge of the history of the series, this seems to make it doubtful it was only popularized from 2008 onwards

Verbatim · March 22, 2015, 12:34:23 PM

i didn't say it was only popularized from 2008 onwards

i said it was popularized on youtube
that's all i said

you people just LOVE putting words in my mouth

Verbatim · March 22, 2015, 12:35:25 PM

the feed i posted is most likely a reupload--the real first episode might have been posted in '05 or '06 for all i know

March 22, 2015, 12:55:03 PM

Best I can find linked off wikipedia because I can't be bothered to do more than that. This was in 2004.

Quote

There are now about 650,000 episode downloads per week from the computer servers Mr. Burns and his friends oversee. Downloads from other sites probably push the total viewers closer to a million. GameStop, the videogame retail chain, sells Red vs. Blue DVDs around the country. A showing of a number of episodes at Lincoln Center in January was sold out.

Verbatim · March 22, 2015, 12:57:59 PM

just a million? just barely a million?

youtube brought in millions with an s

it popularized it

March 22, 2015, 01:11:13 PM

the key phrase was downloads a week
Also I lied I found something else from 2004

Verbatim · March 22, 2015, 01:17:39 PM

Quote from: Baha on March 22, 2015, 01:11:13 PM

the key phrase was downloads a week

which were most likely all from the same people who were fans of the show

>850,000 downloads a week

you realize that doesn't mean that 850,000 unique downloads, right?
that is, they didn't gain a million fans every week--that's asinine

so once again, that's really a meager amount of something that apparently wasn't popularized on youtube
which it so obviously was

Hawk · March 22, 2015, 01:18:13 PM

I like the revelation season the best

While i watched it every now again, I really started watching episode by episode with with reconstruction, and finished with revelation, the season finale was pretty awesome

YouTube

Hahahaha very funny Zonda · March 22, 2015, 01:34:01 PM

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March 22, 2015, 01:56:14 PM

Quote from: Verbatim on March 22, 2015, 01:17:39 PM

Quote from: Baha on March 22, 2015, 01:11:13 PM
the key phrase was downloads a week
which were most likely all from the same people who were fans of the show

>850,000 downloads a week

you realize that doesn't mean that 850,000 unique downloads, right?
that is, they didn't gain a million fans every week--that's asinine

so once again, that's really a meager amount of something that apparently wasn't popularized on youtube
which it so obviously was

First off, views are not unique fans either. A download and a view are comparable, and neither represents a single gained fan.
Second off, you're comparing a rate to an absolute value, which is why I'm pointing to 'downloads a week'. So you need to demonstrate not that there are several million youtube views, but that they were getting several millions of views a week during whatever time period you say youtube popularized the show.

It looks to me like the official channel you linked has gotten an average of something like 1.5 million views in total for each episode (over the past 8 years), which sounds pretty comparable to a million weekly downloads of a not quite weekly series.

Verbatim · March 22, 2015, 01:59:17 PM

doing that for each episode is silly because the show has obviously dwindled in popularity over the years, so it's not a real fair comparison

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Blackbox Rob · March 22, 2015, 03:04:58 PM

Quote from: Comet on March 21, 2015, 07:08:59 PM

first 5 seasons are all you need. everything after is pointless. the fights are fine though.

Azure · March 22, 2015, 03:11:54 PM

I remember these