Red vs. Blue vs. Modern Media

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Over the years many new forms of media have emerged. The internet has increased the pace of the media ten fold. That might not be such a good thing. With the ability to collaborate information from all over the world in mere seconds, the entertainment sections of media exploded. This resulted in a lot of shrapnel of creative groups all over the internet. The most common way to understand this is taking to people that both consider themselves “youtubers”. Both of them may have seen years’ worth of videos and may only know a few videos that the other has seen. How is this possible? Simple, they have been in different parts of the internet. One may have constantly been watching anime videos for a hobby and would look for funny pictures in his spare time. The other may just use youtube for ideas to use in his workshop and watch truck videos on youtube. This can result in incredibly popular new types of media that are hardly talked about outside of the website. One of these new types of media is called a “lets-play”. This is when a single person, or small group in some cases, plays a video game on camera and does commentary mid play. The commentary is often based off the type of game play. Serious paying was usually used for giving out tips and tricks, casual play was followed by joking and talks of the game in general, and goofing off was used to provide pure entertainment. A group of people going by Roosterteeth took full advantage of this last “lets-play”.
Over ten years ago, a game known as Halo came out and was played by millions. One thing that made it interesting was that the multiplayer came with a theater mode. One player could go flying through the air and act as camera as the others ran around as the default space suit su...

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They managed to climb as high as they can, given their circumstances. They had went from messing around on a game, to selling merchandise and box sets of DVDs. Viewing the episodes is payed for by advertisements, letting the public view it for free. While other internet sensations have managed to get a spot on television, Annoying Orange for example, they cannot move any further do to their copyrights with Bungie and Microsoft, the makers of Halo. They have made major improvements that would astound and internet actor or “youtuber”, so why are they so little known? Its because the Internet is so vast that media has split itself into small sections that may only have a few things in common. So, heres to Red vs. Blue and Roosterteeth, the kings and queens of Halo region of the internet.

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